By CasNews Staff FLY in the West K: High runoff expected above normal in Mane leading the B.C. Environment Ministry to forecast higher-than- normal runoffs for the Columbia and Kootenay rivers. As a result, above normal peak flows should be expected where flows are not controlled by reservoir storage, the ministry's water management division says in its April | Snow Survey Bulletin. “*There is a potential for rivers and lakes in these regions to reach flood levels. However, weather patterns during May and June will control the rate of and ceed flood levels."” bulletin says. after the corner, RCMP said. Socreds sign up the party locally. or renewed The bulletin says snow accumulation in the West Kootenay in March was ‘‘quite variable”’ at different locations ‘‘but the resulting regional snowpack is still well above normal.” “*March precipitation at valley bottom weather stations was 143 per cent of normal, continuing the trend from previous months,” the The runoff for the Kootenay River at Fort Steele was 106 per cent of normal for March, down from the last two months. April’s runoff is forecast at 134 per cent of normal this month for Aprif through September assuming normal weather, the bulletin says. “The high snowpack indicates potential for high peak flows, but weather during the critical period is the major determining factor.”’ Accident injures two A single-vehicle accident on Pass Creek Road resulted in two Passengers being taken to Castlegar Hospital, one with a fractured spine and the other with minor neck injuries, Castlegar RCMP said. The 18-year-old male with spine injuries was later transferred to a Vancouver hospital. Police would not release names. The accident happened shortly before 1 a.m. on April 13 on upper Pass Creek Road about three kilometres east of Pass Creek school: The driver and four passengers left an outdoor party in Pass Creek and were attempting to pass an eastbound vehicle at high speed before entering a blind corner, police said. The vehicle left the road The investigation is continuing. Rossland-Trail Social Credit candidate Walter Siemens said today his party's recent change in leadership has spurred renewed interest in Siemens said in a news release 52 people signed up for new if these rivers ex involved.’’ A further 20 committed to renewing this week, he added. “This now puts our membership far above the 1986 level,”” Siemens said. ‘The members know they will have an opportunity to select a new leader and they are hoping the provincial board will find a way to allow one-member, one-vote so they can all be directly in one day last weekend. Parents face board again By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer A group of ‘parents from the Shoreacres area who disagree with the boundary separating the Castlegar and Nelson school districts showed up ‘at its second meeting of the Castlegar school board in as many months Monday armed with four proposals suggesting how the boundary could be changed. The boundary, recently modified by the Castlegar board and agreed to by the Nelson board, forces students living in Shoreacres to bus into Castlegar schools while students living in the Webb and Voykin sub- divisions near Shoreacres simply walk to Mount Sentinel high school and Brent Kennedy elementary school in South Slocan in the Nelson school district. Prior to the agreement, students from all three subdivisions were bused into Castlegar. The committee was invited to present its proposals in a letter from secretary treasurer John Dascher. Prior to last month's meeting, com- mittee members staged a protest out- side the board office on Columbia Avenue. The first proposal asks the board to stike an agreement with the Nelson board to have the boundary officially changed to the Slocan River. “The Slocan River is suggested by virtually everyone with an opinion on where the boundary should be bet- ween the Neléon and Castlegar school districts,"’ boundary commit- tee chairman Joe Moreira said, reading from a letter to the board. The second proposal suggests rei: stating an ‘‘open zone”’ to include all families on the Nelson side of the Slocan River. “This suggestion is the least disruptive,” Moreira said. ‘‘Without a change in busing policies from both districts, few fami would choose to drive their children to school daily.’’ However, the second proposal would work only as a short-term solution, he said, The third proposal suggests the board enforce the official boundary, instead of the modified boundary, “This proposal questions the wisdom of letting some families (like those in the Webb and Voykin sub- divisions) become exceptions to: a regulation. The concept of extending privileges to some families is unac- ceptable,’’ Moreira said. The fourth proposal is blank. Moreira said it was included as a way of leaving other options open. “Our common ground. in this grievance is the welfare’ of the children and the family of the family it. As parents, that is our driving motivation. We understand the political. and hi: reasons for and democratic way,’ Moreira said. Committee member Donna Frimi said she wants the boundary changed so she can have a say in important decisions. Her children have attended Mount Sentinel high school over the last seven years but the family lives within the Castlegar district. “I've yet to have the opportunity to elect a trustee,'’ she id. “Perhaps that doesn’t seem like a very important lege to some people, but I’ve always been very ac- tive in the school districts where. I've lived.’