September 3, 1989 By GRE NELSON, B.C. (CP) — Columbia is gung-ho nonetheless. * theschool’s birth this fall, two or three part-timeé:”" Twenty students were planned Sept. 11. pretentious, accepted by Cheney “This is a start,”’ said Bartsch. when we haven’t even started."" years with at least 200 students,"” don’t have that.”” status some 14 years later population of some 600, University ready for first year JOYCE The university calendar is only 12 pages long and the teachers outnumber studen- ts. But the newest post-secondary institution in British But “We are going ahead,”’ an exuberant Arthur Bar- tsch, executive-director and a history professor at the Nelson University Centre, said recently in announcing “We have seven full-time students registered and A 12-page calendar.has been printed, listing the nine instructors and 10 first-year courses. Tuition will be comparable to other universities — about $1,500 for a full course load — and will support the university along with acity council grant. initially cited as the minimum necessary, said Bartsch. Recruitment fell somewhat short but the university centre will open as The fledgling school was originally called the University of Nelson, but supporters thought that was given the fact that the provincia nment does not recognize it asa bona fide university They settled on Nelson University Centre. CONNECTION Although none of the three universities in British Columbia has yet agreed to recognize it or award tran sfer credits for its courses, the school’s subjects will be Eastern Washington State College in “We think it’s mar- vellous that we have got one (credit transfer agreement) The school will formally apply soon for recognition to the tri-universities council — the body that addresses concerns of the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University Generally, you have’ to show progress -for two said Bartsch. ‘We He wasa history teacher at Notre Dame University, established in Nelson in 1950 and given degree-granting Notre Dame had a small campus, a peak student and trouble being taken seriously by the provincial government it closed in 1977, although David Thompson University Centre provided a post-secondary reincar- nation two years later at the same location. That closed after five years. é Bartsch, the Kootenay Education and Recreation Society, and the city doggedly pursued the dream of po: in this B.C. city of only 9, (000 residents. They got the support of the city council. TOWNSUPPORT “This: community aspires to nurture a post- secondary, degree-granting institution,” said Mayor Gerald Rotering, explaining that council voted unanimously this year to provide the campus with $25,000 for p and library **Council members cut across the political spec- trum and they all think it’s worth trying. The centre will use the same campus as the ghosts of Notre Dame and David Thompson, now occupied by the Canadian International College. The college offers English-language training to approximately 250 Japanese students. College president lan Andrews says the university is welcome. “The immediate benefit is having English-speaking Canadians on the campus,” said Andrews. ‘*We want totry to bridge the CIC ste ents with the community.”” | gover The-university centre’s roots began with Gonzaga University and Eastern Washington, which offered correspondence courses in the Kootenays for years. Bartsch and the society thought Nelson could benefit more from this arrangement They counted the assets: the library from the two previous universities, an offer from Eastern Washington State to provide courses, anda campus. But with the exception of city council, help has been hard to find Howard Dirks, the local member of the legislature and the Crown Lands minister, has offered best wishes and nothing else. “They are setting up a private entity,’ said Dirks. **If they are looking for accreditation, they have to enter into discussions (with the tri-universities council). Advanced Education Minister Stan Hagen did not want to be interviewed about the university, said ministry spokesman Michelle Poirier. COW raises money By CasNews Staff The proposed feedlot for West Arrow Park on Lower Arrow Lake is now facing a new opponent in its battle STRONG & naeocates rut cee ce Tod oat Fora New Dimension! in Business Services " Advertising Graphic Design Public F Printing Typesetting Phone (604) 365-5626 » TAX (604) 365-2124 cross trom the to gain the property needed for the project Citizens Opposed to Waste and Smell (COWS) has begun raising money to lobby against the proposal and Bill Hilton, vice-president of the group, said COWS has already raised Kootenay for a meeting on Sept. 7 to $5,000. speak with officials from Nakusp and A petition has also been circulated the Regional District of Central and gathered a few hundred names, Kootenay along with the COWS Hilton said. executive. COWS came to life to battle an at- Funds