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Castlegar News May 18, 1988

NOTICE OF
DATE CHANGE

The Chamber Luncheon which was announced in
the Castlegar Chamber hd Commerce Newsletter
for the general business meeting and introduc-
tion of the Miss Castlegar Candidates for Thur-
sday, May 26.

HAS BEEN CHANGED TO

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VICTORIA (CP) The
B.C, Institute of . Techifol
ogy's operating budget will
be trimmed by $726,000, not
the $4 million originally plan:
ned, Advanced Education
Minister Stan, Hagen an.
nounced Tuesday.

The school will also receive
a two-per-cent overall fund
ing increase, similar to those
granted British Columbia's

y colleges, Hagen
told a hastily called news

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conference.

And beginning next
March, he said, BCIT will be
named the Centre for Ad
vanced Technology Training
and will start focusing on ad
vanced technology, as rec
ommended last December by
a committee.

“The objective will be to
have the best advanced in
stitute of high technology in
this country,” Hagen said

His announcement came
about an hour before the in.
stitute’s teachers and stu
dents held a noon-hour rally,
originally called to protest
the planned $4-million cut

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province,” said Roy Murray,
the institute's president.

The provineial government
has steadily cut the insti.
tute’s funding for several
years,

EASY GO

The school received about
$61 million in 1982-83. As a
result of Hagen’s announce
ment, the institute will get
about $52 million in the
1988-89 fiseal year,

“There may be some chan.
ges in programming but for
this year the funding has
been restored to the level
that it was in past years,”
Hagen said.

“Our government has long
recognized the need for a
facility that can serve as a
flagship in providing ad
vanced technical training in
the province,” he said of the
planned changes in the
school’s emphasis.

“We had hoped that BCIT
would serve in this capacity,
but over the years, we saw
the institute move towards a
kind of operation that was
very similar to those which
exist in our college system.

“The government _ prop:
osed in the fall of 1987 that
BCIT take steps to revamp
its operations to emphasize
advanced technology,” Hag-
en said. “However, BCIT did
not respond to this initia
tive.”

Man
drowns

OLIVER (CP) — A men-
tally handicapped man
drowned Monday night in a
public pool although three
lifeguards and four chaper.
ones were present.

Stanley Plut, 46, was pull
ed from the pool by life:
guards moments after enter.
ing the outdoor facility, —
Carolyn Madge, parks an
recreation administrator in
this Okanagan city

Although two lifeguards
tried to resuscitate the man,
Madge said Plut was pro-
nounced dead one hour later.

Plut and 14 other residents
of a facility for mentally
handicapped adults were the

City council spends |
$45,000 on fire truck

By CasNews Staff

part of a 1988 capital spending’ program
that totals nearly $317,000,

Other big ticket items included inthe railway station;
program are:

e $60,000 for a loader;

$12,000 for a sand spreader;

© $24,350. for traffic signals — $10,000
for the signal at 3rd Street and Colum-
bia Avenue (phase 2) and $14,850 for
phase 1 of the signal at 6th Street and Avenue;
Columbia.

$60,800 for paving; Pool;

Arena;

tage Park;

© $9,200 for sidewalk construction
The City of Castlegar plans to spend ($3,500 for one at 13th Street and Col
$45,000 this year to rebuild one of its umbia and $5,700 for one from 20th
fire department's pumper trucks as Street to 6th Avenue and Columbia);
© $11,200 to upgrade 37th Street;
@ $15,000 to relocate the Castlegar

© $15,000 for landscaping Pioneer

© $3,000 to expand Kinsmen Par!
© $3,260 for Zuckerberg Island Heri

© $3,000 for planters for Columbia

© $6,150 to upgrade Bob Brandson

@ $2,500 to renovate Kinnaird Hall;

@ $5,625 for two sets of breathing
apparatus for the fire department;

$5,500 for city hall renovations;

@ $7,000 to expand the computer
memory at city hall;

© $11,000 for word processing and
work station equipment for city hall.

In addition, the city plans to pend
$45,000 on its water system, including
$28,000 to replace a six-inch watermain
at 11th Avenue and 6th Street south
with an eight-inch watermain,

The city will algo spend $19,500 on
the north sewer system and $9,000 on
the south sewer system.

WESTERN PREMIERS

Talks held on yacht

VICTORIA (CP) — Canada's four western premiers,
with newly elected Gary Filmon of Manitoba aboard for the
first time, will set sail Tyursday for three days of meetings
on a $3-million luxury yacht.

