Legislative Library, Parliaweat Bldgs., 501 Belleville st Victoria, B.C. v8v 1x4 C Vol, 41, No, 50 Febs 28 RS ee astle Su. r News CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1988 WEATHERCAST Cloudy with some sunny periods Thursday and isolated showers in the afternoon, Highs neor 25 Chance of precipitation is 20 per cent, Friday will be mostly sunny with highs 26-28. Outlook for the weekend is mostly sunny skies and highs in the upper 20s 3 Sections (A, B &C) Welfare mom evicted By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer A Castlegar mother on wel fare has received an eviction notice from her B.C.-govern. ment landlord because she has taken in a runaway foster child. Wency Byrne has until the end of July to get herself, her four-year-old son and teenage foster child out of the govern- ment subsidized townhouse. Byrne, 23, is currently living in the B.C. Housing Manage- ment Commission townhouses on 11th Avenue and received her wor! Social home “I'm “sure the Services ordered eviction,” Byrne told the Castle- gar News in an interview at her yesterday. worker came by and asked if I'd been evicted yet. Four or five days after she left I got the formal eviction notice.” Byrne took it upon herself to take in Laraine McNee, 13, who had been staying with foster parents in Thrums. The young- eviction notice last week: fol lowing a meeting with a social Ker. ster apparently left the resi- dence and was living on the streets and sleeping under brid- ges, Byrne said, before she came to Byrne. “I met her last summer,” Byrne said. “She'd come to me upset a month ago. She hadn't been sleeping anywhere but under a bridge apparently.” Byrne said she told the girl she could live with her. Ministry of this “A social and “I'm not going to toss her out 19, because she's happy here,” Byrne said. “It's the first time in unit advising you by letter on May vacate the premises by May 24, awhile she's been happy and had a home.” But the housing commission isn't about to let Byrne keep McNee while living at her cur- rent address. The eviction notice states: . The rental unti was rented to you, based upon your declared family composition of yourself son Justin, only. The rental two-bedroom unit. After 1988, that your guest must THROWN OUT. . . Wendy Byrne (left with eviction notice. ) and fester child Laraine McNee CosNewsPhoto by Brendan Nogie Hydro touts Keenleyside dam project MINI-FERRY . . . Robson r: Castlegar-Robson ferry. Re lents take their turn at guar ding the ntly-raised water levels have put about six metres of water between the dock and the ferry, making a home- Cindy Endersby stands on the ferry. made mini-ferry necessary. (Clockwise in boot) Tyanna Nugent, seated, Sheldon Woods, Lisa Papp, Kris Allman, and Chris Barton. CasNewsPhoto by Bonne Morgon School board cracks down on smokers hotly debated with the board still By CasNews Staff Castlegar school district em. ployees have one year to quit smoking Castlegar school board ap proved a no-smoking policy Monday which will make the district totally smoke-free by the end of next June. Teachers, janitors and maintenance staff will not be allowed to smoke anywhere inside schools. By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer Foreign students attending Stan ley Humphries secondary school will have to pay their own way next year, Castlegar school board decided Mon- day The board estimates it will cost $5,000 for| each of three “offshore” students who want to attend SHSS next year. Four offshore students attended SHSS last year, and the cost was picked up by the Ministry of Edu- catign. But the ministry has refused to fugd three students who want to undecided whether its policy should be to charge foreign students or the local taxpayer “We certainly don't reject the hotion of children from other nations attending our schools, but they shouldn't come at the cost to the local taxpayer,” said Wayling. The board estimates it costs $4,300 to educate one student in the Castlegar school district and is tacking on $700 to cover English as a Second Language instruction and other miscellaneous costs associated with foreign students. Foreign students pay Rotary Exchange program has been very successful and a “positive ex- perience.” “The kids that are coming to us from the other programs are equally well selected and screened and are capable of all demands the exchange has made on them,” she said. But the board said it has to consider the responsibility of taking foreign high school students into the community without any support ser- vices in place. “We don't have an infastructure that says O.K., this is where you will be placed in terms of housing and may be on again because of increased surfaced within the province,” she said, adding that Hydro's exports have also jumped. continued on page A2 electrical usage. A for the Crown corporation says electricity consumption is growing so fast that Hydro may run short of power unless it brings forward its dam construc- tion schedule. And one of the dams Hydro is con- sidering moving ahead is the Keen- leyside project. “Our actual load growth for the past two years has exceeded our forecast and again in 1988-89 we have already achieved a load increase about equal to that forecast for year-end,” Ray Hunt, Hydro vice- presid system devel INSIDE