Rob Smart
| want to graduate In

Strikes.

spite of the teachers’.

Susan Roches
| want to go somewhere

— meet new people, find

new friends.

Dan Gillard
(from Prince Rupert)
- To be.wealthy and own

-- a blue IROC.

”

Anita Stephens
For personal growth. |
- hope that a lot of prob-
“lems in the world get
“solved and the
claims are settled.

land

Jamie Normandeau
I hope forthe best!

_MMH seeks new equipment

TERRACE— The board of trus-
tees for Mills Memorial Hospital
has decided to investigate the

Possibilities for acquiring a $1

million piece of ‘ diagnostic
equipment, but the Ministry of

‘Health says they’re on their own

as far as funding is concerned.
Hospital administrator Norm
Carelius says the board decision

to consider having a CT scanner

installed at Mills Memorial came

as a result of lobbying by medi-:
cal staff from every hospital in_
the Northwest. CT stands for:
computer tomogtaphy, and the

device is a sort of elaborate X-
ray thachine that takes i images of

the patient from numerous dif-
ferent angles and then generates

a composite picture to the physi-

cian for diagnostic use.

Local patients who require the
procedure presently have to
travel to Vancouver ‘or Prince
George.

Carelius said the board met
recently with a Ministry of
Health representative, who told
them the population in this re-
gion doesn’t justify the pur-
chase, Carelius noted that the
R.E.M, Lee Foundation had in-

dicated willingness to raise a

portion of the capital cost under
the assumption that the ministry

would provide the balance.
In addition to the initial in-
vestment, Carelius said, the in-

‘strument would have to be staff-

ed by two trained technicians
and would cost about $300,000
annually to operate.
Doctors and hospital staff in
the Northwest haven’t given up
the idea, however. Carelius said
they are keeping an informal
tally of the number of patients

shipped out for the procedure,

and the numbers will be ana-
lyzed after an unspecified period

of time to deterrhine the level of.

demand for CT scanning ser-
vices in the Tegion.

Letters to ‘the Editor

jedinesday, January 4 1989 =

oft:

aim at Regional Council’, the
North Coast’ Minister of State

- announced the creation of a
10-member Regional Advisory
‘Council for. the ‘North Coast
Region... oa

And jit means just that. Why

add c one more name to this list?

It. appears Terrace and the

Hazeltons, are well represented,
ff} having six or seven each of
| Regional Directors and Regional

To the Editor;

: The members of the. Terrace
Old Age Pensioners Associa-
tion, Branch #73, wish to ex-
press their grateful ‘Thanks’? to
the following organizations for
the very kind thoughts of the
Christmas Season shown to the
Seniors of the Terrace area,
Our Thanks to: The Northern

‘Motor Inn, Royal Canadian

The City of Terrace will pick
up $500 of the total cost of
$4,000 to update five booklets

Tr ‘profiling: the ~major ‘economic .

sectors in the Terrace area. The
five publications cover popula-
tion and labor force statistics,
agriculture, geology and mining,
the forest industry and tourism.
The regional district’s Economic
Development Commission will
add $500 while the balance will
be paid for by the Ministry of

' Municipal Affairs.

: Equal representation

To the Editor;
In your December 21, 1988.
‘edition, “Regional District takes

| ‘Council. Plus their municipal

councils, the Tribal council,
Band councils, the Gitksan-
Wet’suwet’en Government
Commission, the DIA, Friend-
ship Centres, ‘committees, and
the list goes on. If this is not
“equal representation”, then
there is something wrong with
the system, |
Our MLA is doing a good job
of representing those of us who
have to speak for ourselves.
- MAG. Dalen,

Cedarvale, B.C. |

‘Thanks from seniors :

Mounted Police and. their
families, 747 Royal Canadian
Air Cadets, the Auxiliary of the

Canadian Legion, Kinette Club ©

of Terrace, the Terrace Co-
Operative Association, the

Skeena Mall Merchants and the .

Terrace Mall Merchants. - .
Aileen Frank,

Secretary, Terrace Old

Age Pensioners Association,

Terrace promotional
pamphlets updated

According “to city ad-
ministrator Bob Hiallsor, the

booklets have proven to be in- |

‘valuable for the. promotion of
economic activity in the area,
but the current series was
printed four years ago and is
now out of date. He adds that

‘the ministry's cost-sharing pro-

posal, in which they pay 75 per-

cent of the total cost, was very

attractive and an opportunity
that shouldn’t be missed.

Workshop to demonstrate
‘new education technology

Satellite-delivered learning is
one of the latest adaptations of
today’s technology and promises
to bring the best in learning pro-

-grams to the Northwest. In

order to demonstrate this,

Northwest. Community College

has scheduled a free satellite
video conference on interactive
learning in the Inn of the West
from 10:15 a.m, to | p.m. next
Wednesday, Jan. 11. ;

The display will feature an
interactive satellite video con-

_ ference live from New York,

Michigan and Washington,
D.C., and will demonstrate the
training applications that in-
teractive video technology can
offer to businesses and industry.

It will also demonstrate how the
academic community is con-
tributing to training applications
in interactive technology and
give everyone an opportunity to
try out the systems through
audio teleconferencing.

Although this is a ‘‘no
charge’? workshop, NWCC rec-
ommends that those interested
reserve a seat by phoning
Norbert Hartig, Director of
Distance Education, or Kress
Nelson, Systems Manager, at
635-6511, Randy ‘Leclerc at
Northland Communications,
638-0261, or Bobby Phillips,
manager of the Chamber of
Commerce at 635-2063.

City turns down ad

The city has turned down a fe-
quest to buy space for a
“message of support’? in the
Association of Kinsmen and
Kinette Clubs’ national KIN
magazine. To do so could set a
precedent for other service
clubs, and according to Alder-
than Ruth Hallock, this could
- become expensive. Space for

these ads cost from $165 to 655
depending on the size. Hallock
says the request was declined.
‘‘with regret’? and added that,.
‘‘We are eternally grateful to
them in this.town, but we have:
declined in the past because ‘it
may be a precedent f for. other.
clubs.”

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