f PULP STRIKE _ TERRACE -- Local mills are gear “ing up to resume full operations in’. the expectation of an end to the: - ” five-week! pulp an piper strike by: ‘this weekend, - -, {The strike, whi 1 _-thwest pulp operations, aff ’, Skeena Cellu Sawmills mills: ‘here ‘and related at r tivitles. hee ~ Skeena Sawmills “employee are: - pow in the. ‘second week ‘of.a ¢ week: holiday”-shuldown W ils, Skeena Cellulosé has ‘been worki its planer only after depleting. itd’ ag. inventory. as of last week. The two. - pulp and paper unions will vote on a - new contract this week: while employeers have sald they. will. decide to accept or reject the con- tract on Friday, Put together by - veteran’ labour mediator Vince Ready, the proposed - package covers the four major itenis of a slatutory holiday,- wages, pens, sion plan improvements and -lah- _ guage protectiog union members,on * testing. ; Skeena Cellulose: manager Ran “two, planer. ‘shifts ‘this. week’ anid resuming its. ‘woods. operations ‘kid ; lon deliveries Text, Mondla I uly. 20, “Menhinick’ said the’ mill i forinirg' Mills preparing for return in hopes of end to strike “The saivmill and the planer will, be totally: dawn July 20. “That's a because there’ ll be a bit of a: lag’ in, log dcliveries,”” he-said- the; sawmill and planer on_a, one “shift basis. If'the pulp mill- ‘retuihng “ planer’ anit ‘the sawmill .as s00n as ; ~osible Menhinick added, “two-week: ‘holiday shutdown, said. “ manager Don Chesley. - ~ “We're-starting up. regardless of how..the ‘vote: goes and we'll be: ‘monitoring the situation, from here onin,"hesaid. : _ Skeena Sawmills is stockpiling its chips and can do so for’a. while yel, Chesley said. ' . Northwest Loggers. Association president. Alec, Honldén said the | . strike’ has’ been ‘Hard on members — -- Who : :would be, normally hauling to ; ~themills. Bo came, this happened.’ he he sald, . awned and owner-operator rigs have. been grounded by the strike, said * local manager Rod Ulrich. |. ~ “We have a few hauling lumber and. ore, bul that's about it,"* he sald. ‘Pulp and paper mills went out the iddle. of June, placing: 12,500 unién' members on picket lines and idling thousands of other workers in the, forest industry. “On, ‘Tuesday we'll be running = - Skeena ‘Sawmills ‘employees ate 2 dud back" Monday to conclude a. | TERRACE — Doctors. will be going on strike here Friday as part of rotating province-wide ‘ one-day walkouts. They'll be closing their offices, . rescheduling elective surgery, and shutting down all but essential services, said Terrace doctor Geoffrey Appleton. Doctors will still be on call to handle emergen-. cies at the hospital. The move comes after the government told doctors last week there would be no further offers. No further negotiations are scheduled. Victoria has capped doctors’ billings at $1.27 billion this year. The doctors say that’s $60 mil- lion less than what is needed, and that they are being | asked to cover the shortfall. ‘We're calling this Budget Sta- bilization Day,’’ said Appleton, the local. representative for the B.C. Medical Association. By reducing services, the doc- tors hope to get the message across that less money will mean less service, They plan one-day watkouls i in most B.C. communities every month, and more often in larger centres. “We know the. (Medical Ser- vices Plan) budget that’s been set. is too low, Without fce increases, we will be over budget,” AP: pleton said, “Anything » that. goes over budget is our problem —- we pay it back. And if we are going to do that we might as well stop work.” Applcton says it’s the fi ist time Oren Geoffrey Appleton the government has ever tried to make doctors.dircctly responsible for the level of health care utiliza- tion. hit bricks Frida .“They’ve set this. budget to the . degree that there’s guaranteed :lo be a deficit,” he. added. ‘‘The health minister, just ‘doesn’t have the guts.to come cut and admit. it,’ 2, . ‘Mills Memorial - Hospital ad- ministrator. . Michael © ‘Leisinger said he expects there will be more emergency hospital visits - >that day. He urged people to use discre- tion in coming,-to the emergency room, and that if it’s mot an emer- gency: 1o-wait and see iheir doc- tors the following weck. Provincial ‘statistics show. . the average pay of a B.C. doctor — before taxes, office and overhead costs — is about $172,000 a year. General | practitioners, who’ make TERRACE — Details of how a study will be conducted 10 cxam- ine the effects of the planned Orenda Forest Products pulp and paper mill on area native com- munities could come.this week. The study is one of the condi- tions under which the province gave approval in principle for the project last spring. Those details were to have been completed by’ mid-May and the study fo take Place over the next ‘90 days. But the. groups involved .