May 17, = iw» Castlegar News Skip Walsh, Arrow District, shows! forest firetightin, @ open house was hel district office. National Forest Week. CosNews Photo of p for th paratus during open hou: riday and Saturday in celebration of Daily life said worse than death threats, bomb VANCOUVER (CP) — Kevin Neish says a week of death threats and fin- ding a car bomb outside his apartment building in Guatemala City is nothing compared with daily life for the people of the Central American country of Guatemala “k's silly that we talk about me doing anything brave with what they’ve gone through,”’ Neish told a news conference after arriving in Van- couver following a week spent helping a peace mission in Guatemala. Neish, a 32-year-old instructor at Camosun College in Victoria, and lawyer Marta Torres, a Guatemalan refugee living in Vancouver, went to Guatemala on May 8 as part of an at- tempt to reconcile opposition groups. Neish, who speaks no Spanish, had not been scheduled to stay for more than a week. He said his place as an ob- server was taken by a Mexican congressman. Torres, who last visited Guatemala in 1988 as part of an international human rights delegation, remained in the country Neish said that just before he left, Torres took him to one side and whispered that ‘‘things are falling apart and you've got to go.” The péace talks are the result of a 1987 accord initiated by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez The accord called for creation of national reconciliation commissions in all Central American countries to bring Yogether government, military and opposition groups. Guatemala is the first Central American country to initiate the process BOMBINCAR Neish said last Thursday, the people they were staying with received a telephone call telling them there was something for them at the apartment building’s entrance. Outside the building, he said, the ground-was-covered with_leaflets — ‘one of which he brought back — con- taining death threats Neish said he then noticed a-tar blocking the driveway out of the apar- ément’s underground parking lot Taped to its hood wasa large object “I didn’t realize it was a bomb,"’ he said Lottery numbers The following are the winning num bers in weekend lotteries LOTTO 6/49 — 10, 18, 24, 32, 44 and 47. The bonus number was 38. There was no winner of the jackpot Prize of $4,548,346.10. Therefore, the 6749 jackpot prize pool estimate Tor Wednesday's draw will be $7 million EXTRA:— 17, 25, 26, 82 B.C. KENO — 5, 10, 14, 20, 23, 46, $2, and 56. LOTTO B.C. — The winning Lotto B.C. numbers were 1, 25, 32, 36 and 39. The bonus number was 2 These numbers, provided by The Ganadian Press, must be considered unofficial Coroner. to conduct inquest Castlegar coroner Paul Oglow will conduct an inquest into the death of a Rossland man who was killed in an in dustrial accident at Cominco in Januar Peter John Lemon, 32, died Jan. 31 when he fell 21 metres to his death at the company’s construction site for its lead modernization project. The inquest will begin at 9 a.m. May Inside the car, authorities found two other bombs. The bombs were strong enough ‘*to blow the front of the building off,"’ Neish said. The group then moved out of the apartment and into one of the city’s more expensive hotels Such hotels have armed guards and tight security, Neish explained. “‘The idea‘was not to endanger anybody else.”” At another time, Neish said, he was being driven through the city when a pickup truck gave chase, at one point driving over a median to continue the pursuit after the car madea U-turn Neish said he knew what he was get ting into before he went to Guatemala “1 was concerned, but I was happy with what Lwas doing. “I spent a lot of time in a speeding car or trying to look big and mean," said Neish, who is six foot one but slender. After clearing cusioms, Ke was greeted with hugs and kisses from his wife, Georgina, 36, and 11-year-old daughter, Jennifer, and applause from a small group of supporters. “This is worse than the death squads,’ he grinned as he walked through a gauntlet of. television cameras and radio microphones. 1989 forest profits expected to drop VANCOUVER (CP) — Overall 1989 profits in the B.C. forest industry will be 20 to 25 per cent below last year’s figure, a spokesman for Price Waterhouse predicted on Tuesday “The next downturn is already here, except for market pulp,” MacCallum, a Price Waterhouse par- tner ‘*Profits are likely to be lower in all the major areas except pulp and products such as linerboard, fine papers and tissues.”” The industry's 1988 operating ear- nings (before interest charges and in- come taxes) totalled an.estimated $2.2 billion, compared with $2.5 billion in 9 Market pulp results ang excellent so far in 1989 and will remain so for the rest of the year, MacCallum said at a forest industry conference sponsored by his firm Newsprint had a very good year in 1988, but, he said, ‘the big surprise is how rapidly prices have fallen away’in 1989. This will have a significant im pacton this year’s profits.”” The six-year worldwide economic recovery has run its course, said Csaba Hajdu, economist with Forest In dustrial Relations and the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations Board RECESSION COMING *‘Are we heading into a slowdown or a recession? For