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Better decide soon

If you're thinking of running for
Castlegar council or school board,
you'd better decide quickly.
Deadline for nominations is noon

stand for election. It would be even
better if voters showed the same
interest, if they tried to find out
what each candidate stands for

tomorrow.

This year's elections promise to
be the most interesting in years
with four candidates fighting for
only three spots on city council

But there's still room for ad-

and what their plans are if elected.

Somebody

ditional candidates. If you don't
like the way council has been run-
ning the city or have ideas you'd
like to see the city implement, why
not put your name up for election?

Meanwhile, there will be at
least four candidates vying for the
two seats representing the City of
Castlegar on the school board.

That in itself makes this year's
school board election different
Too often in the past school
trustees have shuffled into office
by acclamation or with only
minimal opposition.

But that appears to have
changed, and it’s not hard to un-
derstond why. Education has
become news — big news — in the
last two years as trustees have
been forced to struggle with
reduced funding while trying to
maintain educational standards

More than ever, trustees are in
the spotlight and that can only
mean increased interest from
residents.

It's good to see so many
residents concerned enough to

goofed!

Somebody at city hall gooted.
The city said it would only take one
to 1% days to replace the CP Rail
line on Columbia Ave.

So when work started Thursday
morning, the main street in
Castlegar should have reopened to
tratfic by Friday afternoon. But
here it is Sunday morning and the
street is still closed.

And it will likely remain closed
for at least part of Monday. That
adds up to ao miminum five-day
closure of the city's major
thoroughfare.

It's a ridiculous situation and
never should have happened. If
crews had started work on Monday
or Tuesday they could have been
finished by the weekend, even it
the job took twice as long as an-
ticipated

By starting late in the week, the
city was forced to leave the work
untinished over the weekend and
in the process make shoppers and
visitors to the city detour around
the site.

How about it?

As reported in this edition
Castlegar RCMP issued its annual
warning about Gate night and
Halloween. The warning raises the
question about just what the is
for young people to do on
Halloween

Certainly, there's the
traditional trick-or-treating. But it
may be an idea for the community
to provide some sort of party for
youngsters to attend after their
trick-or-treating

Fireworks, @ bonfire, hot
chocolate, hot dogs, even costume

judging, would all tempt children
and teenagers alike (maybe even
some adults)

Grand Forks Rotary Club spon-
sors the party in that community
and it's been such a huge success
that Rotary Clubs in other com-
munities have asked about and
copied the idea

Perhaps the Rotary Club or
some other service club here in
Castlegar would be interested in
something similar. It would not
only help to keep youths off the
street, but would simply be a lot of
fun. How about it?

Fred
Merriman

Many people in the business com
munity are not aware that the short,
bald, bespectacled gentleman who
makes enquiries about purchasing a
new car writes a rather outspoken
weekly column. Now you will read
about how one new car dealer
handied this “prospective custom
er.”

After a reasonable period of time
in the showroom a salesman ap
proached and asked if he could help
— a rhetorical question.

He was also making

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day at 4 p.m

Enter salesman Nov. 2 — even
more handsome and well intro
duced. The explanations for passing

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Letters to the Editor

College has ‘suffered’

Editor, Castlegar News:

On behalf of the Selkirk College
Faculty Association, I would like to
remind your readers that with the Day
of Concern for Education on Oct. 24 we
should be concerned about the state of
post-secondary education in British
Columbia under provincial government
restraint, ag weil as the plight of the
elementary and secondary school sys-
tem.

In particular, our own regional com-
munity college, Selkirk College, has
suffered doubly under restraint, first

with the closure of David Thompson
University Centre in Nelson, and now
under restrietive funding formulas
which could lead to a nine per cent
reduction in funding for the college
next year, followed by further cuts in
subsequent years up to 1989.

While prudent management and
faculty co-operation have allowed us to
maintain the quality of education at
Selkirk College thus far, the

and availability of courses and pro

grams.

Since most West Kootenay residents
who go on to a post-secondary edu-
cation do so at Selkirk College, it is
important that we do not allow budget
cutbacks to reduce our educational and
employment opportunities in the area.
Only the strong voice of concerned
public opinion, however, will divert the

anticipated in future years will jeopar-
dize the high standard of instruction

Must fund-raising
be ‘dog-eat-dog’?

