STUFFING ENVELOPES .. . Alma McGauley (third from left) and helpers stuff almost 10,000 sent to former depositors in the now defunct Teachers’ McGAULEY continued from front poge She said at least 11 of the members lost approximately $300,000 each in personal savings. “This financial institution was the only financial institution not regu- lated,” she said. “It looked like a bank and it acted like a bank.” McGauley said she was appalled that such an institution as the co-op would “gamble” with the savings of its mem- bers. The co-op collapsed in 1985 due, in part, to investments that proved un- stable. McGauley originally organized a petition to call for an inquiry, but she said only “half an inquiry” was granted. McGauley said the government only examined the role of the co-op and its management practices but didn't exam- ine the government's role in banking regulation. “If you (B.C.) want to be banker to the Pacific Rim,” she said, “you better demonstrate that the banks are regu- lated.” McGauley expects the court case to make public the government's role in the housing co-op's demise. McGauley is also aware that the liti gation could take several years, but nonetheless, she urges those who intend to sue to act quickly. McGauley pointed out that the majority of the members are retired and several are ‘aged. McGauley, who did not say how much she lost, said she was lucky her husband also had a separate savings account. She said most of her savings were in the co-op’s registered retire. ment savings plan. Investment and Leese Cooperative, The letter is provincial « government ror $100 milli — Costiews Photo by Mike Katesniko 10 join the group in suing the ion in lost savings. McGauley, who was encouraged to, initiate the suit by a Castlegar lawyer, knows the case is without legal’ precedent. According to a copy of the litigation letter the case is described as entering “unchartered legal waters.” “We will argue that the B.C. govern- ment ... had a duty to regulate the affairs of the TIHC and negligently failed to do so, resulting in the losses that have been sustained,” the letter states. . “Security of capital was an essential objective of the people who placed their savings with the TIHC and who were unaware that, unlike credit unions, trust companies and banks, the TIHC was essentially unregulated and their savings were at risk,” the letter states: “The government knew these facts and took no effective measures by regulation or otherwise to protect the unsuspecting public. “In these circumstances, we will ask the courts to hold the government liable in damages for that negligence.” McGauley said the mere embarrass-' ment of fosing money makes it difficult for people to come forward, but she maintains that, if the case was lost, people would benefit by foreing the government to publically explain its responsibility. McGauley has also organized a May 11 public rally in Vancouver. JET BOATS continued from front page prize money. The boats will leave at one-minute intervals and take 20-25 minutes to run the course, although the speeds will be slightly faster when coming back down the river because the boats will be going downstream. There are two classes of boats: A and B. The A class boats can reach speeds of up to 50 miles per hour whle the B classes travel at around 80 miles per hour. “Our river is a large one, so we are going to get maximum speeds,” Deproy said. He described the boats as large engines with a little bit of hull around them to make them float. There will be 15 to 20 boats taking part from Canada, the United States and New Zealand. There were eight crashes in the last jet boat race two weeks ago in Whitebeard, Idaho. One of the boats that suffered a crash was Trail racer Albert Benson's He will also be taking part in this weekend's races. However, Deproy said there will be 22 safety boats along the course in the event of a crash. “We are very safety- “oriented?” he said, adding that the slowest response time to an accident will be just three to five minutes. That compares to approx- imately 35 minutes it took safety crews to respond to one crash in the recent Idaho races. Williams in trouble NELSON (CP) — Bob Williams, NDP member of the legislature for Vancouver “I couldn't believe what I was hearing,” Williams’ comments to a Williams’ osed elimination of Vancou- Brisco said of ver Kingsway adjacent to provincial enay but opposes the plan to wipe out Vancouver Kings- riding Rate ake 8 oe By The Canqdian Press ‘OOD — The children were excited to see mm but the wheelchair athlete's biggest fan at a Tpesday was a 64-year-old ‘self-described of Wildwood bas been following the Manin. since Hansen left Edmonton, catching her “biggest hero” at the odd stop while visiting friends and family