the world overseas, the answer is a slowdown. For the United States and Canada, in view of their deficit problems, the answer is a mild recession.” This recession should be followed by a recovery because of a gradual decline in domestic inflation in the two coun- tries, Hajdu said, although in Canada any additional price increase is expected to result from introduction of the new federal sales tax. ~ “This, of course, is not inflation in the true sense, but it would likely show @ one-time increase of probably two Percentage points in the consumer price index in 1991,” he said “For the average Interior B.C sawmiller, this year will be break-even and in 1990-91 we stand to be reasonably. profitable,"” said John Kerr of Lignum Ltd. “We are looking at°a marginal year,"’ said Ed Dorion of Evans Products Ltd. ‘But we are very cautious and we’ ve suspended capital spending because of high interest Fates."" **1989 will be a good year, although profits will be down from last year,” said lan Donald, president of Fletcher Challenge Canada Ltd. “If we do have a recession and the demand for our* products drops, the new manufac turing capacity coming on stream will have. a very depressing effect on prices.” Socred ridings received funds VICTORIA (CP) — Almost $7 out of every $8 in the Expo Legacy Fund went to Social Credit ridings last year, according to review of 4 report tabled in the legislature this week by Provin- cial Secretary Bill Reid The review said of the 74 grants totalling $9.5.million, 63 of them wor th $8.27 million, went to Socred-held ridings, Eleven grants totalling $1.18 million, went to new Democrat ridings, the review said. The report tabled in the legislature revealed where lottery grant money Wenit inn the 1987-88 Tiscal year The average grant to Socred ridings was $131,250, while NDP ridings received an average of $107,378, the review said The $13-million Expo Legacy Fund was one of a number of projects paid for by provincial lottery prdfits, which in 1987-88 totalled $165 million Former counsellor jailed for assault IN MOTEL FIRE Coroner rules deaths accidental PENTICTON, B.C, (CP) — Two young children might not have died in @ motel fire last Novernber had. smoke detectors been in place, a Penticton coroner said Tuesday Brooke Carroll ruled the Nov. 29 deaths of Kael Schyrbiak, 2, and his 16-month-old sister Kyela were ac- cidental. It’s believed the youngsters were playing with a lighter when the fire started in a bedroom of the Kozy Guest House in Penticton. They died of smoke inhalation, car bon monoxide poisoning and burns. In his report, Carroll said the motel Nurses take strike vote VANCOUVER. (CP) — About 17,000 \nurses began taking a strike vote today at more than 140 hospitals and institutions throughout British Columbia. The B.C. Nurses’ Union is seeking wage increases of 33 per cent, benefit improvements of 43 per cent and a greater say in patient care. A spokesman said the result of the strike vote likely would not be available until Thursday morning. The nurses’ previous contract ex- pired March 31 The union's wage proposal would bring the starting rate for a general duty hospital nurse to $20 an hour from $15.07 Thé strike vote came a day after 6,000 health professionals represented by the Health Sciences Association reached a tentative settlement with B.C. hospitals. The association said improvements in most “‘cost”’ items would relate to a future settlement between the nurses and the Health Labor Relations Association, bargaining group for the hospitals. About half the association’s mem- bers had a starting wage of $14.33 un- der their previous contract Meanwhile, a settlement covering the 25,000-member Hospital Em- ployees Union had yet to be reached. “We're interested in what happens at the other healthjgage bargaining tables because they deal with the same employer representative,” said union spokesman Howie Smith. The union is seeking pay increases of $1.50 an hour in each of two years on an average rate of $12 Smith “said negotiations scheduled to continue through Friday were Mortgage legislation introduced VICTORIA (CP) — British Colum- bians buying homes worth up to $100,000 will be eligible for mortgage assistance from the provincial gover nment under legislation introduced Tuesday The Home Mortgage Assistance Program Act will replace the existing second mortgage program which allowed a maximum home price of $85,000. @ The new program wt allow a maximum loan gu: we of $12,000, and-wilt permit 95 her cent financing under some circumstanées. The financing will be delivered by private-sector lenders with the feans guaranteed by the government Finance Minister Mel Couvelier said the application process will be faster and easier. Suit continued from front page If WKP can’t meet their committ- ments in winter when demand is higher, then the communities -requiting the extra power should be nacaed hesaid. did not have any smoke alarms or other detection devices. He noted that under current legislation, the devices are not mandatory in buildings such as the Kozy Guest House, which has all its units on the ground floor with direct outside access. Carroll recommended the B.C. Municipal Act be amended to allow municipal bylaws regulating the in- stallation and jnspection of smok* alarms in all existing public