rv} February 16, 1986 Va ESTABLISHED AUG 7. 194 Av CAMPOELL MONICE OF COPYMOHT: Fut. « sANAwAR OF THE B.C. PRESS COUCH WMCORPORATING 116 MID-WEEK MIRROR PUBLISHED Ser PUBLISHER AUG. 7. 1947-688 19.1979 TWIG WEEKLY MAY 4. 1900 1978 AUG. 27. 1980 Burt Compbell Carol Magow Heather Hadley oe Stand up Cominco Ltd.'s announcement this week that 300 production and maintenance workers at its Trail operations will be laid off effective Thursday comes as a devastating blow to an area already hard hit by unemployment and suffering from @ sluggish economy And while some have expressed hope that the worst is over, more layotts are anticipated. As many as 100 office and technical workers are expected to join the production and maintenance employees at the Sh e office and fight Trails smelter stilt employs 2.700 workers. While we shouldn't turn our back on the 300 workers laid off, we should nevertheless focus our attention on preserving the jobs that are still there. Akey to securing those positions is the lead smelter modernization. And crucial to the new smelter is o reduction in the provincial water license fees But Cominco has come up again- st a brick wall in its negotiations with the province. With the tuation obviously growing more The effect on those laid off and on the community as a whole can not be overemphasized. Men and women who have spent more than seven years “on the hill” have. been put out of work, many of them with only a slim hope of being recalled The chance of these people fin ding jobs elsewhere in an areo with an unemployment rate more than 20 per cent is also slim. Thus many will leave the area as they look for work elsewhere. Their loss will be deeply felt. These are community members in their prime; men and women, many of them with young familie: — the very bedrock of our com- munity. But while we as a community serious by the day, it's time the critical industries commissioner was called in to get the talks moving. The goal of the commissioner is to assist companies in difficulties to maintain their operations, esp ecially forestry and mining com. ponies feeling the pressures caused by weak commodity prices Cominco certainly qualities under those terms Commissioner Art Phillips can be asked to join the negotiations by either Cominco or its employees. It's time community groups and in- dividuals in this area began writing the company and the unions urging Phillips's participation As well, community groups and individuals should write to Finance recognize the for what it is, let's also not lose sight of the larger picture. There is no sense in simply wringing our hands over our misfortune. Instead, we should begin looking clearly and realistically at what can be done to make the best of a poor situation. Hard to It may be hard to believe, but at a time when Cominco Ltd. is laying off 300 workers and the official pl rate in Castlegar is more than 20 per cent, Canada Employment Centres in Trail and Nelson are having to cut back on statt. Three workers at the Nelson Employment Centre and another three at the Trail centre will be laid off within the month. Since there are equivalent of 24 full-time em ployees at the Nelson office, eliminating three positions amoun. ts to a 12.5 per cent cutback. A 12.5 per cent cutback may be absorbed by employment centres in urban areas like Vancouver, Vic- toria and Kelowna, but for places like Nelson and Trail the effect is catastrophic The reason for the cutbacks is a decision by the federal gover nment to reduce the civil service That sounds logical enough, but the federal government threw common sense out the window when it applied the cuts across the-board. Places like Kootenay West, which has received special federal funding because of its high unem ployment, should be the last affec- ted. Strangely silent on this issue has only the Hugh Curtis and Energy Minister Tony Brummett urging them to reduce the water license fees for Cominco. After all, Cominco is the life and blood of both Trail and Castlegar. Residents in both communities should begin fighting for it as they would for their own lives. believe been Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco. He should be taking this constituency's case to Employment and Immigration Minister Flora MacDonald in a bid to have it reversed Come on Mr some action Cake anyone? Word this week that some in the oil industry wouldn't mind Ottawa once again having a hand in oil pricing made even the cynics sit up and take notice Energy analyst lan Doig told the Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Association's annual