CASTLEGAR NEWS, March 29, 1981

Castlegar Savings Credit Union has good ye

+The ‘year. 980 was a good |
"year for tho. Castlegar Sav-
. Ings Credit Union, reports its
board of directors Wednes-
“day ‘evening’ at its ‘annual
meeting.

Through careful planning
and firm initiative, the
stitution was able to return
seven per cent dividend to its

’ shareholders on their mini

mum” quarterly ,share bak:
ances, an increase of one per.
cent over 1979.

In 1980, directors and atalf

* rosponded ° to * high >

“ prime
lending rates ‘and its $1.6

Members turted out In ‘number Wednesday to cttend the Castlegar Savings C
annual meeting.

Stons ee ae

Editor, Castl News:

In recent weeks it appears
that School District No. 9 is
eed bombarded with lack of

disciplinary measures. for
drug and alcohol abuses,
suitability of reading mater-
ials within our school library
system, and incompetency of
two Robson Elementary
school teachers.

Firstly, my comments are
directed to the parents of the
organized parents group in
Robson. Allegations bave

been made as to “they have’

been taught to talk back, to

be disrespectful, to not work”
and “it's a apr of dynamite
because parents have been
backed up against the wall.”

Let us remember that
charity begins in the home
and the saying “Monkey see,
monkey do.” If parents do not
educate their own offspring
about respect for self and

“Given insight into .

“eres

others and the principles of .

the Golden Rule, how can the
young possibly develop into
law-abiding and confident
citizens of tomorrow?

How many of you have
volunteered to assist the tea-
chers with special projects?

How many of you actually

“listen” to what your children ©

ath a good breakfast, happy
smile'and hearty Innch?

How many of your.ensure
that your child is in bed early
enough tobe able to cope
with the next day’s work and
not falling asleep by recess

ig because Mommy and
Daddy let them ae up to
watch a show or
movie until 11 p.m. Could this
be a reason for low grades
and lack of interest and con-
centration?

pees

new energy fuels

OTTAWA (CP) — Re-
searchers trying to find effi-
cient ways of converting
trees, pig manure,.corn cobs
and ‘sewage into. usable en-
ergy demonstrated some of
their results Tuesday.

|The researchers, taking
part in a twodsy bioenergy
seminsr organized’ by the
National Research Council of
Canada, showed ‘off now
ways of producing methane,
ethane and other fuels.
‘bara Summrs, seminar
n, said government
a industry were spending
only a-few thousand dollars
on such research in 1977, but
that has grown to $7 million.
this year.

Biseuergy is the process ‘of
releasing the energy from its
container, biomass. Biomass
ineludes plants, agriculture
residue such as straw, mar-
ine _, manure, sewage

These sugars make up of
40 per cent of crops such as
corn cobs and without d-xy-
lose hey: went to waste:
Maleszka

: They tal occurred by | ac-
cident. “We were trying to
find a yeast which could grow

on d-xylose and didn’t know |

it would ferment,” he said.
“The efficiency of conversion
is very high — 80 per cent.”

Ethanol, the product, “is

Mike Jovanovic of Can-
viron Consultants Ltd. in
Kitchener, Ont., . explained
‘the company’s testing of four
different ways of producing
methane from sewage.

Conventional sewage
treatment uses oxygen and

that produces nothing. But |

Canviron is testing processes
which cut off the oxygen —
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and that produces the meth-
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-' The six-year-old Forest
Engineering Research Insti-
tute of Canada in Pointe
Claire, Que., has developed a

? new harvester to pick up

: iy
and to chop it into‘segments
for conversion into energy.

tary-treasurer,
said the organization now is
building a prototype of the
Reeufor, which logging com-
panies could find profitable
and could be used by smail
towns near logging camps.

provincial gove ;
April 1, the human resources

ministry announced today.
Day care subsidies for eli-
gible families will rise by an
average 16 per. cent.
pinks: eligibility requirement
also bas been eased, with
allowable income levels ris-
ing an average 18.7 per cent.
‘The increases will benofit
the. families. of more than
10,000 children who current-
ly receive subsidized _ day

Do you . maintain high
standards of personal hy-.
glene for yours 8 and chi

ion you up with your chil-
dren each mornin;
too “hung over” from one too
many the night before?

pect towards each other and
especially in front of the chil-
dren? If not, disrespect de-
velops in the young child's

- Dosingle parents maintain -|

high standards of moral or is
there anew “Daddy” ‘or
“Mommy every week or
month. (Disrespect again).

Do your children have"
chores to do? This develops.

positive attitudes towards
work and responsibilities.
(Discipline). :

During my years: within |

the school systems of B.C., I
have seen children affected
adversely by the above “los-
ing” situations.

son, don't place the monkey
“on someone else's back! Take
a closer look at yourselves. I

feel the Board of School
Trustees, has made a wise
decision to reject your call for
replacing two school teach-

“"Becondly, there would be
‘no problems with drug and

alcohol abuse by our children’

if parents would guide them
from an early age.

