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A new partnership

Premier Bill Bennett's televised speech to the province Monday night was, if nothing else, timely. It came exactly three years after he announced the “new economic reality” of restraint.

Apparently, he and his gover- nment have abandoned that reality tor a better version, judging from Monday's speech.

Monday's talk focused on renewal. The tone was upbeat and optimistic even Mr. Bennett looked refreshed and lively. That is in marked contrast to the 1982 speech which was filled with gloomy announcements of belt- tightening measures.

Mr. Bennett has obviously seen the light — and the light is shining on Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative government.

It seems Mr. Bennett has be so impressed by the way the federal Conservatives have been running the country, he has taken @ page out of the Tory handbook. Now, instead of iT t and cut-

way the province can recover from this recession is with the co- operation of all levels of gover- nment and all sectors of the

— including bi and

labor.

In that respect, Mr. Bennett's speech Monday hit{' the nail squarely on the head.

Unfortunately, what he says and what his government has been doing, doesn't always mesh. Take, for instance, Victoria's relations with school boards across the province. The relations are strained at best.

But why are they strained? It's because the province has removed school board authority. In its place the province has simply laid down the law and instructed the school districts to tollow that law to the letter.

Is that partnership? Is that the way one partner treats another

partner?

Partnership involves discus- sion, debate — even at times arg It requires co-

backs, he is st 9 co-op’

and conciliation.

and partnership.

In fact, Mr. Bennett calls his new program a “program of par- tnership.” It's also a program local levels of government have been trying to put in place for the last three years.

There's no doubt that the only

In the next few months British Columbians will have the chance to see if Mr. Bennett is really serious about this new partnership, or it he was simply mouthing platitudes on Monday night.

For the sake of Castlegar and all B.C., we hope it's the former.

Time to speak out

It’s time the Selkirk College board found its voice. The college board has been bending over backwards to try to meet the Provincial government's reduced level of funding.

it has apparently taken the approach that quiet dipl:

which will mean it won't be torced to close several satellite cam- puses.

Cynics might say that Okanagan College received the extra funding because it is in Premier Bill Bennett's riding.

Pp y goes a lot farther than shrill op- position. The result has been that the college had to slash more than $1 million from this year's budget and lay off 16 employees. Meanwhile, Okanagan College decided that yelling works better. It was right. The college received an additional $600,000,

o . it's unlikely the funds would have been made available had the college not marshalled support from the communities and protested loudly to Victoria.

It's time the Selkirk College board and the communities it ser-

“Now | am going to make a political statement... .”

Letters to the Editor

Attacking motherhood?

Editor, Castlegar News:

Cominco wants $60 million. CP Rail has just received hundreds of millions of dollars to double track the Crowsnest,so why not ask for $60 million for one of its subsidiary companies?

This is the free enterprise way of running the country that has brought us to this horrendous national debt situation. .

We have to break out of this cycle. The average taxpayer — if he is lucky enough to be working — simply cannot afford to continue this spiral.

The carefully worded postcard we have received intimates that if we

Window dressing

News:

, Castlegar I wonder what school trustees must ..

be feeling about Mr. Heinrich’s prop- osal for referenda to raise money for local schools. Firstly, the proposal goes back on his word to return taxation power to boards in 1986. This is the betrayal of a promise that had many people viewing the current “restraint” as a temporary measure.

ves began a similar campaig before it's too late and there isn'ta college lett to detend.

Just a numbers game

Editor, Castlegar News:

l agree with S.W. Webster (Feb. 16 letter to the Editor) that the public should be more informed on edue: m matters. However, providing statis tical information only, as his letter suggested, will not allow them to make wise judgments on adequate funding or wise administration.

What is being suggested, is that the public play the numbers game of Mr. Heinrich, who has stated he wants a 19-1 pupil/teacher ratio (PTR) in B.C. schools. local board recently an- nounced 2450,000 would have to be cut to meet the 1985-86 budget. A massive cut such as this could be met by re. ducing the teaching staff by up to as many as 20 teachers. The 143 Castlegar teachers would become 123 and the re- sulting PTR would be (2,366 students divided by 123 teachers) 19.23 to one. What a coincidence.

