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MATHIESON

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MARILYN MATHIESON
meeting challenges

Support Services, Meals on Wheels
and made a variety of contributions
to groups concerned with young
people

I am a qualified Home Economics
teacher with experience in Tra’
Castlegar and West Vancouver. My
husband and I have three children
whose main schooling took place in
Castlegar.

On our .return, many improve.
ments were obvious better air
service, the new airport and im.
proved highway interchange, im
proved signage, the work at the
arenas and general beautification
amongst others. Long-range plan
ning and budgeting continues to be
particularly critical given our low
population density; as are effective
management,—good communication
and a co-operative effort. We must
promote and develop the area in
order to increase employment and
broaden the tax base.

Much effort has gone towards
greater economic development re

cently and efforts must continue. We
have a unique cultural mix, a great
river setting, a pleasant climate,
ample power and a hard-working
friendly people. Others must be in-
troduced to these ts.

One current problem, our air
quality, continues to concern all. The
ideal solution would be. the planned
expansion at our pulp mill which
would secure employment while new
technology would lower emissions.
Proposals for power generation are
exciting as well. We must all work to
encourage these, as well as a second-
ary aceess road.

The concerns for our environment,

ploy
and area promotion are important,
but we must also pay attention to
on-going maintenance of our facilities
and services. Please share your addi-
tional concerns with me. Through the
sharing of ideas and setting of goals
we can work together to realize
further improvements within our
current resources.

Much good work has been accom
plished by previous councils, I would
appreciate the opportunity to be part
of a strong council and a bright
future for Castlegar. I believe that
my experience and my ability to
study and evaluate issues will help in
meeting our challenges. Please vote
for Marilyn Mathieson on Nov. 19.

Dealing
fairly
on issues

I am seeking re-election on city
council this year because after just
one term I feel I am making
significant contribution to the opera

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PATTI RICHARDS
. making contribution

tion of the city and wish to continue
dedicating my energies in represent
ing the citizens of Castlegar.

While on council I have maintained
an open mind and dealt fairly with all
issues. I have encouraged and_sup-
ported various initiatives including
the property maintenance bylaw, a
smoking bylaw and the much-needed
intermediate care facility expansion
to the hospital. As well, I have
assured the development of an
Abilities Awareness Advisory Com
mittee and have given my full
support to the aquatic centre refer-
endum.

On council, I still diligently pursue
items such as a viable by-pass,
generators at Hugh Keenleyside
Jam, upgrading and expansion of
Syringa Creek Park, the lakeside
highway link to Fauquier, and the
overall fostering of business oppor
tunities (both present and potential).

Currently-tanrinvojyd in seeking
funding for a handydart service and a
review of the municipal solid waste
management program. Also, I ser\
on a committee to set criteria for the
new “Strengthening the Family Ini.
tiative” program.

I see positive things happening in
vastlegar. I see attitudes changing
and people becoming more conscien
tious about the appearance and at
tractiveness of their premises. The
new mini-mall is a great asset of our
downtown. The curling club. and
arena landscaping and also the over
pass grounds are a few examples of
people working together to make our
city more appealing to tourists and
prospective businesses.

Castlegar shows great potential
for tourism development. Tourism is
a clean industry and we must
continue to promote our area. With
the current hydrographic survey
being conducted on the Columbia
River, water travel will increase and
enhance tourism which in turn
creates employment.

We must continue to fight for jobs
and to keep our unemployment rate

FEDERAL FUNDING
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$9.8 mimon
LYLE KRISTIANSER
tar (1980-1984)

(808 BAISCO
Mar (1984-1988)

ata Castlegar is indeed
the most central and viable com-
munity in the West Kootenays and

BRISCO DELIVERS

PERFORAMNCE! That's what counts!

We deserve the best and that is what we have! A
Member of Parliament can’t just protest, he must
perform. Kootenay West — Revelstoke deserves its
fair share — we have for the past four years —
Cominco modernization, reforestation, regional
girport, job training — the list goes on.

