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-On-the-job experience

First year Selkirk College
Forestry students traded in
pens and calculators for fal-
lers’ pants, cork boots, hard
hats, and logger's gloves re-
cently to get hand-on lessons
in silviculture in the coastal
forests of Vancouver Island.

The students also ex-
changed the Castlegar cam-
pus classroom for 10 hectares
of rain soaked second growth
timber at the 1400-foot level
of Crown Zellerbach's Tsol-
um River Block. And the as-
signment isn't the usual fare
either — the students are
here to thin the 10 hectare
plot from 2,500 trees to 800
trees per hectare.

For the 14-day trip, the 82
member class is divided into
two groups. Each group
spends one week observing
logging an log processing
operations with the second
week devoted to juvenile
spacing. Half of the group
worked with B.C. Forest
Products in the Cowichan
Lake area, the other students .
were in Courtenay with
Crown Zellerbach.

Students and instructors
have been making the trek of
the coastal forests for the
past five years.

Both companies have co-
operated with Selkirk Col-
lege in developing this
unique training program.

“The students get- ak op:
portunity to learn on the job
and the companies get:a
spacing job done,” ‘said in-’
structor John Adams: “Phe’
college's forestry faculty sees
the arrangement as a val-
uable training experience
and feel that the students
must be doing things right
because each year when the
students leave, the compan-

The blind
and their
guide dog

CALGARY (CP) — Susan
McCormick was standing at
th etop of a long flight of
stairs in the University of
Calgary library when some-

CASTLEGAR NEWS, July 12, 1981

Selkirk Forestry

TORONTO (CP) — Home-
owners across Canada face
hefty premium’ increases
when they buy or renew
their residential insurance
policies in the coming

coming frequent adverse
weather conditions, close un-
dergrowth and rough typo-

ies invite the college to do it
again next year.”
“The first emphasis is on

+ “Our second emphasis is on
quality of work,” Adams said.
“Both Crown Zellerbach and

safety,” said instructor John
Muir. “Mechanicaily thinning
young stands is considered
one of the most dangerous
jobs in the woods; even more
dangerous than being a fal-
ler. Thinners are constantly
scrambling over knee-deep
slash, watching out for bush-
covered holes and in danger
of being struck by kick-
backs from the light weight
yet extremely high rpm
saws.”

B.C. Forest Products look at
this work as a training sit-
uation and although the con-
tract is to thin 10 hectares no
penalties are involved if the
whole area is not completed.”

Adams said instructions to
the students are to take their
time at first and do a good
job.

The work is demanding
mentally as well as physi-
cally. In addition to over-

graphy, the students must
make educated decisions
about which of the trees they
will eut and which will be left

months.

While most insurance com-
panies are currently con-

to form the final
crop.

Factors taken into consid-
eration include size, health,
species and distance between
the “leave” trees. In some
cases this means cutting
down 20 or 30 trees io leave
one healthy well-formed tree
at the proper spacing.

on p rate
increases in auto insurance,
the coverages that comprise
about half their market, in-
creases in residential insur-
ance premiums are close be-
hind, they say.

Several companies have
already raised residential
premium rates by up to 25 ©

per cent, mainly in Ontario
and Quebec, and many have
programs in the works to
further increase premiums.
‘As well as raising rates, a
current trent is to restrict
coverage by raising the stan-
dard deductible to $200 from
$100 and place a $5,000 limit
on silverware theft claims.
The insurers say the ef-
fects of inflation on home
values and the cost of re-
placing contents, as well as
escalating theft losses, are
outstripping premium
growth. Between 1977 and
1880, they say, the average
residential claim has risen by
43 per cent to $1,067, while

A MESSAGE TO
PULP AND PAPER |
EMPLOYEES IN

BRITISH COLUMBIA

After almost two months of bargaining and in
response to a request by the Canadian Paper-
workers Union and the Pulp, Paper and Wood-
workers of Canada that the industry present its
final position to both unions, the following offer
was made on July 6, 1981. The post office strike
prevents a direct mailing of the wage offer to

industry employees.

This is an offer the industry cannot improve.

Here are the details of the offer:.

rates

ont ate

VACATIONS
Effective May 1, 1982:
e 5 weeks after 15 years (was 17)
e 7 weeks after 30 years (new category).
‘HEALTH AND WELFARE
e Improved extended health care plan

© Improved weekly indemnity scale

e Improved group life and accidental death and
dismemberment benefits to reflect Increased job

e

premiums have gone up by
about 25 per cent.
HAD RECORD LOSS
In the 1981 first quarter,
the insurance industry
posted a $12.9-million ree ;
in!

