ahs earners B6 ae matntrevioaie neg nt ‘tao, tome t CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 18, 1980 Fare increase sought Pacific Western Airlines has announced it is seeking a modest fare increase, to be effective June 15, 1980, In filing for the fare adjustment with the Can- adian Transport Commission, Pacific Western cited general cost increases which have been expertenced throughout its system. The averaye passenger fare on Pacific Western will increase 1.7 per cent effec- tive June 15, subject to the approval of the Canadian Transport Commission, 1980 Conference of B.C. Arts Coun Barbara Langmair of Blueberry was among the 120 delegates from all parts of the province who met for three days in Vancouver during mid-April for the 1980 Con- ference of B,C, Arts Councils. More than 20 resource people were on hand to talk directly with the delegates and offer workshops. Also in attendance at the conference was special lun- cheon speaker Arthur Gelber, chairman of the Ontario Arts Council, who cautioned’ arts people about dependence on government bodies for con- tinuing support. He also pointed out the need to rec- ognize the future and tech- nological change. Marketing the arts prod- uct was the focus for. guest speaker Alvin Reiss of New York City, author of The Arts Management Reader, Two spectal resolutions were passed as a result of this conference, The first resolu- tion proposes to approach the 8 greater recognition of the arts and cultural scene in B.C., cils report of the. Canadian Con- ference of the Arts entitled “Arts and ion in B.C." with possible ish of a ministry of culture. The second resolution encourages Wayne Worthington of Nelson has been etected rep- ive of the West Koot- the of a task force in cach community to Ly for p the findings of the cnay region to the board of the asembly. ( 4 ‘bags ite *hagtelative Librar ent Bldgs, B..c iParts " MID-WEEK a CASTL TIME TO GRIN’ Man offering cigar to co- worker: “It's my eighth child. ‘Take a puff and pass it along.” , x Published: at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MAY 21, 1980 35 Cents 926,000 industrial VOL. 83, NO. 21 3 Sections (A,B&C) 7 : # Premier opens site [ie An’ informal groundbreaking. ceremony provided the setting for Premier Bill Bennett's news Friday ofa $926,000 subsidized loan for Jevelop t of Castlegar's 39-acre industrial AUTO VIEW ‘80 7 “Your Convenient Transportation Shopping Guide "" rk. y 76 Before climbing aboard a D-8 Cat to open ‘officially the sandy Highway 3 site, the). premier told a small audience ‘the federal:: : provincial loan was ydesianed to help com- munities like yours with the development. of an infrastructure to attract industry, create more Jobs and keep Castiegar booming.” Bennett said the five-year loan, approved under the dustrial D A will beat no interest for the first two years and at 50 per cent of prime rate \ i for the remainder, representing “a saving of about $550,000 - over the term-of the loan in interest” to city taxpayers. Interviewed later by the Castlegar News, the premier said:the city is one of several B.C. communities where industrial growth has been assisted under the IDSA. “One of the priorities of the agreements was to help’ ” ities put in the re and create industrial parks, not only for good, orderly planning but to help develop an industrial base and create jobs in the community,” he said. !When the loan is given it,means our government sees Castlegar as having a positive future and being able to attract and fill this industrial park.” More per capita ked whether the loan, combined with the $4.5 million” sn etal federal fe ‘ji June date eyed for Wilkinson hearing : tanta eee z : ht an end to. < 450 lle bieyeling 1975 FORD GRANADA they neared conse Stanley Humphries ot 2dr., hardtop, economical 6 cyl, engine, white, radial tires, vinyl ind Interlor, radio alec. rear dafrost KOOTENAY SUBARU AUTO CENTRE . 215 Josephine St. N Phone 352-2666 D. 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MOTOR HOMES 20% #1.-22% tt. : TO CLEAR — COST + 10% YOU SEE THE INVOICE PLAYMOR HOMES South Slocan, LTD. D. No. 5840 : 1979 SUZUKI 4x4 Basic price $5995. With radio, sparewheel cover, roll bar, can- lock, second undercoat, pre- service, dealer prep., and transp. chore., $6515. Very vas top, emergency bread economical 38 mpg. hwy. . 