Castlegar News June 25, 1986 CHILDREN RECALL DISAST By ALISON SMALE The Associated Press ARTEK PIONEER CAMP, USSR — Chernoby!'s children remember. Natasha Z1 bkina, nine, remembers “a kind of smoke” in the air and that the town “smelled of burning.” Misha Telyatnikov, 10, remembers his mother! rousing him and his brother, Oleg, 12, at 3:30 a.m. and| — they were going to Kiev. “She didn't tell us why. It was Saturday, April 26, the night of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The children were in their homes‘in Pripyat, the city for the Chernoby! nuclear plant workers three kilometres from the No. 4 reactor that blew up and burst into flames at 1:23 a.m., nearly two hours before the Telyatnikov boys were awakened. Their father, Leonid, was a fireman at the plant and is now in a Moscow hospital for treatment of radiation exposure. The two boys are here now at this summer camp on the Black Sea, among the 110 children who lived at Pripyat, for rest and medical supervision. Not all the children left as soon as Misha and Oleg. ‘The official order to evacuate Pripyat was given 36 hours later and convoys of buses took out the thousands of residents. Other children in the camp said they went off to school as usual in the morning; children go to school on Saturdays in the Soviet Union. They remember trucks watering down the streets. WARNED AT SCHOOL At school, they said, they listened to teachers instruct them on steps to take against radiation: stay indoors when you get home, tape up the windows, close y doors, wash shoes, change clothes and warn your | parents. Olya Demidova, 14, said that at school children were given tablets and told to take them. Dima Sokolov, also 14, said lessons previously given about civil defence were taught over again. “The teacher told us everything to do after school,” she said. “The main thing was that there should be no ie” Z Misha Telyatnikov remembers, “I asked mama why they didn't evacuate people. 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YS TLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1986 BEST OF THE BAND... school band teacher Loren Culley (left) hand Dave Popotf the Irene Gallo Award to the outstanding Stanley Humphries secondary actly band student during awards day Friday at the CostewsPnote by Sino: Bren NO HOLIDAY FOR SOCRED CANDIDATES This Canada Day weekend is no holiday for the 12 candidates in the race to replace Bill Bennett as premier and leader of the Social Credit party. Most of the candidates were in the West Kootenay wooing potential delegates to the leadership convention July 28-30 in Whistler. Aitorney-General Brian Smith, considered one of t he frontrunners along with Provincial Secretary Grace McCarthy and newcomer Bud Smith, was in Castlegar Saturday to speak to potential delegates and the executive of the Ressland-Trail Social Credit party Smith met for an hour over a luncheon behind closed doors with the potential delegates before heading to Creston and the annual Nelson-Creston Social Credit party meeting. He just missed meeting Stephen Rogers, who was in Trail Friday night, also speaking to potential delegates. Rogers, too, then left for the Nelson-Creston meeting on Saturday. They were joined at the meeting by Bud Smith, McCarthy, and a handful of other candidates But the candidates aren't the only ones working hard over the holiday weekend. Party workers are also moving into high gear. The 10-day process of ‘selecting approximately 1,300 delegates to the leadership convention starts this weekend with six meetings Monday and two on Tuesday. To be eligible to be a delegate, membership must have been purchased by May 28. However, new members who signed before 5 p.m. Friday are eligible to vote for delegates and will also be counted in the riding’s official count of members. Friday was also a deadline for memberships. But anyone joining after May 28 is only eligible to vote for a delegate and not become one. They also are included in the count of each riding’s members. Under the party's rules each of the 50 ridings is allowed 25 delegates and then one delegate for every 100 members over 1,000 as well as five alternates. So, party workers must check each new membership bought up until 5 p.m. Friday before constituencies are notified about how many delegates they are to select. GRACE McCARTHY in Creston BRIAN SMITH in Castlegar Central Fraser Valley, for example, has about 3,000 members. So it is entitled to 25 delegates plus as many as 20 mere. Unlike in the federal Liberal party. special category for automatic delegates representatives or party officials. GIVEN POSITIONS Instead, Socred members of the legislature automatically given one of the 25 delegate positions. So in Central Fraser Valley, 44 delegates would be chosen with Secred MLA and leadership contender, Bill Ritchie taking the other spot. Riding president Menno Froese said there is so much interest in the delegate selection that he is worried the hall he rented won't be big enough. It seats 1,900 Froese is also concerned that counting the secret ballots may be a very long process. “The counting is going to be really scary.” “We were prepared to use a scanner to speed up the count, but that’s not the way head office wants it done.” Once nominations — both in writing and from the floor — are completed, a list of all the names of aspiring delegates will be printed. From that list, voters in Central Fraser Valley will have to choose as many as 44 names. Froese said the counting will be slowed further because counters must ensure that no more than the set number of delegates have been voted for on each ballot and that there are no duplications. 