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B,C,D... orX, YorZ Yes, whether your business name starts with A or with Z, Business Directory advertising is for you! RATES ARE ATTRACTIVE, TOO! Phone 365-5210 for Full Details THE ROCKET . . . Youngsters swamp Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard for Select Oidti s A - “wre 1 Oldpr at cast Monday with periods of wet snow or rain. CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1986 Vol. 39, No. 6 “Qe BWCents 3 Sections (A,B &C) d the contest autographs following night's game at the C Complex. Richard CasttewsPhoto by Rion Norman CALGARY (CP) — Pacifie Western Airlines, encouraged by the “substan- ” of contract talks, says it won't have to reduce operations — at least for now. Spokesman Jack Lawless said early in the week the airline might have to He had said the company was under pressure to make budget decisions for 1986 and the uncertainty of its labor costs could force it to reduce opera- tions. RON SKILLINGS City clerk resigns By CasNews Staff City clerk Ron Skillings has re- signed. The resignation, effective last Mon- FOR BUILDING FUND Chamber agrees to fee By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer The Castlegar Chamber of Commerce agreed at a general meeting Thursday night to give chamber directors the authority to charge each member $100 for the chamber’s building fund. The fee wouldn't include individual members. Chamber president Paul Moroso stressed that members won't necessarily be assessed the $100 Moroso said the authority is a “tool” available to directors should they have no alternative. Only 12 of the 22 chamber members at the meeting voted on the levy. The vote was 7-5 in favor of the assessment. Building Chairman Mike O'Connor told the meeting he's talked to chamber members on the street and they indicated that rather than approaching members for donations of labor or supplies, it would be easier to assess every member $100. But some members at the meeting felt it would be wise to wait until the building is partially completed before asking members for money. O'Connor also suggested that some arrang: could be made with members who have already donated more than $100 in cash or supplies. O'Connor ‘said the chamber's $29,349 grant for the building will only cover the labor. He said the chamber has also received donations of labor and material. Total cost of the building is estimated at $75,000. O'Connor pointed out that the chamber already has $21,000 but will still be short about $21,000. “We are going to need some money and some more donations,” he said. O'Connor said that in one of its fund-raising efforts, letters were sent to all 31 past chamber presidents asking for $100 donations to the building fund. He said some of those donations are starting to come in. O'Connor reported that work has begun on the basement of the building, but the ground was found to be too hard on the machines. He said the building committee has been investigating ideas on how to thaw the ground. He said plans are for a work party today to gather firewood at the lake in order to build a fire to thaw the ground. In other chamber news a SunFest 86 committee is being formed. The SunFest celebration will be a three day event, according to SunFest chairman Gary Pearson. Proposals for SunFest events include: a summer concert for teens, a senior picnic, golf and baseball tournaments, queen pageant, Rotary pancake breakfast, Sunflower Run, parade, bingos, and actitivies at Pass Creek Park. Chamber members also suggested other activities, such as a midway, a yacht race and a seniors bocce tournament. Carl Henne, the city’s appointee to the chamber, reported that the chamber did not receive all the funds it requested from the city in the 1986-87 fiscal year. But he said the money set aside for the chamber — about $15,000 — is more than the chamber received last year. He said $6,000 has also been earmarked for the sani- station at the new chamber office site. As well, there is money set aside for the city's portion of paving around the new building and upgrading of 6th Ave. A total of $2,000 has also been set aside for signs in the city. Marilyn Strong, tourism and promotion chairman, said the two main thrusts of her committee in 1986 include putting out a Castlegar visitors guide and making Castlegar a conference and convention centre. Strong said the visitor's guide will be out this spring and plans are to have 15,000 copies printed. The color brochure will be distributed outside of Castlegar in places like the Okanagan, Alberta. Washington, Idaho and Montana. The second project is called “Destination Castlegar” and the committee is hoping to pool major hotels and restaurants together to make Castlegar 4 conference and convention destination. Michael Mayrhofer, retail and revitalization committee head, said his short-term goals include getting together with the D i A i commit. tee to work with them on revitalization. He said a long-term goal is to take action on revitalization Mayrhofer said he would also like to see the downtown and plaza areas cleaned up “to make it a nicer place to shop.” ‘Another goal is to advertise Castlegar in outlying areas to try and attract more retail sales. Nick Chernoff, airports and transportation chairman, said the goal this year is to improve signs ow Castlegar, continved on page AI Salmo mill reported closed By CasNews Staff The Castlegar News has received unconfirmed reports that Smallwood Lumber Ltd. of Salmo has closed its doors less than four months after it opened. The reports indicate that all 18 employees have been laid off while the company tries to restructure its finan- cing. Gordon Fitchett, one of the firm's four directors, was contacted at the mill Friday, but declined to comment He directed any inquires to mill manager Roger Crossley Crossley, who is also a company dir ector, was not home when the Castle gar News called his residence Friday and Saturday. A person who answered the phone said Crossley isn't expected to return home until Monday. Smallwood was the centre of con troversy when it was first awarded the licence for the timber rights of the former Louisiana Pacific sawmill in April 1984. The Arrow Lakes Tugboat Society protested the decision, saying three of the four directors were employed by Westar Timber Ltd. at the time and the company was not incorporated. Criticism mounted when Smallwood began cutting timber from Crown land and selling it to Westar before the Salmo mill was built The mill was officially opened last Oct. 21 by then-forests minister Tom Waterland, though it had been cutting railroad ties and rough two by fours for three weeks previous. day, was d by Castlegar council in committee of the whole Tuesday evening. Deputy clerk Betty Price will take over Skillings’s position, while ad- ministrator Dave Gairns will handle the deputy clerk duties. Ald. Albert Calderbank, chairman of the finance and administration com- mittee, said Skillings's resignation was “a mutual agreement.” “There was no animosity whatso- .” he added, saying Skillings left on good terms. Skillings had been with the city for about seven years. RON SKILLINGS . - mutual agreement Centre unhappy with bank chequing policy By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer Castlegar’s Unemployment Action Centre is unhappy with what it says is the Canadian Imperial Bank of Com merce's policy of requiring welfare recipients to produce two pieces of identification when cashing their Minis try of Human Resources cheques. And to protest, the centre Thursday closed its account at the downtown branch of the bank. UAC coordinator Joe Irving says in a prepared news release, the centre has CIBC branch manager Ivan Dechkoff said he called Irving, who had not approached Dechkoff about the matter before closing the UAC account, to discuss the policy. Dechkoff said he explained to Irving that the policy requiring two pieces of identification to cash welfare cheques comes from the Ministry of Human Resources and not the Bank of Com- merce “He (Irving) wasn't aware of that,” Dechkoff said. However, Dechkoff added that “if an been told by “numerous reci of welfare locally that even though they have in many cases dealt with the Bank of Commerce for years, now that they are on welfare they must now produce two sets of identification in order to cash their MHR cheques.” The release says the bank's attitude is “unacceptable.” “We urge the Bank of Commerce to reconsider and to change this unfor tunate and callous policy,” the release In an interview later Thursday, dual is a of the bank and is well known to the bank” then two pieces of identification would not be required But Dechkoff said if the bank does not follow MHR policy and a problem arises with a cheque, MHR would not be obligated to negotiate that cheque. Irving later told the Castlegar News he accepts the fact that “the policy is imposed on the banking industry as a whole” by the ministry However, he said he disagrees with continued on poge AS