a Castlegar News _ November 5, 1989 . Angie Dunsmore (left) and Karen Rysen take their Torn tobiend she Disabled access pes to be held By CasNews Staff The provincial Ministry of for the sport and recrefition division, will be looking for suggestions and im- Affairs, and Culture wants to know what changes need to be made to provincial policy and at the community level to ensure disabled people have complete access to their community's dinator of new provincial policy on the subject says. Susan Hutchinson, who was con- tracted by the ministry to head the project, said Friday she wants {o hear from disabled people and the agencies that work with them at a meeting in Castlegar Nov. 20, one of a number of meetings to be held around the provin. ce before mid-December. ‘on five draft policies that were written for the ministry by the leisure studies program at the Univer: sity of Victoria last Match. The policies state in part that the province is committed to providing disabled people with access to a full range of sport, recreation and fitness opportunities, delivering that access and promoting education and public awareness about disabled people. Hutchinson said she hopes those at the meetings will challenge the policies and point out what needs to be added or revised as well as suggesting what specific, practical steps need to be taken to ensure disabled people have recreation access. Once the meetings are over, an ad- visory committee will work with Hut- chinson to put the suggestions downon paper and revise the policies, Everyone who makes a presentation at the meetings will be sent a copy of the final draft report before it is sent to Municipal Affairs Minister Lyall Han- son, Hutchinson added. Fhe—Castlegar—meeting,—which—is being coordinated by Cathy Lafor- tune, a Robson resident who is on the Premier's Advisory Council for Per- sons with Disabilities, will be held from 1 p.m. to4 p.m. at the Sandman Inn, November 5, 1989 Castlegar’ Briefly Truck crash closes highway OSOYOOS (CP) — An isolated section of Highway 3 in the south Okanagan was closed for several hours Friday after a double trailer truck | _earrying dangerous chemicals crashed No injuries were reported when the truck flipped onto its side near the summit of Anarchist Mountain about 10 kilometres east of Osoyoos and 270 kilometres east of Vancouver The truck was carrying blue acylic acid, sodium hydroxide and white acid. But there was no major spill Provincial waste management personnel said they were mainly con- cerned about the blue acylic acid, which becomes a major problem if it comes in contact with water Eco-glasnost allowed rally SOFIA (AP) human_rights and ecological ement Ec More than 4,000 supporters of the non-official od DAVID SUZUKI . “have to be very, very wary. Mill hearings to continue The review panellooking intoa be done and the information is available before a decisions n Alberta decided to con EDMONTON(CP) controversial pulp mill in north tinue holding public hearings evidence could remain beyond its grasp The panel adjourned its fourth day of hearings for 30 Alberta New into'the — pri vote and decided to continue the hearings. He would not say'whether the vote was unanimous: Hearings are scheduled to continue today in Lac La Biche, Alt about 60 kilometres from the proposed site of the mill and notafter,”” he said despite claims that ¢ritival How is it possible for citizens participating in this. process 16 formulate a proper opinion based on @ sub mission ii the absence of thiyinformation?” minutes Friday to consider a request by Board chairman Gerry DeSorcy said the board held Democrat John McInnis to posipone the hearin $1.3 million Alberta-Pacific mill Mclnnis cited evidence earlier this week at the joint federal-provincial hearings by Environment Canada of ficials. Ina submission that caught bottrthe company amd the province off guard, department spokesman Robert Lane said further studies are needed before the panel can PeSorcy said the board is not taking @_position-on whether they have enough information to make a decision, Hearings are scheduled through November and December and the board will make recommendations on the environmental impact of the proposed Athabasca pulp mill project, as well as the cumulative impacts of all the nor reach a decision. Lane, regional director of Environment Canada, sitid Ottawa would not give its blessing to the mill without fur thern Alberta pulp projects Suzuki RAISING MONEY. ke minor hoc! Friday in the Bulgarian capital in a rally permitted by the