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Castlegar News

UNDAY

Get out yor raincoo

Highs 7-9.
showers. Chane

Vol. 39, No. 94

WEATHERCAST

t. Chance of precipitation

today is 100 per cent as the weather office calls
for rain, with snow at times at higher elevations.

will be cloudy with a few
precipitation is 60 per cent.

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1986

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2 Sections (A & B)

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greet Mila Mulroney ‘and ‘Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco during a student

RETURNS TO CASTLEGAR

Mulroney keeps promise

By CHERYL CALDERBANK
Staff Writer

Mila Mulroney fulfilled her promise
Thursday by returning to Castlegar
and was a hit with local residents.

Mulroney's visit to Castlegar earlier
this year was cancelled when over
prevented her flight
from landing. At that time she prom
ised she would make another attempt
to visit the Kootenay West riding

While husband, Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney, was in Vancouver at
tending the first ministers’ conference,
Mila flew to Castlegar where she met
school children and attended a public
luncheon, then visited the Colombo
Lodge in Trail

Mulroney's first stop on her arrival
shortly after 11 a.m. was Castlegar
Primary school. Mulroney and her en
tourage were welcomed at the school
by the Stanley Humphries secondary
school stage band.

Mulroney, was accompanied by
Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco, was
presented with flowers by a group of

cast conditions

students upon entering the school.
Dressed in black, she then went from
classroom to classroom, greeting
youngsters with her contagious smile.

Mulroney then proceeded to the
school gym where representatives of
various ethnic groups were on hand
sipping tea and coffee poured from
silver pots.

There Mulroney, standing amongst
the crowd, listened as the young
students sang a couple of songs for her.
ineluding an original number about
“Mrs. Mulroney.”

She said later she was “very touch
ed” by the song written especially for
her

Mulroney, who is supportive of the
government's multicultural policies
and efforts, also mingled with the
crowd, meeting people of different

SPECIAL GIFT . . . Terry Rogers.

principal of Twin Rivers/Castlegor

primary, with Mila Mulroney just after the prime minister's wife was

presented with gift from student

ethnic origins, some of whom were
dressed in traditional costumes.

Mulroney was presented with a
number of gifts during the assembly in
the gym. John Voykin of the Castlegar
Multicultural Society gave her a
Russian ladle while Colin Pryce pre
sented her with a photograph of a
painting of his portraying a dove on a
Canadian maple leaf.

The USCC youth choir, led by Paul
Samsonoff also entertained with spiri
tual and folk songs and gave Mulroney
a record album of their music.

Mulroney, who immigrateé from

CosewsProte

Yugoslavia, said she understood almost
everything the choir sang.

Speaking at a luncheon later in the
day attended by about 135 people,
Mulroney said that in her travels
across the country she is often asked
what the wife of a prime minister does.

“That's an interesting question,”
Mulroney said, noting that there is no
such thing as a role for the prime
minister's wife

“One day there might be a husband
of a prime minister and he will do what
he wants with it,” Mulroney said to the

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bly Thursday in Castlegar primary schoo! gymnasium

CosNewsPho

Local Grits
support
Turner

By RON NORMAN
E

or

Federal Liberal Leader John Taner
will have the support of all eight
Kootenay West delegates and alter
nates to the party's national convention
next weekend in (Ottawa, a Castlegar
delegate said this week

Nick Oglow said he plans to vote
against a leadership review when the
question is asked at the convention.

“My answer will certainly be no,”
Ogiow said in an interview, adding, “I
expect our entire delegation will be of
the same opinion.”

Kootenay West will send two dele
gates from Rossland, two from Trail
and two from Nelson, in addition to
Ogiow and his wife, Shirley, who will
be an alternate

Oglow says he’s supporting Turner
even though he backed Chretien during
the 1984 Liberal leadership race, be
cause he believes Turner can hold the
country together

“For the unity of Canada
representing Vancouver
couver riding, and is also well known in
Quebec,” said Castlegar
alderman.

Oglow fears that if
dumped, a Quebec Liberal will take
over the helm of the party and that
could send the
ation.”

Ogiow also said Turner has been a
good leader

“He's done a good job,
adding that he is “quite confident
Liberals can win an
Turner as leader

“This is the wrong time
change horses in mid-stream,

Turner is
and a Van

Oglow, a

Turner is

country “into separ

Ogiow said
the
election with
you don't

he said

$1m still missing
from pyramid scheme

By The Canadian Press

Nearly $1 million is still missing
from the pyramid scheme operated
by Dixie Dee Powers, Crown
counsel Dana Urban said this week.

