CASTLEGAR NEWS, Jan. 2 Tulani Sabrina Acker- man, daughter of Eric and Linda, appeared at 11:35 p.m. becoming Castlegar's newest citizen. She weighed in at 7 pounds, 15 ounces, Jan8& Castlegar city council approved signing of a $26,600 contract with a Vancouver- based consulting firm to doa December.28, 1980 mayor of Castlegar and long- time volunteer community worker, was post-humously named Castlegar district's Good Citizen of the Year by the Kiwanis Club. Sylvest was nominated by three dif- ferent groups. March 11 voted against all four read- ings but the budget was adopted. City council ob- jected to the planning sec- tions requiring almost $100,000 in taxes from the city this year. ~ April8 pril Debate teby city council on use of City council plans to take proposed con- struction of a $2 million ts-library com- six-month study, the five-year-old community plan. Extension of Castle- gar’s boundaries, recommen- dations of a joint city-high- ways department study, con- struction of the new Arrow Lakes water system and plans for a new industrial park made the updating nec- essary. Jan.9 1 th-end resi- plex on Columbia Avenue 800 block to in late about olght 2 acres of land east of Castleaird Plaza as a site for a supermarket-depart ment store, a project of qlee after the city secures financing. B.C.’s forest min- ister has agreed to turn over the property occupied by the B.C. Forest Service at 811 Columbia Avenue as the con- struction site. Mayor Moore said the centre was expected to house offices of senior it agencies as well dents were connected with soft water from the Arrow Lakes water system with replaced the hard water from the city’s old wells system. Jan. 16 Mark Mealing reported the eight-1 member Kooveney as ‘city hall, the library and provincia! courtrooms, March 18 City council approved a nine per cent across-the- board raise for themselves and members of the all- volunteer Castlegar Fire De- in the bylaw that on int lations, of which he was a a member, was gaining sup- port after two months of existence. He said the group, sponsored by the then Attorney-General Garde .Gardom, was gradu- ally overcoming misconcep- tions of its purpose and . “building a rapport" with Russian-descended residents of the region. Jan. 21 School board awarded ART Contracting, the low bidder, a contract to clear the remains of Kinnaird Elem- entary School (razed in a * Dee. 15 fire) for future con- : struction for $10,600. City council approved a - motion to hire extra per- * sonnel for Castlegar’s RCMP detachment. City staff were advised to immediately ad- vertise for a stenographer and adding an extra RCMP staffer was to be considered, Jan 29 5 Mayor Audrey Moore told council the city had-be- gun negotiaions with. the included a previously- approved 34.8 per cent in- crease for the mayor. New stipends will be: mayor $6,540, aldermen $3,845, fire - province to obtain land for a ‘ municipal centre accommo- dating the library and other services. Council commis- sioned $2,500 to hire an architectural firm to produce preliminary drawings. Moore said investigations for pro- vincial financial ‘assistance were being made but as soom of the cost would be borne by Castlegar taxpayers, the project would require a ref- erendum. Feb.6 RCMP confirmed arson caused the $1.3 million Dec. 16 fire which destroyed Kin- naird Elementary School, leaving 279 students without a school. Feb. 12 City council directed city staff to review an application by First City Investments for rezoning 1502 Columbia Av- . enue to comprehensive com- mercial from residential use and to review the firm's plans . for construction of a 78,500- . Square-foot shopping centre, Feb. 13 ‘ MP Bob Brisco an- nounced the federal govern- ment had scheduled the ex- ; Penditure of $3 million on “ improvements to Castlegar Airport during the next five _ years, Feb. 18 NDP MP Lyle Kristian- a 40-year-old Nelson . woodworker, defeated PC “ Bob Brisco, a 65-year-old Trail chiropractor, by 814 votes to win the West Koot- enay federal riding. Feb. 26 City council approved rezoning which would allow the Vancouver-based, First City Investments to~ con- * struct a proposed $4 million, + 78,500-square-foot Birchland ‘ Square shopping centre on the Columbia Avenue 1500 * block. Following a public ‘ hearing, council gave three readings to rezoning bylaws * authorizing the use of pri- * vately-owned 1502 Columbia : Ave. as well as the adjacent city-owned lot as the de- velopment site. Plans for $6 million in construction — including a ~ 115,820-square-foot shopping centre and convention facil- + ities — at the Hi Arrow Arms Motor Hotel were announced by Bofa Enterprises presi- dent Paul Boel» sen, March 4 Aage Sylvest, a former TULANI ACKERMAN, daughter of Eric’ and Linda, made her appearance as Castlegar's New Year baby last Jan. 2. 