regional tourism

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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, October 20, 1977
In West Kootenay Boundary Tourism Committee's Request for $2,500

‘Individual Directors to Decide

Individual directors will
decide how large a grant-in-aid
the West Kootenay-Boundary
Tourism Committee will re-
celve from the Regional Dis-
trict. of Central Kootenay

\That ‘was. the: decision
reached by the board Saturday
following a presentation ‘by
committee manager and co-
ordinator Earl Hansen, who
requested a grant “similar” to
the $2,500 the board awarded
to. the committee last year for

" funds specifically allocated to it
by the RDCK, Moore ques-
tioned the board's collective
power to allocate directors’
funds to one recipient.

In his presentation to the

* board Hansen said the RDCK

grant last year was a significant
part of the committee's fund-
ing. :

“It was largely because of
that grant-inaid that we re-
ceived $15,000 over and above
our regional allotment from the
regional g “ Hansen

The vote to allow each
director to decide what portion
of his or her area's grants-in-aid
fund can be released to the
committee resulted from an
objection made in August by
Mayor Audrey Moore, Castle-
gar’s representative on the
board, when the committee
first applied for the grant.

: Explaining that Castlegar had
{ previously funded the commit-
> tee through a special order of
+ city counci! with grants-in-aid

said. “The government trans-
ferred funds from two other

dollars and attract some ‘of the
dollars from ,south. of the

we havea

For you -

Hansen invited the poand
to appoint a

“difference between aiag

grants to the tourist industry
and giving them to anyother
industry,

But Area D director Jack

‘Morris said tourism provides an

important portion of. seasonal
employment in the West Koote-
nays.

“It’s only because of the
tourist industry that a lot of
stores are able to take on a
number of young people during
the summer,” he said. :

RDCK ediministrater Reid
direct

carry out i taleoa. with the

(regional tourism i
who were nol using their
money.”

He cited the $1.6 billion
spent outside Canada last year
as “a very significant contrib-

utor to the devaluation of the ©

dollar,” and said the goal of the
committee—one of eight region-
al tourism authorities recog-
nized by the tourism ministry—
was_to “keep some of our

said the po District of
East Kootenay makes an an-
nual grant of $2,700 to the

they
should Srey their decisions

on funding the committee on
aac ‘i Hi
8

"Funeral Services Held
For Dick Popoff, 21

funeral, services bogan
yesterday’ evening ‘from the

Chapel of the Castlegar Funeral

Home and. concluded today
from:the chapel of the Ham-
mond Funeral Home in Grand
‘Forks for Carl Richard (Dick).
Popoff,’ 21, who died aceldent-
ally on Sunday.

‘Mr. : Popoff> was born in
Grand Forks Aug. 30, 1956, and
‘received part of d

/ 3 He was, employed with
Hadikin Brothera Lumber Ltd.
of Castlegar at the time of his
passing.

Surviving are his. mother
and step-father, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Hadikin of Pass Creek}.
sister, ‘Tiana; two brothers,
Stan and Yuri; a step-sister,
Lesa and a ‘step-brother,: Ser-
gie; and grandparents, Mr, and
Mrs, Pete’ ff and Mrs.

that area, prior. to moving g
Pass Creek. He graduated from
Stanley Humphries Secondary
Schoo] in 1974, followed by a
year at Selkirk College and a
further one-and-a-half years at
the University of B.C. working
‘towards a forestry degree.

Polly Popoff, of Grand Forks.

He was predeceased by his
father, Jack Popoff of Grand
Forks, in 1959,

Interment took place at the *
USCC Cemetery with Castle.
gar. Funeral Home ‘in care of
arrangements.

ti forms.

In order to determine their. ;

"s East Koot

, counterpart, but does not par-

ticipate in activities,

Area J. director’ Martin
Vanderpol questioned the abil-
ity of regional districts to fight
at a local level’ the: dollar's
devaluation..He said he saw no

shares of the

$2,500, directors should multi. -
ply. the taxable value of their’

respective areas by the factor
.0189, Henderson said. The
factor represents $182,098.59—
the ‘overall RDCK tax value
minus that of, Castlegar—di-
vided by $2,600, he said.

Shower Honors
Bride-Elect

A surprise shower honor-

: ing a November bride-elect,
: Connie Polonikoff of Blueberry,
} was held Wednesday of last

week in the Castlegar Nordic
Hall, with many guests in
attendance.

The bride-to-be is the

: fiance of Mr. Tim Cowan of

; Blueberry Creek.
White and blue. tinted

: carnation corsages were pinned
+ on the bride and her mother by
\.the bride's aunt, Pollie Bartsoff.

Following several games

‘and the opening of the many

; lovely gifts a ‘delicious buffet
‘lunch: was ‘enjoyed by the
! guests.

