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The month of November has been proclaimed Canada’s first Firearms Amnesty period, as announced recently by Jean-

*, Jacques Blais, Solicitor General ‘of.Canada. Penalties for the posses-

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, November 2, 1978

pistols and other firearms de- signed to be fired by one hand, as well as centre-fire semi- automatic weapons with barrels less than 18' inches long, or

which are designed to fire when

classification resulted in thous- ands of Canadian owners of previously unrestricted _fire-

sidn or transportation of pro- ES ‘hibited weapons will be sus- “pended for the duration of the “amnesty period, provided auch

reduced to an overall length of less than 26 inches by folding, telescoping or other means. To own restricted weap- ons, one must meet certain con-

“weapons are

police. Similar immunity will be + ‘extended to anyone presenting ‘un unregistered restricted fire- arm for either registration or

zi disposal,

+ i t:° Prohibited weapons w» chide: fully automatic firearms; ‘sawed-off shotguns or rifles

* (with barrels less than 18 inches ng, or an overall length of less

“than 26 inches; switchblade various martial arts “weapons; and devices using ‘icity to im-

knives;

emicals or electr Thobilize or incapacitate.

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Many of the above-noted firearms were added to the prohibited and restricted class on Jan. 1, 1978, with the coming into force of a first portion of the new gun control legislation passed by Parliament in Aug- ust 1977.

These changes were large- ly designed to counteract the proliferation of crime involving the use of certain easily con- cealed types of guns,

This change in weapons

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“Amnesty Month: A Call for Responsible Gun Use and Ownership

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session, knowingly or other- wise, of weapons which have been prohibited or restricted under the law since before the 1977 legislative amendments,

These include many vet- erans who brought an undeter- mined number of handguns into Canada as souvenirs from wars and which they failed to regis- ter,

Whether through fear of legal complications orignorance of the new laws, very few of those affected have since taken steps to regularize their situa- tion.

“The immediate purpose of the amnesty,” said the solicitor general, “is to increase legal compliance both by removing the sanctions during the am- nesty period and by increasing

of the i

new gun laws, that of respon- sible gun use and

will rest with local police fc forces judged to be in the public under the interest.

“Recall is intended for those who own guns of any type which they no longer use or want,” explained the minis- ter. "They are being asked to take advantage of their local police force's involvement in the amnesty program to turn in their unwanted firearms for disposal.”

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Such purposes would in- clude use by forensic labora- tories for crime investigation purposes, and the training of law enforcement and correc- tional personnel.

Antique and rare firearms turned over to police during amnesty will'be designated for authorized museums. All other guns will

of the attorney general, or solicitor general, of their re- spective province or territory. Disposition of weapons turned over to police for dis- posal during November 1978 remains at the discretion of the individual. province or terri- tory. Most, if not all, are expected to retain some of the firearms for official purp

survey by Canada indicated that half of an esti- mated 2.6 million gun owners

across Canada had not used.

their guns once in. the 12 months preceding the study. Often unused and unwant- ed guns are not kept with suf- ficient regard to safety, there-

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Yol. 31, No. 45

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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH SOLUMBLSS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1978

Three Sections (A,B&C)

- Gordon Stewart, a B.C, School Trustees Association “negotiator acting on behalf of the college and districts, told the Castlegar News he indicated in a telegram Tuesday to CUPE national representative Fred Pyke that he would be available at ‘noon the following day to

New Contract Talks Eyed

A negotiator for Selkirk College and four West Kootenay school boards this week invited his Canadian Union of Public Employees counterpart to reopen contract talks,

Arrow Arms Motor Hotel. Pyke was unavailable for comment, Al Underwood, CUPE’s Kootenay district council president, confirmed that the union received the telegram and added that the meeting was postponed until 10.a.m. today to-allow union b to attend funeral

ofasettle- ment “which would end the strike-lockout which has dis-

services yesterday for Marv McLean, president of United of America

rupted through- out the region for nearly three weeks,

Stewart, who met here

Local 480,

Underwood said the Trail Iceal, of which he is

-Monday with tives of the BCSTA's West Kootenay branch, declined to comment further on the proposed meeting, which was to take place at the Hi

secretary is pre-

pared to meet with Stewart

in Trail — rather than in a

joint council — on the con-

dition he makes a new offer See Page A2

Races Few in Region This Year

By RYON GUEDES CasNews Editor

C ition in C. ‘8 and school board elections this year is well above the overall level shown elsewhere in the Regional District of Central Kootenay.

