‘ B8 CASTLEGAR NEWS, January 10, 1982” Moses Peter: funeral held in controversy ° WILLIAMS LAKE (CP) — Telephone 365-5210 City council denied Tuesday that it has any responsibility for the death of exposure of a native Indian who collapsed legar rectory ‘willbe’ accepted before the first Wed- nesay’ issue of each month only. in -20-degree weather in this Cariboo community's central area, . The city also has refused to DURWOODY Favarl au dosnoded by & CO. of 4 which Peters was a member, Accountants The 25-member commune Troopers had asked the city to provide for derelicts from the city to the Troopers Commune in 410 Columbia Ave.: . | Castleg Ph. 365-2151 Year's Eve. It said Peters _____ ouldn't have died if that ‘= . taxi ride had been available. sali Koide & John Peters was found dead of ak in the town's business Chartered Accountants exposure Jan. 1 near a camp- othe city said providing such transportation is be- yond its jurisdiction and that Kelp for the needy is ad- ministered by the provincial Ministry. 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) y Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc., C.A. Resident Partner CASTLE TIRE (1977) Lid. SALES & SERVICE x Commercial & Industrial Tire Specialists Passenger and Off Highway Tires WHEEL BALANCING DRYWALL CONTRACTING LTD. © Residential © Commercial © Drywall FOR YOUR . CONVENIENCE Deer. 9g. pbs Phone! 352-3195 ministry responsibility, said Reg Mitchell, city clerk. Troopers wanted council to pay $629 — the amount of money that the funeral par- lor, where Peters’ body was taken after an autopsy was performed, wants before it ran into opposition from the Cariboo Tribal Council over . the fate of Peters’ body. wanted to take charge of the funeral ‘ar-. rangements but council mem- bers accused the commune of interfering : with native In- lie ata brother’s house on the Soda Creek reserve west Of . * this ‘community until buriai took pare ‘Thursday. “Canadian prisoners refuse to eat OTTAWA (CP) — Em bassy officials in Lima are trying to persuade three Canadian prisoners to stop a hunger strike in a- Peruvian jail, an External Affairs spokesman. said Wednesday. The spokesman said the embassy is trying to convince them the strike ‘will not ad- vance their court cases. Still fasting are John Paul Michaud of Chapleau’ Ont., Sydney Goldfarb .of Quebec City and Gerard Simard, whose home town is not available, ‘The spokesman said legal proceedings of four of the five Canadians in the jail are going well. Eighteen for- eigners in the Preuvian pris- on have been refusing to eat for almost two weeks to pro- test conditions and what they term a slow‘ court process. There are signs four will get rulings in their court cases within a week or two, she said. All but one of the five, Canadians had gone through preliminary hear- | ings. Some are appealing ver- dicts, she said. Pupils are relocated after protest KAMLOOPS (CP) — Kin- pupils in Rayleigh . CASTLEGAR PLUMBING MAIN ST. MUFFLER . 5 custom | Tube Bending jeader: 2 All Exhaust Systems . See us for: * Ornamental '- Commercial or: Froeeslimetes | CH , WURSERY & FLORIST LTD. 2601 - 9th Ave., ” Castlegar: 365-7312. & Chahko MikaMall CASTLEGAR FUNERAL CHAPEL Dedicated to kindly, thoughtful service. 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Saturday 9 a.m.-12 noon. ae: Legislative Library. * Parliament Bldgs., Victoria, Bs. Ce: VBV 1X4 SE ease mma ppamrenrensd CASTLE EW Published at “‘The Crossroads of the Kootenays” WEATHERCAST Cloudy continul leery sciee ole tow tterien Highs oround 2° with overnight lows around 2°, inte alight VOL. 35, NO. 4 35 Cents 3 Sections (A, B&C) CASNEWS ECONOMIC SURVEY By CHERYL WISHLOW Staif Wi Weiter Most Castlegar businesses survived 1981 in pretty A shape, despite the bleak economic conditions. Sales itor some, 1 for others and on the ‘same for still'others, according to.a survey this week by the Castlegar News. Despite soaring interest rates, inflation and high are sti about 1982, others aren't so optimistic'and some are 365-6011 1355 Cedar, Trail368-9533 just playing it by ear.> Paul Kerekes of Stedman's department store is very. op- timistic about the new year. _ After a “fantastic” 1981, he He ‘noted ‘no. tremendous increase in‘sales over 1980, but says business was strong around time. Christmas . “There's alittle bit too much . negativism. floating. around,” he says. “Things aren't as bad as the.media and:a lot of other people make it out to be.” _ THINGS STILL MOVE He says things don't grind. toa standstill just because of. the weakness in one sector of the economy. **People tend to talk bout CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1982 Celgar’ and: Cominco (Lay- ' offs)," he says. “We are. di- ‘versified enough that we iN don't have todepend on those two areas.” He' noted that there are’ other major employers such | as the Castlegar Airport, the hospital, and public sehools. Kerekes