c lesa N May 29, 1985 WEATHER SYNOPSIS: 4 foirly lorge mos to the North of me 9 "Wormer ond drier cit | weekend is for improving wea # cool and moist air lies over eastern Oregon and is moving into stem will give some light precipitation to the Kootenays Thur to move in behind on Friday, and the outlook for the * PEACE aver C=) Le] | *) (2) I! LJ By CasNews Staff Time is running out. There are just a few more hours to help Castlegar out in the Great Canadian Par- ticipaction Challenge being staged across the country today. The phone lines at the Castlegar Recreation office began ringing as early as 8:30 a.m. this morning with calls from residents who had finished 15 minutes of continuous exercise. The lines close at 9 p.m. to- night. Castlegar is competing in the Participaction Chal- lenge with other commun- both provineially and nationally, in the under 10,000 population cate- gory. Castlegar ranked 25th in Canada last year and eighth in B.C. Last year 3,289 Castlegar resi dents participated, repre- senting 45.4 per cent of the TRAINING continued trom tront page of Columbia Avenue in south Castle. length of Columbia Avenue. r. Council's traffic safety committee recommended extending the lane the However, the works and services committee voted against the move, SITE saying vehicles park along Columbia Avenue. Council agreed. Meanwhile, a new streetlight will be installed at the end of 8th Street between the intersection of 7th Avenue and 8th Street. As well, council rejected a request to pave the 1100 block of 23rd Street. About nine Castlegar residents registered their 15 minutes with the com- plex this morning after a walk which began from the community complex and went to Safeway and back. The walkers included Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore (dressed in jogging attire) and Ald. Bob Mac- Bain, who walked with his TAKING THE CHALLENGE .. . A handful of Castlegar residents participated in a morning walk today to help out the city in the Great Canadian dog. Moore and MacBain rode their bikes to the complex to begin the walk. Moore said she expects Castlegar to have more than a 60 per cent par- ticipation rate. “We are better organ- ized,” she commented. “More people are more aware (of the challenge).” Recreation director Pat Metge noted at 9 a.m., when more than 130 people had already registered with the recreation office, that the number of people phoning in at that time was Participaction Challenge being staged across the country today. Residents have until 9 p.m. tonight to register their 15 minutes of exercise. Coshtews Photo by Chery! Colderbank more than for the same time last year. But he added that he ex- pected more people to phone in the afternoon. Shortly before, noon, total number of people regis tered was 423 people. 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VIN IME CASTLEC OFFICE 365-5210 By RON NORMAN Editor Federal Supply and Services Minister Harvie Andre tried his hand at selling Tuesday, but it wasn't clear if anyone was buying. Andre was in Castlegar as part of a two-day swing through the B.C. Interior “unabashedly selling the (federal) budget.” Andre made a 20-minute sales pitch to 75 people at a public luncheon sponsored by the Catlegar Chamber of Commerce. But he didn't field any questions from the floor. Instead he spoke briefly to several people and then left. Andre told the luncheon, “We're not out campaigning . . we're not out looking for votes.” Instead, he said the federal government is concerned about the “confidence” and “attitude” of the electorate. He said his visit is to make Castlegar residents and the business community in particular feel “more confident” about Finance Minister Michael Wilson's budget. “We think it's vitally important for Canada's future . . . that government . . . be partners as opposed to antagonists as has been the case too often in the past.” Andre said the government is issuing a challenge to all Canadians to create jobs and wealth by investing in private enterprise. “We're confident that business . challenge.” He said the budget focuses on three strategic areas: encouraging productive and efficient government; and controlling and ultimately reversing the deficit. will accept that ? SARE oe © 84 Chevrolet %-Ton Van, ¥-8, auto. °’84ChevP.U. . 6-cyl., 4-speed, 12,000 km. °’B3GMC 4x4. ‘4-Ton, V-8, automatic °'S3GMCSI5 , V-6, 5-speed °'S3GMC 4x4, %-Ton, two-tone °'S3GMCP.U. . 