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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH (COLUMBIA, NOVEMBER 2,.1980

" eehes fosifiguns/

Si Aldertoan Charlie Cohoe has. bee:
doing. } for

‘r sald, ‘adding the B.C..,’.
A will

the. last. two or three years,”. Cohoe
Assessment

‘in
‘Monday night's public meeting to gain *
‘discuss the Nov..15 referendum about
-"the proposed - city, hall-library-court
house project.
“It's: ny. * baby," he ‘sald in an

interview,’ alluding tothe $2-million.
proposal as falling under the ken of his °-

“parks and} recreation: committee,
»:Cohoe_said he left last Tuesday's
* pubic. meeting, called jointly .by the
“Chaniber. of Commerce and Downtown
Businessmen’s Association, with egg.
his face,

I couldn't answer specific ques-
tions about the financing. I didn’t have
my facts together. My excuse is that I
didn't have much notice before I was

invited to attend the meeting. Tt sure *

was embarrassing.”

:Now Cohoe has collected the
‘figures and: feels. he, will be in’ good
“phape to field questions at the 7:30 p.m.
“meeting in city council chamber. His
. big fear now; though, is whether ‘the
chambers ‘will,’be’ large enough “to

accommodate’ the expected crowd.
"We can't Squeeze any more than
120 people: into them,” he said. “I'd

‘thought ‘of’ getting. the. community -

centre until I-learned it was booked
Monday. night.”.

+ -:Cohoe ; noted there's plenty, .of
interest in the referendum and people
‘are split on the issue;

: HOW MUCH? ©
What people want

Ww, he.
said, is what the project will cost and

how hard they wilt be, hit! in the pocket-
k.

» MAL worst,” he “said, echoing
Mayor Audrey Moore, taxes on aver-
age would go up $45-$50 a year in each
of the 25 years after 1982 when t the city
would borrow. $2-million ’ “the

The tae the assessment,.the
ater the tax increase. ©‘).
dusted city ‘administrator.
Tug as

,, slightly: mare. than $10,000. - ‘
Creation: of ‘the debt would ‘see

taxes.go up by! five mills a year at most, .

or $50, assuming a property has been
assessed at $10,000. Some'homes have

the place has.a current: fair market
value of about $70,000.) >.

Castlegar was Te-nssessed “within »

avin the nverage home”
in Castlegar has been assessed at.

every 12 to 18°

* months, starting ‘in 198:
<<" How would tie - project be fi-
* nanced?

Cohoe offered these possibilities:
‘se At least $270,000, already has
been assured by -the : B.C. ‘Lotteries
Fund as a one-third ‘contribution -to-
‘ward the cost of-the library.”

The amount the city. would

, borrow could be further reduced if the "'’

‘library. -board is successful in its bid for
an outright $500,000 grant from, the
lotteriés fund. (Fund officials have said
they will’ consider the application but

only if the bylaw is passed. should the
library ‘receive the $500,000 : grant, it
would not also get the $270,000.)
{.¢ The city would receiv:
rental revenue of at least ‘$70,000 a
year from the court facilities." ”

© Selling or leasing the present
city hall'— already assessed ‘at:more
than $800,000 — would bring in more

_ Fevenue. Cohoe ‘noted “there's already

at least one commercial Prospect inter-,
ested in it.”

And there's a possibility the city.
could set: additional funds from the

Program “in ae form ‘of. low- interest =

- Grinch didn’ t show

‘By THE CANADIAN PRESS
The Grinch that} tried: to- steal °
+ Halloween in Hants, Alta. ‘didn't

The ‘sigh, of relief” almost
audible in the Castlegar area Gate's

hardly; a murmur. {0-7
sth: Mayor. Audrey. Moore. ‘and.
“RCMP: Staff Sgt. Jol
ighted’ with the
both nights’ were “celebrated.”

Police reported only a handful of
complaints and confiscated:a few dozen
eggs taken from pranksters who were ~
hurling ‘them at pedestrians and .
passing vehicles, : including’ at least one
RCMP patrol car. Stevens said ‘the
eggs will ae given to needy, families. .

no. reports of. damage”

Despite the attempts
‘Eugene Kush te ban ‘the.

. spooky occksion, |

In Hanna, where Kush’ had ‘ at-°
~ tempted'to have a’state of émergency -
proclaimed so he-could put-an end to

5. the vandalism often associa\

: by-.one: of, B.Gls

Fri

STERS “didn't need much en-

couragement to ‘ges ali dolled-up to have fun 4
day af: t thi :

“Stormy lumbermen’ Ss Te

‘ ‘VANCOUVE (CP):— A speech

acts“of ism’ were

ost p walkout by mem-
: bers of thie Ir

ditig lumbermen’

Included in his speech were results
of a council survey of safety managers,
“The common ‘view was that

if America attending a two-day forest
dustry” ety. conference.

