Announcing the REND OPENING of S$ SuperVelu IN THE CASTLEAIRD PLAZA 8 a.m. Tuesday, July 24 To our valued customers: It has been our privilege to serve the people of Castlegar and area in our Downtown SuperValu for over 20 years. It is with great pleasure that | now announce the Grand Opening of a second store in the Castleaird Plaza. SuperValu invites you to come in to our new store and experience the wide selection of quality products at excellent prices, highlighted by an extensive bulk food department which offers further savings. The new store is designed to best suit your shopping visit as well as provide a pleasant shopping atmosphere. Look for our eight page color flyer in today’s paper or in your mail box for Celebration Savings in every department. | would also like to introduce Mr. Bryan Reid as the Store Manager of our new Castleaird Plaza store. Bryan is a sixteen-year resident of Castlegar and has been involved in all aspects of retail merchandising in our Trail office for the past nine years. He brings with him a wealth of experience in the food business and a genuine concern for the people of Castlegar. Bryan and his staff look forward to satisfying your shopping needs and are confident that our customers will find SuperValu a pleasant shopping experience. Thank you, FERRARO'S LIMITED George Wood Vice-President S SuperValu Castleaird Plaza Grand Opening Feature Super Summer Saver Sidewalk Sale! \ Texas grown @ red ripe wae. 7,09 A SuperValu Castleaird Plaza Extended Grand Opening Hours Prices Effective Tuesday Wednesday, July 25 8 a.m. -9 p.m. Thursday, July 26 8 a.m. -9 p.m, Friday, July 27 8a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, July 28 * 8 a.m. - 6 p.m, CHARRED WHARF... . A fi caused $10,000 worth of do rage gover- nment wharf in Robson. Héte morning ire chief Dennis $10,000 DAMAGE By CasNews Staff An early morning fire caused $10,000 worth of damage to a federal government-owned wharf in Robson Tuesday. According to fire chief Dennis LaHue of the Robson Volunteer Fire Department, a 91 x 9.1 metre sec tion .of the whatf-was seriously damaged before Robson firefighters put out the blaze at 6:30 a.m. “We're still investigating it, but we're not ruling out careless smo- king or children playing with mat- Fire damages wharf ches,” said LaHue. He said some major support beams and cross-beams on one side of the wharf will have to be re LaHue said some children set a small fire to a different section of the wharf at about 3 p.m. Saturday, but added, “as of right now, we're not tying the, two together.” The wharf — which is used mainly as a boat launch by local seasonal fishermen — is about 1.7 kilometres south of the Robson ferry landing. LaHue of the Robson Volunteer Fire Department in spects the damage Lo NOR CosNewsPhote by Adrian Chamberlain About 3,687 litres of water were sprayed onto the fire, which took longer to put out ‘than anticipated because giant bolts in the timbers were super-heated by flames. These bolts in turn ignited the inside of the timbers, said LaHue The fire department was called to the fire at 4:45 am. Seventeen firemen and one fire truck res ponded to the call, said LaHue He said the wharf is still open to the public Tighter rules needed OTTAWA (CP) — The shooting and stabbing deaths of four people in Brandon, Man., last week might have been prevented if the Commons had tightened the rules for mandatory supervision, Solicitor General Robert Kaplan indicated Tuesday. Kaplan said legislation he introduced in May, but couldn't get through the Commons before the summer recess, was designed to keep people like Ken neth Steingard behint bars longer. Steingard, a convieted rapist free on madatory supervision, killed four peo- ple last week before taking his own life. National Parole Board officials said they would have preferred to keep Steingard locked up but their hands were tied. “The risk (of release) was simply too high,” said Ken Howland, regional dir ector of the parole board in Saskatoon. “Every day we eoulg keep him inside was another day the community was without risk. We did everything pos sible. We acted with the utmost caution in his case.” Steingard was released from a prison psyehiatrie centre in Saskatoon in March 1983 on di 'y supervision, The parole board, which has the dis cretion to grant parole after one-third of a sentence has been served, has no say over who is released on mandatory supervision. SETS CONDITIONS It can set release conditions, which it did in Steingard’s ease, ordering him to report to police twice a month, have regular psychological checks and stay away from aleohol and pornography. It cah also warn local police forces a pris oner is about to he released But under current laws it can't send a prisoner back-to his cell until he commits another