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Kindergarten pupils must be five years old on or before December 3), 1987. Grade One pupils must be six years old on or before Decem- ber 31, 1967. SCHOOL DAY DATE Castlegar Primary Mon April 13 (Twin Rivers, Tues.-Thurs. April 14-16 Castlegar Primary, Ootischenica) Kinnaird Elementary Mon. April 13,14 9:00 - 11:00 (Kinnaird Elem., and Valley Visto, 1:00 - 3:00 Blueberry Creek) Robson Elementary Wed. April 5 9:00 - 2:00 Tarrys Elementary Wed. April 15 “eweodland Park Tues, (Woodland Park, “Wed. Pass Creek) BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES School District No. 9 (Castlegar) April 4 April 15 Former director says patients in danger PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN. (CP) — Mentally» report on problems at the centre, d ‘4 ie D it the Centre are being given mind-altering drugs, some with prem harmful side éffects, to keep them docile, the centre's former medical director charges in a letter to an Opposition member of the Manitoba legislature. Dr. Fischel Coodin, who left the Portage la Prairie institution in January, said hundreds of: residents are being given the drugs, ‘The drugs should only be prescribed for the mentally ill, not those who are merely retarded and the practice is ethically wrong and a gross abuse, Coodin said. He also said some of the drugs can cause eataracts and tardive dyskinesia, a medicla term for a ¢ondition commonly described as the shakes, which can be a lifelone affliction and, in. severe cases, can lead to death. Coodin said he is unaware of any deaths from the dition at the provinei: run centre, "s main for the ly . However, Coodin said he was struck by a high ide of eye pi among i after he took over as medical director in April 1984. CALLS IT ABUSE “These are drugs for psychiatric pruposes and they are being used for behavioral problems with the residents there,” he said. “It's an abuse of drugs that are known to have side effects. P “I think if we're really going to cut down significantly on the use of these drugs we will probably need more staff.” Ed Connery, Conservative member of the legislature from Portage, has repeatedly questioned the New Democratic government about the way the centre is run: Coodin’s revelations, contained in a letter to Connery said he revebled Friday, are one more reason why the government should release a confidential Ombudsman's half from pneumonia, ‘Increased Connery said. He also said there were 19 deaths at the centre last deaths from pneumonia, drug abuse, overcrowding . . . the whole thing starts to smell a little,” Connery said. Connery plans to ask for the resignation of Minister Muriel Smith. Community Services Coodin said he became concerned about overuse of psychoactive drugs and had surveys carried out in 1985 and one year later. He said although he tried to discourage the centre's four doctors from prescribing so many drugs, there was virtually no change during the one year period. the 698 The August 1986 survey found 311, or 45 per cent of were getting h drugs on a regular basis and 398, or 57 per cent, were getting such drugs at least part of the time. The minister, wasn't available for comment but her deputy minister, Michael Mendelson, said Smith asked the centre’s management some time ago to address the use of drugs to sedate residents. However, Mendelson said doctors at the centre obviously differed over the proper use of drugs and Coodin's isn't the only professional opinion about the situation. John Ross, executive director of rural operations for the department of community services, said progress is being made. About 41 per cent of the centre's residents are now given regular doses of psychoactive drugs, compared with the 45 per cent last summer, Ross said. Neil Upham, the centre's chief executive officers, said the rise in deaths referred to by Connery is a result of the aging population. Ages at the centre range from 12 to 92, with only about a dozen younger than 18, he said. MORE CASES to has become the AIDS capital of Canada, treated 217 AIDS patients — all of them male — since the fatal disease was first diag. nosed in Cagfida in 1982. of acquired immune diefici- ency syndrome or its effects. most one.quarter of the 942 AIDS cases and 480 deaths reported in Canada in the how to avoid catching the past five years, up until sexual disease, transmitted March 9. (There have been 14 primarily through semen and new cases since then, with Toronto AIDS capital TORONTO (CP) — Toron- seven more deaths, federal health authorities report.) The city had twice as many AIDS