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THE TRADE WINDS MOTEL Makes Ahis. cay DOWNTOWN Bo htay NORTH DIVISION (ee (50 Sattreste Lincoln j i oyna at iM eechd : en WA (ORT, Spokane, WA Savings Offer with this Coupon ONE BED TWO BEDS 52809 $3200 plus Tax plus Tax Expires April 15, 1983 WELL-DESERVED RETIREMENT . iy ‘Killougk 10 years, was thanked for her yéars of Service and presented with a gift by Library - a usiedian’e at ‘Cottlegar librag for” ‘drastic and board chairman Sué Port Monday. Library reports By CasNews Staff Gowews Photo said: the i monthly titles, ‘By: CasNews Stati * “Phey don't promise a Hol- ‘lywood ‘talent scout‘ will be / waiting in the wings and they ‘don’t promise $1 million con- tracts with United: Artists. But the’ Castlegar Arts, ‘Council does promise a good time and a chance to “strut’ . your stuff” during this year’s community Talent Show Bianned for Friday, March Le hope it will be a pro- fessional thing when it comes “together,” says talent show , organizer Sally . Williams. Funeral service planned: Mary Demoskoff of Thrums passed away Jan. a1, aged .72. i She was born Feb. 12, 1910 in - Brilliant:. She’ married Castlegar library's circi-- and installed néw'shelving in : brary had hoped'to provide Peter Demoskoff ‘in’ 1937’ at lation continued to defy. “cramped” quarters and rose 4.5 per cent in 1982, librarian Judy Wearmouth reported in her year-end wrap-up Mon- day to the Castlegar and Dis-: trict Public Library Associ- ation’s annual general meet- to the Castlegar, Branch to alle- "more: helpful supervision for Thrurns where shelved the. ‘viate overcrowding ‘inthe’: the’ children's sections. with ‘Test of her life. juvenile: non-fiction book secs | ‘Wearmouth: said the Te: brary, purchased a:new, IBM” * the aid of student-volunteers . from: Kinnaird. Junior. Sec: 4:45 p.m. “We're looking for more than six (volunteers), but we need six each time,” Tim- mons said, As well, other programs planned include teaching-lei- sure skills — such as knitting and crocheting — to handi- capped on a “one-to-one” ba- sis, : mig Timmons said the Society has only started to look’ at how many. handicapped. need recreational services, but al- ready they have identified £5 -area handicapped residents who would take part. . She added that volunteers don’t always have to take part in a recreation program. with a. handicapped resi- dent. In one case, a Rasp- berry woman loves to play bingo and would simply likea ride to bingo once in a while. Timmons noted that every volunteer will be interviewed and matched with a shandi- capped person. Volunteers who do not have a particular interest or recreational skill are also needed in order to help the Society develop a resource of volunteers, she said. 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The .rate, which applies only to rail shipments of cer- tain Western grains ‘such ‘as wheat, was set. nearly & cen: four-year. injection . of $3, 7 sare must be dees one tury ago as part'of the terms According to Fields, it's.’ about time another, show was: Rai Iways - announce repa irs VANCOUVER (cP) — Rail and Canadian Nationsl Railways have responded to the promise of government action to repeal grain rates hy annet g “outlays. © CP. Rail. said ‘Tuesday it will invest $315. million. ona capital works program ‘this year and will spend an addi-* tional $722. niillion on main- tenance and repair. 1 CNR ‘said it will’ spend $491.6 million on- railway projects this year, providing: jobs for 3,800. Ross Walker, CNR moun- tain region’ “vice-president, said $80 million more will be spent this year on its main- line between Edmonton and Vancouver.’ And . additional: ~ $40 million will be spent on CNR’s north line to Prince Rupert. . Walker said that CNR will content ‘itself with surface works uftil’ 1985’ or 1986 when it will: embark-on a railways will concentrate their most costly projects. CNR plans to spend $206 million on capital projects in the province’ this-year. The - forecast is that spending in - - B.C. between 1983 and 1987 -: will ‘total $1.8. billion to $1.6 billion, for building the: Canadian ° Pacific. Railway through’ the Crowsnest Pasa in the Rocky Mountains. The rate has long * bean “blamed for’ the' West's reliance on‘geain production. “f wouldn't-call it’a revol- , ution, but. it's ‘almost’ like . that,” Pepin told reporters in Winnipeg as he unveiled his complex plan ;that will in- >. crease the. cost of shipping ‘ Prairie . grain’) five-fold by +1991, i However,. opposition’ poli- tical parties and farm groups from both thé West and East have already condemned the: on CP Rail is faced in 1984. with a start on blasting a now. 14.6-kilometre tunne] ‘below , Rogers-Pass in B. C.'s Selkirk © Mountains. . The’ govern- ment’s move will not advance '. ia the timetable .of this $600 million project, which was to have ‘started ‘in earnest’ this year but was then set back 12 months because of a traffi fic downturn. Preliminary work ‘on the new tunnel. and’ associated double-tracking" work “was undertaken in 1981. A fur- ther $20 million will be spent on preliminaries this year. Major; 1 rock werk: weil start in 1984. ‘ aft, Rall plans to complete major tunnelling pr in B.C. The railway is expected to go underground for an ag- gregate length of 40 to 48 kilometres ‘to install: second seta of rails. at’ difficult lo- eu sviottuloy «ia tioncfrom 15. a pane set’ of surface rails ‘on the easterh slopes.of the Selkirks in:1987 to increase - traffic capacity to 19 freight y, vin en ‘Curtently,.the: 4 becdiive of eee railway is /handling’ 11 trains.’ : owh rate Highlights — +. WINNIPEG (CP) — plan to change, os Crowsnest” ioe freight rate Following are highlights of the today by e The federal government will nae $8.7-billion by the summer of 1986.on raising the Crow rate and encouraging the expansion of the western rail system. e An additional $250 million will be available to help ‘Luc Pepin, western industries expand to supply equipment and material to the railways and to help eastern farmers. expand feed grain, production. : e The Crow rate will rise this August by about 60 cents from its current level of $4.89 a tonne, double by 1985-86 and could be.as much as five times higher in , 1990-91, : o The railways will spend $16. 5 billion during the . next 10 years expanding their rail systems and creating thousands of jobs. e Major aspects ofthe Pepin plan, tobe introduced as legislation: during the next session of Parliament, will undergo a parliamentary review in 1985-86. © The government will make an interim payment of $813 million to thé railways in the current crop year for grain hauling losses. Starting in the 1983-84 crop year, it ~ will make an annual subsidy payment of $651.5, million, mostly to the railways but partly to farmers. By 1985-86 the subsidy will be split 50-50 between farmers and the Failwaya.: ‘ There will be an agricultural adjustment payment of $204 million a year-for. three years starting in 1988-84 to western grain growers to help them adjust to the change, eA new. Grain Transportation Agency will be established in Winnipeg. @ Canola and linseed oil and meal will be eligible for shipment under the revised Crow rate. 5 & A : ~Coming Soon . . . See the Castlegar News of Wed., Feb. 16 PK-700AK Compact Color Video, und Camera with : 6:1 Motorized 1-Speed ¢ Irls Gontrol * Stand By Switch See PVA 40K rita ncaa as unfair, - Don. Mazankowski, former Tory. transport minister, aud.’ New. Democratic Party lead- er. Ed Broadbent ‘told the House of Commons in Ottawa: ‘that farmers can't afford to . billion, $651 million a "year “will go toward subsidies to farmers and the railways. The two groups will share the funds equally by 1985-86. The remainder includes $290 million for nearly 4,000 pay more jn a time of low grain hopper cars, $670 mil- start the railways on a 2 $165- billion construction’ spree during the next 10 years that will create thousands of jobs across the country. . Maurice LeClair, president and chief executive officer of Canadian National the um- prices ane a world grain glut.’;: lion t TURKEY, Prairie rail branch-lines and a , ve killed the. Crow’: $204 million over three years and given is a turkey,” sald ::‘to help farmers adjust to the Mazankowski.-“It is complex, change. costly, divisive and will cre- ’. Pepin said his proposed ate anxiety. and uncertainty" freight rate deal will mean in-the. 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