aa Castlegar News June 24, 1987 Critics predict new era of VICTORIA (CP) — Crities of the B.C, government say the province. is in for a new era of discontent and labor-relations chaos with the controversial labor legislation that received third reading Tuesday. But Labor Minister Lyall Hanson denied the accusations that the bill is aimed at getting rid of unions. He closed third-reading debate saying that the legislation begins “a new. era of an improved labor-relations climate that will change the p: “It appears the vote (on third reading) is the end of industrial relations stability in British Columbia,” said Ken Georgetti, president of the B.C. Federation of Labor. The 250,000-member federation has vowed to boycott the industrial relations bill, the indastria] relations council legislation. q Outside the legislature, Hanson admitted that he is concerned about a boycott, but added: “Once they see the legislation is in place . .. they will recognize that the council will be a good and fair judicial system for resolving those issues.” ‘ URGES SUPPORT : He urged British Columbians to support the bill because it will prove to be good legislation even though it may be six to 18 months before everything is working smoothly. He expects royal assent will be given fairly quickly with proclamation as early as mid-July. The minister also said that it is “the duty of all British and other boards and committee established-by-it_It_has already held a one-day general strike to protest the Ce who are in British Columbia to give it an opportunity to work.” 4 ~—NDBP-Leader M‘ke Harcourt told reporters that the 0; raised its in the h chaos “We have in a lawful and legal way said that this won't work,” he said. “The choice of other citizens now is whether they are going to feel bound by this unjust and bad law.” The O; i leader predi union d that ‘The bill was given third reading by a vote of 39-22 by the majority Social Credit government. ‘A motion to delay third reading for six months that had bee: duced by the NDP was defeated 39-21. Union, said he is disappointed Premier not following Employees Vander Zalm is through on his election p of n ‘The act is a sweeping rewrite of labor law that sets up an Industrial Relations Council to replace the Labor Relations Board and gives broad powers to an industrial relations commissioner to monitor and intervene in disputes. also has the responsibility for recom. consultation and co-operation. ander Zalm has not listened to the growing number of The mending an end to disputes he deems threatening to the economy or the health, safety or wel of residents. It makes it easier for unioni to invest in ior easier to obtain decertification and people in the community at large are concerned at what Bill peace and harmony in this 19 will do to allows employers to try to convi P' not to vote for certification. VICTORIA (CP) — Pre- mier Bill Vander Zalm has put plans to broadcast the proceedings of the B.C. leg- islature on hold. Vander Zalm said prop- osals received so far to broadcast the proceedings have involved millions of dol- lars — an expenditure he said cannot be justified. But the premier would not comment on what price would be appropriate, saying that would give away his bargaining chip. Gordon Hanson, NDP member of the legislature for Victoria, said the Social Credit government is hesi- tant because it doesn’t want British Columbians to see its poor performance compared with that of the Opposition NDP. Vander Zalm dismissed Hanson's suggestion. He said the government has the looks and the smiles and all the good things going. NEW DIRECTORS . . . The Kootenay Columbia Child Care Society held its annual general meeting June 22. The new Board of Directors are: Brenda Parks, Diane Pickering, Deb Wasilenkott, Lynn Emde. lanthe Warner, Margarite Hinde, Brenda Balahura, Karl Emde and Bud Godderis. Honorary memberships in the society were presented to Maureen Reimer and Paul: made to outgoing board member Mary Davis. Emde and a special presentation was Photo submitted MORE STRIKEBREAKERS Violence continues By The Canadian Press The worst national mail disruption since 1981 spread from coast to coast today as Canada Post announced that it would continue to use strikebreakers despite the violence that has marked the nine-day-old strike by letter carriers. Carriers walked out in scores of communities across the country as they waited for their leaders and the post office to resume stalled contract negotiations. Meanwhile, Harold Dunstan, chief negotiator for the agency, said the government's decision Tuesday not to appoint a mediator in the strike has removed any thought he had earlier about pulling back strikebreakers. Although the safety of postal employees and replacement workers remains a concern, the 20,000-member Letter Carriers’ Union of Canada and its president, Robert McGarry, must bear the responsibi if violence continues Dunstan said in an interview. “I think Mr. McGarry will have to take his responsibility as a union leader to heart. It’s his control of the picket line that can reduce a large part of the