‘The final ski series of the + Pontiac Cup, held Th Friday and Saturday: at Red) p Mountain, ‘saw moat of the / top awards going to young ikiers from Quebec and On- In, men's ‘competition Paul Boivin of Quebec com: ‘piled 110 points followed by. another Quebec skier, ‘Jacques, Audot with 109. They were followed by Al. Btewait _ Northern ‘Ontario , with’ 68, ” Jim Hunt of Quebec with'60 and two Alberta skiers tying in tenth place, Jim Reed and Ap Brian O’Rouke with 55 points Erma Bombeck it was your usual elevator crowd of women descending from a luncheon-style show onthe mez- zanine to the main floor. They all faced the front of the elevator, their stomachs sucked in, their eyes glued on the lighted numbers. Out of the silence a voice said, ‘‘I’ve heard it from too many people for it to ba a rumor, Margaret. Ironing boards are definitely coming back."’ Seconds later, the doors opened automatically, but no one moved to get off. We all just stood there numbed by what we had just heard. Mayva was the first one to laugh. She sald It was a stupid prank and someone was just trying to get attention. If It Is untrue, it’s the most viclous rumor to be circulated since “the the one a few years ago that long calls The very mention of the words 8 “ironing board’”’ brought back all kinds of memories. The early mornings when the kids would drop off at the utility room just , before they caught thelr bus for schoo! and I'd iron * anything that showed from under a sweater. (The short kids had to be lifted to the board and held steady.) The’stack of unironed clothes in a basket that grew every week and was such fun to rummage through at Anyone remember the ironing board? The time ‘one of my children’ was visiting and got burnt on an iron. He had never seen one hot before. And who could forget the night when their grandmother babysat with them and laid ironed pajamas out on their beds and they were afraid and refused -to touch them? Then one day | bought a dress made out of nylon that was ‘‘drip dry." It was hot in the summer and cold in the winter, but it was a major drudge breakthrough. It got me out of the utility room and led me giddily into the 20th century. | never Ironed again. When | told my daughter that | had heard ironing boards were making a comeback because of the new perma-wrinkled linens, satins and silks, she. was unmoved. “What's an Ironing board?’’ she asked. “You remember. ! used to iron when you were a child."” oH | remember. Didn't yu burn my. leg once while you were pressing my.skirt “That's It. surface on top and you kids used to pile your coats and books on it.’ “| thought that was a stove.'" “lve always gotten the two mixed up. . but if either comes back, I'm in trouble. Halloween. 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GEMERAL PAINT. FT Wollcoveirings 603 Columbia : “The province should de- “veide ‘elther to‘ award’ com- + pensation for frozen’ mincral . claims" at Kokanee Glacier, Rienet RDCK c Hit ne uets Y Voters in. Nelson and Salmo and Electoral Areas E, Fand G will decide Saturday whether they want to raise the stakes for their troubled regional garbage function to “Plagued for. ‘nearly ‘10. years with inadequate refuse sites and facilities in those areas, the Regional. District of. Central Kootenay will ask taxpayers in the two muniei- palities: and rural ze Par u pains nod dents, | the response to the proposal . was: +generally * “pretty. BOOKS AK wot Some ' lents. were critical of the platitied use ‘of “wer ve’. basing it on the equitable,” the! man explained. Hes admin- never said§ jessment is + itfes at the North Shore and surrounding Salmo to’ elim- inate the statutory one-mill limit on taxation for the function. ‘3. ‘The referendum follows public ‘meetings ° between Feb. 27 and March 5 at which RDCK officials explained and wear residents’ views on the provide a budget of up to we 000 annually, compared tH: the $77.522 the one-mill levy is capable of generating. _ <. Contacted Sunday, poor.attendance at the three theetings, which drew a com- bined audience of 180 resi- Applications by ‘two it Kootenay regional dis- trlets for 8 total $1,885,089 are among this spring’s re- quests for financing from the Municipal Finance Authority. 8 Recently-released, fig- ures show Central Kooténay fe Fequested $1,965,789 and Kootenay Boundary has 19,360 from the ie Provincial agency SA ytipi ss fet 4 ; most things are done. that : way. You.have this situation any time you ‘do it, where’ people are ‘paying: taxes for ° vacant land that produces no. garbage, but’ they're going’ to _ have to Pay, for. At (CK chair: { ts 291% troliand fish and wildlife, the tWé Branches you have to ‘ deal with . on saree dumpsy" he said, parks ‘and mines ministcles for a “speedy resolution” of’ the ‘hardship. an y Slehl yest moratorium on, min ng. has Because.