Parents fr ustrated by Tack ¢ of information —

By BRLAN GREGG |
Herald Editor :
Teachers, Parents and students of Skevna dr, ‘Seyondary
School were’ frustrated Monday by a lack. of information
during a discussion of the school's future, particularly in

regard |o the removal of Tom Harmakowa as principal of °

the school.

Teachers and students asked parents to accept on faith
the belief that Hamakawa has been duing a good job al the
school; but parents seemed to agree that until they know
the full details of the case they cannot support either the
teachers’ position or the board's. position. .

The 200 people at the meeting in the school pastponed any
further. discussion of the maller until the schoo! board
meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. when several delegations are
expected to express a lack of satisfaction with the board's
decision to reduce both Hamakawa’s and Thornhill’

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Elementary principal Roy Greening’s positions to that of

‘teachers.

School Trustee Diana MacKay said that very, very
careful consideration was given by the board members in -
Hamakawa’'s case but Aetails af its decision nt be “kept
confidential. . Q

“realize Tom is extremely popular and a charasmatic
person; and hé is extremely popular. with the students but...
there is nothing I can say," said MacKay.

Some staff at Skeena -have threatened to resign if
Hamakawa is not reinstated:

Marilyn Cook, head of the English department, says that

* if someone had conspired to destroy a school they. couldn't

have donea better job of it. “The staff was thunderatruck, I -
don’t know the fuli details but I know | some mistake has”
been made,” she says. -

‘After years of havinga a bad reputation the ataff of Skeena.

~ felt sure enough of their school to go for necreditation. This

is a self-evaluation process that reveals if the school is

» performing properly and what the school's weaknesses are.

A self-evaluation is first done by tlie achool and then an
independent accreditation team makes an evaluation,

- The accreditation of Skeena, would have. supported
Hamakawa as a good principal ‘while the non-accreditation

”” of the school would have supported the board’s decision to
remove him as principal. .

Cook says that because of the “untimely removal of

 Hamakawa the accreditation process has been halted and

‘that has brought: Skeena to a dead atop. The efforts of the
staff have been for- nothing." , ,
The internal evaluation supports Hamakawa a8 & good

“Principal, the Daily Herald has learned.

“This is our school If the teachers are ready to not work

hard for the school then’ our interests will suffer and eh”

school's reputation | ‘will have heen destroyed again," ia said
Merry Hallsor, a parent.

Claudette Sandecki, who has asked Minister of Education
Brian Smith to not only reinstate Hamakawa but to replace.
Frank Hamilton, the superintendent of School District #8. .
Shak Coescners na eaten tare his judgement.

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One teacher who came in September says he is thinking
about leaving again because of the threatening attitude by

. the board, ‘Do you want your teachers working under these

vague threats,’* he asked,

Greg Byng, a Grade 10 student, says that of the 650 :

Students in the school over. 360 want their principal -

reinstated. "We really appreciate what he has done for usin”

the last three years. We can't understand why he has been -
fired and ‘we: want a. public inquiry,” “he says.

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Valume 75 No, 62
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" Tuesday, Aprif28, ial.

Nicaragua’ Ss needs studied locally:

BY BECKY RAGLON
Herald Staff Writer

A group. of local trade
_ wionists and church people

recently completed a tour of
Nicaragua and have
returned home to share

what they learned on their
trip with their communities.

The tour was organized by
CUSO, and officially hosted
the Nicaraguan
government. Nicaragua has

. Made an appeal to Canada
for help in reconstructing .
” their economy.

_ George Heyman, a
Terrace resident took part
in the fact-finding trip. The
group flew to Nicaragua
and stayed together for, the

first week in a hose © g

g. Bpvided them, in Managua.

people stayed in the city,
some went to the coast to

.. investigate. Ahe fishing
industry, and Heyman’s

group went to Esteli, the
scene of three. uprisings
under the former Somoza
government.

While in Managua the
group met with youth
organizations, teachers and
an association’ of rural
workers. Over and over
again the people they met

_ asked them totakeback the

message of what was
happening in Nicaragua.
Heyman said they were
assured the government

7 was trying to meel ‘the

wey pl. up uring
the second week. Some =

form’ of intervention in
Central America.

