; sss as _ Castlegar News october! 1986” Sunday drinking extended VANCOUVER (CP) Provincewide Sunday bar and cabaret openings will continue after Expo 86 and will be extended at least until the provincial election is over, Elwood Veitch Veitch said any policy de cisions on the government's current liquor review to examine the future of Sunday bar openings and possible beer price reductions would not be made until after the Oct. 22 election Wide-open Sunday drink ing was introduced in April and was originally intended for the Expo period, ending Oct. 13. The review of beer prices Give the United Way. Compliments Castlegar News |BUY D HONEY Last chance to Terry's Honey Farm Grand Forks WE WILL BE AT: PLAYMOR JUNCTION SAT., OCT. 4 90m. -3pm weather permitting was added following a com ment by Premier Bill Vander Zalm that he would like to give a break to workers and lower the price of beer. buy honey from BOB SKELLY 8 a.m. to Everyone BREAKFAST With and Fireside Dining Room Friday, October 3 Tickets available at the door — $6 each. CHRIS D'ARCY 9:3 a.m. Welcome ‘ ' & Bus to cost $156,000 a year By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer Taxpayers in Castlegar and Areas I and J will be paying more than $50,000 a year for the long: awaited transit system. But according to Central Kootenay regional district administrator Reid Henderson, Castlegar taxpayers will foot the largest share of the bill Henderson said the costs for each area will be based on the number of hours the bus operates in each area. Since the bus will spend 73 per cent of its time in Castlegar, taxpayers in the city will pay $38,349. The bus will spend 25 per cent of its time in Area J, so taxpayers there will pay $13,134. The only area the bus will go through in Area I is Brilliant, which represents two per cent of the bus time which means that area will pay only $1,050. Henderson Said the regional district is in the process of calculating the cost to individual taxpayers. He said that in Castlegar taxpayers will be charged about 21 cents per $1,000 of taxable value. For example, a home valued at $40,000 will be taxed $8.40. Total annual cost for the transit system is $156,000 BC Transit pays $73,159 or 47 per cent and the regional district and City of Castlegar will pay $52,533 or 38 per cent. The remainder (about $31,000) will come from fares and advertising revenues. The bus, which will spend most of its time in Castlegar, will make four trips a day to Robson, Selkirk College and Blueberry Creek. Meanwhile, Trail Transit officials were in Castlegar Monday with one of their buses running a few of the routes and timing them. Trail Transit will operate the bus system for the first year According to Dennis Stach, manager of Trail Transit, the bus will be stored in Castlegar and drivers will also be hired locally The bus is scheduled to begin operating on Nov. 24 The transit system was announced Friday by Municipal Affairs and Transit Minister Rita Johnston. Johnston said the bus system will provide employment for one full-time bus driver and three or four additional part-time staff. The Regional District of Central Kootenay is the 25th municipality to join the BC Transit small community systems program, which also includes Nelson and Trail. Johnston said a 30-foot Orion bus will be assigned from the BC Transit provincial fleet for the new transit system. The heavy duty transit coach is equipped with 31 seats and can carry up to 69 passengers, includ BUS FOR CASTLEGAR . . . Trail Transit Services Inc. showed off one of its buses to city and regional district officials Monday. The bus is similar to the one which will be used on the Castlegar route Shown with bus are (from left): Martin Vanderpol, Area J director, Mike Zoobkotf, who will be one of students, senior citizens and children. Two types of fare structures are being examined One option is a one-zone fare structure with every rider paying the same fare, except for senior citizens, students and children under 12 who would pay a cheaper fare. The second option is a two-zone proposal which would see the Columbia River as the boundary with Selkirk College, Robson and Brilliant being outside the one-zone fare But according to Ron Drolet, BC Transit director of standees. Detailed planning of a route network and a service schedule was finalized late in 1985 through approval of a service plan by the regional district board This plan updated the original 1981 transit plan developed by the provincial agency, the regional district and city staff, and approved in principle at that time by the regional board and BC Transit Passenger fares are subject to final approval by the regional district, but Johnston said they would be in line with other B.C. small community transit systems — no higher than 75 per cent for adults and 50 cents for TROPICAL PLANTS BASKETS 20 % Anniversary Sale Oct. 2, 3 and 4 Thursday, Friday and Saturday small y systems, his