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REMITTANCE STATEMENT = DETACH BEFORE PRESENTING: “ ‘ ! ial ; By RYON GUEDES 0301123: : : CASNEWS EDITOR VoTE No, DATE ISSUED , é Criticism of a planned 152-per-cent regional 17-240 (MAR. 15°79 ECONOMIC DEV. 145116 lanning costs increase for Castlegar highlighted 37910 . ste final debate on the $3,406,873 1979 budget adop-: ted by Central Kootenay directors Saturday. 1 : The regional district board voted to adopt the $ 1,500,000. 00 goes alta ctl eceaiadia Boneless Beef Oven Roasts Full Cut. . Grade a Wieners seisexr- trove. Bologn . Sliced. Chicken Loafiizis7. .$1.79 budget despite opposition by acting Castlegar director Ald. Len Embree, who said the city would be paying nearly $40,000 “for service it doesn't GRANT RE: zi NEW WATER’ SUPPLY SYSTEM Bottom Round orRump. A Grade... FA Ib. $9 30 mow i serve ‘em right_ Frying Chicken CutUp. (On Trays..........6.. 1b. - 5 Side Bacon. Regular or Thick sicsd 1 | Qa Good Breakfast. 1 lb. 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Chern Heed said the pro- posed contract with Adga was one of two items concerning Castlegar Airport which were discussed by the treasury board “last Thursday. 5 “The other was an order- in-council we required to per- mit Adga to use federal trans- port department equipment,” he said. “They gave tentative approval to the submission to enter into a contract, but felt that ‘they didn't have the jurisdiction to deal with the order-in-council, which has to go to cabinet.” 3 ".,, Although the board passed on the recommendation that the order‘in-couneil -be. aj proved, he said, its move meant approval of the contract would be delayed, The cabinet was not scheduled to meet again until late this week, he said, ie Under the terms of the | ECONOMIC DEV. « contract the airport manager would assume respon- sibility and: liability for the equipment, he said. A separate, temporary changeover contract with Adga for up toa month fust for labor would “achieve two purposes,” Heed said. $ § ” “One is that we don’t have to ‘put in. departmental em- ployees because ‘we can't hire the Castlegar employees that are presently there,” he said, More on Page Al6 . _ Embree ‘Breaks Tie, Province of British Columbia “ CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE’ & QOUGLAS AND VIEW x ICTORIA vore No, 17-240 MAR. 15 79 37910 0301123 $ 1,500,000.00 ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND * CITY. OF CASTLEGAR — GENERAL ACCOUNT receive,” Embree told the RDCK board the city's 20-per-cent share of the $197,674 allocated for regional planning in 1979 was “very ~ difficult for Castlegar City Council or.me.as an alternate director to explain to the people of Castlegar.” a Castlegar City Council — which budgeted $24,660 last year for the operation of the city’s own’ separate planning department — had hoped to alleviate the cost either through contracting planning service for adjacent electoral areas or pay- ing only 60 per cent of its share and paying extra for any planning done within its boun- daries, he said. “This board. has deemed itself fit not to act on either of those proposals and so we're in a position of having to oppose any increase in the planning function budget,” he said. He said the RDCK “is nowhere near prepared or phy- sically able” to satisfy Castle- gar’s planning needs if the city were to eliminate its ‘own planning department, “Surely there can be some alternative arrived. at other than us taking our rubber duck and running off to another regional district or complaining ‘to the provincial government,” the acting Castlegar director said. “I don’'t'see that as a solution either, but I-think it behooves this board to have some consideration. for, thé people of Castlegar. They're paying $40,000 per year to- wards the planning function of this regional district and they're More on Page Al5 College Responsible serve em \* : Ke For Degree Programs & ee nanan se beet ° : ong. a Rezoning Bylaw Killed | nt Acting mayor Ald. Len | were Ald: Bud Godderis ‘and : Embree cast a tie-breaking \. Ald. 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Ib. s 49s‘ Celery Hearts California Grown ............ Rhubarb Hot House. B.C. or Washington Grown, No. 1 Grade oe No. 2 Grade Prices Effective Tuesday to Saturday March 20 to March 24 In Your Friendly Castleaird Plaza Safeway Store council's approval of 4.6 acres of _.land on Third Street Ald.