CYCLING ENTHUSIASTS prepare for Friday's Fitnes: , June 18, 1980 = ‘€ raring to go as they ‘estival activities. Included among festival cycling events are a 30-kilometre com- petitive event as well as a leisuraly bike outing. / Voice of the People Robson-Raspberry water Editor, Castlegar News: A meager handful (isn’t that always the way!) ‘of Rob- son and Raspberry residents made an appearance at the community hall to make the decision to put to referendum to throw away hundreds of thousands of tax payers dol- lars on the so-called water system — ‘“‘to chlorinate our rapidly disintegrating water system — or not to chlor- inate." Thank goodness ev- eryone agreed we are drink- . ing from a glorified sewage system. The sad part is the local residents will never have the chance to find out costs of alternatives to compare as the motion was completely ig- nored when put on the floor, + even though it was advertised in the June 11th, 1980 issue of the Castlegar News as one of the agenda items. Thank you Mr. Vander- pol. You would rather see the residents of yours and adjoin- ing communities pay higher taxes to add something to a decrepit system that is quick- ly becoming obsolete, pos- sibly before this proposal could be paid for, hence tax- ing us additional millions of dollars on an alternative water supply. It was brought to our attention that the res- ervoir dam would have to be rebuilt within 10 years. It certainly is ‘not im- possible’ to extend larger sized pipe to the present 12 inch line for about three miles west to the dam in order to have adequate water for this side of the valley. Why not put that money now into something that will supply present and future residents of these communities for the next 75 years? It certainly won't get any less expensive to improve on any water system 10 years from now. A prime example to learn from is the residents of Castlegar who chose to put off and dig a few more wells — but finally realized they had to spend the money for a decent and plentiful water supply. The pioneers of these communities will be paying a relative small amount as com- pared to families with school age children living here. You also chose to ignore the fact that this entire valley willbe expanding with the proposed construction of the addition to the pulp mill, Murphy Creek and the small businesses those will bring and heaven Time for a change? Here are some tips ¢ Get a beauty make- over. Your hairstyle may be out of date and your makeup ditto, so now may be your chance to look years younger and feel dif- ferent. © Take a course at your local community college. If you’ve always wanted to study French or are fascin- ated by economics, sign up for a class. There’s no bet- ter way to stay young than associating with students and learning new things. * Develop a green thumb, if you haven't already. You can save on gardener’s fees and get lots of exercise and sun, while enjoying yourself to boot! © Go ona diet and then get yourself a new ward- robe. You'll look—and & Repair Complete Motor Tune-Ups 365-3842 feel—like a new person. © Take a trip. The old saying is true, travel does broaden one’s interest... besides, it makes you appreciate home all the more, only knows what after that! Chances are the outlying areas will be populated heav- ier than Castlegar proper with its limited residential expan- sion space, thus increased encroachment on our water shed and water supply. Rather than depleting the sewage of Pass Creek, these people could be contributing towards a new water supply. One would think you were going to pay the whole shot alone. In passing, one wonders -what prompts you to your ac- tions to the’ domination of an organized meeting and your actions, without invitation, of seating yourself at the head table with the chairman and secretaries. This form of dom- ination is not acceptable in our western society and is most often looked upon as undue pressure being placed on the elected representa- tives. : I do not propose to stab the trustees of the water boards, as evereyone agrees they have done a terrific, and had a thankless job with what they had to work with for their communities. The water sys- tem was a pretty good one in the 1940s, but this is 1980 and tomorrow is the year 2000 plus; — ‘‘quality costs’’ and it is beyond my reasoning why anyone would want to throw away their dollars to continu- ally ‘patch-up’ a system