September 17, 1989 «2_Castlegar News Fundraising drive underway Ww Ws 5 ee ; ‘ The Castlegar and District United Way kicked off its annual fundra with a flurry of activi eyes the bargains at the Castlegar library's book sal. Service in Castl pancake breakfast. costews photos by sonore: ing drive Saturday s at the Community Complex. Clockwise from top left: sigue: Dan Laktin (left) of the Provincial checks the blood pressure of 14-year-old Matt Scott; a drop of blood wanders the halls of the Complex and a group of youngsters enjoys the CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF Feedlot continued from front page switch its bid to another lot that ha return the money that has been c re And if the group decides there is n residents from a bidder on the land, COWS will disband she said But the group wil n if unsol block and COWS proble wit Gustafson added A decision on awarding lar couver over the next few week Cuthill said a bylaw to limit animals on property in Area K — whi Arrow Park land — has been appr Municipal Affairs and a second bylaw densities for animals, is being prepared The RDCK passed the first, more ots go back on the which had to be approved by the ministry to take effect feedlot proposal became public, although Cuthill said at the time the bylaw was not aimed at just weeks after the the cattle company Cuthill said Friday he has asked the RDCK board to hold off on the second bylaw until he has met with the residents of Area K and determined if they are satisfied with the terms of the proposed regulations. another bidder, The bylaw, as it now reads, states that ‘‘no person, or »wner, shall keep the combined total of all animals at a den made in Van y greater than two animal units per hectare Recommendations for density levels came from the 1umber of domestic Ministry of Agriculture, Cuthill said udes the West The bylaw also includes a ‘table of mal units ne Ministry of which list cows and horsesjas one unit each, goats as .14 et the actual units and rabbits as .025 units A meeting with Area K residents will likely take place al bylaw in October, Cuthill said Judge continued from front page junction does not permit any work o' the area near the archeological Sit Evans | when the unctions a “back in court additional should be available to the judge ir form of a sworn affidavit from Kootenay archeologist Wayn Choquette The attorney general had said Choquette could not file an affidavi on the situation since the archeok Hearing date set By CasNews Staff Five adults charged with five count of, marijuana cultivation have elected to be tried by judge and jury and will in Nakusp provincial court Oct. 18 to set a date for a preliminary hearing, a Nakusp courthou pokesman said Friday William, Elizabet, Robert -Hockman and Loring, allrelated, appeared Thurs‘lay wan but entered no plea, the spokes said who has been hired by the Ministry of ROMP Drug plants in treet value of $236,000 at maturity, Valerie and using Deborah — tworesidences, the RCMP said while an alternate rdute for the road is considered and the courts deal with the band ways to be on site during the road to prevent any uncovered sland claim facts from being destroyed is un: ontract to the provincial gover ment, Evans said But last week the attorney general's lawyer saw a copy of the affidavit and Wa ter go-ahead, Choquette the continued from front page Koftinoff, through his lawyer, Friday he and Petro-Canada do not believe the sign caused the leak “Petro-Canada takes the utmost care to ensure no danger is ans said The native people want all work on in a statement released oad past their burial site prevented Anne Jones, said always done to property when it installs any The five were charged after Nakusp facility and it is certain none was done isted by the Nelson RCMP here,” seized 742 marijuana “Petro-Canada advised Mrs. Chat ten last July that if she had any eviden ce their actions had caused her damage they would be completely prepared to repair it but no evidence was ever produced to them “The old water line is apparently Mr. Koftinoff is the statement says ction, Edgewood July 21 with a RCMP said The plants were seized after police earch warrants, investigated beyond repair Police found three hydroponic prepared to negotiate with Mrs. Chat growing rooms and two fields of the ten for a release of an easement she has over his property Council eyes changes to community plan By SIMON BIRCH Editor Castlegar city council has taken the first step in a process that will pave the way for commercial development of both sides of Columbia Avenue from 20th Street north to the Highway 3 in terchange At its meeting last Tuesday, council introduced proposed amendments