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BUFFET¢HUTCHeTABLE SIX CHAIRS All Sale Prices! 5-PIECE DINETTES WwOODeGLASS & BRASS 299 LINOLEUM IN OUR WAREHOUSE HUGE STOCK FROM 6?>.. 9-PIECE PROVINCIAL STYLE DININGROOM 2695 L FOLDING CHAIRS HARDWOOD ALL WOOD KITCHEN OR ALL DINETTE CHAIRS ALL HARDWOOD Hs 2129 -Vol. 40, No.2 COMMUNITY BONFIRE . . . Photograph by CasNews editor Ron Norman catches. silhouettes of some of the 200 residents who turned out for th t annual Twelfth Night Christmas tree burn Tuesday at the Community Complex field. Burn was sponsored by local scouting organization with help from the Castlegar volunteer fire department. KJSS to get videos By CasNews Staff — CARPETING — — RUBBERBACK — CANDY STRIPE BERBER-LIKE All Nylon SCULPTURED BRASS PLANTERS 4° 2-DOOR NITE TABLES 59 STUDENTS DESKS CHAIRSIDE TABLES 49 | servinc CARTS Urethane Back. Our Best e NYLON SCULPTURED e 2 AND 3 PIECE CHESTERFIELD SUITES ALL SALE PRICED! HUGE SELECTION! TUESDAY THRU SUNDAY January 6 to 11 Open 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. SPECIAL SUNDAY OPENING Sunday, January 11 12 Noon to 5 p.m. CHINA CABINETS CURIO CABINETS Castlegar school board unanimously approved a request from Kinnaird Junior secondary school Monday night for $1,500 to purchase instructional films and videos related to the school’s guidance program. Deborah Chmara, a KJSS teacher, told the board that most or all of the audio-visual material related to the course is outdated. “Much of the material for the course is not suitable, it’s 1940s special,” she said. Chmara explained that any modern material is usually American, with dialogue consisting of the country's ur ban colloquialisms. “The students can't identify with the inner city language and many of the ethnic minorities,” said Chmara. In a letter to the board, Chmara outlined five basic topics covered in the course. These include decision making, communication skills, self image, the Young Offenders Act and a fina! sec tion on drugs, alcohol and sexuality. Chmara added that other frequently mentioned topics discussed in cl: include divorce, family fighting, deal ing with parents, teenage suicide, AIDS, careers and dating. The average cost of one package related to each of the five main topics available in either video or 16 mm film, is approximately $175. “These students are better equipped to make a decision,” said Chmara. “Some might not need this information for one month, some not for three years. “We're getting a lot of information out there and it’s being used,” she said. “We just don't know when.” The board hopes Stanley Humphries secondary school might develop.a simi INSIDE EAST MEETS WEST: The Soviet Union Under 17 national team doubled Team Pacific 8-4 Mon- day night at the Cominco Arena. CasNews sports writer Surj Rat- tan has gil the details of the game and\ the off-ice activites, including S¥nday’s brunch at the Brilliant Cultural Centre... BI Sax, BREAK-INS: Castlegar RCMP apprehended several youths over the last few days in connection with a series of break-ins... A2 POSTAL HIKE: Canada Post plans a two-cent jump in first-class stamp prices effective April] . . AS NEW CENTRE: Emily Carr College of Art and Design has opened 6 centre in Castlegar . COLD SHOULDER: OTTAWA . A3and B4 Odette Boudreau and Trent Webster have had their wedding plans iced by the Roman Catholic Church The couple had hoped for a Catholic ceremony in a custom- built ige chapel on Dow's Lake in the middle of Ottawa during the city’s celebration of winter known as Winterlude. The Truro, N.S., couple will settle for a civil ceremony by o justice of the peace Feb. 7 as the centrepiece of a $25,000 wedding they won in a national contest in September. Included in the packagetis $8,000 for the dinner and recep- tion at the Ottawa Congress Centre, limousine service to the JUTE, ACTION BACK CARPETING 6°°-192° © WALL SYSTEMS ALL ON SALE Furniture Warehouse Floor- Courting Centre Phone 693-2227 chapel, a trip by horse-drawn cutter after the wedding, $2,000 in spending money, airfare -and accommodation and the photographing and videotaping of the service. Rev. Pat Powers, an assistant to Ottawa Archbishop Joseph- Aurele Plourde, said the Catholic church wouldn't conduct the ser- vice at the ice palace because “a wedding must take place in a regular place of worship.” lar guidance program in the future which would tie in directly to the KJSS material. In other news, the board will be drafting a list of suggested topics for the provincial government's planned Royal Commission on Education. Some of the suggestions will include teacher training programs, regulations to deal with incompetent teachers, small schools funding, French immer- sion and heritage languages, especially Russian. Finally, the board is assigning a pol- igy committee to establish recommen- dations regarding smoking in schools. A move by some Vancouver schools to prohibit smoking on sehool property inéluding staff rooms, prompted the suggestion. i Traditionally at SHSS, smoking is generally confined to the staff room for teachers and an area behind the school for students. Second crash victim dies of injuries By CasNews Staff A former Castlegar resident has died from injuries sustained in a Dec. 29 motor vehicle accident involving a transport truck and two vehicles 62 kilometres west of Castlegar on High- way 3. Elaine Burt, 35, of Penticton died Saturday in Kelowna General Hospital and is the crash’s second victim. Burt was listed in critical condition following the crash and was taken to the Kelowna hospital. Her husband, Lyle, 37, and sons, Scott, 9, and Wade, 7, all of Penticton, were also hospitalized in the crash. All were listed in either stable or satisfac tory condition. Daphne Loreen Bennett, 25, of New Westminster was killed instantly in the crash. According to Grand Forks RCMP, the eastbound transport truck, owned by Kiki and Sons of Sparwood, failed to negotiate a curve and collided head-on with the two westbound vehicles at about 1:30 p.m. Dec. 29. Conditions at the time were slippery due to snow. By RON NORMAN Editer Castlegar council hopes to spruce up the Pioneer Arena property this,year, but just how much work will