A Castlegar News survey this week of the region standings shows that although the city has seven candid: for the three

prising the largest elected their two school trustees by acclamation, 119 registered Silverton voters, comprising the smallest, did the same for the single mayorally candidate and two unopposed aldermen seeking

and two school board seats which will be filled Nov. 18, 20 of the 36 positions available this year in other municipalities and electoral areas were filled by acclamation last Monday.

And of the 20 elected unopposed, 12 nominees — one-third of the number of available seats — were incumbents,

The reason for acclamation of a majority of the municipal, school board and regional positions available in areas outside Castlegar cannot be traced to the sizes of the individual

Blected unopposed in the two areas immediately surrounding Castlegar were incum- bents Vera Kanigan, housewife, as Area J school trustee, and John Moran, retired, as Area I director on the RDCK board,

Vying for three aldermenic seats in the City of Nelson were Bob Allen, restaurant manager; Bill Freno, bus driver; Stanley Grill, CP Rail carman; L, J. Martin, concrete

operator, and Donna Oswald, house- wife, were elected by acclamation to two school board seats,

In the Village of Slocan Don Hird, retired,

man. Incumbent trustee Margaret Murray, homemaker, regained her school board seat unopposed.

Victors by acclamation in the race for two aldermanic seats in the Village of Kaslo were Ring Huggins, instructor, and incumbent A. S. Leathwood, maintenance worker. Re-elected by

1} to the single school board seat open’

was elecled mayor by to replace Agda Winje. Seeking election to two aldermanic seats are David Barclay, lumber grader; Bernard Blages: laborer; Bill Landles, hotel

this year was Shelagh Leathwood, homemaker.

In the Village of Silverton incumbent Ran Harding, retired, was elected unopposed while aldermen Lee D., Hammond, mer-

Vying for

a single ee school board seat are ‘Blacles;

Robert Cunningham, mechanic; Joel Harris, chef; incumbent Nan Hendrie, homemaker.

Seeking two aldermanic seats in the Village

of Salmo are W. L, Bond, school custodian,

incumbent John Neville, physiotherapist; Ruth O'Bryan, teacher; incumbent Gerald Rotering,

Trustees Pitch In, ‘Parents Pull Su;

“Pairly good” attendance : of limited classes, parents’ withdrawal Of children from : three rural schools and jani- ; torial work by elected officials ighlighted activities this week

in School District No. 9. District secretary-treasurer

= John Dascher told the Castle-

gar’ News Tuesday that while

= the Canadian Union of Public

Employees’ deadlock with the

= school board continued, atten: .

the 41 enrolled at Shoreacres and 135 of the 155 enrolled at Tarrys were away this week after being withdrawn from the schools by a committee of parents who said they will keep

their children at home until the:

labor dispute is settled. Atten- dance at the other district elementary schools is satis- factory under current, circum. stances, he said.

Ina issued this

‘ of the Tarrys, Shoreacres and

“Pass ‘Creek clementary schools

- was “fairly good, consider- in ~<1g At Stanley Humphries Sec- ondary’ 620 cut of 844 students enrolled attended daily classes from 9 a.m. until noon, Dascher said, while 319 out of 402 enrolled attended Kinnaird Ju- nior Secondary.

The secretary-treasurer said 60. of the 90 students enrolled at Pass Creek, 36 of

week, the parents, from the Glade, Ta Thrums:: and

“are not willing to-allow our children to be caught in the

middle. of the’ present-impasse,

between local school boards and CUPE members.”

The statement described unheated classroom, limited classes and the tack of district

able.” See Page A2

Two Outlying Areas Face Firefighting Vote

Free transportation to the polls and a special information

centre will be included in a -

campaign for heavy voter turn- out in, ‘the Nov. 18 Robson-

Resident Cliffe Churches said the five-man steering

electorates, While 5,464 Nelson voters, com-

busing facilities as “unaccept-

FIRST: PHASE of elght 's Trall

for operation Is $22 million smelter - feed complex. Viewed here in an official tour of the eneling operations st week, the lo begin operation in

to study “the feasibility of offering the service between ide Dam and Bril-

-y area fire referehidum, according - a

ey Elementary School will on a neutral basis”

: Trade Fair ‘79 Plan Underway, : “Says Lion “The Castlegar. Selkirk Lions are well into the planning stages of Trade Fair "79, a club

spokesman said this week. -' Lions. publicity

for greater participation by the area's residents, who like the

residents of nearby Area I will -

vote on the proposed establish- ment of their own volunteer fire department.

