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STLEGAR NEWS Distributed Bright and Early Every Thursday Morning at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” yee | Ca TWO SECTIONS (A&B) as é CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, ‘THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1978 a. 25 CENTS i CanCel, ; Ev ir City members of the City Hall were as ‘Water, Water. Need Your Help’, Pipeline or Sewage By RYON GUEDES Editor CanCel will help the city seek provincial ‘government funds for the proposed Lower Arrow Lake water system for Castlegar and outlying areas, Mayor Audrey Moore an- nounced Tuesday. In a statement released after = threc-and-a-hali-hour meeting between city and com- . pany: officials, Moore said Can- Cel had agreed to participate “in a joint approach to the provincial government in April to seek financing for en inde- pendent long-term water sys- tem involving a temporary tie-in to CanCel’s water line from the Arrow Lake until construction of the city’s own system.” : City representatives ; agreed with CanCel spokesmen —greeted on their way to the meeting: by more than 50 lacard wavi ts)? By RYON GUEDES v<- Castlegar will continue to pay duplicated planning costs, Regional" District’, of: Central , Kootenay directors decided last Thursda: : ‘ys ings iIn a closed-session debate ‘on :the.\ proposed $3,040,041 RDCK 1978 annual budget;the board overwhelmingly rejected . a request from the city—which spent $26,000 last year: on i ort-Term ‘A $229,500 fund for Area 1- a i ‘CanCel Help Keep Castiegar - Planning Wi own’ separate planning depart- ment—for/60-per-cent with- drawal from Castlegar’s share of regional planning costa. Opposed only by acting ‘Castlegar director Ald. Gerald . Rust, ‘the board’ gave: third - reading to a budget which will :Fequire the city to pay about $19,000 for the regional plan- : ning function. Rust: told: the Castlegar ws Friday: the directors’ KRHD Budget “specific contingencies, $3,690 for sh director Jo! 1 “one-shot” financing of hospital construction: was included in the * $1,262,127. 1978 © budget © approved by the Central Koote- nay Regional Hospital District board last Thi / Board directors chose the budget over dn alternate bud- get of $1,082,627 which did not provide for Moran's proposed short-term levy to pay the CKRHD share of the $578,289 needed ‘for expansion and up- grading at the Castlegar and District, Creston Valley and Kootenay Lake District hos- pitals. 5 CKRHD directors decided at their previous meeting to approve the two- or three-year levy rather than paying off a long-term Ioan over 20 years and to ask the provincial health ministry to provide the 60 per cent of the cost despite: its . “policy of giving hospital im- provement grants only to hos- pital districts borrowing on a long-term basis. ‘Other CKRHD ’ expendi- tures listed for 1978 included $19,000.; for ‘general govern- ment, $87,000 ‘for such con- tingencies as hospital equip- ment, planning consultants and land acquisition, $11,853 for es “« CheckiAds. - __ ForLate * Hours Listings Castlegar News the majority of * .. the stores in that section of the » Municipal: Act debt $882,084 for shareable debt re- payment, and $35,000 for tem- porary borrowing interest. . : ited as revenue was $482,672 from general taxation - of municipalities and electoral areas, $529,250 from hospital rogram debenture principal and interest, $21,000 from tem- porary.borrowing interest and a surplus of $23,705 from 1977, Commission Opposes Tests On Well . The Area J Advisory Planning Commission has expressed its “strong dis- approval” of the incial basic argument against the ‘city’s partial withdrawal was that “if one goes out they're all ing to go out.” “I-said that was _ utter nonsense because we were not even ‘suggesting we go out entirely,” Rust said. “I said we were simply suggesting that we pay:a portion.” ~ He said few board mem- bers were willing to discuss the request, even when he offered toreduce the proposed discount to only $7,000. fost thy recalculating that on 40 per cent and..if we wanted -to contract services out to them we would pay for. them over. and above the 40 per cent,” : Rust said. “I said I didn't know how much fairer I could be.” RDCK Board Rejects 60% Pullout Proposal thdrawal Request Denied Board members also ar- gued that they wanted to give recently-appointed planning di- rector Floyd Dykeman a chance to priorize his department's heavy backlog of work: before they made any rash decisions, he said. “I said the city of Castlegar couldn't wait three years for priorities," Rust said. “We're going to turn down a million- (Con’t. Pg. A12, Col. 2) "Phillips Sent Summary - Of: Water Problems water supply problems to Eco- nomic Development Minister Don Phillips, Ald. C. 8. Fowler ‘told the Castlegar News Mon- day. * Fowler, chairman of city council's select water commit- tee, caid Phillips asked