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Heart Foundation oc grotitude “In Robot “THAT USED REFRIGERATOR- DOES IT HAVE ANY COKE IN IT?“ Students need three Cs OTTAWA (CP) — Tea- chers must swap the three Rs for three Cs if students are to survive in the technological job market of the 21st cen- tury, a business executive says. “Certain generalist skills like communications, ciel Tn Latabehagn,ANa. sly 5 fo sted tv opted out of the school system's human Advocates of sex education in schools consider these Programs oases of enlightenment in a country struggling to teach ita children about thier own eoxualify “The root (of the problem) isn't sex education,” says a Guelph University family studies professor. “The root is that we are very nervous about sex in this country.” Sam Luker says the state of family life ion in Certified General Accountant Canada is spotty at best, with provincial governments not wanting to handle what has become a hot issue. For example, in British Columbia, there is no family life i A prop: curriculum was drawn up for the 1982-82 school year, but the Social Credit government of Premier Bill Bennett shelved the program and there are no signs of it being renewed. B.C. curriculum director Bob Overgaard has suggested that family life and health education may not be a high priority considering the need for other programs in such areas as career an dconsumer education. Luker counters that sex education is “at least as important as geography.” TOPIC RESTRICTED From Luker's observations, he says it apparently is “OK to talk about the plumbing, but don't give them too much of the touchy-feely stuff. You know, don't let them in on any of the hot stuff.” An exception are schools in a which have a choice thinking and going ot be crucial to pull these young people through,” Lynne Hall, former adviser to the chief executive officer of TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. told about 100 admin- istrators, counsellors and teachers. Hall, executive in resi- dence at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., delivered the keynote address during a symposium. 34,000 die from firearms ANAHEIM, CALIF. (AP) — There are 34,000 gunfire deaths annually in the United States, say researchers who found that firearms kill more Americans between the ages of 15 and 34 than anything except traffic accidents. In addition, blacks are six times more likely than whites to be murdered with a gun, according to an analysis pre- sented at the American Pub- lie Health Association's an. nual meeting. The analysis by Susan Ba. ker, a professor at John Hopkins University, also found elderly white males have the highest suicide rate from firearms, and poor peo- ple are 10 times more likely than those better off to die in accidental shootings. could retrieve satellites WASHINGTON (AP) — A the U.S. capital could be used to retrieve wayward satel- lites just as astronauts from the space shuttle Discovery did this week, says the ro which they stowed aboard the space shuttle Odex I is not the first walking satellite, but its makers claim it is the first with six legs, each equipped with sensors. legs keep the robot stable and the other three are used to feel “multifunctional unit (that) could literally walk away from the factory floor and perform virtually anywhere.” Most industrial robots are stationary. The movements of Odex I are governed by its own computer and 18 motors, three for each leg. Fixed on the “head” of Odex I are two television cameras. Russell, writing in the monthly publication Robotics Age, said the next generation of the Odex I would be'sealed against the elements so it could be tested in other en- CHEV TON °7888 MALONEY 365-2155 364-0213 of two pi ly-approved — one secular and one that incorporates the topie ‘in @ moral and religious education program. In the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, sexual issues are taught as a “very broad rte starting in Grade 1, sayd Quebec consultant Margaret C. By Grade 9, topics such as anatomy and reproductiéa have long been covered and controversial issues are raised “The board here recognizes the right of parents to withdraw children on grounds of consience but few do,” said Capes. The Lethbridge program cut potential opposition to the quick by ensuring parental involvement. Board official Sharon Gibb said the Grades 1 to 10 program has been nurtured along by a series of parents’ advisory committee. But in most jurisdictions, children are not guaranteed any comprehensive information about sexuality. In Saskatchewan, the department of education includes human sexuality as an option in its health program but few school boards have picked it up. TEACHERS TRAVEL Mary Jean Martin said that instead, students in many school systems receive sex education from a travelling team of resource teachers who talk about fertility and conception and are sponsored by & group that lobbies against abortion. In Ontario, local boards are left to deal with sensitive issues — such as abortion and masturbation — on their own. Boards have started demanding that the province be more specific in family life education guidelines