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By RONNORMAN ~ ”
Editor
+~Castlegar voters will have their say
on Sunday shopping after all.

Castlegar council Tuesday gave the
green light toa referendum on Sunday
and holiday shopping. The referendum
will be held during the Nov. 16
municipal. election.

“We want. to. find out what. the
citizens think of (Sunday shopping),”
said Mayor Audrey Moore.

To pave the way for Sunday and
holiday shopping, the city has drafted a
holiday shopping bylaw, which will
allow any retailer to operon any day of
the year.

“ Businesses would be able to open on
Sundays, New Year's Day, Good

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Friday, Christmas Day and all the
regular statutory holidays.

Moore noted that council had to be
“very careful” with the wording. of the,
bylaw to include Christmas Day.

« If it had not included Christmas, the
bylaw could be challenged in the courts
as religious discrimination under_the
Charter of Rights, she said.

‘Asked for her position on Sunday
shopping, Moore replied: “I have no
strong feeling either for or against it.”

The Castlegar Downtown Business
Association had asked the city not to
proceed with a holiday shopping bylaw.

Ina letter to council DBA secretary
Grace McPherson said the association
feels the bylaw “should not go to refer-
endum on Nov. 16.”

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“Last February the DBA asked the
city to draw up a holiday shopping
bylaw, but’ decided to rescind the re-
quest at an Oct. 2 meeting. é

Moore said the DBA felt it did not,
want to be the first organization in the
region to move on: Sunday shopping.

However, she said the DBA's stance

>>-has apparently changed since its letter

to council. 5
Moore said she spoke with a DBA
executive member this week aboilt the
bylaw and he was “anxious” to know if
Trail council was proceeding. with a
similar holiday shopping bylaw.
Moore replied that to the best of her
knowledge Trail plans to hold a refer-

endum on Sunday shopping on Nov. 16. ©

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" “didn't think that we had much choice
but to do so as well,” Moore said.

Moore added that if approved, the

bylaw won't make Sunday.- shoppice :

“mandatory.” ~

“It really doesn’t force anybody” to
open on Sundays and holidays, she
said.

Ald. Len Embree agreed.

“Regardless of personal positions on
holiday shopping . . . anytime there's a
referendum involvedy I'm in favor of
that.” :

Embree said the referendum will
allow Castlegar residents to make their
opinion of holiday shopping known.

Last year several Castlegar stores
opened on Sundays prior to Christmas.

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By CasNews Staff
Are you ready for your. fire drill?

«national fire drill, 'a highlight of Fire
Prevention Week.

At6 p.m.a pre-recorded smoke
alarm will sound: on local radio
stations and on BCTV and CBC-TV.

Families are asked at that time to

The drill should take about one
minute to complete, %
If you're reading this after 6

fire drill, take time now to do it.
Pretend there is a fire in your

p.m. and haven't completed your .

NATIONAL FIRE
DRILL TONIGHT

home and have your children prac-
tice escaping from the house.
School children who have re-
ceived plans, from area firefighters
are. encouraged to complete the
plans and return them to the area
firehalls on Saturday. Firemen will
be in the halls from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Children will receive a fire safety

practice their home evacuation plan. ‘21d and the coupon from the plan

wi entered in the “Fire Chief of
the Day” contest.

Contest date is Sunday. There
will be a winner for each area fire
department and winners will be fire
chief for the day on Oct. 18.

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DEMOLISHED . . . A single-car accident Saturday evening on Highway,22 sent two people to hospital and resulted in $20,000 damage to the car.

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a single-car accident Saturday night

on Highway 22 near Fairview that

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BySIMONBIRCH _.

Staff Writer

Castlegar sehool board's decision this
summer to suspend Grade 5 and 6
French language instruction for the
1985-86 school year as a cost-cutting
measure is running into criticism from
district parents.

At the board's education committee
meeting Monday, a delegation from the

committee members with a letter
expressing “dismay over the cancella-
tion of the French program in Grades 5
and 6.”

The catir also re-

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to the left of the highway, an RCMP
spokesman said today.

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which ended up rolling into a ditch

Foubister is also charged with

—$20,000,—the RCMP
spokesman said.

g . the parents express their
concern that the lack of French in-
struction “will handicap children who
| move from one school to another:

the Castlegar school district is in the

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FOR CANADIAN PRODUCTS

U.S. markets ready

By SIMON BIRCH
Staff Writer.

Despite threats from the U.S. government to impose
protectionist legislation in an effort to curb Canadian
imports, markets still exist for new and existing Canadian
products, a Canadian trade commissioner said last week.

Rick Stephenson, a trade commissioner from’ the
Canadian consulate in Dallas, was one of five commissioners
in Castlegar last week as part of Canada Export Trade
Month.

The commissioners were here to advise West Kootenay
businessmen and to discuss with them the possible export

Stephenson said U.S. consumers have a high regard for
Canadian products.

“Canada is still perceived as producing high-quality -

products,” he said in an interview at the Sandman Inn where
the discussions took place.

That attitude is particularly true in Texas, he said.

“The interesting thing about Texas is it’s a h-income
state. People have been searching out up-scale, high-quality
products.”

He said Texans feel many Canadian products fit that
category.

Besides Texas, the territory for which Stephenson is
responsible includes New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas,
Arkansas and Louisiana. E

He said the dollar-value of trade between Canada and
those six states is high.

