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RANCH WITH COMFORTABLE ECONOMY

omfortable and versatile, this three-bedroom, 1,420-square-foot ranch

offers an economical starter house for young families or the answer to

empty nesters who want to move down in scale but maintain a comfortable
lifestyle.

Tall, distinctive windows, a partially enclosed entry court and natural cedar sid:
ing lend a welcome as guests approach. An entry hall brightened by a skylight
directs traffic to the living areas and bedrooms.

A vaulted ceiling, large fireplace and tall window wall make the living room @

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PLAN 1071-1A AP
MAIN FLOOR 1420 eq ft

PLAN 1071-1D AP
DAYLIGHT BASEMENT

The Castlégar Sun

Wednesday, February 8, 1995

favorite for formal or casual entertaining or family actMties. The adjoining dining
area and a breakfast nook flank the U-shaped kitchen, and sliding doors lead from
the dining room and nook, for alfresco meals on the wood deck or patio.

A wide window seat adds charm to the master bedroom, which has a walkin
closet and a private bath with glass-block shower enciosure. The other bedrooms
have large closets and share @ full, skylighted bathyoom, Badroom three has sash
doors at the hall comer, but if that room will be Used as a bedroom only, those
doors chould be eliminated, leaving just the regular door off the hall.

A hall between the two bedrooms leads to the garage and offers space for
laundry and storage.

In the daylight basement version of the house, a large storage closet In the

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hall |s replaced with stairs to the lower level bedroom, bath and recreation room.
The deck off the main floor would be raised, and could have steps down to anothe
deck or patio off the lower level rooms.

Plan Ordering Information:

Address inquires about PLAN 1071-1A.AP (nonbasement) or PLAN 1071-4D-AP
(with daylight to & }, AID; 9630 S.W. Eagle Lane;
Beaverton, Oregon 97005. Phone (503) 641.7584; Fax (503) 644-7261. Visa/MC
available, A set of five professionally drawn plans, for financing, permit filing and
construction, Is $150 for PLAN 1071-4A.AP or $175 for PLAN 1071-4D-AP, Extra
sets are $25 each. A material list is $30. Add $8 for postage and handling. A study
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RON NORMAN
Sun Editor

*¢ the proposal

Castlegar council has given
approval to a Penticton development co,
pany to rezone 24 hectares (60 acres) for a
160-lot subdivision on upper 37th Street

Emerald Green Developments plans to
build 107 single-family homes and two
townhouse projects—one 18 units and the
other 32 units—behind Southridge Drive

The subdivision created a controversy
last November when more than 80 resi-
dents turned out for a public hearing to

th Street

$40,000 for 14th Avenue.

aber of concerns were expressed
¢ fact the subdivision will include
sular homes and the increased traffic

As part of the approval, council agreed
to pay some $140,000 to help bring the
roads adjacent to the subdivision up to
required standards, including $100,000 for
upgrading 37th Street from i
the new subdivision and $30,000 to

But the developers will pay the lion's
share of the road upgrading.

“The developers are contributing in
excess of a half-million dollars in offsite
costs,” said Phil Markin, director of devel
‘opment services.

Most of that

some $480,000
to upgrade 37th Street from Southridge
Drive to the new subdivision

Another $44,000 will cover a portion of
the cost of improvements to the south

to sewer

plant, and some $73,000

will go to help pay for water and storm
sewer improvements needed to accommo.
date the development

The road improvements will be phased

wtreet
will go

in over three years with the first phase
starting thi year, It will include installation
of sewer and storm sewer lines on 37th
strbctlights
paved roadway with retaining walls on the
north side and guardrails on the south side

Phase two will be undertaken in 1996 and
will involve curbs and gutters, a sidewalk on
the fiorth side’ and coristruction of a road
from 37th Street to 14th Avenue to join in
with the new Wilson/Idle subdivision.

The third phase will be completed in

ne-meter wide

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the Lions’ winter carnival chili cookoff Saturday.

KAREN KERKHOFF
Sun Staff

Castlegar’s first Winter Carnival wasn’t quite the
success that the Castlegar Selkirk Lions had hoped
for, but there will still be a second Winter Carnival

“We'll start planning in September,” said Lions
member Bruce Wilson.

Even though some events weren't as well-
attended as hoped, other events—such as the casi-
no night, the adult dance, the chili cookoff and
two pancake breakfasts—were a definite hit

And the bed race was a sure win for Lions

The team of Shane Mark (left) and John Kozniuk dish up a mean bow! of chili in

Bumpy start for carnival

members, who took first place, but then they were
the only team entered. But Wilson said that
despite the lack of entries, Lions members still
made the run in order to earn their prize

“We still did our run. We had to earn it.”

Wilson said the Lions had anticipated that there
would be nine teams competing in the race

He said that when members start planning for
next year, they will_look at which events were a
success and likely incorporate them into the next
year's carnival.

Funds from the carnival go towards the upgrad-
ing of Pass Creek Regional Park.

SUN STAFF PHOTO / Jett Gabert

Senior

center

back on track

RON NORMAN
Sun Editor

Airport contractor

KAREN KERKHOFF The Richmond company,
Sun Staff which Perry said has been the
contractor for the Castlegar air-
port for “at least” nine years,
recently fell into financial trou-
ble. But Perry declined to com-
ment further on those problems.

“The company was slow in
paying the bills.”

However, a performance bond
and materials and labor bond pre-

Pacific Building Maintenance
the maintenance contractor for
the Castlegar airport has been
shut down

But it’s business as usual, said
airport manager John Perry.

