July 15, 1987

Run self-government

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
They carry yellow legal pads,
hold staff meetings and talk
about urban regeneration
and economic growth, but at
the end of the day they stand
in line for free meals from the
Salvation Army.

Self-government by the
homeless is in action amid the
dust and rotks of a tem-

tent camp pitched by
the city of Los Angeles on a
vacant lot in the bleak down-
town warehouse district

The camp, run by the Sal-
vation Army, opened hastily
June 15 on a five-hectare bus
yard after the Police De-
partment cleared Skid Row
streets where clusters of
sidewalk shanties formed.
Police said crime was up and

i were i

ulation swelled to 600 and
formed into a number of mini-
communities with leaders
and staffs,

One group is Justiceville,
political activists who often
invade City Council meet-
ings. Another is the United

Estimates of the homeless
in Los Angeles range from
1,000 to 30,000.

Only a few dozen people
showed up on opening day,
but within weeks, the pop

of forest

3. Harvesting of

TENDERS ARE INVITED
FOR THE FOLLOWING
FOREST OPERATIONS:

1. Construction of approximately 3 km.
2. 80 ha of White Pine salvage harvest

Hemlock, White Pine, Fir and Larch.

13 ha of mixed

Contact the purchasing department at
Selkirk College, 365-7292 for further
details and contract specifications.

Closing Date: July 23, 1987

SEALED TENDERS

Will be received by Creston District Credit Union tor a
stipulated sum contract including all trades for the following
project:

CRESTON & DISTRICT CREDIT UNION
HEAD OFFICE & BRANCH BUILDING

The project consists of a new one storey and basement wood
framed office building.

Plans and specifications, including forms of tender and in
structions to bidders will be available from Toby Russell
Buckwell and Partners Architects: 1650 Alberni Street, Van:
B.C. V6G 1B1 and Creston & District Credit Union,

Vith Avenue, North, Creston, B.C. VOB 1GO from

T July 14, 1987. Deposit required: $100.00, General
Contractors only

Tenders including a bid bond and surety consent in arhount of
thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) must be deposited at
the Creston & District Credit Union Ottice or the Otfice of the
Architect on or betore closing time of 4:00 p.m. (P.D.T.)
Tuesday, August 4th, 1987

Documents may be viewed at
The BCCA Vancouver & Lower Mainland Plan Room

The BCCA Penticton, B.C. Plan Room
The BCCA Kelowna, B.C. Plan Room

The Other Plan Room, Burnaby, B.C

hs League, which is
trying to imiprove conditions
at the site,

The Los Angeles Union of
the Homeless Inc., also
known as Love Camp, is a
spiritual group that believes
a higher power will find them
jobs and homes. They publish
their own newsletter.

Although the groups claim
different philosophies, they
have the same goal: to be in-
dependent and help their
people. ‘

“We're pioneering new
concepts in how to deal with
the homeless. We're working
toward a total, planned econ.
omic community that
sustains people,” said Tracy
Lamarr, a Justiceville mem:
ber who carries an appoint
ment book.

“We're in vanguard.”

“We know what to do with
our people,” “said. Darrell
Heard, 33, president of the
United Homeless League.

UR PEOPLE’

“Our people are cleaning
the toilets now. We're put-
ting our people to work. Isn't
that what organizations do?”

Heard, disabled by curva-
ture of the spine, has been on
the streets for 1" years. He
carries a legal pad filled with
a list of demands he intends
to present to the mayor's
office, such as hot breakfasts
for children, an on-site medi-
cal facility and more closed
tents.

Justiceville has the best
accommodation and its mem-
bers have designed what
they call the ideal tent for the
homeless.

“Come take a look at our
geodesic-dome _ prototype,”
said Justiceville member
Mike Neely.

“We feel this is a lot safer
and better than the unsan-
itary, roach-infested motels
that the county puts us into.

Robbers pose
as businessmen

LONDON (AP) — Armed
robbers, posing as business-
men, bluffed their way into a
high-security safe deposit
vault in London and stole
cash, jewels and other valu
ables worth up to 20 million
pounds ($42.4 million Cdn),
news reports said today.

The robbery at the
Knightsbridge Safe Deposit
Centre opposite Harrods de-
partment store in London's
exclusive Knightsbridge dis.
trict occurred Sunday but
was only disclosed by police
Monday night.

