Lia ONG EKG is Val. 32, No, 27 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, In today’s CasNews Complete Listings THURSDAY, JULY» 5, 1979 (A,B,C,D & TV Week) A newly-negotiated ‘two-year contract. puts four Castlegar.-District ’in’ line with’ (those | of fnunicfpal workers. in Cas- representative this week gold club unit;?part of {The Canadian Union of | Public Employees national .- said the contract for the. 23% Two-Y¥ For Golf Club Workers CUPE Local 343, provides for an 11 per cent increase _ in'the first year ard'a 13 - per ‘cent: increase ‘in the second :year. Under: the contract three ‘of- the’ golf club's fulltime employees will be paid $7.44" hourly in _ the first-year‘and $8.41 hourly in’the’ second, he said. : “That ‘brings them in direct line with the City of ” Trail and City of Castlegar, | rates," Pyke said. . Another unit within Local 848, about.12 recre- ation workers employed by the Regional: District , of Kootenay Boundary, ‘nego- tialed_ a sitiilar “Wwo-year: contract providing for a 65 cent hourly inérease in the first’ year ‘and a° 75 cent’ raise in the second, : a ‘Veiduver-based com: pany will :supply-and deliver for about. $461,000; the 5,000, metres of pipe needed for the ‘-pecond stage of water main > conatruction:-for: ‘the: aity's “The city is expected to” chieve “: ‘a first”. by complet- new. Arrow Lakes “water supply. | City | “eounell last, week followed, consulting. engineer. _ $588,213.27, Gordon: Leidal's® ation :that .out"'of ‘the five Milestone Road South, from the‘end of June to mid-July;: work. on ‘of. the - Drive, from the’! beginning to. nd = ‘optimistic about fin- ishing: the projects‘ on ‘time despite the city’s tendency in’. - past:years to leave’ projects “uncompleted. seems every year. there are a number of capital projects toward the end of the year which don't. get finished for whatever rea- sons,” Rust said. He agreed that if the city completes its [1979 capital works projects -on-time “it'll be’a first.” Scheduled - for comple- tion were construction ofa turning lane at Green Street and Columbia, Avenue, at the end of June;~ redesign oe ountruction of a Hi Meadowbrook: suppliers which submitted a total of 14 different proposals priced from $417,817.40 to CANRON ‘Inc. he lowest acceptable was tenderer” for the 20-inch-dia- »meter pipe to be used in a main.running from: Meadow- lark ‘Lane to Milestone Road. Ald. Gerald Rust, who'as works ° and - services ‘com: mittee chairman moved Lei- dal's recommendation’ re- ceive ‘council support, , point- ed out the company’s original bid for supply and slivers of F the reinforced cone: > Foat of the new city ‘Pater mniny in the late fall. ‘Also listed for comple: tion in 1979 are'storm sewers at Meadowbrook Drive, in’ August; ‘Ash Road, in Sept- ember. and soakaway cham- bers at miscellaneous loca- tions November. Storm Sew- ers at Third Avenue North were already listed as com- pleted. A sidewalk at Willow, The cost to School Dis- trict No. 9 of: using regional recreation, facilities is a “minor”. problem compared to the joint responsibility of the city. and the district for the facilities, the city’s parks >and said last week. of July and streetlighting on. Park Road is expected.to be installed in the late summer" or: the fall. Reporting on a June 25 “exploratory” meeting of school board, parks and rec- reation coniniltice rand Re- ed pin Local Cerviculeai’ , Implininentation of. a i Julum will. be. examined in ‘a: local doff. Lovette chairman ‘of the school board's energy ‘committee .. said the decision was made at ‘a meeting last week where were raised by searly’ Se trustee said Friday. pupils, teachers, mainten- ance guests” Gil Laycock of West Kootenay Power ‘and Jim Pella of Iniand Natural Gas; regarding energy conserva- tion in the schools. —: ich doff added that 5 Champion swimmer Chery! Kristiansen return- ‘ed to Castlegar Tuesday night after repeating. last year's three-gold-medal win at.the Canada Games at the Physically Handi- PPchery?, 16,a single leg amputee, captured the gold medals, in the 200-me- tre individual medley, 100 metre breastroke, and 100 metre butterfly events in Hamilton, Ont. this week. A member of the Castlegar Aquanauts Swi- amming Club, Chery! also ‘came away with a silver 100 m. open freestyle. -. . Her mother, Evelyn Kristiansen, said when in- ferviewed Friday, that Chery] had felt a great deal .of pressure due to her » excellent showing last year |Cheryl Kristiansen, 16, ‘Repeats 3-Gold Win ‘medal in the 400 m. free- . style, and a-bronze in the * CHERYL KRISTIANSEN an academic. group. with representatives «from each’. school in the. district: will meet