garbage * Moore said 1964 “has not been the easiest year in the Jncrease in 1985 will reflect only the additional cost of the Merry Creek watershed and prepare a referendum history of the city,” but noted that the city will likely wind ~ providing the existing services,” she said. new RCMP building. up the year with a “modest” surplus. That referendum will go before the voters By RON NORMAN Editer Castlegar taxpayers may have to pay for @ ar SAFEWAY MEAT DEPARTMENT SPECIALS Fletchers Roasties......... Fresh , 1 Sliced Side ¢ Bacon 20.250. 1 hubs All Beef _ $1 GROCERY DEPARTMENT Fletchers. Vac Pak 175 g Pkg. am Steak $179 Mock Chicke g Sliced Bologna:s= $49 Royal Breakfast Sausag >" 375 g Pkg. Fletchers Wiene Liver Bavarian or Ail Meat 375 g Pkg. $4" $449 SPECIALS Gainers. Frozen 500 g Pkg. garbage collection next year, Mayor Audrey Moore indicated in her inaugural address Monday. Moore said Castlegar council will look at charging residents for garbage collection rather than increase property taxes. “This method of ing . city by Warfield, Montrose and Rossland,” Moore said. Moore's five-minute address touched on some of the accomplishments of the past year and looked ahead to plans for 1985. She weleomed the re-election of aldermen Len Embree, Marilyn Mathieson and Bob Pakula, saying it was “good to have you returned to council.” “J attribute this major accomplishment to dose bodgetting, a very wise investment of tax revenues and “*Pita! works projects in 1985, such as: careful scrutiny of our expenses by the treasury department,” she said. are She also pointed out that council committees, staff and and will improve water pressure in the south end. is used were “instrumental in making the yeara success in extensively throughout British Columbia and Canada, locally spite of the p il However, Moore said council is also looking at various November A major water connection from Southridge Drive to the lower bench area. “It is a major installation,” Moore said _ Completion of the Dumont storm sewer project, tying it into the Columbia River outfall installed this year. Vol. 37, No. 98 ing adverse Moore credited co-operation for that suecess. “Working together productively has meant for Castlegar continued training centre for area fire departments and ways to growth and expansion,” she said. She later hinted that there will be no new municipal services this year, but there won't by any cutbacks either. promoting tourism in the West Kootenay and will develop a “Recognizing, as we do, that British Columbia has not traffic safety program for the area. yet recovered from the recession, we hope that any tax Council will also investigate methods of financing a park.” improve library space. The city also plans to take a more active role in Castlegar RSS) yy Castlégar News 50 Cents CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1984 In addition, council will encourage and support the Castlegar industrial which is market city-owned lots in the industrial park. Moore thanked commission members for their work so far and said she is “confident that all their efforts will come together in 1985 and some companies will be locating in the Finally, she said council will again approach the Urban Transit Authority to request that a bus system be started in Earlier, Embree, Mathieson and Pakula were sworn into office by Judge Bruce Josepheson. As well, council will monitor the imports of logging in Rev. Ted Bristo gave the invocation. WEATHERCAST Cloudy Thursday. though leat or higher altitudes. Highs -1° to -3 ond lows -8* to 10°. Cloudy Friday with highs near 0° and lows -7° 10 o 4 Sections (A, B,C &D) Wieners :::;.. Bran Chex Cereal 9 $449 Bee Maid Honey 9 Mandarin Oranges ; 1” Bicis Pickles Scotch Buy. 284 mi Tin 2 $ * Sweet Mixed * Yur Yum or *Poiski Ogorkie 500 mi Jar for M woth elle Chocolate Chip $149 Shampoo or Rinse $449 $149 Arrid XX Dry $49 $449 Foamy Shave Cream $449 Scotch Buy. Stems and Pleces 284 mi Tin Empress Mincemeat $4 49 «0m. eihee of H ee Pianters Peanuts $449 New Freedom Slims $449 dot lla 1 Noodle Soup Eveready Batteries $449 = 0o e up $449... Super Heavy Duty *AA, *C, or *D Pkg. of 2 or *9V of 1 Flaked White Tuna 1” i so 4a to — 1" Broken Shri d- Millionaire ae Bic Lighters roken snp $449 nn a 4q Bake N Serve Dishess4 49 $449 srooe ee bas ” Light Bulbs Oral B Toothbrushess 4 49 2 22: +10. +60, .+100 war me. 12 uae 1 Disposable Razors $149 poinsettia Napkins $4” Instant Noodles 3 58 | A nme ea Mixture $449 ——————— PRODUCE DEPARTMENT SPECIALS wormee San os Poinsettias | Salad Pak = |APPiSuicc 1281 Single Stem $] 49 1 Head of Lettuce $ 1 49 Plant Cleaner $ 1 49 1 Stalk of Celer Zygo Cactus |" *Cabbage*Rutabagas| Plant Food $449 nions Flowering 4a” IN-STORE BAKE SHOP SPECIAL Fresh Bread = Prices. Effective Tues. Dec. 4th, 1984. In yoyr Friendly Castlegar Safeway Store. We reserve { the right to limit sales to retail quantities. r *Ca re : $419 te ss: Ons $179) Plant Food $449 Green Earth. Indoor 454 g Cont. SAFEWAY CANADA SAFEWAY LIMITED IREMEN AC ; « Firemen Jim Fishwick, chief Bob Mann, Randy Grant fempel were hord at work this week fixing some of the dontoted tor needy children of the area. Firemen are collecting FOR BOARD CHAIRMAN Smecher fends off challenge By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer A bid by a new trustee to take over the top Castlegar school board position was quelled Tuesday night when chair man Doreen Smecher was re-elected for another one-year term New trustee Gordon Turner, nomin ated for board chairman by fellow newcomer Kay Johnson, was defeated after votes were cast in a secret ballot at the inaugural meeting. Vote results weren't released “| thank you all for your support. I appreciate being here again,” said Smecher, nominated by trustee Linda Krull Following the meeting, Smeeher said in an interview that declining enrol ment and budget restraints will be pri- orities for the board