April 6, 1991 oe ACTION ADS 19. HELP WANTED PHONE 365-5210 Ceoacpallteemedionte m., PHONE 365-5210 LOVING _ reliable babysitter needed, 2 deys per week for 2 » children, North Castlegar. References Soave: 365-2927 after 5:30 p.m 3/27 STUDENTS to work after school and Saturda: rivers licence needed. 366-5690, 3/28 LIVE-IN Care Aid required for disabled man vicinity — Tarrys school. Free room and board. ba 4781 after 6 p.m. BABYSITTER in my home. Must have references. Light housekeeping. Robson area. 3 children, ages — 4, 3 and 2. Ph. 365-3837. after 8 p.m. tfin/24 MR.. and MRS, BRAD WALSH are pleased to announce the forth- coming marriage of their ter Marnie Lynn to Johnny son Mr. and Mrs. John Ostoforotf. The wedding to take place my 6, 1991. 28 GARTH and SANDY Pry ere pleased to announce the arrival of Graeme James Vincent born ch 7, weighing 8 Ibs., 9 oz. re had Springs Hospital in Banff, ot! f Amanda. Prova grandparents Jim and Hilda Salmon of Castlegar and Ambrose Steffan of Trail. /28 33. IN MEMORIAM 20. WORK WANTED CANADIAN CANCER SOCITY. In HANDYMAN Rototilli mowing, window odd jobs. Ask for Steve. 3653. GENERAL HOME REPAIRS — roofing, drywall, painting, light carpentry. Steve 399-4148. 26/23 PLUMBING/GAS FITTING Box 3292 Conleger, 3H6, 365-5167 B.C. VIN 104/25 CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Avenue Castlegar * 365-2151 Certified General Accountani: Office 368-6471 Resid 2339 CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION in Memoriam Donation, Box 1228, Rossland, B.C. VOG 1Y0. 104/80 34. LEGALS water treatment CALL STEVE AT Deer Valley Services 447-6282 JOURNEYMAN carpenter-ar chitectural references — will to suit and guaranteed. 352-7511, 352- 9785. tfn/20 JK ACCOUN|ING LTD. Providing Accounting Services For Small Business Call John Kalesnikoff, CMA at 365-7063 BRANCHING OUT TREE SERVICE — topping and falling trees 362- 5076. tfn/12 HANDYMAN — Light carpentry, fences, patio decks, painting, in- side and out — reasonable rates (senior discounts) 365-2267 Lor- ne. tfn/30 Province ot Mvatry of g Qritisn Columbia Forests Sealed tenders for the following SILVICULTURE SURVEY CONTRACTS the District Manager, Ministry 5 "Cohwmone Avenues Cas stlegar up 10 11:00 a.m... Tuesday, April 25. 1801 end upened in pubes st thet one CONTRACT No.: $91NOS-008 01 Silyicultur 2,760 hectares LOCATION Avrow Forest Drswnct, South CONTRACT No.: $91NO5-006 For Silviculture Surveys on £2,232 hectares. LOCATION: Arrow Forest District, North VIEWING DATE, Mori 10, 1981 at 10:00.a.m. at Arrow District Office, 845 Columbia Avenue Castiegs Y epted. Thi work will be edmi the British Columba Ministry of Forests. K€. ARNETT District Manager Arrow Forest District PROFESSIONAL CHILD-CARE By experienced nanny with excellent references. Only 1 block from Kin naird Elementary * Set your own schedule Monday-Saturday, 7 a.m 6 p.m. Drop-in of after school care also Outdoor outings, libraries, swimming, reading, time, etc Will accept gov’t sub FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL MELISSA 365-6460 WILL DO tree pruning. Phone 368- 5961. 13/17 FOR HIRE 550 John ~Deere crawler, 440 J.D. skidder. 20 years experience in selective tree logging. 359-7044 evenings. 7/25 British Columbia PUBLIC NOTICE HARROP FERRY MODIFICATIONS This public notice is to advise that the Harrop Ferry has now been modified to accommodate 14-ft. wide trailers This adjustment is to the upstream side only Persons transporting such units should approach the ferry operator in advance for loading instructions D.P. WILLIAMS District Highways Manager Mot of Transportetion end Highw: Nelson Highway District TO MOVE 25. PERSONAL ALCOHOLICS Anonymous and Al- Anon. Phone 366-3663. 