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BY LOTTERY NUMBERS The winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6-49 draw were 2, 7, 12, 15, 18 and 48. The bonus number was 42, The winning numbers drawn Friday in The B.C. Keno lottery were 6, 15, 34, 35, 40, 44, 48 and 55. Coming to town Children’s author and illustrator Deborah Zagwyn will read at the library, NEC and Selkirk College. . . 83 Sunday Casi ___.. Vol. 42, No. 81 60 Cents ‘ 2orn\ y» rNews CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1989 WEATHERCAST Today: Eorly-morning fog pat ches, a mixture of sun and cloud Highs near 18°. Monday: Cloudy with sunny periods, @ slight chan. near precipitation er cent today 40 per cent for Monday 4 Sections (A, B, C & D) aw By CasNews Staff Thursday’s Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic exceeded the number of units of blood the Red Cross was Merritt, the local blood donor clinic committee chairman The clinic received 365 units of blood from the 452 donors Jean Weir, Last year’s total was only 306 units of blood from 360 donors. the students. GIVING FROM THE HEART . . . Castiegar's Katie Zanet was one of the many donors at Thursday's Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic at the Community Complex. Clinic assistant, Kathryn Macdonald, monitors the donor. — cosnews photo by Guy Bertrand Total high, doctor says “We had a wide range of sup- port,”’ said Merritt, adding, ‘‘one-_here.”” third were new donors,” Merritt said the large number of expecting to receive, says Dr. Keith high school students donating blood can be attributed to Daphne Mitchell, the program consultant for blood donor recruitment volunteer co- Merritt added the clinic will ordinator of the clinic, also noted “There were about 50 students She added there was some con: cerns with achieving their total with the upcoming long weekend Weir said Trail failed to meet its quota so the extra donations the clinic received were very timely return to the Castlegar area again next fall Injunction upheld By CasNews Staff Cindy Fry, one of the band tifacts or remains in the area around An injunction against work at a gravel pit adjacent to an Indian burial ground—that—has_been— declared—a heritage site near Vallican in ttre Stcoan Valley has been upheld by the B.C Supreme Court, the lawyer for the Arrow Lakes Indian band, which ob tained the injunction, said Friday The court upheld the injunction Thursday, Norman Evans said, and the owner of the pit, Tibor Molnar, will only be allowed to remove some of the crushed gravel in the pit to fix his driveway spokesmen, and Wayne Choquette, a Kootenay archeologist who has been hired by the Ministry of Highways to be on hand during the building of a controversial road near the heritage site, will supervise the removal of the gravel and will be able to stop the work if any Indian remains or artifacis are found, Evans said The band obtained the injunction against Molnar and the sub-contractor for the road, Paul Markin, in August. The band members say the pit is too close to the heritage site and ar the pit might be disturbed Evans also said the Ministry of Highways filed a statement of claim against the band in the courts Thur sday that will allow a case between the ministry and the band to go to trial Proceedings could start next week or on Oct. 16, he said. Evans said he has been unable to “address the case’? before now because he did not know what the ministry is claiming. He added he continued on page A3 MP, MLA praise Celgar expansion By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer The announcement Wednesday that the Celgar Pulp Co. mill in Castlegar will be expanded and modernized has been hoped for more than 15 years, says Kootenay West-Revelstoke MP Lyle Kristiansen, and it’s good news for the city. Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D’Arcy agrees. “*It will maintain and secure the pulp industry in Castlegar for the foreseeable future,” he said, adding a “30-year-old mill would become ob- solete sooner or later.”” Kristiansen said the expansion, which Celgar officials say Will more than double the mill's capacity and greatly reduce its impact on the en vironment, will bode well for the area which has an excess of wood chips from local mills and forests filled with decadent wood that isn’t being cut down The need for pulp logs generated by the larger-capacity mill will open the way for decadent timber stands to be cut and the land reforested, he said The market for pulp is growing, he added D’Arcy said the néed for 1,100 workers for the construction at the mill will not necessarily be a problem with Castlegar’s current tight housing and rental market “We can take a lesson from the past,’ he said referring to the building of the Hugh Keenleyside dam in the 1970s and Celgar itself in the early 1960s. ‘There will be some impact (on the community), but it may not be as major an impact as one thought.”” During the building of the dam and the mill, many of the workers were drawn from the region and were not imported from other parts of the province, he said. D'Arcy said he has ‘Faith in our civic leaders and private industry’” to handle a demand for housing “I think Castlegar is going to adapt — and adapt with bells on,” he said, adding the Trail-Rossland area does not have as tight a housing market Kristiansen acknowledged a demand for housing may be one of the difficulties Castlegar will face with the expansion but he said those problems will be “short-run.” “And the problems of success are always better than the problems of failure,” he said Mayor Audrey Moore said Wed nesday council is looking into suitable locations for building more houses Celgar general assistant manager Jim Browne said Friday that in ad dition to the 1,100 jobs on the contruc tion—site—about4,700-jobs—will_be generated in the service and manufac turing sector throughtout B.C About 30 permanent jobs will be created at the mill when construction is finished in 1992, officials said Wed nesday. Positions opened may include jobs in the woodroom which Celgar is considering reopening, industrial relations manager Ron Belton added When the announcement was made, Celgar officials cautioned that the project has not been given final ap proval and is waiting for financial arrangements, operating permits and “other government approvals,”’ in- cluding environmental approvals, to be finalized Browne said Friday the finances should be in place Oct. 30. Actual work on the construction site should begin in late February, he added The problem of traffic around and to the mill must also be addressed, Browne said, since the number