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The constant reader

In newspapers of some years
ago there used to be frequent
references to someone by the
name of “constant reader.

There would be letters to the
editor signed in that way, and
there would be editorial re’
ces to this unidentified person.

A remark by someone who is a
“constant reader of the Castlegar
News” gave us pause for editorial
thought this past week.

Constant reader suggested our
municipal councils today lack the
decisive drive of yesteryear's, that
our chiet magistrates aren't, on the
whole, of the gungho type that we
used to know; that municipal coun-
cils in the West Kootenay all suffer
from bureaucratic constipation.

He suggested that councils, in-
stead of making quick decisions,
paper shuffle and tend to resemble
slower, more senior levels of
government. They refer matters to
committee and to study “by staff”
that they used to take a few
minutes to go out and look at per-
sonally on the ground, and let
some alderman make the decision.

In short, municipal councils in
general have become so
bur ic that they mistaken!
believe the paper dance is
progress, and that talk is the same
as action.

Constant reader asked: “Where
are the Carl Loeblichs, the Arnold
Laurientes, and the Joe Palygas of
yesterday? Even Louis Maglio
seems to wring his hands instead
of rolling up his shirt sleeves the
way he used

The questions are good ones.

Castlegar,
Salmo, Montrose, Trail, Slocan,
Kalso, Nelson, New Denver, Silver-
ton and Nakusp need oa shot of
adreneline.

Taxpayer dollars would be well
spent bringing in a positive
thinking practitioner to a special
Association of Kootenay
Municipalities meeting. Too many
of our municipal people need a

shot of ‘“get-up-and-go pills.”
Those that don’t (and Eric O'Dell of
Warfield with his Greek costume
and chariot at the recent Trail
Chamber of Commerce annual
meeting comes to mind), are get-
ting dragged down.

Come on, municipal people.
Start making quick decisions, start
asking how things can be done in-
stead of offering reasons as to why
positive action must be delayed.
Let's cut the references to commit-
tees and staff by 80 per cent, and
let's see decisions made at council

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reasonable discussion.

Let's bring the latter half of the
‘80s into the twentieth century
before the twenty-first is upon us.

An offer
you can
refuse

Howard Crosby made Canad-
ians an offer this week that very
few wouldn't refuse. The MP from
Halifax West says there a lot of
people who wouldn't mind paying
more taxes if it would reduce the
national debt. :

Mr. Crosby's proposal to make
it easy for Canadians to pay off the
debt by making debt donations tax
deductible spawns all sorts of in-
teresting ideas.

For instance, why not a tax
deduction for Castlegar residents
who want to help pay off the city's
loan on the industrial park.

Of course, we could always
make donations to pay off the
provincial debt tax deductible os
well. What's good for Ottawa
should be good for Victoria.

And why shouldn't donations
to pay off individual family debts
be included as long as we're going
to raise taxes? Who knows where
it all could end?

Fred
Merriman

Stories are where you find them.
Sorry, Burt, this time Kaslo is the
setting and Sam Rota is the man of
the hour. It matters not that this
particular retiree just happened to
work for a locally-owned utility
company. It's the human side of the
ceremony that invokes some res.
ponse on my part.

Yes, we heard some roasting and
quite a few interesting facts. Man-
agement and compadres offered
testimonies about yet one more of
the many colorful frontline ser-
geants who helped make the second
largest hydroelectric company in
British Columbia what it is today.

For those of you who take your
lights for granted, you may be
interested to hear some of the opin-
ions that were expressed last Sat-
urday evening in the Legion Hall in
Kaslo: Sam Rota, WKPL District
Supervisor (ret’d), never lost an
argument. Mayor Jack Morris told a
packed house that he would dis
agree with Sam until three o'clock in
the morning. Finally, Jack would
announce that Sam was correct and
the argument was settled.

The principal of the high school
paid tribute to the former alderman,
chairman of the hospital board and
fisherman with compliments about
the six children of the Rota family
who all in turn “increased in wisdom
and stature and in favor with God
and man.”

