Castlégar News April 12, 1989 It’s Our At Would like to thank you for 4 great years! & STAFF Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun. April 13, 14, 15, 16 The Best Chicken In To. PRIZES @ All You Can Eat For 4 n — Great Food & Service Rummaging around sale. The sal and continues Saturday. cosrews pio Members of Castlegar and District Hospital Auxiliary (left to right) Patsy Popoff, Polly Chernoft, Anne Worobey and Anna Gattinger display articles for upcoming spring rummage , being held in the former Kootenay Builders building, starts at 5 p.m. Friday Alaska oil spill shrinking VALDEZ, Alaska (AP-CP) — The oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is shrinking following 4wo days of poun ding by stormy winds and seas, giving a reprieve to threatened shorelines 1 don’t because something may change, but the oil is breaking up very rapidly," want to say it’s over @ Buckets, Boxes, Dinners, Snacks, Salads 9-Pieces of Golden Delicious Chicken. Reg. $11.99 SNAC 2-Pieces of Tender Chicken With Golden French Fries. Reg. $3.79 SHAKES CALL US TODAY: 365-5304 Cominco & Westor Vouch Accepted Chicken & Seafood 2816 Columbia Avenue “Said John Whitney, an ollicial with the U.S. National and At mosphcric Administration The news late Tuesday was welcome Alaskan coast that have spent three tense days Oceanic relief to areas of the ventral ‘waiting for the oil to hit land. Whitney and other officials said aerial recon naissance suggested that the danger had eased for Kodiak Island and the Kenai Peninsula, home of the Kenai Fjords National Park “Kodiak still seems to be saved,” State cleanup co-ordinator Jim Hayden said of the port whose fish harvest worth the equivalent of about $200 million Cdn last. year was the largest in the United States. Meanwhile, in Washington, Exter nal Affair Clark said Tuesday that {he Bush administration Minister Joe for its plans to Arctic wildlife has lost enthusiasn allow oil drilling in an refuge in the wake of the spill. Canada has long opposed plans to drill for oil in the National Arctic W ildlife Refuge, GEORGE BUSH has lost enthusiasm the springtime birthing grounds for the Porcupine caribou herd The Alyeska Pipeline Service Co said it now has a 12-member emergen cy spill response team on duty 24 hours aday at Valdez harbor to attack spills. Alyeshg, a consortium of oil com panies including Exxon, was criticized for its slow response to the spill and lack of oil dispersant, The company also said it has purchased a new supply 1 ot We've just picked six thousand new teller machines. Our Cue-Strata Machines join the Interac® network of ABMs. Now that we're part of both the Interac and Exchange networks, you can use thousands of automated banking machines all over North America. This means you can use bank or trust company mac hines to get at your money 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, almost anywhere ‘KS! Kootenay Savings Now that's convenience! 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Ot ficials said it remains unclear how effective it might be against the Alaska spill Winds turned away from Kodiak Island Tuesday and the slick continued to break up, said the coast: guard, which has been running the cleanup since U.S. President George Bush's order last week in Prince William Sound, (the wind and wave action may also have done Some natural cleanup. Overtlights of Naked Island, hard hit by the spill, show that some of the black stains haye been washed away, Whitney said Rough weather inside the sound also has moved some of the oil around, but it poses no threat to four important April 12, 1989 Castlegar News ar Government willing to amend legislation VANCOUVER (CP) — The provincial government was willing to amend (wo pieces of legislation to consum mate a deal with Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing to buy the former Expo lands, according to contract documents released this week The five weighty volumes include a letter, apparently from then attoriiey-general Brian Smiith, 11 explains that the government was prepared to change the Land Title Act So that proposed waterways on the-site by Li’s Concord Pacific Developments Ltd. would not be publicly owned, ‘Having reviewed your concerns | am satisfied that major foreshore developments such as that proposed require flexibility on the part of the Crown to encourage in- novation,” the letter states “Accordingly | am prepared 10 recommend the-in troduction of a legislative amendment.” Like much of the correspondence released, this letter has the signature and date deleted. However, the released documents indicate the original Was on attorney-general ministry letterhead and that the words ** Attorney General’* followed the signature. E A second letter, detailing Land Act amendments required, is also included in the contract minister who signed was deleted. In a controversial