November 9, 19868

HARCOURT VISITS .
leader Mike Harcourt discusses

residents at the Rota Villa on Sunday. Harcourt

+ + Provincial New Democrat

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the issues with
Kristiansen.

spent three days campaigning with Kootenay
West-Revelstoke federal

New Democrat Lyle

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about the Nov. 21 federal election.
Harcourt slammed the proposed
Conservative sales tax that con
cerned one of the seniors attending
the gathering.
“If you see what this new tax is

going to do if the Tories get in, it's
RR:

goingto take an extra $10 to $14
billion out of peoples’ pockets,” he
said. “You can see what it’s going to
do to peoples’ pay cheques and you
can see what it's going to do to their
pensions.”

Harcourt and Kristiansen also
touched on the environment, equal
pay for women and the nuclear sub

marine purchase the federal gov
ernment is studying at the moment

“There’s so many fundamentally.
important issues and clear choices for
people to make,” Harcourt said. “I'm
hoping for a record turnout by
Canadians because it’s one of those
watershed elections in so many
ways.”

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Terry Wayling disagrees with Hill

He said in an interview Tuesday
that more teachers are needed as
well as more teachers aides, who
work with disabled students.

“We need more aides and we need
more teachers,” he said. “You don't
sacrifice one for the other.”

Wayling was not happy about the
CDTA presentation at the education
forum

“It did not give a balanced view, in
my view, of the many positive
initiatives that are going on,” he said,
adding: “It certainly didn't present
the positive side that there are many
good learning situations in the
schools.”

Wayling said that while smaller
class sizes are ideal, in reality there
just isn’t enough funding from the
Ministry of Education. The school
board increased this year's school
taxes for the average homeowner by
$55. Wayling pointed out that the
district needs more money, but the
board didn't feel it could increase
taxes any more.

“Class size in itself is not a good
determinent of learning,” Education
Minister Tony Brummet, said while
in Castlegar at the end of October

Brummet pointed out that a
province-wide reduction of the pupil
teacher ratio by one pupil costs $55
million.

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tor’s appointments or something
they have to get to.”

Elsewhere, council approved a
$1,500 grant to the Kootenay Douk
hobor Historical Society. The funds
will be used to install a water tank at
the Kootenay Doukhobor Museum in
Ootischenia.

Ald. Albert Calderbank, acting
chairman of the administration and
finance committee, said the tank will
allow the museum and nearby NEC
to provide proper fire protection,
which will in turn mean the proposed
museum expansion can proceed.

Wayling explained that the schools
have made the decision to provide
smaller classes in situations where
students need more attention, such
as learning disabilities. The smaller
classes mean other classes have to be
larger.

Stanley Humphries offers smaller
classes called “R” or recommended
classes in core subjects at the junior
levels

“These are for students who are
weak in basic skills in core programs
such as math, social studies, English

Gordon Shead,
principal at

“We try to keep those clases small,
he said, adding: “It means some if
your classes are going to be larger.”

Shead disputes the CDTA claim
that six Stanley Humphries shop
classes are too crowded

He said that a particular tech
nology class which exceeds CDTA
limits by four students has “ample
room.”

Shead says the physical space of
the shop and other classrooms and
the popularity of the course are
determinents of class size at Stanley
Humphries.

“If it’s (the maximum size) is going
to be 20 (students) then we are going
to have 13 kids not being able to have
that class,” said Shead.

“I say well, the room is huge, it can
handle 28 to 30 (students),” explained
Shead.

Shead said larger class sizes keep

some programs alive that otherwise
might be cancelled. The school
“doubles-up” in some courses placing
two grades into one course in cases
where only six students in one grade
may want to take one course. He said
this provides more options for
graduation.

Shead said there have been times
when he has approached students
and teachers about large class sizes
and found that the students would
rather be ina large class than have to
chose another elective.

“There's nothing worse than hav
ing students in courses they don't
want,” he said.

Shead says the “balancing act”
between smaller classes and large
ones has been “a conscious decision
made by staff over the years.”

He said a French 12 course with 19
students is a prime example of a
courge which has to be kept small to
ensuge individual attention

“We made a conscious choice to
offer-it and to offer it . then
something else will pay the price,” he
said.

Shead says he realizes that larger
classes put a strain on teachers and
he tries to spread the larger ones
among teachers, but that's not
always possible.

“Teachers have, over the years,
become so specialized in what they
teach,” he explained, “Some of them,
the teachers don't teach anything but
math or English.”

TION

The tank was purchased several
years ago and transported across the
Columbia River to the museum site,
but has never been installed.

Calderbank said the museum ex.
pansion could not proceed until
proper fire protection was first in
place

Council rejected a request from
the Women In Need Society for a
grant to help operate a transition
house in Trail.

