hye Castlégar News January 4, 1989 unfest to sport unique button CHOOSING A WINNER . . . Judges Barb Kuryluk (left) Jerry Johnson and Rose Koch single out the winning button (right photo) in the Sunfest Lottery Button Design Contest} Eric Smith of Casttegar got the nod for his original design. The 13 entries are on display until Saturday in the window of West's Department Store in downtown Castlegar CasNewsPhote By CasNews Staff The Castlegar Festivals Society, busy planning for Sunfest 89 Pioneer Days on June 2, 3 and 4, this week announced the winner of the Sunfest Lottery Button Design Conte: Erie Smith of Castlegar took the prize for his design which depicts two pioneers carrying a canoe over their heads flanked by two evergreens. “Pioneer Days” and the date of the, event are inscribed on the button’s perimeter. The button is No. 5 on display in the window of West's Department Store until Saturday. Smith, 23, said he sat down and “just sketched it out.” Judges Rose Koch of Rose's Boutique, Jerry Johnson of A Taste of Art and Barb Kuryluk of the Bank of Montreal's Commercial Unit chose Smith's design from the 13 on display in the window. The judges agreed Smith's design was the most original and represent ative of the pioneers who first came through the Castlegar area. Sinith receives a dinner for two up to $25 in value at the Monte Carlo Restaurant and a certificate from the Castlegar Festivals Society Jim Ferrier, fundraising chairman of the Festivals Society, said he is pleased so many people took the time out of a busy Christmas season. to enter the design contest. It is-great to see so much interest in Sunfest so early in the year and I hope that a lot of people will become more involved in Pioneer Days,” he said. Prizes for the winners of the lottery. button. will be announced shortly as will some of the new events that will be in keeping with the Pioneer Days theme. The next organizational meeting of Sunfest 89 will be held on Tuesday, Jan, 10, at 7 p.m, in the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce boardreom, and every group or organization is urged to send a representative. Premier ‘satisfied’ Castlégar News TREET TALK Kerri Redekop of Castlegar sold 15 books of raffle tickets for the B.C, Figure Skating Association to win a cheque for $100. Kerri;-representing” the Castlegar Figure Skating Club, had one of the highest sales records in all of B.C: for the annual fund-raising event. Proceeds from the ticket sales are divided among the b.C. association and local skating clubs to promote amateur figure skating in Briti%’ Columbia. Rhett Dreger of Fruitvale recently, made the dean's list at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Ore. Dreger maintained a grade point average between 3.0 and 3.5 to earn a spot on thelist for the fall term. The British Columbia Coalition of the Disabled's Task Force on Transportation will hold a hearing in Castlegar at the Sandman Inn Friday, Feb. 3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m SALES RECORD... Kerri Redekop of the Castlegar Figure Skgting Club sold 15 books of raffle tickets to earn $100 for one of the highest sales records in B.C. for the ® annual fund-raising a event. The task force is asking interested groups and invdividuals to send a written brief outlining their perspectives regarding transportation for _ people Jonvary4. 1989 Castlegar News ing Everyone a y, Healthy and erous New Year CANADA GRADE A kg. 5350), 9 1 he with disabilities, Community groups, service providers and interested individuals from the region are invited to summarize their briefs in person at the hearing. CROSS RIB BONELESS. .. CANADA GRADE 522 REAGAN ACCEPTS PROPOSAL: U.S. to host conference WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Ronald agan has agteed to a Soviet proposal that the United es host an international conference on human rights in 1991, sources said. U.S. agreement to participate in the conference signals U.S. support for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's internal reforms id s the stage for the opening of new East-West negotiations on cutting troops and arms in Europe. The human rights conference and the European linked Soviet Union and in eastern Europe. Evidently, Reagan has seen enough progress in the Soviet record to close the conference in Vienna and move on. t's nota perfect scorecard; but they've done a lot.” said one U.S. official. “They've come amazingly the State Department credited the Soviets last Friday with “significant progress” in their treatment of political prisoner: Jewish citizens who are refused PORK BUTT STEAK CORNED BEEF MAPLE LEAF SWEET PICKLED GROUND BEEF $198 WIENERS BULK. 