( » ca Castlégar News July 3, 1986 * Unibody ond frome repau Discount to semor cinzens © ICBC Clowns MARY WADE ANDERSON ace NOSYJONW JOWM_AYVW. OFFICE 265.2111 MOMAE 365-3780 Connery 21 7 aw Agencies id “BUSINESS D Accounting ||Beauty Salon IRECTORY TELEPHONE 365-5210 , copy. chonges Men at ts ie Lastoger Nowe Business Directory wilt up to § p.m. July August. Legislative SELKIRK COLLEGE requires an ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR To provide instruction in composition, literature technical writing and communication. Some background in science and computers would be an asset. Applicants should have an M.A. in English with appropriate teaching experience in the aforementioned categories This is-a full time, short-term position commencing August 5, 1986 to April 30, 1987 Salary and benefits in accordance with the collective agreement with the Selkirk College Faculty Association. Please send curriculum reterences, by July 14, OFFICE. vitae, 1986 to including 3 PERSONNEL @ ki Sz —— CASTLEGAR CAMPUS—— Box 1200, Castieger, 8.C. VIN 31 = * HAVE YOU DRIVEN A FORD LATELY? « t | TRAIL B.C. bled Desier #7338 2796 Highway Drive *Your Ford Country Headquarters’ HOURS: Mon. ri. 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Set 8-6 CHECK US OUT Large Inventory in stock Over 110 New and Used Vehicles. Volume Discounts. * THUNDERBIRD HESEL pry OS24 1809S3 + Top Dollar Paid tor Irade-ins. * MUSTANG OdW3i + Protessional People to Assist you. PHONE COLLECT 364-0202 * FORD TRUCKS ARE TOUGH * YNAT® A, pcites bejey, Einar Aly. tees AUTOMOTIVE DIRECTORY (Bl, alates lesley n> A. ekg AUTO BODY & REPAIR WANETA PLAZA TOYOTA Complete Cor ond Truck Repairs * AUTO BODY & PAINTING Bear Creek Road, Trail 364-2588 DEALERSHIPS WANETA PLAZA TOYOTA 364-2588 Bear Creek Road, Trail CASTLEGAR CHEVRO N 425 Columbia, Castlegar 365-2912 ee Kootenay Honda (across from Waneta Plaza) 368-3377 Dealer No. 7724 MAIN ST. 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Castlegar Rotarians are up to shenanigans in the SunFest barrel race set for next Sunday afternoon when barrels from local service clubs will be raced down the Columbia River. Bert Lamb was caught arranging to put outboard motor on Rotary club’s barrel. By RON NORMAN Editor The Regional District of Central Kootenay board gave the go-ahead Saturday to a feasibility study into purchasing West Kootenay Power and Light Co. The $12,000 cost of the study will be shared equally by the four regional distriets interested in acquiring the utility: Kootenay Boundary, Central ol imi and regional districts to proceed caution. He added that provincial govern. ment approval would be needed before the regional districts could buy the utility. Woodward pledged to try to arrange a cabinet meeting to discuss the issue and obtain Victoria's approyal. However, he said arranging a cabinet meeting could be difficult with the Social Credit party leadership race on. with RDCK. ‘ “All we're doing is saying, ‘Let's take a look’.” Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore said. “I think we should take a look,” she said, adding that $12,000 is a “good investment of public money.” The idea for a feasibility study emerged from a meeting Wednesday in Penti between rep i of the four regional districts along with about 30 area municipal and rural politicians. Board chairman George Cady said the regional districts discussed the possible purchase of West Kootenay Power with Chris Woodward, deputy minister of mpnicipal affairs. He said Woodward thought the idea “looked favorable", but advised the UIC CLAIM Mi hile, Cady said representa- tives of ‘Burns Fry, the investment dealers handling the sale for Cominco Ltd., also attended the Penticton meeting to inform the regional district of details on the bidding. Deadline for prelimainary bids is Aug. 1. “This caused some great concern,” Cady said, adding it is “impossible to put in a bid” and obtain approval from the regional boards and the provincial government by that time. However, the Burns Fry represent ative said the Aug. 1 deadline is for preliminary bids only and conditions could be attached to a bid such as making it subject to a firm bid later on and provincial approval. Final bids must be in by Sept. 30. Moore pointed out that the first bid can be withdrawn at any time. As if first bids don’t meet certain criteria, they won't be considered for the final bid. The Central Kootenay board also discussed selling shares in the utility to local residents if the utility is purchased by the regional