July 21,1990 Castlegar News A3

LOCAL, PROVINCIAL NEWS

Nurses
get new
contract

~--¥VANCOUVER (CP) — Psychiatric
“and community care nurses in British
Columbia were awarded average wage
= of 21.65 per cent over two

M MediaiBs Vince nenty's binding

that nurses at two ect ities in Victoria
will receive upgrading and retraining
when those institutes are phased out
in 1992 and 1995 respectively.

But Dwight Wenham, B.C. Union
of Psychiatric Nurses spokesman,
said he’s not completely satisfied with
the deal.

“Even with the 21.65 Per cent wage

. “*I think people will be
ight will have to be

:About 2,400 members of the
Psychiatric nurses union and the B.C.
Nurses Union had been without a
contract since the end of 1989.

The government nurses went back
to work last week after Ready was
retained to make binding recommen-
dations.

During a six-week strike the nurses
at 14 institutions sought wage parity
with general hospital nurses who they
claimed made $800 a month more.

“*I think it represents a fair and ap-
Propriate compromise,” said Ready.

He said by March 1991 — a month
before the hospital nurses’ contract
expires — the nurses’ wages will be
“close if not right on’ with their
counterparts at general hospitals.

‘Wenham said a regular staff nurse
who was earning $2,440 a month will
be earning $2,942 at the end of 1991.

Heart
surgery
funded

VANCOUVER (CP) — Health
Minister John Jansen has announced
additional funding that he says should
come close to eliminating the waiting
list for open-heart surgery in British
Columbia.

About $3 million will enable the
Greater Victoria Hospital Society and”
St. Paul’s hospital in Vancouver to
perform about 100 additional open-
heart procedures each this year, Jan-
sen said in a news release.

The provincial government is ex-
pected to be able to increase its
caseload this month, while St. Paul’s
is expected to increase its capacity by
September, the release says.

““If all the funded open-heart
procedures are performed as expec-
ted, the number of surgeries this fiscal
yvar should be more than 700 cases
above the level achieved last year,” he
said.

“This should significantly reduce
the current waiting list.””

Kelowna General and New West-
minster’s Royal Columbian Hospital
are also expected to increase their
capabilities over the next few years.

A backlog of open-heart surgery
cases forced the provincial gover-
mment to reach an agreement with
Washington state hospitals to have
operations performed in Seattle.

FOR THE RECORD

Construction has been halted on the Castle View Care Centre while

@ new contractor is

sought. The original contractor bowed out of the project claiming financial problems.

CosNews photo

Construction halted on
seniors care home

By CasNews Staff

Construction has been halted on
the Castle View Care Centre near the
High Meadows subdivision because
the. C contractor doing the
work ran into financial difficulties,

Allan Curtis, executive director of
Chantelle Management, a Vancouver
company which provides
management services to Raspberry
Lodge, which the Castle View Care
Centre will replace, said Chantelle is
now looking for a new contractor to
take over from Eden Construction.
Work on the new 55-bed intermediate

¢ facility should begin again in a
weeks, Curtis told the Castlegar
News.

The new facility was slated for
completion in September and the
delay will mean construction won't be
completed until sometime around
Christmas, he said.

Eden’s announcement that the
company could not complete the
contract **came as a great surprise to

is,”” Curtis said.

The Calgary company came with
“very high and

The construction delay will create
no direct costs but there will be finan-
cing costs and costs as a result of
having another company pick up the
work halfway through completion of
the project, Curtis said.

Curtis said he understood there is a
waiting list of elderly area residents
wanting to move into the new facility
but he could not say if the construc-
tion delay will cause problems for
those people.

Castle View Care Centre ad-
ministrator Diane Ramage was aw:
and for Thur-

“*very reputable,’’ he said.

sday and Friday.

Controllers

cont! from front page

removed in the fall, because Tran-
sport Canada is running out of money
and costs must be cut, Douglas said.

However, Douglas could not say
how much money Transport Canada
will save by moving the six controllers
out of Castlegar. Later, he said the
federal government may end up spen-
ding money to relocate its employees.

Moore told Douglas she could not
understand the decision to remove the
Yontrollers if Transport Canada will
not save money by doing so.