But what does PTR really mean? Let's play a numbers game with an elementary school that has 230 stu dents in eight regular classes. This translates into a PTR of (230 divided by eight) 28.75. But I have 30 in my class. The principal doesn't teach but is counted for PTR, which is now (230 divided by nine) 25.55.

There is also .8 of a librarian bring. ing the PTR to (230 divided by 9.8) 23. The school also houses primary and intermediate individual progress classes for those who can't manage a regular class. The PTR drops to (230 divided by 11.8) 19.49.

There is also a Learning Assistance eacher to provide programs for those who can be up to three or four years below their peers in reading level. The PTR now calculates into 17.96 (230 divided by 13.8)

This school also provides an ex program. As well, the vachers have negotiated preparation ime and second languages are taught About 8 of a teacher covers this time bringing ghe PTR to (230 divided by 13.6) 16.91. The school may make use of district siaff in counselling, a gifted

cellent music

class or English as a second language This results in a final school PTR of (230 divided by 13.9) 16.55 which is the present PTR of the district but I still have 30 students in my class. Education can't be evaluated by looking at statistics only, but by ex amining programs to see if they meet the needs of today’s students in a changing society. As I added in each teacher, I added in a program — not a number. Education involves people not numbers. But Mr. Heinrich, I would love to have a class of 19. Malcolm Gregory Castlegar

Cruise ‘a hostile act’

Editor, Castlegar News:

I hereby wish to join many other voices of protest against testing of American cruise missiles in Canada. This is an unjustifiable hostile act against another country provoking the arms race and threat of nuclear war, which could be avoided by establishing cordial and friendly relations between countries concerned. This is a more sane and Christian way to obtain peace and security for Canada and the rest of the world.

Testing of American cruise missiles in Canada is an attempt by the Reagan administration to move the future theatre of war to other countries’ ter. ritories, as far away as possible from the American soil.

I also protest against infiltration of American pornography, where sex, violence and brutalization of women is depicted (on The Journal Feb. 15, 1985).

Testing of cruise missiles and por. nography is the real focus of evil that Americans sometimes like to talk about

W.J. Lebedoff Castlegar

ly. this is interesting in light of the “Let's Talk About Schools” process, which is not yet completed. The new Public Schools Act was to be written with input from all and sundry. One of the critical areas to be examined was the funding of public schools. However, it now appears that funding is already decided and the exercise is, after all, just window dressing.

Trustees who lent their time and credibility to Let's Talk About Schools might be forgiven for feeling a touch confused.

Peter Kagis Blueberry Creek

reply “No” then “we” will be inducing employment in the Kootenays. It’s like attacking motherhood again. What jobs are not threatened in today’s society? All 6,000 Cominco employees’ positions are constantly under review, I'm sure. The federal money could be a loan — like the Chrysler — or an interest free {i\6an,or even a forgiveable loan based “on the number of new permanent pos- itions created. Cominco does not guarantee it will not reduce the number of people presently employed. This being the case, I cannot under- stand why the United Steelworkers of America print and distribute this postcard.

Cominco's last $500 million zine modernization cost many jobs. It pro- bably reduced income around $10 million dollars per year in the Koo- tenays. Further modernization, one naturally would assume, will reduce the number of employees even further.

The ludicrous situation is that we finance the reduction of permanent employment for short-term gain of ‘construction jobs.” =

Letter to

Editor, News: This letter, although sent to the

How much of the $60 million would we actually see in the Kootenays? The

The Castlegar Library, presently lo- cated in the basement of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Len Davis, is serving an ever-increasing reading public of all ages. Though operated on a voluntary basis by publie-spirited members of the community and open for only two af- ternoon i these hours are par- ticularly popular with the young read- ers, so that at these times the library resembles nothing so much as a super bargain sale and counter full of eager and clamouring youngsters in search of their choice in books.

