“TERRACE —

' quests for support,-

‘move,

‘rejects —

~ call for sex
offender ban

The School
District: 88 board of trustees’de-
cided by-a one-vote margin not
to support another district’s

resolation’ to have convicted sex

-offenders banned from teaching.

- The i issue came up at the local .
board’s public meeting Jan. 9.A

_letter in the correspondence. sec-

tion of the agenda from School
District 38 . (Richmond), ad-
dressed to the B.C: College of
Teachers and_sent to all: school
boards in the province with re-
Tecom-
mended that the College ‘‘cancel

_ the certificates of qualification .
. of all teacher who are convicted

of sexual offense(s) under the.
Criminal Code’’.
Stewart trustee Kirsten Chap-
man moved to support the Rich-
mond position’ and was sec-
onded by Terrace trustee Lavern
Hislop, Delbert Morgan of Kit-

" ‘wanga was also in favor of the
“We should

saying,

speak up and support this.’’

Hazelton trustees Dunean Et-

ches. and -Val Napoleon | both:
spoke against the" motion, ‘with
Etches “arguing, ‘‘These cases
need to be considered on ait in-
dividual instead of a blanket
basis.’’. Napoleon added,’

“There is a lot mote We can do.

to’ effectively” ‘deal with this
issue. I would hesitate to pass a
motion of judgement on

something that is not ‘black and

white’.”’- Terrace trustee Eva
Daniels said she concurred with
Napoleon’s statement.

' When the question was called

. Terrace trustee’ Wayne Braid.

voted to oppose the motion, and
it was defeated 4-3.
The issue of teachers return-

‘ing to the profession after serv-

ing sentences for sexual offenses
recently gained prominence
when a teacher in Kelowna was
reinstated after a two-year
sentence for sexual misconduct.

Local youth dies
on visit to Africa

A Terrace family was shocked

last month to learn that their’

15-year-old daughter had died
suddenly during a visit to
Africa.

' Natel Jones died from an

’ allergic reaction to chloroquine,

a drug used to treat malaria. The
disease is widespread in Ghana,
the country she was visiting, due
to extensive flooding last year.
Natel’s father Rick Jones said in
an interview last week that Natel
was .rushed to a local medical
center when she became

Housing
need
analyzed

Preliminary work is beginning
for the establishment of a sup-
portive housing complex at Ter-
raceview Lodge, according to
Terrace Health Care Society
chief executive officer Michael
Leisinger.

. The project has the support of
Terrace city council but remain-

ed in limbo for several months.

while the transfer of designated

. park Jand to the society was:

‘sorted out by the Ministry of
Crown Lands. That barrier was
crossed last month and Leisinger
says he expects the necessary
paper work between the city and
Crown Lands will be completed
in about three to four months.

In the meantime, he says, the
society is determining the
numbers and client group the
project would serve, and when
that work has been completed
about mid-February they will be
ready to ask an architect to
begin preliminary drawings. The
supportive housing complex will
provide an interim step for

‘Northwest residents experienc-
ing some difficulty living on

. their own but who are not yet in
_ need of full time care,

nauseous after being given a
large dose of chloroquine. She
was then taken to a hospital in
Accra, the country’s capital city.

Chloroquine affects the portion.

of the brain that controls heart-

beat and breathing, and Natel .

suffered a cardiac arrest. She ap-
peared to be recovering, Jones
said, but just as she was about to
be released she had a second car-
diac arrest and died.

Natel had been in Ghana since
August to be with her aunt and
uncle, who were to work ona
hydroelectric project. She was
scheduled to come back to Ter-
race Jan. 2.

Terrace Review — Wednesday, January 17, 1990 A3

Following the signing of a proclamation
declaring January as ‘‘Alzheimer Awareness
Month’’, local librarian and Alzheimer support
group member Gillian Campbell shares some of
her knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease with alder-
man Danny Sheridan. Next week in the Terrace
Review, a local resident will explain why a
‘a awareness of this devastating disease is of

Alzheimer Awareness Month

‘such great importance. More than 300,000 Cana-
dians are affected by Alzheimer’s, now the
fourth leading cause of death in the older seg-
ment of our population. But the victim is not the
only sufferer. The lives of families, spouses and
friends are also thrown into turmoil when Alz-
heimer’s strikes. For more information, contact
Gillian Campbell at 635-3381 or 638-8177. |

“School District 88's newest
and smallest center of learning,
Meziadin Elementary School,
appears to be doing well. At the.
Jan. 9 board meeting, district
superintendent Frank Hamilton
told trustees that the classroom
and teacherage — both portable
buildings — are in place, teacher
Donna Lutz is moved in, and
classes are under way.

Stewart trustee Kirsten Chap-
man added that the community

WORKERS.

with Victims of Crime

‘hours per month.

welcome to apply.

| R.C.M.P.

Terrace and District
Victims Assistance Program

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

TVAP is presently accepting applications from
people interested in becoming VICTIMS SERVICE

Successful applicants will receive 30-40 hours of
training and must be R.C.M.P. Security Screened.

VICTIMS SERVICE WORKERS will deal directly

® acting as a liaison person between the Courts,
Police, Social Agencies and the Victim.

@ Candidates must be mature,
dividuals who possess strong inter-personal skills.
-@ be 19 years of age or older !

® be willing to make a committment to work 16

People of any and all ethnic backgrounds are

Interested persons should contact the TVAP Co-
ordinator, Karen Walker at 638-0333 or can pick
up an information. package from the Terrace |

responsible in-

is ‘‘very enthusiastic...
it’s a success.”

The school was set up to serve
18 students living at Elsworth, a
permanent logging camp oc-

so far,

New school running smoothly

cupied by employees of Orenda
Forest Products, Before the new
school was approved, the stu-
dents were attending school in
Stewart.

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