**You've just said to me you want
to do this change of personnel here
against all the wishes and all the best
advice of the users, of the pilots, of all
the elected officials, the municipal
council, the chambers of commerce,
of Selkirk College. You just want to
bulldoze right ahead and you want to
do that. But you're not going to save
a nickle. So why are you doing it?”
the mayor said.

“‘My dear man, you're alienating
all of us, you’re making us nervous
about flying, you're dislocating your
own people, you're spending more
federal money. It doesn’t seem’ like a
good, sound decision to me and I’m
going to need a lot of convincing.””
will be moved to

The Castlegar News incorrectly
reported the name of one of the
highland dancers in the photograph
on page AS of Wednesday’s paper.
The correct name of the dancer on the
far right in the photo is Heather

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other facilities to help alleviate the
shortage of controllers in Canada,
Douglas said. .

Douglas was asked if the con-
trollers are being moved from
Castlegar only because’ they are
needed elsewhere.

well comes down to
’m not going to run

McDonald told the
Castlegar News the six Castlegar con-

trollers will not help alleviate the shor-
tage of controllers at other airports
such as Vancouver since they will
likely end up on the backlogged
waiting list to attend training courses
needed to upgrade their skills for
work with radar and other instrumen-
ts at the larger airports.

A date for the pull-out has not been
set because Transport Canada’s first
Priority is helping the controllers
relocate, Douglas said.

The decision to remove the con-
trollers was made after applying
national criteria for maintenance of a
control tower to the Castlegar
situation, Glover said. Castlegar,
which had 27,000 aircraft movements
last year, was found to be well below
the criteria of 80,000 movements per
year indeed for maintenance of a
tower, he said.

Glover was unable to explain why
Transport Canada is not considering
removing controllers at: Penticton,
which had 40,000 movements last
year

The officials were asked if factors
unique to Castlegar, such as the dif-
ficult terrain, the aviation program
which trains commercial pilots, and
the expected economic boom in the
area, which will likely be accom-
panied by an influx of people, were
taken into account when the decision
was made.

Douglas said economic forecasting
is used in considering the future of an
airport

“But we couldn’t come up with
anything that would get the traffic
anywhere near (the aircraft
movement) numbers (needed to main-
tain a towet) in even the next 10
years,’ he said, adding the economic
forecasting is done in Ottawa.

“It would be good iff you would
Provide us with that information and
we'll make sure it is utilized,”’
Douglas said.

Glover said Transport Canada took
Castlegar’s terrain into account in
making the decision to remove the
controllers.

“We're well aware of the
topography in Castlegar,’’ Glover
said. ‘“‘I don’t think anything was
overlooked in that area.

But McDonald said the lack of con-
trollers to guide a pilot in after the
plane is visible to the Castlegar tower
will mean commercial aircraft must
remain under Vancouver radar until
they touch down.

And Bob Wright, senior training
captain with Time Air, said that
system will cause delays because Van-
couver can guide only one aircraft
down on to'the runway at a time. The
delays could lead to the airlines
reducing thie number of flights into
Castlegar each day because of the
time constraint imposed by the
ber of daylight hours, he said. ts
cannot fly into Castlegar at night.

Nelson Mayor Genta Rotering,
calling the situation
relations ‘disaster for Transport)
Canada and a national disgracs

€
called on the federal officials to

commit their assurances in writing
that the airport will be safe after the
controllers are removed and conduct
a public relations campaign to
alleviate the fears of area residents.

“We'll use our PR people as much
as we can to inform people’’ about
safety at the airport under flight ser-
vice specialists’ control before the
controllers are removed, Douglas
said.

BRIEFLY

By CasNews Staff

Driver charged in death &

The 19-year-old driver of a Toyota pickup involved in a single-
vehicle accident July 13 that left a Nakusp man dead has been charged
with criminal negligence causing death, RCMP said.

‘Cameron Lee McKay will appear in Castlegar provincial court ‘Aug.

pesulted in the death of 18-year-old Clark Edward
‘and sent five people, including a child, to hospital,

Robber gets the slammer

A Vernon man has been sentenced to a total of 22% months in jail
in connection with an attempted armed robbery in March at the
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Castlegar, RCMP saiv|.

