v RS A2 Castlegar News December 18, 1985 WEATHER- NX KIA HK TIA — eee cg STegneat Rie ree Ths mofoty citithoon SYNOPSIS: A ridge of high pressure remains Gnchored down the B. C. coast and shows little signs e of ee: The air across the B.C. Interior is stagnating as thi very little circulation in the Board approves debenture The Castlegar school board has authorized the sale of a $62,000 debenture to raise funds for capital expenses in the school district. At its Monday meeting, the board passed a bylaw allowing the sale of the de- benture, which is repayable over 20 years at 11.12 per cent interest per year. ‘The provincial government allows school districts to bor- row money through the sale of debentures without the assent of the electors in the school district; providing the money is used for capital ex- mses — expenditures for fixed items with a life span of more than one year, such as SOREL ARORA A BYTE OF HELP . . .. Jack-Miller (right), a student at Castlegar’: 's Special Education Centre for the past year, is all smiles as he watches the result of his work on the computer at the centre. Kiwanis president John Thompson (left), school board chairman Kay Johnson and Castlegar Selkirk Lions Club president Tom . Crockett look on. The’ $1,500 computer was bought with funds raised by the Kiwanis and Lions Clubs. _CasNews Photo by Simon Birch ts eee continued from front page hanic and A hist Program approval means that the college can offer the program if it can find the resources. Perra said it does not imply that funds are available from the province. Perra also noted that preliminary. program figures indicate a small increase in approved full-time en- rolments for 1986/87. He said the college had 1,499, FTEs but this has now been increased by 22. While there are some shifts in FTEs between Programs, the 1986/87 pro- gram profile is similar to the 2985/86, profile, he said. The program profile is a listing of all the programs and their respective en- rolment levels which have been ap- proved for funding. The profile is set by the Ministry of Education. In other news concern has been expressed that colleges are spending too much time on “non-traditional ac- tivities” and not enough on educational matters. E Perra reported that at a deputy min- ister’s post-secondary advisory com- mittee meeting concern was expressed that some of the resources allocated through the Local Economic Renewal and Development fond 7 was being moved to ildings and BCSTA BYLAWS ondary school is getting a bigger fire hydrant. ‘The board approved a rec- ing purposes. In some _ instances the education funds were being funnelled to non- education sectors. It appeared that some principals were spending too much time on these non-traditional ac- tivities like LERD, Canadian Jobs Strategy, International Education, and not enough on the “home front.” Perra said the deputy minister rec- ognized the shift in emphasis and in- dicated that he believed it is necessary to spend the time and energy to implement these new thrusts. How- ever, hé still supported the need for good at the instit and was confident that a proper balance would -be maintained. Perra said in an interview that he has been convinced that spending funds in non-educational areas is the proper role for institutions to play. In other news, Castlegar campus director Jim Cromwell said the reopen- ing of the-campus library on Sunday afternoons has had a good response. Between 30 and 40 students have made use of the library on each Sunday since it was opened on Nov. 24, the majority being Career Technology stu- dents, he added. Crown wants life sentence for rapist TERRACE (CP) — An 18-year-old man who sexually assaulted cab driver Joyce Greenwood and left her to die was on probation for a similar crime, a pre-sentence hearing in this northwestern B.C. town was told Tuesday. Esrol Hillis was found guilty in November of kid- napping, attempted murder and three other counts re- lating to the sexual assault of Greenwood. Greenwood, 22, was slash- ed with a hunting knife and left for dead at a camp- ground. Since the attack, she has married, moved to ano- ther town and had a baby. Court was told that at the time Hillis tried to kill Greenwood May 29, 1984, he was on probation for the sexual assault and wounding of a 16-year-old Kispiox girl. He was given a suspended sentence and placed on pro- bation in March 1984. Court was told the girl was taken to hospital in Hazelton in the middle