Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 11, 1988 19 ;

district’s 5,200.

Dick Kilborn, director of business and health programs at Northwest Community College, recently presented

four NWCC students with $275 bursaries from the Northern Institute for Research Studies of Prince George. The

Institute’s function Is encouraging knowledge and appreciation of economic development in the north. The
students are (left to right) Lisa Schell, Elaine Roodzant, Ruth Hidber and Randy MacFarlane. .

Board plans more public meetings

TERRACE — A public meeting
held in the Caledonia School lec-
ture theater recently was the

* beginning of a more accessible

school board. The Terrace
meeting was one of several held
throughout School District 88

designed to ‘“‘de-mystify’’ the
board’s role in education.’

Board Chairman Val

Napoleon explained that regular’

board meetings have always
been open to the public, but are

structured and allow little time:

for ‘answering questions - or
public discussion.
According to Napoleon,
public meetings: are just one of
several: ideas developed by the
board last February: in order.to
best serve the needs of the

their parents in what she des-

students and .

cribes as ‘‘one of the _ largest
districts in the province’’.

She said School District 88
maintains 22 schools in an area
of 35,000 square miles and com-
munity differences related to
varying ‘cultural, historical and
commercial bases.need to be ad-
dressed ‘in. each community
openly and at the public level,

Some of the other items on the

boatd’s list of 19 goals and ob- —

jectives to be considered in com-
ing months include:

@ the possibility of French Im-

mersion at the secondary level i in
Terrace

@ a Gitksan Language Program

for younger students “and a
Forestry Program for grades 1
and 12 in Hazelton —

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tion; a review of all alternate
programs and the senior secon-
dary Work Experience Program
@ review the quality of the
graduation certificate -
@-dn investigation. of student
drop-out rates.

In addressing areas more
directly related to students’
needs, the board will be looking

; the Grade seven to eight tran-
sition
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students require to function at |

the post-secondary level and in

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@ ensuring that curriculum
reflects community and ethical-

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Cal student
to study
in Japan
next year

Shawnee Love, a Grade 12
graduating student at Caledonia
Senior Secondary School, has
won a $20,000 Pacific Rim
scholarship to study her first-
year university in Japan this fall.

_ Shawnee was one of 600 stu-

dents applying for the pres-
tigious scholorship earlier in the
school. year. She was one of
three originally applying from
Caledonia, the other two being
Debbie Jackman and Mark
Bentley.. .

The trio flew to Victoria
where all 600 were screened and
then short-listed to 125 poten-
tials. Shawnee was one of the
lucky ones, while Debbie and
Mark missed out.

A further short-listing
brought the number down to 25.

| All 25 flew back to the lower

mainland for more interviews,
after which the final 10 were
selected April 28 as recipients of

* $20,000 each,

The fortunate 10 ali had
choices of where to continue
their schooling at a Pacific Rim
country, Shawnee chose Japan,
where she hopes to learn the
language fluently and study in-
ternational and economic af-
fairs.

She’s not’ yet sure where she’ll
be attending school and doesn’t
know any of the other nine reci-

_pients, or where they’re going.

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