by .} re a2 Castlégar News September 4, 1988 Postal strike vote leaves union split OTTAWA (CP) — The post office's 5,800 striking technical and clerical workers are divided on whether to accept tentative agreements negotiated on their behalf, union leaders announced Saturday. Twelve hundred of 1,400 striking technicians have rejected by a margin of 61.5 per cent a tentative agreement that would have sent them back to work after 11 days on the picket lines. However, 200 supervisory technicians, covered by a separate contract, voted by a razar-thin 51.4 per cent majority to return to work. Another agreement covering 4,400 white collar postal workers was accepted by a margin of 67.8 per cent to a contract negotiated on their behalf. The vote was announced by Daryl Bean, president of thre 180,000-member Public Service Alliance of Canada. The technicians and clerical workers are members of the Union of Postal. Communications Employees, a component of the alliance. Stephen White, president of the postal component, said the first trickle of workers would begin returning to work later today and everyone voting to return would be back at work by Tuesday, the day after the Labor Day holiday. Clerical workers run Canada Post business offices — looking after customers, soliciting new business and processing pay cheques for Canada Post's 60,000 employees. Supervisorytechnicians oversee the work done by postal technicians, who maintain automated mail sorting equipment, fix computers and look after the agency's large national fleet of mail trucks. Bean said employees returning to the job would be forced to cross the picket lines of members still on strike but none of those going back would-be doing so with any enthusiasm. White said the 1,200 technicians remaining off the job would still have the clout to snarl the national mail system. CAN SNARL MAIL He denied repeated assertions by Canada Post that the strike has had littlé effect on the flow or volume of mail nationally. Sorting machines have broken down repeatedly and huge volumes of unsorted mail are backlogged, particularly in major centres, White said. He told a news conference the refusal of Canada Post to reduce the work week of the technicians to 37‘ hours from 40 hours was a major factor in their vote to remain on strike. Canada Post was warned the technicians would not accept a contract that did not put them on a par with other workers at the post office, who already have a 37'% hour work week, White said. He also announced that negotiators will present Canada Post with two new demands not made previously — imp s in shift premiums and vacation pay. These demands will be based on contract gains made by the Canadian Union of P. 1 Workers in its latest round of bargaining with the post office, he added. It was not clear when the two sides would go back to the bargaining table. Nail rates on rise OTTAWA (CP) — Canada Post has announced several more postal rate increases effective Jan. 1, the same day a previously announced round of rate increases take effect. The new increases affect parcels, unaddressed advertising mail and COD charges. The previous package, announced in May, ineludes one-cent increase to 38 cents in the price of a domestic first-class stamp. The parcel rates; which vary by region and distance mailed, will go up by about five per cent — if the cabinet endorses the increases Typical proposed parcel increases include: - An increase to $3.60 from $3.45 for mailing a half{kilogram first-class parcel from Montreal to Quebec City — $2.35 from $2.25 in the case of fourth class. - An increase to $4.50 from $4.29 for mailing a first-class half-kilogram parcel from Toronto to Winnipeg — $2.75 from $2.64 for fourth class. - An increase to $9.50 from $9. 07 for a five-kilogram first-class parcel mailed from Halifax to St. John’s, Nfld. — $4.25 instead of $4.04 in the case of fourth class. - An increase to $14.95 from $14.24 for a fjve-kilogram first-class parcel mailed from Edmonton to Toronto — $5.45 instead of $5.24 in the case of fourth class. ‘ The proposed new COD charge is $2.10 — up from $2.05. Beside the one-cent increase in the domestic first-class letter rate, the previous increases include: A one-cent bump to 44 cents in the rate for first-class letters to the United States and a two-cent in- crease to 76 cents in the first-class rate for overseas mail. A 15-cent jump to $1 in the cost of money orders valued up to $200 Cdn, and increases ranging from 8.7 per cent to 12.9 per cent in the cost of small money orders in other cur. rencies. - And, a 20-cent jump to $2.25 in the weekly charge for holding mail at the post office. When the package was announced also contained a 10-cent penalty for failing to put a postal code on first-class letters. The measure was killed by Canada Post after it made headlines across the country. BCGEU members vote for strike BURNABY, B.C. (CP) — Provin- cial government employees have voted 85 per cent in favor of striking to back demands for wage increases and job security, union leader John Shields said Friday. “Our members have shown that they stand firmly behind their bar- gaining committee,” said Shields. “We will be returning to the bar- gaining table next Wednesday and with this strong