to community plan designation of the city’s which change the several properties in the area to “‘ser vice commercial’’ from the existing single-family residential designation would also change vacant property behind the Castlegar Chamber-of Commerce of A second amendment fice to service commercial from the current designation of parks, recreation and institutional Ald. Albert Calderbank, chairman of council's planning and development committee, said future rezoning of the properties must legally conform to the city’s community plan, which he described in an interview Thursday as a kind of **crystal ball’? the nature of development which predicts n saying in the crystal ball, down the road the area will eventually become commercial,"’ Calderbank said, referring to the properties along Columbia Avenue Calderbank told council that Turbo Resources Ltd. has filed a Tuesday formal application to build a bulk fuel facility on two vacant lots immediately south of the Sandman Inn Asa result of Turbo's interest in the introduced property, council also proposed amendments to the com. munity plan to add to one dection of the plan ‘‘bulk fuel sates and distribution (underground tanks only).”* As well, council introduced amen dments to the city’s zoning bylaw which would require owners of such facilities to “visually and audibly” screen the operations from adjacent residential areas. The amendments facilities should be screened board fence, solid wall, berm or other form of screening not state that the *byatight landscaped less than 1.8 metres in height and ap. proved by the city engineer.” As for Turbo's application to build a bulk fuel facility, Calderbank said “‘there’s no way” the city will allow the company to use surface fuel tanks, hence the refegence to. underground tanks in the community plan and the zoning bylaw amendments He said coupcil will likely impose several other conditions if it decides to allow a bulk fuel facility in the area Court news In Castlegar provincial court, Corey Duncan Clifford pleaded guilty to driving over 30 kilometres an hour ina school zone and was fined $150. Marlene Gaye Parkin pleaded guilty to driving without due care and atten tion and was fined $200. Todd Posnikoff was fined than 30 Brian $150 for driving kilometres an hour in a school zone more James Pongracz pleaded guilty: to causing a disturbance in or near a public place and was fined $150 or, in default, five days in jail Edward Stephen Elliot Still pleaded guilty to possession of stolen property and was fined $500 or, in default, 30 days in jail Scott Blaine € man pleaded guilty to driving white impaired and was fined $400 or, in default, 21 days in jail Terrance John Strelioff pleaded guilty to driving with a blood alcohol reading over .08 and Was fined $900 or, in default, 45 days in jail. Strelioff also pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and was fined $100. Kevin Allen Birch was fined $300 for driving without due care and attention and will be prohibited from driving for three months Kevin Travis Salikin was fined $35 for driving without a seatbelt Randall Ryan Renz, assault, was charged with conditional discharge and two days’ probation. given a Katherine Street, with fraud, was given-a suspended sentence charged and 18 months’ probation with con ditions September 17, 1989 Castlegar News A3 Briefly Copper mine talks break off KAMLOOPS (CP) — Talks aimed at ending a 10-week strike at the Highland Valley copper mine have broken off Mediator Vince Ready said the company and the United Steelworkers-of America are far apart On (he main issues Of Wages and contracting out Talks collapsed early Friday after wo days of negotiations. About 1,100 steelworkers have been off the job at the open-pit cop. per mine near Logan Lake in the B.C. Interior for 72 days. Reagan well after surgery LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former U.S. president Ronald Reagan, in good spirits after skull surgery in Minnesota, tipped his cap to well wishers on his way home to California and perhaps inadvertently showed off his half-shaved head His wife Nancy rubbed the shaved side of Reagan's head Friday as he waved the Minnesota Twins baseball cap he was wearing when the couple boarded a private jet in Rochester, Minn. Beaming ear-to-ear, the 78-year-old showed no other signs of the surgery he underwent to drain fluid that built up on his brain following in juries suffered after falling off a horse in July East Germany rejects reform FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) — East Germany’s hard-line leadership acknowledges that the exodus of skilled workers to the West will hurt economy but rejects calls for reform that would