* _ Castle News rebrver 2.108 Births & Funerals vy arye lags. Castlégar News = Legistative Parliasent Victoria, %. vav ix4 TELEPHONE 365-5210 insertions, copy end aes See a5 fer the a Bark your advertising dollars do better in 7 BUSINESS DIRECTORY Auto Rentals Vol. 39, No. 17 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1986 3 Sections (A, 8 Skin Care Accounting CHARTERS NAMED CITIZEN OF YEAR By CasNews Staff —_ 5 — $20 ea CARE STUDIO Call 365-2659 had RA. AXES — $2 INCOME T. + Guat Sta [eee ROI PRINTING BROCHURES PRESS SERVICE FLYERS City supports Westar By RON NORMAN Editer mill's existing pollution control per- poor economic conditions. “a “We believe that our proposed — HR. (Dick) Wingate Riondel died suddenly Jon. 26 ane £4. he te survived by his ite Flora; doughter Susenne ; son and doughter-in ith of =< Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 ® and Merod : and two PEZ — Volunio Per of Trail died 11 at age 75. She suddenly is survived by her daughter Lilia raxermel tor emote! Bridge results Prayer day March 7 World Day of Prayer is celebrated annually around the world. This year it takes 1 place March 7 at 11 am. in St. David's Anglican Church. The service has been pre- pared by Christian women in ters 83. Australia and the theme is EAST-WEST with the following winners: NORTH-SOUTH * Cars * Trucks * 4x4's Wayne Weaver and Dave Thiel 100%; 2. Myrna Baulne and Ian Glover 94‘; 3, Hugh Auld and Sally Wal- SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS Phone 36: Henry John, B.Sc. C.A. Resident Partner Beauty Salons|} Draperies Optometrist THE HAIR ANNEX THE STORE THAT HAS IT ALL WN DRAPERY! Gwen Kissock In-home drapery estimates. no charge, no obligation. Ch . merase Someone! imneys ae Bus. 365-3515 Res. 365-6880 1434 Columbie Ave. Castieger ooo B.Sc. O.D. OPTOMETRIST Ne. 2 - 615 Columbie, 365-2220 or 366 Beker St.. Nelson 352-5152 1.T. (TIM) ALLEN PHOTOCOPYING Recycling CASTLEGAR RECYCLING 365-2656 Restaurants THE COLANDER SPAGHETTI Htalian Cuisine “A Troll Tradition” ML LeRoy Dinner 5 to 9 every day. Lunch 11:30 to 2 week deys. For Reservations Telephone 365-7616 Did you know all the following health ond beouty services ore vai Complete 2 hour facial Bio- Youth facial treatment Manure Pedicure Eyelash tinting Hair removal by waxing Make-up Consultations Cosmetic body massoge Colourtand wardrobe analys's 6- Week New image Closses Gitt Certificates INTERNATIONALLY TRAINED ESTHETICIAN Weight Loss Castlegar council voted unanimously Tuesday night to support Werer Timber’s request for continue exceeding pollution peal standards at the company’s Celgar Pulp Operations. “We need Westar where they're at,” Ald. Nick Ogiow said in an interview following the council meeting. Westar has applied to Environment Minister Austin Pelton for variance or- ders, which would set aside the present pollution control permits. “The variance orders are required because we are unable to fulfill the present terms and of the mits,” Westar president Sandy Fulton Celgar Pulp Mill's No. 1 power boiler exceeds the pollution control permit all the time and the recovery boiler about one-quarter of the time. And the mill fails to meet poll Westar says it still can't meet the present requirements, much less the have precluded us from of the issues at hand,” Fulton says in his letter. control standards for effluence “most of the time,” the board was told. In addition, Westar is faced with even tougher pollution control stan dards as of Jan. 1, 1988. The company was su to have met the new requirements in 1982, but was granted Homeowners don’t want trees cut until 1968 after citing H . he notes the company has proposed a 10-year, $35 million pro- gram which will imporve both the mill's pollution control and its efficiency. Fulton says the plan has the “full support” of Westar's senior manage ment and has been unanimously ap- proved by the company’s board of dir ectors. multi-year program will not only address the pollution problems, but will increase the long-term viability of our Celgar Pulp Operations as a steady and reliable employer,” he wrote. In proposing council support for Westar Timber, Oglow cited job security at the mill. There was no debate on the motion. Aldermen Ogiow, Calderbank, Rogers and Henne voted in favor of the proposal. Aldermen Pakula ‘and Em- bree were absent. Ogiow also noted in comments on the milfs 10-year program that Westar should be required to speed up the continued on poge A? The Castlegar district's Good Citizen of the Year for 1985 is “the The award will be made at a public banquet March 15. _ aamameenate ¥ Phill Ips $s ———— role only informal all sorted out,” said Fish. “But we are eutting back 25 positions and that’s 25 Pe ee 8.$.0.D. OPTOMETRIST MOROSO, MARKIN & “Choose Life in its Fullness.” 1. Phyllis Matteucci and This service is an Inter- Agnes Chariton 110; 2. Norm Church event with women and Les Gallie 88%; 3. Rita from all walks of life par- Critical industries commissioner Art Phillips has not been officially invited to take part in negotiations between people who are out.” Local 9705 of the United Steel- workers of America, which represents 1012 - 4th St Castlegar ticipating. Perrier and Donna Wiwchar 85. AUTO BODY & REPAIR WANETA PLAZA TOYOTA Complete Car and Truck Repairs AUTO BODY & PAINTING Bear Creek Road, Trail 364-2588 AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIES J BUMPER TO BUMPER. 