mandate I am hopeful the union will be able to negotiate a decent settlement.” But Shields said despite the strike vote he is committed to negotiating a settlement without a strike by 30,000 members of the British Columbia Government Employees Union who work in government offices, liquor stores and motor vehicle branches. “Whether the province will be thrown into a confrontation is entirely up to Premier (Bill) Vander Zalm,” he said. The key issues are wages and protection for workers whose jobs may be lost or workplaces sold under the Social Credit government's pri- vatization program. The union has asked for a wage increase of nearly 17 per cent in a one-year contract. The provincial government has offered a three-year deal with increase of four, four and five per cent. Man dies in bus accident ANCHORAGE (AP-CP) — A tour bus plunged about 70 metres from a muddy Alaskan highway into. a ravine in a remote area near the Canadian border, killing a Vancouver man and injuring at least 23 people including eight Canadians, officials said Saturday. The bus carrying 41 passengers and a driver left the Taylor Highway 37 kilometres south of Eagle and 177 kilometres east of Fairbanks on Fri. day after encountering a fuel truck while descending a hill, state trooper spokesman Bill Farber said in An chorage. Walter Meyerhoff, 55, of Vancou ver, died in the accident, said Dave Bean, spokesman for Gray Line Alaska. Meyerhoff's wife Penny was in hospital in stable condition, Bean said in a telephone interview. A Canadian identified only as G. Bevins, whose home town was not immediately available, was listed in serious condition, Bean said. Also in hospjtal but in satisfactory condition were Eleanor King and J. King, both of Vancouver, and Hans Benary and Lotte Benary, of Wattle Valiey, Alta., Bean said. Another Vancouver couple, ident- ified only as Mr. and Mrs. Konishi, were treated and released from hos- pital, Bean said. The driver, David Kasser, 24, of Anchorage, suffered superficial in. juries and shock, Bean said. The injured were all taken to a hospital in Fairbanks, Alaska, he said. The accident near Alaska's border with the Yukon likely occurred just before troopers in Anchorage learn- ed of the crash at 3 p.m. local time, Farber said. A physician and assistants from Tok, 290 kilometres southeast of Fairbanks, were flown to the acci- dent scene, Farber said. Eight heli- copters provided by the- military, state troopers and company were dispatched to pick up the injured. PILOTS continued from front page lot of sitting around, but the pilots do keep them- selves occupied, whether it's playing volleyball or pursuing their own hobbies. The base becomes their home away from home. The base is also equipped with kitchen facilities so the pilots can prepare meals there. The pilots also have various alert statuses throughout the season. Green days are days off, which rarely happen unless most of the province is wet or in a low hazard. A blue alert means the wheels of the aircraft have to be rolling in one hour. On a yellow alert the wheels must be rolling in half an hour. This means the pilots must be within 15 minutes of the airport. They must be on the base during a red alert so the aircraft can be ready to roll in five minutes. Horton says the pilots are generally on red alert during the hottest part of the summer. Besides the four pilots, there are other people tied to the tanker group, which is operated by Abbotsford-based Conair. There are two engineers who maintain and ensure that all aircraft are fit to fly. There are normally three dispatchers on duty and three loaders, commonly known as goopers, who mix the retardant and load it into the aircraft. It's a seven-day-a-week operation for the pilots during the fire season. Although they don’t fly at night, not uncommon to be called in at 6 a.m. if a fire is spotted. Normally, the season runs from June 15 to Aug. 31, but Perchie adds that because of the nature of the weather, the season can be extended. Currently, as the fire hazard remains at extreme, the season has been extended into Sept ember. The tanker base actually receives less calls when the rating is extreme than in a moderate situation. The reason for this, Perchie says is that people are more cautious of fires during an extreme hazard. When the fire season ends, the Conair aircraft are flown back to Abbotsford. The pilots are released from the company for the winter. The engineers go back to the hangers and go through a winter maintenance program, getting the planes ready for another season. % rs PICKET LINE . . . Four members of the Hotel, Restaurant, Culinary Workers and Bartenders ke Union have been picketing the Monte Carlo Motor Abietkoff, Helen Kinakin and Mabel Postnikoff. ConrR ACT 2 és Vue Rs QOL Dy 0, ; AGhiInsT = Union) \ oF September 4, 1988 Zi: ra rs. (From Inn to protest the hotel's use of non-union wor- left) Vera Pudmoreft;—Verna CasNews Photo Union pickets hotel By CasNews Staff Union members who were laid off by the Monte Carlo Motor Inn eight months ago have set up a picket line in front of the hotel to protest the recent hiring of non-union labor to do their jobs. The four former chamber maids — members of Local 40 of the Hotel, Restaurant, Culinary Workers