Bao Lanh Diep and Nicole Jones were honored with RCMP
citizenship awards during presentations at the Skeena
Junior High School’s awards day on June 29.

The award for outstanding
achievement in Grade 9 at Thorn-
hill Junior High School went to
Nicole Collison.

Names
missed

in the June. 29 issue of the
Terrace Review, a story carried
on -page 19 concerning the an-
nual awards ceremony at
Caledonia’ Senior Secondary
School failed to mention five
_ ‘students who were honored for
-being named to the school’s
Honor Roll four successive
times this year. .

They are Grade 12 students
Michelle Hendry, Connie Arau-
jo, David Long Vu and Jann
Marie Wilson, and Grade 11 stu-
dent Keith Fell.

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trom the Terrace
Aquatic Centre
The Terrace Aquatic Centre
has everything anyone could
want in a fitness and recreation
centre. Whether you like to
swim laps, lift weights,
aquacize, tan or just belly-flop,
we can make sure your needs are
met.
The Terrace Aquatic Centre
offers a huge assortment of

While other schools in the
province may worry about na-
tive students achieving parity
within our education system,

watches them graduate and go
on to post-secondary institutions
at about the same rate as their
non-native peers.

~The class of ’$8 had 81 grads,

45 of.them native. These figures
may drop by three or four if
some grade 12’s don’t pass their
provincial exams, but they’re
just as likely to be white as
native, vice-principal Bob
Turney said.

There is no magic formula to
achieving this enviable equality.
“The kids feel comfortable,
there’s a good atmosphere in the
school, teachers are sensitive,
and there’s support in the com-
munity,’ Turney summarized.

About 68 per cent of the total
student population of 400 to 450
identify themselves as native,
but approximately 10 per cent

Hazelton Secondary School .

don’t identify themselves as
native or non-native. And at
Hazelton Secondary, appear-
ances can be deceiving. “You
could be talking with a student
and not realize that student was
a status Indian, while another
you might assume is native is
not,” the vice-principal said.
‘‘This makes for a healthy mix

where everyone feels comfor-

table.”’

In fact, many native students
from other areas choose to
transfer into Hazelton Secon-
dary, feeling it’s a good school
for natives, although this repu-
tation is not the result of a con-
scious effort. Many of the
students from the school’s draw-
ing area are native; in fact 85
percent are bus students from
surrounding native towns and
villages. Some of the teachers
have been native, some of the
white teachers are married to
natives. ‘‘Almost every white
person around here has a

Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 6 1988 11

- Equality works at Hazelton school

relative somewhere who’s mar-
ried to a native, and the same
goes for natives who have white
relatives. These mixed marriages
make people much more sensi-
tive to each other’s cultures,”’
Turney said. He couldn’t re-
member a single incidence of ra-
cial tension or violence within
the school. .

The native students support.
each other in continuing their
studies, something which might
be more difficult if they were
only a small 5 percent minority,
Turney commented. And the
community and parents are be-
coming more and more involved
in education, more and more
sensitive to the importance of

schooling.
Quite a number of these

native and white graduates will
be going on to college or univer-
sity, but all of them will have the
scholastic advantage of learning
with and from each other as
equals.

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waterbabies, parents and tots,
up to adults, As an added ser-
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Other programs running this
summer include Esso Swim
Canada, a course that develops
competitive swimming skills.

‘Also, springboard diving, new

synchronized swimming and the
new Youth Life Saving Club
(‘Look Out Aussies’).

If you like a challenge, the
Terrace Aquatic Centre has

several leadership awards pro-—

grams that you may want to pur-
sue. Among these are the Bronze
Medallion and Bronze Cross
awards, a boat rescue award and
the National Lifeguard Service
award,

To close, we would also like to
let you know about our aquacize
classes! Imagine — a fitness
class in the pool — ultra low-
impact, no swimming skills re-
quired and refreshingly cool.

‘For our new moms or moms-to-

be, we offer pre- and post-natal
aquacize classes to help you
maintain or achieve a new level
of fitness.

So, take the plunge! Visit us at
the Terrace Aquatic Centre and
have a splashingly great time!
For pool schedules and coming
events, please call 635-9212. For
further information about any
of our programs, check your
new summer brochure or call the

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