Castlegar News October 8, 1986

By CasNews Staff

Canada has the worst record in the industrialized
world for fire-related deaths. Of all fires in Canada, 49 per
cent occur in the home and are responsible for 90 per cent
of fatalities, one-third of which are children.

Partly because of those statistics fire departments
across Canada — including those in the Castlegar area —
are once again sponsoring the Plan to Get Out Alive fire
drill

The drill, set for 7 p.m. Thursday night, is held to
educate parents, children and those living alone about
proper fire evacuation procedures. At that time, many
radio and television stations across the country, including
local area radio stations, will sound a fire alarm.

Castlegar Fire Chief Bob Mann has been visiting
local primary, elementary and junior high schools during
the past week, speaking to about 1,100 students about
fire safety and the Plan to Get Out Alive. Mann has
explained to students the six steps to get out alive, and
the importance of having smoke alarms in their homes.

Mann visited Kinnaird elementary, Kinnaird Junior
secondary school, Woodland Park elementary, Castlegar
primary, Valley Vista school, and Twin Rivers
elementary school. Robson fire department officials
visited Robson elementary, while Tarrys fire department
was at Tarrys school.

Mann notes that smoke detectors are essential in
order to save lives and property. He says about 60 per
cent of homes across Canada are equipped with smoke
detectors, and the devices are mandatory in all new
homes.

Mann stresses that the Plan To Get Qut Alive
program works, citing an incident last year in Langley.

Just three weeks after the 1985 campaign, the
Pratico family of Langley survived a night fire which
destroyed their condominium.

The Pratico children, Steven, 7, and Tony, 9, had
already planned escape routes from their home on a Plan
to Get Out Alive worksheet. When the fire awakened
Tony, he knew what to do and was able to alert his
sleeping family who escaped safely.

“A fire is the last thing on your mind until it
happens,” Mann points out.

Under the Plan to Get Out Alive, students are given
a worksheet on which they are requested to draw a fire
escape plan for their house. They are also given a coupon
to return to their teacher to be eligible for the fire-chief-
for-a-day contest. The draw takes place on Saturday and
there will be one winner each for Castlegar, Robson and
Tarrys.

On Oct. 17 the winning students will be picked up at

their school by the fire chief and firemen, given a tour of
the firehall, and go out on any inspections and other
activities.

The young fire chiefs and fire department officials
will then head down to Trail where they will be treated to
a lunch, hosted by McDonalds, along with other area
winners.

In addition, every child who returns a coupon back
will receive a free safety award.

Mann notes that all school children practice fire drills
at school, but they don't practice drills at home. And that
was one of the main reasons the program was started.

According to statistics, too few parents and children
actually have an evacuation plan for their homes.

In Castlegar last year, the program had about a 40
per cent participation rate. The fire departments handed
out more than 1,060 worksheets to students but gave out
only 400 certificates to students who had completed their
plans.

But Mann said part of the problem was that students
had to drop off their coupons at the firehalls. This year
they may return them to their teachers at school.

Mann will also give fire safety seminars at Rota Vills
and Rosewood Manor senior citizens homes this week at
part of Fire Prevention Week. Mann said he wants tc
make seniors aware of the dangers of fire and how tc

Local homes plan to get out alive

react if something happens.

“The big problem is having a proper location of the
(fire department) phone number,” he said, noting that the
fire department has stickers bearing the phone number
to be placed on phones.

He said the seniors will also be taught how to use a
fire extinguisher.

The six steps to a successful fire evacuation plan are:

At the sound of your fire alarm or at the first hint
of trouble, carefully roll out of bed, keeping low. This
way, you will avoid smoke and heat, which rise;

@ Craw! to the door. Touch the closed door with your
hand to determine whether it's hot. If it is, do not open it.
Get out an alternate way (through a window or secondary
exit). If the door is not hot, continue following your
original escape plan;

In the hallway, stay low in order to stay beneath
the smoke level;

e Once outside, everybody must go to a pre
determined meeting place (preferably in front of your
house);

Once your family has gathered, send one member
to a neighbor to call the fire department;

e@ Stay at your meeting place until the fire
department arrives to tell firefighters your family is out
of the house, and where the fire is.

Nurses
protest
wages

By The Canadian Press

About 50 nurses took park
in a two-hour sit-in at the
cafeteria of Trail Regional
Hospital on Monday to pro-
test wages and a nursing

Members of the B.C. Nur-
ses’ Union have been without
a contract since March 31,
1985. Negotiations
scheduled to resume today.

Trail shop steward Lily
Popoff said B.C. nurses are
eighth in Canada in wages.

