se_Castlégar News _ Aorii2, 128 RAILWAY STATION Exhibit to stay awhile By JOHN CHARTERS The Castlegar Heritage Advisory Committee will have to keep the Castlegar Railway Station historical exhibit intact for a little while longer The exhibit drew a considerable number of enthusiastic visitors during Heritage Week and it was the intention of the committee to dismantle the displays and return the loaned artifacts to their owners, to initiate the formation of a heritage society and begin work on restoration. However, while preliminary steps for the society have been initiated, the exhibit has been kept intact for a little longer for several reasons. CasNews publisher Burt Campbell, for example, borrowed several of the early photo- graphs in order to have reproductions made by a professional company for his own records and for the museum A private showing was arranged for the benefit of local school children and several classes, with Sherrel Koreen as A letter from Brenda Balahura of Tarrys elementary importance of such visits in the guide. school underlines the educational scheme of things. She writes in part:"I recently took my Grade 3 class for a tour through the Castlegar Railway Station. They enjoyed it very much and were especially entranced by the models of the paddlewheelers and the telegraph equipment. Since Exploring B.C.’s Past’ is a major unit in Grade 3 Social Studies, a visit to the heritage site was a perfect activity.” Since the development of Castlegar rests on its history of transportation, it has been proposed that the lower floor of the building become a museum of transportation Lottery numbers There was a total of worth The winning numbers in Wednesday's Lotto6-49 draw 390,266 prizes were 9, 12, 19, 35, 36 and 44. $11,660,296.60. The bonus number was 48 The winning The jackpot pool of drawn Wednesday numbers in The A second request, this time by Mac Aberdeen formerly TELEPHONE 365- 52 1 O *-. a telegrapher at the C. ‘station and now a CP Rail Superintendent, culminated recently in an enthusiastic visit, hosted by committee directors Dick MeLeod and John Charters and followed by an exchange of souvenirs and the promise of strong and continued support for the station. Last week, Neil Gillon, host for the CBC S: BUSINESS DIRECTORY COPY roo mane Os cencellations tor the Castlegar ies caaegied ng be 8 porns Weoeden, Accounting morning show from Prince Rupert, was touring the area in search of material on the history and heritage of B.C. and was also given a tour of the building. Within the next two weeks, two other visits are expected. Members of the Vintage Club will be holding a meet in Castlegar today and have indicated an interest in a visit to the site. Later, in the middle of the month, Premier Bill Vander Zalm is expected in the area and a request has been received to make the building available. Last August the premier and his wife, were very enthusiastic visitors to Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park and chapel house. 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In 10 years, Canadian For. est has not met all those con The fourth-prize pool, awarded to those matching four regular numbers, had 19,755 winners of $66.50. In In addition there were 370,121 prizes of $10 awarded to those matching three regular numbers. The Pick numbers were: 3, 15, 17, 25, 28, 42, 44 and 47. of a dis crepancy between these numbers and the official winning numbers list, the latter shall prevail. the event Order souvenir copies of the large, annual... ss Castlegar News REV Tew: BUSINESS. INDUSTRY & TOURISM 1988 Sa a aT aR, money now,” said Bob Daw son, manager of technical services for the waste-man ditions, and two former en vironment ministers, Tony Brummet and Stephen Rog: agement branch. “Some are ers, have granted the firm doing exceptionally well. special ministerial _ permis. What we're saying is: ‘If you sion to exceed the pollution want to expand, clean up limits imposed in the first your act.” permit. 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The spill disrupted traffic, but caused minimal damage as Castlegar volunteer firefighters and a special emergency team from Cominco quickly dyked the leaking acid with sand before neutralizing it with lime. The cleanup continued through Tuesday with the Ministry of Environment, Highways Ministry, Cominco, Inland Natural Gas, B.C. Tel and city crews at the scene at one time or another. Vol. 41, No. 28 pills sulphuric acid The accident occurred when the tractor-trailer unit owned by Trimac Transportation Services Ltd. of Langley was northbound on Columbia Avenue and attempted to make a left turn onto the westbound Highway 3 access road across from the Texaco service station. The trailer the truck was hauling flipped onto its side on the grassy median, rupturing its steel tank and spilling sul- phurie acid onto the median and Columbia Avenue. Castlegar