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A2 Castlegar News December 21, 1983

Teachers O

‘$83,000 bign

By DrANe STR ANDRES

Castlegar school tana wa tenes have agreed on
a plan that would see the $83,000 saved during last
month's three-day work stoppage remain in the district.

The plan would see teachers use three unpaid pro-
fessional development days as regular teaching days to
meet the Ministry of Education stipulation that teachers
must make up three days lost during the November
strike or lose the money saved in teacher salaries,

If approved by the ministry, teachers will not be paid
for the days Dec. 14, 15 and 16 that they reported to
work, and those three days will be subtracted from the
allotted five days that teachers use to attend seminars
and similar prog for pi

The $83,000 saved in teachers salaries will then be
rolled over into the 1984 operating budget, helping
reduce a shortfall now calculated at about $160,000.

Castlegar and District Teachers’ Association presi-

“disagree with the use of rae pretessional develop-
ment) days as
agreed to the plan in order to beep the money in the
district and possibly prevent teacher layoffs.
“We feel the board has to get the money back if
possible,” Rodgers said.
The coenen ts to ony three teaching days last week
was Monday during a

treasurer John Dascher says the district will still be short
about $160,000.

“With the $88,000 remaining in the district, that
shortfall will be reduced by half or less than half,” he said,
adding “I'm pretty sure that we'll be able to meet that
shortfall. . . if the money stays in the district.”

In other school district news, the Castlegar school
board Monday approved the purchase of an IBM

and

pegulse school eee meeting. School board
Doreen Smecher said the announcement was made after
the fact to prevent confusion and ensure all school
children reported for school as usual.

Smecher also said the salary saving would bring the
district “$83,000 closer” to balancing the 1984 budget.

“Castlegar school district has been allocated
$8,615,871 for 1984 operational expenses, down from
$8,578,697 in 1983. But are
to total. $8,891,721. §

The district expects to roll over a $210,000 bud-

for use in sch student
reporting a di at Stanley*H Secon-
dary School at a cost of about $14,700. .
School board trustees noted that the funds for the
computer are available and have been held in reserve for.
the past two years.

The board agreed that the ne saved yearly by not ,

sending

firm would pay for the cost of a conaiiuteh and software.
However, trustees Greg Nichvalodoff and George

Anutooshkin questioned whether the could be

‘to use the IBM computer a) “schedulin

“That's what bothers me,” Anutooshkin noted. “The
down time on it, it won't be running full bore.”

1Cu KJS8S: ta Columbia“ Computers in

for sched It was decided that

should ae enable KJSS

The IBM computer is expected to be installed this
spring. |

a $82,000 E and soft-
ware package is to be i italled in the C:
school board office in February.

Earlier ‘this year the board agreed to join a
consortium of 16 school districts to purchase Honeywell
computer equipment at a Feilticed rate.

. The trustees noted that ‘th ‘Ministry of Education
would pay half the cost of the Hoheywelll computer and:

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AT LAST YEAR'S LEVEL

Crews to maintain snowplowing

By CasNews Staff
Castlegar city works crews will
the same pl 1g pro-
cedures as last year, according to
works and services committee chair-
man Ald. Carl Henne.

Henne told a recent council meeting
that snowplowing priorities and pro-
cedures were reviewed and it was
agreed that snowplowing be conducted
from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. and
to 7 a.m.

On the weekend there will be one or
two workers maintaining Columbia
Ave., hospital hill, the fire halls,
ambulance areas and other critical
areas.

Henne said snow removal in the
downtown will still be done, but like
last year it will be done on a reduced
frequkency. And like last year, there
won't be any snow removal from other
city streets unless absolutely neces-

sary.

“I don’t think it (the snowplowing
procedures) will affect any of the
traffic,” Henne said. “It worked very
well last year.”

In other council news:

e Gulf Oil was awarded the contract
to provide fuel for city vehicles. The
city will buy regular gasoline from Gulf
for 44 cents a litre.

Henne said the city receives a
reduced price because the city buys the
gas in bulk and in large quantities.

Texaco, Chevron, Shell and Esso also
submitted bids.

e Deputy fire chief Roy Percival is
stepping down after more than 20
years. Percival will stay on as a volun-
teer fireman, but said he can no longer
devote as much time to his deputy chief
duties. :

The city will not replace him, but will
have the two assistant fire chiefs take
on the deputy chief duties.

