co Castlegar News September 20, 1989 Legals Legals SNOW REMOVAL Selkirk College invites snow removal tor the 1989 90 seas at Castlegar Campus and roadways, ai port, College parking lot and taxiway Olfer forms available trom the Pur chasing’ Dep ent 365-7292 local 284 CLOSING DATE: 3.00 p.m. October 2 +989 Seis Ministry of Transportation and Highway: INVITATION TO TENDER section 491) of fing cribb raise bridge 900 quired, payment te documentation shall be made purchases For further intorm Williams. District Highways Ma nager at (604) 354-6521 or tax 354.654: The low fr any tender. will necessarily be accepted HIGHWAYS - TENDERS Electoral District: Boundary ict: Kootenay Boundary PrSject Se toh Numbers C. S66) Project or Job Description: This project consists of paving and shauldering Casson Read located South of Grand Forks, 8. Tender Opening Date/Time; Octot 4, 1989, 2:00 p.m ety Bid Bond oF Certified Deposit Cheque is not require Tender documents envelope. plans, specitications and conditions te available tree of m Highways Otfice HIGHWAYS-TENDERS Electoral District: Boundary Highway District: Kootenay Boundery Project or Job Number: C-5396 Project or Job Description: This SEALED TENDERS are invited tor Public Tender Call jo. 89/6016 to CONTRACT REPRESENTATIVE To provide on-site property joment services: To "\aaleae administrative, maintenance and custodial duties for residential rental units at 420-11th Avenue and 1449 Arrow Lakes Drive, Castlegar, B.C. On-site residency will be Tender Docuinents are ovailable at 8.C.H.M.C. 290 Nanaimo Avenue West 8 Tenders must be tilled on the forms provided by the Commission and sealed in envelopes the tender package provided with Sealed tenders will be received at 290-Nanaimo Avenue Wes ton, B.C, V2A INS up to 2:00 p.m. on Friday, October 6, 1989 and will be publicly opened at that time. Penne A Mandatory site viewing will be held at 12:89 Moon on huredey, September 28, 1989 ot No. 1- Arrow Lakes Drive, Castlegar, B. ce Only Contractors attending this viewing will be considerec necessarily be accepted oy AGEMENT MMISSION BCAW INT INVITATION TO TENDER 14 KITCHEN CABINET REPLACEMENTS 14 UNIT TOWNHOUSES 420-1 1th AVENUE CASTLEGAR, B.C. SEALED TENDERS are invited for Public Tendercatl No, 89/92 Tender Documents and Instructions ers vailable day, September 19, 1989 ot B.C. Housing Management Commission Interior Region 290 Nanaimo Avenue West Penticton, B.C. V2A INS Telephone: 493-0301 on Local Manager /Caretaker 1.1449 Arrow Lakes Drive Castlegar, B.C. VIN 1B9 Telephone: 365-2667 Tenders will only be A INS up to Thursday, October 5 publicly opened at that time. A MANDATORY SITE MEETING wil be held for contractors on Tuesday 420-11th Avenue Castlegar, B.C The Commission reserves the right to reject ail te \d to accept any rs advantageous ny tender may not c) SAVE $19°° Solid Colours standard Colours $16 (LIMITED TO STOCK ON HAND) Castlegar’s Darcy Martini and Kelly Hurd are back in class and back on the ice at Michigan Tech BI library, with Special service The Castlegar help from the United way, brings books to local residents who find it difficult to travel. to the library... A3 LOTTERY NUMBERS The winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6-49- draw were: 3; 6, 7,19, 27, and 32. The bonus number was 20. The winning numbers drawn Friday in ner The B.C. Keno lottery were 13, 25, 30, 35, 39, 51, 54 and 55. 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Surrounded by the homey clutter of his basement study, Castlegar author Jim Chapman, now in his 60s, fingers the glossy cover of a copy of The Hor seman of Shandro €rossing as if he-is still dreaming of its existence and fears waking up. “You have a dream and nobody listens |to you,’’ he says of his first Reviews, page A5, B3 novel which has just been published by Edmonton’s Tree Frog Press. “And then someone wants to pay you for it,’’ he adds incredulously “I like to put it (the book) betwe Margaret Atwood or Paul St. Pierre,"” Chapman says, sliding his novel into the crowded shelf of books running across thetop of his desk “1 just like to see how it looks, says with a self-conscious laugh If Chapman's wishes have come true with the publishing of his first novel, they were made possible by the hopes and dreams of the many on whom the storyline is based, he says The novel is ‘a monument, a memorial to the people who homesteaded”’ the Canadian Prairies, especially the early Ukrainian settlers JIM CHAPMAN . book a tribute to settlers who are the subject of the book, Chapman says. He says he wanted to write about the dreams of the early settlers and “how fast they went.’ “I wasn’ tall tragedy and hard times — there were exciting times too.” A young couple could move across the road from their families to a prime piece of untouched farmland and be doing well in a short time, Chapman says. That can’t happen today when land is no longer free for the choosing and “young people are put into bondage for 25 or 30 years with mortgages and payments,"’ he says. Chapman says he wanted to write the novel because so little has been written about prairie settlers and he knows a great deal about their lives. Chapman, who wrote the novel un der his grandfather's name, Yuri Kup chenko, grew up ina Ukrainian family of seven near the farming community of Radway, Alta., during the depression of the 1930s. Though his family didn’t farm, his father, a teacher, took Chapman along when he visited the farmers, Chapman says he learned the lives of the homesteaders ‘‘intimately”’ at an early age Chapman says he» dug into his childhood memories for a great deal of A scene in which a baby is found in a pile of straw came from a similar incident Chapman and his father went through But as with much of his