By LORNE The Royal. Canadian’ Le gion's St. Valentine's Day Dance was a complete suc- and everyone who attended the event thought the same. The next event will-be the St. Patrick's Day Dance Mareh 14, Watch the news- paper for more The plan for the dance is to build the event inté the same kind of night as Robbie Burns Night. The Old Time Fiddlers fraternal for a total of 493. Lorne, Ashton for Feb. 9, Tom Flynn and Jim Olson for Feb, 16, and Tom Flynn for Feb. 23. One sympathy card was sent to the Lloyd Hall family. be at IR [365-5210 discos jegar News Business of April, ¢ © Small Business & Contractors * Personal * Form-Legging DePaoli special guest. President Muriel Wilson welcomed special guest Jac- que DePaoli, the hospital dietitian, to the March meet- ing of the Castlegar and Dis- trict Hospital auxiliary. DePaoli informed the members that a special cook- book for diabetics will soon be available for sale at the gift shop. She also spoke of an educational enhancement program for diabetics that will be offered at the hospital as an extension to what is currently offered at the Trail and Nelson hospitals. As well, a community pro- gram for teenage diabetics called Shapedown will start shortly. President Wilson then wel- comed two new members, J. Martini and D. Koenig. The regular business of the meeting then resumed. The knitting convenor reported that a knitted baby set was donated to the gift shop by Pearl Androsoff. The members thanked Mrs. Androsoff for her gen- erosity. The convenor for the candy stripers told the meeting there was an orientation ses- sion for five new members. In addition, two former stripers who reached the age of 19 have joined the auxiliary so that they can volunteer their time in the Extended Care Unit. The gift shop will be reor- ganized so that some of the items will bemore bh This will be held on April 10 and 11 in the old Kootenay Builders store on Columbia Avenue. After the conclusion of the meeting the: members en- The spring rummage sale was the main topic of dis- cussion. joyed light bi Auxiliary ‘meetings are held every third Monda: the hospital board C Nine youths attend snowcamp Nine young people from the Pentcostal Tabernacle recently went to a weekend snowcamp at the Fernie Trinity Pentecostal Taber- nacle. The event started off with registration and an evening session. The guest speaker “was Rev. Mark Love, youth pas- tor at Beddington Pentecos- tal Church in Calgary. The singing group called Undi- vided from the same church , gave the special music. The following day, during. the morning and afternoon, youths sel and par- ticipated in their ¢hoice of various sports activities. These activities included: cross country and downhill skiing, swimming, volleyball, racketball, ice skating and ice hockey. 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Hi RRA ae Dy het ,nee of the program, . ee r a big to (the government),” be said. leading Mae pies goed wehcald st up and take var teft: it wp to the individual schoo! ‘may “open the door” to rational girls.at SHSS but of sex education. pe see i way,” he said. yy been shown to a class of Grade 9 ‘Wayllng hopes Gat public Doalth aves a) continued on peoge vs az 4 Sections (A, B, C &D) ON ITS ROOF . ...a tractor trailer hauling a load of plywood lost control at h i the Highway 3 i ge at app y rolled onto its roof on Columbia Avenue, Details were not available but 11 a.m. Wednesday and_ on BARRETT IN TOP FORM AT NDP ROAST By RON NORMAN Editor Ottawa. Barrett. The old Dave Barrett is back and in top form. The former New Democractic Party leader and B.C. premier showed Saturday night that he hasn't lost the quick wit and sharp tongue that made him one of Canada’s most colorful politicians as he launched a blistering attack on the governments in Victoria and Barrett was the guest of honor at a Kootenay West NDP Constituency Association roast entitled “Thanks for the Memories.” But the roast was more of a toast to the man who led the province from 1972-1975. Ahead table that included B.C. Federation of Labor president Ken Georgetti and Bill King, a cabinet minister in the former Barrett government, recalled humorous but harmless anecdotes about the increasingly pudgy Barrett, who recently quit his job as an open lime talk show host at CJOR radio in Vancouversto run federally for the NDP, says he decided to return to politics out of a “sense of obligation and commitment.” “Any damn fool ean make money and I proved it,” Barrett said of his stint as a talk show host where he reputedly commanded a six-figure salary. “I frankly don't feel 1 have a right to stay on the sidelines," he said. Barrett also said the NDP’s recent strong showing in the polls is “for real” and predicted it will go even higher. And the former premier called the sale of West Kootenay Power and Light Co. to a U.S.-based utility “the dumbest decision on, the face of this earth.” The remark drew huge applause from the more than 400 NDP supporters who turned out for the banquet in Nelson's Maryhall. Barrett went on to call the proposed sale “a scandalous betrayal of the people of this area.” “Where the hell does your MLA stand on this issue?” he demanded, adding later: “No MLA of any party was ever elected . to sell this provinee out.” Barrett also linked the Mulroney govetnment to the deal, saying that selling West Kootenay Power “is all part of the free trade idea.” He suggested the sale is a test case for free trade. Barrett said many of the reasons he wants to get back into politics came from watching the Conservatives. “It i incredible scene we have witnessed,” Barrett 5 “Have you ever seen a government so scandal-ridden? Never.” He claimed the federal Tories have hired every Conservative “from coast to coast” and in the process managed to make Liberal leader John Turner “look like a piker.” He pointed to the decision to buy