hardline Com MeTnnis said he respected the boards decision tocarry ey display table at the Christmas Craft Fair, sponsored by the Blueberry Creek Cc y Complex. CosNews photo Hutchinson said she and Bob Yale, the ministry's director of operations Shuffle continued from front page ‘t don’t know that the moratorium’s lifted for sure but at least now there's the opportunity that the (applications) which have received staff approval and staff processing are going to goahead,” D'Arcy said Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore CAN PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES ENRICH YOUR RELATIONSHIPS? YOU CAN DISCOVER... why communication can be such a problem that communication is more than talking listening is an essential part of building _strong Kines of communication in a marriage} specific ways you can improve your communication skills. Overwaitea Sateway Shoppers SuperValu Thunderbird Trail Home Hardware ¢ Zellers Join Pastor Not all flyers receive full distribution one of these ike to do so, please phone our Circulation Department at 365-7266 7:30 p.m. AT NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY 602-74h $1. 365-5212 Personalized Christmas Cards Now is the time to order! See our complete selection of beautiful personalized Christmas Cards Castlégar News A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BANK WILL BE IN On November 15, 1989 .+.On November 16, 1989 oe + +++++On November 8, 1989 CASTLEGAR Sevecees ‘ eves On November 9, 1989 AIL .. oe -On November 10, 1989 CRESTON . «++++--On November 28, 1989 TO DISCUSS YOUR BUSINESS’ FINANCIAL AND MANAGEMENT NEEDS WHY NOT CALL US TODAY AT 426-7241 TO ARRANGE AN APPOINTMENT Lo Bonque offre ses services dons les deux langues officielles BACKING INDEPENDENT BUSINESS Federal Business Banque federale Development Bank dedeveloppement — Canali DEWDNEY | TOURS BY 1355 Bay Avenue, Trail Call: 1-800-332-0282 West's Travel 365-7782 agreed that having a local MLA as provincial secretary can’t hurt “It should be good for us that somebody from our area is in charge of GO BC,”" Moore said. ‘I’m sure Howard will do his best to honor all those applications. **Make sure you print that,"" added with a laugh D'Arcy said he hopes the elimination of the ministers of state for the province's eight development regions won't affect the ability of the regions to get Victoria’s ear “I'm hoping that the methods of collecting regional input to gover- nment decisions which had been in place will continue to be there,"* D’Ar- cy said. The ministers of state will be replaced by parliamentary secretaries from the Socred backbench who will have responsibility for each region, and will answer to the new Minister of Regional and Economic Development Stan Hagen who moves into the new job from the Ministry of Advanced Education. Moore said Hagen has travelled ex- tensively throughout the province including Castlegar where he was a frequent visitor to Selkirk College. “*L personally feel he'll do an ex- cellent job”’ as minister of regional and economic development, Moore said Both Moore and D'Arcy had good words for new Transportation and Highways Minister Rita Johnston. “She’s_a_ competent minister and able and I think that it’s good * D'Arcy said Moore said Johnston, as the former minisier of municipal affairs, is familiar with West Kootenay transpor- tation problems “| think she knowledge to her Moore said Moore approac tosee that, brings all that new ministry,”’ D'Arcy said new Forests Minister Claude Richmond ‘‘is going to be an improvement over what we've had.”” Richmond replaces Dave Parker who takes over the Crown Lands Ministry from Dirks. “Certainly, the important thing is it means the mass privatization proposals involving new TFLs (tree farm licences) which Mr. Parker was constantly promoting are quietly but securely gone into the burners,’ D'Arcy said. ‘‘I think that’s important for the forest resource in British Columbia and all of the public."’ D'Arcy said the main thing he looks for in the short term from Richmond is at least a partial moratorium on the ex- port of raw logs, especially from ‘the northwest part of the province. “In an era when the sawlog supply throughout the province is dwindling, that aspect of forest policy of the Socred government needs to be quickly reversed,” he said. ‘And this (appoin- tment) gives some hope for that.’” Moore noted that Richmond is from Kamloops where the forest industry plays a key role in people’s lives and the economy **So he should bring a kind of under- standing and sensitivity to the Ministry of Forests position,’’ Moore said, ad- ding that she hopes Richmond. will pursue the idea of using waste wood to generate power in various areas of the province, including the West Kootenay. “I would be very pleased to see that initiative."’ Meanwhile, all seven Castlegar school trustees say they support Van der Zalm’s decision to retain Tony Brummet as education minister “There's not a lot the Socreds do that I agree with but that’s one of them,’’ board vice-chairman Ed Conroy said Saturday Recycling continued from front page tuations, particularly for mewsprint and cardboard entering our recycling operation.”* Shipmaker says in the letter the government could stockpile recycled materials when prices are low and sell when prices “become reasonable."” broker would provide the initiative local government recycling programs require and would give industries which are dependent upon recyclable materials a reliable Shipmaker writes. “A government supply of goods,” Cunningham said the provincial government will fund 100 per cent of the first $5,000 for each municipality CHRISTMAS §ECHRISTMAS IN TIME VANCOUVER Nutcracker Suite Spokane Day Trip Dec, 23-27, 1989 December 3 Spend o Christmas getaway in $ luxury at Ming Court. 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In the RDCK’s case, with eight municipalities involved, that means the government will chip in $40,000 to get the program underway He said the final cost of a West Kootenay recycling program is unknown at this point but the cost *‘will be much less than most people think.’" Nelson, Salmo and Areas E, F andG have already completed a recycling study ard are ready to begin a program that will, in effect, serve as a flagship program for the rest of the regional district, Cunningham said. Advertisements will be placed throughout the province as early as next week for the position of recycling coordinator for those areas. Once hired, the coordinator will work with the other areas of the regional district in getting their recycling programs un. derway, he said. Cunningham said the RDCK direc tors hope the end result will be a coor dinated and cost-efficient program for the entire regional district Lottery numbers The following are the winning num bers drawn in Thursday’s lottery B.C. KENO — 3, 4, 17, 22, 42, 46, 48 and 56. The following are the winning num. bers drawn in Wednesday's lottery LOTTO 6/49 — 14, 16, 20, 22, 34 and 42. The bonus number was 39 There was no winner of the jackpot of $2,469,094.10. The four Extra winning numbers for British Columbia were 34, 64, 70 and 76. B.C. KENO — 10, 15, 41 and 49. These numbers, provided by The Canadian Press, must be considered unofficii 23, 28, 32, 40, Dirks ‘pleased’ with new post as secretary By CasNews Staff Nelson-Creston MLA Howard Dirks said his appointment as provincial secretary is a move’"’ for him “{Certainly | look forward to the challenges of a new ministry,’’ Dirks told the Castlegar News. “*I'm quite pleased.”” Dirks said it was difficult to “‘juggle and balance” his previous responsibilities as minister of Crown lands and minister of state for Thompson-Okanagan and Kootenay, two large regions of the province. Dirks said he thinks Premier Bill Vander Zalm recognized the burden when he eliminated the ministers of state for the province’s economic development regions in Wednesday’s cabinet shuffle. The responsibility for the regions will be handled by Socred backbenchers who have yet to be appointed to the positions. They will answer to the new Minister of Regidnaband Economic ,.Develop- ment Stan Hagen. ‘ Some of Dirks’ new respon- sibilities as provincial secretary in- HOWARD DIRKS . "Hook forward to the challenges” clude administraripp of elections, custody of official documents, government records and archives and lottery grants. In memory Peter Samoyloff Peter Roy Samoyloff of Ootischenia passed away Wednesday, Nov 1, 1989 at age 58. Mr. Samoyloff was born Oct. 8, 1931, at Kamsack, Sask., and came to Ootischenia with his parents when he was eight years old. He received his schooling in Robson, attended normal school in Victoria and received his bachelor of education degree from the University of British Columbia. After receiving his degree, Mr. Samoyloff began teaching in Trail and taught there until coming to Castlegar and teaching at Stanley Hum- phries secondary school until his retirement in 1986 after 23 years of ser- vice Mr. Samoyloff married Polly Nichvolodoff in a traditional Doukhobor ceremony, first at the home