bruary 15, 1989 CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION “Your Community Financial Center SLOCAN PARK CASTLEGAR 601-186h S1,, 965-7232 Hwy. 6* “An Excellent Way to Build Your Future” y 226-7212 to Center * Full Service Fuels * Sani Dump * Used Oil Dump CASTLEGAR STOP OHAWA The handiest gas store going, * Fishing Supplies & Licenses 1415 Columbia SHOP DIESEL * PROPANE Hot & Cold Snacks 365-781) Bread Johnny White or brown Come advantage ling Posters 99°! Mohawk 10/30 s. 550G Pepsi or 7-Up 750 mi PLUS DEPOSIT FOREST LICENCE CONVERSIONS TO TREE FARM LICENCES Public Information Sessions Forests Minister Dave Parker will chair a series of information sessions. throughout the province on the policies and procedures for the conversion of Forest Licences to Tree Farm Licences Each session will include an information presentation by the Forest Service and an opportunity for public presentations and comment if you wish to make a presentation ®@ contact the Ic presentation ti first served basis. Times will provide the local Ministry office with a copy presentation remarks at least one working day in advance of the information session in @ limit your presentation to 15 minutes An information package abdut the program will be available from all Ministry offices All sessions will be held from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. and from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in each centre. Date Feb. 13 Sessions SMITHERS Hudson Bay Lodge Main Bailr i] 3251 -£. Highway 16 FT. ST. JOHN The Alexar Macke: Peace Roo: 9223 - 100 s PRINCE GEORGE WILLIAMS LAKE Sacred Heart Churct Parish Ha 455 Pidgeor Street KAMLOOPS Stockman’s Motor Inr Thompson Room 540 Victoria Ave NELSON Heritage Inn Hume Room 422 Vernon Street VANCOUVER The Westin Bayshore Staniey Room 1601 W. Georgia St PARKSVILLE Island Hall Beach Resort Hotel Hall #1 181 Island Highway al Ministry office as indicated below to book a please be allocated on a first come f your which you will participate Local Contact Regional Manager's Office Prince Rupert Forest Region 5000 (3726 Alfred Ave.) t Manager's Office John Forest Office 100th Avenue ne 787-3301 Regional Manager's Office Prince George Forest Region 1011 - 4th Avenue nce George, B.C Curl-A-Thon The Fourth Annual Heart Fund Curl-a-thon was held over the weekend at the local curling club. A total of ten rinks rai: 1d $2,592 for heart research. One of the rinks competing was the McKinnon rink. (From left) Clarice McKinnon, John Stewart, Archie Stewart and Alec McKinnon. COMMUNITY Bulletin Board SENIOR CITIZENS Social meeting, Feb. 16 at 2.p.m. Business meeting, March 2 2/13 CASTLEGAR DISTRICT WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION gular monthly meeting, Wed., Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m., Marlane Hotel. New embers weldome. 2/13 COMMUNITY INFORMATION MEETING Report on activities at the United Nations; on Dube Symposium on Militarism and Development; on Central America, from CUSO. 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23. Selkirk College Faculty Lounge. Sponsored by United Nations Association, B.C. Interior Branch 4/13 VALENTINE DANCE Saturday, February 18, Robson Rec. Hall, The Music Machine, Refreshments Lynch, Door Prizes. 9-1 a.m. $5.00 per person. Members $4.00. Tickets Cheryl 365-2891, Roberta 365-5860, Bill 365-3670 and Johnny's Grocery 3/12 JUNIOR REBELS BANQUET Saturday, February 25, 6 p.m, Sandman Inn. Tickets $8.00 at: Castlegar Sports Center, Kats Trophies or Executive. S12 CASALANO CLUB 4 Videos, Dr. David Ohims, Psychiatrist, Addictionologist. Fridays, 8.p.m. Old Areno rear entrance. Feb Alcoholism; Feb. Cocaine; Feb. 24 Marijuana; March 3, RX Drugs. Maderator: Dr. Van Vliet. Coffee and Collec tions. : 8/12 KOOTENAY WINTERS Featuring Sandra Groepler and four other well known artists opens Friday evening, February 24, 6:30 p.m. at Gallery of the Kootenays, Nelson " 14 Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations may be listed here. The first 10 words are $3.75 and additional words are 20¢ each. Bold faced words (which must be used for headings) count as two words. There is no extra charge tor a second insertion while the third consecutive insertion is seventy-five percent and the fourth consecutive is holt-price Minimum charge is $3.75 (whether ad is for. one three times) Deadlines are 5 p.m. Thursdays for Sundays paper and 5 p.m. Mondays for Wednesdays paper. Notices should be brought to the Castlegar News at 197 Columbia Ave SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 7 (NELSON) PRINCIPAL REGIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL The Ministry of Education has entered into @ program of regionalizing the Provincial correspondence education system. School District No.7 has been selected as the site for the Kootenay Regional Correspondence School. It will serve correspondence students of southeastern British Columbia. This is an opportunity for someone with excellent administrative and leadership skills to undertake a new. educational challenge: Appointment date is July 1 1989. Preterred qualifications include: demonstrated organization and leadership skills sound knowledge of curriculum, preferably at both élementary and secondary levels strong counselling skills knowledge of geographic area record of being energetic, innovative and self-motivated @ valid B.C. Professional Teaching Certificate Applications should include an outline of experience and qualifications and a statement of philosophy relating to this position. Application closing date is 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 28, 1989. 