SY, a2 Castlegar News _ november 9, 1983 By CasNews Staff The Central Kootenay Re- gional District is so confident of a “yes” vote in its Nov. 19 referendum on B.C Hydro paying hospital taxes.that it has already appointed a four-member committee to discuss the poll's results with Premier Bill Bennett and the provincial cabinet. The Central Kootenay Re- gional District Hospital Board — a parallel body to the regional district board responsible for health care — approved the idea at its regular meeting Saturday. The committee hopes to set up a meeting with Ben- nett and cabinet sometime early next month. The referendum, which will be on ballots throughout the regional district including Castlegar, asks voters whe- ther they want the B.C. Hydro to pay hospital taxes on the same basis as other corporations, It will also ask if the re- gional hospital board should request the province to res- cind an order-in-council ex- empting Hydro dams and re- lated property on the Colum- bia River from taxes. Hydro owns $111.6 million worth of assets in the re- gional district and board members are hoping a strong yes vote will pressure the province into making the Crown corporation pay taxes. If Hydro is taxed on its Properties within the re- gional district, it would con- tribute more than $300,000 a year. Martin Vanderpol, Area J director and chairman of the regional hospital -board, ad- mitted in a prepared release that the “stakes are high.” “If the referendum re- ceives voter assent and the provincial cabinet accedes to the voters’ wishes, it would handle the cost presently borne by local taxpayers,” Vanderpol said. Under the current ar- rangement, a resident with a home valued at $100,000 pays $28.30 in hospital tax. With B.C. Hydro forced to pay tax on its properties, the same homeowner would pay only $17.60 — a saving of $10.70. ‘NEW IN TOWN? LET US PUT OUT THE MAT FOR YOU! We test Famous trict me wong * Joyce 365-3091 ' Deborah 365-3015 COMM Teaching and TEACHERS continued from ioe, pee fe Ar dro by to pick up textbooks and homework, Sea ‘Terry Rogers. “Another one came but when they saw there was nobody here but me, they left,” Rodgers said.. Teachers’ association president Rodgers said the teachers’ walkout came as no surprise to him “given the way this (Social Credit) government has been operating.’ Rodgers quoted Art Kube, B.C. Federation of Labor P and leader of O, i when he noted that “the government could have settled the whole strike in 20 minutes. “But they obviously didn't want to,” Rodgers said adding that the strike sction could have been averted if the government had agreed on seniority provisions. Castlegar teachers who refuse to hondr picket lines will face ethics charges. Rodgers said the CDTA executive agreed to notify the BCTF- of any teachers who cross picket lines. He said they will be censured by the teachers’ federation but he wouldn't specify what form the action would take. He said it is up ‘to each district association to decide whether to file ethics charges, adding, “We were pretty strong in our strike vote so we are pretty strong in our stand on members who cross picket lines.” ROADS CLOSED . . . Barricades were ere Hilltop Cafe outside Castlegar indicatin: Paulsen Highway. Other highways shut do cted on Highway 3 at the closure of the Blueberry- wn as a result of weather Princeton. conditions and the strike by B.C. Government Employees Union are the Salmo-Creston Skyway, Nancy Greene Junction and the Hope- —CosNewsPhoto TEACHERS ON STRIKE Confusion reigns in education system VANCOUVER (CP) — school districts, but only 14 of the Penticton district’s 189 Confusion reigned in British Ce ia’s education system again today asa strike by the 28,000-member B.C. Tea- chers' Federation entered its second day. Again today, school boards were urging parents to send their children to school to see if their teachers were there. The dispute also moved into the courts and Labor Rela- tions Board as more school ‘béards sought picketing bats ~ and teachers filed appeals against injunctions already granted. About 90 per cent of the teachers were off the job Tuesday, a federation spokesman said, but he had no early indication whether that figure would remain steady today. It was also unclear whe- ther principals, who were expected to join the strike today, were doing so. Federation president Larry Kuehn said earlier that when the strike was planned, it was decided that principals would work during the first day of the strike, but would walk out after that. But Joyce Anderson, pres- ident of the Vancouver Schools Administrators As- sociation, said she knew noth- ing of such a plan, and was confident principals would report for work. All principals went to work in the Penticton and Vernon VOTE Carl Henne for ALDERMAN TY Bulletin Board CENTRAL AMERICA in the political Columbia Ave., Castlegar. ION SHOW, — $1.50, Senior Citizens — $1 of Central America. Guest speaker is Darwin Juarez. Mon- day, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Anglican Church, ia 1/90 FASHI Will be held on Sot., Nov. 12 from 2- 4 p.m. at the Legion Hall. Fashion show times — 2:30 3:50 p. TEA & BAZAAR and .m. Admission 00, Children —75¢. 