Castlegar News June 18, 1989 Births & Funerals BIRTHS ANDREWS BORUCK — To Michelle An drews ond Andre Boruck, @ béy, born May 20 in Castlegar and: District Hospital BRISSKE ALARIC To Debra Brisske land Louis Alaric of Meadow Creek, o girl, born June 5 CROW WOOD —. To Maggie Crow and Terry Wood, a boy, born June CARVERS/ McKENZIE To Cavers and Rob McKenzie of Nelson, o boy, born June 6 Shannon FODOR — To Deb and Dave Fodor of Winlow, @ girl, born June 10 FOMINOFF To Wendy and ‘Nicholas Fominuft at Nelson, a girl, born June 10. GARDIN — To Christine and Tony Gardin ‘of Castlegar, a girl, born June Lee To Joanne and Richard Lee of Nelson, a girl, born June 8 McCARVELL — ToJeanette and Norman McCarvell of Nelson, a boy, born June 8. McLEAN To Tammy and McLean, a boy, born June 8 Brent MILBURN To Connie and Mark Milburr a boy, June MOREAU — To Dale and Paul Moréau of Nelson. a boy, born June 12 PLECASH To Wando and Plecosh, @ girl, born April 4 Michoel STEPHANI To Laura Stephani of Nelson, o boy, born June 6 THOMAS To Charlene and Dan Thomas of Nelson, a boy, born June? WEAVER To Rhonda Weaver of Nelson, a boy, born June 10. DEATHS FOMENOFF Mary Fomenotf of Castlegar died June 13. She was 75. Mrs Fomenotf is survived by her husband William of Costlegar; son Paul of Glade daughters Nellie McCreight and Elaine Whitehead of Castlegar and Mary Lacey of Powell River: eight grandchildren two great-grandchildren; one brother Mike Padowinikolf of Slocan Pork and two sisters, Polly Plonidin on Slocan Park and Nellie Popott of Taghum. She was predeceased by her parents, an in fant son and an infant daughter GUNN — Donald McPherson Gunn of Trail died June 11 at Trail Regional Hospital. He was 82. Mr. Gunn is sur vived by two sons, Denis of Rossland and Grant of Trail; three grandchildren brother, Howard of several nieces and nephews predeceased by his wite Eveline earlier this year and four brothers, Hector Clarence, Garnet and Gordon HORKOFF — Mabel Horkoff died June 13 at age 86. Mrs. Horkolf is survived by one daughter, Maria Zeberott of Ootischenia; three grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two brothers, Peter Verigin of Pass Creek and Alex Verigin of Raspberry and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Fred in 1985 and two sisters $96 MILLION JARRETT — Bob Jarrett of Nelson died June 13 at the age of 6 Leslie George Kisch of Koslo KISCH di n Victorian Hospitat after a id J -lengthy illness. He was 53, Mr. Kis survived by his wite Debora; son Bi and daughter-in-law Gale; dough’ Rosolinda; three grandchil nymerous nieces and nephews; brothers Almer, Kenneth, Richard and Glenn and ers Lavina and Maxine, He was predeceased by his twin brother Wesley LORD — Albert Maurice Lord of Genelle died June 5 ot the University Hospital in London Ont. after brief illness. He was 43. Mr\ Lord is survived by his wite Elizabeth, two sons, James ond Adam, o daughter le and one foster son, Jan, all at home; his parents Bill and An netie Radies of Vernon; a sister, Benda Radies of Vancouver; and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews MORLEY Marjorie Elizabeth May Morley. a former Trail resident, died in Cranbrook June 8. She was 7 Morley is survived by her son Russell oi Cranbrook daughters, Joanne Desjardin Cranbrook and Diane Plunkett Ottawa; one grandchild Arnold and Douglas Ferguson, both of Calgary, and Richard Ferguson of Vegreville, Alta..; and three Dorothy Simons of Calgary Gladys Risdah! of Montreal and Shirley Thompson of Victoria two O'SHEA — Cyril (Cy) Arthur Lawrence O'Shea of New Denver died June 8. He was 75. Mr. OSheo is survived by his wite Muriel Edith; doughters and sons in-law Jeanne and Jim George of New Denver, Kathlebn and Paul DeRoy of Surrey and Marie and Michael Andrews of Castlegar; sons and daughters-in-law Mike and Edna of Chemainus, Terry and Sylvie of Cleveland, Ohio, and Philip and Wendy of Chemainus; 15 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren POSNIKOFF Tommy Alexander Posnikoff of Winlaw died June 8 at the age of nine. Tommy is survived by his porents, Bill and Elsie of Winlaw; one brother. Todd; grandparents W.J. and Pauline Posnikoff of Crescent Valley and John Khadikin of Grand Forks; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. Tommy was predeceased by his grandfather, Peter F. Rillkotf in 1975 ROBERTSON Horriet_ Robertson of Nelson died June 8 at the age of 91 SCHWAB — Lucien Schwab of Riverdale died June 7. He was 72. Mr. Schwab is survived by his wite Kay; son Frank of Vancouver; two daughters, Linda Green ‘of Fruitvale and Carol at home; three Johnny and Albert Tereso. He was predeceased by three brothers, Harry Louis and Paskel SPAIN — Gordon Spain of Genelle died ‘at Trail Regional Hospital June 10 Spain is survived by his wile Lilo: two sons, Lynn of Edmonton and Murray of Castiegar; two daughters, Carol of Win nipeg and Kerrie of Burnaby. granddaughters and two sisters Wood of Fullerton and Betty Garnett of Calgary. He was predeceased by his mother and father and sister Eleanor Nuttall Joseph Thom. THOMPSON — Fredrick Canada Post makes profit OTTAWA (CP) — Canada