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And the Ministry of Education has granted the ‘school district more than $21,000 to remove asbestos-containing materials from the basement and boiler room at Stanley Humphries secondary school, school district John Dascher said. 7 ‘The contract has been awarded for the work which should be completed in- July, Dascher said, adding the material will be removed before the planned _reriovations to the school begin. At the hospital, asbestos, consid- ered an agent in causing lung cancer, has been found in the insulation of some heating and boiler piping, in an and in the floor tile in one area of the hospital, Talarico said. Study results indicate the material, in the-construstion of the original hospital building in 1958, Poses no immediate danger although hospital personnel working in those areas have been made aware of the potential hazard, he said. The expan- please see ASBESTOS page A2 Board endorses theatre By CasNews Staff The Castlegar school board has en- dorsed in principle a plan to convert the activity room at Stanley Hum- Phries secondary school into a com- munity theatre. Trustee Doreen Smecher told the board Monday the Castlegar and District Project Society plans {6 raise close to $2 million for the project. Smecher and assistant i who is on a tour of the Kootenay area, spoke last night I monitoring ¢ Hery speeches to an audience in Trail. Barrett, im Trail. — costews photo by Cloudette Sondeck! Barrett blasts Tories in Trail whistle-stop By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer The most serious problem facing Canada today is the likelihood the government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will allow the social fabric of Canada to be eroded to give in to the American desire for a ‘‘level playing field’’ between the two countries under the free tr- ade agreement, NDP MP Dave Barrett said. The Meech Lake accord, which is getting more media attention than the free-trade deal, does not have the same potential impact on the country as the possibility of lost jobs and social programs under the trade deal, Barrett told about 85 people during a dinner speech in Trail Tuesday night. Barrett represents the riding of Esquimalt- Juan de Fuca. “If you don’t like Meech Lake, go to another lake and start over again,”’ said the former B.C. premier who known for his fire-and-brimstone speaking style-and quick wit. The dent of schools Lach Farrell assured trustee Mickey Kinakin the board would retain the same control over the staging of events in a new theatre as it does over any other events plan- ned for school facilities. The theatre will still belong to the school district despite its community designation, said Farrell, who is chairman of the Castlegar Arts Council committee that is proposing the project. The Ministry of Education is expec- ted to provide some money to upgrade the stage already in the ac- tivity room if it approves funds for please see THEATRE page A2 without hotes. “I’m convinced that if John Diefenbaker were alive today he'd go up and punch Mulroney right in the mouth,”’ Barrett said, referring to the former Prime minister’s belief in keeping Canada distinct from the U.S. The Tories are also eroding the communication links within the country that have always tied Canadians together, Barrett said, pointing to the funding cuts to Canada’s national television network, the CBC, and the cuts to Via Rail and railway freight service across the country. “I'd like to give a funny speech, I'd like to tell jokes about the government,” he said. ‘But I have never en- of the problem is the Conservative government’s lack of concern for the principles and Philosophies that have made Canadians different from Americans, said Barrett, who spoke for about 45 minutes ‘valley By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer CP Rail has no plans to abandon the rail link between Slocan and South Slocan but the line is being monitored along with all other bran- ch lines to ensure the rail link is still needed, CP’s manager of public af- fairs for Western Canada said. “(The Slocan Valley line) is typical of such short—subdivisions,”” Don Bower said Tuesday. ‘‘It requires us to look at it on an ongoing basis as the ‘expressed by about-70-Slocan Valley residents who turned out Friday for a the loss of 17 CP jobs in Nelson and what the valley residents see as possible effects of the layoffs on their line company officials are making the same assumption based on past events despite receiving no official word from CP of abandonment or service slowdown for the sawmill. Offermann said a slowdown of rail service to the mill and the Possibility of abandonment of the line could lead to layoffs at the mill when workers: who load rail cars are no lo needed, . — As well, speakers at the demon- Stration reminded protesters that a in rail traffic will mean an increase in chip-truck traffic from Slocan Forest Products to the Celgar Pulp mill in Castlegar. More trucks on Highway 6 will make the road more ne for local drivers, speakers ‘The CP workers, who make up the entire customer service staff at the Nelson office, were—informed Ii week they will be laid off Aug. 3.50 that CP can consolidate its service, Jim Robertson, chairman of Local -_ of the Transportation and Speake in- cluding Klaus Offermann, business agent for Local 1-405 of the Inter- the past been the first step to aban- countered anything as bad as this except an occasional doning lines. Socred government in B.C. “And they do it out of stupidity. (The Conservatives) do it out of cupidity,”’ Barrett quipped. But Canadians are not fighting back against the Tory Policies because they do not believe what is happening in the country today could happen here, Barrett said, referring to conclusions he came to while travelling across Canada last year to put together an NDP Teport on free trade. Barrett is the NDP trade critic, Everyone, including the_small-business people who helped