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KAREN KERKHOFF .
Sun Staff

Castlegar and District Hospital
is facing a $112,264 deficit

But Administrator Ken Talarico
told board members last Thursday:

= Gouk

that a $85,000 surplus will
decrease that amount to $27,000.

The deficit, explained Talari-
co, comes after a one to 2 1/2
per cent increase in wages and
will total around $148,000 for
this year

the red

“That excludes anything for non
contract.’ Talarico is hoping’ that the
provincial government will come
through with funding for wages.

“If not we will be having prob-
lems. We'll face that when and if
the time comes.

couldn’t justify Tokmakjian pay-
ing for the junket. So he said he

. asked West's Travel Agency to
provide him with the cost of a
comparable week-long vacation
from Toronto to Cuba.

He said he then paid the com-
pany $779 to cover the cost of
the trip.

“The cheque cleared four days
before I left on the trip,” Gouk

Gouk said before he decided to
take part he weighed the merits
of the trip.

“I asked myself is it worthwhile?
And I said, yeah, i think it is.”

He said he was particularly
interested in how the port of
Churchill, Man. could be used to
transport nickel ore to Fort
Saskatchewan.

Gouk’'s trip has been featured
twice in The Vancouver Sun, first
in a March 21 story by Ottawa
Bureau Chief Peter O'Nei! and

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then in a, March 24°Letter from
Ottawa“ column by O'Neil

O'Neil contended that Gouk
flaunted Reform caucus guide-
lines that discourage trips spon-
sored by private compani

However, Gouk denies the
charge

“The party did not tell me (not)
to do this,” he said, adding that
the caucus only came down with
the policy against private-spon-
sored trips after Gouk had
retumed from Cuba.

“Tt was after the fact,” he said

Gouk said he had to cut short
an earlier winter vacation and
decided to use the Cuba trip as a
“working holiday.”

Upon their return, all the MPs
except Gouk sent a letter to Trade
Minister Roy MacLaren lobbying
on behalf of companies that
export to the Communist regime.

They said other countries
have better incentives to busi-

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nesses, such as lines of credit
and export insurance

“In light of the circumstances
we urge our government to
improve programmes for Canadi
ans doing business in Cuba,” the
letter said

Gouk came under attack from
Liberal MP John Nunziata (York
South-Weston), another member
of the tour

Nunziata is reported to have
said Gouk was “playing sick”
during the trip to “lounge around
the pool”.

But Gouk said he really was
sick.

He added that he didn't bother
telling the other MPs that he had
paid his own way, so Nunziata
likely didn’t realize that when he
made the comments.

He noted that he missed only
one meeting and made several
good contacts with Cuban gév-
ernment officials.

Continued from 1A

Surgenor also wonders about the
effects of the wild card which was
recently dealt to the district with
the announcement of the co-gener-
ation of Hugh Keenleyside Dam.

“This makes it a wide-open
dice game.”

When Argyle formulated the
plan, his recommendations were
based on current and projected

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” Wednesday, April 5, 1995

Striking CUPE Local 3116 members say they're determined to dig their heels in until
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Striking workers dig in heels

KAREN KERKHOFF
Sun Staff

CUPE Local 3116 members
are predicting that the strike
against the Community Social
Services Employers’ Association
(CSSEA) will be a long one

Nova Pearson. presilent for
the local, said members who
work at two group homes for the
Castlegar Kootenay Society for

Community Living (KSCL) have
dug in their heels until a fair con-
tract is negotiated

“TJ think it's going to be a long
one. Spirits are high and every
body is very determined.”

Pearson said that since going
on strike last week there has
becn no movement towards
negotiation

This has left non-union man-
agers working 69-hour work
weeks. But Pearson said residents
of the group homes are still
“doing fine” despite the strike

However, a work program
called Community Options has
been put on hold until the strike is
settled, This has created difficulties
for some businesses which rely on
services provided by the residents.

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both Selkirk College and The
Castlegar Sun; stocking pop
machines at the Castlegar Rec
Centre; and volunteer work at the
Heritage Society and the national
Exhibition Centre as well as
other community services.

Suiking workers, who earn an
average of $11 an hour, are ask-
ing for wage parity with other
provincial workers who earn
some $15 an hour. They are also
asking for additional benefits.

