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TWICE WEEKLY MAY 4 1980
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Budget a decrease

Lisa Pedrini doesn't know how
right she is.

Pedrini, president of the

jar=—s«éistrict ~=Teachers’
Association, warned following this
week's school board budget
meeting that nobody realizes how
bad the situation is going to be in
Castlegar schools next fall.

In part, the reason for that is
because the provincial govern-
ment's funding for Castlegar's
schools has dropped by nearly
$260,000 from 1985.

But that's the part everybody
knows. The part they don’t know is
that the budget approved Thursday
is not all it appears.

The board brought down a
budget of $8.6 million, which on
the surface appears to be $40,000
more than the $8.577 million
budget proposed April 25.

But that increase is redily a
decrease. How? Simple, the
board's $8.577 million budget did
not include $140,000 from the
provincial government.

The $140,000 was there all
along, but the board had decided
not to include it in the $8.577
million budget because it expects
to lose it next fall.

That's when the Ministry of
Education plans to adjust operating
budgets for school districts when
actual enrolments are known in

mean less funding

And Castlegar school board
expects to have a lower
enrolment. in fact, the board
estimates it will have to return at
least $140,000 to the provincial
government because of lower
enrolment.

The $8.6 million budget, then,
is really only $8.46 million if the
$140,000 the board will owe the
province is removed.

So the real budget figure is
$117,000 less than the $8.577
million budget proposed April 25.
And that original budget wos a
“maintenance” budget

The implications are clear.
Some existing programs will have
to be cut.

But that's not all. The $8.46
million budget includes some
$100,000 for teacher salary in-
creases. So when the boord said _
last week that it needed $400,000
to maintain existing programs, it
really only needed $300,000.

Of course there's nothing
wrong with giving teachers a two
per cent raise. Teachers have been
without a raise for a few years now

Letters to the Editor

- Brisco’s leg pulled?

Editor, Castlegar News: _

. There are a few comments I would
like to make regarding Kootenay West
MP Bob Brisco's claim that there will
be lots of forestry contracts (April 16,-
Castlegar News). The people who have
been trained at taxpayer's expense are
chainsaw operators. There are no con-

and two per cent isn't exh S

But the board should have been
more up front with the information
and told the public that it had
decided to spend $100,000 on
teachers’ salaries instead of on

A lower i will

Chernobyl

The nuclear accident at Cher-
nobyl points up the longstanding
difficulty of trying to obtain ac-
curate, detailed information about

“on in the Soviet Union.

Tim_Horshenin, a 24-year-old
Castleg hang d in
Kiev, best expressed the confusion
felt by many — both inside and
outside the Soviet Union.

Mr. Harshenin said that while
everything appeared to be normal
in Kiev, reports in the Western
media were “freaking out our
parents.”

Certainly, the Soviets should
shoulder the lion's share of the
blame of the confusion. The
secrecy imposed by Soviet
authorities after the nuclear ac-
cident was morally irresponsible

The Soviets attempted to react
to the incident as they would any
other internal disaster: By keeping
@ tight rein on information.

The first indication in the West
that a disaster had occurred came
on Monday when sensors in Scan-
dinavian countries began picking
up much higher than normal levels
of atmospheric radiation

Yet indications are the Cher-
nobyl reactor began experiencing
major problems last Friday. By
Saturday the problems had
evolved into a meltdown of the
reactor core, and by Sunday a
chemical explosion had ripped the
reactor building apart

But there was still no word of
warning from the Soviets

g programs.

confusion

Surely, the Soviet Union — and
any other country — has a duty to
provide information on incidents of
the nature of Chernobyl.

European nations are justifiably
outraged that the Soviets hadn't
given them prior warning. Unfor-
tunately, the Soviet method of
handling information has become
so entrenched it has become habit
— even in the most extreme cases.

But the Soviets aren't solely to
blame. Media reports in the West
also helped to fuel the fire of con-
fusion. There were reports that a
second meltdown was in progress
and that as many as 2,100 people
had been killed — both of which
were as difficult to substantiate as
the Soviet reports.

While the Soviets took the
position that less intormation is
better, the Western media took the
position that it's better to
speculate and quote unnamed
sources than print nothing at all

And while we in the Western
media would like to believe the
same kind of suppression of infor
mation wouldn't happen here, past
experience doesn't bear that out
Remember the confusion and lack
of information surrounding Three
Mile island?

