Dialysis service tak THE NORTHERN Health Authority has hired two re- gistered nurses and is ooking for a third to staff its. new kidney dialysis unit at Mills Memorial Hospital. Scheduled to open the first week of June, the six- station unit will have a _ part: time head nurse, a - part time staff nurse and a -casual nurse, says Joanne Cozac, the authority offi- - cial in charge of the pro- ject. The plan is to have the people spend four weeks training at the north's main dialysis unit in Prince George beginning April 28. They'll then return to Terrace with an exper- _jenced hemo dialysis nurse ‘from Prince George to fa- _ miliarize themselves with the facility here prior to its June 2 opening. ; “The nurses are from '» Terrace and work at the hospital,” said Cozac of the hirings. _ “If. we thought we would have a problem with finding staff, we would not ‘have moved forward,” she said. “°“Nurses like the work,” said Cozac of the kidney dialysis service. “The hours are good and there are no night shifts.” The immediate plan is to operate the service three. days a week based * on having six clients al- ready identified. 3 i NORTHERN HEALTH AUTHORITY administrator Cholly Boland surveys the inside of the new es shape a kidney dlialy- sis unit at Mills Memorial Hospital. Those hanging brackets will contain TV sets for patients to view while undergoing dialysis. Nurses have been hired to staff the unit and it is scheduled for opening the first week of June. Six patients have already been identified to use the new unit. Hours of service will in- crease over time as more patients are added and as the nurses build up their experience, said Cozac. Some of the six initial patients are from Terrace who had to move away for treatment. The closest dialysis ser- vice is in Prince George. The northwest was the last region of the province to lack a kidney dialysis service. And while nurses are being trained, the first equipment for the unit began to arrive last week. The unit is located in the renovated former ad- ministration section just to the left after entering the hospital's main door. An internal medicine specialist with a sub-spe- cialty recruited in March to work in the unit likely won't arrive in time for its. opening, says another Northern Health Authority, Cholly Boland. But that won't stand in the way of the planned opening, he said. Dr. Zafar Iqbal, now working in Dublin, Ireland, will spend half his time with the unit and the other half of his time in general internist duties in Terrace and in Kitimat. He'll be the second in- ternist in the northwest and will work in conjunction with Dr. Barrie Phillips, who is now the area’s sole internal medicine specialist. Well out of service for nine weeks The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - A3_ News In Brief New woods boss here A NEW district manager has been chosen ta head the Kalum Forest District. ’ Rick Manwaring will be the top forests ministry | official in this area, He replaces Brian Downie, | who retired last month. Manwaring, a registered professional. forester, comes here from Mackenzie, where he was opera- [| tions manager and has handled other key projects [ as the government moves towards major forestry reform, He heads the government’s team: in charge of craftirg and now implementing the new results- |: based forest code. . Manwaring said he looks forward to coming to |! Terrace, adding he expects to start here by mid- June. Prior to working in Mackenzie Manwaring spent six years at Bella Coola, where he ran the |) ministry’s small business program for the central [| coast. ' T Grow op seized ; TERRACE RCMP drug officers uncovered a hyro- fF} ponic marijuana grow operation April 9 after heing called to 1872 Creek St. for an apparent break and >} enter, : Police executed a search warrant shortly after |. the 6:30 a.m. discovery and seized 317 plants, half of which were already in the budding stage, says RCMP Staff Sgt. Jas Basi. Police also seized hy- |! droponic electrical equipment. Staff Sgt. Basi says the residence is a rental unit but there is no evidence of anyone actually living | in the house. Police ate on the look-out for the last | known tenants of the house, he says. Anyone with information about this incident is} asked to contact the Terrace RCMP detachment at fF 638-7400 or Crimestoppers at 635-8477, Principal steps down | THE PRINCIPAL who's been at the helm of Cen- } tennial Christian School in Terrace for the past 15 years says he will step down at the end of this |j school year. : Frank Voogd has sub- mitted a letter of re- _Signation and a search fj for a replacement is on. Voogd’s resignation is NINE WEEKS is the current city estimate of how long it will take to bring the Frank St. well back on line and clear up the murky water now flowing in municipal taps. / The pump’s motor broke down April 9 and ‘the city has been drawing water from Deep Creek and the Skeena River since then. “When you’re looking at repairs to a motor of this magnitude it takes time,” said Marvin Kwiatkowski, the city’s engineering services . director. an - He said repair costs could end up around the-$85,000 the city had to spend to repair the pump motor in late 2001. win. he: oe Kwiatkowski said ‘it couldybeless ifvinsur- ance or warranty provisions’kick'ins «7 “City crews ran into bad luck ‘init “sy ediately | early last week when they tried to extract the pump and motor. What came up was only the column piping that houses the pump works - the pump and motor itself had separated and was left at the bottom of the well. 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Great introductory fares! onl "1 866.429.5247 Terrace to Masset - Sundays Masset to Terrace ~ Thursdays www. hawkair.ca The discolouration and siltiness of the water may increase as the weather warms and spring runoff increases. The Northern Health Authority indicated it will carry out more frequent water quality tests while the well is off line. There are no health concerns over the drinking water quality at this time, the author- ity said. The discolouration of the water is due its contact with mosses, leaves. and soil, Kwiat- kowski added, and is primarily due to the use of the Deep Creek watershed. 3He.said aleraiamibuhusual when surface water is uscd, noting TERE Nfed Deep Creek anit the! Skeet! va'foreyears-prior to the well'sdevelopiient:! +! iltyand organic wngtenialy ip gthe ¢:]. exnansitn PLPapees effective July 31, but that won’t be the last students at the K-12 pri- vate school will. see of him. Voogd intends to slay on at Centennial Christian school as a teacher. 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