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You are invited to attend the annual PENSIONERS PICNIC Thursday, June 6 3:30 p.m. Birchbank Picnic Grounds BRING YOUR OWN UTENSILS Free tickets ae! be picked up at Local 480 Hall SPONSORED BY: Local 480 UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA es 2 1355 Bay Ave., Trail “FS 368-6666 DESERT SUN & GRAND ATTRACTIONS SEPT. 11-26, 1991 16 DAYS See the splendor of the GRAND CANYON, the beauty of ZION NATIONAL PARK, and the breathtaking sce NATIONAL PARK wester in TUCSON and a trip south of the fo MEXICO |. . Gombling in LAS VEGAS and LAUGHLIN .. . Listen to the moving sounds the MORMON TABERNACLE ‘CHOIR in SALT LAKE CITY sight-seeing in PHOENIX, TUCSON ond YUMA! EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT DEPOSIT BY MAY 30. materials, equipment and labo: have to the island. —costews photo Argo Industiles Ltd. continued work Friday on the Zuck island © needed to build a eset causeway, West's Travel 365-7782 Castlegar RCMP deal holds No. 1 spot in challenge By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer Castlegar whipped rival city Revelstoke 84.5 per cent to 62.5 per gives city $27,000 break By CasNews Staff and News Service A one-year deal on police costs between the federal government and the provinces will save Castlegar some $27,000 this year. And that had Mayor Audrey Moore i a sigh of relief cent in ’s F Challenge. The percentages are based on the number of residents par- ticipating in the contest compared to the total population in each city. A total of 5,397 residents, out of a population of 6,385, participated in Castlegar compared to 5,150 out of 8,237 in Revelstoke. ‘*We beat them fair and square,”” recreation coordinator Susan Cam- pbell said Friday. The annual __— Participaction Challenge encourages residents to phone the recreation office and register their names after completing 15 minutes ‘of continuous exercise aimed at raising their rate of hear- tbeats. Each city tallies the phone calls to compete against a city of comparable population. Campbell credits the city’s block captains for Castlegar’s clean sweep. “The walk-a-block was just phenominally successful this year,”’ she said. ‘‘And that all goes back to the block captains who volunteered their time.’” At the Community Complex, 237 people were registered during the challenge for their activities All participants were eligible for prizes bought with donations from the City of Castlegar and Celgar Pulp Co. The prizes were drawn throughout the day at the complex, at schools and after the block walks, Campbell said. Castlegar’s level of participation this year was 1.9 per cent higher than last year’s level of 82.6 per cent, while Revelstoke’s was down four per cent from last year’s 66 per cent COURT NEWS By CasNews Staff In Castlegar provincial court, Freedom Windchild Ben-Oliel was sentenced to one day in jail and is prohibited from driving for 12 mon- ths for impaired driving. ._ * # Randolph Hugh Debiasio was fined $1,500 for pointing a firearms at another person. In default of payment, Debiasio will serve 15 days in jail. aa et George Samarodin was fined $200 and is prohibited from driving for six months for driving without due care and attention. oS eae Leonard M. Bonderoff was fined $850 for driving without due care and attention. Friday. “I’m glad,” she said. ‘‘It looks as if we may have been successful, the municipalities, in our lobbying. I’m not adverse to having the municipalities in the province go back to the bargaining table, but I’m glad we have something set for this year. It gives us some leeway in our budget.’” Solicitor General Doug Lewis >of- fered the one-year deal to the provinces Thursday. s In return, however, he said he ex- pects authorities in eight provinces and the two northern territories to negotiate a longer-term contract that will eventually see them pick up by the RCMP. AUDREY MOORE . . . glad its settled more of the tab for services provided operate with nine, | don’t know. In Lewis said he’s agreed to the one- year extension of the current con- tract which sees Ottawa pick up 30 per cent of an estimated $761 million in annual police costs. Castlegar would have seen an in- crease of about $27,000 — which was included in the city’s annual budget passed earlier this month — if the federal government had been successful in a proposal which would have seen the provincial share of RCMP costs jump to 75 per cent from the current 70 per cent. Moore said it’s too late to amend the city’s budget now with tax notices on their way out, but the funds may end up being needed anyway. She said last year’s surplus came in at only $4,000, and the city is operating with only nine officers compared to 10 last year. “How long we'll be able to our contract it calls for 10," she To allow room for negotiations, said. Utility continued from front page approval for a 6.7 per cent increase effective Jan. 1, 1989, 5.5 per cent Jan. 1, 1990, and 4.2 per cent