EXTENSION NEEDED . Jack Williamson, represen-
ting Blackline Asphalt Services Ltd., appeared before
Castlegar council Tuesday night to explain why his

irm needs more time to extract gravel from the new

city works yard site. Costes Photo

continued trom front poge

upgrading the sewer systems, showers, and grounds.

According to Lalonde, some local people from nearby
New Denver and Hills objected to the expansion, saying
it would attract too many tourists, and disrupt the area's
peaceful atmosphere.

“Trouble started when the group decided to shut

- down the resort in the fall of 1980.

“Our decision to close (the resort) down was a matter
of straight economies,” said Lalonde. “It wasn't making
money.”

For years local residents had used the beach, camp-
grounds, and resort facilities for no charge.

The group's decision to close the resort meant it was

"now private property, althotigh @ government beach
jnceégs trail ‘was opened later..
group” met’ with concerned local citizens
regarding the closure. Many had viewed the Valhalla
group with suspicion before, suspecting that they might
be land developers or “a bunch of doctors and lawyers,”
said Lalonde. Now some of the locals were openly
aggravated.

They were told that the resort was now closed to the
public. One resident insisted that tourists should be able
to use up to 100 feet of the Valhalla property, since in
1910 the high-water mark had reached that far.

Other local people said the closure would mean a loss
of tourists to the area. Someone else suggested the
property should really be a provincial park.

Lalonde said the group was willing to switch the
property with the government for other Crown land in
the area, as they too realized the area would make a good
park.

However, Lorne Nicolson, MLA for Nelson-Creston
reported back that the government said no money was
available to buy the resort.

Over the next few years, members of the group built
more cabins, and put trailers on the Valhalla property.

Lalonde converted the dining room/restaurant area
into a cabin. Stanley Bohnet of Castlegar bought the main
five-bedroom house on the property. Henry DeRosa built
a new arch-frame cabin.

There had previously been some minor acts of
vandalism on the property — things like a smashed
chimney, U-turns on the lawns, a smashed gas-pump. But
nothing to prepare the group for later incidents.

In the spring of 1982, “the trouble started,” said
Lalonde. Stan Bohnet’s house — the main house — was
burned to the ground.

A local man was employed as a caretaker for the
resort when it was first closed. He awoke in his cabin 100
metres away to the sounds of exploding glass.

Even though members of the community came to
help fight the fire, it was too late to save the cabin.

A few days later while sifting through the ashes a
member of the group found the remains of a rubber boot
in the cabin. It was stuffed with “fuel paper,” says
Lalonde.

Another rubber boot stuffed with rags and a
five-gallon can of fuel was found behind another cabin.
The RCMP were contacted, and after an investigation
which included members of the Vancouver RCMP, it was
decided the fire was the work of an arsonist.

RESORT PLAGUED

The members of the Valhalla group and their families
were shaken.

It was “definitely the work of a warped mind,” said
Lalonde.

A year later, the caretaker was again awakened by a
loud crash. He spotted someone beside one of the cabins,

but the intruder ran off. The caretaker investigated and
found six gallons of fuel beside one “of the cabins —
Lalonde's cabin.

The next incident took place on Nov. 2, 1983.
DeRosa’s arch-frame cabin was burned to the ground.
The caretaker had been having supper in New Denver
when the fire had happened.

Local people had saved a nearby cabin and garage by
spraying them with water*pumped in from the lake.’

Since January the group has been offering a $10,000
reward — raised by ttemselves — for information on the
fires.

Although the DeRosa fire hasn't been officially
declared as arson by police, Corp. Mick Veres of the New
Denver RCMP says, “We haven't been able to say yeah or
nay ... (on whether DeRosa’s was arson). We're treating
it as such.”

Veres says the RCMP haven't found out who the
culprits are. And so far, no one has come forward with
any information, said Lalonde.

Residents of Hills and New Denver are reluctant to
talk. “They say, ‘If I talk to your guys, what if my house
gets burnt down’,” said Lalonde.

Grant Copeland has operated a New Denver-based
ski-touring outfit called Valhalla Mountain Touring for
about seven years, and helped fight the Henry DeRosa
fire.

“I don't know who's been (setting the fires),” said
Copeland.

“I don’t believe in that at all. All the people up here
don’t condone it — that’s for sure.”

Although Copeland acknowledges that the Valhalla
group “didn’t do anything wrong” when they purchased
the resort, he said the resort should ideally be a public
facility.

“It’

one of the finest beaches on the whole lake. It's
too bad it was purchased by those people . . . because it
really should have been maintained as a campground and
a public resort.”

Copeland said the regional planning commission for
New Denver has completed a study that recommends the
resort be “somehow purchased” and made into regional
or provincial park.

