Local athletes off to Games debate at | RSS % st legar News Council ponders hikes to cemetery fees By SIMON BIRCH Editor 3 Sections (A, B & C) 76 Cents changes end cancellations for the Castleger News Il be accepted up te 5 p.m., Tuesday, Februsry 19 tor TELEPHONE 365-5210 AQ Window Coverings TELEPHONE 365-5210 252% Brian L. HORIZON COMPUTERS ANO ACCESSORIES Brown on wo 365-3760 CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT rr LEGISLATIVE PARLIAMENT BLD COLEMAN COUNTRY BOY SERVICE Sump & Septic Tank Pumping Phone LIBRARY onan! . 2179.cARBTviEW Oneacent EagviRGan be Vin aes Si Kootenay Computers Inc. For all your computer needs For Home & Business Use At the South Slocen Junction 359-7755 270 Columbia Avenue % Castlegar * 365-2151 Gordon A. Read & Co. Certified General Accountant Office 368-6471 Residence 365-2339 1250 Bay Ave., Trail will double in price to $250 from the current $125 for residents. For non-residents, the cost will jump to $400 from $200. The cost of burials will increase 75 per cent to $350 from $200 with extra charges applying on weekends and holidays and after 2:30 p.m. on weekdays. “Even with 100 per cent increases we'll be only in line with other municipalities,”’ Mayor Audrey Moore said Tuesday after hearing the recommendations from the city’s revenue enhancement committee — deputy clerk Betty Price, clerk Berni Nevak and fire chief Bob Mann. In their report, the committee members list 1990 expenditures at $21,556.60 while revenue was $17,477, a When general maintenance expenses are added, revenue lags far behind total expenses for Park Memorial. Interest earned annually on a “‘perpetual care fund” is supposed to’ cover -the annual general main- tenance costs for the cemetery but even with high in- terest rates in 1990 the fund covered just 52 per cent of the costs, the committee says in its report. But there’s also a catch. The Cemetery Act allows the interest generated by the fund to be used only if it’s equal to or greater than the annual maintenance costs. Therefore, city taxpayers picked up the entire $17,165 tab for general maintenance of the cemetery last the fund to the point where the interest equals or betters the maintenance costs, city taxpayers will foot the bill for'maintenance forever, he said. To build up the fund, the city will put half of the money it receives as payment for plots into the perpetual care fund. As well, the city will put 30 per cent of the fees into @ new cemetery. replacement fund to cover future capital expenditures, such as the costs of expanding the cemetery, currently paid for by taxpayers. An additional recommendation calls for ‘‘a thorough analysis’’ of the new fees and charges in one year and continuing annual reviews. All the recommendations are made on the basis that It’s going to cost more to die in Castlegar if city council approves proposed changes to cemetery rates and charges. Council will vote next Monday on fee increases ranging from 12.5 to 100 per cent for everything from plots to exhumations at Park Memorial Cemetery in an effort to bring the fees in line with those charged by other cities and with the actual costs of operating the cemetery. Council adopted its cemetery bylaw — which in- cludes the fee schedule for plots and Services, such as digging graves — in December 1982 and has never Contracto BUILT-IN VACUUM SYSTEMS * NO Bogs to buy * NO Filters to clean © 4.1 peak horse power * 140° water lift * 10-year motor warranty VERTICALS PLEATED SHADES HORIZONTALS Morrison Painting & Insulation * Blown Insulation © Batts & Poly Plumbing & BUY or SELL by AUCTION * Bonkrupicies * Extotes * Consign * Ovteight Purchase DUNCAN MORRISON 650-5th Avenue 365-5255 OPEN MON. 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If the cemetery fills up before the city has a chance to build the “‘user pays” and that,the cemetery should not be subsidized by general taxation, the committee says. City may put bite on dogs By SIMON BIRCH Editor If you’re planning to buy a pit bull terrier, beware — the City of Castlegar is poised to take a huge bite out of your paycheque. Castlegar council is considering licence fees of $1,000 a year for the muscular dogs which have been ban- ned in some cities after —well- Publicized attacks on children and adults. The fees would also apply to Staffordshire terriers and cross breeds. “The amount of the licence fee for pit bulls is actually irrelevant,” city administrator Gary Williams said Tuesday. ‘‘The intention is (people) don’t have them. That’s a fairly common - practice in many municipalities — if you insist on having them, you pay a very high Price."* The proposed fee is part of a series of recommendations dealing with animal control from the city’s revenue enhancement committee — deputy clerk Betty Price, accounting clerk Berni Nevakshonoff and fire chief Bob Mann. — which delivered its report to council Tuesday. Coun- cil will vote on the recommendations at its meeting next Monday. The committee recommends in- creasing licence fees for male dogs to Please see DOGS page A2 CHRIS D'ARCY +++ 'no Intention at this point’ D'Arcy says no for now By SIMON BIRCH Editor Maybe. Maybe not. But right now, *SRomsland-Treil MLA Chris D'Arcy Vince Morelli (left), West K HANDING.OUT THE HARDWARE League, hands Ci obility during last F: poge BI. jar Rebel Chad vide ident of the K ' I Junior Hocke 7 ad Alderson the team’s annual award for sportsmanship an y's awards ceremony at the Community Complex. More on the Rebels, CasNews photo by Louls Laroche College raises tuition as much as 26 per cent By CHERYL CALDERBANK Special to the Castlegar News The Selkirk