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Home Support Week underway

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National Home Support Week kicked off early for the Castlegar and District Home Support Services Association with an employee appreciation dinner Wednesday night.

Patti Richards, office man-

ager for the Home Support of- fice in Castlegar, said the din- ner was in recognition of the ongoing support provided by the 55 workers, six adminii trators and 10 volunteers serv- ing the area of the Castlegar school district.

Home Support Week offi- cially runs from Oct. 20-26. Richards said a number of staff at the Castlegar office are planning to attend confer- ences in Vancouver, so they de- cided to have the dinner early.

The Castlegar and District Home Support Services Asso- ciation has been providing home care in the area since 1974.

The workers help elderly, handicappéd or injured people who live at home but are un- able to care for themselves in

some way. :

“They're assessed on an in- dividual basis,” Richards said. Some people require as much

as six or seven hours of help every day, while others only need one hour of aid every oth- er week, she said.

“It varies from person to

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Richards said patients are referred to the group through doctors, » friends, or through the Min-

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She said that although the service is being well-used, it doesn't look to be expanding.

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News photo by Thomas Bink

Waiting game: independent candidate Chirs D'Arcy waits with nervous anticipation as he listens for incoming poll results Thursday night. D'Arcy surrendered his seat as MLA of the Rossland-Trail riding to Ed Conroy.

Streak

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In May, 1990, D’Arcy lost to Ed Conroy in a nomination conven- tion for the riding. He announced his intention of running as an in- dependent candidate soon after the provincial election was an- nounced on Sept. 20.

“I hope we have a good govern- ment over the next three to five years,” D’Arcy said Thursday. “The public clearly showed tonight that they wanted a New Democrat MLA and a New Democrat gov- ernment.”

D'Arcy was criticized through- out the campaign for his links to staunch Socred and Bill Vander Zalm supporter Iris Bakken and the endorsement of him by the Liberal party.

“We're all human,” D’Arcy said. “Every contract is a new one.”

D’Arcy’s wife, Andrea, said the family plans to take some time off before making a decision on the fu- ture. She said they might move to Victoria, and hinted that D’Arcy’s career in politics may continue.

“Chris has a lot of optiens,” Mrs.

D’Arcy said, “and a lot of them are in Victoria.”

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She said D’Arcy would make a good deputy minister or adviser.

“He could bring a lot of wisdom to the New Democrats, most of whom are extremely young,” she said.

Mrs. D’Arcy said the district’s new MLA, Ed Conroy, has some big shoes left by D’Arcy to fill.

“I hope Ed lives up to Chris’s reputation,” she said.

D’Arcy would not comment on his political future.

Proposed parking fee upsets neighboring

Thomas Bink NEWS REPORTER

A proposed $25 parking fee by the owner of the new Castlegar Foods store on Columbia Avenue has employees of neighboring shops upset.

“There's very limited space in the area for parking,” said Bonnie

Loose Hair Design. “We feel the $25 a month is way too much.” Castlegar Foods, formerly the Super-Valu store, is expected to open soon. The store's owner, David Lloyd, said Thursday that

ing problem for those who do not

use the supermarkets parking lot.

“I would rather park two blocks away than pay the $25,” she said. But she added that parking far away could be a problem in the winter. It’s just an unnecessary problem I have to think about in the morning and it’s frustrating,”

she said.

The parking problem mostly af-

fects Cut n’ Loose and a Red Cross

regional office, in a building owned by Stan Partridge.

Tom Oglow, owner of Oglow’s

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parking in a gravel lot across the street for tenants in its building. parking around this part of town,” Oglow said. “Our tenants can park across the street.”

“I didn't rent it out with a guar-

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antee of any parking,” Partridge said.

Graceffo said tenants were of- fered the gravel lot across the street, but found it difficult to ma- noeuvre in.

“It’s not really big enough to pull in and turn around,” she said. “Anybody with an extra-long vehi- cle you couldn't get by anymore.”

Lloyd said he will not charge customers who use the lot. He said the $25 a month for neighboring

fee.

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For Walter Siemens, two words summed up the reaction of Social Credit candidates across the province as he watched the num- bers come up on the tally board - “That's bad,” he said.

Siemens said before the results came in that he would not run again if he lost. He said after the election that he was disappointed by the result.

“I think we're all disappointed locally and provincially,” Siemens said, “because we knew we have provided good leadership for this province.”

Price said she was at home for most of the evening with a small group of supporters talking with other Green candidates across the

province.

She said that although she did not have the most votes, the Green party played a role in educating the other candidates on environ- mental issues in the riding.

“I don’t count support by the number of votes,” she said. Price would not say if she will run again.

“Tm always available,” she said.

The party at Conroy’s Trail campaign office began early. By 10 p.m., about 200 supporters had gathered to greet the new MLA.

Conroy said he will keep the promises he made on the cam-

“Westar sawmill’s in trouble. Cominco’s in trouble. Unless we have the basic industries in our area stabilized... When you've got (the) number one and number three (employers) in trouble you're in trouble as an area,” he said.

“I want to work towards seeing what can be done through the co- operation of everybody involved — companies, government, unions and municipal councils,” Conroy said, “to see what we can do to come up with solutions to some of these problems that we have, to put our basic economy on a sound

“Then we can move on from there and see what we can do in terms of secondary manufacturing and other innovative things like that.”

Education, health issues, social services and the continuing cleanup of the Columbia River are also priorities, he said.

“As a former school trustee I certainly have education priorities that I want to see fulfilled and al- so health priorities,” Conroy said. “The times of waiting in line for major surgery in this province. . . we have to work very hard to making sure that comes to an end.”

He said social services will also be on his agenda.

“We have quite a number of people now who need extra help.

They just don't get enough money from social assistance in order to make ends meet.

“So I think we have to come to grips with that to make sure that people are treated at least in a