Castlagar News november 19, 1986

RDCK to get federal assistance

By CasNews Staff

The Regional District of Central Kootenay has been
selected for federal assistance under Community Futures —
one of six programs comprising the Canadian Jobs Strategy.

Under the program, the regional distritt will receive
about $1.8 million for low-cost start-up loans for new
businesses, as well as for job retraining assistance for
individuals.

The job creation plan was announced recently by
Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco on behalf of Employment and
Immigration Minister Benoit Bouchard.

“Despite high unemployment in the Regional District of
Central Kootenay, there is strong evidence that it has the
potential for economic recovery,” Brisco said.

ity Futures helps hit with major

layoffs and chronic unemployment. The program builds on
the existing strengths of the communities, permitting them
to pull together and decide for themselves what are the best
ways of dealing with their economic problems, according to
a prepared

The actual amount to be made available is $1.5 million.
That's because the $300,000 in federal funds already lent to
local businesses through the Kootenay Regional Employ-
ment Development Association (KREDA) will be

continue to be supported by Employment and Immigration
Canada.

KREDA could become a business development centre
and be part of the Community Futures program, Brisco said.

Through Community Futures, funds will be provided
during the next two years to help the committee take a
realistic look at the opportunities for developing and
diversifying the local economy.

ity Futures

from the $1.8 million. However, because those loans will be
repaid, the money will slowly return to the lending pool.

Brisco noted that KREDA has been providing advice
and loans or loan guarantees to small entrepreneurs in the
RDCK since February, 1985. He said the corporation has
been successful in generating and preserving jobs and will

NEW RESERVOIR . . . Workers from Mandrax Enter-

prises Ltd, of Kelowng fname root of new concrete
water reservoit at Castlegar Airport. The new

AIRPORT
present size. It will be complete with a coffee shop and
will also have an inside baggage pickup.

McTaggart said he hopes construction will begin in
the spring.

“So far we have not heard anything to the contrary,”
he said.

The new terminal parking lot will be in the present
location across from the terminal, but will be expanded
and levelled off. But McTaggart said that won't take place

reservoir is part of upgrading of water supply and
distribution system,

Convent ifote by Chery! Coigerbonk

until 1988, when the terminal expansion is expected to be
completed.

Because of the late start to the water/electrical
work, McTaggart said the present parking lot “will
probably be in a mess until spring.”

He explained that the parking lot was torn up in
order to put down the water mains and electrical
conduit

The new electrical systems are necessary because
the current system is dequate, he said.

“We don't have electrical backup to keep the airport
viable in the event of a power failure,” McTaggart added

can choose from the

one year toenable unemployed individuals to start their own
business;

@ training assistance for the purchase of courses in
approved institutions for training the employed, self.
employed, or unemployed;

e relocation and exploratory assistance for individuals
or groups of workers to relocate to jobs in other locations;

@ community initiative fynd which will mateh funds
from other sources for local projects designed to generate

pohenig) Program options:

© Business development centres which provide locally

managed technical and advisory services to small b

new permanent jobs.

The release adds program options are available to

for up to a

as well as loan investment assistance of up to $75,000 per

firm;
.

ploy

Olds College students

By CasNews Staff
and News Services
Some say it's hot and some say it's

not.

providing $180 a week for

frames are always breaking, letting in
wind and rain, he said.

The roof leaks, ceflings have fallen
in, and tiles in the bathrooms crack,

Of the 400 students in Olds College in Cornish said.

Olds, Alta., there seems to be some
disagreement regarding the discomfort against the windows. For Edie Gorzo,

of the rooms.

blankets ahd plastic sheets over their
windows to keep out the cold.”

On the other hand, Rachelle Desaul
niers, 19, of Fairview told the Castle
gar News today that students are com.
plaining about the rooms being uncom

fortably hot.

have to open windows,”

niers, a first year fashion merchandis-
ing student. “It's cold outside but it
certainly isn't cold in here.”
Desaulniers, who lives on the 1000 degrees last week
floor of Frank Grisdale Hall, _ ee

doesn't know of anyone who i:

free:
“It's never that cold,” ahe aid.
“Everybody seems to be quite comfor

table.”

“Maybe the 2000 floor is freezing,”
she said. “But quite a few are com
plaining about rooms getting too

warm.”

According to the Canadian Press ar-
ticle, the rooms in the college residence
sometimes get so cold at night that a
carton of milkyplaced near the-windew-~keep -us-at the bottom end all of the

freezes in 20 minytes.

“It's too cold to do anything,” said
Nancy Krauss, 21, of Trail in her and procurements are awarded to the
second year of a fashion merchandising provinces according to their share of

Canada's population, British Columbia
she said would immediately get an extra
Sunday in the community 60 kilom- $400-million worth of business and

course at the college.

