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Brisco goes to Russia

Briseo is accompanying Ex- ternal Affairs Minister Joe

Clark and six other members

of parliament on a trip to the Soviet Union.

The delegation left Ottawa Friday and arrived in Lenin- grad Saturday.

Each of the MPs will be as- signed certain tasks after the week-long visit within their

specific areas of expertise, a

prepared release from Bris-

co's office in Ottawa stated.

In the release, Clark stated that his selection of Brisco “reflected his experience and responsibility in matters per- taining to the program which the Soviet government had arranged, for the delega- tion.”

Brisco will be dealing spec- ifically with matters pertain. ing to the Department of Re- gional Industrial Expansion.

The MPs will be visiting

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commercial, cultural and hu manitarian are engaged.

The delegation is sched. uled to return to Canada on April 7.

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Meanwhile, the Soviet gov- ernment newspaper Izvestia said Friday the government hopes for improved relations with Canada # a result of Clark's visit.

The newspaper also pub- lished a small picture of Clark and a brief biography in ad vance of his arrival.

The annoudtement said Clark's visit is at the invi. tation of the Soviet govern ment.

“In the Soviet Union the hope is expressed that the official visit by External Af fairs Minister Joe Clark will serve the further develop. ment of political dialogue and

FOSTER PARENT . . . Castlegar resident Lindo Krull with daughter Michelle. Linda and husband Jerry

have been opening up their home to foster children

for about five years.

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continued from front poge “It's not the road to adoption,” she warns. Human Resources also checks the potential foster parent's references as well as criminal record, if any. When a child first comes into a foster home, there are various stages that both the parents and the child go

through. “It's almost like a honeymoon stage at the beginning,” says Krull. “You try to show the child you

pose no threat. He is welcome in your family. As time progresses, the child comes to know the parents and vice versa. “True feelings come out,” more like your own child.” But then comes the time when the child leaves the foster home, either because his family has resolved its

says Krull. “It starts to be

g co. operation between the USSR and Canada in various fields in the interests of the people of our countries and the in terests of strengthening peace and improving the in ternational situation,” Izves. tia commented.

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Krull says that her own children, ages six, four and 21 months have accepted the presence of another person in the family “really well.”

For example, when their last foster child entered the family, her oldest child went to school and told everyone about his “brand new sister.

Krull says her children always look forward to iter in the family.

If they didn’t accept the situation so well, Krull says could continue with foster

having a new brother and

she doesn't think she parenting.

In being a foster parent

Krull says.

“It takes a lot of understanding just to be able to sit down and talk to a child and be ready when he wants to

open up,” she adds.

Krull says that one of the most rewarding things about being a foster parent is when a foster child comes back to visit after he has left the home.

She says it's very satisfying to know that some child

has been helped.

“Life really isn't so crumby and if I can show one child that there might be a better side of life, everything I have tried to do has been accomplished,”

She recalls that a Christmas card sent to her by a former foster child, addressed to

brings tears to your eyes.”

“you do your best to help them through what may be a trying situation for him,”

she says.

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VANCOUVER (CP) — The B.C. government is out of step with the times in think ing Expo 86_will spur econ omic growth in Vancouver, a former Toronto mayor said Friday.

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“T've noticed that in talking to people,” he said. “This isn't Expo '67.

“People don't believe in the Expo 86 method of creating economic activity.”

Bump will be fixed

The bump at the railway crossing near 17th St. and Columbia Ave. will be fixed as soon as the weather im Proves, says the Castlegar city engineer.

Ald. Albert Calderbank asked at Tuesday's city coun. cil meeting when “Moore's mountain” (named after Mayor Audrey Moore) would be “flattened.”

Engineer George Reshaur said the city “doesn’t have a Positive date at this time,” but added “if the weather should turn good, there's a possibility we could do it in two weeks’ time.”

In any case, the bump will be repaired with a more gradual ashphalt incline as soon as the weather warms up, said Reshaur.

The bump was caused last year when Canadian Pacific Rail raised the track by about six inches.

