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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1978 h

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26 CENTS

ir Split Council Vote

| City to. Join BCCPSE

“Mayor Audrey Moore
broke ‘a split city council vote
Tuesday with support for-:mem-
bership of the city in the B.C,
Council ‘of Public Sector Em-
Ployers,
Moore cast the deciding
.yote. after council reached a
: deadiock on Aid. Len Embree’s

* + motion that the eity not join the

+ BCCPSE for
: information”.
3 Embree said membership
‘in the provincial government-
* backed BCCPSE, which would
: cost Castlegar $42 in dues in
: 1979, would eventually lead to
greater costs in the same
! manner as the budget for the
: Kootenay Boundary Labor Re-
¥ lations Association grew from
$700 to $60,000 annually.
He said council! had “learn-
ed a fairly good lesson” in its

“exchange: of

efforts to leave the KBLRA—of

which the city must remain a

paid-up member until the end of

1978, He said’ the TReCERE,
to be

purpose of the organization was
to provide only information on
labor relations, Embree said

similar se bargaining role.
“"T would hate to see us get
into another one of these
organizations,” Embree said.
Embree and Ald. Bud
Godderis voted to support the
motion, opposed by Ald. Gerald
“Rust, Ald. C. S. Fowler and
Ald. Albert Calderbank, and
Ald. Jim- Gouk's

the rate upon
wntch the $42 dues would be
based indicated thet it was a
bargaining association.

Referring to council's past
arguments in favor of joining
the KBLRA, he said he was
“suffering from deja vu."

“My fear is that we are

(Con't.' Pg. A2, Col. 5)

Chamber Granted $2,000 -

Earmarked for Tourism Booth

~The city will give the
Castlegar and District Cham-
ber of Commerce Ach 200 leas

monthly of $600 over

than it
for activities enone the
municipality.

City council approved
Tuesday a recommendation by
Ald. Gerald Rust, administra-
tive services and finance com-
mittee chairman, that the
Chainber be given a $2,000
grant rather than its S proposed

a period of one year for tourist
information services at a new
information booth, Sunflower
Fest promotion and a new
brochure depicting Castlegar's
attractions.

Council also decided the

cally for operation of the tourist
information. booth and would
not be given to the Chamber for

. any other purpose.

Rust sald his committee
thought the program proposed
by Chamber president Searle
Sheldon last month was “too

$2,000 grant, “to the
efforts of the new executive",
would be earmarked specifi-

and i on
some functions normally car-
tied out by the city. He said the

counted as a vote of support.
Moore, saying she personally
saw “not too many problems in
paying $40 for membership,”
broke the tie.

; After defeat of Embree's
motion Ald, Albert Calderbank
gained support for his motion
‘that the city join the BCCPSE,

+ In response to council
members’ statements that the,

‘New Bylaw Expands
“Sewer Frontage Tax

City council gave third
reading Tuesday to a bylaw
, which would charge 20, cents

+ per foot of taxable frontage for

developer-installed sewer ser-
; vices.in Castlegar North.
The bylaw—which also ex-
Six Choices
_. Offered:for
-» Development

has not yet been determined,
Moore said.

tends a 65-cent-per-foot charge
for taxable sewer frontage for
developer-installed services
throughout Castlegar South—
would bring together the front-
age tax bylaws of the former
Villages of Kinnaird and Castle-
gar, Ald, Gerald Rust told
council.

Rust, said the tax on front-
age for developer-installed sew-
ers had previously only been
charged ‘in some sections of
Castlegar South,

The existing 35-cent
charge for taxable frontage on
city-installed sewer services in
North Castlegar and the $1.25-
per-foot charge on city-installed
sewer services in Castlegar
South will remain unchanged,
he said.

Council.also named May 8

of the city court of revision to
enable property-owners affect-
ved by changes or additions in

the water and sewer frontage
: tax roll to state their objec-

tions,

Persons affected by
changes in the frontage tax
rolls will receive notices an-
the hearing.

~ Genelle Residents
Seek Rehabilitation

~  Genelle residents demand-
ed rehabilitation, for their
China Creek watershed and a
mines ministry official con-
tinued denials this week follow-
ing last week’s reports that

Transit Cut
Means Yet
Another Delay

A 40-per-cent cut in the
municipal affairs and hous-
ing ministry budget for new
transit systems could post-
pone development of a West
Kootenay inter-city bus sys-
tem until next year, Ross-
land - Trail MLA Chris
D'Arcy said Tuesday.

