CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, January 26, 1979 |

Voice of the People

Don't Be Misled by

Editor, Castlegar News:

‘The holiday season is over,
but the dispute between CUPE
and school boards still has not
been settled,

In one letter in the paper it
was.said Premier Bennett did
“what he felt was necessary to
get the schools back into full
swing.” Don't be misled —
Premier Bennett has had Bill 46
Section II, in the offing for
many months, I believe he was
just waiting for some scapegoat
which happened to be the
dispute between the school
boards and CUPE workers in
their negotiations,

It has been reported by a
very responsible person on a

g staff that last year,

even though the non-
teaching staff in Trail were on
-strike for six weeks or so, there
were more scholarships handed
‘out to the students than any
other year at Crowe High.

~GLS te

One person commented in
the paper he couldn't see why
our men couldn't work during
negotiations. This has been
tried for the past years but the
employees have waited from
one year to almost one-and-one-
half years to have negotiations
settled and get their retro-
active pay.

Rather than pay our mena
fair wage, the taxpayer would
rather pay $110,000 for the
“special session” of government
to send our men back to work
as “essential services”, plus
hiring a very expensive media-
tor for 30 days to try to break
the dispute when all concerned
knew he couldn't do anything.

I shall close by asking the
employers why they are so
adamant about not giving our
responsible workers a decent
wage when they will pay a

student $7.56 an hour to tutor
other students, but won't pay
nearly that much te the CUPE
Workers for the good jobs they
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Blucherry Creek, B.C.

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ity of Victoria

Covered In. New Forestry fation

Regulations Effective Jan.’

New regulations relating
to the province's ra
and range legislation have ak
approved by the government
and became effective Jan. 1,

forests minister Tom ‘Water- *

land announced recently,

_ The new regulations cover
detailed administrative proce-
dures for a wide variety of
forest and range resource acti-

New Courses Offered

More than 100. courses,
lectures and workshops cover-
ing a variety of subjects are
available to communities in the
province through the “travel-
ling workshops" offered by the
University of Victoria's division
of extension,

The non-credit offerings
include professional programs
such as child care, education,
fine arts, history, law, nursing,
geography, public administra-
tion and social work. Topics

from the faculty of arts and
science are also available,
The program, designed to
meet the educational needs and
interests of residents in non-
university centres, deals with
topics of general and specific
appeal. Among the classes
available are environmental
issues, urban forest manage-
ment, curriculum development,
basic editing and publishing,
politics and government in
British Columbia, ceramics, la-

bor relations, law, consumer
finance and nursing assess-
ment.

The majority of the listings
are open to the general public
with some courses intended for
special publics such as mem-
bers of the health -professions.

The instructors are all
members of the university
community.

For further information,
contact Selkirk College.

vities, from setting royalties
and stumpage rates,” uses of
Crown forest land, forest roads
and growing Christmas trees,
to the timber grazing rights.
Waterland said, “through-

out the development of the ’

recent legislation and the new
regulations the ministry has
sought and maintained dialogue
with forests ministry person-
nel, the many sectors of the
forest and cattle industries, a
large number of environmental
and resource interest groups

and other government agen- +

cies. I wish to express my
personal.appreciation for their
co-operation and efforts.”

The minister indicated ad-
ditional regulations will be
required and at the request of
the small business and forestry
contracting sectors, two will be
the subject of white papers —
small business and contracting,
He said the intention is to have
them in place before the end of
February.

Waterland noted that the’
new regulations ‘have been |

has’ taken a “giant step’

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‘fashion in an offort to improve

understanding. As with the
recent legislation, the regula-
tions are all metric.

Copies of the new regu-
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Waterland said, “like the
legislation the regulations are
designed to improve, stream-
line and unify the overall
administration of the province's
forest and range resources.

The California sea Hon’
nolsy, intelligent and. playful.
Sea lions are easily trained and

‘seem to enjoy performing for

an audience.

In fact’ the animal's" bal-
ancing acts may come naturally, |
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You may not find a sea Hon
offered for sale in our Actio:
Classified Ads, but pets and
livestock of various kinds .are
bought ‘and. sold in that ‘con:
venient marketplace.

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