SPECIAL! 9hce of Gotten Cetera Rog. $11.99 SAwE 92.98 PROVINCIAL NEWS SCENIC ACRES MA Female st Of the Yemr TO years rummy 4 Vee ea Yes Wa Bi yen an We Ve before being passed by the Commons on June 12. “Without the possibility of fiscal fees, extra-billing or the setting up of @ two-tier system,”’ Manson Willms said. Company dodges B.C. regulations NORTH VANCOUVER (CP) — aamne ce a so. 7 CHRISTMAS CROISSANT Eluetop Burger Weekly Special “(Ministry standards) are very stringent conditions. Those are limits even the municipalities have dif- was singled out by the B.C. Environ- fectly legal to us to go imto the Ministry for repeatedly sewers. it’s the mandate of the m jon standards. GVRD to take industrial sewage and we see nothing wrong with it.”" The discharge would receive Primary treatment but the end product discharged into Burrard Inlet would still be nearly three times using our sewers for free in order to ; bypass the regulations set by the “We can’t meet the ministry stanm- ministry, and we as taxpayers are dards, but we can meet the GVRD being asked to pay to upgrade the facilities to handle it."” Neptune has applied to the district to discharge the effluent from its Kootenay Cattle ae Imports and exports jump OTTAWA (CP) — Imports and cost of foreign oll as a result of the Persian Guif crisis. That led to a drop in the mer- Net earnings fall VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. Net earnings dropped to $11.6 million or 82 cents a share from $23.4 million or $1.70 a share. Revenues rose slightly to $290.2 million from $289 million the year before. The Vancouver-based company said earnings from sugar remained stable during 1990, but reduced margins on phenol sales have resulted in a lower contribution to earnings from its chemicals business. B.C. Sugar’s share of carnings Se ee ee ee Ltd., rose to $1.8 nillion frem $1.3 million. 7 ENNIO YOUR LUNGS TAKEA /BREATHER December 19, 1990 Castlegar News A” L0) \ Memy Christmas From All The Staff eSeeyy 368-5606 POOL SUPPLIES “SERVICE IS OUR FIRST CONCERN” 1463 Bay Ave. SS Castlegar News "‘rccyor* 365-2212 < the biggest _| Approval wanted VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. Telephone Co. wants federal regulators to approve a new service that is expec- enhanced ext. display device or the sumber ia busy. services, a group of enhanced phone features that com- pany employees will soon test. - The enhanced features include: UtiliCorp United recently announ- operations in Kansas and Colorado, et dee oom utilities. The said. to purchase Centel’s electric utility UtiliCorp expects record UtiliCorp United is expecting record financial results both in the fourth quarter and for 1990, a news release said for its third consecutive year of logging results. UtiliCorp estimates that 1990 net income will be $58.2 million, compared to $48.3 million in 1989. Primary earnings per com- mon share are estimated to be $2.10, _ versus $2.04 last year. ‘In the fourth quarter ending Dec. +31, the company estimates net income of $20.3 million, compared with $13.9 million in the 1989 quarter. Primary car- mings per common share are projected at $.71, versus $.56 in redialing the last outgoing call if — Storing and returning the last incoming number whether it was answered or not. — Routing unwanted calls to a recorded message that says the receiving party is not accepting calls. — Recording the calling number, date and time of trade, and sending the date to B.C."s security depar- — Displaying the incoming calling number on a call _ tment. : Acquisition costs $346M proximately $346 million and represents the largest transaction UtiliCorp has made since it began its assets for $210.5 million and the of liabilities at $21.3 million. UtiliCorp expects to of West Kootenay Power with com- mon stock listings on the New York, Toronto and Pacific stock ex- The Jeffrey Energy Center, located Power & Light (64 per cent), Kansas Gas & Electric (20 per cent), UtiliCorp (eight per cent) and Centel (eight per cent). UtiliCorp’s Missouri Public Service division presently receives 161 MW of baseload electric capacity from the facility. The three- unit 2,020 MW facility burns low sulfur coal. Upon ii of =the Green, Jr. ‘‘We have had an interest in the Centel property for some time The transaction is subject to ap- provals by various federal and state regulatory agencies, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Com- mission, the Federal Trade Com mission, and the utility regulatory commissions in Kansas and Colorado. the Centel UtiliCorp has invested $420.8 million acquisition, UtiliCorp will own eight Christmas Hours WE WILL BE CLOSED Sunday, December 23 Monday, December 24 Tuesday, December 25 Wednesday, December 26 and Sunday, December 30 Monday, December 31 Tuesday, January 1 Have a Happy Holiday! 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