Family life program comes to Castlegar By MARC PICHE ‘Staff Writer Preparation for the arrival of the new provincial Family Life Education Program is under way at Stanley Hump. hries secondary school. Principal Gordon Shead said that he has met with the school’s guidance staff to discuss plans on how to present the course to stu- , SEPTEMBER wn SPECIAL rood PREP, D. of dressing INNER... 's & Vegetable. Regular $ - . Bi Friend! 2 FOR Viaattom Berm” Castlegar ve. Watch This Ad for a Special Announcement! || Kootenay Nuclear Study Group General Meeting Mon., Sept. 28 7:00 p.m., Selkirk College Room B-16 REPORTS ON: — The Si ¢ Court Case to Reinstate the Royal Commis sion into Uranium Mining. — The Recent B.C. Peace Conference — The Hantord Nuclear Reservation Discussion of Future Activities of the Study Group EVERYONE WELCOME For Further int Margaret 35-7872, Mic Mickee! ‘399-4730, dents and to the community. Shead, who has already seen portions of the eight to 10-hour program during summer course he attended with his Physical Education and guidance staff, said that he was quite happy with it. “It fills a need” said Shead, explaining that the Family Life program is the ee step ponents of sex education in the past. was the apparent conflict with parental values with what was taught in the schools, “A. program like this should reflect the values of the ‘local community and of parents,” Shead answered. Shead plans to hold public raeetings in October to in- ina project that will be com- pleted in two years, develop- ing themes on areas such as career planning and drug abuse. The Family Life portion of that project includes video- tapes and handouts on friend- ships and relationships, reproductive biology, AIDS and other sexually trans- mitted diseases, decision making, and assertive com- munication. One reason for the im- portance of this program's creation, according to a gov- ernment press release, is the “special nature of the AIDS emergency.” Shead agrees that this is a key issue. “A lot of this is survival stuff.” A major concern of op- Renting Quality Cars at Great Prices * SUB COMPACTS COMPACTS * VANS TRUCKS * MID SIZE STATION © FULL SIZE WAGONS 85 (Small km. Charge) RATES FROM CASTLEGAR CO-OP GARAGE 365-2711 tes applications for the ition of CONTINUING EDUCATION COORDINATOR for planning, Education Courses afd programs in the Nelson area. and general interest courses. Appliconts should be highly motivated self-starters and should have the ability to work with a minimum of supervision. Salary ond benefits in accordance with the Administrative Salary and Benefits Policy. This is o part-time position begin- ning as soon as possible Please send resume, including 3 ret 1987 to: Personnel and Employee Relations — CASTLEGAR CAMPUS—— Box 1200, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3U1 es, by October 1 Weather Sunny skies forecast for Sunday with lows reaching from “1-3°. Zero per cent chance of precipitation and the long-range forecast calls for sunny skies until Thursday. volve input into the program and provide in- formation to concerned par- ents. Parents will be sent a sep- arate information package as well, said Shead. For, parents who would vided by the Ministry of Education. Zellers hit with theft SUMMERSIDE P.E.I. (CP) — A local Zellers de- partment store was the tar- get of a well-planned theft Saturday. The thieves, who hid in the store after it closed Friday night, stole over $20,000 rings, chains and pendants from the store's display cases. RCMP spokesman Shirley Cuillerrier said police were called to the store about 2 a.m. by a tripped alarm. No one has been arrested. Nachbaur one step closer to staying By The Canadian Press A Canada from 1951 to 1964. The other of his who was facing deportation to West Germany even though he spend all but 11 months of his life in North America said Wednesday he is a step closer to staying in Canada. Nelson resident Fred Nachbaur, 36, said he met with immigration officials Wednesday to give them results of a medical test and filled out forms authorizing a security check, both of which are needed before landed immigrant status can be granted. “There's nothing there to find with a security check,” family are Canadian citizens. Nachbaur said he was told it will be another two to three months before he is granted an entry permit to Canada and another 10 months before he gains land- ed immigrant status. “We're looking at another year,” he said. “But it beats being flown to Germany and having the doors slammed on me.” Kerkhoff suit b at Forks’ of the Grand Castlegar. See story below. Home Support “Board attend workshop in CasNews Photo by Marc Piche Care needed here By MARC PICHE Staff Writer The Ministry of Health should put more emphasis on community care instead of paying for expensive acute care facilities, says the executive director of the Home Support Association