Page 2A The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, December 29, 1993 (EIN Castlegar likes: Swimming Pet:— Vehicle: Bike Name: Michelle (5 yrs) & Alexandra ( 3 yrs) rk: r Commission & Where you work: Vally Vista, Recreation What you do there: Read & chase the boys Best kept Castlegar secret: D-Bar-D Ranch (horse riding) What would you rather be doing? Swimming Learning Circle explores issue of violence SUN STAFF It’s new to Selkirk College, it’s innovative and it's a powerful tool Selkirk College Continuing Education in Slocan Valley, and Castlegar have established Learn- ing Cifeles in which @ small group of people meet and discuss issues on a defined topic. The group meets for a speci fied amount of times and can be applied to any social issue Beginning January 12, Learn ing Circles will be exploring vio lence. There will be 16 videos segments on violence and how it affects today's society. Facilitators for the Learning Circles on violence include San- dra Cacchioni from the Women in Need (WIN) transition house in Trial and probation officer and family court counselor, Laurie Morgan Topics which will be covered in the violence Learning Circle are: violence against women; teen violence; ethnic violence; suicide pre-adolescent violence: dat violence amongst teens; mass murder, native violence and the impact of violence on survivors. The Learhing Circles will meet every Thursday at 7 p.m. at both locations with conclusion on April 27 Ace Disposal employee Lorne Shalanski took a few seconds out of a busy col- lection day to pose for a quick photograph next to the small stuffed toy that has become a fixture on the garbage truck. SUN STAFF PHOTO / Sharlene Imhoft Advertise frequently -Your Image Will Make a Good Impression on Your Customers For further information contact the Continuing Education Centre at Selkirk College = Death Continued from 1A to get protection or even know there was anything they could do?" Simpson said Four members er ex-members of the sect have been convicted of sexual abuse or sexual assault against sect or family members in the last three years, according to a spokesman for the Attorney General's Ministry Last April the Nelson women’s association helped several ex members of the sect write a report on their experiences. They depicted the Creston sect as a highly-disciplined organization run by an elite of a few powerful male members, who were allowed to have several wives. According to Carol Anderson, who wrote the section of the report about the sect’s indepen- dent school, the children of the elite got good grades regardless of performance while the off- spring of less successful mem- bers did poorly. “I heard one student express a desire to commit suicide because of the treatment received in the home, the school and the commu- nity,” Anderson wrote. Anderson’s family left the sect when she was 10, but she returned in 1987 for one year to teach at the school. “I've never seen such cruelty by one student to another or teachers to students,” Anderson told Sterling News. The report found that children in the sect suffered from low-self esteem. “Physicial boundaries and emotional boundaries are nonexistent, blurred, weak or rigidly in place and distorted by d They are unable to Castlegar Foods PRICES EFFECTIVE THURS. DEC. 30 TO FRI. 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Employment Minister Glen Clark welcomed the deci- sion, but cautioned that the U.S. forest industry may continue their lengthy fight to keep the lumber tariffs in place. Clark said Canadians still don’t have clear rules on subsi dies and countervailing duties “Our exports will continue to be threatened by U.S. trade harass. ment,” he said. The Commerce Department has 20 days to respond to the rul- ing. Under the North American Free Trade agreement, binational trade panels cannot directly overtum rulings. They can only order them to be reconsidered based on their interpretation of trade laws Selling something? Phone 365-5266 CLEAR THE AIR wood smoke and auto emissions with tips from the Association B.C. Lung Association Box 4008, Station D Vancouver. BC V6) 4M2 Reduce air pollution from residential IG 0 TIRES FOR EXCELLANT ICE TRACTION Wednesday, December 29, 1993 CNIB services to Kootenays improved The Castlegar Sun Page 3A New position filled by Slocan Park resident SHARLENE IMHOFF Sun Editor Since 1918 the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) has seved the needs of blind and visually impaired Cana- dians, and recently, those services in the West and East Kootenays have been improved. Allan Kirk, who relocated to Slocan Park, is employed by CNIB and has his plate full, car- rying out two important posi- tions: as well as being the Orientation and Mobility Special- ist for the Southern Interior, Kirk is also the Community Rehabili- tation Councillor for the East and West Kootenays. “The CNIB is improving its Services to people in this area My position here makes us more accessible to the people who need our services,” said Kirk. The CNIB is a voluntary agen- cy committed to providing core rehabilitation services to individ- uals across Canada for whom Jim Chapman blindness or severe impairment of vision has created a serious prob- lem in personal and social adjust- ment As part of his duties, Kirk is involved with counselling and referral, which includes individu- al and family counselling relating Allan Kirk to vision loss, parent, peer and family support groups, and refer- als to appropriate services. But that’s not all. As an Orientation and Mobility Trainer, Kirk works with clients