Maes © bipere nad bniag atte whats MS ES ON vs health promotion, ' Oey agg 8 0 Nagle wallace Mts aL ; “despite a great deal of public at- ~~ Stention devoted to it, AIDS (Ac- - ; “quired | Immune Deficiency . Disease) was of primary concern _ ‘to only five percent of the survey participants. : _ Dreger noted that ‘the results 7 released last week are preliminary, and the figures are still being analyzed. She is now -in the process of. preparing a _ final report on the survey, due for completion at the end of the year. - The release of information . frém the survey was accom- - panied by a two-day conference _held in Terrace Sept. 26 and 27. ~ It involved nearly 100 people from the medical community --and the general public. Skeena Health Unit nutritionist Sonya _ Kupka ‘said the conference was intended to examine the public ; perception of health problems in comparison to information health authorities have about what actually causes mortality -and disease in the region. ‘Cathy Ulrich, supervisor of public health nurses for the _ SHU, says the survey and con- ference are part of a larger pro- - ¢ess, “The community identifies an area of need, and then we - “find out if: it’s a real need.’’ ~ Kupka said the theme of the overall exercise is ‘‘clarifying achieving ~-your vision of a healthy ‘com- munity’’. Two initial projects being ‘undertaken are the compiling of “an. information directory of health-related resources in . Northwest communities and the “establishment of locally-based ~ committees to determine further - courses of action in addressing public concerns. " Rose Dreger calls the survey results. ‘‘a community diag- _nosis’’, and she adds that in her preliminary work comparing _ public concerns to health unit x. Statistics, “we're getting a sense - that the ‘perception, is. pretty | co SHOWER CURTAINS * ioe revo oe Health s survey — ‘continued sick ai Under New Ownership - ABRACADABRA . . Now owned by. Gemma Bed & Bath Boutique From now til Sunday, | October 8th All Stock | ini Abracadabra, including some. inventory from.Gemma Bed & Bath Boutique * BEDDING and * TOWELS OPENING SOON — A CHRISTMAS GIFT STORE! close.to thé reality’’. a ‘The health unit has: broken the’ region down ‘into M4 broadly - defined “communities”, and a summary of the survey results for‘each of these areas will be _ prepared. ‘It’s going to be up to the committee in each communi- ty to use the final report as a planning document,”’ Dreger ex- plained. Those committees, she said, “can become useful fairly quick- ly’. In addition to identifying problems and reacting to public concerns, the committees can plug into government. funding for a-variety of programs de- signed to do something about those concerns, _ ’ ELE aR eer eA LU EM i nademion gt netag pe anyon ache ne ett CS ae + we cae 3 Ae Community nutritionist Sonya Kupka-and public health nurse supervisor Cathy Ulrich were two of the Skeena Health Unit representatives at the Northwest Aims for Health conference - last week. The conference was one step in an evolving community- -based health h strategy. Union wrangle brewing | ‘The contract for a facelift of the Terrace Co-op has been awarded by the board of direc- tors to a Terrace firm, Kermodei Construction. The only other bid, according to the board, was received from an undisclosed out-of-town company for an amount exceeding Kermadei’s bid by $200,000. Some of the factors listed by the board in making their deci- sion: were that Kermodei’s bid was the lowest, they are a local contractor,. and local sub- contractors would be hired by Kermodei. The renovation work has been in the planning stage for the past year and a half and will include a general upgrade of their facility. - John Jensen, Business Agent for the B.C. Northwest District Council of Carpenters and Join- ers, says a meeting will be held -with its members in the next day or two to. discuss the current — situation at the Co-op and plan a course of action. The union and Kermodei dustry. Kermodei Construction - the Terraceview extended care unit, the Terrace Airport service center and major upgrading work at the Smithers airport. Kermodei bid lowest on all three of these jobs and the union charged that below-union wage rates and the.use of untrained labor. were the. reason. They maintained that these facts en-. dangered the future of the -in- manager, Bruce Toms, on the other hand, claimed that his company was union and that skilled workers on all three projects belonged to the General Workers Union. 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