“TERRACE — ing: in. Thornhill, Vol. 3, Issue No. 18 TERRACE, B. C., WEDNESDAY, May 6, 1987 Legislative Lib; Parliament By victoria, B.C. V 1X4 dings 7 $0 CENTS Ross and Sheridan nominated — Terrace voters will have a choice between two candidates in a.» school trustee by- - election to take place May 23.- Returning Officer Elaine Johnson reported nomination papers were filed: by’ Barbara Ann . a Ross, . a finance clerk liv- and Danie! G. Sheridan, a Ter- race consultant, — -The * by-election “was called after the-resignation of Terrace trustee Dave Parker. Program ‘direction called into question | TERRACE — -Ata recent | meeting of the Northwest: - _Community College — (NWCC) board, ‘a delega- ‘tion:of administrators‘for social services programs in Terrace ‘expressed strong concerns about the philo- sophical direction the col- -lege appears to be taking. by Michael Kelly Doug Foster, chairman of the Human Service . Worker (HSW) Advisory Committee and director of ‘Northwest. Alcohol and Drug Counselling, said the advisory committee . uneasy with the apparent shift away from tradi- - tional course offerings at NWCC. Foster was par- ticularly ‘critical of a re- cent decision to reduce the © -Human Service Worker course from a two-year program to one year. Foster called the col- lege’s course priorities in-. to question, indicating the emphasis on vocational trade programs and public interest courses is mis- [ placed. To illustrate his point Foster noted that in- his role as. an addiction The wonder of it all Brenna Sterner visited the Terrace Jaycees Trades Fair '87. The youngster received a collection of balloons to take home. See - story pages 14 and 15. _Photo by Danlete Berquist. counselor he had assisted [ia innumerable unemployed welders with drug and. alcohol problems, and he had also provided counselling to social workers with the same types of problems. ‘‘None of the social workers, however, were unem- ployed,’’ ‘he said. Foster reminded the board that the HSW Ad- visory Committee, resenting the social service organizations that provide employment for graduates of the NWCC program, exists to offer expert * continued on page 24 Tep- ; . Srett Gasper, 2, visited the best-ever Jaycees Trades Fair held in Terrace. He joined over 5,500 people who attended the 17th annual event. INH RO a EI the BE RIT Phote by Daniste Berquist. Asti ee Pred Taxes to go up despite tight school budget TERRACE —. School District 88 will spend $20.4 million for operating expenses in the 1987-88 school year, an in- crease of $1.1 million over the previous budget. The. - increase amounts to only 5.4 percent, but due to a change in the Ministry of Education funding for-. mula residential taxpayers in the district will have to foot a larger part of the bill this year. Barry. Piersdorff, S@C- retary-treasurer’ for the. said. school district, $2,454,000: of «the operating budget will have to be raised locally, an in- crease of 37.3 percent over last year. A home owner with a residence. assessed at- $60,000 will pay $452:in . ' school taxes this year, ‘up’ $142 from 1986 -and $72 more than the provincial homeowner grant. Some residents whose tax. bill was previously covered by the grant will be paying out of their pockets this year, he said. . The tax rate for 1987 will be 7.545 (tax dollars payable per thousand dollars of assessed value) compared to .5.177 ‘for 1986, The rate increase, Piersdorff said, is partly to compensate for an~ average drop of 5.8 ‘per- cent in the assessed values of taxable property in the district. In a move that Piers- dorff described as play. 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Provincial . grants to District 88 for the next. .year will total $17,120,000, an’ increase of only $71,000.. Board. chairman Laverne Hislop stated several items from the original draft budget ..gent:to-Victoria had: .to'be . cut as:a. “consequence “Of. the low increase."A core - French program for were cut from $100, 000 to o $50,000. - . _ A proposal for reducing 7 class sizes by hiring four - additional teachers at a. cost of $161,000 was a also, ce scrapped, Hislop’ said the tax in- crease was unavoidable and could not be con-... ° trolled: - by. the board because it comes as the result of decisions made i in Victoria... - In order to keep local taxation at last: year’s level, the board. would have been forced to bring down a budget half.-a- million dollars lower than - the 1986-87 budget. a District. Superintendent _ Frank Hamilton. pointed . ~ out. that’. despite the: in- "_Steases’ “only. seven: other’ °° a “districts in the province. shave: lower net local taxa- - tion than School District - Grades 6 and 7. will not be 7 implemented, saving 88. ‘“People-here are still’ $160,000,. and non- | getting @ good program,” mo shareable capital projects -he said, . eo From Australla to Terrace Rotary Exchange student Narelle Stubbs has been sponsored by the Rotary Club of Terrace to visit the city over a period of one year. Stubbs is from Port Macquarie West In Austrailia where she was chosen to be an exchange student by the local Rotary Club. She finds ilfe in British Columbia much different than in Australia. See story page 24.