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It has been made better because of Expo.” All areas of the INTC were repre- sented at Friday's meeting with the exception of Alberta. Besides Alberta, the 130-member coalition includes of the home pub of George Van. couver. “I look at all these things coming The U.S. pavilion will also be inter- esting with its space exhibit and tribute to the shuttle crew who died when Challenger blew up, Horsey said. metres from the blast site. “I heard this big blast and I thought Cominco had just blown up.” Meantime, while RCMP looked for clues to Friday's bombing, parishioners of St. Andrews Anglican Church were from western Montana, northern Idaho, eastern Washington in the U.S. and the Kootenays, Okanagan and Rockies in B.C. The coalition holds two meetings a year — in Canada in the spring and the U.S. in the fall. Besides Horsey's address, other business included a panel discussion on tourism with Chuck Truscott, presi- dent of the Kootenay Country Tourism Association, and Jim Lawson of Tour- ism B.C. busy cleaning the damaged church and rejoicing that the blast had not des- troyed any of its stained glass win- dows. “Look at this blessing,” said church member Jim Sturgeon, pointing to broken windows in an adjacent alley. “All this damage and we still don't lose our Jesus window.” There were no injuries. John Th the purpose of the meeting is to inform members of programs and successes of various programs being conducted by the coal- ition. The meetings give members a chance to discuss concerns or give sug- gestions to the board or staff. “Becdusé we cover such a vast geographical area, it takes the work- ~~ of a single board to really conduct the business,” Thoresen said. “We try to bring people together to listen to what's going on and to hear major presentations and current hap- penings in the tourism industry,” he added. Thoresen noted that the coalition has been heavily involved in marketing to bring visitors to the area during Expo 86. BOMBING BAFFLES POLICE Barb Bavis, who was busy mopping CASTLEGAR COMPANY WINS $11,050 AWARD By CasNews Staff and all legal costs. City administrator Dave Gairns said the legal costs aren't yet known. “There were no court costs because the matter never went to court,” Gairns explained. He said both the company and the city agreed to appoint an independent arbitrator to settle the dispute. 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How MASTERPLAN™ helps: Because MASTERPLAN™ i Union ‘Ski club may fold KIMBERLEY (CP) — troubled Kimber- ley Ski Club has laid off 75 employees and may have to million debt. It granted the club 14 days to secure the money. Ski hill manager Brian Rhodes said a meeting has been set up for later this month between the club, the bank and the city of Kim- berley to discuss ways to keep the resort operating. AUXILIARY sipue 10.12" willing to work Tec fs Linde 365-232 t0 public 12 - 2:00 p.m. Silver Police file phone: 365-6860, 365- Robson: 365-5384. ALL DONATIONS APPRECIATED One Castlegar man esca- ped unhurt and another received only minor injuries following a spectacular near head-on car crash Friday night on Columbia Avenue at the top of Sherbiko Hill. RCMP say a 1972 Chry- sler driven by Peter White, 81, of Castlegar was south- bound at 8:52 p.m. when it collided with a northbound 1974 Toyota four wheel drive driven by Arthur Makorto, 28, also of Castlegar. “Both vehicles were writ- ten off,” said Const. Jim Moltwenik. Makorto suffered minor injuries and was taken to Castlegar and District Hospital where he was kept overnight for observation. White has been charged with impaired driving. Meanwhile, a two-car crash Saturday on the Kinnaird Bridge resulted in a total of HOSPITAL SPRING RUMMAGE SALE April 18, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p. mm. April 19, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Kinnaird Halll, ‘Sev Con stlagar. For pickup. 2737. Hobbit Hill needs donations tor our third annual sale on May 3. For information or pick-up call 365-7; RENT-A-GUIDE indoors or outdoors. Girls, Must work in pairs. Cost: /haur. Earnings to help poy expenses for @ special po opportunity. Call: N. Cas ie se conioger Heather 365-5580; ROBSON RIVER OTTERS REGISTRATION poreeny April Ty at the Robvon Holt 9:00 o.m. to 12:00 jew members require a copy of a birth certificate. 