B.C. BRIEFS

LANGLEY, B.C. (CP)— A ~ shepherd, which had been on

Langley RCMP officer who the grounds for two days and -

Killed a dog in front of had apparently attempted to students at’ a iocal junior bite a delivery man.

secondary school should However, when Laporte have. moved the students arrived at the schoo] he wag from’ the scene before “nottold that veterinarian Dr. shooting the animal, vice,.':‘Albert ,Andergon, at the

principal Dan Peebles said. ‘school'ch other business, had

Friday. : . *

Peebles ‘said Constable Bob Laporte may have been “a litte hasty” in shooting the dog.

The RCMP was called to the school: Tuesday after School officiats and dog Pound workers made several unsuccéssful attempts to remave the German

eee

tranquilizer; "°°

Anderson: later criticized the pound workers for not being properly trained in how to catch stray dogs.

Langley RCMP Sgt. Hank Jansen said Laporte did what he thought was best and “my file is closed on the matter,”

Fire out of control

PENTICTON, B.C. (CP).

— About 60 firefighters aided by bulldozers and water- bombers battled g forest fire Sunday that was burning out of control near Okanagan Falls, about 20 kilometres south of this Interior British

Columbia city.

The fire had burned about 60 acres of grass and brush

land by late Sunday morning:

but no buildings were en- dangered. The origin of the fire was unknown. .

Shooting victim named.

“PAVNOS, B.C.: (CP) ~ 1a 'e identified -Ivan Habuf, 47, of Osoyoos as the man killed in an apparent suicideshooting Friday just off Highway: :3 about 16 kilometres east. of this southern Interior. com- munity.

A woman who was shot in the arm and shoulder was

taken to hospital in Pen- tleton. Catherine Kocen, 59, of Osoyoos, was reported in

satisfactory condition,

Police said the man’s body was found in the bush near a parked vehicle, Ms. Kecen was picked up by a passing motorist, Lo.

An investigation was continuing, _

REYKJAVIK (AP) — An Icelandic coast guard gunboat escorted the Greenpeace enviran- mental organization's Ship Rainbow Warrior. back into Reykjavik harbor late Saturday, the ship's captain, Peter

50n, protesting against what he claims was “ar-act of war,"

The Rainbow Warrior, campaigning since May todisrupt Ioelandic whale the coastguard last. Tuesday,

PROTEST BOAT’ ESCORTED OUT. |

-Only one forest fire seen

fishing was iartedted by © cinati

The vessel had been ordered to remain in-port’ pending resoltition:«in*: sherrif’s court in Rey-’. kjavik of a demand for an injunction against Rainbow Warrior by the Icelandic Whaling Co,

Hvalur Ltd,, applied for the injunction against Greenpeace activities on the whaling’ grounds alleging that the Rainbow Warrior interfered repeatedly earlier: this. marith with the “Ran” pooning of whales by the Whaler Hvalur 3.

Terrace area care increasing

The Home Nursing Care, or Home Care Program as it is generally referred to, has been a service of the local Health Unit in Terrace for several years. It has, however, in the past months, become a much more active program due to the initiation of the Long Term Care Program, increased awarness by the public of its existence, It is a most important home support care service when we consider how the geriatric and or Long Term Care patient is to be adequately looked after in the home situation.

What service does this program offer to our community? The Home Care Program presently employs three part-time registered nurses, with a minimum of one nurse available seven days a week from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The nurse makes home visits and provides nursing care for a patient as frequently as once a day, or as in- frequently as once a month, depending on the patient’s needs, There is no charge ta the patient for the nursing service, however, the patient or his family are respon- sible for providing any dressing, medication, or other supplies which might be needed by the nurse in caring for the patient. :

Requests fer this service may come from the patient himself, aly family, neignvours, family physician, ine hospital, and other community agencies. Once the request has been received, a nurse ‘will visit the patient to assess his needs and deterrainc if the patient can be adequately and

safely cared for in his own home, Following the initial assessment visit, the nurse will contact the patient's family physician, discuss the needs of the patient, and obtain written orders from him regarding the nursing care to be given. The nurse keeps the doctor informed of the patient’s progress on a continual basis.

At the present time, there are over thirty people receiving Home Care in the Terrace area. There is no age specification, but the majority of people visited at this time are over 65 years of age.

The elderly have many problems which can be helped or overcome by receiving Home Care. The arthritic patient may need as little aide as assistance into and out of the bath tub to keep him independent and living at home. Frequent visits by the nurse to any chronically ill patient allows the doctor to be aware of any present or up-coming problems, as well as saving the patient uncomfortable and exhausting trips to visit the docior at his office. One visit daily to the blind diabetic patient to give an insulin injection means the difference between living = in- dependently or being institutionalized.

