- Father Michael

Vital
Stats

BIRTHS
COCKBURN — To Mr. and Mi
Chris Cockburn of Trail a a,
born Dec. 18,

DOYLE — To Mr. ond Mrs. Melvin
Boyle of Nelson, a gil, born Dec.

FOREMAN _- To Me ang Mr
en of Castldgar, a

KANIGAN.- = To Mr. “and Phillip
Konigan of Castlegar, a boy, born
Jan,

_ To Me. ond Mra, Jim
ile of Trall, twin sons, born
ec, 24,

PHELAN — To Mr. and Mi
Michael Fihelan ot Cronbrock, 3
girl, born

WELCH — Mr. ond Mrs,
St wie of Nelson, a boy,
|

.

WESLEY — To Mr, and MArs. Nor
gon Wesley of Nolson, boy.
born Doc. 29. ,

WOODS — To Mr. ond Mrs. Guy
Woods of Nelion, a boy, born
Dec. 28.

OBITUARIES.
BOSSIO — Frank Bossio of Nelson -

BRENSRUD — A private funoral
service was held last week for
Ruth Brensrud of Nelson from the
chape! of Thompson Funeral Ser.
vice with Rev, Dan Haugen of-
ficiating, Mrs. Brensrud died Dec,
27, aged 89. Cremation followed
the service,
CECCONI — Ermando Cecconi,
age 77 of Warfield died Dec. 31 in

id after o lengthy Iliness.

were racite
Catholic Church in war.

iid” Jan, 4, Funeral moss we
colebrated Jan. 5 with Foiher
McGorry officiating. |

DUNSTAN — William | Blake pon
stan of Nelson died recent!
the age Bom in Gilbert
Plains, Man. on Sept, 3, 1929, Mr.
Dunstan moved fo Notson in 1956,

FRANKLIN — Balfour fesident,
Henry Thomas Franklin, died
recently aged 76. Mr. Franklin
was bora tn London, England on
Fe

ry
JARVIS — A CPR engineer in the
West Kootanay region for many
ears, James Robert aarvie,
ustond of Mary Jarvis of Nelson
dled Dec. 30, aged 79. No funeral
scrvicoty tequest,

LETORIA — Resident of Salmo,
Fronk Letorla, died recent vat
Trall Regional Hospital, a}

A memorial service wos aid ba
the Salmo Community Church
with cremation in Trall,

McINNES John Angi Melnnos
of Montrose, died at his home

Dac. 21 after a lengthy illness, ho
was. 76, Funeral services ware
held’ in Trall-with Warres

wright and Poul Chiu cfiating

Interment was in the Fruitvale
Memorial Cometery.

MORGAN — Horace (Har
Morgan, of Nelson, died recent! q
in Mr. St. Francis Hospital, aged
89 years.

HANIC — Longtime Nelson
resident Louis Hanic died at
Willowhaven Private Hospital on
Friday at the a: ge of 85,

KESSLER — Funeral wervice for
Herman Emil Kessler was hold
jec. 24 from the chapel of the
Thompson Funeral Service with
Rev. Dan Haugen officiating.

PFEIFFER — Clifford Oscar Ptoit-
fer of Abbotsford and formerly of
Costlegar possed away Dec. 10,
age 44. Funeral services. were
held Bec. 15 at Woodlawn
Funeral Home, Abbotsford.

pineie mais

ROBINSON — William Herbert
‘of Castlegar passed

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VOL. 36, NO. 4

* 3Sections (A,B&C)

oi brary. staff Modes agreed ‘do forgo 'a
‘scheduled six per cent w: ge Iason tls Journ Ee ake-o!

‘a. decision by Castlegar

"> But hardest hit is the brary, which last year received

$81,500 from’ the. city.

The ibeacy grant cutback is part, of

council poli to reduce ‘all ty gran by

. By CasNews Staff.
‘A southwesterly. flow of
moist... warm air off the

southwesterly. flow. Nor-
mally at this:time we're in
a northwesterly flow. So
our flow is off the Pacific
rather than the land mass,”

, continued ‘on poge a2:

SATAN

“By. CasNows Staff :
o Regional’

-Hospital .

four. hours:

y two hours. She said that.cutting :

‘That didn't include an adaitionat ie for building ; and
i

a chad to either forgo their wage increase this year and'reduce
their work week by two hours, or reduce their work week by *

back on their work week by. four hours

meant closing the library. The pants 's four. employees work i
jiece.

