ma Castlegar News _ Moy 9.1990 AKBM passes Castlegar's radio licence resolution By CasNews Staff Fhree-of-the four resolutions the City of Castlegar-submitted-to-the Association of Kootenay and Boun- dary Municipalities annual general meeting were passed. In-total, 20 resolutions brought to the AKBM meeting in Trail April 26, 27 and 28 were passed and will be taken—to—the Union of B.C. Municipalities annual general meeting in Vancouver in September. The Castlegar resolutions included a request that the federal government Local briefs Transit caters to disabled Fhe City of Castiegar’s transit service for the disabled will have ex- panded hours beginning in August, Mayor Audrey Moore said Tuesday. Moore said she received a letter notifying the city that the service will operate eight hours a day Monday to Friday beginning Aug. 20. The servis Carremnty ‘operates five hours a day. “That will certainly help our people in this area who need that tran- sit service,” Moore said of the expanded service. The city has been lobbying B.C. Transit for the extra -hours to in- crease use of the service. The extra hours will not cost the city more money because of cost savings in other areas of the operation, Moore said. Hotel reports missing painting A watercolor painting that was hanging in a show at the Sandman Inn in Castlegar has been reported missing to the Castlegar RCMP. The painting, 45 centimetres by 60 centimetres (18 inches by 24 in- ches), called-Camp on a Creek, is valued at $340, Trail artist Doolee McDonnell said Tuesday. The painting was reported missing Tuesday and must have been removed from the show sometime between Sunday and Tuesday, police said. Recycling depot set to open at 10 a.m. Saturday. grant at the opening. with paper. ceremony. “The proposal would establish a cost- Sharing formula between the provincia! government and the regional district for the construction ofa permanent recycling depot and the purchase of blue boxes, drop-off boxes and various pieces of needed equipment,” propose to demonstrate how a small city, a village and three rural areas can effectively co-operate to reduce our landfill volume of waste by 75 per cent over a five-year period.”’ Neville said the program focuses on. recycling, composting and waste reduction at source. Michael Jessen the regional-district_recycling co-ordinator, said area househdids, business and schools are already supplying the depot Tours of the recycling depot will take place after the opening. The public is invited to attend the official opening of the Regional District of Central Kootenay’s recycling depot at 519 Front St. in Nelson Nelson Ald. John Nevitte,-chairman-of the refuse-disposal-com~ mission for Nelson, Salmo and electoral areas E, F and G, will present Provincial Secretary Howard Dirks with a proposal for @ demonstration Neville said. ‘‘We be petitioned to continue charging local governments a flat fee for radio licences for emergency services such, as fire departments and police. Municipalities have recently been advised the licence fees will be in- creased and in B.C. it is estimated that the new fee will increase the cost of radio licences from $50,000 to $500,000, the city told the AKBM. “The radios used by municipalities under these licences are to provide fire, police and other emergency ser- vices which are essential to public safety. The increased fees place a heavy tax on these essential public safety services,” the city said. The resolution also asks that a con~ sultation process be started to deter- mine “‘a fair and equitable method of addressing any ‘inequity’ in the system.” ‘The: federal-government_ proposed an increase in 1987 and withdrew the proposal due tolack-of-prior-con~ sultation-with local government, the AKBM was told. Castlegar has also submitted the rddio ‘licence resolution to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities which will hold its an- nual meeting in Quebec City June 3 to 6. ‘Castlegar -also_ submitted two resolutions to the AKBM concerning government funding for People with disabilities. One resolution asks the federal government to review and update its Canada THE HUMAN CATAPULT to the old teeter-totter. Raymond Kitchen, put him at one end of the teeter ‘end, then send him into orbit. Raymond In this cas bout didn’t land on the other side of the fence. y' tudents at the other Costews photo by Ed Milly City to host conference Delegates have started arriving for the 1990 British Columbia Parks and recreation department news release said. disability pension ‘‘to remove the threat of loss of income security to recipients of (the pension) who desire to attempt gainful employment and self-sufficiency.”’ The second resolution asks Victoria to restructure the provisions of the Guaranteed Available Income for Need (GAIN) Act to include all GAIN recipients with disabilities and to provide long-term incentives to self-sufficiency by continuing for as long as the individual remains gain- fully employed. Currently, the GAIN Act allows disabled. recipients. to keep an_ad- ditional 25 per cent of their earnings from employment, over and above the $50 to $100 normally allowed, the city said. However, very few people with disabilities-qualify to-keep-the extra portion of their earnings because) of Court news In Castlegar provincial court tast week, Paul P. Sherbinin pleaded guilty to driving while impaired and was fined $450 and a $50 victim sur- charge or, in default, sentenced to 12 days in jail. Sherbinin is: also prohibited from driving for 12 mon- ths. * *« 8 Walter J. Lebedoff pleaded guilty to failing to stop at a red light and was fined $10. -_ * Michael Edward Anderson pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and was