Every school in the district held Christmas concerts Thornhill primary students are representative of all 5,30 in the past few weeks. and these 0 students in School District 88 who wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. ‘NWCC collects $2,000 in ‘quake aid - Northwest Community Col- lege campuses in the area more than doubled their goal to col- lect 100,000 pennies to be added to the Canadian relief effort for ' Armenian earthquake victims. In total, Adult Basic Education students in six northwest loca- tions collected over $2,000, the equivalent of more than 200,000 pennies. The collection will be personally delivered to the Rus- sian Embassy in Ottawa by col- lege instructor Rocque Ber- thiaume, who will be holidaying | in the east over the Christmas | season. According to John Noonan, director of the NWCC Adult: Basic. Education program, their fundraising effort began last week with a challenge from the Castlegar campus of Selkirk College who came up with the- original idea. Noonan says he hasn’t heard the Selkirk results yet, but the idea wasn’t to win, only to offer help to those in need. He ex- - pressed this motivation in a let- ter to the Russian. Ambassador by saying, “Along with our con- - tribution please accept our heartfelt condolences’ for those who have lost so much.and may Christmas. and the New. ‘Year. | bringt them m pirltus| and physical | Noonan offers his thanks to ali residents, particularly the - many children, local businesses and the college staff and . students who supported their ef- fort. POLICE | -ROADCHECKS December 8 - January 3 This new contender from ‘JONSERED with ‘its stronger ~ mid-section can really i ioke a beating. The Super 670 packs a powerul punch. @ onsere : RIVER INDUSTRIES _ (T ERRACE). LTD. | P.O, BOX 538 ~ TERRACE, B.C. vad. 485 51 304 HIGHWAY 16. 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The two days in December were accepted, TDTA president ‘Helmut Giesbrecht said yesterday that 22 clauses in the 96-item pro- posal have now been signed off. Although: some were “‘key’’ items, he’ said, most of them were in ‘‘less difficult’’ areas. Major issues remaining to be ad- dressed include salary, class size. and other working and learning condition matters, discipline and suspension. procedures, teacher evaluation and reporting, and hiring practices. , Another issue that emerged from the last round of talks is - compulsory union membership for teachers. Giesbrecht said the TDTA was originally prepared to make membership ‘optional for teachers who are philo- sophically opposed to joining a union (although collection of dues would be universal), but subsequently discovered that the clear conscience. Bus: RA Be Si fee . nightly AMNESTY! Staff at the Terrace Public Library are offering the reading public a Christmas gift. They’re going to look the other way [ when overdue materials are returned from Dec. 28 to Jan. 7. During the ten-day period library patrons who have been hoarding overdue books, records, video cassettes and com- pact discs can bring them back without being fined, giving procrastinators an Opportunity to start the new yeat with a — CATCH THE ACTION Visit: the. Northern Motor inn, for entertainment. Come to _ where the ACTION is. : . oo - 3088 Hwy. 16 East 635-6375... Fees NAL GS a etc aeee SURE Lorna gg ie ap fa ee MET B.C. Teachers’ Federation —- would not accept.that‘provision.." The BCTF provides a range of veo gee services, Giesbrecht said, : cluding salary. indemnity,: legal aid and arbitration, and Section’. 7 of the Industrial Relations Act. states that in delivering ‘those | services the BCTF “cannot. discriminate. against any — member of a bargaining unit’’. . _ Board vice chairman Lavern ° Hislop called the compulsory” membership move “very dis-- turbing’’: 7 Giesbrecht said the TDTA pressed: for more bargaining: dates before the new year, say-- ing there i is “still a lot of ground to cover”. In a press release Dec. 19 Hislop. ‘stated, “I am‘. encouraged by the progress that’ -we- have made... a great deal more remains to be accom-. plished.’”” In an interview yesterday His. - lop added, ‘I think we’ve got _enough ‘time. You can get through a lot of paper when everyone’s working.” a ‘When asked _ if continued . gains in the talks would. be. enough.to forestall a strike or other job action by teachers on- Jan. 3, Giesbrecht replied, ““We . would -have to be making sub- stantial progress with the end i in sight.” _ action by the TDTA does not necessarily mean a full-scale. - strike. For schools to open after the holidays with norma! staff- _ ing, he said, ‘We would have to ' be darn sure there’s a settlement in sight.”’ os ' The library will be closed Dec. 24-27 and Jan. 1-3. On Dec. | 28-30 it will be open from 9 a.m, to 10 p.m. and on Dec. 31 it will open from 10 a.m, to 2 p.m. Giesbrecht also noted that job- -