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Reagan, on vacation in California, decided Tuesday to accept Shutlz's advice, said another official who also spoke on condition he not be identified Shultz is to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze on Sunday in Paris, where they will be attending a conference of move than 100 countries on ways to halt the proliferation of chemical The Soviets have released more than 600 political prisoners in the last two years, including all the monitors of the 1975 Helsinki agreement, which held out the promise of an improvement in the human rights situation, Phyllis Oakley, the State Department spokesman, said last Friday. All prisoners charged with¥ violating political or religious constraints are free and less than a dozen of 120 cases of Soviet citizens denied permission to join family members abroad remain unresolved, Oakley — CENTRAL DELI DELITES — MAPLE LEAF ‘OVERLANDER COOKED HAM i PASTRAMI woo LD VB eo. vw DY Bs. FLETCHERS BOLOGNA ry OR SHAVED Expo developer says VANCOUVER (CP) terms of the sale of the former E downtown waterfront because Zalm's concerns are satisfied, the de “The premier is very satisfied with he does not think that it renegotiation or any deals other than Victor Li, senior vice-president of Concord Pacific, told a news conference Vander Zalm said last renegotiate parts of the expressed that Canadians might not to buy housing built.on. the: 83-hecta’ Concord made a.commitment tha get an equal opportunity to buy week develops on the site but that might not apply to housing built by other developers. A Concord statement said that “ built by the developers.” Vander Zalm said in a Victoria statement the stand taker by Concord will “enhance in a significant way, the provisions of its sales-agreement There is no need to rewrite Premier Bill Vander is necessary to have a deal after concerns were so far as is legally possible we will put a restriction on any land sales we way, might make to ensure that Vancouverites have an equal or even a preferred opportunity to buy residential units xpo site on the veloper said. my approach and —_a quick profit the original one,” he wanted to get opportunities Controversies re site. Canadians would condominiums it revealed anyway," Another Vander Zalm concern was a clause which prevents Concord from selling the entire site for a three-year period. Individual parcels can be sold but Li said Concord won't market the whole site for another company virtually sold out in Hong Kong. “no-flipping” “Our track record shows we develop over 80 per cent of the land we own,” “| made my biggest investment about six years ago when I became a Canadian and a British\Columbian. I came 10,000 miles to make friends, not ies, not he said. Vander Zalm expressed his concern after it was a Vancouver condominium-dévelopment by in which Li had an interest was “I never expected ‘it to be smooth curising all the Li said hiccups here and there, some obstacles here and there.” Vander Zalm also said Concord has agreed to work “There will be bound to be with the provinee to ensure the site is cleaned of toxic sale_agreement wasters left by industrial tenants as economically as possible. The province pays cleanup costs under the ‘Champagne wishes' come true VICTORIA (CP) — The Rumbsy family of Victoria was watching Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous on television when they learned they could take their champagne wishes and caviar dreams a little seriously more Dece milda By CasNews Staff The last month of 1988 goes into the record books as relatively mild and dry with mean temperatures a full degree above normal and less than half the usual precipitation, according to the monthly weather summary for December from the Castlegar Weather Office December's mean _ temperature was -1.6 C, one degree above the normal mean of -2.6 C Total precipitation for the month was just 43.5 mm, less than half of the 99.6 mm which normally falls in December in Castlegar They'd just won a share of $92, in Lotto 6-49. Electrician Burton Rumbsy, 50, and ‘his wife Judy, 43, and their friend Elavio Lomeli shared a ticket which matched five out of six regular winning numbers plus the bonus mber nd dry The low precipitation is attributed to the lack of storms crossing the province from the Pacific _—“Pressures remained fairly high during the month with only minor disturbances crossing the southern Interior from time to time”, the summary states There were 32.2 hours of sunshine, slightly below the average 34.6 hours for the month. The record high is 64.9 hours set in December 1983. The record low is just 14 hours set in December 1969. The coldest temperature recorded in December was -10.4 C on the 27th, nowhere near the record low of -30.6 number on the Dec. 31. draw The Rumsbys were watching. the television show about luxurious homes and hidaways of the rich dnd” famous with their son Aaron, 18, and were talking about what they would do if they won a