tislative Library, ‘hiament Bldgs., 501 Belleville st Victoria, B, Cc, D'Aréy, By BRENDAN NAGLE. Staff Writer In a bit of a change Tuesday, Nelson-Creston Social Credit MLA Howard Dirks and Rossland-Trail NDP MLA Chris D'Arey found themselves standing on the same side of Pa; ey ong peesery ce boemepied yy _ Weaneier. May 26 for the month of June. wha ds ‘eel TELEPHONE 365-5210 HERMAN’ Dirks oppose CP Rail operate a rail line if it was found to be profitable in the near future However, “It's certainly part and parcel, we believe, of the development of this region,” Dirks told the Castlegar News during a break in the proceedings. “CP was talking a little bit about Burlington Northern, but Burlington Northern really doesn't serve this region like the CP line does.” minister Erik Nielsen, opened at the Community Complex ~ Tuesday-amt continued today. Tt will ‘ultimately decide whether CP Rail shall continue to operate the 161-kilometre. long track line between Midway and Castlegar at the Robson West track near Celgar. The hearing is the first for the Accounting Optometrist if the economically viable in the fut the rail line will be and it's in the public interest for CP Rail to continue operation, the line will stay hearing f IT is with pleasure that Mr. and Mrs. P. Bourchier and Mr. and Mrs. R. Wayling announce the orthcoming marriage of their ristine and Rand July 9, Socred Heart jossiand Val Larissa ond James Nicholas James, born May 14, 1988, Cran. brook Hospital. Proud | gran dparents are Nick and Edna Chernoff and John ond Edith Roberts. 4 £X-AUSSIE? Come to Castlegar June 3, 4 and 5 and help celebrate Sun fest 88, Salute to Australio Buy a lottery button and win a trip home on Qantas or | of many other great prizes. FOR MORE INFO: Castlegar Chamber of Commerce 365-6313 ALCOHOLICS Anonymous and Al-Anon. Phone 365 104/71 JON WYNGAARD, M.A. in dividual and family counsellin 352-5621 in/ 28 9 Old Time Fid for the lovely lunch and farwell party, for all the hard work and gifts given to us much appreciated. We'll miss hd | of you and value your friendship Bless all of you. John and Erma yte. 4 CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY. In memoriam donations. Info: mation Box 3292, Castlegar. 365. 5167 104/15 THE B.C. HEART FOUNDATION accepis with gratitude In Memoriam’ donations which help promote Heart Research Cords sent to next-ot-kin Box 3023, Castiegor B.C 104 8) FOR SALE BY PUBLIC TENDER The Board of School Trustees School District No. 9 (Castlegar) is offering for sale by public ten der the propery .D., Pi ‘Approximate 78'x208'. Location: Thrum: of the tendered omount The lowest or any tender will not essarily be accepted. The Board reserves the right 10 reject any or all tenders. For viewing of call Mr. Andy Super at 365.8331. 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D'Arey and Dirks addressed a National Transportation Agency hearing in Castlegar on CP Rail's proposed abandonment of the Boundary line and Carmi spurs — and came out in support of the rail company retaining responsibility for operating the line. Castlég 60 Cents cluding the Carson the Boundary and ‘ol. 41, No. 42 D'Arcy echoed Dirks’ comments. “I think it’s important to this part of the province,” D'Arcy said during the break. “So I the interest of this part of the province of B.C. to lose such a vital transportation link between shippers and receivers in adian markets.” The hearing, chaired ‘by former Conservative cabinet ar News | Canadian ports and C; imply don't think it’s in gal hewly-formed agency .which replaced the Transport Commission when the revised National Transpor tation Act was finalized in Ottawa on Jan. 1, the line The main change in the Act is that the agency can, under the revised Act, allow abandonment of the Boundary line even if it is found the line may be profitable for CP Rail Canadian open because Agency figures in the foreseeable future. Under the old Act, CP Rail had to CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1988 it has lost for a total four-year los The rail company has applied to the agency to abandon ney in its last four years. show CP Rail lost about $1.7 million in 1984; $2.5 million in 1985; $1.1 mill 1986 and $981,948 in 1987 s of $6.2 million, rontinued on page AZ WEATHERCAST ny Thursday with ¢loudy periods and highs 22°.23°. Friday . uds with sunny periods ond nolated showers in the of Highs eround 21° ok for the weekend