Council wants
JobTrac back

By RON NORMAN
Editor

Castlegar council wants the provincial government to
reconsider shelving its much-publicized JobTrac employ

ment program.

The provincial government dropped the program

because of lower

levels, Ad d

Minister Stan Hagen confirmed Monday.

“It was felt that with the decrease in the unemployment

“People are paid a substandard wage,” Embree said,

“... They end up working

for $200 a week.”

As well, he said the training is “substandard.”
“You don't teach someone how to weld or paint or a

trade — and I've spent the
trades and crafts,”

last 15 years working in the

He said the programs eventually cut into proper trades

training programs.

Embree said although he empathized with people who

rate dropping by three to five per cent around the province
— that government assistance programs like this were not
needed this year,” Hagen said.

But Ald. Terry Rogers raised the JobTrac program at a
recent council meeting, noting that the program “did quite a
bit of good last year.”

He pointed to a Castlegar Chamber of Commerce
project which received $54,000 and employed six people.

“It meant employment for six people who were not
employed at that time,” Rogers said.

“The community has received a number of benefits —
and not just the financial, but money these people would
have received on social assistance was received in this
manner and in a sense became more productive.”

Rogers said the individuals in the program benefitted
from having a job and being back at work.

Rogers added that the jobs became “a form of training.”

“For example five out of six took a first aid course from
Selkirk College.” He said their work also helped them learn
pipe cutting and welding.

But Ald. Len Embree opposed the program, saying he
has “problems” with it.

ST. JUDE

are forced to work for $200 or $300 a week, “I really have
some problems in supporting that type of a program.”

He said he would rather support a job creation program
that pays people a “fair wage” or pays them to get proper
trades training.

“This simply doesn't do it. It plugs into the whole
chamber of commerce mentality where you pick up people
cheap.”

Meanwhile, Hagen said some training programs for the
handicapped are still in the budget and he has $28 million for
job training initiatives. In addition, Social Services Minister
Claude Richmond has $30 million in his budget for
employment opportunities for welfare recipients.

In 1986-87, JobTrac had a first-year budget of $43
million. The government said the program created 12,000
part-time jobs and assisted 10,000 others through job
preparation programs.

In 1987-88, the government almost doubled JobTrac’s
budget to $81 million, hoping to create 17,000 new jobs.

Anita Hagen, the NDP member for New Westminster,
said the decision to cut the program indicates the
government has no long-term plan for dealing with chronic

“and the relati ip between job training
and employment.”

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By CasNews Staff

The City of Castlegar will
pay for a $15,000 cost over-
run in relocating and reserv
icing the old CP Rail station.

The city had originally
budgeted $40,000 for the
station move, matching a
$40,000 grant from the B.C.
Heritage Trust.

However, Castlegar coun-
cil learned recently the cost
of moving the station and
servicing it totalled some
$55,000.

Rather than dip into the
$40,000 Heritage Trust grant
— which will be used to
restore the rundown station

building — council agreed to
put up another $15,000.
City administrator Dave
Gairns noted that some of the
costs of relocating the station
“certainly turned out to be
greater than anticipated.”
But Gairns added that
some of the cost overruns
were incurred with the un:
derstanding they could have
been recovered from the
Heritage Trust grant.
However, he said the heri-
tage advisory committee and
the parks and recreation
committee felt the full
$40,000 Heritage Trust grant
should be available for res:

toration work.

“There's a considerable
amount of work that is yet to
be done,” Gairns said.

The heritage advisory
committee plans to use the
lower part of the station as a
transportation museum and
rent the upper floor as office
space.

Meanwhile, Ald. Lawrence
Chernoff, chairman of the
parks and recreation com
mittee, said problems with
the heritage advisory com
mittee have been “resolved.”

Chernoff said he will act as
liaison between the heritage
committee and council.

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SELKIRK COLLEGE

Tuition fe

By CasNews Staff

The Selkirk College board
approved tuition fee in-
creases at a meeting in Mid-
way last night.

The increases were ap-
proved in principle at the
January college board meet-
ing and received final ap-
proval at the Midway meet-
ing.

College board chairman
Elizabeth Fleet says the in-
creases are not a result of the
provincial g tight-

«The increases affect tuition
fees across the board. Stu-
dents in full time, adult basic
education, transitional train-
ing and vocational programs
will all pay more in Septem-
ber.

The largest increase is in

es to rise

transitional training fees will
increase from $50 to $51.75 a
month and from $12 to $12.50
a week. Vocational training
tuition fees will go up to
$77.50 a month from $75.
In other college board
news, first-year physicial

the co-op program. Stud
will pay $100 for their work
term, where last year it was
free.

Full-time students in avia-

ening its pursestrings for
B.C. colleges. The increases
represent an “inflation ad-
justment,” she said.

“It doesn't have anything
to do with the recent (pro-
vincial) budget,” said Fleet.

tion, , forestry and
wildland recreation will all
pay $30 more per year for
their courses. The price will
ge-to $930 from $900. Bus-
iness and nursing tuitions
will rise to $830 from $800.

