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Send resu Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3 1cx International Chemical Express Inc. is ir need of o professional Class | driver in Trail, B.C. Must have o clean driving record. Tanker experience on asset highway experience a must. 888-6666 79 WANTED Private duty nurse, L.P.N. or nurses aid, part-time position. Call afte 6:30 p.m. 352-5688. 78 HELP WANTED LOCAL FAST FOOD OUTLET Part Time & Full Time Will Traini Send Resume to Box 3007-3, Castlegar News VIN3H4 IMMEDIATELY NEEDED * RN in Castlegar area. Project involving special needs children. Flexible hours, excellent wages, R.N.A.B.C. current. Call collect Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m Care Concepts, 1-436-0909. 313 entory control. Required at Trowelex. Must have drivers licence and basic knowledge of job Send resume to Box 3605, Castlegar. VIN 3W3. 313 14-YEAR-OLD will shovel driveways and do yardwork. 365-6319 ask for Chris ste Icx International Chemicat Express Inc. is ir need of a Class | lease operator in Trai B.C. 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Contact C.1.B.C. 365 25. 3/12 Share-a-Ride— WANTED —- ride from Ponderosa, Rob. son to Cominco, S$ shift. Will pay $50/mo. for gas. 365-5126. 3/13 ALCQHOLICS anonymous end Al-Anon Phone 365-3663. 104/71 RELIABLE Canadian and Oriental ladies all ages, desire housekeeping arrangements in exchange for accom modation etc. 1-547-2020 anytime. 26 04 Notices POKER TOURNAMENT Regency Sociol Club 1178 Bay Ave., Trail Feb. 19. Information 364-1999. GRIEF SUPPORT MEETING — Mondoy February-19,7-p.m. Home Support Of fice, 365-2148, 365-6883 213 ANNUAL General Meeting - Blueberry Creek Recreation Commission, Wed Feb. 21, 7 p.m. Blueberry School Everyone welcome 3/13 CHAPEL HOUSE Buckerberg Isignd Heritage Park — Open Wednesday Sun day, 8 am.-4 pm., Castlegar Rail Station, Mon.-Sat., 8a.m.-5 p.m. For tur ther information. 365-6440 tin 90 in Memoriam ANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY In memoriam donations. Information, Box 3292, Castlegar. 365-5167 195 CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION ir Donations, Box 1228 VOG TYO 104 73 Rosstand, BC BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY! Velopes ‘at home. Earn Free supplies, Rush stamped envelope: H Dept. AA-9, 171 Rink Stre 263, Peterborough, Ontario, K9J 246 3 Stuff en SMALL BUSINESS FINANCING Federal loan tund: available to new * vestment Corp. will be in Castlegar on February 27. For an appointment, phone 352-1933. ala =Card of Thanks- The family of the late PEARL KOOR BATOFF would like to express their sin cere appreciation to all of their friends and. relatives for their kindness and sympathy at the time of her passing. We would like to thank all of you who atten ded the funeral, the pallbearers singers. cooks, gravediggers and those who sent cards, flowers and baking. Our thanks to Mike and Therese O'Connor and George Cheveldave of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Thonk you all once again for sharing our sorrow and making our loss easier to bear. Pete and the Hlookoff, Hadikin and Steed Families. 14 HIGHWAYS TENDERS Electoral District: Similkameen Highway District: Kootenay Boundary Project or Job Number: J 8903 Project or Job Description: Supply of @ rubber tired excavator, trattic control and tandem dump trucks for ditching on Hwy. No. 33 Boundary qT * Qpening Date/Time: February 28, 1990, 2:00 p.m. Surety Bid Bond or Certified Deposit Cheque isnot required Tender documents with envelope. specifications and conditions tender are available free of charge only from The Ministry Office 555 Central Avenue, Grond Forks between the hours of 8:30 and originating office: Grand Forks, 8 C 442-5477 Tenders will be opened at The Ministry Office, 555 Central Avenue Grand Forks, B.C. 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The outlook is for un. -» Probability Precipitation is 20 per cent tonight nd-40 per cent Thursday —e 3 Sections (A, B & C) ployee Al Jones surveys the top of the gate at the Hugh Keenleyside dam Tuesday morning in preparing for repairs that have to be done because a cable used to raise and lower the gate snapped Monday. CosNews photo by Ed Mills Broken cable shuts Keenleyside lock By CasNews Staff The lock oni the Hugh Keenleyside dam will be out of service for the remainder of the week after a cable ‘morning—jamming- Open a gate on the lock, a spokesman for B.C. Hydro said. Two small boats were trapped in the lock at the time of the incident but the occupants were removed safely, Hydro spokesman Peter~MicMullen said Tuesday. “Basically, the-lock is now out of service and will be for some time, Possibly until the weekend,”” Mc- Mullen said B.C. Hydro had planned to bring in a crane Tuesday to raise the gate but that idea was abandoned because the crane was too big to fit in the available space, Hydro’s area manager for the West Kootenay, Rick Larsen, said today. Instead, welders are currently welding brackets on to the gate and when they are in place hydraulic jacks will be used to hold the gate steady in its current position, Larsen said. The welding should be completed by this evening and replacement of the cable for the steel gate may begin Thursday, he said The gate cable is 3.8 centimetres thick and about 244 metres long, Lar- sen added. McMullen said Tuesday Hydro doesn’t know why the cable