CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, January 30, 1975 Citizen of the For the first time in the history of the Citizen of the Year awards, the Kiwanis Club has selected a partnership as Castlegar and district Citizens of the Year for 1974. | Harry and Kay Bate of Kinnaird were presented with their awards at a special onial banquet held Tues- night, at which Kiwanis Club members and their wives, aswell as many friends of the Bates, were present. ! Marry and Kay have spent the better part of their 27 years - in the Castlegar area making it a better. place in which to live, Over the years, they have found many ways to make themselves useful (o the com- munity, helping. organizations such as the Kinnaird Improve- ment Society, the Castlegar Savings Credit Union, Civil Defence and Kinnaird Women’s Institute, However, there are four specific areas of act which this couple has estab: lished a long history of thought. ful time and caring effort—the Cub and Seout Movement, the Legion, the Kootenay Society for Handicapped Children and their church. The Bates are both lifetony, Kootenay residents, with Har- ry being born and raised in Nelson and Kay spending much of her early life in the Slocan Castlegar’s First Municipal Clerk Dies af Castlegar’s first municipal Harold Vickers, is dead. nowledge of this has just received by the Castlegar Nowe Mr. Vickers, 91, passed away on Oct, 29, 1974, in Victoria where he had retired afler leaving Castlegar. le Is survived by his wife who Is resident at the Ashcroft. Rest Home, 1121 Faithful St, Victoria, "Mr. Vickers joined Comin- co.a5a machinist and draftsman ‘on‘March 16, 1925, and retired from that company on Dec. 1, 1945. He and Mrs. Vickers lived in:the Shewchuck Subdivision Mr. Vickers did a lot of the work organizing the incorpora- tion of Castlegar as a village