CASTLEGAR NEWS, February 10, 1982 Films focus. on marriage Ministerial Assoc. Castlegar What's happening to ‘you? | Beneath the surface, inthe back rooms, what's going on? This is the note we want to emphasise, In the secret place where we do business, this is the all-important ques- tion. We're interested in mar- riage as a theme. We're con- cerned about the. negative statistics, including our friends, relatives, and the world scene; but more, thin anything else we're inter. ested in the goings-on in your family relationship. “The Fun in Marriage Workshop” is to help you. We don't guarantee it will solve your problems, but we do be- lieve it will give some han- dles where you can take hold. Big troubles and little, we'll -deal with them. Charlie and Martha Shedd are your film seminar lead- ers, They share freely from 41 years of marriage, from, insights gained leading mar- riage seminars, and from Workshop” is a series of five , films with voluntary discus- sion to be held at the Activity Room of Stanley Humphries Secondary School in Castle. gar, commencing Feb. cap bad Telephone 365-5210 New Insertions, copy changes and cancellations ‘for the Castlegar News Business Directory will be ‘aecepted before the first wook of 1h the month only. | =| AL DUNWOODY & C0. Chartered Accountants 410 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-215] Soligo, Koide & John Chartered Accountants ~ 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Castlegar - Phone 365-7745 * Henry John, B.Sc., C.A. Resident Partner 7:80 p.m., and the following four Theres at SHSS. “The Fun in Marriage j Woskthon is being spon- sored by the Castlegar Min-: isterial ‘Association, and everyone is certainly invited. There is no admission charge, but a freewill collection will _ be taken, - Bottom falls out of Alta. lumber market EDMONTON (CP) — bottom has fallen out of eed lumber market and almos' per cent of Alberta's 700° forest-industry workers have been laid off or are on re- have: been shut down and parts of others. have been sooo or the number of shifts nwo ro down $0 to 92 per CASTLEGAR PLUMBING Nt cent in manpower compared to this time last year,” Arden Ritz, manager of the Alberta Forest Products A MAYTAG The EMERGENCY APPLICANCE REPAIR SERVICE & APPLIANCES SOLD © MAYTAG © SPEED QUEEN © GIBSON © GENERAL ELECTRIC © KITCHEN AID © JENN-AIRE 365-3388 & HEATING © 1008 Columbia Ave. (1977) Ltd. SALES & i SERVICE’ , c CASTLE TIRE |. UROR), DRYWALL CONTRACTING LTD. oR idential Tire Specialists Pastgnger and and Off ighw WHEEL BALANCING 24 Hour. Service 365-7145. : 1050 Columbia 1086 Columbia Avenue _ FOR YOUR |: CONVENIENCE - Open 9a.m.-9 p.m. 5Doys oW. - Phone 352-3195 See! 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Phone 365-6534 Pent Custom Bending Gobriel Shocks Free Estimates said in an interview. “About 80 sawmill workers have been laid off or are on reduced shift and there's a large’ number of loggers in’ addition to that.” Ritz said most of Alberta's lumber is exported to: Be US, or Eastern Canada but recession and high intaiest rates caused a slump in the housing industry and dulled lumber demand. Bridge news Nine tables, with an aver- age of 108, took part in the Feb. 1 session of the Joy ° Keillor Bridge Club with the following results: Ne th lorth-Sout z First, Agnes Charlton and Bev Swain — 186; second, Joy Ramsden and Judy Shep- pard — 119; third, Etuka Cameron and Clara Johnson — 115%; and fourth, Otto and Inez Walker — 115. 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East-West With an average of 94'/:: First, Ted Vockeroth Jr. and Don Baines — 107; second, Hugh: Auld and De- weever — 106%; third, Bill * Gorkoff and Bill Martin — 105 and fourth, Lori Me- Watters and Bev MacDonald — 97. lecorders: Ph, 352-7114 SHELDON’S CARPET CLEANING — Wyears experience |<] Special Introductory Offer "Uipholtered pores” rank Wiesner Contracting - ALL CAT WORK REQUIREMENTS: © Snow Removal © Backhoe Service © Road Building Phone 365-7594 ~ . Mobile No. N412113 et 365-3260 * CARPETS CLEANED In your home or lace of business. yy Von Schrader dry-foam method. 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Highs will be 5* wi overnight lows of. 2, ay CASTLEGAR, BRIT is COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1982 2 Sections (A & B) VOL. 35, NO. 13 “Librar | ‘soundly Salvage - operation | Dick Roberts, BC: Timer woods manager in Nakusp, said: Friday ‘ that: Inter-City‘ Insurance Co. is handling the’ yet: finished’ preparing ‘cost estimates, He’ couldn't’ say i tio The logging eguiiheut a a loarder, crawler tractor, four -§ caterpillers and a fuel truck ‘ — were ‘loaded on a ‘B.C, Hydro barge when the barge sank in: ‘about. 900: feet. of: water. ‘ hes By RONNORMAN Editor Casi and area resi- dents won't be getting a new library — at least ‘not this year, Castlegar and Areas I'and J voters last night sent the $1 million regional library refer- endum down to defeat by.a cea 8 than 81. per “cent; of the eligible voters. turned : out, with 592 !