A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 9, 1994

Women gain
from skills
program

A PRE-APPRENTICE program
designed specifically for women
wanting skilled trades jobs and
which could cost more than
$300,000 was announced last
week,

Twenty women will receive a
range of training over 16 months
through the Terrace Women’s
Resource Centre and the North-
west Community College.

“The women who emerge from
it could possibly have credit for a
one year apprenticeship,’’ said
skills, training and labour minis-
ter Dan Miller in making the an-
nouncement at the college last
week.

He said the program is keyed at
providing opportunities —_for
women to obtain better paid jobs.

The skills ministry is putting in
$143,000 for the program while
the social services ministry is ad-
ding $78,000 for living ‘al-
lowances for half of those women
enrolled,

A further amount — as much as
$280 a week ~- for women being
sponsored by the Canada
Employment Centre is also being
allocated for as many as’ 10
people over the 16-month periad,

Those enrolled will receive
training in welding, mechanics,
carpentry, computers, physics and
communications.

Included in the program will be
work placements and experience
with the cooperation of local
businesses and unions.

Skeena MLA Helmut. Gies-
brecht, who was also at the an-
nouncement, said the program is
a welcome boost for the area.

Terrace Women's Resource
Centre representative Charlynn
Toews said the. program should
get started before the end of year.

The first eight weeks will be
spenl teaching practical survival
skills, she added.

While the amount of the project
has been fixed, Toews said the
women’s ceatre and the college
are still negotiating how the
amount will be divided up be-
tween them,

Part of the program includes a
30-hour training session for male
instructors and male students at
the college on women in the
workforce,

Miller described the training
session as one that wil! help
change attitudes to women gain-
ing. employment in non-
traditional fields.

‘Some times their expericnces
in non-traditional fields can be
pretty hostile,’’ said Miller.

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Miller and Gicsbrecht were also
in Kitimat, announcing a plan to
spend more than $400,000 for a
new technology program at the
Northwest Community College
campus there.

It’s designed to give students a
broad and practical knowledge of
technological skills and leads to a
diploma. of Applied Sciences in

’ Industrial: Technology after two

years,

The province will also spend
$50,000 in Kitimat to provide
training in problem solving, deci-
sion making and trouble shooting.

It’s meant as a way to improve
productivity and quality control,
said Miller.

Council ponders
end to business
garbage collection

COMMERCIAL GARBAGE col-
lection could soon be on the
city’s budget chopping black.

Councillors are beginning to
look at the issue of whether or not
to get out of the commercial gar-
bage collection business.

It's come up now because the
cily’s commerical garbage trucks
are getting ald and are in urgent
need of replacement, ©

Rather than replace the trucks,
councillors may look at dis-
continuing the service altogether.

“No decisions have been
made,’” said mayor Jack Talstra,
“But if we're going to look at
this issue, now is the time to do
it.”’

Councillor David Hull says the
idea deserves a serious look, be-
cause the commercial collection
runs at a loss of $50,000 10
$75,000 per year, while residen-
tial pickup pays for itself.

“Why should the vast majority
of taxpayers in this town — who
are residential homeowners —
subsidize commercial businesses
for their garbage pickup?’ Hull
demanded,

The commercial service runs at
a deficit because private com-
panies offer similar service in
direct competition.

Killing the service altogether
and leaving the business for pri-
vate contractors is not welcomed
by the city’s unionized employ-
ces.

CUPE local 2012 president Bob
Anderson presented a brief to
council last week asking ‘council-
lors lo continue the service.

Anderson noted the city has
started saving $140,000 per year
on residential collection costs by
changing from three-person to
onc-person pickup trucks.

He claims the union has agreed
to altered work schedules in an
effort to get more business for the
service, but says city officials
have made no serious cfforls to
gel new customers.

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“Qur local bas fought long and
hard for decent wages and work-
ing conditions for our members
and do not believe that the wages

paid by Riverside — namely $9 .

per hour for the swamper and $12
per hour for the driver — are ac-
ceptable living wages in 1994,’"
said Anderson,

SKILLS MINISTER Dan Miller makes announcement at North-
west Community College of a program to trail women for skills,
It'll be offered through the college and the Terrace Women’s

Resource Centre.

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SEMI-ANNUAL
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Members and the public are invited to attend

| FRASER RIVER SOCKEYE

PUBLIC REVIEW BOARD _
PUBLIC NOTICE

The Public Review Board has heen appointed to examine
management of the Fraser River sockeye. The Board’s main objec-
tives are:

* to identify the reason(s) for the discrepancies in the
expected and actual number of sockeye salmon arriv-
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*to evaluate the accuracy of the Pacific Salmon
Commissiors methodology for estimating run sizes and
sockeye escapement in the Fraser River

* tomake recommendations on how any deficiencies can
be corrected, beginning in 1995.

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Oceans by February 28, 1995.

The Board will be holding its first public meetings at
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