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Castlegar Sun

“Wednesday, November 28, 19

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School boundary
crossing approved

By BARBARA TANDORY
Sun staff writer

A friendly agreement between
the Castlegar and its neigbor school
district has been made formal and
legal at the last school board mect-
ing of the Castlegar school board.

The board had decided not to
make changes to its eastern bound-
ary, with Nelson's School District
No.’ 7, but supported the current
policy of allowing students to cross

+ the boundary line upon request.

"Due to the proximity of the
Webb and Voykin subdivisions
with School District No. 7 schools,
School District No. 9 (Castlegar)
will grant permission to parents re-
siding in those subdivisions, up to

“It's just a historical develop-
ment," said Wayling, noting that
since the Brent Kennedy clementary
school was built some twelve years
ago, people who live in the two
outer Castlegar housing subdivi-
sions have preferred to send their
kids to that school, because it's
closer than city schools.

“These people prefer that their
children walk to school than ride a
school bus,” said Wayling.

And Brent Kennedy principal
Serge Leukov says the friendly

agreement is working out fine. The ©

students in the borderline areas have
an option to choose between the
two districts, but beyond that, they
require a formal request to attend
school in the other district.

“The understanding we have is
th:

and i the former F
home, to have their children attend
Brent Kennedy and Mt. Sentinel

it is all Castlegar,”
said Leukov. "And the two subdivi-
sions are optional.”

Schools, ” said the resolution

passed unanimously.

Castlegar schools superintendent
Terry Wayling said said this
"boundary modification” has been
in effect for two years, but that Ic-
gal advice suggested the board en-
dorse it formally.

Wayling said about 25 school
children are immediately affected.
They are the students who live
within the Castlegar district and at-
tend schools of the Nelson district.

Although legally in another dis-
trict, Brent Kennedy is a
“neighborhood school" for the resi-
dents of the two Castlegar-area sub-
divisions.

"I¢’s easier to walk five minutes
for them than take a school bus (to
town),” he said.

The boundary position statement
endorsed by the Castlegar schoo!
district will next come up for re-
view on or before Oct. 31, 1992.

m Teachers

Continued from 1A

in acontract dispute.

The new law has made the
teachers’ union, the B.C. Federation
of Teachers, in effect a “closed
shop" said former Castlegar trustec
‘Ed Conroy.

"Just as you can’t work for
Cominco if you're not member of
the Steelworkers’ union, you can't
be a teacher without being a mem-

been court challenges on religious
grounds elsewhere in the province.

Teachers who refused to belong
to the union had to quit teaching.
But Conroy said the Castlegar
school district lost no teachers on
these grounds.

Teachers’ spokesman Adams has
also declined comment while bar-
gaining is in progress.

The local District Teachers
Associati iated a

; city limits proper

By NANCY LINGLEY

Sun Editor

Wilf Sweency has been awarded
a Paul Harris Fellowship in recog-
nition of his service to the
Castlegar Rotary Club and the
community as a whole. The award
was given to Sweency at a Rotary
dinner held at the Sandman Inn last
night. .

‘Sweency accepted with modesty
saying that it was an honor be-
stowed on few pcople and he felt
that the recognition of contribution
was the reason he decided to accept.

In his letter of nomination, Ron
Ross, chairman of the Rotary
Foundation Committee, stated that
“Wilf was club president when we
estabished Zuckerburg Island Park
and this alone would be adequate
reason to make this award. He is
presently engaged in a work project
that is extremely important to our
community and I believe recogni-
tion and a pat on the back at this
time would be timely, appreciated,
and deserved.” :

the new position kept
him out of town.a lot and he

dropped out of the Castlegar Rotary ©

Club as he was unable to attend on
a regular basis explained president
Don McDowell.-The Paul Harris
‘Fellowship can be awarded to any-
‘one in the community, he added.
‘Tho award was named in honor
of Paul Harris, who founded the
Rotary Club International in
Chicago, Ilinois, in 1905, Rotary
was established as an opportunity
for business and professional people
to meet and share with others in the
community. The objective was to
obtain a good cross-section of those
individuals and the name Rotary
came from the practice of mectings
moving from one member's office
to another's on a rotational basis.
The Paul Harris Fellowship may
be given by any Rotary Club at any
time, One thousand dollars in U.S.
funds is donated by the club to
Rotary Intemational in the recipi-
ent’s name. The Rotary Foundation
uses the funds acquired in this way
to provide funding tor chariubic

When ys fe ly plant
manager at Celgar Pulp Co. in
Castlegar, was promoted to the po-
sition of Celgar’s general manager,

Rotary programs. :
"We can give the award when-
ever we choge -and can afford it,”
said Mcdowell.