803 Baker St. Nelson ON 4x4 352-3542 D. No. 5413 Discussions delay picketing “Delicate talks” in Vancouver post- poned picketing ac- tion by 38 striking nurses in the West Kootenay health dis- trict today. Ina news release district strike captain Dorothy Beet- stra told the Castlegar News representatives of the Regis-. * tered Nurses Association of B.C. and the Registered Pay- chiatric Nurses Association of B.C. are involved in dis- cussions, scheduled for con- clusion sometime today, “to determine the structure for resumption of negotiations by nurses among about 2,700 off the job in B.C, this week to back up their demand for parity with registered nurses at hos- pitals, are not on duty at public health facilities but The faculty association * served notice of intent to. open negotiations for the new contract in early March, only * _ one month after approving its now-expired settlement. College management and faculty reached. the pre- vious agreement, providing - whose pi e ent» sal ries ranged !from $14,000;46°5 the associati bers and ‘the. board. for the. current ‘contract started. March 12, _ 1979 and broke down late last, ear. On Dec.17, 1979 faculty, fa.” Contract talks between faculty, Contract negotia- tions are expected to continue later this week with represen- i of the Selkirk. fora Pp it increase in salaries, after more than 10 months of inti ‘College A Although. faculty, who worked for nine months | without a cont! have services to homecare ‘pa- tients. it, sought an “11-per-cent salary increase in negotiations, the agreement iation, re personnel manager Harold Kamikawaji said Tuesday. Selkirk personnel man- ager Harold Kamikawaji said the interest shown by At- torney-General Allan Wil- liams’ ministry in the Can- adian Union of Public Em- ployees Local 1341 case against Wilkinson, chairman of the college's troubled joint union-management job classi- fication committee, has hin- dered efforts to set an earlier hearing date. The case, scheduled to _ No toll-free dialing to Castlegar, B.C. Tel tells Shoreacres residents - The cost of pro- viding B.C. Telephone with the Em- ployees Relations Bureau.” + “Because of the delicacy of these talks we are not beginning the use of picket lines,” Beestra said, “But the job action. currently in pro- gress will continue for now so there is no letup of pressure on the employer.” The district nurses, | pany subscribers in Shoreacres with toll-free. service ‘in calls, to. and from Castlegar “cannot be justified," according to the company’s dis- trict customer service director, Responding to residents’ requests for relief from long distance rates for. calls to Castlegar — the municipality closest to their.community — a May 2 letter from H.R. D hI’ noted Shoré and day-to-day needs,” the letter said, and the company, identifying about 80 acres in B.C. which meet the criteria, is included in the South Slocan which is is involved in the first . stages under the .company’s .consi- deration for extended area service to Nelson. .’ “The EAS plan is aimed at small communities depend- ing on nearby large centres “for the satisfaction of basic Initial repairs to about 215 Blue- berry Creek house- holds’ rain- damaged water system have been completed, Bill Cook reported this week. Cook, Blueberry Creek Irrigation District chairman, said the water intake clogged by gravel during heavy rainfall early this month was scheduled to resume operation at noon today. - He said repairs were completed around 5 P. ak Monday but the district Damaged water system _ toresume operation - decided to delay the an- Hei cast ‘ticles — in the creek has an tion program.” . “When studying the call- ing needs of the South Slocan exchange as a whole, a pref- erence toward one-way EAS with Nelson was indicated,” + the letter said. ‘As this plan is designed to serve the needs of the majority of South Slocan subscribers, we intend to proceed with a plebiscite offering one-way EAS to Nelson, tentatively scheduled for mid-1981.” Providing Shoreacres with extended area service would require the community be d from the South of a five-year id temporarily supplied: through a two-inch pipe about 150 feet downstream from the existing intake, to allow for observation of the ereek for about 24 hours. “This is only the first stage of repairs because there is a great deal of _work to be done to repair the banks," the irrigation district chairman said. “There'll probably be some interruption of ser- vice as the work. pro- gresses to return the in- take to normal.” He said the level of. turbidity — suspended par- _ which caused sloughs from Slocan Dyrndahl , since the heavy downp: the nearby Castlegar- Christina Lake highway and its banks. “We're not getting the amount of turbidity in the water that we have been putting and with the prop- er screening then we'll be able to allow the use of water that people are used to down here,” Cook said. - “The only thing is we will not be starting the chlorinator until some time Saturday, so water will have to be boiled probably until Sunday.” continued in the letter. “This would require a reconfiguration of our net- work at a capital expenditure that presently cannot be . justified,” he added. But the district service manager cited as an alter- native to regular long dis- tance rates B.C. Tel's “resi- dence option calling plan” which would allow a South Slocan subscriber to pur- chase a 30-minute package to . Castlegar for $1.80 monthly. “Time in excess of the 80 minutes is charged at the tate of 10 cents per minute,” dabl said. . Discussed last week by city council, which end d But in late January faculty negotiators reached a tentative agreement, which was ratified’ by the associ- ation-Feb:.2...'