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Castlegar News November 16, 1983

For Area "J" Director
on November 19

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Castlegar settles down affer strike

By CasNews Staff
Teachers and government
workers are back on the job
today as Castlegar settles
down after two weeks of
labor disruption that saw
closed, schools shut

Terry Wayling said all tea-
chers reported to. work Mon-
day as the threat of escal-
ating strikes was brought to
an end.

But local teachers’ associ-
ation if Mike Rod-

down and other government
services severely curtailed.

Attendance was down
about 20 per cent in area
schools Monday morning as
the news of an agreement
with the government, the
B.C. Government Employees’
Union and O; ion Soli-

gers was uncertain as to the
results of the agreement that
was reached late Sunday.:

“We have to wait and see
what more <tangible results
come out of it, all we've really
heard is a lot of rumors,” the
C and District Tea-

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darity came to light.
School superintendent

chers’ Association president
said, adding, “We think

we've gained something but

we'll wait and see.”

"Meanwhile, roads blocked
with a -two-week accumu-
lation of heavy snows were
cleared by provincial high-
ways workers. The Blue-
berryk-Paulson opened Mon-
day as four graders worked
on a 20-kilometre snow-
bound stretch of the high-
way.

Salmo-Creston was closed

FIRE STUDY

continued from front poge
costs

to ‘the community would be

most of the day while roads
were being cleared and the
Nancy Greene section of
Highway 8b wasn't open until
Tuesday morning,

Roger McKeown, Rossland .

district Highways manager
said trucks that got stuck as
they tried to tackle the high-
ways despite closures had to
be towed out.

Now, he said “at least if a
_truck gets stuck, they know

there will be a snow plow
along eventually.”

Welfare recipients in the
region can expect to get their
December income assistance
cheques but those who have
yet to make an appointment
to get on the welfare rolls tan
expect service delays.

All appointments cancelled
during the government work-
ers strike will now have to be
rescheduled, Larry Ohimann,

Human Resources Ministry
regional manager, said Tues-
day.

“It will take a while to get
everything back to normal
with a back log.”

Ohimann noted that those.
requiring emergency income
assistance during the strike
“handled it quite well.” Many
were able to find friends and
family to help them through
the tough time.

offset by i

Streich said that a couple of people
de- from the Robson fire hall drive to Blue-

One of the main aims of these com-
mittees is “keeping it in front of the

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November 16, 1983 Castlegar News

° Hard Worker ® Experienced

Teachers, trustees

© Long Time'Resident © Family Man

NOTICE

TO WEST

KOOTENAY

RESIDENTS

We, the advisory planning com-
mission of electoral areas | and J,
together with the directors John
Voykin and Martin Vanderpol, en-
dorse the referendom of B.C.
ee paying taxes for hospital

ond s

joses and urge you to get out
support it.

ON SATURDAY, NOV. 19

VOTE YES

to meet

VICTORIA (CP) — Tea-
cher and trustee represen-
tatives will be invited to Vic-
toria to meet with Education
Minister Jack Heinrich for
discussions on future edu-
cation funding, Premier Bill
Bennett said Tuesday.

The meeting is the result
of a truce negotiated Sunday
between Bennett and the
Solidarity Coalition, the

Heinrich

early next week.

Bennett refused to ielab-
orate on charges he -made.
earlier in the day that a large
part of the statements, at-)
tributed to teachers federa-'
tion president Larry Kuehn
since the settlement,” were
erroneous.

GAINS CLAIMED

Kuehn claimed that signi-
ficant ne for teachers, were |

the ne

broadly-based
opposed to the Social Credit
government’s program-
cutting legislation.

The truce ended a two
week strike that paral

that Sa the strike\!
“It would not be conducive’ 4

to the type of settleme:

we' ‘ve got to start conducting,

government services in the
province, and was threat-
ening to mushroom into a
general strike.

Heinrich, who disclosed
that taxpayers had saved
about $18 million from a
three-day strike by teachers,
said he would be meeting
with representatives of the
B.C. School Trustees Asso-
ciation and the B.C. Teachers
Federation later this week or

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media, and ‘therefore wd
not going to be responding to
Mr, Kuehn,” Bennett told re-
porters,

He again refused to’specify
exactly which of the state-
ments made by Kuehn were
erroneous. .

