CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 20, 1978

Local Woman Installed

Into Grand Co

Past Guardian of Castlegar
Bethel No, 60, Mrs, Lorraine
McGuire, was installed as the
Grand First Messenger of the
Grand Council when the Inter-
national Order of Job's Daugh-
ters held its grand sessions in
Kamloops recently.

Mrs. McGuire was escort-
ed by her daughter, Yvonne
and Past Honored Queen of
Bethel No. 60, Dana Smith,
They were among the 20 girls
and five chaperones from the
local bethel who attended the
three-day session.

Two of the Castlegar girls
received first-place honors in
competitions at the event.

Rowena Junker captured
top spot in the music competi-
tion for her rendition of “Scar-
borough Fair", accompanied by
Mrs. Ruby Partridge; while
Julie Partridge won the essay
contest for her version of
“What Job's Daughters Means
to Me”. All competitors in the
latter category were asked to
write on the same topic, with
Miss Partridge's entry selected
as the best.

: The entire local group
‘participated in the skit compe-
tition, which was well received
by the audience,

: Honored Queen Joy Mc-

‘ Nabb reported that everyone
enjoyed the sessions and are
looking forward to attending
the event next year.

Unattended
Pet Startles

Investigator

A police detective investi-
- gating an apartment burglary
+ in Omaha, Neb., beat a stunned
> retreat when he came face to
« face with a hungry reptile that
2 elosely resembled an alligator.
. Detective Sgt. Oscar Pfef-
> fer thought at first he'd found a
* toy. But he “knew it was real
: when it blinked at me. So [
slowly backed out of the room."
: Pieffer saw a “green head
> stick out” of a child’s wading
< pool when he opened what he
thought was a bedroom door.
i-.- “I had a handful of buck-
shot that the burglars had
spilled in another part of the
house. So I threw it in the
direction of the pool, When
those eyes blinked, I left.”

A handler from the Henry
Doorly Zoo was called and the
reptile was taken to the zoo for
safe-keeping until the apart-
ment resident returned from
vacation. :

Dr. Lee Simmons, z00
director, said the reptile actu-
ally was a three-foot-long cay-
man, a South American species
closely related to the alligator.

a

RECOGNITION wi

uncil

given these three Castlegar residents

recently during the Grand Sessions of the International Order
of Job's Daughters held in Kamicops, Winner of the essay

contest Is Julle Partridge, te
winner of the music competit!
Bothel No. 60, Mr:

with Rowena Junker, right
. Past Guard!

Lorraine McGuire, was In:

Grand First Messenger of the Grand Council.

Grand Forks Seeking
PWA Passenger Service

The City of Grand Forks
will ask the Canadian Trans-
port Commission what require-
ments must be met before
Pacific Western Airlines can
provide air passenger service
to the city. :

When the commission
granted a license to PWA to
provide air passenger service
to the community, it was con-
tingent upon “suitable service”
being provided, Mayor Yasushi
Sugimoto pointed out to council
Monday.

He suggested that the city
should approach the Commis-
sion to ask it to define what it
regards as “suitable service", in
view of the concerns which

Collision
Avoided But
Wrecks Car

An accident Friday eve-
ning in which a 1975 pickup
swerved to avoid a head-on
collision 11 kilometres north on
the Celgar Road, is still under
investigation,

Police said the driver,
Ronald William Zaytsoff of
Castlegar, escaped injury but
his vehicle sustained $2,500
damage.

Police said the Zaytsoff
vehicle was northbound round-
ing a right-hand curve when a
southbound vehicle came
around the same curve in the
northbound lane. *

The pickup rolled once and
came to rest down the bank on
its wheels,

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continue to be expressed re-
garding the level of service now
being provided here by Arrow _
Aviation, the firm that obtained

a contract from PWA to
provide air service to Grand
Forks,

Ald. Norm Venables added
that according to federal regu-
lations Arrow Aviation should
have two pilots on board every
flight but the airline continues
to use just one pilot.

. Venables also reported to
council that one of Arrow Avia-
tion's two aircraft is due for a
major overhaul soon, and he
expressed concern about what
would happen to the level of
service when the plane is tem-
porarily taken out of use for the
overhaul. :

Venables reported that
just 14 passengers used the
airline service in January of
this year, 13 in February and 40
in March.

Concerns were expressed
by council last week that the
unpredictable service being
provided by Arrow has result-
ed in a loss of many local
customers for the small airline.