Pearson said what especially
rankles is that Teacher’s Assis-
tants in Nelson, who she said
need the same certification as
Local 3116 members, earn $18
an hour.

“They work for the same peo-
ple but in a different setting.”

= Finances —

Continued from 1A

The city actually spent less on
its operations in 1994 than the
previous year. In 1994 it spent
$5,176,000, some $350,000 less
than it spent in 1993.

However, its debt- cost§
increased by some $250,000.

The city also added nearly $1'3
million to its reserve funds, som¢e
$900,000 more than it added in
1993. The city now has a total of
$3.3 million in reserve funds.

Some $630,000 of that is set aside
for future developments, such as the

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future capital expenses.

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The Castlegar Sun

Police

Stolen vehicle

A Jeep parked in the Castlegar
Foods lot in downtown Castlegar
has gone missing. RCMP say the
C7 Jeep described as being black
over blue and bearing the B.C.

license plate HDA 882. The Jeep
was reported missing March 31

Pedestrian injured

Fred Konkin, 70, was trans-
ported to Castlegar hospital
March 31 with head injuries after
being struck by a vehicle driven
by Maria Costra, 69, of Castle-
gar. The incident occurred in a
crosswalk in the 1100 block of
4th Street at around 10 a.m
RCMP are investigating.

Too close for comfort

Castlegar RCMP have
charged Caroline Gorman, of
Castlegar, with following too
close after a two-vehicle acci-
dent March 30. The accident
happened in the 1600 block of
Columbia Avenue when Gorman
rear-ended a vehicle driven by
Ernest Hardy, of Castlegar.
Hardy's wife, Dorothy, a passen-
ger in the vehicle, was injured in
the accident. Damage has been
estimated at $9,000.

Creased

Castlegar RCMP are investi-
gating a hit and run at the Bank
of Commerce parking lot March
31 in which a 1994 Mazda Pro-
tege was “creased” and suffered

some $200 damage.

Smashed

It was no April Fool's joke for
Panagopoulas Pizza after it had
its front door smashed on April 1

Brawl

RCMP were stymied after
receiving an anonymous phone
call about a brawl involving a
large group of people outside the
Hi Arrow April 2. When RCMP
arrived around 2 a.m..the group
had dispersed.

Amnesia

RCMP say that Shawn Brit-
ton, 28, and Lonie Mitchell, 22,
can’t remember how they were
injured April-I. RCMP had
received a call that there was a
fight outside the Hi Arrow, but
when they arrived all they found
were the injured men who
claimed that they didn’t remem-
ber what happened. The two
men were treated at hospital for
their injuries.

Polluter

RCMP have passed on infor-
mation received about a man
allegedly dumping antifreeze
down the city sewer in front of
1404 Highland Drive April 1.
Conservation officers are looking
into the matter.

Stolen

RCMP say a 1992 Metro
parked at Celgar had its window
smashed by a beer bottle April 1.
The culprit(s) made off with a
Toshiba cassette deck.

Open door invitation

Nelson RCMP say access was
gained by thieves to several
vehicles and residences on Upper
Balfour Road through unlocked
doors March 29. During the
night hours several vehicles
which were parked in their drive-
ways and garages had been gone
through and two residences on
the same road were entered. In
one case $60 in cash was taken
from a residence.

Collision

Trail RCMP say a two-vehicle
accident involving one vehicle
which had just turned left from a
funeral procession resulted in
four people being transported to
Trail Hospital. Cindy Cook, 30,
of Montrose had just turned left
off Walsh Road onto Highway
3B April 1 when her vehicle was
struck by a vehicle driven by
William Fillmore, 48, of Fruit-
vale. Cook and her three passen-
gers were injured in the accident

Lock up!

Castlegar RCMP are remind-
ing residents to lock their vehi-
cles after a portable radio valued
at $1,300 was stolen out of an
unlocked vehicle April 3. The
vehicle had been parked in the
700 block of 7th Avenue.

Lighter
side to
debate

RON NORMAN
Sun Editor

There is a lighter side to the
debate over the fourth ball field
for Kinnaird Park.

Waldo Yule, one of the oppo-
nents of the field, reports receiv-
ing two anonymous notes.