on a one-to-one basis to help individuals develop dependent travel skills and white cane techniques. “We want to help people stay as independent as possible,” said Kirk Working closely with Kirk is well-known Castlegar resident Jim Chapman, As a volunteer Community Co-ordinator, Chap- man has responsibilities in ser vice, public relations and fund ising matters for Castlegar. Chapman is also a member of the local Castlegar Selkirk Lions Club, and as such, has been involved with CNIB projects for a number of years. “There's been a close relationship between the Lions Club and CNIB for many years,” said Chapman. The most recent proof of that Close relationship can be found in the Lions Club latest endeavor called Campaign SightFirst, a worldwide effort to raise money for the blind and visually impaired. There are more than 30 people in Castlegar who use the services of the CNIB and Lions Club. SHARLENE IMHOFF Sun Edior be spent over the next few years. When he was mayor of Vancouver, tebuild the province's A $225-million federal grant to help i municipal roads and cost-sharing plan. Harourt was a keen si $225 million, with his government and the formset < : Harcourt announces major public works spending Perfect timing for Castlegar to begin overhauling infrastructure time for Castlegar, which is in the process of entering into a massive overhaul of its water and wastewater i Money would be day, but he told rep times as much. announced by at the First Minister's Conference cial and the Sewers was welcomed by Premier Mike Har- court. Ts home his own government would spend 20 The grant is part of a $6-billion plan Prime Minister Jean i Harcourt told reporters in Victoria in a telephone interview that Otawa, the provin- back in Ottawa. would each contribute $2 billion dollars, to eac! However, Harcourt stressed that his gov- emment would spend 20 times that amount on public works of all kinds. The B.C. 21 program announced in the last budget is expected to spend $2 billion this year on schools, hospitals, roads, court- houses and other public works. The funding will come from long-term borrowing which will not be shown in the that amount. province's operating budget, a departure from past practice. Harcourt City Councillor in responsible for Public Works, Doug Green, called the federal and Provincial announcements “ super timing. ” Green wouldn't say the announcement means Castlegar would be applying iramedi- ately for borrowing money or even for-a grant. “It means we're going to look into the *$ announcement comes at a good to see what's for us. If it's there we're certainly going to do what we can for the city.”* Mogul Mounties patrol ski hills “You‘on the Rossignol skis, pull over, you're speeding.” It had to happen. A crack team of volunteer Mounties is combing the slopes of Whistler and Black- comb on the lookout for reckless skiers, drug and alcohol abusers and thieves. Police — estimate about $130,000 worth of ski equipment U.S. housing STERLING NEWS SERVICE A shortage of wood may pre- vent B.C. lumber firms from tak- ing full advantage of a predicted U. S. housing surge, experts say. Two forest industry newslet- ters have predicted a lumber shortage in the United States next year of between one and four bil- lion board feet, which would translate into gross sales of between $430 million and $1.7 billion. Forest analyst Charles Wid- man predicted a shortfall of four billion board feet in his new pub- lication, Widman’s World Wood Review, last month. “For the first time in history B.C. won’t be able to respond to the U.S. lum- ber market because of our timber availability,” he said, In the latest issue of Madison's Canadian Lumber Reporter, IWA-Canada research director Doug Smyth said the combina- tion of a dwindling North Ameri- can wood supply and the U.S housing surge would leave the U.S. two billion board feet shorn of lumber. But Smyth forecast that half of that shortfall would be made up within the U.S. by production of synthetic woods and other lumber substitutes, leaving one billion to made up by imports. Widman said that low interest rates in the U.S. were responsible for a boom in housing starts which began this fall. Widman reported 1.2 million starts in 1992, rising to 1.26 million this your But the rate has picked up in the last month, he said. allowing a projection of 1.42 million stans ext year Widinan said the price of soft has been stolen from the resort in the past two years. The officers, decked out in trendy blue ski suits and equipped with pagers, will assist the mountains’ existing ski Patrols. Jimmie Spencer, president of the Canada West Ski Areas Asso- ciation, approved of the mogul Mounties. “We think their visi- bility on the mountain will make people think twice about stealing equipment,” he said The mountains also hope the police presence will discourage people who ski out of control Each year there are hundreds of preventable accidents on the slopes, Spencer said surge catches B.C. short wood two-by-fours had climbed from $185 per 1000 board feet to an average of $332 for 1993 “But today it is at $440 and next year we predict it will average $425,” said Widman. Widman blamed overcutting for the inability of the B.C industry to increase production as it has during past American mar- ket surges. A MacMillan Bloedel repre- sentative said the biggest lumber company in B.C. had unused capacity in its mills but no chance of increasing its wood supply. Public affairs director Scott Alexander said log prices and labor costs would increase to offset much of gains from the increased price of