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SEARCH AND RESCUE
Air teams to compete

By BONNE MORGAN
Stall Writer

Two civil air search and rescue teanisfrom the West
Kootenay will be among 12 teams competing to see who is
the best in Alberta and’ B,C. next weekend.

The competition, sponsored by the military organization
Civil Air Seareh and Rescue Association, is the the first of its
kind and is designed to promote flight safety and airmanship

Canadian a
The 12 teams of civiliad pilots, navigators and spotters

“We've had four training exercises since January,” said

The Kootenay region extends from the U.S. border to
north of Golden and from Rock Creek to the Alberta border.

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The region is divided into seven different areas
The organization also searches for people as well as

” aireraft,
Hall says the region usually has seven or eight searches‘

“We have had five call-outs and found five targets in the

last eight months,” he said.
Hall says he has beet involved with air search and
rescues since “the early "60s" and has seen it progress frorg
group to an association which is federally.

“It was dallensry fer pilots to automatically stop what
they were doing and go and look for a plane (before).” Hall
said.

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civilian and military search and
“The president of CASARA isa ABC. man, Bob Gouldie.”
a retired search and resede pilot, says Hall.
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Cominco
shipment
on hold

By BONNE MORGAN
Staff Writer

Cominco’s controversial plans to
ship metals to South Africa have been
put on bold by the Ministry of External

fairs.

“We have asked the company n:
to proceed with the shipment even
though they have filled all their legal

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which

approved by the Minty aera

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‘three three year
old old child

By BRENDAN BRENDANNAGLE the doa’s bow! and caw aw
Staff Writer

Fun and games in a back yard in
Fairview turned ugly for a three year
old Creston boy earlier this week.

Romano was visiting his
grandparents Tuesday morning when
he went into the next door nei,
yard to play with some other children

and was viciously attacked by a
Ganwak Shepherd cross dog.
“He ended up in surgery for a
couple of rane his mother, Allana,
told the Castlegar News. “He had a lot

mouth and on his chest Part of one
eyebrow was gow,

The dog — qwned by Randie
Harmston — was destroyed the day of
the incident

mano said she isn't sure why
the dog attacked her son but added it
might have been that one of the other
children playing in the yard grabbed

the dog’s bow! and ran away with it

time of the attack, but said she _
shocked to see her son an hour later
the emergency ward patched up wih

” she said. “He was pretty cut

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Castlegar RCMP have investi-
and no criminal

5 eating
only soft foods right now. “We're using
a syringe to shoot things into his
mouth."

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Politicians opposed
to ferry transfer

By RON NORMAN

Area politicians agreed Saturday

operalon
gar-Robson ferry to local auth-

At its annua] meeting in Creston,
the Association of Kootenay Boundary
Municipalities voted unanimously that
the Castlegar- should be
dealt with in the same manner as the
other 18 B.C. inland ferries.

The

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