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not be used “because I want my life to be private,” said he thinks Powers’ plan is “great,”

He said he gave Powers $2,000 and in 60 days received $4,000 back from Powers.

“I gave her money, she gave me a receipt,” the client said. “When my time was due, she contacted me and I signed another receipt (acknowledg- ing) that I got my money.”

The client said he used the money to pay off his mortgage.

“I was trying to get myself out of debt.”

He said he heard about the plan when he went to see Powers, who had advertised as a psychic.

“I saw her as a psychic and she offered me this opportunity and I went for it,” the client said.

He said he wasn't worried about in- vesting his money in the plan, but added, “My wife figured I was nuts.

“But I had faith in her (Powers).”

Asked if he knows how the plan works, the client said, “Dixie runs the organization and gets rich people to finance it.

“They make a charitable donation to her organization and they get a tax write-off for doing so.

“No one loses in the system and as

“You have to do something to show that you're not taking advantage of people.”

Powers said the people investing in her plan give their money “to me or one of my associates.” The person then gets a “receipt” for their money.

“If you come up with $1,000, that is doubled for you in a short time if you really need it,” Powers said.

“You get your money within 60 or 90 days.”

Powers said “your receipt is your guarantee” that you'll get your money back, adding, “You've got to put a little bit of trust in the world.”

She said the amount of money people invest “depends on -what they want it for.

Meee cee A may need $100 or only $50,” she

“If Sea Gi whet td hlaniy pons devs sail ci With Sete er five 15s and nothing to eat and you go to welfare and they turn you down, you need help,” Powers said.

But she added that the plan is “not

Sterlive services

Marlene Strelive, wife of

*paward Strelive of Glade

passed away April 18 at the age of 35 years.

Funeral service for the late Mrs. Strelive will begin at 7

burial at 1 p.m. in the Glade Cemetery. Mrs. Strelive was born

- Jan. 9, 1961 at Nelson. She

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generally impose a ban on publica- tion of testimony at preliminary hearings.)

Meghan Miller was released Wed- nesday on $12,000 (U.S.) bail, Bloni- gen said. Her husband was released the same day on $5,000 (U.S.) bail.

The Wyoming complaint against the Millers arose when a young man wanting to invest money in the plan consulted his father who is a stock-

police gated and laid the charges, he said. Blonigen noted that the charges did not require money to have changed hands. “The violation we have right now

“We never got a complaint about anyone being taken.”

He explained that the fraud

HEWITT

to fund salary increases for

pope Castlegar and should be funded by local taxpayers.

“T'm not teacher bashing. What I'm saying at this time is I'm asking them

the government's $600 million, three- year Excellence in Education fund.

a dag wll carnal “The fiscal framework provides a

ad ok

he has told boards there is no money in the fiseal framework for 1986 salary increases.

Hewitt said his staff is currently reviewing four submissions for excel- lence funds and that the ministry has received 20 other submissions.

The Castlegar school board has asked for $1.3 million from the fund.

Hewitt candidly admitted that the ee nace oe ae

standard of education. I think it's a high i

“T'm of the opinion that local school boards can live within the fiscal frame- work except for local items.”

However, Hewitt said he “would not want to see” school boards go to the

Education funds differ- ently.

“In hindsight, we could have put $60 million in the fund and $50 million in the fiscal framework,” he said.

The g has bud;

million of the fund for the first year of the three-year program. Hewitt also reepended to 8 question

about B.C. teachers’ Tack of the right to

strike.

B.C. is the only province in Canada where teachers don't have the right to strike and Hewitt has said the rest of the country is “out of step” with B.C.

“We're dealing with a very impor- tant group of people — young people. To have a class or school shut down for two weeks or two months . . . the child would lose a year (of schooling),” the minister said.

“That's a price I wouldn't want to see

He noted that teachers are public servants whose salary is paid by the

provincial economy.

He said teachers differ from other public servants who have the right to strike “because of the field they are in.”

In a strike situation with teachers, Hewitt said, the government is “almost forced into a settlement because of

$110

P to get teachers back to work.”

Court news

In Castlegar provincial court this week, Johnson pleaded guilty to driving with a blood-alcohol count over .08 and was fined $600.

Alexander Findlay pleaded guilty to failure to comply with a court a notice and was fined $100.

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I Glendinni ied guilty to impaired driving and was given a 14-day inter- mittent jail sentence. Glen- dinning also pleaded guilty to refusing to provide a breath sample and was sentenced to GREETINGS . Castl

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provincial organization, given by our

“Ann Stasila is happy with

seven days in jail intermit- the provincial. " tent and consecutive to the tee a; 14-day term.

start of the fair.

