Legisiative Library, Parliament Sidgs.. Victoria, 5B. C. ss _Castlégar News Aptil 27, 1986 Toga Eb your advertising advertising dollars do better in............ TELEPHONE 365- 5210 im nd MRS. PETER SWITLISHOFF of Blueberry Crowk @re pleased to announce the for theoming marriage of their Hen tehe ploce July “Ne Castlegar, 8.C MR. and MRS. ERIC ROOS ore gnnounce the ment rd their son Dove WE WISH to express our thanktuiness to the deor fri Hospital sto! dente Conte ambulance atten. r Funeral Chapel, in the last few years. It meant so much to him. God bless you all! ‘Anne Swinerchuk and Family u THE FAMILY of the late Tom Cowling would like to take this opportunity to express deep ap- reciation to all of his and our re ws ond relatives they cored by their flowers, condolen: ted to the chorities of their choice te all of you called to extend » deeply grotetul hy. ioveside service. God Bless You Ki Ody Bob. Bev. Pat and Bud Cowlin and ilies. A SINCERE THANK YOU to all pated in our spring Costleger uM CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY. In memoriam donations. intor mation Box 3292 Castlegar. 365 167 in THE 6.C. HEART FOUNDATION 3023, Castlegar. 8.C Duckworth funeral Wednesday Funeral service for the late Pastor Harold Duckworth will be held at 3 p.m. Wed nesday at Calvary Baptist Church. Duckworth, pastor of Cal gary Baptist, passed away April 24. In lieu of flowers, a mem orial fund is being set up in his honor. A full obituary will follow in Wednesday's Castlegar News. Film, talk Wednesday A film and short talk on Bolivia will be presented by Paula Pryce of Castlegar Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the National Exhibition Cen tre. Pryce recently spent ap proximately 3'/ months living in Bolivia as a par. tieipant in the Canada World Youth Program and she is now willing to share her ex periences. 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(Les) CAMPBELL Publisher Aug. 7, 1947 to Feb. 15, 1973 BURT CAMPBELL Publisher IN, Editor; PETER Y. Plant Foremon; LIN- DA = KOSITSIN, Office CAROL MAGAW Advertising Monoger HEATHER HADLEY, Circulation Manoger; MICKEY READ, By RON NORMAN Editor Thirteen area students in Kiev have no immediate plans of leaving because of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, 190 kilometres north of the Soviet city, the Castlegar News learned today. ~ ‘The 13 are among 18 Canadians in the Kiev area. One Grand Forks student is also living in Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine with a population of 2.4 million. List of names, A2 The students are in Kiev on a year-long exchange program to study Russian language. They left Castlegar in August and are scheduled to return in June. parent of one of the students was in contact with the group Tuesday. “They were aware there had been some type of accident,” said the spokesman, who asked not to be identified. “But there was no noticeable effect on Kiev.” ‘The spokesman said the students have made no plans to leave Kiev, adding that a group of 20 to 30 Castlegar area parents is supposed to join the students in Kiev today. The parents flew out of Castlegar Saturday and were to leave Moscow for Kiev by train this morning. However, it is ont he FO Oe ee eae, ar ee The about the ion in Kiev is sketchy. John J. Verigin, USCC honorary chairman, said he spoke with a student in Kiev late Tuesday night. “Everything is under control,” Verigin said in a A spokesman for the Union of it CG of Christ, the exchange program's sponsoring agency, said a interview with the Castlegar News this morning from his Grand Forks home. toir EXPO 86 OPENS FRIDAY visitors to CasN: Birch Expo 86, Vancouver's world opens in two days for a five-month stint. Prince Charles and Princess Diana will be the first official the reporter Simon Birch was there over the weekend for a world fair preview (see C1) tells you what to ex pect when you get to Expo and what he-—liked best (the Canadian pavilion). A host of photographers will let you have a feel of what its like to be there And no, he didn't take a ride on the scream machine pictured above. Just watching those people go upside down was enough for him And though fair Friday Room F [Composing Room Foreman. ] Immersion funding slammed By CasNews Staff Castlegar school board's decision to expand and fully fund the district's Russian immersion program came under fire at the board's public budget meeting Monday. Most Castlegar residents who attended the meeting said the program should not come at the expense of other programs. “I have to strongly object to the priorities as laid down in the pi budget document,” said Bert Rourke, referring to the board's proposed $8.5 million budget which was outlined on an information sheet and made available to the public Friday. “I refer specifically to the decision to approve and accept full funding for expansion of the Russian immersion program.” Rourke said he would prefer the board to restore programs cut during restraint rather than expand Russian immersion, which he referred to as “a program that serves only a vocal minority in our community.” He urged the board to give priority to “the services that provide the greatest good to the majority of the population,” and cited elementary counselling, learning assistance, French and Russian core programs, library services and a child care worker as examples “While it may appear to be a small portion of the overall budget, the immersion programs have a disproportionate level of services,” said Rourke, who noted that the Pupil teacher ratio for immersion is 13 and 14 to one it is an enviable ratio in a district where the ratio often exceeds 26 to one.” However, trustees told Rourke that the Russian immersion program next year may be a split class with, as many as 30 students to one teacher Trustee Ed Conroy described the Russian immersion issue as “a bit of a red herring” that is being blown out of P ion. “It's something that had to be dealt with by the school continued on page A2 But Nick Konkin of Brilliant isn't so sure about the situation. “We're worried,” said Konkin, one of the few parents who didn’t travel to the USSR to see his daughter, Sandra, 2. - However, Konkin says he has tried to contact Sandra by “We tried to phone,” but the lines were busy, he said. Konkin