104/71 27. FOUND On March 25 one chainsaw on highway by South Slocan. To claim call 359-7706 3/26 ONE | black winter jacket. One pair of white knit gloves. Can claim at Avenues Hair Design. 3/27 FEATURE OF THE WEEK 1990 CHRYSLER NEW YORKER 5th AVENUE Fully loaded, full size luxury. Only 22,000 km. SAVE $$$ CALL WENDY 352-3817 ARCHIE OR GRANT 352-3542 29. NOTICES CASTLEGAR’ Grief Support este — Home Support Office, p.m. on the 3rd Monday mon- ny 365-2148, 365-6883. 104/83 Nelson len Chrysler (25% 803 Baker St., Nelson + D.L.N ROBSON/RASPBERRY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NOTICE TO WATER USERS For two weeks, mencing APRIL 7 waterline flushing will take. place throughout the district. SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MAY CAUSE com- FEATURE OF THE WEEK 1989 FORD F150 4x4 PICKUP. 302 5-speed with air conditioning: Tilt, cruise, cassette and lots more. CALL WENDY 352-3817 ARCHIE OR GRANT 352-3542 elson ae Chrysler @27%r 365 1250 Bay Ave., Trail AIR CONDITIONING ARROW LAKES AIR CONDITIONING 24-HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE 365-2485 10% OFF REPAIR PARTS FOR SENIORS AUCTIONS BUY or SELL by AUCTION Bonkrupicies * Estates * Consign * Outright Purchase Oren. SSELL MON. SAT. 9-5 UCTION 73 noms Home Hardware Building Centre FOR ALL YOUR BUILDING REQUIREMENTS FREE Take Offs FREE Buildling Estimates Delivery to Castlegar Call Toll Free From Castlegar * 365-0213 Nelson * 354-4137 Trail © 364-1311 8130 Old Woneta * Most /-+vanced System Gets mor. deep down soil than any other cleaning method x U ji — SATISFACTION GUARANTEED — Why Not Coll Us Today! 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R. 1, Site 31, i VIN 3H7 jephone: (604) 365-2398 Collulor: (604) 492-1662 Morrison Painting & Insulation © Blown Insulation * Batts & Poly DUNCAN MORRISON 650-5th Avenue 365-5255 ping and E: 365-7137 BERNIE'S BULLDOZING & EXCAVATING © J.D. 70 Track Excavator © J.D. 350 Blade © J.D. 350 4-in-1 Bucket CALL ANYTIME 357-2169 FOOT CARE MODERN REFLEXOLOGY | AND FOOTCARE + _ plumbia Ave. = Ss. rrr ad CASTLEGA FUNERAL CHAPEL Dedicated to kindly thoughttul service COMPLETE FUNERAL SERVICE Cremation, Traditional Burial and Plan Available Associate Systems Castlegar's Only PRIVATE COMPUTER TRAINING CENTRE Now taking sey a for OUNTING © INTRO DOS rrr: totus 123 GOVERNMENT FUNDING AVAILABLE EAD your computer need: For Home & Business Use At the South Slocan Junction 359-7755 STEEL A Bers. Way to Build Pre- 2 ia Steel Buildings *COMMERCIAL © INDUSTRIAL © AGRICULTURAL For more information, call your Authorized Garco Builder Midwest Construction Services Ltd. 365-8410 Box 1633. Creston, DRYWALL Granite, Bronze Memorials. Cremation Urns and Plaques PHONE 365-3222 FURNACE REPAIR REP, COMMEREIRE — RESIDENTIAL REASONABLE RATES Denny’s Furnace Service LOCKSMITH d and Bonded Now Serving the West Kootenay v» Boarding & Machine Taping v Airless Spray Painting w Textured Ceilings Commercial we Phone » Residential 365-5438 GENERAL & ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR 365-3033 IN THE CASE OF AN ELECTRICAL EMERGENCY, WEEKENDS OR EVENINGS CALL SCISSOR SHARPENING CALL 365-6562 2181C Columbia Ave. astlegar MOVING & STORAGE CASTLEGAR STORAGE CENTER MINI-WAREHOUSE UNITS YOU STORE you Lock ~ YOU KEEP THE KEY! PHONE: 365-6734 MOBILE: 352-4167 ALLEN DUMONT 2912 Columbio Avenue. Castlegor, B.C. VIN 2x9 Williams Moving & Storage 2337-6th Avenue, tlegor Invite you to call them tor a free moving sotnate: Let our representative tell you services which have Srode Witnaies the wrest respected nome in the moving business Ph. 365-3328 Collect M. L. LeRoy 8.C. O.D. OPTOMETRIST 1012 - 4th St., Castlegar PHONE 365-3361 Tuesday to Friday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. to 12 Noon PLUMBING & HEATING SILVER CREST PLUMBING 713 Tamarak St., Castlegar Call 365-3044 