Centre places workers By CasNews Staff The The Selkirk College Enterprise Centre has Northern Lights region, which has been operating for 19 d months, as compared to the 14 to place more people into part-time months the West Kootenay region work thas any other canjeetn-the™” Yratien in operation, produced the Province. : There are 17 Enterprise Devel- most full-time jobs with 195. In addition, Selkirk College help- that were in trouble and helped Seven businesses with expansion, opportunities for existing or poten- tial businesses and helping to place post y into the work force. The centres are’ funded by the of advanced education and job training. Funding for the cen- tres has been $2,120,496 which includes all capital and start-up costs. Aside from creating the most part-time jobs in B.C. — 56 — Selkirk College also came in second in creating the most full-time jobs The with 77, board. “The bottom line of the centres has been to produce jobs in this area,” Doug Glover, director of the West Kootenay Enterprise Devel- opment Centre recently told a meeting of the Selkirk College “The centre has worked hard and well for people at Selkirk College and we have been extremely busy.” Board member Ed Mannings said the success of the centre was “com- mendable.” centre only accepts 15 students into the program. 87 *Home improvement ideas ¢Home furnishings Leisure products e Appliances Information booths PRIZES! DRAWS! Te ¢ Burger e Milkshake (small) ¢Cone (small) 48’’ EASTER RABBIT (6 Smeg [=] Polar Bear = KOOTENAY BROADCASTING SYSTEM LIFESTYLE April 2-3-4 Nelson Civic Centre GIVEAWAYS! Riverside Video Coupons PROPANE BARBECUE vaiue $400 BABYSITTING SERVICE AVAILABLE AND MUCH MUCH MORE! PROCEEDS TO Nelson Fig LIFESTYLE ’87 FEATURES ENTERTAINMENT BY: ¢Le Poulet Noir — 50’s rock ’n roll and rythm & Blues ¢The Lord Beaverbrook Stage Band from Calgary ure ating Baby change room of Shoppers Drug Mart Canterbury Bells from Spokane Tai Chi Club Demonstration... . compliments Nelson Club “BRING THE FAMILY” Admission: $1.00 per person Thursday 3 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. “It’s great to be in the Kootenays” * Boats Cars Sporting goods eArts & Crafts e Entertainment - Longines Duet Watch forher.., Value $495 Clut HELPING HANDS one Eric Pacheco (right) and Joshua Halbaver lend a hand to Castlegar Mayor Audr Kootenay Columbia Child. Toy Library is now open to Moore. ai Care Soc all the public. Mary Davis as they officially open the ty’s Community Toy Library last Monday. The Union members to hit the streets _By CasNews Staff Members of local postal thing” possible to stop Ot- tawa from eroding the postal _service. Ben Fietz, president of the Castlegar Local of the Cana- dian Union of Postal Workers announced in a prepared news release that postal union members are prepared to fight the government. “We will do everything in our power to stop the Tory government in Ottawa from selling off our postal services to their business friends,” said Fietz. According to Fietz, postal union members across Can- ada will be “going into the streets” on Tuesday, with a message in a leaflet to the public. Attached to the leaflet will Back seatbelts TORONTO (CP) — Pass- enger cars sold in Canada may soon have lap-and-shoul der belts in the back seat as standard equipment. Transport Canada is ask- ing auto makers and con- sumers to comment on the desirability of rear shoulder belts. the present seatbelt sys- tems are very effective in reducing road casualties, but some improvements are pos sible,” said Gordon Campbell, director of road safety for Transport Canada. Court news In Castlegar provincial court this week, Franklin Ward was sentenced to 90 days intermittent sentence when he pleaded guilty to one count of assault causing bodily harm. * * « Robert Olson was fined $450 when he pleaded guilty to a drinking-driving related offense. Weather be a mail-back card to federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent to demonstrate public support for the public postal system. “It is the Tory government that approved Canada Post's business plan with literally no congultation wigh “the people or. the unions repre~ senting the employees,” sta- tes Fietz. “That plan includes elimination of rural routes, closures of rural and urban post offices, no new letter carrier routes, massive use of community mail boxes, fran- chising postal services to pri- vate business, in addition to postal rate increases . . . despite public outery, few changes have been made to the plan.” Fietz also accused the fed- eral Conservatives of giving Canada Post “its marching orders” and provoking a national postal strike “as a Report exami cheap ploy to gain public support by bashing postal unions. “I believe the public is smart enough to realize that their postal service is in de- cline because of the Tory cutbacks,” he states. “It: is the Tory government that is denying Canada Post and its employees the opportunity to give good service to the people of Canada.” Fietz says this action marks the beginning of the “second phase” of the joint letter carrier and postal union campaign to improve and expand postal services. “Our message today is to alert Canadians that part of our heritage is on the auction block,” states Fietz. “Once the service gets into the hands of private business, our national system, acces- sible to all at the