Saturday, November 30, 1991 @ THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON “Oh, yeah! Well, I'd rather be a living corpse made from dismembered body parts than a hunchbacked little grave rabber like you!” PoliceEBEAT A vehicle driven by 20-year- old Amiko Otsuka of Castlegar sustained about $6,000 damage Nov. 25 in a motor vehicle ac- cident. The vehicle, described as a 1984 Pontiac Fiero, was dam- aged when it left the road coming off Highway 3A onto Highway 3 and entered the ditch. There were no injuries and no charges laid at this time. eee Three reports of wallet thefts from the men’s locker room at the C ity Complex were received Nov. 24 by RCMP. An investigation is being conducted but users are encouraged to lock up all valuables while using lex facilities. eee Police responded to a call from Syringa Marina that a man was in the water. As police were arriving, the man, later iden- tified as 44-year-old Doug Richards of Castlegar, had already been pulled from the water and was taken to hospital with hy- pothermia. Richards had slipped on the icy dock. eee Avehicle parked at Castleaird Plaza on Nov. 22 was dam- aged when a rock was thrown through its window. There are no suspects. eee A 1987 Honda driven by Helen Postnikoff, 73, of Crescent Valley, rear ended a 1982 GMC pick up driven by Alan Water- street, 35, of Salmo, on Nov. 19. Waterstreet was stopped on Highway 3A at Glade for the school bus. Postnikoff and her 80-year-old female passenger, Helen Post- ntikoff, were taken to Castlegar Hospital by ambulance. Injuries were believed to be minor. CourtNEWS In Castlegar provincial court, Mike Paul Zaitsoff was fined $300 plus a $30 victim surcharge and sentenced to one year of probation for impaired driving. eee Peter Peter Plotnikoff was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 12 months probation for assault. eee Eli A. Cheveldave was fined $300 and sentenced to four months probation for impaired driving. Cheveldave is also pro- hibited from driving for one year. eee Anthony Giza was fined $450 for hunting an antlerless mule deer without a Limited Entry hunting authorization. eee Aaron Alexander Pongracz was fined $100 for being a minor in a liquor store. The News There's something for everyone! 365-2212 a 4 4 ry 4 4 4 * AT. as SKI& SPORT tro ~~; COLUMBIA "3 IN 1" JCKET “aio” SNOFUN SKI POLES $24° BAUER IN-LINE ROLLERS $99” aM CRYSTAL GLIDE SKI TUNE-UP nu 2” SCOTT DOUBLE SALOMON 447 BINDINGS $799 RENAGADE NEVADA STARTS NOV. 30 sxi Boot? 109 K2 990 m7 S329" ws °449° FLexon 5349? COLUMBIA pants 879° COLUMBIA Pan 149% spac 524° JR. SKI PANTS poor enc °18%° Xmen 79% NIKE AIR SNOW BOOTS rou O49 IR. 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Kelowna police say the car was turning eastbound onto Old Vernon Road from Highway 97 when it was Ml struck by the northbound truck, ‘News photo by Ed Mills It was out with the old and in with the new Wednesday as Selkirk College’s maintenance crew tepaired the root on the Lardeau Wing. Water from last week's rain and snow see; offices, classrooms and laboratories. Selkirk College springs a leak @ Leaking roof causes college staff and students to find new quarters during repairs Donna Bertrand NEWS REPORTER A leaking roof at Selkirk College forced staff and d 1 , two laboratories and a couple of faculty offices to abandon the Lardeau Wi m five fing. The leak, courtesy of last week’s rain and snow storms, now has college officials wondering whether it’s a flat roof application and with a lot of these bond- ed roofs, tar and gravel types, you can expect 20 years out of routinely.” The cause of the leak and whether or not there’s any course for recovery are now being investigated. been a real nigh In the meantime, emergency repairs are under- way while displaced students and staff try to cope with even less space than usual. “That's been a real problem because we're already operating at maximum capacity,” Lintz said. “It’s for the tocy- other buildings can stand up through a hard winter. “With one site failed, I’m sure we're going to be walking on pins and needles all winter hoping we don’t have a massive failure in another part of the campus,” Information Director Joe Litz said. The Lardeau Wing and the campuses other build- ing form part of the original campus constructed in 1965-66. The buildings were reroofed nine years ago by the same contractor. The new roofs were expected to last some 20 years. “It doesn't seem like (nine) years is a very long life expectancy for a roof of this type,” Lintz said. “I mean cle in these displaced students.” The repairs involve stripping the old roofing com- pound, the tar and gravel and the roofing deck down to the suspended concrete ceiling, he said. A tempo- rary roof will then be put on to sustain it over the win- ter. “Then, once the weather: situation improves, they’re going to asses the condition of the entire roof of the college.” Lintz couldn't say when the repairs would be com- pleted, but added, “They're working on it just as fast as they can.” Castlegar water safe and sound @ Mayor says no problem with local water supply Scott David Harrison EDITOR Water a problem? Not according to Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore. In fact, Moore says Castlegar’s water sup- ply is just fine, thank you. “Our water is absolutely excel- lent,” Moore said Wednesday. Moore made the comment fol- lowing a one-day seminar last week where the quality of water in the area came under scrutiny. The seminar, sponsored by Kerr Wood Leidal Gore and Stor- rie Inc., concluded that, while Kootenay water is good, area com- munities need to pump more mon- ey into treatment facilities to keep it that way. Moore says that isn't the case in Castlegar. She says the local water supply has never been better and Castlegar plans to keep it that way. Unlike other West Kootenay communities where ground: and surface water are relied on, Castlegar has the Arrow Lakes at its disposal. “The supply is certainly there,” Moore said. “The Arrow Lakes aren't going to dry up tomorrow.” In the West Kootenay, there were 110 reported cases of giar- diasis, or beaver fever. This year, about 85 cases of beaver fever have been reported throughout the area. Moore doesn't want any part of that though and says Castlegar isn't at any risk. “Our water is great, it’s impec- cable,” she said. Castlegar set up its water sys- tem in 1980, erecting one water fil- tration system to handle the sup- ply being pumped in. At that time, Celgar signed a 20-year agree- ment with the city to do the actu- al pumping procedure. “It’s a great success story,” she said of the creation of the city wa- ter supply. “All the citizens partic- ipated in making sure we got the system.” Prior to the water system, Castlegar relied on the Columbia River, surface water and wells for its drinking source. “At the time we brought in the water system, we were really look- ing ahead and that thinking has paid off.” killing Brown instantly. Kelowna RCMP are still investi- ped through the roof and flooded several gating the crash and charges are pending. Brady says goodbye to CKQR 760 Jonathan Green NEWS REPORTER Gordon Brady is a happy man. Just ask him. “‘T’m elated”, he said, “It’s been a long wait.” The wait Brady refers to is the time it took for the Canadian Ra- dio-television and Telecommuni- cations Commission to approve the sale of his radio station, Castlegar’s CKQR 760 AM. Brady sold the station to Boundary Broadcasting Ltd. of | Grand Forks in May, and just re- ceived the word from the CRTC on Wednesday. He co-founded the station in 1969, and will turn the keys over to the new owners on Dec. 1. But Brady says he’ll still be around. ‘Tm certainly not leaving Castlegar,” he said, adding that a long overdue vacation is first on the agenda. And upon returning, he says he may begin a new career in pol- itics. “If the Reform Party was in- terested in me, I might be inter- ested in them,” he said. “Feder- ally that is. “It’s certainly not a high prior- ity item,” he added. As for his loyal listeners, Brady says they have nothing to worry about. “I know that the new people have new ideas,” he said. “Things will be even better for the ’QR listening audience.”