ast cS as _ Castlegar News september 17. 1986 SERVICE ‘ABOMINABLE’ Council wants customs agent for Castlegar By CasNews Staff Castlegar council wants a Canada Customs agent lo cated either at the Castlegar Airport or in the city Council agreed to write Canada Customs with the re- quest after hearing com plaints from Adastra Avia tion president Dale Nielsen about service at Castlegar Airport rThe service is a contin ujng embarrassment,” Niel sen said. He cited a number of cases where private planes arriving at the airport from the U.S. had to wait close to two hours for a customs agent to drive from Trail or Nelson. During that time the pilot and passengers can't get out of the aircraft, Nielsen said, adding it is a particular hard ship on hot summer and cold winter days. “It's an abominable way to treat guests coming into this area.” he said. Nielsen added that his air line has telephoned ahead to his Castlegar office and to Canada Customs from the last point of departure, giving an estimated time of arrival at Castlegar Airport and has still had to wait for a customs agent to arrive. KEN’S AUTO & WHEEL ALIGNMENT LTD. CLOSED FOR HOLIDAYS Open September 29 1501 Columbia Ave. Castlegar 365-7532 customs DALE NIELSEN slams airport service He said he has appealed directly to Canada Customs to place an agent in Castle gar, but officials there con tend that the service is ade quate As well, he says they point to funding restraints. But Nielsen said Castlegar Airport is the “main point of and deserves a agent. He added that while the airport itself may not be able to justify a customs agent located there, ther@pvould be justification when the Castle gar post office and the Arrow Lakes marina facilities are customs it's time we all banded together . . . to effect location of a customs agent in the Castlegar area,” he said. Ald. Len Embree called it “ridiculous” that the customs agent is located in Nelson to serve that airport, but not in Castlegar. Mayor agreed. “This is the regional air port,” she said. “It serves the whole area.” She later noted that the Castlegar post office is also the regional centre. Ald. Albert Calderbank said he is “well aware” of the problem. “It seems Audrey Moore they don't entry” by air to the region care,” he said. Molotov cocktail tossed at store CEDAR, B.C. (CP) — Two Molotov cocktails were thrown into a grocery store in this Vancouver Island community where a post office box is used as a drop for aid to Nicaraguan Contra forces. The Ming Red and White store doubles as a post office and it was learned last week one of the boxes is listed in the U.S. mercenary magazine Soldier of Fortune. HOMEGOODS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE Tues.-Sat., 9:30-5:30 China Creek Drive a Little to Save a Lot” Shortly before midnight Monday, two bottles filled with either gas or kerosene were thrown through the store window. An estimated $400 damage was caused by the fire, which was put out by the store owner before the fire department arrived. RCMP Sgt. Bill Thompson said Tuesday police are treating the incident as an attempted arson. PREPARING UR WIL Tuesday, Sept. 23 7:30 p.m. Fireside Banquet Room 1810-8th Ave., Join Gary Ingamells of Castlegar Co-Operative Trust Company of Canada for an intor mative evening examining the major con siderations in preparing your will Mr. Ingamells will be taking oppointmen ts for personal will consultations on Wed nesday, Sept. 24 Why should | have a will? What happens if 1 don't have a will? Who should | appoint as executor or guardian? How do | set up a trust fund? For answers to these questions and more, be sure to attend this free presentation cat ON THE ROAD . . Jim Gouk of Castlegar (second trom right) pauses with friends and fellow Rotarians in Colville, Wash., during his 35,000-kilometre, 41-day bicycle trip to Phoenix to Gouk onway to California By JOHN CHARTERS Jim Gouk, the Castlegar Rotary Club cyclist, is on his way down the Oregon coast heading toward Cali fornia. To date he has com pleted about one-third of his 35,000 km, 41-day trip to Phoenix, Arizona. Twelve days ago he left Christina Lake and arrived in Colville, Wash. accomp anied by a number of friends and Rotarians, in cluding Colville club presi dent Jack Billet and Rot ary exchange student Misaru Yanagawa of Tok: yo, Japan. There, he was the guest of honor at a barbecue hosted by the Colville club. Next morning he left for Spokane accompanied by members of the club. His wife, Ann, reports that “everything is going great”, and that he has picked up about $3,000 in pledges en route. In spite of rigorous prep aration and training he admits to being “a bit sore in spots” and has found the Oregon coast head winds “a bit difficult”, if peddling in low gear while going downhill is to be con sidered difficult. The purpose of the ride is to raise consciousness raise funds for the Rotary Student Exchange program and the Polio Plus project. | and funds for the inter national Rotary Student Exchange program, aimed at increasing world peace