UNICEF received a helping hand Halloween when youngsters of

Woodland P: Park School lithe out trove ho eee

reat" fun of Halloween to

fill their UNICEF boxes | with

contributions from the eitizens of Castlegar. This year's canvass
re than $300 and the pupils of Woodland Park School

realized mot
have asked to have their ap;
who contributed on behalf of

expressed publicly to those
the less fortunate children of the

world. Shown here are this year’s most successful UNICEFers,

B.C. Conference of the Family

70 Resolutions are Studied

More than 70 resolutions
concerned with Improving the

*. quality of the family, addressed
*/ to political and social struc:

tures, agencles and individuals,
were drafted at the B.C. con-
ference on the Family meeting,
held recently at Richmond, B.C,

This unique project, co-
sponsored by t! ihe B.C. govern:
ment Ministry of Human Re-
sources and the religious com-

+» munities, involved 241 persons

front row, left to right, Cathy Hayashi, Gordon Sandrin, Tawrence
Dewar, Marlowe Walker and Beth 8

terling. Back row, left ta right,

Isaac Miles, Duane Welr, Melanie Maloff, Sheri Leroy and Jennifer
Fike. Lawrence Dewar of Grade 5 was the overall champ,
collecting

with a total of $98.81.

ie OLS OT) ity Division 2, the class of Mr,
taking th
taro aca er

Manpower Explains the Need for Miners

"Despite the fact that
x mining is one of B.C.'s most
2 important resource industries
< and thereby directly affects the
t lives of more than 60,000 resi-
+ dents, the general public knows

toba, Northwest Territories
and Yukon Territory.

The vast majority of
graduates have been men, but a
number. of women have en-
rolled in the open pit course,

: Uttle about the industry. The

> strong employment potential
cand the fact that there is a
: provincial mining school in our
: own backyard specifically

to prepare w:
# people for work in B.C's

{+mines—appears to have gone

> relatively unnoticed.

The B.C. Mining School,
located at Rossland, is pres-
ntly training men and women

mining, The open pit course is
:: 16 weeks long and the under-

>. ground program is 12 weeks,

: During the five years the
z school has been in operation,
“over 750. trainees have, been
helped to find work in open pit
‘and underground mines in B.C.,
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mani-

To Observe
‘Respect of
Life’ Sunday
This Sunday several area
churches will be observing a
“Respect for Life" Sunday.
for Life includes
not ant tte unborn but the
handicapped, both physically
and mentally, and the aged who
often have no one to care.
you know soméone who
is aged or handicapped and in
need of your. friendship? The
Right ‘to Life tion re-
minds you to remember those
in need. on.*Respect for Life”
Sunday. a

completed it, and gone on to
worthwhile jobs.

Mining provides good op-
portunity for steady employ-
ment, above average wages
and, in most cases, quality
community. living. A small

ers not now in the industry
must be recruited and trained
over the next elght years to
meet the needs of industry.
While the bulk of the cur-
rent new expansion is to be in

spent pit, the future trend will

number of mining
are isolated, but these offer
benefits not available at mines
in settled areas. One example is
opportunity to earn very high
wages and retain a good pro-
portion of them as savings.
The past. two years have
been difficult ones for the.
Western Canada mining in-

thay manpower supply is al-
ready very limited and the time
frame for training a new work
force is becoming critical. .

Underground coal mines

today are short some 160 face
men. Where will the new
people come from? Not from
ute parts of Canada—it has
Not likely

dustry. and
development has been’ rela-
tively limited. Nonetheless,
there are presently some 16
< open pit and 18 underground
mines employing over 18,000
people in B.C.