When it opened in 1983,
the safe deposit centre
claimed to be the most secure
in the world.

A Scotland Yard spokes.
man, who in accordance with
British practice spoke on

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condition of anonymity, said
the value of the robbery
“certainly runs into several
million and could be up to 10
million pounds ($21.2 million
Cdn).

However, the BBC, The
Times and other news organ-
izations said the robbers’
haul could be worth up to 20
million pounds.

The exact amount may
never be known because
people who rent deposit
boxes to dot have to disclose
what they contain.

Scotland Yard said in a
statement that two men
wearing business suits and
carrying briefcases were ad-
mitted into the centre fol-
lowing a telephone call say-
ing they wanted to rent a de-
posit box.

Financial faux pas

By MICHAEL BERNARD
Press

VANCOUVER — Mai Mackenzie remembers the
time she attended a wedding in the jungles of

the ebnsider it improp
to discuss business deals at dinner, but such entertaining
is a subtle aspect of the process of doing business. North

“I picked up my plate with my left hand,” the

embarrassed Mackenzie recalled in an interview.
“Suddenly there was a hush.
“Everyone just looked at me, their eyes saucer-
wide.”
Fortunately, another guest discreetly advised her to
transfer the plate to her right hand, abruptly ending her
violation of the Moslem tradition that considers using the
left hand to eat as unclean and sacriligious.

A shoudl on safe topics such as talk
about family, vacations or general chit-chat.
RECEIVED WARMLY

Canadians are warmly received in the Far East,
possibly because their more reserved manners are less
granting than the back-slapping style associated with
Americans, Mackenzie said. Nevertheless, they must
unlearn some North American habits and attitudes in

duly 15, 1

Unlike most, Mackenzie doesn't regret that
moment. To her, it was another useful lesson in local
customs.

The Edinburgh native, with only a hint of a Scottish
accent left, has turned such faux pas into financial
success. For $450, business executives attending her
West Vancouver Finishing School learn in 16 sessions
how to avoid committing costly social errors while
dealilng in the Far East.

OPENS SCHOOL

Mackenzie, a former airline attendant and a mother
of two, opened the school last October in a suite of an
elegant brick office building in the wealthy suburb of
West Vancouver. She expected to cater mainly to parents
wanting their teenagers to learn some manners before
joining the business world.

Those students still account for the majority
attending her school, but demand is steadily growing for
courses that teach the etiquette of the Far East.

Among her clients are Spar Industries, a North
Vancouver export firm, and Neptune Terminals, a
transport company. Also on her list of past students are
travellers interested in learning as much as they can
about local customs before embarking on their trips.

Mackenzie has drawn on many sources for course
material, but most of it comes from her years working for
a British international airline.

“Etiquette is behaving as comfortably as you can in
any social situation,” she says. “People are uncomfortable
when they don't know the right thing to do.”

But comfort is not the main reason people take the
course.

BUSINESS KEY

“The bottom line from this school's point of view is
business,” Mackenzie says. “This isn’t just to look good
and to lift your teacup in the right way. This is to gain
contacts and clients.”

Those who ignore etiquette do so at risk, as one
Australian businessman learned the hard way.

“This Australian was in Thailand to bid on a major
project,” Mackenzie said. “He was invited home by some
Thai people. When leaving the house, he patted one of the
family’s children on the head.”

It was an error he would long regret.

“The Thais were Buddhists and they consider
touching the head a real violation because the head is the
temple of the mind.”

Not only did the Australian fail to drum up any
business, he also confirmed a Thai belief that harm can
befall those who violate custom. He left the country on a
stretcher after contracting polio.

A person's dress can also be a source of offence,
Mackenzie said. For instance, women executives
travelling in Indonesia must never wear shorts and
should always ensure they are well covered.

TOO TIMID

Being bold is one mistake, but being too timid can be
just as costly.

“One businessman spent three weeks in Hong Kong
waiting for what he thought might be an appropriate
moment to discuss business with a Chinese friend he had
met in the navy. He kept putting it off and putting it off,
fearing he might offend his friend, until the last day when
he simply left some papers with the friend asking if he
would look over the proposal.”