22 meeting. The proposal i, provided for a 3,800-square- foot food store and a major department store—possibly the Bay, Zeller's or Wood- wards—to complement it. Commerce Capital Trust spokesman Ted Charne said the company owns shopping: centres in Kenora, Ont., Winnipeg and Estevan, Sask.’ as well as in Penticton and the Courtney-Comox area and has a 50-per-cent interest in a mall in Chilliwack. “gon Pierre Jr., brother-in-law Jean and cou- sin Sampharm, arrived at Castlegar Airport. They ted ‘by Father Tulani started out weighing seven chief $3,630, deputy fire chief $1,900, engineer $713, cap- tain $416. All firemen to re- ceive $8.31 an hour on prac- tice or firefighting. March 25 City council rejected sec- tions of the proposed Re- + gional District of Central Kootenay 1980 budget which would cost each Castlegar resident $15.87 a year, Plan- ning and administration sec- tions of the $4,719,316 budget would cost the city almost $100,000 in taxes — an in- crease of almost 100 per cent. Council members said the amount was far in excess of the value in planning services the regional areas receive. March 28 A CP Rail car, loaded with phosphate rock and sec- ured as part of a five-car section, was derailed in south Castlegar. District CPR per- sonnel reported the section may have rolled free as a result of the release of brakes on the cars. March 29 City council’s objection to the Regional District of Central Kootenay's $4,728,- 580 1980 budget was over- ruled. Mayor Audrey Moore, c. Cheevers, Rev. Michael Gui- nan and members of a com- mittee from the Catholic Church of St, Rita’s, the parish which sponsored the family. April 16 CasNews reported Can- Cel’s Don Watson, the com- pounds, 15 ounces. She now weighs W7 peuods and is a good companion to her rother Lucas, 22. major aw sporcenien prob- Jom local RCMP, The peruse 7 council's, » Protective services commit- 1,200 Said people are afraid of retribution. “When I go talk to neighbors ne are really be- articles (such as historical reminiscences) that hurried readers might not have time said employees “decided to go back to work in light of the fact that the Government blished th to read if we le some other day of the week.” May5 Assistgnt "works super- ing ‘anti-social and afraid to phone the police when some- thing’s taking place, I begin to get.worried.” na April 24 Castlemer Chamber of Commerce officially .opened its office and business infor- serves‘ as a business infor: mation centrein return for $800 a month through ::a igor Z: Ox- plained those missing sec: tions of curb and parking space on the Columbia Aven- ue $00 block were removed to Columbia, b widening to 0 Streét ‘and’ Maple Street to four lanes as Well as to install fromthe south anda urn lane at Maple com- ing ‘from ‘the north. May 5-9 CanCel board of direc- Bureau (GERB) has now agreed to meet with us.” The School District No. 9 board approved a $2,527,086 capital jaxpenses budget for 1980 offwhich $1,884,420 was to rep! Kinnaird Elemen- : tary School, ,which was des- troyed by,-firg in December. May 2. Timber aba to Can- Cel's Castlegar sawmill drop- ped sharply wlien B.C. forest service employees set up pickets protesting govern- ment reorganization. plans, Al Lowndes, the B.C. Gov- Union fee-for-service contract: with? the B.C, Chamber: of Com- «Merce. $ ‘April 25, 26 Attendance at the. fourth ‘annual West Kootenay Trade Fair dropped slightly’ from. the 1979 crowd of 16,000. Poor weather and inadequate advertising were, as possible causes af the a by put Publiity chairman Frank April 28 Blueberry Creek's fra- gile water system shut down almost completely after a —CatienaFto by Ante Young heavy rainstorm. The down- Pour, measured at 22 to 26 mm at Castlegar Airport, caused gravel deposits to cut off supply at its intake. Water supply was provided by pumping water directly from the creek through a two-inch line about 160 feet from the pany’s presid and chief executive officer, had predic- ted expansion of the Castle- gar kraft pulp” operation. Watson predicted expansion of the 516-tonne-per-day mill “within two or three years” in an interview published in the company’s in-house mag- azine. Watson said the ex- panded mill might be making other product lines besides kraft pulp. April 22 Plans to use eight acres of land east of Castleaird Plaza as the site of Castle- gar's third shopping centre failed to win city council approval. Council said the development, proposed as an oval site bordered by High- way 3 on the south and the CPR tracks on north and east, could cause traffic prob- lems for adjacent residents and would require relocation of tracks, Jd Len Embree to the board, and the two Castlegar area directors said the failure of citizens to report criminal acts is a plugged intake. Water was extremely turbid and re- quired boiling before con- sumption, May3 Rossldnd-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy told CasNews new legislation is planned which would lower the amount Castlegar pays to RDCK for rural planning. D'Arcy said Bill Vander Zalm, the Minister of Munici- pal Affairs, had said he is going to propose legislation which would require rural residents to pay a major por- tion" of planning costs for their areas, May4 CasNews began twice- weekly publication after 92 years as a weekly. Publisher Burt Campbell said Sunday was chosen as the day for the extra publication because “it is a day when people have more leisure time and it provides us with the oppor- tunity to present interesting ders accept the $15 a share ‘offer made by the B.C, Ré- sourcesInvestment Corpor- ation (BCRIC). In a mailed ular, directors said the BCRIC offer, made in an ef- fort to inerease its ownership to 100 from 81 per cent, was “fair and reasonable.” It was ‘estimated the purchase of all CahCel shares would. cost BCRIC $86 million. May8 Blueberry. Crosk's reg: ular water intake system re-- mained out of action with the 215 households normally (BCGEU) West. Kootenay representative, said mem- & year pending the outcome of public hearings to be held ter, June 20 Red Warner and Ken Morrls were honored as special people for thoir long- time dedication to minor | baseball at the wind-up of the Castlegar Sentinel minor baseball season. une The 1980 B.C. Amateur Championship began at the Castlegar Golf Club with a full slate of 160 golfers. 