~~ B10 Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 21; 1990

A year
ago this

week —
THE MILLS MEMORIAL HOS-
‘PITAL CAFETERIA ERUPTED
IN OUTRAGE AND HOSTILITY
@ year ago this week. It was the
aftermoon of Friday, Mar. 17,
1989, and David Lane, the chair-
man of the Terrace Health Care
Society, had begun trying to
explain to Mills Memorial staff
why Norm Carelius, their popular
and widely respected administrator,
was leaving the hospital.
The society had decided on an
administrative reorganization, Lane
explained, and part of this included
the formation of a new position,
that of Chief Executive Officer,
who would be reponsible for the
overall operation of the hospital,
Terraceview Lodge and the Ter-
raceview extended care wing that
- would be opening in about eight
weeks. Carelius had been offered
the job, said Lane, but had
declined. More than 50 doctors,
nurses and technical and custodial
staff exploded with acrimony. One
nurse told Lane that he could
consider the tone of the meeting a
vote of non-confidence in the
board.

| Carelius, who had been standing
quietly in the shadows, stepped
forward when the invective died
down and reminded the Mills staff
that regardless of their feelings
they they had to continue working
with the board. "Since the amalga-
mation (of the Mills Memorial and

Terraceview boards) there’s a new
set of parameters, a different philo-
sophy. We have a big board
anxious to do a good job."

’ He also had a few words for the
members of the board. "The board
has to believe what it’s saying
about employees being its most
valuable resource... From this
meeting the board will realize that
some things need to be addressed,"
said Carelius. Once in his new
position in Victoria, Carellus
would be an administrative consul-
tant to the Ministry of Health for
Regional Team 5, the institutional
advisory and planning group that
covers the Northwest. This brought
a ripple of applause from hospital
- Staff members present.

ASECOND OVERPASS WEST
OF the much-maligned Sande
‘Overpass topped the list of a brief
submitted to the Task Force on
regional transportation needs by
the City of Terrace. In a presenta-
tion accompanying the brief, city
director of engineering, Stew
Christensen, described to taks force
members Darlene Cornell, Rick
Wozney and Jack Talstra the haz-
ards and inadequacies of Sande
Overpass. He then described some
possible solutions to the problem
but pointed out, "There are many
plans laying around here that have
- moss onthem." a
“One: of these plans, a second
overpass at Braun St. would con-

- “nect with Kalum Lake Drive and
» this led. Christensen: to ‘the city’s
second priority: upgrading and.

paving the Nass Road and exiend-

pet

_ Lou Gair and Fred Berghauser were among the volunteers that held the fort at this information and sales display in the
Skeena Mall a year ago this week. Affordable seniors housing units were moving a little slow at this point In the project,
but determined and dedicated volunteers were certain their housing complex would go ahead.

Ogawa, representing Skeena Cell-
ulose, backed this recommendat-
ion, saying, “It’s becoming more
and more of a public road,” and
with the existing industrial traffic,
"We have a hazardous situation on
a treacherous road."

LOCAL SENIORS ALSO
.SPOKE to the task force. Aileen

» Frank ‘representing Branch 73° of

the B.C. Old Age Pensioner’ As-
sociation, said her organization
was dissatisfied with our ferry
system. "It’s geared to tourists, and
it’s not even that good for them,"
she said, "It’s no longer a good or
convenient service; it’s time the
government looks after its own
citizens and taxpayers -- give us
our system back." Frank was fol-
lowed by Gert Grundmann, who
repeated a request given to the task
force on transportation and the
disabled a month earlier: give us a
HandiDART system. This is "para-
mount to seniors’ needs", she said.

ELSEWHERE IN THE COMM-
UNITY, the 24th annual Pacific
Northwest Music Festival had just
come to a close with the annouce-
ment of dozens of local winners,
the Fire Safety House was taking
shape in the Northwest Community
College carpentry shops, and the
annual Terrace Scouts Cub Car
Rally had determined that Chad
Gerow, Timmy Norman and David
Handberg were the best engineers
in town.

IN THE BUSINESS WORLD,
Mount Layton Hot Springs owner
Bert Orleans was the recipient of
some good news. The Ministry of
Crown Lands had given him the
go-ahead for a "scaled down"

version of his 18-hole golf course. .

on a little over 52 hectares of
crown land ‘at the south end of *
Lakelse Lake. Orleans had orig-...

inally applied for 153 hectares of
land, but ministry spokesman Bill.

Irwin told the Terrace Review: that .
an additional 21.5 hectares of his.
“Original application was stilt under,

review.

