16A CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, May 12, 1977

Four Future Leaders
To Attend Seminar

Four young future leaders
from the Castlegar district, will
be selected and sp

appropriate, since the youth of d
B.C. are tomorrow's credit

d by
the Castlegar Savings Credit
Union to attend the 1977 Co-op
Youth Seminar to be held at
Camp Kopje-Winfield, on Okan-
agan Lake, Aug. 14-19, The an-
nouncement was made recently
by directors of CSCU.

The four leadership-
training participants aged 15-
16, will be chosen from entries
‘from Kinnaird Junior Second-
: ary, Stanley Humphries Senior
“ Secondary and Mount Sentinel

~ Schools. Administrators at each
of the schools have expressed
keen interest in the program.

Travel expenses, tuition,
‘and room and board for each of.

<‘the four young people will be

: provided in full by Castlegar

: Savings Credit Union,

* "The objectives of the Co-op
_ Youth Seminar, as outlined by
: CSCU directors, are: to develop

awareness and understanding
of cooperation, of oneself, and
how one relates in a group; to
develop leadership and the
concept of sharing; and to ac-
quire additional insight into the
democratic process,

Further objectives of the
program include developing
skills in sharing, participating
in a cooperative community,
communication of ideas’ and
‘identifying one’s own values,

The slogan for this year's
-seminar program is “Youth

» Today—Leaders Tomorrow.” It

is felt this slogan is particularly

union b di and
staff,

The procedure for select
ing the four participants has
been worked out in cooperation
with the three district schools
Involved. All candidates are
asked to submit a 500-word
essay on the topic “The Concept
of Sharing in the Democratic
Process,”

All essays will be reviewed
by a panel consisting of Castle-
gar Savings’ directors Andre
LaMarche and Duane Davis,
general manager Harold Web-
ber, and one staff member from
each of the three participating,
schools,

Writers of best essays will
appear before the selection
panel to make a short oral
presentation of the ideas con-
tained in their essays. On the
basis of these final presenta-
tions, the four winners will be
selected.

Deadline for submission of
essays is the final week of May,

A spokesman for Castlegar
Savings Credit Union ex-
pressed the board’s enthusi-
asm. “The youth of today are
our most important asset.
Participation in the 1977 Co-op
Youth Seminar is, we feel, a
splendid opportunity and we
are most proud and happy to be
able to make this contribution
to the growth and leadership
development of the young
people of the Castlegar area.”

water,

et.

water a major priority. .

be resolved".

A true scientist,

might just work.

personal priority.

One Man's Opinion

Personal nal Priority

By FRED MERRIMAN

It is all a matter of personal priority.
It has rained on Castlegar recently and the lawns are turning green, Fishing is
particularly good just below the Keenleyside Dam and the faucet Fesponds with coo, clear

We have no problem with water.

I have in front of me the most indoradting “Preliminary Study of Water. Supply
Proposals for the Lower Columbia Area" which was completed by public engineer N. J.
Morison September 1974 and identified as File #0242612-131: under the auspices of
Department of Lands, Forests, and Water Resources. My hat is off to you, Mr. Morison. It
must be very frustrating to work so hard on a project. that ends up in somebody's file
baskel because there are matters of far more pressing urgency.

It is a good thing I am not in a position of responsibility because I would probably cut
off. water to.the man who is sitting on our Letters Patent,

Mayor Audrey Moore is apparently in Ottawa trying to solve the problem.

Martin Vanderpol eats, drinks and I think even sleeps in water. Martin considers

The august committee in Victoria at this moment who ean solve our problem with the
stroke of a pen have the matter “under study”, which can be translated to mean our
problem is not a top priority item. Iam sure Mr. Morison is quietly smiling to himself when
he remembers he closed his report with the comment that the government “would appear
imprudent at this time to undertake further detailed studies until the financial aspect can

I would like to give credit to senior biologist R. J. Buchanan, Ph. D. whose Appendix
“CO”, “Water Quality in Arrow Lakes: The Present and the Future” made only the most
obscure reference to the highest priority of all:’ money.

