it all in Russian,” she added.

is “pretty good,” says kindergarten
student _who “sometimes talks Russian to my
friends.”

Another pupil, Peter, adds that speaking Russian is
“fun,” and he would like to continue in Grade 1.

Can he speak any Russian?

“Kuska,” says Peter..“It means cat.”

Although the children get regular practice at their
kindergarten sessions, Alimkulov says it helps if Russian
is occasionally spoken at home.

The local Parents for Russian group, headed by Vera
Woykin, have been pushing for a Grade 1 class that would
be taught in Russian half the time, so that the children
could continue to learn the language.

Woykin says the Castlegar school board has assured
the parent's group that the Russian immersion plan will
continue next year, despite a $300,000 cut in funding this
year from the provincial government.

“I feel really sad that these children.have gone so far
and may have to just drop it . . . and now have the oppor-
tunity to contjnue the study of the peters janet

Woykin has a five-year-old child in the Russian
immersion class, and is impressed with the results.

Although she says about half the tine a Doukhobor
dialect form of Russian is spoken in her home, Woykin
prefers the purer form of coi Russian taught
by Alimkulov, who studied the language for four years in
Moscow.

“Lisa's learned a better form of Russian,” said
Woykin. “The quality is better at school than at home.”

row
J gy es aati 3) aah ge
(pronounces cant h

actually increases children’s understanding of how
languages work.
“T feel it helps children in di another

Years until the program

Russian in Grades 4 to rere ata primary schoo! ir
Woykin said

dergarten class came in 1981,

‘Association had a conference on 1

‘education, which took place in Castlegar.

“[mmiersion was one of the things diseussed,” Baid
Woykin. A group of parents banded together, and began
to make presentations and hold a eet ‘with the sehool
board, ur; them to begin program.

Sisetms ta Woykin, over 30 per cent of the people
living in the Castlegar area are of Russian descent.

_Woykin says for her and other parents of Doukho-
b ian descent, the Russian immersion kindergar-

language from my own experience with my own chidren,”
she added.

sown
has been extensive. After studying
College, and receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Slavonic

ten is an integral part of keeping their eulture alive.
‘Alimkulov also says the program is needed.
“I don't think it’s a frill, In this community, these

children should have had this opportunity a long time
ago.”

Volunteers may be
limited in hospitals

By CasNews Staff

Peter McAllister, presi
dent of the Health Labor Re
lations Association of B.C.,

~ says health care trustees and
managers are concerned that
unions are trying to limit or
eliminate the traditional use
of volunteers in the health
care system.

“A curtailment of our abil:
ity to utilize volunteers
would ultimately affect many
of our patients, their families
and the civic-minded volun
teers themselves,” McAllis-
ter said in a press release.

“One of our major unions,
the 23,000 member Hospital
Employees’ Union, is chal-
lenging our right to continue
to use volunteers,” he said in
the release.

McAllister said there have
been two such challenges by
HEU, the most recent in-
volving the use of volunteers
by* the Arthritis Society's
B&. division.

He defended the volun-
teers, saying their duties
have not been changed due to
financial constraints.

“The Society is not using

Argatoff passes away

Fred W. Argatoff, 57, of
Castlegar died April 3. Mr.
Argatoff was born Feb. 3,
1927 at Brilliant, and lived
there until 1971, when he
came to Castlegar.

His hobbies were repairing

volunteers to displace HEU
members,” he said.

But both hospital and HEU
spokesmen in the West Koot-
enay say there really hasn't
been any problem with be-
tween unions and volunteers.

Ken Talarico, administra-
tor for Castlegar and District
Hospital, said Tuesday there
haven't been any problems.

And Ken Strange, HEU's
Kootenay representative,
said he too isn’t aware of any
problems.

Strange said HEU does not
oppose volunteers such as
the hospital auxiliary and
candy stripers.

Gaye Sr.

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
The father of singer Marvin
Gaye pleaded not guilty
today to murdering his son
and was ordered td undergo a
psychiatric examination after
his lawyer said there was
“good reason to question his
mental competence.”

Municipal Court Judge Mi-

of Castlegar; and. four sis
ters: Vera Philipoff of Castle-
gar, Mary Danshin of Cal
gary, Gertie Lebedoff of
Crescent Valley, and Elsie
Nevakshonoff. He is also sur-
vived by several nieces and

“We don't have a problem
with those people.”

He said HEU has taken “a
couple” of other cases to ar-
bitration, including an in-
stance in Quesnel where the
administrator and adminis-
trative staff were doing
things like pruning trees and
cutting the grass — jobs
usually performed by HEU
members.