with: district superin- tendent John: Holden in an attempt to establish @ work- able program in the. schools. Holden said Friday that _the board is studying two programs which: have’ been used in Burnaby and. Port- land, Ore. According to Holden, the ‘program would not require any specialization, as it would be “almost a modified sclence or social studies program" and could. be coordinated with those programs. Nichvolodoff said it may be possible to start a student energy. saving» program _ where -students would be encouraged to. cut, down on fon and any savings and was worried about living up to that perform- ance at the games. She said Cheryl had been nominated to repre- sent Canada at the Inter- national Games: for the More on Page AG would be spent on equipment for “sciente, physical educa- tion or similar purchases”. “In addition, the board will release a monthly report examining fuel and electrical consumption in the’ schools and the board office as well.” “and “gpecial playing fields, cand ‘classroom space after _week West K By RYON GUEDES. CASNEWS EDITOR Officials of both sides | in fast years § s seven- jaDor are anticipating « fair deal from the, Hepvie scheduled for release by arbitrator Noel Hall : today. Spokesmen for the bargaining unit . representing Selkirk College ‘and ‘the Castlegar, Trail, Nelson and Grand Forks © school districts and the union representin: their. non-teaching employees expresse’ satisfaction that their concerns had' been ef- “fectively voiced in arbitration hearings this “spring end would be recognized “in: Hall's decisions — postponed tom « Saturday because of report printing delays. vas But while the B.C. Schoo) Trustees peter earn x sericea on the generosity of his legally: binding guidelines “BCSTA’s West K ; main for a’ new collective agreement. Local trustee George Anutooshkin, chairman of the CUPE national representa-. tive | Fred Pyke’ said. he. branch, said he only attended Te- port’ to favor the union. { “Tm cer the C. hearing. concerning School ‘District . No. .9.: but . was ‘pleased with Hall's perform- nce. Although the BCSTA ly. researched and’ pre- “sented . the’ district's - case, Anutooshkin said ‘he ‘was. satisfied’ with Hall's recep- + tion to “a- minor. spcaettes - tion” made by. the board at the hearing. + “Dr.-Hall's case was 8 : @ i “tn Nelson,.are now produ codon ‘the two-unit Gammon Eats: ns to gional’ Recreation Commis- sion No. 1. representatives, - Ald. Bud Godderis told’coun- cil he asked city administra- tor Bill Krug, school district secretary-treasurer John Dascher and recreation dir-. ector Pat Metge to meet for More Provincial Funds — Goddaris . Joint Rec Develoyinest toed reation on local for schools'.use of arenas at a charge of $10 per hour, use of pools at $7 per hour and use of a booking agent for school facilities and school buses, he said. Other subjects discuss- i of the exp the regional recreation .ser- vices to local ‘schools. . But he said joint devel- opment. of local recreation facilities was'a more import- ant issue because co-oper- ation between: the: district and. the city would’ make more provincial funds avail- ' able for such projects, : “If, for -example,..we decided we are in a position to build a swimming -pool or build an additional ice arena, that’would be. something we'd have to discuss,” God- deris said. “That” area wil become more of ed, id, included ible areas of \co-oper- ° ation” in the development of. libraries and parks, 23 well 2s, the impact of possible school district it recreation needs, The parks and recrea- tion committee chairman des- cribed the discussion as “a good exploratory .. meeting” which may be followed up with another meeting after further investigation of a possible joint use horizontal " presides jate-: bee: Presented” BCSTA Ri Gommenting on the in- . dividual arbitration hearings, Parrott ‘said the association viewed it'as a “very long and very costly session.” In addi- tion to the time and expense a-single hearing would have saved, she said, the BCSTA would have ‘found it prefer-’ able because the association = is an accredited bargaining group. “However,-we have. ac- cepted the fact that that's where we are, it’s been long and it’s been costly,” Parrott said, epee ahe said she felt th had pre- ti the employees, because their! conditions are very inade-' dealing in separate.’ hearings. ‘with five different ts. was a Very 8 presentation by both sidés. and that’s the way it should have been from ‘the start.” Pyke cited the appoint- ment of consultant Art Gutt- man by the B.C. ‘Séhool Trustees Association to rep- resent the college and achoo! ‘was a brand new person