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NEWS REPORTER
Castlegar

RCMP and Stanley Humphries Secondary are set-

ting out to create what they see as anew and exciting program.
In an attempt to get back to community-based policing, the
RCMP will be taking their operation into the school. —
The plan is to have police come into Stanley Humphries to do
their paper work instead of doing it at the detachment. School
officials and RCMP hope the program will help students feel

more comfortable around

police.

“We hope to break down the (police) stereotypes with not just
students, but adults also,” principal David Hogg said.

While police and the school are excited about the program,
they are also preparing for a barrage of questions from the com-

munity.

Both principal David Hogg and Cpl. Al Hudema deny that
the program is related to reports of increasing violence at the

school.

“I'm certainly not putting police in the building so kids can
(tattle) on other kids,” Hogg said. ;

However, Hudema said, “we can’t stick our heads in the sand
and say violence isn’t a concern to us.

“If we can stop one incidence of violence we have accom-

plished something.”

The program will have police in the school on a drop-in basis.
The saan will still have constables Marvin Toma and Larry

Oster as police liaisons.

Police BEAT

A man described as 5 feet

Ltd. Feb. 4.

The suspect smashed the
store’s front glass doors and
entered, but ran off after hear-
ing an employee wor: ing in
the back room. Nothing was
stolen.

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RCMP arrested a
man at the Celgar
. 4 in connection
with the of a a
dian Imperial Bank of Com-
window.

leased until official charges
are laid — will be appearing in
Castlegar provincial court
Feb. 17.
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Castlegar’s John McCrea
was attempting to make a left
turn off Minto Road onto
Highway 22 Feb. 5 when he
was struck by a southbound
vehicle driven by Nicholas
Bouderoff, also of Castlegar.
Total damage is estimated
at $4,000 and there were no
injuries.
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Warren Katelnikoff of
Castlegar was charged with
failing to yield Feb. 5 after he
allegedly hit a southbound ve-
hicle on 4th Avenue driven by
Castlegar’s Monte Ferraro.

Some $2,800 damage was
incurred and there were no in-

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™ Wednesday, February 10 , 1993

ithe News

' Scott David Harrison

Neil Rachynski
NEWS REPORTERS

What began on Aug. 7, 1947 has come
to an end — the Castlegar News is no
more.

Trinity (N.A.) Holdings Inc. announced
Monday that it was shutting down the
Castlegar News. Amid financial losses,
Trinity also announced the closure of its
Whistler Citizen and Squamish Times
operations.

The reaction from long term
|| contributors to The News ranged from a
|| lack of surprise to dismay.
| John Charters, who has written for the
| newspaper since 1952, expressed his
|| regret on the closure.
|| “I am distressed,” Charters said. “I am
| totally disgusted in the manner this was
| done. There was a lack of concern for

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8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed on
weekends and
statutory holidays.

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| individuals.”
Charters said he will miss the sense of
community and communion with his
| fellow citizens.
: “I'll miss the contact with the
| community because that’s essentially
what it has been — a family affair. And
| family affairs in business are becoming
| extinct,” he said.
i “My main fond memory is the reaction
| almost every day of that period with my
|| readers,” Charters said. “Even in the
1] beginning when I was using a
| pseudonym.”
(| Charters began writing for The News
|| using the name E.G.O., Latin for J, with
1 a column entitled “Just Looking, Thank
1 You.”
Former editor and current columnist
1) Ron Norman said the end was inevitable.
| “The paper didn’t really do anything
'] innovative to generate revenue,” Norman
| said.
“I think the paper made some
mistakes. I don’t think they should have
| changed to a tabloid,” Norman said.
| “(The Castlegar News) gave its old
| broadsheet format to the new paper and
| suddenly they looked like the established
|| paper.” .
4 Norman said reaction to the closure
‘| announcement has been considerable
{| around Castlegar.
4 “People are shocked,” Norman said.
| “The people I’ve talked to around the
| community are shocked.”
: Norman said he felt there was a
| consensus throughout the community
{that The News was Castlegar’s pre-
| eminent newspaper.
Burt Campbell agreed.
The former publisher and editor of The

Trinity
| seeks

NEWS STAFF

session will be followed by a two-day seminar
aimed at answering the workers concerns
and assisting them in resume writing and job
search strategies.

Castlegar News employees may be without
a job, but they are not without hope.

Parent company Trinity Holdings (N.A.)
Inc. has hired Peat, Marwick, Stevenson and
Kellogg to help counsel laid off employees
with the transition they now face.

Counselor David Petitpierre held a two-

hour session with employees Tuesday to help
0 ease them cope with the loss of their jobs. The
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FiOS ows

News said his affection for the paper his

father L.V. (Les) first started in the
pesscennt of the Castle Theatre never
died.

“It’s a terribly sad day,” Campbell said,
who started his long-affiliation with The
News as a paper carrier.

“On Fridays, it’s been my practice to
walk the same area that I had a paper
route on as a young boy and try to
remember all the people. I can still
remember most of them.”

Campbell remembered the dedication
his father put towards the Castlegar
News during the early years.

“The hours my dad put into that
business were substantial,” he said. “At
the time we were also a commercial
printer, which was tough enough by
itself. ‘

“I remember my dad was trying to quit
smoking at the time and with all the
work and pressure, he handed me 50

ut and get me some"}
cigarettes.’ He put a lot of work into the
business.”

So, too, did Burt Campbell.

“I guess the one thing that really
sticks out in my mind as a fond memory
is putting out two papers a week,” he
said. “Even though it was extremely
expensive, we were able to bring out a
true Sunday paper. We made sure people
had the chance to read things that
happened on Friday night and even
Saturday. That was very rewarding.”

Campbell — who acted as the
publisher emeritus — sold his interest in
The News to Trinity in 1990. He now
operates his own consulting firm in
Castlegar.

Campbell praised The News staff for
working to the bitter end by producing
the last edition of the paper.

“That’s the true newspaper tradition,”
he said. “It’s a class act.”

Identical programs are also under way
with the 25 employees at the Squamish Times
and Whistler Citizen, which were also closed
by Trinity Monday. In all, 37 full-time
employees were laid off with the three
closures.

Trinity has also extended the pay period
for all workers to Feb. 19 and will provide
appropriate severance packages. In the case
of short-serving editorial workers, Trinity
has given an above-average severance pay. In |
addition, Trinity has extended health care :
and dental plans for all workers to April 30
and will provide financial advice.

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