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A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 28, 1997

Few gov't jobs
are lost here

LOTS OF shuffling among civil servants is going on in
Terrace because of provincial government changes but
not many people are losing their jobs.

Local staff representative Shelley Anderson of the
British Columbia Government and Service Employees
Union says the greatest impact is being felt from the
creation of the children and families ministry.

“Bits and pieces from other ministries have been
transferred over,’” she said.

While that alone is having an effect, more serious is
the attempt by the province to cut its budget by offering
buyouts or issuing lny off notices.

“In Terrace, none our people in terms of those with
more than three years who are regular employees have
been affected,’? said Anderson. But some auxiliaries
and those with less than three years of employment have
been laid off and are on recall lists, she added,

“We haven't had happen to us what has been happen-
ing in places such as Victoria and Vancouver and the
lower mainland,’’ Anderson continued. ‘‘People seem
to be, for the time being, coping fairly well.’’

But in Dease Lake the impact has been greater with
the closure there of the Cassiar Forest District office and
converting it to a sub-office of the Bulkley Forest Dis-
trict in Smithers, Only nine employees are left there and
the rest have been scattered across the province.

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Northwest flunks
air quality testing ©

THE ENVIRONMENT ministry's air qual-
ity objectives were not reached for the
Skeena region this past month.

Most communities experienced poor air
quality during the first half of April.

The ministry measures the fine particulate
matter daily. Fine particulate matter, also
called inhalable particulate, are tiny parti-
cles caused from things like car exhaust or
smoke from-backyard barbecuing.

These particles can remain in the air for
days, penetrating deep into the lungs and
causing respiratory problems.

ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY technician
Helen Joseph poses with delicate and
expensive equipment which daily tracks
the quality of our air.

While Burns Lake fared the worst, Ter-
race experienced four hours’ of poor air
quality.

There is only cause for concem if the Air
Quality Index reads higher than 50 micro-
grams per cubic meter."In such cases, the
ministry issucs a warming to the regional
waste manager and” ‘recommends a stop on
open burning.

Several communities, like Smithers, : have
enforced bylaws in an attempt to regulate
open buming. Terrace is not one of them,

The people who are most susceptible are
the elderly, children and those with pre-
existing lng and heart disease. --

While beehive burners produce the most
smoke, backyard garden refuse burning is
also a large detriment to the air we breathe
and is a cause of great’ discomfort for
asthmatic people.

Terrace has its own TEOM, the instru-
ment that measures the particulate matter in
the air. It lias been in operation for a year
now. Up to date recorded air quality in-
formation is available at 638-6513.

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