30 Terrace Review —~ Wednesday, October 23, 1991

Another deadly accurate

forecast -

from school district estimator |

Skip Bergsma, the assistant
superintendent of School District
88, has once again proven why
he’s the envy of bureaucratic
| prognosticators. In a report filed
with the school board Oct. 8

Bergsma showed he had pre-

dicted the. number of students
enroled in the district within

four out of 5,387 pupils.

The forecast is of critical im-
portance because the district's
funding — and budget projection
— is based on student numbers.

Bergsma had predicted an
enrolment of 5,391 students; the
number as of Sept. 30, the date
the Ministry of Education uses

for funding, was 5,387. The

ministry’s estimate was 5,199.
Bergsma told the board that

minor staff additions had been

made to several schools in the

Worker
injured at
Ottawa St.
site |

A city water and sewer utility
worker was injured last Thursday
morning while working on the
Ottawa St. relocation project.

According to a Public Works
Department spokesman, the man
was working inside a shoring
cage when a piece of machinery
moved unexpectedly and broke

his arm. A Workers’ Compensa- |

- tion Board investigator has dis-
cussed the incident with city staff
and is apparently satisfied that an
internal Public Works investiga-
tion has fully addressed the acci-
dent and that a similar accident
will not occur again.

district but the number of.

teachers in the district still
remained within the full-time
equivalent limit specified in the
budget.

OF the total number of stu-
dents, 17 will not be funded in
the block because they are
Alaskan students attending
school in Stewart, for which the
board is paid directly by the
state of Alaska. The equivalent
of 18 other students was
deducted from the total because
full-time students who started
dual entry last year are only
funded at .8 — the board
received partial payment for
them last year before the dual
entry primary program was
cancelled by the Ministry. of

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tain to fail.”

“Squish. Your five minutes are .
up and you've given me absolute-
ly nothing new to think about.
Now, you’ve got a job to do and
you’re going to do it. Outline for
me one more time the five-year
plan you said would work, and

we'll begin taking the necessary _

steps to put it in place.”

“It's a plan I said might work,”
Squish retumed. “And it’s a plan I
recommended you never consid-
er.”

The room fell silent as both men
‘considered their options for ending
this impasse. Squish was the first
to make a decision. Perhaps if he

were to describe the scenario one |

more lime, RJ might decide it was

not such an attractive plan after
all.

“RJ,” Squish broke the silence.
“This decade is critical for the for-

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Education. The equivalent of
five full-time students in adult
programs who are taking less
than 640 hours of instruction
over the year was also deducted.
That leaves a total 5.219 stu-
dents in the funding block.
Bergsma told the board it should
receive about $140,000 from the
ministry for the enrolment over
their estimate in January 1992.

Aen
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est industry and everyone but you
seems to know it. The Ministry of
Forests has seen the writing on the
wall and reduced the size of clear
cuts. Many in the industry under-
stand. For the past couple of years
they have been, redirecting profits
into better management practices
and equipment for secondary man-
ufacturing. But you, if you like,
can follow this plan.” ;
And with that, Herby Squish
began to explain. Faced with
lower quality timber, the only way
to maintain profits was to cut the
cost of doing business. And this
could be done quite easily. By
building roads as cheaply as possi-
ble, for example, and abandoning
them when you're done. By deter-
ing some lovely weather. Regular
advantage of logging contractors,
and putting that knowledge to
good use.

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FROM THE TERRACE LEGION

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Contributed by

Lynda Hudson

As in many years previous, the
Frank Moris Royal Canadian Le-
gion #13 Bursary Fund has again
done their bit to assist some of the
deserving young people from our
community on their way to higher
education. This year bursaries
have been awarded in the total

amount of $12,000.00 to the fol-

lowing people:
Brenda Greening, taking her

Bachelor of Science at the Univer-
sity of Victoria.
Julia Gowe, taking Commerce at

UBC.

Peter Hepburn, Honors Program

_ in Political Science at University

of Victoria.

Randy MacFarlane, Law at Uni-
versity of Alberta.

Sheila Perry, Bachelor of Arts
and History at University of
Alberta.

Pam Kerr, Bachelor in Music in
Performance, University of Victo-
Tia. .

Kallie Swan, Bachelor of Agri-
culture, University of Saskatchew-
an.

Four of our members recently
attended the Fall Zone meeting in
Queen Charlotte City. Attending
were branch secretary and deputy
zone commander Maria Thomsen,
president Howard Cromarty, sec-
ond vice president Lynda Hudson
and first vice president of the
Pacific Command Mary Anne
Burdett. Also along were two

members of the Ladies Auxiliary -

who were attending their Zone
meeting, Adi Ryan and Lisa
Sorenson. The meeting was well
attended, with representation from

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all over the Zone. The residents of
‘Queen Charlotte City went all out
to make us.welcome, even provid-
ing some lovely weather. Regular
reports were given and. zone com-
mander Art Pugh gave a thought
provoking speech ‘on the impor-
tance of getting involved once we
join an organization.

As November approaches, so
does Remembrance Day. The
poppy and wreath campaign is
heating up. If you have not been
approached to buy a wreath and
you wish to purchase one, please
call the Legion at 635-5825 and
leave a message. The 747 Air
Cadets will be out on Nov. 1 and 2
selling poppies. There will also be
a table set up in the Skeena Mall
on the Friday from 6 to 9 p.m, and
Saturday from 10 to 4 p.m. If any-
one has a couple of hours to spare
to man the tables, please call Peter
at the Legion.

Remembrance Day Services will
once again be held on Nov. 11,
with the parade forming at Safe-
way at 10:15 a.m. Everyone will
march to the Tillicum Theatre for
the services and then to the ceno-
taph for the wreath laying.

The Bingo Palace has once again
very kindly offered to provide hot
dogs and hot chocolate for all the
children after the parade. The
Legion will of course be‘open to
members and guests following the
service and wreath laying. The
Ladies Auxiliary will be putting
on their annual dinner at 5 p.m.

Dates to Remember: Oct. 26 —
Halloween Dance. Nov. 1 and 2 —
Poppy Campaign. Nov. 1 - Steak
Night. Nov, 11 - Remembrance
Day. Nov. 12 - General Meeting.

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