Program talled success | but fewer found work | The Canada Employment Centre for Students closed on Friday after an active summer. Student Placement Officers Catherine Merlo and Denise West, consider the summer a success, even though the total number of placements is down from 1986. This summer, 453 were found for students in the Trail/Castlegar area. A total of 232 of these were Rec news oo Fall is quicky approaching and with it comes a new set Monday, Sept. 14 and pro- grams will begin Sept. 21. This season we will be offering a large variety of new activities. Some of the programs that will be taking place are: Advanced Micro- wave Cooking, Ballroom and Music for Tots. Co-Ed Vi One activity that got its initial start last winter was our Co-Ed Volleyball League. Last year we had six teams, but this fall we want more. So all you slow pitch softball players get your six-person team organized for some ex- citing league play. It will be a great way to get your weekly exercise, socialize and have a lot of fun. So get organized now for action in October. Fitness Classes Summer drop-in fitness classes are still taking place at the Community Complex. Classes happen every Mon- day/Wednesday/Friday mornings from 9-10 a.m. and Monday/Wednesday/Thurs- day evenings from 7-8 p.m. Last day for summer classes is Sept. 11. Rent Some Ice If you would like to get a head start on winter why not grab your skates and stick and rent some ice at the arena? We now are renting ice by the hour. So give your friends a call, the recreation office a call and have some winter fun this summer. | ST. PETER LUTHERAN 713 - 4th Street Office 365-3664 Yam. Worship Service Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Rev Ae T. Backus (365-3085 Listen tothe tuineron Maur, sunday *Vo'm on Rodio ChOM ANGLICAN CHURCH 1401 Columbia Avenue Sunday Services 9:00 a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m Rev. Charles Balfour 365-2271 Parish Purpose: “To know Christ and make Him known” regular part- or full-time em- ployment, while the remain- ing number were casual jobs lasting les¢ than five days. Some 680 students were registered at the office. “These numbers represent a fairly successful summer considering the local eco- nomic situation and relative- jobs ly unstable weather con- ditions,” Merlo and West said. “With several busi- nesses experiencing a de- crease in business, full-time employment was not as wide- ly available to students as in Insertions, copy changes and co the Directory will be accepted up to 5 p.m. ra us tec hee capothel taghoaas ‘Though the number of jobs is down slightly from. last, year, the Trail/Castlegar -area always does hire a good number of students com- pared to other areas in B.C, of similar size, the placement officers said. 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Provincial lottery draw is 5655101 Jackson's new record Michael Jackson's new album, Bad, hits the music stores tomorrow . CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1987 Fone 2 Sections (A & B) BANNOCK BLOWOUT. . youngsters at the bannock cookout . Dwayne Hartson attracts a crowd of Saturday morning at Syringa Creek Provincial Park. Youngsters cooked bannock, a bread used by fur traders and trappers, as part of summer parks interpretative program. CasNews Photo by Chery! Colderbank FOR POWERS’ BROKERS Sentencing postpone By MIKE KALESNIKO Si Writer Three of the four men found guilty of managing and operating a pyramid scheme in connection with Dixie Dee Powers made a brief appearance in Castlegar provincial court Friday morning, only to have their sentencing hearing adjourned to Sept. 14. Daniel Voykin, 30, of Brilliant, Steven Evdokimoff, 28, of South Slocan, Samuel Stoopnikoff, 28, of Castlegar and Fred Chursinoff, 49, of Brilliant were all found guilty last June of operating a pyramid scheme that netted some $3.2 million in the Koote- nays. Chursinoff did not appear in court Friday morning and a request by Crown counsel to issue a bench war. rant for his arrest was denied as too extreme. Provincial court Judge Ron Fab. bro postponed sentencing because of a delay in the presentencing reports. Presentencing reports, prepared by the probation office, consist of ex tensive information about such things as how the accused are seen in the eyes of their community, their general pasts, and an examination of any previous involvement in the judicial system. Trail lawyer Donald Sperry des- cribed the presentencing reports as “an aid to the judge in sentencing, to give DON SPERRY cloud’ over heads him better insight into the people he is dealing with.” The reports were delayed because of a change in staff at the probation office. Sperry represented all four of the accused Friday while Jane Maclvor acted on behalf of the Crown. Van: couver lawyer Harry Rankin and special prosecuter Sean Madigan, also of Vancouver, are expected to be present at the Sept. 14 sentencing. According to previous testimony, all four men, who were hired as “brokers” for Powers, were paid a 20 per cent commission during the dur. ation of the scheme, between January 1985 and April 1986. Voykin was accused of having a personal “take” of $263,000, or 20 per cent of $1,315,000; Evdokimoff made $102,000 or 20 per cent of $511,000; Stoopnikoff made $72,000, 20 per cent of $361,000; and Chursinoff netted $56,000, 20 per cent of the $284,000 he collected. All four men later admitted their own personal records of the in vestments were not detailed enough to dispute the figures. During Friday's court appearance, Nelson lawyer Marvin Singleton told judge’ Fabbro that he is representing approximately 107 clients, mostly from tlegar, who are seeking compen sation for their losses under section 653 of the Criminal Code. Section 653 states that an accused convicted of an indictable offence may, at the time of sentencing, be ordered to pay that person for “loss of or damage continued on poge A2 Development Pe] board gets grant By CasNews Staff The Castlegar and District De velopment Board has been awarded an $86,000 job development grant to pro vide forestry training and work experience for eight long-term unem ployed people in the Castlegar area. According to Richard Maddocks, spokesman for the board, the program will run for 26 weeks starting Sept. 8 and the