‘ Nelson's two . ' Joads would amount to -225 cubie , yards’. of ‘compacted refuse daily, compared to the 35 cubic’ yards which would come from the other parti- posed leasing ‘although the Vis “hoping' we'll. ft ind mid ng else.” oethey have been very reasonable and said ‘if you're stuck, we're willing to try to ep you out, but we'd.really be happy if you found a suit- the ‘referendum solicitor is coming up to meet. ith Comiico's legal depart- ent and’ we're hoping that jecure we'll’ be looking {at other far’ to fake: ‘bite’ to i things in-the ‘meantime.” ‘Another site considered ly -is one ‘at’ Hall % Siding;“about 10 or 12 miles Achat Nelson would Be putting. ut of Nelson,” MacNeill said. “The thing is, of course, wo loads a.day into this,” he xplained: “Salmo would only, “S putin oné load a week. The closer we can get to Nelson mc & i 2 7 Banca. ‘$871, ,000,. repayable , gional districts. Financing sought ‘ for * Central Kootenay consists of | $160,000, repayable over 20 °. -years, for street improve- ments in Nakusp; $398,789, ; repayable over 20 years, fora water system in Creston; {$106,000 repayabie over 25 * years, for a water system in» SD MIR TNT gt ers the cheaper the thing’s going. to Be.” é cipating the heavi- est. traffic’, would. be from ‘Nelson, he said. “The. vast majority of * the people who have spoken to me are‘again hoping that, we can really solve the prob-* lem this: time,” ‘Nelson. dir- ector John (Nevill id Sun- day. LAaty : “I think they ‘along with our proposal reasonably well. There are 2: few; people who would prefer to:see an‘ incinerator installed in Nel- son and they aré opposed to this “system, . putting the method in’ front’ of the sol- ution.” Baia But overcoming the res- trictions of the one-mill- limit ‘on the RDCK garbage func- . tion is the key to finding the solution, the' Nelson director said. “We feel this. RDCK approach will solve the prob- Tem for all three commun- ities, at least -the- overall E expense": he explained. Inds from MFA € over, 25: years, for a water ystem in Ymir; $70,000, .re- < payable over 15 ‘years, for. ‘fire protection in ‘Lister; , $60,000, repayable over .five years, for Nakusp recreation. and $150,000, repayable over _ for the © water * 20 years, . system in Salmo, 1 Also listed is a RDCK request for $ 8 i aris 4 CUPE starts negotiations : Rep resentalives of Can- : adian Union ‘of Public Em- ployees-Local 2254 and the City'of Grand Forks met for the’ first. time March 20 to start negotiations. ; Thé:.present collective agreement between the par- ties expired Feb. 29. Bar- : gaining could have * com- menced as early as Nov.'1, 1979, as requested by “the City, but no da is ‘being vabisetatod by the *KBLRA, and in response to > the union - proposal: Labor Relations Director Darwin: Benson said the total cost of the union’s demands is .in excess of 40 per cent.” Benson said the Grand - Forks council will now took at ° the union’s demands and will decide what-course of action they will take in response to was accepted until - _ last Thursday. _ / According toa KBLRA release the CUPE bargaining committee presented a prop- osal demanding a $2.50-wage increase over one year, which - amounts. to a 33.5 percent wage increase. The union. also asked for’. improved . overtime rates, - increased vacation time, sick time and other minor changes. « The City of Grand Forks Kootenay West concerns numerous : those d ‘ The present labor rate in Grand Forks is $7.43 per hour compared with arate of | $8.18 in Trait and $7.83 in Nelson. The tradesman rate is\presently $9.42-in Grand Forks, $10.21 in Trail and $10.16 in Nelson. Both. the City of Trail and the City of Nelson are in the last year of their agreement. The per- ~ centage increase for both cities effective March 1, 1980 was hae per cent. - The KBLRA, along with the Town of Creston, ‘the Village. of Warfield and the City of Rossland are negoti- ating with CUPE in those municipalities. The issue in all three inunicipalities ‘is wages only. ~ Talks in Rossland. and Warfield will recommence on April 28,29, and:30 and in © Creston March 28. t + repay- 3 able over 20 years, for fire protection in’an unspecified _ area. Sought _ by Kootenay Boundary is $134,300, repay- able over 20 years, for paving: in Rossland; $260,000, repay-. able over 20 years, for the. Trail water system; $125,000 repayable over 20 years, for. the Montrose ‘water system. Of. the $63.6 million {worth of finaneing: requests ‘made tothe ‘MFA- for this-- spring, $49.5 million is ear- marked for sewer and water. Named to’ represent K opinions lead and allver 100-square-mile provincial park, about 28: Km. northeast Fs aarboge poll Saturday “If want to go and buy a new car as an individual Tve either got to have the money in the bank ‘or the credit rating at the bank to borrow the money, and this applies exactly. to. the’ re- gional district. We've got to know we can afford to lease “or purchase a 'plece ‘of land before we -solve the prob- lem.” “There: were’ probably three people at thoze mect- ings who: had fairly strong the dol- Ina written submission: ‘to, the board 'Pearce,: who ‘represents the rural. North Shore area, pointed out Kok- :anee Park was: first estab- lished “on the initiative and ‘with the active assistance of the mining companies” in the early 1920s. “At that time the park took in over 160 claims and there existed a cordial re- lationship between the parks branch and the miners,” the brief said.” From 1922 until shortly after 1945 the park was man- aged on & mil.iple-use basis, the brief continued, and from 1948 “it became increasingly difficult to obtain‘ permits to work in the park.” + “For. many, many years it worked very well as a lars being spent for a site that hadn't been nothing done,” He ' argued ,moat «the holders of the’ “remaining 48 claims — among a total 800 ‘similarly affected :in' B.C. — are victims of “expropriation: by attrition and by regu- lation”: conducted | by’ civil servants rather’ than by ¢ elected officials, None ‘of*the, claims are presently being, worked ‘ex- cept the Seratton’ ‘fine, he fd. mine sued the parks branch ete million,” Pearep ex. | ied. was that within? two ‘days they had a permit. It: took another two months to get a written permit out of them but they kept phoning him up to assure him the permit was’ * coming. The only way: these p said the Nelson director, who attended. the > meetings in) Nelson and Balfour. “But most people’ at the meetings appeared . to.- be, simply. x solve thi blem ‘as. quickly as possible; Not’ only’ for Nelson, ‘where the garbage site has: been’: without’ ‘a pollution control licence since 1975,-but also the Balfour and. Salmo’ dumps ‘are’ proving _ unsatisfactory’ for ‘those areas.” “Neville pointed - ‘out “Tre- fuse ‘sites’ throughout ‘the - - RDCK are underfunded ‘and’ the regional district ‘recently. applied for’ downgrading’ of the ‘dumps’. standards’ “be- cause’ we just couldn't meet the pollution control require- ‘ments of the levels of permits that were already granted.” If the proposal is passed in the Saturday referendum the proposed management “mini-board" for Nelson, Sal- mo and Areas E, F and G would have ‘the funds to operate a Class “A” dump, with daily covering, fencing and - an which people seem to recognize is ..passed’ through the courts.” which affected not! only Kok- \~anee Park but every park in B.C, to the effect’ that there would be no mere. raining | in the parks. ©) * “Since that time we've had ‘numierous ‘people ’ try with every government to get some kind of decision on this, whether they can work the claims or whether they're, < and there ‘simply “has “T'really don't think any! bureaucrat should be allowed te aie away with this,” * their expenses from: the claims was inadequate. .” Td like ‘to point out that!’ if your land was expropriated : by the: highways | ministry = and you're only repaid the © taxes and improvements you’ had on that land you would certainly not.get’ very much’ money,” the Ares F director said. “In many cases the land ‘has gone-up dramatically. in |” alue. The dump. alone) are orth a considerable amount % “If you care to use the ” . usual ‘multiplier’: effect. for mining there is:in'that' case somewhere in the neighbor- hood ‘of about $250 ‘million worth of benefits accrued ~ from them in that” park ‘in regards to mining,” he said. “There. is perhaps $1 billion worth of benefits to the community at one time or another.” According to figures cited in the Arca F director's brief, the mines produced at least 85,700 tons of lead and silver ore worth more than ‘+ $88 million before the 1972 3 order-in-council. 4 “(On the basis of known > : ;Pearce estimated there is “at i holders for least ‘a minimum of five times: that ore still remaining.” 4 Deputy at¢siriey- gene Richz23" Vogel. returned to work this week after-being’ officially cleared ‘of allega- tions that he used his'position to inf the trial of West would be'“a first-class ‘oper- ation that would meet all th the’: requirements of {pollution control,” he said. Results of the: ‘oll will be tabulated in an overall total rather than in the separate Kootenay lawyer - Michey * Moran as ‘well as two other cases. “The. allegations. ‘arose’ from a CBC ‘television Reade ;,Mareh: 6. that .Vogel-impro, ‘erly tried to held “friends an ‘and 2 it totals of the areas The total required in order to ‘pass the referendum prop- are RDCK : chairman G.E/ "MacNeill and his alternate, Area I director John Moran. Listed as the representative of Kootenay Boundary are “RDKB. chairman Isidore Muzzin and his alternate, Greenwood director Tom Taylor. The representatives of the RDCK and RDKB are each allotted one vote, awarded on the basis of resi- dent population, on the MFA board. The: remaining MFA board members share a total 61. votes. Back from Reno journey osal must represent 50 per cent of votes cast plus one. Named. as “phis tour was just an introductory visit to these areas to allow citizens an Ree coping Se a early opportunity to state their concerns directly to me,” Kristiansen said on his return, — “I plan to similarly tour the -southern part of the riding soon, and will return as often as the House of certain areas know about regional district plans for a referendum to provide CTV service, and I am following up many other issues.”