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Vander Zalm spars with journalists

VANCOUVER (CP) — It was a hectic Tuesday
hight for Premier Bill Vander Zalm.

He fought off AIDS activists, sparred with jour-
nalists on a pi i i show and
a bag of goodies for voters.

When the dust had settled, neither protesters: nor
reporters had forced the trademark grin from Vander
Zalm's face and he left details of his plans for another
day.

“I thought it was an A," Vander Zalm beamed
about his 15-minute address and the-45-minute question
period that followed.

A provincial election will be held ‘fairly soon,’ he
said, but there may be a short sitting of the legislature
first, Vander Zalm must call an election this year.

In his speech taped earlier in a Vancouver produc-
tion studio, he outlined a 12-point program of economic
measures he promised to elaborate on soon,

The program included a tax freeze for British
Columbia, sketchy plans for public sector wage controls
and a reforestation program worth $1.4 billion over five
years. Ph

The premier got a little testy when asked how he
could talk “about wage controls when some of his
ministers’ top aides had just received big raises. ss

He was vague when asked about wage controls.

**What we're talking about here is a program that
will be based upon a framework developed by the
ministry based on the taxpayers’ ability to meet those
demands.""

Vander Zaim also said voters would be asked in
referendums to decide on budgeting, taxation, security
for seniors and constitutional issues.

He was questioned for about 15 minutes on his
dealings in the sale of Fantasy Gardens.

“I don’t know why the media can’t concentrate on
these wouderful programs’’ instead of the sale of his
theme part in'suburban Richmond, he said.

The park ‘Was sold for about $16 ‘million to
Taiwanese interests with, Vander Zalm involved. in
negotiations.

* But he became emotional when asked why he had
said for almost four years that his wife, Lillian, was the
owner. of the gardens when he was the majority owner.

“I love my wife, | take care of my wife,"’ he said.

“What's wrong with a husband talking to his wife?’

The intense questioning briefly caused his toothy
grin to fade and his eyebrows to arch. ~

Vander Zalm, who faced a leadersNip-cevolt led by
two constituency presidents, was asked whether he will
lead the party in the next election.

“Do you think there's much doubt? Of course I'll
be there. I'll be there for the victory celebration.””

The-evening got off to a nasty start when about a
dozen AIDS activists surrounded Vander Zalm’s car
when he and his wife, Lillian, arrived at the station.

Despite beefed-up security, members of ACT-UP
were able to throw themselves on the hood of Vander
Zalm's car and smear tomato and ketchup on the win-
dshield.

challenge last weekend at the ski resort. — cosnews photo by steve Peden

John Wood of BCTV gives one of the two horses used for sleigh rides at Red Mountain a stroke
across the nose. Wood was one of 40 or more journalists who participated in the media .

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Kootenay with its regular aircraft
based in Vancouver and other char-
ter sérvices located throughout the
province.

“Which as long as the planes get
in, they can,”” D’Arcy said. ‘‘The
Problem is, as Nielsen has pointed
out, those times at night or in bad
weather when“ho planes can get in
here, a plane can get out.’’

D'Arcy said he contacted the
ministry again Tuesday and was told
government policy does not allow it
to enter into any kind of
“arrangement!” with an aviation
company. He said there is nothing
else he can do but hope another
company will take over for Adastra.

Meanwhile, Castlegar city council
is reviewing a request to install per-
manent edge lights along the runway
at the airport which would help
planes land after dark. Council was
expected to vote on that request
Monday, but its airport advisory
committee-has-askedfor-more-time

Plan

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Prevent drivers making left turns
from impeding the flow of traffic
and to provide a ‘storage’ lane for
drivers making left turns on to
Columbia Avenue.

The city has added other
suggestions from the public into the
plan including:

* Providing left-turn lanes at
major intersections, including 22nd
and 23rd streets.

© At the intersection of 4th Street,
Prohibiting southbound left turns
during peak traffic flows, eliminating
the extra through lane, creating ad-
ditional parking spaces on the west
side of Columbia Avenue, ‘and
Providing an advance left-turn
Sequence.on the existing traffic signal
at 3rd Street.

Aldermen said they are pleased
with the suggestions from the public.

“The public input has been
good,"’ Chernoff said.

Ald. Kirk Duff agreed.

“I think the process worked very
well."”

City staff made presentations of
the plan at a general meeting of the
Castlegar Chamber of Commerce
and to the chamber’s traffic commit-
tee, to the city’s Advisory Planning
Commission, to firefighters and am-
bulance personnel, and to the general
public during a meeting at the Com-
munity Complex.

The plan will also:

© Prohibit all roadside parking on
Columbia Avenue between 6th Street
and 20th Street except in front of the
Oglow building, use 10th Street east
of Columbia for public parking and
the space behind Pioneer Arena for
public parking during the daytime
for light vehicles only.

