8s Castlegar News June 1, 1986 CONTROVERSY R VER DAY CARE” STOCKHOLM (AP) — Enmilia’s mother Tjarstin Kraft-Petersson is pleased that Sweden's socialist govern ment has launched a program to provide daycare for all preschool children older than 18 months. Many Swedish parents, however, fear that they are losing the right to bring up their children themselves after the government decided last fall to give children “the right by law to public care by 1991.” Carina Stenstrom, a mother of four who writes editorials for Sweden's largest morning paper, Dagens Nyheter, said of the five-year program: “It is odd that the Social Democrats so persistently strive toward a totally collective child-care system . . . when a majority of parents prefer solutions that give them the opportunity to take care of their children themselves.” The government says public day care is a pt di BUSINESS DIRECTOR ccounting to Rentals MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN CERTIFIED GENERAL AVIS Vehicles Available to ICBC Claimants LOCATED AT Castlegar Airport Terminal ond Adastra Aviation — 365-2313 ACCOUNTANTS for the equality of the sexes. NEEDS INCOME Kraft-Petersson, 34, said she and her family could not afford to live in the house they bought a few years ago at Anderslov in the south of Sweden if she had to stay home to care for Emilia. ‘The (Swedish) government says public day care is a precondition for the equality of the sexes’ Five days a week Kraft-Petersson leaves her 2%-year-old daughter with a day-care nurse, while she goes to her job taking care of other people's children in a public day-care centre. “I do not want to be alone at home with my child, I want to be outside my home and meet people,” she said, adding that she thought it would be “boring” for Emilia to be alone at home with her mother all day long. Since the Swedish parliament passed a series of sexual equality laws during the heyday of the feminist movement, the country now has the highest rate of gainfully employed women in the western world. COST BILLIONS At the time, in the 1970s, women took to the streets to demand “public day care for all” and money allocated to it has risen sharply. Of a total equivalent to $6.58 billion Canadian in different forms of family-related grants from public authorities last year, more than 40 per cent went to day care. The number of preschool children in public day care has reached 65 per cent, up from 20 per cent in 1970. Crities charge that because of the one-sided support to the public day-care system and Sweden's high taxes, families have difficulties making ends meet on one average salary. Those who leave their children with public day care receive an indirect grant equal to about $9,000 Canadian a year, which is what a full-time place at a public day-care centre cost the authorities in 1965. Parents who choose to stay at home with their kids get no special support from the state. This is in keeping with the Social Democrats’ policy of encouraging two-income families. LOSING RIGHT? The Conservative party argues that parents are gradually losing the right to rear their own children and it has demanded that this right be written into the Swedish constitution. “The indirect force exerted on parents to leave their children with public day care must be stopped,” Conservative MP Gote Jonsson said in an interview. The apposition has proposed a special government “parent grant.” The state would pay a mother or a father a cash allowance to stay at home from work to look after the children until they start school. But the most generous amount suggested so far added up to $4,480 per child per year, approximately a fourth of an average Swedish annual pretax salary. Nevertheless, the Social Democrats have flatly rejected such ideas. Instead they plan to extend an existing special parents’ allowance that enables either the father or the mother to stay at home with a newly born child for the first nine months with full salary compensation. The Social Democrats have said they want to double the period. When the 18 months are up, the child can be put into public day care and the parent returns to his or her job. First ride unsafe MONTREAL (CP) — Most ward took their first car ride infants take their first car ride without the benefit of a baby seat, says a study at Ste. Justine Children's Hos. pital. Rita Morasse and Hugu ette Doucet of the commun ity health service said only 20 per cent of the infants who left the hospital's maternity in a baby seat. The rest were held in the parents’ arms — not only unsafe, but illegal For children up to age five, the use of baby seats doubled to 38 per cent of the 1,151 children observed. And a full 68 per cent were safely strapped in the car, the two researchers found. 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Smoke from FIREFIGHTERS CONTAIN BLAZE EAST OF CITY By RON NORMAN Editer Firefighters battling a large forest fire just east of Castlegar welcomed the first rain today in more than a week A total of 115 firefighters are combatting the 150-hectare blaze which was started by lightning Sunday near the Castlegar-Salmo highway summit. Bob Ogmachenko, duty officer for the Ministry of Forests Arrow Forest District, said firefighters have contained the fire and are beginning the “mop-up stage.” “It's raining up there,” Osmachenko added. Arrow district protection officer Skip Walsh said unusual conditions has made firefighting more difficult than expected. Walsh said that a patrol plane first spotted the fire fire just east of Castlegar was visible in city Mon- day and Tuesday CottewsPhots by fon Merman Sunday