A14 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 18, 2002 Work at new school continues -HAWKAIR SEAT SALE _ Passages Boies duit ed Maer despite empty classrooms WHAT WOULD have been a significant event took place last week without much fanfare. School district of- ficiuls received the occupancy permit from the city for the new Mountainview Elementary Schaol. In normal times it would have meant the official ap- proval to occupy the new $3.2 million Bailey Ave. school, built to hold 240 children, But the permit has been quietly filed and the schoo! is being mothbatled without opening because of declin- ing enrolments and budget pressures. The closure decision was made after the vast majority of the school’s construction contracts were awarded, meaning that a virtual turnkey building is sitting vacant. Even the landscaping has gone ahead and the land- scaping company continues to tend the grass, shrubbery and trees, school district official Robert Gilfillan said last week. “We want everything to take hold,” he said. “[The landscaper] has the responsibility for a certain time frame, the warranty period.” To simply leave the landscaping would risk it not sur- viving, thus jeopardizing the investment made in the project. Much the same is true for the school’s heating and ventilation systems. They'll be run over the winter in case repair or repla- cement work is needed under the terms of the equip- ment’s warranty. “In a year from now, hopefully, if we can open the school, we want to make sure the systems work. If we run them in the same fashion as if the school was occu- pied and if a motor or something goes, we can get it re- placed under the warranty,” said Gilfillan. If there is good news it is that the final occupancy permit paves the way for the contractors who worked an the school to get paid. Still to be decided is the future of Student suspended LANDSCAPERS continue tending the fawn at Ter- race's newest schoo! even though it's not open. the budget that was allocated for desks and educational equipment. It’s several hundred thousand dollars and comes from the province and officials will be looking at how ~ or if — it can be used elsewhere. “We're going to have to develop a game plan,” said Gilfillan in emphasizing the school district doesn’t want to have ta send the money back to the provincial gov- ernment. EERE Gilfillan and other school district officials are working on plans to keep in place playground equipment al schools which were closed. In Terrace and Thornhill, that takes in the playgrounds at Copper Mountain and Parkside Elementary. “The trustees know how important they are to the communities,” said Gilfillan. He hopes to continue with arrangements in which the school district shares work with the regional district and the city. for pot possession A CALEDONIA Senior Secondary school student was arrested for pos- session of marijuana on school grounds last week. “The police were called by the school because I saw a student with a suspicious-looking package or case,” Caledonia principal Bruce Daniels said. Sept. 9 on school property, he said. The student, whose name has not been released, has been indefinitely suspended from the school. Under normal circumstances the school board superintendent reviews reasons for the suspension and looks at what further action may be taken, said school district 82 superintendent Randy Smallbrugge. Though he could not comment on this particular student, he did say in general a 19-year-old student’s age could weigh against him or her for teentry into the school. “At age 19 your should darn well know better,” Smallbrugge said. “The kids have to, at that age, set an example and you want it to be a good example.” Police arrested the young man “GREENWOOD | ‘CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES - e Emergency Care & X-Ray ¢ Auto & Work Injury * Sports Injury © Footmaxx Orthotics NO REFERRAL NECESSARY Dr. R.D. Greenwood 4635 Lazelle Ave., Terrace, B.C. 638-8165 OPEN MONDAY TO SATURDAY West Coast Cavill” WE WOULD LIKE 10 EXTEND OUR GRATITUDE 10 ALL WHO HELPED TO MAKE THE SECOND ANNUAL “BEACH BLAST” VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT SUCH A RESOUNDING SUCCESS! MR MIKES WEST COAST GRILL WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE AND THANK THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS: Larry Krauee and Gerry Martin of NORTHERN DRUGS for letting us turn thelr parking lot Into a beach. 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