training will consist of such things as brushing and weeding, and all aspects of silviculture work “People will end up with the practical and theoretical skills required to compete in the job market as quali. fied forestry workers,” said Maddocks. Maddocks said the grant was made available through the Canadian Job Strategy's Job Development funding. Maddocks explained that those interested in the positions must be registered with Trail Employment Centre and must have been unem ployed for 24 of the last 30 weeks to qualify He said much of the training will take place on Mount Sentinel and in the Goose Creek area. “We certainly appreciate the assistance of the federal government.” said Maddocks. “It’s good to see money coming into this area to create jobs.” COMINCO STRIKE OVER! By SURJ RATTAN Staff Writer Trail received good news Friday as Cominco and striking office and technical workers reached a tentative agreement in the labor dispute that had kept the city's major employer behind picket lines for 114 days. The tentative settlement is for 38 months and will be yoted on tomorrow by the members of the United Steel- workers of America local 9705. The deal comes just one day after Cominco and local 9705 officials met_to discuss a union proposal to send the 17-week old labor dispute to binding arbitration. “We have a tentative agreement,” local 9705 president Jim Saare told the Castlegar News shortly after the deal was struck Friday afternoon. “It's basically no concessions. The rate protection is gone. We will work 40 hours in the third year and for that the company will compensate us by giving us one week of holidays and two per cent on our salary and also give us a RRSP package. Before the strike Cominco em. ployees worked 37.5 hours a week. Saare said for every dollar local 9705 members contribute to their RRSP package, Cominco will add an additional 20 cents. The remainder of the contract includes what production and main tenance workers settled for last month. e have nine COLAs (cost of living clauses). They'll be rolled in at the end of the second and third years. We'll have a $250 signing bonus and pension improvements,” said Saare. While he said he is glad a tentative agreement has been reached, Saare cautioned that he is not pleased with all aspects of the settlement. “We're relieved. It’s a strike that we felt should not have had to happen. This strike should have been over on May 9 (the day the strike began). We're not happy with the 38-month agreement. We're not happy with everything in this contract. We're especially not happy with the 38-month agreement,” said Saare. He added that union jeaders will P of th agreement, to its membership. “We took on the new Cominco,” Saare told the Canadian Press, re ferring to the purchase of lead and zinc mining firm by Teck Corp. “It was something we were forced to do and in the end it was a victory.” The strike by the 450-member local, which was getting only grudging support from 2,000 production and maintenance workers who had already agreed to a new contract in mid-July, but were asked to stay out in support of the smaller local. Some 800 workers at the Kim berley operation were also on strike. Saare had to balance his demands against an undercurrent of impatience flowing from the larger local whose members wanted to return to work The main stumbling blocks for the office and technical workers were Cominco’s demands to lengthen the work week to 40 hours from 37.5, with no increase in pay, and to remove pay rate protection from workers bumped to lower job classifications Cominco spokesman Richard Fish confirmed a tentative settlement has been reached. “We do have a tentative agree- ment with the office and technical local 9705. It's a three year deal. Beyond that we will not have any details on it until the contract is voted on,” said Fish. “The agreement was reached between the two parties, there was no third party intervention. It was direct collective bargaining; the agreement was reached today (Friday).” Fish added that if local 9705 members approve the contract Mon- day, start-up operations at Cominco could begin as early as Tuesday. He said that it would take about a week to reach full production at the Trail and Kimberley plants. Trail Mayor Chuck Lakes said the tentative deal could not have come at a better time now that school will be re-opening and the Christmas season is four months away. “It’s a great relief to me and the City of Trail and the whole East and West Kootenays. The time is right. The strike has been on for four months. Children are going to be going back to school. We're very, very happy,” said Lakes. “When there's money coming back into the pockets of people they spend more plus now that the strike is over the merchants can plan for their Christmas inventory.” Trail Chamber of Commerce pres- ident Gary Unger said the tentative agreement has “been long overdue.” “It's going to be good. With the signing of this agreement we'll have turned the corner in this area. We should have some good years in front of us now,” said Unger. But while he said he is glad a tentative agreement has been reached, he cautioned that it will take some time for Trail to get back onto its economic feet again. “It'll take a while for recovery. A lot of people got behind in their bills and commitments. I believe in a short time you'll see an increase in activity. It won't be overnight, but I believe in the next three years we'll see a tremendous amount of growth in this area,” said Unger. WKPL sale official KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) — The sale of West Kootenay Power and Light to UtiliCorp United of Kansas City be came official on Friday, despite con tinuing opposition from the utility's customers. The 8,000-member Electric Con sumers’ Association tried to block the sale, criticising it because it gave ownership of a major utility to a foreign firm and because they feared it could lead to higher electrical rates. West K ootenay's parent company, Cominco Ltd., will get $80 million in the deal The sale was originally approved earlier this year by the B.C. Utilities Commission following public hearings. The association tried to fight the sale through the courts but lost West Kootenay serves customers in the Okanagan and the Kootenays