: overhauling * Tuesday, will’ apply to all persons ‘under. cyan age hotly’. dlaputed by... the aos Progressive Conservatives, whosay young at ‘people. ‘Anow. the- difference, between: ~ Berloug crimes and youthful frolic by. thelr ; sth: ‘birthdays... a peek noha naa ir Beare tM AOA TT OTTAWA - \ CP), ) oy 10 years to: dealt, wil hold ghey ht to anna today’ or A, Also raises to 12 from seven. years, the age'at which children can be charged with : © crininal offences. _ Several -provinces oppose the new maximum age because they will have-to . ~pend millions of dollars: building prisons and courts for l6-and 17-year-olds. - ; _. ‘And police fear It will mean an increase: ‘in young hoodlums roaming the streets. ‘Legislation , ‘. . M-yeargld ‘juvenile. v dellnguency laws, will receive, ‘fital. ap: * ‘proval in ‘the ‘Commons: this:weolt, |: ro he: Young’ Offendert act, hich took -..,\ nore. tha h ¥oung: ‘people ‘more responsible for’ ‘their Behavior while: ‘keeping: them 1B : - The n lepiaston can ahah mag a. sending young peuple to’ jail, Including rota work, fines or” Sompensaling have Av aging rights ta diva process ‘df law-: *." ag adults “—" including . the: right’ to‘ be -- court decisions. “represented by: a lawyer and to. appeal . David “KMgour™ © Strathcona) sald his colleagues are con- : cerned the act contains no provisions for. funding new juvenile ant, and Setentjon a facilities. “ He suggested rich provinces wil be able to provide better. ‘service, than poor. ~ provinces, creating a checker board of ‘Manitoba ‘and Quebec’ are the’ only provinces that treat youths under 18 under - juvenile Jaws. rather than the federal _ Criminal. Code. : ‘British Columbia and Newfoundland set ‘the ‘dividing ‘lina at 37 while’ the other ' provinces and two terxilories make it-16. - Solicitor General Robert Kaplan said a uniform maximum age must be. set pecause~ the new Charter of Rights prohibits Miserimination on the basis of age.’ Kaplan said he chose i8 because It's the age: when young people can vote, marry . . critic, sup ‘provisions, particularly setting the “offenders acta across Canada. Svend Robinson, New Demoerat justice. ports .most ‘of thé bill's maximum age at 18. “In “my © view, it's important young’ persons be kept ‘out.of the adult prison . system as long as possible. Once they atart > and sign contracts in most provinces and he wants to protect youths. as long as possible “from entry into ‘adult correc- tional institutions where they will be ex- . Posed to older, more: experiented of- i mixing with hardened: criminals, their chances of rehabilitation are minimal." ; In other business this week, MPs will. hold. a recorded, vote Tuesday . on ’ Jegislation to formally authorize oil. and gas industry revenue taxes resulting from. . last fall's energy agreements with British , Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. - And final debate will ‘begin Tuesday and ‘Wednesday on some of the eight energy. bills implementing key components of the * national energy program. Seniors volunteer time VANCOUVER. (CP) -— Five-year-old ‘Angela Laine likes’ to bounce on her. grandmothe?’s | trampoline. Her brother Gregory, two years younger, likes to nap on his grandparents’ waterbed. A year ago, the only grandparents the Laine: children had’ were living in New But because of the Volunteer Grand- parents Society of. B.C., Susan and Graham Laine ‘of nearby ‘Richmond now have Marie and Dennis Carter — also of | Richmond — — ae grandparents for their two hile. “WNeither Graham o or mysale| has amily *and screened by the society ‘and. then . placed with a compatible family. Grand- ‘parents must be at least 40, and ideally children in the families should be-between the ag of ee and 10 to. develop a close relatio “Grandparents are an important part of © 4 family,” said Wilkinson, ‘‘They- give _ children the opportunity to see that life has - of ald stability and continuity because they telt stories of how things used to be. It's i im- portant for children — to establish a relationship ‘with older people so they do not grow up feeling afraid of age, or afraid ple.” *, “in, i eee at Susan La ns os sng Laine decided jp fill the yoidi in her call Howat. fesapllicen, were, me isi ing 3 Cail ves whe phe. heard about ‘grandparent f gure. We. in Seems r Volunteér ‘Grandparents ‘on a radio, talk how | important grandparents were in our, “childliood. We wanted our children to