encourage citizens to stay Hundreds more refugees arrived in West Germany Saturday, con founding expectations that the stream of people would slow to atrickte af ter the initial wave earlier this week Officials said Friday that about 14,000 refugees had arrived since midnight Sunday night, when Hungary decided to empty its crowded refugee camps by opening its border with Austria and allowing the East Germans to leave without their government's permission Refugees may come to Canada VANCOUVER (CP) — The main German-Canadian umbrella organization wants to help refugees from East Germany come to Canada The group will negotiate with the federal government to bring some of an estimated 316,000 East Germans and people of Germani ancestry who have flooded into West Germany this year, says a spokesman for the Germ ‘Canadian Congress. The agency is also hoping to enlist the support of Premier Bill Vander Zalm, Klaus Fuerniss, president of the B,C: region of the congress, said Deng appears in public BEIJING (AP) — Deng Xiaoping appeared in public today for the first time in more than three months, meeting a professor from the United States at the Great Hall of the People Xinhua news agency said China’s 85-year-old senior leader met T.D Lee, professor of physics at Columbia University It gave no detaits Deng had last been seen publicly June 9, when he met military of ficers and praised'their actions in leading troops into the city June 3-4 to crush pro-reform demonstrations Since then, Chinese and foreign sources have reported Deng was seriously ill with prostate cancer and may not have long to live Gag order slapped on Gabor BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The judge in Zsa Zsa Gabor’s cop-slapping trial ordered the outspoken celebrity to quit talking to the news media in defiance of a gag order “I will make a warnin this," municipal court Judge Charles Rubin told Gabor “You are to say to the press, ‘No comment The judge's warning, after a contempt of court request from a Prosecutor, was based on earlier statements by Gabor The former Hungarian beauty queen told reporters she should have scratched motarcycle cop Paul Kramer’ s eyes out “TL think that cop is not too bright,’ Gabor said. ‘*I think he must be very spoiled because he’s very sexy. He’s gorgeous, He’s'sexy, but I don’t like that man.”” but this will be the first and last time I say End to Soviet rule called for MOSCOW (Reuter) — The parliament of the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, bowing to pressure from the local Popular Front, voted early Saturday for an end to Moscow rule over the disputed territory of Nagor no-Karabakh, local journalists said The front is the driving force behind a current campaign for g political and economic autonomy for the republic A compromise resolution passed ‘after heated debate called for the dissolution of a Kremlin commission set up in January to run the territory, which has a largely Armenian population, and reassertion of direct con trol by Azerbaijani authorities The Armenian majority in Nagorno-Karabakh wants the territory to be transferred from Azerbaijan to the neighboring Soviet republic of Ar ater menia South Africa relaxes rules JOHANNESBURG (Reuter-CP) — President-elect F.W. de Klerk has raised hopes of accelerated reform by relaxing long-standing controls on dissent and allowing protest marches in South Africa’s three largest cities. Anti-apartheid campaigner Frank Chikane said the government had undergone a change of heart by allowing an unprecedented march by 10,000 demonstrators in Johannesburg Friday “*L believe it’s not just ac added Chikane, protest organizer and general secretary of the South African Council of Churches. e of heart but a case of facing reality,” Probe opponents plan action WASHINGTON (AP) — Opponents of a nuclear-powered probe to Jupiter set for launch next month plan legal action and demonstrations to try to stop the mission, warning a Challenger-like Earth’satmosphere with President George Bush’s sci ecident could poison ‘the nfOsttOxic substance in the universe. "* ¢ adviser approved on Friday the Oc tober launch of a nuclear-powered probe to Jupiter D. Allan Bromley authorized the launch and told Bush before the president left for a weekend at Camp David, Md., said White House spokesman Alixe Reed Earlier, Chief of Staff John Sununu said Bush was going to sign it but he apparently was mistaken, Reed said Approval by either the president or Bromley was needed before the Galileo space which gets its electricity from two generators, can be sent into deep space from space shuttle Atlantis probe, nuclear The mission, scheduled to begin Oct. 12, will be the first time hucle: power has been carried on the shuttle. Opponents are preparing a lawsuit in U.S. federal court to stop the mission and Bruce Gagnon, a leader in the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice, said “we are going to attempt to enter the launch area and sit on the launch pad.” NASA estimates that the probability of having a launch accident that results in the release of plutonium into the atmosphere is one in 2,800 and that the number of deaths from such a release is less than one. Hospital receives expansion funds By CasNews Staff The Castlegar and District Hospitat's-expansion-plans_are ready to go to tender after the Regional District. 