PLAYGROUND WINDUP for Recreation Commission No. 1 takes \ place this Saturday at Pass Creek Park but a few youngsters will still get another week at paddling their own canoe. Scenes such as this were common on the Little Slocan Lakes as boys and girls of all ages took advantage of summer canoe trips which are part of the local recreation commission program. The last junicr cance camp is scheduled for Aug. 27 to Aug. 30. To-date 223 students have taken part in the canoe camp program. From Page 1 Records Broken “sunny and hot.” The two warmest days of the month were July 19 and 31 ‘when the temperature soared to 99 degrees. The coldest day was July 6 at 67 degrees. The warmest night was July 20 at 64 degrees while the coldest gy night saw the temperature at 483 degrees on July 7. Soft Eating Kinnaird Council Briefs Wise Avccodoss Jack Munro, 42, Named Head IWA Wesfern Canadian Region Jack Munro, 42, will succeed Jack Moore on Oct. 1 a8 head of the 47,000-membor Western Canadian Region of the International Woodworkers of America, The resignation of Mr. foore was announced at a news conference during the region’s annual convention at Vancouver, In 1968 Mr, Munro had come to Nelson as a machinist for CP Rail and joined Kootenay Forest Products the next year, He also served as preal- dent of the Nelson-Trail Dis- trict Labor Council and on the board of Notre Dame Univer- sity advisors and on the heavy duty mechanics advisory board of the B.C. Vocational School, In 1986 he ran for the New Democratic Party in the pro- vincial election, He left Nelson in 1968 for Vancouver to join the IWA regional council, Kinnaird Council Sends Letter Of Apology for Inconvenience A letter of protest over what the complainants, Mr. and “Mrs, R. H. Wadey of 907-7th Ave, Kinnaird, called “the highhanded manner in which the Town of Kinnaird allowed a survey line to be slashed through our property without permission”, will be apologeti- cally replied to, This decision was made after Ald, Jack Chernoff quoted a section of an act which stated “any land surveyor shall when actually engaged in the dis- charge of his duties be permitted to pass over all lands enclosed or otherwise without hinderance from any person Although the Town of Kinnaird is at present unable to proceed with its town hall and library, it is presently outlining a bylaw for funding the project and is making application for a grant. This was the reply sent to hit and i Ready to Enjoy The luscious avocado whether the town intended to undertake these projects in its 1973-74 winter works program. . * © Approval has been given the design of the department of highways {or its irrigation system at the Kinnaird inter- change provi the flow of water does not exceed that amount already agreed upon. * * 6@ room temperature at home until soft, Sometimes you'll find avocados in the market that are already soft. Hold the fruit in the planners firm, Fairbank and Sawyer, following an inquiry Industrial development commissioner for KIDA, Austin Fraser, has been invited to attend the Sept, 4 council meeting. A letter from KIDA Development, discussing an- nual assessments, was tabled FOR SAVAGE SHOES AND. ALL YOUR FAMILY FOOTWEAR Phone 365-7025 —— Pine St. — Castlegar pending Mr. Fraser's visit. * . * A special council meeting + will be held next Thursday with the budget revision bylaw on the agenda, - : delicious, most people eat - them plain “on the half- shell” with a squeeze of fresh lemon, or peeled and and served on lettuce ice _ with a piquant dressing. Mayor ‘Colin Maddocks stated he felt it was improper of council to comment on the legal situation, He suggested a letter extending an apology be writ- len to the Wadeys stating the action was not meant to cause them any embarrassment or inconvenience. Seafood Pollution The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations has sent out a report warning that inland and marine pollution is killing tons of seafood and that by 1985 fish production must be doubled to meet minimum food require- ments. . The report suggests world- wide research and monitoring of pollutants and an inter- national effort to end ocean dumping of wastes. - “The decision to take legal action was entirely up to the complainants,” he said, “But even then it would not be for council to debate but would be placed in the hands of its solicitor,” : Preplanning On Expresswoys Good Advice When planning a vacation trip to large cities, check expressway entrances and exits to avoid last-minute confusion, suggest traffic ex- perts. They say to move into the turn-off lane well in advance by noticing the exit before the one selected to leave the express- way. Decrease speed rapidly -once in the deceleration tane, but not while on the express- way. Miss an exit? Go on to the next one, Dorothy Blenkin Bade Farewell By Fellow Woske: «A farewell party was given Monday night for Dorothy Blonkin, supervisor of the Kootenay Columbia Day Care Centre, Dorothy will soon be moving to Nanaimo. The party, held at the home of Sid MacPherson, was put on and attended by the staff of the day care centre. Dorothy was presented with a favorite book and a camera, She responded with a moving thank-you and words of _ farewell. ' Refreshments were served and a good time was had by all. Dorothy will truly be missed by all her friends and fellow workers, and especially by all the children of the centre. NELSON'S FRUITVALE 367-9215 Sturdy, durable P.V.C. plastic— Easy to handle: — Flotation seat — 450 lb, capacity — Cen be equipped with 3,5 hip. Eremenko’s $5995 | FIT-RITH ‘SHO: "QUALITY SHOES for the family For Dress — Casual and Work 5-5892 pick-up.