Saturday, June 20, 1992

SCOTT DAVID HARRISON
Editor

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JONATHAN GREEN
Sports Reporter

GLEN FREEMAN
News Reporter

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WARREN CHERNOFF
Accountant

DAVE McCULLOUGH
Publisher

NEWSPAPERS
COMPETITIONS

~ The President and Directors
of the
Canadian Community Newspapers Association

Representing the Community Newspapers of Canada

are pleased to congratulate

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Composing Room Foreman

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The Castlegar News

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Best All Round Newspaper
Best Front Page
Best Editorial Page

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Sales Representative

HEATHER HADLEY
Circulation Manager

BOB PROCTOR
Sales Representative

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Composing

DENIS MEDEIROS
General Help

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NewsFLASH

@ WEATHER

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Sunny and hot.
Highs continue in the 30s.

@ OUR PEOPLE

It was that time of the year
again at Stanley Humphries
Senior Secondary. The Class
of 1992 paraded its proud faces
before a host of onlookers Sat-
urday.

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Swimmers from across the
Kootenays splashed down in
Robson Saturday for the River
Otters Annual Swim Meet.
Amid the gold, silver and
bronze, local swimmers had a
lot to be happy with.

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@ ARTS & LEISURE

The art of glass making is
making an appearance at the
West Kootenay Exhibition
Centre as Western Canadian
sculptors give Castlegar a look
at the trends of the 90s. j

preview 3

Harrison 6
- Letters v4
Our People 9
Local Sports 15
Action Ads 18
Top 10 preview 2
Arts & Leisure preview3
Calendar preview 4
TV Listings preview 6

strike is two weeks old and unless mediator Vince Rea
return to the bargaining table, Castlegar’s long,

Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada Local 1 members take a break from picket action to catch some shade. The Celgar
dy is successful in his latest effort to get the two waging parties to
hot summer may just be beginning. For stories see page 5.

News photo by Gien Freeman

Police probe sexual allegations

@ Castlegar rocked by sexual
assault allegations, charges and
convictions

NEWS STAFF
The Castlegar News has learned that
local RCMP will be investigating allega-
tions that sexual misconduct took place
during a Kinnaird Junior Secondary
School band trip Saturday. :
According to a parent who did not
want to be identified, one girl “had been
groped at different times” by the driver
of a privately owned chartered bus.
KJSS principal Bruce Gerrand would
neither confirm nor deny the allegations
saying “we took 125 kids to Cranbrook.”
Meanwhile in unrelated incidents,
RCMP have filed eight sex-related
charges against another resident.
Police charged a 57-year-old Castle-

gar man Friday with three counts of in-
decent assault and five counts of sexual
assault for offenses which allegedly took
place between 1990 and 1992.

The indecent assault charges were al-
leged to involve females, while the sexu-
al assault charges were alleged to in-
volve both young males and females.

The Castlegar man will appear in
court on July 9.

Elsewhere, a retired Castlegar man
was sentenced to 18 months in jail Fri-
day at Nelson Supreme Court for crimes
committed in 1989 and 1990.

William Alex Jmieff, 66, will serve 18
months at the Stave Lake Correction
Centre for sexually assaulting three ju-
venile girls.

“I’m happy he’s going to get coun-
selling,” said the mother of one victim,
who added it was important that the
people of Castlegar know such crimes

are taking place in their city.

“No one can make up for what he has
done in the past. I just don’t want any-
one else to have to go through this.”

Justice Raymond Cooper also sen-
tenced Jmieff to three years probation,
in which time he must attend coun-
selling. During his parole, Jmieff is to
avoid contact with any of his victims and
tmoust have a female adult present when
in the presence of any female under 16
years old.

But RCMP Cpl. Al Hudema said de-
spite recent reports of sex-related of-
fenses, there's no great cause for alarm.

“Castlegar is not unlike any oth
city,” Hydema said. “People are realizing
that things which happened in the past
are wrong and must be dealt with.

“They are more inclined in today’s
day and age to deal with (sexual assault)
in the courts rather than personally.”

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