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This Act States no advertisement may state or imply @ preterence, limitation. ot Speciticetion, on the bosis of Plicont'’s race. religion ital si . ancestry Midget Reps bound for provincials ° Avalanche near ++ BI Golden kills 9 Friday and in ‘ Probablity of precipitation ie 10 on oe i LEGISLAT IVE PARL TAME NT BL VICTORIA B.¢ °C LIBRARY dD — Sy Alderman pitches a winner By SIMON BIRCH jor Ald. Bob Pakula chalked up a win Monday night after another ap- Pearance on the mound to make a pitch for $14,300 to complete im- Provements to the pony field at Kin- naird Park. City council approved Pakula’s request for the.money which will. be used to enlarge the playing area of the field by moving the outfield fen- “ce, extending the underground sprinkler system to cover the enlarged area, and rebuilding one of the dugouts. Council’s “‘p ” of the (work) otherwise we'll have to forget it again this year and I have no inten- tion of doing that,” Pakula told council, which again grilled him on his proposal, although Ald. Lawren- ee Chernoff cast the only opposing vote. Pakula acknowledged he’s $3,000 over the amount proposed in coun- cil’s provisional budget for im- Provements to local ballfields but said reducing the expenditure for the automated sprinklers by $2,000 and the fact that the pony field project is now eligible for an additional $1,000 in grant money-from the provincial expenditure prior to approving its final budget means the work can Proceed in time for the slo-pitch and fastball seasons which get underway in mid-April. “*We have to make a start on this offsets the extra costs. However, the uncertainty of the grant money worries Ald. Doreen Smecher, who's responsible for council’s finances. “What happens if your grants don’t come in?"’ she asked Pakula. BOB PAKULA ++. won't walt “Then I guess something: doesn’t go,”’ he said. ‘‘But that will happen down the road.”’ Chernoff asked whether rebuilding the dugout is a priority, whether the city will buy new fence for the out- field extension and whether $3,500 the Castlegar Slo-pitch League donated to the city could be used for the pony field improvements. Pakula said the city will use the existing fence with some fencing ad- ded on and said the dugout isn’t a priority. “I would say it probably isn’t but if you’re doing a bailfield, finish it, because you’re going to have others come up next year.”” Pakula said the $3,500 donation was intended for use to complete the Community Complex balifield but said the money goes into the city’s budget and council could “‘reallocate’’ the money if it wants to. f. By CasNews Staff Premier Bill Vander Zalm will include a stop at the Celgar pulp mill in Castlegar as part of his Planned visit to Rossland-Trail on March 25, Rossland-Trail Social Credit candidate Walt Siemens said Monday. Vander Zalm, whose visit was announced Saturday in -the Castlegar News, will also visit the Cominco smelter in Trail-and will Speak at a joint chamber of commerce and Rotary Club lun- cheon in that city. As well, the Premier will meet civic leaders at the new Montrose Community Hall and will be on an open-line radio program. “Tam pleased with the atten- tion our riding has received from our premier,’’ Siemens said in a ‘Premier's itinerary to include Celgar news release. ‘‘We can expect his continued interest."* He said Vander Zalm, during his term as premier, “‘has em- phasized the importance of regional development” and ‘‘will be meeting with workers and community and business leaders to review accomplishments and consider future needs.’* Tickets for the luncheon: are available through the Trail Chamber of Commerce. office. The luncheon is open to anyone who wishes to attend, Siemens said. The premier’s press secretary, Ian Jessop, told the CasNews last week the March 25 visit to Rossland-Trail is subject to change because of the current sit- ting of the legislature. Public to get look at plans By CasNews Staff The Ministry of Highways _will Present its proposals for a new bridge spanning the Columbia River between Robson and Castlegar at two open houses and a_ public meeting starting next week. The first open house is slated for March 20 from noon to 8 p.m. at the Brilliant Cultural Centre. The second open house will take place March 26 at the Fireside Motor Inn in Castlegar from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and will be followed immediately by the public meeting, also at the Fireside. Ministry staff will be present at all three events to explain the proposal and to answer the public’s questions. The ministry has identified five possible sites for the new bridge in an area stretching from the CP Rail bridge to the Celgar pulp mill in a preliminary planning study, the ministry says in an advertisement