a2 Castlegar News October 30, 1988 FIRE continued trom front poge Mann said, adding that the fire probably started from a cigarette. Mann said Popoff was fortunate he wasn't sleeping in the bed at the time. “If he had gone to bed and this had happened, he wouldn't be here,” Mann said. He pointed out that the motel unit is not equipped with a smoke alarm or a fire extinguisher. “These smoke alarms are very important,” Mann stressed. Damage to the motel unit was minimal. A total of 14 firefighters responded to the call Sunfest theme sought The Castlegar Festivals Society is looking for a theme for Sunfest 89. Past-president Joy Jenner. an nounced that plans for Sunfest 89 have already started. “The Castlegar and District Cham: ber of Commerce has again agreed to collect all the submissions for a theme and we hope to have all the submissions in by Nov. 10 so we can select a theme quickly and get on with our plans,” she said in a prepared release. “Drag boat races will be high on the list of anticipated events,” she said, but a lot will depend on this Tuesday night's 7 p.m. meeting at the chamber offices. The organiza tional meeting will elect a president, vice-president secretary and treas urer, as well as some committee chairpeople. “Many of our volunteers have promised to return and many more have indicated an early interest in keeping Sunfest going,” Jenner said. Regarding specific events and ideas, Jenner said that a lot will depend on the first few organiza tional meetings. “It will be up to the service clubs and groups in the community if they want to have an event as part of Sunfest 89, but we have to know as early as possible so we can incor. porate the events into our overall plan.” Jenner said, “Sunfest 89 promises to be as good as if not better than '88 and we will be making announce. ments once specific events are con: firmed.” CHARRED MATTRESS . . . Fire Chief Bob Mann in- spects blackened mattress outside Sandpiper to motel room. Motel room. Mattress caught fire Friday night, but was extinguished betore there was any damage CosNews Photo by Ron Norman BRUMMET continued from tront page would be necessary to determine a child's developmental age. “It’s largely a judgment call,” he said. “You wouldn't have a “sort of entrance exam that they would pass or they wouldn't pass.” The commission proposes an un graded elementary system for Grades 1-3. “When you take the ungraded pri mary concept, that means keep moving the kids according to their ability rather than locking them into graded programs,” he said. Brummet reminded parents that the changes will be slow to happen and won't work until teachers, stu. dents and parents understood what is happening. “People might say that Johnny has in the second year of school de. veloped all of the appropriate skill levels,” he said, adding: “The parents might say thank you very much, but what grade is he in and what did he get, an A or a B?” The commission also recommends a major restructuring of the cur. riculum for Grades 1-10 so that there is a common curriculum that em phasizes humanities, fine arts, sci ences, mathematics and practical arts, for a more general background. Every student who successfully completes Grade 10 would be award ed a “certificate of - entitlement” towards an additional two years of secondary school education. This certificate could also be applied to a program at a business college, vocational or internship program. Brummet said the “certificate of entitlement” does not mean Grade 10 graduation. The intent of the report is not to encourage students to leave school at Grade 10. “I must say that now students have a choice,” he said. “They either stay in school, which is highly geared towards university entrance, or they have to drop out if they want to go in some other direction. “They are saying in their report ... the way to keep more of them in school is to legitimize the other path as well,” he said. Students completing the core Grade 11-12 graduation require- coffee shop for two years, prior ownership interest in their customers get good service. PROGRAM continued from front poge Ryan helped Scheuren with marketing ideas and offered advice and an objective look at the business. Scheuren had worked at the Castlegar Airport so she had background for the business. She also grew up in a family which was in the restaurant business. KREDA may recommend some kind of business management training for those who haven't had any business experience. The applicants must agree to work full-time in the business and can't have any some business. When all of the business arrangements were made, the Scheurens prepared to open. Delores did the decorating and Otto the