' A2 Castlégar News March 13, 1988 When You Make An Appointment ‘Al Your Favoured Hair Salon And Skin Care Specialist I You Desire The Very Finest In Service And The Latest In Style REMEMBER Every Stylist And Esthetician In B.C. Must Have a Current License Displayed. If They Are Not Licensed By The Hairdressers’ Assoc- lation Of B.C. You Can Rehuse To Pay So When Calling For Your New Spring Make Over DEMAND THE LICENSED BEST A Message From The Hairdressers’ Association Of British Columbia Moore given special duty By RON NORMAN Editor Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore has been named to the B.C. Police Commission, Moore's appointment to the made by provincial order-in- council last week. “I've been appointed on a part-time basis,” Moore told the Castlegar News, adding that the only full-time mem: ber is the commission chair- ‘man. There are four other members on the commission — all from the Lower Main. land. Moore said the work on the “should be in. siti fee No acquisition fee. 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V2A 417 ty ofer made only by prec Redemption re 4° wer me dog to 7. by yar teresting,” given that a new Police Act is in the works. “T'll guess we'll be involved in that.” Moore said her appoint- ment came as something of a surprise and she only learned of it when she received a call from Victoria “out of the blue.” She said the commission also takes part in special pro- jects like the recent report on compensation for victims of crimes. As well it supervises police and crime statistics, oversees the provincial police academy and deals with com- plaints and citizen review boards. Another issue that the commission will likely deal with next near future is the federal-provincial RCMP contract, which expires in 1991. Negotiations are ex. pected to begin soon. Residents fear water poisoning COTTONWOOD, B.C. (CP) — Residents of this tiny Cariboo community fear their drinking water will be poi soned when a nearby opera- tion beings to mine gold by pumping cyanide into the ground. The province has approved a test by Gold Ridge Re. sources Inc., which will inject more than 4,000 litres of a sodium cyanide solution into a rich placer deposit up: stream and uphill from Cot- tonwood, just east of Ques- nel. The gold body is 49 metres beneath a creek and a mining company spokesman said the technique should be safe because hardrock surrounds the mine. However, two federal agencies are concerned about the test and Cottonwood residents are planning to go before the provincial govern- ment’s environmental appeal board. 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PUBLIC INSPECTION OF THE APPLICATION The Application and supporting material are available for inspection at the Head Office of West Kootenay Power and Light Company, Limited, Waneta Plaza, 8100 Rock Island Highway, Box 130, Trail, B.C., V1R 414; and at its district offices located at Castlegar, Crawford Bay, Creston, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Kaslo, Kelowna, Keremeos, Oliver, Penticton, Salmo, and South Stocan, B.C. A copy of the Application and supporting material is also available for inspection at the office of the British Columbia Utilities Commission, 4th Floor, 800 Smithe Street, Vancouver, B.C. A copy of an Executive Summary is available for inspection in WKPL offices and can be made available to interested parties, upon request, from the Applicant. INTERVENTIONS Any person intending to be present at the public hearing and to give evidence or cross-examine witnesses should provide written notice, to be received not later than Friday, March 18, 1988, to the OFF TO THE GAMES . . . The Kootenay Volleyball! Club lett Wednesday night for the B.C. Winter Games. So far the club has lost five out of six games played. The winning game was played against Prince George. REZONING continued from front page airport. Even if we ask for a rezoning to put in a firehall — they would abort that,” he said after the meeting. Residents were also concerned about possible increases in traffic in the area of the gas and convenience store saying there is enough traffic on Columbia Road (the access road). They said they want a traffic light installed at the bottom of the hill intersecting Highway 3. “Rezoning might force them to do it, but there are no guarantees,” said Vanderpol. He said earlier, past efforts to have a traffic light put in that inter section were unsuccessful. Residents also wanted to know what would happen in the event of a tanker spill into the Ootischehia water supply. Vanderpol said nobody could pre dict that but “it is important they are aware of that possibility.” Sheppard. cost.” gestion?” Residents were concerned about water lines and water storage tanks on the CETAC property being disturbed or removed. “If the main line on the govern ment property is untouched, then we can still take the water,” said Alan But Exner noted: “If we feel it would enhance our project to remove it, then we would replace it at our Residents predicted the gas sta- tion would increase noise and traffic congestion on Columbia Road, the road to the Ootischenia dump. Exner said the access road is only 200 to 300 feet from the highway. “How ean that cause a great deal of con- Exner said he didn't understand objections to possiblé noise when an airport is in the area. “You have an airport just off the highway and you have a weigh scale. I find that tough to understand.” Before the hearing Exner thought there was a good chance CETAC would get the rezoning because the applica- tion was similar to the co-op's applica- tion. The co-op's 5.3 acre property was rezoned from a rural two-family to a special commercial to allow for the building of a co-op general store. But residents said a co-op store was not the same thing because a co-op allows for input from members on Brown. problems, such as traffic and noise. “We don’t have that option with this particular case,” said Gerald Bill Stoochnoff added: “The people don't want development here. We want to live the way we want to live. Why don't you just leave us alone?” “They want the best of both worlds,” said Exner later, adding that he hopes the regional district approves rezoning “to enhance the tax base” in Ootischenia. THE Hl ARROW MOTOR INN Proudly Presents RISM Tuesday, March 22 Advance tickets $9, $11 at the door. Tickets available at front desk. 651 18th Street suey ii of British C PUBLIC NOTICE Police file Castlegar RCMP are in- vestigating a break-in early Friday morning at a house in the 3400-block 4th Avenue. The intruder was scared off when the owner got up and saw someone in the kit chen. A wallet with $17 US and $40 Cdn had been taken from clothing in the bedroom where the family had been sleeping. Police say entry was gain ROYAL COMMISSION ON EDUCATION (Public Inquiries Act, R.S.B.C. 1960, Chapter 315) Commission Secretary, and to the Applicant. The notice should include a brief statement of the nature of the interest in the proceedings. SUBMISSIONS BY INTERESTED PERSONS Any person intending to file a written submission must do $0, to be received not later than Friday, April 8, 1988, one copy of the to the C y, and to the CLARIFICATION Persons intending to participate in the public hearing, and who are uncertain as to the manner in, which to proceed, may contact R. J. Pellatt, Commission Secretary or W. J. Grant, Director of Engineering by telephone (660-4700) collect, or in writing. Telex: 04-64536 Rapicom: 120 (604) 660-1102 Barry-M. Sullivan, Q.C. has been appointed.as Commissioner with a general mandate to review education in the province of British Columbia, kindergarten to grade 12 Public hearings will be held at: Creston, Monday, March 14, 7 p.m. (Local Time) Prince Charles Secondary Schoo! The Commissioner will receive written briefs and verbal submissions from individuals and organizations. All representations to the Commission must be made either at a hearing, or by a written brief, or by letter, addressed to the Secretary. Telephone (24 Hours) Call collect (0) 660-4010 On behalf of the Commission ’ Mr. John Walsh, Secretary Royal Commission On Education #350 - 900 Howe St., Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 2M4 ed through an ulocked door about 3 a.m. Police describe the suspect as 5-foot 10-inches to 6-feet, wearing a white T-shirt and dark pants, and having a slim build. He left the house in what is described as a white, full-sized pickup truck. Pofice are still investi- gating. Volunteer to roll week set By CasNews Staff The Castlegar and District Community Services Centre is making plans for Volunteer Week April 17-22. Coordinator Patricia Lakes has issued an invitation to all community groups which use volunteers to take part in the week. “As our contributions to Volunteer Week, we will ask the Castlegar city council and Mayor Audrey Moore to pro- claim volunteer week in Castlegar and will place an article in the Castlegar News so the public will learn a little about the contribution of volunteers in our communy ity,” said Lakes. Groups wanting more in- formation about the week should contact Lakes. “Next year we hope to be able to start the planning for Volunteer Week earlier