TERRACE -- The Deep Creek fish hatchery has
been given a temporary reprieve.

Operated by the Terrace Salmonid Enhancement
Society, the hatchery was due to close today after
the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans
(DFO) told the society its contract would not. be
renewed.

Following. a. meeting ‘with DFO representatives a

Friday night, president Doug Webb said-the .Sotiely ,

had now been told it would receive $35,000,"> - “
But‘that’s only enougti to keep the hatchery. going

for two months at current’ operational levels, °~ ;

The society had a $178,000 annual contract with :

" come available: to cover the. cost of keeping the fish: 7
“until nex Spr ing.

_ |. Webb said that was to be one ¢ of the i issues tackled. ,
when directors met last hight... " :

the DFO to operate ‘the hatchery. ' :
Itreceived a further $51,000 a yet to supeevise a.
special rearing, tagging and releasing. program in-
volving Kalum River chinook.
David Griggs, director of the DFO’s west coast
Salmonid Enhancement Program, had suggested the
society try and raise additional money. locally,

Webb added. .
He said society. directors. had already started that
process:by- approaching. local 1 busintessés.
However, there are'some decisions which cannot
wait for the results of those money-raising efforts,
Webb. explained the hatchery was currently ‘hotd-
ing approximately 50,000 Cedar River coho fry. -

Although. they could be. released now, experi-:

. menis*at Deep: Creek had: shown it was better to
. hold? ‘the fish fbr a full:year, ‘The survival is smuch,: ».
: much higher,” ;

he poitited out.
‘therefore faced a dilemma: release
diately: ‘or ‘gamble. more money’ will:

They would also have to decide wlicther to opera:

te the hatchery:at its nofinal. level or cut back In ail.

effort to. stretch the: $35; ga0, °

‘

"

’ Leisinger.

In any case, he said, the sociely would continue to
pressure federal Fisherics minister John Crosbie to.
reverse the decision to cancel the society’s contract.

And it’s getting a lot of help from people. across

‘the region in that effort. :

He estimated approximately 300 letters of support

for the hatchery had already been sent to Ottawa In- .
cluding some: from residents of Kitimat, Prince,

Rupert and Smithers.”

Petitions located i in Terrace sporting, goods stores

had already picked wp’ 700 signatures, he added.
‘City council also, threw its support behind the
hatchery at its June 22 meeting.
Telling aldermen it was Deep Creek’ Ss “hour of
need,” Webb had emphasized. its ‘value. went
beyond the production.of fish.
“Explaining: Deep Creek was a popular educational
field trip for local schools, he said more than 1,000"

‘students had passed through its doors in the past

TERRACE -- Mills Memorial affected.

Hospital workers with less
seniority than others face a ner-
vous time over the next while as
layoff notices to cut a budget
deficit take hold.

That's because, more. senior
workers who have:had their jobs
eliminated can take those held. by
more junior workers, says haspi-
tal administrator ~ Michael

The provision: is called bumping
and is common ia union. con-
tracts. :

times,” said ‘Leisinger.’ “Tf you
are newly hired, there's a chance
you'll get bumpeds?? 0.

Mills Memorial officials will
begin next ‘week to learn’ how °meaiii
many : peaple:, and: jotts’ ‘could be -_ and ‘wa

its budget.” res

TERRACE — School District 88

- Kalum. ‘chinook’’, the. fish ~ that”

await layoft word

The earliest of 17 Inyof notices
comes into force July | 20 and the
latest one is Dec. 9.0

Notices were issued the week of
. June 8 and workers have 31 days
to decide if. they want to _bump
another Worker. a

‘A LPN (licensed | proctica
nurse) in the same. union as a
cafeteria “worker could. take: that oe
jab,”” -said Leisinger.

The 17 jobs cut represent neatly a
11: full time equivalent provisions .

_ As. with. other. northern } hospi-
s,. Mills Memorial’ s budget

Lunch eter approved

year.