for a the:. provincial >government's - failare to provide funds for the proposed Arrow Lakes system. « + The mioister indicated he would require the resume for. use in a discussion of the city’s problems with other ‘cabinet ministers, Fowler’ said. Rural Waterworks Districts Told te Clean Up Systems: _ Robson and Raspberry were among the rural com- munities told last week they tmust clean up their water systems before receiving Union. Board of Health approval for - . subdivisions smaller than 18,-, 000 square feet. The board. approved last - environment ministry's con- sideration of a-well at Sel- kirk College asa prospective . water source for Castlegar and outlying areas. a In a March 7 letter to the water rights branch, commission secretary Ann Holden said the well is located in “an ranged from 53 per cent of the portions taken from Bridesville to 25 per cent of the Robson and The public health inspector said the health unit is one of the government agencies to which p ‘4 criticizing senior vice-president Roy Purdy's recent denial that the company is legally bound to assist the city in securing a new water system—that a 1960 agreement between the two + parties “would‘be left on one side temporarily," Moore said in the statement, “It was agreed that if there is no satisfactory arrangement for a new system worked out, then ‘there would be a joint . submission by the council and CanCel to the courts for a declaration as to its interpre- tation,” the statement said, Interviewed later, Murphy said the decisions reached at the meeting were “a construc- tive approach" to the city's water needs. Murphy agreed that the company, after having heard Lessard Ready, But Phillips Must Go First The federal regional economic expansion minister says he is willing to discuss funding for a new Castlegar area water system with his provincial counterpart, ac- cording to Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco. , Marcel Lessard said Tuesday at a meeting of the Commons standing commit- tee on regional development he was prepared to discuss DREE funding for the city’ proposed Lower Arro' Lake supply with Economic Development Minister Don Phillips,“ Brisco told the Castlegar News. But Lessard added that he would not. meet with Phillips on the matter unless the provincial ministry ini- tiated the discussion, Brisco said. Weekend PWA Strike ‘Threatened By CALEA About 550 Pacific Western Airlines ground employees con- ducted k-to-rule campaign | : *Sfor “about four “houks “Tuesday” his visit here late last month for. and then called off the action when the company sought further negotiations. Al Wouters, director of the | ° : - College Council _ Awaits Approval Canadian Air Line Employees’ “Association .(CALEA) repre- senting the’ PWA employees,” annoynced the union agreed to return to the talks, but warned job‘action would: resume im- mediately if a settlement is not reached. The union had planned to' ‘ 2 follow a work-t occur, PWA plans ‘to continue operations’ with supervisory personnel handling wor! “ground crews. °° ~~ PWA is Castlegar’s only “air link with the Lower Main- land. From Ministry The provincial municipal affairs and housing ministry is prepared to repair the rundown with rotating strikes, likely timed for the holiday weekend travel rush. t PWA spokesman David Jacox said in Calgary that “a flurry of study sessions” was held, but they did not disrupt Raspberry portions, Harnad id. _Jacox said that if strikes ya by Mike Harnadek, chief public. * health inspector for the West Kootenay Health Unit, (that eight waterworks districts be informed the health unit will not approve smaller subdivi- sions until the districts insti- tute community-wide programs of disinfection of their systems, area that is desperately in need of water,” and should be used to satisfy the needs of that area before con- sidering the needs of Caatle- gar. Tests on the well, ori- ginally intended for com- pletion in early February, began two weeks ago after the ministry..was: granted’ legal access by. the ‘Selkirk , College council to the college. property. dek told the Castle- gar News this week that the decision, which’ affected the Bridesville, Covert, Robson and Raspberry irrigation districts and the Sutherland Creek Wa- terworks District, the Lavalley Point Water Project, the Tam- bellini Water Users and the Skands Decembrini Pipeline, . was based on a 1977 study which involved -2sts on a total of 170 portions for each area, The ‘presence of ‘coliform bacteria in the water systems Council Expropriates Land for Water Tank . A bylaw. expropriating about 110 square feet of pri- vately-owned land for location of ‘a: new. 250,000-gallon city water tank gained city council's final! approval at a special meeting Monday. City clerk Barry Baldigara told’ the Castlegar News the requires, the of a: th arbitration board by the ‘city and property owner Ed Mc Gauley to establish a fair