| Osborne plan hits glitches By SARAH GLEN A LOCAL society which plans to move the region's only mental health care facility ta a home it wants to buy on Kofoed St. in Thornhill is running into problems. Before the North West Community Health Services . Society can move Osborne House, it must have the zon- ing changed and it’s here where a glitch has developed, The sociely found out Aug, 17 that its first draft sent ta a Thornhill advisory committee, which hears propo- sals lo change the zoning, has been rejected. “They weren't happy with the wording,” sai Julscth, who works for the society. “That means that has to go back to the lawyers.” ‘The new wording will be part of the first and second reading of a proposed rezoning by-law going before the regional district in September,. But the rejection of its first rezoning proposal is only one of the society’s problems. Neighbours who live in and around the Kofoed Street house are upset with how the society is handling of the entire situation, “T haven't been kept up to date on what's going on with shen fee somiety's| application and [ live right next oor,” said Dave Parks, a neighbour to the home on 3183 Kafoed Street,” Proposed new Parks questions the plan to move the mentally ill re- sidents from their current Hall Street home in Terrace to the Kofoed Street location in Thornhill. He says the Kofoed home isn’t set up to house a max- imum of nine residents plus staff. “My concern is for the clients and the taxpayers,” said Parks. “I don’t want them to realize that they've. made a mistake two years down the road after they spend all that money.” Parks is also worried that the society. will change the area’s zoning, which would restrict him from building and operating a business on his property. The area is zoned rural-light industrial, a zoning that mixes homes wilh heavy equipment operators and contractors. This type of zoning is only found in Thornhill. “I bought my house partly because of the zoning, I want to build a shop in my backyard and with this type of zoning I can do that,” said Parks, ~ Julseth stresses that the society’s application won't change the current zoning. “This won't change the intent of the area at all,” she explained. “The area will stay rural-light industrial it will just have an added definition that will allow us to stay there.” She said that the new wording will have restrictions so that the area won’t be bombarded with similar types of care facilities. “The wording needs to be fair to us and fair to the neighbours that's the only way this will work,” she said. ’ A newsletter bringing neighbours in the Kofoed Street area up-to-date on the society’s application process is being mailed out this week. ; After the new wording has been finalized and it has passed the first and second readings, a public hearing will be scheduled for the first week in October. 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For all your bulk propane, appliance sales or servicing needs, call Del’s Propane Ltd. at 1-800-943-7678 or Denis Favron at 615-7588 (Residence) , day! services, call us at {Somer Preuiasants tin HOUSE at 3183 Kofoed Street in Thornhill is at tha centre of a heated debate between the North West Community Health Services Society and focal residents. The society wants to use the home to hause the region's mentally il patients, but the plan angers neighbours, who say that they have been left out of the consultatian process. It's more than money LOCAL DOCTORS say wage demands make up just one part of their plan to im- prove medical services here. And tops on their list is the adoption and implementation of the new northwest medical services plan which lays out the case for more specialty medical services in the northwest. Local physician spokesman Dr. Bill Redpath says there’s a clear need for more psychiatrists in the northwest and a second ophthalmologist. There should also be an orthopedic surgical service in Terrace because it is the northwest home base for the majority of the specialisis needed to support thal service, he said. At the moment, there are two orthope- dic surgeons in the northwest, one in Kiti- mat and one in Prince Rupert. In the past, any suggestion of changing that mix has drawn severe objections from those two cities. “This is a decision that needs to be taken from a medical economic perspec- tive and to get the politics out of il,” said Redpath. There’s. also a need to increase the amount of operating room hours at Mills / BACKTO. | . SCHOOL SAVINGS Redken * Back to Basics Purehaiir * Joico * Matrix. I HAIR GALLERY 4711D Keith Ave 635-3729 Memorial, he added. That's because it wouldn’l make a lot of sense to pay doctors more money yet have them continue to be unable to fully practise their craft, Redpath said. Doctors also want commitments for a regional trauma service to be based in Terrace, a regional kidney dialysis pro- gram for the northwest and a comprehen- sive chemotherapy program far cancer treatment. ' They also say a fully functioning nurs- ery for sick babies is needed. at Mills Memorial and more money is needed fur the hospital’s thread-hare physiotherapy department. They also want an end to the hospital's requirement that the two general surgeons pay half of the wages of nurses working in its endoscopy operating room. “That's just miserable,” said Redpath. Specialists should also be paid for tra- vel time when going to the Kitimat Gen- eral Hospital and not be charged for af- fice space there. “We'd alsa like the CT scanner be fully funded, At the moment, the province only funds it 75 per cent of the time, ba- sically four days a week,” said Redpath. *B 2 RA? Gl det _ensy micals thot wail for them on picnic tobles, in coolers and in pel food dishes. The toss of ROWNING « MARLIN « BERKLEY * FENWICK MISTY RIVER Reilly Walker — 5 Ibs. CRAB TRAPS ONLY #19 Park Report by Bryn White Long belore mary of our parks were dosignated, bears lived in, and around our protested areas in British Columbio, Today, bears continue to dwell in BC Porks across the proviece and may be seen peshons enjaying o back-scraich on o spruce, oF gorging an natural foods such os berries, grasses, roots, spawning lish, trabopples, ond insects. AC Parks hs the dunt moadote of protecting pork wildlife and thelr hobitat and providing recreational opportunities. Sometimes these gools connat ba achioved in the some location. Tha problems arise whon food om cthor attractcnts are left out fer bears to find, Bue to thelr strong dtive 40 goin weight for their winter snooze, and being the sort of opportunistic and somewhal lazy creatures they ore (like some of us humans} bears will return to find o bear's fear for humans makes far o dangerous situation. ms, Visitors ora the key to making recreational areas safe, By making sure a lew precautions are taken, park guests con enjoy their sloy, Here cre some siniplo safety cules; ° * Coolers are net air-tight, nar beor proof and need {0 be stored in a vehicle when not being ysed, ae Lo ; * Food and other edarous matosials such 06 pat (oad and dishes, cosmetics, toothpaste, ond even empty pop cons ore bear ativaciants, so put them inside a vehicle ot night, and when you are Not present ol your compsita, ° . * Garbage need 1d be dealt with immediately, ond stored in beat proof garbage cantainers. * Report boar sightings to pork operators, .Take note wha) the bear looks like and what they were doing when you saw them, ; . When a beor is secn in c busy, welhused campground or dey-uso area, porks staff warn the public with signs and monitor the specific bear's behavior to see if it Is eoting human food or gorhage ond to monitor the beai’s response 10 humans. When possible, pork stolf work 40 maintain beor's natural fearful reactions to humans by altempting to scare thom off and aut of poptlor compgrounds and day ase arecs. 1f the particulor bear hos accessed humon food nr garbioge, or foils fo display a typical fecrful reactian to human presence, then the park are will bo closed to visitors until a lover date, Sometimes closure of an aren is nol possiblo, in which caso o food-conditioned bear %s trapped. Tropped bears are then destroyed bacouse once thay gel into huaten food and gorbege thoy will continue to pose a risk to public sofoty. 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