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VOL. 34, NO. 96

Castlegar and
Regional District
Proposed
BUS ROUTE NETWORK

ASTLE

SSEEZ

Published at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays”
CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1981

‘Mop outlines bus routes for new transit system, Inset shows routes in downtown Castlegar (left) and Blueberry.

Transit system unveiled

ByRONNORMAN —_ lege will start at 8:30 a.m.
Editor and go again at 10 am, 2
4pm

The
‘Transit Authority (UTA)
‘Tuesday unveiled plans for

berry,
Brilliant, Ootiache:
Thrums

‘The buses will run every
i

trips a day
the eity Monday to Friday
Saturday.

within one s0ne,. but
‘The UTA share drops to higher fare if they
third to go between two sones,

ss
ple

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$35,417 in the first year,
to with Area I and J paying Raspberry,
$33,961. schenia sone,

That would amount to

i

mill resi-
dents, Mayor Audrey cents.
Moore said — or just

for ove zone, 60 cents for
Fy, Robson, a
Brilliant and Ootischenis Mere on page AZ

Two week mill shutdown

Day and New Year's Day.

Hospita! budget
up 17 per cent

B7CasNews Stall $S-anrhour wage boost in a
Like everything else, costs one year pact (
torun Castlegar and District story elsewhere on page
Hopital will be going up in Talarico said building
1982. maintenance is another area
‘Administrator Ken Tala hit by rising costs. He sald
the building is gettixy older
4 and needs more care.
Meanwhile, the bospital's

since mid-September when planner mill section is oper
the forest industry strike ating on a two-shift basis.
ended.

pulp
‘That means only two of the that firm plans no shutdown
three lumber mill plants are over the Christmas season,
operating on two-shift basis except for regular statutory
and only one of the two holidays.

‘The Canadian Association
of Industrial, Mechanieal and
Allied Workers Monday sp- exact number of signatures,
i i Labor but it is “over 2,600."
Suceamore said be is “ex.
tremely confident” the LRB
will approve the vote,
He said the next step is for
list of

bargaining
* unit and if CAIMAW has

ow” : ng cloudiness Thursday

— Gosie veriode ct
reseliton: wish i be
“49,

‘Union began a
strike vota Monday at 160
hospitals

i
:
# sib 34

Anuto
board

in year's proposal for a 5S-bed inter-

figure of nearly $3 million.

rico said salaris
wages, and employee be
fits were the areas with the

largest Increase — and that board

Gresn't yet Include the H
pital Employees Union's 1962
contrac

HEU's current contract
expires Dec. $1, and reports
Say the union is seeking &

mediate care/extended care
addition seems to have been
put on hold for the time

being.
‘Talarico said tho hospital

response from the
‘government on the proposal.
He said the board is not
actively pursuing the addi-
tion partly ia light of the
downturn in the economy,

hasn't received any Ci
provi

ueeamore
has singed up “a comfortable

Supervisors in Kimberley
in the Steel-
workers unit, though ‘Trail
supervisors are not,
More on page AZ

fans

Wer herman Tom Willson of the Castlegar weather night Mondy, but fin ond
1 made much of it dissppear.

offic a out Tu morning measuring
‘ne lal of the seaton, Area recorded sight cm. over-

‘with overnight lowe

warm weather quickly

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