CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1964

By RON NORMAN
Editer

The new master plan for the Community Complex
could cost considerably less than the estimated $1:3
million, Ald. Bob MacBain said Tuesday.

“It could be down to half of that or a quarter,” Mac-
Bain told about 30 residents at a public meeting in the
Community Complex.

He said the final cost depends on how eee a part
community service clubs and vol

many things in this plan that ean be done with smaller
groups.”

She pointed to the picnic area-campground in the
southwest corner which is estimated to cost $97,800 in
the plan. Felde noted that the Castlegar Kiwanis Club has
undertaken the project with help from a federal grant,
and the project will not cost the city $97,800,

Two local service clubs offered their help with some
of the projects.

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play in implementing the plan.

“The $1.3 million is not the figure,” said MacBain,
chairman of council's parks and recreation committee. “It
is the estimated cost as the entire thing done by a con-
tractor.”

Administrator Dave Gairns added that the $1.3
million figure is more the “value” of the work. He said he
doubted if some of the things proposed in the plan would
get done if they weren't done by community groups.

Nancy Felde, the plan's architect, said, “There are

ik for the newly-created Castlegar Gyro
Club said the club has already started raising funds to
help with any project the city gives it.

‘The club indicated earlier it is willing to be # major
participant in the construction of the softbell stadium,
estimated to cost $282,000 if undertaken by a contractor.

As well, the Castlegar Rotary Club offered to fund a
feasibility study for an indoor pool and fitness centre.

Rotary spokesman Ron Ross said the club met and
struck a committee to “find out what is going on and get
involved.”

He said the general feeling of Rotarians is that the
top priority should be a fitness centre and pool rather
than landscaping and parking

He acknowledged that Felde has “done an excellent
job” on the new master plan, but noted: “The community
would rather have a swimming pool.”

MacBain told the meeting that an indoor pool was the
No. 1 priority in a recent recreation department survey.
He said 56.6 per cent of those surveyed wanted a pool
built first.

A marina and waterfront park ranked second at 15.6
per cent, followed by a new library at 9.2 per cent, an arts
and convention centre at 3.6 per cent and other rec
reational facilities at 3.6 per cent.

“It would appear that there is no doubt at all that the
swimming pool is most popular,” said MacBain. The
survey included Castlegar and the outlying areas.

Ed Chernoff, representing the Castlegar Aquanauts
Swim Club, said his club has 200 children enrolled —
twice the size of any other club in the area — but with one

may not cost $1.3 m

of the poorest facilities.

He said the swim club wants to play an active role in
helping plan a new swim centre.

Joan Command said she can't understand why
council doesn't go ahead and build the pool. She said the
community agreed to it in a 1975 referendum.

“I don’t see how you ¢an spend any money on any
recreation without doing the pool first,” she said.

Susan Campbell, who teaches aquafit classes at the
Monte Carlo Hotel's pool, said the classes had a waiting
list of 30 after the first day, a reflection of the demand for
an indoor pool.

She suggested going ahead with the new pool and
delaying the rest of the master plan, which includes a new
softball stadium, track, parking and arrival court, among
other things.

However, Ald. Albert Calderbank, chairman of the
administrative and finance committee, said a new pool
will cost more than $2 million.

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FOR GLADE STUDENT

Board studies busing

By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN
‘Staff Writer

Castlegar school board is considering
the intest request from ofa
Glade kindergarten student fighting to
get bus transportation for their five-
year-old son.

At Monday's regular board meeting,
Rod and Carol Retzlaff asked that their
son be dropped off at the Glade ferry
landing by the school bus at noon after
his kindergarten class at Tarrys Elem
entary school five-days-a-week.

Previously, the couple had re-
quested their son be taken across the
ferry to a bus stop in Glade. But the
board refused this request in an
in-camera meeting Sept. 17.

While the child is picked up in Glade
in the morning along with a number of
other students, he’s the only one who
returns t¢ Glade from Tarrys at noon.

The board previously had decided it
would be too costly and time con-
suming to transport one student back
to Glade.

The Retzlaffs appeared at the meet-
ing with half-adozen supporters from
Glade, and a 102-signaturé
supporting their request
service.

According to board chairman Doreen
Smecher, the Retzlaff's request will be
referred to a transportation and safety
committee which will make a recom-
mendation Oct. 29. This will be voted
on at the board's regular meeting Nov.
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Carol Retzlaff said the latest request
would mean’the bus driver — who
passes by the Glade ferry turn-off on
Highway 3A at noon anyway — would
only need an extra five minutres to
drop off her son. She said ifthe aciver
had to go across the ferry to) and
back it would take an extra 20)

She said in an interview the proposal

petition
for bus

is a “last resort” which is preferable to
her picking up the child at Tarrys
during the winter.

Retzlaff said she’s concerned about
driving her truck on the Glade turn-off

a “dangerous” road which slants
towards the river, and has no safety

rs.

“It’s not a very good road,” she said.
“That is a worry.”

Retzlaff said she thinks the board
“had their minds made up” before the
parents presented their latest prop
osal, and she doubts it will be ap
proved.