same rates, is in jeopardy.” By SURJ RATTAN Staff Writer The closure of the David Thompson University Centre in Nelson and lack of equipment are two of the problems Selkirk College has faced in the last five years, according to a report prepared for the Ministry of Advanced Education and Job Training. The report, called the Section 66 report, was prepared by college president Leo Perra and is required every five years in accordance with the College and Institute Act. Perra’s report touches on three major sections. An overview as to why Selkirk College should continue to EXTENDED. ON WKPL SALE the deadline to com regulatory authorities have not approved’ the sale to « United States buyer. UtiliCorp United Inc. of Kansas City has applied to the B.C. Utilities Commission to purchase the utility for $80 million (Canadian) from Comntnep Ltd, West Kootenay serves consumers in southeastern and south-central B.C. The sale to a foreign buyer Se erearly opposed on grounds of sovereignty over resources at public hearings at Kootenay and Okanagan centres. UtiliCorp president Richard Green said in a news release from San Francisco the deadline to complete the purchase has been extended to May 31. He also said UtiliCorp expects a 40-per-cent increase in net income for the first quarter of 1987 compared to the same period in 1986. Net income for the January-to-March period will be approximately $12 million (US) compared to $8.5 million a year ago, he said. Earnings per common share for the first quarter of 1987 are estimated at $1.12 compared to 87 cents a year ago. Revenues are down to about $190. million (US) compared to $203 million for the first quarter of 1986, mainly as a result of mild winter weather. The 1986 figures do not include revenue from West Virginia Power, which became a UtiliCorp division on March 1, and Northern Minnesota Utilities, which became a division in December. Decision reversed on boundaries By CasNews Staff In a ourpeue decision, the Electoral Boundaries Cc its prop to transfer several oaraniiiea oo on the north arm of Kootenay Lake out of the federal constituency of Kootenay West. “It made no sense at all,” Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said in a prepared news release. “I was prepared to fight to have those communities returned to Kootenay West, but now it looks like that won't be necessary.” Brisco said he gave notice earlier that he would be objecting to the commission's decision to exclude the “north arm” communities from the proposed riding of Kootenay West — Revelstoke, but said late last week he received a telegram from the commission stating that Electoral District “D” will remain in the riding. Electoral District “D” extends north from Balfour to include Ainsworth, Kaslo, Meadow Creek, Argenta and all points in between. The ission had d splitting the Kootenay West riding in two to merge with ridings to the east and west but dropped the proposal when inundated by objections at a public hearing in Nelson last fall. Despite the victories, Brisco is still unsatisfied with the commission report and intends to argue for changes to the Proposed bbierpes of Kootenay West — Revelstoke. ke and O! North MP Vince Dantzer ints me that Revelstoke has greater economic ties with Vernon than with any part of Kootenay West,” Brisco said in the release. “I will therefore recommend that if Kootenay West must be expanded, it should be shifted west to include Christina Lake and Grand Forks rather than north to include Revelstoke and Mica Creek.” Brisco urged anyone sharing this opinion to provide him with a letter of support. nes problems College next month, Perra says that access for the physically has been i d, an elevator has been installed and gently sloping. sidewalks have been added to the Castlegar campus. “The relocation of the Trail campus to a new facility will overcome the inadequacies inherent in the present site,” said Perra. He added that Selkirk College has become actively involved with international education during the past year. “These initiatives have included the recruitment of students into the roruiy Drosrams of the institution, the provide post-secondary services to the West Koot Boundary region, a review of the college's performance in relation to the provincial Mission and Goals statement and how the college has met its goals. Perra said the economic recession which affected B.C. over the last three to four years “was even more serious in the West Kootenay.” He added that the poor economic times caused layoffs in several industries and those layoffs resulted in the elimination of apprenticeship training classes from Selkirk College. “The decision to close the David Thompson University Centre created major program shifts and massive layoffs for college personnel,” said Perra. He added that the education ministry called for an increase in productivity during the economic slump and that Selkirk College “met all of these challenges with the cooperation and support of the board, faculty, staff, students, broader community and ministry. . Perra said enrolment in the college's credit pi provision of inglish | training and travel programs for groups, and the submission of proposals for special projects,” said Perra. “The most promising initiative has been the enrolment of students into the regular program base.” But Perra said Selkirk College is one of the