Hostesses for the evening
i were Chris Strelioff, Lucy
: Pereverzoff, Nancy Perever-
: zoff, Mary Plotnikoff, Vera
+ Samarodin,Ann Rilkoff, Doris
} Shukin, Pat Bartsoff and Pollie,

Bartsoff.

1st Kinnalrd
Scouts Association

BOTTLE DRIVE
_‘Sat., Oct. 22

| commencing —9a.m.at
Kinnatrd Elem. School

—wili Accept
: Pop Bottles
e Beer Bottles © Pop Cans)

Court

In proyineial: court “on

Thursday of last week a’ male

juvenile received a’ suspended
sentence and was placed on
probation. for “one year. after
being charged with theft‘ over.
$200.

“Water Low in Supply, Quality

{A copy of the following *
letter, addressed
rights controller-H. D. DeBeck
at the environment ministry
office in Victoria, was sent to
the Castlegar News.)

Dear Mr. DeBeck:

Re: The Castlegar Water
Problem—Quantity and Quality

The residents of Castlegar
were all very concerned last
spring when they were, told
about -the. seriousness of the

city’s water shortage and the |

restrictions they were facing.

. . Anumber of citizens even
tried to obtain additional infor-
mation about the problem with
the idea of trying to help decide
what steps to take to rectify the.

situation. It would seem, how-:’

ever, that all these efforts have
come to naught because we still
have a water shortage.

We were very fortunate

this summer in that there were .

no serious fires in the city and
that we also had quite a lot of
rain. And, since we got through
the summer, everyone seems to
have lost their concern for the
problem.

Water consumption has .

dropped because no one is
sprinkling lawns and gardens at
present and concern seems to
have dropped correspondingly:

However, my main reason
for writing. this letter is my

to water.

concern about thé quality of the
water we are getting, espe--
cially in the north end of the
city.

present house on June 1, 1977.
The alkalinity content of our
water at that time was. 340
p.p.m., The recommended qual-
ity standard for B.C. is 180
p.p.m..

Our water has ranged
between 220 and 240 p.p.m.
during July, August and Sep-
tember. Also, the water that
comes out of my taps has a
funny, oily-looking film on it as
it settles in a glass,

Our last house (four blocks
from this oné) hada water
softener and so we were not

teally aware of the seriousness *

of the-situation. Now my dish-
washer (that Iam fortunate to
have) isnot able to flush the
salts away as they precipitate
out of the water: at tempera-
tures over 140°F-*:

These salts are left coating
the dishes after a cycle jis
finished. This leaves a: white;
cloudy-looking film -on -the

dishes and all my glassware is.

so opaque that you can’t see
through it and it looks dirty. .
‘These salts also collect and

, forma stiff sludge in the pump

of the machine which necessi-
tates my husband continuously

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Our family moved into our”

having to take the machine
apart to clean it. The addition of
‘two cups of vinegar (acetic acid)
to each load helps to balance

the base content of the water °

but it doesn't, rectify the
problem completely and is also
very costly. I use up a gallon of
vinegar very quickly. ©

Of course, my pots and
pans require constant scrub-
bing to remove the accumu-

lated scale, even if I've only |

boiled water in them.
The elements in my elec-
tric kettle are constantly coated

with a thick layer ofscale which _
makes it harder for them to” ‘poo

heat water and, consequently,
T'm using more energy to heat
water than'I should be.

The problem is magnified
many times with our hot water
tank. The pressure release

valve on that has just gone and *

T know we face a costly repair

‘in getting ‘the ‘tank and’ ele-

ment®descaled, if the proplem :
hasn't gone too far for, Tepair.
All the above probléitis’a are

government has already sold it
to the nation south of us, and so
they can have it first even if it
was potable.

Tami only one person in this
community, but as I’ talk to
friends and acquaintances, I
realize that we ‘all share this
problem. The extent of it seems
to depend upon which well your
water. comes from.

‘Some housewives can't get

their laundry clean and. some

people” can't -have a < bath
without a sludgy, grey, sticky
mess forming on the water as
‘they bathe. Others can't sham-
their hair satisfactorily.
Rings of scale form in toilet
bowls or in sinks wherever. a

,tap drips.

Just try and rinse your
windows or your car with a
garden hose after you've wash-
ed. them, ‘It requires more
elbow grease to polish off the
spots left by the water than it:
did to wash the dirt off in the
first place.

ete The réasons for je citiz

. Mark. Denbak “pleaded
guilty toa charge of drinking in
a public ‘place. He was fined

: ee ears

Robert: Makaroff’ pleaded
guilty to a charge of refusing to
take “a breathalyzer. test, He
was fined $250 or in default one
month in jail.

eo

John Alexander Dickson
pleaded not ‘guilty but : was
found guilty: of driving with a

+ blood alcohol count over .08. He

was fined $250 or. in default one
month in jail.
oe elce

John J. Zaytsolf pleaded i

guilty to fishing over the’ limit.
He was fined $100.

