ACTION ADS LosT PERSONAL for the © News , June 26 for the month of Psychic Clairvoyant Tarot Aura readings here June 26, 27. Private call 359-7657 after 5 or after June 25th Fireside and ask for Aaron. 1/50 White Siomese cross female cat, 2 years old, vicinity of Central Foods. 7558. Reward 3/50 Dental retainers, between Twin Rivers school and Oglow Reword. 365-7639. 50 VETIA” Bike helmet. visor, Reward, 365-2508. 29 Ibs. per month .°) t on Herbolite Di black, cracked *eenon’V aah see eae 48 LOST! 20 Ibs. in one month! Herbal nutritional. tose inches ond cellulite. 100% guaranteed. As seen on T.V. Call Hlona 1-941 -3675 free delivery 10/34 FOUND ———$$—$—$—$—$ ANNOUNCEMENTS AT Shrine Circus afternoon show, girls change purse. 365-5653 3/49 Pair of reading glasses left at Garage Sale at 9th St. North Castlegar, Sotur day. Owner may claim by phoning 365. 6691, 3/50 Walter and Winnie Rezansoff wish to announce the'forthcoming marriage ol their daughter Christin of Alvin and El —— soke place July Helen ikolf of Slocan Park and Mike Kootnikoft of Nelson are pleased Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Cotumbia Avenue Castlegar * 365-2151 SHARE A RIDE to announce the g marriage of their daughter Larrisa to Marc McKim son of Reid and Joy McKim of Ottawa NEED ride to Cominco before 6:00 a.m Tuesday to Saturday. 365-8154 after 2:00 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kinakin of Slocan Pm. 0F 365-3042 anytime. ___3/49 Park Gre pleased to announce the . ° engagement of their daughter Neva to Roger son of Mr. and Mrs. Norm Essery of Wedding to take place August 18, 1990 50 BUSINESS OPPOR. 5 UNIT MOTEL, 18 fully rented RV spots Certified General Accountant Office 368-6471 Residence 365-2339 1250 Bay Ave., Trail IN MEMORIAM residence, marina, about 2 waterfront ecres, near Balfour. Call Syd 862-8100 Syber Realty, Kelowna. wad CLOTHING CONSIGNME STORE FOR SALE Ideal for fashion oriented persons. Fama Good opportunity FOR DETAILS CALL MARIA 365-7500 BUSINESS for sale: Vinyl Deck Franchise Castlegar and Trail areas! . 365-7086 16, To our husband, father, grandfather great grandfather, Charles Salekin, who passed away June 24, 1989 Deep in our hearts you are fondly embered happy memories cling your name. True hearts that loved you with deepest affection Always will love you in death the same Ever loved and remembered by his wife his children, and their families. round 1/50 “Your Charity of Choice Your caring gifts in Honour or in Memoriom are a beautitul and thoughtful reminder. Pieese help vs eset No. | Killer NOTICES a ZUCKERBURG ISLAND HERITAGE PARK Open daily dawn to dusk. Chapel jouse open 7 days from 8 a.m RAILROAD STATION Mon.-Fri., 8-5. For information on weddings and tours call Heritage Office. 365-6440 ttn/45 PROVINCE-WIDE CLASSIFIED $165 $15 DISCOUNT FOR CASH! Callus for details! Classified Ads 365-2212 CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION In Memoriam Donations, Box 1228 Rossland, B.C. VOG NYO. CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY memoriam donations information: 3292, Castlegar, B.C. 365-5167. 104/24 LEGALS BUY or SELL by AUCTION * bodoupiies* atts Consign orn monsat.+8 > CUT’N LOOSE HAIR DESIGN Call for an appt. today 365-2142 $23 Colvmble Avenue. G2? arensernnes_@ 1e8s Syndicate RENTAL APPLIANCES & TV Rent to Own Washers, Dryers, VCRs, TV, Stereos Kan 365-3388 1008 Columbia Ave., Castlegar RENT... WASHERS & DRYERS 364-1276 “We can’t stand the sight of each other.” SANLAND CONTRACTING LTD. GENERAL CONTRACTOR 365-3033 ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR LOCKSMITH Licenced and Bonded CAL 365-6562 Roofing ROOFING Guaranteed Work Fair Prices 40 Years in Business JAMES SWANSON AND SONS Ph. 367-7680 IN THE CASE OF AN ELECTRICAL EMERGENCY, WEEKENDS OR EVENINGS CALL 365-3033, 365-2973 or 365-6250 SANLAND CONTRACTING LTD. Castlegar, B.C. KENNEY DRYWALL Walls & Textured Cellings NOW OPEN in Robson Electrolysis By Janette jed Electrologist & Thermolysis Method * Sterilization Standards * Ci yc Castlegar News MINES ACT ion 7 ice notice that Lorry J. Stanbra hes filed jer of En nes and Pe PERSONAL Yo Sorae Lena) A Pion Waa" oe Lot 301A ALCOHOLICS anonymous and Al-Anon. Phone 365-3663. 104/71 LEGALS Ministry of Government Management Services Province of British Columbia OFFER FOR PURCHASE, REMOVAL AND/OR DEMOLITION OF BUILDING Offers must be received on “O.T.P. No. 471", by the Purchasing Commission (c/o Parliament Buildings), 4234 Glanford Avenue Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4, Facsimile number 387-0386, telephone number 356-8326, not later than 2:00 p.m., July 27, 1990, to purchase the following Item 0001: 4000 sq. ft. warehouse, for a more detailed descrip- tion, please contact Property Agents listed below. Lega! Description: Lot 1, District Lot 1237, Kootenay District Plan 16736 Local Description: Approximately 4 km. north of Salmo, BSC Viewing: Friday, July 6 and July 13, 1990 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Saturday, July 7 and July 14, 1990. 