FE Casi___... News 23 THURSDAY NIGHT CRASH llegar, B.C. 2 Sections (A and B) 75 cents Going for a walk on local trails CasNews photo by Simon Birch An ambulance attendant provides medical attention to Maria Melo of Castlegar after the car she was driving crashed into the back of a parked dump truck on Arrow Lakes Drive Thursday night. Melo was taken to Castlegar Hospital. The RCMP sald Friday her injuries aren't serious. Repaving proposal runs Downpour set new record July 16's dow: ir set a record for daily precipitation, the stlegar weather office reports. A thunderstorm that day drenched the area with 22.7 mm of rain, breaking the old record of 12.6 mm set in 1983, the weather office says in its monthly summary. The downpour helped raise the precipitation into roadblock at meeting Alderman balks at $115,000 budget amendment without more info “I just don’t want to deal with the the city has money left over from from 4th Street to 5th Street; and for the month to 62.5 mm, almost 20 mm above the normal 43.9 mm for July. Despite the above-normal rainfall, Castlegar managed to record above normal sunshine for July. The weather office, located at Castlegar , fecorded 314.2 hours of sunshine last month. Normal for July is 305 hours. The record for the month was set in 1985. when the sun shone for 396.7 hours. The hottest day last month was July 3 with a temperature of 34.3. The mean temperature for the month was 20.1, slightly above normal. jOTE OF THE WEEK ‘Our roads are By SIMON BIRCH Editor A $115,000 repaving project for several streets in Castlegar hit a roadblock at a special meeting of city council Thursday night. Council agreed to table the pro- posal until a meeting on Aug. 12 after Ald. Doreen Smecher balked at amending the city’s 1991 budget to include the expenditure. Smecher, council's Soares chai: man, said she disagreed with spend- ing the money until director of finance Jacquie Hamilton presents council with a list of all budget amendments and unallocated rev- enue at that meeting. issue in isolation,” Smecher said after Thursday’s meeting. “I don’t understand why all of a sudden (paving) is a major emergency now. If it was an emergency situation it should have been dealt with in the spring.” Council approves its final budget in May. But city administrator Gary Williams said the city at that time didn’t know how much revenue it would earn in building permit fees from the Celgar pulp mill expansion Project. e amount is some $400,000, Williams said Thursday. In addition, projects in the 1991 budget which cost less than anticipated and funds from projects the city planned but won’t undertake this year, he said. Hamilton’s list will include the unallocated revenué and proposed budget amendments. “If paving is the best place to spend the money, I agree,” Smecher. said. The proposal calls for repaving of the following streets: 24th Street from Columbia Avenue to 5th Avenue; 27th Street from 9th Avenue to 10th Avenue and from 4th Avenue to 5th Avenue; 6th Avenue from 27th Street to 24th Street and 4th Street from 3rd Avenue to 4th Avenue. A number of other streets are slated for repaving in the second of the proposed resurfacing pro- The streets needing resurfacing most were identified in a 1989 study. “I don’t think there’s anything better that money could be spent on than roads,” Ald. Bob Pakula said. “Our roads are atrocious around here and should have been done years ago.” Council plans to present a repaving referendum to the voters in the spring. atrocious around here and should have been done years ago.’ — Ald. 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