The Castlegar Sun -Wedr day, D ye ber 19, 1900" Campus daycare draws positive response. By BARBARA TANDORY September 1991. as: ‘part of the , . Sun stoff writer The demographics and modern sexual mores make it an idea whose time has come. Campus daycare for Selkirk College students, faculty and staff is gathering support from all sides while its proponents are bracing themselves —with numbers and statistics — to get the college board on side, “There’s been an increase in younger students who have children,” says Selkirk silver. But it takes Tong preparation to make'a wish come true. ‘; The student council in Castlegar has been doing its part in support", of the project by initiating a survey.’ of the whole campus population of 1,450 (1,250 students and 200 faculty and support staff) on the maincampus. The initiative was taken, said Sedgewiss, 20, following a delegation to student council by a group of Early Childchood \ those surveyed, ‘“Our.main concern was to determine whether there's need for daycare on the campus,’ " noted ‘Sedgewiss. “And there is.” ‘The'proposal is receiving guarded enthusiasm from the college’s ECE program, which is fecling a need of young children for the purpose of training their students. “I believe we're the only hildh pus with carly education that docsn’t have a daycare,” said BCE instructor Council vice-president Chris Sedgewiss. “It seems that’s the way the trend is. Young people are apt to have relationships and to forget sometimes about the consequences,” “We've done surveys a couple of times,” said Judy Pollard, the department | head of Selkirk’s for some way of bringing child daycare to the campus. Sedgewiss said be and a group of fellow k MacKay, “It would be wonderful,” she said, noting that the daycare Proposal would in no way present students decided to make it their special class project when more students kept | coming “to me with this concem," eventually making contact with the silver anni to the existing daycare services outside the campus. The ECE program, in existence for ten years, has an arrangement with . Hobbit Hill Centre to provide the di Human and of the daycare committee which has prepared the results of a college- wide survey for a meeting with the college board Tuesday. “Every survey has shown that there’s support on campus,” she said. The daycare committee, a Name: Peter Where you work: Super Valu What you do there: Service clerk Castlegar likes: Selkirk Collage (college life) Castlegar dislikes: Poor roads Best kept Castlegar secret: How to get into bars (Ha!) Pet: Dog - Prince & Cat-T.C. Vehicle: Chrysler K-car What would you rather be doing? Lying in the sun in Jamaica! School vandalized By Brown said ine suspects are being Sun staff writer Unknown vandals bave been at it again, to the frustration of the school district board. School District No. 9 Maintenance Supervisor Andy Boolinoff told the school board at a meeting Monday night that wanton vandalism, once plaguing the school bus yard, has moved to Kinnaird Junior Secondary School. “We had considerable damage done at KISS,” Boolinoff said, reporting the latest incident at the junior high last Saturday morning. “It’s a bad scene up there,” he said. Boolinoff said the front entrance at the school “was smashed” on the night of Dec. ’7 and the suspicion was of a wild kids’ party. Glass had been broken and the froat door had to be boarded up by the maintenance crew, he said. “So it’s an issue for. us,” Boolinoff noted. “There’s been a considerable amount of parties up there.” Castl RCMP i d with the incident. “There's always Suspects,” be said but declined to release details. * However, Castlegar RCMP. have not had many problems at the junior high school before. “It’s been really no problem,” said Brown. “This is actually been a rarity,” Brown said about the weekend incident. The police had been first called to the high school Friday night but found no evidence of trouble, be noted. “There was no kids around,” be said, “and no , either.” But Boolinoff at the school district’s maintenance yard said vandalism strikes the junior high so often that the maintenance onnel are currently “trying to get our own lighting,” by an arrangement with West Kootenay Power. All 18 outside light fixtures were destroyed at the junior high school on three separate occasions, he said. being called to the scene 8 a.m. Saturday morning. When the police arrived, the door on the west side of the school building was broken but there was no entry gained, Cpl. Al Brown said Tuesday. “It’s been strictly. willful damage,” said Brown. “We're still looking into it.” No charges have been Iaid but ay stor ae of vandalism in ‘the school bus maintenance yard began about seven months ago, but have abated in recent months. ‘ At one time vandals broke into one of the school buses, at another a radio was stolen from a school bus. “It has slowed down,” Boolinoff said. “Vandalism has moved to KISS.” nowledgements from Red Cross Program Co- stor for, West Kootenay Karine Johnson, and: Jean « hi in of the Red Cross Pointsetta Committee. - of the college’s 25th anniversary committee, already presented the daycare idea to the board last month, but retumed this week armed with support statistics