-VOL. 31, No. 1 Would Close Atrport for 3: Months Resurfacing Propose Belle ville St CASTLEGAR Distributed Every Thurvday Morning at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” TWO SECTIONS (A&B) eho Proposed runway resurfacing which would shut down Castlegar Airport during April, May and June awaits federal treasury board approval, the ministry of transport’s regional manager for designated airports said Tuesday. James Westover said a decision on the proposed three-month i ‘Project is expected around the end of this month. Westover said Castlegar Airport is one of several in B.C. for which the ministry has requested funds for upgrading. He said the ministry usually submits to the treasury board “a few more than are actually approved.” | . _ “It would be quite a large job,” he said. “It means bringing in quite a lot of base materials such as crushed rock. and gravel and” putting a whole new surface cows: Als 16 Gid ot know how much the uaa project wou! said the contract for the project will go to tender if the treasury board approves construction. City Investiaating Vandalism Compiaint * ‘The charge that customers of a nearby “poo! hall" may be © responsible for recent acts of vandalism at the Russian Hall on the 100 block Main Street will be examined by city coun- cil's protective services com- - mittee this week. Committee chairman Ald. C.S. Fowler said the committee will meet to discuss a petition _from members of Castlegar ;Loeal Union of Youth. No, 6 of the Union of Spiritual ‘Communities of Christ charging at the =proximity-of the Wizard's Palace Funteria at 123 Drop Gun, ‘Take Course, Says Council Following the protec- tive service committee in- vestigation of the death of a local resident's dog, city council has instructed the city dog control officer take a course in the proper use of a tranquilizer gun. Council last Wednesday approved the committee's | recommendations that city staff write a letter to John Phillips of 401 Connors “ex- pressing council's regrets over the death of his dog,” and that dog control officer Jim Vigue not use a tran- quilizer gun until he success- fully completes the course. Committee chairman C. (continued on page A2) CONTROVERSIAL WALL. at 2 2 Columbia Avenue received immediate attention Christmas Eve when it was noted it had moved approximately four inches from the - position it had been “caning for several months. City public works has leaned guard rails normally used along side of highways against the wall reinforcing these with several loads of sand. Service and works chairman Ald. Albert Calderbank Main St. allows the “congrega- tion” of persons who participate in such acts of vandalism as the smashing of a window in the hall during a prayer service. According to the petition, signed by 16 members of the youth organization, broken glass narrowly missed the prayer service participants. “We are now reluctant to hold our prayer services in the Russian Hall, due to the possi- bility of personal injury,” the petition said. The petition said council can regulate through Section 458-N of the Municipal Act the location of a “pool hall” and recommended th the Wizard's Palace. Fowler this week. de- scribed the window smashing as “another one of those regrettable acts of vandalism.” He said the petition was the first recent complaint attri- buted to the amusement hall. Complaints were first lev- elled at the Wizard's Palace in late September from nearby residents who charged the amusement hall's customers were excessively noisy, van- dalizing private property and threatening residents. The citi- zens’ group People Interaction was appointed by council to mediate in the dispute, Plilater recommended that a youth centre be opened at the old arena, that the youths frequenting the premises police themselves and that the amuse- ment hall be warned. ation of CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1978 SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 9 board of trustees members for 1978 are (seated): newly-elected Area I trustee Lovette ’ Nichvolodoff, board chairman Pat Haley, vice-chairman Anne Jones George Ernie Mills, newly-elected Area J trustee Anutooshkin, trustee trustee Stewart Webster, district superintendent John Holden and super- visor of instruction Tom Good. —CasNewsFoto by Ryon Guedes Trustees Nichvolodoff, Anutooshkin Sworn In Chairman Re-elected Trustecs returned Pat Haley as chairman and Anne Jones as vice-chairman at the 1978 inaugural meeting of the School. District’ No. 9 board Tuesday: =. 2 Haley - and. Jones, both entering their third ycar in the positions, were elected by acclamation ‘ at the meeting after the swearing-in of Area J trustee-elect George Anutoosh- kin and Area I trustee-elect Lovette Nichvolodoff. Below, with the names of chairmen listed first, are. the 1978 standing committee’ re- sponsibilities designated by Haley: Management, Haley and Jones; buildings and grounds, Ernie Mills and Nichvolodoff; transportation and safety, Stewart Webster and Anv-, tooshkin; education, Jones, Haley and Vera Kanigan; nego- tiations and grievances, Haley, Mills and Anutooshkin. A newly-created standing © committee, chaired by Kanigan, described the action as preventative, protecting anyone from injury as well as is the public relations commit- tee, which will include Webster and district supervisor of. in- struction Tom*Good*+as* ‘deh bers. ‘Ad hoe committee appoint- ments were: Scholarship, Jones and Nichvolodoff; policy, Mills and Anutooshkin; professional de- velopment, Jones and Nichvo- lodoff. Representing the board on Regional Recreation Commis- sion .No. 1. will be Kanigan, while Webster sits on the Selkirk College council and Nichvolodoff attends meetings af the West Kootenay Health