‘ n2__ Castle News Avo: 24 12 trom tromt pege start at Southern Glass and go as far as the railway bridge on Columbia Avenue. Planting trees downtown is also part of the first stage, although Pritchard says this is still up for discussion. Other plans include fixing up the two traffic islands downtown with some greenery and “Welcome to Down town Castlegar” signs so that people know they are in the city’s downtown, Another idea is to replace the red brick sidewalks in some parts of downtown with concrete. Pritchard said the bricks — which will be used elsewhere by the city — were never part of any downtown plan. ‘The downtown parking lot on 3rd Street will also be spruced up so there is a proper entrance and exit. REVITALIZATION PLAN The first part of the revitalization plan will include Columbia Avenue, 3rd Street, and part of 4th Street, where a few trees will be put in. Although facade improvements aren't part of the plan, Pritchard says there are funds available for improvements. Castlegar council recently announced it had received up to $5,000 for funding on a cost-sharing basis. Pritchard said the cost of the first phase to the businesses will be financed over a 12-year period through the Municipal Finance Authority. Property owners will pay for the plan through their taxes, based on the square footage of their buildings. Pritchard said his committee met with the DBA when several key lanjowners were present and the landowners basically liked the plan. TO VANDER ZALM Labor presents demands VANCOUVER — BC. labor leaders p d Pre- pre-1983 form; a job creation imination of the mier Bill Vander Zalm with a list of nipe demands during a one-hour meeting Friday afternoon. The demands include: an increase in welfare rates; re- establishment of the rentals- man's office and child abuse teams; a royal commission into the Workers Compen sation Board; a fair wage provision in public tendering; an increase in education funding; restoration of the provincial Labor Code to its OKANAGAN TOMATOES AT WHOLESALE PRICES Truck arrives at Monte Carlo Motor inn on Monday, Wed- end Fridey. Con- teloupe, watermelon ond iso sold. PLEASE PHONE 365-2177 Compensation Stabilization Program; and. a call for the government to oppose free trade. The premier met with Art Kube, president of the B.C. Federation of Labor, Roy Gautier, president of the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council, Jack Nichol, presi dent of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers, and Anne Harvey, president of the Office and Technical Em ployees Union. Kube said the labor offi cials delivered a stern mes- sage to Vander Zalm. They told the premier that he doesn't deserve to be the elected leader of the province unless he addresses the issues contained in their list of demands. Vander Zalm said he is willing to cogsider the de- mands of the labor dele- gation. He said there is some common ground but he stressed no commitments were made. The ‘premier and Kube may be running against each other in the next provincial election. Kube is stepping down as head of the labor organiza- tion and has commissioned a poll to determine his chances of winning the New Demo- cratic Party nomination in the dual riding of Richmond, then winning a seat in an election. Vander Zalm has said he plans to move to Richmond from Surrey and will likely run in Richmond in the next general election. He said it would be fantastic if Kube were to run against him. BCRIC sells North Sea oil interests ART KUBE ... Stern message New visas in works OTTAWA (CP) — The government is cracking down on illegal immigrants and people who forge Canadian docu- ments by new visas, ministerial permits and permanent residency papers that are much harder to reproduce, an immigration source said. Airport security people in Europe have already been trained to spot the between fraudul and the new ones so they can nab illegal immigrants before they board planes bound for Canada. "If they get off the plane here they have access to the refugee claims procedures and again, whether the claim is ~ valid or invalid, it’s a moot point because they're here,” the source said. People coming from Sri Lanka, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia and Guyana are ‘the major users of fraudulent documents. And visas are becoming more popular because they're easier and cheaper to forge than passports. The source said junior immigration minister Gerry Weiner was to announce next week that officials will start issuing the new visas Sept. 1 in a bid to control the growing quality and number of fraudulent documents on the black market. ‘The new visa features raised printing, like on the new $5 bills, a hidden image which can be seen if held from a certain angle and other improvements to make it easy for airport officials to identify and extremely costly for forgers to reproduce. But the added cost to the government is minimal, said the source. The current visa costs 19.5 cents to make while the new one will only be about 23 cents. Canada issues between 250,000 and 300,000 visas a