crime or vidlates con. ditions of release on mandatory super vision. “It’s a gap in the protection of the community that I wanted to fill,” Kaplan said in a telephone interview from Toronto. “I think it’s vital legis lation.” Kaplan's legislation would have given the National Parole Board the authority, to keep dangerous prisoners behind bars until they'd served the last day of their sentence — if it could despite a lengthy criminal record and history of psychiatric problems. He had been sentenced to a three-year prison term By law, most prisoners with good behavior must be on man datory. supervision after serving two thirds of their sentences. Most are still im prison unti} that point because they wete denied parole. . the courts the prisoner was a “dangerous offender” as defined by the Crimimal Code. That means a prisoner must have been cotvicted of 4 viclent. crime against another person and still con- stitute a threat to the life, criticizes choice VANCOUVER (CP) Medical staff at Trail Regional hospital have criti eized the provincial Health Ministry's choice of Castlegar as headquarters for the new Central Kootenay health unit, calling it uneconomic in times of financial restraint. West Kootenay health unit in Trail and Selkirk health unit in Nelson were amalgamated May 1 to form the new unit. In an unsigned letter dated July 3 to Health Minister Jim Nielsen, Trail medical staff said “serious concern” was expressed at their quarterly meeting that the move called for unnecessary capital expense and would undermine community strength and pride. The letter stated that while medical “staff agreed money could be saved as the result of the amalgamation, the move might have a negative effect on more than 40 doctors and health spec: ialists who practise out of the Trail hospital, which has become a referral centre for all types of helath problems Canoe rally cancelled planned for Pass Creek park Sunday. ‘The six-event canoe rally — one of the Castlegar Sunfest’s major events — had to be called off because the water level in the park's main pool was too low, said Pat Metge, director of the Regional Recreation Department. The low water level was caused by the destruetion of a water diversion thade of rocks and sandbags — built by recreation staff Thursday about 600 metres upstream in Pass Creek “Somebody went there, probably Friday night, and tore it out,” said Metge Tuesday. “I think it was probably people partying on Friday night,” he said Metge said a water diversion approx imately one third of a metre high and 4.5 metres long is madeevery year just before the canoe event because seep age, evaporation, and a lack of water flowing down Pass Creek, make the level in the main pool too low for canoeing Ron Skillings, organizer of the canoe rally, said he wasn't sure why vandals broke up the water diversion, adding that it might be “somebody that didn't want the event to happen.” He said apart from about 200 spec tators gathered at the park ot see the canoe rally and other events, the can cellation was a letdown for an expected 80 people prepared to enter the rally some of whont drove down for the event from Nelson. Creston and Ross land. “It, was 8 disappointment for al] the people that wanted to see it and wanted to participate in it,” he said He said on Sunday the water level of the main pool was only one metre at its deepest point. Metge said organizers of the rally finally cancelled it Sunday when they realized last minute attempts to raise back the levebofthe pool were useless. He said in the past there's been “a fair bit of vandalisni” in the park. “People take picnic tables and throw them into the creek . . . that type of thing.” Skillings said about $400 worth of prizes connected with the canoe raily were returned to local merchants who donated them. For Skillings — who with-« partner put about 50 hours of work into the event — the cancellation was “a ter ribly discouraging thing to happen.” He said be would have to consider whether to help organize the canoe rally for next year's Sunfest. “The risk (of vandalism) is too bloody high for the work that’s put into it,” he said in the West Kootenays. The letter made these points: e New health-unit premises would have to be constructed in Castlegar although the Trail health-unit building, built by community effort through the Kinsmen club, can provide adequate accommodation for many years with no increase in budget e While Castlegar, with an estimated total population of 12,000, is the geo graphic centre of the now combined health units, the distance of 28 kilo metres to Trail, with a population of more than 25,000, is not a serious impediment. Trail pays out a large sum in yearly federal and provincial taxes while gov ernment offices have been gradually closed in the town. The fish and