On the. drawing board are
major coal ‘developments. in-
volving six large operations in
northeast and southeast B.C. In
-addition, there are six base

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metal
tion or development: which
should’ come into production
within the next three years.
“The implication « of this
forecast in terms of skilled
manpower to staff the new
mines is starkly apparent. In
round figures, some 1,500 work-

pee immigration. Frankly, we
must train our own people,
Career opportunities de-
finitely exist within: the ‘in-
dustry now, and future ‘pros-
pects look. bright. The mines
are changing—no longer. are
they deep, dark holes: in'the
ground, ;. Working conditions.

have ‘been  tremendously''im?’
proved in the past few years, *

and will continue to improve in
the years ahead.

A career in mining should
be considered as a viable em-
ployment choice:

For further. information,
contact your nearest Canada
Manpower Centre or the Ross-
land Mining School,

School Bus Driver
Charged in Accident

A collision 1:30 p.m. Mon-
day between a school bus and a
972 has resulted

Tommy Biln
Open Mon. - Thurs. 9 a.

in ‘an estimated $2,500
damages.

Police say bus driver Nick

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‘The accident occurred on
Columbia Ave. when the south-)

bound stationwagon, driven by -
Jennie Mehan of Castlegar, was |

waiting to make a left-hand
turn onto Willow St. when her
vehicle was rear-ended by the

bus owned by School District

lo. 9,

No injuries were reported.
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been «

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estimated at $1,500,

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from 70 communities through-
out the province.

Castlegar was represented
by . Colin Pryce, Peter and
Patsy Makortoff and Glen and
Helen Anderson,

Among significant actions
by the delegation were the eall
for establishment of a “B.C.
Couneil for the Family” in-

A panel of five deputy
ministers, together with Bishop
Rem! De Roo of the Roman
Catholic Archdiocese: of | Vic-
toria, one of the originators of
the conference, discussed the
implications of a 160-page re-

Dr. John Friesen, faculty
of education at University mA
B.C. and editor of the report,
chaired the panel.

Tho report was based of
more than 400 briefs and 700

+ to be from two to three million

dollars if it is to be viable.

Among the resolutions
‘were a number which passed or
failed by a narrow margin. Two
significant examples were: sup-
port for the guaranteed annual _
ineome which passed by a mere
eight votes, and failure of a
request for government fun-
ding for independent schools by
five votes,

A sampling of the resolu-
tions reveals requests for:

eC of and low.

community study groups which
met during the past year,
Minister’ of ‘Human | Re-
sources” William G, Vander
Zalm, was host and speaker at a
government dinner. He called
for 'a° greater community’ in-

volvement fn the fight agtinst

ering’ of rental ceilings;

e Support for housing sub-
aldies to individuals as well as
builders; -

e Establishing of a moni-
toring team for television to
determine its effects on soe
and its values;

@ Stressing spiritual re-
newal through prayer and re-
treats for familics;

e Increasing support for
preventative mental health pro-
grams;

@ Parents to exercise their
rights and not abrogate them to
agencies such as the school,
church, government and such;

That equal retention of
status be given to native
women marrying nonstatus
men as Is presently given to
native men” ‘marrying. non-
status women.

‘The resolutions will now go
to an ongoing committee for
refinement and for distrubition
to the appropriate addresses,

Delegates return to report
to their: own communities and
sponsoring organizations,

‘volving of govern-
ment;' religious bodies!’ and
‘community agencies to monitor
issues affecting family life; and
a request to the premier for
establishment of a ‘Family
Month” when emphasis on
family concerns will be pro-
moted and publicized.

The four-day event was
opened by Lt.-Gov. Walter 8,
Owen and Richmond MLA and
cabinet minister James Neil-
‘son.

juvenile problems,
le announced the govern-
ment's intention to‘ establish

site or four pilot projects in’

|, communities « where
eos funding’ will | be
combined with local volunteer

organization to create  pre-;

ventative ‘programs to halt
family breakdown.

At (a press conference
following the banquet he ‘esti-
mated the cost of such a project

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The first phase of the
Ministry of Education's pro-
vince-wide learning assessment
program has concluded ‘that
achievement by students in the
British Columbia school system

“in the English language arts is

satisfactory, but that some
areas of weakness do exist...