Expo Cc government's new Expo lied for the sign which was put up with about a week to spare before the

sign near the Kinnaird Bridge. The commit-

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Staff Writer Striking workers at Shaw Cable

old

and Nelson are taking a more direct action in an attempt to sway the company from its position in the eight-month- strike.

portion of cable fees paid to Shaw since Aug. 13, 1985 —

the first day of the strike.

in Castlegar, Trail

Nelson.

In four day sof circulation the petition had received more then 700 signatures in Trail and an equal number in

CRTC chairman Andre Bureau recently wrote to

The striking members of the International Brother. hood of Electrical Workers began circulating petitions in Trail and Nelson this week and will do the same in Castlegar starting Monday.

Refusal to pay cable bills and complaints about loss of service have not changed Shaw Cable's position in the strike.

The petitions ask the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to hold a public hearing into Shaw Cable's operations. The petition is along the same line as the strikers’ arguments that during the labor dispute cable TV service has not been what was

The IBEW has been on strike against the company over a union shop clause in its contract.

The union says that since Aug. 13, Shaw Cable has not operated its community channels nor returned to its customers the approximately 10 per cent of its cable billing which is reserved for the community channel.

“Shaw Cable has saved considerable money from unpaid wages without reducing subscriber fees, and Shaw Cable's customer service has been inferior both in quality of television service and in response to subscriber complaints,” says the petition.

‘The petition requests that the CRTC review the matter and order a public hearing to determine if Shaw Cable has fulfilled commitments, and requests a substantial rebate to all subscribers of a

Shaw Cable for a second time asking that the company respond to customer complaints about service.

The CRTC has asked Shaw Cable to respond to letters regarding service from Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco, Shaw Nober- ta Taylor and IBEW member Alan McInnes, community program coordinator for Shaw Cable.

McInnes, in his letter to the CRTC, points out that since the beginning of the strike, the West Kootenay has been without community channel service despite the fact that Shaw Cable is capable of operating these channels.

tiie be pelle gr piers cna ee Trail are both capable of of the

Striking workers start petition

By CHERYL CALDERBANK

service to the people of the West Kootenay.

“Coverage of the provincial swim meet (in August) was lost, along with the opportunity to promote this area, as the plans to have the sent to all the community channels in B.C. were abandoned with the closing

says. In the last three years, the annual event has raised more than $80,000 for the centre.

McInnes adds that numerous community groups have expressed their disappointment with wach Cable over its decision to close the community channel

yheon greape aro bnlog denied entess 40 5 eaivics that is being paid for and yet is not being made available,” he said. “Certainly Shaw Cable is in contravention of the

community channels.

McInnes says the regional manager has claimed that Shaw cannot operate the community channels without assistance of the three personnel who are on the picket lines.

“This is a curious statement considering the fact that the two their respe: channels without any assistance for several years before

MeInnes also points out that Shaw Cable, from early in the strike, has severely curtailed customer services by closing its two offices and only providing an “inadequate phone answering service.”

Melnnes also says that Shaw Cable has saved a large amount of money from unpaid wages and benefits during the strike.

“Currently this amount exceeds $233,557 and grows by $8,651 each and every week that the strike drags on,” he says.

ccoased channel thus saving about 10 per cent of the gross revenue and still expecting full payment for less than full services. He says Shaw Cable has also denied a valuable

mally money saved as a result of a management dispute would only be a concern of the company involved,

then I would hope that a windfall of this type would be as great of a concern to the CRTC as it is to the subscribers, residents and elected officials of the West Kootenay.”

McInnes also expresses concern about the loss of money from the “already beleaguered West Kootenay economy.”

He suggests that the money that the company is saving due to the strike may be its incentive for prolonging the strike. He also suggests an inquiry be made to see if the saved money “is going to satisfy the promises made to the people of the West Kootenay or is the money going to line the pockets of Shaw Cable share- holders as excess profit?

“The company has many times said that they expect this to be a long strike, perhaps they have a certain goal in mind as to how much money they want to extract from the West Kootenay?”

McInnes also expresses concern about the federal government's deregulation proposal which would allow cable firms to lize their hs

McInnes says that deregulation would be a bad move since cable companies, in a true sense don't have any real competition, thus creating a monopoly situation.

He says that even increasing competition from satellite dishes, videotapes rentals and VCRs and over-the-air signals aren't “quite the threat that cable companies would have us believe.

MelInnes suggests that the CRTC should either

that cable are indeed a and therefore the performance of cable companies should be monitored on a regular and consistent basis, or open up the marketplace to irue competition and allow other

inerenses on fiscal need and promises of performance,

to compete so that cable companies would have tb offer a better product.

|__ Briefly _|

PROTEST RAID

MONTREAL (CP) — About 150 people de- Ronald

consulate here to protest his country’s air raid on Libya last week.

