ew school enerates excitement December 20, 1989 Castlégar News Christmas cheer Ist C r Girl Guides e dicoff (left) and Mike Plotnikoff and fellow 8 J idents of the extended care unit at the Castlegar Hospital on Monday night with a variety of traditional Christmas carols. fh Socreds hope Vander Zalm ¢ backers will attend VANCOUVER (CP) — A regional director of the Social Credit party said he hopes 10,000 people will attend a rally next week their ap: preciation for Premier Bill Vander Zalm. Art Thronhill is inviting anyone who appreciates the effort the premier puts into his job to come to Fantasy Gar dens, the garden theme park owned by Vander Zalm’s wife Gillian, on Dec to show “Thornhill, director of the party's region 4, which includes Delta, the Fraser Valley and Richmond, said Tuesday he came up with the idea because the premier has had a rough year and his friends wanted to show their sympathy “He hasn’t had a great deal of gratifying events,"" Thornhill said."*He’s had difficulty with the press and difficulty with trying to achieve success at the polls in the byelections “It just seems to be the harder he tries, the behinder he gets.”” He denied that the rally is an effort to show the public that the premier has lots of support or that it is an effort to persuade Vander Zalm to stay on as premier in the wake of his party’s sixth byelection defeat Dec.13 Vander Zalm has said he will tell British Columbians in a television ad- dress in January what his future is in politics. Thornhill said he strongly doubts the premier plans to resign NOT POLITICAL Thornhill, a longtime friend of the premier, said it isn't going to be a political rally with people waving ban- ners. Instead, people can tour Fantasy Gardens in suburban Richmond from 9a.m. to9 p.m. and meet the premier if he is available “It’s a visit between friends of Bill Vander Zalm.”* Thornhill is organizing the rally himself. He said the party has not been involved with co-ordinating the event BILL VANDER ZALM . welcomes support rally and he hasn't even told Vander Zalm about it yet Hope Rust, Social Credit Party president, said 10,000 people would be alot to cram into Fantasy Gardens and poor weather could keep many from showing But |\she said even if the turnout falls short of Thornhill’s expectations, it shouldn't damage the premier’s career Thornhill said he’s confident of a big turnout “I think there is a tremendous num- ber of people looking for some way to show support.” Vander Zalm said today he'll take support wherehe can get it “‘Listen, all the support, whether it’s as I said, from colleagues, ordinary people or my friends in the media, it’s welcome,"’ he sai The only problem, Vander Zalm said, is that Fantasy Gardens can’t hold 10,000 people\ Police file By CasNews Staff Slippery roads have caused a spate of traffic accidents in the area over the last couple of days, RCMP report On Monday, CasNews reporter Claudette Sandecki received facial cuts, a broken nose, some loose teeth and a bruised knee when she lost con trol of the company van on Highway 6 about one-half mile south of College briefs College to hire architects Selkirk Collegg will hire an architectural firm at an estimated cost of Passmore, Nelson RCMP said Although police said they aren’t cer tain what caused the accident, a Nelson RCMP spokesman said today San decki, 23, may have tried to over correct her steering when she felt the 1981 Ford Econoline van. slipping while rounding a curve Police said the van left the highway and rolled intoa ditch Sandecki was taken by ambulance to Castlegar Hospital where she was treated and held overnight for obser- vation. She was r¢leased Tuesday. The van isa write-off In other news, 32-year-old Georgina Uyeda of Robson suffered minor in juries when she lost control of her 1986 Ford Bronco on the icy road surface of the Hugh Keenleyside dam, at about 12:30 p.m. Monday, Castlegar RCMP said. The crash caused extensive damage to the vehicle, police said Robert Goudreau, 70, received minor injufles when ,the 1890 Chevrolet € Ne he was driving went out of contrdl And left the road near the Highway ¥A exit on to Highway 3 at approximately 8:17 a.m. Monday, Castlegar RCMP said Goudreau was taken by ambulance to Castlegar Hospital “northern B.C, By BEV CHRISTENS! Prince George Citizen PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — The the delivery of college courses in the northeast,” he said. Walsh said the residents of the area news a will be estab in is being greeted with relief, excitement and hope for the future — with one notable exception. The board of Northern Lights College, which has campuses in Fort St. John and Dawson Creek, recently withdrew its support for the northern university. Bruce Strachan, minister of advan- ced education and member of the B.C. legislature from Prince George South, announced in early December a university in northern B.C. will be built. He said details would follow Jan. 9 Although it’s never been formally announced, it’s been understood the main campus of a northern university would be in Prince George. Fort St. John Mayor Pat Walsh said the Northern Lights board is concer- ned that establishing a university with its main campus in Prince George may detract from the delivery of. college programs to the two Peace River communities SUPPORTS SCHOOL Walsh has been a director of the In- terior University Society since its in- ception. He said he personally suppor. ts the university. However, like other Peace River residents, he fears once it's established the new university will ignore northern needs. “*Remember, we feel about Prince George the way Prince George feels about the Lower Mainland, and that is justifiable because Prince George is a major centre. “So people are thinking this will be a Prince George university at the cost of want to be the new university will not abandon the regional concept which has always been a major part of the society's proposal. IUS president Roy Stewart of Prince George also expressed concern about the need to enshrine the regional con- cept of the new university in its mission: statement. ‘‘We must ensure it’s driven to structuring itself to serve the region by an immutable statement protecting one of the cornerstones of the society's strength which