Lorna Copeland, who is leaving her post as administrator of the Terrace and District Community Services Society, an- nounced last week that her successor will be Detlef Beck. After months of searching, the Terrace and District Com- munity Services Society an- nounced last week that Detlef Beck, a resident of Kitimat, will succeed Lorna Copeland as the agency’s administrator. Beck will take over August 29, when Copeland leaves Terrace per- manently to join her family in Prince George, Beck has lived in the North- west since 1955, is a graduate of UBC, operated a business in Kitimat, and has worked for both Alcan and Eurocan. He has also served as an alderman on Kitimat municipal council. and - as.a director for the Kitimat- Stikine Regional District. Copeland and Beck announc- ed his appointment in a joint in- terview late last week. Beck told the Terrace Review that his ex- perience in local government has given him ‘‘a good understand- ing of the system’’, a factor that Copeland concurred is a critical qualification. for the job. The agency, with 125 employees and: a budget in excess of $2 million annually, operates programs on a contract basis for various arms of the government. . Until his appointment as in- coming TDCSS° administrator, Beck was program director for Project Interconnect, an agency program that upgrades employ- | Extra cut for small loggers Small forest businesses will ‘now have'more opportunity for growth and. expansion, says Forests Minister and Skeena MLA Dave Parker, due to an amendment to the Forest Act and a new small business forest enterprise regulation. Parker said the amount of timber available under the Small Business Forest Enterprise Pro- gram has been doubled in size and now makes up about 15 per- cent of the province’s allowable annual cut, ' Graeme Hynd, Timber Of- ficer for the Prince Rupert Forest, Region, says the changes mean an even greater increase in logging in the Northwest. Hynd states that logging contractors working under. the small business program in.the Kalum Forest District. currently cut 258,000 cubic meters of timber. . But with the amendment, an ad- ditional 78,000 cubic meters (about 30 percent more) of timber will be available for sale. He said the additional timber was made available last November when major forest companies lost five percent of their allowable annual cut under the new forest policy. Parker says the changes will also ‘‘promote and encourage” secondary manufacturing such as the production of furniture, doors and windows. ‘“We’ve in . troduced ‘bid proposals’,”’ plains Parker, ‘‘which are a new type of timber sale under the program to promote secondary manufacturing. We want to en- courage the best business pro- posals which involve additional - mariufacturing’ and therefore, bid proposals will not be used to support primary sawmills.” Parker says the new policy will create greater competition for small business sales, and in- creased wood processing will open up new job opportunities in the remanufacturing sector. He adds that the ministry has also established a Small Business Forest’ Enterprise Account which will receive timber sales revenues to. finance forest regeneration and additional timber sales. ‘This new account - provides the mechanism to man- age the expanded program,”’ ex- plains Parker, ‘‘The public will receive a dividend at the end of each fiscal year from the excess of revenues over expenditures.’’ DOORS OPEN AT 4:30 P.M. - Terrace’s Bingo Place — _ Lucky Dollar Bingo Palace SUNDAY: Terrace Athletics. Assn. MONDAY: Terrace Minor Hockey 4818 Hwy. 16 West TUESDAY: Kermodes or Jaycees | WEDNESDAY: Terrace Blueback Swim club | THURSDAY: 747 Air Cadets. | Ladies of the Royal Purple. ; FRIDAY: Parapelegic Assn. SATURDAY: Parapelegic Foundation Regular ‘Games EVERYONE WELCOME! (Age 14 years and up) Extra Games Thank youl Have a Nice dayl ment skills for people having difficulty getting into the workforce and matches them up with potential employers. Beck — _ remarked that his new position seems suitable in view of his in- terest in people and economic development as an influence in the ‘‘wellness’’ of communities. “It fits right in,’’ he said. As part of the handover, Beck and Copeland summarized the agency’s focal points for the ap- proaching year. They recently vacated their headquarters at 4530 Lakelse Ave. and moved into the lower floor at city hall. Copeland said the two alternate secondary school programs — the Terrace Alternate Program and New Horizons — _ that TDCSS operates for School District 88 will move into the building in September, She ex- pressed hope that the higher visibility location will generate more public interest and greater appreciation of the options pro- vided for students by the two _ programs. Hemlock House, one of the agency’s residential homes for mentally handicapped children, is slated for replacement this year due to an increase in clientele, Copeland said one need in the region she would like the TDCSS to address is early in- tervention and long-term followup ‘to help children with mental disabilities and learning - disorders. She said that although | the present system provides help at several levels, there is not enough continuity as children grow older and move from one program to another. Family counselling to prevent problems in the child’s growing years would be an integral part of the approach. Completion of the respite home for mentally handicapped children was one of the agency’s major projects this year, and ‘ Copeland .personnel in - ‘Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 2 24, 1988 15 ~ New Community § Services administrator chosen Copeland noted that a recent ex- periment to introduce physically handicapped children into the home had been successful, That raises the possibility of setting up programs under contract to the Ministry of Health, and indicated that a pediatric long-term care resource may be part of the agency’s future. The TDCSS programs are in a continuous state of review, and Copeland said she thinks the time has come to take an in- depth look at the agency’s staff and personnel development. *‘We’ve reached the limit of our terms of expansion,”’ she stated. Beck acknowledged that the availability of skilled people is a problem for the agency, as it is’ for other professionally-staffed organizations in the north. He commended Northwest Com- munity College for their cooperation in establishing pro- grams to provide the TDCSS with a pool of trained local peo- ple to draw on. Despite that help, however, the agency still has to range widely in its recruit- ment efforts, and Beck said they will probably be looking more and more to the University ‘of Victoria, with its concentration of social services courses and ex- pertise, At the conclusion of the inter- view Copeland encountered one > of the agency’s clients in the hallway, photocopying an arm-: ful of documents. ‘‘Well, hello!’ she exclaimed, and an animated conversation ensued. ‘Do you know Detlef? He is taking over my job. Detlef, meet — 95 Lorna Copeland has been ad- ministrator of the Terrace and District Community Services Society since its beginning, That introduction in the hallway marked the end of one era and the beginning of another. 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