\ Sy os Castlegar News febrory 13, 1985 Smokers cost money WINNIPEG (CP) — Businesses may recognize they can save money by telling employees to stop smoking during working hours but it still seems few are willing to act the villain and impose a ban, says a spokesman for the Manitoba Lung Association. Arlene Jones, who heads the smoking in the workplace committee for the Manitoba Interagency Council on Smoking and Health, says the number of requests from interested employers has tripled in the past year. “Certainly private enterprise has been leading the way because I think they see the money involved,” she said. “It costs an employer approximately $400 a year for each smoker.” Other estimates place the cost substan! ally higher. American researcher Dr. William Weiss estimates it cost $4,’ a year in the United States to keep a smoker on the payroll when absenteeism, medical care, early mortality and lost time while smoking are taken into account. Jones says despite the increased interest, a fear of rocking the boat has kept many employers from imposing a ban on smoking. FEAR UNIONS “They're not going to aggravate the unions or key workers who can work to rule or jeopardize the production of a part.” Some employers are restrictions on smoking. The Canadian Wheat Board contacted Jones recently about smoking guidelines. But board spokesman Charlene McFee said only that the federal agency which sells Prairie grain is setting up a committee on the subject. CABBAGE PATCH TWINS ON WAY cautious even to discuss “We're not considering anything at this point in time,” McFee added. Boeing of Canada Ltd. recently announced it was putting in place the same restrictions at its Winnipeg plant that already applied at its Seattle operation, where 83,000 employees gradually were stopped from smoking during working hours. The final step has yet to be taken in Winnipeg but union officials already have served notice they intend to fight the ban. Chris Wallace, chief stewart for the United Auto Workers local, says employees will consider legal action if they are told to quit smoking at work. Jim Johnson, general manager of Perth Services Ltd., says his clothes cleaning company abolished on-the-job smoking about four years ago after a minor plant explosion. “It was a tenuous connection, but people in the area of the explosion had been smoking so we decided to put an end to it,” he said. Johnson says he has had few complaints from workers, who are permitted to smoke in the lunch room. The reason for the ban was primarily a financial one, said Johnson. “We don’t want somebody's wedding gown to have a cigarette burn in it, or your suit.” Johnson agrees that more employers might consider smoking bans if not for the threat of employee dissension. There are only a handful of companies based in Winnipeg with smoking bans, including a trucking firm and paint company and Jones says the fight is similar to the one waged by advocates of mandatory seatbelt laws. “It's moving but it's moving slowly. How long did we work on the seatbelts? There was a great hue and ery, but people don't complain about them any more.” H&R BLOCK NEW YORK (AP) — Barbie gets dressed for success and doesn't leave home without a credit card and the Cabbage Patch Kids have twins. TAX REFUND BUYING SERVICE Those developments and others were unleashed Monday at the 82nd annual American International Toy Fair, an adult event that shapes the fantasies of chidren. About 13,000 buyers were at the two-week fair where 825 exhibitors showed 150,000 products, including 4,000 new items. Donna Datre, a spokesman for the Toy Manufac- turers of America, says sales of dolls and non-video games more than doubled last year, with the average price of a plaything at $8.15. 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Thelmo Dorman makes bed at Castlegar Sandman inn as part of duties as cham- bermaid at the local hotel Handicapped Thelma is part of EW EXPERIENCE WORK TO RULE Teachers may escalate protest By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer The outcome of a meeting between the Castlegar and District Teachers’ Association and the school board will infl whether the teachers will escalate their work to rule protest, says teachers’ association president Mike Rodgers. Rodgers said Friday. that teachers will make the final decision on whether to go into “phase two” of their protest at their meeting this Thursday. During phase two, teachers will refuse to attend departmental meet- ings, won't do work preparation for classes, and will only do report card work during school hours. “We're hoping it won't come to that,” added Rodgers. “We're hoping the board and the new negotiating team can come to some agreement.” The teachers began their work’ to rule action Feb. 11 to protest the board's decision to fire all district