Still, that's little consolation for
the parents of the Castlegar
students studying in Kiev who for
some time didn't know the
situation in Kiev, and who still
don't know the full nature of the
nuclear accident

tracts work. This is

tracts they are small and short term.
The prime objective of the workers
becomes a quest to get enough weeks
to go on Unemployment Insurance.
There is certainly no motivation to de-

Then, you have to deal with the
forest service. Planting trees or brush-
ing and weeding or sharpening a chain-

Remarks about ~

saw properly-are not things you can
learn i at school.

Politicians say having people work at
idized jobs i lar with

reading
Anyone who has ever milked a cow will

know getting milk to flow is not as easy”

as any written description on how to do
it.

is
voters. I have not talked to a taxpayer
yet who wouldn't prefer seeing people
work, even if it was picking paper up
off the streets, (or more importantly

This lack of of the
physical work ‘leads to no uniform
standards and results in inferior work
or lots of people going broke. It also
penalizes people who have high work
standards because it takes a little
longer to do a good job than a poor, or
an adequate job.

At present, the taxpayers are paying
billions of dollars of welfare and UI to
support many able-bodied people who
want to work but have no opportunity.

Make-work projects have a bad
reputation with politicians and much of
the public. This is due more to a lack of
good management, than lazy or un-
motivated workers.

Embree.resented

Editer, News:

Re: Ernest Smith's April 13 letter to
the editor in the Castlegar News. I feel
we must respond. Firstly, Mr. Smith
said Len Embree was trying to create
his own Libya. Since Mr. Smith
brought the foreign nations into the
picture, we are not brainwashed, as he
makes out. What did he expect, coming
into this town (or any other town for
that matter) with 75 per cent of his
work force while there are people here.
who haven't worked for two to three
years? Did he expect the unemployed
to sing O Canada to him? What about
unions? Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't
need them and everybody was honest
with their workers, and said “I have
made some profit, and will share it
among you men and pay your health,

welfare, and small pension and for good
measure, send a couple of young people
to trade school, for after all, you guys
worked your butts off for me to make
this profit in the first place?”

No, it’s not like that and, Mr. Smith
knows it. That's why we need unions —
whether its in America, or Timbuktu.
At least we can work with pride and
dignity and not crawl on our bellies for
work and take peanuts from the likes of
him.

We are all hard-working people here.
We built this town and dam and are
proud of it. We resent your remarks to
our member.

George Graham
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of America
Castlegar

Setting straight
the;Sahlstrom story

Editor, Castlegar News:

Quotable Quotes

ECONOMIST Michael Walker; com-
menting on a suggestion last month by
a landlord in Nelson that moving
Expo-displaced Vancouverites to that

stion of choice of location. People are
saying, ‘I don't want to live in the
Kootenays . . . | want to live where the
action is.

ACTOR Marcello Mastroianni,
whose affairs with leading ladies have
made him one of filmdom’s most eli-
gible married men: “It's very normal to
have love affairs with actresses.
Ideally, I would like to have a love
affair with another kin}i of woman. I
dream about a simple person, the kind I
fell in love with before I became a
movie star — for example a cashier in a
cappuccino bar.

“Of course, she must be a beautiful,
bealthy cappuccino cashier.”

CHER, ON turning 40 May 20: “Tm
not like Jane Fonda or any of these
other women who say how fabulous

they think it is to turn 40. I'm not
thrilled with it.”

IMELDA MARCOS on her new life
in Hawaii: “I worry about whether
there will be enough rice on the table,
enough milk for my grandchildren.
Real basics. All the little details.
Where do we buy a rake?”

ROBERT EVANS, a professor of
economics at the University of B.C..
commenting on a proposal to institute
profit-making hospitals in Canada,
when health care costs in the United
States have increased much faster than
in Canada since the early 1970s: “Why
is it we're inviting the Americans up
here to tell us what to do? It’s sort of
like inviting the Russians in to help you
grow wheat.”

ROBBIE Elliott, a part-time rodeo
hand, suffered a host of injuries by the
horns of a bull named Combat during
the Silver Buckle Rodeo in Red Deer,
Alta.

