The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 3, 1993 - A3

News In Brief

Beware of this fellow

POLICE ARE warning people to be on the lookout [or a fraud
artist who poses as a native chicf,

Several local businesses have becn defrauded of several hun-
dred dollars. RCMP say a man phones under the pretext of a
personal emergency and requests moncy. ,

Anyone with information regarding similar incidents is asked
to contact Const, R.J. Sangster at the Terrace RCMP, 638-0333.

Food bank getting ready

PREPARATIONS ARE getting under way for a resumption of
the Terrace Churches Food Bank For the winter season.

The first distribution period is Nov. 15-18 al the usual place
which is the little house on Sparks St. by the Evangelical Free
Church.

Tax deductible donations can be made to the Terrace Churches
Food Bank c/o Ann Venema, 4916 Davis Ave., Terrace, B.C.
V8G 1Y5. Food donations can be made to participating chur-
ches, at the food bank on the days it is open or at Overwailea,
Safeway or Terrace Co-op.

‘We couldn’t do it without the support of the churches and the
public,”* said food bank spokesman Micki Braid.

There are 11 participating churches — Catholic, Pentecostal,
Alliance, Evangelical Free, Zion Baptist, Lutheran, Seventh Day
Adventist, Christian Reform, Salvation Army, United and

WITH THE cover off, an inside look at the CT device installed doughnutshaped opening into which patients are placed
at Mills jast week reveals its hi tech components. That's Cam while the scanning is going on. The device will takes its first

Thomson of GE Medical Systems. He's peering through the patients next week.

Countdown underway
for CT service start up

MILLS MEMORIAL
Hospital workers are in the
final slages of training as
they ready to put the facil-
ity’s new CT scanning
device into operation.

“We'll do a couple of
people (this week) but it'll
be Nov. 8 before we start
officially taking booked
patients,” Mills official
Michael Leisinger said last

week.

Providing the training and
making sure the device is in
top working order are em-
ployees. of manufacturer
General Electric.

The - installation of the
device this month marks the

7 ~end of nearly four years of

part time each year.

effort.

CT images are threc-
dimensional and are consid-
ered far superior to stam-
dard, one-dimensional x-ray
ones,

Local and area contribu-
tions resulted in the raising
of $610,000 for the ma-
chine’s purchase.

Another $200,000 was
spent on renovations to the
hospital’s x-ray and radiol-
ogy areas to accommodate
the new device.

That was paid for by the
health ministry which is also
supplying - three-quarters of
the estimated $220,000 itll
take to operate the device

“This will sure be a boost
to the medical community
and to the people in the
northwest,’’ said Leisinger.

While the CT device goes
into official use nex! week,
the Terrace Regional Health
Care Society is planning
two days of festivities the
end of the month.

Health minister Paul Ram-
scy has been invited.

But the key, said society
board member Lynda Bret-
feld, is ensuring hat . as
many people as possible
from.the community have a
chance to see the device,

That’s why an open house
stretching over the
afternoons of Nov. 27 and

Nov. 28 is planned, she said.

“So many people in the
community contributed in
one way or the other. They
should all have an op-
portunity to view it,’’ said
Bretfeld.

The health care society is
also asking for help in
naming the room in which
the CT device is located.

Entries can be dropped off
at the business office of the
Skeena Mall.

And the society is also
looking for six-inch quilted
squarcs that'll be combined
into one large hanging for
the CP room, »

Those can also be dropped
off al the Skcena Mal! busi-
ness office.

Anglican.

Down to the CORE

LOCAL RESIDENTS get a chance soon lo learn mare about the
provincial government's approach to land use planning.

I'll come in the form of the Commission of Resources and
Environment’s Land Use Goals Workbook \o be released later
this month.

And it’ll be backed by a Nov. 16 visit by commission reps to
Terrace, They'll be at the Coast Inn of the West from 1 p.m. to
10 p.m.

The goals workbook contains proposed land usc goals and
how they can fit into a provincial planning sysicm. ;

Change to voting rules

THERE ARE some changes to this fall’s municipat, regional
district and schoo! district elections, says the person responsible
for the conduct of the elections.

The age is now 18 instead of 19 and a person must live in the
jurisdiction in which they want (o vote for at cast 30 days prior
to the election, says Elaine Johnston,

The provincial voter’s list is being used for the clections bul
people can still register at the polls on election day, she added.

And, a new voter category has been added. People who own
property can, upon getting a certificate from the relevant juris-
diction, vote in the jurisdiction in which the properly is located
even if they don’t live there.

“Tf you already reside in the jurisdiction you get a residency
vote, You can’t get another ons,” said Johnston.

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