School District Briefs Legion feeds students FOR THE SECOND year in a row the Legion is help- ing feed hungry: studnets, It’s donating $1000 to Kiti K’Shan Primary school to feed six to 12 children who regularly come to school without lunch. Kiti K’Shan is not part of the school lunch program which the school district runs in Clarence Michiel and E.T. Kenney. Last year the situation was quite critical at Kiti K’Shan when the Legion stepped in and offered its help. This year principal Brian Phillips says that some of the children who were helped last year have gradu- ated onto Cassie Hall. So the school is sharing the donation with Cassie Hall. Travel getting pricey BEFORE KITIMAT and Terrace school districts amal- gamated, opponents argued that travel costs would eliminate any savings. Now some people fear travel costs could easily soar ovt of control, taking money out of the classroom. Terrace is the focal point for many meetings in the district, meaning people have to travel here. The dis- trict advisory committee is recommending that travel costs far its out-of-town members be reimbursed, The board hasn’t met yet to respond. So far only trustees and administralors are paid for their travel costs. Conservative estimates put the cost of travel to and from Kitimat alone at $625 a month, just for trustees and administrators. Some administrators are worried about staff burning out at having to attend more and more meetings. Caledonia calms down AFTER A RAUCOUS beginning to the school year, students at Caledonia Secondary seem to have calmed down. In the fall the school was troubled with fights, false alarms, an assault, garbage can fires, vandalism and graffiti. Since Christmas, principal Geoff Straker reports that the situation has improved markedly. There have been only two incidents since then. Candie fires were set in two washrooms simultaneously and a bomb threat was phoned into the RCMP. One student has been suspended indefinitely and RCMP are investigating, Straker attributes the improvement in the school to more vigilant staff supervision. The help of students was also enlisted through an assembly on behavioural expectations, fire alarms and assaults and through a comunitice to improve the atmosphere in the school. No counsellor decision SCHOOL TRUSTEES are being criticized for not deciding if they should hire an extra elementary school counsellor, Teachers and parents had written to the board a couple months ago, asking for another counsellor. Last year there were two but when money for special necds students was redistributed last fall, the number dropped to one. That left the one counsellor overworked, and teachers asked the board to reconsider. Some trustees told teachers they would have an ans- wer for them by the April board meeting. But they didn’t pass that information along to the board chair, George Neumann, or to the superintendent so the item wasn’t put on the meeting’s agenda. Neumann promised at the mecting that the issue would be decided by the end of the month. Party chooses its candidate ADD ANOTHER person to the list of those running for the position of Skeena Member of Parliament. Terrace resident Rod Freeman was named last month by the Christian Heritage Party (CHP) to run in the federal election wide- ly anticipated to be held June 2. This’ll be the third straight time the CHP, a party based on Biblical principles, has run a candidate. a E fot a cnt Freeman, 45, does con- tract work for the North Rod Freeman Coast Correspondence School and helps his wife in a home-based bulk foods business. A teacher by profession, Freeman and his family moved here from Ontario six years ago so he could teach at Centennial Christian School. Freeman’s a Nova Scotian by birth, growing up in the Annapolis Valley close to the historical site of Port Royal which, in 1604, became the first European settlement on that part of the continent. The CHP bases its philosophy on the family, saying parents have the first responsibility for the health, educa- tion and welfare of their children. It’s pro-life and says Canadian laws should stem from the country’s Christian heritage of justice, restitution and compensation. Subsidy boosted THE PROVINCIAL government has increased the amount of money it’s handing out for student employment. Last year 115 jobs were subsidized in the northwest but this year that number should grow because the amount of money has increased by 12 per cent to $240,000, ‘*Based on that we hope the number of jobs will be in the 125 to 130 range,’’ says Sandy Bullock of Northwest Community College, which is running the program for the province in the northwest. The provincial program offers a 50 per cent matching subsidy to a maximum $4 an hour. ‘Last year the average wage was $9.30 an hour so we know a lot of employers pay more than the maximum,’ said Bullock, The emphasis this year, as it was last year, is on employ- ment that'll prepare students for permanent employment when combined with academic studies. Students have to be at least 15 years of age to qualify. And they have to be returning to either high school or to a post secondary institution. The opening up of the program to retuming high school students is a new feature this year, said Bullock. Employers cannot combine the provincial subsidy with that from other programs. But they can hire students under the provincial program and other students under other pro- grams, said Bullock. Although the college does not have a list of available stu- dents, Bullock encourages employers to contact the federal Human Resources Development Canada centre here which runs a student employment section each summer. kok tok In the meantime the federal government's student job subsidy program application deadline has closed. It offered a maximum subsidy of $2.50 an hour for pri- vate seclor jobs, $4.25 an hour for public sector jobs and $7 an hour for non-profit sector jobs. Applications keying on jobs providing career-related ex- perience and preparing students for future jobs are favoured. Also favoured are jobs addressing the effects on youth and children of poverty, crime prevention and work for disabled students, natives, women or those in visible Did you know, more than 30 travelling clinics bring caregivers from B.C.'s Children’s Hospital to towns across the province, reducing the strain of travel for hundreds of B.C. families? 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