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Published Bright and Early Every Thursday Morning at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays”

In today's CasNews

Section 'C”

Vol. 3 No, 44

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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, _NOVEMBER 2, 1978

‘Three Sections (A,B&C)

Castlegar Cancels Halloween Trick on MoT

itudents protest In downtown C:
lasses, Similar groups of Selkirk

‘JIN THE MIDDLE of the strike-fockout dispute between the West Kootenay

Educational Employers’ Association and five CUPE locals, Selkirk College
, tlegar Friday the disruption of their
student demonstrators a

Demonstrations, class boy-
“‘eotts and a sit-in by Selkirk

: College students and limited
“elassroom sessions in
sschools highlighted this week's
t:developments in a strike-lock-
‘rout at the college and four West
si: Kootenay School districts.

local

School District No. 9 teach-
ers and administrators con-

jaily while Selkirk students
‘made several attempts to force
an end to the deadlock begun

4 $trike-Lockout Cripples Education in West Kootennys

Local Schooling

Friday when the Castlegar,
Trail and Grand Forks. schoo!
boards locked out their non-
teaching employees after the
Canadian Union of Public Em-
ployees called strikes at Nelson
and Selkirk College.

A committee of 56 students
voted at the college's Castlegar
campus Tuesday afternoon to
operate a “student action work-
shop and information Centre”
on a 24-hour basis in the main
lounge.

A spokesman for the com-

jared In

downtown Nelson and In the Waneta ‘ataes In Teall the same day. Ina letter
to Education Minister Pat McGeer students cited funding cutbacks as one
source of the dispute at the college.—CasNewsFoto by Lols Hughes

Limited, Students . In

mittee told the Castlegar News
yesterday the purpose of the
sit-in was to draw attention to
the students’ problems during
the dispute and “to put pres-
sure on the college council and
administration to settle.”
“The double pressure is
inherent in that we're crossing
the (CUPE) picket lines to sit
in,” Peter Hammond said.
Hammond said the com-
mittee will continue the boycott
—supported in a vole by stu-
dents last Thursday—of re-

Proposed Plebiscite He Plebiscite illegal, Municipal Affairs Ministry Warns

 RDCK Drops Poll on Diversion

By RYON GUEDES
Central” Kootenay voters
will not..have the chance to
support or oppose B.C. Hydro's

. proposed Kootenay Diversion

in a Nov. 18 poll after all, the
regional district board decided
Saturday.

RDCK directors withdrew
participation of five munici-
palities and seven rural elec-
toral areas in the planned
opinion poll—on whether the
Crown power corporation

i should ‘take: advantage. of, its.

option - sunder™’the Columbia
River. Treaty to divert 1.5
million acre-feet of the Koote-
nay River. into the Columbia
River at Canal Flats annually
after 1984—in response to a
municipal affairs ministry rul-
ing that it would be illegal.
An Oct. 11 letter from T. F.
Moore, executive director of
administration, said the minis-
try would not submit the
board's plebiscite bylaw to the

RCMP Cite Need for More City Lighting ©

Reports of Vandalism ‘Doubled’

A total of 86 acts of van-
dalism reported here in the
first eight months of 1978
represents a 100-per-cent in-
crease over those reported
during the same period last

year, according to Ald. C. S.
Fowler.

Fowler, protective service
committee chairman, told city
council last Tuesday a recent
review by the local RCMP

Approval of a funding
formula by the end of this
month for the city’s planned
tie-in to CanCel’s Arrow
Lakes pipeline could mean a
spring start on the project's
construction, according to
the city administrator.
Reporting this week oe
progress in

Early Start Eyed
~ For Pipeline Tie-In

over the pipeline “financial
package,” Bill Krug told the
Castlegar News the repre-
sentatives of the tivo senior
governments were still "“go-
ing around in circles.”

* But he said the final
cost breakdown, although
originally expected to be
presented last week, is

“provincial inspegtor,

cipalities because it concerned
an issue with which the RDCK
did not have the power. to deal.

The letter said the diver-
sion proposal “is one that comes
under purview of the provincial
government.” The ,board re-
scinded the Sept. 30 third
reading of the bylaw after
directors for Castlegar and the
villages of New: Denver and
Slocan joined representatives
of Area A (the Riondel area), G

in the

duced levels of instruction

offered by the college adminis-

tration during the dispute.
Contacted Tuesday, prin-

cipal Mitch Anderson said the :
administration -'was*: offering.

limited classes at the college in
“an attempt to minimize the
impact on the students’ aca-
demic program.” He said atten-
dance at the classes varies from
100 per cent to none.

