SM Castlegar News Jonvary 7, 1989 Births & Funerals iRTHS BARTELS — To Letty and Jim Bartels of Taghum, a girl, born Dec. 25. BAINBRIDGE — To Ria and Don Bain bridge of Calgary, a boy, born Dec. 20. BRODMAN — To Angie and Tom Brod man of Castlegar, 0 girl, born Jan, 2 HALE — To Lynda and Larry Hale of Rob son, a girl, bacn Dec JOHNSTONE stone of Winlaw, a boy To Sand _ Les John orn Dec MOREY To Chery! and Marvin Morey of Fr a vale, a girl, born Dec OLSEN — To Heidi and Todd Olsen of New Denver, a boy, born Dec. 20 POTAPOFF To Eleanor and Peter Potapott of Kaslo, a boy, born Dec. 27 REPIN To Audrey and Peter Repin of Castlegar, a girl, born Dec. 17 SAMULAK © June and Dare Samulak of Fruitvale, a boy, born Dec 2 STALKER — To Janice and Glen Stalker of Castlegar, a boy, born Dec, 24 DEA’ BONNEAU Nelson died Dec survived by sons Ross ani Quesnel; mother Lorna Balfour; six brothers and. on grandparents Arch le of Balfour; nine nieces and nephews ond many aunts and uncles BURNS — Ramona Irena Burris of Nelson died Jan. 2 at age 81 CHEVELDAVE — Dora J. Cheveldave of Slocan Park died Dec. 29 at age 87. Mrs Cheveldave is survived by her son Mike of Slocan Park} daughter and son-in-law Doreen and Frank © of Coquitlam son Peter and dapghter-in-law Mable of Sicamous; son and daughter-in-law Alex and Mary of Castlegar; stepson John and family of Castlegar; stepson Nick and mmily of Port Coquitlam and Castlegar brdther Bill Evin and family of Slocon Park; sister Mary Jamarchik and family of Langley: and 17 grandchildren and 15 from the family DRAKE — John (Jack) McDonald Droke of Rossland died Dec, 26 at age 82. Mr Drake is survived by his wite Jean: sons Don, Jim and Tom, all of Rossland, Beres of Kamloops and Bill of Williams Lake: a special.son, Ronnie Tweed of Rossland; daughters; Pat Williams and Jean Eddy both of Rossland, and Mary Skinner of Sidney; 25 grandchildren; and 10 great: grandchildren. ELMES — Mae Elmes of Rotsland died Dec. 31 at Trail Regional Hospital at age Frank (Folkert) longtime Nelson-area GROUWSTRA Grouwstra, a resident, di Warns Holland Dec, 25 at age Groywstra is survived by his wife Jehny Grouwstra de Vries; his sisters and brothers in Holland; Greta Grouwstra, mother of their seven children, Clara of Tees,,Alta., Gerry atid his wife Lindo of Castlegar, Ben and his wife Helen of Fort St. James, Frank Jr. and his wite Margaret of Crescent Valley, Don and his wite Jessica of Crescent Volley Evy and her husband Art Sperling of Poss Creek, and Jean and her husband Brian Knuckey of Maple Ridge; and many grandchildren, HARRISON — Margoret (Pear!) Harrison @ longtime Slocan Valley resident, died Dec. 21 at age 81. Mrs. Harrison is sur vived by her daughter Jean Champion of Appledale; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. HONEYMAN Agnes Wilson Honeyman of Trail died Jan. 2 at age 93 Mrs. Honeyman is survived by her son Gordon of Trail; 10 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and two\ great. Greot-grandchildren. HOSTETTER Betty Hosfetter of Castlegar died Dec. 22 at age 78. Mrs. stefter is survived by one son, Fred of wa; two daughfers and their husbands, Grace and John Nixon of Castlegar, and Joan and Ralph Gordon of Richm: nine grandchildren; two sisters, Nina Kloppenborg of LethBridge ‘and:Dorothy Tetzlatt of Sherwood Park Alta JEROME — Douglas Jerome died Dec. 30 at Abbotstord Hospital. Mr. Jerome is survived by his sons, Len of Vancouver and Jack of Trail grandchildren CLC leader OTTAWA (CP) — Shirley Carr, the besieged president of the Canadian Labor Congress, has known her share of adversity and now the leader of the 2.2-million member CLC faces a revolt by other union leaders and remains defiant. “I’m not stepping down,”’ she said after a five-hour, closed meeting with the CLC executive council last week That defiance is an indication of the tenacity that brought her from Poverty to the ip of for leadership of the NDP last month may have cost her support. Barrett lost to Audrey McLaughlin, who was backed by White. Last year, in a cost-cutting measure, the congress offered early retirement — an expensive proposition — to some of its staff but most of the empty spots have since been filled with new hirings. This seeming confusion has also drawn ‘ism for Carr. COMPLAINS OF STYLE the country’s largest labor group. She has come under pointed criticism in recent weeks. Bob White, head of the Canadian Auto Workers union, has said Carr — the first CLC head to come from a public service union — isn’t respected by other labor leaders and doesn’t have the backing necessary to win.election to a third term as CLC president in May. There have been suggestions that Carr’s decision to back Dave Barrett WE WOULD Like to express our sincere thanks to all the many friends and neighbours of Betty Hostetter's who have stood by her during a very long and difficult illness. To all her friends who came to the church service to pay their last respects, to the A.C_W. Ladies for the beautiful luncheon served after the service, to Rev. Turnbull, to the choir members, to Mr. Rudy Baff for the com forting organ music, to special neigh bour and friend Florence Kinakin for all her care and attention, to life-long family friend Joe Killough for his com. passion and friendship, to the pallbearers, to special friends Bunt and Phillipa Macereth, and to the Castlegar Funeral Home for their understanding in the making of the final arrangements for Betty, our beloved wife. mother and grandmother, we thank you all. The love and caring shown to us all has helped us to endure our greatest loss. Art Hostet. Fred and Ariella Hostetter and Joan and Ralph Gordon and Grace and John Nixon and CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION In Memoriam Donations, Box 1228 Rossland, 8.C. VOG 1Y0 104/73 “Your Charity of Choice’ Your caring gifts in Honour or in lemoriam @ beautiful ond thoughtful rom inder. B. Cc. AND YUKON HEART FOUNDATION: _ World War She’s by some as a poor speaker. Others say she has few ties to the industrial unions. Still others com- plain she’s inconsistent on some issues. Carr put three decades into winning her job as top spokesman for organied labor A short, darkgeyed woman with a sharp, crisp voice and’ fon-nonsense manner, Carr has come dong way from a childhood on the edge of pover- ty Shirley Geraldine Boutelier Carr was born in May 1929, seventh of the nine children of a Cape Breton miner who had moved ta Niagara Falls, Ont., in search of brighter prospects. Carr gréw ‘up through the Depression. As a girl, she scubbed floors for 25 cents a half day. She once recalled that she was 16 the first time she bought a new dress. It was for her graduation “Before downs, or said Her father and four of her brothers joined the services during the Second Three of the brothers went overseas and two didn’t come back, a high price for one family to pay. When Carr finished high school, university was an unthinkably expen- sive dream, so she took a clerical job and at 19, masried Bruce Carr, an im- migration officer. They have one. child, Larry Carr was working for the local social services department when it was organized by the Canadian Union of Public Employees. She found her job reclassified and her salary tripled and she began a lifelone commitment to trade unionism She started within her own local. In 1970, she became local president. She soon moved offto the presidency of the union's Ontario chapter and was elec- ted a general vice-president of the national executive. BECOMES VEEP In 1974, she was elected executive vice-president of the CLC, the coun- try’s largest labor group. A decade later she became secretary treasure and was poised on the brink of the top job. that, I wore hand-me- church donations,’’ she — WANTED — CLEAN COTTON RAGS aww, » Castlegar News 197 Columbia Ave., Castlegar three greot nieces an predeceased by ond daughter $ yandchildren; and many nephews. He was his wife Lenore (Nora) LeROSE Ad Dec. 27 at age 92 ina LeRose of Trail died USSA — Julia (Nona) Lissa of Nelson died Dec 26 ato ‘age 86. LUPTON — John Lupton died in hospital in Victoria Dec. 21. He is survived by his wite Dorothy; daughter and son-in-law