June, 1989 Castlegar News a3 ee a2 Castlegar News June 4.1989 — PIONEER DAYS CAR LOANS ‘Thinking About New Wheels?” CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION For All Your Financial & Insurance Needs CASTLEGAR SLOCAN PARK 601- 18th $1, 365-7232 Hwy. 6 * 226-7212 Insurance 365-336 Insurance * 226-7216 AL LORD LIVER TRANSPLANT FUND Funds are urgently required to help a family in need. If you would like to make a contribution PHONE 693-5583 For more information on making donations to the fund at any branch of the Bank of Montreal or write to Box 156, Genelle, B.C. VOG 1GO Castlegar Taxi will be donating 10% of their cash cab fares to the fund until goal is reached. AN INVITATION FROM HON. HOWARD DIRKS MINISTER OF STATE FOR KOOTENAY AND NELSON-CRESTON MLA am extending an invitation to all Slocan Lake area residents to attend a dinner and meeting in Slocan on Monday, June 12 starting at 5:45 p.m I will be there to provide an update-on the Regionalization initiatis in the Kootenay Development Region and to, talk about recent activities resulting from Task Force recom mendations This is an ideal opportunity for area residents to find out more about how this initiative is working in the Kootenays today and to raise issues of local concern I look forward to meeting with you at that time and encourage you to attend this important meeting, Hon. Howard Dirks Minister of State MLANelson-Creston Slocan Lake area residents wishing to attend this no host dinner meeting should contact Jim Hildebrand at 355 77. View of Sunshine Meadows Sunshine Meadows — Banff’s unique alpine experience The most spectacular meadows in the Canadian Rockies * Ride Bantf's longest gondola and sight-see above beautiful sub-alpine scenery See Canada’s highest mountain village, with hotel, stores and licensed dining Visit Sunshine Meadows Visitor Centre to better understand our beautiful fragile environment of streams, wildlife, alpine meadows and mountain peaks Ride the Standish Chair, and straddle two provinces at the Continental Divide Intriguing Murder Mystery Evenings at the Sunshine Inn 6x Oa io a ey ane —~—->»<& ‘ W convoia © RIDE COUPON Buy one adult gondola ticket at the regular price, geta second ride at 50% off (offer valid June 30 to September 4, 1989) bad to the Sunshine Village Gondola 762-6543 Hotel 762-6555 Dirks slams Williams VICTORIA (CP) — New Democrat Bob Williams is misleading the public with ‘selective bits ‘of information about the sale of Crown land in subur- ban Vancouyer, the minister respon- sible for Crown lands said, But Howard Dirks refused to release more information about the sale of 566 hectares on the Westwood plateau in Goquitlam toa single developer: Williams has said the government could have sold the land for at least $9 million more than the $63 million it received. “He (Williams) has @ penchant for grabbing headlines by selectively using the most sensationalist information,"" Dirks told a news conterence. “1 would ask Mr. Williams to develop the courage to stop misleading the public and the media with selective pieces of information tailored simply to buy another headline Asked to compare one of the offers that was rejected, Dirks declined, saying only ¢hat all offers would even- taully be made public There were 18 offers on the land, Dirks said, and “unlike Mr. Williams we will present those facts in their en- tirety.’ Williams has said an offer from Westwood Plateau Developments was better than one the province accepted from Vancouver-based Wesbild En- terprises Area J byelection forum set By CasNews Staff An all-candidates forum for the Regional District of Central Kootenay Area J byelection is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. June 8 at the Ootischenia Hall in Ootischenia The three candidates for the seat, Ken Wyllie, Dennis La Hue and Darlene Schultz, all of Rob- son, are scheduled to be there, forum organizer Fern Allam said Journalist continued trom tront poge Matyukhin works long hours,’often working into the morning after putting his 22-year-old son Yuri to bed, he says. Sometimes he is finistring stories for the paper but he also freelances for other publications as long as he keeps up his **quota’® of stories for the Voice of the Homeland, he says. e His dedication has not always been as evident, however. When he first came out of journalism school and did his practicum with the national news service Tass he often got little done despite the technology he was surrounded by, he says. “IL wasn’t paying too much attention to my work because I was getting married and | spent my time writing guest lists and love poetry to my girlfriend,” he says witha shy smile. He and his wife, a secretary with an import/export tompany, live with their son in Moscow Journalism has always been a part of Matyuhkin’s life, since his father was a reporter for the daily Soviet Russia. Matyuhkin wrote his first story at age eight about “Whata person should be like.”’ His interest in English, which he speaks haltingly but at times quite fluently, came early, he says, and prompted him to join an English club a year before he began studying the language in Grade 5, And his English skills were always strong, he says. ** Because | Jearned English by the mechanics, | was a whiz at the English alphabet. | couldn't reel off the Russian alphabet nearly as easily,"’ he says. If his English is an asset to the work he wants to per~ sue, perhaps the timing of his birthday is just as impor tant. He was born May 13 — a day and month both con- sidered unlucky in the Soviet Union, he says. But he takes the attitude that two minuses equal a plus. I'm generally quite confident about mysel!,’’ he says witha smile. Sunfest continued from front page Bands from Stanley Humphries secondary school, Kinnaird Junior secondary school, Kinnaird/ Valley Vista elementary schools and Twin Rivers elementary school each picked up $50 for tlieir efforts. Receiving $10 each for their bicycles were Jordan McNeill, Shelly Postnikoff, Angela Briggeman, Kyle Estabrook, Dave Stevenson and David Ferber Over at Castleaird Plaza, contestants were serving up award-winning chili at the Chili Cookoft. First place went to Steve Porteous of Vancouver for his Hot Rock Chili. Jan Michel of Calgary took second place for her Pepper the Pepper Pot recipe while Ron Michel of Calgary placed third with a concoction called Over 40. Kootenay Broadcasting System and Ron Szabo finished fourth with Szabo's Revenge Szabo also won the Shoot and Holler Contest. Hot Pepper Eating went to Renee Mounteney of Nelson Best booth (pioneer style) was won by the/Beaver Valley Mugwumps. Gwen Robinson of Beaver Valley won the prize for best hat (piorfeerstyle) Sunfest 89 officially got underway Friday with the crowning of Miss Castlegar 1989. This year’s honor went to Miss Gyro Darla Leiding who also took top honors in the talent category This year’s Princess is Miss Rotary Sheana Green. Aneeda Lebidoff, Miss Selkirk Lions, caught the judges’ eyes in the congeniality category Briefly... Man fights costs, time in wait for new liver By GUY BERTRAND examined by liver specialists. and more donations are onthe way, Writer A Genelle man is battling costs as well as time, as he awaits a liver tran- splant Al Lord, a long-time Genelle resident, left Friday morning trom St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver en route to London University Hospital in London, Ont There Lord will wait while a donor is located. Lord was previously hospitalized in Irail for eight months but two weeks ago was sent to Vancouver to be Court news This week in Castlegar provincial court, Eli Soukerott pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and was fined $200 to be paid torth- with James Berekotf pleaded guilty to Tourist alert VANCOUVER (CP) Tourist Alert issued Saturday by the RCMP. Ihe following persons, believed travelling in British Columbia, are asked to call the person named for an urgent personal message Anrico Pavone of Italy, call Mr Ferrerd, Mr. Gagliardi. Ann Deeley, Chilliwack, call Ernie Cunningham Beth Cortiville of Washington, call your mother assault and was fined $150 or, in default, three days in jail Peter Podmorott pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and was fined $150. Last week, Kevin Salikin pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and was fined $100. Brian Symons pleaded guilty to wo counts of driving with a blood alcohol reading of more than .08 and was fined $750 or, in detault, 45 days in jail Kelly Sisson pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to a 14-day inter mittent jail term and six months probation with conditions. Two weeks ago, Angus Thodeson was fined $25 for driving without stoplights and $25 tor having no emergency brake. Although a transplant was recommen- ded, doctors were unable to perform it in B.C With Lord’s prolonged layoff trom his business, his family’s bank account has suffered dramatically. However, Sandra Read, a family friend, has opened an account at the Bank of Montreal in Castlegar to start a fund tor the family Lord’s family has already made two trips to Vancouver to see him and would like to visit him in London Local firemen are orgabizing a car wash and Castlegar Taxi has pledged 10 per cent of its cash fares to the cause. In Trail, employees at the Dairy Queen are pooling their contributions. Lord