There were some in the audience
who squirmed in guilt over that
tribute because many of us can't
seem to manage two out of three.
Sam and his faithful wife Margaret
managed six out of six. It seemed to
me that Mr. and Mrs. Rota shared
the tributes and honors.

ition was made ning
the early hour telephone calls taken

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by Margaret and announcing that
power lines were down in a howling
blizzard. I understood that she kept
the coffee on and the hot soup ready
for the return of crew and captain at
assignment’s end.

One chap at head office had tried
to snaffle an old WKPL sign to bring
to the testimonial. He wanted it to
be repainted to read, “Kaslo Power
and Light Co. Ltd.” S. Rota, propri-
etor.

The most memorable part of the
evening for those of us who only
thought they knew the man came
near the close when two of his
former linemen, who journeyed
some distance, gave witness.

The first speaker — not accus.
tomed to addressing large audiences
— said, “We never felt we worked
for Sam Rota we worked with him.”
The other said, “He used to call me
Kid and treated me like a son.”
Those two rough, tough linemen
each said goodbye to Sam in public
with a comradely hug. I told Sam
later, it was enough to make a
grown man cry.

At the end of it all, Sam Rota
closed with a word of gratitude for
his wife and a sincere short state
ment expressing his surprise and
appreciation for all those who at.
tended to honor him. He said
“Thank you.”

We honored the men with a
standing round of hearty applause,
not because he was a hero or a king,
but because he was just an ordinary
guy. Sam Rota did what he could to
keep the lights on and make life just
a little bit easier for all of us. All, in
that room, knew that he was
successful on both counts and that
the company will be somewhat less
without Sam Rota, district super.
visor, Kaslo, B.C.

REAL ESTATE TO BLAME

Banking in crisis

By GORD McINTOSH

Just as NSF cheques happen to the
nicest people, so do banking crises in
countries priding themselves on finan-
cial safety, as we learned last week
with the near collapse of Canadian
Commercial Bank.

It may not have been like the movies
with mobs of people outside Canadian
Commercial’s grey, fortress-like head-
quarters in Edmonton screaming for
their money. But the $255-million res-
cue of Canada’s 10th-largest bank
couldn't have come at a worse time for
the keepers of the system.

Ottawa had just appointed a private-
sector committee headed by Vancouver
stockbroker Robert Wyman to do an
overhaul of the deficit-plagued Canada
Deposit Insurance Corp.

The 18-year-old insurance fund is
still reeling from the Greymac affair, in
which the Ontario government seized
three trust companies. The $650 million
it had to dish out to fill deposit claims
ate up its accumulated surplus and left
it with a deficit of $332 million.

Barbara McDougall, the minister of
state for finance, has said candidly in
an interview that the state of the
deposit insurance corporation became
an urgent priority very early in the life
of the Tory government — both for its
financial condition and the way it
regulates financial institutions.

In the past eight months, federal and
provincial regulators have had to
contend with trust company failures in
Manitoba and Saskatchewan, credit
union bailouts in Alberta, emergency
sale of a small Ontario trust company,
the provincially sponsored it
of a medium-sized Alberta trust
company and the 11th-hour takeover
and refinancing of the Bank of British
Columbia last summer.

To add to the urgency, Western
Capital Trust of Vancouver folded last
Friday owing $77 million to depositors.

All of the institutions, most of them
small, fell victim to bad Alberta real
estate loans.

Bad Alberta real estate assets are on
the books of almost every financial in-
stitution in the country. The Royal
Bank of Canada, this country’s largest,
for example, had problem loans in
Alberta worth $567 million last year,
according to its annual report. That's
more than the loans of some debtor
countries.

But as Gerald Bouey, governor of the
Bank of Canada, noted in a rare
interview last week, large institutions
with their diversified asset bases and
huge pools of capital can cope. The
smaller institutions, often existing for
the sole purpose of providing financial
development to undercapitalized parts
of the country, can't.