says there was 4 bit. of a slow period during | the first three weeks in No- | vember. He attributes it to! high interest rates at a time and people were holding back and gathering thoughts on how to spend their Christmas funds. The interest rates only af- fected Kerekes. slightly be- cause of his locked in rates on large ‘operating loans. * “TONY SANDRIN + Consumers conservative Tom Biln at Castlegar Drugs reported an eight to 10 per cent increase in sales over 1980, but he says. the first six months of 1981 weren't that good. When the 12 per cent inflation rate is taken into’ consideration, sales actually decreased for him, he says. al +s, BILUAAILUER BILLHARRISON’ +b is “fair” - Biln says the high interest . rates had an | Affect on his business. “If you owe money —which we do — you are affected,” he says. Until Celgar starts. rehir- ing he ‘isn’t optimistic about this year, ‘but ‘he's hoping that things will become brighter. For Bill Harrison, manager: of the Monte ‘Carlo’ Motor Inn, business was “fair.” The Monte Carlo's room occupancy rate was down about 20 per cent from 1980, but the business - as often, But a spokesman for Public Freightways says business in ;, 1981 wasn't too bad until the | last two months, when it PAUL KEREKES despped off by at least 80 per xe blamed the Poor econ- omy. . “People aren't stocking as much as they used to,” he said. “A’ lot of outlets have been’ ordered. to cut back stock.” They aren't selling as much and they don’t need as much stock to replace what they've | sold, he added. He predicted things would be slow in 1982, at least until, the middle of the year. things for the decrease in his room’ occupancy rate. One reason was cutbacks : on Pacific Western. Airlines’ flight service into Castlegar in 1981. Another was freight ‘ business dropped so. the —the was good, he says. Harrison blamed’ many day ces at the home SON. snded to a chimney fire of Mrs.’Mary Osachoft at 2258 : 10th: ‘Ave No damage was reported. WANTS HOMEMAKER. SERVICE RESTORED By CasNows Staff ‘ Castlegar council Tuesday threw its support behind the Castlegar and District Home- makers Service and will pro- “I think they’re suffering a lot of setbacks and they. need our: support,” Mayor Audrey Moore said. 2 In a letter to council, cutbacks to homemaker ser- vice in the area. service secre- tary Marguerite _Ackney. said 90 per cent of “the local ‘Crown will take - pollution case *. Nelson Crown counsel Don Skogstad Tuesday received; permission to proceed’ with pollution charges against BC Timber's Celgar pulp divi-: sion, « A Jan. 26 court date has been set for the two pollution ‘charges, which Skogstad has brought against the company on behalf of Castlegar Ald. Len Embree. But until Tuesday Skog- stad still hadn't received ap- proval from district Crown counsel Dirk Rynevelt of Cranbrook to. proceed with the case. The Jan. 25 court date will be a first appearance for BC Timber. The company will either plead guilty or plead not guilty and seek a trial date, The - “chiarges’ include one count of polluting the air and another count of polluting the. Columbia River at the Celgar pulp mill between June 15 and Dec. 15, 1981. Council protests cutback the Ministry of. Human’ Re- sources which is responsible for the homemaker service. Ald. Len Embree said council should ask the min- istry to maintain the’ ser- 3 -Vice’s. present level — “at pan agreed, tying she thee the homemakers wanted the service restored to its former state — before the cutbacks. Embree noted the provin- cial government seems. con- cerned about balancing the ‘ budget at the expense of” : errs ALBERT. CALDERBANK «. dcuts are“ “crazy” “clients have had their home- maker hours reduced. She said many of those clients are over 80 years old. Ackney asked council for some kind of asst: ‘with those people who can least afford it. Ald. Albert Calderbank _ Said after the meeting the Provincial cutbacks are “If you put them in the hospital it would cost a damn sight more,” he. said. ‘And with reduced homemaker care many will end up in hos- Pital, Ci added. * bulk of Monte Carlo’s bus: iness — didn't come to'town said the’ Monte Carlo didn't receive as many tourists this summer; He said he's talked with a number of other businessmen in’ the West Kootenays and people ‘who would. normally travel stayed: home. due to the’ high: cost’ of hevorine money. they all ‘agree’ that many’ etail business in good shape But Linda Green at the Castlegar Chamber of Com- merce says tourism was up 50 per cent over 1980. A total of ; 4,604. tourists . went through the Chamber office. Harrison says this year is’ starting to take off more 4 “than he thought it . would, but he still figures business will be down 10 to 15 ‘per cent from 1980. ‘The restaurant business is also down somewhat. A-spokesman for East Gate Gardens. says business is down about 20 per cent from last ‘year. He blames high interest rates and