November 20, 1985

MINE REVIVAL GIVES NDP ITS GLORY DAYS

WHITEHORSE (CP) '— Five months after a cliffhanger election .victory, "the Yukon'’s .New Democratic Party government is basking in the political glory of the territory's revived mining industry.

‘The NDP shocked many of the Yukon's 24,000 residents by unexpectedly winning last May's election. Capitalizing on rural and native di: with the Conservative government, the NDP took eight seats, compared to the Tories’ six and the Liberals’ two.

The Liberals’ have been. propping up the NDP government in exchange for several promises. They include pursuing A land claims settlement with the territory's 6,500 natives, which could end 12 years of negotiations, and phasing out health care premiums.

For now, however, the NDP are collecting political kudos from the announcement that Curragh sources Corp. of Toronto will reopen the Cyprus Anvil mine in Faro. Once the cornerstone of the. Yukon economy and the employer of 720 people, the mine, previously owned by Dome Petroleum, was shut down three years ago by plummetting lead and zine prices. Faro became a virtual ghost town.

CREATES JOBS

The reopening is expected to create 450 mining jobs plus other spin-off jobs the government hopes will cut in half the territory’s 20-per-cent unemployment rate.

However, mining executives in the south say the Faro mine will only add to a glut of zinc, drive down prices and put others out of work.

“There is not single project that I can think of that can do for*our economy, for our people, what this project is capable of i ” says g leader Tony Penikett, a 39-year-old former ‘television script writer known for his quick wit and debating skills.

Mining, valued at $359 million in 1980, has fallen behind the $60 million tourism industry that attracts 40,000 visitors annually. Trapping is a distant third with a value of $700,000 for this vast, mountainous region where spruce stands give way to tundra on the approach to the Arctic circle.

Working in conjunction with a federal government loan guarantee, the Yukon government has guaranteed $1.3 million of a $15 million line of credit Curragh has secured from banks. The Yukon government has also agreed to buy $1.6 million in company housing from Curragh, which has raised $20 million for the project from U.S. investors.

The just-concluded session of the legislature gave the Tories ammunition for attack in the form of the NDP’s proposed package of new human rights laws. A clause that prohibits discrimination based on sexual preference has sparked criticism from the Conservatives and church leaders.

Conservative leader Willard Phelps, a 44: -year-old lawyer, says it ignores the rights and wishes and private morality of people.

The Conservatives themselves were'on the hot seat recently after news reports the party leaked government budget material before it was tabled in the legislature.

Conservative" MLAs are refusing to comment and Phelps's silence has pi Pp Liberal leader Roger Coles to demand he come clean on the issue:

The NDP has eliminated the territorial tax on fuels used

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WATCH THAT CORNER . . . A 1982 GMC flatbed truck loaded with lumber rounded the curve on the

ff-ramp from Highway 3 to Highway 3A but didn’t qi make it. Castlegar RCMP say the lumber might have shifted, causing the truck to flip over

into the ditch where it came to rest.on its roof. Driver Fred Hardy, 53, of Airdrie, Alta. escaped unharmed. Damage is estimated at $2,000. The accident occurred at about 10a.m.

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College seeking foreign students

By CHERYL SALDERBANK Staff W:

Selkirk College is frocie to try to attract more foreign students. in the

_ Next few years.

Targeted areas are students in Pacific Rim countries, and to help lay the groundwork college principal Leo Perra will visit Japan and Korea in January.

Perra has been invited to partici- pate in a mission to the two Far Eastern countfies to develop a twin- ning with other insti to provide for English language’ cour- ses in Canada, to generate faculty and student exchanges; and to obtain mutual benefit agreements.

Perra said in an interview he doesn't know when an agreement will. be established. 25

“It would either be as a result of this trip or it may take another one,” he said.

The two-week trip is set for Jan. 25-Feb. 8.

Perra suggested to the college board that the college course offerings could tie in with trips to Expo 86 or ski trips.

The college ‘is also considering taking part in an international educa- tion fair in Hong Kong, where institu- tions try to attract foreign students by promoting programs.

‘The next fair takes place next March 8-10.

“It's a fairly new process,” Perra ex- plained. Several B.C. post-secondary

Braun sets prison fire

MATSQUI (CP) — A Sons of Free- dom Doukhobor woman now in the 47th day of a hunger strike set fire to her nightshirt Wednesday in the health care unit of Matsqui Institution in this Fraser Valley community.

Tom D'Aquino, a Correctional Ser- vices of Canada spokesman, said Mary Braun, 63, removed the garment before setting fire to it. He said it was taken from her and the fire extinguished be- fore any harm was done.

“There is pretty constant surveill- ance on them,” he said. “However, we don’t know where she got the matches.

Braun is accompanied in the hospital by Mary Astaforoff, 71, and Tina Imaeff, 59, who are also on the hunger strike.

The three, who are serving sen- tences for arson, have refused all food and drink only water.

schools, it Com- munity Canes and Malaspina and Douglas colleges are already paticipat- ing the fair.