cases as the total re- ported in seven of the 10 provinces. Only Quebec ex- ceeds Toronto's total, ac- counting for 274 cases. Of that total, 113 have died The Toronto Board of Health released the grim statistics as city health offi cials wrestled with the best way to educate the public, especially the young, about Doctors in the city have The figures represent al- blood. Health officials. want to avoid panicking people while advocating “safe sex” by using condoms or through monogamous relationships. Fully 99 per cent of Tor- onto’s victims (215 of the 217 infected people) were homo- sexual or bisexual — the highest risk groups identified by health authorities. Other high-risk groups in- clude those of Haitian origin; those receiving tainted blood; and heterosexuals who engage in sex with homo- sexual or bisexual partners. The city’s other two AIDS At Kootenay Savings Credit Union, you can receive free advice on your RRSP contribution program Our RRSP Planner service analyses your financial situation; pointing out personal tax planning oppor victims claimed no associa- tion with any of the high- risk categories. Their source for the disease is a mystery. Toronto's 217 cases repre- sent 62 per cent of the 349 cases reported in Ontario as of March 9. A total of 182 in the province have died. On the same date, the province of Quebec reported 274 cases, of which about 80 per cent, or 205- cases, were in Montreal. There were 208 cases in British Columbia, 50 in Al berta, 17 in Manitoba, 14 in Nova Scotia, 12 in Saskat- chewan, six in New Bruns- wick, and one in Newfound- land. The only. province with out a reported case of AIDS is Prince Edward Island. There are no AIDS cases reported in the Yukon or Northwest Territories. While no female cases have been reported in Toronto, there have been four in Ontario and 52 across Can ada Canada has the third high est rate of AIDS cases per 1-million population, EDMONTON (CP) = A University of Alberta researcher wants to show that the healing powers of Chinese herbal medicines aren't simply in the heads of people who use them. Herbal medicine is “a credible science that lacks acceptability in the western world,” says Peter Pang, chairman of the physiology department at the University of Alberta. “Hundreds of thousands of people are treated (with herbal remedies) in hospitals in China every day,” Pang -said in an interview. Pang, a native of Hong Kong who keeps a bottle of herbal tablets in his office to fight flu and colds, stresses that herbal remedies are no longer simply traditional folk medicine, and he is seeking scientific explanations for why they work as they have for thousands of years in China, NATURE UNKNOWN “In most cases, the exact chemical nature of the active substance is obscure and the mechanism of action is largely unknown.” Acquainted with both Chinese traditional medicine and western high-technology research, Pang is bringing the two together in a joint Canadian-Chinese research a man experiencing flushed cheeks and dizziness would drink a cup of herb tea, confident in its restorative abilities. jis déscendant faces with the ie symptoms now might turn to the same tea or visit his physician who, diagnosing hypertension, might prescribe one of the herbs in the tea to be taken as a pill or by injection, “The process now is to take these successful herbs and subject them to thorough scientific analysis to find what they do and how they do it.” RELAX MUSCLES Pang’s research has focused on the effects of drugs on Smooth muscles such as those in the heart and blood vessels. Relaxing these miuscles can ease high blood pressure, a culprit in strokes and heart problems. After receiving his PhD from Yale University in 1970, Pang worked at Texas Tech University, where he set up a colloborative program with Jinan University in Canton, China. When Pang moved to Edmonton in January 1986, he brought the program with him. Over the next five years, Jinan University will send herbs and experts in herbal médicine to the University of Alberta, where the substances will be analysed. EXPAND SOURCES Pang has also completed an agreement with Peking Union Medical College to collaborate on herbal medicine and other research. As well, Pang and his University of Alberta colleagues have begun working with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Checking out herbal medicines for new drugs is more logical than the usual western approach, which may take 10 years and $100 million to develop a synthetic drag with unwanted side-effects, Pang said. Herban medicines are effective and safe, he said. “Anything with