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m For further information, and Conditions of Sale, please contact Mr. Jim McDonell, Regional Property Agent, Ministry of Tran sportation and Highways, Nelson, whose telephone number is 354.6569 or Mr. Michael Bancroft, Property Agent, Ministry of Transportation and Highways, Nelson, whose telephone num- ber is 354-6445_ Prospective buyers must familiarize themsetves with the following ® zoning by-laws and building codes in the area where they are g placing the building 1 ci Pp © Conditions under which the structure can be moved on highways and within the municipalities. No guarantees or warranties are expressed or implied and all bidders must satisfy themselves as to the type, kind, and/or condition of all items advertised and the successful bidder(s) will be responsible for the removal of such items. The suc- cesstul bidder will be required to have the item(s) removed from the site within 60 days commencing from the date of ac- ceptance of the offer. The highest or any offer will not necessarily be accepted, but the bearer of the successful bid will be required to pay the 6% S.S. tax. The successful bidder must make full payment within 10 days of notification of acceptance of his/her offer Ministry of Government Management Services Purchasing Commission (c/o Parliament Buildings) 2nd Floor, 4000 Seymour Place Victoria, B.C. V8X 4¥3 BY APPOINTMENT ONLY 365-3421 FREE ESTIMATES Phone: 226-7883 D & M Painting & Insulation * Blown Insulation © Batts & Poly DUNCAN MORRISON 650-5th Avenue 365-5255 * Most ‘Advanced System Gets more deep down soil than any other cleaning metho Upholstery Cleaning T SATISFACTION = pee tL Yt STEEL A Better Way to Build COMMERCIAL © INDUSTRIAL © AGRICULTURAL For more information, call your Authorized Garco Builder Midwest Construction Services Ltd. 365-8410 Why not Call Us Today! FREE ESTIMATES PHONE 365-6969 Charter Buses DEWDNEY REFLEXOLOGY AND FOOT CARE TRAIL STAGES “Chartef for groups Anytime, Anywhere!" 1355 Bay Ave., Trail 555 368-5: or call toll fr }00-332-0282 S. Castlegar 5121 ——— Moving & Storage WICKLUM ROOFING CALL LORNE 352-2917 “FREE ESTIMATES” Williams Moving & Storage 2337-6th Avenue, Castlegar Invite you to call them for a free moving estimate. Let our representative tell you h have made Williams the most respected name in the moving business Ph. 365-3328 Collect Optometrist ML LeRoy B.C. 0.0. OPTOMETRIST © SHINGLES © TAR & GRAVEL ROOF REPAIRS Guaranteed Work 365-2307 “FREE ESTIMATES” Septic Service COLEMAN COUNTRY BOY SERVICE Sump & Septic Tank Pumping Phone 365-5013 3400-4th Avenue Castlegar 1012 - 4th St., Castleg: PHONE 365-3361 Tuesday to Friday 9a.m. to 4:30 p.m Saturday 9 a.m. to 12 Noon Plumbing & Heating Bartle & Gibson The Plumbing & Heating Centre © American Standard * Valley Fibrebath © Crane * Gulf Stream Spos © Duro Pumps & Softeners © PVC Pipe Fittings * Septic Tanks © Electrical & G.E. Lighting Supplies 2317-6th Avenve, Castlegor Phone 365-7702 fasy-Feo Built-in Vacuum Systems Liticiens STARTING AS LOW AS pow SELKIRK HOME CARE SERVICE 365-5087 ( CASTLEGAR NEWS. ) Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. 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It is ag vertiser requesting is a © SERVICE CALL 365-3388 TRAIL CUSTOMERS ONLY CALL 3 condition that in the event of failure to publish any advertisement of ony event of an error advertising goods Radiator Repair or services of @ wrong price, the 9 or services need not be sold Advertising is merely an offer to sell The offer may be withdrawn at any time NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT Full, complete and sole copyright in ony printed matter produced by Castle News Ltd. is vested in and Mike’s Radiator Shop 690 Rossland Ave., Trail 364-1606 Alll work conditionally guaranteed belongs to Castle News Lid provided, however that copyright in THAT PART AND THAT PART ONLY of ony advertisement prepared trom repro proofs. engravings. etc provided by the advertiser shall WEDNESDAY June 27, 1990 Vol. 43, No. 51 Castlegar, B.C. 3 Sections (A, B & D) 75 Cents Trustees discuss language olicy +++ A2 ith afternoon s| Aquanauts place eee - second in Nelson through the weekend. Probability of tonight and Thursday. iv ity of precipitation is 50 per cent - Castle \VA oar New LEGr aLAy ARL Lam: VICTOR, 1x4 Union local sends message By CasNews Staff Office and technical employees at Cominco Ltd. have voted 96 per cent in favor of a strike to back contract demands, the president of the United Steelworkers of America focal which represents the workers said today. The 360 members of Local 9705 are ‘‘giving a clear message to Comin- co"’ that the company’s first wage and benefit offer is unacceptable,” Jim Saare said. The vote packs even more credibility when you know these People were out for four months three years ago and are still recovering’’ from the effects of that strike, he said. The main issue’ for Local 9705 