A £ i ; WITH ONLY oneincumbent., “new faces but few i inspiring . 7 ‘were put forth. candidate Tanis Kilpatrick . ‘Highway blocked - HWY37 between Terrace and Kitimat was blocked “the morning of Nov. 2 when a tractor trailer: unit -went off the road at the Onion Lake hill. A female _ passenger was taken to hospital with minor inju- |. ries. A van was side-swiped as well but its occu- - : ants were not injured. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO By DUSTIN QUEZADA. running for, three available Terrace. school * positions, ‘there were a lot of new ‘ideas. “Tf ‘the Nov. ‘1 forum is . ‘the’ return © “0! a five- day: instructional any indication, week remains a -lightning Tod topic, while the issues of junk’ food revenues,’ school reconfiguration-and the role of boards in :the, aftermath. of the: teachers’ strike were also debated. © But - few. tangible. ideas First time §chool-.board’ was most impressive pre- senting concrete ways the school district could return ~to a-five-day week.- -“One way I have suggest- .ed (to return to the five-day — week) is to have a slightly © longer day but go to a two- week spring break,” Kilpat- rick said. “So instead of reducing by 25 instructional days, you only reduce. by five. That would produce savings of about $120,000.” _. Kilpatrick, who took le- gal action against the school . board over a perceived lack . -. of consultation’ when it implemented the four-day week, also said savings of $400,000 could come from paring down. the district budget for professional de- velopment and travel. ' Candidate Art Erasmus also endorsed returning to the conventional five-day week, saying it could be ac-’ complished with the avail- Youth behaved | well on Oct. 31 -HALLOWEEN’ TRICK or - treaters behaved themselves -while out and about Oct. 31, say police , Terrace RCMP Staff Sgt. Eric Stubbs said extra offi- cers were out to keep an eye _on the festivities. “Tt was my first Halfow- een working in Terrace andI — was pleasantly surprised by the lack of activity here,” he said. “We lay into the youth quite a bit for doing that but in this ‘case they were quite responsible. “Yn my opinion the youth are to be commended for their level of non-activity.” Police received some complaints of noise and fire- crackers or fireworks anid re- sponded, he said. He saw some fireworks set off in backyards involv- ing parents lighting them for children and neighbours, but - they were not doing it in an unsafe manner. * trustee “a ‘. The answer is not to run 20 able resources. ’ “If.we lose 20 per cent of . our students, we lose a sig- nificant amount of funding. percent less school time. The answer is to run.five days a week and to do it within the resources as they are avail- “able,” Erasmus said.. “The five-day week is a principle, it’s not econom- ic”? portunity to use their rebut- _ tal cards prompting modera- » tor Campbell Stewart at one point to remind them -they « were each entitled’ to three such responses. | “Don’t be shy about (the rebuttal cards), they’re an opportunity for you to ex- range of issues,” Stewart said. mo While “candidate - Don Dunster didn’t offer specif- ics, he did say that students. . should be put first and fore- most “starting with a return. to the five-day week as soon as possible.” Incumbent Hal Stedham és B “From front Sportsplex debated other services is based ona ‘formula based on popula- tion. “We lose’ out on those dollars as soon as it is al- location by population,” Leclerc said. “We don’t cut the mustard at 12,000 people “~ we look smaller.” On the topic of whether _ council should revisit its de- cision not to allow a casino . "to establish ‘itself in town, Kelly .newcomer Glenn threw His support firmly be- hind expanded gambling. “I would advocate to. al- low one here because sooner ~ > or later one will be. built ‘ here whether we want one or ‘not,” ignore. Even just the job creation ~ stemming from employees . “at a casino would be stag- -gering, he said. - But city council. incum- bent Lynne Christiansen took him to task, saying the societal implications stem- ming: from a casino are too -Four-day week still ahot topic | ~ press feelings on a broader - fielded questions from both. the media panel and the audi- ence regarding how schools Stedham didn’t offer a way. .to replace the funds that would be lost, though he clearly stated the health sacrifice was not worth the _ would replace lost revenues . if the board were to push an ‘elimination of junk food in the district. revenue brought in by the vending machines.. When pressed by an au- -dience question on broader health issues in the system, 7 like ‘teen pregnancy’ and ‘sexually transmitted disease, Stedham admitted the health issue: went beyond the junk food i issue, “I would hope a (health) committee would look close- ‘ly at those issues,” Stedham - » .. said’ The: candidates, asa whole, rarely.took the.op- ~ Neither Gary Tumer or : Kelly. said, adding ‘athe economic, spin-offs of - a casino are too valuable’ to great. She said for every dollar a casino generates in the com- munity, two dollars must be spent on the fallout relating to gambling addiction. The city’s recent expan- sion of its boundaries to take in roughly 1,700 acres of industrial land at the'airport. . tiansen reiterated her com- mitment. to lobby senior . lands was hailed as a smart move by first time candidate Brian Downie. _ “The city has to, be bold. and take every opportunity ' to attract investment to the area,” said Downie. Another, topic councillors will which have to grapple with soon is how to address the needs of pe- destrians and vehicle traffic . once the container port in “Prince Rupert is operation-: ‘al. It is anticipated that rail.: traffic through the heart of _ downtown Terrace will in- crease significantly. Incumbent Stew Christensen said based on'studies done by the pro- 4 vincial transportation minis-" : try in the mid- 90s one solu- for school board trustee hopefuls | Mary-Ann Freeman entered the fray on the’ four-day . week, Of note, Turner’ said he would push for parent and student accountability in the school system while Free-_ man said the role of parent advisory councils should be increased because they are ‘the voice of parents. 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