January 10, 1990

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By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI
Staff Writer

The Castlegar school district does
not actively participate in a provincial
initiative to recruit Asian students fo
auend B.C. high schools because the
responsibility of Castlegar trustees and
staff is to local students, board chair-
man Gordon Turner said.

More than 400 foreign students,
mostly from Hong Kong, are paying
about $6,000 per year to attend B.C.
high schools as a result. of the
Education Ministry's recruitment
campaign.

“We are hired to look after our own
(children),"" Turner said. ‘‘We are ser-
vants to the community here."”

Turner said the provincial gover-
mment doesn’t put pressure on the
Castlegar board to participate in: the
recruiting of foreign students but they
are not turned away ‘‘if they happen

Harcourt
to get
equal

air time

VANCOUVER (CP) — NDP
Leader Mike Harcourt will get equal
time to address the province following
Premier Bill Vander Zalm televised
speech next week.

“It’s an equal-time broadcast
provided by the CBC,’’ NDP
spokesman Evan Lloyd, said Tuesday
from Victoria. ‘‘It’s a response to the
premier.””

Vander Zalm said he will inform
British Columbians about his political
plans in a televised talk Jan. 17. The
premier has been considering his
future since the Social Credit party lost
its sixth straight byelection Dec. 13.

Harcourt will speak to the province
the day after Vander Zalm’s speech.

“It’s pretty hard to say what we're
(Harcourt) going to say seeing as how
nobody seems to know what the
premier is going to do,”’ Lloyd said.

‘court will watch Vander Zalm's

address in his office in the
legislature.

Vander Zalm plans to meet with his
cabinet in Victoria after his address to
the province, said his press secretary,
Ian Jessop.

He won’t meet with reporters that
night, but may talk to the media the
next day about the circumstances
surrounding his decision, Jessop said.

Vander Zalm has given few clues
about whether he will quit or stay on as
premier.

The night of the last byelection, a
visibly discouraged Vander Zalm told
reporters that he could not ignore the
message voters were sending in six
straight losses.

Since then, a group, the Many
Friends of Bill Vander Zalm, has
organized rallies to try to persuade the
premier to continue as premier

But the majority has been eaten
away with byelection losses and defec-
tions of four members of the
legislature from the Socred caucus.

Lottery numbers

The winning numbers in Saturday's
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and 33. The bonus number was 46. The
four Extra winning numbers Saturday
were 38, 58, 86 and 91

The winning numbers drawn Satur-
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16, 20, 22, 23, 41 and 47.

The winning numbers in the Express
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The winning Lotto BC numbers
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These numtbers, provided by the
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unofficial.

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rd not keen on recruiting

into our district."”

Superintendent of schools Terry
Wayling said three Asian students
currently enrolled at Stanley Hum-
phries secondary school were
evaluated and accepted individually by
the board.

The Ministry of Education is
opening four offices in Southeast Asia
and some school districts employ over-
seas agents to attract students.

Ministry spokesmen say the
program is not subsidized because the
students pay for their tuition and they
are not a burden on English-as-a-
second-language courses because they
must be prdficient in English before
they are accepted into B.C.

However, Turner said another
reason the Castlegar board is not keen
on attracting foreign students is
because the $5,000 tuition the three

the funding provided per B.C. student
each year by the Education Ministry —
doesn’t cover the costs of extras such
as ESL classes which the three students
need.

ESL training is provided at SHSS
only for the Asian students, who
joined the Castlegar district in 1987
when their plans to attend the now-
defunct David Thompson University
Centre and Selkirk College. were
changed, said assistant superintendent
of schools Lach Farrell.

Stanley Humphries hosts four to six
foreign students each year through the
Rotary Club exchange program,
Farrell said, but ESL classes are not
provided for those students because
one of the requirements for par-
ticipating in the exchange is to be fun-
ctional in English. As well, the district
isnot obliged to provide ESL training

students pay — roughly

ifan stydent has

GORDON TURNER
‘look after our own”

in the language, he said. —+ ~.

About 20 local students in kin-
dergarten to Grade 8 reeeive ESL in-
struction in the district, Farrell added.

Ministry officials also ‘say the
recruitment campaign is meant to give
B.C. students more knowledge of the
Pacific. Rim through contact with
students from those countries.

Turner agreed Castlegar students
should be exposed. to students from
other cultures but said that is accom-
plished through the Rotary exchange.

Farrell said the three Asian students
in the district came to Castlegar during
.the initial interest in Pacific Rim con-
nections several years ago. They
already had their. visas and were ready
to attend DTUG and Selkirk College
and scouted aro€nd this area for other
schools to attend when their plans were
changed.

