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Minimum charge is $5 (whether ad is for one.. two or three times). Deadlit e 5 p.m. Wednesdays for Saturday's paper and 5 p.m Monday for Wednesday's + paper. Notices should be brought to the Castlegar News at 197 Columbia Av COMMUNITY Bulletin Board ANNOUNCEMENT In recognition of 27 years of service at Castlegar Savings Credit Union, we would like to pay a special tribute to IDA MORTON who is’ retiring. We invite you to join us for coffee and donuts FRIDAY, MAY 31 to say good-bye to a special employee and friend. CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION "Your Community Financial Centre CASTLEGAR 601-18th St. © 365-7232 Local MP defends RCMP Kootenay Wi MP Lyle K. was among New Democrat members of Parliament who spoke in the House of Commons last week to protest the federal government's new cost- sharing proposals with municipalities fc The proposed new contracts fe five to 27 per cent for policing costs. , “This cut amounts to an extra’ intait tax choose to live in smaller towns,"’ Kristlangen | are already hurting from peste the downsizing of VIA Rail. They have | protection as do citizens in larger cities.’’ Under the current proposal, Castlegar would pay $533,000 for nine officers this year, up from $508,000 for 10 officers last year, city officials said in March. New Democrat MPs say the move is an unfair burden on local taxpayers and particularly hard on small communities, sam ight to yeay City supports students It’s almost summer and that means students are hitting the streets looking for work. Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore has declared the city’s support by encouraging local employers to hire students to fill summer job openings. “‘Mayor Moore's Public declaration of mappors for student is very during our Hii Week campaign,’’ said Natalie Stupnikoff, student placement officer at the Canada Employment Centre for Students in Trail. The centre can help local employers identify post-secondary and secondary students possessing a wide range of skills and levels of education, Stupnikoff said in an news release. “These students are willing to work for any length of time and are available on short notice,’’ she said. Flood threats remain The P in the West Koot well above normal at higher elevations as of May 1 while at lower elevations the snowpack varies from well above to well below normal, the B.C. Environment Ministry’s water management division says in its monthly Snow Survey Bulletin. “The heavy snowpack raises the possibility of flooding, mainly on unregulated rivers in the region, but the rate of snowmelt depends very much on the weather during the melt period,’’ the bulletin says. Precipitation at weather stations in the region averaged 138 per cent of normal in April, continuing the trend of the last several months, the bulletin adds. The average monthly temperature was one degree Celsius above normal. Discharge on the Kootenay river at Fort Steele was 136 per cent of normal for April. The forecast volume runoff through September is 130 per cent of normal, assuming normal weather conditions for the Period, the bulletin says. Cominco team wins The Cominco fire department team from Trail won Saturday’s regional first aid competition in Nelson. The Cominco team competed against seven other teams, including one from Castlegar, for a place in the Workers Compensation Board’s annual provincial final slated for June 15 in Richmond. Winning team members are captain Tim Thatcher, Rollie Hill, Bill Thompson and Andy Cant. The company representative is Walter Rosner. Second place went to the Radical Trauma Group from Fruitvale. The winner of the Gus Porcher Award for the best first-aider on a non-winning team went to Connie TeBulte. The best novice team was from Selkirk College’s Boundary district whose team members had just completed their industrial first-aid course. Highway 3 to shape up Continued improvements to Highway 3 near Rock Creek and at the Erie overhead west of Salmo are among the $557 million in capital and rehabilitation projects for B.C. highways in 1991-92 announced by Highways Minister Lyall Hanson. ‘*We want to make the most of the construction season, so we will be calling tenders quickly in order that work can begin,”’ Hanson said in a news release. Road maintenance up for grabs By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer The third contract area currently managed by Bel Maintenance Inc. of Nelson is up for grabs next week and Q be the first in line. en staggering its for three-year contract area. Bel’s other two.con- tract areas, Central Koot and maintenance three years ago, And regardless of which proposals are successful, the ministry says current contract employees will remain em- ployed. **New contractors will be required to offer employment to employees who are already doing the work,’’ Highways Minister Lyall Hanson said in a news release, ‘Rest assured that local communities will continue to benefit from hae ga hone and revenue opportuni created by private-sector contractors.’’ The process of awarding the con- tracts is different from the usual bid system, said Errol Hicks, the High- ways Ministry’s regional manager of operations. pyres Selkirk, were called in March. Hall said he would know in a couple of for are and i are invited to submit a full proposal. weeks whether or not his on those two areas were successful. Each contractor is limited to three contracts. The Kootenay-Boundary contract area includes 3,038 lane-kilometres of highway and 82 bridges in an area that extends from near Rock Creek and takes in most of the Lower Arrow Lake, including Robson, to northeast of Kelowna and south to Warfield. The current contract value is $25.7 mil y The provincial government went to private contracts for road and bridge The prop are then down to one contractor, who then makes a bid, and negotiations start from there. “If (negotiations) are successful, they get the contract,”” Hicks said. “If not, we’d move on to the next one.’’ The ministry allows about three weeks for negotiations. “The key in the evaluation process is that they are providing us with an overall management plan on how well they’re going to serve the area and serve the public interest,’’ Hicks said. Rezoning continued from front page The city’s director of engineering and public works, Kenn Hample, told council that rezoning lots would be ‘in conformity’ with surroun- ding uses. “Our conclusion is that since there’s a lot of proposed park land and existing park land in that area, that removing park land from this area wouldn’t (have) an effect,” Hample said. Ald. Marilyn Mathieson said the rezoning is in keeping with council’s efforts to develop areas within Castlegar. ““We want to concentrate on Castlegar itself,"’ she said, adding that it would not be ‘‘horrendously expensive’’ to service the lots. She said developing the land for park use wasn’t “‘ideal’’ because the lots aren’t on the same level of terrain as the tennis courts. Council voted unanimously in AUDREY MOORE «+. 40 letters sent out favor of the bylaw. “Sounds to me like it was passec before we got here,’’ Pion said. Mayor Audrey Moore said letter: were sent out to 40 residents nea Zinio Park explaining the zoning ap plication. LOTTERIES These are the winning loery mambers for las Lotte 6/49 May 25 2, 23, 28, 32, 33, 47 Bonus 44 Extre May 25 62, 78, 79, 87 Lotte-BC May 25 14, 20, 25, 32, 34, 36 Express May 25 968095, 000068, 015758, 023159 Provincial 1788, 1088465, 1097512, 1833136, 4211959, 1142372, 1929769, 2353179, 2254384, 3154345, 1382779, 4725163, 2427180, 3997066, 3004, 25494497 BC Keno May 28 12, 15, 19, 29, 38, $0, $3, 34 May 27 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 19, 37, 53 May 3, 17, 18, 22, 29, 33, 47, $5 May ). 21, 25, 36, 42, CIAL EDITION EARLY BIRD DRAW May 26 $50,000 111264 $10,000 2768378, 371607, 177C695, 4090010 242C914, $79E427, 483C312, $86E682, 4800613, These are the official winning lottery numbers provided by the B.C. L and those provided by the B.C. Lottery Corp. the Matter shall prevail Arne Gundersen (left) and Graham Cam; to get retired pub! CasNews photo lisher Burt Campbell's desk little imagination Monday to find a wa: out of his former office at the Castlegar News. . ‘Cut continued trom front pege unless he finishes the program. “Il could get a job in a rinky- dinky store, but I should be able to work at Celgar,"* he said. “I moved from Ontario to take this course,” he added. ‘I’ve got a wife, a puppy dog, the whole nine yards. It cost me $10,000 to move across Canada. It wouldn't have cost much more to move to Vancouver to take the course there. So if it comes down to that, I'm going to sue them.”’ Selkirk’s EBT students would not receive credit for all their courses in the Vancouver Program. Aitzetmueller said the students have tried to negotiate a better solution with college ad- ministrators but most haven't listened. The program was on shaky ground last fall and at that time the students proposed various solutions to keep the Program alive, at least until the third-year students had com- pleted the program. He said all their suggestions were ignored then as well. The students plan to meet, and Start negotiating, with ad- ministrators Monday. “I expect to be passed off again . . . until they know how serious we are,’’ Aitzetmueller California grown * no. 1 * new crop said. STREET TALK BURT CAMPBELL isn’t going easy. The retired Castlegar News publisher proved to be difficult to dislodge from his old office Monday when workers had to remove the office’s window to take out Campbell’s huge six-foot mahogany desk, which Campbell’s son, Graham, one of the “‘volunteer’” movers, estimated weighs some 250 pounds. Burt’s mother, Mary Campbell, arranged with the new owners of the CasNews, Trinity (N.A.) Holdings Inc., to give the 18-year-old desk and a matching credenza to the former publisher as a retirement gift FRANK BEINDER, who played a key role in the creation of Selkirk College and for whom the road leading to the college’s Castlegar campus was named, was awarded the Order of B.C. last week for his outstanding service to the provinc: “It is the highest form of recognition extended by the province,”’ Premier Rita Johnston said in announcing the names of the 17 recipients this year. Lt.-Gov. David Lam will present the awards at a special ceremony June 13 in Victoria. Beinder, 81, was born in London, England, in 1910 and immigrated to Canada in 1928. Cominco hired him as the company’s senior public relations officer in 1947. He served 19 years on the Trail school board, 10 as chairman. After retiring from Cominco at 65, Beinder became executive director of the B.C. Association of Colleges, a position he held until 1984. HUGO SMECHER, husband of Castlegar Ald. Doreen Smecher, has been appointed to the 1991-92 board of directors of the B.C. Principals and Vice- Principals Association. He is currently the principal of J.L. Crowe secondary school in Trail. LESLEY PRICE will return for her fourth year as a travel counsellor this summer at Castlegar’s Travel InfoCentre at the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce office. She will again be joined by Suzanne Dingwall, Nora Johnson and Kirsten Mason, all starting their second seasons in June. The Castlegar InfoCentre is located on 6th Avenue in south Castlegar next to the Community Complex. Sunfest continued from front page is totally surprising and amazing.’’ He said the society intends to coordinate activities better and seek out help earlier next year. “*We’re also going to have a very Strong focus on getting major cor- porate sponsors,"’ Chappell said. Planning for 1992 will start the day after this year’s Sunfest is over, he said, adding that the society is looking at including more events during Sunfest,” especially activities Suited to teenagers such as a midway. Festivals. society director Nancy Lingley, who accompanied Chappell to the council meeting, said the society also wants to raise the profile of Miss Castlegar, having her attend more Sunfest events and other ac- tivities throughout the city during the The Nancy Greene InfoCentre will also operate year. again this year, the chamber said in its May newsletter. “There’s absolutely no reason why our girls can’t be ambassadors at events in the city,’’ Lingley said. * New 4.9 L. 200 HP V-8 sequential port fuel injection engine delivers maximum performance. * 34 MPG (8.4 L/100km.) hwy., 20 MPG (14.3L/100km.) city.* * New 4 speed electronically controlled transmission for imperceptible shifting. 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