year. The government has been concentrating its training efforts on airline officials in Europe since that is where most illegal immigrants travel to Canada from, the source said. Canada’s current visa is sophisticated and fairly diffieult to réproduce but there aren't the security features that make it easy for officials to identify. “The bad quality (of forged visas) is good enough to fool foreign authorities and airline agents and again that’s their (illegal immigrants’) whole objective — to board that aircraft.” Canadian officials catch about 7,200 people a year who arrive with fraudulent documents or none at all. About 500 of them have false visas and 1,800 carry bad passports. But most people either mail their fraudulent documents back to the supplier once they have got past airport security in Europe or destroy them on the plane, arriving here with no documents at all. Canada introduced a mew passport with improved security features 18 months ago and so far, authorities haven't caught a fraudulent version of the new one, said the source. The new ministerial permits will be radically different from the plain white papers issued to the 155 Sri Lankans who arrived two weeks ago by lifeboat off the coast of Newfoundland without any visas or passports. It will be multi-colored like the visas and have the same security features. Authorities have caught only ane person using a fraudulent minister's permit but the government is trying to head forgers off at the pass, said the source. No permanent residency permits have been known to be forged but they too will get added security features to diminish the risk of forgery WKPL SALE- continued trom front poge took over operations in Nakusp. “I have very little faith in those assurances put forward by ‘good cor porate citizens’,” Cuthill said, adding the board should “take a stand” and try to block the sale. But Area G director (rural Salmo) Iris Bakken defended Utilicorp, saying she was “somewhat embarrassed” by the comments made about the com. to breathe.” pany. She said the board should be going out of its way to make Utilicorp feel welcome. “We should wait to hear all the facts before we start screaming,” she added. But Martin Vanderpol, Area J director, argued: “It's our duty to take some action.” Vanderpol, said he has no objection to foreign investment in Canada, but it said. CLEAN AIR continued from front pege Cuthill added that while smokers can choose not to smoke, who do not smoke cannot choose not But Nelson Ald. John Neville said that while he agreed with the idea of trying to encourage people not to smoke, a bylaw prohibiting smoking is not the way to do it “I don't think making people (stop smoking) is the right approach,” he Meanwhile, Castlegar recreation director Pat Metge said in a letter to the board that a bylaw banning smoking in public places would be unenforceable and would deter people from using recreation facili ties, particularly the Community Complex Hall. “We presently have no smoking signs in the ice areas of both arenas,” Metge said. “Initially, we tried to enforce this ruling, how- ever, we found our staff was receiving so much verbal abuse they found it more convenient to ignore the situation, Still, Metge said the no smoking signs serye some purpose because most pegple obey them. Though the board wouldn't agree to a ban on smoking throughout the regional district, it approved a motion to ban smoking during regular board meetings. “By our very example . . . we would be encouraging others,” said Moore, who proposed the motion. people CASTLEGAR HYUNDAI SALES HOMEGOODS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE Tues.-Sat., 9:30-5:30 China Creek “Drive a Little to Save a Lot (Fa LCON PAINTING & DECORATING avENUE CASTLEGAR ec vin 28! 2649 FOURTH 365 3563 Gary Fleming Dianna Kootnikoff ADVERTISING SALES VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. Resources Investment Corp. has sold its British North Sea oil-and-gas_in- terests to a privately owned Dutch company. for $165 mil. lion. # Chief executive officer Jack Smith said proceeds of the sale will be used to reduce the company’s debt. “We started the year with of about $1.25 billion, operations and now the North Sea oil interests will bring the debt below $1 billion by the end of the year,” Smith said- Under the terms of the deal, Dyas, which is based in The Hague, has acquired Westar Mining Ltd.'s 7.7-per cent share in the South Brae and North Brae oil fields. The South Brae is producing oil, but the North Brae is still should help create new jobs, not simply take over existing jobs. He, too, suggested the board ask the provincial utilities commission to block the sale. He also said the commission should take ayer the bidding process. Earlier, Cady criticized Cominco's handling of the bidding, saying the The regional district was “betrayed.” Cominco had initially indicated there would be two stages to the bidding process: an Aug. 1 deadline for pre group PREMIER continued trom front poge give a brief talk before mingling with the crowd until 9 p.m. Organizers