a2 Castlégar News February 3, 1988 a2__Lastle Cote fired after conflict OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney d anger and fr today f g the firing of Michel Cote as supply and services minister for violating the government's conflict of interest guidelines. “I've worked like hell to make these things work,” Mulroney told reporters as he entered the weekly Conservative caucus meeting. “I've read the riot act timé and time again, both to my caucus and to my ministry. As I say, to indicate that I'm displeased or disappointed today is the understatement of the year by anybody He ledged that his gover will be hurt by the affair but said his job is to do what's right, adding: “I could care less about the political consequences. The important thing is the political integrity of the nation.” Cote, a 45-year-old chartered accountant from Quebec City who first entered the Commons in the 1984 Tory sweep, was fired at about 8 p.m. Tuesday after Mulroney's office confirmed that the minister had not reported a personal loan as required by the conflict of interest code. There was no indication of the size of the loan, whether it was made before or after Cote entered cabinet, or the name of the lender. He is the eighth minister to resign or be fired under a cloud in just over three years. ALSO UNDER FIRE The firing comes amid renewed controversy over allegations that Energy Minister Marcel Masse violated the election spending limits in the 1984 campaign, allegations found which threaten to stall or even reverse the Tory comeback the government has been arduously engineering for a year. Liberal Leader John Turner said today the fiting is part of a “continuing course of conduct on the part of the Conservative government which saps the very vitality of public life in Canada.” He added that “you've got to hand it to a government that fires one minister to try to cover the tracks of another.” NDP Leader Ed Broadbent said Mulroney now has lost more ministers to controversy in three years than any other government. But he added that the fact Mulroney acted quickly to fire Cote suggests he may have learned his lesson. “Ror once it seems he has acted promptly and it stands out, because it's the exception. It ought to have been the rule, and if it had been the rule, as soon as something was discovered to have been wrong, I think we would have had far fewer of the incidents we've aiready had.” If the alleg: is against Masse are true — and Mulroney should inquire to find out — “he ought to be fired” too, said Broadbent. ; There was no immediate comment from Cote. who took a pay cut to enter politics-and his six-figure cabinet job and was initially seen as a rising star among Mulroney's neophyte Quebec MPs. At the height of his political career Cote was industry minister, stepping in after Sinclair Stevens resigned over conflict-of-interest allegations, which were later upheld by a judicial inquiry. Soviets deny accident From Reuters-AP An official Soviet spokesman denied today West European reports that there had beén a new nuclear accident in the Soviet Union. “Nothing of this kind happened today on the territory of the Soviet Union,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexei Cherkashin told Reuters news agency in Moscow. “We can say these rumors are completely groundless.” Earlier in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it had exchanged telex messages with the London-based World Meteorological Organization as tests for action in case of nuclear emergencies. But it could not confirm a statement from Norwegian Nelson man short of cash By The Canadian Press A Nelson computer pro- grammer fighting to stay and work in Canada says he’s running out of money as he awaits a security check. Frederick Nachbaur said financial pressures have already forced him to sell his interest in a U.S. com puter magazine. Royalties from computer programs and articles he has written are drying up, he said “Tam certain that every: thing is still in process,” he said in an interview from Nelson. “It's just taking so bloody long.” Nachbaur faced depor. tion last August to his birthplace in West Ger. many, despite having spent all but 11 months of his life in North America After his case was made public, immigration offi cials said they would allow him to go to a Canadian consulate in the U.S. for a day, where he would re ceive papers allowing him back into the country Bob Brisco, Conserva tive member of Parliament for Kootenay West, said the security check into Nachbaur by the Canadian Security Intelligence Ser. vice is routine and until it is completed, “we are in a holding pattern.” Nachbaur resubmitted his application for landed immigrant status on Sept. 23 last year. He has al. ready passed a medical check Nachbaur, born in West Germany in 1951, arrived in Canada when he was 11 months old. His parents became Canadian citizens in 1958 but they were told Nachbaur would have to apply when he came of legal age He completed university here before working in California. In 1984, he returned to Nelson and applied for re admission before being or. dered deported on grounds he had shown intent to abandon Canada. government sources that reports today of a new nuclear accident in the Soviet Union came from interception of these messages. “We have been using test telexes to show the ability to communicate; beyond that I just don't know,” IAEA spokesman James Daglish told Reuters news agency in Vienna. In Oslo, one Norwegian government source said: “We know that the two agencies have been running dry tests on open telex cireuits today. The tests contained the words ‘nuclear accident’ and must have got outside the organizations. There is no suggestion of a real accident.” The Oslo source declined to be identified. In Vienna, Daglish said: “We have to test the systems we