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If every small business created one job, unemploy ment could be reduced by 50 per cent, he said Andre also defended his government's refusal to put a figure on the number of jobs the budget will create. Recent Liberal governments did that in several budgets, but the figures were “fictious,” he said. Andre said if the Liberal budgets had created all the jobs they said they had, there would be a “negative unemployment rate.” Andre also said the budget would produce a more efficient government. He cited instances of government waste. In his own department, Statistics Canada spent more than $80 million over the last two decades collecting information on foreign involvement in Canadian corporation and unions. In the 23 years the information has beencollected, there has been only one request for it, he said. “So somebody got an $80 million answer that you and I Police file Castlegar RCMP say a number of liquor act charges will be laid as a result of liquor infractions at Syringa Creek Park. Increased pat rols will be made with the campsites now open. HARVIE ANDRE . . . sells budget paid for. That's the kind of thing that you and I pay for,” ndre said. He said he plans to cut $100 million from the Statistics Canada budget without reducing service. The Tories also plan to eli 200 senior positions for a saving of $80 million, he said, as part of the “downsizing of government.” Andre said the government sliced as much as it could from the deficit without cutting too heavily into social programs and hurting economics growth with large tax increases. “It took us 15 to 20 years to get up to this level. It's going to take more than a year or two to get back down,” he said. He added that “all Canadians are being asked to bear part of the burden” of reducing the deficit. “No sector can claim to be treated unfairly by this budget.” Andre also said it was necessary for the federal government to make changes to indexation of personal income tax, family allowances and the old age pension because indexation is “part of the problem and not part of the solution,” to the federal deficit. Little or no down payment We finance ICBC premiums We take any trade-in No payment in event of sickness or accident No payment until July, 1985. arc na: Lyle Mi: (NDP. Se Castlegar News TREET ‘TALK LAST WEEK the CasNews ran a story about mee Tourism Minister Claude Richmond explained: “Not only that,” from somewhere.” North) Richmond that 4.2 million tourism brochures included*the non-existent town of Needles, flooded 20 years ago when the Hugh Keenleyside Dam raised the Arrow Lakes. Richmond had his revenge the next day quoting, of all people, the immortal words of New York Yankees great Yogi Berra: “If you don't know where you're going, you might end up somewhere else.” “If you wish to take a trip on a ferry to Tsawwassen, you must leave from somewhere. Hence, we show Swartz Bay on the map, even though there is no town of Swartz Bay. When you wish to cross the Arrow Lakes from the west side to get to Fauquier, you have to leave from somewhere to get to Fauquier. “Conversely, and just as important to the people of Fauquier, if you want to leave there and go to the other side of the lake, you have to be able to go somewhere. That somewhere shows on the map as Needles. Richmond continued, member has driven to Needles lately, he will know that the minister of transportation and highways (Alex Fraser) has spent millions of dollars upgrading a road to go to a place called Needles, so that his ferry can leave “but if the MacWilliam is MLA for Needles — or would be MLA if Needles was there. Or is it there? courts, ball field, day use beach and new village hall. ‘The Commission has also sent a letter to Premier Bil Bennett asking for his help and has applied for an Expo 86 module pavilion to be used as the village hall. The property runs adjacent to Highway 3A just east of the Kootenay Lake ferry landing. It is already ear- marked for use as a provincial park, once gravel has been removed by the Highways Ministry. HIGHWAYS CREWS had their work cut out for them Saturday on Highway 6 between New Denver and Nakusp. The road near Summit Lake was closed for some time because of a slide that sent gravel two feet deep across the highway. Apparently, heavy rains caused the nearby river to back up and overrun the road SPEAKING OF SUMMIT Lake, there is a proposal for a commercial campground at the northwest end of the lake. However, concern was expressed at the Central Kootenay Regional District Board Saturday that the campground’s going to be lovated above the lake and effluent will be discharged into the lake. ANOTHER NEW business has opened its doors: Ron's Custom Upholstery and Interiors is owned by Ren and Pauline It is located on 23rd Street where the old No. 7 Upholstry used to be. THE WEST Kootenay could have yet another golf course — this time at Balfour, The Balfour Recrea’ Commission has asked the Central Kootenay Regional Distriet to apply to the Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing for 49 acres of Crown land. The Commission wants the land — known as the tion Cougar mauls youth VICTORIA (CP) — 12-year-old boy elorwent surgery early today at Vic- toria General hospital after he was attacked Tuesday by a cougar on the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island. A