A2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, June 20, 1990

-Skeena: Cellulose scholarship fund

_ by Tod Strachan |

Skeena Cellulose has made a
permanent commitment to. the
continuing education of our next
generation. A $1,000 cheque pre-
sented to the Northwest Education
"88" Foundation last week was the
first instalment ina seven-year
commitment by Skeena Cellulose
that will see a $500 scholarship
given out annually in perpetuity.
Priority for this scholarship will be
given to students who intend to
enter some form of forestry-related
post-secondary education.

Over the next seven years,

Skeena Cellulose will donate
$1,000 to the. foundation; $500 for
the. current. year’s. scholarship.and

$500 to be invested in an endow-
ment fund. This endowment fund |

will then grow annually by: $500

plus the accumulated interest. in -

the long. term, this is small in-
vestment with a very large return.
After seven years, the interest
alone will sustain a perpetual $500
scholarship for forestry students.
Skeena Cellulose spokesman,
Andy Avison, says that through
their investment the company and
its employees are offering positive
support for local students and they

hope that this offer of finasiciel
assistance will encourage students
.fo...pursue. . their... post-secondary
education.

annual ‘and perpetual ‘Scholarships
-in Schoo! District'88, The founda-

tion’ works independent -of. the §
school district and accepts dona- -
tions from any source, private or:

corporate, that are invested in the
future of our youth. For more
information on the foundation,

contact Harold Cox, director of’

instruction, at the School District
88 office in Terrace.

Condom pros and cons

While trustees on the board of
School District 88 debated the
pros and cons of installing con-
dom machines in school wash-
rooms as a public health mea-
sure and a moral question,
board chairman Edna Cooper
took a wider view of the issue
during discussion at the June 12
board meeting.

Cooper spoke after the other
eight trustees had summarized
their feelings on the issue.

‘‘People have to decide what
they want the education system
to be,’’ Cooper said. ‘‘There are
tremendous pressures on the
education system, and the public
lacks awareness of those pres-
sures. The schools are evolving
into a child care system... socie-
ty has to recognize that and be
prepared to
schools.”’

On the specific issue of install- -

ing the machines, Cooper said,
‘Is it a moral issue, a health
issue or an education issue? I
believe it’s all three.’’ She gave
credit to opponents of the pro-
posal, saying they mounted

support the-

good presentations on moral
grounds, but added the follow-
ing: according to the Skeena
Union Board of Health, 12 per-
cent of the babies born in north-
western B.C. during 1989 were
born to teenage mothers - twice
the provincial average, and
seven percent of those babies are
viewed by authorities as being at
risk; there were five new HIV
(Humna Immunodeficiency Vi-
rus) positive tests in the health
unit area last year, three of them
teenagers; the rate of sexually
transmitted disease occurrance
in this region is the highest in the
province.

“T don’t think it (installing the
machines) condones promiscui-
ty. Children who have been
taught how to handle themselves
and have pride in themselves
won’t be affected. ‘s

“If we’re going to educate our :

children to be responsible, to
protect themselves, we have to.
do it on all levels... Sexuality is
one of the strongest drives, they
have to be taught to recognize
the good and the bad sides of it,

School calendar set

In addition to the opening and
closing dates and holiday
closures: in local schools, the

board of School District 88 has-

now set ‘several days in the
1990-91 school calendar aside as
non-instructional days.

At its final meeting of the
school year June 12 the board
approved Oct, 19, Nov. 23, Feb.
22, March 15 and May 3 as days
when students will be out of
school to allow professional
development sessions for
teachers. Caledonia school will
not be in session Jan. 31 for the
semester turn-around day,
schools will be dismissed for one

day — Feb, 1 — during the
Northern B.C, Winter Games,
and June 28 has been designated
as a year-end administrative
day.

At the end of the meeting
Greig Houlden, president of the
Terrace District Teachers’
Association, expressed concern
that non-instructional days were
still a matter for negotiation be-
tween the district and the union,
and asked the board if its ap-
proval of the schedule was a
commitment that would in-
terfere with bargaining. The
board offered the opinion that it
would not,

we have to teach them to regu-
late it!

Trustee Wayne Braid, has a
somewhat different view of what
the schools should teach. ‘We
have programs that teach kids to
say ‘no’ to alcohol and drugs.
We should help them say ‘no’ to
sex, teach them that they have a
choice. By putting condoms is
schools, we’re saying, ‘It’s all
right’.’’

Braid concluded by quoting
from Dr. David Suzuki: ‘‘Our
only hope is through education
and changing people’s
behavior.”’

Travel budget
frozen

With only minor changes |

secondary schools in School
District 88 will have virtually the
same travel budget for all ac-
tivities that they had last year
dedicated to athletic travels
alone

in ‘the budget passed by the
board this year to stay within the
block allocation from the Minis-
try of Education and avoid a
local referendum froze the travel
budget at $35,000. On June 12
the board ratified a proposal by
director of: instruction Harold

Cox to fund travel only for the §

six secondary schools in the
district.

Trustee Eva Daniels expressed
regret at the limitations imposed
on school travel, noting that in
the board’s preliminary budget
deliberations there was an addi-
tional $40,000 for school travel.
She suggested the board make a
commitment to expanding the
budget in 1991-92. ‘If we
believe that travel is a broaden-
ing experience, we should put
our money where our mouth

. is,’’ Daniels remarked,

GRADE 7 7 THORNHILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS display | a quilt they made to raise

funds for year-end school activities, Winner of the quilt In thelr June 11 raffle was John Bangay.

- Northwest. Education nggr Foun-|
dation maintains. a number of:

SKEENA CELLULOSE REPRESENTATIVE Andy Avison (right),
made the first of seven annual $1,000 payments to Harold Cox of
the Northwest Education "88" Foundation last week. The effect of
this Skeena Cellulose commitment will last much longer than
seven years, however. It means there is now a perpetual $500

scholarship available to local students interested in forestry as a
career.

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