meteor conditional html using helpers

meteor conditional html using helpers

newbie question here... I'm trying to get a simple meteor app up but am
having trouble getting one of my helper functions called (its seems to be
getting ignored).
Basically I wast to use a slightly different html call depending on
whether I'm using the first item in a collection or not.
I've added a sequence number to the collection (seq) that starts at 0,
created a helper function on the template
Template.carousel.helpers({
sponsors: function() {
return sponsorDocs.find();
},
first_sponsor: function() {
console.log(this);
var value = (this.seq === 0);
if(value) {
console.log("Got first sponsor");
}
else {
console.log("Not the first sponsor");
}
return value;
}
});
and am trying to use it in the template as follows..
<template name="carousel">
<!-- Carousel
================================================== -->
<div id="tbCarousel" class="carousel slide">
<!-- Indicators -->
<ol class="carousel-indicators">


<li data-target="#tbCarousel" data-slide-to={{seq}} class=
"active" ></li>
{{else}}
<li data-target="#tbCarousel" data-slide-to={{seq}} ></li>

</ol>........
Now, the each is working fine, but the first_sponsor call never seems to
happen (I never see the console log output anyway...
Any idea why? Is there a better way to do this anyway (does seem a bit
clunky).
Ta
Peter.