' ome az Castlegar News —_2vne29. 1996 By PAUL LOONG The Canadian Press VICTORIA — The Social Credit leadership race promises to be a tug-of-war between the old guard and the new wave, but if it becomes a stalemate a compromise choice could run up the middle and win. Only half the 12 candidates have a realistic chance of winning at the July 28-30 leadership convention at Whistler, 90 kilometres north of Vancouver. Leading the pack of serious contenders are Provincial Seeretary Grace McCarthy, newcomer Bud Smith and Attorney General Brian’ Smith. McCarthy's long involvement with the party and prominence in the government gives her instant appeal among many Socreds. With her vast network of party connections and high-profile image, she has many of the assets needed to make her the first woman premier in Canada. At 58, though, she is’ older than the retiring 54-year-old Premier Bill Bennett, and thus her many years of faithful service may be seen as a liability. Bud Smith seems tailor-made to give a new direction and younger look to the party. The 40-year-old Kamloops lawyer has never won an election, but is an experienced ANALYSIS campaigner who has worked for prominent federal Tories. For two years until last spring, Smith was Bennett's principal secretary and travelled through the province, cementing connections. His leadership campaign is well-funded and modern, I with poll: image and com- puters. In a stand-off between the old and the new, Brian Smith could be the compromise. Turning 52 on July 7, he is younger than McCarthy but older than Bud Smith. He has held various cabinet portfolios for six years — long enough to demonstrate his abilities yet brief enough to avoid being tagged an old-timer. Like Bud Smith, he is backed by an efficient organization. _ Bob Wenman, the Progressive Conservative MP for Fraser Valley West, could be the dark-horse candidate. If the 1,500 delegates want renewal enough to reject a cabinet member and are uncomfortable with the untried Bud Smith, they could turn to the 46-year-old former teacher, who has the unique combination of being both experienced and an outsider. He was a Socred member of the legislature from 1966 to 1972. Wenman has Ottawa experience but has retained the support of his Fraser Valley constituents, many of them religious, back-to-basies Socreds. Bill Vander Zalm, the ambitious former Socred— minister from Surrey, draws op the same group of supporters. He and Wenman could offset each other's Leadership race to be tug-of-war impact in the race. Stephen Rogers,’ 44, choice as leader. Human Resources Minister Jim Nielsen has an impressive administrative ministries but is struggling with an image problem after being beaten earlier this year by the husband of a woman he was seeing. The only other cabinet minister in the race is Bill Ritchie, minister of municipal affairs. He is philosophical about his chances: “It doesn't matter where you are at the beginning; it's where you are at the end that counts.” Also running are backbenchers John Reynolds and Cliff Michael, Saanich Mayor Mel Couvelier and former Bennett aide Kim Campbell. the affable former health minister who resigned over financial disclosure problems but was given an absolute discharge in court, is popular among party members but not necessarily their first or second in several vital FRIENDLY CHAT . . . Social Credit leadership candidate Bud Smith (left) holds talk with Walt Siemens (centre) president of the Rossland-Trail Social Credi Smith vis By CasNews Staff Bud Smith says he has the credentials required — a wealth of political experience and the understanding of what makes the province tick — to become the next leader of the British Columbia Social Credit party. Smith, who is considered a frontrunner for the Socred leadership, is one of a handful of leadership candidates who have been campaigning in the area tatety. Others are Bob Wenman and Mel Couvelier who were in Trail on Monday, Stephen Rogers’ on Friday and Brian Smith on Saturday. a of 25 delegates will be selected from the Rossland-Trail Social Credit constituency riding to attend the July 28-29 leadership convention at Whistler. Meanwhile, Smith, 40, spoke to about 15 Socred supporters at a 1'/z-hour meeting last Saturday and gave his credentials for the party leadership. Smith has worked as a volunteer for about 20 years and has worked for the past two years as Premier Bill Bennett's principal secretary. “That job as principal secretary has given me probably the best opportunity to understand what is required in the premier’s office that any person could possibly have,” he said. “I have lived literally in and