Casthéir News October 6, 1985 A2 ’ Arena opening The grand opening of the Pioneer Arena will be taking place on Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m: The open house is. an opportunity for residents’ to .view the new renovations that have'taken place during the past two-years. ¢ Give the WEATHER Castlegar _ FLEA MARKET Every Saturday & Sunday 9a.m.to3 p.m. United Way. Compliments . Next to Wizard's Palace 1003 - 2nd Street. For information concerning mG. -%) Hz-yr-cG@ goo high 1 to hold in the easte: ‘space or fables CastlegarNews|| py,."365.3237 SPECIALS FOR YOU Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday THIS WEEK MILD CHEDDER _ CHEESE $998 APPLE JUICE 719° MACARONI & CHEESE DINNERS we) 99° FOODS i& Operated Castlegar ~— LEAN Ground Beef cea lee VOETS ARMSTRONG $6.57 KG. . LB. WHITE LABEL. TLUTRE . _ BLUE BONNET B MARGARINE 3 LB. PKG. ... nmunity O Swor-Easy ro0s | 9717 Col. Ave. “4 <—) Gra Fann ce PAU! PAVING L -352- TD. Sunrise 6:51 Sunset 6:19 rn Pacilic. This ts generating cool but fairly diy norihwesterly tlow across the interior, Little change 1s foreseen $0 occasional bands of cloud will drift actoss the province but hittle oF ne rain IT’S OFFICIAL . ‘The federal government is contributing $25,000 for a study sion and improvement possi- bilities for Nakusp Airport Kootenay West Bob Brisco announced this week on be- half of Transport Don Mazankowski. The study will consist of preliminary design, cost esti- mates and an environmental impact assessment required for runway extension. $25, 000 for study The village of Nakusp, 145 kilometres by road from Castlegar has a population of 1,500. Its most important ac- tivity is logging. to determine expan- Brisco said in a prepared release that the Regional District-of Central Kootenay is anxious to attract tourism and recreation to the area, but the lack of basic facilities places some restrictions on the level of tourism activity. Minister WANTED CLEAN Plans call the present runway enabling it to be used by larger air- craft, including the Dash 7 and Citation. The latter air- craft is used by the provincial air ambulance service. “The study will help de- termine the costs and other factors associated with long- Sie Nanas Aiate | : He said the media has to help create ~ sion for Nakusp i ran Brisco said. “Airport expansion, and in a longer stronger runway, would be- come a very important factor in combatting forest fires in this section of the province,” Brisco added. forest fires had-to be fought this summer by water bomb- ers out of Castlegar and the response would have been much faster if some of the aircraft could have operated out of Nakusp,” he said. particular for improving “Hundreds of continued from front page areas where the “local councils have recognized that we politicians are not successful or as bright as you people in steering economic renewal.” Ritchie also said the media has a major role to play in assisting the provincial and municipal governments and the chamber in bringing the economy back to where it should be: optimism and enthusiasm in the com- munity, particularly with those who need work. Ritchie said the partnership program is already having an effect. He said investors from. outside the province are asking him what com- munities have signed the partnership agreement. Ritchie also had high praise for Moore. He said he has believed for a Tong time that what the province has needed was an injection of enthusiasm and an attitude of economic renewal. He said it was Moore as president of and _ COTTON RAGS ~ a) ree Audrey Moore sign provincial-municipal partn: ful eyes of Ald. Carl Henne (left) and Ald. Bob MacBain. PARTNERSHIP | Affairs Minister Bill Ritchie (right) and Mayor 2 eS usicipel ee ership agreement under watch- Coitiews Phe the Union of B.C. Municipalities who blazed a trail. “She changed ‘the theme of the UBCM,"” he said. “She came on with a new approach that was the start of _great things for British Columbia.” ‘That is also the opinion of others in the province, Ritchie said. During a brief question period, Rit- chie was asked if regional districts are signing the par’ tnership agreen agreement. He noted that regional districts have had an opportunity of getting into economic development in the past, but it was successful. He said he believes regional districts have an important function to play in the province. Regional districts are currently under review and when the final report is finished there will