Stick work’ eae I's a ‘chance to play 0 our: national sport. And r ho,: we don’t mean. ~~ | ‘hockey\SPORTS B Ba Forget the war on: drugs... °} Safe: injection. sites are: = nal =} working, says. Fh | | Owen\NEWS AS H cancer their own. Wey With: dh a 250- km walk, ao ‘Sut 00 PLUS 7¢. @sT ; ($1.40 plus 8¢°GST.-:. ” outside of the je Terrace area) . By J ENNIFER LANG THE FUTURE of Mountainview ‘Elementary and” _ three other local-schools willbe ‘decided: in’ two weeks at a special school board meeting in Terrace; ‘Trustees... will make: up: their’ minds - April. 6, following a “30-day- public consultation period that». culminates in afinal public’ meeting. the: night, before a - at Skeena Junior. Secondary, - proposals on the vacant new school, : Kenney Primary and Kiti K' Shan Primary have-been put on notice they could potentially: face closure _ depending on: which. scenario trustees:choose. .. Three different groupsareé vying fot Mountainview: Elementary, a brand-new; $3.2: million school thal’s - Wennace @ ~ www.terracestand | School closure clocks Sago — a acasually of dedtining enclnnent and ditt budget constraints... The: -Tertace Chapter. of Canadian’ Patents for the district's First*Nations Education Centre -have™ : «:vasked trustees to ‘turn’ the school :info a culturally- Coast Mountains trustees: ‘and adihinisinators.a “are, asking . parents. what. they. thiink:. of. four. Sifferent sensitive, magnet. school for: First Nations students, ° “And proponents ofa new. ‘independent. Christian - >" school. have offered: ‘to.. purchase:, Mountainview. . Meanwhile, * “Uplands - Elementary, ‘and ET. ' School trustee-Hal Stedham is responsible for the ; fourth proposal before the board; ve oats He suggests. letting | Bench parents. have first crack Uplands Elementary. and next or “head: to, ‘the: board, office. to. view the proposals j in- ‘person. “The onus is ‘on.the parent to get informed, Terrace : trustée Diana ‘Penner said, adding:-the- proposals: are. 7 also. on View at the school board. office. _ In the wake of-a recent’ lawsuit: that. found. ‘Coast. ‘: * Mountains trustees. failed to" adequately ‘consult’ ‘parents: over: the: four. day. week, trustees: now: ‘fear. ; elémentary, : an invitation the board has long resisted, fearing it. -would:: draw “more * Coast Mountains ° “students ‘out of the public system.”” making any moves that: would: ‘possibly’ Prejudice: the public consultation process, fe Primary, ; : a “Wer re 2 elected by the public to make’ a decision. - Parents. who want. more e information’ are asked lo. : “attend: one of -the meetings taking ‘place this ‘week ‘French want to turn it into the home of the elementary ; French i immersion program, ; ~_A group, ‘of community - ‘members. acting ‘through on: their. behalf.” Now; what we're ‘doing: because of | “the way the public process is supposed to go, is we're my 2 ’ seeking | opinions first and then making’ decisions. On . ‘the other hand, when we didn’t do that; -people-used. to think we came ai them with a preconceived plan,’ - she said:.“It certainily’ looks. aS if the ship’ is’ Tanning ue © Wwithout'a captain, are ‘Mountainview: nieetings’ took place, yesterday “at Clarénce: Michiel Elementary, and: Br Kenney «© “Thornhill. . a Eletientary, Kiti. K’Shan\in- Terrace and at Mouint Boas ». Blizabeth Secondary i in: Kitimat: ; * . So, that’s. why the district. has” not prepared. its. own cost.analysis of the proposals... : ““We:-would be: biasing: it, because we: would “decide what to pick to pick and what to put on there, ”, -and:"-continue' tonight” -- Meetings resume Tuesday al Uplands Elementary . ~ -— for. Tuesday, and continue: ‘March 31. at Cassie Hall) “Elementary. Parents who miss those ‘nights dreinvited . remained empty since it was completed: two years at, . Mountainview, ¢ a plan, that would Involve closing : HOME SINCE ate February, Mackenzie