6 July BC. Amateur | Cham pionship Golf ended with Sandy Harper of Nanaimo as the champion. Eight local golfers were in the finals. June 9 Kootenay West MP Lyle final of the match play com: petition to become 1980 Castlegar Golf Champion and winner of the John Miros trophy. Aug. 25 Work on the $8 million Sandman Inn got underway again after financial difficul- ties caused a delay for several months. Castlegar city. council approved a proposal to have a city map made on a 60-40 cost-sharing arrangement with the provincial govern- ment. Council placed a $4,000 ceiling on its expenditures, The first woman police officer to serve in Castlegar, RCMP Const. Helen Mahon, began her duties. : Sept.17 , at and District bers’ main objection was the failure of government. to remedy problems caused by relocation of workers as part of reorganization. May 27 The three members of the education ministry ap- pointed research team study. ing School District No. 9 said they were trying to discover why the district is so success- ful. Results of province-wide grades four, eight and 12 showed an- nounced plans “to move the MP's conatituency office from Castlegar to Nelson in Octo- ber. Gerald Rotering, Kris- tiansen's assistant, said it would be more convenient to be located near government offices in Nelson. July 11 A wildcat strike shut down the Castlegar CanCel sawmill. Immediate cause of the walkout, the yeecond, ii two-months, was/a dispute b * and served their supply from a eosnae pipe about 150 feet -down- stream from the intake. Bill Cook, district irrigation chairman, said major repairs ‘can’t be done until the creek level drops.” Normal oper- ation was not expected to re sume “for two weeks at the y Creston valley dairy far- mers’ complaints about mis- use of agricultural land by foreign landlords prompted RDCK directors to call for appointment of a royal com- Castlegar-area students had above average achievement in reading, mathematics and science when weighed against a number of local factors. BCRIC announced slightly more than 90 per cent of '.'ders of public shares ‘ Canadian Cellu- lose € . Ltd. had agreed to sel} aem at $15 each. May 29 B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch advertised an invita- tion to submit tenders for i of Castlegar'’s mission to ine land use in B.C. May 1 City Bathe adopted a $5,832,840 1980 budget ex- pected to cost Castlegar tax- ;payerg.on average $81 extra. Alderman George Bondaroff, ,., council's finance committee chairman, listed the city's liquor store to a self-serve outlet. June 1 Renumbering and re- , naming. of Castlegar streets year's 's grace before the bylaw ig for fines of $25 to it d budget- a ary restraints in 1979, police costs and long-delayed cap- ital works among the reasons for the $1,835,283 increase — . to be raised by a three-mill tax hike — over last year’s expenditures. May 16 Premier Bill Bennett of- ficially opened the Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Soc- iety’s new audio-visual centre at the Doukhobor Village. The appearance was part of his tour of the Rossland-Trail riding. At south branch of Castlegar and District Public Library, the premier pres- ented board chairman Roy Ward with a $6,000 cheque, representing its usual grant. Bennett was given a copy of the book Treasures of Can- ada and shown plans for the city's proposed $3 million. courts-civic-library complex. + “Bennett announced Castlegar will receive a $926,000 sub- sidized loan for development of its $9-acre industrial park. He said the five-year loan will be at no interest for the first two years and 50 per cent of prime rate for the remainder, “a saving of about $550,000 over the term of the loan in interest to city taxpayers.” May 19 Tnitial repairs to the 215 Blueberry Creek, households’ rain-damaged water system were completed, allowing its use. But, because the chlor. inator was not to be connect- ed until Saturday, May 24, residents were instructed to continue boiling water until Sunday. White haze and powdery ash containing some sulphur content covered the West Kootenay after southerly winds carried the plume from erupting Mt. St. _Helens in $100 for | failing to post new address.numbers is enforced. June 2 New policy negotiated between GERB and the BCGEU resulted in a pact that included new policy on re-organization problems which caused forestry work- ers to picket May 2t. June2 Statistics for 1979 re- leased by the B.C. Police Commission showed crime rose 