2% SCIENCE FAIR Hosted by District Parents Committee will be held April 12, at S.H.S.S. Activity Room. Judging 16:30 - 12:00. Open Collection Coming events $3.50 and odditional District non- Castlegar orgonizations may Ce listed mere. Tt The first 10 wor: words ore 15¢ ds (which must be used for headings) count os two words each. Boldtaced wor Bulletin Board when one vehicle rear-ended another. No further details were available. Court news Castlegar court this week, Greg Reid received a suspended sen- tence and was placed on pro- bation for four months after he pleaded guilty to mischief in relation to public property. . 8 « Terrance Zibin pleaded guilty to impaired driving and was fined $400. ._ 8 Philip Markin received a suspended sentence after pleading not guilty to driving without due care and atten. tion. * © «© Wilma Lorinez received a suspended sentence and was placed on probation for seven months after pleading guilty = » Join the Future Today! As o Broker with Western Briefly NEW LEADER CHOSEN TORONTO (CP) — Canadian Presbyterians have chosen Rev. Charles Hay, a Toronto academic, as their next moderator, Hay, 66, former principal at Knox College and still a faculty member at the theologiea! school, will replace Rev. Joseph MeLelland, a professor at Montreal's McGill University, as the church's titular head at the Presbyterians’ 112th general assembly in June. Hay was chosen by a national ballot and his term is for one year. DOLLAR UP TORONTO (CP) — There was more good news for the Canadian dollar this week which closed comfortably above the 72-cent U.S. level for the first time in more than two weeks. The dollar closed at 72.15 cents U.S. after opening the week at 71.86 cents U.S. The last time the dollar broke through the 72-cent level was March 18. TALKS COLLAPSE ST. JOHN'S, NFLD. (CP) — Talks between the provincial government and the Newfoundland Associ- ation of Public Employees aimed at getting 5,500 illegally striking public servants back to work have collapsed. The talks broke off indefinitely Saturday when the two sides failed to agree on secondary issues in the dispute. “Government has given away the shop and (the union) still refuses to agree to go back to work,” Premier Brian Peckford told a news conference. 118-YEAR-OLD DIES BELLEVILLE, ONT. (CP) — David Trumble, unofficially the world’s oldest person, died Saturday at the reputed age of 118. Trumble, who died in hospital, had lived in the nursing home in nearby Cannifton for a number of years. He was not recognized as the world’s oldest person by the Guininéss Book’of World Records — that honor has been held by a 112-year-old British woman since the death of a 120-year-old Japanese man — but a government citizenship card lists his year of birth as 1867, SEARCH STARTS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Firefighters in California began work Saturday to clear away water and hot rubble blocking the search for at least seven people missing after a building complex that houses more than 100 businesses and studios exploded and burned, charring a square block and causing at least $10 million U.S. damage. “We're basically going to be pumping out the water today and searching for bodies,” said San Francisco deputy fire chief Charles Cresci BOMB BLASTS DISCO BERLIN (AP) — A terrorist bomb blast shattered a packed West Berlin nightclub on Saturday, killing a U.S. soldier and a young woman and wounding 155 people, including 44 Americans, authorities said. News organizations received three different claims of responsibility for the bomb explosion at 1:50 a.m. Berlin time, when about 500 people were crowded into the La Belle discotheque in the U.S. sector of this divided German city WOMAN DENIES BOMBING TRIPOLI, LEBANON (AP) A woman who identified herself as May Elias Mansur, the name of a suspect in the bombing of a TWA airliner over southern Greece, Saturday denied she had a role in “such a terrorist crime.” Four U.S. citizens died in the bombing ‘Authorities investigating Wednesday's bombing of TWA Flight 840 had said the “prime suspect” was May Elias Mansur The woman who said she was Mansur spoke to the Associated Press today at the headquarters of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in the port city of Tripoli, about 80 kilometres north of Beirut. ELEPHANTS RAMPAGE JAKARTA (AP) — A herd of 60 elephants went on a rampage and killed at least 15 villagers at a resettlement in Sumatra, a newspaper reported Saturday The newspaper Bisnis Indonesia said a