Robert Gary Pattyson, 19, will serve 444 months for attempted
armed robbery and 18 months for possession of a weapon in the
commission of an offence.

Truck driver injured a

A tanker truck driver was sent to Trail Regional Hospital July 18
with cuts to his face and eyes after attempting to release pressure in an
overheated pump on his fuel truck, RCMP said.

Ron Meijer of Calgary heard a loud noise he thought was a blown
tire while at the intersection of 34th Street and Columbia Avenue in
Castlegar, police said.

Meijer was injured when he tried to release the pressure and the
valve exploded, police said.

Park's sprinklers suspected

Brown patches in the sod at the new Community Complex ballfield
has Castlegar city council speculating there might be.a problem with the
underground sprinklers installed in the field.

“I would suggest that if there is a problem we should go back to
our contractor in Osoyoos,”” Ald. Marilyn Mathieson said. ‘‘I think we
possibly have some recall unless we didn’t adjust (the sprinklers) right.””

Council also noted there are brown patches appearing in Kinnaird
Park and at the interchange of Highway 3 and Highway 22 as a result of
the recent hot weather.

City pulls plug on developer

Time has run out for First City Development Corp. Ltd.

Castlegar city council voted Tuesday against further extensions to
the company’s deadline for applying for a building permit to construct a
shopping centre on vacant property across the street from BT Burger on
Columbia Avenue.

Ald. Albert Calderbank, chairman of council’s planning and
development committee, noted that the city has granted extensions to
the deadline for a number of years, ever since the company first
proposed the shopping centre.

“*Now it’s getting to the stage that the costs of development in the
~ has so changed over the years that they have to start (the
development permit process) again,”’ he said. ‘‘We don’t want to extend
(the current permit) any further.’’

Property owners pay up

The City of Castlegar collected 93.5 per cent of property taxes by
the July 3 due date, an increase of 3.5 per cent over last year. In past
years the city has averaged 90-92 per cent, says a memo from finance
‘manager Peter Ozeroff to Ald. Doreen Smecher, chairman of Castlegar
city council’s ini: ion and finance

Ozeroff says the city received ‘‘relatively few’’ complaints about
the amount of tax to be paid, ee that taxpayers this year benefited
from the provinci: ry grant.

The city has again invested ise tax revenue in the Municipal
Finance Authority investment pool at 13.85 per cent to 14.1 per cent
interest, a rate higher than those quoted by banks for investments,
Ozeroff says in the memo. The investment pool also offers ‘‘more
flexibility for withdrawl at a later date,”’ he says.

The city will also try to encourage earlier payment of taxes.

“*Due to the fact that a large number of people prefer to pay their
taxes on or close to the due date, we may in the future consider

of taxes or ing the mailing in of post-
” Ozeroff says in the memo.

dated cheques,”

“ta public /

Health

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impose it on the entire Central
Kootenay area, Toews said. Each
community is different and has dif-
ferent concerns, she explained.

The project could build on the
health ‘‘report cards”’ the health unit
is currently preparing for each area of
the Central Kootenay after conduc-
ting surveys of area residents earlier in
the year, said Toews, who is coor-
dinating the preparation of the report
cards and a more comprehensive
overall report to back them up.

The report cards should be com-
Pleted as expected by the fall, she
said.

To decide what focus the project
should have in each community, the

health unit has begun holding
meetings with community groups in
each centre to discuss the project,
Toews said.

Last week in Castlegar, represen-
tatives of city council, the school
board, community services, home
support and others held an initial
meeting on the project. They
suggested a variety of other people
who should be involved in the plan-
ning, Toews said.

Health unit officials also want to
involve people who may feel isolated
in the community such as those on
low incomes, she said.

“*We don’t want to end up with a
middle-class project,” she said.