was flown to London by the B.C. government's Challenger air- cratt. The cost for the flight was covered by the province. However, his family will have to pay for their flight The London hospital requested that Lord be flown there as soon as possible so he could be attended to immediately Some money has already been should any problems arise prior to the collected to cover some of the expenses transplant In memory... Walter Kanigan Walter Cecil Kanigan of Ootischenia passed away June 2 at age 80, Mr. Kanigan was born March 22, 1909, at Ootischenia and lived at Ymir for a short time with his parents and returned to Ootischenia where he lived for the rest’ of his lite. He married Nellie Kootnikotf at Ootischenia in 1935 During his life, he worked in the sawmill industry, retiring in 1974. as a sawyer. He was a member of the USCC and enjoyed woodcarving, making ladles, singing and gardening, He is survived by his wife Nellie of Ootischenia; four sons, Mike, Walter, John and Philip, all of Ootischenia; one daughter, Olga Johnson of Kelowna; 12 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; one brother, Cecil of South Slocan; and two sisters, Nellie Voikin and Vera Voykin, both of Ootischenia Funeral services for the late Mr. Kanigan will be held at the Brilliant Cultural Centre beginning today at 7 p.m. and continuing Monday at 10 a.m. with burial at I p.m. at the Ootischenia Cemetery Funeral Chapel Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar Post-secondary education opportunities in. © ART: esc emp! WENCES © TOURISM TRADES TRAINING * PHYSICAL EDUCATION *¢ EDUCATIONAL UPGRADING A small, friendly community college whose faculty care about your well-being gnd intellectual growth. Modern well-equipped facilities compliments the learning process. 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Happy 25th Mom & Dad on June 6, 1989 Love, From Your Children Moscow praises U.S. proposal MOSCOW (AP) Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has Praised U.S. President George Bush's latest arms control proposal as serious, constructive and largely approaching the Soviet position. But he complained that 100,000 troops of other NA LO powers on West German territory are not included. The proposal has “‘a definit nprint ol new times,”’ Shevardnadze said in an interview with Soviet correspondents carried on the official news agency Tass the same day Bush returned home trom a European NATO adopted Bush’s suggestion to propose a ceiling of 275,000 troops for the United States and the Soviet Union in Central Europe. The plan also calls for certain arms cuts to equal levels. Violence erupts in Beijing BELJING (AP) — Chinese troops stormed Tiananmen Square Saturday shooting and beating their way through. crowds of pro- democracy protesters in clashes that witnesses and doctors said killed at least 32 people. Hundreds were wounded. The troops cut a violent swath through the heart of Beijing to get to the square, rolling through barricades and surging masses on the surround streets By 3:30 a.m. local time, soldiers and riot police had surrounded Tiananmen, boxing off several thousand students and supporters concen- trated around a monument to revolutionary heroes in the centre. A half hour later, lights were turned out. The square was in darkness. You have to give up all hope,” students said over their loudspeaker at the monument. ** You have to give your life to the movement." Students sang the Internationale, the Communist anthem. At least one person was shot in the back in Fiananamen, another in the head. Scores were wounded by gunshot and beatings Canada Post profit announced CALGARY (CP) — A Cheshire-cat smile was the most Harvie Andre would offer when pressed to announce how much profit Canada Post will show for 1988-89, buta Calgary MP may have let the cat out of the bag. Lee Richardson, MP for Calgary Southeast, introduced the minister responsible for the Crown corporation, telling luncheon guests at the Macdonald-Cartier Club **the Canadian post office this week announced a$56-million profit."” Andre laughingly reminded Richardson the announcement isn’t due until Canada Post releases its annual business plan June.12, but then suggested the profit could be even higher *The figure is wrong,’’ he said in a speech that emphasized the cor poration’s growing fortunes. ‘We’ re doing better than that.’ He later told reporters he could only confirm the protit for the year ended March 31 will be more than the $26 million projected in last year’s busines plan Ferry captain ‘not conscious’ VICTORIA (CP) — The captain of the Mill Bay ferry was **not con- scious’? before the vessel ran aground Monday, the manager of the B.C Ferry Corp. said **We cannot prove he wasasleep but we can say some form of uncon- sciousness prevailed,”’ said Rod Morrison. **You don't have to be asleep to be unconscious *You éan faint, you can doze, you can doa lot of things."” The ferry’s captain, Trevor Hayward, has been demoted two ranks to second officer and suspended without pay for a month for negligence, Morrison said The 16-car, 134-passenger vessel ran aground 300 metres from its Mill Bay dock on Saanich Inlet. None of the 29 passengers aboard was injured and there was no damage to any of the 12 cars aboard Action called advised VANCOUVER (CP) — Businessmen who have done well under the Social Credit government in British Columbia were ill-advised to attend a new Democratic Party reception earlier this week, Premier Bill Vander Zalm suggested Vander Zalm told a party fundraising dinner he was given a partial list of some of the businessmen who attended the reception He told 680 supporters — who paid $125 each to dine on trout and lamb — he was disturbed to find Socred supporters who have prospered under the government's economic policy on the list The low-key NDP affair featured cheese and crackers The surprise was that many of these people have done very well (under Social Credit),"” Vander Zalm said If Lam being served well by a particular cause or initiative or party or government, then I think I ought to try to help and assist and work for that party or group or government Still, they’re obviously looking elsewhere,"’ Vander Zalm said. **It means we've got to work harder.” Workers strike at Fording CRANBROOK, B.C. (CP) — More than 1,000 members of the United Steelworkers of America went on strike Friday evening at the For ding Coal mine in southeastern British Columbia Months of negotiations for a new contract broke off Thursday night Both company and union spokesmen said no new negotiations are scheduled. The union wants better wages and benefits to reflect the mine's im- proved productivity over the last five years and the company’s improved proiits, said Steelworkers’ spokesman Ken Neumahn Court rules against deadline VICTORIA (CP) — Setting a deadline tor the British Columbia government to redraw unfair electoral riding boundaries would infringe on the rights of elected politicians, the B.C, Supreme Court ruled Friday The establishment of 4 deadline would be in direct violation of the rights and obligations of the members of the legislative assembly,” ruled Mr. Justice Kenneth Meredith I think it must be left to the legislature to do what is right in its own time. The B.C. Civil Liberties Association petitioned the court in May to order the Social Credit government to set new electoral boundaries by a specific date Developers to be encouraged VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia government will spend up to $40 million to encourage developers to build rental housing throughout the province, Social Services Minister Claude Richmond said. “The prografn will encourage investment in new rental development by reducing interest costs for projects shat meet our objectives,"’ he tolda news conference. The government said it will subsidize developers by offering them loans at three percentage points below normal interest rates. The rental units must be built in areas where vacancy rates are below two per cent In return for the public subsidy, developers must give tenants the op- portunity for 60-year leases and agree to rent controls. Rents — which would be about $750 to $850 in Vancouver for a two-bedroom apartment would rise with the consumer price index, said Richmond Chiefs advise fish ban VANCOUVER (CP) — Worried by instances of intestinal cancer, * several Indian chiefs in the Central Interior of British Columbia have ad vised band members to curtail their traditional fisheries this year and to stopeating certain types of fish = Health and Welfare Canada, acting on complaints trom the chiets, is preparing a year-long study of the fish and the water in the region ‘cies eas Days gave Castlegar residents and lots t6 look at Friday and Saturday as the annual celebration got underway. Clockwise from top: the Warfield 9 i up to; ize in the parade for their float; Marcel Patenaude stirs a batch of chili at the Chili Cookoff; youngsters @ marching band entertain the onlookers; a horse-drawn buggy in keeping with the neer Days theme prepares to enter the parade; Suntest's Gold Patrons hold the hand-carved ik hobor lad! ey ived at the Selkirk Vintners wine tasting; Miss Castlegar 1989 Darla Leiding performs her part in if @ cream cone marches down Columbia Avenue in the parade; and one of the racers paddles his drag boat back to shore.