The controversy of which Melville speaks is twofold. One debate concerns classroom scripture readings and the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer — items which the Public

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The other prong of the controversy, dealing with the theory of evolution and the opposing theory of creation, has largely been thrust onto the public discussion table by a 42-year-old Dawson Creek woman, who insists it is less a religious debate than a battle against the unscientific attitude of some scientists.

“There have probably always been people who felt strongly about this issue — religion and its place in the schools,” says Charles Anderson, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of B.C.

“Yes, I suspect these opinions have always existed. They just haven't been articulated at the public level before.”

Melville says a ministry committee has drawn up a discussion paper on Section 164 of the 62-year-old Public Schools Act — the section which stipulates that schools must be opened with a passage of scripture and the Lord's Prayer —and will hold public hearings on the act in the coming months. The B.C. Teachers’ Federation is just one of many groups opposing the prayers.

But another committee, one which regularly reviews the science curriculums in B.C.’s high schools, has yet to formally tackle the equally hot evolution-creation discussion.

Donna Sequens, however, has tried to stimulate the debate for four years. Sequens, who has two children in a Grade 12 classroom in Dawson Creek, wants the province's public schools equipped with resource material that would provide students with various views about the origin of life — views that go beyond Charles Darwin's theory that man descended from the apes.

She wants science instructors to stress that no one view is an absolute and is pushing for an elective religious studies program. Sequens also favors the retention of the school act's Section 164.

wording of Grade 12 provincial biology exams will be altered to remove‘any bias toward evolutionary theory.

Craig Young, who heads the Science Teachers’ Association of B.C., concurs with Sequens that the exam's wording — students were asked to “explain why it’s easier to support Darwin's theory of evolution today than it was during his time” — should be changed. But that's where the agreement ends.

Young, who teaches high school science in Dawson Creek, maintains that Sequens is “attempting to introduce religion into science classrooms in a somewhat underhanded fashion.”

But Sequens says that’s not the case.

“The teachers — the science teachers — don't support my position . . . But they don't fully understand my position.”

Charles Parslow, the superintendent of the Peace River South school district, responded to the concerns expressed by Sequens and others last year when he issued “a gentle reminder” to district teachers that they should stress that the theory of evolution is a theory and not fact.

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Knowing Sequens as he does, Parslow would not be surprised if she persuaded the ministry to follow his district's lead.

“She has had success with the Ministry of Education as it relates to the biology 12 exams,” he says. “I'd say she stands a good chance.”

VICTORIA (CP) — Bunworthy Quirque Rabbit has been turned down for a Canada Council grant, refused a government job, been on the mailing lists of several erudite publications and written to the University of Toronto requesting confirmation of a degree in architec ture.

Bunworthy drinks out of a glass, eats off a scallop shell, and sups beside a portrait of his mistress.

Bunworthy Quirque Rabbit is no ordinary cat.

His story begins with Virginia Careless, a researcher at the Provincial Museum.

“I was studying Victorian England and the rise of professional men,” she says. “I decided to invent a history for my eat to parallel my master’s thesis.”

Bunworthy Q. Rabbit, it seems, was the youngest in the litter, so his older brother inherited his father’s title The family sent him to Canada to make his way as a remittance man

He set up a ranch in the Okanagan raising Tennessee saddlebread walking chickens but later gave it up to follow a career in architecture.

Cat refused gov't job

As his elaborate saga evolved, friends sent off sub- scriptions in his name to magazines.

One day Bunworthy received a form letter asking him to support Joe Clark.

His owner wrote back on his behalf: “I will gladly support any candidate who will give me the vote.”

He was sent applications for Mastercard and Visa. Out of curiosity, Careless returned the completed forms. “He was sent the wallets but we're still waiting for the cards.”

Careless decided to apply for government jobs she thought Bunworthy might enjoy

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“I wrote his correct height and weight on the forms — 10 inches high and about 10 pounds — and that he was born three years ago.

“He received very polite letters back saying they were very sorry but someone else was better qualified for the job.”