are hoping for a crowd of up to 500 people. then heads Castlegar where they will spend the night at the Sandman Inn. At 7:30 a.m. Vander cabinet ministers will sit down with Helen back to days. Zalm and Chamber of Commerce luncheon have been sold out. Janicki, administrative aq sistant at the Trail chamber, said tickets for the luncheon sold out in two “We're usually calling people up to fill a room,” she said Janicki said about 30 people are on but/the sale of some pulp under development. Westar Mining is 67-per cent owned by B.C. Re sources. Analysts sale. welcomed the Tourist , alert “One of the big uncer liminary bids and a Sept. 1 deadline for short-listed bids. However, Cominco bypassed the Sept. 1 deadline and awarded the sale to Utilicorp last Monday. “They never gave us a chance,” Cady said, adding, “we've been badly let down by Cominco.” local Social Credit breakfast meeting. After breakfast Vander Zalm and Mayor Moore will tour Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park before he departs for Cranbrook at 9:30 a.m. Meanwhile, tickets for members at a Monday's the waiting list for tickets, and another 20 people called asking for tickets. Among those who were unable to get tickets were Castlegar Chamber of Commerce directors because of a mix-up. The chamber had wanted 10 tickets for its directors, but ended up getting only one ticket tainties has been removed,” VANCOUVER (CP) — The following people are asked to call the contact listed below for an urgent, personal mes- sage. Robert Cignarella of Sid ney, Aust., call home. Debra Low of Vancouver, call Ainnie Ko. OFFICE AID Professional Services eeping/ Accounting phy 218 - 11th Avenue 365-6658 24 hour call said Steve S juk, di rector of research at invest ment dealer Brink, Hudson and Lefever. “Westar Mining will now be able to operate as a pure coal company.” B.C. Resources, plagued by slumping commodity prices and the heavy burden of servicing its huge load, has been selling assets to strengthen its balance sheet in recent months. In June, wholly owned subsidiary Westar Timber sold its Skeena pulp oper. ations for about $110 million. It isjalso close to selling its Castlegar pulp mill for a similar amount. Questions upset Socreds VICTORIA (CP) — The Social Credit party is upset that a questionnaire from three University of B.C. political science professors has been sent to delegates to the recent leadership con vention. Party president Hope Wotherspoon has sent a letter to the 1,300 delegates asking them not to fill out the 14-page questionnaire be cause many of the questions are loaded and would be “too revealing.” The questionnaire asks delegates who they voted for on each ballot and why. It also asks r ds to. agree, disagree or not com ment on issues such as: “Why should the government spend tax money on sick people? My family always puts away something for a rainy day,” and: “The size of government should be reduced even if it means a lower level of public services. The questionnaire also asks the delegates if they feel former premier Bill Bennett's restraint program was well intentioned but badly imple mented or if they thought opponents of the program just couldn't handle losing the 1983 election. Jack blatt, a dele Daisy Fresh Panty Hose Buy 2 — Get | Free iGinette's Boutique Castiecird Plazo gate from Vancouver Little- Mountain, said he was un comfortable about how some of the questions were worded and that certain questions, such as how delegates felt at least included a third option that the program was well-implemented QUESTIONS TOUGH “You'd really have a profile of the typical Socred . . . if everybody filled this out, but it’s very difficult for me.” he said. “How do I answer a question like the down-sizing of government when the question also includes ‘even if it means a lower level of public services? Those two concepts don't necessarily go hand in hand.” Wotherspoon said she wants to know how the pro- fessors got hold of the dele. gate lists in the first place. “You know how we pro- tected that list from the press,” she said She said the questionnaire would allow the professors to draw a profile of Socreds in each area of the province. “They ask about region of residence. Well, once you put that together with the in formation they ask for, you know the strengths and weaknesses of each area “I think some of the infor mation is not what should be out in the general field. Forest fires under control CASTLEG, 0 oanwne 3007 CAR | NEws OFFICE 365-5210 about restraint, should have Castleaird Plaza 365-7269 LLL WANTED CLEAN COTTON RAGS CastlegstN 197 Columbia Ave., Castlegar By CasNews Staff There's been little change in the forest fire situation in the Arrow Forest District over the past week According to Ted Evans, fire information officer and district planner, no fires are burning out of control. There are 19 fires still burning. but those are being monitored There have been a total of 103 fires to date in the district. The most recent one was a man-caused industrial fire south of Rossland A slash pile at Jones Ties