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The bonus number was 19. Hi-tech hints Page B3 2 Sections (A & B) "during Santa and Mrs. Claus's visit to the Castlegar Cc Complex Y SCHOOL GIVES KIDS A BREAK By DIANE STRANDBERG Staff Writer Tim doesn't look like a tough guy. He's got a smile that would melt ice and-» a straight-forward way of talking that makes him seem older than his 18 years. But he's got a mean temper that sometimes gets out of control: And he admits that it was his temper that finally got him kicked out of Kinnaird Junior Secondary School during exam time last year. “I could have made it through the . year,” Tim says, “But I got depressed.” The more depressed he got, the worse his marks. Finally, he gave up trying. Tim, like eight other boys now at- tending Open Roads Alternative Schoo! in Castlegar, just wouldn't fit into the rigid structure set up by both peers and teachers at KJSS, They just wouldn't conform. Alleight boys might have quit school eventually and tried to strike out on their own. But by their own admission, they wouldn’t get very far in this in- creasingly competitive world without the skills that education can provide. But the same education system that they have both shunned and con- demned has given these boys a break. They have been given the opportunity to straighten out at Open Roads and at CASNEWS FEATURE REPORT the same time bone up on academics that will enable them to finish the grade they failed and possibly move up to the next higher level. Says Open Roads instructor Mike Chapman: “The goal is trying to get these boys back on their feet in terms of acadmic skills, in terms of confidence and in relating to people in a positive way.” The Open Roads program is a com- preh mixture of academic and social skill building programs. And for the past 10 years in Castlegar it has been providing a bridge for students, who wouldn't otherwise have gone the distance. The boys currently enrolled in the Open Roads program this year are at about the Grade 7/8 level and, accord- ing to Chapman, their academic courses of Math, Science and English, vary little from the standard curric- ulum. However, the Social Studies course is career-oriented and geared to giving the boys some background to prepare them for the work-a-day world. What's different about Open Roads is that there are only about nine or 10 students to a teacher compared to about 30 in a regular classroom. This means the students can receive more and at their own speed. Tom, an articulate 14-year-old and Open Roads student, puts it bluntly: “Compared to KJSS, this is heaven.” Tom says he was often left behind because “they whip stuff off so fast, everybody has to work at the same pace.” But here, he says: “You can work at your own pace.” Because students may be working at as many as three different tevels, Chapman and his colleague Graham Jamin act as tutors or monitors. And what the boys like about learning in an Open Roads environment is that Chap- man and Jamin are as close as a yell. Unlike regular school where curri- culum is emphasized and the more social aspects of education, such as edoperation and interaction, are en- couraged at a subconscious level, the boys at Open Roads know exactly where they stand. ‘Everyone gets points for punctu- ality, attendance, participation effort, BOTH SIDES LIKE DEAL IWA to vote on three-year pact VANCOUVER (CP) — Members of British Columbia's largest forest indus-. try union will vote next month on a three-year tentative agreement unani- mously approved by its negotiating committee. ‘The agreement between the 40,000- member International Woodworkers of America ‘and the industry contains no wage increase in the first year, a four-per-cent increase in the second year and a 4-5-per-cent boost in the final year. That will take the current base rate ‘of $12.96 an hour to $14.09 Re the agreement expirés June 30, The’ agreement was réached after more than seven months of on and off bargaining — the last month under accepted now because the bargaining had carried on so long “we'll be back into negotiations farily quickly any- way.” He said the union shore markets for our. industry to regain its financial health,” he said. However, Bennett said he. is disap- pointed that the industry was not able to reach on resisted industry demands for conces- items. On Friday, the industry dropped sions, p ly out of jobs — one of the major issues in the dispute. Munro said he expects his members, whose last two-year contract provided wage increases of 15 and 18 per cent, can accept no wage increase in the first year. “Certainly they want to work as much as possible and fortunately we had done a half-decent job as far as wages were concerned on the last two sets of Our wages are mediator Allan Hope — and cul: Friday's 8'/:-hour ‘session. Union president Jack Munro said the pact also boosts existing‘pensions by 20 per cent and adds $20 a'month for each service for new pensioners. is also ati improved health plan. Munro said it will:take until late aary beforeithe ratification yote is. leted becluse ‘of the difficulty in ‘mem: and t a three-year bhian agreement could be improvement particularly in the off-- really not that bad and we can hack a one-year period without an increase.” Keith Bennett, the industry's chief negotiator, said he is “very