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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH: COLUMBIA, SEPTEMBER 12, 1979

5 (A,AA,B,C&D)

Council snubs

By RYON GUEDES:.
CASNEWS: EDITOR

Castlegor ‘will not take part in the 2 propos-”

. for not

’ Projected $6 ,000 annual b dg

ipating in’ what Embree called. “establishing

ed. provincial \governm
District of Central Kootenay economic devel-

opment function, city council decided unani-

mously Tuesday.

Responding to a letter from ROCK admin-,
istrator Reid Henderson requesting contirma-
tion of the city’s participation, council carried
Ald. Len Embree’s motion not to involve Cas-

tlegar in the function,

nomic development commission which accord- *:

providing for an eco-

ing to preliminary budget estimates would
cost $62, 000 annually from 1980 to 1982.

“Mayor Audrey Moore and the three aldermen present at
Tuesday's council ‘meeting. listed their doubts. about the

previous success of a similar i

another branch of. the regional district.”

Bmnbree said’ the city's. mmecoberehle in the Reotenny
the
Regional Ditiet of Kootenay Boundary’s economic “alo:
ment commission, “didn’t prove to be very effective and was
quite costly as far as we were concerned.”

-“My opinion is that the ( a i
commission inthe RDCK is exactly Sart and I see no
reason why Castlegar city council should become involved,”
he our position in regards
to’our planning levy eat the regional district.”

“I find it difficult what direction the

challen d

they: should have par ion their
capacity to handle this whole area’: : economic development by
themselves.”
~" “But I serlously question setting up commissions to do
the same thing,” Godderis added. “They don't really achieve
too much in terms of what they set out to achieve.”
Moore, Castlegar director on the RDCK board, pointed
out that the $62,000 economic development seaual budget
estimate quoted in a memo from

2DCK economic function

Ald. Heather Hallett said the Proposed. economle
formula for
government fioae och the RDCK regional planning

“My worry is that Castlegar will indeed end up footing
the majority of the bill,” she said. She added that. the RDCK
administrator's memo was: “very vague.”

Embree said it was not: his intention to be “parochial”
about the proposed function, but ‘he: felt’ there were

“numerous facilities available to- the "RDCK and the
community right now to establish a dialogue.” He’ said
is the bility ' of ch: of

“assumes a static budget” for three years.
“I think that’s wonderful," she jokingly said of the
projected budget intended to cover employment ore
and of

regional district is wetnes" he said. “I know one thing —

they're spending more and more money all the time,”
Levin d don’t think anybody could question the importance of
and I would that

gency

ay
and about the reliability of budget projections among reasons

should be left entirely in the hands of
" Ald. Bud told council. “Although

Northland Properties’

able mortgage interest
> rate is delaying the start of

‘construction on its planned
* $2.7 million hotel here, the
. Castlegar News was told
S Puesday.

difficulties finding a suit- .

| Interest woes bring $2.7 m
hotel project to a standstill

, Tight now for a mortgage
that’s reasonable. All we're
waiting for is someone to
give usa inortgage ‘at’ the
right price and we're going
to start building the next

‘ys i.
‘~The Northland oper.

misnager Don Hall said his
company, which‘ owns the
* properties operated by the’
Sandman Inn hotel chain,
said the. original ‘plans for
building the 115-room facil-.
: ity‘on-the Seventh Avenue
"South 800, block ‘were’ bas-
ed on: -a -11.25-per-cént

Bat going to be :economi-
viable,” Hall said.

ations yer said financ-
ing for the development

“could happen tomorrow”
although he noted one
Prospective member had
just asked for an extra one
per cent interest. He said
the company was “so eager
and, anxious to get going
-there Ican- taste it,” but

«could not apply to the city.
Mor a building tern with: K parking,
‘out proper | :

“We obviously. "can't
build ‘sorte:

for a room. We want to
build something here we
can live with and Castlegar
can live with.”

- City council decided in

made up’ of business
spokesmen from throughout the RDCK. “I've never seen a
budget that’s been static before.”

Moore said the incial has to

and similar inthe region.

“Te always been told those types of people. are
Anterested,” he told council. “I think the facilities are all there
“without establishing a commission and another so-called atatic
budget for three years, It's ridiculous to assume we're going
to go into that and costs are goirig to remain static.” |:

Questioned after tho council. meeting, Embree said the
prospect of setting up a commission and appointing a fulltime

directors that the RDCK board “as duly constituted” could not -
function as an

and the function's : future. after -

‘provincial assistance ends made him “just start to shudder.”
He said development affecting Castlegar and its outlying
areas can be dealt with more effectively locally than by the
proposed .commission.
“We've had a planning committee meeting ‘with Area I
_ and Area J and we have more of those scheduled,” he sai “And
“I don't see the needs fer the Peery district, in Nelson to

New ob sstacle

to settlement?