snapped. “It just failed, much to our sur- Prise,"" McMullen said. He said Hydro will make the necessary repairs as quickly as possible. . = Va aaa: TRAPPED . ... Two boats that were in the lock when the cable snapped on the Monday. Log tr: CasNews photo by Ed Mills McMullen said there was never any danger of water escaping from the Lower Arrow Lake as a result of the gate jamming open after the cable snapped In the meantime, Westar Timber Ltd. is prevented from moving its supply of logs down the Arrow Lakes through the dam to the Castlegar sawmill The afternoon shift at the mill Tuesday was the last for this week although the. mill will continue to BLUEBERRY CREEK SCHOOL Reopening considered By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer The reopening of Blueberry Creek elementary school is one of a number of changes in the Castlegar school district being considered by the school board and its staff to accommodate what board chairman Gordon Turner calls the expected ‘‘bulge”’ in primary enrolment in Sep- tember. However, some parents are worried about what the changes, including a proposal to turn the Twin Rivers elementary school music room into a classroom, will mean for their children. About 25 parents from various schools in the district attended the school board meeting Monday night and were told at the end of the meeting that changes at Twin Rivers aré still being looked at and no decision on the music room has been made. The board and administrators will continue to study the options for Twin Rivers but it may turn out converting the music room is the only way to create the space that will be needed, Turner said Tuesday. Laurie Anderson, a member of the Twin Rivers Parent advisory group, said parents do not feel moving children from school to school or taking away the music room to accommodate a classroom is the best way to deal with the problem. “I don’t know if shuffling is always the answer,”’ Anderson said Tuesday, noting lack of space has been a Problem at a number of schools, particularly Twin Rivers, for several years son said. Last year, changes at the school, which houses a large number of the school district's special programs, included Putting a learning assistance program into a storage room and halving the space an individual class was in, Ander The parents are also worried adding new programs in the district such as the proposed late French immersion Program could add to the space problem, Anderson said Turner said even if the French program does not go ahead, Grade 7 students in the program would be at Kin. naird Junior secondary school in September anyway However, he said the French class may monopolize one classroom more than other Grade 7 groups because they will likely remain with one teacher for more of the day rather than moving from classroom to classroom as often as fellow students. Anderson added there are a number of factors, in cluding the new ungraded primary program being im plemented in the province, the planned expansion of the Celgar Pulp Co. mill, which may bring an influx of people to the area, and the Ministry of Education's new funding Policy that gives school districts block payments each year and eliminates the right of school boards to tax, that may affect enrolment figures and space in the school district Parent advisory groups should voice their concerns on these issues and work with the board to solve the space Problem, she said. Board staff forecasts overtrowding at Kinnaird Junior secondary, Kinnaird elementary, and Twin Rivers schools and the opening of Blueberry Creek school could alleviate some of the Problems by housing children from continued on page A2 jate at the Hugh Keenleyside dam were trapped ic to Westar Timber has ground to a halt. operate its planer and drying kiln and will continue to ship lumber, mill manager Roy Helmkay said “Hopefully we'll have it back up and running by Monday,” he said. Helmkay said Westar stores most of its logs above the dam because of a lack of space at the sawmill. “We just can’t stack a large supply of logs down here,”’ he said In the meantime, Helmkay said Westar is assisting B.C. Hydro. by making some parts for the lock repairs in the sawmill’s machine shop. SHSS facelift may start June By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer The planned renovations to Stanley Humphries secondary school will Proceed this year in whole or in part and a schedule that will take the Project from provincial government approval to finished classrooms has been worked out, Castlegar school board building and grounds commit- tee chairman Doreen Smecher said. Smecher said Ministry of Education officials have given the board verbal assurance the ministry will approve the budget for the project which was cut back recently to $5.7 million from $9 million. The ministry should provide ap- proval by April 1 and construction is expected to begin in June, Smecher sai following Monday’s board meeting. However, the ministry has not yet received its capital budget for the coming year and ‘‘no decision on any issue of this nature will be made until government has established capital budgets for all ministries,’” Education Minister Tony Brummet says in a recent letter to the board. Because of the uncertainty over the amount of funding that may be available, the board passed a motion to request funds for work on new in- dustrial shops and renovations to the