From front a2 The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 13, 1999 Surgery plan advances tements by Tom Novak, who is temporarily running Mills Memorial “Hospital and Kitimat General, that Terrace and Kilimat would share orlhopedic surgery, Orthopedic suigery is a touchy political topic in-Ki- timat as health officials there view any change as a lass in service The city fost iis one or- thopedic surgeon a year ago and has yet to fill (he spat, One orthopedic surgeon who is interested in moving to the northwest says-he. walls to-practice in Kitimat and in Terrace, That surgeon, now based in Prince George but who has been doing. surgery in Kitimat, has already said there aren't enough opera- ting rooms al the planned new. health centre in- that city to handle a full-fledged orthopedic surgical ser- vice, Kitimat health officials - have said having orthope- dic surgery there is impor- tant as losing it would then’ mican losing other specia- lized medical - services which depend upon ortho- pedics to sustain them- selves, - Terrace-based special-| ists.a year ago tried to an- swer that by saying that: if: orthopedics moved to Mills Memorial, specialists here would schedule operating room time in Kiti« mat to fill the gap. ' Rupert pulp workers want — to keep their Skeena shares PRINCE RUPERT pulp mill workers say they won’t part with their shares in Skeena Cellulase - something’ the province has requested to. make way for the compa- ay’s sale to Texas-based Enron Corp. Local 4 of the Pulp, - Paper and Woodworkers of Canada last week rejected an Enran proposal. that. workers give up the shares they’re earming in SCI. in exchange for restoring their wages to previous levels. - Under the nearly. two- year-old restructbring of © SCI the mill workers-took a 10 per cent wage rollback in return for gradually pet- ting up to 20 per cent of. the company, “Our position -is ‘quite clear, we want our shares,” Local 4 president Frank DeBartolo said last week. “We decided to invest in this company two years ago,” he said. “It was a hard fight but now that's where ‘they are and this i is our ‘pasition.” Provincial government spokesman. Don Zatravec said the union’s rejection af the: proposal.last week is:a reversal from their earler “verbal ‘agreement. “They.changed their po- sition,” Zadravec said Fri-. day. “We ‘did have this agreement’:and: for’ what- ° ever reason they changed their minds.” “We hope to. have some discussions with them i in the near future explaining the need for ‘this agreement,” “Zaclravec added. The province also conti- nues to negotiate with the TD Bank to buy out its 21.75 per cent stake in SCI, he said. If Enron decides to pro- ceed with the acquisition, it has indicated it would -want to buy all of the shares — a condition that has led the province to negotiate with its minority ‘sharchalders. ‘DeBartolo alse. claimed the. employees” decision doesn’t threaten a potential sale. He said Enron officials had told the union earlier in the summer they. had no ob- jections tothe workers ré- taining .their minority ow- nership position. » That’s ‘in- contrast to what senior provincial offi- cials said in a Sept. 13 let- fer lo employee groups. Paper owner honoured THE OWNER of The Terrace Standard and of 80 other newspapers and publications in B.C., Washington State and the Prairies was one of eight people given an award by the Ernst and Young accounting firm in Vancouver last weck. David Black of Black Press was named entrepreneur of the year for the Pacific re-. gion in the media and communications ca- tepory at an Oct. 7 banque. Black, 54, began his community newspa~.. per carcer with, The Williams Lake. Tri-~ bune ,which had been purchased. by his fa- ther, Alan, in 1975. He had previously. ty. worked at the Toronto Star, A series of acquisitions and start ups fol- lowed resulting in Black Press now being the largest private newspaper publishing company in Canada, In the interior, the company operates as Cariboo Press which founded The Terrace Standard in 1988 and which purchased The Northeri Sentinel in Kitimat in 1995, A large growth spurt took place in 1996 ners. when the Metro Valley Newspaper Group in the Fraser Valley and the lower main- land was purchased from its English ow- - That also opened the door to acquisitions on the Prairies and today, Black Press has holdings stretching into Manitoba. ‘Black attained prominence last year with his public opposition to the Nisga’a _trealy, resulting in both criticism and praise-for his actions in having his newspa- ,pers. public -pro and anti treaty opinions - and take editorial stances against the trea- The provincial goverment took Black to the B.C, Press Council for his actions, but the complain was dismissed. 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Can't make the sale but would like to buy? Call 1-800-A-NEW-POT (1-800-263-9768), fax (902) 629-1502 wah site www.paderna.cam PADERNO “Enron have indicated thal they are not interested in praceeding with the ex- isting worker's share agreement or. worker share ownership of Skeena,” that letter stated “Enron’s proposal to lift ' the. 10 per cent wage roll- back in exchange for work- ers giving up the sharcs was _ Of anon-retroactive basis — in effect asking the workers to eat nearly two years worth of pay concessions. That could be a point of fur- ther negotiation. The government curr- ently holds 58.25 per cent of Skeena Cellulose. The 20. ‘per cent workers get over time is held in escrow, pending re- solution of a dispute over how io apportion those shares among the employ- ecs. The province argues the Shares currently have no value because of SCI's cu- mulative losses and that ihey may or may not have value in the future. EPILEPSY © EPILEPSY © EPILEPSY Local peer support groups. 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