Page 2A The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, June 14, 1995 Please recycle The Castlegar Sun OLD TIME COUNTRY & WESTERN MUSIC cae FRANK JAMES SHOW Plays 5 instruments at one time ¢ Plays guitars with his feet $1000 REWARD for anyone who can match his abilities at playing one guitar. JUNE 15, 16, 17 ; NOTICE Hearing Tests Set For Senlor Citizens Sandman Inn, Castlegar, B.C. Thursday, June 22 Everyone who has trouble hearing is welcome to have a test. Modern electronic equipment will be used’to determine if you have a correctable loss. Everyone should have a hearing test at least once a year if there is any trouble at all hearing clearly. Most hearing problems gradually get worse. An annual test-will help you keep track of a progressive loss. No hearing problem of any consequence should ever be ignored. P.S. If you have a hearing aid, we will be pleased to clean it and check it over as a courtesy whether it was manufactured by Beltone or not. [ D.V.A. Taps Cards Accepted * W.C.B. Claims Providers Bellone HEARING CENTRE For your Appointment Please Call: TOLL FREE 1-800-665-8044 287 Martin St., Penticton, B.C. V2A 5K2 PAT MULLIGAN BC-HIS Registered Under the Hearing Aid Act (B.C.) Survey says local teens on the outside looking In SHARLENE IMHOFF Sun Editor Young people in Castlegar are feeling out-of-touch with adults, alienated by officials and unnac- cepted by the community in gen- eral, according to a survey that was recently completed by more than 145 youth. The survey/questionnaire was administered by Leynene Lewis, who, along with other parents and a number of young people, has organized Youthspeak, now a reg- istered non-profit society whose purpose is to provide a voice for young people in the community on issues that are off particular importance to them. The survey was just the beginning. “We put the survey together because we thought it would be a good starting point in addresssing youth issues in the community,” said Lewis. The survey showed that a large majority of youth between the ages of 14 and Bf ot eee ed members of the “[The survey results] weren't surprising at all. It is certainly a sad statement. * Lewis, a parent of two grown children and the ‘adult chair’ of been involved in Sunfest, and are holding events to raise money for the organization,” bd | cuts to the heart of an issue in Castlegar. “There are a lot of people in Castlegar who feel threatened by the stages kids go through.” “They're cute while their kids but after they hit a certain age they’re a pest and [the commu- nity] doesn’t want to look at them or deal with them. We'd like them to go away and hide for a few years.” As a result, said Lewis, many teens turn away from adults. “‘Peo- ple lack an understanding. 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Feeding one or 100, chinese or western cuisine, the Red Lantern is ready for you! | Metter Der stir fries rice for the buffet. hopes to accomplish three goals, Says Lewis. “The establishment of a quality youth centre; to increase the awareness of teen-needs in this community and; to create a positive outlook towards the age group in general.” Lewis admits that more adults are needed to get involved. “We need volunteers and membership. Our vision is huge but our resources are limited.” Youthspeak meets in the early evening at the Tender Care build- ing on the third Wednesday of every month. The Castlegar Sun Page 3A Wednesday, June 14, 1995 —— Quotes from the kids As well as answering questions on the survey, the teens were also given the opportunity to expand on their comments. There were 145 youth between the ages of 14 and 17 who participat- ed in the survey. Here are just a few of those comments. I'm treated asian Outcast. Everyone that I have encountered has iho interest in the youth of this town. We are discriminated in lots of places we go. People watch us in stores because they assume we're going to steal. We are prejudiced against by adults because of the way we dress and look. People don’t like us hanging around but we really have no place to go. I feel that teenagers are treated unfairly. I think the people at city hall and in the community in general don’t think we understand anything. This whole town was built for adults. The younger generation is categorized as being irresponsible and not all of us are like that Besides the streets, there is no place else to hang out. When I dress up for work people smile at me and accept me. But when I dress in comfortable clothing they don’t respect me at all. I find it difficult to understand how people can judge others by the clothes they are wearing. 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Castlegar RCMP say an investigation into the alleged offenses began in December 1994 in the Castle- gar, Trail, Rossland and Salmo areas and involve N.S.F. cheques and other related fraud offences dating back to August 1994. Anderson appeared in Nelson Provincial Court June 8 and was released on bail with the condition that Fizzled business meant first-prize foul-up for Festivals Society But Molson Indy brass comes through for local winners SHARLENE IMHOFF Sun Editor Organizers in the Castlegar Festivals Soci- ety were walking on pins and needles after it was learned that the major sponsor for first prize in the button lottery would be unable to meet the prize requiréments. he not attend any b related appointments. RCMP say that further charges might yet be laid. Driver charged A 47-year-old South Slocan man has been charged in con- nection with a car crash last year that took the life of a Nelson man. Steven Clement has been charged with driving without due care and atten- tion. The charges arise from a car accident on June 16, 1994 on Highway 3A near Bon- nington west of Nelson in which Edward Bayoff was killed.