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Choice. isilativa Liteary, Varliament Bligs., 5951 Victoria, Be Ce vay 1x4 * Published Bright and Early Every Thursday Morning at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” tn today’s CasNews Section “‘C"’ Nol. 31, No, 46 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1978 Three Sections (A,B&C) Labor Minister Picks Mediator Labor Minister Allan Williams this week appointed a special mediator to bring Selkirk College and four West Kootenay school setts and their non-teaching employees back to the bargaining table, Named to intervene in‘the atrike-lockout deadlock between the West Koot and five CanCel to Appeal Sawmill Tax — locals of the Canadian Union of Public ‘Employees which began Oct. ‘]~ 24 was Clark Gilmour, who was unavailable at press time for comment, In response to the minister's announcement a committee of parents of some of the 15,000 students throughout the region whose educhtions have been disrupted by the dispute announced its postponement of a rally in Trail today. ‘y. . Roberta Hamilton, a Castlegar resident working with the group this week, said the main objective’ of the rally was to force the government to intervene in the dispute, and a postponement of- the meeting at this time “would be in the best interest of all concerned.” See Page Al3 » ods Conn Potatoes 20.51.99 B.C. Local Grown. No. 2 Grade ........ Lemons du 23° California. Size 200's . SAFEWAY CANADA SAFEWAY LIMITED City ‘Doesn't Need RDCK Planning Castlegar will continue to seek withdrawal from the ‘Re- gional District of Central Koote- nay planning function, city council decided Tuesday. Planning committee chair- man: Ald. Len Embree won council support for his with- drawal motion following his charge that a recently-released RDCK planning department report proposed “empire bhild- ing." Embree described as “a pretty expensive proposition” the report's recommendation that Castlegar — which bud- geted $24,650 this. year for ** operation of its own planning department — pay about $30,- 000 in 1979 “for no service whatsoever.” ~ x He noted one of the recom- mendations in the report.is for hiring of.a municipal planner in the event that the RDCK: board: decides to assume a municipal planning function, * “That ‘in_itself-is an infer- ence,that they're: not: prepared to ‘accept responsibility for municipal planning,” the plan- ning committee chairman said. “What is it that the City of Castlegar is. paying $20,000 He listed the statement that 60 per cent of RDCK planning director Floyd Dyke- man's ‘time was involved’ in planning and proposals to hire extra staff as portions of the report which were “really indi- cative to me and the planning committee of empire building.” “Basically the city doesn't need the planning function,” Embree said, “That isn't being parochial, it's just fiscal real- ity.” 2 The city's unwillingness to pay the cost of RDCK planning - does not represent an attempt to shirk its responsibilities, to . Surrounding areas, he said, “If the areas need mone- tary assistance I think the City of Castlegar is quite prepared to meet that obligation,” -he -said. “But I’don't think that obligation should come in‘ the form of $20,000.” A “more logical and reason- able” ajternative for the funds paid by Castlegar for regional planning would be spending them on the city's own planning department in return for the city carrying out planning work for Areas I and J, he said. Embree said his committee had “tempered our remarks” in hope that the soon-to-be-re- leased recommendations from the municipal affairs tninistry's, regional -district’ review’ com: mittee will resolve some of the city's ‘problems. withthe re- gional plannin; “The ‘city paid abot 000 for RDCK planning this year as the result of a $9,000 surplus from the funds it paid in 1977, Castlegar’ pays about one-fifth of the total planning function costs. * reconstruction: |. READY TO ROLL this week after five months of the pine side of CanCel's main mill Two shifts of sawmill workers will be ‘almost immediately” manning this section, rebullt about one month ahead. of schedule. The matn sawmill’s fir side—the area In which the June 17 flre started—Is expected to be back In operation around early December. i _ —CasNewsFoto by Ryon Guedes erious’ Effect Eyed By RYON GUEDES CasNews Editor : ‘The outcome of an Assessment Appeal ‘Board hearing tomorrow ‘‘could seriously affect the city’s taxable value,"’ a B.C. Assessment Authority official has told city council. In an Oct. 24 letter to the city, area assessor Derek Turner said the hearing—to be held in Vancouver—will allow CanCel to present an appeal which ‘concerns the actual value of the company's sawmill In Castlegar.”’ Discussing the letter Tuesday, finance committee chairman Ald. Gerald Rust told council Mayor Audrey Moore had arranged for the Union of B.C. Municipalities’ legal counsel to attend the hearing on behalf of Castlegar as well as other municipalities, Rebuilt Mill Starts Up oTh After. five months .of re: construction, CanCel's sawmill operation was sched- ‘uled yesterday to cut its first, log since the hla which shut Sawmill manager Chuck Dinning ‘told the Castlegar News that at less than the $6 million, rebuilding cost origi- nally cited after the June 17 fire, the mill is expected ‘to Commerciol Users -In, Water Discounts Drop Commercial users are now eligible for early payment dis- counts, but discounts for all users have been reduced. That was the result of the third reading city. council gave Diversion Poll Bid Rejected By Council ‘City council rejected Tues- day an environmental group's request that a non-government. poll.on B.C. Hydro's Kootenay Diversion be conducted near polling stations in municipal and school board elections Saturday. Ald. Bud Goddefis, coun- - alts health and sveliare chair. Tuesday to two bylaws amend- ing water and sewer rate regulations. Approved was the partici- pation of commercial as well as domestic users in discounts for payment of rates by Feb. 15, 1979 and the reduction of the previous 20-per-cent water rate discount to match the 10-per- cent sewer rate discount. Council approved the. by- Ww including commercial users i the “physical ing made.” Godderis, whose commit- tee met with the group last Thursday, Said adequate ar- rangements for the diversion poll were a condition of the recommendation which had not been met. Mike Jessen and Martin derpol, the Save the Koote- tion’ to: allow. the Save the Kootenay Committee to hold the questionnaire “concurrent with the Castlegar municipal elections but not interfering with regular municipal polling procedure” because the group had failed to notify the city of who inresponse toa request earlier this year by local business operators. City administrator Bill Krug told the Castlegar News rates bills are expected to be distributed to users’ in mid- January, 1979: He said the water rate discount was re- duced because council consider- ed it excessively high and the would make the dis- nay Ge met with the health and welfare meeting, could not be reached for. comment on council's deci-, sion. : Contacted earlier” this week,’ Jessen said health and See Page A2- counts more uniform. Water rates will come under further scrutiny next year because of the'new Arrow Lakes water supply expected to be “on stream” by that time, « Krug said, ideal * : Five Months After Destruction Btart : operating , on.-a ° limited: basis ‘this: week ‘and ‘return to’ full operation by early January. B ining. said repairs to th heaviest damage in the fire — will be “right on schedule” and about one month ahead of the original completion date set by the company. “I don’t think we need kid ourselves that we won't have start-up problems,” he said. “But we hope to be running on two shifts almost immedi on'that side’ of. ‘the mill.” ‘The sawmill, manager said work on the main sawmill’s fir “side; the area-in which the fire < - started, is five to. six months ‘ahead of the date: originally estimated and is expected to be back in operation in, early December. The. chip-and-saw section in the new-$7.7 million small log mill, also heavily damaged and shut down by the . fire, is not expected to resume operation until early’ January, he said. t “start up,” is Week “We were originally hoping = it would be the first thing to t he said>-“Now “it” seems it's going to be the last.” ‘Dinning said that out of 275 International Woodworkers of America menibers employed here by CanCel before the fire, about 150 are‘currently work- ing at the sawmill. Personnel is expected to return to full strength after completion of which would be affected by the hearing. Asked by Ald. Len Embree whether the appeal was com- _ Parable to one about two years ago which resulted in favorable ruling for CanCel on its prop- erty in Prince Rupert, Rust said its content was still un- known. He agreed with Ald. Al- bert Calderbank’s suggestion that the June 17 fire‘at the sawmill was probably the main reason for the appeal, because the blaze “changed the actual physical state of thaproperty.” “But it may not affect us at all,” Rust said. “The mill is to come back on stream .a lot sooner than was | anticipated a few months ago." But contacted yesterday, vice-president Roger Duncan, responsible for the company's legal matters, termed the saw- - mill fire “irrelevant” to the appeal, which will deal with the actual value of the property as . of Dee. 1, 1977. The appeal was launched in early January, and is one of about 10 to 20 appeals normally arising each year from review of company assess- ments, he said. Asked about the impact of: the. hearing on the city's taxable value, Duncan told the Castlegar News that if CanCel is “entirely successful" in its’ appeal the reduction of its taxes” would amount to between $50,-; 000 and $60,000, representing: 20 to 25 per cent of the taxes on the mill and about four city tax mills. Ban on Halloween Needed Next Year? The city-may have to con- sider banning’ Halloween if vandalism during the. annual celebration continues at . this year's:level; according to coun- cil’s works and services com: mittee chairman, Ald. | Albert Calderbank told council Tuesday that van- dals this year subjected Castle- gar residents to “a very big risk” by tampering with fire hydrants and other city prop- erty. C said a total of repairs to the chip-and-saw, he said. See Page Al3 99 signs were uprooted or broken at a cost to the city of $1,009.23 in labor, materials Visual aids to be re- leased by the city “in the near future". will help edu- cate Castlegar residents about levels of sulphide gas emitted by -CanCel's pulp mill here, Ald. Bud Godderis announced Tuesday, Godderis, city council's health and welfare commit- tee chairman, said city staff Pulp Mill's Sulphide Gas Levels Mapped Emissions Graphs Planned have been helpifig his com- mittee to prepare graphs which will illustrate the varying levels of the odor- causing gas emitted by the mill each month. : He said the graphs, based on data received from area Pollution Contro] Branch