out of the premier’s back pocket, in a figurative sense, for the last two years. “The job requires you to be in Cabinet . . . to sit in all caucus meetings . . . to liase on behalf of the premier with other levels of government. “As well, I was his eyes and ears with the business community, with members of the labor community, with municipal groups, with school districts, and of course in my spare time, I travelled the province on his behalf to meet with members of the Social Credit party.” Smith also cited his knowledge and understanding of other regions of the province. Born in Kamloops, Smith practised law there for nine years. He said he has had the opportunity to work, live, study and travel in every region of the province. “I think in terms of the leadership of our. party it's imperative that the person who takes on that task has the ability to understand what makes this province tick .. . how all of the regions have their unique economic. base, their own aspirations, their value system, their own lifestyle and their own desire to make their area strong and in that way contribute to the province. “I believe that I understand the province in that way and I believe I can represent the areas of this province in Victoria as a result of knowing that.” Smith also contrasted himself to NDP leader Bob Skelly, who he says is planting “seeds of discord” amongst the regions of the province. “He goes into the Elk Valley and says that the coal development in northeastern British Columbia has hurt workers in southeastern British Columbia. He goes into the central Interior of British Columbia and says that all of the money that was spent on the Skytrain in Vancouver somehow was taken away from the people in the central Interior and didn’t allow them to get whatever it was they wanted. “It's the wrong way to build a strong province,” said Smith. . “Each of those regions must be challenged, it must be offered the opportunity to participate in our province in a way that will make them strong. and as they are strong, will make the province strong. “That's what you have to do in this province, not trying to pit one area against the other and sow some sense of envy between people in this province. That won't make anybody strong. It'll make everybody angry.” Association and PI during recent visit to area. its riding Smith also said that new blood must be injected into the Social Credit party if the party is to form another government in British Columbia. “We've got to be able to reach oul and bring them into the fold,” he said. “I think in this area specifically we've got to be able to come in and speak to the people in their own area, their own piace of employment and have them feel comfortable with lot more people “I think that it is very important that as we learn more about high forms of ication, the leaders of government are able to spend more time in a very old method of grassroots democracy called the townhall meeting, and I am determined that as leader of the Social Credit party that I will be able to go into constituencies which we do not now hold, and work beside the candidates, go into the places where people work, to relate to those people, to have them relate to me and to get them to vote for our candidates so that we can get representation from areas such as this in government in Victoria,” he said “We must be able to always say that we represent mainstream, mainstreet British Columbia in Victoria. Nothing more and nothing less will do. We've been able to do it before in this constituency and I see absolutely no reason why we can't do it again.” During a lengthy question period, Smith also touched on Cominco's request to eliminate the provincial water license fee in order to proceed with its lead modernization project But Smith said that the province cannot afford to remove the water license fee, which represents $280 million in revenue province-wide, nor can it afford to piecemeal its taxation into one area or another. . he exp pce that Cominco will sign an agreement before the end of the year “There have been all kinds of proposals made and there have been various methods put forward for reaching an agreement that will allow the smelter upgrading and the preservation and expansion of those jobs to take place (that does not require the removal of the water license fee),” Smith said. He was also asked if getting away from the Bennett mantle and putting a different point of view is part of his campaign strategy. Smith expressed pride in having served with Bennett and said he will not try to distance himself from the premier Smith went on to praise Bennett, saying that he is “a man of