February 19, 1986 n pressure through the province is giving @ flow of very low pressure area just off the coost threatens to give snow to moiniond today, but little ‘ ‘ony to the interior. The main storm track lies to the south of the bor- aletalale southern interior. A small For the record In Sunday's, CasNews, the word “Mining,” not “Tim ber,” should have appeared under the Westar logo on the front page. The names Mr and Mrs. Scott Moffat should have been under the wedding picture, not Mr. and Mrs. Bob Moffat. Contract talks begin By CasN Staff Contract have OVERPAYMENT OF GRANTS Error costs $43,000 Staff Writer A Ministry of Finance error in calculating the allocation of federal grants to the Castlegar school distriet has resulted in an overpayment to the district of more than $43,000 — and the ministry wants the money back. Castlegar school board received the bad news Jan. 27 in a letter from Minister of Finance Hugh Curtis. The letter says the occurred over three years — 1961, 1982 and 1988 — and amounted to $43,425.41. The district receives the grants in lieu of taxes on federally owned buildings and property in Castlegar, such as the RCMP detachment and the post office. Castlegar school district secretary-treasurer John Dascher explained to the trustees at Monday's board meeting that the mistake happened because the Finance Ministry used an old formula in effect since 1974 to calculate the begun between the Castlegar school board and the Castle gar District Teachers’ Asso ciation. Both sides have agreed toa news blackout during the negotiations, a press release from the CDTA says. Terms of the agreement will be released when the negotiations are completed City looks at bingo By CasNews Staff Castlegar council has decided to join the Canadian hein of poe bingo has asked city -staff to prepare a report on the bingo hall operations for the next committee ipating, * Council has BESPED a development permit for the new 10-unit senior citizen's housing project on 11th Ave. The Doukhobor Benevolent Society is undertaking the COUNCIL BRIE First City Investments has been given a 12-month extension on its development permit. The permit was first issued in 1983 and the new permit will expire in June 1987. First City has expressed interest in constructing a mall at the 1500 block Columbia Ave. However, no work has been started on the site since the original development permit was issued. Castlegar council is looking into The . . . Council awarded the Nelson Music Festival a $100 grant. * 26 « Council will trv to recover the $25,000 cost overrun for the new building at the industrial park from the federal government. The city reseived a —_—_ grant under the Local E program to construct the building. Lease revenue from the building will be used to fund other economic development projects. *_ 28 @ The parks and recreation committee is in the midst of discussions with Selkirk College and the Castlegar school board over a joint use agreement. The agreement would cover among other things parks, playgrounds, school buildings, the two arenas, Bob Brandson pool and Selkirk College facilities. “What the formula was based on, 1 don’t know,” Dascher said. Even though the error was the provincial government's fault, Dascher said, “the fact is they overpayed us and they want their money back.” “We're not the only district (that has been overpayed) — this is province-wide,” he said. The government is giving the district three years to repay the money, but Dascher said the repayment will be done on paper and won't affect school taxes or the budget. The Ministry of Finance will simply withhold the grants until 1988. “We won't have a decrease in the budget,” Dascher said. The loss of the grant this year will mean a decrease in anticipated revenues, he said. But in the next two years the district knows it will not get the grants and therefore won't include them as revenue. “Since it would be unreasonable to ask you to repay this amount in one lump sum,” Curtis says in his letter, “I propose that future years’ entitlements be withheld by the province until the amount outstanding is recovered or until 1988, whichever comes first. “I request that any amount outstanding after calculation of the 1988 federal grant entitlements be repaid to the province.” The trustees appeared to take the news in stride, “I think you have to have a good sense of humor, when dealing with the federal and provincial governments,” Rick Pongracz said. George Anutooshkin wondered about a longer repay ment period. “Maybe we should ask to pay it back over 10 years,” he suggested. However, Dascher replied, “ choice.” Curtis added that the good news is the province has made “substantial progress” in “upgrading the payment process for federal grants.” “I am confident the process will be kept current from this point and prove beneficial to taxing jurisdictions.” ‘I don’t think we have any TEACHER FUND