The health unit has hired a Van-

couver researcher to write the project
Proposal, Toews said. The Central
Kootenay Health Unit is one of 20
groups to be short-listed for funds out
of an initial group of more than 150
that applied -for funds for health-
promotion’ demonstration Projects
from the B.C. Health Care R

campus

From books to bucks

Jacqueline Hamilton; the manager of Selkirk College’s Castlegar
kstore, is the City of Castlegar’s new treasurer.
Hamilton brings to the city good credentials, including experience

management staff at city hall,’’

superintendent of public works.

in labor relations and computers, Ald. Doreen Smecher said this week in
ing Hamilton’s ji

“*She’s going to be a much-needed and welcome addition to the
Smecher said.

Hamilton was chosen from three finalists for the position — two of
whom were women, Smecher noted.

Hamilton begins part-time with the city Aug. 7 and becomes full-
time Sept. 4. The new position of treasurer is part of the city’s
restructuring of administrative staff.

New superintendent named

Barry Comin has joined the City of Castlegar as the new
Comin, who held the same job in Houston, B.C., started Tuesday.

Airport gets funds for runway

The provincial g

Airport.

gravel base and paving.

Johnston says in a news release.

has given the Koot
Regional District a $355,000 grant to extend the runway at Trail

The governnment will provide the grant through the Air Transport
Assistance program. The funds will be used to extend the runway 305
metres, to a total length of 1,220 metres, including construction of the

The extended runway will allow Trail Airport to accommodate
most commuter aircraft types now in service, including the provincial

air ambulance jets, Minister of Transportation and Highways Rita

The Air Transport Assistance program provides finan jal and

to
province.

airport

ri the

LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS

Tapes won't affect session,

VICTORIA (CP) —

weeks.

“*We had aimed at the 26th, but that looks doubtful

now,” Richmond said.

Richmond and Rose say the Smith tapes scandal
te when the session shuts down, even though
both sides are anxious to escape the controversy.
8) no relation to the Smith-Sihota
’ Rose said. ‘*Those two things aren’t connected.
think, like anybody this time of year, we'd like to
Storm the barbecues, however, that doesn’t mean that
we're going to lét the people’s business go.””
Vancouver RCMP are investigating Smith. for
Struction of justice in connection with taped conver-

The recent scandal involving the
taped photie calls of former attorney general Bud Smith
won't affect the length of the current B.C. legislative
session, say house leaders from both parties.

Government house leader Claude Richmond and
Mark Rose, his NDP countrpart, said they had hoped to
wrap up the current session next week,
will likely require members to stay at least another two

‘sations he had with one of his officials. and a television
reporter.

Smith resigned less than 24 hours after NDP justice
critic Moe Sihota tabled in the legislature transcripts of
Smith’s conversations — believed to be from his car
Phone.

Sihota said the gonversations clearly show Smith
tried to discredit a lawyer hired to Prosecute former
tourism ministr Bill Reid on a privately laid breach of
trust charge. ‘9

Deputy attorney general Ted Hughes launched an in-
vestigation and has enlisted his counterpart in Alberta,
Neil McCrank, to decide whether obstruction of justice
charges are warranted.

The house is also awaiting rullags by speaker Stephen
Rogers on charges by both sides of contempt of
parliament. .

Rogers ruled Thursday that questions to’ the gover-

t arising from the Smith tapes are out of order

use of the RCMP investigation.

Rogers told the legislature an RCMP sweep for hid-

but the workload

den electronic surveillance equipment in the offices of
members had turned up nothing. Premier Bill Vander
Zalm had said he saw 16 need to inform people his lines
were clear.

“L think it’s up to us to know that they’re safe and
we need to do these sweeps from time to time, obviously,
as we've seen in the past,” he told reporters. “I don’t
think we should broadcast the results, necessarily.’"

Sihota alleges Smith was in contempt because of
what was on the tapes while Richmond contends Sihota
‘was in contempt because he made use of intercepted
Phone conversations.

Meantime, members of the legislature who live in the
Victoria area, receive a $45 weekly living allowance for 60
sitting days, while those from elsewhere get $100.

That allowance has run out, which usually indicates
that session’s end is near. This session, which will be of
average length if it ends in the next couple of weeks,
began with the throne speech April 5.

But Rose said the end of the session depends on what
happens to outstanding legislation. He hasn’t ruled out

leaders say

sitting into August

More than two dozen pieces of legislation, many of
them non-contentious housekeeping bills, have already
been passed. Almost an equal number have been in-
troduced but not passed,

The elctoral districts act, altering electoral boun.
daries, and the Carmanah P: ic park act, which divides
the contentious Vancouver Island valley evently between
parkland and logging, are still before the house.

