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That’s how she got the idea to use her background in social work to set up workshops on rural stress. “Farmers are reluctant to open up to a mental health professional or clergyman because those people usually aren't familiar with our way of life — they don't talk the lingo of farmers, they have never been up to their knees in cow For 13 years, Shako has worked as a farmer, wife, and, more recently, mother of two children. But both she and her husband grew up in urban areas, she in New York City, in the Albany, N.Y., suburb of Latham. The two met in college, where she was studying psy- chology and he majored in philosophy. Both loved farm- ing, and decided to make a career of it. Shako says there's nothing else she'd rather do, but life on the farm is rough. Just like the hard-driven execu- tive in the city. Farmers are subject to tension, anxiety, stress-related illnesses, de- pression and burnout. “But on the farm it's worse,” she says. “You don't get sick days or vacations. 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LeRoy 8.5.0.0, OPTOMETRIST 1012-4th St., Cast Phone 1 Tues.-Fri. 9a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m.-12 noon —_-eo_— PROFESSIONAL Tree T |. Shaping, 8 Fruit Treg Pruning LT. ALLAN ~ 366 Bokerst. Nelson, B.C. Ph, 352-5152 WEATHERCAST More cloudy and sunny periods Sunday, with a high of 3 to 5. Monday will be ifloudy with Ru y» Castlégar jhowers, and a of rain and snow. money’ igh will be 3. Weather will remain unsettled until mid-week. 40 Cents eB VOL. 37, No. 17 CASTLEGAR BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1984 2 Sections (A & B) MEET AGAIN: TODAY Pulp contract talks ‘hopeful’ VANCOUVER (CP) — Negotiators for the British Columbia pulp and paper industry and its two locked-out unions conferred for about half an hour Saturday, then adjourned their con- tract talks until this afternoon. Industry negotiator Dick Lester told reporters later the tone of the meeting was hopeful. Art Gruntman, western regional vice-president of the Canadian Paperworkers Union said he hopes both sides now have been hurt enough to reach an agreement. Fourteen pulp and paper companies locked out about 12,000 members of Gruntman’s upion and the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada at 20 mills throughout British Columbia Feb. 2 to protest union reluctance to bargain. The companies say the unions are waiting for Eastern pulpworker con- tracts to expire so that workers can apply greater economic pressure on pulp and paper companies. ‘The industry has offered the unions a contract similar to one ratified by the International Woodworkers of America earlier this month. It calls for a wage freeze on a base rate of $12.96 an hour in the first year, which ends June 30 this year and increases of four per cent and 4‘ per cent in the succeeding two years of the pact. It is estimated the dispute is costing the industry $10 million a day in lost wages, benefits and production. Meanwhile, the sanctity and sanity of pulp union picket lines was being questioned Friday as tensions remain- ed high in the British Columbia forest industry. Angry residents of Fort St. James, a forestry-dependent community of 2,500 in central British Columbia, made it clear that PPWC pickets run out of town Wednesday would be foolish if they returned to set up secondary pickets at the Takla sawmill. College board sets fong-term direction By CHERYL, CALDERBANK Staff Writer Selkirk College board this week ap- proved in principle a plan that will set the general direction of the college for the next 20 te 30 years. The plan calls for more emphasis on a centralized campus and for the major campus facilities at Nelson, Trail and Castlegar to be maintained. The plan, called the “modified core campus,” has all the benefits of a com- STUL OUT... . . Scott Mackenzie is one of 330 Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada Local 1, still off the job at the Celgar pulp mill in a three-week-old lockout dispute with pulp companies. Pulp pickets have spread to a number of B.C. lumber mills, in- cluding the Celgar sawmill. BC Timber officials are seokin a Labor Relations Board ruling prohibiting the jary picketing. — CosNews Photo by Ron Norman Trudeau seeks support OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Trudeau has sent a letter to both Opposition party leaders seeking their support to introduce an all-party resolution on his peace initiative in the Commons, an aide to Trudeau said Friday. The move follows a suggestion from Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Mulroney that the prime minister's peace initiative would be strengthened if it were backed by all parties. And, if the would be i