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TWICE WEERLY MAY 4 1980

— Peter Horvey
— Linde Kositsin
— Gary Fleming

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Hearing needed

Trail Mayor Chuck Lakes voiced
the sentiments of many West
Kootenay © jents this week
when he said he's concerned about
a toreign corporation taking over
West Kootenay Power and Light
Co.

The idea of a company based
thousands of kilometres away in
another country supplying this
region's electrical needs is unset-
tling tor area residents. And for
good reason.

West Kootenay Power has
operated all of its 89 years under
one owner. That has led to a cer-
tain familiarity. Residents are ac-
customed to local control, local
decision-making and an acute un-
derstanding of local concerns.
They're afraid they may lose all
that with Utilicorp, a large utility
corporation based in Konsas,
Missouri.

The fears may be unfounded. At
least that's what Utilicorp was
telling local politicians this week.
The company promised not to in-
crease rates based on the $80
million Cdn purchase price.

If true to its word, Utilicorp will
have gone a way to soothing
ruffled feathers. One of the
priorities of almost everyone in the
Kootenays is that power rates
remain low in order to attract new
investment. Cheap power is this

region's major attraction for new
business.

Utilicorp also promised to have a
local board of directors run West
Kootenay Power and to maintain
the head office in Trail. Both are
welcome announcements.

Yet the problem with Utilicorp
is not just that it’s foreign, but that
it is an unknown entity. Residents
here would rather. have had some
company they know — like Inland
Natural Gas Col. Ltd. — purchase
West Kootenay Power.

Even if Utilicorp proves to be a
model owner, one of the questions
that surely must be raised is was
there no local bid that could have
matched Utilicorp’s? Was there no
way West Kootenay Power could
have remained, if not in local hon-
ds, in Canadian hands?

So far, Cominco Ltd. hos
remained close-mouthed about the
details of the bidding, other than
to say Utilicorp had the best offer.
That much was clear by the fact
their bid was $20 million more than
the bid by the regional districts of
Central K and K

Now the captain and crew
are seeking asylum!

Hold it Brian!

Letters to the Editor

Caught with hay down

Editer, News

Dennis MeDonald, the Ministry of
Environment's regional director,
caught us with our hay down. His
ministry had 20 years to produce the

Boundary.

What is needed is a full-scale
public hearing into the sale to en-
sure not only that Utilicorp lives
up to its promises, but that the sale
to a U.S. company is in everybody's
best interests.

The case for transit

It's a good bet that one of the fir-
st items on the when
Premier Bill Vander Zalm comes
calling on Castlegar council Mon-
dey morning is likely to be transit.

The city, along with rural areas |
and J, has hed a longstanding
request in with B.C. Transit for o
bus system. The system was on the
verge of becoming a reality tive
yeors when the recession
came along and knocked the bot-
tom out of the province's finances.
All funding for new transit systems
were frozen.

Now Castlegar council is hoping
Premier Vander Zaim will warm to
the idea of a bus system and help
thaw some of those frozen transit
funds.

Who knows, perhaps the
premier may even make an an-
nouncement about the transit
system. It’s not out of the question.
After all, Rita -Johnsten, the
minister of municipal affairs who is
also responsible for transit, will be
accompanying Mr. Vander Zaim on
his trip to the West Kootenay. Even
if there is no announcement, it will
provide an opportune time for the
city to put forward its case for a
transit system.

The most appealing part of the
case tor transit for the Castlegar
area is that the system starts out
small. In fact, it’s not so much a
system as a bus. One bus to be
exact. And not even a full-sized
bus at that. You can't start any
smaller than that.

Ron
Norman

The proposed federal electoral
boundaries for B.C. are so down-
right ridiculous they're laughable. I
mean, who but someone with 4
severely bent sense of humor would
eliminate the riding of Kootenay
West and throw half of its con

historical and geographic ties, not to
mention strong economic bonds.
How many of us have traveled to
Princeton or Osoyoos to shop in the
last month?

