‘B6 Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 4, 1990

Literacy —a world-wide |
problem, locat solution

by Betty Barton

Did you know that adult il-
literacy is a major economic and
social problem for British Col-
umbia? Here are some ex-
amples:

_@ 17 percent of the adult
“population of B.C. do not have
_ sufficient literacy skills to cope
' with the demands of today; that
Statistic is as high as 25 percent
in northern British Columbia.
@ The Canadian Business Task
Force on Literacy calculates the
annual cost of adult illiteracy to
be $10 billion — from industrial
accidents, unemployment costs
and retraining.
@ The economic future of B.C.
will be adversely affected if

adult literacy levels are not

' significantly improved immedi-
ately, .

’ That information comes from
the Report of the Provincial
Literacy Advisory Committee to
the Minister of Advanced
Education, Training and
Technology.

Recently 10 people from the
Northwest represented the
region at the founding meeting
of Literacy B.C. Seven of the 10
were funded by Literacy B.C. to
attend the meeting. Terrace
representatives were Sharon

Proctor, Linda Bretfeld
representing the Women’s Cen-
tre, Larry Merrill from Terrace
and District Community Ser-

vices, Larry Bolingbroke from:
Northwest Community College,

Ron Jacobs from Pathways,

Francis Smith of the Kermode.

Friendship Centre, and Elmer
Clayton, a learner.

The main goals of Literacy
B.C. will be to act provincially
to promote literacy in this pro-
vince and to coordinate the ac-
tivities and programs of literacy
programs throughout the pro-
vince.

Four major workshops were

presented during the founding

meeting of Literacy B.C., held
March 9 and 10:
(1. Student participation in

developing and administering a :

literacy center.

(2. Support and development
of tutor trainers. Main points
were that each program have a
bank of trainers, that a newslet-
ter act as a support for tutors,
that a maximum of 25 tutors be
the responsibility of the coor-
dinator, and that there be in-
service training for tutors.

(3. Advocacy for, and ap-
proach to, funding literacy pro-
grams. Although development
of a five-year plan was planned,
it was decided that the goals and

sentatives. from - this. area were

’ Services in Terrace and Sharon

objectives of Literacy B.C. have.

to be clarified with the Board
first. They will meet in Van-
couver next month. ‘Two repre-

chosen from this area.to sit on
the Board of Directors. of Pro-
ject.B.C. — Larry Merrill from
Terrace and District Community

Stroeder from the Northwest
Tribal Council in Prince Rupert.
Upon their return to Terrace,
participants in the Project B.C.
founding meeting reported to
Project’ Literacy Terrace
meeting, held March 13.

The short-term plans for Pro-
ject Literacy Terrace are to com-
plete an application for funding
to the Ministry of Advanced
Education, to pay for a volun-
teer tutor coordinator, and to
provide. training and office
facilities for a local literacy pro-
gram. They also have to finalize
their application to form a non-
profit society. The last step is to
get a letter from Project Literacy
Kelowna authorizing the use of
the name ‘‘Project Literacy’’ for
the Terrace program. The group
also.intends to check into the op-
tions for training tutors of
literacy programs. CEIC
(Canada Employment Centre)
programs will be included as
possible options.

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Book
grows
as it
travels

The Book Voyage comes
through the Northwest June
11-18.

The Canadian leg.of the .
Book Voyage, one of many
projects launched in con-
junction with International
Literacy Year, began Jan.
25 in Ottawa. The book
began with blank pages and
it will be filled in by
learners who are attempting

‘to overcome illiteracy as it
passes through each of the
provinces and territories.

At the end of 1990 the

_ Movement for Canadian
Literacy will produce the
Canada Learners’ Book, a
portion of which will go
into the International Lear-
ners’ Book, a global effort
‘by the United Nations.

The Book Voyage in this
region will be coordinated
__by Sandy Lavallee from the
‘Houston campus of North-

west ‘Community College.

_ Insearch
of clarity

A story on Page 2 of the March
7 Terrace Review may have given |
some readers the impression that
Riverside Disposal is in some way
responsible for maintenance of the
Thornhill sanitary landfill. The
company is a dump user but is not

_involved in maintenance of the

durirp.
Our apologies for any confusion

’ fhe-story may have generated,

Lodge
proposal
sent to
Crown Lands

. The Regional District of Kitimat-
-Stikine board has taken: a "hands-
off" approach to a Ministry of
Crown Lands referral. This pat-
ticular referral relates to an appli-
cation from Martin Schmiderer of
Exclusive Fly Fishing Ltd. for six
hectares of Crown Land on the

east shore of the Skeena River

west of Gossan Creek.

According to the application, this
new six-guest lodge is to replace
one currently located in the Gossan
Creek subdivision. Other informat-
ion, though, indicates that the new
lodge may be designed to "aug-
ment" the current lodge, not
replace it.

The response from reglonal dis-

trict planning committee chairman,

Pete Weeber: "We know these
things can be quite exciting,”
Weeber explained that a number of
public meetings on the construction
of the original lodge ended up in
court and the reglonal district lost.
The regional district’s position in
that instance was that Schmiderer

“had built the lodge contrary to

zoning bylaw regulations.

The board, however, isn’t going
to get caught in the same trap
twice. They have concluded that
the construction of a new fishing

lodge at the proposed site would . . -
require a zoning change and a —

public hearing. There is no point in

this, though, if Schmiderer is for

some reason turned down by the
Ministry of Crown Lands. They
decided, therefore, to tum the
whole matter back over to the
ministry with the suggestion that
they hold a public mecting to
determine public sentiment first.

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