March 18, 1990 RENE, COMMUNITY NEWS and Lorraine Koorbatoft TRADITIONAL CEREMONY .. . B Ch (left) Couple wed in Shoreacres Benjamin Christopher Legebokoff, son of Rose Legebokoff of Crescent Valley and Paul Legebokoff of Robson, and Lorraine Koorbatoff, daughter of Al:x and Mary Korbatoff of Shoreacres, were married in a traditional Doukhobor ceremony at the home of the bride’s parents Dec. 9. The bride was given in marriage by her father. Her sister, Olga Koorbatoff sang I'll Love You More Than Anybody Can, accompanying herself on the guitar. Christine Poohachoff of Shoreacres was the maid” of honor and John Mallow of Crescent Valley acted as best man. The bride wore a floor-length, white satin gown with sequins, beads and lace covering the bodice, long lace sleeves and a scooped neckline.The gown was made by Nadia Amos of Nadia’s Fashions in South Slocan. ren married in December at the home of reg bride's parents. Photo by Ken Ferch Her headress consisted of a-headband made of opal beads and leaves and her veil fell to her waist. The bride carried a bouquet of white and red roses, beads and streams of white lilies surrounded by tulle and baby’s breath which she made herself. The maid of honor wore a strapless, floor-length, royal-blue dress, with a lace bolero, also made by Nadia Amos. Her bouquet, made by the bride, consisted of royal-blue flowers and white roses surrounded by baby’s breath.and angel hair. The best man wore a black tuxedo. A reception was held in the courtyard at the San- dman Inn and red, white and silver garlands and silver and red sparklers were arranged to form a heart- shaped sign that read ‘‘Ben and Lorraine.” The two-tiered heart-shaped wedding cake was decorated with red roses, silver leaves and beads and the cake was topped with two doves. Willy Konkin of Shoreacres acted as master of ceremonies and Ben Nichvolodoff of Victoria gave a toast to the bride. During dinner, Richard Shukin, the groom’s cousin, played classical guitar and the bride’s sisters and cousin sang. Vic Cole, a family friend played piano during the social held after the reception. The couple spent their honeymoon in Mexico and now live in Crescent Valley. Counsellor provides vital link at college Since October 1988, Selkirk College has demonstrated leadership among the college and institutes in B.C. in the provision of educational services to students with special needs by em- ploying special needs counsellor Fran — son, Metge. She is the vital first link that special needs populations in the secondary school system, or in the community have with the college, a Selkigk College news release says. required, and needs, needs, “Selkirk College is accessible to all SPOrtation, types of learners,’’ Metge says in the release.‘ Just because someone—has special needs doesn’t mean higher ‘CUmstance. readers, test takers, and taped texts. Sometimes special equipment is this area too, Metge can help in locating sponsors. “I like to look at the whole per- »”’ Metge says. She takes into ac- count each individual’s assessment Post-secondary educational community or employment needs, and considers elements such as finances, living arrangements, tran- not the only way to receive my recreation and support services. Transition plans are then developed to suit each individuat-cir- plans are meeting the individual's needs. Metge’s service area covers the entire college region, causing her to travel extensively to meet with teachers, high school counsellors, and government agency staff in an effort to make her services known to those in a position to counsel special needs clients. “Referral by some external agent is assistance,’’ Metge says. ‘‘I often deal with people who seek. me out-on their own for—assistancein- meeting their educational or career goals.’’ Students finish courses The following students completed courses at the winter 1990 session af the Royal Conservatory of Music's Trail centre, GRADE 10 PIANO First Class Honors Tammy Francis, Todd Bonin, Teruko Simpson. Honors Michelle Marie Holm, GRADE 9 PIANO First Class Honors With Distinction Sonpko Kambara. First Class Honors Amy Zanrosso, Vanessa Dooley, Sara Dawn Eimer. Honors Karrie Parent. Pass Heather Ann Romaine, Moira Nan Sutherland GRADE 8 PIANO First Class Honors ‘With Distinction Olivia Marie Vaal. e First Class Honors Kelli Garland, Christine Profili jonors Bradley James Pozin, Trudy Marie Palmer, Michelle Denise Bos. GRADE 7 PIANO First Class Honors Rebecca Plank. Honors Lisa Guglielmi, Cinda Sue Clark GRADE 6 PIANO Honors Philip Nichols. GRADE 5 PIANO First Class Honors Utako Kambafa, Celia Man- sbridge, Kaela Tompkins, Angela Guglielmi. Grade 4 PIANO Honors Vanessa Fawcett, —_—‘[indsey Hatlevik. GRADE 3 PIANO First Class Honors Erin Cooper, Heather Sheppard GRADE 1 PIANO First Class Honors Jennifer Jill Stubbs, Jerilyn Shar- pe, Eric Julian_Tremblay, -Hansot Bahk. Honors Blake Victor Henshaw. Bghces ictery MBE, appears AUTOMOTIVE DIRECTORY education isn’t available.’’ Follow-up counselling and liaison is often involved to ensure transition Metge can be reached at Selkirk College’s Castlegar campus. 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Don’t be confused by the ever-changing tax laws. Put us to work for you. 1761 Columbia Castlegar © 365-5244 Hours: Mon -Fri., 9a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. 9a.m.-5 p.m BLOCK CANADA'S TAX TEAM Student housing delayed By ED MILLS © Staff Writer Studenis at Selkirk College in Castlegar won't be get- ting student housing by September as the college had planned because the developer is having difficulty securing financing for the project, the college’s board of governors was told Tuesday. srnors2 Becauseof the difficulty in getting financing, Richard Padmos, manager of Evergreen Tree Planting Co-op, the developer the college selected to build the student housing, asked for and was granted an extension of up to one year by the board at an in-camera (closed to the public) meeting at the college last night “It’s in the hands of the banks right now (but) I’m P| — Vol. 43, No. 23 not real sure if it (housing) will be built this year,"’ Pad- mos said. COLLEGE BOARD HIKES TUITION By ED MILLS ‘Staff Writer Board chai Elizabeth t said thi heparan comgentor lh Leralllarel pears It’s official -- tuition fees for students at Selkirk prelionty work began on financing the project in He said even if the banks were to approve tomorrow it would only be a preliminary step as the com- pany still has to have architects work on the project and an analysis of costs done before a bank will give final ap- proval to finance the project “It's like a two-month process you have to go through, so it’s unlikely we could break ground by late May,"’ Padmos said. Selkirk College’s vice-president of ad- ministration/bursar Dale Schatz said today the board “*was quite disappointed’’ by the news. “‘We'd all like to see it built by September but it just isn’t going to happen,”’ he said. RSs yp. ys ~légar nobody it would take this long. “‘We understand that there are difficulties . . . and there are reasons why things just aren’t possible sometimes,” she said: ‘‘We can ask that every effort be made to meet our deadlines but you can’t achieve the im~ possible."’ Both Fleet and Padmos expressed optimism that the housing would be bhilt eventually and said the financing setback is just a delay. “We're very encouraged by the prospect of having résidences in place . . . but it may be just a little slower than we had hoped,”’ Fleet said. continued on page A2 College will be hiked five per cent starting in Septem- ber. The Selkirk College board passed the tuition in- crease at its regular meeting at the college last night. College president Leo Perra said the increase was made to offset the rising cost of operating the college ‘as well as inflation, and that in terms of total tuition revenues in excess of $1 million the increase isn’t that substantial. “*Five per cent will add another $30-40,000 to the budget which, in terms of the college's revenues, won't continued on page A2 WEATHERCAST Tonight: Cloudy with gleor breaks > for unsettled but slightly warmer conditions Friday and Saturday Probability of precipitation is 50 per cent tonight and 60 per cent Thur. News CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1990 3 Sections (A, B & C) Public responses available By CasNews Staff’ Bound copies of the hundreds of submissions made to the committee overseeing the major project review process Celgar Pulp Co. is un- dergoing are now available in the Castlegar area. The submissions are_being made available for viewing in the same public buildings where earlier material on the proposed pulp mill expansion was put on display, said Garry Alexander, Ministry of Environment coordinator for the Celgar project. Copies are available at the Castlegar library and have been sent to the Regional District of Central Kootenay office, Castlegar city hall and the Selkirk College library, Alexander said. As well, the submissions will be available