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15 people hurt

QUESNEL (CP) — Fifteen people were taken to hospital with undetermined. injuries early Saturday after a y d bus slid off red High 97 and ended up on its side.

Quesnel RCMP were at the scene about 10 kilometres south of here. Some 26 passengers were believed to be aboard the bus when the accident occurred on the highway covered by about five centi- metres of snow.

None of the injuries was believed to be serious.

Mafia head nabbed

ROME (AP) — Italian police announced Saturday the arrest of Giuseppe Calo, long-sought “big treas- urer” of the international Mafia crime organization and reputed boss of the powerful Sicilian Mafia in Corleone.

Police said two of his associates also were arrested.

Calo, 54, and the other two — Antonio Rotolo, 39, and Lorenzo Di Gesu, 52 — were picked up Friday night at an apartment Calo owns in eastern Rome, police reported.

Calo was considered “the king of finance,” police said, because he allegedly recycled hundreds of millions of dollars of Mafia profits every year, invest ing in real estate, bonds and other legitimate busi nesses around the world.

Levick freed

BEIRUT (AP) — British businessman Brian Levick, kidnapped March 15 in mostly Moslem West Beirut, was freed unharmed Saturday, British officials said.

Levick, 59, became the second westerner to be released among the eight Europeans and an American who have been abducted at gunpoint or disappeared in Lebanon since mid-March.

“I confirm that it is true that Mr. Levick has been released,” British Ambassador David Miers told The Associated Press. “I don't have any other details at the moment, but he is definitely free.”

Boy dies in riot

UITENHAGE, SOUTH AFRICA (REUTER) — A four-year-old black South African boy died Saturday when a crowd fire-bombed his home as rioting that has claimed over 300 lives in the last year flared anew, police said.

The boy's mother escaped from their house in a township at the Indian Ocean town of Port Elizabeth in the troubled eastern Cape after the attack, but he perished in the flames, a spokesman said.

Residents said his mother worked for a local councillor. Councillors, their relatives and staff have become targets for rioters who see them as stooges for the white-minority government.

BCIT contract

BURNABY (CP) — British Columbia Institute of Technology and its 600-member staff society reached a tentative three-year contract Friday calling for a °7-month wage freeze in return for 71 layoff notices being rescinded.

Patrick Thomas, chief negotiator for the society, said the tentative agreement still has to be ratified by both the society and the institute

The society is planning its ratification vote for April 10-12. The institute will probably hold its vote next week.

Pool frozen

MORRIS, MAN. (CP) Residents could be putting on skates instead of swimsuits this summer if workers can't blast through a giant slab of ice filling the changerooms and maintenance shop of the com. munity_pool.

Barrie Stevenson, chairman of the non-profit Morris Community Pool Inc., said in an interview a 1.4-metre-high block of ice had filled the structure beside the outdoor pool

He said the slab of ice was discovered in January when passersby noticed metre-long icicles hanging from the windows of the building containing the

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Treasure house

PEKING (AP) Archeologists reported evi dence that may support ancient lore about “rivers of mercury” flowing through the tomb of China's first emperor.

They also said they may soon discover the imperial treasure house of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi, builder of the fi sections of the Great Wall and unifier of China, who lived from 259 to 210 BC.

A million visitors a year travel to a site about two kilometres from the tomb, where an army of life-sized terra cotta warriors and steeds meant to protect the emperor was discovered in 1974

Fighting kills 29

SIDON, LEBANON (REUTER) Heavy fight ing near the southern Lebanese city of Sidon and Israeli raids on Shiite Moslem villages to the southeast Saturday killed 29 people and wounded 110, security sources in Sidon said

The battles on Sidon’s eastern outskirts pitted Christian and pro-Israeli militiamen against Moslems and Palestinians as Lebanese army troops stood aside. the sources said.

