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Don't forget The clocks gained and ‘ou lost last night. Day ight saving time of- ficially began at 2.a.m. and clocks should have been set ahead one hour. j / sei 4 Top athletes Selkirk College han- ded out its athletic awards at its annual banquet Thursday night... BI 20, 39, 42,91. B.C. Keno lottery we and 56. LOTTERY NUMBERS The winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6/49 draw were 6, 23, 25, 31, 39 and 41. The bonus number was 12, The extra numbers were The winning numbers drawn Friday in the 14, 16, 22, 30, 41, 63 The $1,000,000 winning number in Friday's Provincial lottery draw is 5462232 Ready ih to boom CasNews reporter Ed Mills looks ot Castlegar’s potential for an economic boom Sunday . Mm «+ LEGISLATIVE A IBRARY PARLIAMENT BLD VICTORIA, B.C. vev 1X4 FEB. 28 — Vol. 43, No. 26 en 75 Cents ANY Do. New CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1990 WEATHERCAST Teday ond Monday: Cloudy with sunny periods and o chance of hower Highs Probability Precipitation is 20 per cent today rising to 40 per cent tonight and Monday 4 Sections (A, B, C & Update '90) elgar expansion delayed By SIMON BIRCH Editor The provincial government during an interview from his office in Victoria. He said the committee, under the terms of stage two Celgar Pulp Co.’s plans for a $630 million expansion and environmental cleanup of its Castlegar pulp mill has denied approval in principle for the project until the com- pany provides more information about the project, the co-chairman of the committee said Friday. David Parsons said the next stage of the review Process will likely include ‘some form’’ of public hearings on the Celgar plans and will probably delay the expansion for at least four months. “We've reviewed the prospectus and have deter- mined there’s a number of information requirements still outstanding, so we couldn’t recommend approval in principle at this time,’’ Parsons told the Castlegar News of the pi government's new major project review process, will require Celgar to submit an additional report on the project. The committee is in the process of deter- mining.the terms of reference for the report, Parsons said. “Those terms of reference will be released to. the company and the public probably the middle of next week,’’ he said. ‘‘We expect it to take one to two months for the company to respond to that, to ‘prepare a stage two report. It will take us another couple of months to review that.’ Parsons said discussions are underway with federal government offi “to determine how to meet their needs through a joint review process.”” ‘*We’re assuming some form of public hearings will be required,’’ he said, adding that the committee hopes the panel overseeing the hearings will consist of represen- tatives from both the federal and provincial governments. Celgar pulp mill general manager Jim Browne said the review i wants to see supporting some of the conclusions in the company’s en- i impact for the project, more predictions — called ‘‘models’’ — of the new mill’s expected performance and other technical data. Browne said Celgar may be ablé to shave a month off the possible six-month delay of the project. “We've been talking to our consultants and with some luck and a hell of a lot of hard work, we may be able to take a month off the government’s estimate — not the minimum estimate of four months but off the six mon- ths,”’ he said. Despite the latest obstacle, Browne said he’s still op- timistic the project will go ahead. “We know we have a good project, we have a solid Project,” he said. ‘Everybody involved has agreed to that. “The owners are still enthusia: about getting this job done,” Browne added. ‘‘And with those two (con- ditions) you remain optimistic.’’ He said Celgar could get the concrete foundations down for the new mill even as late as September, October and if stay Provincial Secretary Howard Dirks, MLA for Nelson-Creston, said the committee -made the right decision to deny approval in principle at this time in light of the concerns raised locally about Celgar’s proposal continued on page A3 REGIONAL DISTRICT OF CENTRAL KOOTENAY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS NOTICE is hereby given that Public Hearings will be held on Tuesday, April 10,1990 at 7:00 p.m., in the Arts and Crafts Room, Castlegar and District Community Complex, 2101-6th Avenue, jar, B.C., to receive representations from all persons who deem it in their interest to make representations regarding the following PUBLIC HEARING No. 1 — PROPOSED AMENDMENT to Zoning Bylaw No. 422.1984, Electoral Area ‘J’: Bylaw No. 807, 1990 The intent of Bylaw No. 807, 1990 is to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 422, 1984, Electoral Area ‘J’ by rezoning Lot B, District Lot 7167, K.D., Plan 7678 (See location map below) from Rural Two Family - J,_R2J to newly created Industrial Light - B, M1B zone to per- mit construction of a mini-warehouse PUBLIC HEARING No. 2 — PROPOSED AMENDMENT to Official Settlement Plan Designation Bylaw No. 398: Bylaw No. 808, 1990 The intent. of Bylaw No. 808, 1990 is to amend Official Set- tlement Plan Designation Bylaw No. 398 to provide for more