anh ca Castlegar News _ Janvory 28, 1990 rs NURSING GRADS . completed their two-and-ha . Twenty-seven'students with the Selkirk Coll Ht-year-ong course seoentty and received pins and scrolls 6. during a graduation ceremony in Nelson Dec. | Nursing students pinned at ceremony Departmental graduation ceremonies for those completing the two-and-and-half year long nursing program at Selkirk College were held im-Nelson Dec. 16 at the Capitol Théarfe. Twenty-seven students received college nursing pins and scrolls during the hour-long ceremony that was em ceed by nursing instructor Kathleen Pinckney Greetings were delivered by Margaret Nickle, fread of the college's allied health department. Guest speakers were Roberta Hamilton, public health nurse in Nelson, and Jill Peregrym, college nursing instructor and the Kootenay representative of the board of directors of the Registered Nurses Association of B.C Class valedictorian was Catherine Vatkin of Grand Forks and the nurses’ prayer was recited by Ray Kohout. A vocal tribute to their classmates was performed by Marilyn Rezansoff and Mary Joy Bowman of Castlegar. Dr. Don Mitchell, biology instructor and concert violinist, provided musical ac- companiment for the affair: Official diplomas will be awarded the graduates at Selkirk Colles? graduation ceremonies in June. In addition to Vatkin, Rezansoff and Bowman, those receiving scrolls and pins included: Carrie Batchelor of Castlegar, Ron Bergan of Rossland, Sharon Conciof Rosstand, Lucille Cr- Glade, Alice Dugdale of Erickson, Richard Ewings of Rossland, Linda Gatto of Creston, Diane Guglielmi and Gilbert Jardim of Castlegar, Eileen Johnson of Creston, Ray Kohout of Nakusp, Sheila Koot- nikoff of Nelson, Cynthia Kryski of Trail, Karen Lees-Madley of Nelson, Milly Macleod of Trail, IvaiMakor- toff of Castlegar, Linda Martin of Creston, Meridef Morin of Castlegar, Dorothy Mozel of Nelson, Andrea Neil of Montrose, Sharron Ray of Nelson, Pauline Riley of Nelson, Joan ni of nursing program Rogers of Castlegar and Sharon Thomas of Trail. Two nursing awards were presented at the ceremony. The RNABC award for professionalism went to Vatkin. The Selkirk College Nursing Faculty award was presented to Rezansoff. According to Nickle, many students have accepted full-time employment as nurses in communities in B.C. and Alberta and started their new jobs at the beginning of the year: The remain- der are employed locally and also have started work, usually on a part-time basis New . officers installed Twin Rivers Lodge No. 70 Knights of Pythias and Kootenay Temple No 37, Pythian Sisters, conducted a joint Grad profiles The Castlegar News continues its series of profiles of the Stanley LINK LAMPMAN Name: Link Lampman Future plans: College Interests: Weightlifting, and summer Likes: Roadtrips with friends to undesignated areas of the world Dislikes: Cops and Molawks Astrological sign: Pisces Birthdate: March 10, 1971 Favorite music: All kinds Exotic fantasy: To be rich, move to a tropical island and live the high-life Words of advice: It's always fun until someone loses an eye! skiing y school g: The students who appear in the profiles are selected at random by the SHSS Grad Council. g class of 1990. JERRY RENWICK Name: Jerry Renwick Future plans: Most well-known businessman on Wall Street Interests: music and money Likes: Road trips and stereos Dislikes: Slow drivers and over zealous policemen Astrological sign: Capricorn Birthdate: Jan. 19, 1972 Favorite music: Rock andrap Exotic fantasy: To own all the major businesses in North America at 18 and still remain anonymous Words of advice: It’s not what you do but how much you make loud Here's My Card .. FALCON PAINTING & DECORATING 2649 CASTLE GAR A.M. FORD SALES LTD. yah McHWAY onive e271 364-0202 TOLL Free 1-800-663-4966 AVE YOU ORIVEN A FORD Lae, y FOURTH 8 of officers for 1990 in the Masonic Hall with guests from Trail, Salmo, Fruitvale and Grand chief Doris Dimock in attentiance. Prior to the installation, guests were treated to a potluck supper. Installing officers for Twin Rivers Lodge No. 70 were acting grand secretary M McKenzie (Trail Lodge No. 23) in- stalling officer PGC Mike Yakim- chuck (Trail Lodge No. 23), grand master at arms John Saliken and acting grand prelate Slim Thomas, both of Twin Rivers Lodge No. 70 Installed officers were chancellor commander Peter Majesgey, vice- chancellor Gordon Ferguson, secretary Seamen Dewis, treasurer Cecil Bradford, financial secretary Al Richards, master of work Michael Bycroft, master of arms Anton Sch- wiertz, prelate Bill Bowolin, guard (acting) Alex Gleboff, guard Earl LeRoy (absent) Installing officers for the Pythian Sisters were acting grand chief Jan Neumann, acting grand manager Ora