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TORRENTIAL RAINS last week created havoc of the regions
highways and, once again, the culverts under Hwy 37 south
at Blackwater Creek proved unequal to the task of handling
the raging water, With water pouring across the road 2 and tak-.

ing with it, the Ae shoulders, the Highways.de jettin é
eventudify Had“td, |
also resulted in the closure of the road to the Nass Valley

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rising waters for a time threatened to flood homes at Lakelse’
Lake.

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TERRACE — The price tag for
building a daycare centre for
teen mothers in high school here
has ballooned to more than 10
times the originally projected
cost,

School district officials say
they underestimated demand
for the Young Moms’ Program,
which has been swamped by the
number of young mothers who
want to join the program.:

Estimates prepared by ar-
chitect Royce Condie for con-
struction of a 4,500-square-foot
building came in last week at
$782,000, An original $65,000

plan to. use twe,modified por-..

table classrooms was discarded
because of increased demand
and because the city insisted the
portables meet building code
standards,

‘The scope of the project has
changed since the original
discussions,’ said secretary-.
treasurer Barry Piersdorff, ‘‘It
means doubling the amount of
space. And we found using por-

table buildings wasn’t
practical.’’
“By .the time all the

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regulatory authorities get in
there and each have their kick at
it, you've got to build a facility
that meets certain standards —
and that's not cheap.’

That kind of money doesn’t
exist in the school district's
budget, Piersdorff said, so
school trustees are looking for
other ways to finance the plan.

It was originally expected
most of the project's capital
costs would be paid for through
the increased enrolment it
would generate.and by grants
from the federal government’s
Stay-in-School initiative, .
~- Once built, the daycare centre
would be administered: by the
Terrace and District Communi-
ty Services Society and
operating costs paid by the
ministry of social services and
housing.

: Both the ministry and the
society say they will expand
their commitments to handle
the larger facility. The school
board just has to find a way to
get it built.

“Special education director
Andrew Scruton said he

Washroom issue

TERRACE — The proposed
washroom/changing building
may be for soccer players, but
the city’s dealing with the re-
quest is beginning to look more
like a tennis match.

Terrace Youth Soccer wants
to put up the facility at its
Christy Park fields and has said
it will pay for construction if the
city agrees to maintain it.

The original request was
referred to the planning and
public works department which
recommended locating the

building near Parkside Elemen- |

tary school,

In doing so, it had decided
against the public works depart-
meni’s preferred site near the
adjacent residential area of Mc-
Connell Ave.

However, neighbourhood
residents who turned out in

ie subsequent* ‘council

: “three ‘alternative
sites: had originally been under
’ consideration,

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recreation director Steve Scott
told aldermen the third site had
been at the north-eastern corner
of the soccer fields, at the op-
posite end from the school and
also some distance away from
residences on McConnell Ave.

' However, while agreeing the
third site might be the “‘most

desirable’ for neighbourhdod -

residents, Scott explained the
engineering department had rul-
ed it out because the existing
sewer line was ‘‘barely ade-

. school,

originally anticipated only 12 ta
15 teen mothers participating in
the program, Twenty students
are now enrolled in the program
— which currently involves
specialized instruction but no
daycare -— and five are on a
waiting list. Six more full-time
students at Caledonia -have
babies and would also be using
the daycare.

“We're somewhat of a victim
of our own success on this,’
Scruton says. ‘We knew there
were a lot of young women out
there. who: weren't attending
school, But those numbers ‘are
far’ higher than we ever ex:
pected.”

The daycare centre would
allow teen mothers to take
courses in an environment
separate from ithe rest of the
and close to their
babies. Statistics show teen
mothers usually drop out of
school because of the social
stigma, and don't come back.
The centre would help keep
those students from dropping
out, Scruton says, and bring
back some of the teen moms

who are already o out of schoo A

“It’s great’ that, we ‘can “help.

this many young women,” _ he
said. ‘“But I’m saddened y the
Fact we need to do that. This is

_ something: that. our society has

not come:to terms with. ‘The
kind of support system that is
néeded'does not exist."

‘No. daycare centres. in town
take individual infants and tod-
diers, —

Scruton expects the estimate
drawn up by Condie — based
upon a similar daycare centre in
Abbottsford — could be. scaled
down by ‘at least $100,000.:

He said the school district is
looking for other ways to pay
for the project — possibly lot-
tery grants, grants from federal
women’s programs, ‘more
money from the federal Stay-in-
School initiative, and perhaps
more money from the ministry.
of social services and housing.’:

If the financing can be ar-
ranged, Scruton-hopes to see the
daycare centre open sometime
next year. The centre had
originally been slated to open in
‘February.

still unresolved

quate”’ to service the home that
is there now.

Therefore only the other two
had been put before the com-
mittee. _

Council decided to return the
Matter to the planning and
public works (PPW) committee
on the understanding the
engineering department would
provide a report on site three at
that meeting,

The PPW meeting learned

Reporter claims

TERRACE — A Terrace Stan-
dard reporter is the -winner of a
provincial award for excellence
in environmental journalism.
Jeff Nagel received the first
place award in the hard news
category, of . B,C, :Tel's> En-
vironmental Awards in the B.C.
and. Yukon Community

Ay

Newspaper Association’s Better

Newspaper Competition.

The honour is for the
hewspaper’s Sept. 12, 1990,
full-page feature — entitled The
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traversial....plans;” to---log-- the
Kitlope River valley south of

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engineering costs for the sites

were $1,320 for the residential
area; $6,187 for the school site
and 311, 030 for site three,

it then recommended shun-
ting the issue to the community
and recreation services commit-
tee which would arrange a
meeting between all interested
parties in an attempt to come up
with 4 solution.

Scott said that meeting is ten-
tatively scheduled for the even-
ing of Wednesday, Oct. 23.

award

Kemano. The story was picked
up by Vancouver newspapers
several months later.

It was one of 22 awards to
newspapers owned by Cariboo
Press. 7 dhe company, that.qwmns
the,. Standard , and. other
newspapers in B.C.'s interior. —

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