NEWS

How will local historians a few years.
_ down the road judge this one? Five years ago,

even as recently as one year ago, the

oe community had an opportunity to embark on

| i a major project, one that would "take us into
- the twentieth century": a library expansion.

Instead, the options were debated to

oo death, arid now the lottery pot at the end of
_» the rainbow ran “temporarily dry". That an-

nouncement was made earlier this week, and

_. that lottery pot was assumed to be the source
. of a third of the capital that was supposed to

: ~ build the library expansion.

-.. lottery funds for the Provincial Secretary, the .
_. lottery fund isn’t actually out of money. They‘ -
7 just have. more bills to. pay than they were
aware of. This. happened, .

According to Shirley Kerr, the director of

she explains,

GOING, GOING... GONE?

may be scrateh’n"lose for: the Hbrary:::

,

because lottery money is generally aid’ out
in one-third instalments as individual, pro-
jects progress, In recent weeks, a great nura-
ber of projects qualified for progréss pay-
ment, and that put a strain on the system.
To ‘correct the problem, says Kerr, the
government has.taken all GO B.C. ‘applica-.
tions slated for approval and put them on.
hold. That move forestalled the addition of

$14 million to their current commitment, she --

says, but at the same time put about 150 to
200 applications in limbo.

In limbo, though, might be preferable to.
the situation facing our library expansion GO
B.C, application. Although no one is absolute-
ly certain, that application is most likely.

. sitting in a B.C, ‘Lottery file basket tagged

"one priority level below limbo".

‘The Northwest Education ©
"88" Foundation is $25,000.
_ richer, thanks to the generos-
ity of the membership of the — &
| Terrace branch of the B.C.
Old Age Pensioners Assoaci-
ation. The association raised
the money over the past 12
years through a variety of
projects and it will now |
provide a perpetual annual -
scholarship of about $2,500 a
year to a qualified second- _-
year post-secondary student.

The Northwest Education "88"
Foundation has paid out over
$112,000 in scholarships in |
the past 14. years from similar
perpetual scholarships. Pic-
tured during a cheque presen-
tation of the Terrace Old Age
Pensioners Association contri-
bution to the fund are Hazel
DeFrane, Grace Simons, Lou —
Gair, Jean Limin and Curly I
Casey. Accepting the cheque |...
for the foundation is Harold: Lo
Cox. eR

Terrace Review — March 27, 1992