under Tenancy Act Vote Makortoff Nov. 20 f fs nonhs t month the landlord plar Jemolish or chang prog compensation for wnufactured homes vote JIM MAKORTOFF COUNCILLOR MAKORTOFF, JIM Wednesday, November 17, 1993 Look waaay up—it’s a lunar eclipse! fs Will muss —but for those on varying factors, some lunar eclipses are redder ion with the moon than others (hus making each eclipse individual It's been debated how dark the moon will becon» during the forthcoming eclipse. During an ecliy last December the moon completely disappeared duc to the congestion of tions of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippine voléanic dust from recent erur But ash trom the eruptions has been thinning out and a color ful eclipseis expected For moon gazers, the eclipse will be in the constel lation Taurus, in the northern sky, and will be framed by a ghittenng starfield. An interesting side effect of the eclipse will be that during totality the stars will appear to be brighter and light up the skies. The win ter Milky Way will arch overhead and cascad through Taurus and Gemini which will be slightly east of the eclipse. The unique positioning of the star furing the eclipse is sure to be spectacular if th: weather permits and we aren't shadowed by clouds The next total eclipse visMbie in Western Canad won't occur until September 26, 1996.-The spectacu lar and unique eclipse alignment this year is rare and it won't occur again until November 29, 205% © just over 800 full moons from now. This leave many of us who are getting long-in-the-tooth at ELECT Keep the Good Things Happening Audrey Moore Is Working Towards: AUDREY MOORE for MAYOR Keep the Good Things Happening For a ride to the polls call 365-5062 or 365-0012 MOORE, Audrey fisadv antag so for those who meet (or exce he definition ‘middle -ay is suggested that you x mark your calendars College students measure up F English Entrance Scholarshif Rand of Ross while lan Comishin of Kimber awarded B.C> ley, received the Robert Boyer nt of Selkirk Scholarships Business Administration Schol Scholarships amar es 0 astlegar arship. The Robert Boye tleg ar r-Robson Entrance Award went Branch 170 Canada 125 = Michelle Paolini of Rossland while Canada and the Robert Boyer Forestry Scholarship was awarded Tammy Baerg of Cranbrook. Eva Varabioff of Castlegar wa awarded the Roanld Water Hamilton Music Scholarship nces Selkirk College Employ ada Scholarships in Tech Endowment Scholarships were nology were presented to Jerome vec’ to Peter Bullock of of Oftawa, Ontano, a Castlegar, Annette Kempston ot x Forestry student, and ‘Trail, Darrell Manderson of Nel ri Singleton of Fernie son, Manuel Rodrigues of Castle ar Forestry studem gar, and Jade Wahl of Trail N nite Rianner Selkirk ( Entran 1 Scholarship awarded t Brian Fitzgerald of Rossland h hips uded Shannon were awarded to mpston of Trail and of Rossland awarded the Scholarship ir Paolini a first Rachael Galbraith of Trail Patsy meen of Grand Fork chier of Cresce PRICES EFFECTIVE SUN. NOV. 14 TO SAT. 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Although Public Health Nurse Marcella Mugford was hesitant to classify the increase as an. out break, she did verify that within the last two years the incidents of the virus has been on the climb. “We've had a slight increase and it is definitely above the year before. It started to increase last year.” Mugford speculates that the reason for the increase is the mis. information that parents receive regarding the vaccine, thereby causing them to erroneously assume that it is safer to not immunize their children. “Immunization is considered very safe. If the child gets whooping cough they can become very ill—it’s a serious disease.” Whooping cough, also known ‘as Pertussus, is an infection of the nose and throat which can cause problems with breathing, heart failure and paralysis. Of every ten persons who contract the disease one will die. Babies have an even higher risk of dying from the dis- 1-800-TRY-THIS SHARLENE IMHOFF Sun Editor For residents of the Central Kootenay Regional District, get ting information from their gow ering body may soon be easier and cheaper. Currently, if residents outside of Nelson, where the RDCK office is made enquiries to the office, they were slapped with an automatic long-distance charge. All that is about to change. The RDCK is in the process of establishing a 1-800 number in an effort to located, better serve the electorate most of which is outside the Nelson local We ‘re hoping to have the line installed this week. It means a better way of serving the public,” said one senior statfer at the RDCK office The cost regional district standards, is considered minimal: $100 to according to install the line; $35 charge per month for the line, and the cost of picking up the tab for long distances calls received from residen: aot regional district the Brilliant Approx 1000 « From the ground up DO YOU REMEMBER? veld February 1993 at cultural Centre The Public Meeting t oncerned cit from this