continued trom front page Smecher. In an interview after the meeting, Ms. Castlegar News TREET TALK A FAMILIAR FACE graces the back page of The Hospital Guardian, the Hospital Employees’ Union in-house magazine. It's none other than Ken Georgetti, president of the United Steelworkers of America Local 480 and a vice-president of the B.C. Federation of Labor. No Georgetti’s not moving into the health care field. He writes instead about “bringing new unity to B.C. labor.” Under the column “Speaking Out,” Georgetti tells hospital workers that the most significant change the labor movement has seen in two decades began when HEU decided to affiliate with the Federation. “It adds a new voice from an industry that prior to the affiliation had little or no-voice at all — the health care industry,” says Georgetti. CASTLEGAR will be back on the maps — the National Geographic map, that is. Castlegar council had complained to the National Geographic Society that the city, Castlegar airport and the whole of Highway 3 had been omitted from the map in the recent Canada's Vacationlands publication. National Geogtaphie responded to the concern by writing council and explaining that the letter had been passed to the society's cartographic staff so that the city, airport and highway can be included in the map. IS SPRING nearly here? Robson resident Sandy Donohue seems to think so. She reported seeing the first robin of the year this week. READERS OF Sunday's CasNews who wondered if ‘ Bob and Fran Moffat's son, Seott, had married the daughter of THE (THAT?) Bill Vander Zalm, the answer is yes. Bill Vander Zalm has weathered a lot of political storms, feclading 0 stint as B.C.’s human might have met his match in any political the bride's new father-in-law! THE NEW Central Kootenay Health Unit is pretty much finished and senior staff from Trail and Nelson are scheduled to start moving in the first week of March. As well, word is that the Minister of Health Stephen Rogers will be asked to take part in the official opening ceremonies March 13. COUNCIL HAS officially adopted a city logo. The logo shows an airplane flying across a highway inside a cirele with the words City of Castlegar — Crossroads of the Kootenays. ask secretary-treasurer John Dascher to search the operating budget for extra funds and report to the full board. Dascher reported Monday that extra money for Pro D is available from an anticipated operating budget surplus. “We did a budget surplus projection and at this point in time we're going to end up with a $45,000 surplus,” Das. cher said. However, that figure may change, he cautioned. “We still have a long way to go. We're going to update that projection at the end of March.” Adding money to the Pro D fund sparked 2 sometimes heated debate among the trustees with the result that the board amended three times the original open-ended motion of endor sing in principle increased funding for Pro D. STUDENT RESIDENCE continued from front pege and Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone for more cultural and educational exchanges. He said the group was well received and is optimistic that there would be some concrete results in attracting foreign students to B.C. Perra said follow up letters will be sent to about 15 institutions. Meanwhile, negotiations have begun between the college and the ministry of education regarding the college's building lease in Trail. Bursar Dale Schatz told the board that although nothing has been formally approved, the college has been given the Three charged in hockey incident KELOWNA (CP) — Three _ Referee Lawrence Grenier people have been charged as of Nakusp has been charged the result of an incident at an exhibition hockey game in Nakusp last December. Jay Hunter, formerly coach of the Kelowna juven ile AAA reps, has been char ged with assault with a wea pon, while Kelowna player David Glessman has been charged with assault causing bodily harm. with assault. Earlier, the B.C. Amateur Hockey Association suspend ed Hunter and Grenier for life. Glessman was suspended for five years. The three are to appear in rpovineial court in Nakusp next month. Court news In Castlegar provincial court Friday, Christine Court Rodney Zaytsoff pleaded guilty to being a minor in a pleaded guilty to ob goods by false pretenses and received a suspended sen tence and was placed on pro- bation for four months. . Paul Churchill received a suspended sentence and was placed on probation for 12 months after he pleaded guilty of five counts of for gery . 8 -« Paul Evdokimoff pleaded guilty to failing to provide a breath sample and was fined $350, A suspended sentence and six months’ probation was given to Bradley Spender af ter he pleaded guilty to pos session of stolen property. and Alexander Irvine pleaded guilty to driving with a blood-alcohol count over .08 and was fined $300. . 