11.68 per cent in Castle- gar and 16.97 per cent in Trail but dropped .94 per cent in Nelson. Castlegar was reported to have the highest crime rate, heaviest caseload per police officer and the highest population-police ratio of the three centres. June 6 Leo Perra was selected as the new principal of Selkirk College. The board announced Perra, 42, the former acting principal of Cariboo College, would be filling the position vacated by Mitch Anderson a year ago. June 13 Premier Bill Bennett of- ficially opened B.C. Hydro's Seven Mile Dam. Major award winners at Stanley Humphries Second- ary School commencement exercises were: Gordon Zait- soff — the Aggregate Award; ‘Tim Richards — the K. T. and R. E. McGauley Memorial Scholarships; Colleen Dasch- er— the Leaders Award, and Doug Johnstone — the Stan- ley Humphries Award. June 16 School District No. 9 was selected as one of 10 to spokesman for the faders weather office in Castlegar reported the smoke and ash entered the region following the May 18 eruption. May 26 B.C. forest service em- ployees in the West Kooten- ay and elsewhere in south- ern B.C. returned to work four days after they set up pickets protesting the gov- ernment’s reorganization plans. Al Lowndes, region union staff representative, in a project. Twin Rivers Ele- mentary and Kinnaird junior secondary were the only two schools in the West Kootenay chosen to participate, June 18 West Kootenay Power and Light Co. Ltd. announced the B.C. Energy Commission granted them a rate increase of 16.5 per cent for all power used on or after July 1. The increase was granted on the condition that it would be subject to 11 per cent refund came into, effect, The, city’s tb residents were given one . workers in the planer mill, said a union representative. july iS Harry Smith, who sold the Hi Arrow Arms to Bofa Enterprizes three years ago, repurchased the hotel. Smith said he planned to go ahead with building a shopping centre beside the hotel but was undecided whether to build the added rooms and convention centre that were part of expansion plans an- nounced in February. July 15 Castlegar CanCel work- ers decided at a meeting to return to work after the company agreed to support their application to the B.C, Labor Relations Board for a pion oftieae to help resolve meas pdalyd7 ., A survey toe the “foun- dation of the new Kinnaird Elementary School got un- derway. July 19,20 Castlegar Aquanauts sent 20 swimmers to Golden and finished second behind Revelstoke (who had 96 Hospital was awarded the top classification of accredi- tation by the Canadian Coun- cil on Hosital Accreditation, a council spokesman an- nounced, Sept. 19 NDP MPs Lyle Kristi- ansen, Nelson Riis, Sid Par- ker, Pauline Jewett and Ian Waddell took part in a morn- ing open-line CKQR show and heard delegations at the (Hi Arrow Arms in the af- "ternoon as part of a pro- vincial tour. Sept. 23 Castlegar Alderman A; bert Calderbank ;fnnounced First City Investmient’s appli- cation for rezoning, would be going to public hearing Oct. 9 as a major shopping centre involving more than twice the area originally indicated — 164,700 square feet. Castlegar and District Library board chairman Roy Ward asked city council to go to referendum for funds to build a new library, Sept. 24 Preparation for a 1,200- square-foot addition and ren- ovations to the Castlegar liquor store got underway. Fame Construction of Trail has the bar are contract. t, 27 ; Hasioeat Districk of Cen- ‘tral Kootenay (RDCK) direc- tors voted to have the Urban Transit . Authority (UTA) Perform a $20,000 transit study of the region with costs shared equally by UTA and the regional district. RDCK had asked UTA to expand a $10,000 study of Castlegar. and district were July 21 Cheryl Kristiansen was weleomed home from Holland by 60 at the Castlegar Air- port. Cheryl won four gold medals, as a sin- Ms be studied first. Sept.30 Castlegar city council passed a bylaw seeking per- mission from the inspector of ities to hold a ref- gle-leg amputee in the Olym- pics for the Physically Handi- capped. July 23 Three families. living near B.C. Hydro's Seven Mile Dam were asked to leave the - beta area tem use a 2,600-foot-long crack’ in the embankment caused an un- erendum asking citizens to approve borrowing as much as $2 million to construct a one-storey library-city hall- court house complex. Oct.8 Castlegar News became a subscriber to The Canadian Press news service. CP is the national news-gathering co- stable portion ing ‘as much as two million cubic yards of material. July 26,27 Castlegar Aquanauts had a successful Sun Fest weekend as they beat out seven teams to win their own invitational swim meet. July 29 CanCel reported second quarter earnings of $5.3 mil- lion or 44 cents a share compared with $4.0 million or 83 cents in the corres- ponding period in 1979. July 30 Architect's sketches for 8 $2 million — 60 adjoining units with four honeymoon suites — expansion of Fire- side Place were unveiled by and world-wide with access to the services of Agence-France Press, Reuter and the Asso- ciated Press, Oct.9 Traffic problems were the major concern expressed by Castlegar residents at a public hearing for rezoning of four acres to permit