elect the Conservatives, take Canadian social Programs for granted, he said, and ait Canadians must realize what is happening now under the ‘Canada-U.S. trade deal because the situation could get worse if Canada joins the United States in a trade agreement with Mexico. Americans already consider such as SFP divisional manager Terry Dods told the Castlegar News on Saturday Health-ca to get checkup By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Weiter ‘The next step in the development of a health-care plan that would co- ordinate all East and West Kootenay Medicare to be “‘unfair subsidies’ and want Canada to do away with those programs to allow U.S. businesses to warned. compete with Canadian businesses on an equal level, he said. If a deal is struck with Mexico, social programs will be under greater assault and many Canadian jobs will move to a duty-free zone on the Mexican border, Barrett One way to stop the trends being established by the trade deal is to elect a New Democrat as premier of B.C., who will be a voice at the bargaining table standing up for Canadians programs and jobs, he said. Premier Bill Vander Zalm is not a strong voice, Barrett said. For instance, the premier’s states his op- Position to the proposed goods and services tax but along with the other premiers has sent members of his staff to Ottawa to discuss how the GST can be combined with Provincial sales tax, Barrett said. Canada is at a pivotal point now with the trade deal in place and the GST on the horizon, he said and a New please see BARRETT page A2 agencies—and~ or that deliver health-care services will be for the steering committees in both regions to discuss issued raised by the Public and health izati Union, said last week. Laying off workers in Nelson is not the first sign of abandonment of a line but the last sign of the centralization of the Kootenay and Revelstoke of- fices in Revelstoke, Bower said. “It’s the logical outgrowth of a Process that was started about two years ago,"’ he said. re plan t ministrator Ken Talarico, would like to see the plan carried out by existing boards, a letter from Talarico to the Central Kootenay Regional Hospital District board said. The board voted last week to request more information on the plan before determining its Position on the issue. The hospital district board is com- during public meetings, the chairman of the West Kootenay steering com- mittee said. Questions raised about the plan in- clude concerns that the plan will lead to another level of bureaucracy in the health-care sector and that the Steering committee does not Properly represent all facets of health-care delivery in the region, said Gary Kjolberg, who is also the ad- ministrator of Trail Regional Hospital. The Castlegar and District Hospital board, which is represented on the Steering committee by hospital ad- posed of the of the Regional District of Central Kootenay board and is responsible for all the hospitals in the regional district's jurisdiction including Castlegar Hospital and Kootenay Lake District Hospital in Nelson. The Castlegar Hospital board en- dorses the concept of the plan but is concerned that local health-care councils and a regional health-care council that would be set up under the plan will have the power to turn down @ hospital’s request for funding from the Ministry of Health, Talarico said. Hospital boards currently deal please see HEALTH page A2 Septic Service BOY SERVICE Sump & Septic Tank Pumping Phone 365-5013 3400-4th Avenue Castlegar COLEMAN COUNTRY iSlowdown hits roadblock By SIMON BIRCH Editor Castlegar city council has run into a roadblock in its bid to reduce the speed limit on Columbia Avenue in the southern part of the city. Ald. Lawrence Chernoff told coun- cil last week that Don Hutton, the K Be y district hi manager, said the Highways Ministry is not in favor of relocating the 70 kilometre-per-hour transition zone near 32nd Street and extending the 60 ‘km-h-zone further south: The city has SILVER CREST PLUMBING 713 Tamarak $t., Castleger fay-Fe ‘Built-in Vacuum Systems Comvenign! © Ulicsent STARTING AS Low as PHONE 365-3222 Call 365-3044 “9 SELKIRK HOME CARE SERVIC! 365-5087 . the changes because of safety concerns. Chernoff told the Castlegar News he met with Hutton again May 9 but @pfailed to change the district manager's mind. ie wouldn't change anything,” Ministry puts brakes on speed-zone changes said Chernoff, chairman of council’s Protective services committee. Chernoff said Hutton told him the Highways Ministry would take another look at the situation next spring. “I told him that wasn’t good enough,”* Chernoff said. Council is concerned about the speeds in the area because of the large number of pedestrians — children — who use the crosswalk across Columbia Avenue at 32nd Street and because of new residential construction in the Birchland Heights Subdivision; 37th Street where it meets Columbia Avenue is the only main access to the subdivision and the intersection is located in the current 70 km-h zone. It’s that transition Speed zone between the 60 km-h zone in the city and the 90 km-h zone which Starts just before the Industrial Park that council wants the Highways Ministry to move south. Chernoff said the 70 km-h zone should start around where the 90 km-h currently However, in a letter to council, ‘Hutton says the ministry is not in = favor of reducing the speed limit in the area because: © The existing 70 km-h zone acts as a transition; © Pedestrian traffic significant in the area; * 37th Street is the only access in the area; * The 70 km-h speed is safe for the area; * Eliminating the 70 km-h zone would create a “‘speed trap” — an area where the need for reduced speed is not obvious to a driver; and © Reducing the speed ‘‘is not in the best interest of the travelling public.”’ Council will document more statistics. on pedestrian and vehicle traffic in the area and will plead its case before senior Highways Ministry officials, is not <—- ee ye & BLOOMIN' GREAT