8 « Gordon Gallo pleaded guil ty to storing a fifearm in a careless manner and was given a conditional discharge and placed on probation for four months. * 6 « Wesley Monkman was given a 40-day intermittent jail term after he pleaded guilty to use of a firearm in a careless manner. Monkman also pleaded guilty to assault and was given a second 40-day jail term to be served concurrently impression that funding for the lease will carry on beyond the June 30 deadline. The college must now put together more detailed figures on student enrolment and space required. The college is requesting approval for a facility of 20,000 square feet to replace the current 14,000 square foot facility in the Trail Legion Building on Victoria Street. The estimated cost for a 20,000 square-foot building is $200,000 a year — $120,000 more than the current lease of $80,000. One of the new sites being considered is the old Trail Junior Secondary School. However, other projects in the college's five year plan have not been as well received by government officials. Schatz explained that part of the reason for this is the impression that Selkirk College has done “quite well” in times of restraint. He said the earliest the college could hope to get approval for the projects is the 1987-88 fiscal year. Among the facility plans are a $2.2 million addition and renovations to the Lardeau wing at the Castlegar campus; the conversion of the courtyard at the campus to a 200-seat amphitheatre at a cost of $410,000; and $3 million for the college's trades training facility at the Rosemont campus. Schatz also told the board that the college received approval for $25,000 for renovations to the woodworking shop at the Rosemont campus. In other news Schatz said there is “very little information available” on the college's upcoming budget for the 1986-87 fiscal year. He said there is limited funding available and any additional funds that might become ayailable would likely be On the same basis as last year’s Locatteconomic Renewal and Development Fund. Schatz said there is little evidence to support a general inerease in the budget with the exception of inflationary adjustments. “There is nothing for salary increases,” he noted, adding that this is consistent with finance minister Hugh Curtis's recent statement. CELGAR continued trom front poge through with a pollution control program agreed upon in 1981 The company sajd it did not have the money to complete the program. In order to meet the new pollution standards, Westar would have to install an aerated lagoon. But the Sandwell report says a lagoon would be “inordinately expensive” due to the awkward site configuration. Instead, the report proposes a number of in-plant pollution control projects, in addition to “some form of out-plant treatment for effluent polishing.” The projects would reduce the raw effluent and air emissions by between 50 and 60 per cent, but would still fall short of the strict standards imposed by the Ministry of Environment. Meanwhile, Ald. Len Embree said the proposed program should be discussed in public with input from area residents. Embree said he would like to see the program shortened to six years and has concerns that the major pollution improvements come in the final two years of the 10-year program, while the mill modernization projects come earlier. The first called for $5,000 to be added to the fund. That was subsequently amended “up to $5,000." After the trustees approved that motion by a 4-2 vote, a third amend. ment was moved adding the monitor ing rider. Most of the opposition to the addi- tional funds came from trustee Doreen. “I spoke against this in the education committee and I feel more strongly now than then,” Smecher said. “Castle. has a major Pro D fund . . . our $16,000 Pro D fund is more than gen. erous. “District's surrounding us with lar ger teaching staffs have less Pro D funds.” Ben Martin, assistant secretary treasurer of the Nelson school district, said Tuesday his district budgeted $15,000 for teacher Pro D this school year. But Martin added that the Nelson school board recently allocated an additional $5,000 to the fund so that teachers in the district could attend the upcoming World Congress on Educa tion and Technology in Vancouver May 22-25. Randy Bisaro, assistant secretary. treasurer for the Trail school district, said $8,400 was budgeted for teachers’ Pro D in the Trail area. Smecher said she favored putting the extra funds into an administrative fund so that the money could be dir ected to district-initiated activities. Director of instruction Lach Farrell defined district-initiated activities as Pro D activities that the school dis. triet's administration asks teachers to attend. Smecher said, “My problem is that once the money goes into a Pro D fund, that fund is available to teachers for what ever “If we give it (the money) to the superintendent for district-initiated activities then I've no problems with it,” she said “I'm a