Sweeney takes prestigious Rotary aware
|

SUN STAFF PHOTO / Frank Derby

Wilf Sweeney, center, accepts the Paul Harris award.

g Development

Continued from 1A

cosy, residential neighborhood: "I
bought my property (there) because
it was a very fine area, That street
is a showcase.

"J think the people here put in
more money than anywhere else,"
hesaid.

Dr. Yule assured the neighbors
present in the city chamber that the
hillside would not be developed. In

There will be a lot more noisy
parties and drunk driving,” said

support, city engincer Kenn. ¥

Hample said the concems about the
stability of the slope would be ad-
dressed by a geotechnical survey of
the site and future development car-
ried out under the supervision of a
pbuilding inspector.
The proposal was later give!
third reading and adopted by cou
at the regular mecting after the
ings. pera pe
Another bylaw: p 1 solith

Anderton, ‘Who teaches geology at”

jelkirk

C leg -and lives on. an 80-

acre plot with her husband, Harry

Killough.

"We enjoy the peace and quict,”
she said.

Despite the opposition, city
council, under pressure to create
more housing units, voted agree-
ment to the proposal by i

Robson is seen as a big part of the
traffic solution by providing an-
other route for truck traffic to
Celgar Pulp Co.

But council deferred another by-
law to amend the official commu-
nity plan bylaw 509. A bylaw to

the joint bylaw to amend the com-
munity plan bylaw 509 at the last
meeting of the old council.
Castlegar mayor Audrey Moore
said the city staff would make a
presentation on city traffic at the
first meeting of the new council on
Dec. 10 at which ume all major

areas within the city
where temporary commercial or in-
dustrial uses may be allowed -- by-
law 559 -- passed the second reading
but was table on the suggestion
from outgoing alderman Albert
c k who said the p 1
was too comprehensive to be
adopted in the absence of two coun-
cil 1b

traffi woul
and solutions offered to alleviate the
crunch,

Speaking directly to a concern

raised by Killough, Moore said the _

‘proposed bridge on’ the Colum
River..: between - Castlegar. and

"I'm not happy that we're such a
short council,” today said
Ci ik, a semi-retired
who sat on council since 1977 be-

5 ‘fore his defeat in this month's miu-

ipal election.

of Castlegar received a more vehe-
ment opposition by residents who
don’t want the present Urban
Reserve designation changed to
Multi Family,

Developer James Rysen defended
his proposal, for two apartment
buildings of 30 suites each, against
a barrage of total opposition from
residents in the Mary Creck area.

ident Jackie Craig pi a

a Celgar
‘Continued from 1A

panel's decision.

“From our perspective, at the
north end of the Kootenay Lake
Forest District, an expanded pulp
mill would provide'a market for

a letter signed by 35 neighbors to
protest a city residential h

pulp * said KLFD
manager Al Bradley. "If a market

ment in an area that is at present
heavily occupied by industrial ten-
ants -- including three trucking out-
fits and a beer warchouse -- and
hardly prepared to withstand an in-
crease in traffic.
“The sixty units will increase
the traffic considerably,” she said. ~
‘The argument presented was that
the neighborhood --which is outside
limit -- is ideally suited
for single-family housing and
should be preserved as such.
Harry Killough, whose pioncer
* family occupies 200 acres of prop-
erty in the area, said the most seri-
‘ous concem was traffic.
"Members of my family have

‘for that , we wouldn't
have to bum as much, Now, when
we're issuing cutting permits, some
stands are bypassed because they
would generate too much waste. In
terms of forest management and
utilization of the fiber out there, it
would be a positive move. What is
being cut-now could be used more
efficiently and in some cases it may
lessen the need for prescribed
burning." ‘

Ken Amett, district manager of
the Arrow Forest District agreed.

