CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 17,1977 ‘When God made W.A.C. Bennett, He threw away ’ the mould and when He made Phil Gaglardi, He heaved away that mould too’ * | Phil Goglardi By Dennis Bell . VANCOUVER PROVINCE W.A.C, BENNETT Gaglardi in limbo Phil Gaglardi these days, a feeling that he's about to push the panic button on T HERE'S AN UNEASY AURA OF RESTLESSNESS SURROUNDING Fiying his arsenal of thermonuclear political weapons and explode in all directions. ‘The pint-sized, leather-lunged former highways minister from Kamloops is getting itchy vocal cords after five less-than-stellar years out of politicul life. He doesn't know himself what's going to happen, which way he'll go, what he'll be doing a week, a month, a year from now. ‘The onetime sidekick to W.A.C. Bennett during the first 20 years of Social Credit in B.C. is talking his unique brand of pulpit populism again, with an urgency that seems Flying Phi) Gaglardi — the Rev. Philip Gaglardi, de- throned king of the roads and the most controversial ister in W.A.C. B tt's Soored: g: great ambition. This is to obtain a national and interna- tional weekly television show, a quasi-religious broadcast in which he can speak to labor, management, government, soientists and ordinary people. He has offered to solve sin- gepreireh at no cost, two major problems confronting anada today — nati Goglardi describes himself as the greatest highways minister North America has ever seen. cue and pl “When God made W.A.C. Bennett, He threw away the mould aiid when He made Phil Gaglardi, He heaved away * that mould too," said Gaglardl, like Bennett a teetotulling non-smoker. “I put the automobile on wheels In the Province of British Columbia. “When I became the highways minis- ter, 1 either paved or repaved every © t, has one — PALAIS SMDAN Soreyten ALTIMA the LP funded P wr mamtaros korea mies Ons Din AU Lr tt pear Dine tat Py Near the New Arena Robson Library |. ae Is Facing Closure . By JUDY WEARMOUTH The Castlegar and District Public Library board is con- cerned that no funding has yet been forthcoming from Area J to continue the operation of the Robson branch this: year. Members agreed that the branch will have to close if they , fail to make a binding agree- “ment with’ Mr. Vanderpol be- fore the next board meeting, Volunteers manning the branch. are most disappointed that Robson residents ‘are not making use of the outlet ser- vice. Chairman Don Jones re- ported on the meeting: last month of the Kootenay Library System Society. The society is alarmed that the whole Koot- enay Library project is in danger of dying because of lack of government funding and in- - terest. Minister of Recreation and Conservation R. S. Bawlf, is not CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 7, 1977 Castlegar TENNIS CLUB convinced that libraries should ; Feo Structure: be high on his Ist of priorities for financing. . lor $7, Individuals who feel de- Selkirk Gallege Students prived of the benefits a library system has to offer, Le. free © Spring Term $6 © Fall Term $6 membership, audio-visual y Casual °$1 day °$3 wk. °$6 mo. complaining about the govern: . ment’s action in’ shelving the issue of great importance in the Kootenays. eo eo. Registratiot April 7. and 12 thru 15th her position for the time being. Board members will attend greater book mobile service, etc.—are urged to write personal, non- supplied at the library. branch- i ALL es.) *Bantam This is the best way to r" Midget regret the resignation of Mrs. Vi Wilcox as community librar- jan. Stand-in. tibrarian, Mrs. abusive letters to Mr. Bawlf, make him aware that this is an * Juvenile Girls Joan Williamson, will take over material, larger b Selkirk Valley proposal, (Addresses will be The board accepted with at the Recreation Office to indicate he’s worried that if he doesn't get his nickel’s worth in now, he may never t another chi inch of highway in the entire province. I Set another chance, Registration Fee 7° per girl the city council meeting on It hasn't been an easy five years of enforced political retirement for the Rey. Philip Arthur Gaglardi, a self-pro- fessed egotist who burned big strips of rubber into most of the highways he built. He's been out of the limelight with a steadily decreasing number of public engagements and party activities, al- he continues to get ink papers with the occasional speech or speeding ticket. At 64, still driven by a plethora of per- ceived missions in the cause of God and country, Gaglard! is talking seriously of making a big-league comeback. He can still overpower a crowd with the stento- ian