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BRIDGE DEDICATED

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he said, noting barbed wire has been placed at both

entrances to the bridge to prevent its use.
Henne said city works superi

Moore said the bridge showed that “nothing’s impos-
sible” with co-operation and noted that the members of
the 44th Squadron put in a 16-hour day Saturday to

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Z Reshaur and foreman Jim Hendrickson will inspect the

bridge today and recommend what work must be done.

He said the work will be undertaken immediately.

“We don't know what it’s going to cost,” Henne said
in reply to a question.

The city will also finish the approaches to the bridge
and install a gate so that the bridge can be locked at
night. 7

Nevertheless, the 200 residents who attended Sun-
day's ceremonies and crossed the bridge were obviously
pleased with the work.

Young and old turned out for the dedication, and
were treated to sunny, though cool weather throughout
the ceremony.

During the ded: master of ies Char-
ters told the crowd, “A long time ago when I was a
decidedly young, nervous junior officer with the Seaforth
Highlanders in the Mediterranean theatre of war, I first
learned to appreciate a great deal and have faith in the
Army Engineers.”

He said his appreciation of their “determination,
courage, co-operative spirit and esprits de corps has re-
doubled during our association with this particular exer.
cise.

“They have not only created an object of beauty and
a protective link to our unique island park, but they have
demonst ted the potential for co-operation latent in any

Ad. Bob MacBain, parks and recreation committee
chairman, told the audience, “I think it’s unique. It's
going to enhance Zuckerberg Island Park in the manner
of tourism.”

MacBain then introduced Mayor Audrey Moore who
called it “a yreat day for Castlegar.”

the bridge decking in time for the opening.
Acting Captain Claude Rainsville thanked the cil
for the opportunity to build “this beautiful project.”
personally thanked the younger members of the unit for
their long hours of work.

“We hope you will enjoy it as much as we enjoyed
building it,” Rainsville concluded.

Rotary Club president John Kennedy pointed out
that Zuckerberg Island Park began about a year ago as a
club project.

But he said as time went on more and more people
became involved so it became first a community project,
and then, with the help of the 44th Field Engineers, an
area project.

Maj. George Perkin, the 44th's commanding officer,
also noted the help they received from businesses.

“We got grant support from the companies in this
area,” he said. “They came through whenever we came to
ask for anything. They gave and gave willingly.”

Finally, Brig. Gen. M.E. Heppell, area

also operates its student aid
program on a loan-only basis.

Selkirk College financial
aid officer Jake Van Hemert
said the change was an-
nounced when the provincial
government brought its bud-
get down earlier this year.

He said initially, the gov-
ernment is expecting to save
between $15 and $17 million
by eliminating the grant
program.

Van Hemert said the major
impact will begin in January
1985 when the majority of
awards are issued.

He said he doesn’t expect a
major impact on enrolment at
Selkirk College, but expects
it will affect students after

pay off the loan.

The monthly payments al-
so vary, depending on the
amount of the loan. For ex-
ample, a student attending a
Selkirk College technology
program could ineur a
$10,000 debt over the two-
year period. His minimum
payment’ would be $134 a
month.

Van Hemert said the loan
is interest free until. six
months after the student fin.
ishes his studies.

He added that there is a
possibility the changes may
deter certain families from
attending post-secondary
schools because of their

program.

Van Hemert said in the Al-
berta system the govern-
ment has a form of remission,
where if a student passes his
classes satisfactorily, the
government forgives a large
percentage of the loan.

He said an Alberta student
can receive more funding and
come out with just 60 per
cent of the debt load of a B.C.
student. Ontario's loan sys-
tems also has a remission.

Van Hemert’s remarks
come on the heels of recent
comments made by Vern
Loewen, newly-elected pres-
ident of the Association of
Student Awards Personnel of
B.C.

Loewen said the govern-
ment policy overhauls will
give B.C. the distinction of
having one of the harshest
student aid programs in
North America.

Chretien
to visit
Castlegar

Liberal candidates John
Roberts, Donald Johnston,
and Jean Chretien will be
speaking in Castlegar and
Nelson during the next week.

Roberts will be appearing
for about.an hour at the
Fireside Motor Inn here this
Friday at 10 a.m., according
to a spokesman for the West
Kootenay Liberal Associa.
tion.

On Sunday Johnston will
speak at the Heritage Inn in
Nelson, at 1 p.m.

