Beatrice Richards In front of the main library at UBC

Castlegar woman awarded |

an alumni scholarship

Beatrice Richards of
Castlegar is one of the 35
students awarded a Norman
MacKenzie Alumni Scholar-
ship at the University of
British Columbia this year.

The awards, worth
$1,000, are given annually on
a regional basis to first-year
students who excelled in high
school in academic studies

and community services.
Ms. Richards, 19, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.
Richards of 1000 7th Ave.,
South Castlegar. Before en-

. tering UBC this year, she at-

tended Stanley Humphries
Secondary School where she
was involved in a math
tutoring program. She parti-
cipated in the school's cut-

doors club in her spare time.

Ms. Richards is in first-
year nursing at UBC, study-
ing zoology, microbiology,
nutrition, psychology ‘and
practical nursing, She is in-
volved in social activities
within the department of
nursing and serves as first-
year representative on the
nursing council.

SWAP program

Student opportunity

‘, You're a university stu-
dent. You've always dreamed
of seeing the world, but can't
quite afford the experience.
Is there a solution? Well, the
SWAP program may be the
answer.

What is SWAP? The
Student Work Abroad Pro-
gram or SWAP is a practical
idea enabling students to
temporarily work and reside
in the country of their choice.
At present, SWAP is being
offered in five countries:
Great Britain, Ireland, New
Zealand, Belgium and the
Netherlands, °

“The purpose of SWAP
is to offset the rising cost of
travel," explains
Homer, Marketing Director
of the Association of Student
Councils which administers
and coordinates the program.

““It’s getting more and more

difficult for students to bud-
get an extended trip to
Europe. This is where SWAP
helps.” oF i
Most of the work offered

‘is related to the service

industry. Jobs in hotels, res-
taurants, banks, offices, fac-
tories and farms are the most
common.

The salaries aren't bad
either; In Great Britain,
starting wages range from
$120-$140 a week and meals
are often included.

Belgium, which offers
employment varying from
auto mechanics to railway
work, has staring salaries up
to $320 a week. A student
working on a farm in the
Netherlands has his or her
income supplemented by free
food and lodging.

Jobs in the SWAP pro- |

gram are usually of short
duration. In most cases, they
last just a few months. This is
considered sufficient time for

Bruce '

the student-worker to absorb
much of the host country’s
language, culture and life-
atylo,

How does one get in-
volved in the SWAP ‘pro-
gram? Its simple, but there
are a few eligibility re-
quirements, First, partici-
pants must possess a Can-
adian passport and a valid
1980 International Student
Identity Card. The latter is
available through your near-
est Association of Student
Council office.

Community. T

CABLE WEST 10.
ACCESS TELEVISION
Thursday Night Schedule
5:27:Sign-on and program
ti

information.
5:30—Five-day weather re-

port. ‘
5:40—Castlegar Library |
tory time ‘

story time.
6:00—Poets of the Koot-
* enays: Verna Pellant
and Julian Ross, vid-
eo-taped March 6 at

DTuC.

7:00—More of The Battle of
the Bands, video-
taped March 28 at Sel-
kird College. This
week features River-
wheel, Rock Plant
(the winners), Slayer,
Warrior, and Melvin
and The Pyramids,

9:00—A look at the up-
coming Theatre .En-
ergy production —
“The Girls Will Be
Out Ih A Minute” —
to be performed in
Castlegar, April 18
and 19,

9:30—Castlegar City coun-

In addition, applicants
must register at least 85 days
in advance of departure and
have $600 with which to
support themselves until
their first paycheck. The stu-
dent must also pay his or her
own travel expenses,

For students considering
a working holiday in Great
Britain, the Association .of
Student Councils has opened
its own London office geared
specifically to the require-
ments of the. SWAP pro-
gram, After the payment of
an $80 registration fee, the

: student receives two nights

“orientation” accommodation
in London and a job in-
terview.

If, for any reason, the

, London SWAP centre fails to

provide this service, it will
refund ‘the registration fee
and not charge for the ac-
commodation.

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- AND OPERATED

In Kaslo or Nakusp, the monthly costofa
single household telephone line would rise by

65 cents.

CUPE eyes pri

/.

ms
CASTLE

THE REGIO

B.C. Tel planstwo-phaserates increase

~-CRTC asked to OK
June 1, Dec. 17 hikes

In Grand Forks or South Slocan, it would

increase By 70 cents.
In Nels

Those: highlight the ef-
fects the B.C.\ Telephone
Company's application to the

on or Castlegar, it would cost 75
cents more and in Trail,

an extra 80 cents.

eA one-minute mini-
mum basis for most types of
calls, including direct-dialed
sp handled;

Canadian Rad
and Tel

Commission for a two-stage
rate schedule to be completed
late this year would have on
West Kootenay subscribers if
approved.