deal, the B.C. government sold the 83-hectare Expo site on the shores of False Creek to Li for $320 million, to be paid over 15 years as thé property was developed. So far, only an initial $50-million cash payment has been received for the site. ” ACTUAL PRICE The contract information shows that the actual price of the property would be about $140 million in current dollars after accounting for.interest and inflation The contract documents detail everything from the handing over of the keys to the B.C. Enterprise Corp.'s “information room,”’ where studies on toxic waste were filed, to the government's liability for toxic waste on the former Ly site. The name of the . that went into the contract as “There was clearly haste on the pa}t of the Crown to make a deal and it shows,” the m said in an interview Social Credit backbencher Grace McCarthy, who was nister responsible when the land was sold, agreed that B.C. Enterprise Corp. was under pressure from cabinet to sell the site. mber for Vancouver East But McCarthy insisted the deal is *“the best agreement anybody could get at that time,” She described the effort mohumental job.”* TRIGGERED BOOM Cliff Michael, Minister of Government Management Services, credited the Expo site sale with triggering Van couver’s current real estate boom “The sale that took place to Concord had a tremen- dous amount to do with the hot real estate market that followed,” he said. The contract includes: A separate soils agreement in which the government not only agrees to pay the entire cost of cleaning up the site but to pay Concord Pacific an additional three per cent of the total cost — estimated at up to $17 million — as a management fee: An agreement by the provincial government — in addition to the soils agreement — to pay to Concord Pacific ‘any and all loss, damage, penalties, costs, liabilities and expenses’ that could result from future lawsuits over the presence of any contaminants under the land: A clause allowing concord Pacific to provide “no fewer than 800 parking stalls within reasonable proximity to B.C. Place stadium’? although the city of Vancouver maintains 2,000 stalls are needed. Settlement is left up to future negotiations with the city A letter of credit from the Canadian Imperial B of Commerce. —Li controls 10 per cent of the bank’s shares — for $270 million to be paid in instalments by the bank beginning in.1995, should Concord Pacific default on it 7 Taxpayers toget | break VICTORIA (CP) fected by rising property values will get a temporary break from the provincial Municipal Affairs Minister Rita Johnston said {Taxpayers al government Johnston introduced ‘legislation allowing municipalities 10 puta tem porary cap on the land compohent ot the assessed value of a property She said the measure is intended to moderate the effect of sharply rising land values. House prices in Vancouver have risen 4S~per vent in the last- year and that has been sharply increased property some areas increase reflected in taxes in Johnston said she is uncomfortable with the legislation because she believes the tax assessment system in British Columbia is first-class. Only because of concern and pressure expressed to us from the Van. couver city council and other local councils on the Lower Mainland, and our strong belief in local autonomy, is this bill ~before~ the Johnston said. house today,” She said the measure applies only to 1989 assessments. SaIMON Tisheries in Me area, Tie Coase guard said. Biologists liave recovered 150 dead otters. Fifty-four of 113 others being treated al a rescue centre have died. So far, 1,242 dead birds have been found along the coastline, 227 live birds ti been rescued for treatment; 87 have died and nine have been released. Public Aquarium said it is sending people and supplies, including seafood and hair dryers, to Alaska to aid in the rescue of the sea ot- The Vancouver ters. More thah 19,000 barrels of crude oil has been recovered — only eight per cent of the 240,000 barrels that spilled when the taker struck Bligh Reet OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) British Columbia and Washington leaders, reacting to the Alaska oil spill disaster, announced a combat petrdteum pollution and other en have Pacific Coast’ pact to vironmental problems Premier Bill Vander Zalm, here to address a joint state legislative session and (oO with Gov Booth agreement to meet Gardner, also signed an exchange infor mation on energy trends and policies Energy sales and renegotiation of agreements covering the Columbia River dams will be on the agenda, they said. But recent oil spills. in Alaska and off the Washington coast were clearly on their minds. environmental Harbor and spills, have Iwo recent events, the Grays Exxon Valdez oil demonstrated-elearly that in such instances, national boundaries are meaningtess,"" Vander Zalm told the legislature disasters such as major oil spills do Ecological not respect the lines on maps Without ‘meaningful co without meaningful, deal with the {helpless operation, joint disasters, we, like wildlife victimized by oil spills, will sink together, rather than swim.”