Sunrise: 7:22 a.m.
Sunset: 3:56 p.m.

The forecast for

the West Kootenay region.

An upper level disturbance along the coast will cause a few snow
showers today but these should remain isolated. Another Pacitic system: wilt
spread more steady precipitation across the Interior on Friday.

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Arena parking okay

By Casnews Staff

Castlegar drivers will be able to park
on Columbia Ave. by the Old Arena

A proposal to remove the no parking
signs on Columbia Ave. by the arena
sparked a spirited debate Tuesday at
Castlegar couneil.

In the end, council decided to remove
the no parking restriction — but only
after Mayor Audrey Moore was called
on to break a tie vote.

Aldermen Albert Calderbank and
Marilyn Mathieson opposed the move,
while Aldermen Carl Henne and Bob
MacBain supported the proposal.

“We felt (the no parking restriction)
wasn't necessary,” explained Henne.
He said residents have difficulty find
ing parking near the arena especially in
winter.

However, Calderbank said the rea.
son for the no parking signs in the first
place was because residents parked on
the east side of Columbia Ave. and then
crossed the road.

“It was considered dangerous,” he
said.

He said the arena has “a vast amount
of land” for parking and charged that
no one parks around the back of the
arena.

“There's a heckuva lot of parking
space not used,” Calderbank said.

Mathieson said the city needs the
extra width on Columbia Ave. to plow
snow

“We will get down to a twolane
street” if the snow is plowed against
cars parked there, she said

But MacBain said residents attend

ing the curling rink and Old Argna are
parking in the exit area and fire lanes
because there isn’t sufficient parking in
the arena lot.

He also, said there are w
on Columbia Ave. than outside’
Arena for traffic congestion.’ '’

He called it “virtually a four-lane
piece of highway.”

Finally, Henne sai@ there are few
residents who park ‘their cars on the
east side of Columbia Ave: and éross to
the Eastgate Garden restaurant, be-
cause the restayrant has _ of its
own.

As well, he said the * parking on
Columbia won't be used during the
day or late in:the evening, so there will
be time to clear any snow away.

“I think it's just common sense,” he
said

places
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continued trom front poge
and take a handful home and see
what you've got.”

Kolman said anyone could pre
tend to drop off letters while really
grabbing mail in the containers

“Nobedy would have known it,”
he said.

DROPPED

“I didn’t like it. I
ridiculous.”

But Evans said there is “more
security here right under our nose
than there is on the street where we
can't keep an eye on the box.”

He said it’s not uncommon to have
mailboxes pushed over and letters
stolen.

think that's

But he added that whether or not
mail is stolen from the plastic con-
tainers and whether or not it saves
the post office time, the experiment
wasn't “worth it” if it meant cus.
tomers were unhappy.

They’ ‘re owe shetscnasebece boss

they pay the’ bills,” he said.

HELPING OUT . . . Barb Ross of Castlegar helps
doughters Katherine (left) and Shelagh with their
studies in their home classroom. in B.C. there are

continued trom tront poge
Ross says she's pleased with the materials, which
“are an individualized program for each of your children.”
The textbooks are “non-denominational but Christian
based,” and parents in B.C. report back to a branch of the
foundation in Washington state three times a year.

Marilyn Grant of Castlegar also had her three
children — ages six to 11 — enrolled in the Hewitt Moore
program this September.

Like Ross, she wanted her children to receive an
education from a “Christian perspective,” yet wanted to
avoid public schools and Christian private schools, which
she says encourage competitiveness.

Grant said another reason she chose home-schooling
was to give one of her children the additional attention
provided by a one-to-one teaching situation.

“I did it because she was having problems in the
school system, she was a bit slower .. ..” Grant said.

“She was losing all her self confidence; all her self
esteem.”

$2,000 shed
lost in fire

Police file

A chip truck owned by a

accident, and no charges are

By CasNews Staff

A storage shed valued at
about $2,000 was destroyed
Tuesday morning in a fire at
the Whispering Pines Trailer
Court in Genelle

“It was engulfed (in
flames) when we got there
the roof was all gone and
everything,” said Stan Lan
gille of the Genelle volunteer
fire department, which put
out the blaze in a few min
utes.