- Orenda Forest Products, the Haisla from. Kitamaat and the Tsimshian Tribal Council - failed to come: toa ‘conclusion within ‘that time period. - The Nisga’a and the Gitksan are also involved but only to the ex- tent. that waod. Orenda wants to use will. come from their iradi- tional territories. Provincial economic develop- ment officer Harold Demetzer, who has been co-ordinating the effort, said the parties are work- "ing on the final study terms. And -be'-predicted agreement could come this week. : One native official, Haisla band administrator Ken Hodgins, said agreement bas been reached on the broad outline for the study. “One objective is to undertake a fairly comprehensive communi- - cation cffort within the com- munities so that. people under- stand the project,’* said Hodgins. “They may know the name of Orenda but not the project ‘details,’ be added. That kind of information could ~ AB Was ‘a tough ‘winter as far as ‘hailing’ was. concerned. There was. - 0 Erost ‘and ® as - soon: .as one a go a long way to relieving some, of -the -anxicties .and questions ° about the project, Hodgins said. ~ The study will also. look at the impacts of the project'on tradi- tional and: contemporary, nalive he -economies. . And there will be a compilation done on natives and their skills : ’ with an eye to employment dur- - ing construction and. when the mill opens, said Hodgins: Orenda Forest. Products - vice . president Frank Foster ‘said last © week he expects: completion: ‘of . the terms of reference very soon. “We're done our discussions. We? Te. waiting to see the: final - terms. All indications are very positive at this point,” he said.” Once those .terms. have been 7 ‘adopted, Orenda can then “apply. © for permission to begin clearing the mill site Skim south of Lakelse:. Lake. - That provision was laid down : when the province gave the pro- : ject approval-in- “principle . “last April. But Foster said the delay in the, o terms of reference isn’t holding up clearing. “We're behind schedule on the permitting at the moment, ‘but it’s not impacting us,” be said, - . Discussions continue: with ‘the: lands ministry to purchase. the site: 9 Orenda also has to complete a ‘study - ‘on underground © water beneath the mill site. It’s. to satisfy findings stating the: mill's proposed use of un- derground water worn’ harm ‘nearby crecks or Lakesle Lake or Abis -ycar's budgets..are. causing, ; Hospital’s 89 beds.and cutting the | ‘take’ common action... - she. sald. t wp more than half the total avin ber of doctors, make $152, 000 on average. GPs are paid an average of $26 per service here, about .30 per cent higher than the median fee: per-service levels in other. pro- vinces across the country. 2 kkk ke: And as doctors - ‘prepared to strike, groups opposed.to health care culs at-four northern. hospi- tals met here Monday to. discuss what to do next.” ; Made up of unions and sthers’ in the health care field, the: groups represented hospitals ; bere, ‘in. Kitimat, -in Prince Rupert and. in- Prince George, : , Spending limitations “imposed: by the provincial government. in layoffs and bed closures... Northem hospitals: received ‘no ; increases pexcept under pay equi-. ty provisions, and. had: to: absorb regular pay” increases. and infla- tion. with the same; amount, of money they received last year.’ -In Terrace, that's leading to the closing .of 22 of. Mills. Memorial - ae non ep tle wire rec ogee em ‘equivalent of 10 full time jobs. The joint:action committee at: ‘Mills Memorial: Hospital has: al- 2 ready ‘conducted’ a. post.” card: campaiga, protesting the, cuts and. has held a rally, Committee chairman * Blain Pigeau said the intent of the meet-! ing is to find common: Brod t ou: the: ‘provincial’ government, -Orenda, ‘must ‘also. eatablish monitoring system to keep an eye: ; on the underground. water: ‘supply. and on anything, that: might affect, it. Poole ’ ate Foster said: nothing so far found in the water ‘study goes. against previous-stidies.”:. : Satisfactory. completion: of ‘the: studies atid* other? ‘requirements: : are needed before. the province: gives fi nal “approval -to the Pro-. ject.