. . .

The Castlegar Kiwanis Club passed up its regular Tuesday program to allow the club's attendance at the Kin- naird Catholic Women's Club's Spag- hetti Dinner.

. . .

The new ferry, which has been under construction during the fall months, will be ready to slide into the Columbia River Thursday morning.

The all-steel, 125-foot construction, built by West Coast Ship Builders Ltd., will have a 28-car loading capacity and, when launched, will be taken over by Public Works workmen who will install the power unit and apply the finishing touches.

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The High School Drama Night is

scheduled for Friday night in the

to be pr P ly in the U.S. or Japan) may cost half or $30 million — taxpayers money not even spent in the country. Another 25 per cent would go for transportation and other overhead and maybe the final $15 million would be spent on erection and congtruction for the relatively short-term that we may see locally.

Why can we not get an IRAD grant to start a brand new effort like a large nursery at Poupore to raise seedling trees for the whole province. Tie it into the Forestry program at Selkirk College. Spend the entire $60 million right here in the Kootenays in a very labor intensive industry that will almost be self per ing and create

Castlegar Cor 1 Hall. During

the past month, rehearsals have been

underway at the school and the young

actors have put a great deal of effort

into preparation of the three plays. 25 YEARS AGO

Roads in the Castlegar section of the Rossland-Trail riding, the start on construction of Celgar’s pulp mill, Columbia river power, the registration of Doukhobor marriages and the selling of the Doukhobors lands were men- tioned in the legislature recently by Rossland-Trail MLA Donald Brothers.

Speaking in reply to the Speech from the Throne, Mr. Brothers accused the federal government of stalling on de-

a lot of employment for a great many years.

I could wholeheartedly support that

type of program. Mel McMullen Castlegar

‘big rigs’

It must be a fairly secure feeling having that big rig around you, almost

editor, really should be toa number of guys who drive the big log and chip trucks along Highway 6 to and from Slocan.

I drive this road every day as well, but the difference is that I don’t feel that I own it. Sure, I cut the occasional corner on the winding parts, but not when there are other vehicles ap- proaching. Some of you drive the median even on the straight sections.

This morning, I drove on the shoul der at one point, because one of you decided that you wanted to use the middle part of the road, and this cer. tainly wasn't the first time that this has happened.

one of i y.

From where I stand it looks like this. If I drive over the centre line and have a “head-on” with you, it is my fault, and I lose.

If you drive over the centre line and have a “head-on” with me, it becomes your fault, but I still lose.

It would be great if you “big guys” who make your living on the road would remember that most of us “little

guys” want to live too.

More letters page AS

of Columbia River power

and noted that both villages of Castle-

gar and Kinnaird want to see the

Doukhobors land “on the tax rolls to

bear their fair share of school costs.” . «@ .

Two new nurses have arrived from England to work at the Castlegar and District Hospital.

Margaret Gregory and Sylvia Fran- cis, who received their training at the Manchester Royal Infirmary Hospital in Manchester, England, started their duties at the Castlegar hospital last Thursday.

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St. Alban’s choir entertained at the

regular meeting of the Castlegar Senior citizens on Feb. 12. 15 YEARS AGO

From the Feb. 26,

Castlegar

The Castlegar-Kinnaird Lutheran Church has called its first resident pastor. The congregation is now being served by Pastor Harold Clark through permission from Trinity Lutheran Church of Trail. . .

At its regular February meeting, the Selkirk College council elected Ted Fletcher of Rossland as chairman of council for 1970. Frank Beinder of

The reality of porn

LY COCKBURN It is time in stopped asking men

ened men in chains, sporting a sexy black eye or two. We'll be entertained by titillati

to por phy is damaging to us. Instead, it is time we gave them the opportunity to experi ence the reality of porn.

First, we will flood the market with films that show men enjoying chains, whips and forced performance. Titles like, Naughty Chaps, The Boys in the Locker Room, Sex-Starved Lads and Jim, John and Ratph Are Red Hot, are sure to be inistant money-makers.

