“Dec, 3 2003 issue of. The
Terrace Standard Skeena

'~ District Board of Trustecs.

Don’t blame the trustees for
the state of school system

; Dear Sir:

On the front page of the

CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD

MLA Roger Harris attacked
the Coast Mountains School

His attack started with
the board contracting out or
leasing off our schools to
private schools. It is clear

Mr. Harris doés not support the public school system.
Also why would we want to do that.

Remember the Liberal election promises that the area

- WAS -BOINE to, boom and we were all going to be rich. We
‘are going to/need those schools when the boom starts.

The Liberals! have stated “if you want quality people you
have to pay them good wages,” so he want us to con-

tract out the education of our children to the lowest bid-

der. If youswant quality education you also have to pay

for it and the Liberals clearly don’t want to pay for qual-
"ity education.

Mr. Harris goes on to to say about the four-day school

“week “you should be making decisions thal are academ-

ically driven.” We at Coast Mountains school district
would love to, but Mr. Harris’s Liberal government will

‘not fund decisions that are academically driven.

-He ‘goes onto attack me by stating “he blames the

district s' financial woes on the Liberal government. .
Let’s lock at this. The 60 school districts in the province

did not legislate the 7.5 percent wage increase for teach-

. ers then_refuse to fund it. The school districts said if

‘ihere was no money {o pay the wage increase we would
not negotiate it. The Coast Mountains School District
spends about $40 million on wages and 7.5 per cent of

that is preity close to $5 million, the amount the Coast
Mountains school district had to cut. WCB, hydro, gas

Stat shopping vote needed

Dear Sir:

This is in reply te Bob Erb’s comments in his letter to
the editor in The Terrace Standard of Dec. 3, 2003.

What we need here in our community is for the stat
holiday question to go to referendum, Then you will

now for sure what the people who live and work here in

Terrace really want instead of spouting off about things
you know little or nothing about.
There are still many people mad about Sunday shop-

. ping,/for your information.

The Chamber of Commerce got together 64 per cent

- OF approximately 192 businesses willing to sign a ques-

tionhaire: stating that they thought it was a good idea for
all businesses to have the right to be open on stat holi-
days. ‘First, just the three summer ones. and. not their
businessess of course, just the big box retail ones. So the
850 signal ures collected beats the 192 in my book.

The Mail Bag

and other increases all not
funded by the Liberals.
Then he goes on talking
about the New Westminster
School District setting up a
school in the basement of a —
church in another school §

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - A7

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district. It sounds interesting &
in Mr. Harris’s mind, so all §
the Coast Mountains school
district has to do is set up a
school in the basement of a
church in the Prince Rupert
school district. And all the
Prince Rupert school dis-
trict has to do is set up a
school in the basement of 2 [i
church in the Coast Moun-
tains school district. And all
our financial woes are
gone? Perhaps Mr. Harris should spend his time trying lo
get high paying jobs for the workers in his riding instead
of aligning himself with people who are suing the Coast
Mountains school district.

Peter King

Peter G. King, Trustee,
Coast Mountains School District, Kitimat B.C. -

City of Terrace residents who have residential garbage collection on Thursday
or Friday, please take note of the change to your route over the Holidays.

*You will not have a pickup over the Christmas Week {Christmas Day &
Boxing Day], nor on New Years Day,

*The following week we will collect your refuse on. Monday, December 29th,
2003 and on Friday, January One 2004,

There i is no change to the Tuesday or Wednesday routes over the holidays.
All pickup times are likely to vary so be sure to have refuse at
the curb-side by 8:00 a.m.

The LANDFILL SITE is closed every Tuesday and Wednesday,
and on Christmas Day.

Seasons Greetings

Public Works enquiries - phone 615-4021

Had I not been ordered by the Skeena Mall to quit

petitioning on their property I sure would have collected
a heck of a lot more.

I give Lynne Christiansen credit for having morals
and principles and standing up for what she believes in.
One of the very few council members with a heart.

Being open on statutory helidays has nothing to do
with anything bul greed. Family life is being tossed
aside for the almighty dollar sign.

Had you bothered to show up at any of the council
meetings in Seplember or October, Mr. Erb, you would
have heard who the local businesses in Terrace were
who prefer to stay closed on stat holidays.

I am sure they will not go broke wailing for you to,
cross their door steps either — so shop elsewhere if you’
must.

Diane Pipe, Terrace, B.C,

‘at 2210 Clinton Street and inclicate

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I wish everyone the best
as health care in Terrace
moves ahead.

. Cholly Boland,
Arnprior, Ontario

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