of B.C. Gloria Lifton made the remark in an interview with the Castlegar News at the association's regional work- shop Thursday at the Sandman Inn. According to a report Lifton presented to the premier in December 1986, the cost to the taxpayer for home care less almost a third that of institutional or hospital care. Extended care, the highest level of care costs on average, over $1,800 each month per patient, when that patient takes up a hospital bed. A home support agency receives an an average of $650 from the Ministry of Health to care for that patient at home. Home Support Association directors from through- out the Kootenays were joined by members and directors of the By ce Long Term Care Association and the on aad oon differences between, agencies. Thoin recent proposal to the Health Ministry for an average wage of $8.85/hr has not yet been addressed. The Castlegar and District Home support workers presently Fecelvs $7.18/hr. ding to Lovette each worker visits four or five different homes per day. Two days were set aside for the 105 members of the mir september”. 1907 Castlegar News _ +3 Briefly: 22 Kootenay boards for an education workshop on board administration, and on certain aspects of care giving. Lifton said that the role of home support is to give people with on-going medical disabilities the less expensive choice of staying at home. “People prefer to be in their own home or at a community facility,” she said. “We provide the care that the family and community can or will not.” Part of extending care usually reserved for hospitals into a home setting is training workers to work with elderly psychogeriatric clients. Dr. Clyde Slade, from the Short Term Assessment and Treatment Centre in Vancouver, gave a lecture to association members on Special Care. “Memory loss, orientation problems, intellectual change, emotional change, and impairment of judgment are the five key characteristics to be prepared for when giving care to an Alzheimer’s patient,” Slade told the two dozen caregivers in attendance. Some 60 part-time home support workers give care to 250 clients in the Castlegar area. Clients receive house maintenance, nal care, and some are transported meals. Each client receives an averagé “of 12 hours of home support a month. “We don’t have as high a profile in the community as acute care,” Lifton said. However, the group's profile should be heightened Oct. 19 - 25, which has been designated Home Support Week in B.C. RED MOUNTAIN continued from front page The society's directors are also proposing that general be made t been poor to marginal with low financial return which provided no surplus for operating funds. © the Cominco strike coupled with two poor snow years Sniper kills three ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A sniper killed three passers-by and seriously wounded two early Saturday before he threw down his rifle from a downtwon apartment building and surrendered to 5 Robert Beebe, 55, was charged with three counts of murder and six of attempted murder. He lived in the building from which the shots were fired. Ship scuttled MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The U.S. navy blew up an Iranian ship Saturday that the Americans said was caught earlier laying mines in the Persian Gulf. The navy also returned the ship's 26 surviving crewmen and the bodies of three dead crewmen to Iranian officials in Oman. As the handover was under way in Oman, Iran said the United States scuttled the Iran Ajr to destroy evidence that it was a merchant vessel carrying non- military cargo when the navy attacked and captured it Monday. Coup restaged SUVA (AP-CP) — Shops were shuttered and armed troops patrolled the streets of Suva Saturday as the army consolidated its control in Fiji after the second coup in five months in the racially divided South Pacific country. Army commander Sitiveni Rabuka, who staged & coup in May, announced the latest takeover Friday, promising to put into effect his original plan to restore political power to ethnic Fijians over the larger Indian population. Rabuka, 39, an ethnic Fijian, announced the coup on national radio, saying he had reassumed authority over the interim government led by Governor General Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau. There were no reports of injuries. Faster dies COLOMBO (AP) — A Tamil political leader who fasted for 12 days to protest the treatment of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka died in Jaffna town Saturday, said residents and his rebel organization. Thileepan Amirathalingam, 23, was a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the most powerful Tamil rebel militia in Sri Lanka. Leader protected MANILA (AP) — The leader of last month's failed coup has been seen moving in and out of Manila but cannot be arrested because members of the armed forces are protecting him, three