CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 19, 1986

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School board slams war toys

By SIMON BIRCH
Staff Writer
The Castlegar market for Rambo dolls received a jolt
Monday.

Castlegar school board passed a lution urging

reputation for promoting peace, said, “I'm ei we
didn't come up with (the resolution) first.”

is known around the world for the people
who live here,” Pongracz said, referring to the peace-loving
Doukh “

society — including parents, children, schools, manufac-
turers and distributors — “to redireet the focus from toys,
games and clothes which are preoccupied with force and
violence to ones which promote peace, cooperation, positive
and constructive behavior.”

The resolution was originally drafted by the Campbell
River sehool board and has been sent to boards throughout
B.C. for adoption.

Trustee Rick Pongracz, citing the Castlegar area's

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The resolution is “the first step in something that this
community has had for several years,” he said, adding that
he is “in support of anything that would encourage peace and
bring about a more tolerable world.”

The resolution also calls for the board to forward its
decision to Premier Bill Bennett and to the leaders of B.C.'s
other political parties along with a request that the position
be adopted by the legislature.

In addition, the resolution calls for the board's position

to be to distriet

and to stores in the
clothes.

parents
Castlegar area that sell children’s toys and

an imposed dress code and che wanted war slething defined.
“You're getting into a real sticky issue if you're getting
into clothing without defining it,” Smecher warned the other

trustees.

She added that she thinks the resolution is a “fantastic

statement” but “falls apart” at the end.

“The way it's worded, I consider it a dictatorial

statement,” she said.

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Trustee George Anutooshkin said the board is merely
making its position known. ¢
“If there are any further recommendations as a result of

this motion, then we ean deal with them,” he said.

And trustee Gordon Turner said the resolution is

worthwhile if only to make parents more aware of what their

children are wearing.

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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1986

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HANGING AROUND. .

. West Kootenay Power and replacing 18 poles that have rotted or been damaged

Provisional

budget up

3 - cent

there aren't a lot of changes from last
year, this year's budget is up slightly.

The provisional budget is up
$221,484 from last year or about 3.1 per
cent for a total of $7,429,726, according
to city administrator David Gairns.

Gairns said salaries — up 2.7 per cent
in 1986 — and utilities account for a
significant part of the total budget.

The provisional budget sees no new
programs except $7,500 towards the
end of the year which has been set
aside for the city’s share of the transit
system.

General taxes are also up from
$2,136,380 in 1985's budget to
$2,221,835 in 1986 — an increase of
about four per cent for the city. But
taxpayers are looking at only a 3.7 per
cent increase in taxes. Point three per
cent of the tax revenue is due to new
assessments (new building and im
provements).

In the city’s expenditures, general
government services, which includes
council and administrative expenses, is
up $111,910 from 1985, the biggest
increase in the budget. Estimated ex.
penditures for 1986 are $629,844, com
pared to $517,934 in 1985.

The increases include funds for a re
tirement allowance for Ron Skillings,
who recently resigned as city clerk,
and $26,000 for an operations man

project. Gairns exp d that
the city is getting some outside help for
ming

Transportation i
cludes the city’s yards and shops, road
maintenance and public transit, is up
about $36,000 over last year. Total
allotted for this area in 1986 is
$936,191, compared to $900,140 in 1985.

a nigger necaert Health, which in-
cludes garbage and cemetery services,
is up $1,500 to $138, 750 from $137,250
in 1985.

Environment Development, which
includes planning and the Industrial
Commission, is down about $6,000 from
1985's total of $107,963. This year's
total is $101,969.

Recreational and Cultural Services,
which includes Kinnaird Hall, pools,
parks and the library, is up $9,500 from
last year’s total of $210,990 to $220,470
this year.

Fiscal services, which includes debt
servicing, transfers to reserves and
capital funds and transfer of taxes is up
$69,342 from last year. Fiscal services
last year were about $4,674,000 com-
pared to $4,743,342 in 1986.

The city also approved $377,850

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given an
extension

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar school board Monday
agreed to change the status of the dis
triet’s director of instruction from an
scting position to a three-year term
appointment and announced that cur
rent acting director Lach Farrell will
serve the three-year term effective
Aug. 1

In making the announcement, super:
intendent of schools Terry Wayling
said Farrell is a “fine educator” and is
very well-regarded in the commun
ity.”

