a2 Castlegar News October 23, 1985 ~ WEATHER a SYNOPSI: southet of rain fort valleys but more An elongated trough of low pressure which extends from the Arctic Circle and across is keeping the province in a cool, unstable circulation. The result is isolated showers frequent showers of snow over higher levels. Although the sun will Gppear at times its the clouds that will be the dominant feature into the weekend. . SUNRISE 7:24 A.M. SUNSET 5:45 P.M. FOR COMINCO SMELTER Police file ‘A single-car accident at 8 p.m. on Oct. 19: in Glade resulted in minor injuries to the driver of the car and five of six passengers. Karl Halvorsen, 19, of Nel- son, was driving westbound on Highway 3A, near the Glade Texaco station when he lost control of the car — a 1963 Chevrolet Nova — which overturned several times before coming to rest ‘on its roof, Crescent. Valley RCMP report. Halvorsen and the five passengers were taken to Castlegar Hospital for treat- ment and later released. Halvorsen is charged with driving too fast for the road, weather, traffic and visibility conditions, a police spokes- man said. There is no estimate of the damage to the vehicle. . 8 « A Crescent Valley driver escaped injury Friday night when his car left the highway on Goose Creek Road 5'2 kilometres west of the Cres- _ cent Valley bridge. Grant delay slammed By CasNews Staff and News Services The president of the B.C. Mining Association has criti- “Talk about overstuffed!" . . . But not over priced! Come sample our selection of delicious subs... made daily! © Murchies Teas & Coffees s © Porty Trays * Borscht ‘* Meats * Cheeses COUNTRY HARVEST DELI 1436 Columbia Ave. 365-5414 OPEN HOUSE cized a four-month delay in the announcement of federal assistance for Cominco Ltd.'s new lead smelter in Trail. Tex Enemark said the delay is unconscionable. Cominco told Ottawa a $60- million federal grant is need- ed for a new lead smelter. An_ announcement of federal as- sistance was expected in June, but it was delayed until September. The federal government has not yet made any state- ment on the grant. : Meanwhile, lower. prices for zinc, lead - and silver caused Cominco to lose $28.4 million or 49 cents a share on sales in the third quarter, compared with a profit of $4 million or one cent a share on Kootenay Informatics ’- Friday, Oct. 25 & Saturday, Oct. 26 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. Computer Sales, Service and Training. Now open 6 days a week for your convenience. LOCATED AT PLAYMOR JUNCTION ACROSS FROM MT. SENTINEL SCHOOL * Enter the Free Hallowe'en Draw for a home computer! 1 Phone 359-7755 Ask for Karl, Esther, or Tim Swanson BULK PEANUTS HAZEL NUTS (Raw of Dry) BRAZIL NUTS ALMONDS .........-..--[b. sales of $402.6 million in the year-earlier quarter. 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The bus, which was parked at W.E. Graham High School in Slocan, was broken into at about 9 p.m., a police spokes- man said. There are no suspects and the investigation is continu- ing. Liability insurance a concern By CasNews Staff Castlegar council agreed Tuesday to ask Rossland- Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy to support legislative changes to correct municipal liability zers is ly set for July 27. Cominco stressed that P q The Union of B.C. Muni- ipalities has formed a task is ive and if market conditions continue to deteriorate, a change could be necessary. Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212 Rose’s Restaurant Borscht & cs Homemade Bread | 39 Coming soon Pecans and Walnuts! (Or $1.15 Ib. for 50 Ib. bag) ENTER OUR DRAW TO WIN A $25 GIFT CERTIFICATE! By guessing the weight of our Giant Pumpkin displayed in our store. Draw . . . Hallow n Day at noon. Bananas w. 30° Tomatoes Lettuce -- APPLES FISHING 25° ros ...... 0%, While Stock Lasts. JOHNNY'S GROCERY _ Open Dally 8 a.m. - 9 p.m. | 965-7941 force to spearhead the changes. Rossland Ald. Jack- ie Drysdale is one of three members on the task force. The UBCM is concerned about skyrocketing insurance premiums for municipal li- ability in the wake of huge liability awards. “Legislative changes are the only truly effective way to deal with the current situ- ation as they are the cause and the insurance market situation is the symptom of the problem,” UBCM presi- dent R.D. Cumming said in a memorandum to all munici palities and regional dis- tricts. Cumming urged local gov- ernments to contact their MLA for support for the changes. In other council news, the city has decided to continue its “main banking business” with the Bank of Montreal. logging. TREE FARM continued from front page assured council the loss was “minimal.” Waterland said niost of the timber hit by fire was out of the range of Waterland arrived at the tanker base at Castlegar airport Monday morning where he viewed a landscape management display set up by Pieter Bekker, a landscape management consultant for the Nelson Regioh. 