of chip trucks now going through downtown Castlegar will more than double when_ the expansion is completed A meeting with Celgar, Westar Timber and city representatives and the provincial Cabinet Committee for Regional Development has been set for Oct. 19, Moore has said, to discuss the traffic problem Transportation and Highways Minister Neil Vant has been reported recently as saying if the expansion goes ahead a bridge between Robson and Castlegar will be built. Vant has been unavailable for comment since the an- nouncement Wednesday Louise Graham, public relations of- ficer with Vant’s ministry, said Friday the Oct. 19 meeting will include discussions about the bridge. Vant is onthe cabinet committee, she said Petro-Canada agrees to pay for waterline capping By CasNews Staff Petro-Canada has agreed to pay for work done last month to cap a leaking water line that the line's Robson owner, Lynne Chatten, claimed was damaged by a Petro-Canada sign erec: ted over the pipe in her easement on her neighbor's property However, the corporation’s actions do not mean Petro-Canada accepts liability for the problem, Chatten’s lawyer Terry Dalton says Ken Ogston, a Petro-Canada marketing ~ representative in marketing representative in Kelowna, said Thursday Petro-Canada agreed to pay for the digging up of Chatten’s line and the capping of the leak that sent a stream of water down Broadwater Road for weeks during the summer because the corporation wants to be ‘‘a good corporate citizen.” The company also wanted to find out if its sign was the cause of the problem, Ogston added But Robson-Raspberry Im- provement District repairman George Wanjoff, who supervised the dig in early September, said the pipe was capped before the leak, the area under and around the sign was not excavated and the exact cause of the problem was not determined. Petro-Canada also made an offer to buy Chatten’s easement for $500 at the suggestion of the RRID board, Dalton said Dalton said he advised Chatten to turn the offer down because it’s im- portant for her to maintain controt-of the easement as long as water to her property flows through the pipes in case of a problem that requires work onthe line Ogston said Petro-Canada made “‘no firm offer to buy Chatten’s easement Dalton said he is negotiating with Petro-Canada for compensation continued on poge A3 MFR. WITH THIS COUPON SAVE 20° on PUREX BATHROOM TISSUE (4 Rot!) This coupon is worth 20¢ off the ticketed price on PUREX BATH- ROOM TISSUE (4 Roll) purchased at Shoppers Drug Mart Coupon valid October 5, 1989 only. Limit one per item per family pur- to be used in conjunction 4 Roll PUREX BATHROOM TISSUE coupon. Mr. Dealer: To redeem coupon mail to Vancouver Central Office. By CLAUDETTESANDECKI Staff Writer Several Vallican.and Passmore residents who live around the new road and bridge being built to connect the two communities in the Slocan Valley say they are concerned the current construction may be the first phase of a plan to link Slocan with Crescent Valley via the back roads west of the Slocan River And Dianne Kenny, Robyn Reid and Marilyn Burgoon say that if that happens, the road will be used as an access road for logging trucks and an alternate route to Highway 6 for chip trucks travelling between the Slocan Forest Products Ltd. mill in Slocan and the Celgar Pulp Co. mill in Castlegar However, Barry Eastman, Kootenay regional manager with the Ministry of Transportation and Highways, says his department ‘‘has no intention of punching a road further’? south of Passmore unless the community asks for it and a road link-up between Slocan and Crescent Valley is not planned The residents say they base their concerns on a map that is part of the Slocan Valley Development Valley residents Guidelines, completed in the early 1980s. The map shows the possibility of linking all the back roads and the road and bridge between Vallican and Passmore is one of those links Bob Barkley, Regional District of Central Kootenay director for Area H, which encompasses the valley, said in an interview the guidelines are ‘‘only guidelines.”” However, the residents said Barkley told a group of people from the area at a meeting Sept. 24 that a link-up between Slocan and Vallican will be going ahead Barkley told the Castlegar News that if the link-up isput in it “may be in 20 years” if it happens at all As well, a project to link the back roads was not listed in the Kootenay region Transportation Task For ce recommendations, released earlier this year, and so no such construction could be started for now even if it was wanted, he added But the residents say they have reasons to believe their concerns are well-founded. The residents question why a 90-degree turn off the Passmore bridge onto the new road running north fear road future would be tolerated unless linking with the bridge is only a temporary measure until the road can be extended to Crescent Valley. Eastman said the original contract for the work being done didn’t provide for the road to go alll the way to the bridge because when it was planned six years ago CASNEWS FEATUR there wasn’t enough money for that portion of the road The project actually ends north of the bridge, he added Plans are in the works to redesign the approach to the bridge by having the north-south road connect fur ther west with the.road running straight onto the bridge he said That will mean buying property for the construc tion of the new approach, he said, and that job will be turned over to the district manager, Dan WilliainS,"to complete when he can find the funding Reid and Kenny, who live on the Passmore side of the new bridge, say when Highways widened their road before the current construction began they were told it was to “maintain” the existing road which ended in a deadend south of the Little Slocan River where the new bridge is being built They were not told the road would be realigned and linked to the new bridge, the two women said. Eastman said when the job was planned six years ago all property owners living along the route at the time were contacted about the proposed work The residents say they also wonder why a two-lane bridge is being installed ona back road Eastman said it is the policy of the Ministry of Highways to continuously upgrade roads and the depar- tment builds two-lane bridges in all but special circum- stances. “You don’t build to fit what you have, otherwise soon everything is obsolete,” he said But all the signs point to the new road being built or industrial traffic in the area, and chip trucks in par- ticular, the residents say Eastman said while itis true Highway 6 is “taking a continued on poge AZ