CANDIDATES QUIZZED . . . Castlegar Chamber of Commerce president Mike O'Connor moderates all- candidates meeting Monday in Kinnaird Hall. O'Con- ~ ae nor is flanked by Kay Johnson, Dale Nielsen gd Stan Partridge. Costtews Photo HOPEFULS continued from front poge that “public trustees must remain public.” Resident Ann Godderis noted that two years ago during the election, school candidates vowed to open committee meetings to the public and press, but the meetings are still held in private. Turner responded that he would make board meetings “as open as possible” and publicize committee’ minutes. “We're dealing with the public's money, I think they should know,” he said. Nielsen neted that committee meetings are often used to deal with one issue. Partridge agreed that meetings should be as open as possible, but said there are certain instances where dis- cussions should be held in private. Johnson pointed out that education committee meetings are held twice a month while school board meetings are held just once a month. She said the education committee has “become a catch-all committee” dealing with issues she feels should be adealtewitirin publie-at the board level. © Pimmey said he plans to propose a reorganization of commilttée méetings along'the lines of board meetings, with a private session followed by a public session. All five candidates said they are in favor of upcoming meetings between the board and parents of kindergarten students being open to the public. There had been reports the meetings — set to discuss the all-day kindergarten issue — would be held behind closed doors. “I cannot comprehend why the press would be excluded from those meetings,” said Finney Meanwhile, aldermanic candidate Michael Heard took a swipe at Castlegar council's handling of snowplowing during the Nov. 2 record snowfall. “There were periods when we. had only one snowplow {in operation),” Heard said. Helalso called the Columbia Ave. CP Rail crossing “unsound planning.” But incumbent Len Embree said while the delay in snowplowing should be questioned. people should have the correct information Embree said the city has a program of preventative maintenanee, and on Nov. 1 — the day before the snowfall — all 13 pieces of city equipment were in “good working order.” However, he said during snowplowing three machines were put out of action, one with a broken axle and another Police file “No preventative maintenance would be able to tell you when an axle would break,” said Embree. He said the city would like to buy new equipment to better handle heavy snowfalls, but noted: “We just don't have the finances.” On the issue of logging in Merry Creek Road area, Heard said he is “totally opposed” to it. “You'll have your swimming pool — at the bottom of Sherbiko Hill” if the logging goes ahead, he said. Embree pointed out that the city has held a number of meetings with forestry officials and “expressed concerns about logging that place.” Candidate Marilyn Mathieson added that there must be “a lot more assurances” about the proposed logging before it should be given the green light. However, she also said the area to be logged is not within city limits and thus not within city jurisdiction. Meanwhile, school candidate Nielsen said he wouldn't support a teacher strike. “Tl support the teachers in their goal for improved education, but not in the case of a strike,” he said. . Partridge als} sid Hé couldn't support i strike. “T believe it’ co-operation,” fe sild™” = =**"*"* ome Turner said he doesn't think a strike serves any purpose and would like to see all other alternatives investigated. Johnson agreed with Turner, noting that by working more closely with teachers trustees would be able to see “when the frustration level starts to rise.” Finney said, “I stand on my record of personnel relationships,” adding the key to quality education is “teacher enthusaism.” Mike Rodgers, president®f-the Castlegar and District Teachers Association, also asked about a “modest increase” for teachers. Finney said he would support a two per cent wage hike for teachers, the same as that recently given non-teaching staff. Johnson and Nielsen both said they would support a modest increase, while Turner said “three or four per cent would not be out of line.” Partridge noted he would agree to an increase only if the board could raise enough money to cover it. Car crash injures three By CasNews Staff Three Castlegar residents 1975 Chevy Blazer driven by Friedrich left the street and A Castlegar woman re ceived minor injuries after her 1977 Ford automobile slid off the road on Highway 3 near Salmo summit at 2:30 p.m. Saturday Lois Hislop's westbound vehicle suffered unspecified damage, according to Castle- gar RCMP. The accident was caused by slippery road con ditions. Hislop was treated at Castlegar and District Hos. pital and