AO - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 29, 1998

And Skeena Secondary planning continues

Money for portables given

WHILE THE government -

announced plans to reduce
the number of portable
classrooms in haif, it gave
the Coast Mountains school
district money to buy two
portables in the upcoming
year.

Secretary-treasurer Barry
Piersdorff confirmed that
the government gave the
district about $100,000 far
two more portables. The
district’ currently has 18
portables, many of those in
‘Terrace.

The new portables will be
located at Cassie Hall
Elementary.

The money given to Coast
Mountains school district
for portables was part of just
over $1 million in capital
funding. The remainder of
the money is to be spent on
things like roof replace-
ments, system upgrades and
genera] upkeep.

Piersdorff said the $1 mil-
lion is fairly standard — an
amount the. district receives
every year for building up-
keep and upgrades.

The education ministry
announced last week it was
spending $31.2 million to
reduce the current 3,000
plus portable classrooms in
BC, Ramsey also announced
that nine new schools would
be built, 64 schools ex-
panded and two major
renovations done,

The money is supposed to
help create 17,200 new
spaces for students.

*'We won’t eradicate port-
able classrooms,’ said
Ramsey, ‘‘but we can put

THIS PORTABLE i is one of three at Uplands, a school that's faced huge growth
pressure in the last tive years. But despite a promise by the government to cut
the number of portables in haff, it's doubtful those at Uplands wilt disappear soon.

them on the endangered
species list.’’

Piersdorf€ said he badn’t |

received any news from the
government on whether
portables in our school dis-
trict would also be placed
on that endangered List.
However, an official with
the education ministry said

since student enrollment is

declining in the district, our
portable numbers probably

won't be going down
kakkk

It’s been two years since the

provincial government first

promised the school district

$1 million to plan for
replacing Skeena Jr.
Secondary,

Since then a_ provincial
capital spending freeze and
lack of agreement have pre-
vented the district from get-
ting that money.

Two men sent to jail

TWO LOCAL MEN con-
vicied of violent crimes
have been sentenced to jail
lerms.

Arthur Phillip Stewart, 35,
was sentenced April 1 by
Judge P.R. Lawrence to nine
months in prison for assault
wilh a weapon. ’

Stewart had pled guilty to

- the June 1996 beating of lo-

cal rooming house owner
George Vogel.

Vogel testified —that

Stewart came to his house
near midnight June 3 and
asked ta use the phone to
call the police.

When Vogel said that he

would call the police in-
stead, Stewart burst into his
home and began to beat him
_ with a piece of wood until
"the stick broke.

Vogel said he tried to fight
Stewart off, who then sat on
his chest and repeatedly
punched him in the face un-

til seighbours seared him

away. * ™

And Christopher ‘George ©

Mavros was convicted
‘March 18 of assault.

Mavros, 37,
sentenced by Mr. Justice

T.M. Singh to 18 months in--

jail, plus two years proba-

‘tion. He is also forbidden

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five years.

Mavros had been accused
of an attack on his ex-
girlfriend in Kitimat, where
he punched and kicked her
in the face.

One of the hold-ups has
been the government’s
desire to build smaller
schools, fitting more stu-
dents into fewer classrooms
by extending the teaching
day.

But a committee has been
looking into the pros and
cons of various options,
Within the next six weeks
the public will be invited to
a meeting, to add comment
on whether the new Skeena
school should have grades
8-10 or 8-12, should stay in
its present location or move
to the bench.

Skeena principal Rob
Greenwood says no one op-
tion is being favoured yet.

After the public mecting
school board trustees will be
asked to make a decision on
the new school.

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