The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, March 20, 1991 What you do there: Retired Castlegar likes: Weather Castlegar dislikes: None Pet: Cat Where you work: Williamson Paving Best kept Castlegar secret: Fishing Vehicle: Truck What would you rather be doing? Fishing Castlegar to com /..) “There's only enough room in By FRANK ISERNIA .’ Sun staff writer The Castlegar % holding casinos as a means of raising funds to reach the $100,000 needed to complete their objective of an expanded facility that would offer daycare for children under ‘.': three, Physiotherapy and speech therapy, and’ a unique support program for teenage mothers, Responding to a suggestion that the society hold a telethon. or bingos as alternatives in raising those funds, Society. Admini: |! this area to do one telethon, and bingos are already saturating the '. Kootenay, :'' market," she sald: "We're ‘actually Columbia Childcare Society is |” ) are working on that. I've been'in . trying to bring casinos back. We contact with woman who. is involved in the casino industry, ° ‘and she is willing to help us do the - work as far as getting. the pete wit here 7 ui “Wo used to have them every i weekend,” said Conroy, “We lost 1 Vegas? Wednesday, March 20, 1991 The Castlegar Sun Women n By NANCY LINGLEY ved in busi to acquire Sun Editor > groups are \.them:b the go yi didn't think that the charities were \ gotting enough money out of the (casinos, The charities sure felt they were getting cnough money. “Our society is working at ‘finding similar groups like ours who are interested ‘in being , ! pproval and re- 8 instatement.” ene) '. Conroy said that casinos used ,to be beld in Castlegar, and that >they were very very popular. She feels that there are a lot of positive things that are going to happen to Katrine Conroy replied that neither option is being considered. : as it‘grows. and it wouldn't burt to have a casino Te, ved in casinos,” she added, ‘What we're talking about doing is . actually setting up an established casino that runs every three nights a week. We are not aiming at just holding a one-night casino, We're talking about opening a casino." Conroy stated that her society would not manage the casino, rather they would find someone to the only organizations allowed licenses: to operate a casino, : “We have to get letters of support. from the. different organizations,”, she said. “This Proposal still has a ways to go before any progress is made,” added Conroy. f The Society approached City Council on Mar, 11 looking for funding support, and was given a $2,000 tax exemption 'to help offset this years’ taxes on the Property, and a. promise. to increase that amount once Council could: locate funding sources from. city funds, me # Derailment Continued from 1A a mile and a half because it, was not completely derailed and the emergency braking system was not broken. : “If the car is totally derailed, the train goes into an emergency stop,” she said. Mudry added that no one in the city had to be notified of the incident as there was no hazardous commodity involved and the accident was relatively minor as only one car was partially derailed. The train, which was north- bound, consisted of 60 cars, seven of them loaded. Three of the cars carried train was remailed nt 8:30 p.m. The cause of the partial derailment is under investigation, ~ “It could have been because of the track, mechanical, or human error,” said Mudry. “I can’t” speculate on that.”” Mayor Audrey Moore, who was in Vancouver at the time of the incident, did not leam of it until contacted by the Castlegar Sun late Monday afternoon, “We're very much aware that we live in basically a cul-de-sac,” said Moore, “We know a.lot.of hazardous chemicals go through this city every day. It's an anxiety. We live with this potential. It’s not a happy fertilizer, one the hazard sulphur dioxide, one sulfur, one or i Moore added that the d stone, and h miscellaneous vehicle parts. “This train travels from Nelson to Cominco and back every day, but it doesn't necessarily same commodities every day,” said Mudry, The clean-up of the incident was relatively quick she added, the of the Robson to Castlegar bridge across the Columbia River would be a help and that an alternate route through town had been discussed. "But that's very costly and various things would have to happen before that could take Place," she said. ‘SUN STAFF PHOTO / Brendan Halper This CPR carload of fertilizer was dragged for two miles, from the Dairy Queen to downtown, last Friday before train crew members noticed. : & Arcade Continued from 1A deteriorate.” Alderman Jim Chapman said that the Wizard’s Palace Funturia is no different than any other pool hall that he has visited, and that closing its doors would solve nothing. Harvey told Council that he didn’t feel that the City should award Zaitsoff any leeway. “We've given him long enough to deal with these things, some of the graffitti on the outside of that building is damm defensive. What is the alternative, should we ‘take his word that he will do this, or do we wait until something else comes up so that the City can get on him again? People in this neighborhood want to know where do you draw the line?”,he asked. Harvey said that the City has the power to make citizens clean up ‘their yards and restrict what kind of use they make of their Property, and yet they are supposed to say, “ Oh Gee Mr. Zaitsoff we really appreciate your Position.” “I just don’t think that given the history of the situation that this is warranted,” he added. But Zaitsoff said that it is not within anyone's right to dictate how he should operate his business, “I feel that bis man is trying to shut me down, he’s out to get me. I don’t care. He’s entitled to his opinion. But I don’t like how the meeting was set up because I wanted to rebuttle his statements,” he said, if Harvey went on to say.that the hood, because it ‘might move to somewhere else? This problem may exist in our neighbourhood but its worse here because people live right next to it. We are fed up with it.” “ Harvey explained that it was on Monday one of the resi had justify those charges when he hasn't been by the building since last August,” he commented, , ,_. Zaitsoff stated that he has talked to S/Sgt. Hall of the RCMP, and. that the two discussed setting up a meeting with the kids to poll their dems and i to phone the police because kids were drinking beer in the park. And in answer to his own question as to where the kids came from, he teplied that they came from the Pool hall and that when the Police were summoned they ran back to the safety of the pool hall. “You don’t have to be a genious to figure out the connection,” he implied. Harvey charged that these kids Questioned by the Castlegar Sun via the telephone and during the meeting, Harvey refused to comment. Mayor Audrey Moore suggested that all parties should work together