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BY Financing |5 a Sunday 0.A.C. |i ues Vol. 42, No. 9 100% WEATHERCAST Today: Cloudy with periods of rain or wet snow beginning this atternoon: High near 4 Rain-or-wet snow precipitation is 50 per cent today ‘and 70 percent Monday 7 “stlegar News 60 Cents CASTLEGAR BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 29. 1989 3 Sections (A, B&C) AY Rezoning plana ‘dilemma 89 89 Effect of sale unknown By CasNews Stat and News Services SALE OF THE WEEK! 2 LEFT!!! i It’s not known yet what effect if 1988 BERETTA’S any the sale of Consolidated-Bathurst COU PE Inc.,to--Stone—€ontainer Corp. of Chicago will have on Celgar Pulp Co $10,96 Chev Sprints... $8220 EVER Beretta GT.*17,6297° 89 Tt oun FREIGHT INCLUDED, eal itacl lea aia in Castlegar By BRENDAN NAGLE acre vacant lot that is on the corner 7 i sl NGA ee Pulp mill manager Wilf Sweeney Staff Writer of 14th Avenue and Highway 3. The gir conc POST WOE, Pave pointed out that Consolidiated Bath Residents living in the High Mead- _ other 25 per cent at the meeting were locks, tilt steering, stereo, reclining urst is only a part owner of the ows subdivision have drawn the in favor of rezoning the corner lot for t and more. Full pulp mill and said he has “‘no idea" battle lines for a rezoning application the facility what impact the sale will have on the by a local developer who wants to High Meadows resident Harry build an intermediate care facility in Stan summed up the controversial From L 9 / 2 6 6 BE neecertorens EITHER ONE FOR ONLY PLUS TAX, LOADED. FREIGHT INCLUDED. avaliers... * | bee 8220 89 Celebrity’s local operation “Anything would be pure specula tion,” he said Arnold Brookstone, Stone Contain er Corp.'s senior vice-president and chief financial planning officer in residents the neighborhood At a continuation of a public hear- ma ing which began Tuesday and lasted 1% hours, about SO High Meadows packed rezoning application as a ‘‘dilem We're emma,” caught in a’ bit of a dil Stan told council members into city council at the meeting. “I support quality 6 7 Chicago did not return calls from the chambers Wednesday night to voice development . . . but'not in my back Castlegar News their_concerns over the proposed. yard The-announcement was made SS-bed facility. Of the people who Stan's concerns were echoed by trom... 7 Thursday that Power Corp. of Can were there, close io 75 per cent were: numerous residents last night who a PLUS TAX ada and its two partners are. selling opposed to the facility saying proper-. said they weren't against a new PLUS TAX. V-6, 5-SPD., PLUS J. MORE. FREIGHT INCLUDE! control of Consolidated-Bathurst Inc ty values would decrease if the intermediate-care facility to replace one of Canada's largest producers of facility was constructed on the seven continued on page A2 forest products, to Stone Container - > : Corp. The deal is reported to be a cite * worth $2.6 billion ent ee JUST ARRIVED 2-1989 Long Box $-10 P.U. 4.3 Litre, V-6 tilt and Full Size 4x4 _ $y 5 Full Size 4x4 Ext. Cab $99 S-10 Pickup Short Box $98 Fuel inj., 4-cyl., 5-spd., manual, radio, 3 to choose from. Starting 19,6 ,495 642 PLUS TAX §°5 .PLUS TAX ] 22 PLUS FAX 89 89 89 QS-10 Blazer 4x4 $ 4.3 Litre V-6, Auto. & Much More. 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Both Consolidated Bathurst and Power Corp... its long time controlling shareholder, are based in Montreal Power Corp. owns 40 per cent of Consolidated-Bathurst. Bouverie In vestments Ltd. of London, England, owns 1S per cent and the Kuwait Investment Office owns about 10 per cent. The fst of the shares are widely held Meanwhile the federal government to block the continued on page A2 unions have called on here: 24, children Manichanh, 8, Sourivanh_and_Sourikone, La, Family settles | down By CHERYL CALDERBANK A Laotian family who came to Castlegar three months ago from a refugee camp in Thailand is now settling down to life in Canada and is happy to be Khamdy Seneyavong, 26, his wife Bounthavy, five-year-old 4, SHE'S A WINNER . Marnie McKenzie of Vernon won the 2.5- kilometre race for the totally blind Saturday at the annual Ski for Light competition at the Castlegar Golf Course. Guide Dennis Lee keeps an eye on the cross-country skier. Trail’s Debbie Bray, the only local entrant, also won her eveht part CasNews. the 2.5-kilometre race for skiers with | vision. Saturday's races capped the week l6fig local Ski for Light event, sponsored by the Nordic Lodge No. 76 and the Nordic Ski Touring Club. Complete results in weenssecy's race Transport group named | = apptaising group aren't s« About 50 High Mead council chambers Wednesday night and the meeting opposed the rezoning of the empty seven-acre lot corner of 14th will lower their propert But Terry Bell facility