SEATTLE EE Peers Wednesday, February 20, 1991 Name: Blake Where you work: Whitewater ski hill What you do there: Ski friend Castlegar likes: New people (friends) Castlegar dislikes: Drive from home Pet: None Best kept Castlegar secret: Leah's house What would you rather be doing? Skiing of course! Vehicle: Lynx Ni _ontinuea from 1A made to the mill, “Some are asking ‘what about. monitoring?’, > and we tell them ‘yes, there will be monitoring’,” said Rush. “Others want to know why we use chlorine and we tell them and, of course, that we will be reducing the’ use‘of chlorine ‘and replacing it with peroxide.”) ‘The men have also explained to concemed citizens that although the release of sulphur. dioxide will actually increase a. small percentage, that the total sulphurs released by the new mill, which includes the, hydrogen’ sulfide which is responsible ‘for the rotten egg smell, will be reduced by 97 per cent. “The net result is that the total sulphur release will drop in excess of 1,500 tonnes per year,” Stated Rush, -~ A question asked often was why Celgar doesn't recycle paper. The answer is that Celgar does not make paper, explained the staff. Celgar makes bleached Kraft pulp —"bleached northern softwood pulp, with a long fibre, the best in the world,” put in Rush — which is an ingredient in paper, not the Paper itself. The process could be compared to grinding the wheat to make flour, rather than baking and producing a loaf of bread. By and large, visitors to the office are in favor of the project said the foursome. “Ninety per cent of the people that come in here are for the exp Mate Very few about it.” sald Rush. 00500) “And they all wanted to know prea it was going to 80," putin aeThat was the most frequatly asked question,” added Rush, > Now that the project has the go- ahead and work has started, the main question asked is “how, do I get a job?” said the group. “Tt looks like our role here is | going to be answering the phone,” said Dunn as the telephone Tang yet again. “Everybody wants a job,” said Woods. “That’s where we can hopefully bs of some: help to- People. We can tell, them where to & go.” The group pointed out that it was important to understand that Celgar was not hiring. “Everybody. out there (at Celgar) is concemed with running _the old mill, not building the new mill," Woods added. Contractors on the site will be hiring, said the office staff, and all will hire through unions that belong to the British Columbia and Yukon Territory Building and Construction: Trade | Unions organization, . ; Meanwhile, it is hoped that the “Info") office .will help keep spectators away from the site to facilitate the construction stage. “It’s been suggested that maybe we'll need a viewpoint out there,” said Rush, “but there really isn’t’ ‘any suitable place for one that's close enough.” ‘BUN STAFF PHOTO / Nancy Ungley From left, the crew at the Celgar Modernization "Info" Office, Herb: Woods, Ed Flynn, Merv Rush, and Jack Dunn have 91 years of service to Celgar between them. “There’s going to be a problem on that highway on the mill side of the river with a lot of traffic’ going out there to see what's going on,” added Dunn. He went on to say that plans were in the works to perhaps keep a pictorial Progress report of construction of the new mill posted at the “Info” office, much like the scrapbook of photos of the construction of the current mill that can be seen by request. “If you want to know what's ig, come in here. We know everything,” promised Dunn. Women's initiative program underway in Castlegar By FRANK ISERNIA ‘Sun staff writer A group of about 20 people were on hand last Tuesday to meet witha & Lighter Continued from 1A for us to instruct within the schooi system. That's not to say that we wouldn’t do it, but perhaps someone such as the Public Health and Safety Board are better qualified than our own people at dealing with the school system,” he replied. When the Castlegar Sun informed Castlegar School Board Chairman Gord Turner of the accident, Tumer said that this is not a practice they would like to see continue. “Whether the board does anything or not remains to be seen,” he said. “Certainly the need for education is required, but it is not the jurisdiction of the Workers Compensation Board to do so.” It is the school and parents’ responsibility to the educate and control the children while they are in the school system Tumer went onto say, “It is news to us,” he said."It's very distressing to hear, and we will definitely look into the matter,” said Castlegar Schoo! Board Secretary, John Dascher, “There certainly needs to be some education throughout the system, on the hazards associated with this form of play.” It has been suggested that these disposable lighters have been new prc aimed at in the ine delivery: of women’s services. time. If successful in obtaining the grant, the money will be used to hire someone to carry out the assessment. : “The Community Initiatives Program for Women consists pf three stages: service needs, which i “It's about the network,and the sharing of brit the grant to do some public awareness around family violence.” issues of the community. I'm feeling very comfortable about the program, because in just the one month that I have beén on staff, its accomplished the goals that it has set out to do. In each of the ities, there are in one eating committee being