2 SW, Castlegar News October 30, ‘1983 BCGEU talks continue Police file A 17-year old cyclist was taken to hospital Friday after colliding with a motor vehicle on Columbia Ave. near Mal- oney Pontiac Buick GMC, Castlegar RCMP report. Denise Evdokimoff was riding a 10-speed bike when she collided with the car. Police cruisers and an am- bulance arrived at the scene about 8 a.m. and VANCOUVER (CP) — Negotiators for the provincial government and the British Columbia Government Employ- ees’ Union continued negotiations Sat- urday, with two days left to avert a strike that would shut down most government services. Also Saturday, She! BS. Teachers’ had yoied 60 per cent to tGae as part of was taken to hospital for a checkup, Police say. SPECIAL FOR YOU Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week GAINERS BOLOGNA BY THE PIECE 22:..99°. MACARONI 2 CHEESE DINNERS aired ron MOTTS CLAMATO JUICE CENTRAL EL Pe 217 Columbia Ave. CASTLEGAR he O; fight against ne Social Credit government's budget and legislation. Larry Kuehn, the teachers feder- Four file for council seats By CasNews Staff With one day still to go before nominations close, Castleyar’s munici- pal election race is starting to heat up. As of this weekend, there are four candidates vying for the three vacant aldermanic seats on Castlegar council. Running are incumbents Walter Fields, Carl Henne and Bob MacBain. As well, former alderman Albert Calderbank has thrown his hat, into the ring. Calderbank retired from municipal politics just last year. Meanwhile, no one has stepped for- ward to challenge Mayor Audrey Moore. Moore is seeking her sixth term. There are three candidates in the race for the two vacant city seats on the Castlegar school board. Incumbent Doreen Smecher will run again, along with newcomers Linda Knull and James Gouk. Gouk is a former Castlegar alderman and ran for mayor last time around. Trustee Anne Jones has decided not to run for re-election. Nominations for the Nov. 19 elections close Monday. ation president, told a news conference that the teachers would walk out Nov. 8 as part of an escalating public-sector strike led by the government employ- ees union. The strike, Kuehn said, would continue “until there is a resolution to the problems.” Kuehn said teachers have been through two years of constant attacks on the school system by the govern- ment. Morale is low, he said, and the strike vote indicates teachers “feel that they've been pushed to the wall.” Everif some teachers refused to join the strike, Kuehn said it was doubtful schools could remain open because non-teaching school employees would also be off the job. FAVOR STRIKE The. government employees unions has voted 87 per-cent to strike over legislation restricting bargaining ’ rights and allowing mass dismissals of public-sector workers..The union filed 72-hour strike notice Friday, covering 85,000 members. The government's dismissal of 1,600 union b is to take effect when the current contract expires at midnight Monday. The union is part of Operation Solidarity, a coalition of unions, acad- emics, clerics and special-interest groups opposing the legislative pack- age introduced July 7. In addition to its effects on public employees, the legis- lation includes reduction of tenants’ rights, cuts in social services and re- yvamped human rights protection. , The strike plan might put 220,000 public sector workers on the picket lines by, Nov. 18, and there have bee threats that it might spread into the private sector. PULP CEASEFIRE continued from front page caucus Wednesday, was strong even in the Prince George local — a member- ship which union president Jim Sloan said might reject the agreement. Local president Dave West said his 700 members took a responsible posi- tion in accepting the agreement. “We don't want everyone in the union, province-wide, to be out of work over our local dispute.” During the 21-day period, will be dealt with under the established grievance/atbitration procedure under the contract and will not be subject to collective: bargaining. ¢ All locals of the PPWC and the national officers must agree to the deal before the ‘lockout is removed. e When the agreement éxpires in 21 days (no later than Nov. 21), each side must give 72 hours notice before be- - ginning another strike or lockout. The Prince George mill and the will continue and both parties agree to abide by the terms of the last collective agreement which expired last June. But any breach of the deal through'a Pulp Ltd. were shut down when 700 ekees walked out ‘to protest the suspension of ‘a recovery boiler worker in a dispute” over wages. The contract ‘negotiations strike walkout or other work interrup tion