that has had it’s day. Ido hope the screams of - the residents won’t be too deafening when they pull their heads out of the sand and realize they have been paying for a ‘white elephant,’ then asked to dig deeper for a reasonable water system. _ CL, Schuepfer, Robson Not always easy to see motorcycles While mopeds and other motorcycles are small targets, and in that sense a good thing, they are also difficult objects to see from the dri- ver’s seat of many types of vehicles. Many motorists are still not acclimated to the hordes of new, small cycles on the roads today. A moped or other motor- cycle rider must be alert and attentive to survive on our crowded streets and highways and the expert rider anti- cipates in order to take ap- propriate action at all times. If your attitude is mature, res- ponsible and courteous, mo- Community TV CABLE WEST 10 COMMUNITY ACCESS TV Thursday Night Schedule 5:30—Five day weather re- port from the Cas- tlegar weather office 6:40—Castlegar Library storytime special fea- turing a story by Anne Blades; then a look at her life and work as a well-known B.C. illustrator and author of children's €:20—Castlegar Recreation Commission presents a slide—tape show explaining its function and facilities. 7:20—Columbo Lodge of Trail—75th annivers- ary special—includes - parade, queen crown- ing and entertainm- ent, 11:00—Sign—off Z Voice of the People Cutback affects service Editor, Castlegar News: Almost everyone feols the family is in trouble these days and that some children and families need all the help they can get just to survive. Yet, in Castlegar, a pro- gtam to help children and families in trouble is being dropped because of -inade- quate funding from the min- istry of human resources. At its meeting of Jurié 9,° the board of the Kootenay Columbia Child Care Society unanimously voted to end its administration of the Special Services to Chifdren program because the Castlegar Human Resources office will not fund more than 350 hours of work a month. In May, 630 hours were Gives recognition to CWL’s Anniversary celebrations, which extended from mid- April through May recognized 21 years of work of the Catho- lic Women’s League in Cas- tlegar. St. Joseph's Council his- tory is presented to the dio- cesan historian and to the league’s national magazine for publication. A testimonial dinner in conjunction with the celebra- tions announced Mrs. Pat Haley to be the recipient of the long-pending Maple Leaf Service Pin. Other presenta- tions to her included a 25-year Membership Scroli and a Certificate of Merit. Ten other awards have been received, representing citations for various work ac- complished over two decades of St. Joseph's founding. Honored are: Joan Muller, Hannah Briggeman, Bessie Schiavon, Leona Bozek, Mar- garet Kaufman, Rina Grif- fone, Ann Gallo, Kay Mc- Gauley, Vivian Murphy and Hilda Kinicki. Other events within the Nelson Diocesan CWL Coun- cil took place in May when I uh Cc of torisis will ne you to the toad. Safety rules for motor- cycles: Ride near the centre of your lane, never more than two abreast. Pass cars on the left, after making sure the driver ahead sees you coming. Signal all turns and stops well in advance. Maintain adequate stop- ping space between you and the car ahead. Always wear approved helmets and wear goggles or other eye Kelowna marked 50 years asa CWL parish council. Dele- gates to the 44th 21 years Mrs. PAT HALEY rvice pin With special talent, work at home Mothers with special talents might consider working at home for out- side employers. Many artists, typists, resear- chers, teachers, and others have successfully com- bined free-lance assign- ments with at-home child rearing. Many mothers TT Boat . Convention, during the same week in Penticton, attended also the huge anniversary dinner. in Kelowna. Among them were Castlegar mem- bers Mrs. James Pilla and Mrs. Justin Kaufman. their own, where zoning laws permit, enabling them to care for young- sters at home, while still retaining their earning power. Your Carpet Headquarters ... Carpets by Ivan Oglow 365-7771 - spent working with families. In June, the number of hours had been expected to in- crease, Board members felt confining the.program to 350 hours would reduce it to the bandald service it was in the past and which the Child Care Society promised to improve when it took over the ad- ministration. " Child care workers