Citing high
rates, continuing
and the need for new con-
struction programs to meet
customer service demands,
B.C. Tel has proposed an
interim increase June 1 and
full increases Dec. 17.

12.5 per cent

Individual residential
service rates would rise by

interest

7.8 per cent in the first
“proposed ‘step‘and ‘again: to ~

12.5 per cent in the second

inflation”

eP inute charges
based on 12 mileage bands
instead of the existing 24;

eA 10-cent message
charge for each call;

© Operator service char-
ges to be applied to operator-
handled calls.

*
Business rates

No increase is proposed
for business extension tele-
phone’ rates, although indi-
vidual, measured and multi-
party calls would rise 7.3 per
cent June 1 and about 15 per
cent Dec. 17.

Multiline services would
cost 7.3 per cent. more by

-June.1, rising.to. 25 per. cent...

on business lines and 16 per
cent on il: ij

step, no
would apply to rates for
residential touch calling, ex-
tension telephones or multi-
party service.

Under B.C. Tel’s pro-
posed rate increases indi-

Dee. 17.

Contacted in Vancouver
last week Elaine Rivers,
associate director of tele-
communications at the
CRTC's western regional of-

fice, said will

vidual
in Balfour, Beaverdell, Beav-
er Valley, Canal Flats, Chris-
tina Lake, Fauquier, Kaslo,
Nakusp, New Denver, Rion-
del, Rock Creek, Salmo and
now paying $5.25

would pay $5.55

“June 1 and $5.90 Dec. 17.

Grand Forks, Midway,
South Slocan and Winfield
customers, now paying $5.65,
would pay $5.95 June 1 and
$6.35 Dec. 17.

Now paying $6.05 month-

patel idential sub-

have opportunities to offer
comments and criticism on
both of the increase stages
proposed by B.C. Tel.

Comments

“People can write in
with comments or interven-
tions on the interim appli-
cations before April 21,”
Rivers said.

“The commission will
issue a decision based on the
comments it gets and on the

ys

scribers in Castlegar, Cres-

ton, Nelson, Vallican, and

Wynndel would pay $6.35

June 1 and $6.80 Dec. 17.
In Fairmont, Fruitvale,

North Nelson, Thrums and’

Trail subscribers now paying
$6.45 would pay $6.80 June 1
and $7.25 Dee. 17. In Genelle,
where subscribers pay $6.85
monthly, rates would rise to
$7.20 June 1 and $7.70 Dec.
17.

Long distance

Under proposed re-
structuring of rates for long
distance calls within B.C. and
between B.C. and Alberta,
the company by Dec. 17
would establish:

pany's and
will issue a decision on the
interim application about
May 23.”

Before proceedings over
the full increase ‘begin, she
said, another notice will in-
form customers they have
until Aug. 6 “to write in and
comment or indicate they
want to appear.”

In addition to a hearing
scheduled for Sept. 30 in
Vancouver, regional hearings
will be cond: in di

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CARY
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By RYON GUEDES
NEWS /MIRROR EDITOR

Tying wage increases to rates in local in-
dustry is a likely basis for the West Kootenay's
unionized civic workers’ demands in future
contract talks, according to their negotiator.

Ed Haggen, Canadian Union of Public Em-
ployees national representative for the West
Kootenay, ‘told the News/Mirror there are
already signs'of a trend toward using wages
paid for comparable work in the private sector
as a “yardstick” for rates paid employees of
the municipalities in which the industries are
located.

“I think at the moment there's a tendency right across’

the Kootenays and anywhere in B.C. to tie the increases into
the main producer in the area, whether it's steel or Cominco
or lumber,” Haggen said.

“You've got a prime example in places in the Bast

vate industry as’

ee oF

ost

Slocan Lake from a viewpoint near New Den-

: Paes
FRAMED BY FIRS, tranquil scene depicts ver.

—News/Mirror Foto by Bill Turner

yardstick’

Man ‘ i

Needed ‘to keep pace’

- with rising inflation”

Kootenays like Sparwood, Creston and Kimberley. They're

saying the large industry they have there is what sets pace
and everything else should follow."

“'T'm looking at this and saying maybe this is the way it
should be," he explained. “Maybe this is what should be the
yardstick.”

“Whether people work at Cominco or for the City of Trail
or Rossland or Warfield, when they go to the store to buy a
loaf of bread or a pound of butter it costs them all the same
money,” he said.

“The person who serves you doesn’t make any
distinctions as long as you have the money. So why should we
make a distinction between one industry and the other?

“Somewhere along the line we have to be able to look at
this and say these people have to live whether they're nurses
or garbage men or whatever they are. They all have to buy
food and put shelter over their heads.”

Outlining prog in ions with West Kootenay

the CUPE fi Grand Forks
workers’ initial proposal when they started negotiations with
the Kootenay Boundary Labor Relations Association last
month called for $2.60 more hourly over one year.