3 K a Lumber manager. district. “It's in an actual committee,” he said. been sold. “Watershed aspects are posing to log a Pp is pl portion of the Robson Ridge and one of the concernsof the Ministry of Forests is the visual aspects of the ridge. * “What we are trying to'do is make logging as visually acceptable as possible,” said Ken Arnett, district forests After the presentation, the helicopter took off and landed in a small business operating area, 17 kilometres west of Castlegar, set up by the Arrow Lakes forest watershed,” Arnett said. all discussed with the The area was developed and planned by the Ministry of Forests with the involvement of the Blueberry-Merry. Creek watershed committee. i Arnett said that fixe, ploits in the area have already Andrew Evin of Wesley Construction of Castlegar. At the site, Evin presented a hand-carved wooden ladle’ to Waterland. The wood for the ladle was taken from the *, ing site. . vere Ne tour then took off for the new Smallwood Lumber opeations north of Salmo where Waterland cut the ribbon opening the new mill. : pee Waterland’ also’ spoke at a luncheon meeting in Nelson.” After the meeting ‘he visited a site above Kokanee Creek Spawning channel. He also visited the Harrop nursery. 5 i Waterland cancelled a meeting with representatives - of the’ three unions at the Westar Timber mills in Castlegar: the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada, the International Woodworkers of America and the Marine Workers Guild. ____ PPWC representative Mel McMullen said the union was told that Waterland didn't have time to meet with the union. The meeting was scheduled for 9 p.m. Monday night. called the ation “totally able.” : He said he can only assume that Waterland cancelled “the meeting because he didn't want to answer the union's questions. Benne One of the items on the agendy was discussion of the ibility “o! ishing a ion and silvic-° Herb T mind. reforestation. to build more roads. Arrow Lakes. district said developed for the small business area. A total of 11% kilometres of roads’ at $8,500 per kilometre have been built with hed in i di for the the area has been totally Biture research centre with the forestry faculty at Selkirk College in Castlegar. ‘The union also planned to ask Waterland a number of isti jons, such as the number of hectares In the next 20-year period 10 per cent of the total district volume will be removed from this site. The total area being developed is 28,000 hectares. The ministry is responsible for building the roads-and for ~The area is just over a year old, according to Arnett. Profit from the project goes back into reforestation, and The tour also saw the operations of contractor burned due to forest fires-in the East and West Kootenays and about Tree Farm Licence No. 23 held by Westar. : ‘There were also questions on reforestation in TFL 23. Others included: Why Westar's requi to file a wood management plan and hold public meetings has been extended. The union also wanted to ask some labor questions. There were also questions on whether a new owner of the Interior Westar operations would assume the silvicultural obligations of the company. BOARD continued from front poge before the board, adding that other means could have been used to find out Buckley's position. “Our superintendent said. “I think an apology (to Buckley) is in order.” : But'trustee Rick Pongr could have made a phone call to Kelowna,” Krull (on thi told him to address the motion. Trustee Gordon Turner also sup- ported Johnson's motion, h he agreed the board does not have all the information on the issue. “What we have is Dr. Buckley's e iT We tions was a result of poor voter turnout — as low as-five per cent — during ig ; : y Wayling said Heinrich has decided to hold an election for one-year terms for trustees whose terms expire during a icipal election year. said. Johnson. “Very clearly you're elected for a -certain term. If he (Buckley) is asking for trustees to have their terms ex- tended at the whim of the government, that’s wrong,” Pongracz said. stating his position Pongracz included criticism of the Socred government and was inter- rupted by an angry Nichvolodoff who At “one point while ted _ . Turner said the sugges- tion of extending the terms of trustees without an election is wrong. “I feel that there is some censure warranted,” he said--~-— “To bypass the electoral process is wrong.” Terry Wayling, i of don’t have all the information,” Turner Although Johnson said after the meeting: the government's decision to go with an election was “obviously the sane one,” she added that she will not let the matter drop. She said the Kelowna: board should never have considered the extended term option. “I think I will be following up on a Castlegar district personal level now that the board has uper schools, ined to the board that the Kelowna board's decision to change from annual elec- LIBRARY FAVORED continued from front page spending the funding on an “on-going plan” to build community centre for recreation and social services. Some respondents wanted both a pool and a library, but most made only a single choice. Comments included: ordered to be tried judge and jury when she ap- peared in provincial court Berikoff - to stand trial When Berikoff _appeared Tuesday in Castlegar provin- cial court, she was asked how she would be tried. She re- plied that she would be tried by God. The judge then sel- By The Canadian Press Pauline Berikoff, 48, was by a decided not ‘to pursue it,” she said. “I will write a letter to Dr. Buckley myself.” NEW LIBRARY “We really need a new library. Castlegar's is far below the standard of every other West Kootenay town. It compares favorably with maybe Greenwood’s — but that's all.” ‘ “The grant should expand (or help replace altogether) the Castlegar library.” “When you consider the use of the Castlegar library by the Castlegar citizens, can you consider any other project but an addition to the library?” “Library addition. We really need it.” “We could use an addition to our public libraries or even a third and larger library at the complex.” AQUATIC CENTRE “Extra lanes to change Castlegar's proposed pool from six to eight lanes to be suitable for competition.” “Indoor swimming pool. Library addition. I would like to say bandstand, but think vandalism would be a problem.” “Castlegar definitely needs a new pool. Bob Brandson is not the right size for racing, water polo, diving and it is old and decrepit.” IT'S A WHOPPER . . . Joe Behan’s “great pumpkin” tilts the scales at a whopping 85 kilograms (188 pounds). Pumpkin was grown by Behan, of Robson, trom “Atlantic giant” seeds. CostewsPhote by Ron Norman, Castlégar News .