, cae “se : Fg ee ga ae te pe yi pega yy pa geet Bed ay adie Ben ate Ae a oe A Se TS A i ery a eo oe a a ee a a a * Tenave Standard, Wednesday, May 2, 1900 ~ Pago A7 De i “TERRACE — Ani impasse with "the teachers” union has resulted “dn the school district scrapping ~Splans to send a local teacher to --- university for training as. a. "teacher of the hearing impaired. The school district decided t year to train a local teacher “alter being unsuccessful in hir- ing a specialist, "Phat plan was oppased by the : ‘Terrace District . Teachers’ ‘Association | EDTA) which ac- cused the board of trying to Negotiate with a single teacher. It insisted the matter be includ- ed in contract talks now under- way. | Schools superintendent Frank Hamilton said. fast. week the dispute wasn’t resolved, and as a result the board had no choice but to scrap the plan when the school district’s budget deadline came. “We! ve cut it out of our budget — it’s dead, finished,” Hamilton said. “‘ft’s really un- fortunate. The community needs this service, and a teacher lost out on an opportunity to upgrade.”*. The board last October pro- posed a’ teacher be paid: half salary to spend the year. receiv- ing the requisite training to qualify as a teacher of the hear- . ing impaired, according to cor- respondenice between Hamilton tote at. -TERRACE — Two former “employees of Northern Sentinel ’ \Press Lid, were convicted last week of stealing thousands of -dollars from the company while ‘they worked there.. > Former office manager Col- [een Thibeault and her husband _ Fred Thibeault were found guil- ‘ty by the jury on one count each ‘of theft over $1,000. ‘: ‘The amount the pair defraud- ed the company of isn’t certain, but lawyers’ estimates range ‘from. $10,000 to more than $50, 000. - Judge R.T. Errico sentenced ‘Colleen Thibeault to.15 months ‘in’ prison, and sentenced Fred ‘Thibeault to 90 days to be serv- sed-on weekends. (2. The money was paid to Fred ‘Thibeault, or to his business, “through cheques approved by “his wife, court was told. “It was the position of trust “she held within the company “which enabled her to carry out :this offence,’’ Errico ruled, call- ; ing her the principal offender. - Fred Thibeault received more “than $60,000 over the more than atwo- -year. period, Crown pro-. : tor:Douglas Halfyard said, but: ‘a-certain portion “of the - smoney. Thibeault earned ‘legitimately in doing work for paper manager fraud conviction the company. “Tt's impossilble to determine the exact amount of money taken, ‘but. there’s considerable evidence that a fairly substantial amount of money is involved,’’ he said. “There appears to be no other motive than greed.” Defence lawyer Jeff Arndt said the pair was under severe financial pressure to pay their bills and meet Joan payments. “The pressure was put upon them and regrettably they suc- cumbed to the temptation to take advantage of the oppor- tunities that presented themseives.”’ He said they have been finan- cially ruined, adding several cars, their boat and house have been repossessed by creditors. The pair was fired in November 1988, and moved to Ontario. Fred Thibeault, 43, now owns a business in Ontario. Colleen, 44, works as an advertising sales representative for a newspaper chain there. A Northern Sentinel spokesman said the company got back none of the:money, ex- cept an undisclosed amourit ‘paid by an insurance agency because Colleen Thibeault was bonded... The* company ‘Money request pleases the NDP in Skeena riding “TERRACE — Executive ‘members of the Skeena provin- -€lal NDP constituency associa- tion say they are happy with the “amount of money collected in a - recent special effort. . ~The money resulted from one _ OF several ‘‘windows’’ each year “in. which constituency associa- tions get to keep more of what “they collect than normal, says “constituency - treasurer Gail . Murray. “Normally, constituency - associations keep 15 per cent of : ‘what they collect for local use ‘but the amount rises to 30 per cent during the ‘“‘windows’’, she said. Remaining monies go toward overall expenses of the party. Murray declined to release ‘dollar amount of what was col- lected. The 10-day “windows” hap- pen two or three times during the year and are timed to an event of interest to NDP members, Murray added. “This one was tied to the nomination (held March 31) and there’s an automatic one when the (election) writ is s drop- ped,’ she said, a publishes the Northern Sentinel and _ News-Advertiser newspapers in Kitimat and Ter- race, and TDTA president: Greig Houlden, Houlden’s letter to ‘Hamilton after the provisional budget was - approved attacks the bard for Ba blaming the” dispute ; yen the union, “Your attempt to shift blame for the entire situation onto the TDTA, is both self-serving and . contemptible,”* Houlden wrote, “I further suggest that it: does nothing to facilitate resolution of an issue which the board and the association have a common interest in addressing at the bargaining table." Hamilton said the school district is continuing to adver- tise for the position across the country and abroad. 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