have those same mentories.” ’ “Thesoclety, which started in 3978 as part ‘of the Children’s Aid Society, is sponsored -by the provincial government. Its aim is to age. | - Busan Wilkingon Kallweit, the soclety e executive director, pald volunteer grand- ._- _ parents help fill the void in: the lives ‘of _ children and families, Being a grand: _ parent can also fill a personal void. “The older people get the value‘of being "of service," she said. “This is especially bring’ together fariilies who. have no_ . -Brandparents. dnd people af grandparent ; . discipline. important for older people who may not ”. a person's health to feel useful, not a piece of leftover baggage, Having .a nitch and close social contact increases your chance of living longer.” : 5 ~~, Cherny plays ROCKY. ‘MOUNTAIN HOUSE, .Alta, (CP) — CBC's- Tommy Hunter Show, country _ fiddler. Al Cherny still gets a kick out of performing in small towns across Canada. “Cherny, . who was in ‘Rocky -Mountain ._ House, Alta., on Saturday to begin the last . ~ week of a. three-snonth cross country tour, ~~ sald nothing much’ has changed in the. ~ small whistle, stops.” “Phe apple pie tastes the same as it did. 30 years ago,"hesald.'‘Nothing has really - a changed —.just the sheeis are. clean." . But the 30-year music veteran hag come a long -way in that'time, Volunteer grandparénis a are interviewed : have family in town. It’s very important to small towns * show, grandparents”.in December. a ‘ “The children took to them very easily,” ‘Her children imet their “new ‘she said. ~ Marie Carter wants the Laine children to- have as good memories. of their grand- _ parents as she has of hers. “Part of having: grandparents is having — those memories when You get. alder,” she: said... | a “F think it’s mare relaxing. -being “a. grandparent than a parent. You're not so quick to judge the children as you would - your own; you're not as concerned with I don’t. feel bad about - housework that needs. to be done. 1 reserve time for. the. children, “Dennis and.I really, enjay children and the things they do and say. Being. grand- parents-to Angela and Gregory gives us a good feeling even when it means chasing after rabbits that have run under ‘ buildings.” ‘ we So small that we can’t retaliate ‘a little? -- Despite years.as a regular. on - Why do we have to go through so much red * _ tape to perform aCTOSS the ‘border?!* ° ; Despite his protest, Cherny has rio desire , to perform j in Nashville. With the encouragement of his parents, - he.began studying. classical violin at the _~ / age ofnine, but underwent. an‘almost born- - again conversion to the fiddle -in high -- ~schodl when he heard ‘country-and-western -<) legend Wil! Carter perform, . a ~ + dn 1881, he joined ‘Vie. Siebert and is 2 Sons of the Saddle and toured. Alberta. . Q : tana '. home éf. Medicine. Hat ‘and. ‘boarded: the 2) trainefor: Wingham, ‘Ont:; where he ‘ sben cA ‘year later; Chey: fete nine’ years apa studio musician at CRNA \ A big breske came : as’ a : performer On, _., the-1p6ls telévisign show'.Country: Hae u Down, He -has-been ‘on, television “ever - ".” pince, recently completing hig 17th year as - "a regular on the Tommy Hunter Show... .p | Despite his own success, Cherny said ""*. there has not been enough ‘progress in the - we Canadian music Industry. He said there is . too. cmuch: ‘of ‘an. open-door policy ‘for - we American tiusicians. entering Canada. “They. just flash their contracts . and . with no. originality." ; “Americans have | never. done ‘anything ~, forme = ‘Canadians mean a lot to me,”. - “The ‘country: -éntertainer said ‘he wants © “the Canddian music industry to aim for - higher’ standards. . . " Record compares lt Canada are mainly American-controlled and ‘do not . create’ stars, he, Said. . ; “The artist i is” + always left - -out, in left field," cornplained, Cherny. .