A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 19, 2000 Smoke siow to clear here By ALEX HAMILTON TERRACE BUSINESSES defying the province’s new smoking regulations, are luring customers away from other establishments, angering their law-abiding compelition. The Skeena Hotel Pub and the Lunch Box Deli continue to openly defy the regulations imposed Jan. 1 by the Workers’ Compensation Board to protect workers from the hazards of secondhand smoke in workplaces, All the other drinking establishments in the city have agreed to obey the new regulations, which bar operators say has cost them dearly. Lorne Wallington, man- ager of Hanky Panky’s, es- timales he’s lost 65 to 70 per cent of his business — many of them going to the Skeena Pub, where they’re iree to puff away. He’s upset the WCB continues to allow the Skeena Pub to defy the ban, saying hurting alt the other bars in town which have agreed to obey the new bylaw, “ALL ask for is a level playing field. I don’t care about what rules we’ve got to follaw as long as all of us have to obey them,” Wallington said. If business doesn’t im- prove this week, Walling- ton said he will be issuing lay off notices to staff. The B.C. Liquor Retail- ers Association estimated more than 400 jobs have been lost in the industry because of the smoking bans. Meanwhile, at the Skeena Pub, business is steady. The bar’s owner, Norm Zlolikovits, said he has no intention of stopping his customers from smoking. “I’m trying to look after myself,” he — said. “Hopefully someone else in this town will have some backbone and go with me.” He added that as of last Friday, he’s been visited three times by WCB em- ployees regarding his non- compliance. So far, he hasn't received any fines, which range from $1,500 to $4,000 for a first offence At the Lunch Box Deli, owner Bey Dilley, who smokes, is also defying the new bylaw, WCB spokesman Scott McCloy said even though a business may be family- run, family will be consid- eted workers, and those businesses will be fined if they don’t comply with the new rules. Fire kills two in Stewart STEWART residents were in shock last week after a_ fire in a mobile home killed two people Jan. 13. “When two people die in a community that size it has a huge impact on the community,” said Art Erasmus, the local coroner working on the case. Victim services teams from Smithers and Terrace were dispatched to the town Thursday and Friday Jast week to help the 'com-" From front’ munity deal with their grief. The deceased, whose names were not released at press time, were a well- liked town welder and a Meziadin high school student boarding in the trailer while she attended school. The blaze is under in- vestigation by the Stewart RCMP, the office of the fire commissioner and the B.C. Coroner’s service. Enhanced cancer service here eyed and the cancer agency has been in extensive contact with Dr. Michael Kenyon, a Terrace-based internal medicine specialist, said Chritchley, He did caution that it will take a number of years to develop a core of nurses trained and experi- enced in cancer treatment as well as other profes- sionals such as pharma- cists. The cancer agency does not provide money for capital expenditures but can assist in training peo- ple. “There’s been such a service in Prince George for years and it’s been very From front good. We’d like to see that in Terrace as well,” said Chritchley. “Terrace does offer non- radiation treatment now and it’s been good care, but now we think it’s time for a professional cancer care team,” he said. There are already non- radiation treatment centres in other regional popula- tion centres such as Campbell River, Powell River, Nanaimo, Trail and Nelson. The prospect of a re- gional trauma centre for people seriously injured in accidents is under review by a provincial advisory team. Affordable housing plan gets backing Giesbrecht said it may also help ease the wait tist to get into extended care at Terraceview, by: providing another option to those not requiring a high level of sup- port “Some people at Terraceview are quite independent,” he noted. “All they need is a little bit of assistance.” He said the city needs a wider range of housing op- tions for seniors. “Our seniors population is growing rapidly — 78 per cent from 1986 to 1996 compared with the provincial average of 36 per cent,” he noted. Quiz puzzled readers OUR CANADA QUIZ printed in last week’s pa- per fell victim to a com- puter glitch that dramati- cally misrepresented how much television Canadians watch. pe The formatting glitch - we'd: love to be. able to blame it on ¥2K, but can’t - eliminated the decimal points from. question number 19, which should have asked whether the average Canadian watches 1.5 hours, 3.2 hours (the correct answer) or four hours of TV a day. : Kudos to Lorraine Mik- kelson for being the first alert reader to query how anyone could watch 32 hours of TV in a 24 hour day. . Part of the quiz was our offer to give away a cou- ple of copies of Statistic Canada’s millential coffee table book, Canada: A Por- trait , We received 15 entries and drew two names at random, with books going out to Justin and Diane Hodkinson, and to Chris- tine Smith. _ » Congratulations Happy New Year. and WCB still probing into death of faller THE WORKERS’ Compensation Board continues its investigation inta the Jan. 13 death of a northwest logger in the Meziadian Lake area. The man, identified as Armand Boutin, 53, of Terrace, died while fall- ing a dead tree, or snag, northwest of Meziadin Lake between 2 p.m. and 3:20 p.m.on Jan. 13. Investigators believe the tree start- ing leaning toward him during the cut and when the faller tried to correct the problem, the tree fell into a stand of timber. The top of the tree then snapped and dropped back on the faller. Workers’ Compensation Board re- gional prevention manager Rick Hynes said there’s no indication that the fall- er did anything wrong. “The falling of snags is probably the most hazardous part of a faller’s job,” Hynes said last week. He added that the deceased had at least 10 years of experience as a faller and had been working as a day-rate faller, sub-contracting for a small busi- ness, at the time of the accident. Hynes said the WCB investigators collected pictures and tock measure- ments, and will collect statements from fellow workers in an altempt to narrow down what happened tater this week, “Obviously something went wrong while he was altempting to fall the tree, we just don’t know what as yet,” he said. 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