The Terrace and District Arts
Council is again offering schol-
atships to local young people

pursuing their education in the
Fine Arts. Persoris 19 years of
age and younger can apply for
funds to be used for short
courses such as summer school
and out of area workshops.
Barbara Kenney of the Arts
Council says around $900 is
available, which is the interest
earned on a special fund estab-
lished for this purpose. The fund

- A gathering of area literary talent took pl
sored a tea In honor of local authors at
Morris, special needs teacher at Thornh
like “Timewarp” and books of poetry such as

ace recently when the Terrace Public Library spon-
the Terrace Art Gallery. Pictured above are Laurel
it! Elementary School and author of short stories
“Cold Against the Glass”; George Stanley,

Northwest Community College English Instructor and author of books of poetry such as
“Opening Day”; and Norm Carellus, Mills Memorial Hospital Administratorand author ofthe

novel, “The Last Sunrise”. Also in a
Wiebe; Shannon Mark and Heather McLean,
children’s author Ruby McCreight; Tilly Thompson
- Ravinder Gill, prize-winning poet of India and new Canacian poet; and poets Dr. Norma Ker-
hors unable to attend included Dr. K.O. Asante, who wrote

by and Fred Adair. Other local aut
ndrome, and coiumnist Claudette Sandeki.

a definitive work on fetal alcohol sy

ttendance were Terrace Review columnist Stephanie
co-authors of “Hiking the Rainforest”;
, who wrote “Shades of Leroy Street”;

Student employment still active
‘despite minimum wage increase

The minimum wage will be
going up July Ist, the second
increase in 16 months, Labour
Minister Lyall Hanson announc-
ed recently, The minimum wage
for workers 18 and older goes
from $4.00 to $4.50 an hour, for
under 18 from $3.65 to $4.00 an
hour.

While even the higher mini-
mum wages may not be enough

to support a family, they could

provide enough savings for a
frugal student to return to
school.

Gail Murray of the Terrace
Anti-Poverty Group said of the
increase,‘‘It’s about time. It’s
not enough but it’s encouraging
the government realizes people
can’t live on $3.65 or $4.00 an
hour.’’ Even with the increase,
she said it would be touch-and-
go to live on a minimum wage
salary, and no one could raise a
family on it — ‘‘not with in-
creased medical premiums, the
cost of taking kids to the dentist,
of running shoes, even of sum-
mer clothing.”’

Students working to pay for
their schooling next year will still
have to put in a lot of hours to
have enough socked away for
September’s classes. Terrace
area residents planning to attend
Northwest Community College

will only need about 8 to 10°

weeks of summer work to earn
enough for tuition or books,
while those relocating to Terrace
will need 25 to 30 weeks. And
those moving down to the Van-
couver area better take off a
whole year to work — they'll
need 45 to 50 weeks to save the
approximately $7,000 required.
Figures for school costs were
‘provided by Brian Loptson,
NWCC Registrar and student
association liaison. ‘Students
tend to have difficulty finding

jobs that pay enough to get them
back to school,’’ he noted.
Although some lower main-
land employers fear the increase
means they may not be able to
hire as many students this sum-
mer, it doesn’t look like a prob-
lem for the Terrace area.
Employment and Immigration
manager Shirley Kimery says
they have not received any com-
plaints from private sector em-
ployers participating in the fed-
eral government’s Challenge 88
program, which is based on the
minimum wage. ‘There has
been a large demand for stu-

dents and the private sector par-

ticipation in the program has in-
creased dramatically. Challenge
88 pays half of the student’s
wage, up to a maximum of $3.00
an hour. The provincial legisla-
tion to raise minimum wage
doesn’t seem to be a problem for
these employers,”’she said. She
also noted that for non-profit
groups, wages will continue to
be subsidized up to the mini-
mum wage, including the in-
crease in July. :
Karen Focker, Customer Rela-
tions manager at McDonalds in
Terrace, said the increase won't
affect their summer hiring at all.
‘We still need a certain number
of people to run the store effi-
ciently, and. we'll be continuing
with that.”’ Mount Layton Hot
Springs will be operating for the
full summer season this year,
and plans to hire quite a number
of students. General manager
Lynn Biller also doesn't expect
the increase to negatively affect
their hiring young people.
Terrace area residents also
affected are service workers such
as those in small retail businesses
and piece-work forestry workers
such as tree planters, according

to Roger Davis of Employment’

Standards. Minimum wage rates
‘for domestics, live-in home-

makers, farm/horticultural
workers and resident caretakers

will be increasing by about 12
per cent. Davis explained that —

these rates are based on form-

‘ulas such as $32 a day or part-

is contributed to by the Arts
Council through ticket sales and
other revenue. As many as seven
or eight applicants have received
full or partial funding for
courses in some years, depend-
ing on the number of funding
applications and the course
costs. Preference is given to per-
sons who have not previously
been granted funds from the
Terrace and District Arts Coun-
cil.

‘Some previous winners in-
clude Francis Brodie, a 15-year-
old ballet dancer now studying
at the Goh Ballet Academy in
Vancouver. Her mother, Mrs.
Marilyn Brodie, said the schol-
arship is really helpful and en-
courages young people to pursue
their artistic endeavours. Fran-
cis’ scholarship helped pay her

~ | Applicants sou
| for Arts

scholarship aid

Coun

air fare down to the academy for:
study last summer. es

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Tracie Stewart used her
scholarship to take a course in
water color painting at the Oka-
nagan Summer School of Fine

- Arts. She said,“‘The scholarship

helped quite a bit with the ex-.
penses, and I felt proud to
receive it.’? This summer- she'll
be returning to Penticton to take
portraiture and anatomy draw-

_ing classes as well as a Chinese

brush painting course, and she
hopes someday to make her liv-
ing as an artist.

Pam Kerr’s. scholarship
helped pay for a music theatre
course at the Courtney Youth
Music Centre last. summer. Kerr
continues in theatre and hopes
to attend Acadia University in
Wolfesville, Nova Scotia this
summer to study opera. She sent .
in an audition tape with three
songs in competition with
students from Burope and North
America for a spot at the pres-
tigious school. She graduates
from high school in 1989 and
plans to continue studying and
working in her forte of musical
theatre. .

Applications for this year’s
scholarships will be accepted
through Box 35, Terrace, V8G
4A2, until May 31, 1988.

Every Monday evening

l’s Cribbage Night at Ter-
raceview Lodge from 7 to 9 p.m. Everyone in the com-

‘Columbia’s wage earners cur-
rently work for the minimum

munity is Invited to. drop in and catch the action.
day for domestics, cents-per-
pound of fruit picked by or-
chard workers, and rates accord-
ing to the number of units in
blocks for resident caretakers.
About five per cent of British

more Information, coritact Finn Larsen at 638-1377.

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