lunch hour supervisors. The move was also to protest education cutbacks in general, and the fact that two teachers on long-term sick leave have been only partially replaced. But Rodgers said the main issue is the removal of lunch hour supervisors. He said the supervisors were included in a policy handbook which was agreed upon by teachers and the board about 2% years ago. The teachers say the board has a legal obligation to stick to the agree- ment, but school board chairman Doreen Smecher contends that the handbook isn’t legally binding. Rodgers says he regards the agree- ment as “a second contract,” and says it's been signed by the teachers’ association and the school board three times since its inception. FOR REFERENDA Kootenay Society for Handicapped’s new work ex- perience program CosNews Photo by Ron Norman “Not only is the ceramics only good for a few of our clients, there's no money in it,” says Leyba. “There's only so much of a demand for ceramics in the community.” She says Dorman’s job at the hotel allows her to get out of the sheltered workshop environment and into the get involved in community By RON NORMAN Thelma Dorman lays her hand flat and smooths out the remaining wrinkles on the bed she's just made. A few minutes before, she had cleaned the mirrors and wiped down the bathroom. Dorman is a chambermaid at the Castlegar Sandman Inn hotel, and for her, this job is a whole new experienee. Dorman, 62, is part of the Kootenay Society for the Handicapped’s new work experience program. “I make beds and do the dusting,” she says matter. -of-factly. Asked if she likes the work, she replies: “Oh yeah.” Dorman works at the hotel about three hours one day a week — not enough to live on, but enough to give her some extra spending money. Gloria Leyba, vocational skills workere at the Society's Clay Castle, explains: “It means a lot to them to earn their own money.” Leyba says the work experience program is part of the Society's shift in emphasis from the long-running ceramics operation at the Clay Castle to other work “It's te give them an opportunity to do as much active involvement in the community as possible.” Leyba says she's talked to the City of Castlegar and other businesses about stuffing envelopes and other projects on a contract basis, but without much success. “The problem we run into in a lot of cases is the unions,” she says. The unions feel the handicapped are doing work union members could be doing. “I can understand the stickiness,” says Leyba “. . but it’s not as if our clients will be taking away jobs.” She says the Society has approached other community organizations, such as the Hobbit Hill Child Care Centre. She said the Society recently placed a client at the Castlegar and District Hospital doing janitorial night work “on a trial basis.” Another client worked during the summer at the Doukhobor Museum on a job training grant for the handicapped, but that has since ended Leyba says the Society has “four maybe five” clients who can take part in the work experience program. She suggested one client may be good at being a doorman for the Legion, for instance. But not all the jobs have to pay “If we can get them in a position where they can earn continued on poge A2 By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer The vice-president of the Castlegar school board and tlie president of the teachers’ association have both at- tacked a proposal by Education Min ister Jack Heinrich to allow school boards to raise funds by local ref- erenda. School board vice-president Lovette Nichvolodoff said although the board hasn't discussed the proposed bill, “My personal reaction is that it's ridiculous at this time.” Nichvolodoff pointed out that the CKRD to study feasibility of expansion? By CasNews Staff Central Kootenay Regional District board has agreed to undertake a study on the feasibility of a $2.5 million expansion at the Doukhobor Village. The study will cost $10,000. The City of Castlegar has agreed to pay $4,000 with the other $6,000 coming from the regional district planning department. However, the Kootenay Doukho- bor Historical Society will apply for a federal development grant to pay the $6,000 back. Society director Pete Olgow said Tuesday that the study has already begun and should take about a month to complete. Regional district planning and econ omie development staff will perform the study. The village sits on a 13.5-acre site across from the Castlegar Airport. The Society plans to construct a wagon road to transport tourists from the village to Verigin’s Tomb. It also plans to restore the old Brilliant Bridge Other plans include an overnight campground, irrigation for nearby fields to allow small-scale farming, an outdoor theatre to show extensive audio-visual displays. The village attracts about 15,000 tourists