Post made -$96 million in 1988-89 and will pile up $802 million more in profits over the next five years, a major tur naround from the $600 million a year it was losing when it became a Crown ation in 1981 The agency saysitis st profit in 30 years The figures do not cover $251 million paid by taxpayers in 1988-89 to finance cheap or free mailing rates set by government for parliamentarians and the publishing industry The subsidies, which will total $1 billion over the next five years, appear books. the post office would ‘have a deficit of about $200 million over the as revenues on post office Without this money, ame period About two thirds of the agency's projected profits will go toward a $2.5 billion program to modernize and equipment will be dividends to the Conservative plants The rest turned over in gover nment for) general government pur poses Starting with a $40-million dividend payment this year, the government will collect $311 million in postal dividends by 1992-94. ihe figures were in Canada Post's annual report and in a new five-year office plan tabled in Parliament by the government Harvie Andre, the minister respon sible for Canada Post post business beamed when questioned about the figures in the Commons Finally, the taxpayers are going to get a return on their investment,” he said: Critics were quick to suggest Canada Post should spend some of its profits to keep rural post offices open and to expand home mail delivery in urban areas now served by group mail boxes repair some of the Len Taylor, NDP Use it to damage,"’ said postal critic “Cancel the already announced rate increase for next Jan. 1,"*-said-Dor Boudria, Liberal postal critic EXTEND DELIVERY Parrot, head of the Canadian Union of Jean-Claude 45,000-member Postal Workers, said a protit diversion of $17.2 million would be enough to extend home delivery to all 200,000 suburban households served by group boxes However, Canada Post president Donald Lander gave no sign that he will yield to such demands, even though the post office is now paying dividends Shareholders — even government expect enterprises to he told a news con shareholders pay dividends, ference ‘It is part of a normal business structure that I have worked with all my life Profits remaining after dividend s have already been assigned postal payme! to other purposes, mainly ndicated gram will include mail equip. ment for all major plants, renovation or replacement of existing facilities and an modernization, he The five-year pr state-of-the-art sorting expanded fleet of postal delivery trucks Lander said he’s confident the new modernization program will bé more successful than a $1-billion program carried out in the 1970s Lander said the new program will produce faster and more efficient mail sorting but will not cause layoffs because there will be more mail to sort in future years. Mail volume in 1988-89 totalled 8.3 up 5.9 per cent, while revenues totalled $3.4 billion, up 8.7 percent Despite the improvements, the agency said it§ return on equity Was a relatively pee Oa per cent, a figure it hopes to raise to a level of 14 to 15 per cent by 1993. billion pieces, on of Rossland died June 10. Hs ‘Mr. Thompson is survived by hi Bill of Rossland, February oft 1982 ond ive Brother Lox this yeor in January of VERCHLO Sendra Lynn Vv: No died at the Trail Regional Hospital June 6. She was 28, Mrs, Vercillo is survived by her husband Guy: two sone Michael ond both at home; her parents, Er nest and Hilda Vaughan of Montrose; brother, rs, Lynda. Vaughan of Montros Maryanne Bryan of Trail; and an: aunt five ni and a nephew ice / Retail Space Street-level air-conditioned office or small retail space for rent in Castlegar News building, Includes general office fice, storage area. Landlord will do some redecorating. Fax and photocopying service available to tenant. 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The high school final exams in several courses. into a giant cl Group slams road decision thinking the society wants to halt road construction. The society wants the road plans around the burial site: The Regional District of Central Kootenay board made a decision to support a road past an archeological site based on false information and without proper represen tation of residents’ concerns by theirdirector, chaeological Park Society coordinator Celia Gunn charged Tuesday The proposed new when the road was built Susan Hammond, who worked on the Advisory Plan road between Vallican will run past an ancient native Indian burial site Area H director Bob Barkley, who represents the area where the road will be built, said the road was approved by the RDCK seven years ago and the Ministry of Highways has been waiting for funds to begin construction. That is not true, Gunn said and the,only thing agreed upon at the time was that area residents would be consulted redesign Vallican Ar , She said Génn presented a five-point plan on the issue to the meetffig Saturday which called for construction on the southern part of the road to begin and the bridge — which is considered dangerous, particularly in winter — to be