Calderbank said the committee
recognized “how important” the
society is to the city, but said the
amount of money the city could
provide at this time was “small”

compared to the
budget.

As well, Ald. Patti Richards said
the society's financial statement
showed the grant money was not
really needed.

Ald. Len Embree pointed out that
the Society provides a valuable ser.
vice.

“There are a lot of battered women
in the City of Castlegar” who use the
transitition house, he said, adding
that he hopes the city can help the
society sometime in the future.

Richards said the society will be
notified that it can apply for grants at
any time in the future.

Society's overall

Flashing signals
return to normal

By CasNews Staff

Citing safety concerns, Castlegar
council agreed Tuesday to change the
traffic lights at the intersection of
Columbia Avenue and 17th Street
from flashing orange back to the full
red, amber and green.

“There have been numerous eom-

jaints by various drivers . . . that it

very difficult and very unsafe at
that intersection with the lights the
way they are running,” said Ald.
Albert Calderbank, chairman of the
works and services committee.

The lights were changed to flash-
ing red on 17th Street and flashing
amber on Columbia Avenue at the
beginning of the summer to increase
traffic flow on Columbia.

Calderbank said drivers approach
ing the flashing red light are ap-
parently unaware they have to come
to a complete stop, while drivers on
Columbia Avenue do not seem to
know that a flashing amber light
means approach with caution.

As well, he said cars on 17th Street
have difficulty turning on to Colum-
bia Avenue.

“Traffic is so heavy they have not
been able to get through,” he said.

Calderbank said the lights will
revert to the red, amber, green mode
until next year when they will be
changed to the demand style of lights
now in use at the Columbia Avenue
and 6th Street intersection. There,
the light on Columbia Avenue re-
mains green until vehicles approach
ing from 6th Avenue triggers a
mechanism which changes the light
to red, allowing vehicles from 6th to
turn onto Columbia.

Calderbank said he is aware that

some drivers will be unhappy with
the change because it will slow traffic
through the city, but it can't be
helped.

“I know we all don't like it, but I'm
afraid we have to accept it,’ he said.

Ald, Len Embree supported the
change, saying safety is paramount,

“In trying to speed up traffic
through the city, at what cost?” he
asked.

He suggested it is one thing to try
to increase the traffic flow in the
summer, but another through win-
ter. Embree also ‘pointed to the
problem of increased truck traffic
through the city.

Mayor Audrey Moore told council
she received a call from the National
Real Estate Service at the corner of
17th and Columbia Avenue. She said
the business has witnessed three
traffic accidents the intersection
and urged the city to change the
traffic lights.

In other council news, the city
formally approved the closure of 13th
Avenue where it meets Columbia
Avenue. As well, the city will modify
the traffic island at the intersection,
making it easier for large trucks to
turn onto Columbia from 13th
Avenue.

However, Ald. Lawrence Chernoff
questioned whether the trucks will
be able to make the corner without
turning into the northbound lane on
Columbia Avenue. Chernoff said he
has seen trucks sweep wide into the
oncoming lane while attempting to
turn.

Calderbank said the changes to the
traffic island will make it easier for
trucks to turn. He added that the

major problem with the small one-
way stretch of 13th Avenue that will
be closed is that large trucks entered
it fom Columbia Avenue going the
wrong way.

Calderbank added that the busi-
nesses in the area which have large
trucks have agreed to the change.

Elsewhere, the city will install five
sets of traffic lights at various lo-
cations at a cost of $2,750. The lights
were requested by residents con-
cerned about safety.

The lights will be located at: the
south side of 10th Street east of
Columbia Avenue; 614-5th Ave.;
2104-8th Ave.; 9th Avenue between
475 and 474; and 401-32nd St.

Meanwhile; council rejected a
request from a Connors: Road resi-
dent to install a storm drain to the
Columbia River, saying the drain is
unnecessary at this time. However,
the city agreed to investigate the
surface water situation.

The city will examine the request
for a sidewalk on 11th Street and the
paving of the boulevard on 2nd
Street in front of the Rosewood
Manor. The works and services com-
mittee will then decide whether to
include the work in its 1989 budget.

The city will also look into con-
cerns about parking at 1004 Colum-
bia Ave.

School signs in the area adjacent to
Valley Vista school will be improved
and the city will review all other
school zones within city limits.

The city will also investigate low
water pressure problems in’ the
Chickadee Lane area and advise
property owners of options available
to them to increase pressure.

Preliminary aquatic centre
work starts in two weeks

By CasNews Staff

Preliminary work on the new $2.2.
million indoor aquatic centre will
begin within two weeks, Castlegar
council decided Tuesday night.

