CASTLEGAR } NEWS, Thiireday, J June 24, 1965

meinen Park Brief Given to Commissioners

Two: park attendants start
their duties today at’ the Kins-
men Park and should prove a
Séterant, to daytime vandalism.

This assurance was provid-
ed Kingmen club representatives
at Castlegar's council meeting
last week by village chairman
WeH, Reeds

\. The seven-man Kinsmen de-

natural gas hook-up for the bar-
becue shelter, Mr. Reed direct-
ed that parks commissioner Cec
Gorse discuss tho matter. with
fire chief Ed Lewis and report
his. findings to the Kinsmen

Club.
io said that in Past

Mr.
‘years te Wier of the park

Hing | bees carried out by the

would look after repairs to the
barbecue shelter and assured
the delogation. that the ‘village
“is as. perturbed as you are
that things are not going as well
as. they. could.” He urged the
Kinsmen to never hesitate to
bring any problem before coun-
cil,

is Text of a prepared ; state- |!

ers with a three-page brief «in
which it outlined fears about the
future of the $8,000 park now

tthe ‘Kinsmen’s part in its
beeen is coming to ‘the
end and the ‘village ia assuming
responsibility,

With respect to. questions
about operation. of the comfort

attendants ‘to open the sta-
ns during the day and lock

ar’
by village crews.

Works supervisor Norm Me-
Nabb informed commissioners.
that the water system was clear-
ed ‘out and put into full opera-
tion the day ‘before’ council's

meeting,

The ROME. oe to bere:
quested to patrol the park dur-
ing tho hours it is closed while
signs are to he erected notify-
ing youngsters that no ball ga-
mes are to be played in the

iifone in the eve: re par!
7+ Concerning the ma
ee

BURIED WEALTH

GOLD CAP)
states, ““‘So Teh

In the: carly days BARKERVILLE was known as “THE
THE WORLD”. The historian Bancroft
ere the concentrations on the bedrock of
the'old channels, ‘hat drifting for them was indeed profitable
to a degree probably never equalled
ing country, They lay in heaps at the angles, and in the cre-
wices’ and Pockets, ‘on the bedrock of the ancient streams.”

For this reason the virgin extension of the buried Heron
channel near Grouse Creek, just 4% miles from Barkerville,

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to council by
Kinsmen ba M follows,

In the pea we also er-

ected the coo! shelter and
h cost’ about

At tl of our
last ae Mr. Reed mention-

that’ if. we were unhappy | ¢! au

whic!
su 000, to: $1) ‘600. For this the
b hand- rade ‘all the, shakes
of the shelter,

with future at the
park we would be welcome to
come back. We are here as you
may see as a delegation to ny
Pose a few. items and to possib!
get some’ policies a to possibly
out-in regards to the, park ee
which we hope we: will still'b e
welcome, :-
To review some of the Past
events: that led to: the

During all. this time Mr,
Zinio was keeping in touch with
and we managed to solve
ane Ea oe t ae Y

other De,
This ‘brings our combined

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ment of the park; ane I inform
or refresh ar memory:
Originally the park’ was ‘a
baseball field and due to an in-
creasing nuisance: as. the village
grew, it was restricted by coun-.
cil to Little League ‘ball which
was subsequently. also: banned.
The, park ‘stayed in this
rocky, Hata and unkept’ condi-
tion the’ newly-formed
Kinsmen Moab approached the
ge for permission. to dev-
elop. the area ‘adjacent to the
Kinsmen Kiddies Park.
caucus’ was held and it
was Seclded: that the club would
the park

is of intense interest,

virgin channel groun:

channel,

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gold. was concentrated in a
and Ts feet wide, 18 inches, above the
at present valuation, was, mined from 400 feet of this channel
by Aces than‘a dozen men using hand methods i 1867,

“The. Company. has located the d
of the Heron ‘channel. Seismic, drilling, and ground ‘surveys |
indicate the sxlatenee of approximately 4400 feet of unmined

We have overcome the difficulty. which defeated the
Heron miners. By means:of a shaft and crosscut tunnel we
have reached the bedrock ‘gutter of this famous buried

We have intersected it some 735 feet downstream fon: =
where the Heron miners were forced out of. th
hice they had been averaging 10 Ibs. of gold to the running =

After the winter ahitdawe oi our miners are now tunnelling
along the bedrock: gutter in the

RICH SEAM ¢ OF: NUGGEr GOLD

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ave
that. the Heron channel was probably “one of the richest —
if not the richest — for its size ever found in the Cariboo.”

& paystam 2 dnches thick
$1,500,000,

iosa Theos fe program ‘to
make the park ‘again. useful in
as short‘a time as possible and
yet’ complete: it ‘enough’ to be
enjoyed.-'It| was also agreed at
that time that:as the club de-
veloped the park, the village
would take on the maintenance
and the club would then be tee
to further

eaten om

e payseam from.

direction of the Heron work-
MOMENT ENCOUNTER THE

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facilities.

It was also agreed at the
time at the . village would
penn ‘replace the toilet fixtures

$8,008 fintee "1993, ‘
first

me
May we re attendeaa council meet-
ing: at which: we were ing
tive as to several:items and. ask
ed for a reply..'To date we have
received none and I was asked
at’ our general.’ meeting’ to ap-
pear and find’ out why.

NOT the parks
commissioners, they don't know

Red Sox on Top

- Baseball Series

Castlegar Robson little Tea-
gue. baseball.

,_, Please note ies change in

though
they had: been Previously | bro-
ken after some of the ‘b:

It was generally felt at the time
that with the face lifting of
the new park the -toilet facili-
ties would most probably be
treated according]

ie next Rad was to get
top soil for grass. This was pro-
‘vided promptly by Mr. McNabb
from village development. At
that time we were away. and
nev rnough back.