Agnew shows avery. sign of being | the. Aueyeneon fat she. is. She had been in Vancouver since last August taking treatments. for ci gancer, a ° os _Amessage for Terrace © from C Don and Lynda. Agnew. LAS T AUG UST. Don. and Lynda Agnew discovered. thay their daughter, Mackenzie, had, cancer. : She was quickly taken to : Vancouver where she went through. rounds of treatment and isolation. . rere Mackenzie, who has just i ured. wo; was well enough to return home in February... “ She “returns. ‘to ‘Vancouver. later. this. nigtth: fo more treatiient ‘and fier Sarnily, reinains hopeful oF her - recovery. . Mackenzie’ will -bé trayelling” to, Vancouver “every” | ‘three months for tests and-scans. ‘When, we have results... ‘| we will: tet you know,. "_AS-our. story ‘progresses,’ we have leamed valuable . to waste it. ‘everywhere, You dust: have: to. open. your eyes. ‘and ‘see ts them:’ ane LA ‘community is ‘more. ‘than buildings, businesses and ve -people; Terrace is a living, breathing entity. “And y d you, the ” People, ‘are its heart and soul. - . We wish: to thank all who have tielped u us, Renouncing citizenship called By DON AND LYNDA’ AGNEW. a “It has: been: a: dong seven. months and the frst p t pan of : our journey is ‘over, : ' Now. we have: the beginning of Part Two. Penner: said, i pointing to the board's predicament: : ‘Health workers vote. | to take strike action | A. STRIKE VOTE. to- be: released next’ ~ week- will. reveal how. unionized health _ care workers. feel. about attempts by their’ . employers to.reduce wages and benefits... °“The “Northern Health Authority anid v other. employers across B.C... want nursing’ assistants, laundry” ‘workers, ' cleaners. ‘and take’ hold’ April: le ; The rollback amounts to an average wage. : sand: benefit cut: of 17 ‘per cent: and: would: affect: 207 ‘Northern, Health’ employees. in oe the: Terrace area. ‘ 2 AML told, thé. ‘fallback’ “would, affect " approximately’ “3,000: people. working for 7 ‘the, Northern Health Authority... Saeeeae - Health workers, the majority of: whom’: “are ‘members of ‘the Hospital Employees’, Union, have “responded” with’ a ‘Iwo-year’ ‘proposal-calling: for cost of. living i increases a . lessons. We, have. learned to take. What i is iven but. net ee Times: is ‘a- precious: ‘as s gold. or: > silver: Friends ace" moe $350 million: ‘over dnd a boost'in some ‘benefits. . othe’, employers’ a three-year contract e : oincrease:- offload onto-our members,”* “Louise Simard of the’ Health Employers no ‘Association « of B.C, - ; ‘bargaining branch, said its wage and benefits”: ~ proposal: reflects: what other public. sector - employers - and* private sector. entiployers - _ pay their: people for.similar work. : _,. “Wages and benefits here are among. the | I. highest in the. couritry,”" said Simard. “What' “we're trying to do:is have. those'y wages and . |]. benefits reflect market rates,” . |. She: said health: employers” ‘need ‘the. concessions: td éase- their, own: ‘budgets: which essentially have: been frozen by the, ~ provincial government. We neéed. to- realize. savings,” ‘Simard a a added, “As you ‘know, 70 per cent of health a gare costs are in- wages and:benefits.”” --" Information: from. the health. employers: . y 1 : -association indicates thata unionized health _ tare laundry worker makes $18.68 an hour, . - ‘36 per cent more than the national average se “of $13, 76 an, hour. ee toa 1 general public meeting April 5 at Skeena Junior. oe : Cont’ d Page Az” A full: time: work week: is, 36 ‘hours, the ; shortest. in the’ country. Employers- want to increase.a full time work week to 37. 3 tee hours... mo “Health. care workers” start ‘with: ‘four: : weeks vacation and can ‘work: their: Way ups. tol2. weeks: based'on seniority, “Six weeks. 