A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 5, 2000

New school boss isa fixer

HERB FADER is the kind
of superintendent school
districts hire to gel their
house in order.

Providing mentorship
and direction is what Ter-
race’s new superintendent
has a history of doing.

Fader, 60, who slarted
work June 2, spent the last
two years working as
superintendent for the Chi-

nook’s Edge School Dis-.

trict in Innesfail, Albert.

He took over the Chi-
nook's top spot following
the resignation of virtually
every top administrator at
the end of 1997,

“They were going
through turbulent times,”
Fader said. “They had

From front

some real problems. It was
a school district in trouble.
There was a tot of
conflict.”

When he left his job
there he was praised by
the board chairman for his
leadership and creating a
team atmosphere.

“We did it as a team,”
Fader said. “I've always
told people if you can't
work with me, nothing will
work, It’s never one person.
It’s always a team.”

Fader said his goal
‘Terrace is to provide lea-

‘dership to senior admin-

istralors and to work as
closely as possible with
principals and vice princi-
pals, who are key.

“I'm here to work in a
supporlive way to help
principals and vice-princi-
pals because they. have

difficult jobs,” he said.

“{t's important to support
them and develop an exci-
tement of learning.”

He said- the districl
needs to recognize all the
good things happening in
schools, to improve morale
of teachers and students.

“The bottom line is if |

you have principals and
teachers that are excited
about what’s happening, it
will trickle down to the
kids,” he said,

One priority he’s work-
ing on is improving com-
munication,

To do that he’s going 10
create a weekly superin-
tendent bulletin, sent to all
the schools in the district
to keep people informed.

“You feel better about
situations when you know.
what’s going on,” he said.

As for the budget, Fader
said it’s always difficult
working with restricted
funds because it’s a matter
of setting priorities.

"He won't encourage im-
plementing any programs
that were slashed unless
there’s money to provide
them on an ongoing basis.

“Everything is on hold,”
he said. “We just don’t
have the resources to look
at long-term planning.”

Leader of the band waits for

promise of kidney dialysis here

Bos said Ryan knew it
was only a matter of time
before he would need dia-
lysis again, but he’d hoped
he could put it off until the
unit arrived at Mills.

“He’s been waiting for
this unit to come,” Bos
added.

But on June 11, the day
after he conducted a Ter-
race Symphony Orchestra
concert in Terrace, Ryan
was rushed to hospital and
later transferred to Prince
George.

“] was not going to let
my life cheat me out of
that,” Ryan says of his
final concert.

Since then, his condi-
tion has begun to improve
through hemodialysis.

Almost two litres of
fluid are removed from his
body during every session,
as the build-up of impuri-
liss is gradually drawn
from his system. So far,
he's lost 27 pound of fluid
in three weeks. He’s down
‘ta 151 pounds. -

During a telephone i in-
terview with the Terrace
Standard Thursday, the fa-
ther of five adult children

admitted it’s been hard to
keep his spirits up. “It’s
hour by hour,” he said.
The thought of living in
Prince George, away from
his life in Terrace, for the
next two years is “a de-
vastating one,” he said.
“The separation, That
really is hard. { can’t just

from home for treatment.

His daughter Holly,
however, knaws how much
better his outlook would be
if he could return home
and resume his life.

She said that’s some-
thing he and other renal
patients could do if there
was a satellite hemadialy-

“The community needs to get behind
him and other dialysis patients and go
to the mat and push for this. There
shouldn't be a penalty for living a life in

the northwest.”

jump a bus, escape, and
go home. I just can’t do
that.”

His thoughts returned to
his passion, the Terrace
Symphony Orchestra.

“T don’t know how I’m
going to get the symphony
together,” he said.

Still, he declares him-

family to support him. He
also knows he’s not the
only renal patient in B.C.

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“The communily needs
to get behind him and
other dialysis patients and
go to the mat and push for
this. There shouldn't be a
penalty for living a life in
the northwest.”

Without Ryan, the Ter-
race Symphony Orchestra

_self..fortunate..- .he-has. as: is. without.a conductor, and

Terrace has temporarily
lost one of its most distin-
guished citizens.

Founder of both the

Terrace Community Band
and the Terrace Symphony
Orchestra, Ryan was a
driving force behind the
1988 construction of. the
band shell in George ‘Little
Memorial Park that now
carries his name.

He's been honoured as
a Volunteer of the Year,
and received the Order of
Terrace in 1998, Last year,
the Terrace and District
Chamber of Commerce
gave Ryan its Contributor
to the Arts award.

Friends, family, and
supporters are mounting a
letter-writing campaign to
the Provincial Renal
Agency. If enough com-
munity support is shown
for the proposal, it’s hoped
the approval process for
renovations and nurses
training will be speeded
up, Bos said.

Ryan is already think-
ing, about his next gig.

He wonders if the Ter-
race Symphony can join
the Prince George Syniph-
ony for a series of benefit
concerts in suppport of re-
novations for the renal pro-
gram at Mills Memorial.

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Fader was hired on a
three-year contract with a
one year roll over, mean-
ing after three years the
board can extend his con-
tract for one more year.
After that he’d retire.

Fader has held multiple
superintendent jobs in Al-
berta, iticluding in Innes-
fail, Fort Nelson, and We-
taskiwin. He also spent
years working for the Al-
berta ministry of education
developing and imple-
menting funding systems
for special needs students.

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