* Castlegar trustees didn’t make any comments to the committee. A separate meeting with the board's management committee will be set up for further discussion, board i Gordon Turner said. such a boundary, but we also know that the needs and dynamics of the area residents have changed dramatically. We appeal to you to solve this boundary issue in a fair “*In order to give you the process I think it’s only fair to do that,”’ he said. Trustee Evelyn Voykin chairs the management committee. Budget continued from front pege The board has put that excess money aside. “We don’t want to get caught like we did last year,”’ he said. Trial continued from front page Mann __ knew she would leave him if she ever found out. “*I guess he wouldn't tell me,”’ she said. She said she knew her husband very well: During the opening instructions to the jury of eight men and four women, Judge Cooper warned them against forming an opinion before all the evidence is heard. Full details of the budget’ will not be available until next week, but the budget summary shows the following expenses: $10,002,648 to salaries, which cludes teaching, non- teaching and administration staff; $1,656,600 to employee benefits and such as workers” pensions and life insurance; $1,127,430 to supplies and materials for both teaching and maintenance; and $497,750 to services purchased and contracted, including legal ser- vices, insurance sosts and telephone expenses. Those operating expenses total $13,284,428. The budget totals $15,046,051 with the addition of ac- creditation costs, shareable capital allowance and debt services. Kinoird synlet one of the Social Studies Fair ny week. — Cosvews photo by John Chorters during the school's Social Studies Fair spans world history By JOHN CHARTERS Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park was a major feature, together with some 220 other entries, at Kinnaird Junior secondary school’s Social Studies Fair held April 11. One Grade 6 and seven Grade 7 social studies classes presented dioramas (miniature scenic represen- tations), models and charts covering the course of human history and ac- tivities from prehistoric times to the present, from the Stone Age to the Gulf War. All of the work had to be done at home by the students (with parental support), using their own ingenuity arid ideas, as well as materials of their own choosing. Entry was voluntary but submission of a project guaranteed the presenter of a pass’ in the course. Grading was made by teacher-judges. Kerri Redekop, a Grade 7 student, chose Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park as her project because, as she said, ‘‘I like the park and wanted to know more about it.’” Therefore, she acquired a con- siderable amount of documentary material from the Castlegar Heritage Society for her research, arranged for a guided tour of the island and then constructed a model of the park, complete with Chapel House, suspension bridge and_ instruction signs. Her effort won her a perfect mark of 100/100 from the judges. Stephanie Heiver chose Egyptian architecture and crafts. Others constructed Assyrian zaggurits (step pyramids) or ancient weapons while Jared Zappargua had a complex model illustrating the possible method of - constructing Stonehenge 5,000 years ago in Britain. A relief map of the historic sidered to be a single-river system. There were eight teams of judges working in pairs. One team consisted of Danielle Labonte, a French im- mersion teacher, and Carolyn Catalano, who were kind enough to Pause to give some more of the details. The students had been working on the projects for two months and had brought them to school that morning and set them up on the trestles in the school gym- nasium — no small job in itself. * The projects were being judged on the amount of background research, imagination, creativity, color, details and input into the work, as well as the amount that the exhibitors were able to tell them, about the project under close questioning. Principal Bruce Gerrand said he and his staff were pleased with the outcome of the fair, the fifth of its kind, and with the enthusiastic response by the students, obvious by the large numbers ‘of interested viewers. He said it was an excellent learning experience for pupils, parents and teachers. Participation is a major con- sideration in these events. Unfor- tunately, the fair could remain open only from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. because the gym was scheduled for evening use, Gerrand said. There will be other fairs in the DIRECT FACTORY PURCHASES if * DISCOUNTS uw HUGE MANUFACTURERS DIS cag NO MEMBERSHIP FEE LARGE SELEC TION OF BRAND NAMES INGS! TREMENDOUS SAVIN stores Prices as low as GG Locate fA Low cost WAREHOUSE OPERATI NO COMMISSION SALES STAFF OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Mon.