At that time the district received
several inquiries from Asian students,
but they appeared to be blanket"
sinquiries, likely sent to @ number of
districts across B.C., Farrell said

Castlegar hasn't rec ved any
inquiries for the last few years, he ad.
ded.

Turner said most of the recruiting of
foreign students has been in the
colleges which can only set up new
programs if they receive new funding,
such as tuition from foreign students.

He added that the college is equip:
ped to handle foreign students, with
staff to work with them including @
homestay coordinator to find families
for the studepts to live with.

If the school district became in.
volved in recruiting stidents the
district would have to set up a similar
support system for them, Turner said

|; Clean-up project:gets
‘|boost from B.C. Hydro

READY TOGO..

‘igin of Marbella Pacific Construction

Russel V.
Ltd. of Delta (left) joins Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore and
Cast | board chai

Bill Horvath for a sod-turning

emony Tu sday to mark the official start of construction on the
of the Castleg 1

c
$6.6 million

P CosNews photo by Ed Mills

By CasNews Staff
B.C. Hydro has given the Castlegar
and District ic De

All participants imthe program are
local people who have been receiving
social assi:

Board $12,000 to help fund a project
to clean up debris on the Lower Arrow
Lake. + as

The $55,600 project will employ
seven people for 15 weeks until the end
of March and will alsoinclude am-
bulance and first-aid training as well as
training in the use and maintenance of
chain saws for the workers, said Harry
Stan, executive director of the
devélopment board.

Stan said the aim of removing the
debris is to make the lake more attrac-
tiye for tourism-related activities and
reduce damage to boats. He added that
cleanup of the lake is especially impor-
tant to encourage American boaters,
whom he described as ‘‘frustrated’’ by
the condition of the take, to return and
use Lower Arrow Lake for
recreational purposes.

Scottie’s Marina is. managing the

project free of charge while the
development board is also donating
time to administer the project. The
provincial Ministry of Social Services
and Housing is supplying the workers
for the project which got underway
Dec. 18

Stan said cleanup of the lake has to
be done on an ongoing basis but hasn't
been done recently

He credited Castlegar lawyer Dine
Piket, recently appointed to B.C
Hydro’s board of directors, fr
helping secure the donation.

‘Waste disposal
goes high-tech

NANAIMO, B.C. (CP) — This
Vancouver Island city hopes to cut the
amount of garbage entering its landfill
by a recycling program and a $13.2
million trash processing plant announ-
ced Tuesday.

Long-awaited government funding
was committed to the Regional District
of Nanaimo’s proposed waste recovery
system by B.C. Environment Minister

Ministry of Energy, Mines and
Resources.

Nanaimo, a city of about 40,000,
will be the first in North America to use
the Swedish-style Brini-system. When
combined with curbside recycling, the
system is expected to reduce by 80 per
cent the amount of garbage going into
landfill.

“*An initial evaluation of the Brini
system by my ministry indicates it con-
forms with our objective of promoting
environmentally-sound alternatives to
municipal landfills,’’ said Reynolds.

The plant, scheduled to open in early
1991, will employ 10 full-time people
million from the original estimate of
$11.7 million

January 10, 1990

John Reynolds and E
Development Minister Stan Hagen ata
news conference. .

A $3.2-million package will include
a $1.2-million grant from provincial
lotteries, a three-year provincial loan
guarantee of up to $2 million to
Nanaimo Resource Recovery Ltd.,
which will operate the system, and a
$660,000 federal grant from the

WCB's ruling relaxed

By CasNews Staff
and News Services
The Workers Compensation Board
has—_granted—Castiegar—Hospitat—a
“‘variance’’ from the WCB’s
regulation that compels hospitals to
have first-aid attendants and rooms,
Castlegar Hospital administrator Ken
Talarico said Tuesday
The regulation — which WCB
spokesman Judy Kirk said last week is
under review — resulted in St. Mary’s
Hospital in New Westminster paying a
total of $21,000 in fines last year for

Protest-

failing to provide industrial first-aid
facilities for its employees

Talarico said the WCB agreed that
nurses and the emergency room at
Castlegar Hospital could fulfil the
function of the first-aid attendants and
first-aid room.

Meanwhile, St. Mary’s has complied
with the regulation at a cost of about
$30,000 by training nurses as first aid
attendants and by provwding a first aid
room, said hospital a¥ministrator
Bernie Bilodeau

Mike Mahony, a B.C. Hospitals
Association spokesman, called the
regulation “‘unnecessary”” and ‘“‘un-
duly harsh? .

