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- Five:
programmes.

vexisting French

‘separate “Burdary..
far

Cotumbia teachers and students

‘wishing ‘lo increase their

fluency in the French language

-Willoperate this year, ac--

cording to an announcement
‘from: the Honourable Eileen

-Dailly, Minister. of Education.

.The programmes will be
financed: In the main by the
‘Federal Government and ad-
ministered by the Council of
Ministers of Education through
the various provincial depart-
ments of educalion. oo

The bursary funds are in
addition to French Language
Support Grants which school
districls can use Lo supplement
language
programmes. Until jast year
these Federal funds went into
general provincial revenue but

last spring. the Minister an-
nounced [ey would be used for
such supplementary. Janguage
Iraining \Vaids -. as. -lapes,
lelevision.. (programmes, in-
service teacher training, etc.
School districts may alsa ‘use
(hemoney to pay for their share

British .

’ courses.

of roerammel io begin’ or
extend French language classes
in the elementary schools. In
these specific cases 50 per cent

of the cost is borne by Ottawa. .
The five bursary program-~

mes for student and teachers
for which detailed information
and application forms are
available from. the Student-
Services Branch, Department
of Edueation, are:

i, The Summer Language
Bursary Programme, for
students who have obtained
post-secondary status, provides «
$610 for room and board and
tuition at institutions offering
second language summer
Students must pay
their own transportation ‘ta the
location of six week's im-
mersion course,

2. Summer Bursaries for
Teachers of French are
available. for leachers who '

-wish to improve either their

fluency... or teaching °

methodology. or attend French .

language course.- Bursaries
amount to $50 a week for a
maximum of six weeks and, in

addition, caver = transportation
costs up to $200. Bursaries may
be used at any recognized in-
stitution in Canada or -France.
3. French Language
Fellowship valued al $2,000 are
available to post-secondary
students and to teachers who
wish to study for a year at a
French: language university in
Canada. Sixty-two are
available in B.' C.
-4. Bursaries in the amount of
$3,000 plus return tran-
sportation are available to B.C.
university students to study at

aFrench language university in

Canada if they will also act a5 a
part-lime assistant loa teacher
of English at a French janguage
secondary school nearby.

-5, Twenty-five B,C. Teachers
are being selected, on exchange
with 25 Quebec teachers,
for a four-week cultural tour of
Quebec, Cost of Lransportation,
board and ream will be paid by
the Department of Education:
In this case applications should
be’ made throwgh® district.
superintendents ‘of schools.

Communicatively Impaired —

The MinJster of Health, the
Hon. Dennis Cocke announced
today that a Task Force has

been established to recommend:

ways of implementing the
report of the Committee on the
Communicalively Impaired in
B.c., which was tabled in
Legislative by the. Minister. -
The Task Force, chaired by Dr.
John Gilber, (U.B.C.) has as

members; Dr. Hugh Richards ©

and Mr. David Zink, Depart-
ment of Health ; Dr. R. Duncan
. Department of Human
Resources: Mr, J: Walsh,
Department of Education and
Dr.
R.E,A.C.H. Project,
couver,

Van-

The Task Force will be”

making recommendations on a
number of problem areas:
standards* for service, the

provision. of hearing-aids, the -

R.Tonkin, Director of -¢

' Hearings

the communicatively impaired,

methods for increasing the .

numbers of trained personnel

-and methods. for developing _
community and. continuing *.

professional educalion.. The
Task Force which has been
meeting since December 1973,
hopes 10, make - preliminary

recommeidations By June, of

Ahis year.

“alchough established by the

4

‘Skeeria Health Unit rervace
will soon be holding their annual

- “Health Parade’ for four year: .

olds. - Here is an opportunity for

‘your ‘child to’ have -his-her

Minister of Health” said Mr.

Cocke, “ihe Task Force Is also .
reporting to the Ministers of —

Human: Resources. and

Education; both of whom have.

-concerns-in this area. . ‘The

overall objective of the Task -

Force, is the
Minislers-.
mendations

present’

to provide
* with ©

services mosl: ef-

‘fectively’ and’ establishing new

services where necessary.

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hearing, vision, and general’
and lo :~

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Special Training —

in Learning. Difficulties.

An extensive in-service

training programme to help

teachers and parents recognize
and deal with children’s lear-
ning difficulties will be held this
summer al the Jericha Hill

Scheol in Vancouver, it was .

announced today by the
Honourable Eileen ‘Dailly,
Minister of Education.

More than 30° special

programmes and conferences, .

lasting from two days to two
weeks, . will. deal with
assessment techniques and
learning methods in a wide
variety of problem area, among
them reading and language
disabilities, poor. physical
coordination, behavioural
problems and failure complex,
any of which can contribute to a
child’s jack. of progress in
school. ; :

The overall’ training: project,
hating call. Jericho ’74, is
sponsored -jointly by -. the
Department” of Education and
the British Columbia Teachers’
Mrs, Dailly said
‘lhe Department: was making

’ available . Jericho Hill’s two
_” Fesidences and three dining

“ rooms’ as well as’ the “schoo!

buildings: * and many
recreational facilities, Mem-
bers of Jericho’s regular staff
will also be provided. Jericho is
normally a school for deaf and
blind children,

. John Walsh, the Depart-
ment’s Superintendent of In-
tegrated and Supportive Ser-
vices, which, deal with special
education matters, and Henry

_Lunn, Director of Special
‘Education for. the Prince

George School District,
representing the BCTF are in
charge of planning. Resource
personnel and visting speakers
will come from the universities,
practicing -teachers, the

Department of Education and,

in Some cases, Lepresentatives

of commercial, houses in the
education field. Il is expected
thal 2,000 teachers, parents and
assoclated —_ paraprofessionals
‘will attend, as well as 400
children, One of the main
features, of the summer
programme will have a group
assistance leachers working
with them and parents, working
with both, living-in on’ two
weekends.

U. L C. Cheques

owing to ‘the current un-
certainty of the postal mail

-situation please note that if you

are residing in the Terrace-
Kilimat area you may pick up
your benefit cheque at the
Terrace UIC office located al
4845- Lakelse Avenue.” :

from” 10:00 a.m.

until ‘further notice. Please

- pring positive identification
_Sowith you, including your Social *
. Insurance Number Card. 5

For those claimants that are
ill or handi-capped please
supply your representative with

“signed authority o pick up your

cheque all claimants report
cards and other UIC mail

: Should be deposited at your
. nearest UIC office for dispatch.

- Distribution will «start. Wed:.. >
nesday 24 April and continue ©
“daily Monday throught Friday
to 4:00 p.m,:

“Elective Monday 29 April

- 1974 the UIC office in Terrace

-will be re-located at 4632 Lazelle
Ave, (Next door to the Canada

Manpower Centre) as of- that -
date you may pickup your --

cheques at that location.

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that the souls af the dead inhabit fish, as do evil spirita.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1974

"As the resultrenovations lo the Terrace Public
Library there js a lot more room, notably for the
children’s section, The renovation, just recently
completed, sees the library axpanding to fill the

entire Library Building. In the top picture is a
segment of the new children’s section of the
library while the battom photo shows the ex-
panded adult and juvenile facilities.

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