The three by-six-metre
shed was owned by Robert
Pozney of Genelle

Langille said the depart
ment received a call on the
fire at 5:25 a.m., and arrived

This represen® 62 per
cent of the goo!

at the scene with a pumper
and a tanker truck seven
minutes later

No one was hurt in the in
cident, Langille said. The
cause of the fire isn't yet
known

A West Kootenay Power
line was damaged from the
heat of the fire, but was later
repaired

Langille said the owner
had a wood stove in the shed
but informed him that the
fire in the stove was out the
night before the shed burnt
down

Thrums lumber company re-
ceived $8,000 damage after
colliding with a train at Wes
tar Timber’s Celgar pulpmill
Tuesday, according to Castle-
gar RCMP

Peter Gregory Kalesnikoff,
24, turned right off Celgar
Road toward the mill when
his truck slid into a CP Rail
train parked across the turn
off

According to police, the
10:30 a.m. accident was
caused by icy road condi
tions.

The truck is owned by
Kalesnikoff Lumber Co. Ltd
No one was injured in the

Man fined for t

VANCOUVER (CP)
Gerald John O'Keefe was so
upset when told a computer
im a Vancouver employment
centre had lost his unem
ployment cheque he swept
three computer terminals off
the counter and smashed a
glass cabinet with a fire ex
tinguisher

Tuesday, four months after
his rampage, the outburst
cost him a $350 fine and
$1,336 in restitution for the

damaged computers and cab-
inet. He was also placed on
5‘ months probation

It’s always a frustrating
experience to deal with a
government because it has so
many people to deal with,”
Judge Pauline Maughan told
O'Keefe, “But somewhere
along the line there has to be
a compromise.”

The judge, sitting in Van
couver provincial court, was
told the 43-year-old pipe

pending, say police.
. 8 6

Five minor motor vehicle
accidents occurred Tuesday
morning in Castlegar due to
icy, snowy roads.

Castlegar RCMP are warn.
ing drivers to exercise cau-
tion.

* 2 6

Eight bottles of liquor and
a case of beer were stolen
from Rose's Restaurant near
the Playmor Junction during
a break-in over the

H ing encourages self confidence and self
motivation because children can work at their own level
and speed, have time to review work and the opportunity
to pursue special interests, Grant says.

“They're just not tired of schooling,” she said
“They're not saying, ‘Oh, Math again.’ They're saying,
‘What are we doing in Math today, Mom? ”

In the Hewitt Moore program, pupils have core
subjects including Grammar, Spelling, Reading, Bible,
Penmanship, Home Economics, Social Studies/History,
French, Math, and Music for about three to 3' hours in
the morning — working about 30 minutes on each subject.
Afternoons are set aside for “extra-curricular” activities
such as field trips, or computer study, Ross said.

lan Cameron, assistant director of curriculum devel
opment for the Ministry of Education, says the Hewitt
Moore home-schooling program is used widely by
Seventh-day Adventists, although “it's not officially
sanctioned by the Seventh-day Adventist school system.”

“It tends to be a very loose curriculum,” he said.
“What they really are doing is supplying materials.”

Cameron cautioned parents interested in home

Crescent Valley RCMP say
entry was gained through a
rear door Friday night or
Saturday morning

Investigation is continuing

filter had returned from On.
tario to plead guilty to mis
chief.

Defence lawyer Terry La.
liberte said O'Keefe had been
unemployed for 18 months
when the incident happened
and had been reduced to
living in Stanley Park for a
month.

Maughan rejected a pros
ecution request for jail, say
ing. “That would only cost
the taxpayers more money.”

Shoreacres woman
passed away Friday

Mary Kalmakoff of Shore
acres passed away suddenly
Friday, Nov. 23 at the age of
72 years

Funeral service was held
Tuesday and today at the
Shoreacres Russian Hall with
burial in the Shoreacres
Cemetery

Mrs. Kalmakoff was born
Sept. 6, 1912 at Pass Creek
and moved to Shoreacres in
1929

She married William Kal.
makoff in 1980 in Shoreacres
and lived there sinee. She
enjoyed gardening.

Mrs. Kalmakoff is survived
by her mother, Polly Holu
boff of Caastlegar; son Jack
and daughter-in-law Ann of
Calgary; two daughters, Mrs.
Pete (Mary) Hadikin of Nel.
son and Mrs. Andrew (Vera)
Evin of Robson; four grand
sons, two great-grandsons,

close personal friend, Fred
Kooznetsoff of Glade; sister,
Vera Kalmakoff and Doris
Skiboff of Shoreacres and
Margaret Zarchukoff of Cres
ton.

