Sian Cuma Irene as HIGHWAYS — TENDERS . fossiand: Trail Highway Distri otenay Boundary ject or, Job Number: £5652 Con Job Description Pp sists of the installatio service and attraction signs various locations in the Kootenay Boundary Highways District in the Rossland, Trail and Castlegar areas Tender Opening Date/Time: May 17 1989 at 2:00 p.m. local time Surety Bid Bond or Certitied Deposit Cheque is not required Tender documents with envelope. specitications ond conditions ere available tree ot charge ONLY trom The Ministry Ot fice, 555 Centrat Avenue; Grond Forks or 2288 Columbia Avenue. Rossland between the hours of 8:30 ‘and 4:00 p.m, Monday to Friday; ex cept Holidays Phone number of originating office Grand Forks 442-5477, Rossland 362 7331 Tenders will be opened ot the Ministry Office, 555 Central Avenue Grand Forks, British Columbia 0:1: HUTTON \ District Highways Manager Ministry Otficial HIGHWAYS-TENDER Electoral District: Nelson-Creston Highway District; Central Kootenay Project or Job Number: 13101 /1989/90 Project or Job Description: Trattic Control Service Contract within the Central Kootenay Highways Led ict (Nelson-New Denver eas) Tender Opening Date/Time: Thur jay, June 1, 1989 at 2:00 p.m Surety Bid Bond or C Cheque is not requi d Deposit nts with envelope, ions and conditions are available tree o chorge ONLY from Ministry of Tran: sportation and Highways, 820 Nelson Avenue, Nelson, B.C. ViL 2N9 ber- Phone number of originating office: 354-6521 Tendérs will be opened at Ministry of Transportation and Highways District Otfice, 820 Nelson Avenue, Nelson B.C. VIL 2N9. D.P. WILLIAMS: District Highways Manager FREEDOM “ns: a To MOVE ; Province of British Columbia Ministry of Transportation ‘and Highways PUBLIC NOTICE Pesticide Use Permit The Pesticide Contro! Branch has granted a Pesticide Control Act Public Land Use Permit for the use of Simmaprim 9-T (simazine) P.C.P. No. 18492 on road shaviders in the following District Permit No. 102-488-89/91 aved highways within the Rossland 1 HIGHWAYS-TENDERS Electoral District: Nelson-Creston trict: Central Kootenay 10 Project or Job Number: E5652-310 Project or Job Description: Sign Installation and Removal The tender sum for this project is to include Federal and Provincial Sales Tox and any increases in such toxes imposed during the life of the Con: tract. The lowest or any tender will. not necessarily be accepted Tender Opening Date/Time: May 23 1989 at 2:00 p.m. (Local Time) File: 10-0-23) Surety Bid Bond or Certified Deposit heque is not requires trict kW. shed ighway 3, Castlegar to Ootischenia Rest Area), 25 ha. The purpose of said Permit is to con: Treatments will toke place between September |, 1989 and October 31 The Permit may be viewed at the of fices of the Ministry of Transpor tation and Highways at 310 Ward Street, Nelson, British Columbia telephone number 362-7331 G.J. SUTHERLAND, P. ENG. jal Director, Highways for nsportation and High: DATED May at Nelson, British Columbia EREEDOM Movs ciuargpenaven Tender plans with envelope. Ministry tation/ Highways Avenue, Nelson, 8.C. VIL 2N9 bet ween the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday to Friday, except Holidays. Phone number of orginating office 354-6521 Tenders will be opened at Ministry of Transportation Highways District OF fice, 820 Nelson Avenue, Nelson. B.C. VIL 2N9. DAN WILLIAMS District Highways Monager FREEDOM Miniary of Teangportation MOVE oa eT ™ In Memoriam CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY. in memoriam donations. Information Box 3292, Castlegar, 365-5167 104/17 IN LOVING MEMORY of.o dear mother a Nastia Stoopnikott May 16, 1988 Dearer.to us thon words con tell Are the thoughs of oF Alway dough N who passed away Rate hearings to begin OTTAWA (CP) — A Commons committee will begin hearings on credit card interest rates around June 12 but they won't be an exercise in bank bashing, chairman Garth Turner said. “We aren’t waving sabre} around here but I think consumers have a right to know,"’ said Turner, a Conservative MP. The atf-party committee is anxious to have credit card issuers — banks, department stores, airlines and oil companies — appear as witnesses, as well as interested organizations such as consumers groups. Several department stores and gasoline credit cards now charge in- terest rates on unpaid balances as high as 28.8 per cent, Turner said in an in- terview. Ahd committee members are curious about why there is a 16-point spread between that and the bank rate. The committee wants credit card issuers to explain to consumers how they arrive at their rate structure. “We are also concerned that the grace period, the period of time before interést payments click in, is steadily eroding,” he said, BUSINESS DIRECTORY TELEPHONE 365-5210 N Busin of June. for the Castlegar News , copy ch and $ Directory will be accepted up to 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 30 for the month Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Avenue Castiegar * 365-2151 Gordon A. Read & Co. 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The education tax increase — which will be about $57 for the average homeowner with a home assessed at $50,000 will be hard on taxpayers even with the $50 increase in the homeowner grant and council didn't want to make the situation worse for taxpayers, the aldermen said “We're taxpayers too,"’ said Ald. Len Chernoff, *‘and one reason I'm here is because I don’t want to see huge tax hikes,"’ ‘ The tax increase will be about $18 for the average homeowner to accom- modate the overall increase in, the budget but that figure is not totally ac- curate because of the 5.2 per cent decrease this year in property assessment, according to finance committee chairman Ald. Doreen Smecher The most accurate way to calculate the increase is as 77 cents per $1,000 of assessed value, she said. Mayor Audrey Moore said council did “a credible job keeping the in- Vol. 41, No. 40 60 Cents GISLATIVE JILLE «Ce ‘explain tax increase crease to a bare minimum,” roughly the same rate of increase as the con: sumer price index. Calling the budget ‘‘lean and tight,"’ she said revenue is shrinking and the cost of power and gas is going up. The budget provides for no new ser- vices, she said, just maintains the existing services “effectively and ef- ficiently."