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TERRACE — School board
“> trustees - will hold’ a’ public
_michines in schools,
| The, decision » :
- Presentation “last: “w

the issue by not discussing it:
Board ‘chairman Edna
- | 7:30 pam. That decision came in

‘made their’ presentation at an
“Open meeting April 10.

newspaper, I would like to
know what’s going on with the

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- Meeting on installing condom,

ollows a

st’ Week from
_, local high school ‘students who’
f : accused. the board of avoiding |

: Cooper said trustees agreed to
‘hold a public-meeting May 15 at :
‘a closed ‘session. after students’

_ On behalf of the Caledonia
Senior Secondary school

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condom machine issue,’ Devon

"Kuiper, editor of The BearTrap

'y told: trustees, “The students

feel the.board is not doing

anything .with the subject. In

fact,they feel’ the board is .

Afraid of the subject.”
| Northwest’ school. boards

-, have beet dealing with the issue
Since ‘last’ December, when’ the
-Skeena ‘Union Board-of Health

recommended they. install con-

“domimachines ‘in: high ‘school

washrooms as:a way of preven-
ting’ the spread of AIDS,
Kitimat’s : school -board has
voted’ against ‘the machines,
while “ Queen Charlotte and.

Prince Rupert trustees” have’.

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Terrace trustees discussed in-
Stalling the machines during an
in-camera committee meeting in
January, The: issue was then
tabled. fe,

Cooper told. the. students the

oard isn't afraid of the issue,
but a trustee: would’ ‘have: to
make a motion’.to’: have it
brought back: up for discussion,

Kuiper. called ‘the -board’s
methods furtive and ‘evasive,
“It almost ‘seems ‘like -they’re
hiding - behind the ‘in-camera
Meeting,”. he added... 7
.. Cooper adinitted the condom
debate doesn’t fall’ within the
‘board’s. guidelines. for in-
Camera discussion.::--..'

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door debate of the topic, noting we
that trustees sometimes aren’t My
comfortable speaking out open-
ly on sensitive issues.”

Cooper said she‘ wants the
final. vote on the issue taken in
public, hopefully at the board's
June 12 meeting. She said that
would give trustees ‘nearly a
month to digest the opinions of
Parents, students and teachers
at the public forum, and to

, make a decision, -

Kuiper said he has surveyed
ihe students and found 86 per
cent support for installing con-
dom machines in high school |
washrooms. But he stressed he
has no personal opinion in the §
matter, and just wants to see

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‘for the-city, i
hired. under a provincial’ pro- _
' gram tolook at. ways to dive

voted:in fayour..

But she defended the closed.

trustees address the issue.

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SP,

TERRACE — A large paving
project stretching west of Ter-
race on Hwy16 is on a list of
preferred highways projects this
year.

Regional highways manager
Jon Buckle says the -ministry
wants to repave up to 43km but
that the final amount depends
on budget allocations.

“It could be a two-year pro-
ject, how far we'll go. will de-
pend on the money,”* he'said,

The amount of paving this
year also depends on how the
work would fit in with other im-
provement projects scheduled
for that stretch of Hwyl6,
Buckle added. Se

Among those are a passing
lane at Zymacord Hill and im-

<f Proving drainage on. Shames
[> Flat; “a. section“ of road.wwhich
runs immediately beside the CN .

rail tracks,

The paving is one of four ma-
jor improvement projects
wanted by the ministry. Next
closest one to Terrace is a.con-
tinuation of grading and seal
coating on Hwy37.

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Also on the list of expected

TERRACE — High schools and
counselling programs across the
country will soon have the
chance to view the efforts of a
group of local drama students,

Project Squeeze, last year's
Skeena Junior Secondary
School’s drama production on
the use and abuse of alcohol
amiong young people, is on
video cassette,

Project Squeeze was two
drama productions — a major

TERRACE — Local teachers
Charge the school board tied
when it announced three weeks
ago that money “has. been

- budgeted for a six per cent in-

‘erease in teachers’ salaries and’
‘benefits. “ ,
< Terrace District Teachers’:

Association.“ (TDTA) presitien

“Greig Houlden: said the. union:

- foiind: out: in “bargaining
_ Meetings “last week “benefits

* ‘aren't included in the increase.-

‘They've misrepresented

says’ Doug Smith, -

enior services wanted

a social ‘and: .
ptient project’

Teachers dispute wa

their bargaining intentions,’” he
‘said. “They created the impres-
sion that they would make:an
which they haven't delivered on
at the négotiating table,” ,,

clude benefits.

- The: figure represents:a pool-;
of. money. meant’ to’ cover ‘the.
cost of settling the entire con:

tract, Chapman explained.” ~ .
“The less they ask to ‘have

Offer on, salaries ‘and benefits .

placed on benefits, the more
_ they'll get on their salaries,” she
Said. ‘'There’s: iiot an endless
‘supply of money. There's only a
certain amount.”

ble, - : "That, means wages will go up
- School board, trustee “Kris
Chapman confirmed: the
“. estimated: increase does: not.in- ;

by considerably Jess than six per
cent-if the union seeks benefits
increases, Houlden ‘noted. And
‘he said. other’ items that are
“negotiated that cost money ~
such ‘as decreases in class sizes
— will alsa come out of the six

~ Per cent figure,” ©.
» \ Houlden‘also said In a letter

ge rate

to ‘local. ‘teachers. the board
wants to make.it easier to fire
teachers’ it: considers. incompe-
tent. ee

The. *school: board's
negotiating tedm wants to
reduce .the requirement for
dismissing “teachers “for poor
performance’ from two bad
reports within a year, the letter
stated, to two. bad. reports

within six months: |
“This issue promises to be a

major one,’ Houlden said in

the letter...

two-hour play called Squeeze
and Juice, a series of vignettes.

Each one was taped and
edited by Skeena Broadcasters.
Backing up those two efforts is

Devon Kuiper

Big paving
project seen

Major projects are im-
provements to. approximately
100km of the Nass Valley road.
The road fell under three
jurisdictions but became the
sole reponsibility of the
highways ministry April 1,
Buckle said improvements to
the stretch between Greenville
and Aiyansh to raise the road’
bed above flooding levels and
reconstruction: leading north
from where the pavement ends
near Rosswood are scheduled.
Northcoast Road
Maintenance Ltd., the private
contractor taking care of roads
and bridges, has set up shop at
Nass Camp, ;
Company general manager
Mike Zylicz said’ three
employees have already been

assigned to ‘take-care- of-road. -

maintenance,

The company is negotiating
with the highways ministry for
extra money for the work,

That arises from a contract
provision which states -more
money shall be paid if. the
highways ministry adds roads to
its jurisdiction that amount. to
more than five per cent of ex-
isting roads.

‘Squeeze’ on tape

drama programs in other
schools understand what's in-
volved in putting on major pro-
ductions.

“We've got quite a lot of re-
quests — from the Saskat-
chewan Drug and Alcohol
Commission to schools to
alcohol treatment centres,’’ said
Murray.

e.per.ton with.
pward adjust-
de i on,

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