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EDNA COOPER: Most Important part of education is in-
teraction between student and teacher.

: - The new chairman of the
_ School District 88 board says she

intends to open some of the

_.. board’s committee meetings to
». the. public.

‘Elections for the chairman

~and vice-chairman of the board
“were the first order of business

at the Dec. 5 meeting of School
District 88 trustees. Terrace

_- trustee Edna Cooper was elected
‘by acclamation.

Back door to gold fields

= Kitimat-Stikine Regional
‘District director Andy Burton

_. believes the provincial govern-
“ment has missed a golden oppor-

7 tunity, or at least an opportunity
-. for an alternate route to the
* Sulphuret and Iskut Valley gold »
fields. According to Burton, the

old Granduc mine road north-

_ ward out of Stewart ends at a
- blocked-off, but still usable,

11-mile-long tunnel that opens

into the Unuk. Valley and _ it

could conceivably be the
gateway to several northwest
gold reserves, ‘‘It’s a one-lane

-tunnel,”’ he says, ‘“‘but it’s big

enough to handle truck traffic.”’
- The Iskut Valley is actually

~~ one mountain range east of the
_ Unuk Valley, but that may not
“ matter. ‘“The mining area is in

the mountains in between,’’ he

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Cooper was nominated by
trustee Eva Daniels and_sec-

-onded by Delbert -Morgan.

Wayne Braid nominated Lavern
Hislop but failed to get. a sec-
onder. Val Napoleon, in her
second year as Chair, was
nominated for the position again
by Lavern Hislop with seconder
John Pousette, but she declined
the nomination,

the same area except you would
be accessing it from the south in-
stead of the north.’’ Besides,
says Burton, there’s gold on
both: sides of the mountain.
“The whole mountain is gold,”
he says, and a southern route
may even access more potential
gold properties than the ‘pro-
posed Bob Quinn-Iskut Valley
route.

As far as a route to Alaska,

however, the old Granduc route ~

may not have quite the potential

as the Bob Quinn route, “‘It.

wouldn’t access the Wrangell
area,”’ he says. ‘The Iskut route
is the way to access Wrangell.
There’s no question about that.
All we’re saying is it’s a route

that should have been looked at. -

It may or may not be viable, but
it should have been looked at.”

POLICE -
-ROADCHECKS

Strengthen the board,
. prove all its relations, to take us
- onward and upward with the

in an "interview . after the
meeting Napoleon, still looking
somewhat shaken as the result of
being involved in an automobile

accident two days before, said

‘she refused the nomination due
to other commitments, having
joined the board of the pro-
vincial Legal Services Society
recently,

‘Cooper said in her acceptance
speech, ‘I believe the most im-
portant part of education is the
interaction of student and

teacher. Our job is to make that-

interaction as meaningful . as
possible. As Chair, my job is to
to im-

new School Act.’” .
-Kitwanga trustee Delbert
Morgan was elected vice-
chairman by acclamation on a
nomination by Val Napoleon,

. seconded by Eva Daniels.

Cooper said in a later inter-

view that one of her priorities’
will be restructuring of the.

board’s committee system, an

aspect of the ‘board’s operations

that has beer, an ongoing prob-
lem.
In the past most of the

board’s nuts-and-bolts work has .

gone on in two to five-member
committees. Cooper noted. that
because the board meets as a
whole only once a month, the
issues that come up between
meetings are frequently put on
committee agendas by the
trustee heading the committee
without first coming before a
public meeting of the board.
During her first term in the
Chair position, Val Napoleon
disbanded all the smaller com-
mittees and attempted to chan-
nel all issues through a

committee-of-the-whole. system.

That effort was abandoned after
a year because it was too
cumbersome; the district
geography, worked against it,
with trustees being forced to
commute long distances among
the population centers of
Hazelton, Terrace and Stewart.

Cooper said she intends ‘to
establish a combination of small
committees in concert with
committee-of-the-whole meet-
ings held between dates of public
board meetings. Those com-
mittee-of-the-whole . meetings,
which could be used to refer
matters to smaller committees,
should be open to the public, she
said.

If the system is put into opera-
tion, it will be the first time that

the public would be allowed un-.

restricted access to any school
board committee meetings.

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