January 23. 1985 : 35 a Friendship important business dirECTORY Telephone 365- 5210 Sushleeatioasans sine mmepiaden to 8 pe Jon. es oe ray: to today's TORONTO (CP) — A two-year study involving thousands of young peole from across Canada has found that today’s youth do not match the conventional stereotype of the irresponsible, rebellious teenager. Instead they are most concerned with friendship and how they will earn a living. In the survey, 91 per cent viewed friendship as “very important.” Asked what they enjoy “a great deal,” friendship was again top of the list, named by 75 per cent. was most freq’ named as a “very serious” social problem, by 60 per cent. The survey is based on a sample of 3,530 teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19. Gallup polls generally use a sample of about 1,110, which is accurate to within four percentage points, 19 times in 20. A co-author of the study, University of Lethbridge sociologistReginald Bibby, said his survey is accurate to within three percentage points 19 times in 20. The survey contains 333 questions, many of which developed by co-author Don Posterski, Ontario head of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, in consultation with school guidance counsellors, youth workers and education experts. It was sent to randomly selected classrooms of Grades 10 and 12 in 200 high schools — including public, private, separate, French and English — to reflect geographic distribution. A total of 152 schools returned the survey. The two authors give great significance to the respondents’ views on friendship, seeing its importance as a result of mistrust of adults. “As friends have been elevated to new levels of importance, adults have been demoted,” Posterski said. “In several ways, adolescents have computed that adults are against them. “They feel their opinions don't matter. They feel powerless. They think they are not listened to by the older generation . .. that they are stereotyped as reckless and untrustworthy and treated as half-humans until they're 21.” DESPITE TRAGIC TALES Guardian TORONTO (CP) — A young mother holding a toddler in her arms climbs onto an amusement park ride in Ottawa and straps herself into the seat. Tragically, in the middle of the ride, the child is thrown from her grasp and tumbles onto his head. The severe concussion results in epileptic seizures. Ontario's official guardian won the child a $50,000 award from the amusement park operator after successfully arguing in court that the operator should have known his dangerous ride could have resulted in an injury to an unsecured child. Lloyd Perry, 60, who retired last December after a 34-year career with the guardian's office, had literally thousands of such stories for his successor, Wilson McTavish, a 46-year-old lawyer. Many of the tales are heart-breaking — repeated accounts of injury and damage done physically and emotionally to children. But Perry likes to believe the official guardian's office helped give the stories happier endings through its work on children’s behalf. PROTECTS CHILDREN The office was established in 1885 and since then has been the champion of children's property rights. Children who receive large monetary awards from accidents or who are sued in civil courts have had their interests protected by the office since its inception. More and more of the office's work has involved the personal rights of children caught up in divorces and heated parental custody battles and in cases of abuse or neglect. Perry says that reflects a fundamental change in society's attitudes about children's rights. Block parents total 80,000 VANCOUVER (CP) — If she's ever lost or bothered by Although there had been no incidents in her suburban a stranger, 12-year-old Jackie Lyons knows what to do. She'll look for a red and white Block Parents sign in the window of a house. There are 80,000 block parents in 97 British Colum bia communities, so finding one of these refuges should be no problem. The sign indi cates that a sympathetic adult is inside, one who can help a child get home or call the police. The program began in 1968 after a series of kidnappings and murders in the London, Ont., area, says Sharon Lyons, president of B.C.'s Block Parents organization. Anyone over the age of 16, single or married, with or without their own children, can volunteer to be a block parent. All prospective block parents and adult members of their families are screened by local police for offences involving sex, drugs or juv enile delinquency Run by volunteers, the or ganization coordinates its efforts with elementary schools, and most children learn about the program from their teachers. Lyons, a nurse at Chil dren's Hospital in Vancouver, has been involved since 1976. neighborhood, Lyons says: “I could definitely see the ben. efit of having a Block Parent program in our area.” Block parents are not ex pected to provide food or drink for children who come to their home, Lyons stress. es. When the resident is away from home, or other. wise unavailable to help, the sign is taken from the win dow. Lyons has been of service several times. In the most serious incident, two eight year-olds brought a little gir! to her house. The child was unable to speak English and was lost. Lyons called the: police, and half an hour later the girl was reunited with her parents. NEEDED HELP Lyons’ son has sought help from a