TheFARSIDE By Gary Larson (2159 WINGS STAY ON % t WINGS FAUL OFF sete Fumbling for his recline button, Ted unwittingly instigates a disaster. Cominco set for further job cuts NEWS STAFF Cominco’s Trail operations will lay off more employees in the near future, but a company official doesn’t know when or where the cuts will take place. “We indicated-in January there would be further layoffs at the end of summer in September,” Cominco communication di- rector Richard Fish said Tuesday, “but we don’t have anything to announce yet.” Plagued by losses of some $100 million the last two years, the company has reduced close to 500 jobs in 1992 in the hopes of saving some $26 million annually. Ina March interview, Fish said the Trail operations would be looking at cutting more jobs through the year. ; “It’s possible we will find some opportunities for further jot reduction,” he said. “It might be a few here,a few there for the rest of the year.” : . And on Tuesday Fish said the lead and zinc smelter is cur- rently working on further job cuts, but added he couldn’t give any details as to when an announcement would be made. _ “ don’t have any numbers or specifics at this point,” he said. “We have to give the notices to the people first before we start talking to the media.” COMMUNITY PUBLIC PRESENTATION Maude Barlow, founder Council of Canadians and Action conece. hago Wednesday, September 16, 7:30 p.m., Savoy Inn, Nelson. Topic “Our E ic Future; The Corp vs the People’s Agenda” Sponsored by Nelson Central America Committee and CUSO. Admission by eee 2 Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations may be listed here. The first 15 words are $5 and additional words are 30¢ each. Boldfaced words (which must be used for headings) count as two words. 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Limits in effect © 385 ml. || @ Wednesday, September 9, 1992 : 5 SecondFRONT CALL THE NEWS @General Inquiries 365-7266 OUR HOURS The News is located at 197 Columbia Ave. Our office hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed on weekends and statutory holidays. SUB RATES The News is published by Castile News Ltd. for Canwest Publishers Ltd. Mail subscription rate to The News is $37.50 per year. The price on newsstands is 75¢ for each edition. The price delivered by newspaper carrier for both editions is only 90¢ a week (collected monthly). GST extra. Second class mail registration number 0019. City councillors speak out on report Neil Rachynski NEWS REPORTER The Price Waterhouse report is receiving mixed reviews. City councillor Jim Chapman says residents are appalled with the findings. of the Report on Organization and Management Review. He said Castlegar taxpayers have expressed their concern that the two-year old study gave the city’s operations a rating of four on a scale of zero to 10. “They don’t like the rating up to (1990),” Chapman said. “It reflects quite badly that the situation has been going on for so long. The report claims the city suffered from poor management, a lack of planning and poor information and communications. Chapman says, “people hope measures it has. “(The report) is an eye-opener — it’s revealing.” Coun. Doreen Smecher says she has received positive feedback ever since the report was made public Aug. 31. “From what I’m getting from people on the street is that they now understand why council is taking the direction it is,” she said. “Before it seemed a major piece of the puzzle was missing.” Coun. Bob Pakula says he’s encountered nothing but apathy. “People either didn’t give a damn about it, and those who did were the ones who were concerned. I’d say it’s been more ee than anything else,” Pakula said. “I haven’t heard too much. Nothing directly to me,” Duff said. “But I have heard some reaction from talking to (Chapman) and what he’s heard.” Duff says a number of copies of the report were scooped up when it became public. “Apparently in the first few days or so — 15 packages were picked up,” Duff said. The city released the report at the request of Duff following a series of articles in The News. Council agreed Aug. 5 to hand the $24,000 study over to lawyer Murray Rankin, a key government consultant on B.C.’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Rankin used the act as a guideline to determine what could and could not be Coun. Kirk Duff says he hasn’t heard have been taken to remedy this, and I think from the public at all. . NO PARKING Local school bus drivers were less than thrilled with certain drivers when school got underway Tuesday morning. Maybe the driver of this car was in school brushing up on-some necessary reading skills. eo ‘oJ i : NO PARKING) wus-20%6 News photo by Jonathan Green RDCK to vote on waste plan Scott David Harrison EDITOR George Cady is calling the provincial government’s solid waste management plan garbage. The chair of the Regional District of Central Kootenay says the plan which would see all districts and municipalities reduce solid waste by 30 per cent in 1995 and 50 per cent in 2000 is ‘flawed.’ “They’re making rules for the Lower Mainland and they don’t work in our area,” Cady said Tuesday. “The whole plan is flawed and must be reworked.” Cady’s comments come just two days before the RDCK is set to discuss its own solid waste management plan. That plan would see nine area landfill sites permanently closed and replaced by four regional dumps located in Salmo, Creston, Nakusp and Ootischenia. “I know I won't be voting in favor of the plan,” said Cady, who represents Area D outside of Kaslo. “I don’t want to have my garbage shipped to Salmo or Ootischenia. If we close down those dumps, all it’s going to do is get people throwing their garbage away into the wood just like the Lower Mainland.” George Marken agrees. The spokesperson for the Recycling Advisory Group says the closure of area dumps could do more harm than good as people look for an easy way out. Marken says the financial implications of the plan could be troublesome for area residents on fixed incomes. “We feel the plan is made up of capital incentives arid who knows how much it will cost people,” he said Tuesday. Marken said the RDCK must look at joint recycling ventures with neighboring districts to help ease the costs incurred by the government- legislated laws. Joint ventures were never addressed in the RDCK’s Stage 2 report. The solid waste management committee will meet Thursday “to say what we don’t like and what we do like about the plan.” The board is expected to vote on the plan on Sept. 19. made public. Poster puzzles district Scott David Harrison EDITOR A new poster is making the rounds in the West Kootenay and it’s got nothing to do with the doctors’ debate. A poster denouncing the Regional District of Central Kootenay can be spotted on a few telephone poles around the area. The poster reads: Stop Organized Crime! Abolish the RDCK. “I haven’t seen that one,” RDCK chair George Cady said Tuesday. “It’s a new one to me.” Cady said he isn’t troubled by the posters, printed on a letter- sized piece of paper. “You always get a few people that aren’t happy with the district for whatever reason.” he said. “There are always people that want to get out of district control, but as soon as you start telling them that it’s the district that provides them with hospitals, libraries and recreational facilities, they start saying ‘hold on there.” Cady suspects that the posters have been made by Slocan Valley residents, still angry that the RDCK passed an unsightly premises bylaw. However, a spokesperson for the Slocan Valley Concern Citizens Forum said recently that his group has nothing to do with the unsigned posters. Austin Greengrass said he’s just happy to see that others are equally as frustrated with the RDCK as his group. Cady said he’ll probably never find out who is behind the posters. “That’s usually the case,” he said. “People always have something to say, they just don’t have the guts to come out and