The growing files of B.Q. Rabbit's correspondence includes a failed application for a Canada Council grant.

Bee mite in Canada

BRANDON, MAN. (CP) Canada's honey industry is bracing to resist an infectious mite that has already crip pled the business in parts of the United States.

Merv Abrahamson, presi dent of the Canadian Honey Council, said the acarine mite was spotted in several states after spreading north from Mexico last winter.

Abrahamson, a Saskatche wan beekeeper, says there have been suggestions that a ban be imposed on U.S. bee imports into Canada, but he rejected that idea

“To me, it is an impossible goal,” he said

“There would be roughly 200,000 colonies that would not be in operation next summer and a_ significant number of beekeepers would be put into bankruptcy.”

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packaged bees each spring from southern parts of the United States.

The mite, which was first spotted in Texas last year and has since been found in five other states, attacks the bees’ breathing and their flight systems.

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Abrahamson told about 500 people at the annual meeting of the Manitoba Bee keepers’ Association that a ban on the import of pack aged bees would not be ef fective.

He said swarms would still able to wing their way into Canada from neighboring states, and acarine mites have already been found in North and South Dakota.

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He said in areas of the United States where the mite is present, the package bee industry should be required to issue certificates for mite free bees.

Abrahamson urged re. search into the effect of the mite on the honey industry in other parts of the world, and how the mite will react to Canadian conditions

“A localized infestation would be simpler to clear up in Canada because we have less swarming than in the U.S..” he said, noting bees can survive a winter a winter in the wild in the United States, because of milder weather

Abrahamson said if bees in Canada get infested, a plan will be needed to eradicate mite-ridden colonies. He said the federal government has indicated that beekeepers would be compensated for

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The acarine mite is hard to detect and is feared because it attacks bees’ breathing and flying muscles, hampering their ability to produce honey

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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1984

By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer

Like most classrooms, there's a green blackboard, wooden-topped desks, and pictures by students hanging on the walls. There are the usual! pens, pencils, rulers, textbooks, and a teacher.

But that’s where the similarities end. Instead of 20 or 80 students in the class, there are only two. The classroom is roughly the size of a small bedroom. And for pupils Shelagh Ross, 9, and her 12-year-old sister Katherine, the teacher is well, more than just a teacher.

She's their Mom.

This September Barb Ross of Castlegar joined 9 grassroots.movement in Canada and the United States

that appears to be steadily growing — teaching children at home.

In B.C., there are now about 1,000 students of varying ages being home-schooled according to Alan Newberry, executive director of field services for the Ministry of Education.

This is an increase of 200-300 over a couple of yéars ago, says Newberry, who recently helped conduct # province-wide report on the subject.

“It's a pretty big leap forward,” he said. “It's cer tainly a phenomenon to be reckoned with.”

‘Mom! teaches these kids

Newberry said most parents surveyed were concerned about a perceived lack of moral and religious values in public schools, and “the difference in the amount of discipline between what the school would provide, and what the home would provide.”

Ross says she and her husband joined an estimated 10 families in the Castlegar area when they opted for home schooling. They chose it for “religious and social reasons.” .

She said they were especially concerned about the prospect of their daughter, Katherine, entering junior

high school

“We didn't want her to experience early dating, smoking and drinking — the drugs.

“We feel, too, it's our responsibility to teach our own children to have our values. We didn’t want them to become dependent on their peers for information and role modelling,” Ross said.

“We believe, too, that God is the final authority on all things, whereas in the public school system, the teacher is the authority on all things.”

The family's two children are now using home-school ing materials obtained for the U.S.-based Hewitt Moore Research Foundation, which provides a complete course of studies for up to the equivalent of Grade 9

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Katimavik gets city support

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar council feels the federal Katimavik youth program has taken a “bad rap” from recent publicity sur rounding the death of a Vancouver youth on an overnight survival hike.

So council Tuesday agreed to send a letter of appreciation to the local Kati mavik group.

