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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1967

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By RON NORMAN
Editor

Incumbent Mayor Audrey Moore finally took off the
gloves in her election fight with challenger Nick Ogiow at an
all-candidates’ forum Monday night. But Moore waited until
her closing remarks to do it.

Nearly 160 voters crowded into the Stanley Humphries

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secondary school activity room — one of the largést turnouts
in recent memory — for the clash: between the two
candidates.

Moore has come under attack from Oglow during the
election campaign for poor money management and for
proceeding with the $2.5 million industrial park debt.

But Moore fought back Monday, pointing out that
Oglow never told council he was so concerned about money
management.

“Nick, why didn't you tell us you were so concerned?
You've been on council for a number of years,”

Moore also pointed out that Oglow signed the
agreement that put the city on well water some 27 years
ago. She said that agreement created the need for a $6.5
million water system in 1981.

Moore said she couldn't fault the council of that day for
making the decision, but suggested “we have to be just
little bit more careful in what we charge council members
with.”

The forum started slowly and nearly all the questions
were directed at the two mayoral candidates, Moore told the
audience Castlegar has a “tremendous forward momentum”

and she is “very optimistic” about the city’s future.

She pointed to developments like the Castlegar and
District Hospital expansion, the Castlegar airport expan-
sion, Westar Timber's $23 million upgrading and Celgar
Pulp Co.’s $48 million modernization.

She said B.C. Hydro is already working on the
Keenleyside Dam generating project.

“They are in the area,” she said.

Moore said she is proudest of the role she played in
developing Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park.

“It was a total community involvement,” she said,
pointing out that much of the park was developed without
tax dollars.

Moore added that Castlegar needs a mayor who is
aware of the tax situation.

“Castlegar’s residential taxes are well below Nelson's,”

she said.

Later she added: “I think we deserve a mayor who is
optimistic. . - We need someone . . . who's ready to look for
Joeal jobs for local people.

Meanwhile, Ogiow said the major issue in the election is
“money management”.

“Your tax dollar must be properly managed.”

He suggested city bylaws need to be revised to allow
Castlegar to expand and grow. He pointed to the
development fee which was initiated in 1961 — about the
same time Calgary eliminated its development fee.

"As well, Ogiow said taxpayers must be given the say on
money matters.

“You the people must have a say in how your tax dollars
are spent.”

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Candidates ignored

By CasNews Staff

The race for the four vacant alder-
manic positions on Cast council
took a back seat to the contest for the
mayor's chair at Monday's public forum
in the Stanley Humphries secondary
school activity room.

Only a few of the questions from
the crowd of close to 160 people were
directed at the seven aldermanic
candidates.

Incumbent Albert Calderbank
made a spirited defence of the city’s
decision to develop the industrial park,
which now carries a $2.5 million debt.

Calderbank recalled a meeting 10
years ago with thé provincial cabinet
minister responsible for economic
development, who suggested an in-
dustrial park for Castlegar would be a

“good idea.”

Calderbank said the park was tied
to a new water system, which he said
the city desperately needed.

“The council had to make hard
decisions,” he said.

Calderbank said the community

By SURJ RATTAN
Staff Writer
The Selkirk College Foundation
will benefit from the provincial gov.
ernment’s new program to match
private sector donations for post-sec-

ondary bursaries and scholarships,
according to an official of the founda

tion.

Beginning next April the pro-
vincial government will provide $2
million to match the endowment funds
that have been raised by post-sec-
ondary institutions after July 1, 1987.

Under the program, Selkirk Col-
lege would be allocated a maximum of
$26,000, providing the college can raise
the same amount from the private

supported the new water system and
didn't seem to care about the industrial
park development.

But he said, now, 10 years later
everyone is “raising hell about the
situation we couldn't have done very
much about anyway.”

Calderbank said the provincial
government has assured the city it will
not call in its loan.

“They haven't got the gall or nerve

to do it,” he said.

He told the crowd the park debt is
“subject to negotiations,” and denied
the city is going to be faced with a
staggering tax load.

“We are not going to be paying the
vast sums of money which keep being
quoted,” he said.

