Page A2 The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, August 2, 1995 Police Briefs Castlegar man injured after encountering Chad English of Castlegar escaped serious injury after the forks of an ACE Disposal truck pierced the cab of the Chambers truck he was driving. Police say English was pulling off the road on 6th Ave. July 28 with the truck and didn't notice the forks sticking out. Damage is estimated at $6,000, Rolled Peter Perepelkin of Grand Forks has been charged under the Motor Vehicle Act after a single- vehicle accident July 23. RCMP say that Perepelkin drove off the road and rolled his 1992 Toyota on Hwy. 3, some three kilometres east of the Nancy Greene Junc- tion, Perepelkin suffered minor injury. Damage to his vehicle is estimated at $15,000. Too close for comfort Casey McNeil of Castlegar has been charged with fol ig 100 gating the break and enter of a residence in the 1200 block of Pass Creek Road July 25. RCMP say that a JVC 25 inch television and cash were taken from the house. Police are also investigat- ing the attempted break and enter of a resid in the 1900 block two vehicle accident accident in the 2200 McNeil was driving’ a vehicle driven by of Pass Creek Road the same day. RCMP say the door jamb was split, however, culprits were 1 in their Pp RCMP are requesting that anyone are investi- with any about either incident contact them. Minor injuries Four 16-year-old teens out for an early morning drive were treated at Castlegar Hospital for minor injuries after the vehicle they were in overturned in the 3800 block of Broadwater Road. Cpl. Al Hudema of the Castlegar RCMP say no charges have been laid in the July 27 accident, how- ever, police are still investigating. Damage is estimated at $2,500. Pass the pepper Castlegar RCMP resorted to using pepper spray after attempts to subdue an intoxicated 22-year- old Genelle man failed. 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Includes salad bar $9.50 CHINESE & WESTERN CUISINE Steak ¢ Seafood Specializing in Chinese Quisine TAKE OUT ORDERS WELCOME SEP RED LANTERN ° Showrooms © Barns © Sheds © Warehouses Wednesday, August 2, 1995 “The Castlegar Sun Trailer park woes becoming a serious problem in West Kootenay area Used homes no longer wanted in developments, leaving longtime renters looking for new space SHARLENE IMHOFF Sun Staff While Harvey and Diana Orser struggle to find a ‘suitable loca- tion for their manufactured home, they are not alone. And it is becoming increasingly more apparent that relocating “used” manufactured homes in the Kootenays is becoming a serious problem. Throughout the region, manu- factured homeowners are experi- encing difficulties when trying to relocate their homes to parks, since several, if not all manufac- tured home park owners are no longer allowing “used” homes into their parks. To top it all off, many park owners are ‘in partnership’ with facturing Pp and “We dealt with a situation recently in this district in which a senior citizen, who had her manu- factured home located in a park, was served with an eviction notice last summer. After 10 months of “I don’t want to say whether it’s right or not, but apparently it is legal.” — FRED ERLER Department of Consumer Services therefore will accept a new home only from that particular dealer. Kathy Hendren, president of the Central Ki y avid searching, the tenant was still unable to find a lot to relocate her tured Homeowners’ Association, says she has dealt with a number of situations where manufactured homeowners are truly caught between a rock and a hard place. DEREK ZEISMAN anise Sun gt Despite an offer by the City of Castlegar to give the regional government a seat on the new ¢ommittee overseeing the rede- yelopment of the Castlegar Air- port, the region isn’t ready to bite pst yet Hans Cunningham, chairman of the Regional District of Cen- tral Kootenay, said the region is in the process of re-examining its options now that Castlegar City Council has rejected the regions demands for a joint airport man- agement cffort “Therd's no interest here in appointing someone to the airport committee at this time,” said Cunningham. “At least, not until Ken Wyllie has had a chance to meet with municipal officials.” Wyllie, director of Columbia- Lower Arrow Lakes (Area J) has been spearheading the effort to have the RDCK morg¢ closely involved in redeveloping the Castlegar Airport, now that the federal government has announced plans to spin off responsibility for its activities and Alleged “laughing attacker” pleads not guilty SHARLENE IMHOFF Sun Editor A Pass Creek man has pleaded not guilty in Provincial court in Castlegar last week, after facing charges that he allegedly attacked his neighbor in a dispute over a property easement. Willem Deklerk, 71, will be back in court for trial Dec. 11 Deklerk was charged after it was alleged that he grabbed.and shook his next door neighbor, Lisa Marken Marken told The Castlegar Sun that Deklerk was laughing throughout the entire attack, and continued