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Public
Hearing

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to afford all persons who believe that their interest in

property is atfected by the following amendments to Zoning

Bylaw 160 and/or Official Community Plan Designation

Bylaw 299 an opportunity to be heard or to present written
ing matters in these amen:

dments

BYLAW 488

The intent of Bylaw 488 is to amend City of Castlegar Zoning
Bylaw 160 to change the zoning designation of Lots 3, 4 and
5, Plan 2585, District Lot 181, Kootenay District (as shown
below from ‘Pl — Schools, Institutional and Public’ to ‘C2
Comprehensive Commercial

BYLAW 489

The intent of Bylaw 489 is to amend City of Castlegar Official
Community Plan Designation Bylaw 299 to change the land
use designation of Lots 3, 4 and 5, Plan 2585, District Lot 181,
Kootenay District (as shown below) from ‘SF—Single Family
to 'SER—Service Commercial

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7227.

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AGASSIZ (CP) — Small and fine-boned, almost
elf-like, the doesn't look like a convicted
murderer, Perhaps that's why he's in protective custody.

“I feel it's e&sier,on my head space,” says the
bearded man, “It's easier to be myself.”

It's one of the paradoxes of life in a place like Kent
Institution that for some, protective custody is a-kind of

* freedom.

Modern Kent opened eight years ago as the region's
federal maximum security prison, replacing the Victorian
era B.C. Penitentiary. Kent holds about 240 prisoners and
a full third of them inhabit the separate, strange little
world of protective custody — PC, as it’s known by
guards and prisoners alike.

The federal system has prisons at Prince Albert,
Sask., and Kingston, Ont., geared exclusively to
protective custody. But at Kent, about two hours drive
east of Vancouver, PC is a prison within a prison.

CELLS NARROW

For the 96 prisoners in PC, the world is a few metres
of gloomy corridor, narrow cells and a small separate
exercise yard. They get meals on trays instead of going to
the dining hall. Access to education courses is limited,
although for some there's work in the laundry or menial
maintenance jobs in the unit.

Right now, most of those in PC are double-bunked —
sleeping two to a cell — but efforts are under way to
transfer some prisoners and give most their own cell.

The PC section has grown, says unit manager Ken
Hayden, perhaps because sex offenders are receiving
longer federal jail terms. Sex offenders are usually not
welcome in Kent's general prisoner population and many

aren’t immediately eligible to go to lower security
institutions.

Alsoin PC are those who haven't paid prison drug or
gambling debts, risking more than the loss of their credit
rating. Then there are young or vulnerable prisoners and
men who simply don't have what Hayden calls the “social
skills” to cope with prison life.

CAN'T SURVIVE

A’ segregation unit handles prisoners who can't
survive even in protective custody. Those cells are
identical, says Hayden.

“It's just that they're all stainless steel and they're
supposed to be suicide-proof,” he says. Those in
segregation spend all but an hour a day inside their cells.

The little killer who wants to be himself, anonymous
because his case is under appeal, ambles through the
corridors like he owns the place, And in a way he does. He
runs the PC canteen and has acquired a computer to keep
track of inventory. He's also on the committee to work
with prison staff.

He says he asked for protective custody because he'd
rather do his time on his own terms.

“I keep myself extremely busy,” he says. “I don't
miss a bloody thing.”

He's an exception. Boredom crashes in on most
prisoners as they face the prospect of serving some or all
of their sentence in a cramped, little world with all the
charm of a basement utility room.

The officers in the PC unit — combination guards and
social workers — lounge in their dimly lit office as
prisoners casually drop in. The door is left open. In

Protective custody necessary

prison, a prisoner talking to staff behind a closed door
could be “ratting.”
GROW DEPENDENT

For prisoners who request protective custody, facing
the fact they can’t survive in the general prison
population is a form of surrender, says one burly officer.
The toughest prisoners become compliant and dependent.

In some ways that has turned the unwritten prison
code upside-down. Prisoners who normally wouldn't be
caught dead fraternizing with guards hover around the
office to chat.

The usual convict hierarchy is missing, too, says
Mike Stoian, the prison psychologist responsible for the
unit. There's a truce between the sex offenders and other
prisoners, made necessary by the close quarters.

“I'm told by inmates there's the usual taunting and
teasing but . . . nobody wants to shit in their own nest,”
says Stoian.

“Some of the prisoners don’t belong in PC,” says
Hayden.

