Dog dilemma I"............................................................................... Great read-. A Jiving legend A local vet wants pet owners to Rocque Berthiaume's new book Jimmy Mann's still skating after tag their dogs to avoid details the lives of the '1"1 years on the road with the NHL unnecessary delays\NEWS A8 Gitselasu\COMMUNITY CI Oldtimers'\SPORTS B7 WEDNESDAY November 24, 1999 $1.00 PLUS 7¢ GST (51.10 plus Be GST outside of the Terrace area) T, NDARD VOL. :[2 NO. 33 Split vote sinks multiplex proposal LOCAL POLITICIANS haven't de- He also said the referendum rejec- facility into tile "quagmire" of charg- clared the multiplex dead. but the idea tion in Thorvhill underscores the need ing different r:ttcs for users depending is cerlainly on life support after it re- to improve the relationship between on where they live. ceived naodesl support in Terrace but a Area Yes No Terrace and its rural neighbourhoods. "'There's gut Io be a way that we sizable defeat in rural areas Saturday Terrace 55 % 45 % It's the second time - after the can include everybody." lie said. Terrace voters backed the proposal amalgamation referendum of 1997- Re-elected 'Fhornhill director Los to borrow up to $7.6 million over 20 Rural areas 40 % 60 % Terrace said yes to something that was Watmough said he's willing to enter- years by a 55 per cent margin, with rejected in the regional dislrict, lain new ideas about the multiplex. 1,963 Yes ballots cast and 1,631 No [] COMPLETE ELECTION COVERAGE B1 "Somehow we're two trains running But lie says financing would have voles cast. on different sets of tracks," Talstra Io be rejigged so rural homeowners In Thornhill and other rural areas, based support. through various other sources to reduce said• "We have to re-establish our re- pay about the same anlount as those in however, 966 No voters outnumbered 'Tin not saying it's impossible, but the cost to taxpayers for the project, lationships with the regional district the city - addressing perceptions of the 653 5'as votes to hand the project it's harder to do now," said re-elected Talstra reiterated he never wanted and see why is it we can't see eye to unfairness: a rural defeat by a 60 per cent margin. mayor Jack Talstra. "I'm going to want the project to go to a vote this early, eye on some very important issues.'" Watmough said what killed the The result leaves proponents and council to lake a long hard look at all with financial questions in limbo. Talstra said he's reluctant to try to- idea was the fact Thornhill homes the new city council in search of a the options." "1 didn't think we were ready," said build the multiplex without support of were to pay 20 per cent more than backup plan, possibly one that would The key issue in the campaign was Talstra, who had pushed for a March the regional district. If Terrace were to Terrace houses because of the way as- take advantage of at least the Terrace- whether more money could be raised referendum, go it alone, he said, it would force the sessnnenls worked out. New health spending plan wanted By ALEX tlAMIL'I'ON LOCAL HEAUFH officMs are asking their north- western counterparts for a b~.~ter way to spend the $8{~ million that comes to tile region for heallh care each year. At the hearl of Ihe issue is getting more money lbr specialty services provided at Mills Memorial ltospi- tal. Although specialists here treat people t'rona out- side the hospital's normal coverage area, extra money isn't provided. Bob Kelly And that puts a strain specia!ists and nurses need on nurses and the budget Tsimshian to take time ut'f. at Mills with hospital ad- "But when Rupert ministrators putting a cap doesn't function as an ICU on the number of people those dollars still stay in treasures that can be admitted. Ruperl," Kelly said. "They Doctors here are now get Io keep their money." saying they'll follow those Surgeon Dr. Michael restrictions by not admit- go on sale Kenyon added that hospi- ling people from out side tals in Prince Rupert and the local area as of Dec. 1 Fads urged to bring a Kitinaat also routinely shut unless more money arrives. down their surgical wards "Basically what all the prized collection home over Chrislmas, relying on community health councils By JEFF NAGEL Terrace doctors to pick up (CHC) in the region are NORTHWEST native groups are getting offers the slack. going to have to do is of help from all quarters to keep the world's "We can't do it agree certain programs are largest private collection of Tsimshian arti- anymore," Kenyon said, A