“I was telling my plight to a regional district director, George Cady, and he said I should inform you as you were concerned with the airport service as well,” Emory said in a letter to council. A copy of his letter to PWA was in- elitded in his letter to council. “what valley they didn’t say, as it was a beautiful sunny day at the airport.” He said that 25 minutes later another announcement was made to say that the plane was still in Penticton and a further announcement would be made at 11:80 a.m. “It (the announcement) didn't come till 12:25 p.m., at which time we were informed the flight was cancelled,” Emory said. He added that the airline gave no excuse for the cancellation: “In the meantime, the Calgary plane arrived and departed — without one with poor service and (there is) very little anyone ‘can do about it.” In a telex- message to Castlegar then not be able to depart. This would have resulted in the cancellation of the any afternoon flight from Vancouver.” He added that by diverting the air- eraft to Penticton, PWA was able to “stay put until the critical decision time izens. parted on, time at 12:20 p.m. without problems. Ald. Albert Calderbark said the ~ ity. Emory letter expressed the problems and criticisms of many Castlegar cit- Calderbank added that if the situ- | ation deteriorates, counei] may always appeal to the federal licensing author- He also called Bullock's response to the Dec. 28 cancellation “a norma] form of ‘get-out.’ ” TO FITNESS COMPETITION Castlegar challenged By CasNews Staff Dust off those sneakers and break out the jogging suits Castlegar — we've been challenged. The residents of Weyburn, Sask. (population about 9,000) have chal- mittee for recommendation. In his letter, Miles said the com- petition would be on May 16 — the Great Canadian ParticipAction Chal- lenge day. “Each perceives community will lenged C: toa one-day fitness competition. The challenge came in a letter from Weyburn Mayor Gordon Miles to Castlegar council. But council hasn't yet taken up the challenge. Deciding to be safe rather than sore, council Tuesday referred the letter to the parks and recreation com- plained. to walk, oe: run, etc. for 15 minutes on the day of the competition, “The community which records the greatest percentage of participation will be declared the winner.” Miles added that in this contest “there are of course no losers.” JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE Cards Books Wall Clocks Wall Plaques » Children’s Books Games & Puzzles Records China Bumper Stickers All Christmas Merchandise E MANGER 269 Columbia Ave. Castlegar 365-5610 Metropolitan's Guaranteed Accumulation Annuity Contract See for yourself what you can save on your taxes! 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Creditor protection — rates up to 10% % * Phone Martin Harris 365-2837 all of its citizens Miles ex- He asked that council make a commitment by Dec. 31, 1983, but the letter only came before council on ‘Tuesday. In other.parks and recreation com- mittee news, the city approved $1,475 for park equipment for the new Tamerlane Park. Committee chairman Ald. Bob Mac- Bain told council the funds were allocated in the 1983 capital budget. He added that the park site was donated by the developer and the resi- dents developed the park with only assistance from the city. DTUC closure concerns council By CasNews Staff Castlegar council Tuesday joined Nelson, Trail and the Central Kootenay Regional District in voicing concern over the closure of Nelén'} David Thompson University Centre. Council agreed to write to the Ministry of Education conveying its concern and “extreme disappointment” about the centre's closure. Minister of Education Jack Heinrich last week an- nounced that DTUC will close permanently on May 1. Ald. Albert Calderbank, who proposed the motion, said Castlegar council and all area councils “must strongly protest” the closure. “It seems stupid to close it,” Calderbank said. He pointed out that the closure will create hardship for the 500 students enrolled at DTUC. “To travel and live down in Vancouver is ive,” he a 17- —— girlfriend. Rollande Lefebvre, Bruce's paternal grand- miler said that things went fairly well until Rev. Real Voghel, curate at St-Louis-de-Gonzague Roman Catholic church, named the child Bruce Lefebvre, the name chosen by his parents. “That's when the maternal grandmother said her daughter and my son were not married,” Mrs. Lefebvre said, “and, therefore, the baby should not bear the Lefebvre family name but that of the mother instead. “That's when things started to get bad. “First the child's mother decided to take her mother aside to try and arrange things and persuade her not to waste time on this useless squabble. But it didn't work out and the girl's mother smacked her right across the face. “When