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Review panel's interim report recommends approval of project “Everybody's just overjoyed — that’s the only word for it.’” Attempts to contact other council members w 7 (Ceigar pulp mill general manager Jim Browne said today company officials would be ‘“‘very pleased, of course”’ with the preliminary recommendation but had not confirmed the news from Dirks when contacted by the Castlegar News at 2:30 p.m. ““We haven't been able to confirm it,’" Browne said. “We've got calls in to (B.C. Environment ‘Minister John) Reynolds’ office and a few others that are directly involved in the process."’ Browne said Ceigar will still have to satisfy ‘‘all the bank’s triggers’’ before the company can release any money for the estimated $650 million project. He said Celgar is also trying to ascertain exactly what those “‘triggers’’ are — whether it's approval in Principle or the granting of licences for the project “Then we have to go to the owners and they'll look at the new costs with all the changes and they'll ‘yea’ or ‘nay,’ "Browne said. He estimated that could happen within the next 10 days. However, he said it’s unlikely any work on the pr- oject will begin before Christmas because of the holidays. Dirks said he will push for a quick approval of the Project “‘) think that would be the best Christmas present our region could get,”” he said. The minister said the federal and provincial en- vironment ministries will have to look at the imi report and the final report before bringing it forward to cabinet for approval. Dirks said the short interim report — about 13 pages — doesn’t contain ‘anything onerous or anything that can’t be overcome.”” The proposed project would double the mill's current pulp-making capacity to 420,000 tonnes of kraft pulp per year while reducing pollution to all current and federal and for air emissions and effluent discharges, the company says. The use of chlorine to bleach pulp at the mill will be substantially reduced by the use of hydrogen peroxide and chlorine dioxide and will result in non-detectable levels of dioxins and furans in the mill's effluent, the company says. Planning a Wedding? 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Marnie Devlin, division manager of human resources at KSCU, said today credit union officials are pleased with the agreement. ““We felt that the bargaining was really positive and we're looking to a really good three Carrigan said the wage increase provides each employee with a 75 cent per hour increase in the first year, 70 cents in the second and 75 cents again in the third. please see PACT page A2 Council changes its ways By SIMON BIRCH Editor Castlegar city council has its standing in favor of meeting as a “‘committee of the whole’” comprised of all seven members of council. The committee of the whole will meet on the first and third Tuesdays of cach month at 5 p.m. when possible and otherwise at 6 p.m. Regular council meetings will shift to the second and fourth Mondays of each month at 7 p.m. In the past, council has met on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. The changes were made at’ the inaugural meeting of the new council Monday night. Mayor Audrey Moore said the move will create better com- munication among council “If people all receive information at the same time it will lead to good teamwork,"" Moore told reporters af- ter the meeting. ‘‘I think it will help us all in this busy, busy time im this city.”” She said council will monitor the new setup. SPECIAL DELIVERY Proud parents Cindy @ Romanian orphan whom the Castlegar couple CosMews pote by Donne Zuber end Tom Mairs hold their bundle of joy, 16-week-old Alexander. adopted a nine-month-long process. Couple travels far to start a family By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer Nine months after their decision to start a family, Tom and Cindy Mairs of Castlegar brought little Alexander home with them from the hospital But they had to go a little further than most couples for **delivery’’ — they went to Romania. Born to a mother who couldn't keep him, Tom and Cindy, both 24, had a different destiny in mind the minute they laid eyes on Alexander “*I cried,"” Cindy said, ‘‘and we started the adop- baby girl, invited interested couples to get in touch with them for more information. At an open house given by the Masons. Tom and Cindy were ‘‘walked through the whole thing.”” They left with a list of the papers they would need, who they needed to contact and what they could ex- “It’s a very methodical process,”’ Tom said, ad- ding that it was quite simple once they knew what they needed. Once in Romania, Cindy and Tom visited a hospital in Alexandria and orphanages in Bucharest and Braila. The first baby they saw was Alexander, who at Il-weeks-old looked more like a newborn weighing in at just over cight pounds. Cindy said. So finally, after countless phone calls and letters, a barrage of paper work, a 10-hour home study program with a social worker. an 18-day trip to Romania, a few last-minute shuffles, and close to $7,000, the couple had their baby. They admitted that ai times it was frustrating, but they'd ‘‘do it again in a minute." (Cindy and Tom changed. Alexander's name from his legal name of Marius, of their last name, and named him after the city Of Alexandria where he was born. Marius is now his middie name. He is 16- please see COUPLE page A2 Rezoning process irks residents By SIMON BIRCH Editor Residents of the Forest Road area have accused Castlegar city council of steamrolling through a package of zoning changes which paves the way fora pair of 30-unit apartment buildings which the residents say they don’t want in their neighborhood. Council approved the bylaw which contained seven zoning changes at a special mecting Monday just two hours before the new council elected Nov. 17 was sworn in. Four of the seven council mem- bers, Mayor Audrey Moore and aldermen Albert Calderbank, Doreen Smecher and Lawrence Chernoff — just enough for a quorum — were present at the special meeting. Cher noff voted against the bylaw “It’s dirty politics,"" said Doug Haines, a resident of Killough Road adjacent to the proposed develop- ment “We feel there's been some real improprieties in the way it’s been handled,”” Haines told the Castlegar News in an interview Tuesday. “All they’ve done is the old council has rammed something down our throats that the mew council has to live He said council should have dealt with the various rezoning proposals 4:30 p.m. but Chernoff, the fourth council member needed for a Editorial, page A4 quorum, was delayed and the meeting didn’t get underway until 4:53 p.m., according to the clock in council chambers. Prior to Cher- noff's arrival, there was a brief discussion about how long council was required to wait for a quorum — 1S minutes or 30 minutes. It was eventually decided council could wait 30 minutes before cancelling the mediing. There was aiso confusion about the number of votes necessary to pass the bylaw with Moore initially saying the bylaw was defeated as a result. of Chernoff’s opposition However, city clerk Betty Price said please see REZONING page A2 SHSS graduate wins prestigious award By SHAUNA SLOBODIN Special to the Castlegar News A Stanley Humphries secondary school, graduate has received the Premier's Excellence award. The prestigious award was presented to Andrew Port last weekend by Premier Bill Vander Zaim and Minister of Education Tony Brum- met. This is the second time in the last three years a Stanley Humphries student has received the award. Jane Fieet won in 1988. This honor is given to one of the 15 nominees from high schools in the region who is chosen on the basis of “academic standing and community involvement,” SHSS vice-principal Grant Lenasduzzi said. The winner receives a $5,000 scholarship along with the award Port graduated in 1990. His high school career included many extra- curricular activities as well as academic studies. Some of the ac- NY & ANDREW PORT ... wins excellence eword tivities in which Port was involved included the Interact Club for ex- change students. In 1988, Port please see AWARD page A2 We're sorry your CasNews is a bit late today but we got confir Sorry for the delay As a result, we remade our front page and delayed our press ren. We also took some time to try lo get reaction to the recom- : from the federal and provincial gover- ments grant approval in prin- ciple for the pulp mill project leaders. We thank you for bearing with @s at this important time.