Earlier in the meeting, Calderbank
said there has been too much talk of the
past in the election campaign.

“My concern is the future,” he
said.

He suggested the city’s tax
policies must remain “conservative”,
and pointed to the fact that for the last-

two years council has held tax in-
creases to the cost of living while
maintaining services.

He said there are still problems
that need to be addressed, among them
CP Rail's proposal to close the line
between Midway and Castlegar, and
the need for night lighting for the
airport.

“We still have to work hard to
improve the economy,” he added.

Meanwhile, Lawrence Chernoff
said the installation of generators at
the Keenleyside Dam is a top priority.

In addition, he said the project will
stabilize the lake level,

saw of the aviation program during a
recent visit.

“Although this is not an easy year
for finding funding for capital projects,
I have managed by some internal
re-allocating to make available the
$150,000 the college requested for
equipment for this program,” said
Hagen.

In other board news, college
president Leo Perra says the B.C.
Institute of Technology is “out to
lunch” on some recommendations it has
made to the provincial government
dealing with the future of high tech-
nology courses.

David Park, appointed Commis.
sioner by Hagen, is to conduct an audit
of BCIT programs and make recom-

programs at the Burnaby-based in-
stitute.

BCIT has in turn made a few of its
own recommendations to Park and
asked Selkirk College to comment on
the proposals. One of those proposals is
to locate all high technology programs
at BCIT, a proposal rejected by Perra.

reasoned

governors,

kets of excellence distributed through-
out the province” would be better as
opposed to “all of one’s eggs in one
basket.”

“To suggest that most technology
training in British Columbia beyond
the first year must occur in the Lower
Mainland at the B.C. Institute of Tech-

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School board opts
to spend $60,000

By BONNE MORGAN
Staff Writer
Castlegar school trustees decided
Monday to spend an extra $60,000 the
school board received from the pro-
vincial government rather than use it
to lower taxes.
The $60,000 came from the pro
vincial mt to cover 19 stu-
Gents not bodgeted for in the schoo
district’s 1967/88 budget. The board
had submitted a budget for 2,100 stu-
dents, but 2,119 students actually
enrolled.

tourism.

“I will work vigorously to make it
a reality,” he pledged.

Chernoff briefly touched on the
industrial park debt, saying the pro
vincial government should be urged to
forgive the Joan and help locate tenants
for the k.

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to help foundation

norm Littlewood, in charge of fund
raising for the Selkirk College Founda
tion, said that while he is still receiving
information on the matching endow
ment program, he expects the founda
tion will be able to secure some
money from the fund.

“We'll be matching some of our
dollars with them. We'll havé more
than enough to match. We've been
matching $25,000 a year for the past
three years with the Vancouver
Foundation,” Littlewood said.

The Provincial Advanced Edu
cation Endowment Fund is a result of
the recommendations of a government
advisory committee that said endow.

ment scholarship programs available in
post-secondary institutions should be
expanded.

The endowment fund limit has
been raised this year to $2 million, up
from $1 million last year. College
president Leo Perra welcomed the
move, saying it will help the college.

“It will help us raise funds. It's not
unlike the program we had with the
Vancouver Foundation. It's a good

prepared
ing endowment fund will help “reduce

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The pi 1 g now
has provided the money for thé extra
students, creating a surplus. But
trustee Doreen Smecher said the
board shouldn't spend the money.

“You still have to convince me that
that $60,000 didn't come from what in
my mind amounts to double taxing of
last year’s budget,” said Smecher.

Smecher argued that the ministry
had only agreed to provide for 2,069
students. Local taxpayers had been
taxed for 41 extra students, plus the 19
additional students.

“You don't have the $60,000 to
allocate because that money belongs to
the taxpayers. It doesn’t belong to the
school board.” she said.

‘Acting chairman Gordon Turner
asked school district staff if the board
could return the money to the tax-

yers.

“No, the only way would be to
return it to Castlegar as a credit .. .
against next year’s mill rate,” said
secretary-treasurer John Dascher.

Smecher voted against spending
the $60,000 while the other four board

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