from the survey for further discussion of the proposal to establish daycare facilities on at least one of the three campuses by king on the same Project. The student group stopped at tabulating the survey results at 325 responses from, the Castlegar campus before this month’s exam demands, but Sedgewiss notes the with ical training at the facility downtown Castlegar. “In no way do we want to take away: their business,” said MacKay. “We very. much appreciate the service that Hobbit ‘received letters of support from Selkirk © College’. Facult; Association, the Pulp, Paper Woodworkers of Canada Loc: B.C, Government a Lane Union, Selkirk College Studea Association and the Student Executive Council at the Teal campus, The campus daycare, if anid when it becomes reality, would serve the needs of staff as well a the students, The proposal would require’ new building constructed for the space-cramped campus i Castlegar, “We're very eager to have ae opportunity,” said MacKay. “we know statistically that there ard more teens who are parents an this would be an opportunity tg attract more students to the college. It would increase th for more p especially single parents, to attend college.” In the BEC program, housed near the main campus inside the old airport cafeteria trailer, nine oF Hill provi for the and we intend to work co- of positive Out of 325, 75 per cent t said yes to the question, “Would you place with the 20 stud — mostly mature — are parents, but MacKay said all, those students need: a closer “with the ' The daycare stressed earlier the ii of child's your child in day if the service was ilable on the working campus.” Only 17 per cent said no, and 7 per cent did not respond. The other survey question, “Do you think daycare should be available on 2", was ip with local daycare centres and Arleen Dow, chairman of the silver anniversary’s daycare committee, has been been in contact with those centres answered yes by 92 | per cent of the p I stage. - The college | board has already ” for the sake of training. o MacKay also noted the beneficial effect of having a child carec for near the parents’ place of work or learning. 5 “It allows the parents to vi! their children at breaks, so they’ i stay in their lives,” she said. nt Drinking dr Yofonoftf’ attend toa vehicle: The: ‘driving public. can, expect’ or r 8, anywhere,” said ee Al Brown of the Castlegar RCMP ‘Detachment. iving CounterAttack will go through till January Ss set up under the overpass jst: Saturday. evening. Three: drivers were tested with the ALERT. Two of them rece 24-hour suspensions. Four traffic violations were written up and six traffic warnings were issued..Five. . regular members of the icgal. detachment. staffed, the roadblock with the. assistance of the Stanley Humphries. 3 bers Jennifer. Ford, Lana Venier, and Patty |. =) roadblocks all fhreuah ine: Riiaaed Season. e Foundation formed to : secure coumurts for longterm facility By BARBARA TANDORY ‘Sun staff writer After many: del delays, the new care facility at Castlegar is nearing completion ; and should’ open in the spiring, complete with television sets and patio fumiture. These extras will.bave been provided from money raised by the Hospital Foundation, formed by the Castlegar and District Hospital board in ‘an attempt to secure additional comfort items not‘covered: under the basic government funding. “The news is that there’s a foundation to raise money to buy items of equipment for patient and snctudi television sets |.and_. patio famnigbings,” said hospite! board an Merv Ri aA ‘The new facility will add 60 rooms’ — ‘35 to accomodate fntermediate care residents and 25 for expended care patients — is in the final stages of construction and tentatively schcduledto open April 1, said a press release from the hospital board. “Ours is an aging society and we all must face this prospect,” said Rush, the Foundation and Fundraising chairman. “The inevitability of our families, our friends and ourselves needing Support and care is ing we “Originally the funding was not sufficient,” Rush said in an interview. We had to go back to the government for more money.” A number of archetectural changes were necessary to mect the original budget but Rush said most of them were put back id place’ with the additional government funding. At one time a plan to install an d, he ‘completion. The new facility is a $6.6. 63 million project and will be staffed by 50-55 fulltime employees. : “The whole system works a little backwards,” said Rush, noting the funding difficulties at the start of the project. “We were about a months getting started.” The foundation is inviting support from the community and all must anticipate.” The Hospital Foundation was formed to give the community the opportunity to support the extra acquisitions, Rush noted. The project, approved by the B.C, government in September 1987, initially received $4.3 m. in gov The had to be pp said, noting that the decisi offers itab incomd for f was soon reversed. “The elevator is installed,” said Rush. “To be fair, there’ 's probably nothing we didn’t get.” Rush said the foundation is raising money for things that were never inteded to come from government supplied 60 per cent of the funding for construction and basic and the ding, things like the gardens and landscaping. The project's carly completion District of Central Kootenay has funded the remaining 40 per cent. 4 date was ively the fall of 1989, but the hospital board is Pleased te have it so .near tax ip t contributions. 