Heinrich said the fate of
the money saved is currently

creases in insurance rates of about 50

Per cent.,Residents who now pay be-

tween;:$400 and $600 in insurance

- would, then see these costs cut in pal:
interim

berry every Thursday to teach volun-
teers a variety of lifesaving and fire-
fighting skills,
A committee organized last month to
fire

being, taken to provide the Blucberry
Creek community with some pro-
tection. A. utility trailer has been
donated by ‘a concerned resident and it
is being stocked with hoses and other
equipment. It will be stored in the ir-

ion options in the

wake of an Oct. 5 fire that levelled a

Blueberry house and left a family of six

homeless has established four “sub-
groups.”

These sub-groups include the volun-

teers or firepersons committee, the

community — awareness that firefight
ing is a need,” Streich said. He main-
tains, however, that “putting out a fire
is not enough.”

“We need trained individuals to save
lives . . . I think that’s where fire
protection really comes down and
that’s what we have to have.”

But in order to save lives, Streich
continued, the community must have
access to an organized volunteer fire

Street talk.
CASTLEGAR NATIVES just kee] ing up inthe
unlikeliest of. place. This esi Miten tek Holman 5 y 8
24-year-old president of the University of B.C.'s student
society, AMS, was featured in Allen Garr’s Vancouver
Province column, But it was probably not on Hetman's
list of high points for the’ week.
Garr reports in part, “The morning that teachers in
this province hit the bricks I clicked on CBC Radio to hear
.an interview with Mitch Hetman .. . The interviewer
seemed taken aback by the fact that the students at UBC
were flooding across union picket lines at that campus
and asked, ‘Didn't the AMS vote to support Solidarity?’ ”
Garr says Hetman's reply was, “Yes we did and at
that time it wasn't really... it was more ofa... to join so

that uh, we showed the bills that the government was’

passing were not in our, um, and in any way did we
support...”

Garr says he then contacted Hetman and asked him
what kind of response he had from his constituents after
the -radio interview.

Hetman’s reply: “I had one phone call from a student
saying, ‘Why don't you go die?’ "

HARRY RAMSDEN has moved Family Shoe: Repair
from its location next to Central Foods. The new location
is in the old Nellie’s Pizza shop at 956 Columbia Ave.

MOORE'S SERVICE station in Thrums has changed
hands. New owner is Gord Paetkau and the station is now

called Gord's Service. Gord hails from Chilliwack and has -

been in the mechanical service business for 20 years.

REGULAR READERS will recall'a mention in this
column a'iyear ago of the golfing record of an elderly
Slocan resident, Allan Merry.

. > He had beat his previous year’s record of 25 games at
the Valley View Golf Club at Winlaw ‘by playing 69°
rounds.

‘Well, Merry has set yet a couple more records.

For/one thing, he turned 98 on. Nov. 3, and for a
second thing he played his 156th game of the year this.
past ‘Saturday!

“The spry 98-year-old, who still lives in his own’: home |
(which he heats with wood that he cuts and splits), took
up ‘golf’about three years:ago and makes the 18-mile
round trip'to the course whenever he can.

UNDER ‘OUR. It's a Ill Wind that Doesn't Blow
Some Good:D.

CasNews.. publisher ‘Burt Campbell, who used to
represent the Arrow Lakes region in the B.C. legislature,
reports seeing a half dozen Nakusp residents shopping in
Castlegar last week. |

With the. Galena Bay ferry on the Revelstoke
highway north shut’ down. by the B.C. Government
Employees Union and the one at Fauquier suffering the
same fate and closing off Vernon to west-bound highway

traffic,” Nakusp residents. were coming south, for.

shopping.

. _NOITHAS NOT disappeared, in fact, Bosca Wisse
is now being operated out of the Main Street ‘Muffler:

‘ Castlegar Turbo service station at 1835 Columbia:'

Flegel and Ed Jones have taken over the operation of
Rent-a-Wreck, previously located in the former Feed! ‘and!
Tack building. across from city hall.