Big jump in home insurance >

ing results that have almost
erased profit margins.
Given the.depth and per-
sistency of the current under-
writing cycle, Roy Elms, ex-
ecutive vice-president of

Recently
creases in car insurance pre-:
miums in the provinces

where private insurers oper- .

ate range from 10 to 36 per

cont in Quebec, eight to 25-
per cent in Ontario, eight to.

16 per cent in Alberta and

four to 15 per cent. in the:

Atlantic provinces.

The insurers are generally
confident that higher rates
will stick this time, in view of

the deteriorating underwrit-_

Royal Co, of Can-
ada, says the higher premium
levels will hold. “The indus-
try had been anticipating a
bloodbath; now it’s reality is
evident to us ell.”

Robert Bailey, personal
line vice-president of Guar-
dian Insurance Co. of Canada,
said the company is com-
mitted, to the higher pre-
mium levels since “we cannot
continue to burn up our as-
sets.”

VANCOUVER (CP), —
Stephan Kuprowsky is at
home walking through a’
herbalist's shop in China-
town among the dried
snakeskins, antelope tails,
sea horses, ginger root and
tiger testicles.

The '$90. antelope tai
explains the medical anth-’
ropologist, ave to increase
virility or to treat back’ or
spinal ailments. They ‘are
boiled in chicken broth to
make soup or soaked ‘in
liquor for six months, or
more,

Dried sea horses, at $19,
each, are-for people who
‘eat too much or who are’
short of breath. Antelolpe
horns, ranging « in ; prie
from $100. to $160., ate ts:
fatten you up. ;

Kuprowsky is a student
of the medical practices of.
ancient or foreign culturea
ai ihe University uf 5.0.
He is studying Chinese
herbalism in. Vancouver,
where it's been trans-
planted from China.

“My interest is in Chin-
ese healing, and the Chin-
ese tradition dates back
almost 5,000 years,” he
said in a recent interview.
“The strength of the Chin-
ese tradition is that they’re
able to adapt their culture

_and tradition to changing
times.” 2
In__ western cultures,
7 herbalists and other natur-
opathic healters are consi-
dered kooks, © he ‘said.
“There's been an unfair
prejudice against the old-
fashioned healing tradi-
tions, and that’s just start-
ing to change. In China,
traditional Chinese healers
have the same status as
modern physicians.”
HERBS

rediscovering the medici-
nal use of herbs because of
the side-effects of western-
style drug remedies, he
said. “You take a pill for
pain, but it) gives you a
stomach ache so you take
another pill for your
stomach and it does some-
thing else.”

Where western pharm-

acy tries to s thesize the

Chinese:healing |

rfee‘khown ‘to -have medicinal

active ingredients of sub-
stances that are found to
have. healing .properties,
Chinese’ herbology de-
pends closely on nature.
“The Chinese p! jh;

Debbie Evin is a “nine-to-
fiver” and she loves it.

She is the one and only
secretary for three jointly

is that there is a very close
relationship between
people and nature.

“Our whole lives depend on
plants for the energy and
nutrients to keep us alive.
It’s no accident that people
discovered a long time ago
that plants are also useful
to help us and heal us when
our badies have problems.
“Today there are 2,000
herbs that are grown in
China and there-are 20,000
to 80,000 plants that are

properties.”

Philisophy plays a large
part in the Chinese prac-
tice of medicine, he said.
The philosophy of yin and
yang (good and evil, light
and dark, cold and hot) is
applied to healing, the
intent being to keep yin
and yang in balance within
society and within the
individual's body.”

Foods and herbs are
classified as yin or yang,
and when the herbalist
physician has made a diag-
nosis the proper combina-
tion of herbs is prescribed.

CAUSES TREADED

A vitamin may contain a
few as three or four
ingredients or as many a8
20. Very rarely is a single
herb prescribed, as Chin:
ese:physicians prefer to
treat-the ‘causes of illness
a. wi
he said.

-Kuprowsky’s interest in
medicg] anthropology
began when he attended
Trent University in Peter-

ing discouraged with west-
ern medical practices, he
travelled for four years‘in
Europe, Africa, South
America and Mexico.
Combining his early
medical background with
anthropology and a long-
standing interest in Chin-
ese philosophy, the study
cf Chinese herbe! medicine

entes rages bitin eauy

located firms;

