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Wednesday and Saturday 9 am. to6 Thursday and Friday 9 am. to 9 p.m. We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities 5 ie ne A Mee OA PASS CREEK FUN .. . SunFest Firemen’s com petitions included the beer barrel event (top) and the bucket brigade (bottom) Also held Sunday at the park was the C | Frog Championships (middle) which attracted young yand old alike. CosNews Photos by Adrion Chomberioin Firemen compete .at SunFest ‘84 By CasNews Staff Nine men's teams and seven ladies’ teams competed in the Firemen’s Competition held Sunday at Pass Creek Park as part of Sunfest ‘84 activities in Castlegar. Teams came from Pass Creek, Castlegar, Tarrys and Robson. The results of the competitions are Men's I'/: Inch Hose Lay First place: Robson No. 1 time: 14:48; Second place: North Castlegar time: 15:28; third place: Robson No. 2 time: 15:40. Ladie’s 1'/: Inch Hose Lay First place: Robson No. 2 time: 12:42; Second place Robson No. 1 time: 14:04; third place: Tarrys time: 14:39. Men's 2'/: Inch Hose and Reel First place: South Castlegar time: 21:32; Second place: Tarrys No. 1 time: 21:36; Third place: Pass Creek No. 1 time: 23:37 Men's Beer Barrel First place: Pass Creek No. 2; Second place: South Castlegar; Third place: Pass Creek No. 1 Ladies’ Beer Barrel First place: Pass Creek No. 1; Second place: South Castiegar; Third place: Tarrys Men's Bucket Brigade First place: Robson No. 1 time:32:71; Second place: Tarrys No. 1 time: 37:34, Third place: North Castlegar time: 39:60. Ladies’ Bucket Brigade First place: Pass Creek No. 1 time: 53:99; Second place: Pass Creek No. 2 time: 1 minute 1:12; Third place: Robson N. 2 time: 1 minute 4:97 Aggregate award trophies (for the teams with the lowest times) were awarded to Robson No. 1 — the Men's Aggregate, and Robson No. 2— the Women's aggregate. In other Sunfest activities The senior citizens tea was held Saturday afternoon at the Legion Hall with almost 100 people attending. Winners of food certificates wer Joe Killough, Ivy Nielson, and Helen Bonachi On Friday the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce Yard Beautification Contest was judged. Winners of the first prize — an electro tiller — were Mir. and Mrs. Leo Quaia of 1692 Ridgewood Rd. Second prize winners Mr. and Mrs. Bruno Vidizzon of 1613 Conpers Rd. received $35 of nursery stock, and third place winners Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Burdett of 304-33rd St. won a plaque. A family scavenger hunt was held by the Castlegar Kiwanis Club as part of Sunfest's Saturday activities at Pass Creek Park. One of the requirements was the comipogition of a four line poem Here are some of the submissions: Pass Creek is pretty. Pass Creek I loye. Pass Creek has trees And stars above. Mrs. Idle Pass Creek Park is such a wonderful place, Every time | think of it. it puts a smile on my face. When the sun comes out and it's really hot Myself and. my wife bring along the tots: _ Mr. Dunlop I like Pass Creek. Pass Creek is fun It is lots of fun For everyone. \ Mr. Aussant j Mining losses for two years at $213 million Mining suffered large loss es for the second consecutive year in 1983. The annual statistical report on the B.C. mining industry, prepared by Price Waterhouse Associ ates, shows aggregate indus. try losses for 1983 to be $62 million. Eighteen member companies lost $156 million; most of these were metal mines. Combined with 1982's ag gregate losses of $151 mil lion, the total industry loss in the last two years has been $213 million. Losses of un profitable mines have totall ed $395 million in the last two years. Working capital in the industry has declined from $628 million in 1980 to $121 million in 1983. “These losses seriously af fect mining’s ability to pro vide capital for operating and expansion from internal sources,” said Tex Enemark, President of the Mining Association of B.C., in re leasing the report. Revenues increased by 2 per cent in 1983, while operating expenses declined by 4 per cent. Total taxes were up 21 per cent. Taxes on capital and operations taxes unrelated to profits — increased 31 per cent in two years from $135 million to $177 million. These taxes are sales, property and school taxes, the water tax, Work ers’ Compensation and em ployer contribution to UIC and CPP. This does not in Reducing teen deaths By JEFF ADAMS CALGARY (CP) — Laws banning teenagers from dri ving cars after dark could eliminate almost half the traf fic deaths suffered by drivers under the age of 19, says John Read, a researcher at the University of Calgary. Curfew laws in 12 states in the United States have led to a dramatic decrease in teen age deaths and injuries, ran ging from 25 to 69 per cent in some jurisdictions says a report this year from the non-profit Insurance Insti tute for Highway Safety Read also recommends raising the minimum age for acquiring a driver's licence to 18 from 16, returning the drinking age to 21, introduc ing seatbelt laws country wide and overhauling driver education programs in high schools. “In Alberta, like other provinces, the young driver problem has reached epid emic proportions during the last 10 years,” said Read, a quiet-spoken, white-haired pediatrician and father of Ken Read, the former World Cup downhill ski racer Read's call for curfews stems from his federally. ed study of 527 teen age traffic deaths in Alberta between 1978 and 1982, which supported earlier find ings that such accidents usu ally occur late Friday and Saturday night or early Sun day morning A report by the Traffic Injury Research Foundation of Canada says 15 to 19-year olds accounted for 10 per cent of the Canadian population in 1981 but 16.8 per cent of driver deaths and