SS oe ee ee From front _ Hospitals — defended about centralizing services be- cause of the efficiencies and back up that would be created, Kitimat resident David Sery called the ‘centralization sugges- tion: ‘an odious, disgusting and - offensive affront.’ “Our hospital is situation of people in the three northwest cities battling each other for services on the minis- try’s review team. “This committee is what we would expect of the mean and tight-fisted Socreds,’’ he said. ’ The review team was named in June -after: protests about bed closures, service cuts and layoffs at northwest hospitals when their budgets. were frozen at last year’s levels. Mills. Memorial Hospital here closed 22 beds and cut the equiv- alent of 11 positions to avoid a deficit of $525,000. . - The review team is to determine if there is a duplication of ser- vices, if services incet needs and what services there should be in” the communities. Its report is expected by Sept. 21, - Prince Rupert and Kitimat tesi- dents pointed to periodic avalan- ches and floods that block ‘the highways’ and make access ta getting — butchered,’? he said, blaining the” Mills Memorial. an. prospect in the winter. : Alex Houlden, chairman of the . Terrace Regional . Health Care Society that operates the hospital, . . said the society’s board hasn’t yet adopted Dunfield’s position. “Many members of the surgical “laff feel everything’ should be in [~ : Terrace,’ ‘don’t really feel we should be ~robbing something from Kilimat -Houlden said. ‘‘We- or someone else to make it’ im- possible.for them, to mi as‘d hos- — pilal,””* But he noted the health minis- try’ s review team is determined “to find methods” of . improving health care in the region without adding more money to the equa- tion.. That mindset, ‘he said; would re- quire some regionalization of ser- vices, “TE they keep cutting money ‘somebody’s .going’ to -have ,to ~ go,”?. he explained. Clear that’s the course the minis- ‘try is taking.” “Tt’s very ~**Terrace would be the logical place to be.’ They've got a horrendous job ‘on their -hands,’? Houlden said. “To have it done, on paper and in to Elizabeth Cull by the 21st of /September is impossible, in my mind,” Building permits pass $20M level TERRACE -- The total value of building permits issued this ycar has broken the $20 million mark. Figures released last week by the city’s building inspection de- -partment show permits issued in August alone accounted for more ‘than one quarter of that total. ‘Major - contributors to last *-month’s $5.5 million boost were - the Esso tank farm ($2.5 million) sand new. corrections centre ($1.6 o snillion). . “Seven new single-family hous- ing “starts contributed.a further, a -$838,000: and “took the year-to- 7, “ ‘dale total. there .t0 68 homes” ihe “Twi Rivers seniors’ ‘housing ~ valued at almost $8.5 million," ‘development was alrcady on the ©! That- translates, to an average price 1 tag of $125,000 per house. “ This year permits. have . also ‘been. issued for two four-piexes nd six duplexes, That additional 20 housing units takes the 1992 “tolal.to 88 compared to less than 40 ta the:same point last year. . Throw i in additions and renova- Driver given. speed charge oc TERRACE — The driver of a “tanker truck that crashed and leaked 10,000 gallons of paving ‘oil-into the Skeena Aug. 27 has “been charged with specding. ‘Hazelton’ RCMP Sgt. Kerry ‘Solinsky sai¢t Leonard James gilvie, of Sherwood Park, Al- -berta, received a $125 ticket for “gpeeding relative to conditions. ‘Ogilvie was driving a tanker- aller. truck for Trimac, Trans- -portation Services of Calgary when the tanker unit separated -from the rig on a corner of Hwy 16'at Audimaul Creck, “upstream -of Gitwangak. The tanker crashed through “eonercte barricades and plunged down an cmbankment, “the -tiver with the dark, coflce- fouling aloured liquid. Health officials warned Terrace _ residents to limit consumption of “water ‘that day while the con- =taminated water passed-the city’s . water intake pipe, Solinksy said the police investi- “gallon is-over and no- criminal “charges are contemplated. > The spiil is. still the subject of ‘an environment ministry investi- gation that could lead to pollution charges. City officials said no con: | tamination, of the cily’s water supply was. delected as a result of the spill, which happened 140km . upstream of Terrace. . The paving oil was in a water soluble suspension that breaks up when it hits bard water, As it en- tered the Skeena, it formed globules or pellets thal sank to the > bottam, * Waste aimanagemeat — branch “spokesinan Alex Grant -said be- - cause salmon don’t spawn in the - ‘> tialnstem Skeena, no‘fish spawn- he ing habitat was “affected by the oe . spill... As far as impact on | the en- > vironment gocs, I think we ail tions and the residential sector ac- counts for slightly more than half this year’s activily. The commercial sector, propelled by the Safeway expan- sion, las seen $4.6 million of construction so far, industrial $3— million and institutional $1. 9 mil- lion. ~ “And the record-breaking build- dug boom. is far from over, says . ‘permits d director Bob Lafleur. - Predicting cily housing’ unit - slaris will top . 100 «this. year, FALL BOWLING LEAGUES — ~ START SOON! ‘uncertain 1 FRIDAY MIXEDLEAGUE-7&9pm SUNDAY ALL-STAR - 6:16 & 8:30 pm September 6 TUESDAY MIXED-7 &9 pm September 8 WEDNESDAY LADIES -6:45 pm - September 9 THURSDAY MIXED. 7 &9 pm . September 10 MONDAY MENS -7 pm .:, September 14 MONDAY MIXED «9 pm . -. September 14 WEDNESDAY COFFEE-9:15am_- —_ . 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