a2 Castlegar News January 23, 1991 LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS Parrots blamed for poor relations NELSON (CP) — Parrot breeder Albert Krafczyk was given a suspended sentence and 30 days probation Monday for assaulting his neighbor during an argument. “It’s really dumb,"’ Krafczyk said as he left the courthouse. ‘I should have never touched the guy. I was just so frustrated.’’ The fight broke out last April when neighbor Peter Popoff called Krafczyk, 54, a Nazi. Relations had deteriorated because of Krafczyk’s 31 noisy Parrots. Krafczyk, who has been or- dered to get rid of all but three of the birds, said he’s going to take them all to an endangered-species centre in the East Kootenay. Popoff was not pleased. “I’m not satisfied,"’ said Popoff. ‘‘Everybody could be hitting everybody and get away with it.” FACEOFF Larry Price, Hockey Week, Jan. 19-26. h of the Fri Minor Hockey Association drops the puck to signal the b 1g of th: Counmaity Complost, The tournament ran in conjunction with the start of the Canadian Minor CasNews photo dsh (right), and Doug Coulson, president of the Castlegar and District Minor Hockey Association look on as Cindy Carol, president of the Spokane y at the Unions brace for ‘package’ VANCOUVER (CP) — Trade unionists say Premier Bill Vander Zalm is looking for an election issue when he suggests wage controls for public-sector workers. The results will be loss of con- sumer confidence, deeper recession and staff shortages across British Columbia, they said Tuesday. Vander Zalm said Monday he will introduce a **comprehensive package’ including wage restraint within two weeks to prepare for economic downturn. Ken Georgetti, president of the B.C. Federation of Labor, said “every time the premier involves himself in @abor matters through legislation, it seems he’s screwed up.” But unions will stay calm until they hear details, said Georgetti. Federation-affiliated unions whose contracts expire this year met Tuesday to discuss the premier’s plans. John Shields, president of the B.C. Government Employees’ Union, said B.C. is experiencing a milder recession than Eastern Canada, but wage restraint erodes consumer confidence and will plunge the province deeper into recession. “‘When (former premier Bill) Ben- nett talked of restraint in 1983, they put such fear in the public that the restraint message drove . . . the con- suming sector into collapse because No one would buy in B.C. Asa result B.C, was two years longer coming out of the recession.”” Ken Novakowski, president of the B.C. Teachers Federation, said con- trols would create two classes of teachers because one-third of them have settled contracts without con- trols. BRIEFLY By CasNews Staff Funds help payout Investments made on behalf of provincial school boards, including Castlegar's, by the Ministry of Education have raised enough funds to pay off debts before the maturity dates. In 1974 and 1975, the Castlegar school board was issued 20-year bp oepersond totalling $701,000. They were due to mature in 1994 and John Dascher the pois has saved about $25, 000 to $30,000 paying off the debentures early. “That's inkredible to be four or five years ahead of the game," school board chairman Gordon Turner said. The debentures are used to ‘‘keep our capital budget afloat,"’ he said. Capital funds pay for expansion and upgrading projects, such as the Stanley y school and to new school buses. Turner said the board submits payments of principal and interest towards its debentures to the Ministry, which in turn makes investments with those funds. The proceeds from those investments are now being used to pay off the debentures early. the board app new 20-year principle amount of $100,000 at 10.93 per cent interest. RCMP request help Castlegar RCMP are looking for witnesses who may have seen a Collision between a 1981 Toyota and a CP Rail train on Jan. 13 about 4:15 p.m. The accident o¢curred at the train tracks in the 3800 block on Columbia Avenue. The RCMP are requesting anyone who has information about the accident to contact them immediately. Loss totals $15,335 The break in and theft at Twin Rivers elementary school Dec. 7 resulted in the loss of materials and damages totalling $15,335, said John Dascher, Castlegar school district’s secretary-treasurer, in his monthly report. A deductible of $3,000 will be paid to replace all the equipment lost. Principal Paul Phipps said at the time of the theft that the list of ‘items stolen included IBM monitors and printers, six electric pianos, a Yamaha synthesizer, a video cassette recorder and a couple of portable stereos. Phipps had estimated the amount lost in damages and materials to be between $10,000 and $15,000. Castlegar RCMP are still investigating. in the LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS B.C, Nurses Union pi Debra McPherson said controls would restrict employers’ ability to recruit nurses. “We are Absolutely opposed to public sector wage controls. They tend to impact heavily on unions predominantly composed of women,”’ she said. Lean increases expected VICTORIA (CP) — B.C. school boards shouldn’t hold their breath for large budget increases, Education Minister Stan Hagen said today. “I think boards maybe should be concerned about what sort of in- creases they’re going to get,” he said. He said settlements in the private sector are averaging 5.1 per cent and individual settlements in some cases are lower. Hagen’s comments appear to follow the line of Premier Bill Van- der Zalm who has recently alluded a public sector wage control programs he is set to implement. Vander Zalm is expected to detail that program in a provin- cewide address Tuesday. “I< understand woodworkers in Washington state are settling for zero per cent, other provinces in Canada are increasing budgets by zero, one per cent, two per cent, three per cent,’’ Hagen said. “The public sector should not lead the private sector because it’s the Private sector that pays the taxes so we can have education and health.” For the current school year ending June 30, boards received an average 6.2 per cent increase. =- eo Je PRINCE RUPERT @ TERRACE @ PRINCE GEORGE @ QUESNEL «Font sh. son © DAWSON CREEK ! Alta. ' ' \ @ WILLIAMS LAKE REGULAR STORES! eat \ Furniture a Mattresses for less... A LOT LESS! PRICES § AS LITTLE AS Castlegar: 4445 Minto Road . 