Manila newspapers reported Saturday. The papers also quoted Brig..Gen. Ramon Montano, Manila area military commander, as saying the coup leader, Col. Gregorio (Gringo) Honasan, was being funded by unidentified businessmen and was planning another attempt to overthrow President Corazon Aquino. Plan unveiled BOGOTA (Reuter) — Colombia has unveiled a multi-billion dollar, four-year social and development plan to raise the income of millions living in poverty. ‘The government said on the plan, directed both at development and redistribution of wealth, was aimed at raising 40 per cent the living standard of the one-quarter of the population living in critical or absolute poverty. It is based on the idea that raising living is a factor of it said. BREATHTAKING VIEW .. . One of the best views of the Lower Arrow Lakes is from the Yellow Pine Trail at Syringa Creek Provincial Park. Castiews Phot by Ron Norman RESPONSE SWIFT Fire at Celgar mill By MARC PICHE Staff Writer A conveyor fire at the Celgar pulp mill set sirens howling through Castle- gar streets Thursday night. Castlegar firemen ded to the call at 8:50 p.m. to help put out a burning hog fuel conveyor. The first response unit arrived at the mill at 8:56 p.m. where Celgar firemen were fighting the small, smoky blaze 10 metres above the ground on the elevated conveyor. Three minutes later, two pumper trucks arrived and firemen climbed on top of the conveyor, pulled a fire hose up after them and quickly put out what was left of the fire that was still burning under the conveyor belt. Fire damage was confined to a nine-metre section of the belt which carries large wood chips ffom the adjacent Southern Wood Products sawmill to the pulp mill. There was no worse than it kill.” interruption in production at Celgar, and the belt was fixed by morning. John D'Andrea, fire and security officer at Celgar, pointed out that though this was a small fire, easily lied by the Celgar fire crew, it end.” was important that the Castlegar fire department was called. fire. “In this situation there's always that concern that the fire could be D'Andrea. “It's better to have over- D'Andrea said his crew apprec- iated the fire department's help, even in this minor case. “It’s better if you call them even for something small. If you only call them when you really need them, e sometimes it's already too late.” Castlegar Fire Chief Bob Mann's firefighters ended‘ up with good prac- tice in case of a larger mill fire. A total of 24 firemen responded to the call; 14 went to Celgar and 10 stood by at the fire halls. “We can't leave the city vacant,” explained Mann. “The problem with fires out there is to cover your rear- It's not known what caused the “Something broke,” said D'Andrea, indicating that the friction betwéen the fast-moving belt and a piece “of jammed metal would be enough to start the belt smoking. Mann added that “the biggest problem they're having up there is that they're just not cleaning properly. Around and under the conveyor was piled up with sawdust, dirt, and what- looks,” cautioned ver.’ Mann added that this debris would be dry. those conveyors are open to the weather.” Dioxins in paper? OTTAWA (CP) — Consumer. Affairs Minister Harvie Andre says it’s not his department's responsibility to Meeting urged OSLO (AP( — The United States and the Soviet Union should meet formally as soon as possible to settle their differences over the 1972 anti-ballistic determine which products Canadian consumers might be exposed to. So he was unable to tell New Democrat environment critic Lynn McDonald whether Canadian paper products — ineluding tissue, disposable diapers and feminine hygiene products — might contain any dioxins, a deadly family of used by consumers and he's the minister of consumer affairs.” There was, she said, “evidence of the presence of dioxin in ordinary consumer paper products and I would simply like to think that the (Canadian) government would be looking into this . . . To my knowledge the Health Department doesn't go around testing paper products that are on the shelf for consumers.” “It’s been so hot,” said Mann, “and” Press The leader of the British Columbia and a key Quebec organizer for the NDP have joined the growing list of people worried the Canadian Security Intelligence Service can't tell a dissenter from a sub- versive. Bill Zander, president of the B.C. Provincial Council of Carpenters, said he's still waiting for an answer from Ottawa about what a federal security agent was doing at a meeting of carpenters plotting strategy for a loca) union election. “If they have a stake in a local union election we'd like to know what the hell it is,” Zander said in a telephone interview. As Zander was speaking out in Vancouver, & Montreal newspaper reported Michel Agnaieff, a key organizer in the NDP effort to score a breakthrough in Quebec in the next federal election, has