TSIMSHIAN shaman's mask (top left) is among the items up for auction from the col- going to have to be funded facts froth being auctioned off and dispersed lection of an English professor. The Nisga'a shaman's mask (above, photo by Gary Fie- emphasising paying staff regionally," Terrace Area around the globe. overtime at Christmas is gehen) is among the hundreds of Nisga'a artifacts in Canadian museums that are des- Health Council chair Bob British professor Simon Carey - who inher- tined for transfer to Nisga'a control under their treaty. very expensive. Kelly told a packed coun- ited the collection from his great grandfather. He described Hills' re- cil meeting Nov. 18. north coast Anglican missionary Robert Dun- lationship wilh Prince Ru- obtained the objects from natives under sus- Legal action is one possible response, Hill "1 would like to see us das- ignited calls for repatriation of Ihe arti- • • ,~, pert Regional Hospital as pect circumstances in the late 1800s. said, us is an attempt to purchase the arlifacts. fix fins ourselves, lie said. facts to Canada last week when plans were an abusive marriage. Natives being converted to Christianity But he said the Tsimshian preference is that "We Can't look to the gov- announced to auction off the estimated $5 mil- "We want a divorce if were told to divest themselves of all the cul- Canadian heritage minister Sheila Copps, pos- ernrnent to solve these lion worth of northwest aborigina art treasures. they can't settle it," he tural and religious artifacts of their tribal past• sibly in conjunction with one or more Cana- problems for us." Among the works are masks, rattles, war said. "A lot of our people were coerced into sur- dian museums, take steps to acquire the arti- There is enough money clubs, bead dresses, bowls, spoons and blan- Health council board rendering a lot of their regalia." Hill said. "As facts. for health care m the kets. member Larisa Tarwick part of becoming Christians they were told "These artifacts are priceless," he said. northwest, but those dol- Tsimshian Tribal Council president Bob said there is now no way they had to divest themselves of those arti- "The importance ot • this collection is such I lars aren't used properly, Hill said offers are coming in from financiers facts," to Iransfer money from Ki- think it's incumbent on the t'ederal govermnent said Kelly. who wahl to either donate or raise money to limal or Prince Rupert to In some cases money changed hands as the to pursue it." Treating services such help purchase the collection, as well its from Terrace to take care of missionaries created further financial incentive The Royal Ontario Museum contenlplated as pediatrics and orthope- law firms offering legal aid. patients, to dispose of the artifacts. buying the Carey colleclion for $4 million a dics as regional ones will "To us it's priceless," Hill said of Ihe col- Tarwlck hinted that a In others, Hill said, the objects were handed decade ago, Hill said, but decided that was help every northwestern lection. "How do you put a price on your regional health board to over to missionaries as gifts. too rnucll .... community, he said. culture?" oversee all hospitals would "If I gave you a gift would you sell it for If the auction went ahead, he noled, the ob- Except for nuclear "We're going to do all within our power in- personal gain'?" he asks. help. jects would be sold individually, rather than as medicine, the CT scanner cluding legal options to prevent these art facts "All we have right now Auction house Sothcby's will publish a a set, resulting in them being broken Lip and and psychiatry, Mills front being auctioned off and entering into pri- is the goodwill that coun- catalogue of the works and book exhibitions i~ distributed around the world. doesn't get any additional ,.'ate collectors' hands." London, New York and Paris. cils will get together anti 1'he auction could be us much as two years money for out of town ser- While Carey is the legal owner of the col- talk," she said But they won't come near Canada for fear away, he noted. vices. lection, the Tsimshian argue the missionaries But doctors and nurses the works could be seized. Continued Page A2 Critics of the currenl say talking with other syslem in which health CHCs wou'l work. What's councils each have their needed, they say, is a re- Aboriginal artifacts could draw tourists own budgets point to the gional health board to intensive care units here look at programs on a re- A TERRACE anthropologist says housed jointly by the Royal B.C.