“The new mill would provide a
market for wood not utilized on the
site now,” he said. "And that would
reduce broadcast burns, which

had numerous close calls here al- .

ready,’ he said in a prepared brief to
the council. Killough noted the
proposed housing project could add
as many as 200 vehicles “to this
crooked, winding road,” which he
said was already “overloaded with
heavy transport truck from two.
trucl inals and a sawmill.”

* ‘ber of their union,” he exp’
Conroy represented the schooi
board in the negotiations but was
replaced by Wayling as his term as
aschool trustee recently expired.
When, under the new law,
, school'principats became manage-
tial staff and the teachers a union,
teachers in every school district en-
tered into iations with their

ie-y
contract, the first ever under the
new law, about a year and a half
ago. That contract expired this past
June, and negotiations for a new
contract began Jast May.

The major concem for the B.C.
Federation of Teachers in this year’s
bargaining is teacher training in

school boards. °
The new law has been chal-
lenged in court by teachers opposed
to the compulsory membership in
= the teachers’ union, There have also

for Year 2000 curricu-
lum. Many school boards in the
province fear their teachers may not
be adequately prepared for it. ‘
A new round of session has been
scheduled for Dec. 10 and 11.

k

. Killough. said .the rezoning
would introduce "incompatible land
usage” and suggested there were
more suitable sites in Castlegar for
“this sort of high-density develop-
ment." The planning in the area is
“a nightmare,” he said.

~My\sense is these two don't
mix,” he added. “We're prepared to
live with the addition of single fam-
ily. dwellings, but apartment blocks
‘gre not acceptable,” * i

But the. property owner Rysen
said his proposal had merit pre-
cisely because the neighborhood is
ill-suited as a family residential

area, é
“ML don't think tite iand is good
for single family homes because I
don't see anyone wanting to :
right ‘across to the beer warchou:
the sawmill ‘and: the truck com
nies" he sald? <7) Poe a
“But Lesley Anderton said the 1o- '
cal industries operate in the daytime
and are less’ of.a nuisance than an

influx of apartment dwellers,

would reduce the release of carbon
dioxide and leave less’ fiber on the
ground. It would definitely help if
we could reduce the pulp volume
left on the site. 4

"Tt would also make marginally

taken her concems to the top.
"I met with ministry people
from highways, regional economic
and the envi
when I was in Victoria (Nov. 15-
16),". she said. "I relayed the

profitable logging op more
profitible,” he went on. "There
would be better opportunity to get
into marginal stands. We're looking
at a possible. reduction in the
Annual Allowable Cut and one way
of alleviating some of the problem
is being able to use’stands that have
a major pulp component.”

As stated in the Terms of
Reference, the.pancl may, at its
discretion, prepare a short interim
report with i on

that our people have been
patient. They have suffered enough.
I think they appreciated what I had
to say. The ministry people I talked
to can readily identify with people.
“You don't get industry coming
by in this province very often
saying, ‘we'll invest $700 million
to clean up and modernize our
plant.’ When you get that kind of
proposal, it's the responsibility of
local, federal, and provincial

whether ornot v

to facilitate that clean-

for‘ the pfoject should be granted.
‘That inierim report is a possibility.

“The panel is considering the
option of an interim report as per
the terms of 3 d

up and "stated
Moore. "If they don't approve the

clean-up and modemization of this |

mill, in essence they are saying
there will be no clean-up and

Ferguson. ‘
* Meanwhile, Mayor Moore has

ion of any pulp mill
throughout Canada. And I can't see
that." ,

“:Good ‘pulp roundiogs such as this hemi lock
Duncan River area near, Gelgriech Creek ma:

that was burned as
be utilized if Celgar

Wednesday, November 28, 1990

. The Castl

jegar Sun

Sunfest salutes B.C. tourism Music '91

By NANCY LINGLEY
Sun Editor

* Salute to Music has been cho-
sen as the theme for the 1991
Sunfest weekend, The choice was
made to go along with’ B.C.
Tourism's. "Music '91" promotion
explained Ross Hawes, president of

contest to design the 1991 Sunfest
botton and, "We will carry on with
all the events and programs and
continue to offer as many free ones
as we can, We will, continue to put
the emphasis on family fun.”