The federally led rescue team iden-
tified $544 million worth of problem
loans on Canadian Commercial's books
— the $255 million goes solely to cross
the line of solvency. Gerald McLau-
ghlan, the bank’s president, says the
overriding problem with his institution
and others like it is lack of diversity.

Energy loans in the southwestern
United States were among the things
that were supposed to help. Instead,
the energy loans turned out to be the
straw that broke the camel's back
when they suddenly turned sour
because of falling world oil prices,
McLaughlan says.

Douglas Day, president of Western
Capital Trust, says it now will be very
difficult for trust companies to raise
investment.

Although there is no suggestion that
they are in the same situation as Cana.
dian Commercial, such institutions as
Northland Bank will have a hard time
raising investment money, says Pat
McKeough, editor of Personal Wealth
Reporter, a Toronto investment advice
newsletter. “How will investors know
they are not (in bad shape?)”

Clearly, financial regulators need to
take a hard look at everything from
disclosure requirements to prudential
reserves if the country’s bank and trust
systemgas we know it is to survive.

(Canadian Press)

Letters to the Editor .

Federal government
run by hypocrites

. News:

I attended the Peace Update on
Sunday in Trail. It was the first time I
had ever attended such an event. It
really is an eye opener to what our
government is doing in the arms race.

We are supposed to be a country
which wants peace, but our military
budget is $9.6 billion for fiscal year
1985-86. Canada ranks within the top
20 per cent of world military spenders
when measured on per capita basis,
and ranks around 10 per cent in total
dollars spent.

These figures make me wonder,
when our government talks about
peace. It would look like our govern
ment is run by hypocrites. It is proven
that countries which have the highest
military spending have the lowest
rates of economic growth. Also,
military spending is said to be a benefit

to the economy and provide jobs, but
this is found not to be true over the
long term.

These are only a few things I learned
from the peace update. I would hope
that more people could have a chance
to have their eyes opened to the arms
race in Canada. It was disappointing to
only see one alderman from the area
attend the peace update. If we want
disarmament everyone is going to have
to get involved (teachers, doctors,
municipal officials, provincial officials
and of course the people of Canada).

If our government spent less on the
military our unemployment rate
wouldn't be at 20 to 30 per cent in this
area. The government could use this
money for real job creation. Please get
involved.

Todd Wallace
Trail

Quotable Quotes

JACK MUNRO, president of the
Interational Woodworkers of America,
came up with the best line at the recent
national economic conference in Ot
tawa.

Labor and management are like
partners in a marriage, Chief Justice
Alan Gold of Quebee Superior Court
was telling a workshop. Like it or not,
they must stay together for the sake of
the children (the economy)

Okay, replied, Munro, “but labor
would like to change positions once in a
while.”

CONSERVATIVE MP Howard Cros.
by wants to make it easy for you to

give the government a hand in
reducing the national debt by making
debt donations tax-deductible.

Crosby, the member for Halifax
West, introduced a resolution during
private members’ hour this week to
amend the Income Tax Act to provide
tax deductions for money contributed
solely for the purpose of reducing the
debt.

“There are a lot of people who say
they don't mind paying more taxes if
it’s used to reduce the debt,” Crosby
said. “Maybe if they had a vehicle to
participate directly in reduction of the
deficit, they could act themselves.

Headline
inaccurate

Editor, Castlegar News:

In response to your front page article
of March 27 titled “Lack of Seedlings —
Forest Renewal Ignored in B.C.,” I
suggest that the headline draws an in-
accurate conclusion and is unneces.
sarily negative.

If seedlings are not available for
Selkirk College's forestry program, it
is likely that the college either re-
quested the seedlings too late, or plan.
ned to plant an area which the Ministry
of Forests considered to have a low
priority. A more logical conclusion to
draw from Selkirk's lack of seedlings is
that these seedlings are in high
demand by both industry and govern
ment and therefore reforestation must
be going strong in B.C.

Although the government, forest
industry and general public could all be
making greater contributions to the
renewal of B.C.'s forests, it is not cor-
rect to conclude that this work is being
ignored. Every year an increasing
number of trees are planted, and the
B.C. Ministry of Forests has been en
couraging private nurseries to help
meet the demand for seedlings.

