MR. AND MRS. JONATHAN SWEENEY afternoon ceremony Sweeney, Lindsay married in Robson Lindsey Lindsay, daughter of Bill and Mima Laidlaw of Sum merland, and Jonathan Swee- ney, son of Wilf and Doris Sweeney of Castlegar, were married on a sunny March 12 afternoon in Robson. Reverend Ted Bristow performed the ceremony in the Robson Com munity Memorial Church. Tiberio Reis of Vermillion, Alberta ushered the guests into the church as the pianist, Joan Marks, played pieces by Puccini, Debussy and Schumann The procession was led by the matron of honor, Heather Kos ter, sister of the bride, followed by junior bridesmaid. Nicole Sweeney, niece of the groom and the bride and her father The bride was given into mar riage by her mother and father Pat Sweeney, brother of the groom, was the best man. After exchanging their vows the couple were piped out of the church by Jim Watt of Calgary who was dressed in full Scottish regalia. At the same time, the church bell was rung by the bride's nephew. Jan-Michael Koster. with help from Terry Walker of Vancouver and Jerry Carlson of Surrey A reception followed at the Fireside Place with Grant Ack ney of Nelson as the master of ceremonies. Jim Watt piped the wedding party and their families to the head table which was decorated with rose-colored can dles and a crocheted table cloth made by the \late Lillian Swee ney, grandmother of the groom. Grace was said by Anna Wieczorek of Burnaby. Gordon Smith, a longtime friend of the bride's family, gave the toast to the bride and presented the newlywed couple with a special wedding momento. The wedding cake was made by the bride’s mother and was beautifully decorated hy Rober. ta Zurek of Robson. It was set ona cutwork linen cloth made by Dorothy Race, grandmother of the groom. The bride and groom danced the first waltz to Overjoyed by Stevie Wonder and later danced a special waltz to] Just Called to Say I Loved You by The Parker Sisters. Amber provided live for dancing. The entire event was photographed by Keith Holuboff of assisted by his wife Out of town guest music Vancouver, Barbara -ame from ummerland, Kelowna Kamloops, Nakusp Burnaby, Naramata Vermillion Salmo, Vancouver, Tsawassen Winnipeg and Perth, Australia and inclu ded a longtime friend of the groom, Robert Knutson, all the way from London, England. The couple honeymooned in Hawaii and now reside in Victoria. Calgary GO 840 ]8VO KOOTENAY BROADCASTING SYSTEM “It's Great To Be In The Kaotenays” Presents IN CONCERT JOHNNY CASH JOHNNY CASH JOHN CARTER CASH Monday, July 11 8:00 p.m Cominco Arena Trail, B.C. TICKETS: $15.00 Advance $17.00 at Door All Seats General Admission AN EVENT! 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C. vV8V LxX4 501 Belleville Febi 28 Pulp workers poised to strike By CasNews Stalf and News Services B.C, pulp and paper workers are preparing for a strike vote, with Castlegar members expected to yote next week. There will be a special general meeting next week of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada, Local 1, which represents 280 workers at Celgar Pulp Co. im- mediately after which a vote will be taken, local president Steve Miros told the Castlegar News today. The vote follows a breakdown Monday in contract negotiations. The current two-year contract, which covers 19 locals at 21 mills, expires at midnight Thursday night. pi “Thursday night. Celgar mill manager Wilf Sweeney said a strike would be damaging to all parties and he’s not happy about the union’s decision to break off negoti ations. “After 11 weeks of pretty strong bargaining on both sides (the stand off) . . . comes as a shock,” Sweeney Vol, 41, No. 52 ‘said in an interview. “From our point of view we're a little disappointed.” Sweeney says the latest offer to the union amounts to a $3,000-per- employee’ cost increase in the first year and $7,500 over the next two years. The offer included a 36 per cent increase in pensions during the three-year life of the contract. He said employee pension plan benefits have increased 70 per cent since 1983. “That's a fairly good im- provement.” Art Gruntman, vice-president of the Canadian Paperworkers Union, said the decision to call a strike vote was made after employers issued what he described as a “final” offer. But the president of the employ- ers’ bargaining group says the only final offer was the five-per-cent in-_ crease for the final year of the proposed three-year contract, and it was the union which broke off nego- tiations. Gruntman said the 13,000 mem- bers of his union and the PPWC Ril - should complete the strike vote by July 8. If the vote — which won't be supervised by ‘the Industrial Rela. tions Council as required by law — approves a strike, 72-hour notice will be served on the companies July 11, Gruntman said. “The 15th sounds pretty good (for a strike),” said Stan Shewaga, pres. ident of the pulp and woodworkers’ union, “They (the companies) can go to the IRC, but the bottom line is their mills will be shut down and they Castlegar News 60 Cents CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1988 will be losing money “If the industry gets hold of us and says they'd like to meet and change their final position, certainly we'd meet,” he said. “We've said we're ready to contin- ue to bargain,” said Eric Mitter ndorfer, president of the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations Bureay “We'd like to be talking today Gruntman said the union's latest proposal is for an increase of $1.05-an hour in the first year, 6% per cent in continued on page A2 WEATHERCAST Sunny Thursdey ond Friday with cloudy periods and isolated showers. 