The caretaker, of Valhalla resort, a soft-spoken
young man has left his job after one too many scares.

Lalonde is unable to fully Barbier why the
attacks on the resort have been made. As another resort
shareholder, Reno DeBiasio of Trail, said, “We're just
ordinary working people” who had to “scrimp and save”
to buy the resort.

The owners of Valhalla want to fit into and parti-
cipate with the community, said Lalonde. So far, none has
mentioned selling their lots.

But the fires are never far from their thoughts.

“You always have that anxiety,” said Lalonde.
“When we turn the corner, my wife says, ‘The place is
still there. Thank God’.”

Ferry meeting
on Saturday

preparing a 14-page brief on
why the ferry should remain
open.

A committee spokesman
also said BCTV and CBC
television crews may attend
the meeting.

Meanwhile, there are re-
ports that the Robson ferry
may be used on the Arrow
Lakes once it is discontinued
on April 1. The reports say
the ferry may be used be-
tween Fauquier and Needles.

A public meeting concern-
ing the closure of the Castle-
gar Robson ferry will be held
at 2 p.m. Saturday in the
Robson Hall.

At the meeting, the Rob-
son Save The Ferry Com-
mittee will give ah explana-
tion of what has been done
since the last meeting to pro-
tect the government's de-
cision to close the ferry.

This includes collecting
3,508 names on a petition and
*

CasNews to
increase prices

Effective Sunday, March 4 the home delivery and

prices of the C: News are going up.

The hone delivery price & ceing up three cack (40 29
cents) with your carrier sharing in the increase. The in-
crease is the first in nearly two years.

Newsstand price of the Cintieipiy Hivins it das. 0p *
cents to 50 cents with stores sharing in the increase.

Home delivery price of the twice-weekly Castlegar
News will be 66 cents a week, a saving of 84 cents off the
newsstand price.

In an the necessary
publisher Burt Campbell said it was

increases, CasNews

1600-Aond’ a. day’ frees the

the site until

“It's unfortunaté we have’
to make some smell and some
dust, said Williamson, but he
pointed out his firm uses the
same loader for its crusher
and asphalt plants, thereby
making no more noise than

site.
a written request from Black~
line.

However, works and ser-
viees committee chairman
Ald. Carl Henne said he fa-
vors thé request because
“the work has to be done” —
whether by Blackline or by
city crews.

Henne added that the ex-
tension will save taxpayers
money because the city won't
have to have city crews do

using it on
ects.
The as

However, the 20 days must
be free from bad weather and
Williamson said he could
start in the spring.

Williamson's firm is paying
the city to haul the gravel,
and he said his company is

gravel extraction operation
was the centre of some con-
troversy when it began last
April because area residents

necessary.

He added that sinee he
started running the plant last-
April, there has been only
one-day when the noise and
dust was carried upriver to a
nearby residential area. He

“I wanted the council to
know I'm anxious to stay ..
and sooner or later someone
has to move the material,” he
said.

said on days when the wind is

various local proj» moving upriver, his plant
does not operate.
halt plant and He added that the pollution

control board has a

Don King, a
spokesman for area resi
dents, said as far as he
knows, area residents have
no concerns about the asphalt

level of 5.5 particles per mil-
lion in the air “and the
majority of the time” Black-

plant's

King said thepe’ | haven't
been any stp6ng complaints
from homeowners about the
plant and residents know the
material is needed.

He said be can't see any

the job. were afraid the noise, dust line meets those require-
Henne’s comments came and smell from the plant ments.

after, Blackli PI would be i Williamson said he needed

tive Jack Williamson told — As well, council promised the extension because he

council he has moved 35,000 the plant would only be in hopes to a number

tons of material from the operation for a few weeks. of contracts in the Castlegar

gravel pit on the property, However, bad weather area. He said Cominco has

with an ext.
of 20 working days this
spring.

RIBBON CUTTING .

Mayo! jor Audrey Moore was on
hand to officially open t
store with a special ribbon cutting ceremony

ye new Canada Safeway

Moore is flanked by Garnet Berg, retail operations
left), Tony Sandrin, store manager (right)
and Bill Friesen, district manager (far right).

Street talk

New PEP co-ordinator

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar has a new municipal emer-
gency program co-ordinator. He's
Frank Steven, an aviation instructor at
Selkirk College's Castlegar campus.

Steven replaces Red Warner, who
resigned prior to moving to Creston.

Steven has an extensive background
in emergency measures, particularly in
search and rescue.

He retired from the Royal Canadian
Air Force after 28 years of service, the
last 16 with the RCAF search and res-
cue.

“I ended up on my last tour'as the
commending officer of the Rescue Co-
ordination Centre in Victoria,” Steven
told Castlegar council at a recent
meeting.

