“Bergsma said his enrolment pro-

Sections for the. 1989-90 school
". yearare higher than estimates by
the’ Ministry of Education, and
>. if he’s right Kiti K’shan primary

“” -~ school. will rin ‘out: of space,
“Thornhill primary will: be
..{tight”*, and he termed the situ-.

_“ation " at- Uplands ‘elementary
oT precarions’,

ee . Bergsma said enrolments nor-

.mallydrop after the beginning

~~ ofthe year, mainly due to secon.

_. dary students dropping out, but

«* Jast month the district enrolment

began to surge. back up. The
‘-: Initial enrolment in September
|». “\: was 5,298 students, and it bot-

_-. tomed'out at 5,242 in December. :

» In January, however, the num-

2 bers. came up to 5,267, mainly

due to students coming in from

"other districts, 9° ~~ oo
"* The Ministry of Education is
“+ estimating - an enrolment of
“> 5,117 -students ‘for September
| 1989: — Bergsma’ says his esti- - ;

a

umber’ of schools "in.
. ..»: School District 88 may be facing
- .: Shortages of space next year due
s+ to expanding enrolments, '
“0. That’s the conclusion present-.,
“ed. by assistant. superintendent.
_\*. Skip Bergsma ‘to’ a meeting of:
the board of trustees Feb. 14,-

year progresses. .

‘The funding received by the
_ district from the ministry is cal-.

culated in accordarice with their

‘enrolment | estimates,. ‘but.
Bergsma noted that. the district.
will be reimbursed once’ the ac- -
tual figures are established. The |
real” problem, > he said,” is:

board and the Terrace District

Teachers’ Association may add
an additional dimension to the’
problem: the ministry’s method
of determining space require-.
‘ments. and: the agreement on

maximum class sizes with the’

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_. “Superintendent Frank -Hamil-

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classroom space. T
ye _., meeting of the board’s finance.
Bergsma also cautioned the--

board that. the recently ‘signed -

collective agreement between the —

‘requirements, Let’s make sure

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Don Scott, returned from the
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- felief officials. He had a poig-
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7 Terrace Review — Wednesday, February 22, 1989 17

‘one another.

ton told the board, “We're go-
‘ing'to have to mike a _pilgrim-
age to Victoria, This is a
serious problem.” |

On a motion by board chair
Val Napoleon, trustees instruct-

‘staff to prepare a‘report for a

committee Feb. 28. “We want
you to consider the impact of
class size, enrolment and popu-
lation “increase: on our capital

we get what’s already on the list
(of capital projects submitted to
the ministry) and start working

said, *

officer Alan Hassell of Van- &

couver informed the Terrace &
Review that as of December MN
1988, all-of the child care pro- I
jects had been surveyed and @

there’are no deaths among chil-
._ dren sponsored by Canadians.
“Those in the Terrace area can

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_ Paul Hann concert last weekend. Clowns; balloons and
suckers were only a preliminary treat to the fun and excite- |
ment for children at Hann’s performance. - 7 —_

are continuing to. benefit from

One of those in Terrace hav-

child is Ursula Althaus. The boy . ne
she has been. sponsoring for “Business After Hours”
about four years was born / os Aninvitation fromthe
_, 16-37 Community Futures Committee’ -.
., to the business community to attend a —
“Business After Hours” gathering — -

with his family, and although his
father is employed, they are very
poor. The money she sendshelps |. -
provide clean drinking water, | D ATE:

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gram is all about. See you there!

_ The executive director of the
well-known relief organization,

flooded area in early September
with an action plan in progress

nant story to tell,

~ “In the city of -Dhaka,
millions of people have lost.
everything. The cobblers and

and equipment have been ruined
or. washed away. Many homes

by people fleeing the flood: but
‘once: inside, the beds, _ the
clothing, the very walls, are still
soaking wet. The high humidity
and lingering floodwaters have
created an oppressive sterich.”
“Incredibly,” he continued,
“there are 65,000 Bangladeshis,

crouched on a 30-mile long, 10
to 12 foot wide embankment
which rises out of the flood-

The relief official: says the
vast, dense population of Dhaka
can create a- sense of futility,
‘But people die one by one and
we seek to help them one by
one,” he said.

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