CONTRACT AWARDED KELOWNA (CP) — Premier Bill Bennett has the first contract for the third phase of the Coquihalla Highway has been awarded to Edgeworth Ltd. of Kelowna. mnett and Highways Minister Alex Fraser said the firm was the lowest of 14 tenders at a bid price of $4.9 million for the Okanagan connector part of the route. The project includes four-lane construction on 2.4 kilometres of Highway 97, two kilometres on the connector and construction of an inter. change betweent the two routes. FIREFIGHTERS HURT SAULT STE. MARIE, ONT. (CP) — Three firefighters and a pilot were injured Saturday when the helicopter they were using to fight a northwestern Ontario forest fire crashed in the Red Lake district. The four were taken to hospital in Red Lake, about 145 kilometres northeast of Kenora. Two of them were later transferred to a hospital in Winnipeg. AUSTRIANS VOTE VIENNA (AP) — Austrian voters have the final say today in a presidential campaign that touched off an international furore over candidate Kurt Waldheim and allegations that he hid a Nazi past. The case has frustrated voters who saw the former UN secretary general as a symbol of change after 16 years of Socialist government, but then found themselves accused of harboring Nazi sympathies if they voted for him. ANTI-NUKE RALLY BROKDORF, WEST GERMANY (REUTER) — Riot police broke up an anti-nuclear rally outside the Brokdorf atomic reactor on Saturday after 11 people, nine of them policemen, were seriously injured in clashes with demonstrators. A police spokesman said demonstrators attacked police with gasoline bombs and flares. Police used water cannons and tear gas to end the demonstration. JET HIJACKED MANAGUA (REUTER) — A gunman who commandeered a Nicaraguan jetliner for three hours was seized by police Saturday after passengers had left the aircraft, witnesses Reporters watching from a terminal building at the Managua airport saw about 20 Nicaraguan police board the Aeronica Boeing 720 aircraft and emerge seconds later with the hijacker, who was then driven away in an. ambulance. TROOPS ON WAY NEW DELHI (REUTER) — Nearly 3,000 troops are being sent to Punjab to curb violence in which Sikh extremists killed 10 people, the Press Trust of India reported Saturday. -- > The districts of Amritsar and Gursdapur were turned overo police at the end of a violent week of Sikh protests marking the second anniversary of the army's storming of the Golden Temple. Nuclear site concerns D'Arcy By CasNews Staff Rossiland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy is concerned about plans for a proposed nuclear waste repository in Hanford, Wash. — just 400 kilometres south of . D'Arcy, who raised the issue in the B.C. legislature this week, says Garde Gardom, Minister of Intergovernmental Relations, said he would take the issue to heart and contact External Affairs Minister Joe Clark to file a concern with the U.S. government. . A nuclear waste repository at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is one of three finalists selected by the U.S. government for a national site. The other two are in ‘Yueea Mountain, Nevada and Deaf Smith County, Texas. ‘Two other sites in Utah and Mississippi were dropped from the list. But Hanford is number one on a short list of three sites. D'Arcy points out that even Washington state isn't happy with the idea of having the repository located at lawsuits challenging the federal government's choice of Hanford as a finalist. The state is asking for an injunction halting the government's studies of Hanford and the sites in Nevada and Texas pending a decision on whether the site selection process was legal. “It's not just us that has the concern,” D'Arcy says. The MLA notes that hundreds of tons of nuclear waste are currently being stored in temporary depots in the U.S. and that is the reason why the U.S. government is looking at a permanent disposal site. A final site will be chosen in 1991 and is scheduled to accept its first nuclear wastes in 1998. The selection of Hanford as a finalist was said to be an arbitrary decision, but Hanford officials say the reason for the selection is that Hanford is the sole basalt site. The site in Nevada is a compressed volcanic rock site and the one in Texas is a salt site. Hanford. This week, the Washington state government filed three But D'Arcy said if Hanford is chosen as a site for the national waste repository it would mean all of the PARENTS PROTEST . . . Blueberry Creek parents op- posed to proposed closure of Blueberry elementary school.were on hand with placards Thursday to greet Castlegar school trustees at public meeting to discuss the closure. CoutewsPnote by Chery! Cotderbonk BLUEBERRY CREEK continued trom front poge missioner Ed Peck still would have Blueberry Creek if the school closes. Harnadek also suggested trustees at closed meeting. Monday night's closing accumulated nuclear waste since World War Two would be transported through Spokane, Wash. to Hanford. D. says the West Kootenay is the closest point in B.C. vo te evap site. 7 “It's very-ciése to the borders of B.C.,” he says. D'Arcy says Spokane residents are concerned about trainloads of nuclear waste rumbling through the city. And it is a valid concern, especially in light of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and Three Mile Island, D'Arcy is “I don't pretend to be an expert but if it’s radioactive and hundreds of tons (of nuclear waste), I am concerned. “You can have nuclear