will terminate the agreement’ ‘and shut down the mills. Other details of the proposal include: e Any disciplinary action or. griev- ances arising during this agreement over de- finda fora three-year contract and wiinnditeh ow bia die aie language thanges that would give the HALLOWEEN TRADITION . . . Castlegar youths Roger Briscoe (left) and eben) companies greater flexibility in sched- uling and allow more contracting out of work. Walters carve out pumpkin in anticipation of Halloween Monday. esti Phat by Chey Clderbonk vnunet: B.C. teachers favor strike action VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia public school teachers have voted about 60 per cent in favor of supporting a strike to press for changes in the Social Credit budget and the B.C. said =: “ANNOUNCEMENT. . og tay Larry Kuehn told a news “conference that the teachers’ strike would begin Tuesday, ‘No. 8; aml would gt sual Gere ai Fepolationy torihy ¢ problems,” rt ll The province wide walkout by teachiiis would be pat of of an strike, b B.C. Union bs A total of 27,187 valid ballots were cast’ in the strike vote by the 30,000 teachers’ federation members. The ‘vote was 69.45 per cent in favor of Authorizing the federation executive to call a strike. Operation Solidarity is a broad-based organization of scidemilee: clerics, tenants and public and private sector pub cbloyed ih flash wcgoclal- services and re Kuehn said teachers have been through two years of reduce tengnt’S righ imp ‘human » rights legislation: Monday night. attacks on the school system by the government, morale is low, and the strike vote indicates teachers “feel Tornado hits Quebec village ST. TIMOTHEE, QUE. roofs off three houses and Mayor Michel Lapierre Lapierre said he will seek ernment legislation ate, reduce the™ CASTLEGAR SAVINGS INSURANCE AGENCIES is pleased to announce that Mrs. Vera Rezan: has successfully completed her agents’ OTHER THAN LIFE course and EXAMINATION. Mrs. Rezansoff is now fully licensed as prescribed by the Provincial Insurance Act. (CP) — Winds gusting as high as 90 kilometres an hour tunnelled through the centre of this St, Lawrence River Valley village late Friday, tearing off roofs and injuring 11 people. “It was like a bomb had struck, there were pieces of debris everywhere,” said fire ‘h 1 chief Robert Thibeault. 9) on your The violent gusts lifted the damaged at least 16 others, said Thibeault, who added residents first thought the area had been hit by an earthquake. Most of the injured were struck by flying debris, said Sgt. Onel Bourdon, Quebec provincial police spokesman. Seven of the victims who suffered minor injuries were kept in hospital, he said. said one of the damaged buildings was a small apart- ment unit which housed 30 people. Tenants spent the night with friends and family members in the area, but other accommodations would be found for them today, he said. Other families patched up holes and stayed in their dwellings. 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WOULD CLOSE The federation leader said that even if some teachers refused to join the strike, it’s doubtful schools could remain open. “There will be, I would assume, substantial picket lines around the ,: iol wiibes both, fealty rank znon-teaching anything in heehee ‘Wyou have the janitorial staff out, you have almost all of the teachers out, I don’t think we're going to see much. happening in the schools.” Kuehn said the federation has set up a meeting with Education Minister Jack Heinrich in Victoria Nov. 1 in an attempt to persuade the government to scrap the Public Sector Restraint Act, the Public Sector Labor Relations Amendment Act, and the Education Finance Amendment Act. These pieces of | public-sector workers, by government decree, and inseased centralization of education decision-making in Victoria. Provide for of THANK YOU Red Mountain Racers would like very much to thank all merchants for their support and dona- tions to our. annual fashion: show, auction and dance. | The teachers’ federation is not a formal union, and has no strike fund, Keuhn said, adding striking teachers would have to live on their savings. Coroner orders inquest By CasNews Staff Castlegar coroner Paul Oglow has ordered an autop- sy and an inquiry into the .death Wednesday of Fred- erick John Lactin, 87, of Nelson. Lactin was reported to have been lying in the middle of the road when he was run over by a vehicle on Highway 3A just west of Playmor Junction. The driver of the vehicle was Lee Andrew Bunce. of Nelson. A Crescent Valley RCMP spokesman said it is believed the victim was hitchhiking prior to the incident. Investigation is continuing. Court In reference to Court News in the