CASTLEGAR NEWS, October 15,1980 The C nada-wide response to a dramatic, emotional appeal was very warm and wonderful; but, in the ‘meantime, the ordinary, everyday needs are still with us,.... ANDGROWING THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS DESPERATELY NEED YOUR HELP — HEALTH SERVICES — FAMILY SERVICES — YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND Arthritis Society Can. Bible,Society DELINQUENCY PREVENTION Blood Donors Clinic Castlegar Libraries Air Cadets Cerebral Palsy Assn. Meals-On-Wheels Athletic Assn. Children’s Hospital Castlegar Museum Big Brothers C.N.I.B. Homemakers Assn. Boy Scouts Red Cross John Howard Society Camp Koolaree |. Soc. for Handicapped Senior Citizens Assn. Camp Rory St. John Ambulance Robson Rec. Society Child Care Society Xmas Hampers Girl Guides Volunteer Exchange . United Way Envelope arrives When your in the mail, PLEASE SEND YOUR CHEQUE BACK TODAY with your generous donation. : 4 : simetenatiea(Linracy, presser Bldgs» 501 “The Crosstoads of the Kootenays” - WEATHERCAST Sunny fotay Highs to 16, Lows tonight 2-4. Outlook to:' mid-week: sunny. "VOL. 33, NO. 50 35 Cents ~ CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, OCTOBER 19, 1980 “adie 2 Sections (A& Bh By DON HARVEY George Bondaroff quit Friday almost half way through his two-year term as-an alderman on Castlegar city council. But not without fring a parting shot:at Mayor Audrey Moore. . Bondaroff, who has been in-civic Politics since before the amalgamation of Kinnaird’ and Castlegar in 1974, resigned in a letter to city ‘admin- istrator Bill Krug. He cited business pressures — he operates GSL Electronics Ltd. — and * ‘Moore's “blatant use of the chair” at ° council meetings as reasons, Text of his letter of resignation . follows: . iy “Please accept this as my resig- nation as alderman with the City of Castlegar effective immediately. “As yoy are probably aware, we have recently moved’ inte. expanded business quarters and are now in the process of diversifying our operations, Corisequently, I am finding it more and more difficult-to attend to City matters at a time when I feel that there are so many impending developments that require a great deal of attention, “The afternoon meetings are es- pecially becoming a problem as these usually coincide with our. busiest periods. So in all fairness to all VANCOUVER, WASH. (AP) — Restless Mount St. Helens, shot a - plunie, of ‘ash: and. steam almost 15 ‘kilometres high in its third eruption in 24 hours, and scientists said the -—-yoleano: may Sexptode-again“soon. * Heralded by 20. minutes of hace concérned, I ‘feel that some . other’ capable individual should take over from‘ here. In parting, I only have: one suggestion to make and that concerns what I consider as-the blatant abuse of the'chair by the mayor. ei “Roberts’ Rules of Order and ‘ our own Procedural Bylaw No. 3. (20) specifically state that if the mayor ported -in .thes‘latest Thursday night,” riidays ‘hpsaiog ar wishes to partake of the discussion on the table, then she must, relinguish the chair. AS is obvious this is not usually the case, as motions aré far too often ‘put into the mouths of the worker and coroner, The only other ‘possible contender so far who has “indieated publicly he might be inter- ested in one of the seats is uir traffic controller Jim Gouk, who says he’s even in some cases written’out and handed to an alderman just prior to a meeting. ."T realize ‘that the mayor spends. most of every day. going through the correspondence and. incoming’ litera- ‘ture and in-many. cases has more. ; information than other. council mem- ” bers but this. still does not give the mayor the right.to’ participate in ‘ dlsewssions; except to keep order. “The present situation leaves very: ‘little’ room, for debate and bécomes’ a ‘one man’ show’, This is 8 not my idea of and ing “I would’ like to take this, oppor- tunity. to. thank -all of the ‘council members, staff and works crew for an enjoyable and educational year, thank 5 --you all.” SEATS OPEN With Bondaroff's resignation, two. seats'on council new are up for grabs. Although nominations don't close till”. noon Oct. 27, only one person so far has “filed: papers.“"He/is Carl Loeblich, a « long-time mayor of Kinnaird. and. re- tired jute of the peace, Comines - Bondaraife resignation came with mixed feelings in the mayor's office. “Every person has a right to express his or her opinion,” Mayor Moore said in an interview. “ “I don't intend to rebut what he says... If the charge ‘is'that I'm too well informed, I should think the resi- + dents of Castlegar. should be. very Pleased with me...I think I'm. a’ 4 ‘periavolent chairman and I don’t abuse the chair... If people don't like what I'm doing, they can indicate their displeasure at the | polls next year.” ., + She said it was “unfortunate he ‘resigned it in mid-term . ... As mayor, I “vale anyone who gives of his or her 2% time to serve on council." : Interviéwed after submitting’ his. Tesignation, Bondaroff said council has” its “priorities all screwed up.” ‘.{+ -He is * particularly \ upset with , dounell’s attempt to get yoters’. per- ‘. mission to borrow’ up to $2-million to uild.