along the way. At a park in this old copper-mining town of about 850 people, Henschel finally spoke to her hero for the first time when she bodly walked over to the open-air bandstand, reached up, and shook Hansen's hand. Afterward, she was almost overcome with emotion. “I left my sister's place in at six o'clock this morning to make sure I'd be here,” she said. “I was in Vancouver the day Rick ‘left (on his two-year global odyssey). “And one place in Stony Plain outside of Edmonton, I cried, I cried so hard,” she said, eyes brimming with tears as she described how Hansen pushed himself up a hill through snow and sleet. LOVES HANSEN —“And I love Rick dearly, from the bottom of my heart. It’s just too bad that I can't go to Vancouver now to see him (finish) where he started off.” Henschel had another reason to be here Tuesday — to celebrate the birthday ot her 13-year-old grandson Jason. While the young boy cringed and rubbed his pudgy face when his grandmother gave him a big kiss, his mother rather sheepishly called her mother-in-law a “T liked Terry Fox and Steve Fonyo, but ] Rick is my biggest idol,” she said while apologizing for her tears. “I had an argument in Kamloops the other day. I said I don’t care what you think, they're all heroes, but Rick is my best hero.” Rick Hansen completed his most difficult North American climb to date Saturday, a gurelling 32 kilometres from Trail to beyond Rossland. “That was a tough one,” he said. “It's definitely the steepest and longest hill we've had in North America it’s been a long time since we've had a hill like th Rolling at a slow walking pace for most of the day, Hansen met strong winds, light drizzle and even a few snowflakes before he made it into Rossland for a presentation. Hansen said planning for the climb was more intense than regular rolling days, spending a little more time on elevation and route description charts and psychological preparation. “On a hill like that you have to prepare because it could be lly with my. body in a tentative state all the time with all the thousands of miles behind me and the previous injuries. “The challenge isn't just to get to the top of the hill, the challenge is to get to the top .. . feeling physically good.” Emmanvel Roets, the mayor of Greenwood — B.C.'s smallest city which celebrates its 90th anniversary this year —said elementary school students were pp priya 1 ‘excited about seeing Hansen, especially after Fonyo — the one-legged cancer crusader who ran gcross Canada. “At first, we thought he (Hansen) wouldn't. come through here, he'd stay along Highway 1 like Fonyo did, because it’s an easier route.” OFFER CHEQUES Roets said the original plan was to have just one from local y school children. But. four and it me up with cheques of between $100 and $200. At last count, Hansen had raised about $9. 5million for spinal cord research. Under a hot sun, with the Boundary River running behind the bandstand, a school choir sang to Hansen and his crew while onlookers waved their yellow balloons and ribbons. in V: , it was d that Grammy Awafd winner David Foster and other Canadian stars will be part of a free 90-minute musical variety show May 23 in B.C. Place Stadium to welcome Hansen home. The nationally televised show, whith will feature singers Rita MacNeil, Valdy, Shari Ulrich and Jane Mortifee, will be sponsored by the provincial government and the city of Vancouver, About 20,000 tickets have already been distributed to school children in the Greater Vancouver area. Another 1,000 tickets have gone to disabled and seniors’ groups. The remainder will be offered to the public through regular ticket outlets. The domed stadium can seat 60,000 people soe football games. Hansen is scheduled to arrive in Vancouver May 22. Short ceremonies are planned that day in suburban Coquitlam and Burnaby before he reaches the Oakridge shopping centre where he began his tour March 21, 1985. Hansen tackles hill The hill was attacked in three segments, he said, so he could focus on the short-term goal of finishing a segment, and so the team could make needed modifications to his chair to put him in the most efficient wheeling position, depending on the grade and his physical condition. Operations manager Don Alder said the axle in Hansen's chair was moved back and down, shifting his centre of gravity and giving him more stability when leaning forward on the steep slopes. Without the change, said Alder, there was a dangert: of Hansen tipping forward on the steeper segments. Ministry of Transportation and Highways figures indicate the hill has an average grade of about nine per cent. Regardless of the strain, Hansen said he enjoys tests such as the Trail-Rossland climb because it gives him a sense of achievement that flat terrain