Pam SS Castlegar News oy '5. 1985 Name Maa ~ Goo people. Sandman Hotels & Inns are good places ~~ OS to stay — run by good peopie like Sheri Parrott, attendant in our Penticton hotel health club. At Sandman we're not overly fancy. You'll get a clean room at a decent rate, plus oversize beds, kitchenettes, pools, Heartland Restaurants, lounges, movies, meeting rooms. And, very good people For reservations call your travel nt or 112-800-663-6900. Have a gi Blue River Cranbrook Lethbri Prince George Terrace Cache Creek Edmonton McBride Regina Vane: Calgary Penticton Revelstoke = Vernon Castlegar Kelowna = Princeton Smithers Williams Lake stay! SANDMAN HOTELS & INNS Good places in 20 Western Canadian cities. By RON NORMAN Editor Castlegar council gave final approval Tuesday to a 1985 budget that totals $7.2 million. The city’s share of that amounts to just over $3.7 million — about $60,000 1.6 per cent more than last year. The rest of the budget goes to pay for schools, the regional district and the Castlegar and District Hospital. The biggest jump in city costs is for recreation and cultural services. Last year this category totalled $179,100. This year the city has budgeted $210,990, an increase of $31,890 or 17,8 per cent, —_. — ———)y€ costs for city ‘parks accounts for the jump. Last year the city budgeted $85,100 for parks. This year it has set aside $110,200 — about $25,000 more than last year. The Castlegar library will also receive more this year. hast yea he -y i 300 fron the city: fhis yea it wil pergola As well, the cost to Kinnaird Hall i from $9,700 last year to $12,490 this year. ENV TAL DEVELO! T The category that saw the next largest increase was environmental development. It went from $79,750 last year to $107,963 this year — a hike of $28,213 or 35 per cent. This category includes costs for the planning department, the RRAP program, the industrial commis- sion and various development services. TRANSPORTATION SERVICES This category jumped $21,710 or 2.5 per cent this year, from $878,430 in 1984 to $900,140. This category includes the city works yard and things like snow removal, sanding and storm sewer maintenance. It is by far the largest category in the city budget. GENERAL SERVICES Last year general government services totalled $496,500. This year the figure is $517,984 — a jump of $21,434 or 4.3 per cent. This category covers things like council, administration, elections and conferences. PROTECTIVE SERVICES This year protective services accounts for $659,690, city City approves budget ~"'$23,960-\_ an increase of 2.5 per cent or $16,390 from 1984. The main reason for the jump in this area is the increase in police costs. Police services will cost the city $439,840 in 1985, up some $34,000 from last year. However, the cost of fire protection will fall from $175,350 last year to $157,550 this year — a saving of some $18,000. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH The cost for garbage collection will increase about $8,000 this year — from $106;300 t6 $114,500, while cemetery expenses will drop slightly to $22,750 from CAPITAL EXPENDITURES © ~~ The city will spend $418,540 this year on its capital expenditures program: ¢ $68,400 for new equipment, which will include a “new fixe“ton dimp,tr ind py, a er new five- dump truck, a in a Steam Sante e. © $35,000 for paving, including a resurfacing of four blocks along 4th and 5th avenues in the north end. e $89,000 for storm sewers, including various extensions and a 400-metre extension in the Dumont subdivision. $15,800 for sidewalks along Columbia Avenue in front of the Safeway store and Century 21 building. @ $13,100 for street lighting. The city plans to convert to high pressure sodium lamps and this is the first phase. e@ $12,100 for breathing aparatus for the fire department, and to plan and develop a fire department training area. @ $67,640 for parks and recreation, including among ‘other things water and toilet facilities for Zuckerberg Island; $13,640 for restoration of the island; $20,000 for beautification of the Community Complex; $5,000 for a sani-dump at the visitors’ information centre. $40,000 for land purchases. @ $10,000 for the downtown revitilization program. $15,900 for renovations to city hall and new office furniture and equipment. e $36,100 for water system improvements. e $10,000 for improvements to the sewer system. ics fi Canada must look hard at foreign policy OTTAWA (CP) — Canadians must take a hard look at foreign policy if they want to compete in international markets and influence world peace, says a discussion paper released Tuesday by External Affairs Minister Joe Clark. The green paper on foreign policy — which outlines government options — says Canada can no longer take its prosperity and national security for granted or isolate itself behind_barri phe world will not-atlow\us~that-luxury—The-whote— range of international issues — economic, political al d security — now extends unavoidably into our daily lives. ‘The paper asks about 50 questions on a wide range of defence td development aid, human rights and ditidnal rdtes it relations with various countries and regions of the world. But the main emphasis is on economic issues, particularly trade and competitiveness and their effect on jobs and the standard of living. GLOOMY PICTURE “All countries are affected by economic development in other countries,” the paper says as it paints a gloomy picture of Canada’s productivity, slippage in international markets and less-than-glowing commitment to education and research and development. ; The green paper