accidents when materials are being transported. No matter how careful people are, accidents can happen whether being transported by rail, truck or barge. “Radioactive waste has a half life of centuries,” D'Arcy adds. He expects Gardom will make a report to the legislature after speaking to Clark. BRISCO SAY PROPOSED DUTY WOULD HURT By CasNews Staff A countervailing duty on Canadian softwood lumber products could have a serious negative effect on Kootenay West since so much of the local economy depends on that industry, says MP Bob Brisco. Brisco was commenting on Friday's decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce to initiate a countervailing duty investigation of some of Canada's softwood lumber products. ‘The decision is the beginning of a process which Brisco says is comparable to a lawsuit. He said in a prepared release that the decision means only that the court has agreed to hear the case. The case is the result of a petition submitted by the Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports, a U.S. lumber industry lobby which alleges that Canadian softwood products are unfairly subsidized. Briseo says the Canadian government has made a sincere effort to convince the U.S. government not to hear the case, but the U.S. industry lobby has been strong. But Brisco says Canada stands firm in its belief that the Canadian lumber industry is not unfairly subsidized and that the U.S. lumberman will not win its case. ‘It is important . . . that Canadian industry, labor and governments continue their large cooperative effort in making sure that accurate, complete information is given to the U.S. Commerce Department so that there can be no doubt about the facts of the:case,” Brisco said. “As this is a matter which particularly concerns Kootenay West, I personally have been involved in discussions with members of cabinet, including the secretary of state for external affairs and officials of his department.” Besides providing the facts which demonstrate that Canada is an effective producer and fair trader, Brisco said the government will continue to make the argument at highest levels that the proposed duty would be EMOTIONAL APPEAL JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Tears streaming down his face, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu appealed to blacks Saturday to stop killing each other as an increasingly bloody spinoff of anti-apartheid violence claimed more lives. “The world is with us why are we killing one another in this way?” said Tuto, his voice breaking. He was speaking at funeral in Johannesburg's Soweto township for a slain church worker who tried to mediate between rival black groups. No dioxins in air samples By CasNews Staff Air quality samples col lected during the open burn- ing in March and April of chemically treated wood waste at Meadow Creek Cedar Ltd.’s sawmill showed no detectable amounts - of deadly dioxins, the Ministry of Environment said this week. “None of the three samples Pulp pact reached By CasNews Staff The Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Cana Local 1 and Westar Timber's Celgar Pulp Operations have reached a tentative contract agreement In making the announce ment, Local 1 president Mike Babaeff and Celgar Pulp in dustrial relations manager Bert Collier said no details of the agreement will be re leased until the 290 pulp mill employees vote on the pact Tuesday Negotiators fer the two sides began talks May 21 The current agreement ex pires June 30. of dioxins and furans taken during the burn or a back ground sample taken before the burn showed any detect. able amounts of dioxins or furans,” the ministry said in a prepared release. Residents near the sawmill at Cooper Creek had ex pressed concern that small amounts of cholorphenates contained in the wood waste could produce unacceptable levels of dioxin in the atmos. phere when burned. The burning was approved March 10 and was completed by April 14. Environment Minister Austin Pelton approved the burning following recommen dations by Frank Hillier, chairman of the provincial Environmental Appeal Board. Hillier travelled to the Lardeau Valley at the north end of Kootenay Lake to hear residents’ concerns about the burning. The ministry also com pleted tests for | sus pended particulate and dust fall. “Of the suspended parti culate results received to date (samples up to March 27), mone exceed the pro. | level “A” 24-hour ob- ” the ministry says of the dustfall testing are expected to be available later this month. given the teachers a two per cent hike. Graham Read stated that if the schools closed, property values would decline in Ootischenia and Blueberry Creek. He said schools and parks are a contributing factor to moving to a rural area. “Instead of closing Ootischenia and Blueberry you could better utilize these areas,” he said. Students from Pass Creek could be transferred to Ootischenia and students from over. loaded classes in Castlegar could be bused to outlying areas, he said. Read also suggested changing start and finish times in some schools so the distri¢t could use teachers in more than one school He said the Russian immersion pro- gram, if offered, should be paid for by parents who want the program. Peter Kagis, a former school trustee, said the Castlegar board and other boards across the province haven't been tough enough with the provincial government, especially as a collective group. “You have let us down and the education system down,” he