of the bride in Glade and then at the home of the groom in Ootischenia on Nov. 15, 1959 Mr. Samoyloff was an active member of the community, playing hockey and ball and coaching for many years As a very active member of the USCC, Mr. Samoyloff started the Stanley Humphries Doukhobor Choir which sang for Queen Elizabeth when she visited Selkirk College. The choir travelled throughout the United States and Canada and recently gave a performance at the United Nations. In 1987, he served as coordinator of the Tolstoy Heritage Festival. At the time of his death he was serving as coordinator of the Canada-Soviet Union Writers Exchange in conjunction with Selkirk College Asa person who mau his life’s work the promotion of peace and un derstanding, he served on many committees to achieve this goal, part of which was the responsibility of translating for the many dignitaries and groups that have come to the area for the many conferences held on multi- culturalism Mr. Samoyloff is survived by his wife Polly of Ootischenia; four sons, Perry of Ootischenia, Lawrence and wife Stephanie of Ootischenia, Stephan of Vancouver, and Dwayne of Ootischenia; sister Margaret Obedkoff of Castlegar; two nieces and one nephew. He was predeceased by his parents and a brother, William, in 1970. Funeral services were held Saturday at the Brilliant Cultural Centre at-7 p.m. and-continue today at 11 a.m. with burial at I p.m. at the Ootischenia Cemetery Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Pauline Hadikin Pauline Hadikin of Krestova passed away Monday, Oct. 30, 1989, at age 80. Mrs. Hadikin was born Sept. 29, 1909, at Ootischenia. She moved to Shoreacres in her late teens and married Fred Michael Hadikin there in 1933. After her marriage she moved to Krestova where she had since resided She enjoyed gardening and crocheting as hobbies She is survived by one son, Fred of Grand Forks; three daughters, Pauline and husband Larry Poznikoff of Krestova, Lily and husband George Perepelkin of Glade, and Marilyn Stooshnoff of Kelowna; 11 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by a younger sister in 1912 and her husband in 1980. Funeral services were held on Wednesday, Nov Krestova Hall with burial in the Krestova Cemetery Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel 1989, at the munist government, witnesses said The demonstrators some chanting dum,"’ marched on the parliament, where six delegates handed deputy speaker Atanas Dimitrov an 11,500-isgnature petition against projects they deemed environmentally harmful, notably the damming of moun tain streams in southwest Bulgaria Demonstrators also sang the Bulgarian national anthem and a popular song in praise of fine forests, and yelled ‘*glasnost”’ ina reference to the policy of greater openness promoted by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev “democracy” and “‘referen: P P Fighting heavy in Nicaragua MANAGUA (CP) — Troops and U.S.-backed Contras wepelockeds=, in fierce battles in eight provinces in Nicaragua, and hundreds of rebels were reported Friday to be retreating across the border to Honduras. At least 14 soldiers were reported treated in hospital for wounds sustained since fighting erupted Wednesday, a hospital official said Neither side gave casualty figures. Meanwhile, plans for a meeting between Nicaragua’s leftist gover nment and the Contras were in disarray with the two sides asking for delays and Honduras refusing to attend. Protesters demand reforms EAST BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people chanting “freedom, freedom” rallied in East Berlin Saturday to protest repression and demand reforms from Communist party chief Egon Krenz, who promised a high-level government shakeup As many as one million people spread over several sections of the city, police and pro-democracy activists said, in the largest demonstration in East German history The rally came as hundreds of East Germans continued to emigrate to the West through Czechoslovakia, where about 5,000 had packed the West German Embassy in Prague in recent days to seek asylum : Typhoon victims not found BANGKOK (CP) — A search Saturday turned up no sign of 97 people, including three from Canada, who were aboard an oil drilling ship that capsized when a typhoon swept the Gulf of Thailand with 160 kilometre an hour winds. Two cargo vessels and about 100 fishermen aboard 14 small boats were also reported missing as the worst storm in 35 years, Typhoon Gay, hit the gulf “*No bodies, no liferafts and no debris,’’ said Carol Scott, a