Cc l égar N February 10, 1985 7d __Noncs =——s«édEGALLS EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS Tuesday, 8° p.m. Castlegar Volunteer Exchange Answering 04. /94 OIL FURNACE CONVERSIONS C & M HEATING DANCE BANDS and Mobile Disco available for ony type of engagement. 112-362-7356. “BRING YOUR VALENTINE’ Weight Watchers is conduc ting an open Meeting Feb. 12 1985. So bring along o family member or friend who is in. terested in the Weiyht Wat chere approach o mm. No charge for guests. ELECTROLYSIS. Permanent hair removal by fully qualitied operator. Afinex. 365-3 GOT A SWEETHEART, FRIEND OR BOSS? NOTICE COMPANY ACT We, Hentrey Samson Belair Lid., of 700 - 1285 West Pender Street, Vancouver, British Columbia. HEREBY GIVE NOTICE THAT: 1, We were appointed the Receiver of all the under- taking property of EVIN'S CONTRACTING LUMITED on the 31st day of January, 1985 the amount of $600,000.00 (SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) registered Registrar of C end duly with me IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE? GET A PLANNER TORONTO (CP) — A year ago, Michael Kohne owed $15,000 in back taxes to Revenue Canada and $20,000 to other creditors. He had no phone, no name on his apartment letter box, no assets other than his stereo. He lived on the run. Despite an income of $2,000 a week as a filmmaker, Kohne spent everything he earned and then some. He loved to eat out, go to movies and theatre, treat his friends to a round of drinks. But the film industry is seasonal and sometimes the work would dry up for weeks at a time. During these jobless periods, he would sit at home, worrying, fighting with his family, feeling like he was being sucked into a black hole. “T finally realized I had to put some money behind me so I could get through several months of not working,” said Kohne, 29, who began his career six years ago as a key grip (a person who moves cameras around) on the successful Canadian film Meatballs. Spending money today and forgetting about tomorrow Telephone 365-5210 (Business ¢ GiRECTOR for the Castlegar News New Suolnass Oireveary ene eaeetedentetp-m. Fab mn tek. tater the Brian L. Brown Certified General Accountant 270 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 is a classic pattern, affecting people of every age, and income level. The newest victims are middle-income earners, Victoria, British Columbia, on the 3rd day of August, 1982 DATED at Vancouver, this 6th day of February, 1985. HENFREY SAMSON BELAIR LTD. eceiver 700” 1285 West Pender St., .C. PAINTING FOR UNICEF — by Les was won by Mr. Brian on of Rossland. 2 TO THE PERSON who found a lost letter on the street, ond posted 1, THANK Y $ nice to know there are sti ood recble in the world. ERNIE The B.C. Heart Foundation ac with gratitude ‘In donations which helps promote Heart Reseorch. Cards sent to next-ot-kin. Box 3023, Castlegor, B.C 52/81 CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY in Memoriam Donations. infor mation Box 3292, Castlegar. 365. 5167. 104/7 IN LOVING MEMORY of o daughter, wite and mother, Gino May Cseppento, who passed oway, Feb. 11, 1984. "Gone but not forgotten.” Sadly missed by her fomity 12 Babies enjoy playing in walkers, but a team of physi. cians from London, Ontario has advised parents to dis. courage their use. The physicians concluded that the walker is a danger. ous apparatus after discov. ering that almost half of the babies with head injuries ad- mitted to the emergency ward of the local hospital had been playing in a walker at the time of the injury. Typically, the injury involved a fall downstairs. The babies most vulner. able to injury in a walker were under one year of age. The doctors also sent out a questionnaire to 150 families with babies aged three to 18 months in the London area. They found that in one-third of the families the baby had fallen and hit his head while playing in a walker. The doctors state that walkers have no value in en- hancing a baby's muscle co cordination and therefore their use should not be encouraged. If parents do want their child to play in a walker, the time spent in the walker should be limited to no more than 30 minutes a day, they said Private shop opened PEKING (AP) — A flower. pot maker from the southern outskirts of Peking has be come the first peasant to open a private shop in Pe king, the official Xinhua news agency says. Ma Zugiao is the propri etor of the Jixiangge handi crafts shop on the capital's main shopping