1S WORRIED Dick Vopni, president of the 1,500-:member West vi Howe Sound y, is so concerned about a large turnout at its Wednesday meeting that he continued on poge A? there is no elected are he said SELKIRK COLLEGE Instructors OK strike mandate By comnts Y. -acmmppad Vocational yet. = at Selkirk College's Rosemont campus have voted 100 per cent in favor of strike action if recommended by their bargaining committee. The vote was taken Thursday night with between 16 and 18 members of Local 57 of the B.C. Government Employees Union voting in favor of strike action. The instructors’ dispute centres around the college's proposal to eliminate the 13th step from the salary seale and withhold the annual wage ement. Fs fre ‘union says in a prepared state ment it will continue to negotiate on a “no-coneessions” mandate. Local 57 spokesman Dan Bradford said in an interview that no further meetings have been scheduled. “Now that we have a strike mandate, I hope we will be able to return to the bargaining table,” he said. Local 57 has between 50 and 80 members throughout the year, but Bradford said that the reason for the low attendance for the strike vote was because so many members were out of town. But he said every department was represented at the meeting. The college and the urtion have been hoiding talks since June 1985. The last collective agreement expired Sept. 50, 1985. At the same time he described the two sides as being “so close.” ry doesn’t think the two sides are close to an agreement. 35 Oe) yee he Plt tai, he ab said a mediator was brought into the talks in February, but booked out of the talks before another medi- ator, Jock Waterston, was brought in. The two sides have met with Water- ston on three oecasions but again, nothing has been resolved. Jackson said Watersten has also been asked to book out of the talks but seems “very hesitant” to do so. Meanwhile, Bradford said the union “That money should be spent on equipment required for courses,” he id. Jackson said the BCGEU has been offered the same agreement as the Selkirk College Faculty Association, which recently signed a two-year contract with no wage increase. “We don't want to treat them (BCGEU) any better or worse than the faculty,” Jackson said. SHSS up to snuff By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer The Ministry of Education's accredit ation team evaluating Stanley Hum phries secondary school has given the school a passing grade But the Castlegar high school has slipped from the perfect score it received in its last accreditation six years ago. The team has recommended the ministry grant SHSS an accreditation status of four years, on an accreditation seale that ranges from one year to six years That means the school is accredited for four years before it must undergo another evaluation. “I feel fine about that. It's a good review of the school,” Castlegar school board chairman Kay Johnson said “There's nothing wrong with four years.” In 1980, the time of its last accreditation, Stanley Humphries was accredited for the maximum six years. Johnson said the four years will “give us a chance to look at areas that need attention.” The team reviewing the identified three such areas: © upgrading of school and equip- ment; e improvement of internal external communications and; e implementation of a long-range professional development program. Johnson noted that the upgrading of SHSS is already in the works with the planned $850,000 renovation of the school awaiting only a successful bid on the board’s tender for the contract. She added that the school was also “in a state of flux” at the time of the accreditation because the school's administration was going through a transition period following the appoint ment of former principal Lach Farrell to the position of director of instruction for the district school and Fair wage clause may not be legal By CasNews Staff Castlegar school board's inclusion of a fair wage clause in tenders it sent out for renovations to Stanley Humphries secondary school may not be legal board chairman Kay Johnson said this week “The (Ministry of Education's) direc tor of school facilities has indicated to us that there is some question of the legality of including a fair wage clause in the tender document,” Johnson said “We will contact the minister of education and ask him to rule on the legality (of the fair wage clause).” The board expected to hear from the ministry this week, but late Friday there was still no word from the minis try on its decision, superintendent of schools Terry Wayling said. He said the ministry probably won't make a ruling until Wednesday be cause of the Canada Day holiday Johnson said if the ministry rules the clause is illegal, the board will retender the document without fair wage speci fications. “If it is legal. we will retender with a fair wage clause,” Johnson said. The board has already rejected two bids on the contract because they came in above the $849,000 the ministry has allotted for the renovations. Fame Construction Lid. of Trails bid of $1,153,463 and William Berg Con struction of Castlegar’s bid of $937,000 were rejected at a special board meet ing June 9. “There wasri't the permanent staff that will be there in the fall,” Johnson said in offering an explanation of SHSS's drop in status. But the accreditation team identified “a number of major strengths in the school” such as: ea friendly, courteous student body: © support of the school from students and parents; e the development of a philosophy and objectives: solid academic performance; e the provision of scholarship tutor and Nom a variety of course offerings that meet individual student needs. Johnson said the team was parti cularly impressed by the $14,000 in scholarships donated to the school's class by the y " Approximately 35 provincial second ary schools enrolling Grade 12 students go through the accreditation process each year The process consists of an internal evaluation of the school by school staff and administration. school Paper on Thursday The Castlegar News will publish one day later next week because of Tuesday's July 1st holiday Instead of publishing Wednesday afternoon, the CasNews will be dis tributed by your neighborhood car rier on Thursday morning The CasNews office will be open as usual and 3 p.m. for display advertising Though the newsroom will not be open Monday, editorial submissions may be made up to 5 p.m