lumber. Widman, however, said forest companies with strong lumber manufacturing components would come out ahead. Those such as Fletcher Challenge which had put their emphasis on pulp production would continue to see revenues slump. A spokesman for wood prod- ucts manufacturers without a wood supply of their own said his industry would be squeezed by the U.S. boom. “Supply is definitely a con- cern. We'll see an upward pres- sure on price,” said Gerry Sillers, president of the Indepen- dent Lumber Remanufacturers Association. downtown merchants. Maybe it was the new look of Castlegar’s down- town, or maybe it was that shoppers were more confi- dent in their spending. Whatever the reason, the result was a better than average holiday season for SUN STAFF PHOTO /John Van Putten CKQR to expand on the airwaves In less than a year the Sun- shine Radio Network will be station that has the West Koote- nay truly covered After filing an application in June to the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunica- tion Commission, Valley Broad- casters, which has CKQR in Castlegar and CKGF in Grand Forks, received approval to establish an FM transmitter to also serve Nelson. “This will give us a larger audience, making us a true West Kootenay station,” said Company General Manager Wilf Warmer. The CRTC decision number 93749 calls for the transmitter to be operational within 12 months. Company president William Gillespie said he is pleased with the Commissions decision and said the company will proceed forth to establish the transmitter as soon as possible Santa Claus made a special appearance at Castlegar Primary School, late last week, just before children left for the holida included a bonfire and horse-drawn sleigh ride. y break. Other entertainment that day SUN STAFF PHOTO /Karen Kerkhotf NRC illuminates secrets of the starry night STERLING NEWS SERVICE The next time you are gazing into the Christmas night sky, pondering mysteries such as the Star of Bethlehem, you should know that a recent dis- covery by an astronomer at the National Research Council has shed new light on our under standing of stars. Thanks to Dr. Peter Stetson of NRC's Dominion Astrophysical Observatory (DAO) in Victoria, evidence of a new type of star was discovered in a globular clus ter (a dense group of stars) some 32,000 light years away. The dis covery may be the kev to under standing a mysterious blue light coming from the dense cores of about one quarter of the Milky Way's 160 globular clusters These dense cores were first dis covered in the 19705 and have been an enigmas since Dr. Stetson calls these new stars “yellow stragglers”. They are located in M15, a typical globular cluster containing sever al hundred thousand stars. Globu- lar clusters are among the oldest objects in our galaxy. Dr. Stetson combined data from the Hubble Space Tele scope (HST) with data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Tele scope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, for his research. Right at the centre of MIS, he found a large Population of massive, dense stars with color and brightness different from anything previ ously observed in M15 or other clusters. He concluded that stars moving around and inside the dense core of this cluster, drawn close to each other by their strong mutual gravitational pull may actually collide and meld into the new type of star “Astronomers have been challenged by this phenomenon for more than twenty years. It was proven about three years ago that clusters with extremely dense cores are bluer in the cen- tre, while clusters without dense cores are the same color throughout. But the question still remained: what causes the difference in colour?” says Dr. Stetson. “From what I've deter- mined, yellow stragglers are the best piece of evidence so far to support the idea that the bluish core of MIS is the result of direct'stellar collision.” Dr Stetson has shown that though the stars appear yellow, they also give off a large amount of blue light, perhaps accounting for most of the core's blue glow Dr. James Hesser, DAO direc tor and leader of a Canadian-U.S Hubble project to study globular clusters, said, “Dr research is an excellent example of how the unusually sharp images from the ground-based even Stetson’s Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope can be combined with HST data to produce new insights into the mysteries in the sky. In addition, this research-will help us study the processes that occur at the centre of giant galaxies, which are even more dénse than the cores of globular clusters and where stellar collisions may be forming black holes From intriguing biue light to yawning black holes, NRC con- tinues its quest for a broader understanding of the starry skies Man taken from smoke-filled apartment An apartment building in Castlegar could very easily have been the scene of tragedy when fire broke out in the building located at 1100-6th Street Fire Chief Gerry Rempel credits both a working fire alarm as well as concerned neighbors for avert- ing the close call, which occurred December 24 at 45 am Rempel, who was first on th scene, was soon aware that the 3 year-old man living in the apart ment was disonentated and need ed assistance leaving th which was smoke-filled due to a mattress that caught fire Although the bed and the mat scene tress were dest 1, Rempel said the remainder of the house suf fered only minor Castleyar’s fire ch moke damage Minued to say that evidence sl a smok ing in bed was the cause of the fire. Ten firefighters responded from the downtown hall with one truck