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The Castlegar Sun

Wednesday, April 26, 1995

600 channels coming to a TV near you

RON NORMAN
Sun Editor

Bruce Springsteen didn't know the half of it
when he wrote the song “S7 Channels and Nothin’
On”

Would you believe 600 channels?

That's how many channels will soon be available

to West Kootenay cable television subscribers
thanks to new technology, a Shaw Cable spokesper-
§on told Castlegar council last week.
+ “Where we carry one television channel now, in
the future we can carry up to 10,” said Steve Lake,
tegional manager for Shaw Cable. Lake works out
of Shaw's Cranbrook office.

“So there's a potential band width of what we're
qoing now of carrying 600 television channels,”

: And that's just one one direction: forward.

“As you're aware the cable system is capable of
(Boing in) both directions,” Lake said.

That would make for a total of 1,200 channels.

massive upgrading in which Shaw Cable plans to
completely rebuild the “traditional cable analog sec
tion”,

“This involves changing virtually every active
and passive device on the system."

He added that it will cost more than $1 million
“‘just to do the city of Castlegar”

“The upgrade is going to allow us to carry a max
imum of, at this point, 60 analog television chan
nels.” ,

Lake said cach of those channels will carry up to
10 normal channels through “digital video compres-
sion where a single television channel can be com-
pressed into a much smaller band width than is now

He pointed out that Shaw Cable has placed an
order for 200,000 digital video set tops which are.
required to decode the information in the house:
holds.

There's just one thing: the boxes don’t exist yet

“We placed an order based on certain manufac-
turing parameters,” said Lake.

“Just recently, the technical standards have been
adopted,”

The increase in the number of channels was just
s that Lake led to

one of the new tech To
council

Another is what he called the “v-chip", which
allows cable subscribers to block out certain pro-
grams.

Richard Morris, Shaw's vice-president of opera-
tions from Kelowna, said viewers can select what
kind of programming they want on a scale of 1-10,
based on sex, violence and offensive language.

“So your Own personal value system then dictates
what type of programming comes in. As I say, this is
brand new technology developed on the Lower Main-
land.” ¥

Morris said a pilot project using the system is in
place in the Edmonton area.

He noted that the problem is that only one or two
services are “encoding” television programs to
allow the s m to block them out.

“But as the technology rolls out we expect every-

body will, as they have with closed captioning.”

Lake said Shaw Cable has also completed laying
fibre optic cable between the various municipalities
in the West Kootenay,

He noted that when it was launched, the analog
fibre optic system between Castlegar and Nelson
was “the longest analog fibre system in Canada.”

As well, he said Castlegar was only the second
site in the world to use new laser technology.

“We were the second set of this technology outside
of the ing base in California. One pair was
shipped to China and the other pair was shipped to

ities.

“We now bring live programming back from Nel-
son on a regular basis.”

In addition, Shaw Cable can now link Castlegar,
Trail and Nelsofi live simultancously.

“The future development of this is going to
allow us to provide full video conferencing
between areas, not just studio to studio.”

opened up ¢

Lake said the expanded channels will be part of a

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Protection Act and the Bankrupt-
cy Act

Robert Louis Kirkpatrick
entered guilty pleas to 11 counts

. of grossly overcharging on home

renovation contracts between
January 1993 and August 1993 in
the Nelson and Grand Forks
areas. All the victims where
senior citizens.

Court was told that in January
1993 Kirkpatrick was employed
as a salesman by James and Terry
Hill of Artistic Exteriors selling
home renovation contracts. In that
capacity he approached an elderly
widow residing at Nelson and sold
her a new front door for $1,500.

Kirkpatrick told the widow that
the price was a special deal and
that normally such a door would
cost $10,000. The widow paid the
$1,500 and after much delay the
door was finally installed

Estimates obtained by the Con-
sumer Segvices investigator from
local, reputable contractors
revealed the door and installation
should have cost no more than
approximately $400.

Kirkpatrick also pleaded guilty
to a charge under the Consumer

Protection Act for failing to pro-
vide the victim with a proper
written contract.

Judge Don Sperry sentenced
Kirkpatrick to an additional 14
days to run consecutively to the
one-year sentence for grossly
overcharging under the Trade
Practice Act.

Between January 1993 and
August 1993 Kirkpatrick operated
his own home renovation business
in the Grand Forks area under the
trade name Kirkpatrick Home
Renovations. He solicited home-
renovation contracts from senior
citizens on a door-to-door basis.

Kirkpatrick entered guilty
pleas to-10 counts of grossly
overcharging under the Trade
Practice Act for home renovation
contracts. he sold in the Grand
Forks, Greenwood and Midway
areas. He was sentenced to one
year on cach count to run concur-
rently and to the one-year sen-
tence on the Nelson charge.

Court was told that all 10
counts involved senior citizens.
All were charged double and
triple what reputable local con-
tractors would have charged.

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The Castlegar Sun

in

Speaker’s Corner

No, because it means
more spending of tax-
payer's money.
—Brian Ferreira

Yes, more of these
types of facilities are
needed so it won't be
so crowded at the

. ones we do have at
present.
—Val Leiding

Castlegar student Tamara Terry is pounding the pave-

y ent in search of answers to questions that correspond with

news stories that have appeared in The Castlegar Sun. If

you see Tamara, it could be your opportunity to appear in
Speaker's Corner, which will be published gach week

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Nob, we shouldn’

—Julie Cole

killing trees over
something we don't

need. We already
have enough ball-
fields.