spokesman for Unocal. The oil company is based in Los Angeles and its Thai subsidiary owns the stricken ship, Seacrest PCB regulations promised MONTREAL (CP) — The federal government will announce new regulations Monday banning all shipment abroad of PCBs, Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard said ““We have to have a permanent legal instrument to stop provinces or companies from sending PCBs out of the country," Bouchard told repor ters during an environental conference in Montreal. “The new rules we will announce Monday should give us that powerr"’ Bouchard pointed to Quebec’s shipment of potentially toxic polychloride biphenyls, or PCBs, to Britain and France as examples of what will not be allowed Sludge shipped to Mississippi MOSS POINT, Miss. (AP) — Sixty-three train cars full of sewer sludge have finally found a landing spot here after Louisiana residents kicked upa stink about the smelly cargo “I see no problem at all with receiving the train. The county handles much more hazardous waste every single day,"’ said Mayor Louis Jackson. ‘Moss Point prides itself in being the industrial backbone of Mississippi." But the state government wasn’t so friendly “We don’t want it here. We're going to do what we have todo to get it out of here,’’ said Mike Goff, Gov. Ray Mabus’s special assistant for natural resources Red Cross wants 50,000 donors OTTAWA (CP) — The Canadian Red Cross hopes to sign up 50,000 people who will allow bone marrow to be withdrawn from their pelvises so somebody else could live: The organization announced Friday it aims to register the marrow donors over the next three years to help the hundreds of leukemia victims “You're going from a zero-per-cent chance of recovery in some cases to a 57-per-cent chance with the transplant,"’ said Dr. Ken Smiley, a medical consultant for the organization. The $2.85-million project will provide a registry of volunteers gathered from the 16 Red Cross blood centres across the country, Smiley said ata news conferenc@announcing the project ' ' U.S. has ‘climate of fear VANCOUVER (CP) Ten thousand Americans are fired every year for trying to establish unions, a professor of labor law from Harvard Law School said “There's aclimate of fear in the United States,”" industrial relations conference. “Each year in the U.S. 100,000 workers vote (to form unions) . . . ten thousand get canned.” er said union membership is dropping dramatically across North Paul Weiler told an America warns audience GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. (CP) — Industry-sponsored environmental impact assessments for forestry and oil and gas projects are ‘‘scientifically worthless,” says David Suzuki, well known scientist and broadcaster Company-sponsored environmen tal assessments can’t be taken seriously because **we know so little about the ecosystem, we don’t know the con: sequences . . . we have to be very, very wary of the results,’ Suzuki said Claims that companies can recreate forests through reforestation are also “arrogant,” Suzuki told an audience Thursday in the northwestern Alberta community of Grande Prairie “No group of human beings has ever grown a forest,”’ said Suzuki, ad ding he’s surprised by those who con- ténd that a forest's entire ecosystem can be re-created. Reforested areas are ‘“* not forests, he said. “Foresters don’t know what the hell plantations” aforest is Suzuki steered away from commen ting directly on pulp mill development in northern Alberta during his speech but urged the crowd to become in volved in the world-wide fight to save the environment “What is going on now isjthat you area part of a vanguard that history will say isa revolution.”* He said the current generation is the last who has a chance to rescue the planet trom the ‘‘insatiable monster of development, growth and profit.”” The event-was—organized—by—the South Peace Association, which opposes pulp mill development in the Peace River area Health board sets $15,000 The Ministry of Health is renewing its commitment to—provide com munity-based grants to local Union Boards of Health The Central Kootenay Union Board of Health has received $15,000 to financially support this initiative, a news release says. The purpose of this program is to build healthy individuals and caring communities by enabling community participation in developing local programs. A commit tee has been formed to facilitate the distribution of these funds. It is the intent of the committee to Environmental provide support to projects aimed at individual