and Bartenders Union — were laid off Dec. 31 when the hotel closed rooms and rented other rooms on a weekly and monthly basis without maid service. Mabel Postnikoff, one of the four union members manning the picket line, said the members are trying to get their jobs back, now that the hotel has contracted out for the jobs they used to do. “We would like to get the girls they're jobs back,” she told the Castlegar News. “Everybody has to eat, everybody has to work.” The four union members — Post- nikoff, Vera Pudmoreff, Verna Abietkoff and Helen Kinakin — stationed themselves in the driveway of the hotel. Abietkoff, the shop steward, said the hotel's move to hire non-union labor is a violation of their contract, even though the union contract expired in September last year. “Even though the contract expired it’s still binding,” she—told the Castlegar News as passing cars honked in support of the picketers. “What they're doing is illegal.” Jean Walker, the hotel manager, deferred all comments to the hotel owners — John and Nick Kosnikoff. They were unavailable for comment at press time. On Aug. 22, the union members discovered the hotel was contracting- out their former positions. Postnikoff said the ynion members approached the hotel owners to discuss the issue but the owners answered by saying they were going to use non-union bor. “We're going to try it that way (contracting out) and that was it,” Postnikoff said of the owners’ re- sponse to the union's questions. Postnikoff added the group is pre- pared to picket indefinitely to prove a point. “If this is the way we have to do it, we're going to sit here a while.” Unmanned rocket doesn’t orbit satellite properly CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The most powerful unmanned rocket in the United States failed to lift a secret military satellite into the proper orbit, effectively rendering it useless, a source close to the space program said. Engineers were trying to deter- mine whether they could salvage the satellite launched atop a 16-storey Titan 34D rocket Friday morning, the source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said late Friday night. However, the source was not hopeful anything could be done to place it in the correct orbit. A civilian expert has said the booster carried a satellite that could eavesdrop on Soviet military and diplomatic communications. A successful launch would have been the third in a row for the Titan 34D, which was grounded for 18 months after two explosions. Lt.-Col. Ron Rand, director of public affairs at the Eastern Space and Missile Centre in Cape Canav- eral, said the air force had a policy of not commenting on the results of military space launches. . In Washington, Fra spokes- man Maj. William OsConnell said he knew of no problem with the launch. lhe three-stage Titan 34D roared away from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral at 8:05 a.m. EDT Friday. STAGE IGNITES The, booster’s third stage ignited correctly, putting the satellite in a highly elliptical orbit ranging from 160 kilometres to 35,887 kilometres above the Earth, the source said. But the rocket failed to re-ignite, which would have put the payload in a geosynchronous, or stationery, orbit 35,935 kilometres over the Equator, said the source. A military reéonnaissance satellite would be useless unless it was in a geosynchronous orbit. The air force, following its practice of recent years, did not announce the launch in advance, but issued a statement afterward. John Pike, a space policy expert for the Washington-based Federation of American Scientists, said last month the payload would be a sat- ellite designed to monitor Soviet missile tests and monitor radio, tele- phone, radar and other electronic military and diplomatic communica- tions. He said the satellite carried an antenna built to unfold to the size of a baseball field. The launch was the third for the Titan 34D, which will remain the country’s most powerful unmanned rocket until an upgraded version, the Titan 4, makes its launch debut later this year, also with a military sat- ellite. Both are made by Martin Marietta Corp. in Denver. Fish taken from . river for tests By CasNews Staff Federal environment officials were in Castlegar gathering fish froin the Columbia River recently in the hopes of getting more information on dioxin levels in the river near Celgar pulp mill. Dr. Kirk Dawson, director general of conservation and protection for the federal Ministry of Environment, said the fish samples taken from the river follow the samples of water and sediment taken earlier this year. “It's part of a regional program that’s an expansion of a hational program, Dawson told the Castlegar News. Dawson said he isn’t sure how many fish were taken from the river but said there were enough caught “to provide a representative exam- ple” of dioxin levels in fish around the pulp mill. The mill officials are “generally aware” of the national dioxin sample Program going on Dawsen said, adding that the project is done in consultation with all pulp mills involved in the study. Celgar general manager Wilf Sweeney said he know of the study but indicated he was unsure of the dates the ministry set for sampling the river at Celgar. “I