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» Wednesday, May 29, 1991

Name: Eddie

Where you work: Info Centre

What you do there: Talk to people & answer phones
Castlegar likes: Great valley - great weather
Castlegar dislikes: Columbla Avenue

Best kept Castlegar secret: The golf course

Pet: All pets - old farmer Vehicle: Riding lawn mower
What would you rather be doing? Playing golf!

Proposed mall to be completed in
spring of 1992, changes and all

JIM ZEEBEN

of the mall's

Sun staff
It will have a different look.

Again.

It will have a different name,

Again

And it will be built on a differ-
ent site and at a new date,

But this time there really are a
couple of new twists that may
mean Castlegar will finally see the
construction of its long-awaited
new mall,

Last week, Sandy Reid, the
president of the company develop-
ing the project, announced that the
mall will now begin construction
in August and be completed by
spring 1992.

The new location of the mall—
now known as Centre Pointe—will
be at what is known as the ellipti-
cal site, presently a gravel pit off
Highway 3A.

The reason for the new site
according to Reid, is that he has
secured a major department store,
The Metropolitan, and now needs

location,

The new centre will not have an
indoor mall such as Nelson's
Chabko-Mika or Trail's Waneta,
but instead will be a strip-mall
with a large canopy covering the
store fronts,

According to Reid the acquisi-
tion of a large d store

release, will make it the only sta-
tion for miles in either direction.

. Reid said most of the tenants
have been confirmed and that the
centre is already over 80 per cent

\ filled up.

The project will employ 200
workers during it’s construction
and between 150 and 200 once it’s

and the escalating cost of the land
on the Columbia Avenue site were
the main reasons for the move to
the highway.

In addition to the department
store, the developers said that a
couple of major fast-food chains
with drive-in capability—such as
McDonalds or Denny's—are inter-
ested in opening a restaurant on
the property,

According to a press release,
Reid was in Castlegar last week to
meet with Mayor Audrey Moore to
inform the council of the delayed
opening date and other changes in

Plans,
The new site will have a pad for
a gas station which, said the

The Met is a department store
chain headquartered in Montréal
that is looking to expand into B.C.,

“It will be popular priced,” said
George Evin, a Castlegar realtor
who has been promoting the devel-
opment of the mall. Evin said the
store will be similar to a Zeller's or
Woolco

The new store also raises the
value of the development to
around $12 million.

The other major player
involved, Giant Foods, will still
take up ine, same amount of

and equal to The Met's size.
The one thing in the way of
Reid’s group starting construction

before the end of summer is the
lack of proper building permits
from the

This should be just a technicali-
ty as the land is already properly
zoned but according to the city
engineer, Kenn Hample, the time
frame Reid has committed himself
to is very tight.

“There's no way he'll be able to
build by August,” said Hample,
“The plans he showed us were
very pre!

But Reid says that the detailed
plans will be worked on with the
city and will be completed by the
end of the month,

He says this will allow him
enough time to get the needed per-
mits by August.

And if Castlegar residents are
understandably taking a wait and
see attitude, Reid said he under-
stands their frustration but that the
problems have involved other peo-
ple.

“I just hope I see (the skeptics)
when we open in the spring,” he
said.

an 20,000 square-feet to
complete the project.

Reid is also under contract to
purchase outright the new lot from
First Commercial Group of Win-
nipeg.

These newest transactions seem
to have removed a few major
stumbling blocks in the way of the
deal happening.

“They have the major tenants
now,” said David Daniel of Castle-
gar Realty Ltd.. “This is the closest
they’ve ever been.”

The Met, as it is commonly
called, will increase the size of the
the mall from the planned 48,000
square-feet to 72,000.

Previous names such as Twin
Rivers and Southcentre, were

jected b the develop
felt Centre Pointe was a more

Frank Beinder honored

His sparkly dark eyes and
sprightly figure belie his 81 years
and bis enthusiasm for education
remains undiminished as Frank
Beinder is awarded the Order of
British Columbia for his outstand-
ing service to the province.

It is the highest form of recogni-
tion extended by the B.C. govem-
ment and Beinder will join 16
other recipients at an investiture by
Lieutenant Govemor David Lam at
a ceremony in Victoria June 13.
He will then have the right to add
OBC after his name.