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Editor paren KOSITSIN. CAROL CALL FRED 365-2522. * morning MARCEL 365-2537 STEWART CLOW save the trees By CasNews Staff Homeowners near the Ministry of Forests fieid office are upset about plans to cut down a number of 60-year-old trees at the rear of the ministry's Columbia Avenue property. The homeowners presented Castle. gar council with a 15-name petition Tuesday and asked for council's help. “The trees act as a real sound barrier and dust barrier,” said Phyllis Bleier, who lives just behind the forestry office. The homeowners said B.C. Building Corp. plans to remove the trees lining the 100-metre lane that separates the ministry property from homes along 10th Avenue to provide parking for a new Forests Ministry building. The lane has never been developed as a lane, and late last year council agreed to close it so the Forests Ministry could use it The homeowners said they only recently learned that the lane had been closed In a letter to council that accom panied the petition, the homeowners said they “strongly protest” the lane closure. The homeowners noted that BCBC owns several lots immediately adjacent to the forestry office and suggested they be used for parking lots “This present lane is a natural 80-foot high noise and dust barrier that took 60 years to grow,” says the letter. The letter points out that such a buffer strip will be particularly import ant if there are to be 25-30 parking spaces and increased traffic which accompanies the new forestry building. “The choice will be to leave the 10th Avenue homeowners in a residential neighborhood or include them, in advertently, in the new light industrial area,” said the letter. Homeowner Stewart Clow sugges ted the trees could be incorporated into any plans for a parking lot. Another property owner, Sam Souk oreff, said his two lots adjacent to the ministry property will be devalued by 25-30 per cent if the trees are removed Mayor Audrey Moore said she contacted BCBC and has been assured that 13 trees on the southwest corner and one on the west side of Columbia Avenue will be saved However, the corporation confirmed it will remove some of the trees in the lane. Moore added: “Say the city used the lane, we would have to cut down the trees too.” Council agreed later in committee of the whole to ask the BCBC project coordinator to appear before council as soon as possible Moore told the Castlegar News this that council will try to preserve as many of the trees as possible DUST-UP . . . Cpl. Dave Collis of the Nelson RCMP identification Section dusts for fingerprints following break-in Sunday at the Castlegar News. Police be! thieves forced window to gain access to newspaper and adjacent Columbia Saws. Story A2 Coston: F Bon Hormes RETIRED LOCAL TEACHER LEADS ‘RESCUE’ FIGHT By SIMON BIRCH Writer A retired Castlegar teacher has emerged as a leader in a fight to rescue $268 million in funds frozen when the financially troubled Teachers’ Investment and Housing Cooperative went into receivership Nov. 4 Alma McGauley, 63, is in Vancouver battling for the release of the funds and giving moral support to other retired teachers who, like McGauley, found what they thought was a secure financial rug pulled out from under them when the TIHC was declared technically insolvent The problems for McGauley and 45,000 other co op members in B.C., Alberta, Manitoba and Yukon began after unsecured deposits were frozen when TIHC directors filed a holding proposal in B.C. Supreme Court That meant McGauley and other retired teachers who had money invested in the co-op were barred from withdrawing their savings. McGauley, who with her husband Bill has $70,000 invested in the TIHC, said Tuesday the Retired Teachers Association of B.C. has written a letter requesting a meeting with Premier Bill Bennett to discuss the teachers’ plight “What we're asking for is the government to guarantee the shortfall of $65 million,” McGauley said from her temporary living quarters in Vancouver. “That does not mean the expenditure of money.” (The shortfall is the difference between the book value and the market value of the co op's assets.) McGauley hopes her proposal — if accepted by the government — will allow the co-op to merge with a bank She stressed that the government's guarantee of the funds would not be a bailout of the co-op but simply a move similar to that of co-signing a loan. sonny McGauley said she became actively involved in the fight for the funds at the urging of Castlegar lawyer Terry Dalton to whom she and other retired teachers in the area had gone for help. Others in MeGauley’s group, besides her husband are Polly Corbett, Carol Couch and Jim Crawford. “He finally managed to convince me it’s no time to be philosophical,” he said Asa result, McGauley went to Vancouver Lo speak al a B.C. Teachers’ Federation