LINDA HALL

Evins Contracting, Gienger
Contracting, Wesley Con-
struction and Interior Trans-
port. She answers the phone
and relays messages, keeps
the books in reconciled order,
types, does the payroll twice
a month, sends out invoices,
and even makes the coffee.
Her: four bosses rely on
her, and this past April dur-
ing National Secretary
Week, Frod Gienger phoned
radio CJAT with the mes-
sage: “her. pleasing person-
ality brought the customers
back.” As a result, she won
CJAT’s “Secretary of the
Week” award; a day off with
psy, some chocolates, “and of
course,” she said, “free pass-
In actuality Debbie works
eight to four and enjoys
getting off a bit earlier than
her movie counterparts.

ee ‘ y Peale,
MANNING an office, which she set up

herself, Debbie Evin

It was
mits, “I tried to keep e'

A secretary who loves her

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CASTLEGAR NEWS, July:12,198)
 Sosae :
% a

4 Debbie’ loves the out-of-
doors and things connected

5 71
ona loca! ball team and loves
fe hey

:Bhe is also very interested

It was Debbie who, by
herself, last February set up
the office that she now man-
ages when her father George
Evin and the other. co-work-
ers decided they needed an
office and a secretary’ to-

thing as basic as I could for
the guys.”

Each company has differ-
ent ‘pieces © of equipment
which require different ac-
counts and paperwork. “Con-
struction is a vast field,” she

“1 love my job, | like the idea that
I'm not stuck to.one: thing: all day
long, like typing. | can work on the
books, then do something else’ ’.

maintain their business. She

decorated the office.
she ad-

says, “It covers everything
from building roads to spart-

ment buildings.” Debbie is
his

NAR:
Evin; and. other. _co-wo'
ded, to

_Getting to Know Your Neighbor .

“I love my job,” she says.
“I like the idea that I'm not.
stuck to one thing all day
long, like typing all day
long.”

So you wouldn't want to be
ina typing pool? I asked. She
shuddered. “I' can* work ‘on
the beoks, then do something
else like typing.”

She: feels very much her
own boss and “the guys are
great to work for.” She told
me that they. listen respect-
fully to her suggestions and
comments.

Her. office is a pleasant

Jace to visit. Almost a dozen

d room. “I love plants.

fills’ the

cers in the os a

I feel at home with plants
around.” 2” ;
You must like trucks, I said
‘referring to two glossy prints
hanging’ on her walls. -“I
guess I. do,” she said, and
; was eager to tell me that the
larger of the pictures was a
personal gift to her. by..a

of other office-type ‘ para-
phernalis. On the desk sat an
“in-out” file, an adding ma-
chine, a pen set, an array of.
pencils, paper clips and the
like, plus the ever-present
coffee cup. Various blue-
ts and artists’ concep-
tions of future projects were
thumbtacked to one wall. -
I couldn't help admiring;

the large electric word-
cessing . typewriter.

:) Born locally, Debbie has

ved here all her life. She
sings soprano enjoyed
being a. member of the Stan-
ley Humphries’ choir until

Vrate Ag St nded ea BRE”

ning schoo! brochures
Mey come out in the

DEBBIE EVIN
-. snine-to-fiver
one-year diploma in the sec-
retarial course. She’s worked

Although she~ enjoyed

courses in
high school, she decided to'go
into secretarial work. “It's a
great field to enter. So vast.
So'I thought I'd give it a.
shot.” :

Prior to her taking on the ,

office at Evins Contracting,
she worked for the) City of

she felt'a bit isolated. She's
only :

pesariog

\

one whistled to the dog with
her.

b sequirements ‘of: her--father;’George business. x

TERM OF CONTRACT

°..Mision.care pian tor ail employees and depéndents |

- neas College and received the. wound up/"77
‘effective July 1, 1982 : ; :

McCormick is blind and her
golden retriever is a guide
dog. Had the dog responded
to the whistle, the university
student could have been
dragged down the stairs and
killed.

Fortunately such incidents
don’t occur that often, said
McCormick who is also co-
ordinator of the Diabetes
Bight Cszire cxasels
people who are going blind as
8 result of the disease.

HOwever, it illustrates
some of the difficulties that
blind persons wiih guido
dogs often encounters i 1

“The biggest problem; is: -
people talking to, petting and:. |
whistling at guide dogs,” said +
McCormick. “The kindest
thing people can do is to
simply ignore us.”

Once a guide dog has be-
come used to iooking ior
petting, “his attention is not
on my safety,” said Sandy
Pardo, another blind woman.
In the four years Pardo’s has
had her guide dog, he has be-
come less attentive.

CAN BE

Although it’s’ possible to
retrain dogs, some have to be
taken out of service because
they no longer are totally
reliable.

Adults are the worst at
petting guide dogs, Pardo
said. “Kids you can tell once
and they are really good
about it.”

