37 AB CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, December 21, 1978 NEW CHAMBERS d from page Al . Private indivi: ati will pay $20 for mem- H.A. Members Receive Life CONFLICT OF INTEREST Continued from page Al Gouk added he was probably at a disadvantage in such a Metric Conversion Of Retail Scales (Police Briefs 1 A two-vehicle accident Fri- ad corporate affairs ministry Zincorporation, he said. ” + eat The chamber president ‘h.said more than 30 members % coffsulted agreed with the © “ekecutive’s 's decision to raise the » dies on a sliding rate from the ; $15 currently paid for each Costing B.C. Taxpayers “We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more.” The line from the movie best sums up the feelings of the ministry of highways when discussing the vandalism which is taking place along British Columbia's traffic arteries — vandalism which is costing the province's taxpayers in excess - of $300,000 a year and which is, » in many cases, creating dangers - which could cost lives. “Spray painted, ripped up, defaced and shot up highway signs, aside from the cost “of repair, is creating lethal dan- ” gers to British Columbia driv- ers and passengers,” said High- ways Minister Alex V. Fraser. “Such thoughtlessness as these vandals show. for public property is inexcuseable and I would ask the public to report any incidents, including licence a numbers and names, to. the nearest police or highway office * so that we can place the blame v: where it belongs,” he added, - TUTORS if Continued from page Al !: district's 76 teachers for failing - to participate as tutors. “They're the ones who are ‘+ concerned about the education of the students,” board chair- ; man Pat Haley said. “Saying it > and doing it are two different “; things.” "TO APPROACH , Continued from page Al : “Nothing ventured, no- “thing gained, as far as I'm * concerned,” Rust said. r Ald. Bud Godderis warned wee, rpieetes Pee eee eee bership in 1979, while average retail stores will pay $50, national chain stores, hotels and beer parlors will pay $100 and dues for large industries will be worked out through negotiation, he said. He said members of the chamber executive will collect the dues in the new year in person to explain to members the reasons for the dues hike and the increased activities the money would be used to fund. As well as the proposed arrangement with the provin- cial economic development min- istry which would provide chambers in Castlegar and other communities with funds to operate their own telephone- equipped offices with paid staff on at least a part-time basis, reorganization of the B.C. chamber is also responsible for the more aggressive role the local chamber will take in promoting commercial growth, Sheldon said. The B.C. chamber now has directors who are assigned to various provincial ministries affecting growth of industry and business in the province and meet regularly with the ministers, he said. “Where there's anything. that inhibits commercial or industrial growth of the city we're going to be involved,” Sheldon said. “Not only can we spot local problems, but we have an access to deal with them,” he said. “We have a pipeline to the appropriate minister of the province.” He cited the executive's decision last Thursday to sup- port local developers’ bid for rezoning of property in Ooti- schenia in a letter to the Regional District of Central Kootenay board as an example ‘of the more active role the chamber will be taking in economic growth in the area. Although a lack of funds previously prevented represen- tation of Castlegar at provincial chamber meetings, the B.C. Chamber has budgeted $11,500 to assist chambers which other- wise could not afford to send finance * they “better not keep hoping” the ministry will extend for- ®. giveness of police costs. Rust agreed “the crunch is initially there” but added that~ he felt council “would be remiss in our duties if we did not at least attempt to involve the new minister in the situation.” He said a more preferable arrangement in shifting the ~ burden of the city's police costs $ would be phasing in the cost f gradually over about three t years, Mayor Audrey Moore said ¢-similar phasing.i in plans have © been used in other B.C. munici- : ‘ palities, and said immediate % assumption of all police costs s.would be “a rather heavy y burden to land on a municipa- 3 lity.” RB Castlegar’s police costs for a “the past year amounted to #$153,000. The estimated cost of . * providing RCMP service to the 2.city in 1979 is $165,000. verersas tes to the quarter- ly “meetings, he said. project because other parties involved are usually “reluctant to place themselves in a position where they might be questioned as to whether or not they're involved in an inside deal.” “Asa result of that I probably have to be twice as straight," he said. “I would have a better chance of getting the application through if I resigned from council.” He said he is serving on council to represent city residents and he was not willing to quit “to put something through of a short-term nature,” “This is a kind of a one-shot thing and I'm not planning to become continually involved in rezoning,” Gouk said. “But the fact remains that I don't want to give up my own rights as a citizen either.” “T still have to make a living and I still have the right to make investments and reap the profits of my investments.” Selkirk College Legislation Reduces Council Membership Legislation effective as of Dec. 1 will reduce the Selkirk College council membership from 13 to nine after Feb. 1, 1979, a School District No. 9 trustee said Monday. Stewart Webster, com: menting on a recent provincial cabinet order-in-council approv- ing Section 6, Subsection 1 of the College and Provincial Institutes Act — which desig- nates School Districts 7 (Nel- son), 10 (Arrow Lakes), 11 Trail), and 12 (Grand Forks) as well as the local school district as part of the college region — said the legislation will limit each area to one representative when council members officially take office. Reappointed Monday as the local board's representative on the college council, Webster told trustees the Nelson and Trail districts currently each have two representatives. The - number of education ministry RUBBER STAMPS CASTLEGAR NEWS Phone 365-7266 191 Columbia Ave. voutemn Canada gute of loneerini Canada's Hirst, ind ‘he 6 onl pletaly Canadian course Sitered under the lars of the next course wri Sox 887, Lacombe, Alberta or phone 782-6215 RENE ARIA ‘CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION } — CHRISTMAS HOURS — CLOSED Tuesday, Dec. 28 CLOSED :” Wednesday, Dec. 27 ees Ee OPEN Thursday, Dec. 28 EN + “Saturday, Dec. 30 SEASON'S GREETINGS 4 from the ppiceelos & Staff ECastlegar Savings. “PALM DAIRIES LIMITED Everyday goodness. Egg Nog. appointees to the body will be one less than the number of school district representatives, he said. “There is a possibility that after the college's funding be- comes 100-per-cent provincial that there are parts of the Kaslo-Creston and Kettle Val- ley districts which may come into this region,” Webster told trustees, “If so, that would put us back up to 13 again." He added that the new Act, which “reads very simi- larly to the Public Schools Act," gives boards the oplion of naming appointees who are not schoo! trustees to the college council, The Working Group on Scales In the retail food in- dustry has announced that food items that are being welghed in retail stores, such as meal, fish, poultry, produce, cheese and candy, will be sold in grams and kilograms starting next year. For example, when thir takes place, food sold by the City Council To Appear On Color TV Local television viewers will be able to view city council meetings in color in 1979, council decided Tuesday. Council granted Ed Cher: nell program co-ordinator for Video's Ci quarter-pound and pound will be sold. by the 100 g and kilogram, D. R. B. McArthur, chair. man of Metric Commission Canada stated that for over three years the scales and retail food industries and Canada Post have been working in close co-operation to plan the con- version of their scales to accom- - modate the transition to the metric system, The retail food industry will begin scale conversion in three test areas, Kamloops, B.C., Peterborough, Ont., and Sherbrooke, Que., on July 1, 1979. The rest of Canada will start on Jan. 1, 1980 and the program should be completed by the end of 1981. The Hon. Gilles Lamon- tagne, Postmaster General, has Samael 10, permission to use extra lighting and two new cameras and run two three- quarter-inch cables from a van parked outside city hall into council chambers for the color videotaping of the meetings. 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