building a $10 million, 164,700-square- foot enclosed retail mall — Birchdale Square Shopping Centre. The 30 people who attended the 90-minute hear- ing were told a traffic study would be made available and another hearing would be in- cluded in the hearing on the community plan, Oct. 17 Ald George Bon- July 31 A bylaw authorizing Castlegar to enter into an agreement with the Urban Transit Authority to study the possibility of establishing a transit system in the area was given third reading. The $10,000 study, to be con- ducted by the UTA, was. to be equally financed by the two parties. Aug. 15 Mike Wichert of Castle- gar won the Johnny Bucyk Junior Open golf tournament at Creston. Aug. 19 Larry Bosse’ was ap- Pointed Castlegar Chamber of Commerce president, re- placing Tom Oglow who re- signed for personal reasons. » Aug. 23 Robert Sherstobitoff de- feated his brother Ron in the daroff quit half-way through his two-year term, citing business pressures and Mayor Audrey Moore's “blat- ant use of the chair” at council meetings as reasons. Moore declined to comment. Oct. 18 John and Maria Kemle sold the Marlane Hotel to Jim hall. Purchase price was not disclosed. Oct. 20 Cominco's $23: million new leaching plant — the first of its kind in the world — was commissioned in 3 ceremony attended by con- struction workers and oper- ating personnel and presided over by A.V. (Marc) Margo- Sroup vice-president of Cominco ier Be B. oI Chris 2 D'Arcy said he had a asked the highways department. to build an un: derground crossing at Crest- view Crescent and Highway 8 following receipt of a peti- tion signed by 75 parents with school children living in the area, Celgar Pulp cranked up the repaired 260-foot chim. ney — the tallest at the plant — whose brick collapsed for unexplainable reasons last May 4, Oct.30,31 Gate Night and Hallo- ween passed uneventfully with police reporting only a handful of complaints and the confiscation of a few dozen eggs. Nov. 4 The referendum to build a $2 million library-courts, civic centre complex was the major issue for aldermanic candidates at an all-candi- dates forum with four in favor, four against and one undecided. Nov.5 An RCMP ‘explosives squad di: a bomb _ So goes another year in Castlegar and sur Castlegar. Police refused to reveal the size or type of the device and said nothing about possible suspects. Nov.8 aircraft :Nov.17 Castlegar and District School Board No. 9 author- ized principals to dismiss any students found at any time in or under the influ- crash exercise at Castlegar Airport involved many vol- unteers including 40 Grade 10 Stanley Humphries stu- dents and 20 Trail volunteers who were “casualties.” Nov. 15 A referendum to build a $2 million library-courts-civic centre was defeated 1,244 to 630, Len Embree, Jim Gouk, "Carl Loeblich and Carl Henne were elected to city council. Vera Kanigan, Malcolm Scott and Pat Haley took the school trustee positions and John Voykin defeated 14-year vet- eran John Moran to become regional director for Area I. Nov. 16 NDP MP Lyle Kristian- sen held the first meeting of his newly-formed West Koot- enay constituency advisory council. Twenty-seven rep- resentatives of all levels of industry and that was found on the CP Rail main line five miles west of major unions attended the day-long informal meeting. and parent or guardian re- quired to appear before the board discipline committee to review the offence. Nov. 19 Castlegar and District ers FIRESIDE PLACES expansion ples were quickly im. July 30. The. "60 adjoining suites — with four ence of alcohol or illegal “drugs on school property. Cases are to be referred to the board and the student Library Board members de- cided they will ask for an- other referendum — for..a library without the added features ofa civic cqntre and court house — this ihe Nov. 20 School board ‘nd city council committees “decided to support a request that‘an t “hoi aymeon suitgp vib Tel. psn lerground crossing be i at“Crestview Crescent pand Highway 8 with a joint letter to ‘the’ highways de- partment, Nov. 22 OTTAWA — Former Governor-General Jules Leger, 67, died in hospital after suffering another ave taken definite shape, ad —CarNewsFato by. stroke. Dee.1 The minimum wage in B.C. for emplo, ees 18 years He vel There are strange folks ‘talking with Jack Piskatt th Toronto the other day. Tack. is head of The Canadiai’ Press Picture Ser- vice. I'yé'known him for years. u Althoiigh I had called -him on business, we also ex- changed the usual pleasant- ries and filled each other in about the whereabouts, ete., of others we'd lost track of over the years, Jack told me a new book My lumn today is about some of the nuts I've worked with during my 26 years in the business. With the excep- tion of one incident, none of the following made it into the book, largely, I guess, be- cause the author didn't con- sult me. The exception is the Fal- coner Affair. It happened back in '65 when I was with CP in Toronto, A Newfoundlander with about Canadian hit the bookstores a month ago. He couldn't remember the author's name byt be- lieves Walter Stewart edited it. Neither did he know who published it. The book — Newspapers in Canada —‘is“a‘collection of +‘atories