preference is the one-fare structure. Drolet was in Castlegar Tuesday along with Steve News, a transportation planner, and transit planner Don Boyd to discuss the transit system with regional district representatives. Drolet says the fare will likely be 65 cents for adults and 50 cents for senior citizens, students and children Ridership target for the first full year of operation is about 60,000 passengers or 200 rides a day by fare-paying passengers. Although the bus will service most of Castlegar and senior the bus drivers on the Castlegar route, city alerman Albert Calderbank, Dennis Stach, manager of Trail Transit, Castlegar mayor Audrey Moore, Don Boyd | of BC Transit. Missing is Area | director John Voykin CostensProte f area it won't go to Celgar Pulp Operations and Southern Wood Products, Drolet said servicing the pulp mill and sawmill isn't feasible with only one bus. He said that the bus couldn't hit all the shift change times He added that Selkirk College will be a better market because the majority of students don’t own auto mobiles. Service to Westar could be introduced if a second bus is put into service at a later day, he said Area I director John Voykin, also wanted the bus route to include Shoreacres, Pass Creek and possibly Krestova But Drolet said that couldn't be done either with only ‘one bus. He noted, however, those areas were included in the original service plan completed five years ago. It was the second bus that gave us the ability to do that,” he said Drolet is hopeful Area I will be serviced in the near future with the addition of another bus if more money is made available “The best thing is the one-bus proposal establishes transit.” he said Hansen to get married PETITCODIAC, N.B. (CP) Motion tour, even though OFF REG. PRICE 40% OFF REG. PRICE A9 EACH It wasn't a total surprise when Rick Hansen and Amanda Reid, the physio therapist accompanying him announced Tuesday they in tend to marry after Hansen completes his world wheel chair tour next spring After all, it's secret the Vancouver natives kindled a throughout Hansen's Man in been no two romance SMALL BUSINESS ACCOUNTING they said little about it Reid, 27, has been part of Hansen's backup team almost since the start of the tour, which was covered more than 30,000 kilometres in the last 18 months She was the only one per mitted to accompany Hansen, 29, through several East Bloc countries because of diffi culties obtaining visas for the entire six.member road crew They said they haven't decided on a wedding date or New Selection Of SILK FLOWERS Stems & Bushes. .'. % OFF place The tall, freckle-faced red Nor pret head said in a recent inter view with the Charlottetown Guardian that she first met Hansen in Vancouver in 1984, when she treated him for a dislocated shoulder while he was training for the World Wheelchair Games in Eng COMPUTERITED FINANCIAL STATEMEN. 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Sacred Piano Concert with Crarg Webber 01 8 pm. at Calvory Boptist Church The Atomic Comics at 7.00 pm. Brillant Cultural Centre Items for this bi-monthly feature should be telephoned to Lynda Carter of the Castlegar Arts Council at 365-3226 cS Sponsored by CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION land. Even then, Hansen was RICK HANSEN no date set considering the idea of a world tour to raise money for spinal-cord research Reid was among the early supporters who helped him plan the tour, but was not among the support staff who accompanied him when he set out from Vancouver on March 21, 1985. “At that time we were not going to send a physio therapist with him because we were trying to cut down on the numbers on the road. she said. “We didn't want (—— ee aaa © Holy St. Jude DE ond of Jesus Christ. Faithtul inter cessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of ond humbly beg to whom God has given such grect power to come to my assistance Help me in present urgent petition in return | promise to moke your name known. and couse you to be invoked Soy three Our Fathers Hoil Marys and Glorios Publication must be promised St, Jude pray tor us and oll ‘Who invoke your aid. Amen This Novena has never been May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised. adored and glorified throughout the world forever. Amen. Say 6 times o day tor 9 days and remember to promise publication. Your will be onswered 1 seem to you belore the 9h dey to think this was a paid holiday for anyone INJURED WRIS But three weeks into the tour Hansen injured his wrists and called for Reid's help The tour could have end ed right there. I asked for two weeks holiday from work. Those two weeks have solar expanded into a year and a half with the tour Reid, the daughter of Expo 86 commissioner Patrick anyone general Reid, said her re lationship with Hansen evol ved over the months It is a joy that has come out of the tour I knew there was something special between us. Our friendship