Prior to Ross’ announcement,
Marilyn Strong, the commitiec's

the Castlegar Festivals Socicty,
when he made the announcement at
the regular mecting of City Council
last night. e

“Castlegar has been chosen as
the site for a Roadshow Concert,
which will take’ place during the
Sunfest weekend , although the lo-
cation, exact date, and the perform-
ers have yet to be named,” said

Hawes.
He added that there would be a

Proposal calls for raised Selkirk

By BARBARA TANDORY
Sun staff writer

Sctkirk College has to increase
its revenue share from student fees
since the revenue it receives from
the provincial government is not
enough, says college president Leo

"In the past five or six years the
college has been raising fees below
the rate of inflation,” Perra said at
the college board's mecting last

Pi reported on the
“very successful” 1990 Sunfest.

“For the first time we had in cx-
cess of 1,000 participants in our pa-
Tad she stated. "That's people in

A Spokane, Wash., band con-
tributed to that body count in a big
way, she added, and, "because the
kids in that band went’back and
talked about it so much, several
bands have been in touch with our
parade chairman and it appears that

week. "There was a specific cffort
made to go beyond the rate of
inflation.” ,

He noted that revenue derived
from tuition fees has a “particular
relevance” for the college at this
time. "Revenues from the govern-
ment has not been enough."

Perra made his in ref-

several U.S, bands will be in our
parade this year, That's quite a
scoop.”

The committee is also expecting

more U.S.-based boats ‘for the pop-
ular drag boat races as well, she
said, -
Strong also thanked the City
workers for the extra time and hours
they devote. to’ beautifying the
community for the Sunfest activi-
tles. The City of Castlegar was also
cited for being the first-ever corpo-
rate sponsor to become.a Diamond
Patron of Sunfest, having donated
over $5,000 in cash, goods, and/or
services to the festival.

The Castlegar Festivals
Committee will hold its Annual

General Meeting tonight,
Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 7 p.m., at

college community.” :

“The tuition bylaw will come up
for approval at the college board's
January meeting.

The revised tuition fee, proposed

ths Chamber af Commerce Board,
Room in the Chamber building on
the comer of 6th Ave. and 20th
St. A new board of dircctors will
be elected and ¢xccutive positions
chosen, . A minimum of seven di-
rector positions will be available.
The Society will accept, with re-
geet, the’ resignations of Robin
Clarke and Rob Mollcr, who have
d positions with “A

out of the area. :
All positions with the socicty

are volunteer and anyone interested’ :

in helping with Sunfest in any way
is asked to attend the meeting or
contact Hawes at CKQR at 365-
7600,

Any groups or organizations in-
terested in hosting a Sunfest event
is asked to send a representalive to
the AGM.

This means that cost for univer-
sity wansfer students will have in-
creased from $828 currently to $886
for a semester.

For the ional

BUN STAFF PHOTO/ Nancy Lingley

Mayor Audrey Moore excepts 1990 Sunfest scrapbook
from Ross Hawes president Castlegar Festival Society

nical and

student fees next September

1 prog for
these students will be $3,400 per
semester. % : :

Specialized training will cost the

to come in effect next September,
contains specific fee changes in dif-
ferent areas of instruction. In the
Uni

erence to a tuition bylaw amend-
ment and subsequently the board
has passed unanimously a motion
"to circulate the proposed. amend-
ment of tuition fee bylaw to the

ity Transfer prog) the
proposal calls for a general increase
of seven per cent, from $1.18 to
$1.26 per an hour of instruction,
and the removal of maximums, or
what Perra termed “artificial caps.”

prog! the
proposed fee has been set at $27 a
week, :