-a city hall-library-court house << - “nea® thé forestry station on Columbia + Avenue. (The inspector. of “municipal: ities fo Nictoria has given permission Friday ‘night;-gndy was in the “red zone” gurrounding the. monic tremors — shivers ‘that’ mean molten rock. is’ moving beneath the mountain — the eruption Friday ‘sent ash and steam 13,700 metres high. Two hours later the volcano was still: puffing steani. — The blast may have been the . strongest since May 18, when the top of © the peak was blown to bits, killing 34 people and leaving 28 missing and presumed dead. “We could see it outlined by the moon,” said Don Platt, co-owner of the : Lone Fir Resort in Cougar, a few kilometres south of the peak. “It didn't east, and the National Weather Servi issued a fallout warning: Tor the Hood River, Ore., area to the southeast the voleano appeared to have'given off less ash in the trio of blasts than ins previous eruptions, ° Experts monitoring Mount St. Helens said there was no indication the- volcano was ready to quiet down. “We don’t consider it over until we see earthquakes- and we _ haven't seen that activity yet,” said Elliott Endo, a geophysicist with the co Ss. had’ been-a deep’ ‘quake about 10 “Kilometres : under: ‘the: ale a ee thas been no such ‘guns his ‘In seismic terms, the Friday night . blast “appears to ‘be the largest or at least comparable to the largest after May 18,” said Endo. But the volcano appeared to be’ a “spewing outless ash than in previous blasts. “The combined. total of these! three’ eruptions is probably not as, strong as the May 25, June 12, July 25: and Aug. 7 eruptions in, terms ofthe Education ministry takes knocks over sex training VANCOUVER (CP) — Two family planners blame an alarming increase in pregnancies among girls 14 y ars old and younger in B.C. on the ministry ‘of education and the school system, Katherine Mooney of. Planned . Parenthood said the report by the Social Planning and Review Council shows B.C. doesn’t have proper sex education in schools. : * “Parents don't talk about sex and these 14-year-olds are a group that have not been reached,” she said. “We shave clinics for people interested -in contraception but this is very sticky at 14" Responsible Action for Children and -Youth, said the main failing ‘is in schools where principals are afraid to * deal with sex education. “Public opinion is against innocent children getting the facts and teachers don’t want to offend, parents,” said Bulman. “If children are to be sexually aware they have Bot to have the facts * of contraception.” Dr. Jerry Mussio, diseeiae of curriculum for the ministry of edu- cation, said current policy on, sex education is to refer it to local School hoards. “Good programs have been work- ed out... but it comes down to the parent to make the final decision - whether the child attends,” he said. Chuck Gosbee of the Vancouver Schoo! Board said final responsibility for sex education in schools is with parents. Gosbee said the Vancouver board doesn’t have a program for 14-year-olds but said one could be worked out. Walter Paetkau, president of the voluntary Planning society, said the report is merely a factual statement and doesn't reach Bondaroff quits, slams mayor | for the question to be asked on the ballots in the Nov. 15 municipal: elections.) GOOD FOR FIVE YEARS He said he feels the present city hall, with offices on three floors, is good _ for another five years. The library, he said, should go off on its own and. find other quarters or land> on which to build. He said residents overlook that they have free access to the library at Selkirk College. ° “But you never hear that men-. tioned.” As for a new court house, he said the elty isn't in the business of building * anything only to rent it out. “The city doesn’t build rental accommodation,” he said. “If you'd ask the taxpayers, you'd probably find they'd like to have the pot holes fixed in our streets, It's a question of priorities, and’ council has them all screwed up.” Bondaroff was chairman of the finance and administration committee this year as well as a member of the planning ‘and: works and services committees, “If he’s so all fired up about our priorities,".Moore said, “where was he when we wanted his input? As’ chairman of the finance and admin- istration committee — perhaps ‘our most important committee — he has held only two or three meetings since assuming the chairmanship.” Moore took over as: acting chair-- jman of the works and services com- mittee when Ald. Gerald Rust booked off sick and entered hospital in Kam- loops several weeks ago. “George didn’t attend the last two meetings,” she said. in scUisaraty ok Washington. ‘The ‘mountain. had been quiet all lor and ash almost 16 kilometres into the ky. : _ Winds had blown and grit from * Thursday night's eruption as far as‘320 *~ kilometres into Oregon. Abandon ct for suRivOrs AL ASNAM (AP)'— “One week anee a devastating earthquake: re- duced - much .of this Algerian, city. to ruins and killed more than 6,000 of its 125,000 \inhabitants,-rescue workers -virtually: abandoned hope of finding “more survivors," - French rescue teams went. thrdvgh the city in a final house-to- house check for signs of life before “bulldozers moved in and began scrap- ing the twisted steel and shattered concrete remnants of homes, offices and buildings into piles of rubble. - Using sophisticated electronic gear to look