He said HEU won the ar-
bitration case.

But there haven't been any
such problems in the East or
West Kootenay, said
Strange.

charged

chael Tynan set bail at
$100,000 for Marvin Gaye
Sr., 70, who said nothing
during the brief arraignment
that” was’ suspended until
later this month.

Defence lawyer Philip
Schrieber had asked the
court to order the mental ex:
amination.

apa ees
of kwh

at 10 a.m. Friday with burial
in the Brilliant Cemetery.
Funeral arrangements un-
der the direction of the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel.

watches, radios, and tele
visions.

Mr. Argatoff is survived
by his mother, Mary Argatoff

No taxes for weapons

By CHERYL CALDERBANK
Staff Writer

Conscientious objection has been
recognized for over 200 years and
should be extended to the tax field,
says the coordinator of Conscience
Canada Inc.

Edith Adamson, who spoke at the
Brilliant Cultural Centre Tuesday
night, as part of a cross-Canada tour,
says her group is trying to put freedom
of conscience guaranteed in the Cana-
dian Constitution into practice. And
she says that includes not paying taxes
for war.

“Our taxes are going to make these
deadly weapons,” she said in an inter.
view.

“If there were a war, there wouldn't
be any time for objection. We have to
exercise our conscience to prevent
war.”

Adamson said the freedom should
give Canadians the right to have their
taxes set aside for peace, not war.

She said if the proposal is passed by
the House of Commons, the Peace Tax
Fund Committee would like to see the
money spent on things like peace
groups to educate the public.

“We can find other ways of solving
problems than in going to war, she
said.

Adamson noted that there are 23
countries which do not have armies and
which manage to live peacefully.

She said Canada spends approxi.
mately $12 billion a year on arms ser
vices. contributes to NATO,
gives subsidies to Canadian manufac.
turers to make arms to sell to other
countries, and subsides purchasers, 20

nephews.

Funeral services will start
7 p.m. Thursday at Castlegar
Funeral Chapel, and continue

Castlegar.

EDITH ADAMSON

per cent of whom are Third World
countries.

The military budget amounts to $500
per person per year, Adamson says.

By comparison arms spending in the
U.S. amounts to over $200 billion.

With the peace tax fund
the committee is hoping a fund will be
set up where Canadians will be able to
designate money for peace on their
income tax form.

The amount is presently~12.2 per
cent — the amount of taxes spent on
defense.

But Adamson admits actual estab-
lishment of a fund “is a long way down
the line.”

“It's up to the legislators,” she said.
“We want to convinee them . . . if they
really meant what was said in the
(Charter of Rights).”

Should friends desire, con-
tributions may be made to
the Easter Seal Society, c/o
Castlegar Selkirk Lions Club,

Campaign drive

battles

The Castlegar Unit of the
Canadian Cancer Society this
week kicked off its 1984 cam-
paign drive.

Campaign chairman Joan
Martini says the local unit's
goal is $9,000. Last year the
unit raised $9,966.

The goal of the B.C. and
Yukon Division for this year
is $2.5 million. The 1983 fig-
ure raised by the B.C. and
Yukon Division w
$2,312,478, which wi
$288,000 short of the 1983
goal of $1.6 million.

Money donated to the
Canadian Cancer Society
funds ongoing research into
the causes, treatment and
prevention of cancer,
through the National Cancer
Institute of Canada, the re-
search arm of the society.

Last year, B.C. research
projects received $2.5 million
through NCIC.

‘The money raised by the
Terry Fox Marathon of Hope
goes into research and almost

cancer

three-quarters of. that money
has now been allocated to
some 90 research projects
across Canada.

Money raised also funds
education for all ages for
early detection and early
treatment and cancer pre.
vention; financial and emo-
tional assistance to cancer
patients and their families,
such as accommodation in
cancer society lodges during
treatment.

Last year almost 1,400 B.C.
and Yukon residents used the
lodges. The money also funds
transportation to treatment
centres.

About $192,500 was spent
in this area in B.C. last year.

Money received also funds
provision of prostheses, oxy-
gen and equipment for out-
patients, wigs, as well as
emotional support for cancer
patients and their families,
ike the and lary.
ngertdeg proaches andl

cansurmount.

Police file

Castlegar police investi-
gated four break-ins which
oceurred Monday night.

Sam's Automotive Petro
Canada on Columbia Ave.
was broken into by thieves
who smashed the rear win-
dow. About $18 in change
was stolen.

SPRING FUN . . . Donna

7 A tokes‘od

of recent warm
spell, passing time at Kinnaird Park ain daughter Amy, and Carl Perlestrom.