He was also active as co-ordinator in
establishing the ‘provincial emergeticy
program for ‘the City of Duncan on
Vancouver Island.

Steven said he accepts the position
“with quite a bit of enthusiasm.”

He said the difficulty of heading an
emergency program is keeping vol-
unteers at a level of high intensity,
while hoping “we never have an emer-
gency.”

Ald. Len Embree commented, “It
sounds as if council is very fortunate (in
obtaining Steven's services).”

In other news, council rejected a site
for the new RCMP building. The site is
on Paulsen Place behind the Maloney
Pontiac Buick GMC dealership.

Ald. Bob Pakula, protective services
committee chairman, said the site was
offered by West Kootenay Properties
Ltd. for a combined police-fire de-
partment.

Pakula said he, Fire Chief Bob Mann,
and RCMP Staff Sgt. John Stevens
toured the site and rejected it.

Pakula said the site isn’t feasible for

COLLEG

continued from front page
ference sports. Cromwell said Selkirk
College teams do not have the money
for travelling expenses to participate in
the Totem Conference.

A final decision will be made when
details of the college budget are re-
ceived.

Also at the meeting Perra reported
that reactions to the DTUC closure
continue to be received by himself and
director Richard Pearce.

“These statements of concern and
local news clippings are forwarded on a
regular basis to the Ministry of Edu-
cation,” he said.

Perra also said that Doug McLelland
of the Ministry of Education had
visited the campus to review the col-
lege’s space requirements should
DTUC activities be relocated to the
Castlegar campus.

He said.the estimated budget for
renovations to the Bonnington base-
ment, the library and the construction
of a new administrative facility is
$800,000.

“The facility plan will accommodate

tion and relocate aviation activities to
the airport,” he said.

A separate administrative pear
to house student services, financial

make the casual newspaper reader pay a greater percentage
of circulation costs “and to encourage doorste;
delivery” by making home delivery cheaper.

jigned to is planned im-
mediately north of the main lounge.
p carrier yy 6,000-square-foot
facility is considered cheaper to con-

a police-fire department because the
response time is too great and there is
no direct access to Columbia Ave.

But he said viewing the property
a start.

“You have to start somewhere,” he
said, adding the police station “is going
to have to come.”

Elsewhere, Castlegar council sent a
letter to the Canadian Radio-television
and Telecommunications Commission
opposing an application by B.C. Tel for
a six per cent interim rate increase.

In a letter to council, B.C. Tel ex-
plained that the interim increase will
come into effect July 1 and “has been
limited to six per cent in keeping with
the need for restraint expressed by
both government and industry.”

However, Ald. Albert Calderbank
said the last comment must have been
made “tongue in cheek.”

He noted, “If you put four six per
cent increases in a year it’s 24 per cent,
= is the sort of way these things

# Calderbank also suggested council
notify B.C. Tel that with every increase
in B.C. Tel rates, council will increase
the company’s taxes at the same rate
“because as far as we're concerned this
is not following the (restraint) guide-
lines.”

B.C. Tel also advised that between
now and Oct. 25 it will assess its
revenue requirements for 1985 and
present them at a public hearing on
Feb. 12, 1986 in its application for a
further increase.

That rate increase would come into
effect in May 1, 1985.

B.C. Tel says the interim increase
would generate $17 million or 1.5 per
cent of total revenues.

Castlegar residents would pay 50
cents more a month for an individual

FRANK STEVEN
- enthusiastic

residential telephone — up from the
present $8.25 monthly

Individual business lines would jump
from $18.55 a month to $19.65 — or
$1.10.

B.C. Tel says it needs the increase
because company revenues fell $30
million short of earlier projections due
to lower demand.

As well, B.C. Tel says economic
conditions are expected to be weaker
through 1984 than forecast, with rev-
enue for 1984 expected to be $59 mil-
lion lower than what was estimated a
year ago.

B.C. Tel says the CRTC approved.
12.75 per cent to 13.75 per cent rate of
return on equity. It says without the
interim rate increase its return will
drop to 11.7 per cent.

The city also opposed a 7.3 per cent
rate increase by West Kootenay Power
and Light Co.

E CUTS

struct than the two-storey annex under
the library.

Bursar Dale Schatz said architects
have been instructed to prepare pre-
liminary drawings for the Bonnington
basement renovations and the admin-
istrative building in order to confirm
preliminary figures.

Other upcoming projects at the
Castlegar campus include converting
locker areas in the basement and main

floors to faculty offices. The space in —

the cafeteria basement: area will be
converted to use by the duplicating
centre and the college's purchasing,
receiving and storage.

Schatz said the cafeteria basement
will also provide space for the security
monitoring system and a switchboard

to prepare a report and recommen-
dation on the plan.

