‘ Page 4A’ The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, February 1, 1995 Tarrys school low, Robson high KAREN KERKHOFF Sun Staff The Castlegar School District and the Ministry of Education don't always see eye to eye especially when it comes to capi tal requests. Phe district's requests to the ministry for items such as school upgrades or bus replacements are made on an annual basis, with each request being prioritized by the district Priority designations are high, medium and low. The ministry then takes a look at requests from each district and prioritizes each according to itsguidelines. This is where discrepancies arise. For example, the Castlegar dis- trict's lists the upgrade to Tarry's Elementary School as being high on its capital projects, but the ministry doesn’t agree with that assessment—it has prioritized the request as being low on the list. John Dascher, secretary-trea- surer for the Castlegar school district, said he can understand 4 , how the ministry could arrive at that determination. “Tarry’s has a declining enrol- ment and it doesn't appear that there. will be much of an increase over the next five years.” But not so with Robson Ele- mentary School, which Dascher said is “bulging at the seams.” Both the school district and the ministry agree that additions and upgrades are necessary at that facility. Another capital request by the district included the addition of a paint booth for the automotive department at Stanley Humphrits Secondary School, KAREN KERKHOF! Sun Staff The Castlegar school board is taking a look at a policy that would allow public use of its school But the ministry percei that as alow priority: Board takes look at bus-use policy requests come in.” Kinakin said it makes sense that special-interest groups be able to use buses that might Wednesday, February 1, 1995 The Castlegar Sun Page 5A Speaker’s Corner Castlegar student Tamara Terry is pounding the pavement in search of answers to questions that correspond with news stories that have appeared in The Castlegar Sun. If you see Tamara, it could be your opportunity to appear in Speaker's Corner, which will be published each week Question: What do you think of the federal govern- ment's proposal to slash funding to . secondary Gaacbat I'd like to see the fed- Pulp talks reach impasse SUN STAFF Negotiations between Celgar Pulp and its in-house union, PPWC Local | (Pulp and Paper Woodworkers of Canada) have once again reached an impasse Al Blessin, human relations officer for Celgar, said recent talks did progress but have now reached a roadblock “It's pretty well come to an end, We've gone about as far as the process allows at this point.” Blessin said local issues were discussed at the table, bit now despite previous and contrary ruling, the union is Waiting for the outcome of negotiations between Fletcher Challenge and its local PPWC members. “We're waiting for something to happen with pattern bargaining.” Even though mill-by-mill bar- gaining was dictated by the Labour Relations Board, Blessin said PPWC members across the province have said they will pat- tern their contract and bargaining after that at Fletcher Challenge 1, 1995 Petr oe cuteness INTRODACCING THE NEW T think they should be doing the opposite. the future of B.C. is education and that's If the government is doing this in concern of the future, they are Obviously not think- Canada is presenily having a hard eco- nomic time, but by giving less education ater! 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Mrs. Perversoff was born July 30, 1915 at Blaine Lake, Sask. She grew up in Blaine Lake and married Pete K. Perversoff there on Dec. 4, 1934. The family farmed in the Raddison and Saskatoon area until moving into Saskatoon and retiring in 1978. In 1987 she and her husband moved to Castlegar. Mrs. Perversoff enjoyed handi- crafts, sewing, reading, cooking, writing and being with her family. She is'survived by her husband Pete of Castlegar; one son and daughter-in-law, Harold and Cheryl] of Lethbridge, /Alberta; two daughters and son-in-law, Gayle and Frederick Hryciw and Molly Jeschke all of New West- minster; 12 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castle- gar Funeral Chapel Airy Mountain Appliance Our Valley Re cine It Slocan Valley Recreation Commission #8 Box 8, Slocan Park, B.C Phone: 226-7744 seasions. Sign up today! + AUTHENTIC CHINESE COOKING PEBRUARY 4th. 