clicked.” On her role as his physio therapist, she said Hansen has had injuries and my re sponsibility is.to know what they are and assess them and treat them if necessary = ADRS TRA wos Contteger Airport Daily Flight Service to * Cranbrook * Penticton * Kelowno 365-7701 Call for inquiry rejected LONDON (AP) — Amnesty International said that Britain has failed to produce sufficient evidence to dispel a suspicion that security forces in Northern Ireland carried out premeditated killings. The human rights organization published corres. pondence in which the British government repeatedly rebuffed Amnesty’s call for an independent judicial inquiry. Northern Ireland Secretary Tom King, Britain's top official in the province that has been wracked by sectarian violence, argued in the correspondence that the police were best suited to investigate killings by members of the security forces. In rejecting Amnesty's call for an independent inquiry, King said the government sought quick and satisfactory investigations of the use of lethal force by police and troops, but also had to protect the rights of people who might be tried on criminal charges. The security forces — the British army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary .— have been pitted against the remove the province from the United Kingdom and join it to the neighboring Republic of Ireland,” Amnesty said. In support of its appeal, Amnesty International pointed outlawed Irish Republican Army, which is pi Roman Catholic and which has been trying to drive the British out of the province. The lary is the P pre vineial police force, and Roman Catholic community leaders have alleged that British soldiers and the constabulary have made Roman Catholics targets of violence. 34SHOT DEAD The Amnesty International report said police and troops had shot to death 34 people, 18 of them unarmed, since the autumn of 1982. “Most of those killed were alleged by the authorities to have been working with paramilitary groups fighting to d No leads in bomb blasts in Idaho COUER D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Residents of a small Idaho resort community gathered in stores, bars and on street corners to discuss three bomb explosions, and one businessman compared the town to war-torn Beirut Police said they have no leads in the Monday morning explosions that damaged the federal building, a store and a restaurant. There were no injuries. A fourth bomb discovered on the roof of a building housing armed forces recruitment offices was defused safely The explosions came two weeks after the bombing of the home of a priest who has been an outspoken critic of the white-supremacist Aryan Nations group, based in nearby Hayden Lake. “I'm not making any suppositions if there are any connections.” Police Chief Frank Premo said, adding Monday's bombs were ot similar to the pipe-bomb that damaged the home of Rev. Bill Wassmuth Last month, a bomb that exploded in a Fargo, N.D., post office slightly injured four workers and police defused a bomb sent to a judge Wassmuth is head of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, which has battled negative publicity spawned by the presence of the Aryan Nations. Richard Butler, head of the Aryan Nations, said the bombings are “an old tactic of the Marxist left” designed to destroy his group The Aryan Nations was the springboard for the militant group The Order, whose members were accused of bank and armored car robberies, murder, bombings and counterfeiting in 1983 and 1984. Ten Order members were convicted of racketeering last year and 12 others pleaded guilty Residents have reacted to the bombings with “more anger than fright,” said Steve Myklebust, vice-president of Myklebust Clothing, about two blocks from the federal building “It's getting so close, it's like Beirut or something.” Silas Petty was standing across the street from the federal building when the first bomb exploded in a basement window well in the government building Nine minutes after the first blast, an explosion detonated inside the Gibbs Mercantile about 16 blocks from the federal building. Another went off nine minutes later, outside Jax Restaurant, five blocks east of the federal building. Authorities believe the bombs, equipped with timing devices, were tossed from moving vehicles. Damage was heaviest at the Gibbs building, where the bomb blew a one-metre hole in the ceiling. No estimates of damage were available The fourth bomb was found after garbage sacks wrapped tightly with duct tape were spotted atop an armed-forces recruiting building a half-block south of the federal building. Consortium could build dam to “f by police, r and official delays in the investigation procedures followed so far.” It said soldiers have been convicted in connection with only two killings. “As yet Amnesty International has not been able to reach a firm conclusion on the allegations that some of these killings were