Waiting for judgment 2 Champion bunnies 3 Battling the budget 5 Disney's latest lure 10-Working mom's cash 20 TELEPHONE: 562-2441 'CLOSING THE DOOR TO OPPORTUNITY' College faces money squeeze The Prince George Citizen MONDAY, MAY 1, 1989 50 CENTS Low tonight: 2 High Tuesday: 17 Ann Landers.............9 Bridge.................17 Business...............20 City, B.C...........2,3,8 Classified..........14*18 Comics.................10 Crossword..............16 Editorial...............4 Entertainment 10 Family..................9 Horoscope..............17 International ..........7 Lifestyles..............9 Lotteries...............5 Movies ................10 National................8 Sports..............11*13 Television.............16 You’re right, there is something different about today’s front page. We’ve redesigned the “flag” and index to make it more attractive and give you more information about what’s inside your newspaper. It’s just one of many improvements we’ve made to The Citizen in recent weeks and months, because we’re proud to be growing with Prince George. Last autumn, Plus! Magazine was revitalized and expanded to give readers and advertisers a lively local package of news, features and photographs to enjoy every weekend. Recent upgrading of our press, coupled with brighter paper stock from the new mill at Mackenzie give our pages brighter, snappier color and sharper, cleaner print. And then there are the little things, like separating the Coming Events listings into categories so your favorite activity is easier to find, plotting the location of garage sales on a special map so you can plan your route Saturday morning, and — by popular demand — finding a home for Calvin and Hobbes on our comics page. And we’re not done yet. More improvements to The Citizen lie ahead; we think you’ll enjoy the ones we have planned, and welcome your suggestions for others. Working together Angela Wall, 16, left, Liza John, 16, and Lisa Eiswerth, 15, lather soap suds over the hood of pickup truck during car wash at the Full Gospel Chapel. They’ve been kept busy washing vehicles for the past two weekends to raise money to pay the costs of a three-day youth symposium to be held this month. The symposium begins with a concert May 11 featuring contemporary gospel artist Chris Christian. Citizen photo by Lisa Murdoch $100,000 FOR ATHLETICS Cash sought for league play Tax returns due today Although the deadline for income taxes is officially midnight tonight. Prince George residents have to get their returns in at least six hours earlier, Canada Post says. Last-minute filers have until 4:30 p.m. today when mail is collected from street letter boxes, says Lisa Turner, Canada Post spokesman in Vancouver. The latest closing postal suboffices are at Shopper’s Food Mart, Sintich Road and Highway 97 (6 p.m. closing), and Reid’s Prescriptions, 1669 Victoria, (5:30 p.m.), Turner said today. Provided tax forms are mailed either before clearance times on post boxes or while post offices are open, they will meet Revenue Canada’s deadline, she said. The penalty for overdue taxes is five per cent of the balance owed to Revenue Canada. An additional one per cent is levied for every additional month the return is delayed. by BEV CHRISTENSEN Staff reporter Local sponsors will be sought to enable teams from the College of New Caledonia to re-enter five B.C. inter-college leagues. The decision to seek local sponsors and contributions from CNC’s student association came at Saturday’s college board meeting after college directors balked at a motion to approve an application to enter teams in the B.C. College Athletic Association’s men’s and women’s volleyball, badminton, golf and curling inter-college competitions. During 1989-90 it would cost about $100,000. “We’d better look at this carefully. I support athletics but caution the board because of the concerns about the balancing of next year’s budget,” said director Doug Little. Director Wayne Salewski of Vanderhoof urged the directors not to abandon tne proposal completely because offering inter-college sports competitions would attract athletically-gifted students to the college and improve school spirit. CNC principal Charles McCaf-fray said he thought the college could raise approximately half the estimated $100,000 cost through a donation from the college’s student association and finding businesses willing to sponsor teams. The college withdrew from intercollege leagues in the early 1980s during a cost-cutting drive which resulted from the provincial government’s efforts to reduce educational spending. At that time the teams were supported partially by the proceeds of the college’s book store and cafeteria, bursar Jim Blake told the directors. He also pointed out the ministry’s reluctance to provide money for inter-collegiate sports puts CNC at a disadvantage to colleges in the Lower Mainland because of the higher travel costs. “There should be some thought given to equalizing travel costs but, if we’re not a member of the association, we have no say,” he said. After considerable discussion the college board approved the motion subject to the college’s ability to absorb the costs in its 1989-90 budget. CNC’s administration was also encouraged to find ways of reducing the cost of re-introducing college sports at CNC. The B.C. College Athletic Association sponsors championship competitions in seven sports leading to national championships. The competitions are organized into major sports — volleyball, basketball, hockey, soccer and badminton — and minor sports - curling and golf. Members colleges must participate in a minimum of two major and one minor sport or any three major sports. The budgets and scheduling for basketball competitions are too advanced to permit them to be redone to include the time and financial resources needed to add Prince George to the leagues, directors were told. The college is exploring the possibility of entering a team in the Cariboo soccer league. School districts 'stomped' I "™,u'"0010cr KL'lllWffmmfl) uiwrwii ’Well, at least she got it out of her system." by Canadian Press VANCOUVER (CP) - B.C. school