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STLEGAR NEWS

Distributed Bright and Early Every Thursday Morning at “lhe Crossroads of the Kootenays”

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CASTLEG AL BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY AUSUEETS 31, 1978

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Castlegar-Salmo Link Paving Well Underway

Paving for Castlegar's highway link with Salmo is well underway, according to Ross- land-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy.

D'Arcy told the Castlegar News grading and gravelling of the 16-mile stretch of highway

bia Bithulithie Ltd. of Van-

, couver began laying asphalt on

two new bridges on the high- way two weeks age

The Rossland Trail MLA said the paving firm started pouring asphalt on the recehtly-

has been leted and Colum-

d bridge at

Highway’s Completion May Increase Hazard

Completion of Castlegar's. highway link with Salmo next month could increase the safety hazard to school children cross- ing Highway 3, according to the

city’s works and services com- mittee chairman. Ald. Albert Calderbank, recommending the highways {Cont'd. Pg. A2, Col. 6)

Siding Aug. 17 and started pouring at the Beaver Creek bridge Friday.

(Columbia Bithulithic crews, working at the Ootischenia end of the highway, were visible from Castlegar Airport Tues- day.)

He said the. highway is expected to be completed by Sept. 15, about three weeks past the original Aug. 26 com- pletion date.

He said one of the causes of the delay would be the up- coming Labor Day weekend. The interruption of work on the highway during that statutory holiday will mean the loss of four to five days’ work, he said.

Mayor Cites Need for Local Solid Waste Recycling Plant

The city should give “serious consideration” to for- mation of a recycling plan for its solid wastes, according. to Mayor Audrey Moore.

Reporting last Tuesday on a Nelson Energy Conservation Centre presentation at the Regional District of Central Kootenay board's latest meet- ing, Moore said recycling would reduce strain on the Ooti- schenia refuse operation, in which the city and Area H, I and J participate.

Although the presentation

proposed a system for only those areas participating in the ‘overall RDCK garbage func- tion, she described it as “com- prehensive and detailed" and referred it to council's health and welfare committee for study. “I think this is a matter that this city, should be looking at very soon,” said Moore, who represerits Castlegar on the RDCK board. “I have di

think it would certainly extend the life of the site if we did this.”

“We have the room there and possibly a reasonably good setup to begin separation and collection,” the mayor said. “I think we would certainly have , to educate the public to accept recycling as a way of limiting our wasteful habits, but I believe we should be giving it

this whole subject with the management committee of the Ootischenia refuse site and we

very serious Under the system pro- posed to RDCK directors last (Cont'd. Pg. A2, Col. 5)

RDCK Seeking Loopholes In Function Restrictions

«-».-Regional, District of .Cen- tral Kootenay directors have asked their administrator to look for some way around the

voters’ toradopt or. drop one’ of.:

their current functions by re- ferendum, he said. The result- ing freedom. of the.areas to

ge their participation ‘in an industrial development function,

In response to a municipal affairs ministry spokesman’s letter confirming that under subsections 42 and 4b of the Municipal Act regional district electoral areas are not allowed participation in functions cost- ing more than three tax mills, the RDCK board last Saturday instructed Reid Henderson to prepare & report suggesting ways in which the region could assume the industrial develop- ment function. available on a declining cost-sharing basis.

Contacted this week, Hen- derson said the main reason the RDCK does not qualify for the function is that Areas A, B, C and K have already reached their three-mill limit. :

One way of evading the Act's restrictions would be asking the electoral areas’

‘Te'another function could ‘help the RDCK meet. ministry requirements, he said.

Municipal members of the + RDCK are exempt from the three-mill . limit, Henderson said. He said Areas B and F are within .9 mills of the limit while Areas D, G; I and H still have one mill free.

Fire Protection Topic Of Sept. 28 Meeting

Establishment of a volun- teer fire department for the Robson area will be di d

He said a recently-circu- lated petition proposing a fall on fire pi i

in a public meeting at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28 in Robson Hall, resi- dent Cliffe Churches said yes- terday.

Churches, chairman of the five-man committee set. up to seek adequate fire protection for the area between Brilliant Elementary School and the Keenleyside dam, reported the meeting will allow committee members to present the find- ings of their investigations and provide a forum for residents.

Five-Year Cycle of Decline

Fewer Local Students This Fall

An estimated 2,933 stu- dents will be at their desks after School District No. 9

classroom with the 200 stu- dents per elementary class- room.

