are pleased to announce that Michael Kew Has joined them in the practice of Law at Castlegar, B.C. ANNOUNCEMENT The management of Century 21, Mountainview Agencies are pleased to e the addi of PETER W. BLACKWELL to their sales staff. Peter, a professional accountant, has been a top producing salesperson in Castlegar over the past two years, gaining many friends and satistied customers. He and his wife Sherry and their two children, Scott and Lisa, are well known to the people of Castlegar. They are active in the Castlegar Lions Club and the Grace Presbyterian Church. Peter looks forward to his new and continued service of the real estate needs of the Castlegar area. He would like to thank the many people who have trusted and dealt with him in the past two years and invite them to Century 21, Moun- tainview Agencies. Feel free to call him anytime. 365-2111 (Days) or 365-3507 (Evenings) NEW FENCE . sculpture wa: A fence for the wooden stump woman ecently built by honorary Rotarian Gordon Hill and Frank Lidstone. From Left: Carl Hen- ne, Lidstone, John Charters, Hill, and Florian (Fritz) Reinhardt. Costtews Photo by Doris Sweeney GRAD REQUIREMENTS Education changes too sudden PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — make its recommendations The provincial government is trying to move too quickly to change school graduation re- quirements, said briefs pre- sented to two meetings held to discuss the government's proposals. Trends are beginning to show after only two meetings in the Prince George school district, said deputy edu- cation minister Jim Carter, one of four ministry repre- sentatives who will travel to 14 communities in the next two weeks to discuss the government's proposals. “We want a logical se- quence of development, with no surprises,” Carter said af- ter the meeting Tuesday, by the end of June. Many. of the briefs pre- sented at the first two meet- ings suggested that the gov- ernment’s planned implemen- tation date of September 1985 is too soon and that the proposal lacks a sound phil- osophy and a definite aim. The proposed changes would: implement three streams of education: arts and science, leading to uni- versity entrance; applied arts and science, a broader program intended to help students enter other levels of post-secondary education or the job market; and career preparation, where students get job-skills training. k the and science program as the from “drop-out stream” although the ministry says that with careful course selection even the later two streams could lead to university education. BOARD PROPOSALS Lois Boone, who made the Prince George school board's informal presentation to the meeting, suggested that the government should: establish a public com- mission to review the edu- cation system and make rec- ommendations for change or, at least, delay implemen- tation for a year, so a more thorough study can be made of the proposal's effects on education. © specify post-secondary Gram, MOUNTAINVIEW AGENCIES LTD. 676-18th St., Castlegar Phone 365-2111. e at i adding that. the group will here dubbed the, applied arts COMING TO TOWN! “WEST COAST AMUSEMENTS" You will enjoy... e Rides e Games © Food & Drinks 6 Rides for $3.50 WEST COAST AMUSEMENTS Will be at the ARENA COMPLEX MON., MAY 7 & TUES., MAY 8 WEST COAST AMUSEMENTS opportunities and gr applied arts and science or career preparation pro- grams. provide enough money to implement any changes re- quired by the new policies. e establish a forestry course as a science require- ment in Grade 11. e retain physical education as a required course in Grade 11. Both meetings came up with the recommendation that the proposed fifth Grade 12 course be an elective rather than a_ specialty course, he said. People attending the meetings also suggested that native Indian and Punjabi languages be accepted as. q' » MOF y Men are second he said. arrested in union clash CHILLIWACK (CP) — Four men including one of the company's owners, Mar- tin Kerkhoff, were arrested Tuesday when two confron- tations took place between union and ion workers bridge girders from Vancou- ver to the site, refused to al- low the beams to be unloaded while the picket line was in place. Non-union workers and at the Gibson Road crossing on Highway 1, about five kil- ometres east of this Fraser Valley city. Charges of disturbing the peace by fighting are ex- pected to be laid, authorities said. Work on the overpass is being done by J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Construction, a non-union firm. About a half-dozen union construction men had set up an information picket line and Teamsters, who had hauled 50-tonne concrete DURO PUMPS & SOFTENERS DEEP WELL SUBMERSIBLES SHALLOW OR DEEP WELL JET PUMPS SUMP & SEWER PUMPS y were reported to have charged into the pic- ket line and there was a scuf- fle. About a dozen police broke it up, arresting hree men, including Kerkhoff. A number of picket signs were torn up in the clash and the second clash came when a union man returned with new signs. This resulted in the arrest of a non-union sympathizer. The Kerkhoff firm has been the centre of several their number with the island itself, Florian (Fritz) Reinhardt, the Castlegar Rotary Club's latest exchange student (he arrived here in January from Sao Paulo, Brazil and is pres- enting studying at Stanley Humphries Secondary School) was given a tour of the club's pet project since he and some 25 or more District 508 exchange students will be here on Saturday to tour points of interest in- Castle- The group, who rep the Girl Guides and to admire the new signs and picket fence around the Stump Woman. Both these latter items were designed and construc- ted by honorary Castlegar Rotarian Gordon Hill.and put in place by him and his friend, Frank Lidstone of Dawson Creek. The fence design is a modi- fication of an ancient Russian design in order to keep with the style of the house. Meantime, the club has ob- tained a federal Student a considerable number of na- tions, are the guests of Ro tary families in the East and West Kootenays, Grand Forks, Washington and Idaho. They are presently attending the Rotary Silver Conference hosted by