-Clement will appear in Nelson Provincial Court June 27 to answer to the charge. —~ f P _AFFORDABLE | ' f Ww = Toxic Continued from 1A archaic and potentially fatal prac- tices. “If they find it's necessary to use pesticides, it’s a clear indi- cation they don’t know how to grow grass. Pesticides were banned in Toronto in 1980, and most Canadian cities stopped using them 15 years ago.” City administrator Jim Gustafson said the decision to apply pesticides was made by council earlier this year and pointed out that the contractor, Boultbee Pest Control Ltd, of Penticton, is bound by Ministry of Environment regulations. “I understand that they have a pesticide operating license and the authorization to apply it.” Information supplied by city hall officials indicates that a motion to award the contract to Boult- bee, in the amount of $14,649.32 was given the nod by councillor Doug Green and seconded by councillor Kirk Duff at a meeting held March 7. A memo from Green, who is the chair of Works, Services and Parks Committee, to Mayor Mike O’Connor and council regarding weed control states that “these works will incorporate only biodegradable non-toxic chemi- cals sppcaved under permit by Pp which was providing tickets for four people to attend the Molson Indy Races in Vancouver, discontinued business as of May 31. Telephone cails by Sunfest organizors were unanswered and a sense of panic soon set in. “Let me tell you, did we ever have to do some fast shuffling,” said Festival Society member Donna Dunlop. Reneging on the awarding of a first prize was not an option, so Dunlop started to scramble, using her own connections in an attempt to regain the tickets. In the end, the scrambling paid off The tickets were replaced by. non-other than the General Manager of Molson Indy Vancouver, Phil Heard, who, when told of the Festival Society’s unfortunate luck, sym- pathized with the society's predicament. “This all took place just one day before the winner was to be drawn. So you can imagine how much we appreciate the gen- erosity of Phil Heard,” finished Dunlop. For a complete list of Sunfest button win- ners, see the advertisement on page B3. Duff says city taxpayers shelling out for rural directors RON NORMAN Sun Staff would get between $11,000 and $12, 000 a year. Regional District of Central Kootenay directors want to change the way they pay them- selves. But Castlegar councillor Kirk Duff isn’t happy with the proposal. Duff, council's representa- tive on the regional board, says the new bylaw setting out stipend rates isn’t fair to municipal taxpayers. Under the bylaw, which will be introduced at the June 17 board meeting, rural directors will get $700 a month, plus $92 for each regional board meeting, regional hospital board meeting and stand- ing committee meeting they attend. There are three standing committees. There is usually one regional board and one regional hospital board meeting a month, in addi- tion to one or two standing com- mittee meetings. At that rate, rural directors receive only $400 a month, or $3,600 less a year than rural direc- tors. In addition, they get $92 for each board and standing commit- tee meeting, for a total of between $7,000 and $8,000 a year. Under the old stipend bylaw, municipal and rural directors were each paid $550 a month, plus $92 for each meeting. Duff said his beef isn’t so much with the difference in stipends between the rural and municipal directors, because municipal directors also receive a stipend from the city. “My problem is who is paying for that difference,” he said. Duff said he's upset that the funds to pay the regional stipends come from the general adminis- tration account, te which rural and municipal areas pay equally. But Duff says the new stipend bylaw means rural directors are getting more than their share out Kirk butt of the fund “City of Castlegar taxpayers should not be paying so rural directors can take home extra money,” he said Duff says it would make more sense if the rural directors took their extra $300 a month from the regional district's rural adminis- tration account. He said only the regional district's rural areas pay into that account. “At the next board meeting, I will be proposing an amend- ment,” Duff said. The amend- ment will allow the rural and municipal directors to take $400 a month out of the general administration account and $300 for the rural directors from their separate account. “If they want to extra money, then they have to pay for it,” says Duff. Under the new stipend system, regional board chair Hans Cun- ningham of Salmo will receive $1,400 a month, in addition to $92 for every board and standing committee meeting he attends. Cunningham will earn more than $21,000 under the new formula. By comparison, Castlegar Mayor Mike O’Connor gets just under $13.000 a year, and coun- cillors get some $6,500. . - . Airport in claim Continued from 1A also filed an objection to the city takeover of the airport. The Lower Columbia River All First Nations Council sent a letter to Transport Canada protesting the transfer of the aixport. “we believe these lands to be traditional native lands and that title to those lands was never ceded to the Canadian government,” the group says in the letter. Don Pongracz of Castlegar