News In Brief. | | _ EAD = ss - | a Z | — Ss | aa | ae " At Bc Hico we have 9 teem of - biologists dedicated to. protect- : ar a : ; ing the environment. They even Money for the sewer en : : we , put on dry suits and swim down AS QUICKLY as the city found out it’s way over 7 Ho ae be ee athe tye river with the fish to understand budget on construction of its new sewage outfall _ j Pipe, the money problem has been solved. | deg im sett ic ms oe, 7 The city got word Friday it will get $285,553 for | BY . oe 7 “of Teds an fish storks the work from the provincial government. 2 a That will more than cover a $200,000 budget shortfall forthe outfall pipe replacement that coun- cil was told about just a week earlier. The lowest of three bidders for the work was still far higher than what cily. officials had anticipated, — * . a. ; : The money from Victoria comes ‘from the muni- 7 val ; eee a oo Sats “It's Just one of the extraordinary cipal affairs ministry’s water and sewer infrastruc-._. ‘4 ture program. - haw dam operations affect habitat ways we support the environment, City engineering director Stew Christensen said. the cily applied for the grant in February and had hoped it would come through. ; “I would have been absolutely amazed .if we didn’t get it,” he said, “what with all the hullabal- loo about complaints with our sewage outfall.” Rural health lagging EXPERTS IN tural health know services aren’t as goud as they are in cities and now they've deci- ded to find why and come up- with answers. They made the-decision ‘to‘research the issue at a national rural health summit hosted two weeks ugo in Prince George by the University of Northern B.C, and the federal government, : : The idea is to come up with enough research so that rural health policy can be decided upon the evidence gathered, says UNBC professor Max ; : Ta protect birds from electrocution Blouw, a co-chaiz of the summit, and reduce power oulayes we've “Policy based on lobbying may not provide the ; i : installed quads on our power lines, right answers,” said Blouw. “Policy based on evi- To provide habitat for fish and wildlife we canstructed an island at Hayward Reservoir. dence will at least provide a level playing field.” Ex-surgeon sued The Kitimat and Area Health Council and Kitimat General Hospital (KGH) have jointly launched a . i 2 To learn (more about our environmental more than $270,000 luw suit against Dr. Sean Phe- ; i AW performance, ask for a copy of our 1999 Triple ian, the last full time orthopedic surfcon to prac- Bottom Line Report or review it online. tice in Kilimat. He left in Oct. 1998. In the statement of claim filed in the Supreme Court of BC, the - health organizations seek $271,881 as full repayment of loan and lease agreements they say Phelan entered into with them and interest attached to those agreements. They also want to the recover the cost of bring- Ing in a temporary orthopod and expenses for find- ing a permanent replacement. The statement of claim: says while Phelan was qualified in England, he.was not qualified to prac- tice orthopedics here when he moved to Canada in 1996. The statement says they agreed to loan Phe- lan money and expenses to qualify in Canada and to rent him office space once. he was qualified, The statement says Phelan completed his re- quirements in July 1998 but then failed to begin re- paying the loan and to make office payments, After his departure from Kitimat, Phelan re- moved his name from the provincial surgical regis- ter, : The Terrace Standard & three of its clients came away as winners at the Fall 1999 Cariboo Press Sales Seminar. We Can Do The Same For You!! Sales representative Sam Sales representative Sam Bedford with Vivian King of the Skeena Mall Bedford with Leo DeJong of Jackie Munson of the Bear Country Inn is seen here with the 1st Place plaque for Thornhill Mozda seen here with the 3rd Place plaque for Best Colour Institutional Ad... with the 1st Place plaque for The Best Sales Campaign. iF yy “Back To Cool” Best Price & Item 4 Black & White. STANDARD - Phone 638-7283 or Fax 638-8432 Brian Lindenbach * Sam Bedford * Mark Beaupre « Stacy Swetlikoff a fi)