is o e of cloud and sun, but tit Chance of precipitation Thurs 20 per cent 3 Sections (A, B & C) TWO-VEHICLE COLLISON. . . passenger Dagmar Dunlop from Ambulance attendants remove car following crash Sunday evening near the Castlegar Airport. Dunlop was taken to hospital and treated CRASH KILLS MAN By CasNews Staff Castlegar’s first traffie fatality this year occurred Sunday evening when a two-vehicle accident near the Castlegar airport claimed the life of a 78-year-old Nelson man. James Fraser Dunlop was killed when his car collided with a truck at for minor injuries. ‘Diiver of the car, James Dunlop, was killed in the accident. the airport intersection on Highway 3A a Castlegar RCMP report the Dun lop vehicle was entering the inter section onto Highway 3A from Frank Beinder Way when it was struck broadside by a vehicle south- CosNews photo by Cheryl Calderbonk bound on Highway 3A driven by Winnie Rezansoff of Castlegar Rezansoff was not injured. A passenger in the Dunlop vehicle, Dagmar L. Duniop, was taken to the Castlegar and District Hospital and treated for minor injuries. No charges have been laid WITH HIGHWAYS Council seeks meeting By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer ~ Castlegar coustil agreed Tuesday to send a letter to the Ministry of High ways requesting the ministry meet with the Regional District of Central Kootenay on the ferry closure as soon as possible. Council is in full support of the regional district's position. on the ferry and a Castlegar council member will attend any regional district meetings with the ministry concerning the ferry. Ald. Len Embree acting mayor while Mayor Audrey Moore holidays — said the acting mayor at the time will be the Castlegar repre sentative if Moore isn't back before the proposed meeting with Highways Min ister Stephen Rogers The regional district told the min istry it will not negotiate the proposed sale or operation of the ferry until the ferry resumes operating. Vince Collins, assistant deputy min ister of highways, was in Nelson last week to talk with regiona! district administrator Reid Henderson about the regional district's proposal for negotiations. “He indicated that it wasn't going to be the provincial government's position is on to start up the ferry,” Henderson told the Castlegar News today. “But he didn’t say the ferry wouldn't be starting up.” Henderson said the assistant deputy minister wouldn't elaborate on the comment that the ferry might start up without the provincial government operating it, but Henderson added that the regional district remains firm in its stance that the ferry must begin operating before negotiations on trans- fer of operations can begin. “It was just a re-affirmation of that proposal,” Henderson said. “All that I was able to advise him on was the regional district's position regarding the ferry.” There has been no formal sale price made to the regional district or Castle gar council, but Rogers said in the legislature the ferry will be sold for $1. “No formal offer has been received yet,” Henderson said. “If that’s the value the provincial government puts on it, they obviously don't think of it as an asset,” Area J director Martin Vanderpol spent last night on the ferry with his wife in the continuation of the Robson residents’ vigil established earlier this month. “Everything is still the same,” Disgruntled firefighters derpol said of the regional district position on the proposed sale of the ferry. “I told Mr: Collins on behalf of the ad hoe committee the occupation of the ferry will continue running.” The ad hoc group will send a member to Victoria with the four district representatives George Cady, Vanderpol, and Area I director John Voykin take part in any digcussions if the ministry decides it will not come her« to discuss the ferry closure “We just thought it was time a few of us could sit down with Rogers or his until it starts regional chairman Henderson to deputy ministers to see if we can proceed with the government opera ting the ferry again,” Rhonda Sor ensen, ad hoc committee representa tive, told the Castlegar News today “One member of the ad hoc committee. most likely Fern Allam—wifl be going with the RDCK representatives if the regional district members go to Vic toria.” Sorenson also said the committes will send a member if the meetings ar: held here. continued on poge Al By The Canadian Press GRAND FORKS Nearly volunteer firefighters