thoroughfare, Wangfujing Street. Dressed in a western-style suit and soft felt hat, Ma was featured on state-run TV and in the Peking press The government is encour aging pedsants to start retail and service businesses in the cities where there's a short age of shops, restaurants, Is in the $35,000-to-$70,000-range who expected their standard of living to go on rising year after year. Then the recession hit the raises stopped coming and the future suddenly looked pinched and restricted. For those who can't climb off the spending merry-go-round without some help, a new kind of adviser has emerged — an expert in the day-to-day management of people's budgetary affairs. TRIPLED NUMBERS The Canadian Association of Financial Planners, founded in 1981 to enforce professional standards in the industry, has tripled its membership to about 300 in the past year. Financial planning used to be only for the rich. Now moderately priced services have appeared. Banks, trust companies and credit unions have started to invade the field. Royal Trust Corp. of Canada charges $75 an hour for a personal financial plan. The average cost is $400 to $600. For Kohne, facing personal debts of $35,000, financial planning was not the answer. He needed someone to tame his undiscipline spending and help him stave off personal bankruptey. He went to Joan Fischer, a Toronto woman who has made a career of rescuing high-flying spenders from their financial messes and setting them on the road to profi ity. “I went to her with a green garbage bag full of my life for the last four years,” he said. “Embarrassed? You bet. I didn’t want anyone to know how screwed up I was.” LAID DOWN LAW Fischer laid down the law to Kohne. All his paycheques and his bills would go through her. She would have signing authority on his bank account and she would deal with his creditors. She made sure he lived within his means by putting him on an allowance of $150 a week. If he overspent his limit, he wouldn't get any more. Sixteen months later, he's still in debt to Revenue Canada — but only $1,000 of the original $15,000 remains to be paid. His creditors are no longer beating down the door and his personal life has straightened out too. “T've become much more organized,” he said, “and I feel a lot better about myself and what I'm doing.” Kohne worked on four fiims last year and made a lot of money. But he still gets a weekly allowance (now $275) from Fischer. Many of Fischer's clients are in similiar straits. They're successful, creative people, big earners and lavish spenders who never paid much attention to money. When the recession hit, they were caught short “The most common thing I hear is, ‘I've made a lot and spent a lot and I don't have a dime put away for the future and I'm starting to get concerned,” said Fischer, 32, who started her company four years ago. Every case is a little different, but the solution is always the same: People have to figure out where their money is going before they can direct it somewhere else, she said. Those with money woes usually have a vice of some sort, a source of uncontrolled spending. For women, it's clothes. For men it's gadgets “toys for the big boys.” Fischer said. Law on way out JACKSON, MISS. (AP) — After three unsuccessful at tempts, a bill to throw out a Mississippi law allowing the killing of servants has clear. ed its first legislative hurdle in the state legislature. How to Pending before the House . is a bill to remove the fol ¢ ubscr ibe lowing law from the books: E “The killing of any human , tl being by the act, procure- ment or omission of another shall be excusable: When committed by accident and misfortune in lawfully cor. recting . . . a servant.” ‘ou have to take a second to believe something committee in 1983 or 1984, but this year finally passed the House Judiciary “B” Committee. Castlegar look that ridiculous would still be on the books that long after War,” the Civil Credell Yes, I'm interested in get hotels, laundries and other Calhoun's bills to remove [| ting the Castlegar News as trades. the law did not get out of 4 follows Corrier Mail A.M. FORD Plecse comact me with ° jd detoils 2798 Dr. in Glenmerry, Troil 01 7336 é “YOU DESERVE THE BEST AND YOU GET ITAT A.M. 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The offer may be withdrawn at any time NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT Full, complete and sole copyright in any printed mat ter produced by Castle News Lid. is vested in and belongs to Castle News Ltd.; provided ywever that copyright in THAT PART AND THiAt PART ONLY of ony advertisement Prepored trom repro proofs provided by the advertiser shall remain in and belong to the advertiser CASTLEGAR NEWS Established Aug 7. 