+ an average of 22:

WHOOSHI «ss Trucke

1
he rolls ‘on through. one of the: man
Puddles are results of u

* around town.

itge pude

warm ‘weather that set: two: record

dhe

perature s.last week

will “continue with its CAT jj

Scanner “fundraising drive |

despite.a warning from pro-_
+ vineial- Health Minister Jim-

Nielsen. that his ‘ministry will
not. approve‘ ‘any new, CAT

Séasiners because of “today’s .

difficult. economic Sreutn:
stances.” ° | a
“We're determiiiéd to
ahead’ with’ ‘the fund,”
pital © board.‘ chairman
Little-told a Monday ‘press.
conference. attended by area,
municipai * ‘politicians and
community leaders.
However, Little said the

go
hos-
Jim

fundraising drive is expected ©

te talks: four, oF five, Years or

~“s ‘total of $177,526 has
been collected to date for the
$1 million CAT Scanter. *
Little said Nielsen in-
formed the board of the CAT
Scanner situation in a Dec. 31

letter and the board met late

last week to discuss the
issue.” eo

‘The board d from

JIM LITTLE. -
+ determined |

press conference.

agreed unanimously to a mo-
tion urging residents to con-
tinue their. support: for’ the
CAT Scanner and the Central
Kootenay Regional ‘Hospital

‘Board passed a unanimous

motion

_ that meeting with a unani-

mous'motion to proceed with
the fundraising drive despite

- Nielsen's letter “stating that

‘in today’s difficult economic
circumstances,’ it is impos-
sible for his ministry to en-
terain approval in principle
for C.T. services in new lo-
cations.”

The decision to proceed
with the fundraising - drive
also received the | full support
of all i

the CAT Scanner fund.

A Trail Rotary. Club_

spokesman said his group has
formed a special committee
to help raise $100,000. He
said other area Rotary clubs
have indicated their support
for the special fund.

United of

donating their’ ty ward
prizes to the fund.

~ Kootenay : Savings Credit.
Union presi it Joe Biagioni.
reaffirmed . his. “company’s
support for the’ “CAT. Scan-'
‘ner, and a Trail minor hockey
representative said his group
plans to hold a sk

statistics. he ‘had “compl

- over a nine-month period,

Little ‘said. 2

From this, “and the | ‘grow-

ing need in many otHer med-

ical specialties,” the Medical ‘

Advisory Committee pre-
ponte the board with a mo-
ding it pursue

help raise. money for the

fund.

" Warfield Mayor - " Teadors”
Muzin also supported the.
fund and said the’ Regional *
District of Kootenay Boun-
dary is “behind this 100 per

“eent.””

: One, of the few questions
raised at: the press confer-
encé was the disclosure of a°

:; four to five year time: frame

from the fundraising d drive. It
was suggested this was. the

: first time the hospital board’
Trail City. Council ‘Monday -

had publicly put a time frame
on the drive.

However, ‘Little ‘said the
four to five-year period was
envisioned .from “the very
start. “That was the stand of
the board from the word go,”
he said.

In a prepared statement,
Little said the press con-
ference was called to restate
the facts in light of recent
media re,

ports.
He said that in early 1981. “
Dr. Tom Yew, a neurologist .

with privileges at the hos-

Ameriéa Local 180 president
Ken Georgetti also pledged
his union’s full support for
the CA™ Scanner fund. .

i- said his mem-

and community leaders at the

bers have agreed to continue

pital, indicated he would: be
leaving the ‘area because a
CAT Scanner — which was

- essential to his practice. ~ ~—

was, not available.
“He further pointed out
why it was essential, quoting

were

at purchase of a CAT Scan-:

ner. The board agreed.
Little said it has been cus-

tom for the Trail board to,
meet with senior | health min-"

istry’ officials during the an-
nual B,C, Health Association
meetings. to’discuss current
‘and’; proposed long term

plans. ‘He said the board met
with a.deputy minister at

‘such a meeting in May, 1981
‘and one of the topics dis-

cussed was the probability of
Trail hospital . obtaining a
CAT Scanner.

The deputy minister indi-
cated he was sympathetic to
the request for consideration
of the purchase of a CAT
Scanner, Little said.

The deputy minister also
indicated the process the
board should follow — “the
one other fes had or

rohan the weekurs nearer the hourly wage level earned by
other West Kootenay library employees, who she said, earn
about $1:an hour more than: Castlegar. Hbraty | employees.

Th employees

Port said the city’s library grant decounted for about 88

per ent of the library's overall 1982, budget ;of $92,600.

library had prepared a ’ provisional budget
988. but that ies been cut, to $87,000 in light

run as usual, However, the Kinnaird branch | Saturday hours °
‘wiil be reduced by one hour. Instead of being open from 1-
5 p.m., the branch will close at 4 p.m. on Saturday,

Port commended the library’ staff for its decision.~ - ; 5
“They just want to keep the place open and going,” she ©
sadi. “They were determined that they could continus torun:. |

everything.”

- However, she warned that the library. ‘could face

reduced hours later in the year if the staff find they can't) an

cope with the workload. Port said that might involve closing:

“one afternoon or something.”

Meanwhile, the board also choed its book budget by
$500 to $2,000. Last year the library spent $22,000 on books. --
It had hoped. to spend $24,500 this year; but has trimmed
that figure down to $20,000 to $21,500. Hi

$63, 500. INCREASE

Property ce |
p three per cent

Ry CosNews Staif
* Castlegar property taxes

will increase about three per,”

¥
However, that's a substan-.

tial decrease-from 1981-62

=. approved: oF referendum rif

Administrati

‘$61,800,
: But that figure was drawn.