conference in Montreal that oil producers may soon call for a price-support level from the federal government because the falling world price for crude oil is making the Canadian industry ner- v Brisco, let's see ous The oil industry, it would seem, wants a hands-off approach from Ottawa when times are good but quickly seeks federal help when times turn tough. It's called having your cake and eating it too. Quotable Quotes We’re putting the best face we can on the results of the democratic... er... election in the Philippines. AN_ ‘OLD FRIEND' As long as its not zon Aquino’s face Lament for Stedmans By ALEXA WEST For years the Stedmans Store has been a part of our town. Just up from West's, across from Fields, alongside of MacLeods and beside the drug store. A variety store of trinkets and blankets, patterns and thread. A store where the manager was always friendly, the sales clerk a girl you grew up with and the service generous in our slow mean- dering Kootenay style. Now it’s gone. For weeks the windows were pasted, with signs declaring its demise. The merchandise was marked down and stacked in the aisle like a gigantic garage sale of impersonal artifacts. On Jan. 18, 1986 Stedmans said goodbye to its cus- tomers and locked its doors for the final time. In the dim lights of Columbia Avenue it looked beaten and sad. It wasn’t always like that. In 1962 a young sales clerk, Phyllis Bergen, helped set up the shelves and prepare for the Grand Opening. It was a time of excitement and participation. The staff helped decide the design and each member had their own particular area to look after. “There was a lot of pride then in the store,” she remembers, “and the quality of merchandise was good.” Starting wages were 75 cents an hour. Stedmans came along right at the beginning of Castlegar’s heyday. Cel gar, now Westar, had just finished construction. The town still had only one ferry and men handled the chains and the ramps. Telephones were still primarily party lines and antennae dotted most of the rooftops. Orchards were still in place in Robson. New houses were built. A second ferry was put in. Businesses prospered. School enrolments soared. The Hugh Keenleyside, then the High Arrow Dam, was just coming in. Now the orchards were going. The Big Rock, a favorite spooning and picnic place, was blown up. Trailer courts spread rabbit B.C. su By PAUL LOONG VICTORIA — Premier Bill Bennett's latest cabinet shuffle is a reminder that this is, after all, British Columbia, not Ottawa. It put into focus the difference in attitude toward cabinet discipline and the behavior of ministers. Bennett changed cabinet respon- sibilities in half the 21 ministries, but didn't use the opportunity to ease out any of the ministers recently embroiled in controversy over personal invest- ments or personal matters. Former forests minister Tom Water- PRIME MINISTER Brian Mulroney told ABC's Good Morning America, the United States seems “to be more en. tranced with little revolutionaries, people who throw bombs and disparage the United States, than you are with strong allies . some tin-pot dictator can easily command more attention in the United States and Congress than a tremendous ally and friend like Can ada.” POLKA could be the next big music craze, says a Chicagoan whose re cording is nominated for the first Grammy for Best Polka Album. “I see it becoming a craze, possibly a trend-setter like disco was,” says Lenny Gromulka of Chicago, whose Simply Polkamentary album is a Grammy nominee. FORMER 1960s radical Abbie Hoff. man says anyone who calls themselves a yuppie is “a greedy, self-serving schmuck.” “Where is the evidence that the new generation of the rich is going to be any different from the old generation of the rich?” JASON ROBARDS, starring in a new production of The Iceman Cometh, says he is appalled by simplistic Hollywood fare like Sylvester Stal lone's Rambo series and Chuck Norris films. “I want to retire from the human race with that kind of thing going on,” Robards said. LIBYAN LEADER Moammar Khad. afy blames Israel for the continuing unrest in the Middle East, saying it needs war to maintain its existence. “The Zionists always need to make war because the day that tension relaxes American aid would cease and the infinite internal contradictions (of Israel) would surface so that every thing would melt like wax in a fire.” land, who resigned from that portfolio over conflict-of-interest allegations, was brought back to head the less demanding Agriculture Ministry after a few weeks on the backbenches. Jim Nielsen, with facial scars still visible from