now being drawn up. In Winnipeg, the St. Vital board went ahead with a program that had been shelved as unacceptable for use throughout the province due to backlash from some parents. Another curriculum is being drawn up but Manitoba Education Minister Maureen Hemphill says she has no idea when it will be ready to put in use. Centre will treat whole family TORONTO (CP) — A chil Delicrest has also started a dren's mental health centre day-care project where 175 has announced a new sexual day-care workers will receive abuse project where treat’ special training over a five ment will be extended to the year period. whole family. Robert Shaw, the centre's “Most programs serve the founder and executive dir. children or the mother or the ector, said Dellcrest is not in perpetrator,” said Mark the business of providing day Frankel, director of mental care but its staff are expert health services at Dellerest in helping children with emo Children's Centre. tional and behavioral prob- Frankel said he knew of no other program treating the whole family in Canada al though there are some in the United States. Treatment will last up to two years, much longer than the aver. age program, he added. lems. An important element of each project will be research, Shaw said. Once each project has been tested and evalu- ated, results will be made available to mental health workers throughout Canada. CLASSIFIED SHOWCASE Bring your car, truck, snow blower, boat, motor or whotever to the Castlegar News ond we'll take a photo. (Or bring your own picture of some item, such as a snowmobile or a dining room suite.) For information phone 365-5210. 1970 17'/2' FIBREFORM Double concave hull, 85 HP Evinrude O.B. Shoreline trailer Phone Lindo at 365-7863 evenings 270 Columb Castlegor Ph. 365-2151 Ave. MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN ertitied General Accountants 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-7287 Soligo, Koide & John Chartered Accountants 615 Columbia Ave. Henry John, B.Sc., C.A. Resident Partner A B,C,D... orX,YorZ Yes, whether your business name starts with A or with Z, Business Directory advertising is for you! 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Remove & Frott Tree Proving Columbia Pest Control WILLIAMS MOVING Ph. 365-3328 Collect —— ML LeNoy CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1984 SE ETSI 3 Sections (A, B &C) Marine workers picket mills By RON NORMAN Editer About 30 marine workers at Westar Timber's Celgar Lumber Operations went on strike for the first time ever early this morning, shutting down both the Celgar sawmill and pulpmill. The workers, members of the Canadian Merchant Services Guild, set up picket lines outside the main entrances to the sawmill and pulpmill and at the entrance to the log sorting area near Keenleyside Dam at 5 a.m. today More than 650 Westar employees are affected by the strike — 260 sawmill employees and 100 loggers who are members of International Woodworkers of America, and 300 Push is on pulpmill employees, members of the Pulp, Paper and Wood- workers of Canada. ‘The marine workers haul 85 per cent of the logs used for Celgar Lumber Operations. The Guild has been in a legal position to strike since Friday morning. It served the company with 72 hours strike notice last Wednesday. The marine workers are unhappy with contract negotiations and have been without a contract since October, 1983. “The company is not prepared to recognize us as officers on towboats. They're trying to compare us to laborers and millworkers,” Guild business agent Doug Towill said in an interview this morning from Vancouver. He said the Guild waited until today to call the strike because it had to “cover all the angles.” Westar Timber spokesman A! Blessin said the company is preparing an application to the Labor i Board requests removal of pickets, the union will comply. Blessin said the strike wasn't a total surprise, though the pany wasn't really it today. Meanwhile, Ed Conroy Jr. the Guild’s Arrow Lakes , Said the mood on the picket line is “fairly requesting a halt to the picketing. “We hope to be able to meet the board today,” Blessin and have the pickets removed by Thursday However, Towill said the union is prepared for the company’s request and will fight it. He said changes to the Labor Code restricting secondary picketing “might hurt us.” He later added that the picketing is “primary picketing as far as we're concerned.” He noted that if the LRB said repr bouyant,” strike Conroy claimed the Guild is “basically fighting for our life here” and aceused Westar of trying to “break us.” He said the company attempted to have the marine workers removed from the Guild through the LRB, but was turned down. Now it is trying to achieve the same goal through the collective bargaining process, Conroy said. though he pointed out it is only the first day of the LT. U IM) ALLAN to expand school By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer The Pass Creek Parent-Teachers’ Association has initiated a push to expand the dwindling pupil population at Pass Creek Elementary school to include kindergarten, and Grades 1 to 