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TERRACE — This year's
teacher strike lasted a matter of
minutes instead of weeks.

‘The two sides reached an
agreement Monday morning as
picket lines went ‘up around
local schools,"

The breakthrough came after
veteran mediator Vince Ready
_ pushed -both sides toward the

middie ground during round-

the-clock negotiations Sunday
night, breaking the 14-month
bargaining stalemate.

Striking teachers at some
schools stayed on the picket
-lines after classes were to start,
waiting for official word from
their union the strike was off.

‘The mood in this room right
now is jubilant,’ Terrace Vince Ready
District Teachers’ Association Cooper said the board agreed t to
(FDTA) bargaining chairman toned-down versions’ of. many
Frank Rowe said Monday after of the union's key demands. -”
ihe tentative agreement was “*Everybody* s¢ ’ really
reached. ‘I’m stunned. relieyed,"” she said. iy sa great.

day for this’ district.”

: The two-year agreement calls

“There was will to settle this
thing on both sides,” he said. ;
“That isn't to say that we didn’t for: seven sper cent. wage in-
give away things we damn well creases in each of two years. It
wish we hadn’t, And [know the includes - “the ‘same: ‘class. size.

board gave up things they Testrictions.— a major issue for ui
would rather have kept. But 1. te. union — .as_existed in the oe
think we Have an agreement Previous contract. : 3

That was one area where the ad

we're going to be able to live
with, and that's the name of the
game.”

Rowe said he felt the pressure
af the Monday strike deadline

helped force productive talks.. “Ti sch “alse .
“We also made tremendous :.°Ca° ers also. got provisions :

movement in our-demands ‘on banning contracting out for the .

Friday and Saturday,” he said. term of the agreement, | as’ well - ne
‘And on Sunday night at seven - °5- several ‘teacher assistance . 4

o’clock when Ready. got us back - plans.
together again arid started doing
his work, the board began to

“come: .our. way. Things just
~ started: to re aie employces ‘excluded from’ the”

school board: chairman Edna union, equal treatment. for: all

school board had been looking -
for changes,’ Cooper said..“We :
wanted it to be more in Iie with
the. Year 2000. “changes,” ‘she

Union © officials said ‘they ,
made concessions on. articles +.

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: TERRACE — Investigators say Remillard Holdings Lid. _ 7 hee .
‘ the crash of a light plane that ‘Thursday. oo
f killed a local man. and his'son — f: a
g last month remains a mystery..

Klaus Kosmider, an in-:
vestigator with. the Transport -
Safety Board, says the agency. .

- has been unable to‘identify any
mechanical problem with the  -
floatplane that could have caus- mt
ed the.crash.,

Andrew . Broek, 39, of New.
Remo, and. his 15-year-old son
_ David were killed in-the crash
when their Piper Super Cub air-

_ craft crashed near Alastair Lake
in ‘the Gitnadoix valley en a
southwest of Terrace. -

“We have found nothing so
far that points to.any kind of

‘technical’ problem,” Kosmider
said, ‘That Tcan say with a
o al ereat degree: of certalnty.”” a,

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- Aight defence 4 Dae den tibet dere row. in i “determined the flight controls
instead ree on May id *; el z Hil they ?Ponght it-all :f were still working when. the .

charge of as also put way to: the: Si pigne crashed, and, since it Ter- {82°
ac heeded’. a ; rage with’ full: ianks, there was | 0
likely no shortage of fuel. : :
:- He. said autopsies are” ‘being -
conducted and. weather reports
from the time of the crash are
being analyzed in an attempt to
find other possible causes of the
crash,

It could be months before
they determine the. ‘cause, he.
“‘snid, and -a: final: "Transport
Canada report on the crash
could be a year or two away,

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tives charged.with'il- months on probation... - Said they'd need to pay at least
ling fish cut a.deal-- “The Gitksan case‘had‘a big: i” “
federal - prosecutors . to’. effect):on their decision,”
t-action that could: -Brown-said, ‘‘The. law. is. -just : “testify,
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