be extensive changes to regional districts. He said they have become a level of government that was never intended. “They have become masters rather — than servers and we are going to turn that. around,” Ritchie said. Briefly — MATCH PLANT : PENTICTON (CP) — The only match manufactur- ing-plant in Western Canada is expected to be in operation here by the end of the year. Ponderosa Ventures Ltd., run by Vancouver entrepreneur Nelson Skalbania, and Western Match Ine. of Surrey, expects to employ 35 people at the plant. ‘The B.C. Development Corp. will provide some of the more than $2 million needed to set up the operation, with a loan also being made available from the provincial industry and small poses develop- ment program. The venture is being developed tinder the Social Credit government's Partners in Enterprise program. MORE BONUSES VICTORIA (CP) — Human Resources Minister Grace McCarthy will play Santa Claus to 23,000 more people this Christmas. Early each Deceinber... the ministry. pays a Christmas bonus of $20 a person or $50 a family to those i basic income McCarthy announced the Christmas bonus would be to people it d Annual Income for Need handicapped dds couples aged 60 to 64, andYesidents of institutions and care facilities who qualify for Comforts Allowance payments from her ministry: JOINS EXPO VANCOUVER (CP) — The sultanate of Brunei, a tiny country. whose rich oil reserves give it one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, has signed up for Expo 86. The country decided to join other Association of South East Asian Nations at Expo on the urging of other member states, said Patrick Reid, world fair commissioner-general. Brunei is located on the north coast of the island MILL TOUR . = Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore and husband Bill examine rejected pulp with Westar Tim- ber pulp mill manager Wilf Sweeney. Moore was one sary. otf 353 residents who toured the pulp mi during the mill's open house marking its 25th anniver- down aid two of her children EDMONTON (CP) — A strong earthquake rocked the Northwest Territories today after an earlier minor one jolted New Brunswick but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage from either. Bill Shannon, a spokesman for the seismology division of the Department. of Energy, Mines and Resources in Ot- tawa said the N.W.T. quake registered 6.6 on the Richter scale at about 9:30 a.m. EDT. Its epicentre was 500 kil- ometres west of Yellowknife, about 80 kilometres south of Wrigley, a Dene community of about 150 perched on a bluff overlooking. the Mac- kenzie River! The New Brunswick quake, measuring 4.0, struck at 3:34 a.m. EDT in the re- mote and sparsely populated Miramichi highlands near the small town of Plaster Rock, located about 125 kilometres northwest of Fredericton. Doreen Esau, a resident of Wrigley, said in a Sw October 6, 1985 CasthiiNews 1: a3 - Earthquake rocks N.W.T. “Everybody was scream- ing and hollering to get out of their houses. It was pretty _ scary.” ‘The quake was much rmoce powerful than tremors which shook the community -about four years ago, she said. It was reported that the N.W.T. quake was felt as far away as Prince George, about 1,000 kilometres south of the epicentre, and in the Yukon Territory: Esau said stock at the local store where she works was shaken off the shelves and scattered across the flor. Janet Drysdale, another seismologist in Ottawa, said the New Brunswick quake was felt as far away as Bathurst, about 150 kilome- .tres_northeast of its epi- centre. Court news In C: it interview she woke up with court this week, Timothy d was fined $400 for her bed ing up and Costtews Photo by Chery! Laiderbon, crying. driving with a blood-alcohol count over .08. of Borneo. Oil generates annual revenues approaching $900-miHion for the country’s 200,000 citizens. The country was a British Protectorate: for 96 years until its indepednence on Jan. 1, LIFE SENTENCE NEW WESTMINISTER (CP) — Roger Johnston, sobbing and protesting his innocence to the end, was sentenced to life in prison for second-degree murder in the shotgun slaying of David Enman. “I had no intention of hurting anyone or of bringing harm to anyone,” Johnson told Mr. Justice Ray Paris. : Paris endorsed B.C. Supreme Court jury's recom- mendation that Johnston serve the mandatory minimum period of at least 10 years before he is eligible. for. parole. continued from front page He testified that when he asked Astaforoff why she set