The regulation came under fire last
month when the board considered
fining Kelowna General Hospital for
the same offence. The fine is still under
consideration, Kirk said.

The board is reviewing all its in- “

dustrial health and safety regulations,
which. will. be discussed at a public
hearing later this year or early in 1991,
she said.

continued from front poge
the memibers how the meeting went
and led the members in union

solidariy sone
Hynna and Botham left. for the

Castlegar Airport immediately after
the meeting and could not be reached

For those who may be unclear
about the deadline mentioned for the
written claim of a reward offered for
i ion about the
of John Raymond Derhousoff of
Blewett (CasNews, Jan. 7, p. A2), the
deadline is Dec. 31, 1990.

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for by reporters.

Union officials said the two gover-
nment representatives were not told of
the union’s decision to stage the sit-in
before they left for Castlegar.

Switzer refused to comment on the
situation before asking everyone that
was not an employee of the centre to
leave so he could lock the doors.

The centre was closed to the public
Tuesday afternoon and
closed today.

Letters of protest from. various
unions in the area and the city councils
of Trgil and Rossland have been sent to.
the minister and her~ representatives
over the past few months asking that
the government reconsider the
decision to move the jobs.

Mayor Bill *Profili said

remained

during the rally Rossland council has
received no communication from the
minister

Castlegar city council has supported
the position taken by Trail and
Rossland councils and Mayor Audrey
Moore said Tuesday the centre’s em-
ployees ‘‘have every right’’ to protest
the moving of their jobs.

Those opposed to the move say there
is no sound reason for transferring the
jobs, especially when they are in Trail
which is the industrial centre of the
area

In a September letter to McDougall,
Mike Spatari, vice-president i
480 of the USWA, pointed oaths
unemployment rate has risen while
Nelson's has fallen

“Canada’s unemployment national
rate is 7.4 per cent,’” the letter says.
“‘Nelson’s rate has dropped to 10.4 per
cent but Trail’s rate has risen to 12.5
Percent."”

During the rally, Spatari said the loss
of 10 jobs in the Trail centre may only
be the beginning and the space for the

workers will still be in ‘rau since tne
office will continue to operate the
other functions of the CEC. +

The move will hurt those who use the
service, he said.

“TI you’re on UI you shouldn’t have
to go through more hardships" such as
driving long distances to a CEC office,
Spatari said.

“This building will really be
needed’’ when completion of con-
struction at Cominco leads to the likely
layoff of 100 to as many as 500
Workers, USWA Local 480 president
Doug Swanson said. Swanson is also
chairman of the Regional District of
Kootenay Boundary.

Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D’Arcy,

the union and it is “‘absurd” for Ot-
tawa to remove one of the few services
the people of the area receive from the
federal government

“(The employees) have the right to
be angry and so does the community,”’
D'Arcy said.

In memory

’

Castlegar News

TREET TALK

THE ROBSON-RASPBERRY FERRY USE!
AD HOC COMMITTEE just couldn't resist

Noting Highways Minister Rita Johnston's recent

that 2 of the C Highway
will benefit Lower Mainland skiers and the announ-
cement earlier last year that the provincial government
will spend $2.5 million’to build a road for a private ski
hill near Terrace, the ferry users committee has formed
the Robs 'y Ski Hill pe

The group’s motto?

“*Our business is going downhill.”’

In a wonderful tongue-in-cheek letter to Tourism
Minister Cliff Michael, the committee's lawyer, Terry
Dalton, writing gm behalf of the Robsan-Raspberry
Ski Hill Develogérs, notes that Premier Bill Vander
Zaim’s and Jo}fnston's commitment to the skiers of
British Colunpfia is *‘ virtually total.”*

fobson-Raspberry Ski Hill is in only the
most preliminary stages of planning,"’ Dalton writes
“lt is recognized, however, that there will be an im-
mediate need to transport the Castlegar skiers to the
Robson Ski Hill. Could you please ask the premier and
Mrs. Johnston to re-start our ferry and to provide us
with a bridge as soon as possible. In keeping with their
commitment to B.C. skiers I know they will be anxious

todoso f% .

“Here's wishing you lots of light powder and hot
wax!"’ Dalton concludes

Copies of the letter
to— were also sent to Vander Zalm and Johnston.