Heyman was impressed

with some of the strides ©
new -

made by the
government ‘to improve.
conditions — among them

an intensive: five. month .

literacy campaign. He was

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also impressed with etforts
_ improve . working
conditions.

“At first they thought it
would be heaven on earth,”
said Heyman, speaking of
the aftermath of the
revolution. “They called for
astrike immediately but the

economy was devastated.”

Heyinen says ‘people ‘#009.

realized that the
government was deing the
best they could under’ the
circumstances
operated with their efforts.

Heyman said - certain

areas of the countryside had

and co-~-

destroyed” by goverament

forces in retaliatlon. for

‘insurrections - during

Somoza’s government. . In
addition — the new
government was saddied

With loans from the Somoza
regime; but has undertaken

the task of honoring the

been bombed'and “literally: debts.

Kitimat budget
“toughest”’ yet

By MICHAEL HOWLETT
’. Herald Staff Writer
The District of Kitimat

| gave third reading to and

passed what Mayor George

_ Thom described as its
- “toughest budget for some
time,” Moaday.-"

The budget sees a -mill

git tue el

from individual increases of

oe for general purposes, :

for the Kitimat

General Hospital and 4,165

for School District 80. The
1981 mill rate .total is
119,629, up from 131.682..."

Thom called thé budget

- “the dargest Kitimet has

ever dealt with," but was
“pretty: happy” that
according to. his own

calculations, most ‘private |

homes in’ Kitimat will not

-haye any dollar increases in

faxes.

as: opposed . .to actual
revenues od $3,215,014: in

cent increase will’ be

Expenditures are
expected ti total $9,073,900,
up 15 per cent from. 1980's
‘total of $7,893,595. Large
increases’ will. come from
TTA a a Oe oon

to $1,137,700. and from |
‘capital expenditures, up
- 70.1 per cent to | $1,118,000,
~, With no surplus to carry

over from last year, this
means that $5,566,000 will

have to he raised from

taxation.

Municipal Manager Ben .

. Reventes.: for’ 981° are
- expected to total $3,487,600

$148,955 or 60 per cent, while ”
an extra $946,659 or 34.2 per —

districts share of upgrading
the Nechako sewer system.

' Large items budgeted fot
_ 1981 include $598,000 to

rebuild Haisla - Hill,
Lahakas; - $121,500 as the

‘districts theatre
‘commitment; $20,000 for the

the ‘purchase of refuse

containers: - $70,000" “for. a

new refuse truck; $17,400

for a new one ton holst’

truck; and $24,400 for
improvements. -

systent.

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Brady.
- Fecelved complaints. from °
‘the Kitimat Concerned.

. the.
‘Nechako Centre: ehig

A $109,000 item, budgeted
for building’ a. foothridge

and” partiajly fencing ‘the .

Kildala drainage ditch: was

=. ‘reconsidered by council on a

motion from Alderman Ray :
Council: had’

Parents Association —

concerning the proposed.
‘group would like to see the

money, which ‘inches ‘4,
$50,000 grant received by. .

them from’: Municipal.
Affairs, used for ‘completely. ‘
feacing-tn the. ditch, -

Kitimat residents

angry at

“protest ‘the:

meeting which permitted it
to: ‘Initiated petition of the
neighbourhood as

Agriap. of angry Kitimat’ :
residents arrived en masse. ;
-at-the Kitimat: District
e ‘Council meeting Monday to -
_ Proposed. ‘and

“AB “Enterprises” “tad”: "!
applied for and received the
necessary ‘agreement In.
principle at the last council

to -
Whether or not a pub is .
: wanted there.

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Frank Hamilton’ 's story Page 5

- needs of the people, and that de Kleine in his report to

| merely aa exchange’ of cupondilures. were I Kitimat Minor: Hockey _ Page 6 o:
- dictators. $4,788,015 in 1980 budget and . A
vm at Sutceaedigrea | Mik Rune Foe : ee oe
delicate breakeven point | mate ria * increase Kitimat figure, ska ng age
suopenion i Februaiy we ee! implies that the real 1981 Welcome Wagon
$9.6 million toan by the U.S. faadget Increates oreitel _welcomes

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Agency for Inter. American :

. Development (AID). The -. - vena capital _

money had been earmarked expenditure increases Comics & iE
lor the purchase of wheat. | - Bo Parsee 7 HES inclide $96,000 for covering . a
The suspension has Ee : the cost of providing a — Ann Landers. re:
brought a great déal of '» George Heyman with a poster brought back from Nicaragua. sanitary sewer to the Senior Page | 10 '

hardship to Nicaragua —

-threatened -

12,000 workers have been ‘
left: without jobs and
‘countless others will be
with “food
shortages.