Editor, The Castlegar News:

E i jon and “
have created a situation where almost
every non-profit service organization in
Castlegar is now forced to do fund
raising in our community in order to
bring budgets to a break-even point
Raffles, rummage sales, dances, teas
and other projects are becoming a way
of life for these organizations, who
must go about with hats in hands
looking for desperately needed dollars
to provide necessary services to the
publie.

Also in the fund-raising arena are the
many worthwhile groups such as the
United Way, Rotary Club, Kinsmen,
ete., for whom fund-raising to assist
community projects is a primary goal

Now, we read in the Castlegar News
that Selkirk College, a publically-fund.
ed post-secondary educational institu
tion, is entering the competition for
the donated dollars of Castlegar citi
zens. This announcement raises some
interesting questions for both non
profit groups and the public in general

How will small groups who-must -
* depend entirely on the efforts of

volunteers to invent and carry out
projects compete with mighty Selkirk
College, which appears able to afford
paid staff for fund-raising alone? How
many dollars can actually be milked
from the pockets of Castlegar citizens
and businesses, who are already
reeling under the effects of record-high
unemployment? Must there be dog-eat
dog competition among non-profit
organizations for every one of these
dollars? Who will survive? Can anyone
win"?

Clearty, fund-raising in a small
commuinity like Castlegar cannot be
viewed as a long-term solution to the
problem of inadequate funding for all
the groups who are struggling to
provide necessary services. As a
community, we must find better
answers before these services dis
appear

Cathy Lafortune
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NORTHERN IRELAND

the customer were Next
day at 4 p.m. proved to be a difficult
time and salesman No. 2 was occu
pied

A dealer plate was proffered with
instructions to afix same. The po
tential customer obeyed. “Does the
vehicle now have gasoline for a
reasonable demonstration drive?”

that middle-aged men are either
family men, or economically inde
pendent. Nevertheless, this cus
tomer was pleased with the offer to
sit in the salesman's office and dis
cuss the matter over coffee.

The coffee did not arrive. Strike
one. They shortly left his office to
view some of the vehicles standing
outside in rather inclement wea
ther.

Meanwhile, the model chosen as
most likely to fulfill the customer's
needs sat warm and cosy on the
showroom floor. It was not used to
demonstrate some of the luxury of
the top of the line models.

Strike two.

“Would you prefer I drove the
vehicle out of the lot?” Casting
aspersions on the customer's driv
ing abilities is not good salesman
ship. In actual fact, this particolar
potential customer does not at any
time appreciate the salesman riding
along on the demonstratiqn trip.

It was a fine automobile’ and this
potential customer will probably
purchase such a car at a reasonable
time in the future. It was necessary,
however, to arrange for a more

The busy No. 2 advised
the customer that he can have the
car fueled himself, obtain a receipt,
and apply for reimbursement upon
return. Strike three.

The car was good. It was worth
buying despite the several faux pas
which were beginning to snowball
Upon his return, the customer was
again ushered into the principal
office where he was introduced to
salesman No. 3 who retained sales.
man No. 2 in attendance while they
jointly waited, hopefully for an
affirmative response.

The customer spoke well of the
car — to open. The customer press
ed on with constructive criticism
which he had interpreted as being
requested. The middle-aged and
baldly columnist had erred. Sales
man No. 3 who proved to be a senior
partner in the dealership, took of.
fences and verbally chailenged the
well meaning but overhelpful chap,
who rose an indignant affront.

Both parties settled down, but
neither any longer had their heart in
the process. Scratch that sale. The
bald writer still thinks it is a good
car which probably could sell itself

and should.

of

citizens of the West Kootenays, in
concert with the board, administration,
faculty and staff, to speak up now, for
the sake of the future of Selkirk
College.

Jim Howard, President
Selkirk College Faculty Association

Roofing
completed

Editer, Castlegar News:

We would like to express our ap
preciation to those members of the Ben
Shaw Ski Club who came out on the
large work party on Sept. 30 and to
those few people who came out to three
other work parties on three other
weekends.

The members of the club have
completed the roofing of the lower
cabin and cut wood for the stove for the
winter. The upper cabin had major
repairs, stove piping installed and
wood cut. Trail markings were placed
on track to the upper cabin.

Thanks Dave Fitchett and the For-
estry crew for the excellent job
improving the trails.

Colin Pryce, President
Ben Shaw Ski Club
Anne Lakes, Sec./Treasurer

Bomb may backfire

By PAUL KORING

LONDON — The Brighton hotel
bomb, planted by the Irish Republican
Army in an attempt to kill British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
may give Northern Ireland a priority
the IRA hadn't expected

On the surface, the cold-blooded
attempt to murder and maim Britain's

* cabinet, ean be seen as simply fuelling

the outrage engendered by the IRA in
all but its most fanatical supporters.

