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Keenleyside project not ‘abandoned’

By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer

Despite reports that B.C. Hydro is cancelling power projects, a Hydro spokesman and Mayor Audrey Moore maintain that the $800-million plan to install turbines in the Hugh Keenleyside dam north of Castlegar is still a

viable project.

“Hugh Keenleyside has definitely not been aban- doned,’’ Peter McMullen, manager of corporate com- munications, said Thursday in an interview with the

Castlegar News.

And Moore is equally confident about the life of the project, saying she still expects construction to begin in line with the wind down of Ceigar Pulp Co.'s nization and expansion project which is awaiting ap-

proval from the federal government.

She said she has two reports from B.C. Hydro and has spoken with Hydro officials which confirm that the

commitment to try

Project will be completed and that the Crown utility's

to keep the project in line with the

Ceigar project is still in place. The purpose of the project is to install turbines to

convert the dam into a source of hydroelectric power.

number of studies

along with the Site moder-

McMullen said an: engineering program with a

associated with it has been com-

pleted and that the project will be shelf-ready in March. “Then what we'll do is we'll take that project,

C project, and have them available

for when we need them."’

hat alth the project is not

ul in B.C. Hydro’s 10-year-plan, that does not mean that

construction will be delayed for 10 years. He said Hydro plans refer to the resources it has readily demand and projected growth of the province’s needs.

With construction expected to take five to seven years to complete, both Moore and McMullen say that excluding the Hugh Keenleyside dam in the 10-year plan is not a threat to the life of that project.

Changes in the past few years to B.C. Hydro’s ap- proach to power resources have reduced the company’s need to expand its resources through building major power projects. Now, McMullen said, the company looks first at the most cost-effective ways of pi power, which includes buying it from private

large projects, we won't,"’ he said. *‘We'll use up all

+++ Which are more cost ef-

fective."

McMullen said.

shelf.

However because ‘‘the world is always changing,” B.C. Hydro has started to give its 10-year plans major reviews every two years, as well as quarterly reviews,

Reports in’ Vancouver's two daily newspapers last week said B.C. Hydro will let its megaprojects sit on the

ing it ol

and

A story in Tuesday’s Vancouver Sun said Hydro’s A ‘ fai

Chris

owerSmart. “Until we have to get back into building really

such as

and newly i of resource management, Ken Epp, said Hydro will leave the controversial Site provements to-the Keenleyside dam.

C dam unbuilt and delay im-

Blaze hig need for fire protection

By DONNA ZUBER ‘Staff Writer

Residents of Ootischenia got a reminder of the need for fire protec- tion last week after a fire gutted a home Tuesday night and left a man homeless.

Last August, residents of Ootischenia, Paulson Highway and Arrow Lakes Drive regions voted 91.8 per cent in favor of raising

taxes to fire

hlights

Society which was used to get the proposal to referendum.

As well, the commission already has possession of a tanker truck. However, it was not ready to be used, and won't be until the com- mission finds a warm place to store ite “~The only real delay to date has been the tenders, which came in for the Dec. 20 deadline well over what the for,

protection services for those portions of Area J.

“*The plans are going full speed,"’ said Larry Bosse, chairman of the fire protection commission, which was organized to get the services in place. ‘The (pumper) truck will be ready to pick up next week, ironically.”

He said nothing different could have been done to ensure the services were in place in time to fight the fire Tuesday.

“The regional district (of Central Kootenay), in fact, said we were way ahead of what they had an- ticipated."

He estimates the services will be up and running by June 1, about nine months after the referendum and at least nine months earlier than the RDCK had anticipated, he said.

Since the referendum in August, the commission has been busy buying equipment, training volun- teers, reviewing tenders for construc- tion; organizing a lease with the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ for the site of the firehall, and getting that site rezoned and taken out of the agricultural land reserve, Bosse said.

Funding is in place he said, with a $160,000 loan negotiated by the regional district through — the

i finance rity, a com-

had Bosse said, adding that construction will- be going back to tender with reduced specifications.

Meanwhile, Larry Dow, the oc- cupant of the gutted house, has lost everything and Mark Schicker, the owner of the house Dow was renting, is out about $40,000 worth of con- tents.

Dow said when he came home af- ter getting a call at work, the fire was already on the roof.

“I stayed for about 15 minutes, but I wasn’t going to stand around and watch my place burn, so I went back to work."’

With no insurance to cover his belongings, Dow, 42, is just trying to keep a positive attitude and take things one day at a time, he said.

He said losing his belongings is hard, particularly his carpenter's tools, but that losing his independen- ce is even harder.

“I've always been very indepen- dent,”’ he said. ‘Plans for me are always unplanned."’

Dow has been staying with a brother since the fire and friends have'offered their home to him while they're away on holidays. He said he’s “in awe’’ of all the support he's received — from the 35 to-40 people who gathered at the fire, to his friends at Oglow'’s Paint and ing who have set up a

mittment from the GO B.C. lottery fund for $0 per cent, and a donation from the Doukhobor Historical

donation box for him. “I really appreciate it,"’ please see BLAZE page A}

he said.

Unemployment rate declines

residential streets.

By SIMON BIRCH Editor

You may not believe this if you've just shovelled out your driveway for what seems like the 100th time, but all this snow is just about normal for Castlegar.

‘What makes it seem like a lot of snow perhaps is the fact that

SCRAPING UP THE SNOW

temperatures have been colder than normal and none of the snow which has fallen recently has melted, said Jim Richards of Environment Canada's southeastern interior weather of- fice at the Castlegar Airport.

So far this winter, the weather office has recorded. around 120 centimetres of snow. "

Chuck Moser of the City of Castlegar takes a second turn around the block Thursday as he clears excess snow off

CosNews photo by Donne Zuber

Hard to believe: it's normal

total was 74 centimetres — nor- mal is 73.2 — and January's totals are also normal so far, Richards said Friday.

And Castlegar has a long way to go to beat the snowiest winter on record — 1968-69 — when the weather office recorded 490.5 centimetres of snow.

to work crews who are con- tinuing to work two shifts and some overtime removing snow from city streets.

“*We're coping with it so far,” said Kenn Hample, the city’s director of engineering and public works.

That may be some

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Traffic plan steered by chamber

By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer

reason, we want to get as much community input as we can.""

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A short-term solutions to relieve traffic

The were first made public at a Castlegar city

Jim Pilla, a long-time Castlegar resident, said his greatest. concern with the proposal is that it doesn’t include installing a left-turn only signal at 18th Street and Columbia Avenue.

He said he finds that intersection to be the most frustrating and the worst for accidents because drivers are either too cautious or too reckless.

Hample said changes to that inter- section aren't included because it does not hamper the flow of traffic as it is now. However, Pilla’s com- ments were recorded and will be con- sidered when the city reviews all the public input it receives.

Another concern, voiced by resident and businessman Jack Fowlie, is the elimination of the passing lane on Sherbiko Hill and the installation of traffic signals at the bottom of that hill at the 10th Street intersection.

The -city is proposing to make Columbia Avenue a three-lane road with the centre lane used as a. left- turn lane by drivers travelling in both directions. The centre lane could also be used as a. ‘“'storage’’ lane by Grivers turning on to Columbia Avenue.

But that means the passing lane on Sherbiko Hill would be eliminated. please see TRAFFIC page AS