great vision, of unlimited courage, of the ability to do the right thing in the right time. He is a person who has always put the province ahead of whatever was expedient at any given moment, in any given community in this province, and I think we owe him a great deal of gratitude “I think that the reason why we can contemplate the future with such confidence is precisely because of the quality of person he was in the office he held for the last 11 years,” Smith added. Smith was also asked about the confrontational attitude in the province brought about by Bennett's restraint program. “There are a whole number of people in B.C. who have said over and over again that Bill Bennett is the primary source of confrontation in B.C. And I say to that today, if that’s what you really believe, then you now have an opportunity to prove yourself correct,” he said. “The fact of the matter is that over the last little while in British Columbia, I believe we have had a government that’s had to lead in advance of public understanding of the problem. And that, I believe, has been part of the reason why there has been that sense of discord and that difficult kind of lack of understanding that we've gone through.” il Brooks, regional Socred director Costtews Photo by Phu Colderbonk No plan to close hospital IC unit By CasNews Staff Castlegar District Hospital does not plan to close its intensive care unit despite a province-wide shortage of registered nurses to staff the units, trospital administrator Ken Talarico said Friday. r “We have no plans to'close our intensive care unit as reported in the Trail (Daily) Times,” Talarico said. “We have no plans at this time of closing any part of our operation.” However, Talarico said the hospital is “experiencing some staff problems for the summer” because of staff vaca- tions. “There may be the possibility of having to curtail admissions if there are any staff shortages,” he said. But Talarico added the hospital has “casual nurses that we can call on” as temporary replacements. He said Castlegar Hospital has 11 nurses available for ICU work, a num- ber, he said, that has “worked out all these years.” the hospital. units. hospital. Last week, Rose Marie Haight, head nurse at Trail Regional Hospital, told the TRH board of trustees the shortage of ICU nurses is a “critical problem” at She said the shortage of nurses is a chronic problem throughout British Columbia and some major hospitals are considering closing down their surgery Haight added that there is some danger of the Castlegar and Nelson hospitals closing their ICUs. But Talarico said Castlegar Hospital is staffed differently than the Trail He said Castlegar concept, after the ICU also look after other acute care patients. Talarico added that the intensive care unit at Castlegar Hospital is “staffed on demand” and the number of nurses assigned to the unit “depends on the number of patients in ICU.” notice. In other hospital news, Talarico said Castlegar Hospital has its own “essen- tial services plan” ready in the event nurses at the hospital serve strike Nurses at the hospital have voted in favor of strike action if an agreement isn't reached between the B.C. Nurses’ Union and the Health Labor Relations Board, which is negotiating with the uses a “team nurse nurses who look union on behalf of more than 100 hospitals in B.C. Talarico said the plan is “confiden- tial” and wouldn't say if it involves a lockout of the nurses if they serve strike notice. “That (a lockout) is a board decision that would be decided at the time.” B.C.’s nurses have been without a contract since March 31, 1985. The HLRA has offered a three-year contract with no wage increase for 1985, one per cent this year and two per cent for 1987. Westar mine talks back on CRANBROOK (CP) — Westar Mining Ltd. and the United Mine Sparwood. Talks broke off June 17. Workers of The company says it stands America will return to bar- gaining next Thursday, a union spokesman said. Westar locked out about 1,000 miners June 10 follow. ing a month-long series of ro- tating strikes at its Balmer coal operation near the East Kootenay community of to lose sales of 625,000 tons of coal worth $41 million through the end of July. Balmer has already lost sales of 200,000 tons worth $12 tittion. Ezner DeAnna, president of the mineworkers’ local 7292, said Friday the union Directors fail to show for By CasNews Staff Central Kootenay Union Board of Health voted Thurs. day to defer its June quar. terly meeting until Septem. ber after only 12 of the board's 25 directors showed up for the meeting at the Central Kootenay Health Unit in Castlegar. The 12 directors