D'Arey said the utback
from $600,000 to $360,000
-for new transit planning and
service, announced in Fi-
nance Minister Evan Wolfe's
budget speech Monday;
“doesn’t give us much hope
of seeing a transit system
this year.”

He said the increase
from $4.4 million to $6
million in the existing tran-
‘sit services budget reflected
inereasing costs and. would
probably provide for more
service from existing faci-
lities, but would allow for no
establishment of hew sys-
tems in B.C.

The Rossland - Trail
MLA pointed out Hugh
Curtis, municipal affairs and
shousing minister, had an-
nounced last month that
development of a West
Kootenay system would de-
pend on the money available
in the budget. -

Curtis will need “either
anew budget in the fall or

warrants through
orders-in-council” to start
work on the system this

|. to the proposed

+ gional chief

vyear, D'Arcy said.

uranium ore samples were
.being blasted out of the west
side of the Columbia River 15
kilometres south of Castlegar.
Genelle resident Tom Me-
Kenzie told the Castlegar News
a 14-member committee would
ask the provincial mines minis-
try to repair the damage caused
by construction of a road which
he said runs through several
China Creek tributaries and
was used as an access route for
equipment used in blasting.
McKenzie said the normal
mines ministry procedure for
exploration in areas which, like
the China Creek area, qualify as
map reserves, requires the
chief district inspector to ap-
prove or disapprove plans sub-
mitted by prospective miners
and ensure that proper care is
taken of other resources in the

“Internal administrative
procedure in an area qualified
as a map reserve requires any
department authorizing entry
into a reserve area notify the
Pollution Control Branch, fish
and wildlife Branch and water
rights branches, and parks
branch so that they may object
manner. in
which entry is being made,” he

id.

“It is our opinion that, the
department of mines autho-
rized somebody to proceed with
mining explorations in. this
reserve area without having
given proper recognition to
objections which might have
been made by other depart-
ments in the event of damage.”

McKenzie said the Genelle
residents intended to send dele-
gations to enlist support of the
Central Kootenay and Koote-
nay Boundary Regional Dis-

* tricts,

Contacted yesterday, re-
Bruce.

IBLE on Columbia River sandbars (cee dark areas): as

side Dam, ts what .a Pollution:

.., as the date for a'special session:

Green slime’ visible on the

Columbia River banks and
rocks caused by = discharge
reductions at the Hugh Keen-
leyside Dam this week is
normal, according toa Pollution
Control Branch spokesman,

Assistant regional mana-
ger Jim McLaren told the

Castlegar News the PCB re-_

gional biologist said the slime is

E algae which grows frequently

on river rocks.

“Its a natural phenémenon
rather than’ an artificially: in-
duced one,” McLaren said.

He said the algae feeds on
nutrients carried toward it by
the river flow. Nutrients neces-
sary for its growth would be in
the river ordinarily, but there
may be an increase caused by
nearby residents and material
from the CanCel pulp mill, jhe
said.

Dam supervisor Lars

result of water lavi

jescribed as natural algae growth. .

i Haffner

News the river level had been
dropped to di the .

lowered this; week by the

y the provinee of
B.C. and the U.S. Haffner said,
an operating committee which

Chamber's proposed budget
allowed for other revenues of
about $2,000, which combined
with the city grant would allow
it to carry on some promotion
activities in 1978,

Ald. Len Embree opposed
the grant, saying the Chamber
had not yet proven that it was a
viable organization. He said the-
Chamber “has an impossible
task in trying to get funds from
its own members” and told.
council he had a first-hand
glimpse at the failure of the
hospitality workshop it co-
sponsored with the tourism
ministry Saturday and Sunday
to attract any

Embree said the Chante
should try raising funds by
“collecting $20 from each mem-
ber" rather than seeking Brants
from the city.

Ald. Jim Gouk, who Inter
supported the motion, told
council he agreed “ever so
reluctantly” that the Chamber
had not yet shown it could work
in the city's. interests. *

He said the executive was
“highly motivated” but the
Chamber, was. still relatively -
unorganized, and noted that

_ when he was guest speaker at a

recent Chamber meeting the
membership turnout was
“about five.”