Now if only they'd spelled Michael’s name right

TWO MEN closely associated with Cominco Ltd
have been inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of
Fame

Selwyn Gwillym Blaylock, a key figure in the foun-
ding of Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. of
Canada, today known as Cominco, and Teck Corp.'s
Norman Bell Keevil, who died last year at age 79, were
inducted in the hall of fame Monday at a dinner in
Toronto.

complete with logo and mot

UNUSUAL GROWTH .. . Shirley Poohachoff picked this odd-looking “cloverleat” pumpkin
from her garden in October. “I didn't want to sell it,” she said this week, adding that
she hasn't quite decided what to do with the vegetable.

» Robson-Raspberry Ski Hill Developers

/the “Robson-Rasperry Ski Hill Developers” sent

CosNews photo

A division of the Robson Raspberry
fs Ad Hoc Comittee

“Our business is going downhill

TONGUE-IN-CHEEK . . . a copy of the letter

to Tourism Minister Cliff Michael.

Blaylock died in 1945 at age 66
USCC WOMEN’S GROUP members took it upon
themselves to collect money for victims of the San Fran-
cisco earthquake and group members Pearl Kalesnikoff
and Polly Malekow recently presented the Red Cross
with a cheque for over $700.
The funds were raised through donations and a
pancake breakfast
ry Ockenden, Kootenay regional director of the
Red Cross in Castlegar, said the organization is “‘really
appreciative’? of the help in raising money for ear-
thquake relief and considers the women's work ‘‘a
tremendous local effort."”

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Pearl Koorbatoff

Pearl Koorbatoff of Shoreacres passed away today, Wednesday,
Jan. 10, 1990, at age 63.

Funeral services will begin Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Castlegar
Funeral Chapel and will continue Friday at 10 a.m. at Shoreacrés Hall
with burial at noon in Shoreacres Cemetery.

A complete obituary will appear in Sunday's Castlegas News.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar
Funeral Chapel

Mary Welda

Mary Welda of Oliver, B.C., former! 2
wnteee merly of Castlegar and area, passed

She was born in Rossland Dec. 18, 1925, to Helen and John
Polonikoff and was first married in 1943. Mary had three children
In 1970, she married Gordon Welda and had spent the last 20 years
with - Mary loved to travel. For her, the beauty of nature was of great
inspiration and peace. In her heaft, Mary always had a joyful and deep
love for people.

After she became ill with cancer, Mary became an active member of
the Cancer Society. Despite her illness, she was always full of joy, love and
courage; never complaining, never depressed and never losing hope. Her
experience has been of great comfort to many people

She is survived by her husband Gordon Welda of Oliver; daughter
Elaine Woods of Passmore; son John Rilkoff of Terrace; daughter Mar-
cia Leveridge of Ardmore; Alta.; brother John Polonikoff of Tarrysand

from the immediate family seven grandchildren.

A memorial service was held at | p.m. in Graham Funer. hapel in
‘aham Funeral C

Alex N. Sherbinin

Alex N. Sherbinin of Crescent Valley passed away Monday, Jan. 8.

king his home in Crescent Valley in
g and singing

ed and Peter of Crescent Valley; one
Tescent Valley; 13 grandchildren; 23
three great-great-grandchildren. He was
966, one son, one daughter and one great-

1942. Mr. Sherbinin enjoyed gardenin

He is survived by two sons, Fr
daughter, Pauline Posnikoff of C
great-grandchildren; and
predeceased by his wife in |
grandson

Funeral service will be held att
today at 7 p.m. and will continue Th
at the Krestova Cemetery,

Funeral arrangements are wi
Funeral Chapel

he Krestova Russian Hall beginning
ursday at 10 a.m. with byyial at noon

nder the direction of the € ‘astlegar

Autoworker wins $35m

NEW YORK (AP) A 49-year-old
autoworker who won $35 million US
said he went to work Ménday and
didn’t tell anyone he'd won'the largest
unshared prize in New York Lottery
history.

Antonio Bueti of Bedford Hills,
N.Y., looked around at this fellow
workers and ‘*was thinking how many
friends I’ve got. I was thinking | hope

_they win someday,”" he recounted. _

Bueti attended a news conference
Tuesday with his wife of 24 years,
Francesca. Both said they are unsure

how they will spend their money, but
they know their lives would never be
the same

“I'm very nervous and very ex-
cited,"’ said Bueti, who arrived in the
U.S. 23 years ago from the Calabria
district of southern Italy.

, He added he is unsure whether he
will quit his job which pays him bet-
ween $30,000 and $35,000 a-year —
pocket change compared to the 21 an-
nual payments of about $T.7 million
($1.2 million after taxes) he will begin
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