be done depends on the city coffers. Council has earmarked $55,000 i in its budget for 3 Sections (A, B &C) Arena seat planned ~heavy workload because three new firehalls in the Central Kootenay re- gional district also require retrofitted trucks. As well, Henne said there is a problem with delivery of the new pamper truck. The $165,000 truck was parking and paving. ‘The improvements would include a partial redesigning of the area fronting Columbia Avenue and part of 9th Si ‘ Ald. Terry Rogers, chairman of the parks and recreation committee, says » the parking area will be paved and properly marked. There_will be a clearly defined en- trance from Columbia Avenue and exit onto 9th Street. As well, the boulevard along Colum- bia Avenue and part of 9th Street will be. planted with grass and trees. Just how far west 9th Street will be land- seaped depends on how much money is available, Rogers says. He noted that the improvements are intended to “set an example” for the rest of the area. In other council news, the Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce is working on ideas for the Expo 86 sign at the Highway 22 interchange. When council refused to take over the sign and flowerbeds from the Ministry of Highways the chamber agreed to assume responsibility, rather than see the sign and flowers removed permanently. One possibility for the location is a sign welcoming visitors to Castlegar. Meanwhile, protective services com- mittee chairman Ald. Carl Henne says there will ‘be a delay on fire depart- ment’s two pumper units scheduled to be rebuilt. Selkirk College's Selfire program bc Proposed to tettofit and upgrade othe Nor@amt'+ for $25,000 “Aplece. One unit was to be completed this year and the other in 1988. However, Henne said Selfire has a : i pposed to be early this spring, but Henne said because of with the chassis, it won't likely arrive until May or June. Elsewhere, Henne said council needs to carefully examine fire department i and facility requir “There have to be some changes niade,” Henne said. He suggested developing a plan so that in five years the two firehalls could amalgamate to form a single hall. Henne said if the city had just one hall, it would need fewer fire trucks. The city can't keep buying new trucks for both halls, he said. “We could get by with*two trucks,” and the same coverage, Henne por ed However, he cautioned that it’ will take four or five years to changes. low said the Castlegar and Course has an arrangement with a local resident where it provides Jand and services at no cost. The resident in turn ensures there is no vandalism at the golf course. “There has been a suggestion that we do the same thing for Zuckerberg Island,” he said. * City clerk Betty Price, who is also a member of the Heritage Advisory Committee, pointed out the committee is Inoking into a caretaker for the island park. Hospital prepares for new CATscanner By CasNews Staff Trail Regional Hospital has begun to prepare a site for its new CAT scanner, expected to_be installed in the 1987-88 fiscal year, according to assistant administrator Ron Parisotto. A new maintenance shop must first be completed in the hospital's base- ment, freeing an appropriate site near the emergency area of the hospital. “Ideally, the site-ghould be close to emergency and diagnostic equipment,” P arisotto told the Castlegar News to- day. The final cost of the site preparation is expected to be about $100,000. -Parisotto hopes’ the will be in full operation sometime be- tween April 1, 1987 and March 31, 1988 the hospital’s fiscal year. Trail Regiorial-has not yet finalized the actual purchase of the CAT scanner, but Parisotto said cost esti- mates from medical suppliers are pres- ently being reviewed. Estimates from such firms as Gen- eral Electric, Philips and Toshiba should be in the $1 million range. The provincial government has promised to pay 75 per cent of the total operating costs of the scanner. which, according to estimates, should be be- tween $150,000 and $200,000 a year. Dr. S. Plaa,. who has been employed at Trail Régional over the past year, is fully’ qualified: to operate the CAT scanner and many of the radiology staff have also received training, said Par- isotto. OVER FORTY YEARS LATER . . . Maria and Frans Braal, both veterans of a long and frightening war in which they risked their lives and the lives of their children to harbor persecuted Dutch citizens and COUPLE RISKED LIVES TO SAVE WAR REFUGEES By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer In May of 1940, the Germans inyaded Holland. Within four short days a country of 14 million was brought to its knees and everything that was part of Dutch society, including’ intricate birth records, racial and religious freedom and able-bodied, well-educated young men and women, became part of the Nazi regime Frans and Maria Braal were a young couple with three children living on an island called Voorne in Holland. For the next five years, these two became leaders of an intricate underground system that involved harbroing downed pilots and, at one time, hiding 26 refugees in their home. “Uf they caught you,” explains Frans Braal in a quiet downed Allied pilots. The Braals do not believe in violence. During the rescues and throughout the war, Frans never carried a weapon. accented voice, “you were immediately executed and your home burnt to the ground.” The Braals now live on 300 acres in South Slocan in a home that Frans built with lumber cut in his own small mill. At 70 and 71 years, respectively, and seven children later, in the midst of these comfortable surroundings the Braals recall a painful yet intriguing story that took place more than 40 years ago. Frans and Maria were high school sweethearts who married in 1938 and moved to Voorne where Frans worked as a specialist in the Dutch diking system. Because of the nature of his work, once the Germans had successfully occupied Holland, Frans was kept on in his same job but was issued a special permit, with additional permits for his men, that allowed entry into restricted areas. “We informed ourselves of the political scene in Europe.” said Frans. “All of Holland was beaten. In just continued on pege AZ 9