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Wadner, pearance at S; 1 child: slong with her two 0 learn and 3%- informative talk on the allowing the children to see jhe pa thing. ner mal a ‘month-old cub, Amber, travel ee the U.S. aad Canada for- Wad in ‘animal se ce-and gives an hoole the as well as ‘News/Mirror Foto by Lois Huahes The Bite use ofabout ei land: east of Custleaird Plaza as the’ site: of niew supermarket-department store ‘ ht acres ‘of locally! struction of. the planni ‘complex and when completed is scheduled: for discussion at city council's next regular meeting. Council approved Tues- though minutes of an April 1 the dep: int store would “may receive: an’ employ a staff of about 120 unfavorable response from while the food store would have about 80 rt residents of the Woodland Park fe Charne.- The C ee day its . Pecommendation that debate on an application by Com- merce Capital Trust for re- zoning of the Second Street South property from light industrial to a commbrenonsive be scheduled merce | meeting tives ot the city and the ar! Capital pointed out the tracks have a Trust’ spokesman seia his’ 150-foot right-of-way width in ©. om- spokesman Ted Charne said the proposal provides fora 88,000-square- foot food store and a major store — possibly for April 2. No cost has been cited for the planned project, al- Hudson's: Bay, Zeller’s or Woodwards — to comple: ment it. He said unionized labor d re- . the area and said he did not’ locate at its own pasta _ feel moving the tracks 50 fect © about 1,870 feet of track at closer to them would increase Second Street South approx~ imately 50 feet east to allow © for access for two traffic noise levels." : Responding to the mayor's suggestion that the lanes .to the site. He ‘said developer locate its proposed Marathon Realty, the CPRail centre in downtown cele, real estate arm, has i the relocation and road lay- gar by rop- erties including land aad xis tin, ie 2% gories ‘apy througtiout the’ F Cas- ment and food stores debe highway exposure to down- town locations. . Hugh Wilkinson today said he will i By RYON GUEDES NEWS /MIRROR EDITOR Seikirk a s deadline near Ant es are necessary to work out a new wage structure for Selkirk Geadle non- lock. is teaching workers if a one-month-old uni not broken by Tuesday. Contacted: in’ Victoria, the provincial government-appointed Cc abritrator said the failure of Public Empl repr ani Union of on the institution's troubled ‘job © P' classification committee to meet his deadline for proceeding with joint evaluation .of pay rates in the college system will prompt him to “proceed on my own to help the parties or whoever will co-operate with me.to develop a new wage system and to implement it.” ‘Wilkinson, the Victoria I to chair cannot be given apy serious ~the committee — set up as part of a settlement ordered by fellow arbitrator Noel Hall in July, 1979 to remedy wage disparities.and related prob- lems — said. CUPE’ Local 1841, representing about 140 full-time and part-time em- ployees in the college system, had failed to provide the co- - operation the joint body needed to resolve the issues. The. arbitrator pointed - out the principal Jesporsibil: ity Hall assigned Wilkinson said he is pre- pared to impose terms of ref- erence and even an entire new wage system if neces- sary. : * “Obviously it would be better to develop one with the mature co-operation of both parties,” he said. - “But if one party or the other or both refuse to co-operate or they partici- pate in'a way that merely disrupts an attempt to make a good, careful, scientific ination of the questi chosen to push.”. The arbitrator noted he has a reputation for fairness in such disputes as well as for refusing to allow any party to “frustrate the course of just and even-handed dealing with these issues.” “Ido not allow one party tounfairly sway the hearings that are under tery chair- manship,” he said. “T refuse to do that and ' thus I will proceed on my own if that is necessary and I regret very much that it is Pp ly going to be neces- of the i was to help both the union and the college administra- ~ tion to eliminate anomalies in ‘the present wage structure by developing a: consistent job classification system, the - lsck of which “is a festering sore,” But: CUPE _members _ have been “trying to prevent: then clearly I must proceed on my own and award what- ever I think is best. It won't be .as good as the outcome would have been if. both parties had co-operated, but it's better than nothing.” CUPE_ representatives’ -insistence that the precon- ditions be dealt with immedi- ately are halting the Process sary.” Wilkinson withdrew from the committee in mid-March after rejecting Loca) 1841's demand that the.union pre- conditions be arbitrated be- fore the start of discussions on job classification terms of, reference. The April 15. deadline was set down in Wilkinson's March 18 job classification L prevailing. ; ig non-teaching job ce at: workers’ wage levels be im- mediately ‘raised’ to match those of their counterparts at . David Thempaon University it ‘Nelso: "Cent “yore. 4S While the unign.is-des-. perately trying to get these with, . preconditions ‘ dealt: there are’ all’ sorts ‘of ‘em- Ployees who have ‘just as serious problems, whose wages are as anomalous as those the ‘union has chosen to Outli his con 's _ background: in similar de- velopments, .Charne said -refe Commerce Capital Trust . .owns shopping centres in Kenore, Ont., Winnipeg, Man., and Estevan, Sask., as well as in Penticton and the Courtney-Comox area and has 50-per-cent interest in a mall at Chilliwack. > “It’s not the job assigned ‘to this committee or to me * and can only be given to me if the parties agree mutually. The union takes the position _ that if they demand that I do it then I must do it, but that point,” Wilkinson ex- ed. “By delaying the general . solution the union is really, it seems to me, causing a hard- ship to the majority of their membership in order to res- pond to some specific com- plaint which they have which gave * anid and management three options: Local -1841.