baritone oratorical style that once propelled him to within kissing distance of the top of the Poteet heap. But what's lacking since he left poli- tics is the crowd. He thas the ideas, but nobody to bounce them off and no meth- - of “From that Alanepetn, asving Be pal tics was a bad thing,” an interview in the icearer ver offices at: his two entrepreneur sons. ‘Ce: I’ve lost a lot of audience by not. being in + the political arena. “T think maybe i missed the boat. There were things J should have partici- pated in or run for, but didn't. The federal political scene would be one of them." + But it's never too late, if your name happens to be Phil Gagiardi. “The one great ambition and drive of my life today is to obtain a national and international weekly: television-show, 3 quasi-religious broadcast in which Ican .. speak to labor, management, govern- ment. scientists and to the ordinary peo- ple,” said Gaglardi. ‘,. - I could go on for hours naming fantastic and ingenious accomplishments, because every day, I battled the impossible and diminished it to the feasible, the simple, the possible.’ _ The year was 1966 and Phil Gaglardi added a ‘hat’. to his coll- ection. This . time it-was a crown for the ‘King of __ the Road,’ ago, that many political analysts say was in large measure due to the leader- ship chall real or he “T want to make the nation that God is always a forgotten force in every area of social activity, including the governmental process,” he said. “The world is screzming, groaning, tra- ‘ailing for someone who has a powerful voice of decisiveness of authority that will give direction to a world that is stumbling around in a quagmire.”” It’s difficult to determine if five-foot, 5 %-inch Flying Phil really thinks that “someone” is Phil Gaglardi, a verbal conundrum that would drive a Freudian analyst to drink. He prefers to leave it at that. “Heck" is a strong word for Flying Phil, a man to whom swearing and salty language are an unpardonable anathe- ma. When he gets really angry, he may presented to the former premier. “There was’ a concerted effort to drive a wedge between myself and the premier and the media played an important role there." Shortly after the election, Solara went to work for his sons Bob, 36, and Bilt, 33, then building up a blossoming construction and motel business, the Sandman chain that now operates 15 hotels and motels in B.C. and Alberta. “They could get along without me, but we're a family, so I help them any I've never asked for a dime, but they do pick up my ex) Mi Even in the construction business, Gaglardi has found himself muddled in a controversy, centring around the refusal by the Gaglardis to employ union workers on their various projects. “I'm a strong believer in unions — if they're democratic. The Book says, ‘Muzzle not the ox that treads the corn.’ But where can you find democracy i in the present setup of unions?” Gaglardi said his sole income consists call a mana “cottonpicker” or a “dirty iy of the $11,000 annual pension he re rotten rat," but he can make the recipi- ceives from the B. + could go on for hours naming fantastic and ingenious accomplishments, be- - cause every day, I battled the impossi- ble and diminished it to the feasible, the simple, the possible.” Gaglardi quite simply and without a * trace of modesty, describes himself as ; the greatest highways minister North America has ever seen. “If you study the highways depart- ment under my operation, my reputa- tion is second to none in the whole of the nation, or internationally,” he sald in an interview shortly after he left the port- folio in 1968. ‘*E built more highways : under my jurisdiction than any man in Bt the Fres World, 1958: Goglardi opened a highway section and received o gift — a Socred hat. * cated daily to interior radio stations. He also teaches at Calvary, which boasts the biggest Sunday school in B.C, anda set of electronic -churehbelis that rattle ent of a quaint Gaglardi epithet feel like he's been scalded in the fires of hel. + — In any event, Gaglardi said he has “people at work right now” attempting ‘to tee him up with the national TV show, “but as always there are many things to be considered, including finances.” And he has also magnanimously offered, free of charge, to singlehanded- ly soive.the two major problems con- fronting Canada today —national unity come tax investigators and RCMP offi- and unemployment — devoting a year —_cers seized Gaglardi’s financial records toeach task. in Vancouver and Kamloops, papering “Give me an airplane so 1 could the premises with 14 search warrants. travel across the country