Legislative uibrary,. Parliaszent Victoria, VSv Dx Salmo gets reprieve By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer Selkirk College board decided Tues day to hold off on a decision to close its Salmo extension centre until after the college receives its budget from the provincial government. The budget is due April 11 College centres were inadequate to justify continued funding for facilities and staff. A delegation from Salmo appealed to the board at that time to keep the centre open and a subsequent meeting between the administration and Salmo community groups convinced the col ed closing the Salmo centre because of declining enrolment and limited fund ing. Selkirk College came close to closing the Salmo centre last year when it also closed the New Denver centre. . The college said activities in those lege to the centre for another year to see if enrolment picked up. “The year is up, the situation has not improved,” according to Richard Hal lett, dean of program services. In fact, enrolment in the Adult Basic Education program is down again. “While recognizing that the Salmo Vol. 39, No. 23 extension centre has been an asset to the Salmo community, little of its ac- tivity relates to the college's mandate of peering oe Ee leads to ” said Hallett. “Therefore, in light of low the college administration has decided it can no longer continue its operations in Salmo.” The main activity in the Salmo centre has been the Adult Basic Edueation program. Student demand has been falling over the past several years and the college has been forced RS Dy YN Castlegar to cut the pumber of hours it Hallett said. oa “Salmo has reached the critical mass, said Hallett. “A further cut of hours would result in a program which would not be educationally viable. The stu- dents would not be adequately served.” In 1982/83, there were 31 students and 40 hours of instruction per week. This year there are 10 students, but at most six at any time and only seven creased number of hours, the average number of registrants in the past three continued on page A2 Crowe in the final . WATERSLIDE PARK: Castlegor council has given conditional support to a $2 million recreation/commercial project will include a waterslide park . in Ootischenia that -A2 PAY HIKE: Queen Elizabeth has been given o four-per-cent pay raise, bringing million Canadian), the British g her annual salary to 4.13 million pounds ($8.26 pounds ($10.8 million). News CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1986 (that's warm!) WA strike VANCOUVER (CP) — Flight atten dants and machinists employed by Pacifie Western Airlines have voted to accept new contracts but both unions will be scarred by a four-month strike. While the flight attendants will have to work longer to maintain pre-strike els the machinists will get a but will also face heavy layoffs. 1 think it (the contract) was accept members felt pro longing the strike was not going to doa great deal for them,” Faye Douglas, head of the Canadian Air Line Flight Attendants Association bargaining committec Tuesday night It's not a fair agreement but after pay le raise ed because most Winlaw man dies in crash By CasNews Staff A motoreyele accident Saturday night has claimed the life of a 22-year-old Winlaw man Crescent Valley RCMP say Gregory Shannon Griffiths was driving a 1981 Yamaha 250 when he rounded a corner on Highway 6 near Vallican. The motoreyele left the road and ended up in a shallow ditch The police repor thrown from the He was transported to Kootenay Lake District Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival The cause of the accident, which occurred at about 7:50 p.m. is unknown and is still under* investiga tion, RCMP say says Griffiths was motorcycle. lly over four months on strike, I think best we can get.” 's the The 500 flight attendants voted 62 per cent to accept their agreement with Canada’s third-largest airline while the 600 machinists voted 69 per cent in favor of their contract. Both agreements won't expire for three years and nine months. The first of the 1,800 PWA workers to agree toa settlement were the ticket agents and baggage handlers repre sented by the United Auto Workers. They remained on picket lines in an expression of solidarity until March 3 when they were ordered to return to work by the Canada Labor Relations Board. “We'll be working more days for the same amount of money,” Douglas said of the flight attendants’ contract which also provides for a $750 signing bonus. WORK LONGER The flight attendants, whose pay is based primarily on their hours in the air, will have to work five per cent longer to earn the same money they did before the strike began Nov. 20. Douglas said there will be « two-per. cent increase in February 1988 and an additional three per cent in November 1988. She said flight attendants cur rently make between $25,000 and $35,000 a year. Another concession was the intro duction of a twotier wage system which will see newly-hired flight at tendants get first-year salaries of about $11,000 or about half the pre-strike rate, Douglas said Bob Biggar, the Winnipeg-based international representative for the machinists’ union, said their contract, which provides for wage increases totalling 12 per cent on the base rate of continued on page A2 DAMAGE DONE . . . Gordie Hill surveys damage to porch fretwork of chapel house at Zuckerberg Island Herita vandals kick Costewshh e Park. Sometime Tuesday night out fretwork which Hill cut dad hand STATE OF THE ART... . Grade 10 student Kanny Chow demonstrates some computer drawing eS: me