and the families they work with expressed dismay with the Castlegar Human Resources office. Jan Rowed, supervisor of Childcare workers, stated, “For six months the office has been encouraging us to im- prove and expand our pro- gram. We've developed a team approach that has great- ly improved worker morale and the quality of services given to families."” Dick Vission, a childcare worker, said, ‘At our’ meet- ing last week we were re- viewing applications to hire new workers because five people weren’t enough to handle all the cases being referred to us. This week they tell us we have to cut back by half. We can't do that and maintain the group program we've worked so hard to de- velop the last few months.” One recipient of the pro- gram, a mother of three, was disgusted: ‘*As usual it’s poor people who have to suffer. I can’t afford to do many of the things I would like to for my Kids, Before the workers be- gan coming around, everyone was feeling frustrated. Now we're getting it together as a family. The kids are a fot happier than they were and so am I," The Special Services to Children Program is sup- posed to help children and their families in the com- munity, before institutionall- - zing or splitting up the family is necessary. Before the Koot- enay Columbia Child Care Society took over the program in 1978, it dealt almost ex- clusively with emergencies: child running away, kick out of school, arrested, etc. Some of the cases today - are still of that nature; for ex- ample, a widower who has been incapacitated by illness and is unable to care for his children adequately, However, since the hir- ing of Jan Rowed in January, . . 8 cookie, and the kid they bet their hearts on. 1980 the program has also concentrated on preventative work, seeking out and trying to help people on the road to crisls before the family is split or the child is arrested or expelled from school. For example, a single parent who cannot cope with three active kids in a small dwelling feels that if things continue as they have, she may have to give up the chil- dren. another single mo- ther who was beaten by her own parents feels the frus- trations raising her own daughter may lead her to abuse the child. In such cases the workers can often prevent the crisis through family counselling and individual and group programs for both children and adults, The chances of resolving difficulties are obviously greater when the trouble is spotted and worked on early. Yet it is exactly these cases which could not be handled at the level of service human resources wants to fund. Al- so, the sort of teamwork pos- sible with a close but varied team of five or six workers will be impossible with only two or three workers. And, because crisis in- tervention 1s + unpredictable (sometimes there’will be sev- eral crisis in a month, some- times no crisis for several months), a qualified staff is hard to maintain since work is not consistent. So good work- ers take other jobs and in- experienced people wind up being thrown into the middle of an already explosive sit- uation. Neither the. Child Care Society nor the children work- ers are willing to return to that kind of program. . Niki Verzuh Castlegar, B.C. REQUEST FOR _ QUOTATION arry only if your motorcycle is properly equipped. Be conspicuous — wear bright colors, i.e., jackets, helmets. Motorcycle safety rules for motorists: Give motorcyclists their fair share of the highway — don’t crowd them from be- hind or the side. Signal all turns and lane changes well in advance. Be especially careful not to cut off motorcyclists when making turns. Check before opening car doors. Use headlights on low beam. 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Come in& browse cround Gtez RUG 50 Pine St., Costlegar Phone: 365-7813 OPEN SUNDAY Noon to 1 p.m. & 6 ne ‘Unkno “Trait should exploié the potential impacts three: “unkrowns" * will ave on bacterial levels in the Columbia River before con- sidering. it as a new water source, according to a West Kootenay Health Unit official, i Mike Harnadek, chief public health inspector, told the News/Mirror Sunday the planned expansion of the Canadian Cellulose pulp mill in Castlegar and B.C. Hydro’s proposed Murphy reek dam and Kootenay River diversion projects Murphy Creek dam aitiat erect on. water quality in the Columbia, Harnadek was.explaining his warning last week to the West Kootenay Union