If so, the outcome, like the recent
seizure of an arms shipment off the
Irish coast, and the first handing over
of a terrorist by Irish
Republican authorities to the British,
could be as another IRA
setback but not one which brings closer
any ultimate solution in Northern
Ireland.

In its main editorial this week,
Britain's major newsmagazine The
Economist, took a somewhat broader
view.

“The Brighton bomb thus alters
nothing in the framework of Anglo
Irish policy,” the magazine argued. “It
does, however, reinforce its urgency. It
is sometimes supposed that any bomb
is a good one for the IRA. This one was
vot. It failed to destroy the British
cabinet and thus achieve its fgtuous
aims of bringing about a decision to
withdraw troops from Ulster. It

Dublin and appalled even the

tacit supporters of the IRA's cause in
America. All it has produced is a new
emphasis on Anglolrish security co-
operation, which is precisely what the
currently divided IRA leadership
wants to avoid just when its recent
advance at the polls has begun to
falter.”

But the bomb may produce some-
thing else, an intangible, which could
result in renewed efforts to find a
solution in Northern Ireland.

It may have concentrated Thatcher's
minded, perhaps for the first time since
she took office in 1979, on the
centuries-old and seemingly unsolvable
quandry of Northern Ireland.

In any government so dominated by
the force of its prime minister's
personality, Thatcher's personal ag.
enda is, in effect, the government's.

Until now, Northern Ireland had
attracted little of Thatcher's i

mitted: “This was the day I was not
supposed to see.”

No British prime minister has ever
so directly experienced the terror and
violence which mark the sectarian
strife tearing Northern Ireland apart.

If, as would not be out of character,
Thatcher now makes Northern Ireland
a personal priority, then the Northern
Ireland problem will get unprecedent.
ed attention.

The first real test of Thatcher's
post-bomb attitude towards the trovu-
bled province will come next month
when she meets with Irish Prime
Minister Garret FitzGerald.

No solution seems possible for
Northern Ireland unless it is one that
both Dublin and London accept.

And as The Economist noted: The
Irish republic's “political establishment
is now committed as never before to

But the Brighton bomb may have
changed that. Although Thatcher had
suffered personal loss before at the
hands of the IRA, notably when her
friend and political ally Airey Neave
was assassinated in 979, the Brighton
attack was far more immediate.

For all her personal courage and
reputation for fearsomeness when
attacked, the Iron Lady was deeply
moved by the Brighton horror.

After attending the church two days
later a clearly shaken Thatcher ad

ng the for the consent
of an Ulster majority in any consti-
tutional change, and hence the de facto
separateness of Ulster itself.
“This removes the all-or-nothing
Irish reunification from the iati

which would have
impossible for Britain.

Thatcher now may have the moti-

vation to enter the unchartered waters
of resolving the future of Northern
Ireland through compromises worked
out with Dublin.

(Canadian Press)

been

2 to give southern B.C. a short route to
the coast.

Spectacular scenic beauties will un-
fold to the tourist through some of the
most rugged terrain in the coast range,
when the new highway opens.

os 8 6

Fire Chief West has requested that
bystanders at a fire refrain from as-
sisting firemen unless requested.

Ogiow left Monday for Vancouver on a
week's business trip.

While in Vancouver, Mr. Ogiow ex
pects to attend the official opening of a
new students’ residence at the Uni-
versity of B.C. The residence is to be
known as Kootenay House.

*

Exactly half of all persons now
working at the Celgar pulp mill site are
presumably living in the Castlegar
District as boarders or with their own
families.

Of the 602 men employed at the site
on Tuesday, exactly half were living in
the bunkhouses provided by Celgar.
The other half are living off the site.

7 8 @

J.M. Macbeth of Kinnaird was
named West Kootenay representative
of the Certified General Accountants’
Association of B.C. at the group's
annual meeting in Vancouver.

Mr. Macbeth is also secretary

of the Ch
of Commerce of Southeastern B.C. and
is on the executive of the Rossland-
Trail Conservative Association. He is
now serving his third year on the pro-
vincial board of governors of the CGM.

Mr. John Munday, a former Freneh

in Victoria where he had been on sick
leave from his mission in Ecuador,
South America.
15 YEARS AGO
From the Oct. 30, 1969
News

New executive of the Castlegar
Kiwanis Club was installed at the
organization's regular meeting Tues
day night by governor Mike Barlow of
Trail. New president is Aage Syivest of
Kinnaird.

