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(This $2 chorge does NOT apply to Visa and MasterCard WEDNESDAY CASNEWS 12 Noon Tuesday SATURDAY CASNEWS 12 Noon Thursday Ph. 367-7680 “Boxed Ads” bate serie CASNEWS. 1o.m. Tues: SATURDAY CASNI 11. a.m, Thursday ORDER BY MAIL Print your Action Ad on a seporote piece of poper and mail to: Ads, Box 3007 Sener: B.C. VIN Sis The Cosi News reserves the right my ¢ facatly ads under op: propriate headings and 10 determine page tocotion, ; eoreery 1 lol. 44, rie: Castlegar, B.C. 2 Sections (A & 8) 75 Cents uneeen - wees Curl e-then raises $3,492 Searching tor 2 wer a soulmate? ad iia A6 aN) »» Castlésar News Celgar gears up for a busy two years By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer Close on the heels of securing funding and final government approvals, Celgar Pulp Co. finally began work this week on its. expansion and modernization Project, now estimated at $700 million. Celgar general manager Jim Browne said the first stages of construction will involve ‘‘an awful lot of earth moving’’ and foundation work, which should take about six weeks to complete. “That will create a lot of local jobs,”’ he said. The first signs of activity Castlegar residents will see are a few extra people and a lot of big equipment, he “you'll see the big equipment disappearing and more panels arriving and the structures “The said. Following that, going up.”” Browne said genean of equipment bulldozers and cranes have already started arriving: Af- ter the foundation work is completed, steelworkers, welders and riveters will be among the next set of workers to start. A meeting was held today to co- ordinate construction plans. “*It'll start at 100 or so and very quickly build up to (about) 1,000,” Browne said. About 22 or 23 months after the start of construc- tion, around December 1993, those numbers will dwin- dle down to around 200. The maximum number of people Celgar will employ will be at work for about four such as ~~ months, and 700 to 800 people will be employed during the six to eight months when: buildings are constructed. The project schedule ends with installation of new equipment, Browne said. in the summer, Celgar estimates about 40 per cent of the construction work will be done by local people. Ed Conroy, NDP candidate for Rossland-Trail, said Castlegar is going to be chaotic during the construction “This is going to be a hot, quick bang,"’ he said, recalling the burst of activity associated with the con- struction of the Hugh Keenleyside dam. “It's going to cause a lot of chaos and justifiably. so,” he said. ‘We already know what traffic is like on Columbia Avenue . . . I shudder to think what it’s going to be like.”” He added that he hopes the project planned by B.C. Hydro for Hugh Keenleyside ‘‘comes camp area certainly has to be in a great big hurry."’ The camp is for any construction workers coming in from an area outside a set radius, and should be ready with the of the Celgar project to eliminate the boom-and-bust cycle that usually surroun- ds a major project. Aside from the usual ‘‘discomforts”’ of construction Canada." on the site, such as rerouting and muddy grounds, Browne said the project has become more difficult due to the delay in getting government approval. “*It’s a lot more difficult project than it would have been,”’ he. said. ‘‘Instead of doing things in sequence, we'll be doing them parallel.’’ He said completion dates have not changed despite @ later start date. The new mill is scheduled to begin operation in the second quarter of 1993. The current mill will remain in production during Construction, and the only difference for existing mill personnel will be some “‘pretty extensive retraining’ closer to the time of i Browne said. Wilf Sweeney, general manager of the project, says the new mill ‘‘will be a showpiece for the industry in’ Sweeney said the project will help secure about please see CELGAR page A2 Panel ‘leaves door open’ By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer Amid general enthusiasm over Ceigar Pulp Co.'s announcement that it will proceed with its expansion and modernization project, some tecommendations made by the Celigar Expansion Review Panel are being criticized. “Some of the recommendations are good, but others are very weak,"" said Anne Sherrod, spokesman for the Kootenay Coalition for an En- vironmental Assessment Review Process. Sherrod said the recommendations are too sketchy to- address the en- vironmental and community concer- ns raised during the review process and shared by the coalition. “The real teeth are missing from these recommendations,”’ she said. “There’s no limit on production rate and that leaves the door open for Celgar to produce more pollution than was ever talked about in the review process. There’s no definite requirement to clean up the fibre mat (in the Columbia River), there’s fo requirement to shut down the mill if pollution limits are exceeded. In- stead we have endless monitoring of problems with little guarantee they can or will be solved."" Cal Him, second vice-president of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada Local 1, said he is pleased the project is going ahead, securing local jobs. However, he said the recommendations do not secure the environmental future of the area. “I’m not really pleased -with the recominendations,’’ he said. ‘“‘I thought they were a bit vague and not specific enough.’’ For example, a recommendation Love Your Planet Week is for air quality control says please see PANEL page A2 TALKING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT at Selkirk Coll By SIMON BIRCH Editor Transport Canada has authorized the installation of runway reflector Feds OK runway upgrading in the sky, attempting to find where the airport is, he sees these flashing lights pointing to whére his wheels should touch down,” he said. “‘! think they're a critical part of the full ‘Utilization ‘of the runway -reflec- dark, the—chairman of Castlegar’s airport advisory committee said Monday. The markers, which Transport Canada will install this year — funds permitting — work by reflecting an approaching aircraft's landing lights, John Hall told Castlegar city council. Hall, a medical doctor and pilot, said Transport Canada has tested the reflectors at Abbotsford Airport and found them to be ‘‘very satisfactory’’ for the take off and landing of air- craft. “That's very good news, in my opinion, that this has been authorized for Castlegar,’’ Hall said. The reflectors will cost ap- proximately $30,000 and are easily installed and maintained, he said As well, Hall said Transport Canada has authorized the in- Sstallation of a lighting system con- sisting of five high-intensity strobe lights at each side and at each end of the runway. “The problems that remain for initiating a night landing at Castlegar has to do with marking the threshold (of the runway) so that a pilot trying to get in knows where the runway is,"’ he said. The strobe-light system — known as an Omni Directional Approach Lighting System or ODALS — will solve that problem, Hall said, adding ; a student that the system is useful in poor forum on controversial environmental issues (above, Kicked Sine week ster environmentally which wrap up Saturday. —cosvews photo by Lovis Loroche daylight conditions as well as for emergency night operations. “When a pilot is manoeuvring high tor marker program which will be in- Hall said the timing of the system’s installation is again depen- dent on funds available to Transport Canada. “This is an expensive proposition to install and they have been authorized for Castlegar but they have not been authorized until funds are available,"" he said. *‘The figure that was expressed to me was maybe 1992 or 1993.”” Hall said he doesn’t know how much the system will cost. Council voted to write to federal Transport Minister Doug Lewis urging the installation of the system this year if possible. ile, B.C.'s Health Services will not allow air ambulances to land at Castlegar Air- port at night under any circumstan- ces, Hall told council. “Under no circumstances will a B.C. air ambulance be dispatched to Castlegar after dark because of the tremendous risk,’’ said Hall, whom council asked to investigate the in- stallation of permanent runway lights after Adastra Aviation Ltd. president Dale Nielsen said his company would no longer provide emergency medical flights out of Castlegar. Nielsen said he was losing money on the service since the provincial government stepped up the frequen- cy of the EHS flights in the wake of criticism some cabinet minjsters.were please see RUNWAY page A2 RDCK hopes new transit deal easier on taxpayers By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer The Regional District of Central surplus, it's taxes. “And property taxes are used to pay any deficiencies in revenues,”’ Henderson said applied to property The agreement's budget provides for a total system expenditure of $253,490, an increase of 18.3 per cent over 1990. The increase is at- tributed to increased service put into effect last August. Revenues are ex- pected to increase by 16.3 per cent to $35,542, including $11,032 from the tegional district with the incentive to creased to $2 from $1, he said. Han- dyDART, or paratransit, serves the ‘It didn’t make a heck of a lot of sense to have paratransit service them (© specific destinations. ‘The decision to raise the fare to $2 Rentals hit rock bottom By CasNews Staff If you want to rent a place to housing.”” Walsh said he worked in con- struction for about 15 years and remembers several people — especially those with families — who chose to live outside of camps such as the one Ceigar will build. “And some trades will get a "he said. “On| every job there was a very tial number of people who elected not to live in cam- ps.” Walsh said that although the published was based ‘What was to be “a fair increase in light of what is fin other ‘transit ser- vices,” he said. “But W's a very deticate balance please see TRANSIT poge A? one rental listed on its Aa board, the first it’s had in two weeks, Walsh said. “There's nothing out Selkirk College students is in- creasing every year as well. The only way out of the shor- tage is development, but there's not much in property to chose from for apartment-type tatively planned by Jim Rysen and Barclay % Rysen said “‘if everything works out’’ construction will start on 30 units in March and take about six or seven months to complete. Oy eeewrs ererry ¥P