CASTLEGAR PLUMBING & HEATING For all your plumbing needs and supplies © SERVICE CALL 365-3388 TRAIL CUSTOMERS ONLY CALL J. BALFOUR & SONS PLUMBING & HEATING renbing Clase ABB Gos Fitting Sheet Metal Mike’s Radiator Shop 690 Rossland Ave., Trail 364-1606 All work conditionally guaranteed RENT. WASHERS & DRYERS 364-1276 PAIR SERVICE BRIAN’S REPAIR SERVICE SMALL ENGINES * AUTOMOTIVE GENERAL MECHANICAL 613-13th St., © 365-7233 ROOFING Guaranteed Work Fair Prices 40 Years in Business Free Estimates JAMES SWANSON AND SONS Ph. 367-7680 SEPTIC SERVICE COLEMAN COUNTRY BOY SERVICE Sump & Septic Tank Pumping Phone 365-5013 3400-4th Avenue Castlegar WINDOW COVERINGS Blinds The Ultimate in Window Fashion VERTICALS PLEATED SHADES SAVE. A0:.. " a Castlegar, B.C. 2 Sections (A & B) 75 Cents CounterAttack begins April 13 maar WW 4 for Midget Reps A > LEGISLATI yy PARLIAMENT } Castle__- LIBRARY tL D ICTORIQ p 1x4 RENTALS Council puts limits on trucks By BARBARA TANDORY and CasNews Staff Truckers ‘can keep on rolling through Castlegar but they ‘better make sure their vehicles aren't too big or their loads too heavy. Castlegar city council voted Mon- day to amend its traffic bylaw to in- clude load limits and vehicle size regulations within the city — and to provide fines for violating the regulations. The fines are varied ‘according to the amount of weight a vehicle ex- ceeds its limit as specified in the provincial Commercial Transport Act The bylaw amendments also allow the city engineer to issue overload and/or oversize permits to drivers transporting ‘‘extraordinary com- modities."’ There is no charge for such permits except for any direct costs the city incurs as a result of relocating utilities. Kenn Hample, the city’s director of engineering and public works, said a truck exceeding its allowed limit by 10,000 kilograms would be fined close to $1,000. Specifying weight limits is intended to avoid damage to roads and fines for exceeding the limits are intended to help pay for any damage to roads that overweight trucks may cause, Hample said. Council decided to amend the traf- fic bylaw to impose the limits and fines after two random road checks on April 4 and S$ by the city’s engineering department and the commercial transport division of the Provincial motor vehicle branch found two trucks were violating their weight limits within the city. “‘We found that in both instances vehicles were significantly over the weight limits,” said Hample; who noted that one truck exceeded its weight limit by 10,000 kg. The city’s engineering department is monitoring truck traffic through Castlegar after issuing a permit to Argo Industries to haul gravel to the Celgar pulp mill expansion site from the location known as West Kootenay Properties above the Selkirk Avenue residential area. The road checks are part of that monitoring process, Hample said. Feds finish study By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer Federal researchers have found highly toxic dioxins in river and sea sediments near almost all of the 47 pulp and paper mills across Canada that use chlorine to bleach paper. The latest findings complete a ian ok ; the federal Environment began in B.C. in 1988. The results from other provinces confirm what researchers found in B.C., said Lise Trudel, a biologist with Environment Canada’s water quality branch. 