Chris D'Arcy, Rossland-Trail MLA, jokingly suggested city council start laying pipe
from the High Arrow Lake and when the account is overdrawn send the bill to Victoria. It

But I can assure you, Mr. and Mrs. Castlegar, that! absolutely nothing will be one
about any problem any time until somebody in a position to solve the prob!

I leave it to you to imagine for yourself what constitutes a personal priority.

This year's female grad-
uates in the school districts of
Castlegar, Trail, Grand Forks
and the Kettle Valley have the
privilege of being involved in an
important health survey. They
were the oldest girls who re-
ceived ‘the “Rubella: vaccine in

Castlegar ‘Youth
Fell Asleep,
Police Say

A juvenile has been
charged with driving without

police said he had fallen asleep
behind the wheel.

The Castlegar youth was
driving a 1976 Honda Civic
Friday on Highway 3 three
tiles west of Castlegar when it

_ left the lefthand side of the
* highway and.rolled causing an
estimated $2,000 damage.

The vehicle was north-
bound at the time of the inci-

reported though the police said
the driver, who was the only

pant, was not wearing a
seat belt at the time of the

Rainfall Hits All-Time Low

April Broke Records

A climatological summary
compiled at the Castlegar Air-
port, indicates that many exist-

ing records were broken during
the month of April, as a per-
sistent ridge of high pressure

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the southern in-
terior weather.
Most notable was the re-

cord set for the amount of rain- *

fall, or lack of it—18.1 mm. The
mean is 44.9 mm and the pre-
vious record low was 16.2 mm
of rain in 1966,

The mean’ monthly and
mean maximum temperature
records were also broken. The
average mean temperature is
7.6 degrees. Previous record
was 8.8 degrees set in 1969,
while 9.4 degrees has been re-
corded for the same period this
year.

Mean maximum tempera-
ture for April was 17.2 degrees,
which broke the previous re-
cord of 15.3 degrees in 1973.
Normal is 13.8 degrees. _

Hours of sunshine totalled

230.6—nearly 65 hours above |

normal and 23 hours above the
previous record of 207.5 re-
ceived in 1973.

The hot and dry weather of
April has added to the existing
water shortage problems of the
Kootenay region and is ag-

* gravating the drought-like con-

ditions which have existed
since last September.

Car Totalled,
Driver Injured
On Highway 3

A 1965 Chevelle was
totalled on Wednesday after-

‘noon of last week when the

vehicle encountered a heavy
downfall of wet snow on
Highway 3.

Police said driver Marie H.
Clark of Westbank, who was
not wearing a seat belt at the
time of the accident was taken
to Castlegar and District Hos-
pital with bruises and lacera-
tions after the vehicle went out
of control, crossed the centre
line, left the road and travelled

down a 100 foot embankment. -

The incident occurred one
mile west of Timberlane Lodge.

Police Charge
Local Driver
After Collision

A two-vehicle accident
last Thursday, at the inter-
section of Maple Street and 9th
Avenue, has resulted -in a
Castlegar man being charged

+ with failing to yield at/an inter-

section.

Charged in Richard Dunlop.

whose 1969 Chev sustained an
estimated $450 damage when it
was in collision with a 1965
compact driven by Keith Wil-
liam Cook of Blueberry Creek.
The Cook vehicle sustained an
estimated $300 damage.”

No injuries have been re-
ported.

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incident,

due care and attention after,

the mass immunization pro-
gram in 1970,

The Public Health nursing
staff of. the, West Kootenay
Health Unit is conducting this
survey in order to ascertain
whether these girls are fully
protected either naturally or by
immunization, against German
Measles (Rubella). This disease
is usually harmless in child-
hood, but can cause damage to
the unborn child if contracted
during pregnancy, severely af-
fecting hearing, vision, the
heart and other. vital organs.