Perhaps a more appropriate headline
would have been “Castlegar Supports
Increased Forest Renewal,” a state
ment which makes positive inferences
about both the City of Castlegar and
the progress of forest renewal in B.C.
Isn't it common knowledge that undue
criticism rarely produces positive re.
sults?

J. Hipwell
Forest Tech.
Castlegar

Remember
When?

35 YEARS AGO
From the April 6, 1950
News
Castlegar Building Supply display
ad reads: “We have a choice lot for you
at Kinnarid, right alongside the main
highway. This lot is all ready for you to
start building on. Just bring your plan
in to us today. Prices to suit your
means. House and lot complete from
$3,000 to $8,000."
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Mr. Joe Klasson, building super-
intendent for contractors on the new
high school building, says preference is
given, in hiring, to local taxpayers who
are in need of work. The building will
be in full operation after Easter.
. .

Mr. George Atcheson has been ap-
pointed by the board of directors of the
Castlegar Cooperative Transportation
Society as supervisor of all drivers’
classes. Since the Village is growing so
rapidly, more buses will be needed in
the future; therefore, more drivers will
be required and the Drivers’ School
conducted by Mr. Atcheson will meet
the hecessary requirements.

25 YEARS AGO
From the April 7, 1960
Castlegar News

West's Dept. Store was dynamited
during the early hours of April 2 with
an estimated damage of $3,000. Al-
though Cpl. Angus Macdonald declined
to specifically blame the fanatical Sons
of Freedom sect for the bombing, store
owner R.A.D. West said he believed
that group responsible.

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A request by Fred Bonnett for a
building permit to construct a bowling
alley in Castlegar on Ist Ave. was
turned down at council's regular meet-
ing. A motion to refuse
permit was passed by coun
the village's intention to put in an alley
servicing those businesses fronting on
Ist Ave. and those on Columbia Ave.

. 6 «6

Building permits worth $21,120 were
approved by Kinnaird council at its re-
cent meeting. The permits were issued
to: Gordon Archibald, addition, $3,360;
Nick Shelfontiuk, siding, $500; Andy
Shelfontiuk, new house, $3,000; W.D.
McCreight, septic tank, $100; W. Bon-
deroff, new addition, $4,160; Lloyd G.
Bignell, new house, $10,000.

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The Castlegar and District Golf Club
dues for 1960 were set as follows:
family membership $20; single mem-
bership, $15 for men and $12.50 for
ladies; membership fee for juniors
whose parents are not members was
set at $5.

15 YEARS AGO
From the Aril April 9, 1970
Castlegar News

Midget League winners at the close
of the hockey season were the follow-
ing members of the Bantam Rep team,
coached by Mike Lauriente: Lawrence
Gordon, Eddie Zebroff, Gerry Mosby,
Pete McGauley, Ralph Tassone, Joe
Kambick, Tom Hughes, David Bozek,
Murray Price, Mike Popoff, Robin
Heagy, Mark Earp, Kevin Moran,
Larry Price and Gilbert Turcotte.

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The Town of Castlegar will submit a
short brief at the public hearing on air
service to be held by the air transport
committee of the Canadian Transport
Commission this week. The brief will
ask for “good service, cheap rates, and
a through service to Calgary.”

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At a recent joint meeting of the
Blueberry Creek Recreational Society
and the Blueberry Creek Centennial ‘71
committee, all present agreed to pur-
chase property for a future park and
play area.

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Kinnaird’s Mayor Colin Maddocks
has been named to the steering com-
mittee of the lower Columbia basin
water study approved by the regional
board of Central Kootenay Regional
Distriet. This committee will be made
up of a representative from Castlegar,
Kinnaird, areas I and J, as well as a
member of CKRD.

A revived Castlegar Chamber of
Commerce this year will assume its
original role as organizer of the
Sunflower Fest, according to chamber
vice-president Larry Bosse. The cham-
ber office will serve “as a focal point for
organization while service clubs look
after their end as they have in previous
years,” Bosse said.

