Page A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 16, 1993

Takhar makes donation to get sewer

TERRACE — The city will
receive an approximately $13,000
donation from one of its own
councillors this year.

If, that is, owners of property
abutting © i ;
blocks of Twedle Ave. vole in
favour of a. proposed sanitary
sewer project,

Mo Takhar wants to see the city
extend sewer service from 4923
Twedle, where it ends now, to the

the 4800 and 4900.

edge of his Uplands subdivision
development cast of Munroe. ”

The first section of the exten-.
sion would rin to the east proper-
ty line of Takhar’s home at 4823 _

Twedle and would be carried out
under a council-initiated Local
Improvement Project (LIP).

But the LIP system requires a’

majority of property owners first
agree to pay part of the cost of the
project, thelr share being based

on property frontage.

Because council did not include
the project in this year’s budget,
Takhar offered the donation. ~

_Jt’s equivalent to 25 per cent of

the likely cost and the provincial

"grant the city would normally be

seek before proceeding.

. However, Victoria has made it
clear only high priority health or
environmental safety projects
have any chance of getting a
grant this year and Twedle would

Hospitals receive reminder
on giving out information

TERRACE — A. provincial
government letter has asked all
hospitals to give iheir employees
and medical staff education on in-
formed consent,

The letter, sent last Augwst,
says there are legal and ethical
grounds for informed consent —
the phrase for. patients having in-
formation on aspects of a medical
procedure so they can make a de-
cision, ©

It was written after a coroner’s
report into, the 1991 death of Ter-
race resident Myma George
recommended that “‘prospective
patients for therapeutic abortions
be apprised, in writing, of all pos-
sible. complications that could
result...”

George had an abortion at Mills
Memorial Hospital but was irans-
ferred to Vancouver when com-

plications set in. She died In Van-
couver.

The lelter did note informed
consent is a matter between a per-
son and a physician.

But it also noted that hospitals
also have a role to play.

“The mechanism of ensuring
informed consent has been ob-
tained prior to surgery is left to
the individual hospitals,’’ the let-
ter said.

“Informed consent, of course,
both ethically and legally, should
be obtained prior to any treatment
or procedure where there exists
material risk to the patient,
whether or not that treatment is
provided in  hospital.”’

The letter adds that information
given a person must be un-

derstood by that person to meet

the standard for informed con-

New society bids
on shelter effort

TERRACE — A group which
wants to create-a shelter for
homeless People | is - forming: a
” society.

Named after a woman who died

undér a tarp late last year, the
Daisy’ Wesley Society. held its
founding meeting June 7.
The nine board members are
this week preparing a submission
to the social services and housing
ministry for a shelter.

It follows a ministry request for
bids to have a shelter, in place by
this winter. ° ;

-Those,. in’ the, Daisy. Wesley.

Society have been working for
some, time,on, shelter, plans under.
ihe auspices. ‘of the ‘Terrace’ Anti
Poverty Group Society.

Tt ran a temporary shelter this
past winter in the Skeena Health
Unit auditorium. .

. “We're excited. There are
some ‘Teal: positive ‘moves,”’ said
soclety vice. “president: Leila
Burton last week,

Bryce Bystrom is president,
Linda ‘Meyers. is secretary, Dar-
ene Gelinas is. treasurer and
board members are. Carol Sabo,
Gerry King, Dave Haizimsque,
Burt Rogers and Trina Brooks,

The society also has: twa
honovrary members — Alex
Wesley (husband to Daisy) and
Tony Wilson — who'll act as

connectors to homeless people.
““We’ve set up a special ad-
visory committee to contain up to
five homeless people,” said
Burton. .
“We want to have some kind of

vehicle so they can have input to -

the board. We want to make sure -
this continues to be a grassroots |
organization to keep in touch
with people on the street,’’ she .
said,

More than $100, 000 has been
approved for the creation of a
hostel for men and women in Ter-

oo

The shelter would. accom-

Leone emncvacal

sent. .

Informed consent became an is-
suc last month when the Terrace
Pro-life Education Association
asked Mills Memorial Hospital to
provide written details on. abor-
tion to those considering the pro-
cedure, ;

The hospital’s governing
society has passed that request
along to local doctors for their
consideration.

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not fall under either heading.

Given Takhar will provide that
money, and” assuming property
owners’ agreement, council has
now agreed to go ahead with the
project.

The remainder of the sewer ex-
tension, 330 ft., touches only on
land owned by the city or Takhar,

Here, Takhar has offered to
Split the cost with the city and
council has again agreed in prin-
ciple to his proposal,

While agreeing neither was in- |
cluded in the ’93 city budget, ad- |
ministrator Bob Hallsor pointed
out the city share of the LIP
would be negligible.

Estimating the city share for the
remaining 330ft. at $5,000, he

-said that could be pulled from the
city’s separate sewer fund.

And if council decides it can’t
find the money this year, Takhar
has offered to pay the whole shot

. with the city repaying. him. when
it sells its property.

Explaining the city stood to.
gain from the sewer installation,
Hallsor said, ‘“We want to get our
property serviced so it is more
saleable.’”

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the project could also include. -

_consituction .of a building,

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isting bullding.
Those wanting to join the

society can ‘contact Burton at_

635-3045 or 635-4631 and
Bystrom at 635-1481.

Correction
TERRACE — There were two
errors in a June 9 story on
Cameron Davis. ’

He was mistakenly identified as
non-native and he is in Grade 11
at Caledonia, not a graduate.

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