Beinder retumed to Rossland a
year ago, but he spent 30 years
bere earlier in his varied career. He
| became known as “Mr. College”
through his long association with
the education system locally and

, throughout B.C.
:  Beinder

discovered be was inter-

sted in providing educational
pportunities for young people
many many years ago. “I have a

! fondness for drop outs. I was one
| myself,” Beinder laughed. “I’ve
{ had five different jobs in my life
: because I was too stupid to make

up my mind.”
Beinder was born in London,

: England, i in 1910, and immigrated

* Second World War where he
: served in the Royal Artillery and
| Royal Amy Services Corps. When

be retumed once more to Canada
in 1947, be was hired by Cominco
as its senior public relations per-
son.

In the meantime, Beinder served

‘ oa the Trail school board for 19

years and was chairman for 10 of
them. “At that time in the mid-
1950s, we were most concemed

: that the average drop-out age of
+ students was at the grade 9 level.”
: He was instrumental in the creation

of Selkirk College, and served for

‘15 years on the board, five of them
: as its chairman. Selkirk named the
: road leading to the college Frank
: Beinder Way in his honor. .

But his unique

FRANK BEINDER

‘When he retired from Cominco (at
the correct age of 65), his career
took another interesting bend.
Beinder's idea of retirement was
not to grow flowers, although he
does have time for them now — 16
years later. He became _ execu-

trouble so many times because I
was unable to keep my mouth
shut.”

But be has regretted none of it.
“If you want to do a thing, you
have to make a noise about it to get

Beind.

tive director of the B.C.
tion of Colleges and mee to
Vancouver. Beinder held that post
until 1984, when he took his sec-
ond retirement. He and his wife
Jean moved to Rossland a year
ago.

Beinder speaks enthusiastically
of the “life chances of people” and
that ed

people interested.”

It app has been
making a very effective noise for
most of his exciting life.

The Castlegar Sun is pleased to
announce that we have a new Edi-
tor on board,

Sharlene Imhoff joins the Sun
this week after two years with the
Lloydminster Times, a twice
weekly publication where she
began as a reporter and progressed
tapidly to the position of Editor.

A graduate of the Communica-
tions Media program at Cariboo
College in Kamloops, B.C.,
Imboff is a strong addition to the
Castlegar Sun editorial staff.

A strong booster of community
news and community newspapers,
Imhoff hopes to continue the short
but fine tradition of excellence
that the Sun has become well
known for.

“We have a good staff here.at

in the continuing success of the
Sun as a community newspaper,”
she said. “I would like to see a
paper that reflects the nature of
this community and I am always
open to ideas on how to improve
the newspaper. In fact, I look for-
ward to hearing from our readers.”

In making the announcement of
Imhoff’s appointment as Editor,
Sun publisher Jon Jarrett noted
‘that he was looking for someone
with a commitment to community
bewspapers.

“In finding a new editor, we
wanted to ensure that we got
someone with a strong back-
ground in community newspapers.
We feel that we have found that
person in Sharlene, she has good
ideas about how a newspaper
should mirror the community,”
said Jarrett. “I know that she will
be a fine addition to our staff,
Sharlene takes great pride in her
work and that is something that
the people of Castlegar can relate
to.”

Imhoff, who is originally from
St. Walburg, Saskatchewan, has
been very impressed with the
community during her brief time

here. In fact, she is already look-

the Sun, and I hope to play’ a.pait....

Castlegar Sun welcomes
Sharlene Imhoff as new editor

SHARLENE IMHOFF

ing for somewhere to call home
when her fiance joins her in
Castlegar later this summer.
Sharlene will be getting mar-
ried in August and both she and
her future husband are looking
forward to calling Castlegar home.
“I am looking forward to the

‘SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper

challenge of being editor of the
Sun,” said Imhoff. “I know that
there will be a period of adjust-
ment as I get to know the commu-
nity and the community gets to
know me, but I am sure that this is
going to be an enjoyable experi-
ence for me.”

Count yourself in on June 4

BRENDAN HALPER

should always be Tebble to peo-
ple at any age. While executive
director of B.C. Colleges there
“wasn’t a single area in the
Province I didn’t go into, preaching
the gospel of community colleges.”

He was instrumental in getting
vocational studies accepted into the
curriculum of colleges as part of
post secondary studies. “I wanted
to see (people) get a trade that they
could take anywhere. But the
unions prefe to wain

from Louse to house on May 27 and will continue through June 3.

