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a2 Castlégar News February 12, 1989

Power lines near-Selkirk College needed repairs
and left Robson, Pa

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night after o
Creek and Brilliant residents winout power for about two hours.

Residents
without
power

By CasNews Staff
Continuing cold weather and in

Road reopens

By CasNews Staff
The Cominco hill reopened Friday
after Being closed for nearly two days
this week when approximately seven
tons of battery sludge from. a truck
leaked on to the highw

Carol Vanelli, public relations of:
ficer at Cominco in Trail said a truck
from KC Recycling in Columbia Gar
dens was travelling on the smelter
hill at about 2 p.m. Wednesday when
something went wrong with the tail

Arrests

tontinued from front p
point Voykin decided to get some help
from the RCMP to teach the students a
lesson and at the same time use it as a
class exercise

“All of the
something was up for a while,’
Voykin said. “When the arrests were
made, they were happier than heck
that something was done.””

While alleging tliat Sharp and Gan
ton are guilty, Voykin said Closkey, a
first Castlegar princess, is not guilty

MLAs to

get pay
increase

VICTORIA (CP) — Members ‘of the

B.C, legislature will get a pay increase

students knew

‘of 10 per cent Over (Wo Years, less than
year after receiving a three-per-cent

An all-party board of internal

Voykin said she alerted the parents
of the three students-of what was to
take place. However, one of the
fathers had to deliver something to one
of the students and the secret was let
out

Voykin said even though the studen:
ts knew about what was to happen.
they were still quite frightened

“T wouldn't try this with just any
class," she said. “I have a really gung
ho group.’

Meanwhile, the Blasphemer has not
turned up. Voykin said she has made
some subtle inquiries to parents and
has talked to some of the students, but
the missing- monkey remains a
mystery

However, Voykin hopes the key
witness will surface before Wed
neSday’s trial

allowing the
d sulphate, to

gate. which: opened
material, containing le
leak out

The mishap occurred just before a
shift cltange at Cominco, Vanelli said
the road was immediately closed and
traffic was detoured via Bingay
Road and Warfield

Clean-up crews put down lime and
sand to neutralize the acid and
absorb the tead, Vanetti said, adding
that the material contained about
017 per cent acid

After the lim d sand were put
down on the road, representatives
from the Department of Highways
under the Ministry of Environment
came to inspect. Vanelli said they
were satisfied. with the clean-up ef
forts and the lime and sand were

swept up

The spill occurred on the section of
road from the main gate to the
smelter gate at the traffic light

Vanelli said any residents who
drove through the
road was closed can make
through the Inst
British Columbia -if there is any
damage to their vehicles

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culprits behind a two-hour
Robson, Pass
and parts of Ootis
West

power
outage that © struck
Ercek, Brilliant
chenia Wednesday night, a
Kootenay Power official said
Jack Fisher
ministrator for WKP, told the Castle
gar News the
probably" due to the long bout of
area has been hit

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power outage was

cold weather the
with lately
We had some
60-kilovolt (60,000-volt) line east of
Selkirk College,’ Fisher said
Sometime after 6 p.m. Wednesday
night we had a failure on the con
ductor. It’s a technical problem that
occasionally happens related to the
continuing cold weather
Fisher said WKP crews were dis:
patched to the area immediately’ fol
outage and had -power
ffected areas within

problems with a

lowing the
restored to the
two hours. -

‘It's just one of those things,” he
said, adding that increased power
usage combined with the cold wea
ther was the most likely cause of the
failure in the conductor

The line crews also had to shut
down the power later on in the night
to fully repair the damage

“In -repairing the damage. the
crews had to put the power down at

pout 11 p.m. for half an hour.” be
said. ‘*(But) I'm informed that every
thing is back to normal

the power in 1987 to determine benefits
for members, recently decided tc
award the pay inerease
Although the raise was not officially
innounced, news of it is contained in
new pages added to the members’ han

dbook

information on wages

a binder containing nge of
benefits and
expenses.

The latest raise gives the 69 member
a five-per-cent raise retroactive
Aug. 1, 1988, and a furtl
cent effective Aug. |

When the final raise takes
they will earn $31,249 annually, plus a
tax-free $15,624 expense allowance

They currently receive $28,324 a'year

effect

and $14,161 inexpenses. They received
their last raise April, 1988

Justice

continued from front page

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of the position

She said she is impressed with the
legal system asa result of her training

It became clearer and clearer to me
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Wearmouth said. ‘*I was very im
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part of that system.

