March 17, 1985 SPORTS CLEAN COTTON WANTED. Castlegar News 197 Columbia Ave. Fruitvale youth score in bowling By CasNews Staff Two members of Beaver Valley Lanes youth bowling team won gold medals at the B.C. provincial five-pin bow! ing championships of the Youth Bowling Council held last weekend in the Fraser Valley. In the championships at nee Slowpitch Softball General Meeting Tuesday, ( March 19 QD at 7:00 p.m. Community Complex Room 208 © All interested players & teams please attend * Election of executive CASTLEGAR AND DISTRICT GIRLS’ SOFTBALL ASSOCIATIO) (Formerly Little Lossie Selkirk Valley) REGISTRATION NOW ON: | For Girls age 7 - 17 Fees: $15, $12, $10. Forms available at Schools & Community Complex REGISTER BY MARCH 29 AT COMMUNITY COMPLEX Contact Gord Gibson — 365-5381 Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Langley, Colleen Yee of Fruitvale captured the gold in the bantam girls division with a score of 621, only 12 pins ahead of silver medallist Jennifer Brugge of Nanaimo. In the junior girls division, Alaina Rypien of Fruitvale won the gold medal with an impressive three-game score of 760. All gold medallists advance to the national youth bowling championships to be held April 26-28 in Burnaby. New soccer club in Castlegar By CasNews Staff A new soccer club is being formed in Castlegar. Antonio Dacosta, one of the organizers, says the new organization — to be known as the membership soccer club — will be open to players from six years old up to 20 or Even families can enjoy it,” he says. People can become part of the association by signing up as a member. Prices are $15 for children and $20 for adults. Dacosta says that once the club gets on its feet, teams from the club may play other dlubs in the area. “We have a skating club, a lot of clubs in town but no soecer club like one,” says Dacosta. Dacosta is hopeful that soccer action will begin the second week of April, de. pending on the number of registrations received. Registrations are taking place between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. in the lower dining room of the Chuckwagon restaur- ant in the Marlane Hotel, beginning Monday. Dacosta says the club will offer “better soccer and a better organization” than is presently available in Cas tlegar. He adds that the club is also looking for coaches. Lakers grab 76-58 win VANCOUVER (CP) — Ge. off McKay scored 39 points to lead Penticton Lakers to a 76-58 win over Oak Bay Boys in consolation round games Friday at the British Col umbia boy's AA high school basketball championships. John Swanson added 10 points for the Lakers, Paul and Garth Ellis had 12. Vernon Panthers defeated John Oliver Jokers of Van couver 82-79, J.D. Jackson scored 22 points for the winners, Brian Kruger had 16 and Tim Tollestrop had 15. For John Oliver, Este Etondulan scored 35 points 1 CGOMMUNITY NEWS ‘ Canada (B.C. and Yukon branch), for having the highest number of Bronze Cross candidates in B.C. for a 1984 seasonal affiliate CosmewsProto JOB WELL DONE... Pot Metge (left), recreational director for the Recreation icate from Marilyn Strong, regional ntative for the Royal Life Saving Society of Brandson Pool honored The Royal Life Saving Society of Canada, B.C. and Yukon Branch held its annual awards ceremony in Victoria last Saturday as part of the 1985 Aquatic conference “Wave Lengths repre: saving award have learned self-rescue, and rescue of others from a variety of emergency situations, in and around the water. Anyone interested in life saving training, should contact the Royal Life unteer Regional Represen- Life saving programs of Saving Society Canada, tative for the Society in the RLSS(C) include B.C. and Yukon Branch, both East and West Koot- Bronze Medallion, Bronze 1200 Hornby St., Van enays. Cross and National Life. couver V6Z 2E2 phone 684 sonal affiliate. Receiving the award on behalf of Regional Rec reation Commission No. 1 was Marilyn Strong. Ree- reation Commissioner for Area I. Strong is also the vol- ciety founded in 1908 with branches in each province. The Society is dedicated to the prevention of ac cidents and the saving of lives in aquatie environ ments across Canada. At the ceremony, The Bob Brandson Pool in Castlegar received an award for having the most morcn17.1905 CasthagarNews _»: A look at public school funding An earlier commitment to the Castlegar Arts } Council kept me from running the ig article in Practice, any measure is defensible. Perhaps this is a best treated in terms of values and priorities, with last week's public meeting on public education. It was written by daughter Tanya, (Tatiana) a resident of Hornby Island in School District 71 on the coast and is written from the point of view of a parent in a rural area. Nonetheless, I feel that it addresses the larger issue, is well written and take pleceure in b eaping it to readers. The inf on the but let us consider some figures; after all, it is difficult to reach consensus on such intangible things as values and priorities. The curious thing is that figures turn out to be slippery, too. “One. teacher is provided for every 25-27 pupils in elementary programs and 22-24 pupils in d: is made for Funding of Public Schools, put ‘out by “the Ministry of Education purports to assist in the discussion of the major current issues in financing B.C. public schools. The brochure prompted a parent of a child in a rural B.C. school to consider these issues using newspaper clippings, pamphlets and reports from various sources as well as first-hand experience, as resource material. The following points