Heat bills could drop DON’T BE suprised if your. winter heating bills are lower than what they were last year. Even though the price of cnergy has gone up, this winter has been warmer than last year’s, indicate figures from: the Environment Canada office at the airport. Of course that’s hard to believe for thosé who remember the last days of February when tempera- tures dropped to - 35 when wind- chill was laken into account. Overall the mean monthly temperature for February was - 6.4 degrees, equally the coldest on record dating back to 1975, says. Environment Canada’s John How. “The average daily maximum was - 4.4 degrees. Normally it’s plus 1.2,’? he said, There was also a total of 132.2 mm of precipilation, weighted in favour of snow because of the colder temperalures, “We had 110 cm tolal in the month. It’s normally 70.6 em but slill we were nowhere near a record,” said How, '- The stats also take on a cold look when a federal measurement called Heating Degree Days is laken into account. That’s a calculation used to determine how many days a month the temperature drops be- low 18C, This is considered the average comfortable temperature inside a house, meaning that anything » colder and energy is used to pro- duce heat, ~ Based on February’s stats, fuel - tequiréments based on the cal- culation soared 25 per cent above normal, This was balanced off against ‘January when weather was warmer than normal. But overall, says How, this winter has been 10 per cent warmer than usual. - ‘The same trend is reported by . Pacific Northern Gas which says residential consumption is down 25 per cent this winter compared "- to the winter before. ‘And there’s been a dip in the use of clectricily this winter, says . Operations manager Ron Nixon. “Our revenue drops and so do : peoples’ bills,” he said. - That turns out to be a bonus for people on an equal monthly pay- ment plan because they’ll have a credit on their anniversary date, Nixon added. ' Yet the opposite can be true if the following winter is colder than normal, he said. News In Brief Nurses to protest LOCAL NURSES who are members of the B.C. Nurses’ Union (BCNU) and who are not employed by the hospital ate scheduled to gather here March 29 to discuss stalled contract talks with the provincial government. The nurses primarily work in the community health area are paid at much lower rates than their hospital counterparts, says BCNU president Debra McPherson. “A community health nurse III, one doing home care, now receives $24.39 an hour while the equivalent hospital nurse, as of April 1, will receive $28.41 an hour,’’ she said, McPherson sald the difference in wage rates is particularly grating given that the province is saying more and more health care will be done at home or al health units. There are 16 public service nurses in Terrace and area and a fur- ther GO in the general region. GERALD KING (cated) of the Terrace Anti Poverty Group Society and building trades council agent Fred Glover talk about iocal hiring at a Kitimat job site. Companies, unions at odds WHAT BEGAN as a difference in philosophy about local hire be- tween Methanex and trade unions has turned into a contest of num- bers. Union spokesmen last week were discounting reports from Methanex that a majority of the people hired for an expansion pro- ject are local. Carpenters union local 1081 president John Jensen said local car- penters have been refused employment at the project and that Led- cor, Methanex’s contractor, is looking elsewhere in the province for carpeniers. Union statements have been backed by Gerry King of the Terrace Anli Poverty Group Society. Speaking last week, King said at least 50 unemployed tradespeople have passed over his doorstep in-the last year, “They've now run out of UI and one I know had to sell his furni- ture to put food on the table,’’ said King. ; Grizzly bear hunt stopped THERE WILL be no grizzly bear hunting | in the Kitlope River val- ley for one year. Environment minister Moe Sihota announced the moratorium last week, explaining the closure will give biologists more time to as- sess grizzly populations across the province. The provincial announcement came two weeks afler Kitamaat Village chief councillor Robert Robinson announced a Haisla moratorium on all bear hunting in the Kitlope. Robinson was happy with the provincial moratorium, but wanls to see black bear hunting stopped in the Kitlope as well. He’s asking guide-outfilters and other hunters to respect the Haisla moratorium. eT fF FF OF The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 23, 1994 - A114 Physical Education, DAILY A Right, Not A Frill! For a Parents’ Kit on Quatity Daily Physical Education, call The Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation at: (618)748- -5622 BS CAHPER mR ACSEPL BB HU CARDEN ATIOCIATION SOFRIAGTA PUTECAL IDSC AGH ibe 1 DAH | * LR HOC: AMON CMU ETANT POQILA HENM L (OUEATION PSPE-OUE ATE ADD . 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