Sun staff.

The Deny Consus of Population wil take placs.00 ae 4, Tepresentatives
of Statistics Canada will be ing a to every

When the Census Representative comes to your home they will be
wearing offical signed identification designating them as a Census Repre-
sentative. They will ask for a name, and phone number and note the deliv-

in British Col in order to the exact p of the
province.

And while this may not seem important to you initially, it is actually
very important to the Province.

“For every person missed in the Census the provinces lose about $600
Per person per year in transfer payments fom the Federal goverment,”
says Norty F ions for Statis-
tics Canada. “The B.C. So akon venios teal ts ent of under-
counting in Canada i in the 1986 Census. This means we lost money | for

eryofa

“When the Census Representative comes to your: home they will bh to
make direct contact with in the b noted Fi
order to ensure the accuracy Of Chua du the repicocinive nay task
delivery and retum of all questionnaires to make certain that no one is

and no one is counted twice.”

When filling out your questionnaire should you have any questions or
tun into any a P Number is listed on the
form. QO; can respond t in 30 different

tt sould be noted that personal information provided on a census ques-

the field of education was in the

: development of the college and

institute system throughout all B.C.

@ Correction

themselves.”
Beinder said he was often in hot
water over his opinions. “I got into

Continued from 1A

This is also not true, ncither Mr. Henne nor BSB Seventeen Enterprises

‘ Ltd. have any intention of developing a gravel pit on the site. BSB Seven-
‘teen Enterprises Ltd. was simply looking to use the site for storage.

Later in the article it was stated that Henne was ordered to put up a

: bond while waiting for a new application to proceed and to clean up the
: site if the application of tenure is not approved.

Once again, Mr. Henne is no way formally involved in the proceedings.
” And, the “order’ was simply a beer inay of guidelines for the tem-

health, edi and public services
in the region. It’s very important that everyone is counted.”
The actual work is done by Census Representatives, who began going

porary use of the land while, and if, BSB Seventeen Enterprises Ltd chose
to reapply for lease of the crown land.

The matter was before the RDCK because the use of the crown land for
storage of the trailers contravened the zoning bylaws for that site. Unfortu-
nately, that issue was not brought forward when BSB Seventeen Enterpris-
es Lid. came to a verbal agreement with a representative of the Crown for
temporary use of the land while the formal application was

Finally, the letter went on to talk about a letter that bad been sent by the

and

yy law. All Canada employ-
ees are word to secrecy and subject to fines or imprisonment for any
telease of personal data.

Oceans, Pacific Regions.

This letter had absolutely nothing to do with the matter involving BSB
Seventeen Enterprises Ltd and is in fact a totally separate item in the
aforementioned *RDCK Briefs’.

‘ Neither Mr. Henne nor BSB ises Ltd. have
to do with the loss of ocean salmon as a local resource or the possible
retum to the area of the salmon.

The Castlegar Sun apologize to both Mr. Henne and BSB Seventeen

for this sel Bore vo aim bas come to the

RDCK Resources Committee to the director general of F

‘ion of cither party.
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Wednesday, May 29, 1991

The Castlegar Sun

Combining science with spring
break makes for fun learning

a range of.

“sun staff

If high-school students had to choose
between spending spring-break leaming about
science or spending the week in Florida it

7 erhe ue is for the ids to come back to
Castlegar after having experienced an area of
science that appeals to them

Cape Kennedy: for instance, offers both a

personally.
of how the

wouldn't be much of a contest.
But, if you combine the trip with the teaching
+, it seems you get an overwhelming number of
" students who want to participate in a vacation
experience filled with memories of physics and
biology.

Stanley Humphries Secondary School teach-
er, Doug Matthews, has found a novel way to
get young scholars excited about spending a
week leaming about the field of science.

“About 100 students were interested,” said
Matthews of a planned trip to take a class of stu-
dents on a field trip to the southem state, The
number actually participating in the tip will be
limited to 20 for the sake of maintaining order.

“We'll be going to three different things in
Florida: Epcot Center, Cape Kennedy and prob-
ably Discovery Island,” said Matthews.

The stops are set up to give students a look at

trip in science.”

laws of Baia are applied, while Epcot Center
houses a glimpse of future environmental possi-
bilities relating to biology.

