6 - The Prince George Citizen - Thursday, June 29, 2000 _ Province The Biggest Little Brewery GREAT BIG CONCERT Peter Blishen and I -• Jan-Leigh Fleck of Pacific \ ■ Western Brewery present Christine Wilderman with four > tickets to the Guess Who Concert, The ticket were won compliments of Pacific Western Brewery. pwbrewing.com Union accuses ICBC of hiding information Southam Newspapers VANCOUVER — The union that represents ICBC workers says the Crown corporation wants to quash its attempts to uncover more embarrassing secrets. The Office and Professional Employees International Union found out last week through a freedom of information request that ICBC’s top bosses got wage increases averaging 34% this year. OPEIU officials say they were only able to find that out after 12 requests were made since February. A day after the union got wind of the wage hikes, a Victoria law firm acting on behalf of the Insurance Corp. of B.C. filed an application with the privacy commissioner to ban any further releases of information. OPEIU president Jerri New said ICBC is just trying to avoid any further disclosures. “They are using whatever legal loopholes they can find to try and avoid getting us any information,’’she said. “I think they’re viewing us as being a bit of a nuisance. But our view is that not only should they be accountable to their employees but they should be held accountable to the public as well.” In addition to the wage hikes, the union has been trying to get any information on plans to break up the Crown corporation. She called on ICBC minister Joy MacPhail to intervene. ICBC spokesman Hal Wake said the application was filed in response to a number of “large and unwieldy” requests made by the union. He said the Crown corporation just wants to streamline the process and make it efficient and reasonable. Late yesterday he said the union has agreed to an offer from ICBC to meet and try to sort out their differences. Wake said ICBC has already spent 338 hours pouring over 10,000 pages of documents in response to the union’s requests and expects to spend another 350 hours in the future. “I think they’re viewing us as being a bit of a nuisance.” Minister’s Advisory Council on Women’s Health The Hon. Mike Farnworth. Minister of Health and Minister Responsible for Seniors, invites applications for appointment to the Advisory Council. The Ad\ isory Council gives women a greater voice in health care policy and delivery and provides advice to the Minister. Interested individuals should provide a letter with reasons for seeking appointment along with a resume or biography outlining relevant experience, including references. The Government of British Columbia selects qualified individuals while ensuring that advisory councils reflect the diversity of our province. Forward applications no latei than July 24, 2000 to: BC Ministry of Health Women’s Health Bureau 5-1, 1515 Blanshard St. Victoria BC V8W 3C8 For further information call Anne Speer (250) 952-2237 SMC34876 ^British Columbia Ministry of Health and Ministry Responsible for Seniors NOTICE Attention Northern Hardware and Furniture Customers We will be Fish farms hurting wild stocks: report VANCOUVER (CP) — Fish farms around the world contribute to the global collapse of wild fish stocks and could actually deplete world food supplies instead of improving them, says a research article to be published today. An article in the British scientific journal Nature lists habitat destruction, disease, pollution, the invasion of non-native species and an unsustainable demand for fish-based farm feed as reasons salmon farms a liability for keeping up with a growing human population’s demand for food. The article was written by an international team of fisheries scientists, economics and aquaculturists who spent several years conducting their research, said lead author Roz Naylor, an economist at Stanford University in California. Although Naylor and her co-researchers examined aquaculture from a global perspective, she said the team’s findings pertain to British Columbia’s salmon-farming industry. In particular, researchers found that it takes 1.4 kilograms of fish meal to put 450 grams of flesh on to a farmed salmon. Fish meal is derived from catches of smaller, less valuable species such as herring and mackerel which would otherwise be available to wild salmon and other species that predate upon them in the ocean. Man wins $6M injury lawsuit Southam Newspapers VANCOUVER — An up and coming Vancouver photographer who developed symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease after being struck by a van has won the largest ever personal injury lawsuit against B.C.’s provincial auto insurer. A Vancouver jury awarded Dan Heringa $6,018 million this week after a four-week trial where lawyers argued the condition arose from head injuries sustained in the accident. Lawyers for the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia plan to appeal. Heringa is too emotionally drained to give interviews. PET HOTEL — Lisa Hollenberg of the Pacific Palisades Hotel in Vancouver, pets the hotel's robotic dog ‘Pal’. The dog, made by Sony, was purchased for $3,000 U.S. to promote the hotel and its policy of allowing guests to stay with their pets. B.C. IN BRIEF CLOSED SATURDAY, JULY 1 st and SUNDAY, JULY 2nd so our staff can enjoy the “Canada Day” Weekend Sorry for any inconvenience Thank You HARDWARE & FURNITURE Man gets 8 years for killing cabbie: VANCOUVER (CP) — A Winnipeg man was sentenced! Wednesday to eight years in prison for fatally stabbing a* Vancouver cab driver during a botched robbery after he was! refused welfare. Kory Kives, 23, a nephew of K-Tel Interna-* tional president Philip Kives, was earlier convicted of! manslaughter in the March 1999 slaying of Mehdi Naqvi.* Kives has already spent 15 months in custody awaiting trial.! The victim’s widow left B.C. Supreme Court saying she is* bitterly disappointed with the sentence. ! Hundreds of fish found dead CRANBROOK (CP) — Conservation officers are investi-! gating what caused hundreds of fish to die in a local creek. * Conservation officer Ken McLennan said he identified! close to 300 dead eastern brook trout and west slope cut-* throat trout in Joseph Creek. “We’re in the process of trying! to determine the cause,” McLennan said. ; B.C. Hydro made $60M In four days'. VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. Hydro has reaped a record* $60 million windfall profit over four days by selling excess! electricity to Americans sweltering in a heatwave in the] western United States. Now Hydro employees say they want! a share of the unexpected profit and are demanding the Crown corporation raise wages. With power supplies dipping low across the United States,* B.C. Hydro has been able to sell electricity at wildly fluctuating prices that have risen more than 1,000 per cent in the past month. In May, Hydro was selling electricity at $76 US a unit of one megawatt hour. On Wednesday, the selling price soared at one point to $1,400. Comox man killed in crash MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Two Canadians involved in a fatal Montana crash were identified Wednesday as David Nicklin and Katherine Marie of Comox, B.C. Nicklin, 56, was killed at the scene and Marie was critically hurt and hospitalized at Missoula after their sport utility vehicle rolled six kilometres east of Superior, Mont. Tbesday. British Columbia Paraplegic Association BC Paraplegic Association would like to thank Pine Valley Golf Centre and the ladies who participated in the 3rd Annual Ladies Charity Golf Tournament held on June 25,2000 Thank You to BC Rail and Sandman Hotel Downtown Vancouver for supplying our door prizes of a trip for 2 to Vancouver won by Mary Hunter. Thank you to Signco who donated the sponsorship signs. We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the following businesses who sponsored our tournament. 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