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Local Docs to Revive Psych Unit HEALTH Offlcials Have Put Together a Plan to Re- Tent of the Service A lsmokin on the issues Family fun Young entrepreneurs take A rundown of the issues Veteran father, son and their small business plan affecting the Skeena riding daughter stock car team to a competition in Alberta leading up to the May 17 welcomes mom to racing \COMMUNITY B3 provincial election \NEWS A5 \SPORTS B5 / c // -2 --uu -0 -In ($1.1 0 plus 8c GST ‘ outside$i.oo~iusn of the Terrace GSTarea) . S T A N D-A,,R 0 --00-b mr h i Local docs to revive psych unit HEALTH OFFlCIALS have put together a plan to re- tent of the service. “They’ll stabilize people and the intent is thL he said. ‘open the all-but-closed 10-bed regional psychiatric The unit had been relying on visiting psychiatrists they will be seen by a psychiatrist after 72 hours by ’ The problem of finding specialists of every kind unit at Mills Memorial Hospital. who would Ry in from practices elsewhere for brief tele-pyschiatry or perhaps sooner if there is a visit- to work in the northern and .rural areas who also , The failure to recruit psychiatrists to live in the periods of time. As with most medical specialties, ing psychiatrist at the unit,” he said. have be available on nights and weekends has been area had meant the unit was only able to take pa- psychiatrists are a rare commodity. The idea of using general practitioners with psy- a drawback in attracting people. tients from Terrace. “The unit was working OK and was taking pa- chiatric experience is called shared care, a growing Simons said the new plan will also give recruit- The unit will now ‘use local general practitioners tients from Terrace but it has been a real problem concept in providing medica! services. ers time to find and evaluate people most suited to backed up by visiting psychiatrists or ones avail- in not taking patients from outside Terrace,” said “It’s really doing something that hasn’t been done working in a northern and rural location. able for tele-conferencing who work down south, Simons. before,” said Simons of the plan. The general practitioners who do sign agreements says Dr. Jeffrey Simons, an official for the Northern “There were some pretty upset people in Prince The health authority will continue to search for to provide on-call services to the psych unit won’t be Health Authority. Rupert and in Kitimat.” psychiatrists to live in the northwest, he said. able to also collect on-call payments for emergency The unit was renovated in 2002 to bring it up to The inability to take regional patients then put Simons expects that search to be aided by the room duty during the same time period. modem in-patient psychiatric standards and a medi- pressure on already-stressed psychiatric services in knowledge that local general practitioners are also “lf they are on-call for the two services at the cal manpower plan approved which resulted in the Prince George and down south, Simons added. providing a service. ’ same time, they can only get paid for one,” said Si- hiring of five psychiatrists in the region. Nine local general practitioners who have psychi- “We hope to be more likely to recruit psychia- mons. But the number of psychiatrists has dwindled atric experience are signing contracts to provide on- trists because they know they won’t be stressed all That kind of double-dipping take place here years since then to the point of affecting the regional in- call services to the unit, said Simons. the time and have to be responsible for everything,” ago but has now been forbidden, he added. (1 Unemployment rate here drops THE NORTHWEST no longer has the dubious honour of having the highest unemployment rate in the province. That distinction now goes to the Cariboo which regis- tered an unemployment rate of 10.4 per cent in April, edging out the northwest which had a 10.1 per cent unemployment rate. I!’s the first time in months that two regions of B.C. have had double-digit rates in an otherwise healthy provincial employment picture. The northwest rate was a drop from March’s 11.5 per cent. Federal Human Resources Development Canada Ter- race-based analyst Patrick Blaine McIntyre said the new northwest jobs were being filled by young people. ~ “lt’s in ages 20-24, that’s where the increase is t&ng place,” he said. April statistics for the area from Vanderhoof to the Queen Charlotte Islands indicate that 45,400 people were working in April compared to 44,700 in March. Part time employ- ment held steady at 13,200 from March to April but full time employment jumped from 31,500 jobs !o 32,200 