Many of our elderly feel at ease living with a disability knowing a

“nurse will visit to agsis:

where needed, answer questions, and give reassurance. The nurse will also arrange visits from other community agencies if required. The services of a home- maker, meais-on-wheels, or assistance from Human Resourc:« often

Practice search here. to train volunteers |

by Greg Middleton

The topic of con- versation kept drifting back to the search un- derway Saturday in the eastern part of this provitice for a light

already. fed the dog 4: airplane which had gone

. down somewhere ‘het- ween Edmicnton and Prince George, and most

of the 30 volunteers who.

showed up at the Terrace airport in an aircraft search drill would rather have been taking part in that. . The private pilots, search and rescue squad members, parachute jumpers and other volunteers were taking part in a scheduled exercise here to train tters and pilots for craft searches, The exercise was co- ordinated through the Provincial Emergency Program (PEP) which handles the civilian side of this kind of emergency. An armed forces . Buffalo aircraft, the kind the military uses in aircraft searches, was supposed to be here to take part in the drill for this part of the province. It was, however, involved in the search for the aircrait believed missing in the Cache Creek area. Steve Stevenson, ‘an experienced pilot him- _ Self, co-ordinated . the training mission here under the direction of Jim

lates

“One new fire was reported last. week in the Stewart ranger district of the Prince Rupert Forest Region. An abandoned

ex-

campfire was tinguished at spot size. This brings the total number of fires in the

.., Peeiog to 32 at a cost of «a Spee uted Is

- Stott of the Provincial

Emergency Program, Stevenson said. the purpose of this exercise was to arrange for and train pilots and crews to back up military search and rescue personnel in the event an aircraft goes missing in this area. —

“The basic idea is to have local pilots and crews of spotters go out and locate crash sites in the wilderness which we have artificially prepared using parts of wrecked airplanes,’ Stevenson said.

Stevenson stressed that it is important to have trained pilots and spot- ters who know the local area,

“In this way if an airplane should go down in this area we can offer valuable support to the armed forces,” .

Stevenson, said there are plans to form a squadron ‘of volunteers who have had some ex-. perience in this kind of search procedure for the , area from Smithers. to. Prince Rupert and up to Atlin, .

Ernie Nordquist, a pilot who flew in from Smithers forthe exercise,

said this kind of drill is .

important because it is very difficult to find a- wreck from the air. It takes some experience and training to develop the kind of concentration required.

accidental fire could be serious. Please use caution when travelling in our forests. =

Also throughout the Prince Rupert Forest Region, and all over British Columbia, a massive program is

“Without some sort of practice, without spotters who have had the op- portunity to have some training, it becomes a sort of joy ride,’ Nor- dquist said.

In his airplane in the

air at about 1,000 feat above where the simulated crash site was supposed to be, local pilot Dave Lockhart said that hormally when an air- craft goes down it cuts a swath in the trees and you look for anything unysual in the terrain. Lockhart,

' who, has spent many

hours involved in sear- ches was just one of the dozen pilots who used their aircraft to take spotters’ up for alook,at the mock up of a crash site. He noted that it takes some. time for a spotter to get used to how things locked from the air. He agreed that this kind of exercise gives the spotters time’in the alr. and: some experience in the techniques which include viewing one section of terrain at a time instead. of scanning an area, |

In .addition to ‘the practical work, which involved flying a search pattern looking for the two simulated crashes, the group. met in the evening to hear and see presentations designed to aid them in. becoming” more effective in aircraft: searches. .

legislation, the Ministry of Forests Act, the Forest Act and the Range Act, became law on January 1, 1979, Ail three acts are administered by the Ministry of Forests. Not suprisingly, Ministry employees

underway to train Forés(,” jeededjinstruction in the

pvice personnel ‘in, the; Scivice. pessony “of the

Hazards are generally province's new forest

in the moderate category

which’ means that an

make the difference in maintaining a person's independence. In the next 2 to 30 years, it is ex- pected that a number of people 65 and. over in Canada will double. The B.C. Ministry of Health

assumes that 7 to 8- percent of these people -

will require some care at home. a For the young and middle-aged person, the need for Home Care is often not recognised, as they frequently have family at home who are available to give necessary care and support throughout an

illness. A_ patient, however, may be discharged early from hospital following

surgery if his dressing changes and daily care can be managed at home by the family and a visiting nurse. This enables the patient to be with his family in com- fortable familiar surroundings, and frees the hospital bed for use by more acutely ill patients. The Home Care nurse is frequently seen in the role of a teacher to instruct family members in caring completly for the patient at home.

