Report due end of the year

A12.- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 19, 1998

Not enough fami

JOYCE PRESTON, advo- cate for children, youth and families will include a review of Terrace’s services when she submits her an- nual report to ihe legislature at the end of the year, Prestoa visited the area for the second time in the his- tory of her office in mid Jie to review some of the issues faced by children, youth and their service pro-

Terrace’s bub roie,’’ she said.

“A community needs to have the independance to fit programs to that com- munily,’’ she said.

“We can’t have cookie cutter programs.”?

Preston said the major is- sues raised during her visit involved the need for more

‘resources, such as for’ chil-

dren with special needs, for

viders. .

‘“T've heard in these four days a summary of all the calls that come: into the Ad-

more and specialized foster homes, for more imental health and drug and alcohol services and for more social

vocate’s office,” said workers in the area, Preston at the end of her «There's a lot of frustra- slay. tion of being a northern

Last year the advocate’s office received 2,162 re- quests for assistance from acrossB.C. .

There are currently about 500 children in the minis- try’s care between Houston and the Queen Charlotte Is- lands. :

Preston says the number of calls per capita is slightly higher in the northwest than in the rest of B.C,

“J am satisfied that we don’t have enough ser- vices,’’ said Preston.

She said the same is true for all of B.C. but that Ter- race services need to be spe- cialized to the area.

“Services need to reflect

New group opposes NDP gov't policies

LORNE SEXTON’S calling it the ‘Fed Up Express.’’

It'll take the form of a chartered bus Sexton hopes to fill with people for a trip to Prince George next month for a rally organized by a group opposed to the NDP govern- ment and its policies,

“We would have used the train but the schedule won’t work,” said Sexton of plan’ to attend the Sept. 12 rally of the Northern Coalition of Dissatisfied Citizens. ,

Sexton’s last involvement in public affairs came as the proponent of the unsuccessful petition campaign to recall Skeena NDP MLA Helmut Giesbrecht this past. winter.

Born in Prince George, the coalition is spreading out to other areas of the north.

communily, of not having a lot of clout compared to the

f

Joyce Preston

“The idea sprang from a group here in town that gets to-

gether over coffee, and you keep spying all the disturbing prospects of our province and our northern region and you keep talking and talking about it,’’ says Bill Lynch, the ° group’s spokesman. re

“And some of us‘caine up with the idea to stage arally.. .

lo accomplish the two things that we want to accomplish: :. one, to draw attention to the deplorable situation that sees to be evolving based on government policies; and two, equally important if not more important, the pos- sibility of a (NDP) retum to government because those that do not support (Premier Glen) Clark have an inability to come together under a cohesive unit.”

The. coalition last week said it has already lined up Michael Walker, a popular economist attached to the right- wing Fraser Institute in Vancouver, as a guest speaker.

The institute is known for a variety of initiatives, includ- ing calls for reduced government spending, an atlack on public debt and opposition 10 increases in ininimum wages.

Each year the institute also calculates the calendar day it estimates Canadians have, from Jan. 1 onward, paid all of their income in the form of various taxes,

south,"’ said Preston, Preston said she was im-

pressed with the amount of

energy to make a diference

hat she saw in the com--

munity.

“There is an interest in youth, in finding solutions,’” she said.

Freston is the first-ever child, youth and family ad- vocate and is in the third

ly services

year of her six-year term.

She will present the in- formation she gathered in Terrace in her 1998 report to the provincial legislature at the end of the year,

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