3, Columbia Ave. Bulletin Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations may be listed here. The first 10 words $3 and additional words are 12¢ each. Boldfaced words (which must be used for headings) count as two words. There is no extra charge for a second consecutive inser. tion while the third consecutive insertion is hall-price. Minimum charge is $3 (whether ad is for one, two of three times). Deadlines are 5 p.m. Thursdays for Sundoy's poper and 5 p.m. Mondays for Wednesday's paper. Notices should be brought to the Castlegar News at 197 COMMUNITY are Board and 15 of the 600 teachers in Vernon were on the job. : More than 50 per cent of the teachers in the Fort St. John school district went to work today, assisted by a group calling itself Concern- ed Citizens for Education. Group members are filling in for teachers who remained out, But in Powell River and Castlegar, all the” /schools were closed. : About 480,000 elementary - and secondary school stu- dents are affected by the teacher's strike, the second in B.C. history. In 1971, teachers walked out for one day. Almost all of the 14,000 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, who work as janitors and clerical staff, joined the strike Tuesday, a union spokesman said. LAUDED TEACHERS Kuehn lauded teachers Tuesday for holding up “against some very heavy threats.” But Education Min- ister Jack Heinrich continued to maintain that the strike by teachers was illegal and Ban drunk drivers VICTORIA (CP) — Fed- eral Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan says he may have to consider a lifetime ban on driving for drunk drivers in- volved in traffic accidents causing deaths or serious in- juries, “For some of the more ser- ‘fous offences where death or bodily harm has occurred, a maximum life prohibition from driving might have to be > Mm _*.yRANBROOK (CP) — + Two ROMP officers illegally d RCMP assaulted murder suspect ;RCMP Supt. Thomas Collins, the officer in charge of the Venker i in Brit- urged them to return to the 1 an classroom, accused murderer John A key issue in the nine- Dixon in an effort to locate a day-old government employ. young Calgary woman who ees union strike and teachers’ was later found dead, a walkout is the Social Credit British Columbia Supreme government's Public Sector Court jury was told Tuesday,’ Restraint Act, which gives Calgary RCMPCpl. Rod the government the right to erick Martin told the court he lay off workers without re- and RCMP Cpl. Peter Zacour gard to seniority. of Edmonton, “forcefully” He the fed shook the Dixon says teachers also are strik- along a deserted gravel road ing to protest reductions in in the early hours of Aug. 22, education spending, part of 1982. x the” governinent’s" restraint, | Martin said: Dixan cried package. | \" when the officers, both over School districts have been six feet tall and 225 pounds, ‘warned by Heinrich they » shook him and yelled at him. must, by law, keep the Dixon, 27, is charged with schools open, and some dis- the first-degree murder of triets went to court seeking Jill Rosemarie Venker, a injunctions against the 25-year-old rent-a-car clerk, trikes. who went missing Aug. 18, Court injunctions were 1982, while driving on bus- granted against any strike by iness from Calgary to Lake teachers in Victoria and Louise, -Alta. Venker's body Cranbrook and against pic- was found six days later in an keting of schools in Van- isolated brush area west of couver. At least 16 more Golden. school districts are applying Martin told the court he for injunctions today. intimidated ‘Dixon after re- The federation is advising ceiving instructions from teachers to obey the court orders, but Kuehn said tea- chers in 22 of the 76 school districts may still legitimate- ly refuse to cross another union's picket line. troduce legislation increasing nursing and maintenance. the datory fine for impaired driving. ‘The usual fine of $250-$300 im- posed by judges, it does not reflect society's disapproval of drunk driving, he said. MacGuigan said the prob- lem of drunk drivers is one of tia}, the country's most serious social p! strike. says in a speech to be de- livered to the Victoria