and understanding through international ex change of students at the high school level, and for the Polio Plus project, which is aimed at elimi nating polio in children throughout the world by the year 2000. Locally, he hopes Reserve your seat early by calling 365-7232. Ask for Member Services. Credit Union Noyes ap VANCOUVER (CP) — The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday the appeal by child molester Robert Noyes of his designation as a dangerous offender should be split into two separate hearings. Mr. Justice William Esson, noting Noyes is “in prison and without means”, agreed the former teacher's appeal should be heard in two parts, a decision that could save Noyes more than $20,000. “In general, appellants should be encouraged, not deterred, to get on with their appeals,” the judge said, noting the lower cost may enable Noyes to obtain legal aid He said the appeal court should decide at the first hearing whether the judge who sentenced Noyes to an indefinite term erred in- not finding that the dangerous offender sections of the Approximotely 15 x22 FULL-PAGE REPRODUCTIONS © Pertect for Framing © High Quality Photographic Paper Only $17.95 Additional $2 #t you have to be invoxed Allow one week tor delivery 197 Columbia Avenue Telephone 365-7266 peal s Criminal Code are contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights. If Noyes loses the charter argument, his lawyer, Ken neth Young, will argue at the second appeal hearing that the judge erred in deciding Noyes fits the dangerous of fender criteria of the code Esson, agreeing financial considerations: were the key issue in the application for separate hearings, noted evi dence at the sentencing was “voluminous,” covering a 45. day hearing in. which the Crown called 25 witnesses. He noted Young said the CosNewsPhote by John Chorters raise $1,400 by small but extensive donations for the purchase of a Paul Harris Fellowship which will be used to establish student scholarships. Throughout the tour Gouk is not only speaking on these two projects, but through slide-talks is actively promoting tourism in Castlegar and district to his American hosts. LENE ALOT NE plit estimated cost of providing a transcript of the entire hearing is about $30,000, whereas a transcript of the charter arguments from the sentencing could be obtained for about $8,000. Esson said Noyes’s court costs at the sentence hearing were borne by the B.C. Tea chers Federation and Noyes himself at a ratio of 56-44. He said the federation has de cided it won't help finance Noyes’s appeal. Noyes, 37, pleaded guilty in January to 19 counts of indecent and sexual assault on young students. Police file Two weekend traffic acci dents in Castlegar resulted in about $11,000 damage to the vehicles involved, Castlegar RCMP report Police say a 1974 station wagon driven by Sally Wal ters of Castlegar stopped at a crosswalk on Columbia Avenue at Woodland Drive and was rear-ended by a 1981 Chevrolet. van driven by Linda Paterson, who the RCMP report is from the Castlegar area Damage is estimated at $4,000 in the accident which occurred at 5:30 p.m. Sept 13. A day earlier, police say a vehicle, which RCMP did not identify in the report, driven by Kevin Gustafson of Castle gar was making a left turn from Columbia Avenue at 18th Street at about 9 p.m. when a 1985 Chevrolet driven by Eddie Motz of Trail entered Columbia Avenue from the Esso station and struck the Gustafson vehicle. Damage is estimated at $7,000 There were no injuries in either accident and the RCMP say their investiga tion is continuing into both accidents Seniors receive grant By CasNews Staff The provincial government has granted the Castlegar and District Senior Citizens Association $24,000 to help buy a bus for the use of Yoga Classes Beginners 8 Lessons *25.00 Thurs . Sept 25 730-9p Call Pauli Emde 365-3253 Spm. seniors and handicapped in dividuals in the area. This grant will ensure seniors and the handicapped have an access to the specia lized transportation they need.” said Provincial Sec retary Hugh Curtis in a news release announcing the grant from the British Columbia Lottery Fund The Castlegar seniors association has more than 150 members. IWA WANTS . BANKRUPTCY T CHAN NANAIMO (CP) — The Bankruptcy Act is one of the convention passed resolutions calling for major changes to the act, which dates from 1947. “The previous Liberal government update the legislation), but the way it i holding the bag,” said Doug Evans, president of the IWA local which presented the resolution. creditors, assets of a bankrupt company. It also says unpaid employee benefits should be classed as secured debt, and employers should have to post bond to cover wages, holiday pay, benefits, and severance pay. The 170 delegates debated and passed other resolutions dealing with trade, log exports, and reforestation, reflecting what they perceive as critical times for their future. Changes to the Bankruptcy Act are important to the IWA because there have been instances of wood operations declaring