CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 8, 1979 WATER LICENCE BID . Continued from page Al new groundwater supplies to meet their needs, Cook said, “The way we put it at one of our meetings was that they were behaving like ostriches and burying their heads in the ” he said. Cook named the develop: ment of the Blueberry-Paulson highway and the opening up of the area to multiple land use and logging as the cause of the decline in the quality of the water system. re SILT-FILLED : Although the highways fninistry built the district a ehlorinating system and the forests ministry has been co- operative recently in keeping the district informed on logging foad construction, he said, the water supply is still frequently filled with silt. = “We have clay banks run- ning into our creek in the spring and culverts running Underneath the roads and di- rectly into the creek,” he said. + “It plugs up toilets and riins valves," Cook said. “The first booster pump we installed lasted 10 years, I can install a booster pump now and in two years I'll have to change it.” {Asked about the possibility @f eventual absorption by the elty as a means of securing an Continued from page Al Projects like the proposed diversion and the development of power generation facilities ‘dn a vacuum.” = Jessen urged the regional istrict board to pressure the province into conducting the ¥ inquiries “to find out whether it is necessary to build these Kinds of projects and whether there is indeed a better way to in” % “We feel very. strongly that a lot of projects being built ip the province to generate or transport energy are being done in a vacuum,” he said. * “What we really need in this province is a comprehen- give energy inquiry to find out how we can meet our energy needs and -how we can do it the West way possible involving the least disruption to the environ- thent, communities and social fabrics, to create jobs and also get the best” return on our money.” He said the proposed wa- ter inquiry should weigh use of the resource for hydi ie Blueberry area, Cook said the adequate water supply for the growth of Castlegar would probably result in the extension of its boundaries. “I don’t know how much land Castlegar -has available to grow,” he said. “But I know there's a lot of land here that without adequate, water is not going to develop.” He said that according to the water rights branch the district is nearing its maximum capacity of 225 homes. , “Right now we have 215 homes connected,” the irriga- tion district chairman said. “We're about 10 connections away from disaster." “We had a subdivider come to us on the proposed sub- division of 42 lots in late December and we told him the board would probably look very hesitantly at supplying water to 42 more homes,” he said. NO INFORMATION Also contacted Tuesday, Vanderpol explained that until the release of funds for the Castlegar system was an- nounced he had no further information on funds to give the irrigation district. The Area J director said he had not yet had the opportunity to discuss details of the water URGES INQUIRIES use “in a way that benefits people more.” “We certainly feel the water controllers’ hearings are not an adequate forum in which the people of this area can present their poii of view about hydroelectric develop- ment or such specific projects as the Kootenay Diversion,” he told directors. Commenting on results of the regional Kootenay Diver- supply with the city, but he added that he would assure the board at next Thursday's meet- ing that the planned system would not rule out use by Blueberry Creck area resi- dents, Contacted yesterday, May- or Audrey Moore confirmed that she was scheduled to meet with Cook today to discuss the city's planned water system, She said the water supply was designed to accommodate the city and its future growth for the next 20 to 25 years with a maximum draw of 14,000,000 gallons per day and would be flexible enough to accommo- date the Blueberry Creek area in the event that the district is Prepared “three or four years down the road” to participate in the system. Contacted in Victoria, De- Beck said he was not familiar with the application or the objection, but added that water rights branch procedure for dealing with objections was to refer them to a regional engi- neer who would investigate the validity of the objection. INVESTIGATION Regional engineer Tom Ox- land told the Castlegar News from his Nelson office the investigation of both the city's application and the irrigation district's objections will begin in “two or three months." ° Asked about the applica- tion's restriction of the use of the Arrow Lakes water system to the area inside city boun- daries, Oxland said Castlegar does nat have the authority to apply for a water supply for an improvement district “unless