ce Castlegar News August 25, 1990 LIFESTYLES By MARLENE HABIB The Canadian Press {If it were up to lan Craigon and his staff, every Canadian school would make physical fitness a priority in the curriculum — right up there with math, science and other academic subjects. For the last two years, Craigon, who is with the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, has devoted much of his time to promoting daily physical education for students. The iation isa profi ization that encourages Canadians to make physical activity a part of their lives. Recently it honored 100 elementary and secondary schools across Canada for their efforts to provide quality physical education to their students each day. The awards, in their second year, are an attempt to encourage schools to devote more time and effort to student fitness, Craigon said in an interview from Ottawa where the association is based. “The 45 per cent increase in award winners this year indicates that more schools are becoming aware Group touts benefits of phys ed in schools FITNESS Research shows that daily physical education not only improves students’ health, but also their self- image, attitudes towards school and their academic performances, Graigon says. Canadian studies also have indicated that fitness and activity levels of most boys and girls begin to decline dramatically in their early teens, he adds. That's partly because physical education is generally optional in high school and often occurs less than daily in public schools, Craigon says. “*The association would like to see phys ed required right through the end of high school,”’ said Craigon. ‘But traditionally, students have been faced with a non-choice — they heed such and such a subject to graduate and get into the college or university programs they’re choosing, so phys ed will go by the wayside for courses like science, math and history. And often kids will drop out of gym class becuse they haven't enjoyed it in the past. “Through the awards program, we're also trying of the benefits of i such Schools winning the awards: — bright scarlet and gold banners and association certificates — must meet association criteria that include having qualified physical education staff, proper planning, balanced activities, a minimum of 150 minutes of instruction a week, evaluation of the students and high participation in intramural activities. As an example, Montague elementary school in Prince Edward Island rearranged its timetables to allow for daily gym classes. Montague, with an enrolment of 490 students and only one gym, bought a divider curtain to permit two teaching areas in the gym. At Calgary’s Robert Warren school, the amount of time offered for academic subjects was reduced slightly to slot in extra periods for physical education. Sir John A. Macdonald school in Brampton, Ont., offered a wide variety of activities, including a week-long winter outdoor education camp, a 10- kilometre hike and a sports day. to schools to use the facilities they have available to them,’’ Craigon said. ‘“They don’t have to have fancy i and extras like courts.”” Heather Green, a graduate student in sports administration at the University of Ottawa, helped develop the association’s awards program. She said most schools don’t have the staff to handle teaching physicial education five days a week. The awards are an attempt to give schools some innovative and fun ideas for incorporating phys ed into the school day, Green said. “*Another goal is to get parents involved in supporting the awards program, by telling principals and teachers that they realize physical education is important for their kids’ well-being. If parents support daily physical education, then maybe schools will be willing to spend more time towards it.”” Editor's note: Mt. 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Castlegar Mazda 713-17th Street, Castlegar = “The Kootenays' Largest Import Dealer gy WEDNESDAY August 29, 1990 Vol. 43, No. 69 Castlegar, B.C. 4 Sections (A, B,C & 0). a“ 75 Cente Trail team tops in slo-pitch windup +, Bl WEATHER cloudy with some'sun and scattered showers. Probability of » Precipitation is 30 per cent tonight and 40 per cent Thursday ‘and Friday, cloud and the chance of thundershowers. New cars may be cheaper under GST --- A6 Natives issue demand By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer 4 The Arrow Lakes Indian band said it will camp out on the steps of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria unless native remains taken from a burial site near Vallican are returned to the band. The band wants the remains retur- ned or “‘positive communication” on the issue established within 28 days of the band sending a final letter to the museum or the natives will march to Victoria from their encampment in Vallican and camp on the museum Steps until they ‘‘get some action,” band ambassador Bob Campbell said. The natives issued the ultimatum to the provincial government Saturday. “We have been very patient with the government on this issue,’” Cam- pbell told reporters during a news conference in Vallican. ‘‘It’s time they turned (the remains) loose and brought them back to us.” . The band, which has been seeking the return of the remains for about a year, feels it is being ignored by the museum, which is under the authority of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Recreation and Culture, he said. The_natives—have—beentold—the museum has never had such a request and has no policy regarding requests for artifacts or remains, Campbell said. But there seems to be no reason why the remains-cannot be given to the band since all studies the museum wanted to conduct have been finished, he said. Cliff Hewitt, manager of B.C. Heritage Trust, the provincial body that designated the burial grounds as an historical site, said the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, of which his office is a part, has no quarrel with the band over return of the remains for reburial at the site. The remains should go to the native People, he said Tuesday. ‘‘That’s a given.” The problem is over which band to give the remains to, Hewitt said. A number of Indian bands have ex- Pressed interest in the remains at