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SUB RATES The News is blished by Castle td. for subscription rate to The News is $40 per year ($44 in communities where VID KID News photo by Ed Mills Misha Saliken, 3, proves that a little ingenuity is enough to overcome most obstacles, like the one he faced at the Community Complex. Jonathan Green NEWS REPORTER To dump or not to dump, that is the question. And it’s: a question that the Re- gional District of Central Koote- nay is still struggling with. On Jan. 14, the RDCK revealed | its solid waste management plan aimed at complying with strict new provincial requirements. The environment ministry had issued an province-wide ultima- tum, calling for the reduction of solid waste by 35 per cent in 1995 and 50 per cent in 2000. To reach that goal, the RDCK has put forth several options, one of which has some area residents up in arms. That plan would see the Ootis- chenia dump become one of four disposal sites for the entire region, accepting garbage from as far - away as Balfour. Local residents are about to launch a Cominco issues 321 pink slips Wi First wave of layoff = notices handed out at Trail lead and zinc smelter NEWS STAFF The layoffs have begun at Cominco. Thursday, the giant Trail lead and zinc smelter issued 321 lay off notices to members of the United Steelworkers Locals 480 and 9705. Of the layoffs, 281 went to Cominco production and maintenance workers, while 40 went to office and technical staff. The pink slips are the first to be handed out by Cominco since the company announced it was cutting back some 500 permanent positions on Jan. 16. Cominco says it will continue to explore early retirement packages with the two locals to decrease the actual number of layoffs to 460. The cutbacks are all part of Cominco’s restructuring plan after it reported losses of $100 million over two years at the Trail operation. In addition to the layoffs and early retirement packages, Cominco plans to reduce transportation and purchasing costs and energy supplies. The company is also looking for a break in water tax levies, which will increase by 15 per cent in 1992 to some $10.5 maillion. The layoffs take effect on May 31 in accordance with the Provincial Job Protection Act. The act states that 16-week notices are required to layoff employees. Cominco intends to layoff an additional 129 workers by June. In all, 15 per cent of the unionized workforce will lose their jobs, while 25 per cent of the management positions will bé eliminated. Cominco public relations director Richard Fish was unavailable for comment. Emcon strike ends NEWS STAFF The Emcon Services strike is over — again. Two days after returning to partial pickets, a tentative agreement has been hammered out by the B.C. Government Employees Union and Emcon. Union spokesman Soren Bech refused to release details of this new deal, saying both sides have agreed to keep it to themselves. However, Bech said the union bargaining commhittee is recommending the the deal be approved. “I think its fair to say that if the bargaining committte is recommending ratification, the outstanding issues have been resolved,” Bech said from Kelowna. “I’m quite optimistic that the agreement will be ratified.” Among the union’s demands are better wages, job security and pension packages. The first agreement reached in the month-long road maintenance dispute was rejected by 75 per cent of the 380 union members last Saturday. Bech said the union will vote on this second proposal this week. Citizens dumping on Ootischenia plan circulation before he’d speak about it. The RDCK’s Area I director John Voykin said local residents may be jumping the gun. He said residents campaign aimed at changing the RDCK’s thinking. Ootischenia resident Bill Konkin . is “We haven’t even discussed the proposal at the regional district level.’ — Area I director John Voykin should wait until the consul- tant report is in before creating a petition. “T thi currently preparing a petition aimed at re- moving Ootischenia from the re- gional dump plan. When contact- ed by The News, Konkin declined comment on the petition, saying he will wait until the petition is in it’s too pre- mature (to have a petition),” he said. “We haven't even discussed the proposal at the regional dis- trict level.” RDCK administrator Reid Hen- derson said the regional dump plan is just one of many currently being studied. He said the idea has been in the works since Octo- ber, when Okanagan-based Stan- ley Associates began consulting work. “They were given instructions and directions to look at the 23,000 square kilometres of the region,” he said Thursday. : The consulting work is being done in two stages. The first stage, a preliminary report involving public feedback, was completed last week. “(Stage two) will be a detailed look at the options that have come out of the stage one work,” Stanley Be ord Peter Shand said. ie entire report is expected to ‘be completed this summer. oa te ee ee te Se