“They're not a threat to anyone, including
themselves. But they're social misfits and there's
nowhere else to put them.”

Unit officers have been pushing for these men to
have more access to Kent's industrial shops, more classes
and a chance to use the prison’s gym and main yard.

“You can't have people sitting around vegetating for
years on end,” says Hayden. “A lot of these guys are
doing very big time. Unless we get some relief from this,
we're going to end up with problems.

“It's just a matter of time,” he adds. “We certainly
don't do any good by just warehousing.”

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Leave wieners alone

TORONTO (CP) — From a
nutritional standpoint, the
best wiener for you may be
the one you leave in the
supermarket.

After testing 13 brands,
researchers with the Con-
sumers Association of Can-
ada found that hot dogs are
far from being a nutrionist’s
dream.

They are high in fat and
sodium_and low in protein,
the researchers report in the
July issue of Canadian Con-
sumer.

And “some contain addi-
tives you'd probably be be-
tter off without.”

In 1986, Canadians ate an
average of 48 wieners each.

A lot of their popularity is
due to their price: At 10 to 25
cents each, they're a cheap
snack or lunch.

Wieners are made from
beef, pork, veal, mutton,
chicken or turkey, alone or in
combination.

“Just what the mix is de-
pends entirely on the manu:
facturer,” the researchers
say. “Beef and pork are pop-
ular ingredi Wieners

phragm as well as tripe, the
stomach lining.”

INGREDIENTS EDIBLE

You may not find these in-
gredients too appetizing, but
they're perfectly edible and
are good sources of animal
protein. Tongue and heart as
well as blood pudding are
delicacies in many parts of
Europe and elsewhere.

But if the meat is mechan-
ically deboned, the wieners
probably contain some less
savory bits.

“In separating meat from
bones, machines are not quite
as discriminating as people,”
the researchers explain.
“That means bone chips, ten-
dons, nerves, blood vessels,
snippets of fat and skin end
up in the mix — and in your
hot dog.”

The researchers suggest
you look for the meat inspec-
tion legend that guarantees
the product conforms to fed-
eral health regulations.

Even with packaging laws,
it’s still hard to know exactly
what you're buying.

“Packaging laws force

fi 's to list most

also contain organ meats like
the tongue, heart and dia-

ingredients in descending or-
der by weight, but there are

some loopholes,” the resear-
chers say.

“Of the brands we tested,
five listed one kind of meat
only: Burns All-Beef, No-
Name Chicken, Maple Leaf
All-Beef, Schneiders All-Beef
and Shopsy's All-Beef.”

MEANS SCRAPS

However, they add, the
word “beef” on the Schne-
iders and Shopsy’s mean they

Nasty swan makes
beach-life tough

WEST VANCOUVER
(CP) — A wildlife group
wants to rid Ambleside Park
of a nasty swan that has
young children — and Canada
geese — looking over their
shoulders.

But West Vancouver parks

director Frank Kurucz is
erying fowl.

‘The swan is being blamed
for killing at least three
geese and several goslings in
the past month. It also re-
cently attacked a three-year-
old boy.

“It should be put down,”
says Rose McGavin, spokes-
man for the Wildlife Rescue
Association.

Kurucz said swans, in the
park for two years, are doing
a fine job of keeping down
the Canada geese population.

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contain scraps and tr
of muscle meat. The Maple
Leaf als include mechanically
separated beef and the Burns
contained beef and mechan
ically separated beef as well
as beef by-products.

The researchers found the
wieners tested ranged from
a low of 15 per cent fat in
Schneiders Lifestyle to 27
per cent in Schneiders Reg-
ular. Seven of the wieners
had more than twice as much
fat as protein: Burns Reg-
ular, Hygrade Regular, No-
Name Chicken, Maple Leaf
Regular, Schneiders All-Beef
and Regular and Shopsy's
All-Beef.

The researchers suggest
choosing a brand with a high
protein-to-fat ratio and with
the least sodium.

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is conducting a radon gas survey in the
Castlegar area.

Radon is a natural odorless, colorless
radioactive gas. It is generated in the
soil and may seep into houses. Radon
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tion of the radiation all individuals are
exposed to during their lifetime. This
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The survey involves:

1. placing a small detector badge in
the home for 6 months
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If you are interested in participating in
this survey, please fill out the coupon
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