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The Regional District of
Central Kootenay board has
approved a substancial pay
raise for all board members.

Regional district adminis-
trator Reid Henderson said
most directors will earn al-
most $10,000 in 1992: $550
per month for rural directors,
which used to be $497 per
month; $180 per meeting at-

RDCK approves raise

tended, up from $149 per
meeting, based on a 16-meet-
ing schedule, and $90 per
committee meeting they at-
tend, no longer $75 per meet-
ing.

A similar proposal was de-
feated last April. However, di-
rectors felt a pay raise was
needed to offset increased in-
surance costs and the GST.

Pesticide

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will not be using enough
chemicals to reach
dangerous levels.

“It’s not like we'll be going
in there and spraying the
hell out of everything,”
Boultbee said. “We're using
the lowest rate of any
product.”

Craig said he will not
issue a permit to the
company if it does not
respond to the concerns
voiced about the spraying.

“Until I’m satisfied that
requirements for application
have been met, I will not
authorize a permit,” he said.

Craig said he is not
concerned about the
chemicals Boultbee plans to
use.

“They’re all registered
products,” he said.

Boultbee said killing the
weeds along highways is an
important procedure.

“It’s not just a cosmetic
situation,” Boultbee said,
explaining that spraying the
grasses could lower the

amount of roadkill during
the year and cut down on
the number of bushfires
caused by careless drivers.

Snidal said there has not
been adequate notice to
residents in the area. He
said the only advertisement
for public input «an in a free
advertiser in Grand Forks.

“I just want to bring more
attention to the thing,”
Snidal said.

Craig said he has not
recieved proof that any ads
ran in local newspapers, a
requirement in issuing the
permit.

But Boultbee said the
advertisements ran.

He added that he
encourages more response
from the public, and would
be willing to discuss the
proposal at a public forum.

“It’s important that we
get a lot of public input,”
Boultbee said.

“But Snidal has another
solution to the dispute.

“Why don’t we just let it
live,” he sajd. “Let it be.”

FIRE CHIEF FOR A DAY

News photo by Ed Mills

7, and Heather
Because of their diligent observance of Fire Prevention Week Daniel Wilson,

Switzer, 6, became Fire Chiefs for a day Thursday. Accompanying them on their duties were
Brad Makortoff (right) and interim Fire Chief Gerry Remple.

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ppily answered. When I
joked that I was feeling a
little faint, they made sure I
didn’t get up too suddenly.

A pint of blood was about
one-tenth of all the blood in
my body.. In about 10

minutes, I was drained. And
exhausted. Sure, I could
drive home, but that was
about it.

Was it a good experience?
Sure. On Friday I felt just
fine. The lines were way too
long, but that was okay,

because it just shows there

were a lot of people who felt -

it was important enough to
give. Would I put myself
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ly; October 26 1991

Abilities group
lauded for efforts

Barbara Tandory
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
The City of Coailenae 8

called “curb cuts,” or ramping
of the sidewalk, for easier ac-
cess to buildings by those in

Abilities A
tee has hosted a major beeen
B.C. conference with the confi-
dence of a well-established
community organization last
weekend.

“The committee is really
proud of its accomplishments,”
said advisory committee chair-
man Mike Balahura at the
opening of the working session
Friday morning.

In his opening remarks,
Balahura thanked Castlegar
mayor Audrey Moore; who ini-
tiated the advisory body as the
first of its kind in the province
on the initiative of the Mayor’s
Committees stemming from
the 1987 Man in Motion World
Tour by Rick Hansen.

“We're grateful for the sup-
port from mayor Moore’ and
council in assisting us in the
last few years,” said Balahura,
a former special education di-
rector for the Castlegar school
district,

About seven new “curb cuts”
a year are done by the city
crew, she noted.

Among the committee's ac-

counted the provision of Hand-
iDart by the Transit Corp. for
which the committee lobbied
for two years. She sai Moore
held several meetings with
transit officials on the commit-
tee’s behalf.

The committee has also pre-
pared an accessibility guide for
Castlegar, and earlier, acted in
an advisory capacity when the
expansion of the airport termi-
nal was underway.

Standbra added the city’s
building inspector, Phil
Markin, has been “very cooper-
ative” regarding the needs of

disabled. All new buildings
and renovations must be made
accessible, she said, noting:
“And he enforces it.”

The advisory committee has
ived a special Five Star

Moore ded the
session accompanied by Ald.
Jim Chapman, who is the city’s
ive on the i

“We as a city are becoming
increasingly aware of the need
for our city to be accessible to
all,” Moore said in her address
to the participants.

“They have been creative
and vigorous,” she said. “And
today is another demonstration
of this.”

Kris Standbra of the adviso-
ry committee has spent the last
three months organizing the
first Tegional conference in
Cc

Community Service Award for
its education work in the com-
munity two years ago.
Standbra summed up: “We
have avery committed group of
son
and these issues are something
we sincerely care about.”
Another honor came from a
federal official attending the
Saturday session of the confer-
ence. Doug Findlader from the
Department of the Secretary of
State — based in Kelowna —
said he was very impressed and
would like to use the advisory
committee asa national model

and was pl d to
see a get-together of key ac-
tivists from the disabilities
awareness movement in the
East and West Kootenays and
Okanagan.

“The services are predomi-
nantly found on the lower
mainland; we want to bring
them out here,” Standbra said
in an interview.

Locally, she said, the com-
mittee has been busy installing
— with help from the city — so-

in “
The regional conference, ini-
tially scheduled to take place in
lowna, came out of a confer-
ence held in Kamloops in April
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