“He really deserves a great vote of
thanks,” said protective services com-
mittee chairman Ald. Bob Pakula.

e Meanwhile, .the city will look at
buying a new fire truck in 1984. Pakula
said the fire department has one
pumper which is past the certification
date and two more whose certification
expire in 1987.

Pakula said Fire Chief Bob Mann
“feels we need a new pumper.” The
finance and administrative services

will look into pi ig fora
new pumper in the 1984 budget.

e Elsewhere, the provincial envir-
onment ministry assured council that
concerns about foam and water color of
the Columbia River are unfounded.

In a letter to council, Maurice
Baillargeon, regional waste manager,
said, “There is little evidence to date
that (foam and water color) have a

serious environmental impact on the,

Columbia River.”

said the
ministry is concerned about foam and
color of the water, but noted, “It is our
understanding that the impact of foam
and color is primarily asthetic.”

He said the two sources of foam are
the BC Timber pulp mill and Keenley-
side Dam.

“For an extended period of time BC
Timber had a serious air leak in the
outfall which caused severe foaming
during periods of low flow,” Baillar-
geon explained. “The outfall was sub-
sequently repaired.”

Dam also pi
foam following periods of heavy rain-
fall, he said.

Baillargeon also addressed other
concerns of council, including B.C.
Hydro's reduced water flow on the
Columbia River. He said under the
Columbia River Treaty, Hydro may re-

duce the average weekly flow through
Keenleyside Dam to a minimum of
5,000 cubic feet per second.

He said, “within restraint” Hydro
does what it can to minimize the tape
of the pulp mill discharge.

Finally, Baillargeon also said pre-
liminary environmental studies show
that water quality will not decrease if
Hydro’s Murphy Creek Dam goes
ahead.

In fact, water quality “will be very
similar to what exists now,” Baillar-
geon said.

Council agreed to have staff monitor!
the situation.

81 PER CENT AGAINST
PPWC resoundingly
reject ‘final offer’

VANCOUVER (CP) — One of British
Columbia's two pulp unions has re-
jected a contract offer from the forest
industry.

The Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers
of Canada announced today that its
5,500 members have voted to turn
down the forest industry's final con-
tract offer, a three-year agreement
that had no wage increase in the first
year, a four-per-cent increase in the
second and 4.6-per-cent increase in the
final year.

Union president Jim Sloan said 81
per cent of the membership voted
against the proposed contract.

The union will now consult with the
other two forestry unions — the Can-
adian Paperworkers Union and the In-
ternational Woodworkers of America

— before deciding what action to take,
said Sloan.

Although the executives of both pulp
unions recommended rejection of the
offer, the International Woodworkers
of America recommended its members
accept it.

Sloan said there are indications that
some IWA locals will reject the deal —
specifically in the Interior and in Port
Alberni.

Sloan does not foresee any possibil-
ity of job action until the new year and
he said he will contact the pulp
industry to discuss resuming negotia-
tions.

The Canadian Paperworkers Union
was to release the results of its vote
later today.

It's coldest
December
ina decade

By CasNews Staff
and News Services
Santa had better wear his’ winter
woolies when he heads out this way
over Christmas in what has been the
coldest December in a decade.
Castlegar-weather office spokesman.

~ Jim Richards says cold weather tem-

perature records have been broken on
basis for the past five days.

And it looks like the trend will con-
tinue over the Christmas weekend as
the high pressure ridge that sits off the
coast, blocking storms from the Pacific,
shows, no sign of moving.

On Dee. 17, the mercury dropped to
-18.6° Celsius, topping the old record of

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- Train shivers, A3

ae set in 1967. ihe18th of December,
tem, peratures di

‘tiny thé old recérd of '-9.4° in 1967.

Then onthe 19th a cold weather:
record was set at -11.3° compared to a
low of -10.6° for the same day in 1967.
Dec. 20 was the coldest of the five days
as temperatures dropped to -19.1°
compared to a low of -11.1° set the
‘same day in 1967.

Wednesday saw a low of -18.8°
breaking the record set for the same

“day of -11.1° also in 1967.

