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LeNoy plapsicnnen maps es : orromernst © Small Business & Contractors Advanced Education Hagon Secretary- r, School District No. 9 Stan Columbia 1012 - 4th St. Minister 8.c. VIN 3/4! -@ of British Columbia Ministry of Transportation Highways HIGHWAYS TENDERS ELECTORAL DISTRICT Rossland/Trail HIGHWAY DISTRICT Rossland PROJECT OR JOB NUMBER YO73IA PROJECT OR JOB Provision of a self-propelled tracked excavator complete with operator and standard hoe bucket TENDER OPENING DATE/T June 8, 1988 at 2:00 p.m Surety Bid Bond or Certified Deposit Cheque is not required. Tender documents e, plans, ne and conten of tender are available tree of charge ONLY from District Highways Otfice, 2288 Colum. ia Ave., Rossland and Regional Highways Office, 310 Ward Street, 4th Floor, Nelson between the hours of 8:30 and 4:00 p.m. Monday to Friday, except Holidays. Phone number of originating office: Rossland — 362-733 Nelson — 354-6416. Tenders will be opened at Rossland Court House, District Highways Office, 2288 Colum- ia Avenue, Rossland The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. R. VALENTINE Ministry Official Acting District Technician Rossland SCHEDULE OF SCALING CLASSES AND LICENCED SCALER'S EXAMINATIONS NELSON FOREST REGION 1988 Throme — duly 22 _epaarding, locations, storing +, ond other intormation may be Koimed from the Minutry of Forests ond Lends office n your area Heit COMPUTER ee Lid United Way office in Castlegar becomes familiar with its top. left) Bert Rourke, : oaneen of service Pp United Way. operations. (Clockwise = f the Castlegar United Way; Bert Lamb, Costlegar United Way: and Andy Babakaiff, pr Nona Paulson, secretary-treasurer of are Photo g! . —LosNews U.S. diet ‘lousy’ WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. diet is lousy and it's killing people, says a Nation- al Cancer Institute study of what Americans eat and don't ‘eat during a typical day. “We really need to change the way we eat,” said Gladys Block, an NCI scientist and co-author of a study pub- lished recently in the Ameri- can Journal of Public Health. “I really believe that could make a difference in the amount of cancer we have.” Americans are not eating enough fruits, vegetables, whole-grain breads and high- fibre cereals. They are eating more fat and more salt-cured, nitrite-cured, smoked and pickled meat, all dietary ele- ments that can affect health. 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URGES CHANGES Block said that the right foods have been shown to help prevent cancers of the stomach, colon, rectum, breast, oral cavity and esoph- agus. Statistics released ear- lier this year show that all of these types of cancer have increased in frequency in the United States. In interviews with more than 11,000 people, research ers from the NCI and the U.S. Agriculture Depart ment found that: e On a typical day, 40 per cent of Americans do not eat a single fruit, and 20 per cent have no vegetables. Only about 49 per cent of Americans include “garden vegetables” (vegetables other than potatoes or salad) in their daily diet. © More than 80 per cent of those surveyed ate no high- fibre cereals or whole-grain breads. @ Daily fibre intake, from FOR SALE Misc. ‘accounting, man- , adeainistration, retarial, ter: tablished ‘sea ‘National Co Gat lege. 444 wor en0-4913 tol Yves 1 -800- wi 24 hour 1h Schooi “Control Safe, for creation. The really works! 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Women, generally, had a better diet than men, and people over age 55 usually had better diets than young adults, said Block. “Even so, all groups show. ed a dramatic need for im- provement, with consump- tion of fruits, vegetables and whole-grains falling far short of desirable levels,” she said. Patterson said that even though fruits and vegetables high in vitamins A and C are thought to be of special im- portance in lowering cancer risk, 75 per cent of those interviewed failed to include these items in their daily diets. Block said researchers are becoming increasingly con- vinced that simple changes in diet, such as just adding an apple or orange or some cole slaw to a typical fast food meal, could make a differ- ence. “If everybody just had fruit and vegétables every day, that could lead to a drop in the number of cancers.” HELP WANTED Overseas Positions. Hund- sede of top paying positions. Attracti All oc- gupations. “Free. deteils Oversees Employment Ser- t. 