If you live in the bench area of
Thomhill, you may want to ask
your kids what they were doing
last night. Because if one of the
kids living in that area is as honest
as he is foolish, some. parent is
going to discover that junior has
been playing with fire.

According to Thornhill fire chief
Art Hoving, a group of youths: in
the area between Hemlock and
Thornhill St. have been keeping

' firefighters busy dousing gasoline

fires on the roadway, and in one
instance on a pile of dirt beside a
Thornhill St. duplex currently
under construction.

A melted plastic Jerry can was

‘found at the scene of one fire on

2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, hilly 31, 1991

Danger — flammable liquids

Old Lakelse Lake Road. It is
unknown at this time if this was an
accident or intentional, but if it
was not an accident, it’s only a
matter of time before one occurs
and the chance there’will be seri-
ous injuries are high.

The parents of these youths may
want. to remind them. of last sum-
mer’s tragedy at the Thornhill land
fill. Someone carelessly left a
leaking container of a flammable
liquid near a location where brush
had been bumed a week or two
earlier. It is suspected that hot
material in that pile of burned
brush ignited fumes from the
liquid, but the cause of the result-
ing explosion is unimportant.

"What is important, is what hap-
pened to a 17-year-old boy work-
ing at the landfill. He nearly died.
After spending nearly: four months
in hospitals in-. Calgary: vand<‘Ter-
race, he was able to return to his
home, but he was painfully scarred
for life and faces many years of
skin grafts. —

The traiima suffered by this

young man and his family and be

friends offers an important lesson
to anyone who tends to take dan-
gerous liquids like gasoline for
granted. It’s unlikely that any of
those involved in his tragedy will
ever play with fire. Others, though,
ignorant of the risk involved, have
yet to learn.

Heli-pad for New Aiyansh

Emergency health care in the
Nass Valley will soon improve. A
helipad valued at about 350,000
will be constructed near. the

says they have been working
towards helipads in all three
Nisga’a communities and the
ATAP funding is a good beginning

patient facility, however, and while
there are four beds available, the
centre isn’t designed to keep
patients overnight unless weather
conditions make travel by road or

the Ministry of Health have agreed to abide by Walker’s findings.

Bruce Strachan: "Both the Terrace Regional Health Care Society and

Health consultant — from pg 1

Terrace next Tuesday to remain

Health minister Bruce Strachan

full-time at Mills Memorial until
the end of August.

An interim report will be filed by
Walker on Aug. 15 and Leisinger
says both the Terrace Regional
Health Care board and Ministry of
Health officials wili review his
comments and recommendations,

said during an interview in Terrace
last week, that he recognizes the
regional nature of Mills Memorial
Hospital. He expects Walker's
report to offer recofnmendations
that will provide sufficient funding
at the lowest possible cost. He
added that both the Terrace

Nisga’a Valley Health Centre in
New Aiyansh, and seriously
‘injured or ill patients will no
longer have to survive the trauma
of a long, rough ride in an ambu-
lance.

The Ministry of Transportation
and Highways has announced they
will fund the project to a maxi-
mum of $25,057 through their Air
Transport Assistance Program
(ATAP). According to highways
‘minister Lyall Hanson, "Helicopter
transport of patients is often pre-
ferred in this region, duc. to the
long road links to medical care in
Terrace and other locations."

Nisga’a Valley Health Board
administrator Floyd Davis is
pleased with the announcement. He

in achicving that goal. He says
they hope to complete the New
Aiyansh project by the end of the
summer.

The Nisga’a Valley Health Board
operates the Nisga’a Valley Health
Centre in New Aiyansh and satel-
lite clinics in Canyon City and
Greenville. In Greenville, a com-

munity health nurse offers treat-

ment and public health services. In
Canyon City, a para-professional
offers basic treatment and public
health services. And in New Ai-
yansh, the two doctors and three
nurses on staff can handle any
emergency with the help of the
centre’s emergency room, labora-
tory and X-ray facilities.

Regional Health Care Society

air difficult or dangerous. Most
patients requiring extended care,
therefore, says Davis, are trans-
ferred to Mills Memorial in Ter-
race. When they’re busy, he adds,
that might mean an average of one
trip every day.

CORRECTION Last week
on pg Ad — "Kiti K’shan project
ahead of schedule" — it was stated
in error that Helmut Reinert of Tri-
City Construction was a former
partner in Terrace H&H Builders.
‘For several years Helmut: Reinert
operated H.Reinert Construction in
this area. He has never been asso-
ciated with H&H. The principals in
Terrace H&H Builders were Hel-
mut Schulz and Hans Manthey.

The centre is designated as a out-

The report will then be returned to
Walker for a two week re-evalu-
ation and a final report will be

filed by the end of August. findings.

board of directors and his ministry
have agreed to abide by Walker's

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