's nothing new in terms of con- tamination,’’ Trudel told the Castlegar News today in an interview from her office in Ottawa. “The sampling of B.C. Interior mills was Ministry SAVAGE STORM By ED MILLS Staff Writer A savage windstorm uprooted more than a dozen 100-year-old trees, ripped apart a hay shed and flung a Pass Creek family’s patio roof into the bush last Friday afternoon. “it’s just unbelievable,”’ said Shelley Parr; whose property mear the former Pass Creek elementary school got the worst of the damage in the hour-long wind-and-rain storm that whip- ped through the area around 3 p.m, Parr said she was outside when the wind began kicking up with such severity that she just managed to get inside with her Puppy before ‘‘we would have been blown away.” “I'm not kidding, it was the Strangest thing,”’ said Parr, who lives in Pass Creek with her husband and young son. “‘It levelled flat about 30 or more of my trees. It looked like a tornado went through here.’” Shelley Parr and her puppy narrowly escaped a savage wind and rain storm thet uprooted more than a dozen 100-year-old trees in her back yard and tore the roof off her patio Friday as it swept through Pass Creek. —cosrews photo by td mills Windstorm blasts trees, buildings in Pass Creek Some of the trees were literally snapped in half by the force of the wind while others were blown over, toppling smaller trees in the Process. The flattened trees, raots dangling in the air as if they'd been bowled.over by a bulldozer, will have to chainsawed into pieces and carted away. Parr said she was lucky a huge pine tree that was within 10 metres of her house fell away from the residence during the storm. She said pieces of her patio roof were found lying 60 metres or more away in the bush and a storage box was thrown from its spot about 10 metres. Minor property damage and tree damage was also reported in other areas of Pass Creek, Thrums and as far away as South Slocan, said Tom Willson of En- Canada’s strong down draft, or “*microburst’’ — which has been blamed for several plane crashes — was responsible for the unex- pected landscaping at the Parr place. Wind speeds in a microburst can reach 100 kilometres per hour or more ‘‘but whether they were or not (in Pass Creek) I don’t know (because) there were no reports of wind speed from the area,’ said Willson. Willson said the weather office usually gets a couple of reports of microbursts every year but not usually at this time. “Usually they happen in May or June. Conditions were just right for it to take place,’’ he said. On the bright side for the Parrs, no one was injured and the unscheduled yard work has left them with about a five-year of fir Interior weather office at the Castlegar Airport. Willson said an__extremely. “Yeah, we have wood heat and 80 do a lot of our neighbors. Firewood anyone?"’ City favors bridge near ferry ramps By SIMON BIRCH Editor Castlegar city council said Monday it favors a site just upstream of the ferry ramps for a bridge across the Columbia River i Castlegar and Robson. The site, known as Site No. 3, is one of five the Ministry of Highways has proposed for the bridge. After two open houses and a public meeting last month, the ministry narrowed down the likely sites for the bridge to two, with the vicinity of Site No. 3 appearing to be the odds-on favorite. “I don’t think we haye any choice but No. 3,”" said Ald. Bob Pakula, adding that the other options ‘don’t make any sense to me.”’ Two of the other sites are further upstream, closer to the Celgar pulp mill, another crosses the river at the ferry ramps and a fifth option parallels the train bridge. Council didn’t arrive at its decision — which came in the wake of a recommendation of Site No. 3 by the city’s advisory planning commission — without debate. Ald. Doreen Smecher questioned * whether it’s wise for the city to favor a site for the bridge before knowing how the intends to tie the new bridge into the city’s network of streets. “*l agree No. 3 looks like the best choice but we're saying whatever they (the ministry staff) do is OK,” ‘Smecher said. However, Mayor Audrey Moore, other aldermen and city staff said they understood from meetings with the ministry that the ministry will draw up plans for the bridge’s on- and-off ramps and then ask council and city staff to comment. “Once the site is selected then the ramps will be designed,”” Ald. Lawrence Chernoff said. **Then (the ministry) will ask the city for our in- put.”” Added Moore: “But we’re not going to get another chance to ex- press our preference for a site of the bridge unless we do it this evening (Monday).’