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Don't Cut Music, Crowd Tells Trustees Co-Op News Brings on Tears Drugs struck off list Dealing with a loss Are you up for it? Some users of prescription drugs A hospice volunteer says it's a Ultimate is being called one of the find Pharmacare coverage is privilege .to work with those in most demanding on the local gone\NEWS A9 EriefSCOMMUNITY B1 sports scene\SPORTS B6 WEDNESDAY 93¢ PLUS 7¢ GST MAY 6, 1998 x NDAR D VOL. 11 NO. 4 Don't cut music, crowd tells trustees NEARLY 700 people crammed into the R.E.M. Lee Parent and musician Jose Coosemans also paid trib- out by Skeena NDP MLA Helmut Giesbrecht. lent positions considered surplus because the district's Theatre May 4 to tell a school district committee it ute to one of the more high profile people scheduled Elementary music teacher Becky Bloski said music school population has dropped from last year. can't cut the elementary band and music program. to lose his job - district music vice principal Terry brings together students of different races and, social The list of projected cuts totals more than $2 million, With a projected deficit of more than $1.5 million, Anderson. backgrounds. reflecting the amount needed to operate within the dis- cutting the program to save more than $600,000 is one More than 60 parents and students added their voices English teacher Betty Geier said students who study trict's proposed budget this year and to absorb a defi- of the options facing the budget advisory committee. to the demand to keep the music program alive. music do better in other academic subjects cit of just under $630,000 from last year. A concert band played outside while a children's "I can't imagine the cost to our children if the board "Those subjects keep them informed but music A $7,000 allotment to the district's science fair is chorus and a trio of young flautists received standing goes ahead with these cuts," said parent Kirn Beaupre. keeps them alive," she added. threatened, nearly $74,000 in savings could come ovations inside as the crowd drove home its point. "By balancing the books, are we taking into account Before the public presentations, a member of the from eliminating an elementary technology teacher Parent George Clark challenged the budget district the long term cost to our kids?" she asked. budget advisory committee, Canadian Union of'Public and $196.000 would be saved by eliminating support advisory committee to remember for whonl it works. School board chair Roger Leclere and school super- Employees official Rita Hall questioned the rationale for extra curricular transportation. "The money you are talking about is our money; it is intendent Frank Hamilton reported that education of the proposed cuts. While Leclerc said no decisions have yet been made, not your money," said Clark. minister Paul Ramsey was sympathetic during a meet- "CUPE is very upset that school district cuts always lay off notices have gone out to teachers and others in "Spend the money the way we want. on keeping ing in Victoria May 1 but provided no new money. have an effect on the services to children," she said. accordance with their collective agreements. music in these communities." He did offer, and the board accepted, the services of Hall also ran through a list of other school districts The full board holds a regular meeting tonight m Nearly 11 full time equivalent positions are to be lost a team of experts to look at ways to free up money by containing more students but fewer administrators Stewart but the most important meeting takes place in eliminating elementary music and band and a senior making the district more efficient, said Leclerc. than is the case here. here May 12 - the deadline for the school board to secondary stage band and choral group. A letter offering support - but no money - was read Also on the chopping block are 12 full time equiva- adjust its plans and present a balanced budget. Condoms likely in city buildings CITY COUNCIL appears likely to narrowly vote to install condom machines in public buildings like the arena, pool and library. Three councillors - Linda Hawes, David Hull and Rich McDaniel- lined up in favour of the idea during debate Monday night, arguing that any small measure that could save lives is worthwhile. Val George and Ron Vanderlee vowed to vote against the motion, saying abstinence should be stressed, not the message of promiscuity they said condom machines would deliver. JCouncillor Olga Power was not present and mayor Jack Talstra, who would likely only vote in the event of a 3-3 tie, isnTt. saying yet which way he leans on the issue. The recommendation from the committee meeting to install the machines will come back to council ford vote on May 18. "If we can make an impact in preventing even one unwanted pregnancy - because an unwanted pregnancy is an unwanted child - then I thinkwe have got a responsibility to do that," ' Hawes said. ffEpARTMEIW ltull said condom machines won't have a significant effect on sexual activity, adding the promiscuity argument's logic would mean that the dayeare centre for teen mothers beside Caledonia encourages kids to have sex and have babies. He called it a scary world now tbr teens and said that if the machines make even the smallest difference in preventing teen \ pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases, it's worthwhile. McDaniel said he'd oppose condom machines in schools, but said he supports havlng them in other public buildings -- for the same reasons as Hull and Hawes. "I'm opposed to having them in the schools," said councillor George. 'I object even more to having them in public places because then they're available to children of all ages." "I think we should be teaching abstinence," Vanderlee said. MANAGER ED Berney stands outside the Terrace Co-op the morn- thing and gas bar sections puts 80 people out of work. Co-op mem- "It's working great in the States right now." Vanderlee also said a local doctor had told him the AIDS virus ing news of closure of the main building was released to employees bets just three years ago celebrated 50 years of being in business. is small enough to go through latex. and to customers. The decision to close the grocery, hardware, clo- The main building went through renovations 10 years ago. Hull and Hawes said that's incorrect, noting physicians use latex gloves to protect themselves from the AIDS virus in surgery. The debate lbllowed presentations by Sarah deLeeuw and Co-op news brings on tears Continued Page A2 By JEFF NAGEL SHOCK AND TEARS were written on the faces of Ter- the impending closure, Bemey said. Keenlcyside Insurance race Co-op employees and longtime members Friday after may be able to continue in its location for now because they found out the grocery and department store will close they have an entrance from the street. Also closing will be Gov't office permanently June 30. the post office and lottery ticket outlet there. The decision, made by Co-op board directors April 30 Bemey said the gas bar will also close, but added that the and released early the next morning, to close the main Kitsumkalum Tempo gas station at Kitsumkalum won't be move planned store and put the building up for sale will throw 80 people affected. It gets its fuel from the Co-op bulk plant, which out of work. will continue to operate. PEOPLE PICKING up social assistance cheques will Manager Ed Bemey said it was the only option the 53- The food floor will operate at normal inventory levels soon be making a trip across the overpass. year-old Co-op had to try to save some part of its opera- until June, he added, when there will be a sell-off of all The Ministry of Human Resources wants to move its tions -- namely the garden centre, building supply centre stock. Other departtnents will begin selling off their stock offices out of the health unit complex on Kalum St. and and eardlock nnd bulk fuel plant, which will all continue to sooner. into the B.C. Buildings Corporation building on Keith operate. Members' shares will stay in effect. Avenue. Fierce competition from new retailers like Canadian Tire Berney says he'll stay on and hopes this bitter pill will That's prompted the ministry to seek a rczoning from and Real Canadian Wholesale Club, along with the current turn out to be life-saving medicine. the city to change the land from light industrial to P1 economic downturn, resulted in steep losses in recent "I personally hope that if I come back to, Terrace in 20 public and institutional. months, Berney said. years it will be in an expansion mode and I would be pretty It also wants a change of the Official Community "The new conrpetition even in a strong eeonoray would proud to have been part of what saved it." Sandy Sandhals Plan designation from light industry to community and be a tough thing to compete with," Berney said. "When public use. combined with the bad economy, it becomes insurmount- B.C. Buildings Corp. area manager Floyd Mann said able." the old carpenters' shop in the building is being He said the Co-op was projecthtg losses of more than $1 Loyalty, price don't mix renovated for more offices. BCBC staffwill move into million this year on average annual sales volumes of $15 that area, making room for human resources ministry million if the main store had continued to operate, CUSTOMER LOYALTY" is dead and price piled up despite membership of 8,000 that staff in the rest of the building.
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