e 4 e i 19, 1992 @ TheFARSIDE By Gary Larson Boomer and Doug's relationship was never fully accepted by the other bears, who regarded alll grubs in a much more traditional way. Dorr ¢ let > ue friends get me, Boomer. Accused rapist released after second bail hearing NEWS STAFF A Selkirk College student facing seven criminal charges, including a sexual offence, has been released following a sec- ond bail hearing. After a day of deliberations in Castlegar provincial court Wednesday, the student was released on a number of condi- tions. : But those conditions of re- lease cannot be reported Judge Ronald Fabbro has placed a publication ban on what was heard during the bail hearing. The media cannot report on the information given during the precedings. In.addition, newspapers and radio cannot publish or broadcast the reasons why Fabbro decided to release the ac ; The student, who cannot be identified under the Young Of- fenders Act, was arrested in Nelson on Sept. 2. The charges include sexual assault with a weapon, threat- ening and unlawful confine- ment. The accused is scheduled to make a plea in Castlegar provincial court Oct. 28. COMMUNITY ~ ANNUAL SOCIAL CREDIT FAMILY PICNIC Will be held at Birchbank ¢ 27th, 1 - 5 p.m. Food and at i charge. All are welcome. For further information 365-3969. 2/76 CASTLEGAR CHAPTER RNABC Meeting to be held at conference room Castlegar and District Hospital at 19:00 hours, September 22. Video on issues of concern to nurses. 3/73 CASTLEGAR DISTRICT GIRL GUIDES OF CANADA REGISTRATION G CF Guides, Pathfind , Sep — Sparks, L 5 y 21, 1992 at 6:30 p.m. in Kinnaird Hall, 2320 Columbia Ave. 2/74 Coming events of Castlegar and District non-profit organizations may be listed here. The first 15 words are $5 and additional words are 30¢ each. Bokdfaced words (which must be used for headings) count as two words. 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He said the letter-writer has since contacted police to say he/she was not responsible for the dog’s death. Police have no suspects, but Hudema said “someone out there was upset with (the own- er’s) dog running at large obviously.” Hudema did not know if the dog was ted up at the time of the incident. Dog deaths are not new to Blueberry Creek. - Williams, lu ‘were killed by antifreeze some four year ago. He said another 50 to 60 dogs. were killed in Robson. nearly two years ago. ~~ Williams said he does not want residents to becime “unnecessarily concerned” about the safety of their dogs because of this incident. “Was the dog poisoned maliciously,” he asked. “It’s hard to say.” Williams said his investigation is “rather atypical in a lot of ways. “People in the area have traditionally used strychnine or antifreeze to poison dogs. “This dogs clinical picture doesn’t match,” Williams said. Tissue samples of the dog were taken, but Williams said that there are many different kinds of poisons that are on the market. He said this case may be caused by a combination of poisons. NEWS STAFF hotspots when it comes to false fire alarms. hall has responded to since Jan. 1. sponded to have been false alarms. Selkirk College and the Sandman Inn are Castlegar’s According to a report from city fire chief Gerry Rempel, they account for more than half of the false alarms the fire- Rempel indicated in the report that the construction work at the college is to blame for the false alarms. But even with the completion of work, Rempel expects the slack will be picked up when the campus residences are fully occupied. He says the type and location of heat detection at the Sand- man Inn seems to be causing the false alarms there. 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SUB RATES The News is published by Castle News Ltd. for Canwest Publishers Ltd. Mail subscription rate to The News is $37.50 per year. The price on newsstands is 75¢ for each edition. The price delivered editions is only 90¢ a week (collected monthly). GST extra. Second class mail registration number 0019. Liberals want B.C. Hydro to ante Neil Rachynski NEWS REPORTER B.C. Hydro should pay compensation to the City of Castlegar, according to the Liberal Energy Critic. Judy Tyabji says B.C. Hydro should put some money into the community after high river flows along the Columbia River damaged Zuckerberg Island’s causeway in June. “This is my understanding at this stage,” Tyabji said. “Before building the causeway, B.C. Hydro was asked how high to build it. Construction went ahead and the water came and, well, it wasn’t high enough. “If that turns out to be the sequence of events, then definitely there should be compensation.” High discharges from the Hugh Keenleyside Dam in June washed out the top layer of gravel on the causeway at Zuckerberg Island. Tyabji has asked to review all the documents city council has on the situation. “It’s amazing what a difference a paper trail can make,” Tyabji said. The issue was raised again Tuesday when Councillor Doreen Smecher took offense to a letter that B.C? Hydro sent to, the president of the Castlegar and District Heritage Society. The letter explains that the causeway’s elevation is below the levels of other historically high flows. “(The letter) was patronizing,” Smecher said. “(It’s as if B.C. Hydro said) ‘here’s a pat on the head, now go home and be quiet.’ I don’ t know why they don’t admit responsibility.” Even though they didn’t anticipate causing any damage by the high flows in June, the Crown se constiph innistaien they are not responsible. Peter McMullan, manager of corporate relations, says, “our position is clear. We were operating within prescribed levels.” Tyabji says regardless, B.C. Hydro has a moral responsibility. “Right away their judgement was not consistent with what happened,” Tyabji said. “Just for the sake of goodwill alone they should put money back into the community.” McMullan does not think Tyabji is following proper protocol by talking about the issue with the media. “Her business would be to contact the Ministry of Energy,” McMullan said. “I don’t think the place for an MLA to seek compensation is in the local newspaper.” ON THE R Getting some needed work done before the snow starts to fall, city crews were out on Columbia Avenue Wednesday touching up some rough spots between the pulp mill and Arrow Lakes Drive. socreds bounce Bakken HB Salmo supporter won’t get back in party’s good graces Scott David Harrison EDITOR Iris Bakken won’t be welcomed back to the Social Credit Party. Leader Jack Weisgerber says the Salmo supporter must realize that she surrendered her membership when she supported independent candidate Chris D’Arcy during the October provincial election. “Clearly, when you belong to a political party you are expected to support that party’s selected candidate,” Weisgerber said Wednesday. “She didn’t do that.” A long-time Bill Vander Zalm supporter, Bakken fell out of the x a * a s Districts join forces to fight B.C. ss": 2-5 | m the Oct. 17 election. The @ Kootenay regional districts to explore overlapping services to meet new standards things and if we don’t we could be facing fines of $300,000,” Cady said. “That’s not right. The Scott David Harrison EDITOR Two regional districts are teaming up to fight the B.C. government’s solid waste management plan. The Regional District of Central Kootenay and Regional District of Kootenay Boundary will make a joint petition to the provincial government demanding that Environment Minister John Cashore rethink his bold waste management plan. The plan, which forces the province’s districts and municipalities to reduce solid wastes by 30 per cent by 1995 and 50 per cent 2000, discriminates against interior British Columbia according to George Cady. “The government is making laws for the Lower Mainland with a very dense population and its trying to apply them to an area with a sparse population,” the RDCK chair said. “We're being told that we have to do all these similar pleas at the Sept. 24 meeting. be willing to combine some services. other.” government his shifting the responsibility for this on us district. It is telling us to deal with it.” Cady said he and Kootenay Boundary chair Doug Swanson will ask Cashore to rethink the solid waste management plan when the minister attends a gathering of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities. It is expected that other municipalities and districts will make Until then, Cady said the two districts will be looking to overlap some services. He said they are currently discussing a plan which would see Castlegar and Areas I and J ship recyclables to the Kootenay Boundary’s depot in Rivervale. He said the RDCK has also approached the Regional District of East Kootenay to see if would “We’re going to look at the costs of (overlapping services),” Cady said. “If we are being farced to do this, it only makes sense that we look at ways we can co-operate with each party’s good graces when she failed to endorse . Socred Rossland-Trail executive voted 11-1 on June 17 to revoke Bakken’s membership. “As far as I know, (Bakken) and the local constituency has a falling out,” Weisgerber said. “A party member must support the party’s candidate.” Bakken — who could not be reached for comment — has said she will petition the party’s brass to get he life-time membership back. She has stated that she is working closely with the Socred Women’s Auxiliary to ensure that she can be a member once again. “I have a lot of life-time members working on my side and they have been working for me,” Bakken said in a Aug. 12 interview with The News “They know how hard I have worked for this party and they know that I will continue to work hard for this party to restore its Christian principles.”