represents the start of the first overhaul of Canada’s foreign policy since 1970. But opposition MPs weren't impressed and were threatening not to participate on a special committee that will study the paper and hold public hearings before making policy recommendations to the government by May 1986. “T'm not going to go through with the committee at this moment,” New Democrat Pauline Jewett told a news nNnterttational institutions ad - conference. “I just think a charade.” Jewett called the committee “a junket to keep Tory MPs from becoming restless. The government has no more intention of taking any of its recommendations than it has of flying to the moon.” Liberal MP Jean Chretien said it's difficult for his party, with only 40 MPs, to assign members to special committees, The health care system is in criti€al condition, and everyone knows it. Politicians worrying about costs . . . patients waiting for surgery Vg, OTEU serves By CasNews Staff Office and technical wor- kers at West Kootenay Pow- er and Light Co. have served the utility with 72-hour strike notice. The 90-member Office and Technical Employees Union terms. this is acceptable, in either human or financial A lasting remedy must be found. Yet just as strike notice effect 2:40 p.m. Thursday, said WKPL spokesman Jack Fisher. The union voted 75 per cent in favor of striking at a vote taken last Wednesday and Thursday. But Fisher says the OTEU has also requested negotia-. tions with the company along with the 190-member Inter national Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers. However, Local 378, which represents inside workers at WKPL, served the strike notice Monday. The notice takes Fisher said that joint nego- tiations were unacceptable and WKPL will be negotia ting with the unions separ. ately. The advertised caused. SA | SAFEWAY CORRECTION Re: Flyer Effective May 13-19 Frozen Fryers should read: GRADE UTILITY Safeway apologizes for any inconvenience this may have if the is going to travel. Castlegar school board Castlegar school district is over budget on the substitute teachers, schools superinten- dent Terry Wayling said Monday. Wayling told the regular Castlegar school board meet ing that $7,500 a month was budgeted for substitute tea- chers. However, the district has been over budget every month since the beginning of the year. In March the district went $5,000 over budget, in Jan wary and February it went $1,000 over, and in April $500 over. “We have a serious prob- lem in teacher illness and substitute costs,” said Way ling. He noted that a large num. ber of teachers are on long term sick leaves. item Whole FEWAY briefs A total of 22 parents, tea- chers and staff turned out to Woodland Park Elementary school where Monday's board meeting was held. The board saw a 45- minute slide show and talk on activities at the school. The visit to Woodland Park is part of the board's program to hold some of its meetings in area schools. . 2 « Trustee Kay Johnson out lined a program where schools will display work in area businesses. Johnson said she's con tacted some businesses and hopes the program will start “as soon as possible.” The new 72-passenger school bus is in operation on the Pass Creek run Workers ratify agreement VANCOUVER (CP) Canada Safeway cashiers, meatcutters and bakers have ratified a two-year agree ment containing a first-year wage freeze and a four-per cent raise in the second year. Members of three unions the Retail Clerks’ Union, the Meatcutters Union and the Bakery Workers Union — accepted the pact in a vote completed Monday, bakers’ spokesman Hugh Comber said Tuesday The terms of the agree ment apply automatically to retail employees at Over. waitea Foods and Save-on Foods Ltd. outlets. seniors searching for long term care beds .. . health workers facing layoffs that leave their colleagues shorthanded We want you to know where nurses stand on this Many nurses find they aren't able to do all the things they were educated to do, so their patients and clients often don’t receive the kind of care nurses want to give. The reason is that understaffed nursing departments can’t deal effectively with the increasingly complex health problems of British Columbians And those symptoms only mask deeper structural disorders. The system allows only the barest necessities for today’s acute care requirements, and it neglects preventive care which would reduce future health costs. None of BRITISH COLUMBIA NURSES UNION everyone knows the system is sick, no one group knows the cure. What's needed is an independent public inquiry, to take stock of the health system's problems and devise realistic solutions. The provincial government must establish a high- level commission, give it the authority to do the job, and assure that everyone with a stake in the system is involved. By themselves, no consumer or interest groups can save health care in B.C. It requires consultation, in a political as well as a medical sense, and this will come with a truly independent commission Nurses are ready to work with others in that forum. But it must begin quickly, while positive results are still within reach Lakes National Pa Congratulations ! To the winner of the accommodation package at the Bayshore Inn at Waterton CAROL GLEAVE 3413 - Sth Ave., Castlegar Carol's entry was chosen from the Wool Wagon’s Coupon in the Castlegar News Budget Helper Coupon Tab of May 1. Bayshore FI, n rk WATERT eS Castlegar News Bill clears way for layoffs VICTORIA (CP) — A bill allowing school boards to lay off teachers despite the lack of an agreement with local teachers’ iations was i duced Tuesday by i Minister Jack Heinrich. The minister said the proposed amendments to the School Act would break an impasse that has prevented 21 school boards from negotiating terms of layoffs with teachers. Heinrich said school boards and teachers’ associations would still be able to negotiate agreements covering layoff procedures; but if they fail, the bill would provide a standard agreement. The statutory agreement would allow a school board to —~lay_off teachers when a i \progrem_or-service is™ eliminated or reduced, or when there is a change in school district's structure or operating funds. In determining which teachers should be laid off, the board would take into account “current demonstrated \\o. ability”, qualificationand service seniority ofthe teachets even though enrolment involved. “A number of boards and teacher associations have por The three criteria are “all parallel” in it Heinrich told reporters. “Itis toa sound system that the most qualified teachers remain in ‘the classroom,” he said, but where there is no question of ability, seniority will prevail district-wide. Teachers laid off under the legislated agreement would get severance pay of five per cent of their annual salary for each 10 months of employment, up to a maximum of one year's salary. UNWORKABLE PROCESS The _minister_said current arrangements are _not _ working the B.C. School Trustees’ Association has appealed for action to end the layoff stalemate. iati d under the Public its teachers were offs could take place leihrich Said: are Sector Restraint Act. “If a board and to reach qn agreement,\no “had fallen”, VANCOUVER (CP) — Cory Holob. the special trus- tee named Monday to replace the Cowichan school board, was busy Tuesday reviewing the district's 1985-86 oper. ating budget, assessing how to trim about $300,000 from it The former Richmond se. hool superintendent was named trustee by Education Minister Jack Heinrich after he fired the nine Cowichan school board members Mon- day, less than an hour after they voted 63 to defy his budget guidelines. Holob said his first ques- tion when he meets with Cowichan school district ad- ministrators will be about the Principal faces 16 sex charges ASHCROFT, B.C. (CP) — Robert Noyes, the principal of Coppervale elementary school who has been charged with 16 counts of sexual assault against children, has been released on bail until a preliminary hearing sched uled for July 15 Noyes, 36, faces thirteen charges involving males and three relating to females in the period from Sept. 15, 1983 to April 22, 1985, the Crown told provincial court Judge William Diebold Tues day The judge released Noyes, who had not been in custody prior to the bail hearing, on a $20,000 personal recognizan ce bond Noyes, who also taught physical education classes, had been at the school for 2'/ years. He is married and has two children. He has been suspended from teaching since the char- ges were laid in April and the Ashcroft school board held an incamera meeting Monday night to consider whether he should receive a salary dur- ing the suspension. The board's decision is not known at this time. projected number of pupils in the district in September 1985. “If there would be any layoffs, the first thing I would want to know is whether or not the number of pupils is going to be reduced in September or not,” he said. “If they are projecting fewer students, it may be that there is sufficient money to be saved on teacher Cowichan board an Jerry Joyce said the dismissals “certainly weren't unexpected. We knew that was the choice Heinrich had. It choice was his to the way he handled it.” Joyce said it is unlikely that Cowichan board mem- Special trustee busy bers will want to challenge the validity of their removal by the government — a step some fired Vancouver school trustees are preparing to take. “I don't think our people want legal action. We really don’t have the machinery — the money — behind us to fight the Ministry of Ed ucation.” Meanwhile, Heinrich could wind up in court because of his dismissal last week of Vancouver school trustees. Jim Quail, lawyer for the Committee of Progressive Electors-aligned Vancouver trustees, said Monday they would argue the order-in- council appointing special trustee Allan Stables to run the school district. People’s Insulation Services 500 CONTINU Fri., Sat., Sun. & M Friday — May 17 6:30 p.m. — Puppet Show 8 p.m. — Sewing Competition and Queen Pageant 9:30 — Teen Dance Saturday — May 18 Siow Pitch 9 p.m. - 1 p.m. — Cabaret, $5 per person Also — Old Time Dance for Seniors — $3 per person at Bosun Hall DICKENSON MINES LTD. 368-7922 NEW DENVER MAY DAYS THIS AOVERTISEMENT 1. TRAIL * NEW DENVER + AS As FRUITVALE © TH SLOCAN GARTERS wu! 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New Democrat Mark Rose, the opposition education spokesman, said his initial reaction was that the NDP could not support the bill. “It gives the boards all kinds of powers to terminate, far beyond what they haye at the moment,” Rose said. “So if a board is recalcitrant and stubborn and they don't wish to negotiate, once the deadline runs out, they can have powers far greater than they would ever get through negotiation.” i Rose, also said seniority should be “paramoupt” in determining who should be laid off. ‘ TEA PARTY ... Alice takes a tumble during the Mad Hatter’s tea party. It was ail part of the Question of Balance Society's ballet production of Alice in Wonderland Sunday night at Selkirk College before about 80 people. 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