to do so while he was walking back to his driveway Deklerk admitted to The Sun that “some altercation” had taken place with his neighbors, but he denied the dispute turned i physical He also said there | were no physical or verbal threats either. As covered in a previous news story by The Sun, Marken has been treated for neck injuries. factured home on and was forced to sell, with the condition that it had to be removed from the park, at a substantial loss of the equity she had invested in her home,” said Hendren. e to. a local authority. However, the regional gov- ernment was unsuccessful in derailing the signing of a tenta- tive transfer agreement between Ottawa and the City of Castle- gar — despite an initial delay in the official signing ceremo- ny, due to a last-minute ¢xpres- sion of interest in the airport by the RDCK City administrator Jim Gustafson says he hasn't heard anything from Wyllie or any other RDCK representative recently, and has no idea what the region’s next set of proposals might be “The region's plan seems to change from week to week,” said Gustafson. “I don't know what's going to happen with them next.” He said the city is now pro- ceeding according to its own schedule, in the absence of any participation in the redevelop- ment process by the RDCK. “We've just received our first big wheelbarrow of stuff from Transport Canada. They were here last week, and dropped off game ‘ANT IQUES Come in and browse among . treasures of the, past 301 - 11th Ave. (Tulips Buildin . 365-519 “Needless to say, this loss of equity and overall situation has devastated this tenant.” Is it lawful for this type of partnership to exist between park owners and manufactured home companies? “I don't want to say whether it's right or not, but apparently it is legal,” said Fred Erler of the Con- sumer Services branch of the B.C. Department of Housing, Recre- ation and Consumer Services. “Some of these mobile park owners are also charging a park development fee that can reach up to $5,000 before a pad can be granted.” On the other side of the coin, mobile home park owners say there are expenses involved in developing pads, and therefore they have to recover the costs from tenants for development. Erler said that as availability of mobile home pads becomes more scarce, the problem will likely increase. “I have had a number of calls on this issue, many of them from the Nelson, Castlegar and Grand Forks areas,” said Erler. all these volumes of information — so we're now in the process of slowly sifting through it all.” Cunningham said Wyllie would like to hold a formal meet- ing with Castlegar council and Harvey Orser of south Castlegar says he and his wife have had to surround their trail- er home with tape to prevent their landlord from wrongfully setting foot on their prop- erty before their lease expires in May of next year. RDCK cool to city’s offer of seat on airport committee Region demands direct meeting with council, city planners the region — then he'll report back to us. Gustafson said city officials and Dr. J. V. Hall, chairman of the Castlegar airport committee, are currently the ones examining the city’s p to determine what kind of coopera- tive effort can be undertaken between the two levels of govern- ment — especially on matters dealing with the lands surround- ing the airpon But Cunningham said he and his fellow directors know very little of where things are..headed with Castlegar Airport at the moment, owing partly to a lack of communication with his office by City Hall. “Most likely, the city will go straight through Mr. Wyllie, not the plan and other rele- vant information provided to them by Transport Canada. “We told them to give us some time to sift through all the stuff, and then we'd get back to them and ask them any questions we had at that point.” Gustafson said he now expects another meeting to take place between the city and Transport Canada officials toward the end of August, but couldn't say whether an RDCK representative would be present at that work session. SUN STAFF PHOTO / Sharlene tmhoft “Missing” Robson girl gives parents a scare KAREN KERKHOFF Sun Staff A seven-y 1d Rob for the missing girl, but were girl gave her parents and Castlegar RCMP a scare Mon- |.day when she went missing without a trace. The girl, who RCMP declined to name, went suiss- ing around 2 p.m. Shortly thereafter her father and con- At 4 p.m. the police were notified of the girl’s absence. But a continued search by a persistent neighbor found the seven-year-old playing unharmed in the back yard of a Mountain Sti residence. at 4:30 p.m. NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSURE CAMBOURNE ROAD will be closed for replacement of the INCOMAPPLEUX (FISH) RIVER CANYON BRIDGE at 7.5 km. The closure to all traffic is expected to be from AUGUST 7, 1995 to OCTOBER 13, 1995 For further information please contact Pope & Talbot Ltd. (Nakusp) Ph: 265-3741 ¢ Fax: 265-4265 POPE & TALBOT LTD. P.O. 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