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Terrace teachers _
end job action

TERRACE — Students

_in Terrace and Thornhill

schools started the new
year with the full benefit

of teachers’ participation .

in extra-curricular * ac-
tivities such as: athletic
coaching. At a general
meeting .of the Terrace
District Teachers’
Association Sept: 2. the

TDTA’s instruction-only.

job action campaign, in-
itiated Jan. 13 of this
year, was voted out of
existence, .

by Michael Kelly

TDTA president John
Eades stated that
although 60 percent of
the general membership

' present voted in favor of

continuing the job ac-
tion, the issue was
defeated because a two-
thirds vote is required
for passage. Eades said
the return of voluntary
services by teachers will
relieve some of the ten-
sion which has built up
in the local school system
during the lengthy con-
tract negotiations be-
tween teachers and the
board of trustees, but he
added that anger and
frustration among
teachers will continue
while contract issues re-
main unresolved,

At the Sept. 2 meeting
TDTA members also
voted 73 percent in favor
of rejecting the board’s
contract offer from
June, the most recent

‘communication between

the- two sides. Eades
repeated his previous
criticism of the board’s
proposal to contro! class
sizes. in district schools,
saying, ‘‘The board
would basically be able
to set their own terms
and conditions on class
sizes with no recourse for
teachers to change over-
enrolled classes.’’

' Eades also appeared
unimpressed with’ the
board’s offer to attempt
reinstatement of isola-

tion pay for teachers in.

outlying areas by ap-
proaching the. Compen-
sation Stabilization
Commissioner. He in-
dicated that if the com-
mission can be petitioned
on that count it can also
be petitioned for salary
grid increases in the
district. ‘‘Only four out
of the 77 districts in the
province received smaller
grid increases than Ter-
race teachers,’”? he con-
cluded. ‘‘The board has
refused to recognize the
teachers’ legitimate con-
cerns about a fair salary

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The Fiber Optics Borehole

Earth Strainmeter (FOBES) be-.

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tory can detect minute subsurface
movements, or strains, that may
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The FOBES device is sensilive
enough (o detect the infinitesimal
motions, which Homuth said
can be as small as one ten-billionth
of the length being measured.

increase and refused to
respond to a TDTA pro-
posal for a-legal and ac-
cepted way to grant an

.additional increase.”’

The TDTA has re-
quested the board. to
resume negotiations,
Eades said, but no
response to the invitation
had been received at this
date. The School District
88 board meets Sept. 9. -

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"Terrace Review — - Wednesday, September 10, 1986 9

f Figure skaters ~
get new coach.

~The Terrace Figure
Skating Club. recently
announced that they will
be welcoming a new pro-

Laura Schmidt will join the

_Staff at the Terrace Figure

Skating Ciub as a coach
this winter.

School shop gets
new look for ’86.

The Skeena Junior
Secondary School's
metalwork shop has
undergone some great
changes over the summer
‘months.

Mark Kloske, art
teacher at the school,
commented that last
year’s. decor was very
cold. ‘‘The colors were a
dark blue, metal grey

-and red, compared to

this year’s sky blue, fire
engine red and light col-
ored walls. With these
bright colors this term, it
will be more lively for
the students.”

Some new equipment
has been added to the
shop, Kloske said. A
casting furnace for
knocking down metal, a
forging furnace, two new
arc welders, spot
welders, sheet metal
equipment, new tables

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and hand tools are some

that come to mind, he |

said.

Kloske observed, “‘If
students work in a clean
environment they are
more likely to respect the
equipment and keep it
clean.”’

_ The color schemes that
give the Skeena metal-
work shop a bright and

pleasant atmosphere’

were conceived by Simon
Higginson and Mark
Kloske.

fessional figure skating
coach, Laura Schmidt
from Mission, B.C. A
club representative
stated that Schmidt's
achievements include
Senior Silver Dance,
Sixth Figure, Junior
Silver Freeskate and
Novice Competitive
Freeskate. She has been
skating since she was five
years old. For the past
seven years she. has
skated competitively and
she is presently working

on her ‘Gold ‘Dance,
Seventh Figure and Gold
Freeskate.

Tootie Johnson will be
returning for her third
year as club coach.
Tootie has earned Senior
Silver Dance, Third

Figure and Junior

Freeskate and she is
presently working on her
Gold: Dance. Tootie will
also be teaching the Tots
on Ice program for the
District of Terrace again
this year.

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