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TAMEN + IRI A ' } Ve! .2 Rockers beat Hawks FER, Beds will remain empty By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer All but one of the 36 residents at Raspberry Lodge will be moving to the Castleview Care Centre when it Opens next month, but an additional 25 beds at the new 61-bed facility will remain empty until more funding is provided, despite a waiting list of 70 people. Duncan Dodds, continuing care administrator for the Central Kootenay Health Unit, said the government provided funding for 36 beds because another 35 inter- mediate-care beds will be provided by Castlegar Hospital in its new wing. The government determined that 71 beds provided by the two facilities would be enough to meet the needs in this area. That decision was based on how much money the government has to fund or subsidize all the facilities in the province, and what was an ‘‘equitable’’ amount for Castlegar to receive, Dodds said. “*We've actually got it pretty good here compared to the rest of the province.” ° And while a waiting list of 70 people would indicate that all the needs. in and around Castlegar are not'being met, Dodds said that’s not necessarily the case. He said some people are at other facilities ‘and may decide to stay there while others change their minds when the opportunity to move to another facility comes up. “That's been our experience.” The waiting list will be updated when the two new facilities are open to ‘‘determine absolutely what the real need is here,”’ before a decision is made to the L WIRE WHIZ near the CasNews photo by Donn Zuber Cable splicer Bill Yackel finishes some work Thursday at the B.C. Tel “nerve centre” down a manhole Castlegar office. All 365-exchange phones in Gre wired into the tiny room beneath 4th Street. School board shuns new teachers group By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer The Castlegar school board has refused to have any for more funding, Dodds said. He said the continuing care division of the Ministry of Health “was very clear from the start’ that it would provide only enough fun- ding for 36 beds. However, the dif- ference in cost to run a 36-bed facility and a 61-bed facility does not increase proportionately. “Viability improves as numbers in- crease,”” he said. ‘“‘There is an economy of scale to an optimum number of about 95."" legal with an association made up of teachers throughout the province who Oppose man- datory union membership. Board chairman Gordon Turner recently received a letter’ from the British Columbia Teachers for Association requesting support for motions to be Presen- ted at the annual general meeting of the British Colum- bia School Trustees Association in May. The teachers association Proposes that the trustees adopt a policy which would require: © bargaining to continue through the summer vacation months until a collective agreement is reached; * the right to strike and lock-out be removed from the School Act; * the union accept the best final offer to settle bargaining disputes; * mandatory membership with the British Colum- bia Teachers Federation as a ition of for teachers not be included in collective agreements; and * the College of Teachers to develop a professional code of ethics. “‘I don’t want to even recognize them,” said trustee Mickey Kinakin at the board meeting earlier this week. “They are a form of rivalry with the BCTF. . . trying to affect certain changes. It would be very burdensome if the board got itself involved with union matters.”" Added trustee Evelyn Voykin: ‘“‘It’s no different than one union trying to raid another union.”” However, BCTA president Helen Raham told the please see TEACHERS page A2 Transit 5 workers OK contract By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer Employees of Trail Transit Inc. reached an agreement Thursday with their employer on a new three-year collective agreement. Wes Hughes, president of the Canadian Union of Public Em- Ployees, Local 2087, which represen- ts the employees, said that while he’s glad the contract is settled, he’s disappointed with the results. “Personally, I am not very happy with the settlement,”’ Hughes told the Castlegar News on Friday. However, Dennis Stach, manager of Trail Transit Inc., seemed happy with the contract. “I believe it is a fair and reasonable settlement for both par- ties."” Transit employees have been without a contract since Dec. 31 and recently voted in favor of taking job action if a new contract could not be Negotiated. The contract provides “‘end rate” increases of 8.8 per cent in 1991, seven per cent in 1992 and seven per cent in 1993. Hughes said the increases are ter- med end rate because a percentage of the increases are effective Jan. 1 of Per cent going into an employee- Sponsored registered retirement sav- ings plan, Hughes said. Under the new contract, Han- dyDART bus drivers will earn $12.56 an hour and city transit drivers will earn $16.74 an hour, effective Jan. 1, he said. mat Pensions were the biggest issue to the employees and while they did get an increase, Hughes said it’s not enough. “The employer still isn’t con- tributing anything to our Pension plan,” he said, adding that pension contributions are not included in employee wages and then deducted. “There's no tax benefit to it. The net effect is we will continue to slide behind municipal employees (in pen- sions) and real wages."’ Out of 25 employees, 22, of 88 per cent, turned out to vote on the con- tract. Fifteen, or 68 per cent, voted in favor of accepting it, a significant decrease from the 96 per cent in favor of a strike, he said. “‘It's directly related to ‘the effect of pending wage and price controls that (Premier Bill) Vander Zalm may or many not announce on (Jan.) 29th,”" he said. The “contract also includes im- each year and the percen- tage is effective July 1 of each year. For 1991, employees will receive a 5.5 per cent wage increase retroactive to Jan. 1 and a one per cent wage in- crease in July, with the remaining 2.3 for training. “That may be a cost item to the employer but it’s not a benefit to every employee,"’ he said. ‘‘But the Public. benefits by getting drivers who are well trained."’ Health project gets $298,600 By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer The Central Kootenay Union Board of Health announced Thur- sday it has received approval for a grant of $298,600 from the B.C. Lot- tery Fund. The funds will be used for a two- year project to develop and evaluate a health promotion project involving Castlegar, Nelson ahd Trail, called the Central Kootenay Tri-City Health Promotion Project. “To bring $298,600 into our community is very exciting,”’ said Judy Toews, community profile coordinator for~ the Central Kootenay Health Unit. At city hall for the announcement please see PROJECT page A2 By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer elderly people. were her?"* facility. “It’s easy to take the indep. “*I think of grandma,”’ she says. ‘‘And then I think, how would I want to handle this situation if it That personal approach will play a big part in the operations of the intermediate- and extended-care facility at the Castlegar and District Hospital when it opens in April — Moorlag is the new director of the She brings with her a philosophy about elderly people that comes from 10 years in the field of geriatrics and 2 life-long admiration of her grandmother. ‘Older people have to give up a lot in life, their friends, family and sometimes their home,"’ she said. “We've got to support them and help them,” to hang on to some control over their lives. everything away from them,” Moorlag said. “‘And it doesn't take long before lost Director's philosophy includes PROFILE Linda Moorlag keeps her 90-year-old grandmother in mind whenever she’s involved with “That's the difference between the long-term care and the 'e long-term philosophy is more geared on a social model, looking at people's needs to live as good a The quality of life as they're capable of living. It’s she says. atmosphere as possible.’’ pediatrics. dwelling more on the wellness aspect of life.” Taking time to allow residents freedom of choice and the independence that evokes is the next best thing to the elderly remaining in their own homes, “'I really believe that if you can help people stay in their own environment, that’s the optimum. But, that’s not always possible. It’s the responsibility of the facility to provide as much of a home-like Ironically, Moorlag’s career started off in “I kind of made the whole gambit and ended up in geriatrics. She completed her nurses training 20 years ago at the Regina Grey Nuns Hospital which is now under a different name, After working a short time at Y. ‘orkton Union Hospital, she moved to Preeceville, also in Saskatchewan, with her first husband. It was in their advocate."” they’ve they've had. who understood their needs and were willing to be She remained in Preeceville for 13 years until LINDA MOORLAG she was ready to “‘make the commitment to move a” She applied for a position as director of the tong-term-care facility in 100 Mille House which in 1986 was brand mew, It was the provincial personal approach and long-term care services. Because it was a pilot project, representatives from around the province — ‘including Castlegar — visited the facility to learn what they could about its Operations. ‘When the position here opened up, it appealed to Moorlag, despite her fondness for 100 Mile House and the facility there She said she and her second husband, John, had grown tired of the long winters and short growing season, and wanted to be somewhere they could retire. With interests in gardening and other outdoor activities, Castlegar fit the bill. She said being close to the border and having more facilities especially Selkirk College, available to her children — Jarret, 13, Larissa, 12, and Elaine, 14 — made it even more inviting. John, a civil engineer,-has opened a branch office in his home. Meanwhile, Linda is busy getting the new facility ready to open. She said her duties right now ng Patterns and staffing Policies and with those already in place in the hospital. “There’s no point reinventing the wheel,’’ she “Adjusting to change is a difficult thing. The Quicker we get open and get going, the better we'll ‘avoid the ‘we and they.’ ** One way of integrating the new facility with the hospital is to have a common staff cafeteria. She said the facility in 100 Mile House was too far from the hospital to have all staff sharing the same cafeteria. “That was a problem.” The facility is also reaching out to the community. said. government's pilot project of