Jan. 1, 1991. Another rate hearing is scheduled in 1992. Alarming to the consumers group at the time of the sale were predictions from some experts that WKP’s rates would equal B.C. Hydro’s by 1995-96. “It looks like it’s not going to happen so soon,”” Scarlett said. ‘‘But, yes, WKP rates are increasing faster than B.C. Hydro’s.”” The ECA acted as intervenor at all three recent hearings, having assumed a watchdog role after the WKP sale had received final approval. All rate hearings, the group spokesmen point out, are ultimately paid for by the consumer because legislation allows the costs of the hearings to be rolled in customer rates. The cost of a 1988-89 hearing into WKP’s proposed gas turbine plant near Oliver in the south Okanagan came to $1.4 million. Despite their continued strong opposition to the new foreign ownership, ECA members readily acknowledge that they have no problem with service and operations under the new ownership. **We have no problem with the 1 and **does not have proper legislation to protect the consumers from irresponsible actions of a utility.”’ In recent years, the ECA has filed amendment proposals to the BCUC Act with the commission and the provincial Ministry of Energy. Scarlett, saying that the consumers group has become increasingly involved in formulating energy Policy in the province, notes that the group has also had some success in influencing politicians on the issue. ‘*We’re making some headway within the Social Credit party,"’ Scarlett said. ‘‘A lot of (Socred) Politicians think it was a bad idea to sell it."” But the one political ally of the ECA within the Socred caucus, Okanagan-South MLA Cliff Serwa, says his active support for the consumers cause has been preciuded by the sale. Serwa said recently he won't be bringing back the proposal for local ownership which he had once supported before the sale was made final. “It was very significant to have that opportunity because of the economic spinoffs for the area,” Serwa said, noting there is no proposal to be introduced | into the political agenda of his party for the election service,”’ Marsh said. ‘‘They appear to be handling the job well and the service is good. It should be, of ggg le oer io ee ee pconteed Bay taotiak o-oet paalery rym ownership. As before, the ECA'S fight is directed at the politicians and the laws which permitted the sale, setting a ECA claim, to the future of ownership of essential services. “‘More and more are expressing their over the of power shown by our politicians," ECA chairman James MO anne ca coaien tis Electric Ci ‘Anshcustadlieatpasoneg be eehas shat ph tects utilities in Canada should be owned by Canadians,” Hubay said. ‘The start has to be the repatriation of WKP to Canadian’ ‘The BCA takes the position that the BCUC “It’s a private company now,”’ he said. ‘There would be no reason. I would say that it’d be exceedingly difficult to reverse the decision. . * ; wish them (ECA) luck but it’s a difficult road to haul.’* The association has been hoping the grassroots » Support for the power company’s local within the Social Credit Party would lead to a policy intitiative similar to that of the NDP which, at its last Party convention, passed a resolution to direct a New Democrat government, should it be formed, to look into repatriation of WKP. Earlier, NDP leader Mike Harcourt and NDP energy critic Glen Clark promised the BCA the party would work towards repatriation if the NDP were to form a new government. $ not just a case of die-hards whose minds ‘are back in 1987,"" Scarlett said. “We're definitely in it for the long haul,"* Christine Lehman (above) of Career Development Services and Jeannette Horning (above right) of it department store in C gota taste of what it's like to live in a wheelchair during leek a B.C. Seddast in the land Crime capital for over seven decades VANCOUVER (CP) — Age and British Columbia's ‘‘frontier men tality’? is probably behind the province’s chronic position as the crime capital of Canada, says a Simon Fraser University crimin- ologist. The Canadian Centre of Justice Statistics reported that in 1990, British Columbia had 15,000 non- traffic Criminal Code offences for every 100,000 people — a rate three times higher than that of Newfoun- dland, which has the least crime. Prof. Paul Brantingham said the high rate in British Columbia, which has led other provinces for 70 years, reflects the nature of its population and economy “Crime is basically a problem with teenagers and young adults,"’ he said. ‘Nearly all the crime that gets committed statistically gets commit- ted by people aged 15 to 30."" Brantingham said British Colum- bia has a higher proportion of that age group than other provinces. The number of violent crimes (homicides, assaults, robbery, sexual offences) in British Columbia in- creased by five per cent in 1990 com- pared with 1989. While that is lower than the national increase of .seven per cent, British Columbia and the Prairies retain higher