365-6433 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: MONDAY - THURSDAY & SATURDAY: 10 am -6 pm. FRIDAY: 19 am om. Ctesed Sunday. Drivers continued fram front page minibuses for several years,’’ he said. “The union,argued that the work of bus driving belongs to bus drivers, Not to teachers.”” And while the board agreed, it hasn't had an agreement with CUPE it could finance. But in anticipation of reaching a policy agreement, the board put $10,000 into its budget last fall. Dascher said that will be enough to cover the ‘*S0-odd’’ day trips scheduled up to the end of the school year in June. The board also hopes to make ad- ditional changes to the policy dealing with day trips outside the War Kootenays, overnight trips and weekend trips. The additional changes would also pass the driving responsibilities to the bus drivers from the teachers. However, that means the board must come up with a minimum of $40,000 to $50,000 extra for the 1991-92 school year, Dascher said. A decision has been put off until it can be discussed further at the board’s budget meeting Feb. 13. Under the revised policy, all minibus trips will be scheduled and booked through the maintenance department, Turner said. Mayor Audrey Moore's office may soon have a new look. Council will vote ona recommendation to to add $2, oer te 1991 budget to table, cred and chair for her clty hall oh hen ~ Costvews file photo STREET TALK THE CASTLEGAR LIBRARY processed 3,676 books last year, including 2,259 purchased and catalogued, 1,417 donated paperbacks and 78 uncatalogued literacy paperbacks, bringing the total collection to 43,074, head librarian Judy Wearmouth said at Monday night’s annual general meeting of the library board. The influx of new books forced the library to move books on to its top shelves. As a result, the library had to buy more stools to allow access to the top shelves and had to stabilize the shelves because the extra weight caused them to sway alarmingly. Wearmouth said a lot of adult fiction had to be moved to the basement storage area where it is still accessible but isn't taking up room on the regular shelves. “I’m afraid we're going to have to start talking about extending the building to incorporate the 2,000 square feet we lost from the original design,"’ she said. The library's children’s programming had a new addition last spring. Ariana Venier pioneered a toddlers’ story time, held in two six-week sessions. The library lost its volunteer story teller, Mary Beth Small, halfway through the year. But she did arrange for a replacement, Kathryn Robbie, to take over her Tuesday afternoon story hour. The library hosted three puppet shows during the year. The B.C. Library Association produced a summer reading program kit, which the library purchased for a nominal fee. The summer reading Program was its usual success with 130 elementary children registered and most attending for six weeks of reading, games and crafts. But Wearmouth said the program nearly didn’t happen because. the library was refused its usual Federal Challenge grant to employ two students and Wearmouth had to chase around for funds. The library had visits from three different authors, all pulling in good audiences: W.P. Kinsella, Janet Lunn and Bett Pratt-Johnson. The library went through a couple of staff changes last year. Secretary Margaret Lagan had to leave in February but Elaine Blydo was welcomed back to her ‘‘regular’’ position. Chery! Babakaieff was chosen to fill the vacant stand-in position and she also joined the ranks of volunteers. Polly Corbett took over the booksale, held as usual in conjunction with the United Way’s fundraising drive, and with help of other board members made an unprecedented profit of $436. The 50 people who attended Monday night’s dinner and meeting were treated to entertainment by the Debra Tompkins School of Dance, vocalist Matthew Mealing and a dance number by Stephanie and Kevin Pacheco, CLIFF CAPUTO and WES HUGHES both won spositions with the Canadian Union of Public ployees, Local 2087, by acclamation Monday night. Caputo is now the union’s recording secretary, replacing Hughes who moves up to the president’s Position. The positions came up for grabs when the Previous president, Dennis Blatchford, left the local to take a position with the B.C. Federation of Labor in Vancouver. Caputo works for the City of Trail’s parks and recreation department while Hughes is servicing and washing buses for Trail Transit Inc. MAYOR AUDREY MOORE looks like she’ IL be getting some new office furniture. City council will vote Monday on a recommendation to provide $2,000 in the 1991 budget for a table, credenza and chair for the mayor’s small and sparsely furnished office at city hall. ae | toured the mayor's office and she justified the request,"’ Ald. Doreen Smecher quipeed at Tuesday night’s meeting of council’s committee of the whole. continued from front page not carried through and that, in any case, they were poorly implemented. “The foreign exchange of the Iraqi government was not (frozen), they maintained a very high level of diplomatic contact all through — they should have been isolated to the maximum extent possible. Ships that tried to run the blockade should have been confiscated and handed over to the United Nations and Iraq should have been (expelled) from the United There were all sorts of Beyond the action day, Richards said he is in the process of organizing politicians to attend a meeting to ex- plain their positions. “‘The Conservative party, the Liberals and the New Democrats have taken substantially different positions,’’ he said. Richards said the main purpose of organizing these events is to educate the public. ““We believe the more the public knows, the more they will support Peaceful options,’’ he said. ‘‘We are all for maximum information. LOTTERIES These are the winning lottery numbers for the week of Jan. 15-22. 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