It’s that simple. But for some
reason the i never

klin Creek impact study and
though apparently the study was ready
in December, 1985, we did not receive
it until this July.

Making the report public at this time
shows the inconsiderate treatment we
farmers are accustomed to. Every time
we telephone someone in Victoria,
Nelson, Vernon, or Kelowna, they are
leaving, have left, or are covering for
someone else due to holidays.

I can appreciate everyone's need for
recreation, but I object to this inter
ference during our production time.
This report came at a very busy time
for the already overworked farmer.

The weather is a governing factor for
our livelihood and we have to make hay
while the sun shines. Because of this,
we have had limitéd time available to

material, wait for correspon
and obtain reference infor
(some being classified refer
plus reap our crops.

Having public meetings concerning
the proposed Inonoaklin fish ladder is
great, but when a population of 207 is
facing a population of 16,000, you can
guess the outcome. I wonder how the
people of Castlegar and Tyail would

feel if Vancouver decided there was a
need for their surrounding rural lands?
The population of Vancouver being so
much larger, they would carry the
deciding votes. Is it fair?

There are other alternatives to those
presented in the impact study that do
not infringe on a perfectly viable in-
dustry. Frankly, I am tired of these
tacties and if this creek is so valuable,
buy us out so we can pursue our life
styles and interests elsewhere in
British Columbia.

We are not unreasonable people. We
only want to be left alone.

Are fresh water sport fish really
more important to B.C.'s economy than
agriculture? Can man live by fish
alone?

I think fishing, hunting, and camping
are wonderful recreation pastimes, but
agriculture is a stable and viable
industry, as well as a way of life. If we
lose the rest of B.C.’s agricultural
industry, is the environment ministry
prepared to go farming? Farmers do
not get a fair shake at the best of times,
and I feel we shouldn't be used here
either.

What about our land values? Is
anyone interested in a beautiful piece
of property with creek frontage, when
all they can do is look at it but not use
it? Come on! When is it going to stop?
We're hardworking, honest people. All

we ask is that the environment
ministry respect our priorities and life-
styles the same way it does for those
who love to recreate.

When we have had the time to
recreate the Inonoaklin has been there
— for fishing, swimming and dreaming.
If the environment ministry has its
way, this will no longer be a part of our
lifestyle and we'll have to drive to the
lake.

I love this creek. If Mr. McDonald
had the opportunity our children
and some of the adults have had to
spend time on the Inonoaklin fishing,

lemming and 5 -

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he could appreciate our problem more.

Where is the justice? Who's right
and who's wrong? Large numbers play
the game and generally rule. There are
other creeks available where there is
no conflict of interest. Why not develop
them? Are we that expendable?

Please hear us; don't jump over us
for the “maybes” of freshwater fishing.
We vote, we pay taxes, and we support
our local businesses with our incomes.
Where is the money that will be
generated from this fishway going to
be spent? I rather doubt Edgewood will
see 1/10th of a cent on the dollar.

Please consider us; we count too.

Barbara Petersen

TODAY'S POPULAR DRUG

Crack use ‘a plague’

By CALVIN WOODWARD
Canadian Press

NEW YORK — Two days after his
latest erack-induced high, Edward sur
rendered to the young soldiers of East
Harlem's anti-drug crusade

He walked off the shabby street and
upstairs to a youth hotline centre,
where someone looked through the
peephole and slid the bolt to let him in.
The night before, someone had broken
in and trashed the place, apparently a
crack dealer or user

Inside, Edward, 24, encountered a
babble of tedmage voices and a

d to look at those ties — or

into a ped Okana
gan-Similkameen riding and the
other half into a new riding called
“Kootenay”?

It’s all a bad joke, right? The real
boundary changes are still under
wraps, right? Apparently not.

