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‘Terrace Review. — ~ Weitnesday, [ December 9, 1987 3

_ Regional health chief says all.
kids should take Family Life

AIDS inevitable

in Northwest

TERRACE — Parents of
students in School District 88
wil} have the choice of
withdrawing their children from
the Family Life Education pro-

gram, it was decided at a recent

school board meeting, but the
chief medical. health officer for

the Skeena Health Unit is -

strongly urging all. parents to

allow their children to be in-

volved in it,

School District 88 trustees
have. been wrestling for two
months now with the wording of
a resolution that would allow
those parents who are strongly
opposed to having their children
take the Family Life program in
school to either teach the pro-

gram at home or withdraw their
children from it altogether.

At the inaugural board
meeting Dec. 1 trustees passed a
recommendation from the
Education-Personnel Commit-
tee that will require. parents to

- Sign an authorization to remove

their children from the program.
The recommendation differs
from a previous motion that

would have required a: signed

authorization to put children i in-
to the program:

Director of Instruction
Harold Cox: said the “‘opting-
out’’ approach was adopted by
the board because it will result in
more students being enrolled in
the program and create less ad-
ministrative paperwork. The
“opting-out’’ arrangement was
also in line with the position ex-

There’s a new face at the halm of the School District 88 board. She's Val
Napoteon, trustee from Hazelton. In the election at the inaugural board
mesting Dec. 1 Napoleon defeated former chalrman Lavern Hislop and
Stewart trustee Kirsten Chapman, who was subsequently elected vice-

chalrman of the board.

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pressed by Dr. David Bowering,
chief ‘medical officer for .the
Skeena Health Unit.

In a letter to the board,
Bowering stated, ‘““No student
should ‘be allowed to die of ig-
norance, and as School Medical
Officer, I strongly advise an
‘opt-out’? approach... ”’

Bowering said in a later inter-

view, “I think it’s important.

My concern is that all children in

B.C. should take this course.”
The course was designed by

the Ministry of Education, part-

ly in response to the escalating

public health threat of Acquired
Immune Deficiency Disease
(AIDS), to promote healthy
lifestyles and living habits in
young people.

Bowering reports that no
cases of AIDS have appeared yet

At the Inaugural meeting of the Scheo! District 88 board Dec. 1 two elected Incumbents and two new trustees were

‘in the Northwest, but he warns
that it’s just a matter: of time

before the disease ‘shows up.

here,

Bowering said people in the
region who suspect’ they may
have been exposed to the AIDS
virus can arrange to have a
blood sample taken by their
family physician, The samples
are all sent to a central testing
laboratory in Vancouver.
Anyone who doesn’t want to go
through a family doctor can
have the sample taken at the
Skeena Health Unit, where staff
nurses are specially trained to
counsel victims of the disease.

When asked if the Northwest

‘medical community is prepared
-.to treat AIDS, Bowering said,

**There’s no particular reason
why we can’t treat AIDS here.

DR. DAVID BOWERING: No student
should be allowed to dle of
ignorance.

There are more specialized treat-
ment facilities in Vancouver, but
even there the treatment is on an
out-patient basis.

“Every. community in B.C.
will eventually have to be able

treat it,’ he concluded.
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given the oath of office by Secretary-Treasurer Barry Plersdorff (right). Preparing to serve three-year terms on the

board are (left to right) Terrace trustee John Pousette, Kathleen Ludwig of Hazelton, Kirsten Chapman of Stewart,

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