“I think I (only) have one toe that's
not bruised. I was lucky. It could have
been a whole lot worse.

is_made to the Story of
Granny Sahistrom, written by colum-
nist John Charters and recently carried
in Castlegar News.

With all due respect and apologies to
John, I would like to correct a discrep-
ancy occurring in the first installment,
probably due to confusion over ref-
erences to the building of two camps:
one on Merry Creek in late 1917; and
the second near Blueberry Creek at the
present site of the Hilltop Service,
several years later.

Actually, C.J. Sahistrom and Bill
Anderson, who had been contract
logging out of Slocan City, arrived at
Kinnaird in the fall of 1917 to enter into
a lumbering partnership with George
Merry (Sr.) of Annable, who was the
owner of a timber licence on upper

Merry Creek. During the period of
reconnaissance and building camp,
Sahistrom and Anderson boarded with
the J.A. Killough family, in residence
at the time in the two-storied house
near the Highway 3 interchange — a
period of possibly a month or so.

The partnership was dissolved and
the timber sold to Milestone Lumber
Co. in the fall of 1918. Sahistrom then
moved his operations to the Schofield
Creek and Blueberry Creek area; but
was not a boarder at the Killough home
when, several years later he con-
structed his camp at the Hilltop
Service-site.

To set the record straight and
maintain harmony in the “camp,” I
would be grateful if you would kindly
print the foregoing correction.

J.F. Killough
Castlegar

Tax increase deplorable

Editer, News:

It is totally deplorable to see school
taxes going up in Castlegar when the
student population is declining.

There are people in the area losing
their homes and jobs and we have a
rapidly declining tax base.

Where is the logic? Does the school
board wish to destroy the remnants of
the existing taxpayers?

Come on now, get some semblance of
reason on the board.

34-year taxpayer
im Castlegar

than sit-
ting around doing nothing.

There is nothing wrong with gov-
ernment-subsidized jobs. There are
thousands of people working at jobs
that are subsidized in one form or
another.

Steady forestry jobs of the type Mr.
Brisco and the Conservatives do not
approve of, are an investment in this
area's future and the people who live
here. All the extra money earned by
workers is spent in the economy any.
way.

Young people who do not have jobs
should be aware of a few facts.
(Canada's wealth and a bulk of the jobs
have been based on resource exploit-
ation of virgin land — a big pie with lots

~~olgeumbs fer thedittle guys.

is Asthepie
shrinks, there Gfe-less efnmbe. There
fore, if you want a crumb, you will have
to fight for it. No one, including the
government, is going to give you any-
thing.

If you can’t be bothered, then know
that next to insects and rats, man is the
most adaptable animal. You can make
do with very little if you have to.

So Mr. Brisco it seems is having his
leg pulled by somebody when he is told
there will be lots of contracts. There
seems to be less jobs now than when
the Liberals were in power.

Greg Wozy
Intensive Forestry
Ymir

Justice
has flown
out window

Editor, Castlegar News:

What kind of justice is there left in
British Columbia when a drunk driver
who killed two young men two years
ago gets a sentence that could be given
a person for shoplifting food?

Obviously, it was not the judge's
sons who were killed, or his grandsons,
or his nephews or even sons of his
white collar friends.

The drunk driver should have been
given a much more severe sentence
and had his license taken away for life.
Let him ride the bus, skytrain or take
taxis. Let him walk along the road,
maybe he would get hit by a drunk
driver too.

I cried seeing the faces of the two
mothers on BCTV Monday on the 6
p.m. news.

Justice has flown out the window in
B.C. Six days a week of drinking is not
enough this year. Liquor outlets will be
open on the Lord's Day; folks could get
killed going or coming from church.

Remember
When?

35 YEARS AGO
From the May 3, 1951
News

Castlegar
‘The Honorable D.A. Turnbull, Min-
ister of Health and Welfare and MLA
for this riding will officially open the
new Stanley Humphries junior-senior
high school tonight.
.

Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Philips of Castle-
gar attended the meeting of the
Castlegar Commission Monday night
with a petition of 21 signatures
opposing the raising of chickens within
a specified area in Castlegar. After
considerable discussion a motion was
passed to study and draw up a bylaw to
prohibit the raising of chickens and
other animals within certain areas in
the town.

