z sa as_ Castlegar News _ september 23, 1987 “Let the little children come unto me,” Jesus sold. children are most welcome at St. David's Church School, Sundays at 10am ST. DAVID'S ANGLICAN CHURCH (Between the Turbo & Mohawk) ST. PETER LUTHERAN 713 - 4th Street Office 365-3664 Rev. Glen Backus Worship Service 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:15 a.m Youth Group, Sunday, 6:30 p.m Bible Study, Wed., 8 p.m vom onk ANGLICAN CHURCH 1401 Columbia Avenue Sunday Services 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m Rev. Charles Balfour 2271 Parish Purpose: “To know Christ and make Him known" = wav 809 Merry Creek Road Past Fireside Motel Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship 1 a.m. Evening Service 6:30 p.m ES. 6:00 P.M. AWANA — Children’s Program Kindergorten to Grade 8 WEDNESDAY NIGHT Study & Prayer 8 p.m Church 365-3430 or 365-7368 Robert C. Lively, Pastor CHURCH OF GOD Trades union protests Hyundai-Kerkhoff link VANCOUVER (CP) — About 250 building trades union members demon- wtrated Tuesday outside the Vancouver offices of Hyun- dai, the Korean industrial conglomerate, protesting its ‘i construction project. The demonstrators arrived in two buses from a B.C. ina +r CHURCH DIRECTORY 7 PENTECOSTAL NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY — 602 - 7th St. © Ph. 966-5212 SUND, 9:15.a.m. Sunday School (Al! Ages) 10:30. a.m. Morning Worship 6:30 p.m. Evening Service WEDNE: RID, 7:00 p.m. Youth Meeting WEE COUEGE munuistRus —- YOUNG ‘A Vibront Forth Busdeng Friendly Atmosphere! Pastor: Ken Smith Assistant: Morley Soltys WOMENS MARRIEDS AG EVANGELICAL CHURCH 914 Columbie Ave. Sunday School, 9:45 a.m. Family Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Bible Study-Prayer Tuesday, 7:00 p.m. Ladies Bible Study Friday, 9:30 a.m. Youth Ministries PASTOR: Ed Neuteld Phone: 365-6675 ROBSON COMMUNITY ; L RCH 1st Sunday, 7:00 p.m. 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sundays, 10a.m No service 5th Sunday GRACE PRESBYTERIAN 2605 Columbia Ave. 2404 Columbia Avenue Church School . 9:45a.m. Morning Worship lam Pastor ira Johnson Phone 365-6762 Rev. J. Ferrier Phone 365-3182 Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. (hese of Labor con- ference across town. Roy Gautier, president of the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council, said the union is boyeotting Hyundai, which sells cars in Canada, because of its engineering di- vision is working with Kerk- hoff Construction Ltd. of on the Fraser ‘akm. W. of Castlegar Hwy. 3 towards Grand Forks PASTOR: Stuart Laurie Ph. 365-3278 Sunday School — 9:45 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Prayer & Bible Study Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Satellite Video Seminars Accredited Home Bible Study Courses A Non-Denominational Family Church, Preaching the Word of Faith FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP (A.C.0.P.) Below Castleaird Plaza Phone 365-6317 Pastor: Barry Werner Phone 365-2374 — SUNDAY SERVICES — Sunday School 9:30 a.m. ‘Morning Worship 10:30 Evening Fellowship 6:30 Wednesday: Home ings 7:00 p.m. Friday Youth Ministries 7:00 p.m. HOME OF CASTLEGAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 365-7818 UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA 2224-6th Ave. 1% Blocks South of Community Complex 10 a.m. — Worship and Sunday School Mid-Week Activities for all ages. Phone for information Rev. Ted Bristow 365-8337 or 365-7! SEVENTH- ADVENTIST CHURCH 1471 Columbia Ave., Trail 364-0117 Regular Saturday Services Pastor Cliff Drieberg 365-2649 River SkyTrain bridge. He said they are also pro- testing the low wages given workers in South Korea. The federation is con- sidering joining the boycott and Gautier said it could become a national campaign. Kerkhoff lawsuit thrown out VANCOUVER (CP) — Non union contractor J.C. Kerk- hoff has lost a bid to sue British Columbia construe- tion unions for damages be- cause the action was filed under the wrong name. The suit was begun under the name J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Construction Ltd. but it should have been changed later to Kerkhoff Construc- tion Group Ltd. The Fraser Valley comp- any began the suit in 1984 after members of 28 trade unions picketed a Vancouver project Kerkhoff was build- ing and delayed construction by six