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RON NORMAN
Sun Editor

Castlegar Mayor Mike O'Connor
the continued closure of the Zucki

One of the holes was large enough for O’Con-
Nor to stick his hand through.

The
last

view with The Castlegar Sun.
The wooden stringers
ing are rotten, O’Connor exp!

assume quite costly to repair.”

Columbia River below.

Island suspension bridge is in

worse condition than reported and will remain

closed indefinitely, Mayor Mike O’Connor said
week.

“It appears to be in a lot worse shape than we
were led to believe,” O'Connor said in an inter-
which support the deck-

lained.

“It appears right now to be quite extensive and
just from a layman’s point of view I would

On a tour of the 100-metre long pedestrian
bridge, O’Connor pointed to several places where
holes had formed in the beams, showing the

have a look at it.”

O*Connor said the bridge will be closed “for
the time being until we can assess what the total
is.”

t
Points out the rotten beams that have resulted in
‘erberg Island suspension bridge.

Bridge in bad shape

O'Connor said the rotten stringers were noticed
when city works crews began to replace worn out
planking on the bridge.

“They started opening things up and finding out
what was there. They just didn’t feel safe working
on the bridge and called in the superintendent to

The city had hoped to have the bridge open this
spring and had agreed to let the Castlegar Rotary
Club stain the wooden decking.

The bridge was given a clean bill of health just
a few months ago following an inspection by a

‘SUN STAFF PHOTO / Ron Norman

See BRIDGE

2A

Sun Editor

The Keenleyside dam generat-
ing project may go ahead this fall
as scheduled, despite the collapse
of the Columbia River Treaty
de benefits
Rossland-Trail MLA Ed Conroy
said Tuesday.

“It looks as though the projects
may not be ” diese”

However, the U.S. electrical,
utility Bonneville Power Admin-
istration announced Monday that
it is pulling out of an agreement it
signed last fall.

Conroy said the Columbia
River Treaty Committee, which
negotiated the Columbia Basin
Accord, will-meet with the

Conroy told The Castlegar Sun in
a telephone interview from his
Victoria office. “I’m elated.”

But Conroy. was also cautious.

“I want to talk to more people
first,” he added.

Conroy said he was given the

Tuesday morning by Energy |
Minister Anne Edwards’ office. |
The downstream benefits
agreement was worth $5 to $6
billion over the next 30. years of

the treaty.
A portion of those benefits
were to be directed to the Koote-

ADMINISTRATION

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to see how to {

He called it “a sad time for a
lot of le.”

But Edwards said the Accord
will remain in place.

“Our government remains
committed to the Columbia

of partnership we have devel-
oped in the region,” she said in a
Prepared release.

“My officials will be meeting
with Columbia River Treaty
Committee representatives over
the next number of weeks to
feview strategies to ensure that

Meanwhile, Conroy said the
American decision caught him

surprise.

“I was shocked, like a lot of
people. . . .The idea that the whole
thing could very possibly be in
jeopardy is not pleasant

Bonneville officials said the pact
was too rich, in light of the recent
drop in the price of electricity.

“The price of power goes up
and the price of power goes
down,” Conroy said.

“Thirty years ago we made a
deal with them that was a very poor
‘deal for the province of B:C. We
stuck to our end of the bargain.

But he said the Americans
couldn't stand by their deal of
30 weeks.

Conroy believes there is more
to the American decision to pull
See KEENLEYSIDE 2A

School district downsizes

-8 for one year and that would see the board review

KAREN KERKHOFF
Sun Staff

Fence still up despite assaults

RON NORMAN
Sun Editor

The fence keeping young peo-
+ ple from gathering in a down-
| town public amenity area is
battered, but it's still up almost a
week after it was erected.

City workers installed the
three-metre-high orange plastic
snow fence last Thursday after-
noon around the square between

the Marlane Hotel and The
Greek Oven.

But less than an hour later,
several young people had man-
aged to sneak inside.

Usha Strebchuk and Megan
Sutherland climbed through the
fence in protest. The two Stanley
Humphries Secondary school stu-
dents also created a Petition
Opposing the fence and were ask-
ing passersby for support

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Several residents stopped to
discuss the issue with the girls
before a spring shower forced
the girls to leave and seek shel-
ter elsewhere

Meanwhile, another youth
was attempting to cut through
the plastic fencing with scissors
while friends played hackey-
sack nearby.

“This won't last the night,” the
See FENCE 2A

Come Sept.1 the Castlegar school district will have
anew and ined ini: r

At a board meeting Monday, a motion was passed
that will see a restructuring of jobs at the district
board office.

Trustees also passed a series of motions which
will enable the administrative structure to be orga-
nized into a CEO model with Superintendent
E ing three d

the terms and Cqnditions of the position upon con-
ion of the i S:

ng process.
Both trustees wanted clarification if the position
would be union or “exempt”.

But Baker said because the job description hasn't
yet be defined, it would be foolhardy to say whether
it should be union or not.

“It’s better to keep flexible the first year to see
what the job involves. We don’t want to get locked
into anything yet because once we make it a union

i cur fi ion, and finance.
Chair Joanne Baker said the reorganization came
about as a result of several cbntributing factors, one
of them being the retirement on Aug. 31 of secre-

P we won't get it back. We don’t want to
jump before we know what we're getting into.”

The downsizing will see Andy Boolinoff appoint-
ed as of i L Popoff as

tary-treasurer John Dascher. But Baker clarified that
the restructuring has been a long time in the making.

“When Everette was hired three years ago the
board said then that (the CEO model) is what we
Wanted and that we would phase it in.”

‘The board said the restructuring will result in sav-
ings in that assistant ry Bill Babakaii
fs position will be reduced to .8 from full-time.

“He won't be replaced and that will be a savings.”

Instead, Baker said Babakaiff will be replaced
with “more of an accountant-type ie

But trustees Evelyn Voykin and Mickey Kinakin
refused to give their affirmative vote to a motion
that would see Babakaiff’'s position dvertised at

maintenance transportation supervisor; Bill
iff as retary of

and superintendent E Surgenor’:

malized as chief executive officer.

Surgenor is currently working on job descrip-
tions which will be sub d to the
committee.

When completed, the board will contract with an
external firm or agency to conduct a review of
compensation for the positions affected by the
restructuring.

“They will be unbiased and will know what’s rea-
sonable in the province,” explained Baker.

The restructuring, Baker assured, will not result
in any job losses in the district.

'S position for-

New area
code for
next year

SUN STAFF

CP Rail footbridge
gets another year

regional district intends to

KAREN KERKHOFF
Sun Staff

British Columbia will no
longer be a one area code
Province after October, 1996.

B.C. Tel ications

The CP Rail fo

has

been given a reprieve.

The Ministry of Highways
has agreed to re-open the
wooden footbridge between

The move is subject toa
society taking over
of the .

the Castle-

x Ed Clark said the addi-
tion of another area code was
made necessary sooner than
originally expected.

gar who has been
spearheading efforts to save
the footbridge, said he’s

Pleased with the latest devel-

“When we introduced 604
for tong distance dialing within
the province we thought that
would give us enough numbers
until 1998.”

But a growing technology and
Population has d ded the

my
footbridge for one more yéar,
Highways Minister Jackie
Pement said.

As well, the Regional Dis-

trict of Central Kootenay
agreed Saturday to bring the
pats re po a

“It looks now that things are
all coming together,” he said.
He said his group will work
over the next year at having a
society take over ownership
of the footbridge.

early addition of the new area
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