Under the proposed boundaries,
Nakusp would have the same
federal representative in the House
of Commons as Princeton. Never
mind that Nakusp has about as
much in common with Princeton as
it has with Inuvik.

Never mind, too, that the con-
stituents in the revised Okanagan:
Similkameen riding who live on the
other side of Princeton (that's right,
the riding would stretch past
Princeton halfway to Hope) would
be closer to Vancouver than to
Castlegar. (Would they take High
way 3 or the Coquihalla Highway to
get here?)

All this seems to have escaped the
independent commission charged
with drawing up the new riding

Castlegar than with Invermere and
Fernie.
Nelson, Trail and Castlegar have

else it did but didn’t recognize them.

So just how did the commission
decide to draw its new riding boun-
dary line halfway between Nelson
and Castlegar? By relying almost
completely on population figures.

The commission took the popu
lation of B.C. in the 1981 census
(about 2.75 million) and divided it by
the number of ridings (32), to arrive
at a figure (85,765) that is supposed
to be the ideal population for each
riding

But what looks good on paper
doesn’t always pan out in the field.
The commission seemed to ignore
the fact that it’s easier to represent
85,000 people who live within 25
square miles than it is 85,000 people
who live within 25,000 square miles.

You don't need to keep score to
tell who wins and who loses by all
this? All of us who live in the new
Okanagan-Similkameen riding lose.
We get short changed in our federal
representation because no matter
how good the individual MP, he or
she would be faced with travelling
outrageous distances.

And who wins? Why those people
in the Lower Mainland. But then
that’s nothing new

of antédrug posters drawn in
crayon*by schoolchildren.

“I'm very fortunate that I'm trying
to catch this now, take inventory of
myself,” he said in an interview after
an adult counsellor at the centre, Hot
Line Cares Inc., arranged to get him

| into a treatment program the next day.

“Tve been fortunate so far not to get
really crazy. But I see if I don't do
something now, eventually -

The next day, he didn’t show up for
his appointment. To hotline supervisor
Raphael Flores, it was a disappointing
but not unexpected defeat in a struggle
with too few victories.

“Crack is so sweet to them,” he said.
“It's like trying to break them away
from a lover.”

Crack, a potent and cheap cocaine
derivative, has come to be regarded as
a plague in a number of major U.S.
cities, suburbs and towns. It's partie.
ularly widespread in East Harlem, a
rundown neighborhood of blacks and
Hispanics. A national cocaine hotline
says a third of its calls concern crack,
up from a negligible number a few
months ago.

In the Harlem hotline room, manned
mainly-by supervised volunteers aged
12 to 18, it struck no one as strange
that kis elsewhere might be using

* -erayons to draw trees or buildings, or

that many teenagers are more pre

occupied with pimples and puberty
than matters of life and death.

That's something “I've never
thought about,” said Raymond Ram
irez, 15, a crisis counsellor at the
Harlem centre since age 11.

“Tm here from 3 til 6 p.m. and then
when I'm home it tends to stay with
me.”

Supervisor Flores says there's not
much room for ildhood ii

narcotics squad has grown more than
70 per cent since April to 1,000 officers
largely because of the crack problem,
and nearly 10,000 crack-related arrests
have been made this year. Some
officials are blaming the drug for part
of the 30-per-cent increase in the city's
murder rate after a five-year decline.

Blatant street sales are shown
regularly on TV newscasts and there

among children on either side of the
drug war.

Drug problems afflict probably one
in three families in East Harlem, he
said, up from an estimated one in 10
before crack replaced angel dust —
commonly a mixture of marijuana and
the animal tranquillizer PCP — as the
popular drug a few years ago.

“These young people are dealing
with the issue anyway on the block, in
the school or at home,” said Flores.

‘it's like trying to
break them away
from a lover’

Crack, a rock-line substance usually
pulverized and smoked in a pipe or
with tobacco, provides an intense but
short-lived euphoria, followed by an

ional ive, Ih and

users say.