was one short of the 13 directors nec. essary for a quorum to con. duct business. Regional District of Cen. tral Kootenay board chair. man George Cady, who at- tended the meeting but is not a health board director, sug gested the board consider a formula to reduce represen. tation. However, Dr. Mopty Ar. nott, Central Kootenay med. meeting ical health officer and the board's secretary, said the board had the same problem with dance when it had agreed to a meeting only af- ter it was decided there would be no conditions at- tached to the resumption of negotiations. The previous contract ex- pired last Dec. 31. Grievance issues include union demands for-back pay _for_union-mem- bers suspended without pay after an illegal walkout in April 1985. ‘The union is also asking Westar, a subsidiary of B.C. Resources, to discontinue at- tempts to recover from the union money lost during the illegal walkout. Westar spokesman Chris topher Humble said Friday the company intends to go fewer directors. “We had exactly the same situation when we had 13 Tourist alert didn't recall such problems. Health board chairman Judith John told Cady the board has “taken its concern” about the size of the board to the Ministry of Health. She said the ministry in- formed her that a reduction in the number of directors would require a change in legislation. Arnott said he had con- tacted the board's directors earlier and 14 indicated they would attend the meeting. SOCREDS continued trom front pege was reluctant to tell a reporter where the meeting was being held. - The high school auditorium that he booked for the meeting seats 550. VANCOUVER (CP) — Tourist Alert issued Sat- urday by the RCMP. The following persons are re- quested to call the contact listed below for an urgent personal message: Willard Carlson, call Larry Carlson. Jenny Leija, Napa, Calif, Rich Hamilton. Edward Salarub, Wester- ose, Alta., Norbert i. ahead with its plans to stop paying benefits as of July 1. He added, however, that union members will be given the option of paying for the benefits through the com- pany and making up the company's contribution themselves- The company has also of- fered the union the option of picking up the monthly $89,000 cost for benefits but DeAnna said the union would not consider this. Police file ere Castlegar RCMP are ask- ing the support of the motor- ing public in a commercial vehicle safety program, Share the Highway Safely, from June 30 to Sept. 1 The aim of the program is to reduce preventable colli- sions and the public can par- ticipate by driving with head- lights on both day and night, an RCMP news release says. Other safety tips suggest- ed in the release include sig- nalling your intentions clear- ly, giving big rigs enough space, not tailgating or fol- lowing too closely and not cutting in front of heavy vehicles. The RCMP is running the m in jon with Loretta Sheldon, Stump Lake, B.C., Victor Didier. ICBC and the Northwest Al- liance of Fleet Supervisors. Court news In Castlegar provincial court this week, Robert Stansbury pleaded guilty to For the Socreds, putting on a is a rare occurrence. It has only happened twice in the party's 34-year history — in 1962 when W.A.C. Bennett was elected and in 1973 when Bill Bennett won on the first ballot with 833 of 1,487 votes. There is no set procedure for delegate boting at the convention and no rules for which candidates will get dropped off each ballot. The concern is that with 12 candidates, if only the bottom one is dropped after each ballot, the voting could take a very long time. Party spokesman Craig Aspinall said a system should be worked out by next week. So far, he said, it is still being discussed at the sub-committee level. in a licensed es tablishment after being ask ed to leave and was fined $100. . Keith Cook was fined $500 after he pleaded guilty to theft under $200. Cook also pleaded guilty to driving while prohibited and was fined $300. 7 28 6 Frank Finney pleaded guilty to theft under $200 and was placed on probation for four months. . 6 8 Arnie Gundersen received a seven-day intermittent jail sentence after he pleaded guilty to driving without in surance. Gundersen also pleaded guilty to failing to stop and state his name and was given an additional seven-day jail term to be served concurrently. . 