Jean-Claude saw that, he started to come down the altar steps to step in, but one of the girl's brothers grabbed him from behind and hit him. Push led to shove and Jean-Claude fell unconscious to the altar steps.” Fight breaks out MONTREAL (CP) — Police ‘have not yet decided whether to lay charges after a braw! during a baptism ceremony in an east-end church Sunday. The occasion was the christening of Bruce, the month-old son of Jean-Claude Latebvre, 18, and his The priest and several nuns watched aghast, Mrs. Lefebvre said. CALLS AMBULANCE “Somebody called an ambulance, but meantime, things got worse,” she said. “The child’s mother just had time to hide behind the curate when her mother grabbed a paten — a thin, shallow metal plate used for carrying communion wafers during the Eucharist — from the eltar to throw it at her. The girl did'not want the priest to be hit so she ran away from him down the aisle. “Everybody was swearing and running around all over the church. It really wasn't very pretty. “I was ashamed. “And I really can't forgive the girl's mother for taking off the gown off my grandchild and leaving with his clothes. “The baby was lying on a church bench and, believe it or not she'd taken everything off the child except for his undershirt and tights. “We had to wrap the child in blankets. The godfather and godmother took the child away in a taxi when they saw what had happened. “When everybody finally left, the curate only said one thing,” Mrs. Lefebvre said. “He said we need a lot of prayers.” in the that vaadwisiig duties goon be needed! IT Muay BS OO lull, when nobody has much to do but pase stories. . The rumor mill is working overtime. It had ft that the Castlegar Ministry of Forests office’ would) be relotating to Crescent Valley (don't ask wit Crescent: Valley). Howev Nelaon regional forestry office reports that there's no agence in the works. SOMEONE WHO did move is Mitchell Auto Supply. It moved from its home.in the Columbia Building atop Sherbiko Hill across Columbia Ave. to 15th St. MEANWHILE, Mitchell's competitor — Bumper to Bumper — has closed its doors and the space is up for rent. . THINGS ARE moving and shaking at Waneta Plaza in Trail. The Cuff 'n Collar has quit operating, along with the mall's T-shirt shop. A new card shop has opened next to Coles Books and « new stereo store isin the mall. And Boots Drugs has reduced its store space by about half. WE'RESTRAYING 2 little, but we pass along these stories from Grand Forks and It it the ‘club membership buys the game. it wil) ft ‘through stores, The | game should sell for about $15 and Jeff will make about 16 per cent from each game sold. ‘The game isn't the first Jeffs written, but it's the first to be marketed. He says it took about 800 hours to finish and has a player — the good guy — pitted against caterpillars — which try to eat the player. Level one has the good guy trying to prevent the caterpillar from getting to the piece of food. Caterpillars keep hatching and trying to kill the good guy. Throughout the nine levels, the good guy meets more caterpillars and butterflies. If you make it through all nine levels you are rewarded by the sight of the cater- pillar falling into an exploding volcano. IN ROSSLAND, we learn that Kevin McNulty — who grew up in Rossland — is one of four B.C. residents selected by the Stratford, Ont. Festival theatrical group: He will play “as cast” in Stratford — essentially non-speaking roles. As well, bé will be taking classes and workshops as an apprentice actor. ONE FINAL NOTE that comes under the heading: Justified Sour Grapes, Though Sour Grapes Nonetheless. It comes from Jamie Lamb of the Vancouver Sun: He says, “When Secretary of State Serge Joyal announces this year that he is giving government funding to Quebec communities to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier’s arrival in New France, it should be remembered that what he is really saying is that his government is giving 12 times as much public money to Quebee for celebrations commemmorating one of its seems a Grade 9 student at Grand Forks Secondary as it gave the B.C., for celebrations com- memmorating James Cook, one of its discoverers.” at Central Foods! ROAST STEA POR cones However, Ald.” Len Em.” bree aaia!Cabtlegar residents will have to be prepared to do more than simply write a let- ter to the ministry protesting the closure. “It's fine to pass motion,” Embree said, “... but I have a certain degree of cynicism” when it comes to dealing with the provincial government on education and social services. He said a reversal of the closure will take every effort from city citizens. “People in the West Koot- venay are going to have to mobilize in a pretty serious way to have any effect,” he said. “I'm not that optimis- tie.” Ald. Bob MacGain agreed. “It will take every effort we have,” he said. He added that council should be looking for cabinet to change the decision, not Heinrich because Heinrich has left for a month's holiday. JANUARY WINTER FABRIC CLEARANCE “BUY NOW" while selection is at its Best, or wait until the discount increases. Jan. 2-Jan. 7 All Fabrics ..... Jan. 9-Jan. 14 All Fabrics ..... Jan. 16-Jan..21 All Fabrics ..... Jan. 23-Jan. 31 All Fabrics ..... 