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“A lot of people want to be involved, That’s good

to see,” he said. «
Those’ who didn’t want to cross picket lines could

, hand in their nomaination forms to returning officer:
_ Cathy Jackson, who wasn’t located in the school board
building. The deadline to ‘submit nomination forms

_ was Oct. 14.at4 p.m ,

With CUPE employees honouring the teachers"

tually: coming into the buildings.

“There was one Grade 12 student.and a couple of

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a R. E.M. Lee “Theatre manager Karla Hennig is

“ not crossing picket lines but teachers haye given her
a picket pass for when she has to work community

pickets, after school use of school board buildings has
been put on hold.,. , 4 .
f “Extra curricular activities are cancelled,” said dis.
trict superintendent Randy Smalbrugge.

kindergarten kids,”. added Smalbrugge. “(The Grade ©
_. 12 student) was only in to grab something and the kin-
- dergarten students were not coming for full-day Ses-
‘sions.’

- the

Mountains School District
but its teachers belong to
provincial teachers’
federation, placing it behind
picket lines as well last
week, .

“Jack Cook is chugging
along like any other school —
the classrooms are open and
empty;” said Renee Syvret,
the school principal. “There
is no difference.”

_also,” said Watters, adding

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Watters said legislated
changes in 2002 that eroded
special needs service lev-
els have put more stress on,
teachers. ie |e

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cophone parent. “Not only

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are there special education
kids but kids with different

,' an illegal strike the teachers’
federation started Oct. 7 and
. has vowed to continue until.

a negotiated settlement is

‘. reached.

- Ecole Jack Cook belongs
to the. Francophone School

- Board,’ also. known’ as the_
Scolaire Franco- .

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we don’t support. the way
‘they’re going about it,”

a ‘difficult task but doesn’t
support their strike action.

“As trustées, we. support
what teachers are saying but

said
Renee Popov, adding a reso-
Jution must be reached with-
in the framework of the law.

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Affected activities like floor hockey, badminton teachers chugging along like chair. for the November 19th local election at the
and volleyball are offered through the city’s parks and joined the... any other school - the of the Oo | oF ;
recreation department or by private rental. 38,0 00 classrooms are open district.
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., and schools remain open to students, but last week the prov- ~ Renee Syvret - » under- \ ae CR. E. M. L E E T H E AT RE
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Shows. phone de la Colombie Bri- Popov cited the board’s with the assistance of the
a Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Nathan Cullen | . tannique. decision this school year to’ Skeena Valle
and Skeena NDP MLA Robin Austin have visited Dr. Jean Watters, CEO lower the numberof grades Y

striking teachers on picket lines throughout their con-

. stituencies but neither are picketing.

‘When I go to the picket lines I visit, we chat and
I see what the local folks are doing,” said Cullen last

Cullen’s wife Diana Dahr is training to become a

. teacher. Austin was a special services aide while un-
.. dertaking a social. work program at Northwest Com-

munity college and then, at UNBC. :

~ week. “I don’t think I need to throw on a sign and. [
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"Those two offices are a sign, said Nes- —

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growing" outside-of-their traditional: terris-~---"F-would say the events that precipi-

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“not imminent and’ must first be approved
by the membership. It is hiring a consul-
tant.to help steer the process.

to move forward,” he said of the merger
plan.

about five years ago about the inevitability
of becoming part of a larger credit union.
-That inevitability accelerated this past
year when the credit union voluntarily
‘sought in February to come under the
supervision of the provincial Financial
Instiutions Commission as ‘a stabilizing -

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“T really think this is the best thing

Condon said board discussions began job.

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_ francophone -school board,
. Said teachers

in the 37
schools face similar prob-
lems'as those in the other 5 59
districts:

“We have the same is-
sues,” Watters said. “Class

» Sizes are not as big (an issue)
_ but~ multi-level classrooms.

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are.

Credit Union eyes merger

measure following a series of loans which

. tated that were a.symptom of being that _
small,” said Condon of the credit" ‘union’s~~~
cfinancial size.

One of those series of loans made to
the now-defunct Northwest Weekly that
were above the credit union’s lending
limit guidelines ultimately lead to former
general manager Val Gauvin losing her

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“That loan we had trouble with, if that
had been made at the Royal or any other
bank and it was with one of those [compa-
nies] that went bankrupt, that would have
been the end of it,” said Condon in adding
that publicity about the situation affected
the credit union. 3

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in a’ multi-level classroom
from four to.three as an ex-
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