supporter of Pro D, but it has to be tempered with a little reason.” During the meeting, trustee George Anutooshkin questioned whether the board should add to the Pro D funds without knowing what the operating budget surplus will be. “How do we know we're going to end up with that much ($45,000) of a sur. plus?” he asked. Anutooshkin said he agrees “to a certain extent” that Pro D needs extra funds, but he also pointed out that there are other things the board should consider spending the surplus on. He noted that there is a shortage of supplies for the distriet’s individual progress classes. ‘I feel that is more important than Pro D,” he said. But other trustees disagreed. Ed Conroy said other districts should not influence Castlegar’s Pro D fund. “It doesn’t bother me what other boards do,” he said. “What concerns me is what we do.” Court allows picketing VANCOUVER (CP) — A B.C. Supreme Court judge refused a cablevision com- pany’s request Tuesday that an strking union workers be or. dered to stop picketing an of fice the company set up at the Sandman Inn in Castle- gar. office. (B.C.) Madame Justice Patricia Proudfoot, who also awarded costs to the union, said it was “inescapable conclusion” that Shaw Cable Ltd. was using the Sandman Inn in the Kootenay community as an gramming Systems Electrical West Fifteen clerical staff, employees and technicians, members of the International Brotherhood of Workers, been on strike against Shaw operations in Trail, gar and Nelson since Aug. 13. 1985, seeking to renew their pro. first contract Shaw management has been using the Sandman Inn as its office for several months and last Friday strik ing employees set up a picket line there. have Castle Union business manager Bob McKnight said the union will continue picketing the hotel as long as it is used as the company office. They have also been pic Police file A traffic accident Monday at 3:30 p.m. on Broadwater Road has left two cars in need of $2,600 in repairs, Castlegar RCMP report. Police say a 1966 Mercury driven by William Shersto- bitoff of Castlegar was turn ing left on Broadwater Road on the Robson side of the Castlegar ferry and collided with a 1972 Volk Following Potapoff was Elizabeth Macalister of Thrums and behind her was Nadine Plotnikoff of Crescent Valley. Police say Plotnikoff hit her brakes and swerved left to go around Macalister and Potapoff but spun around and struck the Macalister vehicle. There were no_ injuries, police said, but the Macalis. ter vehicle suffered $1,800 damage. Damage to Piotni koff's vehicle is estimated at $800. Castlegar RCMP feported only “a couple” of minor acci. dents as a result of Satur. day's snowfall. keting the company’s office in North Vancouver since Jan uary and employees there, members of a different local of the union, have not crossed the picket line “Our strike at Shaw has been a bitter fight for union security and the strikers’ morale has been boosted knowing their rights have been upheld,” McKnight said in a news release. driven by Ellen Micalleff of Castlegar. There were no injuries in the accident, police said. * 28 « Thieves broke a window at West's department store overnight Friday and made off with two video cassette recorders valued at $900, Castlegar RCMP said. The VCRs were on display in the window showcase. The investigation is continuing. . 8 « On Friday, a group of deer trying to cross Highway 3A west of the Brilliant Bridge caused three drivers in suc cession to slam on their brakes with the third car skidding into the second, got a of Crescent Valley was eastbound on Highway 3A when he braked hard to avoid hitting the deer, a Castlegar RCMP spokesman said. WATERSHED continued from front poge sheds in the West Kootenay It also endorsed an Alliance resol. ution calling for “meaningful public involvement between government agencies, industrial developers and citizens or citizen groups.” Earlier in the board meeting, min istry officials said there are three stumbling blocks in discussions with the Alliance: liability, if there is damage to the water supply; the issue of who should have the decision making authority for watershed plans; and a difference of professional opinion on the ministry's data collection meth Arnett said the ministry feels it is “very close” to a plan for Dayton Creek watershed and stressed that water shed protection and water resource is the top priority in any watershed planning. He also said watershed logging plays a key role in Slocan Forest Products’ operations. He said 20 per cent of the company’s wood supply for the next 20 years is to come from area watersheds. If watershed logging is not per. mitted, it will not only affect Slocan Forest Products, but other small mills, Arnett said, because any reduction in any part of the district's wood supply is spread over the whole supply But Bob Barclay, the director from Slocan, said his council thought there was going