and Poles mill ignited in the early hours of Thursday morning. A total of 35 fire fighters from the Forest Services and the Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Ser vices attended the fire as well as the mill owners. - There were 14 firefighters still at the fire Friday — seven from the Forest Ser. vice and seven from the mill itself. The fire was in a mop up stage at the time Evans said the fire caused some concern to Forest Ser vice staff because the blaze was along one of the banks at Little Sheep Creek. Meanwhile, the Pend “Oreille area south of Trail is rated extreme while the rest of the district is rated high. Continuing sunny and warm conditions are in the forecast with a chance of afternoon buildups and thundershowers. There is a 20 per cent chance of light _ Briefly Women file suit CHICAGO (AP) — Two women accused of ripping a package of toilet paper in a grocery store have filed leven for $10 million US in damages, their lawyer David Neely, who represents Dolores Pittman, 34, and Normandy Rogers, 32, said his clients were shopping in 1984 when they were accused of ripping open a package of toilet paper. The women said the incident left them with periods of depression, loss of self-est % dach d i pains and i h gh circumstances. about the Serious condition PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man given a new human heart, a Jarvik-7 artificial heart and then a second human heart in less than two weeks was reported in serious condition Saturday, a hospital spokesman said. It was the sixth time that the Jarvik-7 artificial heart was used at Presbyterian-University Hospital to save a patient's life until a human donor heart could be found, said spokesman Tom Chakurda. He declined to identify the patient at his family’: request, but said the man suffered from cardio- myopathy, a degeneration of the heart muscle. Cult members killed CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines (AP) — Gunmen believed to be Communist rebels killed 11 members of a little-known religious cult before a crowd of villagers, a military commander said Saturday. The victims were ordered to shout “Long live the NPA,” referring to the Communist-led New People’s Army, when they were gunned down Friday at a roadside in Surigao del Norte province, said Brig.-Gen. Jesus Hermosa, regional commander based in Cagayan de Oro. He said the victims were members of a cult that calls itselt Diyos Amahan (God the Father). He added that investigators had not been able to determine the motive for the killings. Distant object found LONDON (Reuter) — British astronomers say they have found the most distant object known in the universe, a starlike radiation source so far away that its light has taken up to 20 billion years to reach earth. The object is a quasar, one of the most powerful energy sources known, and was probably formed when the universe was only one billion years old. Cambridge University scientist Stephen Warren said he and colleague Paul Hewett had made the find after analysing data d d by telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia He said the discovery provided invaluable infor mation about the size and age of the universe. Incident confirmed PEKING (CP) — The Foreign Ministry issued a terse statement Saturday confirming an “isolated incident” occurred along China's border with the Soviet Union A major Japanese daily, the Yomiuri Shimbun, reported Friday in a dispatch from Peking that a Chinese soldier was killed and another was injured ina July 12 shootout with a Soviet border patrol. Meet for peace talks MEXICO CITY (AP) — Salvadoran officials and rebels in the Central American country’s civil war have agreed to meet Sept. 19 to begin a third round of peace talks, said a communique issued Saturday after discussions between the two sides. The communique, signed by Msgr. Arturo Rivera Damas, the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador who mediated the logistical discussions, was obtained from Salpress, the Salvadoran news agency based in Mexico City Two-headed baby dies CARACUS (Reuter) A two-headed baby born in Venezuela four months ago has died of compli cations after a week-long respiratory ailment, doctors said. The baby, who was baptized with two names, died in a hospital southeast of Caracas, where he was born by caesarean operation on April 28 The baby had two stomachs, two spinal columns and three lungs, but one set of arms, legs and genitals. Flooding kills 150 NEW DELIHI (AP) — A week of tlooaing in southern Andhra Pradesh state has killed 150 people, inundated 350 villages and forced nearly three million people from their homes, a news agency said Roads and bridges have been washed away by the Godavari River, which overflowed its banks because of monsoon rains, the United News of India said. i soon ms Casthdit News 12 Questions left unanswered PENTICTON, B.C. (CP) — It's been four years since Derby said. “She seemed very, very sincere about finding her son.” Ambrozuk’s plan begafti with what appeared to be a Director quits job at Hanfond RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) izatic — A top-level director has resigned and a subordinate was demoted in the wake of an investigation into the removal of radiation warning signs at the Hanford nuclear reservation prior to a tour by Gov. Booth Gardner. James Patterson, director of plant operations, has re- signed and Bernard Sauere- ssig, the manager of radio: log:eal protection, has been demoted, according to Paul Lorenzini, vice president and general manager of Rockwell Hanford Operations. Lorenzini said there was no evidence that similar in- cidents other than the one time when Patterson pres- sured Sauerssig into re- moving signs from a con- taminated zone prior to the governor's March 7, 1985 visit. Patterson was director of safety and quality assurance when the incident occurred. Saueressig, one of three managers suspended two weeks ago pending the in- vestigation, was demoted to a staff position in another department, Lorenzini said. The others, Wayne Killand and Bill Tyler, were rein- stated in their previous po- sitions after being repri- manded, Lorenzini said. “We have not been able to determine who, if anyone. from operations applied im proper pressure on the man. agement of the safety or- erly remove the signs and was skeptical when the alle- cation that managers could pressure subordinates into doing something wrong. meanwhile, a team of 13 doctors and researchers has been chosen to determine whether people living near the Hanford nuclear reser- vation suffer an unusually high incidence of cancer deaths or illnesses. Dr. Jim Ruttenber, an epidemiologist at the Centres for Disease Control in At- lanta, said Friday that the panel would hold public meet- ings Sept. 22-26 in Richland to hear from government officials and citizens. Hanford nuclear facilities released more radiation dur- ing the 1940s-and 1960s than has been documented from any other u.S. installation to date, Ruttenber said. The panel will review reports of radioactive re- leases during the first two decades of the Atomic Age, in what he called the “first coherent effort to pull them all together.” Ruttenber said similar re- views were done to trigger study of toxie chemicals at Love Canal and to discourage further radiation study at the Savannah River, S.C. Deaths due to passive smoking? BUDAPEST (Reuter) Up to half of the non-smokers who die of lung cancer may have developed the disease because they inhaled smoke from their smoking spouses, a medical congress was told Saturday Sir Richard Doll of the Radcliff Infirmary in Oxford, England, said the deaths might be due to so-called “passive smoking.” Doll spoke at the 14th congress in the Hungarian capital of the Geneva-based International Union Against Cancer, attended by 8,000 scientist and physicians. Doll, summarizing studies from Japan, the United States, Greece, Hong Kong and Britain which examined cancer rates in the non smoking spouses of smokers, said more than 3,800 chemi cals had been identified in tobacco smoke of which 50 are known to cause cancer in animals. short trip to Penticton from his Burnaby, B.C. home in a rented plane Aug. 22, 1982. against Tt ended later that day with Ambrosuk, then 19 years fugitive on the FBY wanted list. old, swimming to shore after deliberately crashing the plane _ The Flathead County sheriff's office laid charges of who is listed as ‘The investigation has Jef a number of questions part of of Ci The wheel-equipped plane, with Ambrozuk’s 18-year-old girlfriend Diane Babcock still strapped into her seat, sank to the bottom of the lake. Penticton and V calls from a shaken Ambrozuk to his friend Tom Pawlowski. On Aug. 30, Ambrozuk told Tom Pawlowski he had crashed the plane into Little Bitterroot Lake, but Babcock had died because she was still strapped to her seat. Ambrozuk told Pawlowski: “I swam in the water for ages. I tried to get her out. I feel like a murderer. I'm so He told his friend he was in New York City. Ambrozuk called back the next day, repeating his story. Police traced the call to a Manhattan telephone booth. Officials thought it was a hoax until an oil slick appeared ‘on Little Bitterroot Lake. They raised the plane Sept. 17. SIGNS UP . . . New Welcome to Castlegar signs have been erected on the outskirts of Castlegar. Mayor : Audrey Moore (left) and Marilyn Strong, Castlegar wouldn't be spotted and the pair could scramble inflatable raft, travel to New York City and later “live off the land.” In.another phone call taped by the RCMP, Ambrozuk said: “It wasn't because we both wanted to run away from home. It was because I wanted to get away, that’s all . .. She just . . . She tagged along.” sign signs have also been put up at two of Higher earning exemptions VICTORIA (CP) — British Columbians on welfare will be allowed to keep an addi tional 25 per cent of their earned income without having it deducted from their earning exemptions and re- tain up to $5.7 million per year in earned income, the government estimated. The higher earning ex- emptions will encourage government cheques as of Sept. 1, says