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Sixteen-year-old David Milton
of Kitwancool is in excellent
condition in Vancouver Chil-
drens’ Hospital thanks to two
good samaritans who gave up
their seats on a Skylink Airlines
flight to Vancouver last Thurs-
day morning,

Milton has been on dialysis
since February 1987 due to
kidney failure, and he has been
waiting ever since for the mo-
ment when the phone would ring

‘and the caller would say, ‘‘a

kidney’s available for trans-
plant’,

That moment came last Wed-
nesday night, but there was a
problem right from the start.
There were no available seats for
the flight to Vancouver, -.

This brought into. the scene
Skeena MLA Dave Parker’s ex-
ecutive assistant in Terrace,
Chris Shaffer, and after she call-
ed the Richmond ticket office of
Skylink Airlines, ticket agent
Pat Fong put the wheels in mo-

tion.

The next morning, Skylink
ticket agent Carol Clark began
calling passengers. She talked to -
Michael Bell and Milton Bundy,
two Mormon missionaries work-
ing in the Terrace area and on
their way to a. Vancouver meet-
ing, and they said they would be
glad to give up their seats, John
Milton and his son were on their
way to.what. would be a suc-
cessful transplant operation to
free David from a lifelong

Counselling services get
_ boost from government

A year ago the B.C. Task
Force on Alcohol and Drug
Abuse in the Workplace heard
submissions from 12 B.C. com-
munities, including Terrace. The
recent provincial budget
responded to the Task Force's
recommendations with $23
million dollars, but it is not yet
clear exactly where the dollars
‘will go, and whether any of it
will be directed to the Terrace
area.

A government press release
detailed the budget’s expen-
ditures on alcohol and drug
abuse programs. The additional
$23 million will go towards
education,
prevention. $1 million is added
to the $25 million currently be-
ing spent on existing services, in-
cluding outpatient clinics such as

the Northwest Alcohol and Drug
Counselling agency. The bulk of..
the new money, $22 million;,

responds to the Task Force's
recommendation 2, for
substance abuse education pro-
grams in public schools and
alcohol education for Licensees
and Servers, as well as going
towards mew treatment pro-
grams, specifically for those
targetting youth.

Minister of Finance Mel
Couvelier further announced
that the social service tax on
alcoholic beverages is to be in-
creased from 6 to 10 percent,

and this will now include draft .
This follows the Task |

beer.
Force’s suggestion to raise the
prices on beverage alcohol, but
they had asked that such funds
raised be designated specifically
for alcohol and drug programs.

’ In addition, the $23 million -
- announced falls short of the
Task Force’s recommended $42.
million increase in funding, and

many of its recommendations
have not been included in recent
announcements.

The Task Force had also .|

brought forward solutions for
substance abuse that included:

@ financial assistance, so that
inadequate personal financing

would not be a barrier to treat-.

ment;

@ modification of existing pro-
grams to better serve women and
children;

@ greatly enhanced research

Seniors’
housing

The Skeena Senior Citizen
Society has been formed by a
committee of seniors to decide
on the feasibility of low cost
housing for seniors. A meeting

' will be held on Saturday, April

16 at 7 p.m. at the Happy Gang
Centre on Kalum St,

For more information, phone
Lou Gair 635-5149 or Tony

Pauls 638-1988,

treatment and ¢

capability:
@ development of standards of
accreditation for those working

- in the field;

@ training and employee
assistance programs for
teachers;

@ development of a ‘‘Claimant
Assistance Program” in con-
junction with the Workers’
Compensation Board:

@and better control of
prescription drugs.

nameecd

The government has indicated
that the specifics of the plan
-have yet to be finalized. Doug
Foster, Director of the North-
west Alcohol and. Drug

“Counselling agency, said their

budget for 1987-88 was over
$300,000, but they hadn’t yet
received word of the total for
1988-89. “The additional money
is good news for our province,
but it’s too early to say if it’s
good news for our agency.’’ *

Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 13, 1988 3

routine of several dialysis

treatments every day.

-Shaffer says she was “very
impressed”’ with Skylink and
their staff, who told her, “We
will get him down one way or the
other’? — and they did.

. Bell and Bundy, both from
Utah, were also impressed with
the Skylink service. When inter-
viewed at the airport just prior
to their departure, Beil said,
“They (Skylink) have really
been treating us well. They’ve

Missionaries give u D seats for transplant patient

done all they can for us. We'll

make it to our meeting on

time.”’

Kitwancool Chief Councillor
Vernon Smith said David is in
“excellent condition now’’ and
is making a good recovery, He

said the dialysis tubes were’

removed on Sunday, he was eat-
ing ‘‘regular” meals by Monday
and was up and around on Tues-
day. According to Smith, David
should. be back home by mid-
May. .

Playwright to read at:
local college tonight

TERRACE — Canadian play-
wright Margaret Hollingsworth
will read from a sample of her
published works tonight at 7:30
p.m. in Room 213 at the North-
west Community College Ter-
race campus.

Hollingsworth won a national
drama competition at age 18,
and her plays have been pro-
duced for BBC television, aired
on radio in Canada, Australia,
Britain, New Zealand and West
Germany and performed on

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