an- mouncing the open houses and meeting. “The ministry would like to present and discuss the possible sites with the public to ensure that all major issues and concerns have been addressed and that any other poten- tial sites have not been overlooked,”’ the ministry says. “Preliminary concept for im- provements to the intersection of Highway 3A and the Robson Access please see BRIDGE page A2 OPEN SHOP a a Ind: ' head of di at Stanley dary the equipment during an open house last week at the school’s new industrial school, Building bylaw nailed By SIMON BIRCH Editor Castlegar city council put the finishing touches Monday on its new building bylaw. Council gave the bylaw the Statutory three readings and has scheduled a special meeting Thursday to vote on final adoption of the bylaw. The new regulations are designed to be easier for the public to under- stand, to increase the city’s protec- tion from liability and to generate more money for city coffers in the form of permit fees As proposed Monday, the fees are “payable for a permit for construc- tion, reconstruction, addition, exten- sion, alteration and repair of any building or any other work requiring @ permit and not specifically listed’ in the bylaw. For projects valued at $2,000 or less, the permit fee will be $20. Each additional $1,000 or portion of $1,000 will cost $4. (The CasNews incorrectly reported Saturday that the city was con- sidering a sliding scale of fees. In fact, such a scale existed in the old bylaw but was not being considered in the new bylaw.) City administrator Gary Williams said today it’s hard to put a number to the amount of money the new fees will generate for the city without knowing the value of upcoming con- struction projects. He said the new fees won’t Produce a significant difference in the amount of money from permits for residential housing. But the fees will produce significantly higher revenue from projects such as the Celgar pulp mill expansion or the Proposed shopping mall next to the Sandman Inn. At this point in time, the city doesn’t know how much of the $700 million Celgar project will need building permits, Williams said. However, assuming a figure of $100 million for the sake of argument, the city’s new building permit fees on a Project of that value would amount to $400,000. “A lot of that money could be used for other costs incurred by the city as a result of the project,” Williams said. The new bylaw establishes the lifespan of a building permit at 24- months, the sane as in the current bylaw. While municipalities at the coast have set six-month time limits, council agreed with building inspec- tor Phil Markin that local weather conditions merit a longer period in Castlegar. By DONNA ZUBER Staft Mathieson, Castlegar city council’s former health and welfare committee chairman. ‘‘We were very pleased with the results." Keynote speakers at the workshop were Bob Redantad, a resource officer with the Ministry of Forests, Bob Thompson, B.C. building standards officer, Dan Guinon of Plan A for Access, Peter director of Kek from tripping. \ more obvious than others. It means eliminating thresholds so all people are safe About 40 people from as fat away as the Okanagan and Golden learned more about those kinds of difficulties in Castlegar last week at a Accessible And it means a lot more because there are so many kinds of disabilities and so many barriers, some acting People in Motion, director and Ed Arnston, founder and “*Bach one of the people from the various the will now go home and help the building inspector to enforce the bylaws," said. “(The work building code. F “Kt was very informative,” said Ald. Marilyn » Accessible communities workshop draws raves In the meantime, “‘We’ve been promised we'll at least get an accessible washroom at Syringa Park,"” Mathieson said. “‘We're also talking about making Champion Lakes an accessible park."” As well, Castlegar building inspector Phil Markin has already contacted the abilities awareness for on hall to make it accessible to the disabled, said committee spokesman Kris Stanbra. “*That’s exactly what we wanted to see happen,’” she said. ““So I believe it was very successful.’’ Evaluations from the workshop were also very favorable, Stanbra said. The committee will be attending a workshop next month in Kamloops to compare notes with other committees from around the province, and “‘get ideas of where we can go from here,”’ she said. May | is Castlegar's Disabilities Awareness Day and a week in June is designated by the province. “We do a little more then, but really what our committee is trying to do is keep awareness going all year round,” Stanbra said. Mathieson said about 15 per cent of any given community is disabled, and that percentage is “destined"’ to increase with an aging population, ing city Par PE