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Station not required at CRTC hearing By CasNews Staff The Cuptadian Radio-television and Tetecommmunications Commission did wor require representarives” oF Castlegar radio station CKQR ‘to go to a hearing in Vancouver for an alleged violation of the commission's Canadian content rule, the station's program director said The~srarton, whieh had been scheduled for a hearing before the commission Monday in Vancouver, received a letter from the commission last Week stating the station did not have to go to the hearing, Ross Hawse said Tuesday They sent us a letter last week saying we Would no longer have to ap pear at the hearing,”* Hawse said The CRTC has scheduled a hearing to consider renewal of CKQR's broad: casting license and said it wanted to VCiscUssS With “the-applicant iis ap- parent failure to comply” with Canadian content rules, But Hawse said the CRTC reversed ‘ity request because the station was just 0.1, per cent below the 30-per-cent Canadia content required by the CRTC Hawse said the radio station must still gO before the CRTC this year. to renew QR’s licence, But he said he ex: pects no problem with the licence renewal “H's just a procedure every. station has to go through every five years,”* he said of the broadcasting licence renewal, “11's business as usual.” Failed valve causes leak By CasNews Staff A failed valve in a 14-inch water main neat a creck just south of the Brichland Heights subdivision in south Castlegar sent more than four million litres of water into the creek Sunday, temporarily cutting Water supply to the Castlegar Industrial park and deas ing a 1,$00-cubie-metre hole where the 4ieak occurred City administrator Daye Gairns said the exact cause of the massive Water leak hasn't. been determined yet. But Gairns said he believes the leak was caused bya froZen valve We haven't determined the exact cause,"” Gairns said Tuesday. **We think a valve-froze and then thawed before failing The 14-inch water main serves four tenants in the industrial park and Gairns said there should be temporary water service available to the tenants by Friday. He said the city will run a hose from a fire hydrant to serve the tour businesses affected by the leak Gairns said he doesn't: know how niuch the damaged valvewill cost to tix but added the city will instal more than one valve to keep the same problem from occurring again, The city works crews will wait “a few weeks’? before replacing the valve to let the ground around the pipe thaw There was no property damage related to the leak KSCU employees ratify contract By CasNews Staff Newly unionized employees with Kootenay Savings Credit Union have agréed to a two-year contract proposal with the credit union See eM Reserve your future 1k part-time, earn extra and experience from pr na > of the Canadiar Trail and Castlegar Branch Offices of KOOTENAY SAVINGS ONLY FOR ——— WILL BE OPENN——- Saturday, Feb. 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. RRSPs and RRSP Loans 25th Open NAKUSP Feb. 25 LOCAN f SOUTH S Li SALMO WANETA PLAZA service KASLO as usual FRUITVALE NEW DENVER Kootenay Savings Insurance Services Ltd. Open 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 For AutoPlan License Renewals The agreement was reached by the union Triday after awo days of negotiations. The employees — mem bers. of Local 9090 of the United Sielworkers of America —— ratified the deal Sunday night by a 40-1 margin. The credit union board of directors will vote on the ratification of the contract tomorrow night, said a KSCU representative The two-year deal calls tor a six-per cent increase in the first year and a four-per-cent raise the follow ing y ear Ron Schmidt, international statt representative tor the United Steelworkers of America, said the inion members void in Tavor of a lid agreement I'm satistied with it,” he told the Castlegar News trom his Trail ot fice I's a solid agreement tor a first agreement The contract coms 70°KSCU em ploy ces at branches in Castlegar, Trail Waneta Plaza, bruitvale, Salmo and Kaslo. KSCU branches in) Sout! Slocan, New Denver and Nakusp remain non-unior February 22, 1989 AS Se Th Briefly BENISSIMey Priest in custody GRAND BANK, Nfld. (CP) — The latest Ro be charged with Sexual offences involving boys has been remanded. in custody until a bail hearing Thursday Rev. Kevin Bennett, 55, of Flat Bay in western Newfoundland, en tered no plea during a court appearance Tuesday He was arrested Monday by RCMP arfd charged with 12 counts of gross indecency and three counts of attempted gross indecency n Catholic priest to Man pleads guilty VICTORIA (CP) —\A man caught by police making an obscene telephone call while he watched a pornographic video pleaded guilty Monday to seven of 11 counts of impersonating a police officer Cecil Laing, 51, of suburban Saanich willbe sentenced April 6. Police tapped Laing’s telephone and found he made 232 obscene telephone calls to Victoria women in a single August day last summer, provincial court Judge Stephen Denroche was told Death threat reaffirmed From AP-Reuters-CP Iranian leaders have reaffirmed their death threat against author Salman Rushdie despite the condemnation of-western countries and literary figures In Belgrade, visiting Iranian President Ali Khamenei told a news con: ference an *‘arrow’’ of -retribution-had been fired at Rushdie and was heading for itstarget An-ranian official, asked to clarify Khamenei’s remark Which was made in Farsi, told reporters: ‘He said an arrow is travelling towards the heart of the blasphemous bastard Rushdie, He must be killed.” In Iran, spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini said his order that Rushdie be killed still stands Rushdie wrote the novel The Satanic Verses, whihe many Muslims consider offensive to their religion Province looks at games SASKATOON (CP) Saskatchewan this year : The province plans to introduce legislation this spring that would allow it to operate slot machines and a host of other electronic gambling games, Consumer A ffiars Minister Ray Meiklejohn said in an interview He said the province hasn't the mechanism yet to operate a year round casino like that announced Monday by the Manitoba government “I think we have to look at it,” he said. ‘We are looking at One-armed bandits could become legal in legislation which would allow the government to get into such things as electronic games (including slot machines).”” Bush on tour WASHINGTON(AP) U.S. president George Bush has set out ona hectic five-day trip to Japan, China and South Korea to demonstrate that “the United States is an A n power."* Bush,and his wife Barbara left before sunrise in a light drizzle aboard Air Force One, efi route to Tokyo with a stop at Anchorage, Alaska Over the next five days, Bush will travel more than 29,000 kilometres. Mother demands explanation JQHANNESBURG (Reuter) — The mother of a boy alleged to have been myrdered by bodyguards of South African black nationalist Winnie Mandela has rebutted Mandela’s assertions the boy is still alive Joyce Seipei, mother of Stompie Seipei, 14, whose decomposing body she identified after it was found in a ditch in Soweto last month, challenged Mandela to meet her to explain how her son died. ‘The killers of my child know themseltes,"’ Seipei said in an inter disturbed any further until Mrs. Mandela gives an explanation. te cumstances leading to my son’s death.”” IF) view with the newspaper Sowetan published today. ** do not ee to be— Opposition protests NEW DELHI (AP) — Members of every opposition party walked out of India’s Parliament today to protest the government’s acceptance of $470 million US from Union Carbide for the 1984 Blropal gas leak, which killed 3,400 people The government had settled for the amount after suing the Danbury, Conn. based company for $3 billion for the world’s worst industrial disaster “ Freighter sinks LONDON (Reuter) — A Panamanian-registered freighter with a crew of 17 sank in a storm in the Atlantic today, and a rescue helicopter found no survivors, the Royal Air Force said A spokesman said a crewman from the helicopter inspected life rafts dropped earlier by a reconnaissance plane in the area about 550 kilometres off Scotland and found no one. 4 60th ANNIVERSARY 1989 Come & Celebrate With Us! 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