a year, but the Society hopes to double that if the completion goes ahead. The feasibility study will include designs and costs which will be sued in the Society's application for federal and provincial grants to complete the village. West Kootenay is “especially hard hit by unemployment,” and said the government is shifting the responsibil- ity for education funding to school boards. “I really do think it's just another cop-out,” she said Thursday. “Hope- fully it won't pass.” Nichvolodoff said even if funds were school year, it doesn’t solve the prob- lem when it comes up next year. “What do we do next year? We're in the same predicament. Do we hold another referendum?” However, Nichvolodoff said she couldn't comment on whether the board would agree to hold a refer. endum if Heinrich’s Education (In terim) Finance Amendment Act is passed. Mike Rodgers, Castlegar and Dis trict Teachers’ Association president, also condemned Heinrich’s proposal, calling it “dishonest and without prin ciple.” “They brought in this fiscal program Added Rodgers: “It doesn't matter what you call it. If you sign a contract with me, I expect you to keep it.” He said the teachers haven't re- ceived any negative reaction from the community in response to the work to rule protest. And students — who are missing out on most extra-curricular activities nor. mally supervised by teachers — haven't criticized the teachers’ ac tions, Rodgers said. “The students are upset, but we haven't had any problem with them. T'm sure everyone's looking to the high school kids, but we haven't approached them, and they haven't said anything.” Rodgers said the teachers appointed teacher Rik Hall as their bargaining chairman, set up the meeting with the board, and agreed to maintain their work to rule action at a meeting last week. Officials attack proposal to show equality in the province. Now they're saying if you want more, get it from your taxpayers,” Rodgers said Friday. According to Rodgers, the proposal comes about as a result of B.C. school boards’ outery against education cuts — especially the Vancouver and Co quitlam boards, who both sent six month budgets based on need to Vic toria. “They have forced Heinrich to say you can raise more money through the referendum. Which if you think about it is a hell of a change in position,” said Rodgers. “I think they're becoming aware of what the public thinks now.” District secretary-treasurer John Dascher said he couldn't release fig ures on how much Castlegar residentia! taxes would rise to cover a budget shortfall, because figures on thc 1985-86 budget haven't yet been final ized by the school board. “I think it would be premature to give any indication of the projected shortfall,” he said. Adults think schools don’t get enough money VANCOUVER (CP) — More than half of the adult British Columbians surveyed think the provincial govern ment is giving too little money to the schools and more than 40 per cent believe the quality of education in British Columbia is worse than it was a decade ago. Less than one-quarter believe the province gives sufficient funds to schools, according to the results of a poll published Saturday by the Van couver Sun. It also showed that of those polled e@ About 45 per cent of respondents said they would be willing to pay higher taxes to increase education financing. @ More than half said teachers should not receive a pay raise. 1 The telephone survey of 511 British Columbians included 257 living within the Greater Vancouvere regional dis. triet and 254 living in the rest of the provinee. Results of the poll, conducted by Marktrend Marketing Research Inc., were broken down by the respondents’ age, sex, whether they live within the Greater Vancouver regional district and whether they have children in school The survey found that: Younger people are more willing to pay higher taxes for education. Whilc only 24 per cent of those over 56 wer: willing to see a tax hike to suppur schools, 50 per cent of those between 26 and 55 said they would pay more. (Of those between 19 and 25, 57 per cent said they would favor higher taxes e@ Younger respondents tended to be less satisfied with the level of educa tion financing. While 39 per cent those 56 and over thought schools not receive enough money from Vic toria, 57 per cent of those between thi ages 26 and 55 gave the same answe Fully 71 per cent of those between 1° and 25 said schools are not gettiny enough Some 54.4 per cent of those int: viewed by Marktrend replied enough” to the question: “Would y say schools in B.C. receive too muct not enough or a sufficient amount funding from the provincial gover ment?” Another 21.3 per cent said the lev was “sufficient.” Only 2.5 per cent replied “too much while 21.3 per cent said they did nv know or were not sure. Two peopl refused to answer