ANIMAL SHELTER officer Frank Bowsher with a healthy specimen of a feline friend.

Disease fears are unfounded

CONCERNS ABOUT a possible outbreak of the potentially fatal cat disease FRT at the Terrace Animal Shelter are unwarranted, according to the animal con- trol officer there.

Frank Bowsher says that while there was a problem with the disease i in December, it has not resurfaced this year.

‘We are very careful to make sure disease doesn’t spread,’ said Bowsher in indicating the shelters’s own two cats arc healthy,

He said cats taken to the shelter which appear sick are put into a quarantine room, Cages are also cleaned daily with both an anti-viral solution and bleach.

And cats brought in for boarding are kept separate

from strays. They aren’t even allowed to Play together in the exercise area, ’ “Shelters and petstores always have diseases coming in and out because they deal with so many animals,’’ Bowsher says. ‘It’s impossible to completely eradicate disease from the facility, but the staff and volunteers here work hard to keep. the animals healthy.”’

Bowsher says that includes calling in a vet to help sick «animals, Medication is also on hand should animals require it

“We do everything we can,’’ Bowsher says. ‘‘But it’s never enough because there are just so many of them. People.have. got ta spay or neuter their pets.’’

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TEACHERS HOPE that a controversy’ over activities such as aromatherapy and massage techniques planned around their next non-instructional day will die down soon.

Female teachers from Hazelton and Kitwanga were in- vited to lake part in a retreat beginning Friday, April 11, a non-instructional day, at the Mount Layton Hot Springs resort. It continues into the weekend. :

Activities planned include aromatherapy, colour drping, makeovers and massage techniques. ‘That -had'a joi of people in Terrace wondering why makcovers ‘qualified as professional development,

But the brochure on the weekend retreat didn’t spell out what teachers would be doing on Friday, said Greg

Houlden, president of the Upper Skeena Teachers Associa- ..

tion, a branch of the school district teachers’ union.

Houlden said Friday’s activities include a workshop on harassment in the workplace in the morning and a work- shop on stress and the female teacher in ihe afternoon. Both are being presented by the B.C. Teacher’s Federation.

“‘They’re totally appropriate and professionally related,” says Houlden. ‘‘If participants want tgatiend other events on Thursday or Friday evening or Saturday that’s entirely their business."’

Thirtecn of approximately 80 teachers in the Hazelton

Health unit to go

THE SKEENA Health Unit is going to disappear April 1.

As part of the wide-ranging changes, to health care in B.C., the health unit is being replaced by the Community Health Services Society. ;

Ivll have on its board a member from each of the new community health councils in the northwest. -

The idea is to take management'of health care out of Vic- toria and give the responsibility to regional bodies.

Dave Dennis, the interim senior manager of the new regional society, says those receiving services shouldn’t notice a difference,

‘Instead of reporting to Victoria, the programs will report to the society,’’ he said.

‘‘Whal we're doing is taking the (health) ministry out of direct service delivery,’’ Dennis added.

Included on the list of programis to. be run by the new society are public health, community care nursing, en- vironmental health, audiology and. speech therapy — all previously provided by the health unit, .° /

Still to be decided is the senior management structure for the new society.

But it has Jearned it should get more money for more community health care,

Health minister Joy MacPhail announced last week that

those services will get a five per cent increase.

Dennis said it’s unknown how much that'll mean for the northwest.

MacPhail did say that an extra $4.35 million will go toward hiring 160 additional nurses and rehabililation therapists for community health care.

Dennis said it’s still to carly to say what thal means for the northwest.

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region are going on the retreat. It’s ‘been in the works for about two years now, and has been: organized by the status éf women branch of the teachers’ union. The stalus of women was formed to deal with issues ‘such as equality and gender discrimination.

Participants in the retreat pay a $30 registration fee. The rest of the money comes from union dues allotted to the status of women branch. No moncy: from the retreat comes from the school district, said Houlden; As for the content

“of the retreat, Houlden says that was decided from a survey

of female teachers in the region.

Participant Erica Ball, a teacher at Hazelton Secondary, says the retreat is devoted to women’s ‘mental; physical and spiritual well.being,.” and includes a session on relaxa-

tion and meditation. ‘‘It’s: nat unusual, not eccentric, not

out of linc,” she says.

Teachers not taking part in the retreat have other optians says Houlden. There’s a course on-elementary. math cur- ticulum -being offered al New Hazellou Elementary and

South Hazelton will be working on accreditation.

Teachers also have the option to travel to other schools in the district if they want to take part in different profes- sional development programs. And all teachers must report their non-instructional day activities to their school. ©

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