District is ex-

open the local director of supervision said this week.

Tom Good said the figure represents a drop of about 55 from attendance at local schools at the same time last year, and is consistent with the “slow but steady decline” in attendance over the last four to five years.

Citing “ballpark” figures, he said the decline is illustrated by the difference in the ratio of 250 students per secondary

OOTISCHENIA SCHOOL

pected to “level out" by around 1982, he said.

In other school district news, secretary-treasurer John Dascher this week said the school board will meet with its unionized employees Tuesday for a second round of negotia- tions for next year's contract.

The lockout notice School District No. 9 and other mem- bers of the West Kootenay Educational Employers Asso-

mentary School

receivd “extremely overwhelm- ing” support from the com- munity.

‘Let the Experts Decide’

fas

broken when Cheryl swam

FIVE GOLD MEDALS nave been won by champlon swimmer Cheryl shown here arriving home Monday after- noon after three Intense days of competition at the Canada Games for the Physically Handicapped in St. John’s, first day of competition she broke the national record In the 100 metre backstroke with a time of 1.44 and set the world record in the 100 metre breaststroke with 2.24. On the second day another natlonal record was

Nfld. O1

Kristlansen, .

shown in

with the time of 2.09. She also made a new world record of 4.13 in the 200 metre Individual medley. There will be no Brazil- fan games for sien Her mother Evelyn,

fold the Ci

in her

100 metre

freestyle in 1.35, savan seconds short of the world record. On the final day, Cherly, who had besn practicing the 50 metre butterfly, found she was to swim the 100 metre butterfly, breaking another national record

and of July 1979 In England. —CasNewsFoto by Bill Turner

By RYON GUEDES sNews Editor

‘We're not the water experts.’

That was CanCel senior vice-president Roy Murphy’s response yesterday to Ald. Len Embree's charge last week that the company has avoided the active role it had promised to take with the provincial government over the city's proposed Arrow Lakes

water supply. ig Embree's

." Murphy said

phy Cantal supports Castlegar's proposed tie-in to the company water line, but contends its feasibility in comparison with the Selkirk College aquifer tested in early June by the environment ministry is a matter concerning only the city and the provincial

government.

“We sent the city a very definitive proposal saying the tie-in to our water system is the way to go,” he said. “We said that in our opinion that this is the most viable way to provide the city with a source of clean

water at a damned reasonable price.”

The senior vice-president said company solicitor Roger. Duncan informed city solicitor, Galt Wilson in an Aug. 3 letter,

(Cont'd. Pg. A2, Col.'6) ~

Tax, Fee Collection Nearing Completion

Nearly all 1978 city taxes and water and sewer users’ fees have been collected, Ald. Ger- ald Rust said last week.’

Rust, reporting as city council's finance committee chairman on city revenues, told council members last Tuesday the city collected 97 per cent of its taxes and 93 per cent of the water and sewer users’ fees by July 31,

Commenting further on city revenues, he said $270,000 in provincial grants is still outstanding for the city's RCMP service contract and water and sewage debt charges.

“The ministry of municipal affairs has been contacted and these funds are expected short-

ly," he said.

Rust said. operating .ex- penditures in all departments “are in line with 1978 budget. estimates.”

Although little expendi- ture has yet taken place on storm drain and paving pro-

Private Pools Cut Into City's Business

An increased number of private pools in the city is among the probable causes of a recent drop in | attendance at the Bob B:

jects included in the capital works budget, he said, a con-. siderable number of projects have been budgetted for and will proceed “quite shortly.” *

« RHETORIC: What you've been spared for the last two months.

Page BO e RADIATION: Negligible in the China Creek water- . shed, according tofindings released by MP Bob Bris- co. Page B1 «@ REMINDER: The reason for the long weekend. Page BS

AnnLanders ... Page Ab BiliSmiley .... Page B2 Classified Ads, Real Estate, and Automotive. . .

Pages Al2-A13-AM4-A15 Editorial

Sports .... Telenews ...

Pages A6-A7 Pages B3-BA

|. the city's finance com-

City Honors First Elected Mayor

Mosby Plaque Unveiled

The City of Castlegar will

honor the memory of its first

elected mayor in a ceremony outside city hall at 4:15 p.m. today.