-from residential to com-

a split vote last spring to
give three readings to a
bylaw rezoning 836, 340
and 344 Seventh Ave. S,

mercial use to allow con-
struction of the hotel com-
plex: on the planned site.
Ald: Len Embree and Ald,
Bud Godderis opposed the
reoning on the grounds the
developer. failed to satisfy

clusively sinion workers in.

comnit,,. ‘ourselves. to..a
financial burden we can't
manage,” he; said.” “We
knoéw'about how Tauch we

x could “get fora’ room ‘in

and: we don't

but’ we can't get any ‘money

‘want’ to. charge’ too much

of the hotel:

" : Adoption, of the’ ‘rezon:

pends: on ‘the developer's .
application ‘for.’a, building

permit for the: project.

Daya said, noting the Increase. in
‘the initial costs: of collecting blood

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Two testify: arson committed |
under Verigin threat of curse

Fear of a-seven-gener-
ation curse from Orthodox
Doukhobor leader John J.
Verigin pushed two members
of a rival sect into setting a

-series of fires, the. ‘pair
‘testified in Nelson this week
at.the opening. of an arson ©

conspiracy. trial.
Peter Savinkoff of Gil-

pin, B.C., told.:a crowded -
{provincial court Monday that
j he was afraid if he-did not
~ follow orders from Verigin to

set the, fires, his arms and

-legs could fall off.

Verigin-is on trial along
with two’ other men’ on
charges of conspiracy to
‘commit. arson. Verigin, .Wil-

liam ‘Evdokimoff and Peter

Astaforoff have all pleaded
not guilty to the charges.
The testimony by Savin-

* Koff and his father John

brought gasps of disbelief
Monday from Orthodox
Doukhobors in the courtroom
who believe Verigin innocent
of the charges.

The Savinkoffs belong to
the radical Sons of Freed

erty to dispose of material
goods and thus achieve salva-
tion.

The younger ‘

walk out of the courtroom
and burn again if Verigin
ordered him to. 6 a

John it testified

5 the Senemee Red’ Cross Society, shown
here with Castlegar District United Way
chairman® Al. Leavitt. Dayo told the di servi
Castlegar News Monday. hi

area is specifically to recft
public the Canadian Red Cress Society's
partnership v with United Way

during blood donor recruitment. The Red|
Cross provides blood transfusion service

A “confrontation”. Mon-
day between local CanCel
pulp mill management’ and
Pulp, Paper and Woodwork-
ers of Canada members has

a settlement on

- local issues despite the

union's ratification of com-

pany.offers last week.

.  ‘“That'was PPWC Local 1

president .Ed ©Conroy’s as-

* sessm nt — after T1iper cent. :
820 ‘union’ meinbers,

75 per cent of the come
from: United Way arid

as for many

rvices, for cer-
yisit to the tification In water safety, and boat
-‘safety,' as well. as instructions on
“babysitting, to name: just a few.
which has. Castlegar District United
doutthat its public kick-off in downtown Castlegar]
junds come. Oct. 5 witha group leaders’ meeting|
Sept. 24 at the Hi Arrow Arms.

years. While the Red Cross works.on'a
90-par-cent volunteer basis,. costs stil!

—News/MirrorFoto by lols Hughes

Woy will hold!

declared to the court that in
fact Verigin is a Freedomite.

He testified that Verigin
ordered. the burning of a
$500,000 community hall .
owned’ by the Union of°
Spiritual Communities of
Christ (the Orthodox group), ,

-the old Grand Forks post’

office, the Sunshine Valley
Co-operative building and the
home of Stephan Sorokin,
leader of the Reformed Dovk-
hobors.

Savinkoff said he believ-

‘es Doukhobor leaders can

impose a curse lasting seven
generations on those who do
not obey their orders.

“I did it for the salvation
of the Doukhobor people,”
said Savinkoff of the three
fires he partici din. ‘I do

that Verigin had told him to
recruit five women to burn
down the home of Sorokin at
Krestova, B.C., near Nelson,

If he. did not obey, he
said, Verigin said he would
choke him with his own
hands.

The Savinkoffs describ-
ed a late night scene during
which containers of gasoline
and shotgun’ shells were
dumped ‘into ‘an Orthodox

More on Page ‘A2

No ‘mutual resolution’ in plannin:

News the dispute: occurred
because the mill management
was “not abiding by the con-
cept” agreed upon by the
local and the company before
- last week's ratification vote.
CanCel’s failure to follow the
previously-approved terms
will delay the signing of the
proposed ‘contract by the
union, he said.

The Local.1 president
did not discuss the details of

shutdown or study session by
PPWC members,

“They kept their cool but
if (management) are going to
insist on this process it's
going to happen,” he said.

“The company seems to
insist that they're going to
keep doing this, so:I guess
the same thing’s going to.

bay he added,
aoa 4

yesterday.
on ‘why: we weren’ ago
upton member’ as a super

Collier said. “But

thee come up all the time.
We have no agreements on
who we use as supervisors.”

The company’s local is- _

sues offers are ‘reportedly
concerned mainly with work-
ing conditions improvements.

