Korean prisoner ComPetitive edge I Tiny tumblers A local man seeks the truth to A Terrace woman takes her ..Local gymnasts show they've got purge his memories of a wartime trade's top spot in a regional what it takes at zone meet in massacre\NEWS A5 skills contest\COMMUNITY B1 I Smithers\SPORTS B5 I I N- VOL. 13 NO. 47 WEDNESDAY o o o February 28, 2001 a') I','AMI'A'/I +'~ [* g'14l ~1+ R(.] i -i= , tO o') $t.00 PlUS 7¢ GST , g ($1.10 Dlus 8¢ GST outside of the Terracearea) TANDARD [,,, Land use plan off to gov't Bucks for Public divided A DISPUTE over the final few protected areas in the does plan Kalum land-use plan will have to be Settled by the province. Kalum Land and Re- 'working' source Management Plan participants met again last week and approved the Bonus pay is starting to draw plan, but left three issues unresolved. physicians, hospital head says They are requests to: NEW FINANCIAL incentives to lure physicians m Preserve the 2,200- hectare Miligit Creek area to the north are working, says one local health care of the upper Copper River official. for its high quality angling Recruitment bonuses and annual payments have ~/nd scenic value. Prospec- helped in finding one psychiatrist and are intriguing to tors also consider the area other badly needed special- rich 'in minerals. ists, says Dieter Kuntz, chief [] Preserve the large executive officer of the Ter- 60,000 hectare Foch and race Area Health .Council. Giltoyees watersheds to "There's no question link up with the Gitnadoix about it," said Kuntz last Provincial Park. Forest week. "We can see it companies did agree to working." much smaller protected areas protecting the scenic Physicians here for years Foch and Giltoyees Inlets. have received a 14 per cent [] Expand "visual qual- top of their normal fee for ity" rules along parts of service billings but new in- the Douglas Channel to centives, brought in last year, hide clearcuts better. provide for even more LRMP members had money. hoped public comment Recruitment bonuses of over the past month or so $I0,000 are now in place and would point strongly in one general practitioners receive Dieter Kuntz direction or the other over $21,000 each year to stay in the unresolved areas. the north and specialists receive $26,250. However, coordinator The psychiatrist recruited by the health council has so. Eamon O'Donoghue said far only given his verbal approval but signed documents the public was just as divi- are expected soon, said Kuntz. ded as the table in com- "We've been informed he could be here the early part ments that came back. of August," said Kuntz of the Canadian psychiatrist just Many people wanted finishing his education in the United States. "He also the proposed areas pre- wants to take some vaca- served, he said. • Doctors are tion. He's been going to Many others also want school for some time." to make sure there's no quietly collecting At the same time, an ob-' further land taken away back pay from the stetrician has accepted a from logging and mining province. A16 health council invitation to companies. [] Immigrant make a visit and will be "There was not any 1 Pro riders visit I here the middle of March. : clear direction that came LUKASHUFFMAN (with goggles) his twin brother al snowboardors exploring the backcountry nurses to be fast- Jesse and Justin Mooney were three profession- around Terrace last week. See story on page BS. tracked. A15 It's been nearly a year'. out of the public review," since one obstetrician O'Donoghue said. "The i moved away, leaving Dr. table agreed to forward Lani Almas as the only that to government for a specialist of this kind in the area. ! decision." Terrace named B.C. forest capital The psychiatrist is the first of three the health council The City of Terrace has TERRACE HAS been chosen as the Fored B.C., a province-wide body involved in historical and education wants to hire to offer a regional service. There are two. also signed off on the plan, private psychiatrists already in town and one is on his province's forestry capital for 2001. which promotes the forest industry. projects and even a family-based but is urging the govern- It's a designation which dates way to Prince Rupert. ment to hold firm and not Forester and biologist Peggy Mc- day to demonstrate 'logging skills. back to the 1920s and is meant to Dougall, who put together the local The Rupert-bound psychiatrist is being loaned by that grant any further protected "Now is the time more than ever area's health council to Terrace for the time being to act recognize annually a community's application, is pleased with the for Terrace residents to come toge- areas in the region. past, current and future involvement as the clinical director of the regional psych ward at Councillor Val George, news. ther," McDougall said. "We can ce- Mills. with the forest industry, "Even 'though times are tough, the city's LRMP rep, said lebrate the history of forestry in Terrace's selection sets in motion this is what this community was Terrace." It means the ward can stay open and not be closed as 19 per cent of the region's a series of events, some of which built on," she said of the forest indu- had to happen Jan. 1 when the last clinical director left. land base is now protected McDougall gathered up 26 letters will take place in and around Natio- stry. of support for the forestry capital de- That closure ended last week when a temporary director in the plan and there's no nal Forestry Week in early May. She's looking to get everybody was found in Ontario to do a two-week stint here. good reason to place more signation. Her application promoting The designation comes from from young people to senior citizens Terrace ran to three pages. Kuntz said the psychiatrist being loaned by Prince land off limits to logging Rupert is to be here the end of this week. and mining. "I don't think there's any justification for taking out any more land." Onething that did Sawmill faces start-and-stop year emerge from the public re- view, O'Donoghue Says, Managers join ranks extended beyond its previously anticipa- and-stop activity for the Ter- poised to put more lumber into was a strong amount of • ted restart date of early April. race mill while low markets the U.S.," he said. of SCI unemployed "We are re-examining whether that persist. public concern about pub- time is appropriate or whether some Steele said there's a long list of lic access. By JEFF NAGEL Some laid-off employees mills across North America other time is more appropriate," Steele may well give up and move to "There's a lot of people SKEENA CELLULOSE's saw- said. idled by the low prices. who use forestry develop- seek work elsewhere, he The longer various mills remain mill here may be up and down for Lumber prices are so low and the added. ment roads and they're down, the better the chance that "much of this year if lumber prices outlook for the year so poor that the "I believe we will lose very interested in how remain low, company officials downtime could be lengthy in 2000, he prices could improve - the risk those roads can be used, some," he said. "I would think some operations will go under. warn. said. and whether they're open that some of these people will "Over the next year if the pre- or closed," he said. The company laid off 45 managers find work elsewhere. The un- sent market levels remain in Suggestions were made and non-union support staff last week. [] Skeena Cellulose still certainty has been around for place some weaker mills are not about logging road safety Twelve of those employees are at the profitable - barely. Pg. A10 quite a long time." going to make it," Steele pre- issues such as signage and Terrace sawmill, said solid wood group The best hope for an aptick dicted. "We could be one of gates. vice-president Dan Tuomi, plus another in lumber prices is that easing those. But I don't want to fright- "We're not secure as to when the interest rates could spark a Bill Steele Other issues were raised 14 at Carnaby and four at its Smithers lumber market will improve," he said. "I en people any more than they involving grizzly bears sawmill. rise in house construction in are now that that could happen." certainly don't expect it to be this year the U.S. being displaced by fisher- They include woodlands employees, Improved pulp prices or reduced ener- that a significant change will take But there's still a lot of excess lumber men, and conflict between supervisors and secretarial staff. place." gy costs would also help SCI. motorized and non-motor- The Terrace mill shut down Friday, on the market right now, Steele said, Pulp has alrdady plummetted from But, he noted, SCI will need to fill and that could get •worse in April. ized recreation, throwing 190 unionized sawmill em- some lumber orders in order to keep va- That,s when the Canada-U.S. Soft- highs about a year ago and could erode further unless Asian economies regain idu~"There !i~ihe~i!~i were some ~wrq good ~~i!~ployees out of work.