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Enrolment check worries Turner

By SIMON BIRCH

Writer

Castlegar school district's unrelenting enrolment
decline continues to worry school trustees and board

administration, especially

in light of the Education

Ministry's intention to conduct a mid-year enrolment check
in the upcoming school year.

With the check in mind, trustee Gordon Turner
proposed at Monday's board meeting writing a letter to
Education Minister Jim Hewitt asking him to delay the
enrolment check — scheduled for Sept. 30 — until Oct. 31.

South end
gets tax break

By CasNews Staff
Homeowners in the south
end of Castlegar will get a
break on their sewer tax
notices, Castlegar Mayor
Audrey Moore said

Moore says an article in
last Wednesday's CasNews
reported that south end
homeowners won't get a re-
duction on their sewer taxes
because the total taxes col-
lected this year is about the
same as last year: $130,000
this year compared to
$130,500 in 1985.

However, Moore points out
that because more home-
owners will help pay for the
$130,000 sewer budget, taxes
will drop for the individual
homeowner.

She said the frontage tax
will be $1.18 a foot for the
south end this year compared
to $1.25 per foot in 1985.

For the owner of a home

with an average 80-foot lot in
the south end, the reduction
will mean a saving of $5.60
this year, Moore said.

Moore noted that the in-
crease in this year’s city
budget will cost the owner of
an average home assessed at
$55,000 about $12.

But with the reduction in
the sewer taxes, the average
homeowner will really pay
only $7 more in 1986.

Moore noted that the aver-
age north end homeowner
with a 60-foot frontage will
pay $8.40 less for sewer taxes
this year. That means the
owner of a home assessed at
$55,000 will pay a total of
$3.60 more on their city tax
bill.

The north end sewer fron-
tage rate dropped this year
from 56 cents a foot to 46
cents a foot because the city
retired some of the debt on
the system, Moore said.

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Turner's reasoning is that a number of Castlegar
parents may move to the coast to work at Expo 86, which
runs until Oct. 15.

Turner said the parents may put their children in
Vancouver schools for 1% months before returning to the
Castlegar school district.

That would mean the students-would be counted in
Vancouver's enrolment figures and would generate funding
for that school district, not Castlegar.

“It’s probably a small number,” Turner said, “but these
days every student counts.”

The Castlegar school district recéives app:

“We think it will be more like 2,150,” said Wayling, who
noted that the difference would mean a loss to the school
distriet of more than $300,000 in grants.

(The number of full-time equivalent students is less
than the actual number of students because those enrolled
half-time, such as kindergarten students, are counted as half
a student in the enrolment figures.)

However, trustee George Anutooshkin pointed out that

through the first one or two months

$3,600 in government grants for every student enrolled in
the district.
Since Sept. 30, 1985, 97 students have left the district.
As of April 30, enrolment stood at 2,290 students.
Superintendent of schools Terry Wayling said the
ministry is projecting 2,254 full-time equivalent students for
the district this September.

it might be in the district's best interest to

submit to the enrolment check sooner than later, he said.

After debating Turner's proposal, the trustees decided

to direct Wayling to write a letter to Hewitt stating the

board’s opposition to the enrolment check and incorporating
Turner's concerns about Expo.

Allan J. Schultz, executive vice-president of Casazza,
Schultz and Associates Inc., Hydro’s American energy
Kt ‘agreed the Hydro transmission system is

Hydro, WKPL
clash. before
commission

KELOWNA (CP) — The analogy of a bus travelling
between two points was used Tuesday to try to explain
the argument between B.C. Hydro and West Kootenay
Power and Light before the B.C. Utilities Commission.

At issue is whether West Kootenay should share the
cost of Hydro generating facilities.

West Kootenay lawyer G.K. MacIntosh used the
analogy of a 10-seat bus owned by B/C. Hydro travelling
between two points. In fact, those two points are
connected by B.C. Hydro transmission lines which West
Kootenay uses to get power to its customers.