Cham- ber of Commerce today. A copy of the speech was released in advance in Ot- tawa. MacGuigan, noting that “drinking is not a licence to kill,” said he is also con- sidering a mandatory period of prohibition from driving for a first offence and in- creasing the period on each’ subsequent offence. VOTE Bob MacBain FOR ALDERMAN - ~through.” + continued from front page non-union employees and board mem- bers. Other tasks that will have to be taken up from striking employees will He said he may also in- include cleaning, office work, some not all of the hospital’s 180 employees will be off the job. Regis- current minimum $50 fine is tered nurses, represented by the B.C. not only out of step with the ; Nurses’ Union, will work through the BCNU spokesman Jerry Miller said in an interview from Vancouver that nurses in Castlegar and throughout the province have been classified as essen- Miller said the B.C. Federation of Labor, in.consultation with the three ish Columbia. During a 1 a.m. meeting Aug. 22, Collins told Martin and Zacour to do anything “short of physical violence” to find Venker. Most normal avenues of investigation were exhausted, said Martin. Martin said he “put aside what I thought was normally correct,” when he assaulted Dixon but he wanted to make Dixon “feel what I thought Jill Venker was going He admitted shaking Dix- on was illegal. Martin said he used intimidation tactics with Dixon only once and he “never siruck him or harmed him physically.” i “We had to do what we had to do to find Jill Venker.” Dixon wore hand cuffs and leg irons during the eight minute stop on the gravel road, said Martin, and he agreed with defence councel- lor Brian Coleman's state- ment that Dixon was “ob- viously scared and frighten- ed.” nursing work.” Asked why the nurses will be working, Miller replied, “Because sick people need care.” ployees’ Union. Meanwhile, Castlegar’s three public health nurses are back on the job after some confusion about whether or not Warren orders post office moved By CasNews Staff It took more than 600 protest letters and direct’ in- tervention by. Canada Post Corp. president Michael War- ren, but the Crescent Valley post office is back in its original location. The post office was moved back to the Maple Leaf Store near the-RCMP detachment on Oct. 12, according to Ger- ald Rotering, constituency to Ki the post office be moved back to the Maple Leaf store. “You can imagine how this shook up the post office,” Rotering said in an inter- view. He said Warren ordered regional officials in Vancou- ver to pay Rose's Restaurant $1,800 for the full year’s lease and then move the post office back to the Maple Leaf Store. Canada Post also paid any incurred in moving West MP Lyle Kristiansen. Earlier this summer Can- ada Post moved the post of- fice from the Maple Leaf Store to Rose's Restaurant near Playmor Junction over the protests of much of the Crescent Valley community. But Rotering said Crescent Valley residents fired off more than 600 individual let- ters to Warren demanding the post office to Rose's Res- taurant. In addition, the owner of the Maple Leaf Store agreed to upgrade his post office lo- cation, including full bath- room facilities and separate heating. “Everybody's trying to bury the hatchet,” Rotering said. “I think the community is trying to forget the whole thing.” Police file * A Castlegar: womar is in serious but stable condition in Trail Regional Hospital today with multiple fractures after she was struck down by a car Monday at approx- imately 5 p.m. Mary Oglow, 70, was cross- ing Columbia Avé. at a cross- walk at Woodland Drive when she was hit by a ve- hicle. John Kelly, 72, of Castle- gar faces a charge of failing to yield to a pedestrian. ' s e * Castlegar RCMP report two break-ins this week; one HOSPITAL READY hospital unions, agreed to have the nurses show their union cards in order for them to cross the picket lines. . However, Miller stressed, “They may not do any work ‘that is not West at the Arena Complex con- cession and the other at the CP Transport office near the Esso Bulk Plant. No money was taken in the Arena Complex break-in al- though some goods were sto- len. Nothing was taken at the CP Transport office, police say, because the culprit was frightened away by the ar- rival of the RCMP. Entry was gained through a broken window in the rear door. The investigation con- tinues. nurses throughout the province were working out of their homes and cars during the strike. Kootenay Health director Monty Arnott explained Tuesday that there was confusion about what the BCNU would allow the nurses to do, He said the agreement is that the nurses may continue working until Nov. 18, He added