Firemen’s meeting This six winning numbers in. Saturday‘s Lotto 6/49 draw are 2, 7, 34, 36, 37 and number is 40. The bonus $500,000 winning number in Friday's Provincial lottery draw is 1376049. 15. The Page A5 SunFest activities WEATHERCAST Today will be sunny, with otter noon clouds. The high will be 25° The probability of precipitation is 10 percent, and near zero tor Monday. Sunny and warm tem: peratures expected to continue this week. Humidity will be 28 per cent 50 Cents > VOL. 37, No. 59 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1984 3 Sections (A, B & C) MISS CASTLEGAR ‘84. . . Monica Dascher, Miss Reo! Estate, won the Miss Castlegar pageant over six competitors Friday night. Candidates were judged on such things as dress, a talent presentation, and resp to imp: pty qi i Conttews Phote by Adrian Chombertoin SUNFEST ACTIVITIES By CasNews Staff Seventeen-year-old Monica Dascher was crowned Miss Castlegar at the annual Queen pageant held at Stanley Humphries Secondary School Friday night as SunFest '84 celebrations got underway in Castlegar. Dascher, who ran as Miss Real Estate, came out tops over six other competitors Rachel Adams, Miss Downtown Business Asso ciation, was crowned first princess, and Miss Rotary, Debbie Boolinoff was named second princess. The Miss Congeniality title, voted on by the Miss Castlegar title contenders, was won by Maria Cardoso. Also running were Lisa Hoolaeff, Miss Dixie Lee, Paige Lightburn, Miss Royal Canadian Legion, and Lori Harrison, Miss Taks Furniture Village The pageant beban with an all candidates dance routine, and included a swimwear presentation, formal wear presentation, candidates’ impromptu question, and a talent show Dascher, who graduated from StanleyHumphries this June, performed a ballet/jazz dance to the song What a Feeling, from the film Flashdance. Another Sunfest weekend event was the Sunflower Run held from the recreation complex Saturday morning. The winners of the 10 kilometre competitive run were: 19 and under category 98:37; Second: Les Marver Kenyon, 41:15. Open men's category second: Doug Hicks, 37:14 Master’s Men's tategory (40 and over) — First: First: Terry 37:30, Third: DeLong. Andrew First: Mike Shoniker, 36-59, Third: Larry Bickerton, Dascher wins crown 3raham Kenyon, 35:49; Second: Ben Thor-Larson, 39:53; Third: John Orr, 41:12. Open women's cai —\Firet: Kathy Green, 45:47; Second: Denise Duckworth, 62:27; Third: Anne Clow, 54:16 Master's women’s category (35 and over) First Dee Lewis, time: 51:28 Second: Marleen Orr, time: 56:07; Third: Marilyn Johnstom, time: 58:58. The team trophy winners were Graham Kenyon, Terry and Rhonda DeLong, and Marilyn Orr with a combined time of 172 minutes, 19 seconds. Total pledges raised by thé runners for the Kootenay Society for the Handicapped. were $2,310. The winners of the Sunfest Parade float judging contest were: Commercial category, Block Btow. Realty Float; Non Library float: overall float, First, Spokane float; Second, Warfield float. Equestrian horsewoman , First, Kathy Armstrong, Second, Jennifer and. Michelle Rezansoff. Special merit mention: RCMP riders, Trail Pipe Band, and the Nelson Pipe Band. Best out of district float, First: Colville float; Second: Kettle Falls float. Children’s awards: Christopher Popoff, Little Miss Lick, the Arts Couneil float, and Rob Graziano. Novelty category, First: Katimavik clowns; Second: Nelson Klondike clowns. Decorated bikes, Colin and Mina Briggeman, and Clifford 'W aldie. Equestrian: Riding group. First, Pete Milton; Second, Nelson KOOTENAY WEST Green Party to run in riding By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer The president of the fledgling Green party says she will run as a candidate in the federal riding of Kootenay West if no other Green party members are interested. “If a Green party member (in Koot enay West) wants to run, I think that person should obviously run,” said Adriane Carr in a telephone interview from the Green party campaign office in Vancouver. But if no other Green party member comes forward by the end of this week, 82-year-old Carr will seek nomination by Green party members in the West Kootenays (of which there are between 15 and 20). She will then begin a 10-day campaign here Saturday Aug. 6 If Carr runs she'll be tossing her cap into a ring that includes recently nom imated Liberal candidate Jean Turn bull, Progressive Conservative can didate Bob Brisco, and New Demo cratic Party MP Lyle Kristiansen. Carr laughed when asked if she expected to win, conceding that ‘the Greens have little support in Kootenay Weéat vidi City authorizes grant The City of Castlegar has authorized ‘a $8,500 grant for the Castlegar Cham ber of Commerce for SunFest '84 ac tivities an increase of $1,500 over last year. Ald. Albert Calderbank told city council at last Tuesday's meeting that the 75 per cent increase was decided on by the administrative services and fi nance committee July 12 because the Chamber “needed the money.” Chamber president Mike O'Connor explained that running the annual Sunfest celebrations is an expensive undertaking. “We have to pay these people to come to our parades, these bands,” he said. “We have to pay them, offset their expenses for gas, feed them. It gets very expensive.” He added that cash prizes for entries in the Sunfest parade have to be in creased yearly “or else the people won't come.” The Sunfest “doesn’t make any money at all,” said O'Connor. “The money we make off casino night, which runs between $3,000 and $3,500 goes into the parade as well. It's a complete outgo. There's nothing left over.” The funds are paid by grants-in-aid through the Regional District of Cen tral Kootenay Meanwhile, Ald. Len Embree praised the City’s recent decision to have contracts written up between the City of Castlegar and the Chamber of Commerce fee services provided, ra ther than handing out fands directly “I think the fee for services proposal. and a contract in piace is good — it puts the enus on the chamber to produce.” he