Page 20B _ The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, April 12, 1995 Professional Businesses and Services Business of the Month CANAC KITCHENS C= Kitchens of Castlegar is located at 3124 Waldie Avenue, Robson, and has been your local dealer for Canac Kitchens Ltd. for more than 2 years. For more than a quarter of a century Canac has been one of North America’s leading kitchen cabinet manufacturers. In the process, it has established a reputation for innovative design, fine quality cabinetry, on-time delivery, prof I install i of kitchens for every taste and budget. and highly pricing The kitchens, door styles and accessories in stock, represent a selection from the exciting product range available. Within each group, door colours and hardware are generally interchangeable. Canac can also. arrange for your custom millwork and store fixture needs and provides service and installation throughout the West Kootenays. 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QUIPMENT WANTED MINING EQUIPMENT WANTED In good to excellent condition © 800 - 1200 cfm compressor ° 3 yd. bucket loader * Misc. narrow vein mining equipment Please contact Steve Phillips, Mine Manager, Pacific Vangold Mines Ltd. Ph: (604) 362-9175 Fax: (604) 362-9176 594 Courses - Only $25 with the Golf Privilege Card® To order, send $26.75 (includes GST) to the B.C. Lung Assoc, Attn: Golf Card, 2675 Oak St., Vancouver, B.C, V6H 2K2, or call Ticketmaster, 1-800-863-3611 or 280-4444. No service charge WEDNESDAY April 19, 1995 ed away iderness board resigns/3A the town draws rave reviews/1B VARIABLE Weather 3A Vol. 5 - No. 22 “The. weekly newspaper with a daily commitment’ 75 Cents + G.S.T. -Splatter evasion Paintball has hit the Kootenays with a splat a you. Splat'rz Paintball is the newest addition to t Jeff Gabert grabbed his pallette to catch all the action. See his feature on 1B. nd is lurking around the corner waiting to jump out and catch he B.C. paintball landscape and Castlegar Sun sports reporter SUN STAFF PHOTO /Jeft Gabert ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY SAYS Castlegar's air quality improving KAREN KERKHOFF Sun Staff Castlegar and area residents can breathe easier. The first Air Quality in the Kootenay Report is out, and air quality in Castlegar is improving. The report looks at air quality during 1992 and contains some telling information for the Castle- gar area. Domenic Mignacca, air quali- ty meteorologist for B.C. Envi- ronment, said that total reduced sulphur compounds, or TRSs, fell. TRSs are a typical byprod- uct of pulp mills. The Robson [monitoring] site shows that there is a “substantial decrease” in TRSs since 1989. Trust bill receiving rough ride RON NORMAN Sun Editor The bill providing for the cre- ation of the Columbia Basin Trust is receiving a rough ride in the provincial Legislature. Liberal MLA Wilf Hurd attacked the agreement that will see the installation of generators in the Keeneleyside dam, saying it is uneconomic. However, Rossland-Trail MLA Ed Conroy came to the pact’s defence, saying, “The Liberal campaign to derail the Columbia Basin Accord must stop.” See CONROY 2A “At the Castlegar Hospital site there is also a down trend,” said Mignacca. Even better, Mignacca said that downward trend has contin- ued since the modernization of Celgar pulp mill in 1993. “Since 1992 to 1994 there has been a tremendous decrease in TRSs.” Preliminary studies indicate that sulphur dioxide from Celgar “might not be significant.” “There are other sources such as Cominco which might be a contributor,” explained Mignacca. And contrary to popular belief, one of the biggest air contami- nants is TM10, which is generat- ed by smoke from wood stoves, car exhausts and open burning. Dam proceeding RON NORMAN Sun Editor The provincial government is moving quickly to install genera- tors in the Keenleyside dam. The government-owned Columbia Power Corp. has applied to the B.C. Utilities Com- mission for an energy certificate to proceed with Keenleyside. The deadline for public sub missions concerning the project is May 5 “The timetable for this thing is very aggressive,” city admin- istrator Jim Gustafson told the last council meeting. Gustafson noted that the province is look ing at issuing an energy certifi- cate by mid-June in order to allow the project to proceed to the next stage. These contaminants are espe- cially evident during winter months when weather inversions and light winds don’t disperse them as well. “Figure 2 [in the report] clearly shows that the winter average is quite high in most ies.” ties Act to pass a bylaw prohibit- ing burning. Information for the report was gathered from 20 monitoring sites throughout the East and West Kootenays In the Castlegar/Trail area, mea- But due to geographical condi- tions, such as the orientation of the valley in which Castlegar sits, TML1O contaminants are relatively low when compared to Cran- brook, Creston and Golden said Mignacca. “Air dispersion is better.” Mignacca said that grass burn- ing is exempt from legislation under the Waste Management Act, but explained that cities have the power under the Municipali- He said it isn't yet clear what kind of environmental review will take place. He noted that the project could be placed under the Energy Project Review Process, which requires lengthy and com- prehensive studies. As well, the provincial govern- ment has introduced the new Environmental Assessment Act, which is expected to be pro claimed in a few months. Gustafson suggested that council would have to move with some haste if it intends to submit a bret on behalf of the community, or wants to hold a community