carpentry work, which included building the bright pink arborite tables. Muffins 'n Cream is small, but modern-looking, and brightly decorated in pink, white and black. Scheuren says she tries to make sure that “I make sure that my staff and myself are extremely happy and friendly,” said Scheuren. Scheuren says she works about 10 hours a day, five days a week and employs one other full-time person. She doesn't know when the business will break even, but Muffins 'n Cream is running “in the black” right now. Scheuren said she would have gone into business without the help of KREDA, but it's been much easier because of KREDA's support and financial backing. “It's like a little safety net for the first year,” she said. “It's scary, but it's not that scary.” Teri Randall of Scratches ‘n Tanlines also started her Castlegar business with the help of KREDA Scratches 'n Tanlines is a combination tanning and fingernail design salon. It is located atop the City Centre Square and has two tanning beds, a face tanner and a nail salon. Randall and full-time employee Jana Command apply artificial nails in a room off the waiting room. An air conditioner is working hard to rid the small room of fumes from the acrylic nail tips. The salon also does sculptured and fiberglass nails, manicures, pedicures and exotic nail art. Randall had an idea for a business, but had trouble getting the initial funding. She couldn't get a bank loan and ended up floating the business for a while on credit cards “I had to take the extra $8,000 out on credit cards, max them out, pay them off and then max then out and pay them off again,” she explained while mending the seam on a fingernail. But riow, the costs of renovating and opening the shop are behind Randall. The business is doing EXPERT NAILS... . Teri Randall does nails at Scratches ‘n Tanlines. well and she isn't worried about paying the bills. “I think by "89 it will be more profitable,” said the 28-year-old former cab driver. KREDA doesn't provide loans for the seed money to start a business, although it provides a monthly income during the first year. Randall said she would have gone into business even if KREDA didn't exist, but it made getting started a lot easier. “If it wasn't for Kay, it wouldn't have gone as smoothly as it did,” said Randall, explaining that Ryan helped her make figures balance on her original business proposal. As of Sept. 30, KREDA has approved 39 business agreements in the Central Kootenay — five of them in Castlegar, one in Robson, and one in Thrums. One of the more unusual businesses involves Dan Pasemko, a casket manufacturer in Kaslo. “It's kind of interesting,” said Ryan. “He has a middle-of-the-road range of prices.” Ryan explained that caskets are either plain or very elaborate and expensive and Pasemko is filling the void in between. According to Ryan, he is making the caskets at home and selling them privately. Pasenko wants to begin distribution to funeral homes, but has to develop a portfolio of his designs first. ments will have English language and literature in both years; world history and world issues in one year; and Canadian history and citizenship in the other year; a course in science, technology and environment; and at least one year of physical education, the report states. Brummet said the report is not “a reinventing of the wheel.” “The potential is here to go with what many of the teachers and many of the schools have been trying to do anyway,” he said, adding that learning will be more geared towards student interest and creativity. One parent asked how the new focus on learning could be done when some of the class sizes are too large. Brummet said “it’s always easier to work with 10 kids than with 20 or 30, but “elass size by itself is not a good determinant of learning.” “A new approach with 30 (students in a class) might do the same as with 24,” he said, adding that a province- wide reduction of the pupil-teacher ratio by one pupil costs $55 million. The royal commission report prop- osed a core French program for kin- dergarten through Grade 10. “Rather than some students get- ting more French, their preference would be that all students get some French,” Brummet said. Ferry dance planned By CasNews Staff The Robson-Raspberry Ferry Users Ad Hoc Committee is taking to the streets and organizing a dance to raise funds for the committee's bid to re-establish provincial-government operation of the Robson-Castlegar cable ferry. Committee spokesman Fern Allam and Sarah Tupholme said the monies raised from the Nov. 5 dance will go towards the committee's expenses for phone calls, letters and docu- ments the group has continually been dealing with since the ferry