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Albert A. ‘‘Bert’’

Mr. Lamb was born April 30, 1913 at Lasburn, Sask
in the Lashburn area. He moved to Robson in 1938.

During the Second World War, he served overseas with the
He began working for Cominco in 1938 and after the war he

returned to Cominco working as a shift foreman until his retirement in

RCAF

1973

was a very active member in the

after his retirement

Janice of Armstrong

minster; Sask

Should friends desire
Fund, Box 3023, Castlegar. B.C

Funerat€hapet

Siding in 1927

gardening

A ppledale
Bill Verigin of Slocan Park

sister

Funeral arrangements were
Funeral Chapel

Mrs. Lactin was born Dec. 1

crafts and crocheting

and one sister. Helen Poohachoff

Funeral Chapel

Lamb of Robsoh passed away Feb. 9 at age

After his retirement, he worked at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel
for 16 years. He was a life member of the Royal Canadian Legion and
1960s and 1970s

He served in most offices both on the local and regional level
After his retirement from Cominco.
the two of them managing the curling club for a number of years. Mr
Lamb was an active golfer and curler most of his life

He married Phyllis Webster on May 8
survives*him at the family hom in Robson. He is also survived by two
sons, Kevin of Robson and Arthur of Mesa, Ariz.; one daughter
one brother
Mattie—Macfadyen—of -Vancouver—and— Margaret” Carson of Lloyd

Funeral service will be held at the
Church, Monday, Feb. 13 at 1 p.m. with Rev
Charles Balfour officiating. Cremation to follow
contributions may be made to the Heart
VIN 3H8
Funeral.arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar

Jmaiff

Polly Jmaiff of Nelson (formerly of Perry Siding) passed away
recently in Kootenay Lake District Hospital at age 8S

Mrs. Jmaiff was born May 10

to Ootischenia with her parents as a small girl

Pass Creek where they lived for-a-short-time-before-moving to-Perry

when she met and married Mike Jmaiff. In 1981 they

moved to Nelson. She was a member of the

Mrs. Jmaiff is survived by her husband Mike of Nelson; three
sons, Lewie and wife Nellie of Grand Forks, Mike Jr. and wife Polly of
and Bill and wife Nora of Golden; nine grandchildren; 11
great-grandchildren; two brothers.
and one sister, Vera Sherstibitoff of
Mount St. Francis. She was predeceased byTwo brothers and one sister

Funeral service was held Saturday and Sunday at the Appledale
Hall with burial in the Perry Siding Cemetery
under the direction of the Castlegar

Lactin.

Nora Lactin passed away Feb. 8 at age 85
1903 in Saskatchewan. She enjoyed

She is survived by one brother

and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband

Funeral service was held at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel on
Friday with burial,in Park Memorial Cemetery
Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar

and grew up

he also worked with Rafph Clay
and especially

1948 at Robson and she
Ted of Ashburn;

and two sisters,

Robson Community Memorial
Ted Bristow and Rev

1903 at Verigin, Sask., and came

They then moved to

USCC and enjoyed

Nick Verigin of Perry Siding and

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PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP)
Builders in this central B.C. city expect
to buck the trend of declining new
home sales

Buoyed by new industrial develop:
ment in the city, construction firm
forecast home starts to increase to 200
his year, yp 39 percent from 1988
despite predicted lower sales across
Canada

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The PMC $6S- million

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February 12, 1989 Castlegar News as

Briefly

Car collison fatal :

PRINCETON (CP) — Milos Zatovic of West Vancouver was killed.
when his westboundcar failed to negotiate a curve and ¢ollided head on
with an oncoming vehicle on Highway 3 near Princeton, RCMP'said.

Zatovic, 43, wi

Margaret Beatty of Trail, driver of the eastbound car,
condition in Penticton hospital with serious injuries

Two passengers in-Beatty’s vehicle, Glen and Ann Bailie of Nelson
were itr hospitatin Princeton; alsoin stable condition

lie lone occupant of the vehicle
was in stable

Soviet satellite launched

MOSCOW (Reuter)
the first spacecraft to photograph the central region of Antartica, the
Soviet news agency Tass said

Photographs taken by Cosmos-2000, launched on Friday, will make it
possible to draw a precise map of central Antartica for the first time, Tass

A Soviet satellite launched this week will-be

said
The project will also produce data on the ice cover, the outcrops of
rocks, the formation of glaciers and icebergs and possibly on the size of
the ozone “hole” over the continent
Cosmos-2000 was launched by a Soviet booster rocket into an orbit of
between 183 and 265 kilometres above Earth

Quakes hit Indonesia

JAKARTA (AP)

no serious. damage. or injuries-were-reported

A series of earthquakes hit eastern Indonesia but
meteorological officials
said

logy Office, said about 25 tremor
were recorded Friday night. He said one tremor in the Maluku Sead about
183 kilometres cast of Bitung in northern Sulawesi measured a
preliminary 6.0.0n the Richter scale. Bitung is about 2,310 kilometres nor
theast of Jakarta

‘About 25 tremorSwere recorded, but there were no reports of damage

Putu Puja, an official in the Metec

or casualties."’ Puja said.

