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Letters to Santa along
with a photograph of
the contest winners . . .
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Fighting —
famine

Columnist John Char-
ters features Cammy
Lapointe, a Castlegar
woman working in
Ethiopia... C1

The six winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6/49
— draw were nine, 10, 17, 21, 38 and 48. The bonus

number was 30.

~The $500,000 winning number in Friday's Provin-

cial lottery draw is 4548462.

BCRIC
revisited |

Energy Minister Pat
Carney says the federal
government plans to
sell shares in Petro-
Canada

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Castlégar News

UNDAY

VOL. 38, No. 100

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1985

Cloudy today with a risk of scat-

tered snow showers this morning.

Sunny brecks this afternoon.

Highs 0 to -3 and lows -7 to -9. Lit-

tle change in the pattern is expec-

ted over the next two or three
3.

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50 Cents

4 Sections (A, B, C & D)

OLD-FASHIONED CAROLING . . . Cold her wasn't

enough to dampen Christmas spirits of the more than
60 people who turned out to sing carols Friday night in

. Event was
A bebe

sponsored by the
1 and Castleg

" Area D

MILA SAYS PM
HELPS CHANGE.
BABY DIAPERS

OTTAWA (CP) — Mila Mulroney says the prime
minister does change their son Nicolas’s diapers — in fact,
more often than she does.

“He changes the children’s diapers a lot more than I
do because he has no sense of smell, so it’s quite a lucky
thing to have,” a laughing Mulroney, who has been nanred
Chatelaine magazine's Woman of the Year for 1986, said
in an interview.

‘The prime minister's wife, whom Chatelaine praised
for her forthright commitment to put husband and family
first, said she doesn’t plan to have any more children.

Brian Mulroney made the same comment shortly
after their last child, Nicolas, was born Sept. 4. The
Mulroneys have three other children — Caroline, 12;
Benedict, 9; and Mark, 6.

SUNDAY
FEATURE

Mulroney said she didn’t-resent the media attention
“given her decision to take Nicolas to work with her. She

also said that decision wasn’t an attempt to set an
example for Canadian women.

“Nicolas is very much a part of my life. I don’t get to
see him as often as I like and I treasure the moments. So
if I'm in the office and can bring him down for a few hours,
I do. And I think it'll help the family life to a large
extent.”

While i gin in
said; she took Caroline, then a baby, to university with
her. Caroline adjusted well to her mother’s late hours of
study and early ‘mornings and she hopes Nicolas will do
the same. 8

g the work of the media as “not the easiest
said she ght the that

MILA MULRONEY
...no more children

the wives of the U.S. and Soviet leaders received from
journalists during the recent summit meeting in Geneva
was fair and a meas@re of reporters’ ingenuity.

Journalists reported extensively on the two women’s
clothing, conversations and respective performances.
Nancy Reagan, when asked whether she was competing
in a fashion war-with the stylish Soviet leader's wife,
replied that she wasn't and added that she thought the
reporter's question was silly.

‘The Mulroneys will have 27 guests at Christmas, the
one time of the year when everyone on both sides of the
family gets together. Mulroney said the family will attend
midnight mass Christmas Eve and then return to 24
Sussex Drive for dinner.

continued on poge AZ

Moore criticizes

By SIMON BIRCH
Staff Writer

Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore is
unhappy with West Kootenay Power
and Light Company's request to the
B.C. Utilities Commission for a six per
cent rate increase.

At Saturday's Regional District of.
Central Kootenay board meeting
Moore said the increase could “cost
Castlegar a fair chunk of money.”
~.Moore referred to WKPL's stated
reason for requesting the increase —
an improvement of service to the south
Okanagan — and said it is “an injustice
to the people of the West Kootenay.”

She also said she objects to the in-
crease because it is above the rate of.
inflation.

Area J director Martin Vanderpol
agreed with Moore, saying “six per
cent is definitely excessive.”

WKPL also is involved in a rate
dispute with B.C. Hydro.

WKPL buys power from B.C. Hydro
for about three months each winter to
‘meet increased demand and the Crown

corporation has asked the utilities
commission for permission to impose a
rate hike totalling 12 per cent for that
power.

WKPL has said if the increase is
approved it will have to pass the rate
hike on to its customers.

But Moore said “WKPL doesn’t buy
that much power from Hydro but they
inflate the rates as if they were buying
90 per cent” of their power from the
Crown corporation. :

Meanwhile, the B.C. Utilities Com-
mission this week adjourned’a hearing
into a rate dispute between WKPL and
Hydro. 4

BCUC chairman Marie Taylor grant-
ed a Hydro request that the full
hearing be adjourned to a later date.

from the BCUC about what rates we'll
have to pay” in the interim, Fisher
‘said.
The dispute involves a WKPL com-
plaint to the utilities co: that
Hydro’s rates for this winter are unjust
and le. 3
WKPL said Hydro's new rates
amount toa 12 per cent increase for the
WEPL buys from

an extra $4 million that it would-have
to pass on to its 96,000 customers in the
Kootenays and south Okanagan.

Meanwhile, Hydro argues that the
rate is fair and that lower rates would

Taylor said the would
release its reasons for the decision and
new hearing dates next week.

Jack Fisher, public relations admin-
istrator for WKPL in Trail, said Friday
he expects the hearing to resume
sometime after the holidays.

“Meanwhile, we expect a decision

against other Hydro cus-
tomers.

WKPL has submitted a copy of its
application to the RDCK which the
board voted to refer to the upcoming
conference of the Association of Koot-
enay and Boundary Municipalities for
consideration.

