a2 Castlégar News February 28, 1988 ONE AND TWO AND Teacher Bob Bertuzzi directs the Twin Rivers elementary school choir during secondary school. opening ceremonies Friday at the West Kootenay teachers zone conference at Stanley Humphries CosNews Photo by Bonne Morgan TEACHERS continued trom front page that in working with those teachers who often don't realize that ‘their negative behavior affects their stu dents, he would try and improve “the art part” of education by making them more dynamic individuals. “If you want to make things better you have to realize what it is like to mal things worse,” according to Phillips. He says visualizing a worse situ ation is a good way to start to make things better because “the thing that is missing” becomes more apparent. Phillips told of a “bad teacher” who started by saying, “Let's plan together and see if we can make the next social studies class even more boring than this one.” Phillips told teachers to look in the mirror in the morning and ask: “What are the dominent emotions? Because they will come through in the voice tone, the inflection and the posture. “Think about the missing emotion because they deserve the best.” In addition, Phillips says “good teachers” have the capability to make themselves vulnerable as human beings, which makes them more successful “That créates emotion,” he says. Phillips told of a teacher who allowed her students to test her on words she couldn't spell once a week. He said he had never seen students love spelling so much before. Phillips said teachers should use the “as if” strategy in generating en- thusiastic students. “Treat kids as if they are what you want them to be,” he said, because “we find what we look for in people. “I think we make giftedness, also make kids disaffected, burnt out and cynical,” Phillips said. “Act as if you enjoy life.” DR. GARRY PHILLIPS . - enjoy life Post office to appeal OTTAWA (CP) — Canada Post will ask the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal a lower court decision in a case that could ulti. mately determine the success or failure of its plans for more privately run post offices. Lawyers for the Crown corporation will be filing the necessary documents with the court soon, spokesman David Newman said. It’s not known how long the ‘court will take to decide whether to hear the appeal. The case involves the wages and fringe benefits of people who work at a post office franchise in a Shoppers Drug Mart store in the Tor. onto area. The franchise was the first of its kind and has become a test case of Canada Post's plans to shift part of its retail operations to the private sector. The Canada Labor Re. lations Board ruled last Sep- tember that Shoppers Drug Mart had to pay the same wages and benefits to the employees that Canada Post paid to members of the Can. adian Union of Postal Work ers. That meant hourly wages of $13.43 an hour rather than the $5.50 to $9 an hour paid by the drugstore. Canada Post went to the Federal Court of Appeal, but the court upheld the original ruling last month. WILL GIVE UP Ironically, Sheldon Manly, the operator of the franchise at Shoppers Drug Mart, has since decided to give up the postal business as of May 31 because he felt trapped in a war between Canada Post and the union. Franchising was a major issue in the strike last fall by postal workers and continues to be a major source of labor management friction. The union fears Canada SHSS Report By Cathy Paszty There is excitement in the air at SHSS as the girls’ single A provincial basketball tournament is rapidly approaching on March 16 19. A lot of organization is going into the huge event which includes both students and teachers. This column will focus on the behind the seenes people. Many students are dedicating time to make the tournament a success. The focus in this column will be on behine the scenes people who are volunteering many hours of their time. These people include the hosts and hostesses who are going to make everyone feel welcome and right at home. At lot of hard work is being put in by Bill Oleski, who is getting a hard working crew together. The Interact Club will also be helping out. During the opening and closing ceremonies the club will parade in all of the players. This will make for exciting ceremonies. Cheryl Bonowicz is organizing the club. Another hard working crew will be the statisticians! They will be working on computers to keep track of what each player's stats are. Both Jack Closkey and Stoch Uchida will be donating a lot of time to organize these people. The cafeteria club will also be dedicating a lot of time and energy to provide meals. Grade 12 students Teresa Lamb and Cynthia Pudmoreff are getting this crew organized. Doug Matthews and several SHSS students are working together to maintain the security during the tournament. March is rapidly approaching and so is the excitement of provincials. Thank you to the many people who are organizing a very special event to both SHSS and Castlegar. Post will try to privatize thousands of post offices over .the next several years to the detriment of its members and it is mounting a $2-million campaign against privatiza- tion. The corporation says many of the franchises will be new outlets rather than replace- ments for existing post off- ices. It says the franchises will provide better service to the public at lower cost to the corporation. Eight franchises now are operating across the country and the corporation hopes to have 50 agreements signed by the end of next month. Seniors hold Valentine social President Gordon Fergu son welcomed members and guests to the Castlegar Sen ior Citizens Association's Valentine social Feb. 18. Guests Thelma and Curlie Ratcliffe and Wally Arnason from the Old Time Fiddlers, and Wally Walper were introduced by’ social con. venor LaDell Lipsett After the singing of O Canada, the Old Time Fid diers played a couple of numbers. A humorous reading was given by Arlee Anderson. Wally Walper delighted the audience with a medley of favorite songs, accompanying himself on his guitar. This was followed by the Old Time Fiddlers who play- ed three selections, Side Walk Waltz, Hillary's Polka and Ramblers Horn Pipe. The seniors clapped in time and some danced to the toe- tapping music. Red hearts with numbers had been given to each mem: ber as they arrived. Mem bers were divided’ into three groups to compete in a bean bag game. Score was kept and the winners were hon- ored but all received the candy prize. A hearty note of thanks was given to all the enter- tainers and a delicious lunch and social time was enjoyed. On March 17 Debbie Thompkins’ dance class will entertain the members. Funeral today for Shkuratoff Mabel Shkuratoff of Slocan Park passed away Thursday, Feb. 25 at the age of 85. Funeral service will! be held at the Passmore Hall beginning today at 7 p.m. and continuing Monday at 10 a.m. with burial at 1 p.m. at Slocan Park Cemetery. Mrs. Shkuratoff was born Oct. 26, 1902 near | Blaine Lake, Sask. and came'to B.C. with her parents, Harry and Mabel Konkin, as a small child. In 1920 she married Nick Shkuratoff and shortly after they moved to Lundbreck, Alberta. They moved to Slocan Park in 1949 where she resided until her death. She was a member of the USCC and enjoyed garden- ing, embroidery, knitting, sewing, rug making and reading. She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Nick and Pauline of Brilliant, and John and Irene of Slocan Park; five daughters, Polly Kazakoff of Lethbridge, Al berta, Helen and son-in-law, Harry Hoodicoff of Castlegar, Lillian Kazakoff of London, Ont., Doris and son-in-law Mike Nazaroff of South Slo- can, Beatrice and son-in-law Lewie Verigin of Slocan Park; 30 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Helen Saliken of Slo- can Park. She was predeceased by her husband, three sisters, one brother, and one son-in- law. In lieu of flowers, contri- butions may be made to the USCC or the Heart Fund, Box 3023, Castlegar, B.C. Funeral arrang are Government keeps tabs on child abusers VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia govern- ment keeps information on has shared its findings with other provinces, Social Ser- viees Minister Claude Rich- mond said. “We don't deal in rumors,” said Richmond, “If we ex- ange information at all, we have pretty solid informa- tion.” 4 However, former Human Resources Minister Jim Niel- sen had previously said in the legislature it is against the law for his ministry to re- lease confidential information on child abusers to anyone but the courts. The Human Resources Ministry later be- came the Social Services Ministry. “The information we have on specific cases is not to be released unless it is being released to a court,” he said. CLAUDE RICHMOND “, .