(46.5° per cent) voting in favor. rejected facility, and 684 (69.6. per, cent)voting against. The vote’ was even more lopsided in Areas I and J. In Aréa I, 151 people voted with 89 (25 per cent) in favor, and 112 (75 per cent) against, In Area J 424 residents voted with 164 (89 per cent) in favor, and 260 (61 per cent) against. Castlegar library -board chairman Dr. Roy Ward wad dejected by the defeat. “It's disappointing,” admit- ted Ward after learning of - the results, ~ : He said the board will be “terribly disappointed” with the referendum's defeat,” though he assured Castlegar residents the board will do everything to maintain a “good library and excellent service.” He aaid the board will have to now. meet with Castlegar council to discuss its options. Ward said those options are’ “pretty: limited,” but would not elaborate. é \When asked if one of the options .means moving . the “Kinnaird Branch, Ward said, “Nothing will:happen in the * immediate future.” “He: stressed the board must meet with council first. anket assessment reductions proposed By CasNews Staff: 4 Charging that blanket resi- eS dential assessment reduc- tions in Lower Mainland municipalities ‘is: “discrimin- ation”, the Central Kootenay Regional District: board Sat- urday moved to try to get the same . wholesale " property assessment. reduetions for its homeowners. If successful, homeowners in the Central Kootenay ional District could save. The d berge since been ‘recovered: and is Sy listing’ slightly to the. right... _ They attempted to“compen- sate for the: list, but were unsuccessful, and in-minutes the: “barge . ‘Mipped » over, throwing the equipment into- the’ lake. “The captain >/and.- mate ‘mans, ged to cut the tug free. from the- barge as it went* down. The. barge was about 50 minutes’ out-of. Shelter“ Bay when ‘the mishap’ occurred. 2 Castlegar “Ahmet plored Saturday: when : phase the’ Central Kootenay ‘Reg- fonal District board agreed to send the’ plan‘ public hearing. The: plan has been in the works for nearly two years Blueberry. Greak and .Fair-. view, — conditional: on ‘suffi-” cient. sewer and water_facil- trict eS the: concept that: all: ities. The Plan atso." supports here from. 16-25 per. ” cent. on’ their 1982 Bropety As. well, small commer- cial facilities with floor area no greater than 465 square assesaments,,.* The. ‘blanket _ that hasn't stopped the gov- ernment. Some directors also ques- tioned. whether the regional district was téo late to file an appeal. However, North Vancou-' very City officials have filed a. late sppeel, oom residen- tial assessments which will ‘be heard Tuesday. The ‘city is asking for an increase in . waterfront assessments, but an overall reduction in residential prop- erty, similar to a request already granted North Van- couver District. Power rates jump by 60 per cent. Mainland applied for the: blanket re- “duction were successful., “They're just getting great blanket luc- metres may be d to provide neighborhood com- mercial the» plan sup- caly.on p +e cels | located along pabhed ees 3 and ports the protection of prime land located. in Bee pects whieh are soued commecial, .and provided water supply is sufficient, slop the: ALR, with the excep- tion of ALR property in. Bliiebery Creek: and Fair- tions in the whole area down there,” he said. Reductions ranged froin 19-25 per cent, he added. Area F director Dave Pearce, of the North Shore of Kootenay Lake, pointed out , that ‘under. the provincial Assessment Act, the, gov- Healh : ‘Fequirements, velopment won't affect , view, where residential dev- is p it is d to re- “A date for: the - public hearing has not yet been set. duce assessments individual- ly — not altogether — though who heat their homes with electri-. “ity, where Ait. with power -bills that were: 28.60... per.cent higher this January than’ in January, 1831. i: Theisharp hike has kept West’ ‘Kootenay “Power, and Light Co.'s, telephones. ring: ing with complaints. But: Steve “Ash, West Kootenay’s commercial : af- fairs manager, said this week that there are “several -rea- sons” for the higher bilis. “In January,..our meter reading schedules fell behind due to the heavy snowfalls. As a result, most. bills included. several - additional days’ consumption,” he said. “In some cases the period yoered was up to 35 days (80 is normal),, which could ac! coat foe 10-15 per cent of the Ree said)-“Last January, our area was consi- bill by about 15-20 per cent.” ‘Ash pointed out that as of Jan. 1 of this year, the 300 per cent’ increase jin ‘the provincial water fees meant a 14 per. cent coat, increase for. the average West Kootenay Power residential user. The company’s interim’ rate in- crease. added another 18.6 per cent. ‘More on page AS week it will halt all retail lumber ’sales‘at its Celgar- good sawmill effective tomorrow. But the decision ‘is’ any- thing-but popular with area. residents. : ‘Thornton assured vest dents that: Celgar will. keep . an eyé on the situation to see that consumers are getting deal. - “We: then - become the policeman to. make surs that (the savings are Baseed on),” he, said. In fact, « Jand-Teail MLA. Chris D'Arcy, told the Castlegar News Friday that. his office has received. more complaints about the closure” than any other ‘issue “con-° cerning BC Timber in the last 10 years. i. “This is one that bas annoyed the commanity,” he said. D'Arcy added‘ that. he's even got calls. from oitside “ the immediate area — from the Slocan Valley and as far north as Slocan City — com: plaining about the closure.’ ‘However, Celgar sawmill. manager Al Thornton defen- ded the decision. He said there won't-be any eniployees il laid off because of shes lol has the decision taclose the retail: outlet was not made here but.” ‘ by. the corporation's head ; office. He said BC Timber will be ‘closing. retail’ sales * at its: sawmills throughout B.C. — and” noted that Kootenay | ou! Forest’ Products ‘in Nelson” “will be closing its retail outlet as well, However, he said company employees at both the pulp | and-timber mills will still be able to purchase lumber at the mill 2 ‘ ‘Thornton said the interest cost’ to “carry the huge inventory ‘of lumber was a major factor. He added’ that safety reliant pith consu- ‘Thornton said the ‘corpor- ¢ ation simply..lookéd © atthe Celgar sell its lumber to Arrow Building Supplies and Mit- _chell Supply. “at a very ‘.“peasonable price”, and will expect those two. firms .to pass on the savings to the consumer. “bottom, line” and thought it should leave retail sales to local retail outlets. He added, “It's not as.if people are shut out.” Resi- dents can buy at the two retail outlets and at the Kalesnikoff mill. near Phra he said. {Thornton wasn't - unsym- pathetic with residents’ com- plaints,’ “Idon't blame then i he said: Hie noted the mill had been selling lumber on a retil basis... “we're not good at it... We're not in’'that ” retail outlet business.” “However, he couldn't say what BC Timber will do if the arfangement, with the ‘two bet outlets doesn’t” work vahsciion added that an- other reason for the closure is ‘that the mill is changing ““dimension” — or from one- inch to two-inch sizes. “Where the market is, is in concern” over the closure. D'Arcy said he. feels it's portant the mill éarries 500 différent types and grades of lumber. . “It’s been a tradition here,” he ‘added, noting that the Waldie. mill carried retail sales for. 60 years before Celgar was here. “I -would hope the company would respond to:that tradition.” D'Arcy | said, there are certain advantages and. dis- advantages to having a forest complex 80 close to Castlegar — and this was one of the * advantages. from. board lumber to ~ “One. of the benefits was we had the retail lumber yard.”: He called it “a very important trade-off” for put- two-inch lumber — . ands''-ting up with environmental that’t where we're heading,” he said. He said the mill has historically. been .a “board mill” with a lot of pattern stock. “That. matket. has crashed,” he said, later add- ing that if Castlegar resi- ‘dents, knew the actual state’ of the forest industry, they would problems. D'Arcy said he sees costs inereasing for local housing- -Felated projects because of the closure. “It’s not just a convenience thing, but a cost factor.” One typical resident who will be drastically affected by the shutdown -is a small Castlegar Meanwhile, D'Arcy said he spoke to both: Thornton and Jack Sigalet, the company’s regional wood products man- ager.and expressed his con- cern and the “obvious public contractor. Eglington runs a ¢woman contracting firm working on everything, from houses to patios and sundecks. He said he's been forced to take out a Peter * + bank overdraft to buy -as much lumber..:as. possible before the mill. closes its Last ‘week he took more than 6,000: board fee out of the mill in his truck — just to make ‘sure that he has enough lumber at ‘a réason- able price to work. “I don't want to pay the local prices,” Eglington said, pointing out the difference between Celgar’s prices and local retail outlets is the difference between his being able to bid on a job and pricing himself out of the job. “This is a pretty low blow at a time like this,” he said. . Eglington added that one of the reasons he likes buying at Celgar is the lumber is dry and he can go to work immed- iately with it — which isn't always the case at the local retail outlets, “They don't always have dry lumber,” he said. Eglington added that he would be. willing to buy from BC Timber even if the price went up — just to have the selection and dry lumber. He predicted lumber prices would cost him 10 to 12 per cent more after the retail outlet at Celgar closes. . “And that’s a conservative edtimate .. . on other items it's bound to be more. I'm certain of it.”- FINAL DA he rena slows closure of Celgar oot ec pln sales. with some of 6,000 board feet