released. . Castlegar RCMP are inves which occurred over the weekend. The Chamber of Commerce building on 6th Ave. was broken into and vandalized Vandals gained entry through a window. The arena complex was also broken into, and an un specified quantity of change and cigarettes was taken. Thieves pried open a door to get in As well, vandals smashed the window of Bosse’s Jew. ellery on 3rd Ave. with a rock. Nothing was taken, said are in i y following a single-car crash on 34 St. early this morning. Jay Friedrich, 27, and Tammy Paulson, 19, are in Castlegar and District Hos- pital, and Gordon Giles was a transferred to Shaughnessy 4 Hospital in Vancouver, aida =e CON Tract Castlegar Hospital spokes- person, who declined to re- ma d e By CasNews Staff ov: Ipy$stigati into the cause gf the accident is con. veal the exact nature of their injuries. However, she said Giles “is FE ffl i ry ; E : i ff PLOWING anyone makes any suggestion council is get very annoyed.” Embree noted the proposed logging is outside city limits and the city is “restricted™ in what it is able to do. ‘that this doing nothing about it I shall In his memo, watershed Reshaur says he intends to notify CP Rail of the and if proposed logging in the Merry Creek and request that the railway review the “adequancy” of their concrete culvert. Reshaur adds that the logging will “undoubtedly lead to increased run-off from the watershed.” position He also suggests the city take a “firm that either the Forestry Branch or the logging contractor assume responsibility for construction and operation of a retention basin on Merry Creek to ensure that flows in Merry Creek at the point of entry to the city are not increased above present levels.” Museum for computers BOSTON (AP) — A unique collection of computers that traces the evolution of high technology has found a new home in a 100-year-old building on Boston's historic waterfront. The Computer Museum, dedicated Tuesday, contains the first _ a i of a computerized U.S. air force radar room and the computer on which the first video game was developed. Smaller computer exhibits are housed in London and at the i i in Washi: but Computer Museum director Gwen Bell claims her museum contains the largest collection of original computer equipment from the 1950s to the present. “We have one-of-a-kind things,” Bell said. “If someone snatches it up, it’s not there for somebody else.” ‘The museum opened in Boston after a much smaller version at the Marlboro headquarters of Digital Equipment Corp. closed a year ago. Among the unique items are the air force's Semi- Ground aircraft-tracking sys- tem, known..as, SAGE, .and @ piece of the Whirlwind computer, s_$5-million_aireraft fight simulator-trainer developed at“Massachusetts Intitute of Technology in 1945. IN ONTARIO SAGE, which contains 110,000 vacuum tubes and is 265 years old, was monitoring North American airspace from a bembproof vault at an air force base in North Bay, Ont., until it was replaced last year, Bell said. The system, complete with a control room that looks like a scene out of the movie War Games, took up four floors and weighed 176 tonnes. It was replaced with an aircraft tracking system the size of a coffee table, Bell said. The Computer Museum takes up two floors in the red brick warehouse. Bell said there's plenty of room to expand, with a future exhibit on pre-electronic computing devices planned. The museum is divided into four sections: the vacuum tube era, the transistor era, the integrated circuit era and computer imaging. A time line studded with artifacts tracks the devel- opment of the computer from the Second World War until the 1970s. Along the way, visitors can peer into a re-creation of an insurance jpany’s key-punch room, complete with a 1965 Currier and Ives wall calendar and vintage Coke bottles on the desks. Also on display, is a pyramid-shaped “burial mound” which traces the development of the now-popular personal computer. It contains « 1975, computer -heard from one of 220 embryonic personal computers built in the garage of Apple Computer founders Stéphen Wozniak and Steven Jobs. The museum is funded by scores of corporations and individuals, but Digital Equipment Corp., the second- largest computer maker in the United States, “is our godfather,” Bell said. Digital bought a half-interest in the museum building and is paying the rent until 1968. Parents’ Committee is under- taking a four-week study of fering only full-day kinder parental concerns regarding garten classes since 1963. full-day kindergartens. ‘PARENTAL CONCERNS' Group to study kindergartens By ADRIAN The study will include a poll of parents and teachers of full-day kindergarten and Grade 1 classes in the Nelson district, which has been of. Staff Writer The Castlegar District The Trail and Grand Forks tion to have kindergartens in Johnson, a