“"The radio _ stations play the top 40 around the clock - There. are: “also. more "professional - _Whanager@:in rock inusic than in country mousic in Canada, he. ‘suid, bes “There. are. sine. real: -schvengers “who. n't know co viliat they are dk ing,y. whe said, “They are’ “ :booking country; into: fock rogms: You ‘just “don't treat. every, ‘group the | same,” ae 4{PC-Edmonton-- : : ak Le A ee oe hee Seige, Fra, eee ha tall Umber, i rs cee tara in tek we the velneo, Pai truck, whieh. Toke from, the Volcanic ;' aah Ue. a inechanical phen; % were found two. years aigo in the ‘atterthath of the May. . % where a sandblaster removed rust, will ramble back | to the ridge 13-kilometres from Mount St. Helens, _ where William Parker, 46, and his wife were killed in. the eruption that flattened 388 ‘square kilometres of William Parker was killed by a boulder’ ‘smashing, es through the cab's back window and his wife,died of 2 ash suffocation. Authorities say 58 other people Were i “left dead or missing in the eruption, Parker, George Gianopoulos, 47, his son, Steve, 21, and several. other hunting-and. fishing friends of | ! Parker towed the wrecked truck out of the'ash on a taller last May and vowed it would run again, ‘Steve Gianopoulog, a Portland State University. student, spent hundreds of hours sanding old. paint -- down to the metal, tdking off rust and restoring parts, ° Eas Reuven re eet nuver Istand town is m van: we ing, iis, residents ecainse’ willbe ‘driven | back too “the “eontrdet | tor the: “company.” o . Spell doom for the town if it~: _ continues, - Chrystel Rule - a 28 year-old single mother _ of two school-aged children — was laid. off permanently . from .her . position in the camp kitchen; where she "earned $12 an hour. She said most, town residents.realize “company spending cuts’ are. needed bécauseé of -the economic downturn, But she 7 says: Tahsis should live up to Cite Promises ~— made a’ “decade ago. wher it sought: logging rights in the area — aearara oleneeatas SSN Parere.e.*.", =) "22 seer ices os maser iat ~ The Hernia Monday, May "7, , stmt Tahsis loses ro idents : ‘children are livin, = giater= in the’. ‘Island « community Hoty ~ Caripbel River walle. ae up for sale for months, he said, and other. residents who own their own homes | won't be able to sell them if “they have to leave town, | Lutken | said’ 149. em- ployees were laid off at the beginning of the month, but, because of poor markets far wood products, only 77: will . ‘edme back to work when | logging ‘resumes’ June 1. Meanwhile, he. said, about 25 contract employees will - be-hired — jobs that could ‘have been. retained by ' Zeballos residents. School trustee Kathy: Barrett said five of the 62 _ jobs in town,” Rulé said as: * students at the school have t ancouver” leit, he aaid, is to appeal. to Victoria in hopes of getting thé issue raised in legislature.’ - saving,” he said. ‘workers because they can be laid off more easily than - ‘permanent employees. - Alex Brokenshire, Tahsis' ‘vice-president.for industrial fire Zeballos residents. But ‘he said contractors. 6wn their own equiprnent and therefore represent a coat saving to the company. - she said, “We own our own. ener oe home and we Want ta atayl "| : - It'g not: really: fair fo give. < - who still has. a ‘fob, said the | “camp Jos the - ‘This is: a town worth Zeballos realdents say Tahsis: ‘prefers contract © "| relations, said It-“tears the -guts” out of the company to 3 Now the truck, missing only its battered camper top & _ ' 3 to stabilize the community, % is ready to roll and “really zooma right along,” he a : Ee sys. : s - “There are just no other - _ The. engine Was undamaged. because it wasn't run ei untit ash had been removed. The-same motor ail is‘ = she and 20 wicketed the ote being used — Parker had changed'it just before his trip to the mountain. ; fe! = Vancouver headquarters of Tahsis. She said she and her two Rw efetate! see * SSE HE eee ba HMMA Fight _ Them All Heart Attack, Stroke ymubic and donot know © Witnesses are weak? _ EDMONTON (CP) — - eyewitnesses see what they. think they see? ‘They often do not, says Gary -Wells, a psychologist - . at University: of Alberta. Eyewitness accounts of a crime can- persuade a jury and. clinch a verdict, Wells sald invan interview. But they can also be weak links in the search for truth ' anidejustices cs cour “The telatlonship is? ‘sd weak, between confidence ‘and accuracy, that: it’s "+ totally misleading,” . Wells said. ‘‘Highly . confident. _ Witnesses may ‘be 60-per-. ‘less: - cent ‘accurate and- confident witnesses S8-per- “cent accurate.” . Wells put on a ‘series ‘of .. mock thefts and then. asked wittesses ” to, Rick . ‘the ‘“4hieves” out -of a’ lineup _ and testify before: a A mock "jury. “When he wrote. up his _findings | and submitted, them to a medical journal ” the article. was. rejected as’ defying common sense. He repeated the research, got the same result, and his. findings finally saw light. “The thing