Rossland has become a tempo- rary home for 33’ Japanese 'stu- This is the first anguage/eul- ture tour\to be ‘headquartered, in dents * from: ni Junior College who will be visiting for two-and-a-half weeks as partici- Pants in a Selkirk College sum- d, though’ Grand Forks and Castlegar have hosted sum- mer Visitors on similar tours from Japan for the past four and five mer C: i years The Iwakuni tour’ is coordinat- p.m.7 days ‘a week am. spect Prices (n Effect July 17:Thru: July 23, 1991. “+> WEL COME CANADIANS | WHOLE BODY : FRYERS er Valley SDA Inspected, Wasningion STOW: LEAN GROUND BEEF , NOt Ks to excend 22.5% Fat 4 Ml IK Terry's Dairy [206 ee gallon [ORANGE JUICE Western Family. R Froz (WILLOW BEACH \ RESORT Family Campground shaded sites, full hookups, flush toilets, showers, playground, pop ~ and ice, sandy beach, firepits, pay phone, moorage, near arcade, mini golf, store; gas, restaurantand < 492 909 gallon. (RED WAGON ) (iv the mal) : Breakfast ¢ Lunch Fine Dining Sensational Dally Specials ¢ Fully Licensed : Commica/Ceigar Vouchers - 7 am to 9 pm Weekdays 8 am to 9 pm Weekends 47-6233). Christina Lake Golf Course | 18 holes par 72 power carts « driving range dining facilities licensed lounge Teo Times: may be hooked - 3 days In advance 447-9313 * Steaks ¢ Homemade Pizza ene + Fast Food Window « Fully Licenced * Child's Menu Available, duly & Aug. Sam. - 7tOpm. [ omaee a o ANT ed by Jane Agg, _who, has } arranged billeting with Rossland ; families for all of the students: ‘majors pasticipins in the inte tional tour program. +; Selkirk College is also host: She has also set up a comp sive array of cultural and recre- ational activitics to. keep her group immersed in the Canadian way of life. Following an initial weekend’ with their homestay hosts, the" students will attend English class-' es weekday momings and ‘spend afternoons horse-back riding, | mountain biking and golfing. Trips to Nancy Greene Lake, the Creston Wildlife . Centre, Ainsworth Hot Springs and the main campus of Selkirk College are scheduled. Weekends are left less struc- tured to allow homestay families and their billets'to get better acquainted, although several group picnics and. barb to Grand Forks and Castlegar this summer. The Grand Foiks tour began July 5 as well, with arrival ; Konan. Women's College, for a-three week visit. This is the fourth con: secutive year the Konan tour is : of 34 students’ fro visiting Grand Forks. The Konan tour is coordinated’ by Fran. Dixon. “We are looking forward to. another successful year with our Konan students in Grand Forks,” said Dixon. “Our repeat rate for homestay host families is about 80 per cent, so it’s become some- thing people look forward to: doing each year.” The Konan students also spend kd ings in Engli which host families and students are invited, have been scheduled. .- Agg is assisted by several cul- tural assistants who accompany the visiting students on their recreational outings to act as cul- tural interpreters and to cncour- age full participation in. the planned activities. Iwakuni Junior College is located:in Iwakuni City in’ the, Yamaguchi Prefecture, east of Tokyo. ‘The College specializes i in English Janguage’ training ‘and ©. . pre-school. education, similar. to Selkirk College’s own Early Childhood Education program, Iwanku College has an enroll-.: ment of 500 young women, with approximately 150 majoring in. English and 350 education - majors. During the two years of study, English majors can com- plete a teaching certificate of English at the junior high school level or a secretarial certificate. This tour marks the first time’ Iwankw has sent students to Cana- da, though for the past four years tours have visited colleges in the United States. Only English classes before hitting the, beach afternoons at Christina Lake, or tubing down the Kettle River, This year Dixon hopes to take her group on a one-day excursion to Spokane in addition to the usual , field trips to Ainsworth Hot * Springs, Kootenay Lake and Nel- son heritage walking tour. : “Our formula for earning and: . recreation is. very popular with. © the Konan group,” said Dixon. “There continues to be high inter- ° est in summer tours to Grand Forks.” The Castlegar tour, coordinat: ed by Carrie-Lynn Brown, begins July 20 and continues through August 10. For the fifth consecu- tive year, students from Aoyama Technical