hospital official said the boy was in stable condi tion when he arrived aboard a Canadian Forces helicopter. The boy's name was with held. Lt. John Flanner, co-pilot of the U.S. helicopter from Port Angeles, Wash., which assisted in the rescue, said his crew members who dis- embarked to help the boy told him they were told, “it Pressure which was high but not serious,” Flanner said. A spokesman for the res- was an unpr attack.” “As I understand it, the boy was with a camping party of Canadians and went up alone to play in the bush. Then the cougar just at- tacked him.” He said the helicopter landed on the beach near the camping party in rain and fog and medical technician Mike Jones attended to the boy. “He applied compresses to his wounds and took his blood cue centre in Victoria said a medical team accompanied the boy on the helicopter. The U.S. Coast Guard hel- icopter carrying an emer. gency medical technician was first on the scene. The technician found the boy bleeding profusely and treated cuts to his head and neck. When the Canadian Forces helicopter arrived, the Amer- ican craft took off to allow the Canadian helicopter to land and pick up the boy, a spokesman said. The Victoria spokesman said the boy was attacked by a cougar about three kil- ometres east of Pachena Point Light, about 72 kil- ometres southeast of Tofino. The West Coast Trail, which stretches 80 kilome- tres from Bamfield to Port Renfrew, is part of Pacific Rim National Park and is a popular trail for hikers. COQUIHALLA HALF FINISHED DRY GULCH BRIDGE (CP) — A day-long media tour of the $375-million Co- quihalla Highway project featured a bus br provements to Highway 1 in the Fraser Valley and the new four lanes to Merritt, opens next year. Phase 2, and reluctant dynamite. The tour Tuesday was timed to mark completion of half the 200-kilometre high. way that will put Kamloops 80 kilometres closer to Van- couver and cut driving time by an hour. It takes about five hours to cover the existing route, longer with campers or transport trucks. Phase 1, including im. Province donates $12,000 VICTORIA (CP) — British Columbia has collected more than $12,000 in sales tax on the recording Tears Are Not Enough and the amount will go to famine relief in Ethi. opia. Finance Minister Hugh Curtis told the legislature Tuesday the latest statistics showed 47,000 singles had been sold at $2.49 each in the province, and 10,000 albums at $5.98 each. The provincial sales tax is seven per cent, amounting to $12,378. Curtis said he will report later on the final amount col. lected The provincial government has said earlier that it would donate the sales tax on the recording to famine relief ef. forts. Other provinces are ma. king similar contributions to African famine relief. ding to Kami. is to open in 1987. About 70 civil servants and media representatives were flown in from around British Columbia for the day. The Highways Ministry said it had not figured out the cost of the tour. Premier Bill Bennett drop. ped in by helicopter at Dry Gulch Bridge to take part in halfway-point ceremonies. The 288-metre-long bridge spans a 200-metre-deep gorge and is being built at a cost of $6.8 million. The entourage then took chartered coaches to a near by construction site where a blast had been arranged for photographers. The two-min. ute warning was sounded on the airhorn, cameras were focussed and everyone held their breath as Bennett slammed the detonator home. A hill in the distance was supposed to collapse. It didn't. Embarrassed con struction workers explained they were trying to set off the 80-kilogram charge with an electrical current rather than the slow-burning fuse they normally used, so it would look better for the cameras. After three tries and a lot of fiddling the blast went off, taking the hillside up in a cloud of dust and smoke. The four-lane highway cuts through rugged terrain and climbs from a point just east of Hope to a 1,240-metre summit near the Coquihalla Lakes. A highway toll will be charged on the Coquihalla: $8 one way for private vehicles, $40 for commercial vehicles. these problems Tel No. People turn to newspapers when they wont to know more about today’s major problems, according to a recent Newspaper Readership Project study conducted by the Newspaper Advertisin: Newspaper readers polled wer Readers said they relied on newspapers 49 per cent of the time. d by Charlie Says COHOE INSURANCE 1127-4th Casth . was Castlegar Display Advertising 365-5210 a: Pe asked first to identify what they con- sidered the major problems facing the nation. Then they were asked to rate the relative merits of the mass media as sources of information regarding 28 per cent of those interviewed, followed by magazines (eight per cent), "odie (four percent), talk with others (three per cent) and all other sources (seven per cent). 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