in the year,” said Lakes. Robson Communi Memorial Church Cemetery ANNUAL MEETING Tuesday, - March 22 7:30 p.m. in Church Hall All interested Welcome. March 13, 1988 Injunction protested TORONTO (CP) — Shoperaft workers employed by CP Rail in Toronto were pulled off the job Saturday to protest a court injunction that bans picketing by striking colleagues in British Columbia, a union official said. The railway was granted the injunction Friday after other unions at its Port Coquitlam, B.C., yard refused to cross picket lines set up by 150 shoperaft workers. “This is our response to the injunction,” Abe Rosner, chief negotiator for the Canadian Council of Railway Shoperaft Unions, said in Montreal. “There may be other responses very shortly.” Passengers chip in TORONTO (CP) — Passengers on an Air Canada flight from the Caribbean passed a ha‘ id collected more than $1,500 for a Jamaican boy's life-saving kidney transplant this week. Word of eight-year-old Aidoo Hutchinson's plight spread through the jumbo jet on its way to Toronto. The passengers chipped in Thursday to help pay the cost of the trip and his medical treatment. Doctors in Kingston, Jamaica, were unable to treat the disease that destroyed the boy's kidneys. Aidoo is in Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children waiting for surgeons to try to find a suitable donor kidney for a transplant operation. Barriers eliminated OTTAWA (CP) — A negotiated agreement to eliminate provincial trade barriers on liquor, wine and beer distribution could come as early as June, the Ottawa Citizen said Saturday. The newspaper quotes an unidentified source close to the negotiations as saying Canadian wines would be listed and distributed equally in all provinces in an agreement negotiators expect to reach by June. Currently, Ontario wine is not available in Quebec, for example. Israel retaliates SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli warplanes blasted Palestinian guerrila bases on the outskirts of Sidon on Saturday in apparent retaliation for the killing of three Israelis aboard a hijacked bus five days before. Lebanese police said at least one guerrilla was killed and eight others wounded in the 10-minute raid. Fans stampede KATMANDU (AP-Reuters) — More than 90 people were reported killed and hundreds injured Saturday when thousands of soccer fans trying to escape a sudden hailstorm stampeded in Nepal's National Stadium inte locked stadium exits. One doctor told Reuters news agency the death toll could rise to 150. There also was no accurate figure on the number hurt, but another doctor said, “We think there are more than 700 injured.” Truce broken MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Iraq said Saturday its warplanes hit a tanker in the Persian Gulf and an oil pumping station on the Iranian mainland, indicating a return of hostilities to economic targets during a truce in the so-called “war of the cities.” But Iran later accused Iraq of violating the truce by sending a warplane to bomb the town of Gachsaran in southwestern Iran. Jerusalem in violence JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a Palestinian who threw a hand grenade and a woman was wounded when prison officials opened fire on Arab protesters throwing stones, the army command said Saturday. Bethlehem's Arab Mayor Elias Freij told The Associated Press about 300 Palestinian policemen in the Israeli-occupied West Bank have handed in their resignations, including all 50 officers in Bethlehem. Spain concedes MADRID (AP) — Spain told the United States it would give political asylum to Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega if it helps end that Central American country's political crisis, a news- paper reported Saturday. Spain's leading newspaper, the indepedent El Pais, quoted Jose Antonio Yanez, a top policy adviser to Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, as saying, “Spain, in a critical situation, would be prepared to receive Noriega, if it can lead to a solution.” Stone found KIMBERLEY, South Africa (Reuter) — A diamond worth tens of millions of dollars and destined to be the second largest cut diamond in the world has been mined in South Africa, the De Beers conglom- erate said. De Beers chairman Julian Ogilvie Thompson made the announcement at a lavish banquet in this mining centre to mark the company’s 100th anni- versary. The 599-carat stone was found at De Beers’ Premier Mine, near the South African capital of Pretoria, and was perfect in color, Ogilvie Thompson said. Pizzeria to Moscow ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — A specially equipped van that can churn out more than 7,000 slices of pizza a day for hungry Muscovites was being prepared for shipment to the Soviet Union. The mobile pizzeria, conceived by two New Jersey entrepreneurs, will be put aboard a container ship early next week for the two-week trip to Helsinki, Astro Pizza Ltd. Inc. officials said in this New York Harbor city. oe ae © tlégar News , A3 Royal thrills concern some By MARCUS ELIASON Associated Press LONDON — Falling off horses, plunging oceanward in a tangled parachute or fleeing an avalanche on a ski slope, Prince Charles maintains a royal tradition of thrills and spills. The royal pratfall had become enshrined as a national joke until Thursday, when Charles narrowly escaped an avalanche that killed his close friend, British army Maj. Hugh Lindsay, on a Swiss ski slope. Hearts in Britain and elsewhere missed a beat realizing how close the avlanache had come to claiming the 39-year-old heir to the throne. “It is only when you nearly lose someone that you become fully conscious of how much you value them,” novelist A.N, Wilson wrote in the Mail. Inevitably, a cry went up for the royals to stop playing daredevil. But at the same time Britons have come to expect it of them, juding by the derision Charles's youngest brother, Prince Edward, has suffered in some quarters for shunning rugby and quitting the Royal Marines. Zooming down the slopes with Charles at the Swiss resort of Klosters were his wife, Diana, and sister-in-law ‘ah, the Duchess of York. On the morning of the avalanche, Sarah, 28 and four months preganant, tumbled into a river while skiing. That probably was the only reason why she and Diana stayed in their chalet and were not on the slopes when the avalanche broke loose. FLEW IN COMBAT Sarah's husband, Prince Andrew, Charles's other brother, was off the Portuguese coast aboard the Royal Navy ship on which he serves as a helicopter warefare instructor, A few hours after the avalanche, the vessel lost a helicopter and two crew members at sea. Andrew flew combat missions in the 1982 Falkland Islands war inst Argentina and few suggested he shouldn't. Risking one’s life for the public good is a tradition set in stone by King George VI, when he refused to flee London during the blitz. Charles's sister, Anne, races horses and sometimes falls off them. His father, Prince Philip, was a polo player and took a well-photographpd spill in a carriage-driving race. His SKIERS WELCOMED ... (Top, from left) Kendra Kobleka, Nancy Gee, Laurie Graham and Kerrin Lee are beseiged by fans seeking autographs at the Community Complex Wednesday evening. Mayor Audrey Moore (right) presents skiers with commemorative pins and wooden spoons. CosNews Photos by Brendon Nagle Castlegar welcomes mother, the Queen, also is an accomplished, though more sedate, equestrian. Charles has taken innumerable knocks on the sports. fields. He had a small facia! scar from a fall playing polo. On his first ski run he pitched headfirst into snow. Flying a light plane he came within seconds of a midair collision His first parachute jump in 1971 came equally close to disaster. His foot snarled in the cords and he plunged hundreds of metres upside down before righting himself and ending up in the ocean. Charles's biographer, Anthony Holden, notes that the prince's grand-uncle, Edward VIII, was forced by his father to give up steeplechasing in the 1930s, but says it's unlikely the same will happen to Charles “It’s in his character. He feels a need to prove himself physically.” In Charles, royalty-watchers see the dilemma of a vigorous man in the prime of life, well-aware of his privileged status and feeling forever compelled to justify it His mother, at 61, shows no sign of giving up the throne, and chances are he won't be king before he is in his 50s. Highway crash ends in death for six people PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP) — Blinding sunlight may have contributed to a fiery collision that killed five members of a Dawson Creek, ¢ B.C., high school basketball team and their coach, an RCMP spokesman said Traffic Cpl. Garry Rogers said he drove the same stretch of Highway 97 north of this central British Col. umbia city on Thursday — a day after the accident — at the same time of day and in similar weather conditions. “I did find the light very bright in the area of the accident,” said Rogers. “It was to the point where I had to shield my face with my left hand.” Sunlight coming through the trees caused a series of bright and dark patches on the road, but shone directly into his eyes immediately