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The Glsiep: Sun sWetinesaey January 16, 1991 ‘Wednesday, January 16, 1991 The Castlegar Sun Page 3A;

Name: Tanya’

What you do there: Cashier
Castlegar likes: Fraser

Pet: Dog - Misty

Where you work: Shopper's Drug Mart

Castlegar dislikes: Drive from Trall

Best kept Castlegar secret: Lion's Head Pub

Vehicle: Chevy Truck
What would you rather be doing? Sui Suntanning on the

beaches of Australla.

Lions spearhead finidraising drive

By NANCY LINGLEY

of the current 15-

Sun Editor

The new Castlegar and District
Hospital extension is due to open
early in April and if the Castlegar
Selkirk Lions Club has its way,
and with the full support of the

bed eae term care unit who live at
the hospital fulltime now use the
public transit system. i

“But we're limited as far as the

‘ number of wheelchair residents we

can take,’ he noted, “The new bus
could be used for outings and

the of the
60-bed i F

hopping. It would give them more
i We have to book

and

care unit will have their own para-
transit bus at the same time.

“We're targeting for April when
the hospital opens its new long-
term care unit. We'll try our
damdest to have the bus here by
then if at all humanly possible,”
promised Lion Hugh Wilson,
chairman of the bus steering
committee which hopes to raise the
necessary $60,000 for the project
in record time.

public transit and they're limited to
the numbers they can carry, The
residents would have a lot more-
freedom.”

The Lions Club became
involved in the bus project when
they were approached by Merv
Rush of the Hospital Society.

“The Lions had been searching
around, for, some community
projects to do other than the Trade
Fair which we do annually,”

The bus, a type vehicle,
will be equipped to carry
wheelchairs and passengers and
will also be fitted with a
wheelchair lift to facilitate ease of
loading and unl

lai Wilson. “This came
along and we thought it would be
nice if we could spearhead it. The
club was quite enthusiastic to get
involved in it. We're hoping to get

Wilson. x,
Castlegar and District Hospital
Administrator Ken Talarico said

other and clubs and

d individ

involved.
In fact, the Lions were so

enthusiastic that they kicked off
the fund with a $2,500 donation of
their own,

And. a second organization has
already come on board.

The Royal Canadian Legion
Branch 170 has pledged $10,000 to
the bus from its bingo funds.

“Another organization has come
in with us, and hopefully another
will as well,” said Wilson. “With
such a short time span, it would be
nice if we could approach other
organizations. We hope this big
Legion donation will spur them
on.”

‘The Lions are also looking into
the possibility of grants including a
provincial lottery grant anda
federal. grant from. Transport
Canada to help with the cost, but,
“we're looking fcr grants to apply
for, but once into the bureaucracy,
we don't know if it’s possible to
get it in time,” said Wilson.

The club is also looking for help
in the form of bodies. ‘

“We need manpower as well,”
said Wilson,

“We're looking at various
options for fundraising which may

include things like radio orTV .

bingo, a casino night, raffles.
There are a lot of things in the
wind, that we as a club would be
spread pretty thin if we tried to'do
it all ourselves.”

Anyone who is interested in
helping in any way may contact
any of the committee members:
Hugh Wilson at 365-2185; Leo
Plamonden at 365-3067; Bob
Soreneson at 365-5993; or Steve
Jenkola at 365-7039.

The Lions Club and the
Castlegar Sun will attempt to co-
ordinate fundraising events so that
they will receive media coverage

and photos of donations to the fund °

will appear weekly in the Sun
adjacent to the Bus PrOpsess,

* Report on page 4.

There is no doubt in Wilson’ 8
mind that the community and the
club will come through. .

“I feel that the Castlegar Selkirk
Lions Club, from past performance
and dedication to the community,
can put this together ina short time
with the community's help,” said

“Wilson, “The community. has

always been behind us.”

Ootischenia fire protection in place by June

Last remaining unprotected residential area to receive pumper.truck by end of the week

By NANCY LINGLEY
Sun Editor

Chairman Larry Bosse.
There was an attempt to
ion of the area in

Ootischenia is the only res-
idential area of high density in the
Castlegar area that does not have
fire protection as of yet, but that is
about to change.