school board ALL IN A DAY’S WORK . . . Castlegar accountant Brian Brown was surprised in his downtown office by a strip-o-gram Tuesday. The occasion was Brown's 40th birthday Cosnews Photo CITY HALL will be undergoing some minor renovations soon. Castlegar council has been grappling with the problem of where to hold private committee meetings without tying up the council chambers and thus the access to the offices of the mayor, administrator and engineer. So it has decided to move engineer George Reshaur into the basement to be nearer his staff. Reshaur's office on the top floor, along with some other space, will be made into a committee room “There is funds to do this,” says Ald. Albert Calderbank. As well, he said all the necessary structural changes will be done by city staff. . CASTLEGAR'S Sally Mackenzie and Winlaw's Marcia Braundy were the subject of a Nov. 1 feature article in the Vancouver Sun by Nelson freelance jour nalist Patricia Lakes. The article explained how Braundy, the first female journeyman carpenter in B.C., created a successful audio-visual slide show dealing with women in trades and technology called What Happens to Women in Trades land? Braundy created the show with carpentry apprentice Mackenzie. Newfoundland schools have just purchased 40 copies of the show, which is also shown in several Ontario colleges, vocational schoels and U.S. colleges. BOHRA LENE ge hart: SX pase former Castlegar resident, Erwin MacDonald (whose wife, Amm, was so active in the Ladies Auxiliary to the Castlegar Legion and in the Fall Fair). CasNews publisher Burt Campbell now reports the book is available as a “talking book” for those who are blind. He had alerted a near-blind uncle, Rey Campbell of Vancouver, to ask for the book. id Roy reports having listened to it and describes it as “a fascinating story of Archie MacDonald and his family.” First, the book recalls Archie's travels‘from Ottawa to Colville, Wash., his subsequent marriage there and the experience of raising a family of three boys and two girls in very tough times. Roy reminds Burt that Erwin'’stwo brothers, Dan and Angus, both worked for Burt's uncle, Ted Campbell, who owned Atlas Construction in Kamloops. IF THE Tory government in Ottawa is looking for ways to trim the deficit, it might take the time to ask the Canadian public. The CasNews has a few suggestions. For openers,, there's the invitation the CasNéws receives every time a new exhibit opens at the National Gallery. The latest came Tuesday. It invites the paper (we presume it means a repre- sentative of the paper) to attend the opening of an exhibit of works by marine painter John O'Brien on De¢:'13 at 6 p-m. The invitation is contained inside a beautifully printed card showing one of O'Brien's works. All great stuff. But there's just one problem. The national gallery is in Ottawa (corner of Elgin and Slater streets according to the invitation) and it’s unlikely the CasNews will be sending anyone to cover it. How many other small papers across the nation receive similar invitations? More on this in the weeks to come. THE ARROW Lakes News out of Nakusp reports a harrowing story when the night before Halloween, a violent storm led Klaus Toering to the brink of disaster. Fearing for the loss of his boat during the storm, Toering decided to move it out into the lake for safer mooring. He got aboard the boat, but then ran into difficulties. The kicker motor wouldn't start and while the main motor worked, the steering was jammed. Toering soon found himse!f heading across the lake and couldn't turn back. His son, Clive Toering, who was on shore holding a light for his father, noticed the problem and contacted police. An RCMP constable and citizen headed out in the police boat to rescue Toering and caught up to him in the middle of the lake in high winds and heavy waves. After almost two hours they got the boat back to Nakusp harbor and tied to Nakusp Marina é INGEBORG THOR-LARSEN Weaver wins award Local fibre artist Ingeborg Thor-Larsen captured the Handweavers’ Guild of Shannon of Lac La Hache; America Judges Choice Linda Heinrich, of Victoria; Award for her yardage she and Jean George of Quesnel entered in the juried show They said they were seek “Webs,” a conference exhibit Master Weavers three British Columbian Eileen ing “a piece of handweaving competed with 38 others presently co-ordinating the from across Canada and the Guild's 12th annual fashion United States, was an orig- show, sale and exhibit to be inal adaptation of Joseph held in November. Frances’ “huckaback” tech Thor-Larsen is also co nique, which produced the ordinator of the Selkirk double-faced fabric measur- Weavers and Spinners HORT RIB OF BEEF CAI A NAD. GRADE A BEEF TE AK SIRLOIN TIP SLICED BACON GRADE A BEEF .. FLETCHERS PREMIUM. 500 G PKG. .. $38 FLETCHERS BULK BREAKFAST . 