* It was Vander Zalm’s first visit strategies to to the state capital since becoming premitrin tite summer of 1986 ‘Pact to fight oil pollution He and Gardner said that Alaska already has agreed to join the oil spill task force and that Oregon and California governors are likely to sign upas well That panel was formed aftera Christmas week accident neat Grays Harbor, on the southwest that about 875,000 litres of heavy fuel Washington coast, spilled oil. The spill, caused when a tug collided with the oif barge it was towing, killed thousands of seabir ds and fouled beaches from the central Oregon Coast to Vac ouver Island At the time, B.C questioned whether had properly spill, demanded a inquiry instead, officials Washington responded to the joint The task force was created and with responsibility primarily for studying better ways of preventing spills and dealing with future accidents The state and province also have Joined-with Alaska ‘and Oregon in commissioning—an—independent assessment of the damage done by the Exxon Valdez. The tanker spilled almost 40. million litres of crude oil and fouled almost 1,300 kilometres of beaches after super running into a reef in Prince William Sound on March 24. Oregon and Washington also are trying to block the U.S Department's plan to offer leases for oil exploration and drilling off the coast Interior The documents show that it could cost as much as $17 million to solve the problem and there is no limit on future public liability. Li got a good deal gn the downtown property because the government was ina hurry to sell, New Democrat Bob Williams said Monday the government McCarthy said the lettef of credit provides an ‘iron clad guarantee” of payment in place of a more conven tional mortgage. Concord Pacific also agreed to a no-flipping clause, ¢ preventing the company from selling the site for three years. WINNIPEG (CP) — Less. than two weeks after completing the $70-million purchasesof CI Kingsway Ltd.,-Federal Industries Ltd. is back on the takeover trail with a $12-million offer chase all of the outstanding shares to pur- company Federal makes offer to buy Tri-Line Tri-Line’s shareholders have un- til May 24 to either accept or reject the offer, and King said Federal of- ficials are “reasonably confident” they'll obtain full control of the Noranda sells mine .- REVELSTOKE, B.C. (AP) The Goldstream copper-zinc mine, closed since 1984 when copper prices plum- meted, has been sold by Noranda Minerals Lid The mine, 30 kilometres nort this southeastern B.C. community, has been purchased through a joint ef fort by Bethlehem Resources Corp. 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Thomas King, president of Federal’s transport group, said in an_ interview the ditional upon Federal obtaining at least 67 per cent of Tri-Line’s ap-} proximately two million outstan: ding shares, “But we would like to get 100 per cent,’ King added Federal Industries Lid. is the parent company of Motorways, a trucking company serving the East and West Kootenays with an office in Castlegar offer is con group of shareholders have already agreed to sell their 42 per cent stake in the company for the price of fered, about $5.50 per share. Tri-line president J.W said Tri-Line officials also are con- fident the deal will go through Cooper said that the principal group of shareholders also holds options on another two per cent of Cooper the company’s shares, bringing its total to about 44 per cent King said in addition to the $12 million share offer, Federal has agreed to assume Tri-Line’s $11.7 million in outstanding debt and Golden Nevada Resources Inc “We had originally given an option to an individual group in October,” said Noranda Tigert vice-president Lance Californiaigrown * fancy approx. 20-Ib. box Sunkist oranges gov't inspected pork 89 ony 1 28 butt roasts i¢.2.22 ». s Prices effective April 9 to April 15, 1989 PLAZA, SUPER-VALU OPEN SUNDAYS 10 A.M.