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. _PARTICIPATE IN Air Canada’s ‘Heart of Gold’? Award Call your local community newspaper for detuils. Summer splashdown 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. swim lessons for everyone from @ waterbabies, parents and tots, up to adults, As an added ser- vice, our pre-school lessons are also offered in French! © 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! 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