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Building Permits

Building Permits are required betore any con- struction of a building, alterations or repairs to a building, installing a pool, wood stove, chimney, or fence. No person shall pave or asphalt any driveway or parking lot without obtaining a building permit.

Failure to obtain a building permit may result in fines of up to $2,000.00 and may require removal of any construction which con- travenes any City bylows.

Occupancy Permits

No person shall use or occupy any building, or change the use of a building, without first ob- taining an occupancy permit.

Business Licenses

For operating a business within the City, a business license is required. Licenses are valid from January 1, (or the date of issue) un- til the following December 31. A person who carries on a business without holding a valid and subsisting license for the business, com- mits an offence and is punishable in accor- dance with the Ottence Act

Taxes and Water and Sewer

Accounts Outstanding

Please note that unpaid taxes, water and sewer accounts are now overdue. If your ac- count is not paid, please enquire for amounts owing. Also Home Owner Grants must be claimed prior to December 31, 1984

For further information, Building /Licensing Inspector Tex ir

(Phone 365-7227)

contact the

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community. ‘The convention also will be a final tune-up for the past ae ei adh ce ee the first test of the Socreds’ since “their

vietory in May 1963.

Governments have lost all but one of the 10 byelections held in B.C. since 1968, but the Socreds hold 34 of the 57 seats in the legislature. The NDP have 20 and there is one independent.

* Strongly supportive of the government at last year’s the 1/ are more right-wing than the government.

However, this year, there are calls to reinstate compulsory testing of motor vehicles and to re-establish DTUC.

Delegates also will be asked — if the resolution makes it to the floor — to support the office of the ombudsman which one says helps taxpayers “caught in the ever-increasing bureaucratic maze.” The ombudsman has been harshly criticized by some back-benchers.

The Young Socreds and two riding associations are pressing for immediate legislation requiring the use of child-restraint devices for ears — a move so far resisted by the government despite constant pressure from doctors and

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PUBLIC MEETING . . . Castlegar landscape architect Nancy Felde listens to comments from residents

during public méeting Tuesday night on proposed master plan for the Community Complex. Costews Photo by Ron Norman

PLAN MEETING

continued from front pege “I don't think there's a member of our council who wouldn't support a pool,” said Calderbank. “But the capital cost is so fantastic .. . experience with referendums is so terrible.” MacBain agreed that a referendum on an indoor pool would be defeated at this time. A pool ig not likely “this week or this year or next year. We just don't have the money to do it,” he said. He later added that though 56.6 per cent of the residents appear to favor a pool, “There's not 56.6 per cent who would say yes, we don't mind having our taxes going up.” ‘Added administrator Dave Gairns: “People are simply unable to vote for an increase in their taxes.” However, MacBain and Felde pointed out the master plan could be accomplished in stages with funding coming from the city’s operating budget, meaning the city wouldn't have to go to a referendum for the plan. MacBain said the committee is anxious “to get started on some part of the project as soon as we can.” There have been other master plans developed “and one of them have ever come to anything,” MacBain said. He also stressed that the plan is not “carved in

and our

stone.” “It's rubber,” he said. “It can be moved around.

Doreen Knutsen expressed concern that there is no mention of an arts and convention centre in the plan.

“It was'in the last master plan,” she said.

However, MacBain said, “There is some space for an arts centre on the area” behind the chamber of commerce property in the northwest corner.

Knutsen responded that she would rather see the arts centre attached to the complex itself.

Ald. Carl Henne suggested looking at placing the arts centre on a second storey over the activity centre.

Castlegar and District Library board chairman Sue Port said the board would like a new library to be ina more central location, but wants space put aside on the complex grounds if a more central spot can't be found.

CKQR owner Gordon Brady suggested putting two softball fields together with the soccer field, which he said would free up the area proposed for a softball stadium.

Ron Ross also questioned whether the committee should dedicate as much property for the softball stadium, saying jt is only used heavily for two months and partially for four months of the year.

He suggested the land could be put to better use.

A mysterious stranger was

ene Antic JoAnn Wilson inthe week ‘murdered but it was not Colin Thatcher,

Beebe sents husband charged with killing her.

Witnesses testified at Thatcher's trial Tuesday they saw 2 stranger in a dark blue car parked near the Wilson Sei wreral teats in the week begire ihe marie. by defence lawyer Mu dubright, tor cae cumate oop dark, bearded man was not Thatcher.

The defendant, a stocky, 46-year-old rancher, politi- cian and former Saskatchewan energy minister, bears no resemblance to the slim man in his 30s seen in the car.

But the Court of Queen’s Bench jury was told Thatcher, who resigned from the energy portfolio Jan. 1T, 1988, checked a blue Oldsmobile out of the provincial government's central vehicle agency on Jan. 10, 1983, 11 days before Wilson was killed.

