. On Dec. 6 the Terrace District . Teachers’ Association sent a let- ter to the board of trustees ~ informing them that if no con- tract settlement is reached ‘be- fore the end of the Christmas break on Jan, 3 the teachers will not return to work. A strike _ would put hundréds of TDTA members and CUPE workers employed in schools temporarily out of work and suspend educa- tion’ for more than 5,000 stu- dents. . As of yesterday at noon the’ board had not responded to the deadline except to offer three . further days of negotiating — Dec. 16 and Jan. 2 and 3. When the TDTA delivered 72-hour strike notice early in the month, _ the board replied Dec. 2 by “stating they did not recognize the TDTA strike vote as being valid because it was not con-. ducted. under - Industrial Rela- tions Council supervision. TDTA president Helmut. Giesbrecht said the vote was supervised by Rev. Stan Bailey of Knox United Church. Gies- brecht said the board’s response _ to the strike notice “shows a lack. of concern..,, would the results be more believable if the vote was supervised. by . the IRC?” School. District -secretary- treasurer Barry Piersdorff, when questioned about the board’s move, noted that, the board is.compelled to uphold. the law. He declined to speculate whether the board would move ‘to have any strike resulting from. the vote declared illegal. In the last round of bargain- © whether those settlements would act as a-baseline in the local | negotiations, and said the board ‘may wait for lower settlements. . Barry Piersdorff said the other wage figures ‘‘may provide a trend line”, but he also noted that the wage issue is only a portion of the matters to be discussed. ‘‘There’s' a tremen- dous amount of language to deal - with. We've got a long way to ing Dec. 4 and 5 the board team - § tabled a complete counterpropo- — sal to the TDTA’s initial draft. It offered salary increases total- ling 15.2 percent compounded over three years. Giesbrecht de- scribéd the offer as “‘totally unacceptable’. - A two-week strike by teachers - in Kitimat was settled last week- end with a two-year wage pack- age coming to 14.6 percent, and teachers in Prince Rupert settled the following day for 15.2 per- cent over two years. Giesbrecht says the Terrace board’s offer, projected over two years instead of three, would amount to 8.7 percent. He declined to speculate Logging trucks roll TERRACE — The city has ap- proved an extension to a Highway Use Permit held by Bell Pole. Due to weather condi- tions in November, Bell Pole was able to haul only 17 loads. and the extension will allow them to haul up to 35 loads of logs (eight loads per day) out of the Kitselas area between Dec. 13 and Feb. 1 using the North Sparks/ Halliwell access route. In a request for the extension, Bell forestry supervisor Peter Mair explained that the original permit only allowed five loads per day and that, combined with the weather, was the reason they had been unable to. remove all the logs prior. to the original Nov. 30 deadline. “In hauling. Hamper help ‘The Thornhill Junior Secon- dary School students’ council presented Capt. John Harker of the Salvation Army with a dona- tion for the Christmas Hamper Fund last week to help make everyone's. Christmas a special event, The donation consisted of three boxes of canned goods and a cheque for $100. . Students attending a Christmas dance recently were encouraged to donate food through an offer of a one-dollar discount on tickets to anyone br- inging a donation of food. For. students not donating food, a portion of the money raised was also donated to the Salvation Army. ‘‘They got them both ways,” noted Thornhill vice principal Scott. Corp. . Organizers of the tund faiser were Thornhill Junior Secon- dary students’ council members Jessica Lambirght, Carl Devost, Lorie Hall, Kurt: Muller, Paula McKay, Chris Stoner, Debbie Dodd, Brian Netzel and Karry Kinney. oe the first 17 loads out this fal ,. explains Mair, “‘we discovered the optimum arrangement for us would be to haul eight loads per ‘day utilizing two trucks. One truck’ can .haul a maximum of four loads per day based on- round trip time.” _ Other restrictions included in the permit state that there will be no hauling between 8 and 9a.m. and from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. This is intended to avoid truck traffic during the hours when the ma- Terrace Review — Wednesday, December 14, 1988: 30° Teachers set to strike in new .g0,”” he said. ‘When asked if the contract could be settled in one day,’ Giesbrecht ‘replied, ‘‘If you be- lieve in miracles.’’ He said it will ‘probably take about five days of ‘intensive negotiations. The TDTA team, he said, is pre- ' pared to negotiate through the ‘ holidays, No response was available from the board’s negotiating year committee as of noon yesterday. : A message left for committee chairman Delbert Morgan Mon- day morning went unanswered. Giesbrecht said teachers have been told not to return to work Jan. 3 unless there is an agree-- ment on the contract. ““We have told our members to prepare their students for a prolonged absence from school,” he said. A Pyjama Party for 5- to 8-year-olds at the Terrace Library last Friday was a delight to all. Librarian Gillian Campbell heid everyone in fascination while reading children’s stories and others pitched in as the children dove into the fun (and mess) of crafts... as jority of Uplands Elementary students are using Halliwell. Also, hauling will be stopped if testing carried out by the Public Works Department. indicates that the road bed is not of suffi- _ cient consistency and strength to withstand the load. These condi- tions exist primarily during ‘thawing or heavy rains. * College to help in -earthquake relief Adult Basic Education stu- dents and staff at Northwest. Community College are taking donations for a relief fund for the victims of the Armenian earthquake. Their goal is to col- lect 100,000 pennies by next Monday and send a cheque to the Russian embassy in Ottawa with the hope that the money will be in Russia before Christmas. According to John Noonan, the Director of the Adult Basic Education program, the ABE program is acting on a challenge made by the Castlegar campus of Selkirk College who came up with the idea. ““We just took it © up and ran,”’ says Noonan, add- . } .ing that he expects most B.C. colleges have done the same. He says students have placed cans for donations by most cash registers in town and will also be making rounds in local bars. 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