* Nicaragua, has appealed —

fo Canada for a°$4 million

‘ loan for wheal purchases to |

3. Canadian

make up for the. AID
suspension, and while the
International

Development Agency

. (CIDA) has recommended

been giver.

that the Joan be. granted ©
final approval has not yet

Heyman says the
Nicaraguan government
wants to establish economic
and technological
relationships with Canada. .
When the group asked how
they could help they were
told they needed aid from .
Canada to help their
devastated economy.
recover. ,

Nicaraguans are ‘very
wortied" about the situation
in El Salvador, Heyman
was told and they wanted to

ask people in Canada to take |

a strong stand against any

- The Brilish - - Columbia:
“Building Corporation

(BCBC) appears to’ have

been tripping over its

céllective ‘feet in its
eagerness to putt down the
old Terrace water tower.

’ While the.” whole
Skeenaview site wds In the
process of being designated
a historical site, D and D
Landscaping. which had
been awarded the tender for
demolition was busy
undermining the tower's
foundations — without a
permit. .

Mayor Dave Maroney
was then Informed that.“‘no
way" was it safe .to leave
the tower standing over the
long Easter weekend, and
the permit was issued April
16.

Paul Sneed, the chairman

_af the Terrace Heritage and

—-

Advisory Committee, said

that he was extremely .

disturbed because the tower
was destroyed without: any
input from the community.
Sneed said. that: a

‘municipality can. stop

demolition of any building
considered a heritage alle
for up to $0 days,

He also said that the
community cannot use
“Victoria. terms of

reference’ in evaluating

heritage siles. Entirely
different evaluations must
be made when assessing
what. is
significant on a community
basis as opposed to a
province wide one, Sneed

Maroney said at a council
meeting Monday that he

was very annoyed with

"historically

BCBC, - "Alderman Vic
Jolllife said that BCBC was
ca a big stick at their
own peril. Ina rare show of

unity, the aldermen agreed —
- to bend a letter expressing

Strong displeasure to BCBC.
Terrace . ‘voters. ‘will be

saked fo decide on June 20.

whether or not they are

' willing to dig deeper into

their pockets to finance a
building for _ the

amalgamated Terrace.
‘ RCMP detachment, The

administration. will be
seeking approval to borrow
a sum not exceeding
$2,000,000,

Jolliffe said he was
against putting
taxpayers to the expense of
solng to referendum at this
time = while councillor
Helmut Glesbrecht

the |

predicted that a riferendim
would not pass. co.

The tople of the Terrace-
Kitimat provinelal forest
was revived by Maroney

who wanted an amendment
tacked onto council's ..

previous endorgement of the

. forest bands..

Now the endorsement
reads that, ‘‘the Terrace
Council support the concept
of designating the Terrace:
Kitimat Valley as a
Provincial Forest, provided

‘that the industrial Janda

outlined in the Kitimat.
Terrace Valley study be
outlined in red, indicating
that these are potential
industrial lands

temporarily under the care
of the Forest Ministry for
timber growing and
harvesting.”

Citizens Home and tne

Terrace council slams BCBC’s seagemess L

‘Sore aldermen objected

to the amendment, saying
that it changed the ‘total
intent

“Industrial corridor” plan

had never had any. public. °
input, ‘that the idea of an |

industrial corridor came out

of Kitimat’s back door, Jack:

Talstra supported the
amendment, saying that he

make thelr pitch for the
land use along with mines,
and recreation to the lands
branch. Talstra ‘sald he
resented the fact that.
forestry could have future
control of the land. .

In other council business,
third reading was given to a
bylaw designating
Skeenaview as a municipal
heritage site.

: of thé motion. .
Gleabrecht said that the

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