Castlegar News 1989 Review, April 16, 1989 TRAIL: “The Silver City of the Kootenays!” Tough talk on deficit...14 On the move with Williams...15 Castlegar News 1989 Review, April 16, 1989 Lauener Brothers Jewellers...16 B.C. Teliupgrades switches...16 35 YEARS Barrett Boat & Trailer Sales Ltd. * Travel Trailers * 5th Wheel & Campers * Sales and Service Trailers and Campers Supplies BARRETT BOAT & TRAILER SALES 367-6216 1405 Highway Dr., Fruitvale 367-6216 Box 160, Fruitvale, B.C. VOG 1L0 Beer and Wine Store Open 9 a.m. to 1] p.m. Seven Days a Week Mel's Steak House Monday through Saturday: Lunch 11 to 2 YOUR HOST: MEL SMELAND the new \ale/ \ale/ \ele/ TUTTTTITIIT] foal SLL Paw TTT Grown Point hotel Mritlitiiitititigtiii iii ir trail b.c. Dinner 5 to? 1399 Bay Avenue, Trail VIR 4A7 — Phone 368-8232 364-1121 aL MONTHS 364-1121 & WORKWERR t WORLD |. LTO. * Jeans for All Ages * Day Packs for School or Hiking * Work Boots & Steel-Toe Work Shoes for Men & Ladies * Lunch Buckets and Thermoses * Wide Selection of Casual Clothing & Work Clothes Owners Jack & Kathy Patt invite you to “Drop in and say “Hi Waneta Plaza, 8100 Rock Island Hwy., Trail VIR 4N7 Bob MacDonald, Dispensing Manager © Frames and Eye Care Products * Serengeti and Bolle Sunglasses * Emergency Repair§ Lenses manufactured on the premises by Certified Opticians “If your glasses aren't becoming to you, you should be coming to us!” TRAIL OPTICAL “Across from the Colander” 1490 Cedar Ave., Trail VIR 4C4 — Phone 364-2911 TRAIL CAMERA CRAFTS PORTRAIT AND WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY ONE-HOUR PHOTO FINISHING CUSTOM FRAMING €OPY-AND- RESTORATION OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS. HALLMARK GREETING CARDS. PHOTOGRAPHIC RETAIL SALES DAVE AND JANET SNIDER 1350 Cedar Avenue, Trail VIR 4C2 — Phone 368-3616 367-6216 367-6216 BARRETT HONDA * Dyno Tuning All Brand Service and Parts 24-Hour Cylinder Boring teather Ctothing and Accessories * Our Motorcyle Tires Mounted and Balanced Free! BARRETT HONDA 1405 High Dr., ile — Box 160, le, VOG 1L0 Rob Dunlap and Mary Hunter — 9 Years Famous for our Soft Crusty Buns * Cakes are our specialty * Bread, baked fresh daily. Buy 9 loaves, get 10th Free! THE em PASTRYAS, iar * Wide selection of cookies, tarts and squares * Come in and see our large selection! 1447 Bay Ave., Trail VIR 4A9 — Phone 364-1013 9 YEARS Dewdney Trail Stages Ron and Jane Colburn © ‘Charter Bus Services, Anywhere in North America © Coach Tours fo Reno, Disneyland, Nashville Eastern Canada, the Oregon Coast and Alaska © Customized Tours or Charters for Your Group Phone 368-6666 © Toll Free 1-800-332-0282 ¢ Fax 368-8117 1355 Bay Avenue, Trait; B.C. VIR 4A7 18 YEARS | STAR GROCERY le and Gino A “Largest Selection of Italian Foods in the Kootenays” Over 50 Different Varieties of Pasta Imported Meats and Cheeses Fresh Meat Cut the Way You Want It! Wine and Beer Supplies 50 Varieties of Beer Kits Wide Variety of Fish “Large Selection of Portuguese Foods” 328 Rossland Ave., Trail, VIR 3M8 * Phone 364-1824 TRAIL DRIVING SCHOOL Government Approved and Bonded Harold Branton, Owner/Operator © 10 Hours of Classroom Theory * Nightime On-Road Training * Free Upgrading Courses for Seniors * Winter Driving Training Office 368-5621 or Home 364-2740 or Home 367-7033 Castlegar Customers Please Call Collect ‘Member of the Associated Driving Schools of British Columbia 1920 Topping Street, Trail, B.C. VIR 4G5 Glenn Weatherhead, Owner — Gary Bacon, Manager * Member of the B.C. Memorial Society ¢ Full Funeral Service * Cremation * Pre-Arrangement Plans 24-Hour Telephone Service Trail 364-0455 * Nelson 354-4110 © Nakusp 265-4316 Site 9, C-6, S.S. No. 1, Trail, B.C. VIR 2¥8 THE TRAIL “Specializing in Ladies Shoes” Rick Minns, Owner/manager and staff Florence Mitchell and Betty Panton 1297 Cedar Ave., Trail, VIR 4B9 — Phone 368-3838 seth martin sports Waneta Plaza Knowledgeable advice on all area sporting activities, including golf _hockey and tennis. Trusted name brands in sporting equipment. “We sell only what we'd use.” Competitive Prices TOM GAWREYLEIZ Excellent Selection Where the Customer is #1 364-1757 37 YEARS Fame Construction Ltd. GENERAL CONTRACTORS Mono and Paul Ferro ¢ Commercial ® Industrial Box 481, Trail, B.C. VIR 4L7 © Phone 368-3388 In 1980 there were seven hotels at the foot of the hill from Rossland, near th Columbia River, This area was known as the "bowery." A number of hotels built there, and because of frequent river flooding some had to be moved to higher land Mr. Muellér, who operated o Brewery where what is now known os the Kootenay Hotel, bought the Bay-Vrew Hotel ond-the Pacitic Hotel, and moved them to the corner of Victoria St., at Cedar Ave. The union of these two hotels in UNION HOTEL 808 VICTORIA STREET, TRAIL, BRITISH