for sighs of life, searchers had worked around the clock since the Oct. 10 quake. But officials said no survivors have .been found: since Thursday when eight people, including an eight-year-old girl, were pulled from the rubble. By official count, more than 6,000 bodies were found. Thousands more are believed buriéd in the rubble, and even an approximate death toll has not yet been fixed. Commission new Cominco plant A commissioning ceremony for somparmment pressure tank where zinc using jh ‘acid and Cominco's new $23-million p: leaching ‘plant will take place Monday, at Trail. ‘Scheduled to offi inte at the cer- + emony is Don Phillips, B.C.'s, minister of industry and small business develop- ment, Phillips is to turn on one of the autoclave agitators (a large four- anja under high temperatures and pressure) and will also unveil a Plaque. Cominco’s B.C. group vice-presi- dent, A.V. (March) Marcolin, will out- line the‘ development of the process, the significance of the plant — the first of its kind in the world — and the over-all program including technologi- cal breakthroughs. Also invited to attend the cer- emony are MLA Chris D'Acy, MP Lyle Kristiansén, Trail Mayor Chuck Lakes, Local 480 president Larry Whyte, Local 9705 USWA. president Jim Saare, and representatives from: the Workers’ Compensation Board and the waste management branch of the ministry of the environment, ‘ Expect food prices to jump TORONTO (CP) — Most food prices will rise by 18 per cent in 1981 because of factors such as poor weather _ and higher energy costs, says a - “We are looking for the widest public response and comments from She said most sex’ ‘courses are for grades 11 and 12 and are of no use to younger girls. Janet Bulman, director of Taking Crash claims city driver . A 20-year-old Castlegar man, Martin Allis, died in a two-car head-on . collision near Waneta Plaza at approx: imately 7:40 pam. Friday. Driver of the other ‘vehicle, Brian Gipman of Rossland, received minor injuries. At press time, Trail RCMP were still investigating the accident. . Two seek board seats Two persons so far have entered © the Nov. 15 race for three vacancies on the z board of trustees of Schoo! District ie are electrical: ‘engineer Pat Haley who is seeking one of two vacant Castlegar seats, and incumbent Vera Kanigan of Area IJ. Selkirk canvass Selkirk ‘ College students will be used to help B.C. Hydro assess as involved,” he said. “We are cialeo setting up a committee to deal with this response and they could come up with recommendations.” Jobless rate up A significant increase in the un- bable impact of tourism: from the proposed Murphy Creek hydroelectric power project. Edwin Reid and Associates = Hydro, were approached by the ‘sin land recreation technology staff at the college to use second-year students to do the door-to-door ‘survey that will start Tuesday. - Jim Stephenson, managing part- ner of the consulting firm, will conduct orientation sessions and lectures for the students prior to the survey. * the survey will take place every Tuesday and Wednesday for about three weeks, with 15 Selkirk rate was reported in the West ‘Kootenays in September. Statistics Canada figures show the rate increased to 7.7 per cent, up from 6.4 per cent in August. Statistics Canada cautions these figures are subject to large fluctuations _ from month to month because they are | based on small samples. The Okanagan and Vancouver Island showed drops of about 1.5 per cent in'the unemployment rate. C. was one of three provinces showing an increase in the seasonally- adjusted unemployment rate, rising to 66 per cent from 6.1 per cent in ‘Interviewing ‘1,500, Castlegar area residents. i .Information obtained about rec- ‘reation activities, needs and prefer- ences will be added to similar details obtained last. summer from visitors to _the area, a Hydro spokesman ‘said. August. and Prince Ed- ward Island also recorded increases in the jobless rate, each also by half a percentage point. - .C. has the highest unemploy- ment rate in Western Canada, com- pared with rates of 3.7 per cent in Alberta 6.0 per cent in Saskatchewan. — Canada. Tim Carter said the council predicted last.December that food prices would rise 12.5 to 18 per cent in 1980 and is predicting a similar increase for 1981. . Summer droughts in the U.S. and toa lesser extent in Western Canada, which besides killing grasses and crops and making cattle suffer from lack of for the Retail Council of “swater, forced cattlemen to sell off herds because they couldn’t‘feed them until next spring. Consumers. will feel the effects of the drought, higher energy costs and a drop in domestic inventories, said Carter. Charles Gracy of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association said he ex- pected beef prices to increase 10 to 11 per cent in 1981. He said he would like to see prices rise evert more but “we still have to epmpete with pork and pultry, which means our prices can’t get too out of line.” : The Ontario Pork Producers Mar- keting Board also expects a gradual price increase but “we're, just coming out of a slump from this spring, so far us, prices are really returning to last fall's level,” said spokesman Helmut . Loewen. But there is some good news. 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