in the fyture! She said if cutbacks “dictate a reduc tion in staff” the board will meet them “through ettrition, rather than layoffs or terminations.” Turner was also nominated by Johnson for the position of vice-chair. man, but was again defeated — this S SANTA’S HELPER Provisional budget up By CasNews Staff Castlegar council Monday unveiled a $7.7 million 1985 provisional budget — up just $1,600 or 1.08 per cent from the 1984 final budget. However, administrator Dave Gairns cautioned that the provisional! could change between now and the May 15 deadline for the final 1985 city budget. Gairns said council may decide to add or delete particular expenses, And though the overall figure for the provisional budget and the 1984 final budget are almost identical, Gairns said it doesn’t mean the contents of the two budgets are the same. For instance, he said the provisional budget includes a $36-a-year fee for garbage collection. Gairms said the fee — which is proposed for every Castlegar household — would generate $70,800 in revenue. He pointed out that council is still only considering the fee. However, Gairns said if council decides not to introduce the garbage fee in 1985, the city would have to raise the $70,800 in taxes — increasing the budget by 4.5 per cent instead of 1.08 per cent or cut services. Gairns said the garbage fee could be levied once a year, with the bill included in the annual water and sewer tax notice. Gairns said the garbage collection now costs about $36 a year for the owner of a home assessed at $65,000. However, it costs $58 a year for the homeowner of a home assessed at $100,000. new toys and used toys in good condition to be distributed ot Christ- mas Contews Photo by Ron Mormon —inside Cet See < TT rrr Aiiacannvennoniiinentiies FANTASIA: Seanagh Sloan looks like someone out of the future in special fashion show Sunday per cent Gairns said residents with houses assessed at less than $65,000 are actually having their garbage collection “subsidized.” As well, he said many commercial and industrial taxpayers pay twice to have their garbage removed. He said they pay throught theirtaxesand pay again to rent a garbage bin from the private operator. Meanwhile, the provisional budget also shows a slight increase in general taxes. In the 1984 final budget taxes amounted to $2,069,000. In the provisional budget, taxes are listed as $2,081,00 — a $22,000 or one per cent increase. Elsewhere, council also revealed a proposed 1985 capital budget totalling $294,000. The budget includes $86,400 for public works — things such as a five-ton dump truck with plow and one without a plow, two pick-up trucks, a compactor and steam cleaner. As well, $10,000 has been proposed for toilet facilities for Zuckerberg Island Park and $30,000 for resurfacing four blocks of pavement on 4th and 5th avenues in the north end. Some $84,000 has been suggested for storm sewers and $15,800 for sidewalks for the Century 21 building and Safe way Also proposed is $5,000 to plan a fire training area, $2,000 for office fur. niture and equipment and $1,000 for parks and recreation, ineluding $20,000 for beautification and $6,000 to up grade the Bob Brandson pool. scholarship — Turner and Johnson, student discipline — Johnson and any three available trustees. Johnson was appointed tentatively time by trustee Lovette Nich who assumes the position for a second year. Following her re-election, Smecher made the following appointments for school board standing committees (first named is committee chairman): man- agement — Smecher and Nichvolodoff, building, energy and grounds — George Anuteoshkin and Rick Pon gracz; transportation and safety — Krull and A as to the Regional Ree. reation Committee No. 1, and Turner was appointed as representative to the Central Kootenay Union Board of trustees were ap representatives; Pongracz to Blueberry Creek Elem entary school, Shoreacres Elementary school, and Tarrys Elementary school: ryer= to Castlegar Primary schoo! Nich yolodotf and all availible trustees, negotiations and grievances with Can- adian Union of Public Park Elementary shook Tereer to Kinnaird Elementary sehool and Valley Vista Elementary school; Nichvolodoff to Kinnaird Junior school and Twin Rivers Elementary school; and Johnson to Stanley Hum phries Senior Secondary school The three new trustees Johnson, Pongracz and Turner — were also offi cially sworn in at the meeting by schools superintendent Terry Wayling. After the ceremony, Wayling em phasized that the public, students, parents and employees of the board have all placed « trust in the new trustees. “You must know, honor and guide that trust as a school trustee,” said Wayling, who added, “great frustration yet the prospect of 2 significant chal lenge awaits you.” In other school board business. evening... B3 BREAK-IN: Police are cautioning Blueberry homeowners to lock their doors following the third break-in there in three weeks... AZ TIGHT FIT: ELMIRA, N.Y. — Getting people into their seat belts is tough. But getting them out con be even tougher, one sheriff's deputy discovered the day after New York's mandatory seat belt law took effect A “rather large” woman who spent 20 minutes trapped in her seat belt in o supermarket lot told Chemung County sheriff's Deputy Williom Fitch “it was the first time she ever wore it and she would never wear it again Fitch answered a cali of a “hysterical” woman trapped in a cor Sunday. Broving a stream of verbal abuse, the deputy climbed in the passenger's side, jabbed the buckle’s button a couple of times ond managed to set the woman tree. She wes rather highly upset.” Fitch said Tuesday. “She wos very critical of the new law. | told her | didn't moke the new low and! was just here to entorce it.” Fitch soid “it took o little doing” tor him to open the belt buckle because it apperently hed never been used, even though the cor appeared to be o 1972 or 1973 model.