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An open house will be held when the ministry completes its study of possible bridge locations and designs and area residents will be asked for their opinions on a site for the bridge, Sutherland told reporters at a meeting of the Regional District of Central Kootenay board. The open house will likely be held in late fall, he said. Sutherland said the bridge project is still tied to the proposed Celgar Pulp Co. expansion and “‘it’s highly unlikely”’ a decision will be made to proceed with the bridge unless the pulp mill project goes ahead. In May, Kootenay regional high- ways manager Barry Eastman told the Castlegar News the ministry had determined a preferred site for the bridge to be ‘tin the vicinity’ of the former ferry crossing. But the bridge is an ‘‘integral part”’ of Celgar’s expansion plans and “‘it would be hard to justify a bridge over the Columbia (River) for the few cars that used to use the ferry,”’ Eastman said. The ministry study will include suggestions for changes to the High- way 3A turnoff to Robson under the Brilliant bridge if a new span is built, he said. The Robson turnoff is not adequate to handle the expected traffic volume to Celgar that would travel over the bridge from the Robson side of the river, Eastman explained. Union anticipates tough time By CasNews Staff The bargaining committee for Cominco and the United Steelworkers of America could be in for some “rough bargaining’’ this week as the two sides begin discussing money issues in Trail, USWA Local 480 chief negotiator Ron Schmidt said. The. union is seeking increases in wages, pensions and benefits for its members, he said, noting that the last wage increase the workers received was in 1982. The company claims the cost-of- living allowance the workers receive periodically amounts to a wage in- crease each time but that allowance “barely keeps up with the cost of living,”’ Schmidt said, explaining the union’s response to the position Cominco has taken on the issue. Cominco spokesmen have said the company has a policy of not The Shrine Circus came to Castlegar on Friday and local residents were treated to a number # dazzi luding o ryan 1, of perfor: above. CosNews photo by Cloudette Sondeck display of bal by the g Hospital deficit $56,500 By CasNews Staff The Castlegar and District Hospital had a deficit of $56,500 for the year ending March 31, a Castlegar and District Hospital Society financial report says. Wage and benefit settlements for hospital employees of almost $275,000, an increase of more than $57,000, was the major factor con- tributing to the deficit, the report States. Out-patient use of the laboratory and X-ray facilities also contributed to the deficit, the report adds. Expenditures increased by 2.3 per cent over the previous year in areas such as medical and surgical supplies and administrative costs including board travel and office supplies ting on contract negotiations until an agreement is reached. Senior community and public please see UNION page A2 “Our to be to provide the best possible patient care while operating within a limited budget,"’ out-going treasurer Margaret Nickle says in the report. The deficit for the 1988-89 year was just over $19,500, the hospital finan- cial statement shows The financial records are part of a report of the society’s annual general meeting last week. Society chairman Bill Horvath’s report to the meeting included an up- date on the long-term care and exten- ded-care facilities that are being built at the hospital. The society is looking for donations to purchase a bus and other less- expensive items for the new residen tial wing, Horvath told the Castlegar News. The bus, which will be equipped to di disabled s and people in wheelchairs, will cost more than $50,000, Horvath said The bus will be used to take residents of the new hospital wing out for recreational activities, he said The bus and other items will all be part of the hospital's plan to make the atmosphere of ‘the new facilities “home-like and not like an in- stitution,” Horvath explained “*We want to make it so the residen- ts feel like they have not been aban- doned,”’ he said. Family and friends will be able to put on birthday parties for the residents or cook ethnic foods for them in the new facilities, he ad- ded. About 40 society members turned out for the meeting that saw two trustees resign from the board and two new trustees installed, Horvath said Trustee Nick Oglow and Nickle were replaced by new trustees John Carpenter and Sandra Groepler Teena Leitch is the new treasurer while Merv Rush remains as vice- chairman, Horvath said. The board will hold a meeting Thursday, which will be the tast of regular meetings for the summer, to appoint committees, he said High school receives report By ED MILLS Staff Writer In a case of role reversal, Stanley Humphries secondary school, not its students, got its report card from the Ministry of Education. And it’s not one a student would be overjoyed taking home to his parents. “‘No, I wouldn’t call it favorable,”’ superintendent of schools Terry Wayling said. ‘‘When you hear that there’s areas of concern, some that need support and assitance . . . then there must be things done to improve efficiency.” The 45-page Ministry of Education document, a copy of which was ob- tained by the Castlegar News, gives Stanley Humphries low marks in several areas, including ad- ini school i hy, professional attributes, career prepa ion, mathematics, special programs technology and school culture. The report summary states there are ‘*. . . some concerns as noted in this document . that the high quality educational opportunities are not being realized consistently.” The report was the final stage in the ministry’s accreditation process which every school in the province with a Grade 12 program must undergo every six years, The process took more than a year to complete and began with the school conducting an internal review last year and concluded after a team of six people from the Education Ministry visited the school in April to conduct its own review and compare it to the one done by the school The group returned