price for the property, which is ad- jacent to the existing city water tank off. Eighth Street and Seventh Avenue South. "Also approved Monday . was the submission of 15 tenders, citing prices ranging from $97,000 to. $175,000 for construction of the storage tank, to ‘city consulting en- gineers Kerr, Wocd and Leidal for examination, the city clerk said. : * SECOND BANNER In as many seasons for this young’ club fs display Brurio In which 1,470 fans saw the local team clobber the Creston Clippers 7-1. Holding the Kootenay Interna- evening at the tional’ Junior Hockey Leag Rebel captain Brian Verigin, centre, with Castlegar Rebel player following Sunday's ga jue Trophy Is for (Con't. Pg. A13, Col. 7) winner oi the Most Valuable Player award yed here by for the KIJHL playoffs Rebel! Tassone Bozek. The Rebels now face the Quesnel: Millionaires who are the defending Provin- cial Champs. The first game Is tomorrow player Steve student at Selkirk College provided the education minister has no objections, principal Mitch Anderson told the Castlegar News Tuesday. Anderson said a letter he received Monday indicated the ministry—from which the Sel- kirk College council had sought $45,000 to put the residences in. ” usable condition—was prepared to bring the modular units up to proper standards before turn- ing them over permanently to the college. The education ministry, which was not willing to pay capital expenditures or 'opera- tional deficits, had not yet. announced its position on the residences, Anderson said. He to Seek W ter Funding Jointi Talk on 1969 Agreement Shelved : city council's arguments against groundwater sources, had accepted that a Lower Arrow Lakes supply would be most suitable. “From a long-term point of view, that’s the direction in which we should go,” he told the Castlegar News. : CanCel gives the city in secur- ing the water supply will still depend on the decisions of the provincial government. | 2 “It is absolutely fundamen- tal that we seek clarification as te provincial funding,” Murphy © said. : He said the decision to refrain from discussing the company's obligations under the 1960 agreement, signed by the then Village of Castlegar and Celgar, CanCel’s predeces- * sor, was necessary in the establishment of a more ‘co- operative relationship between the two parties. “We shouldn't really let that agreement hold up pro- gress," Murphy sald. “The object was not to get mad at one another but to clarify points of view.” » The CanCel senior vice- president said the company will be represented in further dis- cussions with council's seleet water committee by local saw- mill manager Chuck Dinning (Con’t. Pg.-A13, Col. 4) Dr. Nick. Schmitt, forgotten. everything - i learned last spring. ey .. Page BO e@ REBELS: Headed’ for another three-game semi- final’ series against the -Quesnel Millionaires after’ beating the Creston Clip- pers 7-1. Page AD e@ RATES: The effect of their increase on local Community Access TV. - Page Ad Ann Landers ... Page AS BillSmiley .... Page B2 Classified Ads, Real a Estate, and Automotive. .-: Pages Al0-Al1-A12-A13 Editorial PulpitandPew .. Page BS s 2 it ports 2 Pages A6-A8-A9-B7 Telenews . . . Pages B3-B4. z nay Health Unit director-f : ah , Page BI : @ RDCK: The board “has f Weekend ~—Cs) Weath said he and council chai Bob. Buckley, who met with McGeer Saturday, did not have a chance to discuss the matter. “We're still keeping it on a low key to bring them around to our point of view,” he said. Students were moved out of the residences into local hotels and motels, at housing ministry: expense, in early January because of leaks in the buildings’ roofs.’ SUNNY with increasing. cloudiness during — today. Occasional showers could occur Good Friday with the overall weekend outlook being generally cloudy with sunny periods and occasional light showers. For convenient home delivery of the Castlegar News, call 365-7266. ‘i x CUPE Roliback Action Won't Be Too Painful Immediate recovery action on 1976 salary overpayments is not likely to cause much hardship to unionized School District No. 9 empl of to secretar Dascher told the Castlegar News thi f heduled for rati John Dascher. by the. school board and employees belonging to the Canadian Union of Public Employees today should reduce the strain of school trustees’ decision Monday . to recover the overpayments—at an average cost of $60 to $65. monthly to each CUPE member—over four months, The school board secretary-treasurer: declined to say how much of an increase is proposed under the new agreement. He said the recovery, scheduled for completion by June 80, is consistent with the decisions of other West Kootenay school: is week the memorandum - rds. = The federal Anti-‘Inflation Board ordered recovery of the. Com- INewsFoto by Doug Harvey last year after rolling back the employees’ 1976 wage increase from 11 per cent to eight per cent. BRS RBS BBB BBA T eS BeseeS “