CWL Stuffing
: Pillows, Toys

-For Bazaar

Saint Joseph's Catholic
Women’s. League meeting was
enjoyed by all attending—even
though a working bee found the
ladies stuffing toys and pillows
for the coming Bazaar and Tea
‘slated for this Saturday.

An interesting report was
given on the Catholic Women’s
League regional conference re-
cently held. in Trail. Mrs.
Thomas McEwan was the Right
to Life speaker giving details of
the growth and aims of our local
organization. mhis sroup has

int

of “constant; and ‘;
concern to'me.as a housewife
because they “are -constantly
costly and annoying. But, of
deeper concern is what. this
.water is doing to our health. If
there’ are quality “standards,
there must be a reason for
them.

Will there be a cumulative
effect that will show up later in
the bodies of my children? How
does the body cope with such
heavy concentrations of alka-:

linity? Are my husband and TT

faced with the possibility of
arthritis, kidney disease “or
arteriosclerosis ‘or.some other
manifestation’ of chemical im-
balance in our bodies, as we
grow older?

The Columbia River flows
by, two blocks from my. door. It

has an alkalinity’ content’ 6f -

about 65 p.p.m. and: yet we
can’t use that water because it
is polluted and‘also because our

leg gee
Di lit ue l

CASTLEGAR NEWS
24947 1977

ry having-to cope withi'such an
inadequate. water supply are
not acceptable. We need and
want an abundant supply of
soft, pure water.

The Arrow Lakes system,
just ‘four: miles north of us,
could supply. us’ with . this
much-needed water if only we
could get some help to pipe into
it.: Our: city, with its 2,000
tax-paying households, cannot

bear. the costs: alone. :

“Are we.second: or. third-,
class, citigens?. What happens to
the federal and provincial taxes
we pay?. Can these funds not be’

used’ to ‘help pay: for. this si

urgently needed. system?
Our. primary. industry: in
this area, CanCel, ‘needs clean,
soft water for the production of
paper products and they. have
it, from the Arrow Lakes, Yet
we, who live in, the adjacent

? ty. cane have-any of this

wate Well water has proved to
be inadequate in every way for
a city of this size and this past:
spring ‘and summer has shown
us ‘that we cannot rely: on:this

system. The very future of this .

community as a viable place to

+ live ‘and. make. a - living,. all
hinges’ on water—water: which | :

we can'seé but cannot use.
Surely, some tevel' of gov-
ernment will’ wake up to this
fact before next spring when
the trouble will be even. worse’.
with. the: deteriorating cond:
tions’ of the : wells ‘from’ whi

we ‘are, forced to draw our

employed cificsts, liane
the ‘senior levels
“service who have’ the power to

ft the ‘civil

help us. Surely a town of 6,255
people is important ‘enough ‘to
receive some consideration,

: Thank you.

~ Drug Mart & .

THE CORPORATION OF THE VILLAGE OF SLOCAN.

INVITATION TO TENDER

~~ Gonerete: foundation for,: and: ‘erection: “of
“prefabricated. metal bullding (Garco). -:

: J to comply with national bullding code. and
f ie compatible to above pre-engineered bar Iding. vt
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for sale.
Mrs. Ed McGauley’ pete

» ed_on resolutions of the British

Columbia and Yukon. League

Convention, with an interesting ©
reference to “living - wills".. :

Further information: is .to, be
requested concerning this new,
type of will.

Plans were discussed for

the Nov. 2.All Souls Day visit to
the cemetery.

*| Hostesses for the: ‘evening’
were Mrs.'Robert Cormier and

“Mra, David Calder. ‘

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Annual. Meets
of the

Hi Arrow Arms: Banquet Room \
Thursday, Oct. 27
Cocktails: 7 p.m.
Meeting: » 7:30 p.m.

The Election of Officers for the 4077-78 Year
‘Will Take Place at this (mportant Meeting

@ Everyone is Urged to, Attend! e

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With ‘the proper amount t of i in-

City: Socials

as
Mrs. H. Johnson 385-8294

Mrs. J. Heslop returned :-
home Sunday after spending a. -
week in Kaslo, the guest of

Canon and Mrs. R..G. Douglas.
While ‘in Kaslo, she attended
the Anglican Church Women's
Conference, along with 68
ladies ‘from various iret

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Boneless Beef Rump
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Kleenex:
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Drawings available from Village Office. ‘and ‘erection

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October 28: 197.