to Castlegar in May to discuss its report with school staff and the school board. The purpose of the program is not to criticize a school but to point out a school’s strengths and weaknesses with an eye to improving those weaknesses, said Bill McKerlich, who is the director of the ministry's secon- dary school accreditation. program evaluation and research branch. “They (school representatives) have had a discussion with the exter- nal team and they know what's expec- ted of them now. It’s basically a positive approach to school change, McKerlich said from his Victoria of- fice The report listed 26 recommen- dations for improvement in the school’s administration, which has seen three principals in the last five years “Clearly the lack of continuity of the administration has created dif- ficulties for the school,”’ the report stafes“**With a ‘revolving door’ ad- ministration there has been little op- portunity to explore and establish alternate practises. It is hoped that the new administrative team will find these recommendations constructive. “The team agrees that while the school has developed a philosophy, card TERRY WAYLING there do not appear to be any written goals or objectives for student lear- ning, preparation and success,**the report states. Wayling said SHSS and the school district will work on the problems. “In sum, | think the report iden- tified the areas of concern at the school . . . and now it’s the task of the school and the school district to ad- dress those areas that need support and assistance,”’ he said. As a result of the process, SHSS was given provisional accreditation, meaning it must first come up to ministry standards in the areas men- tioned and submit a growth plan to Wayling who will report to the ministry, before accreditation will be given J.L.Crowe secondary schoo! in Trail, which completed its review in March, was given full accreditation SHSS principal Jack Closkey said the process really doesn’t indicate whether a school is good or bad. “‘All it does is indicate whether you have a growth plan for the future." Closkey added that SHSS falls into a group With 75 per cent of schools in the province which don’t get full ac- creditation right away He said the school has started the work of putting together 65 or more action plans from the report's recommendations and will likely have a growth plan ready for Wayling in November. Closkey said it should be remem- bered that, for the most part, the programs and teachers at the school were given full marks in the report “Based on that report, I'd say we have a good school, not a fair one, not a bad one, but a good school that’s going to get a lot better as a result of this process,”’ Closkey said School board chairman Gordon Turner said, ‘Nobody out there has to worry about this provisional ac- creditation because marks will still be given and graduation will still occur, etcetera, etcetera__All schools ~ are eventually accredited. We're just in the second stage of that process."’ By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI ‘Staff Writer- = in family violence or abuse. experience. “The hardest part for many of us can be to leave it (other people’s problems) here,’’ says Stanley Humphries secondary school counsellor Shauna Ford “Sometimes, I get enraged because I’m thinking, how can these things be happenin; SHSS counsellor Jeff Bevans, describing his feelings when he is confronted with a young person caught up Their words may strike a familiar cord in other high school counsellors across the country but Ford and Bevans are not trained experts with years of They are SHSS students who are part of a three- year-old program at the school that frains students to counsel their peers and help them cope with problems ranging from difficulty studying to contemplation of suicide or unwanted pregnancy * says fellow The program was first run on a voluntary basis but now students are usually nominated by teachers or students already working as counsellors and the Program is a credit course just as English or algebra is, SHSS adult counsellor Don Mair said Nearly $0 students were nominated or applied for the program for September, Mair said. The criteria for nominating someone for the program includes a feeling that that student is ‘together or caring’ or that other students like to talk to the person, he explained Mair said he selects about 10 students each year who then go through a training program prepared by the University of Victoria that provides instruction in areas such as leadership, confidentiality and ethics. Then the peer counsellors begin workirig with other students in the counselling centre at the school as well as taking on a variety of other activities including welcoming and orienting new students and keeping an eye On a group of about 20 Grade 9 students that the counsellors call ‘‘their kids’’ for the year, said Ford, a Grade 11 student The peer counsellors are able to handle any problem a student has except suicide or family violence or abuse, which must be brought to the attention of the adult counsellors, Mair said. But the situation may not be as easy to deal with as simply taking the program to an adult, Ford said The peer counsellors sometimes have to make calls, and ask Students help peers with problems difficult to answer such as, im the case of suicide, Is this person serious? What will be the consequences if an adult counsellor is told? that are about anyone else's. please see STUDENTS page A2 ““What usually ends up happening is you tell Mr Mair a few days later but you keep a close watch on them (students considering suicide),’’ Ford explained. The majority of their cases involve drug and alcohot abuse; both by students and by their parents, the counsellors said. But the counsellors are sometimes called on to deal with even more difficult issues, said Bevans, a Grade 11 student ““The hardest thing I've had to deal with was an almost-rape case,"’ he said calmly Dealing with other people's problems adds a level of maturity to these young people, but it also takes a toll on their private lives. Bevans said he went through a period when he was having his own problems and didn’t want to hear