MacIntosh said that if there are two Hydro
employees and one West Kootenay employee on the bus,
Hydro wants West Kootenay to pay one-third of the cost
of operating the bus, and Hydro would pay two-thirds.

Under the analogy, he said, West Kootenay believes
that because its employee is occupying only one seat, it

close to the point where there is no excess capacity.

MacIntosh said West Kootenay can only get power
when it doesn't impair or inconvenience Hydro's
operation.

The hearing, which began Monday, is ‘expected to
last two weeks.

On Monday Sheehan told the commission West
Kootenay power should share the cost of B.C. Hydro’s
generating facilities because West Kootenay forecasts
were used in planning their construction.

heehan said the Crown corporation believes West
Kootenay should bear some of the long-term costs
associated with Hydro's facilities regardless of whether
the need for those facilities materializes.

The second major issue is short-term rates. “The
necessary facilities are already in place and the cost of
building them is currently being borne by B.C. Hydro
customers,” Sheehan said. “Both B.C. Hydro and West
Kootenay have an obligation to provide a secure supply of
electricity to customers in their respective service areas.
The division of costs between the utilities is then a matter
of equity between the customers of B.C. Hydro on the one
hand and West Kootenay and its customers on the other.”

The third major issue before the commission is
determining a fair division of costs between the two sets

should only have to pay ith of the costs.
MacIntosh also noted that J.P. Sheehan, Hydro's
vice-president of finance, said earlier the Crown
corporation's transmission lines temporarily have excess
capacity.
But Hydro transmission supervisor Don Gillespie
said Tuesday the system “is very close to the limit.”

of where they jointly use transmission
facilities. Hydro is recommending the costs be divided in
the same ratio as the usage.

Sheehan also said the absence of a West Kootenay
commitment to buy power means Hydro doesn't take
West Kootenay's needs into consideration when making
plans for the future.

Co-op members vote

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in favor of merger

VANCOUVER (CP) -— Members of the financially
troubled Teachers’ Investment and Housing Co-operative
voted over-whelmingly Sunday in favor of merging with
CanWest Financial Corp., a deal that will give them 74 cents
on the dollar.

But many creditors vowed to find out more about the
investment practices of the co-operative's board of directors.

Alma McGauley, a retired teacher, is gathering names
on a petition to Elwood Veitch, minister of consumer and
corporate affairs, asking for an inquiry into the affairs of the
co-op which went into receivership Nov. 4.

Under the Co-operative Association Act, if 10 per cent
of the members of an association request an inquiry, the
minister will hold one if he believes it is a bona fide
complaint.

McGauley said she has about 3,700 of the 4,500 names
she needs. She also is trying to get the provincial
government to replace the 26 cents creditors lost.

“It’s the retired people who are hurt so badly because
we don’t have an opportunity to replace what was lost.”

About $200 million of the co-operative's assets will be
transfered to CanWest subsidiary Discovery: Trust and
other associated companies.

Discovery Trust was sold to the Winnipeg-based
CanWest last month by the co-op's receiver, Martin Linsley,
for $15.5 million. The total cost of the co-op's investment in
the trust company was almost $16 million.

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Discovery Trust to make a profit by early July.

Asper said the key to the profitability of Discovery
Trust will be the continued patronage by the teachers.

The 45,000-member co-op was placed in receivership
last November and about $268 million in uninsured
members’ deposits have essentially been frozen every since.

About 1,500 people attended the co-op’s general
meeting Sunday where they heard presentations from the
receiver, Asper and their board of directors.

The creditors voted 98 per cent in favor of the y
It will take place after a provincial court decision on whether
members’ money in certain retirement savings plan is
secured.

If the court decides it is, then the creditors with money
in the plans will get 100 cents on the dollar, while other
creditors will get less than the 74 cents they would receive
under the merger, Linsley said, adding that such a ruling is
considered unlikely.

