The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, December 1, 1993 Wednesday, December | 1, 1993 The Castlegar Sun Page 5A Page 4A Castlegar residents must toe the line or be towed KAREN KERKHOFF Sun staff Not only is it dangerous, it's illegal and one day you might return to your parked car to find it gone. The Ministry of Transportation and Highways is requesting the assistance of the public in snow removal. No, they don’t want us To all those who gave their time and support — Thank you. Special thanks to Daniel, David, Janice, Jennifer, Nicole, Fred Vigue. family, friends and my daughter Michelle who was instrumental in my involvement with education. — Bev Maloff Dr. H. Ukpoh, M.B., B.S Consultation by Appointment Only Ph . F-R.C.B:(C), wishes to announce the opening of his practice in General Pediatrics located on the Second Floor of The Trail Regional Hospital 1200 Hospital Bench Trail, B.C. VIR 4M1 (604) 364-2556 An Open Letter to Castlegar Sun Subscribers v's been three months since we implemented paid | cre to The Castlegar Stteand we want to thank you for your patience as we made the transition. Press problems, delivery problems and sometimes carrier problems are as frustrating to us as they are to you. We thank you for your patience and understanding as we work hard to iron them out. ur new delivery system, implemented November 10, still has a few bugs in it; yet we are confident that within a week or so it will be running to get out there and shovel along with them, but they do want drivers to remove parked vehicles from the shoulders of highways and secondary roads. John Bodnarchuk, District Highways Manager explains “When snow gets piled high on the shoulder of the right-of-way, parked cars can be a hazard to the traveling public, and can interfere with snow removal,” If you don't follow Bodnar- chuk’s advice, you can expect to have your vehicle removed at your expense. “According the the Highways Act and the Motor Vehicle Act, the ministry can have these vehi- cles removed from the edge: of the highway at the owners expense. However, we prefer to advise people of the potential hazard and ask for their coopera: tion. Ministry staff will be on the lookout for potentially hazardous situations and will have vehicles removed if necessary.” Parking your vehic shoulder is not only dangerous, said Bodnarchuk, but re sults in snow plow operators having to slow down to avoid your veh resulting in less lane kilomet of highway that can be ma tained during a shift le on the in Legion members feeding the hungry at Christmas KAREN KERKHOFF Sun staff members, along with Castlegar firefighters, will be preparing the hampers December 15 The Castlegar Royal Canadian Legion is busy preparing for its annual Christmas food hamper drive. Legion Member Earl Rourke said that Selling something? Phone 365-5266 IMAGES BEAUTY SALON /fe Call now for an ware PPOintment 142 ote Ave, 365-2616 ee ‘ and 16, with distribution beginning December 18. He is requesting local residents who wish to donate money or non-perishable food dona- tions do so before December 15. Anyone who requires a Christmas hamper can have their name added t list by simply calling the legion Rourke said the Royal C. been distributing Chris! 20 years and it is expe pers will be distributed this year 10 the distribution radian’ Legion has s hampers for over ed that 80-100 ham- Santa’s elves get ready for Christmas Once again Castlegar firefight- ers are holding their annual Christmas toy Donations of new or nearly new toys can be dropped off at the North Castlegar firehall from November 27 to December 10 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., or on December 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.. If preferred, people are free to make donations of money which will then be used to pur- chase new toys. Toys which are donated will be matched with a list and will be included in the Castlegar Royal Canadian, Legion’s Christmas ham- per. The hampers will then be delivered by Castlegar firefighters. This is the tenth year that Castlegar firefighters have hosted the annual toy drive Keeping roads clear on Salmo-Creston is a 24-hour-a-day job If you travel the Salmo-Creston Highway you can expect shorter waits for avalanche control. Phase one of planned improve- OPEN HOUSE Saturday, December 4 1 - 4 p.m. 4354 Broadwater Road, Robson ail ments to the avalanche program includes the recent installation of two 105 mm rifles which District Avalanche Technician, John Tweedy, said will reduce high- way closures by an additional 20 per cent. New snow catchment benches and mounds have been built, which will also help reduce the number of avalanches that affect the road. It is hoped by officials that funding will be available for fur- ther improved avalanche control by the installation of new