the way I But no charges were ever laid. want to travel and believe me, I could Gaglardi’s life nowadays is a con- accomplish it!” boomed the preacher- — stant jet shuttle between Kamloops, pounce in a familiar window-rattling Vancouver and Edmonton, where he’s’ been overseeing construction of the lat- rWhat's Flying Phil been up to since est Sandman totel, a 150-room project Aug. 30, 1972, the day the voters of B.C. in the Alberta capital. turted him and the rest of the W.A.C, In a sense, he’s come full circle. He Bennett government out of office? spent the first 12 years of his working “Working. I've got a dynamo way —tife as a catskinner and contractor in down deep inside me that just won't let the rough-and-tumble logging and con- me quit, I haven't had a vacation in 20 struction camps of the coast and interi- years and I'm not golng to start taking or. them now." : Born in Mission in 1913, the fifth of Gaglardi lost his own ironclad Kam- —- children to Italian immigrant parents, loops riding to a New Democrat by 685 a3 Gagtardi left home at the age of 14 to votes, a shocking gauge of voterdissat- become a trained diesel mechanic. By isfaction with Social Credit at the time the age of 22, “I'd tasted a lot of living, with it his aspirations to lead the but one day I figured out there was party after Bennett's retirement. more to life than drinking and carous- “I certainly knew before the election ing.” that we were in for a very, very tough He enrolled in a theological seminary battle, but I didn’t realize that we were and became an ordained Pentecostal in trouble in my own area,” Gaglardi — minister, moving to Kamloops in 1948 sald. “It wasn't because the people did- where he founded Calvary Temple. n't appreciate our government: it was Gaglardi resigned as pastor of Cal- that they felt we were getting alittle too autocratic.” Gaglardi brushes aside his own role in the Social Credit ‘collapse five years .C. former cabinet minister. He says ‘he’s got “about $2,000 in a couple of bank ac- counts” and his only other assets are his house and ranch in Kamloops. “Don’t bother to print any of that. No- body will believe it anyways. People want to think I'm a rich man, even though I'm not.”* Among the non-believers was Reve- still flies home every weekend to tape a of five-minute radio broadcasts syndi- nue Canada. In June, 1974, federal in- . vary prior to the 1972 election. but he _ weekly half-hour TV show and a burst - 2 of bed Sunday morn- ings or miles around. When Social Credit came into B.C. from Alberta in the early 1950s with a _ Messianic, mixture of Christian ethics and curious monetary philosophy, Ga- glardi was one of the early converts. He also had a readymade constituency in his church congregation, which by that ‘time inciuded a potent blend of Kam- toops business leaders, ranchers ‘and focal politicians. “1 was drafted originally into the po- litical n't ask to be @ candidate, but I became one and then I was elected to the legis- . lature. I didn't want to be a cabinet minister either, but 1 was drafted into that too.” ‘That was in June, 1982, when the lead- erless Social Credit movement won a stunning election victory over the shat- tered Coalition administration of Byron (Boss) Johnson, finishing | a single seat ' ets for speeding, “Sure, {'m an egotistical guy, a proud guy: and E make mistakes and'I'm flamboyant. So what? Jumpin’ Jupiter, at least I'm sincere!” In his years as highways minister, Gaglardi racked up a total of seven tick- careless driving and other automobile offences and had his driver's licence sus; twice, In one classic case, an RCMP cruiser clocked the highways minister doing 90 miles an hour down the highway west of Kamloops in 1961. The police pulled him over and he offered a now memorable explanation: “I'm a marked man every time'l get behind the wheel ofa car," he com- plained after taking a fall for careles: driving. “But I’m no demon or maniac behind the wheel. The fast driver is the sufe driver because he is more alert.” His fascination with flight became. evident eurly, in the Bennett fae The Poe been + “more than any other minister's.” ‘twit a. “T was testing the: . Widgeon, at that time it carried a call letlers CF-GPJ. The pilot explain- ed that GPJ stood for “Gaglard!'s Pride and Joy:" : The most travelled minister in the Bennett government, he was soon deep- ly immersed in one political battle after another. In October, 1960, Gaglardi was fined $1,000 for contempt of a B.C. Su- . preme Court order in a case involving an illegal $25,000 highways department payment to a Seattle contractor. In B.C. Legislature