“Everything ‘is proceeding as
normal. It's day-to-day operations.’

pulls out

viously posted by the company 1s
allowing payment of employees,
suppliers, and other associated
costs, said Perry.

“The bond company has taken
over and the employees have
been paid. The suppliers have
either been paid or in the process
of being paid.”

Pacific Building officials were
unavailable for comment

A proposal for a new activity
center for Castlegar seniors is back
on track after more than 40 seniors
showed up at Castlegar council
last week to demand action

“For God's sake let’s get with
this and get this thing done,”
Dorothy Ashton told council

Ashton, speaking on behalf of
the seniors, said the local
seniors’ association has been try-
ing to get a new center built for
the last five years.

She said the present hall is
unsuitable

“We hi water running down
from the ceiling and into the
basement. We deserve better than
what we are getting.”

Paul Oglow, chair of the group
looking into a new seniors” cen-
ter, agreed with Ashton.

He said plans for fhe new cen-
ter stalled about a year ago when
the group couldn't get funding

“We've got the plans and
we've got the property,” he told
council. “We haven't been able to
get any financing.”

Oglow said the seniors want to
build a center on property at the
Community Complex

Councillor Kirk Duff said a
meeting with the seniors and
regional district directors is
planned for later this month to
discuss the new center. However,

an exact date hadn't yet been set

Ashton asked council for
$2,000 to help the group get the
center off the ground, including
preparing for a referendum if
necessary.

Mayor Mike O'Connor pro-
posed council give the seniors
the money

“This has been talked about for
a long time,” he said. “We know
what kind of condition their hall
is in.”

He noted that there have been
a number of suggestions for a
new hall, including one in the
same ldcation on 11th Avenue
across from the library.

“What the seniors need is a lit-
tle seed money.”

However, Duff questioned
whether giving the seniors
$2,000 is a good idea at this
point

He suggested that if the pro-
ject goes ahead at the complex,
costs for preparing for a referen-
dum would come from the
regional district

But O'Connor suggested the
city put the money up first and
then see if it couldn’t reimbursed
by the regional district later.

“It seems that everything is
wait, wait, put them off, put them
off,” he said. “It’s time we make
a commitment, give them the
money and let them get started.”

The proposal was unanimously
endorsed by council

$60,000 SHORTFALL

Home Support in debt

KAREN KERKHOFF
Sun Staff

Castlegar and District Home
Support has found itself with a
$60,000 deficit only three-quarters
of the way through the fiscal year.
And things could become even
worse next fears admuinistra-
tor Lovette Nichvolodoff

“It's very devastating. We're to
the bare bones the last two years
There is nowhere else to cut.”

Home Support provides home
care and other services such as
Meals on Wheels,’ Pérsonal
Emergency Response System, a
Nutritional Outreach Worker and
Community Kitchens enabling
individuals to maintain some

independence in their own
homes. Without those services
some Home Support clients
might have to resort to in-hospi-
tal or long-term facility care

And even though the Ministry
of Health’s mandate of providing
health care “Closer to Home”
recognizes the necessity of such
services as Home Support,
Nichvolodoff said funding from
the ministry has consistently been
“less and less” since 1993

This, explained Nichvolodoff,
has resulted in critical underfund-
ing and in bare-to-the-bones mea-
sures such as slashing benefits
for management and reducing

bei
WEDNESDAY

February 15, 1995

SPORTS

~ cake:
Rebels
clinch
first
place

Rebels were
rewarded
for two
hard-fought
games

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to the
street

A court
decision in
Port Alberni
has West
Kootenay
trade union
members
upset

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February
weather.
fickle

This last week has
brought record temperatures
in both extremes. Is your
dresser drawer currently
filled with both winter
woolies and suntan lotion?

Do you wonder whether
you should wear your boots
of sandals today? Well,
don’t despaii. February is
well-known for its fickle
weather, and last week was
a prime example of what to
expect during the month.

Record high temperatures
were reached in Castlegar on
three days last week. The
dayti

See DEBT 2a

SUZY HAMILTON
Special to The Sun

The sister of a man slated to
be deported is appealing to the
community to save her brother

Castlegar Taxi owner Mike
Normington, 48, has been told
by Canada Immigration if he
doesn't leave by Saturday he
will be deported to England

‘His only decision is if he’s
going to go on his own or we
take him,” said acting regional

manager of Immigration

Sister appeals for
help to save brother

Wood Cross, in Kelowna.

“He has closed every door
he had.”

But his sister, Leni Nc.ming-
ton says Immigration is treating
her brother like a criminal.

“This is all hard to digest,”
she said. “Immigration is mak-
ing my brother feel like a crimi-
nal because he didn’t fill out the
right form at the right place.”

Normington immigrated to
Ontano from Britain with his

BROTHER 2A

"s only four weeks away

ip of 8.9
Celsius on Feb. 7 beat out
the last record of 5.6 which
was reached in 1970, Feb. 8
saw a record of 7.0,beating
5.6 in 1972; and on Feb. 9
the temperature of 6.6 topped
that of 6.1 in 1974.

And this week is much the
samé'as last—but in the
opposite direction. On Feb.
13, as of 11:30 a.m, a cold
Arctic mass which moved
into the Interior resulted in a
record of -9.7 besting -9.3 in
1986. But Ron Lakeman,
weather services specialist
for Castlegar, said it could be
worse. A record yet to be
broken for the month of
February is -19.8 set on Feb.
2, 1989. However, the
weather outlook is for warm-
ing temperatures and snow.

‘What

would you expect
Fel 7