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For more information contact the Costlegar News, 197 Columbia Ave., Castlegar. * tin/d WILL TOW AWAY unwanted cors, and, trucks, $15 each. Ernie's Towing. Ph. 365-5690. tin/25, COWICHAN BAY VOLUNTEER FIRE pera rake ica) Anniversary june 4 - 5. members nat i" soniaced Ph is 748. 1170 or 12.743-2942 by April 20, Urgent, Castlegar Figure Skatin, cae thanks all who supported the club raffle. Winner wos Ann Zaytsolf, 708 Yemarack, Castiegar. "9/25 ’ ALCOHOLICS “ANONYMOUS ; 365- 3663" HOBBIT HILL Pre-school De coe Open dally 7: 30 a.m, to 5: Mon, thru Friday: Licenced are for ebdren ues, 3105. 339/20 AL-ANON. Christine C. a 9399-4419, Patsy P. Ateen, ‘Jeannette 8. F. 365-8060, Abdio, Neda t, 365-8302. Ai: 965-5844, 52/3, OPEN HOUSE. Applied Design, KSA. ot DTUC. Nelton, Rooms 312, 313. Spinning, CASTLEGAR NEWS, March 28, 1982 Telephone 365-5210. business director Now insortions, cop changes ‘and cancellations for -the Castlegar ‘News Business Directory’ will be accepted before the first week: ‘of he month only. DUNWOODY & CO. Chartered Accountants 410 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 BARRETT’'S “TRUCK CANOPIES ” CAB SLEEPERS Varous Models In Stock . Fruitvale 367-9074 _ hang it all. ‘wallpapering “YOU PICK iT Residential & Commercial 10% Olecount for Seniors — aa Soligo, Koide & John. Chartered Accountants: | 615 Columbia Ave. +, (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc., C.A. Resident Partner SHELDON'S CARPET CLEANING Discount : Experts in Cleaning Cai ‘iphalstered Ferniture ‘s 365-3260 “The Complete __ Appliances Sold Maytag — General Electric Kitchen Ald jenn: —Gibson— "THE a WARRANTY SERVICE INSTALLATION SERVICE EXPERT REPAIR SERVICE onall major appliances including fridges by qualified technicians. ;, Authorized Repair Service Large Stock of Parts 365-3388 1008 Columbia Ave. i |GOR’S TOUCH OF CLASS STAN’S GUNSMITHING Stan Bohnet . . Gun Pro 714. 10th Ave,, Castlegar -SELKIRK SERVICE TREE “NOW IS THE TIME” © Fruit Tree Pruning :, © Tree Removal © Dormant Spraying ; Phone David |)". 365-6810 365-3608 Be We sell & use _; PRODUCTS. “The Hair Annex’’ 1241 - 3rd St. 365-3744 ‘Venetion Blinds Verticals Rods and Accessories Beside Royal Thectre Ia Trait DRYWALL Digby Stetsko ® Commercial, \ © Residential | ® Custom Work 365-6011. AURORD, CONTRACTING LTD. ® Residential. ® Commercial © Drywall ° Call 365-3783 batik, marbli ine | = "April 2,: evening April fez op 10 a 7 BIG BROTHERS of Castlegar. Shere a mom with iHile Re led Violets are Blue, joing 43 .ooks good on Happy Birthday Dad & Love ” ss CASTLE TIRE. (1977) Ltd. SALES & SERVICE Commercial & Industrial Tire Specialists : serine and On Highway Tires WHEEL BALANCING Hour 365-7145 Service 1050 Columbia Avenue for: « H : WORSERY & FLORIST LTD. 2601- 9th Ave., Castlegar 365-7312 © Custom-made Drapes * In-home Service © Drapery Hardware @ ‘Singer Sewing Centre Castlecird Plaza - 5-3810 SMALL ENGINE REPAIR & TRAIL HONDA We don't make a lot of noise but we service what we sell and our prices are right. Don't buy another Honda: until you check our price or you may be paying too muc! Elliot Motors Ltd. DBA Trail Honda 77 368-33; * Dealer. 6014 CERTIFIED: ‘2. LOCKSMITH Keys. Made’ Lacks Repaired: 4 EMERGENCY, > OPENINGS ga. SALES: AND SERVICE | 1 ed one: 2 IN SHT BUILDERS Handcrafted Homes Delivered & Erected Precision Log Work Castlegar News Letterheads . Envelopes Business Cards Brochures Wedding “Invitations Business Forms 365-7266 197 Columbia Ave. CALL 428-9678: CRESTON SERVICING Ts © All Makes & Models cal . _ Jerry Deschamps 365-6648 . ° Savings e Loans: = e Mortgages ° Insurance Nelson - 352-2914 SAVE MONEY, During this = wide economic recession, wa-ail need to ane as much MONEYc: sible. tcan ber of methods Es Followed) i} \NTE! SAVE y: sin ste small invest all refer nd g te i 2806, Grand ox ee ik STAINED GLASS lies. GUS ADAMS MOTORS | DL. #7089 FOR YOUR -.’- CONVENIENCE : Open? Legare res Phone 352-3195 OPEN FOR SALES by od. Phone Holr jor appointment or drop in for free consultation Tues, of Thurs. a.m, eee OUTS OTe aE EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS, 365- . 52/97 DANCE BANDS ond eae dee available for ony of engagement. Ph. 362-7: Pin/38 on EORCHAN OF AEELICATION E Is hers given | thot an A oTlestion it fo the Director of Vital Statistics for a of nome, pursuant provi stone of 0 “by me: — Eng Hwa fan of ca + 318 91h Avenue in Castlegar, in . usiat ‘Columbia, as follows: — nge fname from E 9 Hwa Tanto lan Tonya. My wi name from Mary Marie Tan e Marie rie Tanya. Dat Dated this 28 di wee CASNEWS ACTION ADS WORK the Province of MAIN ST. MUFFLER 1335 Columbia Ave. 365-5411 % Residential Construction % Commercial.’ Construction % Renovations * Additions Phone 359-7495 K: B. Contracting ; Credit’ Union Trail “South Slocan Fruitvale -- + jakusp Castlegar... . New Denver Salmo *’Waneta Plaza Box 26 Crescent Valley, B 2am CASTLEGAR “FUNERAL CHAPEL Dedicated to kindly, thoughttul service. OPEN ae Days aYeor 038 Columbia Avenue (Botton of Sherbiko Hill) Mon. - Sat..8:30 - 10:30 p.m. Sun. & Hols. 9 - 10:30 p.m. Groceries, Tobacco, Confectionary & General Phone 365-6534 ita, Marble and Bronze Plaques Phone 365-3222 Trowe Fe Esaeger Rentats 4450 Columbia 3 it 3 3.7. (TIM) os LLEN, BSc, 0.0 “OPTOMETRIST ie 366 Baker St. -- “Nelson, B.C... Phone 352-5152 “VoI2-4th St., Castlegar Phone 365-3361 Tues.-Fri. 9 a.m.5 p.m. noon COHOE Insurance Agency Ltd. 269 Columbia Dial 365-3301. ding 1 ane PAINTING FINISHING ae f gs Pp insurance service .” © We have licence plates | © © Open 6 days a.week to serve you better, ond eatertor Painting & Textured ee Estimates Call Collect --332-9426 — . 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ES VOL. 35, NO:'26 - Published ‘at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” WEATHERCAST Cloudy with showers Thursday High continuing into the weekend. be 7° with overnight lows near -1*, CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1982 adie 3 Sections (A, B&C) garden plot area has been .closed ‘to the public. be- Nick Chernoff of Trowe- nounced -gardening plots for the asking to anyone 10-acre area Above the new Industrial Park site. - But the invasion of fo wheel-drive vehicles which cut! up the ground, scat- tered . piled : bush, “and downed young trees” has made * Chernoff: hav ‘ond ‘thoughts as’ to’ how “Tex Rentals publicly an-- .who wanted to garden on a; Ve. Sec- é people will v use this area. While. a -barricade. is going up on the road lead- ing to the area, Chernoff says he will not renege on. his promise to a half dozen residents’: who have al- ready asked for garden . plots. -The idea of opening the area is designed after a pilot project -in Surrey | sponsored by the provin- cial government, Chernoff said. . Redisents.. there :formed a club which has now been syndicated and a fee of $80 a year is “I wanted to do it free,” says Chernoff, “at least for | a year or two to see how people would act, how they would treat’ the land.” Chernoff puts a’ $2,000 loss on the vandalism. He said he paid staff to. work the land into the propor contour, and. plant shrubs and numerous bulbs at the base of the ‘trees. He had also placed metal rings for barbecue pits and had iron structures to use as. bases for Plywood ta- bles. These metal structures were also hit by the van- dals who bent the legs. Chernoff may ‘still recon- +\the few that have been ‘come in and ruin it all.” - Banks were dug up by tires sider’ ‘and allow more than promised to garden. “The water is. there. People would -just. pick their own spot, bring their own tools and hoses and left on their own,” he said. Only one thing makes the decision difficult. “It’s the ruination,” says Chernoff. “I don't have the ' heart to see some jerk The Industrial Park was also hit by the vandals. and a sign torn down. Eleven bid on firehalls By CasNews Staff’. A Creston ‘construction firm has tendered the lowest bids’ for two new firéhalls in Area I, fire committee chair- man’ Fred Bojey “announced Tuesday. , Bojey. said Matt-Well Con- struction submitted a bid of $96,942 for the Tarrys hall and $96,518 for'the Pass Creek ‘hall. Both halls will be exactly the same — having two bays, and. equipment eal offfes . space, - The Matt-Well .bid indi- cated the halls would be built of concrete block and take about 90 days to complete. Bojey said more than. 30 fire-, tenders wentout, and 11 bids were accepted. The highest bids ‘were submitted ‘by CORRECTION AND APOLOGY In the Castlegar News edition, March 28, 1982 Ed Nichels of Speedway Service was quoted as saying that ih 1 the situati at his Trail fon ona FA aay. to-day” basis. + This quotation was not with respect to the Speedway ervice operation at Trail but rather with respect to the ‘Speedway Service operation at Castlegar. Castle News Ltd., the publisher of Castlegar News, sincerely and without reservation apologizes.to Mr. Ed ony of to Speedway Service and Garage Ltd., ‘and to any of the customers of Speedway Service and Garage tes affected by the misquotation. SO gna pee ene | ‘\. Fame Construction of Trail and Woodland Construction ’ of Castlegar. trucks, the two-wheel drive pumper and the four-wheel drive pumper. bid $71,677 on Fame C to build the halls ‘at a cost of $162,729 for each, while Woodland Construction said it could: build the halls for $162,869 and $165,483 