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ALCOHOLICS anonymous ond Al-Anon Phone 365-3663, 104/71 Jesus be praised glorified throughout the Amen. Say 6 times a day for 9 days and remem your May the Sacred Heart of ber to promise prayer will be answered publication and CASTLEGAR COUGARS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Bingo will be held at the Scout Hall every Monday. 6 Please come and help support c DANCE BANDS on available for any type 362-7795, PROVINCE-WIDE CLASSIFIED $159 $10 DISCOUNT FOR CASH! Coll us for details! Classified Ads 365-2212 . Castlegar News CHAPEL HOUSE Business Oppor. DISTRIBUTORSHIP WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH PRESENT EMPLOYMENT NO SELLING REQ. It you are looking for a steady income, tlexible hours and a business of your own this is you have National seeking a the opportunity been looking tor corporation few ambitious people distributors to established accounts products are and dous profit plicants must be able nationally vertised carry tremen markups immediately and meet tinan cial requirements. (Invest ment of $12,500 For complete details write Director of Marketing No. 109-4240 Manor Street Burnaby. 8 V5G 182 Card of Thanks TO thank the many friends and y Families end Femily. Nency Kinakin and family Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212! Girls found at risk NEW YORK (Reuter) young girls radiation are Infants an who are exposed to at the highest risk of developing breast cancer, and the risk drops sharply for older women ex posed to radiation for the first-time, according to (wo separate studies released last week The studies, in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine also found the risk of developing breast cancer increases as the dose of radition increase by € 710 women who were treated 1930 and 1952 were surveyed. Slightly more than In one study anadian rese chers, 31 for tuberculosis between 25 per cent of them had received high doses of radiation The risk of dying of breast cancer was highest among those exposed to radiation for the first time when they were betwden tlie ages of 10 and 15 said the study directed by Anthony Miller of the National Cancer Institute of Canada It decreased sharply after the age of 14, with radiation those first after age 35 smallest increase in risk, exposed 10 having. the the study said Women exposed before the age of 10 were not included in the study Many of the women were expaed 10 large radiation doses of more than 10 rads odern mam rads to each releases about By comparison, a directs 0.15 breast X-ray 0,002 rads to each breast Based on extrapolations from the study, mogram the researchers qoncluded that mmography, breast cancer may sometimes be detec the benefits of mi when ted early, would outweigh any risk of radiation-induced breast cancer In another York study, a group of New researchers found that women Sale of bear parts outlawed CALGARY (CP) Alberta Wildlife Minister LeRoy Fjordbotten has outlawed the sale of black bear par ts, in the face of increased poaching of the bears for profit Fjordbotten said he ning some black Alberta had been found shot of their gall bladders dthen abandoned That tiad to be acted after lear bears in northern stripped and cla\ws an stopped," Fjot nie hin said during a 1 Alberta riding or province drew the tour of hi wrath of con: rvationists in 1987 by legalizing the sale of some animal parts — including bear gd claws — to help promote Card of Thanks rr THE FAMILY of Pauline Hadikin send their heartfelt thanks to all the people involved in the search for our dear mother We would like to thank all the eers tor giving their valuable time and for-not giving up. You gave us hop: Thank you ladies for all the food and baking and for being with us in our time of need volut All the. good prayers for our mother and grandmother spiritual strength Thank you to the singers, the people who read psalms, the gravediggers Mike Cherenkott for officiating and all the people who come to offer their last respects at the funeral Special thanks to the Nelson and Castlegar RCMP detachments and to PEP who gave so much time for the search very special thank you to Mike © Connor from the Castlegar Funeral Chapel May God Bless You All Fred Hadikin and Family, Pauline and Larry Poznikotf and family, Lily and Geoge Perepelkin and family and Marilyn Stoochnot# and family 9 gove us | WOULD like to express my gratitude to all those who sent their best wishes to me while | Miss Canada Pageant in Toronto. My stay there was a true experience of a lifetime and those was at the Thanks again everyone. Judi Closkey 98" v1 Miss Interior of B.C In Memoriam CANADIAN. DIABETES ASSOCIATION in Memoriam Donations. Box 28 Rossland, B.C. VOG 1¥0. 