November 30, 19868 BINGO . . . The Twin Rivers Parents Support Group held a family cake bingo last week. Numerous cakes were won by bingo players. WASHINGTON (AP) — Governors Island in New York Harbor is the tentative choice for next Wednesday's meeting between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, President Ronald Reagan and president elect George Bush, U.S. officials say. The modest U.S. Coast Guard installation, which in its colorful past also has been a sheep farm, quarantine station, race track and game preserve, was recommended on Tuesday by U.S. and Soviet inspectors. On Monday they had examined the island and the only alternative choice in the running, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Governors Island was picked for security reasons, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The meeting will be held after Gorbachev addresses the UN General Assembly. It is the only superpower session planned during the Soviet leader's visit and is expected to range over several subjects, including the suspended Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The U.S. side is seeking reassurances the Soviets will complete withdrawal by Feb. 15. A U.S. official described the meeting as “substantive but not a negotiating session.” Gorbachev's meeting with Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland, two years ago also was billed as being below summit level, but the two leaders ended up swapping major arms control proposals until talks broke down in \a disagreement over the controversial U.S. plan to depploy a defence against Soviet missiles in space The Soviets as well as U.S. critics have charged thet strategic defence initiative, or Star Wars project, ireatens to expand the arms race to space. Meeting planned Gorbachev is due to arrive in New York next Tuesday and has no appointments planned that day. On Wednesday, he will call on UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar and then address the General Assembly. The lunch with Reagan and Bush willfollow. It is the only U.S.-Soviet event planned during Gor- bachev's visit. Officials said Reagan and Bush want to gain Soviet approval for continuing an agenda for U.S.-Soviet discus in the new administration that emphasizes human rights and arms control issues. State Secretary George Shultz will fly to Brussels, Belgium, after the meeting to brief NATO foreign ministers. Perez de Cuellar is expected to hold a reception or dinner for Gorbachev on Wednesday evening at the UN. About 400 guests from the international diplomatic community would attend. On Dec. 8, Gorbachev plans a sightseeing trip in New York. He may visit a Soviet trade show, and he intends to meet wiht a cross-section of Americans, including intellectuals, officials said. On Dec. 9, he flies to Cuba to meet with President Fidel Castro in Havana. Governors Island initially was set aside for the English King’s governors in 1688 and later for the governors of the American colonies. It was converted into a military fortification during the War of 1812 and remained under the jurisdiction of the U.S. army until taken over by the coast guard in 1966. ‘ Children die in Wood passes away Funeral services were held this Trail Country Club. blaze PENTICTON (CP) — Two young children died and their mother was injured Tuesday in a motel-room fire in this Okanagan Valley community, police said. Police did not release the names of the victims but said they do not suspect foul play in the blaze. A motel employee who did not want to be identified said the children were a 1'-year-old girl and a three-year-old boy. The mother and her children had been staying at the motel for two weeks, the employee said. The fire damaged two adjoining units in the single-storey Kozy Guest House. Police file Three people were taken to hospital Friday following a two vehicle accident near the Fairview subdivision. Castlegar RCMP report that a 1986 ford station wagon driven by 5l-yer-old Ezio Liberatore of Trail was northbound on Highway 22 when it lost control and collided with a 1978 Volkswagen rabbit. The Volkswagen, driven by 47 year-old Philip Babakaiff of Castlegar sustained $3,000 damage. The Ford sustained about $2,000 damage. Police are investigating. There were three other accidents Friday due to road conditions, police report. morning in Trail for a prominent member of the Ferraro SuperValu chain, George Wood, 67, died Sunday at the Trail Regional Hospital Born in New Westminster in 1921, Mr. Wood moved to Trail in 1951 and worked at the Trail Regional Hos- pital as an electrician. He married Esther Ferraro in 1954 and became very active in the family business, Ferraro's Ltd. ™ : GEORGE WOOD . prominent citizen In April 1963 he opened the downtown Castlegar SuperValu store, managing it until 1969 when he became supervisor of store de- velopment. In this role he developed SuperValu stores in the East and West Kootenays and was instru mental in establishing F&W Whole. sale and Columbia Beverages. He was a member of the Masonic Order and in 1982 became the Wor- shipful Master of Fidelity Lodge 32. He was a member of the Rossland. Mr. Wood is survived by his wife Esther; son George; daughters Mar- garet, Deborah, Sandra, Susan and Sharon; two grandchildren; a brot- her Wilfred of New Westminster; six nephews and six nieces. Rev. Cameron Reid officiated at the funeral services held at the Trail United Church. Interment followed at Mountain View Cemetery. Kitimat teachers strike KITIMAT (CP) — The Kitimat school