hearing However Mayor Mike O'Connor suggested that with less than a month until the dead line for submissions, it might be better if individuals made their own submissions. of were taken at: Castlegar Hospital, Scot- tie’s Marina on Arrow Lake, Rob- son, the Castlegar Seniors’ hall roof and four sites in greater Trail. The report, drafted by the Min- istry of Environment, specifically looks at lead, arsenic, cadmium, zinc, sulphur dioxide and total reduced sulphur comp ds, or City out of joint sludge deal RON NORMAN __ Sun Editor But Ken Wyllie, the regional director for the Lower Arrow- Cc A After months of negotiations, the City of Castlegar has pulled out of a proposed joint sludge disposal project with the Region- al District of Central Kootenay. Instead, Castlegar council voted last week to look for its own disposal site for the sludge somewhere within city limits. As well, the city has ruled that effective immediately its two sewage treatment facilities will not be open to rural residents for disposal of septic sewage. Rural residents have been using the city’s north sewage lagoons to dump septic sewage for a nominal fee Mayor Mike O'Connor said council made the move to sever ties with the regional district only after the regional waste management committee backed out of an agreement “We had an agreement with them,” O*Cdnnor said in an inter- view with The Castlegar Sun. “We've been pounding this out for a year and a half.” O'Connor said the city attempted to work with the regional district to find a home for the sludge from its two sewage facilities and to provide a pre-treatment facility for rural septic sewage. He said the proposal would have seen the city pay for a pre- treatment facility and charge rural residents a fee to use the facility: At the same time, the city would pay for the cost of remov- ing sludge from its treatment plants and deliver it to a site at the Ootischenia landfill O’Connor said the regional district would have been able to recycle the sludge “It was a good deal,” he said. “We were trying to play in their court.” He said the regional district agreed to the plan, but then reversed its decision said the city proposal was “at best a tenatative proposal”. Wyllie said he expected to continue negotiations with the city and was surprised to learn of the city’s decision to sever ties with the regional district. “We had an alternative pro- posal.” He said the regional district proposal was for a regionally- owned facility instead of a city- owned plant. As well, the fee for rural resi- dents using the regional facility would have been $90 instead of : $150. “The problem was the fee they : came up with,” he said. : “J don’t think we were that far > apart,” he said. “I hope the city will reeensider.” The regional district had origi- nally proposed that the city pay 50 per cent of the cost of a regional pre-treatment facility to be used by rural residents. The facility could cost upwards of $200,000. But the city balked at the idea, saying that city taxpayers shouldn't have to help pay for rural waste management. Wyllie acknowledged that the city “had a point”. However, he said the city’s lat- est move seems “almost a delib- erate provocation”. He noted that rural residents are having to use the sewage facilities of other municipalities for a $100 fee. Meanwhile, O'Connor said the city was forced to make a deci- sion because its treatment plants are nearing capacity. At the same time, it must fin- ish the $500,000 upgrading of its north sewage treatment plant by March 31, 1966 or possibly lose its federal-provincial infrastruc- ture grant. Council will request a six- month grant extension to com- plete the sewage upgrade. TRSs in the Kootenays. A copy of the report is at the Castlegar and District Public Library. quickly He said the city would call a public meeting on the project “if we feel that there is interest for a public meeting” Columbia Power Corp. plans to install a 220-megawatt power plant at Keenleyside. It will also construct a 230-kilowatt single- circuit transmission line to con nect to Hydro’s transmission system at the Selkirk Substation The powerplant will take just over five years to complete, whik the transmission line will take about two years to construct B.C. Hydro will manage and implement the project under contract with the government- owned corporation. Columbia Power Corp. plans to market the power generated from Keenleyside to West Kootenay Power. KAREN KERKHOFF Sun Staff The Canadian Union of Public Employees’ pickets are coming down outside the Kootenay Society for Commu- nity Living Castlegar office. But the strike isn't over. Nova Pearson, acting chair of CUPE Local 1729-05, said even though pickets are being removed and members are returning to work, CUPE remains legally on strike “We're staying officially on strike until the contract is signed.” Members have agreed to return to work while negotia- tors try to reach agreement at a meeting Thursday evening Should things not work out Pearson said members will For all the local news and sports — the Castlegar Sun Pickets come down but strike not over still be in a legal position to withdraw services and return to the picket line. And even though workers nity Options, a work experi- ence program for people with disabilities, will not resume until a deal is struck. “It would be bizarre to get them in for only a couple of days. It would be disruptive to people's lives,” explained Pearson. Jim Karpoff, executive director for Community Social Services Employees Associa- tion (CSSEA), said he’s hope- ful that Thursday's meeting will. be productive “We are confident that hard See PICKETS 2A