‘HheGS28 La cave. uLUs “ ‘Parliament Bldgs, Victoria, B. Cc, VOV. 1x4 "So + 501 Bir: Published at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” havin: TODAY'S PRAYER Thank you, O Lord, for created us to love ourselves so we may bet- ter understand and love others, VOL, 83, NO. A238 35 Cents CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1980 > 2 Sections (A & B) ord on interchange expected soon must display their new number bers here are Three unused CP Rail properties in Cas- tlegar are the target of a letter city council voted Tuesda send Municipa fairs Minister Vander Zalm. Council approved a mo- tion by Ald. Gerald Rust, its works.and services .commit-. tee chairman, to propose to Vander Zalm the Marathon Af- Bill are J... is By t y Ss ae ee I OE a NEW NUMBERS UP? Today marks the first day homes in Castlegar If you are still looking for your’ 4 the ge at the Clay Castle. (Its new address is 993 Fourth St.) The exchange requires your old house numbers with a service charge of 25 cents for each number you can find in the collection they have at the Clay Castle. Exchanging num- Jack Randell and son Dix. amics, Poller to § Realty-owned land, situated between the Robson ferry and the CanCel pulp mill, be turned over to.the city. ee ap stb seeisin Rust ‘told council committee was opposed to ri the city making further pay- ment to Marathon, CPRail’s real estate arm, for right of way to the properties. i ‘were of a very insignificant De amount” when the munici- pality negotiated for con- struction of Celgar Road. Hes i now: getting to- be: preti substantial amounts and in- Union, non-union firms awarded contracts in district building project Acceptance of the lowest bid for electrical work on the School District No. 9 office expansion project followed a debate by local trustees Monday over the prospect of a non- union firm working alongside unionized workers. School board members —with the exception of Area J trustee Vera Kanigan, who abstained, and the Area I trustee Lovette Nichvolodoff and city trustees Ernie Mills, who were absent — voted to accept the $4,701 quotation from Greep's Electric as well as a $5,925 bid from union- ized Castlegar Plumbing and Heating Ltd. for mechanical work on the expansion. Trustees considered the possibility of a conflict when district secretary-treasurer John Dascher pointed out the Greep’s Electric tender was one of two made by non- union firms. : Area J trustee George Anutooshkin pointed out the firm's operator is a local taxpayer and the school dis- trict could not justify ac- cepting a higher bid. City trustee Doreen Smecher agreed, noting the closest bid by a firm using union labor quoted a cost of $8,554.96, nearly double the Greep's quotation. Dascher said one non- union contractor showed in- terest in the school district project, but would consider it a waste of time to submit tenders if they are to be rejected because they do not employ unionized tradesmen, Jones said the Greep’s operator usually works alone and “would not be hiring other people.” | crease very rapidly each year,” he said. “Marathon will never use the land. I don't feel that we as a city or even the provincial government should in any way continue forever and a day paying sums to Marathon or CPRail for right of way.” Boundary Municipalities con- vention here last month and forwarded to the Union of B.C. Municipalities for con- sideration at its annual con- vention in September. “What this committee is saying is that we're not pre- pared to wait until this goes through the norma! process at the UBCM, that we should make a direct approach at this time to the minister in regard to this land,” the works and services said. meeting with an area hiahways ministry official Thursday A yielded hopeful signs long-delayed mo: cation plans for the Kinnaird interchange are near completion, according to Mayor Audrey Moore. The mayor told the Castlegar News city council members — who in a show of impatience over the lack of pro: more than one year voted T! gress in 4; the project for day to seek an with Highways Minister Alex Fraser if the issue is not resolved shortly — received support and a promise of more information in the near future. In addition to discussing area ministry staff proposals for the 15-year-old meeting point of Highways 3 and 22 and Columbia Avenue and suggesting “some very minor modifications,” Moore said, council was told by Nelson-based design engineer Fat Bonser he expected information “very soon” on final plans for the project. The mayor explained the position maintained by council is that the ministry should modify the interchange “once and for all” rather than “going back and trying to do another job in 10 or 15 years.” Adjacent land the ministry will have to acquire in order to undertake the mod- ifieations “is not going to get any cheaper,” she said. “We placed before the design engineer the fact that we could in all probability have this pulp mill expanding and we're looking at more truck traffic and through traffic,” she ““We're looking at chips coming in from every quadrant of the compass to supply the | mill, and certainly this is the time and hour to modify the interchange so it can accom- The Nelson highways design staff “for all intents and purposes” share the city's views on modification of the interchange, Moore said, but are in conflict with the position of: design staff in Victoria. “If he doesn’t get a positive response, certainly as a council we'll be exercising the resolution we passed the other night and going forward to a meeting with the minister of highways to see if we can't lend some support to the engineering staff of the department of highways in Nelson,” she said. The mayor speculated that the view- points of highway design staff in Victoria. differed from those of the city and Nelson ministry personnel because they were influenced by the comparatively flat terrain modate increased traffic in a safe and viable way.” of the provincial capital. : “We have some constraints with top-: ography here, and sometimes when you're designing on flat land you can design to optimum curves and everything else,” Moore id. ; “But if you happen to live at the bottom | of a valley sometimes you have to adjust your . criteria and your specifications to fit the More on page A2 “Don't panic.’ According to ci administrator Bill peat Castlegar residents affected by the _ street renumbering sch- eme effective today will have one year's grace before the bylaw providing for fines of up to $100 for failure to post new address num- bers is enforced. Reporting “a lot of Year's delay of bylaw buys more leeway for residents | people » are--phoning“-and querying that they're go- ~ ing to be fined as of June 2” Krug said Friday the city, like the local Canada Post station, will honor old ad- dresses for a year despite the wording of the bylaw. Under the bylaw, giv- en three readings by city council Tuesday, “it is the responsibility of the owner or occupant to place in a conspicuous position the number assigned to the subject building” by the deadline today. Residents who fail to meet ‘those’ requirements’ “and display the appropri- ate number so that it is visible to a mail carrier from the street shall be deemed to have committed an offence. . . and shall be liable on conviction to a fine or penalty of not less than $25 or more than $100.” Although the city plans to delay its enforce- ment the bylaw contained provisions “that we had to have on the books” to make the street numbering legal, he said. Council nixes extra taxi parking A local taxi com- pany’s reportedly premature efforts to secure extra parking space downtown met rejection in a split city council vote Tuesday. Buildings’ value set at It would cost $20,931,000 to re- place. all School Dis- trict No. 9-owned buildings and their contents, according to an insurance state- ment approved by local trustees this week, The statement of values presented by Yorkshire In- surance Managers Ltd., the firm insuring the school district through the Insur- ance Corporation of B.C., represents a 10-per-cent in- erease over last year's val- ues, Secretary treasurer John Dascher pointed out that although the school dis- trict does not pay insurance premiums, province's cover- age for its buildings does not cover less than $5 million worth of damage. Unless the loss amounted to more than $5 million, he told the Castlegar News, “the board would not get any money out of ICBC” and the district would bear heavy share of the cost. In the city total building and contents values cited in the statement include $9,684,000 for Stanley Hum- phries Secondary, $681,000 for Castlegar Primary, $1,364,000 for Twin Rivers Elementary, $107,000 for Sil- ver Birch, $2,648,000 for Kinnaird Junior Secondary, $240,000 for Valley Vista A Castlegar city council resolution calling for the lowering of the province's $5 million fire: insurance deductible rate for B.C. interior schools was among topics discussed in a meeting between the city and the school board Wed- nesday, according to Mayor Audrey Moore. Resolution on $5m deductible discussed Shé said she invited Schoo! District No. 9 input in i e i ’ $628,000 for Pass Creek El- Despite opposition by Mayor Audrey Moore and Ald. Len Embree, council carried Ald. Gerald Rust’s motion to turn down a re- quest by Aero and Casti: Avenue North (11th Avenue as of today) 300 block. Rust, council's works and services committee chairman, explained the com- Taxi for a third parking stall at its stand-on the First $20.9m Elementary, $811,000 for Woodland Park Elementary, $255,000 for the district bus service and storage garage, $256,000 for the school board office, and $198,000 for the pany p city authorization for use and posting of two parking stalls but recently posted three talls “I appreciate their con- cerns, but they could acquire a fleet of six taxis and re- quest six spots,” the works and services chairman said. “I really question that we should give away as res- trictive parking any more spots.” ‘ing to his own ex- 8 to the addition of a third vehicle to its fleet. The request for author- ization of the extra space was received by the city after the third stall had already been posted, he said. Rust told council he had mixed feelings over the issue and agreed the company is district build- ing. In outlying rural areas, values include $786,000 for Blueberry Creek Elemen- tary, $159,500 for Brilliant Elementary, $583,500 for Ootischenia El P ig an ser- vice “but 'm quite sure there are other spots where they could park this extra vehi- cle.” y ementary, $159,600 for the old Robson Elementary, $811,000 for the new Robson Ek — passed at last month's Association of Kootenay Boundary Municipalities convention here — for con- sideration at the Union of icipalities conven- y, $167,000 for Shoreacres Elementary and $811,000 for Tarrys Elem- entary. Miscellaneous values in- clude $70,000 for band in- d r BC. tion in September. The board was invited to participate in modifi- cations to the resolution “so that it would be a definite, precise resolution that could be acted upon by the provincial govern- ment.” ani $824,000 for texts and library books, $189,000 for stocks and supplies, $100,000 for extra expenses and $50,000 for personal property of pupils and employees. Not listed in the state- ment is Kinnaird Elementary School, which was destroyed by fire Dec. 17, 1979. SUPPLEMENTS SuperValu perience as a former cab driver in Trail, he pointed out taxis “didn't have many parking spots that were res- tricted for our private use.” Speaking in favor of Rust's motion, Ald. George Bondaroff noted there is vacant property near the taxi operation where the com- pany could make offstreet business,” he added. “Their business comes by tel- ephone.” Also supporting rejec- tion of the request, Ald. Charles Cohoe said he doubted whether the city could spare an extra parking space for use solely by taxis. “Hopefully at least one of the cars would be on the road most of the time any- way,” he said. Planni if somebody comes in with a taxi and they are allocated two parking spots on the street, which none of the businesses are allowed, be- yond that really I'm not pre- pared to go,” Calderbank “They then have to park off the street, particularly at the time when we are right in the middle of a parking study.” the works chairman Ald. Albert Calder- bank said he feared granting the extra space would lead to future requests for additional parking. In addition, he said, council should not commit another parking space to the taxi ion until the city parking . for the extra vehicle. * “They're not standing on the street, as such, soliciting completes its downtown parking study. “As far as I'm concerned (an ee ee) You're Getting WALDIES' SAWMILL Canada Safeway {Not oll supplements in all papers) Classified Ads. Erma Bombeck .. For Better or Worse . Conclusion of the history of early Castlegar’s economic foundation stone. Page BY My Answer........... Page AS Reflections and Recollections and services committee over- reacted to the company tak- ing the third space before re- ceiving city approval, Em- bree said Castlegar now has an adequate taxi service for the firat time in the 15 years he hes lived in the city. “The city is growing, the service is there, they've gone More on page A2 Closer ol Yoo i SBN Yoda orbeins Festuree Syndicate, Inc. 6-4