6f Central Kootenay board approved $3.7 million in funding at the last RDCK meeting, hospital ad ministrator Ken Talaricos d The funding, shared with the provincial government which takes responsibility for providing 60 per cent of the financing, will build a new 35 bed intermediate care and 25-bed ex- tended care facility, Talarico said A new dietary department will also be constructed to serve the new facility as wellas the existing hospital, he said The RDCK also approved $135,000 of regional district funds for movable equipment which Talarico said in cludes furniture and beds. The entire cost of the. project, in cluding expenses such as architectural planning, is $4.9 million, ded Talarico ad- Tenders will go out this week, he said, and bids will be called for in about four weeks. The project is slated to start in early November and will take about 12 mon: ths tocomplete, Talarico said UP APOLE. lines which hg said wi Council supports— Ul move objection By CasNews Staff Castlegar city council has agreed to support Trail city council’s objection to the federal Ministry of Em ployment’s decision to move the Processing of unemployment insuran. ce claims to Nelson from Trail “I think people who make these decisions don’t realize the geography involved,"* said Castlegar Ald. Terry Rogers Ald. Albert Calderbank noted that Castlegar, “‘after a great deal of fort,” has finally got a bus service con nection to Trail, a service which could bedefh astlegar residents who need to usdtthe UI office in Trail As_well, Castlegarmay-soon-have toll-free telephone service to Trail if B.C. Tel’s customers in Castlegar ap- prove of the. service in balloting scheduled to start Sept. 25 However, would still Castlegar long distance apply to charges Nelson from In a letter to Castlegar council, Mayor Marc Marcolin of Trail says removing the clainis processing fun. ction from Trail “will result in the closure of the Trail Unemployment In surance office, the loss of 10 jobs to the Greater Trail area, and the resulting loss of service to.our citizens.” Marcolin says Trail council wants the federal government to rescind the decision” **at the moment.” earliest” possible OTEU ratifies new agr Members of the Technical Employees’ Gas have collective agreement, release says The 487 OTEU members at B.C Gas had been negotiating for their first collective agreement since Office and Union at B.C ratified a new two-year an OTEL news te last year after Inland Natural Gas took over B.C. Hydro’s Gas operations. The union represents three workers at the B.C. Gas office in€ astlegar The new agreement provides wage increases up to 8.3 per cent and an in tegrated wage scale covering the for mer employees of the gas division of B.C. Hydro and the Inland group, the OTEU says former Exxon ends cleanup VALDEZ, Alaska (AP) On a sun-drenched day, Exxon pulled out its cleanup crews for the winter and the state announced its own plan to protect fish hatcheries and untainted areas from the Exxon Valdez oil spill “It’s a nice day for the first day of winter, isn't it?"’ Gov said Friday before he announced the state's plans for the equivalent of'a $25 million Cdn program “to continue cleanup work left by Exxon. But for that bit of sarcasm, Cowper Steve Cowper was conciliatory toward the oil com responsible for the March 24 tanker wreck that left 41 million litres of crude oil in Prince William Sound The governor thanked the thousan- pany ds of workers who helped scrub the « fouled shorelines, proclaiming Friday Oil Spill Workers Appreciation Day in Alaska Exxon pulled the crews out Friday, g Alaska’s carly makes continuing field work too risky sayi winter “1 think Exxon has made a good faith effort to clean-up the beaches I'm not going to fault They made some mistakes Cowper said Exxon here and, frankly, some of the things the state had done were mistakes: eement One of the main OTEL had been to, ensure wage parity for the groups. B.C Gas was formed when the sold B.C. Hydro gas operations to Inland Natural Gas Other highlights provements in