November 27, 1988

RED hubcap ciong Columbia Ave. or 7th Ave. 365-3677 9/94 SATURDAY, November 19, Selkirk College, Soccer Field, pair of ladies navy leather ski gloves. 365-3954

Found

NEAR Chang's Nursery, long-haired ale calico kitten. 365-5908. 9S PPY medium brown young puppy, a}

proximately two months old in Thrums

‘Grea. 399-4295. 394

RED BARON COINS: Buying — Selling

Trading. Located in Lavener Bros

Jewellers, Trail. Best to phone tor an

@ppointment. 368-5828. 52

KEY on pull key chain on Sunday, close

fo 9th Avenue. Owner may identity at

Castlegar News 3/93

CHROME hub cap, found in Thrums area.

Saturday, Nov. 5. 365-7315. 3/93

FOUND items are not charged for. If

you've found something phone the Ac

tion Ad number 365-2212 anytime during business hours. We'll run the ad 3 issues tree of charge

-$hare-a-Ride

WANTED: Ride to and from Nelson (live. in South Slocan), Tuesdays to Fridays, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. 359-7704 3/93

WORK, school trips, weekly shopping. Cut expenses and save money. Get together with your neighbour in our FREE Share-A-Ride column. We'll run your ad 3 issues free of charge. Phone our Action Line 365-2212 76

‘Business Oppor.

ATTENTION ARTISTS AND CRAFTSMEN A Nelson Gift Shop will retail your works on consignment basis. Fred, 352 7557/399-4209 atter 6 p.m 95 FINANCIAL SERVICES CAREER? Your own business? Unlimited income potential? Full training provided. Don't un derestimate your capabilities Reply Box 3105, Castlegar, VIN 3H5 95

TO LEASE

Four mechanical bays opproximately 3000 sq.ft Columbia Avenue North Castlegar

365-6755 or 365-7310 AFTER 5:00 P.M

ESTABLISHED ceiling cleaning business Serving the West Kootenay for the past six years. Owner retiring. Write Ceil Clean, 503 West Innes St., Nelson, B.C vit 352 3/93

ZUCKERBERG ISLAND CHAPEL HOUSE OPEN: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdoy Saturday and Sunday, 9.a.m. : 4 p.m, Hot beverages 7/95 DANCE BANDS and mobile disco Available tor any type of engagement. 1-362-7795

Winter Hours ROSE'S RESTAURANT CLOSED MONDAYS

Tuesday-Friday, 8 o.m.-8 p.m Saturday & Sunday, 9 o.m.-9 p.r

promise publication. Your prayer will be answered no matter how impossible it may seem to be betore the 9th day

RESPONSIBLE Oriental and Canadian ladies (all ages) looking for housekeeping opportunities in ex change for accommodation, companion: ship, new locations, etc. Call 1-604-547 2020 anytime, 7 days a week 7/90 ALCOHOLICS anonymous and Al-Anon. Phone 365-3663. 104/71

LADIES in Orient seek correspondence n. THE FRIENDSHIP A, Calgary, Alta Canada T2H 1X6 11/80 S.W.M. widowed, early 60s, non smoking, light social drinker, physically fit and active, sense of humor enjoys travel, people, walks, bicycle riding golf, cross country skiing, retired wishes to meet slim active woman, 50-62 with means for lasting relationship. Reply to Box 3007Y, Castlegar VIN 3H4 3/93

in Memorian

THE B.C. HEART FOUNDA.ION accepts with gratitude In Memoriam” donations which help promote Heart Research Cards sent to next-ot-kin, Box 3023 Castlegar, B.C 104/81 CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY. In memoriam donations. Information Box 3292, Castlegar. 365-5167 104/15

—_—$—=—$—=—VaXK——EEE__ Job openings enact meneame

Details of these and other job oppor

tunities ore available ot

Conede Employment Centre 835 Spokane Street Phone: 368-5566

required for various J and Castlegar. Wages

are $4.50 per hour.

Insurance %& required. Must own cor, Guaranteed wage is $400 per week. (520)

Experienced Cook required tor Trail restaurant. Applicants will be doing @ variety of cooking from grill to banquets. Wage is $5 to $6 depending on experience. (565)

Program Assistants * pequired iv /Castiegertd work with mentally han dicapped adults in group homes. Must work shiftwork, Wage is $6.95 per hour (871)

A Chet is required for a restaurant in Castlegar. Prefer certified chet or some training. Must have experience running a kitchen. Wage is negotiable. (584)

Forestry Crewperson Trainees are required for a Castlegar-based silviculture project. This is a Federal Job Development Project tor people unem: ployed at least 24 of the past 30 weeks. Women are encouraged to apply

Alarm System Her to install security alarms w tensive ex

erience or training is required. Wage is $10 to $15 per hour de perience

A Trail employer is looking for o Manager for « Millwork Shop. Previous experience in estimating, cost contro! and a ticket in the cabinet making trade is required. (593)

Post Secondary students who are in terested in working as Student Placement Officers during the summer of 1989 are encouraged to apply at the Canada Employment Centre. Deadline is December 9, 1988.

NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSURE

Until further notice Hwy. No. 6 of Slocan Bluffs (Cape Horn) (7 km. Nor th of Slocan City) will be closed to traffic for the following times

Monday through Friday 3'A-Hour Closure 8:30 a.m. - 12 Noon 20 Min. Closures after 12 Noon Weekends 20 Minute Closures

We are sorry for any

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BUT NOW WE GIVE YOU» THE BEST INTEREST!

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Interest

ON ALL REMAINING 1988 MAZDA CARS OR TRUCKS STILL IN OUR INVENTORY!

this may cause.

E.E. HICKS District Highways Manager Nelson

Dear Boys and Girls...

The Castlegar News has agreed to be my helper this year and receive letters from you'to me.

These letters will be published ina special edition on

December 14, in plenty of time for me to read them.

In your BEST handwriting (or printing), write

your letter to Santa and mail it to:

Santa Claus, co/Castiegar News, Box 3007, ee B.C. 3H4

Or, you may drop off your letter at the Castlegar News at 197 Columbia Ave

Be sure it is

dsolr

e it by D ber 7. R boys and girls and mind your parents. I'm starting my list right now.

Love, J Te A

P.S. Be sure to put your name and age at the bottom of your letter

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By SIMON BIRCH Editor

It's almost official.

An announcement is expected Tuesday confirming that Castlegar will receive a GO BC grant of some $700,000 to help pay for the proposed $2.2 million

aquatic centre.

David Richardson of Premier Bill Vander Zalm's office today confirmed the premier and three cabinet ministers will be in Castlegar Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. at the Community Complex to “make an a of

interest to the community.”

Febi 28

ol grant anticipated

“The town can speculate what it’s all about,” Richardson told the Castlegar News. He said Vander Zalm will be accompanied by

Kootenay region.

Tourism Minister Bill Reid, the minister responsible for the GO. BC fund, minister and Howard Dirks, minister of state for the

Rita Johnston, municipal affairs

Ron Ross, president of the Castlegar and District Projects Society which started pitching the aquatic centre earlier this of the grant will be made at Tuesday's

year, said he expects the

sod-turning ceremony.

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“We understand we're getting a grant,” “It's unlikely they'd send cabinet ministers to tell you

you don't get one.”

Ross said jokingly he expects the size of the grant will be determined by the number of ministers who get off the airplane Tuesday morning in Castlegar.

“To be perfectly honest, I don’t know 100 per cent Ross added.

Ross noted that the grant would be the first of any major consequence announced under the Growth and or GO BC program, which was

Union of B.C.

for sure what the amount is,”

Opportunities B.C., introduced at the

ARY\ »»

Ross said.

Municipalities

Castlegar News

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1988

convention at Whistler in September. Acting Mayor Terry Rogers said today he hasn't official announce’ “it looks really positive.”

Over the next 3'/ years, the province will commit $162 million to economic, environmental, recreational and cultural initiatives proposed by municipalities.

In an October referendum, residents of Castlegar and Areas I and J voted 78 per cent in favor of building the aquatic centre,

Castlegar city council recently approved spending $3,500 on site preparation for the facility

mt of the grant. But, he

WEATHERCAST

Cloudy with a few clear periods fonight. Lows b n -2° and 1° Tomorrow will be mainly cloudy with showers or snow showers in the afternoon. Highs near 3°

4 Sections (A, B, C&D)

CARD BURNING .

. . Ferry Users Adhoc Committee member Fern

Allam burns her Social Credit membership card in front of the Robson ferry after the group lost its case in B.C. Supreme Court to have the

INSIDE

Rebels win 6-5

page B1

Contract talks progress

By CasNews Staff Negotiators for the United Steel workers of America and Kootenay Savings Credit Union agreed last

Lottery numbers

numbers drawn toaoae in the ry ye were 7,8, 28, 29 ond 56.

Weavers’ fashions

page A4

kend to call in mediator Vince Ready to help the two sides bargain on a first contract for credit union workers.

“We feel bargaining is well along toward completion," KSCU general manager Doug Stanley told the Castlegar News today. “We feel tremendous progress has been made.”

continued on poge A2

ferry reopened. Joining Allam are (from left) Kari Gorrie, Darlene

Schultz and Rhondeo Sorenson.

