Lights, camera, action!
'Let 's go out to the ballpark'
College video festival hosts a compilation of video vigneucs produced by RATV practicum students.
Cardinal baseball team must win to stay alive for post •season play.
Library funds probable The elusive new library/computer science facility Nonh Idaho College has been pushing for may become reality. according to optimistic statements made by Gov. Cecil Andrus Friday, May 5. A surplus eliminator bill, approved by the Idaho Legislature this spring, promised NIC a S3. I million s_harc specificially for college building projects if proposed state revenues exceeded projections. According to a Coeur d'Alene Press anicle, Andrus said the economy has improved enough for his administration to be confident the money will be available by June 30. NIC President Rohen Bennett said groundbreaking will be delayed until the college raises another S600,000 locally.
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Vo-tech expands courses
NIC plans to add logging program Certified sa wyers added to North ldaho job marker by Darrel Beohnor
In nn effort to offer courses more closely related to 1he North ldoho job market and to help ot· tmct more busines~es to the area. the North Idaho C'ollegc Vocarionol School is C'tpanding the number nnd variety of clnsjcs thllt have been offered in 1hc past, soid Bernie Knupp, director of postSC<!Ondnry education. "We're booming; (private) business i, booming," Knnpp ~aid. "We can help them (new buslnCS$cs) do cu)tomiied 1roining; we cnn don lot or things ror them.'' Courses related to businc~ ond Industry hnvc ncnrly doubled in the IMI year, Knnpp said. The vocational department hns rc«ived nearly SS00,000 in gmms this year, compared 10 S300,000 hut year. One of the new courses being offered through NIC's vocational
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school is on tree falling and logging safety. The six-week class will be stoning Moy IS and will ncco111modo1e 12 students who will be taught 10 be safe sawyers, accor• ding 10 Knapp. The logging program was developed 01 Flathead Community College (FCC) m Montono. "That school (l·CC) wanted o $2 million liabiliry Insurance policy
so they would be covered, but you con'l buy S2 million worth of the insurnncc for eight weeks because it's 1101 cconomicnl." Many area logging companies arc interested in the cOul'$Cincluding Potlatch, Plum Crttl.. , Louisinn11-Pocific, lmcrmount:iin Forest Industries Association, the Department or Labor and Industrial Scn•iccs, plus many smaller independent loggers. Knapp said. "After this initial program goes, we're going 10 suirt a sawyer safety certification course," Knapp said. "That will mean an instruct.o r going out into the field, onto the job sites at the request of the companies 10 test their sn11o1·ers. If the sawyers don't pas.sit, the instructor will up grade them on the spo1. When they (the sawyers) pass the test, they will be a certified sawyer." Knapp said. ''In the ruturc it may become a requirement lhat all sawyers be certified ...
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Celebrate Idaho- - The Centennial balloon visits Coeur d'Alene on lls trip around the state.
Budget stalled by lawsuit by Randa ll Green
That money Is tucked a,,..11y a cmificate of d(l)OS1t ae00\lllt, draWUJg i.nle!'CSt until bt OlStrict Court Judge Richard Magnuson, Associated Stud(IILS of NIC (A51'1C} and their anorney. Norm;in Gis.s<I, decide iu fate. Tbe college will ha,e to absorb attorney's recs, according to NlC President Roben Benoeu. He said estimated auomey fees will be about Sl2.000-Sl3.000. '•We a.1,,.-a )'5 SCI a.si<k 8Jl emergellC) coruingmcy fund to co,cr these kinds of unforscen coru." &~u said tn
Rca50ns North Idaho College's administration broke faculty and stllff salary ocgotia · Lions are varied, but until lhe judgment regarding the senlemen1 over the disputed ''Outdoor Facilities Fee" is resohed, administrators are treading water in the sea or budgetary restrictions, according tO RoL1nd (Rolly) Jurgens, dean or administration. " If the college has 10 go out and look for runds. salary increases could be affected. but the fate of the SJ00,000 ,.ill ha\c no errec1 on sala~." Jurscns SJ.id,
Implications or the sun will arrect ruturc consuuc:tion related to the library because the college won't have that money (l300,000) to help defer some of the project cosupavtllg the adJommg parkmg lot, et.c., Bennett said. That moll(') v.ill ha\e to be absorbed out or the maintenance and operauons budget or another source. "About 72.S percent of our total operational budget is for salaries; the remaining 27.5 pcroenl is (or maintenance and operations." Bennett said.
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