The oO h Fire

1986 when the Kootenay Douk-
hobour Historical Society agreed
to put up $20,000 in seed money
for a budget that could be feasible
as the Sosy was having trouble

Commission was formed on
March 26, 1990, and the fire
protection service should be in
service, * "we hope by June 1, or

for their
museum said Bosse. But at that
time, the tax base of the area was
too small to support such a
venture,

“Robson Fire Department has
been covering lower Ooticschenia
to approximately mid-airport since
1986 when that area was set up as
an extension of their territory,
“added Bosse,

Based on a tax base of 214
improved properties, the matter
went to referendum again on Aug.
11, 1990, and was passed by a
margin of 92 per cent.. vires

Since. that. time, property
donated by. the Union of, Spiritual
Communities of Christ has been

nozzles, and breathing apparatus.

The Ootischenia Volunteer Fire
Department will protect an area
extending to Upper Paulson up the
highway as far as the gas station at
Selkirk Springs to part of West
Robson towards the pulp mill said
the Commission an,

Curently the fledgling
department is a dozen strong. -

“We have about 12 active
volunteers who go out to Robson
on Mondays and Pass Creek on
Tuesdays for practice,” said Bosse.
“We're about eight short, though.
We'd like to have about 20
firefighters."

He added that "firefighters"
included women. Anyuone who is
interested in joining the department
¥ Ay to call the Acting Chief

ill Hadikin at 365-6370.

te Commission itsele i is S also

short a member.
ae Thesis

“Possibly somebody from Upper
Paulson or West Robson would be
nice. ‘Anyone’ who is interested can
call Ken Wyllie."

‘The Commission is eligible for |

a Go BC grant of 50 per cent of the
cost of the firehall building up to

$100,00.

idling has been costed
out at $120,00, only half of that
amount, or $60,000 needs to be
raised in the community. T h e
Ootischenia Fire Commission is
expecting to collect a tax
deductible donation of $100 from
the owners of each improved lot
and $50 from the owners of each
vacant lot within the protection
area.

“And that's a minimum,”
stressed Bosse. “Everyone should
feel. free to givemore because
every dollar goes towards the
building: and: the up:

Chairman Bosse; Jack Kinakin,
who also serves as Chariman of

d from the Agricul

the Ootisch Water Board;

Land Reserved and rezoned to
the fi. The

Howard Bondaroff; George

Cc ission has also p da

and upper Paulson
Patrick Nekleva

2,000 gallon tanker truck that is
still in need of retrofitting for the
purposes of firefighting and
apumper truck has been purchased
from Vancouver which should
arrive at the end of the week said
Bosse. Some equipment purchases
have also been made with the
Vancouver truck such as hoses,

-Teplacement,”

were nominated by RDCK Area J
Director Ken Wyllie and were
inted the RDCK Board of
Directors. at its regular March
meeting.
Patrick Nekleva recently
resigned from the Commission.
"We're looking for a
said Bosse.

swill itisorit's
worth two dollars.

“Any equipment that is not
absolutely necessary right now can
be purchased over the years with
the operating budget. The
important thing is to get the
building up and completed as
quickly as possible.”

The firefighters will have the
newly purchased pumper truck out
and about as soon as it arrives to
show residents what they have
purchased and they will be more
than happy to accept those tax
deductible donations said Bosse.

tyvou bawd

i Fire

Continued from 1A

approximately 140 pounds. Oglow
estimated that a man’s medium
sized clothing would fit him and
reiterated that he was looking fora
Place to live.

The rental home that Dow
occupied in Ootischenia burned to
the ground as spectators watched
helplessly.

The Ootischenia area has no
fire protection although a fire
commission has been formed and a
fire department is being formed
and is expected to be in place by
this June.

Other puilying areas around
Cc d by their

and/or Robson stations protecting
the Thrums area said Schmidt. He
added that the only unprotected
areas are Ootischenia and
“whatever might be to the west in
that unorganized area. There's also
the airport fire department, but it's

wa fie depaitmicurs:
Pass Creek, Robson, and
Tarrys all man volunteer fire

departments, with the Tarrys

to airport prop
However, if there was a threat of
serious injury they certainly would
come out as would the other fire
departments,”

& Astrologer

Continued from 1A

“In the month of Febmary the
planet Satum will be going into
Aquarius, which is ruled by
Uranus,” he said. “And human

‘rights, will be of much bigger

meer.”
The- astronomical event, he

© “Jronically, this ‘need for
brotherhood has in the past found
violent expression in the past.
When’ Uranus, the’ ruler of

~ revolutions,
Despite the Eeabate impulse
OF: universal | r brotherhood,

Revolution (1787) and the War
for Independence in the Am-
erican colonies which started with
the famous Declaration of
Independence i in 1776 and ended,
in 1783, with the Treaty of Paris
whereby the rebellious