Inquiry called for

MONTREAL (CP)
public inquiry into the police investigation of a fire that déstroyed the
Montreal headquarters of Alliance Quebec

A resolution adoped by the federation’s general council accuses Mon

The Quebec Federation of Labor is calling for a

treal police of foot-dragging and charges that important evidence -has
been suppressed

Louis Laberge, president of the federation, told a news conference
Friday that only an inquiry can answer the essential question: “Did
Alliance Quebec set the fire in its own offices or not?

‘That's what Quebecers want to know

The fire occurred Dec, 30. Montreal police director Roland: Bourget
said Tuesday the active investigation has ended. There are no suspects and

io prospects of arrests, he said

Wayne Hays dies

BELMONT, Ohio(AP)
affair with House of Representatives clerk Elizabeth Ray in 1976 touched

Wayne Hays, a 14-term congressman whose

off a payroll-sex scandal in the U.S. capital and destroyed his political
career, died Friday. He was 77
Jean Walker, a family friend, said Hays died at Wheeling Hospital in
Wheeling, W.Va
Walker, who spoke by telephone from the Hays residence, said Hays
attack

acrossthe Ohio River from this eastern Ohio town.

apparently suffered a heart about noon Friday as he read a
newspaper at his home

pring of 1976. Hays first denied, then
then 33

denied her charges that she was kept on his administration committee

The sex scandal broke during the sr

acknowledged having an affair with Ray But he steadfastly

payrattat $14,000 a year in federal funds only to have sex with him. Hays
maintained that she did regular committee work

Couple returns cash

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP)
fell out of an armored truck , so Dominicand Mildred Otio picked them up

Two money bags containing $365,000 US

and took them to police -
“wedid wharwe tetrwe shoutd do,“ saith O10, 78
“My husband's just too honest,”’ said his 65-year-old wife
The Olios a reward for their honestly, Jerry Reeder,
president of the Berkshire Armored Car Co Pittsfield
Mass.
We are very grateful tothat couple,’

will receive
said from his
. office

he said

ng like that doesn't happen very often around here; those a

Anstin

Some

honest people,”’ said officer Greg

Salaries reviewed

OTTAWA (CP)

nd allowances

Two former MPs have been asked to review the

salaries given to members of Parliament and senators
Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazank owski said ina statement

The commission has been asked to recommend changes within six mons
ths to the way MPs and senators are paid.

The average MP's
slightly more than $80,000.

annual salary coupled with tax-free allowances 1
Fox, a Liberal who currently practises law in Montreal, held several
cabinet portfolios under former prime minister Pierre Trudeau. St, Ger
main was the forestry minister before being defeated in last fall's federal

election

Sheriff selected

LONDON (Reuter)
the first black to hold the ancient office of Sheriff of Nottingham, heir to
o

A Jamaican-born retired bus driver will become

the 12th century lawman who pursued Robin Hood
Robin Hood robbed the rich to help the poor — as a good socialist I
think I have more in common with him,”’ Tony Robinson was quoted as
saying
He called his appointment by the Labor party-controlled city council n
greatachievement forthe black community
Robinson, 68, emigrated to Britain in 1960 and settled in Nottingham
where he drove buses and became a Labor member of the council
Robsinson will don the sheriff's robes and cocked hat in May and serve

inthe mainly ceremonial post fora year

Abortion completed

MANHASSET,N.Y.(AP)

a comatose woman whose husband had battled anti-abortion activists to

Doctors today completed an abortion on

the U.S. Supreme Court to become her guardian

“The procedure has een completed,” announced Carol Hauptman, a
spokesman for North Shore University Hospital, where Naney Klein has
been since a Dec. 13 caraccident that teft her comatose
“Mr. Klein i
to dote go on with his life,” said a spokesman for Martin Klein of

very happy the procedure is completed; he has other

thing
Upper Brookville, N.¥., who sought guardianship of his 32-year-old
wite

Nancy Klein, 32, way 18 weeks pregnant. On Jan. 26, her husband

aught-to-be-decktred-guardian-of his _brain-damaged wile so-he could

authorize the abortion that doctors said might save her life. A judge gran

ted his request

LOG
SPILL

the middle of the trailer broke, dumping the logs into t!