outside this community resigned Friday, but when a grass fire broke out Sunday night, half a dozen new volunteers responded to the call. The resignations by came amid a police investigation into their department's finances, with drawal of their fire chief's salary as of July 1 and allegations that there is too much liquor at their annual parties “We got rid of the troublemakers,” Bill Campbell, chairman of the board of the Grand Forks Rural Fire Protection District, said of the resignations. He said there now is & full roster of new volunteers. The resignations came after the group's demand that Lewie Jmaiff be restored to his $35,000-a-year position as fire chief was refused The same group of firefighters went to court last year to collect $1,500 from the board to cover the cost of the liquor Continued on poge Al all the firefighters Murder- suicide in Trail By The Canadian Press Relatives said Tony Crema always worried that his wife Maria would be lost without him. That's how they explain why the 81-year-old resident of Trail apparently shot his wife of 53 years to death on the weekend before turning the .22 calibre tifle on himself. Their bodies were discovered Sat urday morning by their son Carlo who had gone to their home to pick them up for a pienic “They were totally devoted to each other totally inseparable,” said Nurses set to strike By CasNews Staff and News Services Nurses at the Raspberry Lodge long-term care home are poised for strike action, but it seems no one has told them A union spokesman said Tuesday the six nurses at Raspberry Lodge are among the some 200 nurses at long-term care facilities around province who have served 72-hour strike notice on their employers. But nurses at Raspberry Lodge say they haven't received any notification of the strike. “We're officially still nurse, who asked to remain uniden. tified, said today Raspberry Lodge is a privately owned facility with 36 residents. The four full-time and two part time nurses there are seeking their first collective agreement Meanwhile, Pat Van Horne, spokes man for the B.C. Nurses Union, said Tuesday that the strike notice ‘doesn't mean we'll be taking job agtion right away.” The Continuing Care lations Association, which bargains for the 14 private hospitals, has not re ceived the strike notice It will meet with the nurses union ¢ designate essential services levels, said Richard Haliburton, the association's chief negotiator. “They better understand this does not change our position that the pos: tion they are in now would put them in an illegal position if they strike,” Halli burton said The Industrial Relations Council has not been notified of the union's in tention to strike, nor was it involved in the strike vote conducted by the nurses last month. The nurses voted 88 per cent in favor of strike action to back their demands By law, the council must be notified of a union's intention to strike and must be involved in overseeing strike votes The nurses union is participating in a B.C. Federation of Labor boycott of the industrial relations body as a means of protesting labor legislation that came into effect last year. The nurses are asking for parity of wages and benefits with the 16,000 nurses working in acute care facilities But Halliburton, who also negotiated the acute care contract, said acute care on page Az working,” a Employee Re Janet Crema, the dead couple's daughter in-law. “He always said things like: ‘If I die, what will happen to Nona?’ He was so concerned about her be. cause she couldn't survive without him. They always said they didn't want to go into a home or be a burden on any. body No farewell note was found in the home, she said. Her father inlaw had been under treatment for depression for about two months. But he seemed “happy” when «her husband Carlo visited the couple Friday night When Carlo returned the next morning, “everything was locked and he thought that was not normal be. cause they were always up early. He had to make his way into the house.” He found his mother and father both dead in the same room “He (Carlo) was totally baffled (but) in hindsight he knew they were totally inseparable,” said his wife INSIDE Time to exercise Don't torget to do 15 minutes of continuous. exercise and _ then call the rec office at 365- 3386. Lottery numbers The winning numbers“drawn Tuesday in The Pick lottery were 4. 11, 18, 19, 30, 41, 48 and $1 Fall fair finished page A2