15% on 20% wi 25% on 30% on DRAPERY FABRIC — INSTOCK — FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY 205: CARTER’S SINGER SEWING CENTRE LOTTO 6/49 TICKETS continued from front poge breakdowns that plagued last week's selling but reports of tech- nical troubles continued Tuesday. “It takes at least five minutes to buy a ticket and the machine is al- ways going down,” said one har- assed seller at a Vancouver wicket where 50 customers were lined up. worth of tickets. seven months ago, has bought $49 “I think it's fantastic, a sum like that ($11 million),” widow with four children. The lottery is even having reper- cussions in the United States, where agents with the Internal Revenue Service will tax winners at a rate of “There is no reason why the (first) prize should ever be won,” said Gebotys, who teaches statis- said Laxton, a tics. The first prize has not been won in the last five weeks and has in- creased in size from $500,000 to $11 million. Lottery officials say there is CRIMINAL. CHARGES No complaints here a Vancouver police may be complaiii- ing that Crown prosecutors are reject- ing too many criminal charges offered by police, but Castlegar RCMP are satisfied with their results. Castlegar RCMP Staff Sgt. John Stevens told the Castlegar News he has no complaints about the pro secutions. “The Crown counsels are processing them (charges) in due course according to the system,” Stevens said. Last week, Vancouver Police Chief Bob Stewart imposed spending restrictions. Filmer and Bill Stewart, the senior Crown counsel at Vancouver's provin- cial court, said Crown prosecutors in Vancouver reject only five per cent of the charges. Prosecutor Stewart said about 16 per cent of the cases are re- turned to police with requests for addi- tional information, but he said the Crown still wants to proceed. Regional Crown counsel Sean Madi gan said last week that Police Chief Stewart had written to Harcourt com- plaining that prosecutors in B.C. were rejecting 15 to 20 per cent of the were rejecting too many charges. Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt, a lawyer and chairman of the Vancouver police board, said there was some con- cern that fiscal — were respon- sible for kk: charges prop: by police. Madigan said the numbers “must be a figure out of the blue.” Filmer said inal charges for many reasons. He said the proposed charge may be lacking in PRIME RIB CANADA GRADE A BEEF. Save $2.20 kg. _— $65), 321 PORK BUTT BONELESS AND BONE-IN. Save $1.11 kg 524) PICNICS SMOKED. COUNTRY 31°, 89° WAGGIS ~ $791/ $359 LMG LS $98] $925 ee COG pl ROLLS ena $1 BY THE SIDE APPROXIMATELY 70 LBS. DINNER HOMESTYLE. Save $6.11. SMMOKEHOU! SLICED. Seve $1.00 pkg. 500 Gram —_—— 0. LUNCHEON MEAT $ SPORK. 12 OZ. TIN CHOW MEIN NOODLES. GOLDEN YUAN. 6 oz. BEANS WITH PORK poston. ior, ‘398 mi TINS Peon tet CHICKEN NOODLE STUART HOUSE 499° $949 DOG MEAL GAINES. 4 kg., 8.8 ibs. $559 evidence, objectivity or ser Filmer said the accused could als0 have mental problems and the pros- ecutor may want to refer the individual to help outside the justice system. Meanwhile, the government has de- cided not to replace two Crown pros- ecutors in Nelson — at least in the near future. Senior prosecutor Greg Stacey left the Nelson staff to set up private practice at the beginning of the year — the second prosecutor in the last year to leave the office. That leaves only Bill Heflin — now the ateiatry did not have pi wide ‘ The senior Crown counsel at Van- Pp Harcourt also. oafirmed he wrote to Premier Bill Bennett about the issue. But Alan Filmer, assistant deputy attorney general for criminal justice, said the previncial treasury has not couver's pi court had said his figures were obtained from the police department's court liaison unit, the po- lice staff who consult regularly with Crown prosecutors. Filmer said the Crown rejects crim- acting inistrator — and J. Waddington to hold down the four- counsel office. The two are responsible for Nelson, Castlegar, Rossland, Grand Forks, Nakusp and Kaslo. However, the office will use lawyers in private practice as Crown counsel on a “temporary” basis. strike twice. Even those who have already won lottery jackpots are buying 649 tickets, hoping that lightning will Raymonde Laxton of Longueil, Que., who won $1,070,076 in a draw 44 per cent. be won. For those who may be getting tired of hearing about the 6-49, Uni- versity of Toronto lecturer Robert