doesn’t. After the climb past Rossland, Hansen made good time Sunday. COUNCIL SAYS East, is in hot water in the West Kootenay after sup- porting an electoral redistri- bution plan that would pre- serve the federal riding of Vancouver Kingsway. The main problem with his submission to have the fed- eral boundary commission stick with its original plan to keep Vancouver Kingsway in that Kootenay West would be absorbed by adjacent con- stituencies and lose its Con- servative MP Bob Brisco. Williams said Tuesday in a telephone interview from Victoria he will immediately write to the federal com mission to clarify his position which is to retain Vancouver Kingsway but not at the ex- pense of Kootenay West. FOR THE RECORD In an article on the province-wide, one-day tea. chers’ walkout in the April 29 Castlegar News, Rick Pon gracz was referred to as rep resenting the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council. In fact, Pongracz was not representing the council but was addressing the teachers as an individual. Weather Sunny skies and warm temperatures are in store for the Castlegar area for the next three to five days. Highs near 30° and the lows near 6° House of Commons commit tee hearing additional sub- missions on the redistribu tion question Monday in Vancouver. “Obviously the NDP in the Lower Mainland is not speak ing with the same voice as the NDP (in the West Koot enay),” Brisco said in an During boundary commis sion hearings here last fall, Lyle Kristiansen, the NDP member Brisco defeated in the last election, joined his rival in opposition to elim- inating Kootenay West. OPPOSED PLAN Nelson Mayor Gerald Rot ering, who also spoke last fall against losing Kootenay West, said Tuesday that Williams was probably angry because the commission changed its mind and prop. Couple dies in Trail By CasNews Staff Two Trail residents were found dead in a parked vehicle on Rossland Avenue in Trajl Sunday morning. Trail RCMP say Elizabeth Lenardon, 20, and David Paul Piva, 31, were removed from the front seat of a 1974 Mer. cury at 11 a.m. and were dead on arrival at Trail Re- gional Hospital Police say there is no indi cation of foul play. Coroner Paul Ogtow will be holding an inquiry into the deaths. and held by New Democrat Ian Waddell. “Besides, the issues are more diverse here,” said Rotering. “What is an issue in Van couver East is likely to be an issue in Vancouver King. sway. “That's not the case here. For example, low-cost coal transportation is bread and butter to East Kootenay residents, but isn’t that im- portant to West Kootenay residents.” Williams said he has noth- ing against the West Koot- way, which carries a heavy constituency workload be- cause of a large immigrant population. He said the problem with eliminating Vancouver King- sway is that the redistri- bution would give disprop- ortionately larger represen- tation to the wealthy Van- couver suburbs of West Van- ‘couver and Delta. “Well, it might be possible to keep Kootenay West, if the boudnary commission cleaned up the discrepancies between the suburbs and the éity of Vancouver,” Williams said. Alcohol and drugs to blame: study CRANBROOK (CP) — Ab- senteeism caused by alcohol and drug abuse has a major impact on coal mine produc- tion in the East Kootenays, a provincial government study group was told Tuesday. Doug Delahunt, a training officer with Crowsnest Re sources, a mining company operating in southeastern British Columbia, told a public hearing on aleohol and drug abuse that absenteeism in lowering the competitive ness of Elk Valley coal com panies because of lost pro- duction. Delahunt, one of two coal company representatives who made the submission, recommended that more as- sistance be available to em ployees who have alcohol and drug problems. Delahunt said there is only one treatment centre for abusers in the Elk Valley, which has a population of 22,000. Jim Ryan, chairman of the study group, said employee drug and alcohol abuse in B.C. is not epidemic but is a serious problem. “It is a chronically, fatal, terminal disease,” he said, and abuse in the workplace affects an employee's fellow workers, the company and community. Ryan said more than 10 per cent of people abuse alcohol or drugs while on the job in B.C. The committee, co-spon sored by the Workers’ Com pensation Board and Minis try of Health, is expected to complete its six-week tour of the province May 14. System not working By RON NORMAN Editor Castlegar council is dissatisfied with the new provincial ambulance dis- patching system located in Kamloops. Local ambulance calls used to be dir- ected to a dispatching centre in Trail, but the service was recently central ized in Kamloops. However, council is concerned about problem sgetting through to the Kam- loops