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SUNDAY °

Vol. 40, No. 99

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1987

3 Sections (A, B&C)

FOLLOWING SPILL

Blueberry hooks
onto city water

By BONNE MORGAN
Staff Writer
Blueberry Creek residents are

ving water from the
Castlegar system while officials assess
the damage from Wednesday's stove

oil spill.

A tractor trailer overturned eight
kilometres west of Castlegar on High-
way 38, spilling about 4,000 _o of
stove oil into Blueberry Creek.

The truck driver, 24-year-old
Wayne Menzies of Kamloops, sustained
minor injuries and was treated and re-
leased from the Castlegar and District
Hospital.

Fifteen minutes elapsed between
the time the accident was reported to
police and when the Blueberry Creek
Irrigation District received a report of
the spill from the Ministry of High-

ys.

The Blueberry water intake valve
was then shut off to prevent tainted
water from getting into the Blueberry
system.

Blueberry, a community of about
800, asked for assistance from the City
of Castlegar in providing an emergency
water supply.

City workers started installing a

~“wemporary Overground pipeline about

3:30 p.m. Wednesday and finished
about 1:30 a.m.

They connected 400 metres of
firehose from a hydrant in the indust-
rial park to the Blueberry water line.

The amount of pressure coming
from the temporary line is more than
adequate, according to William Kav-
aloff of the Blueberry Creek Irrigation
District. In fact, city workers installed
a pressure reducing valve to prevent
the water lines from being damaged
from the 185 pounds per square inch
coming from’ the firehose.

Kavaloff; who shut the water

intake valves off, praised the Ministry
of Highways for notifying the district
as quickly as it did. But he nearly
missed the call. “I was walking out the
door when the phone rang and I was
debating whether to answer it or not.”

Kavaloff said the stove oil spill in
the half-metre deep creek was “totally
devastating.”

“That oil is there to stay until next
summer, Have you ever tried was!
away gas spilled in your driveway? he
asked.

Most of the oi] in the creek was
cleaned up Thursday, but “residuals”
remain in the creek, said Barry Wood
of the Ministry of the Environment's
Waste Management Branch.

NEC in

Jim Jenson, an environment pro-
tection officer, said some oil was seen.
floating on the pondage’area, but they
don't know how mueh, if any, is in the
system.

‘There is still-a “thin film of fuel” on
the creek, he said.

The water hasn't been tested yet
because petroleum can make the water
unpleasant, even at very low levels
Jenson added.

Blueberry Creek residents will be
using Castlegar water at least until
Monday.

But Kavaloff is worried the oil
might have gotten into the

“If it gets in, all that oil will stay on
the walls of the pipes,” he said.

‘severe’

financial trouble

By BONNE MORGAN

The West Kootenay National Ex-
hibition Centre is in serious financial
trouble and the board of directors will
meet Tuesday’ right to discuss the
situation, says the acting director of
the NEC.

Helen Lees has replaced Lucille
Doncette who resigned Nov. 80 as
director for “personal reasons.’

“Til be taking over for ‘he time
being to tide the centre over,” said Lee,
who has been hired for a three-month
term.

Lee has a wide background of
museum experience and. has been
living in Slocan for the past two years.
She has been the education officer at
the NEC for over a year and had the
best knowledge to take the temporary

position.
But Lee said it isn't a simple case

all levels of government and is always
in need of funds, according to Lee.

“We basically have to raise the
rest of the money ourselves,” she said.

Lee stresses, “This time it is
different. I realize there's always been
financial troubles, but this isn’t just a
finanei ”

Lee won't say the NEC will have
to close because of the problems, only
that the problems are serious.

She said the centre has a large
debt that connot be ignored.

SPECIAL MEDAL ... Jim
Moore receives medal
from A. Makarov,
minister-counsellor with
the Soviet embassy in
Ottawa, at a ceremony
in Vancouver. Medals
were awarded in
recognition of Moore's

BURNED OUT . . . Castlegar volunteer fireman hoses Avenue. Fire dest@yed motor and much of the A i
down Volkswagen van that caught tire late Friday af- —_ vehicle. CosNews Photo by Ron Norman - two trips on ‘Murmansk
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AIRPORT TAKEOVER

Hall cautions council

By RON NORMAN
Editer

The City of Castlegar should only
consider assuming responsibility for
the Castlegar Airport from the federal
government if it can also levy a tax on
airline tickets, says council's repre-
sentative on the local airport advisory
committee.