Marilyn and Wayne Levick of Fruitvale gar Victoria; brothers Ewart of Victoria and Ted of Surrey; and nieces and friends MacDONA! Eric Daniel MacDonald of Balfour led Dec. 22 in ootenay Lake trict Hospital at age 55. Mr, Mac Donald it survived by three sons, Daniel ahd his wite Karen of Eatonia, Sask George of Kimberley, and John and his wite Lori of Kimberley; one daughter Anne Marie of Cranbrook; four gran dchildren; his father, Daniel of Glace Boy, N.S.; six sisters; and three brothers 4 MacDONALD — Jessie Anne MacDonald of Trail died Dec Vancouver and tan chorage, Alaska and four grandchildren. MOOJELSKY — David Roger Moojelsky of Nelsn died Dec. 19 af age 39 MORRIS Frederick’ Earl Morris longtime Nelson resident, died Dec at age 77, Mr. Morris is survived by h wite Hilda of Nelson; daughter Sheila and her husband Don Vockeroth of Rossland; sons Allen and Keith of Vic toria; and four granddaughters NADIN — Vittorio Nadin of Genelle died Dec. 30 at age 82. Mr. Nadin is survived by his wife Emma; son Victor of Trail three daughters, Anita Fitsgerald of Mission, Janice Cartwright of tondon Ont., and Brenda Purdy of Genelle; -¥3 grandchildren; five great-grandchildrent two brothers and a sister in Italy and numerous nieces and nephews POOHACHOFF — Fred John Poohechott of Slocan Park died Dec. 21 at age 59. Poohachot# is survived by his wite Shirley; sons Ted of Slocan Park and George of Creston. Tina Carrick of Toronto; brother John of Castlegar; and many nieces, nephews ond cousins Mages Fostleth Mrs. Postlethwaite is survived by Ine eon are daughter-in-law Frank and Mary daughter Dorothy Swinden of Nelson and Madge and her husband Demsey Koski of Nelson; four grandchildren; and eight great Grandchildren POSTLETHWAITE wai died De RELKOFF — Lucy Relkolt of South Slocan and Winlaw died Dec 27 at age 89. Mrs. Relkotf is survived by two sons. Eli Popott of Winlaw and Peter Popoif of Nelson; two daughters, Mary Padowinikoff of Slocan Park and Grace Filipott of South Slocan; 11 gran dchildren; 21. great-grandchildren; and brother John Kinakin of Thrums. SALIKIN Tina Solikin of Crescent Valley died Dec at age 82. Mrs Soli y four sons, Sid all of Crescent Valley; two daughters, Polly Argatoft of Shoreacres and Helen Postnikott of Crescent Valley; 14 grandehildren; six great-grandchildren; a brother and two sisters . SCHLEPPE — Joseph Stanley Schleppe of Trail died Jan. 1 at age 79. Mr. Schleppe is survived, by his wife Theresa; two Don of Atlanta, Go. and Mike of three daughters, Elaine Bertuzzi and Louise Simpson, both of Trail, and Vi of New Westminster; eight dchildren; four brothers and sisters, SWETLIKOFF — Tina Swetlikoff of Glade died Dec. 23 at age 83, Mrs. Swetlikoff is survived by sons, Alex and Pe: Malahotf of Vancouver Island and And: rew Malahott of Nelson; two daughters Olga Anutooshkin of Kelowna and Tina Corbett of Blueberry Creek; seven gran. dchildren; and six great-grandchildren ee Ne THOMPSON —Céiherine Thompson of Montrose died Dec. 28 at home. Mrs. Thompson is survived by her husband Leonard; four sons, Harold of. Pincher Cteek, Alta., Lorne of Fruitvale, and Carl and Henry, both of Montrose; 13 grandchildren and 11 great aces revolt In 1986, she campaigned for the CLC presidency, promising a more open and democratic administration. She won and almost immediately found herself pitted against Prime Minister Brian Mulroney over issues such as free trade and labor policy Theirs has been a stormy relationship. She pas called him ‘‘a dead skunk’’ and Yoncas” She has accused him of hiding behind his wife’s skirts and of being ‘‘Margaret ‘Thatcher in jockey shorts.”’ But they have also found time for a few outwardly cordial meetings White is her chief rival in the labor movement In 1987, he engineered a deal in which 23,000 East-Coast fishermen pulled out of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union to join White’s union. It was a raid of unprecedented proportions and left the CLC, which represents both unions, with a thorny constitutional wrangle to settle. The deal was done and the wounds healed, but the scars remain. ALUMINUM SHEETS “ax 36 75¢ Each 60¢ Each 50¢ Each ven 13 to 24 J 25 or More CASTLEGAR NEWS 197 Columbia Ave. Castlegar White remains Carr’s nemesis. He says he won’t run against her, but he didn’t rule out running for the Presidency if she quits. Carr has been up against problems before. The coal miner’s daughter has a toughness in her that makes her a for- midable rival Here’s My Card Castlégar News Meet the Team! Costerd ‘a Kootnikoft Diann Soukorot ADVERTISING 5210 * FAX 365-3338 Jacqueline Caroline OFFICE 365- grandchildren; one brother and two sisters THORIMBERT worge Lovis Thorim bert of Genelle died Dec. 28 at age 78. Mr. Thorimbert is survived by his wile Kerstin; son Andy of Genelle; doughter Yvonne, Grackett of Montrose; seven grandchildren Brendehildren; three brothers ord three WEBSTER — Rozella Sims Webster of Fruitvale died at age 76. Mrs. Webster is survived by her son Tom Gloria Jackson of Vanderhoft, Rosalie Jo Baily of Fruitvale, Mae of Toronto and Lucy Bates of Toronto; 8 grandchildren 26 great-grandchildren; two brothers and one sister; and numerous nieces and nephews. WILSON — John Wilson of ‘Trail died Dec. 31 at age 65. Mr. Wilson is survived by his son John (Willie) of Trail grandchildren; two sisters, Mary Beckett of Castlegar and Ann Beetstra of Trail and many dther relatives. LEGALS CLASSIFIED SHOWCASE This space available for CAMPERS * MOTORCYCLES * SNOWMOBILES * TENTS * MOTORS HOMES * BOATS * SNOW BLOWERS: ‘* FURNACES # CARS ® TRUCKS * DINING ROOM SUITES. © CHESTERFIELDS * ETC, , ETC Bring a photo, or bring the item & we'll take the pictur: $26 “(Average ‘$10.50 Each) * (Average $9.13 Each). Castlegar News PHONE 365-5210 LEGALS of the worl Plannin, inctudes: Ns as and when required Kootenay, Nelso: Previous experience, references be based upon review of resume .P. 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General Admission: $19 (advance) Tickets Available At: Glenmerry Market, Trail BAO BAO (SO Pete's TV, Castlegar Alpine Drugs, Rossland Swart Music, Creston mi) 0:23 Sewer, water fees rise By SIMON BIRCH Editor Castlegar city council will levy hefty increases to charges for connections to the city’s water and sewer systems and will also hike user fees in what council says is an effort to bring the charges more in line with what it costs the the systems, Council Tuesday gave.third reading to bylaw amen- dments that-will see the cost of connecting to the'city’s sanitary sewer system rise to $500 from the current $340. Water connection fees will increase to $500 from $340 for a typical three-quarter-inch residential connection. Fees for connecting to the city’s storm sewer system will rise to $500 from $150, the level at which the fees have city to make the connections and maintai remained since 1974. As well, water rates for single-family residences will rise to $68 per year from $62. several years. As for the water and sewer rates, User fees for residents whose homes are hooked up fo * the north sewer system will increase to $47 from the current $43 while residents whose homes are connected to the south sewer system will pay $75 in 1990, up from $68 last year. Sewer rates for businesses vary according to the type of business but will all increase approximately 10 per ceni in both north and south Castlegar. Water rates for businesses will also rise by about J0 per cent. Council deferided the hefty increases for connection fees pointing out that they have increased little over the last Mayor Audrey Moore noted that user fees for the north sewer system have vo? P 60 Cents increased just 19 per cent in 14 years from 1974 to 1988. In the south end, the increases have been steeper — ‘over 14 years — but still average out to less than five per cent per year. e Moore very realistic.” Council will likely give final approval to the increases at its next meeting In other city budget lied the latest increases ‘‘very modest and news Tuesday, y adopted a 1990 pr $8.1 million which includes a proposed property-tax in. crease of 6.5 per cenit Council must adopt a finiil budget inM Ry) y». YS ge Sin 62 per cent, ‘*well founded."