the Trail club. The Castlegar tour host is Jim Gouk and he will be assisted by Reinhardt. During the brief visit to the island the group had the opportunity to visit the Rus- sian Chapel House, now undergoing stripping in prep- aration for restoration work under the direction of the Castlegar Heritage Advisory Committee and the City of Castlegar, and using a grant supplied for the purpose by The British Columbia Heri- tage Trust. Summer Pp grant which it will supplement with funds of its own in order to carry on the second phase of the grooming of the park. A third group of Kati- maviks have started work on clean-up on the island and the 44th Field Engineer Squad- ron has installed the one and five-eighth-inch steel stabi- lizer cables on the suspension bridge. The Castlegar Rotary Club is entering a display of the work done on the island in competition at the conference in Trail. It will be shown in the Cominco Arena foyer and owes most of its creative work to the efforts of Castle- gar Rotary Ann, Doris Sweeney. Sexual abuse is increasing VANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia govern- ment is cutting back on services to sexually abused children at a time when the number of abused children is increasing at an alarming rate, says the chairman of a federal advisory committee studying the problem. A report prepared for the United Way says that “a usual statement is that one in four girls and one in 10 or 11 boys will be sexually molested before the age of 18.” But Dr. Carol Herbert says that recent studies have put the incident among girls as high as one in three. Provincial government cuts in programs that used to lead the way in Canada are a tragedy, said Herbert, an assistant professor of family practice at the University of B.C. and head of the child sexual abuse project study advisory committee. The government recently dismantled the two Human Resources Ministry teams that monitored child abused and trained social workers, police, teachers and Crown counsel in how to identify and treat the problem. Elimination of the teams “has set back progress and goes against everything that has been learned here and in every centre in North America where the problem is addressed,” Herbert said in an interview Monday. Herbert said the report is excellent as a blueprint for uncovering and cOuntering child sexual abuse. HAS WEAKNESSES But she said its recommendations are “very bland indeed.” The call for an i d response to the problem and for “a commitment to more than mere contr in the p for its use of non-union workers. WE STOCK PRESSURE TANKS PVC PIPE FITTINGS ETC. ETC. ETC. Stocking Distributor. of existing services.” The description of deficiencies in legal procedures given in the report is accurate, Herbert said. Hearing ‘ branch is axed BURNABY (CP) — The B.C. Federation of Labor has condemned the Workers’ Compensation Board's deci- sion to disband its hearing branch. The federation said in a news release Tuesday that the branch was established after years of pressure and for the past several years has provided high-quality testing and analysis of hearing im- pairment. It said the branch also worked with industry and labor to increase awareness of noise dangers to workers. Federation president Art Kube said elimination of the hearing branch and the trans- fer of some of its functions to the Health Ministry will des- troy the quality services pro- vided in this area. He said that the Health Ministry has neither the highly-trained staff nor the specialized equipment to.pro- vide the needed services. VICTORIA (CP) — Heal. ‘the British Columbia return to the private sector. Heal said Tuesday he is leaving his $70,000-a-year job voluntarily, having stayed on a year longer than originally planned at the request of Premier Bill Bennett. He said that when hired in 1981 he agreed to stay on for two years, or until the next provincial general election, whichever came first. After the election a year ago, Heal said, he agreed to stay another year to make changes and improvements to government information services which Bennett want- Heal said his contract ex pires this month and he will leave in June. He refused to say if he was rejoining his old firm of Harris Heal Ltd. of Toronto, though it is under- stood Heal will be doing con- sultant work in Vancouver and Toronto. A firm of management consultants currently is seek- ing a replacement for Heal. Heal said the Government Information Services, which he set up in the ministry of the provincial secretary, will He said there was no con- given to splitting to ‘information divisions for each ministry. Heal has been the centre of controversy since he was hired by the previncial sec- retary’s ministry in 1961. He firet came under attack when it was disclosed that his firm was paid $600 a day to select a for his “During the past week I have carried out an intensive of the of zi Service,” Pattison told a news confetence Tuesday. “I have consulted with church leaders, women's organizations, industry representatives and the top 17 senior executives of the Jim Pattison Group in the Vancouver area. “IT have been troubled to learn that some of the publications handled by Mainland, which happen to "s total self-censors,” he said, “a role for which they are not Pattison called for a review board composed of gov- ernment officials and magazine wholesalers to sereen pub- lications. “I would urge the 10 magazine wholesalers in British Columbia to join together, with the co-operation of the provincial attorney general, if possible, to establish a review board with as much authority as possible to screen various publications in order to ensure that they comply with all current guidelines and meet acceptable Canadian com: munity standards.” He also called for a municipal bylaw ensuring that retailers display “men's sophisticated magazines” where they “are not readily available to minors.” Pattison said he will not become personally involved in implementing the review board or bylaw, but he will send a copy of his statement to the attorney general. “If it was not for Expo 86, I would attempt to bring the rep a very small propo of the ‘3 product line, are