Al 2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 6, 1999 ~a Pub plan proceeds A NEIGHBOURHOOD pub on Hwy16 West is one step closer to final ap- proval, says owner Sulakhan Hundial. He also owns the Evergreen Inn and is shown here with a sign at the pub site which is next to the motel. Hundial wants to break ground as soon as conditions permit and hopes for an early summer opening. The Evergreen Pub will have a railroad station theme, contain 65 seats inside and 20 outside on a covered patio. There will also be B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) which represents meeting rooms. Offsales will be halted at 6 p.m. each night. . A REPORT on garbage disposal and recycling doesn’t lake into account economic pressures and privale recycling initiatives, says the district manager of works and services, *‘A lot of things aren’t in this,” says Roger Tooms about areportou municipal waste using information gathered in 1996 and released late last year. The report -- prepared for the environment ministry by the Recycling Council of B.C. — measures the amount of garbage disposed per capita by regional district. It says the Kitimat-Stikine generated .70 tones of gar- bage per person. Only two per cent of that waste is recycled, British Columbians on average create .93 tonnes of garbage per person but recycle 38 per cent of that. - Those percenlages were determined through a survey that each district was asked to complete. The problem, said Briai Grant, a senior environment ministry officer, is that not all districts have standardized landfills. The Kitimat-Stikine, for example, is one of several dis- tricts without weigh scales to measure the precise amount of garbage recycled. Se So weights here had to be estimated based on quantity and ministry-provided guidelines. _ Grant admitted that estimates could affect the. accuracy of the numbers, IT’S TO TIME to fight for northern health care, says the chair of the regional district. Joanne Monaghan is asking the Union of B.C. Municipalites (UBCM) to fight for doctors, air ambulance service and the construction of a new health care facility in Kitimat. “They could bring awareness that things arc being eroded in the north,’’ she said. Monaghan says the government silenced criticism on health issues when it appointed regional health boards and community health councils since July 1997. “While appointees may have the best intentions, as government appointees, they are not in a position to criti- cally evaluate Ministry of Health policy and decisions,’’ municipalities within the province. Terrace’s Community Health Council is completely ap- urging a ‘no’ LOCAL NURSES will learn more next week about a° mediator’s proposal to end a contract dispute with the provincial government, Officials of the B.C. Nurses’ Union are coming here Jan. 13 to explain a package sugpested last month, It’s already been rejected by the bargaining committee , for the nurses and BCNU inembers are being urged to ° vote against the package, ‘They'll. go. over the. imediator’s package = in , detail,” said local BCNU shop steward Penny , Henderson. She said Lecanne Malthus, BCNU chair for the north." west region, is coming here ‘so that uurses will -under- stand all the issues in the mediator’s package before they vote to accept or reject the proposals Jan. 26: Henderson said she thinks Inany. nurses at Mills will . Teject the package. . “IT haven’t found one . member that’s happy with the, package,” she | said. “They feel the ‘increase in - on-call pay is a slap in the face.”’ Union president Cathy Ferguson says the report is an inadequate solution to the workload crisis and to the nursing shoriage coufront- . ing B.C.’s health’ care sys- tem, ; The proposal recommends benefit improvements and for the province to spend $50 million over 18 months | to hire more than 1,000 new ~ nurses to ease the workload. While Ferguson said while mediator Brian Foley ‘‘took a fair approach’’ to work- load -issues,. he didn’t ad- dress monetary issues. Ferguson said. Foley’s recommendation -. for the premiumis nurses receive for being. on: call and. being in . charge of wards. are insult- me He's’ suggestirig ©. the premimum increase from $1 an hour to $1.25 an bour for being on call and to, $1.50. an hour after 72 on-call - hours ina month, Foley also Suggests nurses in charge of a ward received $1.25 an hour, up from 90 cents,. The Health Emptoyers As- sociation’s 437 members, who mansge about 700 healib care facilities across. BC.,, will: also vote on the package, ‘The results of- the employer's ‘vole won't "be released until Jan. 27,” ©, AWD, remate keyless entry, aluminum wheels, “98 CHEVROLET C/K EXTE said Monaghan in a letter to the executive of the Union of | Local conditions ignored in provincial garbage report And he admitted the more populated a district was the more accurate the reporting tended to be because bigger centres usually had newer landfills, Grant said that the Kilimat-Stikine’s two per cent recy- cling rate only means that a lot more could be done. Of course, he said, in rural districts what can be done is subject to available markets. “We don’t force regional districts to recycle regardless of cost,’’ said Brian Grant a senior pollution prevention of- ficer in Victoria. He said where costs are a factor the hope is that districts would concentrate on reducing waste by composting and reusing their waste before it gets to the landfill. _And that, said Tooms, is just what the district is doing, Used v@iste oils, air filters, tires and batteries are all pulled out of the garbage before it gets to the landfill, he said. - He said private recyclers and salvagers in Kitimat and Hazelton as well as landfill reuse piles of things like bikes and lawnmower parts could easily bring the recycling per- ceittage to 10 per cent without drawing on the district’s budget. ‘*We’ll assist wherever we can to reduce waste entering the landfill, but we have (o do what's affordable within th regional district,’? Tooms said. Health care needs supporters pointed by the health minister’s office, said Judy Tracy who manages health projects for the regional district. The hope, she said, is that UBCM will act asa third- party lobby group in the struggle for healthcare dollars. The group should be similar to what Mayor Jack Talstra tried to set up three months ago with an independent municipal task force on northwest health issues. But the idea failed when some areas decided not to join, said Terrace’s economic development officer Ken Veld- man, Several cily councillors — including Rich McDaniel, David Hull, Ron Vanderlee and Olga Power -~- applied for Positions on the Terrace Community Health Council in October but were not chosen by the health minister. The city and regional district have criticized appointees at the health council saying some of them have tics to the government and that prevents them from tackling health - care decisions made by the provincial government. 88019" AO EECUATY DePON = "no PURCHASE FOR JUST “15,698 IF ONLY EVERYTHING IN LIFE. 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