formed to develop a community needs assessment, and a second committee to establish a network resource networking, and a pilot Project” said Scott. As each stage begins to move forward, the committee’ can apply for system. The C Program For Women will provide a way to identify service needs, eliminate duplication of services, and develop a along term strategy for,, banned from use at ites by The Workers Compensation Board, and from being carried aboard airline flights by some airline companies. McCloy said that this concern is not a new fear that has been brought forward. “It has been around for 10 years, and we have always cautioned workers who must perform work around electrical equipment, such as grinders, electric saws, etc., and anywhere there is open flame, to keep these lighters away from this kind of environment,” be stressed. “Accidents have occurred with this particular kind of lighter pocketed in the shirt or pants of a worker,” he added. Commenting on the. accident itself, McCloy said, “If the girl had been wearing flammable clothing, the injury could have been fatal.” Voykin and Wyllie cheque out funding deli-:- very. Carel Scott, Kootenay explained. “Once you have . documentation, you can start looking elsewhere for funding." Patricia Lakes of Castlegar c . di of the p organized the meeting to discuss what Castlegar women's needs are and to determine if people here want to take part. A newly formed needs will » wasn't sure whether the province would have further funding available. Scott replied by saying that she could not answer on behalf of the province, but would discuss that with the ministry. I Scott said that funding is apply to the provinci: for $10,000, the maximum amount that Castlegar can apply for at this not-what the initiative program is all about. funding. “We shouldn’t limit ourselves to”. just one source of funding,” Scott * committees now set up that are working together that haven’t worked together before, and so they are starting to do sgme some things that may not even require funding. If the. funding comes, that. will’ be great, because it.will make* it much easier, and move things more quickly. “But the reality,” she continued, “is that those things are going to happen, and with having these regional people within the region, I Scott said that they would go far enough to get a needs survey done, then would see where to go. from there. “As soon as we get the grant, then we'll need to start looking at where else we can get funding for possible things that will come out of the survey.” Other questions were raised about goverment commitment to this program, but Scott could | make.any committment .on beta ‘of the government. Eventually the group decided that a local assessment was 3 warranted to decide what areas of + women's needs are the greatest. = Each local community group will have the opportunity to use the ,:. can’ provide PP for the to help its own areas of... service.A Castlegar steering some of the things they want to do. I am very pleased with where we are at because I can see the vision behind the Initiative is very much coming true. Grand Forks just got a todo . volun-teers are Denise Chernoff, . . Susan Campbell, Phil Noonan, - Diane Piket, Bonnie Nilsen, . Patricia Lakes, and Lorraine Gauthier. Shirley Hunter-Oglow |; will take on the responsibility of . Reaching out with nutrition Project funded by Hospital/Community Partnership Program By FRANK ISERNIA by local The ‘Sun staff writer A new Nutriti Oo h Nutrition Outreach program is the result of several years of program has been slated for Castlegar through the Home Spport Chairman of the Board ‘Saturday. Regional Hospital District, John‘N. Voykin, left; ‘presented Castlegar and Dstrict Hospital Building ‘Commitee member, K. Wyllie, RDCK Director for Area’ J, with a cheque. for $43,290, representing the District's. share of global funding for new:and replacement equipment cost under $100,00:at the regular:CKRHD board meeting held-in Nelson last of the Central Kootenay: SUN STAFF PHOTO/Frerk teernda ei? Be This project is being funded by the Hospital/Community Partnership Program recently launched by the British Columbia Ministry of Health. This program allows for bealth - promotion projects to be conducted in communities while being among the Castlegar and Trail Home Support Agencies, the health unit nutri- tionists, and planning groups in, Castlegar and Trail. Home economist, Linda Baker, of Castlegar, has been hired to co- ordinate the program in both communities. Baker received her ' training at the University of Manitoba. The aim of the project is to help selected clients of Home Support to stretch their food dollar and to feed es in a personally satisfying way. Baker ‘will conduct training programs with selected Home Support workers so that they can take the Program to. their clients. “We haven't picked any | clients yet, but we are aiming for a March f deadline,” offered Baker. ° “Nowadays, it’s not easy to | afford a nutrional | diet “ says Baker. “We want to offer people * some help in food buying and - preparation that will give them more control over their personal * situations. We know it can be done: from successful programs elsewhere. We have a lot of - dedicated home support personnel who can make this program work : here in the Kootenays.”