had Castlegar News March 16, 1968 UNIONS NOT R D T STRIKE STRESS OTTAWA (CP) — Employees from coast to coast will soon have the chance to invest in up-and-coming businesses and get tax breaks at the same time through a fund being set up by the Canadian Federation of Labor. Working Ventures will be the first Canadian venture capital fund sponsored by a national labor organization. It is modelled on the Fonds de solidarite des travailleurs du Quebec, sometimes known as the Solidarity Fund. Federation president James. A. McCambly says Working Ventures will sell shares to workers and use the money to invest in businesses with growth potential. “It's something that is very, very new and certainly exciting,” he said in an interview. Revised federal tax incentives for investors in venture capital funds sponsored by national labor organizations were announced last month in the budget speech of Finance Minister Michael Wilson. Beginning this year, workers can claim a federal tax credit of 20 per cent of the cost of shares to a maximum credit of $700 a year. McCambly said he has already started lobbying provincial governments to match that incentive. TAX BREAKS An investment in Working Ventures will qualify under certain conditions as part of a self-administered registered retirement savings plan. That would lead to additional tax breaks beyond any regular federal or provincial tax credit. The size and availability of those breaks would vary BUSINESS DIRECTORY TELEPHONE 365-5210 =. New Ppeeens cee inathory gbe baerch 39 for the month of April. cancellations for the Castlegor eccepted up to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Accounting with individual contributions to an pl pension plan or contributions to other kinds of | RRSPs. Working Ventures is a separate entity from the Canadian Federation of Labor, but McCambly will probably act as its chairman or president. Union members affiliated with the federation will be itg most likely investors, but outsiders will also be eligible to invest. The Canadian Federation of Labor represents about 225,000 workers across the country in 13 affiliated unions, mostly in the building trades. The Solidarity Fund is a venture of the Quebec Federation of Labor, which belongs 4 the Canadian Labor Congress and has no ties with MeCambly’s group. Labor to set up fund TORONTO (CP) — People who go on strike suffer pro- found psychological and emotional disruption which unions aren't responding to adequately, says a Queen's University study Dr. Julian Barline, a psy chologist who studied tea chers at an Ontario com munity college who were on strike in 1984, found wide. spread problems such as marital discord, nightmares, headaches and inability to concentrate, as well as fin ancial stress. These symptoms of stress linger for months when a strike is ended by legislation but disappear quickly if a dispute reaches a negotiated settlement, he said. ~ “Strikes are a really stress. ful event... people are going to suffer,” he said. “But labor-management conflict that goes to a strike and is not resolved (through neg. otiation) has stomach pains — these are the things that got a lot worse, day after day,” he _—said. “I'm not saying unions should go on strike less, but if they go on strike they have to realize the effects it will have on members.” Barling said that even though strikes are common, that go on for at least six months.” Barling studied 117 of the 7,600 teachers involved in the 22-day Ontario community college strike in 1984 that was ended by legislation. “Sleep problems, appetite, their psychological effects have hardly been studied. Labor Canada figures show that 483,867 Canadians were on strike for at least half a day in 1986. Unions should try to pro- vide more psychological sup: port to members on strike, Barling said, citing the ex- ample of a community sup- port committee set up fering a long strike at Inco Ltd. Sudbury in 1978-79. He said labor disputes ended by back-to-work legis- lation are the most trouble- some psychologi Rocky View Tax & Bookkeeping Services & Contractors * Farm-Logging No. 06-1545 Columbie Avenue Castiega: . IRENE MORTIMER 365-2223 SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Castlega Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc.C.A. Resident Partner The federal government alone has passed four back- to-work laws in the last 18 months involving more than 70,000 workers. “When people go on strike there is a divisive issue im- portant to both sides. When you can resolve that, it can be beneficial. We're Steering You savings on new 1988 GMC FULL SIZED PICKUP 511,488 ‘Time to haul it on home.” 1700 Columbia Ave., Qo Re. 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Final results CasNews sportswriter Brendan Nagle has the results from last night's provincial basketball mee championship at SHSS. vee Gt J ia, WEATHERCAST Cloudy with rain showers this continuing clouds and isolated showers. Chance of showers is 60 per cent today and 40 per cent Monday Bn: 60 Cents 2 Sections (A & B) 10 YEARS OFF Hydro says no DOUSING FLAMES . . . Castlegar volunteer fire- fighter Larry Bosse pours water on flames that gut- Blaze guts home By RON NORMAN Editor The cause of a spectacular fire that gutted a home in the Oglow subdivision Thursday afternoon has been traced to an electrical short. No one was hurt in the blaze, which could be seen from downtown Castlegar and which drew a huge crowd of onlookers. “After four hours of investigating, it was attributed to electrical wiring,” Castlegar Fire Chief Bob Mann told the Castlegar News. Mann said the fire started in the joists in the flooring beneath the kitchen area of the home, located at 720 Lynwood Crescent. “It was burning a good hour (before it was spotted) because no one was home,” Mann said. The house is owned by a young couple. Mann said the woman, who is eight months pregnant, left the house about 1:40 p.m. and returned home at 3:30 p.m. to find firemen at the scene. A passing cyclist spotted the fire. Anil Dholliwar, 20, ted home in the Oglow subdivision Thursday after- noon. Fire was caused by electrical short. CasNews Photo by Ron Norman said he was returning home when he noticed the flames shooting up from the back of the house. “I was riding up the hill. There was a mattress on the back balcony and it was on fire,” he said in an interview at the scene. Dholliwar said he ran to the neighbor's house and banged on the door but there was no answer. So he raced across the street to another house but couldn't find anyone. By that time the first homeowner, Ray Malkow, had answered his door. “I couldn't believe it,” Malkow said. “They had a mattress sitting up on the sundeck and the whole ? Malkow said the fire didn’t look that bad at first, but “in three or four minutes the whole thing was on fire.” Mann said the fire took off because the house was “all cedar inside.” The house and contents were insured. There was no estimate of the damage, however, damage was confined to the upper levels. on page AS to dam project By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer B.C. Hydro will not be installing generators at the Hugh Keenleyside dam for at least the next decade, the chairman of the Crown corporation told the Castlegar News this week. Larry Bell says a lack of fore. seeable power demand for the project is the reason, rather than Hydro's current problems with levels. * Demand for domestic power is not enough to require start-up of the $982-million generation project at the Keenleyside dam “until the turn of the century,” said Bell. However, he said increased demand for export power to the U.S. could change this and “we are actively examining that.” Bell was speaking to a group of reporters at a press conference Friday at Hydro's Burnaby Control Centre. Hydro asked the exact location of the bunker-like nerve center that controls most of Hydro’s electric dams and transmission lines not be revealed for security reasons. “This provides them with the opportunity to shut off all the lights in B.C.,” Bell said, referring to potential saboteurs. B.C. Hydro gathered together its top executives to publicize the fact unusually dry weather for almost a year has caused such low reservoir and snowpack levels that some people are worried about the security of the province's power supply. “What we are concerned about is the levels of the reservoirs,” said Bell. Last year the province as a whole low water} LARRY BELL not enough demand received above average precipitation except in the Columbia River systems, according to Bell And he said he expects to see reservoirs drop even lower this year. Specifically the Arrow Lakes, could drop six to nine metres (20 to 30 feet). “The main effect will be on recrea tion and will be visual,” Bell says. Boat owners might find their vessels high FOR USE OF VANS Teams hit roa Writer Some of the teams at the B.C. single A girls’ high school basketball championship here this week had their wheels pulled out from under them after hitting a vehicld inspection road block. The B.C. Motor Vehicle Inspection Branch said some of the vans the teams were using are not legal for school events. And that's left the teams high and dry. “It is a problem because we're in Castlegar without transportation,” said KLO coach Jim Hecker. The Kelowna team was one of three that rented regular passenger vans to transport players to and from their home towns. “It’s unfortunate this had to happen,” he said. Kamloops and Aldergrove were the other two teams which rented vans to drive to Castlegar. Four other teams flew in and rented the vans, only to find they couldn't use them to drive around town. The crackdown on the rented vans came one week after five boys and their coach died in a highway collision 65 kilometres north of Prince George. The six were on their way to a basket ball tournament in Lillooet after leaving from Bethel Christian second ary school in Dawson Creek and were driving a rented van. But an area vehicle inspector for the Motor Vehicle Branch says there is no connection between the Castlegar roadblock and the Dawson Creek acci dent. By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff have centre isles and they aren't marked with proper school bus ident ification. Richardson said the law governing school transportation has been in effect since 1975 and has always been enforced in this area. None of the schools in the area rent vans, but have their own school buses which conform to motor vehicle specifications for school transportation. The manager for the inspection division of the B.C. Motor Vehicle Department in Victoria added that the Bethel crash did not have a bearing on the Castlegar incident. “There's just not way I'd send that directive out because of the Bethel and dry when water levels fall or saw mills might have trouble floating logs to their production facilities. In fall and winter, when stream flows are ordinarily low, water is released as required for power gen eration at particular dam sites or at other power plant sites downstream. Hydro counts on a certain amount of continued on page A3 block accident,” said Jerry Brown. “But I would tell the inspector to enforce the law because it’s there.” Brown said he is aware of the problems the roadside van suspensions have created for the teams and tourn. ament organizers and praised the Castlegar school board for acting so quickly in assisting the affected teams. He also made no excuses for his de- partment’'s stance. “It’s not my job to stop the tourn ament,” said Brown. “But we must enforce the rules and regulations.” Tournament co-ordinator Doug Hickey said the suspensions created continued on page A3 Consumer group to . oppose WKPL plant The Kootenay-Okanagan Electric Consumers Association is preparing to intervene on behalf of its members and other customers of West Kootenay Power and Light at the B.C. Utility Commission public hearing scheduled to begin April 26 in Kelowna. The hearings will consider WKPL's plans to build a gas turbine generation plant within the city limits of Kelowna. “We question the burning non-renewable oil and natural gas at only 25 per cent efficiency to produce power, creating noise and air wisdom of “It ipa total ” said Rob Richardson. “The roadside inspection was set up for those vehicles not because of last week but because the law says those vehicles are illegal for school functions.” The rented vans were pulled from the road because t! don't have marked exits, they don't et when the pr is glutted with clean hydroelectricty,” said ECA spokesperson Don Scarlett. “We are pleased to hear that the cities of Kelowna, Penticton, Summerland, Oliver and Nelson are going to be intervening as well.” Scarlett said the B.C. government “seems to be ‘fast-tracking’ these hearings, because interested parties have been given only one week to notify the Commission if they want to intervene. We're concerned that some people) might be prevented from participating.” He quoted the commission sec retary who has given his assurance no one will be denied the chance to intervene. Scarlett said the ECA will try to help anyone who is having difficulty getting onto the list. The ECA is also sponsoring a public information meeting March 24 at the Kelowna Parks and Recreation Centre. “West Kootenay Power has offer- ed to send a speaker to describe the project and the economies behind it,” said Scarlett. “It's important that rate- payers be well-informed about the proposal, because if it goes ahead, they'll be paying for it.”