565-6102 Regional Manager's Office Cariboo Forest Region 540 Borland Street Williams Lake. B.C V2G-1R8 Phone: 398-4389 Regional Manager's Office Kamloops Forest Region 5 Columbia Street Kamloops B.C V2C 277 Phone: 828-4120 Regional Manager's Office Neison Forest Region 518 Lake Street Nelson, B.C ViL 4C6 Phone: 354-6203 Regional Manager's Office Vancouver Forest Region 4595 Canada Way Burnaby, B.C V5G 4L9 Phone: 660-7626 Director's Office Timber Harvesting Branch 1450 Government Street Victoria, B.C V8W 3E7 Phone 387-5291 Submit applications to Wm. EVIN Director of Instruction School District No. 7 ‘son Street, Nelson, B.C. VIL 3¥2 Phone 352-6681 Pioneers of sports remembered A tribute to the pioneers and heroes of Nelson sports history opens at the Chahko-Mika Mall Feb. 18 and cor tines until Feb. 28 Bar Brown and Fran Wallis have been working for the Kootenay Museum Association and Historial Society since early autumn setting up a permanent research file on the foun dation of sports in Nelson. The exhibit features some of their discoveries. Through interviews with the families of pioneers and the living greats of the city’s past, profiles have been assem bled and the core of the exhibit is.a Hall of Fame featuring athletes who have distinguished themselves and the city Information-collecting will continue during the exhibition and beyond the project Trophies, photographs, early equipment and other memorabilia will high| the early t the display which starts with rock-drilling and boating competitions and the foundations of the first clubs and sports boating eom Curl-a-thon raises $2,592 The Fourth Annual’ Heart Fund Curla-thon was held Feb. 12 at the local curling. club. Ten rinks par ticipated in this event which saw $2,592 raised for heart research City Council's entry Junction— received honors for the best dressed, andthe Lizee Rink consisting of Brian and Arlene Lizee and George and Sandra Korma pledged rink with atotal of $453 Dave Mcintosh of Engineering was the -highest-pledged individual with $330 raised The Rotary Club was the four-event Petticoat an was the Emco spiel with the participants being Dave Gairns, Lach Farrell, Bryan Loewan and Les Allen. Other winners included the Stewart, Emco, and Lizee rinks A lively and fun-filled day ended with a turkey shoot with Alex Mckin non and Bob MacPherson being the sharpest shooters Curriculum lessons about God Castlegar United Church Sunday School is using the curriculum called “The Whole People of God."’ Not only does this teach baste stories of the Bible bui it also apffies Wt to every day life and Graws the children’s attention to what is going on jn the.world today There is mention of the refugee camps and the children have had an oppor tunity to send letters and cards to the children in the camps Bud and Ann Godderis ask. force Last year were members of a Christian t on Central America Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico. who visited This year, the senior class under the leadership of Heather Brady and Cheryl Swedburg continued Tink children in the camps To start the year, the church held a is co-ordinating a with the refugee Valentine poster competition entitled “Loveacross the world.” These posters will be judged in grade levels with Mayor Moore, Jerry John son and Margaret Green as judges. The posters will be on display at the church then sent to the children in the refugee camps Lottery numbers petitions and the fc ja of the first clubs and sports structures. Team sports and individual competitions are featured with provincial, national, and international competitors receiving special mention The Nelson Sports History Exhibit is assisted financially by the provincial government, the City of Nelson, and the Chahko-Mika Mall, and by the co operation and generosity of many former and present Nelson citizens The exhibition will be open to the public during mall hours throughout the 10 days of its duration The following are the winning nt bers in the weekend lotteries LOTTO 649 6,9, U1, 17, 2 27. Bonus number 43. The jackpot $2,136,595.40 was divided int ' prizes of $1,068,297.70. The four Extra winning numbe B.C. were 15, LOTTO BC The bonus number was 26 The Pick-B.C, KENO8 39, 40, 50, 51 and 56. 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Six extra locomotives, placed near the end of the cars, strain to push the weighty load up to this mountain pass on the trip through the Selkirk Mountains and west to the coast Until recently, that six-packof power was the only way to get CP Rail freight trains laden-with prairie wheat, coal and potash to Vancouver's Pacific shipping gateway. No longer Four years, about $500 million and the sweat of hundreds of workers have Produced a faster, niore efficient route through Rogers Pass It’s both an economic breakthrough and the end of an era for the railway “In terms of construction, this is certainly the largest project since we built the railway,”’ boasts John Fox, CP Rail’s vice-president for special projects. VOLUME DOUBLED What does that mean? Well, the new line — which includes two tunnels and is 34 kilometres long —- allows many more trains to travel west through the pass daily The first train passed along the line in mid-December, and now all of the railways westbound freight trains take the new route Via Rail’s passenger train from Calgary to