Ald, Bud Godderis, who
had registered his opposition to

from the business “community.

- “The Chamber in my mind
hasn't proven to me that it is
representative of the people of
Castlegar and that it is working
in their interests,” he said. “I'm,
not being cruel, I'm trying to
deal with realities.”

the at the
administrative services and fi-
nance committee meeting, said
he would “need convincing”
that the work ‘funded by the
grant would be of benefit to the
whole community. He suggest-
ed council table the recom-
(Con't. Pg. A2, Col. 7)

Jointly-Backed Class
Turnout a Letdown

Three Castlegar and Dis-
trict Chamber of. Ci

nesses had already paid {hele
$10

officials, one instructor and one
hotel operator.

‘According to a.Chamber
spokesman, that was the busi-
ness community's total re-
sponse to the provincial .tour-
ism ministry's hospitality work-
shop scheduled for Saturday
and Sunday at ‘the Hi Arrow
Arms Motor Hotel.

Chamber vice-president
Bill Jones said this week’ that

“the workshop, co-sponsored by

the Chamber » was cancelled
Saturday. after it became ap-
parent “no ene «else | would
attend,:He said he had “ab-
solutely” noid

Jones said a tourism minis-

try official had estimated the ~

lower end of the Columbia in

Washington state, where.
spring runoff had begun early.
The dam's discharge was re-
duced from 26,000 to 10,000
cubic feet ‘per. second Sunday,
dropped another 5,000 Monday
and will continue at that rate
until this Sunday, he said. -
Under the Columbia River

To Reduce Boord of Varicnce Applications

* includes ives of B.C.
Hydro, the U.S. Corps of

Engineers and the Bonneville -

‘Power Authority establishes

. every Friday the weekly dis-

charge .tate for dams on the
tiver.

Haffner said the river's
discharge rate after Sunday

hat
responsible for the Poor turn-
“out. an4

and the Chamber had per
an “excellent” response.

Asked about plans for.
future projects, the vice-presi-
dent said. the Chamber will
probably look for other ways to
assist the community.

“After many successes,
such as the Grace McCarthy
tourism presentation, the assis-
tance program for small busi-
hesses and others, we don't
want to:let.this disappointing
program give us a negative
attitude,” he said.

THE
INSIDE

cost of the Castlegar workshop Ss

tothe p gover!
$1,000.

“We lost the rental on the
hall for a day,” he said. “But the
provincial government paid the

‘teacher whether she gave the
course or not.”

He said he was “disap-
pointed in ithe response from
the ted . business

will depend on the
decision tomorrow. Y

Building Permits Need Stressed

said that under

to ane applications to the
city board of variance resulting
from ie

~ ing insp would

normal procedure for granting
building permits, the city build-
i issue a

gained city council approval

Tuesday. .

Council approved a board
of variance motion to inform
the public in a newspaper
advertisement and in letters to
local contractors that building
permits must be obtained prior.
to the start of any construction.

Asked by Ald. Len Embree
whether applications to the
court resulting from unlicensed
construction included local con-
tractors, city clerk Barry Baldi-
gara, the board secretary, said
most applicants were private
individuals.

Season sees sees eee

A “slightly embarrass-

received a $1,800 yearly
raise Tuesday night.

City council approved a
motion by Ald. Gerald Rust,
administrative services and
finance committee chairman,
that. Moore's annual indem-
nity be raised to $6,000 and
hat ald ve ti .

ed” Mayor Audrey Moore ~

stop-work order upon discovery
of construction for which a
permit has not been issued, and
the individual carrying out the
construction would be required
to apply for a permit.

Ald. Bud Godderis said a
considerable number of resi-
dents involved in various types
of construction in the area
include persons of Russian and
Portuguese descent, and sug-
gesting publishing the adver-
tisement in thrée languages in
order to avoid any problems in
understanding the meaning of
the city's policy.

Moore knew nothing about
the proposed increase.
“She's slightly embar-
rassed about it,” Moore
interjected.
Speaking against the
- $1,800 indemnity increase,
Ald. Len Embree said there
was already an approximate
spread of $1,000 between
the mayor's and aldermen's
to

be increased by six per cent
to $3,498.