an arrangement is made be- tween the two entities or if sometime in the future Blue- berry Creek becomes part of the city.” Accordi to the 1977 sion pl nearly four months ago by his, or- _ ganization, Jessen said the opposition of 5,858 out of 6,080 voles cast to the proposed diversion indicated Central Kootenay residents “are really fed up with Hydro projects being located in this area.” “This is not a vote of people saying. ‘give us some more information on this’ pro- ject and.we may make up our minds sometime further down the road’," he said. “People are saying no right now.” He stressed that the plebi- scite was not conducted “to spite the RDCK board of ae ic power projects against their $19,855 Continued from page Al settlement between the union and school boards late last year, last week said the indivi * — whieh id but eventually decided against * its own poll — but to carry outa project the Save the Kootenay Committee had been planning for six months and to comple ment the City of Nelson’s poll. When combined with Nel- son's results,-opposition to the union locals and employers will make separate submissions in hearings “set roughtly at two- week intervals.” : Hall told the Castlegar News he ordered the college and school boards to award the * lump sum to the union mem- bers because they have not received a wage increase in eight months. He stressed that the award was not an across-the-board wage increase but a sum against which an eventual con- ed. ‘Genelle Man Charged In Accident A Genelle man, Mike Pic- tin, has been charged with backing while unsafe after his vehicle was in collision Tuesday with a second vehicle driven by Steve Melneck of Castlegar. The incident is reported to have taken place when Pictin was backing out on Green Street. Total damages have been estimated at $1,100. No injuries have been reported. proposed diversi to 94.91 per cent of the 9,022 voles cast, he said. i Kerr, Wood, Leidal study of the ‘feasibility of a bulk supply for outlying areas as well as the city, the irrigation district is licenced to consume up to 360,000 gallons daily for domes- tic purposes and up to 325 acre-feet for irrigation. The report said the dis- trict, serving a district of 750, had a maximum demand of 818,000 gallons per day and a minimum of 100,000 gallons per day. a SERIOUS DECLINE Multiple use of the Blue- berry Creek watershed has resulted in “a serious decline in the quality of the water for domestic purposes,” the report said, It cited statements by the irrigation district, in a sub- mission to the water rights controller, that logging and road-building operations were primarily responsible for high turbidity and considerably low- er volumes of water during the summer months. ve Voice of the People a Backs Opposing Aldermen: : lating to the benefits of such . Editor, Castlegar News: It has been the misfortune of many Canadians to be placed in the unenviable position of slowly watching our resources and culture become dominated by foreign enterprise, Many of us complain about the problem, but few attempt todo anything, A major renson for this Canadian illness, however, be- came quite clear on Feb. 27 at the Castlegar City Council meeling. What I observed, concerning the proposed con- struction of the Sandman Inn, struck me as being a disturbing microcosm of our Canadian malady. A malady in which the Castlegar council has the oppor- tunity to show meaningful direction, EPIDEMIC Continued from page Al parents of the risk their chil- dren faced, the letter said. The letter called for a “thorough investigation of the entire public health depart. ment” and its failure to provide parents with accurate informa- tion on the disease and the effectiveness of the vaccine. She asked in the letter whether health officials knew of the effectiveness of the vaccine, available since about 1965, before the outbreak and what sort of tests Were made on it before they made it available to the public. Ina letter later this week, Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy, who received a copy of the Jones letter,. pointed out the severity .of the outbreak was not expected “either in terms of caseload or the, viru- lence of the strain, which apparently includes a variety of wild measles,” Noting that immunication is less than 90 per cent effec- tive, D’Arcy’s letter said it was not public health policy until REFERENDUM Continued from page Al unteer firemen have formed a club, he said, and a women's auxiliary was formed Sunday to: assist firemen in material acqui- sitions for the firehall, |. The commission chairman said he was confident the 500 to 600 residents expected to vote in the referendum would ap- prove the proposed expendi- tures, “Budgel referendums are + sometimes a formality, but necessary for people to decide how their. money is spent.” “But we want as many people voting as possible," The Sandman Inn, in the, Castlegar context, is compar- able to a multi-national cor. poration in federal, or provin- cial terms. And, the results of development are similar — let the developers roll in, and set their own policies. Castlegar, like Canada, isa favoratile place for many to invest, bul invest on’ who's terms? ; The “development at any sost" sector of cily council “seems quite content to ignore long-term social and economie effects of development such as . the Sandman. To what end?’ Qn the other hand, Ald, Len Embree and Bud Godderis eXpressed many concerns re- under the age of one year for measles, “While I. assume your daughter's records showed that she had been immunized during the same year as her birth, no one noticed the significance of. the anomaly until too late,” the letter said. : D'Arcy also pointed out in the letter that red measles does not cause deafness or re-. tardation among some of its victims, alttiough in isolated eases it does lead to such complications as encephalitis and pneumonia, The Rossland-Trail MLA also said in the letter he hoped computerized personal immu- nization records would even- tually become part of the pro- vince's medicare plan. “If that were the case, entire schools (or for that matter; a whole community) could be quickly analyzed for immunization needs and vul- nerability toa particular health problem,” the letter said. ., “Early identification of children in need of quick immunization would prevent a great deal of pain and suffering, not to mention the i development, i Unfortunately, however, the criteria for development placed on the Sandman by cily council, are just the opposite of what Embree and Godderls proposed. In short, they maxi- mize the benefits to the de- veloper and minimize the bene- fits to the cilizens of Castlegar. Is a project like the Sand- man, built with non-union labor, (most probably from the Oka- nagan) going to maximize bene: fits to local residents, workers or merchants? 2 “Will the added traffic prob: lems be‘ rectified this year, or next? \ t entering a period of rapid growth is only too evident to local residents, ‘ What, however, will be the result of this growth? To see the quality of life in the’ city ° steadily decline; to see project upon project ‘constructed with non-union, non-local labor; to- see developer after developer make a bundle, with no concetn for the area, * Maybe if we had more people ‘like the two council members who voted, in the best interests of the community, to oppose the Sandman Inn, the needs of local people would be more fully realized, Ed Conroy Box 3171 . Castlegar, B.C. Area Skiers Off to Quebec Three of the Rossland Racers are scheduled to take part in the“Pontiae Cup finals this month in St, Anne, Quebec. - Attending are skiers Felix Belczyk of Castlegar, who re- cently placed second in the junior downhill at Fernie and in the giant slalom at Fortess, Alta.; Deede Haight who placed second and third in downhill at Fernie; and Kelly Lee of. Rossland. . ‘HELP WANTED |: __ HEEP WANTED: Applications wil] ba accepted up to NOON, March 1979, for the following position: 3 ; School Steno 60% (22 hours 30 minutes) a Library Clerk 25% (9 hours 20 minutes) for the Robson Elementary School. The position is bosed on.the school year, ‘Septemb June, : Applicants should have a thorough knowledge office routine. Good typing skills are essential. Previous school office and/or library experienc preferred, 3 Starting date is immediate. i Application forms are available at the Board Office J. Dascher, * a 8 Secretary-Treasurer, School District No. 9, (Castlegar), P.O, Box 3220, CASTLEGAR, B.C. VN 3H5 The fact that Castlegar is, 8 73 Maple Street Phone 365-5191 . tragedy. Constant checking by “hand of often incomplete per- sonal records is archaic and -ingfficient and the inadequacies of such a system can leave us: open to such situations as we have encountered this winter.” Glenmerry NEW AND USED FURNITURE, . 1.3191 Highway Drive . ‘ PHONE 364-1822 CITY OF CASTLEGAR NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be . held on Tuesday, March'l13,-1979, at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 460 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C., to receive representations from all persons who deem it in their interest to make ; j | i ; p H, garding ving _ propi to the City of Castlegar’ Zoning Bylaw Churches - “We'd rather have it passed. in a° majority turnout than a minor- ity turnoul.” tract settlement will be‘adjust- Doukhobor Specialties © Borscht © Pyrahi © Vareniki C.E.C. RESTAURANT Located at the Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Site, across from the Castlegar Airport. ‘Pre-cast concrete drain- pipe and fittings. Phone. 965-2625 We deliver AND install Bob Darrah : CHRISTINA LAKE CONTRACTING Ltd. . 