. 6 *«

The Consolidated Mining and Smelt-
ing Company of ‘Canada Ltd. an-
nounced that it will bring the H.B.
Mine near Salmo into production in the
next two years at a cost of $2,750,000.

. 68 «@

While no money was available for
relocation of the Castlegar-Trail high-
way at Genelle, necessary improve-
ments would be carried out, Castlegar
Chamber of Commerce was assured on
Monday.

25 YEARS AGO
From the May 4, 1961
News

Castlegar
Castlegar residents appear to be
using 4,000 gallons of water an hour in
the middle of the night. This is equal to
seven gallons per resident per hour.
Council felt that this usage was
unusually high although account must
be given to the fact that Castlegar is a
shift-workers’ town and that the
hospital is used all night, while there
are janitors in the schools and the
Modern Dairy starts up its plant early.
* ee e@

The WKP&L Co. will establish an
office in Castlegar within a month to
service the Castlegar District, village
chairman N.T. Oglow told council
Tuesday night.

. 8 «

Seven hundred feet of sidewalk were
laid along Columbia Avenue between
Crescent Street and Ferry Street
under the winter works program dur-
ing April, works supervisor Norman
McNabb told council Tuesday night.

. 8

The Hotel Marlane was sold Satur-

son and Dr. Harold Smythe, who pur-
chased the Castlegar Hotel in July
1959, exercised an option on Saturday
to purchase the Marlane.

15 YEARS AGO
From the May 6, 1971
Castlegar News

A steady drizzle persisted and can-
cellation of the visit of Queen Eliza-
beth, Prince Philip and Princess Anne
always threatened. But exactly at 4
p.m. — right on schedule — the plane
carrying the Royal family touched
down at Castlegar airport.

It left again at 4:55 p.m., extending
by 20 minutes the planned 35-minute
visit.

. 2 «6

A 2%-mile link required in the old
Deer Park road to join the section of it
still remaining above the flood level
with Syringa Creek was expected to be
viewed this week by a representative
of the regional highways department
office at Nelson and a representative of
the Castlegar and District Chamber of
Commerce.

* ¢ «

The fire season, which officially
began last Saturday, got off to a hectic
pace with the report of 12 CPR fires
over the weekend.

. 8 «6

The SHSS Doukhobor Student
Choir’s Variety Concert: on Saturday
night received outstanding support
from local and area residents. Ap
proximately 1,000 people either at-
tended or performed in the concert.

5 YEARS AGO
From the May 3, 1981
Castlegar News
Contract talks between Cominco and
the United Steelworkers of America
broke off Saturday, and the 6,000
workers at Trail and Kimberley are
scheduled to strike Monday.
. . .

Three charges of violating terms of a

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control permit have been laid
against the Regional District of Central
Kootenay in connection with the oper-
ation of the Ootischenia dump.
. 28 6

Castlegar’s application for $5,000 to
help develop its downtown revitaliza-
tion plan has been approved by the
pr government, Municipal Af-
fairs Minister Bill Vander Zalm has an-
nounced.

. . .

A Castlegar resident, Michael Har-
nadek, is among the 11 students across
the

COMMUNITY NEWS

There's been a lot of talk lately,
both in Kootenay West and on
Parliament Hill, about a new
program coming on stream called

Futures. It's being
talked about in Kootenay West be-
cause there is a fair chance that we

Community Futures is one of the
six. programs which collectively
make-up the Canadians Jobs Strat-

Brisco
Report

By Kootenay
West MP

Bob Brisco

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
CENTRES: a further

_ Castlegar area
pioneer dies

And thirdly, a feature of the pro-

gram that I feel is very important, is
that recommendations on which
program options may be most ap-

of the LEAD ition, such as
the KREDA (Kootenay Regional
Employment Development Associa-
tion) Corp., which presently serves
the Regional District of Central
Kootenay area from its office in
Nelson. The purpose of a

to
be essential for the economic de-
he of the

In the communities selected for
assistance under this program, local
Community Futures Committees
will determine which elements of
the program might be useful in their
particular community. And they will
have five options to choose from:

SELF EMPLOYMENT INCEN-
TIVE: will assist unemployed work-
ers who wish to become self-
employed by providing income sup-
port while their business is’ being
established. In other words, the
unemployed worker would be com-
pensated for Unemployment Insur-
ance, or Welfare benefits that would
otherwise be lost.

