’ a a ee ee ee ee ey a a a A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 8, 1998 STOP Press NEWS City planning Victoria trip to lobby for hospital MAYOR JACK TALSTRA says he will lead a delegation to Victoria in the next couple of weeks to pressure the gov- ernment for more health care dollars for Mills Memorial Hospital. He also hopes to bring other northwest mayors along and make it a concerted pitch for more recognition cf the health service provided in the region as a whale, The plan carne out of a meeting last week thal seemed to ease the simmering feud between city councillors and the Terrace and Area Communily Health Council, City councillors have been pushing for a more aggressive approach to make the government recognize the hospital's financial plight and the threal it poses to the community’s present stable of specialists. Because the community health council is made up largely of NDP appointees, city councillors have suspected the group is reluctant to aggressively tackle the NDP government, : Health council chair Larissa Tarwick told cily reps the group has been trying a more diplomatic, internal lobbying effort that they think is getting close to success. “T think we can do more fighting from the inside than we can fighting from the outside,” added health council member Bob Kelly. , Tarwick promised council that if the money they believe they need doesn’t materialize later this month, “we are going to yell very loud.” “Our frustration level, and mine in particular, is getting: very high,” Kelly added, “I won't say whether or not Ill resign. I'll make thal decision at that time.” But Kelly and Tanwick said they don’t object to the city taking a more vocal and confrontational approach with Victoria than the health council. “We can take one path, the doctors can take another path, and you guys can lake a third path,” Kelly said. City councillor Val George, hawever, said he didn’t leave the meeling with the sense the city will be strongly backed up by the health council in a fight with Victoria. He says provincial government bureaucrats will have an easy lime deflecting city councillors if health councillors aren’t saying the same things. “They say what the hell are you doing - you’re just playing politics. It's an easy argument for them.” Stick lodged in skull ALOCAL man is lucky to be alive after being struck in the head with a stick that plunged several centimeters into his 1 Nisga’a court challenge presses on > INTERNAL CRITICS of the Nisga‘a Tribal Council say they’re pressing ahead with a court case that challenges their leaders’ authority to negotiale a treaty. Frank Barton and James Robinson told about 25 other Nisga’a at a meeting here Saturday that their court challenge launched last year is now even more relevant in light of the Delgamuukw ruling handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada in December. That decision on the Gitxsan land claim is seen by many native groups as strengthening their hand, And some Nisga’a feel the treaty their leaders are close to signing would give them too little. That’s translated into internal dissent and even calls for the resignation of leaders in recent weeks. Nisga’a Tribal Council president Joe Gosnell has portrayed opponents as a vocal minority and the court ruling as one that has unrealistically elevated native expectations. But Barton says they’re not giving up efforts to force improvements to the treaty, particularly for residents of the westeramost village of Kincolith, where much neighbouring traditional territory has been cut out of the deal. Five hospitalized “I call itthe instrument of surrender,” Barton said of the treaty, adding hereditary chiefs are preparing a proclamation aimed at ousting Gosnell, “He shows complete contempt for the Kincolith in the Nass Valley, We have the right to (hrow him out. Our hereditary chiefs have the right to do it.” The court action, set to be heard in September, is primarily based on what Barton and Robinson claim was inadequate notice of a’special assembly of the Nisga’a Tribal Council on Feb. 22, 1996. That assembly ended with a vote giving Nispa’a leaders the authority to sign an agreement-in-princi- ple and go on to negotiate a final treaty. Just six days notice was given, Barton says, and many Nisga’a never got a- written notice, hearing only about, the meeting through word of mouth. ~The result, he suggests; Was @ yés vote with only a fraction of eligible Nisga’a participating. . “The democratic process was thrown out the win- dow,” Barton said. "They call a meeting in the middle of winter when there was ice on the ground and a storm blowing in,” he said, brandishing a copy of the notice signed by Gosnell, “The conniving, mistrust and contempt this guy shows for the Nisga’a nation is written on this page.” ; Ray Guno, who organized the meeting, said those issues will be hot topics at the Nisga’a Tribal Council annual convention coming up later this month. Gosnell says he’s going to give critics an independ- ent legal analysis of the Delgamuukw decision. But that didn’t impress Guno. “The day our leader has to consult a white lawyer to explain his aborigi- nal rights is indeed a sad day,” Guno said. Gosnell says he's not expecting changes from what was mapped out in the 1996 agreement-in-principle based on the Delgamuukw decision. “We couldn’t peer into the future and we couldn't anticipate the ruling that came down in 1997,” he said of the talks that led to the agreement-in- principle. Bui-he said he and other Nisga’a negotiators con- tinue to press Ottawa and Victoria for a response to the ruling, “Quite frankly we've been badgering the federal and provincial negotiators on what their position is on that issue and still we get blank stares from across the table.” COAST TERRACE RCMP are still trying to piece together a series of chaotic and bizarre events surrounding a possible drug party that sent five people to hospital last week. Tests conducted at Mills Memorial found that the people had used a dangerous drug cocktail of Ritalin and cocaine. Some had also been using marijuana and alcohol. BC Ambulance service responded to the drug-related calls April 1 at several different locations across the city. Many of those taken to hospital were hallucinating, some were vomiting and most were incoherent. Police could not say for sure at press time if all the people had attended the same party, but at least two of the groups were connected. In all, police ano emergency medi- cal personnel went to addresses on Park, Queensway and Scott beginning in the carly morning hours of April 1, Ritalin is a prescription drug commonly used to treat children and young people with Attention Deficit Hyper- activity Disorder. It’s a form of speed, which works by stimulating the central nervous system. Greg McQtarrie of northwest addiction services says it’s fairly common to combine cocaine with other stimulants like Ritalin to produce a greater high. Police were first alerted to the situation at 2:49 a.m., April 1 when they received a call about an impaired driver in the 4500 block of Park Ave. near the arena. When police arrived they found thice in.paired individu- als, two of whom were juveniles. Police say two of the people had trouble walking and were incoherent. One was TRACTOR COAST : Interest 6 Months % OAC Program Runs Until December 31/98 ‘TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS SPECIAL OFFER! . 4650 Keith Avenue, Terrace For All Makes ¢ Komatsu ¢ Cat Minimum $7500 throwing up ina yard. All three were taken to the RCMP TRACTOR = phone:635-7131 ¢ Fax: 635-4831 skull. Police attended the scene after a fight broke out at a rowdy parly in the 3700 block of River Dr. Apr. 3. Staff Sgt. Doug Wheler says one suspect hurled a stick, which struck another man in the head just below the eye, Wheler says that had the stick penetrated the skull another 2 cm, the man would have died. A 19-year-old male has been charged with criminal negli- gence causing bodily harm in the incident. Flasher on the hill POLICE ARE looking fora man who exposed himself to a woman on the arena hill last weekend. The woman says she was walking down Paul Clark Dr. Apr. 4, when she was approached by a shorter, stocky man wearing a rust-coloured sweatshirt. The man pulled his hood over his face and then dropped his pants, After exposing himself, he ran off up the hill. Clothes stolen THIEVES MADE off with $3,300 in clothes after two smash-and-grabs last week. Police say early on the moming of Apr. 1, culprits broke the front window of Star Apparel across the street from the Co-Op and stole 10 pairs of women’s jeans, seven pairs of men’s jeans and several jackets. The clothes were valued at $2,100. 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