violence.” SAFETY CONCERNS When he first requested a mediator last Friday Dunstan said he would halt the use of strikebreakers for the safety of everyone concerned as soon as an appointment was made by the government. Labor Minister Pierre Cadieux, after four tense days of silence amid repeated episodes of picket line violence, refused to name a mediator Tuesday. Neither side in the dispute has shown enough latitude to justify a mediator, Cadieux said. unstan said he expected to talk later in the day with McGarry about the possibility of resuming contract talks without a mediator. “T'm still of the view that a mediator would be helpful,” he said. Carriers walked out today in Sydney and New Glasgow, N Mount Pearl, Nfld., Bathurst, N.B., and Summerside, P.ELI. They also hit dozens of cities across Ontario including Hamilton, Windsor, St. Catharines, Cornwall, Belleville, Petawawa, Collingwood, Renfrew, Belleville, Pembroke, Arnprior, Smiths Falls, Brockville, Cobourg, Thunder Bay and Dryden. The union said walkouts were also planned across the West but it held back a list of sites until the time had passed for all carriers to report to work. Mail service was at a standstill in Quebec but not Castlegar firm awarded contract By CasNews Staff The A Castlegar construction firm has been awarded a con tract worth nearly $1.9 mill ion to do work along the Alaska Highway contract, totalling $1,868,716, will employ local people “We haven't completed our hiring yet. We will have some local people working,” a Markin Brothers Contract- company spokesman told the ing Ltd. has been awarded a Castlegar News. contract to do gradual bass But the spokesman was construction work for 21.4 unable to say how many kilometres along the Alaksa people will work on the proj Highway ect a because of the strike. The province was celebrating the St. Minister tax reform pr REFORM HITS MIDDLE CLASS OTTAWA (CP) — Finance Michael Wilson's soak Securities adds to the grow- ing suspicion that individuals aren't getting the tax break Jean Baptiste holiday. Six workers were charged with malicious damage and resisting arrest this morning after a van carrying strike- breakers tried to enter the station at Mount Pearl, a western suburb of St. John’s Nfld. Police Insp. Ed Bussey ordered his men to “take them” — the pickets — after eggs were pelted at the van. Postal workers were on the job this morning in Halifax. Letter carriers across Manitoba were back on the job this morning after rotating strikes in Winnipeg and Brandon were called off at midnight Tuesday night. There were reports letter carriers in other parts of the province, including Portage la Prairie, Selkirk and Flin Flon, would be on the picket lines today, but a spokesman for Canada Post said all Manitoba carriers were reporting for work. Letter carriers returned to work in Regina and Saskatoon but workers stayed off the job in the smaller Saskatchewan centres of North Battleford, Prince Albert and Lloydminster. Meanwhile, Dunstan rejected union charges that the post office is using strikebreakers as agitators, to increase picket line violence and harden public opinion against the carriers. Police. file the middle class and add to the complexity of the tax system, said maverick Tory MP Don Blenkarn. Blenkarn said the reforms will soak the middle class be- cause the tax rates for those in the mid-income group are 26 per cent, only three per- centage points less than the rate for those with incomes in excess of $55,000. Wilson's former employer, the investment firm Domin- ion Securities, is also raising questions about the impact of his tax reform measures on personal taxes. Personal taxes will rise by 12.5 per cent this year and will continue, after tax re- form, to grow faster than the growth in incomes or the economy, says the firm where Wilson once worked as a vice president. The analysis by Dominion Wilson promised in his tax reform speech. The finance minister said “federal personal income taxes will be reduced by about $2 billion in 1988 and more than $11 billion over the next five years.” It adds that the “insigni. ficant” shift in the tax burden from individuals to corpor- ations is being lished KILLER CLAIMS RIGHTS VIOLATED KINGSTON ONT. (CP) — The Ontario Court of Appeal reserved judgment Tuesday on a claim by mass murderer Clifford Olson that prison officials are violating his constitutional rights. In March, Mr. Justice William Maloney of the Ontario Supreme Court rejected Olson's assertion that being locked in isolation 23 hours a day is cruel and unusual ish The court di: his written application to be returned to British Columbia. Olson, serving a life sentence in Kingston Peniten- tiary after pleading guilty to the abduction and murder of 11 children in British Columbia in the early 1980s, is appealing Maloney's decision. He told the three-member Appeal] Court that he was never given a chance to present his case to the Supreme Court. “The hearing was on March 8 this year and I wasn't notified of it until 8:30 p.m. on March 2,” said Olson, looking fit and tanned. “How can I be in court at 10 the next