But board chairman Smecher was
optimistic in an interview Tuesday
She said the board will have to consider
the implications of allowing the young
student to ride across on the ferry by
himself, as the board would be legally
responsible for his safety

“If we can sort things like that out,

there will be no problems with drop-
ping off the child at the ferry,” said
Smecher.

She said another complication is that
the same bus is needed at noon twice a
week to pick up students from Shore
acres Elementary school and drop
them off at Tarrys for library and
physical education classes.

“The money is only one consideration

- time is also a problem,” Smecher
said.

Trustee Frank Finney labelled the
board's treatment of the situation “in
anpcepriate and said he couldn't

why the Retzlaffs request
braver granted in the first place.

He said in an interview the bus
driver's wages are no additional cost to
the board because “that bus driver is
paid by the day anyhow.”

“My major concern is that I think our

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AREA TEACHERS TOLD
NOT TO RAISE FUNDS

By CasNews Staff

Teachers shouldn't become fund
raisers to help fill voids caused by
school funding cutbacks, says the pres
ident of the Castlegar and District
Teachers’ Association.

Mike Rogers says teachers shouldn't
“take up the slack” by raising mosey
for textbooks, workbooks and some
field-trips normally paid for by the
schoo! board.

“Is it going to get to the point where
only kids that have parents with money
get te Bo onthe science trip, whieh
sents $607" be said in an interview.

Rogers added that some funding —

for thingfy Mce sports, sebibol bande and

elp trom co-operative mother.

Costtews Photo by Bon Norman

Former city
man killed

A former Castlegar man and his wife
have been identified as two of the five
people killed in a violent Pacific storm
Friday off northwest Vancouver Is
land.

The bodies of Richard Cowlin, 33,
and Patricia Malashewski, 32, both of
Prinee Rupert, were recovered by
search officials on Saturday.

The two were aboard the 13-metre
seiner Miss Robyn when the storm hit
in the early hours of Friday morning
Cowlin and Malashewski, along with
two other fishermen aboard the vessel
Silver Triton, were spotted from the
air Friday afternoon, alive and wearing
survival suits. But rough waters made
rescue attempts impossible

Cowlin is the son of Ted and Eva
Cowlin of Castlegar. He was born in
Trail and graduated from Stanley
Humphries Secondary School in 1970
He also attended Selkirk College for
ome year. (see obituary page B4)

Search officials also recovered the
body of Stanley Thomas Szczuka, 33, of
Cortez Island, who was sboard the
Silver Triton. The search continues for
his shipmate.

‘Also missing and presumed drowned
is Alfred Casey, 41, whose 10-metre
Hurricane 1 washed ashore near the
entrance to Victoria harbor

Meanwhile, the West Coast fishing
industry has called for immediate in
vestigations into the deaths of the five
fishermen afd into the federal govern

\\" Residence

landlords

By CHERYL CALDERBANK
Staff Writer

Selkirk College has received both
support and concern over plans for a
possible student residence at its
Castlegar campus.

College principal Leo Perra, in his
report to the allege board at a meeting

dents, thealty and staff at the college
and from the local construction indus-
try.

However, he said local apartment
owners — who are already facing high
vacancy rates — have expressed con-
cern.

Although the apartment vacancy
rate was zero per cent in 1980-81, it
rose to between 10 and 14 per cent in
1982-83.

A survey showed it was down to six
per cent this April. Another survey
now is being done.

Last month the college signed a let-
ter of intent with Western Student
Housing to construct the student resi-
dences.

Perra said Western Student Housing
has investigated the feasibility of the
residences and believes the location on
college property will attract students.

He said in the long-term the student
residences will make the institution
more attractive to students who don't
want to face the problems of finding
accommodation elsewhere.

He noted that some of the area
apartment owners claimed their rent
will be less than that eharged by the
college

“If that is so, they will probably get
their share of students whether there
are residences on site or not.” Perra
said

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He said he could empathize with
apartment owners, but noted that the
long-term future of the area is some-
what tied to Selkirk College.

He said the residences, which may be
in place by September 1986 or 1986,
will help attract students from outside

dents feel uneasy about the future of
the Grand Forks extension centre.

Malloff said residents feel that as
soon as the extension centre's lease
expires the government will close it
down.

But Perra noted that the college's
proposed five-year plan states that it
will continue its network of campuses,
extension centres and storefront learn
ing centres.
Malloff was told the college — which
is committed to the extension centre —

to receive more than the usual
$145,000 grant from the Ministry of
Education.

The Grand Forks Extension Centre
currently has a registration of 185
students, according to Hallett’s en
rolment summary.

There are 146 students at Upper
Arrow Lakes, 240 at Midway, 247 at
ts and 59 at Salmo.

The Castlegar Campus has 1,580
students with 420 at Nelson. Total
enrolment at all campuses is 2,877

has roughly doubled this year te more
than 100 registrants, he said.

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speakers strange even for this diverse community
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man appeared to urge people to eat each other for breakfast
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woman who identified herself as Catherine. “President Reagan
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