Flores said he finds it easier to help
heroin addicts because the crushing
physical withdrawal from that drug
leaves no doubt that they need treat
ment. Crack users, on the other hand,
may feel they are still in control, even
amid their paranoia and depression.

So far in Canada, crack is available in
limited quantities at least in Toronto
and Montreal, authorities say, but they
fear it will become wi

In New York City, the police

are tant reports of crack-related
violence. Several innocent victims have
been literally caught in the crossfire of
drug feuds, including a 14-year-old boy
fatally shot while riding his bicycle
outside his apartment in the Bronx.

In East Harlem, the battle is fought
on many levels. The good guys include
a sidewalk hot-dog vendor who tries to
steer users toward treatment centres,
and church leaders who've organized
anti-crack rallies attended by thou
sands.

The bad guys don't work quite as
brazenly as they did earlier in the
summer, when people would line up at
a hdle in the wall and deal with the
pusher on the other side, said Ramirez.

“But it's still on every streetcorner,”
adds the teenager. Pushers’ com
panions keep watch for the police, some
yelling “vajando” — roughly meaning
“it's coming down” — when they spot a
uniform.

Most street dealers are not thought
to be part of a network like the Mafia,
authorities say, so people are often not
seared to squeal on them, or on
oceasion to chase them away.

In Brooklyn, some residents have
painted red X's on the doors of
suspected dealers.

Of the 17 volunteers at Hot Line
Cares, three are former drug users and
the rest are simply young people who
want to help others, Flores says. Along
with manning the phones, they dis
tribute posters and pamphlets and hold
drug workshops in schools, starting at
the Grade 4 level.

Remember

Mr. and Mrs. D.A. Shea, residents of
Castlegar for the past 16 years, will
leave shortly for Vancouver where
they will make their home.

Mr. and Mrs. Shea purchased the
Castlegar Hotel from P. Hardie in May
1935 and have operated it yp to the
present time. The hotel has been sold
to P. Stainer and H. Bendick of
Vancouver

. * *

‘There are three major fires burning
in this forest district at the present
time. The latest blaze which began on
Saturday afternoon is located on the
east side of the Kootenay River
opposite Glade in a draw up Ten Mile
Creek which apparently originated
from carelessness. At the present mo-
ment the fire covers approximately 700
acres and there are more than 200 men
on the job with Forest Ranger Joe
Killough and Assistant Ranger A-E.
Hesketh in charge.

. 8

The Spokane Chamber of Commerce
will make a goodwill tour next week
visiting the various chambers of
commerce groups in the Kootenays.

.

Flying Officer Carl Friberg, who is
well known in the Kootenays, has been
promoted to the commissioned ranks
and transferred from Edmonton to Air
Force Headquarters, to lead the
Central Band of the Royal Canadian
Air Force.

Friberg led Rossland’s City Band for
four years and the Maple Leaf Band for

25 YEARS AGO
From the Aug. 24, 1961
Castlegar News

Terrorists completely destroyed one
Orthodox Doukhobor village and
levelled most of another in midnight
fires Saturday that raged through
separate areas of Ootischenia near the
Castlegar airport.

Close to 36 persons representing 14
families were left destitute. Most of
them fled from their burning homes
with only the clothes on their backs.

Damage was estimated at $100,000.

* 2° @

W.T. Waldie of the Castlegar Ki-
wanis Club was elected lieutenant-
governor for district 6 of Kiwanis, at
the Northwest Kiwanis convention
held at Spokane on Monday and
Tuesday of this.week. ay

* ° «

A defenceman with the world hockey
champions, the Trail Smoke Eaters,
has been appointed agent for the
Imperial Oil bulk plant which is to be
built somewhere in the Castlegar-Kin
naird area.

Harry Smith, a native of Trail, will
take over delivery of furnace oil, stove
oil, gasoline and diesel fuel in the area
from Genelle to South Slocan.