RCMP would not release the name of the driver, who escaped unharmed. However, it is reported to be Svend Jensen, 58, of Lange’, No oorwe have ane laid, and Castle MP is “It was running fiat the edge p> 7 road and pe in a trickle,” said Castlegar Fire Chief Bob Mann. Mann said a passing motorist called the firehall shortly after 2 p.m. The truck was on its way from Cominco’s Trail operations to Vancouver with the acid, which is a byproduct of Cominco's smelting process. The acid leaked out of the tank, onto the median and down Columbia Avenue across 18th Street toward the Woodland Park Shell service station. Shell spokesman Randy Morris said the acid came within a metre of his gasoline storage tank covers as it ran through the station gas pump area and out the other side. Morris said if the acid had reached the tank covers and eaten into the tanks, it would have cost him $500,000. Another stream of acid ran across Merry Road toward the ditch in front of the Fireside Motor Inn, but Mann said RY tt Castlegar CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, 60 Cents New that stream was quickly corralled with sand and neutralized with lime. He commended the Castlegar public works department and the provincial Highways crews for quickly responding with five truckloads of sand. Mann said that while the sand didn’t have any neutralizing effect on the acid, it kept the chemical from flowing further down Columbia Avenue until the lime arrived Cominco trucks later dumped nine loads of lime on the spill. A Cominco emergency team from Trail was also called to help with the spill. The team helped pump the leaking acid back into the truck's tank continued on page A2 WEATHERCAST Cloudy Thursday with isoloted showers. Highs 6-9. Friday will see clouds with some showers: and highs 8-10. Probability of precipitation is 40 per cent Thur sday. Outlook for the weekend is more clouds and showers APRIL 6, 1988 3 Sections (A, B & C) rn is RADIATOR REPAIRS ACID SPILL . . . Environment Ministry official shuts off valve on ruptured tanker trailer following sulphuric acid spill Sunday afternoon on C » | Moore calls for inquiry - t into crash By RON NORMAN Editor Mayor Audrey Moore has called for a thorough investigation into Sun: He noted that Castlegar council has been working on both issues. But Moore isn't sure another truck route would have made any difference day's accident in which a tractor-trailer on Sunday. unit flipped on Columbia Avenue near the Highway 3 overpass, spilling 3,700 litres of corrosive sulphuric acid. “I would want to know why the accident took place,” Moore told the Castlegar News today, adding later that the corner is not a “high speed turn.” “There's going to be an investi gation,” she said. “All of us will be very interested in what caused the acci. dent.” She said she has asked Ald. Patti Richards, interim chairman of the city's protective services committee, to hold a “thorough debriefing so we know as a city what took place.” Moore said the debriefing will include provincial Environment and Highways officials, and representa tives from Cominco, Trimac Trans: portation Services, which owns the truck involved in the mishap, and the city fire department and public works department Meanwhile, Fire Chief Bob Mann “I'm not sure that a secondary access road would have helped in that instance,” she said. And while admitting “we're vul- nerable in this municipality,” she asked: “Can you afford $1'/ million for this municipality; that’s what you have to look at.” She pointed out that council has worked “diligently” to have the inter change modified. Moore said the accident would have been worse had the tractor unit pulling the trailer also flipped because it would have been more difficult to contain the acid. INSIDE Brisco onto igh Avenue at Highway 3 interchange. Some 3,700 litres ot the corrosive ‘REAL HARDSHIP’ New court fees rapped chemical leaked from the trailer which n flipped as truck rounded corner y 3 access roa said the situation could have been worse if the tanker trailer had contained a more hazardous chemical. Mann said the city’s major thoroughfare and access to Highway 3 would have been blocked. “It could have been a helluva lot worse,” he told the Castlegar News. “If that was a more hazardous chemical the whole bloody city could have been blocked off.” Mann said it is the third major truck accident at the interchange in the last few years. CosNews Photo by Ron Norman in hospital Society sets sights on pool page A2 dovtn yu coll ern for a Lottery moving estimate. let pire “One of these days it's going to be By BONNE MORGAN said Leigh Harrison of the British own pocket and bills the Legal Services By BRENDAN NAGLE Send to friends, Once agorr putting this keepsake special edition together coupon to us. Send your order now! 