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A victorious In the Soviet Union 0 years of persecution FAMINE IN THE LAND Wed., Sept. 20 —7p.m. Pentecostal New Lite Assembly Castlegar * 365-5212 Everyone Welcome “Our national executive board has decided unanimously that we can't wait for the end of negotiations in 1990 to resolve (these) Parrot, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, said Tuesday at a news conference “All locals and regional offices have been instructed to prepare for a strike."” Parrot said no date has been set for a strike and the union has applied for a three-member conciliation board to help avoid a cross-Canada walkout The 46,000 workers — including let issue: STAR t | GROCERY 328 Rossland Ave., Trail 364-1824 NOW TAKING ORDERS WINE JUICE & GRAPES GRAPES JUICE Oakley Zinfandel Blend Carignane Cabernet Blend Grenache Barbera Barbera Burgundy Valdepenas Valdepenas Mix Black Chenin Blanc Petite Sarah French Columbard Muscat Muscat Palomino Palomino Zinfandel Chablis *WINE SUPPLIES Sauvignon Blanc "GLASS CARBOY 17" Riesling Grey ter carriers and inside workers — have been without a contract since July 31 “After more than two months at the bargaining table we have an employer who has refused to address issues and problems,” Parrot said The union is opposed to the sale of Canada Post to the private sector, a possibility raised recently by Harvie Andre, the federal minister responsible for the corporation “1 didn’t intend it to be a provocation to the union and they shouldn't take it as a provocation,” Andre said in Ottawa, playing down threats of a strike. He said there is always that kind of talk during con tract bargaining Parrot accused Ottawa of cutting back on service while increasing rates so the post office would turn a profit and become a more attractive prospect for privatization. Crown corporations aren’t supposed to make a profit, he said And, flushed and shouting, Parrot Our Action Ad Phone F 00 Zintandel Juice Kmscrmc wine Fitters. 275 Just arrived from Portugal — corks J Number is 365-2212! 4 “ . Castlegar News \x Words for : werd for 3x dads only- Wensitied disploy and commercia price of 2x ads exempt. ‘ tor 2X Prices ay, September 29, 1989- PHONE CLASSIFIED DIRECT Ad Runs go 3X tor ved Ads ssitied Mey Go OX bape? cra 1 With this Spe F Otter ends ot JV a.m. on piack & XE An ad counsellor will help you write an effective ad \. SEZ 365-2212 Castlegar News sy, y also_charged_that_Canada—Posthas been harassing workers by not giving them sick leave and he pointed to Peter LeMay’s suicide in London, Ont., as an example. LeMay, a 35-year-old letter carrier, killed himself after the corporation refused to let him feturn to work after an unpaid leave he spent recovering from a car accident. Canada Post then suspended about 450 London ‘postal workers, most for five days, after they called in sick to attend LeMay’s funeral “They don’t care why the postal workers walk out, they just punish them,”’ Parrot said He acknowledged a'strike would not be popular with the public but said the union would try to show people why the issues are worth a strike. Earlier this year, the postal workers’ union won the right to represent all Canada Post employees after the Canada Labor Relations Board or- dered that only one should represent them RCMP boss called to hearing MONTREAL (CP). — RCMP Commissioner Norman Inkster has been summoned to appear at a Quebec Superior Court hearing into an ap- plication by a staff sergeant to get the right to organize a union, Inkster is one of about 50 people to be called to testify at the three-week hearing which opened Monday. Other scheduled witnesses include security experts from Europe and the United States. Inkster is expected to testify Sept union The hearing is into a request by Staff-Sgt. Gaetan Delisle that the court overturn sections of the Canada Labot Code-and-the Public Service~Staff Relations Act which prohibit RCMP members from forming a union or association to negotiate working con- ditions. Delisle, a 20-year veteran of the for- ce, argues the ban denies constitutional guarantees of equal treatment under the law and amounts to discrimination. Delisle, who has been leading a fight to unionize the force since 1985, said about 90 per cent of the 1,200 regular and civilian members of the RCMP in Quebec want a union He testified officers had little con- trol over their transfers around the country and rules affecting their per- sonal lives could not be easily changed without a union. Until the 1970s, for example, he said officers were not allowed to marry un- til they had at least two years’ service. BUSINESS September 13,1989 Castlégar News “¢ Briefly Communists want exodus to stop EAST BERLIN (AP) — East German's Communist leaders are demanding that Hungary stop allowing East Germans to flee to West Germany by the thousands in an exodus that is dtaining their labor pool of young, skilled workers. About 11,000 East Germans had arrived in West Germany by ‘Tuesday night and West German border officials said the mass trek to the West may have peaked. There were indications East German authorities have begun restricting travel to Hungary. The refugees have travelled