: NA OS Skier on Oldfield’s art room wall Art students at Skeena use images of their own By KEN ROBINSON ' AtSkeena Junior Secondary Schoo! the student of art is encouraged to collect a set of personal imagery with which he or she can work com- fortably and build upon. The imagery must then be explored to its fullest by using a wide range of techniques and . mediums. A monthly sketch hook is required by each student so that progress as well as a sequence of thought can he cataloqued. Class projects are sequential in that performance on one is somewhat correlated with the standing achieved on the preceding assignments. Areas of study in a standard art class at the Skeena are : sketching with pencil, charcoal, conte crayon; painting and colour theory, water colour, acrylic, oild; printing with a found ob- ject, lino cuts, stencils, frottage; and sculpture in wire, clay and plaster. Other projects include copper enameling, pottery, batik, a minimal amount of. Silkscreening and history of art. Ed Oldfield has an active art club at Skeena which has completed many worthwhile projects both inside and out of the school. Students have painted eight large murals and several doors throughout the school. _. Visuals for a narrated Christmas presentation produced and aired by CFTK in 1978 were completed by the more advanced students of the art department. A poster for Terrace Little Theatre's production “Vanities” was designed and printed at Skeena School. Large banners decorating the arena during Pee-Wee hockey tournament were made by students who wished to contribute their time and talents. Recently a large mural for municipal hall was completed and can be seen hanging in the main hall of that building, - Several art club projects have been planned for this year. Included in this year's plans are ‘three murais for the arena, one for the swim- ming pool and three for the school’s new cafeteria. The art club will also be taking an active part in preparing decorations for school dances. ". Those students who were at the firat school dance of the year congratulated the art depart- ment on a job well done. Bennett huddles with his caucus VICTORIA (CP) — Premier Bill HBennett planned to huddle with his caucus today to plot ways to keep a minor party revolt and the ever-widening dirty tricks scandal from walking off with the party's annual convention, ' Normally, the caucus would meet after fey ing y convention, Thursday in Vancouver, to discuss any resolutions passed and plot strategy. But party insiders said Bennett convened today’s session in part to remind the caucus who ia boas and settle any question of his leaderahip before it spills onto the con- vention floor. The dirty tricks affair, now the subject of a province- wide investigation by the RCMP, may prove more difficult to control, The seandal, which centres on a campaign by party workers to forge letters to newspaper editors In support of the party, has touched the pre- mier's office and miy be a critical factor in questions of party Jeadership. ; The affair had fust emerged as Bennett prepared to leave on a trade mission to Asia. He returned to find a awarm of reporters -waiting atthe airport with no interest in his talks with Japanese industrialists, the resignations of two party employees on his desk and a host of rumors in cir- nultation. : Party critica’ claims that Deputy Premier tgrace McCarthy and other cabinet ministers did nothing to contain the scandal while the boss was away have fuelled criticism that Bennett is attempting to run the party ag a one-man show. Bennett was initially accused of trying to seize complete control of the party when he appointed his friend and personal campaign manager Hugh Harris as party executive director. John Gilchrist, the party provinelal director ousted in the move, charged that the party was being turned into a ranch plant of the premier'’s office, but later withdrew the remark, Party members also say they are perplexed why Bennett has postponed a cabinet shuffle overdue by more than five months, an expected reorganization of ministries and appointments Want to be a star? BURNABY, B.C, (CP) — Police in the Vancouver area have followed i their leagues e Okanagan community of Vernon into the television business, RCMP here videotaped their first documentary early Sunday, a five-minute short of a suspected im- paired driver picked up in Burnaby. The tape will be be admissable in cotrt. ‘ Vancouver police have trained eight policemen to use videotape equipment and will begin ualng it in mid- November. The program, which started as an ex- clment in Vernon, now has en expanded to Prince George, Cranbrook, Bur- naby, Richmond and Sasnich. Drivers suspected of being impaired are asked to lake a breathalyser teat for the cameras and then perform a fivestep balance test, which includes walking a stralght Ine and touching the nose with a finger. . The tape will be wed as supporting evidence to replace police officer's verbal descriptions of .an individual's actlona, said Richard Issac, a lawyer in the attorney-general's office, “It’s not a departure. It’s just a better method of presenting the same evidence which has always been presented, If anything, it is likely to be more ac- curate over an extended period of time than relying on an officer's recollection,” is f In the past, he said, police have always described behavior in such terms as “he stumbled, , .dropped his matches. . .couldn’t