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owners of the McLymont Creek property and’ joint ventures partners with Inel in Inel proper- ty, announced recently the ap- pointment of Vancouver stock

entrepreneur Murray. Pezim to.

its board of directors,

Pezim is well-known for his interest -in spectacular gold properties, and both Inel and

_ McLymont ‘are located. in the

gold-laden Iskut River valley north of Terrace. Gulf Interna- tional president Gerald Carlson

_ said, “This appointment will. bring.a dynamic combination of

Mr. Pezim’s abilities in the area

‘of financing and mine finding

and the exciting activity his com- panies have generated...”* Pezim was also appointed as an additional director on the board of Inel and granted 150,000 shares in the company. ' Gulf is spending $900,000 on

nternational board —@

Po Gulf International Minerals,

a two-phase exploration: pro. . . gtam this year in efforts to §

define the ore body discovered on McLymont with 13,500 feet of surface diamond drilling. Carlson says Gulf intends to

follow that with an underground .

program through the coming winter, oo aa Gulf is also pursuing surface

. trenching, surface drilling and: - underground drilling on the Inel property. Their 1989 program is. budgeted at $1° million. The. company has an option to earn.

full 100. percent ownership of the property from partner. Inel

Resources by spending $2.4 mil-

lion by 1992.

Drilling results from Ine. re-

leased to date include a series of

short intercepts from a 650-foot Step-out averaging 12.361 Ounces. of gold over 11.5 feet and 6.631 ounces over 21.5 feet.

+ Computalk

Data Communications: a look at ‘Sasquatch’, a local bulletin board

Last installment I promised a look at a loca! bulletin board, that is a computer service that you can phone into with your . computer to extract or exchange various kinds of information: with other users. A week ago I visited Al Sande, the operator of the board (called ‘sysop’ in bulletin board jargon), to see the: ‘various services he offered. He calls his board ‘Sasquatch’ and

mainly he provides a file ‘download’ service and a message con-

" ferencing service, .. Users that call his board, or should I say who call with their

computers through modems, can retrieve a large variety of public

‘domain. programs or can retrieve and leave messages concerning a _ Variety of topics. Sasquatch provides two services, a public access

line that anyone can call and a restricted. line for registered users. (those that pay an additional fee) who get extra privileges to ac- cess additional items on the system. a

To access Sasquatch one needs a computer, .a modem (a device

which translates computer signals for transmission over telephone

lines), and a communications program which allows the user to instruct the computer and modem to conduct communications.

_ One needs to know‘a little bit about communications, only

enough to run the communications program, instruct it to set the modem speed at 1200 or 2400 baud, and the modem settings to

N, 8, 1. (No parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit), and instruct it to dial the Sasquatch public access number: 635-2184.

The precise way of doing this will vary from communications program to communications program, so one must check the documentation supplied with the program. Once one has all the settings established it usually takes only one command to instruct the computer to commence communications, From there, it’s mainly a matter of learning by doing.

Aside from all the interesting items of information Sasquatch

provides for over 300 regular callers, this bulletin board also pro-

vides a very useful service to those who want to start retrieving information from the many commercial information services available throughout North America. Sasquatch (or any local bulletin board) gives the newcomer an opportunity to learn and practice efficient information searching techniques at little or no. cost. This can be extremely valuable, as most new users to com- mercial systems such as Telecom Canada’s INET often can run up $200-$300 in charges just in getting to know the basics of us-

ing an information source.

As Al Sande explained, if nothing else his service gives local enthusiasts a place to call to. Of course once one ‘browses’ Sas-

quatch and begins to find useful conferences on computer topics

of interest and useful public domain programs, one will quickly realize that Sasquatch is more than ‘just a place to call to’. Al and other local bulletin board operators have to be commended in-the service they provide for local computer communications enthusiasts, so if you have access to a modem and a communica-

tions program, and haven't tried using a communications service,

connect your modem to your phone line and your computer, ad- just your communications settings as. listed above, and dial

635-2184 to get a taste of computer communications, |

Terrace Health Care Soclety chief.executive officer Michael Leisinger works with Terrace- view Lodge administrator Kathleen Delgatty as well as Millis Memorial Hospital administra-

tion to meet one of the society’s goals — develop better s ‘two facilities to Improve health care-efficiency in the area.

haring of services between the

Health Care Society decides |

priorities for next two years

The Terrace Health Care So- ciety met last month to develop a two-year health care strategy, and according to society Chief Executive Officer Michael Leis- inger they have identified nearly 20 priority items.

Among those priorities are.

communications, staff retention and specialists, regional services

and independent housing at Ter-

raceview. = — Because Leisinger’s position as chief executive officer is new, it encompasses the management of all health care facilities at Mills Memorial Hospital and Terraceview Lodge. He says the board wants to educate people on the value of the recent amal- gamation.of health services. He explains that in order to do this the board intends to work hard to promote better communica- tion between staff, the commu- nity and the board. The board is also seeking im- provements in staffing Terrace medical - facilities, Leisinger

says, and this means initiating or proceeding with a number of on-going activities. One of these is to hire two full-time, long-

term anesthesiologists. Leisinger explains that Mills Memorial has two anesthesiologists at the pres- ent time but one is leaving to further his education and the other is leaving in February for personal reasons. This is an on-going problem in a number of areas.

An ophthalmologist (eye spe- cialist) is another area of exper- tise required locally and the search will continue, At the pres- ent time, says Leisinger, the nearest ophthalmologist works out of Hazelton. The search for an orthopedic surgeon continues as well, but according to Leis- inger there will soon be a degree of improvement in that area. A Vancouver surgeon will begin working out of Mills Memorial two days per month on a non-

emergency basis beginning in -

mid-October. Leisinger says he’s confident that a regional nuclear medicine

‘facility will be established at

Mills, so the board’s efforts are now being directed towards other services. A CAT Scanner could be a reality in a couple of years, says Leisinger. Terrace

Kinsmen Club oul Have a

medical staff believe the unit is needed now but the Ministry of Health says they believe that with an initial cost of about $250,000. and an annual operat- ing fee of about the same, the area’s population doesn’t war- rant the service just yet. Another regional service being requested by the board is a mammography screening unit.

Finally, says Leisinger, the board will be taking a look at the overall health care picture, making .an effort to develop a greater sharing of the services at Terraceview and Mills Memori- al, In addition, they will con- tinue with plans to develop a

‘cottage-type, non-profit, in-

dependent living facility near the Terraceview site. These would provide homes for area residents. who are able to live on their own but may require some assistance

or medical attention from time

to time. The concept has been

approved by Terrace council and

an application to have the re-

quired land rezoned from park

to institutional is currently being

considered by the Ministry of

Municipal Affairs.

AT 4:30 P.M.