Page.10B The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, January 2, NOTICE TO CUS Unlike other retailers, wno may charge the GST at the register, Woolco includes the GST in the ticket price. Our decision to follow this particular pricing policy was reached only after we talked to many of our Woolco customers. They said they preferred to have the GST included in the shelf price so that they would know exactly how much they would have to pay before they reached the check-out line. Woolco listened...and did exactly that. ¢ No on-the-spot calculations to figure out what an item really costs. ¢ No frustration of having the GST added on at the check-out counter. ¢ We also guarantee on those items that are GST exempt, the savings will be passed on to you. - The price you see at Woolco is the Pike you pay...just li like before. _ FEATURE ‘[ This: may be the ee home of your dreams. i eNew this issue in n LEISURE/page AB : WEDNESDAY January 8, 1994 9, 1991 PEOPLE "PROFILE This proression is really cooking No ida of jobs here/B3 What if the rescuers | needed rescuing? ‘ Survival in the Snow/BE Ape fe :_The bee ad “ SNOW! Page 2 ‘3A Vol 2: No, 2 Bose British Columbia agement has succeeded in averting a bus: strike by a week but the union the drivers is 5 In‘an accelerating dispute. ween bus drivers and thesis ready to hold another strike vote . and issue a strike notice. “The Industrial Relations Council (IRC) has’ ‘upheld 1 my. * request to hold a proper strike * vote,” Dennis Stach, Trail Transit . manager said in an interview from his office in Trail Tuesday:,“The union was ordered by the IRC to take another strike vote.” + Stach had appealed to'the IRC: on the grounds that the strike vote, taken by CUPE Local 2087 Dec. 10, conducted under the super- vision of Rossland-Trail MLA ‘ “ Chrie Diary, was not legal | accordin, to; the provincial labor idn't apply to the IRC,” “They said Stach..“Being, an employer I have: to. make sure that it’s all proper.and legal.” “CUPE bers voted decisi 76 Conte + OS. ay ewe: have: ‘lost: substantial in:-December to reject the m= ployer’ 8 offer, but their one hun- dred per cent strike vote was- ‘rail in and wages, ; and we simply, ‘can’t aEor it. anymore.’ zi Hughes, Local 2087 Recording’ Transit, who sent its lawyers to attend a hearing with IRC rep- held a private vote the first time around: “We're boycotting the IRC in V: last Friday. * The unien was informed about the employer's challenge a week ago Wednesday. They claimed that the vote was proper and legal, of Bill-19 and the Industrial Relations Act since 1987. . Hughes said the union held “numerous strike votes” since 1987 and ran into trouble with only two D’Arcy ded it as a government representative. Ordered to hold another vote by the IRC muling, the union has set one up for Wed., Jan. 9. Mem- bership voting willl take place with an IRC representative preseat as an observer. “It'll be ‘Play it again, Sam',” said CUPE Local 2087 Seeing Treasurer Keith Miles, Through this action the union hopes to be in a legal position to issue a 72-hour strike notice and be able to strike as soon as the end of this week. X ip Trail Transit was one of them. : The last collective agreement expired Dec, 31, and negotiations for a new agreement broke off: earlier, on Dec. 5, with pension , wages and other issues unresolved. The transit employees are seeking a 20 per cent wage increase in the first year and 7.5 per cent in the following years. They claim they've fallen behind almost $2 an hour in terms of wages and no longer have a See VOTE Short. blamed By NANCY LINGLEY. Sun Editor An'electrical short has been blamed as the cause of the Nov. 18 fire at the Hi Arrow Motor Inn. “When we originally started investigating, we thought a gas- fired, roof-top heating unit may have been the cause by the way it burned through the roof,” said i Fire Ci issi Bob missioner stated that the area of origin of the fire was in the ceiling between suites 245 and 246 on the top floor. The point of origin was directly above the heat vent and the igniting object was an electrical short circuit. The source of the heat of the ignition was deemed to be electrical energy, the material first ignited combustible construction materials. Point six, the act or Turley from his office in Cranbrook. “But we ruled that out- pretty quickly. Then we got into it and found the electrical wire. Our causing the fire, was an electrical short circuit. Turley noted that he had completed the inspection himself, “which is unusual, but all of the were d by the electrical ane The of findi ‘were away at the time.” The Castlegar Fire Department completed by ue Fire Com- See SHORT 2A | Animal control bylaws provide stiff penalties for violations ‘By NANCY LINGLEY large without, a current dog license ‘Sun Editor -. No matter where you‘live, within the city limits:of Castlegar or. outside, if Fido or-Royer or Kootchie-Koo is caught running at ‘' firmly hed it’s going to cost you. “Every person who fails or refuses to keep affixed a valid and subsisting tag to a collar or hamess worn at all times by the dog for ‘By Leigh Rubin BACH YOR 16610 sen ss FA Although he, was officially referred to as “exalted lord and) master of all_he surveye y. it was position. which the corresponding license is . issued; . . commits an offense and is liable to a conviction and penalty of not less than $50 and not more than $500, “ said Government Agent Peter Lee quoting the Livestock Act which is to those living within the 1 regional district. City of Castlegar By-Law No. 316 provides exactly the same Penalties to those within the municipal boundaries. Dog licenses are available all year said Betty Price, the city’s de; cleric, “Any dog that doesn't have a 1991 license now, doesn't have a See UCENSE 2A it? Time for another license. This wont hurt a bit. Marion Ajidorean has a heart-to-heart with Little Guy about the necessity of a dog license and the accompanying tag. City. Hall receptionist Linda ; Leckie waits,.pen poised, for the OK:to.go ahead and write: him up. All dogs, in or outside the. Castlegar: city limits, must have a current dog license. Pee ¢ d why the union >»