to be more meetings before a cutting permit was issued. He said Slocan council is concerned about who will pay for any damages should Dayton Creek flood because of logging in the watershed. Regional manager Tozer told the board that local ministry represen tatives don't have any control over lia. bility “The question of liability is properly a government decision,” he said However, Tozer noted that his min istry has produced a number of recom. mendations on liabili Gretzky EDMONTON (CP) Wayne Gretzky of Edmonton Oilers has filed suit against his former finiancial advisers and others to recover more than $400,000 from a bad in vestment deal. Tan Barrigan, Gretzky's current financial adviser, confirmed today the NHL forward has filed suit. How ever, neither Barrigan nor lawyer Bill Kenny would say where or when the action was filed. Gretzky is seeking $400,000 plus interest. Those named in the action are: Sierra Sports Represen tatives Inc., the sports man agement firm headed by psig 's long-time agent, is Badali « Edwin Ross, Gretzky's former financial adviser. @ The Toronto accounting firm of Wagnan, Ross and Teachman. © And, Equion Financial Services and Equion Secur. ities of Winnipeg. Gretzky's legal advisers say defences have been or will be filed by all defen. dants. Gretzky claims to have lost $400,000, the original in files suit vestment made in December 1982 in a multi-residential building deal involving a Cal gary highrise. AVOIDS COMMENT Neither Gretzky nor his new financial adviser, Ian Barrigan of Edmonton, would comment directly on the ac tion. “It's been an education in business which was costly and very unnecessary,” said Gretzky, the current NHL scoring leader. “It's an expensive lesson I hope no other athlete has to go through.” Gretzky makes about $1 Prince presents award DALLAS (AP) Prince Charles presented a Texas billionaire and computer magnate with the Winston Churchill Award at a banquet Tuesday night at the end of a day-long visit to Dallas. In presenting the award to H. Ross Perot, a 55-year-old businessman, the Prince of Wales praised Perot as a man of “bold imagination, pioneer ing spirit and dynamic lead ership,” attributes he said were exemplified by the man in whose name the award was presented. Perot, founder of Elec tronic Data Systems, is the third person and the first businessman to receive the Churchill Award, which was begun in 1981 and is given to those who best epitomize the British statesman’s spirit Perot is known for such ventures as his thwarted at tempt in 1969 to fly into Funeral for Tina Maloff Tina Maloff of Crescent Valley passed away Monday, Feb. 17 at Boundary Hospital in Grand Forks at the age of 86. She was born Nov. 25, 1899 in Saskatchewan and came to B.C. in 1912, settling at Pass Creek. She married Fred Maloff and they moved to Al berta and returned to Kres tova in 1936 where she has since lived Mrs. Maloff enjoyed gar dening She is survived by one son, Fred of Crescent Valley; three daughters, Mabel De moskoff of Oliver, Mary De moskoff of Grand Forks and Dorothy Maloff of Vancou ver; 11 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband Fred, one son, John, two WIZARD'S PALACE “Fun for the Whole Family!" MONDAY THRU SATURDAY 9a.m.to4p.m 61010 30pm SUNDAY 10a.m.toSp.m 1005 - 2nd Street Phone 365-3237 granddaughters, one brother and two sisters. Funeral services will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel and continue at 10 a.m. Fri. day at the Crescent Valley Hall, with burial at 1 p.m. in the Krestova Cemetery Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Castle. gar Funeral Chapel Hanoi to give U.S. prisoners of war medical supplies and Christmas dinners. He also financed a suc cessful 1979 mission to rescue two of his employees from an Iranian prison. The rescue became the subject of a best selling book, On Wings of Eagles. Earlier Tuesday, the prince toured a high tech industrial plant and ate lunch with city officials. Charles, who is travelling without Di ana, received a yellow rose symbolic of Texas — after touring Electra Communica tions Corp., a fibre-opties manufacturing plant His trip to the Lone Star state is billed as a kickoff for the Texas Sesquicentennial, the state’s 150th anniversary celebration of its indepen dence from Mexico. Charles intended to come to Dallas primarily to give Perot the award. But after hearing of the Sesquicen tennial, he extended his trip to include three other cities and Sesquicentennial-related events. million a year, including bo- nuses, with the Oilers. He said his financial, legal and personal affairs are being handled by Barrigan. However, he said Badali remains his agent of record for the purposes of his con- tract with the Oilers which runs through 1999. “There's not much I can say,” Badali said in an inter- view “I've never been told I n't still his agent. 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