nearby block parent, when he and a group of friends were followed by a car late one night. Best of all, Desbiens says, the Block Parent program makes people more neigh borly “The psychological benefit isthe best thing, because it gets the community working together which really assists us, because there are only so many police.” teenagers Other high scorers on the chart of what teenagers value were being loved, 86 per cent; freedom, 85 per cent; and success and a comfortable life, 78 and 74 per cent respectively. Well down the list were acceptance by God, 43 per cent; recognition, 39 per cent; and being popular, 21 per cent. Along with their friends, 72 per cent of the respondents said they get “a great deal” of enjoyment from music while 54 per cent described their boyfriend or girlfriend this way and 50 per cent named dating in general. Brian L. Brown Certified General A Only 10 per cent felt sexual relations were the first date, but 42 per cent felt it was permissible ster a a few dates. Seventy-nine per cent saw sex before marriage as acceptable when the people love each other. Nimety-four per cent said birth control information could be available to any teenager who wants it, and 38 per cent said abortion should be available when a woman does not want more children. URGES EQUALITY On homosexuality, 69 per cent said homosexuals should have the same rights as others, but only 25 per cent said sexual relations between people of the same gender is sometimes acceptable. Most said they worry “a great deal” what they are going to do when they leave school. But whie unemployment was seen as a “very serious” problem by 60 per cent, the economy was described that way by only 37 per cent. Other social concerns were all below 50 per cent, with child abuse and crime at 49 per cent, the threat of nuclear war at 48 per cent and drugs at 45 per cent. Suicide was named by 40 per cent. Seventy per cent of students said hard work will lead to success, but Bibby said other studies he has done indicate only 44 per cent of adults believe this. The authors’ book on the subject will be published in April under the title The Emerging Generation — An Inside Look at Canadian Teenagers. helps kids “The chattel concept is dead,” he says. now accepted as human beings.” Perry, the son of a clergyman, worked at the Attorney General's Department and accepted a job with the guardian's office after graduating from law school in 1950. He has been there ever since, rising through the ranks until, in 1976, he was appointed the official guardian and head of a 140-member staff of lawyers and social workers responsible for administering $150 million in trust funds. “Children are FINDS CHALLENGES “When I came I was only going to stay for two years,” Perry recalls. “It's been a position with changing challenges.” Perry fought 300 jury trials from 1950 to 1960 in a wide vareity of cases that extended far beyond the kind of experience he would have obtained in private practice. He still recalls the tragic story of a young father, leaving for work one morning, who backed out of his driveway and accidentally drove over his four-year-old daughter. Perry sued the father on behalf of his severely injured child, winning her a $75,000 settlement. “Some of these cases are filled with pathos, tragedy and a few with amusement,” Perry says. e courtroom battles over who should pay what — and to whom — are interesting but he would have quit the job long ago if that's all there was, he says, adding the varied collection of problems kept him showing up at the office each morning for 34 years. He continues to agonize over the role he played in allowing a Kitchener professor to adopt five Guyanese children whose mother was deported. The man was later found guilty of sexually molesting the children and called a “moral monster.” “I have had to ask myself, ‘Was there anything I could have done?” Perry says. “I deeply regretted what had occurred, but he was the salt of the earth. We did an investigation and nothing was in his background.” TAKES PAY CUT Perry's successor has welcomed his new career challenge with open arms, even though McTavish's $60,000-a-year salary as official guardian is a drop from his former income with a law firm. “You only live once,” McTavish says. “I'm a believer that people should participate in public service. It was the tradition I was brought up in.” McTavish says Mr. Justice Samuel Grange — head of the royal commission investigating baby deaths at the Hospital for Sick Children — taught him the human element of law when McTavish was a young articling student with a Toronto law firm. 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Castlégar_ Expo 86 can help boost Castlegar By RON NORMAN Editer Expo 86 won't benefit just the Lower but can help boost business in 6 around the pr HEAVE HO! .. . “Who said this was easy,” asks Rolf Hartman as he throws David Singler during martial ar- ts display this week at the Castlegar Recreation Department's Recreation Rendezvous. “Rendezvous” was a showcase for classes offered by the depart. ment. Costews Photo by Doug Harvey TWIN RECALLS DEATH MARCH TO AUSCHWITZ WARSAW (AP) — Vera Kriegel recalls vividly how she and her twin sister, Olga, hid beneath their mother’s skirt as bullets flew overhead during the infamous Jan. 27, 1945, Death March to the Auschwitz concentration camp in southern Poland. “We knew we were going to die and prayed, ‘Oh God, watch over us,’ " said Kriegel, who was five years old in 1943 when her family was taken from its village in Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz. “The Nazis were shooting at the backs of people and I told my mother, ‘Run faster, I don't want to die.’ Then all of a sudden the Germans fled — and from death we passed into life again.” Kriegel, now 46, has returned from her home in Dimona, Israel, to mark the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet soldiers. Today, she and other surviving Jewish twins subjected to Nazi medical experiments conducted by Dr. Joseph Mengele, the so-called Angel of Death at Ausch- witz, will return to the concentration camp in southern Poland for the first time since they were freed. RETRACE MARCH They will retrese the three-kilometre Death March in which th of jated prisoners through the snow from the Birkenau extermination camp to Auschwitz just before the Soviet troops. The-twins also plan a Feb. 3-6 meeting in Jersusalem that will include a mock trial of Mengele, long sought on charges that he killed thousands of Jews in medical experiments at Auschwitz. He is believed living in Paraguay and the survivors hope the publicity will lead to his capture. Kriegel said her mother and sister chose to stay in Haifa, Israel, rather than relive the horrors of Auschwitz, where four million people were reported to have been killed. “I have to be strong to go through with it and return,” she said. “I have a mission because I survived to go back to this hell and build a bridge to a better future by showing the world what Auschwitz was.” Out of 750 pairs of twins selected by Mengele for his genetic experiments, only about 180 children survived. Kriegel said she still suffers from anemia, spinal problems, blood and urinary tract infections and fits of depression. “Doctors don't even have any effective treatment for us, because we still don't know what Mengele pumped into us with his injections,” she said. “We were never able to talk about it at the camp because they would beat us.” FORMS TON In 1983 and 1984, Jewish twins who survived the experiments formed gn organization called CANDLES — Children of Auschwitz Nazis’ Deadly Lab Experiment Survivors. It has more than 100 members. “A lot of us could not cope with everyday life,” said Kriegel, a founding member. “We had to form a group to take care of ourselves because no one seemed to care about us.” As part of the trip back to Auschwitz, Kriegel will return with nearly a dozen other surviving twins to the ramp of the Birkenau railway station where she met Mengele for the first time in 1943. “He selected which new arrivals would be sent to the gas chamber, and with a flick of his finger sent my father to the left to die,” she said, "her voice rising with emotion. With her mother and sister, Kriegel was transferred to Mengele’s laboratories at Birkenau because he was interested in their genetic features. “Mengele was like a monster,” she said. “We were given all kinds of injections and every inch of our bodies was marked for his experi . Later large of blood were taken from us for wounded German soldiers.” “I remember terrible things like a pit of fire into which children were thrown alive. I thought maybe I was to the world exposition’s “Expo 86 represents a catalyst,” Paula Fairweather told about a dozen Castlegar business people and com- munity leaders Thursday. “We see this boosting the local economy.” Fairweather was in Castlegar as part of a tour of B.C. to drum up support for Expo, but primarily to encourage com- munities to prepare for the expected flood of visitors to the province next year. Fairweather said latest estimates show that three to five million visitors will attend Expo 86, translating into 13 to 15 million “turnstile clicks.” She said Expo organizers expect the visitors to spend three or four days seeing the 173-acre site. However, most visitors will be on a t communities to “create a hook” to draw the tourists and then “keep them.” “It will depend on you to create the hook,” she said. Fairweather said so far 65 commun- ities have committed themselves “to some form of activity (during Expo 86) - .. and we're certainly looking to For instance, she said Penticton has decided to expand its triathalon — call- ing it the Expo 86 ultra-triathalon. As well, the Okanagan community plans to enlarge its annual Peach Festival and its square dance jam! % The small comm y of Enderby just north of Vernon plans to have a homecoming, Fairweather said. Ender- by will also team up with nearby Armstrong and Lumby to promote the theme of “get out of the fast lane,” to attract visitors who have been to Van- couver, but want to get away from the city. She outlined a number of other events apn ideas siasned, in other com- build ee ee cea atl bee op ee il days left over to see the rest of the province. She’ daid itis up to the ivi on its ry Priam Cominco isk S extension CASTLEGAR (CP) — Despite re. cording a 1984 profit of $24.2 million, Cominco Ltd. is asking its workers in Trail and Kimberley for a one-year extension of their current contract — but without the contract's cost-of-living clause. Cominco says low metal prices and high costs are the reasons it is seeking a contract extension from the United Steelworkers of America Local 480. However, local president Ken Geor- getti has rejected the