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ca Castlegar News August 30, 1989

‘Innocent' teachers rattle nerves

By IAN BAILEY
The Canadian Press
A teacher accused of sexuatly abusing students may

be innovent until proven guilty, but those “innocent”
twachers make school administrators very nervous.

Some-Canadian school boards check teaching ap:
plicants with, police, but observers say such checks are

no defence against teachers who haven't been convicted

or who have been dismissed without prosecution

Unless a charge is laid and a Crown prosecutor

presses things, o put things in writing and talk about an

individual is to lay one open-to slander charges,” says

Chuck Gosbee, a spokesman for the Vancouver school
board, which runs criminal record checks on job ap:

plicants

And the issue of protecting the children has to be
palanced by fair treatment of teachers

Delegates at a recent meeting of the Canadian
Teachers Fgderation passed a resolution.asking that ac

cused teachers be given the same right to privacy as the
accuser in alleged child abuse and sexual assault cases

The proposed change to the Criminal Code would
keep the name of the accused confidential unless he or
she is found guilty

The issue has taken on a new focus with recent
reports that an exclusive Ottawa school — whose alumni
include federal Liberal leader John Turner — gave a
goldeh handshake to a teacher accused of sexual
harassment

The teacher was reportedly dismissed trom Ash:
bury College

with a generous settlement — following

allegations of “inappropriate” behavior involving
students for a period of 20 years
CASE RE-OPENED
Police were unable to find enough evidence to lay
although they have

vestigation

charges, re-opened the in

Few boards will refuse to hire a teacher because of

allegations of sexual abuse without the justice system's
seal of approval, says Nicholas Bala, a law professor at
Queen's University in Kingston, Ont

“Boards are reluctant to do anything unless there's
@ prosecution and a criminal conviction,” says Bala,
who headed a provincial study on child abuse registers,
lists of people convicted or suspected of child abuse.

Most provinces have. lists of children who have
been abused, but only Ontario, Manitoba and Nova
Scotia have lists of abusers, says Bala, Manitoba is the
only province to use the
workers

gister to screen child-care

Yet the story of former British Columbia teacher
Robert Noyes is a reminder to administrators that the
justice system can fail them as well as their students.

In 1986, Noyes was convicted of sexually molesting
19 children over 15 years while he was a teacher and
elementary school principal in several B.C. com
munities

Noyes — now jailed indefinitely as a dangerous of
fender — was known to have abused some children, But
he was allowed to continue working and change jobs
partly because he said he was seeking treatment

“In the Noyes case, if the board had conducted
checks, they would have achieved nothing because there
was no record of convictions,” says Ray Worley, a
vice-president in B.C.’s teachers’ federation

When regional administrators can’t speak out, they
sometimes speak quietly to each other, says. Gordon
Young, education director for the Halifax Board of
Education, which doesn’t run police checks on teachers

“Within the province, we have a good network
among the superintendents to deal with these sorts of
situations, It’s an informal network that seems to work
well.”

And boards are changing tactics for dealing with
sex-abuse allegations (o avoid quiet deals, says Ann
Tingle, who heads the Calgary school board.

and ends

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3 Sections (A, B & C)

Pit
causes
concern

By CLAUDETTESANDECKI
Staff Writer

A Kootenay-area archeologist,
Wayne Choquette, has been retained
by a branch of the Ministry of
Municipal Affairs to determine if a
gravel pit that has been dug alongside a
designated heritage site near Vallican
in the Slocan Valley will adversely af-
fect the site or damage undiscovered
archeological remains around the site,
a ministry spokesman said Friday.

Joan Verwoord, branch ad
ministrator with public affairs, said the
Archaeological and Outdoor
Recreation Branch of the ministry has
asked Choquette to meet with Ministry
of Highways officials to do a site in-
spection of the gravel pit

If a disturbance of artifacts has oc
cured, “steps will-be-taken to rectify
the situation or assess.qvhat can be
done,”’ Verwoord said.