. talks continue college proceed May 8 but postponed at the request of the college, will now involve manage- ment, union and. ministry legal counse!, Kamil ji “possibly has received more money per capita than any other community in B.C.” z But he pointed out his government's move to provide $3 million in aid jointly with the federal government plus $1.5 independently for the new system represented a response to a unique situation and some strong argumerits from the city. the.case, with help ion others in the area, who pressured the ." he said. ° 5 “Mayor Moore did a particularly good job of presenting govern hes "Phillips waa'the chef and he talked t ic Development ‘Minister. Don ‘cabinet member. d to the mayor. an community made a good case. It got the help because it was dae : ones justified.’ ~ Also ‘speaking at the impromptu. ceremony, Rossland- Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy stressed the importance of sites like Castlegar's industrial park and Trail's Columbia Gardens park in encouraging and controlling community economic growth. and controlled,” the New. Democrat MLA “Everybody's in favor of growth, but we want it planned said, “We need to make decisions as to where that growth should be. Clearly Castlegar has made a decision on this industrial park and the Trail area has made a decision on the said. “We're hoping to get a more convenient time,” he explained. “But now there's so many. lawyers involved we're going to have to try to accommodate all the time frames.” Explaining‘ the recent involvement of Williams — who as B.C. labor minister introduced the legislation sending CUPE: members back to work at Selkirk and four West Kootenay school districts after a si k Columbia G: Provided initiative He said “everyone in the community is supportive” of. ‘the city’s decision on growth and he commended the province for ' Castlegar site. ing most of the initi for After reading a congratulatory telegram from Pierre De Bane, who as federal regional economic expansion minister, took part in approval of the loan, Mayor Audrey Moore noted the city has worked toward securing the industrial site “s0 that! we could accommodate the people who have been giving © °~ my staff and myself a bad time over the last four or five years. and “| think this is another fine example of the way the city strike-lockout in late 1978 — sure the Kootenays will be developing in a way that will be © 2 the p! have been able to work together to make Shoreacres residents’ re- quests for toll-free service in calls to and from Castlegar, the letter drew criticism from .Ald. Heather Hallett and Ald. Charles Cohoe. Hallett said she was not happy with the B.C. Tel response and she was doubt- ful whether it would satisfy the requests of the Shore- acres residents. - Referring to the resi dence optional calling plan, Cohoe said he felt B.C, Tel “has done a pretty poor job of advising its customers of this Ann Landers Classified Ads, and Automotive . Comics....+..065 Consumer Comment ... Community Datebook Entertainment . Erma Bombeck . Job File ..... he said the 1 believes the Labor Relations ‘ Board rather than the Su- preme Court should. have jurisdiction over the case. Citing _ provisions «for such action under the pro- vineial Arbitration Act the petition filed April.15 by CUPE lawyer Leogrady called for the g ficial to us all,” she added. Working paper + Moore said this week that the city has asked consultant Bob Thompson, whose firm William Graham Consultants has been hired to update Castlegar’s community plan, to prepare in early June a working paper on development of the . industrial site. -: : Working closely with the 1 planning consultant, she said, ~ will be don Leidal, who will do the. ‘3 Tre 4 moval as chairman of the job classification committee — set up under Noel Hall's July, 1979 arbitration award — on the grounds he “misconduc- ted himself and/or exceeded his jurisdiction." the servicing will be applied against the city's debt, she said -. d surveying and planning for servicing the area. ‘The proceeds from sales of land parcels in the park after “We'll do the servicing and then whatever has to be expended for the aquisition of the land plus the servicing costs then works out to ‘x’ number of dollars per acre," the mayor |, explained. “That's what we'll look for when we sell to the { customer.” You're Getting Sf STORY CLOUDY Thursday with a risk of thunder storms in the offernoon, - WEEKEND WEATHERCAST Closer cabinet member in this area _ the others and we felt'the for the - SUPPLEMENTS Woolco "Summer Living Days” {Not all supplements are included in all papers.) possibly accompanied by hail. 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