members is the extra week Cominco gave the employees in the 1987'con- tract to compensate for extending their work week to 40 hours from 37% hours, Saare said. The extra week off each year, which means the workers actually work a 39-hour week, ‘‘was the only reason we accepted the compensation package,”’ he said. “*It- was the only thing that made it reasonably attractive.” Cominco now wants to take back with money, Saare said. The other USWA locals at Comin- co are taking strike votes today and Thursday and results are expected late Thursday. Saare said the union is so unhappy with Cominco’s offer that he expects the result of the vote by production and maintenance workers will be similar to that of Local 9705. The union chose to take a strike all locals of the union, is not final and there is room for negotiation but a final agreement will be in the area of, the first offer, Schmidt said. Such an agreement would be unacceptable to the union, he said. The offer includes a wage increase that is equal only to the cost of living allowance the company built into the last contract and the offer does not address many of the issues the union vote.to force Cominco to r i the offer the company made last week, USWA Local 480 chief negotiator Ron Schmidt said. The company’s bargaining commit: the extra week off and compensate * tee said the offer, which would cover keytoa Schmidt said. Cominco officials have said the company has a policy of not commen- ting on contract negotiations until they are concluded. Saturdays By CasNews Staff The Castlegar News will not publish a Sunday edition this weekend because of the Canada Day holiday. Instead, the paper will be distributed as an afternoon Paper on Saturday, June 30. At the same time, CasNews publisher Burt Campbell announ- ced that the Saturday publishing schedule will be maintained for the two summer months until af- ter the Labor Day holiday weekend in early September He said the Wednesday/Satur- day afternoon publishing schedule CasNews to publish in summer has been adopted for July and August ‘‘to facilitate summer staff vacations and mitigate weekend overtime costs.”” Deadlines for the Wednesday CasNews will remain the same as at present while those for the Saturday edition are published elsewhere in this issue. In addition, editor Simon Birch said the Castlegar News will begin publishing an editorial page in its Wednesday edition starting July II He said the page will follow the please see CASNEWS page A2 Nurses ordered to work By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer The six community-care nurses in the Central Kootenay area who act as long-term care assessors must return to their jobs while fellow nurses are out on strike because the work they do has been deemed an essential ser- vice, a Castlegar representative of the B.C. Nurses Union said. The nurses, who assess the needs of People who require care at home and find caregivers for them, received word Sunday from the union head of- fice in Vancouver that they must return to work and they are perfor- ming their duties in shifts this week, union steward Dorothy Salisbury said Tuesday. However, the nurses do not under- stand why their work is being con- sidered essential since seeking at- home care for the elderly or infirm is usually planned in advance, Salisbury told the Castlegar News. Aaron Bushkowsky, union com- officer in V f said the union is seeking an ex- planation for the inclusion of assessors as an essential service in a ruling Friday from the Industral Relations Council “We have tried to tell the gov nment what is essential Bushkowsky said. ‘‘We know our jobs better than they do, we feel.” But the union members must follow the IRC ruling or the government could file contempt charges against the union, he said. The IRC has also declared mental health nurses essential and the one mental health nurse in Trail is back on the job but all other public health and community-care nurses not providing essential services are still off the job, Salisbury said The walkout, which began last week after a series of rotating strikes, is intended to force the government back-to the bargaining table with the B.C. Nurses Union and the Union of Psychiatrie Nurses. The -community- care and psychiatric nurses want wage parity with general hospital nurses. The 40 to 50 nurses in the Castlegar area are not picketing although some nurses in the Lower Mainland are, Salisbury said about 3 a.m. Sunday d Community Complex. cross while Castl CosNews photo by Ed Mills The jelly was flying and the crowd oohin, te when the Jell-O wrestling got unde: -night dry grad Chedeoa atte wah rh City delays payment of waste By CasNews Staff Castlegar city council voted Tuesday to hold payment of almost $2,000 in waste permit fees to the Provincial government until later this week when the Union of B.C. Municipalities learns the results of its requests to Environment Minister John Reynolds to delay »implemen- tation of the fees until January 1991 or at least suspend the June 30 deadline for their payment. The government announced in the provineial budget earlier this year that the fees would be -pplied to municipal waste permits effective April 20 and that the funds generated by the fees would be placed in the newly created sustainable environ- ment fund to pay for ‘‘waste management initiatives.”’ The fees are linked to the quantity Firefight fees of waste a municipality disposes per day. Castlegar’s fees — $1,893.69 for the period April 20, 1990 to Jan. 1, 1991 — are based on the city’s disposal of 740 cubic metres per day of sewage. The UBCM has asked Reynolds to delay the fees because of a number of environmental and financial con- siderations. “Our .examination of the fee schedule shows many anomalies that we feel impose hardships or inequities among municipalities and regional districts,"" UBCM executive director “Richard Taylor writes in a memo to B.C. municipalities. Castlegar Ald. Doreen Smecher, chairman of council’s administration and finance committee, called the in- formation from the government about the fees ‘‘sketchy and iffy."" ers get early practice By ED MILLS Staff Writer What's the world coming to when a volunteer fire department can’t even hold an orderly fire without some joker beating it to the punch? That’s what Pass Creek fire depar- tment chief Brian Bebelman was wondering last Friday night after a vacant house the fire departrment had planned to burn on Sunday was tor- ched by someone else a couple of days garly.- * “I don’t like the word ‘scooped,’ "’ Bebélman said, a touch of anger in his voice._*‘We_don’t-want-anybody to think that they got the best of us in that situation . . . and we don’t want to encourage this kind of thing.’* If the fire was someone’s idea of a joke, Bebelman was not amused. “Of course I was surprised,”” said Bebelman, adding that he was at home napping on the couch when the call came over at about 10:20 p.m. Friday. “Soon as I heard where it was I thought, ‘damn it, somebody beat us to it,’ ’’ Bebelman said. The fire department had planned to conduct a controlled burn of the residence, at 1447 Pass Creek Road, on Sunday when the volunteers would be able to practise. As it turned out, by the time Bebelman’s crew of 10 arrived and was joined by six more firefighters from the nearby Robson fire depar- tment, the house was already engulfed in flames. So they decided to let it burn rather than putting it out and then tighting it again for the Sunday Practice, he said. Bebelman added that since the firefighters were quite familiar with the residence — they had been prac- tising in it for the last two weeks in Preparation for Sunday — everything went smoothly come showtime. Bebelman said the firefighters were on the scene until 2 a.m. Saturday please see FIRE page A2 ta in and belong to the odver PHONE 365-3222 Vandal By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer Driftwood Beach, years ago. Broken glass is strewn over the sand and the toilets have beencompletely demolished following a beach par- ty about a week ago, Scottie Tait said. Tait estimated about $10,000 would be needed to repair the damage and sift the sand for broken glass. upstream from Keenleyside dam, will likely be closed indefinitely because recent vandalism at the beach has left the area unsafe for use by residents, says a local businessman and member of the volunteer group who constructed the beach about two ism closes driftwood beach which hired workers with a provincial grant, Tait said. the Hugh said, noting there is no one to police the area except volunteers. Ken Wyllie, the Regional District of Central Kootenay director for Area J which includes the beach, agrees with Tait that the beach should be closed because of the hazard it poses to the public. Broken glass strewn in sand The beach is a popular place for summer parties and some debris is usually left behind but the smashed bottles left in the sand this time will not be easy to clean up, Tait People using the beach as it is will be doing so at their own risk, Wyllie said. Castlegar RCMP have been informed of the van- The sand was t! rucked in and the crew built the beach on property owned by B.C. Hydro, he said. A cleanup crew is usually sent in each summer to clean the beach for the coming year but the crew has been in to check the area three times already this year and the dalism but the police say they cannot do anything unless they have names of people who attended the party, Tait said. The beach ‘was @ voliinteer- project put together by local business people, who donated materials and equip- ment, and the Castlegar and District Development Board, before the beach wil latest vandalism is more than they can handle, Tait said. The sand will either have to be sifted again or more gand will have to be brought in to cover the glass shards | be safe again, he said. Tait said he ‘!would hate to see Castlegar lose it (the beach)’ because it has been well used since it was built.