meeting a new chapter of “SHARE” was formed Can we reach a balance between local economic and environmental issues? On November 25, 1993 KOOTENAY COLUMBIA SHARE is hosting a PUBLIC MEETING 7:00 pm at Brilliant Cultural Centre Three guests will make presentations and the floor will be open for discussion Presenters will.be. ‘ on Mclaren - Celgar Pulp: Belore fi Mer + Herb Hammond - Forest Practices, Past & Present + Dave Oswald - Forest Practices, Past & Present t zens attended and Plan on attending Have your questions answered Cooperations is better than conflict. For additional information call 365-6313 KOOTENAY COLUMBIA SHARE Box 3310, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H6 ease Pertussis is spread by droplet form—either by coughing or sneezing and is characterized by prolonged and severe spells of coughing. As the infected person tries to catch their breath a char- acteristic whooping sound is made—thus the name whooping cough. The disease can last as long as one to two months. British: Columbia is reporting an outbreak of the disease with the number of cases soaring to 338 at the end of October. Last year there were 216 cases report ed by the end of October. The rise in the disease has been linked to the refusal of parents to immu- nize their children. It is recommended that infants be immufiized for the disease at two months of age and then again al pre-school age. If a parent is hes: itant to have their child immunized against the disease it is recom mended they discuss their concems with their family physician Page 5A Does Castlegar surpass national school survey? KAREN KERKHOFF Sun Staff School could be hazardous to your health, A national called Canadian Schoolhouse in the Red’ stated that survey 25 per cent of British Columbia school build ings are considered inadequate for learning due to their poor condition, bad air quality and poor maintenance which “have a negative effect on the learning and teaching environment What that equates to is one in HA, UE tie (hae 2,305 schuup are below standard. The survey also found that only half of the schools were rated good to excellent How do Castlegar schools rate? According to School Dis trict No. 9 Superintendent Everette Surgenor, with the exception of Twin Rivers School Castlegar’s schools are in “tairly good shape of Twin Rivers School which is in the initial planning stages of replacement Surgenor went on to say that the biggest problem facing the district, is not the condition of the schools, but one of space short with the eaception ages When local schools were built in ihe 50's and 60's, Suigoaur said space requirements were dif ferent than today. “It was built to house the class and teachers Now we have library clerks, resource rooms, teachers assis tants, computers and so on* Surgenor sasd that with the dawning of the technological age and the emergence of computers in schools, finding computer space is the biggest challenge “That's a pressure every school in the district has. The crowding in Castlegar schools has been partially relieved with the use of portables, said Surgenor, but when renova tions are planned, the need for space is addressed during plan ning. | Su, for those of you whe plan on staying home because “school makes me sick” forget it Castlegar schools are still safe environments AIDS cases for women increasing like no other The statistics are in and it doesn't look good for sexually active women Latest information received trom the World Health Organiza tion, a watch-dog of medical mat ters, show that the incidents of women infected with AIDS in Canada has risen significantly since 1980 when there were less than fivé reported cases But the grim fact remains that by 1992 there were almost 120 reported cases of women with AIDS in Canada. Most women might put down the paper at this point thinking ‘I don't have to worry, I don't do drugs’, but the hardest hitting fact of the report is that a largé por- tion of those women infected, contacted the disease through het- Totally committed to work for erosexual transmission. That fact alone puts all sexually active women—black, white, drug-user or not on level ground. While the number of women who acquired AIDs through heterosexual con tact was relatively low in 1981 (only about five women), that number has jumped to about 45. Last year, 1,078 people died from AIDS. This is the first year the disease surpassed 1,000 since Canada's first diagnosis of the disease in 1979. Thus far, in Canada, AIDS has claimed 5,801 lives—5,450 men, 294 women and 57 children under the age of 15 VOTE MALOFF Nov. 20th As a Trustee, | will listen with an open mind | will work to the best of my ability to give the students a sound exciting and relevant education. ¢ FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE ¢ STRONG LEADERSHIP ¢ PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE ¢ OPEN COMMUNICATION The Benefits of All-In-One Finances. A Kootenay Savings Member Gives Us His Statement. 5] Kootenay Savings Where You Belong