Reading Place
starved for cash

TERRACE — Terrace’s literacy
centre is out of money.

Project Literacy Terrace
coordinator Nat Purcell says
there’s enough of the centre's

- initial. $50,000 1991 startup
grant left to keep The Reading
Place open with reduced hours
until the end of May.

After that what will happen
to the centre is up in the air.

“The . funding situation is
such that we're in great danger
of going the way of the dado,”’

~-Purcell) said last -week.
“Literacy programs are falling
apart all across B.C. We’re one
of the fortunate few that are
still going.’*

‘In. just over a year of
operating, the centre has placed
nearly 60 people with volunteer
literacy tutors or in its English
as a Second Language (ESL)
classes.

Purcell says the need for the
centre definitely exists.

“For every person who comes
in here there are probably five
who won't,’ he says,

One possible way the centre
could be saved is if it’s absorbed

.. by Northwest Community Col-
lege, which has received a
roughly $60,000 grant allocated
for literacy programming.

College literacy. coordinator
Larry Bolingbroke says that
money would be for the entire
college region, but added that a
decision on how to spend the
grant is expected by the end of
the month.

“Te's basically up to the
senior management at the col-
lege,’ he added.

Purcell says he believes a
sireetfront type of operation,
such as the Project Literacy cen-
tre in the old Anglican Church
building, is more accessible to
the people who need the service
than a classroom at the college.

“My own feeling is that
learners won’t go there,’’ he
said. ‘‘We'’re hoping the college
will honour this initiative.’’

Meanwhile, Purcell is work-
ing on some other options.

He said the centre hopes to
get a grant from the ministry of
social services to set up a scribe
service within the centre for
people who need to have things
read or written for them.

“There are people who don’t

. know how to read a bill or a let-

ter or a telegram they’ve receiv-
ed,”’ he said. ;

That grant would pay much
of the rent for the literacy cen-
tre.

UNBC names deans

TERRACE — Three deans have been appointed by Universi-
ty of Northern B.C. president Geoffrey Weller.

Dr. David Fish becomes dean of the faculty of health and
human sciences, Dr, Frederick Gilbert, takes the post of dean
of the faculty of natural resources and environmental studies
and Dr, William Morrison will be dean of research and
graduate studies. : ‘

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