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Board has say on woodroom

By BONNE MORGAN

Staff Writer

Castlegar school board had its say Monday on the closure of the Celgar Pulp Co. woodroom.

The board agreed to ask Celgar and the Ministry of Forests to reconsider the closure, slated to take effect by the

end of this month.

The lawyer representing the Arrow Lakes. Tugboat Society is pleased with the school board's decision.

“I believed that in many ways a school board is, as with one of the most appropriate levels of government to address this issue,” Terry Dalton, lawyer représenting the tugboat society, said in a prepared release.

a city council,

CBC radio

changes slammed

By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer

CBC Radio's proposed changes to provincial programming has regional districts throughout B.C. up in arms.

The concern centres around a morning program called Daybreak. The program has been on the air for 13 years and has catered to rural communities across the province, ex- cept in the Prince Rupert and south- west coastal areas.

The proposed programming changes — which the Crown corpor- ation hopes to implement by September 1988 — would dismantle the eurrent Daybreak format and divide the program into two separate areas. Instead of producing the program in Vancouver, CBC will provide Daybreak from Prince George and Kelowna.

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Prince George will serve the province from Quesnel north and Kelowna will serve the area south of Quesnel.

Victoria and Vancouver will con- tinue to serve the south coast, Vancouver Island, and the Sunshine Coast with the Early Edition.

In November, the Regional Dis- trict of Central Kootenay mailed letters to regional districts around the province asking for support in asking the CBC not to change the Daybreak show.

The RDCK received letters of support from the Okanagan, Dewdney Alouette, Squamish-Lillooet, East Kootenay and Fraser-Cheam regional districts. They all echoed the RDCK’s concerns about Daybreak.

By December the Canadian Radio- Televi and T ication: Commission had received a letter from the RDCK stating: “We herewith re- quest the CRTC to urge the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to respond to the populous of rural British Columbia on this matter and retain Daybreak program in its present format.”

RDCK chairman George Cady said it is important the CBC retain Day break as it is.

“They're (the CBC) building on a structure that’s already serving the province well,” Cady said. “Why change something when it’s success. ful?” he said.

Cady also takes to the

“Decisions made in 1988 can have the most significant consequences, for good or for bad, on children just now said Dalton.

Doreen Smecher was the only trustee who voted

making their start in lives,” against the resolution.

jurisdiction of this board,” er said.

sue falls into the Since I feel we going in the wrong direction I'm going to go against i Smecher told the Castlegar News that not only does she feel the motion was “inappropriate” board business, but that there are “better or other uses” for the decadent timber. “Rather than standing up and yelling for the maintenance of the status quo, we should be looking at other

“I fail to see where this particular

another area. She says chipboard and wood alternatives to pulp chips.

product,” she said.

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CHEAP GAS... . Motorists line up at the pumps as gas prices fall from 49.9 cents per litre in Castlegar gas war

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Gas prices plummet

By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer

Castlegar is in the middle of a gas war with prices down an average of 20 cents per litre.

Turbo was the first to drop its price at 7:00 a.m. Tuesday and then Woodland Park Shell followed, according to Mohawk's assistant manager Dave Rossi.

Then Mohawk dropped its price from 49.9 per litre to 31.9. By late afternoon, gas prices were down to 29.9 all over town.

But, Turbo wouldn't admit to starting the gas war.

Turbo manager Gordon Paetkau says if Turbo was the first to drop its price, it was done simply for competition.

“I have to do what I have to do and it’s a free enterprise system,” said Paetkau.

Spokesmen from other Castlegar gas stations agreed they are following other stations and will change prices when other stations do.

“When the competition drops, I drop to compete,” said a spokesman for The Roadside Place. “We'll stay as long as the competition stays.”

Ed Stang of the Castlegar Co-op said oil companies have a “regulating policy which protects stations from low gas war prices.”

But it barely covers the station, he said.

However, not all independent gas stations have that protection.

Other factors such as oil company prices, general competition, the amount of gas stored, and company policies enter into a radical drop in prices, according to Paetkau.

Crown corporation's attitude in trying to implement the changes.

“Basically, they're telling us what will happen for our 6wn good without hearing our concerns. They're trying to jam this by us.”

Cady id he is convinced the Kootenays will suffer from the dis- mantling of the current Daybreak program because Castlegar wili receive the Kelowna version of the show. However, he said the Okanagan has different interests from the Kootenay and the show will cater to their region's. interests at the expense of Kootenay coverage.

“Historically, there's always been a difference between the Kootenays and the Okanagan,” Cady said. “If they sub-regionalize the program we will only hear what Kelowna wants to hear.”

CBC director of radio Bob Sunter was in Nelson and Castlegar over the weekend trying to assuage any fears about Daybreak and provincial radio programming.

“It's not going to be a localized program,” Sunter said during an inter. view. “We will do a better job convering the province.”

Sunter said the changes will de-

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uses and chipping for pulp is not the only use,” she said.

Smecher said she was made aware of other uses for the decadent timber when she was on the Selkirk Callege board four years ago. The board discussed federal funding for a wood moulding plant to make use of decadent hemlock in

“Those are just two examples of another use for that

“There's a number of wood chips shipped out of the country, shipping jobs out of the country,” she said. Other trustees disagreed with Smecher, saying the

By CasNews Staff

sit! ii pools will get a break on their city water bill this year. Castlegar council has decided to eliminate the annual $13 fee charged pool owners. “It's become a

Pool owners get break

haven't increased since 1985 and the city needs the funds to ensure the water and sewer systems continue operating.