College, Selkirk’s sis- ter-college, will be based in Castlegar with homestay host families. Again, the mix of morning English language classes together with aftemoon and evening | cule. tural and dent tours in, first time, the 18 students ‘coming | from Aoyama are not accompa: : nied by instructors from their col- . lege, : “This year *s ‘our, was almost cancelled,” said John Amnstrong, , head of the college’s -as well as excursi afield. Brown has tlie group! ‘ duled for'a famili tour, in. downtown, Castlegar shortly after they arrive, Many,; activities such as plenies, barbc- ; cues and softball, games haye;. Education department, \““Back in. D ber when the p planning takes place, ‘Aoyama decided to cancel this year’s tour because of the travel risk imposed. by the raging war, in the Persian Gulf. The swift conclusion of that conflict allowed the plans to get back on track. It was more the doing ‘of: the’ de * Night Golf ‘Snack Bar: * Club Rentals); sLessons = 3), st¢ Mint Tournaments - _ WEDNESDAY, 4 DAILY. City counc considers | TL “A ‘committee has been struck by city council to consider the ion of a i bylaw, ‘the chairperson of the committee said Wednesday, s of the Chamber of Commerce and mein: bers of the city staff and, explained the alderman, is made wpo of smokers and non-smokers. ib Pat "Tt will give the opp ity to have non-smoking areas in estab- lishments,” said alderman Shawn Melenka. “We're working with the’ business community ‘and restaurants," she added, noting that bars, cabarets and lounges would be exempt from such a by- Jaw which, hopefuiiy, will be implemented next year. The committee is comprised of. McCabe said she has mixed feel- ings about the proposed by-law. While she is’ a non-smoker, McCabe said ‘she izes the be nice to have them completely non-smoking,” McCabe said. Melenka said the by-law, which is still in the early planning stages, will be flexible and’ allow space for both smokers and non- smokers, She said the committee will be looking at the smoking bylaws of Nelson and Canmore halls, theatres, colleges, personal service establishments, and laun- dromats. Restaurants must desig- nate a smoking area that will not be more than 50 per cent of the floor area of the restaurant's premises. In places of employ- ment, smoking is allowed only in Seslenated es but if it is 5 Not rights of people to enjoy smok- ing, but also thinks there are some . areas where there should’ be no smoking. “In restaurants — and especial- ly small ones — I think it would for guid: in the p stages. The Nelson clean air bylaw prohibits smoking in stairways, elevators, public transportation, retail stores, shopping malls, medical or health units, concert from paella, and the non- People convicted of contraven- ing the Nelson bylaw may be fined not less than $50, not less than $150 for a second and $50 a day for a continuing offence. In’ all cases the maximum fine is $2,000. = Slementing a smoking bylaw As with any, bylaw planning, | the committee will be holding - public meetings to get public, input, Melenka said most reaction | to the Proposed bylaw so far has been positive, negative responses coming mainly from smokers.’ :'"). Rossland News kers object, an employer is in no way obligated to spend any money on structural modifica- pone to accommodate the smok- Committment made to train volunteer firemen Presi of the Fighters Association of B.C. tie Nelson had good news as he retumed from the annual general meeting of his organization Mon- He said that the provincial government has committed itself to the tune of $150,000 to increase the training of volunteer firemen by providing them with text and video materials for five edukits - educational materials used in the program. Nelson said Municipal Affairs Minister Gra- ham Bruce made the announce- ment during the conference in Siemens review The Rossland-Trail Social Credit candidate has called for support from local government and other community leaders for a review of Cominco’s opera- tions by the provincial Job Pro- tection Commission, Walt Siemens said the call for a review came about as a result of the Cominco water licence fee: .. dispute. Cominco operating vice- .. president Roger Watson added that the commission is partially aware of the situation in Trail as it is informed of any job situa- tions in which layoffs have taken place and was duly advised when the recent 266 