Cady chairman again

By CasNews Staff

(Lardeau Valley) - director
George Cady was returned unopposed
as the chairman of the Regional
District of Central Kootenay at Satur-
day's board meeting.

Cady, in accepting the chairmanship,
said “we have had a few squabbles
over the years” and stressed that the
directors must pull together to be suc-
cessful.

“To be successful, we have to renew
the concept of regionalization,” he said.

* “We have to redirect ourselves to that.

“For example, if we get fire pro-
tection for one of our areas, then we've
been successful,” Cady said.

Also at the meeting, Area J director

Cause of. air
crash stumps
experts

GANDER, NFLD. (CP) — Transport
Canada investigators began shortening
the list of possible causes of the crash
of a DC jetliner Saturday as the
bodies of the 248 U.S. servicemen and
eight crew members killed in Thurs-
day's tragedy were prepared for trans-
portation home.

Investigators, discouraged by pre-
liminary analysis of the Arrow Air
jetliner’s cockpit voice recorder and
flight data recorder on Friday, also said
they have received some “useful infor-
mation” from the data recorder.

But investigators refused to say
what the information was and whether
it would help solve the mystery of the
crash, the worst in Canadian history.

Experts with the Canadian Aviation
Safety Board, which is heading the
i igation, told reporters y
that they have eliminated faulty fuel as
a possible cause.

The plane, carrying the American
servicemen home to Fort Campbell,
Ky., after serving in the U.S.-spon-
sored peacekeeping force in the Sinai
Peninsula in Egypt, stopped over at
Gander International Airport for re-
fuelling.

Investigators said the plane was not
de-iced after sitting on the ground for
more than an hour, during which a light
drizzle of freezing rain fell. But they do
not consider the lack of de-icing as a
prime theory for the cause of the crash.

Dave Owen of the safety board said
the weight and distribution of baggage

Martin’ Vanderpol was elected- chair-
man of the Central Kootenay Regional
Hospital District and deputy chairman
of the RDCK.

Vanderpol defeated Castlegar Mayor.
Audrey Moore by a vote of 11-8. Moore
held the post last year after. defeating
Vanderpol.

In a lighthearted moment after the
election, Area A director Charlie Wil-
son, who-sits beside the deputy chair-
man, said, “We've swapped one chain
smoker for another.”

In other regional district news, the
City of Castlegar has proposed a con-
tribution of $20,960 to the regional dis-
trict’s planning service so that the city
can participate in the RDCK’s 1986
planning function.

Castlegar’s proposal — as well as
those of other West Kootenay muni-
cipalities — was accepted, but not
without a fight from Area F (North
Shore) director Dave Pearce.

Pearce argued that directors of the
municipalities making the proposals
should not be allowed to vote on’ the
proposals.

“I object very strongly,” Pearce said.
“We should have a separate vote to
decide if we will allow this policy.”

Pearce, who singled out Castlegar in’
his complaints, said “it should be up to
the rest of us whether we allow them
back in.”

Castlegar had opted out of the
RDCK’s planning function over prob-
lems with the way the funding formula
was set up.

‘The’
to bear the entire burden of municipal
contributions to the regional district’s
planning service if other municipalities
decided not to contribute.

Castlegar’s proposal now before the
board is for the same amount as its
contribution last year. :

Moore took exception to Pearce’s
comments, saying Castlegar in the past
has contributed to planning but has not
asked for anything in return.

“The City of Castlegar hasn't made
any demands for a long time,” Moore
said, adding, “we were precluded from
making demands last year.

“Perhaps director Pearce should
have used the city of Nelson (as an
example).”

The following municipalities have
also submitted planning proposals to
the RDCK — Nelson ($27,766); Kaslo
($2,594), New Denver (1,950), Silverton
($850), and Salmo ($3,550).

Nakusp has decided not to par-
ticipate. Creston had pulled out earlier.

The board voted to forward the
proposals to the RDCK administration
for the preparation of the necessary
agreements and to refer planning proj-
ect requests to the board’s planning
committee for consideration in the
P ion of the 1986 ing proj-
ect priority list.

Pearce, vowing to ask the Ministry
of Municipal Affairs about the legality
of the vote, and Area K (rural Nakusp)
director Bill Cuthill opposed the
motion. a

West Kootenay gets

“second prosecutor

By CasNews Staff

The provincial attorney-general's
department has hired a second full-
time Crown counsel for the West
Kootenay and if the new prosecutor
has his way the area will be back to its
previous complement of three Crown
counsels by March.

Creston lawyer Dana Urban takes
over as administrative Crown counsel
starting Jan. 1.

“['ve entered into an agreement with
the attorney-general’s department for
a minimum of two years,” Urban said in
an interview Thursday.

“So that should bring some con-
tinuity to the area.”

He said he will be the prosecutor in
charge of administration for Crown
counsel in the West Kootenay.

“My hope-is.to_get a third (full-time)
prosecutor by March 1986. With that,

Crown can be properly represented,”
Urban said.

Urban joins Nelson lawyer Bill Hef-
lin as Crown counsel in the West
Kootenay. ‘

Heflin became the only full-time
prosecutor for the West Kootenay
Sept. 1 after Castlegar lawyer John
Carpenter resigned and the attorney-
general's department did not renew
the contract of Rossland lawyer Barry
Johnson.-

At the time of his resignation;
Carpenter accused the attorney-gen-
eral's department of “handicapping”
the effective prosecution of cases.

Urban said “the largest problem in
the West Kootenay has been a lack of
bodies.”

Crown counsel in the West Kootenay
must handle court cases in Castlegar,
Nelson, Rossland, Grand Forks and
Nakusp provincial courts.

‘tity was concerned it might have ~~