She was predeceased by
her father, husband and a
sister

Funeral arrangements
were under the direction of
the Castlegar Funeral Chap-
el

inst Pp any programs “from other
than B.C.” He said if an out-of-province program is chosen
“I'd want to make really really sure it followed the
B.C. curriculum.”

Although Cameron said he wasn't prepared to
comment on whether the Hewitt Moore program is sane.
tioned by the education ministry, he added that “from the
sound of it, this does not follow our curriculum very
carefully.”

In most home-schooling programs from the U.S., a
“big problem” is that children learn American rather than
Canadian history and social studies

Cameron said an existing “Canadian” version of the
Hewitt Moore program “just eliminates most blatantly
American materials, and doesn't replace it with very
much.”

Ross acknowledges that parts of the history content
in the program need to be Canadianized, and said her
younger daughter’ Shelagh is taking an “American
heritage” history series.

But she says “most of the material in the public
school system comes from the States,” and she plans to
look into obtaining Canadian social studies and history
material for next year

Another parent who's chosen home-schooling for her
children is Jodi Parsons of Pass Creek. She's been
schooling her two children, Amy, 4, and Sarah, 6, for two

about 1,000 students being taught at home, accor-
ding to the Ministry of Education. — Conttews Photo

years — on an informal basis, because of their ages.
Like other parents, Parsons says home-schooling
encourages initiative and self-motivation at an early age.

Her children read, learn how to use a computer, help
with household work such as cooking, go swimming and
attend gym classes, do arithmetic, and go on field trips.

Parsons is a former elementary teacher, and his
husband teaches in the Castlegar school district. She says
while neither feels “negative” toward public schools, “I
think that possibly the mystique of school, of education,
doesn't affect us.”

The couple was concerned about possible over-
crowding in publie schools, and worried that the school
day might be too long for their children. Parsons said
home schooling is less stressful, and “they have
one-to-one instruction from someone who really cares.”

Her children use materials similar to those used in at
the Grade 1 and 2 level in public schools, and books from
the public library.

The legality of home-schooling isn't entirely clear.
According to the B.C. School Act, every student must
attend school. If they don't, the Ministry of Education or
the local school board can take the parents to court,
where they must produce evidence that a “satisfactory”
home education program is in place, said Newberry.

But, while “in the most technical sense” home
schooling may not be legal in some cases, Newberry
pointed out that in B.C., school authorities generally
accept the fact that some parents prefer it.

Castlegar school superintendent Terry Wayling said
he's aware that some parents in the district have chosen
home-sehooling.

He said one of the biggest concerns of the school
district is that home-schooled students keep up their
studies if parents intend to return them to the public
school system.

Home-schooled students returning to public school
must take an equivalency test for their grade, said
Wayling. If students fail to show they have attained
“proficiency” at that grade level, it must be repeated.

“Some parents feel that school has not addressed all
the needs of their youngsters, and we understand that,”
Wayling said.

But school authorities “would certainly be concerned
not only about academic achievement that I mentioned
earlier but (students’) social and emotional growth.”

Wayling says public schools provide students with
the opportunity and necessity to come into contact with
peers, both during classes, and at organized social events.

Ross and Grant said their children have friends
despite not going to public school, and have the oppor.
tunity to meet their peers through groups like Girl
Guides.

Grant said while her children may have fewer
acquaintances, they now have more ¢lose friends

“They learn to cope better with children on a
day-to-day basis, because they're not with children unless
they want to be,” Grant explained.

nt, Ross and Parsons all emphasize that their
choice of home-schooling isn't intended to be criticism of
the public sehool system.

“I wouldn't want to say it had anything to do with the
teachers,” Ross said. “It's just they have to deal with 30

I just have a few.”

And Parsons stressed that home-schooling is merely
an educational alternative.

“Tm not trying to tell everybody to do home-school-
ing,” she said. “But on the other hand, if people want to, I
don’t think it is that diffieult.”

DUCK SOUP? .
a successful mornin
He's shown here wit!

. Randy Michiels of Slocan City had
Sunday on the Slocan River
tive Mallard ducks. He plan

Sia TALK

MOVE OVER Time Air and Pacific Western
Airlines. Caledonia Airlines of Vancouver is interested in
starting air service to the Kootenays but not to
Castlegar

The small Vancouver-based airline has approached
Grand Forks and Creston councils to discuss providing air
service to those two communities.