“About this time of year the bills fall like maple
leaves and if there are non-controversial housekeeping
bills then they perhaps can proceed," Rose said. ‘But if
there is anything controversial we're going to continue to
debate them.”

The NDP has promised to fight the government's
proposed referendum legislation. If passed, the law would
allow government to approve binding or non-binding
referendums on a variety of issues.

Several ministry estimatés, including the premier’s
office, still have to be debated

Victoria,

doctors

close toa deal,
Vander Zalm says

VICTORIA (CP) — The provincial
government and B.C. doctors are
close to a settlement in their 15-month
dispute, Premier Bill Vander Zalm
says. .

“I think we're talking about the
makings of a possible solution,”
Vander Zalm said after a five-hour
meeting with Dr. Hedy Fry, president
of the B.C. Medical Association.

“The details we're still perhaps
doing a litile calculations and some
further figuring, but we’re talking
about the makings of a solution."’

Vander Zalm, Finance Minister Mel
Couvelier and Health Minister John
Jansen met with Fry, medical
association past-president Dr. John
Anderson and president-elect Dr. Gur
Singh in an attempt to break the
deadlock.

Although the premier wouldn't
discuss the details of the meeting with
the medical association, he did
suggest he would take the proposal to
the next cabinet meeting.

“Perhaps the minister of finance
,and myself can go back to cabinet and
discuss the implications of what it is
we've been talking about,’”’ Vander
Zalm said.

Fry said she is also hopeful a sét-
tlement i is near, and will meet with the

this weekend

“I’m optimistic about what hap-
pened today between the premier, Mr.
Couvelier and I. I think we have
discussed some principles here we
have not discussed before that make
me cautiously optimistic,”’ Fry said.

“I would like to think that what
we've doing tonight is the start of
something that will bring us a set-
tlemgnt in the near future."’

a, the sides discussed prin-
ciples behind the association’s three
major issues — fee increases, aging
and population — but declined to
elaborate on any firm proposals she
will take back to the committee.

She said an increase in fees must be
Separated from an overall package
unless the increase is larger than has
already been offered by the gover-
nment:

““We're negotiating not only for an
increase in our pay package, but for
an increase in our overheads, rents,
etc. We have to perform like small
businesses, but unlike them, we are
not allowed to charge the consumer,”’
she said.

WELCOME TO CASTLEGAR

Negotiating committees for the

Tech

government and the medical

acetese: 5 agin College’ 's sister < ecvconene! institute, arrive in
will be in

association, who were not at Thur-
sday’s meeting, are scheduled to meet
Monday.

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floor and the wall yet,’’ Cross
said.

The funny thing, said Cross —
though she’s not laughing — is
that with all the things the culprit
or culprits, who smashed patio
doors to gain entry, could have
stolen, they took only a cigarette
lighter in the shape of a gun.

“It’s totally ludicrous really
Maybe they thought it (the lighter)
was (a) real (gun). My husband's
30.30 rifle was sitting in the sink
full of water, the scope broken
off. It doesn’t make sense."”

Cross said one clue RCMP have
is the kitchen clock, which read 3
o'clock when it was smashed
Another scarier clue is the amount
of water in the house indicates the
Crosses may have come home not
long after the vandals left, Cross
said the RCMP told her.

She also said the RCMP told
her that they hadn’t seen senseless
destruction of that extent in
long time in the Kootenays.

“They said they haven't seen
anything like it in five years,”" said
Cross.

Vandals

Special to the Castlegar News

Castlegar residents will have to
brush up on their Japanese as the city
Prepares to play host this fall to a
delegation of officials from its
Japanese sister city of Embetsu.

The visit will be the second in three
years by Embetsu officials, but the
first since a formal twinning

Despite the horrendous
damage, Cross said she was lucky
in some ways.

““We were fortunate, they
didn’t touch my trophies or rib-
bons hanging on the wall, and
most of the pictures.”’

