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THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON

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Castlegar

Notice is hereby given that it is the intention of the Council of the City of

Castlegar to undertake works, under the Specified Aréa Section of the
Act, to ish a D Ri lion Project.

Unless within one month after the publication and mailing of this.notice a
majority of the owners of parcels within the Specified Area, representing at
least 1/2 of the value of the parcels which are liable to be specially charged,
petition the Council not to proceed with it, the works may be undertaken as a
local improvement.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKS:

The Works are to be undertaken to contribute to the beautification of the
downtown core of the City of Castlegar and include underground installation of
telephone, electricityand ion cables, impr its to the water system
and storm sewer system, street lighting, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, paving,
trees, plants, signs, hes, 1, topsoil and all
ancillary and incidental things therewith.

ine painting, irrig

The’ Works will take place in the area commonly referred to.as “the
Downtown Core” and is more specifically as detailed on the following plan.

THE AREA IS ALSO GENERALLY DEFINED AS:

— Columbia Avenue from Crescent Street south to Reference Plan
926121;

— 13th Avenue from 3rd Street to Columbia Avenue;

— 11th Avenue from 2nd Street to 4th Street;

— 2nd Street from 11th Avenue to Columbia Avenue; .

— 3rd Street from the lane east of 11th Avenue to 13th Avenue;

— 4th Street from the lane east of 11th Avenue to Columbia Avenue; and

— Wood Street fromm Columbia Avenue to 3rd Street.

THE ESTIMATED COST OF THE WORKS IS $4,951.497.00.

The proportion of the total cost to be borne by owners within the specified
area is $1,662,500 which prdportion constitutes 33.58% of the total cost
($1,662,500 is also only one-half of the amount to be borrowed from the

of British C
ANNUAL CHARGES WILL BE IMPOSED UPON OWNERS WITHIN THE
SPECIFIED AREA FOR A PERIOD OF 15 YEARS.
Copies of downtown revitalization specified area establishment and loan
Bylaw 599 as weil as further information peonnpech Medaka
for inspection at City Hall, 460 C ia Avenue, C
from Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays, from 8:30 a.m. ry cy

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EDITOR

If Castlegar city cquneil? is thinking the
Concerned Citizen Coalition is giving up, it
has another thing coming.

Coalition spokesman Mike O’Connor
confirmed Tuesday that two new lists of
demanding questions is heading towards
Mayor Audrey Moore. In all, 12 questions
— five issued following the fiery Jan. 3
meeting and another seven issued today —
are on council’s table. O’Connor says he
expects replies to all the questions by the
next council session, scheduled for Jan. 21.

“There’s lots of fire out there,” said
O’Connor, who declined to discuss the
details of the 12 questions.

“All they are are questions that keep
arising that v we want answered,” he said.

Coalition issues new list to council

» O’Connor said although his group is
receiving “co-operation” from city hall, some
questions remain unanswered. He pointed
to the questions surrounding city reserves
as an example.

O’Connor said the city has failed to Keep
up with its responsibilities, saying the
roads, sewer lines and drainage pipes are
all in desperate shape. He said if the city
was acting responsibly, repairs to its
infrastructure would have been properly
addressed in annual budgets.

Moore disagreed, saying the city has
shown prudent thinking to help save
taxpayers from hefty tax hikes during the
recession.

“We have always, in this municipality,
consulted, considered and then decided,”
said Moore, adding that 15 citizens have
been invited to take part in the

restructuring of Castlegar’s Official
Community Plan.

Moore said she is having some trouble
accepting that a council citizens elected in
1990 is no longer suited for the job.

“I don’t know why these people haven't
taken an interest in city council before,”
said Moore, who met with coalition
representatives Monday.

“The sessions are open and they are
always open.”

Asked whether she would respond to the

coalition’s new questions, Moore said “Ifthe __

questions are related to public : information,

, Michael will have his answers.”

Calling the coalition “counterproductive,”
Moore urged citizens to think positive.

“I would like to see the energy of these
people put into promoting the city instead
of destroying it.”

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Work is progressing as planned with the Celgar Pulp Co. expansion. For more photos on the expansion,

News photo by Jonathan Green

Drug use climbs in Kootenays

Donna Bertrand
NEWS REPORTER

Drug offences in Castlegar in-
creased by 40 per cent in 1991
compared to figures the year be-
fore.

Despite the increase, Cpl. Al
Hudema said Tuesday the number
of offences is still relatively low.

“We're not talking very big
numbers here,” he said. “In 1991
we had 28 actual drug offences
that we investigated, and in 1990
we.had 20. So we're up eight over
(1990).”

However, with fitee of those 28
offences involving heroin and one
involving cocaine, there is still
cause for concern, said Jim
Druchet, superintendent of the
Nelson Sub Division of the RCMP.

“It is alarming for me to see we
have an increase in heroin use be-

cause this was non-existent in this
area three years ago.”

The sub division, which in-
cludes Castlegar and 20 other
communities in the east and west
Kootenays, dealt with 565 cases of
narcotics last year, an increase of
30 per cent over 1990.

“The other thing I have a con-
cern about is when you have an in-
crease in drug activity, you have
an increase in other areas of
crime, whether it be robberies,
whether it be drug store break-ins,
or thefts,” he said.

Of six murders committed in
the Nelson sub division in 1991,
two were drug related.

Druchet attributed the increase
of drug offences in Castlegar to the
increased population related to
the Celgar pulp mill expansion.

“I don’t want to use the word

transients, but because of the
work force that is involved with

legar, they’ve come there to be
ecipinved and at the same time,
some, of those people are bringing
with them the illicit drug involve-
ment,” he said.

Heroin in the area is coming
from Vancouver, Alberta and the
United States, Druchet said.

Hudema said Castlegar RCMP
will continue to fight drug use
with public awareness.

“We've tried to tackle the street
level user, that hasn't done much,
we've tried to concentrate on the
big guys, but they are so very, very
difficult to infiltrate that our suc-
cess there is very limited. So I
think our best way of attacking
this is through the schools...by cre-
ating an awareness with young
people and the perils involved.”

Rate hikes ~
has College
in limbo

Jonathan Green

NEWS REPORTER

. What may be a broken cani-
paign promise could result in in-
creased tuition fees at B.C. col-
leges and universities.

During last fall’s election cam-
paign, New Democrats promised
a freeze on tuition fees if they were
elected. aie :

But three months after taking
office, the new government is

twice about that promise.

Selkirk College vice-president
Dale Schatz said that, for now, ev-
erything is still up in the air.

“We really haven’t any idea
what's happening,” he said. “At the
moment, we’re in limbo.”

Schatz. said what the New
Democrats promised and what
they are saying now are two dif-
ferent-things.

“They had a campaign promise
that tuition fees would be frozen,”

he said. “We don’t know whether ~ -

it’s frozen or whether it’s thawed.”

With an annual budget to think
about and a fall semester not too
far down the line, Schatz said a lot
of unanswered questions leaves
the college in a difficult situation

*“We’re asking, ‘What do we do
about fees’ and we're not getting
any answers,” he said.

A spokesperson for Advanced
Education Minister Tom Perry
said it may be premature to con-
sider tuition hikes.

“We’ve had no direction from
the minister’s office’: whether
there’s a freeze or not,” Alan

trickland said.

He also cautioned that it may be
some time before a final decision
on fees is made.

“There’s been no indication
Whee Pe ae ill be resotees.”

Selkirk College student council
president Jeff Leggat could not be
ergo aon oneal on the ru-