districts. Howeyer, Moore noted two problems with that suggestion. She said the i districts plan to buy the utility with public money and then sell it to the public. Taxpayers end up paying for it twice, she said. As well, she said that allowing the utility to go public affect the regional district's tax free status on the utility. Administrator Reid Henderson said the regional districts are “breaking new ground” so it is unclear whether a proposed purchase would have to go to referendum. He said utility rates should finance the cost of purchasing WKPL whose book value is $45 million. But Moore said that WKPL - currently has a 15 per cent rate of return on the $45 million book value. However, she suggested that a 15 per cent profit would not pay for all the debt if the regional districts purchased the utility. Pulp workers appeal By RON NORMAN Editor More than 60 workers at Westar Timber's Celgar Pulp Operations are appealing an unemployment insur ance claim they say could set a WHO IS DIXIE POWERS? By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer She's been described as a bleached blond, a little chubby, but a good dresser who liked good things and drove a late model car. She lived in Castlegar for more than two years and when she left the city in late April or early May to avoid a court appearance on charges of fraud and running a pyramid scheme, Dixie Dee Powers, 3§/might have taken with her thousands of dollars of West Kootenay residents’ money. But that amount is just speculation fueled by rumors of hundreds of people investing thousands of dollars in the alleged pyramid scheme that Powers advertised as “God's plan to eliminate proverty from the earth.” RCMP officials in Castlegar and Nelson will not comment in detail on the Powers case, now before the courts. Four local men charged with Powers are scheduled to appear in Castlegar provincial court July 15. Daniel Anthony Voykin, 29, of Brilliant, Frederick Chursinoff, 49, of Brilliant, Steven Evdokimoff, 28, of South Slocan, and Samuel Stoopnikoff, 28, of Castlegar, are expected tc enter pleas and elect trial by judge or by judge and jury at that time During her time in Castlegar, Powers lived at the Sandpiper Motel and Mobile Home Park, 1101 Columbia Avenue, a complex of three beige-and chocolate-colored cabins and about a dozen mobile homes between the rise of Sherbiko Hill and 7th Avenue. Powers lived in the first cabin on the left as one enters the Sandpiper property Sandpiper owner Walter Holuboff of Castlegar said she rented the cabin from him on # month-to-month basis. FORMER RESIDENCE . . . cabin at the Sandpiper Motel and Mobile Home Park was home to Dixie Dee Powers during her more than two-yeors stay in Castlegor She left owing him money, he said, but wouldn't say how much. “That's confidential,” interview Friday. “She didn't let me know she was leaving and I haven't heard from her since. I don't know where she is,” said Holuboff, who added that Powers “never bought the motel as rumor has it.” Holuboff also would not comment on rumors that Powers spent large amounts of money furnishing the cabin. He said the cabin was rented furnished and anything Powers bought was to replace what was already there Later in the interview, Holuboff guessed that Powers spent “probably two to three thousand dollars” to renovate the cabin. But, he added, “That's just a figure We don't know.” Despite the fact that Powers skipped town owing Holuboff money, his comments about her personally were all positive. “She was pleasant, easy to get along with. at least with me,” he said. “She kept the place clean — cleaner than some of my tenants. continued on pege AS he said in a telephone enemas * precedent for locked-out employees The workers lost a similar appeal last year to a three-member board of referees from the Unemployment Insurance Commission. This time around the workers will be arguing their case before a federal court judge. The case is scheduled for next month at the Castlegar court house. “It's basically the same thing,” explained Mel McMullen, under whose name the original appeal was launched some two years ago. “We're re-asking the same questions with the same evidence of a federal court judge.” The other major difference this time is the workers are acting without the official support of their union, the Pulp. Paper and Woodworkers of Canada Local 1. The 290-member local had funded the first appeal. But union members voted by 60 per cent to drop any further appeal of a May 10. 