The proposal also provides for
significant increases for fulltime in-
ternational students. International

lied in :
courses, that is UT and prep
courses, will be paying $2,500 per
semester. The cost for career, tech-

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Frank Derby, Editor Na

Sun Editorial Staff

John Snelgrove and Clitt Wotfenden

Sun Advertising Staff .
Lana Fedora, Manager Jon Jarrett and Donna Jory

= Meet the staff of the Castlegar Sun

7

; Sun Correspondent
ncy Lingley and Barbara Tandory

Jim Zeebin

Sun Publisher
Ray Picco

“Js Sun Front Office Staft spate,
Nicole Beetstra, Grace Shaul and Denlsé Goldstone

even more -- $4,500 for nursing and
$6,700 for aviation students.

The objective was "to bring
about an equitable fee schedule
which bears some reflection on the
level of service provided by basing
fees on the hours delivered to each
student,” noted Perra. :

Perra said the college wants to

imi the present policy of
“subsidizing of high hour courses
by the lower by eliminating max-
imums.”

The college has been adjusting
its fee structuring with annual tu-
ition hikes, but Perra said Selkirk
is still in the average range in the
provincial context. This past
September tuition was increased by
five percent.

"In some areas (of instruction)
we're a little higher,” he said.

Funding approved .
for Selkirk expansion

By BARBARA TANDORY
Sun staff writer

Selkirk college board welcomed
the recent funding approval from
the minister of Ad d i

"By planning an expansion now,
we will be well prepared to meet
the needs of a growing student pop-
ulation,” he said.

The new campus wing will
house a 200-seat lecture theatre,

Training and Technology to start
designing a new wing for its main
campus in Castlegar.

As announced by the advanced
education minister Bruce Strachan,
the college has received $90,000 to
design a $1.75 million campus pro-
ject.

Strachan said in a news release
-the ministry has recognized Selkirk
College's need to, grow bigger in
the face of overcrowding. "The re-
cent enroliment increases at Selkirk
underscore the need for this expan-
sion,” said Strachan.

Selkirk president Leo Perma said
the administration is thankful to be
able to get on with the campus en-
Jargement project.

four and ten faculty of-
fices.

Perra said construction should
begin next spring.

In other college news, the execu-
tive director of the newly-formed
Advanced Education Council ot
B.C. has met with the Selkirk
board to outline the council's objec-
tives and ambitions.!': 3. 5-61

-The council is the successor
the B.C. Association of Colleges,
and its role is to represents the in-
terests of community colleges and
institutions in the province.

"The feeling is that there is a
need for a province-wide focus for
what's been happening to the sys-
tem for the past few years,” said Gil
Johnson, the executive director.

a Airport

Continued from 1A

airport on Friday evening duc to ic-
ing.
_ "That was a small planc, six
seats at the most,” noted Perry.
Council passed a motion

brought forward by Alderman Terry
Rogers that a letter be sent to the
Ministry of Transport and
Communications requesting proper
landing lights and citing the Friday
evening incident as an example of
need of such lighting.

WEATHER

OUTLOOK:

The forecast for Wednesday

is cloudy with periods of snow.
Accumulations of 1 to 3 cm'’s,
Highs near 0. Lows about - 2.
Increasing cloud on Thursday with periods of snow or
rain and snow mixed Thursday night and Friday. Milder
temperatures are expected through the weekend.

Temperature: Max/Date

12.8 / 23

Precipitation: Rain

17.4.cm.

Sunshine: Number of

Hours

14

A LOOK BACK AT THE PAST WEEK:
Min/Date

2.3 / 22

Snow

66cm. 24.6em.

Normal
Mean

0.3

Mean

3.5

Total Normal

Total
18.2 cm.

Normal Number
of Hours .

11.2

REMARKS:

Rain at all mountain elevations will be slowing the
start up of ski operations. Severe icing conditions on
Friday resulted in four different aircraft declaring
emergencies in the-late afternoon... Two pianes
landed safely in Castlegar while the other two
to Penticton without mishap. Ad >
Forecast produce I by
The South - East interior Weather Office
at Castlegar, B.C. s

ade ‘it:

‘Pass