by car, train and bus through Austria to their new homeland since midnight Sunday night, when Hungary suspen- ded a 1969 agreement with East Germany and opened its border to the refugees. The border officials said the number of refugees, who are granted automatic citizenship in West Germany, could top 15,000. Premier touts B.C. as home QUESNEL (CP) — Some of the thousands of East Germahs fleeing to the West through Hungary should consider coming to British Colum- bia, Premier Bill Vander Zalm said Tuesday. **I'm throwing out this balloon,"’ he said in an interview. ‘*l want to get some kind of readifig from the people in British Columbia. If the reading is a positive one, thend would like to approach the prime minister on that **We'd have tens of thousands of people, people with tremendous skills, | would expect,’’ Vander Zalm said. Poland eyes western reforms WARSAW (CP) — Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki pledged that the new Solidarity-dominated government will transform Poland af- ter 45 years of rule by the Communist Polish United Workers’ party. Mazowiecki outlined Tuesday a program of western-style reforms to parliament, which swore in his 23-member coalition cabinet called the Council of Ministers, It was the first formal break with Communist rule in eastern Europe for more than 40 years. Mazowiecki, 62, said Poles would find the reforms tough but there was no other way out of economic catastrophe. He had interrupted his speech after almost fainting from exhaustion after months of hard bargaining over forming a government. Woman asks accused to wed CALGARY (CP) — A Calgary woman has asked the man accused of killing her cousin to marry her Shannon Wilson, 21, proposed during a prison visit — and Donald McGregor said yes. The two met about five years ago. McGregor, 24, of Calgary, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 15-year-old Chrissy Mowat, who was found shot to death April 23 in a wooden shack about 12 kilometres east of Calgary. “*Chrissy Mowat was a cousin to me by marriage — my aunts and un- cles haven't spoken to me since I started to see Donny,” Wilson said Phillips denies romance FEVERSHAM, Ont. (CP) — Capt. Mark Phillips denied any romantic links Tuesday with his former Canadian publicist Katharine Birks. “*It’s absolute nonsense and there’s no truth to this whatsoever,”’ he said in a brief interview at a rustic farmhouse in this rural community 110 kilometres northwest of Toronto. The allegations of a relationship with Birks, he added, are ‘‘absolute balls.” Phillips, 40, recently split with Princess Anne, 39, after rumors of marital strife dogged them for the latter half of their 15-year marriage. For months, London tabloid newspapers have suggested both were inVolved in extramarital relationships. m PTL trial continues CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A disabled coal miner's wife testified that PTL officials gave her the run-around when she tried to use her $1,000 US “‘lifetime partnership” at a ministry resort. **1 expected this to get a vacation every year for the rest of our lives. That was-what was sold to us,’’ said Sarah Combs, who has 13 children and whose family lives on $400 a month. Also on Tuesday, two former advisers to Jim Bakker testified they warned the PTL founder that he was risking legal troubles by taking too much money from the ministry. Forests Ministry won't expand PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — Although the Forests Ministry plans to monitor logging operations more closely, it isn’t planning to hire any more staff, Mike Wilkins, director of operations, said from Victoria “*My challenge to regional and district managers is to reassess their Priorities, to rechannel their energies,’’ said Wilkins. Wilkins was responding to a memo from Wes Cheston, assistant deputy minister of forests. GETTING READY . . . ground clearing is progre: Centre on Highway 3 at 14th Avenue. T existing Raspberry Lodge in Raspberry. he interm je care facility wi CosNews photo by Claude! ing for the new Castle View Care replace the Business social held The Castlegar Chamber of Com- merce had its first meeting after-hours social at Strong and Associates office on 18th St. in the Castlegar Savings Credit Union building Sept. 7. Business after hours is an oppor- tunity for business people to visit other businesses in the community and, in an informal setting, have an opportunity to talk with the host about his/her business as well as network with other business people in attendance, a news release from Strong and Associates says. The first business after-hours meeting attracted 27 people and both the chamber of commerce directors and Marilyn Strong were pleased. “For the first event we were delighted with the turnout," said chamber manager Bev Kennedy. ‘‘We weren’t sure how many to expect but everyone had a good time and an op- Portunity to meet other business people before heading off to other meetings or home.”’ Ginette Laturnus of Fashion Flair in Nelson was the winner of a ticket to Wolfgang Babbel’s The Secret of Ex- cellence seminar donated by the Federal Business Development Bank asa door prize. The next business after hours will be hosted by the Commercial Unit of the Bank of Montreal on Oct. 25 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. New KML facility has world rights to skidder Connection studied B.C. Hydro will conduct a com- public Program as part of the utility's plan- ning and design studies for a possible 230 kilovolt interconnection with The Washington Water Power Company of Spokane, B.C, Hydro has announ- ced. The studies will also include detailed assessments of the project's technical 4 and issues, the utility says in a news release. The new interconnection would in- volve the ‘construction of two 230 kilovolt lines from Hydro’s Selkirk substation near Trail to the United States border. Each line would be from eight to 17 kilometres long depending upon which route is selected, connec- ting at the border to a new transmission line to be built in the United States by Washington Water Power, B.C. Hydro says. Hydro’s studies will focus on the Canadian portion of the project and will involve meetings with local interest groups, landowners and the general public in the project area. The public consultation program is underway and public meetings will be held in com- munities near the transmission line corridor during September and Oc- tober, the Crown utility says. Along with technical and environ- mental considerations, the results of the public consultation program will be used to select a route, Hydro says. Should the decision be made to proceed with the project, all the data will eventually support requests for regulatory approval to the National Energy Board and the B.C. Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resour- ces. In other news, Hydro says it will conduct a tailwater improvement study and a construction traffic impact study in association with the proposed powerplant project for the Hugh Keenleyside dam north of Castlegar. Tailwater is that portion of a river's flow immediately downstream from a dam or powerplant Both studies will involve public con- sultation, providing opportunities for local communities to supply input to the planning process, Hydro says, The information collected will be used to upgrade other studies carried out before 1985. Hydro will conduct the two studies during September and Oc- tober. Hydro is planning to advance the Keenleyside and Murphy Creek projects to shelf-ready status in case @ need for power materializes later in the 1990s, the utility says in the news release. Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212! Coming Soon United Way KICK -OFF DAY! Sat., Sept. 16 FOR DETAILS See Page C-5 GIVE GENEROUSLY TO THE UNITED WAY! 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The purchase and sub- sequent expansion of the company was assisted by a $300,000 loan guarantee arranged by the Ministry of Regional Development, a news release from Dirks’ of- fice says, To accommodate the expansion of the company, Kootenay has oped a th site in Nelson which previously served as the City of Nelson public works yard. “This is a significant day for Kootenay Manufac- turing and the City of Nelson,”’ said Dirks, minister of state for Kootenay. ‘‘For the Fahrenholtz family, whose son Wayne is the president of the company, this signifies continuation of a 35-year history in the area. For the City of Nelson and the Kootenays this means real economic benefits today and into the future.”” The company will have more than doubled its workforce by year’s end to 60 employees with an annual payroll in excess of $1.3 million. In addition the regional economy receives a significant boost from the millions courage “We're building new strengths on our old strengths — in this case our forestry expertise — and we're con- tributing to sustainable development that protects the ”* Veitch saysin . The KMC tracked skidder differs from other skid- ders in that it operates on a high-speed steel track. This means the machine has greater agility, reduced shook loads and the ability to work on steep, swampy or rugged terrain. These features are paricularly important for working in environmentally sensitive areas. The tracked skidder significantly reduces impact on the logging area, according to the company. Kootenay Manufacturing expects to initially produce two of the new skidders per month. KMC skid- ders will be marketed through a worldwide network of 25 distributors in 16 countries. “*I think its terrific that we’re going to be shipping the Kootenay name throughout the world,” Dirks said. “This is a first-class product and I think it is significant that the company had the confidence in the skilled workmanship of the area to locate the new operation herein Nelson.”” FERRARO’S Your satisfaction is our main concern Castlegar, B.C. VIN 31 365-7292 B.C. grown * Canada no. | *.white $1.4 All This Week! = 6.79 potatoes B.C. grown * Canada no. 1 * cooking cream Big Dipper + assorted flavours limit 2 per family purch 21. 49 “works out to 25 Ib. bag 5 oy uy a ground only .14/Ib. onions B.C. grown * Canada no. 1 * green Chase & Sanborn * regular or fine ffee limit 2 per family purchase 300g 49 works out to only .24/Ib. 25 Ib. bag cabbage works out to only .20/Ib. 5-8 lb. pkg. 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