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NEW EXECUTIVE installed recently to the Royal Canadian
Legion, Branch No. 170 are, front row, left to right, past president
Ed Zorn, president Norm Blais and secretary Dorothy
Macpherson. Back row, left to right, service officer Steve Gallo,
first vice-president Frank Dodgson, executive member Harry Bate

and Sgt-at-arme Pete Lavole. Missing from the photo are

executive member Frank Watkin, treasurer Bill Bennett, and~

Rev. Richard Klein and Father W. Harrison.
—Castlegar News Photo by Donna Embree

‘ One Man's Opinion AG
A Look at Our Teachers

By Fred Merriman °

1 Somebody asked” me what I thought about. school
teachers, Well... when I was a kid, I was afraid of them and
then I reached the stage that I believed every word a
teacher said, Now I just feel sorry for them.

They are blamed for everything that is wrong with’
society and I think that is unfair. The teachers are now
required to be mother, father and babysitter—and it helps if
they also know something about Social Studies.

I had the personal opportunity of being a substitute
teacher for a few months last spring and I know what the
inside ofa “staff room” can be like,

Most of the teachers I met were going about their jobas
best they could and I aim not so sure anymore that they are
overpaid. Since they apparently have the responsibility of

out the world's p: lwould suggest that
they are grossly underpaid.

In fact, it would be well if we did not keep reminding the
teachers how important they really are, because we couldn't -
afford to pay them the wages they are really worth,

Now you know my general opinion about teachers and I
will tell you why I hold positive regard for the teaching
profession:

A lonely old spinster who was in love with her Grade 7
class at Oakland School in Victoria spoke these un-
forgettable words to a class that first day back at school: "I
want you boys and girls to ask questions .. . of me. I expect
you to chalk rything I'say and to question facts and

Diversion Tunnel Contract _
For Revelstoke Dam Awarded

B.C. Hydro has awarded
the first major contract in
connection with the proposed
Revelstoke Dam project to a
consortium of two eastern
Canadian companies.

-The contract bid price of
$35,420,290 for construction of
a diversion tunnel and as-
sociated work was made by

- Pitts Engineering Construction

Eastern of Toronto, and Atlas
Construction of Montreal, and
was accepted by Hydro,

Four other bids were re-
ceived, the highest being more
than $54 million.

The contract contains pro-
vision for cancellation in the
event that Hydro's conditional
water licence for the Revel-
stoke project should be with-

drawn as a result of appeals to
the provincial cabinet.

If this happened, con-
tractors would be compensated
for any work carried out up to
the time of cancellation,

The dam will be built about
three miles upstream on the
Columbia River from Revel-
stoke in an area known as Little
Dalles Canyon,

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MISS CASTLEGAR, JoAnn
Wabisca, left yesterday for
Victoria to attend a ball to-
morrow evening at Govern-
tent House. The invitation has
been extended to her by Lt.
Gov. and Mrs. Walter S. Owen.
She will return Saturday.

Valhalla
sl ide-Tape

Presentation

The Valhalla Proposal,
spawned by a 1978 study for |
future resource management in
the Slocan Valley, is a subject
which has caused much contro-
versy in the past several years,

The proposal involves the
establishment of a 122,000-acre
wilderness preserve that will
maintain the natural integrity
of the area from the shores of
Slocan Lake to the

opinions expressed in your texts. I even want you to
question historic decisions.”

Twas a member of Miss Kinnaird’s Social Studies class
and have been asking questions ever since.

In all due respects to Bruce Ketchum and others at
Selkirk College, it has not made me popular, but I am having
fun asking questions and that is why I like school teachers. I
like finding out that they don’t have any more right answers
than I do.

That's why I feel sorry for them. We expect teachers to
have all the answers for any of our problems. I would only
hope that all schoo! teachers were like old Miss Kinnaird of
Victoria because if we have more people asking more
questions, it is just possible one of the “students” may, in a
mood of serendipity, come up with the right answer.

For any teacher that may be reading this opinion, you
may be interested to know that the B.C, Conference onthe
Family pointed a collective finger at the teaching profession
when it blamed the teachers for not instilling a sense of
value in students of today. The delegates inferred that most
of the social problems, broken families, crime, overuse of
drugs, financial unhappiness, ete. were all caused by a low
sense of values.in most of the citizens in this province.

Values should be taught in the schools.

So there you have it, my teaching friends. You have
gone full circle. Society as represented by the Conference on
the Family has charged you with the responsibility of
teaching the Golden Rule. You have been asked to also
become clergymen and clergywomen. (Roman Catholic
excepted),

It might be an exercise for our imagination to see Dr.
Pat McGeer as a Doctor of Divinity because, as Minister of
Education, he is your “chief”.

Now there is another human being, that has my
sympathy. Right now I am only capable of feeling concerned
about teachers so I will talk about Dr. McGeer some other
time. “Let us pray.

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Air Brake Course Taken

The Castlegar Airport
maintenance crew have just
completed and passed an air
brake course sponsored by Sel-
kirk College.

Receiving certificates were
equipment operator and fore-

peaks. It was spearheaded by a
group of concerned individuals
who formed the Valhalla com-

mittee and undertook, as a~

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man, Emile 3 equip-
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ficate was. airport manager,
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The course consisted of 18
hours of theory and six hours of
practical training on air brakes,
This course was required by
the men due to the MoT
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preserve.

Recently, at Selkirk Col-
lege, Valhalla committee mem-
bers Grant Copeland and Rich-
ard Caniell made a slide-tape

presentation and led a dis-

cussion on the subject, with the
purpose . of acquainting the
public with the project's cur-
rent status and its hopes for the
future.

It is their intent to present
the proposal to the present
government. If accepted, the
preserve would forestall
logging efforts in the area. As
Mr. Copeland put it, “We must
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sequences of establishing a
preserve and weigh them
against the results of per-

: mitting the area to be logged.”

Speaking of the Nelson
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tial.” 5

The slide-tape show ap-
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hani* ‘this month, National
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Richard Caniell wrote and re-
corded the taped voice track.

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