Program feeds nearly 200 Lunch monies ch THE PROVINCIAL government is cutting its student lunch pro- Bram grant to two local schools, _Buta surplus in the account this year will help cushion the blow at least for the next year, says school district assistant secretary treasurer Bruce Matthews. Clarence Michiel and E.T. Ken- “ney received $123,000 between them this year to provide lunches for nearly 200 students each day. Late last week Matthews was ' told the amount is getting cut ‘by 17 per cent to just over $100,000 for the 1995-96 school year. “We've received verbal con- firmation of this. What we’ ve. been told is that the amount is slaying the same province wide but that more schools have been _ added,’ he said, The. expected surplus in the . Junch account this year could reach $20,000. _ ‘The: provincial government brought in the schoo! lunch ‘pro- gram several years ago, ‘ELT. Kenney ‘and Clarence Michiel. received $80,000 be- tween them in the first years but soon found. more monies were needed, Thal’s what lead to an increase in the grant to $123,000, said Matthews, - “We had been running a deficit and were in danger of shutting it down. We needed the amount topped up,”’ he said, . The surplus this year came about when an anticipated higher demand for lunches didn’t _ materialize. ‘Each school averages about 90 lunches per day, a number that’s been fairly consistent at Clarence Michiel since the start of the pro- Tip leads IT WAS a good news, bad news week for the library. The good news was the return of five of the six handcrafted teddy bears stolen the previous week from the display case in the entrance, “Vm really delighted,’? said Becky Sundberg, the library staf- fer who had made the bears and lent them for the display, She. said the return of the bears resulted from a tip from a local TWO CLARENCE MICHIEL students deliver containerful of lun- ches to their classroom. The tunches are paid for by a provincial government program and also covers E,T, Kenney, Word was received last week of a budget reduction. gram, principal Bill Gook said. The Junch program’s founda- tion is that hungry children can’t learn and affect the learning of others. . “In talking to the staff that have been here a long time theze is the fecling there are fewer tired and cranky children = =in _—sthe afternoon,”’ said Gook. ‘We regard it as very positive. Everybody gets a lunch,”’ In years before there was a lunch program, children cither did without, went to corner stores or went to a soup kitchen that was then operating close by. The lunch program isn’t tied specifically to low income chil- dren. Somie parents purchase the - lunches at full price for their chil- dren instead of having to make them up at home. Names of those on the program are kept confidential to avoid labelling of students. Each ijunch costs the district $3.45, including a fit and beverage. They are being sup- plied by Copperside Foods. Bill Gook to recovery of stolen bears school teacher. On reading the story about the theft in last week’s Terrace Stan- dard, the teacher recalled seeing a young student with a bear very like those described. The resulting RCMP investiga- tion ied to the recovery of five of the six bears and a youth being charged with theft under $5,000, "Tt was one of those. things where you think you’ll never sce them again,” Sundberg admitted. She added police have high hopes for the recovery of the missing brain. The bad news for the library was the theft June 20 of a CD player. Head librarian Ed Curell said the doors to the facility had been opened up to combat sweltering temperatures in the building, Between six and. seven in the evening, someone walked in the back door, unplugged the CD and 3 Cu. Ft. Wheelbarrow Reg. $46.50 F JX ALE PRICE oss Co-op Cygo 250 ml Reg. $10.99 SALE PRICE a8 S ae f ————_ Rapid Green Liquid Lawn Fertilizer Hose End Atlachment, 1 i. “SALE PRICE Hose End Attachment, Reg. $15.99 SALE PRICE Rapid Green Tquid Weed & Feed 1199 made off with it. Curell said it was an older model used by the staff to check disks in cases of quality com- plaints or to listen to new ones if there was some doubt as to which music category they belonged. “We obviously can’t leave any part of ihe building untended,’’ he said of the theft. . . The only answer therefore was to. keep the doors closed at all times and ‘suffer through it’’, The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 28, 1995 - A3 News In Brief Chambers get gov’t money CHAMBERS OF Commerce and other local business groups from across the northwest are getting money from the provincial govem- ment to help spread business information. The Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce is getting $8,500, the Hazelton Economic Development Commission $2,500 and the Burns Lake and District Chamber of Commerce $8,500. Business information centres run by local groups provide in- formation for new and existing businesses. Recent government statistics indicate that small businesses create 90 per cent of new jobs. Moonlighting on rise THE NUMBER of moonlighting families jumped more than 50 per cent in the ten years ending in 1994. Stalistics released by the economics depariment of the B.C. Cen- tral Credit Union indicate moonlighting occurred in seven per cent of families with al least on employed spouse in 1994, That com- pared to five per cent a decade carlicr. The highest rate of moonlighting was found childless households where the principal wage earmcr was 20-34 years old. However, in families headed by people more than 35 ycars of age, moonlighting was more frequent if there were children. And the lowest rate oc- curred where the principal wage carner was more than 50 years old. New adoption rules proposed IT’S GOING to be easier for people who were adopted and for people who adopted out their children to find out information on each other. That and other changes were introduced last week as part ofa proposed new provincial Adoption Act. , Birth parents and adoptees who want lo continue their privacy can slill have information kept secret and they can request to have no contact, Adoptions by common law and gay couples will also be allowed under the proposed changes. Other changes pay more attention to the adoption of nalive chil- dren. When such adoptions are contemplated, the child's com- munity will be contacted for its opinion if the birth parents give ap- proval. ; The Adoption Act was last revamped in 1957, Parole office closes down THE FEDERAL government is closing down its northwest parole office to save money. The amount of people on federal parole in the northwest doesn’t justify having 1.5 employees and an office, says parole officer Keith Johaston. Instead, the federal parole service will contract out the responsi- bility to one person, he said. 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