meeting Feb. 7 and to ask the federation for its support in pressuring the government to guarantee the funds. But the BCTF turned her down Federation spokesman Bruce Watson was quoted as saying the BCTF could be held liable if McGaulev's proposal fails Though she acknowledges the BCTF doesn't have a legal responsibility for the money invested in the TIH( she said the federation does have a moral responsibility because it “allowed its name to be misappropriated” in connection with Registered Retirement Savings Plans offered by the co-op. McGauley said the RRSPs she and her husband invested in at the TIHC were referred to as BCTF retirement savings plans. In 1980, “BCTF™ label was dropped from the plan's name when the coop expanded into Alberta and Manitoba McGauley, who taught at Robson elementary school for 14 years, said she is a “very reluctant” leader who hoped her job would be over after she addressed the BCTF meeting Feb. 7 She said she was “totally depressed” and ready to come home to Castlegar after the BCTF refused to back her proposal But she said Dalton urged her to “make one more shot” at the problem by going to the media in Vancouver Again, after the story was given extensive coverage by Vancouver newspapers, MeGauley said she thought she'd return to Castlegar But “the phone practically rang off the hook.” she said continued on pege AZ Cominco Lid. and the provincial gov- ernment over reduced water taxes, the Castlegar News has learned. “He's not actually involved in « formal way,” Cominco spokesman Richard Fish said in an interview Tuesday Fish confirmed that Phillips had “one very brief meeting last week” with Premier Bill Bennett and Cominco chief executive Norman Anderson. Bennett told reporters last week that “progress was being made” in the water license fee talks. Comineo says relief from the water taxes is required for it to build a new $270 million lead smelter at Trail. The federal government has offered to buy $69-million in preferred shares to help finance the smelter. Fish said Cominco could proceed “pretty quickly” with the moderniza tion project if the provincial gov ernment agreed to eliminate water license fees. But he declined to be more specific, saying there are too many “ifs” involved in getting the project off the ground. He noted that Cominco’s board of directors must still project “There's that as well,” he said Meanwhile, Fish said Cominco has told its office and technical workers that 25 more jobs must be cut from its Trail operations. The layoffs will bring to 325 the number of jobs lost this month “We're still in the bumping pro cedure and it will be weeks before it’s approve the BUDGET NEWS: Finance Minister Michoel Wilson followed through with his pledge to bring down the federal deficit in today’s budget, but it means higher taxes for everyone including MPs and Senators who will have to take a pay cut +. A2 public buildings ... A2 LIFE IS TOUGH: PARIS the office and technical workers, has been discussing the -bumping of its workers since redundancy notices be- gan to be issued to 300 production workers Feb. 11. Fish said the bumping procedure — by which some laid-off employees may be able to others out of their jobs — involves an assessment of seniority and job skills. Cominco blamed the layoffs on poor lead-zine markets and Bob Schmidt, vice-president of Local 480 of the steelworkers union which represents production workers, said there is not much hope of workers being recalled. Union president Ken Georgetti said he hopes the union and the company can contribute at least $50,000 to a labor adjustment fund which would be matched by the federal government. Fish said Cominco is considering a contribution Georgetti also said B.C. Consumer and Corporate Affairs Ministry will hold a debt counselling seminar for the jobless. The announcement of additional layoffs came as almost all of the 300 laid-off production workers crowded into the union hall to apply for unemployment insurance benefits. Canada Employment officials set up temporary facilities in the Steelwork ers hall to process the people. Jim Switzer, Canada Employment manager in Trail, told the group he had not expected so many to appear at the continued on poge AZ SMOKING BYLAW: Castlegar area registered nurses plan to ask Castlegar council to enact a clean air bylaw banning smoking in HELPING OUT: Corpenter Chryse Gibson is back from an eight- month trip to Nicaragua where she worked as a volunteer ina Tools for Peace carpentry training school a4 B.C. CHAMPS: A combined Stanley Humphries-Kinnaird Junior team captured the provincial cross-country ski title 8) Ousted Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier has begun legal proceedings against the French gover- nment protesting his treatment in France, a spokesman for the In- terior Ministry said today Duvalier and his family, who fled to France on Feb. 7, have been confined to an exclusive hotel in the French Alpine resort of Talloires since his arrival He hos begun oa court action against the government protesting being contined to the hotel and demanding the right to move treely in France, the spokesman said