unemploy- ment ‘for the decreases, * But: Gabriel's Restaurant “was about the same, says a spokesman. The restaurant did better in the summer than in the fall when sales dropped 20 percent. Layoffs have affected the business. She says layoffs at Celgar and Cominco scared People. More on page A2 "Library vote. ‘polls: in exactly ‘one month’ to: de- pear Hbrary proposed for - i the’ old arena: site on Col- umbia Ave. Castlegar and. District Li-’ brary Board chairman Dr. Roy Ward told the Castlegar News Tuesday that the pro- vincial government has given «verbal approval to a Feb. 13 referendum date. Ward said written approv- al’should follow shortly. : The green’ light: for the _ Feb. 13 date. alleviates the board's concern that the pro- vincial government might not go ahead with the library referendum. Last month provincial sec- retary ‘Evan Wolfe ~an- nounced an 18-month freeze on the Recreation Facilities Assistance Program Fond. — Sa provincial government pro- L.|Sandpiper Motel’s days are numbered By CasNews Staff The old Sandpiper Motel on Columbia Ave. at 11th Street could be coming down very soon. Castlegar council Tuesday agreed to send to a public hearing a proposal to build a 30-unit townhouse/garden apartment complex on the motel site at 1101 Columbia. The hearing is set for 6:30 p.m. Jan 26 in council cham- bers. The townhouse develop- “ment has been proposed by Scott Project Developers and would mean the displacement. of a number of self-owned mobile homes. The project complies with the city’s official gram that would haye pro- vided as much’ as one-third funding ($335,000) for the new library. . Despite the funding freeze, the Library board decided to push ahead with the new brary using 100 per cent local funding. But there. was still one hitch, The ‘beard hadn't re- ceived provincial approval for the ibrary-referendum — and after the provincial fund- Baters making a a final de cision, the board’ decided conduct an informal phone survey to gauge public opinion on the library prop- osal. Ward said the board: con- tacted 301 homes — 100 in Castlegar and 201 in Ares I and J — Friday and Sat- urday. Of the 301. homes con- tacted, 272° replied to the survey. ‘Sixty per cent (163 homes) indicated they. would vote in favor of a new library; 17 per cent (46 homes) said they would vote against it; and 28 per cent (62 homes) were undecided. Ward added that the 100 homes contacted in the Castlegar survey were those who signed. an earlier: 700- name petition supporting the new library. “We thought if they said yes (to the new library), it would be a, good indication,” he said. Ninety-two. of the 100 Nearly 84 per cent (78 homes):said they would sup- port the new Ubrsry; while six per cent (five homes) were against it; and 10 per cent (nine homes) were un- decided. “plan to push ahead with the new: library ‘at- a special meeting Monday night. Ward said the board was also concerned over recent statements by ‘some -resi- dents about the location of ' the proposed library. Soin the same telephone ‘survey the board asked if More on page AZ Public meetings slated Following are the times, dates and locations for the six public information meetings on the proposed $1 million regional library. }. Two members: of the Castlegar and District Li- brary Board and one rep- resentative of the Central Kootenay Regional Dis- trict will be at each meet- ing. Meetings start at 7 p.m. and will likely run until 9 ing freeze the board was the would ‘also be delayed. But even after ‘provincial approval for the referendum, Ward said the board was still Counci Of the 201 h in Areas I and J, 179 replied. Forty-eight per cent (85 homes) approved the new li- brary; 24 per cent (43 homes) | looks at suing CPR By CasNews Staff Castlegar council is consid- ering laying charges against Canaidan Pacific Railway for blocking railway crossings within city limits for “an un- reasonable length of time.” Council has aac its solicitor to plan, but still requires re- zoning from comprehensive commercial to medium den- sity multi-family residential. sible charges against "he giant Canadian firm after a CPR train blocked the Col- umbia Ave. crossing for 45 minutes Dec. 11, creating a traffic jam. If charges are possible, council has asked solicitor Galt Wilson to proceed with a lawsuit. Ald. Len Embree said council has sent three letters to CPR and failed to get ac- tion with any of them. “It seems they're not going to listen until we get into a p.m, villbave an opportunity to meet informally with board members end regional dis- trict representatives for about an hour before each meeting. Residents will also be invited to ask questions about any aspect of the proposal, including costs and plans, Robson Elementary Tarrys Elementary School: Tuesday, Feb. 2, Castlegar’s Stanley Humphries Secondary School: Wednesday, Feb, Elementary legal hassle,” he said. Blueberry School: Thursday, Feb. 4,