contracting concerns two-merged-emptoyee overnment include im out protec tiofi, job selection, job security and an improved be says. B.C all temporary job vacancies. RCMP say fake bills are in area By CasNews Staff The Castlegar RCMP wants to alert efits package, the union Gas has also agreed to post local store owners to a man and woman in the area who are passing counterfeit American $20 bills, an RCMP news release says The couple pass the fake bills by purchasing small items and receiving change in Canadian currency, the release says The police have received 14 reports of the counterfeit money so far and are encouraging store owners to report any American $20 bills they receive The RCMP is investigating the in cidents Lottery numbers The following win g number was drawn in Thursday's lottery B.C. KENO— 12, 13, 17, 18, 29, 35, 36 and 49. The following winning numbers were drawn in Wednesday's lotteries. 49 — 3,7, 15,17, 41, 43 The four Extra winning 72, 74,7 Bonus numbers for B.C. were and 82. The jackpot of $4,229,810 goes to the holder of a single ticket bought in Quebec B.C. KENO — 5, 16, 21, 22, 39, 40. 44and 48 These numbers, provided by The Canadian Press, must_be considered unofficial - + @B.C, Tel employee, who declined to give his name splices telephone give better phone service to Blueberry. peeve Council briefs Trucks voted off 6th Avenue Truck drivers will have to stay on Columbia Avenue when travelling to and from the commercial area along 6th Avenue after Castlegar city council voted to prohibit trucks from using 6th Avenue between 24th Street and 27th Street And all drivers will have to slow down fottowing council's approval of a posted 30-kilometre-per-hour playground zone on 6th Avenue bet ween 20th street and the south end of the apartment block north of 22nd Street The restrictions were hammered out after council met with residents of the area and with commecial property owners in two separate meetings in August However, complaints have been raised that the commercial property owners didn’t receive sufficient advance notice of the meeting The prohibition of trucks on 6th Avenue will not apply to drivers of trucks making deliveries in the area, council said.» Dam impact report to be made Council has expanded the mandate of its Advisory Planning Com mission to include a report on the probable impact of the Murphy Creek Hydro gives the green light to that project on the Columbia River north of Trail dam on Castlegar in the event B.C Rezoning hearing will be held Council will hold a public hearing Sept. 26 at 6:30 p.m. in council. chambers on an application to rezone property at 661 - Sth Ave. to multi family residential from rural The property the area along the Columbia River between Inland Gas Patk and Zucker berg Island used as an illegal dumping ground for household garbage ar commonly known as the Geronazzo property — is in other refuse Ald. Albert Calderbank, development committee chairman of council's planning and said the property owners plan to build ‘some form of apartments"’ on the site but have not given any details of the proposal The pla that area if we could get something done,’ nning committee felt this would be a great improvement in Calderbank said. Manager invited to meeting Council will invite Roy Helmkay, the new manager of Westar Tim ber’s Southern Wood Products sawmill in Castlegar, to a council meeting sometime in th¢ next month The purpose of the invitation is “just a nice, friendly introduction’ for Helmkay to plans," Ald Helmkay took over from former manager Wade Zammit remains with Westar in the company’s Vancoiiver office where give him 15 minutes to outline some of his goals and Terry Rogers said Zammit on Sept. § he is involved in developing products and marketing opportunities for the company throughout the world Council approves WINS grant Council approved a grant of $1$0 to Trail’s Women in Need Society (WINS) to help the organization with the operational expenses of its Transition House ‘I's one of the services they provide that’s not duplicated in Castlegar,”’ said Ald. Doreen Smecher, chairman of council's ad ministration and finance committee to WINS back That recommendation did not specify what WINS was to use the money for and some council members felt the money might be Council last month sent a recommendation for a grant to the committee used for serviees which are already available in Castlegar Assessment contract awarded Council has awarded Pavement Management Systems Ltd. of Surrey @ $15,000 contract to carry out assessments of pavement conditions in the city, The company was the lowest of three bidders on the contract. The other two bids were $26,800 and $32,500 respectively