Daycare
gets money

A NEW $507,000 daycare centre
will soon be in place at Caledonia
Sr. Secondary for teen parents.

Education minister Art Char-
bonneau made the announcement
May 30 at the proposed daycare
site between Caledonia and the
REM Lee Theatre.

“This. child. care. centre - will:

help young parents continue their
education so they can support
their families and break the cycle
of poverly,”’ said Charbonneau.

The daycare cost js part of the
provincial government’s B.C. 21
program.

Over the next three years, the |

B.C. 21 child care plan coor-
dinated by the women’s equality
ministry will spend $32.3 million
to create 7,500 new daycare
Spaces.

The Caledonia daycare will

handle 24 children aged three and

younger, said Judy Scruton, presi-
dent of PACES (Parenis and
Children’s Educational School)
Daycare Society.

There is a waiting list of 12
parents and children for the cur-
rent 12-space PACES daycare
running temporarily out of the
Pentecostal church, said Scruton.

While the daycare will be
physically
Caledonia for parents in grade
11-12, another classroom will be’
built inside the daycare,

That classroom will be for stu-
dents who aren’! yet eligible to go
to Caledonia, This way they'll
continue to be close to their chil-
dren.

PACES will run the daycare
and school, Scruton said, hiring
daycare workers and a teacher
through grants fom the social
services ministry.

‘We will be asking parents to
make a commitment to full-time
schooling if they’re going to use
the daycare,’’ she said. ‘‘We

want to help them graduate while .

connected to -

ready to begin by either January
or Seplember 1995.

The school board’s original
proposal was that daycare centres

for teen parents be built in Ter-
race and Hazelton at the cost of

$900,000.
When the education ministry i in-

formed: them that only’one of: the -~-|-
two proposals would be consider- . |:

ed, the board chase Tertace.

Skeena MLA Helmut. Gies-
brecht secs that as a a logical deci-
sion.

“Terrace was the first request
made from this area,’’ said Gies-
brecht. ‘*Considering the number
of students who could use this

system in Terrace, it’s a very val-

uable project for Terrace.’”
This region has a much higher

leen birth rate than the provincial —

average, he said, making it a

long-needed program for local -

young parents,

But local medical health officer
Dr. David Bowering feels the
daycare is necessary regardless of
the statistics.

**Whether rates are higher or
lower, there are young parents
struggling

to get by,’ said”
Bowering, ‘‘The rate is deBnitely -
higher here but even if there was -
only one teen parent, help is

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daycare with lots of stimulation.’’

While there is still no definite
site for the daycare, Scruton said
it must be close ta Caledonia and
in a visible location. .

‘*We want it up front,’ she
said. ‘‘I know some people have
a hard time with this sort of thing
but we don’t want it pushed to the
back and out of sight.’”

Planners thought the field be-
tween Caledonia and the theatre
to be an ideal site, but have
recently found the sewer pipes to
be very near the surface,

They now must cither select an-
other site or rework plans to build
around the pipes.

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ICBC had ‘cut the youth program
and then reinstated it because of
public pressure.

‘*We got a lot of support from
schools and parents through let-
ters and phone calls when the
program was cut,’’ . said
McDonagh.

The youth program is for junior
and senior high school students
and staff to sect up counterattack
committees. ,

Coordinators such as
McDonagh work with these
groups to raise awareness of traf-
fic safety issues {ncluding drink-
ing and driving, seatbelt use and
safe driving speeds.

While Caledonia has no
counteraliack committee working
with the [CBC program this year,
said McDonagh, they have had a
committee in the past organized
by Bruce Bingham.

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