Sports Dept: John Van Putten 365-5579 The Castlegar Sun ; Value added products recipe for sound financial future Wednesday, April 7, 1993 ‘SPORTS KAREN KERKHOFF Sun staff Canada is to see an economic revitalization. The plan is simple The message is clear, fewer said Senior, the change requires jobs, lower wages and higher organizations to restructure them: taxes have left Canada in a shaky Selves to optimize. their ability to add value. Added value means higher revenue and therefore a tion, The Productivity Institute strong and sustainable economy. believes that to wait for the gov The Institute believes prosperi- ernment to,formulate a viable ty is determined by a company’s financial plan in which to restore ability to produce goods and ser- Canada to prosperity might mean vices. As the value of the goods a long, painful and fruitless wait and services rises, prosperity The Institute has formed a rises. Senior said value is mea- plan, which Ross Senior, chair sured by productivity. Senior was person for the Institute, said is careful.to point out that the feasi- and serious financial state A recently formed organiza Permasteel Over 40 Years of Service METAL BUILDINGS One of our. building consultants will be in your area this month. CONSIDERING A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT Call collect to gente rabdma your meeting ae 5 946-7745 Fax 946-7785 SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. Lt & SELKIRK COLLEGE TRAIL CAMPUS ARE OFFERING: +» INTRODUCTORY MATH ll + MATH It + ENGLISH 12 COST: Tuition free Textbooks must be purchased DATES: May and June, 1993 LOCATION: Trail Campus IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ENROLLING, PLEASE CONTACT CONTINUING EDUCATION AT 368-5236 A minimum enrollment is required to run these courses. Coleg Trail Campus Leal — St., Trail, B.C. (aoa) Sc 5236 not only viable, but necessary if bility of the productivity plan requires that all sectors work together. “All the community Organizations need to understand the concept and work together to increase productivity.” Although tourism generates valuable income for communi- ties, such income is purely illu- sory, and sus ble to collapse said Senior. “It's illusory and it's fragile. It can disintegrate at any time.” Senior said the key to attaining and maintaining a strong economy is in raising and sustaining productivity, and it requires all businesses in the community to participate. “It includes everyone, the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker.” Like many challenges in life, Senior said a plan to increase productivity and therefore wealth is a matter of just doing it. “How do you make it happen? It requires individual and political will—like a lot of things you just do it.” Senior has spoken with West Kootenay Power and Com- inco regarding the economic plan, and has also left informa- tion at Castlegar City Hall. He hopes to meet with city officials after they have read and digested the information he left usar py aww SUN STAFF PHOTO /John Van Putten Gordon Bos, president of the Columbia Chapter of the Vintage. Car Club of Cana- da, is preparing his 1950 Mercury for the “Put on your Easter Bonnet and join the Easter Parade” car rally. There will be 25-30 cars from Castlegar, Spokane, Colville, Nelson, Grand Forks and Trail involved in the parade. The cars will be open to pub- lic viewing at the Castleview Care Centre (10:45 a.m.- 11:15 a.m.), Sandman (11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.) Mountainview Lodge and Castlegar and District Hospital (1 p.m.- 1:30 p.m.) and the Castlegar Library (2 p.m.-3:00 p.m.) Ministry coordinator talks on learning disabilities LYNN BARKER Commenting for The Sun for programs should be at the dis. trict level. Students should be Dr. Mario Strauss, (Coordina- tor Student Support Service Branch, Ministry of Education and Ministry Responsible for Multiculturalism and Human Rights) held a seminar on April 1 which had, as its criteria, the implications on support services for students with learning disabil- ities. At this seminar, Dr. Strauss said that we need to make changes in the way we teach chil- dren. Then he went on to say that we are asking more out of stu- dents than just the three R's. He mentioned that individuals learn in significantly different ways and rates and they also learn from their peers. Students are seen as active participants in the learnin Process. Dr. Strauss said that discretion Invitation to an Open HOuse Kootenay Lake Fertilization First Year Results The Fisheries Program invites the public to a series of open houses where the results of Year One of a Will be presented and discussed. first year of fertilization begin at 7:15 p.m with Fisheries staff will follow April19 April 20 Crawford Bay Community. Hall 312 N. 19th Ave. Wadds Rd. off Creston and Hwy. 3A, adjacent District to Crawford Bay Community School KASLO Complex Upstairs, RotacCrest Hall 516 C Ave CRAWFORD CRESTON BAY BCaze Environment five year experimental fertilization program on the North Arm of Kootenay Lake Each open house is scheduled for 7:00 to 9:00 p.m Two 20 minute presentations to explain the lakes response to the A question-and-answer period and opportunities for informal discussions Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday April 21 Gymnasium J.V. Humphries School April 22 Lord Nelson 616 Vernon St NELSON d to see if they are progressing If the student is falling too far behind and becom- ing discouraged and upset, then it's time for extra help. In order to qualify for extra support for the learning d: ility child, it can rs for funding Strauss suggested that sometimes the extra funding that is supposed to go to help the stu dents, get funnelled elsewhere He says there's a commitment to provide services and therefore there has to be accountability Accountability? In an-hour anda half, there wasn't any display of accountability. The government sent one of its officials to enlight en parents and educators about the initiatives taken on behalf of the children with learning disabil ities. What the. listeners got instead was a pile of catch-phras: PROJECT LITERACY WEST volunteer tutors. Help an adult improve reading and writing skills. Thursday evenings, Apri Castlegar Library, 365-6611 es and verbal slight-of-hand. There were many intelligent questions asked. The partici pants of the seminar wanted to know if a child isn’t going to be assessed, how are they going to get funding? Answer: “I don’t know.” Does the ministry pro vide start-up costs to districts that are trying to