Saturday, June 6, 1992 &@ Calling all true blue Canadians! The News wants to know about your best tru- ly Canadian experience. And we're willing to make it worth your while. Returning home after serving in the military ... watching Paul Hender- son's electrifying goal against the Russians in 1972... gazing in awe from the lookout at Idaho Point in mid-July ... strolling along the busy streets of Expo ... receiving Canadi- an citizenship ... They're the kinds of memories we cherish ... Whether your special memory is of a public event like Canada Day or a private moment like your return from abroad, we'd like you to share it with our readers. Send us a short de- scription — no more than 250 words — of your best truly Canadian experi- ence. The best entry will receive an exciting tour of the highlights of the beau- tiful West Kootenay aboard a Kootenay Air- ways Cessna 172. 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Carpenters banking on credit union creating jobs Jonathan Green NEWS REPORTER Local carpenters want to be a part of constructing the new Castle- gar Savings Credit Union building. To get that message across, members of the United Brother- hood of Carpenters Local 2300 were in front of the present credit union building Thursday, asking mem- bers for their support to have the new building union constructed. “It’s our policy to get any new construction happening to be union,” said spokesman Gil Arnold. Arnold said the credit union was union founded, and that the better part of its members are either trade or union members. “A lot of the members would like to see the credit union return to the principles that created it,” he said. “We’re very, very hopeful (the con- struction) will go union.” Credit union manager Lorne Myhra said he had no qualms with the carpenters. “I have no problem with what they’re doing,” he said. “They’re quite free to put forth their case.” Arnold said the carpenters will stay put until they feel they have been recognized. “We'll persist until it appears we've made some headway.” News photo by. Jonathan Green Members of the local carpenters union were in front of the Castlegar Savings Credit Union building Thursday, asking members for their support when it comes time for construction of the new credit union. HEU finally settles i Local Hospital Employees Union chair unhappy with vote totals as HEU accepts government contract.offer Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER After being without a contract for over a year, the Hospital Em- ployees’ Union is ready to settle. HEU members overwhelmingly accepted Wednes- That number .was lower in Castlegar, but still not low enough to please local chair Jean Weir. “This makes me sick,” Weir said, noting that Castlegar mem- bers voted 77 per cent in favor of acceptance. “I was hoping it would pass by 53 per cent so we would send the government a message.” However, Weir said that only 48 of a possible 123 members voted, and suggested frustration was to mate,” he said. “Take a look at what’s happen- ing in the public sector. There are cutbacks all over.” Weir said she would love to look at the public sector. “City workers just signed a new contract for three per cent a year over the next three years,” she said. “That’s great compared to what we got.” The HEU ratification means they have accepted a 52 day an April 21 pro- posal made by spe- cial conciliator Stephen Kelleher. Kelleher was ‘ap- pointed by Labor Minister Moe Sihota ‘It was pretty well ‘You take it or you get nothing.’ I don’t know. I guess they think we’re at the bottom of the barrel.’ cent per hour raise retroactive to April 1, 1991, a 31 cent per hour raise and a one per cent classification adjustment — Local HEU chair Jean Weir. in 1992, and a wage re- opener in 1993, when- after the Health La- bor Relations Association claimed HEU job action was having a neg- ative impact on B.C. hospitals and causing undue stress on patients. “The membership realized that this was-the best offer they were going to get,” said Kootenay union representative Heather Suggitt. “Our ratification vote was a lit- tle more than 80 per cent in favor of acceptance.” blame for poor turnout. “It was pretty well ‘you take it or you get nothing,’ ” Weir said. _ “I don’t know. I guess they (the HLRA) think we’re at the bottom of the barrel.” But HLRA spokesman Martin Livingston said that just isn’t the case. “I think this is an extremely fair settlement in this economic cli- wage negotiations will resume. The agreement would also see $26 million in pay equity adjust- ments go to the 29,000 HEU mem- bers affected by the contract. The HLRA is now voting on whether they will make Kelleher’s proposition official, but Livingston feels confident. “I’m certain our members will ratify it,”"he said. Local man convicted on sex charges NEWS STAFF A retired Castlegar man has been convicted on five counts of sexual assault. William Alex Jmieff, 66, was convicted in Nelson Supreme Court Monday. “I’m relieved actually,” said the mother of one of the six- year-old victims who cannot be identified under Canadian law. “My daughter was quite wor- ried that he would do it to some- one else.” Crown counsel John Tillman said the case was important. “This was good in the sense that sometimes child cases are perceived to be difficult,” Till- _man said.“That obviously works in favor of the perpetrator, so we're glad there was a convic- tion.” It is believed the school dis- trict’s Care program, which teaches children about assault, helped lead to a conviction. Jmieff will be sentenced on three of his convictions June 16.