8 « Glen Watt pleaded guilty to mischief and was placed on probation for five months. BOY TO CONDUCT BAND, PORT ALBERNI (CP) — An Il-year-old Port received asked the RCMP for a band shoulder flash, said his mother, Gail. The boy has been collecting shoulder flashes since his uncle sent him 48 flashes from Ontario police uniforms. He now has about 225 of them, from as far away as Australia and New Zealand. David was born with spinal muscular atrophy, Mrs. Thomas said. HEROIN SEIZED VANCOUVER (CP) — Two men were charged Saturday with possession of heroin for the purpose of trafficking following what police called the city’s ‘The city police drug squad seized 2.35 kilograms of heroin Friday night at a city hotel. Police said the drug has a street value of about $8 million. Charged are Michael Kevin O'Reilly, 34, and Mark Morrison Werner, 27, both of no fixed address. Police said the two are originally from Alberta. TORIES TRAIL GRITS MONTREAL (CP) — The ruling Conservatives have slipped seven percentage point# behind the Liberals in popular support, the latest public opinion poll suggests. The poll, conducted by Angus Reid Associates Inc., indicates 38 per cent of decided respondents would vote Liberal if a federal election was held today. Thirty-one per cent said they would vote Conservative and 27 per cent would back the New Democratic Party. Three per cent expressed other preferences, while 24 per cent were undecided. PRISONER TRANSFERRED LONDON (CP) — Hugh Hambleton, a former Canadian professor convicted four years ago of selling NATO secrets to the Soviet Union, has left Britain to serve the remainder of his 10-year jail term in Canada, a Home Office spokesman said Saturday. Hambleton, 63, boarded a flight to Toronto at Heathrow airport under RCMP escort late Friday, said Home Office spokesman Roy Southerwood. The transfer was permitted under a prisoner exchange agreement which went into effect last August, though Canadians did not become eligible for the program until September. EDWARD GRADUATES CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND (REUTER) — Prince Edward, the Queen's youngest son, graduated from Cambridge University on Saturday with an honors degree in history Edward, who will now train with Britain's Marines, spoke about the problems of being a royal student in a local radio interview Friday. “If I talked to a girl more than three times a week then we're likely to end up in the newspaper gossip columns the following week,” he said. When he first went to the university three years ago, some students signed a petition, arguing that others with better entrance exam results should have been given the chance to study in his place. BUGATTI BOUGHT RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Texas real estate developer outlasted 30 other bidders and paid $6.5 million U.S. for a 1931 Bugatti Royale, the prize of Harrah's automobile collection auction in Nevada. Jerry Moore of Houston said he has 270 classic cars in his private collection, “but I'll be the only kid on the block who has this.” The black and gold vehicle Ettore Bugatti had built for himself is one of six in the world and the only one for sale. HOPES DIMMED DUBLIN (REUTER) — Hopes of unifying the Irish Republic with Northern Ireland are dimmed by overwhelming voter rejection of a proposal to legalize divorce, Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald said Saturday He said the emphatic vote against legalizing divorce in the Irish Republic was a major victory for the Roman Catholic Church but has dented hopes of a solution to the tangled problem of Northern Ireland THOUSANDS MARCH LONDON (REUTER) — Tens of thousands of opponents of apartheid marched through London on Saturday, demanding Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher impose full economic sanctions on South Africa. The British Anti-Apartheid Movement, organi zers of the march, delivered a letter to Thatcher's Downing Street office accusing her of appeasing the Pretoria government by resisting pressure for sanctions. POLICE KILL MAN AMRITSAR (AP) — Paramilitary police in India killed a man suspected of being a Sikh terrorist and seriously wounded another in a shootout early Saturday outside the holy Sikh city of Amritsar, Punjab state police said. The gunbattle followed the launcliing of a major anti-terrorist operation by paramilitary troops and police in strategic Punjab state, where more than 400 people have been slain this year in attacks by Sikh extremists. Striking U.S. unions to vote on offer SEATTLE (AP) — Nego- tiaters for Weyerhaeuser Co. and two striking unions have worked out a “revised final offer” from the company that will be voted on next week by 7,500 loggers and millwork- ers in Washington and Ore- gon. Details of the offer would not be made available until after ratification votes were held at union locals next sides. Oliver McMillan, Interna tional Woodworkers of America spokesman in Port- land, Ore., said the offer being made