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VOL, 33, NO. A30

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’ CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, JULY 20, 1980

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Surveyor preparing for foundation of new school.

Kinnaird Elementary

rebuilding

by CAM BECK
| CesNews Editor

Surveying for the foundations of
the new Kinnaird Elementary School

— will cost $1,330,000 and take about
eight months to build.

“Hopefully we can shave a little
time off that, but that remains to be
seen” said school board secretary-
treasurer John Dascher.

“We had hoped on moving in
during the Christmas holiday but we ran
into a lot of delays with the Ministry of
Education, a lot of red tape, so we're
behind schedule.”” Now it seems likely
that students will move in during next
year’s spring break, he said.

The two grade seven classes won’t
be returning, though; they'll be taught
at Kinnaird Junior Secondary, said
Dascher.

A kindergarten classroom, not part
of the old school, will be included in the
new building, he said. It’s larger than
the other classrooms and has its own
adjoining washroom facilities.

Altogether, said Dascher, there'll
be about 280 students in the new school,
compared to as many. as 330 who
attended the old one.

The new building will have ‘'a
much larger library’ and the activity

underway

room won't have a stage ‘‘so there will
be more space for other uses,’’ he said.

The overall size of the new building
will be One third smaller than the old

one because. the space. will be more |
ly, planned .and: used; :he. said.

The Stinteal school was constructed in
the 1940s with several additions made
in subsequent years ‘‘and wasn’t space
efficient.”

Because the new building will be
smaller there'll be more playground
space for student and neighbourhood
use, said Dascher. The building will
probably see a lot-of community use in
the evenings, too, he said, by Com-
munity Recreation, the Selkirk College
Adult Education Program, Scouts,
Guides and others. ‘Our schools are
hooked five nights a week,”?

The ofd school was of wood frame
construction, but the new one will be
concrete block, said Dascher.

Nixon and Browning of Cranbrook
are the and project

2 Sections (A & B)

Hydro has few answers yet on Murphy

by CAM BECK
- CasNews Editor

“And on the right...”

B.C. Hydro Thursday evening in-
troduced the six consultants it has hired
to do environmental impact studies for
the proposed Murphy Creck Dam on the
Columbia River downstream from
Castlegar.

Frustration with the ‘short leash”’
Hydro has on the consultants and
concern with water quality were among
the reactions of two dozen government
and media representatives.

The meeting was requested by the
Project Impact Committee of the Re-
gional District of Kootenay Boundary,
with from Trail, Fi
Warfield and Rivervale. Castlegar and
Regional District of Central Kootenay
representatives also attended.

“It seemed appropriate,’’ said
Hydro official Nigel Grant, ‘‘that our
consultants be presented to the local
people so that they could tell you about
the study program that they were con-
ducting and provide the local people
with an opportunity to ask questions of
them, question what we're doing, and I
think also, more importantly, raise
some of the local concerns that you have
so that they're aware of some of these
issues.” .

But Grant, though he said Hydro

the consultants ‘‘to': make
contact with local people knowledgeable
in particular areas,”” would not promise
the consultants would be available for
maximum local input.

“Tam responsible for the schedule
and budget of this project and 1 must
maintain control of it,” said: Grant.
“There is no carte blanche to’ meet
anyone anytime.”

The consultants, mostly from Van-
couver, cost $300 to $400 a day, he said.
More like $500 or more, said another
official

org you have a situation you want
looked at,” said Grant, Hydro should be

notified and ‘‘we will judge each site

uation on. ts imerit.””

‘te.studies done: by. the. con--
“sultants “be made ‘available to the
‘public?

“Our: environmental study. co-
ordinator will be preparing an inte-
gtated summary report of all the studies
so that the whole thing is pulled

- together in one package, but it will be

backed up by. the individual reports of
the consultants and these reports will
be made able to the

reservoir and downstream, was a major
concern, of | Iocal representatives.
tant Dai Jones of Inter-

“Iam sure there will be occasions
when the plant is not operating under
none! conditions when there are spills

Ltd. a aied that he is ee a
“water. budget” that will identify ‘the
amount of water that comes in, the
amount of water that goes out at
present, who takes it out, who puts it
back, and what condition it’s taken out
in and what condition it comes back.’’

Castlegar alderman Albert Calder-
bank expressed concern that discharge
from the Canadian Cellulose Castlegar
(Celgar) pulp mill might pollute a
reservoir much more than it does the
river. ‘We see all sorts of weird thing |
going on that are not supposed to go on,
they go on in the middle of the ight. I
hope you do your investigations at night
as well as in the day.””

“At this time,”’ replied Jones, “we
have not planned to do any extensive
surveillance of that particular outfall

specifically for

and so on where there will
be more than what's agreed with the
Pollution Control Board going in the
river but under normal -operating clr-
cumstances with no spills and no accl-
dents and no leakages we are assuming
that the mill is meeting all requirements
of the provincial government."”

Said Nigel Grant: ‘‘What Celgar is
doing is basically Hot Hydro's business
with the f us ‘knowing what

“We'd like to complete our studies,’’
Grand said.

© stabilization of water levels in
Arrow Lakes — would the Murphy
Creek Dam make that possible? ‘I don't
think you could have much exchange of
storage from Arrow to Murphy,"’ Grant
replied,

© bank stabilization — will the
banks of the new reservoir be safe or
prone to sliding? ‘It'll take time before
we can get through to that kind of
detail’ replied Michael Morgan, Hy-

the general water quality is in the area
today."