of the night af- ter she was found partially clothed in a snowbank in -30 Celsius temperatures. The girl testified she and Hillis were both drunk the night of the attack and said she didn't remember the incident. She said her wounds have healed. Crown counsel Vern Frol- ick asked for a life sentence for Hillis. “There is no doubt that Hillis will kill someone,” Fro- lick told county court Judge R.T. Errico. “You are gam- bling with the lives of inno- cent people.” Hillis was diagnosed as a psychopath earlier in the trial. ion from its build- ings and grounds committee that the existing fire hydrant with a 2%2-inch port (open- ing) outside the school be re- placed with a new hydrant with a four-inch port. ‘Trustee Rick Pongracz told the board Castlegar fire chief Bob Mann said the existing hydrant could not use the full potential of the city’s pumper truck which has four-inch outlets. re The old hydrant will be used at Ootischenia elemen- tary, which is now covered by the Robson fire depart: ment. : Cost of the new hydrant is $2,000. KIT APPROVED The board has approved the implementation of the Child Abuse. Research and Education (CARE) program as a pilot project at Wood- land Park elementary school for students in Kindergarten to Grade 3. The board also approved the necessary teacher train- ing in the use of the CARE kit for teachers at the school. CARE —. developed by concerned parents and educa- tors in Surrey — is designed to make children aware of child abuse through the use of information cards, puppets and audio-visual presenta- tions. The estimated cost of im- “The only fit life imprisonment,” said. “Giving him a_ chance means giving him a chance to kill someone.” Hillis's grandmother, Em- ma Johnson, 60, testified she raised the youth as her own son with seven other children in Kispiox, a small com- munity north of is Frolick the prog at Woodland ‘Park is $1,775, which includes three CARE kits and a total of 41/: days of in-service training for the teachers. Police file She said he “behaved pretty good” until he started drink- ing at 15. She said Hillis was told to leave the house several times. “I kicked him out because he wouldn't listen to me,” she said. Castlegar RCMP report that no. impaired. driving charges were laid as a result of the numerous counter at- tack roadblocks set up over the weekend. However, the detachment reports several liquor seiz- ures were made. Second reading fails By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer The Castlegar school board Monday gave first reading toa bylaw, that will allow the board to adopt the B.C. School Trustees’ Association set of procedures. However, a motion by board chairman Kay Johnson to give immediate second reading to the bylaw failed to get the necessary two-thirds majority vote and must now wait for the board's regular meeting Jan. 20. “The only reading of the bylaw that gives the board ar opportunity to debate it is the second reading,” Johnson said at the meeting — the first regular meeting of the new board. “That's the only reason I asked for a second reading.” Otherwise, Johnson said, “We'd be stalling for a month before we get to the second reading.” After the meeting, Johnson explained why it is important that the board adopt the BCSTA procedural bylaws. “It will take care of a lot of questions people had,” she said. For example, the BCSTA bylaws specify what must be debated at closed meetings and what happens to correspondence the-board office receives, Johnson said. The board now does not have a written policy on procedure — except for loosely following Robert's rules of order at the meetings, Johnson added. At the meeting, trustee Rick Pongracz said he was concerned that the board was getting away from proper procedure at its first meeting. meeting we're getting away from procedure,” Pongracz said. He added that the adoption of bylaws is important and that “some of those areas should be sacred.” . Trustee George Anutooshkin also expressed concern and wondered what the rush is to adopt the bylaw. “Let's go through the process that we're supposed to go through,” he said. “If it takes three months, let's do it that way. I don’t know what the hurry is.” Trustee Ed Conroy disagreed, saying, “Three months is a long time.” . However, Conroy said he appreciated Pongracz’ concern, but backed second reading of the bylaw at the meeting. “[ don't mind going one-two as long as we don't go one-two-three,” Conroy said. Betore the