locally developed programs or to develop projects that will benefit all areas covered by the Central Kootenay Union Board of Health which invites applications for con sideration of funding. Applications must be submitted by Nov. 24, 1989, to 403-33rd St., Castlegar, B.C. VIN 389. Further information can be ob tained from Castlegar Ald. - Patti Richards, committee Hearings continued trom front poge chairman of the grants . before a three-man arbitration’ board headed by Vancouver mediator John Kinsey. The board also includes Bob Henderson, the president, and Ken Halliday, a private businessman nominated to the board by the company The mill's manager, Ron Belton, who Espenhain said testified last week, comment on the hearings Friday as did union's national industrial relations declined to mill manager Wilf Sweeney earlier in the week The hearings will conclude the week of Feb. 12, Espenhain said, when the company will bring in a financial ex pert and sales representatives from Montreal and Vancouver. The union will also have testimony from a finan cial expert, he added ther information on its environmental impact The Alberta-Pacific mill is one of a serie developments in the province, a $3.5-billion forestry boom. The mill, one of six pulp project past year, will be built 200 kilometres north of Edmonton on the banks of the Athabasca River of massive announced in th Lane’s testimony touched off a war of words between the federal and provincial Environment ministers. Both Lucien Bouchard and Alberta's Ralph Klein later declared a truce, agreeing there had been a misunderstanding and that the hearings should continue But McInnis said it is unfair to people before the panel to have incomplete information on the appearing mill’s environmental impact. “It’s crucial that the studie on with public hearings. But he warned that a second set of public hearings may become necessary if the needed infor mation becomes available two years later He cited the province's approval of an Alberta Energy Company pulp mill at Slave Lake, Alla., asan example of @ bad de He said shortly after the mill was approved on Aug sion made on insufficient information Alberta Environment released a study showing critical oxygen shortages in the Athabasca River the Slave Lake mill would make things worse Gerry Fenner, spokesman for Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries, the Japanese-controlled company building on The study said the proposed mill, said he feels all the necessary infot mation will come out in the public hearings unhappy wi CP News Analysis By JIM COYLE OTTAWA (CP) become the political bu Watering one’s wine ha sword for compromise in recent days Meech Lake combatants and abortion foey alike have been urged by political leaders to dilute their expec tations. But on the abortion issue, no one seemed Lo much like the vintage served Friday by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's government. Many promptly denounced it as untit for driitking from Tory MP’ in the anti-abortion camp that they may hold their nose, Significantly, though,eame hints put the glass to their lips and swallow ANALYSIS Nova Scotia Conservative MP Peter MeCreath, for instance, totd-reporters he would have preferred much tougher legislation But in not adopting a gestational cutoff, which would permit abertions only until avertain stage of fetal development, “‘at least’ philosophically we have recognized what isa veryimp: tant principle to pro-life people Thatis, he said, that life begins at conception It was telling, perhaps, that anti-abortionists like McCreath claimed only symbolic victories, that anti abortionists from all parties sounded the angriest and that anti-abortionists in) cabinet sounded vaguely apologetic WALKS FINE LINE \ Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazankowski saift he more restrictive, bul would have preferred somethin ‘we're dealing with the art of the possible here Revenue Minister Otto Jelinek said he is opposed to abortion, but “you can’t come in here and put Four own personal, emotional issues on the table when you are representing the nation abortion bill pas Mulroney wants, the end Anti-abortionists th new law Inside Tory ranks, with 167 MPs. sidered a completely free vote, despite that label applied , it cannot be con by the government When marching orders go out from Mulroney to the 40-member cabinet to remain onside, there is persuasion at work that few career-conscious backben- chers will likely ignore Reasonable Tory solidarity will be needed. The 