, 3 oo News Pulpit & Pew By BARB JANKOLA St. Rita's Catholic Church The week of May 5-12 was Respect Human Life Week. It was intended to inform the public about issues surround- ing the sanctity of human life and convey a pro-life mes- sage regarding such people and issues as the elderly, the handicapped, and the unborn. The week began with a public show of concern for the loss of the preborn with a June 2, 1985 “TH Accounting Brian L. Brown Contract See us for: * Complete nursery stoc * House plants * Florist Service FULL LANDSCAPING RVI prayer vigil at the Trail Hos- CERTIFIED al May 6. party commestion co meoetina The vigil was impressive in ACCOUNTANT both the number and the age Window Covenng Products span of those attending. at as Babies and ents 2706 Ave. were there with an especially Castlegar ° large contingent of youth. It Ph, 365-2151 Chimneys just so happened that a youth rally was on at the same time and appropriately had as its SOLIGO RuMFoRD KINNAIRD theme “Choose Life.” It was ’ an excellent public witness to PLACE TRANSFER their beliefs that most of the K IDE kes same youths also wore T-shirts proclaiming “Choose Life” because “This day I call heaven and earth as witness- es against you that I have set before you life and death. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.” (Deut. 30:19) One could not help but pon- & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc. C.A. Resident Partner der the pred of youth attending and wonder- ing why even more adult persons were not also in attendance. Is it enough simply only to believe that abortion is wrong? Is some form of ac- tion also not necessary? This brings to mind a composition once read en- titled The Ostrich Christian (authorship uncertain). To quote from it: “I did not hear them. When I first MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS 241 Columbia Ave. Caan read the i pI Court Execution Order and subsequent death statistics, my initial reaction of shock quickly turned into that of numbness and then escapism. I wanted it to go away. “I became an ostrich Chris- tian with ears not wanting to hear and eyes refusing to see. The truth of my inaction contradicted the imperatives of my belifes — as a Christ- jan, as a Canadian, as a human being. “I buried myself, pursuing my own peaceful career, seeking my own personal security. I kept telling myself that ‘they’ were guilty and that I was blameless while the planned parenthoods, feminists, reproductive freedom fighters and Sunday death peddlers were selling their poisons in our churches, courts, legislatures, schools, and homes. “When I could no longer play the role of guilty by. stander, I realized that the peace and security I sought were illusions. I know now that I can have no peaceful occupation in a country where the stench of death fouls our public life. “I know too, that my future life promises no security in a land where other lives are disposed of because of social necessity, public apathy, and Supreme Court edict.” Both a public declaration “To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin” and action “I waited patiently for somebody to do something then I realized Ph. 365-7287 Appliances ‘FAST COURTEOUS SERVICE GENUINE MAYTAG PARTS WE SERVICE ALL MAKES SPECIALIZE IN MAYTAG CASTLEGAR PLUMBING & HEATING LTD. 1008 Columbia Ave., Castlegar, B.C. 365-3388 Super Sweep Chimney Services Ltd. Complete Masonry Work Chimney Lining * Certified Fire Sotety Inspections 735 Columbia Ave. 365-6141 Cleaning PRESSURE WASHING Mobile Homes RV's * Trucks ® Cars Block Buildings Vinyl & Alum. 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And teachers are incensed over the decision handed down Monday by an arbitration panel following hearings May 25 and 26 in Castlegar. “It’s the beginning of fascism in this province,” Mike Rodgers, president of the Castlegar District Teachers’ Association, said Tuesday. Rodgers said the panel's decision follows the “Curtis directive” — B.C. Finance Minister Hugh Curtis’ declaration earlier this year that education ministry funds must be used to maintain existing levels of service, and not for teachers’ wage increases. CDTA vice-president Lisa Pedrini said she was 301 Bellevil: Feb, 28 No wage hike for teachers “extremely fisappointed” especially the freeze on incremen for their first 10 years of service. “Increments are part of our first contract,” said Pedrini. “It's a frightening prospect to see some of our first contract arbitrarily removed.” Like Rodgers, Pedrini said the arbitration panel, ostensibly set up to make an independent decision, felt obliged to follow the Curtis directive. And Pedrini said that teachers’ bargaining rights were further hampered by the fact that the school board put together a 1985-86 budget before teachers’ wages had been settled. “It's absolutely