. 2° «

A family dinner was held Saturday
evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G.
Corbett, honoring Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Kirby on their 25th wedding anniver
sary, following which a surprise party
was held

. 8 8

Eric Ramsden, district editor for
B.C. on the Vancouver Sun, visited his
brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Herb Shields several times recently

15 YEARS AGO
From the Aug. 26, 1971
Castlegar News

Stanley Humphries high school track
star Harry Kooznetsoff of Glade has
brought another gold medal to this
area, the fourth he has won this year
for javelin throwing.

Last week at the National Track and
Field Championships held in Winnipeg
he won the Canadian title.

.

Between 30 and 40 horses in the
Castlegar area have been innoculated
against sleeping sickness, following an
outbreak of the disease in the Okana-
gan and Similkameen.

The disease, which has been brought
under control in these areas, claimed
the lives of nine horses earlier this
month.

. 8 6

A colony of beavers, living in the
area of the proposed Kootenay Canal,
are being live-trapped and moved to
new homes as a conservation measure
by B.C. Hydro.

. 28 «6

The Castlegar RCMP detachment
has a new sergeant.

He is Sgt. E.S. Greba, a veteran of 17
years on the force, who replaces Sgt.
R.W. Hobson.

5 YEARS AGO
From the Aug. 23, 1981
News

A Kiwanis work party and other
volunteers were busy at Hobbit Hill
Preschool Development Centre Satur.
day working in the yard to make the
playground area more suitable for the
centre's children.

The project includes putting up a
retaining wall to prevent flooding,
moving the equipment around to make
it more accessible for the children, and
building them a new fort.

NEW CABINET... (front
from left) Reid, Fraser,
McCarthy, Vander Zoaim,
Johnston, Curtis,
Nielsen. (Rear, from
left) Hewitt, Davis,
Richmond, Fraser,
McGeer, Brummet,
Kempt, Veitch, Pelton,
Segarty, Smith and

Gar

BENNETT ERA

OUTSIDERS

NOW INSIDERS

may be familiar, but those who figure that it's going to be
business as usual in Victoria are in for a very rude sur-

prise.

The most powerful insiders in the Vander Zalm

cabinet are precisely the same people who were the out-
siders in the Bill Bennett era. It is as though the new
premier had set out with deliberation to restore to a state
of full grace those whose stars had faded during the

Bennett years.

It’s rather humorous when you look at it. The three
most powerful ministers in the Vander Zalm government
are three old warhorses who only a couple of months ago
the pundits were putting out to pasture.

They are:

e Jack Davis, the 70-year-old former Rhodes scholar

and federal Liberal

minister

with the body of a

50-year-old and a maverick mind that defies political
categorization who is the new minister of energy:

Grace McCarthy, the 58-year-old founder of the
reborn Social Credit party, who is the deputy premier
and minister of economic development;

e and Pat McGeer, the 59-year-old brain researcher
and former B.C. Liberal leader, who is the minister of
international trade, science, and investment.

Add to that improbable and indefinable mix of
populism and failed Liberalism the charismatic and
maverick presence of the new premier and minister of
finance and you have, I suggest, the makings for some
revolutionary change in image, as wet! as substance.

Furthermore, it is impossible to imagine an inner
power group that is more dissii imilar to the coterie of Con-
servative political fixers with whom Bennett shared his
inner circle.

When he hung up his spurs, Bennett called on his
party to embark on renewal by électing a new and
younger leader to continue his ideological tilt toward
conservative ideology and to lead the Socreds into the
next millenium.

It would have taken a perverse writer of fiction to
have imagined that the former premier’s yision of the
future could have been so adamantly rejected by his
successors.

If you are tempted to buy the implausible argument
that the new gang isn't that different from the old gang,
pick up the phone and check with some of the quaking
bureaucrats at places like B.C. Hydro.