A look at the visitors book 2 also showed ‘tourists.
from all over the world also visited “the: facility.
There was another tourism. connection ‘as well, he
added, The hatchery worked mainly. with the ‘‘giant.
‘drew
sportsfishermen to Terrace each summers,

Maintaining the toss of the hatchery would.be ‘‘a

tragedy”, ‘alderman Ruth - Hallock added, “We

should fight like hell to Keep it.’”

Council agreed unanimously. to imimedisiely ati:
tact’ Crosbie, Prince George Conservative . MP.

” Frank Oberle, Skeena NDP M.P. Jim Fulton and the

regional director of: DFO urging reinstatement of

_ the society’s contract,

Suggesting the strength of local: reaction had
come as a surprise to the DFO, Webb was confident
continued lobbying could persuade Crosbie to todo

"just that,

STANDAI

money.
The hospital is sso closing 22
of its 89 beds. Y
“The layoffs affect ihe hospital’ i.
social worker, its head of physio.
services, staff physio,

nurses, three’ housekeepers, "0

‘nem te and dotles of t

lowing complaints abaut cutbacks
in -services affecting. people in :

tion clerk, ‘four ined petal ;

€.. .
janitor. and four. people in its:

will be ee nets a
“ -and.took place because the. hospi: *
“These are certainly uncertain . tal had to; cut $525, 000 to balance _ dy ;
health minister Blizabeth Cull. foi-.: :

e Terrace, Kitimat, Prince ‘Rupert : ‘

will get an $84,400 grant next
year to run a school lunch pro-
gram for needy students here.
The money is earmarked for
Clarence Michiel ‘Elementary
School, but school district _offi-
cials say they'll try to spread it
around so other needy students
also benefit,

Kenney and in Hazelton: and all
over the district,’ said super-
intendent Frank Hamilton. ““We
want to distribute it according. to
need.”? "

He said’ the education ministry

‘lunches,’

“We have kids in need at BT.

rejected the school. district’s re-
quests that the money be given to

the district ‘to distribute, instead -

of to one individual school. - .
“The system would be better if
we were allowed to help all the
children in ‘the district. who need.
~added: school board,
chairman Edna Cooper.. ~
Hamilton said the district hopes:
to work out an. arrangement with -
the Terrace Anti-Poverty Society: .

to use the money to provide a hot |.
lunch service-for needy: students «

at both Clarence Michiel and E.T.
Kenney: ‘Primary School. He said
they also want ‘to give some of:

the money io other schools,
"The ‘Anti-Poverty. "Society cur- :
rently runs a soup. kitchen “in: the ©
ald Lutheran Church: ‘building: ‘at
the comer of Sparks St. and Park |
Ave.. :
“We've. been serving more than

. 100. ‘people’ a day — the’ majority.

of whom. are kids - _ ~ steadily’ for .
the ‘past . two. “months,” * said
“society: ‘spokesman: Rob: Brown .
The need is definitely big.”
Some of * the... clientele. are ©
transient adults, he said, but many

- are childten who ‘simply don’t. -
have enough to ¢at,

Brown: said the ‘soelety hasn't.

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_ the headrig saw and planer would
~ gun there this week, resulting in

' other major operation, bas art-

TERRACE. --: The continuing
pulp unions strike bas led to ‘the. 7
first layoffs of local sawmill
workers and more will be off the
job next week.

Skeena Cellulose (SCI) man-
ager Rand Menhinick ‘said only

12-16 layoffs,
- SCI suspended its logging oper-
_ ations more than a week ago.
Menhinick sald the company
would continue to monitor the
pulp strike situation and decide
_on further action accordingly.
However, he warmed, ‘If things
don’t improve, this could be our
‘Fast week, We're looking at all
options, though,’’ he added.
Skeena’ Sawmills, the - city’s

nounced it will shut down next

Pulp mills stike
begins to bite’ Z —

Rand Menhinick
week with employees taking an
unscheduled two-week vacation.

Its logging operations will also
go down [or that same period.

met with the school district. yet,

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