Question:

Are you in favor
of construction of
a fourth balifield
at Kinnaird Park?

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need a better baseball
field than the ones we
have.
—Stephen Ferreira

Sturgeon fishing banned

Submitted

A province-wide ban on stur-
geon fishing was announced
this week

Environment, Lands and Parks
Minister Moe Sihota has also
allocated $451,00 for projects to
study sturgeon, including
$150,000 for a five-year study in
the Columbia River watershed.

“White sturgeon are a vulnera-
ble species, and they are sensitive
to environmental changes and
over-fishing,” said Sihota.

“We closed the Fraser River to

Local man
charged in

SuNSt
A 2#year-old Castlegar man.
will appear in provincial court
June 7 to answer to charges of
possession of a narcotic.
Castlegar RCMP say the
charge. was laid after police
found 18 immature marijuana
plants and grow lights in a
homme in the 3100 block of
Columbia Avenite April 18.

fishing last fall, and now
it’s time to extend the ban i
wide. We can't afford to tak
chances with this i fish.”

many fishing sites, and has pre-
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be i into Vi

BITUARY

Donald Phillips

Donald Phillips of Castlegar
passed away Sunday, April 23
1995 at the age’ gf 89 years.

Funeral service will be held at
the New Life Pentecostal Assem
bly on Friday at 10 a.m.with Plis.
tor Rankin McGougan
officiating. Interment will be at
Park Memorial Cemetery

Mr. Phillips was born Sept
12, 1905 at Coventry, England
He came to Canada with his par
ents in 1912 and settled in Cal
gary. He later homesteaded in
the. area around Rocky Mountain
House and had a small farm and
did custom cutting, thrashing
and baling.

He began working for Com
inco in 1941 and farmed in the
summers, until he took up per
manent residence in Castlegar
in 1943

He married Nana Holmquist
on July 15, 1942 at Calgary and
she passed away Oct. 7, 1991
While in Castlegar Mr. Phillips
had his own hobby farm and he
retired as a miliwright from
Cominco in 1970.

He is survived by one son and
daughter-in-law, John and Lynn
Phillips of Castlegar, two daugh
ters and sons-in-law, Anita and
Wilbur McLeod of Ootischenia

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and Doreen and Earl Gr k
of Castlegar; nine grandchildren,
three great-granddaughters;
brothers Charles Phillips of

re Filipino and Croatian.

In the past two summers, about
35 large sturgeon were found
dead in the Fraser River. Scien-
tists are still trying to explain
these sudden.deaths.

Although the provincial stur-
geon population is unknown,
there are only an estimated 2,000

Sihota also announced
$451,000 in Habitat Conservation
Fund projects to study white stur-
geon in the Fraser River and
Columbia River watersheds:

+ $301,000 for three Fraser
River watershed studies to evalu-
ate spawning and rearing habitat,

4 in the K Stur-
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nay, Duncan and Trout lakes, and
the Kootenay River from Creston
to the U.S. border.

B.C. shares the Kootenay
River's sturgeon population with
the U.S.. where the species is
classified as endangered. Min-
istry staff participate in a joint
Canada/U.S. recovery team
recently set up to help'restore the
shared population.

White sturgeon, B.C.'s largest
freshwater fish, can reach lengths
of more than six metres, weigh
up to 810 killograms and live
well over 100 years.

“Sturgeon species around the
world are in trouble,” said Sihota.
“We have to act now to make
sure that B.C.’s remaining stur-
geon are protected.”

To help inform anglers about
the ban, the ministry has installed
pictorial “don’t kill” signs at

‘luding $176,000 for the upper
portions of the watershed (Peace-
Omineca region), $75,000 for the
middle east area (Thompson-
Nicola region), and $50,000 for
the Lower Fraser river.

+ $150,000 to start a five-year
study of imperiled populations in
the Columbia River watershed
including Kootenay Lake and
river. There have been few or no
young sturgeon in these waters
since dams were built on the
COlumbia and Kootenay rivers.

The provincial and federal
governments banned sturgeon
harvesting in the Fraser River in
September 1994 in response to
declining sturgeon populations.
The Stolo Nation Fishing Author-
ity also imposed a ban on stur-
geon harvesting in the Stolo
Fraser River fisheries.

Anyone convicted of killing
sturgeon may face a maximum
fine of $100,000 for a first offence.

Drumheller, Alberta, and Art
Phillips of Castlegar; sisters
Dorothy Phillips of Leduc,
Alberta, and Nellie Brownlow of
Vancouver, Alice Lund of
Rocky Mountain House, Alber-
ta, Joan Pagoda of Eckville,
Alberta and Katherine Trainor of
Drumheller, Alberta

Mr. Phillips was predeceased
by one brother, Tommy Phillips;
and four sisters, Emily Phillips,
Margaret Wamer, Dulcie Larratt
and Minnie Bradley

Funeral arrangements are
under the direction of the Castle
gar Funeral Chapel

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