* 8 6

A mortgage burning took place at
the banquet Saturday night honoring
the Castlegar district's Citizen of the
Year for 1969. The Castlegar Kiwanis
Club, which sponsors the annual pres-
entation, used the occasion to burn the
mortgage on the Kiwanis Scout Hall

* 8

The 1969 Citizen of the Year for
Castlegar district is Mrs. Herb (Rose)
Johnson. The honor recognizes Mrs.
Johnson's longtime association with
helping young people, particularly her
work with the Guide movement.

7 2

A man from Castlegar and one from
Kinnaird were among the 75 employees
honored last Thursday night by Com
ineo in Trail.

They are the employees reaching 40
years of service in 1969 and one who
completed the half-century mark.

Local men honored were Gabe Mar
tini of Castlegar and Ken Robertson of
Kinnaird.

Castlegar

While Mayor Audrey Moore, Area J
regional director Martin Vanderpol and
Area J school trustee George Anu
tooshkin were re-elected unopposed, a
total of 14 candidates are scheduled to
seek election to six vacant seats Nov
17

Incumbents Albert Calderbank and
Bud Godderis will face former muni.
cipal office-holders George Bondaroff
and Harold Leslie and newcomer Char
les Cohoe in the city aldermanic race.

In the School Distriet No. 9 city
trustee election, Pat Haley and Anne
Jones defend their seats against chal.
lengers Rod Gilmour, Brian Hunter,
Doreen Smecher and John Marsh.

In Area I residents will be asked to
choose between incumbent Lovette
Nichvolodoff, former trustee Sam
Konkin and neweomer Mickey Kinakin

An original member of the Robson
and District Fire Commission's foutd.
ing steering committee has been
named the area's first fire chief. Art
Graham will assume the position of fire
chief.

GOLDAMMER
pool architect

City construction
activity plummets

By CasNews Staff

Construetion activity in
the city fell off dramatically
last month, according to the
latest statistics.

Only 85 building permits
valued at $55,700 were issued
in September. That's down
nearly $477,000 from the
same timé last year.

In September 1963 a total
of 49 permits valued at
$532,590 were issued.

new single family homes.
This September no new per
mits were issued, while four
valued at $245,000 were is
sued in September 1983.

To date this year, 317
building permits issued have
been issued totalling $2.8
million. That's down almost
$400,000 from the same per
iod last year when 366 per
mits were issued totajling
$8.2 million

The college has received nine replies so far from
municipalities, school districts and regional districts. Only
two have turned down the request.

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The Industrial Commission has been advertising the
*. city’s industrial park lots. The commission placed ads in the
Financial

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off on a plan to outlaw the use of Post, as well as newspapers in Kelowna, the East
Kootenays, Prince George and Kamloops.
. 8 e

ALFONSO APA
The commission has engaged graphic artist Ron or beraniehalaal
Phone 268-6314

in the Sherbiko Hill area. Coupeil initially
Woodward to design a brochure cover or folder on the

it ‘would outlaw the brakes, but then decided
against it,

“We should-have safe trucks even if they are noisy,”

commented Mayor Audrey Moore.
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wie Canada Savings Bonds Driven

Bob Pakula, protective
chairman, said Mann receives requests for help outside city
boundaries and needs “a concrete answer” in writing stating
the city fire department must not respond to calls outside

city limits.

Ave. that it must repair the sidewalk in front of the
restaurant.

not city policy to repair sidewalks on private property,”
according to the works and services committee.
.

sion to Woodland Park Elementary school.
. . .

in south Castlegar. The sites are obsolete and surplus to the
city's needs, according to planning technician Bill Hadikin.

grizzlies

A one-hour talk on grizzly
bears will be given 2 p.m.
today at Kokanee Park, says
park interpreter Daphne Van
Alstine.

The talk — with is open to
the public, and includes a
slide show — is on the bears’
behavior and habitat.

Giving the talk is guest
speaker Wayne McCrory.

It will take place at the
Visitors Centre in the Sand-
spit campground. The event
is sponsored by the B.C.
Parks Division.

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Council has told Eastgate Gardens Ltd. on Columbia

“The sidewalk . . . is located on their property and it is

City crews will clean up and gravel the 18th St. exten-

The city plans to sell two former well sites on 6th Ave.

The city has agreed to participate in a joint committee

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