debate on the motion to give the bylaw second reading, Johnson explained the board's procedure for adopting a bylaw. She said bylaws must be given three readings, the first } oLwhich is acceptance in principle and cannot be debated. The board can give second reading to a bylaw immediately after the first reading if approved by a two-thirds majority of trustees,-Johnson said. If the second reading fails to get the two-thirds majority — which on the seven-member board is a vote of 5-2 — it must be held over until the next regular. meeting of the board. After second reading is approved, the trustees can debate the content of the. bylaw. Third reading is where the bylaw -either fails or Castlégar News TREET TALK BOB BRISCO'S recent report to contains a photo of a reunion of former Kaslo May Queens that took place during Kaslo's annual May Day Celebration earlier this year. The report notes that in 1922, Opal Labelle (now Opal Dalton) was crowned the first May Queen. Opal is a Castlegar resident and her son, Terry, practices law here. What Bob's report didn’t mention is that Mrs. Dalton was the first of three sisters to be May Queens. Her other two sisters followed her as Kaslo queens. A FORMER Castlegar resident now living i in Slocan City not only plays a mean fiddle, but is a pretty good cook as well. Hermina (“Rusty”) Hyde, mother of the Chuck- wagon’s Elaine Paget, cooked one of the turkeys and a ham for the joint Slocan Legion/Slocan Senior Citizens Christmas pot-luck supper Saturday night. Not to be outdone, the Legion's Winston Storgard - cooked a turkey as well. However. Mrs. Hyde one-upped him when she joined the orchestra during the dancing part of the evening, playing two or three instruments in the course of the night. : STREETCLOTHES Named Desire is the catchy Ist Annual M EMO Edition aE VERY BEST QUALITY => FOR, YOUR UNUSUAL BOOK - + + « Cover of Ist annual Memo Edition pr 1o rt: Cam- pbell. Book contains rectal menos Mio staff from the past year. Even a Canadian Press story in Sunday’s CasNews was in error. It reported Gander with a population of name of a new business opened on the second floor of the ., 1,400. In actual fact, the population is 11,000. Nelson Ttading Company building on Baker Street in Nelson. Owners Teo Nicholas and Deborah Johnson are offering a good range of fashions ranging from the sporty to glitzy holiday-party clothes. ELEKTRO DOHMEN Enterprises Ltd. has moved its winding shop to its new location in the Castlegar industrial park on, Minto Road. WE'RE NUMBER 10 and trying harder. Climatologists at Environment Canada recently rated the severity of climates in 146 locations across Canada and the 10 least severe are in B.C. Castlegar came in at_number 10. ~ On a scale of 1 to 100, Castlegar is rated at 29. Victoria is the least severe with a rating of 13. Vancouver scored 18. Other cities rated as follows: Calgary, 34; Toronto, 35; Ottawa, 43; Montreal, 44; Winnipeg, 51; and St. John's, Nfld., 56. AND IF YOU want to get a Newfie mad, tell Newfie jokes. If you want to get him,real mad, spread a few untruths about what — in reality — is quite a beautiful province. Castlegar resident Harold Ruby, manager of Woolco’s furniture department, is upset with press coverage !of the U.S. jetliner accident Saturday at Gander, Nfld. “The accident is terribly tragi acknowledges Harold. “A terrible, terrible accident.” But, he adds, the “hick town” image being spread by the media is far from the truth about Gander. - Gander is “a beautiful spot with a fantastic history.” Hundreds of thousands of Americans have landed there over the years while in the 1950's “it was the crossroads of the world.” The airport “is not out in the sticks; it's a major airport.” : Not only have movie stars landed there, but kings and queens as well. The town is built on flat land located alongside both Highway No. 1 and Gander Lake and is only 60 miles from Grand Falls. Gander “is a landmark in. aviation,” comments Harold. “It deserves far better media coverage | than it's getting.” = HE WHO Laughs Last Laughs Best Department (or, If You're Going to Get It Back, You'll Get It In Spades): CasNews employees had a special presentation Friday night for publisher Burt Campbell when the social club held its Christmas party. The laughter eminating from a corner of the Sandman's dining room was evoked by the presentation to Campbéll of the “ist Annual Memo Edition.” Ever since last January 3, composing room foreman and social