are offered in the interests of furthering the discussion of these issues. © The brochure states (and hereafter all quotes are from the brochure): “Enough money is being provided to allow for quality education.” If polls are any indication of public opinion, the people of B.C. do not endorse this attitude, but let us try to its di who require special “education.” The first of these two is based on wes and ineludes all personnel in the system who possess a teaching certificate as “teachers”. It is diffieult to conceive how else these figures were arrived at. Anyone having contact with classroom situations knows that the reality is different. Averages i in a classroom are like ina garden. If an advanced computer course has 10 Grade 12 students, should another class have 35 to make up the average? Furthermore, the cited figures ignore the new reality created by “mainstreaming”, or including most children in the general school system regardless of learning di: ies and physical or emotional disabilities. * @ School board budgets are developed through the fiscal framework system.” The public seems to be in the dark regarding the meaning of this cabalistic formula, although it is apparently composed of dozens of complex procedures. Does this statement really advance the under- standing of the issue of funding? It is important to note, in connection with this statement, that school boards no ‘Averages in the classroom are like bulldozers in a vegetable garden’ longer have a hand in developing their budgets. Yes, they have the responsibility of managing the budget that has been developed for them, but even as managers their integrity suffers affront. In School District No. 71, some monies were economized on the heating bill. Rather than being “allowed” to re-allocate these monies in the 1985 budget, the board was simply relieved of them altogether. If they had been less competent managers they would still have these monies in the budget. e@ “The service levels in the fiscal framework are defensible.” Within a given framework, any step, any This movement began about 10 years ago and radically changed the aspect of the classroom. Smaller classes became a pedagogical necessity rather than a desirable component of schooling, and it was largely to serve these special children, while maintaining and advancing the general level of classroom activity, that extra teachers were hired in the "70s. Figures tend to conveniently ignore the human contours of a classroom. It is not true that full provision is being made for students who require special education. These provisions have suffered. For instance, braille services have been reduced, and so have special needs aides who are absolutely necessary in classes with learning disabled children. “In addition, appropriate allowances are included for school supplies, heating, textbooks, transportation and all the resources necessary to a quality learning environment.” This is glib talk and has no place in a serious discussion of these issues. “Appropriate” is a for the word “appropriate” must relate to some point of reference; it is relative to some particular standard. Is it appropriate that rural high school students can not take part in after-school athletic events because the extra bus that gave them this opportunity once a week has been eliminated? Is is appropriate that rural John Charters . Reflections ~ Lal + & recollections elementary school children cannot take their Red Cross swimming course that occurs once in two years because the transportation funds have been curtailed? Perhaps this would be appropriate if those children went to Hawaii for two weeks in the winter, but perhaps it is not appropriate that any British Columbia should go to Hawaii or Palm Springs or Florida when we have the good fortune to live in beautiful B.C. Thus, the discussion becomes ludicrous, or does it? The funding cuts have affected all services and supplies from buses to bunsen burners, although no figures will be marshalled to back this statement at the moment — most teachers, students and parents are well aware of this state of affairs. “On average, boards are provided approximately $40,611 per teacher per year to pay salaries plus benefits plus persons.” There is probably no other sector of working British Columbians whose income calls forth so ‘A society in which teachers are being denigrated has got rocks in its head’ much scrutiny and comment as the teaching body, although our MLA's remuneration has recently given rise to much discussion. Yes, figures are slippery, and they seem to come in shoals — one can drop a net into the waters of statistics and pull out all sorts and sizes. For instance, the Financial Post of January, 1985 shows that the average Canadian workers earns $28,140 in 1985, whereas the average Victoria district school teacher will earn $27,845 if the three per cent settlement stands (an arbitrated settlement). The earnings of B.C. teachers are probably around the average both for workers in general and for teachers throughout Canada, but that is not the crux of the matter. A society in which teachers are constantly being denigrated has got rocks in its head. Throughout the world teachers are held in esteem as people who serve above and beyond the stipulations of their job description. With allowances, for the wonderful, the terrible and the unclassifiable, most teachers are ordinary people who do an extraordinary job a lot of the time. e “Salary increases awarded in 1985 will cause a scohtesa™ In district No. 71 teachers did not seek a salary inerease for 1985 with