Bill Vander Zalm of British Columbia, Don Getty of
Alberta, Grant Devine of Saskatchewan and Filmon. will
meet aboard the Hotei II off Parksville, a Vancouver Island
resort 120 kilometres northwest of Victoria.

The 35-metre’ yacht, owned by Vancouver Island
trucking magnate Jack Chalres, boasts six staterooms, three
bars and a hot tub. Charles is lending the yacht to the
conference, with the B.C. government picking up the tab for
fuel and crew wages.

The yacht was featured at Expo 86, when it ferried the
Prince and Princess of Wales to the opening-ceremonies.

This marks the first conference since 1968 that all four
western premiers share a common conservative political
philosophy. They will meet for a total of about 10 hours
aboard the yacht.

The four also share the same basic views about the
Meech Lake constitutional accord, which has already been
ratified by the Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec
legislatures.

Filmon, who says Meech Lake is not a priority on his
legislative timetable, favors the accord but his minority
government lacks the votes to push it past Liberal and NDP
opposition.

“Each of my colleagues in the West will be aware of the
numbers in the house, as you are,” Filmon told reporters in
Winnipeg Tuesday

‘GO FORIT’

Devine, however, seemed all in favor of ignoring those
numbers.

“I'll be encouraging them obviously to pursue it,‘
Devine said of his Manitoba colleagues. “I'm not so sure that
either opposition party wants an election right now and I'd
be going for it.”

Vander Zalm supports the accord, but wants to wait

until after the western premiers’ meeting before raising it in
the B.C. legislature.

“Well, there’s no particular rush,” Vander Zalm said,
“and it gives us an opportunity to find out what the thinking
of premiers from other areas.”

Another federal initiative, the Canada-U.S. free-trade
agreement, could cause debate among the premiers, Vander
Zalm said.

“I guess there could be a bit of a controversy
surrounding free trade and the fact that the federal
government may take certain initiatives to assure that free
trade becomes a reality, even if there's opposition from one
or two provinces.”

Vander Zalm says he may find himself in a dilemma
because he is a strong supporter of both free trade and
provincial rights.

B.C. WORRY

The free-trade agreement is:a key concern for British
Columbia where grape growers and soft-fruit producers fear
they will be plowed under by U.S. competition.

Filmon, however, promised that the western premiers
would adopt a united approach to free trade in the absence of
former Manitoba Premier Howard Pawley, whose NDP
government staunchly opposed the trade proposal.

“Our province, of course, has spent all its time fighting
it and spent no time assisting all of our producers and
suppliers in preparing for it,” Filmon said.

Other items on the agenda include relief for
drought-stricken farmers and economic diversification
through Ottawa's $1-billion Western Diversification Fund.

The premiers arrive in Parksville today for an evening
reception. The following day, they meet on the yacht and sail
te Vancouver. before flying back to, Parksville.

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only swimmers in the pool.

Tony Schmand, adminis
trator at the Beaver Lodge
Training Centre, said that
despite the tragedy, swim
ming sessions will likely con
tinue for the centre's resi.
dents.

Premier David Peterson
doesn’t have the clout to kill
free trade with the United
States and it will take effect
or not, federal Trade Minis
ter John Crosbie said
Tuesday.

Earlier in the day, Peter-
son said he won't comply
with the proposed free-trade
agreement, is willing to fight
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it if he can.

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son can kill the deal,” Crosbie

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told reporters. “I think the
deal has gone forward, was
entered into over his objec
tions and it will be implem
ented over his objections.”

The sweeping. free-trade
legislation, which could affect
as many as 30 federal stat
utes, was expected to be in
troduced in the Commons
this week but now has been
delayed until next week.

Sources say it will give
Ottawa specific power to
ensure provinces begin phas.
ing out liquor regulations
which disciminate against
U.S. wine and spirits — a key
American demand.

Liquor regulation is the
clearest area of provincial
jurisdiction affected by free
trade and the only one re
quiring specific provincial

action by Jan. 1.

The proposed Canada-U.S
deal, which still needs final
approval by both countries,
would eliminate tariffs and
many other trade barriers
between the countries over
10 years.

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However, the federal leg:
islation would also contain a
residual clause which could
be controversial even among
provinces whic support free
trade.

Prince Edward Island's
Joe Ghiz, another Liberal
premier, is the only other
provincial leader who op
poses the free-trade agree-
ment. He wants to see the
actual legislation before con.
sidering a court challenge.

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