THERE WERE NO REPORTS
OF SCURVY but fresh fruit was
in short supply. Trace amounts of
cyanide in Chilean grapes were
found in Philidelphia a week
earlier and that caused the Cana-
dian government to declare an
einbargo on ‘galés of all produce
imported from Chile, the only
source of soft fruits at this time of
the year. Local stocks were pulled
off the shelves: Safeway destroyed
all their grapes and a few nectari-
nes; Overwaitea dumped 42 cases
of grapes, nectarines, plums and
peaches; and the Terrace Co-op
‘destroyed an unspecified amount
of the same species of fruit. Ship-

ments would begin arriving from.

other world sources in about a
month we were told.

AND MOUNT KLAPPAN... ITS
FUTURE WAS IN LIMBO. A
company spokesman, Ash Bhasin,
reported they had been searching
for secure markets for more than
two years with little success. He
said that Gulf Canada hadn’t given
up, but their search for a joint
venture or equity partnership had
come up dry as well. After invest-
ing millions of dollars in Klappan,

he said, the only activity you could”

find was the almost idle random
movements of the lone caretaker at
the site.

SCHOLARSHIP SCORES
DOWN, APPEAL EYED. This
headline lead the educational news
a year ago this week, But there
was little to say, according to
Caledonia principal Bill Sturn,
until the results of an appeal were
in. Sturn described the results of
January’s © government exams,
written during the teachers’ strike,
as“disappointing,.

The Ministry of Education, had
said that Caledonia students "did

expected" but according to Sturn
_ that statement was based on a

as ,well .as..woild. normally be

misrepresentation of data, It was would only be 50 new spaces
based on a four year average of created; and these would be in
government exam results in Caled- non-university, job-related prog-
onia, not on the potential of the rams. His one reference to a north-
students involved. Evidence to ern university was only to say that
support this, said Sturn, was to be if it became a reality, we would
found in the fact that 25 scholar- pay a “Northern Premium". Educa-
ship students from the Class of 88 tion in the north will still cost

achieved _ Standard Ministerial more, he said, primarily due to

Scores (SMS) of 600 or better class size.
while in the Class of ’89 there
were only five. Yet, the Class of THE HIGH SCHOOL BASKET-
’89 was as good, if not better, in BALL SEASON HAD COME TO
terms of academic potential as the A CLOSE and the headlines read
preceeding class.
et", "No luck for Tsimpseans",
THEY DIDN'T WIN... BUT and "Kermodes out in two straight
THAT'S PHYSICS. The five at finals". The Skeena Tsimpsean
member team from the Caledonia junior boys’ got off to a bad start
Science Club didn’t pick up any when their first flight out of town
medals at last year’s Physics was cancelied due to a snow
Olympics held at UBC. But, a8 storm. Then, there was a scoring
science teacher Al Wootton put it, error in their first game that wasn’t
they had fun, their projects were a sorted out until after the second
success, and they learned more in championship round... they won,
one weekend than anyone intown. and should have been there, but
It was a first attempt, and their they got an apology instead.
efforts had laid the groundwork for The following week, the Ker-
next year’s games. mode senior boys’ were benched

after two straight losses at the
APRE-BUDGET ANNOUNCE- annual triple’ AAA’ championships

MENT BY HAGEN DIDN’T and for the Terrace boys it was
CREATE OPTIMISIM IN THE over. There was nothing left but to
NORTH. Stan Hagen, the Minister dream of next year’s season.

of Advanced Education and Job
Training at the time, was respond-

ing to the Provincial Access Com- SIDE 28 dedicated Terrace golfers
mittee on Post Secondary Educa- were wearing satisfied smiles after
tion and spoke of great advances retuming from Mexico where they
and “access for all". He spoke of had participated: in the first annual
$35.3 million in new programs and''Skeera Valley Golf Club's winter
increased capacity in 1989 alone.” tournament: For two weeks, par-
He said there would be room for - ticipants played on an excellent
another 15,000 university students 18-hole layout, loafed on sandy
created in the next six years and beaches and fished. On their
that 3,000 of those spaces would retum, they were already talking

be availabie in September. about next year’s tournament, to be
But then he announced the held in Las Vegas.

details. A little more than 1,800 0f — Their tans and smiles soon faded,

these new spaces would be in the though. The weather was cold and
Lower Mainland while the balance clear and the low-lying mid-day
would be. created in Kelowna, sun did little to maintain a tan. The
Kamloops and Nanaimo. There day's highs ranged between +2 and

BUT ON THE BRIGHTER

-was.almost no mention of a north- +48 Celsius while night-time lows

em university and for our entire ranged from -4 to -7. But..;

at
northwest college system there ‘j¢ was dry. - ” least

“A trip Skeena would like to forg-.

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