College board of governors approved tuition fee: in- creases Tuesday ranging from seven to 26 per cent for the 1991-92 academic year. The college expects institutional income will increase by 10 per cent as @ result of the fee hike. College president Leo Perra said Selkirk’s tuition fees still fall short of what Vancouver Community College that Selkirk’s fees are favorable, compared with other community colleges. “It's nice to be idealistic, but it’s no use being idealistic on our own,”* she said. Fleet also pointed out that while tuition fees at Selkirk College have increased a whopping 204 per cent — much higher than universities across Canada which have gone up an average of 103 per cent over the same period. The increase is even higher than East Kootenay Com- munity College, where tuition has in- creased by 158 per cent. He said Selkirk College must determine how the tuition fee in- creases, which are far higher than in- flation, are going to affect students. Levine pointed out that the com- munity college system was set up to ensure that British Columbians have access to instructional and educational programs. He said the mandate of Selkirk College is to of- fer vocational training and adult basic education at @ price which is accessible to students. Fee increases without a clear analysis of how they will affect the Ms , A he said. % “Colleges ¢an no longer Jook for additional revenue from students without looking at the ications,"” “‘Let’s take an opportunity to find out how this will affect students,”’ Levine said. However, college president Leo Perra pointed out that Selkirk -just completed a needs assessment survey. One issue dealt with was tuition fee costs. Of the 1,600 surveys distributed, about 600 of them were returned. Students said in the survey that tr fees were generally con- sidered fair and reasonable. Board member Stu Mathieson said the college is striving to maintain “We have to seek out sources of revenue, of which one is tuition,”’ he said. He added that tuition fees in the university transfer program at the college are about 50 per cent less than what a student would pay at a university. “member John Higginson Said that if the college doesn’t in- Permit OK | will bypass public By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer The B.C. Environment Ministry won't seek publicinput into new waste management permits for Celgar Pulp Co.’s $700 million ex- pansion and modernization project, the head of waste management for the Kootenay region said Monday. The usual process of allowing the public to have its say is being waived in Celgar’s case because of the extent of public input during the major Project review process the company went through to get government ap- proval for the project, said Jim McLaren, who works at the En- vironment Ministry’s Kootenay regional headquarters in Nelson. “In this case, public input has been well exhausted,”” McLaren told the Castlegar News in an interview. However, waiving the public input Process doesn’t mean the public will never again be allowed to comment on Celgar’s permits, he said. Amen- dments to permits are an ongoing Process and Ceigar’s permits will be amended to reflect new technology, McLaren added. Any substantial changes will be amended in the ‘‘normal’’ process with advertisements, giving the Public and government agencies a chance for input. Applications for amendments can be made by any in- dividual, the company, or the ministry. “If we find a need for changing a Permit, we would want to consider those as applications for permits,’’ input he said. “If we were going to change quantity or quality (of waste disposal), we would want public in- put.” McLaren added that ‘the™ ministry would be ‘‘obligated legally and morally to do so."” McLaren and his staff are now working on draft permits for air emissions, solid and liqtiid waste disposal. The new permits will set Out exactly what limits Celgar must operate within based on the final recommendations made by the Celgar Expansion Review Panel in its final report. The review panel made its recom- mendations based on information gathered during public hearings in. September and October. “*We're trying to take all that good information and put it into permit form,"’ McLaren said. ‘‘We’re con- verting the information, in essence, to a legal document.”’ He said once the final report has been released, which he expects to be this week, the permits can be com- pleted. * “We're very anxious to do it. We'd like to wrap this project up.”’ Rossland-Trail NDP candidate Ed Conroy agrees with the decision to waive public hearings but stressed that the public should know it will have plenty of opportunity as time go0es.on to apply for amendments. “The decision has been made to go and that I agree with,”’ Conroy said. ‘But by the same token, I would say public input should never please see PERMITS page A2 By CasNews Staff He’s hooked on Castlegar. Ed Mills is back at his old job as sports reporter for the Castlegar News after a brief stint at the mews desk and in the darkroom at the Vernon Daily News. Mills, who worked for the CasNews from November 1989 to November-1990,-graduated from Mount Royal College’s jour- nalism program in Calgary in 1987. After graduating from Mount Royal, he spent 1987-89 at the University of Calgary taking general studies. Monitor, twice-monthly said. He called on the college to initiate & Survey to determine the impacts of the tuition fee increases on st He said sould evolve into to news of amateur sports in Calgary. Prior to that he reporter and copy time for the Calgary Sun and Alberta. Mills up to bat again at CasNews