The first refers to an incident
involving Yule’s two-year-old
granddaughter when the family
was on the public tour of the
proposed field last Wednesday
afternoon. The incident was then
raised that evening at the public
meeting by one of those in favor
of the ball field.

The second note, entitled
Trees, takes off on familiar ditty
“I think that I shall never see a
poem as lovely as a tree”.

Here's the first

Oh, somewhere in this
favored land the sun is shining
bright,

The band is playing some-
where, and somewhere hearts
are light,

And somewhere men are
laughing, and somewhere chil-
dren lark;

City

Kinnaird Park during a public tour last week.

But there is no joy in Castle-
gar - little Yule PEED IN THE
PARK!

(with apologies to E. Thayer's
Casey at the Bat)

And the’ second:

Trees

I think that I shall never see

A baseball lovely as a tree

A tree whose hungry mouth is
pressed.

Against baseball diamonds
east and west.

Jerk Dianne Hunter, points out trees which will have to be removed to make way for a fourth ball field at

« SUN STAFF PHOTO / Ron Norman

A tree that shelters kids all day

And listens to them as they
play

Trees ‘round which dogs walk
and bark

And watch the cars as they try
to park.

A tree whose bosom must not
yield

To yet another baseball field

Games are played by fools
like me

But only God can make a
tree

Castlegar

KAREN KERKHOFF
Sun Staff

The Castlegar hospital board has
taken a stand and has a loud and
clear message for the WKHPC

The board is determined that
services will remain “status quo”
‘despite the recent proposed amal-
gamation of Trail and Nelson hos-
pitals and the resuftant blatant
ignoring of Castlegar hospital.

At a board meeting held last

Conroy
defends
budget

KAREN KERKHOFF
Sun Staff

Rossland-Trail MLA Ed Con-
roy is defending the provincial
budget handed down last week.

In particular, Conroy has
strong words for Liberal critics
who claim that the government is
merely looking for kudos for fix-
ing what they claim was caused
by the NDP to begin with.

“The Liberals are out there
howling at the moon. A major
portion [of the debt]—75 per
cent—was incurred by past
administration.”

Conroy said a recent premier’s
summit determined that debt ser-
vice should not exceed nine per
cent of the GDP (gross domestic
product). The new budget does
better than than at 7.5 per cent.

“If 7.5 per cent of my budget
went to service debt I'd be one
happy camper.”

British Columbians currently
enjoy the lowest debt per capita
and, according to Conroy, “have
the best economy in Canada—in
North America virtually.”

But Fred Gingell, B.C. Liberal
finance critic, said the budget
falls short on delivering goals to
cut government spending, debt
and taxes.

“This government wants us to
applaud them for increasing tax
revenue by more than $1 billion,
increasing debt by $1 billion and
increasing spending by 2.9 per
cent in the next’ year. And they
want us to applaud their debt
management plan when it will
take 20 years to undo the dam-
age they have done in the last
three years.”

Budget highlights include

+ Budget surplus for 1995/96,

+ Comprehensive debt man-
agement,

+ Three-year tax free continua-
tion;

+ Cutting waste and making
government more affordable.

+ Affordable investments to
keep B.C. growing

Hospital stands firm

week members passed a motion
that services continue to be pro-
vided in accordance with option
“D" from the report. The motion
states: “That the hospital continue
to provide primary care with
some secondary services such as
basic surgery, obstetrics and
intensive care”

Furthermore, the board will be
clearly stating their stand to the
West Kootenay Hospital Plan-
ning Council

Board members, such as Dy
Bob Streich, Chief of Medical
Staff, were quite vocal in their
determination to protect services

“I think the physicians are
committed to this community
and feel strongly that option D
is what we would commit to
and endorse wholeheartedly.
We're quite passionate and fully

committed.”

Streich said that local physi-
cians have goné to “tremendous
effort” to maintain and improve
their skills.

The proposed amalgamation
has concerned local physicians,
explained Streich, but said he
believes that Castlegar’s growing
population will prove the need
for secondary services.

“We're concerned about the
short-term implications, but think
we will have the numbers to back
up that we will need to provide
secondary services.”

Nick Oglow, long-time board
member, and current treasurer
said that the hospital was formed
years with the intent to provide
full service to area residents.

“It would be criminal to allow
this to deteriorate.”

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