various times and the museum has been corresponding on the issue with the tribal council of the Colville Con- federated Tribes, he said. Most of the Arrow Lakes people now tive on the Colville reserve near Colville, Wash., and the band is part of the Colville Confederated Tribes. “I look forward to receiving the (latest) letter,’’ Hewitt said, adding he will contact the tribal council when he receives the letter and ask if any of the other bands still have an interest in the remains. Campbell said Municipal Affairs Ministry officials should deal direcily with the Arrow Lakes people instead of going through the tribal council. “(The tribal council) is not legitimate to speak’’ for the Arrow Lakes band on the issue, he said. ‘‘We (the Arrow Lakes band) are blood relations”’ to those buried at Vallican, hie said. please tee NATIVES page AS By JOE LINTZ Selkirk College Information Oficer For the past two weeks, 36 geoscientists from Canada and the United States have been driving the highways and back roads from the Okanagan to the Rockies collecting seismic data about the earth’s crust. The nerve centre for this operation has been the forestry lab at Selkirk College’s Castlegar campus, which has been completely transformed with an array of sti i linked to a communications satellite for exact time. The B.C. studies, which are part of the North America Lithoprobe project, are under the direction of Dr. Ernie Kanasewich and Mike Burianyk of the University of Alberta physics department. Lithoprobe, which is an attempt to discover more about the earth’s brittle outer 100-kilometre shell of rock, the lithosphere, is a very high priority project with the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council providing joint funding with the Geological Survey of Canada of $4 million per year for the next three years. The project began in 1984 on Vancouver Island Seismic reflection profiles were obtained from the B.C. coast to Cranbrook in 1985 and 1987. These Profiles showed that the base of the earth’s crust rose under the Okanagan as a result of the intensive moun- tain building of the Columbia Mountains. The Slocan Lake fault, which can be traced on the surface along the eastern shore of Slocan Lake and then through Pass Creek to Castlegar, can actually be traced on the seismic profiles to a depth of 40 kilomet- res. The fault formed as the crust was stretched and ancient rocks domed up to form the Valhallas causing the overlying rock to slide off. The new seismic refraction studies are intended to provide a much clearer picture of the depths of dif- ferent layers in the lithosphere and of the various faults. A practical outcome of the studies will be a much clearer understanding of where and why ear- thquakes have occurred in the past, which will enable scientists to predict the location and possibly the time of future earthquakes. When the crust shifts along faults, major or mjnor earthquakes occur. Fortunately—for—residents-of the from. 50 kilometres under-the Rockies to 30 kitometres — Scientists with Lithoprobe, a project created to discover more about the earth's outer shell of rock, tinker with their high-tech equipment. The scientists were based at Selkirk College's Castlegar campus during their two weeks of research in the Southern Interior. Scientists wrap up study of earth's crust Photo by Joe Lint West Kootenay, the Slocan Lake fault is an old fault and appears to be inactive. This is not the case in the Victoria and Vancouver areas, where minor éar- thquakes have occurred frequently during the last 25 years. In addition to valuable earthquake information, Lithoprobe studies will also provide useful infor- mation concerning the geologic history of North America. During the past 20 years, geologists have come to understand that much of British Columbia is exotic and has been added on to the continent as the North American plate moved west during the past. 200 million years. Along the way it collided with and collected small pieces of continent that became welded on to North America during mountain building. At the momemt, geoscientists are uncertain as to the exact western boundary of the ancient North American continent. Ancient (two billion-year-old) continental core rocks tend to transmit seismic waves faster, so they can be recognized on refraction profiles Lithoprobe will probably enable the geoscientists to determine whether the Arrow Lakes or the Okanagan Valley mark the old western boundary of North America. During the past two weeks, three sections of the southern B.C. crust have been probed along lines from— Merritt to Invermere, another from Big White to Blairmorg and another from Mica Dam to Castlegar, with offshoots from Osoyoos to Moyie. Refraction profiles are obtained by setting up 300 Portable refraction seismographs spaced from one to three kilometres apart which are primed by computer to record at set times. Blasts of 1,800 kilograms of ex- plosives are set off at the ends of each line. In the mid dle is-an 800-kilogram blast and at 50-kilometre inter- vals smaller blasts of 200 kilograms are detonated. The shock waves from the blasts are picked up by the small seismometers and recorded by the seismographs. The speed of travel of the shock waves is an indication of the type of rock that they pass through and thus it is possible, from the profiles produced, to determine the depth of the rock boundaries and the location of faults. The entire operation in Castlegar wound up last Friday and by Saturday the forestry lab at Selkirk College was restored to normal order. Controllers out Oct. 31, Lewis says By SIMON BIRCH and CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Air traffic controllers at. Castlegar Airport will be relocated Oct. 31, the federal government said. . The six controllers willbe reassigned to various locations in B.C. because of a shortage of con- trollers and to save costs, federal Transport Minister Doug Lewis says in a letter to Mayor Audrey Moore. Flight service specialists who currently work at the airport will move into the control tower once “technical modifications are com- pleted,”” Lewis says. “I can assure you that the conver- sion of the Castlegar tower does not represent a decrease in aviation safety,"’ Lewis writes. ‘‘The con- tinued operation of the flight service station at Castlegar satisfies all of the to i of safety expected of Canadian aviation facilities.” Moore said she and other critics of the government’s decision to remove the controllers did their best to con- vince the government to keep the con- trollers in Castlegar. “In my view, the federal Ministry of Transport is still playing a numbers game,”’ Moore said. ‘‘I think they’re not taking into account the special circumstances of the airport.’’ Those opposed to removing the c Stress the of and to the water bombers which are stationed at the airport every year during forest fire season. Moore said she will keep her eyes on the service at the airport after the controllers are gone. “I certainly will be monitoring the situation very carefully to see if the service is as good: equal or better,”” she said Kootenay West-Revelstoke MP Lyle Kristiansen, who has been corresponding with Lewis about the Lewis letter, page A4 removal of the controllers, said Tuesday he hopes to set up a meeting with the minister Sept. 11 or 12 to go ‘over the Castlegar situation. Kristiansen said he hopes Lewis might be persuaded to postpone the removal of controllers and review the situation again. = “‘Hope lives eternal when you've got common sense and public opinion on your side,”’ he said. The New Democrat MP also said he will attempt to raise the issue again in the House of Commons. Kristiansen said he was ‘‘disappoin- ted’’ Transport Canada officials chose one of the earliest dates being suggested for removal of the con- trollers following a public meeting last month in Castlegar at which Transport Canada officials met a wall Castlegar Airport because of its location in mountainous terrain. They also say controllers are essential to Selkirk College’s aviation program of to their plans. Dean McDonald, Pacific regional director of the Canadian Air Traffic Control Association, said Lewis's a please see CONTROLLERS page A2 One mall dead, second in limbo By ED MILLS Staff Writer Skeptics waiting to say ‘‘I told you so’’ about the potential development of shopping-malls in-Castiegar cargo" ahead and gloat today. Two developers who in the last six months had unequivocally said they were going to build malls in Castlegar have packed it in and gone shopping for property to develop elsewhere. That means a proposed mall on the site of the Hi Arrow Arms Hotel is history, and the one supposed to be built beside the Sandman Inn is in mothballs. “It’s dead in the water,’’ said developer Gary Tebbutt of Carter Properties Ltd., referring to the Hi Arrow project Tebbutt’s plans were nixed a week ago when another company out-bid his offer to purchase the hotel, which was an integral part of his develop- ment plan. “Someone, I think from Saskat- chewan, came in with an extremely high offer for that parcel of land — just the hotel — and we were just not ~ Prepared to go to that level,” TeBbutt said from his Kelowna office. Tebbutt said the price paid for the hotel _was in excess of $900,000. That figure was confirmed by the hotel’s former manager, Richard Askew, who was supporting Tebbutt’s bid. The Hi Arrow was py up for sale after it was repossessed April 23 by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The accounting company Coopers and Lybrand of Vancouver has been operating the hotel since then And now, unless the new owners go bankrupt, or something drastic hap pens, Tebbutt says he’s finished trying to build malls in Castlegar “I don’t think there’s any Possibility of our proposal recovering now.”* please see MALLS page A2 Killing of raccoons upsets owner By MILLS Staff Writer The killing of three baby raccoons has set off a series of accusations and counter accusations between the animals’ owner and wildlife conser- vation officials in Castlegar. Barbara Murdoch said what hap- pened to her is like bringing a per into the veterinarian for a checkup and finding out the next day that it's been killed. “*A conservation officer assured me that the raccoons would not be har- Now, 10 days after their death, Murdoch is accusing the conservation officials of ‘outright deception and unwarranted killing’ of her family’s pets. “As far as I'm concerned these guys are not conservation officers. The guys who executed the order and the ones who carried it out, they are not conserving wildlife and this is a breach of trust that should cost them their jobs,"” she said. But the conservation officers hold a radically different view of the in- cident, and defend the decision to kill the raccoons on the grounds of public and wildlife safety. District supervisor Michael Krause said Murdoch misled conservation of- ficials about her possessing the rac- coons and is facing three to five charges under the Wildlife Act, in- cluding exportation and importation of live wildlife and possession of live wildlife. “‘Basically, she imported three rac- coons from southern Ontario which is a hotbed of lyme disease and rabies and ail that stuff,"’ Krause said. “‘Wildlife managers get very hot about that stuff. It’s stuff that we just can’t allow. Basically, the animals were put down because of the poten- tial for disease.” Murdoch said she was positive the raccoons — each under a year old — weren't carrying any disease and had them checked by a vet before leaving Ontario. But Krause said that’s not the issue and wildlife officers didn’; check for disease before killing the raccoons, “*No, as far as wildlife management people are concerned it isn’t an issue whether they did have or didn’t have (diseases). We just can’t take the chance. “They could have been perfectly disease-free, but she would never have gotten the animals back in any case. We don’t issue permits to keep wildlife. Under wildlife regulations she would never have been allowed to bring them into the province in the first place."’ As for Murdoch’s claim that an of- ficer had assured the safety of the rac- coons, Krause said the conservation office isn’t going to argue back and forth with her about what was said or not said. pleose mother, Barbora Murdoch vader the Wildlife Act for b page Az of Pass C. ringing the raccoons into B.C. from