a2 Castlegar News August 17, 1988 F , August 17, 1988 Castlégar News a3 DREAM OR NIGHTMARE? . . terback Matt Dunigan It is called the Scream Dream and according to those who have ridden it, it is aptly named. The Scream Dream is a new amusement ride owned by two former Castlegar residents. Guy Basran and Wayne Gritchin un- veiled the 44-minute ride ear- lier this month in the Coquitlam Centre mail in conjunction with a CKNW Orphanage fund-raising event The ride begins with a bumpy trip on a rickety rollercoaster. As you go slowly up the steep incline, the anticipatory fear about the sharp drop that surely lays ahead sets in. When you - B.C. Lions quar- and cheerleaders were on hand earlier this month at the Coquitlam Centre mall to help kick off Ex-Castlegar pair open Scream Dream the mall residents. Lions finally experience the plunge there’s a slight sense you're moving faster than you body actually wants to. Screaming voices surround you But it is not actually a roller- coaster, only a 12-seat simulator the Scream Dream, a 4'4-minute simulated ride operated by former Castlegar hydraulics for the motion. It’s synchronized through a program placed in a control module out- side the Scream Dream. Basran and Gritchin, who now live in Burnaby, bought the 1,800 and lumbering violently on three hy- draulic cylinders. But when you're inside the four-metre-long simulator during the ride with the lights off and your body strapped into the seat, the sensations are realistic. The simulation is achieved with a 16-millimetre film, blow- ers for a wind effect and the from a New York company and have been giving rides at Coquitlam Centre from Aug. S. It costs $2 for children under 12 and $3 for everyone else. The ride will stay in the mall at least through this month and the two eventually plan to set up in other Lower Mainland malls. Sex charges blamed NANAIMO, B.C. (CP) — A suicide victim's wife told a coroner's inquest Tuesday that her husband was in shock after being questioned by RCMP last December on allegations of sexual assault Less than two months later, the man shot himself in the head. The man was accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy the couple had taken into their Nanaimo home as a foster child eight years earlier. The woman, who can’t be ident- ified because of an order banning publication of the identity of the com- plainant, said her husband told her after returning from questioning at the Nanaimo RCMP detachment that he had been stripped of his pride and his credibility. “‘He said, ‘What chance do I have when I've already been sentenced and condemned?’"’ said his wife. ‘‘I said, ‘This can’t happen. This is Canada.’”" The woman, who was sobbing during her testimony, said the com- plainant — 18 at the time of the man’s suicide — was lying to police. She said the boy had become hard to handle between August 1979 and April 1980. When he left their home, she said she feared for her life if he returned. She told the inquest the boy once tried to kill her by hitting her on the head When he stayed w with them, the woman testified, he had ample op- portunities to tell social workers if he was being abused “‘My husband wasn’t capable of abusing him but (the boy) was capable of fabricating a story,"’ the wife said. Sven Jensen, a psychiatrist who Lottery numbers The winning numbers drawn Mon- day in The Pick lottery were 7, 10, 19, 23, 39, 43, 46 and SO. In the event of a discrepancy be- tween these numbers and the official winning numbers list, the latter shall prevail The winning numbers in the Punto sports lottery from the Canadian Football League game Tuesday be- tween Toronto and Hamilton First quarter — Hamilton win 2nd — Toronto win. 2nd — Toronto win 3rd — Toronto win. 4th — Toronto win. Final Score — Toronto 19 Hamilton Time of final score — 9:33 Quarters pay $5.30. Time pays $118.40 CLEANUP Meanwhile, council awarded a $40,000 paving contract to Pineridge Paving Ltd. Pineridge submitted the low bid of $43.95 per tonne of asphaltic concrete for the city’s 1988 paving program. Tenders were in- vited from five contractors, but the only other contractor to submit a bid was Jack Williamson Paving Ltd. Lagan said the paving would begin toward the end of this month and would take five to eight days to complete, depending on the weather The city has also ordered new traffic signal equipment for the 3rd Street and 6th Street intersections on Columbia Aveffue. The equipment costs just over $13,000 Lagan said the lights at both inter- sections will be green for Columbia Avenue traffic. The green lights for 6th and 3rd street traffic will be activated ‘‘on demand’’ — when a vehicle approaches the intersection on those