sessions, Gaglar- di was usually No. 1 on the Opposition hit list. The opposition parties went over his’ departmental estimates in almost microscopic detail. He got a lot of heat from the Social Credit benches as well, and once said that his resignation had by cabinet affair and so did Flying Phil, returned by a comfortable margin in Kamloops. With his party tucked safely back in power. Bennett rehabilitated Gaglardi to, full eabinet rank, naming him wel- , fare, minister, a.few, weeks after the” ‘election. Gaglardi promptly changed the name of the portfolio to “rehabilitation and social improvement” and launched his own job-finding program: the Provin- cial Alliance of Businessmen (PAB). He claims the PAB found jobs for 30,000 people in the first six months of 1972 alone, “unemployed employables” on, welfare that were capable of working. Back in the saddle again, he was em- broiled in political: donnybropks in a matter of weeks. Combing through his expense vouchers, NDP and Liberal MLAs found some iuteresting chits from the still-travelling social iraprove- . ment minister. Two receipts put him in different hotels on the same night: one in Van-” couver, the other in Arichorage, Alaska. But Bennett stood by him on every occasion — until March 2t, 1968. On that day, Gaglardi submitted his resignation as highways minister and was sworn in as minister without portfo- lio. In the process, his $35,000-a-year : salary was chopped by half and he was * ordered to decamp from the lavish high- ways department offices. _ “Of all the hard things [ve had to do that was the most difficult and I pray God that nobody anywhere ever has to + go through such an experience.” - In the months preceding the resigna- . “tion, Gaglardi had come under increas- ing pressure over land deals that grossed his sons a tidy $400,000, mostly in buying and selling land along pro- posed highway Toutes. As that storm grew in ferocity, . another Gaglardi bombshell exploded. The Opposition parties were tipped anonymously that Gaglardi had arrang- ed for his daughter-in-law and grandson to be flown to Dallas, Texas‘a! highways department Lear jet. One on top of the other, the furores . were too much for Bennett to handle. Gaglardi had to go — but nat for long. The dethroned king of the roads insisted that his sons were - ahead of the C wealth Federation, forerunner of the - NDP. A month after the election, the 18- member legislature caucus met at the Hotel Vancouver. Gaglardi and W.A.C. Bennett were among five candidates for the leadership. It was to be Gaglardi's only official challenge to the South Okanagan MLA. Bennett won the caucus vote hands down with 14 votes and Gaglardi got one, But on Aug. |, 1952, Gaglardi was one of 10 Social Credit cabinet ministers who trooped two by two up the legislature ‘driveway in Victoria lo take over the government. He drew the public works portfolio, which then included the high- ways department. Astar was bora. t insist completely innocent of any wrongdoing rand that subsequent investigations in ‘the highways department ‘“‘came up with an absolute zero” on the former ! minister. , Gaglardi later recalied the affair left | ber “his permanent suite in the Hotel Van- himself ~ couver with thoughts of hurling onto the pavement below. “After I resigned 1 looked out that window many times -and thought, ‘What's the use? I should leap out that ., Stupid window.’ But when you've got faith in God and you've got some strength, you don't do those kind of things.” -Sociat Credit successfully rode out the 1969 electivn despite the Gaglardi f Tr business” vouch- er for $382.15 covered air fare from Vancouver to South Bend, Ind. and back, via Toronto and Chicago. Tn South Bend he spoke to a group called “Transport For Christ,” an organization of truckers dedicated to promotion of a mobile chapel for lung- haul drivers. Gaglardi dritics wondered aloud what Transport For Christ in Indiana had to do with welfare in B.C. Gaglardi said he was being faulted for minor bookkeeping errors and that he’ was representing the government and people of B “ siherever he spoke and representin; When Bennett aed by i972 election, - speculation was already rife that this. would be his final campaign. Pinned down on his own political prospects, Ga- glardi conceded that he: would be a . candidate for the Social Credit leader- ship when Bennett had decided of his own volition to relinquish it. A flvod of other cabinet-ranked hopefuls: jumped the gun in hot pursuit of Gaglardi. As Dave Barrett, leading the delight- ed New Democrats, observed: “What we have here is a Social Credit