The three reports result-
ing from the assessment 'pro-
gram conclude that on the basis,

of'areading test administered ©

to 35,000 grade 4 ‘students,
students appear to. be per-
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in such areas as basic vo-
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Some Areas of Weakness Do Exist

B.C. English Language Arts Sa fisfactory

tevel was in'the!use of the dic-

“On the basis: of an essay
written by a random sample of
38,000 Grade 8 and'12 students
and marked by a group of ex-
perienced - teachers,'-it “was
found that students are®strong *
dn communicating their” basic
ideas but weak in the mechan-
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~ Grade 8 “students were:

found to beable to maintain a.

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noted at the grade 4 reading

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researchers indicated that at
dents were able to maintain
point of view and use accepta-

ble vocabulary and handwrit-

ing. The weaknesses < were.’
‘\identified: as’ sentence struc-
ture, “development of _para-
graphs ‘and maturity of ex.
pression.

The learning assessment
reports were prepared for the

{ministry 3:
versity of Victoria ers |
headed by Dr. Peter Evanech-?

zko. ‘The lack. of province-wide *
information describing what is

being learned in the schools and
the quality of that learning was
a \major: concern to many
. educators ‘and the public.
Asa result of that concern
the. assessment of students’
Performance’ {n ‘English Jan-
guage was initiated in October

> 1975 to provide needed dita on

the English language arts and
to serve as aj pilot for future
studies in other area of the cur-
rieulum.
The principal pi
the program, entitled L Lan
guage: B.C. was to document
the strengths and weaknesses
certain areas of student
learning with a view'to imple-

menting changes in the’ alloca-’.

tion of resources, the modifica-

tion of curricula, the develop. *

ment - of’ teacher education,

programs and the direétion of

future educational research: cia
B.C.

To their ports, ‘th
searchers state that it is eve.
dent that “teachers, by and
large, have a good idea of their.
primary ' objectives’. and“ that.
they incorporate ‘appropriate _:.
: methods into: their ‘classroom
activities to achicve those! ‘ob
jectives.

by .a~team of Uni, ;
ictoria ‘research

tien ado texts and

ce * studgetouches on a
“number of factora that Apear to
influence the quality’ of learn-
ing, including the high mobility
of ‘society, “the : influence ° of
i television’ and the significant
‘percentage of students learning
English as a second language.

The researchers concluded
that, contrary to popular belief,

the’ more television watched ©

{up to two hours daily for Grade
4 students) the better the
reading performance.
It was found that after
watching for two to four hours
performance dropped,
while after four hours daily,
performance matched that of
-students who watch no tele-
vision,"The survey found that
about 60 per cent of the Grade 4
Population watched three or

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Releases Joint Labor Force
» Study on Seven Mile Project —

The Regional District. of
Kootenay Boundary and B.C,
Hydro and Power Authority
recently released a report on
the labor force at the Seven
Mile project on the bated
Oreille River,

Tn releasin the report, an
RDKB 1B po

tionnaire survey, shows that
for the first phase of the pro-
Ject, most of the work force
came from the Weat Kootenay,
Ns Betmeet tO and t2per cent
were from the Castlegar-Rob-
son-Slocan-Shoreacres area; 18
80 per cent from the Ross-

said the in-
heen should lay to "raat

“some of ‘the questions re-

garding the source of | man-
bowel. employed at the site t to

‘The spokesman also sald
that this report, which covers
the first phase of the Seven
Mile project which had a man-
power peak of 400, may provide
some indication of both em-
Ployment and residence pat-
terns when‘ the Isbor force on
“the project reaches 750-2,000
tetrest 1977 and 1979,

report, which is the
result of a labor force ques-

a more, hours of television ona

day.
The assessment revealed
that students who frequently
changed schools: scored lower
than other students, and that

£2 over 25 per cent of the Grade 4

students attended three or

“more schools since Grade 1.
“Tt was’ also. found that

students new to Canada, and

English at home, scored signi-
icantly lower than other stu-
dents. About 16 per cent of the
Grade 4 population’ reported
they. spoke a language other
than : English ' before’ starting
school and that English is not
the only language spoken in the
home.

