os _Casthégat News _1orn2, 18 Legislative Library, Parliament Bidgs., 501 Beltevilt Births & Funerals YOUr G@dvertising dollars dobetterin...... BUSINES BROWN Brown of Robson, © girl Feb. 26. umes, To Leila end Doug born Fruitvale, @ girl, born Feb. 14. HALIFAX — To Sherry and Randy Halitex of Fruitvale, @ boy, born Feb. 13. HORNBY — Io Sandy ond Mark Hornby of Nelson, @ boy, born se Trail, @ boy, born Feb. % KUTZNER — To Mr. and Mrs Kutzner of Trail, @ girl, born Feb. 18 MALAKOFF — To Verna and Sid Malakott of Crescent Valley, o girl, born Feb. 19. MONDIN — To Lola and John Mondin of Trail, o girl, born Jan. 2 PEARSON — To Sandra and Gary Pearson of Castlegar, o boy. born Feb. 21 PEAT — To Mr. ond Mrs. Lorry Peat of Trail, @ girl, born Feb. 14. SYLVEST — To Denise and David Syivest of Costlegor, « girl, born Feb. 20 WOOD — To Lourie and Brion Wood of Nelson, a girl, born Feb. 20 jeger; six grandchildren; brother Harry of Victoria; sisters ; two brother Pete of Nelson: sister Marthe Corbett Geneite STRINGER — Grace Stringer of 9 ; three -grandchildren; sisters wen Trewhelle ond Mary . both of Rossland; nephews. may be made to 8.C. Cancer Society, Box 1299. Rossiond. two Memorial Toxic wastes escape untreated WASHINGTON (AP) — An estimated 91 million kilograms of toxies flow into sewage plants across the United States each year, but huge amounts of these haz- ardous wastes escape un- treated into the environ- ment, a U.S. federal study vironmental Protection Agency said 160,000 indus- trial and commercial facilities each day produce 12 billion litres of wastewater laden with chemicals and heavy metals. This, EPA said, represents about 12 per cent of the waste flowing daily through the sewers and into publicly owned treatment plants in the U.S. EPA pointed out that dis- posal of toxies into sewers is generally legal because fed- eral law “provides that a hazardous waste, when mixed with domestic sewage, is no i hazardous waste.” On a yearly basis, an es- timated 91 million kilograms of “hazardous pollutants” — chemicals and heavy metals — enter the sewage treat ment process, EPA said. The agency estimated that at best, 62 per cent of the toxies are lized DIRECTORY Accounting | Auto Rentals PERSONAL CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Ave. 444 Fhe Ave. 1 Ph. 365-2151 34 tb 3355 Beauty Salons SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc. 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Your first individual consultation with your own personal coun: setor is free. Call now. Hours: Mon. - Fri. 7 @.m. to 12:30 p.m Victoria, B. Cs vev 1x4 Pedi 25 College gets $325,000 By CasNews Staff and News Services Selkirk College will receive $25,000 from the recently established cial excellence in education fund, today. B.C.'s Minister Russ Fraser announced Tues- day that colleges and post-secondary institutes will receive $4.4 million from the fund. ‘The money is in addition to the col- leges’ base operating budgets and will be used for non-salary inflation costs and establishing rural multi-campus centres and business development cen Fraser said the $4.4 million will be “We got our share of what was avail- able,” he said. reflecting a one per cent increase in its budget. In addition, Selkirk College will re- ceive $160,000 for multi-campus oper- ation. This money will go into the col- lege’s operating budget. The colleg will receive another $80,000 to continue operating its Enter- prise Development Centre which re- cently opened in Castlegar. Castlés Vol. 39, No. 19 50 Cents a> $34 million from the $110-million fund which was established Feb. 11. Schatz added there is a possibility for even more funding. He said the majority of allocations will be for « College and Capilano College in North Van- couver. CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1986 Public forum on economy planned By CasNews Staff Castlegar residents will have their say on economic development in the community. The Castlegar and District Develop- ment Board (formerly the Castlegar Industrial Commission) plans to spon- sor a public forum in mid-April to discuss the city's economic future. Board chairman Harry Stan told a recent Castlegar council meeting that the board will release a draft copy of its economic strategy plan at the meeting. The plan and public meeting are two of the board’s priorities for the coming year. Other priorities inelude: © forming a society or corporation @ finding funding to hire an economic development officer © finding an office for the devel opment officer Stan said the board plans to form a society or corporation within the next six to eight weeks. The society or cor- poration will initially consist of the eight board members, along with representatives of Castlegar council and Area I and J. This will mark Areas I and J's first formal involvement with the board. The board also hopes to find an office, and suggested city hall might have extra space. However, Ald. Nick Ogiow said he's opposed to the board moving into city hall. Oglow said the city hall offices are already full, and he expressed concern that the society might be taken for a municipal function should it locate so close to the city. But Ald. Albert Calderbank, coun. cil's representative on the board, point ed out that having the economic development office located in city hall could be beneficial. For instance, the development offi. cer could be in a good position to help speed up development proposals, Cal derbank said. Calderbank added that the office could be located at city hall “at least initially,” but added that any decision on its location “is still up in the air.” TET News = SONG FOR MILA . . . Castlegar primary But di d th missed Mila Mulroney, the prime minister's wite Monday when her flight was cancelled due to fog MILA'S VISIT CANCELLED BUT SHOW GOES ON By CasNews Staff Mila Mulroney couldn't make it, but the show went ‘on anyway. Heavy fog Monday morning forced the cancellation of Mulroney's 4'/-hour visit to Castlegar. The prime minister's wife was scheduled to arrive by a chartered Learjet from Vancouver at 10:15 a.m. but persistent fog was still in the area at the time. At 11:30 a.m. the decision was made to cancel Mulroney's visit gh with their specially anyway for local CestiewsPhate by Chery! Coldertont prepared performance dignitaries A spokesman from Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco's office said it would have taken 40 minutes for Mulroney to fly into Castlegar from Vancouver and by the time the fog lifted, she would have missed the festivities, which included a program at Castlegar Primary School and a Progressive Conservative luncheon in Rossland The spokesman said flying into Nelson and Trail was considered, but rejected because the runways at those two