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OP - NET | A Total Market Coverage (TMC) — A Bargain Guide to the West Kootenay Ne Distributed as a (TMC) Suppl t to All Nelson Daily News, Trail Daily Times and Castlegar Sun Non-Subscribers J (West Kootenay Fi a | Nelson Daily News 266 Baker St., Nelson 352-3554 and their TOTAL MARKET PUBLICATION (TMC) TMC Circulation 24,023 97.4% Coverage of West Kootenay Market Another Sterling Newspaper Advantage Wy The Sati Gar Sun 7S 465 Columbia Ave. Castlegar 365-2278 Tae Tra Times 1163 Cedar St. Trail 364-1416 SPORTS LOCAL TRRARY DING Hot hoop action at Stanley Humphries gymnasium Summer camp offers youth a chance to hone Skills/8A Local girl packing for a year-long stay in Argentina Rotary exchange student will be thinking of home/5A love this trip! If you like horses—you Happy trails can lead to tranquility/1B woo The Castlegar Sun MIXED Weather 3A Vol. 2 - No. 36 v ‘Leading the way in supporting local business’ 75 Cents + G.S.T. Locally-based business questioned by seniors SHARLENE IMHOFF Sun Editor The City of Castlegar and the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce have received several complaints about a Castlegar-based company called Diamond Exteriors, which is not listed by the Better Busi- ness Bureau in Vancouver. The company, which took out a Castlegar business licence in January, approaches Kootenay residents who live in houses which appear to be in need of repair. After measurements and Glance A regional conference on teenage pregnancy is scheduled for the Trail Campus, September 24 and 25. This conference will be of interest to fessi are done on the site, a quote is given and then the home owner. is asked for a deposit—in order for materials to be purchased. “We've been receiving quite a few phone calls here at the Chamber regarding the compa- ny,” said Marcia Jackson, assis- working in counselling, social services and secondary educa- tion. Contact Continuing Educa- tion in Trail. John Chang has been scheduled to stand trial on obstruction of justice charges, October 28 in Castlegar Provincial Court. The Trial was first set for August 17, but due to heavy scheduling on the part of court judges, the case has been postponed to the later entered a plea of not guilty. Price Waterhouse report Victoria Lawyer Murray Rankin, who will be deciding what con- tents of the controversial Price | Waterhouse report can be pub- lished, ‘says he will attempt to have the deed completed by the city's next council meeting— August 18. He said be could not sensitive for the public to view. Rankin, an advisor on the Provin- cial Freedom of Information and Privacy Act, said he will be look- ing at the report line by line. tant Bill Prentice, from Castlegar, has been named by some clients as the main person involved with Diamond Exteriors. “They came door to door, and told us that our basement needed some work done to it, which is true because the cement is crack- ing in places,” said Monica Gre- gory of Rossland, one of several senior citizens who have unsuc- cessfully done business with Dia- mond Exteriors. “After doing some measurements we were quoted a price of $1,300 which we thought was fair.” Gregory said she and her hus- band were then asked to provide an immediate $700 down pay- ment for materials. “I said we couldn't afford that because we literally live off our old-age pension, so instead we gave him $200.” Even though a contract had been drawn up between the Gre- gorys and Bill Prentice, which See RIPPED OFF 2A p Volunteering their time (L-R); Tony Meyer, Bavak Motamed and Roya Ravanbakhsh were among the group of 30 Bahai Youth travelling British Columbia, who stopped in Castlegar last week. The group, aged 13-23, were doing volunteer work on Zuckerburgs Island, pulling knapweed and replacing rocks on trails. 'SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper Robson Artist Richard Widdifield recently Humphries Secondary School gymnasium. finished his latest series of murals. The paintings grace the Stanley Between the ‘SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper Wives of NDP MLAs scratched from Community Futures committee SHARLENE IMHOFF Sun Editor Two women .who were appointed by their peers to sit on the Central Kootenay Communi- ty Futures Committee have been told by officials from the federal government to step down. Katrine Conroy and Bonnie Evans are the wives of Ed Con- roy and Corky Evans respective- ly, MLAs for the. Rossland-Trail and Nelson-Creston ridings. Conroy, who is the administra- tor of the Kootenay Columbia Childcare Society in Castlegar, was recommended to the com- mittee last December, along with Evans, who is the Executive Director at Nelson District Com- munity Resources Society. The Central Kootenay Com- mugity Futures Committee is a federally-funded board which identifies employment and train- ing needs in the Central Koote- nay. Members of the board are i and should a cross-section of society, includ- ing equity groups such as women, minorities and people with disabilities. Both Evans and Conroy were recommended by outgoing board members, which is the usual protocol for the com- mittee. Since that time, the two met with approval by the board itself, the local MP Lyle Kris- tiansen and the provincial com- munity futures board— a process which all potential members must undergo. Final approval must also comé from federal Minister of Employment and Immigration Bernard Valcourt.This has not been given, and Conroy says the bureaucrats in Ottawa might be playing politics. "(Community Futures) have never had someone. be appointed to the board and then turned down before. I can't believe the federal government is doing this, and I can't believe they would think there could be a conflict of interest since the board is federal- ly-funded, not provincially-fund- ed," said Conroy, who was elected treasurer by fellow board members in May. Evans echoed these remarks, also saying that the whole situa- tion seems odd to her. "I think it's outrageous that Ottawa would intervene in something it pro- motes as being in the communi- ty's own control." Evans even called Ted Hughs, the Conflict of Interest Commissioner of B.C., and questioned him about a pos- sible conflict of interest. "He said there wasn't a problem. So I don't understand what's going on in Ottawa.” John Bart, Acting Regional Concern building over RDCK bylaw SARAH DODD Special to The Castlegar Sun About 40 people turned out at the Bosun Hall in New Denver on August 5 for a public informa- tion meeting put on by the Slocan Valley Concerned Citizens Forum. The group is opposed to Bylaw 928. (Unsightly Premises under Enabling Act 766) The controversy in Area H surrounding Bylaw 923 has been ongoing for several months. The Bylaw is based on a stan- dard unsightly property bylaw currently in place in five other electoral areas in the Regional District of Central Kootenay. After a synopsis of the bylaw was advertised in the Nelson Daily News on April 10, 1992, the RDCK received many com ments from residents of Area H who found the bylaw to be too restrictive. The RDCK rescinded the third reading of Bylaw 928 and the bylaw was amended. The amend- ed form was passed after three readings on March 26. Minister of Municipal Affairs, Robin Blencoe, received the bylaw for approval on April 6. The RDCK developed Bylaw 923 under the Unsightly Premises Section in the Municipal Act Bryan Bailey, legal researcher for the Concerned Citizens Forum, read from the amended Bylaw 923 at the meeting and stated that See BYLAW 2A Manager of Community Futures in Vancouver said that the only people specifically prohibited from belonging to C y Futures are federal politicians, their staff and family members. "I wouldn't want to presuppose what the (Bernard Valcourt) was thinking. All I know is that his office has contacted us and let us know that these two people were not approved for on said Barr. - Tremendous turnip! Castlegar resident John his garden. For all the local news and sports — the Castlegar Sun and three quarter pound turnip grown naturally in SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper Gibson holds up a four