Eligible candidates would receive
income support of up to $180 per
week for one year. This option is
closely modelled on highly, success.
ful programs such as the Enterprise
Allowance Scheme in Great Britain.

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
to assist workers who are unem-
ployed, or who are about to be
unemployed, to relocate to regions
where better employment oppor-
tunities exist.

COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
FUND: Community Futures Com-
mittees will also be able to apply to
a centrally-held fund for support for
decal job-creating projects which are
not covered by other Community
Futures program options or by
other means. One of the main pre-
conditions for support from the
Community Initiatives Fund is that
there is at least matching funding

CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

— registered with the B.C. Ministry of
Education Examination Branch.

They lived for a time at
Shoreacres and Thrums,

im Wednesday's Lotto 649
draw were 2, 9, 13, 18, 20 and
29. The bonus number was
42.

The jackpot pool of
$1,484,381.40 was divided by

The third-prize pool,
awarded to those matching
five regular numbers had 331
winners of $1,295.50.

Library
to sell

muffins

The Castlegar library will
be holding a fundraising cof-
fee and muffins Friday morn-

They are well aware of our plight,
and have assured me that our case
will be given full consideration when
it comes time to choose which com-
munities will become “Community
Futures Communities.”

by other levels of g
and/or by the private sector.

Community Futures serves a
number of purposes. First of all, it
streamlines the process by incor-
porating the initiatives of a number
of programs with similar intent,
under one umbrella.

For instance, programs we have
seen in Kootenay West such as

ing at the Senior Citizens
Centre.

Muffins and a bake table
will be catered by library
board members and staff,
and any volunteers who care
to contribute.

The heritage painting raf-
fle was extended until May 9
and the draw will be made at
the centre. An additional $25
prize has been added to the

provide special
ial cases. It doesn’t pretend to be
the solution, but it will help.

An announcement on which com-
munities will be eligible for special
Community Futures assistance is
expected to be made within the next
four to six weeks.

Haley 1986 CWL president

Brita Haley was re-elected
president of the Catholic
Women's League at the April
meeting.

Others on the 1986 ex-
ecutive include: first vice-
president Marge Lamarche;
second vice-president Aud-
rey Archambault; third vice-
president Kay McGauley;
secretary Leona Bozek;
treasurer Joan Muller; his-
torian Anne Gallo; hospital
Blondine Perra.

Convenors are: family life
— Audrey Archambault;
membership — Kay McGau-

ley;

Joan

community
Schneider; spiritual — Marge
Lamarche; communication —
Bessie Schiavon.

The nominating committee
was Marge Lamarche, Pat
Fields and Marge Schneider.

The executive will be in-
stalled at the May 20 meet-

ing.
Meanwhile, also at the
April meeting Mila Richards
read the league prayer and
Leona Bozek read the min.
utes of the last meeting.
Muller
treasurer's

— ‘Marge
Richards read

Sympathy
cards were sen

and resolutions.
Audrey

Father

gave the
report after

which spiritual convenor Mila

She asked for prayers for all
sick and shut-ins.
and get-well

McGauley spoke on education

Archambault
spoke on Family Lif
Bessie Schiavon gave the
communication report.
Herman
brink was given a gift in
recognition of his 40-year an-
nivesary in the priesthood.
The first communion chil-

raffle for the occasion, cour-
tesy of Florence Laycock.

359-7650

dren were given croc!
crosses with medals attached
made by Maria Ambrosio.

Diana Pilla gave her re
port on the catering.

She thanked all the ladies
who worked so hard.

Thanks also went to those
who assisted at the Rota Villa
entertainment party and to
Rudy Baeff for the music

Brita Haley is the delegate
to the CWL convention in
Oliver.

A baby gift will be given to
the Miller's new baby.

her report.

tt out. Kay

—

Enger-

MONDAY, MAY 5 THRU

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

The uniform is like a beacon on
the street. It signals help. Compassion

Caring

But not many people know how
much it takes to be a soldier in the
Salvation Army. The inhuman hours.
The incredible patience. The

brutal situations

Taking responsibility for
those whom society is unable

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