2 Loree Sopra AR aa) ms GERRY KING: The need i is there, the need is real. The Terrace Anti-Poverty Group was recently registered as a society under the B.C. Societies Act and has elected their first board of directors. Elected to the board were Gail Murray, Flo Bork, Gerald King, Margaret Kennedy, Mary Bowering and Tirso Morales. A second meeting held at 12 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3 at the Women’s This new contender from JONSERED with its stronger mid-section con really toke a beating. The Super 670 packs o donsered Super 670 Takes on the Heavyweights! D OWill out cut anything i in its class Resource Centre will decide which position each director will fill. As described by the society’s volunteer coordinator, Gerald King, the five-year history of the Terrace Anti-Poverty Group has identified several needs in our community —~ some of which they have filled and others which they are still attempting to ad- dress. Originally founded by Flo Bork and Art Grawberg in 1983, the Terrace Anti-Poverty Group’s first project was to set up a soup kitchen in the Anglican Church Hall for low or fixed income people who may otherwise have gone hungry dur- ing the recession of the early 80's. King says. he was first in- troduced to the program in 1983 while working on his practicum ‘during the final month of a two- year Human Service Worker program at Northwest -Com- munity College. He says that at from 8 a.m, to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday, and he worked three to four hours a day for four months before he finally decided to stay. His reason, he says, was that he could see the need and wanted to help, . ‘At that time the soup kit- chen served 85 to 115 people dai- ly,’” remembers King, ‘‘and about 25 to 40 of those were school students from Clarence Michiel, E.T. Kenney, and toa lesser extent, Skeena Junior Secondary.”’ He recalls that the kitchen also served a great number of ‘‘street kids” who he says used the facility as sort of a social club where they played card games or just sat around and talked during the day. ‘‘During that time,’’ says King, ‘‘those kids didn’t ‘hang out’ in the mall, But when the soup kitchen closed they returned and that that time, the kitchen was open | : one It's Cool... It’s Fast... {t's Tough Terrace Review — Wednesday, September 28, 1988 15. showed a need for some sort of facility with suitable programs.”’ It was 1985 when the soup kit-. chen closed and King moved to the Unemployment Action Cen- tre, where he worked alongside Bill Goodacre and continued to represent the Anti-Poverty Group as an advocate for low and fixed income people. And here again, King says he found a real need — this time for counselling and advocacy work for those whose income was below the poverty line. In 1986 the Anti-Poverty. Group again found themselves in a crisis situation when B.C. Federation of Labour funding for the Unemployment Action Centre was discontinued. However, King says, his group was able to maintain the office and continue their work by using a little money left over from the soup kitchen, and through the J Anti- -poverty group elects board members support of concerned citizens, B.C. PLURA (a body made up of the Pentacostal; Lutheran, United, Catholic and Anglican Churches), the Fort St. John Anti-Poverty Group, the Kitimat-Terrace & District’ Labour Council, the Knights of Columbus, the Terrace and District Teachers Association, Canada Safeway and Tillicum Twin Theatres. With some of the community needs now identified, the group is now gearing up for two major projects: a Job Skills Training program geared to long term social assistance recipients, and the Poverty Game. King ex- plains that the Poverty Game is for everyone, 4 game — or more accurately a workshop — that was developed by Outreach, a member of the Federation of Anti-Poverty Groups of B.C. continued on page 22 YOUR HOMETOWN LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL ESSAY AND ART CONTEST Submissions are still being accepted for the Review’s Editorial Art and Essay Contest. Grade 11 and 12 students are eligible for $100 for the best Essay and £100 for the best Editorial Cartoon. powerful punch. % Accept the chollengs and ba o cut above the rest. el onsered ProLine A CUT ABOVE THE REST SEE THE JONSERED SUPER 670 AT YOUR DEALER RIVER INDUSTRIES (TERRACE) LTD. P.O, BOX 538.— TERRACE, B.C. VAG 485 5130A HIGHWAY 16 WEST 635-7383 CO-OP FUN CAR RALLY. Scavenger Hunt on Wheels - Co-op Parking Lot Sunday, October 2, 1988 Starting at 1:00 p.m. Register at the Co-op Insurance Office Entry limited to 30 vehicles Entry Fee $10 per vehicle. 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The issues that will come under discussion are familiar: what students should be offered, how it will be paid for and by whom, the interrelationships of students, parents, administrators, teachers and elected officials, and in fact what should and should not be expected of the public education system, These questions have all been given a departure point by the release last month of the final report by the Royal Commissioner on Education, Barry Sullivan. The report, despite some shortcomings, is probably better than would have been expected con- sidering the time limitations and the vastness of the subject. A major area of concentration in the report is the changing role of the schools: aside from the nuts and bolts of education, schools are now, willingly or other- VaHDeR itl Nal aU TRAD...