* If a taxpayer complained his taxes are too high this year, Moore said she would ask him, **What services would you like to cut back on?"’ Parks and recreation committee chairman Patti Richards and Ald. Marilyn Mathieson said they wanted to see more funds for parks but Richards said she was happy with the ap- proximately $10,000 going for the balifield by the Ci Somplex. The rest of the grant money will go for new city signs, the Zuckerberg Island bridge and the railway bridge*in h Moore said priority was given to parks this year because of the B.C conference on parks and recreation that will be held in Castlegar next year. The funds for the ballfield will come from the $40,000 the city will receive this year from B.C. Hydro under the new grant6-in-lieu-of-taxes program the provincial government has im posed on the company. B.C. Hydro does not currently pay taxes on its Columbia river dams under the treaty agreement. Mathieson said the council decided ‘Smecher said last week the total budget is $8.02 million. In fact, the total budget is just over $4 million 3 As well, the Castlegar News repor- to “hold tight” on road this year, optiiig instead to provide $450,000 for substantial paving next year. The budget also provides $1 million over the next two years for a new police the paving and the new building are set to go to referendum next year) according to Smecher Castlegar taxpayers will pay a total of $2.6 million in taxes for the budget. CASTLEGAR, BRITISH.COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1989 ted are down $13,000. In fact, they will be cut by $1,306. The cutback and a freeze on alder- manic indemnities follows a report to council that found Castlegar aldermen have been receiving higher payments than aldermen in cities of similar size. The mayor's indemnity was found to be lower than that of mayors of other similar size cities and council raised her indemnity. ‘ WEATHERCAST Continuing cloudy skies for tonight with periods of light rain, lows 5*-7°. Continuing cloudy Thursday with scattered showers precipitation 60.per cent tonight ond Thursday, $0 per cent for Friday 3 Sections (A, B &C) WKP walkout By CasNews Staff Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers held a half-day work stoppage Tuesday to protest what they say is slow progress in the two-and-a- half-year negotiations for a new pension plan with West Kootenay Power. The approximately 200 IBEW workers of Local 213, which covers WKP electrical workers in the Kootenay area, left their jobs around noon to picket and distribute leaflets explaining their position on the —pensidn negotiations. The union and the company signed a three-year agreement in ———_— 1987 that gave the employees a wage increase of three per cent over three years and stated a new pen- sion plan would be negotiated by 1990, the leaflets said. WKP received a recent rate in. crease and one of the reasons stated for the increase was a need for in- creased funds to increase the pen sion, said Local 213 shop steward Michael McCormack. But the workers haven't seen any of that money yet, McCormack said. WKP human resources manager Greg Fowler said the rate increase was for 1989 and the company would not ask for a@ate increase Lineffian Marcel Apels (left), IBEW Local 213 shop steward Michael McCormack and lineman Tim Remfert picket outside the WKP office in Castleg IBEW protests WKP pension talks this year if it was meant to cover a pension increase in 1990. The union left the company witt an offer several weeks ago and hasn't heard anything since, Mc Cormack said. Each time the union brings an offer to the table the company says the offer is ‘‘unrealistic’’ and nothing comes of the issue, he said. The union is asking for a nine per cent increase over what they have now, with the union contributing three per cent and the company six percent, he said Workers are currently receiving about $600 per month when they retire after 35 years, he said. Fowler said the company has un- til Feb. 1, 1990 to negotiate a new pension plan and considers. the walkout a violation of the collec tive agreement The negotiations are being mediated, he said, but he could not say whether they will continue after thie walkout or not He said he was unable to com- ment further on the situation until WKP officials have the leaflets being distributed by the union. McCormack said it will be business as usual today as far as the union is concerned but “‘the ball is ip their court’ the negotiations. seen now in Suit By CLAUDETTESANDECKI Staff Writer The law suit against B.C. Hydro will continue with or without the other three regional districts despite ) the decision by the provincial government to have B.C. Hydro pay grants in lieu __ of property taxes on its dams, Regional_ District of Central Kootenay chairman George Cady told the Castlegar News this week. The district board was “‘adamant to proceed’’ with the court action at the RDCK meeting Saturday, Cady said, and will continue alone if the other districts — Columbia-Shuswup, Kootenay-Boundary. and — East Kootenay — decide against par- ticipating. The law suit alleges B.C. Hydro is discriminating against the region because it is exempt from paying taxes ‘on its Columbia river treaty dams. to