Other concerns of local represen-
tatives:

© boating — will there be a lock in
the dam to allow boat traffic to travel
beyond the dam? ‘'To this stage we
have not studied it but we will study it,”
said Grant."

e weet. level — what will the

that purpose.

between high
water and low water in the reservoir be?

dro’s co-ordinator of environmental im-
pact studies,

© height of the dam — what will
the high water level be? Hydro won't
know: ‘‘for a months yet” said
Grant.

© property acquisition — how will

Hydro go about acquiring land for the
reservoir? “Our properties division has
prepared a property acquisition policy
that has been approved by management
and you should be getting a copy soon,”’
Grant replied.

Province refuses money for reservoir

* Castlegar has received a promise to
*‘consider additional. funding” in the
future rather than $115,000 it requested
from the B.C. Ministry of Industry and
Small Business Development. .

The money was to cover the cost of
the first reservoir constructed in the
city’s new water supply system in 1978.

In May of 1979 the City concluded
an agreement with the provincial and
federal governments for financing the.
water system, but in late April of this
year the federal minister of Regional
Economic Expansion, Pierre De Bane,
refused to contribute to the cost of the

is

The IDSA — the Indurtcial De-
velopment Subsidiary Agreement
signed in May 1979 provides” "ss

yee city works superintendent Igor
"There was a water shortage in

million from the federal
and $1.5 million from the federal
government for the water supply sys-
tem.

The provincial government sub-
sequently agreed to provide another
$1.5 million and to pay 75 per cent of the
interest on a loan of yet another $1.5
million,

But nothing for that first reservoir.

B.C. Minister of Industry and
Small Don Phillips says he

first ir, saying the
now retroactive.
“Thave no doubt that the province
may have indicated to you that the
>,water reservoir in question should pro-

ceed and could be supported,”” sald De °

janie,

“And this may well have been
factor in the province’s decision to
provide an additional $1.5 million of
assistance over and above that which we
are jointly ae under the IDSA.””

Salah dy

public,” said Grant. -
Several questions asked of Hydro
and its consultants were labelled by
sonin-econ:

1:4
probably until fall.’*
_ The Hydro Pt sieuerat Ny said the

and contracts have been awarded to 22
‘contractors Dascher said, adding that
contracts still have to be awarded for
three jobs: the roofing, the miscel-
laneous metal work and the glass and
glazing.

“Because we received only one bid
from each of those trades we're going to
retender. We feel we should have at
least two tenders for each job,’’ said
Dascher.

act studies must be
done first because’ people will want to
know how the dam will affect their
surroundings before they can voice
social and economic concerns.

Even the environmental studies are
just in the preliminary stages, the con-
sultants said, so they are unable to be
very definite about existing conditions,
let alone the probable impact of the

dam.
Water quality, both in the proposed

Beer is going... -

“thas no mechanism to support expen-
ditures that our federal partner does not
agree fall under an approved IDSA
construction program’’ though he says
nthe  Provinel sovertment will {tunder-

South C. that "the
had to go so far as to cancel building
permits at the time.”’.

Cheryl on way

The latest word on Cheryl Kristian-
sen, the local swimmer who recently
won four gold medals in international
competition, is that she’s arriving home
Wednesday.

While dates are not confirmed a
band, banners and local dignitaries are
ail ‘waiting for the young swimmer who
did so well at the world Olympics for the

funding
“floas the completion of the pro-

Poop: scheduled for early 1981.
That first reservoir, however, was
needed in 1978, says Castlegar’s assis-

Handicapped in. Arnhem,
Holland carlier this month.

Should the present schedule’ hold,
she'll arrive at 12:45 p.m. at the
Castlegar Airport. The general public is
invited to join in the welcome.

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Beer drinkers continue to stock up as brewery lockout threat continues

Every shipment of beer to arrive at the
-Castlegar Liquor store could be the last for a
long time, and local beer drinkers have

responded accordingly.
Sixteen ‘hundred cases arrived at

Castlegar store Friday morning, but the
supply Fawindled rapidly as customers stocked

up.

B.C." ’'s major breweries could cease produc.
issued

tion anytime, because the

Wednesday.

The disagreement between the major
breweries — Labatt's, Molson’s and Carling-
O'Keefe — and thelr workers is over terms of

the

a new contract.

The fast contract expired April 20, and the
companies have | been insisting on adding
to the new contract. The

72-hour lockout notices more than a week ago

union has ‘refused to accept.

and have been in a legal position to lock
brewery workers out of their plants since

brewery workers.

The ‘companies also want to reduce the
brewery workers’ wages relative to those
earned by brewery workers in other provinces,
and the union refuses to accept that elther.

So, to back thelr contract demands, the
breweries are threatening to lock out the

One brewery isn’t, however, and that's the
independent Prince George Breweries, a
company that started production during the
three-month beer strike of 1978,

The company has already doubled its daily
production to 10,000 dozen bottles of Pacific
Gold and Yukon Gold.

If the major breweries stop production,
Prince George Breweries could produce
20,000 dozen a day, it says.

But whether any of that beer might reach
here is questionable, for the Prince George
production is just a drop in the bucket.

“We can put out four million gallons of beer
ayear,'’ says Bob Naismith, general manager

of the brewery. But, says Naismith, total B.C.
consumption
beer (the equivalent of about 613 million
bottles, or one heck of a party).

Creston’s Columbia Breweries would shut
down in the event of a lockout because the
company is owned by Labatt’s.

U.S. beer would probably not be available
because the Teamsters Union has said it won't
handle shipments of U.S. beer to B.C. in the
event of a lockout.

about 47 million gallons of