Gebotys has some bad news: there's a possibility the jackpot may never only a one-in-16 chance the first prize won't be won this week. However, Gebotys said there's no a guarantee of a winner unless every possible combination of numbers is chosen and there are 13,983,816 of them. CP Rail workers off job CRANBROOK (CP) — Members of two rai] unions employed at CP Rail began a 24-hour study session Tues- day night to protest impend- ing layoffs and negotiations over the layoffs. ‘The move was not recom- mended by the unions’ exe- cutive, but members of the United Transportation Union and the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers voted to stage the study session. The 300 union members are upset over CP Rail's decision to build a $750,000 bunkhouse in Sparwood, near the Alberta boundary in southeastern B.C., to end deadhéading. Deadheading involves transporting workers to points along the rail line where they begin their shift, then transporting them back to their home base. They are paid for this travel time, and CP Rail estimates that 40 per cent of its wages in the area are spent on deadhead time. The company wants work- ers to spend the night in the bunkhouse, then work their way back to their home base. Under the new proposal, about 30 union members would be laid off. The situation has gone to arbitration at the national level between the company and its unions, but local union members say they are not being involved in the discus- sion, and would have prefer- red mediation at the local level. Most evening shift work- ers attended the study ses- Relief for DTUC students VICTORIA (CP) — There is some financial relief in sight for students affected by the closure of David Thomp- son University Centre in Nelson. The education ministry, which is qosing the centre in May, announced Tuesday that funding will be available to help relocate students taking bachelor of arts courses from the University. of Victoria through the cen- tre. Ministry spokesman Dick Melville said an outright be offered to the students. Melville said there has been no maximum placed on the grant. Police file blocked fer Damage to the trick was extensive but there were no injuries. Meanwhile, damage amounted to about $2,000 in a two-car crash Monday af. ternoon at’ 24th St. and Columbia Ave. No injuries were reported, but one of the drivers was is- sued a traffic violation. Solidarity won't strike VANCOUVER (CP) — A battle between labor and government in British Col- umbia’s classrooms has been averted for at least six months. Operation Solidarity offi- cials announced Tuesday they will not take action against the Social Credit government, despite the So- creds’ refusal to return to school boards money saved Computer loan extended The Apple H computer, donated to the West _Koot- enay Library A 1 by from last fall's three-day strike by teachers. Claiming “a partial vic- tory,” Art Kube, B.C. Feder- ation of Labor president, said the government's decision not to lay off hundreds of teachers and support staff in January as planned has prompted the movement to put a program of province- wide job action on hold. “However, Operation Soli- darity and all of its affiliates in both the private and public sector stand ready to mo- bilize full support should the provincial government make any attempts to victimize ed- ucation workers for their participation im the Novem- bgp political protest,” Kube said ‘Operation Solidarity is Castlegar Computers, will be available for use in the Castlegar Library for the rest of the month, a loan ex- tension granted courtesy of the. West Kootenay Library Association. The Apple II is a big at- traction to students accus- tomed to using one in school, according to librarian Judy Wearmouth. However, many adults are less familiar ‘with computers and would per- haps appreciate the chance of a hands-on workshop experi- ence. Tim. Messenger of Castle- gar Computers is willing to conduct a workshop if enough interest is shown in the Proj ect. Anyone interested. is - in. vited to call the library at 365-6611 to ask: for details. ‘The workshop would'be held in the evening, the date and time will be fixed later when. it is khown how many. are likely. to. attend. firmly to the pledge it made in November that action will be taken if edueational workers are fired or laid off as a result of money saved during the strike not being returned to the education system,” he said. Larry Kuehn, B.C. Tea- chers’ Federation president, said Solidarity is putting its proposed action in abeyance, but is not cancelling its pro- gram “in case the govern- ment comes back with mas- sive layoffs.” Kuehn said there have for now been no teacher layoffs dir- ectly related to the govern- ment's refusal to give school boards strike savings. 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