September 21, 1988 Communities get $30,000 for study KAMLOOPS (CP) — The provin. cial government has given the Cache Greek and Ashcroft councils $30,000 te review a plan to build a $20. million toxic-waste burner near their communities, Environment Minister Bruce Strachan said Tuesday. Strachan also ordered thé com. pany planning to build the waste incinerator to prepare a public en vironmental assessment report. “On behalf of both local and all B.C. residents, we must ensure that all environmental or health questions have been answered thoroughly be- fore a final decision on the facility is made,” Strachan said in a press re lease. B.C. Special Waste Services Inc., a consortium of four companies plan ning to build the waste plant, will provide a detailed description of the facility's components, including emi. ssions, incineration, chemical treat ment, transportation and discharges, he said. Cache Creek mayor Ben Roy said Give the United Way Compliments of Castlégar News the $30,000 will be used by a joint Ashcroft and Cache Creek committee studying the waste project, which is to be built near the two communities approximately 225 kilometres north. east of Vancouver. The government is giving Cache Creek and Ashcroft councils $15,000 each. The money will most likely be used to send the seven-member eommittee to similar waste plants at Swan Hills, Alta., and El Dorado, Ark.; he said. Paula Rubinson, a Savona-area opponent of the facility, said $15,000 to each council is not enough money for the committee to prepare an independent assessment of the proj ect. GLOVER continued from front page college can assist-funding in the Kootenay region by asking the provincial government for lists of funds available to the ministries in the area. With the proper informa tion, Metriman said the college could assist in the government's financial planning for ministries in the region. College vice-president Richard Hallett said enrolment had increased by about 10 or 11 per cent at the Castlegar and Nelson campuses. “I attribute some of the gains to unemployment,” Hallett told the board. “Education seems to be the thing to do.” The Castlegar campus has a total of 1,161 enrolments compared with RUBBER STAMPS Made to Order CASTLEGAR NEWS 197 Columbia Avenue Phone 365-7266 EWS LEGAR NE CASTLE! oO CRAwte |_—/ CHU FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP (A.C.0.P.) Below Castleaird Plaza Phone 365-6317 PASTOR: BARRY WERNER * 365-2374 — SUNDAY SERVICES Sunday School 9:30 a.m Morning Worship — 10:30 a.m Evening Fellowship 6:30 p.m. Wednesday: Home Meetings 7 p.m Friday Youth Ministries 7 p.m HOME OF CASTLEGAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 365-7818 PENTECOSTAL NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY 602-7th Street + 365-5212 Near High School — SUNDAY SERVICE — Christian Education 9:45 a.m Morning Worship 11:00 a.m Evening Service 6:30 p.m — WEDNESDAY — 7:00 p.m. Bible Study — Prayer Crossfire for Youth FRIDAY 7:00 p.m. Youth Meeting WEE COLLEGE UNITED CHURCH ____OF CANADA 2224-6th Avenue 14 Blocks South of Community Complex 10. a.m. Worship & Sunday School Mid-Week Activities for all ages Phone for information Rev. Ted Bristow 365-8337 or 365-7814 “The $15,000 is very little money to get a decent independem criti que,” she said. “Those consultants don't work for cheap.” Rubinson said the government could save a lot of time if it released the draft guidelines of an environ. mental impact study done months ago. She requested the report from Strachan, but has yet to receive an answer. Strachan said the report, which will include a review of the social impacts of the project, will be availa. ble to interested residents and groups. A date for the report's completion was not released. last year's 1,051 and Nelson enrol. ments went to 1,398 from 1,259 from last year. Castlegar campus principal Mal Stelck said the campus is running short of office and classroom space. “We're bursting at the seams on this campus,” he told the board. But he said it isn't too much of a burden because the college is making opti mum use of its space. College information officer Joe Lintz said the college will hold a career fair in Nelson on Nov. 24. He said the fair will incorporate as many aspects of the college as possible for the one-day show at Chahko-Mika mall. Judy Campbell replaced: Dr. Jack Colbert as the college board: repre. sentative on the Selkirk College Foundation. Dale Shatz, vice-presi: dent of administration, said the new Foundation card campaign is a’ suc- cess so far and expects the campaign will grow this year. member Stuart Mathieson of Castle. gar and student representative Lynn Allerton. { ~ FAREWELL PARTY . tend a party in Blydo's honor The Castlegar and District Public Library has seen a second staff change within the past two months. Secretary, Elaine Blydo has resigned from her