said. “And.I think they have over the last two yeuts," he added. But Emilee ssid: “I have to say there is considerable discussion in the community about the money the city is contributing to chamber functions.” He made reference to the chamber's letter from Progressive Conservative candidate Bob Brisco. O'Connor conceded that the news letter should have stated that thé letter was 2 political advertisement paid for by Brisco. “Mostly the Green Party has been active in Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland,” she said, adding that it costs too much “time and money” for the party to campaign in other areas of the province. Carr's connection with Kootenay West, like Prime Minister John Turn er's link to the Vancouver Quadra riding, might seem tenuous to some. She says she lived in Nelson for a few years in the 1960s while attending elementary school. “I used to ride up to the lake; it’s a beautiful area,” said Carr But she says she also recalls driving down to Trail, before government pollution controls on industry had come into effect. “It was just like hitting a wasteland — no vegetation.” The anti-pollution, pro-environment stance is a basic tenent in the Green party platform. Carr says the party is concerned about the effects of acid rain, and while believing that in dustry and a pollution-free environ ment can co-exist — the Greens want industries to have more pollution con. trols. Carr said the main purpose behind her running would be to make the public aware of “issues we feel art of absolute importance,” and to “force the other candidates” to address them. These issves include local control and decision making in the economy, world peace, the “maintenance of a natural ADRIANNE CARR to seek nomination resource base,” and being a “conserver society,” Carr said. A local issue of prime importance is the high unemployment rate in the West Kootenays, says Carr She says the way the issue is being treated by other political parties is “in. effective,” adding that “the under mining of the natural resource base by logy is creating tas Job-sharing and shorter work week: are “the only way we can solve un- employment,” and with increased lei. sure time, more jobs will be created in recreation and tourism, Carr said continued on page A2 LIBERAL CANDIDATE Turnbull victorious By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer Jean Turnbull of Trail claimed a vietory over Nelson's Peter Dodge Wednesday night to become Kootenay West's Liberal candidate in the Sept. 4 federal election. Out of the 105 Liberals who cast their ballots at the meeting at the Fireside Inn, 51-year-old Turnbull got 71 votes, while Dodge 32, a provincial government and surveyor, got only 4 The victory left Turnbull, a former teacher and librarian, overjoyed In her acceptance speech, Turnbull told the members: “I am going to need all your help.” “We are in this campaign to win,” she boldly stated She later said she was going into the campaign with confidence, but said one can never take anything for granted 1 want everybody to have fun and enjoy this campaign,” she said. “I cer tainly intend to.” When asked about her chances of at tracting female voters, Turnbull ex plained that she has heard the com ment that a women doesn't stand a chance against older men, who won't vote for a woman ‘On the other hand there are a lot of first-time young women voters as well and I hope to attract their votes,” she said There hasn't been a Liberal elected in Kootenay West since the consti tueney was formed in 1917 In the last election held four years ago, Liberal Peter Kendall received 4,778 votes of the 28,495 ballots cast in Kootenay West Liberal riding president Mark Mc Ewan, as he officially kicked off the Liberal campaign, said the party is going to try Goor-to-door campaigning to try and “outhustle and outwork the NDP and the Conservatives.” Turnbull, in her speech before the vote told the Liberals that Kootenay West “must have a member who sits on the government side, not the oppo sition. We need a member of the gov ernment who will try and represent people by listening carefully to their concersn,” she said. “We don’t need members whose energies are spent on contructive criti cism,” she said Citing her experience on various boards, Turnbull said she will “cam. paign vigorously” to become Liberal MP for Kootenay West Her experience includes being a Trail school board trustee for six years, membership on the Selkirk College board. Chairman of the Academic Council of B.C. and the Trail Municipal Library Board as well as being a founding member of the B.C. Press Council Turnbull said her involvement in policy setting and decision-making has given her valuable experience. She also noted her family’s history of trade unionism. Her father was a major force in organizing Japanese mill workers in Vancouver Turnbull said the main issues of Kootenay West — unemployment and the economy — don't differ from the rest of the country. “Everyone wants stability and secur ity provided by jobs and social pro grams,” she said. “Employment and a health economy are inseparable.” She said the country needs incen tives for capital investment, proper use in the management and new technol ogies, new markets for new goods and incentives for developing small industries and business, a well educated and well-trained work force. and the cooperation of labor, govern ment and business. Turnbull said in Kootenay West she will push for a federalprovincial agreement on reforestation. Four of the provinces have already signed an agreement, she stated. Turnbull also promised to do what ever she could to help Nelson and the future of the use of the David Thomp- son University Centre facilities She also said there is a necessity that Crown Corporations be more account able to parliament. Tax reforms are also needed. As well she said the ef forts of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau in search of peace and dis armament, must be continued. continued on page A2 services,