knew that they were going to do something but I didn’t know when,” Sweeney told the Castlegar News. “The industry is involved in a total testing program to ensure that dioxin levels near pulp mills are at acceptable levels.” The samples will be studied at a water quality testing laboratory in Burlington, Ont., and results are expected by the spring of next year. Dioxin is a name given to a family of chemical compounds formed — in Celgar’s case — by the combustion process used to make bleached kraft pulp. Very little is known about how dioxin affects the food chain, and Dawson said samples taken from “pulp mills across the country will provide the Environment Ministry with more information on the topic. Briefly Parole application VANCOUVER (CP) — A new application for day parole for Julie Belmas will be heard Sept. 20, Michael Redding, executive director of the Parole Board of British Columbia, has confirmed. The hearing is to determine whether the former Squamish Five member is suitable for release to a private half-way house approved by correctional authorities — a first step prior to being granted full parole, Redding said. Belmas is serving a 15-year sentence at Twin Maples Correctional Centre in Mission for her part in bombings and a robbery conspiracy. She was granted day parole in May 1987, but had it revoked in November 1987, after being convicted of shoplifting $5.41 in food from a supermarket. Crash kills soldiers HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A train carrying soldiers rammed into a stationary freight car in southern Zimbabwe, killing eight soldiers, a newspaper said today. The crash happened late Thursday near Rutenga, about 440 kilometres south of Harare, the Herald reported. The soldiers were travelling from Chicualacuala in neighboring Mozambique. No cause was given for the crash. Zimbabwe troops guard railway installations in Mozambique against attacks from right-wing rebels fighting to topple the government in Maputo. Airline criticized BEIJING (AP) — China's leading newspaper said today that poor service on the state-run airline brings shame to the country and its ongoing reforms. The criticism by the People's Daily of the Civil Aviation Admin- istration of China came three days after a CAAC jetliner skidded off the runway at Hong Kong's airport and crashed into the harbor, killing six crew members and one passenger. It was CAAC’s second fatal accident this year. In January, a CAAC jet crashed near the southwestern city of Chungking, killing all 108 people aboard. The newspaper did not mention the accidents, concentrating on the deep-rooted problems in service. Parking rates jump GREENFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Motorists in this western Mas- sachusetts town are faced with a whopping 400 per cent increase in parking meter costs — from a penny to a nickel. Officials this week converted 425 penny parking meters to require a nickel for the privilege of parking for half an hour. The penny meters generated more than $8,000 US annually in revenue, said department of public works Supt. John Bean. Revenues now are expected to top $40,000 a year. The conversion of the penny meters was first suggested by the town’s planning committee as a way to increase the turnover of parking space, Bean said. The penny parking meters were believed to be among the last in western Massachusetts. Agreement signed SEOUL (Reuter) — China and South Korea signed an agreement today to exchange trade offices by the end of the year, opening the way for possible direct trade talks, South Korean officials said. “The agreement is an important stepping stone for direct trade between the two coantries,” said an official of the state-run Korea Trade Promotion Corp. The Chinese would set up their office in Seoul and the South Koreans would open an office in one of two cities in the eastern province of Shandong to be decided later, they said. A 14-member Chinese delegation, in Seoul since Aug. 25, also agreed to work on opening a direct trade route across the Yellow Sea between South Korea's western port of Inchon and the Chinese port of Qingdao. Grenade delivered FERNDOWN, England (AP) — An elderly woman delivered a First World War hand-grenade to police under Britain's month-long amnesty program designed to collect illegal firearms. “Can I turn this in, please?” the 84-year-old woman asked officers Friday as she removed the grenade from her shopping bag at the Dorset police station in Ferndown, 188 kilometres southwest of London. Police did not identify the woman but quoted her as saying the grenade, which still was intact with explosives and the artivator pin, had been on the mantelpiece in her home for years. The officers did not say how or when she had acquired the deadly device. Other weapons turned in since the amnesty program began Thursday included a submachine-gun and a crossbow. Cancer spreads SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — Christine Jorgensen, the ex-war veteran whose sex change operation nearly four decades ago led to a career as a nightclub entertainer and writer, is battling spreading cancer. She started a new round of chemotherapy treatments at Mission Hospital Regional Medical Centre in Mission Viejo on Friday in an effort to stave off the cancer that has spread from her bladder to her lungs. Jorgensen, 62, made world headlines 37 years ago when she went to Copenhagen as George Jorgensen Jr. and returned as Christine Jorgensen. 