Chretien will appear at the
Fireside Motor Inn May 29 at
11 a.m.

Examination service lost

By CasNews Staff

It looks like Castlegar has
lost its driver's examination
service, despite appeals from
city couneil.

The Motor Vehicle Branch
has reaffirmed an earlier de-
cision to close the driver
examination service in
Castlegar, forcing Castlegar
drivers to travel to Nelson or
Trail to take their road test.

P.K, Jackman, acting sup-
erintendent of motor vehi-
cles, said in an April 26 letter
to council that he appreciates
the community's concerns
and the impact the closure
will have on area residents.

However, he said that for
the last six months an aver-
age of only six road tests
were conducted on each day
the examiner was in Castle-

Pe

“Since there was only a
limited number of examin-
ations being conducted, the
decision to cancel this service
has resulted in savings to

Motor Vehicle Department in
reduced travel time and ex-
penses and rental costs for
buildings,” Jackman said.

He also said the depart
ment's Nelson office is re-
quired to resume additional
licensing duties which were
previously handled by the
Government Agent.

Finally, he pointed out the
distance from Castlegar to
Trail or Nelson is only 40 to
50 kilometres, “which is no
greater than distances many
residents of gther smaller
communities have been re-
quired to travel for many
years.”

Jackman noted that only
the road test portion’ of the
driver examination service
has been discontinued.

“The agent in Castlegar, if
he so desires, will be author-
ized to conduct written tests,
issue learner driver's licenses
and issue driver's licenses to
new residents who are able
to surrender a driver's li-

Funeral Friday
for Stewart Grant

Stewart Grant of Castlegar
passed away Tuesday, May

z 22 in Trail Regional Hospital

at the age of 92 years.

Funeral service will be
held Friday at 11 a.m. at the
Robson Community Memor-
ial Church with Rev. Ted
Bristow officiating. Inter-.
ment will be in the Robson
Cemetery.

Mr. Grant was born Jan.
11, 1892 at Aberdeen, Scot-
land. He grew up there and
learned his trade as a pattern
maker.

He served with the Royal
Air Force during World War
One and came to Canada in
1921 settling in New West-
minster and later moving to
Trail where he worked a a
pattern maker for Cominco
for 37 years.

In 1925 he married Zena
Gavrilik at Trail and she
passed away in 1975. Mr.
Grant moved to Robson in
1940 and to Castlegar in the
1960s.

He enjoyed carpenty and
was a life member of the
King George Masonic Order

censes issued by another
North American jurisdic
tion,” he said.

Jackman promised to have
his department monitor’ the
demand for driver examin-
ation services in all the smal-
ler communities.

“Once the department's
Nelson office, as well as the

existing office located at
Trail has been brought up to
the full operating capacity, a
reassessment of the situation
will be undertaken by our
area manager to determine if
service to your community
could be reinstated at least
on a limited basis,” Jackman
added.

UNIONS MEET
MEDIATOR

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
province's two pulp unions
that have been without a
contract for nearly a year will
meet with a mediator today
to see what can be done.

Art Gruntman, president
of the 17,200-member Can-
adian Paperworkers’ Union,
said his union and the 5,200-
member Pulp, Paper and
Woodworkers of Canada
agreed Tuesday to call in a
mediator to speak to them
Wednesday morning.

The unions have been
stripped of their strike threat
by legislation imposed by the
Social Credit government
early last month to end a
nine-week industry lockout.
The act also extended the old
contract and included a pro-
vision that would allow the

government to impose a set-
tlement.

The unions stayed off the
job illegally for one week fol-
lowing the passing of the act.

However, the legislature
has adjourned for the sum-
mer and the two unions want
to end the uncertainty by re-
opening negotiations with in-
dustry representatives.

The unions voted 87 per
cent to reject the terms ac-
cepted by the International
Woodworkers of America,
the forest industry’s largest
union. That three-year con-
tract offered no wage in-
crease in the first year, four
per cent in the second and 4.5
per cent in the third.

The base rate for forest
workers is $12.96 an hour.

Police file

of Aberdeen,

He was also a member of the
Sentinel Masonic Lodge of
Castlegar and the Fidelity
Masonic Lodge of Trail.

He is survived by one
brother, James of Kelowna;
two brothers-inlaw, Paul
Gavrilik of Trail and Simon
Gavrilik of Creston and many
nieces and nephews.