morning prepared to present my case?” His appearance at the Frontenac County courthouse, under heavy guard, was the first time he has been outside the 150-year-old maximum-security prison in nearly five years. He pleaded guilty to the child murders in January 1982. UNDER GUARD Five Kingston police officers, two provincial police officers and three prison guards were stationed in and around the courtroom. The court holds periodic sessions in Kingston to hear appeals by convicts. Olson, wearing brown pants, a short-sleeved white shirt and brown suede shoes, was restrained by leg shackles and handcuffs and a chain locked around his waist. A request by Olson that his right hand be freed from the handcuffs so he could refer to a stack of documents was denied by Chief Justice Willan Howland. Roslyn Levine, a lawyer with the federal Justice Department, said she had “difficulty finding the grounds for the appeal.” She said Olson is in protective custody for his own safety. Prison officials have said Olson't life would be} jeopardized if he were released into the general inmate population. Olson's status at the prison is reviewed as often as every 90 days, Levine said. Olson, who represented himself at the hearing, gave by increasing corporate taxes faster than personal taxes. Weather Sunny Thursday with highs near 30 and lows 8- 11. Outlook is for con- tinuing sunshine into the weekend. a ing and often di d pr “My transfer to Kingston Penitentiary was political- ly motivated,” he said. “The possible publicity surround. ing a transfer back west is the sole reason I'm not being transferred. “Normally a person is sent to a prison in the area where they are convicted.” Olson said B.C. residents “would be upset” if he were jailed in that province, but added he wants to be near his young son and friends. Olson said he could get the same protection at the federal penitentiary in Prince Albert, Sask., as in Kingston because both are protective-custody insti- tutions. wh, Teil Nias TREET TALK’ DOES RUFFLES get around, or what? Ruffles, in case you don't already. know, is Bruce and Nancy Ketchum's bearded collie.'The dog was a familiar sight sitting behind Bruce in a basket during bike rides around Caastlegar. He was first featured on the pages of the Castlegar News during Selkirk College's annual logger sports day this spring. Reporter Mike Kalesniko captured Ruffles perched atop a stump, watching the action. ‘Then Ruffles made the pages of the Vancouver Sun during Rick Hansen's visit to Castlegar. And last Friday the Vancouver Province showed him riding in his basket as the Ketchums cycled in Richmond. What next? The Toronto Globe and Mail? CASTLEGAR schoo! district has published its first issue of the Education News. The newsletter is the board's attempt to communicate regularly with the CKQR NEWS director Pete ublie. “Through this newsletter, several programs have been highlighted and information that we feel to be of general public interest has been included,” the board says in the inaugural issue. The newsletter contains a graph showing how school taxes are spent in the local district and a code of conduct for bus students, along with individual stories on each of the area schools. IF YOU get a Guaranteed Available Income for Need cheque, you can pick it up at the Castlegar Social Services emer office. Social Services Minister Claude Richmond an- nounced that the July GAIN eheques will be distributed through more than 160 ministry offices if postal disruptions are not resolved prior to ‘their issue date. Distribution of the July income assistance cheques was scheduled to begin today. Richmond stressed that even though postal disruptions may only be on a rotating basis, all GAIN cheques will be distributed through the ministry, rather than the postal service. He added that cheques will be delivered where necessary — such as to the disabled. He said if the postal workers’ strike continues to the end of June, plans are in place to distribute other ministry cheques, such as payment to recipients of Shelter Aid for Biderly Renters (SAFER) benefits, day care operators and residential care operators. ' Details of the cheque distribution will be announced later. Lindy reads his last newscast on Friday before heading off to the Fraser Valley. Lindy has accepted a news job with Chilliwack radio station CHWK. He has been with ‘QR for almost four years and has Everything ts Summertime. Fresh at OT ROAST ND BON A Grave FA k CANADA .. LEAN . kg. GROUND BEEF VINTAGE HAMS 53% GARLICRING 39° 3.4, IRERERERERELERERER EO — CENTRAL DELI DELITES — BLACK FOREST HAM. 9Q° | OVERLANDER..... FARMER’S SAUSAGE $749 VERLANDER. .........,300 served as sports reporter and an aft ; Also joining him on the move is Lindy’s wife, Anna, a Castlegar native and ‘QR employee. Replacing him will be former ‘QR employee Rick Osborne. ~acsrnnetnenons MADDOCKS SAYS: Diversification urged By CasNews Staff Economic renewal in Castlegar could best be achieved if Cominco Ltd., Celgar Pulp Co. and Westar Timber Southern Forest Products diversified into related new products, according to Richard