1947 Twice Weekly May 4. 1980 Incorporating the Mid-Week Mirror published trom Sept. 12.1978 to Aug. 27. 1980 LV. (Les) CAMPBELL Publisher Aug. 7.1947 to Feb. 13. 1973 BURT CAMPBELL Publisher Advertising Manager Legislative Library, Parliament Bligs.,. Victoria, B. C. VSV 1X4 VOL. 38, No. 13 501 Belleviit=: 28 50 Cents CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1985 4 Sections (A, B, C&D) ~~ DICK WILLS By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer There's good news on the horizon for West Kootenay stock car racing fans. A Nelson man plans to install a 6 kilometre (three-eighths of a mile) stock car and motorcross racing track near Castlegar this summer. Dick Wills said this morning his stock car track — to be located on 45 acres of land two kilometres south of the viewpoint on the Castlegar-Salmo highway — would include stands and concession booths, and provide facilities for both basic and modified stock car racing. If all goes well, he says construction will be completed and the track will be open by the end of June. However, Wills still needs approval for rezoning rezoning plan. Wills said his proposal will go before the RDCK for a second and third reading this month and then it will be diseussed at a public meeting. The regional district will then consider the proposal for final approval in March. If it gives the green light, Wills will start construction. He has already applied for a $40,000 federal MILAP (Modified Industry and Labor Adjustment Program) grant for his project which would provide 14 weeks of employment for four women and five men. And the clearing of the race track site will previde work for local contractors, says Wills. project will cost a total of $120,000 if the track is dirt. Wills said he hasn't yet decided on whether to have ace car track in works stock car himself — says he hopes the racetrack will be « money-making venture. “T've done considerable research into it,” he _ explained. “Even the small track at Northport — and it's not even a good track — makes money.” About 800 racing fans watch stock car racing at Northport every Sunday, and Wills estimates that one-third of them are Canadians. : “What we'd like to do is have the local racers run ove pegs enioy. and the touring cars come in once a month,” Wills said. It isn’t the first time Wills has attempted to get a stock car track going in the Castlegar area. In 1983, Castlegar city council gave the thumbs up to his plan to . eyes MILAP grant from the Regional District of Central Kootenay, which has instructed its planning committee to draw up a the track paved, which would mean an additional $80,000. Wills — a longtime racing fan who used to own a take over the old Calamida Speedway, just northwest of the city’s industrial park. COUNCIL SUPPORTS GRANT By CasNews Staff Castlegar council Tuesday threw its support behind the drive to obtain a federal grant for Cominco’s lead modernization. Mayor Audrey Moore noted that postcards addressed to Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco with a three-paragraph message supporting the Cominco fun- ding application have been sent to every Castlegar home. The cards, printed by Steelworker Local 480, are part of a campaign involving community groups. The Regiona! District of Kootenay Boun- dary's economic development office is coordinating the drive. Moore added that she has already signed her card and will be sending it to Brisco asking for the government to provide a $60 million grant for Cominco. “We certainly need some economic activity in the area,” she commented. Ald. Bob MacBain agreed. “I think Cominco has been a good corporate citizen in this area,” he said, pointing out the company has spent a “lot of money” to upgrade its smelter. Ald. Albert Calderbank added, “I think we need this smelter.” Ald. Len Embree supported the campaign, but said his only concern is that Cominco hire people from the area to do the modernization work. Embree said the last Cominco expansion saw people hired from outside the area, outside the province and even outside the country. The postcard points out that without a new lead smelter some 6,000 jobs in B.C. and 2,000 in Kootenay West are threatened It also notes that in the last eight years