I'm most excited about now ‘is that I ‘finally have something that will: result in: better decisions: on the 2 jurors’ part as. to whether to believe - eyewitnesses or not, ” Wells said. _. ae He: hes also made a. . videotape’ to help , jurors | _ assess the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. it tells jurors ‘to “ make * judgments - about witnesses . +, .ag-well as the ‘evidence. . ‘Some people are. ‘just ~ positive about everything,” Wells said. | “There are other wit- " nesses who will admit there ' - are things they do not know. - If someone is confident about everything . under crogs-examination, then you should not pay attention: to them. ae Among” Wells's findings: — tales dha Bre more con: - tideng, . women under ~ ” .QTOSS mination, but are” nat more ‘accurate. "'=. Certain errors: are — - common’ to. all, witnesses: “People: consistently ‘overestimate ‘short, times. A. > pobbery: ‘lakes maybe ihree -. _. Minutes. but © ‘people, ‘in- He Confesses . to” ‘harboring - the. iaine delving ambition he had imhis ‘early years ~ despite his ‘long-time reputation, as, Canada’ 3 top country entertainer. a In part, ‘that’s his. reason for continuing | his tours of. small communities. His early - “Nentrance™ into television cut- short’ the. normal. process of endless personal ap- . ‘come’ through — — but Il’s.not the same'for ~ Canadian: performers going tothe States," _hesaid. ‘‘The border is just not equal. Are-. pearances In such towns, and. Cherny’ ‘gs taking ‘advantage of it now, "Ym stillemaking up for Jost time.” variably overestimate those © ; durations: by 300 oF Foe pers * gent.” as Jurors - “dan “be: too". ” impressed by consistency: * “It's possible for. a police ‘interrogator . to” ask questions ‘of a witness and — . ‘give the witness the im- pression he's correct. What ’- . happens, apparently, is that the witness keeps rehear- - ‘sing the story in his head.” § “Happy Gang | Centre News | Things are quite busy at the center these days, dropping in for cards and coffee and lunch. Please join us we'd love to have you. There are some very nice plans coming. up for the soth annivereary. More details. soon.. I you wish to purchase a . , bumper sticker to help celebrate this aniversary drop into . the center they are 3 each, Part of this money goes toa soholarshlp ANG, 6 viva wy on a _ Lamnghes are from, Monday {o, Friday. from 11390 to Ap. Me ‘ Thursday’ s lunch will-be different each week,’ Tueaday’s morning sewing group: The infant quilts are weariiig completion and they reaily are a work of art. Drop in for a coffee andhavea look atthem:. . Please remember the lunch thé Terrace senior’s. are hosting for the Prince Rupert seniors, there will be about 80 peaple coming so come:out and welcome them May 18 at 12 ‘noon. There will be no regular lunch for the general public this day. . ~.- Guess what? ° When I mentioned Ernie \ was going to be - _ back soon, he was ‘already back'in Terrace. Great to have -you back and super to hear the violin again and good luck bo you, S-M-L-XL Would like to wish anyoneelse that is not feeling well a. ‘speedy recovery; mind you I think we are waiting for a few nice days to perk us all up. I think we are all waiting for the _ -sun todo its work, its long overdue, maybe Ernie brought it back with’ him. ; . High Blood Pressure Rheumatic Fever been pile oat In. pat a me. 18;: 1980, eruption. Thé truck’ shows few. signs of the” . our dohe to people whe don't wt g blast aside from, a melted steering wheel and: signal “ee The. Arangient, workers -are.town is ‘$800.00 “in : debt. ever live. here? ee S lights. | BE bused in: from “Geld “River, _Perause i budivided slots. - Robert .. “Milne, iad (4) defying Mount ‘St. “Helens: and Her strength, me a Port :-MeNelll and othe ridge : and water | - secretary. ‘for. the _ Intee- 4. said Donna Parker of Canby, Ore., Parker's ‘sister.- = nearby communities. i service them on ‘national Woodworkers ‘of 3 “Maybe it will Prove the.old mountain didn’t: really = © Themove by ‘the company ‘the strength of Tahsis' America, said the union win. ” 8 has Zeballos residents promises, unsuccessfully protested 5 ‘The-197. GMC pickup, its green paint. mottled « % . Worried. They say It could Two of the lots:have heen ° the firings, The only avenue + ater ot 4 a dtrarsteae oA tees 4 ‘ami } \ NOW RENTING! : _SUNMIT APARTMENTS TERRACE ‘One & Two bedrooms featuring: vidge, ative & ‘drspes were