B6 Castlegar News July 27, 1991 Lach Farrell (left) and Don McDowell receive Pau! Harris Fellowship certificates and medals, the Rotary club's highest award for service. As part of the award, each recipient will have a $1,300 schol- arship for Selkirk College set up in his namé. Quilt show features some of B.C.'s best About 160 quilts from all over the B.C. Interior will be on dis- play Aug. 2, 3 and 4 in Grand Forks during the Quilt Classic TII quilt show. Put together by the Grand Forks Quilt connection, this year’s show will feature guest quilters Angelika Krause-Werth of Salmo on Aug. 2 and 3 and Donna Pringle on Aug. 4. Quilts entered in the Super Natural B.C. competition will also be on hand, including a quilt made by Emilie Belak which received one of five merit awards at a recent B.C. Festival of the Arts competition. The show is being held at the curling rink on Hwy. 3. Doors are open Aug. 2 from noon to 8:30 p.m.; Aug. 3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Aug. 4 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $2 and children under 12 years are free. BIRTHS ANDERSON — To Wendy Anderson of Kaslo, a boy, born July 18. CALDER — To Jennifer and ~ Wade Calder of Nelson, a boy, born July 11. eee HALE — To Linda and: James Hale of Nelson, a boy, born July 15. eee HANES — To Val Hanes of New Denver, a boy, born July 14. eee LOCKHART — To Sheila Lock- hart of Nelson, a boy, born July 13, NEWBERRY — To Naomi Newberry of Nelson, a girl, born July 14. eee OLSON/JONES — To Lil Olson and Rick Jones of Kaslo, a boy, born July 13. eee ORTON — To Myra and Ron Orton of Glade, a girl, born July 18. Local Socred blames Couveélier for McCarthy's failed. bid By CasNews Staff There's no doubt in Burt Campbell's mind who's to blame for Grace McCarthy’s unsuccess- ful bid for the leadership of the Social Credit party — Mel Cou- velier. The former finance minister fired earlier this year by Pre- mier Rita Johnston for an alleged breach of confidentiality over the Fantasy Gardens scan- dal that brought down former prentier Bill Vander Zalm surprised everybody by throw- ing his support behind Johnston after he was eliminated on the first ballot at last weekend’s leadership convention in Van- couver. “It was definitely Couvelier’s move that elected Rita,” said Campbell, a McCarthy support- er. “All he had to do was have 30 people follow him.” Campbell said Couvelier’s move surprised even the former BURT CAMPBELL -No doubt minister’s campaign workers. “There was absolute shock on the faces of many of his people,” Campbell said. “Here’s the wom- an who kicked him out of cabi- net and he's saying ‘Unity,’ so he goes with the woman who's behind” after the first ballot. McCarthy led with 659 votes after the first ballot. Johnston had 652, Couvelier 331, Norm Jacobsen 169 and Duane Cran- dall 35. 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Two Available! ‘91 Olds Calais 442 ‘91 Chevy Beretta GT V6 fuel injected, 5-speed, air cond., stereo, tilt steering, cruise control, mag wheels NEWS BI os Slocan reports $4.2 m loss VANCOUVER — A $133,000 loss in the second quarter resulted in a loss of $4.2 million or 37 cents a share for Slocan Forest Products. latest results compare with year-earlier s of $1.9 million in the second quarter and $2.8 million or 26 cents a share in the six months ended June 30, Six-month sales fell to $96 million from $115.1 million in 1990, the company said. A tree farm licence is a geographic area of Crown land for which one company has exclusive rights to timber harvesting. For this, the company pays both an annual rent and a fee for every cubic metre the company hi . The also has obligations to manage the resources of the area. The company must allow for all other users of the geographic area, including fish and wildlife management, mining, wilderness enjoyment and other recreational interests. Westar Timber's tree farm licence 23 encompasses a total area of 762,000 hectares or which 35 per cent — 264,000 hectares - is suitable, ber harvest. Cessna crashes at airport Planes pilot, Jeff Nielsen, 16, escapes with bruised collarbone By CasNews Staff A 16-year-old Castlegar pilot escaped serious injury Sunday when , the Cessna 172 he was flying crashed at the Castlegar Airport. Jeff Nielsen was treated at hospi- tal for a bruised collarbone and later released, Jeff's father and president of Adastra Aviation, Dale Nielsen, said Monday. The plane, owned by Adastra, received extensive damage. The cause of the crash is still unknown, Nielsen said, but an investigation is underway for the Canadian Aviation Safety Board. “I really can’t comment on any- thing while it’s under investigation, (but) we’ve taken the photos, and I’ve got the stat from my information.” The safety board is too short staffed to come out to every accident, Nielsen said. The board may want more infor- mation but “basically between