trustees decided Saturday not to change the bargaining system with teachers despite an assertion by three districts they were “stomped and steamrollered” by unionized teachers. Three districts — Delta, Shuswap and West Vancouver — proposed that a provincewide bargaining committee negotiate salaries ana benefits while other contract issues be resolved at the local level. The districts told the annual meeting of the B.C. School Trustees Association there was too much duplication of effort when all 75 districts dealt individually with the major monetary issues. “I think this motion is bom out of frustration and not really bom out of enough experience. . .remember this was our first go-round,” Sooke trustee Dick Williams said of the proposal. “I feel I can’t support the motion because I think it’s too soon and we need to sit back and look at what happened and post-mortem this year.” Shuswap board chairman Dave Wood saia the B.C. Teachers’ Federation, in the first year of bargaining after teachers were allowed to form unions and given the right to strike, was too powerful for some boards. “Two-thirds of the boards in B.C. really got stomped and steamrollered by the BCTF,” Wood said. When there are “75 boards dealing with really one entity, the teacher contracts ended up a lot richer than they would have been if the boards had all hung together.” Ward said if boards don’t bargain jointly, they face taxpayer revolts plus a removal of their powers by a provincial government that could consider some boards irresponsible. Hints of a budget crunch and program cuts were heard during Saturday’s meeting of directors of the College of New Caledonia. Board chairman Dr. Frank Lo confirmed the operating grant the college has received from the Ministry of Advanced Education for 1989-90 is insufficient to meet its budget. But he declined to provide more details until the board meeting in May. CNC directors met behind closed doors Friday with officials from the ministry and no details of the meeting were released Saturday. But there were hints that college directors are concerned about the budget during discussion of items on fhe agenda of Saturday’s public meeting. At one point director Doug Little, who is chairman of the college’s finance and personnel committee, cautioned the board about spending money to enter college teams in inter-college competitions “because of the concerns about next year’s budget.” At another point director Marilyn Wheeler expressed her frustration about the lack of money in the college’s 1989-90 budget for programs already approved by Advanced Education Minister Stan Hagen. “This is not a logical way of running a college and I am frustrated,” Wheeler, chairman of CNC’s curriculum committee, told directors. She told them the Ministry of Advanced Education has failed to provide money for the medical office assistant, pharmacy technical assistant and electrical co-operative advanced apprenticeship training which had been approved by Hagen’s ministry. “We are looking at a tight-tight budget and people in the faculty are putting in hours of planning for these programs. . .and we’re going on a treadmill working out things to the ‘nth’ degree and the ministry says that’s a good idea and another arm of the ministry says there is no money,” Wheeler said. CNC principal Charles McCaf-fray said the pharmacy technical assistant program proposed for the college was based on a successful program at Vancouver City College which is the only place this type of training is offered. “Their decision is more than closing down a program it’s closing the door to opportunity and saying if you want that kind of training you have to go to Vancouver, which seems to be contrary to their other rhetoric (about improving access to education),” he said. CNC counsellor Kathy Conroy told directors there’s been a tremendous amount of response to the programs, which are included in the college’s 1989-90 calendar as potential offerings. The directors approved a motion instructing administration to document the cost incurred by the cob lege in preparing and submitting proposals which are first accepted only to find there’s no money to offer them. College bursar Jim Blake pointed out there’s no provision for these programs being placed on a high priority for the next year, so the college will have to go through the time-consuming process of result mitting a proposal next year. DOUG'S DYING WISH Family's dream trip begins by BERNICE TRICK Staff reporter More than $5,000 has been raised from throughout B.C. to allow Doug Hinkel to begin fulfulling his dying wish to take his family across Canada. The family, which would rather drive than fly, left Prince George today for the east in a van provided by Barnes Chev Olds. “It’s important we send him off as quickly as possible because he only has a few quality months left,” explained lawyer Peter Warner, who set up the Hinkel Trust Fund at his law firm, Heather, Sadler and Jenkins at no charge. The sum should take Doug, wife Bonnie and their two children aged three and five as far as the Prairies. As more money is collected it will be sent to them, Warner said. Hinkel, 34, is a hemophiliac from Quesnel who has AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) and has less than nine months to live. He contracted AIDS about five years ago through tainted blood. Hundreds of persons from across the province are responding with donations of money after reading his story 10 days ago in The Citizen in a column by Victoria columnist Hubert Beyer. His dying wish was to see his country from seas to sea, dip his hand into the Atlantic Ocean and take his children to Canada’s Wonderland near Toronto. Neither Bonnie nor Doug Hinkel, who worked for the city of Quesnel up until two years ago, have been farther east than Bonnyville, Alta, where they met. Earlier this week the Prince George Cariboo Real Estate Board launched a campaign to raise at least $10,000 by making every real estate office in the region a dropoff point for donations. Any money left over will be used to help other hemophiliacs who’ve become AIDS victims. 058307001008