said Mike Harnadek also expressed dis- appointment in the trustees. He noted the information paper handed out to residents contains no reference to social responsibility or implications for some city schools and busing students to rural areas. “As a group we will tell the school board as far as Blueberry residents are concerned that Blueberry school remain open,” he said. Harnadek accused the trustees of “playing Victoria's game. You are playing exactly the way somebody wants you to play,” he said Glen Briggeman, who said triple grade splits are unacceptable was one nt who suggested busing Vatley Vista primary school students to Blue- berry Creek “Blueberry Creek is a better facility than Valley Vista,” he said, adding Valley Vista students are currently bused to Kinnaird elementary school for gym and library facilities. If they were at Blueberry Creek, all students would share one gym facility, he said. Wayling said Friday the board has looked at busing Valley Vista students to Kinnaird elementary school but said it would have meant having too many students at that school. However, he said director of instruc tion Lach Farrell is investigating the feasibility of busing Valley Vista stu dents to Blueberry Creek That issue will be brought before Bakken asks Ritchie to overrule board By CasNews Staff A Regional District of Central Koot enay director has asked Municipal Af- fairs Minister Bill Ritchie to overrule the regional board decision that scut tled a proposed $2 million waterslide park in Ootischenia. “We need to encourage all the busi ness and industry we can in the Koot enays so we can get out people back to work,” Area G (rural Salmo) director Iris Bakken says in a June 2 letter to Ritchie. Regional directors voted 10-7 May 24 not to give third reading to a bylaw to rezone 6.16 acres on Highway 3 in Ootischenia Cetac Development Ltd. of Castlegar had proposed to build a waterslide, mini-golf, recreational vehicle park, restaurant, motel, service station and convenience store on the property But Bakken — one of the seven dire- ctors to vote for the proposal — says the waterslide would be one of the cleanest industries in the area. “Cetac’s development would help the whole surrounding area as it would be another tourist attraction for the Kootenays,” she says in the letter. “If each community would develop interesting and fun things for tourists to do, we would become a tourist des- tination and be able to keep tourists and their money in the area for pro longed visits.” Bakken says she believes people should be able to do what they want with their own land — within reason — and others shouldn't be able to control land they don't own. “I hate to see a message go out to other possible investors that any com- munity in our area would turn down such a development,” Bakken said. One former Blueberry Creek student commented on split-grade classes. “We used to have split classes in schools,” she said. “We learned. We used to have 30 to 35 students... . there's no reason why other kids can't learn with 30 in one class. One man said closing the school, along with no fire protection and water problems, makes Blueberry an unat tractive place to live. In response to a question, board chairman Johnson said the board hadn't researched whether closing the school will affect real estate values. The board was also asked why it couldn't cut from top-level areas of all the schools in order to save money. “We have cut everywhere right through the district,” Johnson said. Wayling pointed out that every school has been looked at for student “redeployment” except for Stanley Humphries secondary school. But George Anutooshkin, the only rural trustee at the meeting, said he fully supports rural schools. “Never did I say I support the closing of any school,” he said. College approves settlement By CasNews Staff Selkirk College has reached a tenta. tive contract agreement with its 90 instructors. Personnel manager Barry Jackson said the college board ratified the agreement this week. The Selkirk College Faculty Association will vote on the pact Thursday. No terms of the agreement will be released until after the faculty associ- ation has voted. The current contract expired on March 31. Meanwhile, contract talks between the college and its vocational instruc tors are continuing. The contract covering the instruc tors, members of the B.C. Government Employees’ Union, expired last Sep- tember. Jackson called the negotiations “rea. sonably positive” and said the next bargaining session will be Monday. The contract covering non-teaching staff at the college doesn't expire until this December. “economically disastrous” and a major blow to negotiations for freer trade. Brisco said his role in the process will be to represent the concerns of Kootenay West lumber producers, employees and the communities. “As well, it will be to keep those same people fully informed about the process, and to allay any fears produced by misinformation,” he added. ‘B’ fire mop-up to take several days By CasNews Staff Firefighters are still mop- ping up a 100-hectare forest fire just east of Castlegar on the Castlegar-Salmo highway summit. A total of 44 firefighters are on the scene and will con. tinue mop-up operations for several more days, Cliff Lau der, Ministry of Forests duty officer for the Arrow Forest District, said Saturday after. noon. Lauder said the fire called the “B” fire — is “ac tive,” though fully contained. Crews have been battling