idea. Georgetti said Cominco operations in the two communities have reached record production levels, the com- pany’s assets have increased 60 per cent and Cominco has reduced its long-term debt over the past four years. The local, which covers 4,500 work- ers, has not yet decided what it wants included in its next contract. The cur rent contract, a two-year deal, expires April 30. The company announced Thursday that its 1984 profit compared with a net loss of $39.3 million in 1983. The Judes an extraordinary gain of . primarily from the sale of an interest in an oil recovery project in Texas. A Washington state resident in the audience said a boat tour from Grand Coulee dam in the U.S., up the Columbia River to Castlegar and north through the Arrow Lakes to Golden would be a good promotion for Expo. “I wonder how many people know you live on the deepest darkest secret . the body of water here?” he asked. He added, “All you need are facilities on the lake.” FOR Fairweather, whose presentation in- cluded a slick 10-minute audio-visual slide show, also warned that B.C. has to roll out the red carpet for Expo visitors. “We really have to be on the ball,” she said, adding that it only takes “one rude retail clerk or waiter” to ensure that a visitor won't return. merce, which was represented at the meeting, agreed to organize a special Expo committee. Fairweather advised the committee, “The important thing to remember, is you want to work as a community” and then work with nearby communities as a region. She said Expo officials have set aside space at the world’s fair for the Each region will have three or four days to “highlight your festivals and comparisons bétween Expo 86 and the 1984 world’s fair in New Orleans, which lost money and was considered a dis mal failure. “We're very different,” she said. New Orleans had only 20 pavilions. “Expo 86 will have 70,” Fairweather She said New Orleans was “grossly underfunded” and ran into “severe” continved on poge A2 L_DISTRICT Ministry backs off on $11,773 deficit By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer The granting of an extra $30,000 to the Castlegar School District for its January to June short school term means that the district won't be able to run up a deficit of almost $12,000. Trustees were told at a meeting this week that the Ministry of Education approved the board's request for a deficit of $11,773 in the 1985 fiscal year. But a Ministry of Education miscal- culation means that the school district will get an extra $30,000 for its short term, and therefore won't be able to go ahead with the deficit, said school superintendent Terry Wayling. ,000 comes from a province- wide ministry error which failed to in. clude administrative allowances when figuring out average teachers’ wages as part of the six-month budget period. Wayling said approval for the deficit was granted under guidelines in effect before the ministry error was noticed The $11,773 deficit was approved as part of a way to make up the district's $182,000 shortfall for the January to June period. About $100,000 of this figure is to be made up from a projected operating surplus from 1984 Another $7,300 is to come from a reduction in testing services and teachers’ professional days; $18,080 from a reduction in supplies; $6,041 from miscellaneous cutbacks. Wayling told the Castlegar News last week that while the $30,000 mistake will ease the effect of the cut the district faces an extra it be paid teachers erease recently awarded by an arbitration panel. Wayling said Friday the increase still has to be agreed upon by Com Cc Ed Peck, “who might or might not roll continued on pege A2 By CasNews Staff park lots. the industrial park. MacBain called the discussions per cent commission. in hell and all the Nazis were devils. able to sell lots individually. The Castlegar industrial commission has turned to Cominco for some ideas on marketing the city’s industrial ‘The industrial commission met recently with Jim Gray, Comineo's general manager of administration. Ald. Bob MacBain, Castlegar council's liaison on the commission, said the commission wanted to hear Comineo's thoughts on related industries which might want to locate in “exploratory.” Gray explained Cominco's purchasing policies and the types of secondary industries that are spin-offs of Cominco. Meanwhile, two local real estate companies will be offered open listings on individual industrial park lots at a 10 “This in no way affects the present status,” MacBain, noting that council and the commission will still be The commission Kootenay Regional District's economic development com mission for funding to advertise and promote industrial Pia We Commission queries Cominco ill also be applying to the Central development in Castlegar. Elsewhere, Harry Stan was elected to chair the commission with Richard Maddocks as Commission member Fred Basson has resigned The commission has hired a local graphic artist to vice-chairman. prepare a brochure cover As well, the commission has placed an advertisement in the B.C. Business magazine and will run a blanket ad every three months in community newspapers. The commission also plans to hold a “think tank.” with invitations going out to people in the industrial fields who id Ald. industrial lots. may share their ideas on possible secondary industries interested in locating in the park, and on the marketing of wena