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The bonus number was 44, The $1,000,000 winning number in Friday's Provincial lottery draw is 4782086. The winning numbers drawn Friday in The Pick lottery were 3, 9, 12, 22, 23, 30, 34and 54. CasNews BS and B6 Look for TV listirigs Begifning with today's TV “Week will appeer in the Sun day edition instead of the Wednesday issue Castlegar Vol, 41, No. 83 60 Cents AW y>. rNews CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1988 3 Sections (A, B & C) POOL GETS GO AHEAD PREMIER VISITS . . Ballot doesn't bother premier By CasNews Staff Premier Bill Vander Zalm says he is not concerned about the possibility of a secret ballot on his leadership. ‘I think perhaps it is being overplayed,” Vander Zalm told reporters while in Salmo yesterday for the opening of the Salmo Museum Society. building. The premier said he thinks opposi- tion to his leadership of the Socred party was started by Vancouver Socreds and probably hasn't, spread too far from the area. “Provincially things are in pretty good shape,” he said, adding “I've met more friendly people today than I thought ‘lived in Salmo.” Vander Zalm blames the media for HEALTH OFFICER overplaying the issue which will arise at the party’s annual convention which begins Oct. 20 in Penticton “I guess the media is centred around downtown Vancouver and so again they tend to promote that same sort of stuff,” he said. Vander Zalm says he sees the convention as a good opportunity to develop the party “into one that hasa particular philosophical bent that people are supportive of.” He predicted the convention would be “the most exciting and most vibrant convention” ever seen for a political party in the province. Vander Zalm denied that Social Credit MLA Kim Campbell decided to run for the Progressive Conserva- tives in Vancouver Centre because she was unhappy with his leadership. “If she was unhappy and wanted to quit she would have quitted long before this,” he said. Vander Zalm said Campbell is pursuing federal politics because of her own personal interests. “She sees a seat that is winnable for her and she sees an issue that she wants to be involved with,” he said, adding, “I commend her for taking on a challenge that she wants to be involved in.” The premier later attended a dinner in Salmo and is expected to leave today. Medical vacancy a concern By BONNE MORGAN and RON NORMAN The Regional District of Central Kootenay and the Central Kootenay Union Board of Health have joined the City of Castlegar in seeking an immediate replacement for the area's medica! health officer. Dr. Monty Arnott has been ap- pointed medical health officer and director of the Simon Fraser Health Unit in Coquitlam effective Nov. 1 However, the Ministry of Health has indicated it doesn't plan to replace Arnott until next year at the earliest. Shirley Hunter-Oglow, presently supervisor of public health nursing at the Central Kootenay Health Unit, will take over as acting director when Arnott leaves. As well, Dr. Arnold Lowden, the medical health officer for the East Kootenay Health Unit in Cranbrook, will be the acting medical health officer. Lowden will visit Castlegar twice a month and be available to provide help to the health unit by telephone the rest of the time. However regional district chair man George Cady told Saturday's board meeting in Nelson that com muting from Cranbrook isn't feasible. “I would suggest it is a long distance to travel.” Cady pointed out that when the Selkirk health unit based in Nelson and the West Kootenay health unit continued on page A2 . Premier Bill Vander Zalm visited Salmo yesterday building will house Salmo's museum, library and Chamber of Com for the official opening of the Salmo Museum Society building. The merce and provide a hall for guides and scouts CosNewsPhoto by Nick Allon Brisco calls for funds By CasNews Staff The Kootenays should get $10 million a year as compensation for environmental damage suffered un: der the Columbia River Treaty, Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said Friday. Brisco said the money could come from renegotiated treaty benefits “When the downstream power benefits expire in stages beginning in the mid-1990s, B.C. Hydro stands to receive a large sum of money from renegotiating those benefits,” Brisco said in a prepared release He pointed out that the renegoti ated benefits are estimated to be worth as much as $1 billion a year Brisco said the Kootenays should re ceive one per cent of that, or $10 million a year, for environmental compensation “In the U.S., the Northwest Power Planning Council operates with one per cent of the gross revenues of the Bonneville Power Authority,” ex plained Brisco. “The council spends the money on wildlife and fisheries enhancement, as well as on recre ational facilities.” Brisco says he wants a similar council here, made up jointly of West and East Kootenay residents “It’s about time we got our fair share from B.C. Hydro over the Columbia River Treaty,” said Brisco. “With the renegotiation of down. stream benefits starting soon, we have an opportunity to make some real environmental progress.” continued on poge A2 