regular posi tion for personal reasons and swapped places with her stand in, Margaret Lagan. Stand-in li. brarian, Julie Kalesnikoff has stepped up to fill the vacancy left when Pat Livingstone re- signed Volunteers, staff and board members held a farewell party for Elaine and presented her with a pottery fruit bowl. The book sale, held in con junction with the United Way Kick Off Day, was very success ful, taking in $214. . + (From left) Margaret Lagan, Julie Kalesnikoff and Elaine Blydo at- ad Blydo resigned “Once again, the board and staff are indebted to Marilyn and John Breckenrige for organizing the book sale,” said Judy Wear- mouth, Head Librarian. Several board members will be collecting for the United Way this week on behalf of the library which receives an annual dona. tion from the United Way. . «8 «8 Circulation for August totall- ed 8,372 and 111 pedple joined the library, bringing the total active membership up to 3,648. The 3,000th city member was registered this week. * 8 Sept. 19 was the first anni- versary of the official opening of the new library building which from her library activities recently and library volunteers, staff and board members marked her departure with a memorable sendoft, Blydo honored ae Oy | eves was celebrated with an open house, with coffee and dough nuts to all. * « « Pre-school story hours, for children 32-5 years, will resume next week, Sept. 27 and 29 at the usual times. Mary Beth Small will take the Tuesday - story, from 1-2 p.m. arid Judy—Wear. mouth, the Thursday one, from 10-11 a.m. Children should be pre-regist ered and must be library mem bers. Numbers have to be limited to 20 per group but waiting lists will be set up for registrations over that number. Story hours, featuring stories, songs and games, are very pop- ular, so call the library now. (FALCON PAINTING & DECORATING 2649 FOURTH CASTLEGAR B \ vin 2s! Gary Fleming Dianna Kootniko! ADVERTISING SALES OFFICE 365-5210 AVENUE ¢ 365 3563 EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH i CALVARY BAPTIST 914 Columbia Avenue 450.m Sunday School for All Ages 11:00 0 Family Worship Service Discipleship Ministries Women Ministries Youth Ministries PASTOR: ED NEUFELD Phone: 365-6675 “A Church that Loves the Castlegar Area!’ LivingWaters Faith Fellowship 1406 Columbie Ave. — ocross trom Mohowk Phone 365-5818 PASTOR STUART LAURIE 365-3278 Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m Nursery & Children’s Church provided Mid-Week Service & Study Wednesdays 6:30-8:00 p.m Bible teaching for all ages A Non-Denominational Family Church Preaching the Word of Faith! __ ANGLICAN CHURCH 140) Columbia Avenue SSS Sunday Service 8a.m. & 100.m Sunday Schoo! 10 a.m. REV. CHARLES BALFOUR 365-2271 — PARISH PURPOSE - To Know Christ and Make Him Known SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 1471 Columbia Ave., Trail 364-0117 Regular Saturday Services Pastor Cliff Drieberg 365-2649 809 Merry Creek Road Past Fireside Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Evening Service 6:30 p. TUESDAY 6:00 p.m. AWANA WEDNESDAY NIGHT Study & Prayet 8 p.m CHURCH 365-3430 (365-7368 ROBERT C. LIVELY, PASTOR ST. PETER LUTHERAN LUTHERAN ‘aaa CHURCH - -CANADA 713-4th Street Office 365-3664 PASTOR GLEN BACKUS SUNDAY Worship Service 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:15 a.m Youth Group 6:30 - 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY Bible Study 8 p.m Listen to the Lutheran Hour Sunday, 9 a.m. on Radio CKQR __ GRACE PRESBYTERIAN 2605 Columbia Ave. REV. J. FERRIER * 365-3182 Morning Worship la.m CHURCH OF GOD 2404 Columbia Avenue Church School 9:45 a.m Morning Worship 11 a.m Pastor Ira Johnson * 365-6762 Postal outlets privatized OTTAWA (CP) — Canada Post plans to privatize some urban post offices even though they're making healthy profits. Confidential post office documents obtained by The Canadian Press say the post offices are generating up to 14 times in revenue what it costs in union salaries to run them. The documents detail the finances of post offices in London, Ont., Jon quiere, Que., Campbellton, N.B., Yorkton, Sask., Tillsonburg, Ont., and Sydney, N.S. Labor costs as a percentage of total revenues range from a high of 24 cents on the dollar at Jonquiere to a low of 7.1 cents in London, the documents show. Elsewhere, the figures show labor costs are 19.6 cents on the dollar in Campbellton, 15 cents in Tillsonburg, 12.7 cents in Sydney and nine cents in Yorkton. The agency declined to comment when asked about the leaked docu ments. The ratios are far less than the figure of 70 cents on the dollar often quoted by Canada Post for its labor costs generally and cited by the agency as a key reason behind its national privatization program. Canada Post is in the second year of a 10-year program to transfer urban and rural counter services run by unionized staff to private