Wilson died in the garage of her Regina home. She was beaten about the head with 2 a sharp instrument, then shot once in the head.

Joan Hasz, a housekeeper in the neighborhood, said she noted three digits of the car's licence plate, but the other letters were obscured by mud. She said the digits she saw were 292.

The Oldsmobile checked out by Thatcher bore the licence KDW 292.

WAS SUSPICIOUS

Norman Adams, Hasz’s employer, said he saw the man two days before the killing. He was suspicious because Hasz was upset and he observed the stranger carefully.

Adams, a former deputy minister in the Saskatche- wan government, said the man's hands were “stark white” and he thought he might be wearing surgical gloves.

The witness also said the stranger seemed to be trying to hide his face when cars went by.

“He rarely moved his head, although when anyone came by he moved his head in such a way as to avoid eye contact.”

Const. Joseph Fraser of the Regina police testified

he found « credit . appeared to Ree the garage where Wilson

suggested the

“If somebody wanted you or one of ¥< find something, they couldt't have lef tna btier place, could they?” he asked Fraser.

IDENTIFIES SILENCER ~

Sgt. Bob Murton prtehe rinweie FA a firearm presented as an exhibit. It is's shortdength of pipe fitted with a screw attachment on one end, with s number of washers welded inside.

The sergeant testified he received the device from Gary’ Anderson, a longtime friend of Thatcher.

Crown attorney Serge Kujawa said in his higere-d outline of the case that Anderson aided Thatcher in plans to kil) Wilson.

Kujawa said in his outline Anderson and Thatcher's American girlfriend will testify for the Crown.

‘The woman, Kujawa said, will testify Thateher told her of killing his former wife and of having shot and wounded her two years earlier.

After that shooting, Wilson, who had been awardeda $500,000 divorce settlement, dropped her fight for custody of two of the couple's three children,

The jury also heard of a telephone call made between Moose Jaw, Sask., where Thatcher lived,” and’ Palm Springs, Calif., where he maintains anothér resid@fite. The call, mentioned in an affidavit read by Ailfight; Was placed at 6:24 p.m. CST the night of the murder. Wilson was killed about 6 p.m.

There was no significance of the call.

Thatcher, still a member of the Saskatchewan legislature, sat with Allbright during the peering over his shoulder occasionally to frown at the approximately 80 spectators and 30 reporters crowded into the stuffy courtroom.

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continued from tront pege forecasting facilities, including the reinstatement of weather ships.

The fisheries minister's advisory council, composed of various segments of the West Coast industry, made the request of Fisheries Minister John Fraser.

Fraser was unavailable for comment Tuesday but advisory council co-chair- man Jack Nichol, president of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, said the minister was “more than sympathetic.”

Fraser, who represents Vancouver South, said in an interview Sunday he

would look seriously at allegations that the weather office had let down the fleet, lulling fishermen into a false sense of security Thursday.

Gale warnings were posted that night for Friday morning but a storm or, several hours earlier than

Sen storm whipped the west coast of Vancouver Island, capsizing eight ves- sels on the weekend. Eleven fishermen were rescued but five were lost.

In telegrams to the ministers of fisheries, environment and transport, the 6,000-member fishermen's union also asked the government to add two

60-metre to 120-metre search and res cue ships, equipped with helicopter landing pads, to the West Coaast fleet.

Nichol said it was appalling that coast guard and fisheries vessels could see four of the fishermen who later drowned but couldn't reach them be cause of the rough water.

“There's something haywire that they can't do better rescues than that,” Nichol said.

“But first and foremost, those people shouldn't have been in those waters in the first place. We can't keep asking how many people are going to have to die before Ottawa listens.”

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VANCOUVER (CP) — Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd has been saving about $20 million a year for the past three years because of a water-rental break it gets under a 1950 agreement with the British Columbia gov ernment, a resource consul- tant says

Richard Overstall, in a re cent brief to a conference in Smithers, said the company has paid only about $1 million annually in water rental to generate power for its smel ter in Kitimat in west central B.C.

All hydroelectrie power Producers in the province, except Alean, are charged actording to a rental formula authorized under the Water Act.

Under the Industrial De- velopment Act and subse quent agreements between the government and Alean, the company’s water-rental rate is tied to the previous year’s price of aluminum.

TORONTO (CP) — Picket lines formed outside General Motors of Canada Ltd. plants in Ontario and Quebec today as 36,000 workers walked off the job in a strike that could have a serious impact on the Canadian economy.

The walkouts, which start ed Tuesday night and this morning at five of the nine plants and spread to other “plants when the noon strike deadline was reached, came after contract talks failed to produce a tentative settle- ment at a Toronto hotel.

Bob White, Canadian dir ector of the United Auto Workers, said talks would continue as the two sides try to find some common ground that might lead to a set tlement. But he did not ap- pear optimistic.