“We're really trying to
“convince students to attend
classes and learn what they

(the Upper now Lake area) in
», Seeking exclusion? from the

plebiscite, stating they could”

not condone the illegal expen-
diture. of public funds it-would
involve.

Area K director Lee Doni-
son told the board that based on
the information available on the

can,” Anderson said, “The
college is certainly committed

to not compromising the quality:

of their education.”
Selkirk students also dem-
Friday in

By RYON GUEDES
CasNows Editor

The city called off its threatened Halloween pullout from the Castlegar Airport
function with acceptance Tuesday morning of a final offer by the federal transport

ministry.

In a telegram sent at 11 a.m. to Al Bach, the ministry's Pacific regional
administrator, the city accepted in return for Its extension of the deadline his offer to:

© Relieve the city of the airport function by March 31, 1979;

© Increase the municipality's liability coverage trom $10 million to $20 million
until a more comprehensive policy is introduced tater this month;

© Include in any ‘'third party’’ contract for operation of the airport after the new
deadline a clause requiring the contractor ‘'to consider hiring the present
employees" before hiring personnel from Canada Manpower or the open market.

Mayor Audrey Moore, who said council approved the ministry's final offer Monday evening after.
receiving them at about 4:30 p.m., said she found the ministry “rather slow in responding to the city.”

“I think it might be very difficult for that ministry to respond to a crisis situation affecting the
whole SUNY she said. ave learned just how rigid and incapable of action the whole process is.”

noted the $20
lion interim liability sents
was the same given to the
Kelowna and Cranbrook air-
ports until the new it

In addition to ensuring
coverage of the liability Castle-
gar taxpayers would otherwise
face in the

package for airports across
Canada is available.

of the airport, the city council
has “done what we can to save

the jobs of the present em-
ployees,” she said.

The mayor said she did not
know how the seven employees
—concerned about the security

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Castlegar and Nelson and the
Waneta Plaza in Trail to draw
attention to the problems the
dispute caused for students on
the campuses operated by the
college >in those cities. (See
photo above.)

Locally this week, Schoo!
District No. 9 kindergartens

‘offered morning sessions from9

am. to 11 a.m. and

 Re-election by accla-
mation of the Regional Dis-
trict’ of Central Kootenay
director for Area I and the
School District No. 9 trustce
for Area J;

e Competition among
two incumbents and two
newcomers for. three city
council seats;

e Candidacy of two in-

sessions from noon to 2 p,m.
daily. Elementary and second-
ary students attended school
from 9 a.m..to noon daily while

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and one
for two city school board
Seats.

Those were the final
standings after the noon

Monday dead-

Area I Director, Area J Trustee Re-Elected

_7 File for 5 Positions

line for Nov. 18 municipal,
regional and school board
elections.

Unopposed were incum-
bents Area I director John
Moran and Vera Kanigan,
Area J school trustee,

Nominated for the three
aldermanic seats are new-
comer Roger Cristofoli, a
security guard and first aid
attendant; incumbent Len
Embree, a carpenter; a new-
comer Heather Hallett, a

Ger-
ald Rust, a supervisor.

Seeking election to the
two city trustees’ positions
will be newcomer Rodney
Gilmour, a social worker;
incumbent Ernie Mills, re-
tired; incumbent Stewart
Webster, an engineer.

Polling stations for both -
the municipal and school
board elections will be the
Royal Canadian Legion Hall
at 248 Columbia Ave.: and
the Castlegar South Firehall
at 1119 Seventh Ave. S

~“Coniinco’s, CPRail’s Trans

port of Dangerous Chemicals

Safe Shipment Taken ‘Seriously’

An extensive monitoring
system and a specially-trained
emergency crew are among the

I would
personally have to vote un-
decided.” Area G_ director

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Castlegar aly showed this
year's total as of the end of
August “has doubled? the 1977
figure.

Confirming Fowler's state-
ments on the growing incidence
of vandalism in the area, fellow,

‘committee member Ald. Jim

Gouk told | couneil that when he
RCMP. h

dary School, “several
cases’-of broken iis". and
damage toa vehicle on Maloney
Pontiac Buick GMC Ltd. pre-
mises.

“I was informed it was a
rather quiet evening,” Gouk
said.