The work includes the removal of
playground equipment, trees and
sprinkler heads from the proposed
site of the aquatic centre adjacent to
the Community Complex.

As well, the city agreed to use its
equipment for a soil test of the
proposed site.

Ald. Lawrence Chernoff, chairman
of the parks and recreation com
mittee, said city crews will try to
save as many of the large trees as
possible.

However, he added that the city
looked at hiring a company to dig up
the trees and transfer them to
another location, but the costs were
too high.

“We will save as many trees as we
possibly can,” Chernoff said.

The aquatic centre is planned for
the area just south of the complex
now occupied by an adventure play.
ground, grass and trees. Chernoff
said the playground will be moved to
a location just next to where the
aquatic centre will be.

In other council news, the city is
interested in establishing an emer-

gency helicopter landing facility. The
Regional District of Central Koot
enay has asked all municipalities and
electoral areas within the regional
district to see if there is a need for a
helicopter facility and if so, a possible
location.

“We are certainly interested,” said
Ald. Terry Rogers, chairman of the
planning and developing committee.

However, Ald. Chernoff, an am
bulance attendant, said the landing
facility cannot be located at the
Castlegar and District Hospital.

“The hospital area isn't a good
place to put a helicopter down,” he

said, adding that there have been a
couple of instances where helicopters
have tried to land at the hospital and
found it “tricky.”

He said a location is needed which
is closer than the Castlegar Airport
and on this side of the Columbia
River.

Chernoff said a paved helicopter
pad isn't necessary, only an acces-
sible emergency landing area.

“I've had some discussions with
private helicopter (operators) about
what they can do, and (they) said
that would be like Kinsmen Park or
something in that area where it is
fenced off,” Chernoff said.

Gladys Morris
passes away

Gladys Pearl Morris passed away
at Kelowna Memorial Hospital on
Nov. 2, 1988 at age 88.

She is survived by three daught
ers; Fern and husband Louis Costa of
Victoria, Fay and husband Bill
Morris of Castlegar and Pearl and
husband Sid Sidoni of Kelowna; sis-
ters Pearl Gay of White Rock, Doris

and husband Erik Rendell of Edmon-
ton, brother Percy Krake and wife
Ida of North Battleford, Sask.; six
grandchildren, 13 great-grandchil.
dren; nieces, nephews, as well as a
host of friends.

Memorial service is to be held
Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Castlegar
United Church.

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of hope,
self-sacrifice in an era of the cynical antihero and
It reminds us that such

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how we will spend our lives. It offers thanks and
gratitude in an all too often graceless and self-indul

courage and

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B.C. HYDRO has opened a new land office in
Nakusp. Earl Moffat is staffing the office and will
look after the sale of lands still held by Hydro on the
Arrow Lakes.

The move comes after Hydro chairman Larry
Bell visited the area this summer, At a public
meeting Bell agreed to look into the fact that Hydro
does not pay taxes on properties it owns on the lakes,
reducing the tax base available to the Regional
District of Central Kootenay. The sales office in
Nakusp stems from that public meeting.

More information on proposed sales should be
forthcoming shortly.

IF YOU'RE A boy or girl who wears size four to
14 clothing, you'll be interested in a new business
that has opened in Castleaird Plaza called Goonies’
Stuff. It “is owned by Monique Pellerin, who is
originally from Quebec, but who has been a resident
of Castlegar for the last eight years. Monique says
Goonies’ Stuff is a clothing boutique for “today's
kids.”

After 12 years B and W Signs has changed its
name. Owners Karen and Terry Hughes are calling
the business Kats Trophys.

CASTLEGAR is taking part in a special
economic study. Some households in the Castlegar
will receive a survey, asked to’ complete it, and then
return it in the stamped self-addressed envelope.

Castlegar is one of six B.C. communities
involved in the survey. Others include Merritt, Port
Alberni, Regelstoke, Salmon Arm and Williams
Lake.

The survey involves two parts: the household
survey and personal interviews with community
leaders. Downes was in Castlegar last month to
conduct the interviews with council members,
economic development officials, major employers
and the like,

The questions in the survey focus on what sort
of problems households are experiencing as a result
of community economic change — decline or
transition? How households are coping with these
problems, and how well households think _their

yisr ding to

Downes plans ‘to make public the results of his

study.
HAVE YOU ever wondered what rock climbers,
mountaineers and ski-tourers do during the off
season when it's too rainy to still be summer, and not
yet cold enough to snow? According to the
Federation of Mountain Clubs, this is the season to
plan next year's activities.

The federation's 1989 course brochure outlines
their complete range of mountain skill courses.
Starting in December with weekend avalanche
safety courses, and three- to eight-day backcountry
ski-touring trips, the free brochure gives all the
dates and prices so you can plan a gréat winter right
now.