flexibility in accommodating industrial uses in the Castlegar fringe area. Further, development on those portions of District Lot 7167 and Sublot 8 of District Lot 4598 designated for future light industrial use will no longer be contingent on incor- poration into the City of Castlegar. SUBJECT PROPERTY Appliances No down Payment No Payments | NO interest for 3 full months 0.A.c. No Down Payment No Payments NO interest for Residents rev up fight over trucks By SIMON BIRCH Editor. Residents in the area around 6th Avenue and 24th Street in Castlegar are revving up opposition to a Castlegar city council proposal to allow a trucking company to park its trailers on a vacant lot in the neigh- borhood. At a meeting last month, council gave the green light to city staff to Prepare an offer to lease the lot, zoned light industrial, ;o DCT Cham- bers Trucking Ltd. of Vernon. But residents of the area and mem- bers of the Living Waters Faith Fellowship, whose church is across the street from the lot, banded together and presented a petition with 115 signatures of people opposing the Proposed parking lot to council’s planning and development committee Wednesday. “Hopefully we'll be able to stop this- in mid-stream,”’ Rev. Stuart Lai told the Castlegar News. Laurie is pastor of the Living Waters Faith Fellowship. In a letter presented to the planning and development committee, Laurie says his church members oppose allowing the trucking company to park its trailers on the lot because of the potential danger to-children who participate in activities at the church. “In addition to this, the park and recreation facilities across the street are a favorite gathering place for neighborhood children as well, many of whom ride their bicycles on the same road that would be frequented. by these large semi-trailer trucks,’’ Laurie writes. He adds that traffic congestion, in- creased noise, and dusty and smoky conditions created by diesel exhaust fumes from the trucks are potential problems if Chambers is allowed to use the lot. Bill Lewis, who lives near the property, said council should consider the health and safety of the area’s residents. “Council is totally disregarding the health and welfare of the kids ‘and people in the area,’’ Lewis said. ‘All the people in the area are opposed to this.”” Council, at a meeting earlier this year, voted to stop Chambers from using the graveled portion of the Community Complex parking lot to park its trailers. Last month, council agreed to extend the deadline to the end of March and offer the lease of the city-owned lot Ald. Lawrence Chernoff, who lives in the area, opposed the move. continued on page A3 Mall ‘quite close’ By ED MIL Staff Writer At’s nota 100-per-cent sure thing, but Castlegar is “*We also believe there is only room for one of the projects to go ahead,”’ he added. ‘‘I think if we go, then more than likely the other people won’t. And vice §-Pce. Formal Dining Room Suites and Selected Bedroom Suites No Down Payment No Payments for probably as close as it’s ever been to getting a long- awaited shopping mall “It’s quite close actually,’’ said Gary Tebbutt of Carter Properties Ltd., who, along with Ottawa developer Targa Capital Inc., is involved in negotiations to build a mall on property currently oc- eupied by the Hi Arrow Arms Hotel In a recent telephone interview from his Kelowna office, Tebbutt said he hopes to make an announ- cement soon on his plans to go ahead with the mall. versa. But when we go public we'll be well on our way to going ahead.” Tebbutt’s project would be built in two phases and would involve tearing down the Hi Arrow Arms Hotel in the first phase. But he refused to elaborate on the second stage While reluctant to discuss details because sensitive negotiations with land holders are still underway, Teb- butt did say the strip mall would house between 20-25 stores and cost about $8 million to build Richard Askew, the Hi Arrow’s owner, said that Copies of the aforementioned proposed bylaws may be inspec- ted at Planning Department Office, Regional District of Central Kootenay 601 Vernon Street, Nelson, B.C. ' between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily except Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays; and Castlegar City Hall 460 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily except Satur- days, Sundays and holidays. DATED at Nelson, 8.C. this 27th day of March, 1990. B. BALDIGARA, Secretary ae Regional District of Central Kootenay 30 days MOCK MAYHEM .. . Crews from local fire departments, ambulance, police and the airport were on the scene Saturday noon to take part in a simulated plane crash at the Castlegar airport. The exercise even included air cadets acting as the injured passengers and mannequins as ad ones. CosNews photo by Ed Mills Simulation tests crews By CasNews Staff The scene Saturday afternoon at the Castlegar airport looked real enough. Bodies strewn across the field, emergency vehicles and crews atten- ding to the dead and injured — sirens blaring, people shouting and victims writhing. If you didn’t know beforehand that it was only a test of local emer- gency response crews to a plane crash, you could have been fooled into