The Thornhill Volunteer Fire Department now has a new va
to the residents of Thornhill and Its outlying areas. The 1
used at the majority of callouts. It will also carry. some a
flre or other emergencies. The van is with a
the Tharnhill Fire Department: He Is one o
driver 24 hours a
986 Ford Econoline truck will carry a wid
New van for Thornhill |
n. This vehicle has taken the place of the older 1978 van which has been so famillar
@ assortment of firefighting equipment that ts
dditional equipment such as that which is needed to refill air bottles atthe scene ofa
day and therefore provides a quick response, sai Bill Delaronde, deputy chief with -
f the volunteers who will be making use of the machine in providing ald t to residents.
- Playground
“program ~
available ©
_ The Indoor Playground o
program isan ongoing
-recreation -event.: for
preschoolers, 15 months
to 3% years of age.
By Elaine Parmenter
The program is held on
Wednesdays from 10:15 to
11:15 a.m, in the Terrace. —
Arena Banquet room and
can be attended on either a.
regular basis, or a drop-in
basis. It is a time for the
toddlers to socialize. with
others and participate in
physical activities.
Parents will be par-
ticipating with. their
children and there will be
time allowed for coffee
and socializing as well.
Activities are planned by
_the parents with the
assistance of the recrea-
tion co-ordinator and are
led by the parents.
For. more information
on this new program, call
638-1174.or drop by the
Terrace
and check it out..
School construction shelved |
TERRACE — School
District 88 trustees have
decided to postone a
capital expenditure plan.
for building a new school
ic replace the aging
Skeena Junior. Secondary
School.
Assistant Superinten-
dent Skip Bergsma in-
dicated that the new
building, due to a gradual
decline in enrolments since
the ‘construction of the
original building, would
have to be about 30 per-
cent smaller than. the pre-
sent structure, Bergsma
said at one time the school
had more than 1,000
students, but it now aver-
ages around 650 pupils.
No substanital increases in
enrolment are expected.
Despite fewer students
in the oversized school,
Bergsma pointed out that
moving to smaller prem-
ises would pose a con-
siderable inconvenience to
-.both staff and students.
The cost of the project
was estimated at around
$7.4 million.
NOMINATIONS
RECEIVED
Two candidates have
been nominated to run for
the position of trustee to
School District 88 for the
villages of Gitwangak,
Kitwancool
held Jan. 31.
Clarence Raymond
Brown, a broadcast re-
porter and announcer
from Kitsegukla, and
Delbert Kelly Morgan, a
machine operator from
Gitwangak, received the
nominations, according to
areport filed by Returning
Officer Elaine. Johnson
with the board of Schoo!
District 88 at the Jan. 13
meeting.
The three villages failed
to get Tepresentetion in the
Skeena Junior Secondary
and Kitse-~
gukla in an election to be
November election due to
a lack of nominations. Al-
though. papers were filed
for candidates,
discovered that neither the
nominees nor residents in
the villages were registered
on the voting list.
The Kitimat-Stikine
Regional District held a
court -of revision and
posted registration lists in
the villages early in
January. It was reported
at the last school board
meeting that an additional
59 voters have been signed.
up as a result.
INCREMENTS
REVIEWED
Letters received from
Premier Vander Zalm and
Education Minister Tony
Brummet at the Jan. 13
meeting of School District
88 trustees. indicate that
the inclusion of teacher
salary increments: in a-
wards reviewed by the
. Compensation Stabiliza-
tion Commissioner will be’
examined, but it appears
unlikely that the in-
crements will be exempted
from Compensation Sta-
bilization Board (CSB)
consideration.
District 88 trustees and
administration have lob-
bied strongly to have the
increments exempted, ar-'
guing that their inclusion
in CSB reviews has severe-
ly limited the district’s
ability to negotiate wage
settlements with teachers.
Brummet states in his
WORD POWER .- zeppelin:
a cigar-shaped dirigible, nam-
ed after Count Ferdinand von
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it was.
letter, “The effect upon
grid increases of the inclu-
~ gion. of increments in the
compensation packages,
has been brought to the at-
tention of the (Compensa-
tion Stabilization) Com-
missioner and he will be
discussing these effects
with the Government in
the near future. ‘‘
The Premier’s letter
states that the matter will |
be reviewed, but it also
points out, ‘‘the exemp-
tion of increments from
the costing formula
would... not be consistent
with the (Compensation
Stabilization) Program’s’
objectives, and could well
undermine the success and . S¢! i 1
. mined date this spring and
fairness of the Program.”
Both.letters were receiv-
ed by the board for infor-
mation.
- CLOSED MEETINGS:
In their reports to the .-
School District 88 board
on Jan. 13 both the Fin-
ance Committee and the
Facilities/Services Com-
mittee stated that commit-
tee meetings will remain
closed to the public.
The Facilities/Services
Committee, consisting of
trustees Jim Angus, Dave
Parker and Francis Sa-
bine, stated a unanimous ©
decision to. ‘invite in-
terested parties to make
presentations to the.
meetings but... the meet- —
- board meeting a local resi-
ings will be closed’’.
The Finance Commit-
tee, made up of trustees
Jim Angus and Nancy
Orr, recommended ‘‘that
the finance committee
meetings continue in-
camera as before and that
the committee request re-
‘presentation as necessary
and hear delegations as re-
‘quested’,
The Education/Person-
nel Committee indicated
the intent to address the
issue at its next meeting.
No other committee re-
ports were received at the
Jan. 13 meeting.
MARITIME VISITORS —
. Acting on a recommen-
dation from the Finance
Committeee, the board of
Schoo! District 88 has
- allocated $1,000 to Thorn-
hill Junior Secondary
School to host visiting
Students from Wolfeville,
’ Nova Scotia. The visit is
scheduled for an underter-
is being conducted under
the Open House Canada
program. Thornhill stu-
dents will make an ex-
change visit to Wolfeville.
The money for hosting
the visit was drawn from
the board’s. discretionary
surplus fund.
REBATE NOT
FEASIBLE
The 1986-87 expen-
diture budget for School
District 88 was officially
amended Jan. 13 to in-
clude the controversial
$465, 703 surplus from last
year’s budget. Total. pro-
jected expenditures for
this year now come to
$22,480,245.
At the conclusion of the
dent asked if it would be
possible to rebate the.
surplus to taxpayers. In-
terim Secretary-Tresurer
John McMynn replied the
procedure would be
‘‘complicated beyond
belief’. MeMynn added
that compensation in next
year’s budget would not
‘be possible because school -
‘districts are prohibited
from budgeting for either
surpluses or deficits, .
The question of tax.rate
reductions for local .pro- “
perty owners did not, arise z :
at the meeting. '
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