The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 23, 1997 - AQ, News In Brief | Students get Breathe easy streetproofed RESIDENTS LIVING in the Terrace area were brea-,| AFTER MORE than a year of lobbying the Terrace thing clean last month, thanks to some strong north- | Women’s Resource Centre has won the right to offer the easterly winds. Streetproofing Our Kids (SPOK) program in district Those strong breezes kept pollutants at bay, accord- schools. ing to the environment ministry’s air quality monitor For the past 15 months the women’s centre has only been . Doug Johnson. Terrace boasted 95 per cent “good” air | allowed to offer the program after school or at lunch hour. quality readings, with only five per cent ‘fair’? read- | The program takes between 45 minutes and one and half ings and no poor episodes, That’s some of the best air | hours to deliver. -of any community in the northwest for the month. SPOK is designed to teach children to recognize poten- * tially dangerous situations, and what they can do if they ‘ Bar biter sentenced find themselves in danger. The program is supported by » AMAN WHO bit one local bar patron in the abdomen the RCMP and corrections officials, and is offered from : a and slashed another with a broken beer glass in Sep- Kindergarten to grade 10. ; : . f . . : tember has been sentenced to nine months in jail. just tw Sa cate a ihe erovinee which wasn't of In a recent shoot to win promotion spensored hy Safeway Food & ; Shi 0 SCD: * . * ° Provincia Court Judge Banfond DeWalle Dec. 9 afte fering the streetproofing program during school hours. In Drug, Coca-Cola and The Terrace Standard contestants paid $2 for 3 pleading guilty to two assault charges. those districts the program is now a mandatory part of the shots to win Canucks Mork Messier jerseys and other Canuck prizes. Shilicock received nine months for each assault, to be a etentaien the school board Sabo expressed Pictured here are Brittney Eakin who won a Mark Messier hockey tly. H p na n io whe § 0 1 . . * seed conecureny iit also rerslved three year on frustration that SPOK hadn’t been accepted by the board, lersey, valued at over $300 and Matthew Coburn winner ofa Canuck for 10 years. P She wondered if that was because the women’s centre was shirt and $20 gift certificate from Safeway. Missing from photo is Gary . coordinating the delivery of the program. sh to fend off Walker who also won a Messier jersey. $815 was raised by the event . Yao acclaimed setulae ters nthe said, quoting woe etatictive that and all monies raised were donated to the Terrace Child Development KITIMAT RESIDENT Anthony Yao was the only per- } said there were 43 people who have served sentences as Centre. - son to put his name forward for the vacant position of | sexual offenders, including teens, and who are now livin : trustee on the Coast Mountain school board. inTerace. 6 , 8 A by-election was called to fill a position vacated by Sabo pointed out that many offenders started out as vic- Kitimat’s George Neumann, former board chair. tims of sexual abuse, and SPOK offered a way to help : ‘Yao served one term in the former Kitimat school | break that cycle. - district and ran in the election for newly amalgamated She said the RCMP and corrections officials supported : board last year. He works at Eurocan. the program, ‘‘but the school board is the one that has fal- len down in that partnership. What about all those children New U N BC degrees who can’t take ihe program after school?” THE UNIVERSITY of Northem B.C. has approved Harold Cox, director of instruction for the district, said two new graduate degree programs. he'd talked to four school administrators, who wanted the The university's board just approved a new PhD in | program to continue to be nun after school, because they , : . a y psychology. This will be UNBC’s second doctoral pro- | liked the parent involvement offered that way. Here's hoping lots of merriment is in-store for you gram — the other is in natural resources and environ- However Terrace trustee Marj Brown suggested that and your loved ones this year. eH: mental studies. teachers should have the right to have the program in the We really appreciate your shopping here! SAS The new PhD will educate psychologists in skills to | classroom. ‘‘It would be extremely backward not to have address pressing social problems in the north, including it,”’ she said. Ceo “2S SES NA NED the relative poor health status of the population and Frank Rowe, president of the Terrace teachers union, high levels of risk behaviour. It’s expected the program | said teachers were in favour of the program since it could will accept two to four students per year. be tailored to their curriculum. es Best Wishes ; j To our friends Oo eh las . 6 i Looking For Something 4 / Hope the holidays area A Little Different For Your ; é howling success. Children’s Birthday Party / 5 We'll he taking a holiday é y. break between y S Dec. 21 - Jan. 12 Per r Book Your Christmas Staff Party Today! 4 we a al ? 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