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Castlegar BRIGHT BICYCLES . . : Woodland Park Elementary school kindergarten students show the results of a aN) Po CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1988 bicycle decoration contest held at the school Friday. WEATHERCAST Cloudy with sunny periods todoy and Monday. A few afternoon showers or thundershowers today with highs near 16°, Chance of precipitation is 60 per cent. Isolated showers Monday with highs near 18° and o 30 per cent chance of precipitation aoe 60 Cents 2 Sections (A & B) The contest was just one fun event students enjoyed during the Primary Track Meet. CasNews photo by Bonne Morgen OVER FERRY Group threatens suit By RON NORMAN Editor Residents occupying the Castlegar. Robson ferry have threatened legal action unless the provincial govern. ment puts the ferry back into oper. ation. Martin Vanderpol, chairman of the Robson-Raspberry Ferry Users Ad Hoc Committee, said the warning was contained in a letter sent to Highways Minister Stephen Rogers this week. The letter, written by Castlegar lawyer Terry Dalton on behalf of the committee, also asks for a meeting with Rogers to resolve the ferry issue. The provincial government decided two weeks ago to give up operating the ferry. It has offered the vessel to the City of Castlegar and the Regional District of Central Kootenay for $1. If neither local government accepts the offer, the province has indi: it will out conditions,” Vanderpol said, adding later, “because we feel it is more important to talk.” Vander pol said he-told_ Rogers that try to sell the ferry to a private er: trepreneur. Vanderpol said the paipase) of Dalton’s letter is to ask Rogers to. comply with the regional district's re quest for a meeting to discuss the offer. Vanderpol, who also represents Area J on the regional board, said the regional district has dropped its demand that the ferry be put back in operation before it will talk with the provincial Highways Ministry. “We are quite prepared to talk with in a conversation with the minister Thursday afternoon. But Rogers declined to meet with the r@gional board, saying he has “no time in the foreseeable future.” Vanderpol also said Rogers told him there is nothing to discuss, that the regional board only needs to respond, “yes or no; we take it or we don’t take it.” Vanderpol said he tried to impress on Rogers during the 10-minute tele phone conversation that the issue is continued on page A2 Grand Forks in riding? By CasNews Staff and News Services Greenwood and Grand Forks should be taken from the present Boundary-Similkameen riding and added to the Rossland-Trail riding creating a new riding called Grand report on Forks-Trail, boundaries. says a preliminary The recommendation is included, in the sweeping Thomas throughout British Columbia to provide more equal repre- changes that commissioner in the | by In the report, Fisher points out that piesa was divided over the question of links between the Grand Forks-Green wood area and Trail. “My recommendation for the new district of Grand is based on consideration of the historial connections between them as well as the quality of road Forks-Trai connections.” Fisher said he considered extending the western boundary of the new riding of Grand Forks-Trail to include kameen area. electoral the Rock Creek area “but concluded that this could not be done given the need for population in the Boundary-Simil Fisher suggests that adding Grand Forks and Green wood to Rossland-Trail would help balance the population in Fisher proposes Columbia River. the two ridings. He also recommends adding Revelstoke to The Castlegar News contacted Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy’s office Friday, but he was unavailable. The CasNews also tried to contact Walter Siemens, president of the Rossland-Trail Social Credit Party, and Ron Schmidt, president of the Rossland-Trail New Democratic Party Saturday for comment, but without success. Meawhile, Fisher says that at least six new members should be added to the 69-member B.C. legislature. ‘ continued on poge Ad. Pope and Talbot drops bombshell By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer CP Rail representatives at a Na tional Transportation Agency hearing in Castlegar had an unexpected bomb dropped in their laps Thursday by the president of a Grand Forks lumber company. Pope and Talbot president Abe Friesen, in his brief to the Agency Thursday evening, said he had re. ceived CP Rail’s new rate schedule Tuesday — the day the hearings began in Castlegar. Friesen said the new rates are competitive enough for Pope and Talbot to dramatically increase the use af CP Rail's service on the Boun dary lnex “I think they (the CP officials at the hearing) were unaware that the;freight rate had been given us,” Friesen told the Castlegar News Friday. “If this is a serious attempt to get, our business, we will use CP.” One of CP Rail’s main arguments at the hearing for abandoning the 161 kilometre-long Boundary subdivision between Castlegar and Midway is that it cannot compete with Burlington Northern Railway for Pope and Tal bot’s business. Upon receiving the new rates out of CP Rail’s Vancouver office, Friesen said Pope and Talbot could commit as much as 50 per cent of its rail shipping needs to the Canadian carrier. That could mean the lumber company will require as many as 1,700 rail cars a year from CP Rail. Friesen said the new CP Rail rates are particularly attractive for Pope and Talbot's shipping requirements into Minneapolis. Friesen added if he hadn't received the rates, the lumber com pany would have used Burlington Nor thern