Farrell said Tuesday his three year
appointment will create continuity in
the director's job and will allow some
longer-range planning

“In a sense, it will provide the
»pportunity for planning and projec
tion in conjunction with the board and
the superintendent,” he said. “It will
provide the opportunity to look two or
three years down the road.”

Farrell said he will continue working
on various district curriculums such as
learning assistance, science, math and
computer studies.

Giving Farrell permanent status will
continue to take the pressure off

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Light Co. worker Paul D'Andrea tosses a rope to the
ground while putting up power lines on new poles
along Columbia Avenue in south Castlegar. WKPL is

by snowplows and traffic accidents. The company ex
pects to complete the work by mid-February

CosttewsPhote by Semon Burch

College seeks building

By CasNews Staff

Selkirk College is seeking provincial
government approval to lease a larger
facility for its campus in Trail

The college took the first step in
getting a bigger facility Tuesday night
in Trail when the board agreed to
inelude the project in the college's
five-year plan and approved a request
for a lease.

The college is requesting approval
for a facility of 20,000 square feet to
replace the current facility of 14,000
square feet in the Trail Legion Building
on Victoria Street. Selkirk’s current
five-year lease expires June 30.

In its request, the college says the
Trail centre is exceeding its capacity as
indicated in recent Workers’ Compen
sation Board inspections. The WCB
report indicates that the number of oc-
cupants exceeds acceptable limits for
ventilation and that the lighting
standards were minimally acceptable.

The estimated cost for a 20,000
square-foot building is $200,000 a year

$120,000 more than the current lease
of $80,000 per year

The college has a number of options
in getting a larger facility if it meets
government approval. They include:

¢ leasing a new building which would
be built by someone in the private
sector;

@ leasing the old Trail Junior Sec
ondary School;

expanding the present building.

Leases are approved by order in
council

College principal Leo Perra explain
ed that the process of getting a larger
building may take a while. Getting it
into the college's five year plan is just
the first step.

The college has been operating a
campus in Trail since 1976 when it took
‘over operations of the Trail Business
College.

In November 1977 the operation
moved to the present Trail Legion
Building where it occupied the third
floor of the building and ran an Office

Administration program with two
instructors and 28 students.

In 1978 an Adult Basic Education
program began on campus.

In 1979 enrolment had expanded to
the point where the college took over
the second floor of the building. In 1980
the college took over the back of the
first floor and by 1981 the college had
completely taken over the building

The campus boasts an enrolment of
300 day and evening students.

The Trail campus offers office-ori
ented courses, as well as courses in
Adult Basic Education, English as a
Second Language and Transitional
Training for the Handicapped. The
campus is also the home of the Selkirk
College Management Centre, which
offers seminars to businesses and cor
porations teaching managing skills to
super visors.

Meanwhile. other projects contained
in the revised five year plan include a

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THEY'RE THIRD: Stonley
Humphries Senior Rocket
tes basketball team led by
high scoring — Leigh
Halisheff is third in the
province in the A category
according to the latest
rankings... BT

MURDER-SUICIDE: A trust fund has been set up for two Nelson
children following a murder-suicide over the weekend in the Queen
City... A2

SOUR NOTE: You're out of luck if you play a tuba, but OK if you play
a piccolo under the Castlegar school board’s new busing restric-
tions... A2

TEST-TUBE TRIPLETS: SEATTLE The first test-tube triplets in the
Pacific Northwest have been born at University Hospital, officials
said

The two boys and a girl were delivered Tuesday night to
Alice and Bob Millard of nearly Port Orchard. The 33-year-old
mother and newborns were in good condition after the Coescrean
section delivery, said hospitol spokesman Wendy Lippmann

The babies are Lynette Marie, who weighed four pounds
eight ounces; Steven Robert, tive pounds, 13 ounces. and Gregory
John, tive pounds, four ounces

The Millards have been unable to conceive conventionally
because of “a multiplicity of intertility factors,” doctors said

Mrs. Millard had been in hospital since late December when
she begon experiencing premature tabor ond doctors used drugs to
prevent on early delivery, Lippmann soid

NEW BOOKS: Librarian Judy Wearmouth reviews the latest batch of
books ot the Castlegar and District Library 83