closure in late April. The pledges from the door-to-door campaign of Castlegar businesses and Robson and area residents will go towards funding the committee's court challenge of the provincial gov- ernment’s alleged illegal closure of the service. The group gets its day in court Nov. 28 in Nelson. “The only way we will not go to court is if they re-open the ferry,” Allam told the Castlegar News. “The court case is the final resort of the Ad Hoe Committee.” If the court case is successful, the committee will not collect the pled- ges from the Castlegar businesses and Robson and area residents. However, even though the commit- o f pkin carving contest. PUMPKIN PAL . . . Waneta Plaza mall manager Linda Mac- Dermid and “friend,” the entry of th branch of Kootenay Savings Credit Union in the tenants’ pum- HAPPY FACES . . . Erica Steep, 8, and brother Rory, 6, admire Flower Basket-decorated pumpkin entered in ‘the’ fenants’ pumpkin carving contest at Waneta Plaza. taff at the Waneta Plaza CosNews Photos October 30, 1988 k égan N i TURTA continued from front page town's tourist industry — *salmon fishing. “You've got to sell your product, whatever it is,” he told the dinner gathering of about 30 people. “Tour- ism is big business.” McLaren said the Campbell River tourist season generated $46 million in revenue for the community of 17,000 people, and the chamber was hard at work promoting that busi. ness. He stressed the importance of the chamber, the city council and the regional district all working together to promote tourism. “Your chamber is only as good as you're going to let it be,” he said. “It's important for everyone to co-operate.” Under new business, the chamber passed a resolution to allow new members to join and pay member- ship dues at any time, instead of at the beginning of each calendar year. Stabbing reported in Robson Castlegar RCMP are investigating an alleged stabbing early Saturday morning in Robson. Police report a man sustained a stab wound around 2:15 a.m. Saturday just after cross- ing the CP Rail train bridge into Robson. The victim néeded several stitches to close the leg wound. Police say they have no suspects but are continuing their investigation. A motion to install a $5 initiation fee for every member each year was quashed on the floor. Leo Bosse proposed the chamber enlist and charge every business automatically when it gets into busi- ness licence from the city. Bosse tried to include his proposal in the motion to charge a $5 initiation fee but the subject was deferred to a future date for discussion. Ald. Bob MacBain agreed with Bosse’s proposal and thought it would be a good idea for city council to look into incorporating chamber fees and licencing in with the pur- chase of a business licence. But he qualified his statement by saying he can no longer lobby the council for a change because he is resigning. The next chamber meeting is on Nov. 10. Harcourt to visit riding By CasNews Staff Provincial NDP leader Mike Har- court will visit the Kootenay West- Revelstoke riding this week to campaign with Lyle Kristiansen, the New Democrat candidate in the Nov. 21 federal election. Harcourt will arrive Thursday for a five-day tour that will also include the Kootenay East riding. He will campaign with New Demo- erat candidate Sid Parker in Cran- brook and Kimberley in Kootenay East. As well, he will campaign with Kri For the record in Trail, Salmo and Nelson in Kootenay West-Revel- stoke. Harcourt will also be meeting with tee is fii the court ch: will succeed, it also wants to be prepared for the worst — a $4,000 debt if the case is unsuccessful. The committee wilkbe submitting. pledge forms to Cafttlegar businesses and Robson, Brilliant and Pass Creek residents next week. The Nov. 5 dance will be held at the Robson Hall with the Old Time Fiddlers, Skip Fraser, and Joyce and Tony Zimmerman providing the music. An article in the Oct. 26 Castlegar News reported that Kootenay Broad- casting System aired a story saying the provincial government approved a $700,000 grant for the new Castlegar indoor aquatic centre. The CasNews story was based on incorrect information from KBS. In fact, KBS did not broadcast the story but only reported that the Castlegar aquatic centre may receive provincial funding under the new GO BC fund. leaders in the Kootenays during the tour that ends Nov. 7. ee tenn Court news In Castlegar provincial court this week, Lawrence McFarlane received 60 days in jail after pleading guilty to driving while having a blood alcohol reading over .08, Briefly Government combats syndrome VANCOUVER (CP) — The provincial government will spend $450,000 in the next three years to combat fetal alcohol