Terrace Review — :

The. development of - gold
mines in the mountains north of
’ Stewart is intensifying, with one
_ Major player expecting to go in-
to production early next year
_ and another on the verge of a
production decision. |
Work on the Skyline. Resour-
ces property at Johnny Moun-
tain has kept TransProvincial
| .Airlines and other local busines-
- ses and aviation companies hop-
Ping all summer, and the activity
- will - continue throughout this
coming winter: The. ‘company

. the way for, Hercules: transport
aircraft to begin moving 350,000

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the B.C. Teachers’

tinuously this summer transporting crews
will oparate through most of the. coming

This TransProvincial Airlines Twin Otter, taking off from the Terrace-Kitimat Airport, has been flying almost con-—
and equipment to the gold fields north of Stewart. At least two of the mines

_ School board banks on end.
to instruction-only action ©

TERRACE | — The board ‘of
School District.88 has decided to
go ahead with a series of
workshops for teachers Oct. 2
despite the possibility» that

‘teachers may not participate in-

them.

The date for the workshops
was set before the end of the
1986-87 school year, but the
board was informed at its meet-

_ ing Sept. 8 that the resource peo-
ple for the ‘‘Language Arts

Across the Curriculum’ pro-
gram arranged by the Terrace
District Teachers’ Association
(TDTA) pro-development com-
mittee will not be available then
due. to a conflicting commit-
ment. The remaining workshops
will be conducted on a district-
wide basis by Ministry of Educa-
tion .specialists, and TDTA

president Helmut .Giesbrecht

pointed out to the board that if

- the TDTA instruction- -only cam-

paign is still in effect Oct. 2,
teachers will not attend. ©
Giesbrecht explained to the
board that prior to-the April 28
withdrawal of services in protest
of the Teaching Profession Act,
Federation
passed a series of ‘‘protective
measures’’: stipulating a prov-
ince-wide instruction-only ac-
tion if any school districts

penalized teachers for the one-.

day walkout. In three B.C.
school districts teachers still
have letters of reprimand for the
action in their files, and Gies-
brecht said the campaign will
continue until those letters are
removed,

If the three districts comply,
the local instruction-only action
could be ended Sept. 23, by a
general membership vote at the
TDTA’s scheduled meeting.

If the campaign doesn’t end
by Oct. 2, most local teachers
will boycott the workshops dur-
ing the non-instruction day and
hold school-based studies and
workshops of their own,

The board also had the option
of declaring a second non-
instruction day Oct. 16, which
would have allowed the Lang-

uage Arts session to'go ahead,
but by a five-to-one vote with

‘one abstention trustees decided

on. Oct.'2 in-apparent hope that

“the -instruction-only - “campaign -

will come to an end by then. -

SCHOLARSHIPS
ANNOUNCED

In the Superintendent's

Report to the board of School

District 88 at the first meeting of
the school year on. Sept.: 8
Frank Hamilton announced that
provincial government scholar-
ships of $1,000 each went to
1987 Caledonia grads Jorge
Marques, Steve Mantel, Ken
Veldman, Jim Pegg .and Lucas

Eades, and Hazelton Secondary

grad Karen Muir. District schol-
arships went to Trina Robinson

and Lisa McNeice from Cale-—

donia,and Vincent Muldoe from
Hazelton.

Trustee Nancy Orr announced.
the recipients. of Northwest’

Education ‘88’ Foundation
Scholarships. Happy Minhas
and. Deanne. Wilson were each
selected to receive the $500 Hans
G. Muehle scholarships, Helen
Hamel and Shawn Kenmuir each
received $550 Frank Morris
scholarships, Nicole Michaud
got the $575.Walter Yeo scholar-

ship, Bao Tam Diep received the .

$600 John and Ellen Bastin
scholarship, Steve Mantel was
chosen for the E. (Ted) Wells

‘scholarship of $600, arid Jorge

Marques received the $725 Dud-
ley G. Little bursary,

Hamilton advised the board
that the provincial government’s
*“Investment in the Future” pro-
gram introduced last year is still
active, and he spoke approvingly
of the additional money and
academic performance incen-
tives given to students in the pro-
gram, which provides up to $50
percent fee reductions to post-
secondary students with 2.8 to
3.7 grade averages,

Hamilton also suggested that
the program, combined with an
increase in money available for
student loans this year, could ac-
count for a reported shortage of

winter preparing for production and continuing drilling and exploration.

space in colleges and universities
as a higher number of students

are attracted by the financial

assistance: *
Hamilton “eoneluded: His’ ‘re.

port. by noting ‘that the number-

one academic graduate from
‘Cailedonia’s
enrolled at Northwest Commun-
ity College.