electrical lab at the school ‘‘in the event the entire project cannot Proceed this year.’” DOREEN SMECHER +. ‘the project gr & The board also approved a motion requesting full funding for the project as planned. The project’s price tag has been reduced over the last few weeks because the ministry indicated it would not fund an upgrading project that would cost nearly as much as building a new school, superintendent of schools Terry, Wayling said. The ministry indicated it would be willing to fund a project of $5.8 million, Wayling added. Smecher said the renovations were originally expected to cost $4 million, a figure that was approved by the government and one Victoria would like to see again However, “‘we got a lot of input” after the project was first approved and ‘‘the project grew,’ Smecher said. The-budget for the shops and lab renovation, if the ministry approves only that portion of the project, is about $1 million, she added, which includes site preparation work and ex- tras such as arcHntttrfeegrese The working drawings will be ready by April 1, Smecher said, which is when approval for the project is ex- pected. The work will be tendered between April 1 and May ] arthbetween-May 1} and June 1 equipment will be removed from the building, salvage work will be carried out and the con- tractor will be on site, she said. Construction is expected to be completed by Dec. 1 and the new and renovated classrooms will be ready for students by Jan. 1, 1991, Smecher said. During Monday’s meeting, the trustees voted to send a letter to Brummet again requesting a meeting with the minister on the SHSS project. The minister told the board continued on page A2 Suggested meeting date scrapped By CasNews ff A document listing Feb. 28 as a possible date for a public meeting on the proposed Celgar Pulp Co. mill expansion is out of date and has been scrapped, the co-chairman of the committee overseeing the major Project review process for Celgar said today. The meeting, included in a tentative schedule for the review process that was attached to a Feb. 13 letter ad- dressed to Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore, was to be conducted by the committee when the schedule was drafted, David Parsons said. However, conducting public meetings is not part of the commit- tee’s mandate, Parsons explained, and the committee members would rather participate in the meeting Celgar is considering Celgar pulp mill manager Jim Browne said last week Celgar officials are looking at how such a meeting would run and no date has been set Parsons _also—said Ministry of Regional Development representative Frank Blasetti, who is co-chairman of the committee with Parsons, and another member of the committee lack of information on the proposed $630 million project. ‘Crozier said there are also numerous requests for public meetings or public hearings on the from the R Ministry, are expected to be in Castlegar today and Thursday The ministry representatives will meet with city council's Celgar’s ex- pansion advisory group tonight, Celgar officials Thursday and the Coalition for Information on the Pulp Mill Expansion Thursday night, Parsons said. Meanwhile, Rick Crozier, head of the Environment “Ministry’s waste management section in Nelson, said Tuesday the Nelson office has teceived some 150 submissions on the proposed ° Celgar expansion. The deadline for public comment on the project was Friday He said the concerns raised by the public range from potential transpor- tation problems to forestry issues and By CasNews Staff Programs and activities that their knowledge and skills beyond what is learned in the regular classroom will no longer be con- ducted in the Castlegar school district in a ‘‘piecemeal’’ fashion that the school board has ap- toved the implementation of an richment program in the dittrict, education chairman Midkey Kinakin said The board's approval Monday sets aside money for one full-time equivalent teacher in 1990, which amounts to $40,000 to $45,000 with benefits and learning assistance time figured in, Kinakin said Tuesday However, the funds may be used in a variety of ways rather than strictly to hire teachers, he said. An enrichment program com- mittee, initially consisting of teachers and administrators and Perhaps expanding to include Parents and @ student represen- aative, will work with the schools to determine what kinds of ac- Board earmarks enrichment funds tivities the schools want to start and dole the program funds out accordingly, Kinakin said For example, teachers who want to attend a professional development lecture on an area in which they would like to work with their students may be given several days leave, Kinakin said The program also includes $5,000 for material fees for enrichment activities, he added The enrichment program will expand on the activities of the district's challenge program, which employs one teacher, allow for special projects in the regular classroom sfch as the staging of puppet-shows which provides students with a variety of skills to master, and will allow the district to address identified problems in the district, such as a deficiency in critical-thinking skills, Kinakin said Funding for the program in the primary grades will come from money provided by the provincial government for the implemen- tation of the new primary continued on page A? 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