She said she hoped the
sit-in showed “that we are
angry and want to be taken
seriously.”

Union spokesman Jerry
Miller said in Vancouver the‘

The sit-in did not affect
care for the hospital's 175
patients.

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WALK A DOG... . Dog lovers were out in full force Sunday in funds for Canine Vision Canada. The funds will help in the training of
Castlegar for the second national walk-o-dog-athon. Twenty-nine

A two-car collision Monday dogs were registered in the 10-kilometre walk held to help raise

dog guides for the visually impaired

Costtews Photo by Chery! Cotderbonk

resulted in approxi.

mately $4,000 in damages,
Castlegar RCMP report.

James Salisbury of Castle

FEDERAL CONTRBUTION

gar was driving a 1981 Ford
Thunderbird northbound on
Columbia Avenue about 9:15
p.m. when he struck a 1984
Honda Accord driven by Paul
F. Medvedeff of Castlegar

Job program created

Mortgage
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who was making a left turn
off 6th Street.

The cars received about
$2,000 damage each. Salis
bury was charged with fail
ing to stop for a red light
Charges are pending against
Medvedeff and the accident
is still under investigation

Also, Stanley Humphries
secondary school reported a
break-in over the weekend.

Entry was gained through
an art room window. Nothing
was reported missing and
RCMP say the incident is still
under investigation

Innocent
tortured

LONDON (AP) Am
nesty International said to
day that government forces
in Bangladesh have killed or
tortured hundreds of un
armed tribal villagers during
the past 10 years.

A spokesman for the Bang
ladesh Embassy in London
denied the charges.

In a report, the London
based international human
rights group cited what it
described as detailed ac
counts by witnesses of tor
ture and killing in the Chit
tagong Hill Tracts of south
east Bangladesh

A statement accompanying
the report said Bangladesh
had been asked repeatedly to
investigate the alleged
abuses and added: “They
have not responded.”

By CasNews Staff

The federal government will contribute $178,500 to a
job re-entry program to provide employment preparation
for 25 people in the Trail, Castlegar and Nelson areas

Impact Training of Trail will provide a 14-week program
of training in communication and job search skills, business
education, customer service, first aid and computer
familiarization, Keotenay West MP Bob Brisco said this
week in a news release

Following that, participants will spend an additional 17
weeks with small business training place hosts who have
indicated a possible need for new employees.

Job re-entry is a program under the federal Canadian
Jobs Strategy program designed to assist people having
trouble finding work as a result of being out of the work
force for a number of years

“Job entry and re-entry projects have been determined
by our local advisory council on employment and job creation
to be some of the most successful of the Canadian Jobs
Strategy projects in Kootenay West.” Brisco said in the
release

1 made Employment Minister Benost Bouchard aware
of that, and it appears he has responded by making more
funds available for job entry and re-entry projects in our
area.”

Brisco also credited the local business community “for
accepting the challenge of the Canadian Jobs Strategy and
providing opportunities for people, who would otherwise be
unemployed, to learn new skills and find new jobs.”

Ottawa will pay $70,500 for training and another
$108,000 for income assistance, which is provided to partici
pants in the form of training allowances.

Local Credit Union SHSS

under supervision

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Castlegar trustees suggested West
Kootenay school boards meet to reach
an agreement to prevent these actions.

By RON NORMAN
Editor

Faced with a large number of fore
closures and bankruptcies, Castlegar
Savings Credit Union announced today
that it has been placed under voluntary
supervision by the Credit Deposit In
surance Corp.

However, credit union manager
Harold Webber said the supervision
which began last
“short-term.”

week, is only

“It's business as usual,” Webber
said ry

In a prepared release, the credit
union said that “as a direct result of the
depressed economy in the West
Kootenay, Castlegar Savings Credit
Union has acquired a large number of
non-revenue producing properties
through foreclosures and bankruptcies

“Because property values have fallen

significantly, the credit union has found
it necessary to set aside sizeable pro-
visions for loan losses.”

However, the release adds that the
credit union is still turning a profit

“But because of current and antici
pated future losses on properties the
credit union faces the prospect of not
paying a divident for shares in 1986.

The credit union also did not pay a
dividend on shares in 1985.

Webber pointed out that all member
funds are fully guaranteed and the
credit union has $800,000 in reserve
funds.

“We can take a lot with that.” he
said.

The release adds that CUDIC has
expertise on staff to assist credit
unions in working through “specific
problem areas.”

Castlegar Savings has 6,000 mem
bers at two branches.

Since school districts have the option
to disallow attendance, trustees felt a
policy of continued liaison, communi
cation and understanding might keep
students from being “spirited away” by
nearby districts.

