et ess AR URN PR A Wednesday, March 11, 1992 @ “Raised the ol’ girl from a cub, | did. ... Course, we had to get a few things straight between us. She don't try to follow me into town anymore and | don't try and take her food bow! away ’til she’s done.” Police cracking down on school-zone abusers NEWS STAFF ae Drivers will have to pay more attention around Stanley Humphries Secondary School. ‘As of Monday, busses will no longer be able to unload stu- dents in the SHSS parking lot as construction is blocking their access. For that reason, students will be off loading on 7th Av- enue. Busses will have their flashing lights on and Castlegar RCMP want drivers to know they will be looking for viola- tions. “We will be increasing our patrol’s around the school,” said ‘Cpl. 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Bench Grinder heavy duty 5 SURPLUS DAVE’S — Pre We've moved things around to make room for "Surplus Daves". See.us at the front of the store in Castlegar Foods. Look for Surplus Daves ad in todays paper. 635 Columbia Ave., Castlegar WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES. Prices Effective to Sat., Mar.14 Open Sundays 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. ME ONO Rh dann @ Wednesday, March 11, 1992 = y © cc Li. 3S = SO 3 A CALL THE NEWS ®General Inquiries 365-7266 OUR HOURS 1 The News is located at 197 Columbia Ave. Our office hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closedon weekends and statutory holidays. ~ The News is published by Castle News Ltd. for Canwest Publishers Ltd. Mail subscription rate to The News is $40 per year ($44 in communities where the post office has letter carrier service). The price on newsstands is newspape for both editions is only 90¢ a week (collected monthly). GST extra. Second class mail registration number 0019. Scott David Harrison. EDITOR . Castlegar’s Downtown Revitalization Project is on — sort of. Last Wednesday, the committee overseeing the lofty $4.95 million project voted to proceed with the first phase of revitalization in the hopes the province will have a change of heart regarding the fate of the Castlegar-Robson bridge. The committee has decide to proceed Phase 1 of the three phase project would see revitalization take hold in the areas of 83rd and 4th Streets and 11th Avenue. In addition, the parking lot behind the Marlane Hotel would be refurbished while (Revitalization proceeds with caution another lot would be built adjacent to the railway station. According to city council representative Marilyn Mathieson, the committee will proceed with caution, though. She said the committee won’t put work out to tender until the provincial budget is announced and the-fate of the Castlegar-Robson crossing is decided. “The committee doesn’t want to get past the point of no return,” she said Tuesday. Mathieson said she hasn’t thrown in the towel of the $23.5 million bridge, saying the provincial government all but owes it to Castlegar and the Celgar Pulp Co. She said the money the government generates from MEET THE CANDIDATES News photo by Jonathan Green The 10 candidates for the 1992 Miss Castlegar pageant met their respective sponsors Monday night at the Sandman. Here, Patty Yofonoff meets her Hairlines sponsor, Debbie Briggeman. Woman receives 12 months Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER A Grand Forks woman who lit her clothes on fire in a police lobby is going to jail. Pauline Berikoff, 54, was arrested March 2, after she stripped naked and threw her flaming clothes into the lobby of the Grand Forks RCMP station. She-was found guilty of mischief in Nelson Provincial Court Tuesday and sentenced to 12 months behind bars. Berikoff was said to be protesting the March 1 arrest of Mary Braun, 71, and Tina Jmaeff, 67. : Braun and Jmaeff are currently serving time in a Vancouver-area correction centre for the attempted arson of a Grand Forks home. Braun and Jmaeff were on probation for a previous arson charge at the time of the incident. None of the ladies in question made any attempt to evade capture. “This was just your typical Sons of Freedom trial,” said Crown Prosecutor Dana Urban said of the one-day trial. “Miss Berikoff was not represented by a lawyer, because she claimed God was her council.” Judge Carlgren of Cranbrook may have taken that fact into consideration Tuesday when he sentenced Berikoff to the lesser charge of mischief over attempted arson. Celgar’s construction and labor costs could easily pay for the bridge. “It’s not as if they are going to have to find the money (for the bridge) outside our area,” she said. “The money they are getting from the Celgar expansion project would pay for a bridge three times over, and change.” Mathieson said the province should live up to the agreement made between itself, Celgar and the federal government and build the crossing as recommended by the Celgar Expansion Review Panel. “It really sends out a bad message when you live up to your end of the bargain, like Celgar, and the province won't live up to its end.” MLA slams U.S. tariff Wi Ed Conroy claims U.S. softwood lumber tarift a politicial manoeuvre Scott David Harrison EDITOR : Ed Conroy says the American government is playing politics. The Rossland-Trail MLA says a 14.48 per cent tariff slapped on Canadian softwood exports to the United States is an election scam. eLts purely a vindictive move in an election year to get George Bush back in the White House,” an angry Conroy said. “It’s really quite maddening,” he said. “We have become nothing but a pawn in the Americans election game.” On March 5, the U.S. Department of Commerce levied a 14.48 per cent tariff on the import of softwood lumber, claiming the B.C. forest industry was being subsidized, The American agency justified the tariff, saying Canadian timber pricing programs supply a 6.25 per cent subsidy and national log export control program provide an additional 8.23 per cent break. The countervailing duty has caused a stir across the country, lead by B.C. According to a report issued by B.C. Forest. Minister Dan Miller, the tariff could mean the loss of $350 million to the province’s forest industry this year alone. “It shows the power of American protectionism and the influence of the south U.S. forest companies,” Miller stated in a news release. “But what really offends me is the total hypocrisy of the government in Washington D.C. taking action against our log export controls when the states in the Pacific Northwest have even more stringent log control export controls in place and are trying to strengthen those controls.” The American tariff is being appealed with the dispute panel established under the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: In addition, Canada has taken the case to the United Nations, asking the Geneva-based General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades oe to overturn the 14.48 per cent uty. Ed Conroy inte eee 2.