A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 20, L STOP Press ” Railway robbery THIEVES BROKE into CN Railway work sheds last week and made off with thousands of dollars in equipment. Police say that sometime during the evening of November 13 or morning of November 14 thieves pried the locks off work sheds in the 4500 block of Railway. They took about $5,000 worth of property, including ‘a Honda portable generator, ‘a Stihl ‘abrasive saw. “i ‘Boesch ~ electric jackhammer and a Makita reciprocating saw, Anyone with any information on this crime is asked to call the RCMP at 638-740) or CN Police at 638-6638. Democracy coming IT LOOKS like the Kitimat model of using an advisory council to help make school board decisions will be adopt- ed across the new Coast Mountain school board. It's a very democratic model of decision making, where teachers, par- ents, etc, all have a chance to have a say. Just how to make that model work across the whole school district was the topic of a meeting Monday night in Kitwanga between Terrace ‘and: Kitimat ‘trustees. Three newly elected trustees from Terrace, Hazelton and Stewart. were also there, as was facilitator Dante Lupini; The group decided that there would be five of these advi- sory councils set up across the district - one each in Hazelton, Stewart, Terrace, Thornhill and Kitimat, There will also be a district advisory council, with reps fram each individual council. But the trustees ‘haven't agreed an how seats on those councils will be filled. - Kitimat trustees suggested holding meetings | ‘so each community could decide for itself, but Kitimat. schocl board chair George Neumann said Terrace wasn’t keen. The big issue of how to select a superintendent was lett alone on Monday. “We're tiptoeing around the superintendent issue,” said Neumann. “We're not waking up that one yet,” he said, adding that the new trustees on the board need time to get up to speed on issues. However the trustees did discuss the possibility of getting a professional firm to hire senior administration, so as to remove any hint of bias. | Executive administration from both Kitimat and Terrace is meeting tomorrow to look into staffing needs in each community, The trustees will meet again next Monday. From front Call for help company is losing money because of the stumpage and logging cost hikes, “We're in a reasonably strong lumber market yet we’re losing MOney,' * Marleau said. ‘If we can’t make money when we’re at the higher end of the market, what are we going ta do when the market’s dawn?”’ Much of the logging cost increase is due to more restric- tions from the Forest Practices Code, «. : MacNicol says the costs of building roads per cubic metre of wood delivered has quadrupled. “It’s largely the result of changes the government made,’’ he said. ‘I don’t even think we’ve seen the full impact of that yet,”’ Skeena MLA Helmut Gicsbrecht predicts a response from Zirnhelt soon. He said there have been discussions about the possibility of giving a reduced stumpage rale to operators in the high- er cost coastal mountain areas. “It might be some kind of a variation on stumpage based on the fact that companies that get their wood in this coas- tal range have much more difficult terrain to deal with, much higher pulp log content and that some consideration should be given to that fact,”’ Giesbrecht said, He said another option that might help would be to adjust the Forest Practices Code provisions involving road build- ing. Giesbrecht noted that some roads that will be deactivated anyway are being built to a high standard under new code provisions, “If those roads are going to be deactivated anyway maybe some thought should be given to reducing those standards,”’ he said. BOLD SALUAGE . * Copper, / Aluminum, Brass, Lead, Stainless Stes Chrome, Nickel, Silver, Electrical Wire, Wire R _. . Radiators, Batteries, f Beams, Pipe, St GUS NEHRING TERRACE, B.C, TEL: (250)635-1228 FAX: (250)635-8151 professional look at ord pie, Sises B16. SJoaes of New York fe On Sale. 0 SOI Nowd Logger puzzled over FRBC jobs A LOCAL logger is upset with the progress being made in selling up an agency lo pro- vide jobs to laid off forestry workers. Wayne Kilgren has spent just about as much time on the phone lately as he has logging in trying to unravel the various Forest Renewal B.C. (FRBC) programs. ‘All I want to know is where are the jobs,” said Kilgren last week, Those jobs are to come, through the new forest worker agency which is to give first dibs to laid off forest workers in various FRBC programs, FRBC is spending millions of dollars in the northwest on stream rehabilitation, recreation programs and silviculture but Kilgren basn’t seen much evidence of it filtering down to local forest workers. The prospect of those jabs is becoming increasingly important, says Kilgren, as lo- cal loggers are spending less and less time in the bush due to new cutling restriction regulations. . “Te’s been awfully bad the last couple of years and it’s getting worse,”’ he said. ‘It’s been two years since they set this (FRBC) up. I just want to know what’s hap- pening,” said Kilgren. Adding to Kilgren’s. worries about jobs for local loggers is the pending sale of Repap and whatever might happen as tesullt, Kilgren did add that unknown factors such as weather and annual cutting quotas set by mills also influence logging activity, But Kilgren and others are going to have to wait for several months yet to find out what's involved with the new forest worker agency. Legislation establishing it was passed in July and FRBC is now working on how the agency will operate around the province. FRBC official Colleen Johnson in Vic- toria says meetings have been held around the province and more will follow shortly. ‘We expect a model to be presented to the FRBC board in January for approval and for it to be operating April 1, 1997,°’ said Johnson, In theory, the agency will compile a list of laid off forestry workers for use in hiring for FRBC prograins, Thase workers will have ta have either lost their jobs or have their working time cut from reductions in logging quotas or from new forestry regulalions in order to qualify. “The object is ta match up those warkers with FRBC programs,’’ said Johnson. Exactly what the eligibility will be in terms of weeks worked or income levels has yet to be determined, she added. Johnson did say that some FRBC projects are using faid off forestry workers already but that these are one-time efforts in ad- vance of a province-wide policy. Docs to close offices to ease budget crunch LOCAL DOCTORS are ex- pected to join others across the province in closing their offices for five days to save money. The first planned closure is Dec. 9 and the last is March 21 of next year. Terrace physician Dr. Geoff Appleton, the north- em representative: for the B.C. Medical Association, says doctors hope to avoid taking another fee cut on top of a three per cent roll back keep within the budget cap. Doctors and the govemn- ment agree that fee expendi- tures are minning past budgeted amounts but differ on the exact figure. Appleton said the five one-day closures will be treated just as if those days were slatutory holidays or Sundays, “This is not a strike. We will continue to provide on- call service to the hospital’s emergency room. That brought in last month. won't be a problem,’’ he GROVE lal! STOPPERS 635-TIPS “Nyce Lady Dress & Bridal Shop Just arrived new. | selection of ih won aaa Gowns. 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Geoff Appleton . “I'd rather have a day off than. to work for nothing,’’ he said. Province-wide, the office closures could save up to $3.2 million a day in physician biilings, Medical office employees also won't be paid when the offices close. This spring doctors and the provincial goverament signed a deal to keep bill- ings this year at $1.4 billion, the same amount as last year. That agreement also called for cost savings measures to said, And elective surgery scheduled for those five days will go ahead, Appleton noted that other health care —s providers routinely close during peri- ods of the year to save money. *‘Mills Memorial Hospital closes its operating rooms during the summer,’’ he said. ‘All we're saying is that if the government has said that if there is a limited amount of money for health care, that’s fine with us to work within the limit,’? 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