GazEx Exploders. The GazEx will be installed in two slide paths direct- ly below B.C. Tel Microwave sites and will safely and effec- tively provide explosive control without any effect to the microwave installations. The Salmo-Creston has an ele vation of 1,775 meters and is one of the highest all-weather high ways in Canada. Fifty one known avalanche paths are closely monitored by avalanche and highway mainte- nance crews, who are in resi- dence at the pass 24 hours-a-day from November to April Ktunaxa-Kinbasket tribal Council back at the Core table Submitted After a lengthy absence repre sentatives of the Ktunaxa/Kinbas ket Tribal Council came back to the West Kootenay CORE table during a three-day meeting in Festival Submitted The Festival of Trees Gala Dinner/Auction, held in Nelson, raised $16,000 with net proceeds designated to the Selkirk College Scholarship and Bursary Fund under the Visions Campaign Individuals, organizations and businesses through the college region donated auction ite time and money to help make the November 26 event a success. Ten recyclable trees, including three from Georama Flowers, What's Happening, Sapphire Interiors, Tulips in Nelson and the Selkirk College Nelson Hair- dressing program, were elabo rately decorated and donated for the live auction in support of the Selkirk College Foundation Other trees were decorated by: Avenues Hair Design, Cut'N Loose Hair Design of Castlegar; KB Computers, Harmony Flower and The Fabric Sandwich of Grand Forks. The top bid received by auc- tioneer John Russell was $1,000. Additional live auction items ~ included a weekend stay at Meeting addresses foresty concerns Submitted Loggers from the West Koote- nay are being asked to attend a meeting at the Castlegar Sand- man Inn to discuss logging con- Nakusp, November 12-14 After an absence of several + meetings their concerns have been addressed to their sa ion allowing them to again par ticipate tully Commiss CORE ron staff reviewed terms of reference: to develop a Land Use Plan for the region, determine policy advice for recommendations to cabinet, set up sub-regiqnal priorities; define implementation recom mendations, and devise a transi tion strategy The transition strategy is neces. of Trees Gala nets Ainsworth Hot Springs, an origi- nal painting donated by Janet Crema of Christina Lake and a limited edition print by Richard Widdifield of Castl Bidders of the silent auction were delighted with 86 assorted items. Top bid was for a portable gas barbecue donated by ICG Propane in Castlegar, which brought $115 Next was a beautifully decorat- ed gingerbread house, decorated by the Selkirk College Cooking students, which brought in $110. The evening events, which were emceed by college instruc- tor Gordon Tumer, saw a superb gourmet meal prepared and profi- ciently served by students and staff of Selkirk College’s cooking program aided by students in other tourism careers training programs from the Nelson cam- pus. During the meal, guests were entertained by the Selkirk Col- lege professional music students. Door prizes were drawn inter- mittently throughout the dinner. Winners included Don Lauder of Nelson, who won dinner for two at Gabriel's Restaurant, John Higginson of Trail, who won din- ner at the peppercorn Restaurant, Ron Ross of Castlegar, who won lunch at Nelson's Main Street Diner and Marilyn Hahn together with Lorne Nicolson of Nelson were the winners of pizzas from Rossland Pizza. The final door prize of golf and cart for two at Nelson's Granite Sary to reduce possible social and economic impacts that may result from this area's land use plan Members of the CORE table are considering the use of a Gov- ernment Support Team which would assist in establishing the final criteria for the sectors. The $16,000 Pointe Golf Club was won by Bev Onischak of Castlegar. New this year was the Festival of Trees Raffle. The giant prize of a Caribbean Cruise plus a dec- orated Christmas tree was won by Nelson Becker of Nelson. Second prize of a week's holiday in San Francisco (air fare donated by Canadian Regional Airlines) was won by Ed Legare of Castlegar, and third prize of two return tick- ets to Vancouver or Victoria (courtesy of Canadian Regional Airlines and Selkirk College) was won by Ivan Toll of Grand Forks. The generous support of many individuals, businesses, organiza- tions, students and staff contribut- ed to make this event a great success. team would also provide more technical resources to the table The next CORE meeting will be held to finalize Land Use Des- ignations and to set up a Chart of Accounts. This will enable the CORE group to test-run the sys tem to work out any kinks. The next meeting will be held in Castlegar on December 3 and 4 at the Ootischenia School Sun Classifieds Sell The Castlegar Chapter of the Learning Disabilities