the express intent of avoiding the loss of posi and uph in el in the middle of the school year. An increase was imposed on them by the ministry-appointed arbitrator. Teachers and school boards have gone through incredible contortions to maintain the level of service in schools, but the ministry has responded with un- precedented ill-will. The Burns Plan which would have prevented the disruption to education that occurred in February of this year in most schools was rejected out of hand by the ministry despite concerted efforts by parents, teachers and trustees. The statement that “no additional funding is available” is pure humbug — the Burns Plan represented a solution for the six months till the end of this school year that would not have cost a penny, and its rejection revealed the attitude of the Ministry toward the local organs. e “British Columbia devotes similar resources to public’ school education as other provinces.” Those slippery figures swim out again. The brochure states that “per capita expenditures on schools in B.C. are in line with other ee and it explains the low level of rs of total as compared to ther provinces as resulting “simply from a relatively low number of school-aged people as a proportion of the B.C. population.” This is a good try and a Recessary one because the per of total e on education do look forlorn — B.C. ranks tenth among the pfovinces (1982-1983) at 15.5 per cent as compared to a high of 25.3 per cent and an average of 21.2 per cent throughout Canada. So B.C. shows a per capita expenditure of $459 on education (1982-1983) while the all-province average was $696. Now, of course, if we have a smaller population of school-aged people, these figures are misleading. * But the vital question remains — how do you foster a discussion of prior: when one of the dialoguing parties, the local organs, is deprived of real power? number of bronze cross candidates for a 1984 sea. The RLSS(C) is a volun teer non-profit national so- guard Service (NLS). Candidates earning a life 6368 or contact Marilyn Strong at 365-6035. Lowdown on peaches By RICHARD HALLMAN District Horticulturist Spring seems a long way off with so much snow still visible. Snow or no snow, fruit trees are just about to break bud and get on with is physically possible, if it has not already been applied. Peach Leaf Curl must be prevented, it cannot be cured. Preventative sprays must be applied to the trees in the spring before close ex. tree were severely infected, both a fall and spring spray are necessary — even then you will likely get a few curled leaves. There are several fungi- cides that control Peace Leaf must be applied in a large volume of water (to the run- off point) or you will get poor control. The .gpores that cause the curled leaves are hidden deep in cracks in the bark and around the buds Donke scored 19 for Oak Bay Fishing report Jones Boys Marine and Woodbury Resort Fishing Report for the North Arm of Kootenay Lake. March 4 March 10, 1985. Spring is finally close. It's been a beautiful week (March 4-10) with sunny, relatively calm days and excellent fishing in the first part of the week. On southern exposures the snow has almost disappeared. Jack Weidenar and son from Manhatten, Mont. caught 20'/ and 19'/-pound Rainbows Monday and Tuesday using Jointed Rebels on the surface. Several more Rainbows were caught and released because they were all spawners. Usually spawning fish are into the closed area North of Lost Ledge by this time, but it is either a late season or an extra long run. Dolly Varden continue to bit fairly well and are averaging about nine pounds. This week the lake has dropped .3 feet to the 1.8 foot level and surface temperature is still plus 2° Celsius. and Harri Reck had 16. amination of the buds shows any green tissue. If the spray is applied too late, it might as well be saved for next year. If your trees were sprayed last fall with fixed copper or another fungicide to control leaf curl, this spring spray may not be necessary. If your that will soon start to grow. To get at those spores with the fungicide the trees must be completely soaked from top to bottom. If you use lots of water and get the spray on in time, Peace Leaf Curl should not be a major prob- lem during 1985. Curl. These include Fixed Copper, Ferbam (Fermate), Maneb, Ziram (Zerlate), Dif. olitan, and Lime Sulfur. Lime Sulfur and Ferbam are most commonly used at this time of year. Regardless as to which material you choose to use, it Fishery to reopen The West Arm kokanee fishery on Kootenay Lake will reopen April 1 as a result of initial production from the Redfish Creek spawning channel, says the Ministry of Environment. The fishery will be man. aged on the basis of a catch quota predetermined by fish. eries management staff. the 1985 growing season. This is a critical time of year stock. : : - for everyone with peach On June 1 the West Arm trees, particularly if they will open for rainbow trout were heavily infected with with the fly fishing regu Peach Leaf Curl last year. lation in effect. Kokanee The dormant Peach Leaf fishermen will still be able to Curl preventative spray catch kokanee by moving just should be applied as soon as outside the boundary at the Crossword numbers of north arm fish temporarily move into the west arm during June and intermix with the fewer but larger west arm fish Fisheries management cannot accurately separate the north stock from west arm stock without running considerable risk in again overfishing the west arm 71 Persian rulers P 1 Ancient nk 72 Wynter and eekend Wrap-up a