fire to the buildings, she replied, “It's the Douk- hobor way.” “T asked her if she used gas. She said it didn’t matter,” Holloway said. Throughout the 4'/2 hour trial, Asta- foroff refused opportunities to cross examine the witnesses. At one point she said through an interpreter, “I don't want to defend myself for the purpose of aiding this court.” ~—However,|{ Astaforoff_did_take_the opportunity to address the court at the conclusion of testimony and before the jury left for deliberations. Speaking through the interpreter, Astaforoff told the jury what she said was a history of injustices against the Sons of Freedom. Shé said the Sons of Freedom are ASTAFOROFFE GIVEN 10 YEARS Holloway testified that he arrived at the village shortly after 7 a.m. to find the buildings fully engulfed in flames. He said he got out of his car, and “Observed the accused walking toward - the car unclothed.” , The jury, which returned to the courtroom once for a clarification of possible verdicts, deliberated for less than 30 minutes before returning after a lunch recess to di dict on a charge of wilfully setting fire to the buildings at the village. A second lesser charge of wilfully setting fire to_a_substance likely to cause damage to the ildii er a guilty ver- was nor ‘the dying gasps of one kind of political action’ as stated by KCIR members. “They are well-planned strategies ~employed by provocateurs in order to implicate. us. “Our members are being arrested, condemned and judged guilty for merely being at the scene of a fire.” The KCIR is a provincial govern- ment sponsored group that includes representatives from various federal and provincial ministries, the RCMP, Canadian Pacific Railway — a frequent target of - bombings--—--and- area superceded by the guilty verdict on the first charge. After the jury returned with its verdict, Crown counsel Phillip Goody asked the court to impose a sentence on Astaforoff similar -to Jmaeff and Mary Braun, both currently that of Tina ‘The group was formed in an effort to bring about long-term peace to the West Kootenay. VENTURE INLAND Meanwhile, Mealing said some. arti- facts have been recovered from the charred ruins of the village buildings. The historical society’ has recovered a large number of tools from the black- smith shop as well as some metal parts of a sewing machine donated to the Doukhobors in Saskatchewan at the turn of the century by the Quakers, he said. Mealing said the society has also received a few donations of articles and that rebuilding plans for the village will _ go ahead as soon as possible. He said that by next weekend the society hopes to have all the scrap off the site and the foundation cleared away. ee ene = = ENTIA api 2-7333..__. PAVING — 352-7333 _ Also Offering: Gravel Supple: as SeieiicttF Compacting ® oul 1 Sproying ( us: IVE MAY 10, 1985 Toll Fr “echan + Answering Service - pial 112-800- o-332-4475 For Free E: [FALCON . PAINTING @ DECORATING 2649 FOUR casnecan ee NUE LAde) 2st 365 3563 Lz SE . 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She is 81 Froofreader’s ig acknowtedse [ [oP | (ed ing to Brilliant in 1908. predeceased by her parents math gon defotsinger by E ar a Shortly after, the family and two sisters, Nellie Fed- BB Actor Ayres se 7 ae moved to Pass Creek where osoff and Annie Konkin. Onan) = ee se she lived most of her life. She Funeral arrangements sa Very wealthy Fa zs moved to Castlegar in 1977 were under the direction of 35 Snes £0 Son cine Bs eB ia 7 and lived for a short time in the Castlegar Funeral 27 New York land sf aS ro fat i= Kimberley, moving to Mount Chapel. . City's nick 92 Dravidian : 29 Comic book — 94 Denish od i a : sound z fee ES x i is COMMUNITY as tune oP e aged id Bulletin Board 38 Valuable = 6 7 ca 39 Biblical n “ab Trases le: ie pe ies H.A. GIANT RUMMAGE SALE - a 78 astlegar Hospital Auxiliory Giant Rummoge Sale. Ort: 415 lame ms (Fel (Bal to) - =! 18 and 19. Friday. 6-9 p.m., Saturday. 10 a. om sa ai f= r co oe = - For pickup please phone 365-6302, 369°5552, (365. 237 at Commer T i 7 ter 5 p.m.). All donations appreciated 45 One of the cy is? a tl ied CREEK RECREATION COMMISSION £7 Porventa 2 a se 37 mnourice that it will not be hosting a Christ- a es ‘gir this year. We thank-you for your suppor! 52 Arsonist’s is through the years. 2. 