centre should service But Ald. Len Embree said the con- tingency plan appears more a “catch as catch can” plan. “I still have some questions” about the efficiency of the new system compared to the old local dispatch system, Embree said. He said he would be “much happier” if Gotto made a firm commitment to install local emergency radio frequen: cies in the radios in each of the between the West Kootenay and Kam- loops be disrupted. The provincial Emergency Health Services Commission says it has a “contingency plan” for instances when telephone contact with Kamloops is lost. P. Gotto, Emergency Health Ser- vices regional manager in Cranbrook, said the Castlegar ambulance chief will distribute a list of local employees and their telephone numbers to other emergency services. “If a line failure occurs that makes it impossible for the public to contact Kamloops dispatch, our system may be accessed by calling one or more of our employees,” Gotto says in a letter to council. As well, -he said once the telephone failure has been ieipradenin EHR will ioned in Castlegar, rather than simply saying the fre quencies “may” be installed. Mayor Audrey Moore questioned who would install the frequencies. “They would not give us a direct answer,” responded Ald. Carl Henne, chairman of council's protective ser vices committee. Council agreed to write to the Emer- gency Health Services saying it is “ex- tremely important” that the radio fre- quencies be installed in local ambul. ances. “I think it’s common sense,” Embree said. Students hear about campaign By CasNews Staff An informational meeting Monday at Kinnaird junior secondary school to inform students of the effects of Castlegar teachers’ four-day old in str was ded by only 25 aA According to Mike Rodgers, stu- dents from both Stanley Humphries secondary school and Kinnaird Junior staff “We will also have the capability of staffing one or two base stations either at the (Castlegar) hospital or at our ambulance station,” he said. “This woulid then act as s temporary dis patch centre.” Gotto also pointed out that there will still be direct contact with Kamloops via the radio repeater on Red Moun- tain. In addition, “local emergency radio frequencies may be installed in the radios in each of the ambulances sta. tioned in Castlegar,” Gotto said. “This would increase our ability to provide communication in case of an emergen- cy.” dary school were invited to at- tend the noon-hour meeting at KJSS, but few attended despite the fact some 50 KJSS students walked out of classes last week to protest the teachers’ work-to-rule campaign. Rodgers, the Castlegar and District Teachers’ Association president and a KJSS teacher, held the meeting with Castlegar school board chairman Kay Johnson to “tell them our (the tea. chers’) point of view.” “I'm not trying to preach to the kids,” said Rodgers, who explained the intention was to help students under. stand the teachers’ actions. He said most of the older students from SHSS understood the issues, but he admitted many of the students feel they are being punished. “There's always innocent bystanders in any kind of confrontation,” said Rodgers. “It's unfortunate.” Rodgers explained that instruction- only, which was introduced in response to the provincial government's con troversial Bill 20, Teaching Profession Act, is also difficult on teachers. “Teachers are also suffering from work-to-rule,” he said. “We enjoy the extracurricular activities as much as they (the students) do.” But Rodgers explained that the extracurricular activities are such as dances and team sports, are not “rights” as the students say but rather, are supervised voluntarily by teachers. “We sympathize with them, but what can you do?” he said. Rodgers said B.C. Teachers’ Feder ation representatives will meet in Vancouver Saturday to discuss further strategy or review any available gov: ernment amendments. SELKIRK MURAL . . . Selkirk College student D. Dan Morslander painted this mural on a wall outside of the communications department at the college. Castlegar News TRAIL ALD. Norm Barry made the front page of Monday's Vancouver Sun. Sun staff reporter John Dunn featured Barry in an article about Rick Hansen's trip to Trail. Dunn reported the story about how Barry, 34, was paralysed in July, 1980 when an amphibious plane he was :flying crashed on takeoff about 80 kilometres north of Trail. Barry suffered a compression fracture that drove a piece of back vertabra into his spinal cord. He had no use of his legs at first. His two passengers eventually died. Now Barry has partial use of his legs and can get around on crutches, He adds that if he was restricted to a wheelchair he couldn't live in Trail. “I can't go to a show. I can't go to the arena. I can’t go to