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(Leos) CAMPBELL Publisher Aug. 7, 1947 toFeb. 15,1973 BURT CAMPBELL Publisher RON NORMAN, Editor; PETER HARVEY, Piont Foreman: LIN- KOSITSIN, Office GARY FLEMING, Monager EY, Circulation Monoger; MICKEY READ, Comy ing Room Foremea: Nemes cote a CETAC has new plan for property By RON NORMAN Editor The West Kootenay development company that was stymied in its bid to build a $2 milion waterslide park and motel complex in Ootischenia two years ago has resurfaced with new plans for the six-acre property. CETAC Developments Ltd. has applied to rezone the parcel along Highway 3 near the Ministry of High- ways weigh scales to pave the way for a gasoline station and convenience store. “That's basically all we're going for,” CETAC spokesman Gary Exner told the Castlegar News in an inter- view. Exner, a Nelson accountant and member of the Selkirk = a said CETAC is seeking the same zoning approved for the nearby Kootenay Columbia Cooperative Society prop- erty. The co-op society's 5.3 acre prop- erty was rezoned from rural two-family to special commercial to allow the society to construct a general store. Exner said CETAC’s rezoning application mirrors the co-op society's application “to the letter.” “I find it difficult to feel that they will turn this one down,” Exner said, in light of the approval of the cd-op application. CETAC'’s rezoning application will go to a public hearing March 10 in the Ootischenia Hall. The company's waterslide-motel proposal was rejected in 1986 after area residents and regional planners felt there would be insufficient water. for the development. But Don Harasym of the Regional District of Central Kootenay planning department says CETAC’s newest application is not the same as its waterslide application. Harasym said this application will only allow specific uses, such as a gas station, and sale of farm equipment and supplies and groceries. “It’s not the same kind of zone (as for a waterslide),” Harasym said. But Exner hasn't ruled out trying for a waterslide sometime down the road. He indicated CETAC will take it SMASHED WINDOWS . . . Lawrence Perepolkin, chief di at Stanley Humphries secondary one step at a time in its Gas prices plummet By CasNews Staff Castlegar's gas war hit a new low Saturday as the price of a litre of gasoline fell to just 9.9 cents. Cars were lined up for blocks at stations which were selling gas for only 9.9 cents a litre, down from Friday's low of 14.9 cents. But not all Castlegar service stations have joined in the latest round of price cutting. Castlegar Co-op pushed its price up to 51 cents while Edit the two Petro Canada stations were advertising gas at 39.9 cents a litre Saturday. The war is in its second month here. It began in early January when the Turbo station dropped its price. The other service stations soon follow- ed and prices went as low as 31.9 cents a litre. But the last week prices began to plummet again, hitting 29.9 cents and 24.9 before dropping to 16.9 cents a litre Wednesday, 14.9 cents Thursday and 9.9 cents a litre Saturday. “I love it,” Stuart Ady said Thursday. Ady is partner in a local towing company and now is purchasing his gasoline at retail outlets instead of the bulk outlet he usually goes to. “My bulk tanks are full,” he said. “We're getting cheaper gas froiii' the retail gas outlets.” J Ady s:id he filled up two tanks in the five-ton truck the towing company operates for only $36 on Wednesday. “It's usually about $65,” he said. GAS LINE-UP . . . Motorists wer: ining up outside the Castlegar Mohawk station and up Columbia Avenue Saturday to get in on the cheap gasoline, selling for just 9.9 cents a CosNews Photo by Ron Norman school, Pabagveoite iWret_was used by vandals to smash 11 dows at school Vandals hit school on™ CasNews Photo by Brendon Nagie the windows By CasNews Staff Rock-throwing vandals hit Stan- ley Humphries secondary school and six Castlegar businesses Friday night, causing thousands of dollars in damage. SHSS was the worst hit, with 11 windows smashed and damage totalling about $3,000. Jenny’s Cafe and McLeod's on Columbia Avenue in downtown Castlegar, Wizard's Palace on 3rd Street, the Dairy Queen and the old Wool Wagon location in Castleaird Plaza, and Castlegar Sports Centre in south Castlegar also had windows broken. “It was basically one window per business,” RCMP Const. Dale Hock ley told the Castlegar News Sat Hockley said all were broken by rocks and the damage estimate has not yet been determined. Meanwhile, the windows in the school’s main office suffered the worst damage with other plate glass windows around the same wing taking random hits as well. One rock was thrown so hard it smashed