The brochure also lists‘all of their rock climbing,
mountaineering and hiking courses for spring and

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things as idealism, love of country and comradeship
are not dead, but very much alive, but that we must
never be allowed to forget them.

Almost 2,500 years ago King Leonidas, 400 of his
Spartans and some Greeks held the Pass of
Thermopolae, the gateway to ancient Greece,

give a great deal of time to the poppy

against a force of hundreds of th ds of Persian
invaders. They died to the last man in that pass, but
their gallant stand gave the tiny Greek states time to
prepare and so inspired other soldiers that the
invaders were forced to give up. “It was a hard price
they paid, but they not only saved Greece, but they
won for us, freedom and the priceless concept of
democracy.Their gallantry is remembered and
honored in Greece to this day. What of us?

Perhaps the entire idea is best expressed by
Abraham Lincoln in the latter part of his great
Gettysburg Address in which he says:

“The world will little note, nor long remember,
what we say here, but it can never forget what they
(the dead) did here. It is for us, the living, rather to
be dedicated here to the unfinished work they have
thus far so nobly advanced. It is for us rather to be
here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,

campaign Sod to the Remembrance Day prepar-
ations. Each year after a bad experience or two some
will ask, “Was it worth it?”
If we lived in a perfect world it would not be
necessary. The lion would lie down with the lamb and
ll mankind would live in harmony. Unfortunately, it
just ain't so” — at least not yet, as is all too evident
with one glance at the front page of any newspaper.
We live, in fact, in a very imperfect world which
all too readily forgets the cost of its ownsloth and
selfishness; the debt which is owed to those who
gave everything, and the price which the future
demands from us all, and so neatly packaged in the
Spanish saying “And God said, ‘Take what you wish,
an pay for it.’ ”
The Legion serves as a kind of conscience and an
example for us all. By what it does at this time is
force us to what we have been given and

that from these honored dead we take ij
devotation to that cause for which they gave the last
full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve
that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom;
that the government of the people, by the people and
for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Each year Canadian Legion members and their

to what we owe our good fortune as a free nation. It
reminds us by word and example what must be given
to preserve a peace and freedom so dearly bought. It
reminds us that remembrance itself is a special
celebration of giving. Hang in there, the Legion, you
represent the best of our present, our hope for the
future.

The study has been undertaken by Dr. Bryan
of Oregon, who is

Downes of the University

attempting to learn how small
have been coping with economic

communities in B.C
change

summer 1989.

non-metropolitan
office at
Vancouver.

To receive this free brochure phone the Feder-
ation of Mountain Clubs at 737-8053, or call at their
Sport B.C., 1367

West

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Sperry appointed
judge's position

By CasNews Staff

A Trail lawyer has been appointed
a provincial court judge.

Donald Sperry was appointed by
Att. ‘ney General Bud Smith and will
take up his position Nov. 28. Sperry
will sit primarily in the West Koot
enay region in provincial courts in
Castlegar, Creston, Grand Forks,
Nakusp, Nelson and Rossland.

“Mr. Sperry will be a fine addition
to the provincial court bench,” Smith
said in a prepared release. “his
lengthy and varied court experience
will enable him to meet the new and
challenging demands of this office.”

Strike

Sperry, an Alberta native, attend-
ed U.B.C. where he received a
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969 and a
Bachelor of Laws degree in 1972. He
was called to the B.C. bar in 1973
after articling for a Vancouver law
firm.

He has practised law in Trail since
1974. One of his most publicized cases
involved his role as defence lawyer
for two “brokers” in the Dixie Lee
Powers pyramid trial.

He has been a bencher of the Law
Society since 1986 and was appointed
Queen's Counsel in 1987.

notice

given

By CasNews Staff

Employees of the Trail Daily
Times have served strike notice after
voting 100 per cent in favor of strike
action.

The strike vote was the second
taken at the newspaper. A previous
vote by Communications Workers of
America Local 226, which represents
30 employees at the Trail Times and
the Nelson Daily News, was declared
“null and void” by the Industrial
Relations Council because it was not
supervised by the IRC.

The union had been boycotting the
IRC at the time as part of a B.C.
Federation of Labor boycott

The IRC had said that a strike by
the CWA would have been illegal and
issued an order to the union after an

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IRC hearing into an application filed
by Sterling Newspapers Ltd., owner
of the papers.

No further negotiations between
the union and Sterling are scheduled
at this time.

The union has not exercised its
right to strike and has three months
from the date of strike notice to do
so.

Nelson News employees have not
taken a second strike vote. A union
spokesman could not comment on
why Nelson employees have not
taken another vote, saying he has not
been a part of negotiations.

“It's a little different situation,” at
the Nelson Daily News, he added
today in a telephone interview from
Vancouver.

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