lottery prize. Lomeli, 23, had written down the winning numbers after watching the draw_on_television._When_he_tele- phoned the Rumsbys and read them out, the group realized they had won. When Flavio read out the numb ers, Aaron's face went red and he said, Those are our numbers,’ and sure enough when Burton checked, we had five out of six plus the bonus.” said Judy Rumsby. Then there was a lot.of hugging.” The-Rumsbys-said—they will_use their two-thirds share of the win to pay off their mortgage VANCOUVER (CP) — Whistler area created the snow of the last few days, Council. Stephen Gordon Kemp, 31, Heavy snowfall in. the conditions for an avalanche that killed a resident of the ski resort, avalanche expert"Peter Schaerer said. “An avalanche hazard is there with the heavy said Schaerer, a native of Switzerland now employed by the National Research “You ¢am expect an avalanche with every snowfall. You get new snow on top of old snow.” was caught in an patrolled. the accident occurred. Schaerer said there was little advice he could offer to avoid similar occurrences. “Perhaps they shouldn't Rave yielded to the temptation (of deep powder snow),” just went to the wrong*stope, where the snow -was deep and fresh.” Signs in the area warn skiers that erogeing over a section called Crystal Ridge and into the Blackcomb Mountain ski area is fraught with danger. The area's steep slopes and chutes are not he said. “They park near Oil hits beaches VICTORIA (CP).— Oil, along with hundreds of dead birds, has washed up on stretches of beach on the west coast of Vancouver Island, a Can adian Coast Guard spokesman said. The oil is thought to be the latest extension of a spill from an ojl barge in the waters of neighboring Wash ington state, across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. “There's several miles of fairly extensively polluted beaches,” said Larry Slaght, coast ‘guard district manager. “We have good indicators we have oil effecting areas up to 90 miles (145 kilometres) of our coastline,” added Keith Hebron, head of Environment Canada’s Pacific Region emergency operations. “It ranges all the way froin Port Renfrew almost to Tofino.” Barry Campbell, assistant park interpreter at Pacific Rim National Park, said Tuesday that oil on Long Beach, in the park, “came in with this miorning’s tide.” “Itis in huge pads,” he-said:“They range from dime-size-to-two metres by two metres .. . These things are just like huge, thick pancakes.” BIRDS DEAD ‘On one stretch of beach, 95 dead birds were collected, he said. The carcasses were picked up to prevent scavenger animals from ingesting the oil. The pollution is suspected of being part of an 875,000-litre spill on Dec. 22 from.a barge near Gray's Harbor, Contract talks -to resume Representatives United Snowfall accumulation for the month. was 41.7 cm, well under the normal 73.2 cm for December. Just 2.6 mm of rain fell during the month, compared to the normal 33.4 mm which falls in December Dec. 27, Ski continued from front poge 1980. operation has no control over ski tourers except to warn them of the dangers that come from skiing unpatrolled areas. But he said he keeps a close watch on people who skiing within the continually break the rules while boundaries. “We have an offenders book where we can keep a “Depending on-the seriousness of the offence, we warn them. If they eontinue to break the rules we'll take their pass away for two weeks or record,” he said. suspend them indefnitely.” recorded on Dec warmest day was Dec mercury hit 7.3 C, below the record high of 11.6 C set on some four degrees 30, 1968. The Steelworkers of America and Koot 13 when the May Savings Credit. Union will resume contract talks this month, possibly as early as pext week. “We're trying to set up another The patrol staff at Whitewater constantly monitors the hill for avalanche danger and posts signs where there is a danger of an avalanche or where avalanche control groups are at work. Hand charges, explosives shot from an “avalauncher”, and “ski cutting” are the methods Whitewater patrollers and staff use to control avalanche danger He said there hasn't been much of an avalanche threat at Whitewater So far this season, but expects the threat to increase during the heavy snow months of January And. February meeting in January,” said Susan Carrigan, secretary. to Steelworkers representative Ron Schmidt Carrigan said the meeting will involve mediator Vince Ready. She said meetings scheduled in. mid December were called off because Ready was unavailable. KSCU—general manager Doug Stanley said the two sides have not set a date for the next round of negotiations on the first contract but expects to meet “in the upcoming weeks. “I think all the contract stuff has been resolved,” Stanely said. “The only other issues are monetary.” He said the union has not