Lightle, acting grand senior Lil Neumann and acting grand secretary Michael Bycroft New officers were musician Joan Marks, guard Pat Moore, protector Mary Gleboff, manager (pro tem) Edith Ferguson (serving in the absence of Pat Verzuh), treasurer Inis McAdam, secretary Rose Soberlak, excellent junior Jean Jones, excellent senior Myrtle Thomas, most excellent chief Joy Saunders and past chief Susan Bycroft On behalf of Kootenay Temple No 37, Saunders presented Bycroft with a gift in recognition of all her work during the past two years Following the _ installation ceremonies a social evening was held with bingo and refreshments inner outer Kinnaird students fill honor roll Kinnaird Junior secondary school has announced its honor roll for the first term. Students receiving first-class honors maintained a 4.0 (B) average out of five. Students reciving second-class honors maintairied an average of 3.5 out of five. None of the students named to the honor roll could have a failing grade in any subject The following students were named: GRADES First Class Melissa Andrews, Derek Ar- mstrong, Jon Austin, Todd Bon- daroff, Melanie Brownlie, Christine Brownlie, Nancy Chang, Trudy Clow, Ricky Fuath, Peter Frietas, Rolf Hart- man, Jan Holden, Jit Imrie. Leona Jones, Jaclyn Kalesnikoff, Utako Kambara, Laura Kosowan, Tina Labine, Simon Laurie, Shawn Mosby, Averil Sheppard,. Josh Sookero, Melanie Strelive, Sara Vatkin, Lee Anne White, David Zoobkoff. Second Class Yaro Bailey, Lori Baker, Mark Carlson, Daryl Carter, Jeremy Finney, Christopher Kling, Mary MacDonald, Mark Perrier, Brian Roberts, Roxanne “| Wiebe, Cheryl Zibin. 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By CasNews Staff Union employees at four Kootenay Savings Credit Unions were back at work today following a. one-day work stoppage Tuesday to protest the suspension of a Fruitvale branch loans officer and steward of Local 9090 of the United Steelworkers of America over what credit union officials call a breach of confidentiality A meeting with the Industrial Relations Council to air the issue, scheduled for today, was cancelled af- ter the employees returned to work, Kootenay Savings chief executive of- INSIDE Minister on trial page A2 Lottery numbers The winning numbers drawn 4 Bs wee | 22, 32 and 41. | ficer and treasurer Doug Stanley said Disciplinary action against the union members for Tuesday’s work stoppage ‘‘has to be addressed,’” Stanley added. The union has long-range plans to back up Tuesday’s protest but will not disclose those plans ahead of time, union spokesman Susan Carrigan said today The union called the protest at the Castlegar, Trail, Waneta and Fruitvale branches a ‘‘study session.’’ Union members provided information sheets on the issue to members of the public entering the credit unions. However, credit union officials consider the protest an illegal strike, Stanley said Tuesday afternoon. The union had not informed the credit union its members would be back at work as of closing time Tuesday, Stanley added Stanley said the credit unions were open Tuesday for ‘‘business a3 usual” but service was a little slower than normal because management person: nel were manning the wickets. The protest was over the one-month suspension of Cheryl G a , Kootenay Savings Credit Union workers, members of the United Steelworkers of America, hit the street Tuesday in Castlegar to protest the suspension of a fellow worker at the Fruitvale branch. con rary Union members return to work is an internal matter and he declined tc comment on the nature of the case The information Gallamore gave the IRC was confidential, as is infor- mation about credit union members, Stanley said The discipline for such a disclosure would be the same if the employee in- volved was in a management position, he said “This is not an ‘us’ and ‘them’ issue,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s a matter of con- fidentiality.”* All credit union employees, both union members and management per sonnel, are expected to keep such in- formation confidential and in Gallamore’s case ‘‘trust has been breached,”’ Stanley said **Imagine the repercussions to the credit union” if such information was not kept in confidence, Stanley said, adding that the IRC had no right to the information without issuing a sub: poena However, the union says members of the credit union “‘are entitled to that information and could request it at an union steward and a member of the union bargaining committee. Gallamore was suspended after providing information on management wages to the IRC ‘‘tor the purposes of defending an ap- plication to the TRC by Kooteffay Savings,” the union said Stanley said the issue before the IRC annual mem p meeting.” The time off work Tuesday was used to ‘‘lay out our continued support ¢for Gallamore) and plan of action to fight this employer,” the union says. **We as co-workers of Gallamore and members of USWA, Local 9090, cannot sit idly by and condone this vicious attack on our sister."