Aa - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 28, 1998 Bowra expects a short’stay DAVID BOWRA expects his stay as the interim presi- dent of Skeena Cellulose will be a short one. Caldwell Partners, an executive recruiting firm, has been hired to search for a new full-time chief executive officer. Bowra, the court-appointed monitor with the firm Coopers and Lybrand, says the new person is expected to be picked within three months. The move last week to install Bowra as interim President and fire Rudy Schwartz as vice- president was a decision of the new owners — the provincial govern- ment and Toronto Do- minion Bank. “They felt they needed someone to step in and to take control and direction at a fairly : senior Jevel,’’ Bowra . : said. “They felt hada | Rudy Schwartz certain amount of knowledge and expertise of the busi- ness.’ Also shifting to the background is vice-chairman and former president Harry Papushka. Peter de Jong will take over responsibility for pulp marketing, but Bowra said Papushka bas agreed to stay on for a bit and act as a senior advisor to the company, Bob Allen is the com- pany’s new controller and treasurer. The designated spokesman for the company was to be John Nixon, who acted in recent months for the Royal and TD banks during the difficult negotiations with the union and province. But Nixon said last week the TD bank and province have changed thei minds. **The owners felt that on reflection it is better not to have the guy who was the spokesman for the banks be the spokesman for the company now,’’ he said. Bowra said shutdowns announced last week are necessary due to a combination of poor markets, fibre supply problems, and the company’s ongoing challenge of slaying within the limit of its opezating line of credit. Logging shut down Monday and is slated to be down until Feb. 9, The pulp mill is to close for February. The Terrace sawmill is the only operation unaffected, A crucial date for the company is the end of the month when an appeal period for the restructuring plan nuns out. After that the plan goes into effect, the ownership Structure changes giving the province 52.5 per cent of the shares, the Prince Rupert pulp mill workers 20 per ceut and the TD Bank 27.5 per cent. At the same time, the company’s operating Jine of credit rises from $110 million to $120 million, giving it slightly more room to manoeuvre. Contractors are hoping they'll get paid the $10,000 plus 10 cents on the dollar the restructuring is to deliver in February. Creditors group spokesman Justin Rigsby said he’s been told the company won’t have the money to make the payments until then. . Meanwhile, he said, contractors are concerned about the-shdrttenm log gig 'shitdowHgU! 2s Loe en He , Going up.and down every couple of weeks:costs the contractors moncy, Rigsby noted, adding they’d rather go down for longer periods and have stability. Psych plan lacks local details THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT'S plan announced last week to improve mental health services has yet to be fleshed out in smaller places such as Terrace. Although health minister Joy McPhail was quite specific in laying ont the number of items to be added to mental health services around the province, no focal or regional details were released. That kind of thing will have to wait until regional health boards and community health councils submit wish lists to the health ministry, said a ministry official. “The announcement was for the province. The next step is allocate beds and money,” said Darwin Sauer. Who gets what will depend upon needs, but Saucs said communities and regions shouldn’t be ina position of competing for limited mental health services. “The provincial figures were developed with Reform Party put on notice stakeholders and some came from the regions,’” Sauer said. What is promised by MacPhail is new mental health housing, small medium to long term care facillties, more crisis services, day programs in hospitals and more training and rehabilitation. The idea is to provide more services and to relieve pressure on hospitals who, by default, are called on to take care of mental heaith cases. Sauer noted the new services are to be brought in over seven years. That seven years is just about the length of time local health officials have been waiting for improved service from a plan MacPhail's is in- tended to replace, Under that old plan, seven beds or their equiv- alent in services were to come to Terrace as part of the reduction in size of the Riverview hospi- lal on the Jower mainJand. That concept is still on the books, said Sauer, in adding that MacPhail’s announcement is in addition to whatever was promised before. Local health officials for years have proposed a gathering of psychiatric services at Mills Memorial Hospital. This would involve renovations to the existing 10-bed psychiatric unit at Mills to provide a higher standard of service, day programs and out-patient services. The cornerstone would be the coustruction of three cottage-style housing units containing six beds each. These would replace the aging Os- borne Home building and represent the new beds targeted for Terrace. Local officials have sald the centralizing of the services would make them more efficient, allowing more people to be helped. Terrace Community Health Council executive Michael Leisinger said MacPhail’s announce- ment was encouraging. . We're now waiting until we get the actual plan ourselves,”’ he said. THE REFORM Party may not know it yet, but it is bound to collapse, says a prominent member of an- other political party. And the Christian Heritage Party (CHP) will be there to replace it, says Heather Stillwell, who helped found the party in 1986. Stillwell was in Smithers and Terrace last week talk- ing to local members. “The Reform party has moved into the popular Stream and good for them but there will come a time when the Canadian people will see a house without a foundation and we will be there,”” said Stillwell, “The Reform party is holding Preston Manning out there like a hood oma- ment and it won’t work for long,”’ she said. Stillvell said Reformers stole large portions of the CHP platform in the late 1980s — enough to make the party attractive to voters. But only the CHP con- lives and who want to be able to raise their children and run their businesses without’ the govemment being in their face and in their pocketbooks,”’ said Stillwell. Key portions of the CHP platform state it is pro-life, anti-cuthanasia, that govertt- ments can't spend more than they take in and that parents have a right lo raise their own children without over- riding state interference. CHP has never elected a candidate in Canada but does have active pockets of support. One of those is in the northwest where the party ran candidates in the 1988, 1993 and 1997 federal elections, “Our job is to run enough people and maintain our- , selves to meet the require- ments of Elections Canada so that it doesn’t seize our assets,’” said Stillwell. Stillwell is from Surrey and is the chair of that area’s school board. 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