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owners of the McLymont Creek
property and’ joint ventures
partners with Inel in Inel proper-
ty, announced recently the ap-
pointment of Vancouver stock

entrepreneur Murray. Pezim to.

its board of directors,

Pezim is well-known for his
interest -in spectacular gold
properties, and both Inel and

_ McLymont ‘are located. in the

gold-laden Iskut River valley
north of Terrace. Gulf Interna-
tional president Gerald Carlson

_ said, “This appointment will.
bring.a dynamic combination of

Mr. Pezim’s abilities in the area

‘of financing and mine finding

and the exciting activity his com-
panies have generated...”*
Pezim was also appointed as
an additional director on the
board of Inel and granted
150,000 shares in the company.
' Gulf is spending $900,000 on

nternational board —@

Po Gulf International Minerals,

a two-phase exploration: pro. . .
gtam this year in efforts to §

define the ore body discovered
on McLymont with 13,500 feet
of surface diamond drilling.
Carlson says Gulf intends to

follow that with an underground .

program through the coming
winter, oo aa
Gulf is also pursuing surface

. trenching, surface drilling and:
- underground drilling on the Inel
property. Their 1989 program is.
budgeted at $1° million. The.
company has an option to earn.

full 100. percent ownership of
the property from partner. Inel

Resources by spending $2.4 mil-

lion by 1992.

Drilling results from Ine. re-

leased to date include a series of

short intercepts from a 650-foot
Step-out averaging 12.361
Ounces. of gold over 11.5 feet
and 6.631 ounces over 21.5 feet.

+ Computalk

Data Communications: a look at ‘Sasquatch’,
a local bulletin board

Last installment I promised a look at a loca! bulletin board,
that is a computer service that you can phone into with your .
computer to extract or exchange various kinds of information:
with other users. A week ago I visited Al Sande, the operator of
the board (called ‘sysop’ in bulletin board jargon), to see the:
‘various services he offered. He calls his board ‘Sasquatch’ and

mainly he provides a file ‘download’ service and a message con-

" ferencing service,
.. Users that call his board, or should I say who call with their

computers through modems, can retrieve a large variety of public

‘domain. programs or can retrieve and leave messages concerning a
_ Variety of topics. Sasquatch provides two services, a public access

line that anyone can call and a restricted. line for registered users.
(those that pay an additional fee) who get extra privileges to ac-
cess additional items on the system. a

To access Sasquatch one needs a computer, .a modem (a device

which translates computer signals for transmission over telephone

lines), and a communications program which allows the user to
instruct the computer and modem to conduct communications.

_ One needs to know‘a little bit about communications, only

enough to run the communications program, instruct it to set the
modem speed at 1200 or 2400 baud, and the modem settings to

N, 8, 1. (No parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit), and instruct it to dial
the Sasquatch public access number: 635-2184.

The precise way of doing this will vary from communications
program to communications program, so one must check the
documentation supplied with the program. Once one has all the
settings established it usually takes only one command to instruct
the computer to commence communications, From there, it’s
mainly a matter of learning by doing.

Aside from all the interesting items of information Sasquatch

provides for over 300 regular callers, this bulletin board also pro-

vides a very useful service to those who want to start retrieving
information from the many commercial information services
available throughout North America. Sasquatch (or any local
bulletin board) gives the newcomer an opportunity to learn and
practice efficient information searching techniques at little or no.
cost. This can be extremely valuable, as most new users to com-
mercial systems such as Telecom Canada’s INET often can run
up $200-$300 in charges just in getting to know the basics of us-

ing an information source.

As Al Sande explained, if nothing else his service gives local
enthusiasts a place to call to. Of course once one ‘browses’ Sas-

quatch and begins to find useful conferences on computer topics

of interest and useful public domain programs, one will quickly
realize that Sasquatch is more than ‘just a place to call to’. Al
and other local bulletin board operators have to be commended
in-the service they provide for local computer communications
enthusiasts, so if you have access to a modem and a communica-

tions program, and haven't tried using a communications service,

connect your modem to your phone line and your computer, ad-
just your communications settings as. listed above, and dial

635-2184 to get a taste of computer communications, |

Terrace Health Care Soclety chief.executive officer Michael Leisinger works with Terrace-
view Lodge administrator Kathleen Delgatty as well as Millis Memorial Hospital administra-

tion to meet one of the society’s goals — develop better s
‘two facilities to Improve health care-efficiency in the area.

haring of services between the

Health Care Society decides |

priorities for next two years

The Terrace Health Care So-
ciety met last month to develop
a two-year health care strategy,
and according to society Chief
Executive Officer Michael Leis-
inger they have identified nearly
20 priority items.

Among those priorities are.

communications, staff retention
and specialists, regional services

and independent housing at Ter-

raceview. = —
Because Leisinger’s position
as chief executive officer is new,
it encompasses the management
of all health care facilities at
Mills Memorial Hospital and
Terraceview Lodge. He says the
board wants to educate people
on the value of the recent amal-
gamation.of health services. He
explains that in order to do this
the board intends to work hard
to promote better communica-
tion between staff, the commu-
nity and the board.
The board is also seeking im-
provements in staffing Terrace
medical - facilities, Leisinger

says, and this means initiating or
proceeding with a number of
on-going activities. One of these
is to hire two full-time, long-

term anesthesiologists. Leisinger
explains that Mills Memorial has
two anesthesiologists at the pres-
ent time but one is leaving to
further his education and the
other is leaving in February for
personal reasons. This is an
on-going problem in a number
of areas.

An ophthalmologist (eye spe-
cialist) is another area of exper-
tise required locally and the
search will continue, At the pres-
ent time, says Leisinger, the
nearest ophthalmologist works
out of Hazelton. The search for
an orthopedic surgeon continues
as well, but according to Leis-
inger there will soon be a degree
of improvement in that area. A
Vancouver surgeon will begin
working out of Mills Memorial
two days per month on a non-

emergency basis beginning in -

mid-October.
Leisinger says he’s confident
that a regional nuclear medicine

‘facility will be established at

Mills, so the board’s efforts are
now being directed towards
other services. A CAT Scanner
could be a reality in a couple of
years, says Leisinger. Terrace

Kinsmen Club
oul Have a

medical staff believe the unit is
needed now but the Ministry of
Health says they believe that
with an initial cost of about
$250,000. and an annual operat-
ing fee of about the same, the
area’s population doesn’t war-
rant the service just yet. Another
regional service being requested
by the board is a mammography
screening unit.

Finally, says Leisinger, the
board will be taking a look at
the overall health care picture,
making .an effort to develop a
greater sharing of the services at
Terraceview and Mills Memori-
al, In addition, they will con-
tinue with plans to develop a

‘cottage-type, non-profit, in-

dependent living facility near the
Terraceview site. These would
provide homes for area residents.
who are able to live on their own
but may require some assistance

or medical attention from time

to time. The concept has been

approved by Terrace council and

an application to have the re-

quired land rezoned from park

to institutional is currently being

considered by the Ministry of

Municipal Affairs.

AT 4:30 P.M.