5 killed in slide KATMANDU (AP)— A landslide caused by torrential rains SUCCESSFUL CLINIC ... . Castlegar residents doriate blood at clinic held Thursday. The Canadian Red Cross Society surpassed its goal of Campaign kickoff Sept. 17 The United Way in Castlegar is firing up its yearly campaign to raise funds for the area's human care agencies and will be asking com. munity members for their support. Your gift supports services for families, seniors, the disabled, youth, and a broad range of ity and 300 units of blood, taking in 306 units. A total of 368 people showed up at the clinic, but 62 were rejected for various reasons. CasNews Photo by Brendan Nagle, Walesa successful WARSAW (Reuter) — Poland's worst strike wave in seven years ended Saturday as Solidarity leader Lech Walesa “urged Communist authorities and the opposition to accept compromise for the sake of Poland's future. bi Two hundred strikers at the Manifest Lipcowy mine in southern Poland ended their sit-in and marched out soon after dawn under banners of the banned trade union, singing patriotic songs and chanting “Long Live Solidarity.” Strikers at the port and main bus depot in the northwestern city of Szczecin also ended their sit-ins, health services. United Way volun- teers look carefully at each’ agency's budget, making sure your money works hard for you — helping people. There are lots of good reasons to support United Way. Those reasons are as thoughtful as the careful distribution of funds and the low costs of a federated fund-raising appeal — and as simple as the smile on the face of a child who has been helped by a United Way agency. Several activities are planned for September and include Kick-Off Day scheduled for Saturday, September 17th from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the downtown Super Valu parking lot. Planned events include a pancake breakfast, barbecue, bingo, garage sale, displays and a book sale. If you would like to donate materials for the garage sale, @please contact the United Way office at 365-7331 A door to door canvassing fund raising drive will occur during the week of September 19th to 26th and will involve many trained community volunteers looking for your support for United Way. You may contribute by payroll deduction, donations in local businesses in specially marked containers, or contributions to can. vassers. The Canadian Red Cross Society is one of the groups which benefits from United Way funding The Castlegar branch depends’ on United Way support and offers numerous services including blood transfusion service, water safety and pupil training, and burned-out family service — which assists those who have been forced from their homes because of fire. As well, the Red Cross loans out médical equipment, offers education courses and funding, multi-cultural creations programs and a senior visitors service. killed five people in a Nepal village 460 kilometres west of Katmandu, the national news agency RSS reported. The report said the landslide occurred Thursday. At least 30 other people have died this week in landslides caused by monsoon rains. Death toll climbs BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — The death toll from a bus accident west of Sarajevo increased to 32 after rescue workers pulled the body of a woman from a lake, the Yugoslav news agency Yanjug said. The state-run news agency said 10 children were among the dead. The bus plunged 50 meters into the water Wednesday when the driver swervéd to.avoid a pile of bricks that had tumbled into the road from the back of a truck. Lottery numbers TORONTO(CP) — The $1,000,000 winner number in Friday's Provincial lottery draw is 3145138. There are also subsidiary prizes. KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — The winning numbers drawn Friday in The Pick lottery were 2, 9, 11, 18, 26, 32, 35 and 51 In the event of a discrepancy between these numbers and the official winning numbers list, the latter shall prevail. g Pp and Solidarity sources said The strikers were the last to hold out in a 20-day wave of unrest that began Aug. 15 to back demands for a lifting of the government ban on Solidarity and for wage hikes to compensate for inflation. Walesa issued a back-to-work plea Wednesday after Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszezak promised to consider re-legalizing Solidarity. Walesa's success in ending the stoppage was qualified by clear evidence that some radical workers felt he had shown too much faith in the authorities by agreeing to negotiate with them over the possibility of re-legalizing Solidarity. Striking Silesian coal miners swore at Walesa and argued bitterly with him for hours Friday before agreeing to end their protest, pitmen said. Retorning from the mine to his home in the northern port of Gdansk, Walesa said Poland urgently needed political compromise to overcome its economic crisis and. introduce what he called genuine democracy and pluralism. “This time we must succeed in achieving compromise, because talks at the table mean