Association of B.C. would like to express its sincere appreciation to these sponsors for their generous financial contributions which made our calender project so successful. We would also like to thank Hall Printing for their invaluable assistance The proceeds will go towards providing information and Support to people with learning disabilities in Castlegar and district Ceigar Pulp Company Homegoods Bonnett's Men Wear Safeway CUPE - Local 1298 Excel Handyman Service EMCO Engineering Ltd Purnel Distributors Ltd Shaw Cable SuperValu Johnny's Grocery & Gas Sales Castlegar Savings Credit Union Remax - Castlegar Realty Lion's Head Pub & Restaurant eSGrans NS Thank You a - KOOTENAY LIVING AT ITS BEST This 1,850 square foot home te distinguished among higher family, friends & voters for supporting were late these last few weeks. The carriers can't deliver priced, erry ieee se don’t blame r carrier if your papers smoothly, Please d your ¢ y Pap’ cems in the area and the hear a “state of the nation’ address as it me in the "93 Municipal election to you until we deliver to them, and it was we who were late. A. Fow that darknesscomes early, on behalfof our 68 carriers, we ask a special favor of you, our subscribers. Our carriers have told us they are not comfortable entering a long dark driveway and approaching a dark house, not knowing where the steps or animals are, or whether a snow shovel or other obstacle has been left in their way. On Wednesday nights could you please leave a light on over the door where your paper is delivered? Or even better, if you have a path light, could you leave it on too? nd, they’ve asked us to remind you to please hovel and sand your walk and stairs on Wednesday afternoons so they can safely approach your home and deliver the paper. No doubt, as we get into winter there will be a few Wednesdays when blizzards try to close us off from the rest of the world. Even on the nastiest of nights we will do our very best to get the papers to the carriers so they, in turn can deliver them to you. If the weather is really bad, please, be patient. It may take the carrier until Thursday to deliver the paper, especially if the roads aren’t even ploughed, but they will deliver it to you as quickly and safely as they can W: want to continue to earn your trust and respect as Castlegar’s community newspaper; and we will continue to work hard to earn that. We know that YOU are our customers and without your comments, suggestions and feedback we can't improve hank you for your patience and understanding as we make our changes. As we enter our fourth year of publication, we promise to continue to offer you thorough coverage of local news, sports and community events along with thought provoking and, sometimes, controversial editorials fter all, you are our customers and you deserve he best. Our goal is to produce and deliver it to Sincerely Mor WVIG Matilyn Strong | Publisher | — Bob Pakula flexibility of her MemberCar ootenay Savings Members, Sh Lhe Versatility of Automated Transactions. A Kootenay Savings Addresses Her Card. ays | belong with Kootenay Savings, but it automated teller machines everywhere hopping malls all Kootenay Savings machines aron Kalusik Naturally, it gives throughout B ¢ What's more, Sharon's Membe without carrying cash throug 1 deposit cheques. Transfer on that last trip to the coast ning dre Member relates to the logger and log haulers, December 3 Chic Gray, general manager for the Interior Logging Associa. tion said the intent of the meeting is to provide the local logging contractors and log haulers with an update report on the Bill 13 negotiations Also to be reported is the Inte rior Logging Association's involvement in the CORE pro- cess, new compensation rules for fallers and buckers and other rel evant items. The new Forest Practices Code recently announced by the gov- emment will have an effect on every logger and ILA will be making a submission based on the feelings of Interior Loggers. “We can log to any standards there are; we have done it in the past and can continue to change, but the big question is can the log ger survive financially? The pro- posed new code could mean some loggers will have to make some serious changes in the way they do business,” Gray continued. The ILA organization was formed in 1958 to promote the independent logger as a profes- sional business person, to encour- age improvements in logging, hauling and safety standards and to distribute accurate and timely information to the logging sector. The December 3 meeting is for loggers and their spouses, and will start with a no-host buffet dinner, starting at 6 p.m. Masquerade Magic Costumes for every fantasy OPEN SUNDAYS until December 5 10:00 am to 3 pm Beside Greyhound REDEEMABLE AT YOUR NEIGHBOURHO! 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