he So. Mn nsdn POI est Ree te = ema 9 oh baD a a mode Friendship Centre will have funding re- instated this year to hire a program director, but fun- ding lost from another source has resulted in the + elimination of the Native Community Aide Worker from the organization’s list of services. The program director’ $ position was cut in mid-1986 when the B.C. government-administered First Citizens’ Fund an- nounced that money would no longer be avail- able to any friendship so- cieties in the province to underwrite salaries for program directors. Claire Eraut, director for the - economics. 2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, January 28, 1987 riendship cen “TERRACE — The Ker- First Citizens’ Fund in Victoria, stated in a-recent interview the program di- rector grants will be re- newed for 1987 with fun- ding available to a max- imum of $20,000 annually for each B.C. friendship center. Eraut said the decision was largely motivated by Part of the program director’s func- tion, he said, is searching out funding sources: for friendship centers. With- out program directors, he said, many friendship so- cieties have difficulty de- veloping programs which meet criteria for Secretary of State funding and other federal grants. .Money secured from the federal government will pre- sumably take some of the pressure off the First Citizens’ Fund. The First Citizens’ Fund was established by former Premier W.4.C. Bennett in 1969 with.an investment of $25 million in blue-chip government bonds, rail- way stocks and provincial utilities. Income from the investments istered by a six-member board appointed by the Minister of Intergovern- mental Affairs. Kermode Friendship Society president Mel Bevan stated recently the loss of the program direc- tor at the local center has is admin- - had a serious impact on operations, “‘It resulted in quite a change,’’ Bevan said, ‘Many of. the activ- ities were cut down, part- icularly sports.”” He went on to say remaining staff _have been under. addi- tional pressure. No date has been set for re-establishment of the funding. The next mecting of the First Citizens’ Fund board will be in June 1987. While the program director’s position has- been restored, the Ker- mode Friendship Centre has. simultaneously _ lost another important means of helping local. -native Exchange student from Australia, Nareile Stubbs (top, on the stairs of the plang) arrived in Terrace on Sunday morning Jan. 18. She will be spending one year in Terrace. The exchange program |s sponsored by Rotary International. Some of the Ter- race Rotary members who met the exchange student at the airport were: Vic Lepp; Al McAlpine, Gary Baker, Lols Newman and Willy Schneider. - Prize of a lifetime HUMOGE 0433;: fp The Tatrace Rotary draw for a Mexican Riviera Cruise for two tS wgtthe $6,000. took placé at Terraceviaw Lodge on Saturday, ¢ .s Jainy+7,.Phit Hartl (left) assisted Flossy Lambly as she drew "the winning number. Lamblyts a tesident of Terraceview Lodge ‘Ls aind- the wife-of the first Rotary member in Terrace. Proceeds: went’ to. purchase’ a new computer system for Terraceview Lodge. The - winner was. a Ri. Williams .of Terrace. Ticket __ Photo by Daniele Berquist. | EXCITEMENT Winner of a $6,000 Mexican . Riviera cruise named: EYEWEAR FROM Benson OPpricaAL 4623-2 Lakelse * Phone Terrace, B.C. 638-0341 people. At the end of 1986 funding expired for the ‘Native Community Aide Worker Program, a full-. time service the center has been offering for the’ past four years, The native community aide worker. assists: elders who have difficulty deal- ing with the complexity of paperwork .and regula- tions related to pensions, medical benefits, personal finances and other mat- ters. The worker also acts. as a family court. coun-. sellor;, welfare advocate, . and assistant in variety. of situations encountered: by native people in the Ter-- race area, A spokesperson for thie friendship center said the originally '| established in 1983 with funding. from the Em- loyment Development Branch. The grant dimin- ished on a sliding scale from 100 percent funding in 1983 to 33 percent in 1985. The position was totally funded by the Ker- mode Friendship Society with money the positon was last year transferred from organization’ 5 building fund. Lillian Nicholas, eXx- ecutive director for the Kermode Friendship Cen- tre, said recently the pro- gram has provided 3,610 separate instances: of - assistance involving more than 5,000 clients since 1984, Most of the cases, she said,. centered around: help _ for elders, - hospital visits housing problems, and medical services. --- Nicholas "pointed out that the loss of the com- munity, aide worker has" thrown. additional ‘work- load on:the six remaining: staff members at the center. Applications for funding, she said, have. been sent out to the Laid- law Foundation, Labatt’s Lid., the National Volun- teer Social Services Organization’ and other potential sources. No rep- ly has been received at this time. 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