club president Mickey Read has been keeping Campbell's memos. He bound them into a book and presented it Friday night. From the first memo ("Danger from Snow Sliding off Roof into Parking Lot”) to the last ("1985 Christmas Greeting Tabloid”), they're (almost) all there! After the laughter subsided, Campbell wondered aloud if there was any significance in the fact that Read had chosen brown-colored stock for the book's cover . . - voted Monday to give up one Board gives up position By CasNews Staff ‘The Castlegar school board payment of the teacher's travel expenses out of the board's trustee travel ex- opment fund for such pur- poses. “There is an established good move.” the trustee money. As a public relations feature, it's a TURKEYS FRESH YOUNG enesu vous =A, oj BUTTERBALL TORRENS OR STUFFED. neeeeeeestoescick in 1 89 | SA GRADE A ....-kg 94> o/t $1 3 SAUSAGE MEAT HOMESTYLE. PURE PORK YOUNG DUCKS YOUNG GEESE GRADE A. $1458 $y? $3.95 re esecece edb, READY TO EAT WHOLE OR SHANK PORTION. 183% 9 SHRIMP MEAT. TRAY PACKED, BULK cece Lp. $499 CRABMEAT STICKS, $4.94 2 BONELESS CROSS RIB ROAST CANADA , GRADE BLADE ROASTS : A kg PARI. IMITATION. ........--$10.98 SHORT RIBS ( OF F BEEF Ee 99° 3 $798 PORK HOC GOV. 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MILAP projects approved By CasNews Staff Six more Canada Works projects totalling $150,000 have been approved for the Central Kootenay, but none in the Castlegar area. Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco and Mike Berg, chairman of the Central Koot Ce i! Adj Committee, announced the projects. Tuesday in a prepared release. The projects — three in Nelson and one each in Salmo, New Denver and Nakusp — will create 24 jobs. The release said the projects have been. made possible through a reallo- cation of funding provided for the Central Kootenay under the Modified Industry and Labor Adjustment Pro- gram. The funding is the last of a total of $550,000 allocated to the Central Kootenay region under MILAP for the 1985-86 fiscal year. Brisco said he expects another $450,000 to be allocated in 1986-87. The projects approved will provide _ jobs mainly in construction-related ac- tivities, the release said, “with empha- sis on establishing projects that will provide continued long-range. employ- ment.” The projects include: $16,874 for a curling club expansion in Salmo. It will create five jobs for 10 weeks. e $12,776 for three workers to help file, catalogue, restore and arrange exhibits at the Nelson Museum. They will work for 13 weeks. © $70,196 for a City of Nelson wharf project. Six-workers will be employed for 35 weeks to remove the existing wharf and pilings and begin con- structing a new pier as part of the Nelson waterfront development plan. e $5,938 for three workers to be employed for six weeks constructing a downtown office to help promote the Whitewater Ski Area. $22,411 for three workers to be employed for 21 weeks assisting New Denver Tree Nurseries Ltd. in con- struction of greenhouses for growing tree seedlings. © $21,343 for a ski trail project in Nakusp. The project will employ four people for 15 weeks. They will assist the Nakusp Ski Club in clearing new cross-country ski trails near the Summit Lake Ski Area and help con- struct a storage shed for the club's newly-purchased snow cat. “Iam very pleased that these worth- while projects have been allowed to go ahead,” said Brisco. “I have been assured that a similar level of funding will be provided for these sorts of projects next year. That, together with an improving economy and the many new initiatives of the Sear Jobs Strategy, should lead to i drop in the mate in Kootenay West.” Columnist, lawyer battle in court of its four trustee positions at the World Congress’ on Edu- cation-Technology to a dis- trict teacher. ~ The trustees also approved Service former Natsuhara of Richmond, formerly of Castlegar and Nakusp, passed away Dec. 11 at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver at age 77. Born in Vancouver on Feb. 28, 1908, Mr. Natsuhara worked as a foreman at the Nakusp Sawmill when Celgar Kisaburo pense fund. Trustee Doreen Smecher opposed the use of the funds, Saying the teachers have their own professional devel- held for resident Vancouver and Fusa of Japan. A memorial service was held Dec. 14 in the Steveston United Church with Rev. K. Matsugo officiating. Flowers sratelolly de- took over the operation i in _ 1954. When Celgar opened a mill in Castlegar