before the crash site, he said. Rogers said the light is only one factor being ex amined by police, the coroner and other emergency officials pool information into the cause of the crash. It’s believed the van, trav. elling south on a straight, flat stretch of the two-lane high way 50 kilometres north of here, drifted into the on coming lane and hitting a tractor-trailer carrying pow er poles. The six occupants of the van, on their way to a basketball tournament 900 kilometres away in Lillooet, B.C., were killed on impact. The truck driver remains in University Hospital in Ed monton. Investigators have ruled out the possibility a moose on the road caused the accident,” said Rogers. The sparsely populated area has a high moose population. NO TRACKS “We checked the ditches and so forth and didn’t find any tracks,” he said Rogers said the van had been on the road four hours and the driver may have fallen asleep. It was thought initially that Ron Pettigrew, the school principal, was driving but coroner John Wolsey said a teenager was behind the wheel. Two mechanical inspectors examined the vehicles Thursday but results are not yet known, said Rogers. The exact time of the acci. dent is likely 9:36 a.m. PST, said Rogers, because a clock in the tractor-trailer from Edmonton stopped at 10:36 a.m Alberta is one hour ahead of B.C. In the town of Dawson Creek, on the B.C.-Alberta border, parents, teachers and students gathered Thursday at Bethel Christian school to mourn the deaths. Pettigrew, 38, the school's principal and basketball coach, his 14-year-old son Danny and his 15-year-old nephew, Jeremy Bailey, died in the crash Also killed were Martin Walter, 18, of Smithers, B.C., Daryl Slusarchuk, 15, of Pouce Coupe, B.C., and Rodi Gascon, 18, of Grand Prairie, Alta. The driver of the tractor: trailer, Dale Taralson, 35, of Edmonton, suffered multiple injuries and was listed in serious but stable condition Friday RCMP search for donors VANCOUVER (CP) — Members of the RCMP hope to raise about $30,000 for an additional Red Cross lab technician to help process a backlog of more than 1,000 potential bone marrow don. ors for Const. Bruce Den. niston of Powell River#B.C. Police spokesman Cpl. Brian Wiseman said Friday the force is appealing to its members to donate money if possible and to take part in tissue typing Red Cross medical dir ector Noel Buskard said sev eral close matches have al ready been found for Dennis ton, who has leukemia, but doctors are holding out for a perfect match. “Obviously he will be closely watched and, if he starts to go down hill, we'll use one of the close donors. But we'd like him to have his best shot at it.” Zarlier, about 900 resi dents of the south coast community of Powell River signed forms pledging they would donate bone marrow to the father of three if they were compatible. Premier By CasNews Staff It was a genuine Castlegar welcome, Russian-style, as the women of the Husky World Down- hill converged on the Community Complex Wednesday night for a dinner in their honor. The skiers went out of their way to sign autographs for local fans who swarmed around the lobby of the complex clutching posters and pro- grams in hopes of getting “inked” by their favorite racers. Laurie Graham, Kerrin Lee, double-bronze medallist Karen Per- cy, Kendra Kobelka, Nancy Gee and Lucie LaRoche of the Canadian ski team all signed autographs prior to the dinner — to the delight of the youngsters. The West German team, Austrian team and Swiss team were all signing autographs as well. The festivities continued with introductions of all the teams, with each team member receiving a hand-carved wooden spoon and commemorative pin. Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore welcomed the skiers with a short speech, as did recreation director Pat Metge and Peter Samoyloff of the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ. The 275 people at the function tucked into a Russian heritage dinner of borscht and pyrahi and were treated to a performance by the USCC West Kootenay choir. LAURIE GRAHAM . .. Signs autographs argues abortion PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP) — Premier Bill Vander Zalm had a verbal sparring match with a woman over abortion Friday night at a town meeting in this central British Columbia community. Vander Zalm received ap- plause from some of the aud- ience when he reiterated his stand against abortion, com- paring abortionists to Hitler. But one woman demanded that Vander Zalm apologize to the women of B.C. for saying that some obtain abortions on a whim. VANDER ZALM ... inargument