the fire since it was started by lightning last Sund: night. Lightning was also the cause of four new fires over night Thursday — two at Nakusp, one in the Slocan Valley and another near the Keenleyside dam. Lauder said a three-mem ber firefighting crew spent all day Friday putting out the fire near the dam. A three-member rappel ing crew from the Salmon Arm Rapattack centre extin “guished the fire near Little Slocan Lake Friday. The two Nakusp fires were also put out by three-member crews. The Arrow Forest District has had 13 fires to date this fire season. Ambrose funeral Tuesday afternoon Doris Ambrose of Castle. gar, passed away June 6 at the age of 75. Mrs. Ambrose was born April 1, 1911 at St. Julien, Sask. where she grew up. She married John Ambrose on Dec. 6, 1931 at Wheat stone, Sask. In 1940 they moved to Kel owna and lived in various Okanagan communities They lived in Cawston from 1946-1963 when they moved to Hope. They lived at Grand Forks from 1971 until moving to Castlegar in 1983 Mrs. Ambrose enjoyed gar dening. She is survived by her husband John; two daugh ters, Anne Slugoski of Flin Flon, Man. and Irene Renz of Castlegar; five grandchildren and one great-grandson; brother, John Tabaczniuk of Saskatoon, and two sisters, Annie Martin of Moose Jaw and Lena Levol of Regina Funeral service will take place Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel with burial at Park Memorial Cemetery Flowers are gratefully de- clined, contributions in mem ory of Mrs. Ambrose may be made to the Cancer Fund, Box 3292, Castlegar. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Scenes from Castlegar Rodeo =u vOUUAUUHUUEEHOEAUEEUOLvENDeGHoeUUOveUdOOveHd oe ceenuongeanecddeedoengennivotoeeavaneevsensessceesuacescnennennoenannvovuenscuessouscsengeeveccaravvanvannenssuvennesvunnonsvesss evavucvoueenvonsedniitt Ministry won't pay total cost of streetlights By CasNews Staff The Ministry of Highways has agreed to pick up the full cost of a streetlikght at one Highway 22 entrance to Fairview subdivision and 50 per cent of the cost of a streetlight for the second intersection, if local residents pay the other 50 per cent But the Regional District of Central Kootenay says that's not good enough The regional board wants the ministry to pay 100 per cent of all streetlights for rural communities served by major and minor roads Area J director Martin Vanderpol says it is ministry policy to pay only 50 per cent of a streetlight, but the ministry agreed to pay for the full cost of the one streetlight at Fairview subdivision because the Highways Ministry altered the intersection : The ministry argued that since it didn't change the second intersection, it shouldn't have to pay 100 per cent of the streetlight installation : “Because it is the local jurisdiction, not the ministry which has planned for land use, it has been my policy to make that jurisdiction also responsible for part of the cost,” Highways Minister Alex F; the regional board. But Vanderpol suggested the board write back to Fraser protesting the policy “If they can put 100 lamps on Kinnaird Bridge when only 10 will do it properly, then they can put streetlights on intersections along highways,” Vanderpol said. Vanderpol said the board should inform Fraser that it doesn't want him to make an exception of the one Fairview intersection, but instead tell him “the policy is unacceptable to us.” . ser said in a letter to jeeenannenittn jonueevouvennceeevnvuniceesvocaneeveeenvacrcoeensngeasiucssoucseueseeaucourseesaseensonnennnentbe Verigin caught in conflict By CasNews Staff and N. A Castlegar contractor found himself in the middle of a conflict Friday between striking construction workers and riot police at a construction site in the Fraser Valley Elmer Verigin is the site contractor at the Overwaitea Foods construction site in Langley which was the scene of picket line violence Thursday and Friday Six union pickets were arrested Friday after more than 70 RCMP officers carrying shields and batons moved through the picket line to clear the road leading to the construction site. The violence on the picket line, the second incident in two days, came as a B.C. Supreme Court judge issued a warning in Vancouver that pickets at the Langley site must conform to the restrictions of an ex parte injunc' Wednesday or face severe consequences Three people were arrested Friday morning and the tense situation cooled for several hours. But another confrontation occurred later in the afternoon when police on issued escorted equipment arrests on to the site, resulting in three more me si zal language. unless this mess cools off over the weekend this court is going to be into it with heavy boots,” said Mr. Justice Bruce Macdonald, in r contempt proceedings until Monday applied Friday for contempt officials and members following incidents on the picket line Thursday In one of those incidents, one picket was injured when struck by a cement truck driven by a non-union driver. The driver was chased and pummelled by pickets. adjourning a motior rigin Construction citations against union Verigin complained that the pickets are preventing his crews from entering the The tradesmen are members of the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council and are on strike against union contractors in the province The workers went on strike last’ month over contractors’ demands for a wage rollback of about $4 an hour on a mean rate of approximately $19 an hour ‘onstruction site