- Literacy, development on list
_ as needed in the northwest |

LITERACY rates, acceés-

sibility to. post secondary.

education and infrastructure

‘ building topped the list of

items heard by a committee
of MLAs in Terrace to hear
opinions on what should go
in the 2007 provincial bud-
get.

The select standing com-
mittee on finance and gov-

' ermment services was in

Terrace Oct. 5 hearing sub-
missions from local individ-
uals: and groups about how
to spend a projected $900
million surplus in the 2007

he

he said, adding often times
children who have difficul-.
ties reading also have par-

ents who have difficulties” "

reading. .

He told the panel it’s im-_ .
portant to identify children |
. with reading problems early

on, before they begin to fail,
to turn the trend around.

“The reason. I see these
children is because the’
school system failed them,”
he said:

Other presenters - in-
cluded David Pernarowski —
who represented: the’ Ter-:

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Among the presenters of Commerce. He urged the 7 . mies Lakelse Ave. an

were teacher Margie Waldie committee to find a balance “Terrace ©

and local pediatrician Dr. between debt reduction and 250-635-4021 ig!

Janne Du Plessis who both
spoke about the. importance
of improving literacy rates

‘among young children. |

Waldie, speaking from

a teachers’ perspective said °

nearly a third of students in
Grade 4 are having trouble :
reading and that makes it’
difficult for those students to ~

succeed ‘once more difficult
: Curriculum is taught. .

Dr. Du Plessis, in a sepa-’
rate. presentation, told. the
panel many of his young pa-

‘tients who have been identi-

fied as having behavioural
problems tend to also have
problems with reading.

“They’re: the ones that
misbehave because they are
afraid “of being: exposed,”

_ infrastructure investment to ©
“promote growth in B.C.

He spoke to: the impor-
tance of developing resource
roads such as the proposed
Stewart-Omineca Resource

- Road. -

“The priorities need to.
be: continued. fiscal respon-
sibility through debt reduc-
tion, opening our province’s
extensive natural’ resources:
in the north through stra-
tegic .infrastructure . invest-
ment including roads, power
transmission ‘lines, Gateway.

‘initiatives in Kitimat and

Prince Rupert,. equal access
to health care and a-focus
on improving the education -
of our children, the future of,
B. C., ” Pernarowski said.

Cocaine, money
and weapons seized

RESIDENTS at the Cedar Place apartment building on the

-4900 block of Walsh ‘Ave. awoke to the sound of police in
. the building to execute a ‘search warrant, for illegal drugs i in
the early morning hours of Sept. 29. _

_ Terrace RCMP report that drug section officers seized co-
caine, money and weapons from an apartment, although they

declined to say how much cocaine was seized, how much

‘money was found and what kind of weapons were taken,
pending the laying of charges.

Two adult males in their early 20s who were in the res-
idence were arrested. One charge of. possession of a con-
trolled substance and one charge of trafficking in a controlled
substance against each man have been forwarded to federal |
prosecutors, said RCMP Const. Rochelle Patenaude:

"No weapons charges have been laid at this time, she add-
ed. The apartment building is across the street from Skeena
Junior Secondary and is visited frequently by police officers

on any number of matters.

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