Board of Health, during discussion of a newly-released health ministry report'on 1977 and 1978 studies of bacterial levels in the Columbia and Kootenay rivers, that the impact of such major construction projects should be considered before the Columbia is chosen as a new supply for Trail, Although they “would have to be addressed by anybody eonsidering installing a major system below Castlegar" the three projects “aren't identified in the report individually,” he said. Harnadek explained he used Trail's consideration of the river as a possible water supply and the Murphy Creek, Kootenay diversion and CanCel growth impacts on the Columbia as examples of the general concerns expressed in the report. “There's a general statement at the front of the report h d the si saying that when the Projects could affect _river_bacterial_levels— Trail's Mayor Chuck Lakes, contacted Monday, said the potential impacts of the Murphy Creek, Kootenay diversion and pulp mill expansion on the river have not yet been examined by the city and such study will not be approved juntil the capacity of a new well to be developed at Waneta Junction is known, u “We haven't proceeded with any detailed studies yet," the mayor said. “The planning committee and the advisory water. committee have had a number of meetings and these have been discussed, but there'll be no in-depth study until we, complete the well at Waneta."" But the city is “aware that is a problem,” Lakes said, and the only options appear to be locating new wells and tying into the Columbia and treating the supply.. Lakes said location of a new alternative source is necessary because the capacity of the two Sunningdale wells B.C. Hydro drilled to Trail for withd: from the Columbia as a supply during the construction of the Hugh Keenleyside Dam in the 1960's has dropped. R “Their production is steadily d "he expl “They have come back with treatment over the years, but they're not recovering to the same degree.” “When we find out what the supply will be (at Waneta) . was then was not as heightened as it is now,” Harnadek said, In the two year period things have moved forward an awful lot faster than anyone anticipated." Although he’ agreed the restricted flow caused by the proposed Murphy Creek dam would affect the river's ability to disperse wastes, the public health inspector said he referred to the three because he was not Prepared to speculate “without Projects as documenting and testing” on the effects they would have on the Columbia, “It's obvious something is going to happen,” the health inspector added. “But to what effect and what the causative effects are theres no way of telling unless you do further testing.” Prepare for strike vote Construction wor kers in the Kootenays and elsewhere in B.C. this week started “the mechanics of conducting a strike vote” during a con- tract negotiations deadlock with the in- dustry, according :to “negotiator Len Em- ree, Embree, negotiator for about 400 members of the United Brotherhood of Car-" penters and Joiners of Amer- ica in the East and West Kootenays said Monday the Construction Labor Relations Association had not yet res- ponded to the ter-prop- alongside non-union workers, the negotiator said. “That's the clause that allows us legally to withhold our labor if there are non-un- ion people working on a project alongside us,” Em, bree explained. “We have the right not to work alongside them. Of course, that’s the Strength of ‘the building trades and.they are trying to get us to. water that down.” - The CLRA is seeking a contract restriction of the practice “in certain circum- stances,” he said. | But he pointed out that after successfully defending the affiliation clause before the B.C. Labor Relations Be dozen osal on wages made by the 17-union B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council be- fore contract talks adjourned last week. Although the counter-proposal has not oa P ly a times this year” the council is “not going to make excep- tions.” Concern that non-union r “right to work” contrac- tors would threaten the we will be ig up with a long-term solution to the Sunningdale wells,”Lakes said. “So certainly the matter of going into the Columbia River and treating the water is one of the top considerations.” c The mayor said the three unknown factors would be considered in any examination by the city of the Columbia River as a potential water