- Rummage Sale at Legion Our Footwear Will Meet the Need of Any Type Work or Any Occasion AREAL SMITH'S PLUMBING & HEATING | 61 Crescent Street, Castlegar — Phone 365-7531 ia Plumbin a td. Will fs Chie Smith's Heating Ltd. osed for Holl : from August 25 to September jm 1973. He " For Next Week Only: Any notice ads should be | dropped off at the Castle- | gar News Office. for the Style Conscious Miss I Kinnaird Aquanauts Place {0th ee ft. Cartop Boat § motor, Reg. 169.00. Clearance —| ‘Provincial’ Library Parliament Bldgs Vnotee las B.C. Published Every Thursday Morning at ""The Crossroads of the Kootenays” au “TIME TO GRIN. ‘A. aynonym’ is the word you use when /you can't pronounce the other one, 15. CENTS PER COPY. ING ‘of the basement structure of the new addition of the Castlegar and District Senior Citizens Centre took place Monday morning. and The work is made possible by a $20,000 New Horizons Grant with labor being provided by John Dvorak, John Raine, Jack Steir and Bob Cormier, CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1978 all members of the local Senior Citizens: Association, Assisting area Glen out | Ackelson and John Reith. The back’ wall of the centre was“! ryan approximately three weeks ago fe now the initial pouring: of the ‘basement. The. work the association are all near:70.years of age with one gen 71.A spokesman for the group had high praise for the Town Investigates Cost Sharing on Buried Lines The Town of Castlegar Ave. : Juniper‘ St. to cro: t g at -Kinnaird. Council decided on this ‘ycourse of action: last’ week .. after receiving a letter irom ; cl However, for its pa West Kootenay Power sait it was “surprised to learn it is ‘not the downtown part of the highway that you are ‘proposing to “underground +.» your reference to rall- way crossing in the Town of Castlegar was taken to mean just that.” The: West Kootenay let- ter. says the company re- uires for such items as road gra- “the power w estimated the cost of under- grounding the « 6,000-foot- long section ‘at $300,000. In > addition, « the” com- pany indicated its .contribu- lon -“‘would be the differ- ence “in value \between a , _ new overhead | system and A In Weekend Provincial Finals "Tenth place in British Doukhobor Historical Sociely Honors Work Of Rotary. Foundation Scholarship Recipient 0) ed. the = Jy ‘Ald. Andy: Shutek ex- “shock! \:, beta tad cost estimate, e ; cantly diferent tron the - $150,000 ‘referred to in an earlier“ letter’ ‘from © the - ‘company, le, water, sewage and gas mains, as well. as storm drainage facilities and service connection de- tails before an engineering cost study for the project can be' undertaken, ”: Br. Shutek commented it would ‘be “a tremendous size job" to provide the company with the requested BS. He. reminded. council of the Power and Teleph- one Line Beautification Fund Act passed in the’ leg- islature a year ago and de- signed “to underground the jungle of unsightly wires.” He said that under the act the’ provincial. govern- ment ‘utility companies and “Kinnaird to Ask Castlegar To Share in Cost of Float ‘The Town of Castlegar will be asked by the Town of Kinnaird if it would like” ‘ing:in kane for its Expo ve ths float would aiso be uf in other commun- ities to give.the area as mu- ts: ch: publicity as possible. detailed drawings - municipalitles can share eq- ually in the costs of under- - grounding wires. He moved that the town te 5 company asking if it. would _be prepared to participate ‘Ald. Shutek said that curl long Columbia Ave. CAN-CEL STRIKE Now in ‘First ‘president’ of: the Columbia, out of simost a PI torical. 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Your Link Hardware Desler — Phone 365-7782 “Use Your Chargex Credit Card” fyoungster-started fire Head on Collision Sends.5 Persons ‘To Hospital Johnny Sumner was re- orted to have been trans- rred to Trail Regional Bo! . ; "The accident is still un- der investigation. bye to‘he and iis fe June. Can-Cel Announces Earnings Six Month Period - $5,712,000 Persident of Canadian Cellulose, Ronald M. Gross, announced’ yesterday earn- ings of the company for the second quarter of 1973 re- sulted in a net profit of $4,663,000 on sales of $41,- 233,000. compared to 9c in“the first quarter. The earnings for the first six months, therefore, (01 -amount to $5,712,000 or 47¢ per share before the special asset ite-down. reflect a net tax provisl provision of $870,000 and $900,000 for the second quarter and first half respectively. . In 1972 the company reported losses for the se- $7,386,000, a) Can-Cel..was formerly the principal operating sub- sidiary of “Columbia Cellu- lose, a company mrajority- owned. by. Celanese Corpor- ation of New York.’ On June 29, of this year, Can- Cel became a public com- * Kinnaird Fire Chief Wants. Town Bush Areas Closed fs {1 burnin: mits in the ween of Kinnaird have unteer fire department sp- ent 1% hours putting out a bush fire forthe south of wa t by fire chief t who re It sald - buted the Plaza the. highway and. the CPR tracks. The fire chief attri- Chief Archambault said that now that the: forest closure has ‘bean lifted by the Forest Service, he Is in- rere have been a rash of n, Including two. in’ the the - the: ; Kinnaird Park.” On Monday night the: vol- means of pro- hibiting youngsters from en- tering forested or bush ar- eas Because of his belief that tis fire hazard still ex. laze to children. . pany.owned by a crown corporation of Provinve of British Columbia to the extent of. 79 per cent of the ‘outstan: common shares and by the non-Cel- anese ferred and com- lulose other than obligations to Celanese. ~~ ‘As part of this reorgan- ization, extraordinary charg- es to income relating to capital assets and other ad- justments. were made am- ounting to. $72,750,000. This sum ws approximately . the on the balance sheet of Can- adian Cellulose. matters were resolved, the « operations recommenced on gust "since -August 1, there has been a PPWC strike at (continued on page 11) Klondike Night To Come Again - Saturday, Sept. 15 The Castlegar Kiwanis Club this week ‘announced plans to hold another. giant Klondike Night. Modeled after the hig! ecessful. Klondike an ssi ile a Gold Rush Fell Room will be held ‘in: th curling Tink. Vi Charlie © Cohoe, . public ity chairman for.the event, said’ more details. will be disciosed’ over the next few - weeks, he Ni- E ig aa aria recognized for her tribution ‘to the octets: ‘was Ann’Forester who immediate She was presented with a book, “Song of the Douk- hobors”, Written. by Ken- neth Peacock... ° 3 Master of ceremonies, Pete Oglow praised the two guests of honor ‘for the part:they played: .in the work of the societyas well as verbally recognizing the contributions of’ many oth- et Spokesman forthe girls, Vicki Popoff, said they had enjoyed working with the society and she hoped to have the opportunity: to do Is estimated at The gir! least 6,000 guests have tour-. “Peter Legebokoff Permanent resident of Novoje Selo (new village) is Peter Legebokoff who has accepted the invitation of the’ Doukhohor’ Historical Society to be the caretaker. announcement was made: Tuesday night at a special supper honoring two of ‘the society's. members, ursing * uating class °° of ~ Nursing at ceremonies held esday. at: the vocation’ div- Tu isionof Selkirk College’ Nelson under director Clif- ford Underwood. Graduating were: Lor- raine Bermel, Diane Fuller- ton’ and Mrs: Mary: Voykin. Miss Bermel ) was sing- led out. for recognition wh- en. Trail. Regional Hospital clinical instructor: Mildred Umbarger. presented her — Gra with the best bedside nurse award. 4 a Frese nting caps ted 9 student represen’ the Tecate largest class ‘which also has experienced ai100 cent successful instructor - garet Enser presented pins sd Spectal quest was Anita guest was McDowall RN. on the staff of Trail Regional Hospital. - Building. Construction Report Shows Smoller Current Figures construction the now completed addition struction was. und by. July 31 compared ‘with $491,280 in the same seven- month period in 1972. past’ president Bill Merilees and Ron Forester. : RECOGNITION by’ the Doukhobor Historical’ Society of two of its Bill, Merilees and Ann For- _ ester, was. made Tuesday night ata: special Novoje Selo (new. village) supper at ded ‘by i ‘ ‘of the society. Master of ceremonies, Pete Oglow, tight, ofa life bersh ‘who made the F ip to Mr. to the Castlegar Post Office. / Merilees and of a book, “Song of the Doukhobors” to Mrs. Forester, is shown here with the two honored guests and past p Mike Jing Col- of a Rotary F orado State University at Fort Collin, Col. Mrs. Forester shorily. will: be leaving the immediate Castlegar area. — Castlegar News Photo blue. sign. above - precedes the familiar black-on-white youngsters. use nated pedestrian and school crosswalks, Local Forest Fires Total 250 Acres Forest fire rating here be dropped from. extreme Such steps as the lift- ing of the campfire ban and industrial closure ‘indicates the fire season will soon:be phasing out. Forest Ranger Hugo Wood has reported the girl and the. youth. crew: are now finished their summer work, 3 On Monday’ only one fire was reported. This was a spot fire located op- site the Arrow Boat Mar- im and iss consutered aa “sleeper’ ma strike from last Thursday.’ This has since been ex- tinquished and ‘controlled.’ 94 fires were reported season. These were all kept small: with a total of:250 acres in all be- ing burnt, ;