syndrome, Health Minister Peter Dueck said. Grants will be given to agencies in eight communities for outreach programs targeted at pregnant women considered at risk, Dueck ‘said in a news release. Fetal alcohol syndrome is asso- ciated with abnormalities in chil- dren of chronic alcoholics. Symp- toms include low birth weight and subsequent growth delay, facial and skeletal abnormaliti and developmental and mental retar- * dation. PETER DUECK - announces funding Doctor found guilty VANCOUVER (CP) — A vancouver urologist was ordered to pay more than $45,000 to a man he circumcised 14 years ago. Mr. Justice Ross Lander found Dr. Peter Marr guilty of negligence during a circumcision in 1974. Lander ruled Marr took off too much foreskin, requiring the patient to undergo plastic surgery to correct the damage. The B.C. Supreme Court award includes $40,000 in d plus interest over the 14 years since the operation and compensation for lost wages ahd court costs. Record income reported VANCOUVER (CP) — Canfor Corp. has reported record net income of $81 million before extraordinary items for the first nine months of 1988 compared to $78.4 million in the corresponding period the year before. Net sales totalled $843.5 million, down from $928 million for the first nine months of 1987, the forest products company said in a news release. “Higher prices and firm demand for pulp and paper products more than offset the negative effects of the strong Canadian dollar and weaker lumber markets on the company’s year to date results,” the release said. Mail less costly OTTAWA (CP) — Canadians mailing Christmas cards in properly coded envelopes will get a five-cent break again this year. Canada Post says special Christmas stamps costing 32 cents, a nickel less than the standard first-class rate, are being sold across the country. They will be accepted on envelopes containing postal code boxes allowing greeting cards mail to pass through automated sorting machines. Cards are being marketed with the required envelopes by about 30, manufacturers and several charitable organizations. Envelopes without the special panels will not qualify for the discount even if senders include the correct postal code. Immigration regulations change OTTAWA (CP) — New regulations will take effect Nov. 28 allowing permanent Canadian residents to sponsor parents of any age as immigrants, Immigration Minister Barbara McDougall announced. Previously, only parents over 60 or those who were ill or widowed could be sponsored under so-called Family Class regulations. An estimated 6,000 immigrants are expected to move to Canada over the next two years as a result of the change. McDougall, who first announced the change in August, said sponsors must be at least 18 and have completed three years of residence in Canada. Bond sales ending OTTAWA (CP) — Sales of Canada Savings Bonds will end at the close of business Tuesday, Nov. 1, the Finance Department said. “All applications received up to that time will be accepted, but in all cases payment arrangements must be dated no later than Nov. 1,” the department said in a news release. “For the payroll savings plan, bulk applications will continue to be accepted until Nov. 15.” The department said sales are being cut off Nov. 1 because the government's borrowing needs have been met. Results of the sales will be announced at the end of Nevember. Hirohito reported awake TOKYO (AP) — Emperor Hirohito's pulse rate rose past 100 Saturday, but the 87-year-old monarch was reported awake and in good spirits. Imperial Household Agency spokesman Kenji Maeda said Hirohito's condition stabilized after he discharged some blood Friday and received 1.3 pints in transfusions. The transfusions brought the total amount of blood Hirohito has received in the 41 days that he has been bedridden to 28.2 pints. NATO talks end THE HAGUE (AP) — NATO defence ministers have ended talks with a call to modernize the alliance’s short-range nuclear weapons. But Belgium balked at endorsing a report laying out proposals for the program. “Assuming any commitment now would be premature,” Belgian Defence Minister Guy Coeme told reporters. e issue is controversial in Europe, where the battlefield nuclear weapons would likely be targets in a conflict. Prince blames architects: LONDON (REUTER) — Prince Charles launched a new attack on the country’s architects, saying post-war developers have built “god-forsaken cities” and ruined one of London's best-known views. In a 75-minute television film, which he wrote and narrated, the heir to the throne travelled around Britain and found that of our modern buildings are huge, blank and impersonal. ‘The prince was heading back into a