Power strike threat still in limbo

By CasNews Staff last year to take strike action West Kootenay Power and if necessary. ~ Light crews still The ‘s contract hadn't carried out their with members of the Office thréat to strike, and spoKes- and Technical Employee's men for the electrical work- Union Local 378 also expired ers’ union aren't revealing at the end of January. Ste- their immediate plans. vens said WKPL will meet Al Oliver, assistant busi- with the office workers April ness agent for Local 213 of 16 in Rossland to negotiate, the International Brother- but he said he couldn't com- hood of Electrical Workers ment on contract issues. was for Fred Ci i business all week, and k for ‘ive for the Local

Wear is we + + + MLAs Lorne Nicolson (New

the union's Vancouver offices 378, said WKPL has 10

i eston, far right) and (second mation tour given to area MLAs at Selki Friday. Costews Prote by Adrien Chembertown

treo right) Chee DA (New Democrat—Rossland-

Trail) watch a nursing class in action poe: intor-

College

declined comment. propositions “on the table” Jim Stevens, WKPL man- for the April 16 meeting. ager of human resources, Cummings said in a tele- said Thursday the company phone interview from Van- hadn't heard from the union couver Thursday that he's since they gave 72-hour prepared to discuss eight of strike notice March 20 after the 10 propositions with contract negotiations be- West Kootenay Power, but tween the two sides broke indicated that the company down. has to be receptive to union But the 190 electrical demands. workers are legally entitled “We're prepared to negoti- © stop work at any time. —_ ate. We intend to negotiate. “They're ina position to go But this has to be quid pro mn strike with no notice,” said quo.” Stevens. “They can just fail | Cummings said he's per-- to show up one day — or put sonally “not overly optimis- up picket lines.” tie” about the upcoming bar. Stevens confirmed that gaining. negotiations stopped over a “(West Kootenay Power) company suggestion that will be putting forward a union members be paid policy to us at that time. I straight time instead of dou- have to assume it will be ble time if asked to work up similar to that which they to two hours overtime. have given to the (Interna. “We're prepared to meet tional Brotherhood of Elec- again and discuss things,” he trical Workers),” he said. added. “And that of course is Cummings added: “We're where we left off with i hopeful that we'll be able to

WKPL's contract with the reach a settlement with electrical workers’ union ex- WKPL. We're not in the pired Jan. 31, and workers business of negotiating

voted more than 97 per cent

By CasNews Staff Castlegar Mayor Audrey

Moore has suggested that city council meet with Wes tar Timber management to

discuss clearing the wood debris on Lower Arrow Lake.

Moore's suggestion follow. ed complaints from Scotty Tait, owner of Scottie’s Mar ina on the Lower Arrow Lake that there are “miles of use. able board feet” of wood on the lake banks.

‘I feel there's enough use able salvage there to start a small industry,” Tait told council at their meeting Tuesday night

Ald. Albert Calderbank agreed the Arrow Lakes should be cleared of debris. But he added that board members at a recent meeting of the Regional Distriet of Central Kootenay “didn't

seem to feel there was a

strikes.”

great deal of lumber lying around there.”

Ald. Len Embree said there “should be no problem” with salvaging wood in the Lower Arrow Lake if it’s of no use to the Westar Timber tugboat operators working the lakes.

Moore pointed out that two Canada Works Grants to clean up the lakes were granted earlier this month through the Modified Indus- try Labor Adjustment Pro gram

One of the grants provides $28,000 to clear the Lower Arrow Lake of driftwood, providing 80 weeks of work. The other provides for a $61,000 general cleanup of the Arrow Lakes, providing 182 weeks of work

However, Moore said council should meet with Westar management “to see if the whole thing couldn't be cleared up this year.”

Education in flux

VANCOUVER (CP) If all 75 of the province's school boards submitted budgets complying with provincial government guidelines, there would still be a crisis in education next year, the president of the B.C. School Trustees Association said Friday

Noting that at least five of the 34 school boards that in itially submitted budgets ex ceeding government’ guide. lines decided this week to

send in revised budgets meeting ministry edicts, Bill Lefeaux-Valentine said the numbers don't matter.

Court

news

Timothy Dennill was given

a 14-day intermittent jail

term this week in Castlegar

provincial court after plead

ing guilty to theft over $200. .