Lodge.”
F —a tive if

before his recent arrival in the

not wholly secret

K he taught classes in
ics and is ing to

claims: to. posses hidden
knowledge and supernatural
guidance ve human affairs. Its
in esoteric

won independence as the new
United States,
Interestingly enough, some

modern historiane are h

Christian and Jewish traditions,
but both.
_ As Biasio tells it, the

to look for spiritual and even
as an impetus

kind is coming (inte

continue such teaching in this area,
“The power needs to go back to
the individual,” he said. “The
problem is the power is:still in too
few hands.” .
Communication will be vital for
people to move into the Age of

Aquorine, he said,

ion of greater p

~at > dep ds: on

power, t not unlike the p

for those freed:

British authors Michael Baigent
and Richard Leigh, for instance,
claim that Freemasonry helped to
shape the ideals underlying the

d in the esoteric teachings.
Sometimes, this power will
dictate the outcome of events, he
suggested.
“Tt 8 just that ‘people aren't

War for Indep in the
colonies.

_ “Without cighteenth-century :
the

»" be said.
“You have your own free will.
That’: 8 why older predictions are

at the
very heart of the conflict —
liberty, equality, brotherhood,

tolerance, the ‘rights of. man’.— :

would not have had the currency
they did,” they state inja 1990
ook,

.

“The Temple and the >

people. are
taking back U the power.”

Biasio says that in his personal
counselling sessions with clients,
he teaches them how to reclaim
the personal power.

In Victoria, where he: lived”

ity has leamed anything,”
said Biasio who calls himself a
“spiritual teacher. “The issue
around Israel needs to be

; addressed. And I think it will.”

Some astrologers point out that
US. President George Bush is only
the second Gemini in the White
House, after John Kennedy, who in

‘bis presidential term, had brought

the world to a war-in Cuba in the
Cuban Missile. Crisis. But Biasio
says conflict was ripe, no matter

© what the astrological signs.

i BOR are re. being involved,”
*aggravatin ig the

Ng

conflict, he said in”

reference to the current power
struggle in the Gulf.

“Right now they’re making him
a martyes he said of Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein.

“They're making him strong.

It’s very unfortunate.

Biasio said he’s hopeful about
the Gulf crisis resolving itself
without armed conflict, regardless

power struggle.”

Adding i irony to an apocalyptic
scenario is the the fact that Iraq is
geographically located in what
used to be ancient Sumer, the
cradle of the civilization.

And people are funny when it
comes. to disaster, the astrologer
noted.

“There are some people who

‘will welcome a release th

of the totel solar aclinse
to occur the day after the Jan. 15
deadline set for Iraq to pull out of
Kuwait. ,

Eclipses have been long

regarded to predict wars and other
catastrophe:

8. 3

Adding to fears at this time are
the age-old millenial prophesies —
of a final world war starting i ina

aie Svsaid Biasio.
Regrettably, he 'said;“the world
relates still i in the old ways to the

seems,
: a war would clear up the air.” :

wan" he said.

“After the San Francisco
earthquake, for example, some
people were saying, “Wow, hat a
nice release."

Biasio said as strange as it
“part of the people feel that

Biasio, who lives in the North

_ Shore area of Nelson , that he had

thought for some time about

“making his home in the Kootenay:

“have heard’a lot about the
Kootenays. I always said, * one

uy ind that one day suddenly

Red Cross prep

By BARBARA TANDORY

Sun staff writer

Only last week regional Red
Cross director Gary Ockenden was
embarking on a campaign to raise
money for the African famine
rellef fundraising campaign bere
in the Kootenays, These days, he’s
involved through his job with
Preparations for a war in the Per-
sian Gulf. And Ockenden fears be
himself may be called upon to Red
Cross international duty in the
Middle Hast if the feared war
breaks out. Ockenden spent a year
in Sudan, in 1986, assisting with

tion already has workerg in sever-
al areas in the Persian Gulf.
+: The effort, if necessary, would

Some 500 international Red
Cross workers are required,
_, Meanwhile, Ockenden feels the
in Africa

ares for Gulf crisis

one $2,000 private donation.

