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CASTLGEGAR, BRITISH, COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1988

Bel
weathers

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS .

put up the Christmas decorations at Castlegar City Hall this week.

. + City employees Alf Ambrosone and Phil Koochin

‘bad’

snow,

By BONNE MORGAN
Staff Writer

Gordon Shannon of Bel Mainten
ance says from all indications, the
company’s first winter season is
going fairly well.

Bel Maintenance took over the
largest highways and bridges main
tenance contract from the Ministry of
Transportation and Highways Oct.
21. The three-year contract is for
three highways districts and covers
Creston, Nelson, Golden, Revelstoke,
New Denver and Grand Forks.

Except for a couple of “bad” snow
storms, Bel Maintenance has had no
problem maintaining the roads so far
this winter, he said

“There's good snow
snow,” said Shannon.
bad snow.”

He said roads become icy when
Castlegar had two heavy snowfalls
this month.

“When the temperature gets to
freezing and it's wet snow, it turns to
slush and freezes,” he explained.

But Shannon says Bel Maintenance
is maintaining the same schedule for

and bad
“And that was

snow removal, sanding and salting as
the ministry did.

“We may even be applying a bit
more sand and salt mixture than
(was used) last year,” he said.

The- company is employing the
same number of workers in the same
shifts with one exception.

“We're starting earlier in Castle-
gar, a half an hour earlier,” he said.

Marilyn Strong, a Pass Creek
resident who lives at the far end of
Pass Creek road, says Bel Main
tenance is now doing an “exceptional
job” on Pass Creek roads, but it took
some complaining to get the com.
pany’s attention.

In a letter which appeared in the
Castlegar News Nov. 27, she com
plained about a lack of plowing,
sanding and salting along Pass Creek
roads. She specifically mentioned
Doubinin's Hill and Suicide Hill,
narrow and steep sections of the road
as problem areas. Strong said that
her complaints were answered

And now she says road conditions
are good

continued on page A2

Turner takes pay
cut of $1,000

By BONNE MORGAN
Staff Writer

The first thing Gordon Turner did
after being re-elected school board
chairman was to announce a $1,000
pay cut for himself.

Turner said at Thursday's inau
guration meeting he will be accepting
a $6,500 indemnity this year and the
remaining $1,000 will be turned back
into the school board budget.

“There have been trustees, who
haven't taken the full amount of the
indemnity and have put it back into
the coffers of School District No. 9 in
order for that money to benefit the
district,” trustee Ed Conroy said at
the meeting.

Conroy will receive $6,250 as vice.

chairman of the board. Trustees
salaries are $5,000 a year. One third

of the money is considered an allow-

ance for expenses and is exempt from
income tax.

Turner was elected by acclamation
this year as was trustee Mickey
Kinakin. Bill Hadikin, a 39-year-old
engineering assistant unseated Rick
Pongracz in Area J.

The trustees were sworn in during
the meeting and school board mem-
bers were elected to standing com.
mittees.

Only Turner and Hadikin stood
with their hand on the Bible and
were sworn in. Kinakin refused to
swear an oath of allegiance for
religious reasons.

“I come from people who consider

CasNews
to help
KSH

The Castlegar News will
again be used to exchange Christmas
greetings and at the same time assist
the Kootenay Society for the Han.
dicapped

Boxes in which local residents may
place their ‘names and make a
donation to the society are located in
several area stores.

Donors’ names will be published in
issues of the paper just prior to
Christmas, extending season's greet
ings to all the donor's friends and
acquaintances.

The donations will in turn be used
to help the Kootenay Society for the
Handicapped.

once

it really disr to swear on the
Bible,” Kinakin explained later.

The school act stipulates that
Kinakin may make a declaration of
allegiance if he objects to swearing
on the Bible.

the
the

The following are
elected chairmen of
standing committees:

newly
board's

Pulp mills to face
new rules on dioxins

By CasNews Staff
and Wire Services
Celgar pulp mill's general manager remained
non-committal this week about the provincial
government's announcement it will impose stringent
new regulations affecting the discharge of dioxins by

Turner;
Energy and Grounds, Doreen
Smecher; Transportation and Safety,
Hadikin; Education, Kinakin; Com.