would have to use in the event of a real accident.” The IAEA was urgently checking the content of recent test messages with the World Meteorological Organization through its global communications system over the past couple of days. CONTAINS NAMES Daglish said he doubted whether such messages would contain the names of specific countries, and that he would be surprised if such messages could be intercepted easily. continued trom front page Castlegar as a problem. He said most passengers want to fly in “prime time” — between 7 and 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. and 4 and 6 p.m. Without those departure times the jet “just hasn't been able to generate sufficient traffic to make it a viable proposition,” he said. Time Air offers flights at 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to Vancouver. Time Air's area manager Dan Gallagher said the airline will also look at increasing the number of daily flights. He said the airline will start by trying to schedule its replacement flight later in the day than the jet’s 3:10 p.m. schedule. As well, Gallagher said Time Air will increase the number of flights on the weekend. The airline is still working én the details, but it will likely have two flights Saturdays and two or three on Sundays, he said. “We are looking forward to increased competitiveness”, added Gallagher. Fisher pointed out that when PWA flew a jet between Castlegar and Calgary it was just three or four times a week. But when Time Air's Dash 7s took over the route the flights went to six or seven a week. He said with the better connections to Calgary and flights east, “there was ® significant surge in the traffic almost overnight.” Fisher emphasized that frequency and the right schedule are “major factors” when passengers fly — and that is what Time Air's Dash 7s will offer. STUDENTS continued from front page Grade 8 students in a senior setting in Washington and B.C. “It's not something that's unique it’s something that’s happened and ap parently worked quite well,’ he said. Superintendent of schools Terry Wayling supported Farrell's position in similar comments he made on the possibility of moving Grade 6 and 8 students. “We need to maintain a certain student population to provide economy economical use of the space and to provide a decent range of programs for the kids,” Wayling said. However, he said “serious consid eration of that option” should be. held off for a few years until planned ex tensive renovations to Stanley Hum phries secondary school are complete. “It's just going to be a state of chaos in that building for probably a full school year,” he said. “So to add another 100 to 150 students to that state of chaos during this majér upgrading really didn’t seem very sensible to me,” Wayling con tinued In an informal recommendation to the education forum, Wayling proposed that Kinnaird Junior 'y school : Wayling further recommended that Kinnaird Junior include all Grade 7 and 8 students and provide for up to three divisions of Grade 6 classes each year; that where possible, all ele- mentary schools house Kindergarten to Grade 6 students from their attendance areas and that Grade 6 students be transferred to Kinnaird Junior when overcrowding exists. Wayling said: “It makes good sense to make use of” the Kinnaird school facilities. “We have industrial education, wood, a metal workshop, a foods, and a textiles workshop,” he said. Wayling further proposed lang. uage programs of core French and Russian to Grade 4, a “late French immersion” at Kinnaird Junior and immersion programs for Japanese and Mandarin. Wayling said Lower Mainland schools “will have immersion in Mand- arin and Japanese for students in Vancouver in reaction to Ministry of Education projections of growing future economic trade relations with Pacific Rim countries.” “I think this district should not wait and watch Vancouver or Burnaby, be renamed Kinnaird Middle Leger “Let's call it what it is,” he said. or for an immersion pro- gram,” he said. tees at the education forum § agreed to review Wayling’s recom- mendations and discuss them formally at a later date. One of the problems facing the board is the difficulty in predicting school budgets from estimated student enrolment. Teacher David Healing presented a report on predicting student popu lation. Overall enrolment predicted one year in advance has a two per cent error and the error increases for each year predicted in advance. There is greater error when pre- dicting enrolment for individual grades, Healing said. Graphs for 1987 enrolment showed a 15 per cent error for Grade 7. “Within grade predictions you get huge errors and they seem to cancel themselves out, I suppose,” said Heal ing. Errors can either reflect an over- estimate or underestimate in student population. Healing said outside factors can ruin student population predictions. “If they put the Hugh Keenleyside Dam (power generators) in or a major expansion to the (Celgar) pulp mill, none of this means anything at all,” he said. RUNNERS .. . (clockwise from bottom left) Garry Graham carries the flame with help from Jadek Oglow; Lorene MacGregor eagerly awaits her turn to carry the torch; runner heads up the Blueberry Paulson high’ continued from tront page Haack passed the torch to Maria Burton, a 28-year-old Genelle resident, who works in Castlegar. For Burton, carrying the torch was “a lot more than what I expected.” Burton said at the end of her run the relay stopped for “five or 10 minutes” to change torches, and she got to share the flame with her daughter, nieces and nephews. Burton said she didn’t think about running or carrying the torch. “You're so high and pepped up,” she explained. She said if she could, she would have liked to have run two or three kilometres more. Alison White's section of the torch relay was east