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TV listings off an hour The TV listings in peter 's Castle- A legal heavy court ment. listings inadvertently switched the times for all the TV shows one hour back. The CasNews apologizes for any inconvenience and hopes the TV listings will return to normal in next Wednesday's paper. offices,” he said. Columbia Bar Association. “It's a very substantial increase,” said Harrison, a Trail lawyer. Harrison says a five-day trial that used to cost $50 in court fees will now contrary to what the justice reform committee is supposed to be doing. The committee formed by Attor. ney General Brian Smith began touring B.C. mid-February with the aim of inereasing accessibility and reducing costs of civil court actions. understand why the government didn’t wait until they had the report of the justice reform com- Harrison says he is concerned with the possible impact on legal services. “The concern I have is these new fees are going to come right dut of legal services budget,” he said. aid lawyer fees will number of legal aid cases a firm may take as they absorb the court costs themselves and wait for reimburse- “Where does the up-front money come from to pay the registry?” asked David Miller, a lawyer who of legal aid cases in the West Kootenay. “There is going to be a much tighter case management with law According to Miller, a either pays court costs out of his or her Society or asks the client to come up with the money. People on legal aid usually don't have the money required to take court action, he said. Miller says a case with “two interim motions and two days of trial fees” will cost $340 where it would have cost just $50 before. “Trials that go for two days are not uncommon,” Miller says. This presents greater problems for legal aid lawyers and clients Miller says. Presently, there is a $200 limit on legal aid dispersement costs, court fees and other costs required to bring a settlement. Anything above that limit, which previously left $150 for other dis persement costs, requires special per mission. Miller says after only one day working with the new fee schedule he has had a call from a law firm in the West Kootenay asking for permission to exceed that limit. Miller says he cannot give that permission because it has to come from legal services in Vancouver. Miller noted he is speaking from a persona! point of view and hasn't been able te speak with the head of legal services yet on the new fees. He believes legal services will have to change the limit and in the meantime there will be delays in legal services cases. Unless the Legal Services Society continued on page AZ Harrison says, is suggests reduce the in charge lawyer a load of something that is going to numbers Staff Writer A $2.4-million aquatic centre pro posed for Castlegar is the sole focus of the Castlegar and District Projects Society. “Every nickel that comes in to the Project Society goes to the Aquatic Centre Fund,” Society president Ron Ross, told the Society's annual general meeting Tuesday. “The more money we raise before approaching the provincial government for funds the less taxes we will pay when the facility is completed.” « He said the Society isn't sure how much the provincial government is willing to commit (right now), but added the group is jlobbying hard to comvince the province to back the project heavily. Ross also said the society will approach Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco for possible federal funding. The society's efforts have been stifled over the last year with changing provincial tax laws and available provincial funds for community pro- jeets such as aquatic centres. The proposed aquatic centre will be built next to the Community Complex and join the existing building at the north side near the office The plans for the aquatic centre include a six-lane, 25-metre-long swim. ming pool, a shallow fountain pool, a wheelchair-accessible whirlpool, a continued on poge A7 cause a lot of concern.” He said if the truck on Sunday had contained a flammable chemical or one that emitted toxic fumes the area would have been evacuated He suggested a new interchange and a secondary truck route are vital. The winning numbers drawn Tuesday ir The Pick lottery were 11, 19, 31, 33, 40, 52, 53 and 55. New fees for sewage inspection By CasNews Staff The cost of having local health officials inspect your new sewage dis posal system just increased by $200. The inspection fee went into effect April 1 after it was introduced in the March 24 provincial budget. It falls under the provincial Health Act regu lations and will cover residential sew age installations only “The householder has been re- quired to get a permit since the regu lations were enacted in about 1967,” said Mike Harnadek, chief public health inspector at the Central Kootenay Health Unit. “There's been no charge up until now.” The $200 fee applies to residential continued on poge AZ Peewees second page B1 Vintage cars here page A7