few institutions in B.C. that does not have any form of fine arts courses beeause of the shutdown of the David Thompson University Centre, which taught visual and performing arts courses. Perra says that the college board continues to support the idea of having “a strong central campus at Castlegar” with decentralized centres which can provide ‘service to areas like Trail, Nelson and Grand Forks. He added that the construction of new facilities should only take place at the Castlegar campus. Perra said the college is facing “major equipment renewal needs.” “These needs apply to new programis which have not have stabilized at around 1,600 full- and part-time , students per semester and that non-credit programs boast another 3,000 or more students. Perra added that Selkirk College is the primary source of qualified workers in this region and that “informal information sources confirm” that the college is maintaining high job placement rates in a lot of its courses. “The college provides employment for 250 regular Sunday will be sunny and warm. Highs of 10° are expected Monday will be cloudy with ‘occasional sunny periods. ployees and 200 part-time and temporary personnel and the availability of learning opportunities in the West Kootenay also means:that many students do not léave the region, and thus, while personally saving money, make their contribution here,” said Perra. In his report, p-epared for Advanced Education and Job Training Minister Stan Hagen, who will be touring Selkirk been to renewal needs for most other programs. This short-coming will require concerted action by the college during the next five-year period.” Asked if anyone in Victoria ever reads the Section 66 reports Perra remarked: “Some people do comment on these reports.” Board member Fred Merriman said Perra put a lot of hard work into the report and that he hopes Hagen will read it. “I just hope that someone re..ds this report. I hop. the Minister of Advanced Education and Job Training reads this report or else he's not doing his job,” Merriman said at a recent college board meeting. Another board member, Ed Mannings, callud the report “excellent” and added that “it was very well written, even though it may not be used for much.” Police said they found 10.84 kilograms of cocaine, worth about $1 million Cdn, in the false bottoms of suitcases. Thailand gets aid OTTAWA (CP) — Canada will give Thailand ipeut tae rgd eter agg a the pat eset Monique Landry geod seven aid agreements with Thai officials in Bangkok on ‘Thursday, the second day of her five-day visit to ‘Thailand, the department said in a release. The money will be channelled through «the Canadian International Development Agency. Bill passed VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia college and university students will be able to borrow more money and replay a smaller proportion of the loan under new pi d Friday by Ad Education Minister Stan Hagen. Direct grants will be given to students who must leave home to attend school. But grants and loan remissions will only be given to students who hold jobs or do community service each year during summer break, or who take approved classes during the summer. Oral safe from God TULSA, OKLA. (AP) — The Oral Roberts ministry has raised the $8 million U.S. he said God told him to raise by Tuesday or he would die, the evangelist's son said Friday. “The news media has centred in on the $8-million goal — which has been reached,” Robert's son, Richard said on his Richard Roberts Live television show. But Richard Roberts said God told his father the ministry needs more money to make up for below-par contributions in recent months. Oral Roberts was later shown from the ministry prayer tower, continuing his pleas for money. Roberts has been in the futuristic tower on the Oral Roberts University campus since Sunday and has said he will stay there until Tuesday. Teacher cleared OSHAWA, ONT. (CP) — A college teacher who was fired after three female students charged him with sexuaf harassment has cleared his name, but says the scars will stay. for life. i “How can I forget? It's impossible to forget,” Lewis Presner said after an arbitration board returned him to his job this month with back pay and 10-per-cent interest. “Slanderous things were said about me, horrible things were said about me that were not true,” says the 41-year-old teacehr of marketing at Durham College. Presner, who has taught at Durham since 1980, was accused of making sexual advances towards three students in his office during the 1985-86 school year. Woman warned KITCHENER, ONT. (CP) — A kindly landlady has been warned by a fire inspector not to let homeless people sleep in the hallways of her boarding houses. But Anna Kaljas, 75, who has received a number of public service awards for sheltering homeless transients, drug addicts and ex-psychiatric patients, says she hasn't the heart to turn pepole away when her rooms are full. “It's just not allowed,” said Friday. “These hallways are fire exits. If something happened, people could not get out. We realize her situation and understand totally, but we have the fire laws to uphold.” inspector Everett Smith Leaders watch MONTREAL (CP) — Evangelical leaders in Montreal are watching with interest and concern as perceived scandals and squabbles beset affiliated churches and television ministries in the United