“ Albert. ‘Cald out. discussion. Mayor ‘Audrey Moore and Ald. Jim Gouk did hot atterid the Tuesday ‘meet- ings : SC ing of, the west portion of 200 Third: St. S., presently zoned for'single-family residential use. Casting. opposing’ votes a ae the bylaw's defeat, Calderbank said the Woodland Drive traffic . nearby residents said would . increase as a result ‘of the More on Page AIG Sandman Inn Parking — Requirements Eased Parking requirements for the planned $2.7 million Sand- .man_Inn on the Seventh Ave- nue South 300-block dropped by b-Regional -Questionnaire : On Planning : A questionnaire mailed to every -household in . Central Kootenay's. Arrow Lakes plan- ning sub-region will seek resi- dents’ opinions on regional planning needs, the regional district board decided Satur- * day. RDCK directors approved planning committee chairman Norman Brewster's motion to quiz residents of the muni- cipalities of Castlegar and Na- kusp as well as Areas I, J and K — assigned to the sub-region with the board’s approval of. recommendations in its regional plan last year — on how they would like to see their area 19 Stalls Tuesday with city council's approval of the de- velopment of a hotel rather than a motor inn. Council supported a motio: “million gra Castiogac’s ‘$6. mililon’ Lower.’ Arro pla Fou next week:to: talk: about the: il In fedgral-; 1. ral-provinetal Aja At ‘least two Kootenay West voters were pleased with Monday's news of a May 22 federal election. ee Interviewed “Tuesday by the Castlegar News, both Pro- gressive Conservative Bob Brisco and New Democrat challenger Lyle Kristiansen said they were eager to begin Two Candi the contest for representation — of the riding in the next parliament.- : Contacted in Ottawa, Bris- .¢o — scheduled to return to the it today — describ chair- man Ald, Albert Calderbank that plans submitted by North- land Properties Ltd. —. the holding company for the Sand- man Inns chain — be approved by city building and planning staff as a proposal for a hotel requiring 220 parking spaces rather than the 239 required for & motor inn, . - Planning committee mem- ber Ald. Len Embree opposed the. motion, saying Northland had failed to co-operate with the city in its interpretation of the proposed development at 336, 340 and 944 Seventh Ave. s. by planning it “We have two terms in our zoning’ bylaw, calling for a motel or motor inn and for a hotel,” Embree said. “In my mind, and to the people who drafted the bylaw, hotels were More on Page Al4 his reaction to Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau's election ‘call as “one of relief-and joyful anticipation.” “IT can't wait to get at it,” said the Kootenay West MP, a Trail chiropractor elected in 1974. “It's been 15 months aborning and it’s certainly been a very difficult birth for. the prime minister.” Asked “about the main Water Tan Those. holes -in the city's Meadowbrook Road water tank weren't caused by bullets after all, Ald. Gerald Rust told city council Tuesday. cee Rust, council's works and relief and anticipation election issues on a national level, he said the prime minis- ter has identified “five different issues” as the key one. services committee chairnian, “named ice as the culprit in the - appearance of four holes which appeared in the tank around March 16. ' “It appeared at the early develop, F ‘.. Brewster, who as Area H director represents the rural Slocan’ Valley, explained that the proposed bulk mailing of the questionnaires was one of two options his committee con- sidered as a preliminary step toward irivolving the public in the planning of the sub-region, one of five in the RDCK. « “The planning committee's proposed public involvement program presented to the board Saturday provides for public meetings in each municipality. and electoral area in the sub- region, issuing of press releases to the public on the progress off the meetings, presentation of alternatives to the public, and presentation and public review, A standing $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of persons vandalizing city property won city council's approval Tuesday after Ald. Gerald Rust reported. dam- age of 31 street signs this month at a cost of $699.62. Council supported the ‘motion by Rust, works and services committee chair- man,, that the reward be posted as a theans of en- - City Posts $500 Reward — For Info on Vandalism city r to report any acts of vandalism to local RCMP. Presenting the cost "breakdown for the 25 signs | knocked over or run over on March 17 to 18 and the nine damaged March 21, he said repairs. required $245.62 worth of labor, $268 in equipment costs and $186 in materials’ used to brace broken sign posts. _ “This resulted in a cost of i $22.50 a post,” Rust said. “And this was somewhat cheaper than had we put in new posts.” “It’s not something that just occurred this weekend,” he said. “This isa major occurrence in my opinion and I think the people who ‘do these deeds really don't in sense realize the dangers they, create by removing signs.” F More on Page Al4 of the draft plan. Ready for Race . “I don't know which one he's finally going to settle on, whether it’s his record or national unity or what,” Brisco said. “I'm quite amused at the :_»prime minister campaigning on national unity after 10 years of disunity.” He said several local issues