A 30-day intermittent jail term and $1,000 fine were handed to Marvin Polonicoff after he pleaded guilty to im paired driving

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A $500 fine was given to John Wzinsky after he plead. ed guilty to impaired driving.

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Margaret Hughes was fined $100 after pleading guilty to driving with a blood alcohol content over .08.

Mark Scantland was fined $100 after pleading guilty to remaining in a licensed es

tablishment after being re- quested to leave. + * « A three-month probation ary term and 30 hours of munity service work will be served by Russell Marshall, after he pleaded guilty to po- ssession of a narcotic. Mar shall was also given a six month probationary term and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service work after pleading guilty to possession of a prohibited weapon *“ ee Peter Plotnikoff was fined $35 after pleading not guilty to driving a vehicle without the required licence. Plotni koff was also fined a further $100 after pleading not guilty to careless driving

BOARD

continued from front poge the reduced budget will have on the district.

These include:

the elimination of nine full-time teching positions by September. This will increase the pupil-teacher ratio from 16.56 to 17.32 to one — or approximately five per cent. It will save an estimated $360,000;

#38 of 70 non-teaching staff will tak reduced hours, ranging from 30 min- utes to two hours a day. This will save about $90,000;

© Reductions in non-salary areas. These include a 33 to 50 per cent. reduction in teaching supplies, a 10 per cent reduction in custodial supplies, The and the transference of some main- tenance projects to non-shareable capital (ie. taxpayers bear the full cost). About $60,000 will be saved here.

Smecher said the board hasn't planned to fire any teachers to achieve the nine-teacher reducation. The posi tions will get eliminated through at- trition, long-term leaves and retire- job. ments, she said.

School district superintendent Terry Wayling added: “We will try to reduce our staff equably and fairly. We know

Mike Rodgers,

cribing the effec

gers said. reduction

cases,”

we have a nine teacher (reduction). There's no doubt in many schools there will be larger classes next September.” president of the Castlegar District Teachers’ Asso- ciation, said teachers approve of the joint statement to the ministry des- of reduced funding on the district. Bul the board's decision to comply with government budget guidelines.

“We feel the government won't learn anything by compliance, and the board should have stuck to its needs budget. And they have a responsibility to the people of Castlegar to do that,” Rod-

in teaching staff means classroom sizes will increase from 28 to over 30 students “ said Rodgers.

He said after the nine teaching positions are cut, there will be only 134 teachers in the district, down from 143. And Rodgers says the district needs at least 151 teachers to do a satisfactory

Trustee Kay Johnson, who voted against the board's final decision, also attacked the decision to send in a compliance budget.

“We're abusing our children and our employees by what we're doing here,” she said Friday. “In all conscience, I can't support this.

“If we have to cut one more cent from this budget, we'll destroy our system.”

Johnson said in an interview that the school board didn’t necessarily have to send in a compliance budget. Smecher says the board was legally under the Education (Interim) Finance Act to hand in a compliance budget, as Heinrich directed.

But Johnson said lawyers for the B.C. School Trustees’ Association had advised trustees that the Act demands only that a budget be sent in — and doesn't specifically rule out needs budgets.

“By following our association's ad- vice, we would be putting the blame where it belongs — with our minister,” Johnson said.

Four other previously defiant school boards — Delta and Kitimat, Powell River and Revelstoke — have decided to accede to Heinrich’s request and submit new budgets complying with government limits.

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Meeting on smelter

By CasNews Staff

Representatives of Caminco Ltd., the United Steelworkers of America Local and the Cities of Trail and Kim- the berley met with federal cabinet minis. ters and caucus members from B.C. this week tg convince the government of its need for assistance in its plans for lead modernization.

Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco, who also attended the meeting, said in an interview from Ottawa Friday that presentations made to the government officials were “positive.”

Cominco has applied for a $60 million federal grant to modernize its lead smelter.

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For example, dent,

Brisco stated that during the meet ings held Wednesday and Thursday in Ottawa, some strong presentations by groups “things that were positive.” Steelworkers presi Local 480 Ken Georgetti dealt with the fact that the union hasn't had a wage increase since 1983.

