A4 - Tha Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 25, 1995 ______ i 8-2 : ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1988 , ADDRESS: 4647 Lazelle Ave., Terrace, B.C. » V8G 188 TELEPHONE: (604) 638-7283 * FAX: (604) 638-8432 . ~ MODEM: (604) 638-7247. ae IF THERE’S any sense of goodness in the feder- al and’ provincial governments, they. would eliminate the taxes applied against those who stay at Sleeping Beauty Lodge. . The lodge is a medical hostel, located in a for- mer nurses residence on the grounds of Mills Memorial Hospital. It’s for people from out of - town who don’t need to be admitted to the hospi- tal but who-need some of its services. In previous years those people might have stayed at Mills. As hospital costs soared, Mills began to tighten up on admissions and the lodge offers a lower cost alternative. It’s also much cheaper for those who stay at the lodge as they avoid more expensive hotels or motels. But those who stay at the lodge have to pay the seven per cent GST. And because the lodge charges more than $20 a day, guests have to pay the provincial eight per cent room tax. That amounts to a 15 per cent hit. On a $25 single room, it amounts to $3.75. There’s no allowance to waive the taxes for charitable or non-profit groups offering services of this type. There should be. If the lodge is to be part of the new look, lower cost health care so gleefully being promoted by the state, then it should gracefully give its citizens something tangible in return. , If the governments can’t see their way in this regard, there is a sensible alternative. And that’s for the lodge to keep charging the 15 per cent. Instead of paying the money to the fed- eral and provincial governments, the money would be placed in a special capital account dedicated to an eventual expansion of the Sleep- ing Beauty Lodge. 7 bom Sooner or: later the success’ of ‘the lodge :will result in pressures to expand. By allowing the lodge’s governing society to build up a capital base, the lodge would become even more self financing than it is now. And that would, to use the provincial govern- ment’s current health care buzz words, truly be a ‘new direction”’ that’s ‘closer to home.’’ — Conflicts HOW IRONIC that at the same time as the Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society is un- der investigation for acting as a conduit to the New Democratic Party, a report commissioned by the provincial government addresses the is- sues of conflict of interest among those who serve non profit societies, The report recommends there be a Standards of Conduct Act, containing well defined and tough rules for directors of non profit societies. It’s based on the premise that nothing in the way a society carries out its affairs should impair public confidence in how it is managed or how it | conducts business. | | Given the mess emanating from Nanaimo, this current government should have no problem in . swiftly carrying out the recommendations. After all, it now has direct knowledge of what happens when the mice are allowed to play. oe Ganx’ PUBLISHER/EDITOR: Rod Link cr \x-7 ADVERTISING MANAGER: Mike L. Hamm — PRODUCTION MANAGER: Edouard Credgeur — NEWS Jeff Nagel + NEWS SPORTS: Malcolm Baxter COMMUNITY: Cris Leykauf - CONTROLLED ADVERTISING CONSULTANTS: 7 Sam Collier, Janet Viveiros, Tracey Tomas DARKROOM: Siisan Credgeur COMPOSITOR: Shannon Cooper _ CIRCULATION SUPERVISOR: Karen Brunelle ~ BS _ MEMBER OF B.C.PRESS COUNCIL. -- cot : Serving the Terrace and Thornhill area. Published on Wednesday of each week.by Cariboo Press {1969} Ud. at 4647 Lazella Ava., Tarraca, British Columbia. = re a Stories, photographs, Itiustations, designs and typestyles In the Terrace Standard ara the property of the copyrgl holdars, Including Cariboo Press (1969) Ltd. ils Mustration tapfo services and advertising agendas... et oe ce dudh PM aie ty. Reproduction in whole or in par, without written permission, is spacificatly prohibited, 7°. 0°" ” Authorized as second-class mall pending {he Post Cfike Oepartment, for payment of postage In cash. Special thanks to all our contributors and correspondents | : forthelrtime and talents A PLSD 1G, Ae": Cost WE WANTED | TO DRESS UP AS PARIZEAU' S|. Ae: ee if, RGao¢