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committee and the protection inves-
tigation committee, which will be
working with the provincial fire

public

services complete with

trained personnal and the power
lifesaving equipment. >
“Training is not the only answer,” he

said. “We need special equipment.”

Ready to mediate local dispute

cd: -By CasNews Staff

b Selkitk College is hoping
with the arrival of profes-
sional mediator Vince Ready
a settlement‘ with striking

, B.C. Government Employees’
-Union members

bean be
reached by this weekend. If
so, classes could resume by
Monday.

Ready, one of the men who
presided over labor talks in

under di: noting that
the budget for the current
year is

the province-wide dispute
between the BCGEU and the
government, is to arrive in
Castlegar ‘Thureday after-

5 noon.

The BCGEU has been
without a “contract since

3 April. It ig asking for a 6.5
{4 per cent increase over 18
+ months, according:to the cole;3 ‘z:ployees from: other govern-

} lege. The BCGEU

vocatiozial instructors at the
college.
College principal Leo Per-

ra told board members Tues-,

day night that es-

the Castlegar picket line.
“Reports of alleged intimi-
dation of

inal Code of Canada.
* But Perra noted the issue
has heen with the

to be partly. responsible for
lower im .” he said in

pecially at Rosemont campus
are anxious to see the labor
dispute resolved.

He noted that he and other
board members are getting
calls from Rosemont students
who have not been in class
since late October when the
BCGEU decided to honor
picket lines set up by striking
Pulp, Paper and Woodwork-
ers of Canada members.

Perra also reported that
student numbers have been

« especially since

Nov. 8 when’ non-college em-

ment on

a written report.
the _ large

college's lawyer and it was
decided the issue is better
served by “not doing any-
thing at this mement.”

i at the Castle-

“In addition,
scale | by
involved the family members
of students. Students were

finding it difficult to cross ra.

picket lines established by

gar campus was “a little soft”
last week, according to Per-

‘About 90 to 95 per cent of
the stud have

fathers, mothers, or
sisters.”

It wad noted that- some
faculty as well as admin-
istration were also being in-
timidated.

Board member Bob Buck-
ley noted that threats and in-
timidation:in ajlabor dispute
is an offence under the Crim-

although some have decided
not to come back, while about
99 per cent of the faculty
association are back at work.

At DTUC, between 60 and
80 per cent of the students
have returned while many
faculty-are crossing’ the pic-
ket’ line.

ON THE RUN

Victim shot in back ©

CRANBROOK (CP) — Calgarian Jill
Venker suffered severe and painful
blows to her body before she was shot
through the back with high- velocity
rifle or handgun, a British Columbia
Supreme Court jury was told Tuesday.

Dr. William Currie, a Penticton

i testified: his
showed a fatal bullet entered through
Venker's left shoulder blade piercing
her heart and left lung and exiting
through her breast bone.

He said the shot was fired from “a
rifle or a high-velocity, high-powered
handgun” and death would have been
instantaneous.

Currie was the final

same day. Her body was discovered six
days later, near Golden about 55 kil-
ometres west of Lake Louise.

Currie told court Venker died at
least 86 hours before he ined her

The pathologist, who said Venker
was clad in a skirt, blouse, Drassiere

and shoes, said he found no evidence of

rape. ©

body Aug. 24, 1982, at the isolated
brush site where RCMP say they. were
taken by accused murderer John
Dixon earlier that day.

Currie said his findings indicated
Venker probably died at that location,

He found a number of bruises and
abrasions on her body, he said, most of
them inflicted before death. %

He said the majority of Venker's
pre-death injuries were on the left side

witness in the trial of John Dixon,
charged with first-degree murder in
the death of the 26-year-old rent-a-car
clerk.

Venker went missing while on a bus-
iness trip to Lake’ Louise, Alta., from
Calgary Aug. 18, 1982. Her car was
found abandoned on the Trans-Can-
ada Highway west of Banff, Alta, the

Invasion nearly
delayed one day

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S.

of her body, it a neck bruise he
described as a human bite.