Completes a Royal Cycle?

Margaret Immoral?

Over the past 200 yoars,:
Britain's monarchy has had a
fairly consistent record: It has
been alternately moral and
immoral.

George III, a devoted
family man, was followed by
the scandalous George IV, who, °
while prince regent, lived with
a series of mistresses and tried
to get rid of his wife Caroline.
She, the prospective queen,
cavorted around Europe with
her Italian lover, Bergami, and
had herself revealed in paint-
ings naked to the waist.

Victoria, who was most
happily married, succeeded
William IV, a king who lived’
openly with actress Dorothy
Jordan and had 10 illegitimate
children before finally giving
her up to marry an acceptable
German princess at the age of

Edward VI, who succeed-
ed the marvellous Victoria,
was, according to the Diction-
ary of National Biography, the
height of fashionable frivolity.
He favored company of low
rank and accrued heavy debts—
to put it mildly. 2

Twice Edward appeared in
court and, on one such occasion,
deniéd that he had committed
adultery with the wife of Sir
Charles Mordaunt.

George V was a pillar of
rectitude, but the king so
repressed his son, Edward
VII, that he apparently could
only fancy married women. As
Prince of Wales, he was un-
faithful even to his mistresses,

The British throne under
his brother, George VI, and
since then with Queen Eliza-
beth, has been a model of
private happiness for 40 years.
There is, of course, one ex-
ception: The haunted Margaret
Rose.

This spring of 1978, the
British royal family has been
going through its worst per-
sonal crisis since the 1936

abdication because of Princess -

Margaret's persona! life.

For years British anti-
monarchists, led by left-wing
Labor MPs, have complained
that the “royals” were an-un-
necessary drain on the public
purse. But they have had no
ammunition with. which to
pursue their cause,

Today things have changed.
With a peculiar hypocrisy, they

Voice of the People:

Scum-a Natural Thing?

Editor, Castlegar News:

Re the article in the April
13th issue of the Castlegar
News and the PCB's version of
what the “green scum” is in the
Columbia River:

- Either 1 am way out in left

field or else the PCB is, and
from my seat in the bleachers I
think the PCB must think the
local population stayed home
the day that brains were
issued.

Twenty-five years ago, the
then-Village of Castlegar and
Village of Kinnaird used this
water for drinking unchlori-
nated and with the blessings of
the public health service. Later,
it was suggested—then, more
or less demanded—that the
water be chlorinated. Later -
still, no water could be used.

Twenty-five years ago we
fished below Kinnaird and

-watched the river rise and fall *
with very little “green scum”.
Now, as one fisherman puts it,
“If | caught a fish I wouldn't put
my hands in the water and I
sure wouldn't eat it.”

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“Castlegar

Results From
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Bridge Club

Nine tables, with an aver-
age of 108, took part in Monday
night's play at the Joy Keillor
Bridge Club with the following
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Agnes Charlton with 129%;
second, Dr. Ron Perrier and
Hubert Hunchak with 1231;
third, Joy Keillor and Judy.
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Rob Wadey and Ken Fines with

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have seized on Margaret's
separation from her husband,
Lord Snowdon, and her public
affair with a° younger man,
Roddy Llewellyn, to suggest
that she be fired.

The pressure has been
such that both the Archbishop
of Canterbury, Donald Coggan,
and Prime Minister James Cal-
laghan have been to the palace
to discuss the issue with the
Queen, ‘5 ‘i

But the trouble with this
issue is that it mixes morals and
money. Is the princess worth
her $105,000 a year? Is it really
acceptable that she cavort
publicly with blond, would-be
pop singer Llewellyn?

The debate, shabby though
it may be, has produced some
unrestrained comments on
Princess Margaret's alleged
misbeliavior.

Labor MP Dennis Canavan
has called tle printess a
parasite,

As for Llewellyn, who is
the son of Olympic equestrian
champion Harry Llewellyn, Ca-
navan says he is just “a waster
«+. Now that he's back (from his
holiday), he should try to find
himself a job to keep him and
his girl friend,

“I think it's intolerable that

the public purse should sub- |

sidize the princess's second
honeymoon,”

On the other side of the
coin, Lynda Lee-Potter asks in
the London Daily Mail: “What
has she done that is so wicked
in a world beset by violence and
just? She hasn't had a plethora
of lovers, a bevy of suitors, an
orgiastic shindig of a social life.