Urban said the Crown believes at
least $3,510,000 was collected —
$3,203,000 in the West Kootenay,
$103,000 in Vancouver, $171,000 in
Edmonton and Calgary, $5,000 in
Moose Jaw, Sask. and $28,000 in the
United States.

Paybacks included $1,552,000 in
the West Kootenay, $38,000 in

* Vancouver and $6,091 in Edmonton
and Calgary. Powers and her
partners handled $2,812,000 after
brokers’ commissions.

“We believe $236,484 went to
Powers and to the individuals in the
U.S.,” said Urban, adding that
$957,000 is still missing.

Urban said the missing money
might have gone to the U.S. as cash.
Two men were stopped at the

border with a suitease full of cash
but were allowed to continue be-
cause there was no legal reason to
detain them at the time,

Urban said brokers acting for
Powers collected the méney in
$1,000 increments ranging from
$1,000 to $5,000. The brokers
pocketed a 20 per cent commission
and issued what they called a tax

Powers still faces two counts of
fraud and a count of failing to
appear in court in connection with
the 16-month operation that began
in Las Vegas and stretched as far
east as Moose Jaw.

Problems

plague
CKUBH

By MIKE KALESNIKO
Staff Writer

The problem-plagued Central Koot
enay Union Board of Health is still
trying to confirm a finaf meeting date
for the year after Thursday's scheduled
afternoon meeting was cancelled when
a quorum of 13 members could not be
confirmed.

Difficulties ranging from the actual
area the CKUBH must encompass geo
graphically, to impractical scheduled
meeting hours were cited as reasons
for the cancellation

Dr. Monty Arnott, CKUBH secre
tary, told the Castlegar News Thurs
day that highway conditions led to the
cancellation

It’s because of the road conditions,”
said Arnott. “The ice and snow on the
roads prevented people from coming
into Castlegar from Nakusp.”

Arnott explained that the 25.mem
ber board needs at least a quorum of 13
before a legitimate meeting can be
held.

Arnott, who
time a meeting

said this is the second
had been cancelled.
explained that he was only able to
confirm 12 members for the meeting
Board members have requested that at
least 15 or 16 members be confirmed
prior to each meeting

Following the forced amalgamation
of the West Kootenay Union Board of

Health and the Selkirk Union Board of
Health in 1984, the CKUBH is now
made up of members from as far away
as Kaslo, Nelson, Nakusp, Midway and
even Greenwood, who must attend
meetings in Castlegar.

Wally Penner, Regional District of
Central Kootenay representative to
the CKUBH, suggests splitting the
health board as a solution to the size
problem

“The board is just too large,” said
Penner. “People have to drive too far
and it isn't workable. It's just too big.

Penner also added that the board is
now riddied with apathy

“There doesn't seem to be an
interest.” he said. “It's quite obvious
when they are unable to get a quorum

Penner said a lack of continuity in
scheduled meeting dates and continu
ally changing faces in the membership
only add to the board's problems.

“There are so few meetings and
different people appointed every year
he said. “They just don't get a chance
to grasp everything

“I would support splitting it (the
union) in two,” said Penner. “This
(amalgamation) was supposed to be a
trial thing.”

Penner said that Arnott himself is
also under fire from some members of
the board for serving as both medical

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Bus system begins
operating Monday

By CasNews Staff
residents
the
ng Monday
Regional
ts first day of

Castlegar will get
their first chance
work, school and
morning as the (
Transit System begins
operation

The bus wil! start to roll through
Castlegar at 7 a.m. and will serve the
city's residential a
as well as nearby Robson, Raspberry
Brilliant, Blueberry and parts of Ootis
chenia

We are pleased t
ing up so promptly after the system
was approved,” Mayor Audrey Moore
said this week in a prepared statement

“It will be a convenience for shop

area
to ride bus to
shopp

astlegar

commercial areas.

he service is start

pers, some people going to work. senior
citizens and especially for Selkirk Col
lege students.”

Regular fares are 65 cents for adults

and 50 cents for students up to Grade
12 and seniors. Children under five ac
companied by an adult ride free. Fare
is exact coin fare; the driver carries no
change

Tickets are available at a saving of $1
on a sheet of 20 tickets. Adult tickets
are 20 for $12; seniors and students pay
$9 for 20 tickets. Tickets are available
at Carl's. Drugs, Pharmasave Drugs.
city hall and Selkirk College

Registered full-time students at Sel
kirk College can purchase 20 tickets for
a special rate of $10, available only at
the college

Timetables for the new service have
been mail dropped to households in the
area. For those who have not received
a timetable, they will be available on
the bus. at the ticket outlets and at city
hall.

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