rebuilt. Construction on the northern portion of the road Passmore and past the burial site would be suspended until an ar- cheological impact study is made public, Gunn said. The study was conducted. by archeologist Wayne Choquette and indicates there will be no direct impact to the site if the road is built, Ministry of Municipal Affairs spokesman Jim Pike said. The study will be available to the public once it has been approved by the ministry, he said. Gunn said the board had no response to the five-point plan for the ning C c i ss any resol Socreds unveil new plan for disabled By CasNews Staff and News Services The announcement of a $14.7 million program for families with severely disabled children shows that the provincial government is finally recognizing those families need help but there are ‘‘quite a number of people who felt they were left out in the cold,’’ the mother of a severely men- tally and physically disabled child in Castlegar says. : The new program, announced to about 150 disabled children and their families by Premier Bill Vander Zalm in Vancouver Tuesday, is ‘‘a_ bil too specific,” Cathy Lafortune today in an interview from her Van couver hotel room Each family and each disabled child has individual needs and the program will meet only some of those needs, she said The program covers medical equip ment, extraordinary transportation, equipment maintenance and respite said new Festivals Society draws new number Find those buttons! The Castlegar Festivals Society an nounced today that the first place but ton No. 2087 in the Sunfest 89 lottery draw has been turned in by a member of the Festivals Society as an unsold button Jim Ferrier, fundraising chairman explained that, after checking with the local Gaming Branch Inspector in Kimberley and with the B.C. Gaming Branch in Victoria, and acting on their advice,a redraw was held today by Joan Blain of Markin and Blain The winning number for the trip for two on Via Rail to Montreal and three nights’ accommodation in the Quebec 2600, Ferrier Moroso, city is now button No said “One of our Festivals Society mem. bers spottéd the button still in its sealed package in one of the file boxe Ferrier said. ‘‘We contacted the Gaming Branch and since it was an.un. sold button, our auditor has re-drawn the number and determined that the new number was indeed sold. We hope that the winner of button No. 2600 will contact the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce as quickly as possible so that the winner can start planning their trip across Canada on Via Rail.” Eileen Hughes, who bought her second place winning number at the Selkirk Vintners evening, and Ken Laktin, who bought the third place winning button at Pharmasave, have already claimed their prizes. care, she said Such were specifically left out, she said, and many people were disappointed But Lafortune, who is on the premier's Advisory Council on the Disabled, said she hopes the program will fund what some families need. She said the government should be given time to work out the details Lafortune said) she hopes to bring the concerns of families in this area to ithe next advisory-council meeting in September. The council’s job will be to help the government determine the best way to use the new funds, she said Vander Zalm, in announcing the program, said the government wants to help families keep or bring their disabled children home “There may be up to 1,500 children in British Columbia who might be con sidered chronically, medically depen. dent,” Vander Zalm said “We also know these children are cared for at home by their often facing considerable stress as well as exceptional medical needs as home renovations most of families, costs “We want to support these families in their efforts to keep their children home or bring them home.” The program will help provide medical equipment and maintenance, medical supplies, medical transpor tation, exceptional therapy costs, and will pay for medicare premiums and dental and Pharmacare coverage In addition, the existing respite program-will be extended *‘to families continued on page A2 the road and bridge, she said. “The APC did not ting his constituents. “Bob Barkley is clearly ignorant of the site and the vision of the society forthe site, Gunn said Barkley and the board are mistaken in wing up g development of the area, said public consultation on aroad was given top priority at the time and the RDCK did not approving the current road route. The RDCK and the provincial Cabinet passed only the Slocan Valley Development Guidelines which contain a small map indicating a road on the west side of Slocan River anda bridge over the Little Slocan River were to be built The map is too imprecise to show the exact location of support the although it was claimed at the (RDCK) board meeting (Saturday) that it had approved the road alignment,” Gunn said ina letter to the Castlegar News. Gunn said Barkley’s motion to. support Saturday shows his lack of understanding about the issues and feelings of the residents and shows he is misrepresen * she wrote. resolved. said Barkley said in an interview that Gunn's plan would not work because the Ministry of Highways no longer con- tracts road projects in small sections — the whole road must be ready to go ahead at one time or the entire project will be put on hold until the dispute over the burial site is And the bridge can't be left for another winter, he “‘It's my responsibility as a director to make decisions in the best interest of the majority — | can’t afford to take existing route, .