A parent of one of the students will accompa-
oy Matthews on the trip but he doesn’t
any problems with the group.

Matthews says he is looking for science-
minded students. “My first choice was the junior
grades,” he said. “I really want to boost science
in this school and this is essentially a leaming

The trip is put together by an educational
travel-group out of Boston called Earth Shuttle
It's designed to offer students a chancé to see
some of the world’s state-of-the-art entertain-
ment as well as develop an interest in the empiri-
cal way of doing things.

The students will follow an itinerary put
together by the travel group that plans their time

out to the minute,

“I can't give a committed agenda yet,” said
Matthews. “But we're leaving on March 14,
spring break, the trip will happen.”

So far Matthews has completed a rough
schedule of what will need to happen before the
students can take the trip,

A deposit on the costs of the trip has already

been required by students who will be responsi-

ble for the entire costs,

to February has been

set aside for fund raising activities before the
actual trip.

Grade 9 student Jon Chrusch of Stanley
Humphries is one of the students who wants to
take the trip.

“I expect to have a good time and leam a lot

of things,” he said.

According to Chrusch he’s thinking of either
science or medicine as a carcer.
me—that'’s why I signed up for the trip in the
first place.”

“It interests

Matthews came up with the idea of taking

students to Florida after hearing about the trip
from other instructors in the province.

Strong turnout for youth talent search

BRENDAN HALPER SHSS ds

School Friday, May 24.

Sun staff.
Castlegar's Art Council and

Community Talent Showcase er
Pacific Youth
Talent Search at Kinnaird Junior

A large crowd came out to enjoy
the show and enjoy it they did, with
such a wide variety of acts and tal-

SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper

The ‘Evil Dragon’ and the ‘Princess’ exchange a few words during their play, ‘A Tall
Tale By A Grimm Group’, one of the many performances during the Community Talent

Showcase and Pacific National Exhibition Youth Talent Search held at Kinnaird Junior -

Secondary School May 24.

‘Student Strokes’ a popular show

BRENDAN HALPER

On display are works from

aaa ee 's biti
Center was host to a grades 8-12
student art exhibition, ‘Student
Strokes’, May 23-June 9.

Sun staff.

There seems to be some very
talented young artists in the West

SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brenden Halper.

This dreadlocked mystic ‘Xavier’, a nylon and fiberfill
soft sculpture is part of the. ‘Student Strokes’, grades 8-

12:student art exhibition at the Castlegar National Exhi-.

bition Center. The student works will be on display until
June 9.

Salmo y, Trail’s
J.L.Crowe, Rossland Secondary,
Nelson’s L.V. Rogers and Nakusp
Secondary.

A wide range of mediums were
used including painting, drawing,
collage, pen work, ceramics and
even some soft sculpture.

“There is a real cross-media
approach,” said L.V. Rogers art
instructor Richard Miller.”

Many of the students seemed
quite proficient in working with
their chosen medium, as well as
showing originality in subject mat-
ter. :

An environmental theme
seemed to be quite popular with
many of the students which is not
surprising considering the present

or "Thematically, it seems there
are many environmental images
and that’s nice to see,” said Miller.
“I think the overall quality is pretty
high although I'd like to have seen
a little more three dimensional
work.”

“It would give anyone coming
into the gallery a good idea of
whats going on in art in the local
schools and it’s great to have estab-
lished artists here to critic the
work,” said Miller.

Two local artists were on hand
to critic the works and talk to stu-
dents personaly.

“I think it's neat that a student at

the high school level has an oppor-
tunity to show his or her work to
the community and get some feed-
back,” said local Water Color
Painter Les Weisbrich.

“This would never happen in a
big city.”

“I'd say some of the work is
teally quite nice,” said local painter
Alf Crossley. Crossley works with
oil paint with landscape abstrac-
tions being his subject matter of
choice.

‘ “I find it really refreshing to
find this work here and 1 hope

seme of these people have the «

chance to go on with it,” said

“ Crossley. “There's some really

serious art work here.”

ented young performers from the
Castlegar area it was hard not to
have a good time.

“It went very well,” said Arts
Council Events Coordinator
Eleanor Elstone. “It was well
attended and all the organizers felt
it was a big success.”

