City, regional district reps
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been retumed as chair of the
Terrace and Area Health
Council for a three-year
term,

She was one of 13 ap-
pointments announced last
week by the health ministry
that took hold Feb, 28,

Tarwick is the only person

» named by the province to an

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exegrtize position on the
@Ancil, Its members will
choose the other executive
slots among
when they meet March 24.

Also returning is Bob Kel-
ly, a B.C. Tel official, who
was vice chair, He also has
a three-year term.

The province appears to
have reached back for pre-
vious experience with the
appointments of Les Wat-
mough, now the regional
district director for Thom-
hill and Olga Power, a city
councillor.

Both have served on
health care societies that ex-
isted prior to the health
council’s formation in 1996.

A third new appointee,
Don Dunster, runs an ac
counting service, and has
been given a two-year term,

The health council runs
Mills, Terraceview Lodge

Strike
averted

A STRIKE by Skeena
Broadcasters’ unionized
tadio, TV and cable workers
Was narrowly averted.

After first rejecting one
company offer last Wednes-
day, Communications, Ener-
gy and Paperworkers mem-
bers accepted a last minute
Thursday nine
hours before that night's
strike deadline,

The deal, which was
ratified by the membership
Friday night, gives the
workers wage increases of
‘LS per cent effective March
1, and-two per cent in the
second: and third years of
the contract, said union rep
Kathy Brookes.

' Okanagan Skeena Group
previously offered a total’ of
2.5 per cent over three years
with a wage freeze on the

first year, while the union »

was demanding 8 per cent.

Also included was a small
signing bonus, a larger
company-paid portion of
benefits premiums, and an
hike in layoff severance pro-
visions to a maximum. of 26
weeks of pay, Brookes said,

The difficulty, had been
the company’s demand for a
wage freeze in the first year
of the contract, she said.

‘*The company is making
money,’’ she said, “We
were confinced the compa-
ny could afford a modest in-
crease.”?

themselves

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and Osborne Home for chal-
lenged adults. It was formed
four years ago as part of a
new-look centralized way of
running health ‘care institu-
tions.

The council has spent the
last two years battling a
continual deficit at Mills

Memorial Hospital.
Retiree Norm Read, col-
Iege instructor Nirmal

Parmar and lawyer Patrick
Fagan are returning for one-

year terms.
Also retumiing are
women’s centre. worker

Sarah de Leeuw, provincial
children’s and family minis-

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try official Don Philpott and ————

Kitsumkalum health worker Les Watmough Olga Power

Vera Henry. All have two “They didn’t favour put- kkk

year terms. : ting ‘politicians on the board = Another two appointments
Dr. Lani Almas was could be made by mid-April

but I guess they changed
their attitude,”’ he said.
Watmough feels the hos-
pital is stretched to the limit
and that regional competi-
tion for health care dollars
between northwest health
councils bas to stop.
‘Power said her appoint-

named to a three-year term
and represents the medical
community. Public health
inspector Russell Seltenrich
is returning for a three-year
term and represents unions
who have members in health
care,

to make up the 15 wanted
by the health ministry,

It’s a desired figure, but
not mandatory, says minis-
try official Stephanie Slater.

She said the health council
has been given an extension
in order to find suitable can-

Speaking last week, Les ment and that of Watmough didates,
Watmough said it appears are a retum to the way Missing so far from the
his appointment and that of things used to be when local appointments are people

city councillor Olga Power
represent a shift in govern-
ment thinking.

government representatives
were named to health care
societies.

from Kitwanga, the eastern
most fringe of the health
council area,

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