“It's cold just sitting here,”

to study.

the thermostat in her room read 14

time.”

etres south of Red Deer. “You almost 10,500 jobs.

have to do your homework on your bed

or in the sun rooms.”

The residences were built in the
1960s when energy was cheap and con-
servation wasn't a big concern, said bridges, ferries and roads, he said
college president Dan Cornish. As a
result, many rooms were never in

Candidacy

VICTORIA (CP) — Mike Harcourt, the outgoing
Vancouver mayor who two years ago defeated Premier Bill
Vander Zalm in civic politics, said Tuesday he wants to
sueceed Bob Skelly as leader of the B.C. New Democratic
Party.

Harcourt, 43, mayor of British Columbia's biggest city
for six years, is the first to announce his candidacy in the
party's leadership race

‘A popular choice within the NDP, Harcourt told a news
conference he has substantial and unsolicited support from
caucus and New Democrats across the province

The NDP was trounced in the Oct. 22 provincial election
by Vander Zalm’s Social Credit party, winning 22 seats to
the Social Credit's 47

Skelly announced last Wednesday he will step down at a
leadership convention expected in May. The campaign was

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announced

his first as party leader since he was elected as the
compromise choice in 1984
WAS ALDERMAN

Harcourt, a lawyer, was a Vancouver alderman before
being elected mayor in 1980

He was elected in Vancouver Centre in the provincial
election and will finish his term as mayor early next month.

“I'm going to make the shift from Mayor Mike to MLA
Mike in the next two weeks,” he said

There was speculation even during the campaign that
Harcourt could be the next NDP leader, so his announce-
ment came as no surprise.

Harcourt easily beat off a challgnge from Vander Zalm
for the Vancouver mayoralty in par appears confident
he can defeat Vander Zalm again

The premier is just “another candidate to run agianst,”
Harcourt said

Vander Zalm, asked if *hés \{9@4 loss to Harcourt is
relevant to provincial polities, “said: “No, I think it's a
different ballgame entirely

The next provincial election is “a long ways off,” the
premier said. “If he does become the leader, then I hope he
makes a good Opposition leader and does his job well, as I
suspect he will.”

‘I'm prepared to be acclaimed, and I'm prepared to have
a good tussle — to have many people run for the leadership,”
Harcourt said

Police File

Two people were injured
Tuesday morning and taken
to hospital as a result of a
three vehicle accident on
Highway 3A near Thrums.

Penny Elizabeth Foran, 37,
and her daughter Asacia
Foran, eight, are listed in
stable condition at Castlegar
Hospital

RCMP said at approxi
mately 7:50 a.m., Wayne
Miller of Castlegar, while at

tempting to pass a truck,
struck the Foran vehicle
heading westbound in the
opposite direction

A red Ford pickup, driven
by Glen Ralloff of Crescent
Valley, was also travelling
westbound and struck the
Foran vehicle when it was
unable to stop.

Miller was charged with
passing unsafely

Total vehicle damage was
approximately $12,000.

sulated.

Seals around the aluminum window

influence,” is stacked against British
Columbia, Vander Zalm said

Desks in the students’ rooms are

desk, it can be chilling.

She said sometimes it's so cold her
hands shake. Krauss said she believes
the cold affects some students’ ability

“There are quite a few people with
colds,” said Twila Lakusta, 27, of St.
‘ . .. who has a cold. “It's
“Sometimes rooms get so hot we warmer outside than inside.”

First-year horticulture student Bon.

couldn't register any lower.”

MOORE

continued from front page
fact, I'd prefer it if they gave a whole
lot less to industry.

“All we are saying is: treat every
body equitably, and treat the country
at least according to what the popu
lation is in the different parts and not

Vander Zalm said if federal contracts

The province annually contributes
$600 million to Ottawa for transporta
tion and “we don't get back five per
cent of that” in the construction of

Even the banking system, where the

selected C

ity Futures

five-year period. Community Futures allows communities to
initiate solutions and choose programs that are closely
tailored to local needs, the release says.

Hot and cold for

Cornish said he supports the stu
dents and “they have every right to
expect better treatment.”

Residence fees at the college are

among the highest in Alberta, he said

Students pay about $750 for a room
during the fall semester, or about $215

a month. Krauss said it may be cheaper
to live in town, but the residence is

safer and more convenient.

Earlier this year the college and the
Department of Advanced Education
said $4 million in improvements were

necessary, but tight budgets leave

nights.”

funding in doubt.

Cornish said he's getting impatient
at the government's indecision and is
“hoping we don't get too many cold

He said demolishing the residence
ita Van Dalen of Redcliff, Alta., said would be more expensive than making
necessary repairs, but the school's

“only because it $850,000 capital equipment budget is

too small.

British Columbians deposit far more
money in banks than is loaned by banks
to B.C. businesses, he said, and much of
their deposits is used for loans in
Eastern Canada.