been under sur-} veillance for up to 20 years. Agnaieff said he is “quite concerned” by the report in Le Journal de Montreal but he has no evidence that he has actually been shadowed. He is an associate president of the NDP and doubles as a director of the Centrale de l'enseignement du Quebec, a teachers union RCMP security service. He suggested the report of CSIS surveillance may reflect Tory fears about the rising popularity of the NDP in Quebec. “Perhaps someone somewhere wants to hurt me and that Conservatives have been saying about the NDP in the last few months.” In Ottawa, New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent told reporters he was unaware of details of the report. He dismissed it, saying anybody could be a target for a security service that keeps files on 30,000 people. CSIS has been accused of keeping files on more than 80,000 suspected subversives but says only about 3,000 of the files are active. Solicitor General James Kelleher, visiting Calgary to discuss security for the 1988 Winter Olympics, repeated past explanations that CSIS has no legal power to target unions or political parties as such. Ina letter dated May 22, 1986, Beatty ee members of Local 452 of the B.C. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners had apparently met an employee of CSIS the year before. “I am able to assure you that such contact was voluntary on their part,” the minister told Zander. “CSIS committed no improprieties in relation to the internal affairs of this union and has no interest in legitimate union activities.” Zander said the CSIS agent was not a union member, but attended a caucus meeting of members who wanted to oust the leaders of Local 452 because they considered them too far left politically. The election was disputed and a second vote had to be held later, but the leaders won and remain in office. Zander said it is no secret the carpenters union There are more than ‘200 compounds collectively referred to as dioxins. They have no use and exist as byproducts from the process of making other chemicals. Social Credit g A report prepared in 1983 for the federal Health and But he insisted: Environment departments said while the scientific infor- ‘Our books are open, our debate and our conventions has discouraged skiers from buying early season passes for missile treaty, NATO's advisory parliament has the 1987-88 ski season. That has resulted in a reduction of urged. the anticipated revenue from $160,000 to an actual revenue Ina on the of $90,000; final day of its autumn session, the North Atlantic e the Bank of Montreal is not willing to extend more Treaty Organization Assembly said clarification of the chemical byproducts that are believed to cause cancer and other health problems. “We have the responsibility of making sure that hazardous products are identified” on product labels, Andre said, “but not of identifying what is hazardous or not.” general public in denomi debentures would be prime plus 1.5 per cent payable annually to the holder. Ash said people have to start feeling more confident about the ski club if it is to survive. he said. “It's basically a for. mality. Slowly but surely things are getting resolved.” Nachbaur, who ran afoul pt owlealy NDP and has frequently confronted the over its labor policy. still on VANCOUVER (CP) — The 1 987 Reno Tours NOW FILLING 2ND BUS. of om #269 Oct. 10 2" Oct. 18 saree ... pays obi $279 Nov. 7 fore! pays ob. $279 Nov. 14 aegercy . vays on. $259 * Seniors Discount $10.00 Early Bird $10.00 Discount — 8-Day Tours WEST EDMONTON MALL TOUR $ Oct. 27-31........ 269 Triple Canada’s Largest Sth Annual Seniors & Friends THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1987 — NOON TLL 1:30 Pas — CANADA'S FINEST! Bus leaves Trail Oct. 27 of immigration regulations Canadian Press distributed when he returned to Canada after living in the U.S. for several years, was not old enough to acquiare citizen- ship when his family lived in Court news an erroneous report that said non-union contractor J.C. Kerkhoff has lost a bid to sue British Columbia construc- tion unions for damages be- cause the action was filed under a corporate name used only during the first month of a construction project. A court decision Tuesday In Castlegar _ provincial court this week, Kay Smith was sentenced to one day in jail after pleading guilty to ‘one count of unlawful entry into Canada. She was also sentenced to a one-day concurrent sen- tence after pleading guilty to one count of eluding an en- quiry. Qo) auty and refused to another corporate name that could expand the time length in- volved in the suit. ‘Company and union law- yers said Wednesday the suit is still proceeding but the ruling involving the corp- orate name could affect the sizeof any awards from the action to be heard next-year in B.C. Supreme Court. lit uality you “Right now people think the club