Rust told council there

the mayor's salary since
ion of the °Vil-

Lang maintained that no blast-
ing was being conducted in the
area.

cou punch ensemesuccusccecce
a

gar. He pointed out that

had been no adjustment in —

lages of Kinnaird and Castle-

for the extra time the mayor
devotes tocity business. But
the extra time did not justify
an increase of $1,800, he
said.

Speaking in favor of the
motion, Ald. C. S. Fowler
said that Moore has devoted

But Ald. Jim Gouk said
residents who have no know-
ledge are not likely to look at an
Enplish.

power under the I Act.

community” because 13 busi-
'. City Protests
High Costs

Of Assessment
The city will ask the B.C.
Authority to in-

to vary the size, shape and
siting requirements of build-

8 pap’
He recommended that the
advertisement be written “in
very simple terms and not in
legalese.”

Baldigara told the Castle-
gar News the. board has the

ings in the area.

He said persons who carry
out construction in the city
without city building permits
are liable for a fine of up to $250
plus court costs for every day
building continues after a stop-
work order.

1,700 Signatures Ask
Premier for Water Aid

A total of 1,700 city resi-
dents have told Premier ‘Bill
Bennett they want aid from his

ausseseeneeereanes,

Aldermen Take Home 6% More '

Extra $1,800 for Mayor:

tocity business “twice if not
triple” the time he has put
into his own post.

The six-per-cent indem-
nity increase for aldermen
was in line with increases
already granted to non-
union office staff. City ad-
ministrator Bill Krug said
the mayor's increase would
have to be submitted to the
federal Anti-Inflation Board
for approval because it was
over 20 per cent,

The last indemnity in-
creases granted to city coun-
cil were in September, when
aldermen received a $173
increase and. the mayor
received a $238 hike.

government in securing Castle-
gar’s proposed Arrow Lakes
Water supply, Ald. Jim Gouk

‘said Tuesday.

Gouk told city council the
signatures compiled in a one-
and-a-half-month, door-to-door
petition campaign, represented:
about 98 per cent of the
residents contacted.

He said the petition, which
he described as a “core sample”
only drew 28 refusals of sig-
natures. A further list of 300
signatures compiled after the
petition was sent last week to
the premier represented the
same 98-per-cent ratio and will
be presented in the city's next
meeting with provincial -gov-
ernment ministers, he said.

Water committee chairman
Ald. C. S, Fowler told council
Tuesday CanCel had not suc-
ceeded in setting up the mid-
April meeting with the muni-
cipal affairs and economic de-
velopment ministries as the
city had hoped, and said he
hoped to hear of meeting plans
within a week,

vestigate a different approach
to levying assessment costs for
municipalities.

City council members sup-
ported an administrative ser-
vices and finance committee
recommendation that the re-
quest be sent in a letter by
committee chairman Ald, Ger-
ald Rust city assessment costs
had increased from $39,183 in
1977 to $55,380 in 1978.

Rust said the city had
asked the assessment authority
for further assessment roll
printouts but had been in-
formed the city would be
charged up to $520 extra for the
additional service.

Mayor Audrey Moore said
she felt strongly that the
motion should be given coun-
cil's support because the assess-
ment authority assesses B.C.
Hydro property without charg-
ing the company for the assess-
ment.

: The Ghost of J:

* ‘Norex Past.
Page BR I

e ACCLAIMED: MP. Bob
Brisco will once again
represent Kootenay West
Progressive Conserva- |:
tives in the next federal }-
election.

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City Brief on RDCK
Presented Here Today

Briefs from the City of Castlegar, Regional District of Central
Kootenay, the Village of Montrose, Trail Regional Hospital, and
d for to the

private Riondel resi are

provincial government's regional district review Seta this
morning, and afternoon at the Hi Arrow Arms Motor Hotel.~

by the icipal affairs ministry to
Gaming in public hearings jurisdictional role, admi
boundaries and other aspects of regional districts in B.C., will sit at

10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Mayor Audrey Moore said Tuesday the city’s brief on regional
planning had been completed and would be first on the
presentation schedule, but she declined to discuss the contents of
the brief until it had been presented to the committee.