~ FIRE AFTERMATH . . . Poss Creek volunteer firemen and forestry worker water down area where brush fire started near Brilliant Bridge Monday night. Fire officials say brushfire was caused by bird on line which, when ae pecking insects, shes Se i, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST },/1984 3 Sections (A, B & C) itself on a powerline, torched itself and fell to ground the ground starting the'fire. No damages resulted from the fire. Cashews Photo by Chery! Colderbank Astronaut to vi One of Canada's first Space Shuttle astronauts will visit the West Kootenays. Soon to blast off as a payload specialist is Iceland-born aerodynamics scietist Byarni Tryggvason, who will visit the area Aug. 15 and 16. New Democratic Party MP Lyle Kristiansen, who said he has been working half a year to arrange such a visit, invites community groups to be in toueh with him to organize public events at which the astronaut can tell of Canada’s peaceful role in the Space Shuttle program. “I hope sponsors will come for ward quickly who want to arrange events at which the Canadian astro naut can speak,” Kristiansen said from his constituency office. .“Seouting groups, school teachers or others might want to have him address their gatherings. Otherwise, I will make arrangements for a public presentation in several communities and individuals will be welcome to attend,” he said. The Kootenay West MP said he first tried to have an astronaut visit for the West Kootenay Trade Fair in Castlegar in April, but that flight training prevented the visit. He then aimed for Nelson's annual technology exposition in September, but earlier than-expected Shuttle flights inter fered. August 15-16 were the first free dates. “This is not one of the things you're expected to do as an MP,” Kristiansen said. “It's something that comes to mind as a nice extra you usually get in the big cities. I thought we should have a chance to meet these Canadian astronauts too, so I started co-ordinating with the National Re search Council. I'm glad it worked out.” Tryggvason is one of six Can adians selected from 4,300 applications SEXUAL HARASSMENT sit late last year to traitf*for Qanada's direct participation in the U.S. Space Shuttle program, which already uses the Canadian-built manipualtor amr, known as the Canadarm. The Canadarm made history rec ently with the first-ever salvage of a lost-in-space satellite, which it plucked from the sky for repair and relaunch. Tryggvason is an aerodynamics researcher with a degree in applied science specializing in engineering physics from UBC. His most recent work studied the effect of wind forces on the ill-fated Ocean Ranger off-shore drilling platform, The first of Canada’s astronauts are scheduled for orbit this fall to study motion sickness, a computerized guid ance system for the Canadarm and to take measurements of solar radiation in the atmoshpere. The Shuttle and its Canadarm will be used in the pending construction of an 18 billion space station. MP ordered to OTTAWA (CP) — A human rights tribunal has ruled that Liberal MP Al MacBain sexually harassed a former employee, Kristina Potapezyk, and has ordered him to pay her $1,500 in compensation. In a decision released today, the tribunal also ordered the 58-year-old MacBain, recently nominated to seek re-election in the Niagara Falls, Ont. constituency he has peld since 1980, to refrain from further discriminatory ac tions. Potapezyk, 29, who began working for MacBain in March 1982, said she was fired in April 1968 because she rejected his sexual advances. She later told the Canadian Human Rights Com mission he had humiliated and intim idated her by leering, standing need lessiy close and making sexual in nuendos. The decision by the human rights tribunal concurs with an earlier ruling by the commission. MacBain, a lawyer and former city the women for sex-related purposes, not because he thought she had the ability to be his special assistant. After Potapezyk moved to Ottawa to assume the $19,300-a-year post, Cor- nish said MacBain adopted a “Jekyll and Hyde approach,” being alternately abusive and attentive. He neglected to train her for the job, refused to give her.responsible work, insulted her and said others were critical of her work, Cornish said, sug: gesting MacBain was trying to impair her ability to function and thereby make her to his 4 across the country have had to endure without redress,” the tribunal says. “It is a type of conduct by an employer who regards his female staff as sex ornaments or objects and feels at liberty to treat them as such by the area Se in tn tenn ry Nani BYARNI TRYGGVASON shuttle astronaut pay In awarding Potapezyk compensa tion, the tribunal noted that MacBain, who had served as parliamentary sec retary to former justice minister Mark MacGuigan, gave her two weeks salary when he fired her and later gave macy” by MacBain did not place Pot apezyk, a fine arte graduate from the University of Windsor, in disad. vantageous position with respect to tangible job benefits but it was an “un However, the three-person tribunal said evidence was insufficient to sug- gest MacBain had such a master plan for Potapezyk and attributed his “erratic behavior” to a lack of admin- istrative skills in dealing with the three female employees in his Ottawa office. The three tribunal members were lawyers Sidney Lederman, Wendy Robson and Peter Comming The case against MacBain differs from other sexual harassment cases in that it does not have the same hall marks of overt sexual advances and pr ‘the tribunal sai@ in its 65-page decision. But, “it i= Giustrative of the kind of more subtle, yet persistent sexual dis that 2 i of women put up with in the work setting.” it says. “Simply making the work envir her an 1 10 weeks’ salary to settle a wrongful dismissa) claim MacBain offered the second payment in June 1983 before he was told that Popapezyk had already found a new job and had complained about him to the human rights commission. The tribunal said there is no question MacBain subjected his