- TREET TALK LOCAL CONTRACTOR Elmer Verigin was in the news this week. The Vancouver Sun had a story on Verigin playing down the leaks at Expo 86. Verigin is president of Marbella Pacific Construction Ltd., which assembled the modular pavilions where the leaks have shown up. 2 He says the stories about the leaking internationa pavilions at the-world fair are all wet. “I don't know: how the hell this thing got so out of proportion,” Verigin told thé Sun. He said some leakage during construction was expected. Standard procedure is to assemble the modular units, wait for a heavy rain, look for leaks and repair them, Verigin said. : j The only other way to spot the inevitable leaks would have been to hose down the site during the dry summer months, he said. ~ Verigin told the Sun that as far as he knows all the leaks that turned up during this month's heavy rains have been caulked. “It's like testing a plumbing system,” he said. “People should understand that when a building's under construction there are certain procedures. “You'd think they were flooding out the grounds.” Leaks had turned up in about 12 of the 40 or so international pavilions ‘and will cost about $165,000 to fix. The money was included in the budget as a contingency. Expo GRAND FORKS will soon have its own air service to Vancouver. x Beginning-Nov. 4 Air Caleddnia will fly from Grand Forks to Vancouver. Apparently, there was a delay in getting the Ministry of Transport to clear the plane Air Caledonia plans to use. HERE'S AN item from the Grand Forks Gazette by Editor Jackie Pleasants: “Apparently in Castlegar therg is a rush to invest in a venture by which you are guarpateed to: double your money. in one month. “If it sounds too good to be true, it. probably is. Apparently quite a few people in that area have gone as far as borrowing money to invest. Some have received money back, but if you are invited to join in, take care. It sounds very much like a pyramid ‘scheme. “The only people who get rich in those schemes are the originators. “By the way, have I told you about this- money-making venture I'm thinking of starting . . .?” NO RECENT B.C. premier (not even Dave Barrett with his ial legislative program) has provoked more controversy than Bill Bennett. His massive neo-conservative restraint program, his firing of Human Rights workers, and his strong-arm tactics have roused the passions of British Columbians. Now a reporter, equally controversial in his own way, has published a book “Bill Bennett and the Taking of British Columbia. Allen Garr, who wrote a Victoria-based political column for the Vancouver Province for five years and was a frequent CBC political’ commentator during that time, examines with wit and passion the personalities and events of a controversial time. Jones services Friday Melinda (Millie) Emily Jones of Genelle died Oct. 21 after a lengthy illness at age 68. Mrs. Jones was educated in Nelson, where she was born on July 17, 1917. She LEE, Thank You We would like to thank our children for giving us such a moved from Annabel to Gen- elle in 1952 and had lived there since: : She enjoyed artificial floral design work and other handi- crafts. She is survived by her husband Os; son Richard of Grand Forks; daughter Judy Wray of Genelle; six. grand- children; brother Silvio Pis- acreta of Nelson; sister Jose- d of K Memorial donations to the Family Care Room care of the Trail Regional Hospital phine Ray and:three nephews and two nieces. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Friday at Car- berry’s Memorial Chapel. would be app! d by the family as expressions of sympathy. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Car- berry's Funeral Home. Tuesday, charged with wil- fully setting a fire inside the Castlegar courthouse on Sept. 24. The charge was laid-after an- undergarment was set ablaze and tossed onto a law- yer’s table during an adjour- nment in a case of another woman charged with arson. ected trial by judge and jury later this year. The incident involving the blazing undergarment took place during the preliminary hearing of Mary Astaforoff, 71, who was charged with ar- son after fire destroyed most of the Doukhobor. 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School Trustees’ Association videotape that explains the education tax system and how boards have been forced to operate under the government's restraint program. The board will invite Westar officials to view the tape. _PLAZA BAKERY. Plaza OTHER PATTERNS AVAILABLE IN HEIRLOOM AND STAINLESS. HURRY! SALE ENDS NOVEMBER 22, 1985 INETIDA. The Canad Silversmith CARL’S DRUGS \-