work, which includes a stack of published and un published poems and short stories, the story Work begins on valley road By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer A bulldozer began clearing brush and fallen trees Friday from a planned road route near Vallican in the Slocan Valley after the Ministry of Transpor tation and Highways was advised by ministry lawyers to proceed following a court ruling in the ministry's favor Wednesday, Highways’ project manager__for—_the road —-site Rocky Vanlerberg said Friday at the project site Members of the Arrow Lakes Indian band, who have been occupying the area where the road will be built past an ancient Indian burial ground, as well as the band’s supporters in the com munity, were on hand when the clearing began but no attempt. was made to stop the work Band members have said from the time they began their occupation of the erea—in-August-and their legal fight over the land that band-members will abide by the decisions of the court, band spokesman Cindy Fry said, referring to the B.C. Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that extended a par tial_injunction the Ministry of High ways obtained in August. The exten sion gives the ministry and the contrac tors complete access to the project site, including the road route that the native people say will run through an ancient village of which the burial site is only a part An appeal has been filed against the ruling, Fry said However, Fry said the native people are upset they are not being given time to take down their ceremonial tepees according to the band’s customs before work on the road begins. The RCMP told band members Thursday night that they should seek legal interpretation of the court ruling and that they would’ have time to s true Chapman roamed through memories from other times of his life while writing Horseman, he says A scene in which a deer is killed by a pack of wolves came from his short early car area of northern Alberta After the 20 Grade 1 to 10 students left the school house, there was ‘nothing but jack pine “at night there was nothing —bur wolves,” he says. One night, a wolf pack killed a deer at his doorstep. Chapman changed some of the details of the incident to fit the storyline and included it in the book But as important as mémories are to his writing, Chapman says research also played an important role in shaping the book. And accuracy and authenticity are of upmost importance to him when he writes about historical events, he says ras a teacher in a remote for miles and “1 spent as much as three days researching three lines’’ of one of the quotes, proverbs and pieces of poetry that begin each chapter of Horseman Chapman says. Chapman does not dislike the work that goes into researching, however. In researching thi discovering a half-forgotten piece of is the excitement of poetry from his childhood or the validation of a sketchy piece of infor continued on page A2 remove the tepees, Fry said But ministry officials informed the band membets the same night that work would begin Friday, she said Vanlerberg said Friday the band will be able to take down their tepees ac cording to their customs and the crews will work around the six tepees set up in the right-of-way for the road However, he added, “‘It’s going to be Indians awkward to move around them." The tepees can only be taken down one per day at sunset, Fry said. Fry said the band is also worried about bones and artifacts that have been discovered along the road route and damage that may be done to un discovered objects despite the presence of archeologist Wayne Choquette continued on page A2 may be paid damages By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer The Arrow Lakes Indian band has won a ‘‘default judgment” against the contractor fora controversial road and bridge project near Vallican in the Slocan Valley that will force Bill Berg, of William Berg Construction Ltd., to pay the band damages for trespassing, an associate of the band’s lawyer said Friday Sandy Bartlett said Berg did not take issue with the band’s statement of claim in the time allowed for a reply andthecourt awarded.adecisionsothe band by default Damages and costs will be deter mined by the court at a later date, Bar tlett added The band’s claim against Berg is part of the aboriginal title claim filed by the band in B.C. Supreme Court, he said The band has also claimed the provin- Gial government is trespassing but Vic toria has “‘filed an appearance, meaning the government will argué the case in court, Bartlett said The Castlegar News was unable to reach Berg for comment The band is Claiming title to an area of southern B.C. that extends north past Revelstoke, to Big Bend, east to the-west-side-of Kootenay Lake, west to the Selkirk Mountains and south to the Washington border, including Christina Lake, band lawyer Norman Evans has said IN THE DRINK . . bridge. By CasNews Staff Work was delayed Friday on the bridge portion of the Ministry of Highways’ controversial road and bridge project near Vallican ih the Slocan Valley when a fully loaded gravel truck with an attached trailer broke through a temporary bridge across the Little Slocan River and tumbled into the water The temporary bridge was being used to gain access to the project site . a gravel truck lies on its side in the Little Slocan River Friday after crashing through a temporary Truck tumbles into river The driver was uninjured and the truck contractor Paul Markin, was owned by sub pulled out the same day, Ministry ‘OT Highways regional manager fo the Kootenays Barry Eastman said late Friday There was ‘‘negligible”’ spill of diesel fuel into the river, Eastman said, adding an Environment Ministry conservation officer was on site during the cleanup.