_ Thornhill trustee voted _ to head school board '. LORRIE GOWEN says she intends to run a tight ship as school board chair. “Fhe Thornhill trustee, who’s marking her first an- hiversary in office, beat out incumbent Peter King, a -long-serving Kitimat “trlstee, as chair of the _-Coast Mountains school board. _ <- Gowen, who unseated Thornhill incumbent Gary “Turner in last year’s school board elections, was nomi- “nated by another newcom- er to the board, Nicole ‘Bingham, at the inaugural meeting Dec. 3. “She was elected by a ~ majority of voles in a se- - ¢ret ballot. ~ Bingham, “trustee. first elected No- ~ “vember 2002 along with a Terrace “Gowen, will serve as the ~onew - vice-chair of the ~ board. * It’s the first time since “the Kitimat school district amalgamated with the Terrace district in 1995 to create. the new Coast Mountains Schoo! District (82) that the chair and vice chair are both from : Terrace, -~Bingham beat out the only other nominee for Lorrie Gowen vice chair, two-time Ter- race trustee Diana Penner. Bingham was nominated by Hazelton trustee Jessi- ca Mikolayezyk. The job of vice chair was shared by three trus- tees — Bingham, Penner and Kitimat trustee Barry Pankhurst — after a three- way tie at last year’s elec- tion of officers. Pankhurst, who was un- contested, is the district's new delegate to the B.C. Public Schools Employers’ Association, which repre- sents school districts in contract negotiations with Nicole Bingham teachers. His alternate is Peter King. Mikolaycazyk, who has emerged as a strong voice on the board for the Hazel- tons, will represent Coast Mountains trustees on the B.C. School Trustees As- sociation. Her alternate is Hal Stedham, a Terrace trustee serving his second term on the board. Gowen said as board chair, she will still contin- ue to write, edit and pro- duce Board News, the monthly newsletter that's made available to schools and parents. ~ School vandalism targeted ‘THE SCHOOL district is hiring a security company to help crack down on vandal- ism at:Skeena Junior Secondary School. Terrace’s new junior high suffered $8,000 in broken windows iast month, when 12 windows on the west side of the building were broken. < School officials had talked about in- stalling video cameras or motion-sensi- tive-lights the most recent incident, “At the time, school principal Dave Bartley. had estimated the damage at $10,000, money that could be better spent ~, on. students. “Let-me put in this way - $10,000 could’ provide three full classes with sets of textbooks,” Bartley. Cameras or lights would act as a deterrent, he added. - Bartley: pointed to the fact that the . windows closest to the parking lot and. back entrance weren’t touched, possibly because those areas are lit. “We know schools tend to be targets and a beautiful school like this one is more of a target,” he added. Bartley did say sludents were upset at the damage. Just after Labour Day, and even before the building was open for business, two windows were broken and graffiti was sprayed on outside walls. Skeena may currently hold the dubious distinction as the school with the highest rate of vandalism in the district, but schools in other communities are also be- ow damage. ing hit. The district is also considering a request to improve lighting at Nechako and Kildala schools in Kitimat. 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