WEATHER apo: Castlegar News May 22, 1985 SYNOPSIS: A rid; disturbance off 1! of hi Was! pressure will remain over Southern B.C. Pockets of moisture trom a ington coast will move across our area: When acted on by daytime heating this moisture will produce isolated thunderstorms pasion JP NL — © PEACE RIVER ria ot ot G | i] Ee) LE ES Ee) [&) 2] Shaw Cable receives approval for increase By CasNews Staff Castlegar cable TV sub- seribers will be paying more for the service. The Canadian Radio- Television and Telecommuni- cations Commission has ap- proved a 12 per cent rate increase for Shaw Cable company. But that’s still seven per cent less than the 19 per cent increase Shaw Cable had requested. Shaw Cable's monthly rate will increase about $1 to $9.35 from $8.39, not includ- ing taxes. The installation rate will also increase to $35 per month from $29.80. Lynn Greentree (Shaw Cable manager in Trail), said the company applied to the CRTC for a rate increase in August 1964. He said no one intervened and there was no public hearing on the in- crease. The CRTC approved the increase last week. Shaw Cable is part of a group of systems in B.C. and Alberta. But Greentree said the applications for rate in- creases were submitted indi- vidually. He said the cable company had applied to increase rates to $10, but only received the okay to increase it to $9.35. Greentree added that Shaw Cable has been under six, five and four per cent increase guidelines for the past three years, laid down by the federal government. Shaw Cable's last increase of four per cent came less than a year ago September 1984. — or in Greentree said the appli- cation for a rate increase was made because the company was faced with a rise in costs of between 10 and 11 per cent. In addition, Shaw Cable spent $143,000 to upgrade its system, Greentree said. But there are advantages to the upgrading. Shaw Cable will add the House of Com- mons service from Ottawa, which will be carried as part of the cable company’s basic service. And once the new equipment is installed, for the House of Commons chan. nel, CBC FM will also be available. Greentree said Shaw Cable carried out a study of cable rental fees in 1984, compar- ing the West Kootenay with other parts of the province and found this area to have one of the lowest rates in B.C. He said that Shaw Cable rates run the same as in the Lower Mainland and in some cases are even lower. He said no interim rate has been attached to customers bills and the increase will be included in customers’ next bills. Unlike other uti cable companies can't include an increase in bills until it has been authorized. Meanwhile, new regula tions passed by the CRTC allow cable distributors to increase rates by up to 80 per cent of the rise in the con sumer price index without formal hearings. But Greentree said that there are both pros and cons to the regulations. In one way it cuts down on the time and money required in making a formal application. But companies, for instance in the East Kootenay which charge $12 a month, will be allowed to raise their rates even higher. Still, he said even with an 80 per cent rise in the CPI, the cable company's costs will increase 100 per cent of inflation and every year the company would fall 20 per cent behind inflation. Chicken pox hits children By CasNews Staff A “minor epidemic” of chi. cken pox has hit the West Kootenay — but the director of the Central Kootenay Health Unit says it's no cause for alarm. Dr. Monty Arnott says every few years the normal incidence of this “mild dis ease” increases by two or three times the normal rate. The increased rate of chic- ken pox is occurring in “spasms throughout the province.” However, while the health unit has had more reported cases than usual, Arnott says it's hard to peg down an estimate for the West Kootenay. “We don't know how many cases are going on because a lot of them don't get reported to us,” he said. WHERE'S OUR FANS, MAN? . . . Rock group played to a skimpy audience at the Hidden Creek Ranch near Salmo on the long weekend. Weekend rock festival included a number of local bands CosNews Photo by Rob Popol Police file A Vancouver man tained minor injuries and had $2,000 in damage to his truck when it skidded into a ditch on a Winlaw backroad short- ly after midnight Monday. David John Word, 34, didn’t need to be taken to hospital after the accident which occurred about three kilometres north of Vallican, according to Crescent Valley RCMP. Word, who was driving a 1981 Chevrolet’ pick-up, “claimed that a deer ran in front of him,” said Corp. Dave Brigidear this morning. No charges are forthcom ing. * 28 -« Crescent Valley RCMP are charging a 24-year-old Nelson man with driving carelessly after he overturned his 1980 Chevrolet pick-up truck Sat. urday. Todd Pereversoff sustain- ed only minor injuries when his truck left Highway 3A near South Slocan, resulting in $6,000 damage, according to Crescent Valley RCMP. Pereversoff apparently fell asleep at the wheel at about 7 p.m., said police. isn't taken to hos. It wants to start flying to MacBain Air BC's plans to begin services to were grecied wih sabued TOapOiea pr 0 retest Caatinggy nid he welcomed Air BC's between “We're and Castlegar. good because t Aid. getting pall out of here,” However, Ald. Bob MacBain said Air BC's service could spell the end for PW