jobs. “The data bodes well for next month as well. We could drop even further,” said McIntyre. There were also just 20,900 people not in the labour force, a figure that hasn’t been that low since 2003, he added. “At least we’re getting some of what’s been happening elsewhere in B.C.,” McInytre said. ” As to where the new jobs are located, McIntyre said the regional picture is still brighter in the eastern end of this re- gion than in the western end leading toward the coast. At the same time, McIntyre is now analyzing data which tells him the number of El claims in Terrace and Kitimat has ;I‘ E Bless this mill declined. The provincial unemployment rate was 6.8 per cent, dpwn MO TAKHAR, the president of the Terrace Lumber Company, is flanked by his brother Parkash Singh Takhar, left, and priest Brijendra from March’s 7.2 per cent. Singh, right, as they pray for the well being of the Terrace Lumber Company and its mill. The blessing ceremony tookplace in Takhar’s The Kootenay‘s have a rate of 8.1 per cent, giving that office prior to the grand opening of the mill last week. A group of local investors became the official mill owners April 29. region the third highest percentage total in B.C. ~ SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO April’s 10.1 per cent rate is lower than the one inlMarch and in February, but higher than the 9.7 per cent in January Long serving councillor leaving and the 8.7 per cent in December. TERRACE‘S longest serving and house at Christie Park. critics, Hull says. haven’t been signed. most colourful city councilor in Hull felt he had been treated “I don’t regret at times making Hull says there are issucs council recent times is leaving Terrace. poorly by the people on council in comments that when the largest and did not handle correctly, especially David Hull, lirst elected in 1988. the process. I richest people in Canada are looking with its refusal to proclaim a Gay starts his new job as the Abbotsford “1 ran on a platform that they at buying your mill, thcy have to pay Pridc Day in 2001. He was the only chamber of commerce‘s executive made me mad,” Hull recalls. “My their taxes,” he says. “The current city councillor to fiivour such a proc- director May 16; plan was to be there for two years position of locals owning and op- lamation. He’ll be returning occasionally and treat them like hell for treating erating the mill is the best outcome “I have absolutely no regrets during the summer and his last city me poorly but then 1 discovered I possible.” there at all,” Hull says, adding his council meeting is July 25. liked it.” The Terrace Lumber Company once more “redneck” views have Although the next municipal Since then, Hull takes pride in officially purchased the mill two softened over the years. “Things like elections aren‘t until November, a many of the city’s accomplish- weeks ago. Another proud day was that, boy, a little more thinking be- by-election isn‘t necessary. That’s ments and says the city has matured in 2000 when the first modem day fore [council] acts sure would have because Hull’s departure comes af- tremendously since he graduated treaty was signed between the pro- helped ... I realized there is some real ter Jan. 1 in a year when an election from Caledonia Senior Secondary vincial and federal governments and narrow thinking out there.” is already scheduled to happen. in 1976. He’s happy with the Grand the Nisga’a nation. Hull’s absence will also be felt by So long as each council meeting Trunk Pathway, the Howe Creek Mayor Jack Talstra wasn’t in a number of local sporting organiza- has a quorum, an by-election isn’t trail system and Ferry Island. town on the day of the official sign- tions. necessary, says city administrator And he’s particularly proud ing and Hull was acting mayor. He’s a long-standing member and Ron Poole. Mayor Jack Talstra and city council ‘‘I felt privileged,” Hull says. past president of the Terrace Curling Hull was just 27 when he was first stood firm during the controversy “Going out to those signing ceremo- Association and the Northmen Rug- elected in 1988 and was prompted to surrounding Skeena CelluloselNew nies was really momentous and per- by Club in addition to spearheading get into politics when the council of Skeena taxes over the years.’The sonally very moving to see the long the annual Mr. .Mike’s beach vol- the day rejected a proposal to use a city’s decision not to wipe out taxes quest come to fruition.” leyball tournament during Riverboat former nursing residence as a club- owed the city drew fire from some He’s saddened more treaties Days.
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