* Facelift plans will be revised to cut costs By CLAUDETTESANDECKI Staff Writer Plans for the upgrading of Stanley Humphries secondary school will be revised in the next few weeks to cut the cost down to a level the Ministry of Education has indicated it would be willing to fund, superintendent of schools Terry Wayling said Tuesday The most recent estimate of the planned upgrading was $9 million and the ministry will not pay for upgrading that is almost the price of building a new school, Wayling said Ministry officials have suggested the government would be willing to fund a project of about $5.8 million, he said. The concerns over costs were discussed at a meeting last week that included ministry representatives, Castlegar trustees, and staff and mem- bers of an architectural firm from Vic- toria that is advising the school board on the project, Wayling said The architects told the group the high level of construction activity in B.C. has caused costs to increase significantly, Wayling said. Costs are rising by about one per cent per month and in September, October and November last year alone costs jumped 10 per cent around the province, local school officials weretold As well, renovation: projects represent more risk for contractors and workers and therefore are more costly than new construction, Wayling said the architects noted The group identified 70 items in the Project that will be re-evaluated and possibly cut back or eliminated, Wayling said The items will include replacing doors and retiling floors, he said, ad ding that a. $400,000, re-roofing Proposal may be eliminated from the renovation budget and put under another part of the board's overall budget However, not every reduced or eliminated and item can be “we'll just By SIMON BIRCH Editor Castlegar city council Monday voted unanimously to rezone property next to the Sandman Inn to allow a developer to build a 60,000-square- foot shoppifg mall. Council called the special meeting at the request of the developer whose op- tions-to purchase property needed for the mall expire at the end of January. Despite agreeing that the city should rezone the property, council members wrestled with the principle of holding a special meeting at a developer's request. They also broke what has become a tradition of deferring decisions on rezoning requests until they have reviewed the minutes of public hearings on the requests. The issue was further complicated because council had to split the rezoning bylaw into two parts to ap- prove the rezoning for the mall because the bylaw dealt with two separate rezoning requests involving different projects. “We're meeting specially tonight at the request of a developer who's said to us, ‘My options are running out,” Ald, Terry Rogers said. ‘It is a matter of principle.” However, Rogers and other couneit members pointed out there was{no public opposition, to the rezoning request for the mail property at the public hearing Jan. 23 and said council likely would have voted on the matter that evening had it known it could legally deal with the bylaw in two parts Ald, Lawrence Chernoff said he doesn’t feel council set 4 precedent by holding the special meeting. “If, to me, it’s for the betterment of the community then that decision has to be made,"’ he said. The proposed mall would contain 20 to 24 retail stores, including two “‘major’’ national tenants, developer Sandy Reid of Vancouver told council at the public hearing. However, he declined to name the major retailers at that time. Reid said that if he. got quick ap- proval of the rezoning, construction of the $7 million mall could be‘completed by September Reid said the project will employ 200 people during construction and about 100 when built. ° o Campagnolo touts Martin as leader By SIMON BIRCH Editor Delegates to the Liberal leadership convention June 23 in Calgary must select a leader capable of britiging Quebec back to the negotiating table if the Meech Lake con- stitutional accord is not ratified, former party president Iona Campagnolo said. ‘West= Liberats in Speaking at a luncheon Monday hosted by Kootenay ei who is co-chairman of the Paul Martin leadership campaign, More in Street talk, A3 said the new Quebecers. leader must be someone respected by “If it (the Meech Lake accord) fails on the 23rd of June, the day we select our next leader,"” Campagnolo said, “*we have to have a leader capable of picking up the pieces and putting Quebec back in the picture. We have to have somebody with enough credibility in Quebec to make it possible for us to have another agreement."’ Campagnolo, for thejob. the former MP from Skeena in British Columbia, made it clear she thinks Martin, 51, is the man She said Martin, a Montreal-area MP, best represents the traditional Liberal philosophy of a balance between economic and social issues. “The Canadian people have Liberalism when we have best balanced the economic and Campagolo told the gathering of about 25 at the social,”” the Uplander Hotel. Campagnolo said many people expected her to sup: port Jean Chretien in the leadership race because of her long supported vious," she said. remark that Chretien is ** “I never thought there was any fault in stating the ob- 1ONA CAMPAGNOLO . supports Martin first in our hearts."" ‘*Jean Chretien has a warm place in the hearts of all Liberals and always will have." However, association with L long association with the former cabinet minister and her she implied that Chretien, because of his iberal regimes of the past, is not the can- continued on page A2 Castlegar library gets set for high-tech By CLAUDETTESANDECKI Staff Writer The Castlegar Public Library is going high tech with the acquisition of a computer, modem and printer from the Ministry, of Municipal Affairs, Recreation and Culture that will link Castlegar with libraries around B.C., head librarian Judy Wearmouth told library board members and guests during their annual general meeting and dinner at the Legion Hall Monday night The Castlegar computer and similar systems for about 70 other libraries around B.C., bought with a grant of $185,000 to the B.C. Library Association from the ministry, will enable the libraries to establish an in. terlibrary loan network, a ministry news release says. The network will have access to all major library collections across Canada, the release adds. The Castlegar library already has the equipment and staff members will be instructed on how to use it next week, Wearmouth told the Castlegar News. Wearmouth added she did not know when the network will be in operation Reading from her yearly report, Wearmouth told the meeting cir culation and library memberships in: creased in 1989. Circulation hit 98,222 last year while 1,583 people became members for a membership total of 4,709, she said. However, Wearmouth pointed out that the increase in circulation was more dramatic in 1988, based on library services branch statistics. Castlegar library's per capita cir culation of 14.7 in 1988 was the fourth highest in B.C Circulation rose to 94,310 in 1988 while 1,709 new members joined the library for a membership total of 3,932 The library spent $34,000 on books, close to 4,500 on magazines and papers and almost $2,000 for audio and video items, the annual report's financial records show The libary now boasts 40,380 books, paperbacks and audio and video tapes following the purchase of 3,000 books in 1989, not including donated items, the annual shows As well, the library now has a 147 item audio and video section which Wearmouth said has very popular’’ with children’s continued on page A2 close to report “proved videos Tax would replace membership fees By CasNews Staff A proposed bylaw Saturday's meeting of the Regional District of Central Kootenay board of directors would tax residents of rural to help introduced at areas surrounding Castlegar finance the operation and maintenan ce of the Castlegar Public Library If approved, the tax Would eliminate the current membership fees the library charges Castlegar city limits to use the library The library currently charges $20 per year for families who live Castlegar city limits and $15 for in dividual memberships. The prorated for people who join part way through the year The library is currently extending memberships to the end of March for rural members while the regional district bylaw is pending. librarian Kay Mealing said today residents outside outside fees are The proposed bylaw would establish a maximum annual tax levy of $13,200 for Area J and $8,800 for Areal Regional district administrator Reid Henderson said Tuesday the proposed tax would cost the owner of a home valued at $50,000 an annual tax of $6in Areal and $11 inarea J The apportionment — 60 per cent to Area J and 40 per cent to Area I — is based on a number of factors including values, the number of rural assessment properties in the areas, population and the numbér of library users in each area, Henderson said The regional district arrived at the figures after consultation library board, he said Before the regional district hoard can adopt the bylaw it must notify the public through what is called a‘ in which the public has with the ‘coun. ter-petition™ continued on pege A2