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BOX OF 50 E.T, PEANUT BUTTER hasissaa comon | Ob2e7504 YOUR CHOICE. 375 mi JAR $189] SESE WK 89° GRISCO OL ce 3.5629 CONDENSED MILK EAGLE BRAND. 300 mi TIN . . 1" MIRACLE WHIP Parents of ‘garten pupils throughout the district will be polled, said Kay Johnson of the parents’ com- mittee. “Once we get our infor mation compiled, we'll prob- ably call a public meeting,” she said Tuesday. “Hopefully we'll have experts there on both sides of the issue.” Johnson said the results of the study will be reviewed at a Nov. 29 meeting of the par- ents’ committee and the pub- lic meeting will be held the following week. Science cuts could school districts offer only half-day kindergarten classes. Parents’ committee mem ber Fern Allam, conduct- ing the Nelson poll, is also polling 10 parents of Robson kindergarten students. Rob- The study follows a recent proposal from the Castlegar school board and administra- the district eventually switch from half to full days to save money on noon-time busing. Johnson said the District Parents’ Committee decided at a meeting last Thursday to undertake the study to make sure parents’ concerns re- g full-day kindergar- tens are made public. “I think our problem is, we're only hearing one side of the story,” she said. “Tve been getting phone candidate, said while she's “not absolutely sure” half. days are superior to full-day kindergartens, she thinks they're better for children's “emotional and social” needs. At a recent meeting for parents of kindergarten stu. dents at Tarrys school-where a fullday kindergarten has been proposed — parents raised concerns about the capability of four- and five- year-olds to cope with the of handwoven yardage at Fi bration, The Prince George of special merit which shows a fresh, individual approach, Weavers Guild Confe: held Oct. 4-7 This award, the only one given out at the show, was presented to the Castlegar fibre artist by the judges, and al exp : deep involvement with fibre, awareness of aesthetic and functional considerations and a concern for technical skill.” Thor-Larsen's entry, which ing one metre by three me- tres in rich hues of lavender, salmon and mustard pure wool imported from Den mark Thor-Larsen, a charter member of the Selkirk Wea vers’ and Spinners’ Guild, is Guild’s annual fashion show and exhibit Saturday at the Sandman Inn. Tickets for the luncheon are sold out, though there is no admission charge to the sale which will follow the show. RAISINS GOLDEN HARVEST. 375 GRAM .... $zi9 KRAFT. 1 LITRE JAR LONG GRAIN RICE $989 TA. 1.81 KG. TOOTHPASTE CREST. REG., GEL OR MINT. 100 mi .. POPPING CORN SUN SPUN. 454 GRAM. 79° | MOUTHWASH 38 not in critical condition.” Castlegar RCMP said the accident oceurred at 12:40 The 19 employees at the new Super-Valu store in Castleaird Plaza have ratified a new collective agreement. tigating three break-ins police. a.m., when an eastbound Spokesmen for the Super. Valu employees, recently cer- tified into the Textile Pro Teachers down By CasNews Staff Castlegar school board and its district teachers are going down to the wire in their negotiations for a new contract. Tomorrow is the last day said. this year. As of this morning, the local board and teachers hed not reached any agreement. George Anutooshkin, chairman of the board's negotiating committee, re- fused to comment on contract talks, or whether there was a meeting sched- uled for today “Just say we're still meeting.” he The Castlegar one-year contract expires on Dee. 31 of Anutooshkin pointed out that even though Nov. 15 is the deadline before the contract goes to binding arbi- tration, both sides can continue to negotiate after that. rt cessors, Service Trades, Health Care, Professional to wire | eno ee ternational Union (TPSTH- CPTEIU), were unavailable for comment on terms of agreement at press time. Also unavailable for com ment were representative of the store's management, Ferraro’s Foods Ltd. of Cal- teachers’ current that the small veteran labor organization was not a legal trade union in B.C. mean 150 lost jobs OTTAWA (CP) — Minutes after Treasury Board calls from parents all over full-day format. the district program going school, and if it is, how come I haven't heard about it. “This idea of saving money at all costs without consider. ation of what's going to hap- pen to the children's learning process — it’s wrong.” This represents 55 per cont of the goal. 5 be Downtown Castlegar | by Caretian Catemen | "Memories Collection” FULL SIZEUNIT 4627... QUEEN SIZE UNIT *53°°..... — No Interest on Approved Credit Delivery by Professionals 1114-3rd St. Castlegar ot NO INTEREST SAVINGS! 365-2101 © INTEREST FREE FOR 1 YEAR ’ SEALY SLEEP SPECTACULAR Monthly Ce exe on any purchase New for ‘85 TWIN SIZE UNIT FULLSIZE UNIT *33**.... 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