in 1961, Mr. Natsuhara and his family moved to Castlegar where he worked as a planing mill foreman until his retirement in 1973. His daughter Judy worked as a secretary at the Castle- gar sawmill for two years. Mr. Natsuhara was highly respected by his fellow em- ployees. He is survived by his wife Toyo; sons Robert of Rich- mond and Roy of Victoria; pro D fund for teacher travel and development,” she said. “That's the source of funds that should be used for this activity.” Smecher said the trustees have a number of conferences coming up which they must “attend and she felt the board could be caught short of funds for their own travel expenses. But trustee Gordon Turner noted that the teachers’ pro D fund had been “cut in half this year. “They have no real funds there to send this teacher,” Turner said. “I would like (the money) to come out of He added that if a trustee went instead of the teacher, the money would come out of trustee funds anyway. Rick Pongracz added, “It's a fantastic opportunity for someone with training in education to come back with valuable information.” The original motion called for the selection of the tea- cher to be made by lot. 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BRUSSEL SPROUTS 1. 49° Reese TEANOTS MIXED NUTS IN THE SHELL. ......-----k 53%? 1 52 $429 daughter Judy of Richmond; VANCOUVER (CP) — A columnist and a Vancouver lawyer clashed repeatedly Tuesday in B.C. P' Swift and Mike Hunter with the ordinary, garden-variety Court over the way in which Maclean's magazine responded to a libel complaint. Peter Butler, representing Michael Hunter and John Swift in a libel suit against-Allan Fotheringham and the magazine, said the columnist’s “so-called apology” compounded the original libel. Fotheringham replied that neither he nor Maclean's accept that the original column, which said Butler's clients had been “ their is! diverti: that speckle “s posh Quadra riding.” ‘When Butler said “no one complained of sloppy sentence structure,” Fotheringham replied: “I took it that read that ina way from the way I meant it.” Butler reminded Fotheringham that his apology also said: “No slur was meant to attach to them and, if they and their Sear ones were offended, my usual humble “wife-swapping brigades,” was libelous. Mr. Justice Alan Macdonell was told earlier that Butler advised Fortheringham on libel matters for more than 10 years while Fotheringham was a columnist for the Vancouver Sun. Fotheringham agreed he told his editors he would not be dictated to by a “legal beagle” and preferred to do the apology his own way. Butler noted that the apology said: “It is apparently felt that your agent, through sloppy sentence structure, has in a recent column linked key Turner aides John Hetrring to “my usual humble apologies,” Butler hasn't in print during the 10 years he has rites acolumn for Maclean's and has offered very few apologies during his 30-year career. had PREPARED : ham said: a Be "Butles) should know better than anyone because you used to prepare them for me.” ‘When Fotheringham agreed that he views himself as a political satirist and said the column about Hunter and Swift ined humor and line-by-line through the piece. Butler got Fotheringham to agree the column contained numerous statements of fact, all of which were correct. : Butler took him ',..my usual humble apologies are proffered.’ Kevin Doyle, editor of Maclean's, said he read the ding column before ication and did not consider it libelous. He agreed he did not ask a lawyer to look at ie Under cross-examination, Doyle agreed Butler submitted a draft apology, which the magazine chose not to publish. “If you were so worried about Swift's and Hunter's pine es why not publish what they wanted?” Butler “I would have, had I considered it (the original column) libelous,” Doyle replied. Butler asked Doyle how he would feel if someone wrote a column stating he got to be editor of Maclean's “by his through the wif es.” “With respect, it would depend on who wrote it,” Doyle replied. Robert Lewis, managing editor of Maclean's, said he saw Butler’s request for an apology and felt the best Questioned by Julian Porter, F lawyer, about the apology, Doyle said +h way of the matter was to have Fotheringham writes in a very recognizable way and he (Doyle) thou thought it would be more appropriate if Foth: roe ee err ie alemsed apiereigiaal column. write a i in his column. 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