Transit cutbacks page A2 group, told the Ci ting Engi ‘s of British Columbia on Monday. “Recognizing these uncertainties, B.C. Hydro has decided to maintain a contingency plan which will enable us to meet either domestic or firm export requirements . .. by bringing forward either Site C (on'the Peace River) or Keenleyside (on the Columbia River). “By preparing now we won't have to throw huge sums of money to fast-track Site C if economic growth continues faster than we expected,” Hunt said. He said a “prime hydroelectric en gineering consultant” should be chosen from the private sector by October 1988 and some field explor. ation work could be done in 1989 “to reduce the lead time for the de. velopment of the next hydroelectric project.” Hunt's announcement comes bare- ly a month after Hydro released its 20-year resource plan which indie- ated that_no new dam construction would be needed -until 2000. The plan also indicated that Site C and the Keenleyside-Murphy Creek dams are the most attractive and lowest-cost projects. Mayor Audrey Moore weleomed Hunt’s announcement. “I think the sooner this dam is machined, the better for the whole Man still missing page A4 Doukhobor And the school district is putting its money where its mouth is with the new policy. Trustee Mickey Kinakin said the district will be providing funding assistance, as well as informa. continued on page A2 “Their (the mii (the students) return in the fall. istry’s) response is that it’s our decision to accept them or superintendent of schools, Wayling, told trustees at Monday's school board meeting. Funding for the students has been The district will turn away all other offshore students until it sets down a firm policy, according to Wayling. Trustee Doreen Smecher said the district should allow more than the three foreign stuients to attend school in the district, saying the them,” Terry reject ~~ who will be the community support person,” assistant superintendent Lach Farrell pointed out. “I don't want that responsibility,” responded Smecher, after learning that Stanley Humphries doesn’t have News today. continued on poge AZ province,” Moore told the Castlegar Moore pointed out indicated Keenleyside wouldn't come on stream before 2000 unless there was need for the power. “I would suggest the need has now sports day that Hydro page B3 x-principal says bishop knew By The Canadian Press VANCOUVER — Three former Roman Catholic school officials say they reported to their superiors in the 1960s that they had received complaints a priest was fondling young girls. Msgr. John Monaghan, 80, pleaded guilty last week to 14 counts of indecent assault and three counts of sexual assault. He was sentenced to four years in prison. The charges covered incidents from 1959 to 1987 and involved girls six to 21 years. Florence Hodgins, who worked at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic school in Nelson, said friends of her daughter came to her for help in the 1960s. “They said he (Monaghan touched their private parts,” she said in an interview broadcast Tuesday i by CBC television. She said she went to her supervisor at the school, Hildebrand Merks, who now is retired and living in Vancouver. “I reported it in less than an hour to Bishop (Emmett) Doyle,” Merks told CBC. “ I told him about Father Monaghan and about the girls which he was touching in places which he shouldn't that he should have kept his hands in his pocket. “The response was not too good because my complaint was qualified as a rumor.” AVOID RUMORS Merks said he was told by Doyle: “We shouldn't pay attention to rumors.” Doyle, Bishop of Nelson and Monaghan's superior from 1958, said he did not recall Merks’s report “and I would doubt that he spoke to me in a way that he expected me to launch any investigation.” Cecilia Gri, s num and former principal at the school, said she reported to the St. Joseph's board that a mother told her in 1967 that Monaghan “was touching girls.” “I thought if it was in the bishop's hands, as it was supposed to be, that he would take care of it,” said Gri, currently posted in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Wash. “Because Father Monaghan was above me I couldn't go around and say ‘are you guilty?’ “ Doyle said he was not a member of the board and was not told of Gri’s report. “I certainly have no record and nothing in writing,” he said. “I don’t recall . . . people are coming to me all the time with complaints of this kind. “You don't make a federal case out complaint you hear.” Doyle said he never had a complaint from any child or parent. of every Two victims said in statements to the court! that they told Sister Emilia Sosnowski, principal of St. Joseph's since 1979, about Monaghan “We all told the principal, Sister Emilia, and she said we were trying to get attention and we were making it up,” one said in a victim-impact statement. Another wrote: “In grade 5, Sister Emilia took all of us girls into the conference room and talked to us. She told us he would never do anything to hurt us and we were making things up.” Sosnowski denied her students warned her about Monaghan. “I would like to know where that came from because no child told me. I did not know anything about it. That is a wrong statement . . . it could have been a principal before but it certainly is not me.”