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WEDNESDAY, May 24, 1995 2B

Developer wants to add storey to complex

SUN STAFF

Developers of the new Emerald Green subdivision in south Castlegar want to add to the height of their townhouse

_ complex. The developers plan to con-

units in the first phase.

The zoning for the area is multi-family residential, which allows for only two-storeys to a maximum of nine metres.

However, the developer has asked the city for permission to construct three-story units to a maximum of 12 metres.

The request will go before council at its June 6 meeting.

The city’s planner is recom- mending the change.

Joon Bahk points out that the natural topography of the land }dictates that the buildings all ‘face one direction: east. As well, ‘he said one side of the ground

“floor will be underground. . “As shown on the plans and Yeross-sections, adding one addi-

A new roof goes on the Cozy Pines Motel on Highway 3. The blue metal roof replaced the flat roof and gives the motel a modern look. The motel has also been refurbished inside complete with a new telephone system.

SUN STAFF PHOTO / Ron Norman

‘tional storey would not have any :significant visual impact or cre- _

gate shadow of sunlight to the

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Castlegar council last week gave the green light to the first

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phase of a 32-lot subdivision on Woodland Drive behind Columbia Plaza.

Woodland Drive Estates Ltd. plans to develop 22 single-family lots in the first phase, which is valued at $760,000.

Council also opted to accept $5,500 in cash in lieu of parkland in the new subdivision. Council decided to take the money on the recommendation of its director of development services.

“Due to the topography of this de it is rec ded that council accept the cash in lieu,” said Phil Markin. “There will be land available that is more conducive for parkland dedica- tion once development proceeds to the north.”

Glance

In support of SHSS Dry Grad 1995, Gary Maloney, President of Castlegar Mazda, donated a 1981 Chevy Citation as a prize for the Dry Grad giveaway. Tires for the car were donated by Kal Tire.

Thought of the week Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Building Castlegar

The City of Castlegar reports that 37 building permits were issued in the month of April, bringing the year-to-date value to $6,140,473. This is up from $2,990,565 in 1994. Four new single-family dwellings were started; 21 residential alterations/additions; seven

Subdivision gets go-ahead

Under the Municipal Act, five per cent of the land in any resi- dential subdivision must be dedi- cated as parkland. However, the city has the option of accepting cash in lieu of the land

Council also approved a ser- vicing agreement with the devel- oper and CP Rail. Becqyse the storm and sanitary sewer lines cross a CPR right-of-way, a pipe crossing is required.

“The rental for this pipe cross- ing will be $1,380 per year,” said Markin.

The developer will pay for the rental in the first year, with the city picking up the cost after that.

The city will not be required to pay any of the off site costs of the development, Markin said.

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A number of new titles have been added to the KREDA Busi- ness Resource Library over the past few months.

Some of the titles include:

When Friday Isn't Payday by Randy W. Kirk. This book is divid- ed into the five clear-cut stages of small business development. It will help you whether you're just think- ing about self-employment or you are already in business.

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Accelerating the Process from Idea to Launch by Robert G. Cooper. This book is about prod- uct innovation—more specifical- ly, about how to win in the new product game. The author outlines a new product game plan or pro- cess for bringing new products to market successfully and quickly. The KREDA Business Resource Library is open (free of charge) to all residents of the Central Kootenay. The library is located at 540 Baker Street, in Nelson. There are more than 500 books, audio and videotapes.

ial additi ovations; two institutional government additi ions; one inspection and two iti The com- mercial renovations include: interior renovations to Castlegar Funeral Chapel; a concrete pad behind West's Department Store; interior ren- ovations to the Hi Arrow Hotel; enclosing a deck at 1444 Columbia Ave.; interior renovations to Flower Affairs in the Columbia Plaza; renovations to Central Rentals where Cohoe Insurance has retumed after the fire; and a new sign at Castlegar Business Services. The institutional government additions were: storage shed behind Stanley Humphries Secondary School and a storage shed on Zuckerberg Island.

New business i Barry Dumont has stared Dumont Construction: He is. originally from Vernon and has his inter-provincial Carpenter's ticket.

Lending a hand

Two local business people have recently lent a helping hand to local residents. Kelly Laatsch of Columbia River Outfitters provided a tour at a much-reduced rate for residents at Castleview Care Centre and Rod Zavaduk of Castlegar Sports Centre and Fly Fishing Shop supplied the equipment below cost. Well done!

Renovating

Cozy Pines Motel on Highway 3 has recently renovated its rooms and is updating the motel to a metal truss roof. The new owners, John and Hanna Traynor are also installing a new telephone sys- tem.

Real estate facts and figures

According to the Kootenay Business Journal, Castlegar has the largest number of subdivisions and has the most number of poten- tialnew homes in the East and West Kootenays. On the books are Emerald Green (150 homes) with site work being done; Riverbend (100 homes) in the pre-approval stages; Woodland Drive estates (32) in the engineering stages.

New faces .

Fern Wilson is the new floral designer at Tulips Floral Co. Fern is most recently from Prince George and looks forward to meeting and working with Tulip’s customers. Welcome Fern!

New businesses

The City of Castlegar reports that 18 new business licenses were issue in April bringing the year-to-date total to 506. This is up from 488 at this time last year. Six of the new businesses are Castlegar- based contractors including: District Electrical Services, an electrical contractor; Merry Creek Ent., a home-repairs contractor; Kabatoff Sand and Gravel, a sand and gravel hauling company; J.G. Plumbing and Heating, a ing and heating Colville and Sons Roofing, a roofing contractor, and John Anderson, a home-repairs

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The Kootenay Business Journal reports that commercial lease rates for downtown and malls (plazas) in the East and West Kootenays are the lowest in Castlegar. Downtown leases per square foot average $7.50 - $9; and in the plazas it's $11-$13. Our industrial rates at $6 per square foot are in the middle. No wonder businesses are moving here!