“There is no actual cost to the col-
lege,” Perra said, “just time and
money.”

The college board has finally been
reduced to seven members from 15.

The remaining sections of the
amendments to the College and Insti-
tutes Act now have been proclaimed
and all school board and government
appointees ot the college boards were
terminated.

The seven members re on
he board are Elizabeth Tieet and Fred

Basil McDonnell, Jack Col cubenand Bob
Buckley represening Trail, Rev. Wal-
ter Donald of Nelson and Boyd Hard-
wicke of Grand Forks,

MOVING INTO THE new Safeway store was a chore
all right, but moving out of the old store was no easy task
either. The store must be vacated by March 1 (tomorrow)
— and that means everything must be gone, including the
huge freezer units in the back of the store, the shelving,
and display cases. Crews were working at a feverish pace
to accomplish that.

THERE IS STILL no word yet on who will move into
the old Safeway location, though rumors abound. Here's
the choices so far: (a) Canadian Tire (b) another food
store.

SELKIRK COLLEGE alumni keep popping up all
over the place. Now we hear that Andrew Soles, 61, an
assistant deputy minister in the ministry of universities,
science and communication, has been named acting
deputy minister.

Soles is replacing Robert Stewart, who left to head
the Alberta Research Council.

Since 1980 Soles has been assistant deputy minister
for universities in the ministry. He was Selkirk College's
second principal.

GEORGE SPARROW of Genelle was one of 49
British Columbians to win $10,000 in the Jan. 29 Super
Loto bonus draw.

THINGS ARE happening over in Nelson. Tracie's
Boutique will be moving from its old location at 530
Josephine St. to 664 Baker St. As well, The Plant Parlour
has opened in Chahko-Mika Mall with Bill Lindsay as
manager.

REMEMBER THE letter to the editor we had about
a month or two ago asking for donations so that a Grand
Forks girl could travel to the Soviet Union to have a
special operation? Well, it seems the operation couldn't
be performed.

A disappointed Tammy Horkoff returned home from
Moscow recently after Soviet microsurgeon Dr. Georgi
Yumashev was unable to perform the delicate operation
that would'graft nerves to Tammy's spinal chord.

Tammy did tour the Kremlin, but found Moscow
impossible to visit in a wheelchair because there are no
provisions for the disabled.

ON A BLEAKER note, but with something of a
silver lining, Parta Industries Ltd., a Grand Forks
particle board producer employing about 65 people, has
gone into receivership.

Parta manager Paul Verigin says the receivership is
voluntary and planned and allows Parta to continue
operating. So it's “business as usual” for the company.

ALLAN MERRY
Trail pioneer«
passes away

A graveside funeral ser-
vice was held this morning at
Slocan City for Allan Legge
Merry, 93, who passed away
Saturday at Castlegar Hos-
pital after a short illness.

The service was conducted
by Douglas Swanson with
funeral arrangements en
trusted to the Castlegar Fu
neral Chapel.

Mr. Merry was born Nov.
8, 1890 at Toronto and moved
to Trail in 1897 with his par-
ents. He grew up in Trail and

He was a life member of
the Odd Fellows Lodge of
Trail and Slocan, and was an
active member of the Slocan
Senior Citizens Association.

Mr. Merry was also a
member of the Valley View
Golf Club at Winlaw and was
proud of the fact that he
played 156 games last year,
making the 18-mile round
trip to the course almost
daily.

He has lived alone since
the death of his wife in

worked on construction of
the original East Trail
Bridge.

He lived for a short time at
Slocan in the 1920s working
in sawmills and on the paddle
wheeler boats on Slocan
Lake, returning to Trail in
1928.

Mr. Merry married Hen-
rietta Spies at Annabelle in

January 1980 (at age 92), ana
heated the family home with
wood whieh he continued to
cut and split right up to win-
ter’s arrival last fall.

Mr. Merry is survived by
two sons, Phillip and Bud,
both of Slocan; three daugh-
ters, Mildred .Spence of
Castlegar, Mrs. Gordon (Eli-
zabeth) Nelson of New Den-

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LEAP YEAR

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last year.”

In other news, the board is looking
into a proposal on student housing pre-
sented at the meeting by Garrith
Hughes from Nanaimo Western Stu-
dent Housing Ltd.

grounds.
‘The. company has already estab-
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front poge
“I tease you about that all the
time,” adds Adrienne’s older
brother, Brian.
“So does your Dad,” adds Adri-
enne’s mother.

College: :
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firms in the Trail area, in-
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grandchildren and 18 great-
grandchildren.

Should friend desire, con-
tributions may be made to
the Children’s Hospital, 4480
Oak St., Vancouver.

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