“It really depends on what hap-
pens in the Middle East,” he
d. “If a war breaks out it

be geared toward the Canadi
military in the Gulf. This means
blood, first of all, but also assis-
tance to refugees and displaced
persons, as well as establishing
contacts to muke communications
with b
there and their relatives here.
Guided by Iraq's stated inten-
tion of attacking Israel in the first
line of offense, the Red Cross net-
work is also its

ds urgent
aioe in Ethiopia, Sudan,
Liberia and Angola.

“A combination of severe
drought and civil conflict has
resulted in about 20 million people
facing starvation this winter” in

those countries,” Ockcuden said in .

a recent press release in an attempt
to appeal for x money donations

through the
i ae > the Red Cross

attention there,
“If you had relatives in Israel,

the Ethiopian and
famine relief in those areas,

“I actually worked in similar
situations,” he noted,

Since then, he bas married and
has two children,

“I'm going to be called, proba-
bly,” be said in an interview from
his Castlegar office Friday. “My
.pame is on the list.”

Preparations for the conflict
have already begun.

“We. have a system set up for
transporting blood Products to the
Canadian personnel in the Gulf,”
Ockenden said, noting that the

Red Cross

in ap

area,”’Ock- .

taay be made locally or to the
regional office at 625 Columbia
Avenue in Castlegar.

Ock asked that i

enden said by way of an
“and couldn’t reach them, Red
Cross is setting up a communica-
tion network for that eventuality.”
Red Cross is already in Jordan,
where people have fled after the
Iraqi invasion, and also in Egypt,
Turkey and Pakistan.
Ockenden received notice of
intemational Red Cross plans for
” war Friday.
“Lists are being determined
today,” he said Friday afternoon.
ae re establishing a list of Cana-

be marked “African Relief.”

“The Red Cross guarantees that
100 per cent of each donation will
be used for African Relief and that
none of the funds will be used for
administrative costs,” he said in
the release.

In the interview with the
Castlegar Sun, Ockenden noted
that a Red Cross i drive

would be pretty hard to capture
people's attention on other areas,”

The Red Cross, however, will
continue its efforts in Africa,
“Even though public attention has
not been focused at this time,
there’s a major crisis looming in
Africa, Ethiopia and Sudan are
two of the worst.”

Ockenden said there's also
some concern that a war in the
Middle East may interfere with the
Red Cross relief in Africa.

“Both of those countrie's sea-
ports will be closed if a war breaks
out, be pointed out. “It would be
difficult to reach them.”

A Red Cross offer to Iraq to

WEATHER,

I . uv i
The forecast for Wednesday -
.morning fog patches, cloudy with
sunny breaks. A 40% chance of a
shower or: morning flurry. Highs
will be near 3. Thursday and Friday sees a weak high
pressure system providing fairly dry conditions while ‘a
westerly flow aloft maintains mild temperatures.

4.2/13

Rain

Precipitation:

215 cm.

Number of

provide h
has not been accepted because of
the conditions attached.

The Canadian Red Cross Soci-
ety, Kootenay Region, serves the
area from the Alberta border to
d and from the U.S, bor-

for victims of the Phillipines
earthquake a few years ago had
received an unexpectedly good
local Several tt

der to Golden. Headquartered i in
it

wi acorps of volunteers,
ions can be made at 625

who'd be
oa go on short notice.”

of dollars were donated, i

365-3911.

Columbia

"Airplanes aren't falling out of the sky'

By BARBARA TANDORY

‘Sun staff writer

Department of Transport is
responding, in this time of
int, to provide a more cost-

Amidst a ing
all was quiet atop the control
tower at Castlegar Airport last
‘Wednesday, not only because bliz-
zard conditions have stopped all
aircraft traffic for the day.,

For Ken McTaggart and his
Flight Service Specialists staff in
the tower this is a quiet time after
a storm of controversy that sur-
Tounded the transition this winter
from an air traffic control opera-
tion to an flight services operation.

“People are finding out that
wthere is no problem,” FSS manag-
er McTaggart said. “Pilots are
finding out that there’s no prob-
lem. They find out that airplanes
aren’t falling out of the sky.

tcrMoTaggart feels ;the issue had:

been blown out of proportion, by.
local governments and by the
media.

“What it is really,” he
explained, “is that the (federal)

FEEDBACK

By NANCY LINGLEY

service.”

Defending the federal govern-
ment agency's decision Jast sum-
mer to close the tower operations
because of low aircraft move-
ments; McTeggart said the

going to fly out of Castlegar?”

The rumors were “irresponsi-
ble,” McTaggart said.

Since the transition — the
flight service specialists moved.
Officially into the control tower
Dec. 12 — the services have
remained virtually the same, if not
better, he suggested.