violent crime rates than Eastern Canada: The report showed men made up 83 per cent of the people charged with Criminal Code offences — and 90 per cent of people charged with violent crimes. “Something else that probably contributes is the kind of work we've got in our economy,"’ Brantingham said. “Once you get outside of Van- couver, you're looking at a lot of Kindergarten dual entry cancelled by minister Controversial program irked parents, teachers VICTORIA (CP) — B.C Education Minister Stan Hagen has ended a controversial dual-entry program for children entering kin- dergarten. Hagen said Thursday that an amendment to the School Act will be introduced to remove dual entry for the 1991-92 school year The program required children to enter kindergarten in either Septem- ber or January, depending on their birthday. It was met with severe criticism by both parents and teachers who said some children would be at a disad- vantage by entering classes later. Hagen said, however, that the program: will be reviewed as part of the Year 2000 work plan. The minister said the dual-entry cancellation should not be seen as a reduced commitment to reforms in the school system. “‘We are pleased that the minister of education has finally listened to the concerns of teachers and others concerned about dual entry to school,”’ said Ken Novakowski, president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. “The plan was created by a previous minister who brought it into effect without first consulting the people who had to make it work,” he said. Primary teachers commissioned research into how similar systems worked in other jurisdictions and found both organizational problems and questions about the value of dual entry, Novakowski said. STAN HAGEN ++. reforms will continue “Teachers have not been opposed to changes that will make im- provements, but the changes must be thought through and tested before they are imposed on an entire school system,’" he said. Sawmill continued from front pege this point. Westar employee Tony Ferreira said it's no secret that the workers at the mill would like to see Celgar buy n. Perhaps it would be the answer to all the financial problems the sawmill has been having over the last several years, said Ferreira, who is also plant chairman for the [AW Local 1-405 “Our members know we were an integrated mill for many, many years and we never had problems like we've seen in the last couple of years when (Westar) decided to sell the pulp mill.’* Ferreira said rumors have been cir- culating through the mill about a couple of possible purchasers, in- cluding Celgar. “There's been some rumors that the pulp mill is going to buy it, there’s been rumors that I.K. Barber at Slocan Forest Products is going to buy it.” But Ferreira wouldn't put a bet on any forest industry company being able to buy the sawmill at this time. “There are some people out there that I’m sure would have the interest in purchasing the mill but to pin- point one individual is pretty hard to do at this time because everybody's suffering and everybody’s taking shortcuts."’ Barber told the Castlegar News this week he couldn't comment on whether his company, which recently purchased a mill in northern B.C., is interested in the Castlegar mill. “It's @ business matter and we don’t comment or speculate in the media on the business activities of our company until such time that they are announced,” work that involves single guys going off working in the mines or working in lumber camps and being in a con- trolled kind of environment in the bush for a fairly substantial length of time. “Then they come loose out of that, come into the city and party and when you have got that kind of HAM Sliced or Shaved 100 g. }'9 DELI PIZZA All varieties and size Ou IN-STORE BAKERY FRESH LONG JOHNS 199 TRAY BUNS 149 12/ pattern, then you've got in party spots."” Brantingham said towns such as Williams Lake, Campbell River, Langley and Terrace become “‘gathering points’? for such problems. In addition, the province’s high rate of alcohol consumption acts as a trigger for crime, he said. “Everything we know in criminology tells us that alcohol and a lot of situations in which alcohol gets consumed are situations that also trigger a lot of other kinds of problems,”’ said Brantingham. “*A lot of burglars tell us they need a few drinks to work up their nerve to go out and burgle.”” Music 91 boss quits VICTORIA (CP) — Robin Leck quit Wednesday as president of Music 91 amid charges the $25- million, summer-long festival is a Social Credit re-election ploy. But his resignation — days before the $25-million musicfest kicks off its first road show in Victoria this weekend — has nothing to do with criticisms levelled at the summer program, said Music 91 spokesman Ray McAllister. Lecky, appointed two years ago, said last fall he waanted to phase out of the program, half-funded by B.C lotteries money, McAllister said. 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