Cat d by Sel
living parti local pdm This Is the Prides sein of the

Two cities become closer

First Ebetsu visit
since twinning

ntil Aug. 12 and will be

the two

Castlegar school board, which ap-
Proved in principle the twinning bet-

students there.

Nor-

Norman noted that education is the

ywrs photo

In addition, the Castlegar-Selkirk
Lions Club has officially twinned with
the Embetsu Lions Club and initiated
regular correspondence.

Norman said the Castlegar-
Embetsu Friendship Committee is
looking at establishing other links
between community. groups in
Castlegar and corresponding groups

Cross, who runs a dog
grooming business out of her
home but has had to close the
business until the damage is
repaired, said she doesn’t have a
clue who, or why, someone would
do such a thing.

“It “could have been a
vengence thing, but I don’t think T
groomed anyone’s dog that badly.
We do have a teenager and
sometimes they make some pretty
bad enemies,"’ she said.

Cross said her brother came in
to feed the cat and chickens on a
regular basis over the 10 days the
couple was vacationing, and she
had informed neighbors that they
would be away.

“Stupidity, that’s what it was.
Just straight, all-out vandalism,
destruction in action.”

agreement was signed last year.

“The purpose of the twinning is to
Promote the ties between the residents
of the two cities, fostering meaningful
cultural, educational and economic
opportunities,’ said Ron Norman,
chairman of the Castlegar-Embetsu
Friendship Committee.

The six-member committee was
established in January by Castlegar
city council to develop Castlegar’s
sister-city relationship with Embetsu,
a community of about 5,000 located
on the northwestern corner of the
island of Hokkaido, Japan’s norther-
nmost island. The committee consists
of Chris Foster, Dave Gairns, Jacquie
Hamilton, Marilyn Strong and Don
McDowell.

The committee has been actively

ween Embetsu and Castlegar,”’
mah said.

He added that the committee hopes
that sometime in the future a group of
Castlegar students will exchange with
students from the Embetsu high
school.

Norman said the exchange-could tie
in very well with the provincial
education ministry’s Pacific Rim
initiative, which promotes stronger
ties between B.C. and Pacific Rim
countries such as Japan

He pointed out that Embetsu
education officials are anxious to
establish strong ties and that has
already started to happen in small
way. An art class from the Embetsu
high school shipped over a series of
mosaics, which are on display at

ties within the
in addition to laying the groundwork
for the visit by Embetsu officials in
September.

“We appeared before the

Stanley phries secondary school
As well, geography teacher Chris
Foster's class has written to the Em-
betsu high school, seeking to develop
a stronger relationship with the

primary focus of the twinning. The
sister-city relationship grew out of
Selkirk College’s sistership agreement
with Aoyama Technical College
Aoyama College, a privately owned
college, has campuses in Tokyo and in
Sapporo, the largest city on the island
of Hokkaido. Aoyama’s owner, Mit-
suo Shikano, was raised in Embetsu

Norman pointed out that the com-
mittee also prepared and staffed a
booth at the annual trade fair in
April.

Meanwhile, twinning between other
community groups has also begun.
While there is no Rotary Club in Em-
betsu, the Castlegar Rotary Club is
seeking to establish links with a
Rotary club on northern Hokkaido so
that local Rotary exchange students to
Japan wilh be able to travel there.

“One Castlegar exchange student,
Paula Furey, is heading to Kushiro
this summer, which is on Hokkaido,”’
Norman said

in Embetsu — such as the Castlegar
and District Hospital, the Castlegar
and District Public Library, Scouting
and churches.

The friendship committee’s focus
in the last few months has shifted
toward preparing for the 24-day visit
this September by Embetsu officials.
Norman says he hopes Castlegar
residents will get involved in the
event

“‘When Mayor Audrey Moore and
the Castlegar delegation visited Em-
betsu last June, they were treated like
royalty,’’ Norman said. ‘‘We think
now it is our turn to show our Embet-
su friends a truly warm Kootenay
welcome.”*

To that end, Norman said the
committee is looking at holding a
community barbecue which will also
showcase local entertainment.

“We're asking Castlegar residents
to come out and meet our Embetsu
friends at the barbecue,"’ he said.