Jim, John, Ralph and all the other naughty, red-hot boys will be shown sitting, lying, chained or tied up while women stand over them. The men will be naked while the superior women will initially remain clothed. Better yet, the women will rip the men’s clothes off, preferably at knifepoint.

The women will be threatening and powerful; the men submissive and weak. The men will plead or protest in agonized-yet-sexy voices, while the women assure them they'll enjoy being battered, bruised and tortured. The top money-maker will be a snuff movie, at the end of which Jim or John or Ralph — or all three — will be mur. dered at the moment of orgasm.

Now for magazines. The soft-core stuff will merely show naked men fingering their genitals, or baring their buttocks to the camera while smiling brightly. The hard-core material will give us pictures of submissive, fright

terror, which the brutalized men, of course, enjoy. Newsstand owners will be delighted as women line up to peruse and buy boysie i

stories of beatings and |

do anything for you? You must be impotent or gay.”

Nonetheless, some men may persist in believing that pornography de- grades them; they may even contend that it ought to be stopped. An in-depth

i ion of ip and di

was named man of council at the same meeting. * e *

Gerry Rust of Kinnaird was elected chairman of the West Kootenay Union Board of Health at the board's recent annual meeting.

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A meeting between the board of school trustees of School District No. 9 and the teachers’ liaison committee, along with the Castlegar District

hers’ A inti ive took

In order for all this to be truly effective, it has to be so pervasive that it seems normal for men to be treated as mindless objects. The advertising industry will have to fall in line. Men in bikini briefs and low-cut tight jeans will sell deodorant, cars and socks. They can say cute things like, “I'm a slave to

‘Men in bikini briefs and low-cut jeans will sell deodorant, cars and socks’

my Bliss deodorant,” or, “Jock socks stay up longer,” or, flexing their bare muscles, “Come on down to Alice’s Used Cars.”

But what if men complain? What if they say that the films, magazines and advertising are degrading? Never fear, women know what to say.

“You're being too emotional” does nicely for starters. “You're such a prude” is a good follow up. “You're taking it all too personally” is another dandy. The ultimate squeicher is: “What? All this good sexy stuff doesn't

y will soon put them in their place.

“You are simply not aware of the dangers of censorship,” I will begin. “If we wish to maintain our. commitment to democraty, we must not presume to tell people what to watch or read in the privacy of their own homes. If you don't like the stuff, don’t look at it. Be- sides my dear, the whole thing is im- possible to legislate.”

Any holdouts will be convinced when I say, “You're over-reacting. Most porn is good, harmless fun and gives women an outlet for their sexual fan- tasies. Sure, there are a few women who get off on violence towards men, but they're in the minority. The rest of us are just having fun. Besides, porn flicks at doe parties are traditional.”

I don’t have time to finish this; I have a busy day. First, I have to interview Jim, John and Ralph. Then I must buy chains and whips and after that, I have a conference with my director and camerawomen. The filming of Naughty Sex-Starved Locker Room Boys starts tomorrow.

Lyn Cockburn is s Winnipeg free lance writer.

place on Feb. 11.

The purpose of the meeting was “to diseuss the financial difficulties of School District No. 9's 1970 budget.”

5 YEARS AGO From the Feb. 27,1980 Castlegar News

Delayed plans for construction of a $3 million 115-room Sandman Inn on the Seventh Avenue South 300 block won a 30-day reprieve from the city council Tuesday.

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A 115,320-square-foot shopping cen tre and convention facilities are in cluded in $6 million worth of con- struction scheduled to start in April at the Hi Arrow Arms Motor Hotel, Bofa Enterprises president Paul Boel said Tuesday.

Unveiling plans for renovations and expansion of the Hi Arrow, Boel said Bofa, his family-owned company oper- ating the hotel, hopes to complete the project by November.

. .

Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristian sen's constituency office will definitely be located im Castlegar, spokesman Noel Duignan announced Tuesday

eps

Editor, Castlegar News:

Premier Bill Bennett's office to voice my concern over anyone getting more money from the already overburdened taxpayer.

Much to my relief, I found that Mr. Bennett has announced that he prop- oses to ask compensation stabilization commissioner Ed Peck to review “the extra allowance” recomendations that were put forth by the all party committee of the legislature. Mr. Ben- nett asked NDP leader Bob Skelly and United Party leader Graham Lea to join and support him in his request to Mr. Peck, Mr. Skelly declined, but Mr. Lea accepted.

I'm sure Mr. Bennett is caught be- tween a rock and a hard place — sympathizing with the MLAs’ extra costs and yet having great concern for the burdened taxpayers and

Editor, Castlegar News: I have before me two articles of

No raises for anyone

which have to compete for labor with higher and higher wages and benefits. Please write to Mr. Bennett and Mr. Peck and ask that they don’t give any raises to anyone. Give us a chance to atch up with “producing” jobs that will put money back into the coffers. (Remember that even the taxes government workers and politicions pay come from the coffers that are only filled by private sector enterprises.) If you doubt me, just think back to how it was before the private sector

decided to pay people to work for them”

in the public sector. Things may not have been as nice as they are now, but they still survived.

The public sector: could not survive without money from the private sector. Small business has been asked to save the country. We cannot compete with higher wages. Do your part and support us.

Iris Bakken Salmo

Ban all tobacco ads

advertising and use that money for humane programs. I

great signifi : is to my concept, they both miss the main and simple issue of how to rectify the problem of unemployment, and relieve the deficit that is driving more and more people to soup kitchens.

Bill Zanders missed this important point in his “Open Letter to the Prime Minister,” (On the Level, January 1985). Yet it would be the simplist and easiest method in the right direction toward correcting the problem of unemployment and liquidating the deficit without hurting a single human being.

The article entitled “Smoking, Bad Diets Cause Cancer Deaths”, by Steve Kerstetter of the Canadian Press is extremely informative about the haz- ards of smoking tobacco. He also states, “perhaps $6-million a year is spent by governments and outside agencies on anti-smoking campaigns.” That's a pittance compared with the estimated $100 million a year that the tobacco industry spends on advertising and promotion.

“Tobacco is probably the only hazardous consumer product in wide- spread use that isn't closely regulated by any level of government .

The $100 million a year could sure improve the quality of the soup in soup kitchens, yet it is spent for satanic advertising of tobacco alone. Suppose we add to this the billions of dollars that are spent on advertising and promoting the use of alcohol.

No one seems to realize that these billions that are spent for moral and physical destruction of the people (especially our youth) could be diverted to humane programs.

We are living in a supposedly Christian hemisphere, so surely we can insist on the banning of all satanic

that the world politicians have gone so far down the road to Hell, that humane thoughts cannot even enter their minds anymore. As our good Lord states, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.”

It is up to true Christians to keep reminding and directing them toward the road to salvation in order to keep us all off the road to complete annihilation.

Use Miss, Mrs. or Ms.

News:

1 am writing to express my extreme irritation over the constant practice of editor Ron Norman, in using the last names of the women he interviews.

In this case, it is his article concerning the involvement of the handicapped adults in our area who are now” enjoying the opportunity of experiencing a new work-type sit uation out in the community.

It seems to be it is only common courtesy to refer to a woman by her first name or at the very least Miss, Mrs. or Ms.

Grace Nixon Castlegar Editor's note:

It is this newspaper's policy (as it is the policy of almost every newspaper) to follow Canadian Press writing style. That means using the last name of women and men in articles. All the writers on this paper follow that practice

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HIGHEST HONOR . . . Tracy Jenks, 16, received the highest honor in Guiding Wed- nesday when she was presented with the Canada Cord at the annual Girl Guide- Brownie mother and daughter banquet. Presenting the cord is Linda Brommeland, district commissioner. Tracy also received Canada pin to be worn at informal even-

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