i i officer for Castlegar and District Development Board. Maddocks, who made the i i suggestions on how the IRDP could be improved and it learned about problems occurring in Kootenay West which are largely unknown in the rest of the country.” ‘According, to Brisco, all four West Kootenay witnesses said the IRDP should not be located in Vancouver where the officials responsible for the program “rarely if ever leave in a pi to the Standing Committee on Regional Industrial Expan- sion in Ottawa last week, pointed to an economic strategy plan conducted in ‘Castlegar last January which not only recommended that local industries need to diversify into new products related to local resources, but also that federal programs should provide communities with better assis- tance. “Research conducted by our board has indicated that the Department of Regional Industrial Expansion. through programs such as the Industrial and Regional Development Board, suffers from a perceived or real reluctance to provide the type of timely and flexible assistance required by ‘value added’ types of industry,” said Maddocks. Maddocks told the committee that Kootenay West suffers from “a fairly simply fundamental problem” that he described as high unemployment comprised mainly of skilled people who are forced to find work elsewhere because the area lacks the funds “to provide an employment base so desperately required.” “To instill . confidence levels required for .lcoal investment, a higher infusion of ‘outside’ capital funding is necessary,” he said. “The IRDP could and should be one high profile program ensuring the improvement of investor confidence in areas such as ours.” The statements were made as part of an in-depth review of the Industrial Regional Development Program. The committee also heard from Marten Kruysse, economic development commissioner for the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary; Mare Marcolin, chairman of the Greater Trail Community Futures’ Society; and Tom their V offices,” but should be administered out of local offices in areas where it is needed. OVERLANDER SALAMI 100 GRAM OVERLANOER. BAVARIAN. 100 GRAM . OVERLANDER CHEESE SMOKIES — nnn OVERLANDER PEPPERONI ¢ WIENERS 2 REGULAR OR ALL BEEF. 450G...........--.- 350 G. LUNCHEON MEAT — PREM. 12 Oz. TIN .. . $y ORANGE CRYSTALS 3 $] 19 NUTRA SWEET $2 39 SWEETENER. SUGAR TWIN. ...... 50s RICE KRISPIES KELLOGGS ......-. , “3479 BEEF, FRIED, CHICKEN OR SPANISH. RICE-A-RONI . 9 CORN FLAKES, $279 NOODLE-RONI Brisco also said the Kootenay West that the IRDP make more mofey available for feasibility studies, focus less on industrial strategies and more on regional development, provide greater program flexibility and provide more and better assistance to smaller firms. Brisco, who serves as vice-chairman of the committee, said work will continue on a detailed report which will include recommendations for changes to the IRDP. The report will be presented to the Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion. LOCALS HELP Body of Salmon fm boy found GRINDROD (CP) — The body of a three-year-old boy staying while the family at- tended a weekend ball tour- from nearby Salmon Arm, missing since June 13, was found Tuesday night in the Shuswap River about five kilometres from where he first d Baybutt, chairman of the Nelson E Commission and the Central Kootenay Region Community Futures Committee. Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said in a prepared release that the committee received some “useful Gerrod Thomas was play ing by the riverside when he failed to return to the camp- site where his parents were nament. A search by divers, boat- ers and RCMP failed ot locate the boy. Police called off the official search on Monday. Local Spallumcheen Indian band members, including the boy's father, found the body tangled in some tree bran- ches. Dog attacks animal officer LOS ANGELES (AP) — An animal-control officer — mauled by a pit bull in an at tack that was captured on videotape by a television crew — was in good condition Tuesday, recovering from bites on both hands and her chest. Meanwhile, authorities in Los Angeles sought to have the dog destroyed and its owner prosecuted. Florence Crowell, 33, was attacked Monday when the dog, named Benjamin, -burst she went to the home of Joy Hauser to investigate a re- port of an earlier attack by the dog. A bone in the officer's left hand was crushed, but she did not need surgery, said a spokesman for Gendale Memorial Hospital, Sherry Miller. Criminal charges contem- plated against Hauser range from the misdemeanor of possessing a vicious animal to felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon, said Mike Burns, supervisor for the Department of Animal Peg ulation. The attack, videotaped by a television news crew, is the latest in a series of incidents in Canada and the U.S. in volving pit bulls, including a fatal attack on a toddler in Morgan Hill, Cal last week. “He only wanted to protect me,” Hauser said in an int- erview after the attack. “Now they want to kill my baby for that. “I did not sick Benjamin on her. She