104-73 “Your Charity of Choice’’ Your caring gifts in Honour or in Memoriam are a beautiful and thoughftul reminder Please help v “light Conado's No 1 Killer Bear in Alberta gall bladders are valued a ingredients for traditional medicines in some Oriental culture Fjordbotten said there had been being for up to $100 openly sold to dealers each more. He will still be allowed to sell bear then resold to exporters for even said trappers and hunters hides Niels Damgaard, the Alberta Fish ‘and Association ban the sale of all vice-president of Game aid Fjordbotten should animal parts, in cluding velve antlers sold by game farmers to the Orient as medicines and aphrodisiacs IS REGULATED But Norman Moore of the Growers A of elk antle $2,000 a set — is Alberta Game sociauion aid marketin which can fetch up to tightly regulated by the government He said porting pr ict documentation yeedures protect the market poachdd antlers entering Fjordbotten also rejected demands by five Alberta that the province conservation groups hold public hearing into ame farming. He said the groups had *‘overreacted who were exposed 10 radiation in in fancy had a high risk of breast cancer The: study surveyed 4,201 exposed to X-ray treatment in infancy for an enlarged’ thymus between 1926 and 1987, abandoned, The women when the treatment was women wére com pared with 2,469 of their sisters who had not received the jreatment The first. brea: breast cancer disagnosed 28 years after the rad treatment, which is consistent with other studies showing a long latency period for the cancer The study, led by Nancy Hildreth of the University of that the risk of developin, Rochester, found 2 breast can cer was nearly four times higher among the womien exposed to the radiation Hildreth said physicians should very carefully weigh the benefits and risks of procedures that expose infants to radiation CLASSIFIED SHOWCASE This space available for CAMPERS * MOTORCYCLES = & * SNOWMOBILES * TENTS * MOTOR HOMES * BOATS * SNOW BLOWERS: * FURNACES ® CARS * TRUCKS * DINING ROOM SUITES © CHESTERFIELDS © ETC. 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FOLDING TABLE LEGS Legs ¢ Use Any Top to Make Your Own Tables * Regular $19.99 $472? 2374-102 * INSTALLATION SERVICES Ppt "364-1 31 1 Expansion plans slowed By CLAUDETTESAND! Staff Writer Official approval of the planned $630-million expan. sion and modernization of the Celgar Castlegar is on hold until financial arrangements between the mill owners and their banks are completed, pulp mill general assistant manager Jim Browne said Tuesday Mill officials had hoped to annour 1 but were told to wait as the owners continue talks with financial institutions in Montreal, Nov Castlegar News There is no indication any “* up the arrangements, he said, process is taking longer than expected. However, Oct. 4, Browne noted roadblocks only that the negotiation the expansion plans could be scrapped at any time despite the initial announcement of the project 1 Mill officials are also waiting for the completion of an environmental-impact study, which will predict the effect Pulp Co. mill in project, ¢ the approval Browne told the “working Ministry re holding because closely” the expanded mill will have on the environment. The study must meet federal and provincial before the mill will be granted government approval for the Browne said There are no major problems in completing the study, he said, but the work is time-consuming because data must be collected from'a number of sources. The two consultants preparing the assessment are nvironment regulations Environment environmental with the provincial the new provincial regulations will likely be as strict or stricter than the current federal regulations, Browne said. If the mill can meet the well, he explained. However, the Vol. 42, No. 92 60 Cents provincial guidelines, it should be within the federal rules as mill concerned about a owners are receiving federal approval in light of Ottawa's recent ds refusal to approve a new bleach kraft pulp mill in Alberta, he said. Hearings into that project are currently being con ducted and the government is demanding more data on how the mill will effect the environment approval for the mill will cost the company money, Browne said, especially since the mill will not be putting out the higher volume of pulp as soon as ex. ‘the benefits will be further down the road."" the delay may cause problems in receiving materials from supplier, who may need 12.t0 13 months to fill orders and from manufacturers who will be contracting to build large equipment such asa new boiler; Browne said Mayor Audrey Moore said Tuesday she is ** The delay in the pected and ** As well, timistic”’ the project will go ahead despite the delay but she said Celgar doesn’t have a lot of choices on whether or not the mill will be modernized to meet environmental standar AV Py poar News CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, pretty op- andeffluent 1989 “They either have to expand or they still have to im prove air and water quality in the area,”’ Moore also noted a meeting