sentenced to six months in jail. Anderson also pleaded guilty to five counts of failing to comply with a court order and two counts of fraudulently obtaining food and lodging and was sentenced to one month in jail on each count, to be ser- ved concurrent to the breaking-and- entering sentence. Steven Gerald Rogers pleaded guilty to possession of stolen property and-was sentenced to eight months in jail. Rogers also pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a court order, and being at large without excuse, and mischief, and was senten- ced to one month in jail on each charge, to be served concurrent to the possession of stolenproperty senten- ce. 2 * * Daryll Neil McNeil was sentenced to a 90-day intermittent jail term for making indecent phone calls. McNeil has been placed on probation until April 1992. “ stringent criteria,"” the city said. A fourth Castlegar resolution con- cerning borrowing money without the electors’ approval to provide buildings or other facilities required for fire and police services, as well as storage, repair and maintenance of public-works equipment, __ad- ministrative office space and ‘‘such other functions as may be defined in the (Municipal) Act as primary municipal services,”” was defeated. “| was rather disappointed in the way they dealt with that,’ Ald. Albert Calderbank said at Tuesday night’s council meeting. Calderbank _ the city simply Pp which begins tomorrow. Chairman of the conference Pat Metge reported that, as of Monday, With coming from British Columbia, the Prairie provinces and the northwest United States, organizers intend to show the the » ethnic there were 375 gistered for the three-day event which is being hosted_by_the Castlegar and District Recreation Department. Over the next three days, delegates will_attend educational sessions, 28 commercial and 16 educational exhibits, attend meetings and take part in a number of social activities, a characteristics and beauty of the Kootenays, the release says. Organizers report one of the main problems facing them is housing all the visitors. as all hotels in Castlegar are filled and delegates have been booked into Rossland and Trail. Delegates from outside the area are having a difficult time visualizing the ease of staying in Rossland or Trail and attending the activities in Castlegar, the recreation department said. The conference headquarters is the Community Complex which will house the exhibits, provide the meals and accommodate most of the general and educational sessions. Other sessions are planned for the Sandman Inn. Organizers hope the entire com- munity géts behind this event and shows real Kootenay hospitality to all the visitors to our community, the department said: Budget continued from front poge The extra $47,000 has been put into the equipment portion of the budget which is-one area that is not being well-funded this year, board chair- man Gordon Turner said. As well, the board has received close to $49,000 for computer equipment, Dascher said. However, the extra money is not enough to cover all the equipment needs in the district, which co (d in- clude replacing desks or repairing typewriters, or requests for computer hardware and software, Dascher said, adding that $20,000 from the equip- mgnt portion of the budget may be put into the computer fund to help cover computer expenses. The budget covers all the services and programs that were run in the district last year and includes i of funds ‘for additional wants pI changed to allow municipalities to expand or improve overcrowded municipal buildings without going to a referen- dum to raise funds to do so. However, ‘ Calderbank said the resolution should have been ‘‘a little clearer.”” staff for the dual-entry ki ten The board has also allocated funds for a French as a second Wayling explained. ile, the board program at Tarrys and a teacher has been hired for a late French immer- sion program that will be offered in the fait at Kinnaird Junior-secondary school, he said. However, Wayling said most of the budget allocations cannot be discussed publicly since about 85 per cent of the budget is set aside for teacher and staff salaries and any an- ticipated increases during contract negotiations. Personnel matters are not discussed in open meetings, there will be 40 fewer students in the district-in- the-falt-but-the-deereased number will not help to alleviate the space shortage in the district, he said. The decrease is expected at SHSS and_the board cannot move students from the overcrowded primary schools into the high school, Wayling said. When the planned renovations to SHSS are complete, Grade 8 students will likely to be moved to the high school, easing some of the space crunch in the lower grades, he added. S Castlegar News SHANNON a 16-year-old Grade 11 student at Salmo ite school, is one of 225 poets whose work has been published in Whispers im the Wind: Vol. VIII. The book, published by Quill Books of Minot, N.D., is a collection of poetry designed to promote and revitalize an interest in poetry and to give recognition to deserving novice poets, a news release said. Shannon, who has been writing poetry for four years, has also been published in several other publications and Was a finalist ina nation-wide writing contest sponsored by TG magazine in March 1989. She is currently enrolled in a college-level correspondence-course in writing from the Institute of Children’s Literature in Redding Ridge, Conn. She is also—starting a writing 12 correspondence course through school. Shannon’s poem published in Whispers is titled Deceptions. MAY IS MOTORCYCLE AWARENESS MON- TH and the third annual display of motorcycles — new and locally owned — will be at the Chahko Mika Mall in Nelson