may actually reflect “part of some national issues — energy being. one of them.” “T'm certain of the fact that my own record will be an issue,” he said. “Certainly !'m not at all ashamed of it. I've worked hard and I think that the constituents recognize that, and I'm quite prepared to put my record on the line." Asked how close he ex- pected the election in the riding to be, Brisco said he didn’t want “to seem immodest,” but added he was “confident I can take the viding.” . * Kristiansen, visiting Cas- llegar as part of a dopr-to-ccor k- Sniper Nonexistant ice, Not a Rifle - Rust | stages that these were caused by a high-powered rifle,” he said. “This was subsequently reported to the RCMP and . while it wasn't made public at the time, it nevertheless caused concern and a fair number of people in the area were aware of the situation.” “Ironically, when we went up to repair the one hole we found four,” the works, and services chairman - continued. “So we'became somewhat sus- picious. Rust said the buildup of ice “about a foot thick” inside the tank broke away when the temperature dropped and pull- ed the bolts anchoring the inside ladder out of the tank wall "and suddenly we had four holes.” - 3 “It's the first time this ever happened to any of our water tanks,” he said. “I felt that to dispel any early rumors that it would be best to explain the situation.” canvass he has conducted in the riding for the past two weeks, agreed that Brisco's record will be a major issue in the election but did not show the same con- fidence in the incumbent MP's re-election. atrege “On paper it appears to be one of the closest contests, I suspect, in the country,” he said, referring to the vote breakdown in the riding in the 1974 election. “In the last election the margin was appro- ximately 800. If it was 800 then he's lost 785 votes by virtue of More on Page A15. “at: Nelson's. Univegaity ing’ ctits,- -rectot i i *~Area ‘F director. 4 Pearce, who also represent Nelson‘ area on _the board, told'the regional representatives Pat gave college board ‘and “‘ad-: na ministration members a “ton-. gue-lashing” at a dinner _meet-_ ing earlier this month for their Reading. between . the ‘Hnes,* of McGeer's remarks, Péarce told the RDCK direc. tors “will be called into question" if it fails to carry out that task. “They will put in a body of people to make it cost-effective, they will get rid of the sub-. lack of progress in i the complete arts and science, education and fine arts pro- grams DTUG is authorized to produce under the Notre Dame University of Nelson Act. The minister told Selkirk board members he had made “a political commitment” to pro- viding funds for degree pro- grams and “that we had better Set our rear énd in gear and get something done here,” the Area F director said. Service Clubs Planning - Fund-Raising Events Two local service clubs will again proceed shortly with what have now become annual fund-r: ‘aising events. “The Castlegar Rotary Club will hold its second annual giant bingo on April 28 while the Castlegar Kiwanis Club will hold its annual spring auction on May 12, : Rotary Club spokesman Al Jensen said last year's bingo was have decided to ke the event again. This year, instead of merchandise prizes, there will be cash prizes totaling over $5,000. Kiwanis spokesman Reiny Bermel asked area residents to be alert during spring cleanup for items they no longer want but which may be useful to other people. : Proceeds from both events are used by the clubs for community projects, and tors and the board for one year and then they will start the whole process over again,” he said. Internal administrative problems partially responsible for Selkirk’s lack of progress in = producing the degree programs “are being: resolved,” Pearce said. His remarks were in re- sponse to Area E director W.: A. Forsyth’s ‘objections to rely-” ing on “the initiative of Selkirk College for two-year programs” for developnient of the DTUC degree-granting curriculum, “This kind of a program: should be on a different basis: than under the: jurisdiction, of Selkirk College,” Forsyth said. “That restricts it automatically , to two years, plus whatever the other universities on the coast have to offer, and they have the exclusive right to offer or not offer or to restrict. whatever kind of offerings they may. give.” Ff He noted McGeer's state- ment in Nelson that funds were available for such program development but a commitment More on Page41S According to . they're VOTERS well, 8: Classified Ads, Estate and Automotive AIP AUALE, Comics School. ° District No. 9 trustees, essential to Programs ‘in sex educa- tion, B4 Evidence they're being wooed Provincially as WEEKEND WEATHERCAST CLOUDY today with isolated snow flurries, It will continue .| to be cloudy into the weekend with isolated showers. 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