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“Paper savers ©

PILES OF paper gathered by loca! businesses and organizations for recycling are now in-Van- couver thanks to a Skeena secondary class taught by Dan Houpt. Students Lesley Robinson, Stella Haigh, Suzannah Vande Velde and Clare Jennings were among those collecting the ‘estimated two tons of paper that went down.

Don't hold your breath for a teachers contract _

STERRACE — The local ‘teachers’ contract expires this week ‘and both sides concede talks for a new one will likely continue into the fall, ©

‘At least 60 articles remain to be negotiated, Terrace District Teachers’ Association (TDTA) president Greig Houlden said. last week, and the two sides are at an impasse on 12 more, Only one article has been agreed upon. :

Neither side has yet issued any offers on salaries and. benefits.

“‘It's getting a little ridiculous,"" Houlden said. ‘I was hoping something would be tearned from last year, but that doesn’t seem to have

happened.”” The current " contract was

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reached through mediation last : ;

year following a 19-day teacher strike in January 1989.

Houlden noted labour strife in the teaching profession is really nothing new to Terrace: “In 15 years of. bargaining history, we’ve- never had a negotiated settlement. It’s always gone to arbitration or mediation.”’

“BCTF (B.C. Teachers Federation) people tend to look at things up here and shake their heads,"’ he. said. ‘‘They think it’s something in the water.”

But Houlden said the union executive: has no plans to break off talks and recommend teachers take job action.

“Basically we're taking a long-term view,’’ he «said. “We're going to carry on

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negotiations for as long as our

membership puts up with it.” Houlden said the board is re- jecting nearly all the teachers’ proposals, ‘‘Basically what we're getting from them now is ‘We reject your proposal, and let’s get it out of the way so we can reject the next one.””’ School board spokesman Kris Chapman said many of the union’s proposals are camplete- ly unrealistic, and many are just recycled versions of already re-

jected clauses. ‘‘'They’re coming.

back with nearly identical language,”’ she said.

Trustees iast week stopped at- tending the bargaining sessions. Chapman said the board can direct its negotiators just as easily from the board office. |

Bargaining is to continue this weekend,

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TERRACE — A nurse found guilty on several counts of

‘unethical conduct: for counsell-

ing patients on abortion says she’s thinking about an appeal.

The decision by.a Registered Nurses Association of B.C. (RNABC) discipline committee to issue a reprimand without conditions doesn’t fuliy address. what Isobel Brophy calls the key

questions surrounding * abor- -

tion.

“They did not want to ex- amine the truth about the hurt that abortions can cause,” said Brophy last week just after the decision was released, ©

“They didn’t want to address the question of rights of a pa- tient to be fully informed, in- cluding information on the side effects, about abortion,’’. she said. _

Brophy did say the reprimand is a fairly mild disciplinary measure and was pleased ‘no conditions were set on her nurs- ing activities, :

At the same time, Brophy. said the reprimand on her nurs- ing record could hamper any plans she has to advance in the profession by becoming an in- structor or head nurse.

“This is a stain forever on my record ... I have a reputation of being a competent and caring nurse,” she continued.

The charges filed stem from five allegations Brophy acted unethically in the period from Oct. 1986 to June of last year. They were heard over a five-day period last month by the RNAEBC discipline committee.

One of the charges was drop- ped during the hearing and several were dismissed by the comunittee in its decision.

On the charges upheld by the committee, it ruled Brophy’s ac- tions “reflects alack of respect, for ... needs, values and rights of choice” of the patient.

She objected to the phrasing,

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arge appeal —

_saying it went contrary to her

beliefs about the right of a pa- tient to have complete informa- tion about abortion.

“Tf I. didn’t. care about a woman's needs, I would have walked away without talking to her,””. Brophy said,

‘The’ committee also decided that Brophy endangered the health of a woman scheduled to have’ an abortion during the 1989. nursing strike by saying she and other nurses would picket the hospital should the procedure take place.

RNABC ‘documents filed

-- with the charges indicate there

was a risk to the patient's health and that actions Brophy -said

she and other nurses would’

undertake could have lead to the identity of the woman being known.

Brophy rejected the commit- tee’s finding in this situation, saying it implied that she would compromise her nursing train- ing and respect for the patient,

“The (nurses’)' union, ‘the doctors and the hospital ad- ministration put the needs of this patient secondary to their concern about a public backlash should it become known abor- tions were being done during the strike,”? she said.

Brophy said her and the posi- tions of other nurses that abor-

Isobel Brophy

tions should not: have been scheduled during the strike when other medical care was suspended,

Brophy added she would not hesitate to counsel patients again if they requested informa- tion or wanted to talk.

“T wasn’t guilty,” Brophy said in adding she knew of the professional risk she was taking by having such conversations.

Arson investigated

TERRACE — RCMP are conti- nuing to investigate as arson the destruction of a building last week on Copper River road.

Police said the fire — of unknown origin — destroyed a building at the North Coast Road Maintenance paving site in Thornhill on Copper River Road.

SUMMER HOURS»

School District No. 88 administration Board Office will be instituting sum- ~ mer hours, effective July 2 to August 31, 1990 inclusive.

Hours willbe 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

| NOTICE School District No. 88 (Terrace) «af

Thornhill firefighters arrived on the scene at about 4:20 a.m. June 19, But they weren’t able to save Kentron Construction Ltd.’s computer control centre and offices. Police said the amount of damage to the building is unknown.

Police said they suspect the fire could be the result children

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