serious side-effects was screened out long ago.” Tubes keep arteries open BOSTON (AP) — In the said Dr. David Faxon of Bos- first experimental use on ton University Medical sian k | Faeied a i Must sha mt iyy HIGH WIRING... Elettrician Terry Brattebo | works on the wiring of a new building on 13th Avenue in Castlegar, The building will house a fruss | manufacturing plant. CasNews Photo by Mike Kolesniko people, doctors have found that they can keep clogged heart arteries open by plac- ing tiny mesh tubes inside them. “This is very exciting,” School. But he cautioned that more work is needed to look for potentially lethal side ef- fects, especially blood clots. The experimental approach, tested in Switzer- tunities. And it doesn’t cost a cent A full range of Kootenay Savings RRSP options includes Variable Rate RRSP, Term Deposits and Equity prégrams. 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The research- ers say the technique may be a useful addition to a common procedure called balloon an- gioplasty. When the arteries that feed the heart become clog- ged, people often suffer heart pain known as angina. Doc- gone? tors can festore the flow of ge" blood by rerouting it sur- gically with coronary bypass operations, or they can insert a catheter into the heart and force open the narrow artery with a balloon. Although balloon angio- plasty is cheaper and less de- bilitating than bypass sur- gery, it doesn't work as well. The new procedure is an attempt to prevent this from happening or correct it when it does. The doctors used the tiny mesh tubes on 19 patients whose heart arteries had closed up after angioplasty. During followup periods ranging from nine weeks to nine months, none of the arteries closed again. Econo Spots You can save up to 80% on the cost of this ad! 365-5210 TAXMAN COLLAR WEALTHY WASHINGTON (AP) — High-income earners in the United States are finding it more difficult to escape the federal income tax, but 325 well-heeled citizens still managed to put together enough big deductions to pay nothing, the Treasury Department says. Another 3,605 couples and. individuals with incomes above $200,000 US paid a tax of less than 10 per cent — less than that paid by a typical four-member family with two workers earning a total of $40,000 a year. But the percentage of earners of more than $200,000 paying no tax on 1985 returns dropped to the second-lowest level since Congress began requiring the annual reports in 1976. About one of every 1,000 top earners got off scot-free on returns filed in 1985, less than half the figure of a year earlier, when 579 paid no tax. The Treasury offered no explanation for the decline, saying it had not had time to analyse the figures. A former congressional analyst, Joseph Minarik of the Urban Institute, suggested that several tax changes that took effect in 1984 are responsible. He mentioned a -less-advantageous depreciation deduction for buildings, several accounting changes and a crackdown on tax-shelter arrangements that the Internal Revenue Service defines as abusive. Analysts say there is even less chance for the wealthy to escape taxes under the tax overhaul enacted last year. It includes a major revision of the “minimum tax” rules aimed at ensuring that high-income earners and profitable corporations pay some tax, regardless of how many legitimate deductions they have. EARNED IN 1984 The latest figures reflect income earned in 1984 and filed on returns in 1985. The number of upper-income people who paid no tax or less than that paid by more-typical wage-earners dropped slightly, to 3,930, or about 13 of every 1,000 people at that income level. A year earlier, 4,134 of the 249,319 with incomes of more than $200,000 (about 17 in 1,000) paid less than 10 ‘per cent of their earnings in federal income tax A two-earner family of four with $40,000 income and average deductions paid 12 per cent to the government on returns filed in 1985, as did a typical single person earning $30,000. A one-earner, four-member family with $20,000 income paid about eight per cent. Most wealthy people pay a substantial tax, the report shows. Sixty-four per cent of the 310,042 people with incomes of more than $200,000 paid between 20 cents and 50 cents on each dollar to the government. Treasury said 566 paid more than 50 cents on the dollar; 11 of them paid a tax of over 80 per cent. Thirty-seven per cent on at least half their income. That was up from 34 per cent of 249,319 the previous year. Interest paid was the biggest tax-saving device for most of the 325 upper-income non-taxpayers. Next in line was the foreign