Perra said there are between 18,000 and 20,000 people who go through the fair each year and organizers are ex- pecting 36,000 students to attend the fair in 1986.

Selkirk College presently has only four to six foreign students enrolled.

The plan for attracting foreign stu- dents is long-term. Perra said it would take about three years from the time the college begins making financial investments to attract foreign students to the institution.

Board chairman Jack Colbert re- marked that the supply of foreign stu- dents is “pretty well unlimited.”

Board member Ed Mannings said that given the costs involved, he hopes the board will ensure that it gets a

return on its investment.

He suggested that perhaps one dele- gation acting on behalf of all the colleges would be more beneficial than the colleges promoting the institutions individually.

But Perra explained that part of the process involves personal contact.

Board member Bob Buckley stressed that the program is long-term,

“It requires some ongoing invest- ment before the returns start to come in,” Buckley stated. -

Buckley added that there are a number of reasons for attracting more foreign students.

“This institution is forever on the edge of losing programs because of limited enrolment,” Buckley said. “Every program that goes is a loss to the people in the area.” .

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Where have all the volunteers gone?

By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer

A recent request to the Castlegar school board to hire a crossing guard at minimum: wage for the Columbia Avenue and 24th Street intersection arose because volunteers are no longer coming forward to do the job, Castle- gar's superintendent of schools said Thursday.

“We had volunteer guards up to a year, a year-and-a-half,” Terry Wayling said. But they eventually lost interest, he added.

“Volunteers are not coming forth,” Wayling said.

Val McIntosh, chairman of the Kin- naird: Elementary/Valley Vista. Par- ents Group from which the request for a paid crossing guard came, said the group tried to start up the volunteer crossing guards again this year but was unsuccessful.

“We phoned our list of volunteers,” McIntosh said, but the list “kind of petered out.”

McIntosh said three or four people ended up doing all the work and “they were reluctant.”

She said one of the problems with volunteers is their lack of authority.

“Kids didn’t listen to them,” Mc- Intosh said.

But the board turned down the request for a crossing guard paid at

minimum wage because its collective agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees contains a classifi cation for crosying guards which states that they must be paid about’$8 an. hour and be hired for a minimum of four hours.

That, the board said, would cost too much.

“We're talking $2,000 minimum” to hire a crossing guard, trustee Linda Krull said at the board's meeting Monday.

“If we do it for one (intersection) we have to do it for all,” she added.

The solution to the problem would be volunteer crossing guards, if the board could find any. -

Wayling said CUPE doesn't mind the

‘board using volunteers, as long as they

don’t take existing jobs away from union workers.

But Jim Waldie, president of the CUPE local in Castlegar, disagrees with Wayling.

Asked if CUPE has a problem with the use of volunteers as crossing guards, Waldie said “y

“That's actually CUPE jobs,” he said Thursday. “We weren't happy with the volunteers.”

However, he said the union put up with the volunteers because they were organized by the parents group.

But “we don't like it,” he added.

RECORDS FALL AS_ MERCURY

He said 1977 had an identical weather pattern to what we have now, but the wind was stronger that year.

With the northern flow not as strong this year, temperatures have a chancé to moderate because of daytime heating, Willson said.

Nevertheless, three record mean temperatures this week smashed marks established in 1977.

PLUMMETS

By CasNews Staff

Keep bundled up, because the cold weather is here to stay for awhile.

___“There’s no end in sight to this weather pattern,” Tom Willson of the Castlegar Airport weather office said Friday.

Willson said the cool, dry flow is expected to continue into next week, although the occasional band of moisture may produce some cloud and a few snow flurries.

Three record low temperatures were set this week. Early Saturday morning the temperature plunged to -19.0, shattering the previous record of -9.8 set in 1982.

Friday a low of -13.4 snuck by the old record of -13.3 set on Nov. 22, 1970. A low of -11.3 on the 19th beat the previous record

low of -11.2 by-a.scant one-tenth of a degree. The old record was set in 1977 which Willson said was an

cold year. ape

Mean temperatures are calculated by taking the average of the maximum and minimum temperatures. For example, a high of 20 and a low of 10 gives a mean temperature of 15.

~ A bitter mean temperature of -11.1 on Nov. 22 broke the old mark of -10.0 set in 1970.

On Nov. 18, a mean of -3.5 broke the old record of 2.8.

A mean of -8.3 on the 19th broke the previous record of 6.8.

But mean temperatures on the 20th and 21st were not even close to 1977's records.

Nov. 20 had a mean of -6.4. The existing record is -11.

On the 21st, a chilly mean of -10.3 was recorded but again that was more than three degrees short of the -13.9 set’ in 1977.

Even though most of the temperatures~so far this year are short of records, Willson said it ‘is still cold enough to “play merry hell with the fruit tree

The problem is a lack of snow, which Willson said provides insulation for the trees.

‘You need a foot of snow” insulation, he said.

to have effective