‘When Don Lanskail of the Council

+ of Forest Industries finished speaking,

an angry Jack Munro, union regional

perintendent of pub > works, will

:an office Monday in the senior:

itize:
centre on.11th Avenue for the Res!
dential Rehabilitation Assistance Pr

im. i ¥
Lutz, who retired last August, will”

* accept Applications Monday, Wednes- -
~ day -and Friday mornings from low-

income .'‘homeowners” who wish: to
improve ‘their Houses:

JSILTED? ‘No,
dressed as a bride for

Tracey’ hasn't been left waiting at the altar.

: president, called his members — 400 of
the 800 tedine: bend to'a closed 8

could make. the . plant
physically safe, but not fool-proof,” he
said. “It was therefore necessary to
have the individual primarily Fespon-
sible for his own safety.” \

Munro agréed with Landkail’s Gh.

servation that the union will not allow

its members to be disciplined or dis-

‘charged for breaking safety rules.
“But he said the comments changed

Can
" porate coyer.

‘Study due

A; ‘feasibility study “which ‘could ©

* result inthe go-ahead of a $350 ‘million

expansion at the CanCel pulp mill here
has almost been completed.

CanCel . public . relations officer.
George: Lambert said the study. in-
sanded detailed information: on the

ility of fibre, the purchasing of _

chips from area sawmills ; and an econ- J-

2, omit‘atudy of market prices of pulp. +

*“It'seems we are going into a

. period of softness in the pulp market,”

he said, “but this does not mean things

: are ig pardized. It just means we have

‘be! very ‘careful.
ae, “You almost have to be a wizard to
figure out what the conditions market

“/=42 “You almost have to be a wizard to

figure out what the market sonditions.,
in (1984 will be.”

: / President Don Watson

in fee the company expected to take
six to nine months to plan construction

which, if-approved, would see work

sgtart in 1981 with completion in 1984.

‘1 Production would then go to be- -”

tween’ 1,000 and 1,800 metric tonnes

- daily from630.

“What we have-to do is come up
with our recommendation to BCRIC,”
said Lambert.

“We have to justify to our Rew

, Masters that we are going to ge
“proper return for their tivestments

said Lambert.

two TV stars -

Two TV stars walk the streets of
Castlegar but. to. date have gone
unnoticed.

Mike (O'Connor, a Castlegar Cham-
ber of Commerce director, and Vi
Krest, equipped with a shiny mobile .
homd from Mike's Mobile Homes,
enacted the role ofcampers at Syringa
Creek Park.

All this 'was for-the benefit of
Norman Keziere, chief photographer
for the Ministry. of Tourism. Kenziere
has been producing a film over the past
year for TV that will-be seen through-
out the world for touriam purposes.

Foctage includes the Doukhobor
Village and some of the activities of

Fest 80.

District C Cc i

children up te: to seven at the Cc
afternoon, Att!

Party
Friday

hough-she will have outgrown the gown by the time she

reaches oligible age, Tracey will’ remember it won her the prize for

having the most original costume,

—CoshewsFotes by Dee Hervey

O'Connor says anyone who has
been involved in the making of this film

. hds been given to understand there will

bea ii'be evited. area to which they

sponsored by the union, the coun
he: Workers’ (Compensation ‘Roark,

: At issue was Lanskail’s comments

jon worker responsibility for safety.and

‘his suggestion! that ‘disciplining work--

- ers who - consistently break safety

, Fegulations ‘might be.a subject for

labor-management discussions,

9-0 gan

Subjects’ of the’ se ‘were
training and responsibilities, chemicals
ahd * worker’: health, ~

“iit

safety operations, are thinking,” Lan-
skail said, adding he was stunned by
the union’s response. A
“| thought that would be a con- .
structive contribytion to the discus-
sion. I just couldn't believe the re-
action. And I've been dealing with the
unions for 20 years.” = .

* ‘The meeting follows criticism last
fall of the compensation board by the
union and the B.C. Federation of
Labor. Both demanded the resignation
of board chairman Adam Little.

* Their criticism-was .promipted bys

hidh ‘study: that showed. ins;

‘were down 20 per cent, | citations’ ‘were:

- down 50 per cent ‘in three -years, and
i penalty

lunged."

safety, noise control, falling and
bucking and yarding and loading.
“My purpose was simply to let
people know, rightly or wrongly, what
people at the front, thé people running

Little told. the union's’ closed

: meeting that, Lanskail's statements did

not-represent the board's views.
“We don't wish to exercise control
over the speakers,” he said.

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Buildin
- Council,
proposed
“Columbia Avenue near the high-

ond ecrniciios Trades
pickets the site of the
new Sandman inn on

moved off , vos "priday ‘ing

dispute with “the owners, Nor-

thland Properties Ltd. of Van-
couver, who, Pongracz says, insist
‘on following a right-to-work hiring

poliey by. favoring non-union

orkel Company spokesman
‘Don Hall did not return a CasNews
phone bid to get Nerthlond's com:
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