butlets operated mainly by non-union pri- vate operators. CALLS IT MINIMAL The documents say the changeover will result in “minimal” additional savings at Jonquiere, Campbellton and Yorkton. In Tillsonburg, the agency expects annual savings equal to one full-time union job — $36,748 — and in Sydney it foresees savings equal to one full-time and one part-time job — $55,122. Only in the case of London does the agency expect significant gains. An- nual savings of $220,740 are projec- ted from the elimination of six union jobs, 'plus a further windfall from the sale of the postal property. The documents don't list privati- zation dates for any of the six post offices but the changeover is already virtually complete at Tillsonburg and due to go ahead soon in London. The documents are dated April 28, 1988, in the case of all post offices but Jonquiere, where they are dated April 14, 1988: Except for London, the documents show savings will be minuscule, compared with existing and projec- ted revenue. REVENUE LISTED Revenue projections for the cur. rent year, with the “prior year” in brackets, are: London $7,320,385 ($7,179,356), Sydney $2,312,322 ($2,203,029), Yorkton $1,622,696 ($1,612,816), Tillsonburg $987,054 ($922,126), Jonquiere $856,985 ($807,969), Campbellton $561,505 ($565,653). It's On Now! F-A-L-L SALE DAYS! Special Sunday Opening Sept. 25 SHOP EARLY FOR BEST SELECTION Pa ill Genelle ~HOME GOODS Furniture Warehouse Floor Covering Centre Phone 693-2227 OPEN 9:30 A.M. TO 5:30 P.M. TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. Grand Forks irrigation gets funds The Grand Forks Irrigation Dis- trict has received $1.8 million in agricultural assistance to replace its obsolete and inefficient irrigation watre supply system. This will help it meet present and future agriculture irrigation needs. Joint 50-50 funding for the project was announced today by Federal A ture Minister John Wise and B.C. Minister of Agriculture and Fish John Savage. The funds are provided under ARDSA, the fed- } ial Agri-food Regional Development Subsidiary Agree- ment. The two-year project will involve a total investment of $1.85 million of the producers in the Grand Forks Irrigation District which will also assume responsibility for future operation and maintenance. “This project will safeguard the production of forage, potato, vege- table and nursery crops on 761 acres of land,” said Savage. “It will also expand irrigation to another 269 acres and allow conversion of land into new crops, such as from forage into nursery and vegetables.” “The new water system means not only continued production, but in- creased production, from farm land due to a stable and improved water supply,” Wise said. “It's an invest- ment in the future of the land, the community and the agriclture indus- try.” ‘The assistance will go toward and construction of a water distribution system, including pumps, pumphouses and pipelines, for Grand Forks. GM cars get best mileage OTTAWA (CP) — The Chevrolet Sprint and the Pontiac Firefly share top billing as gas misers, and the Relis Royce Corniche II is champion guasler in the 1989 fuel consumption ratings released by the Transport Department. The Sprint and Firefly equipped with one-litre engines use 5.5 litres of Gasoline in 100 kilometres of city driving, less than a quarter of the 24.7 litres it takes the Rolls to go the same distance. Other cars that scored well are the Ford Festiva and Suzuki Swift (both at 6.2 litres per 100 km) and the Nissan Micra (at 6.4 litres per 100 km). The Department tested 455 car and 446 truck and van models for the 1969 ratings. Consumers can get free copies by writing Fuel Guide, Trans- port Canada, Ottawa K1A ON5. Association receives $26,000 The Trail Senior Citizens’ Associ- ation No. 47 has received a $26,107 federal New Horizons program grant. The group will use the funding to offer a variety of food services to 600 seniors who will participate in social, recreational, educational and cultural activities at Trail's new Seniors Cen- tre. In addition to preparing food for banquets, dinners, teas and bazaars, the group will also offer a regular light meal service for seniors in the area. Eighteen seniors groups in the province received a total of $143,177 in funds under the New Horizons program in September. New Horizons is a program of the Department of National Health and Welfare which funds projects by groups of seniors enabling them to remain active and involved in their community. Our Action Ad ‘Number is 365-2212 astlegar Safeway Case Lot Sale CORN Green Giant. Cream Style 398 mL or Whole Kernel 341 mL Case of 24 Tins 16.99 ORANGE JUICE Scotch Buy * Frozen Concentrate 341 mi Tins Case of 12 APPLE JUICE Generic. 1-Litre Cartons Case of 12 Scott Viva * 2 Roll Package Case of 12 — MEAT — TURKEYS Frozen * 6 To 8kg. 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