in the Commons after MPs returh from a week-long break March 5, said the aide who did not wish to be named. eee? Arie in December ‘that Trudeau put a he before the C to obtain formal sa dlesemsas and additional proposals from other MPs in the House. He has since said that with all-party support, Trudeau could dismiss as unworthy any arguments about the “parti san” nature of the peace mission. The aide did not reveal the contents of the resolution, which may be changed if the leaders agree to discuss it. However, the aide said it is based on a 10-point-set of principles for reducing tensions between East and West which Trudeau outlined Feb. 9 in his first report to the Commons on his peace project since it got underway in October. An aide to Mulroney ‘acknowledged Friday the letter had arrived but did not know whether Mulroney bad read it. New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent said he has not yet seen the letter. All-party support would give Trudeau the moral support needed for the next stage of his initiative, said the prime minister's aide, who refused to elaborate. on page A2 pletely campus (core cam. pus) and a multi-campus, according to college principal Leo Perra. At the same time, the modified core campus will reduce the negative impacts of core and multi campuses, Perra says. Under the modified core campus, all major programs and services will be centralized at a major campus while maintaining a physical college presence in the three major communities of Nelson, Trail and of course Castlegar Perre said Friday that a brief has been prepared on the direction that the board wishes to move on future development of the college. The brief will be taken to the board’s March meeting and then will be sent out to various community groups who have indicated an interest in the report — such as city councils, sehool districts, chambers of commerce and regional districts. Perra said the groups will then have an opportunity to schedule meetings with the college and possibly parti- cipate in community meetings. In presenting the draft report to the college board, Perra gave an evaluation of each of the four models: multi- campus, core campus, expanded multi- campus and modified core campus. Perra said the current approach, which is the multi-campus model, “ensures easier access to campus-based programs and services for people living in the same community.” Costs to run the facilities would be the most economical under the present model. As well, Perra said local groups, organizations and agencies would be happier with the model. The core campus model calls for the centralization of all major programs and services at a major campus which, says Perra would provide for the greatest breadth of opportunities with- in the college tegion. “Students who attend the major campus will have reasonable access to all of the college's activities,” he said. “The core campus structure would provide the most efficacious utilization of human and physical resources which can help increase the total com- pr i of the insti _ Major expenditures for facilities would be required to accommodate re- located programs and services which in the short term could reduce college ac- tivities, he added. But Perra also noted that the core campus model would cause major dis- locations to long-term faculty members who do not live in Castlegar. The relocation of programs and services continued on poge A2 “There was no doubt .we intimidated them,” said an unidentified trucker. “That was the intent. I just hope they don’t come back.” In Prince George and Cranbrook, some members of the Intérnational Woodworkers of America crossed pulp union pieket lines to work in their saw- mills, despite leader Jack Munro's insistence that “we believe in the sanc- tity of the picket line.” ‘The unions began picketing sawmills and other operations of the major inte- grated forest companies on Tuesday, idling about 15,000 woodworkers. The shutdowns have pulled $5 million a day in wages out. of the provincial economy and resulted in millions of dollars in production losses. KEPT GUARD In Fort St. James, 30 local residents kept guard Thursday night at the en- trance to the Takla sawmill, the town's largest employer, after hearing reports that as many as 70 pulp union pickets would be arriving from Prince George. However, a union spokesman said that it would be Monday at the earliest be- fore his members returned to the area. Bight union “pickets left Fort St. James Wednesday after a meeting “I don't feel they have the right to deny us the right to work,” said one trucker. “This is our livelihood and we are just getting out of a recession. We don't want any hassles, we want to work.” contract awarded By CasNews Staff A Kelowna