“She's a rather sad and
lonely 47-year-old woman who,
in the years since her marriage
broke up, has had one admirer.

“If he is her lover, I don't
find that wicked or outrageous.
If he were a solid, middle-aged
member of the aristocracy,
nobody would raise an eye-"
brow.”

That, indeed, may be the
main point, Some 16 years
Margaret's junior, Roddy Llew-
ellyn is boyish.

Two decades ago,-another
love affair of Margaret's was
turned to dust by the con-
ventions of church and state.
Today it is the “class” forces of
the left who have pilloried her.

As the Guardian news.
paper says, the whole contro-
versy is both tawdry and de-
meaning. i

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> CENTRAL KOOTENAY officials fleld questions from the
: tlve-member regional district. review committee at last
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—CasNewsFoto by Ryon Guedes

@ Replacement of rural
advisory planning commissions
with elected advisory councils;

e Participation in regional
resource management commit-
tee decisions;

Takeover of economic
development commission fune-
tions,

Those highlighted changes
proposed for regional govern-
ment in the Regional District of
Central Kootenay brief pre-
sented at a provincial govern-
ment hearing last Thursday,

, Area H. director Norman
Brewster, presenting the brief
lo the government-appointed
regional district review com-
mittee, said the Municipal Act
should be amended to make
mandatory the election of ad-
visory councils to advise region-
al boards on matters related to
their resp electoral areas

: , Ministry

ey Regional hospital districts

should be dissolved rather than

i become the health ministry's

i “rubber stamper.”

+ That was the Central
‘Kootenay Regional Hospital
District's solution last, Thurs-
day to “the apparent: and total

3+ lack of any tocal autonomy” for

+: hospital districts.

+, _ Ina brief presented to the

Dissolve ‘Rubber Stampers’ or Give Them More Power

of hospital district boards.
Brewster said the purpose
of the districts, under Section
21 of the Regional Hospital
Districts Act, is “to establish,
acquire, construct, reconstruct,
enlarge, operate and maintain
hospitals and hospital facili-
ties," but the ministry “has
such overriding authority as to
make the hospital district board

2p region-
sal district review committee;
> Area H director Norman Brew-
> ster suggested the health min-
+ istry assume absolute respon-
:. sibility for hospital care in B.C.

the role =

He cited as an example the
ministry's decision to override
the CKRHD board’s 1977 bud-
getary provision for a $600,000
loan to finance renovations and

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Kootenay Lake District hospi-
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“Yet, during 1977, the
ministry advised the CKRHD
board to adopt a loan authori-
zation bylaw for $573,289,"

“ Brewster said.

“While we are grateful to
“the ministry for advancing the
loan authorization bylaw so.as
to permit improvements to
hospitals, we must now oppose
the method of financing the
loan," he said. “During periods

flati it

of high ly of

be given to financing capital
improvements by mill rate
increase over two to five years
rather than by long-term mon-

Overriding Hospital Districts

tion (44,900) and the four-

teenth-highest product of one

mill rate ($159,052), he said.
The ministry should offer

ey market.
Less than 10 per cent of
about $1 million budgetted for

the CKRHD annually is avail-.

able for appropriation to hos-
pitals, Brewster said. In a 1976
survey comparing it with 27
other districts, the CKRHD had
the-highest mill rate (3,55), the
fifth-highest debt per capita

($175), the fifth-highest debt-

money and high interest rates

—serious “consideration should -'

ratio ($49), the
seventh-highest debt ($7,840,-
061),. the ninth-highest popula-

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review was told last
Thursday.

A brief presented to the
provincial government-appoint-,
ed committee by Mayor Audrey
Moore on behalf of Recreation
Commission No. 1 cited diffi-
culties faced by the commission
in operating a function of the
Nelson-based Regional District
of Central Kootenay.

The commission is respon-
sible for, programming recrea-
tion in the city and Areas I and
J with a budget based on a

ex

for the program-
ming and managing of the city
parks and swimming pool,” the
brief continued. “So not only is
the recreation commission re-
sponsible to the regional board,
but also to the city council.”
In addition, the Regional
Recreation Complex is not run
by the it issi

to present
funding methods, and provide
hospital district boards with
advice and direction similar to
that provided to municipalities
and regional districts by the
municipal affairs ministry.