controversy that he opened last December when he shocked the British architectural establishment by a¢cusing its members of having done more damage visually to London than the Luftwaffe (German air force) did during the Second World War. The London skyline came under attack again in the film , with Charles accusing developers of ruining the view of St. Paul's Cathedral by surrounding it with “a jostling serum of skyscrapers.” CAR CRASH . . . ce was responsible for this car crash involving three vehicles Saturday morning. CasNews Photo by Brendan Nagle Two cars totalled in crash Nelson RCMP checked 800 vehi cles Oct. 21 in a 2/-hour roadside blitz of the Castlegar area. Castlegar RCMP report 18 “alert tests” were conducted on people suspected of drinking and driving, which resulted in seven 24-hour roadside suspen. sions. Traffic notices were issued to 57 people with defective vehicles. Two radio act violations were issued to people who were using car radios or phones without a license and five moving violations were issued. “_ * « Police are investigating a com- plaint that a 1974 red Harley David son motorcycle was stolen from a locked shed on 7th Ave. between Oct. 19-24, Three vehicles parked between 600 and 700 Columbia Ave. were vandalized Oct. 21. Police report that a person or persons walked alongside the vehicles and scratched the entire length of each. Total estimated damage is $1,000. Two cars were totalled in a three. vehicle accident on Highway 3A Saturday morning. Castlegar RCMP report the accident occurred about 8:45 a.m. when the driver of a 1976 Toyota pickup lost control on “ex tremely icy road conditions.” The two vehicles following behind, a Ford station wagon and a 1986 Toyota collided with the pickup. There were no injuries and no charges are expected to be laid. Police are not releasing names at this time. Poll shows Liberals tied for first By ERIC BEAUCHESNE Canadian Press A poll released Saturday suggesting John Turner's Liberals have moved into a tie for first place with the Conservatives left the other party leaders seeing red — Liberal red. “We have just begun to fight,” declared Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who continued the strategic assault begun earlier in the week against his Liberal rival. Remember the days “we never want to see again” of high interest rates, high unemployment and government intervention in the economy that were Liberals hallmarks, he urged voters while touring through Eastern Ontario. In Montreal, New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent said it was a mistake for people to forecast the imminent demise of the Liberal party. The NDP leader several weeks ago suggested Canada could move to a two-party system minus the Liberals. Turner, also in the Montreal area, refused ‘to comment on the poll as is his custom. Instead, he carried on his attack against the prime minister and the free-trade deal with the United States. The Angus Reid poll showed the Liberals and Tories both with 35 per cent support among decided respondents and the NDP up one point to 28 from the last Reid poll. The new figures came near the halfway mark of the Nov. 21 election campaign and represent a nine-point surge for the Liberals and a 10-point plunge for the Tories. The poll of more than 1,500 Canadians, considered accurate within 2.5 points either way, was conducted after the two televised leaders’ debates last week which most observers said was won by Turner. Mulroney suggested the poll, coming so soon after the debate, probably exaggerated any shift in support but he admitted the election race is tightening. And the prime minister turned his guns on the Liberal leader calling Turner's stint as finance minister in the mid-1970s a “catastrophe”. “He asks Canadians now for a chance to repeat that remarkable mismanagement /of Canadians’ finances.” Mulroney also brushed off comments by Ontario Treasurer Robert Nixon, who predicted in a newspaper report Saturday that the Tories’ proposed national sales tax gould cost Canadians an added $14 billion a year. “There is no sales tax,” Mulroney said. “There is no definition of how it might work.” Broadbent, meantime, cautioned against making any rash judgments based on the latest poll. “A couple of week ago. . . politicans and journalists alike were saying that the Liberals were totally finished,” Broadbent told a news conference. “It was a mistake to say that anyone was going to disappear in this campaign,” he said. Broadbent also announced $2.4-million program to help combat teenage prostitution and drug and alcohol abuse among street youth through easy-to-reach centres in major cities. GETS ALONG Elsewhere, Turner brushed aside