offensive. In examining some of these pub- lieations myself, I too have been offended.” Pattison said he-has undertaken a heavy hes, the women's groups, the wholesalers, the pub- CONTRACTS HAVE EXPIRED as chairman of Expo 86 and “I have come to the conclusion that my (position as a representative of British Columbia makes it difficult for me to continue to own.a wholesale predecessor, Dave Brown, and he got the job the next day. Heal was hired at $62,500 a year to implement his own recommendations. He also came under attack for attending a Social Credit policy convention to outline for delegates the govern. ment's information services programs. The opposition charged that he had violated the time-honored tradition of independence in the public service. Later he came under at- tack for hiring two Holly- wood film makers to spruce up the government's image. Heinrich says no to study VICTORIA (CP) — Edu- cation Minister Jack Heinrich has rejected a request by the B.C. School Trustees’ Asso- ciation for a royal commission into education. The minister said Tuesday that trustees have been ask- ing for such a commission every year for the last 10 or 15 years, and “I don't see any particular reason for it. “We've introduced exam inations, and we've got crews going around and examining curriculum for Grades 11 and 12 which are strongly sup- ported by the public.” Heinrich said all that hap- pens to royal commission re- ports is that after two years “they sit on the shelf and gather dust. “I want to do distributing pany. “In a public situation such as Expo 86, I cannot own a company that is in a controversial issue like this,” he said, “and in the interests of what I consider this province and our country, and the importance of Expo 86, this is a decision that I have had to make.” OTHERS GUILTY Other wholesalers in the province are equally guilty of distributing magazines that should not be sold in the province, Pattison said, “even though the material is cleared by the Prohibited Publications Section of Canada Customs.” But he laid the blame on government “because gov- ernments have failed to produce any clear or precise definition of obscenity. “Magazine wholesalers are forced to try to act as lishers and the government together to see if there is some oa Sp can legrenp toe Haniel oer own ee Mainland represents only one per cent of the total value of holdings of the Jim Pattison Group, he said. Meanwhile in Victoria on Tuesday, Attorney General Brian Smith refused a request from New Democratic Party critic Rosemary Brown that the government establish a review board to screen all material she classified as por- nographic. Smith said he did not want to set up “an enormous rabbit warren of censors to go around the province and investigate every magazine in the province.” Smith vaid he understands Pattison is proposing that the industry set up a self-policing body which would ree- ommend standards and deal with complaints. “I would like to see the initiative start with the industry,” said Smith who suggested Pattison is trying to give the industry “a signal to clean up their act.” No rollbacks say unions EDMONTON (CP) Trade unions in Alberta and Saskatchewan, their ranks already decimated by an ail ing construction industry, are trying to stave off wage on to what they have. rollbacks for those still work Sam Lee, vice-president of ing. the Alberta and Northwest Contractors in both prov inces want to roll back wages. If they can't get more money in new contracts, the unions want to at least hang workers are unemployed, de pending on their trade be a repeat of 1982's sum- mer-long strikes. John MacLeod, president of the South Saskatchewan Building and Construetion Trades Council, says unions have asked for a three-year contract with wage increases Lee predicts legal skir mishes over some of the con. tracts will lead to court chal. lenges and widespread pic keting. Contracts for the approx imately 40,000 unionized con struction workers in Alberta and 8,000 in Saskatchewan expired at midnight Monday night. Territories Building Trades Council, believes the already ailing Alberta construction industry will get sicker. Be- tween 40 and 60 per cent of the province’s unionized The mood is less militant in neighboring Saskatchewan, where an average of 65 per cent of unionized tradesmen are out of work. Union spokesmen say there won't of zero, six and six per cent. “There will be no slow- downs. Why would we want to strike? We're asking for nothing. But the employees may lock us out.” MOOTRAC — eve —— ANNUAL SPRING TIME SELL!:\BRATION! and the people want some- thing done, and I think we are.” The trustees voted over- whelmingly on the weekend for a royal commission to get trustees, parents, teachers and business involved in set- ting the future course of edu- cation in the province. Airline to give tickets and cash CALGARY (CP) — Pacific Western Airlines is offering two free tickets and cash compensation to each of the 114 passengers who were aboard a Boeing 737 aircraft destroyed by fire March 22 at Calgary International Air Airline spokesman Jack Lawless said Tuesday the tickets will be valid for travel anywhere in PWA's system within the next year. The average cost is about $800 for a return ticket from Calgary to one of the 50 des- tinations served by PWA, which include Vancouver, Vietoria, Seattle, Winnipeg and Toronto, Lawless said. ‘The airline has also agreed to compensate all 45 passen- Newsroom Circulation Retail Advertisin General Office & Talking to the —— Castlegar News Do you have a news story or feature you want to tell us about? Would you like to speak to someone about the delivery of your paper? Do you want to discuss a classified or display advertisement, or have you ever wondered whom to call regarding a billing or business matter? The following guide will put you in touch with the right department. Clip it and keep it by your phone for reference. Classified Advertisin: inting gers who submitted claims to PWA after the spectacular runway fire, he said. Most of the claims are for overcoats and briefcases des- troyed in the fire. 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