-5 P.M. Two locations to serve you: Downtown and Plaza! Canadians still in love with autos Canadians still with the OTTAWA (CP) appear to be in automobile In 198 than 13 million private vehicles, about love Canadians owned more one for every two people in the coun try, says the latest edition of Canadian Social Trends, published by Statistics Canada About 83 per cert of owged at least one car, truck or van in 1987, up sharply from the early 1950s, when just over hald of households had households Canfor to buy Balfour VANCOUVER (CP) Canfor Corp. has agreed to buy Balfour Forest Products Inc $93.75 million, Canfor chairman Peter Bentley said Balfour holds cubic metres of annual allowable cut in the interior, and-operates five sawmills at which it produced 600 million board feet of lumber and 318;000 bone dry units of wood chips in 1988 The purchase will improve Canfor's security of chip supplies for its two pulp mills at Prince George, Bentley of Prince: George for 1.75 million said ina news release Balfour also operates an overseas wood products market wit sales offices in Vancouver and London, Jengland, which sells lumber and pandf products for its own and two dozen independent Canadian American mills, ng division and a vehicle, the agency reported And in recent years, there has been rapid growth in the proportion of households with than vehicle — 39 per cent had two or more in 1987, the agency reported. Most of the increase in single vehicle ownership occurred in the 1950s and 1960s, with only a gradual increase sin ce 1970 In contrast, «the more one number’ of households with a second vehicle has risen sharply in recent years, up from four per cent in 1953 and 17 per cent in 1970. Canadians spend a lot of money on cars. The cost of buying vehicles, repair bills and operating costs amoun. ted to 11.7 per cent of all personal spending in 1986 Canadians buy about one million new cars every number year, although the fluctuates depending on economic conditions. More of those new cars are foreign: In 1987, 34 per cent of new cars sold in Canada were imported, up from 19 per centin 1973. About two-thirds of them were from Japan By 1987, the average prices for Nor- th American cars was $14,300, com- pared to $14,700 for cars from Japan and $17,800 for those built in other foreign countries The average 1987 selling price of a new car was $14,800. And Canadians were most likely to buy it in the spring The proportion of ‘households in owning at Newfoundland, 79 per cent; Nova Scotia, 82; Prince Edward Island, 88; New Brunswick, 85; Quebec, 90; Ontario, 82; Manitoba, 85; Saskatchewan, 87; Alberta, 90; British Columbia, 87 each province least one vehicle were EO CREM Report to Shareholders 198 officially changing the Company's name from BC. Resources Invest the removal of the restriction on Commorrshares- Solid operating results in 1988 reflect our commit ment to improving productivity wherever possible and, despite an increasingly competitive inter national environment, record sales were achieved. We have emerged from 1988 as a group ot highly productive, cost-competitive resource operations focused on results and positioned to compete in the international marketplace Operating as we do in commoylity related bysinesses subject to the fluctuations of supply and demand 2 continuing focus on reducing costs and increasing productivity and sales is crucial. Factors which exerted a negative effect on our per formance last year included the strong Canadian dollar, and the major changes made to the British Columbia Forest Act. The new pro: vincial forestry policies resulted in an increase to Westar Timber's stumpage fees of more than 60 1987 k vels, white nonrecoverable reforestation and road construction costs soared 145%. Accordingly, at year end, a provision of $5.8 million was recorded to cover the future costs associated with reforesting areas harvested in 1988 Y our Company made significant progress toward the achieve ment of our goals last year, including ment Corporation to Westar Group Ltd. Accompanying this change was foreign ownership of the Company's over EMBER SUMMARY OF CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF EARNINGS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31 MARY OF CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET 1 non-producing B.C. land holdings i were used to reduce Board of Directors Shareholders will be asked to ap prove p resol hanging the size : ors trom nine Riva resigned Manage Outlook Inthe year ahead nren tive of the We Mining has restructurir appr pany’s maior ler to approval by Westar Mir part< now well-posit Operations Highlights ~ Westshore Terminals handled a record volume of 192 million tonnes of coal and continued to broader its customer base with shipments from both the United States and Vancouver Island, as well as trom southeast B.C and Alberta During this period, Westar Timber produced more lumber than ever ind sold close to one billion hoard tect The company also.com refore pletind stbes up of the new Carnaby iwmill, finished the rebuilding ot the Southern W and acquired a River Operatic Westar Mining also broke r producing 9.5-milliontonnes « nd selling virtually ad Products 7 w:tacihity, Eagle produced. However, these impressiv results were offset by untavourabl exchange rates and the carryin, costs of the Companys debt y IN Westar Group in 1989. »ntributed to a minrevemucstor but maintaining Annual Report: Should you wish t ot the IS88 Annual Re Ny write to com ; WESTAR GROUP LTD. 1900 - T176-W Vance est Ge uver, BC VGE April 5, 1989