is our regional basis of support.”” Stewart also said the society is anxious to see whether the legislation creating the new university ensures it will be treated as an equal of B.C.’s three existing universities NEW KID ON BLOCK? “It is fair to say the three existing universities are very powerful_in’ ex: pressing their opinions and influencing the government, and they may regard the new university as a fledgling or not a member of the club and over time could influence the government to treat it differently.” Stewart said he’s optimistic the new university would be given the mandate the society had asked for and the resources to carry it out. ‘I’m con fident the new university will be a powerful lever for the economy up here and will lead to an influx of people, change the spending patterns and the demographics, and alter the cultural and social infrastructure,’’ he said The mayors of communities in the area mirrored Stewart's optimism Wayling gets endorsement By CasNews Staff Castlegar school district superin- tendent Terry Wayling has received a ringing endorsement from the Castlegar school board and the com- aluation of h munity at large in an term in that position In the evaluation, which solicits the opinions of teachers, parents, support staff, the media and members of the community, it was recommended that Wayling’s term of office be extended two years. “It was felt that when you looked at him (Wayling) in totality that he was doing a commendable job,’ said trustee Mickey Kinakin who presented the report's findings to the board Monday Kinakin ministrators are said all senior ad subject to the evaluation every twe years TERRY WAYLING term extended LAURIE ITCUSH Castlegar News TREET TALK LAURIE ITCUSH, daughter of Larry and Bobbie Itcush of Castlegar, is currently interning in Regina, Sask., and will compete the two-year family medicine GARY BASSON WENDY BASSON Squadron, Castlegar. He is now posted at the Canadia.. Forces Base in Calgary PTE. WENDY BASSON recently graduated from basic training at Canadian Forces Base in Cornwallis, N.S. She will be pursuing a career in oceanography and will be posted in Shellborne, N.S. She is also a former member of the No. 581 Air Cadets Squadron. CASTLEGAR’S PARATRANSIT SERVICE will operate on extended hours during the holiday season program at the Plains Health Centre. Itcush: from the University of B.C. school of medicine in June. 2ND LT. GARY BASSON. recently graduated from Le College Militaire Royal De Saint-Jean in Quebec with a bachelor's-degree in administration Basson is a former Castlegar resident and former mem ber of the No. $81 Royal Canadian Air Cadets and through Jan. 2, Castlegar Ald. Marilyn Mathieson said. The hours of service will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mathieson also encouraged residents to continue calling to request the HandyDart bus even if it’s unavailable at the time requested because the calls are logged and the statistics can be used to lobby for extra 2 At Your Christmas WIN AN 11-15 LB. TURKEY GRADE: ‘A’ EACH WEEK TILL XMAS. hours during other times of thé year Cities alarmed by liability ruling OTTAWA (CP) Municipal lawyers are slowly digesting a recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling on public liability, calling it an alarming decision that could cost municipalities millions The court ruled Dec that the St John’s, Nfld., Metropolitan Area Board will have to pay homeowners Neiland Linda Tock $13,456.11 bill The amount is compensation for damage done when one of the worst rainfalls of the century in the city backed sewage into their basement Oct. 10, 1981 The city wasn’t found negligent The sewer system met all standards and was cleaned regularly. It was just, as the city said, that it would have cost millions to build a system that could ~ about ayearago?”* hstand the-hea that-h rh from Claire L basis, the city lost which, ratepayers of interview Justices Antonio *Heureux-Dube Wilson concluded that as a result, the the city was on the same footing as anyone else being sued for damages dan done a neighbor’s property ‘ Most people|would cheer the Tocks Why should one family face a $13,500 shared amount to pennies. Jim Knight, executive director of the Federation of Canadian Municipali- ties, says it isn’t that simple CITES STORM “It’s alarming,” Knight said in an “Can you imagine the cost for the terrible rainstorm in Montreal Lamer and because the province gave St option of building the system, the city must pay On this realistic option? I find that very con- among the John’s, would liability is quite staggering, isn’t it?” City of Toronto, says judgments were following the direc Tock case. “*The Tock case was the one ray of hope we had,” Newfoundland Court of Appeal, going against the grain of the Ontario Knight questions the conclusion that John's sewer for the Does this mean the city has the op- tion of not having sewers? Is this a fusing and very troubling, and the Morris Wiener, legal counsel to the Ontario tion taken by the Supreme Court in the Wiener said. The ‘In memory John’s that afternoon Under the old defence of statutory authority, the city would have been in the clear. But the Supreme Court ruled that the defence didn’t apply in the Tock case because the Newfoundland “It was just law authorizing sewer construction was “‘permissive."" “It authorized a sewage system to be constructed but did not specify how or where it was to be done,”’ said Madam Justice Bertha Wilson, with support niture. Asin St engineer for e 2 stores and residences, John's, Knight points.out, there was no negligence by the city a once-in-a-century rainfall that you because the cost of engineering for a once-in-a-century rainfall is simply astronomical “Nobody engineers for these wildly extreme cases because of the cost.”” Think of the Home for f—] 69 —- COMPLIMENTARY COFFEE ANO cadres —_— CHRISTMAS STORE HOURS: THURSDAY, DEC. 21 AND FRIDAY, DEC. 22.9 A.M. M., MONDAY & TUESDAY, DEC. 25 & 26 (Gimsimas & BOXING DAYS) CLOSED. Y,9A.M.-4P SATURDAY, 9 A.M.-6 P.M Coutrol Foods ; YOUR COMMUNITY AWARD WINNING FOOD STORE 2717 Columbia Ave., Castlegar BUSINESS HOURS Mon Wed. & Sat 9a.m.toep.m Thurs. & Fri 9am. to9p.m Tues WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES, SO CO Ps GOR FS OE