bankruptcy with little recourse for employees who lose benefits and unpaid wages. ‘The issue of exporting raw logs prompted a long and vocal debate. LOG EXPORTS RESUME Terry Smith, president of the New Westminster local. said a former Social Credit forests minister, Tom Waterland, had begun to “bring it to an end,” but that one of former premier Bill Bennett's final acts before resigning was to restore log exports to their previous levels. “We have got to say to (Premier Bill) Vander Zalm: if you keep shipping out the tulips, pretty soon you won't have any tulips,’ “ Smith said, referring to the premier’s early days as a tulip-bulb salesman. Evans said he and others on a union trip to China were told the Chinese prefer to import Canadian logs because they provide work for Chinese citizens. “Every log shipped out of B.C. is a job shipped out,” Evans said. “The timber belongs to the citizens of B.C.” The recession and contracting-out of work to non-union members has resulted in membership dropping by some 20,000 in the past decade to its current level of about 30,000. B.C. IWA members were in the 56th day of a selective strike Tuesday, with contracting-out the major issue. Pulp prices go up Oct. 1 TORONTO (CP) — Canadian forest producers will raise pulp prices on Oct. 1, marking the third such increase so far this year. Most Canadian producers informed U.S. customers that the list price for softwood pulp will increase 8.3 per cent to $520 US a tonne, effective Oct. 1 The current list price is $480 US. The new price, once established, will bring producers almost $100 US more a tonne than they got a year ago. Although the price remains below the record high of $545, the rate of exchange means that Canadian producers will get more for their pulp after Oct. 1 than ever before, said James Rowland, publisher of the Montreal-based Canadian Paper Analyst. Hardwood pulp, made from deciduous trees such as birch, aspen and maple, will jump even higher, propor tionately, to $470 US from the current $420 US. Most Canadian pulp producers appear to be lining up under these pricing perimeters, set early this week by Mead Pulp Sales Inc., the sales arm of Mead Corp. of Dayton, Ohio, and by pulp manufacturers in British Columbia. Mead sells pulp produced by British Columbia Forest Products Ltd. of Vancouver, Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd. of Prince George, B.C. and Donohue St. Felicien Inc. of Quebec City One exception is Irving Pulp and Paper Ltd. of Saint John, which will ask $525 US a tonne for its softwood pulp, starting next month. Another exception is Great Lakes Forest Products Ltd. of Thunder Bay, Ont. The company promised its customers in July that it would hold its softwood price at $480 US until the end of 1986. Great Lakes has not announced a new price for hardwood.— although one is expected at the end of this week, the amount of the increase is not known. The start of this week's round of price increases began in the southern United States, where leading producers of both softwood and hardwood pulps — which traditionally sell for less than the superior northern pulps _ started announcing an Oct. 1 price raise shortly after Labor Day Southern U.S. companies raised prices to $460 US for hardwood and $490 US for softwood. Moreover, most North American pulp producers have already increased European prices to take advantage of the declining value of the U.S. dollar relative to local currencies. Kootenay Informatics at the South Slocan Junction has added a full line of Compute gs) to their present lines of business and home Kootenay Informatics At the Playmer Junction im S. Stocan * Open 6 Days o Week . eptember 17.1986 «hg eh afeway's got it : © Top Quality * a5 we Dalewood Equals to 61¢ Each Case of 12 $7.28 57th ANNIVERSARY — CASE GOODS SPECIALS! Or Case of 24 $8.98 Equals to 38¢ Each ax 2.69% Case of 27 *8.98 Case of 12 °7.48 $] Equals to 63¢ Each Dog Food A’? Bathroom Tissue Pa $] 0s Budget * White ¢ 4-Roll Package ........-- Each Case of 12 511.88. Equals to 99° Each. per Towels Hi-Dri © White © 2 Roll Pkg. .....---------- Case of 12 11.88. Equals to 99° Each. FRESH SAFEWAY MEATS _ Boneless Beef Outside Round Pork Loin Chops $979 Coke or Sprite Regular or Diet or Coca Cola Classic. 1 Litre Bottle. Plus Depsosit Betty Crocker Cake Mixes Super Moist. A A 510 G. Package TAnch .... Flour 67? Unbleached. 10 kg. Bag... Leger ~~) Muffin Mania = 6.199 Crusty Rolls 79 Layer Cake 46° White Bread | = 5 $359 |x Fresh Produce Russet Potatoes bak a 7 99 No. 1 Grade 50 Lb. Carton .... No. 1 Grade Onions xen $ ADD 25 ib. Bag..... New Crop Yams TY California S174 ag < . For more savings see flyer in last Sunday's paper Prices effective through Sunday, Sept. 21 in your friendly, courteous Castlegar Sateway Store. Mon. to Wed. and Saturdey 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday ond Friday Sunday 9a.m. to? p.m. 10 a.m. to § p.m. We reserve the right to limit sale to retail quantities. Prices effective while stock lasts SAFEWAY CANADA SAFEWAY LIMITED