White, pointing out this is the first strike against GM Canada in 14 years, laid the blame squarely on the com pany.

“This is GM's strike,” he said. “They are trying to change the bargaining pro- grams that our union has had for many years.”

The company was forced to close operations early at nearby Oshawa and Ste Therese, Que. when day shifts in the two centres failed to report for work.

More than 10,000 workers were involved in the early walkouts.

Today's early picketing followed an unscheduled walkout of about 5,000 work. ers on the afternoon and night shifts in Oshawa. The workers blocked gates lead ing to the car plant and lit bonfires, but no violent in. cidents were re .

The walkouts followed union negotiators’ unanimous rejection of the company's latest contract offer.

WANTS TO TALK

White said the offer was unacceptable in many areas and “was unanimously re- jected.” Despite the strike, the union wants talks to con tinue, he said.

White said their new offer, made Tuesday afternoon, differed little from the one the bargaining committee rejected last week and con. tains proposals for conces sions that were turned down in major talks during 1982.

Neither White nor com pany spokesman Byron Blun dell would reveal details of the offer

But the two sides are still far apart in reaching a set tlement.

“He's not close today,” said White. “It's going to take an enormous amount of work.”

mediate impact on the Cana dian economy and GM's oper. ations in the United States, said Rod Andrew, the com pany’s top negotiator.

“I'm very sad for this stop- page,” Andrew said.

White said the latest offer, made Tuesday afternoon, differed little from one the bargaining committee rejec. ted last week and contains proposals for concessions that were turned down in major talks during 1982.

The Canadian union is focusing on: ‘better wages, pensions, and a reduction in work time.

Andrew said there has also

pay a surtax Curtis told.

1 tlt (cP) _- Wealthy individuals who have

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slapped ied a temporary surtax to finance economic

evelopment in British Columbia, Finance Minister Hugh Curtis was told Tuesday.

The Vancouver Board of Trade surprised Curtis’ committee studying changes to the province's taxation system by suggesting the government could raise $50 million over the next two years by imposing an average surtax of $250 on the top 100,000 income earners in the province.

“We think they are perhaps the only group in the province who could legitimately afford a tax increase at this time,” said Donald Selman, chairman of the board's taxation and economic development task force.

The money should be used to create jobs and the surtax lifted after two years, Selman told the hearing. The board represents about 3,100 Vancouver businessmen.

Curtis said he found the surtax idea refreshing.

“Whether it will be done or not is something that will be decided in the months ahead,” he said.

The board's brief said that while the poor economy has forced many individuals to accept lower incomes, others have retained “reasonable incomes through this period.”

“Almost everyone, including many individuals who have least suffered from the recession, would benefit from having a stronger and more diversified provincial economy.”

Selman said the recession has reduced inflation and actually benefitted individuals whose incomes have remained stable in the last couple of years.

He did not indicate at what salary figure the board would like the surtax to kick in.

The board said the $50 million should be used to provide seed money, education and job training and international promotion and could be administered through existing organizations such as the B.C. Development Corp.

Curtis is in the middle of provincewide hearings to solicit ideas on how the provincial taxation system can be changed to ag The hearings will conclude Nov. 6, in time for some changes to be included in next spring’s budget.

Jim Matkin, president of the Employers’ Council of B.C., told the hearing that the business community is being choked by a growing number of indirect or buried tax levies and a complex system that must be simplified.

“We must understand that any tax assessed is money taken out of the private sector that would otherwise be available for productive purposes,” he said.

Matkin called for the elimination of provincial taxes on machinery and equipment and noted that fuel taxation levels, now the highest in North America, are responsible

been a differ- ence over how to reward workers for good perfor mance.

“We're still in the men. tality that we're going to give the same regardless of if you do a good job or a mediocre

” he said. “That has got to change.”

Bomber wants prison transfer

VANCOUVER (CP) =< Doug Stewart, serving a prison term for blowing up a Hydro's substation on Van- couver Island, is on the 10th day of a hunger strike in a bid to win a transfer to a British Columbia prison from the predominantly-French Ar chambault penitentiary in Montreal, his mother said Tuesday.

Stewart, 27, who has been transferred to Achambault prison hospital, wants to be near his family while he

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Archambault authorities said Stewart's condition is stable and is being closely monitored.

But his mother, Agnes Stewart of Surrey, who flew to Montreal Monday to plead her son's case with the authorities, said her son is

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The B.C. Teachers’ Federation urged the government to increase education funding and assume more of the load, which now is split nearly 50-50 with local governments.

The B.C. Construction Association encouraged the government to continue consultation with industry on tax changes

“Quite frankly, we must turn down the heat of British Columbia's boiling pot which is overflowing with confront- ation and negativism,” said association president David Weller.

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