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PAYMENT POLICY Payment may be made by cash cheque_or Viso and MasterCard credit cards. 1t-is_not advisable to January 30, 1901 Vol. 44, No. 9 Castlegar, B.C, 2 Sections (A & B) 75 Cents Sa sal Fundraising helps family ‘Rebels miss playoffs again Tr. Celgar waits for feds as deadline nears By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer On the eve of Celgar Pulp Co.'s deadline to have financing in place for its proposed $650-million moder- nization and expansion project, company officials say they are still without guarantees the project will go through. “The situation is that we have still not concluded any final for fi i * Celgar John Lebidoff said Tuesday. ‘I know for a fact that our people are working extremely, extremely hard . . . but by no-means is financing in place.”’ Meanwhile, the Celgar Expansion Review Panel an- nounced Monday it has provided the complete text of its final _Tecommendations on the Project to the federal and and the federal minister of fisheries and oceans. The panel said in a news release that it expects to submit its final report in mid-! February, about two weeks Past the Jan. 31 deadline. Review panel secretary Alan Ferguson said the final report is “‘virtually complete” and is in draft form, but because of Celgar’s financial situation the panel decided to release the recommendations separate from the report. The recommendations are the same as those that will be contained in ‘the final report, except the report will include the reasons for the he Set out in the review panel’s interim report released in December. “We're still proceeding under the basis that we will have. satisfied all that the banks require,” he said. “We're doing everything we can. . . going through the interim report and preparing ourselves for that.” Sweeney said the federal government is aware of Celgar's financial deadline and the problems the com- Pany will have if the deadline passes. He said the panel has indicated ‘‘quite publicly” there is nothing of significance in the report and recom- said. Wilf Sweeney, general manager of the Celgar that weren't included in the interim report. An extension on the deadline has not been granted, and it remains to be seen if the federal government can Project, told the Castlegar News today that and are 1g based on review the and make a decision by tomorrow, Sweeney said. Chris D'Arcy, NDP MLA for Rossland-Trail, said Tuesday he is concerned by the length of time the federal government has taken im the past to make decisions. “The federal government has given its assurances that it will do whatever it can by Thursday afternoon, but I remain skeptical."’ Once federal approval has been granted, Celgar will review the recommendations made in the final report to determine if it can meet those recommendations. Then the company has to satisfy the banks before financing is provided. The provincial government granted approval in principle for the project based on the panel’s interim report. Medical flights called crucial By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer Rod MacKinnon says two mem- bers of his family are alive today because emergency flights were available at Castlegar Airport. MacKinnon, who asked that the names and relationships be withheld, to protect privacy, said he wanted to speak out only to-stress_-how crucial it is to have a plane based at the air- Port for emergency situations. **We just want to make it plain that without that, we would have lost those people. Adastra Aviation’ Ltd. has been providing the emergency medical flights but company president Dale Nielsen said last week Adastra will stop flying emergency medical Patients out of the area at the end of this month. Nielsen told Castlegar city council he can no longer afford to keep his aircraft now that provincial govern- ment jets provide the emergency flights more often. MacKinnon said that on one oc- casion a brain tumor became life threatening to a family member and she had to be flown to Vancouver immediately. However, it was winter, the weather was “‘really bad"* and if Adastra’s plane hadn’t already been at the airport, she would not have made it to Vancouver in time. On another occasion, also during winter, a second family member suf- SIGN 'EM UP Council approves 50 km-h limit on Columbia Ave. By SIMON BIRCH lor Better practise easing up on the gas pedal — changes to Columbia Avenue designed to control traffic and make the street safer, including lowering the speed limit, are on the way. Castlegar city council voted Mon- day to-proceed with a plan it hopes will result in short-term solutions to traffic_problems on the city’s main thoroughfare. The city estimates the cost of im- plementing the plan at $70,000 and will seek provincial government fun- ds to help pay for the work which will begin as soon as the weather im- proves, Mayor Audrey Moore said today. The plan will not require any major physical changes to Columbia Avenue. Perhaps the most significant change will be the reduction of the speed limit on Columbia Avenue to 50 km-h from 60 km-h between Arrow Lakes Drive and 20th Street. That suggestion was the only one to meet Opposition at Monday night’s council meeting when Ald. Bob Pakula said he's. against reducing the speed limit “I agree with the report in its basic concept but I have a strong feeling toward the speed limit,” Pakula said. He said lowering the speed limit “defeats the purpose’’ of the plan. “If you slow it (traffic) down you're going to tighten it up,” he said. But Ald. Lawrence Chernoff said the lower speed limit is designed to allow traffic to flow more smoothly from one end of town to the other and to give drivers entering Colum- bia Avenue from side streets more time to enter the flow of traffic. A recommendation added as a result of public meetings on the Proposals is to reduce the speed limit to 60 km-h from 70 km-h near the entrance to Birchland Heights in south Castlegar. The Ministry of Highways turned down a previous request from council to reduce the ‘speed limit in that area The other major change will be the creation of a two-way left-turn lane down the centre of Columbia Avenue between 6th Street and 20th Street The idea behind the lane is to please see PLAN page A2 Board denounces send cash through the—moil fered a massive stroke. 