“If that were possible — and it’s
not likely — it would be a tremendous
business opportunity,” Dr. John Hall
told council this week.

Hall said the 10 per cent federal
tax and the $4 provincial tax on every
airline ticket generates more than $1
million a year at the airport.

That would more than offset the
$650,000 annual cost of operating the
airport, As well, he said the airport
generates an additional $162,000 a year
from various other activities, such as
leasing signs and renting facilities.

However, Hall warned that if the
city could not levy a tax on tickets and
had to rely on only revenue from

rentals and leasing, it could not expect
to break even operating the airport.

Hall cautioned that his figures are
only estimates because accurate fig-
ures on airport revenue and operating
costs are not made publie.

Last April Transport Minister
John Crosbie announced a new policy
where the federal government will sell
187 airports across the country to pro-
vincial, regional or municipal govern-
ments.

Crosbie said at the time the policy
is intended “to make airports serve
local community interests better and to
allow our national airport system to
operate in a more cost-efficient and
commercial manner.”

Hall pointed out that Castlegar has
experience operating its own airport
because for years the city ran the
Castlegar airport as a limited company.
Hall also noted that the airport always
operated in the black.

Hall made his comments in a wide-

ranging annual report to council that

on everything from the $1.5
million airport terminal expansion to
the number of passengers flying in and
out of Castlegar.

He said the terminal building
should be completed by May 1, 1988.
Rental car companies will be relocated
in the new part of the terminal building
on Thursday, the same day that part of
the building will open to the public.

Hall noted that the move into the
larger building comes just in time for
the Christmas rush.

Time Air and Canadian Airlines
will move into temporary quarters Jan.
4, while on Jan. 17 the new terminal
building cafeteria will open.

In addition, Hall said airport
parking has been improved with 194
spaces developed to date — 85 of them
paved public parking stalls.

However, Hall said Transport
Canada intends to charge for parking.

continued on page A2

SOVIET UNION
HONORS TWO
LOCAL VETS

By RON NORMAN
Editor

It was 46 years ago, but to Jim Moore it seems just
like yesterday. He was in the bowels of a Royal Navy
ship, part of a convoy on its way from northern Scotland
to Murmansk, USSR with vital war supplies.

“We were under attack at all times,” says Moore,
fireman on loan to the British from the Royal Canadian
Navy. “The ship I was on never got hit. We were lucky.”

It was the winter of 1941 and it was bitterly cold.

“The inside of the ship was covered with ice,” recalls
Moore with a slight shiver. It isn't the war that Moore
remembers best, but the icy cold and the terrible North
Sea storms.

He was just 19 and on the first of two “runs” from
Scotland to Murmansk. Each run took from 15 to 25 days.

For those trips up the Norwegian coast to
Murmansk, the Soviet Union recently awarded Moore
specially-made commemorative medal.

A. Makarov, minister-counsellor for the Soviet

embassy mc Ottawa yeonated Meore with the medal in a

ates the

40th pee lle of the ma rie the pom World War.

But Moore isn’t the only Castlegar resident awarded

the medal. Longtime resident Bob Wadey was also

honored for ‘his role in ferrying precious supplies to the
Soviet port city.

Wadey received his modal at a special ceremony last
week at the Castlegar Legio1

“I was on loan from the Canadian Navy to the Royal
Navy,” recalls Wadey.

‘Like Moore he, too, was just a fresh-faced kid of 19.
But unlike, Moore, who was a “stoker” down in the ship’
engine rooms, Wadey was in the communications section.

Wadey explains that Norway was occupied by the
German army at the time — 1942. So the flotilla of some
100 ships with Wadey’s British destroyer escorting them,
slowly made their way along the coast of Norway to
Murmansk.

Their only real protection were the catapult planes
— planes that took off from the @ecks of the merchant
ships, says Wadey. And if there were any heroes, they
were the pilots of those planes.

“They were the brave (ones),” recalls Wadey, ex-
plaining that once they had taken off, they had no place to
land. They were forced to ditch their planes into the sea
and pray they were recovered before the plane sank
and they froze to death.

continyed 09 poge A2