continue: Cady Cady said B.C. Hydro must pay taxes on its dams in all areas of B.C. except those on the Columbia river. Nor does the company pay property tax on any of its other buildings in the Kootenay. area because of the treaty arrangement, he said. spokesman for the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, said B.C. Hydro has never paid property tax on any of its dams in B.C. and the new grant program is designed to correct that. The grants do not make up for the descrepancies, Cady said. For instan- ce, B.C. Hydro should have been paying $320,000 a year to the City of Castlegar and around $4 million to the RDCK, based on property assessment, he said. The grant program will see B.C. Hydro pay $40,000 to Castlegar this. year and $155,000 to the RDCK. Those figures are to double next year and continue at that rate in subsequent years. West Kdotenay Power — about one third the size of B.C. Hydro — pays nearly $350,000 to the RDCK, accor- ding to RDCK administrator Reid Henderson, and that’s unfai said. If B.C. Hydro had to pay hospital taxes, for instance, “Think what they could do (with the money),”* ‘Cady said. Cady said he found it “‘strange’’ the provincial government came up with the grant program after the regional districts announced the law suit Minister of state for the Kootenays Howard Dirks has said the.grant program is ‘‘not an olive branch’’ to the regional districts. Gady said the RDCK has no choice but to take the situation to a ‘‘non- r, Cady political judge” after “begging and pleading’’ for B.C. Hydro tax money for years. The next step in the legal procedure is (© ask for a date for a hearing with the B.C. Supreme Court, Cady said At the meeting, the RDCK also aoneein 6.7 perc , crease recently approved for West Kootenay Power by the British Columbia Utilities Commission, Cady said The increase is unfair because WKP is making money selling power to the Okanagan and that area is in turn making a profit reselling the power The ‘‘cost of doing business’’ for WEP is built into. our power bills, Cady said, and that cost includes the buying of expensive power from B.C Hydro to meet, WKP’s shipping com mittments. continued on page AZ MLA unveils new program By CLAUDETTESANDECKI Staff Writer The provincial government will provide $1 million to Selkirk College for a two-year, diploma music program, Nelson-Creston MLA Howard Dirks announced Tuesday night at a dinner held before the college board meeting at the Rosemont cam- pus in Nelson. The funds will be broken into $850,000 for operating costs for the first three years and $150,000 for capital costs, Ditks told the Castlegar News. More funds will be made available after three years if the program proves viable, he added. The program is aimed at students in- terested in contemporary music and will use pop, rock and jazz as the basis for teaching music theory, ear training, small band ensemble,) in- strument training on either guitar, bass, percussion. or keyboards and studio recording techniques, a college press release said. Students will have to audition to be admitted to the program and will be expected to take a short course in business and ‘musician's life skills,"’ the release said. As well, students will have an option in the second year to select one of three program majors: performance musician, recording arts or general music, the release said. Graduates will be able to find work through estertainment placement agencies, music schools, cruise ships and commercial recording studios, the release said. Cominco plant upgrade set to go Cominco’s Trail Fertilizer Operations received the go-ahead last Thursday for an $8 million ammonium phosphate plant Work on the project August According to Cominco, evaporatior capacity will be increased during th first phase of the two-phase project with the construction of a $2.8 million evaporation unit. This increase will be sufficient to allow for the removal of four obsolete 60-year-old evaporators. The secondphase will result in more than doubling the capacity of one of the three existing granulation units at a cost of $5.1 million. This will involve the replacement of the key granulation device with a more technologically ad- upgrade will begin in project stallation of equipment which will provide for screening, conveying and ventilation improvements. Cominco says the upgrade project will increase plant capacity by nearly 20}er cent, providing more flexibility in treating by-product sulphur from the Metallurgical Operations at Trail Product quality, plant hygiene and waste emissions will also improve. The_new_evaporation—unit is. scheduled to begin operation in early 1990, while the granulation unit con- struction should be completed by next summer. The peogram will be housed at the Canadian Phternational College in Nelson and will be open to the Japanese students at CIC, the release said The program will be the only one of its kind in B.C., Dirks said, adding the nearest comparable program is at Grant McEwan community college in Edmonton, which regularly turns away students. Selkirk has been working on the program since November and con- siders it a ‘‘viable option’’ because it will not only benefit local students but will attract students to Selkirk from elsewhere, said college president Leo Perra Dirks:said the college will have to find the students for the program but “no doubt they will do that, and do it very successfully.”” Students applying for the program will be required to have completed Grade 12 or the equivalent and prior music and band training will be an asset, the press release said. continued on page A2 INSIDE Pythian convention page B3 Lottery numbers The winning numbers drawn Tuesdoy in The B.C. Keno lottery were 1,5, 42, 43, 44, 47; 5) and 55. Pe ee Winlaw meeting