- sides,"’ he said “But that doesn’t mean I'm not sym- pathetic to their (the society members’) point of view.”” Barkley said Gunn is paid to do her job of voicing the concerns of one group of people and “she does it well.” the road Gunn said that as of June 12 she is being paid $10 an. hour through a Ministry of Social Services program to coordinate the activity at the burial site and be a liaison among the various parties involved with the site, she said, The road will make no difference to her job and she is not paid to lobby against it, she said. continued on page AZ ACCEPTANCE MIGHT HURT SUIT DCK rejects grants By CasNews Staff The Regional District of Central Kootenay will not accept grants in lieu of taxes from B.C. Hydro because the lawsuit against the Crown utility might be compromised, RDCK board chair man George Cady said The decision was reached at a closed session of the RDCK Saturday and Cady said in an interview Tuesday the board members decided they couldn't accept any other option The board was advised of three op tions by its lawyers — to’ reject the grants, accept the grants or accept the grants “without prejudice,’” Cady said Accepting the grants, even without prejudice, could leave the lawsuit open to dismissal when it reaches the cour troom, he said. **1t was too big a chance to take on the third option,” he said, adding. **We're working on a point of honor and principal The lawsuit — which alleges B.C Hydro is discriminating against the regional district because the utility is exempt paying taxes on its Columbia River Treaty dams — is on hold until the four regional districts who filed the lawsuit meet July 18 and 19 in Vancouver to discuss proceeding with the joint action in light of the grants, Cady said. Kootenay Boundary, East Kootenay and Columbia-Shuswap are the three other regional districts iwolved from When the grants were announced, ady said the RDCK would continue with the suit even if the other regional districts pulled out But still open,” he Tuesday. “If the provincial gover 1135 we're said nment wants to rescind Bylaw (which allows for the grants) we'd be quite happy.” The grant program was announced in May and RDCK receive $155,000 this year from B.C would see the Area J byelection Saturday By CasNews Staff Area J residents head for the ballot boxes Saturday to elect a Regional District. of Central Kootenay director to replace Mar tin Vanderpol who resigned at the end of May Voters will choose between three Robson residents — Dennis La Hue, Darlene Schultz and Ken Wyllie Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Robson Community Hall, Blueberry elementary school and Ootischenia elementary school. The winner of the election will complete Vanderpol’s term which expires in December 1990, Vanderpol, who served 16 years as Area J director, resigned to ac- cept a job teaching English at a state university in Jakarta, In donesia, beginning in September Water — in sufficient quantity and of good quality — for drinking and fire protection in Area J was put high on the list of issues by all three candidates Wyllie, a 43-year-old lawyer with the firm Okros and Wyllie, and La Hue, 34, a firefighter at the Castlegar Airport, suggested at a recent all-candidates mbeting that increased revenue to the regional distsrict from taxation of B.C Hydro property in the West Kootenay could be used to upgrade Area J's water systems Schultz, a 36-year-old school bus driver with the Castlegar schooh district, said she favors a water system which relies on the Arrow Lakes for its supply, rather than onarea streams and wells. All three candidates support the Robson-Raspberry Ferry Users Ad Hoc Committee’ which has been lobbying the provincial gover nment to reinstate the cable ferry service across the Columbia River between Robson and Castlegar But they differed slightly on the confrontational approach the group has taken on occasion, with Schultz defending the committee's confrontation with the . gover nment as an exercise of citizens’ rights and La Hue calling for the need to pull together residents of the entire area and the City of continued on page A2 Robson residents square off DENNIS LA HUE . firefighter DARLENESCHULTZ \ ... school bus driver KEN WYLLIE . lawyer Hydro. Castlegar city council has in- cluded the city’s grant of $40,000 in this year’s budget But Cady said Castlegar should be receiving $320,000 annually and the RDCK $4 million, based on assessment of B.C. Hydro property. INSIDE Disaster test page A2 Lottery numbers The wismjng numbers drawn Tuesday |in the B.C. Keno lottery were 25, 30, 34, 36, 38, 40, 41 and 43. Pes a.f al Labatts on top page B1 Batman hype page B6é