The downtown Castlegar

Chevron was broken

Sanew rho change was taken.

“The constitution guarantees rights
and freedoms, but it costs over
$200,000,” she added to take a test case
all the way to the Supreme Court of
Canada.

people can afford
rich can afford it.”

She said. the ‘government. should
provide somegother mechanism for
guaranteeing freedoms.

To get their point across to the gov-
ernment, the committee has been
writing to officials, including Members
of Parliament, in addition to interview-
ing MPs and challening them.

The group is also looking to the next
election by asking candidates about the
issue.

“We are tackling one of the basic
causes of war, which is greed,” she
said.

The peace tax fund concept began
two years ago when the committee
began suggesting taxpayers send a
portion of their income tax to the peace
tax fund to be used for peace, not war.

Revenue Canada returned the
cheques to the 60 people.

Last year, the committee set up a
trast account in Victoria. More than
200 taxpayers put money into a trust
account to be held until the govern-
ment sets up such a fund.

But Revenue Canada treats the ac-
counts as though they are overdue tax
delinquents, Adamson said.

She noted that last fall there were
three peace trustors before a tax court
last fall. Their defence was the freedom
of conscience guaranteed in the Char-
ter of Rights.

“The federal judge told them they
were just words,” Adamson said.

into
when the front door was
pried open. Twelve dollars in

Also broken into were The
Book Shop at 1014-4th St.,
and the LeRoy optometrist
office next door.

Police say nothing appears
to be missing from those two
locations. “

Also under investigation is
a weekend break-in at Alves
Store.

A “quantity of cigarettes
were stolen,” according to
police.

Police attended 38 com-
plaints complaints over the

SLOCAN PLAN

continued from front page
ment as a complement to the Valhalla
Park,” Fitchett said.

And though the Valhalla Park is not
the issue “the park and its influence on
the (plan) is too extensive to be
ignored.”

Fitchett said concerns about mining,
exploration and forestry have not been
addressed other than in terms of
“visual management.”

“I do not dispute that some of the
contents of the plan have some merit,
but these are merely duplications of al-
ready existing government policy and
guidelines,” he said.

He added most of the areas covered
in the plan are already handed ade-
quately by the provincial government.

Fitehett charged that the plan “is a
document of economic statistics slanted
towards an unrealistic objective of a
tourist-oriented economy to the severe
detriment of logging and mining.”

He called the “vague but overbear-
ing to visual
alarming and restrictive to mining,
logging and private landowners.

The board also heard from Monte
Lloyd, president of the Chamber of
Mines of Eastern B.C.

Lloyd also said the plan is not nego-

mining industry have not been con-

sidered.” a

He said the plan's effect will deter
from

the valley. He also said statistics used
in the plan are “suspect” and charged
that the regional planners are biased.

Sliverton Ald. John Anderson, one of
the four valley regional directors,
pointed out that all the valley directors
make their living from either mining or
forestry and would be foolish to
restrict either industry.

And called for “
not confrontation” and noted that the
plan is still only in a d¢aft form and can
be revised.

He called for the opponents to the
plan to discuss changes with the re-
gional directors.

“Don't stop the planning process.
Help us to make a plan we all want.”

Slocan village Mayor Dave Barclay
and Corky Evang, the director for the
rural Sleoan Valley, echoed Anderson's
call for co-operation and negotiation.

However, Lloyd and Fitchett refused
an offer to negotiate. Fitchett said he
couldn't discuss changes to the plan
until he was sure residents want a plan
in the first place,

Lloyd said the chamber of mines
won't negotiate because it doesn't feel
it will receive a fair hearing.

“Tean't possibly throw away one-half
milliondollars of work unless you're
interested in good faith in sitting down

have wanted the plan because all four
regional directors support the plan and

ting in

valley voted them into office.

Kk , and two drivers
were suspended.

Castlegar police also say a
small boat has been turned
in. Anyone missing a boat is
asked to contact RCMP.

Former
mayor ¢«

passes
away

Former mayor of Slocan
Agda Louise Winje died
April 2, aged 66.

She is survived by husband
Albert W. Winje of Slocan.

Funeral services will be
held on Friday from 2 p.m. at
the Silvery. Slocah Social
Centre, with Mr. Doug Swan-
son ting.

Interment to follow in the
Slocan Cemetery.

Funeral arrangements un-
der the direction of Thomp-
son Funeral Service ‘Ltd.

For the
record

ore iv: J
AFGHAN WINNER . Mary Lebedoft of Thrums
(right), winner of Cas gar Libarary’s afghan raf-
fle, admires prize made (a Florence Laycock (left).

