ENGLISH COURSE as a second language is offered by Selkirk College giving greater opportunity to these three students, two from Lao and one from Portugal. Besides allowing a Berson to learn English It also halps d in tl Is to upg to assist them in (@olice Briefs 7 for more ad At 7 p.m. Thursday on Cable West, channel 10, Selkirk College Audio Visual Department presents a look at the adult basic inthe —Selkirk College Photo prog! Survey on fitness of school children gives very poor reading — Remember the stories your father used to tell you about walking seven miles through a blizzard to get to school? Remember how soft he said you had it? Soft perhaps, but not as soft as your kids have it today, according to a min- istry of education survey on the fitness of school children. The report, headed by Dr. Alex Carre of UBC, found that while school children in Community TV CABLE WEST 10 ACCESS TELEVISION Thureday Night Schedule 5:30—Five-day weather re- port. 5:40—Castlegar library story time with Judy Wearmouth, 6:00—WARP update — A repeat of WARP’s an- niversary special with Nicole Parton, consu- mer reporter for the Vancouver Sun. . 7:00—Selkirk College audio visual department presents a look at the adult basic education in B.C. are-no less fit than others in North American, they are well below stand- ards set by a group of B.C. experts and apparently be- low average compared with children only 10 years ago. The summary report, which ‘also showed an un- accetable level of fitness knowledge, involved 38,000 children in three grade levels — grades 3, 7 and 11, as well as teachers and administra- tors. Elementary school. chil- dren of both sexes and fe- males in secondary school were rated as "weak" in terms of physical fitness and motor ability and, although they considered physical fit- ness to be as important as other subjects, their under- standing of the subject was found to be unsatisfactory. The'report added that there is a large number of overweight students at the three levels. For example, at the grade 3 level only 12 per cent of the females and 15 per cent of the males recorded body fat levels below the middle of the acceptable range. Says Carre: “This is the first time we've set a stand- ard of performance and they our comraunity. 7:30—The Swinging Piper — presented by the University of Victoria education . extension program. The play is an adaptation of The Pied Piper for chil- dren, Actors are West Kootenay education students. 8:10—Fruitvale Elementary presents six short stories, produced en- tirely by students. 9:10—Life at its Best — pre- sented by the Full Gospel Assembly. 10:10=TBA. 11:00—Sign-off. (the didn’t do very well at meeting it. “In fact, students seem to lead a more sedentary life style than even 10 years ago. We found involvement drop- ping off in- intramural ath- letics as well.” The report recommends that more time be spent on physical education, that tea- chers’ qualifications be up- graded in terms of physical education and that the life- styles of the students outside the school need to be changed. Carre speculated, for in- stance, that too many chil- dren are being driven to and from school and that students tend to take buses when they |Send Mom ou 73 Maple St. CASTLEGAR You'll be sending her fresh carnations for the times you lost your shoes. 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(See Map No. 1) i NOTICE Copies of proposed By-Law No. 316 may be in- spected at the office of: The Regional District of Central Kootenay 601 Vernon Street, Nelson, B.C. and The City of Castlegar Municipal Office | 460 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, 8.C. between the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and'1:00 p.m. to 4:00 ee daily, except Satur- days, Sundays and holidays, from the date of this notice to the 8th day of May 1980. And take notice that the Regional District of Cen- tral Kootenay will hold a PUBLIC HEARING thereon at: PLACE: The Castlegar and District C Complex (Conference Room ‘A’) 439 - 6th Avenue, South Castlegar, B.C. TIME; §=7:30p.m. ‘ DATE: Thursday the 8th day of May 19: at which time and place all persons who believe their interest in property affected b proposed amendment by-law, shall be offered an opportunity to be heard on matters contained erein. Dated at Nelson; B.C. this 29th d vale lay of April, }. BALDIGARA, SECRETARY 4 REGIONAL DISTRICT OF CENTRAL KOOTENAY axe Not] “creel 0290 Property 2. b) - ors of Trail, the . Province eyeing RD AN = ’ identified as causing acute p LEAPS AND BOUNDS by burlap-clad youngsters highlighted activities at area New Democrats’ annual May Day picnic Sunday at Birchbank Park north of Trail. —News/Mirror Foto by Ryon Guedes The prospect | of municipalities taking responsibility for re- gulating Sunday and holiday shopping has won little enthusiasm from at least three West Kootenay mayors. In recent interviews with the News/Mirror, may- Nelson and Castlegar voiced reser- vations about Attorney-Gen- eral Allan Williams’ bill, now under consideration by the B.C. legislature, which if