of the Paulson Bridge in the more mountainous section of the route. Despite the lack of sunlight and colder weather, every runner seemed to have a personal cheering section. Cars collected in groups where they could pull off the road along the Blueberry-Paulson highway. People stood by their cars sipping coffee and waiting for the relay runners ‘to ‘appear. ~ “It was really neat; it was better than I thought it was going to be,” said White, an 11-year-old Castlegar resi- dent. However, White said she was “nervous,” “I was afraid I was going to fall down and drop it (the torch),” she said The best part of the run for White was, “letting people touch the torch,” and run with her. In particular, White's “best friend,” Michelle Ferris, ran part of White's kilometre. Ferris, another, 11-year-old Castlegar resident, had run her section of the torch relay earlier. nen) a Castlégar News TREET TALK THE GAS WAR in Castlegar continues to rage with prices firm at 29.9 cents a litre. But that's just the start. Now Mohawk has joined Woodland Park Shell in also offering $2 off with any gasoline coupon and a minimum fill of 25 litres. That's some saving! THE MOVIE Roxanne continues to pay big dividends for Nelson. The Orlando, Fla. Sentinel recently featured the movie starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah and the city of Nelson in a two-page spread in its Sunday paper. The piece was headlined “Roxanne and Nelson: a North American Love Affair, with the subheadline “The city's charm is its serenity and recreation.” Nelson Fire Chief Harry Sommerville wrote the article, which includes a sidebar called “The Roxanne Route,” showing how to get to Nelson. Oh yes, if any locals are still looking for Roxanne’s house — it’s in Port Moody near Vancouver, not Nelson. GAS WAR... . sign shows another battle in the Castlegar gas war as Mohawk joins Woodland Park Shell in offering an additional $2 off a fill. —cosmewsPhoto NELSON'S Ruth O'Bryan has been named to the 15-member B.C. Sport and Recreation Advisory Council. O'Bryan joins chairman May Brown of Vancouver and vice-chairman Bob Vaughn of Surrey on the committee, which was appointed to advise the province on government policy and its recreation and fitness prior ities. A NEW DENVER resident, Mrs. Chie Kamegaya, was recently honored at the Imperial Palace in Japan with a medal and citation to the Order of the Sacred Treasure. Prince Akiheto presented the award in the absence of his father the emperor. Mr. and Mrs. Kamegaya came to Canada in 1932, chosen by the Japanese state to teach Japanese to children of immigrants. THE WEST Kootenay will get a special guest next month. The Italian b: Valerio February 3, 1988 Castlegar News a3 TTOOD GUNS AT CENTRAL FOODS. GROUND BEEF x: APPROX. . 10°. eh) : ROASTS ross -GRADE A kg. 613,92 bs STEAKS: crave A kg. 5377), > oe TOP SIRLOIN CANAD! ee eee GRADE A KG. $813) Ib. STEWING BEEF $929 BONELESS .... 9. 5 ib ¢ MEATY am, 89 COTTAGE ROLIS,.... $968 FLETCHERS. 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Bruce Meldrum told the Regional District of Central Kootenay board Saturday that Castlegar's tanker trucks are not on his priority list. Instead, Meldrum said Selfire, which trains students by having them rebuild fire trucks, will give smaller communities first crack at the rebuilt trucks. “There are too many communities in my mind that don't have anything,” Meldrum said, pointing to a small community between Kamloops and 100 Mile House as an example. Meldrum said that Dekka Lake, with a population of only a few hundred, will receive one of the college's rebuilt trucks. He said cities like Castlegar can afford to pay private companies to rebuild fire trucks while smaller communities can't. However, Meldrum's comments have upset Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore. Moore told the Castlegar News the college can't ask its local communities for support and then ignore them. “You're not going to do anything for the cities in your area?” Moore asked Meldrum at the meeting. She said in an interview that a new fire truck will cost the city more than $200,000, which she said Castlegar cannot afford. Moore said Fire Chief Bob Mann has looked into other companies since Selfire indicated it would not be able to rebuild the fire trucks. She said the city has obtained quotes on a rebuilt truck from a private firm in Nelson operated by Meldrum’s brother-and from another company in Alberta which has just started rebuilding fire trucks. Castlegar attempted to have Selfire rebuild its trucks, and Selfire initially agreed. However, Selfire kept moving ahead the dates for the work until it finally said it couldn't do the work. Meldrum said the Selfire program had to cut back the number of fire trucks it rebuilds because the program “grew way|too quickly.” He said everyone wanted the rebuilt trucks, but the program just couldn't accommodate all the requests. He said Selfire will complete the trucks it has promised, and then do an average of two or three trucks a year. Meanwhile, Meldrum also came under fire from regional directors for his role as fire chief for the Balfour-Harrop volunteer department. Meldrum's department proposed selling a 1,000-gallon tanker truck to South Pender Island for $30,000. However, a number of rural regional directors said their areas could use the truck and wanted to know why they didn’t have a chance to buy the vehicle. Area H (rural Slocan Valley) director Bob Barkley said his area needs a tanker and would have bid on the truck. Barkley also pointed out that the regional district owns the truck — not the Balfour-Harrop department However, Meldrum said he thought the tanker was too small and not suitable for local fire departments. He said tankers should be a minimum 1,560 gallons. 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