is modern and well constructed, the By CasNews Staff The provincial government has ap. pointed a 2S-member committee to provide recommendations for a com prehensive transportation the Kootenays Howard Dirks, minister of state for the Kootenays, said the committee will provide local input to the provin plan for exciting” Sally house come in,”’ for him and his family people are kind," The Seneyavong family lives in an apartment at Maranatha Court cial transportation planning process called Freedom to Move, a 10-year $7-billion plan to improve B.C.'s network of land, air and water trans portation systems. Highways Minis ter Neil Vant announced the plan in November “The consolidated made up of members from regional committee is “The Canadian he said Williams; recalled that when the family arrived at the Castlegar Airport, the first place they wanted to go, before even going to Khamdy’s uncle’s was the apartment “Tt was neat to’ go to the airport and sce them Williams said only had two weeks’ notice that they were The supporting families had just a short time to “It was really exciting. We oming find a place for the family to live, as well as clothing and utensils. The families which sponsor the- Seneyavongs hold fundraising events to help support them. Their next event is a dance on Feb. 5. They-have also held bake sales, garage sales and a spaghetti supper twins and his sister can, have all helped out “We are trying to raise as much money in the “Some of the churches have been very’ good about support,"* Presbyterian, Catholic and Baptist churches Williams said. The United, Angli she said. Pierre Sennhavong approached Mary-Beth Small and asked for help in bringing his nephew and family to Canada. Sennhavong, who has been here since 1980, also has a sister, who came here in 1983 In an interview this week with the Castlegar News Khamdy said coming to Canada was “‘vety day to learn English Wililams said Khamdy is the top student in his class and he has even skipped a level. In the evenings he works as a dishwasher at East Gate Gardens. Before Christmas, he passed the test for his learner's permit to operate a motor vehicle Whik task transportatior have been closely studying transpor- Kootenays since Dirks forces on tation issues in tHe early last year said in a news release The task prehensive forces submitted com regional and I proposals on this past fall transportation sed intermediate-carc sources at the B.C Avenue Property values may not drop By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer residents in the High Meadows subdivision are worried a facility will bring down their property Land Assessment Authority and a private sure ws residents packed into Castlegar city 75 per cent of the people at on the and Highway 3 because they fear the facility values. appraiser in Nelson, said if the property a private land values in the continued on page A2 continued on page A2 it got (in their country)."" she said The Seneyavongs escaped from Laos to Thailand in 1984 by Mekong River in a tiny homemade boat Khamdy said it was a small boat with just one sail and just enough room for him and his family crossing the a community as possible,"’ Williams said. ‘This means less of a financial responsibility for j1s."" F Vilay, 19, arrived in Castlegar Oct. 17. The famity Considering the life they came from, the family SETTLING DOWN... The Seneyavong family from a refugee camp in Thailand last October hae im 3 had been living in a refugee camp in Thailand for has adjusted to life in Castlegar “‘extremely wetl,*. Khamdy, La, twins Sourivanh and Sourikone and is enjoying a new life in Canada | f | ida yeata Williams said Bounthavy and Manichanh. The family came sens ists by Cher Cangarbiain } The Seneyavong family came to Canada on the “The children are very happy in school. They US A a sponsorship of five families: Alexia and Gordon are learning and using a lot of English but are still One major adjustnient for the family has been They crossed the Mekong at night and slept on Turner, Peter and Wendy Roswell, Mary-Beth and very much a part of their own culture,"’ she said the Canadian winter. However, Williams said the the riverbank until morning when they woke up and ” Ps Hugh Small, Pierre and Rosa Sennhavong, (Pierre is “Their father, whose education was interrupted _ snow is exciting for the children walked to the police station From there they were "i Khamdy’s uncle), and David and Sally Williams. after Grade 9 by the war in Laos, goes to school all When we came it was fall and that is as.cold as taken to a refugee camp for Laotian people But living conditions were far from perfect in the camp_-of 20,000 people “It was very hard to live in Thailand.”” Khamdy said For one thing, the continued on poge A3 refugees are not allowed out