Castlegar News Oct. 23 edition, Ralph Carroll was not given a suspended sen- tence for assaulting a police officer as reported. In fact, he was given a suspended sen- tence and 18 months pro- bation with conditions’ for commiting a sexual assault. news Carroll was found guilty and did not plead guilty as’ reported. * * . In Castlegar provincial court this week, Philip Frost was fined $100 and placed on four months probation after Pleading guilty to impaired driving. Warm & wonderful ways to take the chill out of winter Save 30% On women's SMe... October30, 1969 _ Castlégai News 3 TRANSITION pe: OPENS - By DIANE STRANDBERG Staff Writer Try this exercise; write the Munbers one through nine as many times as you can in 20 seconds. In this time period, you might write 40 figures on a piece of paper.’ ‘Try doing the same thing with your other hand. See : how many fewer figures you are able to write in the same time frame. © It is a frustrating exercise — you just can’t manage those straight lines and curves on the number 5. Students -at Twin Rivers Elementary school are participating in a similar exercise this fall in a program geared to help them learn to accept some special needs children whoare being. introduced to their school system. Gerrand, gives students the opportunity to feel what it is like to have a disability. * “We get them to feel what it would be like to walk in that (disabled) person's shoes. You have the same head, but you can't write as many numbers.' ‘This “in-service” program is being conducted as the groundwork for Twin Rivers students who will see five special needs children from Silver Birch integrated into their, classrooms. Last week, these students moved into a-classroom called the “transition room”.’ Newly renovated this summer at a,cost to the district of about’ $12,000, this transition room will be the home base from which these students will receive their individualized core curriculum. When they are considered ready, they will be introduced to.regular ‘classrodms for art, music and physical education. ~ With the in-service program being taught by special needs teachers, Twin Rivers students‘are realizing that the child next to them in a wheelchair isn't someone to be afraid of. They learn that these children are like themselves, and they need friends just like everyone else. Inaninterview this week, Gerrand said the program is having a profound effect.on the student population in - his school. But he is getting most satisfaction from seeing the Silver Birch students respond through contact with their peers. “For many of these youngsters, nobody will play with them, but after this in-service program, the most satisfying thing for us to see is a youngster go up to one of thede kids and say, ‘hey, would like to play, .. . and the ligtit in these kids’ faces lets you know that ‘the whole program is worthwhile.” A visit to Twin Rivers elementary during recess is proof that this program works. FE La ee ee - CLASSROOM *” This exercise, says Twin Rivers principal ‘Bruce READING LESSONS ° -.. Silver Birch head peochern: Vianne Timmons gives student Steven’Soares a! Take for instance, a small boy in a wheelthair being pushed enthusiastically. across a alae, play field. Perched the, boy calmly eats an apple while his wen races him across the grass. The t boy in the wheelchair isn't participating in the transition program because he was d into’ > reading lesson in the newly renovated transition . room atTwin Rivers Elementary. he didn't have the experience,” Timmons says. There are three teachers and four teacher-aids that rotate between teaching in the transition room and teaching at Silver Birch and the 402 job preparation program. Every six eects they assess the progress of the he and decide Nae individual ane content and learning level should ” The child's parents are usually consulted in this process, Timmons says. “There's really a wide range of ages and levels in this program,” she adds, noting fur example that the progress levels range from Peter, a cerebral palsy victim who is learning head control to Charlene, who is learning her multiplication tables. Gerrand says that even the smallest amount of progress, which might not be detected by those not used to dealing with disabled children, can be significant. A case in point is Peter, who is learning to keep his head up with the help of a modified tape recorder that plays country and western music. Each time he lowers his head, a pause button is activated on his headphone which stops the music. When he began the program, a meter reader on the tape recorder indicated that he kept his head up for six counts. He can now keep his head up for 49 counts. The students