is going to go broke credit on the operating or long-term loans until the and that’s really hitting our season passes hard. We need confidence in the club,” said Ash. membership either commits itself to a larger share of the While the ski club has real assets over $1.2 million and a debt of $1 million, there are three reasons why the club is in poor financial shape. e during the last two years the ski hill’s operations have debt or the club sells the ski area to private investors. A quorum of 50 people is needed at the Oct. 1 membership meeting and of that 50 people, 75 per cent must vote in favor of the proposal to sell the ski area to the members if it is to be accepted. Marketing By SURJ RATTAN Staff Writer The “rifle approach” is the best means of promoting a small business, says the B.C. Chamber of Commerce's Castlegar Chamber of Com- merce Thursday that while television, radio and news- paper advertising is effec- tive, small businesses would be wise to sell their own chamber mana- ger. Georgiana Evans, told the “It's very, very, difficult to start a new business. 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One way of this is through direct mail adver- tising where the envelope says there is something im- portant inside,” said Evans. She added that small bus- iness people should aquire mailing lists from their local chambers of commerce to find out who their adver- tising should be directed at. “The best kind of ad- vertising is your own per- sonal service. You get a good feeling when you're selling your own company. The best way to market yourself is to talk on about yourself” said Evans. She added that business people who belong to their local chamber of commerce will benefit from the or- ganization. “The chamber of commerce should be used for support for one another. The business people who are members of the chamber of commerce show that they care about the community. I think the businesses listed in the roster of the chamber de- serve your business.” $———————__} Tourist Alert Seeetatceeeannenennne VANCOUVER (CP) — Tourist Alert issued Sat- urday by the RCMP. The fol- lowing persons, believed travelling in British Colum- bia, are asked to call the con- tact named for an urgent personal message. George and Ida Wilcox, Fort St. John, B.C., call Fred Garner. treaty is needed to complete a superpower agreement on a 60-per-cent reduction in. long-range ballistic nuclear missiles. Mikhail writes NEW YORK (AP) — A book written by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that deals partly with his hopes for the Soviet Union is to hit the bookstores in Nvember, its publisher announced. The top spokesman for the Soviet Embassy in Washington, Oleg Benyukh, confirmed that the Harper and Row book, titled Perestroika: Our Hopes For Our Country and the World, is authentic. The book, which is being published under the Cornelia and Michael Bessie imprint, is due in book- stores Nov. 20. Emily surprises HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — Hurricane Emily weakened Saturday over the North Atlantic's cooler waters after pounding Bermuda with wind gusts up to 180 kilometres an hour that damaged buildings and boats and injured at least 16 people. The storm swept northeast across the island Friday morning after surprising forecasters by gaining strength even as it picked up forward speed. “It was a swift, sharp punch” that knocked out power over about 90 per cent of the island, which it crossed with a forward speed of between 65 and 72 kilometres an hour, said Bryan Darby, Bermuda government spokesman. Claims false BURNABY, B.C. — A teacher's aide who received almost $50,000 in false welfare claims during a Andre did promise, however, to pass McDonald's concerns on to Health Minister Jake Epp, who was not in the mation then available was far from definitive, “the high toxicity of many dioxins clearly represents a significant are a public matter. We've got nothing to hide and we're more than just a little upset.” Commons during question period. health hazard.” McDonald noted studies by the American Paper In- stitute leaked to the U.S. media earlier this week show traces of dioxins have been found in a wide range of consumer goods. The levels of dioxins are very low but scientists are divided on what a safe level of dioxin might be — if there is It urged the production and presence of dioxins be eliminated wherever possible. The report identified the major sources of dioxins as: . ipal and i es Landfill sites with organic wastes and incinerated ash. e A variety of combustion sources like burning wood, such a threshold — and the U.S. P Agency tas called for further studies. Paper production processes in Canada are similar to ig smoke and pile exhaust. © The production and use of many pesticides and herbi- cides. crime rate in Canada rose sai last Crime on the rise in Canada OTTAWA (CP) — The — average, the centre tt year for the first time WE tapactea sted coins those used in the United States and McDonald asked Andre what his department is doing to see traces of dioxins in Canadian paper products. Outside the House, McDonald answer was irresponsible. Paper products are “commonly The and other consumer products. In recent years whether there are said the minister's products. ‘of phar dipxins have been found in pulp and paper plant wastes but had not been linked to finished paper IWA-Canada set to meet VANCOUVER (CP) — union,” national president Jack Munro “That, I think, is certainly going to take The International Woodworkers of America began representing forest workers in British Columbia 60 years ago, but next week’ will be its first as an independent Canadian union. “The real major accomplishment is that this is our first national convention since we've become strictly a Canadian ’s annual convention labor laws. opinions expressed,” said in an interview. up a good part of the economy of the Aside from discussing their newly acquired inde- pendent status, union members will review changes to B.C. “There is no gre soins to be some fairly strong He said Seaton ‘would focus on the Sdcial Credit government and “what they're doing to the stability of the since the early 1980s, the @ Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics said. The cetit?® reported the rate jumped four per cent from 1985 to 11,169 offences per 100,000 population. It said 1986 was the first year an increase has been re- ported by police since 1981. The five western provinces and the territories all had crime rates higher than the INQUEST. rose-eight per cent last year to 204,917, while crimes in- volving property rose 2.8 per cent to 1,448,550. Offences involving drugs totalled 56,251 last year, a drop of 2.7 per cent. Cannabis offences fell 5.2 per cent, but cocaine offences rose 37.3 per cent. The national rate for Crim- inal Code offences was 8,901 per 100,000 population, a 3.8- per-cent increase over 1985. discussion.” The union now calls itself IWA-Canada and represents about 43,000 workers, 37,000 of —- in British Columbia. The a topic of discussion for years, got going in earnest at last September's Canadian seven-year period pleaded guilty to fraud in pr cosurt. Prosecutor Ravi Hira said the conduct of Theo- dore Boyle, 62, who collected welfare while employed by the Vancouver school board, represented British Columbia's worst example of welfare fraud. Describing the fraud as “a flagrant and unmiti- gated abuse of public trust,” Hira asked the court to impose a prison sentence that will serve to deter others from similar conduct. the union into two national bodies — IWA-Canada and IWA-USA — was approved at the union's international convention in Port- land, Ore., in January. In & subsequent mail-in ballot, Canadian woodworkers voted 96 per cent for the split, while 78 per cent of their American counterparts were in favor of the division. Before the vote, the IWA was believed to be the only U.S.-based union with a majority of its members in Canada. At one time, the combined Canadian-U.S. membership had been 165,000, but massive layoffs and plant closures during the had slashed that to about 80,000. Changes to the provincial labor laws led to a one-day province-wide strike June 1. Union members say the changes allow for too much government interference and are aimed at weakening the labor movement. The IWA's two-year contract, reached after a bitter 4h-month strike in the fall of 1986, expires next June, four months after a royal commission is due to hand down its non- binding report on the contracting-out issue that sparked the strike. At issue was a demand by forest companies that they be allowed to use independent contractors to do some work normally done by IWA members. But although next year's negotiations will be noted, Munro said the union plans a conference next March to deal with nothing but a new contract. Forestry consultant Charles Widman estimated the strike cost the provincial economy $2 billion and forest workers $500 million in wages and benefits. continued trom front pege Transport was westbound on Highway 3A at Shoreacres, While coming down around a corner on a hill, the lumber on the second trailer Zimmer was pulling hit the eastbound chip truck driven by Altman. The lumber came off the trailer and slammed into the Altman truck, sheering off the cab about 1.4 metres above the ground. The impact tore the side of the chip truck, depositing lumber inside the van. The elip truck then plunged off the toad to the right, down a steep embankment and crossing some railway tracks before coming to a stop on a side road below. Zimmer drove 2.5 kilometres west to the Texaco station at Glade where he contacted people who drove him back to the accident scene. RCMP were already at the site investigating the accident.