a beating by the estranged husband of a woman he was visiting, was sworn in as minister of human resources after leaving health. The two ministries have the largest budgets. Nielsen insists his personal life is nobody's business and has not affected his job. “Of course I'm embarrassed and upset, but so what? That's life,” he said earlier. Stephen Rogers, under investigation Remember When? 35 YEARS AGO From the Feb. 15, 1951 Castlegar News ‘The regular monthly meeting of the Castlegar Board of Trade was held last Thursday night in the Parish Hall. This was the first meeting under the new president Mr. W.T. Waldie. A report was given on & meeting with the representative of the Cana- dian Pacific Express Company in con- nection wiht a delivery service in the village. It was reported that they are willing to give delivery service to trial in Castlegar. . . The Kiwanis club on Tuesday night made plans to spearhead a drive for funds to assist a Castlegar citizen who recently lost everything in a disastrous fire. . 8 @ At a meeting of the congregation of Kinnaird Presbyterian Chureh it was announced that funds are now available for the building of a church at Kinnaird. ‘The lot has already been purchased and work on the building will commence as soon as the weather permits. Mr. Dave Davies was asked to revise the original building plans. * © « Kinnaird juniors proved their prow- ess and skill in wielding the rackets last Sunday evening when they captured nine of the 10 trophies in the Trail district tournament. Com- petition between the home team was keen but good sportsmanship was shown by all players. 25 YEARS AGO From the Feb. 16, 1961 News It may be possible to make High Arrow a power producer on its own, Hon. E. Davie Fulton, federal minister of Justice, told a public meeting here last week Mr. Fulton said he has received information from engineers “who are not government engineers” that a new type of variable pitch turbine has been developed in France. . 8 6 Miss J. van Peteghem has been appointed supervisor of files and rec- ords for the Consolidated Mining and ing Co. The appoi an nounced by vice-president and general manager R.D. Perry, is effective im like over the townhsites of Robson and Castlegar. While a lot of us resented this last inroad of commerce there were bene- fits we couldn't deny. Employment was high. We were going to have our own college. Times were good and the freedom of the 60s was like ambrosia in the air. Stedmans, along with the rest of us, prospered. The ‘70s levelled us off. There were still jobs but not as many as before. We were still managing. We were a growing town with a future. Castlegar and Kinnaird amalgamated. Our com munity was still our community and times might be getting harder but we'd make it. This was our home and the place we grew up. We belonged here. The ‘80s hit us like a winter wind. Now six years into them we've seen hundreds laid off and many of our fellow citizens out of necessity move on. Paul Kerekes, the former manager of Stedmans, expressed his regret at its closing. He too had looked forward to a future here, with Stedmans, what he termed, “The family store with the hometown feeling.” If Stedmans was a citizen, like ourselves, today it would be 24 years old. Like a lot of us it might be inquiring about jobs in Saskatchewan or Alberta. With its unemployment cheque in hand it might be starting up the motor of its ‘73 car, bundling its family in the back and heading out for who knows where but not without regrets. That garage sale of impersonal effects that lined its aisles was not unlike the garage sales of this past summer of people unwilling to move on and too broke not to. Stedmans deserves a special goodbye. Castlegar has just lost another citizen; one that most of us grew up with, and one that most of us will miss. Alexa West is a student in Selkirk College's Applied Writing program re not Ottawa PREMIER BILL BENNE ... different di media is a price they have to pay, “but these are good people.” He has promised comprehensive conflict-of- interest guidelines in the spring. The approach is markedly different from several recent cases concerning federal government ministers in Ot tawa, despite the philosophical similar. ities between the Socreds and the Progressive Conservatives. After disclosures of a visit to a German nightclub featuring exotic dancers, Robert Coates resigned last year as defence minister. Marcel Masse stepped down as communications minister while his election spending was being invest igated. He returned to cabinet only after he was cleared. Suzanne