source. Don Jensen, Trail’s .technical services supervisor, Monday reported 2,419 million U.S. gallons of water ‘were consumed by city daily during the past weekend. He said the average daily consumption during winter months is 1.8 million gallons, Consumption rose to an alltime high of 8.1 million gallons Aug, 17, 1977 and when consumption reached 7.1 million last yen the city imposed restrictions on domestic water use, he said. : Jensen said the city supply, with a total storage capacity of 3.7 million gallons, can produce with its pumps and gravity system up to seven million gallons, Sources for the system are the two Sunningdale wells and another well in operation in East Trail as well as Violin Lake, which holds 240 million gallons, and the Cambridge dam, which holds 60 million, the technical services supervisor said. Despite Hi dek’s about the impact of the Murphy Creek, Kootenay diversion and pulp mill expansion projects on coliform levels in the river, the newly-released environment ministry Teport says studies conducted since 1967 show bacterial levels in both the: Columbia and Koot rivers have " i di after the imp! ion of sewage facilities.” Sampled at the Brilliant bridge, less than two kilometres upstream from the confluence of the two rivers, the ’s b ial levels Pp closely with those of “background” origin where the main sources of coliform organisms are usually storm water and natural runoff, the report says. ie Ee Similar coliform and fecal coliform levels were present, according to the study, in samples taken from the Columbia at the Kinnaird bridge although there aré “several major sewage discharges” from the CanCel mill to the City of Castlegar. “The major sewage discharges appear to be successfully treated as all primary ling sites show i low bacterial levels upstream from the city of Trail,” it says. Samples taken at the Cominco intake “reflect the bacterial quality of the Columbia River upstream and close to the city of Trail." More on Page B2 addressed a crow her appointment. ’ \_f wn’ impact on potential supply - WAVING..A.GOBLET. she received as.a gift during.har visit to the Kootenays, B.C. Tourism Minister Pat Jordan of about 150 in Nelson Saturday night. it was the minister's first stop in the region since —News/Mirror Foto by Terry Gilbert B.C.’s tourism in- dustry must evolve with changing world patterns, Tourism Minister Pat Jordan ‘told 150 people in Nelson Saturday night. World wide economics, energy, change in travel and increasing competition will force the industry to change if it is to survive, Jordan said. Already changes in travel patterns have appeared, she said. ‘Rubber-tire’’ travel- lers are being replaced by “‘destrination-oriented”’ trav- ellers, she said. Tourism is one of the top industries in B.C., employing five per cent of the labor force, and in the competition for the tourism dollar, B.C. has many things going for it, Jordan said. B.C. has environment, ‘hospitality, landscapes and social and cultural events and “people, most of all people,” which make it a desirable Place to travel, she added. “*B.C. is not only bounti- ful, but beautiful,"” she said. Another problem that the B.C. tourism industry must face is that “competition in our own back yard is be- coming much stiffer,” Jordan said. : She cited the example of the eastern provinces vying more heavily for the Califor- nia market, one that has long been a B.C. target. Creston-Kaslo district pays more per pupil The Nelson I district has the h yet been disclosed, he con- firmed the council originally demanded $3.50 hourly more in wages and benefits in a one-year contract, compared , to the $3 hourly offered 'by the CLRA over two years on an average package rate of $15anhour. But the main disputed issue in the stale- mate, even “more than the money,” is a common affilia- tion clause which has prev- iously allowed the building trades to refuse the work wr GOOD GOD, it works. Or at least ¢ ploy Pp of bui- Iding trades unions’ members is among the council’s rea- sons for seeking inclusion of the affiliation clause in the new contract, he said. “What's the sense of negotiating a $3.50, $4 or even’ $5 an hour raise if you're not going to get the work?” he asked. “They could give us $10 an hour and if we're not going to get the t's ip pushed the lever to open the Seven biggest budget. Trail’s district region. _ According to boasts the greatest