While it might look as if the last
really cold winter occurred in 1967,
that-is not true, says Richards.

According to his records, 1972 was
even colder. “This (December) is prob-
ably the coldest in the last decade by
any means,” Richards said.

The high pressure ridge that keeps
moist air from pushing through the
province has resulted in below average
snowfall for this area. Richards says
the total snow fall so far this winter is
50.5 centimetres, which is about half
the normal snowfall.

The cold spell has been blamed for
one death near Stoughton, Sask., and
36 fatalities in the United States.

The weather relented long enough in
the United States today to glaze
highways from Texas to Indiana with

“12,4°, upeet-: half-

freezing rain while a new blast of cold
sent Berens mercury in Montana down to

86.

‘The eastern reaches of a snowstorm
that rumbled down from the Rockies
today spread through Nebraska, where
25 centimetres fell by late Tuesday, as
well as through South Dakota, Kansas,
Indiana and Missouri.

Forecasters predicted snow will
probably hit Ohio tonight as it moved
toward the Great Lakes.

A Calgary police spokesman said
Tuesday the freezing weather had kept
crime rates down in that city.

“The criminals are keeping inside —

with the result that such crimes as
break and enter are down,” he said.
“Police in other cities across the
que _and in Ontario, where a

C.A. Wilson, statistician for the Sud-
bury, Ont., police force said break and
enters were down, but suggested that
shoplifting — an indoor activity —
might match previous years’ totals.

Environment Canada officials say
the cold spell — the longest in the last
14 years — will last until at least
through Christmas.

On Tuesday, Calgary’s high of -19
was even colder than Inuvik and Tuk-
toyaktuk, NWT, where it was about
-10.

Tey road conditions was blamed for a
number of traffic accidents, including a
spectacular crash involving more than
100 vehicles on an expressway near St.
Catherines, Ont., early Tuesday. No-
body was seriously injured.

Lawrence Thompson, 89, of Stough-
ton died of exposure Saturday after

leaving his stranded car three kilom-

etres from town. His death was the
only one in Canada attributed to the
cold.

In Oregon, a small storm stalled
dozens of vehicles Tuesday night in the
Willamette valley.

City administrator
resigns suddenly

By RON NORMAN
Editor

Citing “strictly personal reasons,”
Castlegar city administrator Larry
Cruikshank resigned:.Tuesday,. How-
ever, Cruikshank will remain with the
city until the end of January to help
draw up the 1984 provisional budget.

Cruikshank, 49, discounted that he’s
leaving because of any conflict.

“There is no friction at city hall...
it’s simply time for a change for me,” he
said.

He added that he plans to move to
Nakusp where he will spend the winter
and then travel for six to eight months.
He said he has no job Prospects at the
moment,

His resignation caught council off .

guard.

“It was a surprise,” mayor Audrey
Moore admitted in an interview today.
But shé'noted Cruikshank moved from
a large municipality to a small one.

Cruikshank came to Castlegar from
Langley two years ago to replace ad-
ministrator Bill Krug.

Moore added that Cruikshank's two
years have been “very .good” and
council received his resignation “with
regret.”

LARRY CRUIKSHANK
++. ‘personal reasons’

She said the city will probably begin
looking for a replacement in mid-Jan-
uary, though she said council doesn’t
expect to fill the position for another
three or‘four months,

“We're looking at how we can func-
tion in the interim,” she explained.

_ CHRISTMAS SPIRIT .’... Shaw Cable manager Lynn
reentree shows off toys being donated 'to: Legion
Hamper Fund slong with $280. ‘Funds were realized

HERE'S A CHRISTMAS Bisce for you, courtesy of »
Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristiansen. Kristiansen, who is
also the NDP postal critic, says Canada Post very nearly.

became the’ grinch that stole Christmas. But an unem-
ployed Ottawa man saved the day.

Remember when Canada Post launched its Santa

Claus letter, program earlier this year and there was a
brouhaha over whether kids would have to pay 82 cents
| for a stamp?

Well, Kristieansen says-John Berry of Ottawa was
responsible for pushing’ through the stamp-free letters
and not Post Office ead Michael Warren. °

“It was the efforts of John Berry that. swayed the
giant Crown corporation,” Kristiansen says. “His deter-
mination and tenacity forced a change in Canada Post's
policy of charging 82 cents for letters. to Santa Claus.”