ludicrous to think that teachers have collective bargaining rights. We have no bargaining rights as far as I'm concerned,” she said. with the panel's decision, usually paid to teachers Castle VOL. 38, No. 45 50 Cents Sa on \WA ar & However, the chairman of the Castlegar school board also said she was saddened by the outcome. “I don't feel good about it at all,” said Doreen Smecher Tuesday. “I wish that I had been more persuasive and convinced (the teachers) that our (original) offer was the best offer we could have made, and they accepted it.” Just before the hearings, Castlegar teachers turned down a package from the board which would have given them a choice of a 1.5 per cent increase with no salary increments over 12 months beginning July, 1985, or just regular increments over the year with no wage increase. The teachers had asked for a 1.75 per cent increase for a 18-month period beginning in January, 1985, plus regular increments. Grant Forks teachers, who also participated in the Castlegar arbitration hearings, also did not get a wage inerease and had their increments frozen, said a spokesman for the B.C. hers’ Federati in this morning. Nelson teachers were able to negotiate their own agreement without arbitration: a one per cent wage increase plus increments for an 18-month period beginning Jan. 1. 1985. Trail teachers previously negotiated a 2.3 per cent wage hike. Castlegar teachers still haven't reached a settlement for the first six months of 1985. While a 2.3 per cent wage increase for that period was: arbitrated last year, i er Ed Peck ruled that the judgment was too much. New arbitration hearings for the six-month period haven't yet been set. News CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1985 WEATHERCAST Cloudy Thursday with showers and atternoon sunn warmer peratures, with the risk of late af- ternoon showers or thunderstor- m 4 Sections (A, B, C & D) CAR CRASH . . . Tow truck operator Ernie Ady hooks cable to car Sunday afternoon following ° car crash at 3400 block Columbia Avenue. Car rolled onto railway trac! No herbicide spraying here By CasNews Staff Vancouver parks board may spray herbicides and pesticides on its fields and playgrounds, but Castlegar's parks are herbicide-free. “We haven't been spraying any her. bicide to my knowledge,” city engineer George Reshaur said today. Asked what the city uses to keep its parks green, Reshaur laughed and said, “Water” — and plenty of fertilizer. Castlegar school district doesn't use herbicides or pesticides on its school fields either, according to its assistant maintenance supervisor. “We don't use herbicides,” said Philip Konkin. “Just straight fertili zer.” He added that the district has had a pail of 2,4-D locked in a cupboard “for the last 20 years,” but hasn't ever used it Vancouver parks board and city council is considering a permanent ban on spraying of herbicides and pes ticides following a rash of sicknesses reported among children who played at acity park and many parents who at tended baseball games after the her. bicide 2,4-D was applied in the park Parents complained that they should have been informed about the spray ing. The 2,4-D is contained in such brand name products as Killex and Weed and Feed $s after going over embankment, but the driver, @ 62-year-old Blueberry Creek worhan, miraculously escaped with only minor injuries. Story, page A2 CostewsPhore by Ron Norman DIRECTOR OF INSTRUCTION Farrell named to top job By CasNews Staff High school principal Lach Farrell was appointed to a controversial top level administrative position Monday by the Castlegar school board. Farrell, principal of Stanley Hum phries Secondary School, will begin a one-year appointment as acting dir ector of instruction for the Castlegar School District starting Sept. 1 The position is being resurrected af. ter a three-year vacancy. Castlegar teachers have attacked the move, pointing to the 10 teaching positions scheduled to be eliminated this Sep tember, and the board’s contention that it couldn't afford to pay teachers wage increases. But board chairman Doreen Smecher said Tuesday Farrell's appointment will probably not use ahy extra funds, because he already holds an adminis trative position as principal which is included in the district's 1985-86 budget Salary for the position is yet to be negotiated, but is in the $40,000 to $60,000 range, said John Dascher, dis trict secretary-treasurer Smecher said the cut in teaching positions from about 144 to 134.5 fol lows provincial government guidelines “That's got nothing to do with the director of instruction,” she said. “It has to do with declining enrolment and the fiscal framework and the (Finance Minister Hugh) Curtis directive. =e, LACH FARRELL controversial posting The director of instruction position will be reviewed in a