He said without the increases, the city would have to borrow money if

part of the bylaw,” explained Ald. Len Embree, chairman of the adminis tration and finance committee.

Embree pointed out that many pool owners only fill their pools once a season and then circulate the same water.

In addition, he said homeowners with lawns use as much or more water than swimming pool owners.

However, city water and sewer rates will jump about 10 per cent this year.

Embree said. combined sewer and water increases will cost the aver. age north Castlegar homeowner about $10 more this year and athe average south Castlegar homeown- er about $12 more.

He pointed out that user fees

it ‘ed serious pi

The provisional budget for the water system will total $635,000 this year, down about $9,000 from last year. However, taxes will remain the same and user fees will jump some $20,000.

The increase in fees will cover a $21,000 drop in provincial govern ment grants. Last year the grants were $251,000, and this year they will total only $230,000.

More than $346,000 of the budget goes to service the debt load on the water system. Another $45,000 has been set aside for capital expendi tures, including $28,000 for an eight-inch watermain to replace a six-inch main in the 11th Avenue- 6th Street south area.

Meanwhile, the north sewer bud get will increase some $19,000 — from about $100,000 last year to $119,000 in 1988.

Sewer taxes will remain about the same, but user fees will jump some $7,000 to a total of $71,400 this year. The main reason for the increase is a $15,000 capital expenditure pro- gram. It includes replacing a pump in one of the lift stations, and a camera survey of the existing sewer system.

The south end sewer budget will drop about $8,000 from nearly $590,000 last year to $582,000 this year.

While taxes will remain steady, user fees will increase $10,000 to $110,000. They will dover some $17,500 in capital expenditures — an increase of $8,500 from last year.

Projects planned this year include replacing a pump in one of the lift stations, and work in the treatment plant.

education.

woodroom closure would affect students through unemploy- ment created by the closure.

Trustee Mickey Kinakin, who proposed the resolution, said there is a connection between the forest industry and

“The first question is unemployment — what stresses

fibreboard were

that puts on the home. We have fought in the board here

over the loss of students. Well, this is going to cause roughly

34 paycheques to be lost,” he said, adding school taxes would

also be so lost through unemployment.

Kinakin said the woodroom closure would be “dis astrous” for Castlegar, besides not being good forest policy. continued on page A2

RDCK hits Highways

By RON NORMAN Editor

The Regional District of Central Kootenay board came down hard Saturday on the provincial govern. ment’s plan to privatize the Ministry of Highways’ maintenance and bridge repair services.

But the board was even more critical of any move by Victoria to charge fees on inland ferries.

Regional directors had the chance to make their views known when Social Credit MLA Howard Dirks (Nelson Creston) and New Democrat MLA Chris D'Arcy (Rossland-Trail) attended the regular board meeting to discuss privatization.

Dirks said he favors selling the highways services to small local groups.

“T have no desire to see the Jimmy Pattison Highways Department or the Kerkhoff Highways Department,” he said, adding later: “I would prefer the contracts to be kept as small as possible.”

However, D'Arcy warned that local contractors who already supply things like gravel could be squeezed out if the Highways contract is awarded to one bidder.

D'Arcy said 40 per cent of the maintenance budget is presently con- tracted out, and many of those con tracts are filled by local suppliers.

Regional directors were particu larly critical of Highways privatization without a proper feasibility study.

Dirks said he is unaware of any study, though Victoria has accumu lated large amounts of data by looking

Road concerns trustees

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar séhool board is con cerned with the safety of school buses travelling on Pass Creek Road and will urge the Ministry of Highways make the road a “top priority.”

“We want to point out to the government that this road is a high priority,” trustee Evelyn Voykin said at Monday's board meeting. “We have more children being transported on those buses right now and the potential for an accident is very high.”

Voykin said she has learned from the local highways department that widening the upper portion of the road from Doubinin’s Hills to Suicide Hill is a low priority and would cost between $4 milliqn and $5 million.

narrow, winding road is juced to one-lane traffic to weather conditions,

Castlegar News, she hopes it isn't “going to take a serious accident before the situation is

She said one of the problems with widening the road is the possibility of “silt running off” into Pass Creek which runs adjacent to the road and feeds the Robson water system.

The board was to meet with Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy and Nelson-Creston MLA Howard Dirks today to provide them with information on the board's concerns.

-off

been carried out.

However, Area K (rural Nakusp) director Bill Cuthill suggested the government is “guessing” privatization will save money when it really doesn’t know. He called it a “leap of faith.”

D'Arcy suggested if there, is a feasibility study“it should be made public and later noted that the decision to privatize Highways “appears to be a doctrinaire rather than a pragmatic one.”

He added that money shouldn't be the only concern.

“We may be paying the same or more and getting less service,” he said.

D'Arcy said the NDP has taken the position that government services have already been been severely cut back and cannot be provided more efficiently or at less cost by private contractors.

“Government employees do not earn a great deal of money” compared to private sector employees, he said. D'Arcy questioned how a truck driver working for a private contractor will

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