About unusaal things that have happened in the ~ the forget his first name) made ¢ briefly to the big time as a - hockey player. .Toronto Maple Leafs called him up to Hogtown for a three-day tryout. The sports buffs on the St. John’s Telegram’asked' CP Toronto ‘to ‘send them fre- country’s and also tells stories about some of the characters who have worked as journalists. Progi ly freq I mean ad nauseum, maybe two or three times a day. Even our hockey jocks got quent’ reports on‘ Falconer's * B tired of meeting the Tele- gram’s request. Enter a CP sportswriter and hockey fanatic named Harry Calnek and a CP editor named Dave Davidson who Jack Pickett was in Saint John, N.B., reading the in- coming cP copy on The Telegraph-Journal's tele- type. He just about passed out as he read the story that icent report on page one, He “quoted” Falconer as saying such things as “I was so excited before the first game that I went on tothe ice with my hockey pants on ‘Editors are i By DON HARVEY ) people, too | — sort of" (linus) 18k 4~OuUrNna alerted head to. A_seniot immediately Telegram in late. The e (For the uninitiated, ap- parently it's. impossible to wear hockey pants back- wards; Leafs practices aren't televised; Falconer was cut before the first game.) The Telegram’s publisher, somewhat hot under the collar, phoned Gillis Purcell, CP’s general manager. GP immediately launched an to learn the x Calnek, onwhom the brant of « ‘the Telegram’s request’ fell, finally ran out of steam, That's when the lightbulb went on in his head. At about the same time, veyesen vist ‘Calnek, ‘yout see, had’ tack- led the Newfoundland ‘pa- per's request with such flour- ish and vigor that the Newfie paper published his magnif- “ knew witch about: the gathe, was’ unfolding’ in front-of-his ; Loria ‘Tm sure all them there Beople identity of the perpetrator. Noone squealed on! Calne] (who didn’t 'fess up,, GASTLEGAR NEWS, December 28; 1980 rounding areas of age and older rose to $3.65 an hour f from $3.40. jones was ac: claimed chairman of School District No. 9 for a second one-year term, Dee.8 NEW YORK Ex- Beattle John Lennon was gunned down in front of his Manhattan apartment. Mark David Chapman was charged with murder. A group of 80 Selkirk College students decided + they would encourage other students not to pay tuition fees if between seetae Cheetos BEREAN ‘ BS Dec. 12 When Principal Leo Perra didn't show up for their open-forum Friday, 80 Selkirk College students went to fetch him. The forum called to provide stu- dents with information on negotiations between college administration and union rep- resentatives of non-teaching employees, was attended by union representatives-Roger. Cristofoli and Mickey. Kin- akin, They, and after, insis- tent demands, Perra spoke for 10 minutes each and then ‘administration and non- teaching employees, whose contract expires Dec. 31, are not concluded rapidly. Dec. 9 Castleget” city council decided to protest a proposed, new costing formula for RCMP policing that could more than double the city’s expenditure to $335,000 from $165,000. City staff were instructed to send letters asking for a more favcrable costing formula to the pro- vincial and federal govern: Dec. 16 5 A lawsuit filed against Castlegar came to light when Mayor Audrey Moore‘ men- tioned. it as a “point of information" as part of her water report to city council at their regular meeting. She said D.C. Festing and Sons Lts., a Mapleridge contractor which was working on Stage 2 of the pipeline for the water system, filed a statement of claim ‘several weeks pre- viously and city lawyers ments and ‘ MLA and MP. sure 'g named in the book.) Al Purcell learned was * that Dave Davidson, who's now with CP in Ottawa, had okayed the story for trans- mission ‘to St. John’s. Re- member, Dave knew nothing about hockey so didn’t spot the hoax. Dave was summoned to Purcell’s office where he was immediately fired and just as quickly rehired. “I have to tell the Tele- grams publisher that I fired someone,” Dave quoted Pur- cell. Shortly after the incident, Calnek ‘quit and went to Spain, Then there was Dave -MacLachlan at CP Calgary. ~ A.reporter, «Herald bad. been. to “write e * bick;home are me on TV” and “I'm gonna deke the twine a few times for Premier Joey Smallwood and my ma.” Why not take action aga as Hooker Chemical and. is concerned. By GORD McINTOSH NIAGARA FALLS, ONT. (CP) — The federal government's Fecent threat dumps in Niagara County cone won 2 of the most Flastics Corp., Olin Corp., Co., Dupont toxi ‘Much of the blame is directed at lar, to sue had the people here in the honeymoon capital wonder- ing. “My God, if that can be done, why hasn't it been done in the past?” asked Niagara Falls Mayor Wayne Thom- son, who added he’s puzzled as to why the politicans took so long to realize a serious problem existed. “The difference between environmental laws and the conditions that are permitted to exist are like day and night.” Hundreds of Niagara Falls, N.Y., residents were evacuated from their homes in May because of health problems attributed to chem- icals stored in a waste dump at Love Canal. . A New York state study group found last year there are 107 hazardous waste Slim