Collier said items cover-
ed in the CanCel offer include

the confrontation, although concessions ranging from in-
he said it did not result in a stalling microwave ovens in

ig_costs talk with Vander Zalm

Dialogue at UBCM conventio

with i

‘affairs, parks, and

Mayor Audrey

fitness and~ highways: min-
try.

Officials were included’

ist
in Castlegar representatives’
agenda at last week's Union

of B.C. Municipalities annual

Salmo’s pump dispute
remains unresolved

The dispute between
Salmo village council and

what jour leaders tell.us. I
wouldn't have done it on my
own but once Verigin told us,
we went,”

Under joning, the

Doukhobors, a group which
preaches the burning of prop-

younger Savjnkoff said he
would have no hesitation to

over
responsibility for repair costs
for a faulty water well re-
mained unresolved after
Tuesday's regular council
meeting.

The months-long issue
stems from an installation bill

Work continues on new city
Arrow Lakes water system

About 3; a metres of
Castlegar’s new Arrow Lak-
es water supply main is now
installed, Mayor Audrey
Moore announced: Tuesday.

Moore said the pipe laid
as of Tuesday represented 55
per cent of the approximately
6,800 metres which will be
required to link to the €anCel
pulp mill’s water intake ‘to
the city’s Meadowbrook Road.
pumping station.

The mayor said nearly

all the first-stage pipe, sup- -

plied. by Albernic Construc-
tion under its $722,689 instal-
lation contract with the city,
has been delivered.
Engineering drawings
and specifications for the
second stage of pipeline con-
struction from the city's
Meadowlark Road tank to its
Kinnaird Park tank, are near-
ing completion, she added.”
She said the city will call

tenders for the second stage °

contract around Sept. 24 and
open tenders Oct. 9. The
city’s consulting engineers
have made submissions to CP
Rail, the B.C. housing min-
istry and Inland Natural Gas
for the .right to work on
various rights of way, the
mayor said, although the
second stage will involve the
crossing ‘of "very little pri-
vate property" during con-
struction.
More on Page A2

‘submitted to Salmo council
requesting payment for work -

done on the. village water
supply well. ‘A’ malfunction
occurred soon after the well
was installed, and Mecman
was called in to correct the
problem.

Council members con-
tend that the engineering
firm should assume respon-
sibility for a percentage of.
the costs but have‘ not de-
termined a specific amount
yet, town clerk Henry Russill
said Wednesday.

Mecman made an offer of
$1,800 toward the final pay-
ment, but that still leaves the
village absorbing 90 per cent
of the cost, said Russill.

After several letters
from both parties failed to
clarify the payment issue,
council members decided
Tuesday that. personal. con-
tact in the form of a meeting
between the two parties was
needed to resolve the matter,
but no definite decision as to
when or where~ has been
made, Russill said.

Moore d Tuesday.

” Moore told ‘city council
the Vancouver convention
gave her, Ald. Albert Calder-
bank, Ald. Jim Gouk, Ald.
Heather Hallett and city ad-
ministrator Bill Krug op-
portunities to discuss items
of local importance with
provincial government

spokesmen as well as to par-.

ticipate in debate and deci-
sions on the convention sche-
dule. -

She told council mem-
bers — who voted last month
to withhold the city's $27,000
share -of Central Kootenay
regional planning costs until
ordered to pay by the munici-
pal affairs ministry — the op-
portunities included a talk

hly

with minister Bill Vander
Zalm about regional districts
and planning cost-sharing.
“T'm not sure we arrived
at any mutual resolution on
the matter,” she said. “But I
would hope there will be
further study of regional dis-
tricts by the minister.”
- Interviewed Monday by
the Castlegar News, the
mayor said Vander Zalm,
whose ministry is preparing
to revise the Municipal Act
and introduce a new, consoli-
dated planning act, “asked
several times when we are
going to pay.”
“I said probably we'd
consider it when we were
ordered to pay,” Moore said.
“He said ‘Tm going to look at
this whole planning situation

under a new planning act’ a
which point I said ‘good, T'
very happy to hear that.’ 7
The minister indicated
representatives of his min-
istry would travel through-
out the province and meet
with municipalities and’ re-
gional districts “to get some

. first-hand feedback as to

where the problems really
were,” she said.
Other meetings in which

lunchrooms to extra services
-in washrooms.
tas bea ares by patore of
p,. fairly
papery issues mH a toeal nature,”
‘be re ieee that’s of
consequence has to
He hamaied over the | table.”
The PPWC Local 1 presi-
dent described the’ areas

covered in. the pens ‘

offers as “motherhood
sues.”

Asked about the union's
position on the proposed
master industry contract pro-
viding for a opr hourly
wage increase in the first
year on a base rate of $8.16
an hour and a second-year
raise of 9.6 per cent or 90
cents, Somer ea he still bas

and

necessity of expansion” of

Syringa Creek Park and the

need for marine parks on the

Arrow Lakes with a parks

ministry official. Also discus-
More on Page A2

“a pt
ance” from Fria local.

He said he would await
the ratification of the master
contract by all other locals
before calling a ratification
vote here.

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