completed — cosriews p

A truck load of logs spilled into Pass Creek on Thursday afternoon when the wheels in
creek. The trunk remained on the
road. The logs were pulled from the creek Friday morning when the cleanup operation was

_will_ not be

Chemical
e g billion-dollar gold find-has some residents. envision
unlikely ing new prosperity for the southwest corner of
Alberta, -but skeptics say it may be an elusive dream

There is a possibility

skeptical."* said lan Hutcheon

CROWSNEST PASS, ALTA. (CP) Talk of a

although I'm a little

ology professor at

CRANBROOK, B.C (CP) A
distribution chain probably
storing PCBs in this
heastern B.C, comMuUINty, Mayor Ron Stewart, a geological technician at the
Rick Jensen said following a waste

thé University of-Calgary, ‘‘If Iwas thinking about

grocery

buying, I'd want more evidence
south
University of Alberta, told a news conference this
management hearing week he found gold while doing research for a book

Elected representatives and area
residents came out thi
Kelly Douglas and Co, Ltd. present the
application to

on the legend of the Lost Lemon mine
week to listen to
Stewart said there may ‘be $7 billion worth of
gold hidden in volcanic rock around Coleman, in the
Alberta-British

formed a

technicat-merits of its
tore PCB

If Kelly Douglas is
mit for

think it will be, the

€rowsnest Pass just east of the

vinied a pet Columbia border. He and two others

private company and staked a claim

torage, and I certainly don't

company! will suill The announcement created bubbles of enthusi
asm in communities in the Crowsnest Pass. an area
vitality of its

There's talk

and an upswing in a depressed

have to comply with the city bylaw

‘ike mahvor walsh struggling to regain the economic
Council's bylaw prohibits the coal-mining heydays from 1910 to 1950
torage of PCBs, which are suspected about a tourism boom
of causing cancer, in the city that were real-catate market
1 Clif Reiling

wundaries copomic development co-ordina

generated ouside city bs
Kelly Douglas came \under fire tast
September when it was dis

tor. for Crowsnest Pa admitted everyone is still

hovered the guessing. but ‘we hope it’s true; we could use the

company was storin pecial waste Pronperny

5 Cranbrook warehouse withour.a Reiling said he has been getting lots of
telephone calls from people who want to know how to
ompany file claims. but oldtimers say it's too soon to grab a
mule and a pick-axe
HAS DOUBTS
Resident Jim Stoen is skeptical and doesn’t plan

to succumb to gold fever

1 grocery tributior
chouse here
PLEASED WITH TURNOUT

Mayer Jensen said he was pleased

Gold fever strikes.

If 1 had $1,000 Fd_ give it toa children’s
hospital. he said 1 wouldn't invest in this.

Albert Goodwin. 80.“who worked in mines in the
area, wasn't Surprised by the announcement. ‘‘I
expected they'd find gold some day.”’ he said

Brad Lucas. co-ordinator of a renewal program

ted the Crowsnest Pass Mainstreet Project. said
therewiltbetourisnr benefits ifr gott rasttevetops

Hutcheon said there's no indication large-scale
gold deposits exist in the area
to other

posits. But there aren't any major deposits in that

Usually you will find deposits close

David Pattison, another geology professor from
algary. said the nearest reasonable gold find was.at
Wild Horse Creek

Pass

40 kilometres west of Crowsnest
Hutcheon and Pattison said the gold. if it exists.

would be difficult to mine because only trace
amounts would be in the igneous rock

Stewart found gold in an outcropping of volcanic
Alberta
along Highway 3 says
ars old, older than
the surrounding Rocky Mountains. The sign doesn't

rock one kilometre west of Coleman. An
government information sign

the outcropping is 100 million ye

mention gold

Legend has it Montana miner Frank Lemon and
Blackjack
gold-bearing rock somewhere in the foothills of the

a partner known as found a pit of

Rocky Mountains in 1870--The story says Lemon
murdered his sleeping partner. then went mad and
wuld never remember where the mine was located
Stewart said the reason. n had found the
gold before is because it locked-in

crystals of iron pyrite, known as fool's gold

with rout at the meeting
unanimous supp

ook has received for its

School

continued from front pege

If Kelly Douglas receives the permit
approval—tensen—said_council will
follow the appeal process laid out by =
board that “expanding

waste management Columbia, told the

An appeal first must be made to the
director of Waste Management Bran

cessful, it will

British
services throughout the district rather than diluting or

benefit more students and
learning disabiect

programs at Twin Rivers school as burgeoning enrol

curtailing them, would

ch. If the appeal is unsu climinate the. need, to sacrifice
he environmental appeal board
and finally to cabinet ment puts pressure on an already over-burden
up- facility

t y n Beckstcad said there i
cludin ¢ ¢ New
Demo t member for
Kootenay, Sid Parker, NDP member
of Parliament 1
Regional Distret of
the Cranbrook Chamber of Con