Above all, the ob-.

jectives of the Home Care Program are to ensure the provision of com- prehensive health care to ill persons whose physical, social and emotional needs can be safely and adequately

WEATHER

The present

weather

legislation. . The three new pieces of

met in their home en- vironment. ; ; The Home Care office is located in the Skeena: Health Unit at 3215-2 Eby Street, and may be reached by ‘calling 635- 6307.

SWIM

Set | Set 11 Set III

“ADULT LEARN TO SWIM 7 pm-Spm Starts July 9 - Augus? 9 ' AQUASIZES

7 pms? p.m. Starts July 3- August 23 MOMS AND TOTS

1:30 p.m,-2:90 p.m. Starts July 10 - August 9

Starts July 9 - August 14 RED CROSS CANOE July 9 ~ July 20

July 23 - August 3 August 6 - August 1?

ADVANCED RED

Bronze Cross -

District of Terrace

IM POOL “|| PROGRAMS | —

RED CROSS & RLSSC LEARN TO SWIM

9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Monday to Friday (10 lessons}

starts July 3- July 16 Starts July 23 - August 3

Starts. August 13 - August 24

Tuesday

Tuesday and Thursday

ADULT SPRING BOARD DIVING LESSONS 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. - Monday and Wednesday

1) Monday, Wednesday & Friday — 1 p.m..2 p.m. — 2) Monday, Wednesday & Friday ~ 1 p.m.-2 pm. — 3) Monday, Wednesday & Friday — 1 p.m.2 p.m. = cRoss AND 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. - Tuesday and Thursday Bronze Medallion — Starts July a- July 20 Starts July 24 - Red Cross Leaders - August 17, 18, 19, 21, 23

Registration far SET | swim lessons will be June 26, 27, 28 from 5 p.m. p.m, Location - Terrace Swim Pool.

Registration for SET i] swim lessens will be July 17, 8,

pattern continues with cloudy skies turning sunnier in the afternoon and clouding over in the evening.

The expected high taday is 168 degrees Celsius and the overnight low is 7 degrees,

19 from 5 p.m. - 9 p.m, Location - Terrace Swim Pool.

Regisjration for SET 11 swim lessons will be August 7, 8 9 from 5 p.m.-? p.m, Location - Terrace Swim Pool.

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FRANK HAD HIS: WIRES CROSSED.

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Somebody got Frank Howard's telephone wires crossed and he ended up with the same‘ine « as the executive-secretary to the ‘provincial: - secretary, Hugh Curtis!’ eS

“When the house first opened 1 was placed in’ ‘

one of two offices with two other people. The three of us only had two phones between us and, _

one day I picked up the phone to'make dnother *

call and discovered someone on the line, |

_ “I thought! was alone at the time...there was no one in my office and I checked the adjacent: office and discovered it was empty too. I went back to the phone and it was still busy,” says

Howard. . coe

“When I asked who was on the line I was told that this line was busy...when I found out who it was I complained about the situation and I wént: for several days withouta phone while they fixed things up.”

“I guess that’s why people have had trouble getting in touch with me,” he says.

Howard’s Terrace office, located at 4650

_ Lakelse Ave., wilt be open on Monday, June 25.

The number to that office is 638-1918. .

People can write to Howard at the Parliament Buildings in Victoria or they can now call him at 387-1491, bos ae, 5 : : iw {A Terrace office and a Kitimat;nffice will shortly be opened. oe

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POLICE NEWS

Thorney Wilson, af Kitimat, is scheduled. to

. appear in Terrace provincial

court to face a charge of impaired driving. Wilson was charged afler Terrace’ RCMP stopped a car Sunday merning. —

and = Thursdaw ff

RLSSC

August 10

A tool box and congratulations

NCC graduates 40

' congratulations © from,”

.. vocational and trades

. given out to selected |

adhe ;futige Sigploymant.

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certificates from the |

college, as well as...

Fred Wilson, director sf “~ training programs.

Special awards, in. categories such. AB oe practical skills, theary;' and attendence were. algo.”

members of each class... 5:;3

At the conclusion of the : “ ceremony, Wilson urged a

the graduates to keep in . F

touch with members of the college staff and to j give suggestions to the a staff about improving the courses, based on the experience they will gain

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% 4 je ig” cn - eh a qa 8 : : i sf head Get is a Friday was graduation! 22 iy : day for about 40 students** * ie | at Northwest Community" ped - College who successfully": = -completed, pre-,, Pay employment training.,, ; Pag ‘programs, :-.. oe lB : 3 | ‘” Students in general., :.:: of . Mechanics, welding,, += = 4 |. marine engine repair, |; ig , and electronics. received, * 3.; |