'otoriais; B. FOVs, 1x4. da weit into the mid: Bon, wr ‘of 6°-119%, webinar sme eo rematnfolrinte te wecke ind, 5 - VOL. 35,\NO.70° ‘stop i “agenda will be a visit to Rota pol > Clark will speak . Brisco, per problems ‘before travelling to Blaylock Estate just outside organizing the tox of Nelson for a barbeque that. is being held to raise money Church, oe and int / dpote ana vatty mae ip ed'and overseas markets for wheat and barley rose. ~ “However, exports: of. nat- ural gas, crude oil, iron ore More on Page A2 No foul © ~ play in. “m- Shooting : Investigation, into the ca actne death ofa 38-year-” :oldy Castlegar man on .the of Aug. 17 shows i that the fatal gunshot wound ‘: was self-inflicted. Coronor Paul Ogiow,. who recently completed.a Coron- in -er's Inquiry. into the death of 2 Michael’ Twan, said that no 4 Sections (A, B, C&D) :. “crabby Dutt Car Pageant and Miss Canada crown, 2 pageant is more than a contest to see who “has the. most fantastic body,” psgeant,” she said in ‘an interview, Tuesday before Acting Mayor Bob MacBain presented her with a bouquet of roses from the city: “A pageant is like a parade:— every entry is different, yet i Asa representative for B.C. Interior, the largest area represented by any. girl in the Miss Canada pageant - stretching from the’ Canada. U.S. ; border. north :to’ uesnel, east to.the Alberta border and:west'to Merritt — she will be expected to tour the towns and participate® in events such as:the Kelowna Regatta and the Vernon: Winter Carnival. As well, she will be official hostess at . the Castlegar We Kootenay ‘Trade Fair. this spring. One. might’ wond how ‘sho will moct’-all these | ; and: still “her first year of a @. Bachelor of Arts degree ‘in fine arts at the University of Victoria. But ‘Smalley is certain that all it will take is }everyone‘is showing off for‘ ‘one reason or. another.” imalley, 18,’ says’ test lity, . wit, “talent: and’intelligence. And:a case in point- was the :4mprompta: question she ‘was: asked during the Miss Interior: contest held last weeke: dat the Penticton Peach Bowl Cent ““T was asked, ‘What do you think of abortion,’ that ‘was no easy question to answer on the spur of the moment,” . } Nevertheless, Smalley fs is’ still walking on clond nine since she'was handed the Miss Interior of B.C. trophy, a and s lot of hard work.” _ A Stanley Humphries graduate this year and former member of the high school's Omega .Theatre, Smalley is no stranger to hard work. And it is likely. theatre experience which enabled her to learn-in two hours asong‘and. dance routine called New-York ‘New! York, which ;to be performed with the other: Miss, Interior. contestants during the pageant. * Smalley also used her theatre training to advantage. when she perfc a mime sketch for her ‘talent’ at the © ‘houaet of roses: ‘and $500 to:help pay for her it’s just something that I never ‘and when it did, it toally shocked Gariada Pageant scheduled to air on _ television the ghee of 16 girls ho entered the pageant, and‘ ‘of five representing, B.C. in the: Miss pageant. Using a park bench to depict a park-setting, she : sed her hands and facial expressions to tell the story of a: day at the park. “+” Although she also used this skit when she tried for: the Miss Castlegar contest in 1981, Smalley says she has _. since perfected the ‘movements. But Smalley is currently More on Page A2 t office to the post office going in at “Where... do you put it?" he asked. - y i ‘examined Tuesday, but were ruled out. Rotering added that the reason for the four month wait ~ - : He ald one suggestion was to locate large green rural is that the regional board will have to first approve the” Be ‘which provides locked postal boxes: There's just gne catch — ‘The wrangle over the Genelle post office began when Al’ post boxes 'in Genelle. move, draw up new zoning bylaws and:rezone the Lord's. they probably wont have tp the new my post office for at least four ‘Lord: closed’ his ‘grocery. store, which houced the locked However, he said that those boxes only have space for home and utility building for the post office. =: ja boctal boxes. ‘That left the the 800 Genelle customers who used. 10 To handle Genelle's 300 customers would In the meantime, he said the current situation will have meant placing 80 boxes in the community —andthatis continue. Those residents who paid for a locked box will be i . Eien . refund, Rotering said.: d ‘everything,’ said, ded that the solution to the Genelle postal . ‘postal kiosk, but that was estimated at pichhinss may not please everyone — some may feel the = money ‘Canada Post just won't provide at, this location is out of: the way:— but those residents :can mako:, those objections known at the’ public hearing. to rezone the Rotering saidthe problem is that Genelle doesn't have a . property, Rotering noted. convenient small service station or grocery store in which to However, he warned. that the risk'is that the Canads :Ineate the locked boxes, He said the service station is too far Post might not retender the postal contract and that could. : qway for Fesidente to travel. spell the end of pore service in Genelle, o postmaster Russell Deine, Robinson agreed to Editer : ry tothe board that it create 8 special zoning to allow just post “ Genelle ‘residents- wil ‘once. again have: a post office offices.