80 a noe 33 Wate iil ri é CASTLEGAR RUSSIAN HALL 58 — acid (mild - fio oo 1% ee (8 he 4 yoy aN evening of Russian Singing and Fellowshy Loe = ; g ms tober 10, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Everyone welcome. P 80 £9 Puleate i 7 os rs f1z0 rar tUMMAGE AND RUSSIAN BAKE KE SALE os Fomes of O74 rr] ize as Appledate" Hall (Appledale rok) Sot., October 12, 10 5 lant” fame m. 66 OF the eye cy nar =. he Aisoctation. nce) 68 ~ — Miss export 70New Zealand #168 Average time of solution: 70 minates. SENIORS CURLING CLUB 63 Rocky Moun 2 Jai — ees CRYPTOQUIP Meeting October 9, 10 a.m. at Curling Club. Lists at Golf tain wild ‘71 Malian coins: Club or Curling Club. so lo *s aie 72 Fou sg = . RIITB H xPrEKIC 65 One of a low ountain OK HX G EMMR SGM EuI'C caste, in 5 Principal fare ‘ ; Coming events of Costl : 2 Fi in legor_and District non-profit re ne oe zene XHUX, *Y HASHUX " XBYAA CGI. OINIX — organizations moy be listed here. The first 10 words are Rarrymores Cather 74 — cum laude Today's Cryptoquip clue: E equals ‘and additional words ore:15¢ each. Boldfaced wor- hich must be used for headings) count as two words. COLUMBIA COIFFURES WANETA WICKER & no extra charge for a second consecutive ins Ph. . 365-6717 THE K res 368-8512 -- paper ys for Wednesday's So a — 145t Bay Ave.. Trail 368-8512 Fh Sou ‘be brought 10 the Costleger ca ‘ol Johnston, 28, claimed he was acting in self- defence when he shot Enman. 25, during-analtercation outside-a Port Coquitlam night spot last Nov. 29. — “We are not the killers of this — MAGARA STUNT and “the authorities”-of-trying-to-des— FALUS.—ONT,{CP}-—— “John David ‘Munday | conquered the raging. g-torrents of “Falls..in—an surviving the 55-metre plunge uninjured and avenging his earlier defeat at the hands of police. But police also got into the act once again arresting the 48-year-old Hamilton-area mechanic and charging him with performing an illegal stunt. Munday, the eighth person to survive the plunge and the second to accomplish the feat this year, was brought to the top of the gorge about 90 minutes after hurtling down the Horseshoe Falls cataract. JOBS AXED OTTAWA (CP) — The Conservative govern- ments budget axe is falling on 340 public servants as two big departments start the process of chopping 942 jobs over the next 18 months. -The Public Works Department terminated 308 low-paying cleaning and service jobs Friday, a move that Daryl Bean, Public Service Alliance of Canada president, said breaks a Conservative election promise. Prime Minister Brfan\ Mulroney “said his government cutbacks id not affect ordinary Canadians,” Bean sai “Here aré 300 ordinary, predominately female Canadians-who are going to be turfed out of some of the lowest-paying-jobs in the federal public service.” FIRST UNION AIRDRIE, ALTA. (AP) — Employees at a McDonald's in Airdrie have filed.an application for union certification with the Alberta Labor Relations Board. If the bid is successful, the Airdrie fast-food restauraht would be the first McDonald's outlet to be unionized in Canada. “If we're successful it Gould open the way for a lot of fast-food restaurants,” Norm Kinney, a spokesman for the United Food and Commercial Workers, said. DISTANT GALAXY BERKELEY, CALIF. (AP) — It didn’t take years of research for a team of scientists to discover what urday:~ troy the Sons of Freedom sect. nasking for a long cited the v; UIT R;UStY Aecused OT THE” Killing “OF s Reighty 5 Doukhobor leader Peter Lordly Veri Upon receiving her copy, Astaforoff gin in 1924. ___attempted to‘tear up the document, continued from front page communities taking part, th: in_the West Kootenay. including There are a host of other sights — like the airport, the Lower Arrow Lake and Public: Transport. shouting, "T was convicted—but prophet,” she said. innocent. I was taken into jail im- She also accused “the. government_____properly. I was tortured.” Nelson and the Trail area municipal- ities are’ also involved in, Venture Fitzpatrick hi ill be used at things like international Goody d;-like-Castl. they put_up trade shows and community trade — “They've tried-in wit exist. “We are being buried in our com munity. We are saying you will not bury us.” At one point, Astaforoff waved one of her thumbs — accidentally sp during fingerprinting at the Castlegar RCMP detachment — at the ‘jury, saying it was an example of the in — resi destroy the community so it_would not that the premises were occupied tire-———__———_— io rehabilitation,” Goody said. “The pro- tection of the community must be of paramount importance. The value of the property raises this case to a more serious level than past burnings.” Goody