——““There’s $5 billion in two-way trade between Canada —

-and-the territory,” he said, adding that the amount is “fairly
evenly split” between the two.
‘STRING PULLER’
Stephenson, who has been in Dallas just over a year,

>|_ described a trade commissioner as a bit of a “string puller.”

“The object is to provide assistance to Canadian
businesses, their services or products, to get into’ the
(American) marke

One way a trade commissioner can do this is to keep
track of the various trade fairs and shows in his territory
and to direct Canadian exporters to those shows.

Occasionally, Stephenson said,-he has to pull strings to
get Canadian exhibitors into fairs which are full and have no
openings.

In addition, Stephenson said his job is to explain to
Canadian exporters how the American market works.

He said it is a‘ matter of introducing Canadian
businessmen to the American “modus operandi.”

“That, and to know which people are in our territory to
put Canadian people on to.”

Reaction to the interviews with the issi was

Another
interchange
proposal

By CasNews Staff

The Ministry of Highways has
proposed another plan for the Highway
3 interchange, Castlegar council learn-
ed Tuesday night.

Ald. Len Embree said the new
plan will be discussed with regional
highways officials later this week.

favorable.

Dan_Lightfoot, of Kootenay West Wood Design in_
Nelson, said the face-to-face meetings were better than
spending large amounts of money on long distance phone
bills.

“It's a really.good idea to bring these people up here.”
he said. “Just to sit down here for a couple of hours and get
the amount of information is great.” .

Lightfoot is involved in a partnership with Kim Ponti
and Tor Spears of Heart 'n Wood Designs of Kaslo. They
have designed a unique children’s high chair called a “clip on
table seat.” ="

The chair, made of Baltic birch and maple, easily
converts from a ceiling-suspended swing to a high chair that
attaches to any-table. :

Although the two companies are not yet ready to enter
the export market, the information they received from the
meetings with the trade commissioners was worthwhile,
Ponti said.

er, Embree said there is still
no agreement on an interchange plan

—between-the-city and-highways.

“We're still hoping for something,”
he said. 7

Embree said the plans presented to
council so far haven't included “decent
clover leafs” and return traffic lanes.

As well, he said he is concerned
about the residents affected by the

roposed connecting road between
Highway 22 and Highway 3 near the
former Valley Maid store.

“What happens to the people who
live on the south side of the inter-
change?” he asked. He said they just
can't be left in the middle of a clover
leaf.

Mayor Audrey Moore added that
council still, hasn't seen the whole

“I'm glad I went,” Ponti said. “I feel we got good interchange plan — “just bits _ an

information from them.”
She said the commissioners explained about import
duties on furniture, something she said she wasn’t aware of.
In addition, Lightfoot said the commissioners will send a
list of wholesalers and distributors with which the Canadian
companies could do business.

continued on poge A2.

pieces.”

Embree said council isn't even sure
the regional highways officials have
seen the latest proposal, so council
wants to meet with them.

Meanwhile, work underway at the
interchange has nothing to do with the
overall:plan.

minority among school districts in. B.C.
“How can 80 per-cent of B.C. schools
afford it and we can't?” the letter asks.
“If we don't have French offered in
our schools our children will not be able
to compete with future workers in
Canada whose schools offered French.”
Rainville expressed similar feelings

in her letter and urged the board to_

inside

CHAMBER GALA: The.
Castlegar Chamber of
Commerce paid tribute to
its former presidents at a
special gala dinner and
dance Saturday night.
Eleven former presidents
and current president Paul
Moroso were in attendan-
ce... B4

ECONOMIC. CENTRE: Selkirk College has proposed a enterprise
development centre for its Castlegar campus. . . A2

ART OPENING: An exhibit of paintings by Oasis artist Helen
Gwillim opened over the weekend... A6

EATING WOOD?: WASHINGTON — Those who buy certain breads
in the United States hoping to increase the fibre in their diets are
receiving wood pulp instead of grain, a Washington consumer

group says.

“Natural furniture fibre would be more accurate” than the
claim of natural food fibre on some of the bread. said Bonnie Lieb-
man, nutrition director for the Centre for Science in the Public In-

terest.

Pass Creek Parents’ Group presented ~

|____The_parents also want to know why _ decided.

reconsider its decision:

“Commencing a French program at

the Grade 5 level is already very late
relative to most other school districts
in B.C. Delay this by yet another two
years and you will severely handicap a_
child's opportunity to attain even a
passive level of fluency in Canada’s
official second language.” Rainville
says in her letter.
"Trustees, although sympathetic to”
the concerns of the parents, empha-
sized that the decision to suspend
second language instruction for the two
grades this year was made in order to
save what are considered more impor-
tant programs.

__the____Terry Waxling, superintendent of

schools, explained that the board was
faced with a reduced teaching staff and
had to make a decision on what to cut
“without trying to diminish or disre-
gard a program.”

‘Xa 5 said—t board
would be better to cut
‘second language programs rather than
library time or the learning assistance
program.

“This is the first time we've touched
second language programs during the
restraint period,” Wayling added.

In addition to French, Russian in-
struction in Grades 5 and 6 was also
suspended for this year.

2’ Continued on poge A4

“Most consumers would be shocked to learn that the fibre in
| these breads comes from trees, not wheat grain,” she said Tuesday.

Liebman cited eight brands of bread produced
States, all advertised either os high-fibre or lower calor!

the United
products.

Labels on the breads list “alpha cellulose” and do not state that the
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breads’ fibre comes from wood,
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man si

is not clear whether wood fibre is as effective as natural
re in preventing health problems like colon cancer and con-

Liebman said.

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