4 SKEEN MLA Roger. Harris, left, chats with “University of Northern British Columbia - president Charles Jago. and Northwest Community College president_Stephanie - Forsyth at Mills Memorial Hospital Feb. 1. The trio announced that a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program is starting here this fail. ~ Nursing program | creates optimism OFFICIALS STEERING » through the city’s new Bachelor of Science in Nursing program expect it to reccive relatively smooth approval. Although the province has committed it- self to financing the four-year program, to be offered by Northwest Community College and the University, of Northern B.C., it still necds the blessing of the Registered Nurses Association of B.C. (RNABC), the profes- .- sional standards association for nurses in the “ province, Dr. Ian Blue, who runs UNBC’s '§ various: . hursing programs, says its experience with | the College of New. Caledonia in running a similar.venture in Quesnel and in Prince George to that planned here will help. ~ “Certainly having an existing program as a precedent will assist Us with the RNABC, * he said. The © provincial , government’ S initial $150,000 investment in the Terrace program will be used to plan final details, purchase ‘books for the college’s library. here and cov- cr start up costs as instructors are hired by ‘the: college and UNBC. The annual operating cost for the 18-stu- - dent program is anticipated to run at between _ $250,000 and’ $300,000 a year. : “Northwest Community, College (NWCC) “already. offers science courses that will be * part of the program and instructors for the nursing ‘courses will be drawn. from people already in the community. ‘Both college president Stephanic Forsyth and UNBC president Charles Jago noted that having people to instruct the nursing courses in place here already ‘was crucial to having the nursing program procecd. “We know we can address these chal- lenges,” said Forsyth. The key, added Jago, ‘is training people from the north who will ‘then stay in’ “the north. your own professional people,” he said. “Martha Richards, the senior Northern Health Authority official in Terrace and Kit- imat, said it is looking forward .to having the: nursing students do their clinical work in its facilities. “Students bring their own n energy. and it kind of energizes the nurses,” she said. Mills will be able to provide experience “in general ward duties, in obstetrics and in pediatrics, i in.the operating room as well as in emergency and in the intensive care unit. receive ‘a very well-rounded. experience,” said Richards. | _ She said students in smaller hospitals are ot exposed to more situations than in larger fa-. cilities: « The 18 students in “the program begin. their studies this fall and 18 will be added each year thereafter, : ~ Clock ticking down > for. New Skeena sale mt hAUY “By: SJEFF.NAGEL:-. A 15-DAY period in which the receiver overseeing New Skeena Forest Products can still sell the Terrace sawmill as a whole entity will expire on Feb. 21. ~ After that date, bidders still interested in “the mill will have to deal directly with auc- tioneer Maynards, said Larry Prentice of Ernst and Young Inc. ° ~ Anextra $115,000 break fee would have to be. paid 10 Maynards if a deal i is struck by Feb. 21, he said. - After that date higher fees for the auction- cer kick in, decreasing the odds-of a sale. Prentice said Maynards at that point will _ be entitled to a 10 per cent buyer’s premium as. well as about $230, 000 to cover an array of other costs incurred." “Those two things add an awful lot to the -cost,” he said. “Whereas in the first 15 days all Maynards would get is $115,000.” B.C. Supreme Court Justice Donald Brenner Gn Jan. 27 approved the receiver's “recommendation to turn over the sawmill here to the liquidator, which is planning a ’ the Terrace sawmill. two-day auction in ‘mid: ‘March. * Maynards has guaranteed a minimum payout of $2.55 million for the mill ~ a price that is effectively the minimum any bidders must meet or beat. , A group interested in the Terrace mill still hasn’t submitted any formal offer. “They are still working hard to try to put it all together,” Prentice said. “We'd still like to think we can get a deal organized on | bbl Meanwhile, the receiver says he’s argu- ing against the possible cancellation of Tree Farm Licence #1 — an action the province is contemplating because New Skcena Forest Products failed to notify Victoria it was sell- ing some timber.lands within the TFL. “I think ‘it was simple inadvertence,” Prentice said of the company’s sale without | notification of six properties totalling about 800 acres. “In our view, a very small portion overall ofthe TFL was inadvertently disposed of,” he said. “To cancel the entire TFL licence seems unduly punitive.” : needs of its customers. ‘i Kitimat . 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If you have not already done so, pre-registration is requested in order to provide the School District Administration the time to plan staffing to meet school needs. SCHOOLS ARE OPEN TO TAKE REGISTRATION. FOR KINDERGARTEN from 9:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. between February 14, 2005 and April 1, 2005 Thé School District will make every effort, dependent upon available staff, ‘to place students who have registered by April 1 in their neighbourhood school. Students registering after April 1 may be placed | in any of the said communities’ schools, dependent upon available staffing. To be eligible for entry to school i in September 2005, students must be five years of age on or before December 31, 2005. A birth certificate and proof of immunizations will be required at the time of registration. If full day kindergarten is offered at your school, the following students are eligible: * those students identified as Low Incidence Special Needs, or. e they are of First Nations Ancestry, or * English as a Second Language Requests for full day instruction should be made at the time of registration and the'school will contact you to confirm this. PLEASE NOTE: Full day kindergarten i is not offered at all schools TO REGISTER FOR KINDERGARTEN CLASSES, | PLEASE REGISTER YOUR CHILD AT YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD SCHOOL. TERRACE / THORNHILL. . E T Kenney Primary Kiti K’Shan Primary* Principal, Mrs. S. Springer Principal, Mr. G. Holkestad Thornhill Primary . Principal, Mr. B. Eyjolfson . (250) 635-7066 “Uplands Elementary Principal, Mr. J. Vidal . (250) 635-2721 KITIMAT - . ; _ . © Kildala Elementary* Principal, Mrs. A. Casgrain . (250) 632-6194 . Nechako Elementary . . Prinicipal, Ms. J. Meyer . (250) 632-2912 Roy Wilcox Elementary Prinicipal, Mr. H. Kurbel . (250) 632-7180 HAZELTONS / KITWANGA John Field Elementary* New Hazelton Elementary South Hazelton Elementary Kitwanga Flementary _ STEWART Bear Valley School Principal, Mr. E. Drew . (250) 636-2238 If you wish information on school boundaries, please contact any of the principals listed above. FRENCH IMMERSION KINDERGARTEN AND GRADE ONE _ (A student does not have to be of French origin to enrol in French Immersion) & Registration for French Immersion Kindergarten and Grade One takes place at schools indicated with an * a Registration for French Immersion Grade One is for students presently attending Kindergarten i in English, who would like to | begin in the French Immersion Program: Le Conseil scolaire francophone (Francophone Education Authority of B.C. School District 93) offers full time Kindergarten,in Terrace only. B Registration for the Francophone full time kindergarten will be processed by Kiti K’Shan Primary School, phone (250) 635-3115. m 10 qualify for the Francophone Program, in accordance with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, one of the parents must: a) be a Canadian Citizen or landed immigrant of Canada b) reside in British Columbia, and have one of the following: - French as.a first language learned and still understood; - Primary school instruction in Canada in French (excludes immersion program); —Acchild who has received primary or secondary school instruction in Canada in French (excludes immersion); - A child receiving primary or secondary instruction in Canada in French FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE FRANCOPHONE PROGRAM PLEASE CONTACT RENEE SYVRET, PRINCIPAL OF JACK cook SCHOOL — AT (250) 635-9754. Ph. (250) 635-5828 . (250) 635-3115 Principal, Ms. V. Sutherland Principal, Mr. D. Schwab Principal, Mrs. B. Purney Principal, Mr. B. Johnson . (250) 842-5313 . 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