buildings The devices are only mandatory in new buildings. Penticton Fire Chief Brent Hodgins said the province has opted out of Program continued from front page The program is set to begin in Oc- tober. Dirks also announced $100,000 will be given to the college to “‘strengthening’’ the open learning agency program through the college. The funds will be used to offer cour- ses at Selkirk to supplement the home- learning of the OLA program and help students access open learning programs offered through other universities and colleges such as the University of Victoria, Perra said. The tutors will work with OLA students to make the program easier to get through, he said. The funds will be used to offer third- and fourth-year seminars, primarily on the Castlegar campus, to sup- plement the home-learning program, offer tutorial services to OLA students and increase awareness about the OLA program, according to college board chairman Elizabeth Fleet. enacting national fire regulations which contain provisions for smoke alarms in every existing dwelling unit, including private homes. He suggested sach regulations be implemented ona provincewide basis. Carroll also noted the province has not yet acted on recommendations for mandatory fire alarms in public buildings made by the Fire Chiefs Association of British Columbia in 1986, “‘Legislation on. this subject is needed to reduce the loss of life, injury and property damage for our own citizens and should receive priority ina province that is developing an exten- sive visitor industry,"’ Carroll said. The funds will also be used to help students access open learning programs offered through universities such as the University of Victoria, Perra said Dirks said the funds>for the OLA programs are to ‘‘clear up the miscon- ception that Selkirk is being left out of degree-granting programs.”’ The OLA program allows students to complete a degree and that program offered through Selkirk, Dirks said, adding 12 such degrees were awarded in the province last year. « The provincial government recently announced a number of B.C. colleges will be receiving degree-granting status, enabling students to receive degrees“ without having to attend Lower Mainland universities. Nelson did not receive this status. Dirks also said an automotive mechanics apprenticeship program will be started next year at Selkirk. to Waneta Plaza. CosNews Photo WANET the merchants. Castlégar News TREET TALK PLAZA is in‘the final stages of its half million-dollar renovations, but it's business as usual for RENOVATIONS. . . . Work is in the final stages of half-million dollar renovations Renovations include new lighting, colors as well as ceramic tiles to replace the carpeting Renovations should be complete by mid-July JERRY AND OLGA PLONIDIN owners of Sen tinel Boarding Kennels, located up Sentinel Rd., oi South Slocan Junction, They board dogs and cats by the day, week, or month and each 4 runs both inside and outside. fresh, bright have brand new facilities, quarter of a mile past ihe mal has fully enclosed individual Reporters lectured OTTAWA (CP) — Charles Yacoub, charged in the hijacking of a bus from Montreal to Parliament Hill, preached a political sermon to reporters Tuesday and had to be wrestled from the cour- troom by security guards The 32-year-old Lebanese-born jeweller had been scheduled to have a bail hearing, but his appdarance was cut short by a procedural snag that led Crown and defence lawyers to seek a In memory away Friday, May 12 at the age of 65 Branch. curling. May Burroughs of Castlegar ficiating. Cremation has taken place. Funeral Chapel the age of 68. Annie Tarasoff of Pass Creek; Castlegar. Funeral Chapel. ageof4s. He was born August 12, Ann Wadey Ann Adele Wadey, beloved wife of Robert ‘*Bob"’ Mrs. Wadey was born October 16, She received her schooling in Moose Jaw and graduated from the Univer- sity of Saskatchewan in 1943, She worked for the Grey Nuns Hospital as the head of the Bio-Chemistry Department.-In 1948 she began working for Cominco as a medical technologist in the safety division On August the 9, 1950 she married Robert H. Wadey at Chaplin, Saskatchewan. She has lived in Castlegar since 1948 and worked at the Castlegar Hospital for 17 years. She was a 34 year member of the Legion Auxilary Branch No, 170. She is a past president of the Legion Auxilary Branch No. 170 and also a past zone secretary. She was a member of the Medical Technologists Assoc. ‘and Past president of the Saskatchewan She was very active in the Castlegar United Church serving as an elder and a‘clerk of sessions. She also taught Sunday School, participated in the choir and was a member of the United Church Women. She also enjoyed Mrs. Wadey is survived by her husband Bob at the family home; twoy. sons, Pat of Fort St. John and Robert of Grand Prairie and one sister, Funeral service for the late Mrs. Wadey will be held Saturday, May 20 at the Castlegar United Church at 11 a.m. with Rev Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar Flowers will be gratefully accepted or those wishing may make con- tributions to the Cancer Furid, Box 3292, Castlegar, B.C Annie Hadikin Annie Madikin of Pass Creek, B.C. passed away Sunday, May 14 at Mrs. Hadikin was born January 5, 1921 at Pass Creek. She grew up there and married Peter