A's jet services to Vancouver. “I have a feeling that should Air BC be successful in fue? a ee MacBain said. Hie PWA uses leaves and Air BC representatives out “what this will do to their service.” response Air BC must still apply to the Canadian Transport Cc for to begin service to Castlegar. added that Air BC uses twin otter aircraft. “When we start downgrading ot services by using a smailer aircraft and « slower plane . - + we are going HELPING OUT continued trom front poge “It's going to be a continuous effort from companies such as Hydro and Westar, and I think concerned resi- dents of the area.” Bob Korda, Westar woods manager, dthata be set up to help take responsibility for cleaning up the Arrow Lakes. Nakusp Mayor Stan Fellows said stumps on the shorelines and sub- merged in the Upper Arrow Lake are working loose and “they're getting to be quite a problem.” “I don’t have to say there's hundreds of stumps, there's thousands.” And Fellows said an old Celgar mill site at Nakusp is “caving away,” adding to the wood debris problem in the area. Brisco said he would look into the federal Navigable Waters Protection Act to see how it applies to the Arrow Lakes situation. Under the Act, no one is allowed to litter bodies of water with debris, and can be held responsible for retrieving. There are three main sources of wood debris in the Arrow Lakes, said Threikeld: COLLEGE continued from front poge © the original creation of the res ervoir, which caused floating wood and stumps, @ natural sources, such as creeks bringing debris into the lakes; and debris caused by logging ac. y- “I don't think we're going to clean the Arrow Lakes completely,” he com: mented. “There's a continuing source of debris.” D'Arcy said debris in waters throughout B.C. is a “major problem,” but added that “anything we can do here is desirable.” And D'Arcy suggested that Wes. tar’s problem with local residents cart ing off merchantable floating logs for wood may be partly the company's fault. time cleaning it up.” Complaints about floating wood de- bris in the Arrow Lakes to the Ministry of Environment have been “no greater than Kootenay Lake and Slocan Lake and several large bodies of water in the Kootenays,” said McDonald. However, other representatives at the meeting, including Ald. Albert derbank, Area J director Martin Van- derpol, D'Arcy and Brisco emphasized the problem is a legitimate one that needs to be addressed. Vanderpol pointed out that the region surrounding the Arrow Lakes is “a depressed area” and needs the tourism money the lakes could attract. “Just give me one reason why anyone would take their boat out to the Arrow Lake as it is now,” he said. “If Westar is allowing h wood to flow free, it's a tremendous incentive for them to clean up their act and get that wood. “Certainly Westar has a right to its own property. What I've long said for many years, and had a concern about, is that Westar will have some of their own merchantable wood floating around the lake, and take their own Moore req that participants meet aga’ September or October to continue plans to clean up the lakes. She also asked that those attending the meeting submit written responses to it The meeting was sponsored by the City of Castlegar, the Ministry of Environment and the Village of Nak. usp. To ensure the appropriate application of the hardware If time permits the contact could be extended to related service-oriented organizations such as service stations and stores. “A recent study by a local Manp Adj and software needs, the college proposes to provide short courses and workshops in the various centres. The project would cover six communities. Five of the Committee, the Kootenay Country Tourist Association, local chambers of commerce, as well as many employers have expressed a need for training for employees,” the proposal says. “Because of the cost, this industry training need has not been met. This proposal attempts to address this need as various groups prepare for Expo 86 and the opportunity which it will provide to develop and enhance the tourism industry in the West Kootena: The second proposal is in the area of small business microcomputer applications. In this proposal — prices at $102,700 — the college will upgrade microcomputer equipment, software and support services at six of Selkirk College's extension centres in order to better serve the microcomputer application needs of small business opera tors, managers and entrepreneurs. to take part in the program would be those where the college's existing microcomputer offerings are the weakest says the proposal — Grand Forks, Kaslo, Nakusp, Crescent Valley, Kettle Valley and Salmo. The third proposal is for an electronics publishing laboratory. Under this proposal, Selkirk College is planning to purchase and install a Macintosh lab as the training centre for the Graphic Communications program. The lab will be used by all students in the four program areas in Graphic Communications — Photography, Graphic Design, Electron: ie Publishing and Applied Writing. “Because of our location in the West Kootenay, i.e. long distance from major population centres, information of this type has traditionally been years in coming, putting local businesses and individuals at a disadvantage in terms of keeping up and staying competitive,” says the college proposal. Light change