what we do and what the insurance djuster does will be accepted,” he son,” Nielsen said. “Because there was no serious injury or death, they’re going to have myself and my mechanic write up the reports. “The insurfnce adjuster will veri- fy it and then we'll send in all the said. The investigation will start by iewing Jeff Nielsen’s “We don’t have to take the air- plane completely apart, we just have to look in certain areas,” Dale Nielsen said. Details of the crash are sketchy but Nielsen ‘said the plane ‘was air- borne — “just.” Further details won't be until the safety board is “and then take a look in the areas that might possibly have been a cause.” with the infe Pp approves the investigation. “That could take some time,” Nielsen said. THE LAST SPIKE CP Rall workers (from left) Dean Harder, Raj Ghuman and Parmjit Tamber were out today fixing the tracks near the Celgar pulp mill that were damaged by a railcar. 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Her brother, Michael Cassidy, 43, was hospitalized last Friday with a broken skull after being severely kicked and beaten over the head with a blunt object. The first beating occurred at 2 a.m., June 2, at his Lemon Creek home. Cassidy, a goat farmer who recently moved to the valley, was beaten with a baseball bat and stabbed in the arm. They anti-gay attack was followed by another one the next evening on other members in the house. Valley resident Brent Steven Win- je, 21, has been charged with assault in last Friday’s beating. He was denied bail at a show cause hearing in Nelson Provincial Court on Tues- day. There were unconfirmed reports this afternoon that three more peo- ple had been arrested in connection with the case. Carter says she has provided police with six mare names of men she believes are involved in the three beatings. “With the psychological and phys- ical trauma that my brother has experienced, he would not feel secure upon release from hospital,” says Carter. 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Chance hi or Friday's outlook is for a Highs continuation of weather. Probability of precipitation is 20 per cent a tonight, rising to 40 per cent Thursday and Friday. who could be affected by the $22 million bridge that will link Castlegar and Robson, a ministry spokesman said Monday. “There's only been one. extremely hos- tile person,” said Barry Eastman, region- al manager of professional services, adding that the resident did become more approachable after initial discussions. “But the majority of people that Randy (@uksa, a ministry property agent) spoke to said ‘Well, that's nice, I was looking for an excuse to move to Kelowna anyway ‘and was looking for a way to sell,’* A specific description of the bridge site and the exact number of properties affected won't be available until final plans are in place. In the meantime, the ministry esti- road affect- the fall of 1993. mates about 12 properties will be InfoCentre gets two thumbs up ed — some which are owned by the min- istry, some by the City of Castlegar, and “quite a few rentals.” However, Eastman stressed that the estimated number of affected properties is preliminary. “We're just trying to cover off all the bases so there won't be any surprises,” he said. Preliminary plans call for the bridge to end on the Castlegar side in the 100 block of Columbia Avenue di up By CasNews Staff An inspector with the Min- istry of Development, Trade and Tourism gave the Castle- gar Travel InfoCentre two thumbs up last week after an annual evaluation. “Castlegar is great,” InfoNetwork counsellor Gail Greenwood said during her visit from Victoria. “Other communities would die to have it like this.” quiet atmosphere at the cen- tre, combined with generous parking space and a location that gets travellers off the busy highways, goes a long way to keeping visitors, and their money, in the area. “I've found that visitors when they're in a relaxed set- ting like this... you give them an opportunity to think about it and they have a hee to BS the informa- to the railway tracks. Eastman said “some” homes on both sides of Columbia Avenue would be 5 On the Robson side, four p: rties may be affected where the bridge “touches down” about 120 to 150 metres upstream of the CPR train » in the old Waldie mill site area, ex! up to somewhere around the old Raspberry and design, the staff and the centre's resource ‘ “You have a wonderful facility here with a log cabin, board room, meeting room, the space in the Info tre. It’s nice when you have all the Services together like tion you've given them,” G d said, The staff also received high scores for the experience they bring to their jobs — Castle- gar is the only InfoCentre to have all of its staff return for a second season. One staff member + for a season. : school. Construction of the bridge and in is slated for 1 this.’ < Eee She said the Foo! ‘and