Adult basic edi jon and

P
a petition asking the board to
reintroduce a second-year
physical education program.
The first-year program
was reintroduced last Sept-
ember to accommodate an
increasing demand for the
course after it had been
shelved for two years.
“We're looking into the
possibilities of making ar-

r tor

the second-year physicial
education program,” Fleet
told the Castlegar News.

She said the college will
study the possibilities of
beginning the second-year
program because of the de-
mand. She also said the col-
lege must “juggle” its pro-
gram demands in order to
make full use of the programs
once they are implemented.

Meanwhile, 26 transitional
training students from Nel-
son were in Vancouver ear-
lier this month taking part in
the Special Olympics. The
students, under the guidance
of teacher Ray Brock,
brought home a bronze and
silver medal.

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saying the Gaming Commission policy is unfair to the
Castlegar area.

“Perhaps on the Lower Mainland it is important to
establish a ‘win’ amount even though gambling is gambling
and no one can guarantee that any amount of money will be
spent,” the letter states.

“Certainly when it comes to predetermining a set
amount of money that must be spent each night, there is no
way that at present our Castlegar charities can meet that.”

Strong says a freeze on licences for charities which
never held a licence last fall has since been lifted and is
partially responsible for the reduced amount of money being
spent in Castlegar casinos.

She says it takes time to establish regular casinos which
attract tourists and people who are not “regulars” who learn
by watching the game.

Ashman says his casino business has steadily improved
over the last year and a half of operation and he thinks one
day business will be strong.

“You can’t build a business overnight,” he said. “It takes
time.”

Ashman says until the end of last July casinos were
generating an average of $265 in winnings for a three-day
event. But as of the end of March that figure has risen to
$939 in winnings.

He says it is unfair that, “anybody could start a business
1% years ago and then increase it the way we have” only to
have it taken away.

“You've got to plan your work and then work your
plan,”. he says.

Ashman says he is appealing the Gaming Commission
decision.

Strong says she doesn't agree with the reasoning
behind the new policy.

“Criteria established for granting a casino management
licence indicated that a minimum ‘win’ must be achieved for
a company to be marginally successfuly and enable it to
survive,” states a letter from the Gaming Commission to the
Kootenay Columbia Child Care Society, another local agency
that benefits from the casinos.

The letter goes on to list operating costs such as
“wages, building expenses (janitorial, heating, light, munici
pal taxes), mortgage fees, and advertising for the
management company.

Strong says the survival of the casino management
company is not an issue here because casinos are run in a
temporary facility (the Hi Arrow Arms Motor Hotel banquet
room) and most of those costs don't apply.

“Well, that is fine, but the government is saying that
they have to make a full-time living at this,” she says.

“Who is the B.C. government to tell a private enterprise
(how much profit to make),” she said.

Strong spoke to Vander Zalm when he visited Castlegar
last Friday and sent a letter this morning stating her
concerns and offering some solutions to regulating casinos in
the Kootenays.

“What we've done is come back with an option that
wouldn't discriminate,” she said.

Strong suggests the Gaming Commission adopt less
stringent security and betting regulations for temporary
casino facilities like those in Castlegar which generate less
money.

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“We are being asked by the
Ministry of Education to take on and
develop programs in our school that
are in conflict to what facilities already
are in this area,” said Kinakin.

Kinakin indicated he is worried
about the stability of the funding.

He mentioned the Funds for Ex-
cellence program as an example and
said he is worried the Ministry of
Education will withdraw funding
sometime down the road.

“Three years from now the Minis-
try of Education is not going to get the
funding that it wants and it’s going to
be transferred back to the college and
we are going to be stuck with a bunch
of programs that we've got nothing to
do with,” he said.

“What I see is a fight between the
Ministry of Education and the Ministry
of Advanced Education to see who gets
more money out of the pot.”

The director of Selkirk College's
co-operative education program said he
is familiar with other co-op education
programs and thinks they are an asset
to the student,

“It's good for them, it gives them

practical said Dexter
McRae.

McRae said the college does not
include high school co-op programs as
prerequisites for admission and at this
time does not offer credit for them.

While the Selkirk College pro-
gram, which has been in place since
1985, is a formal integration of paid
work experience with academies, the
high school program does not involve
pay:

experience,”

Trustee Rick Pongracz also voted
against the motion, expressing concern
about possible abuse of the program,
although he said this was dependent on
the program's administration.

Pongracz said some previous work
experience programs involving Stanley
Humphries secondary students have
been a “sham.”

“I have a concern of the cheap
labor aspect of it,” he said, and about
the possibility the program might
“effect the economy of the community.”

“There has to be a consideration of
the employer that no job is taken or
replaced and that there be very close
supervision,” said superintendent of
schools Terry Wayling.

NDP——

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pharmacist, Scarlett is an engineer
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Schmidt is a Steelworker representa-
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Evans said the race is just too
close to cal

“I think it’s a very close race,” she
said. “I don’t have a clue who is going
to win.”

Registration for the meeting be-
gins at 11 a.m. at the Community
Complex, with the meeting opening at
12:30 p.m. and candidates’ speeches
starting at 1 p.m. The first ballot will
be held at 2 p.m.

Balloting will continue until a
winner is declared.

Yvonne Cocke, past-president of
the provincial NDP, will chair the
meeting.

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