Blais-Grenier, whose ex penses on her European travels came under fire, was demoted to a junior portfolio in a cabinet shuffle by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. (Canadian Press} any conflict of interest in his holding of shares in B.C. Rail, a provincial Crown corporation. Industry Minister Bob McClelland appeared as a witness last November for the r of his datory financial disclosure, was moved from energy to health. He said it was a pleasure to go from a ministry that makes the most money to one that spends the most. Finance Minister Hugh Curtis has threatened to sue anyone suggesting in a p lated trial after his credit card slip was found in a police raid on an escort service. He testified that he had called for a girl after drinking. Both kept their jobs. Bennett said politicians know that being negatively portrayed in the Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at: 197 Columbia Avenue, Castile gor, B.C. Letters must be signed writer's full name and addr: ind include the Only in very be published writer's name. Nevertheless 3 of the writer must be The Castlegar News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity. legality ond grommor Gene Godderis, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Godderis of Castlegar, has been awarded one of two $250 scholarships awarded to members of the senior law school class in their final semester at Gonzaga University Law School. . 28 « Katie Rilkoff and Doug Brown of SHSS are among delegates attending the 14th annual High School Confer ence at the University of British Columbia on Feb. 24 and 25. 15 YEARS AGO From the Feb. 18, 1971 News The Royal Family, including Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne will visit the Castlegar area May 5. . . The first report brought to the attention of the Castlegar News this year of sighting a robin occurred this week. . George Martin of Robson spotted the robin Monday afternoon as he returned home from work. . e Wendy McGillivray of Kinnaird has been chosen as Kinnaird Junior Sec- ondary School's Valentine Queen. This is the second year in a row that she has been selected queen. Fernando Da Costa edged out Grant Ackney in the contest to select the king. . 28 6 Harold Webber, local historian, was guest speaker at last Thursday's meeting of the Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Webber showed slides of the day, Indians of the area and also on the steamboats that used to ply the Arrow Lakes and Columbia River. . 28 « At its regular February meeting, the Selkirk College council re-elected Frank Beinder of Rossland as chairman and elected Aage Sylvest of Kinnaird as vice-chairman. Mr. Beinder, who is known through- out British Columbia for his con- tribution to public education, has been a member of the Selkirk College council since February 1966. 5 YEARS AGO From the Feb. 15, 1981 Castlegar News Castlegar Colt 45 Broomball club won first prize in the B flight of Nel- son's first Snofest broomball tourna- ment. Colt 45's, first game against the Vancouver Raiders was won in the second overtime period on a goal by Hal Hesketh. Other goals were by Wayne Kuzik and Wayne Kinakin. CARE talk Nay) Thursday part of an on-going series of meetings with district par- ents, will be hosting a dis- cussion of the CARE (Child Abuse Research and Educa- tion) program Thursday morning at the school board office on Columbia Avenue. CARE, which was devel- oped in Surrey, uses audio- visual presentations, infor. mation cards and puppet characters to educate chil- dren about adult abuse of children — including sexual abuse. The board recently ap- proved CARE as a pilot project at Woodland Park elementary school. At the meeting Thursday, a demonstration of the CARE kit will be presented and parents will be able to discuss the program with trustees and teachers. Robson women meet Robson Women's Institute held its monthly meeting at the home of Jean Lloyd. Members answered roll call with pennies for friendship. The Institute book, Fight ing Back, which is a primer for families and communities that choose to win in the war against chemicals, has been widely circulated in all wait ing rooms, libraries, schools, churches, hospitals, and den. tists and doctors’ offices. Anyone needing this book should contact Marian Jen ner at 365-5772. WI members this year will again cater at the Robson Flea Market and will have a book exchange at the same time. The WI has also submitted a name for the 1986 Citizen of the Year. After lengthy discussions the WI felt it will have to cancel the fall fair plans owing to lack of