Some bruises could have been caused
by a slap, others by a punch and some
by kicking or hitting with the knee, he
said,

The injuries would have been
painful and one large bruise on
Venker’s hip may have forced-her to
limp, ‘he said.

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Highway reopens

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the Oct. 25 invasion of Gre-

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termine if there were vaginal wounds.
The Crown alleges Venker was ab-
ducted, beaten and sexually peeatlted)
before she was shot. -
Karl Hummel of ROMP’s ime
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stain of human blood and human semen
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seized from Dixon. 3

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blood from the stain’ was consistent
with a blood sample taken from Jil
Venker.

Cross-examined by defence counsel

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blood type was found in one of every 22
Caucasians. i
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. after floods

WEST VANCOUVER
(CP) — The Squamish High-
way reopened this morning
after it was closed Tuesday
when heavy rains and melt-
ing snow damaged three
bridges and- forced evacu-
ation of about a dozen people
from their homes.

It was the latest in a long
string of floods that have
claimed 12 lives in the last
two years on the winding
mountain highway that con-

nects Horseshoe Bay with;

Squamish, about 60 kilome-
tres north of here.

RCMP said three bridges
on the highway — at Charles,
Newman and Sunset Creeks

“With the two programs under one roof, parents will
find it a natural progression for their children to attend
che children's genre after ‘graduating’ from the Infant
»" the release said.

- d some
damage in the flooding.
The swollen and debris-
filled creeks began receding
after raihs let up Tuesday
night. About a third of a
metre of mud covered one
main bridge, which was hold-
ing firm, said Squamish
ROMP Sgt. Frank Kelley.
Three bridges below the
Squamish Highway in the
community of Strachan

‘other children.

continued.

Over the a year Hobbit Hill has introduced its
fully integrated program in which children with
handicaps are able to participate in all activities with

“With this approach, we are seeing children with
handicaps make pesitive growth in the skills needed for
daily living, while typical children gain acceptance and
understanding of those less fortunate,” the release

Pledges can be phoned into 856-8270 or 865-7280 and
pledge sheets are available at West's Travel, the Rec-
reation office and Hobbit Hill Centre.

key Pentagon officials con-
sidered delaying the oper-
ation for another day, says
the U.S. Army's chief of staff.

The idea was dismissed to
avoid giving the already
alerted enemy “another day
of better defences,” .Gen.
John Wickham said ‘Tuesday
in an interview.

While technical _intelli-
gence-gathering capabilities
are rapidly expanding, “the
human side probably has not

human intelligence capabil-
ity.”.

The intelligence deficiency
was particularly alarming in
view of the fact that last
“March, President Reagan
publicly showed surveillance
photos suggesting an arms
buildup in the southern por-
tion of the island.

With less than 48 hours for
troops to be briefed, “there
really was very little time to
insert some ‘tourists’ or to
insert some agents to gather
intelligence,” Wickham said.

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way span, were washed out
by the floods. And a house
was damaged structurally
when mud piled up outside
the building.

Six adults and four. chil-
dren were lifted by Canadian
Coast Guard hovercraft from
the area south of Lions Bay
when access bridges, washed
out by swollen . Charles
Creek, made it i ible to

Forestry talks
are continuing.

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Forest industry negotiations
are continuing this week, al-
most five months after col-
lective with the

There are only three days
of bargaining left before a
21-day mortatorium on job
action by the Pulp, Paper and

leave by road.

three forest unions expired.

Notice of City Election

SATURDAY, NOV. 19

& a.m. to 8 p.m.
POLL AT THE COMMUNITY COMPLEX

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Ww of Canada ex-
Pires Friday.

Union president Jim Sloan
said Monday there must be
real progress in bargaining
this week because some of his
members in the mills are be-
coming restless. _

Last month, the pulp in-
dustry locked out the 5,500-
member unfon after the
PPWC struck two mills in
Prince George and Gold Rier.

The contract negotiations
cover the International
Woodworkers of America,
the pulp union and the Can-
adian Paperworkers Union,
representing a total of 54,600
workers in B.C.

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