Social Services Minister Claude Richmond. The change, first an nounced in April by the pro- vincial government although no firm implementation date . was set, is expected to cost chances for getting a steady the government anestimated job. eventually enabling $6 million annually them to end their depen About 68,000 recipients dence on welfare, he said. could benefit from the higher Under the current system, people receiving government income assistance to earn as much from employment as possible, Richmond said. In the process, they could improve their work skills and a single person who has been on welfare for eight months can keep up to $50 of earned monthly ineome before facing any deduction in his govern. ment cheque, and a recipient with dependents can keep up to $100. WAIT SHORTER From Sept. 1, the waiting period will be three months instead of eight, and recip- ients will be able to claim not only their standard earnings exemption but an additional exemption of 25 per cent of their monthly earnings of amounts above the standard exemption. For example, a single person who earns $150 a month can currently keep $50 after eight months on wel- fare, but the remaining $100 is deducted from his welfare cheque. In the new system, the same person will be able to keep $75 in earned income before any deductions. Welfare rates in British Columbia have been frozen since 1982 at levels ranging from an average of $378 for a single person to $888 for a family of four. Hansen's mind He's coming home. HANSEN COMING HOME ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. — When you've been on the road for 17 months and 28,300 kilometres, the days tend to flow together. But today ought to stand out in Rick The wheelchair athlete known as the Man in Motion, who is on a round-the-world tour to raise money for spinal cord research, arrives in Newfoundland to start the Canadian — and final — leg of his 40,000-kilometre, 34-country odyssey. For Hansen, that’s an exciting prospect. “We know we have a long way to go still, but to save the toughest part of the journey and the most exciting for when we're home and amongst friends is great,” he said in a telephone interview from Bar Harbor, Me. where he was resting for a few days before flying to St. John’s. It’s been a long time coming for Hansen, who started his tour in Vancouyer on March 21, 1985, and has since travelled an average of 80 kilometres a day through Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. PUSHES FORWARD It's been hundreds of days of pushing himself forward, straining his body to its limits in an attempt to raise money and to show disabled and able-bodied people alike just what a person with a handicap can accomplish While he's elated by the prospect of being back in Canada, Hansen's the first to admit the trip has been hard on him and his crew Actually, aside from the psychological jubilation right now, being ready to get back to Canada we're tired,” he says. He has injuries to both shoulders that have to be monitored and treated regularly to ensure “we don't make any mistakes that could create a permanent problem that could not only jeopardize the tour, but my personal health for years to come Hansen, who turns 29 on Monday, was a budding athletic star in high school before being paralysed from the waist down in a 1973 automobile accident at the age of 15. After coming to grips with his paralysis, he resumed his athletic pursuits, winning numerous marathons and medals in international wheelchair competitions. The excitement of Man in Motion tour organizers is tangible as Hansen prepares to cross into Canada. “We know he's on the last stretch,” says Canadian tour director Joan Williams, in an interview from Vancouver. “The most work starts now because we feel he's home Provincial committees are busy organizing fund raising events and demonstrations of support to keep Hansen's spirits high Williams expects the reception in Canada will be important HANSEN'S ROUTE... Map shows wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen's Man in Motion world tour route phenomenal “Just having people out on the highway. waving at him, saying, ‘Way to go, Rick’ is just fabulous for his spirit.” The physical hardship — and tedium — of pushing a wheelchair down long stretches of road is daunting enough, but it's not the only problem Hansen will face His east-to-west trek will take him through the dead of winter — which might make him long for the scorching days in June when he wheeled up the U.S. eastern seaboard A special four wheel drive wheelchair and light weight but warm clothing have been developed for him by researchers at Simon Fraser University to ward off frostbite Both Hansen and tour organizers are counting on Canadians to contribute the bulk of the $10 million he hopes to raise. Williams says about $1.4 million has been raised to date — but only $200,000 of that will go towards research. The rest expenses. Hansen says he can't set a date for his arrival in Vancouver but he's hoping it will be next April or May. has been needed to cover tour