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TERRACE — The north’'s native radio station has mov- ed from its Lazelle studios to the Kitselas band’s Kuspai subdivision on Queensway.

casting’s (NNB) new quarters

finished by the band’s development corporation and will ‘also contain the band's adminstrative offices,

Corporation spokesman Wilf McKenzie said the com- bination not only gives the band new offices but ‘pro-

help pay for the’ building’s morigage,

“The whole building cost

IN NEW quarters is the north’s native radio station. That’s Brent Scout, seated, and general manager Ray Jones in one of the control rooms in the space Northern Native Broad- °

Station gets new home

Northern Native Broud- |

are part of a building just .

$622,000. We received a $500,000 mortgage from a federal science and technology agency and Tricorp (a northwest native economic development com- pany),”’ he said,

Under construction since February by Progress Ven- tures,. the NNB_ portion measures 62 by 87 feet while the band’s portion is 40 by 48 feet.

NNB began moving in last week while the band’s offices

)- ..- Will be fully occupied by next ‘} vides a source of income: because the radio station will

week, |

"NNB general manager. Ray Jones said it worked: closely with architects and builders lo ensure the building met its

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casting is leasing in anew ‘building just finished by the Kitselas

band. The buiiding also houses the band’s administrative of-

fices.

specifications.

“It cost us about $83,000 for tenant improvements, to have construction include our needs,"’ he said.

The result is twice as much room as NNB had on Lazelle Ave, and provision for even- tual video and television pro- duction, Jones added,

NNNB's new quarters come despite having its budget cut from the federal govern- ment. It’s resulted in a réduc- tion of staff from 12 to ‘10.

“We're paying less rent per square foot but we're: paying more in total because! we have more space. ‘We have less money ‘but’ our weekly bingos are beginning to help out and we're manag-

ing to make ends meet,”’ said Jones.

NNB was formed as a society in 1984, held its first training program in July 1985 and began producing programs for other radio sta- tions later that year.

The station is now heard via satellite on FM frequen- cies in 30 communities and is heard here on the AM dial.

‘Its third training program begins this September with room for 16 people and will last 38 weeks, The last four will be spent at, community radio stations that take

NNB's programming.

* Jones said‘ an-open house of the new facilities will be held later this month.

Three vye for job

Band selects new chief

TERRACE — Ralph Wright was elected as the new chief councillor of the Kitselas band June §.

He replaces Mel Bevan who

has served as- chief councillor -

for the past four years... This isn’t Wright's first time on the band council. He once spent 14 years as chief coun- cillor, leaving when Bevan was elected. . Wright received 29 votes, Bevan 10 and Kitselas Develop-

ment Corporation manager:

Wilf McKenzie 7 in the

balloting. © Wilfred Bennett, a veteran of

20 years on the band council,

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was successful. in being — re- ~

elected to. one of three coun- cillor positions with 19 votes.

Joining him are two first time councillors — Ray Seymour Sr. with -28 votes and Brian Seymour with 24 votes.

There were nine candidates for the three councillor seats, Those positions, and the one of chief councillor, carry two year

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The band is in the process of developing a subdivision at its traditional home at Kitselas, east of Terrace.

It .also wants to develop a park and historical site at the location and has been holding talks with the federal govern- ment,

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The district is to pay for | sup- plies and “basic startup costs, and the ministry is to pay. for. . the three or four daycare super a

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TERRACE — A daycare centre for pregnant high school students is being started at Caledonia Senior Secondary this fall in a bid to keep teen mothers from dropping out of school.

Statistics showing the birth rate among teenage girls in this

region is double the provincial

average was one factor in the

decision to open the: student.

daycare, says Andrew Scruton, the school district's director of special instruction,

“Our survey counted 93

young women in Terrace of |

school age who had children or were going to give birth to children,"’ he said. .““We had thought when we started this that there might be 20 or 30, to be quite honest. When we got

the number 93, we said ‘Wait, -

we've got to. do something about this,'?*

The program — in place in several other districts, but new to Terrace — is called the Young Moms Program and is designed to help teen moms stay in school after giving birth.

“'The research shows that if you're a young mom, you've committed yourself to a life of poverty — because of lack of educational opportunities,’ Scruton says. ‘‘But not only have you committed yourself to a life of poverty, you've com- mitted your children.’?

’**And so you have a cycle of poverty and poor educational achievement that starts ‘from this basically unanticipated act. What we're doing is trying to provide the opportunity to break that cycle."

The daycare centre is to be housed in a portable classroom at Caledonia and is initially be- ing designed to handle a max- imum of 12 infants or children. _, School district administrators are still waiting for the rest of the money to come through for the program from the ministry of social services and housing,

visors.

gram involves specialized . in-

struction for. teen mothers. who — aren’t prepared to go back into. regular classes. The district has

already hired teacher Kim Scott

-to run that part of the program.

Scruton says ‘the older

students — 17- and 18-year-olds — usually: just need daycare.

But the younger ones need more help. we Scott’s teaching program will

be specially: designed for the:

younger students, who Scruton Says are more at risk of dropp- ing out than the older ones. ~ “Our experience is we lose those kids,’” he said. “We lose the 12- to 16-year-olds who

_ become pregnant.”’

“They drop out of school because they feel completely different from their peers, and they don’t come back. What we want to do is break that cycle and give them somewhere to come to.”

Those young mothers will be able to continue their education with Scott in a separate setting from the other students their age.

That way they’ re not expos- ed to the kind of ridicule that they might be at a junior high school, and they can keep up with their studies and eventually re-integrate into the senior high when they’re ready for it,”’ Scruton says.

He said the teaching part of the program would also provide an outreach service to teen mothers who are homebound,

but want to maintain some con-

nection with school,

The other goal is to use the program to start bringing back to school some of the teen mothers who have already drop- ped out, he said.

911 undergoes study

TERRACE — Kitimat-Stikine regional district has agreed in principle to establish a 911 emergency phone number ser- vice here but its northern area has already indicated they don’t want to be part of it,

Dave Brockelbank, director for the Telegraph Creek-Iskut area, explained peuple there would derive very little benefit from the service.

Both communities were small in terms of population, only one had an RCMP presence, neither had an ambulance and in both

cases the firehalls were “‘right there’’,

As for the rest of the district, directors agreed to commission a study on the cost of establishing and operating the system,

However, the study itself car- Ties a cost — estimates suggest around $40,000 — and the district does not have that kind of money available in this year’s budget.

The board said it will set aside $40,000 in the 1992 budget to pay for that study.

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