total assessed value. But the Creston- Kaslo district pays more per pupil than either. Taken from 1980 B.C.Sc- hool Trustees Association statistics, those are high- lights of budgetary figures for. four districts in the hat's what Premier after he officially Mile Dam on Friday. —News/Mirror Foto by Terry Glibert Although its budget and assessment values are lowest, among those of the Nelson, Trail and Castlegar districts, Creston-Kaslo’s gross opera ting cost per pupil is highest. According to 1980 bud- get figures Nelson takes first place with a $10,399,491 net budget and a $9,497,180 net operating budget followed by . Trail with a $9,946,408 net budget and a. $9,474,578 operating budget. In third place is Castle- gar with a $6,665,577 net budget and $6,093,186 net loperating budget, followed by Creston-Kaslo with a {$6,645,518 net budget and ‘$6,087,252 net operating bud- get. The total assessed value in Trail this year increased by 6.62 per cent over the 1979 total to $168,204,710 while in Nelson the 1980 total increased by 5.37 per cent to $146,016,766. Castlegar'’s total rose 10.60 per cent to $77,854,310 for 1980 and Creston-Kaslo assessed values jumped 6.74 per cent over the 1979 figure to $69,168, 596. Compared to a B.C, average mill rate of 51.890 in 1980, an increase of 4.71 per cent over last year's average, the Nelson district had a 50.354 mill rate, down .18 per cent from 1979. The highest rate of the. four is the 58.791 mills, up 3.17 per cent over the 1979 figure, shown for the Creston Kaslo district. Castlegar's rate jumped 10.17 percent to 46.416 in 1980 while Trail’s rose 8.12 per cent over the 1979 rate to 47.246. Statistics on the gross ing cost per pupil in 1980 indicated the $2,598 figure for Creston-Kaslo, rep- ii 1.07. t atistics fr 17.75, down from 17.81 in 1978, as the 1979 provincial for 1979 show the Trail district last year had the i of 242.8 h instructional units-special class ratio of 9.18, Castlegar last year had 149.4 teachers, 2,719 pupils, 166 instructional units, 17 special classes, a teacher-in- 11.07-pi increase over the 1979 cost, takes top spot. The Nelson district pays $2,865 an increase of 14.8 per cent over last year's figure, per student while Trail faces a cost of $2,313, a 16.28 per cent over the 1979 figure. Compared with a prov- incial average of $2,828, an increase of 13,81 over last year's average, the cost paid by Castlegar is $2,271 com- pared to $1,987 in 1979, BCSTA figures named y oP EOS Bi average pupil-teacher ratio. Shown as having the highest pupil-teacher ratio of the four districts in 1979 was Castle- gar, with 18.2, up from 17.97 in 1978. : Trailing close behind was the Trail: district, with 17,61, down from 18.1 in 1978, and the Nelson district, down from 17.54 in 1978 to 17.18 in 1979. Shown as having the lowest pupil-teac- her ratio was the Creston-Ka- slo district, up from 16.46 in 1978 to 16.62 in 1979. The BCSTA statistics 4,277 total pupils, 238 instuc- tional units - 20-pupil groups ‘upon which the calculation of districts’ basic education pro- gram expenditures is based -- 24 special classes, a teacher- instructional units ratio of 1.02 and an_ instructional units-special class ratio of 9.92. With the equivalent of 233.1 teachers, Nelson had in 1979, 4,006 pupils, 235 instr- uctional units, 21 special classes, a teacher-instruct- ional unit ratio of .89 and an rae I units ratio of .96 and an instructional inits-sp- ecial class ratio of 9.18, In the Creston-Kaslo dis- trict were the equivalent of 140.95 teachers, 2,843 pupils, 136 instructional units, 16 special classes, a teacher-in- structional units ratio of 1.04 and an instructional units-sp- ecial class ratio of 8.6, The BCSTA listed 1.02 as the provincial average teacher-instructional units ratio and 9.62 as the B.C, instructional units-special cl- ass ratio. LEY RN Es PARICIEATING In last week's ceremony honoring Willl Krause as Trail's Citizen of ¥ the Year w ‘@ some of the oung athletes to whom Krause has devoted so much of his time as a coach. Pictured, left to righs In front row, are Krause, Tammy McClung, Shawna McClung, Kista Field, and Ju Janice Pasqualotto, Carla In back row, Lonnie ly Konkin. In second row, ElizaBeth Lenardon, Deblasion Tracy Clark, Terica Hanlon, and Colin Mcintyre. Kevin Fi Korn, Willie MacKenzie, Marie Carlson, Rayner Korn and Leigh-Anne Merio. —News/Mirror Foto by Bill Turne durge