officials, represented the type of public education measures the city proposed at CanCel's air emissions permit appeal hearing in lay. The health and welfare chairman told the Castlegar News after the meeting that he expected the graphs to be issued on a monthly basis because of the problems involved in obtaining the | data. - Bernie Van Rassel says he's looking for a job but isn't planning to shut down Castle. gar Airport. Commenting this week on the uncertainty he and six other airport employees share about the security of their jobs when the city withdraws from operation of the facility March and pi In addition, he said, a number of hydrants had been “operated or mauled about,” making necessary a complete check by city crews of all fire hydrants in the city to ensure there was no widespread dam- age. “These costs, I think, are higher than normal and it looks as if it's getting worse,” the works and services chairman said. “The situation is de- i J ti ” ‘ teriorating. He stressed the impor-' * tance of informing taxpayers “that we could easily end up with a worse situation unless Fireman's Future at Castlegar Airport Uncertain Looking for a Job, Not a Shutdown 31, 1979, the 38-year-old fire- man told the Castlegar News he was seriously considering find- ing employment elsewhere. But he dismissed as’ in- accurate a BCTV news report last week quoting him as saying he would give the city only two “weeks' notice before leaving the airport without its only i fireman. Clear skies following a light snowfall are forecast for Castlegar voters going to the polls in Saturday's al- dermanic and school board elections. A total of 3,441 city residents, compared to 3,432 last year, are registered to cast ballots on the five positions. sought by seven candidates this year. Norninated for the: three Castlegar Aldermanic, School Board Hections Voters Go to Polls Saturday , Castlegar aldermanic seats ‘are Roger Cristofoli, a se-" curity guard and. first aid attendant; incumbent Len Embree, a carpenter; Heath- er Hallett, a housewife; in-_ cumbent Gerald Rust, a supervisor. Seeking election to the two city trustees’ positions will be ‘Rodney’ Gilmour, a social worker; incumbent Erni Mills, retired; incum- * bent Stewart Webster, an engineer. Polling stations for both the municipal and school board elections will be the + Royal Canadian Legion Hall at 248 Columbia Ave. and the Castlegar South firehall + at -1119 Seventh. Ave. S. The polling’ station for the Raspberry area, originally booked into the area's schools, is now a private residence at 1025 Frances St. in Robson. For the Area ] volun- teer fire department refer- endum, the polling stations will be the Thrums-Tarrys Community Hall, the resi- dence of Bal and Lovette on . ment of a tere fire * department in the Robson- and the asidonce of Nick Verigan at Pass Creek. “What I did tell BCTV was that in view of the situation I would probably be out of a job in five months,” Van Rassel said. “And that if I found suitable employment 1 would give 30 days notice,” He said it- was doubtful whether his leaving would shut down the airport, “If that were the case I don't think I would do it,” he said. , Van Rassel said his de- parture would leave only one auxiliary fireman to do the job and the position would be vacant for such a short period before the city pulls out of the airport function that he. prob-, ably would not be replaced. The ministry has failed to comply with its own Class:“D" requirements calling for an eight-member firefighting crew for the airport, he said. In the event ‘that the airport is left without .pro- fessional fire protection, he said, Pacific Western Airlines would be forced to decide whether it was prepared to asgyme the risk of providing passenger service to Castlegar. Van Rassel, who has been employed at the airport for two somebody does something about it.” Banning’ of “Halloween... - “sounds like a very.bad deal but we wouldn't be the first who've had to consider it Calderbank said. Ald: Gerald Rust pate with Calderbank on the impor- tance of emphasizing that'tam- pering with hydrants “is a serious offence and could be detrimental to “some action_ being taken by the fire depart- ment in the.event of a fire." = Rust noted that the van- < dalism was not confined to : Halloween evening. The ‘pre-.» vious night a hydrant near : Kinnaird Elementary School » had been tampered with so frequently the valve became stuck and city crews “had to ~ replace its whole insides.” Ald. Len Embree said he did not condone the vandalism committed during | Halloween but felt a ban would not solve the problem..He said the van- dalism was “indicative of 2° much larger social problem.” “We're not going to reduce-: it one iota until we deal with it” as a social problem,” he said. : years and has 19 years ot experience in both airport and structural firefighting, said it was unlikely, that a third party running the facility in a con- . tract with the ministry after Page All 6 ‘i PARENTS: Make your child's study tlme count during the schoo! strike-lockout. PLEBISCITE: B4 What went wrong? 5 Ann Landers .. . . Bill Smiley - Page B2 Bio-Dex . . . Page All Classified Ads, Real Estate and Automotive... . Pages Al4-A15-Al6-A1l7 Comics Page B6 Consumer Comment . Page B3 Consumer Facts . . Page AS \_ Editorial WEEKEND WEATHERCAST CLOUDY with occasional snow flurries today and to- morrow, Clearing into the weekend. Daytime highs of 0° to 2° with overnight lows 0 Entertainment . 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