Cominco has spent more than $500 million on zine modernization and environmental projects. “Now Cominco and the community needs government help,” says the postcard Martin Kruysse, Kootenay Boundary regional economic development officer, says the campaign to secure the grant shifted into high gear Monday. He said cards will be available in this issue of the Castlegar News for those who didn't receive a card in the mail or haven't signed one yet Residents can either mail the cards postage free or drop the cards off at booths set up at Safeway Friday and Saturday Trail-area councils have gone so far as to agree to waive taxes on a new lead smelter if the province passes necessary legislation. The provincial government has also indicated it will be making tax changes to help boost industry. Finance Minister Hugh Curtis says he is considering eliminating machin. ery and equipment tax in the upcoming provincial budget That would help companies like Cominco and Westar Timber, but Moore expressed a note of caution Tuesday. “It's going to have implications for the financing of our schools and of our hospitals” and all the programs the city jointly shares on the regional level, she said. Moore noted that Curtis is consid ering returning to the 1980 tax ratio where industry paid roughly twice the taxes of residential taxpayers Moore noted that industry now pays about 3.4 times as much as the home owner. for an alternative to the Social Credit RARE EVENT . . . Castlegar resident Nick Chernoft's orchid seems to have adapted well to cold Canadian climate. Chernoff shows off yellow orchids which recently started blooming from the plant he bought oa couple of years ago. CanttowsPheto by Chery! Colderoond TEACHERS SAY Courts ‘last resort’ By CasNews Staff The Castlegar teachers’ association will take their dispute with the school board over the dismissal of 18 lunch-hour supervisors to court as “a last resort” unless an agreement is reached Lisa Pedrini, vice-president of the Castlegar District Teachers’ Association, said Tuesday the firing of all district lunch-hour supervisors Feb. 1 breaks a signed contract made about two years between the CDTA and the Castlegar school board The agreement providing for lunch-hour supetvisors is part of a booklet entitled Policy Handbook for Teaching Staff, signed by both parties. Pedrini says the CDTA considers the agreement a legal document. School board chairman Doreen Smecher said last week that it’s not legally binding, although the board may have a “moral obligation” to uphold it. The teachers’ association has contacted lawyers through the B.C. Teachers’ Federation to determine the legality of the agreement. If no agreement with the school board can be reached, the CDTA will take the board to court, said Pedrini She said the teachers’ association hasn't “ deadline” for a resolution of the issue. “I suppose it could (get to court). Hopefully it won't,” said Pedrini. “That would be a last resort.” Meanwhile, Castlegar teachers are continuing with work to rule action, which began Monday to protest the dismissal of the lunch-hour supervisors, as wel as education cutbacks and the fact that two teachers on long-term sick leave have been only partially replaced. Pedrini said the teachers’ association was to meet this afternoon to decide whether to escalate or end the work to rule campaign She said teachers are “encouraged” by the board's recent decision to restore teacher aids to special needs programs in the district, and its agreement to send a joint submission with teachers, parents and Canadian Union of Public Employees workers to the government on the effect of education cutbacks in the district However, CDTA representatives failed to meet with board members Monday at a scheduled meeting on the joint continued on page A2 any particular Lee says Grits ‘alternative’ By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer B.C. Liberal Party leader Art Lee says “things will change” with the party which hasn't held a seat in the provincial legislature since 1950. Lee, who is visiting the West Kootenay as part of a tour of the province, said in an interview Tuesday he believes B.C. voters will be looking and individuals. council Tuesday. and NDP in the election. But it means rebuilding the Liberal party and trying to change the voting next provincial patterns of the people of B.C. Lee is planning to build party policy throygh public consultation He-was in the West Kootenay to listen to the concerns of