McCormick sais she is am-
azed that people “get hot
under the collar” when
they're asked not to pet a
guide dog. i

“They seem to think you
are trying to deprive the dog
of their love.”

But if a dog is distracted,
the owner has to discipline it
either by a corrective word
or by pulling on its leash in a
certain way.

Pardo said that many peo-
ple don’t realize that dogs in
the special harness are guide
dogs because they aren't
German shepherds. How-
ever, very few guide dogs are
shepherds. Most are black
Labradors or golden retriev-
ers.

Nor does the public always.
relaize that in most provinces
blind people with certified
(trained) guide dogs have
legal access to any public fa-
cility open to the sighted —
inleuding restaurants and
grocery stores.

ole

A two-year agreement effective July 1, 1981 to June

30, 1983.
GENERAL WAGE INCREASE |

e 14 per cent increase effective July 1, 1981 with a

i
Fete

iia

mechanics get_.a special 40 cents an hour increase

minimum increase of $1.50 an hour

12 per cent increase effective July 1, 1982 with a

minimum increase of $1.50 ai hour

of $3 an hour

The average straight time hourly rate increases to
$13.34% an hour in the first year and to $14,984 in
the second for a total increase of $3.41 or 29.5 per

cent.

MECHANICS ADJUSTMENT

service

employees.

iN ADDITION
e improvemenis in maternity leave, orthedo

sad call oy
Gina ca iS

nic in the lob evaluation program,

including appointment of an ides t :
Officer and a job evaluation consultant. In addition,

an opiing-cui provision exercisabis iF y
is offered:to local unions of the

CPU.

In addition to the general increase, A and A+

effective July 1, 1981.

As a result, the mechanics’ rate Increases from
$12.88%2 to $15.14% an hour in the first year and to
$16.96 an hour in the second for an Increase over the

contract term of $4.07% an hour.
NIGHT SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL ..

A five cent an hour increase in rate for the 4 p.m. to
12 midnight shift, from 26 cents to, 31 cents an hour
effective July 1, 1981. A 13 cents an hour increase in
‘rate for the 12 midnight to 8 a.m.:shift, from 37 cents to

50 cents an hour, effective July 1, 1981.
CONTINUOUS OPERATION PREMIUM

Employees on a continuous 20 or 21 shift per week
schedule will receive an additional 20 cents an hour,

from 15 cents to 35 cents an hour.
COST OF LIVING ALLOWANCE

In the event inflation rises 26 per cent during the
next two years, cost-of-living payments will be
calculated on the basis of one cent for every .20 rise in
the Canada Consumer Price Index beyond the 26 per

cent level.

Payments will be made for each calendar month
during the term of the agreement in which the CPI has

exceeded 26 per cent.

1 and June 30, 1983 i:

Improved long-term disability to reflect length of

reulaur

ntic plan

e New contract provision to provide health and welfar
coverage for surviving dependents of deceased

e-
ry

Base Rate:
Annual Rate:,

At the beginning of the second year of the contract the base
rate will be 30.1% higher than the current base rate.

How annual income will rise under. :

industry wage offer
(Based on 2080 Hours)

Current
1980-81

$9.96
$20,716

Average Straight Time

Hourly Rate:
Annual Rate:

$11.55%
$24,037

Journeyman Mechanic
Hourly Rate: _
Annual Rate:

$12.88%
$26,800

1st Year
S7-S2
$11.48
$23,837

$13.34%
$27,761

$15.14%°
$31,602

* Note: This rate includes a 40 cent adjustment to Jour-
neyman tradesmen rates added prior to the general increase.
At the beginning of the second year of the contract the
Journeyman rate will be 31.6% higher than the current rate. -

2nd Year
1082-83

$12.96
$26,957

$14.98 %
\ . $31,132
At the beginning of the second year of the contract the average
straight time hourly rate will be 29.5% higher than the current
average straight time hourly rate.

$16.96
$35,277

Pulp and Paper
Industrial Relations

Representing pulp and paper

In British C

* bell ringers. ©

Remi

iniscing with the aid of

the yearbook, ‘Highwheeler’

In September 1951, Principal Al Thomas, by way of
experiment, decided to put me with a Grade 8 class 2s 8 home
ontsl pert lay in.the fect that they were to
& room ¢laas for the next four year

Al‘with a'small gieam in iis eye, “is

the. pick of the 4 wou had better make good.”
Actually, it was one of the best jobs I have ever had in my
life. Over the four years, the class ined the

