BIKE TREK... Jeon Merritt of Castlegar was one of 78 cyclists who helped raise a total of $43,710 in cash and another $12,296 in pledges in the fourth annual Bicycle Trek for Life and Breath, The three-day trek, a fundraising event for the B.C. Lung Association, stretched 180 kilometres on a route that took the cyclists around Salt Spring Island, the Chemainus and Cowichan valleys, Shawnigan Lake and the Saanich Peninsula. Merritt raised a total of $882 IT'S NATIONAL FAMILY WEEK LINDSAY, ONT. (CP) brown bungalow on the er The rieat, over looking Sturgeon Lake, just north of town, is home to Lawrence and Brid get, Anthony, Brian, Sandy and Jennifer. And Tiger the cat The Gulston family It's Friday night, row, and several of the Gulstons have gathered ont their living room to reflect on the no school tomor » well-trod carpet of meaning of family as National Family Week approaches The designated week of Oct. 3-9, promoted by Family Service Canada volunteer organization, ention on the role of the family for its members and society FULFILS NEEDS I've always seen the a non-profit is to focus a family as essential to any kind of community says Lawrence Gulston, the bearded blue-jean clad father. who t liberal arts at a community college in Lindsay, 100 kilometres northeast of Toronto. “It's the basic building block because hes it fulfils so many personal and societal needs A crash from the kitehen beckons mother Bridge chair She ret who bolts from her to investigate. . urns carting the two-year-old Anthony Bridget her philosephy for ra youngest a piano teacher, describes ing children as “whatever keeps them healthy and happy and intellectually challenged.” But being n today's society, families are pulled in different directions There against has been a-major assault the family in the past two With the » parents and broken have decades,” says Lawrence number of sing homes, there social costs. been enormous Grace Patenall can att The 17-year-old high has a dim view of family values since est to that school student her parents separated “There's not enough emphasis on family obligations,” says the mini skirted blonde, sitting with fellow students in a seminar room at her Lindsay high school. “Today's society is more on pleasing yourself. Some families feel alrfst under siege Family life is being threatened; society is being threatened,” says Adele Hopkins, a 38-year-old home maker and mother of four. “A strong family is the only thing that will save society Adel lab chnologist in and her husband, Bryan, a Lindsay, are tryin: © cope with social pressures on their family A lot of broug Adele, dispatching her daughter Ruth of Anna, two pressure is being »y kids into the home,” says 11-year-old to change the diaper They bring home other at What other wha titudes. are allowed to do, people places they're allowed to go what TV programs they're allowed to watch In the children are home the allowed to watch only a shows, like The and sports events Hopkinses few Show family Cosby COMMUNITY Bulletin Board CHRISTIAN WOMEN’ $.c.us 30 p.m Sa CWL BAZAAR Legion Ha NICARAGUAN VISITOR vo speaks Wednesday, Octobe ee and Sate Nicaragua . Sp 5. 7 30pm. Castlegar United 4 by the PPWC. Ic Milise RSHIP DRIVE wners (SEDO). SEDO 1s seeking new sible pet ownership and on please coll, Christine nderson, 357-9324. 2 RUMMAGE SALE The Castlegar & District Hospital Auxiliary Fall Rummage Sale to be held in the Kootenay Builders building or 5.8302. 365.8 Friday rummage pickup 9, 365-6587, Blueberry orea, after 5 p.m October 21, 5-8 p.m., Saturday please phone the following TAICHI Sunday, October 2. South R Kathy 365-2540 or 365.6161 Stocan Beginners 10 a.m Steve Lones 10 sessions 3/78 School. Instruction advanced 11 a.m. $50 VEGETARIAN NUTRITION SEMINAR g class and Nutrition Seminar will be held 4 Tuesdays es recipe and information binder, tood sampling Registratior 7-9 p.m. at KJSS Home Ec Room videotaped physicians lecture, easy lessons and more. Call Anne 365-5787 or Barbaro at 365-2649. Pre-registration required SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION Business mv Coming events here. The first 10 words are $3 eting, Thursday, October 6 a1 2 p.m # Castlegar and District non profit organizations may be listed 75 and additional words are 20¢ each. Bold faced words (which must be used for headings) count as two words. There is purth consecutive insertion is half-price 2s are 5 p.m. Thu sdays paper. Notices Columbia Ave for one. two or three times) Jays paper and 5 p.m. Mondays for nould be brought to the Castlegar News ot 197 COMMUNITY Bulletin Board Special bike gives paraplegic freedom WINKLER, MAN. (CP) — Juan Neufeld threw together some nuts, bolts and ingenuity to give a young friend the gift of freedom. Paraplegic Darey Epp, 15, now rides around this small southern Manitoba town on a 12-speed, three-wheel bicycle custom-built by Neufeld. That bike has been the best thing that's happened to me for a while,” said Epp, with a wide grin. “Now I can go any place and get there faster.” Epp lost the use of his legs in a motorcycle accident more than a year ago, and Neufeld thought a bicycle might help him. “He (Neufeld) asked me in the chureh if that would be a good idea,” said Epp. “I said ‘you betcha.’ ” Neufeld, 29, was born without a right hand, yet he has constructed three bikes for his own use. Epp’s bicycle is propelled by hand. He can bolt his wheelchair onto the bike's aluminum ramp and simply take off. “30, ON SELECTED BOOK ORDERS. “Your Home Decorating Centre” SOV oie 2929 BUSINESS DIRECTORY TELEPHONE 365-5210 New insertions, copy cha accepted up to 5 p.m. Tue sand gpg yas bee hye i wr News doy, Oct. 25 vember. jsiness Directory will be Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Avenue Castlegar ¢ 365-2151 Gordon A. Read & Co. 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Chance of precipitation is near zero 3 Sections (A, B&C) Unemployment rate drops again . +» Green Par Election campaign heats up By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer The four Kootenay West-Revel- stoke candidates have been actively campaigning throughout the riding in the last week since the announce- ment of the upcoming federal elec- tion slated for Nov. 21. New Democratic Party candidate Lyle Kristiansen's latest offering in- cludes federal funding for the prop- osed aquatic centre in Castlegar. “The federal government has a clear obligation to ensure that small town and rural Canadians are not discriminated against in terms of ac- cess to basic recreational facilities and programs,” he said. “For those who say ‘we can't afford it,’ I would simply suggest that we trade off the cost of a couple of torpedoes from Mulroney's nuclear attack submar- ines.” Kristiansen is in full support of the proposed aquatic facility for Castle- gar and adjacent areas and said it's only fair for Castlegar to get federal assistance for the facility. His funding proposal is based on the premise that a “fair share of natural resource-generated wealth, which comes primarily from areas like ours, ought to be returned to this area to help provide equal opportun- ities and decent recreational and cul. tural facilities to those people and communities which produce the wealth.” While Kristiansen came out in support of the proposed aquatic cen tre, the facility was the last thing on the mind of Green Party candidate Michael Brown of Edgewood. “I joined the Green Party to get more information about the state of the environment,” he said. “In a nut shell, things do not look good, the future is in doubt and we're all guilty.” Brown is campaigning solely for the protection of the natural envir onment, the main plank in the federal Green Party platform. “Canadians must take up the challenge, we must do what ever we can to clean up our messes,” he said. “We do not need nuclear-powered submarines. We need clean air, clean water, clean Earth.” continued on poge AZ THANKFUL TURKEY . . . Joyce MacKay of Pass Creek reassures Goliath that he won't @ part of Thanksgiving dinner this year. CosNewsPhoto by Bonne Morgon HIGHWAYS MAINTENANCE Contract awarded By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer Local Higwhays maintenance has changed hands and the company awarded the local contract will base its operations out of Nelson. “We are still moving in,” Dennis Hall, president of Bel Construction, told the Castlegar News. The contract area covers Grand Forks, Creston, Nelson, New Den ver, Golden and Revelstoke. The contract is for three highways dis- tricts — the largest highways main. tenance contract in B.C. “We're the only company to re” ceive three contract areas,” said Hall. “I wanted four.” He added later: “They fit well. They're tied pretty neatly together.” Hall wouldn't disclose the sum he paid the Ministry of Highways to take over the three-year contract which begins Oct. 21. Bel Construction has purchased highways equipment and is leasing its buildings and facilities. “It is a package. We take over the existing infrastructure,” said Hall. He said he will hire all of the Highways employees who wish to work for him, which includes about 300 workers in addition to clerical staff. “We expect our response back next week,” he said. The former Ministry of Highways employees, members of the B.C. Government Employees’ Union, have several other choices. They can opt for early retirement with the provin- cial government's early retirement packages which is available until March, or they can accept “compar. able employment elsewhere” within the provincial government. Jack Campbell, contract and re- source services manager for the BCGEU, says privatization “is not our first choice” and the decision of whether to work for a private com pany, take a different government job or retire early is a tough one. In rural areas “the choices become said Campbell, indicating “comparable” fewer,” that there are fewer jobs in an area. BCGEU members have been pro vided with lists of jobs available in their geographical areas with com parable pay and that they may be trained for in a reasonable period of time, said Campbell. He doesn't know how many employees have decided to work for Bel Construction “It's an ongoing process,” he said. The contract, which covers main. tenance to highways and bridges, will be “close” to the existing job done by the Ministry of Highways. Hall says they will even follow existing plowing and sanding sched ules. “The ministry