»” he said, “Our

of T: port is a
pat of pilots, very knowledge-
able (who) determine the volume
of traffic.”

As throughout the entire pro-
cess when the fate of the tower
,Was uncertain — from the fall of
1989 to the fall of 1990 — the
flight service specialists maintain
that there was no cause for public
concern for safety, and even less
so for panic.

“There were a lot of rumors
started,” McTaggart noted: “Peo-
ple thought the..airport was- going
to be closed — it was not. They
thought the tower would be unoc-
cupied — it isn’t. I had people
come up to me'and ask, ‘How am I

service is enhanced, and safety is
enhanced to a certain extent.”
Now that the Regional District

allocation of services at Castlegar

Hours

0.0

A LOOK BACK AT THE PAST WEEK:
Temperature: Max/Date —Min/Date

1413/7

Snow.

26.4cm. 47.7cm.

Mean Normal

Mean
3.9 5.2

Total Normal

Total
24.9 cm.

Normal Number
of Hours

32.3

REMARKS: A dull week with a series of systems mov-
ing inland from the Pacific bringing well above normal
precipitation. A gradual shift from a northwesterly to a
westerly flow Monday through Thursday. With the west- |
erly flow temperatures rose each day and snow
changed to rain by late Friday. Whitewater ski area,
Kootenay Pass and other highway routes were closed
on and off through the weekend due to avalanches, |
associated with strong winds and 'wet" snow..
Forecast provided by

The South - East Interior Weather Office
at Castlegar, B.C.

airport,

Ken Wyllie, Area J i 1
director to the RDCK board, said
he’s still convinced that the loss of
air traffic controllers was a bad
decision, ¢

“They (in the federal govern-
ment) downgraded the airport and
I feel that it will have an effect on
safety,” he said. “The way the
gov (people) id d

of Central Kootenay board has has
lost its court challenge and
dropped any further legal in an
attempt to have the closure over-
ruled, McTaggart feels that his
assertions of safety have been vin-
dicated,

He said airport safety never
was an issue in the ‘dispute. “The

concems raised ‘about safety were:

ly a lobbying

done by the various. unions:

involved,” he suggested. “I can’
assure you that there’s absolutely
no compromise in safety in the re-

— and in my view,
they deliberately misled the public
— tells me that they’ll never be
persuaded (to reverse the decision)
at this stage. I don't expect they'll
ever reconsider.”

Wyllie said when the regional
district lost its lawsuit in federal
court in November, that was the
end of it. “Any further legal action

3ig really a deadissue,” >...

Castlegar. Mayor,

{sald’she wasn't aware of any pub-
lic concerns over safety since the
transition. But she noted: “Except
that I heard that some people are
unhappy with the way Transport
Canada handled it.”

Another former critic of the

(Audrey Moore...

federal decision, Castlegar Alder-
man Lawrence Chernoff, said
“there hasn’ t been any public
” to the

changes i in the tower.

“T think the transition has gone
really well,” said Chemoff.

Transport Canada has spent
$1.2 million to expand the flight
services station in the former con-
trol tower. Vacated by the staff of
six air traffic controllers, it now
serves a staff of seven flight safety
specialists, stationed before in the
main airport building.

The control tower is now called
the airport tower, but other

changes are minimal, McTaggart _
stressed.

yen ditters
In additional to talking

in the air, the flight service spe-

cialists control all vehicle move-

ments on the ground, including

snow plows, brief pilots and do all

the surface weather observing.

“Surprisingly enough, it’s not
the weather office that provides
the surface observing program but
the FSS,” he said and added that
relations with the airport weather
office have been “ very cordial.” -

McTaggart said “all the weather
in Castlegar” is under the control
of the FSS and has been for some
fourteen years.

“We were the original service
here,” he said. “Our original orga-
nization was (located) in Crescent
Valley, about 1968, and operated a
radio range station as a communj-
cation link with overhead aircraft
flying across Canada.”

The FSS’s hours of operations
remain the same as before, from

None of the six traffic con-
trollers lost jobs in the transition
but were transferred to other air-
ports in the country.

Sun Editor

The B.C. Ambulance Service is staffed primarily by persons who,
although they are paid by the call, volunteer a great deal of personal
Sef a to attend to the health‘and well-being of others.

are two fullti paid emp! at the C: Station,
Unit it Chief D David Martin and Lawrence Chernoff. There are also 19
part time people with “O; 402”, the C; sta-
tion. These part-timers often put in many hours above and beyond the
call of duty.

