" ee ee Vol, 2, Issue No. Strike notice - served TERRACE — Mills Memorial Hospital, along with many other health care facilities in B.C., has received notification of legal strike position by the . B.C. Nurses’ Union. If the. present. mediation | process breaks ‘down,. nurses could go out at midnight July 10. Norm ‘Carelius, ad- ministrator at the local hospital, corifirmed that the seven-day ‘notice ar- rived by mail July 3. Carelius said that infor- mation he obtained from the Health: Labour Rela- tions . ‘Association (HLRA), ‘the. organiza- - tion which represents hospitals i in-the bargai ing: process, indicates” that nearly every. hospital © , in B.C, received similar: notices in what he.term- ed a ‘‘shotgun. ap- proach”. He said that Mills. Memorial has not yet ‘been given any definite statement of in- tent regarding job ac- tion. In the event of a strike, Carelius said, the - Labour Relations Board will establish essential services guidelines for both sides of the dispute. Gerry Miller, spokesman for the BCNU, stated in an in- terview that the strike continued on page 24 Outside Date Hi Lo = Prec. June3O 38617 8 1.4mm duy1 1711 50mm July 2 18 8 1.0mm duly 3 7 8&8 O2mm July 4 21°11 0.0 mm July 5 24.11 0.0 mm July 6 2013 6.0 mm Forecast: Mostly cloudy, occasional showers and a few sunny perlods on Thureday. Affemoon highs near 20, with overnight lows down to 10. Business Guide 10 Church Directory 4 DOOD Athiete in action {Hundreds of young athistes gathered in Terrace recently to _fcompete In the B.C. Youth Soccer Association's. interior] . ~ "B” Champlonships. See story page 6. -Couneil receives — proposal — Terrace council recent. - vly heard: a proposal . which would set asliding. Scale of wage standards * for ‘employees’. ‘of ‘con- : -tractors” who : do: con- struction work for the municipality. In present- ing the proposal, North- coast Building Trades secretary Paul Johnston argued that the “‘fair wage policy’? would con- fer economic benefits on the community which would offset higher con- struction costs on con- tract projects. The presentation was heard by the Mayor and aldermen sitting as. a Committee of the Whole on July 7. Under its terms, no standard other than provincial minimum wage would be applied to contracts less than $10,000 in value; for contracts involving amounts from $10,000 to ~ $250,000 the minimum rate paid to workers would be equivalent to one of the CUPE classifications indicated in the city’s collective agreement with its employees; for contracts greater than $250,000, the scale would be full union wages and bene- fits, The proposal also ‘TERRACE, B.C _ WEDNESDAY.) July, 1986 any banners, but the organization and the people who work in it penetrate every level of society in Terrace. They give support and counsel to the deprived, the disabled, and. the cultural casualities of the community; without _ those. services Terrace, would -be the sotial equivalent of a refugee camp. . ‘The Terrace and District Community Ser- vices Society doesn’t advertise in neon or wave” Legislative Library, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. _ V8V 1X4 by Michnel Keliy Lorna Copeland, .ad- ministrator for the Socie- ty, -addressed Terrace. council July 7 at a Com- mittee of the Whole meeting, She summariz- ed the Society's objective ‘in- one concise phrase, “to provide social ser- vices to any individual or. _ group in need”. The . Society was founded. in 1970. and is funded by contract arrangements with various government " agencies. Its + budget for | Terrace community services | | reveals new Support programs the current year is about . $1.5 million, and it: employs 86 people. ‘opeland appeared a“ council’s invitation, and - she began her catalogu- ing of the Society's - various programs by ° noting that Terrace has an exceptionally high percentage ‘of. mentally - fandicapped aduits ‘, in proportion to the city's population.. Many. ale ‘these, she said, ° enabled to live relatively independent lives in ‘the ‘community through’ the =: assistance . provided ‘by the Society’s self-help - skills program. Others « who have more severe problems live in a= residential home; three~— of these people, . she noted; have gotten a great. boost in self-esteem by being employed in the. Pat Up Terrace pro. a The ‘Vocational: Retia- ee program is” funded: by the Ministry _ of Labour with the ob-_ ject of training and plac- ‘ing special needs people in employment around ‘the community. Cope- Jand noted that a recent” survey of the local - hospitality industry had resulted in a poor response, and she ex-. pressed the intention ‘of ~ going back to the Chamber of Commerce level and ‘doing some work on ‘community awareness in that area. — Special Services to Children provides one- on-one professional positive intervention for kids with an entire spec- trum of problems, from profound disorders to -severe behavioral disturbances. Workers within the ser- . vice also offer counseling - and support to parents - attempting to cope with the unbalanced family life that such children often create. The Itinerant Support Worker program heips children who have dif- ficulty adapting to. the mental vs, edge eee Ee yeh Te a - Claasified Ads 22 contained a provision for . , | Gaming Evente | allowing local firms a 10 Nrorment of schools, 4 Crossword 21 percent advantage in bid- Young people who run \ Dining Directory 18 ding on supplies and ser- afoul of the low or the Entertainment 19 | vices as well as construc- public school system are | Horoscope 7 | tion. _ . provided for in several Letters 4, 15 City administrator programs. Community fi Sorte ¢ | Bob Hallsor provided Work Service and Alter- i Stork 2 council members with an Art work on skin nate Measures Program ) Talk of the Town § | information package Ron Woodfine has the head of an Indian chief in full war bonnet regaila tattooed on his right offers counseling and continued on page 24 &"™ by master artlet Suday. See story page 23. continued om page 24