planned By CasNews Staff a number of “near misses” at TREET TALK REMEMBER Hildegard Buschhaus? She is the 56-year-old grandmother from Coombs, B.C., who walked through Castlegar last month on a cross-Canada trek to Newfoundland. Her ere walk is to raise money for the blind. Hi now in Brandon, Man. and so far she has raised $14,500. which will eventually be split between such organizations as Operation Eyesight, the Christian Blind Mission and Project Orbis Canada. Hildegard expects to reach Bonavista, Nfld. by mid- September. Donations can be sent through any Royal Bank branch to trust account .No. 4670-003-701-507-6 at the branch in Qualicum Beach, B.C. Contributions also can be sent to the Buschhaus’ home at Box 176, Coombs, B.C. VOR 1M0. RICHARD and Rosemarie of RG's Restaurant are pretty pleased with their latest hippo. It came all the way from Moscow: “The Home of the Hippo Burger” has a large collection of hippos collected by Richard and Rosemarie and given to them by friends and customers. Their latest acquisition, an orange-colored hippo, was sent to them with the compliments of Kootenay-West MP Bob Brisco. He spotted it in Moscow on his recent trip there with External Affairs Minister Joe Clark. CASTLEGAR council has decided it won't use the symbol of a castle as its theme after all. The city received a suggestion from a local resident that the castle symbol be used on street signs, city stationery and other municipal property as the city logo. However, council said that since “considerable effort” is underway to create an image of Castlegar as the “Crossroads to the Kootenays,” the castle symbol would “not be appropriate at this time.” WOOD, VALLANCE Hardward Ltd. of Nelson is moving from its Baker Street location to its warehouse on Front Street across from the Aquatic Centre. AREA I residents have asked the Ministry of Highways to post road signs on all roads within the area that are still not posted. THAT WAS FORMER Notre Dame University professor Erie Buckley who was elected president of the B.C. School Trustees’ Association earlier this month. Buckley, 49, was born and raised in Rossland. He was an assistant professor at Notre Dame (later David Thompson University Centre) in Nelson for two years. He was also registrar at Notre Dame for three years. Buckley, now an instructor of mathematics at Okanagan College in Kelowna, was born Feb. 1, 1936 in and was in Trail, gr from J.L. Crowe Secondary school in 1954. He was previously a director of the BCSTA for two years, and on the Association's finance committee for six years. Buckley was elected president on May 4. HILDEGARD BUSCHAUS Buckley thinks the BCSTA has “two primary responsibilitie: @ to provide assistance to school boards in maintain- ing effective local control of public education; @ to serve as the collective voice of school trustees when “advising government and others” on public education. MOUNT ST. HELEN'S is showing signs of life again, and Castlegar may have had a preview of things to come about four weeks ago. That's when one local citizen noticed a curious white substance on her family’s vehicles. “It looked just like Mount St. Helen's — not as thick es that eruption,” she said. ‘It had rained, and it made this thick coating of pebbled mud on the vehicle. There's no way our car should have been like that. We had only been on the highway with it.” The woman — a South Castlegar resident — thought it might have been volcanic dust from an eruption she said was occurring in Hawaii about the same time. Street Talk contacted Barry Wood of Nelson's environment ministry for an explanation. He said he isn't aware of a Hawaiian volcano, but added that such an explanation wouldn't be far-fetched. He added: “She didn’t save a sample — that makes it tough.” Wood said the dust wouldn't be from Mount St. Helen, which was under investigation by scientists Tuesday following stirrings that could precede an eruption. The volcano exploded in May 1980, leaving 57 people dead or missing. keeps on truckin’ FOR FIRE PROTECTION Mutual aid agreement delayed By CasNews Staff Put it back the way it was. That's what Castlegar council intends to tell the Central Kootenay Regional District. Council says the regional district is trying to change a proposed mutual aid agreement between the city's fire department and surrounding rural fire departments which would make the city the “prime contractor” for fire protection outside city boundaries. But Castlegar doesn't want any part of it. Administrator Dave Gairns told council recently that the proposed change has delayed the signing of the agreement. He said the mutual aid contract came to the city for review and was sent back to the regional district months ago for final approval. Since then, the regional district has informed the city that it wants the city’s contracts with the airport and Selkirk College included in the mutual aid agreement. The city provides fire protection to the airport and college under separate contract: However, Gairns advised it is not the city’s role to negotiate fire protection agreements between Selkirk College, the airport and rural fire departments. STEAK»... STEAK s2xsscress 10 FRYING CHICKEN 2....... Fe, | ail CHICKEN EASTS ok be STEA PORK BUTT GOVERNMENT oe be $449 Aly. $189 ‘SAUSAGE STICKS $495 FLETCHERS. ASST. FLAVORS. 