24 Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 10, 1988

Project Interconnect has received $230,669 funding from
Canada Employment and Immigration to operate for
another year. Funding for the project is reduced each year
as it becomes more established in the community and is
able to generate some income. Pictured above, signing the
new contract are (rear, left to right) Interconnect program
director Detlef Beck and secretary Syivia Macdonald, and
(front) CEIC program supervisor Chris Jennings and Ter-
race and District Community Services board chairman Joan

Cox.

Referred to

The following items were
referred to committee by Ter-
race city council last Monday
and may be discussed at the next
committee meeting. These
meetings are open to the public
but observers are not permitted
to participate in any discussion
or make any presentation
without an invitation. Meetings
have a set schedule the week
following each council meeting,
but this is sometimes changed
for the convenience of commit-
tee members. For more informa-
tion contact Denise Fisher at
635-6311.

Finance, Personnel and Ad-

committee

ministration (to be held on Mon-
day, Aug. 15 at 12 p.m.): A re-
quest from the Kermode Friend-
ship Centre for a 1989 property
tax exemption (valued at about
$3,800) due to a lack of funding
from the Secretary of State; a
by-law to exempt certain proper-
ty from taxation. The list it con-
tains is to be evaluated for ac-
curacy and the addition of the
Kermode Friendship Centre is to
be considered. It was also noted
that the addition to the Centen-
nial Christian School was not in-
cluded and they will be asked if
they wish to make a formal re-
quest for exemption.

Co-op trailer approved

TERRACE — City council has
approved a request from the
Terrace Co-op for permission to
install a 24 by 60 foot Atco
trailer on their property as a
temporary Garden Centre, The
Co-op has been without a
building since the old Garden
Centre was destroyed by fire
May | of this year.

According to information
supplied by the Co-op, a new

Fire safety —

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already raised some money
through balloon sales and the
Ronald McDonald magic show
and are presently looking for
business and service clubs who
would like to participate in a
project to build one for Terrace
and Kitimat.

She explains that they are
looking for several small donors
rather than one large one
because they feel it will give the
project a better feeling of com-
munity involvement, According
to Focker, the Northwest Com-
munity College carpentry,
woodworking and welding shops
are ready to begin building the
safety house as soon as they’ve
raised the money.

She said the fire safety houses
have proven their value on many
occasions, As an example, she
described a house fire which oc-
curred in Nanaimo eight months
after the safety house was in-
troduced. Children were in the
home at the time but all escaped
alive and uninjured.

Garden Centre is currently in the
planning stage and at some point
in the next 18 months they will
relocate both the Garden Centre
and the Building Supplies Cen-
tre. City policy permits the tem-
porary placement of Atco type
trailers for up to two years.

Ronald McDonald thrilled children of all ages during a magic sho
Donations collected will help fund a

simulate conditions that might be expecte
hat to do In the event of a real emergency.

the Riverboat Days Parade.
race. The safety house will
children not to panic and w

- Another year of funding .
for Project Interconnect

Terrace and District Com-
munity Services has received
Canada Employment and Im-
migration (CEIC) approval to
fund the Interconnect program
for another year.

Interconnect is one of twelve
programs developed by Terrace
and District Community Ser-
vices to meet its commitment to
the social, economic and en-
vironmental well-being of all
citizens in Northwestern B.C.
The program began last year and
is designed to train severely
employment disadvantaged peo-
ple in the Terrace area and
enable them to find work and
compete successfully in the
workforce.

Program director Detlef Beck
says the CEIC has also approved
funding for upgrading the ex-
isting computer system in order
to offer a wider range of
academic courses. The new
system will connect five com-
puter work stations to a 250
megabyte CD drive and will add
increased flexibility to the
system.

Beck explains that they will
still use the Plato system they
have in the past but, because the
new system is IBM compatible,

Riverboat Days

Sponsors will have

TERRACE — City treasurer
Keith Norman has advised Ter-
race council that the respon-
sibility for insurance during
Riverboat Days events lies with
the individual sponsoring groups
and not the Riverboat Days
Committee. This year, however,
the city paid $500 for insurance
to cover six events held on city
property because sponsors
hadn’t been advised of their
responsibility and any such re-
quirement would have left them

they will also be able to use more
advanced programs and offer
courses to the Grade 10 and 12
level rather than just to Grade
eight as they have in the past. He
says this means Interconnect
students will now be able to
qualify for college upgrading
and trades programs.

Beck says the new computer
system will also allow Intercon-
nect to increase the scope of
their target group. ‘‘Right now
we only offer very limited things
and we’re only dealing with a
specific clientele,’? Beck said.
‘‘We’re going to maintain that

focus but we will also be able to
take people who have completed
Grade 10 or 12 and offer
upgrading or specialized train-
ing.”’ :

Another advantage in being
able to offer specialized train-
ing, says Beck, is that Intercon-
nect will also be able to offer
“‘tailor made’? upgrading to
employees of local business on
demand. He says these programs
will be designed to meet the
specific needs of each employer
and will allow them to keep up
more easily with technological
and other changes.

More cold wine and beer

TERRACE — City council has
no objection to a proposal by
the Skeena Hotel to open a cold
beer and wine store on their
Greig Ave. property. A
spokesman for the hotel says
that all licenses and permits have
been approved by the provincial
government, and now that coun-
cil has voiced no objection the
project will proceed.

At present, plans for the new
liquor outlet are in the
preliminary stage and hotel

with too little time to raise the
necessary funds.

Events insured by the city in-

cluded the Kinettes Kiddies Kar- .

nival, the Slo-Pitch Tourna-
ment, the Legion Parade, the
Centennial Lions Family Day,
the Inn of the West Waiter/
Waitress Race and city-
sponsored . fireworks display.
The Kinsmen Beer Garden was
located on city property but
wasn’t insured by the city

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management hope to have the
store open sometime next spr-
ing. One cold beer and wine
store is currently operating at
the Northern Motor Inn and
another is due to open in the Inn
of the West later this month. A
fourth, at the Thornhill Pub, is
currently under review by the
regional district and will go into
operation if a survey of local
residents indicates there is no
objection to the plan.

to Insure
because it was one of the few

events with a source of income
to cover the cost.

-Council has now decided that
future Riverboat Days sponsors
will be told they are responsible
for carrying their own in-
surance. They noted that in-
surance for each event was
relatively inexpensive, less than

$100, and given sufficient notice

sponsors would have time to
raise the money.

w at the Tillicum Theatre immediately following oe s
McDonald’s Fire Safety House planned for Ter-.-.
d during areal house fire and help teach