questions about his bad back. “T'm getting along pretty well,” he said. “It didn't bother me in the debates.” A pinched nerve in Turner's back frequently causes him to limp. He is taking today, Monday and Friday off, though campaign officials say it has nothing to do with Turner's health. The Liberal leader jabbed at Mulroney's admission during the debates that his government had made errors. This public “crisis of humility,” comes ever four years and lasts for two months until an election,” Turner said. “Job promises misleading Garry Jenkins, the Liberal can didate in Kootenay West-Revelstoke, says this federal eleciton is not about jobs, but “about the future of Can ada!” “It is misleading for the local Con servative candidate to run about the riding promising jobs if the Mulroney trade deal is implemented” Jenkins said in a prepared release. “That is not the case.” Jenkins said Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had at one stage promised that 350,000 new jobs would be created under the trade deal. “Yet the Economic Council of Canada contradicts Mulroney and says that only 125,000 jobs may be created dver'a 10-year period, and that does not include jobs lost under he deal. Canada is selling the store and receiving nothing in payment,” said Jenkins. “In order to improve access to the U.S. market it is necessary to reduce the existing uncertainty as to what action or reaction the U.S. might undertake against Canadian exports by replacing the unilateral U.S. ac tion with a predictable institutional arrangement between Canada and the U.S. “Accordingly, Mulroney repeated ly promised that U.S. trade remedy laws cannot apply to Canada, and that any Canada-U.S. agreement must include a binding dispute set tlement mechanism. The Mulroney trade deal does not accomplish any of this,” he said. “Ih the Mulroney trade deal, the dispute settlement panel does not replace the use of U.S. trade laws, rather it can only rule on whether U.S. law has been interpreted fairly. Secondly, because the Mulroney trade deal commits Canada to five to seven years of continued negotiation on the use and definition of subsidies, etc., the deal not only entrenches the unpredictable nature of the existing Canada-U.S. trading relationship, it makes the relationship even more uncertain. “It is quite likely that seven years down the road the U.S. will tell Canadians that they consider our social programs a subsidy. Then what do we do?” asked Jenkins “At that stage it will be too late to pull out of the deal, and Canadians will find that they will have to compromise on their social pro grams.” He said a further “troubling point” with the trade deal is that it does not exempt Canada from the Omnibus U.S. Trade Bill “This is especially dangerous for Canada because the principle feature of the omnibus bill would make the Mulroney trade deal, and especially its dispute settlement mechanisms, redundant. “This deal is the most important issue facing Canadians in our life time,” Jenkins said. “When Cana dians cast their ballot in this election, they are not only voting for a par. ticular party or candidate, they are making a decision that may dras tically alter the face of our Canada.” BRIAN MULRONEY invited to visit Mulroney might visit By CasNews Staff and News Services Prime Minister Brian Mulroney may pay a visit to the Kootenay West-Revelstoke riding this week. Jack Chernoff, campaign organizer for Conservative incumbent Bob Brisco, said local Tories are attempt ing to have Mulroney visit the riding on Thursday “We're working on it to get him in here,” Chernoff told the Castlegar News on Saturday. “I still need confirmation.” Mulroney's visit to the riding would be the third by a top-level Tory minister in less than two weeks. Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazan- kowski visited Revelstoke briefly on Wednesda, in support of Brisco’s re-election campaign. That visit came less than a week after External Affairs Minister Joe Clark made a one-day tour of the riding Mazankowski said the visit was a routine part of the Conservative campaign for the Nov. 21 federal election. “We consider our sitting member to be very important and we're going to do everything we can t9 see him re-elected,” he said. “Bob's a very good friend of mine and I've been meaning to come out and meet his supporters and help out as much as I can.” Prior to electoral boundary changes, Revelstoke was in the Kootenay-East Revelstoke riding represented by Conservative Stan Graham. Brisco is running the new riding of Kootenay West-Revelstoke against New Democrat Lyle Kristiansen, who defeated Brisco in 1980 but lost to him in 1984 in the old riding of Kootenay West