A plaque bearing the likeness of the late Edgar H. Mosby, who served as the city's mayor from spring 1974 to late 1976 and died in March 1977, will be unveiled at the ceremony.

ciation served on members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees July 19 ‘is effective until early October, despite the completion of initial contract: negotiations earlier this month, Appointments of subject and department heads in the district's two secondary schools gained approval by local schoo! trustees meeting last week. Department heads for Stanley Humphries Secondary School are: Bob Faulkner, busi- ness education; Cheryl Bono- wicz, community services; Jim Crawford, counselling services;

recelved showers and

new look with the ation of am racy room, a classroom, library and medical room. It Is the only mejor bullding project In Scheel District No. 9 while Kinnaird Ele-

change room and Valley V! Janitor room and medical room

the opening of schoo! see the above

—CasNewsFoto b:

enlarged Its For more on

tory. y Bill Turner

Jack Closky, English, Al Bigs.

Rec Survey Aimed At 800 Residents

About 800 area residents will be the eventual targets of a city recreation questionnaire scheduled for completion last week, according to city coun- cil's parks and recreation com- mittee chairman,

Ald. Jim Gouk, reporting last Tuesday on his committee's progress in development of a five: ryear, $8,000 master plan

of

by,

toshi Uchida, ee ues Verna Chernoff, physical edu- cation; Norman Sather, science; Doug Carter, social studies.

Subject chairmen at Kin-

eet in Castlegar and out- lying areas, told city council the first draft of the questionnaire would be presented “this week” to his committee for examina- tion before it is distributed to a

naird Junior S dary School are: Bill Sang, English; John Orr, mathematics; Al Shep- pard, social studies; Doug Mat- thews, science.

cros of in its final form. Gouk' said Ken

provided with population and projected program statistics as well as the plan's financial synopsis. Regional recreation director Pat Metge will provide the committee with a commu- nity resource and facility list, he said.

“Mr. Smith will also be in town shortly to prepare our questionnaire canvassers for just what they'll be doing while conducting the survey,” Gouk said. “And at that time we'll develop a fairly accurate sched- ule as to exactly how the pro- gram will be carried out.”

The committee will contact a number of residents to assist ona volunteer basis in survey

il and data i

mittee hai said last week. Ina report on city finances for the period ending July 31, Ald. Gerald Rust said all mis- cellaneous revenues, with the exception of swimming - pool receipts, were “on target.” He named the growth of the number of private Poole | in

CLOUDY this morning with sunshine this afternoon. The Labor Day-weekend will be

dominantly sunny with highs of 19° to 24° and lows of 7° to 10°,

the city—an if o— along with recent poor wathee as possible reasons for the decline.

For convenient home delivery | of the Castlegar News, call 365-7266.

Relaxing

week, on Thursday morning.

deadlines will be in effect:

Smith, hired to draw up the master plan, has already been

Man's best friend may be more expensive for Castlegar residents to keep —or lose—next year.

City council last Tues- day instructed city staff to consider a possible readjust- ment in current dog licence fees in 1979.

Citing an expected $1,500 increase in the cost of boarding, euthanasia, and disposal of impounded ani- mals, Ald, Gerald Rust said DS,

Council Eyeing 1979 Dog Tag Fee Hike

the expense should be pass- ed on to the dog owners.

Contacted this week, city clerk. Barry Baldigara said that $6,600 had been budgetted for animal con- trol in 1978 but licence revenues amounted to only $4,000.

The additional $1,500 cost would result in a net expense of $4,100 to the city if licence revenues are not increased, he said.

for the aiuestionnalte in its final form, he said.

June 17 Fire Report Still Under Wraps

Release of the report on

the June 17 fire which caused *

over $6 million damage to CanCel's main and smallwood mills here has been delayed once more for further scrutiny, a spokesman for the provincial fire marshal's office said this week,

Investigations supervisor Al Johnston told the Castlegar News final examination of the report's findings had not yet been completed and would delay release of the report at least until next week.

Monday,

Publishing Thursday

The Castlegar News will publish on its usual day next

However, because Monday is a legal holiday and our employees will not be working that day, the following

Deadline is 3 p.m. today for advertisers who normally provide us with their advertising copy on Fridays.

Real Estate Advertising: 12 noon Friday. and Sports Pages: 5 p.m. Friday. CanCei Bulletin Board: 5 p.m. Friday. News and Photos: 11 a.m. Tuesday. Display Advertising: 12 noon Tuesday. Classified/Want Ads: 10 a.m, Wednesday.

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The co-operation of our advertisers and readers is requested so that we can publish next Thursday morning rather than delaying the paper until Friday.

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