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Ald. Heather Hallett told city council
this week that Castlegar taxpayers’
share of social aid costs will drop by
three per cent but increase by about
$10,000 this year.

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Stanley Humphries Secondary
School's play entitled “Babel Rep,” dir-
ected by L.C. Farrell, was selected the
best play at the four-day West Koot-
enay Drama Festival held recently in
Castlegar. As well, the two actors from
the play, Rob Beynon and Ben Nich-
volodoff, won the best actor and second
best actor awards.

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SETTLING IN . . . Kimiko (Kim) Mitobe, Rotary Ex-
change student from Tokyo, makes herself at home

EXCHANGE
STUDENT
ARRIVES

By JOHN CHARTERS

When school starts again on Tuesday, Stanley
Humphries Secondary School will have at least one
additional senior student. Her name is Kimiko Mitobe
(Kim), a Castlegar Rotary Club exchange student from
Tokyo.

At the regular Tuesday dinner meeting of the
Castlegar Club on April 2, Mitobe, who had just arrived
via Seattle and Kelowna, had the opportunity to meet not
only the Castlegar Rotarians and their guests from
Nelson, Trail and Grand Forks clubs, but 16 other Rotary
Exchange students from six other countries, who are
travelling around the district during the school Easter
break.

In an earlier letter to her first Rotary “parents,” Bill

with Bill Craven family. Mitobe will be attending
Stanley Humphries Secondary School.

CosNewsPhoto by John Charters

and Karen Craven, Mitobe had written of herself: “I am
18 years old, but I am very short so I am often looked (on)
as a junior high school student. I am poor in English (she
isn't) and have a little misgiving, but I am looking
forward to going to school (in Castlegar).”

One of her hobbies, she says, is the traditional
J tea y which she promises to do for the
club. Once she is established here, it is probable that she

B.C. debt at
$15.4 billion

VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbians have been
most generous through the years — lending more money to
the provincial government and its Crown corporations and
agencies than any bank, life insurance company or wealthy
private investor.

The total net debt of the government, its corporations
and agencies is $15.4 billion.

More than a quarter of that is owed to the Canada
Pension Plan. Ottawa sends back to B.C. virtually all the
contributions made by B.C. employees and their employers
for the province to invest as it likes. Since the pension plan
started, this has amounted to nearly $4.2 billion.

Publi tor workers in the province are another large
source of loans, through their superannuation and pension
plans.

They are owed about $2.4 billion. Their funds — like
those from the pension plan — are managed by ,the
provincial government.

TOTALS MATCH

This pension fund tatal of $6.6 billion matches almost
exactly the amount of money the government, its
corporations and agencies have raised through public issues
in Canada, the U.S. and Europe.

Another $1.3 billion has come from direct deals with
financial institutions.

Creditors include major banks, pension funds, life

jes and trust i

will be able to do it for other interested groups in the
community since Rotary expects to
act as junior ambassadors for their own country.

Next week the Rotary club will hold a joint meeting
with the Kiwanis, Lions and Kinsmen to hear Dr. John
Hall speak on his work and experiences for the past two
years in Papua New Guinea. About 100 guests are
expected and a silver collection will be taken for the
purchase of proper water storage tanks for the native
people.

Following an earlier executive meeting, President
Dr. Waldo Yule announced that the club will sponsor a
candidate in the upcoming SunFest queen contest and
will sent one student to Adventures in Industry and
T , a week-long workshop in Ont. in
September.

Curtis issues warning

RICHMOND (CP) — The
provincial government won't
allow British Columbia school
boards to grant teachers sal-
ary increases at the expense
of jobs, Finance Minister
Hugh Curtis say.

“School districts that lay
off teachers and consequent-
ly end up with fewer teachers
than the established or per-
mitted ratio will have their
grants reduced,” Curtis said.
“It is my belief that with this
change they will not attempt
to do so.”