He said members of the committee, of which he is chair- man, are satisfied they have provided residents with suf- ficient information on the re-

John Landis said club members are ‘confident local residents will-help make the trade fair — to be held April 20 to 21, 1979, at “the Regional Recreation Complex —"a greater success than’ ever to bring lasting benefits to the community.”

+ The Trade Fair '79 board of directors, chaired by Frank Stasila, consists of: Landis; Steve Jankola, co-chairman and communications chairman; Ger- ry Schell, finance chairman and Aléx. Cheveldave, advisory.

and ofa volunteer fire department, which would cost up to 15 tax mills or an estimated $28,858 annually.

“We've done everything we can ‘to get them informa- tion,” Churches said, “Right now we've got to get them out to vote.”

In a public meeting in late

ber, the i told

August, 4979, i 70 Toot high and more than 100 yards long. The bullding, precast in

ir expansion and

newspaper reporter. Incumbent Bill Christie,

sections and shipped to ‘Trail in 350 truckloads, will have smooth Interlor walls which will not allow the of

Gladys Dauphii retired; W. C. Dorey, garage operator; Mel Eberts, logger; incumbent E, MacNeill, retired; John Patrick, motel owner. Nominated for a single school board seat are incumbent Jack Robert- son, telephone repairman, and I, F. Stewart, doctor.

But elected by acclamation for three aldermanic seats in the Town of Creston were incumbent H. L. Sladen, supervisor; J. G. Legare, manager; A. E. Gunderson, business-

chant, and Aaltje Wilkowski, homémaker regained their village council seats by accla- mation,

And in Nakusp William Parker, forester, and Lyle M. Thompson, B.C. Tel repairman, were elected unopposed. Also elected by acclamation was incumbent Glenn Weather- head, funeral parlor director, as school trustee.

Nominated for mayor in the Village of New Denver are Art Frank, retired, and William Rowe, also retired. Seeking election to two aldermanic seats are Kenneth Casley, main- tenance worker; Barbara Lahner, clerk; George * Mark, b Bay Carter, hi elected by acclamation to the single: school taard seat available this year.

See Page A2

A motion asking B.C.'s attorney-general tocurbacts of terrorism is scheduled for discussion Nov. 25 by the Regional District of Central Kootenay board of directors.

Area J director Martin Vanderpol, who gave notice of the motion in a closed © session of the board last Saturday, this week said he will be presented in the near future with the proposed

nays.

Motion to Request A-G Intervention Rising Terrorism Cited i .Tequest by a group of con- stituents concerned sbout

the growing incidence of terrorism in the West Koote-

Vanderpol said details of the motion are still unav- ailable, but he described it generally as “purely a re- quest to uphold the law.”

The request for. inter- vention by. the. attorney-

general is partly in response to a Sept. 23 fire at the Brilliant home of the late Anna Markova which re- _Sulted in arson charges for 12 persons, the Area J director said, but generally expresses several local - groups’ concern over. itci--: dents which have “in the last couple of years been on the - upswing in the West Koote- =

. financial straits”

Municipal Affairs Minister Told

Castlegar will be “in severe unless the provincial government covers the city's 1979 police costs. That's the message city council voted to send municipal affairs minister Hugh Curtis in

. response to his statement that

the $153,200 granted to the city for 1978 has completed the pro- vince’s obligation to cover the city's costs,

A Sept. 18 etter from Curtis said the payment “fulfills

dust-like particles from lead concentrates stored In bins which will hold a total of 20,000 tons.

—CasNowsFoto by Ryon Guedes

Selkirk College students

returned: to classes Monday -

morning after ending an 11-day- old boycott called in an attempt to force the college administra- tion and its non-teaching em- ployees back to the bargaining table.

Contacted at the college's Castlegar campus, a spokesman for the Student Action Com- mittee told the Castlegar News the committee decided to end the boycott of limited instruc- tion offered by the college system because insufficient stu- dent support made it ineffec- tive in ing the adminis-

residents a $60,000 fire-truck,

tration and the Canadian Union of Public to, end

$10,000 worth of

their strike-lockout deadlock. Michael Hornbrooke, chair-

Legal Action Under Consideration

Selkirk Students End Boycott

man of the SAC legal action committee, said students will investigate taking legal action

_ and proposing the appointment

ofa special mediator as possible alternative steps.

