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A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Kitimat teachers forced into Terrace agreement

president Frank Rowe said Jan. 25. “The worst fears have been realized.”

Rowe said school dis- tricts will now also have the power to set the length of school day — and school year, a provision that’s also been stripped from the previous contract.

The imposed collective agreement amounts to a double whammy for Kiti- mat teachers.

Nine agreements in amalgamated schoo! dis- tricts will be eliminated, including the Kitimat agreement, which saw tea- chers there earning higher wages than their counter- parts in Terrace.

Kitimat’s teachers will now be forced to join the Terrace agreement and take Terrace wages, Rowe said.

“The Kitimat teacher will still be making less than they are right now be- cause they have the Ter- ruce -agreement imposed an them,” Rowe said.

‘A Terrace teacher with five years of post-second- ary education and 10 years seniority now earns $60,386. a year.

That same teacher in Kitimat will now play catch up for the next three years to reach their former pay rates. SO

Teachers across B.C. walked off the job Monday to protest the imposed contract they believe will make their jobs more diffi- cult.

Rowe said teachers may not resume extra curricular duties, stopped as job ac- tion escalated after Christ- mas.

“On an individual basis, teachers will say, ‘I don't have time for extra curric-

ular activities,’” Rowe said. “Peaple are so angry.”

Salary grids for teachers vary from district to dis- trict, but the 7.5 wage in- crease over three years ap- plies across the board,

Here, the starting wage of a Terrace teacher with five years of post-second- ary education and no ex- perience is currently $38,192. By year three of the contract, that teacher wil] make $41,200 a year.

The annual salary for a teacher with five years education and 10 years ex- perience will rise from a current $60,386 to $65,029.

Student killed after car slides out of control

POLICE are investigating a Jan. 24 car accident in which Hannah Kantola, 17, was killed and three people were injured.

The two-vehicle acci- dent occurred on Hwy 16 West just outside Thornhill shortly after 8 a.m.

Police said a car carry- ing Kantola and another teen, who was the driver, was heading west when it lost control on the icy read and was broadsided by an eastbound pick-up truck.

Copper River Estates resident Blake Bedford was on his way to work in Terrace when he witnessed the crash.

“The roads were just

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terrible,” Bedford said. “It was a thick sheet of black ice.”

He said the female dri- ver of the car appeared to lose traction on the ice. He said she tried to correct the vehicle but swung into the eastbound lane in front of the pick-up truck.

The pick-up hit the pas- senger side of the car and both vehicles landed in the ditch, Bedford said.

Bedford immediately called police on his cell phone.

Local RCMP, Terrace and Thornhill fire depart- ments and the B.C. Ambu- lance service responded.

Kantola played the lead

role in Caledonia Senior Secondary’s performance of Crazy For You, last De- cember. A talented young singer, dancer and actor, she had also appeared in the previous year’s produc- tion of Anything Goes.

Caledonia paid tribute by lowering the school flag to half mast last week.

The driver of the car, also a 17-year-old girl, is in critical but stable con- dition at Mills Memorial Hospital.

The two occupants of the truck, a Kitimat cou- ple, were taken to Mills Memorial Hospital, treated for minor injuries and tater released.

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