f ca Castlégar News October 23, 1988 iRTHS AUSTIN To Phyllis and Hal Austin of Castlegar, a girl, born Oct. 18 BENJAMIN — To Gwen and David Ben: jamin of Trail, a boy, born July 17. CAUSEY — To Gwen and Grant Causey, @ girl, born Sept. 30. d'AOUST — To Gail ond Paul d'Aoust of Rossland, a boy, born Oct. 6 GRIFFITHS — To Francine and Gordon Grittiths of Winlaw, a girl, born Oct. 4. HARRISON To Kelly and Stephen Harrison of Genelle, a girl, born Oct. 14 INGHAM — To Alexis (nee Walsh) and Garry Ingham of Robson, a bey, born Oct. 15. KEHOE — To Susan (nee Shmoorkott) and Michael Kehoe of Grand Forks, a boy, born Sep LLOYD — To Frances and David Lloyd of Castlegar, a girl, born Oct. 6 McLEAN — To Rhonda and,Brad McLean of Castlegar, a boy, born Oat. 13. NEUFELD — To Darlene and Ed Neuteld of Castlegar, a boy, born Oct OLYNYK — To Mary and David Olynyk of Crescent Valley, a girl, born Oct. 8 PASUTTI — To Delilah and Brett Pasutt of Nelson, a girl, born Oct, 7 PERRY — To Tracy and Byron Perry of Salmo, a girl, born Oct, 13 POPOFF To Teresa and Rick Popoft of Castlegor, a girl, born Oct, 12 ROGERS — To Teresa and Mike Rogers of Castlegar, a boy, born Oct. 16 TAYLOR To. Stuart and Charlene Taylor (nee Mcinroy) a boy born Oct. 10. VLANICH To Sue and Pat Vianich, a boy, born Sept. 29 ZEABIN — To Stella and Harry Zeabin of Crescent Valley, a girl, born Oct. 16 DEATHS BOYES — Vernon Edward (Joe) Boyes of Vancouver died Oct. 6. He was 64. Mr Boyes is survived by his sons and daughters-in-law, Ronald and Kerry of Vancouver: Jim and Marie of Regina Robert and Shirley of Nelson and son Bruce of Ymir; daughter and son-in-law. Births & Funerals Kath¥ and Garry of Ymir; sisters and brothers-in-law, Violet and Kim Kilpatrick of Vancouver, Doreen and Bob Bain of Kelowna; eight grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. GACH — Frank Gach, died Oct. 10 at the Trail Regional Hospital after a lengthy iliness. He wos 77. Mr. Gach is survived by his daughter Janet Hahn of Delta; one granddaughter; three brother Trail, Peter and Joseph of land; a 2nd sister, Emily Ostwald of Castlegar He wos prededeceased wite Martha, three s sister Amy McMynn, brother Pot s-in-law, Lola and Katherin and and nephews. He was predeceased by_his brother Allred: his jather, mother, sisters Gladys Borland, Dorothy Sandover and brother Herbert HEIGHTON Johanna Matilda Heighton # Nelson died Oct. 7 in Kelowna General Hospital. She was 89, Mrs. Heighton is survived by her sons James Stanley Heighton and Allan Vincent, daughter Joan Carole Reich; sisters Bet: ty Aspinal and Pauline Swanson; five grandchildren and 10 great by Malcolm Edwards (Mal) Jewell of Kamloops died Sept, 7. He was 52. Mr Jewell is survived by his wife, Sharon daughter and son-in-law, Lani and Vic Rye of Grand Forks; son and daughter ‘and Brenda and Eddy Smith all of Enderby KRAGH — George James Kragh of Fruit vale died Tuesday at the Trai Hospital following o 60. Mr. Kragh is survived by bis je, Heather; two sons, Marvin and Douglas, both of Fruitvale; daughter Deanna Kragh of Fruitvale; step-son Shaun of Fruitvale; two a sister, Kay Morph of Vernon. He was predeceased by his brother Albert LEGEBOKOFF Ann S. Legebokott died in Kootenay Lake District Hospital Oct. 12 after @ short illness. She was 72, Mrs. survived by her husband, eon, Allon and Ron; ind three grandchildren MARTIN — Darryl Martin formerly of Salmo died suddenly at Fort St, Jomes Oct, 11. He was 21. Mr. Martin is sur vived by his parents Reo and Norm Mar Reo, Brian, wry, Gordon, Kenny; sister ind Lynn Anne. ROUNCE — Isabella (Belle) Borrowman ounce of Trail died at Columbia View Lodge after a long illness. She was 8! Mrs, Rounce is survived by her daughter Margaret Purdy of Trail; three gran wo gi ;@ brother Robert Murison of Oakville, SPECIAL NOTICE 199 Columb ALL STIHL CHAIN SAW USERS FREE LABOR ON ALL STIHL PRODUCTS COLUMBIA SAW & SERVICE Ave. in the C Bldg. Ont.; and tive nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, John, son Ronnie and a brother David. Ss 365-2710 BUSINESS DIRECTORY © TELEPHONE 365-5210 = end cancellations for the C 1y, Oct. 25 for the month of Nov News Business Directory will be ws 9 She was her husband Dimock Clarence and Donald. Y sons George, HEWLETT John Alfred Hewlett died suddenly at the Trail Regional Hospital Oct. 17. He was 90. Mr. Hewlett is sur. vived by his son Jack of Trail; daughter Jean Melatini of three grandchildren; five great-grandchildren: and sister Bessie Price of Penticton. He was predeceased by his wife, Dorothy Evelyn in 1982 Iver Hogue died at the Trail ob HOGUE Regional Hospital a Marjorie (Marney). lyn Kiendy of Trail; granddaug! Dorothy Deckman of Winnipeg: sisters Doris Smith of Winnipeg and Blanche Smith of Ladysmith, B.C.; and several nieces and nephews. JEWELL Former Nelson resident HELPING HAND . . Carmen Purdy (centre), president of the