States. The general feeling so far is that the current saga of the TV preachers in the United States has had little affect here but that, in any event, it is for God alone to judge those involved. Thatcher in Russia MOSCOW (AP) — British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher flew to Moscow at twilight Saturday and was driven immediately to a Kremlin reception where she was welcomed by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa. During her five-day stay — the first official visit to the Soviet Union by a British prime minister in 12 years — Thatcher plans to test the East-West climate and press for nuclear arms control. She will also take a strong stand on human rights and assess Gorbachev's moves toward more openness during his two years in power. Contract reached PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — The International Woodworkers of America and 14 ‘area lumber companies have reached a tentative contract agree- ment, three months before the current contract expires. The union has signed a memorandum of agreement. with 13 members of the Council on Northern Interior Forest Employment, and the independent Weldwood of Canada, extending the current contract for another year. Lesitte Sa, ” -» Science fair MY SCIENCE PROJECT... Projects abound at the annual science fair at the Stan Humphries ry scl pyrmnasiom Saturday. (Top jett, clockwise) Grade 3 student Crystal Verhaeghe looks out on her solar system; Grade 7 students Jody Carew and Brad Janzen demonstrate their working volcano; Grade 5 student Kathy Maartman boils water in a paper cup; and Grade 7 student Jessica Savilla talks eggs with judge Jim Chapman. — Photos by Mike Kaleaniho GREEKS READY TO RETURN TORONTO (CP) — Thou- sancis of Greek Canadians are prepared to return to their homeland if war breaks out between Greece and Turkey — even if not asked to by their government. Greek community organi- zations were flooded with calls Friday by those seek- img information about the conflict brewing in the Aeg- ean and asking how they could help. Greek and Turkish forces were in full alert Friday night as war between the two countries loomed over a heated dispute concerning offshore oil rights. The confrontation was sparked by Greece's decision this week to nationalize a Canadian-led consortium and take control of oil exploration in the disputed! waters of the Aegean Sea. Animosity betweenthe two countries goes back hundreds of years and they have fought several times. “We have had 2,300 calls just since 1 o'clock,” said Lazaros Kasekas, secretary general of the Greek Com- munity of Metropolitan Tor- onto Inc. — one of dozens of associations that serves Tor- onto’s Greek community of 100,000. “Everyone wants to know what they can do,” Kasekas said, “Everyone is express- ing a willingness to go back and fight.” By 7 p.m. the group had reserved hundreds of plane seats back to Athens and was planning local fund-raising activities in the event of war. A Greek embassy spokes man in Ottawa said Friday night that a general mobil. ization of the military may be called today. Though the 300,000 Greek citizens living in Canada wouldn't be re- quired to fight, it's likely many “good patriots” would sign up, he éaid. Members of Canada’s much smaller Turkish community seemed concerned about the crisis Friday, saying it had little to do with their new lives in North America. “As far as the Turkish community in Toronto is con. cerned, by and large we don’t respond to such conflicts be- tween governments,” said Yaman_ Uzumeri, vice president of the Turkish Cul ture and Folklore society of Canada. “We are miles away from this dispute, we aren't in- volved.” If the crisis becomes a full-scale war, Uzumeri said, some Turks may return to their homeland to support their relatives or to protect their property. Kasekas said the Greek organization is compiling a list of those offering to return home — and his name is near the top. The Toronto ac. countant said he wouldn't hesitate to leave his wife and five young sons to return to the homeland he left at the age of 17, adding that he is typical of Ontario's 170,000 Greek citizens. If war breaks out, Kasekas predicted his organization will immediately mortgager its extensive Toronto, prop: erty holdings to raise cash to send back to Greece. “We could get about $10 million,” he said. Official urges trade PENTICTON (CP) — Hunters should trade their rifles for cameras, a former hunter told the B.C. Wildlife Federation annual conven. tion. Mel Rothenberger of Kam loops spokesman for the 350-members anti-hunting group International Wildlife Protection Association, said he enjoyed hunting “as kind of the macho rite of youth” and admitted feeling an “or: gasmic rush” everytime he pulled the trigger But he told a federation workshop this week the rush was mixed with feelings of remorse. for the animal. Hahn Presley fan. WEST BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — The 27-year-old woman whose sexual tryst with a television preacher has rocked the evangelical world is a born-again Christian who loves animals. She's an Elvis Presley fan and works out on an exercise bike. “I just want to do whatever God's will is for my life,” Jessica Hahn said Friday in an interview with the Association Press. “All my life, I just wanted to share whatever blessings were placed on me.” Hahn's