en- acted would enable munici- palities to draft and enforce regulations — if approved by public referendum — for local store opening hours on stat- utory holidays. The implications of Bill 8 were among topics covered in reports delivered April 25 at the Association of Kootenay Parking raised at City parking re- quirements for down- town developments highlighted concerns raised in last week's public meeting on the updating of Castle- gar’s community plan, according to CHUCK LAKES “Boundary Municipalities an- nual convention. Briefly outlining the con- tents of the bill, Tom Moore, the municipal affairs. minis- try's administrative services No cheers for new h B.C. regional districts would receive boundaries changes — rovincial government help in changing their oundaries under a new scheme outlined by Municipal Affairs Mini Bill Vander Zalm, according to Chris D'Arcy. D'Arcy, the MLA for Rossland-Trail, told the News/Mirror he learned in a conversation with Vander Zalm last week that in a move to eliminate “boundary anomalies” in a number of regional districts the province will propose various revisions without “insisting that they be accepted.” The process explained by the minister would involve doing “some of the homework of the districts,” D'Arcy said. To offer options | for adjustments | do a little planning on its own,” the Rossland-Trail MLA said. “They would go to them and say ‘you've complained about your boundaries at various times and we've put forward two or three to amend the daries, You can.use one or several or a combination or none of these.’ ” p Unlike the existing boundaries, laid out with the establishment of B.C.'s regional districts in 1966 on the apparent basis of tax base distribution, the changes would take into account regional ties between areas, the In addition to p the revision of it has, land-Trail MLA said. bl he said, the gov would seek comments and proposals from regional districts. “Rather than going out there and saying ‘you tell us what you want us to do with your boundaries’ the province would “It would take into account social and economic realities and the normal flow of people in commerce within a region, rather than a somewhat arbitrary decision based on where the property tax dollar came from,” he explained. An example of such a decision is Castlegar, he said, which despite its common social and political boundaries with the Rossland-Trail-Fruitvale area in the Regional District of . Kootenay Boundary was assigned because of its “significant industrial tax base in Canadian Cellulose" to Central Kootenay. He named the inclusion of the Big White area, which is “really more contiguous to Kelowna,” within the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary as an example of an existing boundary that “doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense.” But the Shift in responsibility draws executive director, told the the legislati Interviewed later by the “empowers municipalities by and other bylaw with the assent of the electors to regulate retail businesses’ hours and days of | opening.” “It’s rather interesting to note that you will have to set out in your bylaw the details of how you wish to implement holidays opening and the hours and so on,” the ministry official told the AKBM conference. “You could have a very complicated bylaw to put before the electorate.” Trail’s Mayor Chuck Lakes, president of the Union of B.C. Municipalities, told the AKBM Bill 8 “generally follows a request from the UBCM during the 1979 con- vention.” . Lakes said he UBCM officers TEX MOWATT requirements among issues community plan update meet rnout despi ATR velopment,” Thompson said. take into consideration the planner Bob Thomp- — son. Thompson, whose firm William Graham Consultants has been hired to update the existing plan, named the sec- tion of the city’s zoning bylaw setting down minimum park- ing standards for commercial buildings constructed in Castlegar as a “major con- cern”. of downtown mer- chants, “As you add so many square feet of commercial development you must pro- vide ‘x’ number of parking spaces,” he explained. “that means if you own downtown land it can be very expensive to provide parking at 300 square feet per space.” Also raised were con- BOB THOMPSON cerns over the future de- velopment of property along Columbia Avenue, he said. “There were people who said ‘there should be more multi-family residential de- “And other people thought there should be more com- ercial 1 ” blackout impact of absorbing rural areas presently outside its the planner ‘said Other concerns raised included proposed roadway extensions and their impact on residential areas, the planner said. Residents who felt they would be affected used the opportunity to discuss with -him the proposed extension - of Woodland Drive to provide asecond arterial access in the city as well as of Meadow- brook Road to tie into the highway near the city's in- dustrial park at the south end of the city, he said. The industrial park itself was another subject for dis- cussion by residents at the