layoffs at the Trail operations were announced last month. The Job Protection Commis- sion, while set up by the govern- ment for a two year period, acts independently of the govern- ment. The commission has as its objective the minimizing of avoidable plant closures or and can i that through three functions: counselling businesses in trou- ble; mediating or facilitating plans to prevent or reduce the impact of plant closures; and cre- ating economic plans to aid industries. It is in the,third function that Siemens and Cominco are pri- marily interested. “The commissioner will have the power to authorize tempo- rary, extraordinary assistance and by gover (provincial and local) and utili- ties as part of an ‘economic plan’, but only with the agree- ment of all affected parties,” says an explanation of the commis- sion’s functions issued by the commission's office. “There are many factors beyond the control of Cominco officials that are affecting the financial viability of the opera- tions,” Siemens notes. “The water licence fees are only one of these, Cominco pays $12 million per year for the water that flows through its dams to generate electricity, said Cominco’s chief public relations officer Richard Fish. He explained the can recover $3 million of this through the sales of electricity but that: the rest of the cost is tagged onto the prices of metals produced by the plant. "The: fight :to reduce. the costs of the licencing fees has been ongoing for almost .10 years,” - Fish said, noting that the costs of the water. licencing have risen approximately 3,000 per cent:; since 1980.’ Cominco, at one time, paid: $200, 000 for fees,”. said Fish... P which took place over kend.. “The training of which will be used to train. West the as well. volunteer fire fighters is of vital importance to the safety and wel- fare of British Columbians”, Bruce said at the time. Nelson said he was well pleased with the announcement miooe This is the first time a minister has ever attended our confer- ence,” Nelson said, adding he ‘was encouraged by Bruce’s inter- est. Under the program volunteer A Bio, AtEm) Sus alee eer 365-5304 Chicken Time ‘Perfect Picnics Served Here’ Celgar, Westar & Cominco meal tickats accepted fire fighters participate in class- room instruction provided by their local fire departments and are then tested by provincially trained evaluators. Additional educational materials used in the training program will be funded this year, : irs a dog's life! July weather seems to .make everyone lazy, including these two care- ‘less canines, hanging out of windows and sleeping ‘ under trucks. ° d city council is the lat- est municipal government having to weigh a request from skate- boarders looking for a place to pursue their interests. Council received a request for the donation for a piece of land to be used by the Rossland Skate- boarders’ Association. The group wished to use the land to put up ramps and other skateboarding facilities to get t off the Street, but. wondered what the Tegal ramifications for the city would be in the case of accidents | on fhe Jane Lf suc jend. er te, be donated. see. in other business,. council received a letter from Social Credit candidate Walt Siemens - asking for support for a review of. the Cominco operations by the Streets and into a safer area in which to practise their sport. As the association is not a legal - entity, council decided to delay any discussion of the matter until the group was a legal entity. The group is not a regi associa- Pp Job P ‘Com-: missioner. Several members of council questioned the timing of the move on Siemens part, Mayor Bill Profili‘noting there was an iP 8 PI The letter was filed as received * tion, Alderman Vince Profili said the group's goals were commend- able and council agreed that it would be preferable to have skateboarders out of Harry Lefevre Park and off Railway SUN CLASSIFIEDS THE WINNING TEAM C | mame KS: Classif ed Ad Notice Due to our print schedule we would like to notify our readers that our classified ad deadline is - ° the Monday before publication date at 11:30 am. 2816 Columbia Ave. Bananas - .97 kg. THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL Green Cabbage - B.C. grown .33 kg. «..: Ground Beef - regular - 10 Ibs. or more $2.38 kg. .. Maxwell House Instant Coffee - asst., 150-2009. '5.29 ea. 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