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A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Women’s centre staff remain
hopeful facility will re-open

By DUSTIN QUEZADA

MEMBERS OF the society
that governs the Terrace
Women’s Resource Centre

remain optimistic itl] re-

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open.

The centre has been
closed since early June be-
cause attempts to secure a

federal grant failed.

“We're just restructuring

“so we can offer more servic-'

es,” said Rhonda Edgar.
‘The society, which runs
both the women’s centre

on Park’ Ave. and the Fam- |

ily Place directly across the
street from it, will be consol-

idating its office equipment.

in the latter location.” |
The women’s centre
building, owned by the City

‘ of Terrace, will now be used

as a resource area for “what-
ever the society needs, * add-
‘ed Edgar. =

The society was forced
to look. at alternative ways
of operating after the federal
Status of Women Canada
agency didn’t come through

'» with $25,000.

That

women’s centres since the
‘Conservatives were elected

in January.

. Downed

cables.

cut cell.

phone —

_ up system with reduced ca- -
_pacity for voice calls,”

service

TERRACE ‘residents ‘were

.. Without cell phone, internet
: and wireless service for
about 15 hours last week .

after a‘tree crashed through.

~ BC Hydro and Telus cables

near Kitwanga.

Shortly after the tree fell
a motor vehicle accident
around 11:30 p.m. Nov.16
caused. damage to a second
Telus cable, ‘says Telus of-

- ficial Shawn Hall.

The damage left 2,500
phone customers in Kti-
wanga and Masset without
phone service.

“The two incidents also
severed Telus’ primary
service to Terrace, placing
about 50,000 customers in
the region on a radio back-

says
*Hall. a

Some long distance call-
ers to Terrace reported static
on the line for a period.

The outage caused inter-
ference with some comput-
erized banking equipment at
.some local banks.

The damaged lines pro- :

vide long-distance calling
service to the Queen Char-

lotte Islands, were also im-

pacted though local calling
was unaffected customers
could not call off the is-
lands. ,

' Telus: crews had to. wait
until BC Hydro workers
completed their own repairs
‘and clear the area.”

Local emergency opera-

tions personnel | including
_fire, ambulance and police
have been notified and are
taking the appropriate mea-
sures.

. _ Full service was restored
to'all the affected areas by 2
-p.m. Nov. 17.

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agency has not :
‘signed any proposals ‘for .

“There's ‘still no word ©
from the feds,” said Fran-
ces Birdsell, who had been
a program coordinator at
the women’s resource centre
until late May.

‘“They just haven’t done
anything on status of women

‘files — there are a number of

centres waiting to hear [a re-
sponse].”

Birdsell says there:s mon-
ey from the Law Foundation
of B.C. for a 12- -hour-per-
week schedule for a series

“The society plans to use |

the women’s centre building
to conduct those workshops.
This isn’t the first time
the centre has been forced to
close its doors, says Edgar.
“Women’s programs
have not been a priority in
the last two years,” Edgar

said in adding it also lacks”

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Birdsell adds the prov-

‘ince declared in 2004 that

equality for women had
been achieved.

Provincial monies still
come in for certain women’s
programs, which are admin-
istered here by the Ksan
House Society and Birdsell
says under no circumstanc-
es will the women’s centre
compete for that money.

Women needing resourc-

“es and ‘referrals normally

of -planned law. workshops -
over six months starting in.
September.

offered at the closed centre
have been directed to, the

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“The staff at the Fam-
ily Place traditionally work
hand-in-hand with the wom-
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said Edgar.

Despite the centre being
closed, Birdsell says she’s

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In May, women’s centres
throughout the northwest,
the northeast and the, Cari-
boo regions formed a north-
ern coalition, something
Birdsell calls “the most ex-
citing thing in a decade” in
volving the status of women
in isolated communities.

The coalition has sent

requests for money to three
different levels: the federal
and provincial governments
and the Northern Health Au-
thority/University of North-
ern British Columbia.

The money would be used

for ‘a variety’ of causes, in-
cluding research on the cost
of domestic violence, out-

reach programs to smaller -

communities and a women’s
conference.

- Birdsell says) women
— cthnic, aboriginal, elderly
and the disabled — continue

to be most vulnerable to do- |

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