attend Twin Rivers only in the morning, but Timmons says she hopes that they will soon be able to cope with the new environment for a whole day. In the afternoon, they return to Silver Birch. “They've been learning to deal with recess, but we're working on them for lunchtime,” Timmons explained. While the transition room is only a recent addition to Twin Rivers, Gerrand says the notion of integration is not new to the school. He says children from Silver Birch have been classes in his school for 15 years. “The only Vianne Timmons, head teacher at Silver Birch, says the children’ could get the same teaching programs at "Silver Birch that they now get at Twin Rivers, but they ea 't get the opportunity to relate to other kids their own ‘One ‘bey in the program, 10-year-old Steven Soares, the school from the start. -But this:example is ag?” indication of how the children at Twin Rivers are Jearning’ to accept those with disabilities. higain Ina play area next to the school, where students line hr up to take their turn at the tetherball pole, a former Silver Birch studext who joins in the fun is easily accepted by his peers. Gerrand knows these special needs children are not likely to be invited to a show on a Friday night. But he notes that “the more these kids are accepted, the more they'll be accepted as adults.” *. By far, the most aspect of the it program is the socializing between the students. but he is learning to deal with his frustration and anger with the help of an education program that has been coordinated to meet his needs. For example, Timmons one day picked 10 boys from ‘Twin Rivers classrooms and had them all di Steven's thing different is now they're being housed here,” he says. 0 The push came about two years ago when he, former Silver Birch head teacher Frances Martinelli and her staff agreed to work towards establishing a classroom at Twin Rivers. Although Twin Rivers teachers questioned the move in the beginning, Gerrand says they are very supportive of the program. In fact, some teachers will even volunteer to teach a class in the transition room. “They questioned at first, as everything should be ” said Gerrand. “But not in a negative sense, problems with him in a controlled environment. Timmons says the boys gave Steven some ideas but in a ‘why are we doing this?” The answer, as the project gets underway, is obvious about how he, could control his anger in p situations. This positive reinforcement and the added stim- ulation of meeting other kids during recess has given Steven the life skills he will need to function in society. “He went from having no friends to having friends, he's learning to p)ay cooperatively. Without the contact, t But more it ly, it's obvious to Steven. As. the stocky youngster strutted around the in his id fid he admitted his favorite moment at Twin Rivers is when he plays the drums in his Grade 6 Music class. But other than that, he says he likes the new program “cause it helps you learn things.” ‘Canadians to fl BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS (CP) (More than 20 C from the t island of An opposition member of the British Parliament, Grenada on Friday will be flown to Gast today (Sunday). Canadian officials in the Barbados capital said Saturday that a Canadian Forces Boeing 707 jetliner which has been parked at Bridgetown's will leave with the Canadians on Sunday morning for Ottawa's Uplands airport. The officials said the plane will leave Bridgetown at ll a.m. and arrive at Uplands at 8 p.m. EST. Meanwhile, Commonwealth officials are drawing up plans for a multinational police force including Canadians to replace the U.S. and Caribbean invasion troops on G: d: called for a boycott of next year's 'Los Angeles Olympics to ‘protest the U.S.-led attack on the Caribbean island, Commonwealth Secretary General Sir Shridth Ramphal conferred with aides in London on the future of Grenada, a Commonwealth member. His -deputy, Chief E.C. Anyaoku, flew dn from Nigeria to participate in the discussions. Y: for the Ci declined to provide details of the talks. The Canadian government has indicated it is willing to The di Idaho gets aftershocks to such a C peace force. The Guardian said blueprints are being drawn up “for a new.kind of. multinational contingent, to be called the Commonwealth Security Force,” to take over the running of Grenada from the 6,000 U.S. troops and almost 400 police and soldiers from six Caribbean countries. “The aim is to airlift the first units into Grenada as soon as possible during November so that American troops can be phased out,” the newspaper said. The invasion force, spearheaded by U.S. Marines and Tuesday in what U.S. President Reagan said