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OCTOBER 25,1995

By JEFF NAGEL

A LOG HOUSE on the street where the
mayor lives is the new home of Dial-A-
Doll Escort Service in Terrace. ;
The rustic home at 3902 Spring Creek
Drive is just a few doors down from
Mayor Jack Talstra’s house and about a
block away from the new Seventh Day
Adventist Church and school,
Dial-A-Doll advertises its service as

800 telephone number rings through to
the Spring Creek Dr. house,

being “‘available 24 hours’? and its 1-.

The $250-an-hour. escort service —
whose employees have twice ‘publicly:

admitted they engage in prostilution —-
was at the centre of controversy here in
August after it took out a city business
licence.

That licence listed its business address
as a motel room at the Rainbow Inn on
Hwy 16 West.

But the escort service left that motel
last month. and has not yet revised its
business address at city hall — as it is re-
quired to do,

The, Standard visited the expensive

. Neighbourhood that’s now home to the

service and arrived last Thursday in time
to see a taxi pull into the driveway. -
-A red-haired woman emerged from the

house and got in the taxi,

When questioned, she denied any busi-
ness is being conducted at the house but
refused to identify herself,

*‘Tt’s none of your business and there's
nobody at home,’’ she said, refusing to
answer further questions,

In fact, somebody was home.

The man who owns the log house ans-
wered the door, |

Asked if he was aware that an escort
business was being Operated through his
house, the man denied any such knowl-
edge.

~ He refused to denty the woman who :

had just left.

Upscale street home to escorts _

“‘She’s just a tenant here,”’ he said.
*‘She’s just someone who house-sits for
me.”

He said he doesn’t know what: his
tenant’s occupation is and said he never
asked. when he rented the basement to
her “three or four months ago.”

“I have no idea,’ he said. “I’m not i in-
terested in what people do.)

He said he’s often out of town on busi
ness and. isn’t aware of the \ womani’ s “ac-
tivities. - ed

“I work out of town,’ he said,”

‘4

on 4700. block Straume . Ave,

no use of a residential house a as an. ‘office for

& an. escort agency \ would. fit reideata a
He would not say ¥ what kind of work he. the
does, ;

Dial-A-Dol] isn’t the only escort ser-
vice operating out of an office;in a. -
residential neighbourhood.

City business licensing inspector Gene ;
Miller says. he’s aware that. Executive.
Lace Escorts, which also has a city busi- __
ness licence; is: operating out ofa house vy a
-in the ; a

horseshoe area,

Miller was unsure Friday whether thie

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“It’s absolutely not possible even If-you des.

ing the Terrace it in thé n

A HEALTH ministry direc-
tive saying it'll withhold the
salaries of hospital adminis-
tralors whose
don’t file financial reports
has angered the head of the
local health care society,

Olga Power of the Terrace
Regional Health Care
Society, which. oversees
Mills Memorial Hospital,
says the tactic simply makes
a bad siluation worse,

you want community in-
volvement, They undermine
the understanding asd trast
that’s necessary. on both
sides,’’ she said.

The directive pertains to
reports required at the end
of the 13 time periods which
make up -the hospilal’s
financial ycar..

“will initiate procedures: to
reduce your hospltal’s fund-

institutions —

“These threats undermine _
health care at a time when

ing by a symbolic amount
equivalent to your adminis-
trator’s annual salary,’’ says
a Sept. 1 letier,

In the case of the health
care society’s chic execa-
tive officer, Michael
‘Leisinger, the annual salary
equivalent would be
$84,000.

News of the ministry’s
directive comes at a time

ministry over the filing of
budget and financial: docu-
ments.

The = ministry’s —_ been
saying Mills hasn't filed the

appropriate documents or |

given explanations as to
why it’s running a deficit
and what it will do to cut
costs.

Power concedes Mills did
miss one filing deadline this

summer but has kept the

.

As the date for Mills Memorial Hospital
to submit a balanced budget to the health
ministry nears, it continues to state its
case for more money. Letter, Page A8.

Should they not be sub- ;
mitted in thme, and afler a‘
waming, the health ministry:

when the hospital is sirug-

gling with a projected
‘deficit ‘of. _More. than
$500, 000.

Ivs been given unt Nov.

15 by.the ministry to submit

‘a balanced budget: =:

» And that’s: lead to a dis-

pute between Mills and the

ministry informed about its

financial position.

The dispute about fillng
documents 1s on top of a

‘ continuing ‘bate by Mills

for more money to deal with

. Its budget crisis,

Power iald the health care

Wage snatch threat
angers hospital head

hospital administrators to

submit a series of options on

how to balance the budget.

‘We expect there will be
areas of cuts and further in-
itiatives to reduce the dol-
lars spent,” she said,

But there’s no guarantee
the board will accept all of
the options listed to balance
the budget, Power added,

“The. - fragmentation’ of -

any delivery. of a service
will have a grave impact on
Terrace and area,” she said,

Health: ministry spokes-
man Kathy Santini said it
still believes Mills can find
ways to cut costs,

One area regularly men-
tloned is .in the hospital's

. administrative areas,

Power said the ministry

“appears to forget’ that ad- |

ministrators at: -Mills . also
Tun the financial. affairs of
Terraceview Lodge. ; ;

Olga Power.

Terrace’ garbage: eat

“district. directors | ‘Friday:
raceview merged to ‘create mo
the Terrace Regional Health
“Care Society,

Trash e city |

By JEFF NAGEL

CITY COUNCIL has balked at the idea of spending more” .
than a million dollars next year on garbage dump and:

recycling.

Councillors ‘reacted with ‘alarm last. week: when ‘hey 7

received the numbers that project vast costs to” ‘close: the:

Terrace landfill, upgrade the Thornhill dump : and. ‘carry ou

large-scale recycling and composting. ". -”.,
Cost Projections, estim ter up to/$680,00

The cost of uperading | the Thom ill, ump, {
communities is estimated at up to. $572,0

‘ity budget’
definitely — would pay for drop-off. recycling, ‘subsi
composting, and a: campaign to persuade-peopl
and reuse. That $170,000. is a net cost: ‘that: alread
counts for projected revenue from selling re \

“This scares ‘the hell: out tof mes said: councille
Graydon. rere

ture problems L sor sider
anything to be negotiable EE

Council was under pressure. to approve the’ stage 2 report

of the solid waste’ management : plan’ at.
Kitimat-Stikine Regional District board meeting.

And although: they Voted for. it, clty finance committee © :

chairman and regional district rep David Hull said 1 the
so with the understanding that its provi i |
in over a number. of years.

**There’s tio way the member municipalities could
to do everything in this report. in one yea

"He noled the city was facing some of ihe

aie cone
servatively tee in the report HAS Tong as It’ $'spread gut

over the next five or six. yelirs it’s. not going to cri ple, Us
too badly,?” Hull. predicted. aa

The measures are part of a regional solid waste manage- .

|]. ment plan that must be approved by the end. of this year,

It’s aimed at meeting the’ provincial goal of a.50 per. cont-
reduction i in the amount of garbage. going. into landfills,

The measures contained in. the. report are expected ‘10 -

achieve a 33 per cent. reduction fn te Kitimat-Stikine
Regional District. : :

“PLANS TO. “send:

Dr: Chia Wen Hsii told:
Kitiniat- Stikine ‘tegional.

“The ministry: should a

-ftember this is a combined.
operation,” sald Power. fads

One area Mills will: have:
to explain is why it first:sub-

mitted « balanced. budget in

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That. change: ere ‘in: Be ns

“the “late” “1980s: athe:
soclely. board ts expécting ;

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