A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 8, 1995 News In Brief Canada Post tightens up AN INFORMAL Canada Post policy here of not charging non- profit organizations for post office boxes has stopped. Canada Post official Lutz Budde said official Canada Post regula- tions don’t provide for free post office boxes for non-profit organi- zations. free boxes for non-profit organizations and that was incorrect,’’ said Budde. “They can have boxes but they must be.charged at the full rate, It shouldn’t have happened in the first place.’’. He said the only time Canada Post provides post office boxes at no charge is when there is no other possible way for a person or o1- ganizalion to receive mail. - Budde noted that the $60 annual cost for a post office box is still cheaper than paying to have mail re-routed and addresses changed when new people in an organization assume responsibilily for cor- respondence, That fee of $109 is the same for businesses when they change addresses. Specialist takes a look at area THE AREA could soon have a second internal medicine specialist based here ifa Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan doctor likes what he sees. Dr. Michael Kenyon is due here for a three-day visit Feb. 17-19. Michacl Leisinger of the Terrace Regional Health Care Society. “Is been a long standing part of our medical manpower plan and we thiak the numbers now justify the move,’’ le said. The goal is to find a specialist to complement the skills of the area’s current internal medicine specialist, Dr. Barrie Phillips, who specializes in cardiology. | ‘They can also back each other up wher one is in Kitimat, on holiday or away on training,’’ said Leisinger, second such specialist here, adding that he doesn’t anticipate a problem in having that specialist receive a Medical Services Plan billing number. B.C. Hydro to refuse cash PEOPLE PAYING B.C. Hydro bills at its office here won’t be able to use cash beginning Feb. 13. Five armed robberies at Hydro offices, ail on the lower mainland or on Vancouver Island, have prompted the change, says local Hydro official Jim Husk. Instead, customers can drop off cheques at a drop box at the Hydro office, use the mail, have the money taken automatically out of a bank account, pay at a financial institution or al a designated pay stalion. In Terrace that later location is the Terrace Co-op. “We're doing this for the security of our employces, to eliminate that potential for violence in our offices,’’ said Husk. RCMP say ‘no’ to heroin THE RCMP is rejecting suggestions that heroin be made available to drug addicts to cut down on the amount of overdose deaths. Those suggestions were made by provincial coroner Vince Cain after he was asked to look into the recent high number of heroin overdose deaths in the province. ; In a six-page response, the RCMP said heroin and other dng decriminalization and legalization programs in European countries haven’t worked. ; “By making (drugs) legal, society will signal that it has resigned to the acceptance of dmg abuse,”’ quoted the RCMP from a state- ment made by European politicians last year. The RCMP also states that decriminalization or legalization will send young people a mixed message as programs are already in place,to warn against the dangers of drug use and abuse. ; Labour hiring underway INTERVIEWS ARE soon to go ahead to find a replacement for for- mer provincial industrial labour relations officer Roger Davis. He left the end of January for a position with the highways ministry on Vancouver Island. . Labour ministry spokesman Bob Thompson said last week that a number of applications were received and that the selection process is underway. ; In the meantime, a former clerical worker at the office here has another person has been brought in to do office work. ~ ANNOUNC For appointments call 635-7234 “