0! § holiday vis * the. maximum: ‘elsewhere: and” a7 health employers. want a similar cap, es - Mike. Old of- the Hospital : Employees" a Union said its members" want to” bargain, bat’ “not with what, employers z are offering. We. haven't included a Wage increase’ but “we ate: asking for. a Cost of: living So _ Our. ; ‘proposals are” selatively ‘imoderate,” he Said. mss Z 7 “What ‘we see ‘here. is an, ater to The strike vote and eniployer’ demands _ - for’ rollbacks: are. the: ‘latest"in' a series’ of... - _attempts by’ both parties to Teach new. labour Ld ; “agreements, ; Ms “Négotiators. for: both “the: émployers and a : .... thé-unions-did reach a deal. one -year‘ago to: ul: wages and. ‘benefits, ‘but. it Was. rejected: oe by- Union -mémbers..°.5 5°" That” caused?, that’ when, ‘the: union’ members: who: hadn’ t. ‘agreed: to cuts: at. first; -accepled.a ‘package. | ~ vas resulted: i in: some: job I loss" earlier. this. * Some health workers have Just accepted ; on cuts fo wages. and: benefits ° © _ Par that sory, Please. see Paige Al2,, ot HiT ‘the - ‘Narthern: : Health fot Authority: ‘to ‘attempt: to carve oul.its own “Wage and. beriefit reductiondeéal. with its’. “own employees, but! this Was also ejected . by amass vote. - tne _ =,» But wage ‘cuts. and: behefts were then. on : voted: on. by individual ‘union’ ‘locals” and pe “some of them accepted the’ proposals. ee Thé.’ Northern: Health: Authority.: ‘then avs began: moves.to contract out jobs biit halted ©. . a ‘tactic,’ says. Liberal candidate AN. OPINION POLL suite in ‘this riding last week by an Ontario-based firm is targeting | zal prospective Liberal candidate Miles Richardson, saying, he- renounced. his: Canadian: citizenship |. while a young: native tights leader ¢ on the Queen ; Charlotte Islands... * GPC ‘Research. | “asked Voters. “in. “Skeena: Bulkley Valley ° “questions ‘about - who- they would support in.the next federal, election - “and whether the move by’: Richardson: nearly 20 years ago affects their opinion of him. *: Richardson, who until earlier this: month has ° been working in‘Vancotiver as a commissioner for the -: _-publicly:financed “ “BC. ., Trealy Commission, “Says. he never: did ‘give. ‘up. -his citizenship. But:he’ once. ‘said he would do ‘so. - when the Haida were trying: t to block logging on the Queen’ Charlotte Islands i in -1985.. “It was. communications tactic?” ‘Richardson said’ ‘ast : - week, “We.were blockading on Lyell Island,” he said. “The. - Judge to told US as Ganiadian cilizens.» we. didn! t. have the right ta do thal,” position,” stand up that wréng-act/"" *-. me asa vigorous fighter. Richardson © said.”. Miles Richardson successful candidate I will got to the: wall for the - people of this riding”. Richardson, -was ‘then president of the: Council. of the Haida Nation,: said he yowed to renounce his citizenship i in protest’ because Haida rights weren't being. recognized . courts have-since exonerated and upheld our. | he said. - “But at. that time he-was.. # Oppressing us, and we needed. tovuse whatever means at our disposal 10. communicate and He said if anything i it underscores his record 4 “Eve gone to. ‘the wall for my people," “And should I ‘be: the : Business Savvy AIDAN KLEIN, 9, and Brady Champoux, 11, were busy. cleaning windows i in the Lazelle Mini Mall last Wednesday along with 10- -year-old Justin. Klein. The thrae ~ Cousins got their start onthe Spring Break business from aunt Anna Beddie, who. wn mt _ plit.them to work at Misty River Books. ‘With energy and soap and water to spare — - ~and:a. realization they. could maké’ some money “4 trade 2 doer to to, door. JEFF NAGEL PHOTO. He said he had no idea who paid for the poll and decided _ to target him,. but added he wasn’t surprised. mae ‘ “T expect a: lot. of ‘adversarial ‘tactics as* the. ‘campaign “wnfalds;” he said, “Tf will. intensify’ should J be'the Successful -oandidate.” See Page: Al 1 1 form more re liberi néWs. 5: “The . ” thet trio > began plying thelr. : | _