Sun Editor Nancy Lingley spent several hours with Unit Chief
David Martin recently discussing the ins and outs of the B.C. Ambu-
iance Service and the dedication of those who serve.

eee

The B.C. Ambulance Service draws from a wide spectrum of the popu-

lation for its volunteer attendants. There are certain requirements that
must be met, though, 2

“The prerequisites for someone who comes in off the street are that
they have a Class 4 B.C. Driver's License, a valid Industrial First Aid

Ticket, and be in good physical health. Part of our screening Process’
includes a criminal records search and a reference checklist of previous:

employers.

“Of the people we have with us now, some are unemployed, some are. §

students attending college, and the majority have regular fulltime jobs. It’s
a part of their community service to belong to the ambulance crew and
heip in that manner. And they do this in addition to their fulltime require-
ments. Six of our 19 part time people are women.

“As a Unit Chief, I schedule a “call list” every 16 days. I look at who's

available when and select crews accordingly.

“We also, from time to time, use probably another four people from
other stations, such as Rossland or Salmo, so they can get more experi-
ence from the higher call volume. This station did about 1,170 calls last
year. Smaller stations like Salmo or Rossland get approximately'100 calls
per year. You'd have to be on call a lot to hit them all.

“Today, we're full of people, but people move a lot, students move on
to bigger schools. Anyone who is interested.could stop by and leave'an
application. The applications are left on file, of course.

“It (ambulance attendant) takes up a lot of time between training, vol-
unteer services, call schedules and education courses.

“It requires a definite commitment from anyone who is interested.”

The training agency for ambulance attendants is the Justice Institute of
B.C, The first course taken is the EMA I (Emergency Medical Assistant
Level I) which covers all of the basics including driving ii ion, More

detail and more sophisticated equipment is covered in the EMA Il course.

“With the training system in place, a patient should be able to get the
same care anywhere in the province. An EMA I is an EMA I no matter
where you are, it’s all the same course.

. “The last couple of years a lot of new developments have come on. In
this profession we have what's called the Critical Incident Stress period.
Some forms are ii pp some not so i
Maybe someone’s been out too much or been on call too much or
responded to an incident that totally wiped them out emotionally. There is
now a system of ncer debriefing to assist locally with any who is experi-
encing Critical Incident Stress. It’s also seen in hospitals who have a simi-
lar Program in place. It’s good to see it happening from my point of view.
That's just one example of the self-help type of things that have been

Started.

There are four types of calls: medical calls, any type of call where
force is not applied (ie. shortness of breath, chest pain, etc.) comprise
about 25 per cent; frauma calls, hes applied i in some manner — motor
vehicle i ly 10. per cent; ANU calis
(ambulance not used) not needed 0 or r cancelled on the way, another 10 per
cent; and the bulk of the calls, about 55 per cent are for patient. transfers

; |. from'one medical facility to another or to or from an air evacuation. Part-

time attendants that are called out are paid by the Lour for a minimwun of
four hours for the call plus 15 per cent in lieu of benefits. But the unpaid
ighs the. paid time for the staff. 2

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3 «We try to practice once every two weeks. Asmany as eanmake it We

discuss administration stuff, policy changes, practice check lists, review
treatments of specific types of problems, and things like that.

“Also an EMA I is only good if the person has a valid Industrial First
Aid Ticket and those need to be kept up-to-date on a regular basis.

“Periodically the Justice Institute publishes modules on Specific topics,
such as pedi: — the current
one is Level I Driving — and we study those.

“Each crew is for Keeping t them
clean, and doing vehicle safety checks, making sure everything works.

In addition to all the job-related duties, volunteer staffing is also a time
conswning part of the job.

“In 1990, 712-1/2 manhours were volunteered by the crews for non-
B.C. Ambulance Service events. They donate a large number of volunteer
hours towards community events — sports competitions, all the cars were
at the Silver City Boat races and the Sunfest Drag Boat races and we had
attendants on the water in rescue boats. That's over and above their com-
mitment to the service to the cars on a volunteer basis.

“I'm more than pleased with their commitment and dedication. With-
out that we wouldn't be able to offer what we offer as far as the extra
hours are concemed.

“Their commitment to do the very best they can do for their Patients to
the best of their abilities and also their willingness to put in extra time a
no pay — for those two reasons, commitment and dedication, each and
every one deserves recognition.” ae {