wildlife office is moving to Castlegar, the B.C Assessment Authority moved to Nel son earlier this year and virtually nothing is left in terms of provincial government facilities. A spokesman for Nielsen said the amalgamation of units will save an esti mated $250,000 annually in wages and the level of services to any community involved will not change. Four of a total of 12 senior staff positions were vacant at the two units, and now only eight will be needed to staff the new headquarters in Castle ger, Ian Smith said. “That (the four vacancies) is the rea son we made the move now,” Smith said. Health inspectors aad nurses will re main in existing locations, he said Office space for the Castlegar unit is currently leased and the ministry plans to build an addition to such offices at an undetermined cost, he said. “Any capital costs are a one-time cost while the $250,000 saving on staff is a recurring saving.” Smith said. He said Castlegar is equidistant from Trail and Nelson, and the airport serving the region is located at Castle. gar. Politicalleadersbattle over election issues OTTAWA (CP) — The three major political leaders battled over the plight of the jobless and the mushrooming federal deficit Tuesday in the first national television election debate con- Prime Minister Turner and Conser- vative Leader Brian Mulroney each claimed a new approach that would eventuall turn the gloomy economic picture around, create jobs, stimulate investment and help the young unem. ployed find work. But New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent — repeating his campaign description of the other two leaders as twins — used his imperfect French to argue that only the NDP offers hope for real reform that would ease the burden on ordinary Canadians. Turner called Mulroney the “$20- billion man” because of suggestions his election promises will add that much to the deficit over four years. The prime minister said the Liberals could save billions of dollars by reducing waste and duplieation in the federal government Mulroney countered by calling the Liberal leader the “father of the de ficit,” saying Turner turned a govern ment surplus of $600 million into a deficit of $4 billion during his 1972-75 term as finance minister The fluently bilingual Mulroney ap peared most at ease in the two-hour debate, primarily viewed in his home —inside SUNFEST ‘84 Poss Creek Park was the site of the final day of SunFest celebrations on Sunday Events included the popular firemen's competitions. Photos and event results KIWANIS TRIVIA average annual rainfall ployed during SunFest weekend CONCERT IN THE PARK . . sisters Ab ON THE STREET . . as during next week's Olympics province of Quebec where the Conser vatives held only one of 75 seats in the last Parliament. MULRONEY CONTENT “I'm content,” Mulroney said as he and his. wifp.Mila left the CJOH tele- vision studio after the debate. Turner later was subdued, telling reporters they would have to judge how he did in the encounter. Broadbent sidestepped a question about his performance. Asked whether his “relative lack of French” had hurt him, the New Democrat leader replied that the other two men were hurt by their “relative lack of policies.” Mulroney attacked Turner on a range of economic issues and — spur. red by Turner's answers to a panel of three journalists — denounced the prime minister for trying to blame former prime minister Pierre Trv- deau for a controversial round of pa ge ap early this month. ry a major plank in the exchange, saying that a Conservative government would screen its political appointments through an all-party Commons commit- tee He criticized Turner's claim that the appointments were really Trudeau's and had to be held back so the Liberals could keep a Commons majority in case continued on page A2 . Who is Robson named after? How many sticks were used in the entrance sign to Poss Creek Pork? What is the Castlegar? These and many other questions were part of the Kiwanis Club version of trivial pursuit Av The final segment of Concert in the Park series wraps up tomorrow with a concert by the singing Fomirioft Do you think criminals should be able to choose between a life sentence ond capital punishment? Find out what local residents had to say in our weekly On The Street feature STUFFED TEAMMATE: The gootkeeper for Conado’s Olympic soccer teom wonts to keep Ozzie, his stutted porrot, beside him in the net Tino Lettieri, 26, keeps the stutted parrot just inside the net when he ploys North Amé@ricon Soccer L Kicks, but he isn't sure Olympic officials will let him do the some. | really hope Ozzie can be in the net with me straight-taced, said in on interview in Edmonton to go to the Olympics too. I'm even trying to get him a shirt gomes for Minnesota Lettieri, ‘Vm sure he'd like