CAPITAL PLAN. APPROVED
At the. Sept. 8 meeting of the

School District 88 board, . trus-: -
tees approved capital project.

proposals for submission to the
Ministry of . Education totalling
$18,359,195,

Superintendent Frank Hamil-

ton said the proposal will be sent
to the Ministry for evaluation

. before Sept..15 and a response is

expected sometime during April

or May of 1988. .
Top-priority items in the pro-

posal include the construction of

a new secondary school in Haz--

elton at an estimated cost of
$7,537,750 and the construction
of another new school to replace

Terrace’s aging Skeena Junior —
Secondary at an estimated cost’

of $7,998,300.

Both major projects are
repeat requests from last year’s
submission. —

The remaining priority-one
projects mainly involve the con-

Struction of additional class-

rooms for existing schools,
replacement of portable class-
rooms with permanent struc-

tures, and the upgrading of fire

alarm equipment.
MINISTER MUTE

Education Minister Tony
Brummett has still not respond-
ed to a letter from School
District 88 protesting the in-
creasing burden of education
costs on residential taxpayers.

District superintendent Frank
Hamilton informed the local
board at a meeting Sept. 8 that
the letter was sent out shortly
after the last board meeting in
June,

Trustees resolved to have the
letter written after hearing a
delegation of local taxpayers

1987 class . has

kilograms of equipment into the

development. ‘from Wrangell,
Alaska...

Ron Adie, Skyline’s vice--
president of finance, said erec:

tion. of steel for the gold mill is”
scheduled .to begin during the -
; first. week -of October. Start-up-

is set-for January, and the. fol-
lowing month a 65-man-perma-:
nent crew will begin gold pro-
duction. . -

state ‘that the annual round « ‘of

-property ‘tax. hikes, is becoming

intolerable, ..
_ CONTRACTOR THANKED’.

_Far-Ko Contracting of. ‘Tet-
race will receive''a letter. of
thanks from the board of. School
District 88° for’ the company’ s

.. contribution to: renovating the

"- gontinued on page 21.

‘year. of $5.5 million. .
president of exploration Fred |

‘

Over 100 skilled tradespeople

from the Northwest and other |

regions of B.C. ‘are presently
working at the site, preparing a
permanent camp.

Adie said drifting, under-
ground drilling ‘and target drill-

Wednesday. September 16, 1987 a 7 |

Gold boom spurs — :
Northwest. economy —

ing programs will continue in’

order to upgrade published,

drill-indicated and drill-inferred |

reserves. Current published re-.
serves for the property are

_ 121,000 tons of ore grading 1.24
-ounces per ton of gold and 2.08
put the. finishing touches on a.
2,000-meter airstrip near the ©
-mine site this weekend, clearing -

ounces of silver. Total weighted
reserves, he said,: are 938,000
tons grading .75 ounces of gold
and 90 ounces of: silver.

Newhawk gold mines is enter-

ing stage two of. its 1987. pro-
gram, with a total budget for the

Vice-

Hewett said work on the Sul-
phurets property, a joint venture |

with Lacana and Granduc, will

' continue actively until the end dof
the year. a

The partners presently have

- ‘two drills working ‘to ‘upgrade

quoted reserves of 1.5° million

- — tons grading .33 ounces of gold
“2 per ton and 23.0 ounces of sil-
“ver, Hewett said there’ are pre-

sently 30 people’ working at the

“site, and a permanent camp
’’ Should be established by the end

of October. Materials are being.
. transported by tote road from

the vicinity of Stewart.

-. Hewett. said a prospectus has

been submitted to “the Mines
Steering Commmittee. and the

Stage I report is about 50 per-
cent complete. The report will be

- finished in late October; he said,

and a production decision will
-be made this winter.

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