EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM LGH joins satellite network LIONS GATE Hospital officially plugged into Canada’s first national hospital satellite television service Wednesday morning. The North Vancouver hospital was one of 50 major health care facilities across Canada to sign on with the new HealthSat Network. LGH president Robert Smith said Wednesday he was impressed with the initial quality of the system. “I was quietly optimistic prior to its installation, now Iam quite positively optimistic.”’ — LGH president Robert Smith Dn “I was quietly optimistic prior to its installation, now I am quite positively optimistic,’’ he said. According to HealthSat chief executive officer Gary Howsam, the network has been set up ‘‘to build a long-term educational system that will improve the clinical and administrative abilities of professional staff in hospitals.’’ The network will initially trans- mit approximately two hours of programming per week aimed at physicians, surgeons, nurses, clini- cians, dentists, hospital phar- macists, administrators and other health care professionals. Its programraing will include live and pre-recorded educational pro- By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter grams, convention coverage, round-table discussions and ana- lytical forums. The system will also give LGH access to relatively low-cost in- service educational programs from the other member hospitals, com- panies involved in the health-care profession and from the network itself. LGH will share educational in- formation it produces with the network. The commercial-free system, which HealthSat plans to increase to 150 hospitals by 1991, is funded through government agencies and various private companies. Revenues are also generated from hospitals buying HealthSat programming. Smith said LGH will get two to three hours of free programming each week. The hospital is not obliged to purchase any set amount of additional programm- ing, and the hardware and satellite dish for the system is provided by HealthSat. Smith added that there were a lot of unknowns about the system at this point, such as what the ini- tial programming would be. But he said LGH was committed to providing educational services and options for its staff: ‘‘If it becomes a useful tool and the staff it, we will budget for North Shore fiim A NORTH Shore film production company’s application for $1.3 million in Telefilm Canada funding has been ac- cepted for a major Canadian motion picture chronicling the life of Canadian pioneer and adventurer Kootenai Brown. Gary Payne, principal of Kootenai Productions Inc., said Thursday he was elated by the ap- proval. “Im 10 feet off the ground. This is one of the most significant events of my career if not the most significant,’’ Payne said. The film, whose initial budget is approximately $2.7 million, will also receive funding from the Na- tional Film Board, B.C. Film Inc. and various investors. Kootenai Brown's script has been written by Governor Gener- By TIMOTHY RENSHAW } News Reporter al’s award-winning playwright John Gray in conjunction with Payne. And the film’s musical score, Payne said, will be written by three-time Genie Award winner Michael Conway Baker, who also lives on the North Shore. The film will be shot on location in B.C. and Alberta. Production is scheduled to begin in the spring of 3 - Sunday, THE CONGREGATION at North Lonsdale United Church are beaming with the installation of the first of four theme memorial windows in the church’s sanctuary. Pictured with the new stained gtass window are deft to right) craftsmen Andreas Mladek and Justin Campbell, memorial committee member Margaret Coy and North Lonsdale Rev. Don Faris. The window will be dedicated this morning (Sunday) at the 10:30 ser- vice. firm gets $171.3m brutal frontier life in the dwindling B.C. goldfields, Brown crossed the Rockies in search of gold in Alber- ta. He was attacked and seriously 1990. Payne, a former North Van- couver City alderman, said he has lived with the idea of doing a film about Brown since 1977, when he first stood by Brown's grave in Waterton Lakes National Park, but he has pursued the project continuously since 1987. “It is one of the best stories from Canadian history,’’ he said. John George ‘Kootenai’ Brown emigrated to North America in 1862 hoping to strike it rich in the goldfields of B.C. and thereby achieve his ambition of becoming a gentleman. But he and his plans ran headlong into the wild Canadian West. After surviving gunfights and wounded by Indians and later rescued by a group of Metis buf- falo hunters near the Waterton Lakes. After falling in love with a Metis woman, he became a_ buffalo hunter, a whisky trader and a lowlife wolfer before finally settl- ing in Alberta with his family. Brown was eventually appointed the first park ranger of Waterton Lakes National Park, which is located near the borders of B.C., Alberta and Montana. He died in 1916. N. Vancouver water centre move re-examined TENDERS RUNNING far above projected costs for a new multi-million dollar Greater Vancouver Regional District operations centre in Burnaby have resulted in a re-examina- tion of a planned move of the GVRD’s water control centre from its Beach Yard in North Vancouver to the new centre. The GVRD’s water and wasie committee decided last week that it needs more information from GVRD staff on why the tendered costs for the new $7.5 million operations centre are approximate- ly $2.3 million over original estimates. The new centre would amalgamate GVRD_ operations, currently in various outdated facil- ities, into one central location that would incorporate up-to-date technologies and be built to earth- quake standards. Watermains three from all GVRD reservoirs and some sewerage operations are currently controlled from the North Van- couver Beach Yard, which is located at the foot of Riverside Drive just east of Seymour River. The water centro! system has been in operation at the Beach Yard for the past 20 years. In addition to allowing for the computerization of the water con- trol system, its move to the new Burnaby operations centre would take the main contro! heart of Greater Vancouver’s fresh water supplies away from North Shore chemical industries near the Beach Yard. Some GVRD engineers have voiced safety concerns over having a water control centre so close to those industries in the event of a major disaster such as an earth- quake. GVRD staff are scheduled to provide information about the new operations centre costs at the Nov. 29 GVRD board of directors meeting. Gary Bannerman........ 9 Business ............. 27 Classified Ads..........54 Cocktails & Caviar......37 Comies................48 Editorial Page.......... & Fashion ............... 17 Horoscopes ............ 48 Bob Hunter............ 4 Lifestyles . Mailhox............... Sposts ...........066.+ 23 Trawel ................ 53 What's Going Gn........52 WEATHER Sunday, periods of rain. 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