G. Hadikin there in 1944. She lived at Pass Creek all her life. She enjoyed gardening, cooking in the various womens cooking groups and working around her home She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Sam and Kathleen, ot Pass Creek and Peter and Annette of Qualicum Beach; gne daughter, grandchildren; one sister, Nora Sofonoff of Vancouver and three brothers, Sam Sookeroff of Pass Creek and Fred and Bill Sookeroff of Funeral services were held at the Pass Creek hall on Tuesday and Wednesday with burial in the Pass Creek Cemetery, Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the C astlegar Alvin Dow Alvin John Dow died suddenly Tuesday, May 9 in Vancouver atthe 1943 at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, the son of Ivan and Reta Dow. He grew up and attended schools. in Moose Jaw andSurrey, B.C. where he had moved with his family in 1956. He worked in logging at Slocan, Revelstoke and Hudson Hope, Wadey, passed 1923 at Chaplin, Saskatchewan. Fed Bristow of: 10 grandchildren; three great- As Justice of the Peace Lynn Coulter finished explaining to Yacoub that the hearing would be delayed a MPs call for posial inquiry TORONTO (CP) — A task force of Toronto-area Liberal MPs called Tuesday for an federal inquiry into alleged “horror stories" involving Canada Post's mail-sorting plants. After meeting with postal workers, the politicians said they heard tales of abuse by managers in Toronto plants including bribery, sexual harassment, unsafe working conditions and attem: pts at union busting ‘These are horror _ stories Feminiscent of the 19th-century task force chairman “Obviously, a workhouses, Albina Guarnieri said jot more than mail needs to be sorted out at Canada Post."* More than 24 unionized postal workers addressed the task-force hearing prompted by allegations of job selling at the Gateway sorting plant in nearby Mississauga. The plant is- in Guarnieri’s Mississauga East riding week, the stocky, bearded defendant turned toward reporters and lectured them on the Satanic Verses, a book by novelist. Salman Rushdie, and Lebanese nationalism: “For the Satanic Verses — many heads of state denounced it. There's nobody to save the ‘Lebanese Christians.”” Yacoub faces charges of hostage- taking, forcible confinement, assault with a weapon, using a firearm to commit an offence and intimidating Parliament — the last a seldom-used charge covering acts of violence against the government The charges arose from an eight- hour standoff in which a gunman held nine people hostage in a Greyhound bus parked on the lawn in front of the Parliament buildings April? The bus had left Montreal at mid- day, bound for new York City, when a passenger carrying an automatic pistol forced the driver to change course. 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(CP) — A former drug ani alcohol abuse counsellor for the St. Mary’s In- dian band has been sentenced to four years in prison for sexually assaulting children Provincial court Judge Don Waurynchuk said Howard Michel took advantage of a position of trust by assaulting children he had taken into his home in_ this southeastern British Columbia community. ‘He abused his position of guardian and uncle to the victims,”” Waurynchuk said Monday. The judge said a harsh ‘sentence was needed as a deterrent “He will not now be able to care for his wife and children and has lost his job.” Michel, 49, pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent assault in- volving two young girls and a young boy between 1971 and 1979 29 at the Rossh: The RDCK board also set June 5 as the closing date for nominations to fill the Area J, seat that will be vacated by director Martin Vanderpol May 31 Vanderpol will be leaving to take up a position teaching English in Indonesia Election day is set for June 24 and the winner of the seat will sit until Dec 1990, according to RDCK returning officer Vera Wenschlag. Robson residents Ken Wyllie, Den- nis La Hue and Darlene Schultz are the only three declared candidates for the position. Blind two sisters, Calgary May 15. the Blind, 1450 St. PaulSt., where he was injured. He moved to Prince George to continue his schooling and later to Vancouver to complete school He énjoyed farming and loved animals and birds. He was active in Alcoholics Anonymous and the Canadian National Institute for the He is survived by two daughters, Shawna and Heather and one son, Douglas, all of Vancouver; his parents, Ivan and Reta Dow of Slocan; and Arlene Leverington of Castlegar and Myrna Martin of Graveside services and burial were at Slocan Cemetery Hammond Funeral Service; Grand Forks, had care of arrangements Memorial donations may be made to Canadian National Institute for Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 2E6. » Monday, are coming perforrr video and drama hilliwack tc d celebrate Chilliwack-Heart of the Arts- May 24-28 Travel Size SOAP, SHAMPOO, col LOTION. 0°'x52"', 2-Ring Inflatable Pools 27''x72" Vinyl Air Mattresses Jumbo, 46" Beach Balls Don’t Forget Film & Batterie Carl’s Drugs _.. Moy 0 es 12'Noon ‘CUCUMBERS fi ae ENGLISH B.C. HOT HOUSE. No. } BROCCOLI wr.99° CALF. GROWN WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES BUSINESS HOURS Mon.. Tues. Wed. & Sot 9 a.m. to 6 p.m Thurs. & Fri Yam. toopm SUNDAY 10 A.M. TO 6 P.M.