LEGAL HELP WHEN WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2002 YOU NEED IT MOST Gravity get you?  Slip and fall and ICBC claims TERRY L. NAPORA Lawyer 1-800-579-5338 or 352-3321 608 Baker St. 354-4089 ESTABLISHED 1988. SERVING NELSON & THE WEST KOOTENAY VOLUME 14, NUMBER 26 Hire a student Dana Nicholson, student employment officer and Nelson City Mayor Gary Exner celebrate opening of Hire-A-Student office The Hire-A-Student program is kicking off once again! Kootenay region. summer employment can contact Dana at 352-5656, drop The official grand opening of the Hire-A-Student Office If you have odd-jobs, like house painting or lawn mow- into the NDYC and have any questions answered, or log will take place on Thursday, May 16 at the Nelson and ing, there are talented, hardworking students looking for onto the YERC website at www.yerc.ca. The Youth District Youth Centre, 608 Lake St. Dana Nicholson,and summer employment. Students are enthusiastic, flexible, Employment Resource Centre is open Monday, other helpful Youth Centre staff, are excited to help capable and responsible. Wednesday and Friday from 9am-5pm and Tuesday and employers and youth connect throughout the West Employers and youth seeking information about Thursday from 1pm-8pm. KLH Meeting at Civic Arena Reduced service and tolls by Charles Jeanes ask questions and offer ideas how to halt the OK says Judicial Revue INSIDE NO SCHOOL CLOSURES A Town Hall meeting to inform the pub- downgrading of KLH to a Level One facility. by Charles Jeanes jurisdiction” in the matter page 3 lic about risks to health care services is The Arrow Lakes ferry of the transportation min- being held at 7 p.m., Wednesday May 15 at Nelson doctors want level two facility users petitioning April 16 ister’s decision, adding KCR FUNDRAISER the Nelson Civic Centre Arena. The meet- page 6 in BC Supreme Court to that “the Courts have no ing, organized by the Community Action Until now KLH has been a Level Two order the Province to general power to direct the Editorial . . . . . . . .4 Network, has one main aim, says planning facility, capable of general surgery and maintain present ferries’ expenditure of money by Street Talk . . . . . .5 committee member Eleanor Schmidt: to tell high-risk birthing, but that is being changed operations lost the first the Legislature.” Leisure . . . . . . . . .6 the public what is at stake at Nelson’s by the IHA’s restructuring of health care round in their fight when The failed petition, with Calendar . . . . . . . .8 Kootenay Lake Hospital (KLH) and ask for with designation of Trail hospital as the one their petition was dis- Bill Cowan and Ron Horoscope . . . . . .9 ideas to fight the changes proposed by the area hospital for the Kootenay-Boundary missed May 6. The peti- Volansky named as the Sports & Rec . . . .9 Interior Health Authority (IHA). service area. tioners, Ron Volansky and petitioners, was one step in KLH must keep its surgical services or KLH will not have the capacity for the Classifieds . . .10-11 Bill Cowan, wanted to the ferry users’ plan. In risk the public’s health, according to the surgeons who remove an appendix or ton- stop a plan by the Province step two, a class action meeting’s panel including three doctors, a sils, nor for C-sections in high-risk births, to limit ferries’ operation lawsuit, the plaintiffs say nurse, and other healthcare advocates. The said doctor’s spokespers Dr. Anna Reid, and to 17 hours daily, and to the Ministry and BC keynote speaker is Dr. Michael Klein, a these are necessary for good patient care in charge tolls or privatize Hydro broke promises to Vancouver specialist in obstetrics, with brief the area. All elective surgeries such as hernia the ferries, after May 15. build a bridge at Fauquier speeches from local doctors Jim Noiles and repairs, biopsies, D and C, endoscopies, or Supreme Court Justice and a highway from Anna Reid, nurse Lynette Nix, advocate gall bladder removal, will be done in Trail. T. McEwan dismissed the Fauquier to Passmore in Glen Sutherland, and health-care support Doctors met with IHA officials May 8 petition because he found the 1960’s when the Arrow workers’ representative Emil Shumey. and found authorities unwilling to offer that “the petitioners failed Lakes dams raised water After the opening address by the panel, compromise in designating KLH a Level to establish the court has levels. the public will be invited to open mikes to Two hospital. Outdoor Clothing “MADE IN BC” Go Outside Fresh • Sustainable • Organic WOW!! A digital PCS phone for ARE YOU DIGITAL YET? 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