By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer Castlegar and Areas I and J residents gave resounding approval yesterday to a $2.2-million indoor aquatic facility. The referendum passed with a 78 per cent in-favor vote. combined from all three districts. Members of the Castlegar and District Projects Society were celebrating at the Fireside Inn in Castlegar following the results. The society started pitching the facility early this year and president Ron Ross was elated that all the hard work paid off. The society first started planning for an aquatic centre four years ago. “I feel good. Everybody else here feels good too,” Ross told the Castlegar News last night. “The mayor is suggesting I can call Salmo and talk to the premier.” More than 2,800 voters turned out to the polling stations located “in Blueberry, Pass Creek, Tarrys, Robson and Castlegar Each of the three areas had to approve the proposal with a fifty per cent plus one margin for the facility to get the go ahead. If any one of the three electoral areas had turned down the proposal in the referen- dum, it would have failed even if the other two areas had voted in favor. Castlegar residents turned out in force as 1,752 voters cast their ballots at the Commmunity Complex. City residents-voted heavily in favor of the facility as 1,435 of the 1,752 Castlegar votes — 81 per cent of the total — said yes to the facility of the total — said yes to the facility Area I residents — including Pass Creek, Tarrys and Brilliant — voted 73.6 per cent in favor as 257 of the 330 ballots cast agreed with the proposal Area J residents — Blueberry, Ootischenia and Robson — were 85 per cent in favor. More than 600 of the 726 residents who voted said yes as well. Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore was on hand with the project society celebrants at the Fireside. The mayor was pleased with the results. “It's nice to have a great thing like a new aquatic centre to celebrate this evening, it’s just phenomenal,” she said. “I think the committee deserves success, they did everything right and they worked very hard and I certainly am very proud with their efforts.” Moore, who had just returned from a dinner with Premier Bill Vander Zalm in Salmo was going to get Ross to call the premier “I'm going to haye Ron Ross call the premier right now,” she said “He's the fitting person to do that. Ross said there is a lot of work ahead for the project society, now that the facility's construction can begin. He said the society will be putting the contract out to tender as soon as possible. “We would like to tender it in January or early February so that work can start in March,” he said. “We want to tender it as early as possible in the winter time so that we can get the best prices.” The projects society now has to meet with the Regional District of Central Kootenay so that the district can officialy accept the referndum results and get the ball rolling “I couldn't be happier,” Moore said. “I think it's magnificent.” By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer The results of a radon gas survey conducted in 70 Castle gar-area homes show the major- ity are safe from radon. The Central Kootenay Health Unit survey revealed that radon Radon gas survey shows low risk school districts, 47 rate higher than Castlegar for lung cancer, Arnott said. And Castlegar has a 25 per cent lower mortality rate than the provincial norm. The United States Environ mental Protection agency and Health and gheage Canada — accep- table levels in only four of the homes tested during a one-year period. “From our point of view we have a very minimal health risk,” medical health officer Monty Arnott told the Central Kootenay Union Board of Health Thursday. Radon is a radioactive gas produced from a breakdown of uranium in soil and rock. After finding a “belt” of uranium run- ning through area soils, the health board decided to find money to test for radon levels in homes. Radon is thought to cause lung cancer when small particles lodge in the lungs, releasing “small bursts of energy which ean damage lung tissue and lead to lung cancer,” said Arnott. Arnott explained that figures taken over the last 30 years indicate that deaths from lung cancer in Castlegar are “signi- fieantly” lower than elsewhere in the province. Radon is not known to cause any other illness. Of the 75 British Columbia . The Gone fimit in Canada is 20 picocuries per litre which is an estimated annual risk of about 9.5 in 10,000 of developing lung cancer. The American limit is much lower — four pieocuries per litre which is a risk of two in 10,000. The union board of health wanted to know why the Cana- dian standard is “a lot higher.” “When you talk about pico curies you talk about a thousand, thousand, million,” said Arnott. “If you look at four and compared it with 20 it looks like five times the amount, but the amount is extraordinarily small,” he explai Arnott said a graph of the levels shows the two standards “extraordinarily close on the curve. “Both those standards are being reviewed and are under attack.” The lowest radon level found by monitors placed on the main Noor of area homes in the health continued on pege A7