board will damage labor rela- tions for years by going to the Industrial Relations Council to have the strike by 180 teachers declared illegal, says the president of the Kiti- mat Teachers’ Association. About 2,500 students have had an unexpected holiday since the strike began Monday morning after negoti. ations broke down Sunday. Maureen Goutier, a single parent who works as a speech therapist, said she’s fortunate her five-year-old daughter was able to go to day care imstead of kindergarten. It is the first walkout in British Columbia since new legislation gave teachers the right to form unions and to strike. Teachers are angry that the board, after one day of teacher picketing and closed schools, is asking the council for an order against the tea chers rather than trying to negotiate, association president Rick Sullivan said Monday. Write Santa for Christmas Hey kids, here's. your chance to ensure your letters get right to Santa Claus at the North Pole. Just write your letters to: Santa Claus, care of Castlegar News, Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. V1N 3H4, and we'll do the rest. We'll try to publish as many letters as we can in the Castlegar News, space permitting. individually written will be given every considera tion. Theatre. So if you want to write a letter to Santa, don’t forget to remind mom and dad that your letters must be mailed to the Castlegar News no later than Dec. 7 or brought to the Castlegar News office at 197 Columbia Ave. by noon on Dec. 7 so that they are received before Christmas. Letters As well, again this year we'll be drawing 10 letters from those submitted and each of the 10 letter writers will receive two tickets to the Castle Rotering teams with Kristiansen By CasNews Staff Nelson Mayor Gerald Rotering ss da job as a assistant to Kootenay West-! Revel. stoke MP-elect Lyle Kristi: Truck route a possibility By CasNews Staff Castlegar council is optimistic about a secondary truck route through the city after meeting with Highways Minister Neil Vant in Victoria. “He was exceptionally cooper. ative,” said Ald. Albert Calderbank, chairman of the works and services committee. Calderbank. said Vant appointed ministry official Dave Walker to sit on a special committee investigating a second route to the Celgar pulp mill and Westar Timber’s sawmill. Other members of the committee include Fred Parker of Celgar, Wes- tar sawmill manager. Wade Zammitt, and city engineer Kevin Lagan. was very pleased with the meeting,” Calderbank said, “and I felt we went a long ways. This was the first time we've really been able to talk to a minister.” Calderbank added he is “quite confident we are going to get some- where.” Ald, Lawrence Chernoff, who also attended themeeting with Vant, said: “It was a very good meeting with the minister.” Chernoff pointed out that Vant is, originally from the Kootenays aad was “receptive to our problems.” Council is concerned about truck traffic because of the pulp mill's increased use of trucks to ship wood chips and the sawmills increased use of logging trucks. Plan unveiled VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. will need to spend more than $7 billion in the next decade to bring its trans- portation systems up to standard, a provincial government study says. The study, unveiled by Premier Bill Vander Zalm at a Vancouver “It’s always been a non-partisan, ombudsman role,” Rotering said . “It's not an executive-assis- Rotering, who described the job as a “low-level position,” said his job will be to run a “very modest, store- front office” the purpose of which will “to help grandma with her pension or Joe with his UIC.” Rotering said Castlegar residents shouldn't feel slighted because they are losing the constituency office that Conservative MP Bob Brisco main- tained in town. He said the Nelson office being set up in the 300-block Baker Street will be almost as convenient. He added that a toll-free “800” number will be installed and the office should be open next Wedres- day. Man dies in truck accident A 31-year-old Abbotsford man was killed instantly in a truck accident near Christina Lake last week. Grand Forks RCMP report Clifford Charles Morey was heading west on Highway 3 Nov. 21 when he lost control of the DC Chambers tractor trailer unit he was driving on a curve about 7 p.m. The truck came to rest upside down in a creek 10 kilometres east of Christina Lake, after going over a 1.5-metre embankment. A passenger in the empty truck was freed by witnesses. Carlos Amaral, 23, of Osoyoos was taken to Boundary Hospital in Grand Forks and treated for minor injuries. The single-vehicle accident is un der investigation. press today, major infusion of capital is needed on highways, rail, air and marine net- works. Transportation and Highways Min- ister Neil Vant described the study as a look at long-term project prop- osals, but said some projects must be addressed immediately. Among them; he said, e Widening and improving access to Highway 1 and Highway 99 in the Lower Mainland. An improved or parallel crossing at the Port Mann Bridge. e Possibility of a third crossing to the North Shore. e Improvements to the road and bridge network north of Fort. St. John. e Improvements to the Yellowhead Highway north of Kamloops and the John Hart Highway north of Prince George. Vander Zalm said he hopes widen- ing of Highway 1 and Highway 99 could begin in the new year. But when asked if he was an- noucing a specific project, Vant interjected and said-no. Vant said he did not want to “preempt” Finance Minister Mel Couvelier, who sets the budget. Vander Zalm admitted that a number of the projects — including a third runway at Vancouver Inter- national Airport and projects in- volving the ports — cross federal boundaries and will require lobbying in Ottawa. He said the federal government will be approached within three weeks with a request for more air traffic controllers “to ease some of the horrible congestion out there.” Walker passes away Marie Walker of Comox, formerly of Castlegar, passed away Nov. 25 at age 88. Mrs. Walker was born Oct. 15, 1900 at Zurich, Switzerland. She grew up there and came to Canada in 1924, settling in Athabasca, Alta. She married Otto Walker there in 1924. In 1941, she moved to Castlegar. Mrs. Walker laved gardening and was an avid golfer. She is survived by her son, Otto of Castlegar and her daughter, Mary Gorsline of Courtenay; seven grand- children; and 13 great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband Otto in 1984. Should friends desire, donations in memory of Mrs. Walker may be made to the charity of one’s choice. Funeral service will be held Satur- day Dec. 3, 1988 at 10:30 a.m. at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel with Rev. Ira Johnson officiating. Cremation has taken place. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Funds needed for Robson pool By CasNews Staff The group trying to raise funds for repairing the Robson pool is still hoping for another $12,000 in dona- tions from around the community, a FERRY continued from front page to the narrow legal issue of inter- preting the Highways Act. Stewart said he considered Dal. ton’s arguments that the act defined a highway as land, which included land covered with water and any public way, but couldn't accept that those meant a ferry or ferry route. Copley, a lawyer from the attorney general's office in Victoria argued that the word ferry had deliberately been left out of the act and that types of transportation are not high- ways. Copley said definitions of a high- way suggest a firm structure running over ground and the terms “must be read as a whole” and be “harmonious with the act.” Other issues involving the ferry case were conceded or resolved so, that the only issue became whether or not the ferry is a highway. A majority of the 21 affidavits filed to show the group had suffered enough hardship to bring the case to court were not considered. State- ments made by public figures that Dalton would have used to argue the ferry was a highway were not con- sidered legally binding, Arguments involving interpretations in the Ferry's Act and the Ministry of Highways and Transportation Act were not pressed. In an unusual decision, each side will pay its own court costs. The ad hoc committee will meet tonight to decide whether it wants to appeal the case. “It's not over yet,” committee member, Darlene Schultz said after the trial. group ): says. Dennis LaHue of the Robson Rec. reational Pool Committee says 50-60 people turned out to a meeting last week at the Robson Hall to discuss the group's progress in raising the funds needed to restore the pool. The committee needs about $23,000 to fix, the pool. . LaHue said $3,500 has already son-area residents and the committee is hoping for a $7,500-grant from the GO BC funding scheme. But that still leaves $12,000 to be raised. LaHue said he doesn't think the $2.2-million aquatic centre going up in Castlegar will hinder the com- mittee’s chances to raise the funds needed to restore the outdoor facility in Robson. “We haven't run into any stumb- ling blocks yet because of the aquatic centre,” LaHue told the Castlegar News. “We're hoping to raise funds from businesses and major corpor- ations in Castlegar.” Health officials closed the pool for health reasons at the end of the swim season this year. “It's been deteriorating from year to year,” LaHue said. “The health department couldn't look the other way any longer.” The pool needs a new filtration system, a new chlorination system, a new water system, new washrooms and a new septic system, he said. “We're basically trying to rebuild it.” He said the committee will do much of the work with volunteer involvement to keep costs down. The committee is hoping to raise neces- sary funds through selling advertis- ing spots at the pool, holding bingos and recruiting River Otters to sell chocolates. The committee meets tomorrow night at the Robson Hall to further discuss funding ideas. LaHue said there are already 29 names on the volunteer list. KSCU continued from front page Stanley said the two sides have already agreed to much of the contract language. “The outstanding issues are mone- tary,” he said. Susan Carrigan, secretary to Steel- workers representative Ron Schmidt, said today the next round of negotiations has tentatively been set for Dee. 16 and 17. “Bargaining w@Kt fairly well,” Carrigan said of the weekend meet- ings. “We made progre: She said there is still some contract language to work out and money has not yet been discussed. Carrigan said union officials agreed to a mediator when it became apparent Ready could fit the Sunday meeting into his schedule. She said both sides brought Ready up to date on the status of the negotiations. He will not be available for the December meetings, she added. Workers at five KSCU branches unanimously endorsed a strike vote Nov. 20 and 91 per cent of workers at the Trail branch endorsed a similar vote. The negotiations began in Sep- tember when six of nine KSCU branches — including Castlegar — voted to join the Steelworkers. } November 30, 1988 Castlégar News Castlega TREET “TALK JOHN CHARTERS, whose Reflections and Recollections column has appeared in the Castlegar News for 35 years, will read from his new book, Over My Shoulder, tomorrow at the Nelson library at 7 p.m. Over My Shoulder is a collection of the best of Charters’ more than 600 columns. The first column in the book, written in August 1953, tells the story of the Kelly Lotze mill fire which razed their mill. JIM CROMWELL, after 16 years with Selkirk College, most recently as principal of the Castlegar campus, has gone east to assume the icipalship of the Community College of NewBrunswick at Woodstock. Cromwell came from Worcester, England in 1970 to teach geography at Selkirk College. In 1978; he was d head of the envir | sciences department and in 1980 was the unanimous choice of a selection committee for the position of Castlegar campus director, The Castlegar campus newspaper, In Print, reported that Cromwell's “outspoken manner and repier wit soon won him the admiration of faculty and students.” This past summer,-the college staff paid tribute to Cromwell with special dinners and farewell ceremonies. THE NELSON Chamber of Commerce wants to light up the town. The chamber has proposed putting strings of white Christmas lights on 72 trees along the Baker Street core and one a two-block section of Ward Street. Local Nelson businesses have already contribdted-$3,000 to the project. SOME YEARS AGO (and reruns can still be caught periodically) there used to be a TV series called Petticoat Junction. Castlegar's at the junction of two rivers, a major highway system and a regional airport and is an important junction (although we call ourselves a “erossroads.”) With four women now on our municipal couneil (Mayor Audrey Moore, Ald. Patti Richards and aldermen-elects Doreen Smecher and Marilyn Mathieson), perhaps we'll receive a new nickname . . THERESE ANDERSON of Castlegar was among the 482 students who received degrees, certificates and diplomas at the fall convocation ceremonies Nov. 26 at the University of Victoria. Anderson received her bachelor of arts degree. HARCOURT SAYS ave hristmas Turkey Giveaway! ONE WIN cx: FROZEN TURKEY aah eon a EACH WEEK ‘Sr Ke. Legislation too soft VICTORIA (CP) — NDP Leader Mike Harcourt wants the provincial government to suspend a portion of pension legislation that he says has been used to make sweetheart deals for high-level public servants. Harcourt said that a handful of deals made under the pension legis lation have cost British Columbia taxpayers more than $300,000 this year. Harcourt is upset the pension for David Poole, who was principal sec retary to Premier Bill Vander Zalm before leaving in September, was approved without any indication that Poole had contributed to a pension fund. The NDP leader said the Pension (Public Service) Act gives cabinet too much discretionary power in deter. mining who is eligible and how much they should contribute to the pension plan. Cabinet orders produced by Har court show some civil servants got pension credit for working as far away as Scotland, as far back as the 1950s, and for companies in the pri vate sector. The order granting Poole a pension for his work in British Columbia and Saskatchewan is dated Sept. 14 — three weeks after he left his job in Vander Zalm’s office under a cloud of controversy. CRTC rules on cable charges HULL, QUE. (CP) — Canadians often face hefty cable television in. stallation fees even though a cable technician doesn't have to show up at the house to do anything. Customers who get annoyed at this practice can take heart. Starting immediately, cable com panies must charge different hookup fees depending on how much work is involved, the Canadian Radio-tele- vision and Telecommunications Com mission said. The commission, which regulates the cable industry, said the current practice of some cable companies to charge one fee for all types of con nections is unfair. Installation fees now must vary depending whether a cable outlet must be installed, whether a re connection requires a visit by a technician or whether no visit is { required at all. “We have received a number of 2 from cable on this point and the commission feels that a change in the practice is nec- essary,” CRTC spokesman Andre Bureau said. The change will still permit cable companies to recover their costs, he added. Looking to invest? Let’s talk. Are you an entrepreneur looking for investment opportunities? I, you are, you owe it to yourself to look into the provincial government's new Small Business Forest Enterprise Program The improved program is designed to ex- tract more of the hidden wealth in our timber by encouraging the remanufacture of lumber and the production of products such as window frames, doors, and furniture Twice the opportunities 3 We're setting aside twice as much timber for harvesting by small companies, espe- cially companies with creative manufac- turing ideas. And—because security of materials supply is so important for manu- facturers—we're making timber available to the firms with the best proposals for periods of up to 10 years. While we're creating more opportunities for small companies—and more jobs for British Columbians—we're also keeping our com- mitment to future generations. As small companies harvest timber, the pro- vincial government will be right behind them, renewing the forest for the future. 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