integrate the learning disabled children with the rest of the students in the regular curriculum? “No.” What kind of appropriate test ing/assessments (formal or eco logical) are currently being used throughout the province to iden: tify students at the primary level for learning disabilities? Answer: “Education should be preventative rather than fixing the problem. It is important to understand that children develop at different rates.” The ministry is paying a highly educated person to travel all the KOOTENAY - Training for | 22 - May 20. For details: MODEL TRAIN SHOW - Saturday, April 10, Sandman Inn. 11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Admission $2, u: adult nder 6 years old free with an Advertise your club meetings in this space Coming events of Castlegar organizations may be listed here additional words are 15¢ each. Bo used tor headings) count as tw insertion is half-price. Minimum c¢ p.m. Wednesdays for the Saturday Shopper and 11:30 Monday for Wednesday's paper. Please bring in or mail your notices to WZ The East jar Sun Aw 465 Columbia Avenu: or organization's and District non-profit The first 12 words are $4 and dfaced words (which must be o words. Each consecutive harge is $4. Deadlines are 3 way to Castlegar to speak to con- cerned people and tell them noth- ing, all at considerable cost to taxpayers. The. speaker came poorly prepared, was hesitant and seemingly uncomfortable as a lecturer. He also kept throwing questions back at the people attending the seminar, hoping they would give him some answers. Dr. Strauss suggested that a new framework and guidelines were going to be available some time. Maybe in the next year or this spring or maybe in September. The changes at the legislative level have been a step in the night direction. The School Act States that students have a right to. education. At the constitu tional level, the Charter of Rights states that people with disabilities must not be discrim- inated against. While these are reasonable changes, it is clear that attitudinal changes must come from society, which ts exactly what is happening Teachers, parents, students school boards and communities are banding together to help stu dents who need it I feel a great deal of concern about the tendency in our society to label children. In many soci. eties, it is, understood that chil- dren develop in vastly different ways and levels and those chil- dren aren't pigeon-holded into lit tle boxes. I also understand that in our society labelling is consid- ered necessary in order to get extra help for the child. There appears to be no clear way of solving the problem that affects three per cent of the chil- dren in Castlegar’s schools, but at least the problem has been identi- fied and there are people who have a great desire to do some thing about it; namely, the people who are closest to the problem. The next thing on the agenda for Dr. Strauss is a workshop for Parents and educators. Let’s hope that it isn’t another display of buzzwords and futility. After all, it’s the kids who are at stake here DENNY McARTHUR PRO SHOP LTD. “Spring into the new golf season with an improved swing!” BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE GOLF LESSONS ADULT MONDAY April 19 10 a.m 5 p.m 6 p.m GOLF LESSONS 6 LESSONS FoR OnLy *§O GROUP SESSIONS May 31 11 am 6 p.m JUNIOR GROUP GOLF LESSONS THURSDAY SESSIONS BOYS: 5 p.m. -6 p.m 7 p.m GIRLS: All ages 6 p.m. 7 pm 5 LESSONS FOR ONLY 22 April 15 - May 13 ALL AGES FOR INFORMATION ON LESSONS, EQUIPMENT OR MEMBER ; CONTACT — CASTLEGAR PRO SHOP 365-5006 sat Top: There were many creative ways the participants found to get over the final hurdle, the wall. *Bottom right: Iron- man competitor Derek Peregrym takes off like a rocket for the finish line after clearing the wall. +Right: Two cyclists start their turns from Frank Beinder Way onto Rosedale Road during the 5 km cycling section of the race. -Above: Ready set go, the runners start the first section of the race. +Middle left: Digging deep, this canoeist makes his way through the course STARS aes ..and ovr The weather could not have béem better and the participants cnthusiasm kept the sun shining during the Fourth Annual Selkirk College Storm the Wall Competition Twenty tcams and four solo Ironman competi- tors attacked the course during the afternoon-long event, held at the college last Thursday The event went well, there were no mishaps and nobody dumped their canoe aid Selkirk Col- lege Director of Athletics, Preston Zeeben Five different heats were needed to separate the competitors into smaller groups to avoid conges: tion. In the event there were: 10 mixed; two com- munity teams; two high school teams; four all-male; one all-female; and four Ironman com- petitors. Consisting of a two km run then a 450 m canoe trek followed by another two km run, the competi- tors then ran up a steep hill (about 500 m). Once complete they hopped on a bicycle for a 5 km ped- dle. The final challenge that separated the racers from the finish line, a 3.6 m (12 foot) wall which had to be scaled. Spectators were: numerous, mainly gathering around the wall to see the teams try to scramble their way over the barricade Of all the events, the wall proved to be the biggest challenge for some. After completing Previous events, some competitors had little energy to spare, making the wall quite an obstacle Some of the tedmis had spent time the day pre ceding the event perfecting a plan to get each team member over the wall and across the finish line The team posting the fastest time to cover the course was the all-male t ‘Johnny Buck’ in 28:29. Two area secondary schools entered the race, SHSS covered the course in 32:56 and L.V Rogers in 33:57. The quickest mixed team was ‘Zippy and the Wonder Slugs’ in 34:04 followed by ‘the Parasites’ at 34:07 Representatives from the Trail RCMP were the fastest Community team arresting a time of 36:42 The only female team cleared the wall and crossed the finish line in 41:32 In the Ironman category Vernon Remesz led the group with his time of 30:46. He was followed by Dérek Peregrym and Chris Hindrichs who tied with atime of 34:31 and Wade Forester in 39:29 Although this years’ event is history, plans are in the making for next year's assault of the wall. Zeeben says plans are also in the making for a similar event to be held in the fall. This event would be held on a weekend and focus on commu- nity involvement “We are planning on doing something in the fall for the community. It is hard for High School and Community teams to participate on a weekday.”