Within an hour of taking office, Davis matter of
factly opined that two of Bennett's fondest megaproject
dreams — the Site C dam on the Peace River and the
natural gas pipeline to Vancouver Island — may end up
on the scrap heap.

I find it impossible to imagine that a new govern.
ment from a different party would have dropped as many
hints about change as have members of the Vander Zalm
entourage in the past 48 hours.

These new brokers of power in B.C. are not a group
of skittish youngsters anxious to experiment with un-
tested recipes. They're veterans of the political wars who
have been handed an opportunity to give vent to their
long-sublimated aspirations.

How will they fare? I have no idea and at this
juncture neither does Bill Vander Zalm, but I sincerely
doubt that even a few weeks from now there are going to

There will be a fall election only if the Vander Zalm
crew can succeed in eliminating from the public mind any
recollection of the many unpopular polices of the Bill
Bennett government and create a new momentum of its

Here's the full
cabinet lineup

VICTORIA (CP) —
Makeup of the British
Columbia cabinet following
appointments by new Pre-
mier Bill Vander Zalm:

e Bill Vander Zalm,
premier, finance

e Grace McCarthy, dep-
uty premier, minister of
economic development

e Brian Smith, attorney

be many complaints about Vander Zalm’s
inability to place his own stamp on the government.

I figure that when these canny old merchandisers of
hype start working the streets, we're going to have a
hard time remembering the name of the former premier,
which is, of course, their objective.

Don’t underestimate these aging hoofers. If it's song
and dance the people want, Vander Zalm and his new/old
crew of veterans from the political stage will set up 3
platform on the lawns of the legislature. Show times will
be announced as they become available.

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sumer and corporate af-
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e Jim Hewitt, agricul-
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Due to the

Labour Day Weekend Holiday

Castlegar contractor Wood, fibre show

pushes for new road

By CasNews Staff

A Castlegar contractor is
seeking Premier Bill Vander
Zalm's support for a $23
million highway on the east
side of the Arrow Lakes
linking Syringa Creek with
Fauquier.

George Evin of, Evin's

Court news

Kevin Proud was fined
$100 after pleading guilty in
Castlegar provincial court
this week to being a minor in
possession of alcohol.

. * 8

Edward Montgomery and
John Dergousoff were each
xed $100 for remaining in
a licensed establishment
after being requested to
leave.
.

James Waddington was
fined $75 after pleading
guilty to being a minor in
possession of alcohol.

. °* 6

Robert Skublen was fined
$75 after he pleaded guilty to
consuming liquor in a public
place.

Contracting Ltd. says he
hopes to meet with Vander
Zalm to discuss the road
during the premier's visit to
Castlegar Monday.

Evin said in an interview
Thursday that he has met
with Vander Zalm and sub-
mitted copies of the details
for the road, some stretching
as far back as 1968 when
Evin first began pressing for
the road.

've got it all designed for
him,” Evin said, adding that
all the road proposal needs is
the strong support of area
residents.

Evin pointed out that
two-thirds of the proposed
60-kilometer road between

quier is al
lairly good

the provincial
government would need to
upgrade that section and
construct about 16 kilo
metres of new road.

Evin said he discussed the
road last October with for:
mer premier Bill Bennett and
Highways Minister Alex
Fraser. Evin said he pointed
out at that time the bene
fits of a road link.

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The Langham Galleries in
Kaslo will present unusual

He said the road would

provide a direct route from
Castlegar to Vernon, linking
the area to the Coquihalla
Highway and Kamloops.

As well, he said the road
would enhance tourism along
the Arrow Lakes, stimu
lating business between
Castlegar and Vernon.

Evin said there would be
the obvious job creation
benefits from road construc.
tion, but the road would also
provide a cheaper route for
trucking firms.