pres ented its position to the credit union. Employees at six _of_nine KSCU branches — including Castlegar voted to join the Steelworkers in September. Wash., 150 kilometres south west of Victoria. A tug towing the oil barge Nestucea collided with it in high seas, tearing a hole in an oil compartment Oil from the spill, the second worst ever in Washington waters, has been spotted as far south as Newport, Ore., and ‘now on Vancouver Island. Some 3,200 oil-soaked sea birds were killed in the Washington area and many of the 2,600 birds rescued and cleaned by volunteers were not expected to survive. A coast guard official in Vancouver said he was told the owner of the Nestucca would pay the costs of the cleanup. Slaght could not say what the cleanup operation would involve, but that heavy machinery might be required. Slaght said it was too early to say if the-oil would continue to move north-bat-more might arrive inthe Tofino area, about 200 | kilometres northeast of Victoria. A spokesman for the Victoria branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said 16 oil-covered birds, mainly murres, were collected by the society. Most had to be destroyed, said Lynn West lived-at-Ardrossan“and Kelsey: MeNeil in 1929. years. Tuesday, Dec. 27, officiating. In memory McNeil tsabetta Stuart MeNeil- (nee Swaddle) of Red Deer passed away at the Red Deer Nursing Home on Dec. 22, 1988 at age 86. . Mrs. McNeil was born on Oct. 30, England. She came to Alberta as a child, in 1906, with her parents and In 1928 she graduated a& a registered nurse’ from the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton. She was married to the Rev. A.O. She lived in various places in, Alberta, including the New Norway district and Hanna. Ske moved to British Columbia in 1947, living at Creston, Squamish and Castlegar. Mrs. McNeil came to Red Deer in 1979 and resided at the Red Deer Nursing Home for the last eight She is survived by one son, wife, Leafa, of Calgary; and three grandchildren, Janalea Isabella and Kirk Albert both of Red Deer and Kenzie Drew of Calgary. She was predeceased by her husband in 1958, and a daughter, Isabella, in 1951, Funeral services were held at the Eventide Funeral Chapel on 1988 at 1 p.m. with the Rev Interment followed in the Mountainview Cemetery, Vancouver. If friends desire, memorial tributes may be made to the Canadian 1902 at Dunston-On-Tyne, the Rev. Albert McNeil and his Douglas Pratt weapons. The start of conventional arms reduction talks between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact has been awaiting completion of 35-country review in Vienna of human rights in the saic and Gorbachev in Jamming of U.S. sponsored broadcasts has ceased his speech Dec, 7 to the UN General Assembly promised laws bearing on human. rights would be changed, id she sais Czechs\condemn defection PRAGUE (AP) — The- CHZ Litvinov hockey club condemns the defection of a 17-year-old Czech oslovak hockey player who missed his team’s flight home and wants to stay in Canada, a club spokesman said. Peter Nedved, the offensive star of an international hockey tournament in Calgary, disappeared on Monday from a home where he ‘had been staying and missed the flight that took his teammates back to Czech oslovakia. “We condemn the actions of all those in Canada who abuse the lives of young people and«make them defect,” the spokesman told The Associated Press by telephone from Litvinov. “The whole trip was very succe: ful and Nedved was one of the best players. The joy produced by this success is marred only by this incident,” said the official, who spoke on condition that: he not be named. Nedved said in a weekend inter. view in Calgary that he hoped to play for the Czechoslovak national team and the National Hockey League. The 165-pound forward led the tournament in scoring, and the team from his town of Litvinov won the event. An official from the federal hockey union in Prague said today that Nedved was one.of his team's best players. “We know they (Litvinov) wanted him for their senior team_as soon as possible. So far he was not being selected for the Czechoslovak nat ional team,” the official said Nedved’s father, Jaroslav, who is a hockey coach in Liberec, about 100 kilometres northeast -of Prague, wasn't available for comment. The chairman of the Litvinov club said Jaroslav Nedved was the only one who has been in touch with his son in Canada by telephone. CHZ Litvinoy is ranked seventh in Czechoslovakia's first league. The team is coached by former Czech hockey star Ivan Hlinka who played in the-NHL for the Vancouver Canucks. EP UPWITH CHANGING TIMES Times are changing, and so are we. Effective January 3rd, your Nelson PhoneMart at 579 Stanley and ‘Trail PhoneMart at 840 Spokane will be changing their business hours. 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