Barry Eastman, Kootenay regional
manager with the Ministry of High
ways, said Friday he has been in con
tact with Ministry of Municipal Affairs
officials and they are concerned about
the pit

The existence of the pit “‘irritates
things,"’ Eastman said, but added
there are no records of the discovery of
artifacts in the area of the gravel pit

Choquette said earlier in the week
that when he wrote his report on the
impact of a proposed road past the
heritage site the Ministry of Highways
did not say a gravel pit would go in
close to the site. The report was
released in June.

The pit is part of the Agricultural
Land Reserve and Bill Berg, owner of
the construction company which con:
tracted to build the road and a bridge
over the Little Slocan River, said his
company obtained a permit for the
gravel pit from ALR authorities.

Both Berg and Eastman emphasized
the pit is on private property

“It’s on private land and it's just a
gravel pit,"’ Berg said. ‘‘There are no

continued on page A3

Ferr

By SIMON BIRCH
Editor

The Robson-Raspberry Ferry
Users Ad Hoc Committee has taken
the plunge into the upcoming Cariboo
byelection with the release of infor
mation to Cariboo-area media and
politicians outlining what the commit
tee says is the continuing hardships
Robson residents face because of the
Social Credit government's closure of
the cable ferry service across the
Columbia River between Robson and
Castlegar

The Sept. 20 northern B.C. byelec
tion provides the committee with a
“unique opportunity” to focus atten
tion on the ferry issue because the
Cariboo riding includes two inland
ferries and because Socred Neil Vant,
B.C.’s minister of transportation and
highways, represents the dual-member
riding, the committee's lawyer, Terry
Dalton, said Saturday

As well, Dalton said the byelection
will give the committee an opportunity
to contrast the current government's
refusal to reinstate the Robson ferry
service with the sympathetic ear for

Pat Stimson of Kelowna wasn't about to let a little rain spoil
her round of golf at the Castlegar Golf Course. Dressed
appropriately, Stimson completed her round nice and dry.

users take
byelection plunge

mer Highways Minister Alex Fraser —
who also represented Cariboo and
whose death earlier this year made the
byelection necessary — gave to Rob
son residents in 1984 when the Bill
Bennett government announed it
would close the ferry

Fraser reversed the
although the government reduced the
number of hours the ferry operated-to
1 from 18'4

“They convinced me there are har
dships involved,”’ Fraser said at the
time in reference to the protests from
local residents. =

Dalton said Saturday the hardships
which the closure of the ferry in 1984
would have created are being felt
now. And he questions why the gover
nment can’t reinstate the ferry service
during the relatively good current
economy but kept the service going in
1984 at the height of the recession and
government restraint

“I think that virtually all members
of cabinet recognize that the ferry
closure was a mistake and accept it was
a poorly made decision,’ Dalton said

However, unlike the Bennett gover

decision

nment which announced its intention
to close to ferry before shutting it
down, the Bill Vander Zalm gover
nment has “‘painted itself into a cor
ner’’ with its decision to shut down the
ferry 16 months ago without allowing
public comment, he said

“‘L think they are taking the position
that their authority is being
challenged,’ Dalton said of the Socred
cabinet members. ‘They can’t be seen
to be backing down from this decision
even though we've been able to
demonstrate the hardships of the last
16months ... have been very severe.”

He said the ferry users committee
will use the Cariboo byelection to ask
all the candidates and politic
tering the riding to campaign — par
ticularly Vant — “to give a clear
commitment for the protection of all
inland ferries and for the starting of the
Robson ferry.”

tis our hope

ns en:

that after a careful
reading of this material, you will see
bur issue_as-an-important- provincial
issue, one of equal interest and impor
tance to the citizens of Cariboo, as it is

continued on page A2

Feds say no
microwave system

until late 1

By CLAUDETTESANDECKI
Staff Writer

A state-of-the-art microwave lan-
ding system will be installed at the
Castlegar airport in 1997 or 1998,
Transport Canada spokesman
Christianne Cote| said Friday from
Vancouver

But Mayor Audrey Moore says she’s
been told the system
conventional systems for guiding air-
craft during landing — would be in
stalled long before 1997

Castlegar was supposed to receive
the system in 1991, Moore said and she
would like to see it installed sooner
than that

So would Kootenay West
Revelstoke MP Lyle Kristiansen and
Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy,
but both men sounded notes of caution
on the system Friday

“Any commitment at all (from the
Ministry of Transportation) is en
couraging,”’ D’ Arcy said. But, he ad
ded, the system's technology hasn't
been perfected and installing a system
hat is not 100 per cent safe wouldn't be

which replaces

wise for Castlegar

The Castlegar airport has never had
4 crash of a scheduled passenger flight
D'Arcy said, and the city should be
able to continue enjoying that record

D'Arcy said he would consider the
assurance of installation from Tran
sport Canada as a “‘statement of in
tent,”*
nothing is certain until it happens.