The details of this survey
will be explained to the girls by
health unit staff. A question-
naire and consent form will be
distributed explaining. the sur-

Female Graduates Participate
in W. Kootenay Rubella Survey

voy to parents and asking for
their full support.

During the next few
weeks, with the ecoperation « of
local hospital staff, the blood

tests will be taken at the
schools, The testing will be
done by tho Virology Service,
Provincial Laboratories. When
the results are known, contact
will be made with each in-
dividual,

The Health Unit staff ‘ts
aiming for 100 per cent parti-
eipation in ordér to detect. all
girls in need of this protection.

Anyone wishing further
information regarding the sur-
vey is asked to contact the
offices of the West Kootenay
Health Unit.

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. Thursday, May 12, 1977

Page 18

Selkirk Instructors
‘To Teach in NWT

‘ ,. Selkirk College council ap-

proved Thursday the signing of
i a $16,000 contract. with the

‘Northwest Territories depart-
ment of education to teach 12 to

on non-renewable resources to
provide industry, wants to
start training renewable re-
source techniclans to open up

f 15 northern students about
‘renewable resources at a
special six-week training course
in the N.W.T. this summer.
John Adams, Selkirk
‘forestry department chairman,
‘said the course is a trial “at-
* tempt to train native and other
northern students in their, own
“environment,
: “They eventually want to
> start a two-year program on
)) renewable resources,” Adams
“said. “They want to tie it in toa
h gouthern institution to give it
P bility.”-
He said the N.W.T.

opportunities in
management and development
of its renewable resource in-
dustries.

. Although many southern
institutions were considered,
Selkirk was chosen because of
its emphasis on field orientation

-and its teaching techniques, he

said.

slight edge in enthusiasm over
the others in the Selkirk staff,”
he said. “And they considered
Castlegar a better social en-
vironment because it’s a small
town.” Future plans for’ the
program may involve teaching
the program locally, he said.

“They also detected Ae

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travelling sroim Sjocan to Roseberry. ‘The eréw also drove three

recently at Slocan by a CP piles for the public boat lsimching ramnp to'secare & walkway.

—Castlegar News Photo by Les Campbell

A spokesman for the en->

vironmental éngineering divi-
sion’ of the : provincial’ healtly
department has estimated the

} cost of a treatment plant for:
‘Columbia ‘River water below |.
the. Keenleyside Dam’ at: $1.

million.

_Ferry Traffic

Shows Increase
This Year

Castlegar ferry traffic has.

shown a marked increase over
last year.

In April the ferry made
3,295. round trips: compared
with 2,282 in April, 1976. Auto-
mobiles and drivers climbed to
‘29,268 from 19,701 in the same
period a year ago.

Other, figures for April

“with 1976 figures’ in brackets:
non-driving passengers, 41,496 -

(27,891); trucks, 12,655 (8,139);
trailers, 512 (238); buses, 118

(90); motorcycles, 197 (205) and.

livestock 48 (4).

with them.:

and the Cal net in person, in private.

= Procedure:

Those presentin

: Meet with Premier Bill Bennett
and the Provincial Cabinet

Premier Bill Bennett and the Cabinet will holda working session
at’ Trail on Wednesday, dune 1, -and they're interested in
receiving briefs from ait individuals or. groups who wish to meet

This is an o| fret in to express your views to Premier Bennett

One copy of your brief must ‘be sent. to. Dan
Campbell, director. of : Intergovérnmental Rela-
tions, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, by May. 24.
Another 20 copies of your brief must -be made -
available at the Cabinet session in Trail. June ‘1.
briefs" will be advised:of the
exact time and place of presentation.

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+

According to Envioomental Eypineering Department

Treatment Plant Would

In an’ April 1“ letter to
Castlegar‘ city ‘administrator
Bill Krug, regional engineer D.
G. Levang cited the “ball-park"
figure for a plant .with.a ade-
quately-sized intake, two-stage
pumping, high-rate sand filters,
backwash facilities, automatic
controls,a gas chlorine disin-
fection system, operator facili-
ties, building, hired help and
new. line, to handle enough
water for the entire city.

