children’s playroom. . Open house Saturday : Mills Memorial physiotherapist, Jean Mekle, above, displays some of the equipment she uses to strengthen and recondition muscles, joints and Ilmbs. About 4,000 out-patient treatments are given each year. Treatment consists of ultrasound applications, hot or cold mean nuses and needles, but t .packs, wax baths, or remedial exercises. Right, Gary Brochu knows that staying in the hospltat doesn’t only hat there’s fun to be had In the VICTORIA (CP) — A British Columbia Supreme Court judge declined Wednesday to quash a coroner’s order that a Victoria television station and a lawyer for a bus company retract . statements related to an inquest that were aired In a news broadcast Tuesday. However, Mr, Justice would hear arguments from the parties today concerning contempt of court citations against station CHEK and Gary mac Stages Ltd, Earlier Wednesday, regional coroner Joe Carpenter, who is involved in an inquest into the Jan. 40 crash of a Conmae bus on Mount Washington in which two high school students were killed, cited the station and Kinar with contempt of the corener’s court. . Carpenter based his charges on comments broadcast. He said there was an inference by the lawyer that the purpose of the inquest. establish blame for the crash. A coroner’s jury, under the Coroners Act, is not allowed to attach blame in the inquiry. The purpose of the inquiry is to establish Production unions tentatively accept newspaper's offer VANCOUVER. (CP) — Pacific Press Ltd., which publishes the Vancouver Sun and Province newspapers, presented negotiators for the union representing its : editorial staff Wednesday with the same wage, offer contained in an agreement. tentatively accepted by five production unions, a guild spokesman said. Administration officer, Roy Tubbs said thé Proposal presented to.the, Vancouver- New Westminster, Newapaper. Guild is a “year deal with annual wage in- creases of five, five and seven per cent. A package containing the same wage terms was to be voted on today by four of the. five production unions at the newspapers, which have been shut down by a strike for six weeks. The union representing graphic artists voted on the package Wednesday night, but Tubbs sald the result of that vote will not be released unti} all the production unions have voted on it. The two Southam-owned daily new: _ papers have been on strike since March 28 Tubbs declined to say If the other issues which the guild wanted to discuss — layoff procedures, health and safety matters concerning video display terminals and the need for a cheaper arbitration process — were dealt with at the Wednesday meeting. Pacific Press and guild negotiators were to resume their talks today. GUILD EXPELLED The 900-member guild was expelled from the Jolnt Council of Newspaper Unions shortly before the strike when it : Tequested the assistance of a mediator in yGontyact talks, etd seed tay .'; The production. unions represént wit mig 400 printers, mailers, graphic artists ai typographers. ; oo A contract recently reached at the Victoria Times-Colonist, Thomson Newspapers Ltd., is a three-year deal, also with annual wage increases of . five, five and seven per cent. Under the old contract which expired Feb. 29, senior printers received an hourly base rate of $18.92 for a 34-hour, four-day week, The minimum salary for reporters with six years’ experience was $701.54 a week, Stan Leper of the Mailers’ Union, also co-chairman of the joint council, said earlier Wednesday that the council was recommending that the production unions accept the pact although he sald it is by no means a perfect deal. $1.5-billion price tag on Expo 8&6, president. says VANCOUVER (CP) — Expo 86 will be a $1.5-billion project when all Canadian and foreign costs are added up, says Michael Bartlett, president of the world-class fair. Included in the $1.5 billion is Expo's own $806-million budget, he said in an interview Wednesday, and is a combination of all budgets, including foreign participants and the federal government's $114-million pavilion. Bartlett said the figures are in 1983 dollars. ; Asked about possible budget overruns, he replied: “As long as you discount in- flation, we will try to make this budget work,”" In a statement to Expo's second in- ternational planning meeting, taking place this week, Bartlett stressed the urgency of finlshing construction on time. “The buildings all have to be ready by November 1995 so that the participants have time to install their exhibits and be open by May 2, 1986,” he said. “We have actually got a little bit under 24 months to opening, eo we really have quite a sense of urgency about all of this.” Negotiations are continuing between Expo and the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council to ensure labor peace on the 67-hectare site on downtown Van- couver, The provincial government wants the site open to union and non-union con- tractors, and has sald it will bring -in legislation forbidding work stoppages. .The -councit has agreed to ‘work . ‘alongside non-union workers, but only if. - they are paid union rates, - A total of 31 countries have confirmed . they will take part in the fair. TERRACE— Two items that ran in Tuesday's: paper need clarification. | Under the page three photograph of ‘a house destroyed by ‘fire,’ the cutline said the housd ‘was empty. | In fact, Claude possessions. ‘three Was a Our mistakes Leblane’’ and his ‘family were living in the home, “and ps a resull of the fire, Aost.-all, their personal with hearing equipment for theatre-goers- at the REM Lee Theatre. We neglected to' merition that public support: hag been shown In the form of a $1,500 donation from the B.C. “Tel Employee's Community Fund. , | Also on page story dealing ‘Thornhill centre meeting TERRACE— The Thornhill Advisory Parks- and Recreation Committee would like to know why the ‘Thornhill Community Center is not being used more often by Thornhill residents. . The commission will conduct a survey to find out why the facility is not being used and what im- provements can be made. If residents of: Thornhill have any suggestions or. commission would ap- preciate any — input regarding this matter. advice they can give to the commission, they can contact” Claudette San- decki at 695-9434. The facts. and make recom- owned by- Co A untry Whites PPLE BLOSSOM Radio station r cited with contempt. Wilfred Wallace said he | a Lesage Kinar, a lawyer for Con- oo MOTH made by Kinar in a CHEK. was to Welcome to. Country Whites mendations on -how to prevent further deaths. The regional coroner also ordered the station and the lawyer to retract the comments in news broadcasts at 5:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Wednesday. The Herald, Thursday, May 10, 1984, Page 3. tion, lawyer. 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