female em ployees to an “uncomfortable and hum iliating environment” by forcing phy sical closeness in a persistent fashion beyond what was necessary for him to relate to them in a professional way However, it said it was troubled by the fact the women, all of whom are i i i and asser tive, endured the physica! closeness with fort and did not complain directly to MacBain Although it is not necessary that women object to their employer before should have known that his physical advances were and ex aaiemeediaidiniiaaa Turner promises to open office VANCOUVER (CP) — Prime Minis ter Turner, vowing he will be the coun try's first western leader in many years, promised Tuesday to open a permanent office of the prime minister here Turner, winning the Liberal nomin ation in Vancouver-Quadra by acclam ation before 800 supporters, also an nounced he has proposed a biennial summit of leaders of major Pacific Rim nations to discuss trade and interna tional politics. “I believe now we must cement in the Pacifie the same type of alliances and friendships this country has trad- itionally held on the Atlantic so that we are veritably a Pacific nation.” Earlier in the day, campaigning in the central interior city of Prince George, Turner rejected suggestions that his appointment of Senator Keith Davey as a co-chairman of the Liberal campaign committee was a sign the campaign is faltering. “I think any campaign should get all the good experience it ean. We're doing very well.” Davey was closely associated with former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, whom Turner has tried to distance himself from since assuming the Lib- eral leadership last month. Details on the significance of his promise to set up a western office of the prime minister were scanty. “Oh gee, I don't know,” press sec- retary Dennis Baxter said initially when asked whether the office would be staffed by secretaries or senior aides. Turner admitted later “I haven't really worked that out.” But, his hands gripping the shoul- ders of an inquiring reporter, he added “it will be an office in which I will be situated (and there) will be some top staff.” He did not know how many people might work there but “I don't think it will be much larger than an ordinary minister's office.” He also asserted he will be the first western prime minister in many years. He evidently forgot Joe Clark's nine month term in 1979-80. Asked if he might set up a similar office in Atlantic Canada, he thought a moment and replied that it is possible. Baxter, after checking, added that the real power of the office — known as the Prime Minister's Office in Ottawa will remain in the capital “It (the western office) won't be a western White House or anything like. that.” MEETS IN LOT The nomination meeting was held in the parking lot of Sir Charles Tupper School, named after the man who has the dubious distinetion of having the shortest term as prime minister — two months and eight days in 1896 — in the country's history But if Turner, himself in office only —inside ENUMERATOR’S EXPERIENCES: Local enumerators Cherry! Greep and Betty Middleton have had some interesting experien ces in their job of helping to compile @ voters’ list for the federal election a4 Olympics, see 8) berries, apples, sweets The animals stood a six-day run. one month so far, was aware of the distinction he didn't mention it. Turner was applauded frequently during his acceptance address but was bothered briefly by a heckler as he told the audience he is often asked why Canada has so many problems when it has such potential. “The reason we haven't succeeded is because we've had a Liberal govern ment since 1968,” a woman shouted from the size of the stage. Turner replied that she was entitled to her opinion but hoped she would change her mind after listening to his commitment to change. Two or three demonstrators stood to the side of the crowd carrying signs saying “Unemployment Canada's No. 1 industry” and “Union wage is the fair wage” but did not disrupt the meeting, which was clearly a success for Turner. The prime minister then went to his campaign headquarters, where hun dreds of supporters filled the side walks. Besieged by wellwishers and auto- graph hunters, Turner circulated through the packed office and then stood in the back of a white pickup truck with his wife Geills to thank everyone for coming and promising a new role for the West after the Sept. 4 election. By CasNews Staff A ban on open fires has been ex tended to provincial parks in the West Kootenays. West Kootenay provincial parks dis trict manager G.C. Rathbone an nounced on Tuesday that a ban is nec essary because of the “extreme” fire hazard in the area. The action means that no open fires are allowed anywhere in the area. The ban will affect the following provineial parks in the greater Castle- gar area: Syringa Creek, Champion Lakes, Nancy Greene Lakes and Rec- reation area, Stagieap provincial park. The ban will remain in effect until further notice. Parks officials are permitting camp- ers to use barbeques with briquettes or camp stoves. APARTMENT FIRE: A fire at a vacated aportment caused $8,000 in damage Monday night. Story and photo a2 OLYMPICS 84: Canada won a bronze medal in swimming Tuesday to bring its total medal count to seven medals. For story and more on CIRCUS LUNCH: Twenty-one thick-skinned lodies were invited to lunch, given pink roses and tailor-made pink bibs and attended by tuxedo-clad woiters as they chomped on a delectable orray of . and hay The hay. wos included on the menu becouse the diners were elephants from the Ringling Brothers and Bornum and Boiley Circus. before bonquet tables, decorated with pink tablecloths, huge pink bows and pink ploce cards, in the porking lot ot Portland's Memorial Coliseum on Tuesday The feast marked the arrival of the circus at Portland, Ore. for The menu, catered by the Portland Hilton hotel featured en oppetizer of Northwest berries, followed by o rack of hay with ap- ples. A lettuce plate wos served along with o sugor cane dessert