-Thur. & Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Castlegar 4445 Minto Road Phone: 365-6433 Nile by Amber Kenneway illustrated the complexity of what is often éon- coming years, Gerrand said. No arts centre for SHSS By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer A community performing arts centre will not be built at Stanley Humphries secondary school as planned, but the idea of giving (Castlegar an arts centre has not been abandoned. Lach Farrell, assistant superin- tendent of the Castlegar school district and president of the Castlegar Projects Society, told the school board Monday the society no longer supports the centre being built at SHSS. “The projects society decided in view of costs and also the limitations of the site itself that we would not be willing to pursue a performing arts centre (at the school),”” he said. The projects society initially considered Stanley Humphries an ideal location because the school was undergoing renovations, Plans called for the activities room to be converted into a $1.95 million, 300-seat theatre which would have included a 100 ‘square metre stage, an orchestra pit and lighting. The society consulted two°ar- chitectural firms before deciding against the location. The school board. Monday rescinded its decision last year supporting building the theatre at SHSS. Instead, the activities room will be upgraded to meet fire regulations and will be used as a dramatic arts teaching station, superintendent Terry Wayling said. Meanwhile, the projects society will meet tonight to discuss other possible locations for the theatre. Society secretary Donna Moyer said the society has another location in mind, but declined to name where that is. “I think it’s. premature (to go public),"’ she said. ‘‘We haven't approached the right people yet and, in fact, don’t have any right to consider it right now.”’ Farrell was not available to comment on the society’s plans, but Moyer said it’s all right the SHSS location fell through. **We’re not disappointed. We’re quite relieved,"’ she said. “‘After consulting with the second architect, we would have been making a big mistake:” The activities room is next to the school’s gymnasium and would have had performers com- peting against the noise of athletes next door. As well, the public may have had a hard time identifying the theatre as a community arts cen- tre rather than a high school cen- tre open to the public, Moyer STREET TA IF YOU BUY instant win lottery tickets, maybe you should let Karen Kerkhoff of Robson choose them for you, Kerkhoff recently won $10,000 on a Musical Spin instant ticket purchased at Carl's Drags in Castlegar. The win comes just six months after Kerkhoff, a nurse, won $1,000 on an instant game. She said she'll use the money to further her son David's education and bank the rest. JIM WALDIE, Castlegar's 1990 Good Citizen of the Year, received a certificate of congratulations from the Castlegar school board at its monthly meeting Monday. Board chairman Gordon Turner said he was Proud to be associated with Waldie. “It reflects upon the district and upon us when somebody is noted in this particular way,"’ Turner said. ‘It's a well-deserved honor.”* Turner also thanked Waldie for the contributions he has made to the district. DOOLEE McDONNELL, a long-time West Kootenay resident and artist, is leaving Trail and will have a show of paintings at her house in Trail at 3670 Cottownwood Drive (end of Highway Drive) on April 21 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The show includes work done over the many years she has observed and painted the Kootenay landscape in watercolor, oil and acrylics. ane gem has lived most of her life in gl K came to 1892 and rh hiner, Bilson Merry, had a heniber company in Trail for many years. Painting has been a lifelong commitment for her with continuing experimentation and study. She tas taught painting for many years and has shown her work in many countries. She currently has one piece in a show in Mexico. PETE AND NORA LEGEBOKOFF of Crescent Valley recently celebrated their 50th wedding McDONNELL . leaving Trail anniversary with relatives and friends from Vancouver, Creston and the West Kootenay. The dinner party was held at the Slumber Lodge Peebles Motor Inn in Nelson. BRIAN KIERAN definitely won’t be on the Christmas list of Nelson-Creston MLA Howard Dirks this year — if he ever was. Kieran, whose column Reliable Sources appears in the. Vancouver Province, roasted Premier Rita Johnston's appointment of Dirks as minister of development, trade and tourism in Tuesday’s column. “Howard Dirks, once the deep-fried chicken king of the Kootenays, has been promoted from provincial secretary to a high-profile, newly combined ministry of development, trade and tourism,’’ Kieran wrote. ‘‘In effect, he becomes our international ambassador. That's scary.” Dirks is the former owner of Howard’s Chicken in Nelson, APPLICATIONS for the Paul and Helen Trussell Science and Technology Scholarship are now available. The Trussell Scholarship is valued at $20,000, providing $5,000 annually for four years to a student registering at any B.C. university. To be eligible, a student at any university or college must be entering the second-last year of undergraduate study in natural or applied sciences and must have matriculated from a secondary school in the Kootenay-Boundary area (school districts 1- 13). The scholarship is for the support of students planning a master’s degree or doctorate in natural or applied sciences in pursuit of a career in applied research and development. The criteria for the award are high and the Promise of future outstanding achievement, with particular emphasis on creativity, drive and dedication to objectives. 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