Wednesday, July 29, 1992 @ Wi Downtown facelift put on hold until January Neil Rachynski NEWS REPORTER Picket lines mean no un- derground power lines for Castlegar. This summer’s proposed downtown revitalization con- struction is on hold until Jan- uary due to the West Koote- nay Power strike. Castlegar Downtown Re- vitalization Committee chair Jack Parkin says his group didn’t want the ground torn up and left open without the work done. “We're a little bit disap- pointed,” Parkin says, “but there’s always unforeseen things that happen.” The committee had been counting on having WKP in- stall underground power lines in the city as part of its Phase 1 plans. The ‘go, no-go’ date was to be Aug. 1, but the committee agreed to jump the gun and postpone its plans altogeth- er. Parkin says even if the strike by WKP employees ended immediately, the com- mittee still couldn’t go ahead with their plans. “We have to take some time to put a contract out to ten- der,” Parkin said. 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S, No movement on WKP front Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER Prospects of an early West Kootenay Power- Internation- al Brotherhood of Electrical Workers settlement are dim. “There have been no talks and there are none sched- uled,” said WKP director of public affairs Mike Bradshaw. “I guess (returning to the bar- gaining table). is up to the IBEW. “Theyre the ones _ that asked (mediator Don Cott) to book out, so. we have to wait Dictionnry Compact form Reg. 795 949 1°° for them to decide when it’s time to reopen negotiations,” IBEW representative Brian Robson said Tuesday the strike would end only when his organization received “true parody with B.C. Hydro.” Bradshaw contends the WKP package is a good deal for 180 striking workers. “I can tell you that, from a wage standpoint, we were of- fering to increase their rates by 8.5 per cent over a two year period, which would have meant that effective February 1st of next year a journeyman | hd 359 werras LOOK FOR OUR "BACK TO SCHOOL" FLYER THIS WEEKEND FOR MORE INCREDIBLE SAVINGS. CARL'S PLAZA DRUGS Your Friendly Pharmacy — 365-7269 lineman would make a base salary of $50,000 per year.” Bradshaw added that it will be tough to top that offer. “We went as far as we could,” he said. “We tried to strike a balance between providing employees with an honest days pay for an honest days work and being responsible to our customers.” Robson could not be con- tacted for additional comment. The strike will be two weeks old tomorrow. BACK ,, MH IOOL 2 Drawer File Cabinet Reg. 99.99 5 4 Drawer File Cabinet Reg. 199.99 @ Wednesday, July 29, 1992 AroundTOWN Glen Freeman 365-7266 A BUNCH The results are in from last week- ends Robson Fire Department Hose Comp- etition. The hottest teams were Robson Men's No. 2 and the Robson Ladies No. 1. Most Sportsman team trophy went to the men of the Post Falls Fire Department. Other teams who did well were Men’s Robson No. 1 and No. 4, North Shore and Castlegar North. Ladies winners included Robson No. 1, No. 2 and Post Falls. STOMPED, NOT STIRRED The American Bus Association has named the Okanagan Wine Festival as one of the top 100 events in North America, and the folks at the festival are drunk with delight. This Ou Sorte © Marriage made in, Moscow Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER There was a time when relations between the Soviet Union and Canada were ice cold. But.the Soviet Union has gone the way of the dodo bird, and things are heating up for some people. Take Canadian Perry Samoyloff and his Russian love Zulfia, for instance. Their relationship got so. hot that they decided to get married — twice. “I went to school at a Russian language institute in Moscow,” Samoyloff, an Ootischenia native said. “When I saw Zulfia I knew there was something really special in her eyes. After 30 years of walking around I knew she was the one I wanted.” And the blushing bride says that she was in love at first sight as well. “He wasn’t like anyone else I had ever met,” she said through a translator. “We were always so happy together.” were in love. We married because we loved each other, not because the KGB came knocking at our door.” : So the: couple tied the knot on June 29, 1991 in a Moscow ceremony. Their marriage was legal, but to the staunch Doukhobor Samoyloff, something just wasn’t right. So after a year of marital bliss, the newlyweds saved up their rubles for a Canadian getaway to be married all over again — this time a traditional Doukhobor wedding in Ootischenia. “The wedding was excellent,” Samoyloff said. “It was quite simple and we loved it. We held the ceremony on our front lawn with our family and a few close friends. So happy in fact that the couple spent a -B lot of time in each others company — a little too much time for the liking of the Russian secret police. “The .KGB tried to separate us but they weren't very successful,” Samoyloff said. The red cops busted the happy couple for being virtually inseparable, hardly a crime in most countries, but enough to land them a 50 ruble fine each in Moscow. “The KGB thought he was an Albanian,” she laughed. “They had poor information.” Samoyloff was told to stay in his own neck of the city to avoid future trouble with the law, but that was too high a price to pay- for the love-sick embassy worker. “We decided we were going to get married,” he said. “It was not exactly the right way to ask a girl to marry me, but we Perry and Zulfia Samoyloff have found that they can be happy anywhere in the world, just as long as they are together. “The first time-we got married to play (the KGB’s) game, but we came back to Castlegar and had a traditional wedding because it was the right thing to do.” And after their seven week Canadian honeymoon, the right thing for this couple to do will be to return to Moscow and assist the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ aid campaign — which will see food, medicine and finances head from our rich nation to their re-developing one. “The aid will get to the people who need it. Why would we do all this work if it’s not going to’end up the way we envisioned it?” he asked. Great question from a man in love. News photo by Glen Freeman years festival will be in Penticton from Sept. 25 to Oct. 4. It will include wine tasting, tours, fashion shows, luncheons, grape stomps and so on. Castlegar Kiwanis Club fundraiser looking ducky Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER Some fundraising events are e ough to drive organizers quackers. But the Castlegar Kiwanis Duck is bobbing along as planned. “Ticket sales are going quite well,” said event organizer Jim Ford. “I’m guessing right now, but I would suspect that between 700 and 800 tickets have been sold already.” Ford said that he expected all 1000 tickets to be sold before Sunday, the day of the big duck race. “We thought a duck race would be a Pe way, to raise some money for some of ® the events we support in the community,” he said. News photo by Glen Freeman Jim Ford and his fowl friends will be raising cash eve done a fair amount of work with for the community Sunday at the Pass Creek Park. the Scout Hall, we painted the new (Kootenay Columbia Child Care Society) building and we’ve got this Kiwanis Unity campaign going across Canada — those are a few of our projects.” Ford and his fellow Kiwanians will be selling tickets Saturday at Safeway and the liquor store. Each ticket represents one rubber dusky, 1000 of which will be set free in Pass\Creek Sanday at 12:30 p.m. Tha first four faux fowls across the finish line will net their ticket owners cash pNizes — $1,000 for the first quacker, $300 second, $200 third and $100 for the one that waddles into fourth. “We'll be stopping the ducks at the Pass Creek bridge,” Ford said. “Hopefully not too many of them will go down to the U.S. We don’t want to be accused of cross-border ducking.”