premeditated ahd carried out as part of a policy of targetting government opponents,” it said. It said police investigations, coroner's inquests and criminal proceedings “have not p d i id to eliminate the possibility that unlawful use of force has been used by the security forces to kill people deliberately.” eee VANCOUVER (CP) — Premier Bill Vander Zalm said Tuesday he would prefer that private companies, not the government, build the province's next megaproject - the proposed Site C hydro- electric dam. He said the province has two options to pay for the $3.2-billion dam that would be constructed to provide power mainly for export to California. “The one is that we, through B.C. Hydro, build Site C. But we could only do that if we negotiate a con tract first. It would have to be a long-term contract to pay for the building of the dam. “the other possibility is that a consortium of private people build the dam and use it for a given time, which might be 20 or 25 years and turn the dam back to the province That's the one I'd like best of all.” A study of the proposed dam for the Peace River is expected to be completed by Nov. 30. The study of the technical, legal and financial aspects of the project was undertaken in June by B.C. Hydro, Bonneville Power Authority, three southern California utilities comp anies, two Oregon utilities firms and three from Wash. ington Float plane recovered DEASE LAKE, B.C. (CP) The fuselage of a float plane that crashed into Dease Lake on the weekend, killing Social Credit member Passarell and four people, was recovered from 40 metres of water Tuesday. The fuselage contained the bodies of Passarell, 36, his wife Ruth, 36, Shelly Smith, 28, Joe Florence, 52, and Ben U.S. turns down request for aid OCHRE PIT COVE, Nfld. (CP) — It’s official The United States turned down a_ request from this Conception Bay fishing community for $1 million in foreign aid Pat Layman, chairman of the local fishermen's committee, wrote to U.S. State Secretary George Shultz last February re questing funding on the grounds that Newfound land was poor enough to qualify as a “Third World province The letter, which gained headlines across the coun try, was sent on behalf of 60 fishermen in the area after requests to Ottawa ermen were bankrupt be cause of increasing costs and declining catches Layman said he has now received official word from the United States and “the that en has reply was not couraging.” The letter, Lawrence Raicht late general for the United signed by consu States in Halifax, states: “I sympathize with the dif ficulty you have exper ienced. Unfortunately our many North American fishermen are facing se vere economic problems. I regret to say, though, that we can offer you no financial assistance.” Layman said the answer was what he expected, but that at least the commun ity’s problems were made for a wharf extension went unheeded. Layman wrote that 80 per cent of the community's inshore fish. known Abel, 60. The five, all resi dents of the northwestern B.C. community of Atlin, were en route to Passarell's nomination meeting for the Oct. 22 provincial election when the crash occurred Pilot Terresa Bond, who operates Taku Air Service, managed to escape. RCMP Cpl. Jim Steele said the fuselage was raised using a balloon-type floating device and cables. The recovery took most of the day HAPPY ADS Use HAPPY ADS to extend bir thday. wedding or onniver greetings to congratulate someone, or to simply wish someone @ good doy. Rates are reosonable and you can also use a photo if you wish. For Display Adver Columbie Avenve. je? 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Despite opposing megapro- jects, as part of his election platform he has announced construction of a $450-million highway on northern Van couver Island and a natural gas pipeline to the island Vander Zalm defended those promises saying they are necessary for economic development. And he said he is negotiating with the fed- eral government to get the funds for the pipeline. He said megaprojects such as the multi-billion-dollar northeast coal project that included construcion of rail lines and municipal infras tructure, in retrospect, were probably questionable. “I'm not for megaprojects,” he said. “I think we have to be very wary and very cautious about any major undertaking.” Su t Your Local Child 365-5616 365-7280 AFTER HOURS CALL 365-3270 WANTED CLEAN COTTON RAGS Ce Castlegar News 197 Columbia Ave., Castlegar THE MEAT EXPERTS 365-7395 —DOUBLE _ YOUR MONEY BACK GUARANTEE- OUR POLICY Your complete satisfaction is guaranteed on all of the perishable products we sell, or we will give you Double Your Money Back! This applies to all perishable products including Produce, Meats, Bakery and Dairy Products. Proof of purchase and return of unused portion may at ‘ad You Deserve The Best! ‘a SUP Less Fat, Less Waste, More Meat for your Money! 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