May 10 to 12. Members of the B.C. Coalition of Motorcyclists and local participating dealers will be on hand to provide information about motorcycles, motorcycling issues and local group ac- tivities. In addition to the mall display, a motorcycle safety seminar will be held May 13. Harold Branton, owner-operator of the Trail Driving School and a government-certified motorcycle instructor, will teach the seminar which will include a number of skill- testing parking-lot maneuvres such as maneuvring around pylons, through ropes and figure eights and SHANNON BECK budding poet will end with a group ride. Cost of the seminar is $10 per person and registration will take place during the three-day mall display. YOU'LL NO LONGER have to dig deep in your pockets for loose change to make a phone call — at least if you’re at the Hi Arrow Hotel in Castlegar. That’s where B.C. Tel has installed a credit card- reading pay telephone, one of 22 units the company has installed throughout its Southern Interior service region. Now you can call home or anywhere in the world from the card-reading phones by using a credit card — American Express, Mastercard or Visa, or a B.C. Tel long-distance calling card. DOUGLAS PEREVERZOFF «+ honored at UBC THE CRAFT CONNECTION, a co-operatively owned and run craft and gift store in Nelson, has moved to 441 Baker St. and is now open for business in the Queen Ann building (formerly the Sterling building). A grand opening complete with ribbon-cut- ting ceremony will be held May 10 at noon. The Craft Connection, which first opened in June 1983, continues to offer a variety of work from Kootenay craftspeople. Among the products for sale are weaving, painted silk, stained glass, metal sculp- ture, twig funriture, jewlry, wooden toys, children’s clothes and more. The new store will feature gallery space which will allow other artists to display their work ona rotating basis. DOUGLAS PEREVERZOFF of Castlegar, who is completing his final year in the faculty of phar- maceutical sciences at the University of British Columbia, was presented with the Honorary activities award at a recent graduation banquet. The prestigious award is presented to the student who shows leadership skills, high academic achievement, participates in faculty socials, sports and professional events, and who promotes good spirit and: attitude among the students. During each of the last four years, Pereverzoff has been a class representative on UBC's student council. This year, he was faculty social co-ordinator and valedictorian of the pharmacy graduating class. Last year he was selected as the centenniat schotar; During the summer months in the last three years, Pereverzoff has worked at Carl's Drugs in Castlegar. Coriroy continued from front page criticism of the mill if the expansion project has been put through a system ——part-of-the-new—primary program — and an extension of the severe learning disabilities program which will be moving into SHSS in the fall, superintendent of schools Terry Wayling said. Tourism continued trom front poge wildlife program for ‘‘ecological and Lottery numbers The winning numbers drawn Mon- day in the B.C. Keno lottery were 3, 8, 23, 33, 35, 36, 44 and 56. The winning numbers in Saturday’s Lotto 649 draw were 2, 3, 7, 22, 38 and 48. The bonus number was 21. The four Extra winning numbers for British Columbia on Saturday were 23, 56, 71 and 85. There was no winner of the jackpot prize of $2, 096,211.60. The winning numbers drawn Saturday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 11, 17, 19, 26, 35, 39, 48 and 50. The winning Lotto BC numbers were 8, 15, 17, 19, 34 and 38. These_numbers provided by The > Canadian Press must be considered unofficial. © Kootenay Advertiser © Shop 'N Save * Woolco Not all flyers receive full distributi “ id not receive one of ther would like to do so. pleat our Circulation Department at PI . and enchancement”’ of the Columbia River basin © Work with concerned com- munities to prohibit hunting -and shooting in some areas ‘‘based on public safety, wildlife management and recreation opportunities with a priority given to communities that have presently expressed concern.” The weekend meeting was also a chance for the Kootenay region task forces to give a ‘‘report card’’ on recommendations presented to an Oc- tober 1989 advisory group meeting, Penner said. The Ministry of Regional and Economic Development, B.C. Hydro and forest industry representatives are discussing a natural_resources_task force recommendation concerning wood waste in the region. The discussions involve the development of wood facilities which use wood-waste to generate power. Construction of such facilities would help reduce the excess waste wood in the area and “‘it is anticipated that a number of projects proposing the development of these facilities across the region will be submitted to B.C Hydro later this year when they next review process. Conroy, who works—on tugboats that tow pulp logs down the Arrow Lakes to Celgar, his brother and two brothers-in-law, depend directly or indirectly on Celgar for their livelihood, he said. “*It’s easy to say go ahead and build it,’ he said. ‘‘It’s in my best in- terest.”” However, people expect politicians to support posigions that are right for everyone in the constituency, not in the politician's own interest, Conroy said. “If J can take a position (ad- vocating a thorough review of the ex- pansion project) when the livelihood of my family depends on the mill, then I think that’s the kind of politician people want in the 1990s,”” he said. **How much more on the line can you be?” he asked, referring to his stand on the review. School bus hijacker nets 4-year jail term PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP} — Suson- said Gauthier’s notebook George Stewart. 