* Nevertheless, Smecher remained skeptical. “I still feel we're in something of a Position where we're. buying a pig in a poke,” By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer Geological tests to help deter- mine the kind of foundation needed and the best location for a bridge connecting Castlegar and Robson may start this week, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transportation and Highways said Tuesday. A drilling rig will be brought in — as soon as it is available from a job in Fruitvale — to drill holes into the banks on both sides of the Columbia near the old ferry ramps to give the ministry an idea of soil and rock Soil, rock tests await drill rig tual design engineer ‘general background information’’ to start planning for the foundation, but specifics can’t be pinpointed until holes are drilled into the river bed. That drilling will be done from.a river barge, Eastman said. “‘We're just trying to get a jump start for the conceptual design. We'll be putting holes down in a variety of locations, so individual holes themselves don’t mean that much. We have to see all the information together.”’ Drilling into the river bed will said Barry Eastman, regional manager of professional services for the Ministry of Highways. However, drilling near the ferry ramps doesn’t mean that’s where the bridge will be built, he said. “That has nothing again to do with the actual bridge site (though) it may be in the vicinity of the bridge location.” Drilling. will give the concep- Start once and permits are secured from the Coast Guard and the Ministry of En- vironment, which could take two to three weeks, he said. Ministry representatives met last week with drilling experts and a conceptual design engineer at the proposed bridge sites. ““We know what has to be done and they're satisfied they can get all the information we Grads worry alderman (CasNews Staff Ald. Kirk Duff is worried about Stanley y school’s 1991 grads. Unlike last year’s grad class, this year’s Stanley send a letter to the school board asking for the information. But Ald. Doreen Smecher, a for- mer school trustee, said the school board and the high school are only for the graduation brs not Se alcohol- - posses alg ”* Duff said at metas se to board ~-doing,”* exercises, mot out-of-school ac- Last year’s grads, with the help of Some parents, organized a dry grad Comimittee which staged the 1990 evemt, Smecher said. The dry-grad Was an all-night party. held at the Community Complex. Suggested sending the letter £0 the school’s parent group with a ‘ ‘school board. they have a respon- li BSF Sot, we have a duty to ”* Duff said. fAgretd to send a letter. Mayor says property a ‘mess’ By SIMON BIRCH Editor Vacant property where the Castlegar Hotel used to stand in downtown Castlegar is an eyesore and possibly a safety hazard, Mayor Audrey Moore said Monday. “I've had @ fair number of com- plaints about the condition of the old Castlegar Hotel site downtown,”’ thé mayor said during Monday night's council megting. “There's holes through where it was boarded over. I don’t think the railing that was put up is in good shape. “It’s a safety hazard and it's an unsightly mess in the middie of downtown. Small children could easily go through that floor.”* The site is located at the corner of 13th Avenye and 3rd Street across ploese see PROPERTY page AS