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(This $2 charge does NOT apply to Visa and MasterCard charges WEDNESDAY CASNEWS 12 Noon Tuesday SATURDAY CASNEWS 12 Noon Thursday Classified Display Ads Deadline “Boxed Ads WEDNESDAY CASNEWS 11 a.m. Tuesday SATURDAY CASNEWS 11 a.m. Thursday ORDER BY MAIL Print your Action Ad on o separate Piece of poper and mail to The Seotepe! News reserves the Fight to classity ads under op Propriate headings and to determine Page location HUMAN RIGHTS ACT “ Sdvertisements such os Help lanted bap ad comply with th Ta Columbia Hi fics ‘aan Wea plicant's race Marital status City hikes price of lots By SIMON BIRCH Editor Castlegar city council has doubled the price of lots in the city’s In- dustrial Park, the Castlegar News has learned. Ald. Doreen Smecher confirmed Monday the city is now selling the lots at market value rather than at their assessed value. Market value means the prices of lots in the Industrial Park are com- Parable to the current selling prices of other commercial property in the city, said Smecher, alderman respon- sible for administration and finance. The lots range in size from 0.2 hec- tares (0.49 acres) to 4.02 hectares (9.93 acres). Council made the policy change at its January retreat in Ainsworth Hot A City of Castlegar list of the available lots in the Industrial Park, dated January 1991, shows the smallest lot, 0.49 acres, with a sale Price of $39,200. A similar list dated September 1990 shows the same lot with an assessed value of $19,700. Similarly, a 6.2-acre lot — one of the largest in the park — is shown on the new list with a sale ptice of $167,800. On the September 1990_list the same tot is assessed value of $83,900, exactly half the new price. The price increases for the lots “‘was part of a process we've been going through, increasing funding from other areas,’’ Smecher told the CasNews followi Monday night’s council meeting. She said the higher prices, are an attempt by council to recover some of the cost of creating the Sl-acre Industrial Park in 1981 The city still owes the provincial government the entire $1.6 million — $1.2 million plus interest from 1981- 85 — for a 1981 loan to buy the Property for the park, city treasurer Jacquie Hamilton said Tuesday. The loan has been interest-free since 1985, she said. Hamilton said the loan remains in- terest-free until the city suggests a Proposal for paying back the loan acceptable to the provincial gover- nment. She said the city has made Proposals in recent years but the Provincial government has not accep- ted them. please see LOTS page AS shown with an Anode rahe on tt Caloger and ui Wi CosNews photo by Ed Mille Annual wildlife feast draws howls of delight By ED MILLS Staff Writer There’s .one very important thing to remember when going to a dinner sponsored by local hun- ters — don’t be finicky. Because if you're the weak- constitution type, or otherwise an inspector of everything you eat, one look at the menu at the Castlegar and District Wildlife Association’s annual awards din- ner last Friday at the Community Complex and you would probably have fainted dead away. Which is not to say the dinner wasn’t good for you, or splendid in all its trappings. Just different, that’s all. Consider, for starters, the items on the specialty section, which included Cougar Chow Meow as well as Deer and Greens, dishes made to appeal to fans of Chinese food. For the down-home meat and Potatoes folks, there was a grizzly bear roast (without the gristle). There were also roasts of the elk, black bear, antelope, deer, moose and cougar variety. Continuing with meat, an- telope meatloaf —'or anteloaf — and sweet and sour bear meat- balls — or bear’s balls — were crowd favorites. ete saekuilng Whe boestipiains Grand Aggregate Community Complex. ual Wat peagle coterad te cic nae eee By SUZY HAMILTON Special to the Castlegar News Doug (Juicer) Murray will never hurt anyone again. On New Year's Day 1990, his wife, Roxanne, shot his jaw off then Pumped him in the chest with his 12- gauge shotgun, ending her four years of brutal beatings and sexual abuse. Then she dialed the Grand Forks RCMP to confess the murder. “Doug Murray will never hurt anyone again,” she said. Roxanne Murray, 27, was Scheduled to stand trial for second degree murder next month. She had been charged in Castlegar Jan. 3, 1990, and remanded in custody for a week at Oakalla Penitentiary. But after an exhaustive 14-month investigation — led by Grand Forks Mounties Mike Labine and Don Moulton — Nelson Crown counsel Dana Urban dropped the charge ir. By ED MILLS Staff Writer There’s no two ways about it, says one union official, local union workers will get work on the Celgar pulp mill expansion and moder- nization project if they want it. If the project wasn’t union, then local workers would really have something to squawk about, said Len Embree, business represen- tative for Local 2300 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. “Going union in this town means local people go to work,’” Embree said in an interview from the union office in downtown Castlegar. *‘! have 165 members here right now. All of those people will go to work at that pulp mill if they want. “If it wasn't union, they'd (workers) be coming from everywhere, there'd be no control over it. Who tells those people (non- union contractors) who they can hire?”’ Embree’s comments response to complaints from some local construction workers ‘that they A variety of sliced meat a delicatessen would be proud of included sliced beaver, sheep salami and deer sausage. In the fish market there were Prawns, salmon and smoked rainbow trout, with accom- panying hollandaise sauce, of course. Also accompanying this wild game extravaganza were the usual salads, gravies and- desserts — just regular stuff, no deer gut pie Or antelope ears — and it was all laid on four long tables placed end to end in the centre of the hail. please ‘800 FEAST page A2 came in{ Battered wife shot spouse to save self B.C. Supreme Court last Friday, Urban told Supreme Court Justice Raymond Cooper that Murray pad acted in self defence. “The law is not static. The crown does not maintain a firm position when the law and facts tend to change," Urban said. A “relentless” investigation by Labine and Moulton ‘resulted in the finding of truth,’’ he said. “This is one of the finest exdm- ples of a search for the truth, not support for a decision,”” Urban told the judge. What they found was a woman who was “thunted like an animal’’ by @ man “who depended on beating women for self-esteem.”’ Doug Murray, also known -as Doug Shelmardine; had threatened, sexually abused ..1d beaten dozens of victims — both men and women — please see BATTERED page A2 Union rep says work available weren’t getting jobs on the $700 million Celgar project. About 40 men met in Castlegar last Thursday to protest Celgar’s hiring practices on the site. Provin- cial Secretary Howard Dirks, MLA for Nelson-Creston, attended the meeting. Celgar has since said, in a statement made public at a Castlegar city council meeting Monday, that it will encourage all contractrors em- ployed by the company ‘‘to employ local labor and to use local commer- cial establishments as a source of supply where possible.” But the statement also said that cost will be a factor regardless of whether the company is local or not. “We also recognize that the supply of materials and service by local must be with outside suppliers and the com- mitment to use local suppliers does not warrant a premium for their ser- vices.” Embree said he’s ticked off that Dirks and others are concerned what’s happening with this project please see UNION page A3 By SIMON BIRCH Editor © Copyright Castlegar News Zalm said. conversation. The B.C, government is working on ways to get more manoeuvring room on stumpage fees to help logging companies in southeastern B.C. who complain the high cost of logging in the area is the was i making them less competitive, Premier Bill Vander Stumpage fees and their relation to an international agreement between Canada and the United States was one of several current issues the The following is the conclusion of the | Birch: Forest companies say they're hampered by the high cost of logging im the so-called wet-belt areas such as southeasters B.C. sad yet-your government rere SaaS Seesl be ceceese eer siroem ot strategy on how it is we effectively and quickly approach Washington (the U.S. federal government) resolved. to see this issue We recognize the MoU (memorandum of understanding) might be a difficult thing to negotiate away, not so much because of B.C. ‘because we, after stumpage system which satisfied the U.S. to the extent that they were willing to enter into a those reasons. supplementary agreement with us, an annex, which did away with the export charge at the border. So we therefore Washington terms of not only B.C. but the whole of the country. And they Inleit 0s rehesent Seige the Mot) fot ~ B.C. seeks room to manoeuvre on stumpage fees so in the drier areas but where they have better timber perhaps, in the Prince George area, they're having difficulties. They’re paying high stumpage. ‘We need some flexibility to address those inequities so that we can keep these operations going. ‘That"s our goal, that’s our objective and that's what we'll be discussing with Crosbie next (this) week. ‘We're getting good vibes out of Washington. I think they'll favorably consider our very good case. Birch: You answered my next question. I was going to ask how optimistic you are you'll come to some kind of Vander Zaim: 1 think ‘there’ sa way through it. aspect. different from Ontario and Quebec and the Maritimes and that oftentimes is the toughest part. ‘we have more > wig with Ottawa than what we do Birch: I'm wre you're = aware CP Rail has Vander alee: Well, there's two issues. ‘One, there is an obligation on.the part of the oe (Canadian National Railway) to . level to communities they ‘were granted the lines last year keeping a Vancouver Island rail line open.) It’s a little more difficult to prove in some of the other communities where they're simply considered spur lines and they were constructed to serve a Particular industry and create business for the railway at a time when they were in need of that businéss. It’s @ little more difficult to make the case from a legal However, there’s still the case — and you talk about moral obligations (about providing a transportation link between Robson and Castlegar) — that there’s a moral obligation on their part to consider, if not for present freight hauling, what might be another use or what might be a future consideration for that right-of-way and that piece of rail. And we're going through that process right now of how it is we maintain rights-of-ways and the opportunity to do some things later, whether it’s for freight or tourism or to entice a new industry which would be dependent on that — all of that is being considered now and I'think we have a good case. I believe we’re going to win that. Vander Zaim: The provincial government isin the rail business. We've got B.C. Rail which serves a anywhere ‘and you can’t sort of link a piece way out there unless you've got something to link it to. So I don't see the province taking that were to consider tourist lines. I can see us running a please ry) on except if we