night and crews went in to put it out “We thought it was a mop-up.” Walsh said. However, a weather inversion overnight Sunday created a downdraught that reignited the blaze and carried the fire down the hill. To add to difficulties, the fire is at the 1,500-metre elevation and trees at that level haven't started to suck moisture from the ground. That means the trees are extremely dry — drier now than kiln-dried lumber. This condition will last about two to three weeks, Walsh said. However, the groundcover is still moist, with snow still on the ground in some places. The fire is spreading from tree-top to tree-top without touching the ground. id “I haven't seen one like that,” said Walsh, adding the trees look like candles with only the tops burning. Using seven backhoes and four skidders, firefighters worked all day Monday to throw a guard around the fire. That held until about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. said fireboss Doug Fellman. Then the fire jumped the southwest corner of the guard and firefighters had to build another guard The fire is in the ninth and largest in the Arrow district this eason. Two have been started by lightning and seven by people. SHOREACRES ELEMENTARY Few parents opposed to school closure By CHERYL CALDERBANK Fifteen residents from the Shore- acres/Tarrys area turned out at a meeting Tuesday night at Tarrys school to find out why Castlegar school board is considering closing Shoreacres But residents expressed little objec- tion to the closure. Shoreacres elementary is one of four schools the board is considering closing im order to save money. The other three are Pass Creek, Ootischenia and Creek. By closing Shoreacres school the board says it could save $20,000 in school has a “very unique atmosphere.” $20,000 saving would be reallocated to “When There are currently 19 Grade 1 and tween six and seven per cent over the past year. The board predicts another drop of between one and two per cent by September. Wayling said the board has no reason to think the decline might not continue. If trends continue, the total district P costs by the Grade 1 and Grade 2 classes in two empty classrooms at Tarrys elemen- tary school about three kilometres away. Schools superintendent Terry Way. ling said the move makes good econ omic sense and by accommodating the Currently, students attend Kinder garten at Tarrys before going to Shoreacres for Grades 1 and 2, then move back to Tarrys for Grades 36. And Wayling pointed out in an inter Although Wayling explained that enrolment has forced the board to consider closing the four Instructors to form union NELSON (CP) — College instructors across British Columbia have voted to form a union aimed at improving negotiations between colleges and their local faculty associations. John Waters, president of the College Institute Educators Association, said faculty are not prepared to make any more concessions in bargaining during a meeting at the David Thompson College campus. “Faculty see the empty (former David Thompson University Centre) as a symbol of all the lost educational opportunities across British Columbia. We came to Nelson to express our solidarity with the people of the Kootenays in their fight to regain their educational services they need,” he said. “Institutions like DTUC and Selkirk College were created to deliver education to B.C. residents in their own communities. The closure of DTUC and the extensive cutbacks at Selkirk College have denied many residents of the K access to post y and have significantly diminished the cultural resources of the region,” Walters said. Thirteen of 14 faculty associations, representing 2,300 workers, voted on the weekend to set up bargaining services. The lone dissenter was the B.C. Institute of Technology in Burnaby. The representative for Selkirk College instructors voted in favor. Instructors also voted to establish a legal defence fund and legal services. Waters said the provincial group won't take away bargaining rights from individual associations. Each faculty association will continue to negotiate its own but impr d resources os services from the central group, Waters said. at Tarrys/Shore- im may be down to 2,000. Three years ago enrolment was 2,600 and at the end of last month enrolment totalled 2,279. If Shoreacres school closed the INSIDE money to hire extra teachers. This continued on poge A2 TOP POET: Selkirk College in- structor Fred Wah wos presen- ted with 1985 Governor General's Literary Award tor English-language poetry at o ceremony Tuesday in Montreal -.A2 INVESTIGATION: A Ministry of Labor representative in Castlegar to look into a complaint of untair labor practices . GOOD NEWS BEARS: A & W Beors ore off to the B.C. Summer Games as the zone | (Kootenays) representative SUNFLOWER WINNER: Creston's Randy Panton captured this year's Sunflower Open golf title 8 NO GO: BRANDON, Mon. — A Manitoba man's attempt to ride a horse from Man., to Expo 86 has been thwarted by the RCMP at the Soskatchewan border Don Hogan and his horse, Thunder, were turned back in Carlyle, Sask., when on RCMP officer decided the horse was too skilly and too small to continue the journey hed been travelling in the ditch alongside Highway 2 since April 29. He said he picked the route because of its historical significance as the purported route the Mounties travelled to Fort McLeod, Alte., in the last century Const. Darryl! Stevenson of the Carlyle detachment of the RCMP, said thot after watching Hogon and the horse for three days, he concluded that the norse needed o winter's rest before it would be fit to go anywhere. -