asked for a minimum prison sentence of eight years, “no less than humane treatment Sons of Freedom receive. Cooper finally interrupted Astafor. off, telling her to restrict her comments to the case against her. the term given to Jmaeff and Braun.” Astaforoff is being held at Oakalla prison in Burnaby during the 20-day appeal period. After the trial, Savinkoff distributed She told Cooper, before whom she a_ letter had appeared three years ago on:an Freedom arson charge, “It's your business if you don’t want the truth” and sat down. a He said he managed to put out those small fires but two other buildings were burning out of control. izat from to the Gilpin Sons of B.C. Attorney-General Brian Smith appealing for the reorgan- n of the Kootenay Committee on Intergroup Relations. It goes on to say that breaks (of arson) are not ‘isolated acts’ “recent out- jue of the damage — which $13,000-for-the-show- fairs. He said there wilt also-be-a-kit — nd-the-fact———_ For that, they receive a 10 “made available to the province's over= how-Using-six—pr > seas-staff, The progranr c if the-Ganada-Place pavilion at Expo 2: it inta four se; ts: the B.C. Interior, the West Kootenay, a two-minute portian on the individual community — for instance Castlegar — and a general invitation to investors. The provincial government and In- land Natural Gas bankrolled the major portion of the program. ‘The. show is slickly produced and shows Castlegar in the best possible light. More than 600 images synchor- ized by a professionally-produced , soundtrack flash on the screen. Castlegar’s portion of the show is impressive, showing familiar locations and faces in the community — every- thing from the- Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park suspension bridge to Mike Schmitt and Ron Ross of Emco Engineering. and-Intand-Naturat to have it shown at the B.C. Pavilion as well. In addition, the program will be available on video cassettes, and a print package will be finished shortly. Meanwhile, Moore said the city has already started.to market the program. City representatives met Friday morn- ing with the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce, Kootenay Country Tourist Association, Westar Timber, the Crowsnest Highway Association and others to discuss ways to distribute the show. She said the city also plans to show Venture Inland to the community at large, though nothing has been worked out yet. ES eI OOT may be the farthest galaxy ever seen. All it took wasa | few hours of tinkering. “Once in a while you get lucky.” Byfon: Spinrad, astronomy professor at the. University of California- Berkeley, said. The discovery of what may be a galaxy than 44.5 billion light years away from Earth w: fluke that occurred when researchers were playing around with a combination of light filters on @ telescope, SI inrad said. FIRE DRILL—— continued from front page that all family members. Use the signal only for © Develop a signal understand to mean “danger.* emergencies; e Teach everyone how to get out of your homie. If there is a fire don't grab for clothes, papers or jewelry; —~e Sleep with your bedroom doors closed. A clo: door can save your life. Doors are important barriers in the event there's a fire in the hall; © Teach everyone -how to get out alive: Designaté someone to assist small children, elderly. and the disabled. The fire department also has a number of tips on getting out alive: the of trouble, carefully roll out of bed, keeping low. This way, you will avoid smoke and heat, which rises; e Crawl to the door. Touch the clo door with your hand to determine whether it's hot. If it is. do'not open it. Get out an alternate way (through a window or secondary exit). If the door is not hot, proceed following your escape ny e In the hallway, stay low to stay beneath the smoke level; meeting place (preferably in front of y © Once your family has gathe: to a neighbor to call the fire depart ent; e Stay at your meeting place until the department arrives to tell firefighters your family i: of the house, and where the fire is. © At the sound of your fire alarm or at the first hint” © Once outside, everybody go to a predetermined | ~GET OUT ALIVE Castlegar fire chief Bob Mann (right) and firefighter Ray Hackett explain Plan to Get Out Alive, «to Kindergarten and Grade | lents at Highlights of Valley Vista Elementary School. the program is a nationwide residen: tial evacuation planned for 6 p.m. Wednesday. Contews Pitow by Cnery! Colderbane