COLUMBIA ¢ LICENSED COFFEE SHOP © DINING ROOM * PUBLIC HOUSE © BANQUET ROOMS © SAMPLE ROOMS © PARKING LOT TELEPHONE SERVICE * COLOURED TV ... Yesterday and Today... ‘on L-Shape, to appear a8 one, prompted him to call it the Union Hotel. The building remained until 1939, when S.G. Biagioni, a plasterer, and F Merlo Sr., a baker, had Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Chapela remove the building to 262 Rosstond Ave. where it is still standing. In the same yeor $.G. Biagioni and F Merlo Sr. built the present Union Hotel The hotel has been owned and managed since 1952 by Fred Merlo, Jr VIR 34 TELEPHONE: 368-5577 ROGER CATALANO Owner/manager Awards for any Budget “PLAQUES * MEDALS PINS * CERTIFICATES * NAME TAGS * TROPHIES * RIBBONS —* SIGNS SHIRTS & HATS PRINTED OMPUTERIZED ENGRAVING RAFIXMAKER DIGITIZER System 300 Computerized Engraver You will be pleased with the range of items we can engrave: Dials © Trophies Arc Engraving * Specialty ttems Name Badges * Scales Nameplates * Metal Marking * Directories * Plaques © Control Panels New to the Trail-Castlegar are 4 Sublimation! This is 0 process that gives Us superior quality to printing traditionally done by the silkscreen process. We can reproduce ‘on to many mediums details as fine as this cross-hatch print of the Rossland Courthouse. Sublimetion can_be-used_es: Hots, Mylar, T-Shirts, Custom Metal Plaques, Jackets, Sweatshirts, Decals, Custom Clocks 1537 Bay Ave., Trail, VIR 482 — Phone 364-2888 * Bax 368-8788 CELGAR PULP COMPANY Celgar Pulp Co.’s new system was Mill turns attention to expansion Celgar Pulp Co. officials are confident the com: pany will continue to play a vital part in the local economy and have turned their attention to expansion and modernization plans for the Castlegar mill. that would assure Celgar of a competitive place in the pulp market for the next 25 years But, as mill manager Wilf Sweeney points out, ex panding and moderniding a 30-year-old pulp mill is not Celgar Pulp Company as easy as “changing from a $0-watt light bulb to a 100- watt bulb.”” So the compai farked on an additional $2 million study of thé project which Sweeney says will give the mill’s owners a “‘better definition of the actual expansion’ and a ‘‘more accurate estimate of the cost of expansion.” The target for the completion of the study is the end of September, Sweeney says. **Our plans for this year are really to make sure we get our expansion designed to Tit the dollar signs our owners think they can finance,” he says. Sweeney says the expansion and modernization of the mill has been hurried by the need to bring the mill up to environmental standards. A $5 million project last year to reduce air emissions did not succeed as well as the company had hoped, he says. The project involved major changes to Celgar’s recovery boiler which burns the black liquor residue created in the pulping process. After burning, chemicals from the residue, are recovered for re-use. Remaining chemicals are removed by the mill's air emissions “scrubber system." The problem was the boiler did not recover enough chemicals, resulting in the overloading of the scrubber system The-major-modifications were intended 10 make the boiler more efficient. But Sweeney says the changes didn’t work “That's really what prompted us to look at expan sion sooner than we had been planning,”’ he says. “We're having to undertake that-now because of the failure of the recovery boiler Sweeney says an expansion and modernization will bring the mill up tg environmental standards while at the same time allowing the company to remain competitive economically “Our objective is to end up with a mill that meets all of the environmental requirements that we know and perceive will come about,"’ he says In the meantime, the mill continues to work on other projects Earlier this year, Celgar officially unveiled its new $7-million chip unloading system. With the new system, a chip truck drives onto p platform which is then tilted cab and all. Under the old system, the truck hadto-be backed into the unloading area and the cab separated — . oe “ » iis DANGER PERSONNE ie BEYOND THis port NICE GESTURE... Celgar Pulp Co. 9 di this used milli thine to Stanley i] Humphries secondary school earlier this year. The machine, which is used to make machine parts such as gears and shafts, will be used by the school’s shop students. A new machine would cost approximately $60,000. from the trailer. The new system cuts the unloading time in half Once the chips are-unloaded, they are transported on conveyor belts rather than the old system of blowers and feeders. The new system reduces damage to the chips and results in less air-borne dust from the chips: The new system is,also quieter and uses less than half the power af the old system