city hall.” In his first term as alderman, Barry has decided city hall is number one on his list of buildings to be made wheelchair accessible. He is chairman of the traffic and safety committee. ALSO FEATURED in Monday's Sun was Castlegar resident Bruce Ketchum and his dog Ruffles. Sun photographer Craig Hodge captured Ketchum riding on his bike to see Hansen. And who was hanging out of the basket on the rear of the bike? Ruffles, of course. THEY COULD have called comedian Steve Martin “The Nose That Walks” during his filming of the movie Roxanne in Nelson last summer. Martin sported a huge nose ala Cyrano de Bergerac for the movie in which he plays a small town fire chief. Screen Gems Canada had asked the media — including the CasNews — to hold off on showing any Martin photos with the nose because the company wanted to save the surprise for its publicity for the film's opening. That seems to have gone by the boards with a clip of Roxanne shown April 24 on The Tonight Show. Fellow comedian Chevy Chase showed the clip for Tonight Show host Johnny Carson. No one is quite sure why Chase showed the clip, though Chase explained tongue-in-cheek that he is promoting Martin's films and Martin is pumping his movies. Anyway, the clip showed Martin in one of the scenes filmed in Nelson, The film is slated for Canadian premiere June 27 in Nelson at the Civic Theatre followed by a formal dinner and dance. HOW BIG WAS IT? A Revelstoke fisherman told the Arrow Lakes News a trout he landed in the Upper Arrow Lakes weighed in at 30 pounds. But a local fisheries biologist says the fish looks closer to 20 pounds. In any case, it is one of the larger trouts to come out of the Arrow Lakes system. The fisherman — who the Nakusp paper doesn't identify — caught the trout near the Shelter Bay ferry landing. A photo of the fish was shown to Bob Lindsay, a fisheries biologist in Nelson. Lindsay figures the trout tops 20 pouiftis, but isn't a 30-pounder. Lindsay had a close look at the photos to attempt to determine whether or not the fish was a marked fish or a native trout. He said that the photo did not clearly show Fellow student Rick Graham also helped with the project. CosvewsPhoto the maxiliary or andipose clips so it could be a native trout. Big trout are known to have spawned in the Columbia River upstream from thé Revelstoke and Mica dams and are now blocked from upstream migration by the dams. Lindsay said that the’ fish was definitely an Arrow Lakes variety with yellow belly and fins. The giant Gerrard stock rainbow can reach 20 pounds in seven years, which is when they were planted in the Arrow Lakes system. ‘The photos of the fish are on display at Johnny's Gulf in Revelstoke. A FORMER Ghatoger man has been appointed executive director of the Canadian Community Newspa- pers Association. Ress Mavis, who takes up his new position on Sept. 1, worked under Ron Minnion in the Bank of Montreal here in 1960. He went from Castlegar to Whitehorse, eventually. leaving the B of M to become secretary-treasurer of a school district. From 1974 to December of 1985 he was co-owner of the Port Hardy North Island Gazette and joined CCNA in July of last year as director of its Presentation Bureau. * JOHNNY CLARK - in 1955, THE HANDSOME felow in the photo is Johnny Clarke, Castlegar's Good Citizen of the Year for 1960 for the work he did with the Castlegar and District Project Society in making what is now Pioneer Arena a reality. The photo surfaced as a result of the Castlegar News. celebrating its 40th anniversary. Johnny is looking towards Rigby's Store (now the Li-Lite). Over his shoulder can be seen Robinson's Grocery and Meats in what is now the Castlegar News building. Robinson's was operated by Chuck and Helen Rebinson, who still lives in Nelson. Chuck was projectionist for CasNews founding publisher L.V. (Les) Campbell who opened the Castle Theatre on Jan. 3, 1947 and started the Castlegar News on Aug. 7 of the same year. This picture was likely taken around 1955 because it was about that time the Castlegar News was built onto Robinson's Store and occupied what is now Columbia Saws. Harcourt in Nelson By CasNews Staff New Democrat Leader Mike Harcourt will make a visit to the West Kootenay next weekend Harcourt will fly into Castlegar Airport at 12:45 p.m. Saturday and head im mediately to Nelson for a private lunch. He will mainstreet in Nel- son from 3-4 p.m. with Mayor Gerald Rotering before at tending a public dinner at 5 p.m. at the Heritage Inn's Hume Room. The dinner is sponsored by the Nelson NDP club. Harcourt will leave Nelson that evening. m2 FRANK’S SHARPENING SERVICE Castlegar, B.C. (Behind “Castle tre") FOR ALL TYPES 10 Litres ~~ HYDRAUL > "7 ydrautic fuid. 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