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School district checks
for hungry students

i Local schools survey
need for province-wide
lunch program

Donna Bertrand
NEWS REPORTER

Castlegar students will
benefit frém a province-wide
lunch program introduced
this week ifa survey shows it’s
needed here.

The program, announced -

Tuesday by Premier Mike
Harcourt and Education Min-
ister Anita Hagen, makes
available $5.9 million for ele-
mentary-school programs, and:

.$1.1 million for pilot programs

in secondary schools.
Following the announce-
ment, Superintendent of

Schools Terry Wayling sent a
questionnaire to all district
principals asking them if
there is a need, and if so, what
facilities would be needed to
set up a lunch program.

“Tve indicated to them they
should sit down with their
staff and parent advisory
councils and see...do we have
youngsters who are simply not
getting adequate, nutritional
care from home,” he said
Wednesday.

“It’s never been a concern
before, but there may well be
instances where we have
those concerns in the commu-
nity and it hasn't been brought
to my attention.”

Wayling is expecting to
ohear back from-the principals

by Jan. 24. The school board’s

education committee will for-
mulate and review the re-

sponses at its next meeting on °

Feb. 3, he said.

Hagen said programs, to be
developed by school boards,
must be offered to all children.
However, those who can afford
to pay will, but those who can’t
won't be identified.

Details of funding criteria
will be released over the next
few weeks but schools that
want money will have to show

_ that its students live in low-in-

come areas, Hagen said.

No schools in the Castlegar
school district currently offer a
lunch program though some
schools do serve hot dogs or
pizza buns “once or twice a
month as a bit of a fun day,”

Wayling said. ae

Jonathan Green
NEWS REPORTER

An agreement with big
business has brought a pro-
posed city project one step
closer to becoming a reality.

With Twin Rivers Park the
topic, representatives from
B.C. Gas Inc. met with city of-
ficials at Inland Gas Park on
Wednesday.

The city has leased utility
land in the park since 1973,
an agreement which expires
next year.

Under a new agreement
which takes effect next year,
the city would acquire some
five acres of land from the

City cuts deal with

utility for park use.

In return, the utility would
become a corporate partner
in the park.

Castlegar Mayor Audrey
Moore said the deal is a very

handsome one for the city.

“We get a 50-year lease at
no cost, which is almost the
same as owning it,” she said.

Moore said the agreement
was important in establish-
ing a business relationship
between the two sides.

“This morning, we're tak-
ing the first step to becoming
partners,” she said.

B.C. Gas president and
chief executive officer Bob

B.C. Gas

Kadlec was equally positive
about the agreement.

“We couldn't say no to this
project,” he said, “We're de-
lighted to be part of it.”

Kadlec said the park fits in
with the utility's plans for the
city.

“This is part of our on-go-
ing commitment to the
Castlegar area,” he said.

The acquired land will add
to the 70-plus acres already
allotted for the park.

B.C. Gas is the second util-
ity to become involved with
the proposed park, joining
B.C. Hydro.

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i Saturday, January 18, 1992

Celgar breathing easy

Scott David Harrison
EDITOR

Tough new regulations an-
nounced by the provincial gov-
ernment has Celgar Pulp Co.
breathing easy.

Thursday, Environment
Minister John Cashore an-
nounced hard-hitting laws de-

"signed to réduce dioxon pollu-

tion in B.C.’s pulp industry.

The laws, which include a
reduction in dioxon levels from
2.5 kilograms of organochlo-
rines in pulp effluent for every
tonne of air-dried pulp to 1.5,
are similar to those proposed
by the Social Credit govern-
ment in 4988.

Those laws, though, never
saw the light of day. Instead,
then-premier Bill Vander
Zalm refused to endorse the
legislation, prompting the res-
ignation of Environment Min-
ister John Reynolds.

The laws also fulfill a cam-
paign promise made by the
New Democrats before their
Oct. 17 election victory.

Celgar Project Manager
Rod .Meares embraced the
news, saying the Castlegar
plant will soon lead the way in
the battle against dioxon ef-
fluents.

“Our new mill will handily
meet the requirements,”
Meares said from Vancouver.
“Tn fact, (mill effluent) will not
be quite dioxon free, but it will
be below any current de-
tectable levels.”

Meares said Celgar
planned its modernization
with stricter federal and
provincial standards in mind.

Castlegar Community Service Centre will be offering
a weekly four part series on

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that about the old mill.”

Meares says the new re-
quirement will have two ef-
fects on the pulp industry.

First, he said it will cause
some mills to modernize —

like Celgar — while others
will be forced to close their
doors.

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as well as 48 hour sludge la-
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