Krug said on: Tuesday of
last week he was not surprised
at the estimated expense of the
water treatment plant but said
Kerr,’ Wood and’ Leidal, the
engineering firm hired by the
city.to find the most economical
method of securing a suitable
water supply, would be making
their own cost estimates.

-He said the firm is study-

| Project Society

Cash Bingo
On June 25

* Bhele Society's. Cash Bingo at the”

‘Community Complex at 8 pan.
spokesman

June 25, a society.

this week. Nettie:

Angrignon said pro-
‘eedds from the Bingo—which

will offer a total $5,000 in cash
prizes—will go jointly. to the
society and to, the Sunflower
Festival Committee. .

ing. the intake at Eighth Ave.
North, the Canadian Cellulose.
well’ pumps: and .the CanCel
mainline as ‘well as: the Keen-
leysidé. Damas possible sites
for a.treatment plant.

Also included >in .the

Decision May 31
On Company's:

Pollution Charge

A pollution charge against
Triangle Pacific of Slocan City
will be decided May 81 in
Castlegar court.

After an appearance in
Nelson provincial court Mon-
day, representatives for Tri-
angle Pacific and the: Pollution
Control Branch of B.C. were
told the case is adjourned to
that date.

-The Slocan Valley opera- ©

tion of the company is charged
with releasing smoke in excess
of its permit to pollute. A fine of

; $10,000 is possible under the

Pollution Control Act.

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engineering division letter was
a table of the consumption rates
of 16 Kootenay water systems.
Using information taken from
pumping rates, reservoir draws,

and meters, the table ranked.

the Castlegar system, serving a

About 25,000 Grade 12
students.sat down around the
province last Tuesday to write
a new language test that
Education Minister Pat McGeer
says should help — post-
secondary institutions sort out
students’ knowledge of English.

The 2%p-hour teat, de-

by the Education Re-
search Institute of British’
Columbia, consisted of two
parts: 40 sentences, some of
which contained usage errors
that students were asked to
locate; and an essay to test
writing ability.

“The test is not geared for
grades, but only to pick out
those who need extra help in
English,” said -teat project
director Lloyd MacDonald.

“It was also to select those
who speak it as their native

such as “irregardless,” or mis-
use of “fewer™ and. “less”,

The test used Tuesday was
much different from the five-
part, 2%-hour university en-
trance exam written by stu-
dents.20 years ago.

In those days students had
to complete ‘examinations ‘on:
spelling, punctuation, word
usage, paragraph building and
essaywriting.

Dennis yohnaton, head of
the Castlegar marking centre,
‘and member of the advisory
board for English placement,
Monday said local markers,
consisting of high school and
college English teachers,
marked 900 papers last. week-
end.

Johnston, the chairman of
the Selkirk College English
department, said the papers,
distributed randomly and
“number-coded, were sent to.

any post-secondary institutions
in B.C., except North Island
and Northwest Colleges.

MacDonald said 275 mark-
ers in Vancouver, Victoria,
Kamloops and Castlegar will
evaluate the tests. He hopes to
get marks in the mail by May
23.

‘The results of the pilot test
were

and

throughout the ether centres
for a second marking. A median
will be taken of both marks and
sent to each student, he said.

“None of those.marks will
“be going to any post-secondary
institutions,” - Johnston « said.
“Students will take the marks
with them to use to assist
colleges. and universities in
working out ‘what English

said, with those already en-
rolled in Grade 12 English
courses scoring well.

But, be added, many stu-
dents made usage errors that
he thought were less common,

’

saipalations of G,i00, sith in,
“average ‘daily demand at’ one

million: gallons: and’ fourth in
peak: daily demand, at 86
million. gallons.

not been officially verified.

Krug said the figures had:

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for them.”

Jim Norris, vice-principal
at Stanley Humphries Second-
ary School, said 120 high school
students in School District No.
9 wrote the test.

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