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Chance of ‘. aa... ye tlésar a costs may increase By DONNA ZUBER erga Staff Writer The City of Castlegar will have to come up with about $25,000 more this year for policing services if Ot- tawa’s proposal to decrease its share of RCMP costs goes through, Ald. Kirk Duff said. “Obviously this is going to have an impact on us,”’ he said. “We'll have to find the money somewhere but we'd rather not have to.” solicitors general and the federal Solicitor general to replace the existing 10-year contract, which ex- pires March 31, are at a stalemate. Under the proposal, municipalities of between 5,000 and 15,000 people would see their share of RCMP costs increase to 85 per cent from 70 per cent. Castlegar would get off a little easier with a five per cent increase but only because the number of of- ficers at the local detachment has dropped to nine from 10. “‘If.we had stayed with 10 officers, the increase would be closer to 15 per cent,”’ said Jacquie Hamilton, the city’s director of finance. The city paid $508,000 last year for .16. officers. Under the gover- nment's proposal, the city would pay $533,000 for nine. B.C. Solicitor General Ivan Messmer has been negotiating the cost-sharing agreement with the federal government. Messmer said the province is opposed to the in- crease. “We don’t think it’s fair,” Messmer said, explaining that in communities such as Williams Lake 40 per cent of the municipal budget will go towards policing if the municipality's share of policing costs is increased. Messmer said if negotiations with the federal government break down, each province will have to examine its needs for policing and how to meet them. He said examination of the idea of provincial police forces has been ongoing by all provinces for the last 10 years. A spokesman for the Union of B.C. Municipalities said the province argues that Ottawa should keep up its existing share because it benefits from RCMP services. “In the last round of eegotintions, please see POLICE poge A: FILM DEBUT a ee > An of Education film crew goes to work in Deb Chmaro's class at Kinnaird Junior covemfary school, film crew was in Castlegar as part of a.provincewide istrators about the Year, Lprogram. The ministry will release thn videos in the early Fall. —cooniews pho to by Lovss Laroche visti. Parks pitch hit hard By SIMON BIRCH Editor Ald. Bob Pakula’s teammates on Castlegar city council hit him hard Tuesday night when he pitched an $85,300 capital budget for city parks. In a replay of last year’s budget battles, council said: Pakula’s Proposals focus too much on baseball and leave out other recreational uses of city parks. Pakula’s wish list for 1991 calls for $20,200 to add bleachers and hall and at the ist Avenue park in south ‘Castlegar and $25,000 for a walkway. and adventure playground at Cone Hill Park in the Birchland Heights area. Sprinklers will also have to be ex- tended in the pony field if the fence is moved. Editorial, page A4 Ald, _Doreen Smecher, alderman for and dugouts to the Community Complex ballfield and $14,300 to move the fence outward and replace a dugout at Kinnaird Park’s pony field. The city’s share of the costs is estimated at $18,600 with lottery grants and private contributions — such as the recent $3,500 donation from the Castlegar Slo-pitch League — making up the balance. Pakula’s proposed budget also in- cludes $20,000 for an aerator/fer- tilizer spreader, $5,000 for automatic Sprinklers in the park next to city finance, balked at the estimated cost of Pakula’s proposal. “I’ve got some real serious con- cerns with this because the total amount for parks (in the city’s 1991 Provisional budget) is aboui $80,000,"" she said. “You've ex ceeded this by a considerable amount “It’s all going on ballfields,”’ Smecher added. ‘‘It’s not something I can support.” But Pakula argued nobody had please see PARKS page A2 Coalition gears up to protest truck traffic By CATHERINE SHAPCOTT Special to the Castlegar News From tears and despair to rekin- died enthusiasm for a plan of action, the first of two non-violent direct ac- tion workshops to stop chip truck traffic through the Slocan Valley demonstrated the resilience of public resistence. Members of the Coalition for Pulpmill Accountability — which is Organizing the workshops — say People are resolved to continue their opposition to chip trucks on High- way 6, even though the federal and provincial governments have ap- proved Celgar pulp mill’s $700 million expansion and modernization Project near Castlegar. The first workshop, held over two days (March 2-3) in- Silverton, was advertised as ‘‘direct action’’ but stopped short of proposing any high- profile interference with chip truck traffic. Although actions such as blockades and diversion of trucks have not been ruled out, they are among several options under con- sideration. “We feel that through our actions it may become economically unviable for trucks to go through here,”’ said Andrea Wright, one of the group’s organizers. Among the actions approved by the workshop participants — num- bering less than a dozen — is the creation of a chip truck ‘‘hotline’”’ which will operate out of the newly established Community Support Centre for War Resistance and Justice for All. The centre recently opened at Antoinette’s, formerly Robert’s Restaurant, in Winlaw. The hotline is intended to create ‘tan ongoing dialogue about chip trucks to give the public an outlet, to air grievances, to report misdemeanors, accidents, infrac- tions, irritations and complaints,”’ Wright explained. ‘‘We feel the number on the back of the trucks is not adequate, and it’s not ours.’’ In addition to setting up the hotline, the coalition intends to publish weekly reports in Pennywise “to keep the public awake during the interim period until the mill expan- ds."” please see TRAFFIC poge A2 the CasNews. an that made New TV listings premieres today A new TV listings publication, On the Tube, makes its debut today in this issue of the Castlegar News. Produced in s handy magazine format, On the Tube replaces TV Week. It will be available as 2 separate publication on newsstands but will be included with carrier-delivered and mail-paid subscriptions to The new TV guide is just one of several changes the Castlegar News has been working on in response to a reader survey conducted last fall and suggestions made by CasNews employees. Other improvements are a larger typeface in the classified ads, more features (including a horoscope and Dear Abby in On the Tube), a mew business feature and many other changes announced in an ad elsewhere in this issue of the CasNews. Editor Simon Birch and plant foreman Peter Harvey spearheaded publisher Burt Campbell. suggestions. newspaper."’ advertising medium."’ Campbell applauded the efforts of all employees involved in the review process, saying ‘‘critical attention’ was devoted to alll He said the result is ‘a brighter, more interesting twice-weekly “Just as we added an editorial page in our Wednesday edition beginning last July and did a complete layout change two months cartier, we are always striving to improve Castiegar’s No. 1 news and for changes to By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer An autopsy proved it wasn’t. And because it wasn't, the wife be tough to kick. About eight years ago, a carload of people left a local pub and headed off towards Nelson. But long before they got there, the vehicle crashed off the side of the highway. The driver was dead. Witnesses were quick to point out that the group had been sitting in the bar until closing time, and the accident was obviously the result of drunk driving. able to collect $100,000 in accidental death benefits from his insurance policy. She would have ended up with nothing if her husband had been drunk. As happy an ending as possible to a sad story. And one that stands out as ‘‘one of the better by the chief coroner on Dec. 14, 1978, Ogiow, 67, has retired. He has lots of ‘‘interesting’’ memories, and at least one job-related habit that’s proving to **E still wake up in the middie of the night,” he CASNEWS FEATURE naming as a few the odontologists, pathologists, forensic pathologists and RCMP officers. ‘‘Some of the most top-notch people. “*I don’t think there’s anything I won't miss,”’ he added. “‘The only sad part about it is whenever there’s an accident or murder, there’s always the next of kin, always someone who's hurt — it’s dealing of the driver was with those people that's a little bit stressful.” Coroners‘are involved in all deaths, whether they are caused by accident, terminal illness or murder, he said, describing the job. **If there's a sudden death where there’s no history, background history, of why a person died, then the coroner's called in. Or sometimes there’s a sudden death but it has something todo with a terminal illness. You'd find out the background information, contact the doctor, and then it becomes a 's case... “*People generally phone the ambulance when it’s a sudden death. The ambulance (attendants), when they respond, contact the police. When the - T would back away. Police are called out, then automatically the coroner's out. “‘In an ordinary accident, sudden death and so on, the police work for the coroner, on behalf of the coroner. In the case of a murder, the role is turned around and the coroner works on behalf of the olice,"* The coroner's role includes coordinating professional services, such as autopsies, and ends other Retired coroner stumped just once in 12 years - + with his report. **In every case, you have to, at the time, make out a report and put your signature on that report,’’ he said. **You have to feel 100 per cent satisfied that you've reached the proper conclusion."’ Only once did a conclusion stump Oglow, and every one else involved, he said. In 1981, Nicholas Wasilenkoff’s pickup was found abandoned more than half way up the rock bluff near Thrums, about 10 kilometres north of Castlegar on the south side of Highway 3A. Wasilenkoff was nowhere to be found, but police did find blood on the interior of the pickup, and a broken steering wheel. Three months later, his body was found in the Columbia River. The mystery was never solved and remained open at the time of Oglow’s retirement last month. But, with help from the chief coroner's office, Oglow was at least satisfied that he did all he could. “*In that case I had a special investigator come out and we went over the case again. We both came to the same decision, so | felt comfortable that I was ‘on the right track. It would have bothered me if I dic that on my own, and to this day, not know if I did the right thing or not. “*At no time was there any case, other than that ‘one, we couldn't handle," he added. In fact, the chief coroner’s office got better and better all the time, he said. “There's been an 80 per cent improvement in th: coroner's services since the time of my appointment to the present day.” please see CORONER page A?