Reading Place starved for cash

TERRACE — Terrace’s literacy centre is out of money.

Project Literacy Terrace coordinator Nat Purcell says there’s enough of the centre's

- initial. $50,000 1991 startup grant left to keep The Reading Place open with reduced hours until the end of May.

After that what will happen to the centre is up in the air.

“The . funding situation is such that we're in great danger of going the way of the dado,”’

~-Purcell) said last -week. “Literacy programs are falling apart all across B.C. We’re one of the fortunate few that are still going.’*

‘In. just over a year of operating, the centre has placed nearly 60 people with volunteer literacy tutors or in its English as a Second Language (ESL) classes.

Purcell says the need for the centre definitely exists.

“For every person who comes in here there are probably five who won't,’ he says,

One possible way the centre could be saved is if it’s absorbed

.. by Northwest Community Col- lege, which has received a roughly $60,000 grant allocated for literacy programming.

College literacy. coordinator Larry Bolingbroke says that money would be for the entire college region, but added that a decision on how to spend the grant is expected by the end of the month.

“Te's basically up to the senior management at the col- lege,’ he added.

Purcell says he believes a sireetfront type of operation, such as the Project Literacy cen- tre in the old Anglican Church building, is more accessible to the people who need the service than a classroom at the college.

“My own feeling is that learners won’t go there,’’ he said. ‘‘We'’re hoping the college will honour this initiative.’’

Meanwhile, Purcell is work- ing on some other options.

He said the centre hopes to get a grant from the ministry of social services to set up a scribe service within the centre for people who need to have things read or written for them.

“There are people who don’t

. know how to read a bill or a let-

ter or a telegram they’ve receiv- ed,”’ he said. ;

That grant would pay much of the rent for the literacy cen- tre.

UNBC names deans

TERRACE — Three deans have been appointed by Universi- ty of Northern B.C. president Geoffrey Weller.

Dr. David Fish becomes dean of the faculty of health and human sciences, Dr, Frederick Gilbert, takes the post of dean of the faculty of natural resources and environmental studies and Dr, William Morrison will be dean of research and graduate studies. : ‘

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