streets. Both are currently operated by a mechanical clock As well, he said city hall received an equal number of complaints for and against the flashing orange lights at the intersections of 6th and 17th streets on Columbia Avenue. The city plans to change the flash- ing lights on 6th Street back to the on the move. Valley Broadcasting Ltd., owner of the radio station, has asked the city to rezone the Lodge- land Apartment building at 525-1tth Avenue from multi-residential to highway commercial to allow for a new radio station building. Ald. Lawrence Chernoff pointed out that Valley Broadcasting, whose majority shareholder. is Gordon Brady, plans to do minor renovations to the apartment building. “It doesn’t need a whole work to it,’ Chernoff said. The radio station is presently located in the basement of the Ogiow Building on Columbia Avenue. In addition, council is attempting to_solve the truck traffic congestion problem on 6th Avenue. Council agreed to allow the city-owned lot opposite Bob Brandson pool to be used for truck transfers Ald. Lawrence Chernoff explained that Deebels Transport Ltd. presently switches tractors on 6th Avenue, but has agreed to switch the tractors on the city lot on the corner to alleviate traffic congestion. Chernoff said the transfers will take place ‘‘just on a trial basis’ for one month. Nei i lot of the boy in 1980, testified the boy was the most disturbed person he had ever met. Tories curtail free-trade debate OTTAWA (CP) — The Conserva- tive government is murdering demo- cracy by moving to allow just four more days debate on its free-trade legislation, opposition MPs charged Tuesday. “They are parliamentary assassins because they are making a mockery not only of Parliament, Mr. Speaker, but they are democratic assassins,"’ NDP House leader Nelson Riis told the Commons during debate on a government motion to limit debate. The motion carried 86-29 in a recorded vote. Government MPs shouted and jeered as subdued op- position members stood to vote against it. Earlier Tuesday, deputy govern- ment House leader Doug Lewis moved the time-allocation motion to allow just two more days of debate on amendments on the free-trade legis- lation and two more on final approval of the 153-clause bill. The Commons only resumed sit- ting last week after a recess, but Lewis said opposition delaying tactics in the Commons, especially by the NDP, forced him to act. On Monday, the NDP used private member’s bills to recognize Magna Carta Day and to put warning labels on liquor bottles to hdld up House business for about two hours. But Liberal trade critic Lloyd Ax- worthy told the Commons the gov- ernment has said all along it wanted the bill passed by next week regard- less of what the opposition did. “To try and say that somehow the devil made them do it and they now have been forced into this time allo- cation is sheer hypocrisy," Axworthy said. Trade Minister John Crosbie ear- lier told reporters the bill could be sent to the Senate, which must also approve the legislation, by next Week, WILL BLOCK BILL The Liberal majority in the Senate has agreed to a request by Liberal Leader John Turner to hold up the bill until after an election is held. If the Tories win, Turner said, the Senate will let the bill go through. Both the Liberals and NDP say Canada will give up its sovereignty under the trade deal, which is sche- duled to begin phasing out trade bar- riers with the United States on Jan. 1, Similar U.S. legislation has been approved by the House of Repre- sentatives and is up for approval by the Senate next month. But Crosbie said his government won't be railroaded into calling an election and he wants to test the mettle of the Liberal senators. “*I would think a month would be a more than reasonable time for the Senate to deal with this ee In the Commons, Crosbie attacked the Liberals as power-hungry and un- willing to give the Conservatives a turn at government. He said the government has faced nothing but obstruction from the opposition since it introduced its free-trade legislation last spring. “Now, when we propose to con- clude consideration of this legisla- tion, those that have done nothing but obstruct say they want more time for study and debate,"’ said Crosbie. “They don’t want any time for study and debate — their minds are closed.”’ Our Action Ad Number is 365-2212 Tourist alert Tourist Alert issued today by the RCMP. The following persons, he said, when asked how long he would give the Senate. But he agreed the government can’t do much if the Senate refuses to budge. Lewis did attempt to negotiate an agreement with the opposition on the time needed to debate the legislation in the Commons, but the Liberals and NDP came back with a joint proposal for a total of 350 legislative days — which could take two years to complete. believed ling in British Col- umbia, are asked to call the person named for an urgent personal mes- Sage: James Farquharson, Prairie, Alta., call home. Michael Stanley, Medicine Hat, Alta., call home. Arvid Moen, Coleman, Alta., call Beda Harvard. Bruce Ba: wife. Bob Rowland, Corvalis, call Tracy Baker. Grande ‘aba, Edmonton, call Wash., SPIKE diesel fumes. CP Rail was involved in a major cleanup this summer after contractors sprayed Spike along in 1984 and 1985S. Residents of the area charge that local cases of cancer tracks in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., “I don't think it's necessary in many of the cases,’” he said. Cady “Look at the area around Riversale in Trail. The only place they want to spray is an area where it’s dry, there's not a blade of grass on it. d the rail could and diabetes are linked to the spraying. “We have written letters to the premier asking for a moratorium on the use of this until more studies can be done,”* Cady said. ‘‘But we've received no response to that yet."” He said there are other regional districts facing the same concerns on the spraying of the herbicide and added he is trying to enlist the support of these districts. “We are in hopes that because the regional districts of Nanaimo, Cowichan, Comox, Strathcona, as well as our own Kootenay-Boundary and East Kootenay are involved, that they might come into the fray as well because their people are being affected by the same chemicals and the same company."’ There are other ways to keep the track clear, Cady suggested, adding that some sections of the track slated for spraying don't need it at all. Spike for a solution made from salt, borax and water. The school boards use that solution instead of using- chemicals, he said. “I get frustrated because they say there's no other way of doing it,’’ he said. It would be difficult to prove the adverse long-term effects of spraying Spike might on the area, Cady said. . “To prove long-term harmful effects to our people would be almost an impossible thing to do,"’ he said. “It's going to take our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren’s time for these things to show up. Last week, 150 residents rallied in Nelson against the spraying but postponed blockade plans when the temporary injunction was granted. Area residents say they are prepared to block the tracks should the appeal fail. LIBRARY FAREWELL . ... Pat Livingstone (left) received a gift at her farewell party at the Castlegar News TREET TALK THE LIBRARY was the scene of a farewell party Friday. Pat Livingstone has resigned after many years of service to the library in various capacities. She started out as a volunteer (one of Charlle King’s girls) in the early days of the old Castlegar Library; did a stint as board member and joined the present library staff in 1976. During her time on staff, she was in charge of the circulating collections (large print, multilingual books and audiobooks) and initiated the highly suc- cessful program for special education students. ‘‘Her colleagues and patrons will miss her,’’ said librarian Judy Wearmouth. People attending the party — volunteers, patrons, board and staff members — presented her with an antique silver nut dish in gratitude for her work on the library’s behalf. A TRAIL NATIVE is in B.C. this week evaluating possible Lower Mainland sites for a walled ‘‘city of God’’ capable of holding 12,000 Hare Krishna followers. Kris Carlson is a follower of controversial Hare Krishna Swami Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada, who founded a West Virginia settlement where another devotee was later murdered Carlson, who lived nine years in Bhaktipada’s New Vrindaban settlement in West Virginia, changed his name to Krishna-katha-das when he joined the Hare Krishna movement in Vancouver in 1972. Carlson told the Vancouver Sun in an interview from Minneapolis that he was not prepared to dis close which sites he might be looking at. He was to arrive in Vancouver on Monday But the president of Burnaby’s Hare Krishna temple insists Bhaktipada is no longer an officially recognized leader of the church and has been excom- municated by the governing body of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness. “I think his support is eroding rapidly,” Kanta said Bhaktipada has said he wishes to establish 12 such cities in which devotees would be sheltered from a coming apocalypse of AIDS, war and economic depression. Kala library Friday. Judy Wearmouth, Jodi Parsons and Kay Mealing look on during the festivities. Carlson said he had discussed his upcoming trip with Bhaktipada. “When he found out I was going to B.C. — we had talked about this before — I said I thought it weeld be a good idea to check it out,’’ Carlson said. i has some as far as wealth is concerned in B.C. and one man has offered to donate land. And that’s my main objective, to see that land.’’ But Kanta said he was very skeptical any such settlement would ever come into being in the Lower Mainland. Kanta said B was about 1% years ago after it became apparent he was straying further and further from the dictates of Hare Krishna founder Swami Prabh In 1983, a swami named Tirtha was convicted of murder in the 1983 death of a fellow New Vrindaban devotee. Persistent reports of murder and violence had plagued the sect prior to Tirtha’s conviction. NEW DEMOCRATS are confident of unseating incumbent Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco — at least if you believe their pre-election literature. The federal NDP has drawn up what it calls a “‘victory guide to the new federal electoral map in B.C.”" It's a blow-by-blow account of the New Demo- crats’ chances in this province in the next federal election. There’s just one problem: It doesn’t spell Castlegar chiropractor Brisco's name right. The guide has Brisco down as ‘‘Briscoe."" Here's what else the guide says about Kootenay West-Revelstoke: ‘The Mulroney Tories are in deep trouble here, with a lot of observers already saying, ‘Goodbye, Bob Briscoe.’ Lyle Kristiansen, the New Democrat MP for this area from 1980 to 1984, is the kind of candidate that working people can count on to speak up for their concerns. A swing seat that's swinging back to the New Democrats.” A WEST KOOTENAY woman has received $1,650 to build holding cages for injured and orphaned wildlife. Helem Nicol, who lives near Nelson, received the money under the provincial Public Conservation Assistance Fund. The grant was one of two handed out in the Kootenays. The other grant went to the Public Ad- visory Committee of the Creston Wildlife Manage- ment Area. It will receive $5,000 to build and erect wood duck nest boxes. A total of $72,133 in grants for 32 wildlife and fisheries conservation projects were approved Backbenchers get larger role in budget process VICTORIA (CP) — Social Credit man Carol Gran. cabinet than in any other province CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT SWIMMING POO CASTLEGAR B: CAMREC FACILITIES CONSULTANTS LIMITED ae AQUATIC CENTRE .. . Artists’ sketch of exterior of proposed indoor aquatic centre, looking northeast toward the existing Community Complex POOL ness community, $100,000 from in- dividual donations and $700,000 from venture playg: lo- cated. Chernoff said te playground would be rebuilt further south. Chernoff said the only additional staff required for the centre would be lifeguards. He said recreation di- rector Pat Metge anticipates that all maintenance will be able to be handled by the present recreation and businesses will be invited to signals this week. However, it is considering leaving the 17th Street lights flashing orange Elsewhere, CKQR Radio could be on the move. Chernoff said Deebels will be charged a “‘nominal fee” for the month, after which a final decision on the use of the land will be made. staff. If approved Oct. 15, construction would begin in March 1989 and ‘the pool would open in January 1990. Chernoff also noted that the soc- iety hopes to raise $1 million by fundraising: $200,000 from the busi- Pr and federal grants. How- ever, he admitted the $700,000 figure may be ‘‘optimistic.’’ He said if the society can raise the $1 million, local taxpayers would only have to pay $1.2 million. However, the society pool must still go to referendum for the full $2.2 million cost. Based on the full $2.2 million cost the owner of a home assessed at $50,000 would pay $36 a year — $24 in capital costs and $12 in operating costs. As well, there would be an admission charge into the pool. But Gus Young, the society's referendum chairperson, pointed out, “It could be $15 a year or $20 a year’’ depending on provincial and federal grants and fundraising. Chernoff added that the society plans to embark on a door-to-door campaign in early September to deliver brochures and -answer any questions homeowners have about the centre. Ald. Bob MacBain expressed con- cern that the with the figures based on statistics from the B.C. Recreational Associa- tion and figures from area aquatic centres, including the Grand Forks and Nelson centres. “He felt that figure was con- servative,’’ noted Stosh Uchida, another society executive member, adding that Metge expects operating costs to be lower. 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