Kristiansen said he knew Castlegar
was being considered for the system

rather than a promise, since

and if Transport Canada is making a
commitment on installation to the city
“I'm glad to hear that and I'm happily
surprised.

But he said the system:
would make landing in less-than-ideal
weather conditions easier, would not
necessarily facilitate night landings as

though it

has been suggested
The area around the airport may be
too dangerous for night flights guided
only by the microwave system, he sai
Moore said a number of meetings on
airport issues are being set up for the
near future, including a meeting with

CHRIS D'ARCY
. +. ‘encouraging

990s

Dean McDonald, Pacific
director of the Canadian Air Traffic
Control Association

McDonald said Transport Canada is

regional

considering the closure of the
Castlegar control tower due to too few

ach year

annual airport review and no recom
mendations on Castlegar’s tower have
been made

Cote said she didn’t know the name
of the company that will be installing
the microwave system. But a Nova
Scotia company, Micronav Ltd., a
subsidiary of Leigh Instfuments Ltd
of Kanata, Ont
to install 40

has been awarded a

contract microwave

systems in Canadian airports includin

Pearson International in Toron

federal governm announ

Hydro ‘current’
on Keenleyside

By CasNews Staff
B.C. Hydro is having plans drawn
up and costs estimated to turn the
Hugh Keenleyside dam into an elec
trical generating station but the com
pany has made ng commitment to such
a move and is only keeping its
current,” a B.C

infor
mation Hydro
spokesman said

Verne Prior enior com
munications co-ordinator with B.C
Hydro, said Shawinigan Integ in Van
couver, a divisio’ Lavelin, is in
charge of designing generating station:
for Keenleyside and Site C on the
Peace River, downstream from Fort
St. John

Hector Campos
engineering with 2
said three engineers for which the
company advertised in the Vancouver
Sun newspaper three weeks ago will

join a project team composed of

technical mostly in the
engineering field, from Shawinigan In-
firms that are

staff,

teg and two other

working on the plans as a joint ven

The project team currently consists
of about 30 personnel and will go up to
about 60 to work on the B.C. Hydro
contract that is expected to take a year

complete, Campos said

Work on the designs began late last

B.C. Hydro goes ahead

the generating stations the project

eam will spend five to six years over
seeing the truction, 1

The a there are a
number of openings in our project
Hydro’s Site C

¢ station

eam working on B.C
and Keen

enior structural ¢
ical engineer and senior elec

¢ needed, the ad said

By CLAUDETTESANDECKI
Staff Writer

As principal of Stanley Hum
phries secondary school, Gordon
Shead has spent the last three years
running Castlegar’s high school
With his new job in Victoria, Shead
will help determine how all B.C
high schools will run in the future.

Shead began a/new job with the
Ministry of Education last ‘week
advising the government on the

recommen
Royal_Com

implementation of
dations from the
mission on Education

The commission's
recommended the ‘‘ungrading”’ of
the public school system and that
process will begin with the primary
grades in some schools this year
and in all B.C
1991

Shead fias been hired as project
co-ordinator of a team of six

report

primary schools in

4

GORDON SHEAD
. «. Off to Victoria

Shead begins new job
as education adviser

s who will work on the

yn program, which con
cerns what are now called Grades
11 and 12, he said in an interview
with the Castlegar News

The new position is y." he
said, since the job he’s been hired
to do has never existed before and
the team will be breaking new
ground in education in B.C

There will be some guidelines
from the ministry, Shead said, but

this will not be a ministry top:
Team members.

are expected to come into the

down exercise.’

project with their own ideas and
going out in the field” to

hers and educators, he

will be
alk to
said

The project is expected to take
three to four years to complete,
Shead added

continued on page A3