?- council budget of almost Castlegar. MALL RUMORS FUELLED By EDMILLS Staff Writer Speculation. that a new mall will be built in Castlegar was given added weight today by Hi Arrow Hotel owner Richard Askew who said the rumors are Askew told the Castegar News that he and other pafties are in the process of negotiations with an Ot- tawa developer and that an announcement could be made within two weeks. Rumors that a mail will be built in the area com. monly known as the “‘elliptical site’’ directly behind the Hi Arrow have circulated on and off for years in CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1990 “astlegar News WEATHERCAST Tonight: Clear with cloudy periods Lows neor -4°. Thursday: Cloudy with sunny periods. Highs near 1° The outlook is for continuing dry conditions with a chance of precipitation by Sunday Probability of precipitation is 10 per cent tonight ond Thursday 3 Sections (A, B& C) Union are ON THEBRICKS . ib of the C di id joihed by members of other unions outside the Trail Canada Employment Centre Tuesday to protest the transfer of 10 jobs to Nelson from Trail. The union members later staged a sitvin at the Trail office. CasNews photo by Claudette Sendeck: CEC workers protest moving of jobs By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer Twenty-four members of -the Canadian Employment and Im- migration Union and their leaders, in- cluding the union’s national president, today are spending their second day camped out in the manager’s office of the-Canada Employment Centre in Trail The round-the-clock sit-in which followed a meeting between union leaders and federal’ government of- ficials is the union’s attempt to sto, the move of 10 jobs in the-uneynpldyment insurance section of the centre to Nelson from the Trail office. “We're going to lasi until we win, union national president Cres Pascucci told reporters before the sit-in began. “This is a crusade, this is no joke.” Pascucci said all 24 employees at the centre, all members of the union, are prepared to.lose wages to stop the relocation of the jobs. He said the union will continue the sit-in until Em ployment and Immigration Minister Barbara McDougall intervenes to stop the move ‘‘We're committed to fight this to the end,” he later told union members inside the centre: Kootenay West-Revelstoke MP Lyle Kristiansen said today McDougall has not answered his letters and inquiries on the issue. “The minister has been singularly uncommunicative,"’ the New Democrat MP said Kristiansen said he supports the union's actions and will visit the union members staging the sit-in if they are still there when he arrives in the area tomorrow. Warm weather breaks By CasNews Staff Whatever happened to winter? Local residents may be won- dering as the Castlegar weather of- fice reported a streak of five record-breaking maximum tem- peratures, including today Ron Lakeman of the weather of. fice said the temperature had reached 5.5 degrees C at noon today breaking the old mark of $C set'in 1986. He said he expected the hightoreach6 Yesterday's high was 8.3 C, knocking off the old record of 5 set in 1972. On Jan. 8, the mercury climbed to 7 C topping a 24-year old mark of 5 C set in 1966 The: warmest day of the week was Suriday, Jan. 7 with a high of 9.4(C, melting the old record of 3.4 records C set in 1984. The string began Jan 6 with a high of 6.3 C, breaking the old record of 2.9 C set in 1984. The streak also includes record mean temperatures — the average of the highs and lows, Lakeman said. However, none of the highs broke the existing record for January of 10C and Lakeman s: a cooling trend will end any likelihood of topping that mark in the next few days : A deluge of mixed rin and snow also set a record for precipitation “This may be the sort of thing necessary to get attention at the ministerial level,’’ Kristiansen said, referring to the protest Last night, the union members were preparing for the evening with sleeping bags and night gear. The United Steelworkers of America union representatives brought in food and a