sensitiv By KIRK LaPOINTE TORONTO (CP) — Multi- culturalism Minister Jack Murta says he intends to persuade the CBC and pri vate broadcasters to fairly depict and represent ethnic groups. Murta told a federal hear- ing Tuesday on ethnic broad- casting policy that “national networks have to be more sensitive than they are” in representing ethnic groups. “Electronic broadcasting can reflect culture, deter. mine culture and effect cul. tural change” but govern. ment surveys of program content and audience percep tion suggest broadcasters and viewers too often see non-Whites in stereotype roles,” he said. Murta has already met with the CBC. Without un duly interfering in the inde- pendent role of public tele vision and radio network, he said he wants to continue pressing the network to bolster its ethnic representa tion and improve its depic tion. “I think they respond to pressures as anyone else does,” he told a hearing by the Canadian Radio-televi- sion Telecommunications Commission. PROJECT FAILS A recent project by the former Liberal government and CBC to train visible minorities for positions at the network had “dismal” results only one of seven was hired. The CRTC is trying to de. velop a cohesive national pol- icy on multicultural and mul tilingual broadcasting. Until now, its policies have been unstructured. The com mission wants to decide how such programming can be presented, whether cable firms should be forced to carry such channels and a wide range of related issues. Out of the hearings Tues. day in Toronto, last week in Hull, Que., and two weeks ago in Vancouver will likely come new i de- Accounting PERSONAL INCOME TAXES PREPARED Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-7287 SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc. C.A Resident Partner fining ethnic broadcasting and an overview of how to strengthen the field. But there was a hint Tuesday the three-man CRCT panel is examining tough measures. Commissioner Dick De Stefano asked Murta if his department would consider “matching grants” if the CRTC forced broadcasters to place a percentage of their revenues into a pool for ethnic broadcast develop. ment Keegstra can bring in book RED DEER, ALTA. (CP) Jim Keegstra, the former Eckville, Alta., high school teacher charged with prompting hatred against Jews, won the right Tuesday to bring into Canada a book which declares the Holocaust a hoax Mr. Justice W.R. Brennan of Court of Queen's Bench granted an appeal by Keeg stra’s lawyer, Doug Christie of Victoria, to strike down a Customs decision banning the book, the Hoax of the Twentieth Century. The book was held by Can ada Customs under the 117. year-old Customs Tariff Act as obscene and immoral mat erial But a Federal Court of Appeal decision March 14 struck down the section as an infringement of Charter of Rights guarantees to free dom of expression. Brennan said he was bound by the higher court's ruling and Ingrid Hutton, counsel for the deputy minister of national revenue, customs and excise, agreed the ruling applied to Keegstra’s book. However, she said the case now must go back to the deputy minister for redeter mination, mainly to classify the book and assess duty. 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Advertising Manager HEATHER HADLEY, Circulotion Monager, MICKEY READ Composing Room Foreman ~ sd —— Victoria, vV8v Lx4 Febi 28 Karl Parmann, a Rotary Exchange student from’ Norway, is featured in John Charters’ B83 HARD Ci Duizer (foregrou with ‘opponent Jim Markin during cross-cut race held during Forestry Day —_> The Castlegar Arts Council's annual Commun- ity Art Exhibition starts Monday night at the National Exhibition Centre +++ Ab The six winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6-49 draw were 8, 16, 20, 30, 31 and 48. The bonus number was 12. The $500,000 winning number in Friday's Provincial lottery draw is 6123481. There are also subsidiary prizes. Oi gar CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1985 WEATHERCAST Sunday cloudy with a few showers, high near 7° and lows showers. Outlook is for matty cloudy skies through mi 3 Sections (A, B & C) ind) concentrates on keeping up students. Friday ot Selkirk College. Events were held by the college's forestry 9 die in military air crash EDMONTON (CP) — Nine Canadian airmen and an exchange officer from the United States died Friday night when two Canadian Forces C-130 Hercules transports collided and tum- bled to the ground, exploding in a mass of flames. Both four-engine aircraft plunged into the ground near the end of a runway at Canadian Forces Base Edmonton, Lancaster Park, at the northern outskirts of Edmonton. Debris scattered over an area equivalent to four city blocks. The aircraft missed the base fuel storage dump by about 300 metres. One crashed into a military ware- house, blowing up in what one witness described as “a big pinkish-yellowish ball of flame and a lot of black smoke.” No one in the warehouse, which con- tained trucks and other equipment, but its wooden sides added to the sheets of flame roaring up from the wreckage. At one point Friday night, residents of northeast Edmonton were asked to restrict water use so pressure could be kept at