year, and will be either discontinued, or made perman. ent Smecher says it likely will be ¢ontinued because the government's retraint program for public education is scheduled to end in July, 1986. And the position is needed, she says. “It's such an absolutely necessary position, but we have to allow our selves that kind of flexibility. So if we're not out of restraint then we can have another look at it.” Smecher said the board office used to have three administrative positions. but now only has the superintendent of schools. The director of instruction position was discontinued in 1982, and a supervisor of special education Position was cut last year. She said with just one adminstrator an “unbelievable amount” of work is “being done on the surface. being done at all.” Smecher says there are no plans to also reinstate the supervisor of special position Duties of the director of instruct include: or not © evaluating school programs and curricula; © coordinating special programs (gifted, resource centre, computers, special education, Open Road Centre): © advising principals on day-to-day school operation; © assisting in district budgets: © inspecting and reporting on class. room activities. the formation of Complaints of tainted cukes here At least a few Castlegar residents became sick last week, apparently after eating pesticide-tainted English cucumbers grown in Surrey. Rick Price, assistant manager at the Super-Valu on 635 Columbia Ave., confirmed Tuesday that the store sold some cucumbers from Western Green- Growers Co-Operative Associa- last week before they were ‘femoved from shelves Saturday morn- ing. The store had “a couple” of com- plaints from local residents who said they'd become sick after eating the cucumbers, Price said. The wrong pesticide was applied to the cucumbers, suspected of making more than 100 people in the Vancouver area sick. Barry Morgan, chief of food inspec. tion services for the health protection branch, said the branch has also re ceived several hundred telephone calls from people wanting more information on the long cucumbers. He said consumers should not eat any English cucumbers until the fe deral Health Department investi is complete. The produce manager at the Castle. gar Super-Valu, who declined to be identified, said the store has been taking back and providing refunds on any cucumbers from customers wor. ried that the vegetables might be con taminated. —inside QUEEN CANDIDATES: Se young women are vying for the title of Miss Castlegar. In this issue of the CasNews, the can didates are introduced in a special feature. In addition, there is a photo feature of their first public appearance at the annual Miss Castlegar fiashion show Monday 83,84 title Sunday by three shots BI over the weekend 81 WELL QUALIFIED: CALGARY with breaking into a house. Common, 51 custody for one day an “on-going domestic situation a former senior aide to Li Olson, appeared in provincial court Tuesday and was remanded in He said the store recently took back about three cases — only six of which were clearly marked as being from the Surrey supplier. estimate cucumbers from Western Greenhouse Growers which were sold or when they were sold. one A 53-year-old Castlegar housewife —who also declined to be named — said she was sick for three days after eating a cucumber from Western Greenhouse Growers bought from the downtown Super-Valu. “I just suddenly would get dizzy and feel like I was going to faint and feel sick to my stomach. And I was the only one in my family who ate the cucum- ber,” she said in an interview Tuesday. The woman said she didn’t peel or scrub the cucumber before eating it in salads over the last week in May. She said she contacted the manager of the downtown Super-Valu and “he said a couple of people had already called after they saw the article in the (June 2 Castlegar News). They had the symptoms — they thought it was just flu.” A spokesman for the Super-Valu in the Castleaird Plaza said he didn't known whether the store had pur. chased cucumbers from Western Greenhouse Growers, but said the store was giving refunds on cucumbers returned by customers. continued on poge A2 NEW LEADER: Liso Pedrini hos been elected president of the Castlegar and District Teachers Association... A2 OPEN CHAMP: Rob Sherstobitoff captured the 1985 Sunflower Open GOOD SHOWING: Castlegor’s Neil Berme! turned in the top local performance at the B.C. High School track and field championships Tommy Common, oormer television and recording artist who was appointed co-ordinator of a program to prevent vandalism in Calgary earlier this yeor hos been charged ral Senator Bud City police Insp. Kevin May said Common was charged with breaking into his girlfriend's residence in northeast Calgary May said police suspect the alleged break-in was the result of