September 2 will

school on this day.

works in wood and fibre by
gifted craftspeople beginning
Tuesday and running
through Sept. 4.
Meanwhile, author Mary
Hollingsworth will read from
her work Monday in the
Langham Theatre.
Earlier this
Radio broadcast
worths’ powerful Women on
the Wire, a story of the
women at Greenham Com-
mon in England who have

be an “In Service

at the Langham

been camped outside the U.S.
military base protesting the
nuclear weapons sited there.
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1404 HIGHLAND DRIVE z

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Tour level split with fireplace

School District No. 9 (Castlegar)

SCHOOL
OPENING

A. Tuesday, September 2, 1986

and Administrative

Preparation Day” for all schools, and schools WILL NOT be open

for instruction. Students new to the District should register at the

B. Wednesday, September 3, 1986

All schools in the District will be open for instruction on this day.
Regular bus runs WILL be in operation and if you are unsure as to
the time that your c

hild will be picked up, please contact the

CENTRAL FOODS

Cc. Kindergarten
assignment, time, etc.

ther information.

D. Bus Information

BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES
School District No. 9
Castlegar, B.C.

Maintenance Office of the School District at 365-8331.

Parents or guardians who have pre-registered their child for Kin-
dergarten will be notified directly by the schools as to class

Parent or guardians of Kindergarten students who have NOT
registered their child are advised to do so at their neighbourhood
school, or telephone the School Board Office (365-7731) for fur-

For information related to routes, times, bus stops, etc., call 365-
8331 between 9:30 a.m. and 3;30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

THE APPLICATION

Inland Natural Gas Co. Ltd. (“inland”) applied June 18, 1985 to amend
its filed Gas Tariff Schedules to reflect certain Rate Design matters, and
concurrently applied to establish a new class of service entitied Rate
Schedule 6. Inland states that the supporting materials are common to
both Applications.

The nature of Rate Design involves matters which may significantly affect
Inland’s customers served under all classes of service:

THE PUBLIC HEARING

A public hearing of the Applications by Inland will be held at the following
times and locations:

— commencing at 9:30 a.m., local time on Monday, November 3, 1986 at
the Delta Lakeside Inn, 21 Lakeshore Drive West, Penticton, B Cc

— continuing at 1:30 p.m., local tirne on Wednesday, November 12, 1986
at the Coast Inn of the North, 770 Brunswick Street, Prince George, B.C

— continuing at 9:30 a.m., local time on Tuesday, November 18, 1986 at
the Commission Hearing Room located at the 4th Floor, 800 Smithe
Street, Vancouver, B.C

PUBLIC INSPECTION OF THE APPLICATION

The Application and supporting material are available for inspection at the
Head Office of Inland Natural Gas Co. Ltd. located at the 23rd Floor, 1066
West Hastings Street, Vancouver, B.C. and offices located at Kamloops,
Kelowna, Nelson, Penticton, Prince George, Quesnel, Trail and Vernon,
B.C

A copy of the Application and supporting material is also available for
inspection at the office of the British Columbia Utilities Commission, 4th
Floor, 800 Smithe Street, Vancouver, B.C

INTERVENTIONS

Any person intending to attend the hearing should provide written notice,
to be received not later than Friday, September 26, 1986, to the
Commission Secretary, and to the Applicant. Those persons intending to
give evidence or cross-examine witnesses should, in addition, provide a
brief written statement of the nature of their interest in the proceeding

SUBMISSIONS BY INTERESTED PERSONS

Any person intending to file a written submission should file not later than
Friday, October 10, 1986, one copy of the Submission to the Commission
Secretary, and to the Applicant

CLARIFICATION

Persons intending to participate in the public hearing who are uncertain
as to the manner in which to proceed should contact the Commission
Secretary by telephone (660-4700 Collect), or in writing

BY ORDER

A. C. Michelsor.
Commission Secretary

FOURTH FLOOR, 800 SMITHE STREET
VANCOUVER, B.C. V6Z 2E1. CANADA
TELEPHONE (604) 660-4700. TELEX 04-54536