help. Members decided to donate $100 for Robson Sun day School, $100 for the Rob- son swimming pool, and $50 to the Variety Club Telethon. It will also challenge all B.C. WIs to meet or beat this. A cultural seminar will be held in Fruitvale April 12 in the Legion Hall. On the program is recovering old lawn chairs, pine needle bas. ket weaving, and noodlema king. To help celebrate Women's Institute Week, an inter esting quiz was held about institutes around the prov ince, country, and world. At the close of the session, members learned about mi crowave ovens. CasNews Printing * Letterheads, & Envelopes Business Cards Brochures Business Forms Invitations Any Printing! CASTLEGAR NEWS 197 Columbia, 365-7266 KIT DONATED . . . Susan Little, repr d Nurses the Casth of the Regi .C. school district's director of instruction, La th ond Ed kit for oP the Cas! Farrell, with a CARE land Park I (Child Abuse y. Looking on are Woodland Park teachers (left to right) Marylee Banyard, Bird, principal lerveine Deans and Yvonne te John Plotnikoff, AT_ UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S MEETING Child sexual abuse defined The January meeting of the Trail and District Uni- versity Women was held at Normie’s. President Margaret Nickle updated members on the fol- lowing conference of the In- ternational Federation of University Women in August in Christchurch, New Zea- land. A book for group study, The Next Canadian Economy by Dian Cohen and Kristin Shannon, was presented and recommended to the club by Castlegar mayor Audrey Moore. Bev Onischak introduced guest speaker and fellow Sel kirk College colleague Mau reen Little who spoke on the sexual abuse of children. Little, who recently com pleted graduate studies in this cqmmunity problem, de- fined child sexual abuse as “the involvement of an adult in sexual activities with a child which the child cannot fully comprehend, is unable to give informed consent, or that violates the social taboos of family roles.” The abusive situation in. volves adults more than five years older than the child in- volved who is accustomed to being told by adults what to do and is in no position to say yes or no. Furthermore, it is an abuse of trust by adults whom the children already trust. Whe- ther it be fondling of the genitals or rape, the child is devastated by the experi ence. From the beginning of Lit- tle’s research, victimization ratios increased from one in four girls to one in three, boys were one in 10 to one in nine, because more children are coming forward with revelations. Joy Ramsden Bridge Eleven pairs of duplicate bridge players competed Feb. 10 in the Joy Ramsden Bridge Club. The average was 54 with the following winners: 1. Wayne Weaver and Dave 8 Hour Sur Time: 8a.m.-4 Dat 2-YEAR W.C.B. CERTIFICATE Place: Clay Castle aturday, Feb. 22 Instructor: Ken Emmons tor more intormation call 365- Thiel 67"; 2. Hugh Auld and Myrna Baulne 62; 3. Joy Ramsden and George Resh aur 58'/2; 4. Rita Perrier and Heather Pottle 55’; 5. Bill Gorkoff and Stan Jenkinson 55. ival Course m. 1986 3735 Detensive Dri Box 1200, Costieger Upcoming Selkirk College CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES ng: Feb. 22, Registration deadline Feb. 18. Fee: $20 Driver Education: March 10. Fee: $155. Monday & Wednesday Classroom, 5 Hours in Car Trattic Control: Date: April 28. Fee: $15 tor more intormation please contact Selkirk College CASTLEGAR CAMPUS Cc. VIN UE 14 Hours 365-/292, local 261 The Badgely Report es- timated that there are 3,000 children abused each year in Toronto. The statistics are fairly consistent: 90 per cent are male offenders; victims are usually female; offenders were probably sexually abused as children and turn the tables to get power. Girls don't usually per- petuate sexual violation and 15-85 per cent know their abusers. They're related 75 per cent of the time. The closer the relative, the longer the abuse continues. Victims are victimized again and again as they develop a recognizable, sub- missive, subservient attitude and acquire many symptoms such as fear, withdrawal, feelings of rejection, falling school performances, and an- ger. Among prostitutes, 75 per cent have been sexually abused. Finally, Trish Harrison and Mary Vanness represented the A.W. Club at the 20th anniversary celebrations of Selkirk College. Winning lottery numbers Winning numbers drawn Wednesday evening in Brit- ish Columbia's Pacific Ex- press lottery: For $100,000: 376379 For $50,000: 102691 For $10,000: 265016 numbers are 1, 21, 22, 24, 25, 31, 36, 40. 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