“The Castlegar Sun "Wednesday, tine 19,1991 Name: Johan Pet: Molly - Dog Where you work: Vogue Studios What you do there: Lab technician. : Castlegar likes: Getting oft of work fad x Best kept Castlegar secret: Wouldn't you like to know!” Vehicle: '69 Nova .., What would you rather be doing? Cruising around f & Mayor Continued from 1A Selkirk College cuts G Graphic Communications to save Electronics: Engineering Technology - ‘based decision aa ninate the Sun staff E.E.T. program after deciding not “by the ministry. in February of been in operation since 1985 this year and received glowing graduating 400. students from its to go ahead with the Communica- four-course offerings: electronic A news release. issued: ‘by Selkirk, College last .week announced that it will delay the ce tion Arts program. : ‘The college's release. said that after. dropping EB. EE T. it became D that h start of the two-y 2 * tion Arts program proposed to begin next September, and by doing so allow students inthe Electronics Engineering Technol- ogy program to complete their _ into their final term in September H ' would not be able to receive their diploma s0 the college decided to allow these students to;complete their program at the Castlegar Feporta from People who evaluat- publishing, applied writing, pho- ed it." tography and graphic design. “it was the only visual arts ‘program in the East and West: tat al ee ae A new color computer-graph- diploma at the, college in Castle- gar. i But, the release makes no mention of the fact that the: pre- sent Graphic Communications Program has been terminated and that the department's faculty have been left with no courses to teach next year, In response the Selkirk ‘Col- lege Faculty Association have issued their own release::), =; “We are shocked,” said Ron ‘Woodward chairman of the can- celled department. “We didn’t expect this—especially at this late date.” ; College President Leo Perra claimed, “Because we didn't receive the capital equipment. funding necessary, the college has campus, However once this last crop of students in E.E,T, graduates, that Cc ‘— Ron Woodward of | “This department was unique :in-B.C, jpomt-sscondary, educa- ,_ ton,” said Woodward. “It was the }only visual arts program in the. and West Kootenays and me ics and animation Inb. would have put the Communication Arts pro- gram at the forefront of commer- vy cial arts: programs in Canada, added Woodward. He said: the decision not to inue with a ly arts « the interior of B.C..” The course had been listed in” next.year’s college calender and ‘+ had already attracted 45 appli- ‘ cants, Apy ly 60 per cent «of students who have taken the program came from this region : while the rest came from across Canada. The faculty’s | release noted had decided to wait until September 1992 to implement the first year of a two-year Arts program.” Perra said that the college decided to reverse its fi - Leo'Perra | will-be Phased out and * may possibly become|a sort of correspondence course. |, G Co i had that the p po progr graphic arts program next_year has “left many students i in educa- tional limbo," “T've had one woman call me in tears,” he. said. “She has planned her life around her acceptance to this program, and now it’s been cancelled.\ It’s too late for her to goianywhere else— she's devastated,” said Wood- wae eno Rent your, ese val be at been approval from the aay and Selkirk College. “All ‘five f faculty have “Hopefully in January we'll be _in the position to start re-hiring — Leo Perra had just received the endorsement to go from a one- to two-year program including a fifth course in video production. “We've been working on this since 1987,” said Woodward. in this been terminated effective July 31, 1991." Perra says the college still needs to get a capital equipment grant of about $500,000 which the government has not yet com- mitted itself to. “Hopefully in January we'll be in the position to start te-hiring instructors for the course,” says Perra, As for the ex-staff who must now begin looking for other work in an industry largely located out of the area, Perra said they will be welcomed back. “Hopefully most of those people will be around when it comes time to re- Wednesday, June 19,'1991 ‘The Castlegar Sun School Board seeks review SHARLENE IMHOFF Sun Editar Is the Castlegar School district doing all it Sanit to ensure integra- officials have been taking a look at the services, provided for children ‘who have physical and mental challenges, and are trying to decide if the current practices are tion ¢ in the cl is 3 successful, and that Special Everyone held different views on how to improve upon.or fskad t Pht Pp g is ade- quate? .! " ‘’ Even members ‘of the board and local.officials cannot.answer that question Without some ‘dis- agreement. - {which is why a review phnel will be asked to make the decision for