One of the main recom-
mendations of the over 100 that
‘are contained in the reports is
that teachers at the secondary
level apportion more time to
composition, place more em-
phasis on writing as a unique
subject and assign more com-.

tions,

The study found that about
one-third of Grade 8: teachers
and one-quarter of Grade 11
and 12 teachers reported no
university training in composi-
tion teachings.

Tt" urges ithe faculties of
education at the universities to

“ensure that their students ac-
quire appropriate ‘academic
backgrounds as “well as ‘neces.

ture and ‘reading (at the le.
mentary) level), and composi-

ion, ning “and speaking
skills instruction at the secon-
dary level}.

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and 17-25 per cent from the
Nelson-Salmo-Ymir area.

The percentage of the
work’ force from outside the
West Kootenay. ranged be-
tween 6 and 19 per cent. °

The study revealed that
bad cam complement is not a

dication . of “outside”

pet eas Unions have speci- ‘|

fic agreements for Camp En-
titlement which includes's sarge
percentage of any of the work
force from outside a 40-mile
radius of the damsite.

The work force,-‘on the.
whole, proves to be highly ex-
perienced at hydro construc-
tion. Sixty-five per cent re-
ported ‘having ‘worked con-
tinuously on Hydro projects
from the Pesce ‘Project to the
Seven Mile Project.

Many have worked on four
to seven other Hydro projects,
On the other hand, six per cant
are firat time Hydro ‘con-
struction employees.

It is evident that in-
lually, the work force is
highly mobile. ‘The pattern of
household move {s not quite 20

rh,
Although some 80 per cent
tnaleatad they normally move
ir families from project to
eis only 20 per cent of the
current work force have mi-

grated to the local area. The:

Ferry Traffic
‘Declines
In October
crn yt ferry traffic was

majority of those have settled

in the Beaver Valley.

The report concludes with
abrief introduction to the social
and economic impact reports to
follow. It shows the: likely’ :
impact on school and recreation
faclllties of $41 children of the
current work force (most of
whom were -“local” residents
before the project started),

Tt also shows the pattern of
distribution of some $2.9 million
in wages: $1.6 ‘million to the

‘Castlegar area; $.7 million to

the Nelson area; and $.6 million
sto the Rossland-Genelle-Fruit-
vale triangle.

Copies of the eed have
been sent to area lib:

down in excep
trailers, pty trailers and

> motor buses and made 74 less

trips in October, 1976 than in
the same time period last year.
Following are the figures
for October this year with
October, 1975 in brackets:
Round trips 3,275 (3,849);
automobiles and drivers 29,080
(29,627); passengers «not
drivers $9,897 (40,998); trucks
11,570 (11,968); trailers and
semi-trailers 594 (462); motor
buses 126 (112); motor cycles 62
(141) and livestock 1 (11).

$10 Million Additional

Funds for B. C. Hospitals.

2 who-speak:a, language: besides .- .~

Health’ Minister

had recently advised all public '
hospitals by letter,’ that more
than 10 million dollars in addi-
tional funds would, be ‘made’
available within the ‘next 10

He said that the money
would ‘provide much needed
financial assistance toa number
of hospitals.

In making the announce-
ment Mr. McClelland said that
he and members of his depart-
ment had recently held several

-meetings with representatives
of the B.C, Health Association, -:

to explore. the financial pro-
blems in the hospital field.
He said he had also re-
ceived first-hand information
and opinions from a number of

Clelland has announced that he

~ hospital boards, ‘Tegurding the
cost containment. Programs,
The « minister’ ‘expressed
the government's appreciation
for the ‘effort’ made by the
hospitals, and said that it was
important that’ all hospitals
continue their efforts to contin’
hospital expenditures, x

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