villager reported to provincial Gov Yasir Hadibrototo that the elephants moved out from a forest preserve, attacked and killed the settlers and destroyed crops and houses at the Masuji Resettlement Centre, 400 kilometres northeast of Jakarta . « the Trail Pipe Band leads 9 Casth down 3rd Street in OPENING CEREMONIES . Royal Canadian Legion members a prior to the zone council meeting this weekend. ot the Legion's spring —Casttews Photo by Semon Birch STRIKE VOTE continued trom front poge and to fill vacancies with the best people available. While McAllister conceded that the two sides appear far apart in the negotiations, he said, “I've seen these things turn around very quickly. “We're flexible. We have an initial position that will be reduced by bar- gaining. We're prepared to trade things off —dollars for productive time. “If there's an opportunity to trade off benefits for wage increases, we'll talk about that.” However, he-added that the union has so far refused to discuss such trade-offs. The union says cost-sharing of medical, dental and insurance plans will reduce workers’ average gross monthly salary of $1,600 a month by about $133. Rollbacks in vacation time and the elinination of the current sick leave plan adds further costs to the workers, the union says. “When we add up all the concession demands that (Premier) Bill Bennett has put on the bargaining table, we come to as much as $4,000 a year or whelmingly in favor of striking. In addition to the HEU, the HLRA is negotiating with the 15,500-member British Columbia Nurses’ Union and the Health Sciences Association, which represents 5,500 health professionals such as physiotherapists. The HEU and HSA contracts ex- pired March 31 while the BCNU has been without a contract since March 31, 1985. McAllister said he has agreed with the BCNU not to say anything about the negotiations. “T've not much to say” about the HSA negotiations, McAllister said. “We've just exchanged agendas.” He said the HSA is demanding “es- sentially the same kind of things” that the HEU is asking for. McAllister said the government's budget announcement of a three-year, $720 million fund for health care in B.C. will be used to create new jobs in the health field rather than increase existing wages. He added that Thursday's resigna- tion of Health Minister Stephen Rogers will not directly affect the negotiations im any way. McAllister said he has had “a couple of ” to give the g an said in the interview. Wars strategy. “Ci i are Caldicott said it will take leadership to keep Canada from becoming involved in the U.S. Star “T'll have to listen to my inner voice and wait,” Gary Marchant, an End the Arms Race the organization “It's too bad she's leaving, but I can understand that it’s really wearing to do this for so-tong,” said Marchant. ‘tional to seek peace, not war. (in Amert nuclear strategy). You're part of the whole set-up.” Trudeau, she once briefed the federal cabinet She also met privately with U.S. President Ronald Reagan and said she took his hand in hers and urged him Canentt paloed eee cients eaaaeel update and briefing on the but that most of his contact with the Health Ministry is at the deputy min- ister level. testing of wor steapets 42 ths: Pacman In 1983-84 she toured New Zealand, leading a successful campaign to have nuclear weapons banned membet at the Harvard Medical School: Vatican says to fight ail right VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican, in a major document on the social role of the Roman Catholic Church, said today Christians have the right to fight unjust gov- ernments and even resort to armed struggle to end “pro- longed tyranny.” At the same time, it said the pastors of the church must not intervene directly in “the political construction and organization of social life. “It would be criminal to take the energies of popular piety and misdirect them to- ward a purely earthly plan of liberation,” said the 59-page document entitled Instruc- tion on Christian Freedom and Liberation. The document, dated March 22 and approved by Pope John Paul, was drawn up by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's watchdog over de- viations from the church's doctrines and teachings. The Vatican made the document lable to news organiza. tions Friday for release to- day. It mainly reiterates posi tions previously taken by the church. But Vatican officials said the document represen church's mission of