Street talk

DR, JIM DRAPER has moved his dental practice to
the former Block Brothers building in the Castleaird
Plaza. Draper's office made the move this weekend from
his 615 Columbia Ave. location where he had his practice
for over 10 years.

CASTLEGAR could be home to a recycling depot.
Mickey Pazurik of Kokanee Recycling wants to establish
a recycling depot here, in addition to depots in Nelson and
Trail. The three would serve the whole of the West Koot-
enay.

Pazurik already has depots in Trail and Nelson, as
well as in Cranbrook.

He wants to have the Trail depot specialize in
handling plasties, tin cans and glass, with the Castlegar
depot handling only car bodies, white goods and other
metals.

Newspapers and old corrugated cardboard would be
processed at the third depot in Nelson. we

Pazurik says each of the three depots would accept
most recyclable materials and his company would look
after distribution and processing.

He has asked the Central Kootenay Regional Dis-

The draw was made at library's Open House held
Saturday at Castlegar branch.

trict’s co-operation in promoting and advertising the
recycling concept and depot. He's also asked to inves-
tigate the ibility of a i-metal
recycling depot at the Ootischenia dump.

ALL THOSE army trucks you've seen travelling the
streets of Castlegar are here for work at Zuckerberg
Island Park. They are part of the 44th Engineering
Squadron of Trail, which is constructing the suspension
bridge to the island park.

‘And, as photographs in recent issues of the Castlegar
News have pointed out, the squadron is busy. But there's
more to the Zuckerberg project than meets the eye.

Landscape Clive Justice has advised heritage
advisory committee chairman John Charters that his firm
may be prepared to sponsor a student advisor for the
summer.

“Anything we can get for free we'll take,”
Charters.

THERE'S SO MUCH going on at Zuckerberg Island
Park, it's sometimes difficult to keep track of everything.
There's the army, landscape architect Justice, the Rotary
Club (which is applying for a $16,000-$18,000 federal
grant and which is putting up $4,000 itself), Katimavik
crews, and the student historical restoration project.

As well, architect Bill Blaine is preparing drawings
for restoration of the island houses. Whew!

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Recreation news

three people

CALGARY (@6P) — In
backgrammon, two's
company and three's a crowd.
That is unless Ken Cooper is
one of the three.

Cooper, a grocery store
meat manager, was frustrat-
ed by the fact backgammon is
a game for two. Four years
ago he cliced up an old
broomstick for counters,
knocked together a board out
of plywood and invented
Trigammon, a game for
three.

The game now seems to be
on the verge of taking off,
with a Spokane, Wash.,
branch of the J.C. Penney
department store taking a
flyer with 1,800 boards.

“If it's a success in our
store between now and Fa-
ther's Day, it will be made
available to most Penney
stores in time for Christmas,”
said Earl Clegg, merchan-
dizing manager.

“It sounds like it’s more in-
teresting than backgammon
and if it would even come
close to the success of back-
gammon, it's going to be a
success down here.”

The huge United States
market could be a windfall
for Cooper and Trigammon
Games, the company set up
to market the game.

“If it’s really a bust, it will

sell 10,000 games,” said Paul
Mirosnikov, Trigammon's
vice-president for marketing.
“We feel 2.5 million games by.
1985 is a very conservative
figure.”
Cooper sold the rights to
the game for a small amount,
but retains a royalty on each
board sold.

Wizard's
Palate
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1003-2nd S*.

Spring is here and with it
‘comes a host of new pro-
grams and activities. The
1984 Spring Recreation pro-
gram brochures are in the
process of being printed and
will be distributed to the
elementary schools and local
grocery stores the week of
April 23. Programs will com
mence in May, so keep your.
eyes open for our calendar of
events. There is sure to be
some activity that will keep
you hopping.

Fitness Classes
If you are interested in fit
ness classes it is still not too
late to register for the in
progress session. Our co-ed

aerobics is taking place Mon-
day /Wednesday/Friday from
5 - 6 p.m. at Kinnaird
Elementary. This is the per-
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can get your exercise before
you get home. Register now
it will be a class you won't
want to miss.

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The upcoming weekend is

a big one in Castlegar. The
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There will be “hands-on” ac-
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a big multicultural fair. Some
of the hands-on experiences
include painting, basketwea-

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dance, and kitchen science.
There is something for the
whole family so plan to at-
tend. Registration fee is $15/
family and is payable at Con-
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College.
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May is the month of roller-
skating season and the open-
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rollerskates and facility or
the Bob Brandson Pool can do
so by giving us a call. We
have group rates so plan a
pool party or a rollerskating
get together as your year-
end wrap-up.

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