Page. A2— Terrace Standard, , Wadestay, November 21, 1990

* By seer NAGEL.

TERRACE — A Terrace- tions here:lead to an RCMP: in- - laws

teacher who quit atid moved: ’
away in 1982 after allegations
he sexually abused his students

was able to resume teaching as a

substitute in Courtenay.

Bruce Thompson, the.
Courtenay school - district’s
superintendent of schools, said
last week George Kenny taught
there asa substitute in 1984 and

1985 until allegations of:

misconduct surfaced,’ promp-

ting the school board to remove:

him from its substitute teacher
list,

The 59-year-old man was
convicted last month on eight
counts of” sexually “abusing

young girls he taught at elernen- .

tary schools in Terrace.
He left Terrace in August

from front

Pulp mill

customers. It will be taken to
Kitwanga and shipped by rail
back east for domestic
customers.

Eight sites were looked’ at
before the one south of Mezia-
dian Lake, near the intersection
of the Kwinageese Road .and
Hwy37 on a logged-off piece of
land, was chosen, said Foster,

Key considerations were the

location of the wood to make it
economically viable to transport
to the mill and electrical power,

“The grinders take a lot. of.
power to get them up and runn-
ing. The farther you are away
on a-power line, the less power
there is, You want to be as close
as possible to the starting gate
as possible,’ said Foster.

Orenda anticipates that the
143 mill jobs will go to workers
in Stewart and in the Nass
Valley. Transportation will be
provided.

There will be 37 jobs in
transportation, 200 logging jobs
and work in the resulting service
industry required. Orenda
estimates an annual $190
million injection into the
regional economy.

“This will benefit: the whole:

area,”’ said Foster.
His ‘visit’ here to meet with
local governments and.

chambers of commerce is in ad-
vance of the company’s filing
plans for environmental and
other approvals by the federal
and provincial governments.

Foster said Orenda wants to
begin construction next spring.
It hasn’t lined up all the financ-
ing yet and Foster said that will
more easily determined once ap-
provals have been given.

Although world pulp and
paper markets are now in 2
decline, Foster said long term
projections are strong and that
there are benefits of building
during an economic downturn
because construction costs
could be lower. ;

‘‘When the mill is on line, it’s
product vill be going into a
arowing momentum,”’-he said.

Orenda also wants to meet

with the Nisga’a Tribal Council .
but has yet to establish a date, :

Foster said,

are ‘three - years after ailega..

vestigation’ and caused - ‘ther.
school board to restrict his con-
tact with students. - .

Rumours about Kenny reach-
ed the Courtenay school board

offices in 1985, Thompson said.

'He'then asked Terrace school -
district. officials. what they
knew. ,
“We were provided with,
some “information that there -
was very strong likelihood of
some. rather shady;
background,” he said. Prin-
-cipals were told to stop calling
Kenny, he said, and Courtenay
trustees deleted his name from —
the list of teachers used ‘as
substitutes.

“I did not give him any”
reason for it, figuring that if he
really wanted to fight it, we'd

‘face it then, and if the allega-

tions we had were correct then
probably we wouldn’t hear
from him. And lo and behold
we did not hear from him.”
Thompson said the
Courtenay district failed to
check Kenny's references before
hiring him. He said 1985 was
the first time he talked to the
Terrace district about Kenny,
Thompson said school
districts cannot pass on un-
proven allegations or the con-
tents of personnel filés to other

la ey di, :
; The. ‘information I got from

; the Terrace school district) was

basically under-the-table infor-
mation, because there was
‘nothing proven that anybody
could pass on,’ he said. “Quite

‘frankly; the ‘information I
“received in this case was kind of
‘off-the-record, But’ the people

in Terrace felt. strongly enough

~about it that they were prepared

to take a stand ‘on it, and [ have

‘nothing but commendation for
~ them.” ;

‘Kenny also: gave: swimming

. lessonis at the local pool, for the’

Courtenay Recreation Assacia-
tion. but .that stopped when the
allegations ‘surfaced, said

Thompson..’ cok

“After we ‘bumped him from
our list they: also stopped hiring
him.” he sai

Terrace : “hse ‘superinten-
dent Frank’ “Hamilton said he
did not. Know™ Kenny was
teaching in Courtenay untit the
school district there phoned.

person! career is ruined,” at

Kenny: is to be sentenced here”
7. He pleadéd. guilty to-

thrée counts of indecent assault,

and was found guilty Oct, 31 on:
two counts of sexual j intercourse: ”
witha girl undér the‘age of 14,"

and three: ‘Tore: counts is of inde-
cent dssauit. .

The’ vietims were young girls*
between ‘six and 12 years old at |
the time ‘of the ‘incidents and;
most. ‘were ‘students of his. Now

adult women’ in: their 20s and.

30s, they. described hundréds of

ies a tise a accu veatlon and it gets”
out‘Inta the public domain,:the,

: ‘Ghrietnas is ust around the corner!

ry

incidents of fondling and inter-- [|

course’ in. Terrace elementary.
schools, usually after school or
on. Weekends;-.

~ Kenny ‘taught at Cassie Hall:
Elementary, Clarence Michiel
Elementary, Thornhill Primary .-
and .Kiti K’Shan Primary
schools between n 1966 and 1981."

Hamilton: and. : - Thompson |

said some restrictions on infor-
mation flow are, necessary 10

protect. innocent. teachers who .

are wrongly accused, .

“There are enough situations
where there are false accusa-
tions,”” - Thompson.‘said... “‘It

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