© Install traffic control signals at
24th Street and at 10th Street (with
advance warning).

© At the intersection of 6th Street,
change existing angle parking into
parallel parking, eliminate the
separate northbound right-turn lane
and modify the curb to improve nor-
th-to-east right turns.

© Change 7th Street into an east-
bound one-way street.

© Change the existing yield sign to
a stop sign at 34th Street.

© Close the extra southbound
through lane at the interchange of
Highway 3 and Highway 22 (Colum-
bia Avenue).

The city will also review the need
to install an advance left-turn signal
at 17th Street, property access
requirements along Columbia
Avenue and the need to have hedges
trimmed_to_ provide clearance along
the sidewalk on Columbia Avenue,

“to gather and review inf

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As well, the city will ask the
Ministry of Highways to install an
advance left-turn sequence on the
traffic signal at the interchange.
Some-of—the—other— proposals also
require consultation with the High-
‘ways Ministry.

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accessible to the disabled.

updated estimate of the costs.

costs are determined and before the

wallets.
Cominco announced last week

month to all surviving spouses who
in 1990.

Pensioners.

Pony field discussed again

Castlegar council will take another swing this year at completing
improvements to the pony field at Kinnaird Park.

Council suggested Ald. Bob Pakula’s motion at Monday night's
council meeting to make the baseball field the No. 1 priority in the
parks and recreation budget for 1992.

Last year, council tagged the field improvements at $10,000 but
the work took a back seat to making washrooms at Kinnaird Park

Pakula, who is council’s parks and recreation “‘liaison’’ now that
the city doesn’t have standing committees, said he doesn’t have an

He said he will seek council’s “‘pre-approval”’ of the funds when
that the work can proceed as soon as possible.

Cominco raises pensions

Retired Cominco Ltd. employees have a few more dollars in their

from $35 to $85 a month to pensioners who retired directly from
active employment with Cominco prior to Jan. 1, 1987.
The company is also giving pension increases of $30 to $55 a

The larger increases go to older pensioners.

The increases were effective Jan. 1 and apply to about 3,700 to
4,200 pensioners, the company says in a news release.

Cominco has sent details of the increases in a letter to all

final budget is adopted in May so

that it is paying increases ranging

were receiving Cominco pensions

Board

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But Cady indicated the’ hospital
district board's mindate includes
commenting on issues such as the
doctors’ pension plan.

“We are in the business of protec-
ting the interests of our people,” he
said.

Smienk suggested deferring a vote
on the resolution to give the directors
more time to study both sides of the
issue.

“If (the resolution) gets passed at
the next meeting it won't lessen the
impact of the resolution,” he said.

However, the board defeated
Smienk’s motion to table the
resolution.

Larry Brierley, director for Area A
(east side of Kootenay Lake), said
the information from the provincial
government which Mann provided

“appears to be politically motivated
and one-sided."

“I think the issue is fairly straight-
forward.”

Cady’s resolution notes that the
Central Kootenay hospital district’s
debt to fund its seven hospitals is ex-
ceeding $17 million and the provin-
cial government's benefit package
for doctors ‘‘places additional finan-
cial burden on the taxpayers of the
province.”

The B.C. Medical Association says
the pension plan is already in place
and is not part of the controversial
settlement package for doctors
hammered out by the -premier and
the BCMA last month.

The government says the pension
plan is the key to the package and
will not be honored if the doctors do
not accept the government's fee of-
fer.

ceremony

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+ earns prestigious scholarship

ELLEN CROSSLEY, a student at Selkirk
College's Castlegar campus, has received a prestigious
1990-91 Canada scholarship in recognition of her
outstanding academic achievement.

The four-year scholarship is worth up to $8,000
and is paid out at $1,000 per study term. Crossley, a
graduate of Stanley Humphries secondary school,
must maintain a first-class standing to continue
receiving the payments.

The scholarships are awarded to less than 10 per
cent of students entering their first year of
engineering and science studies.

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Crossley also received a letter of
from Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

ALEX PEREVERZOFF has replaced Dennis
LaHue on the Advisory Planning Commission for
Area J (Robson, Blueberry and part of Ootischenia).

His term will expire on Dec. 31, 1992. The
Regional District of Central-Kootenay board
approved the change Saturday.

In a letter to the board, Area J director Ken
Wyllie said LaHue-resigned because of “‘personal
commitments.”*

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Suspended sentence with nine months

In Castlegar Court, Ray
Vern McDonald was found guilty of
assault and given a suspended sen-
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found guilty of assault and given a
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Walter Rilkoff was sentenced to 14
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current days in jail for failing to ap-
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