res- pectively. Bojey said the Matt-Well bid: may not necessarily be accepted, and added ‘that a decision will be made some- time this week or early next week. The fire committee will forward its recommen- dation to the Central Koot- enay Regional District board! for approval. * Bojey said he anticipates the board will make the final decision Jat its: April 17th meeting, , struction‘can start. -Meanwhile, only four bids were received, on the major fire equipment needed for the two halls. King Ltd.’ of offered . after which con-- the four-wheel drive pumper for Pass Creek hall with Pi- erre Thibault Trucks Inc. of Pierreville, Quebec’ the high bidder. It tendered a bid of $83,899. Thibault was also high bid- der on the two-wheel drive pumper for Tarrys firehall. It bid $73,066 compared to Sea- grave's $65,496. Seagrave bid $43,924 for each of the two 1,500 gallon tankers, while the highest bid was $66,522 apiece from Anderson Engineering Ltd., of Langley. Bojey said the auxiliary’ equipment for. the halls — such as firehose and ex- hers — will be decided on later from eight submitted price quotations. He added the fire com- mittee hasn’t made any deci- fall.” sions on trucks ‘or auxiliary Woodstock, Ontario submit- ted the lowest bids on all four pieces — the two tanker - but Coroner baffled by strange death By RON NORMAN Whatever happened to Nicholas Wasilenkoff? That question has baffled both Castlegar RCMP and coroner Paul Oglow for nearly a year now — and they're no closer to an answer today than when they ‘started. Oglow and the RCMP have searched everywhere in an attempt to turn up some information as to Wasilenkoff's mysterious death last year — but so far have Tun up against a brick wall. This week the coroner appealed to Castlegar residents for help. “At the present time we do not have. any, conclusive evidence to come toa concrete decision as to what happened | to him,” Ogiow told the Castlegar News in an interview. “We were using other avenues to try to get some answers .» but we seemed to be hitting a blank- wall every time.” The Wasilenkoff story starts on the morning of Feb. 24, 1981, Oglow says. From the sketchy details they have so far, police and the coroner know'the 77-year-old longtime Glade resident left home in his 1964 light blue Chevrolet, pickup (licence number He headed ‘to Castlegar to do some shopping. Oglow ‘says that between 10 - 10:15 a.m. the truck was seen leaving from the vicinity of Castleaird isis. a. However, Oglow says there is no was in the truck when it left Castlegar. At 11:55 a.m. Castlegar RCMP received a call that there was an abandoned vehicle on the rock bluff‘near Thrums, about 10 kilometres north of Castlegar on the south side of Highway 3A. - Police investigated .and found a light’ blue pickup belonging to Wasilenkoff ‘more than halfway up the rock bluff. Oglow said the truck ‘appeared to have been driven further-up the bluff’and then had slid back. However, police did‘ not find Wasilenkoff. Instead; when théy opened the truck ‘door: they found ood | on the ‘interior aud a broken ‘steering wheel... i until “heatly ‘three oath. tothe “day: later: ent peer, trying to turn up anything that. could tell them what -happened: to. Wasilenkoft.'- ““T -realize ‘it’s: been quite some time,”: Oglow said. : “However, he said there were a’number of reasons for the long investigation — and only now have RCMP and himself admitted they're at a dead end. Oglow notes that one theory. is that Wasilenkoff drove the truck up the bluff, was“ injured, got out and as he was walking down by the:river fell in. Ogiow says '8 driving habits were slow” — NICHOLAS WASILENKOFF «>. How did he die? kmh. in the range of 50-00 In the opinion Oglow and others the truck would have had to have been driven at “an extremely high speed” to make it up the rock bluff. Oglow also points to another problem he has with the theory that Wasilenkoff fell in the river. If Wasilenkoff fell in, it would have been above the dam. He would have had to go through the spillway - — “and it doesn't appear. that occurred,” Oglow says. Oglow said an inquest into Wasilenkoff's death would prove fruitless. \...