Presently, there is no structure to
deal with the problem

The $191,310 from the Fund for
Excellence has been allocated. Com
puter Technology will receive $70,000
for 18 systems of hardware and soft
ware for Kinnaird Junior secondary
school, along with hardware and soft
ware for elementary schools and SHSS.

Another $80,000 was allocated for
Teacher Training and Re-training
Program Effectiveness will receive
$41,310. Some of these funds will go to
fund two child care workers and the
C.A.RE. (Child Abuse Research and
Education) program.

Leader John Turner says it
was inappropriate for chief
party fundraiser Judd Buch
anan to organize a drive for
donations to pay off retiring
party president Iona Camp
agnolo's mortgage

Turner told reporters to
day he considers the issue
closed because Campagnolo
has rejected the offer. But he
said the party fundraising
committee will still discuss
the matter with Buchanan.

Liberal insiders leaked a
letter to the media Tuesday
alleged to have been written
by Halifax lawywer Bill
Mingo as part of the drive to
collect money for the retire
ment gift

The letter, dated Sept. 26,
said Campagnolo's “lifetime
of service to the public and
the party has not permitted
her to accumulate much in
the way of savings for her
retirement income.”

Campagnolo's term as
party president, w earns
her about $65,000 ally,
ends next month. Wealthy
Montreal lawyer Michel
Robert, who has offered to
work for no salary, is widely
considered the leading candi
date to succeed her

“I understand that Iona
Campagnolo has said she
knew nothing about the offer
and disavows it and would
prefer that despite the good
intentions of the public in
volved that it not be done,
and that satisfies me,”
Turner said as he entered a
meeting of his national cau
cus

FISH PROJECT . . . Audrey Moore, Rossland-Trail
Social Credit candidate, and Hank Kuryluk of
Castlegar and District Wildlife Association dump
Gerrard rainbow trout try into fish net pen at Scot-
e's Marina. Brian Briscoe, another association
member, watches them.

More fish fry
for lake

By CHERYL CALDERBANK
Staff Writer

Twenty thousand Gerrard rainbow trout fry were
placed into a fish net pen Tuesday at Scottie's Marina as
part of a program to enhance fishing on the Lower Arrow
Lake.

More than a dozen people gathered at the marina to
await the arrival of the truck with transported the fish
stock from the Kootenay Trout Hatchery in Wardner,
and to watch the transfer of the young fish to a net pen
which will be their home for the next eight months.

The program is a project of the Castlegar and
District Wildlife Association and many of the organiza
tions’s members were on hand for the arrival of the fish.
Also on hand was Rossiand-Trail Social Credit candidate
Audrey Moore.

This is the project's second year. Last year 10,000
fish stock were put into the fish pen, and have since been
released

According to association member Brian Briscoe,
because the project proved a success last year, the group
obtained twice as many fish this year.

The fry are descendants of Gerrard rainbow trout
and were raised in Wardner and hatched about June. The
fish measure about 3.8 centimetres in length. When they
are released next June they'll measure about 20
centimetres.

The fish are housed in a net pen which sits in the
water off one of the boat docks at the marina. The
20-cubie-foot mesh structure is completely enclosed on all
sides to keep predators out and the young fish in.

According to Briscoe, the fish are fed through an
automatic feeder every hour. The fish are fed about a
pound of food a day of fish by-product with vitamins and
minerals added to it

The feed and fish were supplied by the Fish and
Wildlife Branch of the Ministry of Environment. The net
pen was built by the wildlife association which supplied
the materials and volunteer labor. The association also
maintains the pen, which includes cleaning the nets.

The pen was built last year at a cost of $4,500. The
association raised funds with its “adopt-a-fish” program.
In fact, the fundraising campaign is still underway. In
addition, many people who stop for gas at Scotties Marina
donate their change from fill-ups to the fish fund

The association doesn't expect many of the fish fry
will die. Last year only 300 of the fish died. However,
Briscoe says if the fish were let out loose into the lake
prematurely most would be killed off.

Last year's stock were released into Deer Creek and
some of them have already been caught in the lake. Deer
Creek is the largest creek on the Lower Arrow Lake and
has the greatest potential for enhancement, says Briscoe

Fisherman who catch any of last year's stock are
asked to report their catch to the wildlife association. The
fish can be distinguished by a missing left pelvic fin,
which has been clipped. Other marked fish which can be
found in the lake are those with their adipose fin and
maxillary flap missing. These fish were released in the
Upper Arrow Lake over the past few years.