compromise,” Walesa said, referring to negotiations which he and other non-Communist public figures will have with authorities later this month. in ending protest “My activities have been aimed at minimizing the strikes, with a view to minimizing the economic losses, but they have also been aimed at pushing Poland to reform and agreement,” he told reporters at St. Brigid’s rectory in Gdansk. Walesa had dashed across the country since Wednesday in an effort to show the authorities that he could control restless workers. The 44-year-old Nobel Peace laureate had put his reputation at stake by appealing for an end to the strikes after the Communist authorities opened contracts with him f®r the first time in more than six years. WALESA VvPPOSED Andrzej Szezesniak, a striker at Manifest Lip- cowy, said Walesa had a rough time persuading the miners to end their sit-in. Szezesniak said arguments raged for eight hours after Walesa drove 700 kilometres from Gdansk to meet the miners. “There were some very sharp moments and a sharp exchange, and even swearing at first, when Walesa asked them to end their strike,” Szczesniak said. He said the men had given Walesa an ovation when he arrived, but according to a Solidarity source some of them accused him of betraying them with his back-to-work appeal. Not until the evening did the men talk with the management, which guaranteed them job security from persecution if they returned to work. Warsaw radio said bus depot strikers in Szez- ecin had accepted an offer of job security from the en.crprise’s director and also won some economic demands. Strikers at Szezécin port agreed to suspend their stoppage, but without accepting all manage ment proposals, the official news agency PAP said. Judge finds Toronto * man guilty of assault He had alleged she fabricated a TORONTO (CP) — A sensational Tourist alert VANCOUVER (CP) — RCMP tourist alert for Saturday, Sept. 3. trial that heard tales of sex, greed and violence ended Friday when a judge decided a Toronto business. man assaulted his Soviet wife and son nine days after they arrived in Canada. One year after Kirby Inwood suc ceeded in a much-publicized cam paign to get his wife and son out of the Soviet Union, he was found guilty of assault causing bodily harm against Tanya Sidorova and of common assault against two-year-old son Misha Provincial court Judge Gordon Hachborn delayed sentencing until Sept. 8, when he'll hear pre-sentence submissions from Crown prosecutor Sarah Welch. The judge said he believed Sid orova “was exaggerating” when she testified she was punched, kicked, choked and thrown barely conscious from their Toronto home last Sep- tember, but he also concluded In: wood “was fabricating his evidence. “I came to believe that the more I heard him testify. I don’t have to decide what occurred that night, but I am much more inclined to believe Tanya Sidorova than the accused.” Inwood, 44, showed no emotion when the verdict was announced. He had maintained throughout the 18- day trial that Sidorova was a money worshipping “Russian yuppie” who lured him into marriage to get out of the Soviet Union. story of assault as a way to end their marriage. Sidorova, 32, had painted a picture of Inwood as an abusive, violent ma who threatened to kill her and Misha. Afterwards, she told reporters that “I'm happy the judge believed me, but I'm worried for other women who are being abused and raped.” Inwood refused to comment Edward Greenspan, Inwood's law. yer, told Hachborn that his client shouldn't be sentenced to a jail term because he has been “publicly humiliated and utterly devastated” by the media attention the trial attracted. He said Inwood has been unable to find work since the charges were laid and his advertising firm is on the brink of bankruptcy, adding that Inwood now is living on welfare. He urged Hachborn to sentence Inwood to “a lenghthy probation period” and order him to perform community work. But Welch said she'll call for a jail term for Inwood when she makes her submissions to Hachborn next week. For a first offence, assault causing bodily harm carries a sentence of up to 10 years in jail. But a sentence of more than six months is rare. A conviction for common assault often carries only a probation order. Inwood and Sidorova met in Len ingrad in 1986. They married soon after Christmas 1986 and Misha was born in September 1987. The following people are asked to contact the person listed for an urgent message. Calvin Radomske of Kindersley, Sask., call William Radomske. Bert and Joan Warmerdam of Smithers, B.C., call David Warm- erdam. Allen Richardson of New West- minster, B.C. call Georgina Mason. Christine Davis of Surrey, B.C., call home. John Leverington of Surrey, B.C., call home. Births & Funerals BIRTHS CORNER — To lan and Cathy Corner of Nelson, a girl, born Aug. 28. COUCH — To Herb and Kathy Couch of Nelson, o girl, born August 27 LOEWEN — To Jett and ingrid Loewen, a boy, born Aug. 27. PLANEDIN: To David Planedin and Irene Mock of Nelson,.a boy, born: Aug 28 SPRING — To Kerry and Debra Spring of Montreal, a girl, born July 25. UNDERWOOD — To Wayne and Heather Underwood of Trail, a boy, born Aug. 19. DEATHS FREY — Tilly Frey of Westlock died July 25, after a lengthy illness.