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CosNiews Photo by Bonne Morgan Clark shortens visit By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer External Affairs Minister Joe Clark cut short his visit to Castlegar Sunday in order to attend to pressing Canadian-Soviet spy talks in Ottawa. Clark was in town for Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco’s nomination meeting and fundraising dinner, but had to leave five hours earlier than planned “We are considering the Canadian response to a series of actions by the Soviets that are in escalation and are very serious,” he told reporters following Brisco’s nomination as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the next federal election. Clark returned to Ottawa that night ‘to carry on discussions with Canadian officials prior to a Monday meeting with Soviet Ambassador Alexei Rodionov. “We will be considering very care fully the appropriate Canadian res- ponse and making an announcement on it in the next few days,” Clark said. So far, Canada has ejected or barred 19 Soviet diplomats for commercial and military spying and the Soviets have countered by ex. pelling 13 Canadians. Clark reaffirmed his position on the spy wars, saying, “Canadian dip} omats serving in the Soviet Union were not engaged in any kind of improper activities.” He spoke briefly at the fundraising dinner before leaving five hours earlier than planned for Ottawa. Clark praised Brisco’s leadership of Kootenay West under the Pro gressive Conservative government, noting a turn towards effective rep- resentation of the area. “The tradition in Canada is for another party to govern and for this region to be excluded,” he said. “That's the way things have worked for a long time — that is the practice we have changed.” Clark said the Conservative's rec ord of economic growth that has made Canada one of the strongest economies in the world did not happen by accident. “We got strong economy because we're prepared to follow a strong program of economic reform,” he said, adding: “The opposition does not necessarily agree with those poli- cies.” Clark said the Mulroney govern- ment has “profoundly changed” the national agenda from issues that were hostile to Western Canada. He said the national agenda now serves the country as a whole with the free-trade agreement, western diversification, aid to agriculture, an continued on page A2 ydro looking at dams By RON NORMAN Edit itor B.C. Hydro is looking at the pos: sibility of using electricity from two dams owned by Cominco Ltd., Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore dis. closed Tuesday. “They. are going to look at the potential on the Waneta dam and on the Brilliant dam,” Moore told council. Moore met with Hydro officials last week to discuss a number of issues, including the Keenleyside generating project and the water levels of the Arrow Lakes reservoir. At that meeting Thom Thompson, Hydro's corporate relations mana ger, revealed that Hydro is prepar ing to undertake a study of possible usage of additional capacity from the Waneta and Brilliant dams for power generation. Thompson indicated the additional power would be generated using tunnel and/or canal construc. tion on the dams. Moore added that Hydro is gearing up for installation of generators in Keenleyside if and when they are needed. “It's in readiness as far as being able to be brought on stream if the demand for electrical power (is there).” In a report to council on the meeting, engineering assistant Bill Hadikin noted: “The reason for this (the readiness) was not the imminent construction of the projects, but rather the length of time that would be required to start from scratch on developing, contracting, engineering and supervision teams if the project should proceed.” The Crown corporation's “state-of readiness plan” includes selecting a hydroelectric engineering consultant firm which can deal with Hydro en- gineers and private sector devel- opers should the need arise. Meanwhile, Energy Minister Jack Davis has indicated that the Keen- leyside project could be developed in conjunction with the Murphy Creek dam. In a letter to Trail