walk a straight Ine. . .feli inta a wall,"’ Just as a person can refuse a breathalyser test, he also can refuse to perform the balance test, sald Issac, but the cameras will stil! follow the Individual’s movements. The videotape evidence has been used twice in Vernon since the balance to fill three vacant portfolios. The convention also will “aMler party faithful thelr first chance to question the government about the near- disastrous May 10 provincial election. The campaign, under Bennett's direction, Baw the OQppodition NDP capture 47 per cent of the popular vote and cut Social Credit's majority of 35 of 55 Beats to 31 ‘of 57. Controversial cabinet declaiona to spring farmland from the Agricultural Land Reserve for development, sloppy drafting of legialation, the govern- ment’s fallure to deliver a promised energy policy and & proposal to replace the regional district system of local government with county counciia are also expected to come under fire. If that .were not enough, the dirty tricks ‘affair con- Unues to unfold by the day, The latest twist involves the forgery of the name of a promlnent NDP supporter on a Social Credit membership form in the Yale-Lillooet riding. . NDPer J. K. Brown Sr. says news of his alleged switch to Social Credit was spread throughout the constituency in an apparent attempt to discredit the NDP just before the provincial election. He said he considered the matter a bad joke, but took the matter to the RCMP after the dirty tricks disclosures and agreed to preas charges lf the person who committed the forgery ‘ound, Bennett tried to laugh off the initlal disclosures that party workers had told members ta "play dirty” in the electlon campaign and followed that with advice on how to forge letters to the editor lauding Social Credit and damning the NDP, Later, Bennett said that the distribution of 170 tape recordings of the in- atructiona to local party organizations was a result of disorganization and in- competence within the test experiment began there party this summer, and has resulted In one conviction and one acquittal. However many others who asked to appear on tape, believing they were sober, pleaded guilty after seeing themselves perform. Attorney-General Garde Gardom has said the Vernon experiment resulted in a 40- percent drop in not-guilty pleas : Bennett says he will present a resolution to the convention “Instructing the executive to develop an ethics commitiee on stan- dards to be brought back to the convention in 1580 for ap- proval." Whether a code of ethics and a promise of good behavier are enough to contain the scandal seems unlikely. The Herald, Wednesday, October 31, 1977 Page % a ~ TERRACE-KITIMAT SECOND SECTION \. a, Natives get inquiry ALERT BAY, B.C. (CP) — . Members of the Nimpkish Indian Band have welcomed inquiry’ into the delivoey of very 0 health services to Indians living on northern Van- couver Island and nearby mainland areas, But they are concerned about the death of a 16-year. old Indian girl who died in hospliat Friday of a drug overdose, : Band members have been calling for an inquiry since the death Jan. 22 of Rene Smith, an 11-year-old Indian girl who died of a ruptured appendix and gangrenous appendix, A coroner's jury in June Tuled the doctor who at- tended the girl, Dr. Jack Pickup, was negligent. “Mayhe some af the things we want to get out will come up in this inquiry,” sald band member Bill Cranmer, “We hope that after this Inquiry is over we can determine how our people can get the beat health care.” Cranmer said that in September, when federal Health Minister David Cromble visited Alert Bay, on an island off northeastern vane Island, he prom consider an in- quiry. Crombie's executive assistant, Skip Brookes, announced Tuesday that a one-person Inquiry will begin SOON. Cranmer sald the band also wants to know why an inquest has not been Into the death Friday of Withholding food OK VANCOUVER (CP) — The Surrey School Board has been cleared of wrongdoing in the practice of withholding food from retarded atudents after an investigation by the B.C. human resources ministry. The investigation has con- cluded that officials at Simon m Schoo] in the Vancouver suburb = did nothing that could be Elizabeth Robertson, 16. She had been living with an aunt since her monther died id months ago, but had been in a provincial government receiving home for about a week before she died. Coroner William Deadman said he has not called an in- quest because an au has not yet been performed, He said he will decide whether to call an Inquest after receiving autopsy. reports “and it could take twoo or three weeks to get the Information back,” regarded as child abuse or neglect, The ministry ordered the Investiation after a sister of & retarded student at: the school complained ‘that teachers were withholding lunches and snacks as a form of punishment, The practice was halted even though school officials defended it as an acceptable form of training, INCREASED RATE OF RETURN The rate of interest on the new Series of Canada Savings Bonds has been increased to 11% for the ‘first year and 102% for each of the remaining 6 years. The new average annual yield to maturi on the Bonds is 10,59%, Every- one who has already bought, or who buys new Canada Savings Bonds will get these higher rates, even though the bond certificates have the old rate printed on them. 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