.. -- Once the program takes off they - hope to.expand the program to * include families with young . | Expansion Continued from 1A work that the ate did in trying to solicit other fundin, “The' Society raised almost two- ‘ thirds of the Money through other 3 and $88,000 grant from Go B.C.",said other being constructed to better facilitate the handicapped clients, ‘We've got a number of kids here now that would benefit from the accessibility .of the new ‘complex. The handicapped ‘in general will be better served by this _ Methods,” she commented. “We have approached other design”, d Conroy. “Our speech dnd therapy room is too small and once the expansion is have ived a Conroy. “We are ready to move on this project as soon as we finish the desi 3 “The focus of. the project is. aimed at offering an under three- year-old childcare centre, a teen: Parent centre, and special programs * for children with special needs,” e ‘The design of the building is ip they will have their own space. It. will contain. an observation room where parents ‘can see the therapists’ at work with the kids, and at the same time not be a disruptive . “Our facility will be the only one of-its kind in'the area,” she explains. “It's going to be quite _ unique, in the sense, that we will be offering integrated programs to all. - “children under and ‘over threc‘in Nex. 1 _ . “In *1989, we received a childcare initiative grant from the federal government to do a needs one survey in this community. As part of the survey, we went around to different communities around the provi to look at under-th: centres and out of school programs, because we figured that was' where the need was going to be.”” “We specifically toured teen centres for'young mothers, but we dido’t see any integrated centres in rural communities offering just teen mother services. Because there are not enough teen’ clients to support _just a teen centre it-would not be financially wise.But it‘would be cost effective: to combine all these :) different forms of service under one roof,” she said. “This. new. centre,- upon completion will perform: a service bopenleitaccaa ee be ” she stated. Wednesday, February 20, 1991 The Castlegar Sun RDCK Briefs by Frank Isernia Regional District of Central Kootenay was severly informed of RDCK Coe M.A. L cision to resign from his voluntary po: “As you ae I sripinally | took the is a a temporary measure until a full time in his letter of resignation written January of this eae Livingstone went on to state that a full time RDCK di be was 143.6% of the budgeted amount. And through tight control of staffing needs, and‘ operating costs, the expenditures were 102.6% of what the allotted amount was estimated at. The overall result shows that ‘| the operating deficit was $76,759 less than expected, ‘The report indicated that with the opening of the weight room and fit- ness mudle in the-Complex, the number of programs were greatly increased, which resulted ina strong revenue picture for their program functions, Figures, released show that 500 patrons utilized the facilities daily, and that the total for public was 73,902. This figure does not include private bookings, lessons or fitness participants, mplex had a busy season through increased ice activities, and dry floor events. The level of in all p yy the Castlegar and District, Recreation spol t during 1990 went byes WEATHER OUTLOOK: The forecast for Wednesday; Cloudy with scattered showers. Morning fog patches will ease off to sunny breaks in the afternoon. Highs will be b ’ 5 and 7. Lows around 0. The forecast for. Thursday and Friday calls for sunny periods on Thursday with increas- | ing cloud and showers. expected for Friday. numbers. hired, as it would be the only logical step to take, and vital to the success of waste and the g portion of that func- tion. “If this recommendation is acted upon by the board”, be wrote,"then the earliest a RDCK co-ordinator would be on the job would be late sum- mer or early fall. This would leave a gap of some months for our area. I would suggest that your itee give some ion to me an interim coondinator to bridge this gap” be wrote. ‘Although be offered to fill the idate in.on the job, L said he would decline the position if it was offered to him, ee Preliminary arrangements have been made for a Directors’ retreat to be held at Ainsworth Hot Springs Resort April 12 and 13. Larry McAuley, of CMC, was recommended to act as the Retreat Facilitater, for a fee of $4,000 plus out-of-pocke- expense. , After some the fee was pted by board bers and the recommendation was passed. F ial and a p report of the Castlegar and Dis- trict ion Di were at the RDCK board méeting held this past weekend. The report shows the 1990 statement to be very sound financially, as all budgets met their revenue goals, and expendi- tures were within the allocated amounts. there in special events increased from 58% in 1988 | to 74% in 1989 and to 82% in 1990. These figures rank fourth in B.C. and 2Ist in Canada. E yess Program participation continues to verify that the Castlegar and District are meeting the pom dand drop-in has risen 251 needs, The number be in the past year. -An increase in regular programs has shown that the outlying area needs are being met, and that Blueberry shows the largest number of children regi: in the i for the young, In closing, the report stated that the department was totally pleased with the results of 1990, and that it intended to learn from the experi- ences of the past year. “We are going to continue to provide more services and programs for 1991 in an effort to be the best that we can be"’ the report added, ce . A public hearing for Bylaw No. 841, 1990, a proposed text amendment to Official Settlement Plan Bulay No. 398 was held on Tuesday, Feb. 9,1991, Planning Don ined that the intent of Bylaw No. 841. 