are A SMALL ornament with great sentimental value hus been stolen from the Kitsum- kaluim graveyard at the top of Kalum Lake Drive, and the thieves are being begged to telurn it. Four years ago, Alanna and Sandy Dun- can and their daughter Dorrien, who all live in Fort St. James, placed the little ornament at the gravesite of their grandmother whose ashes were buried there in 1991, The ashes of Dorrien’s twin sister, Alexandra, had been buried in the same place in the family plot three years earlier. The litte girl had died when she was just two weeks old. Sandy’s mom, Charlene Dunean, wha lives in Prince Rupert says the ornament is symbolic of the relation between the prand- mother aud grand-daughter. _ “W's a little blue and white ceramic house,” Duncan says. ‘Il has a grandma bunny silting in chair in front with a couple of lilthe bunnies silling at her feet.’’ Health 00Ss nired THE NEW group that’ll be responsible for northwest health care lias hired its first employee. . ; And he gets to choose where he’ll live and work.. Wayne Hay begins his job as chief executive officer of the Northwestern Regional. Health Board April 1. He'll live and work in Smithers as part of a board ~ decision permitting ‘its main official to choose his home base. “The board agreed, even: prior to his hiring, that it wouldi’t be an issue where the CEO would live — as long as he would be located in a community along Hwy16,”” said Gary Roper, a health ministry © official who has been working on selling, up the new health body. , “Tt dacs not reasonably follow thal all regional of- jices have to be in one place.”’ Roper said Hay chose Smithers because he has family living there. Hay is in the process of moving from Bella“ Coola where he was the adjninis- trator of that cammunity’s hospital. He was also involved with the Northwestern Regional Health Board’s equivalent in the Cariboo, 7 Hay’s hiring marks the be- ginning of the establishment of the repional health board as the new body responsible for health spending and mamiement decisions in the northwest Its boundarics extend from the Queen Charlotte Islands in the west to Houston in the east. CO e The - board. will. allocated monies to local communily health councils in an allempt to move decision making out of Victoria: A14 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 20, 1996 SOMEBODY HAS taken a small ornament from a local grave and the family wants it back. The ornament has great sentimental value for the family. Small ornament taken | %, in rthwest syd Se dhiytanten coty hors . sci Terrace and Kitimat are located in the midst of the BEST fishing in the world, Every year thousands of people hit the rivers, streams, lakes and coastline for a fishing experience second to none. The “Fishing the Northwest” guide book will offer advice on the best fishing places in the area for the public (we won’t give away all the secrets, of course), lists of local _ guides, outfitters, resorts, hotels, motels and restaurants — even some of the local shopping — PUBLISH DATE: April 6, 1996 COPY DEADLINE: Friday, March 22, 1996 STAN DARD SALES REPRESENTATIVES: MIKE HAMA SAM COLLIER + JANET VIVEIRGS - | CALL 638-7283 or FAX 638-3432 Duncan says her son and his family have placed the ornament al the gravesite cvery Spring, for the past four years. They then remove it before the first snowfall. She says the family recently made the trip from Fort St. James and put the house back in its regular spot, But Duncan says when she visited the gravesile a couple of weeks later, it was gone, “My daughter-in-law is really upsel,’’ she says. “‘And my son is also taking it very hard."” , Duncan says she doesn’t plan to contact the RCMP, she just wants whoever took it, to put it back. ‘It’s a symbol of my mom and my grand-daughter,’’ she says. 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