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Author to give reading

1960s, the beauty of the natural
world and the possibility of love
To Be there With You, published
last year, is her first collection.

Bom in Australia, Reid moved
to Canada in 1967 and has lived
in Vancouver ever since,

Submitted

Award-winning B.C. short
story writer Gayla Reid, author
of To Be There With You, will
give a public reading in Nelson
on Friday, April 21 at the Nelson A founder of Room Of One's
Public Library (Victoria Street Own, the feminist literary quar
entrance) at 7:30 p.m. terly, and past editor of Kinesis,

Reid, winner of the 1994 CBC the newspaper of the Vancouver
Radio/Saturday Night Short Starus of Women, she now runs
Story Award (for “In the Water, — her own business, Plain Lan
Like This”) and the prestigious — guage Cormmunications.
Journey Prize in 1993 (for “Sister On April 22 from 10 a.m
Doyle's Men"), writes about p.m, Reid will lead a workshop,
growing up Catholic in Australia, “The Writer's Point of View” for
the anti-war activism of the writers of short fiction.

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Wednesday, April 19,1995

Fender
bender

Castlegar RCMP
Const. Peter
Redekop goes over
the events that led to
a two-car crash
Thursday afternoon at
the intersection of 6th
Street and 9th
Avenue in north
Castlegar. A vehicle
driven by 17-year-old
Marty Carew of
Castlegar was striick
by a second vehicle
driven by Eugene
Voykin, also 17.
RCMP allege that

- Voykin's vehicle
failed to stop at a stop
sign. There were no
injuries, but total
damage was estimat-
ed at $3,000.

SUN STAFF PHOTO / Ron Norman

WEST KOOTENAY POWER

Company reports ‘difficult year’

RON NORMAN
Sun Editor

hold,” Don Bacon, chair, presi-
dent and chief executive officer,

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shareholders

sales dropped, its proposed rate

increase was reduced and its man-

agement structure was retooled.
The company added some

“It tested West Kootenay 3,450 customers for a total of

Power's ability to°both lead and
meet the challenge of change
while managing significant regu-
latory influences. I am pleased to
report that the company met the
tests of 1994 and is better for it.”

Bacon reported that in 1994
West Kootenay Power's profits and

124,310 in its service area, which
stretches from Princeton to Cre-
ston and from Vernon (o Trail

However, despite the increase
in customers, total sales fell by
5.8 per cent due to the loss of
Ceigar Pulp Co., the utility's
largest industrial customer.

“In 1994 Celgar began generat-

ing its own-power by way of a
Wedding Video 50-megawatt plant, installed as
part of a $750 million moderniza-

Remember those special tion project,” Bacon said.
moments through video The company’s revenues
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utility. industry continued,”
Bacon said, culminating in
December with notice from the
provincial government of a pub-
lic review of B.C.’s electricity
market structure

“This review has the potential
to open electricity markets to new
competitive forces,” Bacon said

He added that West Kootenay
Power “supports this important
challenge to the status quo.”

He noted that utility has been
busy opening the door to “more
affordable power purchases” in
Alberta and the U.S., and gaining
a foothold in the. non-regulated
business ay¢a with the purchgge
of a power plant near Lillooet>*”

He pointed to other changes
in the company, such as the
new leadership team, which
replaced the traditional man-
agement structure.

The team’s focus for this year
is to improve customer satisfac-
tion and reduce costs.

“Coupled with this new leader-
ship structure is a conscious effort
to reduce levels of supervision
and increase degrees of employee
empowerment,” Bacon said.

The company also embarked
on a new project with B.C.
Hydro, by buying a small 16.6
megawatt hydro electric plant
near Lillooet for $17.7 million.

West Kootenay has a 20-year
agreement to sell the energy from
the plant to Hydro, which will pro-
duce $2 million a year in revenue.

The purchase was part of a
total $28.5 million that West
Kootenay spent on capital
investments.

As well, the B.C. Utilities
Commission reduced the compa-
ny’s proposed rate hike of 6.7 per
cent to 2.4 per cent. For 1995, the
rate hike was reduced from a pro-
posed 5.8 per cent to 3.1 per cent.

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The Castlegar Sun

Gouk says gun bill
needs improving

‘SUN STAFF

Kootenay West-Revelstoke
MP Jim Gouk says Bill C-68,
the new firearms legislation,
should be split into two to deal

\ separately with the gun regis-

tration and crime control provi-
sions presently contained in the
legislation.
Gouk said that while the
Reform Party is very strong on
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Proven Correlation between the
of rifles and sh
with the reduction of criminal
misuse of firearms.
“While the crime control por-
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Highways
get $1.25

KAREN KERKHOFF _

Sun Staff

Highways maintenance work-
ers in the southern interior,
including the Castlegar area,
gave their official nod to a new
collective agreement with
Emcon Service

On April iL members of

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potential and we would like to
be able. to work towards
improving and supporting this
part of the legislation.”

Gouk charged that the princi-
pal weakness in the crime-control
portion of the bill is in the sen-
tencing of those convicted of
criminal misuse of firearms,

“Minimum sentencing provi-
sions mean nothing unless the
government gets rid of plea
bargaining which often cancels
the charge

He said another required
change is that the sentence be
served in addition to any other
sentence given “instead of the
current method of serving it at
the same time as the sentence for

other charges.”

workers
increase

agreement on March 24.

The contract includes a wage
increase of $1:25 over.the life of
the agreement, as well as adjust-
ments to pensions and health and
welfare packages, said Fox

“It also has strong job security
provisions and new grievance
and arbitration language.”

The contract covers 400

British C

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favor of accepting the two-year
collective agreement.

Jeff Fox, the-BCGEU regional
coordinator for the Okanagan
and the Kootenays, said that

gh members had previous
ly voted in favor of striking, it
was averted when mediator Jim
Kelly facilitated a tentative

Emcon ployees in the Koote-
nay-Boundary, Okanagan-
Shuswap and Nicola Valley
service area.

BCGEU is currently negotiat-
ing new contracts for workers
employed as mechanics, bridge
workers and machine operators
in 25 maintenance contract areas
in the province

The contract will expire at the
end of 1996.

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Thursday. On hand was long-time Castlegar resident and former teacher John Charters, who treated the stu-
dents to a verbal history of Castlegar and area.

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