He disagreed with claims by the KBLRA, representing
the city, that the raise sought would amount to a 39,5-per-cent
wage increase for all members of the local, but he pointed out
the proposal represented oniy the first stage of the

inti which are scheduled to resume early next week,

Inp the locals for Rossland and
did not accept their employers’ offer of the same nine-per-cent
increase given Trail municipal workers for 1980 “because they
would have been going into the hole by doing it.”

The CUPE proposals for Rossland and Warfield do not
call for increases as high as those sought by the Grand Forks
local but involve wage parity for comparable work for
Cominco employees representing gains of up to $2 hourly, he

“Nine per cent by today’s standards is not enough, and
these people are looking at something to try-to catch up,” the
CUPE national representative said.

“Look at the bank rate at what it is today, No-one would
have known two years ago that bank rate was going to be
sitting where it is now. That's really the problem the union
has at the moment. They are behind and they don’t want to go
into bargaining behind, so they want something that’s going
to at least keep pace.”

Other CUPE locals’ are inadequate yardsticks because
they represent low points on the salary scale in the
communities in which they work, he said.

“If there is a CUPE local that’s ahead of private industry
then I would say the other CUPE people will be looking
toward that," Haggen said.

“But I don't think you're: going to find too many locals
that are ahead of private industry. All they have to look at is
private industry in their area, because if they look at
themselves as CUPE people then they're all in the same
boat.”

But according to Darwin Benson, the KBLRA's labor
lati di t the inti s b din

the negotiations do not agree current inflation trends are
flected by the d ds of the CUPE local in
“Grand Forks:~"*~-"""——-- See nen aee ae

The KBLRA plans to “unify” the nine-per-cent increase
given to workers at three major Kootenay municipalities,
Trail, Nelson and Cranbrook, and offer it to the Warfield xnd

land locals — scheduled to resume iations April 28
to 30 — as well as to workers in Grand Forks and Creston.

“The fact is that Warfield and Rossland and Creston and
Grand Forks don’t own and operate a smelter," Benson said.
“We collect our money from the taxpayers.”

“I know the aspirations of the workers are that they get
parity,” he continued. “But we are net gcing tc exceed the
wages now enjoyed by the three major municipalities.”

“Asked about the progress of negotiations which started
between CUPE and the Town of Creston March 28, he said the
KBLRA has made a proposal to which the local has not yet
responded. He declined to comment on details of the offer.
+ The present rate for Grand Forks workers classified as
laborers is $7.43 hourly, compared to a rate of $8.08 in Trail
and $7.83 in Nelson. The rate for tradesmen in Grand Forks, is
presently $9.42, $10.21 in Trail and $10.16 in Nelson. CUPE
members working for the cities of Trail and Nelson are in the
last year of their agreement. . :

Proceedings on WKPL to be resumed April 22

Forest products firms, municipalities and
utility companies are among intervenors
scheduled to be tepresenied April 22 when

the B.C. Energy

ommission resumes its

public hearing on the West Kootenay Power
and Light Company bid for long-term control
of Cominco Ltd. generating facilities.

B.C. locations from Oct. 1 to
8, Rivers said. The selection
of locations for the regional
hearings, she said, will be
based on which areas have
the highest concentration of
comments,

Cc ission secretary
Derek Leach last Thursday
named companies and com-

2 to lease, with
option to purchase, three
power plants — among par-

4
from West Kootenay Power
as well as Cominco — the
parent company from which
the utility firm has Sought an

ties pl: to participate in
the hearing, slated to open
April 22 in Vancouver.

Also listed are Canadian
Cellulose Ltd. and legal coun-

Joint city-trustees discussion:

New ‘soft sell’’ on proposed complex

School District No. 9 trustees may ask the
4

Ce 1 ministry
_accept the city's offer of space

hether they should
for rent in

Castlegar’s proposed $2° million municipal
complex, according to Mayor Audrey Moore.

Reporting last week on
the city's March 31 discussion
with school board represen-
tatives over the proposed
construction of the munici-
pal-library-courts on forests
ministry land on the Colum-
bia Avenue 800 block, Moore
said it was suggested trus-

* tees send the ministry a let-

ter asking whether it would
support the project.

She termed the discus-
sion, following up a mid-
March meeting in which the

city’s offer of rental space
reportedly won no support
from the board, “a very
constructive meeting.”

“It was an exchange of
information and I thought it
was a meeting that was con-
ducted in good faith and a
good co-operative spirit,” the
mayor said. “It was a very
good and frank and open

* discussion.”

Board chairman Ann
Jones confirmed it was sug-
gested the district seek the

ministry's opinion on the
‘Proposed complex and she
said a-motion on the sug-
gestion may be introduced at
trustees’ next meeting.

But she voiced doubt
about the prospects for min-
istry support of the project.