Vancouver willeventually-take the new line, but for the time being it is still travelling the old route, (Via’s Edmonton to Vancouver line fravels along the CN Rail track through the Yellowhead Pass.) The old line, through the 72-year-old Connaught Tunnel, couldn't handle 24, “which, to a railroad operation, is a lot of trains," says Steve Morris, a\CP Rail spokesman. \ The big advantage is that the new line reduces the grade, or slope, that trains must travel. The Connaught Tunnel route has an average grade of 2.2 per cent; the new line is not morethan one percent ~ PROBLEM SOLVED Sounds piddly to ears unaccustomed to this talk. It’s not. A grade of one per cent means awertical rise of one metre for every 100 horizontal metres travelled That adds up. At the point of greatest distance between the two lines, the new track is the equivalent of a 60-storey building lower than the old one, Morris explains. That mmeans freight trains AO longer need the six pusher locomotives to get through Rogers Pass. Millions of litres of fuel will be saved annually. And so will the extra hour or two it took to put the pusher team on the train at the bottom of the pass and take it off after the work was done. “It’s a moment in history,’ Morris says of the elimination of the pusher engines “It was a bottleneck,"* Fox says. “This solves the problem." —tratso-keeps the raitway Viable, Volume makes the difference when private sector CP Rail fights to stay competitive with Crown-owned:CN Rail and the trucking industry “We would have had a severe.and serious capacity problem, “That, of course, knocks you out of the competitive world entirely.”” The line through the Connaught Tunnel will be used for eastbound traffic. Those trains don’t carry the same heavy loads, so they don't need the help of pusher locomotives Fox admits. CP PROUD Talk to CP Rail about the Rogers Pass project and superlatives clog the con. versation. The biggest project. The newest technology. The longest railway tunnel in North America. The most snow The most snow? Well, it’s not easy to get a look at this history-making stretch of railway. Frequent and heavy are the snowfalls in Rogers Pass. The roads are of ten closed “This is the snow capital of Canada," Warm air from the Pacific hits the frigid face of the Selkirks and the flakes begin to fly. Annual ac cumulation is about 10 to 13 metres. Morris says But the snowfall was just one of the challenges the railway faced in building the project. Not the least of which was the fact it was building in Glacier National Park “‘It's hard building in a park, because you're dealing with so many environ mental issues,"* Morris says The railway had to put scrubbers on the vents of work camp kitchens so the smell of food wouldn’t attract animals. It had to put in about 60,000 trees and shrubs to reforest where construction had taken place CUSTOM DESIGN Work on’ the project started in 1984. At the Peak of construction, 1,100 people were working onthe line fl 7 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES THE B.C. BUSINESS NETWORK The series of advertisements-on Regional Business Opportunities you've seen running inthis publication are only a small sample of information and opportu nities available to businesses through the computerized B-C-Busine retwork + —s— The B.C helpful business information including: statistics government procurement requirements; and extensive Business Network is a public data base of domestic and international business opportunities. This information is updated constantly as new opportunities come available. The Network can be a useful tool to assist expanding businesses and for identifying new business opportunities REQUIREMENTS The minimum requirements to access the Business Network are: a personal computer; a modem; communications software; B.C. Business Network accreditation; and B.C. Tel Inet 2000 Service. COSTS Costs of the program are $3.30 per month and $7.50 to $10.00 per hour of connection time: There-are-nojong distance telephone charges For more information contact: Ph: 1-800-642-1218 (Toll free) Ph: 1-800-972-2255 (Toll free) Mario Boehm or John Falloon B.C. Tel B.C. Enterprise Centre Minister of State Kootenay Region 310 Ward Street Nelson, B.C. VIL 584 Phone: 354-6113 {g Hon. Howard Dirks Minister of State for Kootenay Province of British Columbia Se Their efforts produced the 1.85-kilometre Mount Shaughnessy 1,200-metre bridge and the 14.66-kilometre Mount Macdonald longest on the continent (It doesn't come near challenging for the world's. longest title toa Japanese tunnel that js nearly 42 kilometres long.) Building the bridge, or viaduct, was the trickiest 44 piers, each of which had to be custom designed, But it’s the Mount Macdonald Tunnel that grabs all the attention. Lined in concrete, it features a unique ventilation system at its midway point Five giant fans, located at'the top of a 350-metre shaft sunk into the moun. tain, cool the locomotives as they pass through the tunfel football field I. The air at the top of the tunnel, Morris explains, houses the fans is the size of The fans are essent The building that reaches about 200 C shen a train is passing through The ventilation system posed another challenge, Morris says, B.C wouldn't provide power to the project Hydro Tunnel, a Tunnel, the That belongs art, Morris says. Ht rest on Travelodge VANCOUVER COQUITLAM EASY OF F/EASY ON Trans-Canada Hwy No, 1 Exit at Brunette. 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