A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 3, 1998

third year,

While the B.C, Teachers’ Federation approved the deal late
last week, the province-wide association representing school
boards is urging rejection.

The B.C. Public School Employers’ Association says the
contract lakes away managerial powers by imposing class
sizes without providing flexibility for local education pro-
grams and individual student needs.

And although the deal does provide $150 million
province-wide to hire 1,200 new teachers, the employers’
association says there is no commitment to pay for those new
hires past the three-year life of the contract,

The 0-0-2 per cent over three years is the standard wage
package being offered by the province for public sector con-
tracts coming up this year.

Provincial negotiators slepped in to deal with the BCTF
after talks with the employers’ association broke down.

Collision in Thornhill

POLICE ARE investigating alter one man was sent to hos-
pital when two vehicles collided on Crescent Drive in
Thomhill around 1 a.m., Saturday, May 30,

The accident occurred when a van driven by a 51-year-old
Terrace man crossed onto the left side of the road, colliding
head-on with an oncoming pick-up truck,

Terrace firefighters worked for 45 minutes to free the van's
driver, who was then taken to Mills Memorial Hospital. The
driver of the pick-up sustained only minor injuries. RCMP
say alcohol was a Factor.

Teacher deal vote tonight
COAST MOUNTAINS District school trustees are sched-
wed to vote tonight on a new teachers contract.
The proposed three-year deal freezes salaries for the first
two years and provides for a two per cent increase in the

FROM FRONT

Anglers
wait on
plan

oblivion and now you're
managing salman into cbliv-
ion. You're part of the
problem.”

“My people from my
grandfather to my dad has
given you advice and you
have been taking all that and
throwing it in the garbage,”
said native fisherman Martin
Hall.

Culp said arguing won't
solve the problem that fish-
eries minister David
Anderson has committed to
“zero mortality” of caho,

“It doesn't. do anybody
any good when we're cutting
each other down,” added
Kitsumkalum village resi-
dent Ron Bartlett. “We atl
have to work together and
stop pointing fingers and try
to come up with an equitable
solution.”

Hill echoed that sentiment.

“Let’s all embrace
change,” he said. “It’s pain-
ful. We don’t know what's at
the end of the tunnel. I can’t
fish for coho with my son.
But I know if I give it.up
now he might be able to in
his tifetime — maybe,”

Human Resources
Development Canada man-
ager Shirley Kimery said
she’s been told to collect
ideas for possible assistance
or retraining programs to
deal with people left cut of .
work by the crisis,

She said most conven-
tional programs are geared
to employees, rather than the
self-employed people wha
are prevalent in sport
fishing.

There might be packages
geared toward retraining
people in the industry
towards activities like eco-
tourisin.

“You have to look at
where your next market
might be and it may not be
fishing,” she said,

Kitimat resident Ray
Brady said federal assistance
programs should help cover
the interest costs of carrying
inventory for tackle shops
and other businesses.

“You people should not
accept anything less than
what’ the people of
Newfoundland got,” Brady
said.

The collapse of coho
Stocks last year is being
blamed on a combination of
very poor ocean survival, El
Nino, chronic overfishing,
and to a lesser extent habitat
degradation from logging
and mining.

DFO officials noted thete
are pristine rivers and
streams inthe upper Skeena
watershed with virtually no
colio in them.

The extreme measures this
year are being taken in an
attempt to ward off a second
straight disastrous return,
which would likely drive
many stocks to the brink of
extinction,

Shrine erected where

FRIENDS OF the 13-year-old Thomhill girl
who died while trying to cross Hwy16 near
Copper River Road ona dirt bike May 30 have
erected a commemorative shrine at the location
and at her schoo! locker,

RCMP are waming drivers who use Copper
River Road to slow down, since a lot of people
are gathering there to place pictures and flow-
ers in memory of Kristin Ashley-Acker, 13.

- She was struck by a semi tractor trailer while
trying to cross the highway just west of the turn
off lane leading to Copper River Road.

School friends of Kristin Ashley Acker have
made a cross in woodworking class for her
shrine at the location of her death.

They have also written memorials and given
mementos to her mother, said Rick Olson, prin-
cipal of Thornhill Junior Secondary where

girl died

Kristin was a Grade 8 student.

Friends, who were with Kristin when she
died, are getting on going support trom grief
councillors at the school,

Kristin suffered massive head injuries and
was pronounced dead upon arrival at Mills
Memorial Hospital.

Police are continuing their investigation.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, June
4at {2 p.m, at St: Matthew's Anglican Church
at 45 14 Lakelse Ave, Terrace, B.C. -

Kristin will be sadly missed by her parents
Wanda and Wayne, her brother Dustin, her sis-
ter Hailey and her grandparents Cliff and Helen
Acker, and Joe and Hazel Kernachan.

Donations may be made in Kristin's memory
to British Columbia Children’s Hospital.
Flowers ure gratefully accepted.

Sikhs here keep furniture

LOCAL SIKHS are so far defying an edict
from India that tables and chairs be removed
fram Sikh temples worldwide.

The weekend deadline passed at Terrace’s
Guru Nanak Sikh Temple on Medeek Ave. with
no removal of the funiture and none of the ten-
sion that occurred at temples elsewhere.

“We refused to remove our furniture,” said Jit
Singh Bal, vice-president of the Skeena Valley
Guru Nanak Brotherhood. “The majority of the
people do not want to do that.”

He said the issue may come up for a vote at
the society’s annual general meeting on June
14th,

But in the meantime, Bal says, the temple is
continuing its policy of having chairs and tables
available for those who want them, and a strip
of carpet on one side of the hall for those who
prefer to sit on the floor.

Bal said his preference is that each individual
make a personal decision on the issue. If after
that, most people are sitting on the floor, the

unused tables and chairs would be removed,

But he’s nat expecting that to occur.

He says there are only a few local Sikh fami-
lies in Terrace who want to see the furniture
removed in accordance with the ruling,

The chairs and tables in question are not in
the worshipping area of the temple, but in the
adjacent dining hall, where meals are served.

A key principle of Sikhism is equality for all
so originally all peopie in the temple wauld sit
on the floor, rather than some having special
thrones or preferred seating.

Thinking evolved over the years and when

_temples were first formed in B.C. a century

ago, most groups decided that enough chairs

anc tables were now available for all, soifeve- -

ryone had.a seat the principle of equality would
still be served.

That approach had been in effect for decades
until the recent edict from high priest Ranjit
Singh in Amritsar, India, that furniture must be
removed from temples worldwide.

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