weeks. Kerkhoff had to pay pen- alties because the project was completed late and he was trying to recover the money from the unions. Kerkhoff couldn't start a new suit under the correct name because too much time had passed so it asked British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Lysyk to allow the change to be made on the old court documents. Kelleher denies prior bomb threat warning OTTAWA (CP) — Despite claims by a former RCMP informer that he tipped the foree about a potential terrorist plot, Solicitor General James Kelleher insisted Tuesday that police and security agents had no advance warning of a bomb that downed an Air-India jumbo jet in June 1985. Paul Besso, an admitted former drug user and dealer who says he now is a born-again Christian, told the CBC that he passed word to the Mounties, just days before the plane went down in the North Atlantic off the Irish coast, that Sikh extremists were considering Air-India as a target. The plane carried 329 people on board, most of them of East Indian descent, when it disappeared. But Kelleher told reporters any information provided by Besso added nothing to what the RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service already knew. “What he gave us were things of a general nature,” Kelleher said. “That evidence was evaluated along with all other evidence that we were receiving at this time.” Within hours of Kelleher’s comments, however, CTV reported allegations that a second informer provided tips to both the Mounties and CSIS in late 1984. ‘The tips are said to have come from Harmel Singh Grewal, reported by the private television network to be serving a 12-year sentence in British Columbia for coun. selling murder. . He is said to have told both a CSTS agent and an RCMP sergeant he heard of a plot to bomb an Air-India plane, and is said by one source to have provided names of those involved. Grewal is reported to have asked for a reduction in his sentence in exchange for his information. But CTV said his allegations were dismissed as nothing more than gossip common in the Sikh community at the time and not solid enough to support an application for a wiretap warrant. Rumors about Grewal have circulated for months in Vancouver's legal community. They have been dismissed by one Ottawa source familiar with CSIS operations, who has told The Canadian Press it would be an “absolute, total shock and surprise” if it turns out that any serious warnings of a bomb plot were neglected by security agents. RCMP officers in B.C. "have refused to discuss the matter and senior officers in charge of the Air-India investi. gation in Ottawa have been unavailable for comment. Indian authorities advised Canada in May 1985 that Indian diplomats, the national airline, and other govern ment-related targets might be in danger in the month of June. That month marked the first anniversary of the storming of the Golden Temple, the holiest Sikh shrine, by Indian army troops. Don Mazankowski, now deputy prime minister but then transport minister, told the Commons after the plane went down that airport security was stepped up and extra RCMP officers provided as a result of the warning. But there was never any tip that a particular flight would be bombed, Mazankowski said. Air-India flight 182 left Toronto and Montreal on June 22, 1985, bound for Bombay with a stop in London. The plane went down off the Irish coast the next morning. REVIEWED MATTER Kelleher said he reviewed the matter Tuesday with RCMP Commissioner Norman Inkster and “we are satisfied” that Kk ki's from two years ago still hold true. “There was a high alert around the country — not only Canada, but all around the world,” Kelleher said of the general security precautions taken in June 1985. But there was no warning that a specific flight was in danger. John Nunziata, Liberal critic for the solicitor general's department, said that Air-India had only one flight a week from Canada to India at the time. “How specific do you have to get?” Nunziata said he does not necessarily accept all of Besso’s comments at face value, but neither does he believe Kelleher can dismiss the matter merely by checking with Inkster and the RCMP. “I don't think it's fair to have the RCMP judge its own conduct in this case,” said Nunziata, repeating past calls for a judicial inquiry or royal commission. Besso told