that the BCGEU strike has had little effect on the health unit. The unit is closed, but for an answering H a F INO YOLK . . . Castlegar resident Janet DaCosta displ I yol egg di i this week A CosNewsPhoto after it was boiled. , _ PICKET SIGNS scheduled to arrive last week at the Castlegar and District Teachers’ Association strike headquarters were headed off at the pass; or rather they didn't make it through the pass, admitted CDTA president Mike Rodgers yesterday. -' He figures they were held up because of highway closures, the result of a strike by members of the B.C. Government Employees’ Union. Mike brought placards back from Vancouver when he returned from meetings Sunday. But he only had 60, not enough to go around the approximately 150 teachers who were off the job on the first day of the teachers’ eis So it was share and share alike on the Picket a. ‘ di QUESTION: WHEN is an egg not an egg? When there's no yolk to it. Janet DaCosta brought just such an egg. into the CasNews offices this week. Janet explained that she boiled the egg Sunday and when she cut into it noticed it was all white. “I've seen eggs with double yolks before,” Janet says, but never an legg without the yolk. Did she plan to eat it now? “Ugh,” was Janet's reply. THE CASTLEGAR Chamber of Commerce contin- lues to bring in more members. Latest to join are Colville Industrial Roofing, Main Street'Muffler, Tu Dor Sports, Robert H. Brisco, Marjorie L. MacBain, Dixie Lee South, Hilltop Cafe, Tarrys Woodcraft, Fireside Inn, Fireside Place dining room, CJAT-Radio and Hall Printing. Rememberance service Friday The in Ki b: ks from Legion bi y Park will once again be the president Sam Brown. Mayor focus of Friday's Remem- Audrey Moore and MP Lyle brance Day service as mem- Kristiansen will also speak. bers of the Royal Canadian Commander Bob MacBain Legion and the community will be the featured speaker honor Canada’s war dead, this year, while Commander Activities: will. begin at Albert Culley will call out the 10:30 a.m. with a Pacade., honor roll. Aaron Stushnow down 3rd St. ‘to the park.” is tne bugier. Parade marshall this year is © Commander Earl Rourke Cecil Pepper. will recite the John McRae At the cenotaph, a band poem, In Flanders Fields, made up of local musicians followed by, the placing of and led by Norm Fishwick wreaths and a prayer’ by. will begin the ceremony with Father Michael Guinan. WHOLE ROUND” BO! INELESS. CANADA $615/ $979 SIRLOIN TIP BONELESS. CANADA GRADE A. Save $2.97 kg. ...2.0.eccceccee ok PORK BUTT ROASTSs06/, $9] 32 SCA ge 81 MEATY PORK GOVERNMENT Land of Hope and Glory. A.B. Lamb wiil present the advance of colors, followed Anti-wa using TORONTO (CP) — The largest veterans’ group in Canada is upset that anti- war protesters are using the poppy to sell a protest on Remembrance Day and may take legal action to prevent such use of the floral symbol. Colin Graham, Dominion secretary forthe Royal Can- adian Legion, says the trad- itional symbol of Remem- brance Day — which is the legion's — registered trade- mark — is appearing on leaf- lets for a protest Friday at ‘the Toronto plant of Litton Systems of Canada Ltd. “I'm not prepared to com- ment on whether we'll take action,” Graham said, adding the matter has been turned over to the legion’s lawyers. Calling such protests a ion of Rev. Charles Balfour will give the benediction this year. ‘ r group Poppy sile, is being organized by the Toronto-based Alliance for Non-Violent Action. Andrew Van Velzen, a spokesman for the group, said: “We think what we are doing is in the spirit . of Remembrance Day. If you want to end war, you have to 7 start confronting the people who are making. war and that means companies like- Lit- ton.” " Reginald Cleator, Ontario secretary of the legion, said his group is “violently op- posed to war” but believes the answer is in keeping thé armed forces strong. Cleator, a twice-wounded veteran of the Second World War, said the-legion has no objection to protests. “We just object to them using Remembrance Day. Day, Graham said the oc- casion ‘as it has existed for so many years is becoming utterly distorted” by peace groups. The protest at Litton, maker of the guidance sys- .tem for the U.S. cruise mis- Day is not political.” Van Velzen said he under- stands the legion’s viewpoint but added: “We believe in Remembrance Day too, and beliove ‘in celebrating it by going to Litton to do what we can to stop future wars. ‘Wife recalls tragedy © By CasNews Staif and News Services “He was the type of man, he was always concerned about others, not himself.” That is the vay Olga Malakoff re- members her husband Patrick, 55, who died last Thursday -of an apparent heart attack after crossing the Koot- enay River to his home in Glade. In an interview, Olga said her husband normally crosses the river on the Glade ferry. With the ferry strike- bound he went to use his motorboat, but found the battery dead. The couple found a friend who towed them across the river. But once across, they had to wade through the water to tow the boat by hand from the ferry slip to their front yard. “We were both soaked to the skin,” afternoon. Olga said, recalling the rain that poured down from darkened’ skies that Mrs. Malakoff said her husband died after hauling the battery 91 metres up the river front to his home. “He says, ‘Go in and have a shower.’ I asked, ‘Can I do something?’ and he just said, ‘Here, take the gallon of gas and I'll take the battery.’ ” 3 Olga was in another room when slie heard her husband fall. Her mind clouded by shock of the si she managed to dial her brother's phone number. Within minutes, John Deni- soff arrived to administer cardio pul- minary rescusitation. Somebody called the ambulance, and striking B.C. Government Employees Union workers manned the ferry as soon as they heard of the emergency, death, ation. Said taking RCMP and an ambulance across the river. Malakoff was pronounced dead on arrival at Castlegar Hospital. His daughter, Sarah Sapriken, said the family has not received results of an autopsy to determine the cause of Family members said Malakoff had “ no history of heart attacks but that he had undergone a heart bypass oper- “I saw‘him a few Debby hours before in Nelson and he was bright eyed.” Offerman, the BCGEU's area representative, said the union ran the Glade ferry all weekend to take friends and family to and from the Glade home for traditional Russian funeral rites. SPARERIB INSP. Save $1.77 kg. ...... 9217/99" IAN WHOLE FRYING they should be working -during the strike by the B.C. Government Em- The nurses were off the job last week after BCGEU put up pickets outside the local health unit, .The nurses later learned that public health service manned by Arnott. Arnott is directing the nurses via telephone. “People are still getting the services they are requiring,” Arnott said. He added that home care nursing has also continued without disruption. Goose Creek man dies Sam Tarasoff passed away Oct. 30 in Nelson, aged 67. A resident of Goose Creek for 37 years, Mr. Tarasoff leaves his wife Ann and three sons, Karl of Los Angeles, Sid of Crescent Valley and Scm of Sh one daughi Annie; and six grandchil- dren. He was predeceased by one son, Cecil, earlier in 1983, Services began Tuesday at the Crescent Valley Com- munity Hall with burial today in the Krestova Cemetery. Valley Funeral Home was in charge of funeral arrange- ments. teacher said. out that students their studies. continued from front page concern that they were not’ given homework assignments prior to the strike. When questioned about the students’ concern, Stanley Hum- phries teachers manning picket lines outside the school explained that uncertainty about the length of the strike made it difficult to assign “It's impossible to assign home- work when you don't know if you'll be out for one day or six weeks,” one However, the teachers pointed in textbook courses can follow their course outline if they want to keep up in teacher. ED FEELINGS No textbooks are provided for lab and activities courses, taking those courses are “strapped,” said another Stanley Humphries Some of the students who pro- ceeded to study in the Stanley Humphries secondary school library were driven to school by their par- ents because school buses — usually manned by CUPE workers — are not running during the strike. One of the parents who stayed to ensure his two sons would be ad- mitted into the school called the strike by teachers “illegal.” Dr. Werner Schulz told the Castlegar News he felt students should continue to go to school Schulz, who is also on the faculty at Selkirk College, commented that he would hold regular classes des- pite three picket lines that were set up at the college by unionized workers, Across the street, Castlegar and District Teachers’ Association Pres- ident Mike Rodgers was briefing strike captains and encouraging teachers and support staff who trudged in winter clothes draped with placards, Noting that only a few students crossed picket lines to attend school, Rodgers said he felt this was a vote of support by parents in the area, “Parents who wanted to make a Political protest obviously aren't doing that,” Rodgers said. Students saat ee ESTE LS Furniture’ “Village Sealy Vista Bedding Here's a luxury bedding unit created ex- clusively for V.LP. stores. 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