As well, council extended an invi tation to a new Katimavik group expected to arriye in Castlegar today to attend a council meeting and meet the mayor and aldermen.

Council's concern for the local Katimavik youths comes after Duncan coréner Maurice Cherneff blasted the Katimavik organization and leaders earlier this Week if a report on the inquiry into the death of 18-year-old Tim Livingston (see separate story, AT).

Ald. Albert Calderbank threw his support behind the Katimavik group, saying they had been “very badly rapped.”

“The point is the organization seems to be suffering a great deal of abuse from the results of this inquest.”

Calderbank added, “I feel quite strongly the Katimavik kids who have been in this area have done a magni ficent job.”

Ald. Bob MacBain pointed out “They're not the only group that has had this problem (with members killed on wilderness hikes).”

MacBain said Scouts and Cadets have experienced similar instances

‘None of them I think could be blamed on the organization.”

Mayor Audrey Moore added that wilderness activities are not the major role of Katimav

Katimavik has its headquarters in Montreal and was started in 1977. It is a private, non-profit organization fund ed by the federal secretary of state.

There are 3,500 people 17 to 21 years old in the program this year, including nine in Castlegar

Those nine were scheduled to leave today to be replaced by 10 newcomers.

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NELSON (CP) The city has bought the Westar mill site for $300,000, says Ald. Bill Ramsden

Westar closed the lumber mill in

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STAMPED OUT. . Castlegar residents to use the local post office's mail

Mail system

By RON NORMAN Editor

The Castlegar abandoned a month-old experiment to streamline mail

howls of protest from customers. “I have decided to remove it,” postmaster Ben Evans said Tues said that he's

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The experiment involved placing three large open plastic containers on the post office's front counter: one for mail with stamps, one for metered mail and another for over

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five per cent.

Most stores wii pay $52 a year for each set of toilets and homeowners with private swimming pools over two feet deep will pay $13 a year

Sewer rates for both the north and south ends will increase by a flat $3.

That means sewer rates in the north end will jump by 8.3 per cent and sewer rates in the south end will increase by

Sewer costs for a single family home in the north end will rise from $36 to $39. In the south end the rate will go from $59 to $62.

The rate for each set basin and toilet

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By CasNews Staff homeowners nesses will be paying more for water and sewer next year.

Castlegar council Tuesday approved a three per cent increase in city water rates effective Jan.

The cost for a single family home will jump from $54 a year to $56.

Restaurants, cafes and coffee shops with fewer than 30 seats will pay $119 a year, while beer parlours with accom modation for up to 100 patrons will pay

However, Gairns said council de cided that an across the board per centage increase would be unfair because it would simply widen the gap between the rates for south end sewer users and north end users.

Council opted for a flat $3 fee hike instead, he said.

The increase is the second in as many years. Last fall council jacked up water rates by three per cent.

Council had intended to increase rates by six per cent at that time, but decided to spread the inerease over two years.

Gairns said the water and sewer systems are supposed to be self supporting and “there was concern they in fact wouldn't be” if the rates weren't increased this year.

and busi.

“We had not kept pace with the increased costs,” added Ald. Marilyn Mathieson, chairman of the health and welfare committee

In other news, council reaffirmed its policy that the volunteer fire depart ment will not respond to fires outside city limits.

for most businesses will be $45 in the

north end and $62 in the south end However, businesses such as motels,

car washes, barber shops and res

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security

containers. Containers were

He said if customers dump their mail in a regular post box, the mail must be sorted into the three cate gories. The mail with stamps must be separated from the metered mail and placed face up because the stamps have to be cancelled, Evans

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received about the new

“We're one of the last post offices of this size to use (the new) system, he noted. He said the controversial system has been in place on the Lower Mainland for “a good six months.”

“It was a good idea,” he said

However, Castlegar customers didn’t think so and they told Evans and Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco. Evans said about eight to 10 cus tomers made forma! complaints or

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Administrator Dave Gairns said the $3 hike in sewer rates represents a “modest increase.”

He said the reason for the different rates for the north and south ends is that the two are on different sewer systems and the cost of operating the systems is different.