6. Presently, the school has only a 16 student Grade 5/6 split class. Accord- ing to Jaek Irving, chairman of the Pass Creek PTA, the school used to teach kindergarten and Grades 1 to 6 about four years ago, but since then the sebool has been gradually reduced because students were sent to Wood- land Park Elementary school at the re- quest of parents. The Pass Creek PTA met Tuesday night at the school with represen- tatives of the Castlegar school board, ahd the C District Teachers’ Association. Irving said parents were told at least 40 students would have to attend Pass Creek school if they want it expanded next September “That means bringing the numbers back,” said Irving this morning. “We're going to one end of Pass Creek to the other and do our projection of how many (students) are going to be coming up in the next three or four years.” As well, Irving says there are approximately 30 students from the Pass Creek area now attending Wood. land Park and Twin Rivers Elementary schools who could be going to Pass Creek Elementary next year. “We will have to get ac ON STRIKE... Hucal, Capt. Lovie Holuboft (right) and Bruce two members of the Canadian Merchant Ser- vices Guild on the picket line outside Westar Timber's in legal samagcay seceenT nf aud STAKE \ Celgar pulp and lumber operations today. Guild wos Poceition to strike Friday, but didn't set up pickets until this morning. Cashews Photo by Ron Norman BY APARTMENT OWNER from parents that they will send their children to this school ” he added. Irving said some of the new classes at Pass Creek Elementary would be split, and added that after the parents have finished gathering information, a formal proposal will be presented to the school board by late Febriiary or early March He said earlier this week that par continued on page A2 r PPWC T VOTE ON CONTRACT By CasNews Staff Support staff at Selkirk College, members of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada have reached a memorandum of agreement with the college for a new contract The current collective agreement expires Dec. 31 “This is the first time in seven or eight years that a memorandum of agreement has been achieved prior to the expiry date,” said college personnel manager Barry Jackson. The college board was to discuss the memorandum of agreement at its in-camera meeting Tuesday night. The PPWC is holding a membership meeting Friday where they are ex pected to vote on the agreement. Jackson said the reason for reaching an agreement so quickly was due to “harmonious labor relations.” He added that the guidelines estab- lished by the provincial Compensation Stabilization Program “don't give you that mueh flexibility.” Negotiations have been taking place for the past 1% months. The PPWC consists of about 11@ full and part-time support staff at the college College housing rapped By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer Establishing a student residence at Selkirk College's Castlegar campus would do a “great injustice” to local suppliers of student accommodation, says a Castlegar apartment owner. Pete Stoopnikoff, owner of Cedar Manor apartments, told a college board meeting at Rosemont campus Tuesday that accommodation is already plentiful in the area. He urged the college to hold off on its plans to allow student housing at the college until economic conditions im prove The college has signed a letter of intent permitting Western Student Housing to construct a 100-student residence. College bursar Dale Schatz told the board he is expecting the actual lease documents in the mail soon. Stoopnikoff said his apartment is presently full but has vacancies in the summer when the college is closed. He said he lost 17 apartment rentals when the college closed in the summer. About 12 of the 45 rentals are to college students, he said, and between 24 and 30 students live in the apart ments. Send in those letters to Santa Hey kids, here's your chance to ensure your letters get right to Santa Claus at the North Pole. Just write your letters to: Santa Claus, care of Castlegar News, Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C VIN 3H4, and we'll do the rest. We'll try to publish as many letters as we can in the News, space permitting. Letters in- dividually written will be given evety consideration. ‘AB well, this year we'll be drawing 10 letters from those sub- of the 10 letter two tickets to So if you want to write a letter to Santa, don’t forget to remind mom and dad that your letters must be He said the apartment next to his, Selkirk Manor, has 12 vacancies, and according to local realtors about half of the houses in Castlegar are available “I feel that putting up units at this time would certainly do an injustice to taxpayers,” Stoopnikoff said. College board chairman Jack Colbert said he can understand the problems of having units for rent on a three quarter year basis. He said he appreci ated Stoopnikoff's concerns, but added that if his rental prices are competitive with what is being proposed on the college campus, then any problems would probably be solved Board member Fred Merriman noted that many people don’t understand that a private corporation has