raised by COWS will be tempt by the Long Drive Cattle Co. of placed in a trust account until the use Barriere, B.C., to purchase 10 lots for the money has been determined, from B.C. Hydro in West Arrow Park — Hilton said. toestablish the feedlot for up to40,008 -- One ittea is to use the money to buy cattle one of the lots from B.C. Hydro, he said Although Hilton agreed the goal of the: group is to fight the feedlot proposal, it also has future land sales onits agenda He added that Larry Bell, chairman of B.C. Hydro, will fly in to the West Mommies! LOOKING FOR BARGAINS . . . despite the cool wet weathe: shoppers crowded in’ downtown Castlegar Saturday | in search of good buys during a sidewalk sale put “ws nby downtown merchants. Daddies! They’re Here! 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For further information Jim Waldie 365-5674 or Gerry Kling 365-6978. | it unable to attend, please complete and forward to 1102-7th NAME ADDRESS TELEPHONE SECTION: Beavers Cubs GROUP: Kinnaird © AGE Scouts = Ventures Castlegar i Robson = “One way of stopping the proposal would be purchasing one of the central parcels of land. But there is a number of people for and against it,” Hilton said Sept. 10 is the closing date for bids on the 10 lots which range in size from 12 hectares to 96 hectares and in price from $60,000 to $600,000 Ferry continued from front page to the citizens of our area,”’ the com- mittee writes in its letter to Cariboo media directed at Cariboo voters. In a news release accompanying the letter, the committee says the closure of the ferry service ‘has resulted in our area tax base being degraded far beyond the annual cost of the ferry’s operations. Jobs have been lost Businesses have closed. Perhaps most importantly, Castlegar medical ser. vices and the Castlegar hospital, which by the ferry route was eight minutes away, are now, in.a medical emergen cy, 23 minutes away.” Trafficking charges laid By CasNews Staff Two Winlaw residents were charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking after Creston RCMP seized cocaine with an estimated street value of $2,000 from the car the couple was driving in the Creston area Aug. 28, and RCMP spokesman said. Tony Daniel Kolesnikoff, 32, and Rose-Marie Roberts, 30, were charged after police found 13.4 grams of the drug in a 1989 Chevrolet Cavalier, the spokesman said The couple has been released and are to appear in Creston provincial court Oct. 11 Forest fire situation ‘quiet and wet' By CasNews Staff Although the official end of the forest fire season isn’t until the middle of October, initial attack crews in the August cool and dull By CasNewsStaff Castlegar’s weather in August was cool, wet and dull but the poor con- ditions didn’t break any records, ac- cording to the monthly weather sum- mary from the Castlegar Weather Of- fice. Rain fett on 17 days during the mon- th, just one day short of the record set in 1976. But the total rainfall of 60.3 millimetres was far short of the record 140 mm set in August 1976. Normal for the month is 44.9 mm. The driest August on record was in 1967 when the city escaped with just a trace of rain during the entire month “A series of low pressure areas which dragged slowly across the province gave moist, cool and dull conditions to the southeast corner of B.C.,"" the weather office says in ex- plaining the lack of summer-like weather. However, “Between these systems the occasional ridge of high pressure moved in frofn the Pacific to give near normal August weather,"” the sum- mary adds. The mean maximum and minimum temperatures were well below normal, resulting in a mean monthly tem- perature of 18.5 C, 1.3 degrees below the normal mean. (The monthly mean temperature is derived by adding the daily mean temperatures — the mid- point of the daily maximum and minimum temperatures — for each day of the month and dividing by the number of days in the month.) The hottest day of August was Aug. 6 when the mercury climbed to 35.3 well below the August record of 40 C seton Aug. 18, 1967 Aug. 16 was the coolest day with an overnight temperature of 7.1 C. The record for August is 3.2 C set on Aug 29, 1984. The sun shone for 199 hours in August, almost 21 hours more than the record low of 178.4 hours in 1976 but only 73 per cent of the normal of 271.9 hours for the month. The sunniest August was in 1970 when Castlegar recorded 353hoursof sunshine Arrow Forest District have completed their term, ‘the district's fire infor- mation officer said Friday. With cooler temperatures and scat tered showers, the district hasn't reported any fires in the last two weeks, Ted Evans said. “It’s very quiet and very wet,”” said Evans. ‘*Conditions are low (hazard) right now. We haven't had any light- ning storms for the last little while."’ The Castlegar News was unable to contact forest district officials Satur- day for comment on the effects of Friday night's storm. All fires in the district are out or “*pretty close”’ to being out, he added. In a Ministry of Forests news release, Dave Hames, provincial fire control officer, said three air tanker groups, 70 initial attack crews and four unit crews will be released after the Labor Day weekend. ‘As -fall approaches fewer fiefieniets and less equipment are usually needed to get the job done,”” Hames said in the release. In the Arrow district, the number of fires this year remains at 219. “For a while we thought we would top the 1985 fire total of 240," Evans said. But cooler temperatures have quelled the fire hazard throughout the province. This week, just 28 new fires were reported in the province, the news release said. In the Nelson Forest Region, there were two new fires reported last week and seven fires are still burning. The total number of fires for the region this year now stands at 839, far ahead of last total of 321. Total number of hec- tares burned is listed at 1,792 this year while last year 786 hectares were destroyed by forest fires. Throughout B.C., 63 fires are still burning bringing this year’s total to 3,201 compared to last year’s total for the same period of 1,466 fires. Total area burned in the province is 19,024 hectares, almost three times more than tast year’s total of 6,353 hectares. In memory Aug. 31 atage69. Thomas Deans Thomas Allison McFarlane Russell Deans of Castlegar passed away Mr. Deans was born March 11, 1920, at Killwinning, Scotland and a, Castlégar News September 3, 1989 OPINION Era about to end The end of an eventful era comes to a close Sept. 9 when the downtown SuperValu store in Castlegar closes its doors. Operated by the Ferraro SuperValu chain, the store played a Significant role in the growth of the supermarket giant, \t was opened over 30 years ago with George Wood as its first manager and was the first new store built by the company in what turned out to be a very ambi and highly su ful expansion program. The sister and brother team of Esther Wood and Jimmy Ferraro we 'e the driving forces in the company's development, with sother i incr gly important roles: George Wood, for choneple, took on the management role of store develop- ment after su fully getting the di Castlegar store up and running, He and Esther's son, George Jr., now direct the company from its Calgary-based headquarters with nearly 20 stores throughout hi 1 Alberta and h Local residents, especially older citizens, have not reacted well to the store's closure, particularly because of the manner in which news of the planned closure became public We agree with those who believe the public deserved a better from an adi ly private company, particularly since long-time supporters of any business (the Castlegar News included) assume an almost proprietary interest in the business's continued operation and well-being. Hard business decisions have to be made in today’s hard business world. And paintul as we're sure the decision was to make the Ferraro/Wood families should have recognized the almost traumatic effect the closure would have on the shopping patterns of many dedicated customers, particularly older ones, and should have cushioned the blow in some way. Started by Esther Wood in Annabelle (located between War field and Trail) on Jan. 1, 1940, Ferraro’s SuperValu will be 50 years old at the start of the new decade that is now only 119 days away With nine stores in British Columbia and an almost equal number in Alberta, the company will have many, many years of ser vice to offer present and future generations of shoppers. The company’s slogan, “Your satisfaction is our main con cern,” has been an operational golden rule for this Kootenay-based tirm, and the fact the rule has been bent in spirit, if not in fact, with the method of closure adopted for its historic downtown store shouldn't tarnish its attempts to continue as a friendly series of Stores, offering first-class products at competitive prices and always working to its K y toots and h concerns. 'T.R.' remembered The sudden passing of former Castlegar postmaster T.R (Russell) Deans on Thursday marks the end of an era in Castlegar T.R.”, as he was known to everyone, took over responsibility for the Castlegar post office shortly after the Second World War when the office was located where the Castlegar Medical Associates ‘Clinic now stands. He oversaw the growth of he post office from a small local service to where it expanded (and then expanded yet again) in its present location and became the regional post office tor the West Kootenay area Mr. Deans was postmaster throughout a period when the post office.was truly a public service. Charged with delivering mail and parcels quickly and at reasonable rates, T.R. was looking forward to retirement when the post office began to neglect its primary man date. He was reportedly saddened when the post office started to become a retailer of gimmicks such as toy