Funeral arrangements un-
der the direction of the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel.

Castlegar RCMP are inves-
tigating an incident that oc-
curred over the weekend in
which three windows were
broken at the provincial
courthouse.

The estimate of the dam-
age is not yet known, say
police.

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RCMP received several
complaints of bears in the
city over the weekend. Fish

CITY GETS TOUGH

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In other council news the City
Centre Motel in downtown Castlegar
has been sold and the new owner is
interested in refurbishing the building

as an apartment-motel.

Victoria, said: “It is clearly a community project.”

Heppell said it was “practically overwhelming” to
see the number of ii i and

However, he also noted that he had “a certain
amount of concern and certain amount of doubt” when the
project was first proposed.

He said his doubt was whether a reserve unit could
complete such a large undertaking.

But Heppell said Perkin “caused me to decide yes,
we'll go ahead with it.”

With that, the bridge was turned over to Mayor
Audrey Moore on behalf of the City of Castlegar.

Moore, with Heppell's help, then cut the ribbon
officially opening the bridge. P

in said the develope:

MacBain said council went to the
plaza merehants and owners May 9 to
discuss the various proposals in the

traffic study.

happy,” with the

upgrade the building to meet all the _ later.”

city bylaws and then use some of it as

low cost rental.

City planner Bill Hadikin said the

developer has not yet

tailed plans, and is not certain how
much will be allocated for apartments
and how much will be motel space.
Council has issued a development
permit and Hadikin said detailed plans

wilt be required before a
permit is issued.

Meanwhile, a traffic study by DelCan
consultants for the Hi Arrow Mall and
Ci d Plaza has been put on hold.

d de- many

building

heating costs.

“Some are happy, some are not
tudy, MacBain said.
hopes to “We'll just leave it in abeyance until

Hadikin told the planning committee
at a recent meeting that while co-
ordinated development was desired by
the plan by DelCan
for re-arrangement of 18th St. was not
acceptable to the majority of mer.
chants at the meeting.

Elsewhere, the city will be con-
structing a new sidewalk on the west
side of the Kootenay Savings Credit
Union building. The sidewalk along
11th Ave. will be partially heated, with
KSCU picking up the installation and

April.

and wildlife officers have
been advised.
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Three roadside suspen-
sions were given out over thé
weekend.
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Police are investigating a
break-in which took place at
Mike's Mobile Homes Ltd. on
Columbia Ave. over the
weekend. A small amount of
change was taken.

In other news, council will not take
court action against two businesses
which have not paid their 1984 business
licences — at least for the time being.

Council said Plaza Texaco Service
owes $130 and Kinnaird Transfer owes
$160. Each was issued invoices in
December,

February and again in

City staff will investigate what
action to take under the municipal
business license bylaw.

Ald. Albert Calderbank pointed out
that council has never had such a situ-
ation before.

Finally, the city received two bids
for the animal control contract, but
Ald. Carl Hertine said both bids were
“mueb higher than anticipated.” ,

Henne said the protective services
committee wants to investigate further

before awarding any contract.

HARD CORE HOCKEY FANS... joger Arend (cen-
tre) of New Lennox, Ill. hitchhiked to Castlegor
from his home in four days to visit Gord Semenoft

Street talk

HERE'S AN update on a story we brought you last
year around this time. Remember the article on the four
Castlegar men who drove 35 hours non-stopto see their
favorite National Hockey League team the Chicago Black
Hawks, play in the Stanley Cup quarter finals?

To recount that story, Gerd Semenoff, Dwayne
Glendinning, Mitch Galloway and Red Stewart piled into
the front of a pick-up truck about 1 a.m. one Saturday,
gassed up at Hillstop Service just outside of Castlegar
and headed off to St. Paul Minn.

The four had no luggage, no ehange of clothes and
just $40 in cash between them. But with their wallets full
of credit cards, the four drove over 2,000 miles to St. Paul
to arrive in time for the third game of the best of seven
playoff series.

With their cash gone by this time, the four gave
some credit cards to a ticket scalper outside the arena as
security for four tickets to the game.

They watched the Black Hawks lose that game, but
afterwards, retrieved their credit cards and paid the
scalper. They picked up four more tickets to the fourth
game from the same scalper, and by this time were
becoming pretty chummy with the scalper.