seeking freedom and liberation in the modern world. Although the political and economic operation of society is not a direct part of its mission, the church has the mission of “enlightening consciences,” the document says. “One cannot passively ac cept, still less actively sup- port, groups which by force or by the manipulation of public opinion take over the state apparatus and unjustly impose on the collectivity an imported ideology contrary to the culture of the people.” Consequently, it is “per- fectly legitimate” that those who suffer oppression “on the part of the wealthy or the politically powerful should take action, through morally licit means, in order to secure structures and insti- tutions in which their rights will be truly respected,” the document states. It adds that the church also recognizes armed struggle “as a last resort to put an end to an obvious and prolonged tyranny which is gravely damaging the fundamental rights of individuals and the common good.” ted the first comp and binding guidelines on how bishops, priests and lay people should pursue the The d was promp- ted in part by the confusion created by liberation theolo- ogy Cominco to sell NWT gold mine VANCOUVER (CP) — Cominco Ltd. wants to sell its Con Gold Mine in Yellow. knife, the Vancouver-based company said Thursday. The mine has been a valuable asset for many years, but no longer fits into Comineco’'s long-term business strategy, company chairman M.N. Anderson said in a news release. The Con mine is the oldest producing gold property in the Northwest Territories. The first gold bar was poured in 1938 and since then, more than 4 million ounces of gold have been produced Production this year is expected to be about 88,000 ounces of gold, Cominco said The company has also indi cated it will “probably” sell its Black Angel lead-zine mine in Greenland. Tutu issues warning TORNOTO (CP) — Inter- national sanctions against the racist regime of South Africa are “our last chance” for reasonably peaceful change in the strife-torn country, Bishop Desmond Tutu warns in an exchange with the South African ambassador to Canada to be broadcast on CBC Radio. “Because of the anger and the growing bitterness, those of us who advocate peaceful change are losing their cred- ibility and are going to be pushed out of the way, and people who will not want to talk and negotiate are going to take our places,” said Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his campaign to end apartheid in South Africa. “We have suffered. We have begged. We have dem onstrated peacefully . . . Our children have been killed,” the Anglican bishop said. “We have done everything.” Tutu, who has risked trea- son charges by calling for international economic sanc- tions against the white-min- ority government, made his comments during a tape- recorded exchange with Am- bassador Glenn Babb, through a satellite link be- tween Johannesburg and Ot- tawa. The conversation will be broadcast today on the CBC radio news program Sunday Morning. Babb, whose defence of his government in speeches in various Canadian cities has “One just fears that if one is going to take a point of view of punishment that the downward spiral in the econ- omy is bound to increase violence rather than reduce it,” Babb told Tutu in the ex- ed - But the bishop said Babb's contention his government is bringing in reforms is non- sense. No rush for census jobs VANCOUVER (CP) — More than 4,000 jobs are available for taking the June 3 federal census in British Columbia, but in spite of an sparked Tutu a reconcili: between whites and blacks in South Africa would not come about through punish. ment. The way to “democracy, civil liberty and prosperity” is through a process of re form, he said. rate of 13.4 per cent, the response has been underwhelming, Unemployment in the 15 to 24-year-old range is 21.5 per cent, Donna Magnone, regional communications officer, said Friday. She said priority in hiring census-takers would be given to students and those in the 18-24 age group. Census-takers are paid on a piece rate based on an hourly rate of $7.30. The weeks with average earnings of $600 to $800. About half the jobs are in the Vancouver area, with 1,500 needed for Greater Vancouver and 500 for the Fraser Valley. EVE-CATCHER . . spirit with a new sign at the Highway 3 interchange . Castlegar gets some of the Expo promoting Vancouver's world fair opening in 26 days. Canttens trove