Voykin; Policy, Tony Guglielmi.
Voykin was appointed the board's
representative to the Central Koot
enay Union Board of Health, Conroy
will be the voting delegate to the
West Kootenay Labor Relations

pulp mills
B.C. Environment Minister Bruce Strachan
made the announcement after federal Fisheries
Minister Tom Siddon ordered the closure of prawn,
shrimp and crab fisheries near three coastal mills
because of high dioxin content in those species.
Federal officials said all mills using chlorine in
the bleaching process, which produces the dioxins,
will be required to provide information on how they
plan to reduce or eliminate dioxin and related

Council and Guglielmi was
a representative to the West Koot:
enay branch of the British Columbia
School Trustees Association.

The following are board represen
tatives of Castlegar schools:

Castlegar Primary, Hadikin; Kin
naird Elementary, Voykin; Kinnaird
Junior secondary school, Kinakin
Open Roads Alternate school,
Smecher; Robson Elementary school,

continued on page A2

ds in the facturing process.
“If that’s what we're required to do, we will to
the best of our ability,” Celgar's Wilf Sweeney said

forthcoming from the provincial government will

The federal Fisheries Ministry said this week
tests of the shellfish were done in the summer and

fall and the results passed on to Health and Welfare
Canada for assessment

“We have taken swift action where the results

clearly indicated to health protection officials that
these species near the three pulp mills should not be
eaten,”

Siddon said in a statement.

The statement said crabs, prawns and shrimps

from the Howe Sound area near the Woodfibre and
Port Mellon pulp mills and crab from an area near
the pulp mill at Prince Rupert could pose a health
hazard if eaten frequently

Fisheries and Health and Welfare officials could

not immediately say if there have been any reports
of illness related to the eating of those shellfish.

The statement said the three pulp mills

However, Sweeney said he doesn't know at this
point what effect on Celgar the new regulations

identified Wednesday will be immediately required
to provide information on how they plan to reduce or
eliminate dioxin and related compounds in the

have.

continue operating and
regulations.

“I haven't seen anything in concrete,
Meanwhile, Sweeney said Celgar intends to
testing

he said

notified to
statement said.

under current

“Within the next week
using chlorine in the bleaching process will also be
provide

manufacturing process.

, all other mills in Canada

similar information,” the

Ferry committee considers appea

By BONNE MORGAN
Writer

The group representing Robson
ferry users is considering an appeal
of the British Columbia Supreme
Court's decision regarding the ferry
this week.

The ferry user's application to
have ferry service between Robson
and Castlegar reinstated was turned
down by Mr. Justice Allan Stewart in
Nelson Tuesday.

A meeting of the Robson-Rasp-
berry Ferry Users’ Ad Hoe commit-

tee resulted in a decision to appeal
the Supreme Court decision.

The group's lawyer, Terry Dalton,
will try to persuade Transportation
and Highways Minister Neil Vant
and Premier Bill Vander Zalm to
reinstate the ferry service before the
group attempts an appeal.

“T think it was pretty well unan
imous that we should appeal if Terry
is unsuccessful in talking with Vant
and Vander Zalm,” committee mem.
ber Rhonda Sorenson told the
Castlegar News.

“Now that they don't have litiga
tion hanging over their heads, maybe
they'll make a decision,” Sorensori
said, adding that the government had
indicated a decision would not be
made until after the court case was
finished.

The group has been lobbying the
government to continue ferry service
ever since it was shut down in April

Residents occupied the ferry, pro
testing its closure, until the decision
was made to go to court. The group
was afraid the ferry might be towed

away and sold as part of the gov
ernment’'s privatization plan.

Sorenson the committee
hasn't discussed the possibility of
occupying the ferry again, but she
thinks that won't happen until “after
we've had a chance to appeal.”

Sorenson said the group is in a
good financial position to appeal the
decision. It raised more than $3,000
in cash and pledges it would have
neéded if the case was lost and those
costs were waived.

The ad hoc group is holding a
public meeting at the Robson Hall

says

this afternoon at 1 p.m. to see if the
rest of the community is in support of
an appeal

Sorenson said if the group wants to
file for an appeal it will have to be
done quickly because ’it has less than
30 days to appeal the Court's
decision

Sorenson thinks the public will be
in support of an appeal

I think if we are still working on
it, if we still have some hope, the
general public will go along with it,”
she said