Costews photo by Ron Norman

wrote to Brisco about the new

“Our taxpayers don't pay for fire protection in other municipalities,” said Ald. Carl Henne, a member of the protective services committee.

Henne said Castlegar firemen will respond to calls outside the city in a case of a declared emergency only on the authorization of the Mayor or exe cutive committee.

Henne said the policy about answer ing fires outside the city was “a little bit loose,” so council decided to set it out “in black and white.”

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system.

“We're the.only office I know of where people complained,” he said

The complaints focussed on in adequate security for mail dropped in the open containers.

Hans Kolman of Ootischenia was one of those who complained. He refused to drop his letters in the and tour of the Expo 86 site plastic containers. in Vancouver She

Kolman said he was concerned describes her trip os o that the mail containers were open thriller ab for anyone to simply walk in and take some mail.

“What happens if some punk or somebody comes by and takes a handful (of mail)?” he asked

“You can walk right behind me

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HEADY DEAL: VANCOUVER

October, pening the gloom in Nelson, where the unem ployment rate is among the highest in the province

The purchase, including eight hee tares of land and buildings with an

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CUTS PROTESTED: The Creston Valley Wildlife Interpretation Centre will close March 31 in the wake of Tory government cutbacks in the Canadian Wildlife Service, and Creston Chamber of Commerce isn't

A deal made over a pint of beer ot a racetrack restaurant between four Sweep Six bettors has been ruled valid by B.C. Supreme Court, giving a total of $147,000 to three of the

The winner-turned-loser is Oscar Cardona, 42, who, after a few drinks at Exhibition Park, ogreed to pool a $128 Sweep Six ticket with

assessed value of “just under $1 million for the land itself,” is a great opportunity for the city,” Ramsden said Tuesday

He was unable to say what the city plan is for the site or if it includes a new mill for the loeal timber supply, but said there are “lots of proposals float ing around” for the flat lakeshore property.

Westar, which is removing all the equipment, sold the mill to Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, which took posses sion on Friday

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar council gave unanimous approval in principle Tuesday to a new recreation master plan for the Com munity Complex

Ald. Bob MacBain, chairman of the parks and recreation committee, said that without council's approval “we can't do anything. The thing is sitting there ... we'd like to start on parts of it.”

MacBain reiterated that the pian is not “carved im stone,” but said that parts of the plan can be started “with out objections from anybody.”

Meanwhile, MacBain said council is eyeing the property behind the prop osed Community Complex ball field as a site for permanent rodeo grounds.

The city has given approval for the

astlegar Selkirk Lions Club to hold its 1986 rodeo on the property adjacent to the complex.

However, MacBain said the Lions have agreed to move the rodeo to the very back of the site to see if the rodeo can fit in behind the ball field.

“There is 2 possibility that that area might be able to be reserved in the future because it wouldn't interfere

with the ball park,” MacBain said

Elsewhere, Gulf Pacifie Investments Ltd., which manages Castleaird Plaza. wrote council the rezoning of a six-acre parcel behind the plaza, com monly known as the eliptical site

A Winnipeg-based development firm is eyeing the eliptieal site for shopping complex and Tequested the

Frank DeLalla, general manager of cent, or

the Vancouver-based Gulf Pacific, said

in a letter to council: “For rather continued on page A?

Cardona won $735,403 on July 10, 1982, by picking the winning horses in all six races of the Sweep Six event

Atter watching his first two winners, he had o couple of beers and went to the restaurant where he joined Evilio Osorio, Artemo Ruiz and Orlando Zapoto

When they compared tickets following the third roce discovered they had picked the winners of the first three roces

But their selections diftered on the lost three race. Cardona then offered to pay his friends 20 per cent of his win if they would pay him 30 per cent of theirs.

But when Cardona won the Sweep Six, he retused to pay 20 per $147,080.60. Madom Justice Beverley McLachlin Tuesday that Cardone must pay the three men 20 per cent of his $735,403 windfall.

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