Terrace Standard, Wednesday, aes 3, 1991.- Page A Aa

Friday —

chen opens this

TERRACE _ ‘this

marks the return of a soup kit-.

‘chen to the city,

It’s. being ‘Operated by the
Terrace ‘Anti-Poverty Group

training program...
Society. Spokesman ‘Gerald

30 » 40" people to ‘come to the
kitchen i in its. first ‘week and that
‘ll

those: taking advantage of the

Friday

Society as part of a camp cook

King ‘said last-week he expects’

‘And: ‘he ‘expects a number of

‘soup kitchen will be: stindents
"from low income families...

“y don’t. think that ‘should
surprise anyone. There area lot

of poor and disadvantaged peo-.
ple," said King who worked on. .
~ ‘similar effort here in ‘the early.

1980s.
‘The concept ofa soup itchen

; works well with the soclety's

training /program : because a
large portion of it involves prac-

" tical experience for the 16 par-

ticipants, said King.

“For. now, practical ex-

" perience is one day a week, It
means they get a chance to put
their training in Practice,"" he

added.

‘The 16 participants who were
either on social assistance or

- haven't worked for some time,

began the 18-week course Mon-
day. It also involves experience
at local restaurants and other

-food places, life skills, obtain-

ing an industrial first aid ticket
and a driver’s licence if a par-

ticipant does not now have one.

The $157,000 program is be- .

ing financed through the federal
government’s Canadian Jobs
Strategy. a

Lacal employnient centre |

project officer Ken Panchuk
said the camp cook training, in
conjunction with obtaining an
industrial first aid certificate,
adds toa program: graduate’s
employment opportunities,
“That extra skill becomes at-
tractive to a prospective

employer,’’ he said.
Panchuk added that the soup
kitchen format helps fill the

. work experience component of

the program and provides a
community benefit.

He said such ventures are not
intended to compete with ex-
isting businesses and that the
federal money does not go to
buying food for the kitchen.

The Food For Thought kit-
chen opens noon this Friday at
che carpenters’ hall on Sparks

Gerald King

Stewart hospital

' What a deal
TRY THESE ON for size. And if they fit, stuff.
them into a brown grocery bag along with
whatever else will fit into.it and it's all yours
for just $1.50. That's the unbeiievable offer
being made by Sally Smaha (above) - and
other members of the Mills) Memorial
Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Shop. But you'd bet-
ter hurry if you want to take advantage of this
deal-of-a-lifetime. The final sale days are
tomorrow, April 4, 1-3 p.m. and Saturday,

STEWART — Hospital
ministry officials are due here
this Friday for a planning
meeting on a new community
health centre.

And they're also expected ta
look at temporary facilities be-
ing used by the hospital since a
February propane explosion
damaged the building it had

April 6, 11 a.m, to 4 p.m,

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been in.

Hospital board chairman
Dave Richardson said progress
on the planning for a new health
centre to include the hospital
could very well mean staying in
the temporary quarters until the
centre is built.

“We're waiting for a whole
bunch of things to come
together,’” he said last week,

These include reports from
the hospital’s insurance ¢com-

pany on whether the building
damaged by the explosion can
be fixed and if the 30-year old
building will have to be brought
up to current building cade
standards,

Richardson said the hospital
‘already has an estimated cost of
$85,000 to fix the building and a
second estimate, made two
years ago, of $300,000 to bring
it up to new code standards.

“It’s 30 years old. It’s fallen
behind,’ he said of the hospital
building.

The temporary quarters for
the hospital are located in what
was a vacant first floor and
third floor suite of an apart-
ment building.

Hospital administrator
Denise Mcore said the facilities
are adequate and that all ser-

fate’s unknown |

vices offered before are back in “

place.

here a year or a year anda half.
The patients are quite, comfor-
table and we've’ gotten
everything sorted out,’ she
said.

There's even a large enough
adjoining lawn to the apartment
building to allow for helicopter
landings.

Although the old hospital has
10 beds, there are only two in
the temporary quarters.That's
meant Stewart patients staying
longer in Terrace or Prince
Rupert to recover from surgery,
for instance.

As well, the hospital is expec-
ting any day now to have the
first baby born in its temporary
quarters.

Gold mine secures ore

TERRACE — Westmin
Resources hopes to mine a pro-
perty near Stewart later this
year to provide ore for its
under-used Premier gold mine
mill, says a company
spokesman,

Bruce McKnight said ‘the
company has excercised an op-

'. tion to buy. 50: per cent of the

_pagperty Skm front its mine and

gathae-iteis applying —for-- the

necessary provincial approvals.

He says the SB property, the
other 50 per cent is owned by
Tenajon Resources, will provide
100,000 tonnes of ore from an
underground mining operation.

‘We expect it will take six
months to mine it. We're look-
ing for a contractor to do the
work and we'll use our own
trucks to. take it to the mill,”’
said McKnight.

Westmin cut production on
its Premier mill to 1,500 tonnes
a day the middle of this month
and laid off workers because
ore reserves didn't match

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original projections at the time
of the mine's opening several
years ago.

Estimated life of the Premier
mine is mow two years but the
company is exploring other por-
tions of its property: to boost
that figure. —

The company also wants to
act as a contract miller for other

weeks at a time, he said,

mineral companies as way of
keeping its mill in operation,

McKnight said the Premier
ore and the SB ore must be kept
Separate to provide accurate
records of gold recovery.

That means the mill may.run
Premier ore for two weeks at a
time and then SB ore for two

ee ee,

TERRACE — Terrace Stan-
dard publisher and sales
manager Jim Coulter is leav-
ing.

He’s off to Kamloops to
work at Kamloops This
Week which is owned by
Cariboo Press, the same
company that owns The Ter-
race Standard.

Kamloops This Week
started as a weekly in 1988,
expanded to twice a week in

Publisher leaves

1989 and begins publishing
three times a week later this
month,

Replacing Coulter as sales
manager in the interim is
Cary Rodin.

He’s a familiar face at The
Terrace Standard, moving
here in 1988 to handle sales
when the paper first started
publishing. He was also the
paper’s publisher from 1989
to 1990.

“In a pinch, w we could ‘gay: ,