eee 4 apt gee ell ge Ee wy cn an eee Po pt ed, . we CA ee ee oe ee I er ee ee Te ee ah 5 BANNERS AND FLOWERS greeted Skeena health unit ° medical health officer and manager Dr. David Bowering March 1 when more than 30 employees gathered outside his TERRACE — The chairman of the Skeena Health Unit board says he isn’t happy _with the way ‘it was treated over the appointment of Dr, - David Bowering as manager. Bowering, also the unit's medical health officer, was named as manager last month by the provincial government without first asking the board, says chair- man John LeSage. The board on Feb. 24 agreed to only confirm Bowering as interim manager pending more discussion with the province. That lead Bowering to say he’s resigning this summer if _ he isn’t confirmed by the board. At issue and responsibilities of the - is the vader. s 3 ministrative structure of the... * health unit and the authority” vi board and of the provincial government. Health units normally have a physician as both medical health officer and as manager. But because there have been difficulties in at- tracting physicians to the four northern health units, the provincial government . created a separate manager's post in the units. That changed in the Skeena health unit in January when it became ap- parent Bowering, hired three years aga, wanted to stay as medical health officer. The province re-assigned manager Mike Corbeil and named Bowering as acting manager to apparently follow what is the, case. in other districts. That. move was preceded by the hiring of @ person to handle some of Walsh Ave, home. The health unit board wants a separate ve manager for the unit. Bowering says that won't work and says’ he'll resign if the board doesn't change its mind. the administrative needs of the health unit. (Under the Health Act, a medical officer reports to the board because he is responsi- ble for; health issues. Yet managerial control rests with the province LeSage Suid he and other boards assumed the appoint- ment was temporary pending a search for another manager and was surprised last month when Bowering told him he received a notice from Vic- toria naming him. as the manager. It was later amended to take the form of a request by _ the province for the board to “In cour function, board is ‘50-50 (with the pro- « confirm Bowering’s appoint- ment, said LeSage. vince) in decision making on the . Doc’s job debate opens up the two. top people in our area,”’ said LeSage. He said the board feels there shduld be a separate manager and a separats medical health officer to get the best of both areas and in recognition of the . large region the health unit covers. “We like Dr. Bowering — he’s a good man — but we . feel there should be two top - people,” said LeSage. Speaking last week, Bowering said having two people do the managerial and medical health officer jobs wasn’t working. “It's not. viable," said Bowering in citing problems with communication if one manager was away from the office. ae Ce ’ “I was very. near: burnout.” “ with the situation as it was,"* he said. Arch ' nel tanita Es eet Real La lead ania cr oky anppaagentt & te GPedge 5 Limit 1 With $25.00 Family Purchase. .18 kg. eek GRADE ‘A’ Regular Brands, Frozen. Average Weight 6-14 Ibs. TURKEYS 99. Sliced or Shaved. _ \. Banquet HAM 1.39... MILK ‘Carnation. 385 mL. Tins, Limit 6 With Famil Purchase, Over Limit ’ Price .78 each, 7, Evaporated f Vegetable MARGARINE Empress. 1.36 kg. /3 Ib. Pkg. Limit 1 With Family Purchase. ger Limit Price 8 aac 1.68. S abba Asad 25M ay! ae eee oe Terrace Slandard, Wednesday, March 7, 1990 — Page Ad Teacher talks - now underway — TERRACE — Local teachers and School board officials met this week to begin bargaining for a new contract. . The existing two-year collec-. tive agreement — signed last spring following a 19-day strike — funs out June 30. : Both sides met Monday to set the negotiation timetable and agree on protocol for the talks, said Terrace District. Teachers’ Association president Greig Houlden. Houlden said the union won't ‘ worry about the confusion sur- rounding the province's school tax referendum plan, announc- ed Jan. 31 to limit school board spending. “We're simply ignoring the whole budgetary debate,”" he said, ‘And we don't expect it (the referendum plan) to be a factor in negotiations and our bargaining strategy at all.’’ Houlden last month ralsed the concern that the referendum system could leave the school board bargaining committee hamstrung if a teacher-board agreement also required passage by local referendum. He suggested last week the government may now be unable to pass the referendum and financing legislation in time for school boards to hold referen- Mill starts up TERRACE — Kalum Wood Products, the newest sawmill in the Terrace area, is now operating, Mill manager David Rice said the first log was processed late’ last week ‘to check out the equipment’. The mill will operate on a single shift basis at first, employing 13 people, including mill workers, contractors and office staff. Long term plans call for introduction of a second shift when wood supplies per- mit. The mill is designed to use logs that are.rotten in the mid- -dle but: which. have sound wood “on the outside to produce specialty lengths of timber for the Japanese market, Deg aly Ce alg ti Rare BF NEG AER Re . is just that ~ speculation. “I Eventually, a whole log chip- wt school district secretniy: treasurer Barry Piersdorff ‘said any speculation that timetable delays could rule out the possibility of referenda this year don’t preclude — possibilities,’ Although the opening of the new legislative session has been set back two weeks to early April, Piersdorff said the date for final adoption of school board budgets has also been set back to May 4. That sets the stage for the province to move the referendum date from the first week of April to mid or late April, he said. The school board has also been given another two weeks to complete its budget. Piersdorff said the date for submitting budgets to Victoria has been moved from March 15 to March ; 30. High on the teachers’ bargaining list is the need for higher wages and increased benefits to retain district teachers and attract new ones to the area. The union also says teachers are extremely concern-. ed about the approaching Year 2000 plans, and wants the board to plan for smaller class sizes. any per will be installed to salvage logs which are completely rotted through part of their length. That means the rotten portions will be turned into chips, leav- ing the remainder to be turned into lumber. The mill now uses the rotten portions of logs as waste for hog fuel. Chips produced from the ratten wood are going to Skeena Cellulose’s pulp mill in Prince Rupert, Skeena Cellulose, along with B&] Forest Products are partners in Kalum Wood Pro- ducts, : Company officials describe the operation‘as' die intetidett ta" get, the best possible use fiom logs it processes, Rotten logs up until now have been chipped regardless of their potential to produce at least some timber. 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