Re-elect the man who has brought us our fair share!

Re-elect BRISCO on November 21, 1988.

Authorized by WA von Yrerloo, official ogent tor Bob Brisco.

R.E. Kadlec

The Board of Directors is pleased to
announce appointment of the senior execu

W.R. Powell

C.1. Kleven

Robert E. Kadlec heads the team as
President and Chief Executive Officer,

M.A. Favell

President Corporate Services, and Patrick
Lloyd, Senior Vice-President Corporate

PD. Lioyd

we should be encouraging companies
to locate here,

Cooperation and assistance with
our major employers and all busi
nesses in general will help ensure
that Castlegar has the reputation of
being a stable place in which to
establish business and family. In this
regard, for example, we must
continue to encourage open, honest
discussions with Celgar Pulp and
Westar Timber.

All these things will in turn,
increase our tax base, thereby re.
lieving the burdén on present tax
payers. I fight hard to keep our taxes
low and increases to a minimum.

Thave lived in Castlegar all my life.
T have two children, a daughter Kim,
16, and a son Kelly, 14. My husband,
Doug has worked for the school
board for the past 15 years. I am
office manager of Home Support and
have been employed since its be
ginning in 1974. I have seen this

service grow to include such pro-
grams as Meals-on-Wheels and the
Personal Emergency Response sys-
tems.

I am currently treasurer for the
Hospice Society. Some of the past
activities and experience include in-
volvement with Minor Hockey, Gen
tlemen's Hockey, Slo-Pitch, Brownies
and Job's Daughters. I have also
coordinated a grad reunion and a
sorority convention. I am still and
active member of Beta Omicron
sorority,

I feel commitment, hard work and
a positive attitude will make this
community grow and prosper as it
should and I am willing to dedicate
myself to these goals for the benefit
of us all.

You gave me the opportunity to
work on your behalf these last two
years. I thank you for your trust and
belief in me. Now I'm asking for your
support again on Nov. 19 so I can
continue serving you.

Environment and

economy

Dan Shields was born in Trail on
July 17, 1939 and raised in Castlegar.

After attending school in Castle
gar, Dan served his apprenticeship at
Cominco at Trail. He worked for
Cominco for 14 years, two years with
Canadian General Electric in Van-
couver, one year elgar Pulp and
over 10 years with Selkirk College.
He has served as an industrial first
aid attendant along with other
positions for the last 10 years.

Dan has become increasingly con-

‘over the past several years

that the senior governments are no
longer representing the average citi-
zen's interests, but are catering to
big business. He feels that while our
city council appears to have done
things as we would wish, the electors
would do well to protect their own
interests by electing someone with
the same priorities — someone who
will place human values before the
welfare of corporations and the en
hancement of their party's political
clout.

His general priorities are:

e@ a clean environment;

¢ a stable, prosperous economy;

© a secure social structure

In particular, he would emphasize:

e Keeping property taxes down —
although we are due for a tax hike,
we must not make it too expensive to
live in town;

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DAN SHIELDS
. human values needed

¢ More emphasis on road main-
tenance — our paved roads are
slowly falling into disrepair. Why not
sealeoat roads that are cracking?

e Pressure Celgar Pulp to cut
down on pollution. It will not do it
without public pressure.

¢ Work with other communities to
stop CP Rail herbicide spraying pro-
gram

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November 16.1900 Castlégar News

MUNICIPAL ELECTION ‘88

SHIELDS

continued trom page 86

© Discourage shipping of danger
ous chemicals by truck through town.
Demand full compensation for spills.

Look for alternate use of indus
trial park at south end of town. If no
alternative use can be. found, find
way of minimizing investment loss to
city.

Invite input from taxpayers for
problems like the industrial park.
Someone has a solution for every
problem.

Finally, on Nov. 19, please vote for
someone you can trust to kepresent
your best interests.

DOREEN SMECHER
.... bypass essential

City
must
grow

My name is Doreen Smecher. I
have made my home in Castlegar for
the last 16/2 years. During the past
nine years, I have served you as a
school trustee for School District No.