More new busineses

The City of Castlegar reports that the following businesses have taken out business licenses. Welcome: Firesafe Prevention Services, a chimney cleaning/inspect ingui T's to Z's Restorations, a mobile repairs to heavy duty equipment ser vice; B'Dors, a retail shoe store; Coffee Time, a mobile truck selling coffee and sandwiches; Sensuous Hair’n Flair, a beauty salon, Kootenay Wood'n Things, a home-based hobby sales of made to order woodwork; and Pat's Great Seafood Co. of North Vancouver, a seafood sales mobile vendor.

Curtis Verigin, RMT, is moving his practice from downtown Castle- gar to soot Castlegar on May 29. Watch this space for more details next wee

More new business.

The City of Castlegar reports that several out-of-town contractors have taken out business licenses. Welcome: Ac-Tec Paving Ltd., 4 general contractor; Kootenay Cutting and Coring an asphalt and concrete cutting company from Nelson; Gagain Ent. (1994) Inc. 4 home building contractor from Surrey and; Prominence Develop- ment Group Inc. a building contractor/site supervisor from Kelowna.

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1 The Castlegar Sun WEDNESDAY, May 24, 1995

The mystery of a lost people

Ancient.cliff dwellings adventure of the soul

If you're a snowbird, you won't get to see it. You could travel there quite easily from Denver or Phoenix or Albu- "querque. But in wintertime; it's closed because of the heavy

However, in late spring or early fall, you could still expe-

yon. Recently, a friend and I trav- eled to New Mexico on a literary and cultural tour. Our first desti- nation took us northeast of Albu- querque to what is called the “four corners” area of the South- west. Here, Mesa Verde exists in Col j up against the borders of Ari- zona, Utah, and New Mexico. After leaving Durango and Cortez, Colorado, we came upon the mesa bluffs which loomed large, almost as if they'd come out to meet us. The road we followed up to the mesa itself wound in and out and around for 20 kilometres. ‘We slid around bluffs, we crossed minor canyons, and we ascended one level after another, always moving into thin air higher and

Finally,

impressive lodge

looks out over an

array of mesas which cascade to the. south out aver Ute Indian land. And far-off, Ship Rock, a national mountain monument more than 80 kilometres away in Nahavo country, shimmered on the air waves,

But the view was not why we came. We came because we'd heard the cliff dwellings were spectacular.

Our first visit was to Cliff Palace, the largest cliff dwelling in North America and best preserved of the sites at Mesa Verde. Here, we climbed down off the mesa rim to an overlook rock and wait- ed for our ranger guide. Far below, we could see the ancient pueblo with its towers and kivas (circular ceremonial huts) tucked into an alcove in the rock. Perhaps 200 to 500 people once lived in these sandstone brick dwellings.

Later, as we were guided onto the edge of the pueblo itself, we began to wonder why a civiliza- tion would choose to live there. Apparently, these Indians grew corn and beans on the mesa

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above and supplied food through trade to numerous tribes for hun- dreds of miles around. Over- crowding on the mesa above and the need for all the land on the mesa-top to be used to grow crops drove the Indians to build in these useless, out- of-the-way spots.

Who were these people who built in the cliffs? They were called the Anasazi, the ancient ones, but they no longer exist there or elsewhere. For nearly a thousand years they survived on the mesa top growing their crops and developing their culture. Then about 1200 A. D., they began moving their villages brick by brick off the"mesa tops and into these niches in the cliffs.

It must have been quite a feat as the trails down into these alcoves are narrow, twisting, and steep. Perhaps they needed to pro- tect themselves from marauding bands. Here in the cliffs both the Anasazi and their stores of sup- plies were nearly i

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never returned.

What is most remarkable is that they left blankets and pottery in their homes—as if they planned to retum. Where did they go? Why is there no record of them? Why are there no stories among other tribes about drifters coming south into Mexico and blending with other groups?

We managed to view several other cliff dwellings in the imme- diate area—most notably Spruce Tree House, which was hot quite as large a site, probably home to about 100 people. In all, there were about 600 different dwelling sites lodged into the cliffs in the several canyons slicing through and running off to the south from Mesa Verde. Several of these were visible from the driving trail along the mesa top.

What is also astounding is that after the Anasazi left, their homes

ined i—with only

an i squirrel and a few

But something 4: hap- pened in the 13th Century. A period of drought hit the farming tribal lands of the . It

birds to break the silence—for over 500 years. Imagine these

lasted off and on for 75 years. It is believed the Anasazi left their homes in the cliffs and headed elsewhere about 1276 A.D. They

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sites pearing from the con- sciousness of people and literally off any mind-map for 500 years—

almost like a lost Atlantis.

In 1888, ranchers Richard Wetherill and Charlie Mason from Mancos Valley to the east were riding across, the mesa top looking for stray cattle. At the edge of the pinyon and juniper forest lay a huge canyon. Imagine their thoughts as they looked through the blowing snow and distinguished something in the cliffs which looked like a magnif- icent lost city.

For several years, they and other ranchers explored the sites, dug in the ruins, and gathered artifacts. Word got out to the world at large and within 20 years all of the Mesa Verde sites were desecrated.

Finally, in 1906, the U. S. gov- emmoent declared the site a nation- al monument and acted to protect it. However, it was not until 1909 that the Smithsonian Institute began archaeological studies.

Mesa Verde with its cliff dwellings is the most scenic and cultural spot I have ever visited. It is not a Disney- land extravaganza; it is an adven- ture of the soul.

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