“LOTTERY ‘“ NUMBERS v a | Jays win TAN crs iano again It took 14 innings, but the: Castlegar Kiwanis Toronto Blue Jays sunflower will provide Club’s new president . . picked up another win cial lottery draw is 3160684. her with more than ~A2 : 3 Saturday... BI : : enough seeds... AS Bennet asked to look at dam By RONNORMAN sj; , “Yes, there are private parties Editor interested in getting into it,” he said. The Castlegar Economic Develop- ~ However, he added that he does not ment Committee has asked Premier know who the interested parties are. Bill Bennett to take another look at Asked about the “large financial ii i in it house” ic d-in- the letter to Ben- dam. nett, Maddocks said he again does not _ “We wish to point out our continuing know which institution is interested. desire in seeing the Keenleyside dam But he added, “I've been assured project completion,” committee chair- financial backing would be there.” man Gary Maloney said in a Sept. 6 He said if Bennett is interested in the letter to Bennett. proposal, he will get all the information The request came on the heels of on the interested parties: Bennett's that the p: “It’s a twist to it,” Mad- would go ahead with the Site C dam on. docks said. the Peace River if there is an export He pointed out that a U.S. com- market for.the hydro power. munity about the same size as Castle- “We'd like a piece of the action,” gar operates its own power plant. But committee secretary Richard Mad- he said he's not sure if it would be docks explained in an interview Friday. possible in B.C. Maddocks pointed out that Bennett Maddocks added that Bennett has ioned Site C again this week on Bot replied to the letter, though he may ~~ ing.to.say.upon. his return one of his missions is to sell surplus a California. power to California utilities. “It may just be the right timing,” In the letter to Bennett, the com- Maddocks said. “It’s worth a try.” mittee notes that installing gernators He said even if the province isn't at Keenleyside dam will have minimal interested in haying a private devel- environmental impact, has full public oper operate the Keenleyside power _support, and will provide unit energy plant, the committee wants to keep the costs five to 10 per cent below those of generating project in front of the the $3.2 billion Site C. * government. In addition, the letter says the com- “We want to make... sure if they go mittee has a private developer and “a ahead with Site fon ‘then they give large fi ial house” i inde- -K "he said. veloping and operating the Keenley- -B.C. ‘Hydro dropped plans to install side power plant. generators in Keenleyside dam when Maddock confirmed that private energy forecasts predicted the power developers are prepared totake part in from the dam would not be needed in the project. this decade. Ambulance loses four-wheel drive By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer ways. Castlegar’s ambulance service no Moran added that those highways longer has the use of a four-wheel drive are kept plowed in the winter. ambulance because the vehicle is | However, Lawrence Chernoff of the “needed more elsewhere,” a spokes- Castl service di man for the provincial ambulance ser-_ with Moran about the lack of need for a vice in Victoria’ said Thursday. four-wheel drive ambulance here. Kiwanis installed John Thompson was in- stalled Friday night as a . t ‘Spits, The six winning numbers in last night's Lotto galore 6/49 draw were 3, 11, 16, 20, 21 and 24. The : bonus number was 44. Nai incy Jmieff's monster The $500,000 winning number in Friday's Erin WEATHERCAST Castlégar News Sunny today with cloudy periods and highs 17- 19. Sunny again Monday with highs 18-22. Chan- ce of p ion today and Monday is 10 per cent. CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1985 VOL, 38, No. 76 <> 50 Cents 2 Sections (A & B) yeast apie. Road home Friday. Smoke sent one fi laterr BATTLING BLAZE’. .. . Robson volunteer firefighter ignores smoke ighter to hospital where he was pouring from charred window as he douses flames inside Br —CosNewsPhoto by Ron Norman Teenager escapes fire By CasNews Staff A Robson teenager was lucky to escape a fire that destroyed her par- ents’ house’ Friday morning. Board plans open budget meetings the city is now serviced by main high- might Thot have been so lucky.” One Robson firefighter didn't fare as well, He was felled by smoke inhalation and taken by ambulance to Castlegar department got there,” La Hue said.° La Hue said his department invoked the mutual aid agreement and received help from the Tarrys and Pass Creek Brenda Popoff was sleeping in the home alone when the fire started. Her mother, Violet Popoff, returned, home after being away for an hour and found smoke pouring from the two-storey family, residence. She woke her daughter and the two managed to get out of the house and call the Robson Volunteer Fire Depart- ment. “She was actually quite lucky when her mother-came-along,”-said- Robson. fire chief Dennis La Hue. “Another 20 minutes or so and she and District Hospital where he was later released. La Hue said 18 firemen — 10 from Robson, five from Pass Creek and “three from Tarrys — battled the stub- born blaze for two hours before finally bringing it under control. The house, at 3547 Broadwater Road, is owned by Philip Popoff. The Robson department received the fire call at 11:22 a.m. and a three-man crew was the first to arrive on the scene at 11:27 a.m. “It was well on the way when the fire halls. Robson supplied a pumper and tanker, while Tarrys and Pass