is president of the group, which is a registered society representing off-reserve natives. “We became a society so we can address issues like education and services for off- reserve people.” Pongracz said the group, which became a society at the end of May, has 100 members throughout the ‘West Kootenay. “We're just really starting up.” he explained. “We're expecting a lot more.” Pongracz said any deci- sion about the airport land should involve first Nations with claims to the area. the basket, Osoyoos band and the Sinixt. “Any decisions reached on the disposition and the ownership of those lands should not take place until the government of Canada bhas first recognized and dealt with the aboriginal title of those lands.” Kootenay West-Revel- stoke MP Jim Gouk said he also received a copy of the letter. “It seems that they weren't really consulted,” he said from his office in Ottawa. However. Gonk said that's the only contact he's had. “They've made no special appeal to me.” City still muddled over sludge issue RON NORMAN Sun Staff The regional director for Lower Arrow Columbia has asked Castlegar council to recon- sider its decision to pull out of a proposed regional sewage facility. “It is impossible for me to understand why the city would reject this proposal, which seeks to phase in a user-pay system to fund the construction and opera- tion of a primary treatment facili- ty,” Ken Wyllie wrote in a recent letter to council. However, the city is looking at a Proposal which wouldn't require district i the Ministry of Bob Hlatky, regional pesticide manager for the Ministry of Envi- ronment, said that Boultbee had satisfied requirements and sub- mitted a plan prior to obtaining a permit to apply the pesticides. The amount of 2, 4-D sprayed was between a .1 per cent to .5 per cent concentration. A person would have to orally cofisume almost 1,000 times that amount to be impacted by the pesticide said Hlatky. “They would have to drink 15-20 litres.” Both Doug Green and Mike O'Connor have been unavailable for comment. fu installati FREE QUOTATION VISIT OUR SHOWROOM TODAY 1008 Columbi Castlegar Ane te ) ulipe Buildi ‘365-5191 “We're proceeding with ‘solv- ing the thing ourselves,” said Councillor Kirk Duff, the city’s director on the regional board. At issue is the city’s $500,000 upgrading project for its sewage lagoons in Raspberry. In order to carry out the project, the sludge that has accumulated in the lagoons over the last 20 years needs to be removed and treated before it can be sold as fertilizer. The city wanted to construct a facility to handle the sludge at the Ootischenia landfill. However, the regional district proposed that in return for using the landfill, the city either pay a fee or agree to take part in a pre-treatment facili- ty for rural septic sewage. Talks between the city and regional district broke off when the city accused the regional dis- trict of reneging on an agreement. Since then, the city has post- poned the lagoon upgrading pro- ject until next year and told rural residents they can no longer dump septic waste in the lagoons. City administrator Jim Gustafson said the city is “play- Bi FLOWER AFFAIRS FATHER'S DAY IS JUNE 18TH ONE DOZEN \e SEE OUR WEEKLY IN-STORE SPECIALS 1502-G Columbia Ave., Castlegar ED ROSES 14.97 365-3056 Mat & FRAME SHOP OPENING SPECIAL 0% OFF — CUSTOM FRAMING FOR Needlework + Photos +» Artwork Drymounting also available 414 - 3rd St., Castlegar Julia 365-7595 - Lynn 365-3083 ing around” with the idea of using one of the sewage lagoons to dump the sludge and dry it. There are three sewage lagoons, Gustafson said, two of which are nearly full of sludge “As it turns out, the third one is nearly empty.”” So the city is investigating whether it can portion off a part of the lagoon and pump in the shudge from the other two lagoons “Then it’s a permanent facility,” explained Gustafson The city plans to use the treated sludge in its parks and gardens. There’s just one hitch: it may cost more than simply dumping the sludge in a landfill facility. “We're not too sure about the cost,” said Gustafson. “It might be cheaper to landfill it.” However, he said even if the lagoon process is more expensive now than landfilling the sludge, that may not always be the case. He said landfill costs are likely to rise over the years. But a pre-treatment facility is still needed to handle rural septic waste. However, the city refuses to take part in the facility, saying it is a rural responsibility. But Wyllie has asked the city to come back to the table. ““We all make mistakes and sometimes we have great differences, but at some stage we have to put these aside because that is what our public duty demands. ‘This is one of those times.” He says that “there is no ques- tion” that the regional district is ired to build a pi facility and that “the best and pre- ferred location for this facility is adjacent to the existing lagoons.” He suggests what is needed is an agreement between the city and the regional district. HELP WANTED Mr. Balahura’s grade 6 cla TWIN RIVERS ELEMENTARY YEAR-END ASSEMBLY is planning the final Twin Rivers year end assembly in the old building. We are asking for anyone who was a former student, teacher or who had experience with the school from when it firet started up in 1959 to now, if they would like to come and speak about their experiences at the school. If that is not possible, please fax us and we will have somebody read your letter during the assembly. 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