proposed the student residence and the college is simply leasing the land to Western Student Housing. “They (the company) said there appears to be a need right now,” Merriman said. “That in itself might be encouraging to apartment owners,” he told Stoopnikoff. He noted that student representa tive Doran Osterhold earlier told the board some students wouldn't stay in» ~— even if it was available may be frig! 3 I think competition is always a healthy thing and people have decided te spend money and put that (resi @ence) up.” Merriman said. “I don’t think it will be frightening if Cromwell said the tollege is inter ested in developing summer activities that could bring people into the area for « short time. “I am not seared,” contioved on page A? said, Debris on Arrow Lake criticized By RON NORMAN Editor There seems to be nothing but prob- lems with the Arrow Lakes these days and it’s enough to give Castlegar council a municipal-sized headache. If it isn't debris floating in the lakes, it's restrictions placed on American tourists who want to moor their boats here. And if that isn’t enough, the Fish eries Branch says it isn't going to stock the lakes with fish because there's no demand for fishing. Council has agreed with the Down- town Business Association that the de- bris of the Lower Arrow Lake must be cleaned up. Ina letter the DBA said, “The debris must be cleaned up as quickly as possible to bring tourist dollars to our area and to promote safer boating for the area residents and visitors.” The DBA also pointed out that it wrote council on the issue in August, but never received a reply. It asked council to suggest steps to be taken to clean up the debris. The DBA sent copies of the letter to the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce, B.C. Hydro, Seotty’s Mar ina, Tourism B.C. and the federal Ministry of Transport It added that it has yet to receive responses from any of them. Ald. Bob MacBain said council didn't reply to the DBA’s first letter “because we weren't asked to. However, he said, “There's no doubt about it, the debris on the Lower Arrow Lake is quite a serious matter.” He said the city will do anything it can to “accelerate” cleaning up the debris. MacBain also noted that there have —inside TOP STUDENT: Susan Mc- Bride, o nursing student from Bantf, Alberta, has won the coveted Governor General's Silver Medal as the top student at Selkirk College. For a complete list of award winners turn to... Ad Nite Hawks 81 SELLECK, PLEASE: LANSING, Mich The first? Anything | want to The second? Buy Tom Selleck She refused to tell her been applications under the Canada Works program to clean up debris along the foreshore of the Arrow Lakes. He added that there is a study underway examining the problem. Ald. Bob Pakula said council should make a stronger stratement. “We're definitely losing peaple to Kootenay Lake,” he said. He recom mended council contact anyone who has some leverage to force B.C. Hydro to clean up the debris. Council agreed to write to MP Bob Brisco and the federal Coast Guard about the problem. Meanwhile, Ald. Albert Calderbank complained that Canada Customs is enforcing an old regulation that says American boaters can only moor their boats in Canadian waters for a specific time period. He said American tourists are being forced to tow their boats back to the U.S. from their Arrow Lake moorage before they want to. “During the summer apparently there is no problem,” said Calderbank But once fall comes, Canada Customs enforces the rule. “This is killing the tourism on the Arrow Lakes for these boats,” he said. “It's just going to stop these people from coming up. Couneil will inwestignte the issue and see if it can't be resolved. As weil, Mayor Audrey Moore told council the Fisheries Branch has said there is no point in stocking the Arrow Lakes because there is no demand for fishing. However, she claims that since there isn't any fish, there isn't any fishing demand. ALL IN FAMILY: A father and doughter team have headed the Legion's Slocan branch for the lost decade. See Street Totk ... AS REBELS RALLY: Castlegar Rebels Junior hockey club won their first gome on the road Tuesday night, 0 9-7 decision over Beaver Valley There are two obvious things to do with $10.4 million, Patricia Parker says Parker, of Kalmazoo, appeared at o news conterence Tuesday as the winner of Saturday's Michigan Lotto jackpot, the highest prize awarded in the game's 13 drawings so far Parker also had some ideas about what not to tell reporters. age, saying only that she is handsome actor. She also refused to say where she works, where her husbond works and whether they have children. She sid say she and her husband will probably quit their jobs and may buy o new cor. Parker received her first cheque of $417,257 after taxes. She will get $519,800 a year before taxes through the yeor 2003. Porker seid she woke up early Sunday and saw the six num- bers she selected proclaimed the winners in the local newspaper “| went back to bed,” she said could do at 5 o'clock on a Sunday morning. Mees But she conceded, “! didn’t go back to sleep. too old” for the “There wasn't much else you