1985 decision by the board of referees which disallowed the workers $513,000 in unemployment insurance benefits during a 10-week lockout in 1984. However, McMullen didn't let the matter drop. “He spoke to me and asked if I could help him,” said Terry Dalton, the union's lawyer during the first appeal. Dalton said about 65 other workers asked if they too could be made part of the next appeal It is not being taken as a union appeal.” he stressed. McMullen said the group wanted to take the issue to a higher court because they feel “pretty strongly” that the board of referees did not answer a number of points raised by the union. The two-day union appeal, which took place March 19 and May 9 last year, asked for UIC benefits mainly on the grounds that union members were willing to work but the company shut its mill on Feb. 2, 1984 to adjust pulp inventories and favorably market prices. Employees are not normally granted UIC benefits when on strike or locked out But the board of referees ruled against that line of reasoning, saying the union could not prove that the main contributing factor of the stoppage of work was the employer's shvtdown of production in order to reduce influence inventories and increase market prices. The board sidestepped the union's argument that the denial of claims benefits was contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms when it ruled it could not make decisions on constitut ional matters. Dalton said the workers will argue before the federal court judge that the board should hear charter arguments. He said the workers are concerned that the board is depriving everyone involved in UIC appeals of using charter arguments until the appeal reaches the federal court judge Dalton said it is essential boards of referees hear charter arguments. He pointed out it has taken a year for the case to reach a federal court judge and most claimants simply don’t have the resources to wait that long to put their charter argument forward McMullen asks if the board of referees can't make charter rulings “what's the sense of having a board rule the first stage?” ‘The federal court judge ruling could affect other claimants who wish to use the charter arguments in their appeal, MeMullen added No matter what the outcome, Dalton points out that either side can appeal to a Federal Court of Appeal and then to the Supreme Court of Canada Hospitalsserved strikenotice By CasNews Staff and News Services The B.C. Nurses Union this week began serving strike notice to 85 British Columbia hospitals — including Castlegar and District Hospital — as the union escalates its campaign for a new contract The 85 hospitals will bring to 133 the number of facilities in B.C. that have been served strike notice. Other West Kootenay hospitals that will receive strike notice include Trail Regional Hospital, Kootenay Lake Dis triet Hospital in Nelson, Arrow Lakes Hospital in Nakusp and Mater Miseri cordiae Hospital in Rossland. Nurses’ negotiator Pat Fraser said a strike by B.C. nurses seems inevitable given the hard-line stance the pro vineial government has taken with the B.C. Government Employees’ Union Fraser said the provincial govern ment's ultimatum to the government employees to either call off an esca lating strike or be legislated back to work “doesn’t make our job any easier but I can tell you that the offer the BCGEU turned down would be turned down by our union as well. It's not enough.” Victoria offered the BCGEL a first-year lump sum payment plus a two percent hike in the second year and then threatened to pass back-to work legislation when the BCGEL rejected the proposal and began selective strike action. The government employees began an escalating strike Thursday. but agreed to call off the strike Friday morning following Premier Bill Ben nett’s ultimatum. Fraser said she wouldn| be sur prised if Bennett threatened to order nurses back to work, if they went on strike I can't see that Bennett would treat any public sector workers differently she said. “He has a confrontational attitude and has held that attitude all through this. He always wants a fight Health Labor Rel the nurses a three per ys has offered t increase over three years while the union in seeking 11 per cent over three years Fraser said Friday's demonstration was held to tell ihe association that nurses are willing to stand up for themselves and for what is absolutely necessary for health care.” Fraser said wage rates in B.C. are causing a severe nursing shortage that is leading to the closure of beds and surgery cancellations