Kootenay Wildlife Heritage Fund and Murray McMichael (right), project coordinator for Kimmur Forestry Consultants Ltd., thank Kootenay, East-Revelstoke MP Stan Graham for support of Project Resource Management Corps Wildlife group gets $85 ,000 job grant The Kootenay Wildlife Heritage Fund (Creston) recently received $84,958 from the federal govern ment's Canadian Jobs Strategy Pro- gram. The job development project will operate for 21 weeks and \employ nine people Directed by the B.C. Ministry of Environment Wildlife Branch and the Ministry of Forests, a combin: ation of wildlife enhancement and silviculture improvement activities will be completed. The crew is presently preparing portions of the south facing slopes of Mount Kitchener for a forage im proving burn. Preparations include the slashing of some patches of deciduous trees and shrubs which help complement the effects of the burn. Mount Kitchener is one of the best wintering grounds in the valley for elk and deer. The job development program of the Canadian Jobs Strategy is based on the premise that a combination of training and work experience is the best way to integrate the long-term unemployed into the labour market. The project is sponsored by the Kootenay Wildlife Heritage Fund's “Project Resource Managment Corps”, a pilot project designed to stimulate job creation. These jobs are designed to teach certain skills, and at the same time, enhance forest, range and wildlife resources through a number of acceptable activities or treatments on productive sites. This project is managed by Kim mur Forestry Consultants Ltd., a Kootenay-based company. oriented, clerical position DUTIES: Receptionist for Administration Typist with Accounting Department — Receiving/Forward telephone equ General office duties MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: preterrably in a large office words per minute above-average phone etiquetie Excellent communication skills Interpersonal Jiplomacy Professional appearance SALARY & BE Full benefits following suc period COMMENCEMENT DATE: HAZEL PEREVERSOFF Executive/Deputy Secretary REGIONAL DISTRICT OF CENTRAL KOOTENAY Resumes will be accepted until NOON, October 28 Building enquiries; Switchboard operator toa |! departments including Planning: Clerk — Attending to public enquiries at reception counter Receiving cash/cheques: preparing receipts — Processing outgoing departmental mail Typing form letters, reports, routine correspondence 3-Years receptionist/clerk typist with intensive public-oriented experience with typing: 50 REQUIRED SKILLS: — Ability to operate memorywriter typewriter, electronic switchboard, electronic postal machine NEFITS — $1,617 per month stul completion of six-month probationary November 7, 1988 For further information please contact the undersigned at 352-6665 1988 for this public Inspection, Accounting counter 8 (electronic switcboard) telephone and person-to-person Brian L. 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We Sell Distinctive . . Invitations, Napkins etc. COME SEE US AT Castlégar News 197 Columbia Ave. Liorary arcLiament Bldg@es Victoria, B. Ce Vov 14 501 Bellevills 3st Feb. 28 Brisco touts record By CasNews Staff Bob Brisco, the Conservative in- cumbent in Kootenay West, says he has brought 12 times as much federal funding into the riding in the last four years than former New Democrat MP Lyle Kristiansen during his stint in Ottawa. But both Kristiansen and Liberal candidate Garry Jenkins dispute Brisco's claim. Brisco claimed in a prepared release that he has secured $120 million in federal money since 1984, compared to $9.8 million during Kristiansen's term in office front 1980-84, “The work I have put in has resulted in a gregt deal of federal investment in ghis riding,” he said. “If re-elected, I'm hopeful that I can do even better in getting more fed- eral help to create jobs and support out environment.” Brisco attributed his funding to several “key projetts,” such as the Castlegar Airport expansion and Cominco's lead smielter moderniza tion. “Wher I was elected in 1984, Castlegar Airport was 27th on Vol. 41, No. 86 60 Cents Transport Canada's list of airports to be improved,” he said. “I lobbied the department until we were moved up to second,” Brisco said his work to get Ottawa to commit $79 million in federal help to Cominco took 18 months, “but the effort was worth it.” Brisco said a “contributing facto in getting federal funds is that he is a government MP. “When I was an opposition MP, getting government help was next to impossible,” he said. “Serving in government means you get things done much more effectively.” But Kristiansen said Brisco is “comparing apples and oranges.” He noted that Brisco seems to have claimed funding from flow through mining shares as part of the federal money brought into the riding. Yet, By CasNews Staff The season is just