has given us a set of standards that are equal to or in some cases more rigid and we have to follow"that,” he said. By CasNews Staff ‘and News Services The West Kootenay’s unemploy ment rate continued to drop in September, good news for Conser. vative incumbent Bob Brisco as he campaigns for another term in office. Statistics Canada reported Friday that the jobless rate in the regior that includes Castlegar, Nelson and Revelstoke fell from 12.6 percent in August to 11.4 per cent last month However, the rate is still higher than in September 1987 when only 10.8 per cent of the workforce was un employed. The unemployment rate in the region that includes Trail and the Okanagan dipped to 8.1 per cent from 9.7 per cent in August. Both are ‘much lower than the 13 per-cent figure recorded in September, 1987 The figures were not adjusted to eliminate changes in the labor market due solely| to seasonal fluc- tuations, such as the usual increase in employment during the summer ‘mont The unadjusted unemployment rate for B.C. climbed slightly fram 9.7'per cent in August to 9.8 per cent last month. That compares to 10.7 per cent during September one year ago. As well, the Canadian rate fell from 7.5 per cent in August to 7.2 per cent in September. The country had a jobless rate of 8.1 per cent in September 1987 Terry Penta, a spokesman at Canada Manpower in Trail, said the decline in the number of unemployed locally is partly due to the Cominco lead smelter modernization. Penta said about 520 people are employed in the construction of the new ‘lead smelter. A strong economy is one of the main themes being emphasized by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in his campaign for the Monday, Nov. 21, federal election. For—the country asa whole, employment among women was up 20,000 during the month, including an increase of 15,000 among’ young women between 15 and 24. The level declined 12,000 among men of all ages. For. all-age groups in both sexes, there was a marginal employment decline after 21 consecutive monthly increases, Statistics Canada repor- ted. The agency said employment rose 62,000 in the community, business and personal services sector and in- creased 41,000 in the construction industry. It dropped 24,000 in the trade sector and 16,000 in transpor- tation, communications and utilities enterprises. The total number of unemployed people in the labor force dropped 21,000 to 1,048,000 during the month. Unemployment was down 23,000 among women 25 and over but vir- tually unchanged among younger women or among men in all age groups. Provincially, unemployment drop- ped 18,000 in Quebec and 6,000 in Alberta. It rose 4,000 in Manitoba. continued on page A2 A Crescent Valley resident was one of more than 15 B.C. residents to win a major prize in Wednesday's Lotto 649 draw. Doris Chernoff said she was so excited when she won the $58,970.90 that she started to ery. She said she called ber sister as soon as she saw her winning numbers on television. Lotto pays off “My sister thought I was pulling her leg,” the elated Chernoff said. The mother of three said she will share her prize with her family and pay off some bills, including car payments. She purchased her winning ticket trom the retailer at Slosas Faak. Service. Project pitches By CasNews Staff With less than two weeks to go to the referendum, the Castlegar and District Project Society presented its aquatic centre proposal to Castlegar citizens Wednesday night at the Community Complex About 25 people, including society members, who were on hand for the 45-minute meeting, viewed a video and heard a presentation from society members and the pool's de- signer Ed Sherry, of Camrec Facil: ities Consultants Ltd. Society member Pat Metge said it is important for the referendum to receive “ovewhelming support” so the society will have better leverage in convincing the provincial govern ment to pay for one-third of the “$2.2-million construction cost. “We're going to the province for $700,000," Metge told the meeting. “If we get 85 to 90 per cent in favor (on the referendum), we'll have a better chance at receiving the funds because the government will know the people of this area really need a facility.” But Metge was quick to point out Society facility that as long as the referendum passes, regardless of the percentage, the society will still have a very chance at receiving the full $700,000 from the provincial government. The referendum covers Castlegar and electoral Areas I and J. The society has already raised $58,000 in donations and pledges and hopes to raise in excess of $1 million for the construetion. The society is currently working on fund-raising projects and the lat- est plan is to sell bricks for $85 each. The bricks would be inscribed with the person's name or message and then be placed on a wall in the facility. Metge was questioned about the user fee and said none had been set. He indicated the cost would probably be-$2 to $3 for an adult who wants to use the facility. Castlegar Ald. Lawrence Chernoff, a member of the society, finished the proceedings with a short message. “I think that it's important that you vote for it,” he told the gather- ing. “The facility serves everybody.”