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Mediator

appointed

Negotiations between the unions Pulp and Paper work- ers of Canada, the Canadian Paperworkers Union and the Pulp and Paper industrial Relations Bureau have been placed on hold while newly appointed mediator Vince Ready gets ready to do his thing. Ready's services were officially requested last Fri- day, though he will not begin to enter negotiations until May 19, because he is cur- rently reviewing the labour code. Meanwhile, a strike has been averted—at least for now. However, if this media- tion process does not work, Stan Shewaga, from the provincial Pulp and Paper workers of Canada office, says it's back to square one at the bargaining table.

Moore aims

for more

Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore, who is third vice- president for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, has asked for city council's support in letting her name stand for second vice-presi- dent. City council members have endorsed her latest polit- ical goal by giving Moore the support she required during yesterday's city council meet- ing. Moore will be required to be in attendance at the Mon- treal Conference, to be held June 5-9.

Budget passed

City Council adopted six dif- ferent bylaws during a special council meeting held yester- Hday morning. The bylaws, which included the 1992 Annual Budget Bylaw, ensure that Castlegar’s newest budget is now in effect.

Dance recital

The Maxwell School of Dance in Castlegar will be holding a recital called By The Sea. The event takes place Saturday, May 23 beginning at 7 p.m., at the Gymnasium in Stanley Humphries High School.

Ride of Your Life

Graduates from Stanley Humphries High School will once again enjoy the benefits of the "Ride of Your Life" pro- gram, which ensures safe

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City workers underwent intense training last week in an Industrial Training program, a high-tech safety course designed by officials at Lakeland College in Alberta. Clockwise from the bottom is Brad Ashton, Ross Saunders, Duane Monsen and Larry Stanbra.

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Castleview Care administrator hands in surprise resignation

SHARLENE IMHOFF __

Sun Editor

She did confirm that her resig- nation was in no way related to

Former Castleview Care Cen- tre Administrator, Dianne Ram- age, resigned last week, and has been temporarily replaced by an

ployee from Ch lle Man-

vent tragedy from occurring on grad night. The program began in 1980 in Vernon, and is now a successful part of graduations in more then 30 communities in the province.

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Ltd, parent P of the extended care facility. Contacted at her home in Castlegar, Ramage would not comment on her sudden and unexpected resignation, saying only that, “Sometimes people have pride and principle they have to follow.”

Castleview’s current attempt to gain more government funding in order to open more beds to a growing waiting list of seniors, a cause for which Ramage main- tains she is still adamant.

After working at Castleview Care Centre for five years, Ram- age handed in her resignation May 7, but says she is still look- ing forward to working with the seniors in Castlegar.

“I'll probably begin looking

See RESIGN 2A

DIANNE RAMAGE

Nine student summer jobs at Selkirk College axed this year

JASON KEENAN

Sun staff

Nine student jobs usually offered at Selkirk College are the latest victims of the recent

sssheees

budget.

“It 's a disappointment because a lot of the positions provide real- ly good job skills related to the students’ [academic] training,” said Lynne Lalonde, personnel

assistant at Selkirk.

Last year the college received $19,000, which had it received the same amount this year, Lalonde said could have funded at least nine student positions.

“In this year, we had requests for 400 weeks of work. We only got enough money [from the fed- eral government] to fund 67 weeks,” she added. The federal government has kept its student

summer employment program, Challenge "92, in place

The positions included: two summer sports camp instructors; two jobs maintaining the campus forest walking trails; a computer programming position, and a oak design production assis-

ant job.

The loss of funding will have a

direct impact on Joe Lintz’s aenentingtggep herenpesmeensen erasers

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Weekend

brush fires caused by local youth

SHARLENE IMHOFF

Sun Editor

Castlegar Fire Chief Gerry Rempel has determined that two weekend brush fires were caused by youths.

Ten volunteer firefighters bat- tled a brush fire, Saturday, in the 3600 block of 21 Ave.. Rempel said the call came in at 7:09 p.m., and firefighters were on the scene for approximately 30 minutes before the blaze was extinguished. While the cause of the fire is still under investiga- tion, witnesses say they saw children in the immediate area just prior to the blaze.

A second fire, which was reported Sunday at 4:41 p.m.,

“eoncer to the vol- unteer firefighters Gue"to the stromg wind. The brush fire, next to Woodland Dr., behind East Gate Gardens, could have easily climbed higher into a well- forested area because of the wind. Firefighters had the fire doused in an hour and believe that it was also caused by youths.

“We found evidence that would indicate children had just been in the area,” said Rempel, who added that parents are responsible for their children’s actions and can face not only a fine, but the full cost of fire damage as well as the actual firefighting costs.

“That can be very expensive if a small fire is out of control and a water bomber is called in to assist,” Rempel said.

The fire chief continued to

Just hosin’ around

Students from Twin Rivers Elementary, primary three Russian bilingual class, get a chance to be forest fire- fighters for a day during a recent of the local forest office.

GERRY REMPEL

say that parents should be vigi-

lant in keeping matches, lighters “ead other flammables out of

their child's reach and to always

keep a watchful eye on youths

who could be carrying such

items.

“We've got dry conditions outside, especially where dead underbrush is located. It doesn’t take long for a fire to get out of control, especially when we have a wind like we did on Sun- day,” he said.

Castlegar volunteer firefight- ers have been called to five fires in the last month, almost all of which were caused by youth.

“We always find evidence, sometimes we find the lighter that was used. Not only can the material and environmental damage be great, but a child can be bumt very easily. We don't want to see that happen.”

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SUN STAFF PHOTO / JASON KEENAN

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