was a bid to protect.American residerits of the island and restore order after a bloody coup. The Guardian said initial plans are for a new peace- keeping unit to be drawn largely from the police forces of Canada, India, Nigeria, Australia and. some Caribbean countries, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe, ap- proached by reporters after a speech at the Commonwealth Institute in London, replied: “I don't know,” when asked whether Britain would contribute troops to such a force. Prime Minister N Thatcher, as Reagan's staunchest ally in Europe, advised him not to launch the invasion when informed of it hours before it began. She has not publicly criticized the action. | Opposition members of the British Parli ome from Barbados A five-man “consular team” from the British Faber, in flew into on Foreign Office spokesman said. “Their purpose is to make contact with the British community there, to establish which of them wishes to leave and to make arrangements for them to do so,” the spokesman said. Some 200 Britons, most of them longtime residents, are on the island. More than 23 Canadians were evacuated from Grenada on Friday. Britain's deputy ambassador in Barbados, David Mont- gomery, made a brief visit to Grenada on Friday to confer with Sir Paul Scoon, the governor general on the island. The Times reported that the’ meeting took place at the Point Salines airport, now held by U.S. troops, and that the RAF C-180 transport on which Montgomery flew however, have been bitter in their criticism. bor MP Ron Brown called Saturday for.a boycott of next year's Los Angeles Olympics. “Making public noises and gestures is just not enough; something more positive must be done to indicate the feeling of the British people,” Brown said. was forced to circle for two hours while troops fought off attacks by Cuban and Grenadian forces. In a radiotelephone call to United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar in New York, the Grenadian-born Scoon said he hopes to hold elections in ‘ Grenada within six months, a UN spokesman reported. CHALLIS, IDAHO (AP) — Wave upon wave of af- tershocks shook the hills and plains of Idaho on Sat- urday following a mon- strous earthquake that killed two children and moved a mountain. The aftershocks rumbled - at the rate of about one every three minutes, said Ed Williams of the Ricks College seismographic sta- tion in Rexburg, Idaho. Williams said there had been six to eight large af- . tershocks, but the tremors were “dying down in in tensity and freq moved it. Williams said the moun- tain, previously measured at 3,860 metres above sea level, was moved five me- tres higher above the val- ley floor. “We don't know for sure whether the valley is low- er, or’ the mountain is higher,” he said. “It'll have to be resurveyed.” From the air, geologists saw a 20-kilometre-long hole in the ground along the mountain that was three to five metres, Wil- liams said. The original quake’ was felt in Canada from Vic- toria to Saskatoon. Em- ployees were ‘evacuated from three floors of a gov- ernment building in Ed- monton, workers left downtown office buildings in Calgary while dishes and windows rattled and tele- -phone poles swayed in British Columbia. No ser- ious damage was reported in Canada. Residents of central Idaho continued to be frightened about the after- shocks. “The people are terri- fied; they're afraid it’s going’ to happen again,” Challis Postmaster Mary- Ellen Edgerly said. The quake was centred near Mount Borah, Idaho's tallest peak, and literally searched the rugged Idaho back country for an unde- termined number of deer hunters missing since the quake. Most hunters reported missing after the quake had been found safe but the whereabouts of several others from out of state was unknown, said Jim Reimann, the assistant fire chief for the town of Mac- kay, where damage was wisespread. - A state emergency team was ‘sent to central Idaho to make damage claims for aid applications. Idaho Gov. John Evans es- timated damage at $4 mil- lion and $5 million in dam- age. % Almost every’ building was damaged in Mackay, population 1,500. federal Army Ranger units, invaded the Caribbean island last Protesters demonstrate in Holland THE HAGUE (AP) — About 600,000 anti-nuclear protesters brought The Hague to a standstill Sat- urday in the biggest demon- stration in Dutch history. They heard Princess Irene, younger sister of Queen Bea- trix, warn that any more U.S. missiles would push human- ity off “the: edge of the abyss.” Although she appeared as a private citizen, the princess was the first royal family member ever to speak pub- licly on NATO's planned de- ployment of 572 new U.S. ‘Trudeau