He said at a news con
ference this week that salary
increases to teachers this fis
cal year could result in up to

by the Education Ministry
must be used to maintain ex-
isting levels of service and
not for any wage increases.
Some school boards have
submitted budgets that ex
ceed Education Ministry
guidelines and include pro-
vision for salary increases.
Curtis said he is issuing a
directive under the Financial
Administration Act to ensure
that the pupil-teacher ratios
in effect won't be exceeded
because of salary increases.
In his March 14 budget, he
said there was no provision
for teacher salary increases.
“Those school boards
which have submitted bud-

istry in order to provide for
salary increases for teachers
— and a number have done
so already — obviously would
have to lay off other teachers
to provide pay increases for
their remaining staff. And
the government frankly will
not let this happen.”
LAYOFFS POSSIBLE
Curtis said the move
doesn’t guarantee there

the community to support
school boards that submitted
budgets above government
guidelines.

Delegates also agreed the
federation should provide
legal and financial help to
“any local association taking
job action.”

Elsie McMurphy, first vice-
president of the federation,
said the announcement by

B.C.'s total debt amounts to about $5,280 for every man,
woman and child in the province.

When the federal debt is included — an estimated $226
billion or $8,863 each — next year’s over-all total becomes
about $14,500 a head.

The provincial debt is made up of three parts: the
money the government has borrowed for itself; the money it
has borrowed on behalf of Crown corporations and agencies;
and, the guarantees it has given on repayment of money
borrowed directly by those corporations and agencies.

More than half the total provincial debt — direct and
guaranteed — is owed by B.C. Hydro after two decades of
building major dams at up to $2 billion each and an
expensive transmission network.

Hydro, which has stopped building for now, owes $8.3
billion.

The provincial government itself is the next largest
debtor with about 15 per cent, followed by schools at six per
cent, and hospitals, slightly less than five per cent.

Although the total provincial debt is expected to rise 8.4
per cent this fiscal year, the increase is relatively modest.

In the 1950s, the province's total debt annually grew by
an average of 15 per cent. In the 1960s, it rose an average of
nearly 27 per cent a year.

The government's own share of the debt is expected to
cost the provincial treasury $265 million in the 12 months to
March 31 this year (about $92 a head); $384 million (about
$132 a head) in the next 12 months. In 1981-82, servicing
costs were just less than $17 million, or $6 a head.

The Finance Ministry says B.C.'s debt standing looks
“very good” compared with other provinces.

If “commercial” debt (the money owed by B.C. Hydro
and other crown corporations and agencies that have an
income from which to pay back their loans) is taken out, B.C.
is second from the bottom in per-capita debt.

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years ago. Teachers are being singled

Layoffs may take place be- out for a wage freeze while
cause of declining enrolment, they are not responsible for
he said, although early re- the “mess” the education
tirement and other factors system is in, McMurphy said.

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out by the Education Min-

1,500 teachers being laid off.
Curtis said funds provided

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“There is no more money

She said the government
has seen that its decision on

for ion fund.

have not been

ing this year. Maintaining
service levels in our schools
is the No. 1 priority.”

He said he thinks most
teachers will be prepared to

popular and is trying to div-
ert public attention to the
issue of salary increases, but
she doesn't think the tactic
will succeed.

forgo wage to pro-
tect their colleagues’ jobs and
levels of service.

Curtis's announcement
came a day after the B.C.
Teachers’ Federation wrap-
ped up its annual convention.
Delegates passed a motion to

EXP DOUBTS

MecMurphy said she doub-
ted whether the policy an-
nounced by Curtis would
prevent layoffs.

The policy takes away the
last vestige of local autonomy
enjoyed by school boards,

take various actions wi MeMurphy said.

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Here is what some employers have to say about
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Martin Gilles, Senior Communications Engineer,
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“Selkirk College graduates perform their duties well
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“We hire Selkirk College graduates because we find
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job we require them to do.” Dorothy Gougeon,
Director, Patient Services, Kootenay Lake
District Hospital
Each year Selkirk College prepares hundreds of
students for challenging careers, further academic
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