So, when the series headed back to Chicago for a fifth
game, the scalper offered to put the four up in his Chicago
apartment and gave them free tickets to the game.

The Black Hawks won that contest and the series
and the four returned home.

Now the update. The friendly scalper who helped
Semenoff, Glendinning, Galloway and Stewart is now in
Castlegar paying a return visit.

r Arend, 29 of New Lennox, Ill. (a suburb of
Chicago) hitchhiked to Castlegar from his home in just
four days to see his Castlegar friends — just in time to
catch the final games of the Stanley Cup.

“I just love it here,” Arend said Tuesday.
such a great time.”

Arend, who arrived in town last week, said Semenoff
has put him up in his home and treated him royally.

“['m having the red carpet treatment,” he said.

Arend, a die-hard Black Hawk fan for 17 years, says
he has eight Black Hawk season tickets and regularly
travels to the NHL team's out of town games.

And he's offered to have the Castlegar men stay at
his Chicago home again and attend more Black Hawk
games.

“We're going to all do it again,”

And they probably will, too.

FEDERAL PROGRESSIVE Conservative leader
Brian Mulroney and wife Mila were taken a bit by sur
prise last Thursday afternoon upon their arrival at
Castlegar airport.

“Tve had

he says excitedly.

(left) and Dwayne Glendinning and. watch the
Stanley Cup games. ConNews Photo

Among the 75 or so well-wishers to greet them was
none other than the brother of Mulroney's brother-in-law,
Terry Eltiott.

Elliott and wife were at the airport, later followed
the Mulroneys to the local campaign headquarters and
then took in the Thursday night speech at the Fireside
Inn

Elliott, for those who don't know, owns Trail Honda.

THE MULRONEY AIRPORT scene had its funny

The Mulroney jet was expected to arrive at
any time between 3 and 3:30 p.m., so when a jet flew in
about 3:25 p.m. sporting the Tory blue colors, everyone
assumed it was the Mulroneys.

A security guard stood by the gate to screen who
could get onto the tarmac and the ‘crowd gathered to
greet Mulroneys pushed closer to the wire mesh fence in
anticipation.

It was, needless to say, a bit confusing. It became
even more confusing as the crowd waited for a few
minutes and saw no sign of the Mulroneys.

About the same time a group of about half a dozen
well dressed men managed to push their way through the
crowd to the gate entrance, where they were halted by
the security guard.

It wasn't until then that one of the Mulroney en
tourage yelled above the engine noise that the plane
wasn't Mulroney's, but in fact was a B.C. Tel plane and
these six men were trying to board.

AND IF YOU thought it was pure coincidence that
Mulroney visited Kootenay West, think again. He also
stopped over that same day in Kamloops and Salmon
Arm before coming here.

Both of those communities are in the Kamloops
Shuswap riding, a seat now held by NDP finance critic
Nelson Riis, but considered a swing seat — just fi
Kootenay West.

The Tories are running popular Kamloops Mayor
Mike Latta against Riis, himself a onetime Kamloops
alderman.

Of course, the Mulroney tour came to Kootenay
West because the Tories consider this a swing riding. The
feeling among the Conservatives is that Bob Brisco lost to
NDP MP Lyle Kristiansen inthe country-wide backlas!
that toppled the short-lived Joe Clark government.

HOW'S THE weather? If you ask that question this
year, all you're likely to get is a snarl or two and some
mumbling about the rain.

That's in sharp contrast to this time last year when
records fell on an almost daily basis. Just to make
everyone feel even worse about the weather than they
already do, we'ltremind you that May 24 last year hit 30.5
degrees, and May 25 and May 27 was a sizzling 30.7.

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"s Miss Castlegar
candidates will be featured in
a fashion show to be held
June 4 at Castlegar’s new
Sandman Inn.

The show, entitled Mid
Summer Night's Dream, is
sponsored by the Miss
Castlegar Committee and
will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Featured candidates in-
clude: Rachel Adams, Miss
Downtown Business Associ-
ation; Debbie Boolinoff, Miss
Rotary; Maria Cardoso, Miss
Selkirk Lions; Monica Das-

niture Village; Lisa Hoolaeff,
Miss Dixie Lee Fried Chic-
ken; and Paige Lightburn,
Miss Royal Canadian Legion.

Participants from other
members of the community
will round out the evening.

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