a window and flew about five metres across a washroom, chipping a tile one metre off the floor SHSS teacher Jack Closkey was on hand surveying the damage to the school, which held the West Kootenay Teachers's Zone Confer. ence over the weekend. Closkey said he didn’t think his students “Usually they leave graffiti,” Closeky said of past instances where youths were involved. Closkey believes whoever threw the rocks was quite strong because of the way the rocks landed inside the school. “The guy must have been a 900-pound gorilla,” Closkey lament ed. One rock, weighing about two kilograms smashed through the main office window and ended up halfway across the office floor. Another rock broke straight through two quarter-inch plate glass windows spaced 212 metres apart and landed seven metres down the hall. RCMP are continuing their in urday. were involved. vestigation. SLOCAN FORESTS Stumpage hurting mill By The Canadian Press NELSON — The Slocan'Forest Products mill in B.C.’s West Kootenay has dragged itself up from the depths of recession, in an area of the province that was hit harder than Lb ee But while the mill is becoming one of the most efficient in B.C.'s Interior, its managers say its reward from the provincial government has been a four-fold increase in fees. Teacher enthusiasm needed By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer Teachers have to become more enthusiastic about teaching in order to Phillips used his 28 years of pro- fessional experience to combine brain research findings with aneedotes of “bad teachers” and dismal classroom teach eff , Says a I-k: author of books on improving class- room instruction. Dr. Garry Phillips spoke to a group of almost 300 teachers packed into half of the Stanley Humphries secondary school gym on the first mortiing of the West Kootenay Zone Conference. Phillips maintains that a concept must be pictured in the mind like a movie in order to be retained. A message will not be retained in memory “unless the mind converts the message into remembered life or imagined life experiences,” he said. “There is no intellect unless there is sensory recall.” And Phillips says, positive emotions will inspire that thought process. He says teachers must be bright and enthusiastic in order to make kids emotionally involved with learning. “If you feel special you are much more likely. to make the kids feel special. It's pervasive.” Phillips described how he ob- served that dull, uninterested teachers and “We spend a lot of time with our calculators these days, Terry Dods, the company's woodlarids manager, said with a sigh in a recent interview in Slocan City. Dods is not alone — his worries about the higher rates are shared by hany forest-company managers in south- eastern B.C. With more than $18 million spent on upgrading since 1982, Slocan Forest Products has nearly dotibled the number of employees working directly in the mill and indirectly as private contractors in the woods. In 1983, about 250 workers ran “a shift and a half” at the mill. Now that has increased to about 450 employees in three shifts around the clock, and weekend maintenance work performed by millwrights and a teenaged clean-up crew. Company officials say they are using the forest resource more ‘ g their edge inter. creating more local jobs and boosting the had dull, d continued on pege A2 economy with a “buy-local” program. However, they must pay about $4.5 million in stumpage fees to the province in 1988, compared to $1.1 million in 1987 Dods said while the old stumpage system had some serious flaws, at least it was market-driven “If our lumber sales division would tell me what their predictions were for 1988, I could predict our stumpage costs,” said Dods. “Now I have no way to predict it at all.” Under the new system, said Dods, the government determines how much it wants from the forest industry from general revenue and then divides the amount proportionally, handing each company a bill, that takes no account of whether the company made any money. Harry Argatoff, the company’s general manager, said forest companies are more uncomfortable with the blank-cheque aspect of the new system. The government can set the target as high as it chooses, said Argatoff, without considering a company's ability to pay. The new system also does not consider cost variations in logging, milling and treeplanting due to differences in terrain and types of forest, he said. If the province won't back down on its new concept, Slocan's managers say they will lobby for recognition of the additional costs faced by “wet-belt” companies in eastern The province formerly offset Slocan's annual $1.2 million treeplanting budget against stumpage fees, but on poge