a maximum for firefighters at the base. Col. Peter DeTracey, base comman. der, called it a “black Friday.” He was told what happened shortly after hearing a loud thud just before the start of a dinner commemorating the 61st anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force. The two Hercules which crashed were part of a three-plane formation which had done a flypast as part of the commemoration, about 15 minutes before the accident. Instead of going on with the dinner, 95 officers stood in shocked silence as they heard DeTracey tell them about the worst air crash in the history of the 34-year-old base. The worst previous accident saw six Canadians and one American die when a Hercules crashed during a training exercise here in November 1982. Military investigators began probing the debris and ashes Saturday. They planned to use computers, models and a control tower tape recording of the flight to piece together what happened. DeTracey told the news conference Saturday he did not want to speculate. He said he could say only that a C-130 being flown by Drake had run into a C-130 being flown by Register. “It looks like for some reason or other No. 2 pulled into No. 1 aircraft,” DeTracey said. “Either he turned early or No. 1 slowed down, or it’s even possible there was a malfunction in No. 1” The planes were flying down the main runway at between 300 and 500 metres and had begun a turn when the accident happened. Witnesses had varying accounts, some saying they saw wingtips touch. Gordon LeClaire, 29, of Namao, Alta., said he saw a parachute dragging behind one of the planes and could tell there was trouble before the collision. “It looked like they were in a nose. dive going backwards,” he said. “I thought they were doing some new manocuvre. The highest plane took off to the west, and at that exact moment, the middle plane appeared to fly back and it hit the third plane.” Jeff Smith, 23, of Winnipeg said he saw a cockpit fall off one of the planes after the collision. “I felt sickened wat ching.” The medium-range turboprop Her cules, built by Lockheed and valued at $20 million to $25 million, is the main. stay transports for Canada’s armed forces. With a reputation for stable flight and versatility, it is a jack-of. all-trades which hauls cargo, carries troops, drops paratroops and flies search and rescue missions. CFB Edmonton, Lancaster Park handles about 85,000 takeoffs and landings annually. Part of a runway was still closed because of debris from the accident Saturday, hampering a joint Canadian-U.S. exercise involving flights to El Paso. Brisco in Russia accompany’ fairs minister Joe Clark on @ week-long visit to the Soviet Union ... A2 Board to follow gov't guidelines even though the board says it will “erod: i } . and programs for children” in this district. The board decided to send in the compliance budget to the Ministry of Smecher and trustees George Anutoo- shkin and Linda Krull voting for, and trustees Kay Johnson and Gordon Turner voting against the motion. Trustees Rick Pongracz and Lovette Nichvolodoff were absent for the vote. Smecher said at a press conference Friday that the board was bound to comply with Victoria's budget guide- lines under the Education (Interim) Finance Act. But, she said, the decision oe ee Earlier this month, the board sent the Ministry of Education a 1985-86 budget based on need, which exceeded ministry guidelines by about $645,000. Following this, the board received a letter from Education Minister Jack Heinrich dated March 19, instructing it to submit a budget conforming to the ministry spending limit of $8,447,068. Smecher said the board will send a joint statement on behalf of trustees, teachers, non-teaching staff and parent groups to Heinrich, Premier Bill Ben- nett and MLA Chris D’Arey (NDP- Rossland-Trail) outlining the effects continued on poge AS RDCK to spend $90,000 more in '85 By CasNews Staff The Regional District of Central Kootenay will spend $90,000 more this year than in 1984. The RDCK adopted a $6 million annual budget Saturday. The 1964 budget was approximately $5.9 million — or about 1.5 per cent less than in 1985. But Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore was miffed when her proposal to have Castlegar donate $16,000 for the regional planning portion of the budget was turned down by the board. While Castlegar has previously opted out of RDCK regional planning, Moore said she’s hoped the donation would have given the city a vote in planning functions. And taxpayers within RDCK boun. daries would have benefited through lowered taxes, Moore pointed out. However, the donation was rejécted as being too meager to buy a vote, Moore said. “I said, ‘Hey you guys, you just raised your taxes for all your people.’ “I think it’s a sad comment on what happened today,” added Moore. “It disappointed me no end.” The largest budgeted increase is for protective services (fire protection, flood control, building inspection and animal control), which increase 21 per cent from last year to $956,773. Other increases are for water sys. tems and garbage disposal, which are up .7 per cent to $1,620,691, and street lighting and public transit, up 6.4 per cent to $53,275. Environmental development ser vices (planning, insect control, econ omic development) decreased 13 per cent to $515,953. The largest slice of the pie will be the $2 million allotted for recreational and culture — about the same as last year. This includes recreation commissions, community centres and halls, swim ming pools, arenas, parks, the Blewett Ski Hill and“tlibraries. The second largest chunk goes to water systems and garbage disposal — $1.6 million or 27 per cent; again, about the same as in 1984. The $6 million in revenue was made up as follows: taxation 60.8 per cent ($3,648,581), surplus 14 per cent ($839,120), building inspection and other-services 12.8 per cent ($765,823), grants 8.8 per cent ($531,279) and water rates 3.6 per cent ($215,537). Funding specifically allocated for the Castlegar area includes: © $190,000 for garbage disposal; © $186,000 for the recreation com mission; © $690,000 for recreation facilities ($575,681 for the Recreation Complex and $114,873 for the Old Arena); © $168,000 for fire protection; The regional District of Central Kootenay covers Castlegar, Nelson, Creston, Kaslo, Nakusp, New Denver, Salmo, Silverton, and Slocan. More foster parents are needed By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer “It doesn't take an awful lot to be a foster parent,” says Linda Krull. “All it takes is wanting to share your love, to get into it, to try and show some of these kids that life really isn't so rotten.” Krull, better known as a school board trustee in Castlegar, is also a foster parent. Krull, and husband Jerry, have been opening up their home for about five years to children who are in need of a temporary home. The Krulls are one of about 10 families in Castlegar who provide homes for foster children. Currently, eight of those homes have children in them. But the Ministry of Human Resources needs more foster parents. The ministry recently launched a province-wide campaign in an attempt to reeruit more people to be foster parents. recruitment campaign includes the West Kootenay, where Mary Vanness, a social worker from Trail has been promoting foster parenting. Vaness notes that the needs for Castlegar are for “caregivers who can respond to the special needs of children.” The needs of these children may vary from child abuse or incest victims to children who need a place to live for a transition time. Krull says children her family has taken on include a boy who was beaten, a one-year-old girl who was the result of a teenage pregnancy and a youth who was being taught responsibility. Vaness says children are placed in foster homes for up to three months, but the time can be longer. depending on the circumstances. Krull says the longest she had a foster child was eight months, the shortest was two weeks. Vaness says that when a child first comes into the care of the ministry, the first thing looked at is returning the children to their homes. “It's always the prime goal, but possible,” she says. Occasionally there are children whose parents will never be able to take care of them properly, says a brochure on foster parenting. The brochure says that is not always these children are usually placed in an adoptive home or in a permanent foster home. Says Krull: “Sometimes they have to be removed so families have a chance to get their problems sorted out. They (Human Resources) don't really want to take the child out of the home unless they have to.” In Castlegar, between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of children put into foster homes are returned to their families. Vaness says that although there is a real need for foster parents in the area “we don't have children in our office looking for homes. “We want homes ready.” she says, rather than scrambling around trying to find homes for them. “If we don’t have quality foster homes we don’t want to take them out and whip them into something else,” she adds. To be a foster paxant, one has to have the maturity and some experience to give to children, Vaness says. “We wouldn't take a look at a 19-year-old,” she says. “It depends on the individual and the maturity, and the sense of balance,” she says. Krull adds that personally, she feels the majority of people can become foster parents. “There is very little criteria,” she says. “Time to spend with a child, love for a child and an open heart.” “The main thing is to treat children no different than you treat your own children,” Krull says. ‘oster parents receive financial assistance from the ministry to cover child care related costs, such as food clothing, r and spe z Although the foerubianent campaign ends this month, Vaness says people can still call the local Human Resources offices even if ttey are only thinking about becoming a foster parent and want more information Vaness notes that there has already been some response to the campaign in the Castlegar area “A number of homes have responded,” she says When a person decides to become a foster parent a series of home visits are set up between Human Resources and the candidates to discuss what they want out of fostering. “Sometimes what people want out of fostering isn't what they are going to get.” Vaness says. continued on poge A2