now tapering off but mushroom pickers in the Nakusp area have reaped the re wards of the Pine Mushroom he said the Tories tried to elii the shares and only reversed their stand after a strong protest. “How he claims credit for that I kind of wonder,” Kristiansen said. As well, he said it is difficult to respond to Brisco's claim because there aren't any figures. “He doesn't make clear where he continued on page A2 AL Py Man poisoned, A2 a picking season that started in Joe Kabatoff, a secondary school teacher in Nakusp who picks and purehasés mushrooms, said this season “has been the longest Castlegar News CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1988 MUSHROOM PICKERS REWARDS season so far” for harvesting the valuable crop. “It's been a bumper ‘ year,” Kabatoff told the Castlegar News in a telephone | interview, “It started in August and then peter. ed out but then came back in Oc- tober.” Kabatoff said the Pine Mush- room is a delicacy in Japan and brokers in Vancouver are paying top dollar for the prized fungus. “I know the price will range continued on page A2 4 Sections (A, B, C&D) CAR ACCIDENT South Slocan resident Natalie Faye Lucas and two passengers riding in a Volkswagon Rabbit were taken to hospital following this car crash Monday morning. A 1988 pickup driven by Brian Jacob Fehr of Castlegar collided with the car in the intersection of Columbia Avenue and 18th Street when the car made a left turn onto Columbia Avenue in front of highway patrol is continuing its been laid CKQR REZONING Another heari By RON NORMAN itor A local radio. station's rezoning application will go to a second public hearing, Castlegar council decided Tuesday. “Members of council perceive that there are concerns and questions that have not yet been answered,” said Ald. Terry Rogers, chairman of the planning and development. com- mittee. Valley Broadcasting Ltd., which owns CKQR radio, has applied to rezone iwo lots at 525 11th Ave. from multi-residential to highway com mercial in order to relocate its radio studio. An apartment block is pres. ently located on the site. The application went to a public hearing Sept. 28 at which several nearby residents voiced their op- position, claiming commercial busi- nesses should not be located in resi- dential neighborhoods. However, Gordon Brady, the radio station's general manager and major- ity shareholder, told the hearing the station would not significantly alter the character of the area. Brady also agreed to place a restrictive coven- ant on the property, preventing its use for anything other than a radio station. . 5 At an Oct. 12 council meeting Ald. Albert Calderbank proposed the city ng set accept Brady's offer of a covenant, however, the motion was tabled until Tuesday night's meeting. Calderbank withdrew the motion last night, and instead council agreed to set a new public hearing on Nov. 8. “Although the last public hearing was ... closed, there is provision to have an additional or additional public hearings on the same topic if there is a sense that that is in the general interest,” Rogers said Council's decision comes after residents near the proposed rezoning wrote a letter to the Castlegar News protesting the rezoning and the way the public hearing was handled continued on page A2 Election ballots changed By RON NORMAN Editor The City of Castlegar will intro. duce a new ballot form in the Nov. 19 municipal election in a bid to reduce the number of rejected ballots. The old forms asked voters to mark an X beside the name of the chosen candidate. However, city returning officer Betty Price said the ballot confused many voters. “The majority of the ones that are rejected are because the X might be anywhere on the paper,” Price told the Castlegar News in an interview. The new form will show a white cirele surrounded by black next to each candidate's name. As well, an example of where to place the X will be displayed immediately above the circles. The old ballot forms were last used in the Oct. 15 aquatic centre ref erendum. A total of 73 of the 1,879 ballots cast — or about 3.9 per cent — were rejected. Price said the figure was not “par- ticularly high,” however, the new ballot form should help reduce that. Elsewhere, the city and the Re gional District of Central Kootenay hope to work out some ways to co ordinate advance polling dates. Price reported in a memorandum to Castlegar council Tuesday that there was “a great deal of complaint” about the city’s advance polling date “It seems most complaints were as a result of the city and the regional district having established . . . differ ent dates for advanced polls,” Price said, The city's poll was Oct. 7 — the Friday of the week preceeding the polling date (in this case Oct. 15). The regional district had two advance polling days: Oct. 11 and Oct. 14 — the Tuesday and Friday of the week in which the polling day fall As well, the city and regional dis triet advance polls were open at different times. The city held its poll from 9 a.m.8 p.m., while the regional district poll was open from 2 p-m.