1990 3 is to ammend Official ‘Settlement Bylaw No. 398 by adding to the Commercial and Industrial section. as the area where tem- uses shall be With thé Aquatic. Centre revenue and di ‘was some question as to how the budget would stand up. The report stated that, through increased community support, revenue went ¢ on to expiain that this ammendment is proposed to pro- vide opp: ities for ry and i use permits in the Castlegar Settlement Plan area. ALOOK BACK AT THE PAST WEEK: __ Temperature: Max/Date Min/Date Mean 7.7/43 09/17 40" Precipitation: Rain Snow Total 6.5 cm. Ocm. 6.5 cm. Normal Number - of Hours \4A0> Number of Hours 7.8 Dry weather and mild. temperatures didn't aig the loca! ‘ski hills much at all this past week. One ski hill was closed because of rain washing away. snow. and another has alot of rocks showing near the base. Hopefully we can get some weather to keep the ski hills open another month or two. Anybody for golf? Forecast provided by The South - East interior Weather Office at Castlegar, B.C, Castlegar Provincial Court report By FRANK ISERNIA ‘Sun staff writer Ken Sperling appeared in front of Judge R. Fabbro last Thursday on three criminal charges. Sperling was charged with one count of assult causing bodily harm, Cameron Lee McKay, also appeared in front of Judge R. Fab- bro on six charges under the Crim- minal Code. McKay was charged with Crim- inal Negligence causing death, causing bodily harm by criminal driving caus- threats to cause death or bodily harm, and one count of assault. Sperling will in court later this month for plea and election. ing death, impaired driving causing bodily harm, failing to comply with the demands of a peace officer, and diving while under suspension. He was discharged on the charge of driving while under suspension, but is commitéd to stand trial on the first five charges. He is to appear in court at a later date. The charges stem from a single vehicle accident that occured July 13, 1990 at the Glade Ferry tumoff : and Highway 3A.- Clark Edward Warren Kessler, 19, of Nakusp died as a result of the accident, and one of the was fatally injured. Five others were taken to hospital in Trail and Nel- son. McKay escaped serious injury. The accident occured when Mere’ 's Toyota pickup lost control . ‘Ther tiding in the back. Two of the people in the rearbox were hitchhikers. R.C.MP. and the Coroners office Arty Pinay My The Castlegar Sun AS IS POLITICALLY INDEPENDENT AND A MEMBER OF THE STERLING NEWS SERVICE Established November 28, 1990 » Second Class Malling Permit Pending Published by The par Sun ‘Weekly on Wed! 465 Columbia Ave., Castlegar, B.C. VIN1G8 are FEEDBACK By NANCY LINGLEY Sun Editor Castl » the self-pi “Crossroads of the Kootenays”, already has what it takes to be an acceptable destination point for small conventions, conferences, and special events. .Enormous eco- nomic benefit could be brought to this area by encouraging and co- such ings of out-of-t visitors. Unfor ly, to date, no one has taken on the responsibility of promoting and devel- oping this potential gold mine. Sun Editor Nancy Lingley spoke to advertising agency owner Mar- ilyn Strong about the possibilities the should be to best utilize the advantages available to us. : ose In 1985; Marilyn Strong, of Strong and Associates Advertising Agency, was a Director of the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce. In her position as Chamber director of Tourism and City promotion, she was responsible for researching and writing a draft proposal for the need for a confer- ence, convention and special events co-ordinator. “Destination Castle- gar”, was updated by the Chamber and pi d to the City of Castl in December of 1987. “When I did the tk for “Di Castlegar’ I that Castlegar, almost by default, was a conference and convention center for the West Kootenays. But there was no co-ordinated effort made by the City or the Chamber to bring conferences and conventions here. When a or ibly sp by Selkirk or a sororiety or someone, did come to town, nobody knew about it except for those d and the i such as hotels and restaurants. “The most frustrating part for the retailers here was that we would have a horde of people in town and they wouldn't know why. The restaurants, not knowing, wouldn’t be staffed, wouldn't be prepared for that many people, would have to turn away business. “As a result, the draft proposal with a strategy and five-year plan was drawn up showing the need for a conference, convention, and special events co-ordinator position for Castlegar to wore with groups and orga ‘will spend nizations in this area that bring these events bere. It was presented to the Chamber of C in 1985 and rybody thought it was a great idea, but there it sat. “It was revamped in 1986, a few things were added, a few other things updated, and it was presented to the City. “When I first did the research, I felt the position could be self-funding within five years. It just needed seed money to get rolling. “Once somebody was in place doing that, it wouldn’t take long to out- grow the facilities we have. Part of that person's responsibilities, probably by year four, would be to do a feasibility study for the need for a centre, or to just identify areas where the existing hotels could expand their facili- ties.” There are a number of facilities already in place stated Marilyn. Castlegar already has more hotel rooms than any other West Kootenay community, most of them located on “convention corner” in the area of the Highway. 