leader- ship campaign in the middle of an elec. * tion.” ‘The campaign went badly for.Social * Credit. Several cabinet ministers, in- cluding Gaglard?, were involved in an angry shoving match with trade unio- nists protesting labor legislation at a rally in New ‘An attempt to pin the confrontation on Bar- rett arid the NDP backfired. ‘The straw that some say broke Social Credit's back was an interview Gaglar- di gave to a Toronto Star reporter 10 days before the election. He was quoted as saying Bennett was an old man who ho longer understood young people; and that Bennett had stayed on after the 1969 election to head off 2 Gaglardi leadership bid. The premier angrily ordered Gaglar- di to own up to hus comments or sue the newspaper. Claiming he was misquot- ed, Gaglardi sued The Star and The Province, which had reprinted the Star article. Flying Phil quietly dropped the libel actions a few months after the election. He now concedes that the remarks at- tributed to him were accurate, but were taken out of context. But the damage was done. bs ‘ Picture by Peter Hulbert. On election night. Aug. 30, 12 Social: : Credit cabinet ministers, including Ga- glardi, went down to defeat and several of them laid the blame squarely on Flying Phil's shqulders. B.C. had eles ed its first socialist goverment.’ Shortly after the élection, the unpre- - dictable Gaglardi — the man who found * jobs for unemployed employables — applied for unemployment insurance. . He filled out all the forms, but Unem- ployment Insurance Commission offi- cials told him that as a politician, he wasn't eligible for benefits. Gaglardi went back to Kamloops and tried a two-week stint as a radio hotlin- er. But it didn’t work out, so he went to work for his sons. Following W.A.C. Beunett’s resigna- lion as party leader, Gaglardi left the question’ of his own candidacy open, saying he would accept a convention draft if it were offered. But when Social Credit. gathered in November, 1973 to pick a new leader, the draft never came and the leadership went to Bill Bennett, son of the former premier. Gaglardl toyed briefly with’ the idea _of federal politics in the -1974 national election, but decided against trying for the Social Credit nomination in Liberal Cen Marchand's Kamloops-Cariboo rid- ‘ ing. He also considered and rejected the possibility of a‘Kamloops mayoralty bid and passed up the 1975. provincial elec- tion that saw Social Credit returned to power under Bill Bennett. “Lam a very, very outspoken fellow. T've always been in trouble because of my methods of operation. my direct dealings witht people: But I wonder if men like me belong in political life any- more. My conclusion is that I’m too, abrupt and forthright and too much. understood.” Gaglardi still thinks there's a role for it him in Canadian public life. He’s deadly serious when he says he could sing! handedlysolve unemployment and i tonal unity. ‘could change the face of Canada on = an unemployiment-employment basis. within‘one year's time if I was given a free hand to do so. Very, very simply, I would use the PAB system J worked in B.C. ona nattonat basis. I challenge this » nation to give me the opportunity. F'll do it. If Tean't do it, a laughingstock. Ditto on national unity. “I'd be the proudest fellow in the world if this nation would commission me to straighten out the lack of unity in Canada. I would make people recognize that the base of our unity is in spiritual concepts and not in material ones."The Probiem has nothing to do with lan- guage.” Whether Flying Phil will be remem- . bered as a giant among the builders of B.C. or as a governmental gadfly from the fundamentalist fringe, will have to await the judgment of future political go tu my grave as + historians, But politics in B.C. are a lot less colorful without him. “Don’t paint me as a pious sint, and don't paint me ot.a devil with cloven hoofs ei- ther. The truth lies somewhere between."