I have enjoyed representing you
on the board and have always tried to
be available and to listen to your
concerns, Becayse of this, many of
you have encouraged me to seek a
seat on city council.

I am concerned about our future.
There are things I can't accept. I
can't accept the fact that business in.
vestments don't find their way past
the Okanagan. I can't accept that
tourism stops at Osoyoos and then
turns north. I can't accept the fact
that short and long term investors
are looking toward the northern part
of the province for new opportun
ities. I can’t accept the premise that
we can’t develop a broader tax base
— one that would allow us to develop
the extras for our citizens without an
unreasonable tax burden.

Castlegar has the same advantages
as have the other parts of the
province and yet we are passed up
for consideration. I can safely say
that Castlegar is still one of the
world’s best kept secrets. I think

because we haven't encouraged the
types.of industry that would be
appropriate for our community.

There are industries that are clean
and tidy; industries that would
encourage development of our down-
town core as well as our industria)
park and residential area. It is ‘my
opinion that more should be done to
encourage the service business in.
dustry to locate here at the cross
roads of the Kootenay.

We have the geographic advantage
and yet we are not capitalizing on
this asset. With increased activity
comes a greater. incentive for the de
velopment of the long-needed second
access road for Castlegar.

A truck route or industrial bypass
is essential — we need it not only for
our own safety, but in anticipation oj
and preparation for Celgar’s ex.
pansion. This is only one of the bene.
fits that the people of Castlegar could
realize. Tourism is another activity
that needs publicity and encourage
ment — and neither of these indus.
tries would add to the problems of
pollution. They are clean industries.

And why are we not, promoting
Castlegar as a good place for people
to come to in their retirement years;
another clean industry, one, by the
way that is growing faster than
others.

Castlegar must grow from being
the crossroads of the Kootenays
where people pass through to
become the hub of the Kootenays
where people and investors stop to
engage in business activities which
will provide services and employ.
ment. Businesses that would take
advantage of our natural beauty —
sit under the trees and enjoy our
climate. Let's be the hub of the Koot:
enays —-not—just-the-erossxoads.

I have found serving you as a
trustee these past nine years to be
most exciting and rewarding. I would
like to serve this community as an
alderman. I ask for your vote on Nov.
19.

TRUSTEE

Loss of
students
a concern

Bill Hadikin, an engineering as.
sistant with the City of Castlegar,
returned to Castlegar in 1981 after a
15-year absence in order to raise his
family in the area.

Bill constructed his home in Ootis.
chenia in Area J and became in
terested in politics in 1986 when an
autocratic decision by the school
board created havoc with the families
of areas I and J and subsequently
with the remainder of the school
district have not lessened Mr. Hadi.
kin’s interest in board matters re-
lating to education and with the
move of the present trustee to a new
home outside of Area J, Bill was
approached by Area J residents to
represent them as trusteegr

Although Bill is now part of’ city
administration, his six years of
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BILL HADIKIN
. quality education

CUPE Local 2262 (Castlegar Civic)
and three terms on the bargaining
committee have earned him a consid
erable understanding of labor-mana.
gement relations and his engineering
and technical background provide a
solid framework for rational decision
making.

In addition seven years of inter.
relating with all levels of government
as well as his attendance at a number
of school board meetings and special
meetings arranged with the admin
istration on behalf of concerned par
ents, round out his qualifications for
position of school trustee.

Bill believes, as all parents do, that
our children must receive the best
education available and it is with
concern that he views the loss of
Castlegar district students to neigh-
boring school districts. The media
attention that neighboring school
districts receive for their quality
programs should be an incentive to
the Castlegar district trustees to find
out why we cannot better their
system.

Bill feels that as a trustee it would
be incumbent upon him to show
parents that the Castlegar district
schools are sécond to none in the
area, that our locally-developed pro-
grams are something to be proud of,
not something we should hide.