public meeting, according to Thompson. Queries dealt with the city's lack of avail- able industrial sites as well as plans for the phasing-in of the proposed park, he said. Asked whether the fin- ished cornmunity plan will such a plan "can only apply to an existing community." But he added that the impact would have to be anticipated if city council's policy agrees the city should expand. “This is something we're assessing at this very mo- ment,” he said. Another source of inter- est among residents was the various shopping centre de- velopments which have been proposed for the city, Thomp- son said, But the community plan updating process is not aimed at the individual de- velopers' proposals and “can’t prejudge what they're going to do.” The seven-hour April 28 meeting drew about 75 resi- dents, “very good represen- tation” considering the one- hour power failure which halted any further atten- dance, Thompson said. have discussed the legislation with Municipal ‘Affairs Min- ister Bill Vander Zalm and his staff. “We did express some concerns. about the referen- dum and the poll bylaw that has to be presented is just too complicated and sug- gested that perhaps a sim- pler referendum should be sent out to the people.” He said it was too early after the tabling of the legis- lation to tell what his city’s attitude was toward the regulation of Sunday and holidays shopping although “I presume there's going to be a wide difference of opin- ion on that matter.’ At least one related con- cern raised is the lack of open retail outlets in Trail on Sgndays, Lakes said. “In that matter I have had an almost official com- plaint that Trail shuts down to the extent that tourists can't get service,” he said. “I believe that is going to be brought up by the tourist promotion people.” “It's quite a responsi- bility for regional municipal- ities right now, especially when we're close,” said Tex Mowatt of Nelson. ” “I think if municipalities are some distance away it’s a ‘different thing, but if you have Castlegar with one set - of rules and Nelson with an- other set and Trail with an- other set how is anyone going to control anything?” ogee criticism He agreed shopping by- laws could be used by muni- cipalities to compete with each other for retail business. “Once you got one break- ing that dam you'd have them all going every which way trying to bring in that buck,” the Nelson mayor said. “I think maybe that res- olution should come from areas deciding as a unit problem created by the boundaries of a number of other regional districts are far more serious, he said. ¢ Vander Zalm indicated the proposed boundary changes would be implemented. over several years, he said. “They can't suddently make boundary revision proposals off the top of their heads,” D'Arcy said. “It's going to be a progressive thing.” Although implementing new boundaries would prob- ably require changes in the letters ‘patent for affected regional districts it is un- likely any new legislation would be needed, according to D'Arcy. “There may be some minor modifications to the Municipal Act to give the government the discretion- ary power to make these changes on a somewhat wholesale basis, providing the local government has agreed with it,” he said. “But certainly every lit- tle change or major change is not going to require .a. bill through the House. If that were the case. we'd still be worrying about minor changes in 1990." i strong feelings on the. issue. “T know about a year ago there was a great move by some of the stores here to open for more hours than they presently are and I pointed out to them what it . said in the Municipal Act,” she said.” “They went away shak- ing their heads and said ‘fine, we'll leave things the way “they are.’ a “We haven't had. too much pressure in this city for ‘Sunday openings and I would wish the government had laid CHRIS D'ARCY -.- told of changes oliday store hours legislation tion 858 of the Municipal Act, which requires every shop in a municipality to close all day Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, Good Fri- day, Dominion Day, Labor Day, Remembrance Day, the birthday of the reigning sov- ereign “and any day fixed by the Parliament of Canada or appointed by proclamation of the governor in council for a general fast or thanksgiving or as a holiday of general application throughout Can- ada, and any day appointed by proclamation or order of the hi nor in rather than as ities.” ° Mayor Audrey Moore of Castlegar said residents of it down,” Moore think it’s going to be very council as a holiday." Sunday shi is pres- complex and rather confi to everybody.” her city have exp: 8 d no Holiday shopping is 1 d by ently regulated under hte seldom-enforced federal Sec- Lord's Day Act. BEHIND THE WHEEL of one of the automobiles won at Saturday's 1980 Trail Kinsmen Bingo Is Miss Kinsmen Cathy Barlow, one of seven Silver City beauties taking part in the Miss Trail Queen's pageant 7:30 p.m. Friday _, at the Cominco gym. Pictures of Kinsmen Bingo winners —News/Mirror Foto by Bili Turner are on page B2.