No overtime? arver. found That’ Ss. one way to keep out workers from elsewhere, says a union agent\NEWS AIS he mystery of the tree artist on Ferry Island was solved last. week\COMMUNITY B3 Hiker honoured Trail work carried out: by, local _| hikers residents takes on a "special note\SPORTS BS. By JEFF NAGEL ESTIMATES of how much it will cost to run the second arena are overly | optimistic, critics say. Thornhill regional district’ director Peggy Julseth says she believes projected revenues for the second sheet’ over- estimate the number of new skaters such ao facility would attract... ‘Numbers: prepared in. “June “indicate oa the second arena could mun at a ret cost of $26,000 a year. “There's no ‘way. you ‘can v tell | me thal sO facility. ‘will , operate, for, $20,000 to $30,000,” Julseth said. “T's very hard to swallow.” ‘will use i's s° more: 5 ikely, she says; that the ; existing skalers will simply get more con- venient hours, ‘and that much of the reve- _-mue the. second arena brings will come at the expense: of the. existing one, Second sheet organizer. Brian Downie : said pessimists have little com- prehension of” thé extreme, unfulfilled _ demand for ice time in the city... al solutely. no, ‘doubt that we é hours thai are available fo, us,” he said. “it’s just not ain issue to us.” Downie: suggested’ asecond arena could attract even more revenue through conventions and roller hockey, The cost issue was clouded last week — “when cily officials gave out $91,000 as the estimated annual deficit of the second arena. : Letters, Page AG a Go private, Fase’ Ai 4. Friday said the ‘number, we eae on ‘annual expenses of $192,000 d project- “ ed revenue of: $101, 00 City: ‘treasurer’ Keit firmed $91,000 as the net co been provided by Scott.:: st figure he'd “We're. living in dreamlaid if we orman | ‘sone * ingeost questione -added. But Scdtt backtracked Monday and. : said he'd provided old figures drawn up in 1993 that were based on more assump- ~ tions and greater uncertainty, He said: the correct figures show a Tange of operating cosls from $26, 000 to = about $60, 000 a year. mos ‘Projected revenue of $129, ano: a year ‘assumes ‘the second arena bills an average “ » of. eight. hours-a day. from: Monday’ to” Friday and. 16 hours a day on Saturdays . ; and Sundays. : ~ Expenses, he said, could range froin ro second, sheet. ; Organizers. ‘fulfil their $1535, 000 to $190,000." “Realistically, it could nosis bé * low as $26,000 and it co than that,” Scott said, - ". Terrace’s existing. arena: ‘will ost $342,000 next year and- will’ bring in” $192,000 in revenues, for a net. loss of ~ $190, 000 in:1996. “ Julseth ‘maintains ‘second arena: ‘COs, -- struction costs : re also” fraught with - _danger. Manges aS gen bots “The: only: way’ takpayers ‘will: escape: - with ‘their’. ‘shirts,. she ‘says, ‘is if: three “unlikely things. all happen: a sizable pro- -vincial grant is awarded; ‘the $2, 8 ‘million project, ‘comes din on budget, and: the a They made do — NYLONS WERE in short supply dur- i ing the Second World War. “Waiting # characters Eve § for the Parade” (Nancy Stone-Archer) and Catherine (Jannifer Burns) show how women coped by first painting their legs and ahen. ‘by. inking ina blackline: down | . BOARD MEMBERS responsible for Mills Memorial Hospital spent last night pouring over options on how to reduce the facilily’s large deficit. The meeting is expected to be one of severa! for the Terrace Regional Health Care Society as it works to meet a Nov, 15 deadline imposed by the provincial health ministry.: Despite earlier projections of breaking even, the hospital has been running at a deficit this year, The situation took on an ominous tone last week when health ralnister Paul Ramscy fired the Bulkley Valley District Hospital board in Smithers. © He appointed a public administrator to mun the hospital's affairs, saying the old board failed to address a large deficit and to develop a financial plan acceptable to the health ministry, ’ Although Terrace Regional Health Care Socicty chair Olga Power, says it's not hearing Ramsey’s footsteps coming up from behind, the board docs recog: nize its role. ; “We ate: mandated to run ina fiscally responsible way. 1 don’t think we are neglecting our duty,’’ she said. © Power added that the Smithers situa tion shows Milis’Isn’t atone in. dealing with budgets and health cares At one time. the deficit amounted to more than $600,000, leading to warnings of a drop in health care services, That’s lead to a lobbying campaign on - the part of Mills in an effort to. convince the government the facility needs more , Money. But those requests, as well as’ one efor ati outside review ‘of the hospital, ‘have | a ‘deadline, - . Instead, the health ministry, says Mills can continue to find. ways to. live within. been turned down... its existing budget. Sandra Bullock; ‘the vice. thal of the ‘Terrace ‘Regional Health Care: Society, > -gald board members: wilt. oxamitte every option except closing | beds, “We won't have any impact at all oni patient services,” said Bullock.: “What we'll be looking at is snaintain- ing our level of services and level of care by: reducing costs where ever possible," A : tendous,”" sa . : One complicating factor is the ‘prospect _of new. wage agreements to replace co con- she added, ‘Bullock: ‘expects * ‘the: board : ‘to. ‘gneet ‘several. times: in’ advance of the. Nov, 15 The board has prépared for its task by | determining where money is being Spent . now: : “Phat way; ‘atid. Bullock, i'l be better Ny ces gy of ison Ake: contracts. ow tons presented it Whatever is decide the deficit - the end. of. this current fis- cal year: (March ‘a1, 1996): would be hore" sald Bullock’ tracts which run out next March, | Hospitals didn’t have-any ‘control over prepared to to, dwell 0 on the cost 4 cating op sald Bu