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VOL. 35, NO. 71

‘Layél! notices for 87)
will:

and..16 “45-min reduction in their work-day.

employees agree to
school board in ita
“The notices,

develops that’ may be able
liyolts) ‘will be

‘school ‘district .

ious the CUPE release did not specify the ae

of bus drivers and custodians who were given layoff notices

"$60 million from thelr budgets. The other echool districts are.

the South Okanagan, which laid off 14 teachers this week;
and Abbotsford school board which threatened to 1a}

“his
eagerness to. oe ‘an‘early
start on the school year as
just his devotion to the job.
“It's more than just:a job,
maihly,: it’s‘ way: of life. =:

closed, as all’ four SHSS

The counselling: centre :
— which will effectively. be

eight: years.
“I've gol

; put away,that I plannedt
Spend during |

ment, but now.

‘counsellors’ are being’ laid ++.
off — offers one of the best * ,

People. are, sent; by Can-
‘ada; Manpower: to ‘take

in enporter Be be loa

atleast. : until: ‘she
notified of her last day of.
work. ‘But she ‘is not .as.

d of the ex:

As well, the counselling

-uling “advice and’ work
experietice programs.
"Crawford has been‘ head
of the department: for 16
years, since -he’ took: an’
additional - four -years

fob files ‘that are-availablo
to students and the public.

certre offers course sched:

source, centre she‘ built up.
en scratch’ seven, ‘years.

rai ‘okay, nothing tragic.
is going to happento.me. ;
he.

rogressive Conservative leader Joe Clatk’r recel
in opening the new Kootenay West Conservative constituency;
Ice ds. at 1055 Columbia Aves ond. officially opens. for business

six-per-cent salary cut.

unless all 576 teachers in the district agree

i” When asked why. Castlegar school district “desided to be
among the first to make staff cuts;:Anutooshkin said it'was'
to prevent further. layoffs, He said if the. board’ decided to.
delay layoffs until Oct. 15, another: two teachers ¥

ster be let go.

what as Sen epee

a + Canada’ hae boat a rep

tation .as place where it is

attractive « . «60 lavest,"” he ‘polk

ced sa erie it is delaying the
scheduled start-up date at
the Celgar pulp mill by. at

“S least another eight days and

‘lines ‘and all the

OF toca residents most: err aaned aepeed support

the southern route from

Murphy Creek to Selkirk sub-
station — instead of the route.
from ..Keenleyside ._ to
Kootenay z

Ly.
Criticism of damage done

‘by Hydro in the past included ~

ie depintetion of, Be Dest

necessities,’ Today anybod:

past the dam has had to pay to *

paisa rte

-extra , money.. for.,telephone

lines, The tal park is in :

dire. need: of : power. ‘connec-

“Hydro ‘never put. any. of
these lines back In. People in
Deer. Park had’ power and .

‘telephone up there ‘and right

now they are relying on a bay
station for Communications in

“What are ‘you going to do.
about that mess?’’ he asked.
Bat Castlegar. Haison
Cliff.

5 possibly another 16 days.

Celgar industrial relations

. manager Ron Belton told the
*: Castlegar News the mill, iplinary action.
“which: shut down’ Aug. 20,
one time they ‘had « power

was scheduled to start up
‘again Sept. 12, ‘with full
production by Sept. 15.
However, Belton said now.
\ the mill will start up Sept. 20,
with full production by Sept.
28 —“with the possibility ofa
further: week yet.”

He said B.C. Timber man-
agement will know by Wed-
nesday whether the shut-
down will be extended even
further with'start-up Sept. 27
and full production Sept. 30.

under control bee
ing taxes or

nurses
By RON NORMAN

, A showdown: is looming
between the B.C. Nurses
Union and 11 of its members
at Castlegar and District
Hospital over the local
nursea’. decision to voluntar-
ily take a half hour unpaid
leave of absence every day in

Continued on page AT

to task

summer and she hasn't heard .

‘working
12%. hour -shift.\at.,the ©
hospital. She said that before
taking the unpaid leaves;: the:
nurses were required: to:
overiap their shifts by a half.

hour. A
Thus, ‘an. incoming: nurse |

+ would do her report, while the :

nurse, would handle ©
regular. nursing - duties.’
Thompson said

the 11’ nurses will face dis.

She ‘said. the disciplinary
action hasn't been
out, though it could include
making the local nurses union

With the unpaid leave, ‘the
nurses’ sty dropped to
paid.

in. bad

Thompson said the 11
nurses involved have decided
to vote on whether to comply
with the union order. That
vote will be finished Tuesday
when all the nurses return
from holidays and the results

forwarded to the union office ©

in Vancouver.
Th said the union

Belton added that about. a
half dozen of the mill's 435

employee’ will-be working th

for the ‘next short while
unloading chips.

1 Churches, who ‘chalred the’

. warned that the
peispose if th mooting was #53
provide the public with ‘the

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hile, the start-up
for sawmill operations is still
Sept. 20 — but that has been
termed “tentative”. The saw-
mill. and its 800 employees
went out about the same time
‘as the pulp mill.

has argued thet the unpaid
leaves of absence contravene

return to the 12% hour day,
then at ‘least one nurse ‘will. .
have to be laid off. Z