--drop ite: biter iron ment- members on thecom- mittee agree to a different arbitrator; e The present arbitrator impose the terms of job classification, wage structure ‘ and work schedule. Wilkinson said ‘in the letter he was “reluctant” to impose decisions on CUPE . and college management, but “I intend to proceed alone if the parties have not agreed to proceed by April 15."" sort of ‘Money woes plague Sandman project Financing prob- lems remain .an ob- stacle to construction of the planned $3 million, 115-room Sandman Inn-on the Seventh Avenue South 300 block, the Northland - Properties Ltd. official respon- sible for, the project said this week. Contacted at his Van- couver office Don Hall, the company’s operations man- ager, said despite. North- land’s submission of building plans for the project within the 80-day deadline extension. city council granted it in February, it has been un- successful in attempts to borrow funds for the project. Given the 80-day exten- sion after listing rising loan interest rates among .the reasons for the company’s failure to submit the plans within the one-year period it was allowed before the ex- piry of the bylaw rezoning the proposed Seventh Aven- ue South construction site “So we're bringing in from residential to compre- some professionals and hope- hensive commercial use, Hall fully (moneylenders) will be noted “these are not the very more receptive to this feasi- best of times” for prospective lity study.” borrowers. Hall, who said in Feb- . He said the company is ‘ruary, the company hoped to currently gathering new in- start construction before formation to update the mid-summer and expected to original feasibility study pre- pared for use in, securin ‘uring financing for the project. “We're just having a lot ty getting accept- ance from the moneylend- of difficul Council council d d to city, ers,” the ations‘ manager said: Chamber resumes its job ‘as organizer of SunFest A revived .C Chamb ot Cot After several years of inactivity the chamber — considered the sponsoring body since the annual event started as KC Days more than 10 years ago — will co-ordinate local ser- vice clubs’ contributions to 1980 SunFest activities, Bosée said. Named as this year's SunFest commitiee chair- man, he said the recently- opened staffed chamber office will allow the cham- ber to take over as the umbrella” for the event, scheduled for July 18 to 20. The chamber office will serve “as a focal point fe g ion” while ser- ce this year will assume its-original role as the organizer of the Sunflower Fest, chamber vice-president Larry Bosse said Tuesday. 1980 case as far ‘east as for vice clubs “look after their end as they have in -pre- vious years,” Bosse said. Also contacted Tues- wan Be well a as to Alberta, he sai Leavitt said such ser- vice club- d activi- day, Sw treasurer Al Leavitt said the chamber was named as ‘the co-ordinator _ because its function includes prom- oting such events in the , Castlegar area in’ other centres. The chamber “would automatically be in touch” with sych Washing- ton state centres as Col: ville and Spokane and has sent information on the .- ties as the ‘Rotary pancake breakfast, the Lions’ base- ball tournament and beer garden and Kiwanis’ log- ger sports will probably be featured again this year. Participants in the Sun est wiil “probably tie the whole thing together" at the committee's next meeting, he said. y seek a complete report .on the March 28 derailment of a CPRail .car in South Castlegar. Stressing | the city’s need for of the pros- take one year to complete the planned hotel, this week told the Castlegar News, North- land, the holding company for Sandman Inns Ltd.,. would meet the city’s requirement that work begin within six months and be completed within two years of the is- suance of the building tom for the project. Hall indicated he was confident the company will secure financing “at some point” for the project “but these are difficult times and every day it gets worse.” seeks full details won support for his motion to write the railway a letter asking for details of the de- .Tailment. Cohoe said the derail- ment, — which occurred . when the car, loaded with phosphate rock and secured as part of a five-car section, pect of a more serious in- cident, Ald. Charles Cohoe . Single-billing bylaw expected to save money Castlegar busi- ness licence holders will be billed once rather than twice yearly for their licen- ces, under a bylaw approved by city council Tuesday. . Council gave three read- ings to the bylaw, which ac- “cording to Mayor Audrey Moore would be “thereby saving some money and some staff time" previously spent on the twice-a-year billing. rolled free — “‘dem- onstrates to us the possibility Classified Ads, Real Estate and Automotive Comics Pago Community Date Book SUPPLEMENTS Woolco Trail Tire Utd., ‘Spring Chenaeover Sale’ Eaton's ‘Trans-Canada Sale’ . Safeway (Not all supplements are included in all papers.) < Erne ton 4 Pages DI-D2 JobFile .... C2 MaxHaines . . . One Man's Opinion Page BS ofa major disaster right here in Castlegar.” District CPR personnel’ # who after the derailment reported the section may have rolled free as a result of the release of brakes on the cara, could not be reached by press time to be questioned on the results of their investi- gation of the incident. aid costs will drop City to pay more in welfare costs Castlegar taxpayers’ share of social y three per cent but in- crease by about $10,000 this year, Ald. Heather Hallett told city council Tuesday. Reporting on the pro- @ vincial government's hu- # man resources cost-sharing schedule effective April 1 @ Hallett, council's health ® and welfare committee = chairman, noted the per- = capita cost of human re- © sources to the city has in- ® creased from $1.06 to $1.20 f this year despite the drop from 10 to seven per cent in the city's share of the cost, “The city will be pay- ing more, probably an extra $10,500, which would bring the local levy up to about $80,000 to $90, she said. Interviewed later, the health and welfare chair- man said the increase she cited was an estimate by* the Union of B.C. Mu- nicipalities ofthe effect of the new formula on the city. The city's share of costs, expected to amount to about $89,000, was $79,000 in 1979 and $82,000 in 1978, Hallet said. Ce) You're Getting WEEKEND WEATHERCAST CLOUDY with showers Thursday with un- settled conditions to continue through the weekend. 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