in Silverton, Nakusp and Revelstoke, he added. Meanwhile, Celgar officials met in Victoria last week with the provincial government’s major project review committee which is now sifting through the submissions, Celgar pulp continued on page A2 INSIDE Teacher Directors oppose switch . By SIMON BIRCH Editor Castlegar city council will not get the support of the Regional District of Central Kootenay directors for elec- toral areas Iand J if it presses ahead board of directors, said he also op- poses the idea. “I know of no good reason to abandon_that association at _ this time,’” he said. ‘‘I’ve never had any reason to give the matter any con- with any attempt to convince the province government to alter regional district boundaries in the West Kootenay to move the southern Portion of the RDCK into the Regional District of Kootenay Boun- dary. Area I director John Voykin and Area _J director Ken Wyllie both told the Castlegar News they oppose a switch of regional districts which Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore suggested last week Castlegar council should explore because of the com- mon interests Castlegar and the surrounding area share with Kootenay Boundary, which includes the City of Trail. “I'm not in favor of switching regional districts,’’ Voykin said Tuesday. ‘‘I was a little upset with the idea of moving to another regional district.” Wyllie, noting that after 25 years the Regional District. of Central Kootenay has established a strong sideration."’ When she suggested council should study a possible move, Moore com- plained that the Regional District of Central Kootenay board of directors was ‘‘taking over’? economic development in Castlegar, referring specifically to the board’s recent resolutions concerning the proposed $630 million expansion of the Celgar pulp mill in Castlegar. The regional district board at a meeting earlier this month called on the provincial government to thoroughly review Celgar's proposal and to hold public hearings during the first two stages of the government's new major project review process The board said it wants the federal government to step in with its own environmental review of the expan- sion if the provincial government grants Celgar approval in principle to proceed with the project before com continued on page A2 from another service agency in the community, the schools, or even through self-referral, Metge ‘goes on site to prepare a transitjOR plan with the prospective studehy, teachers, Parents or guardians, social worker, and whoever else may be involved in the life of that person Metge says ‘‘special needs’’ describes a wide range of clientele. Some of her assistance goes to those with-mentat handicaps, but her ser vices are also intended to assist the blind, the deaf, hearing and visually FRESH DAILY FRESH l-WEEKLY impaired, learning disabled, those with educational or social disadvan tages, the emotionally disabled, as well as those with physical disabilities. Once a plan is established, in dividuals are assessed to determine what types of assistance are required Assistance can take the form of a bat- tery of skill and aptitude tests, together with special tutors, scribes, ET. Fragrances! We now have an assortment of the original © Poison ° Tea Rose ° L'Air du Temps © Maxim's de Paris ° Arpege As wellas . ° Paviova& a —/ UM OBURIIN ts ChE Ker . Castlegar News Abul SoD. 7 SON DAD ie ° XIA-XIANG Carl’s Drugs Castleaird Plaza Castlegar News home delivery only 45¢ a copy. Subscribe today! 365-7266 Castlégar News RSn workshops page A2 PEEK-A-BOO . ger sister Leah Lottery numbers The winning numbers drawn Tuesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were , 20, 35, 37, 42, 44nd 51. Globe 90 page A5 Dunigan gone page B1 Advisory Council. which have arrived ime the Tyrrell in Head to Head and Following the Bones will be open for public viewing at he 26, 28 and 30 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The exhibit is sponsored by the Twin Rivers Parents . Lauchlan Jankola, 9, (left) and brother Aaron Jankola, 10, ie ht) look through the eyes of Controseurus at Twin Rivers elementary school Monday while peeks underneath the skull. The replica is part of two Pal: Cominco shuts down new smelter By CasNews Staff Cominco Ltd. will shut down its new lead smelter Monday to deal with proximately two months the new smelter will be shut down, he said. More workers will also be needed in CosNews photo by Barb Jonkolo the refining sector as the old smelter is brought as close