Brisco said the purpose of the meet ing was to acquaint the ministers who are not acquainted with the project “in a very real way, what it means to Canada, what it means economically to the East and West Kootenays, as the negative possibilities, application is not approved.

If Cominco doesn't receive financial assistance from the federal govern- ment, eventually the smelter in Trail will be shut down and there will be an eventual spin-off effect in Kimberley, Brisco said.

brought out

He added that if the project goes ahead, 6,000 direct jobs could be saved. He stated that 6,000 was a con servative estimate.

Brisco speculated that cabinet would deal with the application within the next 30 days. He said he would hope to

as well know by the end of April how the if the government is committed to the project.

Threat publicity needless?

TORONTO (CP) — It was “only asking for trouble” to announce a threat by Armenian terrorists to bomb Toronto's transit system Monday, the chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission says

Julian Porter said in an interview Saturday five false alarms on the system occurred Friday night and “that for me represents a continual problem . . . we seem to be asking for trouble.

“It's just not the customary thing that's done in other major metropolitan centres during such a situation. I just wouldn't have done that

Jack Marks, Metropolitan Toronto Police chief, announced an Armenian group had demanded the release by 10:30 a.m. EST Friday of three men charged with murder in the March 12 hostage-taking and killing of a security guard at the Turkish embassy in Ottawa. The trio are in custody in Ottawa.

Marks also announced a massive security search along the 1,300 kilometres of Toronto transit routes. Security had been tightened discreetly since Tuesday, and by Friday all 5,333 Toronto police officers not on holiday were on call

KEEP THREATS QUIET

But an informal Toronto Star survey of London, New York and Los Angeles showed police forces rarely publicize terrorist threats.

“We receive these threats all the time,” Steele, a spokesman for Scotland Yard in London

said Mark

It is

usually just a nefarious means for some group to gain publicity.” Armenian terrorists have issued threats in Los

Angeles, but police spokesman Robert Wolfchief said each threat must “be played by ear

“It sounds as if Toronto responsibility off themselves by publicizing this.”

But David Charters of the Ceutre for Conflict Studies at the University of New Brunswick defended the Toronto police action.

“It's six of one, half-dozen of another,” he said don't alert people and something happens, you're going to get a lot of flak

“If you do this and nothing happens, yourself up to all kinds of cranks.

Many transit usérs appeared nervous as uniformed officers, some with dogs trained to find explosives, patrolled the sytsem. But a TTC spokesman said ridership was at a normal level Saturday

The TTC will close the subway tonight for a last-minute security sweep before reopening it

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A police statement said only that the transit system had been threatened, without specifying a target or time.

Marks said the RCMP and provincial police are involved in the two-pronged approach. While uniformed officers check TTC vehicles and property, intelligence officers are trying to track the movement of suspected terrorists.

The Toronto Globe and Mail says intelligence sources have identified two main Armenian terrorist groups operating in Canada — the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia and the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide. Police have extensive files on both groups and believe many of the Armenian terrorist incidents around the world are directed from Canada, the newspaper said

The communique Tuesday came from a group calling itself the Armenian Secret Army for Liberation of Our Homeland.

Toronto has experienced three incidents involving the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia. On Jan. 5 and 13, 1983, it was responsible for bomb explosions that damaged property. In May 1982, four men who police said were secret army members were arrested after extortion attempts and a car bombing

The Turkish government estimates more than 60 people have been killed and 200 injured in attacks by Armenian terrorists around the world in the last 12 years.

Police file

By CasNews Staff

A police officer seared off an intruder spotted at about 3 a.m. Friday morning inside Maloney Pontiac Buick GMC Ltd. on Columbia Avenue.

Castlegar RCMP said a “well-dressed young man” was spotted wandering in. side the building by a police officer. When the man noticed the policeman, he ran

off into the back of the os according to police. police officer sum eons extra help, but the culprit couldn't be found. Nothing was reported missing following the inci dent. Entry was gained by breaking a side window, said RCMP.

The incident is under in vestigation.

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