-8 pim. each day the car. Nelson RCMP subdivision investigation and no charges have No grant for pool yet By CasNews Staff A report by-a Trail radio station that the provincial government has approved a $700,000 grant for the new Castlegar indoor aquatic centre is incorrect, a government spokes: man said today Mike Hughes, an information offi cer for the Ministry of Tourism and Provincial Secretary, said none of the $12 million in this year’s GO BC fund has been allocated “That project (the aquatic centre) has not been approved for GO funding yet,” Hughes said in a telephone interview from Victoria “There has been no decision as yet Kootenay Broadcasting System reported Tuesday that Provincial Seeretary Bill Reid had announced a $700,000 grant from the Growth and Opportunities B.C. fund (GO BC) for the Castlegar aquatic centre. Hughes said the radio station ap parently misunderstood a comment Reid made in announcing the GO BC program Tuesday Hughes said Reid was asked during a press conference what kind of programs would qualify for funding and he cited the Castlegar aquatic centre. “He used that as an example of one that might qualify,” said Hughes. Meanwhile, Reid released a pre- pared statement Tuesday which said Victoria will make $12 million in lottery funds available this fiscal continued on page A2 Official says gas study OK By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer The Central Kootenay Health Unit says it is*satisfied enough homes have been tested for radon gas. despite studying only two per cent of the area homes in its one-year radon survey A total of 70 residences were tested for radon gas levels in {he re- cently-completed survey of Castle gar-area homes. Four of the homes were found to have elevated levels of radon gas. Radon is a colorless, odorless gas which is caused by the breakdown of uranium in sojl and rock and is linked to lung cancer. Radon is thought to cause lung cancer when tiny particles lodge in the lungs, releasing small ursts of energy which can damage lung tissue. The survey was conducted within the boundaries of the stlegar school district, which includes 3,400 private households. Mike Harnadek, the chief public health inspector at the Central Kootenay Health Unit, called two per cent a “pretty good” test sampling and said the health unit has no plans for further testing. Earlier this month, medical health officer Monty Arnott said the results of the study showed “very minimal health risk,” with just four of 70 homes — or six per cent — showing high radon levels However, if that six per cent was extended to 3,400 homes in the Castlegar school district, it would mean a total of 194 area homes could have high radon _gas levels. But Harnadek defended the study and the results, saying “figures would vary” in a larger test. At the same time, the health unit has not received many inquiries from resi dents concerned about the gas, he said. “We really haven't received a flood of phone calls. The health unit has sent informa tion-packages to those-who- partici pated in the study. The packages contain information on how to lower radon levels and encourage people to contact the health unit for further information. Of the 75 British Columbia school districts, 47 rate higher than Castle. gar for lung cancer The lowest radon level found by monitors placed on the main floor of area homes in the health unit survey was 0.7 picocuries per litre. The ac ceptable limit in Canada is 20 pico curies per litre. At that level an esti mated 9.5 in 10,000 may develop lung cancer. The maximum basement radon level in the study was 47.1. However, 10 of the 70 homes tested — or 15 per cent — had higher levels on the main Radon levels in the outside air were so low they could not be meastired accurately. There no connection’ between the radiation measured in outside soil with levels found inside the home Older houses averaged higher radon levels in the basement while newer houses had more radon gas on the main floor. Harnadek could not recall if there were any similarities between the four houses which had elevated levels of radon. Radon can be reduced by sealing eracké and drainholes, ventilation or pressurization The health unit will send an in- formation letter to Castlegar resi- dents on radon and may advertise to determine if there is a public concern over radon gas. The health unit has indicated that a short course on reducing radon in homes may be presented in Castlegar after Christmas if there is enough demand INSIDE Dirks blasted page A2 Lottery numbers The winning numbers drawn Tuesday in The Pick lottery were 1, 9, 19, 29, 33, 41, 42 and 48 \ Debate roundup page B3 Election coverage pages B4,B5