to full production as possible, Fish added ri “It's natural to encounter some. problems tike this with a plant that a number of problems the company is experiencing with pieces of equipment that have been creating bottlenecks and keeping the Trail smelter from running at fult capacity, senior com- Study ferry changes closely, lawyer says By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer Changes the provincial government wants to make to ferry service on the Arrow Lakes should be carefully con- sidered by the residents of the affec- ted communities before the changes are allowed to take place, the lawyer for the Robson-Raspberry Ferry Users Ad Hoc Committee says. “As a result of our-€xperience, we encourage the people in the com- - munity and especially the ferry workers to oppose any sort of change that could result in job loss,’’ Terry Dalton said, referring to the closure of the Castiggar-Robson ferry nearly two years ago. The government has announced it plans to build a cable ferry to replace the Needles ferry on ~ the Needles--Fauquier route The Needles ferry would then be moved to the Galena Bay-Shelter Bay area to supplement service on that run during summer The B.C. Government Employees Union, which represents ferry workers, has proposed less-drastic changes that BCGEU Local 909 chairman John Rourke said will result in the desired improved service while not cutting jobs Dalton pointed out that the population base of lake communities such as Nakusp are small and the loss of a few jobs could have a noticeable effect As well, Dalton said residents of the communities should not agree to the changes until all agreements con cerning the ferries have been made final Otherwise, Victoria may ferry and then start working the num- bers around,"’ Dalton warned, adding that the planned changes to the Arrow Lakes ferry runs are likely another ‘close the step in the privatization of all B.C inland ferries that the ad hoc commit tee members believe was begun with the closure of the Robson-Castlegar Rourke said the union is ‘‘very is so new,"’ Fish said. ‘‘And it’s nor- mal to have quite a long period of working out the problems."* The technology of the new smelter has only been used so far by a small plant in Germany and Cominco is the first commercial company to run a large-scale operation with the new equipment and processes, he ex- plained During the shutdown, changes Workers in the new smelter will be willbe made to the reactor, drossing loss of jobs if the government im- fieeded to make the changes and plant, slag granulation, boiler and plements it plans. repairs and some will be movedback ventilation portions of the plant, a “It's probably a reality,’” he said to the old smelter for the ap- Cominco news release says. The Needles ferry ts run by marine operators and there must be a cap- tain, mate, engineer and deckhand on each run, Rourke explained munity and public relations officer Richard Fish said today from Trail W The shutdown is necessary because making a large number of changes and repairs is difficult to do while the plant continues to operate, Fish said Cominco opened the new smelter in December The company will not lay off any workers as a result of the shutdown, Fish said worried’’ about the possibility of the The planned cable ferry can be run by two machine operators and marine workers “‘if they have any semblance of a career at all,’’ will not work ona cable ferry because they no longer ac- cumulate sea time, he said Moving the Needles ferry to Galena Bay won't result in the loss of jobs, Rourke added. However, the union proposal will Joe Killough citizen of year By CasNews Staff was selected for the annual Joe Killough has seen a lot of | Kiwanis Club award for his jong things in his 83 years but being service to the community. selected as Castlegar’s Citizen of __Killough, who was nominated improve service, cost less, and ensure | the Year for 1989 is the only one for the award by John Mans- the jobs of ferry’ workers currently that made his knees shake bridge, said he was quite shocked employed on the Needles-Fauquier “I nearly had my knees when he got the Phone | call last Tus, he said. knocked out when I heard about it night.’ The union proposes keeping the last night,”’ Killough said today ‘A more complete loess of ferries on their current routes, making Killough, who’ has lived in Killough will appear in Sunday's the schedule more flexible to allow for | Castiener ‘son and-off"-since 1911 Castlegar News. continued on page A2