ch By KEN SMITH CP BUSINESS EDITOR Year-end economic re- views and. look-aheads to 1981 make gloomy reading. The reviews show the depths of the troubles into which the Canadian economy, beset by high interest rates and unemployment, inflation and deep-seated doubts about the future, has fallen. The outlooks show the difficulties the economy will have in trying to climb out. Earl Sweet, business economist with the Royal Bank of Canada, says in one such recent review and out- look that, with inflation re- maining persistently, high Nand with interest rates near a iets industries along the Niagara , River on Buffalo Avenue in the neighboring city of Ni- :agara, Falls, N. > 1Kederal Pevicsament Minister John Roberts says he ig sp frustrated with the lagk of action by U.S. federal and state authorities to clean up pollution that his staff is exploring ways of taking pol- fe and Airco Spear. Several of the | plants are d in lit Hooker Drinking water in Ni- agara Falls, N.Y., is so con- for violation of air emission standards, Airco Spear has had P carbon must be added to remove is being sued for $600 million by New York state for the Love Canal situation, al- though latest state studies have concluded there is no absolute proof the chemicals were responsible for resi- dents’ health problems, Thomson says there is no visible (evidence of en- i damage on the luters to American courts. He says he will continue pressing the U.S. to meet its commitments under the 1978 Great Lakes Water Agree- ment to stop dumping toxic wastes in the lakes. While land along - the Canadian side of the Niagara River has been reserved for park and recreational use since the 19th century, chem- ical plants have lined the American river bank for dec- ades — chemical giants such record levels at the end of 1980, there is not much chance of a strong economic recovery in the new year. But, like most econom- ists, Sweet does see some glimmers of hope. ~ First, his bad news. “Inflation has been marked as the No. 1 problem facing the international econ- omic community and, as such, the monetary Canadian side of the river and Niagara Falls is as safe as it has always been. Revenues from tourism in the city were excellent this year. Tourism accounts for about $15 million in the city's economy annually and em- ploys up to 7,000 people “at the height of the season. . But Thomson, a health inspector before becoming mayor, says his city of 70,000 “Exports, too, will flat- ten out as the U.S. economy is stalled by credit costs at the record levels of last spring.” Now, his first glimmer of better things. “The slowing down of the Canadian and U.S. econ- omists, however, should re- duce the demand for money ance Michael O'Laughlin, ma- yor of Niagara Falls, N.Y., says Canadians have every right to be worried because of mistakes made in his city in the past O’Laughlin - concedes there has been a difference in concern between the two cities. on environmental is- sues. “That's an early histori- cal attitude that’s turned out to be important,” he says. “We invite Canadian experts to come over and make sug- gestions, “Chemicals know borders.” Olin Chemical has been convicted of pouring pure mercury into the Niagara River and then falsifying its records, Carborundum has been convicted several times -no in its plant for a year, investi- gating health and safety problems, Dupont is suspected of spilling PCBs into the river. It has not admitted to the action but is paying dredging costs to have them removed. Residents in the Hyde Park area just north of Niagara Falls, N.Y., says Bloody Run, a stream that flows under a Hooker dump, changes colors depending on the chemicals in it. It flows into the Niagara River, less than a kilometre away. NEW PLANT BUILT Niagara Falls, N.Y., spent $61 million in 1978 for sewage treatment that in- cluded carbon beds to handle the city’s chemical sewage. Within months, the chemicals had eaten through the steel supports of the car- and pi ly - not. new “book, Newspapers in Canada, appeared did Purcell learn who'd written the Fal- coner story. (I'm not even right, how original and inter- esting can a report about a cat show be? The reporter wondered, too. were prep; of defence. lism That's when he invented Mortimer the mouse. His story, which MacLachlan thought was cute and so rated teletype transmission to newspapers around the world through the auspicies of the Canadian Press net- work, wound up on the front page of the New York Times. It didn’t take long for MacLachlan to learn that Mortimer existed only in the mind of The Herald reporter. CP Toronto alerted New York about the hoax. “Forget the hoax,” replied a Times editor, “give us more about Mortimer.” CP didn't of course, so The Times wrote its own stories ~wwhieh finally saw poor Mort- ‘imer-escape from the mob-of cats to live happily ever after in a church. More characters next Sun- day. inst polluters? bon beds and that part of the treatment plant now is use- less. Tt means that between 180 million litres and 275 million litres (between 40 million and 60 million gallons) of partially-treated industrial sewage flows daily into the Niagara River, O'Laughlin says. To add to residents’ worries, dioxin, one of the most deadly substances known to man, has. been found in the Great Lakes, especially in Lake Ontario. A Canadian government study found traces of dioxin in herring gull eggs and con- cluded that Hooker Chemical was the most likely source since it is just upstream of Lake Ontario. "State authorities have found deposits of dioxin in creek sediment from the un- used Hooker dumps and, most recently, another New York study has found traces of dioxin in sunfish. The study said all Lake Ontario fishing could be threatened if dioxin levels increase. ‘WHAT WILL HAPPEN?’ “What's going to hap- pen?” asks Joe Montgomery, industrial commissioner in Niagara Falls, Ont. “They couldn't put in what we have, a bacterial action (sewage treatment) plant because of the chemicals. Bacteria can't even live in the stuff.” The two cities have just completed elaborate disaster plans that call for the fire departments to be Monday morning and pro- tested. O'Laughlin says Thom- son was right to be concerned and any spill, however small, will be reported. Gordon Paul, president of the Niagara Resort and Tourist Association, says Ot- awa's interest is being viewed like reinforcements coming to the rescue of a city that's been plagued by the mistakes of its American neighbors for too long. ‘WE DON'T KNOW" “We're looking through ht and h i to- for a chemical spill !and the two jurisdictions to notify each other of mishaps in- gether and we don't really know what can happen, do we?” volving materials. Thomson was alarmed when no one on the American side informed Niagara Falls, Ont., on a recent weekend of what turned out to be a small spill of chlorine gas at Hooker Chemical. Thomson found out on a of economic recove housing and durable goods markets, sweet says, “Total consumer spend- ing is forecast to rise by close to two per cent in real terms in 1981, after barely inching forward at all in 1980.” * However capital invest- ment, a mainstay of the economy recently, is ex- pected to slow down because and credit and also i and will likely keep a tight rein on the system. “High (interest) rates will exert a particularly negative influence on the markets for housing and con- sumer durables during the first quarter of the year. WILL FLATTEN ve inflationary expectations. “This, in turn, should lead to a considerable fall in interest rate levels. In Can- ada, the bank rate could drop to the 10- or 1l-per cent range by late spring.” A drop in interest rates will help breathe life into the labor of the federal. dis- pute over natural resources, Sweet expects it to be in the four-per-cent range. Growth in employment will probably slow down, despite an upturn in both demand and production, since there will be excess capacity for both capital and rr. “Wage rates, however, are expected to climb by a little over nine per cent. While this is up by roughly one percentage point from 1980, it will still fall short of the expected 10.8-per-cent rise in the consumer price index. “On the plus side, the slide in productivity in recent years should come to an end - in 1981. This will help offset the acceleration in wage rates, so that the increase in unit labor costs moderates to the nine-per-cent range.” In all, Sweet foresees an increase in real gross na- tional product — the total value of all goods and ser- vices produced in the country — of 1.6 or two per cent, compared with a real decline this year-of something less than a percentage point. This year’s decline is the first on an annual basis since On the Canadian dollar, which has been trading re- cently under the 83-cent mark in terms of the U.S. dollar, Sweet says without elaboration that it should move in the 84- to 87-cent range in 1981, A more bitter tone comes from a year-end state- ment by Andréw Kniewas- ser, president of the Invest- pects are excellent, he says, ‘Y, an active environmentalist as well as the industrial commissioner for the last 21 years, said “It's all because of the closing of municipal, state and fed- eral eyes for 50 years. In- stead of a pollution contro) plant, they will put up a convention centre.” cial problems and then “the for i and are as such in international financial circles. “In the short term, the present decade of great op- portunity is slow taking off in the face of substantial un- certainties, due to constitu- tional, energy and revenue- sharing disagreements be- tween the federal govern- ment and the provincial gov- ernments.” Kniewasser expects real GNP to decline by one per cent, inflation to exceed 10 per cent and unemployment to rise to close to 8.6 per cent. However, he says he is’ ‘4 wi ment Dealers’ A of Canada. Canada’s long-term pros- hat pi be made in the new year on settling the federal-provin- decision-making will improve and I expect the level of confidence and the appetite for risk-taking to strengthen as the year proceeds.” Such a turn-around will be long lasting, with higher energy prices “seen as an opportunity, not.as a prob- lem.” Kniewasser makes it clear he is unhappy with de- lays in reaching inter-govern- mental agreements on prob- lems that are preventing major investment projects. “The patience of Cana- dians to put up with Can- adian-made uncertainties is wearing thin.”