Dear Sir:
7; Given - this school dis-
‘tict’s recent history, I was
Saddened to find it colluding
the education ministry
rin another seriously-flawed
, “consultation” -process.
*...On. Monday June 5 I was
-consulted by the Minister of
‘Education, the. ‘Honourable
Shirley Bond. So was Robin
ustin, our MLA:

“= So’ were you, in case
you don’t realize it. It was
a.“quickie”, after all..”.so it
“May. have not made ,a big
impression on you. » °

“3. The ministerial appear-
_/alice..was the: follow-up to

of this spring...

the Honourable Shirley or

-of . June,

“the Liberal’s' Throne Speech

AB The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 28, 2006

ould you call this consultation?

‘the. Right Honourable Gordy
would visit each and every

school district in the entire.

province.

The object was to consult
about the state of public edu-
cation in B.C.

. Accordingly, on the Sth
the Honourable
Shirley met ‘with a select(ed)
group of locals from Coast!
Mountain District in Ter-
race.

Regrettably, Skeena N DP
MLA Robin Austin,.
had been promised a two-
week courtesy advisory of

such a visit,.was ‘unable to —
-attend’as he was in Nanaimo.

on long-scheduled govern-

: ment business. °
“It. promised that: either .

. Granted, he

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in advance. That was far too

short a time to rearrange his
schedule.
I was similarly advised,
all of two days in advance.
_ But that didn’t matter, re-

aliy, since I was not on the’
‘command performance list
, and thus ineligible to,: attend

anyway.
Similarly, a lot. of other
people were . apparent-

ly deemed to have nothing
valuable to add to the dis-

cussions. ;
A ‘selected(ed) ‘group of

1 pee wee lsee ere FTIR rein a eee

Coast Mountain taxpayers
weré entertained.

But who do you suppose —
represented your interests?. °
' Shirley got what she and,

Gordy needed with a mini-
mum amount of fuss and
can now claim to have heard

“our” concerns. .

Our school board has long
touted ~ well, at least. since
* they lost the Supreme Court |

challenge toa previous ‘ ‘con- |

- sultative” process — an ethos ..
of “open, - transparent, and
consultations.

accountable”
di

(00 Ce tye nme ciseanmunaaendeneetemans be 2h:

on major fssues.

The Victoria regime pays.
’ lip-service to the same lofty

standards.
By those standards, how
does the Minister’s meeting
here measure up? ye
Weil, “skulking” springs
to my jaded mind.
“Surreptitious”

cry

and “a

: travesty”, perhaps. .
But“‘open,transparentand ..

_ accountable”
by the premier at one time?

I can’t buy

as. promised

Unh, sorry.
that one again. |

» And I’m saddened-to dis- «
cover that some folks atthe °
» school district continue.,to -
think a process like that one-

~ has any merit.
_ John How,
~ Lakelse Lake, B.C.

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“Trees need trimming

Dear Sirs.

- This concerns the approach to the sidewalk of George

Little Park at the intersection of Emerson St. and Park
Ave. People end up on the road because of the trees that
have grown and are taking up the sidewalk space.
- "I see cyclists push people onto the road because of its
blind spot. One of these days there will be an accident,
then something would be done about it. Hopefully the
problem will be rectified.

I sent my. first letter to the city’s parks and recreation

department with no reply. I get concerned because I walk

at night and who knows what will happen. .
; Owen McKay, Terrace, B.C.

4

“Kermode symbol lost

Dear Sir:.

_ ‘The Kermode bear belongs to Terrace. I think the pro-
vincial government jumped the gun by wanting to use -
the bear as a trademark. City council should have looked
further before letting it go, now we have probably lost it.
I'm: from a local reserve and we do have traditions.

2 vt Darlene Seymour, Terrace, B. C. ;

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