was standing at the edge of the driveway . . . waving a stick. I told her that she better be careful because Benjamin would attack if she kept waving the stick. The videotape of the attack showed the owner yelling to the officer: “Benjamin is coming out. So if you don't want to get bitten, you better get out of here.” The dog then burst out of the house and attacked. Two people escaped ser. ious injury last week when the car they were driving failed to stop at the end of a dead end street and plunged down a 30-metre embank ment. According to RCMP, Tam my Palsson, 22, of Castlegar was heading northbound on 100 St. in Blueberry Creek early in the morning of June 14 in a 1975 Chevrolet when she drove through adead end street, across a resident's lawn and down the embank ment where the vehicle came to rest on its roof. The car received some $3,000 damage and Palsson was charged with driving without due care and atten tion. * © « A two-car collision on the evening of June 12 resulted in a total of $5,400 damage. According to RCMP, George Samarodin, 29, of Raspberry Village. driving a 1983 Honda Accord, rear ended a 1972 Pontiac driven by Anne Henderson, 42, of Raspberry Village as Hen- derson attempted to turn left from Broadwater Road. Henderson received minor injuries. Samarodin was cha- rged with failing to keep right of a solid line. * 28 « RCMP were kept busy over the weekend with a series of incidents. A vehicle had both front and rear windows smashed while parked ‘at Castlegar Airport Saturday night. The investigation continues. * Two vehicles were also vandalized while the occu- pants attended a party in Castlegar. One vehicle re- ceived approximately $200 damage when, it was set ablaze while the other had its sunroof damaged. There are no suspects and the inves- tigation continues. ._ 8 « Also, RCMP investigated four separate break-ins throughout Castlegar. Stolen items included small amounts of cash, liquor and some stereo equipment. Addition in jeopardy By CasNews Staff Castlegar and’ District Hospital's proposed extended care addition may be in jeopardy, Castlegar council's representative on the’ hospital board said Tuesday. Ald. Patti Richards, chairman of council's health and welfare committee, said there are “some concerng” whe- ther the local hospital will get provincial funding for a 55-bed expan- sion. Council agreed to Richards’ recom. mendation that it write to the Ministry of Health supporting the expansion, which includes 35 extended care beds and 20 intermediate care beds. Castlegar Hospital applied for the expansion in 1982. Board chairman Merv Rush told last week's annual hospital society meeting that though the addition remains high on Victoria's priority list “wheels of government move slowly.” Rush added that he and adminis- trator Ken Talarico met with Premier Bill Vander Zalm last fall to discuss the expansion and have enlisted the help of REVELSTOKE continued from front pege couver East, Vancouver-Quadra and Vancouver South. The commission also modified original proposals and decided to give Burnaby a large part of the old Kingsway riding. The new district will be called Burnaby Kingsway. Constitutional expert Edward Mc- Whinney said a challenge to the de cision could be made under Article 15, the charter’s equality section, as well as under Articles 3, 4 and 5, the char. ter's democratic rights sections. “I think this is an ideal case to test the charter — to get satisfactory dis tricting,” McWhinney said. “I think it would be very good for the public to litigate this.” Waddell and Campbell have been joined in their objections by the Van- couver Board of Trade; the Vancouver and District Labor Council; Vancou. ver's aldermen; Social Credit and NDP MLAs; the International Woodworkers of America; the International Long. shoremen and Allied Workers; con. stituency representatives and presi dents of the city's five federal ridings. Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy. “I can report that locally we continue to meet regularly under the chairman- ship of trustee Bill Horvath to update our needs,” Rush said. As well, the hospital has received the go-ahead from the city to close 9th Avenue as soon as it receives approval in principle for the expansion. COLLEGE — continued from front page Wood served on the board from 1981 - 1984 Gray was involved with the college board for more than 20 years and played a key role in the creation of the West Kootenay Regional College. He also served as the college council's first chairman: Elsewhere, the college received a big t in its capital equipment funding. In addition to approving total capital equipment funding of $378,422, the Ministry of Advanced Education and Job Training has granted the college $250,000 for computer equipment and an additional $56,074 for public works and renovations. through a screen door when Banff’s Sun N ox Stay on Top of the World from $59* per room PRY { ( j A ial PRY walking trails and the majestic Rockies A place of rare natural beauty. Information: (403) 762-6500 Reserve now! 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