Creek each sent a tanker. La Hue said the cause of the blaze has not yet been established. He said he would not know what started the fire. until all the reports are in — sometime early this week. The regional fire commissioner sifted through the remains of the cedar shake home Saturday and an elec- The ambulance was sent earlier this Chernoff, who was reluctant to say month to Zeballoff, a remote town on | much about the transfer of the vehicle, Esperanza Inlet on northwest Van- said the four-wheel drive, a 1972 couver Island, to replace a four-wheel Dodge, was used “lots” last winter. drive vehicle that broke down, said “Lots of roads (in the area) aren't Terry.Moran, an information officer for plowed. Sometimes the main highway the ambulance service. is not plowed. That's when you need that type of vqhicle.” he said. The Castlegar ambulance service has had a four-wheel drive vehicle since 1976 when a coroner's jury in March of By CasNews Staff Castlegar school board has decided to hold public information meetings on next year's operating budget as soon as the board receives financial projections for 1986-87 from the provincial govern- ment at the end of November. Trustee Kay Johnson originally put forward a motion calling for public meetings on the budget to begin im- “It's simply a matter of the vehicle being needed more elsewhere,” Moran said. “The (provincial ambulance) cen- tre there can't get by. without one.” mediately. “However, that-proposal_met_with opposition from trustee George Anutooshkin. He said the decision to transfer Castlegar’s four-wheel drive was based on a study of the number of ¢alls in each location when such a vehicle was trical inspector is due to go over the ruins Monday. By CasNews Staff _ A B.C. Supreme Court judge re- fused Friday. to reinstate funding to Gayle Salewski pending the out- come of her case against the provin- |..cial_ government. - Salewski is 9 mentally and physi To cally handicapped woman from who has been living at the Saleiset Centre in Creston. The Ministries Heaith and Human Resources want Salewski moved to the extended care unit at the Trail Regional peer and cut off funding for her COURT REJECTS FUN DING In the meantime, they applied for an injunction to reinstate funding pending the outcome of the trial. Jn a telephone interview Friday, KSH president Norma Collier said Judge Ann Roles refused to grant an injunction because of the impli- cations such-e-decision would Daye, on others in similar situation: ~ Salewski's. 3 She said Judge Roles found it _ “How are-we going to hold budget meetings this fall when we don’t start preparing a budget until the first of the year to be submitted March 15?” Anutooshkin asked Johnson. “We can't go public until we know where we stand.” But Johnson replied that boards in several school districts in the province “go to each school in the fall to start budget meetings. “If it’s possible to get information for these districts we can get it,” she said. Johnson said it is important to have public input into the budgetary process , abd-jshe~ cited_the provincial gov- needed. However, Moran said he didn’t “have a compilation of the call figures” -be- cause “it requires a computer data *runoff” which he said is too much work for routine inquiries. He suggested writing a letter to the ambulance service requesting the figures, but he said “the raw data doesn’t tell. you-much.” “There was no real need for a four- wheel drive in Castlegar,” Moran said, adding that the Castlegar unit an- swered “strictly road calls” and that the drivers- were “skilled enough to ernment’s Let's Talk About~Schools—_handle_most situations.” report which indicated a majority of | On the other~hand,—Moran_ said people want more input into education Zeballoff is an isolated town serviced in B.C. only by a logging road. “I would like the public to give us “It’s at the end of a restricted road. their priorities, what kind of ideas they i ~~death, it that year recommended “that a four- wheel drive ambulance be available for inclement weather as soon as possible to meet the -needs—of—the_ outlying areas.” The jury was sitting at an inquest into the death of a Pass Creek woman, Dorothy. Tennant, 50, who died Nov. 22, 1975 after being iH for two days. There had been a fresh seven-centi- metre snowfall on the day of Tennant’s death. Her husbang,- jim Lambert, called for an ambulance which failed three times to negotiate the hill on Gibson Creek Road leading to the couple's residence. ‘ The ambulance jattendants even- tually had to commandeer a station wagon loaded with boards to drive up the hill, Although the coroner's jury ruled out negligence or fault in Tennant’s _recommended that the Castlegar ambulante-service_purchase a four-wheel drive vehicle for use as an There are lots of where log- have,” Johnson said. gers need an ambulance to get them,” “If we thought last year’s budget he said. was tough, wait till you see this “Castlegar may have been a little year's.” outback at some point,” Moran said, Trustee Gordon Turner, agreed that and suggested looking at a map. public meetings on the budget should He went on to describe “big red lines be held. { and spots” which surround Castlegar continued on poge A2 on a road map, indicating, he said, that wv { Shortly after the inquest, a four- wheel drive International jtravelall owned by the Castlegar Funeral Home was put into service as an ambulance. Told of the jury's recommendation, Moran said “that was nine years ago. In the meantime, the roads have been im- proved immensely.”