ze Gaiety on LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS There were more empty chairs than filled ones last night at the Communi Complex when only about 25 resi idents attended a presentation given by the city's engineering and public Sores doers on proposed solutions to traffic bi " P on Col Ave. Traffic by Donne Zuber continued from front pege from 6th Street to 20th Street which would eliminate the passing lane on the hill. © Prohibit left turns on to 11th Street and:12th Street from Colum- bia Avenue and from 11th Street and 12th Street on to Columbia Avenue. ° Extend the ban on curbside parking through downtown if parking is prohibited from the north entrance of the old SuperValu bet- ween 6th Street and 7th Street to 20th Street as proposed. © Leave the right turn lane at 6th Street (northbound) as is. The city is Proposing to eliminate that lane to accommodate the centre lane. © Install lights at the interchange for drivers turning south from Highway 3. © Provide a left-turn lane on Highway 22 at 37th Street and/or reduce the speed limit of 70 kilometres per hour. © Where there is mor¢ than one entrance to a business on Columbia Avenue, designate one as the entran- ce and one as the exit. © Use the Kinnaird Hall parking lot for school buses to load and unload children. © Cut off the third exit at the Shell gas station on to 10th Street and the third exit at the muffler shop on to 4th Street. * Synchronize the traffic lights at 6th Street with the proposed lights at 10th Street. * Extend the proposed centre lane to 24th Street. © Instruct school bus drivers to turn right at 7th Street, and go around the block to the bus lot on 6th Street instead of making difficult right’ turns at 6th Street. * Allow parking from the corner of 3rd Street down to city hall if tur- ning left on to 4th Street is prohibited as proposed. BRIEFLY By CasNews Staff have insurance. the structure only. flight. Names were not released. Train hits car Columbia Avenue. hospital. @ cougar. Cate unknown ee eT cerca, vo cefsemine the couen of » fey teat eee Schon of the Castlegar RCMP caused by a wood stove in the house, but ning that, Schmidt said. Tenant Larry Dow waa lefy homeless by the blaze. Dow did not The house’s owner, Mark Schickler, had insurance which covered Smokers ignore rules Two Calgary men were removed from a Time Air flight Sunday after ignoring two reminders that smoking was not The men were removed from the plane in Castlegar during a » scheduled stopover from Calgary to Penticton. Castlegar RCMP said __ the pair were placed on a bus to continue their trip to Penticton. Crown Counsel is considering charges. The passenger of a 1981 Toyota received minor injuries Sunday when the car in which he was travelling was hit by a CP Rail train. ‘The driver of the vehicle, Steven Whittleton, escaped injury. His vehicle was hit at the uncontrolled crossing in the 3800 block ‘The passenger, whose name was not released, was taken to Youth fights cougar A 10-year Glade youth got quite a surprise Tuesday when he came home from school and discovered a neighbor’s dog fighting with Shawn Gerrard managed to preak up the fight by hitting the cougar over the head several times with a shovel. When it retreated into a garage,-Castlegar RCMP were called. Const. Stu Schmidt arrived with conservation officer Barry Farynuk and destroyed the animal. Mike Krause, district supervisor of the Conservation Officer Services in Castlegar, said the animal was a fairly mature female cougar weighing about 34 to 41 kilograms (75 to 90 pounds). Shawn was not available for comment. allowed on the at Costes photo Maureen Stelck settles in to her new ional Exhib: Centre. STREET TALK MAUREEN STELCK start and looks forward to settling in. well,’’ she said. ‘her new position as school program coordinator-administrative assistant at the National Exhibition Centre yesterday. Stelck said she’s excited about getting the job “*It gives me an opportunity to keep working with children and I’m able to use my creative skills as Stelck has had a life-long involvement with art and worked as a teaching assistant with Castlegar schoo! district for 10 years. Her new job involves organizing field trips with the students for art- and educational-orientated activities, Stelck has s lived in Qastlegar for 18 years. Her husband Mal is the principal of Selkirk College in Castlegar. They have one son, Dan, in Grade 12. Opposition continued from front page Castlegar council uses private con- tractors for its planning activities. ning activities. In a later interview, Smecher said council’s reaction depends on whether the board passes the recommendations and whether the regional district allows municipalities to opt out of participating in development services. “If the motion passes and we don’t have the option of opting out of development services, then maybe we should consider legal advice,” Smecher told the Castlegar News. She said the final decision will be up to council. Ina memo to the rural caucus, regional district planning manager Don Harasym says the section of the Municipal Act which allows regional districts to establish and operate development services ‘‘uses extremely ambiguous language.’’ “There is no consensus on its meaning and there exists no legal definition of the term ‘develop- ment.’ ’” Harasym says the following could be categorized under the banner of regional development services in the RDCK: © Preparation of a regional solid waste management plan. ° All planning department ac- tivities and costs associated with the Tesources committee, the air quality committee and the waste management committee. © Responding to public and agen- cy requests regarding the provision of information. id Castl and crea ded peace vigils at the United Church (above) and at the CosNews photo by Keith Thirkell Brilliant Cultural Centre on Sunday to express hope for a peaceful end to the Persian Gulf conflict. Judgment The reatons for judgment state 4 continued from front pege at the hypocrisy’’ of that judgment. “The sit-in was a community response to the government withdr- awing a vital service,’’ he said. “They're talking a double stan- Brassington was also surprised by the beard’s ruling that the penalty remain as is. Jacques Dupont, the adjudication officer representing Lindsay,. sought to have Lindsay's penalty reduced to a reprimand, or alternatively, have the penalty reduced to equal the Penalty received by the lowest-paid employee. Lindsay is a supervisor. that Dupont argued that ‘‘It was un- just to assess a smaller dollar penalty against a more junior employee even though, in both cases, the penalty is one day’s pay.’” However, the board dismissed that argument as well. “As Aristotle pointed out, one source of injustice is the equal treat- ment of unequals. In any case, it is Perfectly justifiable for the grievor (Lindsay) to suffer a greater financial loss than an employee at the CR-2 (clerk) level. As a PM-3 (supervisor), he ought to have known better than 4 mere CR-2,”’ the board states in its LOTTERIES findings. “That's a bit of a classist statement,’’ Brassington said. The board further ruled that: _ ° It was clear that Lindsay took Part in an illegal occupation of the employer’s premises,-which was part of an attempt to interfere with the rights of the employer under the law and the collective agreement. © Lindsay went beyond his inten- tions of attending to provide moral Support, when he entered the © it was irrelevant that Lindsay action. “The grievor is not some young and inexperienced junior clerk who needs to be warned. He is a mature, and very ii per- that participating would disciplinary “There are the winning lottery numbers for the week of Jan. 4-14. 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He knew exactly what he was Premier appoints business minister to handle dissent VICTORIA (CP) — Elwood Veit- ch bleeds the red, white and blue of the Social Credit party, but it’s tough getting that blood to boil. Maybe that's why British Colum- bia’s jolly international business minister is Premier Bill Vander Zalm’s point man in a bid to derail a constituency-level leadership cl a With his trademark chuckle, he hedges about the extent of his pitch for a leader who faces dissent in as many as 20 per cent of his ridings. “I’m not going to get into num- bers,”” said Veitch, who often wears » & white Social Credit sweater with the party’s logo emblazoned close to his heart. “I spend some time on this but not as much as people think. I talk to a lot of people in the evenings and over the weekends and when people are home."’ The Port Moody-Burnaby Moun- to maintain his political status. “I think this premier has done a good job but I’m a loyalist to the system. While you are part of an administration . . . it behooves each and every minister . . . to work for that man or woman. “You could look after yourself much more easily than being as open as I am. I say nonsense to that (criticism). If I didn’t like what the Person at the top was doing, I wouldn't be there.”* Veitch, who didn’t support Vander Zalm for the leadership in 1986, is a survivor. First elected in 1975, he was defeated in 1979. He was re-elected in 1983 and 1986. He has~-heid cabinet posts in two administrations. But now there are party members who look dimly on Vander Zalm and his followers. There are no safe Socred seats and some opponents say most Socreds, tain Socred banned Veitch from a membership meeting Monday night where mem- bers voted 59-24 against a leadership review. It was the second constituency to vote against a review. Three others vated against Vander Zalm, but did not ‘get the required 75 per cent approval for a review. One Victoria-area riding assoc- iation executive reversed a vote to hold a membership meeting after the premier, Veitch and his aide met As a result of the ruling, Brassington said the union will be Veitch, could go down with Vander Zalm in the general election that must be called this year. Some Socreds are through listening © defences of Vander Zalm and don’t take kindly to what they per- ceive as Veitch’s interference with the grassroots. “If you can’t stand a little abuse in this business or your business you, shouldn't be in it," he said. card-carrying cabinet ministers are not invited,”* he said with a laugh. iy Two more constituencies vote in favor of premier PORT COQUITLAM (CP) — Members of two more Social Credit constituency associations voted Tuesday night to support Premier Bill Vander Zalm’s leadership. was Pon C where ‘association ' ‘president Ken?’ Tuninga is one of the leaders in the movement challenging the premier. _, Delegates voted 49-33 — 60 per cent — against in favor of a leader- ship review. Members in Delta North voted 104-40, or 72 per cent, against a leadership review. Because of lobbying by Vander Zalm and his supporters, ‘1 thought the results would have been much larger in their favor,’ Tuninga said, “That has not proven to be true. 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