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MLA for Rossland-Trail, said the Ministry of Health should help private pilots with maintenance costs to keep fully equipped, government-standard planes on hand for emergency use. Currently the ministry pays on a per-trip basis, similar to a taxi fare, but planes have costs whether they are flying or not, he said. In Castlegar, it’s even more impor- tant because the airport serves all of the West Kootenay and flights are limited to landing only when: weather and daylight permit. “The government action in not providing standby fees is an insult to the people of this area who need and which the province ey into emergency health services, | believe they should be negotiating a formula to meet at least some of the fixed costs of maintaining these planes." money in the Seas Thachbaees he testa te groups split the proceeds Cosews Loreche Peace forum attracts 200 to cultural centre By CHERYL CALDERBANK Special to the Castlegar News About 200 people gathered for a forum Saturday night at the Brilliant Cultural Centre as part of the Worldwide Day of Action for Peace in the Gulf. resolution against the use of force in the Middle East and opposing the use of Canadian military in an aggressive role. The resolution will be sent to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. The event was sponsored by the Kootenay region of the “United Nations. Association, Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ, Friends for Peace and the Castlegar Peace Group. Jack. Ross, a Quaker from Argenta and founder of the Centre for Non-Violence, spoke about non-violent solutions to conflicts. Gary Ockenden, director of the Kootenay regional Office of the Red Cross, spoke about the role of the Red Cross in the Persian Gulf war with specific focus on the S@dequate service to the West please see FLIGHTS poge AZ Geneva Andy Shadrack, a political science instructor at Selkirk College, gave a historical overview to the events leading up to the Gulf War. Ross told the audience the Gulf War isa war of en- vironmental tragedy. “There is no time to wait,’’ he said. treat the world as if we intend to stay." Ross said public opinion is volatile and intense op- position to the war co-exists with patriotism. “Soon the first Canadian dead will arrive in body * he said. ‘“‘We must respond with compassion with the families who are grieving.” But Ross added that the Iraqi dead are equally im- portant to him. He suggested that imaging exercises could be a Peace activity for community groups. “We need poets, artists, dramatists and writers to help us have a vision. Don't yield to numbness and despair. You can do something worthwhile. What we individually do can make a difference.”' One solution is to avoid media addiction, Ross said, adding that the media’s war messages paralyse the mind. Ross also suggested spending time alone to think about one’s basic values and beliefs and advised peace supporters to resist war in their own ways. “Examine the basic teachings of your faith. Pray."’ Ross recently returned from @ protest at a nuclear test site near-Las Vegas. Ross, along with 250 other “We must please see FORUM page AT Editor The Central Kootenay Regional Hospital District_board- denounced Saturday the provincial government's offer to contribute $25 million an- nually to a pension plan for “B.C. doctors, calling the plan ‘‘discrimin- atory.”’ The board passed Area D director George Cady's _resolution— which States that the directors. ‘‘make it known in strong terms that we object to this discriminatory benefit plan which benefits those who can afford their own pension plan at the expen- se of those who can least afford it. . Directors Tom Mann (rural Creston), Josh Smienk (rural Nelson) and Bill Herchmer (Creston) opposed the resolution which the board will forward to Premier Bill Vander Zalm, Health Minister John Jansen, Finance Minister Mel Couvelier and the four Kootenay-area MLAs. In arguing for his resolution, Cady, who represents the area from Ainsworth to north of Duncan Lake, said the provincial government shouldn't establish a pension plan for self-employed people such as doctors at a time when there are “soup kitchens and people living un- der bridges” in B.C. “PT think it's just too mm to ask the person on the street to he said. ‘‘I think it’s basically wrong.” » who read from a lengthy document he received from the provincial government explaining the pension plan, said the hospital district board should stay out of the provincial government's business. “I would urge defeat ‘of this motion and get back to what we do best — Tynning the regional hospital district and the regional district,"’ he said. The regional hospital district board is composed of the 20 Regional District of Central Kootenay directors.