The crowd chanted anti-American slogans, cheered Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy and waved placards reading “Libya is Not Hollywood” and “Ronald Reagan: Bad Actor, Perfect Killer.”

BOMB KILLS 2

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Authorities in the “black homeland” of Transkei, inside South Africa, where bombings on two consecutive days killed two people and injured six, said Saturday they will bar all outsiders from the funeral of a black nationalist

illa leader.

A bombing killed a 12-year-old black boy and a white man at the Wild Coast hotel and casino complex late Friday night, and injured a white man and black man,

An explosion injured four people Thursday at a government office building in the homeland’s capital, Umtata.

SOVIET VISITORS

VATICAN CITY (REUTER) — Pope John Paul chatted in Russian with Soviet journalists in his chambers Saturday in what a Vatican spokesman called a warm and informal meeting.

The Pope stressed the importance of culture as a factor in world peace.

“Each country has its own culture and works of art, but this culture is also the common heritage of all peoples,” he said. “Peace is also built with human contacts.”

It is only the second time the Polish-born Pope has received a group of Soviet citizens since being elected in 1978.

ARAB HELD

LONDON (AP) — Police wearing bulletproof

vests ringed a high-security lockup in London on Saturday where anti-terrorist detectives questioned an Arab suspected of trying to blow up an Israeli jetliner. Nezar Hindawi, 35, identified by police as a Palestinian, was being held for a second day in connection with an attempt to smuggle a bomb onto an El Al jumbo jet at Heathrow airport Thursday.

The bomb was timed to explode in flight as the jet headed for Tel Aviv with 370 passengers and 18 crew

CEASEFIRE

BEIRUT (AP) — Christian and Moslem militias observed a brief ceasefire to allow the body of a slain American hostage to be borne across the battleline between West and East Beirut, the Lebanese Red Cross said Saturday.

The guns fell silent at midnight Friday night as the hearse carrying librarian Peter Kilburn's body made the five-kilometre trip from the American University Hospital in Moslem West Beirut to Christian East Beirut. Red Cross cars escorted the hearse.

Red Cross spokesmen said U.S. Embassy officials were waiting at Hotel Dieu Hospital in East Beirut when the hearse arrived.

BOMB GOES OFF

TRIPOLI (AP) — Libyan officials said the unexploded bomb from last Tuesday's U.S. air raid on Tripoli blew up Saturday night in a residential district, injuring a man and two boys.

The boys, ages 11 and 13, were playing soccer when they found the bomb in a mound of rubble in the Bin-Ashour district, said the officials. It blew up at about 7 p.m. Tripoli time when the man tried to remove it, they said.

The officials, who insisted on anonymity, said the man lost his right hand and suffeted serious wounds in the chest and left arm. The boys were slightly hurt, the officials said.

SEARCH ENDS

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. (AP) — Remains of each of the seven crew members killed in the January explosion of the U.S. space shuttle Challenger have been recovered, ending a 10-week Atlantic Ocean search for the bodies, NASA announced Saturday.

“Final forensic work and future planning in accordance with family desires is expected to be completed within the next several days and will be announced when appropriate,” said a statement from Rear Admiral Richard Truly, assistant administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administra tion.

The announcement had been expected after the remains of the seventh astronaut, reported as those of Gregory Jarvis, were recovered Tuesday.

ATTACK POSSIBLE

LONDON (AP) — Britain has strengthened the defences of its Gibraltar colony in case of an attack by Libya, the Defence Ministry says.

“The defences have been strengthened but we never discuss operational matters,” said a spokesman who did not permit use of her name, under British official practice.

An attack by air or sea was apparently considered possible in retaliation for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher allowing the uee of U.S. planes based in Britain to bomb Libya on Tuesday.

Board pushes housing

By CasNews Staff

" sathisa Olbige Iecad Coeds Soatale iabiaks Monsing to hurry up with construction of new student residences at the Castlegar campus.

At its meeting Tuesday night, the board voted to write a letter to the housing company urging it to “get on with the Project.”

Western Student construction on May 1 in order to have the

© Signatures by the parties on the lease documents; of the lease

© Tendering the construction drawings.

Western Student Housing says it must also confirm

Castlegar campus would be $200,000 to $250,000 lower required until such a time as the company provides mortgage,”

ready

by September. However, a number of hurdles have stood in the way of the start-up date.

now says that if the jon can start

fficient level of to justify the larger Says Western Student Housing

The company by May 15 Western Student Housing will still be able to accommodate students by Sept. 1. Otherwise, the company is looking at an occupation date of January 1967.

to a letter from.Western Student Housing,

the company still has a number of obstacles to tackle before construetion can begin.