to workers “is not a negotiated settlement, it isa final offer. “It is going out without (union leadership) recom. both sidestsaid the proposal “accommodates certain con cerns raised by the unions while at the same time pre serving the key elements of the company’s June 10 final offer.” The June 10 final offer never went to a vote of the full-membership of the two unions involved, the wood workers and the Lumber, Production and Industrial Workers. However, one [WA official said some locals had unofficially voted on it and rejected it “by about 98 per cel WARY “We'll take/a look at it (the offer) and if it doesn’t show that any agreement include workers rights, including rec- ognition of seniority and right to strike. Announcement of the re- vised offer came on the 12th day of the strike, which has trains tried to enter and leave. Gunshots were fired in one altercation at Aberdeen, Wash., on Monday, but there were no injuri ; The two unions. struck June 16. Their contract ex- nouncement came about 12 hours after the end of a 48 hour Weyerhaeuser truce, in which the company had halt- ed shipping operations. Scientists find ozone hole SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ozone, which forms a layer to protect the Earth from the sun's ultraviolet rays, is thinning out at an alarming rate above Antarctica and creating an ozone hole at the bottom of the planet, scien tists meeting in California say “58 farLicS jest over Ab-” taretica, which has no popu. lation, so there's no cause for alarm,” said Dick Laws, dir ector of the British Antarctic Survey, which is credited with discovering the ozone hole. Laws is chairman of the upper atmosphere group of the ’ ifie Ce i on Fearing increasing incidence of skin cancer and serious harm to plant life, legislators in the U.S. banned aerosol products containing chloroflu orearbons in 1977. The ozone issue was quiet until the past year when re- ports from w-teanrofBritish scientists who measured the atmospheric ozone at Halley Bay, Antaretica, showed a decline in ozone beginning in 1966. The decline was drastic in the late 1970s and early this decade, the scientists found Information initially dis missed as unrealistic by Na Antaretic Research, ani ternational group of 18 coun. tries that has been meeting in San Diego during the last two weeks. Ozone is a chemical existing in small amounts throughout the atmosphere but concen tional A ies and Space Administration scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md. was then reviewed and found to support the British find. ings. The National Science Foundation in the U.S. has said that four teams of U.S. scientists will make a flight trated principally about 24 kilometres above the Earth. In the mid-1970s, there was an ourery that chloro fluorearbons, commonly to Antarctica in August to determine the cause of the ozone depletion Dissident workers will heed order VANCOUVER (CP) — Leaders of three dissident construction unions say their members will abide by a Labor Relations Board order to stop picketing job sites in British Columbia. However, they said they will appeal the board order Boilermakers, elevator constructors and plumbers — all members of the 16-union B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council — had continued to picket despite a memorandum of agreement signed last week between the council and the Construction Labor Relations Association Union leaders claimed the agreement violated the council's constitution and they objected to contract terms involving flexibility of work hours and the temporary suspension of travel provisions. However, a three-member labor board panel headed by board chairman John Kinzie ruled the tentative agreement was valid under the council's constitution. “The decision was made by the board and we'll abide by it,” said Norm Farley of the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters. He said the tentative contract would be put before his members and those of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and the International Union of Elevator Constructors. “But I'm quite confident that those members who are back on the job, and our unemployed members, will be voting no,” he said. The building trades council went on strike May 12 after the failure of initial contract negotiations and contractors followed with a lockout May 22. The contractors’ association later lifted the lockout and negotiations resumed At issue was the contractors’ demand that workers take a $4-an-hour rollback on an average hourly wage of about $19. The tentative contract reached June 20 covers two years and provides no wage increases. It