He said the RCMP mem-
bers he accompanied proposed

on patrol Oct. 21 evening the ~
-police examined

“kicked-in”
glass doors at Kinnaird Junior

‘Average’

lighting for both
private and public property in
the area as means of deterring
vandals.

For Castlegar RCMP

It has been an “average”
Halloween. This is how a local
RCMP Kk described

tween the pi ere
mic development ministry
and the federal regional eco-
nomic expansion ministry

be forth

ing” late this week. The city

is confident that if the for-
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the two evenings .of activities
which began with gate night.
Egg throwing appeared to
iggest thing though a

POPPY DISTRIBUTION basins tomorrow on elty streets by ‘Legion members.

Representing city appro

Mayor Audre;

Ladies’ Auxillary

Moore receives a poppy from
ppy fund co-chairman ‘steve Melnick while approval is beamed by, left to

few fires were set. The only one
considered reportable was to a
CP Rail shed and some over-
head wires resulting in an
estimated $1,000 damage.

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fs
ry Dot Macpherson and poppy fund ef
already been distributed to the various businesses with poppy

to into

g Co-
minco and CP Rail in rail
transport of dangerous chemi-
cals in the area, according to
city council's protective ser-
vices chairman.

Reporting on a mid-Qcto-
ber meeting with representa-
tives of the railway and the
mining company’s Trail smelt-
ing operation, Ald. C. S. Fowler
said Cominco and CP Rail take
safe shipment of the chemicals

“very seriously and have it well
in hand.”

He said the protective
services committee was told at
the meeting—also attended by
representatives of CP Rail,

Once-Cancelled
Cleanup Now
In Effect

The city’s formerly-can-
celled fall cleanup service is
now available to residents for
the next 12 days, the Castlegar
News was told this week.

Igor Zahynacz, assistant
city works superintendent, said
the cleanup program—in which

* heavy debris and trash is

included in regular garbage

pickup—started Monday and

will remain in effect until Nov.
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rman Steve Gallo.

‘oto by Lols Hughes

CanCel and the local RCMP
detachment: as well as the
Provincial Emergency Program
area and zone co-ordinators—
that the company keeps track
of the movement of every rail-
way car carrying dangerous
materials.

In the event of a rail

accident Cominco is able to
contact CP Rail authorities in
Trail and Nelson and imme-
diately pinpoint its location, he
said.

Both the company and the
railway have trained special
teams, specializing in the hand-
ling‘ of toxic chemicals, “who

Ministry ‘Failing to
GAIN Recipients of Benefits

Welfare recipients are not
usually aware of all the benefits
available to them, according to
two visiting University of Vic-

toria assistant sociology pro-
fessors.

Marjorie Martin and Mari-
lyn Callahan, participating here

Genelle Blockade Tria!
Adjourned to Jan. 17

A provincial court judge last Wednesday adjourned until Jan.
17, 1979 the trial of three Genelle men who have pleaded not guilty
of obstructing exploration of uranium deposits near their China

Creek watershed.

Jud ge I. B. Josephson, after completion of two days of

in Cast! and Rossland p

jal courts, granted the

request by defence counsels for Herb McGregor, 46, Eric Taylor,
32, and Brent Lee, 33, for an adjournment to allow them to

examine written trial transcripts.

In granting the request the judge said the transcripts would
“not be available until December because of the heavy workload on
the court reporter. He said he would like to see the date brought
forward if possible. (See story on Page Bl.)

would come to any major dis-
aster in this town or any other
town nearby,” Fowler said. The
teams are skilled in dealing.
with such hazards as tanks
which have ruptured or spilled
and require capping.
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Inform’

and in Trail during the past
week in-a series of open-line
radio shows and workshops on
the provincial Guaranteed An-
nual Income for Need prograt
told the Castlegar News th
human resources ministry's fail-
ure to inform the public about
such benefits has resulted in a
considerable number of mis-
conceptions by and about Teck
pients.

Martin, who has co-author.
ed with Callahan a 40-page
pamphlet explaining GAIN
benefits and regulations, said
informing recipients about their.
rights to enable them to use the
service more responsibly,
should be high on the ministry‘ 8
list of priorities.

She said one of the prob.’
lems caused by this lack of

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BURDEN:

Must taxpayers resign
themselves to the cost of
vandalism?

BANG: 10
A call for responsible gun

WEEKEND_WEATHERCAST

SUNNY today with morning
fog. Increasing clouds to-
morrow and into the weekend
with periods of rain. Daytime
highs of 6° to 8° and over-
night lows near 0°.

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