* Among those, the MP said, ‘are. airport improve- ments at Kaslo, postal ser- vice . in the upper and-my. i schedules allow.” The MP toured his re- cently-won federal: « riding with ‘his constituency assis- tant Gerald Rotering; who operates Kristiansen's Cas- tlegar office. ° “There were. extensive lists of long-standing prob- lems and un-fulfilled ‘needs , presented to us in each and every” community,” the -MP said. “Problems with televi- sion,. radio and’ transport: service came out on top as” issues affecting .the more isolated areas of Kootenay We: it. We've Tet those .in eee PREPS Kootenay Lake area,. ina- dequate boat launching facil- ities ‘at-Lardeau, a water ‘storage question at Silverton and general economic prob- lems along Uppon Arrow Lake. In both the Slocan and Arrow. lakes valleys, tourism was a central issue, according to the Kootenay West Mp.° : While the Slocan Valley villages are'‘banding together to promote: tourism, resi- dents of Edgewood ‘and Fau- / quier” are questioning the Instead, some ‘ reported last week that around 7 p.m. March 16 on the highway between Pater- son, Wash. and Rossland the + Nelson-bound Greyhound bus carrying him, his wife Jean, | +, +42 other passengers and the driver and tour hostess lost. *) two wheels, ‘The two rear wheels, both on the same dide of the bus, sheared off their studs : and fell off the hub, leaving until of the Arrow Lakes are in-” terested in aiding their. agri- eulture and in developing secondary industries. These ‘areas are being investigated - by the federal representative on their behalf. In addition to commun- ity concerns, Kristiansen said, many individual con- cerns were presented to him which require Personal ate. tention. “ These include, problems $ with federal and provincial social service programs, as- ‘ sistance required in applying for business development grants and people seeking loans and grants to improve their homes, he seid. they were later picked up “roughly four or five miles out of Rossland,” Lloyd said. He said passengers felt “two bumps” when the wheels fell of the bus, which was travelling at a speed of about 50 kph, but none were hurt... “We phoned and had people come and get us, but (the bus line) took care of most-.of the passengers,” Lloyd said. “They had another bus come up to transport the other passengers. There was a slight delay, something like two or three hours, but no- body was- too badly dis- comforted.” _ Commenting on the ex- . in ouawe taking care of Par- can be need for vast inc in tourist ‘attractions as prop-" osed by their Social Credit MALE Jordan. reached through his Castle- gar office toll freesat Zenith he said he has no immediate further bus trip plans but insisted the. March 16 incident has not discour- -aged any plans for travelling on buses in the future. C an the’ judicial system. Attorney-general Allan Williams, - in: a carefully-' worded 40-minute statement’ ¢ the B.C/‘legislature’ last ednesday,’ went ‘through each case ‘in detail before saying he had asked Vogel to resume his' duties. Vogel, who has served as deputy attorney-general for more than two years, earlier last “upol skills, sense of responsibility, and dedication he has brought to his office.” The CBC alleged that Vogel influenced or tried .to influence the course of justice in an impaired charge against Moran,: a: Kootenay : lawyer and) Vogel” friend}. an “im- iving:charge. “Andrew Rigg, son of @ friend; and the Wendy King prostitution case which led to the resignation of John Far- ris, former B.C. chief justice. Williams ; said he - will - complain about the report to” the federal minister respon- sible for the CBC and the Canadian Radio-television and Tele-communications C that Moran, who had been |; charged with impaired dri- ving and failing to submit toa = breath’ test: after a’ March,‘ 1978, accident, be’ charged . with dangerous ‘driving be- “cause “he would plead guilty. to that.” Moran pleaded guilty. and was granted an absolute: discharge. ageing ics said Crown family’ Williams counsel Brian Nattrass said he decided‘ to lay the addi--- tional charge'and that at no time did he communicate or receive |’ instructions from Vogel ps Williams. noted allega- tions in the Rigg-and King cases were based'on a con- fidential letter. sent to his Garde: Gardom vfor licensing radio and television ~ stations. . , ‘ through his lawyer he would take libel action against the CBC and reported Chris Bird. 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