ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

FINAN CIAL SUPPORT
_ GLIMMERS F OR AURORA

.. The Kitimat-Stikine Regional

*. District's Economie Development

Commission has awarded a

* $2,000 grant to the Aurora
* Summer School of the Arts.

This is a little short of their

$10,000 request, but according to

the commission, it’s all they can

*

_ afford. With only about $10,000 to

spend, and six projects to fund,
the inclusion of the Aurora grant

has placed the cost-sharing Hazel-

tons Street Map project i in jeop-
ardy as it is.

Before Aurora can assess their
1992 financial situation they have

Popular watercolour a artist Bill Visserman, formerly of Smithers
and now of Kamloops, greeted old and new friends at the Terrace
Art Association’s Spring Arts and Crafts Sale during the last.
weekend in March. It was a revival of the annual event after a
lapse of several years, and it turned out to be a successful fund-

‘raiser for the association, good exposure for the artists and ane

| enjoyable experience for the public.

Terrace Review w — April 10, 1992

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to await the decision of Terrace

city council. The city has received
. a request for a $25,000 grant, and

that currently sits in budgetary
deliberations where the individual
merits of a number of local
requests for money are stacked
one against the other.

Some of those in the budget
sweepstakes this year are the
Skeena Valley Triathlon | B.C.
Championships, Terrace and
District Arts Council, a feasibility

- study for a second sheet of ice, an

adventure playground at Uplands
Elementary School, and the Aur-
ora Summer Arts School.

Aurora received grants of
$10,000 from the Economic Devel-
opment Commission and $25,000
from the City of Terrace in 1991,
These grants, however, were
based on a perception given both
funding parties by Aurora that
funding requests would decline
each year and that within two to
three years Aurora would be self-
sufficient.

Aurora’s 1991 statement of
income includes the. two major
grants noted above, grants from
Canada Manpower and others
totalling $8,786, and bank inter-
est. and memberships worth a
total of $443.12... Reported
expenses in 1991 totalled $48,869,
leaving a $8,837 surplus.

Major expenses: last year
included $19,531.60 for instruc:
tor’s wages, $11,290.71 for staff
wagés and benefits, $7,651.89 for
advertising, $2,334.99 ‘for travel,
and between $1,600 and $1,900
each for accommodation and
meals, brochures and program