Castlégar News November 4, 1967 Renting Quality Cars Upscale tourism ‘ a TERRY . Te FH i campaign a flop p<] VANCOUVER (CP) — A official says. TRAM d Seeennt $300,000 marketing cam- From now on, B.C. is to be GRAND FORKS sam. oor paign aimed at selling the marketed abroad as moose, = renta-wreck GARAGE sophisticated side of British mountains and Mounties — a 359-8122 ) © beasties ty Columbia to Californians was traditional image of the prov. alstielicainian a flop, a Tourism Ministry ince that people shouldn't be ashamed of, said Ad van Haaften, assistant deputy minister of tourism. The idea behind the cult- ural tourism campaign was to counter a stereotype of Can ada as a frozen wasteland. But the promotion's cen- tral peg — a $50,000 song. and-dance act that toured ia ila “TECH oe j , ut is BA a ld bel © FULL SIZE AUTOPLAN INSURANCE AND LICENSES 1127 - 4th Street, Castieger 1cac OHOE INSURANC California cites last fall — was a bust, van Haaften said. The stressing arts, music and theatre was devised by the ministry after a 1986 survey showed Californians were surprised at Vancouver's sophistication after coming here for Expo. Money for the campaign was raised through com- bining government money with private-sector promo- tion budgets. “It was not a success for us,” said Dick Wilson, presi dent of Wilson Tours. “The tried and true — or some- thing similar to it — is what travellers want.” “Let's stick to the things we are good at,” said van Haaften. “It's hard to con. vince somebody in Los Ang. eles to come to Vancouver for the theatre.” Van Haaften said reaction in Europe has been poor to advertisements promoting Canada as a sophisticated urban destination. COMMUNITY SERVICE . » Bert Lamb (right is year's United Way appreciation awards Hs community service. through the United Way to: (from left) Gordon Brady of CKQR radio, Ed Chernoff of Shaw Cablesystems, and Doug Ferguson of West Kootenay Power and Light Co. TO REPORT BUNGLING Union seeks agency OTTAWA (CP) — Public servants need an ethics com- mission where they can re- port internal bungling and wrongdoing without fear of backlash from superiors, a public service union says. The agency should be modelled after the Canadian Human Rights Commission and report to Parliament rather than the government, the Professional Institute of the Public Service said in a report. The annual brief from the 20,000-member union was delivered Tuesday to MPs. “A mechanism should be —6 year or 100,000 km. warranty On power train —6 year or 160,000 km. warranty on corrosion —Ford trucks have galvanized steel bodies — Best built North American trucks 7 years running —Multiport electronic fuel injected EFI gasoline engines 6 or 8 cylinder —2 wheel and 4 wheei drive —Rear wheel anti-lock brake and 5670 kg. 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Ford TA Prsesoanemaraue [A IEPONTAC py "89g ptyMouTH wos ots utometic new pent Togs Sw. created to permit public ser- vants to express concerns and complaints over govern- ment actions which they be- lieve to be immoral, unethical or illegal,” the brief said. “Public servants would be protected from any recrimi- nations or disciplinary action for approaching the ethies commission.” The brief was presented at a news conference attended by representatives of the three federal political part- ies. Government House Leader Doug Lewis said in accepting the brief for the Conserva- tives he thought the union's concerns could be met with- out creating’ another federal agency. “I'd be afraid we'd suffer from commission overload,” Lewis told union president Iris Craig. But MP David Orlikow, a Manitoba New Democrat, said a need clearly exists for an ethics commission because “whistle blowers” often meet an unhappy fate. Craig cited several cases in which she said public ser- vants have suffered for fol- lowing their consciences: - The firing of an Indian Affairs employee for telling the media his department had failed to meet legal obli- gations to an Indian tribe. - The reprimanding of three Fisheries and Oceans employees for criticizing the closing of a Nova Scotia laboratory. - The resignation of two Environment Department employees for criticism of federal environmental activ- ities affecting the Great Lakes. - A ministerial rebuke for several National Research Council scientists who crit- icized heavy cuts in the coun- cil's budget. Lewis told Craig the stan- dards applied in government are similar to those in private industry. A corporation executive could not criticize his company publicly and get away with it, Lewis argued. “Let's not slough it off on the private sector,” Craig interjected. Governments have a moral responsibility to set stan- dards for society as a whole, she added. Learning disabled kids to get emergency help VANCOUVER (CP) — More than 180 children with severe learning disabilities and emotional problems who are on waiting lists for suit- able classes will get some emergency help from the Vancouver school board. Board chairman Ken De- nike said the underfunding is a critical problem that is af. fecting not just the students on waiting lists, but also the teachers and students who are being pushed to accom- modate them. About 150 of the students on waiting lists are severely learning disabled, and are in regular classes or in centres intended for the mildly learn- ing disabled. The remainder are emotionally distrubed children, who are either being kept in regular classes, or being taught at home. The students’ - problems were identified in school assessments last spring, after Vancouver's budget had been passed. Trustees agreed at a school board meeting Monday to authorize $15,000 a month for services to help the students, to a total of $106,000. That will provide three extra tea- chers, said student services head Jean Moore. The district needs about $450,000 to give those chil- dren the help they need, trustees were told. However, the school board said it can only provide $106,000, because that is all the provincial government is likely to allow. AIDS kit developed MONTREAL (CP) — A dental researcher says he's developed a kit to help health institutions detect AIDS antibodies faster and more cheaply than now possible. Dr. Drasco Pekovic, dental research director at Mon- treal's Jewish General Hos- pital, told a news conference his technique differs in its use of frozen sections of HIV, the virus believed to cause bodies are considered to be infected but it is not known how many of them will develop the fatal disease. Pekovic claimed his kit, which produces results in two hours, is 100 per cent accurate which he said com- pared with a 10 per cent failure rate for most other AIDS screens. FOR HOSPITALS Intended for use by hos- acquired immune defi syndrome. “Frozen tissue is synony- mous with freshness,” he said. Virus material used in most other tests undergoes changes during production that sometimes takes away pitals, and Red Cross societies, the kit will be marketed in about four months by Scientific Ine., a fledgling subsidiary of Groupe Sofi- corp Ine., a Montreal-based holding company. Pekovic owns 20 per cent of Soficorp cheep and rapid alternative to the Western Blot — now used to verify positive find- ings of preliminary tests — which costs $125 and takes three to four days, Clayton said. “Whether this is it remains to be seen,” he said. Pekovic said he expects no problems getting federal ap- proval because the kit re- sembles existing tests and is not for internal consumption. 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