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Among the information was that a G.H. (Giant) food store will be “the tenant of a 20,000- square-foot supermarket in the $7-million mail. A home to a G.H. (Giant) food store. station in the parking area of the mall, according to a sketch ac- companying the news release from The Reid Group. Though Reid said final negotiations with most of the mall’s major tenants are still in Progress, the Castlegar News has learned that Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, Dairy Queen and Burger Boys have ex- Pressed interest in the restaurant. Three jes are store, a and a department store will be the other major tenants among the mall’s 25 stores. There will also be a separate fast food restaurant and a gas in the running for the department store space, Reid said Construction on the 60,000- square-foot, fully enclosed mall to be located south of the San- dman Inn is set to begin in the spring and be completed this Oc- tober. “*We’re about 95 per cent ren- ted right now," Reid said in an interview from his Vancouver of- fice. “I'm coming up next week (Tuesday) to finalize the plans. Some (business owners) have already signed. Next week when I'm up there I can tell you how many (spaces for rent) I’ve got left,” Reid said. Castlegar Realty’s Dave Daniel, who negotiated the Property deal for Reid and is handling inquiries from local loper Sandy Reid's proposed 60,000-square-foot Southcentre Mall which will be tenants will be named later, Reid says. Developer poised to bring city into ‘modern age of malls' businesses, said there is ‘‘tremen- dous’’ local interest in the Project. “The last. time Sandy was here there was a steady stream of people coming through the door to talk to him,’’ Daniel said. Originally to be called Twin Rivers Plaza when the plan was to build a strip mall similar to Castleaird Plaza, the mall was referred to as Southcentre Mall in Reid's news release. Reid said the mall ‘‘will bring Castlegar into the modern age of malls and of being able to com- pete with other areas in the Kootenays."” Forestry By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer The Arrow forest district has put together a new committee to involve other resource users in planning for its timber supply area and to deal with any conflicts over the use of resources within the timber supply area. The district’ hosted a meeting Tuesday to find out how the various resource users could take part in planning and what they could con- launches tribute, Arrow district manager Ken Arnett said. Representatives from the B.C. ministries of Crown Lands, Parks, Environment, Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Agriculture and Health; as well as the Regional District of Central Kootenay, atten- ded the meeting and will be par- ticipating in the Arrow forest plan- ning committee. “Two things came out of the meeting,’’ Arnett said. ‘‘First, they’d committee like to participate and be involved with planning, and second, being a steering committee, we'd deal with resource-use conflicts. business,”’ Arnett said. “*We’re at a re-analysis right now, rewriting if you will, the resource plans,’’ Arnett said. ‘The public that other than “‘My feeling at the ion of the meeting was they’re interested in being involved where they could provide input at the base level of planning,” he said. Forming the committee is in keeping with the ministry’s attempt at integrated management of B.C. forests, its new way of ‘“‘doing timber have to be recognized. “It’s a new concept we’re trying here to really be sure we're not ignoring concerns of our resource values. = “It part of our commitment . and we believe it leads to better decisions.”” Syringa Park management up for grabs By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer Syringa Creek provincial park will be under new management this year. Proposal packages are now available for application to the B.C. Ministry of Parks for a permit to operate. and maintain Syringa’s recreational facilities, including the campground, boat launch, day-use area and hiking trails, said Gary Price, Boundary zone manager for the Parks Ministry’s West Kootenay district. “*Basically we permit somebody to carry on a business within the park,” Price said. ‘‘This particular business just happens to be maintaining the park itself.’’ The park is run under an operating Permit, as opposed to a contract, he said, explaining that with a permit, the operator keeps any fees collected to offset operating costs whereas a contractor is paid a service fee. In evaluating the proposals, the ministry looks at the applicant's ex- Perience and insight into the respon- sibilities of running the park's facilities. Some of those tasks include staff training, ensuring public safety, Providing firewood and carrying out operating and maintenance schedules, Price said. ‘When making a judgment on a Permit — again as opposed to a con- tract where we look largely at price —the value for dollar is the over- riding factor.” Price added that there are always some proposals that come in too low, indicating the applicant doesn’t understand what's involved, and there are always some that come in i the applicant parks through permits as a cost- saving measure. However, li can still be made, Price said. “The question always-comes up: is there money in managing a park? Well, the people who have operated them say there’s a ‘fair’ dollar to be please see SYRINGA page AS Premier may. visit March 25 By CasNews Staff Rumors that Premier Bill Vander Zalm will visit the Castlegar area Tuesday are unfounded. ‘The ‘premier’s press secretary, lan Jessop, told the Castlegar News on Friday the premier has a trip to Rossland-Trail planned for March 25. However, there’s no itinerary at this point. “I don’t have anything on that at this time,"’ Jessop said, adding that the plans could change because the legislature resumes sitting Monday. Celgar panel lists reasons By CasNews Staff The Celgar Expansion Review Panel says ‘‘pivotal’’ considerations in its recommendation for approval of the $700 million pulp mill expan- sion and modernization in Castlegar included “‘the scientific judgment’’ that the project will reduce the amount of dioxins and furans the mill discharges into the Columbia River. The panel lists as additional reasons for recommending approval Celgar’s commitment to a monitoring program, substantial decreases in sulphur emissions which create the typical foul odor of pulp mills, energy self-sufficiency of the new mill, the likely closure of the mill if the project didn’t proceed, the availability of transportation alter natives to avoid trucking of wood chips through the Slocan Valley and surplus wood chips and pulp logs in the region. “Achievement of acceptable con- ditions for air and water quality for those who live in the surrounding communities, and for those who work in the mill, will require Celgar to assume genuine responsibility for i of adverse of its operation,”’ panel chairman Jill Bodkin said in a news release. ‘‘The expectation of environmental protec- tion’ must permeate policies and practices of the company’s owners, management and all staff."" The panel said it has also passed on to the chairman of the provincial Forest Resources Commission ‘‘the please see CELGAR page A2 New party not a ‘major player’ By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer The prospect of facing the new free-enterprise B.C. Pacific political party in the next election doesn’t to worry West Kootenay politicians. Ed Conroy, the NDP’s candidate in Rossiand-Trail, dismissed the idea in ~ this election,"” Conroy |. “They just simply wouldn't have enough time to be a premature."’ He said that if the party did become’ a ‘viable entity’ it could have an impact on subsequent elec- tions. But that would “depend on their longevity,”’ Conroy said. Little is known about the B.C. Siemens, also said he doubts if the B.C. Pacific party could be organized in time to have an effect in new party is able to gather momen- tum. “I'd be afraid that if a new party formed, it would split the vote of the current if they were successful. “But I think they’d have a very minimal effect on this election.’ He said he is not aware of any support ih this area. Chris D'Arcy, Rossland-Trail’s. current MLA, echoed Conroy's skepticism that a new party could be successful. “There have been lots of new par- ties formed, or even talk of new par- ties forming in the last several years, decades for that matter. I have a wait-and-see attitude,”’ i “Any new political alignment would have to gather some extremely credible people at the top in order to vacuum in B.C. right now. But what tn B.C. is up to the voters.” By CasNews Staff Castlegar’s unemployment rate increased to 15.1 per cent in February, up 1.2 percentage points from 13.9 per cent in January, Statistics Canada said Friday. Trail’s rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point to 16.6 per cent from 16.5 per cent in January. About 5,000 people were out of work in Castlegar’s economic region in February out of total labor force of about 35,000 Stat- sCan said. About the same number of people were out of work in January, out of @ total labor for- Unemployment rises locally ce last month of about 37,000 StatsCan said. In Trail’s economic region, about 20,000 people were unem- ployed out of a total labor force of about 122,000. Castlegar is part of a Statistics Canada economic region that in- cludes Nelson, the Slocan Valley, Creston and the Columbia- Shuswap region. Trail is part of an economic region that includes Grand Forks and the Central Okanagan. Statistics Canada warns that figures for economic regions should be used with caution due to variability of sampling from month to month.