them some- time this fall. - Superintendent. Terry, Wayling " Made the’ “external evaluation” announcement during the dis- trict’s ‘school board meeting, Monday evening. According to Wayling, local Causeway complete, | engineer from Klohn Leonoff Ltd. BRENDAN HALPER “We came to the'conclusion + that-we-don’t really:have a solid ‘approach towards a future direc- tion,’s0' we' decided that a third Party should come in and com- plete a review,” lic said. Already Wayling:-has been ‘in contact with the Ministry of Edu- cation looking for suitable candi- dates to complete the job at hand. Wayling says the board is look- ing for at least ‘thrée' people; two of whom should have extensive ‘ experience dealing with integra- Sun staff! to finally olay Argo's Argo’s plans. , ““We're-very pleased that it’s finally done,” The new cueeway allowing vehicle access id was compketed as of last : to Zuckerberg Islan week. Reconstruction of the causeway, washed out several times in the past due to high waters, is welcome news to a group of citizens who have lobbied the city for a number of years to com- Plete and upgrade the access. The Castlegar and District Heritage Society - finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel | when Argo Industries Ltd, currently working. ’- on the Celgar project, offered to do the job free charge. of d workers, » cial needs, said Castlegar and District Heritage Society Vema Keraiff. “We've needed this for quite a while. We would like to thank Celgar tion (incl The thing Beste ore bea. gencralist, someone: who has observed all facets of the school system, including organizing and of course, funding, The board is hopeful that the review will be undertaken: mid- * October and will take’ one week to - complete with results released by Christmas, 2-800 The’ cost ‘for this'lesson? ‘The board: is currently tossing around a -figure ‘between: ‘$10, 200, - $11,000... The three: person team will tke Tah tout oth the successes and failures ‘of the’ programing in the district for ae with Spe- As well, the review panel will et if the district is meeting and Argo vol the material needed to rebuild the. causeway early in May, but plans hit a legal snag when the City realized it could be liable if the cause- way uction was not approval by a geotechnical engineer, “If someone was to get hurt using the cause- way, there could be some real problems,” Cc ineering and Public "s Director of E: Works, Kenn Hample had said. d with However, City Alderman and liaison to the Heritage Society Bob Pakula, felt that the causeway had waited long enough, and that.’ work should have been started i : properly meeting children’ 's needs, Sct by the ministry for {Programming, and it the district’ 's. is The review panel will.also address whether the district’s sup- |WEATHER OUTLOOK: The forecast for Ned Jay; Sunny periods in the morning giving way to afternoon clouds and showers. Highs near Port for inclusion is adequate for 24. The outlook for Thursday calls Icamers as well as teaching and non-teaching staff. And, they'll try and discover other models of programming, the district should Te-examine, Schools in Surrey underwent ~'the same review quite recently, and Wayling says it provides a fresh, objective approach to for much of the same with the possibility of of cléarér skles for Friday. With any luck we can expect to see more sun by the weekend. Be Re A LOOK BACK AT THE PAST. WEEK: Temperature: Max/Date' Min/Date -’ * Mean access available Pond” ‘Argo for their help, Zuckerberg Island is such a beautiful place and now this the circle, It looks very nice.” REMARKS: “The work is done and we're watching to be sure it performs as expected,” said Hample, ‘With or without proper approval. Pressed by rising river waters and the fact includes new and returning members, will see to the imple- mentation of a number of policies ; adopted over the course of the the .. four-day Annual Conference. The resolutions the board will be bringing forward to the federal government reflect the broad range of issues which affect local ! government, such as in Castlegar. Moore’s portfolio as Third Vice-President to the FCM has already whisked her away to - Ottawa, so she was not available for comment at press time, though her secretary stated-she . would be retuming to aaa Thursday. Mayor Audrey Moore 40 year graduation ‘reunion planned at ‘Stanley Humphries The very first Stanley Humphries Secondary School. graduating class has been invited to the 1991 graduation to cele- brate their‘own 40 year grad reunion. All but one of the eleven origi- nal 1951 grads have'been invited along with their teachers. The ten grads include; Gordon Buie; vale- dictorian Ena K Fox «(now Hawkins); Florence Gunderson; Paul Horkoff; Nellie Lebedow Castlegar cor ) BRENDAN HALPER Sun staff ae (now Reynolds); ‘Rino'J'Manarin; Ryan J Marshall; William F Oles-