5 A number of community groupy have already responded and the hospital foundation group i& grateful for the effort and ’ generosity. “Already support has bees committed through: the Ladie$ Auxiliary for the of built: in writing desks in each room‘and " BUN STAFF PHOTO / Nancy Ungley Decisions. Decisions. Decisions. Judges Gale Sbitney, Harry Stan, and Richard Maddocks during a calm moment. Konkins win in tough contest By NANCY LINGLEY Sun Editor It wasn't an easy decision. And the judges did disagree. “ Ruth and Arthur Konkin will be flying to Vancouver via AirBC, spending a night at the Delta River inn, and watching the Vancouver Canucks play the Chicago Black- hawks.The spectacular outdoor (Christmas decorations at the Konkin home at 1319 Grosvenor Place were judged the best in the pity last Friday evening. violently. But they managed to stop just short of actu- ally firing objects with sharp edges at each other, Richard Maddocks, Harry Stan, and Gale Sbitney, all from the Castlegar and District Develop- ment Board, took on the tough assignment of judging the first- ever Castlegar Sun's Seasonal Showcase, Light Up Castlegar for Christmas contest of their own free will with very little black- mailing on the part of the Sun. The residence of Ann and Tom Titford located at 2628 Columbia Ave., with its entire yard full of holiday happenings ran a very, very close second and earned a dinner and an overnight stay for two at Ainsworth Hotsprings Resort for the couple. Both the Konkin and the Tit- ford residences made good use of seasonal sound in conjunction with their displays. Placing third in the competition was the well-decorated home of day and Friday'calls for a dry wind chills In some areas. The forecast for Wednesday calls for clouid with sunny periods, Gusty northerly winds and cold temperatures combining for high wind chilts. Highs from -7 to -9. The outlook for Thurs- over:our region, maintaining fairly clear skies and cold temperatures. Gusty northerly winds will provide high Arctic alrmass to remain’ Precipitation: — Rain Snow 4.0 cm. Number of Hours 22 Sunshine: ALOOK BACK AT THE PAST WEEK: Temperature: Max/Date Min/Date 62/412 45/16 8.2 cm. Normal Mean -L9 Mean 0.5 Total Normal Total 9.4.cm. 27.6 cm. Normal Number of Hours 15.4 REMARKS: A dull. week. precipitation fell days. Snow on ground ranged from 2 to 4 cm then jumped to 8 cm on the 16th. With the accumulation over the last couple of days , in full swing. Merry Christmas to all. Forecast provided by The South - East Interior Weather Office at Castlegar, B.C, (trace or more) all:seven area ski hills should be . at 770 Drive. The Sommers receive a $50 shopping spree from Super Valu for their efforts. Honorable Mentjons and a framed 8x10 color print of their displays were given to Dorothy Ashton and Doug Fellman, Ash- ton, who resides in a mobile home at 1485 Columbia Ave., #23, was cited for good use of limited space. Fellman’s red and green display at 2709 Fifth Ave. was deemed eye- catching. The Castlegar Sun was pleased with the response to this Hedeling Christmas competition, thanks all those who entered and helped make it such a success, and is looking forward to an even bigger and better competition next year — when the judges will be kept a certain amount of distance apart from each other and completely away from pointy things. Stanley Humphries Secondary School graduate wins Premier's award ‘ay BARBARA TANDORY Sun staff writer $ Being recognized as a very bright kid by the provincial pre- qnier was no big deal for Andrew Port, the Castlegar youth awarded With a $5,000 scholarship along By NANCY LINGLEY with the’ Premier’s Excellence award. “To me it wasn't a big thing to get it,” Port, 19, and a student at Selkirk College, said of receiving the award from Premier Bill Van- der Zalm and Minister of Educa-.:..; tion as a former for the best FEEDBACK ‘Sun Editor and their k Hockey has played a part in most young lives, especially boys. Not too many young Canadian males have not known the thrill of lacing ip the skates and stepping onto the ice for a minor hockey game, swhether it be at the Novice (up to age nine), or Atom (10-11), PeeWee 12-13), Bantam (14-15), or Midget (16-17) level. Also on the ice are the men who are in charge of the game, the offi- “Officials have: feelings, too. It hurts when you're yelled at and can bear it echo down the arena. It’s not like you can eave. ‘You can’t walk out. You're committed for the duration vf there's something I'd _ like to see of the game. from parents, it’s before you ‘open your mouth and carry on, stop a second and think about what you're say- ing. The next thing you say might cause an official tb hang up his slcazes and i next thing you say may be the Inst thing be'needs to hear. {hoped pve: gta a saps wen Gl tear ofthe be ‘ Se they'll leave the game at the rink: Brad opened the Bate and. moved onto the ice. “Just ‘step. out and don't look back.”