exclusively for its rail require. ments. Friesen said to his knowledge, Pope and Talbot has not shipped any products on CP Rail this year. The change in the rate was not the actual cost of using the rail cars. Instead, the new schedule offered larger train cars for approximately the same price CP Rail has been trying to convince the Agency that the line is losing Nelson tops fitness challenge By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer Castlegar isn’t in the same league as Nelson and Trail when it comes to fitness. The “Crossroads of the Kootenays” lost Wednesday's Participaction Chal- lenge, in which the three cities re. corded how many of its citizens took part in at least 15 mimutes of contin uous exercise. Nelson won bragging rights with 77.08 per cent of its population calling into the Civie Centre hotline to report their participation. Trail came a close second with 76.95 per cent of its population participating. ateer finished a distant third with 58.53 per cent taking part. But Castlegar organizers are taking the drubbing well. “We didn't really think it was that bad,” said Verona Walker of the Castlegar Recreation Commission. it of the people did something above and beyond what they normally do.” Walker said Trail and Nelson did a lot more organizing this year and Castlegar actually had only 20 fewer people taking part this year than last. But Trail stacked its team with recreation department employees, civie officials, community groups, bus. inesses and volunteers urging people to exercise and then record their results. “I don't think we could have done much better,” said Darrell LaMoel, an money and can no longer exist as a viable economic operation. The hear. ings started Tuesday in Castlegar and were expected to last only two days. But the proceedings stretched out over four days, finally ending Friday after. noon Friesen's announcement Thursday evening left CP Rail officials scram. bling to prove the rail line between Castlegar and Midway is not econ omically viable. Deepak Ekobte, CP Rail director of cost research and analysis, said the rail line's projected number of cars used on the Boundary line is 815 a year. He said in order for the rail company to make the line economically viable with that number of cars, the rate per car for a rail line user such as Pope and Talbot would have to inergase by 32 per cent. If the rail line wanted to keep the rates the same, Ekbote said the number of cars used on the Boundary line would have to increase by 1,085, Each rail car generates $1,065 of revenue after the cost of operating the railway has been deducted. But Friesen wasn’t the only business representative to tell the National Transportation Agency hearing his use of the railway will increase. Paul Verigin, general manager and part owner of CanPar Industries in Grand Forks, says he expects to in- crease his use of the railway in the near future continued on page A2 MAJOR Former Castlegar News reporter Surj Rattan has been named 1988 winner of the prestigious Jack Wasserman Memorial Award for journalists. Rattan, 26, now employed by the Prince Rupert Daily News, won in the community newspaper category for an article he wrote for the Castlegar News last summer about two Japanese-Canadians who still live in the Slocan Valley where they were interned during the Second World War. The awards include cash prizes of $400. The awards are administered by the Vancouver Press Club in memory of Jack Wasserman, a Van couver Sun columnist who died in 1977. They are for beginning journalists with no more than three years’ experience. Rattan had been a reporter for 18 months when his ar. ticle was published. Judges are re. tired British Columbia newspaper people. RATTAN WINS AWARD SURJ RATTAN . Wasserman award FLYING HIGH . . . Nelson and Trail flags fly high over Castlegar city hall after rival communities beat Castlegar in the Participaction fitness challenge Wednesday. As part of the challenge, the loser had to fly the winners’ flags organizer with the Trail challenge Trail had three telephone lines avail able, plus one in the recreation de- partment until 11 p.m. The home phone numbers of aldermen were even ad vertised as overflow numbers. LaMoel said the multiple telephone lines prevented people from getting frustrated with busy signals and not recording their participation. “Everybody worked hard this year,” said LaMoel. Trail organizers mailed flyers to every home and distributed them in shopping bags at two grocery stores. It even had a meter man place flyers on Costews Photo by Bonne Morgan cars which were illegally parked, ac cording to LaMoel. Trail also had different businesses participating. Bank tellers recorded customers who had exercised and then turned in the scores at the end of the day. Trail even hired three students to go into the streets and epcourage people to exercise. » As well, Trail incorporated Block Parent Appreciation day with Parti cipaction Challenge Day. They asked one block captain to go through their block and knock on doors, recording continued on page A3