» there is a lack of,
support by parents re: school
sparta nciteitien — volleyball,
basketball, track and field,
softball and soccer. Don't
send them, take thom!

So parents of School Dis.

trict NO. 9, who's to blame
for our disrespectful children
and juvenile delinquents —
the teachers or you?

E. Zayteoff

Gracg
‘“ereases: should help reduce
the problem where some

people who have qualified for -

the full subsidy have had to
pay extra to meet the actual
day care costs.

“They will also be of help
to those care givers, both in
family homes and in-group
centres who have kept-their
rates close to the subsidy
levels and have been hard-
pressed to meet their costs,”
she said.

NOTICE

for

JABITORIAL CONTRACT

‘Seated tenders for Janitorial Contractor at the
Castlegar Airport will be received by the airport
manager to 4 p.m. April 10, 1980.

Lowest bid may

not necessarily be accepted.

For further information, please contact

_ Mr. J.R. Michelson

ig and not,

Do both parents show res-"

‘Therefore, parents of ‘Rob.

million borrowing . position
with B.C. Central. Credit

- Union. They. took ‘the ith .

ative to stop granting mt

gage loans in the spring.. The
resteietiie was :not lifted:
until fall...

The restriction rorullod in
a reduction of borrowing
B.C. Central to the extent ot
eliminating its loan by year

vend. Another result: of tho

reatr. mn was the realiza-
tion: of. savings. in: interest
- paid to B,C, Central of about:
$120,000. when com:

with he 1979 level.”

Also in the past year,
Castlegar’ Savings; in co-
operation with B.C, Central,

made optium use of the new
‘Housing ‘Initiative Program
announced by the provincial
government. in’ early. Janu-
ary, being to,
atimulate housing construc.”
tion in B.C. _

--Of the total $200 ‘million
i credit ..unfons

GIFT OF APPRECIATION was presented

Norman New, left, by ‘Castlegar Savings
tea

Credit Union president Rus:

tors aft

eamy. most rec

Legislative fire

confined

VICTORIA (CP) — A fire
early Friday morning in a
tunnel under the B.C. legis-
lature. building destroyed
some of the governments
public accounts vouchers,

The ‘fire, - apparently
caused by an electrical short,
was confined to a vault in the
tunnel connecting the
legislgtive building and the
government-occupied Doug-
las Building across the street.

- eJournal vouchers (ex-
account records) and
ot t check vouchers and that

to vault

some 4,000 have been lost,”
he said, “That has been re-
vised downward to as many
as 4,200 have been damaged,
but that in some case they
may only be ed.”

Curtis said the govern-
ment processes about 77,000
journals each month and
while “to lose any is dis-
tressing, I think this-could
have been very much worse.”

Curtis also said that any
journals that are destroyed
won't be entirely loss.

“It may be time consuming
and complicated, but there
appears to be back-up mat-
erial.”. . -

The minister said he has

‘ ordered’a report on the inci-

dent, including the excact
amount of damage.

ving for many years and
ly as s vice-president.

No —Dews Hebert Phetes,

» IRENE’S
Beauty Salon

Ploymor Junction Subdivision
will

Re-Open

| HIGHWAYSA

Sit9 TT y
through this program, the
amount initially allocated to

atlogar Savings. was
$576,000. 1
allocation proved insufficient
to moet local needs, the
credit union received an in-
creased $1.8 million, through
> discussions with B.C. Cen-

al. ‘This reallocation en-

abled Castlegar Savings to.

finance 25 new housing units
in the he. Castlognt/Alocan Val.
ley

Soperionced ‘a four per.cent

in assets, passing the ‘i

edges

‘m 2 1880, Castlegar Savings :

ai

‘award scholar.
ships to graduating students
at both high school sand col.

$21 millon mark in total as- | :

sets. >

Also, because of high Inter-
est rates pafd on. deposit’
accounts, the dollar return to
members increased to $1.6

million from. $1.2 million. in |

1979, a gain of $0 per cent.
Membership growth also
continued as 1,055 new .ac-.
counts were opened in 1980.
1980 also ‘saw an increase

in reserve requirements to & |-IN

per cent from 2% per cent.
This requirement could place.
severe restrictions upon the

‘amount of retained

available for dividends over

the next few several years,

says the report.
: In terms of the past year’s

activities, General Manger

‘{nvolvement with
and arts

‘sored four area young per-
sons .to attend the co-oper-
ative youth seminar in the

Okanagan. The unfon ae

ployees, .Comitico

sporting
ted associations.
:, ‘The institution again spon-

- widows of Cominco pensi

theT iarea.:.

Gift fertilizer cards ha

pansioners‘and wido
distributed to: employ

will be. at the distri ute ;
field Operations Wednesday, April 1 and
Thursday, April 2 between 7:00 a.m. and
5:30 p.m. each day. Cominco pensioners
and widows: who do not ‘receive a gi

fertilizer card by Apri
cards” at

up their

1981, may pick
he 'Warfiels

Warehouse, April 1 and 2, , between
a.m. and 5:30 p.m. each day. -