holds secret meeting OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Trudeau flew to New York Saturday for a secret meeting with mem- bers of an influential nuclear think tank as part of his ‘closely-guarded. peace initi- ative, The Canadian Press ‘has learned. Trudeau aides announced he was going to New York for a private visit and a human- itarian awards dinner but the dinner was. added to his schedule.as a cover for a lun- cheon with members of the Harvard University Nuclear Study Group, souces said. University spokesmen in Boston said Trudeau's lun- cheon companions will ‘in- clude Albert Carnesale, dean of Harvard's John F. Ken- nedy School of Government. He was a leading member of the study group which published a book this sum- mer called Living With: Nu- clear Weapons. Its views were strongly reflected in Trudeau's speech Thursday. night at the University of Guelph in Ontario. A veil of secrecy has been drawn ‘ around Trudeau's meetings and the work of his high-level task force on peace issues because advisers fear the could medium-range missiles in Western Europe. Among the protesters were 200 Dutch soldiers in uniform, accom- panied by an officer. An additional 200,000 dem- onstrators rallied. in Dem- mark, half of them in Copen- hagen, and 600 activists blocked the gates of a U.S. Army base in Heilbronn, West Germany, in the second weekend of protests against siting the rockets in Western Europe. The Dutch protest was mounted to pressure the centre-right coalition of Prime Minister Ruud Lub- bers to reject the planned 1986 deployment of 48 nu- clear-tipped cruise missiles in the Netherlands. The other rockets are to be deployed in West Germany, Britain, Italy and Belgium. Lubbers told a TV in- terviewer “such a«~ Huge crowd was an influence on politics and ministers... but I stress that if we would disarm outside the NATO framework, that would not bring peace nearer, but on the contrary, would make the world a less secure place to live.” ROYAL WARNING In her five-minute address before the rally at the Zuid- erpark, Irene warned that “the weaspons we have built now have put us on the edge of the abyss, and we cannot afford one more mistake be- cause that would mean the whole world, our Earth, would be destroyed.” The 44-year-old princess, who was second in line to the Dutch throne until she re- nounced her rights to suc- cession in 1964, said she re- fuses “to go on living like this; why should people be forced to live in fear?” “It looks as though our society is focused on arma- ment, on defence, on protec- tion,” declared Irene, who said she was not speaking for the royal house but had been invited to appear as a guest speaker “free of any opinion or upon her marriage to a Roman Catholic, Prince Car- los Hugo, once the pretender to the Spanish monarchy. They were divorced in 1981. The Hague demonstration was sponsored by peace, church, labor and political groups, including the opposi- tion Labor party, which holds the largest number of seats in the parliament. Both police and organizers estimated 600,000 took part and said it was the biggest protest in Dutch history. “Never before have so many people in so many She has been regarded asa private citizen since dropping her claim to the throne of the Protestant House of Orange for the same goal,” said Joop den Uyl, leader of the Labor party and a former prime minister. City bans nuclear weapons By CasNews Staff batt storage, transportation, disposal id prevented and a ban peeed on the ex- and p’ Nuclear weapons and be derailed by too Tach pub- licity. The Harvard group backs Trudeau's view that peace and successful nuclear arms negotiations depend on a restoration of trust and com- munications between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. are banned from C: e, or nuclear pons an nents within city limits. or their compo- in the West Kee In a unanimous vote and with no discussion, Castlegar council Tuesday declared the city a nuclear-free zone. The decision followed a letter from the Central Kootenay Regional District which requested council declare the city free from nuclear weapons. The new ruling outlaws the manufac- As well, the council urged the federal, provincial and regional district governments to “implement all meas- ures within their powers” to make Canada and B.C. a nuclear free zone. As well, council recommended that transporting radioactive materials be Council defended the move by stating in the recommendation, “the nuclear arms race poses a growing threat of an intentional or accidental nuclear holocaust and threatens the very existence of life on this planet.” No nuclear weapons or radioactive materials are now being stored in the city.