Briscoe said the fish released from the net pen are
expected to come back into the lake in three or four years
as mature adults weighing 3.17 . 3.62 kilograms.

“We are trying to get them to mature and come back
to Deer Creek to spawn naturally,” he said. Once that
happens, the fish will have established a natural cycle and
can carry on that cycle.

According to organization member John Daigle, the
project will have a dramatic effect on fishing on the
Lower Arrow Lake over the years

Costews Photo

THANKS FOR DONATIONS . . . Chamber of Com-
merce Building Chairman Mike O'Connor and Co-
chairman Larry Bosse present plaques of ap-

°

Blackline Paving Ltd. and Wade Zammit of Westor
Timber Southern Products for contributions to the
new Chamber of Commerce/Tourist Information

preciation and recog to Jack Will

ss

Cas News
TREET TALK

NEW DEMOCRAT leader Bob Skelly seemed to pick
up steam in Creston during his swing through the
Kootenays last week. Skelly appeared more comfortable
mainstreeting and even managed to crack a few jokes.

Like Premier Bill Vander Zalm earlier in the
campaign, Skelly was asked for his autograph by a group
of teenaged girls.

“You won't write a note on top of it saying I'm
approving your absence.” Skelly joked to rounds of
giggling by the girls

You're not going to vote this time around? Next
time.

IN THE EARLY 50s, a well-known French teacher
at SHSS was Dr. Frank Thorn, a baldheaded gentleman
who ate soda crackers during classes because of an ulcer

Former students and friends of Dr. Thorn will be
interested in the following article in “Lulu's News” (a
column similar to Street Talk) which appeared in the
Aug. 24 edition of the Richmond Review:

Ninety-one-year-old Dr. Frank Thorn was to receive
a surprise birthday cake on his birthday Friday when he
visited his favorite local hangout. Seems Thorn makes a
visit every day that it isn't raining to Richmond's Burger
Bistro and the staff there wanted to help him celebrate
the passing of another year. Lulu passes on her best to
him.

THE LANGHAM Cultural Society is riding a wave of
good fortune of Late. The society administers the
Langham Centre in Kaslo which has teetered on the brink
of closure a number of times, but perhaps never more so
than this summer.

The board of directors was faced with trying to pay
off a $25,000 mortgage or closing the centre's doors for
good. With a lot of tough sloughing, the centre has paid
off the debt and is in a good financial position

But no small thanks goes to area muscians who
banded together to produce a tape sold to raise funds.
The first run of 100 tapes sold out in 13 days and now a
second run is available. The music on the 60-minute tape
ranges from rock ‘n’ roll to jazz and folk. Look for it in
your favorite record store.

VALLEY VIDEO HAS moved toa new location. The
video store used to be at 1438 Columbia Ave. next to
Country Harvest Delicatessen. Its new location is in the
Century 21 Mountainview Agencies building on the
corner of Columbia and 18th St.

AND NO, Kel Print has not disappeared. Last
week's Street Talk disclosed that Carter's Sewing Centre
had moved from the Castlegar Plaza to the old Kel Print
storefront on Columbia Avenue.

Kel Print is just down the stairs in The Courtyard.

ANTHONY'S Pizza and Steak House is getting a
fresh coat of paint.

ROSSLAND Mayor Jackie Drysdale is moving up
the executive ladder at the Union of B.C. Municipalities.
Drysdale was named honorary member at the UBCM's
convention last month in Vernon.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Soviets were able to read
sensitive U.S. diplomatic correspondence from Moscow for
years because of a security lapse that allowed the Kremlin to
install electronic bugs in embassy typewriters, a Senate
panel says.

In a 141-page report on counterintelligence, the Senate
intelligence committee said Tuesday the incident marked
the second time since 1978 that U.S. officials allowed Soviet
agents to obtain typewriters while they were being shipped
to the U.S. Embassy

As a result, “for years, the Soviets were reading some
of our most sensitive diplomatic correspondence, economic
and political analyses, and other communications.” the panel
said

Without giving the date of the second incident, the

Soviet bugs found in embassy

committee said the typewriters were shipped to the Soviet
Union through a commercial company without escort or
guard. This allowed the Soviets access to them

“The compromised typewriters were used in the
embassy for a significant period,” the panel said

CBS News reported in March 1985 that the bugged
typewriters were in use from 1982 until the bugging was
uncovered in 1984

IT HAPPENS TWICE

“What made this incident especially astonishing was
that it occurred despite a similar discovery in 1978, when
security officers found that a shipment of IBM Selectric
typewriters destined for the U.S. Embassy had been
shipped from Antwerp (Belgium) to Moscow by a Soviet
trucking line,” the report said

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