almost 25 Per cent of all fatalities in volving passengers INCREASES RISK The same age group faces twiee the average risk of driver injury and three times the average risk of passenger injury. clude many of the taxation components of natural gas and diese! fuel — figures which are significant but which are not easily broken out by the mining companies. Energy costs have increas ed dramatically — by 105 per cent — in only three years, largely reflecting federal and provincial taxation, despite the net closure of six mines during the same period. The mining industry is a large user of energy in its many forms and recent costs in creases have had a significant impact on the industry's abil. ity to keep costs in line The report also states that employment in the industry is down 7 per cent to 16,600 due to layoffs and closures. The cost of employing each mining industry worker in. creased by 3 per cent to $41,300 per year, including benefits. “This represents a dram. atic leveling off in year-over year increases in wages from the 1979-82 period,” said Enemark Transportation costs were also cited in the report as a significant percentage of ex penditure, increasing by 7 per cent. In 1983, $336 million was spent on moving prod ucts to point of delivery on both price and volume,” added Enemark. “Net - of transportation costs, coal revenues were $536 million in 1983.” “On the other hand, world metal prices are still very soft which has seriously af. fected the revenues of metal mines. Eleven mines are now permanently or indefinitely closed. Stringent cost con trols have achieved most of the available savings in op erating costs. The problem now before us it to continue to cut operating costs,” said Enemark. “Wage restraint will continue to be the order of the day.” Enemark concluded by saying, “The report and the losses in the past two years — don't reflect the whole story. They don’t show the effect, for instance, of extreme budget slashing which has resulted in “mak ing do” with aging equipment that becomes less productive as it inevitably wears out. It doesn't show the postponed costs of deferring stripping or other vital mine develop. ment work. And it doesn't show the effect of mine re-design that — because of increasing costs has caused the life expectancy of one mine to drop from 20 to 14 years.” “The only bright spot in The full implications of 1983 was the coal sector these kinds of developments which increased its impor- have yet to be faced by the tance to the industry and to industry and by the muni the economy of the Province cipal and provincial govern despite downward pressure ments,” he said Bennett would do it all again By BRENDA DALGLISH VANCOUVER (CP) Confrontation has become British Columbia's middle name but Premier Bill Bennett insists his controversial restraint policies have not contributed to B.C.’s poor economic showing and he says he'd do it all again And Bennett, who made nationwide headlines last year when he introduced a bateh of tough restraint measures just after his re-election to a third term, blames some of British Columbia's economic problems on the federal government “Part of our problem now is that the policies that have helped a strong recovery in central Canada are geared to that area,” said Bennett in a recent interview “They're not good for the long-term prospects of the country “The auto quotas, for example, may have helped their manufacturers, short term, but it really made our job of selling into those countries more difficult as they talked retaliation. It did put up, for our people, automobile prices Bennett won't say which party he supports in the federal election because, he says, he'll have to work with the winner — and perhaps also because his endorsement would be as welcome as the kiss of death. SOCREDS VARY But he made a point of mentioning that his cabinet B.C. Social Credit has no national political affiliation — is made up of both Liberal and Conservative supporters. Several are even card-carrying members of one or the other federal party Either way, he sees some unpopular measures ahead. “I would expect that whoever's government after Sept. 4 will have to deal in a very real way with a tough economy nd make some hard decisions. He wouldn't say, however, whether he thinks the country is heading into another recession Unemployment in British Columbia is higher now than any time since the depression; the jobless rate is 15.6, four percentage points above the national average. And the balance sheets of many of the province's major industries are still in the red Eighteen months ago Bennett boasted that British Columbia would lead Canada out of the recession. Now he says there is little the province can do about many of its economic problems because the fate of its resource-based economy rests with other countries Some economic analysts say cash-hoarding consumer nervousness stemming from the Bennett government restraint measures has been one impediment to recovery. Even Finance Minister Hugh Curtis has recently admitted that government policies may have caused shortterm setbacks. CUTS MADE Although government spending actually went up 12 per cent in the budget introduced a year ago, the government announced plans to cut the civil service and eliminate or feduee Funding for a variety of social services such as the human rights branch, the rentaisman's office and others. At the same time it went ahead with such multimillion-dollar projects at the Northeast eval development and Expo 86. The cuts sparked province wide protests and brogght churches, community groups and labor into a protest group named Solidarity Coalition. However, it is government polls indicate a majority of British Columbians support the government's actions.