Community gets wired for the web
Terry Halifax
Northern News Services
Enterprise (May 21/01) - The world just got smaller in the settlement of Enterprise, with the re-opening of community computer centre and their first local Internet service provider.
"Now, every resident and business in town can access the Internet without having to phone long distance," said Anne Cadieux, facilitator at the resource centre.
She is teaching residents the basics of how to log on to the Internet, send and receive email, search the web or just socialize.
The program is made possible through federal financing to provide basic computer skills to communities across the country.
"We received funding through the Community Access Program (CAP) from the federal government and were able to entice Arctic Data to come down and put in an Internet provider for us," Cadieux said.
Cadiuex credits Bonnie Kimble who started the first resource centre in 1994, through the federal government's Brighter Futures program.
"We received some funding from them and some support from the community businesses and the housing corporation," Cadieux said.
The housing corporation donated an unused housing unit for the centre and it was opened in 1995.
In 1996, the centre was moved to the trailer it now occupies, but was only open sporadically through various councils until last Monday.
Cadieux says they haven't determined what days or hours the centre would be open.