‘MAIL THE COUPON IMMEDIATELY :
A Prospectus Will Be Furnished Upon Request
The Company Reta #2. Rriacipal in the Sale of. this Issue

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on: a.. complete underground
sprinkler setup. The sprinkler
system today is worth $3,00
You © must’ also A ombee
at this time we were. running
newspaper bingos to: raise the
ioney for payment of the sys-
te ‘The amount of work and
time put: in by. members of this
club, certainly showed: up in
the way the park shot ahead.’ ”
‘The seed was purchased and
seeded directly for the. total
cost of. $405.

a ea at
the’ yeat’.as he w: en
for ey this

lif) parks. chairman: f fer)

for tonight's gam
Veeco v vs Robson and Soberlak
VS

In Pony League action, the
Castlegarsbeon. team won Fri-

day’s game against Kinnaird

pony leaguers with the score
being 10-2,

The next game between the
two teams will be played’ on
Briday. at the Kinnaird Park at

The following are the lea-
gue standings ast of. June 21:—

Dodgers |.
Yankees

fertilizer and addi-

PLUMBING & HEATING
RENOVATIONS AND
NEW INSTALLATIONS

‘Expert’ Worknanship andi :
Reasonable Prices with the Best of
Crane and American Standard

Materials,

ver | the season: and

layers ‘held: their th

who. is, It would ey from this
that we will have’ to. take. to
the council’ asia’ ae: is

> Our first-point of discussion
is’ the ‘sprinkler “system. st
year the Kinsmen Club did: the
watering, oa y

This. year the’ viliage : has
grass’ is turning brown all ‘ar-
ound the edge of the park.

I understand that the.sprink-
ling, schedule is: for ‘‘Tuesday
and Thursday morning. ;

With the grass not standing

been having lately, it is obvious
that to bring the grass back
we may have to’ water every
day of the week, although the

‘4 Tecent rain has certainly: help- :
e

The: sprinklers are such
that. you could set. them. with
all the. outside: sprinklers in’ for

Sst remove ‘the
centre sprinklers. It would’ take
one man half an hour to replace
the 12 centre ‘heads ‘and turn
on the valve to water. the whole
park. He would: then) use ° an-
other half an hour in the shut-
off, This; would mean a: total
of five hours a week to. water

ing the wet spells it will natur-
n | ally be less.

There is some maintenance
that should be done ‘on the

the -watering chore ‘and thel=

up to the hot weather we, have | #

the whole park every day. Dur-| 8

me atuast Indies

Pentecostal “Tabernacle
«791 Ast Ave., Castlegar

CAR AND TRUCK PAINTING

Wheel ‘Alignment and ‘Balancing

24 ‘HOUR: WRECKING: SERVICE
“AND WINCH TRUCK |

| Royalite Gas Phone. 365-7227

| OSWALD MOTORS
IN

Castlegar, B.C.
/NEW MAN. EMENT.

their: support
gun Clubs’

rieitt. "We el
to make our decisions a ‘it is
time -We let:them: kno’

ssity for: wild. life ; studies shirt 0
in the ‘reservoir area a8 well Fores

known, "Have the ‘govern- | 2° ene,

‘ockets and cl
At the time the fence was’ in-
stalled by the winter works
there’ were two sockets which
were cemented in. These may
be replaced by two unused soc-
kets near the Russian hall. Dur-
ing operation of the system
some rocks seem to get in. om
the. main water: line. Two-o
three lines, should : be cleaned
out now as well as reseating of
ie sockets valves“ for’ the
sprinkler’..system working
smoothly again’ and ‘bring the
whole. park back to’ the’ nice
&reen state it should be. .

The fence has been well
repaired where it was ‘cut. How-
ever the barbecue: shelter’ still

needs to have’ boards replaced
on it and painted.

Other-larger items of course
are the comfort station, the pos-
sible: gas line into the cook-out
shelter: and’ park supervision.

With the event of the col-
Jege here next year a’ student
could. most probably be° hired

at the park from May’ through
to October, which we think’ wo-

year ‘remains warm.

Betas Gir hres RNR

uld be a good season if the |},

Nelson Sat. June 26
PARADE AT 11 A.M.
MATINEE. AT 2 P.M.

EVENING ‘SHOW 8 P.M.
Adults: $1.75
«, Children:-75, Cents

ment clear, tho: reservolrs and pakidabelig insult wh it

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of the peter in. co- | of sree
with. the ROMP “4

ives, este sas

this
| has-been’ set “for: ‘such camps
in: 1965; ;.

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paren 1

ours thet
iil pee body me men out” looking
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loys. to’ help
hopé they won't have
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a‘ Brant ‘to: the Catalts
Diabetic: sesnelatlon ‘and, ait is
yen in. ognitlo: of. th st

amount

Soroptimists Pay Tribute [==
To High School Students

J An announcement of ‘con-| out of thelr wa: to ,
siderable interest to the com-| young peo] y support the

[munity at large was : made

ople and ‘0
their contributions, 7272

it. the Stanley) Hum- wih More..and: mb

s Day ceremonies,

fan Aylsworth | of
an of: wentern | ynse
ptlmist Founda-
Committee,
tatement at the |?

0
cooperation

“Phis is -a--great- tribute | tol.
: the yan local Soroptimists

Well .. deserved.

ay ithat the,admin-
istration a tivity encourages and
fae ote og Project, the: teach-

interest. and.

bien aga th

pericu

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the student: bod Pan:
tin, ith

The S rade twelve stu,

Te as candidates |

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din the encour:

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to: ‘give:thém : due : ace

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ig is: up 43 per:cent’so
j niaee )-over. the same
time in 1984: Usual growth from
year, to” -is':10 .per: sent

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this. year. aie calls
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