But despite the increase in attendance at the Castlegar campus since the boycott end- ed, Hornbrooke said, a con- siderable number of students “are quitting and dropping “out.” Students enrolled in ca Teer courses such as aviation or nursing are “just hanging on" and the delays caused by the dispute could hinder their abil- ity to compete in the job market, he said.

Also contacted Tuesday, college principal Mitch Ander- son said he was aware some

students at the Castlegar cam- pus were “considering other ways of continuing their edu- cations,” but he did not know how many.

the made by the province to provide full police costs for five years from the date of the restructure of the City of Castlegar.”

Council members approved

Anderson said he was encouraged that more students were taking advantage of the limited instruction’ available.

See Page A2

Castlegar & District Calls for Extension

Tenders were invited last

week for addition of a 10-bed’

extended care unit, a second elevator and new maintenance shops i Castlegar and District Hospital.

A newspaper advertise- ment last Thursday set 1 p.m. Nov. 30 as the deadline for

of,sealed tenders

ored Meeting

‘Candidates: Featured at

Forum

for the additions, which will consist of about 93 square metres of new accommodation and 308 square metres of alter- ation work, :

Hospital administrator Ken

Voters will have an opportunity to meet and . hear candidates in Castle- gar's Nov..18 school board and aldermanic elections ata civic iurcum Wednesday, a Rotary Club spokesman said this week, ‘Ron Ross said the fo- “rum, scheduled for 8 p.m. at the Regional Recreation Complex and sponsored hy iocal Rotarians, will feature

a five-minute statement by © each candidate followed by an open question period. “Members of the audi- ence can ask questions of

comer Roger Cristofoli, a

security guard and firstaid attendant; incumbent Len Embree, a carpenter; new- comer Heather Hallett, a

tired; incumbent Stewart Webster, an engineer.

A total of 3,441 Castle- gar residents, compared with 3,432 last year, are d to vote Nov. 18.

either one i or all the candidates,” Ross said. “We will have pencil and paper handy for people who are too bashful to ask ques- tions in public.” Nominated for three aldermanin seals are new-

ald Rust, a supervisor.

Seeking election to the two city trustees’ positions will be. newcomer Rodney Gilmour, a social worker; incumbent Ernie Mills, re-

Polling’ ‘stations for both the municipal and° school board elections will be the Royal Canadian Legion Hall at 248 Columbia Ave. and the Castlegar South Firehall at 1119 Seventh Ave. S,

Talarico this week said tenders were called on the project after the Central Kootenay Regional Hospital District board last Saturday approved its 40-per- cent share of the expansion costs under a bylaw providing for $573,289 in improvements to the Castlegar, Creston Val- ley and Kootenay Lake District hospitals.

Talarico said the construc- tion cost would be “substan- tially less" than the $412,700

allocated to the project because the figure covers architects’ fees, administrative costs and contingency funds, and would

hie,

at their last regular meeting finance committee chairman Ald. Gerald Rust’s motion to thank the minister for the 100- per-cent coverage of 1978 police costs and request ‘“'a further forgiveness for the taxation year 1979,"

Rust said the provincial government's decision on the taxation options proposed in the B.C. Police Commission's report on policing costs would not be known until 1979. -

“We would be in severe

financial straits unless some form. of assistance -is made available to the community,” he said.

First of the commission's options is total funding of all municipal policing expenditures by the provincial government’: from present or newly-created sources and an equal mill rate from all property owners in

* municipalities and unorganized °:

areas. See Page AZ

Rotary Participation Sought in Alterations

The West Kootenay Health Unit should ask local Rotarians to take on as a_ project alterations: planned for the clinic: built under their spon- sorship 15 years ago, according ‘to city council.

At their last regular meet- ing, council members supported Ald. Bud Godderis' motion

1

Hospital Tenders

depend on the tenders sub- mitted. In addition to covering the See Page A2

to request health unit direc- tor Dr. Terry Pagan invite the Rotary Club's participation

in raising funds for temporary alterations tothe Rotary Health , Centre at 305 Spruce St.as well. as “the possibility of taking on ~ the total expansion of the (centre} as a community pro- ject.”

Responding to Dr. Pagan's request that the city as well as. two outlying electoral areas assist the health unit in paying for the $1,200 worth of tem- porary. alterations Godderis, council's ‘health and_ welfare committee. chairman, also - moved. to request information on whether any plans or

See Page A2

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