Things were kicked off \ with the
SHSS 1

WEATHER

OUTLOOK: The forecast for
Wednesday; Cloudy with scattered
showers. Morning fog patches will
ease off to sunny breaks in the
afternoon. Highs will be b
5 and 7. Lows around 0. The forecast for Thursday and
Friday calls for sunny periods on Thursday with increas-
ing cloud and showers expected for Friday.

A LOOK BACK AT THE PAST WEEK:

Temperature: Max/Date Min/Date Mean Normal

Mean
12.9 13.7

25.6/20 3.3/22

Total Normal

Total
13.5 cm.

Precipitation: Rain Snow

25.6 cm. Ocm. 25.6cm."
Number of

Hours

Sunshine: Normal Number

of Hours

47.9 49.1

REMARKS:

Rising freezing levels and abundant precipitation have
brought local waterways to near flood levels. A limited
number of Forestry prescribed burns were successful
with the unsettled weather conditions.

Ed. note: Tom - the past week hasn't been a great
one for yard work. | hope the next will be better!

Forecast provided by
The South - East Interlor Weather Office
at Castlegar, B.C,

‘Gonna Make You Sweat’ fol-

“It's a nice
revival of school
spirit to have the
cheerleaders
involved”

Eleanor Eistone

lowed by the Junior Maxwell
Dancers with ‘Cool Jerks
“The Junior Maxwell Dancers’
act was very well choreographed,
>and the danciag Was really in sync.
* Very: well done “considering their
young age,” said Elstone.

Jaclyn Robertson then per-
formed ‘Honestly’, a solo singing
act followed by a solo ballet num-
ber by Jessica De Wolf called ‘The
Gift’.

De Wolf received the overall
honourable mention for her pertior-
mance.

Todd Smee performed a mono-
logue called ‘Daddy Drinks Too
Much’ followed by a less serious
yet fantastic dancing act by Aimee
Guido and Maggie Loewen to the
popular Rap song, ‘Pump Up The
Jam’.

A violin medley by the Tomp-
kins Twins, Ashley and Jodi bad
the entire audience stomping their
feet and clapping their hands.

The Tompkins Twins won first
, place and $200 at the

deciaring Hire a. Student We

evel.

After a short intermission with
snacks the SHSS Cheerleaders per-
formed a ‘Pep-Up' to get things
rolling again.

“It’s a nice revival of school
spirit to have the cheerleaders
involved,” said Elstone.

The original play, ‘A Tall Tale
By A Grimm Group’ performed by
Christine Brownlie, Laura
Kosowan, Averil Sheppard and
Todd Smee proved to be very
entertaining as it prompted plenty
of laughter from the audience with
it’s comical dialogue and costumes,

‘Angus Campbell’, the follow-
ing act done by the Hop Scotch
group, Carrie Markin, Kaela
Tompkins and Ami White earned
them second place and $100 at the
community level as well as third

,Place at the PNE level.
‘Michelle Koenig then sang
,'That’s What Friends Are For’, fol-
lowed by a very serious monologue
by Stacy Gorkoff entitled ‘Where's
Sarah’ about a baby who dies from
crib death.

‘The act left some members of
the ‘audience in tears and earned
Gorkoff third place at the commu-
nity level and $50 prize money

A dance by Lesa Draper called
“Jazz Energi’ preceded the first
place PNE class winner Kirstin
Mason who sang ‘In Heavens
Eyes’ and accompanied herself on
Piano.’ Mason receives air fare and
an invitation to perform at the PNE
in August.

PNE sccond place was won by
_the'Maxwell Dancers for their clos-
“ing performance of ‘Vogue’. The
Maxwell Dancers will also be
invited to perform at the PNE.

tfc

Bs
ed jobs because we're still waiting for employers to give us a call.’
$ far and the Trail

Over 200
will be taking regi: mid-August;

The Canada. orate Centre for Students can help local ‘employ-
ers identify post: ry students p ing a wide range
of skills and levels of education. These students are willing to work for
any length of time and are available on short notice.

“You as an employer can save time and money by using the Canada

Centre For : to fill your temporary employment
needs,” explaine ff. “An can phone us with job
requirements and 1 will identify suitable applicants. Our services are.
also free of charge.”

For both employers and students, the centre at 835.Spokane Street in

have already registered :

Trail is open until the middle of August from 8:30 to 4:30, Monday. to