believing a plane had crashed. “It’s just a training exercise to see how it all gels together and how it Tax rates out of By SIMON BIRCH Editor If you looked at the Regional District of Central Kootenay tax rates for 1990 in Wednesday’s Castlegar News and thought they were out of works,"'-said airport manager John Perry, who acted as an observer during the exercise. The operation involved airport staff, the RCMP, hospital and fire department personnel responding to the crash of ‘‘medium-sized twin engine _airplane,'’ and what looked like mass confusion at times was in fact an orchestrated live performance. “It’s done from the point of view, I guess, that everytime an accident happens, things go wrong and that's expected because people get excited and do thi maybe they wished they hadn’t,"’ Perry said. ‘‘So this is In electoral Area I, taxpayers do get a break in 1990. Residential tax rate this year is $2.1423 per $1,000 of assessed value, down slightly from $2.194 in 1989. The owner of a home valued at $$0,000 in Area I will pay just an exercise when everyone can do their thing under less stressful con- ditions.” After the cleanup and all the am- bulances had taken the victims — Castlegar Air Cadets played the bodies — to hospital, acritique of the Performance was conducted, Perry said. “*It’s amazing, no matter how often you do these kinds of things, things still go wrong but that’s what happens ° when people are involved,"’ he said. Perry said the airport tries to hold such simulations every one or two years whack $107.12 in 1990, compared to,$109,70 in 1989. The business rate in Area I drops to $5.2487 per $1,000 from $5.3753 last year. continued on page A3 HG —_ HOME GOODS Floor Covering Centre — Genelle NO interest for 24 full months O.A.Cc. VISA ae Located halfway Furniture Warehouse Open 9:30 a.m. to § p.m Phone 693-2227 Tuesday through Saturday City ready to boom, A2 He said he is still in the process of negotiating to buy some of the land he wants to develop for the mall. “Before we di formal announcement we'd like to get it all together,”” he said. ‘Considering how many times Castlegar residents have been promised a mall before, without delivery, Tebbutt said he doesn’t want to be premature on his announcément. He said developers who announced in January plans for a mail to be located next to the Sandman Inn may have spoken too soon, especially if his negotiations are fruitful. “They may have had a jump start in the sense of going public but I don’t know that that gives them any advantage or not,"’ Tebbutt said. ‘We don’t want to g° public just for the sake of going public, we to go public when we kiiow what we're doing. Sr: = ae if the project goes through, his building would be demolished but a ‘‘smailer version of the hotel"’ is in- cluded in the plans. Askew said discussions for the project have been in progress for five months and ‘‘his (Tebbutt’s) plans have changed quite a few times."” But Askew agreed that the process is winding down. Tebbutt said he has one or two more tasks to complete before he makes ‘‘a big splash in the com munity.” “*It’s been a lot of work to put the five parcels of land together with four different vendors (and) we've invested a lot of time, money and effort into this Project so we want to have a lot of things solidly in Place before we go ahead,”’ he said Still, Tebbutt says, ‘‘there are no guarantees in this business,”’ which is something people in Castlegar, who have heard rumors of a new mall on and off for a decade or more, know only too well by whack, you’re right. They were. The figures the regional district calculated and gave to the CasNews were average rates and mistakenly did not take into account the different “‘weighted”* tax rates assigned to the various classes of property assessed, with SPECIAL EDITION TODAY The West Kootenay is filled stories in business, industry, the such as residential, business, light in- dustry and so on, said RDCK ad- ini Reid H who and individuals who reflect an active, thriving-region full of optimism apologized for the confusion The correct tax rates are as follows. In Castlegar, the residential rate for 1990 is $2.659 per $1,000 of the Property’s assessed value, up from $2.4194 im 1989. That means the owner of a home valued at $50,000 will pay $132.95 in 1990 compared to $120.97 last year. Businesses in Castiegar will pay $6.5146 per $1,000 of assessed value. That's up from $5.9275 in 1989. pened in In today’s Castlegar News, our Update "90 special edition cap- tures that positive outlook. Up- date *90 takes a look at some of the good things that have hap- the past year and Provides a glimpse of some of the People whose investment in this area guarantee a positive future Tor the West Kootenay. Update '*90 focuses on success and - arts, and recreation And there are many, ranging from the proposed $630 million expan sion and modernization of the Celgar pulp mill and the expan- sion of the Castlegar and District Hospital to the completion of Castlegar's new Aquatic Centre and educational opportunities at Selkirk College. Look for the stories, photographs and histories that capture the positive outlook for the region in today’s special sup- plement, Update *90-