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THREE DOWN (ALMOST), ONE CONTRACT TO GO Cu stom. tran sit.
study launched _ .

“Members of the B.C, Nurses’

“Union vote.on a tentative con- |

~ tract next week, the Health Em-

‘tentative contract today, and the
Health Sciences Association has
. their. bargaining process tied to
- the ‘murses’ agreement. ‘Things
-are almost back to normal. at
Mills Memorial Hospital. But
there’s'one more to go. 2°
- The. International Union of
~ Operating Engineers ‘is . still.

— negotiating . with “the Health.
Labour Relations Association,

and one report at press time in-

. dicates there may bea strike vote

next week, oe
If the: four members of the

_TUOE at Mills Memorial go out,

the other three unions _ will

- respect their picket: lines.

Acting hospital ajiministrator.

- Shirley Bentley said yesterday
the pickets came down at mid-
- were 45 patients in the hospital.

night Friday, but nurses are cur-

_rently. on work-to-rule because

the contract: hasn’t yet been
ratified. They’re declining. to

‘wash instruments, do cleaning
. work or call in replacements, she.

said.
Bentley said MMH will go
back to business-as-usual, but

she noted that the patient load is

normally on a reduced basis dur-
ing. the summer anyway. -:
As of midnight Monday there

A well-attended public meet-
ing involving Terrace city coun-
cil’s Committee of the Whole,
representatives of the Kitimat-
Stikine Regional - District and

- B.C. Transit on June 27 set the

scene for a feasibility study into
a Custom. Transit or Handi-
DART service for the Terrace

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area.

Present were "aldermen ‘Bob
Cooper and Darryl Laurent, re-
gional district directors Bob
Marcellin and Les Watmough,
B.C. Transit’s Steve New, man-
_ager of small community sys-
tems, and Graham Masterson, a
transit planner. _

As was pointed out by New, it
was exactly 10 years ago tothe
day that he sat in a similar, -
meeting in Terrace to begin: the
same sort of analysis -which —
eventually resulted in the con-
ventional transit service we have
now. He viewed this as a good
omen.

The object of this initial meet- ~

ing. was to determine the terms
of reference for- thestudy:‘Now~ ~
. ~ determined, these guidelines are .
to examine the present system to
see if it can’t be better utilized to
serve more people, and to identi- |
‘fy and meet with potential

HandyDART users-to determine °°

specific needs in the area... |
_ As for the cost of.the service, -
Bob Cooper said he believed the |
City of Terrace could handle

something in the neighborhood. .

of $6,000 to $10,000, while Les
Watmough said that Thornhill .
Tesidents don’t want to spend -
any more than they already are. -

A new or different type of ser-  ~

vice, however, nay be a differ-
ent matter, he added. .

Examples of the ‘cost of a
specialized parallel service such
as the HandyDART system are
to be found in Williams Lake
and Prince Rupert.

Prince Rupert operates a cus-
tom transit service or Handy-
DART system which is a door-

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Parker announces permanent forest commission

- Forest Minister Dave Parker

has:-responded to sustairied -
‘ public pressure for a Royal:
Commission into B. C. forest:
practices by creating a ‘commis- -

sion of a different sort. The
-B.C. Forest Resources Commis-

gion is a permanent 11-member..
body that will examine forestry:
issues and make recommenda-:

0 tions to the ministry, ©. =~
- Jn an interview Friday - ‘from
- Vancouver, -
. that:the new body is preferable

: to a Royal Commission b because

Parker éxplained.

it is permanent, empowered to
examine a broader scope of
issues, and more flexible, He
noted, however, that the ex-

istence of the Forest Resources — -

Commission does not exclude
the possibility of a Royal Com-

mission being ‘called, at some.

future date.
The new group will be under
the direction of the ministry and

‘assigned issues for examination
‘by .the minister. Parker said.
powers. of inquiry ~— judicial .

authority to call witnesses, 4 anin-

herent element of a Royal Com-
mission —- could -be granted to
the. Forest Resources Commis-
sion. under some circumstances.
‘The reports of the commission
‘will. -be public documents,
Parker said, but they will not be
released until after they are ex-

: amined by Cabinet, .

Although Parker described

the commissioners as a ‘'good
cross-section” of groups who.

have an interest in B.C. forest
Management, there is a notable
absence of representation from

high-profile environmental .

groups; two commissioners with
environmental associations - are
listed — Roger. Freeman, chair-
man of the Recreation and Con-
servation Committee of the
Federation of ‘Mountain Clubs

of B.C. and a director on the —

Outdoor Recreation Council;

and Roger Purdy, president of .

the Kootenay: Wildlife Heritage

Fund and a former president of .
the B.C. Wildlife Federation, ..

sion. of Crestbrook Forest
Products.

Two northwest represen-
tatives have been named to the
commission: former Skeena
MLA Cyril Shelford, and Matt -
Vickers, executive director of
the. Gitksan-Wet’suwet’an
Tribal Council's government —
commission. Other prominent
members include the commis-
sion chairman, widely-respected | |
arbitrator and. former Labour .

who is also the industrial rela-

tons manager. for the pulp divi

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