tax credit, which eliminates $1 of US. tax liability for every $1 paid to a foreign country. The third-most-popular was the 10-per-cent credit for investment in business equipment, which was repealed last year. SAN FRANCISCO — Utili- Corp United Inc. projects an increase in net income of 40 per cent for the first quarter of 1987 over the year-ago period. President and chief execu- tive officer Richard C. Green Jr., stated that net income for the three months ending March 91 will be approxi- year-ago net income of $8.5. million. Revenues are expected to be about $190 million for the current quarter as compared to $203 million for the first quarter last year, primarily due to lower consumption in the company’s service area as a result of milder than usual weather. Green said primary earn- z CALVARY BAPTIST Past Fireside Motel Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Evening Service 6:30 p.m. TUES. 6:00 P.M. AWANA — Children’s Program Kindergarten to Grade 8 WEDNESDAY NIGHT Study & Prayer 8 p.m Church 365-3430 or 365-5052 FREE CHURCH EVANGELICAL 914 Columbia Ave. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Family Worship Service a.m. Bible Study & Prayer Tuesday 7:00 p.m. Ladies’ Bible Study Thursday, 9:30 a.m. Youth Ministries Phone 365-3269 or 365-2605 FELLOWSHIP (A.C.0.P.) FULL GOSPEL ings per common share will be about 30 per cent higher than in the year-ago, period. Earnings per common share for the first quarter 1987 are estimatéd at approximately $1.12 per share versus $.87 per share in 1986. This figure still reflects some dilution due to a com- mon stock offering of one million shares in mid-1986. Weighted. average shares outstanding for the first quarter 1987 will be 9.6 million compared to 8.5 mill- ion a year earlier. The first quarter 1987 re- sults reflect the one-month contribution of West Virginia Power, which became a di sion on March 1, 1987, and the three-month contribution of Northern Minnesota Util- UtiliCorp eyes profit ities, which became a division in December, 1986. Green-said the major fac- tor behind revenue perfor- mance for UtiliCorp was the mild weather experienced throughout the Midwest. “In the 1986 quarter, win- ter weather was warmer than normal,” he said, “and it is even more so in this quar: ter.” Positive factors affecting | performance centied on Utili- Corp's two largest operating divisions, The Peoples Nat- ural Gas division will benefit from reduced operating and i and, THURSDAY Only April 9th nearly $10 million in rate increases granted in 1966 and early 1987 in Iowa, Minne- sota, Kansas and Colorado. a ANGLICAN CHURCH 1401 Columbia Avenue Sunday Services 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m Sunday School 10 a.m. Rev. Charles Balfour 365-2271 Parish Purpose: “To know Christ and make Him known" LivingWaters Faith Fellowship a 4km. W. of Castlegar Hwy. 3 towards Grand Forks PASTOR: Stuart Lourie Ph. 365-3278 Sunday School — 9:45 a.m Sunday Morning Worship 11.00 Prayer & Bible Study Wednesday, 7:30 p.m Satellite Video Seminars Accredited Home Bible Study Courses A Nen-Denominational Family Church, Preaching the Word of Faith GRACE PRESBYTERIAN 2605 Columbia Ave Rev. J. 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FRIENOLY ATMOSPHERE Pastor: Ken Smith Assistant: Morley Soltys "e > s ST. PETER LUTHERAN 713-4th Street Office 365-3664 9a.m Worship Service Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Lenten Vespers on Wednesday evenings 7:30 p.m. Rev. G.T. Backus 365-3085 Ist Sunday, 2nd, 3rd an Sundays, 10#m. No service 5th Sunday CHURCH OF GOD imported Canada No. | green seedless grapes coupon to mail - in coupon is offer does not include kg.$1.87 w. gov't inspected * fresh or frozen whole frying chicken kg.2-18 0. © all purpose flour 10 kg. bag Better Buy © parchmant ny margarine | 454g print 2404 Cotumbia Avenue Church School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship la.m Pastor Ira Johnson Phone 365-6762 UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA 2264-6th Ave. 1% Blocks South of vegetable juice IL tetra Northern Country * unsweetened © frozen con. orange juice 341 mi tin B Cc ity Complex 10 a.m. — Worship and Sunday School Mid-Week Activities for all ages. Phone for information Rev. Ted Bristow 365-8337 or 365-7814 SEVENTH-DAY -ADVENTIST CHURCH 1471 Columbia Ave., Trail WW7 Regular Saturday Services Pastor Cliff Drieberg 365-2649 Foremost © all flavours ice cream 2L carton SuperVatu * hot dog or hamburger buns doz. bog @ Prices effective up to and including Sun., April 12, 1987 PLAZA SUPER-VALU OPEN SUNDAYS 11 A.M. -'5 P.M.