Student
numbers
decline

SCHOGL DISTRICT 82
has fost 35 students since
the start of the school year
in September.

That brings the number
of students enrolled in the
Coast Mountains district to
6,213 ~ down from 6,248
when school began.

_. Assislant superintendent
Rob Greenwood has also
been tracking withdrawals
to see where students arc
going - something the
board asked him to do last
year. ‘

On average, the district
has lost 350. students each
school year as part of a
declining enrolment trend
caused by families moving
out of the district — and an
overall population decline
seen in every corner of the
country. Since the mid-
1990s, this district’s enrol-
ment has dropped by five
per cent,

Greenwood's latest re-
port shows 24 students
have left since Sept. 30.

Of those, 19 were stud-
ents in the Terrace area.
The rest were from Sle-
warl, Kilimat and the Ha-
zeltons. Three students in
the Terrace aren who have
withdrawn enralled at in-
dependent schools.

The drop in enrolment
and the number of with-
drawn students doesn’t add
up because new students
also come into the district,
Greenwood said.

“We have students who
move inlo the district as

well as students who move,

out,” he said.

The drop in enrolment.

is making a budget crunch
worse; student enrolment
determines how nvuch
money the education min-
istry allocates to school
district budgets.

The enrolment drop has
major budget implications.
Secretary-treasurer Marcel

Georges said he will have,
a better-picture’ of the'dis- *

tricl’s budget situation al
next month’s board mect-
ing.

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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - A3

@ Brrerrrer
LAST WEEK'S blue skies and sunshine were something to enjoy - even if you work outside. Flagger Ula
Ewald said she prefers the cold over rain, as long as she wears appropriate outdoor clothing. Ewald and
other flaggers were on the 4500 block of Park Ave. last week, directing traffic while Twin River crews were
doing work on hydro poles and lines.

Kincolith welcomes paving |
of its road for next spring

he said. ; -
Residents continue to be
worried about some sections
of the road, particularly
where it runs alongside the
Nass River, Clayton added.
“There are places where
there are concrete barriers,
but places where there
aren't any, We're waiting
and secing if there is a plan
for that,” he said.

The new road meant an end
to regularly scheduled ferry
} service south to Prince Ru-
pert. But the village council
has bought a small passeng-
er vessel both to journey to
Prince Rupert when enough
people have booked to cov-
~er-costs and to use as a fishing and sightseeing charter.

PUTTING SEAL coating on the new road to Kincolith
and paving the steep hilly portions is welcome, says the
chief councillor of the village at the mouth of the Nass
River.

“It’s realiy good news, a big benefit for us,” said Nel-
son Clayton of the project which will cost between $1.3
million and $1.5 million and to take place nest year.

The $33 million, 29km road was completed last De-
cember, connecting Kincolith for the first time with the
rest of the Nass Valley by land. Access had been limited
to boat and ferry trips south to Prince Rupert or by air.

Transportation ministry officials said putling a hard
surface on the road makes long term sense in terms of
maintenance. They had otherwise faced spending an‘ ad-
ditional $200,000 to lay down gravel to make the road
easier to maintain.

“With the heavy rains, there are deep puddles and a aan
lot of washboard,” said Clayton. “People have had to
spend extra dollars for extra ply tires - and that can get Nelson Clayton
pretty expensive,” he added. :

“ Avhard surface will further attract visitors to Kinco-
lith, bolstering plans the village has to create a tourism The village council used its boat two weeks ago to
industry, Clayton continued. ferry supplies in from Prince Rupert when floods from

“We already have a lot of people ‘taking the drive,” heavy rains knocked out road access east of Greenville.

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News In Brief.

They’re coming to town

SIXTEEN WOMEN from Stewart have been
booked so far to come to Terrace by bus Nov. 15
for mammography exams at Mills Memorial Hos-
pital.

Popularly known as the Boob Bus, the service is
being paid. for by the provincial mammography
screening program. :

“It won't be a school bus, it’ll be our regular
bus,” said Darlene Cornell of Stewart-based Sea-
port Limousine. oo

This could very well be the last run for the Boob
Bus now that Mills Memorial-Hospital has a new
mobile mammography unit.

The bus trip south from Stewart had become a
regular part of thal communily’s life,

The mobile mammography unit is to change all
that but a plan was to take the unit on the road this
fall and to be cancelled because the provincial
mammography screening program could not find an
experienced technician to spend as much as a
week on the road visiting northern locations,

Dangerous necklace

FEDERAL HEALTH officials are warning parents
their children may be exposed to lead if they
chew, suck on or swallow a “Runic”- pendant
necklace sold in vending machines and possibly in
retail stores,

The necklace, which: has been available since
2002, is also small enough to be swallowed and
thus is a choking as well asa strangulation hazard
for smail children, say Health Canada officials.

Lead is a toxic heavy metal which can produce
harmful effects on the behaviour and development
of children even al very low levels of exposure.
Items made from lead are greyish in colour and
will leave a grey mark when rubbed against white

paper.

Forestry giant visits

Terrace this month

IRVING “IKE” Barber, the man who founded Slo-
can Forest Products and who recently gave the
University of British Columbia $20 million for a
learning centre, visits Terrace Nov. 28 to see how
the northwesl can fit into the learning centre’s pur-
pose.

Hel] be mecting with Northwest Community
Callege’s board and native advisory group, with li-
brarians from around the northwest and with repre-
sentatives: from economic development groups
such as ihe local chamber of commerce.

“He really wants to give the opportunity to peo-
ple outside of ‘the lower mainland for access to
learning resources,”--says Northwest Community
College librarian Patt? Barnes who is helping to or-
ganize the meeting here,

She said ideas such as permitting libraries from
the interior and north to tap into UBC’s data bases
would be highly beneficial. ;

Construction of the Irving K. Barber Learning
Centre at UBC has already started.

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