447-9227 ‘+ Weekend ¥ th njoy a Deluxe “Room For Two For One Night Regular $37.00 SUNDAY Expires May 31, 1979 Children with Parente: NIC Present this coupon upon arrival, Reeervation Phone: (403) 253-1101 tetex03-825678 SHOUSE woror INN 9030 Macleod Trai SE . SPRING SPECIAL WHEEL. ALIGNMENT : (Most Models) $1495 Parts Extra Offer Expires March 16, 1979 MALONEY PONTIAC-BUICK GMC 122 - 7th Ave. S. Castlegor DL No. 01457A Sunuiter is conting is the time to start thinking about installing the pool you've always been talking about. GLACIER SWIMMING POOLS NO We specialize in: * In-Ground Aluminum-Wall Pools We have our Whirlpool completely set up! Come in and try it! 1415 Columbia © Saunas © All Accessories Monday — Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Above-Ground Pools * Whirlpoo! Spas Financing on Approved Credit Phone 365-2278 d No, 160, 1977, and amending bylaws. Item No. 1: Bylaw No. 232 The intent of Bylaw No. 232 is to amend the permitted allow sales and service for swimming pools, whirlpools, and other similar commodities. . Item No: 2: Bylaw No. 233 | The intent of Bylaw No. 233 is to rezone from "RI”, Single-Family -Residential to “R4" Multi-Family Residsential, that portion of property outlined in black on the map that follows: em A (200 - 3rd Street, South) Rezoning of the property described would allow the construction of two apartment blocks each containing 17 dwelling units. : Copies of the aforementioned bylaws, and further particulars thereto, may be inspected at the Clerk's Office, 460 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, 8.C., during the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. 8. Baldigara, City Clerk uses in the "C2” Comprehensive Commercial Zone to. 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Back row, left to right, Jeff Schuepher, first prize 10 to'14 years; Craig Schell, second prize, 10 to 14, years; Bobby Dickson, honorable mention, seven to nine ears;-Sandra Churches, third prize, 10 to 14 years: Missing rom photo Is Shannon Smyrl, third prize, seven to nine years; and Lori Ann Pettigrew, second prize, seven to nine years; Youth Committee Must Define Its Role A’ more carefully defined role will be one of the con- ditions of further city funding for Castlegar’s youth commit \ tee, city council decided last week, i Council supported Ald. Heather Hallett’s recommenda. | tion that the health and welfare committee include, in its 1979 budget to be submitted to the finance committee, an_ allot- ment of $14,106 for the youth committee on the condition that: e The amount be reduced to the extent of any other grants received by the com- mittee; e The youth committee become a_ legally-constituted body under the Societies Act; e Copies of grant’ appli- cations prepared by the youth committee be submitted to the health and welfare committée. Contacted this week, Hal- lett, the health and) welfare chairman, told the Castlegar News incorporation under -the Societies Act would require the youth committee to draw up a constitution as well as-terms of reference and a job description for its youth worker. “I think for a Viable or- ganization. things have to be spelled out a little more,” she said. “It’s hard for the city to give a large amount of money on a continuing basis to an organization that hasn't a little more structure than it has at present." Incorporation under the Act would provide the com: mittee and youth worker with more protection from liability, she said, Asked about the condition that the $14,108 allotment be adjusted according to other grants given to the committee; Hallett said the health and welfare committee “would like to be a residual funder rather than a primary funder.” She noted that when the youth committee was first set , up more than a year ago “there was a great need in the com- munity for someone to work with kids," but about eight individuals have been hired in the past year by various government agencies to deal with youth, : Although the need for the youth worker in the community is still great, “things have improved dramatically in the past year,” she said. CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 8, 1979 AS Human Rights in Chin j Topic of Speaker Rene Goldman, Depart- ment of Asian Studies, Univer- | sity of British Columbia, will be speaking about The Future of Human Rights in China tomor- row afternoon at Selkirk Col- lege and again in the evening at David Thompson University Centre, Patenaude Hall. Professor Goldman was born in Luxembourg, taking his primary and secondary edu- cation in France and Poland, undergraduate studies at Pe- king University and Warsaw University. His graduate stu- dies were completed at Colum- bia University, New York. The public is invited to attend Goldman's talk, which should prove