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Biagioni and F (ir- "Muster, “who operated a Brewery where what is now Known as the — Merlo Sr. built the prasent Union Hot Wootenay Hotel, bought the Bay View Hotel and the Pacific Hotel, and mov: The hotel has been owned and managed since 1952 by Fred Merlo, Jr them to the corner of Victoria St., at Cedar Ave. The union ut these two hotels in VICTORIA PLACE Sublimation can be used os dockets, Sweatshirts, Decale Custom Clocks ROGER CATALANO Owner/i manager Awards for any Budget * PLAQUES = * MEDALS * PINS * CERTIFICATES *NAMETAGS © TROPHIES * RIBBONS —+ SIGN * T-SHIRTS & HATS PRINTED * COMPUTERIZED ENGRAVING * GRAFIXMAKER DIGITIZER, TROPHIES & ENGRAVING System 300 Computerized Engraver You will be pleased with the range of items we can engrave * Dials * Arc Engraving ° Name Badges * Nameplates © Trophies * Specialty Items * Scales * Metal Marking * Signage * Tags * Directories * Plaques * Control Panels New to the Trail-Castlegar area... Sublimation! 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Keno lottery were 1, 4, 7, 22, 28, 34, 38 The $1,000,000 winning number in Fri- 3892344, Playoff action Scores and high. lights from Friday and Saturday games in the NHL... 81 rN ALEK LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY PARLIAMENT BLD VICTOR VBvV 1x [A EB can aweWS CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1990 WEATHERCAST Today: sarin etsloved today, 70 per cent-for 3 Sections (A, B & C) POST OFFICE PROTEST . In Vancouver. By CasNews Staff About 50 people and a class from Robson elementary school demonstrated outside the Robson Post office Wednesday to protest the planned privatization of the federal service and the impending closure of the office April 20, a spokesman for the Robson Post Office Ad Hoc Committee said. Kathy Armstrong said the demonstration was timed to coin- cide with an anti-privatization Protest outside the main post of- fice in Vancouver. During the demonstration the ad hoc commit- tee handed out the anti- Privatization ‘‘Banana Post’’ stamps that have been printed by Rural Dignity, a national Organization opposed to the closure of rural post offices, she added. + + Robson resid de privatization and closure of the Robson post off Canada Post announced last month that if a local business could not be found to take ovet a ‘postal-_franchise-by-March 30 the Post office would be closed April 20. Larry Koftinoff, the owner of Johnny’s Grocery, has said he would be willing to lease part of his store to the federal gover- nment_to allow _Canada—Post—to continue operating in Robson but he is not interested in a franchise No other Robson businessper- Son expressed interest in the fran- chise before the end of March. Armstrong said that despite the nearing deadline for closure of the Post office the committee doesn’t plan to give up its fight to keep the service in Robson and added the committee is hopeful Regional District of Central Kootenay director of Area J Ken WyHie wilt ice while a similar de: Y¥ against the planned monstration is held Protesters demonstrate Opposition to closure file for an injunction to halt the closure. i Wyllie, a Robson resident and a Tawyer, has said he will consider launching court action against Canada Post if the RDCK’s lawyers determine Canada Post acted improperly. As—well, the committee —has asked for a meeting with J.D. Zayac, Canada Post manager of rural services for the Pacific Division, but so far no meeting has been arranged, Armstrong said, adding the committee is frus- trated with the lack of response from Zayac to their many letters on the privitization issue. Meanwhile, the deadline Passed Friday for returning a Canada Post questionnaire asking Robson residents what form of postal ser- tontinved on page A2 Union condemns expansion delay By CasNews Staff The business. manager for Local ~170 of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union has condemned the delay of _ the-Celgar pulp mill expansion in Castlegar saying it means continued Pollution of the air and water in the area and will harm the area’s economy. The provincial government’s major Project review process committee, backed by B.C. Environment Minister John Reynolds, last_week denied approval in Principal for the A d envi PQ an tal cleanup of the mill until Ceigar Provides more information onthe “project. Thé delay may hold up the Project for as tong as six months. ““It_makes absolutely no_sense,"’ John Wynne said of the delay. ‘‘The Purpose of the expansion was to build the most up-to-date pollution-free Pulp facility. Now the Ministry (of Environment) is saying it’s all right to spew pollutants into the air and water for the next six months and longer un- til the new plant can be built.’* Wynne said he believes the delay will ‘‘seriously harm the economics.of the area.’’ “We have people who were stated- to start work on the project this sum- mer,’’ he said. ‘Now they will be out of work for up to six months.”” “There are jobs that are winding down—now- and the availability of many trades, including ours,-will be- high,” Wynne added. “‘Six months from now, who knows what the availability will be like. It doesn’t matter from which direction you look at what the ministry has done it is a Stupid decision” that will cause_ far more harm than good.”” Bob Lerch, co-chairman of the Coalition for Information on the Pulp Mill Expansion, said “it’s un- fortunate that local contractors are Now getting caught up in this Political shell game between Celgar and the Provincial government.”” However, CIPE spokesman Craig Lawrence said the review committee's decision to delay granting approval in Principle to the project *‘is-a mecessary and important one."’ “We have been Saying all along ‘that-there are information gaps in the documents Celgar presented to. the Public,”” Lawrence said. “You cannot form~a-complete_opinion on Partial evidence and the (review committee) is in agreement on that.” To make his point, Lawrence drew a comparison. “If T were a carpenter looking at some blueprints and I found there were key pieces missing, would I build knowing (the building) might collap- se?" he said. ‘No, I would want them Corrected first. Celgar-has_put out an incomplete blueprint, so to speak, and professionals in government are agreeing with the public that (the Plans) are incomplete and need some changes before any approval in Prin- ciple can be given.”’ Lawrence said certain Parts of continued on page A2 Board will inform public before vote, Turner says By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer The Castlegar school board-will work with interested Parent groups Over thé Hext three weeks to inform area spend between vertising. 000 and $5,000 on Preparations and ad- _The decision to go to referendum ‘‘was not (taken) without a lot of soul Searching—on_our-parts,”’ Turner Conroy confident of hi «By SIMON BIRCH Editor Castlegar school trustee Ed Conroy said he is confident he has a chance to unseat long-time Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D’Arcy as the two men head into the last month of the cam- Paign to snare the New Democratic Party nomin: In an interview with the Castlegar News last week, Conroy said he has elected to the legislature in 1972. Conroy listed his experience in education, labor, forestry, agriculture and small business as strong selling Points for an appointment to cabinet if he is the MLA. “I think those qualifications would make me just as likely for a cabinet Post as seniority when the NDP forms the next government,”’ he said. Conroy said Celgar Pulp Co.'s ion and i dispelled doubts about his among some local party members by pointing out his successful campaigns for a seat on the Castlegar school board and numerous elected positions with his union, the Canadian Mer- chant Service Guild, and with the Kootenay Hereford Association. “I think the question of whether or not I’m electable can be put on the ‘back burner, ** Conroy said. He also dismissed the argument that choosing him instead of D’Arcy is throwing away a chance to have the Rossland-Trail MLA in cabinet if the NDP forms the next government. D'Arcy is considered by many to be a front-runner for a cabinet post because of his seniority — he was first Proposed - tatl cleanup of i Castlegar mitt — and the provincial government's recent announcement it will delay ap- Proval of the project to gather more information — is the top issue among most residents of the constituency’ he has talked to during his campaign. “T think a majority of the Public are upset” about the delay, he sai noting that the issue of how the Project should be handled has split the community, coming down on one side or residents about the board’s decision to go to the people for $200,000 to help implement the new Primary program in the fall, board chairman Gordon Turner sai following the last week by Ed Minister Tony Brummet that referendums on tax increases must be held by school districts April 28. “The reaction in the community (to an education tax increase) is fairly mixed,"* Turner said Friday, but-‘we're going to get to as many people as we can and get the in- formation out. “(Three weeks) may not be enough time,” he said, “but we feel it (the referendum system) should be tested."” The board must publicize the referendum for at least a week before the vote and Turner said the board plans to said Wednesday during a news conference to announce the board’s plans. “*We can deliver the Primary program to some extent with the funds provided but we would like to deliver the Program in an exceptional way," he said, referring to the $12.3 million the board has Teceived to run the school district for the next school year under the provincial government's new block-funding program. A simple majority, or 50 per cent plus one, is needed to pass the referendum that the board says will increase Property taxes this year by roughly $1 for every $1,000 of assessed property value. For property assessed at $32,560, the tax increase will continued on page A2 another,"’ headded. ‘‘I find that a lit- tle ‘disconcerting at this point in time." Conroy said he sees no need for a Possible six-month delay of the Project while Celgar responds to the Stage-two requirements of the provin- ial government's major project Treview process and the review process committee evaluates the responses. “I don’t know what else is going to be said. I think everything that has to be said has been said in one way, shape or form. Why do we have to wait six months? Why can’t the government get their people in here in 30 days, notify all those People if they want to make submissions, make a decision and let’s get on with it.”’ Conroy said Ceigar has made a i build an to tally clean pulp mill. “‘If-there’s some changes that have to be made I’m sure they'll be making them,”’ he said. dn’t see that as a major problem.” Turning to other issues in the riding, Conroy said West Kootenay Power should move its storage site for s electability PCBs out of the residential area in Warfield “All that's involved really is a chain-link fence and a gravel base and they seem to be stuck on having it there (in Warfield),"’ he said. ‘‘I can’t figure out why. We're not talking any kind of high dollar to move it to an area that woilld be suitable."’ Conroy saidthat if WKP currently doesn’t have any property suitable for the storage of toxic waste then the company should buy some. However, he said it’s also up to the Provincial government to establish Storage areas for toxic waste and to arrange for the destruction of the sub- stances. “I think this is where it’s incum- bent on government to build regional sites,"’ Conroy said. ‘I’m not really Continued on pege A2