500G.. BOLOGN BY THE | PIECE 21, 99° kg. tb. kg. $615 Ib. si 4b CHEDDAR Ci CHEESE $637 $989 ARMSTRONG CHEESE | BULK ety 284 mi HEINZ CREAM OF for queer PINK SALMON 3..99° $149 ‘TION. BONUS PACK. 1. KETCHUP HEINZ. 100 OZ. TIN -...----. $409 ae 5 KG. TOMATO SAUCE SYRUP | Oe surten PL SuTTER MAVOR. 11 TURE. SALT SHAKER $939 LONG GRAIN RICE $459 -_ 59° | eos: SUNFLOWER SEEDS FARKAY. STEAM FRIED. 8 OZ. ....... 09 98° SoureR NOODLE. 41 GRAM PKGS. . 451% Ald. Albert Calderbank, chairman of the pi services committee agreed, saying: “Let's get on with the (mutual aid) contract.” He said if the city gets involved in changing the mutual aid agreement at this stage, it will be “a long time” before the pact is signed. Under the mutual aid agreement, the city will provide backup fire protection for rural fire departments in the case of a declared emergency and rural departments will provide the city with help. Firemen keep busy By CasNews Staff The Castlegar fire depart ment has been busy so far this year. The department has had a total of 35 calls — 18 of them in April. As well, it spent a total of 181 hours at fires — 65 of them in April. Ald. Bob Pakula noted that the number of hours is “high” compared to other years. Pakula, a member of the protective services commit tee, said the increase is “due to the two fires we had out at Five Men Made Five Mistakes GROUPS RALLY continued from front poge Keenleyside Dam. Fisheries officials call it the “key” to restoring sport fishing on the Lower Arrow Lake Castlegar council last week threw its support behind the wildlife association petition, saying if the ladder doesn’t receive full cooperation from Inon oaklin Valley residents, it will not be successful Council agreed to write a covering letter to accompany the petition when it is sent to Pelton. “We've got to stand behind it,” Ald. Albert Calderbank. The Central Kootenay Regional Dis- said triet has also asked Pelton to intervene and settle the dispute between farmers and the Fisheries Branch. And late last week Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy raised the issue with Pelton in the Legislature. D'Arcy said Pelton “made a commit ment to get a full report” on the situation. Pelton also agreed to urge B.C. Hydro to proceed with construc tion of the ladder “as soon as possible.” D'Arcy said the controversy over water supply should be resolved by referring to the federal inland water records which have been on file since the turn of the century. “No one who looked at the records couldn't see any reason why the proj ect can't proceed,” he said. “They feel that there is sufficient water.” D'Arcy said farmers who Ihave irri gation licences should receive all the water called for in the licences. How. ever, the farmers shouldn't expect to receive more irrigation D’Arey added. He strepeed that the fish ladder is “legally required” under the compen- sation package negotiated with Hydro, “Twenty-two years is a long time to wait to fulfill the requirements of that (water) licence,” D'Arcy pointed out licences, drivers on Col umbia Ave. won't be able to turn left toward Nelson on a red light at the Highway 3 the intersection because of the law and local RCMP have asked that the left turn on a red light be outlawed. interchange if Castlegar “This is considered to be couneil has its way. dangerous by the police,” he Council has asked the said Highways Ministry to install City engineer George a sign making left turns on Resha@F said he wasn't red lights at the intersection illegal Presently, southbound drivers on Columbia Ave. can legally make a left turn on a red light as long as there is no approaching traffic from the Highway 3 exit. However, Ald. Albert Cal- derbagk said there have been aware that a left turn on a red light at the intersection was legal until recently. “That's an unusual situ ation,” he said. “I'm not sure that’s positively correct.” However, Ald. Marilyn Mathieson said it doesn't matter whether it’s legal or t. “The posting of the sign will certainly make it illegal.” Administrator Dave Gairns added that the prob- lem arises when an oncoming car doesn’t realize that the stopped car at the red light can turn left “Nobody expects it,” he said.“It’s a very tricky situ ation.” Meanwhile, council will al so ask the Highways Minis try to erect a slow sign op posite the ministry's yard on Highway 3. Calderbank said eastbound trucks on Highway 3 are unaware how steep the high way is and a slow sign would warn them. Ald. Mathieson suggested council should “be asking for something much more” than a sign She pointed out the high way is seven lanes wide at that point and children from the Tamerlane subdivision have to cross the highway to get to school “It's a terrible stretch I don't think that ‘slow” is enough,” she said. She sug. gested a flashing light be in stalled Council agreed to write to the ministry expressing con cern about students crossing the highway (the) Celgar plant.” One mon patted 0 The Castlegar department One man struck a match to see if strange bulldog on the was called as backup to both the gasoline tank in his cor was head to see if it wos fires at Westar Timber's empty. It wasn't é affectionate. It wasn't Celgar operations. One man speeded up to see if he One man touched on electric wire to see if crossing. He didn't it was dead. 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