last spoke with his daughter Friday when she continued on poge A? AT PUBLIC MEETING Mixed reaction to board budget By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer Castlegar school board’s proposal to increase the school tax on local homeowners by $79 over the next year received mixed reaction during a five-hour public meeting on the $52 in 1987. School district secretary-treasurer John Dascher said "Tuesday the increases would bring the tax on a home of that value to $398 from its current $366. In 1987, the tax would rise to $445. That increase is ‘oo much sid some residents. “I'm against one thing — a tax increase.” Jim Chapman said, adding that-he thinks raising taxes puts an unfair burden on homeowners. Asked by school board chairman Kay Johnson if he would support a lower tax increase, Chapman said a $25 inerease might be reasonable, but “that $79 seems pretty high.” Herman Kemperman, owner of Kemperman Apart ments, said he has no way of recouping a tax increase because of the poor economy. He told the trustees he has held rents down at his apartments — which he said is taxed as a residential building — for four years. “I feel we should abide by the government guidelines We should take advantage of whatever the government is allowing us as a school district.” The board has proposed a budget of $8,557,000, approximately $400,000 more than the provincial govern- ment's funding level for the district. That $400,000 must be raised locally, by way of a tax increase to homeowners. The amended Education Interim Finance Act allows school boards to raise funds through residential taxation to cover additional services deemed essential at the local level. Other homeowners at Monday's meeting came out in favor of a tax increase, or at didn't oppose one. Ootisehenia resident Bert ‘ke, who ran unsuccess- fully against trustee George Anutooshkin for the Area J board seat in last. November's municipal election, said be would support a tax increase, but only for certain services. “| would support a tax increase for needed programs. even to the point of pro D (professional development) and salary increases for teachers,” he said. “I couldn't support a tax increase if it is for Russian immersion.” Rourke said Russian immersion takes a “dispropor tionate” amount of funds for a minority of students and should be funded by the people who want the program The Castlegar District Teachers’ Association and Castlegar District Administrators’ Association also said they would not oppose a tax increase if it means maintaining school services at current levels. continued on page A2 Maloney eyes cable TV By CHERYL CALDERBANK answer,” Staff W: Striking members of the Interna tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work ers have weleomed an offer by Castle gar car dealer Gary Maloney to buy Shaw Cable's local,.operations. Maloney, owner of Maloney Pontiac GMC and Hyundai Sales in Castlegar, has offered to buy the local operations, sign a contract with the striking IBEW members and resume services virtually immediately. And union spokesman Bob McKnight says Maloney would be more than welcomed by striking employees “Our members would be happy.” he said. “Shaw Cable people have said they can't keep the system going and cant have a community channel because they are too busy trying to keep the American stations going. But the prob lem is they’re not doing that. They're spending time disconnecting people and sitting in the shop drinking coffee.” McKnight said the current company has “no consideration” for its employ ees or the public. In a letter to Shaw Cable's head office, Maloney stated that he hasn't been able to hook up the FM cable service for his new Hyundai dealership “We miss this valuable service while your company continues its rather lengthy labor dispute,” he said. “It’s not my intention to tell you how to run your business, but as a sole source of virtually a public service, it appears that this dispute attacks the confidence of the public trust “I appreciate that the West Koot enay region makes up only a small portion of your overall corporate structure, but I urge you to personally review every aspect of this dispute, with the hope of an early solution to it However, if this area and the labor structure surrounding it do not fit your | never returned very Canadian Castlegar paign... A2 will company’s long-term plans, perhaps a return to local ownership might be the Maloney said, in asking for an early meeting with Shaw Cable to diseuss the purchase. The Castlegar News called Shaw Cable in Edmonton, but the calls were mi Meanwhile, the petition signed by more than 1,700 West Kootenay residents to the Can adian Radio-television and Telecom munications Commission asking it to =INSIDE IBEW has SPECIAL SPEAKER: Catley-Carlson, president of the Development Agency (CIDA), dispelled myths World development in a talk to area Selkirk College STUDENT PROTEST: Students in Trail, Rossland and Fruitvale walked out of classes this week to protest their teachers work-to-rule cam REFUGEE CAMP: A Castlegar man tells of his tour of o G retugee comp WHERE THERE'S A WILL: VANCOUVER Columbia cattle baron has a beet with her Clara Winnitred Frolek said she retusal to increase a lean settlemen! left her by Charlie Frolek when he died in 1982 at age 73 after a long bout with alcoholism He lett $500,000 to Clara, his wite of 12 years The remaining millions business deals during the 1930 Frolek, 42, and his brother Dennis, 37 The two men helped run Frolek s Kamloops-orea cattle and farming empire of more than 110 square kilometres B.C. Supreme Court Justice Lance Finch ruled Tuesday thot the 64-year-old widow was adequately provided for “I'm not happy with it, | don't think it's fair worked like a dog around the place hold a public hearing into Shaw Cable's operations. McKnight said the IBEW hopes the CRTC will take a close look at Shaw Cable. The petition says that since Aug. 13 the first day of the strike Shaw Cable has not uperated its community channels nor returned to sent a its customers continued on poge A2 Margaret International Third about residents at AS B4 The widow of a British late husband s $6-million was shocked at a judge s acquired by hard work and astute went to two nephews, Raymond she insisted. 1