Al2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 17, 2000

WEEKS OF hard work on a projact about the past, present and future of the local forest industry paid off for the students of Mary Kelly's Grade 5 class at Veritas school. They've won an all-expenses paid trip to Vancouver.

Students win a trip to Vancouver in June

By SARAH GLEN THEY PAINTED, they drew, they sang, they spoke and they wrote - in the end they won.

And now the students of Mary Kelly’s grade five class at Veritas school are going on a forests ministry-sponsored trip to Vancouver.

The class was one of 30 grade five

classes across the province who compe-

ted to commemorate National Forest Week, May 7-13. . .

“We found out [that the class won] on May 5 and we haven’t done anything nor- mai since,” said Kelly last week.

The class project, titled, “Kalum For- est: Past, Present and Future,” included posters, a brochure, a book, a mural, a video, games, speeches and slide shows, all detailing the development of the forest industry from the past to the future, and its impact on wildlife and the environ- ment in the region.

The students’ ideas about the future of

the forest industry were incorporated into a section of a mural called the Millenni- um Forest,

Their vision of the new forest would include computerized bug control and hover craft log carriers. _

“There will be mare trees and more animals in the future. Everyone will be happy,” said student, Kalista Pedra.

It took the 26 grade five students al- most three weeks to complete the project.

“(In the time we worked on the pro- ject} we learned how to work as a team,” said student Alison McCleary, who will present the speech she wrote on Kermode bears to the other winning classes in Van- couver.

Veritas School and the five other win- ners of the contest, Ecole Frank Ross, Dawson Creek, 100 Mile House Elemen- tary, 100 Mile House, Highlands Elemen- tary, Cranbrook, A.E. Perry, Kamloops and Sundance Elementary, Victoria, will meet in Vancouver June 13-15.

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The commissioners will have until June 15 to cre- ate a settlement.

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agreement with the school district by May 5, leaving it up to the provincial gov- ernment to negotiate a fair settlement.

Acting school district superintendent Sharon Beedle said bargaining talks with local CUPE school support workers were halted April 26 be- cause the two sides couldn’t agree on major concessions,

“We broke off talks be- cause we were at an impasse,” Beedle said. “We agreed to disagree.”

The parties were stil] debating over which issues should be negotiated loc- ally and which ones should be settled provincially.

Support workers are looking to ratify new agreements that provide employment security, pro- tection from contracting out as well as better wages and benefits.

Because bargaining broke down between’ 40 CUPE locals and their re- spective school boards across the province, both sides will have to hand over their disputes to two industrial inquiry commis- sioners (1IC) for binding settlements.

The commissioners were appointed in March after CUPE support work. ers, Which include secre- laries, janitors, and cleri- cal staff, went on strike for a week, That ended when the provincial legislature ordered them back to school.

CUPE official Louise Leclere said local unions submitted written argu- ments to the commissio- fiers reparding bargaining issues this week.

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Nass Timber Supply Area (TSA)

The public is invited to "| review andcomment .. on the Nass infor-

mation report and data package as part of the Ministry of Forests Timber Supply Review (TSR) program. For timber supply areas the review is a 22-month process which will provide the chief forester with the information to make any necessary adjustments to the allowable annual cut (AAC)—the allowable rate of timber that can be harvested—for the next five years. Public input is an important part of the TSR and you are encour- aged to review the reports and forward any comments you have to the Kalum Forest District _ before June 5, 2000.

Other reports to follow are:

a the timber supply and socio-economic analysis report (followed by a two-month public review period)

« the chief forester’s AAC determination and rationale statement (including a summary of public input)

Copies of the Information Report and the Data Package ate available at: a Kalum Forest District

Room 200-5220 Keith Ave., Terrace

tel: (250) 638-5100 « Prince Rupert Forest Region

3726 Alfred Ave., Smithers

tel: (250) 847-7545 If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact Rod Meredith, District Planner, at (250) 638- 5160 at the F Kalum Forest District.

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