to solve this delemma, and that focusing the blame on any particular party was not the solution Alderman Duff said that their intention is to get some co- di effort to solve the logic behind the Zaitsoff. suggesting that by closing his doors would only shift the problem was inapropiate. “Are we supposed to let this are ig pot, and drinking beer on the doorsteps of Zaitsoff’s building. “The drinking and pot smoking on my property has been reduced P stay in our y, but how can Harvey problems in that area, and Alderman Smecher suggested that Zaitsoff share the concems of the residents with the kids and in that way maybe allowing the kids to become a part of the solution rather than the prob! : 2 Duff sugges meeting could be set up with the kids to discuss the problems. He assured Zaitsoff that he would © personally attend the meeting in an effor to solve the situation, . In brief discussions with the Castlegar Sun during a break in the: meeting some council members agreed that the problems are not created soley by the arcade and by closing the doors of the sted that/perhaps a _.Palace would not solve ‘anything.. Chapman suggested bringing in social agencies tio try and deal with the behavior of the kids, and that to suggest that Zaitsoff act as a social worker was unfair. “We have highly trained workers that require years of training, how can we expect Zaitsoff to act asa Pyschologist?" @ Celgar Continued from 1A that good things don’t come easily. All the people in the mill and in the community pulled together to make things a lot better. I feel very optimistic about the whole thing.” Golden shovels were handed to the three politicians, turf was tumed, and photos were taken. “What hasn't been mentioned, and what probably should be,” said Peter Kruyt of the Power Corporation of Canada, “is that people from around the world will come to sce this mill. It will be a State-of-the-art mill. That’s what happens in this business.” a Placards Continued from 1A say that if that is what you want, take it, instead of refusing us this right. Ninety per cent, you just can’t ignore it," he pleaded. “If that’s .what the people want, then you have to be prepared to lose some things." permission,” responded Wayling. “They shouldn't be.” In a later interview, Mrs. Stooshnoff confirmed that some of the parents of these children, who were granted permision to attend Nelson School District schools were supposed to be at the meeting but were worried that they might stir up the pot and jeopardize their Nadine S informed the Board that there were several students who lived within Castlegar boundaries but were attending school within Nelson's district, ‘ “The parents have struck an agreement with this board in allowing their children to attend " Mount Sentinel and’ Brent Kennedy,” she told the Board members, However, Turner refuted her explanation by stating, “If there are children going to schools outside: the district, it would be in conjunction with the Ministry of Social Services. or because of health related reasons.” School Superintendent Terry Wayling admitted that there are two. children. ‘who .have the permission of the Board to attend school outside the district because of a request made’ by the Ministry of Social Services. But the Board also heard there were students from Shoreacres attending District #7 schools without the -Board’s permission. ogo *. “If they are there without: our, with the Board. She would not reveal the identity of these parents in an effort to protect them. Stooshnoff asked the Board that, if parents signed over partial legal custody of their children to somebody that lived in the Nelson District, would the Board then allow it? Tumer refused to give a definite Fesponse, but replied vaguely by reminding the protesters that Parents of the Nelson and Slocan Valley have already been through this whole dilemma. Trustee member Bill Hannikan sympathized with the group but his counterpart Evelyn Voykin was Outraged at the group’s proposals. “I just don’t know what to say,” began Voykin. “I'm looking at a bunch of People that I grew up with. I was. bom and raised and graduated out | of the Shoreacres area. And I’m looking at a bunch of people that I know of, Castlegar included, that : were never deprived’ of the *’’ educational programming, ‘or. teaching and learning experiences of this district. 1 find it awfully, awfully amazing that you are bere tet ig us to allow your children to Voykin said that those taxpayers not included in the - survey see their tax dollars go into the educati fi and foremost protect the children of my school district, and that includes the kids in Castlegar, that i the children out at Tarrys, over. to fh e School district, and that you’re not” going to the other school district asking them to take you in?” she asked angrily, Voykin was so visibly upset with the , that she could not system too, and that she would have asked them what they thought, because if the Board went into changing boundaries, then they are not only changing school boundaries, but they are also changing Regional hide her anger. She physi ly District bor and Firehall shook as she d d ps the reason the disgruntled group did not approach the Nelson School Board was because Nelson upheld “Those taxpayers out there know that these changes would mean an and that includes any kids out in the Voykin ‘sub-division that choose to come to the Castlegar School District.” Voykin apologized to everyone for getting out of hand, but said that she took exception because it was a motherhood issue with her . because this was where she was born and raised. an At this point in the discussion, inded the that ipted to on Voykin's statements, but was ordered not to interrupt her as she did not interrupt him during his the p of the: Castleg: “You're talking about 95 per cent) of the people surveyed showing an interest in sending their kids to Mount Sentinel and Brent Kennedy schools. You only targeted the parents of that “T really find it amusing,” she continued, “Because I grew up with many of the people’ sitting in front of me, and I really find it amazing, when in the past, none of you wanted to have anything to do with Mount Sentinel school, Brent Kennedy. school'was not built in community. You did not go to all the other taxpayers, whose taxes 80 to fund the educational there were other maiters needed to be discussed in private. ° > i Moreira told the board members that he wished to make it clear.to them that it was not the quality of the educational system in either Nelson or Castlegar that was the issue. 4 “As a teacher in the Nelson School District, I feel that I may be somewhat qualified to make comments.on that area; but I don’t think that it is appropriate.” ’ “Mr.-Tumer,” added Moreira. “You stili have not helped us come to grips with the political concems, Spesifically with what we need to do. I. think: that” from ‘my conversations