CasNews Photo

SEEKS 6.7 PER CENT HIKE

Ferry

users

lose court fight

By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer

Robson residents lost the battle in British Columbia Supreme Court Tuesday to have the Castlegar-Rob- son ferry reopened.

Mr. Justice Allan Stewart dismis- sed an application from the Ferry Users Ad Hoc Committee to order the government to resumé cable ferry service between the two communities.

The committee's lawyer, Terry Dalton, said today he will try to contact Transportation and High ways Minister Neil Vant to discuss the fate of the ferry.

“I would like to see if we can sort this out. without an appeal,” Dalton told the Castlegar News.

Dalton indicated he will then try to contact Premier Bill Vander Zalm if Vant is unavailable.

Dalton argued in the Nelson court room Monday that the government had violated a statute when Stephen Rogers, then highways minister, closed the ferry without warning Dalton maintained that the ferry is

part of a public highway and the Highways Act requires public notice to be given before closing a section of a highway.

But Stewart ruled in favor of the Ministry of Highways, whose lawyer George Copley, argued the ferry is not considered a highway under the act. Stewart stated the ferry was part of the highway system, but not a highway.

“Only an expanded definition of highway could capture the ferry in

he said.

Ferry service was discontinyed April 27 due to unusually low water levels in the Columbia River. Ory May 12, Rogers issued a news release announcing the ferry would pa pa be running because there ar “two alternate routes” available, < }mnec- ting Robson to Castle;

In stating his decision, Stewart acknowledged the public oultrage that followed the ferry closre, saying many people “thought tike government had blundered” in clos- ing the ferry. But, Stewart said he was required to confine his decision

continued on page A2

WKPL asks for increase

By CasNews Staff

West Kootenay Power has applied to the British Columbia Utilities Commission for a 6.7 per cent rate increase to take effect on an interim basis beginning Jan. 1.

Company spokesman Jack Fisher said the commission can grant the increase on an interim basis prior to holding public hearings.

Fisher said WKPL would issue re funds with interest to its customers if the commission decided at a later date that the 6.7 per cent increase is too high.

At this point, no date has been set for the public hearing on the prop- osed increase

Teachers, board continue to meet

By CasNews Staff Castlegar teachers are “in limbo"

working with a contract which expired in June.

A bridging clause within the contract extends it so that teachers are not without a contract while the new one is being drawn up.

Castlegar and District Teachers’ Association president Joyce Adams says progress is going to be very slow in securing a one-year contract.

The CDTA and the Castlegar school board broke off contract talks over the summer and resumed negotiations in September, meeting once or twice a month sinée then. There have been two meetings so far this week

Both sides have agreed not to discuss what goes on at the bar- gaining table to prevent jeopardizing the talks.

“We have an agreement with the board not to go to the press until

JOYCE ADAMS . progress slow things have broken down,” Adams said.

Job security, discipline proce. dures, wages, class size, and prepar- ation time are topics the two sides are discussing.

“It's a whole contract, a brand new system,” Adams explained.

“The company’s last request for rate relief was three years ago,” WKPL President Joe Drennan said in a news release announcing the re quest for the rate increase. “The increase for 1989 is needed primarily to meet additional costs of power

purchases and to pay for necessary capital improvements to our facil. ities.

However, company officials emph asize WKPL’s proposed gas turbine plant in the Okanagan, currently under consideration by the com.

mission, will not have an impact on the application for 1989 rates.

Fisher said WKPL has tradition. ally purchased excess power from B.C. Hydro but always keeps its options open to purchase power elsewhere.

Simon Birch,

named editor of the

College’s journalism program,

editor of the Bodega Ba:

San Francisco.

consider the CasNews to be

Ron and Burt have set."

he grew up.

He replaces Ron Norman who served ab editor of the CasNews for nearly eight years.

“California was an interesting experience but I jumped at the chance to return to the West Kootenay and the Castlegar News,” one of the best community newspapers I have seen and I hope I am up to the challenge of maintaining the high standards

Birch said. “I

Born in Birmingham, England, Birch spent a bhief time as a young child in Shreveport, Louisiana, before moving with his family to Vancouver where

He holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of British Columbia.

During his previous stint with the CasNews, Birch won top prize in the hard news category of MacMillan Bloedel’s annual competition for writers on community newspapers in British Columbia. That same year, he also won first place in the outdoors writing category and third place in photography in the British Columbia-Yukon Community News papers Association's Better Newspapers Compe

n

Birch named CasNews editor

a reporter with the Castlegar News from July 1985 to September 1986, has been twice-weekly newspaper, publisher Burt Campbell announced this week Birch, a graduate of Vancouver Community returns to the CasNews after spending 19 months as managing ignal, a weekly newspaper on the California coast about 100 kilometres north of

SIMON BIRCH glad to be back