the city has arranged for the end of the month with local boards, businesses to look at the effect of the expansion on the city and the area was planned to take place after the official word on the project was announced When first announced in October, Celgar was slated to begin construction in the spring with start-up of the new plant scheduled for mid-1992. a The expanded mill, which Celgar officials say would create about 30 permanent new positions, would more than double the mill's current production from 185,000 tonnes of bleached kraft pulp per year to 420,00 tonnes while meeting government requirements Moore said. agencies and for air emissions WEATHERCAST Tonight: Cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Lows near Thursday: Cloudy with snow showers in the morning changing to rain in the afternoon. Highs near 6°. The outlook is for partial clearing Friday afternoon. Prob: ability of precipitation is 60 per cent tonight rising to 90 per cert Thursday 3 Sections (A, B & C) Voters reject free calls By SIMON BIRCH Editor A majority of B.C, Tel customers in Castlegar have rejected proposed toll- free long-distance telephone service to Trail, acompany official said today Ed Clark, B.C. Tel’s public affairs administrator for the Columbia region, which includes Castlegar, said the unofficial results of the mailed-in ballots show 65 per cent of Castlegar customers who voted don’t want the toll-free service and the associated $1.75-a-month increase on their hone bills Clark said the monthly which. would have accompanied the toll-free long-distance calls to Trail was ‘‘probably a factor’’ in Castlegar customers rejecting the proposal: However, Clark pointed out that Castlegar barely qualified for the toll free service under new rules introduced last December by the Canadian Radio- television and Telecommunications Commission, which regulates phone service in Canada Under the new criteria, communities qualify for the toll-free long-distance service if 60 per cent of the customers in the exchange requesting the service call the requested exchange at least on ce a month during thr months studied by a telephone com: pany. The distance between the two exchanges must not exceed 64 kilometres (40 miles) Clark said 64 per cent of B.C customers in Castlegar call Trail once a month. That means more than one third of the company Stustomers from the start probably had no interest in the proposed service. A simple majority — 50 per cent plus one of those casting ballots — was required to approve the toll-free service. Clark said 2,680 of the 4,322 ballots mailed out were returned. A total of 1,715 customers (65 per cent) voted against the proposal and 942 (35 per There were 21 sp: increase e out of four Tel’s cent) voted in favor oiled ballots Clark said 271 of the 495 ballots mailed to B.C Tel’s business customers in Castlegar were returned Of those, 143 (53 per cent) voted again st the proposal and 125 (47 per cent) voted in favor. Three ballots were spoiled continued on poge AZ SOLEMN SERVICE . . Castlegar residents crowded Kinsmen Park Saturday during the annual Remembrance Day ceremony to honor those who have given th of freedom in two world wars. Text of John Charters’ address, page A! lives in defence CasNews photo by Bret! Avery More money needed for hospital By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer The provincial government and the Regional District of Central Kootenay board will have to approve an ad ditional $1.4 million in funding if the expansion of the Castlegar and District Hospital is to go ahead, despite cost cutting measures the contractors bid: ding on the project will be asked to in: corporate into their bids, hospital ad- ministrator Ken Talarico said today Talarico said the cost were drawn up at a meeting in Van couver Tuesday attended by hospital reductions , Project building committee chairman Bill Horvath, Central Kootenay Regional Hospital District Board chairman and RDCK Area | director John Voykin, Talarico, the project ar chitect, consultants and Ministry of Health officials The four bidders, whose bids in late October all came in over $5 million while the construction costs were'set at $3.7 million, will be asked to consider the cost reductions this week, Talarico said However, the amount to only about $200,000, he said, and the government and RDCK will have to approve extra funding if tHe project isto go ahead reductions will City wants twinning policy By SIMON BIRCH Editor Castlegar city council will try to develop a twinning agreements in the wake of two more requests Union and one from a city in China for Castlegar to become a sister city Castlegar earlier this year signed a sister-city agreement with Embetsu, Japan, Aoyama Technical College in that developed educational Selkirk College. But at policy on one froma city in the Soviet after city exchanges with Tuesday night’s council meeting, aldermen said they want bet ter guidelines on the development of such agreements, specifically on the financial" impact they will have on CHRISTMAS SHORT STORIES WELCOME It’s story-writing time again! The Castlegar and District Public Library and the Castlegar News are once again inviting area children to write their own Christ mas short stories. The nine entries will be published in the CasNews’s Christmas Greeting edition Just write a short story of up to 300 words beginning with the line, “tt was Christmas Eve when everything started"? and énding with the line, “No one thought it would be that kind of a Christ mas.”’ There are three eight and under; and 12, 13. and 14 Three storiés from each group category will be published Satur day, Dec. 23. In addition, the first, second and third place winners will receive book certificates age categories 10 and 11; nine, chosen by judges as the bes| Simply mail or bring your story to the Castlegar library or to the Castlegar News. Deadline is 1 p.m Monday, Dec. 4 Be sure to include your name, address, age and telephone num ber Castlegar and on what basis the city will pursue sister-city arrangements. “have a problem with this ad hoc approach” twinning, Ald Doreen Smecher said to twin with every request that comes in? toward “Are we going “We could end up with three or four requests a year," she added. “1 think we've got tocome up with a policy.”" Ald. Terry Rogers pointed out that the cost of sending a delegation to Em- betsu this year was ‘less than $5,000."" **But $5,000 here and $5,000 there . * he said. ‘*We have to look at the balance sheet, the cultural, educational and economic advan tanges Castlegar city administrator Dave Gairns, who recently attended a sym- posium on sister-city arrangements, told council he estimates the city would have to budget approximately $10,000 a-year-to maintain three sister-city arrangements. “1 don’t think it’s a huge dollar figure but I would be rather surprised if we could maintain three twinning TERRY ROGERS « ‘look at the balance sheet’ arrangements for less than $10,000 a year," he said But Mayor Audrey community groups could support the sister-city arrang Moore said ments “In my view, 1 don't foresee why support and have to be provided by ongoing development council,” she said The requests for agreements from China and Mukachevo Ukraine Yueyang is located on the Yangtze River and has a pulp and paper mill which employs 3,200 workers and 800 twinning gome Yueyang in the Soviet technical and managerial staff. The city’s population is 60,000, tothe Britannica Atlas Mukachevo has a 88,000 and dates back to the I 1th cen tury, according toyinformation provided by the Aysociation for Relations Between Soviet and Foreign Cities Its industry engineering, wood processing, and construction materials, the according population of includes food association says. Board denies appeal By CasNews Staff The provincial Environmental Ap- peal Board has dismissed the Robson Raspberry Improvement District’s ap- peal of a decision to grant a water licence to a Crescent Valley man who plans to build a small hydro generating plant on Norns Cr 16 kilometres north of Castlegar Ron Hoodicoff's proposal calls for construction of a six-to-eight-foot to divert water from Norns Creek into a pipe which would carry the water to a small powerhouse and then return the Water to Norns Creek Hoodicoff said today he is pleased with the appeal board's decision ‘I'm very happy,” he told the Castlegar News. ** a lot of paperwork, permits, this and that. It’s taken a long time to get this “weir” This project has had Hoodicoff first applied for the water licence in August 1986 RRID board chairman Bruce Austin said today he hasn't had a chance to read the appeal board's decision. He said the RRID trustees will discuss the decision at the board’s regular meeting Thursday In_ making its decision, the appeal board rejected the RRID"s arguments continued on page A2 The province and the RDCK have agreed to a cost-sharing arrangement to fund the project A report on the new bids should be ready by the end of the week, Talarico said, and when Victoria has assessed that report the Ministry of Health will prepare its own report which will go to the hospitat~committee- and the Ministry of Finance’s treasury board with a request for the additional funds The cost reductions that were drawn up at the Tuesday meeting cover a number of aspects of the proposed in- termediate-care and extended-care facility For instance, the ministry proposed the elimination of energy-conservation measures. Eliminating the energy- conservation affect the comfort of the patients but in- cluding such measures would cost the continued on page A2 INSIDE Rebel revenge measures won't page B1 Lottery numbers The winning numbers drawn Tuesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 10, 14, 15, 21, 23, 31, 34 and 56. What's ahead? page Cl Charters’ address page A&