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Waves swamped the boat but the couple managed to get out and get to shore where for four hours from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. they held on to a rope attached to the boat to keep it from drifting away. Later, they motored across the lake where they felt they would be safer, Noonan said. Noonan praised the efforts of the searchers for the happy ending to the story, singling out Scottie, Dallas and Jill Tait of Scottie’s Marina, conser- vation officers Myles Crawley and Mike Krause, Dahl-Jensen and the Jacobson’s friend Pete Verishine. “Without their effort I don’t think we could have got these people alive and well,’’ Noonan said. dination ct of continued from front poge Kootenay transportation task for- ce, he said. Johnston’s announcement was based on government approval of Projects submitted to her ministry by each of the development regions of the province. Many of the Kootenay projects that will go ahead centre on Highway 3 which has been recognized as a major truck route for interprovincial traffic as well as an important local traffic ar- tery, reports from the Nelson ad- visory group meeting say. Twelve projects will be started in 1990-91, including additional Johnston passing lanes, a bridge-widening Program, and realignment of some —bridge approachés, the reports say. Work will continue on the West Trail approach and on the Slocan Bluffs project on Highway 6 in the Slocan Valley. As well, ferry ser- vice changes will be made on the Arrow Lakes, including the replacement of the Needles ferry. Studies considering _ im- provements to the Kaslo and Nakusp airports will also be un- dertaken, the report says. No specific dates were included in the announcement of the Projects. p from local colleges, provincial ministries, major em- ployers such as Celgar and Cominco, and various workforce and business groups, to consider labor-market needs in ~ area, Penner said. The of as a the sdususlontwask tort task force. In addition, both East Kootenay Community College and Selkirk College are working on new programs and additions to existing programs providing training in the tourism in- dustry, Penner said The college initiatives are based on recommendations that stemmed from a survey which found aspects of tourism that were not covered by urrent programs, he said. New task force recommendations will be reported on at the next ad- visory group meeting to be held in the fall, Penner said. In Memory 1990, at age 87. relatives in the U.S.S.R. Memorial Cemetery. Funeral Chapel. Mikolaj Lewkowicz _Mikolaj Lewkowicz of Castlegar passed away Tuesday, May 8, Mr. Lewkowicz was born Dec. 2, 1902, at Kiev, Russia. He came to Canada with his parents in 1912. He settled in Saskatchewan and while there he worked for the Forest Service ‘and CP Rail, retiring in 1967. He married Helen Kalmakoff in 1945 and she died in 1986. He moved to Castlegar in 1981. As a hobby, Mr. Lewkowicz enjoyed gardening. He is survived by one son, Nick Lewkowich of Castlegar; and step- daughter, Mable Soukeroff of Castlegar; six grandchildren; and many Funeral service will be held at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel on Thursday, May 10 from 10 a.m. until noon. Burial will follow at Park Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar The crime started when three armed teenagers stepped aboard a school bus — it was meant to culminate with them reigning over slaves in a South American fortress. It got no farther than this central British Columbia city. The elaborate international crime Spree was outlined in ‘‘detailed** plans written in a notebook that police found iri a duffle bag carried by George Gauthier, Crown prosecutor John Sutton said in an in- terview Tuesday. Gauthier and two others were arrested Feb. 13 in an abortive escape attempt in a sports car — provided by police — after they had hijacked a school bus. Gauthier, 18, pleaded guilty to several charges arising from the hijacking and was sentenced to four years in prison Monday. His co- defendants, aged 14 and 18, are waiting for their trials. Although the three held 13 high school students and the bus driver hostage for more than two hours, no one was injured. 19 Full Colour Professional CK AG plans how, after the hijacking, the group planned to commit robberies, using the proceeds to buy speedboats and eventually escape to South America. “*It was quite complicated,”’ Sutton said. ‘There were maps and sketches of helicopters.” He said--he—still—doesn’t_ know whether the plans were serious, but noted that they began to go awry when the three did not stop at-a spor- ting goods store to get weapons and supplies, as detailed in the notebook. Instead: the teenagers hijacked the bus using a gun taken from Gauthier’s father’s closet and another one obtained from an acquaintance in exchange for stereo speakers, Sutton said. The first stage of the scheme was to hijack the bus, obtain a sports car and go to the Vanderhoof area, west of Prince George, Sutton said. “From there the plans get fairly strange.”” The plan included killing the hostages if demands were not met, Sutton told provincial court Judge The second stage of the plan was to get their girlfriends, “the only people they would not harm, who would bear their children,’’ Sutton told the court. After spending the summer in the Queen Charlotte Islands, the teenagers planned to buy two military Speed boats, travet-south-atong—the coast, then through the Panama Canal, raise an army on the Amazon River, attack small villages and take slaves. 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