“Kristiansen says'when the post office launched its
letter program complete with a 82-cent stamp on Nov. 4
Berry took exception to the stamp and began to fight it.

“John made phone calls to the cabinet minister, to
Canada Post headquarters’and to dozens of media people
in au campaign to change postal policy,” Kristiansen

“He felt it was unfair to poor families.”

Patter five days, Berry got what he wanted — a
change in Post Office policy. But not without some
trouble.

with the help of Shaw Cable's new subscribers
throuphteLy @ recent Installation Promotion, which
ended Mond lay.

_ontacted Andre Ouellet, minister responsible for Canada

ea mail is 82 cents,” Ouellet said and hung up the
phone.

Berry then contacted Warren's office and was told by
‘an assistant that the kids would have to pay.

But that wasn’t good enough. “Berry phoned Warren
. himself who also confirmed the policy. But Berry then
suggested he would-bring 200 children to.picket Warren's
home to try to change his mind.

* ‘Later that day, Berry was: told the post office’ was

: changing its policy and letters to Santa would be accepted

without postage. -
Merry Christmas to you John Berry and a ho, ho, ‘ho

“or is that HOH OHO?.

ACCORDING TO SUNDAY'S Castlegar News, last ‘|
Friday was the coldest Dec. 16 on-record with the
_ mercury dipping to a record -13.6° Celsius, rears the

{ record for the same day of -9.4° set in “1

However, someone should have Gia ie focal lawyer
John iter. That was John seen shopping that
evening in Safeway dressed (no, pot in a Santa suit) butin
Bermuda shorts!

IN THE HEART OF THE RIGHT place department ,
is Bumper to ‘Bumper at 1607 Columbia Ave. which is
accepting donations of canned foods and unwrapped toys
for distribution to the needy.

The automobile accessory chain is working’ in
conjunction. with the Salvation Army to bring’ some
Christmas cheer to the lives of the léss fortunate, and;
drop-off bins have been set. up at about 200 locations

SAUSAGE

Two days.after the program was launched Berry

across Canada..

Train. shivered. n-reco

TORONTO (CP) —° The
train was more than a day
late.

With a load of winter-
weary and some disgruntled
travellers, Via Rail’s trans-

in 14 years. In Calgary, the really slow. We'd stop for.
temperature hasn't climbed two. or three hours in the”
above 2 degrees since Nov. middle of nowhere while’ they
18. attempted to thaw the cars.

As ‘the train moved “The train crew was
through Ontario, some com- great,” she | added. “They

from V

* rolled in Tuesday afternoon

324 hours behind schedule.
It was the victim of record
cold that cracked rail welds

‘and froze moving: parts in

some cars.

“It was a nightmare,” said
one passenger as he left the
station.

The train left Vancouver
last Thursday and ran into
the frigid weatheron the
Prairies which are suffering
through the longest cold snap

Police file

A motor vehicle accident
12:20 p.m. Sunday. sent four |
people to: hospital with un-
determined injuties Castle-
gar RCMP re; 2

The accident anes
six miles wesfof Castlegar
saw a vehicle dtiven by Mar-
garet Fritz of Kamloops in |
collision with a vehicle driven
by Glen Warcimago of Castle-

r.

Taken to Castlegar and
District Hospital were: John
Fritz, Anita Bryne, Rebecca
Moylan and Timothy Ziebert.

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reported ‘d-k gave us ‘y meals
temperatures, many in the from eae on.”
-20 to -24 range. Robert Black, his wife and
For June and Keith East of two children caught the train
Ballarat, Australia, it was a, in Winnipeg and spent two.
cold introduction. to Canada days on the trek to Toronto
as they travelled across the - - adapting to a variety of con-
country with daughter Vic- ditions. . *
toria. and 18'/s-month-old “The cars were alternately
grandson Jeremy. hot and then cold,” he said.
“There wasa layer oficein “The kids wore toques and
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Norma Lacosse. travelled
from Dryden, Ont., with ‘her
husband and two children
and found the coaches warm
but ‘the dining car icy:

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