Castlégar News _Morch26, 1990 Electi COWICHAN BAY (CP) — An election has not been called in British Columbia, but the Social Credit caucus burst out of a three-day retreat Tuesday with the distin- ctive gait of a government going to the polls. province, fairly and equally represented, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has” Parliamentary committee will hold public hearings on a New jon to end the Meech impasse. But The Socreds ended the retreat in this fishing village about 50 kilometres north of Victoria full of the confidence and optimism. Like a keen-eyed hunter with two fat targets in sight, the Socreds sniped at the op- position New Democrats and the federal government. Premier Bill Vander Zalm was particularly sharp over the latest developments in the Meech Lake accord salvage effort. “The whole constitutional question is a matter for Vander Zalm said the West would lose out because most of the committee members would hail from Ontario and Quebec. He also criticized the committee as ‘‘a whole change in the process which was never discussed at Meech."” The Socreds attacked the proposed goods and ser- vices tax and federal Finance Minister Michael Wilson's request that the provinces collect it for Ottawa. a ae Dainlecersi ; ges — ‘Canada Assistance Program in the latest federal budgetr. **As we've seen with the CAP situation, agreements apparently are able to be altered unilaterally by Ottawa,”’ Smith said. ‘So I think finance ministers should be on notice that he’s done that.’’ The last day of the Socred retreat coincided with the first day of the New Democrats’ so-called pre-election campaign, in which leader Mike Harcourt will spend the next four weeks touring the province. Environment Minister John Reynolds sought out reporters here and said that by his accounting the NDP is racking up at least $5 billion worth of election promises. *‘Just the closure of some of the pulp mills that they’re talking about that they would close immediately; it’s going to cost the tax base of this province a lot of money,’’ Reynolds said. “It’s irresponsible. You'd think they were in an elec- tion or something.”* : An election doesn’t have to be called until late next year, but Vander Zalm also decided the time is right to begin his own campaign. core NEW ORLEANS Food See trip & contest details at your Participating Shop-Easy. RUMP 98 ROASTS... ..CANADA crave A, 9437 a | Shopeasy a 3 DAYS * 3 NIGHTS T-BONE $448 SPARERIBS rox s sa, 51%? Po- RETURN AIRFARE FROM VANCOUVER TO NEW ORLEANS | 8 S EA OR CLUB. CANADA GRADE A kg. 9! I. FRESH to his word, the Ce! parking lot at Celgar on Darcy MacKinnon pledged three weeks ago to shave his head bald to raise money for the Soncoand Cancer Society and, true grabbed a chair as co-workers Dennis Molson (left: sod lay a Martini began the snipping in the p GOING, GOING, GONE As a crowd of co-workers mugged it up around him MacKinnon's father Gale got the honor of handling the buzz cut part of the show. A new man after wife Carolyn put the finishing touches on with @ razor and sh g cream, raise $1,200 for the Cancer Society by staging the stunt. Was it worth uP “Sure was,” said the man now known around work as the Sliver bullet. —cosnews photos by Ed Mills READY FOR SUMMER in the Findlay Valley, is Pp .. the Blue Lake Forestry Centre, 26 kilometres w: t of Canal Flats yr na lor campers. The centre, operated hild for by the B.C. Forestry A i Castlegar News TREET TALK JIM WALDIE has been honored by the Boy Scouts of Canada for his good service to Scouting. Waldie has received the Medal of Merit, the formal presentation of which will be made at the Kootenay- Boundary Region, Boy Scouts of Canada, annual con- ference May 11-13 in Cranbrook “*An award such as this recognizes the outstan- ding dedication, effort and service you have given to Scouting over the years and the very positive impact you have haf on the lives of many youths and adults,” officials of the Kootenay-Boundary Region write in a letter to Waldie congratulating him on his award. GREG PEREGRYM, a graduate of Stanley Humphries secondary school, was among the more than 300 students honored earlier this month in Simon. Fraser University’s annual awards ceremony. Peregrym was recognized for winning a president's SB senior secondary entrance scholarship valued at $8,000, a news release from SFU says. Laura Goetting, another SHSS-grad-attending-SFU, received an un- dergraduate student research award. ages eight to 14. BLUE LAKE FORESTRY CENTRE is now ac- cepting applications for summer campers. The centre, operated by the B.C. Forestry Association, offers fun and games and other exciting activities for children ages eight to 14. To apply, write the BCFA, Box 845, Cranbrook, B.C. VIC 4J6. ROBSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 75 sites — one in each school district across B.C. — par- ticipating in a Ministry of Education and Xerox Canada project to evaluate the use of facsimile (fax) technology to build networks in the educational com- munity. The goal of the ministry’s ‘‘primary fax net- work’’ is to ensure immediate communication and distribution of innovative teaching ideas and methods throughout the province, a news release from Xerox Canada says. VOGUE SFUDIOS in Castlegar is on the move. The downtown photography store and portrait studio will be moving to the City Centre Square Mall at the corner of Columbia Avenue and 3rd Street frdm its current location at 1106 - 3rd Street. The studio will be in its new location April 2 KEN’S AUTO AND WHEEL ALIGNMENT on Columbia Avenue in Castlegar is also_under_new ownership. Ken and Elaine Martin have sold the ‘business to Ed Jones of Main Street Muffler, also of Castlegar. Feds, province to meet VICTORIA (CP) — Federal and provincial officials will meet on Thur- sday to discuss handing over jurisdic- tion of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway to the B.C. government, At- torney General Bud Smith said Tuesday. “I am very pleased to see the (federal) government's willingness to explore a practical method for en- suring the service is continued and improved,”’ he said aboard the train after a government caucus retreat at Cowichan Bay, 35 kilometres north of here. Smith said the talks are historic because British Columbia has been trying since shortly after Con- federation to get CP Rail to live up to its obligations. John Cooper, a longtime supporter of the E and N line, welcomed the negotiations. “This-ean be seen asa positive development if the province has the resolve to carry this through to a set- tlement,"*-he said- The nub of the issue, Cooper said, is CP Rail’s obligation to provide passenger and freight service in return for the 810 million hectares of Van- couver Island land it received from Ottawa in the last century. The federal government did a poor job of ensuring the railway met these obligations and the province should Investor rejects offer VANCOUVER (CP) — The two offers to compensate investors in failed Principal Group companies are misleading and should be junked, says a B.C. investor in the Principal firms. Joan Rohoway said Tuesday that B.C. investors in First Investors Corp. and Associated Investors of Canada have been deluded if they believe rec- ent settlement offers from British Columbia and Alberta will ultimately bring their recovery to even 80 cents per dollar invested. “*T want both of these offers scrap- ped,” Rohoway said. ‘‘What’ in- vestors have been told is forthcoming might not be the entire truth.’’ The B.C. government mailed out a settlement offer on Monday worth Taxes about $25 million to 7,000 B.C. in- vestors who lost a total of $160 million when the Edmonton-based firms went under in 1987. Those who accept will receive five cents on the dollar some 30 days after returning their offers. Another 10 cents will go into a pool largely destined for investors in other provinces that also agree to share in compensating investment contract holders. Investors’ legal repr Principal assets for about $20 million. The government says the assets’ value is in doubt because of threatened legal action. Finance Minister Mel Couvelier said this potential litigation throws in- to quegtion the investors’ ownership of thgte assets. If legal action begins, the assets coulds be tied up for years, investors’ representatives said. But Rohoway said that since Alber- estimate that B.C. contract holders could receive an additional two cents on the dollar from the pooled funds shortly after July 31. But British Columbia has backed away from an earlier pledge to buy in- vestors’ interests in the remaining ta its offer last summer, investors have repeatedly been encouraged to believe they would soon see money from the sales of those assets. Associated Investors return on asset sales is pegged at 11 cents on the dollar while First In- vestors is at eight cents. continued from front page $150,000 the regional district has “budgeted to develop a waste management plan for the district. Area I’s share of the costs totals $292,708 this year compared to $292,454 last year. The breakdown Idoks like this: General government services, $9,499 ($14,806); grant-in-aid, $4,486 ($3,617); other general government (rural areas), $16,575 ($15,550); ad- ministration, $25,865 ($23,291); building inspection, . $22,689 ($19,472); planning and land use, $25,675 ($24,594); economic development, $15,165 ($21,244); refuse, $15,070 ($15,431); advisory planning, $769 ($1,354); recreation commission, $23,446 ($21,155); Doukhobor Village, nil ($80); Com- munity Complex, $115,112 ($114,110); Pioneer Arena, $11,618 ($14,110); regional parks, $3,463 ($3,690); development $3,276 (nil). services,” Area J’s share of the cost in 1990 is $229,205 compared to $242,858 last year. The breakdown is as follows: General government services, $5,660 ($9,976); grant-in-aid, $2,673 ($2,436); other general govérnment (rural areas), $9,877 ($10,459); ad- $15,413 ($15,681); inspection, $13,520 planning and land use, building ($13,101); $15,300 ($16,550); economic development, $9,037 ($14,347); refuse, $8,980 ($10,421); advisory planning, $970 ($760); i be able to do better, Cooper said. Smith hasn’t said how the province would keep the passenger service bet- ween Victoria and Courtenay run- ning. It has been run by Via Rail since 1977. Transport Canada tried to eliminate Via’s service on the E and N line last year as part of national Via cutbacks, but British Columbia won two_B.C. Supreme Court rulings against the cut. Federal authorities started an ap- peal of the decisions, but Smith of- fered the jurisdictional transfers as a way of heading off the appeal. BC Rail doesn’t want to take over passenger service on the Island, said Barrie Wall, a spokesman for the ‘Crown corporation. “In BC Rail’s view the E and N railway has little hope of financial viability,” he said. ‘‘Since BC Rail operates under a financial mandate, management has no interest in acquiring an operation with a long history of considerable losses.’’ BC Rail’s principal business is hauling freight and it would expect to receive subsidies from the governm- nent for the passenger service, Wall said. But Smith ruled out subsidies, saying the only extra cost would be an agency to keep an eye on the railway. Dave Gibson, president of the Van- couver-based Iron Horse Enterprises, said he has a proposal to run a Passenger train on the E and N line but refused to give details. He said negotiations between Ot- tawa and Victoria ‘‘are so sensitive I don’t want to prejudice them in any way.”” commission, $13,971 ($14,300); Doukhobor Village, nil ($32); Com- munity Complex, $68,594 ($77,136); Pioneer Arena, $6,923 ($9,538); regional parks, $2,063 ($2,494); development services, $1,952 (nil); Aquatic Centre, $54,272 ($45,627). Skier continued from front page cerned with his own welfare, he was worried about what his wife was thinking. "You" re concerned about your family because they're not sure if you're in good shape,"’ Kemper- man said. ‘‘I knew I was OK and | knew what to do but your family doesn’t know that.”’ This isn't the first time Kem- Pperman’s got stuck on Red Moun- tain overnight. The same thing happened to him a couple of years ago with the same results, he said. But even the second time hasn’t changed his- mind about the ac- tivity he enjoys — he was back on the ski trails Tuesday. Lottery numbers The winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6/49 draw were $, 31, 33, 34, 36 and 38. The bonus number was 25. The jackpot of $2,515,130.90 goes to the holder of a single ticket bought in * Atlantic Canada. The four Extra winning numbers for British Columbia on Saturday were 6, 30, 44 and 68. The winning numbers drawn Saturday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 9, 10, 13, 23, 38, 40, 43 and 45. The winning numbers in the Ex- press draw for Jaguar cars were 523808, 592034, 137805 and 868742. The winning Lotto BC numbers were 4, 9, 23, 29, 34 and 35. These numbers, provided by The Canadian Press, must be considered unofficial. 98° kg. 92) /i. SAUSAGES ORK .. 923 iw. $198 DINNER HAMS, $998 KENT. BONELESS ....kg KENT BACON. SLICED cme tLe BULK \ WIENERS,,.,,, $119 coD FILLETS , hd bea | $318 te Bu 2 DOr ROPE CHEESE TRECCE CYROWRAPPED a? — DAIRYLAND — YOGOURT SWISS. ASSORTED CHOC. DRINK CONTAINER ........ 27125 151'°|K GRANOLA BARS | QUAKER. CHEWY 50D TIGR CRABMEAT IMITATION. ... — BAKERY — eeeteeeee OVENFRESH . DONUTS GLAZED .. — CENTRAL DELI DELITES _— BLACK FOREST OVEMANDER ons SHAVED MONTREAL STYLE SMOKED BEEF C] overtanoer. SLICED OR SHAVED GRIMMS acs HAM OR PEPPERONI. OVERLANDER DOFINO CREAM a LARGE VARIETY FLETCHERS POTATO SALAD 0G. BD Globe '90 continued from front pege Another theme which ran through the conference was the need for multi- use of forests, she said. “Multi-use is what has to happen,"’ Mathieson said. ‘‘(The forest) is one of our greatest resources. We can still make a modification on the way we, use our forestry resource.’’ Mathieson said the trade fair sec- tion of the conference featured some of the latest technology available in the environmental field — such as water testing and sewage treatment — and suggested that; that part of the conference would be of benefit to the city’s engineer. The conference attracted nearly 2,400 delegates from 60 countries. More than 550 speakers and 400 reporters attended, while the accom- panying trade fair in B.C. Place Stadium drew more than 600 exhibitors from 15 countries. Mathieson noted that the Globe "92 conference will also be held in Van- couver and suggested companies and government - including municipalities such as Castlegar — should make efforts to be less polluting. In memory 1990, at age 82. Frank Holleywood Frank Holleywood of Castlegar passed away Tuesday, March 27, Mr. Holleywood was born May 19, 1907, at Cathcart, Glasgow, Environmental tax will be imposed CALGARY (CP) — The federal governnient is certain to impose some kind of new environmental tax in an effort to stem pollution, says the President of the organization representing Canada’s biggest oil companies. An Ottawa report in the Calgary Herald quotes Ian Smyth Poe Canadian Petroleum Association as saying he’s convinced “‘there will be a green tax of some kind,"’ though he’s uncertain what shape it will take. Smyth told the Commons environ- ment committee Tuesday it could be “ta broad tax to address all the P ** of the ora step toward a national environmental action plan. The paper is not expected to include any specific proposals for taxes though it-may discuss the con- cept of an environmental tax. Smyth said the government is far from understanding if significant reductions of carbon dioxide can be achieved without strangling the economy ‘‘Do_ you, shut down carhoen- dioxide-emitting industries in Canada? Do you make people ride the bus? Do you stop burning coal?"” he asked. ‘‘You don’t make these decisions lightly. They have profound for everyone from bus tax aimed specifically at Hemmitis the riders to coal miners.” Under from Toronto carbon dioxide forglobal warming Liberal MP Charles Caccia, he said the p has not en- Though the tax appears Smyth said the government must not rush in without knowing the con- sequences. Federal Environment .Minister Lucien Bouchard is to release a con- dorsed the international commitment made by Canada to limit carbon dioxide emissions so that levels in 2005 are no higher than in 1988. ‘*We do not see the basis for that,’’ agreed to at an international en- vironmental conference without any evidence it was feasible. Smyth cited International Energy Agency figures showing that world carbon dioxide emissions will increase by half in the next 15~years~given current demand. He said there is no doubt that carbon loading of the at mosphere is causing global warming, but recommended any federal-action wait until international teams of scientists. working onthe problem present their findings in 1992 According to the association’s own figures, Canada’s upstream oil in. dustry generates 10 to 15 per Cent of the cagbon dioxide emissions produced in Canada. The House environment committee is studying the problem of global warming, which scientists say results from increased levels of carbon in the atmosphere trapping the sun’s heat energy. The phenomenon is known as prt —— USE COUPON FOR EXTRA OPEASY AT CENTRAL FOOD — SHOPEASY MARGARINES 183) PARKAY LIMIT ONE WITH COUPON. WITHOUT COUPON $2.58. 1 HEINZ Coupon Expires Sunday. April 1, 1990 = - . KE i CHU 2.84 L. (100 Oz. TIN) C 0 FFE E CHASE & SANBORN INSTANT. RICE-ARONI,..,, 5] 29 | VIVA TOWELS2 »., $198 NOODLE RONT $4.29; BATHROOM TISSUE $998 DOG FOOD VEGIES 723 G. 89 ‘ ASSORTED FLAVORS . . 134-170G ASSORTED TIDE LIQUID $48 GLASS LAUNDRY DETERGENT . PLUS TRIGGER 600 mL REFILL 1000 mi KIBBLES ~ Scotland. He married Polly Elder in Scotland on Nov. 26, 1926. They came to Canada in 1929, settling at Granby, Que. Mr. Holleywood worked at the Granby Golf Course as the golf professional. He worked for one year in 1966 at the Christina Lake Golf Course but returned to Granby and retired to Kelowna in 1972. He moved to Castlegar in 1988. He was a member of Granby Golf Course. Mr. Holleywood enjoyed golfing, music and curling. He is survived by his wife Polly of Castlegar; one daughter, Mae Moroso of Castlegar; three grandchildren; and one brother, Walter of Scotland. Funeral service will be held Friday, March 30, 1990, at 2 p.m. at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel with Rev. Ted Bristow officiating. Cremation. In lieu of flowers, the family’suggest those wishing to remember Mr. ry may make i to the Cancer Fund in his memory. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Fanny Popoff Fanny Popoff of Castlegar passed away Monday, March 26, 1990, at age 87. Mrs. Popoff was born April 10, 1902, at Pelley, Sask. She grew up and married Nick A. Popoff there in 1920. She came to Castlegar in 1938 and lived here since. Mrs. Popoff was a member of the Senior Citizens Association and the USCC. She enjoyed gardening, sewing, knitting, cooking, baking, singing in the different choirs, and entertaining her friends and family. She is survived by one son, Andrew of Spokane, Wash.; two daughters, Mary Swetlishoff and Elsie Koochin, both of Castlegar; 13 19 gi and one sister Polly Relkoff of Burnaby. She was predeceased by her husband Nick on Jan. 15, 1984, and one daughter, Ann Chernoff, on July 17, 1959. Funeral services will be held at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel today from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will continue Thursday at 10 a.m. with burial at noon at the Brilliant Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel. _| sultation paper Thursday as the first 1990 MAZDA 323 $9395 + PLUS FREIGHT. PDI. 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