“We believe that hospital
districts should have the right
to make decisions relative to
conducting referendums, finan-
cing improvements and to carry
out those purposes stated in
Section 21 of the Act,” he said.

Recreation Locally

as a,collecting agency while
administrative . procedures
would be handled through the
city offices,” it said. “This
proposal would also create’ a
parks and recreation commis-
sion which would be respon-
sible for all facilities and pro-
grams.”
Qi

but by the RDCK Facilities
Commission, the brief said.
“As a programming agen-
cy, the commission has not been
allowed. by regional district
policy to enter into park land
acquisition, facility develop-
ment ‘or any other form of

one-mill levy i to
about $48,000, the brief said.

A local administrative of-
fice had been provided. to
accommodate programming
and managing responsibilities,
it said, but the function is still
run from the RDCK office in
Nelson. #

“To further confuse the
issue it should be noted that the
City of Castlegar has requested
that the i issi

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capital or pur-
chase,” it said.

The brief recommended
implementation of a City of
Castlegar proposal—endorsed
in principle by the recreation
commission—that the RDCK

. contract all area recreation ser-

vices out to the city.
“In this proposal the re-
gional district would act strictly

City Status |
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Council, APC

- Creston’s municipal council
and advisory planning commis-
sion is considering seeking city
status for the 3,600-resident
town. f
'. Provincial grants of $20
per town resident and $200 for
every person brought into the
municipality are being eyed to
defray some of the costs of
proposed expansion of boun-
daries,

by regional dis-
trict review committee mem-
bers, Moore said the proposal
was based on the findings of a
management. study conducted
by consultant W. K. Smith on
behalf of the city.

“Because of the complexity
of the accountability of rec-
reation director Pat Metge it
was felt it would be easily
resolved if the RDCK levied the
mill rate and the monies were
ceded to us to manage because
of the accountability of the
director and the closeness of his
office," Moore told the commit-
tee.

The parks and recreation
commission would consist of
Castlegar, and Areas I and J
representatives, she said, and
establish “one line of accounta-
bility.” Running the recreation
function locally would reduce
administration. costs’ and eli-
minate “an undue waste of time
on oe part of the RDCK,” she
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and administer services pro-
vided in specific areas,

Brewster told the commnit-
tee the efforts of .the rural
director to respond to the needs
of his electoral area have
“gradually expanded the de-
mands made upon him."

He said the

ment ministry has recently
gained a mandate for Crown
lands planning, Brewster called
for “a co-operative effort” in

« regional and rural planning. He
suggested regional districts be
given seats on their regional
resource management commit-
tees Lo

advisory planning bodies pre-
sently allowed by the Act “are
both too unwieldly and too
restricted in scope to afford the
rural director the support he
know requires.”

“The rural director should
act as the electoral area ad-
visory. council,” Brewster said.
“Instead of the yearly election
now called for in Section
T98CA, advisory council elec-
tions should coincide with that
‘of its respective director, thus
providing reasonable continuity
for decision-making purposes.

“Councillors should be
nominated from sub-areas de-
fined by geography and popu-
lation distril ”

“Regional plans, settle-
ment plans and Crown Jand
plans should be reviewed by
the committees prior to being
adopted by regional boards," he
said. “Zoning bylaws and sub-
division bylaws are tools for
implementing long-term devel-
opment plans, therefore the
proposed bylaws should be cir-
culated to the RRMC members
for their comment.” i

The comments would be
considered by regional district

planners and any necessary
changes would be made before
presentation to the board,
Brewster said.

Along with circulation of

Noting regional districts
have a mandate to plan for
private lands and the environ-

bylaws to RRMC
members for comment regional
districts’ RRMC memberships
would provide “a simple and

efficient means of co-ordinating
provincial -and regional plan-
ning efforts," he said.

Brewster said the regional
district structure should also
have a role in advising senior
governments on economic poli-
cies.

“We propose that. the
economic development commis-
sion should be used as a means
of directing first-hand, local
information and advice to those
responsible for formulating de-
velopment strategies and poli-
cies affecting our economy,” he

‘Said.

“While the chief intention
of economic development com: _
missions is to attract secondary
industry, we recognize that the
ability to attract secondary
industry and management pol-
icy for use of the resource base,
are indeed related.”

The government's current
formula for the commissions
should be modified to allow
regional boards to function as
commissions, municipal coun-
cils and elected advisory coun-
cils to advise directors

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