In grants for regional expansion and
business research,
well as the Ottawa River valley,” the

“we don't fare as

premier said.

“By far they outdo us probably 10-1.”

Vander Zalm invited provincial op
position Leader Bob Skelly to sit in at
the conference as an observer for a
first-hand understanding of the inter
governmental dialogue.

Skelly, holidaying overseas, is send

ing NDP House Leader Mark Rose to
the conference. Skelly announced last
week he will resign as party leader at a
convention next May.

Rose said it was a gesture that bodes
well for future co-operation, but noted
federal government has “considerable that former NDP Premier Dave
Barrett also invited the Opposition
leader to such meetings in the 1970s.

Provinces refuse to budge

OTTAWA (CP) — Trade
Minister Pat Carney failed
Tuesday to settle a provincial
feud over how Canada should
deal with the U.S. lumber
duty, throwing the fight into
the laps of Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney and the pre.
miers.

The issue, whether Canada
should try to strike a com
promise deal with the United
States while chall the

issues a final subsidy ruling
at the end of December
However, British Colum
bia, Canada’s largest lumber
producer, wants to negotiate
a compromise deal in case the
legal battle fails.
SETS DEADLINE
Under the complicated
Commerce system, Canada
has until Nov. 28 to indicate if
it wants to negotiate a “sus.

duty on legal grounds, was
thrashed out for more than
three hours at a meeting be
tween Carney and provincial
ministers from the four ma
jor lumber-producing prov.
inces.

The meeting failed when
Ontario and British Columbia
refused to budge. That
moves the battle onto the
agenda of this week's first
ministers conference in Van
couver.

“We have reaffirmed our
commitment to fighting the
decision on softwood lum
ber,” Carney said. “Their
disagreement, or differences
of opinion, on how best to do
that.”

Last month, the U.S. Com
merce Department issued a
preliminary decision to im
pose a 15-per-cent, $600.
million duty on Canadian
lumber to offset what it
claimed were subsidies,
namely the low timber har.
vesting fees paid by lumber
companies in Canada.

At that time, Carney and
the provinces said they
would wage a “united front”
legal war to get the duty
overturned when Commerce

pension agi .” which
would require Canada to in
crese timber-cutting fees to
get the United States to drop
the duty

British Columbia favors
this because the revenue
would stay in Canada instead

Dirks
confirmed
winner

NELSON (CP) — Social
Credit candidate Howard
Dirks has been confirmed as
the new legislature member
for Nelson-Creston on Sat
urday after a judicial recount
gave him a 17-vote win over
New Democrat Corky Evans.

Dirks led Evans by 41
votes after the Oct. 22
provincial election but his
margin was trimmed to 26
votes after the count of Sec
tion 80 ballots cast by un
registered voters

Nelson-Creston was held
for the past 14 years by the
NDP’s Lorne Nicolson, who
did not seek re-election this
year

of flowing into U.S. coffers.

Ontario, however, argues
that any move to compromise
now would damage Can
ada’s legal case.

“We haven't felt that’s a
viable way to go,” said On
tario Natural Resources Min.

ister Vince Kerrio.

Although participants in
Tuesday's meeting tried to
patch over their differences,
it was clear that the only
thing they still agree on is
that Canada should try to
maintain a united-front ap
proach

Plans finalized for
Mulroney visit

By CasNews Staff

All the plans are finalized
for Thursday's visit to Castle.
gar and Trail by Mila Mul.
roney, wife of prime minister
Brian Mulroney

Mila Mulroney arrives at
11 a.m. at Castlegar Airport
on a commercial Pacific Wes.
tern Airlines flight from
Vancouver. At 11:20 a.m.,
she will visit students at
Castlegar primary school

Following her visit to the
school, Mulroney will depart
at 12:15 p.m. to attend a
public luncheon at the Fire.
side Place. At 1:25 she leaves
for Trail where she will have
a private meeting with an
unnamed group

At 2:20 p.m. she will visit
Colombo Lodge and at 3 p.m
she will travel back to
Castlegar to catch the after
noon flight back to Vancou
ver.

Meanwhile, teacher Alexia
Turner, who is organizing the
event at the school, says the
visit is only open to invited
guests.

Turner explained that the
gym is small and there will be
more than 200 students in the
room when Mulroney pays
her visit. Invited guests in
clude representatives from
the various ethnic groups in
the West Kootenay, as well
as English as a Second Lan.
guage students in the school
district and their parents.

But Turner noted that the
luncheon with Mulroney,
which will follow her visit at
the school, is open to the
public.

She said that parents can
also stand outside the school
yard when Mulroney arrives
and leaves the school

Turner added that the
Program at the school will be
similar to what was planned
last year when Mulroney's
visit -was cancelled because
fog in the valley prevented
her plane from landing. But
Turner said this time a Twin
Otter will be on backup im the
event the PWA flight can’t
make it in.

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