architectural firm has been awarded a $110,429 contract to come up with a preliminary design for a $6 million expansion to the Castlegar Christine Hearn, spokesman for Senator Jack Austin's office, said the design will include plans for a res- taurant and baggage area inside the terminal. ; The new terminal will be about 2,000 square metres — or about triple the size of the present Hearn added that parking will be doubled to 220 spaces. She said the expansion should suitable ai port facilities for “well into the 1990s.” Leap year — blame it all on Caesar TORONTO (CP) — Take heart all you complainers who feel the leap year marked on Wednesday only means an extra day to get up and go to work. The alternative — changing the calendar — could be a whole lot worse. Consider what happened in 1752, says a University of Toronto professor. That's the year Protestant Europe converted from the Julian calendar — devised under Julius Caesar — to the more refined Gregorian calendar that we use today. Eleven days were lost overnight in making the adjustment. Mass rioting ensued when people couldn't figure out when to pay their bills or if they were being cheated on their rent and wages, says Dr. Bert Hall, a specialist in the history of technology. “People killed over those changes,” said: ‘Give us our 11 days back.’ ” But even 1752 pales in comparison to problems ancient Womans encountered with their calendar before Caesar, _father of the leap year, came to the rescue, says Hall. Ancient calendars tracked the changing seasons by the movement of the earth and sun. The moon's cycle from full to says Hall. “People new averages 29'/ days to make up a month. But 12 lunar months make a year of only 854 days, more than 11 days short of the cane solar cycle that determines the seasons. The pre-Julian Roman calendar was so wacky that the high priests often had to add 50 or 60 days to a year so it would jibe with the seasons. And “priests were not above a little graft themselves,” often altering the calendar to force citizens to throw a few more offerings the church's way, Hall says. Caesar ended this practice in 46 BC when he decreed that all years would have 965 days, save every fourth, which would have 866. He gave the extra day to February because that was the month the priests traditionally fiddled with the calendar. “This calendar was good enough to last for centuries,” which plétsed an agricultural sogiety that needed to know when to plant and harvest, Hall’ LED Tos Local customs grew around the widely used calendar’s Feb, 29, In 1288 Scotland pasged a law that allowed a woman to “despeke ye man she likes.” He was fined if he refused her marriage proposal unless he could prove he was betrothed to another. A similar law was later in France. But problems developed with the Julian dystem. It was discovered that the calendar picked up a full day on the sun every 132 years. By 1582 the calendar was out 10 days, throwing havoc into the scheduling of Easter. “Easter is tWe first Sunday after the first full moon after equinox (usually March 21),” explains Hall. “If the calendar is off, the definition of Easter goes all haywire. In the Middle Ages, the 21st kept occurring later and later in the cycle of the seasons. It was the biggest issue of the day.” Pope Gregory XIII stepped into the mess and after advice from a panel of experts decided to cance! 10 days in October, and omit one leap year every century — the leap year that falls on the turn of the century. This is done except in those years divisible by 400 which means 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not leap years but ‘will ‘be. rs If it all seems enormously complicated, that's because it is, In fact, the ancient philosopher Plato contended the gods made the lunar and solar cycles “to teach man mathematics,” says Hall with a laugh. “Enormous amounts of brainpower went on in the ancient world to make the calendar work. Without this application, we might never have come up with modern science.” But not every society worried about staying in step with the sun. About 400 million Moslems still observe a lunar calendar that “perpetually slips out of gear with the sun 11 days a year,” Hall says. This means the average Moslem will live through at least one complete cycle where the usual winter months see summer and the summer months become winter. “A Moslem businessman in Egypt will have two calen- dars on his desk — one for secular appointments, one for religious,” Hall says. “It can get swkward.” Hall thinks time would be more sensibly measured in 12 months of 30 days each. Hii'tystem would leave five extra days at the end of every year, and six every fourth year. The days could be labelled A through E, suggests Hall, and used as New Year's holiday.