Kootenay Envy

a need for the development
of additional services at SHSS for children with spe
needs
Considerable progress has been made in
current school year, but these programs need te
expanded,"’ the association's brief says. ‘The la
___group of students with learning disabilities movi
ce and the East from Kinnaird Junior secondary school will severely tax
the system, SHSS will require_a- commitment of support

and dollars, particularly for additional staff

mental Society
Waste ma

tatedsearlier that

gement. officials had pre-service
nagemer ia pre-servic

anbrook and inservice professional devefopment, auxiliary staff
bylaw may be in conflict with the and flexibility in scheduling. in order to
provincial Waste Management Act specific requirements of these students

said to have been Ken Wythe
brought before B.C Environment
Minister Bruce Strachan but no

decisionhas beenreteased must be

Additional
funding ples
provided

PENTICTON, B,C. (CP)

Columbia municipalities will receive

meet

“Russian

tment te

The bylaw was president of Parents for
asked the board to maintain an ongoing comr
the Russian bilingual program, which. he said
knowledged as an outstanding success
terms of academic achievement

Wyllie urged the board,to identify and vigorously
purse the ministry's multicultural education policy, not
gard to the Russian bilingual program, but

regard to the second language program gener

Parents for Russian also told the board that to

British Maintain the program at its existing level. it will be
necessary to provide the equivalent of a 1.2 teacher
And bridging

extra money this year from the provin- allocation, with one additional ¢lassroon
cial government the program to Grades 4 and § would also require a 1.2
The basic revenue-sharing grant will teacher allocation and an additional classroom at Twin
rise to between $$0,000 and $100,000
Fent range of $40,000 10 The group also asked the
existing program at Twin Rivers Castlegar Primary

The brief also included a letter from Bew Maloffe a
parent and member of the second language committee

She urgéd the board to keep the Russian biling
Primary and not

Rivers Castlegar Primary

from the ¢ board to maintain the

$80,000 Municipal Affairs Minister
Rita Johnston told a Union of B.C
Municipalities luncheon

Earlier, the government announced
a 10-per-cent increase inunconditional — Program at Twin Rivers/Castlegar

grants,to a provincial total of $110 Move part of the progranrto Blueberry Creck school as

recommended by the committec

The Kinnaird Junior seco

million. Details of how much each
municipality will receive should be ndary (school parent
made known in the next two week Support group asked the board to give consideration to

1id Johnston special programs at the school
We will be careful again this year to We feel that it is imperative to continue to

ensure that smaller communities and Maintain all programs. inchiding these for students with

those hardest-hit cconomically special needs at least at their-present level.” the group
receive the needed assistance said said

Johnston They said improving the level of service by

increasing the staff and reducing the pupil teacher ratio

a high. priority introduced at
KJSS. the group

compromised nor jeopardized

If new programs. are
asks that present programs be neither
d band

accommodate

The group also request equipment. It said

portable staging is required to about 275
students for band c certs

Robson eleme chool’s parent support group
rested a full-tin ild care worker acher’s

Robson, French
alt grades. additional funding for field

that Grade 6 students remain ir
ams for
money for the swimming program. and a reliable
pier
The group also asked that split-grade classes be
minated. Group representative Cheryl Greep said a
fit_all_ children with quality _
king™ in the classrooms

ent survey |of parents of Grades 4 and S
ated the majority of parents prefer their
Robson school for Grade Thi

Greep said
© the school
ailability of the community's
proposed that the board fully
have lessons only
program we have
resubmitted their
group urged the implement extension
French in Sept noting that funding is

f Education

1 fox the implementation of a
mmersion program for 1989. Spokesman Deborah
is told the board a public mecting was hett Jan. 28
sith Rick Wood from ‘the Ministry of
Jean Paul anit ion teacher from the
Nelson area. More an S ple attended the

Education and

micetings including scho
Mr. Waod-is very
and The

said. "We feel there was cnough suppe

r immersion
Ministry will hel in any Wav (Wey can,” she
and interest to
jemand implementation of lat School

District No. 9 in Sepfember 1989