the CBC that between a week and three days before the Air-India bombing he informed the RCMP in British Columbia that two Sikhs told him “Air-India was a definite target of theirs, that they wanted to do ina plane. an Air-India plane. “Now, I wasn't told the specific flight or date or anything like that, and I passed this information on.” Besso has told at least part of his story before, to the St. Catharines Standard and to Maclean's magazine, both of which ran stories last year although they did not provoke the same political furore. RCMP investigates Tory MP OTTAWA (CP) — Prime weekly Conservative caucus “It's bullsh he said. “In the building, hired a con- Minister Brian Mulroney played down today a CBC report that the RCMP is in. vestigating a lease the Public Works Department signed with the help of a firm run by a friend of Tory MP Roch LaSalle when LaSalle was minister of the department, “There are always allega tions,” Mulroney told re- porters on his way into the meeting. “We will see if there is anything more than that. But allegations, as you know your self, people peddle accusa tions and allegations of all sorts and sometimes they turn out to be profoundly false.” LaSalle, who resigned earlier this year but remains in the caucus, denied wrong. doing. my view everything is okay.” LaSalle said the firm in question has been doing bus: iness in Montreal for 10 years and has helped numerous clients in similar circum stances. He said he's the victim either of insufficient research or “vicious intentions” of persons unknown. SIGN LEASE < = a a5) an 8 OTH BI A ELIZABETH +4 4 Pe * THD YWHHLOW NANO AH AY The David Thompson Stamp Club presents its 17th Annual Exhibition The hobby of Stamp Collecting will lift you out of yourself, give zest and in- terest to living and when you have reached the traditional three score years and ten, philately will make each day a busy one — your.children and your children’s children will enjoy your stamps, for they never go out of style, they never lose their value and they never fail to interest young and old alike. First meeting of the David Thompson Stamp Club was held October 29, 1958 at the home of Jim Toogood. From this meeting a stamp club was organized in Castlegar. For 17 years we have had an annual Stamp Exhibition where stampers from all over the North West come to show off their exhibits and try to win a recognition or an award for their efforts. Our judges come in from Vancouver, Spokane or the Okanagan Valley. This year’s exhibits will be shown on: SATURDAY, SEPT. 26 from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. SUNDAY, SEPT. 27 from at Castleg and again on 9 a.m. to3 p.m. c A Please come and look and enjoy all our work. It's free! There will be an auc- tion of stamps on Sunday morning at 11 a.m. and several dealers will.be selling stamps to fill the holes in your albums. CBC reported Tuesday night that the lease, signed in June 1985, was for office space in the Metro politan Life building three blocks from Parliament Hill. CBC said the lease was signed after the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., owner of sulting firm whose president was Gervais Desrochers, a friend of LaSalle. The network said the firm charged more than $50,000 for its work, including $18,000 in expenses. It also said the Desrochers contract _ was cancelled 18 months after it was signed because the firm found no other tenants for the building. Lawyers for Metropolitan told the network the lease was a legitimate deal for a reasonable price. Desrochers would not comment on the report. The current public works minister, Stewart McInnes, said he’s Unaware of any problem with the contract. A-G investigates gang slayings VICTORIA (CP) — At torney General Brian Smith has asked for a report into the activities of Asian youth gangs following the execu- tion-style killing of a 16- year-old Vancouver’ youth last Friday. Smith said Tuesday the murder of Babbak Moieni, who was found by his mother bound, gagged and shot in the head in their Vancouver apartment, indicates more work is needed to combat gang activity. “We've made some pene- trations into that community but we obviously haven't done enough if you're going to have a 16-year-old student cut down in the prime of life in a cowardly way,” said Smith. 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