. \«0f telephones .. in,~ service. STAN AND GRETA PATTERSON - Sunshine coast where he will * These two well known Terrace head of B.C. Tel operations. residents will be leaving for the | STAN PATTERSON Active communityworker ‘leaving for Powell River Stan and Greta Patterson will be leaving for the Powell River area where he will be employed as B.C. Tel's customer service manager. They have resided in Terrace during the last 10 years where he was district manager for B.C. Tel and responsible for the area from Houston through to and including the Queen Charlotte Islands. During Patterson's stay here he has seen the number increase from 12,050. to 27,737. New telephone ex- changes have been installed at: Aiyansh, Kemano, Kit- wanga, Port Simpson and- Lakelke Lake (later this year). . Conversion of offices in Kitimat, Hazelton, Port Clements and Stewart of- ficees from manual to automatic dial service has also taken place while Patterson resided here. Patterson has seen the building of a major swit- ching centre in Terrace, first live TV service to Terrace, the introduction of direct distance dialing, new microwave and_ cable systems to Queen Charlotte Island communities, electronic switching equipment at Houston, the upgrading of service to the point that. 61 percent of residents now have in- dividual line service with only a small number of people still waiting for service and further im- provement in quality of jevision feeds to Prince -cRupert and” the Bulkley Valley and the bringing in of three live television channels for’ cablevision service to Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert. Patterson was a member of the recreation com- mission and: president of Terrace Arena Association and was instrumental in the planning and building of the main portion of the arena (cost approximately $600,000). He -was president of ‘Terrace Rotary Club, president of Terrace and istrict Chamber of Commerce and president of SECOND _ YEAR Telephone Pioneers of America - Kermode Club. He headed the develo ment of cross country s traila on- Kitsumkalum Mountain and the. Ferry Island development which is still in the planning stages. He was the: first promote Kitsumkalum Mountain as a_ winter recreation area and he did a great deat of surveying and studying of the mountain including the layout of the * existing rope tow. ° He was a member of the Thornhill Golf and Country Club and was formerly a member of the Terrace Curling Club. His. wife, Greta, is well known and active in curling golf and bridge clubs and’ Mills Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. He has a daughter, Ann, who is’ employed at the Royal Bank in Terrace, a daughter, Kathleen Casey, a teacher at Clarence Michiel Elementary School and .a son Robert, a chartered accountant living in Van- eouver. College budget doubles; outside programs grow | Northwest Community College operating budget-for the fiscal year which began April'1 has been set for $4,008,941 which is up from last year’s figure of $2,466,170. According to Dr. David Val. George although the dollar increase is quite substantial, much of the increase fails in the sections of the budget funded completely by the province. - He said last week, as a result, the local mill rate needed to support the college will be 1.4 mills, only a slight increase over the facilities in Terrace. Rental has not previous] been charged, George said,. but this fiscal arrangement is essentially a bookkeeping manoeuvre in Victoria which will have no affect on the taxpayer. Another considerable portion of the increase in operating budget will be needed to continue the present level of operation of the college, he said, since the present level has becn operative for only slightly more than half of the previous fiscal year. ‘ A number of new: in- last year to expand programs: in the com- munities outside Terrace, © he said. The new budget will allow the college to further ex- pand its programs into the many communities in the college region. This ex- nsion will be facilitated i the addition of a coor- nator for vocational and trades training programs in communities outside Terrace. Provision has also been made in the budget for the hiring of additional instructors * EE person to. TERRACE — Funding from a diverse number of government departments will allow a significant expansion of programs in the Native Studies Faculty at Northwest Community College for the next fiscal year, according to Jeff Marvin, program developer. It is expected that enrolment in the professional studies ogram will double, that an increased number of non- credit workshops will be held in local areas and that a wide variety of guest ers and films will be made available to the general public. Marvin said grants have been received from the Department of Secretary of State and the Department of Indian Affairs. Negotiations are proceeding with the first citizens’ fund (under the Provincial Secretary’s: office in Victoria) and the Department of Manpower to further stabilize the financial situation. Core costs are retrieved by Northwest Community $20,000 grant Tona Campagnolo, MP for Skeena has announced that a federal grant of $20,000 has been awarded to the Nor- thwestern National Exhibition Centre in Hazelton. The grant is awarded on the recom- mendation of the Board of Trustees of the National Museums of Canada. Monies will come from Secretary of State. x -was held College. In its first full year of operation, $15 fulltime students were accepted into the uniquely structured professional studies program, out of which 12 will be. graduating. The program is designed to provide working native people with'a full year of university transfer programming geared towards the needs of the people in the local com- munities. represented a cross-section of the native community and came from about .12 dif-- ferent villages. Classes ‘were held for one week - every month during which the students experienced intensive classes in political science, English, psychology and a wide variety of special seminars. Films from all over the world were used to augment the curriculum and the ‘emphasis was on native. f peoples in North America - with particular reference to LC. Many of the students in the first-year program have expressed a desire to con- tinue into the second year. A new first-year class will also be selected for next Sep- tember. A 4 week seminar series designed for .people who could not attend a program in Kitamaat Village. Called “Aboriginal People and the Land”, it focussed on the history of European contact, the effect of government institutions on native peoples, land | claims and aboriginal rights and the history of the native political movement. Well- own native leaders and authors were brought in to The students. Native studies popular address the class, including George Manuel, past - president of the National Indian Brotherhood; Howard Adams, author of “Prison of Grass”; mem- bers of the Dene Indian Brotherhood of the Nor- thwest Territories; Ray Jones, chairman of the Gitksan-Carrier _ Tribal Council and James Gosnell, president of the Nishga Tribal Council. . Marvin is currently preparing an edited book of readings for this course and itis expected that the course will run in a number of eenters simultaneously next year. Non‘eredit workshops in Jand claims and aboriginal rights, family law, native womens’ rights, housing, counselling, oil pipelines and social organizations were held in Kispiox, Kit- wanga, Kitimat, Terrace, New Aiyansh and Prince Rupert throughout the year. 6 The program was not without its shortcomings, however. ‘We faltered in. two very major aréas," said Marvin. ‘‘We could not provide the travelling counselling to the fulltime THE HERALD, Tuesday, May 3, 1977, PAGE A3 students that is necessary If - the program is to be a real sucess. , we did not reach out nearly enough to north coast and remote communities, such as Port Simpson, Metlakatle Kitkatla, Hartley Bay and Kineolith.” Internally the programs a went off relatively smoothly given the difficultles in communication and travel. 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