Caledonia currently provides air service only on the
coast, but has expressed a desire to expand to the
Interior.

It has proposed one round trip to Vancouver per day

originating in Creston in the morning and stopping in
Grand Forks. It would return in the late afternoon.

The trip would take about 50 minutes from Grand
Forks to Vancouver. The company proposes to use a
turbine-powered “Metro Commuter” pressurized 18-seat
plane.

Caledonia hopes to have the service in place by
spring

CBC TV camera crews were on the Castlegar campus
of Selkirk College recently to shoot a segment of a
program with instructor Ron Woodward as part of a
feature entitled, “Where have all the Flower Children
gone?”

The story was part of the program, Pacific Report. It
aired on Remembrance Day, showing a clip of Woodward
in his classroom teaching print production to photo
graphy and graphic arts students.

Also featured were other Slocan Valley artists and
two people in Vancouver who are now corporate lawyers.

THERE WAS A Castlegar winner in the Nov. 16
Lucky Leo lottery. Kevin Chaves won $500. Christina
Lakes’ Jessie Barnard also won $500.

Margaret Smith of Nelson was a $1,000 winner while

ned to clean them, have an evening duck feed and
freeze the rest for enjoyment ata later date.
Cottiews Photo by Burt Compbell

Theodore Greyell of Creston was an early bird prize
winner of a trip for two to Reno plus $1,000.

A full list of winners is contained in the Nov. 21
Province and Sun, and Nov. 23 Nelson News and Trail
Times.

GEORAMA GROWERS had a successful wine and
cheese party Sunday to mark the grand opening of their
new greenhouse complex and shipping facilities at
Taghum Hill.

A LARGE NUMBER of organizations and indivi
duals began receiving letters in their mailboxes this week
announcing seme sorry news.

Fred who represented the Canadian
National Institute for the Blind in the West and East
Kootenays for some years, has assumed new respon-
sibilities in the Institute's Vancouver Service Centre.
Fred will leave Kelowna for his new position early in the
new year.

Fred is quite a remarkable individual. An accom.
plished and knowledgeable public speaker, he was so
dedicated to his work that no school class or service club
was too small for him to spend time with.

His most recent visit to Castlegar was to participate
in the successful blindness awareness seminar put on by
the Home Support Association, with assistance from the
Castlegar United Way

Fred's successor will be Charles Bailey, a young man
from Prince George.

A UNIQUE CRUISING class racing boat was put in
the water at Scottie’s Marina on the weekend, and
informed betting is that it will reign supreme in sailboat
racing next season.

Named “Gunpowder” (for its all-gray hull), the
24-foot-long Martin 242 class B.C.-built boat is owned by
Pass Creek residents Gary and Vera Fodor.

The Fodors won the Gray Creek Regatta in 1983 and
placed second this year with the same sailboat. In 1985,
other sailboat enthusiasts will be hard put to prevent the
Fodors from winning the regatta for the second time in
three years

if

MASTER PLAN

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obvious reasons and for some that may
be as obvious te you, we are strongly
opposed to the construction of another
shopping camplex in such close prox
imity to 10th and Columbia Ave. and
we ask that you reconsider your
present stand.”

DeLalla noted that council has
already approved a plan to develop
some 30,000 square feet of retail space
on the Boel site.

As well, council has given third

reading to a proposal by First City
Investments to develop a shopping
complex on Columbia Ave.

“While we can appreciate that the
city with this rezoning application may
be looking for an area in which to
improve its tax base, surely you can
comprehend the impact this rezoning
application \ should it be approved —
will have on merchants in the area who
are presently struggling to survive
during these difficult economic times,”
DeLalla said.

He addéd that Gulf Pacific is not
opposed to competition “per se,” but
“the saturation of a given area with a
glut of commercial retail epace goes
beyond reasonable com;

However, Mayor Audrey "Moore
noted, “It's a bit after the fact.

Ald. Albert Calderbank

“One would have thought anything like
that should have been brought up at «
public hearing.”

Council held s public hearing on the
rezoning application last month

Local
woman

a grad

By CasNews Staff
A Castlegar woman was
among 980 fall graduates
from the Univeristy of B.C.
Irene Julia Battison re
ceived a Bachelor of Educa
tion degree (Elementary),

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