both \ groups His visit included a tour and ‘beteting session at Slocan Forest Products in Slocan and a meeting with Castlegar Today he spoke to students at J.L. Crowe Secondary School in Trail and had a tour and briefing session at Cominco. Tonight Lee will address the Rossland-Trail Liberal Association at a wine and cheese reception at the Union Hotel in Trail. Lee speaks with students at L.V Rogers Secondary School in Nelson Thursday and attends a dinner of the Nelson-Creston Liberal Association at the Heritage Inn. During his meeting with Castlegar council, Lee said he is asking councils, union people and average B.C. resi dents “what their needs and aspira tions are”. Mayor Audrey Moore, noting good exercise to be out among the continued on poge AS it's a City posts $450,000 overrun By RON NORMAN Editor city easements for the new system. As well, Moore said some of the $450,000 the city will be borrowing will be used to tie up all the “loose ends”, including upgrading some sections of the water system. The city has budgetted $36,000 for capital expenses for the water system this year, including $10,000 for a pressure reducing valve station at 9th Ave. and Southridge Drive, Another $17,000 will be spent for an interconnection on Southridge Drive. Moore said the improvements should provide good water pressure for residents in that area. As well, the city plans to install tie-ins for the Monashee and Selkirk water mains at a cost of $9,100. Meanwhile, Ald. Albert Calderbank complained Tuesday that the water from the new system is too hard. Calderbank said residents along Ist Ave. have to use water softeners. However, Moore responded that the water from the Arrow Lakes is 200 parts per million softer than the well water the city used to use. Ald. Len Embree added: “It's impossible to have that water softer than what comes out of the Arrow Lakes.” Nearly six years after it was started, Castlegar’s water system is almost complete. But the system has come in some $450,000 over budget, the Castle- gar_ News has learned. The system was projected to cost $6 million when funding was first announ- ced in 1979. The city’s share was to be $1.5 million. ‘The federal and provincial govern. ments agreed to pick up the remaining $4.5 million: $3 million in the form of a federal interest-free forgiveable loan and $1.5 million from a provincial grant. ‘As well, the province agreed to pay 75 per cent of the city's debt servicing costs. At the time Mayor Audrey Moore said the new water system, which would pump water from a new pump house on the Arrow Lakes, would cost residents about $25 a household. The $450,000 cost overrun came to light when the Central Kootenay Regional was required to pass a bylaw permitting the city to borrow that amount.” In an interview Tuesday Moore said the overrun amounted to less than 10 per cent of the total projected cost — actually 7.5 per cent. “I think that's pretty good,” she said. She added that some of the cost overrun resulted from additional en gineering costs and legal costs. The But Calderbank asked that city staff look into the issue. “We're talking about the extreme end of town,” he said. —inside INTIMATE LOOK: Canado's first lady, Mila Mulroney, is featured in @ speciel interview in which she the isn't really much different than other women. in fact, she still scrubs sinks and bathtubs at 24 Sussex Drive . . ~ ogi. c JAM. BIRD: A former Trail man, Terrence Herbert Bird was found guilty Tuesday of second-degree murder... AZ REBELS WIM: Castlegar Rebels walked all over Nelson Jr. Maple Leafs 14-2 Tuesday night in their first semi-final playoff game . . LIVING LEGEND: CHICAGO — Joseph (Pops) Panczko is tor from being shy and police soy he apparently isn't retiring either: They just arrested the 66-year-old burglar for at least the 150th time. | Pancztko, whose eight-page police record goes back nearly five | decades, was freed after posting o $25,000 bond following his arrest on a burglary charge “He is more or less a living legend,” said Sgt. Phil Watzke. who works the district where Panczko’s latest arrest took place. "He's notorious — ormed robberies, bonk robberies, burglaries you name it.” Panezko has often regaled arresting officers and reporters with his gift of gab, once offering the alibi: “| don’t know nothing ond | can prove it.” - WAAUINITY: Our members of Parlioment can get awoy with almost ~~. short of murder in the House of Commons, but that Y vis ly under tire... C1 enetesians j