Manning

continued from front page
from the Castlegar Airport, likely in
the fall.

“*Is Castlegar being treated one way
and Baie-Comeau (Prime Minister

Brian Mulroney’s riding) being

treated another way?’ Manning

asked
Regional

fairness and ‘‘fiscal

Foundation. The foundation is fun-
ded by lottery money and has about
$1 mi available for demon-
stration projects, she said.

The Central Kootenay project will
need about one third of that moncy to
run three separate programs of the
two-year project in the three com-
munities and hire a part-time coor-
dinator for each community, Toews
said.

LOTTERIES

The winning numbers drawn Thur-
sday in the B.C. Keno lottry were 3,
14, 15, 22, 25, 30, 41 and 54.

The winning numbers in Wed-
nesday’s Lotto 6/49 draw were 10, 12,
18, 39, 43 and 49. The bonus number
was 40.

The four Extra winning numbers

for British Columbia were 12, 52, 64
and 93.

The winning numbers drawn in the
B.C. Keno lottery were 2, 20, 21, 3
M, 36, 38. and 40.

These numbers, provided by The
Canadian Press, must be regarded as
unofficial

—o a federal
spending and the national debt — are
the two main themes in the policies of
the new federal party.

The Reform Party has about 41,000
members in the western provinces and
13,000 to 14,000 in B.C., Manning
said. About 150 Castlegar residents
belong to the party and Manning
acknowledged he has had ‘‘the least
amount of contact’’ with people in

the East and West Kootenay ridings
of all the ridings in B.C. i.

“We're open to advice’ from
Kootenay residents on how the party
can gain more visibility in the area, he
said.

Manning said the Reform Party is
trying to draw new members away
from the three established federaj par-
ties. People move from Conser-
vatives, Liberals or New Democrats
to Reform because the young party
incorporates basic elements of all
three major parties in its policies and
platforms, he said.

The Reform Party ‘‘balances on
these three. legs’ rather than calling
itself a left-wing, centre or right-wing
party, he explained.

The Reform Party could come out

of the next general election with a

- Significant number of seats in the

House of Commons, he said.

“It’s not unrealistic to think the
west could send two or three dozen
Reform (MPs) to Ottawa in the next
election."”

Such a Reform Party block could
hold the balance of power in a
minority-government situation, he
noted.

The party has seven per cent of the
committed vote nationally and 16 per
cent of committed B.C. voters favor
Reform, Manning said

Currently, the party has one elected
MP from Manitoba and newly ap-
pointed Senator Stan Waters who
became the first senator in Canadian
history to be elected by the people he

represents

The party is still working 6n policy
for a number of issues including a
single-rate or flat-rate income tax
system but the party does have a four
point plan for dealing with fiscal
management, he said.

Cuts should be made to middle
management in the 38 federal depar-
tments and grants and tax credits to
Private corporations should be
reduced or eliminated, along with
grants to special-interest lobby
groups, he said.

As well, cuts should be made ‘‘at
the top’? — MPs’ salaries, allowances
for seantors—to demonstrate the
government serious about cutting
spending, Manning said.

The Reform Party comes out of the

Western Canadian tradition of
producing ‘‘reform’’ movements,
Manning said. But that tradition is of-
ten equated with extremism and the
Party must work to counter that, he
said,

“The question I want to leave with
you is this: Should we revive the
reform tradition in the 1990s and har
ness it to the task’’ of creating
regional fairness and controlling
federal spending? he said

“If the answer is yes, I offer the
Reform Party as a vehicle for that
change,”" he said

Manning, born in June 1942, was
raised on a dairy farm east of Edmon
ton. He graduated from the Univerity
of Alberta in 1964 with a bachelor of
arts degree in economics, according to

biographical information from the
Reform Party.

In 1968, he became owner and
president of Manning Consultants
Ltd., a research and management
consulting firm

Manning is a committed evangelical
Christian who contributes regularly to
seminars and religious media on such
subjects as the relation of faith to
business, science, politics and conflict
resolution.

He was elected leader of the
Reform Party at ‘its founding con-
vention Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1987, in
Winnipeg

Manning lives with his wife, San.
dra, and five children in Calgary