POE BUR ELE RO a A ee CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, September 0, 1976 End in Sight for $12 Million Contract for Supervisory Management Workshop Being Offered During the past, year, the department of business ad- ministration to Selkirk College, with the assistance of instruc- tors from other departments, successfully conducted 65 work-' shops in supervisory manage- ment, About 260 supervisors at-. tended these workshops and evaluations from the partici- pants favored continuation of the program. Harvey Gunn, . who is responsible for manage- ment programs, says that there is still a great need for this type of training in the West Koo- tenays. “We feel that a real op- portunity exists for Selkirk College to fulfill the need for management training on a con- tinuing basis. The potential for such programs becomes more apparent when it is considered that there are several hundred people holding supervisory positions within the Nelson, : Canada Pension Plan; Eligible to Benefit? Q. When 1 become 65, 1 will have made maximum contribu- tions to the Canada Pension Plan for twenty years, starting. in 1966, with the exception of two years that 1 was outside the country. Will my pension be less than the maximum when 1 reach age 65 because of the two-year gap? A.No. You are permitted a 15%. “drop-out” of the months in your contributory. period. This “drop-out” provision, of low or non-earning months, has the effect of offsetting the two-year gup in contributions and will leave your retirement pension on a maximum basis. Q.f am a 25-year-old feinule who has paid into the Canada Pension Plan for six years and [ plan to be married and may Western Canada School of Auctioneering Ltd. Canada’s first, and the only. completely. Canadian course offered anywhere. Licensed under the Trade Schools Licensing Act, R.S.A. 1970, C.366. For particulars of the next course write: Box 687, Lacombe, Alberta or hone 782.6215. not return to the labour mar- ket in the future, fs there any way [ can have my contribu- tions returned to me? A.No. Contributions cannot be returned, but you will be eligible for a retirement pen- sion at age 65, based on those earnings. Q.My wife died in August, 1972. She had been working und she contributed to the Canada Pension Plan, At the time of her death, a lump sum death benefit was paid to her estate. | have not remarried and have two dependent child- ren under ten yeurs of age. Are there any additional benefits available to me now for my children? A. Effective: January 1. changes in the leg: vide that the survi spouse and children of a decease female contributor can qualify for the same -benelits that were previously availuble upon the death ofa mule contributor, In your case, you would be entitled to a survivor’s pension since you have not re-remarried, and your children would be entitled tu orphan’s benefits. 1975, Castlegar and Trail areas alone. “This large number of peo- ple, in a relatively limited area of the Kootenays, offers an excellent opportunity to en- hance the skills of management at all levels within local organ- izations,” said Mr. Gunn. “We feel that the college is particularly suited for such an undertaking because it is wil- ling to develop programs to meet community needs, and has the resources to do so, An __ important point is that the col- *Iege has ‘a’ continuing-presence in the West Koolenays and can jbe responsive to the on-going and changing needs of the + market it serves, “The plan is to offer a series of basic workshops and then more advanced workshops as required by local organiza- tions. Research conducted in several. organizations shows that there is a greal demand for training designed to enhance skills in the area of human re- lations,” stated Mr. Gunn. The basic workshops, whith comprise five days of training, include such subjects as the role of the supervisor, problem solving, communica- tions, interviewing and counsel- ling, time management, leader- ship and motivation. The super- visors feel that they are well equipped with respect to tech- nical skills, but that the skills required in managing human resources continue to present a unique and challenging area for research and training. The first series of five workshops will be held on Oct. 8, 15, 22, 29 and Nov, 5. Employers will be interested in knowing that Canada Man- power may be able to assist those who enroll employees in the program, by D> eR By John Bohle * Castlegar News Slocan Valley, Correspondent - ‘The end is in sight on a two year $12 million contract o- warded to Transpower Con- struction of Burnaby to erect lowers and wires that will ttransmit electric power from the Kootenay Canal project toa substation at Aston Creek on the Arrow Lakes. From Aston Creek it will be tied into the Mica Dam power for distribution on B.C, Hydro's B.C. grid. When completed the four bundle 12 wire line will trans. mit all power from the Koo- tenay Canal Project, at. 600,000 volts. Transpower Contracting has 105 men and 120 vehicles from pickup trucks to large bulldozers’ and cranes on the job. Men are hired from Nelson and belong to the IEBW Union. Last year saw completion of the Lumby to Arrow Lakes section towers on this. line, erected by the world’s largest “Sky Hook,” a helicopter under charter from the Evergreen Corp. of Louisanna, U.S.A. This year two 110-foot * lowers were erected at the Ar- tow Lake crossing at Aston Creek, Spanning the water were four lines one ahd ‘an eighth mile long to create a world record for longest multi- ple wire crossing. The towers weighed 18,000 pounds and were erected on site by a 62 ton crane. The Two Parent Orientation Nights Planned Tuesday evening will be the first of two parent orienta- tion and information evenings to be held at Stanley: Hum- phries Secondary School this fall. The prime purpose of this . first. meeting is to acquaint parents of students in Grades nine and ten with general rou- tine administrative. situations towers, of 12 different types, were designed by B.C, Hydro's engineering staff and manu- factured in Italy and Japan. The towers, four to a mile, are being erected this year by crane. with 62 highly. skilled men on the job, They have 15 miles yet to complete. Two or three towers on cliffs and difficult’ access lo- calions are being erected by Okanagan Helicopters. Two helicopters are on the job to erect the towers in sections as there is no single copter big enough to handle the complete towers by themselves. Reinforcing of the under- carriage of the cranes permits two D-8 cats to pull the eranes up grades that at times are 45 to 60 degree climbs, A third cat is placed in the rear to push and act as a safety stop. The wire comes in six foot spools weighing 12,000 pounds and holding 165,000 feet of multiple wire. Manufactured in Vancouver by Alcan and Wrights, they are transported on large trailers and reloaded onto special four spool trailers at base yards, These spools reel out to a special unloading vehicle that Employment Orientation Course Being Sponsored Women who have been out of the labor force for a number of years have difficulty in finding employment in the Kootenays. To help alleviate this problem, Selkirk College and the Nelson Canada Man- power Centre are sponsoring a course called Employment Orientation for Women. This full-time course will begin Oct. 19 and will run daily Tuesday through Saturday for nine weeks, Through individual and group counselling, the women will have an opportunity to analyze their employment potential and to assess their” lity for a wide range of such~as student conduct, discipline, student pr grams, counselling services, course selections, etc, Parents will also have a first hand opportunity to meet with their daughter's and son's teachers in groups at which time the various subject de- partments (e.g. English, math, science, industrial education, etc.) will inform parents out- lines, tests, examinations, eval-