F-18 fighter planes from McDonnell Douglas for $22 million apiece in order to protect Canada. continued on page A2 Crown stays charges in Powers case By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer After serving only six months in prison, Dixie Dee Powers, operator of a pyramid scheme that RCMP say collected some $3.2 million in the West Kootenay, will not face trial for the remaining charges against her. The Castlegar News learned Tuesday that the Crown entered a stay of proceedings Jan. 16 re- garding two counts of fraud orig- inally charged against Powers and two counts of failing to gppear in court (In a stay of proceedings, Crown has discontinued the case but has up to one year to reinstate the charges if it so chodtes). A fraud conviction carries a max- dino’ in the: Jon. 21, 1987 Castlegar News. imum of 10 years while conviction of failing to appear in court carries a maximum sen- tence of two years. Powers, 36, also known as Laura Grace Gibbons, is set to be released Urban said the ads are under investigation by police but he ad- mitted it was difficult to deter the actions of someone operating out of the United States. one witness said he saw the truck plunge through the intersection on one set of wheels before it flipped. No other vehicles were involved and the driver walked away unharmed. Cashews Photo by Mike Kalesniko Report says classes too large By CasNews Staff More than 100 classrooms in the Castlegar school district violate class size recommenations, according to Robson elementary school librarian Joyce Adams, Adanis, representing the Castlegar and District Teachers’ Association, told Castlegar school trustees at the board’s regular monthly education conimittee meeting Monday night, the only remedy for the burgeoning class sizes is to hire more Adams explained that overcrowding was particularly prevalent in the pri- mary grades, in secondary school English classes and in “shop classes” such as Inustrial Education and Home Economics. : According to a CDTA brief sub mitted to the board, the recommended student load for a teacher at the secondary school level is approximate. Board pursues new plant By CasNews Staff The Castlegar and District Devel opment Board is wooing a major inter- national health care company that plans to establish a new manufacturing operation in B.C. Richard Maddocks, one of the board's two executive directors, said he has mailed an information package to Travelnol-Canada Inc., outlining the advantages of locating in Castlegar. Maddocks said he and Harry Stan, the other executive director, hope to meet with Travelnol officials in Van. couver later this month. Travelnol announced late last month said his firm has begun planning details of the facility, including site selection. The plant will manufacture single- par A ‘) use medical products such as procedure that it is planning to open a plant in t3¥5 that ies ode agridge, sees and B.C. that will employ 100 people. The company sald it has ruled oui Ceineeerh, gud purensiy compound the Lower Mainland as a possible location and is looking instead for a smaller community where its impact will be greater. Travelnol president Richard Daly Maddocks said the information pack age sent to Travelnol included four possible sites in Castlegar for the new plant. ly 120 The brief describes some teachers having class loads of over 150 and several have students loads of 200. Adams maintains that teacher mor ale is slipping due to the frustrations of having to work with the unwieldy numbers of students. According to the brief, the second greatest cause of stress in teachers is “the unmet needs of students,” a direct result of oversize classes. (The number one cause of teacher stress is listed as the “attitude/actions of provincial government” and the number three cause is “decreasing real salary.”) continued on page A2 from prison sometime in April. Powers was originally sentenced to 12 months in prison last Novem- ber when she pleaded guilty to one ing a He said the investigation is also in the hands of U.S. authorities. Castlegar News, in an attempt to jh through one of. his advertised numbers, managed to reach his assistant, Gene Lee, in Lenoir City, Tennessee, who was screening the calls. Lee explained that Guardino specialized in “psycho kinesis” to help clients obtain those things promised in the ad. After being informed that he was speaking to a reporter, Lee said he was called away by an “emergency” on another line. charge of and op pyramid scheme. That sentence did not include the six months she previously seived while awaiting trial. Powers, a self-confessed psychic, told “investors” that she knew of “God's plan to eliminate poverty.” and she promised to double mini- mum investments of $1,000 within six to nine weeks. While on trial in November, the court heard testimony that Powers inside GETTING READY: . . . Rossland- Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy, recently returned from a New Democratic Party caucus meeting in Nanaimo, says two of the areas the Opposition will focus in the © upcoming legislative session will be aboriginal land claims and AIDS education... A2 NEW PLANT: Castlegar will get a new building truss assembly plant later this year. . - FILES A MYSTERY: The case of the Immigration Department files found at a garbdyge dump near Grand Forks remains a mystery . . - a4 4 MUSIC RESULTS: Results from the first few days of the Kootenay Festival of the Arts in Trail... A& REBELS WIN: Costlegar Junior Rebels thrashed Beover Valley Nite Hawks 15-2 in the opening game of their best of seven KIJHL Western Division semi-final series ... 81 SWERVIN' MERV: VANCOUVER — Merv Fernandez signed a $7.5 million US contract today with the Los Angeles Raiders of the with the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Foot- years, became a free it Sunday. contract is a neo