of interest to al, China watchers and, particu-, larly, to those interested in, human rights. TRIUMPH |; SPITFIRE 7 (, Voice of the People _ No Need for One-Way Street Editor, Castlegar News: : ~ Why was 16th Street South changed to a one-way street? ; We did not ask -for 16th Street to be changed’ to a one-way street. We do not want it to be a one-way street. It is hot an accident-prone street. What we asked for was that off-street parking be pro- vided at 1520 Fifth Ave. S. as per the city's zoning bylaw No; 160-412 Parking (1) Section 18 and ‘get the vehicles ‘off the street for safety reasons on Fifth : Avenue South. That seems to be the most sensible thing to do. . = ‘As spokesman for a dele- gation of 10 people who asked to appear before council but was referred to the Works and Services committee, I present- ed. an explanation of four: specific complaints. Our first complaint was that after more than two years of occupancy the driveway at 1520 - 5th Ave. S. is unuseable, as it had not been finish-constructed so it could be useable. ‘> Vehicles therefore have to park on the side of the street directly opposite Street intersection and facing opposite to the traffic flow, «dusing a narrowing.of the street, and a safety hazard. At times Fifth Avenue South bécomes a one-lane street. Snow plows had to go around the vehicles causing a narrow- ing of Fifth Avenue. We asked the committee to’ enforce the City bylaws that we believed were being violated, namely Zoning, Bylaw No. 160-412 (1) which states off-street parking shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 18°of this bylaw, one parking space per dwelling unit, and one parking space per boarder or lodger. ‘: Our contention was that if off-street parking ‘was: not provided, with the driveway not being finished so as to be useable, then the contractor or builder did not meet the intent of this bylaw, and should be required by the city council to finish the driveway so as to be useable. According rs no person shall park or leave standing such vehicle in, along ——, , the 16th. or upon any of the following streets or places, that is to say: (2) Within any street in- tersection, ‘ (22) On any street or por- tion of any street in sucha position or manner that the said motor vehicle faces in ‘an opposite direction to traffic proceeding normally upon that side or portion of such street. We ded that these Kinnaird council made this a one-way street several years ago, and through the action of a local delegation, changed it back to two-way traffic. The events that thok place after were not only illogical, but ignored city bylaws, which makes you wonder if some of our council actually understand them. It is unfortunate that iti are. referred to parked vehicles presented a safety hazard to vehicles travel- ing along Fifth Avenue South, Ald. Gerald Rust recom- mended that. 16th Avenue South be changed to a one-way street. Our delegation opposed . this. recommendation and re- minded the committee that To:be Posted ‘No Parking’ *, Parking will be prohibited along the Milestone Road and 700-block Seventh Avenue South frontage of Kinnaird - Hall, city council has decided. Ald. Gerald Rust, works and services committee chair- man, won council approval for his motion to post the frontage as a “no parking” zone after telling council parked vehicles obstructed the vision of motor-" ists entering Seventh Avenue South from Milestone Road. Rust gaid the city had already moved a-bus loading zone from that location for the same reason. “The same problem exists with cars,” he said. “Originally it had been anticipated in committee meet- ings that we would allow no parking just by the Kinnaird’ Hall steps. But if you go one car length north beyond thé hall steps, you find you're backed right up to the fire hydrant.” committees, where the news media and public are not allowed. We have always had the understanding that bylaws are made to protect the resi- dents and taxpayers of the city, so that development would be * done in. accordance to said bylaws, Couincil members should be the very first people to set an example to all of us, by abiding: with and upholding the’ city bylaws. -And if they will not abide with or uphold these bylaws, then who will? I was rather delighted to read in the Castlegar News that Castlegar council members took enough time out of their own busy schedules to read up on some of the bylaws, and in their wisdom rescinded the censure vote against Ald. Len Embree, Not knowing what you are talking about or not knowing your own bylaws, while you are making: arbitrary decisions leads to nothing but aggrava- tion for our taxpayers, who after all pay the wages of those in office and expect to be represented to the best ability of each council member. 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