airstrips are not long enough. After her visit was cancelled, Brisco announced that Mulroney said she will reschedule her trip to Castlegar No date of the visit has been announced Mulroney is meeting with cystic fibrosis and multi cultural groups on a week-long swing through western Canada Although Mulroney couldn't make it, the Stanley Humphries Secondary School Stage Band, which was to continued on poge A2 to resist attacks resenting a total of about 11,000 work- 30. wags. Shewaga told delegates at Tuesday's opening session of the union's con vention in Castlegar that “anyone here Who ‘has participated in the pulp and paper negotiations that began Jan. 31 is surely aware that the forest industry has persistently attempted to reduce our caucus beyond the level of at least one representative from each local! that we have now.” Forty-six delegates from the union's 16 locals in B.C. are attending the union’s three-day convention at the Fireside Inn. Shewaga said the union must resist the industry's attempts to reduce its caucus “because they are designed to weaken our union by isolating us from the membership. “We have been successful in main- taining the principle of rank and file participation and will continue to do so,” he added. Pulp and paper companies won the right to negotiate individually with workers when the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations Bureau success (Confederation of Canadian Unions) af- filiates. “We must close ranks with the mem- ber unions of democratic principles and further strive towards that sense of destiny that is the Confederation of Canadian Unions.” Len Snow, the union's first vice. president, told pulp workers the forest ies did not let up in their attack fully applied for 4 after its mid-1984 contract settlement. But most companies chose to start bargaining on an industry-wide basis again this year. Westar Timber is bar gaining individually with PPWC locals in Prince Rupert and Castlegar The unions — the pulp workers and the Canadian Paperworkers Union — agreed to reduce the size of their bar gaining committee to 27 from three times that number. Negotiations began Jan. 31. Cur rent contracts between 14 pulp and paper and the unions rep on “union principles, our contract, and long-standing practices, such as our tradelines, lines of progression. “In fact those attacks were inten sified in many areas, but we still came out of 1985 virtually intact.” Snow also said 1986 is shaping up to be an interesting year. “If the pulp negotiations are any indication of what is to come, I think 1986 is going to be the toughest year we have ever had to face, but we can continued on poge A2 Low gas price angers owner By CasNews Staff 52.9 cents per litre. per litre when the gas sold for 55.7 cents per litre last week. But competition from “the station down the street” has forced him to lower the price to 51.7 cents per litre. ‘That means Konkin is taking @ loss of 1.2 cents on every Math By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer Math students in the Castlegar school district need to improve their knowledge of geometry, develop better problem-solving skills and brush up an the metric system, says a report tabled Monday at the Castlegar school board's education committee meeting. But compared to their peers in other parts of the province, the local kids are whizzes with computers and calculators and, at least in Grade 10, score higher than the provincial average in algebra and working with fractions, decim: ratios and percentages, the report says. Those and a host of other statistics and recom mendations for the Castlegar school district are a result of a province-wide 1985 math assessment in which more than 95,000 B.C. students completed achievement and attitude surveys. The assessment was undertaken with an eye to revising the math curriculum in B.C. schools rr school district director of instruction Lach Farrell and math teachers Stosh Uchida of Stanley Humphries secondary school, Grant DeWolf of Kinnaird junior secondary school and Jack Kinakin of Pass Creek elementary school prepared the local report They spent almost an hour Monday reviewing the assessment and their eight-page report which focussed on “three critical points in the educational process” Grade 4 (end of primary), Grade 7 (end of elementary) and Grade 10 (end of comuplsory math under the current curriculum) “Based on the results of this 1985 assessment there appears to be a need for a restructuring of the mathematics programs in our school district.” the report says. “Perhaps this should begin with the advent of the new curriculum and its recommended textbook.” The new curriculum is slated to be implemented this September However, Farrell expressed some doubts whether the provincial government will find the money to begin the new curriculum. He cited textbooks for the new curriculum as one expense the government may not be able to afford “I don’t know if it will be in this September,” Farrell said. “There's some fuzzipess out there But even if the government decides not to implement the new curriculum, the Castlegar school district may go ahead with its own revisions based on the results of the assessment. “We're not going to wait around for them.” Uchida said, pointing out that math teachers in the district already create their own worksheets to supplement the current curriculum. Kinakin added that math teachers have “developed « core curriculum in the district.” As a result of the local assessment — which rates seven students need to brush up areas or “domains” of math — the report notes that Grade 4s in the Castlegar district performed only “marginally” in measurement and problem-solving and did not perform better than satisfactory in any areas. (The rating for each domain and sub-categories within domains was based on a five-point scale — strong, very satisfactory, satisfactory, marginal and weak.) The report also notes that “the emphasis on metric measurement is obviously waning in our district” and that Grade 4 students in Castlegar “appear to be more familiar with imperial units of measurement.” Farrell said at the meeting the lack of emphasis on metric is “a reflection of what is going on nationally.” Although the Grade 4s did not fare well in the problem solving domain, the report says the problems presented in the assessment were not typical of the problems students must solve in the current curriculum and appeared to be designed to evaluate the objectives outlined in the proposed new curriculum. The Grade 7 results for the Castlegar school district indicate measurement and algebra are the weakest areas for students in that age group, although the report also singles out numbers and number operations and geometry as areas of concern. continued on poge A2