Em-
bree. said: Figures..in the
provisional budget show. that

tax s this year will amount to

By DIANE STRANDBERG —
Staff Writer

AS Canada Employment,
uiry.into
the hiring of U.S. ‘citizens to

* complete’ minor: renovations’

Hotel ‘resulted in: the expul-
sion of four American trades-

t-were sent‘ back to the: U.S.

sought ‘by. - West ” Kooten!
Power, and Light Co,.-
stleg

Monday “after they. were

when taxes rose 18 per cent.

“The 1983 provisional ‘bud-
get also contains an estimate

t of the new. collective. agree-

ment between the city and its

‘40 Canadian Union of Public

Employee workers. ...;

‘That contract expires Feb. °
“18;-and Embree noted that:

negotiations will, be now get-.

“ting. underway shortly.

the provincial dovdnmneee
will increase_or decrease: its
grant to the. city.

- Last: year the city. was
caught somewhat by surprise
when the province reduced
its grant by $187,000 ~ or 86.
per cent. The city has cal-- ~
culated, in its provisional
budget that the province will
at least. maintain the same
level of grant as 1982, ‘That
could change by. May 15.

h ‘

; i ee . He -
noted that the only figure

up with’ many factors still.
unknown — such.as the cost
of the-new CUPE contract.

And it is still not known i if

that’ won't ‘change is the
overall taxation figure. ~~

Property owners _ won't
know, how the city budget
will affect them until the city
finalizes its budget and sets
its 1983 mill rate. |

area,” local eos should

have been hired to do the job."

_ However Tullo Esposito,
owner and manager of the

© - hotel, said he didn't think the

found working at the hotel

without the authorization of
an immigration officer. ©
- Taylor said the men were

hired over-the New ‘Year's ~

weekend and worked only

n- about 40 hours last week be-

° West. Kootenay has applied.
for ‘an interim rate increase
of 9.8] ber cent. retroactive to:

pany newsletter, .

West Kootenay ®
‘vice-president of finance, said
West Kootenay realizes that

‘B.C. Hydro has been placed

under the provincial six per

cent ceiling, “but '1-feel our

case for 9.8 is a valid one.”

“As an investor-owned util-
ity we have to: stand on ‘our*
own two feet. Unlike Hydro
we do not have our borrow-
ing guaranteed by the’ B.C.

t. We must go out

the persian ‘of this equip-
ment.”

* That process involved the
board returning to the com-
‘munity and having the com-
munity show an interest in
the CAT ‘Scanner by raising a

“substantial: amount of the

total cost.”

- “These communities now

have their Scanners and we
~ eontinved on page A2

and inpete with everyone

fore they were asked to leave
the country.

“They left within an hour
“of us dealing with them,”
! ‘Taylor said.

| Although the men, Mike
Hunter and Mark Wheeler

-from the Spokane area and’

Bruce and Brent Sleep of
Sandpoint, Idaho,

escorted to the border, Tay-
lor‘ said the immi, of.

‘TULIO ESPOSITO
--e didn't know

number of calls from local
business people who were
“really upset.”

He noted that with “20 per - .
“17-year-old hotel in October. _

cent unemployment in the

job was big enough to hire:
local contractors. He also said’
he didn’t know the men were
working illegally.

Esposito added that the
‘men were acquaintances.

\ “who came to be mutual

friends,” and he hired them
to complete “a little cedar
work in'the bar.”

“I wasn't trying to cause a

He ‘said he plans to hire
local contractors for future
jobs.

“It was. just one of those
incidents that happen,” he
said. But he admitted, “Tl
kick myself in the butt.” _

Esposito purchased the

inside

fice was notified of their re-
turn to the U.S. by border
officials.

The Nelson-based immi-
gration office received the
complaint Thursday from
Ald. Len Embree, who is also
the business agent for local
2300 United Brotherhood of
‘the 'C: and Joiners

else for inv based on
a reasonable rate of return.”

Brooks added: that the
Utilities Commission realizes
this. “In fact, they said in.
1982 that our shareholders’
should be entitled to a return
of 17.5 per cent.

“In 1982, of course, the in-
vestor could get over 19 per
cent from ‘Canada Savings

of America.

Taylor said he would have
dealt with the situation Fri-

© C leg

s Marie Prokop sink

snapped Trail’s long-standing
hold on the Kootenay Ladies
Curling title over the week.

end, page B2

Canada Safeway Ltd. was given approval for
its development permit paving the way for the
start of construction on its new 2,500-square
metre store just south of the Hi-Arrow Arms,
story and photos page AZ

The National Exhibiion | Centre is hosting a

d called “The Camera

day but the men had already
returned to the U.S. The men
were interviewed for an hour
when they returned to work
at the hotel Monday before
they were sent home.
Embree said he filed the

Writes Minot page Aé

Castlegar skiers swept most of the awards at
the Kootenay Cross-country skiing champion-
ships held at Slack Jack Cross-country ski
* course near Red Mountain over the weekend,

page BI

pous a2

after