“I think from the point of
view of most of the board
members who had any ex-
perience, they knew exactly
what the answer will be,
which is ‘you have boardroom
facilities and we won't permit
this,” she said.

‘But there's no harm in
asking. Even if the ministry
said yes, I think there's quite
a long step between the
ministry saying yes and this

board deciding it would parti-
cipate.”

Commenting generally
on the March 31 meeting, she
noted the “somewhat dif-
ferent atmosphere” from that
of the previous discussion.

“I think before we were
getting a hard sell and this
time we were getting a soft
sell," the schoo! board chair-
man said.

“I think council was
aware now that the school
board is under much greater
strictures than they had
thought previously.”

The proposal that the
board abandon the district
office and move into the
proposed complex “was not

sel for Atco, Hadikin Bro-
thers Lumbering Ltd., Kales-
nikoff Lumber Company,
Kootenay Forest Products,
Louisana Pacific Canada, the
Grand Forks and Midway
divisions of Pope and Talbot
Ltd., Slocan Forest Products
Ltd., T and H Sawmill,
Weyerhauser Canada and
Wynndel Box and Lumber.

The cities of Kelowna,
Penticton and Grand Forks
as well as the District of
Summerland are also sched-
uled to be represented by
legal counsel.

touched on that deeply,” she

said.

“They did suggest that
maybe we would use the
council chambers for holding
board meetings and maybe
we shouldn't go ahead with
an expansion because we'd be
able to use their facilities,”
Jones said.

“But we pointed out to
them that we have to have a
meeting room available
sometimes on very short
notice, and for more than just
the formal board meetings.
Teachers and various other
groups have meetings there,
so we felt we would need a
meeting room under our own
control.”

ing shares are

To be rep sepa-
rately as intervenors are the
cities of Nelson and Kim-
berley, the Trail District
Chamber of Commerce, B.C.
Hydro, Inland Natural Gas,
Princeton Light and Power
Company, the Consumers
Association of Canada and
Thrums resident Larry Wan-
joff.

The commission's hear-
ing, which dealt with West
Kootenay Power's applica-
tion for a certificate of public
convenience and necessity to
establish an effective power
generation base, was ad-
journed in early January
after the company asked for a
delay so it could secure the
agreement it sought from
Cominco.

West Kootenay was es-
tablished in 1897 to generate
and distribute electrical po-
wer within a 50 mile radius of
Rossland. Subsequently the
supply area was increased to
150 miles, and in dribs and
drabs West Kootenay has
expanded to supply electri-
city to Princeton, the Oka-
nagan Valley as far north as
Kelowna, and Creston, now
meeting the demands of some
65,000 customers,

with West Kootenay where-
by West Kootenay manages
and operates the five Comin-
co plants as well as its own
Lower Bonnington plant.
The annual average gen-
erating capacity of the five
Cominco plants totals 515
megawatts of which West
Kootenay takes about 140
megawatts or 30 per cent,

owned by Cominco’s majority
shareholder, Canadian Paci-
fic Investments Limited.

West Kootenay built four
power plants, known as Low-
er Bonnington, Upper Bon-
nington, South Slocan and
Corra Linn. The last three
were sold to Cominco in 1947
for about $8 million.

Cominco itself built the
Brilliant power plant in 1944
and the Waneta plant in 1957,
and the following year it
entered into an agreement

with the remainder used in
Cominco's smelting complex
in eastern B.C. Occasionally
surplus power is exported to
U.S. customers.

Three firms receive
loans under ASEP

Three West Kootenay
businesses are among 102
B.C. firms recently granted a
total $2 million in loans under
the joint federal-provinci

southern Vancouver Island.
Pine Valley Sawmills

Ltd. of Winfield were grant-

ed a $30,000 loan to purchase
f to establi

i
Assistance to Small Enter-
prise Program.

News of the interest-
free. forgiveable loans, for
projects creating at least 468
new jobs, were announced
March 19 by Pierre De Bane,
federal regional economic ex-
pansion minister, and Don
Phillips, provincial small busi-
ness development minister.

Cominco Ltd. acquired
control of West Koot in

Under the ASEP money
ided to

is p ge the

1916, and now owns all of the
outstanding common shares
and 25 per cent of its pre-
ference shares. The remain-

or expansion of small manu-
facturing and processing in-
dustries located outside the
B.C. lower’ mainland and,

a por-
table ‘sawmill operation for
logging and manufacturing
timber, creating four jobs.

An $8,400 loan for pur-
chasing and upgrading equip-
ment and materials for a
graphic design and printing
operation, creating one full-
time and one part-time job,
went to Pigweed Press Ltd.
of Winlaw.

In New Denver, Scimi-
tar Resaw Ltd. received ap-
proval for a $80,000 loan fora
building and to purchase
equipment for a new lumber
manufacturing enterprise,
creating six jobs,