Members’ deposits are unsecured liabilities and are
uninsured. Banks and trust companies are insured under the
Canada Deposit Insurance Corp. and credit unions are
insured through the Credit Union Reserve Board. The co-op
does not fall under either jurisdiction.

In return for the $200 million in assets, CanWest will
pay an equal amount in cash, mortgages, common stock and
guaranteed certificates with Discovery Trust.

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VANCOUVER (CP) —
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Court upholds
sentence of
Cranbrook mom

VANCOUVER (CP) — A woman who stood by as her

abused and ult: killed her infant

daughter lacked even “the basic animal instincts of a mother
protecting her child,” a judge said.

But Mr. Justice Ernest Hinkson of the B.C. Court of
aE ee eae een eee
on Linda Boh 22, of Cr
cendlsnghher of hor child shonkd to inaregua tc nine pours
from six.

Justices William Esson and Ronald Cheffins, whose
majority opinion prevailed, said the six-year sentence
imposed on the mother was fit and proper.

The three judges agreed, however, that the six-year

for the boyfri Corey Soper, 23,
should be increased to 12 years.

Hinkson, noting “child abuse is no longer a rare type of
offence in our society,” said the courts “are seeking to make
it known to the community that we will take a serious view
of child abuse.”

Prosecutor Al Stewart, appealing the sentences
imposed in Cranbrook late last year by county court Judge
Michelangelo Provenzano, said 13-month-old Deirdre
Bohnenkamp died Jan. 19, 1964, from a brain hemorrhage.

Evidence indicated . defying a court order to stay
away from the child, beat the infant, shook her violently,
blew marijuana smoke in her face and gave her beer.

Stewart said the trial judge also noted that the child had
injuries consistent with anal intercourse, but did not make a
clear finding the violation was done by Soper.

Noting there were no mitigating factors in the case,
such as alcohol or drug abuse, Stewart recalled evidence the
mother helped Soper violate the court order and was fully
aware of the continual abuse.

He said the child's death was due to “a continuous,
disgusting, abhorrent course of conduct” Soper knew would
lead to serious injury or death.

Stewart also said Bohnenkamp did “absolutely nothing
to protect her child™ from continual abuse and was a party to
the manslaughter.

Soper’s lawyer, Ken Connor, noting the child died from
being severely shaken, suggested his client may not have
been aware that shaking a child violently can cause brain
damage and death.

Hinkson dismissed the Esson agreed,
saying: “It is somewhat less obvious then thumping the child
on the head with a blunt instrument.”

Bohnenkamp’s lawyer, Ken Steinberg. argued that the

mother’s crime was a sin of omission rather than one of
commission.

Hinkson, noting Bohnenkamp is still young and can have
more children, said that if “she doesn't recognize the danger
to her child through this course of conduct, what does the
future hold?”

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VANCOUVER (CP) — A stay of proceedings has
been ordered in the trial of a Nelson lawyer on buggery
and gross indecency charges, after the key witness
admitted he lied in police statements and a signed
statement.

Richard Paul Jocko, 19, testified Monday in B.C.
Supreme Court that he made those statements two years
ago, but in fact has never had sexual relations or taken
drugs with lawyer Ronald Walter Khadikin, who acted
for him when he was charged with theft and breaking and
entering.

Asked by Crown counsel Don Carigren why he

iginally made those Jocko said he had

spent 2‘ weeks in Nelson police cells at the time, and

didn’t know what he was doing or how serious the
he was making were.

“I didn't want to go to jail,” he added.

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position now. “I've grown up,” he replied.

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Khadikin, who has moved to Vancouver, said later in
an interview that he was bitter about Nelson.

“It is a small town with a smalltown police
department.”

Khadikin said after he was charged, he handed back
his licence to practise.

“It has cost me a fortune, not to mention the local
notoriety over it. I am very upset about what it has done
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