? wrmeavesarerencastsseosoed —s "Area ‘H’ New Participant In Ootischenia Operation (continued from page 1) is it? Pecple at this meeting are trying to tear it down.” RDCK administrator Gene Bodard told Wilson Municipal Affairs Minister’ Hugh Curtis’ proposed amendments to the Municipal “Act would provide for the setting-up of “mini- regional districts" which would, by letters patent, become autonomous: units, each em- powered to perform a variety of functions such as the Castlegar, Areal and Area J operation of the Ootischenia dump. - Area D. director Jack Morris criticized the aoe of the fifth r which called for. negotiations to determine the . three \ areas’ share of the RDCK's garbage , “disposal equipment. “This will create an expenditure for the rest of the areas," Morris said. “They are either going to take the . machinery or they're going to take money instead of the machinery.” “You're opting out of it,” © Morris told Moore, Moran and Vanderpol. “If you want to go down your own road, go ahead, but I don't think the board should give you contributions.” “We are determining in AL'S Seamless Gutters * Baked-On Enamel © Brown or White ° All Aluminum Made continuous at your home Soffits — Downpipe Grand Forks | 442-8545 Evenings this that we are going to give them a con- tribution,” “Morris told the |; board. Vanderpol told the board the Qotischenia dump has al- ways been financed separately. “It's not that we are opting . : sul Vanderpol said. “Weare } are not sepa ne ee ave ” ALEX PEREVERZOFF”” |. % a Tate.”” “At the next meeting you will have the chance to present your view to the board and you will have the opportunity to state if you think it is an exag- gerated demand,’ ” he told Morris. Later. in the Meeting Morris was appointed, along with Nakusp director D. M. Morehouse, Area G director G. -A. Murray and director A.J. Morris, to: the — board Mayor Moore Reports It has been approximately two months since I was sworn in as your. Mayor. feel we have been a very active council: Your councillors have ‘attended many extra meetings and certainly have come to grips with many pressing problems. note in checking the minutes that on February 8 in my opening remarks I said that if all goes as we plan with our water program, we could sustain a measure of growth. Our program came up negative as our 4th drill hole for water was dry which led this council to pass the resolution restricting the issuance. of building permits requiring water for an indefinite period. t This was necessary as we must protect our present population. in regard to, water. supply. We must not peated requests from Bodard for written guarantees from the : three directors that Castlegar, Area I and Area J would bear” the operating costs of the unk “ball park” figure of $8,000. “Why all of a sudden are we asked to put it in writing?” Moran asked Bodard. “This has “never been done before.” The motion to include Area H, the’ rural lower Slocan Valley, in the letters patent for® the Ootischenia garbage func- tion was called after a lunch- AN Chiron of the Slocan Valley’ ot Grades 1-6 inclusive are invited to participate 6% Sponsored by Slocan Valley Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion - Castlegar, Area I'and Area J, garbage operation. + three - or four “years for a “garbage function which-has not : appeared,” Brewster « said. “This’ is the ‘solution to’ the - problem.” He said. hew was s receptive to Bodard’s suggestion that the Village of Slocan be included in Legion Pa = Raffle. Winners 1st Cured Ham" Ros @ Jarvis #2957 - 2nd ‘Food Hamper’’ Maotly White #2955 L.A. Draw 1st ‘Slow Cooker’. Carol Him #2369 « — 2nd *'Blanket’’ - Dave Schapan: ahy #2538, . 3rd°-“‘Place Mats'' Dorothy Flemming. #2395. MURSERY VALLEY LANDSCAPE ‘BOOK NOW FOR THE FINEST. RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL LANDSCAPING, 1977. 226-7270 Ring -20:Times WINLAW, B.C. the function. But Slocan Village director Agda Winje told Brew- ster she was “not in favor of the proposal at all." “It. would involve taking our garbage 45° miles to. the Ootischenia “dump,” ‘she. sai “We couldn't even. consider i Moran - objected to ‘re- . Brewster told the. board © his area’ had a strong cultural ‘and “commiunity~ affinity: with _- and woatd eventually require a t “We have ‘paid taxes for S adnimaueiee our capacity to deliver adequate pressure in case of a.fire, not to mention the need for sufficient water to irrigate our gardéns, This council has held preliminary discussion with the Department of Municipal Affairs, Housing, West Kootenay * Board of Health and Canadian Cellulose. We definitely are moving as quickly as possible on this matter. We will commission -a detailed report establishing the terms of reference for this study to include the Columbia River, Lower Arrow Lakes and a possible tie-in with Canadian Cellulose as probable sources of water supply. A meeting is being arranged between council and the Minister of Municipal Affairs and the Minister: of En- vironment to discuss this problem this month. Another major ‘step taken’ by your council was the adoption of W. K. Smith & Sons report on Organization - Structure for the city. This report embodied the folowing recommendations: E 1). Modification of committee. struct is vai ¢,12):Mr.1 Bilb Krug «confirmed the +4) Introduction of central filing system; - ”.5) Purchasing, inventory control land stores to be | a dest seeponsibllity of the Treasurer All'department heads report "dlrectly to the city “< 9)-Senior’ staff in (all departments to be actively involved 4 in preparation of Provisional, Annual and Capital budgets. af tion services were studied by. this same firm and the following ‘recommendations were. made: ‘The delivery of recreation and other leisure services in the city and Electoral Areas I and J be contracted to the. city from the ‘Regional District; = A A joint advisory Parks and ion Ce yn be markedly. j »” and three-quarters of an inch at. April-12 to support the library budget presented to the city last month. Interested library patrons are invited to attend; also to lend their own support to the vital matter of acquiring’ sufficlent furtding to continue ‘the good library service pres- ently established. One heavy item on the budget is’ new shelving: for the Kinnaird branch, which is es- - sential now that the library's hook stock ‘has increased so - -Castlegar & District CURLING CLUB Annual General Meeting and Election of Officers Tueday, April 19th 8:00 p.m. Corting Clb Lounge All Members Are Urged to Attend Remember this Easter ,) | A committee was formed to investigate the possibility of acquiring grants from various cultural foundations to aug- ment the budget. * The librarians reported an ‘ increase in the taped book circulation. This. is . probably due to the fact that the col- lection can now be exchanged in ‘small quantities with ‘greater regularity. The new Friday afternoon opening hour in the Castlegar branch has proved to be very popular, The libraries will be closed - for the whole Easter holiday, including Good Friday, Satur- day and Easter Monday. The:: Story Hours. in the Castlegar from HELEN'S See Our Flowering Plants eLilles *Hydrangeas ¢Mums Caladiums « *Kalanshoes The tae eee x all Klondike nuggets » weighed in: at~ 72: ounces, 8° grains,' and was eet $16 an aun or, $1,168. it was five and’ three- quarters of an inch long by two PEOPLE INTERACTION . The orth for Family a Community ‘the, small end. presents C] PUBLIC FORUM n the CASTLEGAR LEGION # | PURPOSE: “To discuss the need and oselblity of ~ Your Floor Covering Centre! created. These last two recomimendations are presently under: consideration by the city and area affected, but will not be implemented before 1978. In reference to our recent on-going problem in relation to the Ooti: ia refuse site problem, we. are definitely going to manage our own facility as of May.1 if events unfold as they should. . . & Sheet Lino |. hiring a: trained: famil Sales & Installation © Distro wn ee Y Sorepserer for. te, Cealleg MEETING PLACE:. TIME: 7:30 p.m. DATE: 12th April, 1977 EVERYONE WELCOME Steam Ca * Gledning & mente Gorden Wall Ltd. 1005 Pine Ave., Trail’ 364-2537 Castlegar. isan Particularly interested Groups from - To the i n Area K director L: G. Donison that dumping: Slocan’ Valley" garbage’ at ‘the Slocan dump would. be more logical, Brew- ster said his area had been looking for a dump like the Ootischenia site which will have a longer life. - “It’s the only way T'ean see of. getting my area over the dilemma,” he said, “I don't want my area to continue to pay Transformation TO SOlL Delivered BLACK LOAM -and RED LOAM TRANS- x On’ -the ‘back’“of Duane -Mellot’s Pickup truck is. a: bumper. ‘sticker that’ reads: “When I grow up I want to be a . diesel.”- That's exactly. what happened... It took Mellot, who lives in Bellingham,’ .Wash., ‘nine months: to convert his little = : pickup ‘into an open-road semi. - “Just like having a baby,” says his’ wife, Jeane. Mellot, a sheet-metal work- er’ for. 22 years, started with a’: "1955 half-ton pickup, took the year, S In closing I - would. like ‘to: extend . council's ions to all our hockey teams who did so well this” taxes for a Service that does not exist.” The three-fifths mill levy -from Area H added $5,125 to the $27,300. from Castlegar, Area I and Area J which was inserted by the board ‘in the ‘1977. RDCK. budget revision bylaw: From. Pickup. to Diesel :.body off and kept the frame and running gear. He mounted a Jeep pickup cab on the frame and fabricated the hood and fenders from rein- ’ forced plastic. He can raise the . whole- works, just like’ on big trucks, to tinker with the engine. “I wanted a pickup. and-I wanted it to be different,” he said. e . Gasoline is carried in a drum underneath the cab steps, just ‘like.a. big diesel. - Motor: Homes For Rent! ~ 1Book Early For. Your. 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