These include:

© Completion of the ieased iand subdivision plan by the surveyor, including tequired approvais from the Depart- ment of Highways and the Regional District of Central Kootenay; *

; of the 1 7 plan, di right-of-way;

© Approval of construction plans by the building inspector;

College bursar Dale Schatz said the college will do its part in pushing for a September date.

“We will be pushing as hard as we can from this end so we can have the lease signed,” Schatz said.

asked how much of the construction work would be done by loeal people, noting the recent concern about local jobs going to out-of-town people. Schatz said Western Student Housing plans to ge “an active partici by the local trades and suppliers in this project.”

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tower close,

Ryback said closing the tower would save the government $200,000 a year in salaries for the five air Ryback added that Transport Minister Don Mazankowski has said that no towers will be closed until; all the 1986 air traffic figures have been compiled.

He indicated there would be no decision on the} towers until early 1987.

Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore said Castlegar council would raise the issue at + eee ee when it meets with

afhurs coe cf che bene roobine Mtbalaak” te Moore

“Asked about the council meeting, Ryback said Ministry of Transport officials who will be in Castlegar are only qualified to discuss plans for the Castlegar airport expansion — not the tower.

The two issues are separate, he added.

WESTAR RUL

continued from front pege prove hydrogen sulphide eet: at the recovery boiler,” the judge said. Enderton added that the Crowa failed to lay “groundwork” to back up the testimony of Celgar technical man- ager Victor Morandini who said 90 per cent of the bivalent sulphur compounds emitted by the Celgar mill is hydrogen sulphide.

ING

“I have no way of knowing on what he based his opinion,” Enderton said of Morandini's testimony

Meanwhile, asked if the ruling will affect Westar Timber's application for variance orders allowing the Celgar mill to exceed its pollution control res. trietions, Sweeney said, “I can't speculate on that.

“It has nothing to do with us. It's up to (the Environment Ministry) to de- cide what to use in making that determination.”

Westar faced a maximum fine of $50,000 on each count if found guilty.

The company was originally charged with 29 counts but the Crown asked for a stay of proceedings on the 29th count because of a lack of evidence.

Vigil three years old

By ANN GODDERIS y marks the third anniversary of the first peace vigil held in Castlegar.

For three years now, rain or shine, snow or ice, resi- dents of Castlegar and dis- trict have met at 6 p.m. on the 22nd of each month outside the Castlegar court- house for a 10-minute silent vigil.

This vigil is an opportunity to come together with others who support non-violent sol-

from peace workers and to find out what actions are underway to promote peace locally or elsewhere.

This Tuesday, participants at the vigil will have an op- portunity to send a message

resolving the conflict and to move Canada into a mediat- ing, peace-making role rather

remaining as a sup- porter of the U.S. position.

In other peace news, the annual Silverton-New Denver peace walk will take place next Sunday on the same day as the massive Vancouver Walk for Peace.

Those taking part wil! start off from the Silverton gallery at 11 a.m., arriving at the New Denver Bosun Hall about an hour later. After lunch there will be speakers and entertainment lasting on into the afternoon.

For those who want to at tend the Vancouver Walk for Peace, bus transportation has been arranged, with tic kets available at Harry's res

Village

A group of local youth will also be travelling to Van- couver for their own Youth for Peace Conference on the Friday prior to the walk.

The Castlegar Peace Group is already laying plans for the Hiroshima Day Com- memoration on Aug. 6 of this year. Anyone wanting to help with this event is very wel come to attend the next Peace Group meeting May 14 at the Castlegar United Ghareh.

The Peace Group recently received some news from the International Youth for

The participants have all returned home now and are keeping in touch with the Tour organizers with news of what has d in their

Jury says killing was self-defence

GENERAL MEETING

home countries.

Many returned home to on-going violence and pov- erty and are finding their lives areal struggle.

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to Prime Minister Mulroney regarding Canada’s role in the Libyan crisis.

A letter has been drafted asking him to take a lead ership role in urging the U.S. to seek alternative ways of

Winning numbers drawn

KAMLOOPS (CP) — Win. ning numbers drawn Wed nesday evening in British Columbia's Pacific Express lottery:

For $100,000: 042543; for $50,000: 344945; for $10,000: 217236.

In the event of a dis crepancy between this list and the official list of winning numbers, the official list will prevail.

Meanwhile, the six win. ning numbers in Wednes- day's Lotto 6-49 draw were 9, 28, 29, 32, 41 and 49. The bonus number was 33.

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