quiet existence with her Labrador retriever, Missy, and a pet parakeet in this Long Island town was disrupted last week when Rev. Jim Bakker resigned as head of the PTL netowrk after admitting a tryst with her. She said Friday her faith has helped her through her ordeal. “I have to be strong,” she said. “I have to constantly lean on God, because he hasn't failed me yet. “That gives me that peace that maybe is a little unusual.” Hahn refused to answer questions about her 1980 Florida motel meeting with Bakker or the money she allegedly received as a result, saying those questions can be answered by her legal adviser, Paul Roper, of Anaheim, Calif. WINE DRUGGED? Roper told The AP on Friday that Hahn believes she was given drugged wine on the night she met Bakker. “Before long”, Roper said, “we were engaged in a sexual “I was saved over by the church,” she said. “We were in the field and we prayed with somebody and were saved.” She described Hahn as “an intelligent, compassionate and loving person.” Seven years ago, Hahn moved into her second-floor apartment in a two-storey Cape Cod-style house. Her first-floor nei . Barbara ivenga, 43, d Hahn as “a very quiet girl.” The neatly groomed Hahn is about five feet seven with long, reddish-brown hair and a slender figure. She said she enjoys riding her exercise bike. ‘COMING HOME’ In the interview Friday, Hahn said that becoming a born-again Christian was like “coming home.” “I felt like my life took on a new meaning,” she said. “I wanted to share that with just about everybody. “That's why I spent so much time with the church trying to do as much as I could, I felt very revived and refreshed and very much loved.” Until recently, she worked as a secretary at the Massapequa Tabernacle Church. ~ incident. The next day she went home.” The home she grew up in was in thé Long Island town of Massapeque where she lived with her stepfather and mother, Ed and Jessica Moylan, two brothers and a sister. She attended Massapequa high school. Kim Caroll, who grew up with Hahn, récalled how she and Hahn became born-again Christians at age 1. Natives unimpressed with conference with premiers OTTAWA (CPj'— Natives may ask the bourts to give them the right to manage their own affairs now that the first ministers have failed to entrench the right to self-govern- ment in the Constitution. But aboriginal leaders said Friday at the conclusion, of the two-day first ministers’ conference that recourse to the courts will only happen if Ottawa doesn’t keep constitutional talks alive. Court battles are expensive and risky, native leaders acknowledged, but it is the only avenue open if political leaders lack the. will. “It’s very hard to go to the courts in Canada and get your rights recognized unless you've got tons of evidence,” said Georges ERasmus, leader of the 350,000-member Assembly of First Nations, which speaks for status Indians recognized under the Indian Act. The failure to get a deal on aboriginal self-government was etched on the faces of angry native leaders and in the expressions of disappointment by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the premiers. But Mulroney offered hope by pledging at the end of the conference to keep the door open. “Someday, there shall be success in this area and all Canadians will be enriched by this,” he said. TALKS FOUNDER Negotiations broke down in a private session earlier Friday when native leaders and four premiers rejected a federal proposal to entrench a right to aboriginal self-government. British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and New foundlafid declined to accept the proposal offered by Mulroney, who had the support of five of the seven provinces required to amend the Constitution. Quebec, which did not sign the 1982 accord that led to the patriation of the Constitution, sent a representative to the conference, but could not vote. Erasmus and Jim Sinclair of the 100,000-member Metis National Council accused politicians of letting down the country’s original inhabitants. Sinclair bitterly denounced B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm and Saskatchewan's Grant Devine for what he said is their refusal to recognize the justice of native self-govern- ment. “I think by leaving here today we have signed a blank cheque for those who want to opporess our people and hold this racism against us,” he said. Mulroney later told reporters he couldn't succeed “even with a baseball bat” to get enough premiers and aboriginal groups to go along with his compromise amendment. WILL MISSING “Look, when these things work, everybody's a hero,” he said. “When they don’t work, everybody's a bum . . . the procedure was flawed because the will was not there.” All nine premiers and Quebec Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Gil Remillard pledged to continue talks with aboriginal leaders. New Brunswick's Richard Hatfield was the only premier to wins applause from native delegates when he urged aboriginal leaders not to despair. He told them some of the premiers may be wrong in opposing self-government, but that delegates must respect the premiers’ viewpoints “if you want to reach them.” And Sinclair, who plans resign, made it clear his people's fight is far from over. “Don't worry, Mr. Prime Minister and premiers of the provinces,” he said. “I may be gone, but our people will be back.”