The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 21, 1998 - AQ Hospital food turns hi tech NO MORE MUSHY vegetables. No more luke warm food. As of March patients at Mills Memorial Hospital will 7 be eating meals prepared with the Jatest in food technol- In Brief More funny money found ogy. . The hospital will be the first in northern B.C. to use new POLICE ARE reminding consumers and business cook/chill technology. owners in the Terrace arca lo check $20 notes, as‘ counterfeit bills continue to surface in the city. One was discovered over the holidays, ayd last weck one was tumed in to the Terrace aud District Credit Union, The fake bills have a worn look, with a poorly- replicated hologram, and they are slightly smaller than the real thing. Anyone who spots suspicious bills is asked to contact. Terrace RCMP. ; ' ' , Right now cooks at the cafeteria prepare meals conven- tionally. The food is held hot in steamer tables until it is in- dividually dished out on trays, already prepared with cold foods, like salads. : “Right now the hot food isn’t very hot,’’ acknowledged food services manager Linda McMynn. And foods like vegetables break down easily when held at hot tempera- res, No more, says McMynn. Mills Memorial has contracted with a company to start a cook/chif] system at the hospital. Workers will be able to cook food a day or two ahead of lime, using normal procedures, till it’s just done. , Then the food will be placed in a blast chiller, meaning the temperature of the food will be rapidly chilled to just above freezing within 40 minutes. It’s best to hold foods at that temperature, rather than freeze them, because food maintains ils quality better, ex- plains McMynn. Trays will be prepared with chilled soups and entrees, and cold foods like salads, then kept ina fethermalization unit. The hospital now has three of these units, which hold 20 trays each. : Until mealtime, all the food on the trays is kept cold in the refrigeration-like unit. But there’s a special heating bar that slips under the entree and soup partion of each tray. :About 35 minutes before the meal, the bar heats up, while cold foods remain chilled. : Workers just have to detach the cart from the refrigera- tion portion at the back and whecl the meals up to the patients. That means patients will get piping hot food that hasn’t been overcooked. Forest centre to open i, A NORTHWESTERN forest training centre opens oo. tomorrow in Smithers. bon, I’s the crealion of Forest Renewal B.C, the federal Human Resources Development Canada, the educa- tiion skills and training ministry, Northwest Com-. ; munity College and various forest companies. The centre offers training and classroom teaching using the latest computer and information technology. Lost hockey equipment SOME KITIMAT minor hockey players were more than a little disappointed two weckends ago when they arrived ala loumament to find their gear missing. Apparently, the hockey equipment fell oul of the back of their truck somewhere belween Kitimat and Burns Lake. Anyone who may have spotted the hockey gear is asked to call the Kitimat Minor Hockey Asssociation. : And if one patient isn’t getting a hot lunch, the heating bar under that one tray can be turned off. ‘‘From a nutri- Replacement pon dered lional point of view il’s much better,’’ says McMynn. TEACHER’S UNION president Frank Rowe hopes the ' : The hospital cafeteria serves a maximum of 52 patients, LINDA McMYNN, food services manager at Mills Memorial Hospital, puts a tray school board will consider dividing up the duties of in addition to clients at the Sleeping Beauly lodge and hos- into the new rethermalization unit in the hospital's kitchen. The new technology teliring assistant superintendent Skip Bergsma. pital employees. means patients will get hot food that's not overcooked. Saving on adininistrative costs was supposed to be : one of the advantages to amalgamating Terrace and Kitimat school boards, which happened a lite over a Onion Lake dump Site probed [ee iecmcsmmmmcm Mountain school district in August. School board chair Roger Leclerc says the board is looking for a replace- ment, However, the board alrcady has another assistant . superintendent — Sharon Beedle who looks after ‘ Kitimat area schools. “T hope the board will examine very carefully the' : TERRACE AREA residents should know by “At that time we will have some good num- will require upgrading, but that will cost much the end of 1998 where their garbage will be bers on developing the two sites,’ Tooms says. less than developing the site near Onion Lake, going for the next 50 years. The information will be made available forthe — which will have to be created from scratch. ' :That’s the goal of regional district works and — public to review and raise any concerns they The Thornhill site also has a natural clay liner, services manager Roger Tooms. He’s reviewing may have. Tooms hopes the public consultation while the Onion Lake site would have to have ays ae Neereny information from drilling and test-wells al a —_- will take place sometime this spring. . some sort of liner installed, possibilty of assigns other sities, said Rowe 4 . potential site near Onion Lake, That site is lo- Ultimately, the site of the future long-term © However, some Thornhill residents have al- ; 1 he hoped ee . a ares wore , and . q cated off the Chist Creck Logging Road, about _landfill for the Terrace area will be decided by ready expressed their opposition to expanding Sal a Te € board, it faa vp accent, Z two kilometres from Highway 37. the regional district board. the Thornhill site, which they say is too close ta | WOU Bune someone as respecttul of both people an i [Once the information is compiled and ana- ‘They are going to have a lot to take into con- homes and Thornhill Creck. PFOCESSES. lyzed, it will be compared ta information ob- _ sideration,’’ Tooms says. One of those consid- Whichever site is chosen, Tooms says that tained from studics done at the other landfill op- — erations will likely be cost. The Thornhill site neither will be cheap. tion — the Thomhill dump. . REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS : A ctive Community Economic Development Strategy Sh rr. ’, GI ae S - di ~ : . resvrag peg oo ae othe : . " -, my ep? ot he ‘ Li . a writen (EDC) Camber of Commerce Ecottamic Development / mie ert S -_ aS : : Tu lO 2 ‘ommittes (E is seeking a consultant lo assist in updating the ee } i an { 1VI1I 1g Community Economie Development Strategy for tie Town of Smithers a Your complete stained glass supplier |. Exercise Your Options Scope & Objectives: The BDC ts currently in the process of updating . ’ the Community Economic Development (CED) Strategy for the Town of Smithers. The CED Strategy will be used as the framework to iniliate A community-based economic development program in Looking For Something A Little Different For Your Children’s Birthday Party Fully stocked with large selection of glass, books, bevels, stencils for 4 a \ Smithers, We are seeking the services of a consullan| to assist in i i ! incorporating coinmunity input and consultation and to eects ice | etching and everything else for the ! Community Economic Development Planter prepare a working a glass hobbyist. inetuctaas 2000 \ document. if Th hours'in bat { Consultants interested in submitting a proposal can contact the - Sherri’s also does custom orders, ' Community Economic Development Planney at (250) 847-4342 for a repairs and lessons. copy of the Terms of Reference. Deadline for submilling praposyls is Priday, January 30, 1998, an i Box 206s, Smicts Be, VOSENO | .1310 Main St., Smithers-U0)2NO-- Mail orders are welcomed. 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