83-member Liberal caucus is pretty much split ‘on the issue, and MPs on either side can find reason to oppose the bill Liberal Don Boudria, a vehement amti-abortionist, said he for one could not support a bill he said amounted to abortion on demand The 43 New Democrats are supposedly bound by party policy 10 oppose making abortion a criminal of fence. However, there are dissenters in caucus, among them leadership candidate Howard McCurdy who favors restrictions after a certain point in fetal develop- ment SEES SUPPORT But pro-choice New Democrat MP Dawn Black from British Columbia sdid Friday she expects ‘my caucus colleagues will support the party position More than a year ago, before the November 1988 election, MPs held a series of free votes and rejected a »vernment compromise motion and five amendments including anti-abortion and pro-choice options The one that came closest to passing was an anti abortion motion defeated by a vote of 118-105 A survey this year by the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League of MPs’ views on abortion suggested the Commonsis still deeply spl Of 294 questioned, 114 — most trom the Tory 40 Liberals but with almost were adamantly on. Eighty-six favored some restriction, 63 choice and 31 refused to state a preference ce Department lawyers have tried to draft a aw that would pass in the Commons and be acceptable eme Court of Canada, which struck down aw in January 1988. The court said forcing a woman by criminal sanction to carry a fetus to term Violated her constitutional righ liberty and security of the person Pipeline pact signed VANCOUVER (CP) Vancouver Harvey Permack, ge Island is finally going to get a natural gas pipeline from the British Columbia ainland A binding agreement on financing Energy of Vancou the $271-million pipeline was announ Federal Energy N cial governments — almost 35 yearsaf- B.C. Energy Minis ter the first pipeline proposal Art Willms of Pac “Everything now isin place... con ced Friday by the federal and provin signed the agrecme struction can begin immediately,” said Vancouver Pacific Coast Energy Corp. build the line. Pacific joint-venture between Westcoast neral manager of The federal government has com mitted $150 million to the project: a $100-million grant and a $$0-million repayable loan. The B.C. government a $25-million repayable h will Coast is a 50-50 Alberta ver and will provide Energy Corp. of Edmonton loan linister Jake Epp Jack Davis and Coast Energy own and operate the Pacific Coast, which will construct atic pipeline, is responsible for the rest of the financing nt in Ottawa and 7 of about $100. School district continued trom front page longer includes a province-wide school calendar leaving individual districts to set their own timetibles a long as they provide a minimum of 190 days of instruc tion, he expects the current calendar to remain in ust awhile However, the removal of the calendar means there will be changes in teacher contracts, said Joyce Adams president of the Association Days of instruction, the Castlegar and) District. Teachers starting and finishing day of the year, days off and hours of work willall have to be negotiated and included in the next contract, Adams said The current contract, which expires July 1, will stand until then, she said, adding negotiations for a new contract must begin four months before the old contract expires. . Other changes in the act noted by Castlegar trustees include © Conflict of interest guidelines that state a trustee Must remove himself or herself from any board discussions dealing with monetary matters, such as con: tracts, that could in some way benefit the trustee's, spouse or someone close to the trustee; © Removal of a provision for Bible readings and the saying of the Lord's Prayer in class; © Giving parents the right to teach their children at home as long as the children are enrolled at a district school; homeschool children will have the right to use ducational services in the district Castlegar school board chairman Gordon Turner, whose wife is a teacher at Woodland Park elementary school, and Smecher, whose husband is the principal of 1. Lloyd Crowe secondary school in Trail, would be ef fected by the conflict of interest guidelines, Turner said. However, the guidelines do not apply to cases such as a trustee involved in a discussion over changes to a particular school program in which his or her child is enrolled since having a child in a program is something that trustees have in common with many other people, Turner said.