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Also “RUSSIAN FOOD" including Borech, Pyrahi, Varenniki, Lapsha Located Playmor Junction Come in & visit us! their hands when these complete. Kemano cancellation could be good news Conroy ‘optimistic’ SUN STAFF The provincial government's cancellation of the Kemano Com- pletion Project could mean good news for the West Kootenay. B.C. Hydro had a 20-year con- tract to purchase virtually all of the power from Kemano and will need to replace that — possibly with power from generators installed at Keenleyside dam. “I'm hopeful we're going to have some good news,” Ross- land-Trail MLA Ed Conroy told The Castlegar Sun when asked if the end of the Kemano project could mean the beginning of work on Keenleyside Conroy said he and Nelson-Cre- ston MLA Corky Evans have been LaVE COUNTR CRAFTS MOVING FEB. 28 Gigantic Clearance to Feb. 25 DON'T MISS THE GREAT BARGAINS! #5 - 292 Columbia Ave. - 365-0773 about Keenleyside lobbying hard for the Columbia River generating projects. “T'm optimistic,” Conroy said in a telephone interview from Victoria, where he was meeting with the government caucus. Conroy said he and Evans have managed to convince Glen Clark, the minister responsible for B.C. Hydro, to set aside a “sizeable chunk” of the down- stream benefits from the Columbia River Treaty for the Kootenay region The region is now trying to determine the best way to use that money. It has established a Columbia River Treaty Commit- tee to negotiate with the province and Hydro. One of the options is to help pay for the installation of genera- tors in Keenleyside dam and take a share of the revenues the elec- tricity would generate. “If we get that, my economic agenda will be achieved,” Con- roy said. The Keenleyside project has a $500 million price tag, will take seven years to complete and will generate 220 megawatts of electricity. future, on all high in the Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia ADVANCE PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to Section 26 of the “Highway Act”, notice is hereby given that load restrictions may be placed, on short notice in the near conditions warrant. The public, and king and Kootenay Boundary, Central Kootenay, East Kootenay and Selkirk Restrictions will be imposed in each District individually, as The restrictions may limit vehicles to 100 percent, 70 percent or 50 percent of legal axle loading, as allowed under the regulations pursuant to the Commercial Transport Act. Overweight permits will not be granted and all term overweight permits are invalid for the duration of the restrictions. g Highways Districts: govern themselves accordingly. appreciated. this 21st day of December, 1994. Your cooperation in adhering to the above regulations will be G.J. Sutherland, P.Eng. Regional Director Kootenays for: Minister of Transportation and Highways Dated at NELSON, British Columbia AREA #0 - P' ¢ should ing because students are the future. And if we can't afford to be educated, what kind of future will there be for anyone? —Crystal Thomas to our young, it just makes it worse. —Elizabeth Duarte —Joan Hopp not where the cut- backs should be. Their participation helps maintain stan- dards and equal opportunity for all students. —Hugh Herbison City doesn't intend to tear down bridge RON NORMAN, Sun Editor Mayor Mike O'Connor last week denied that Castlegar coun- cil plans to dismantle the Zucker- berg Island suspension bridge. “I can’t recall when this council ever said they were going to tear down the bridge,” O’Connor said at the Jan. 24 council meeting. * O’Connor was responding to a letter from 4th Avenue resident Marjorie Culley, who expressed concern that council is consider- ing taking down the bridge. O'Connor said council has commissioned an engineering report on the state of the bridge and won't be making any deci- sions until that report is finished. Administrator Jim Gustafson said the report should be com- pleted in time for the Feb. 7 council meeting. The bridge has been closed since the summer when a routine city inspection found several of the support beams were rotten. “She claims it's been reported in the newspaper,” O"Connor said. But the paper—The Castlegar Sun—must have been mistaken, he added. “I don’t think we've ever taken that position,” he said. “We took a position that we would like to find out exactly what the costs are” before deciding what NORDIC SKI CLUB DATE: Saturday, February 4th 9:00 am -? FORMAT: This year the Loppet will feature a mass start at the Mud Lake Trail head. REGISTER: Registration will take place from 8:30 - 9:00 am at The Mud Lake parking lot. For more information call Chris 365-3080 h told us you talking to our custome’, bend made ilers. 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