A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 14, 1994 Hello to Fae, Jim STARTING THIS week, The Terrace Standard adds two columnists to its pages. ; One is Fae Collins Mooney, a local writer, who moved here 14 years aga. Once she wanted to leave, now she says nothing could make her move. Fae’s column appears every two weeks in our community section. Jim Hughson - until this fall handied hockey and baseball games for TSN. > _He’s now in Vancouver and re- places Jim Robson as the new radio voice of the Vancouver Canucks. Retuming to B.C, igs a homecoming for Hughson who was bom and raised in Fort St. WE’RE MOVING! Dr. Peter Okimi and his staff As of September 6, 1994, will be in his new office located right across from the library. Looking forward to seeing you there. "00-4619 Park Avenue, V8G 1V5 Phone: 635-76 11 Environmental Engineering Services for: M@ Water / Wastewater Treatment a Environmental _™ Contaminated Site Rehabilitation | Assessments M Solid Waste and Audits Contact: Patrick A. Bolin, P.Eng., Terrace, B.C. Phone: 635 7163 Fax: 635 9586 ‘g Several injured THREE PEOPLE were taken to Mills Memorial Hospital with back and neck injuries after a two-car collision at the corner of Old Lakelse and Highway 16, A car carrying two young males John. was T-boned by an eastbound car as it pulled aut fram Old Laketse onto Highway 16. ‘He'll be appearing weekly in our sports section. . a — ® Mills seeks new {r@ ee SKEENA CHEM-DRY + . ; oo. Terrace, B.C. Major Credit Cards A}. 8) | coos _ VOG 42 erat __ The Carbonated ea money 1] seecas” | Reaior “Mori Pak ‘Yuden Carpet Clea . Founoarionog | CANADA'S — 638-1167 tax deductible arpe ner 7 LSS a eKON #1 KILLER + Most carpets dry in 60 AN EARLY applicant for moncy under a provincial government program to reduce hospital costs is Mills Memorial Hospital. It’s submitted five proposals, all designed to either cut down on the number of people admitted as palicnts or their stay in hospital. All five, and others, are to be considered for the $1.035 million allocated to the northwest under the province’s Closer to Home program. Most expensive is $300,000 for a day surgery suile to increase the amount of day surgery Mills can perform. “Tf we can increase the number of day surgerics, we can decrease the number of patient days and that's the goal — to reduce bed utilization,'’ said hospital official Michael Leisinger. “Day surgery already makes up 52 per cent of our surgical opera- tions. If we can increase that to 60 per cent, we could save 250 (patient) days a year,’” he said. Also wanted is the restoration of a social worker, a position cut when hospital budgets -were slashed three years ago. “A social worker would help our utilization problem which is greatest in the psych ward. It has the grcatest iengthy of stay and is higher than it should be,” com- mented Leisinger. Mills also wants to bring in a pre-admission clinic, a way of doing as much as possible with a Skeena Health Unit auditorium. . a Youth foun d gul Ity 638.0848 Ellen Boston Piano & Theory 638-8025 — Bob Butchart Brass & Elementary A 17-YEAR-OLD YOUTH in- is not “insensitive to the suffer- Woodwinds Ware in a head-on calision near ing that the victims of this acci- 635-9275 Jose Coosemans Piano & Theory € Royal Canadian Legion two gent have had to endure,” . ; years ago has been found guilty But he said he ds satisfied the 638-0509 sue Doughty Piano, Voice & Theory q of dangerous driving causing youth is ‘an industrious young | 638-8250 Anne Hil Plano & Classical Guitar bodily harm. man’? of good character, who has : Judge Ed de Walle dismissed a no prior Young Offenders record. 635 144] $teve Holmberg Joz/Rock Gultar additional charge of criminal He rejected calls by Crown 635-1261 Jessica Okimi Piano & Theory FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER negligence causing bodily harm prosecutors for a jail term. 635-9089 — Fiona Onstein Piano & Theory BROILED GARLIC CHICKENPENNE THE POUNDER me a + 2, 1902 cash. h “The circumstances of the case SHRIMPS sliced chicken breast one poundot € fined the youth —whocan- are not sufficient to require a pe- not be named under the Young riod of imprisonment,” de Walle We are a group of fresh from Princa sauteed Ina spicy steamed Prince Offenders Act — $1,000 and sentenced him to 18 months on probation and 100 hours com- munity work service. The youth is also prohibited from driving for two years. De Walle said the youth was speeding east .on Lakelsc Ave. alongside another pickup truck, driven by 18-year-old Dwayne Elzerza. De Walle found that the youth's Ford pickup trick was travelling at between 70 and 80 kilometres per hour at the time of the colli- sion. When they reached the point where Lakelse narrows lo one Jane, de Walle ruled, the youth swerved left from the curb lane, cutling off Elzerza’s truck, The impact caused the youth to lose control of the truck and slam into the oncoming car driven by 24-year-old Janice Henry. She, 67-yeat-old Vera Henry and 14-year-old Sandra Henry were all .seriously injured in the collision. The youth claimed he was merely changing lanes at the time and was not trying to cut off any other vehicle. "He denied racing and denied knowing that the (other) vehicle was beside him when he changed lanes,’’ de Walle stated. “This accident was caused by immaturity and the exercise of poor Judgment on the part of the accused,’? de Walle ruled. “ht is extremely fortunate that no one was killed.’* De Walle, in giving his reasons for sentence, noted that the court person prior to that person offi- cially becoming a patient. Also needed a discharge plan- ning co-ordinator to properly work with an existing discharge — commiltce that decides how long patients should stay. The fifth application seeks financial support for the medical hostel due to open soon: in the renovated former nursing quarters on the hospital grounds. It’s a project of locai Elks and members of the Order of the Royal Purple and is meant as a place for people from out of town. That way, expensive hospital beds aren’t occupicd by people who must travel to Terrace before operations or who can’t leave the city immediately after they are ' eligible for discharge. “The success of this hostel is the key to getting our patient days down,”’ said Leisinger. Leisinger did say he doesn’t ex- . pect all five of the applications to be successful yet feels that even two or three of them will result in lower hospital costs. kkk kk The deadline for applications is this Friday. They'll be reviewed over the weekend and discussed at the Monday night meeting of the lo- cal health council steering com- mittee. It takes place at 7 p.m. in the ruled, The decision in the case was handed down May 4, but court documents were not made public because the case involves a young offender. The documents were released last week after an application to the court by The Terrace Stan- dard. 4 Your In Memoriam gift is a lasting tribute. 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Your Road Maintenance Contractor An Environmental Citizenship Message From Environment Canada Many of our communities chlorinate thelr drinking water to kill bacteria, Although chlorination can alee form harrnful by- rods, its benefits are much greater.than the ‘small risk of health effects from these compounds, Loon _—