pleased” with the stability the three-year pact provides and the fact it contains a wage freeze in the first-year. Bennett said every forecast for the coming year‘says the industry will do “We certainly need a very significant ad id: for work on Saturdays. at regular pay rates, The woodworkers’ contract tends to set an example for the two pulp unions — the 9,000-member Canadian Paper- wolrkers Union and the 6,500-member Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada. Their memberships are voting now on a three-year pact that’ contains no wage increase in the first year and four per cent in each of the next two years. The executives of both unions have recommended rejection. Jim Sloan, president of the smallest union, said the woodworkers’ settle- ment will not make his union's nego- tiations any easier. “You know it doesn't help,”-he said. “But we have had different (contract) terms: from the IWA before, in the 1970s.” Both Sloan and paperworkers’ boss Art Gruntman are firmly opposed to a 2 three-year and ‘want ‘the ‘einploy- ers. Higa Votitig by the two pulp unions will be completed by Dec. 21 ¢ “Sandner Bros. buy mill ‘By CasNews Staff Sanduer Brothers Lumber Company of Christina Lake has purchased the F cific Sawmill in Salmo, but is still in. the process of negotiating with the province for the mill's timber righta, f Doug Sandner, a partner in the firm, * said it was premature to disclose any details of the company’s plans for the mill before timber rights are obtained. Parents all set By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer Castlegar could have a new Block Parent program as early as Christmas. Organizer Lynn Phillips said this week that to date 112 applications have been received from persons wanting to become block parents. Block Parent signs, to be posted in windows of block parents’ homes, are due to arrive in two weeks, at which time they will be distributed to the parents and the program will go into effect, said Phillips. The Block Parent program is where & group of parents provide the com- munity with an organized method of protecting its children. An organizational meeting was held Wednesday night at which time, 10 applications were brought in. In addition, some 45 people turned up to see a film on block parenting and to hear Const. Helen Mahon of the local RCMP, which is involved in the program. Another meeting was scheduled Thursday night at Kinnaird Elemen- tary for parents who missed the Wednesday meeting because of a concert held at the school on the same Anda film designed for children, was shown in the elementary schools in Castlegar and Ootischenia this week. Phillips noted that interested people from the Pass Creek, Ootischenia and continued on poge A2 He also declined to disclose the purchase price of the sale, which was completed last month. The Christina Lake mill is competing for the timber rights with the Salmo Workers Employmemt -Society and Atco Lumber of Fruitvale. The old timber quota attached to LP's Salmo mill has been in like to negotiate long term manage- ment contracts with the land owners. “In exchange for forest management services by’ SWES, private land owners would agree to future timber harvest on their land by SWES. “We will pay stumpage to the land owners based on management services d and market value at time of limbo since the company officially closed its Salmo operations last year. Since that time several requests have been made from existing mill owners to take over LP's annual cut allowance. To date all requests for reallocation of the quota have been denied. Frank Renshaw of the regional Ministry of Forest office in Nelson _ explained in an interview that the licence will be cancelled at the direction of the minister. “The licence and quota would revert to the contro] of the Forest Service,” he said. “It could become part of the small business enterprise at the minister's discretion,” he noted. But the Salmo Workers Society says it believes it has the key to unlock LP's frozen quota. That key is an offer to include private forest land with Crown land in a Tree Farm Licence tenure. “We are carrying on discussions with owners of large tracts of private pro- ductive forest land in the Salmo area,” said society spokesman Dave Lang. “Our talks are not aimed at outright purchase of the land, rather we would harvest,” Lang said. Lang also noted that another impor- tant part of the licence aplication will be a modern, high recovery mill planned near Salmo. “Our mill will be smaller and situated in a different location than the old Louisiana Pacific Plant,” he said. “We will construct a small mill — one that is designed to fit the existing resource. The mill will feature primary board re- covery rates of over 50 per cent of the log. The present LP facility recovered less than 80 per cent of the log.” The ‘society also plans to diversify the mill over a 10-year period to improve recovery rates and employ a larger number of people. Specialty products such as moulding, paneling and finger jointing are being considered as diversification for the mill. & Diversification of the processing facility will increase employment from an initial 20 to 25 people to 30 to 85 people in the plant, Lang says. “This is a one-shift basis,” Lang com- mented. “We are not considering two shifts at this point.”