Soon, when all was quiet and Steve Savinkoff and Peter

Holuboff had stopped talking, our conductor told us that June,
the year’s final station, was just around the corner. Everyone
t to get ready to go, leaving Daphne Quance, Annual rep,
; that’s ‘80° for this year.”
qa oes:
‘The year 1956 was my ninth and last year in SHSS and the
graduating year for “tie iamily.” Ths since numbered

same, and while known officially as 9A, then 10A, 11A and
12A, it was referred to unofficially as “the family” and had
about them a special kind of “esprit de corps.” If one examines
the 1956 yearbook, called the-“High Wheeler” from its
railroading theme, one notices that 11A was active in every

aspect of school life, and class members are to be seen in every,

photograph in school acti}
Each class in the 1955 ed
introduces the class members. The SHSS 11A coach report

reads as follows:

eit 5

All aboard 11A! The whole ¢lass, which had assembled on
the September station platform, began to board their train.
Suddenly, the crowd shouted:as Mr. Charters came up
wearing his conductor's cap and his familiar white lab coat."At
that moment his pet peeve Lynn Ri ;

— an increase of 500 per cent in five years. It also
included “Mousie” Gilespie, the white lab rat who had been
rescued from a home 1 to
become the 12A pet and mascot.

The 1956 annual (the “High Time” edition) edited by
Daphne Quance, won the cial runner-up award for
school annuals in British Columbia, and half of the 1

Allen Robinson took. the

JOHN CHARTERS’ |

‘Reflections &

Recollections _

Chemical Institute of Canada

Award and Don Graham took the Mathematical Association of
America Award for, mathematics, while Natalie Gleboff

received the Typing Award.
vet, was valedic

Paul Walker, our Korea War

Tt was a big year for the schooi, as well, for with Graham

Smith pushing team ifort snd ‘fitness, the Cominco

for the winner of the W.

Trophy

School Track Meet

came home for, the second time je

‘That 1956 yearbook reflects very accurately the multi-
faceted aspects of a school. and,. particularly, its graduating
class. But all is not study or athletics or social events. There is <

‘a fine yeast of

wi

yy running
makes a school and its people unique. It is also an essential
ingredient for survival in an “Alice in Wonderland” world,

staff came from the 11A class.

It was a banner year for “the family” and for the Grade 12s.
On the awards page one notes that the Stanley Humphries
Award, the McLean's Award to the top honor graduate and
the Local 480 Mine Mill Scholarship went to Catherine
Pellegrin; The Leaders Club Award and Senior Athletic
Awards to Gail Lei and Olga “ho also took the
Home Economics Award for proficiencey. Gerry Ann Wanless
and Frank Perehudoff took the

rand;:
shaking his head and grinning, he climbed aboard>The last

whistle blew as our train; highballed the gate.

We whizzed by the October station and on to the November
without stopping. By thig time Fred Salekin and Norman
Johnson were g the hogger for a job on the engine.
Margaret Clair, Joanne “Fingers”, Dunlop, and some others
climbed on the “band-wagon” along with Bruce MacCabe and

his clarinet (slightly smaller.than a tuba), while Gerry Ann .

Wanless, leader.of the majorettes, became one of the noted

Fred Horcoff was one af our stalwart athletes, Catherine
Pellegrin, council secretary, was head of the class,
scholastically speaking, and her quiet pal, Elizabeth Hopland,
was not far behind. By now thetlass had become used to the
‘continuous motion of the High Wheeler. That is, everyone but
Sherrel Riley, who had ‘been trainsick, since September,
although she hid it well beneath,her cheery smiles and bright
remarks. 5 } A

Back from our stop at the December station, we thought
Paul Plot: and Earl |Cherri had for
good, but they were found dozing in the baggage car and so
the Skipper made them wash the windows (not enough sinks).
Several 11A girls on the rep team, Anne Labenteoff, Allene
LeRoy, Olga Samsonoff, Violet Gleboff, and Beverly Jones,
tried playing basketball in the aisle, but since it was a little too
narrow they were forced to use the express car.

‘A special automobile car was added to our passenger train’

because Wayne Harvick, film projectionist, could not leave his
car behind. Natalie Gleboff and Katherine Koftinoff helped
with the sorting in the mail car as they were hoping for letters
from certain males. ‘ y
* Everything was going ly when

blew the whistle: No one suspected silent Harty Plotnikoff nor
Bob Johnston, who had been reading, for neither knew what
had happened. Naturally Paul Walker was guilty, having
wondered what would happen if he pulled the whistle cord.

Leadership
Senior Awards for Allen Robinson and Cathy, and
Citizenship Awards for Leo Franco and Katherine Koitinoii.

Awards, with

‘The |
example of what I mean:
de

~ In an/upsteirs

item by Gail Leitner, is an

= P ry erty o
‘Once'he was'a student; tdo,)”
room. t