“If we held ain inquest we couldn’t draw a picture for the jury to come .to any decision because we don't havea picture.” ‘Oglow, took over the case from the Trail coroner in late “June last ‘year; ‘and says it's’ his ‘tomghest since’ he's been™ coroner — some four years. ‘“Whatever we had, there were always some answers.” In: this case, “we have’ had it under investigation right along, -but- we've run out of leads,” he said. i Oglow asks that anyone who may have seen anything Feb. 24, 1981 the pickup or jotify him. Wasilenkoff was white, five-foot, eight inches, and 140 pounds. He had blue eyes, grey hair and. a “skinny” build. He. was last: wearing a blue plaid jacket, brown pants, a belt, shoes with rubbers, and a black fur hat. Oglow says the case will remain open until solved. DESPITE DROP IN REVENUE Credit union still strong By CasNews Staft _ Kootenay Savings Credit Union emerged from 1981 fi- nancially strong, despite a 40 per cent drop in net revenue, general manager Donald Tu- line said Monday. Tuline made the comment! in his annual report to 190 Kootenay Savings Credit Union members at the 13th annual general meeting in the Cominco gymnasium. Tuline's report showed net revenue fell from $990,807 in 1980 to just $594,180 in 1981. Nevertheless, the credit union board of di still services and increase our ef- ficiency levels. “We rejected short-term solutions that would have either activate the accounts or close them. By year-end the credit union had closed more than had a1 long-term im- pact.”* He later said Kootenay Savings Credit Union is “well positioned for the future. Our financial strength coupled with our technically strong, service-oriented staff will enable us to provide logical solutions to local opportun- ities.” He assured members the credit union will continue to declared a seven per cent dividend for shareholders, which amounted to $484,9! The remainder, after ad- justment for income tax, was $83,011 and was transferred to retained earnings. The credit union's retained earnings now amount to more than $2.1 million. “The financial industry is highly competitive in both price and level of service,” Tuline said in his report. “A normal profit margin .aver- ages .5 per cent, which leaves very little room for error or rapid, extreme swings in. interest rates. “Early in 1981, it became evident that our interest costs would be ~ slow growth new services in order to meet the future needs of members. Board president Joe Bi- agioni said in his annual re- port that despite the un- certain economic climate last, year, members’ deposits ac- counted for a record 71.1 per cent of the credit union's total income. Biagioni pointed out. that during 1981 particularly high interest rates dictated that the credit union readdress Policies and programs in order to minimize the hard- ship faced by some borrow- ing members. As well, Bisgioni said the credit union maintained a Assets through the program. Partly because of that move, the credit union’s membership fell by 5,276 to 21,189. But Biagioni pointed out the program will- save the credit union and its active mize their yield, while the credit union's loans were in- vested for relatively fixed terms, he said. In order to “better match the terms of deposits and the credit. union's loans, its maturity of loans was short: ened. “The action reduces the financial risk. for the’ credit union and enables us to offer an $150,000 to $200,000 a year. Biagioni also noted that the rapid increase in interest rates on deposits could not be offset by increased income on loans. Therefore, the credit union suffered a “severe margin squeeze during the latter part of the year.” chose rates to the ‘membership as our ‘loans are converted .to the shorter terms,” Bisgioni said. Biagioni added that “con- cern over the high impact of high interest rates on: bor- rowing members caused us to introduce a -plan enabling see te deposits to maxi- to Te- continued on poge AZ Look for our special section Castlegar — it's not just another city. That's what the Castlegar News’ 1982 ition, Education, Business and Industry Review special edition points up more than anything’ else. The Review lets us know just how lucky we are to live in this part of the world. It focuses on the people, and who make Cast: in excess of our plan and that charges for services, includ- ing interest, would not fully cover our projected short- However, Tuline said the board and staff decided “to dations on that will also go to the regional board April 17. A2 ti with logical, long- term solutions, policies and to improve our grew by..more. than $5.1 fnilion fn 1981 40 some $93.3 million — a 6.8 per cent in- crease. Biagioni’ said that since many of’the credit union's costs are related to the num- ber of members, it started a program to identify inactive accounts and decided to what it —a lively and exciting community with a bright future. ee think you'll like what you see in The Review. It offers stories, photographs and history on everything from recreation to business, education and industry. And we believe we've captured the upbeat part of Castlegar amidst all the recent downbeat news, We know you'll enjoy that. 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