Frances Birdsell of the Women’s Centre (left) explains the operations of the Golden Spruce Transplant’ Nursery to those who Nursery project finally * By GAIL DOTINGA Herald Staff Writer The “birth” of the Golden Spruce Tran- splant Nursery was ‘celebrated last Friday ‘at the Terrace Women’s Centre. People stopped by the centre all afternoon to wish their best for the ‘mursery,” Which’ is ex- ppreted to get underway. : r February. . ‘The nursery has been . a project the Women’s Centre for months now, with it they hope to solve some of the major problems -wornen face in the north - unemployment isolation and lack of skills. . Severa] properties on Graham. Avenue have > been selected a5 an appropriate site for the POLICE NEWS Terrace RCMP reported arelatively quiet weekend. Qn Friday night four persons were lodged in” police cells for being in- toxicated. A’ vehicle was siolen fron North Eby Street, Saturday but was later recovered on - North Thomas Street. The vehicle had recelved damage after being in- volved in an accident: No charges have been laid and police are still in- Jeft unlocked with the keys. in it when it was stolen. Anumber of amall thefts, were reported Saturday from parked vehicles. In most cases cassette tapes - were taken. Huntington Place Apartments, 4931 Walsh, ~ received damage when a person entered the building and splashed paint over the walls. No charges have bees laid. ( WEATHER ‘) A ridge of high-pressure will develop aver the region Monday afternoon giving us clear periods overnight. The low is expected to drop al to 0 degrees Celsius. On Tuesday took for mainly overcast skies with rain as the next weather system nears the coast. The high for Tuesday should reach 3 degrees Celsius. eo: Durcery, which will be _ the first of its kind in the area. One-year seedlings will be taken to the Golden Spruce where ‘they will be grown ouiside fer a period of time to harden them up before they are planted in the forest, The provincial winisiry of | , DUrRery.® “Maia customer. "In fact the ministry has been very sup- portive of the idea says Jeanetie Miyagawa of the Women’s Centre. “They are trying to forests. wir, be ‘the . dropped in Friday afternoon to celebrate its “birth.” The centre hopes fo have other encourage the growth of more private sur- series,” she said, “They want to harden the seedlings in the area they will grow in.” For it's first year of operation the oursery will be funded by LEAP, 3 program of the Federal. Employment Development Branch. — Before’ giving: ‘approval, for. ‘the monles, “a” feasibility study was conducted over the summer to determine the viability of the nursery. The study, which was completed last September, ; projected ‘the Golden Spruce would make money by its second . year of operation. The project was finally given approval last Dec. 3. It will employ 15 people during the peak funding period. A nursery specialist will be hired to train the women along with an ", additional, trainin Canada peneredey and Immigration, to be beld next manth. The women are -hoping to expand the nursery once it is established, Miyagawa projects such as the’ ‘hursery_ that will provide employment year-round for women In the norih-west. ‘porn’ says they would like to organize tree-planting amd cone-picking crews. ’ “Eventually we would | like to get into other areas of reforestration that would provide women with virtual year-round em- Ployment.” The idea of a mursery was conceived one . > \Jotepieinca abe centre says Miyagawa. From there it took many months of hard work to get the project going. To gain more in- formation about transplant nurseries, wat here several’ of the women’ visited nurseries in the lower mainland last August. The Centre hopes the Galdea Spruce will one day be ableto provide - funds for the Centre whose financial future remains untertain at this point. ~ haga dboer ue es a ‘ard very excited * | oie Sr ea are looking inta the possibility of creating other projects such as a bookstore which. will employ women .in the - area as wel] as supply monies for the Centre. New program will provide training developed a series of in- formal sessions to assist interested people. The first ‘sexsion will be beld at the Canada Employment Centre at 4530 Larzelle “Avenue from 7 p.m. to 10 Bm. on-Feb.f.. icipants will hear from local employers, employnient counsellors as well as women currently working in non-traditional occupations in which Canada Employment . will'pay. employers a percentage of wages to a maximum of $6.25 per hour to provide women with training under the Canada Manpower Industrial Training program. Areas where women are. ‘asmal] percentage of the workforce ‘include agriculture and other. primary industries; manufacturing; cor- struction; transportation, communication and other .utilitles; finance, in- surance and real estate; public administration; mining and forestry. © The available evidence clearly suggests a high degree of concentration for women along beth oc- “qipational and industrial lines. The majority of women entering or re- entering the labor market do so with traditional female skills and by and large enter a limited number of industries. Since the existence of segregation along in- dustrial and occupational lines plays an important role in wage determination many women are looking to . areas that have pot been traditional occupations for them. Melissa Sharples, of Canada Employment in Terrace, says that there may be good reasons why there are so few logging truck drivers, for example. “A woman must consider — that she is going to be alone ona begging toad and if she gets a flat tire she will have to change it herself. If the truck breaks down she is gning to have to know how to fix it,” says Sharples. Recent studies show an increase in the labor force participation of married women by 37 per cent between 1971 and 1976 while the total population of toarried females increased by only 18 per cent. Married women make up t City. represented: at ‘peace’ talks ~ Marguerite Clarkson of Sacred Heart Parish in Terrace will represent the Diocese of Prince George at a provincial conference of “the Canadian Catholic Organization for Prevenia. Development.” , The resource person for the conference will be Father Alphonso Lugo, spokesperson for the Nicaraguan clergy. In a brief presentation to the Sacred Heart Parish Council recently, Clarkson outlined the work of © Capuchin. priests in Nicaragua. These priests set up community centres which investigated land reform, taught mutrition and health care and assisted in the formation of The Somora regarded these church centres as subsersive and took over 26 of them to be used as detention and torture centres. . Clarkson also - detailed beatings of Maryknoli sisters and priests and the formation of a death squad by the Sonioza government - to harass the clergy.and others in Nicaragua. Clarkson says she is delighted to have the op- portunity to. meet with Father Lugo and learn of the reconstruction of since the defeat of the Someta dictatorship a year ago. Sacred Heart Parish’ “to the priests, brothers, sisters and laypersons who during the past years in ‘eat 00 per cerit of the female workforce. Another study shows that one of the major effects of job ghettoization of women is reflected by the fact that poverty in Canada is overwhelmingly a female non and is directly attributable to the fact that the vast majority of wimen are streamed = into traditional, low paying curious were discouraged from enrolling in shop . ‘ courses. It is beliewed that as the numbers of women . in. trades increases the adtitudes towards them will change and they will become accepted, not as . a8 munity college trades programs, ard government apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship . _ programs are, women. Again, this is due to inadequate, inaccurate and negative counselling: difficulty in finding p andthe iselation once the woman is an the job. Employers are com- i monly . suspicious and are told that it has been filled; and where they B.C. law for separate living . quarters for men and ‘women in isolated working conditions such as logging camps; and women are - commonly told they cannot be hired in campe for this appregtice programs ‘for a Hay d — i f ts formed ~- Von % stitational quarrels ‘bet- loake.”