3 and 22 interchange, all within walking distance of the Recreation Complex. These facilities, as they are, already attract groups and organizations into our area. “It may be years before Castlegar has a convention centre, but we don’t have to wait for a special building to have these conventions and confer- ences here. We'can make do, we have made do, with what we have. “We hosted over 400 delegates to the provincial B.C. Parks and Recre- ation Association convention bere in May of 1990. Obviously the people involved in recreation in the valley all worked on it to pull it together in| Castlegar. : “In 1987, 1988, and 1990, over 3,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses came to Castlegar for three to four days. They will be coming again this July. They like it here. They use the Rec Centre arena and that facility is perfect for them. “We also have special events bere. Sports tournaments, for instance. ‘We had the women's provincial high school field hockey tournament here in October last year. It took more than a year to organize and the organiz- ers did an excellent job of setting it up. But if you talk to the general pub- lic, they still don’t know about it. “The Women's Conference for the East and West Kootenays swas in At this time, it’s not so much a separate facility that is needed, as. the : recognition and use of what we already have. i “It would be nice to see a facility, but I don’t see that as a priority. We * need to use the facilities we have to the maximum. Or, because of over- : booking, have to expand or the facilities themselves expand. We can’t go ° out and build something until we oversubscribe what we have. “Castlegar has to look at what it has and use what it has. We don’t have Castlegar in 1989 and is here again next month. The Federal Development Bank recognizes Castlegar as a central location for confer- ences.” “There are tournaments and events that happen in other communities that spill over into Castlegar. When the provincial swim meet was held in Trail in August, there wasn’t a room to be had in the valley. The hotels here are already booking rooms for the Music Festival in Nelson in April. “Things like that happen here. They happen all the time. There could be a amount of ic activity for ry in this area. “These people have got to stay in hotels, heritage b of Nelson. But we do have the airport. . ‘Two airlines fly in daily from the east and west. We have the most hotel - _ Fooms in the Kootenay Valley. We have banquet, meeting and seminar : rooms, The arena will hold up to 3,000 people on a dry floor. We have two : ice arenas and a curling rink. There are bonspiels, things that are hidden. ~ People don’t realize there are a lot of things happening in Castlegar. ‘ “This is an excellent central location for pre- and post conference tours ; and touristy things. We can ship people to Ainsworth to soak in the hot springs; to Nelson for a heritage tour; to Salmo to see the world’s oldest © They have to eat. Castlegar has the facilities, they're sitting here.” The money spent by conventioneers is substantial, and the spin-off even more so, As well, Castlegar offers financial advantages to visitors. “Castlegar is i d to or Banff. The cost of “hotel rooms alone is 25 to sab erent cheaper. ° “When the B.C. Parks and Recreation people were here, on average, they spent $125 per person, per day. They bought souvenirs, clothes, eve: “Usually, a person is or in this area probably about $100 a day. But then you have the multiplier effect. Every dollar spent by a conventioneer is re-spent 3.4 to 3.7 times. ‘That means for every dollar we get $3.40 to $3.70 of economic activity. . Using those figures, when the Jehovah's Witnesses were bere in 1987, | SS they generated i in excess.of $1 million. Using the multiplier effect, that ‘one is over $3. muilion of ecomomals ectivity fo tts ace. P booth; to Trail, to Cominco; we've got the Arrow Lakes; Castle- - gar bas a championship golf course. : And it’s time we did something about it said Marilyn. “This whole thing has been kicking around since 1985. If the City or the Chamber had actively pursued this in 1985, it could have been, should - have been, very close to self-funding by now. > “T think the volunteers in this area who put on the conferences and con- "” ventions and special events have just about reached their limit without _ some sort of p I'm peak and we may start to level off or drop and that would not be good. “I'm not pushing yet another building for the taxpayer to fund. We have facilities, both city and private, that aren’t fully utilized and could be. Until they are there "s no need for a building. “We just need a co-ordinator to help those groups that are already doing this sort of thing. ‘There are people that are qualified to do that. i “I don’t want the job. Tjom want fone it done.” d we've reached our >