This interest in quality education
is not a new phenomenon although
the approach used is as varied as the
individual. Bill would like to see more
emphasis on professional develop-
ment, an approach recommended by
the Sullivan commission on education
and certainly a fundamental need. Ii
those who train our children are un.
able to further their own training
then we are lost before we ever
begin. As other aspects of the
Sullivan commission are examined by
the affected interests there »are
bound to be improvements to a sys-
tem tong neglected.

All too often the system tends to
lose track of the other aspects of our
education system, the people who
take care of our children before
classes, help during the classes and
provide for assistance and extra-
curicular activities after classes, our
drivers and our aides, our custodians
and all our support staff. Bill would
like to see that they as well, would
benefit from improvements to the
education system, be it upgrading
and job promotion, or a thank you for

MUNICIPAL ELECTION ‘88

a job well done.

In all aspects, Bill wants to bring
an optimistic approach, an approach
that consistently promotes what the
district has to offer, an approach that
consistently improves on what’ the
district provides and an approach
that fights for what the district
needs; an approach that would
provide a valuable addition to School
District No, 9.

RICK PONGRACZ
. ++ positive changes

TRUSTEE

Committed
to quality
education

Rick Pongracz, after having served
Area J as school trustee for the past
four years, seeks your support for
re-election for another two-year
term. Rick is 40 years old, married
with two children, Tamara, a 1987
graduate of Stanley Humphries sec
ondary school, and Nathan, presently
a grade 10 student at SHSS. Rick is a
plumber by trade and a member of
the Plumbers’ Union Local No. 170.

During his terms as trustee, Rick
has initiated and supported many of
the positive changes that have oc
curred in School District No. 9. Rick
takes special pride in his contribu.

‘of openness and

tions leading to the adoption of pro-
cedural bylaws that outline a realistic
and consistent process for conducting
school board business, A direct result
of this has been the encouragement
increased public
participation in the decision-making
process,

As chairperson of the management
committee, Rick has stressed the
development of improved personnel
practices, which has led to a much
improved relationship between the
board and its employees. Being the
elected vice-chairperson for the past
year, Rick has been proud to
represent the board at a number of
community functions.

During the last four years, Rick
has consistently strived to improve
and strengthen the quality of the
Special Education program, the
Russian Immersion program, Open
Roads and the many other aspects of
educational needs within the district.

When re-elected as trustee, Rick is
committed to: maintaining quality

education that is accessible to all anti
promotes the full growth and devel.
opment of each student's potential;
speaking out for an education fund.
ing formula that is adequate arid
equitable; pursuing the necessity for
School District No. 9 to have mean
ingful input into government ‘de.
cisions affecting public education:

The public recently had the oppor
tunity to speak to the Royal Carn
mission on Education in B.C. This
exciting opportunity to make pési
tive changes in the many aspects: of
education will need a strong expéri
enced voice to ensure those changes
are in the best interests of Schpol
District No. 9. Rick has the experi
ence, the proven strengths and the
commitment to represent Area J in
this process.

Rick’s past record as school trustee
proves that he can be counted on for
reliable, conscientious and resppn
sible decision making. He asks you,
the citizens of Area J, for your
continued support. ‘

Glasnost i

CALGARY (CP) — In their own
version of glasnost, 50 Calgarians
have opened their hearts — and
pocketbooks — to help a handi
capped comrade in the Soviet
Union.

Ilya Karshenbaum, a product
engineer who emigrated from the
Soviet Union about 10 years ago,
raised more than $1,000 to buy a
wheelchair and deliver it to
Moscow for a paralysed 52-year-old
woman.

Karshenbaum said in an inter-

n Calgary

view his quest started more than 4
year ago when a friend sent a
letter from the Ukraine telling him
about the woman's plight.

Larissa Mustafidi had lost thé
use of her legs, didn't have any
immediate family and was having
trouble getting a wheelchair from
the Soviet government, which has
introduced a policy of glasnost
or openness.

Karshenbaum said he wanted té
help out Mustafidi “for no special
reason” .

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