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MEGAN SOUCIE and Colleen Haddad play an the
Parkside Princess. The boat at Parkside Elementa-
ry may be removed if an inspector finds it unsafe.

Carpenters demand
local hiring on new
school construction

By JENNIFER LANG
JUST WEEKS before the
cali for tenders goes out
for the new elementary
school for the bench, local
lradespeopte are issuing a
reminder to the school
board: hire local.

Their union wants to
meet the school board to
ensure Terrace tradesmen
are hired for the $3.3-mil-
lion construction project,

Locals 1081 and 1735
of the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners
of America, B.C. North-
west District Council, wel-
comes the new school. be-
cause it’s good news for
Terrace’s construction in-
dustry.

“There hasn’t been any
major public construction
for years,” business agent
Ken Lippett said.

But Lippett fears a re-
peat of what he’s seeing in
Kitimat, where loca! con-
tractors are getting edged
out of the largest construc-
tion project that city’s
seen in years ~ the new
health centre.

Many locals have ap-
plied there but he said he

knows of only two that
have got an invitation to
bid. Instead, subcontractors
from southern B.C. are get-
ting the contracts, he said.

“There’s absolutely no
need for that many out-of-
town peaple.”

Lippett says the school
district could stipulate
local labour be a success-
ful component of the bid-
ding process.

“To be fair, 1 don’t even
think they realize they
have some autonomy: on
lhose issues.”

To get around a com-
mon loophole, Lippett sug-
gests the school district
define local labour as
people living in the area
prior to the date tenders
are called.

Otherwise, companics
can justify their need to
bring in outside workers as
key personnel under the
contract, he said.

And once that happens,
“Very little of these wages
will end up being spent in
Terrace,” .he warned.

“The local people
should get the biggest
‘share of the dollars.”

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Safety fear may spell end
for beloved school boat

number of swings allowed in a row to in-
creasing the number inches on the lip of a
slide.

But what bothers Beddie and her fel-
low Parent Advisory Council (PAC)
members is that the school district didn’t
even consult the parents about the pos-
sible removal of the Princess.

“If there had been some. discussion be-
tween us and the district;

could have come up with © solutions. to

fixing her, not just taking’ her away,” said

Beddie.

The prospect of losing. the: Princess
also hits PAC members. hard because
they've spent much time and effort rais-
ing money ta sandblast and repaint the
worn boat.

Parkside Elementary principal
Christine Eide also raises concems over

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the removal of the Princess.

“She is a loved piece of equipment
here,” said Eide. “It’s all fine and dandy
to be concerned with the students’ safety,
but if you colten baton children so much,
they don’t learn to look out for their per-
sonal safety.”

She also said the parenis of the PAC
wouldn’t spend the estimated $1,800 to
sandblast and repaint the boat if they
thought she was a threat to their child-

‘Ten’ 8 Safety.
’ But Gilfillan believes the age of the.

Princess combined with its enclosed
spaces could entrap small children.

“If we can fix it we will. If nal, we're
going to have to remove in” said Gilfil-
lan.

The Parkside Princess has been part of

the schoal’s playground since about 1977,

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