includes a separate agreement covering residential construction on which there are lower rates of pay and other terms and conditions. HAPPY RECIPIENTS . . . some of the many Stanley Humphries dary school d who received recognition on awards day are all smiles (above) after the ceremonies marking the last day SHSS GIVES YEAR-END AWARDS Stanley Humphries secondary school closed out the 1985-86 school year Friday with its annual awards ceremony. g students r d for their work during the year: ROTARY INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION AWARDS Seniors: metal work — Matt Plotnikoff, drafting — Marnie McTaggart, automotive — Richard Bullanoff, woodwork 11 — Michael Cheveldave. Juniors: woodwork — Jeremy Yaseniuk, drafting — Darey Huscroft, power mechanics — Darcy Hart. DRAMA AWARDS SHSS Theatre Award — Dorothy Silva, best actor — Brian Voykin, best actress — Karla Coleman, best supporting actor — Curtis Ready, best supporting actress — Seanagh Sloan. T.B. COUCH MEMORIAL ART AWARDS Junior award — Ben Dillen and James Skwarok Senior award — Dena Strelaeff and Bill Gordon Arts Council Award: Donalie Soobotin and Glenda Sisters: of Pythias/Phythian Brenda Amnesty International: Hedda Breckenridge and Wendy Guymer Association of Professional Engineers: Gary Kooz. netsoff and Lori Ann Dawson. BAND AWARDS Irene Gallo Award to the Outstanding Junior Band Student: Dave Popoff. Band 9 — Darryl Furey. Dave Kravski and Allan Phipps. Band 10 Shelly Pakula, Cindy Read and Julie Leitner. Senior Concert and Jazz MMMM — of the 1985-86 school year while (below) Dorothy Silva accepts the SHSS Theatre Award from drama teacher Joe Beales. Coston srnotos by memon Bech — Jane Fleet, Leslie Price. Glenda Dooley and Derric Fostey. COMPUTER CLUB AWARDS For Service: Warren Schatz, Peter Gourlay, David Wilson, Chris Susut and Gordon Babaeff. Top Computer Science 11 Student: Chris Susut. Top Computer Science 12 Student: Shane Poznikoff. Science Council of B.C. Award: David Wilson. BUSINESS EDUCATION AWARDS Word Processing 11: Mary Joy Bowman, Pauline Orr, Kelly Southwell, Jane Fleet and Shane Poznikoff. Office Practice 12: Deb Cheveldave, Angie Podmo- row, Sheryl Poznekoff and Phyllis Soukeroff. Typing Speed Awards: Marnie Mitchell and Phyllis Soukeroff. Reader's digest Award to the Grad Valedictorian: Brian Voykin. Intramural Award: Brian Voykin. SHSS SPECIAL AWARDS General: Cathy Paszty, lan Mason, Wendy Guymer, Tammy Strelieff, Brian Voykin and Steve Picton. Rocky's Den: James Rowsell, John Bird, Linfa\: McGivern, Chris Susut, Doug Gorcak, Athena Chan, Lorretta McKenney, Herbie Amaral and Fernando Amaral. YEAR BOOK Gift certificates: Kanny Chow, Warren Postnikoff. Natalie Koorbatoff, Shelley Soukeroff and Angie Podmorow Special certificate: Lube Ozeroff. Grad Couneil certificates: Steve Picton, Marnie Llewellyn-Thomas, Wendy Guymer and Bill Gordon. Debating Club: Deanna Neumann, Wendy Basson, Dan O'Connell and Kevin Klein. Citizenship Awards: Junior — Jaret Clay, Fernando Amaral and Jane Fleet. Senior — Mac Lamb, Wendy Guymer and David Wilson. Leadership Awards: Junior — Julie Leitner, Pam Braun, Lori Kinakin and Christine Peterson. Senior Kerry Uchida, Steve Picton and Brian Voykin. \ PPWC local wants own pact By The Canadian Press NANAIMO — The Nanaimo local of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada — the union's largest and most militant — will try to negotiate its own agreement with employer MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. The 1,200-member Local 8 at the Harmac mill voted 91 per cent in favor of reopening the contract talks. The workers are upset with new work schedules now in place at the mill. The 5,500-member pulp union had voted by a slim 50.6-per-cent margin in April to accept a two-year contract with the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations Bureau, the bargaining agent for B.C.’s pulp mills. The Harmac local had voted 66 per cent to reject the pact that calls for a pay freeze in the first year and a 40-cent-an-hour increase—about three per cent — in the second year on a base rate of about $18 an hour. Concerns were raised-then about changes in job jurisdiction for tradesmen. Local 8 president Jim White said the local now will apply to the Labor Ke lations Board for the right to negotiate its own contract with MacMillan Bloe del He said dissatisfaction with the new contract had been building for some time, but he noted that his members “feel they want to express caution and do this in a legal and forthright manner.” White said his local has the backing of union president Stan Shewaga, the former local president at Harmac.