council, Davis notes that Keenleyside is “small as compared to hydroelectric projects elsewhere.” He points out that it continued on page A2 City considering managing airport By RON NORMAN Editor The City of Castlegar is seriously considering taking over management of the Castlegar Airport, Mayor Audrey Moore confirmed Tuesday. Moore said Castlegar council will meet with Ministry of Transport officials Thursday to discuss the airport operation. “We need to get more infor mation,” Moore told the Castlegar News in an interview, “lots more information.” Moore added, “If the proper safeguards were there . . . and if we could manage their contract for them with a management fee situation, that's an entirely different process than I gather what they're presently under.” The Ministry of Transport pres ently contracts the airport manage ment out to Pacific Building Mainte nance, a Vancouver-based company, for $543,900 a year. The five-year contract expires June 30, 1989. Dr. John Hall, chairman of the Castlegar Airport Advisory Com mittee, told council that the ministry will be going to tender shortly for a new contract Hall said the city could make a profit operating the airport because presumably the private firm that continued on page A2 Brisco ready for election By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco says he's ready to accept the challenge of the next election campaign following his uncontested nomination Sunday as the Progressive Conservative candidate. “We can't possibly contemplate stopping here thinking that we have achieved enough,” Brisco told about 75 Tory supporters attending the nomination meeting at Castlegar’s Fireside Motor Inn. External Affairs Minister Joe Clark was on hand to lend support to Brisco, praising his hard work and accomplishments. “Bob is a hard man to get out of your office with a ‘no,’ said Clark. “He ignores party and is prepared to be obnoxious to any minister who is not doing his best for Kootenay West and to anyone else.” Brisco, looking cheerful and energetic following a near-fatal heart attack several months ago, reassured the crowd he is physically ready to take on ‘the opposition in the next election. “I am fully recovered. There was no serious heart damage and there is‘no need for surgery,” he said. Brisco recounted his achievements during 10 years of Kootenay West representation. “We created a framework for recovery for the economy as a whole,” said Brisco. Brisco's campaign slogans in the 1984 election were “Brisco works for you” and “It's our turn.” Following that vein, the slogans in the next campaign will be “3riseo still works for you” and “It's still our turn,” he said, Brisco told reporters the Columbia River Treaty up for renegotiation in 1997 will be a high priority for him to research and inform his constituents. “What can we do to get our fair share, because in my opinion we got skinned on the deal?” he said, adding that the new Kootenay West-Revelstoke riding holds most of the geography of the Columbia River Treaty and “we've got nothing (economically) to show for it.” Brisco said he would like to see mitigation provided within the treaty for fish, wildlife and those economi- cally affected by the treaty. Forestry is also on his list of pet projects. “I want to see escalation of forest activity in terms of research in terms of forest management,” he said. He said the future philosophy of forestry will change because more and more forestry is conducted on flatlands than on steep slopes. Brisco's contentious fight to include all of Kootenay West in the Northern Residents’ tax allowance will be put on the back burner for now. “I would be deluding the public to suggest to them that there is still hope that we can change it for this tax year,” he ‘ Brisco said a committee will be in the area to investigate the tax allowance and report to parliament. The tax break allows fewer communities to qualify for the 1988 tax year following an adjustment in census figures for the Trail area. “For far too long this constituency has been in the hinterlands of political attention,” Brisco said during his continued on pege Ad Smoking bylaw clears hurdle By CasNews Staff Castlegar council moved a step closer Tuesday to regulating smoking within the city, unanimously approving third readirg of its smoking bylaw. But unlike the May 10 council meeting when the bylaw. was introduced, given two readings and sparked considerable debate, Tuesday's vote went unnoticed by the media and city administrator Dave Gairns. In fact, Gairns reminded Moore later in the meeting that she had to deal with the bylaw, but Moore informed him the vote had already taken place. Moore explained later that the reason the bylaw went through without any comment is because debate is not permitted during third reading. The bylaw now will go to couneil next month for adoption. for adoption. continued on poge A2