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WOMEN'S SUPPORT GROUP meeting will be held starting March 7 at 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 a

Castlegar Community Services, above West 9/8

A SPECIAL thank you to the members of the Castlegar Fire Dept. the RCMP, the neighbors and family members who cared the guards and all who helped ai the New Year's Eve fire on 10th Ave. Also thank-you to the

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THE CITY OF TRAIL INVITATION TO TENDER

The City of Trail invites tenders for the construction of the

TRAIL MEMORIAL CENTRE HANDICAPPED WASHROOMS

Instructions and tender

e obtained

le deposit of $25

from the City Office, 1394 Pine Avenve, Trail, B.C

The work consists of modifications and the in. stallation of a new women's washroom

washrooms tor the handicap ped

Sealed tenders, submitted in accordance with the Contract Documents, marked ‘Trail Memorial Centre Handicap: ped Woshrooms”, will be received at the City Office up to 2:00 p.m., April 26, 19868 ot which time the tenders will be opened in public in the Council Chamber

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

Contractors must hold valid Public Liability Insurance and W.C.B. Coverage.

ALL TENDER ENQUIRIES shall be directed to J.S. Newman

Eng NEWMAN ENGINEERING LTIMITED, 664 Forrest Drive, Trail, B.C. VIR 2H6, Telephone (604) 368 6845,

KEN WIESNER, City Manager

NOTICE INVITING APPLICATIONS FOR TIMBER SALE LICENCE A31186

Pursuant to Section 16(3)(a) of the Forest Act, there will be ottered for sale at public auc tion by the District Manager, et 845 Columbia Avenue. Castlegar, B.C., at 11:00 a.m. (local time) on the 3rd day of 1988, a Timber Sale Licence to authorize the har

ed approximately 1 kilometer Southwest of Nancy Greene Lake, Kootenay Land District, Arrow T.5.A

Species: Lodgepole Pine and Other Species: 60%, Spruce 25% , Balsam: 7%, Fir: 4% and Larch: 4%

Term: six (6) months

Bidding is restricted to per sons registered under the Small Business Enterprise Program, Category One.

Any person eligible to bid and unable to attend may submit a sealed tender

Particulars may be obtained

from the Regional Manager at 518 Lake Stre

C Castlegor, B.C, VIN 1H3.

WANTED Clean Cotton Rags

Castlegar News 197 Columbia Ave.

INVITATION Te To Tanger

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special events ..

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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1988

WEATHERCAST

Mainly sunny this morning with clouds and thundershowers in the atternoon. Highs near 18°. Mon.

be cloudy with showers Chance of precipitation is 30 per cent today and 50 per cent Mon doy

2 Sections (A & B)

Pre-Owned Vehicles

1987 CAMARO 228

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1985 PONTIAC SUNBURST

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on aaa Free Courtesy Cars

WITH ICBC CLAIMS

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NEARLY ALL OUR USED VEHICLES ARE COVERED BY GENERAL MOTORS REMAINING NEW CAR WARRANTY OR 2-VEAR, 40,000 KM. USED CAR WARRANTY. ALL BACKED BY GENERAL MOTORS

1986 PLYMOUTH

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B.C.’s No. 1 Service Department

Premier given rough ride

By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer

Premier Bill Vander Zalm's trip to the West Kootenay was not as simple as a tiptoe through the tulips.

He was dogged by a small but vocal group of protesters, booed by a crowd of Castlegar high school stu dents and criticized at a demonstration outside the Cominco Arena where 150 people gathered to slam the premier and his policies.

Just outside the front doors of the airport the premier was met by an ad-hoe-group of college students and single mothers protesting everything from Vander Zalm's stand on abortion to funding education in the province.

The six protesters sang “for he's a shallow good fellow” to the tune of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Vander Zalm and his entourage side-stepped the/ group and got into a car which took hin to Stanley Humphries secondary school.

The premier was showered with boos as he entered the gymnasium where 600 students were gathered to hear him speak.

After delivering a brief speech to the students he answered some of their questions.

He was asked about his party's recent budget and its effects on the school system. His reply: “I don’t think the taxpayers need to make any apologies for the education system in the province. I think the province has good education program.”

He was also grilled by two students who pressed him on the abortion issue and his “imposing of his religious beliefs” on the province.

Dam project ‘im

By CasNews Staff Premier Bill Vander Zalm told a mayor's meeting in Trail Friday that the installation of generators in the Hugh Keenleyside dam is “imminent.” Vander Zalm met with area mayors at Trail City Hall and answered their questions on privatization, de. centralization, forest stumpage fees in the Interior and mega-projects. “I can't offer you any dates,” he

PREMIER'S PROTESTERS . . . Small group of protesters greeted Premieg, Bill Vander Zatm when he arrived at Castlegar Airport Friday morning

“If the question is: Should a leader in this province impose a particular standard or morals on the province, then the answer is no,” Vander Zalm said.

“If the question is: Should we attempt to influence the morals of the province, the answer is yes. If we don't have committed leaders, we don't have political leaders. We have a bunch of wimps.”

He added: things in society are the standards we hold dear.”

After the brief question and answer session with the hich school students the premier left for the

“The most important moral

said of the Keenleyside project. “But we're working on it.”

Last month B.C. Hydro chairman Larry Bell said the Keenleyside gener. ating project would not begin for at least another decade.

The suggestion that the project was “imminent” prompted Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore to say, “You've made me very happy Mr. Premier.”

Vander Zalm said he was unaware

Businessman wins court case with city

By CasNews Staff

A Castlegar businessman has won the first round of a court battle with the City of Castlegar over his land in the city’s industrial park.

The city claims that Trowelex Rentals Ltd. owes $50,000 in service charges for nine lots the company owns at the industrial park.

When Trowelex owner Nick Cher. noff refused to pay the charges, the city tacked the fees onto the company's property tax bill

However, a Nelson county court judge ruled recently that the city cannot add the charges to the tax bill.

Chernoff told the Castlegar News this week that the court battle was an amicable one.

“We're not fighting.” he said. before and after mosity at all.”

However, Chernoff said he went to court because he felt it was unfair for the city to attempt to collect the $50,000 by adding it to his taxes.

arguing; we're not “We shook hands There was no ani

“We felt we shouldn't pay it,” he said

Chernoff maintains that he still shouldn’t have to pay the service charges, which are for things like water, sewer, roads and electricity. And he says he doesn't intend to pay the fee.

“I'm going to fight it,” he said.

“The industrial park didn't do what it was supposed to do,” he ex plained, adding later: “My lots have really gone down in price.”

Chernoff claims the lots were once valued at $2 million, but have dropped drastically. He says one of the reasons is because the city is selling its lots at low prices.

“They're really selling them too cheap,” he said, adding the city is in a “panic” to unload the property. He pointed to a recent example where the city sold a two-acre lot to Ernie's Towing for $20,000.

City administrator Dave Gairns declined comment on the case.

CasNews Photo by Brendén Nogie

Castlegar and District Hospital where he met with hospital staff and adminis- trators to take part in a sod-turning ceremony for a $4.3 million extension to the building.

“I am very pleased to announce the beginning of a new extension to this hospital,” Vander Zalm said of the 60-bed — 35 intermediate care and 25 extended care — project which-is ex pected to be completed in late 1989.

The premier mixed briefly with the staff and patients who watched the ceremony before he was whisked off to the Castlegar Library.

The same demonstrators who

continued on poge A3

minent’

of Bell's suggestion that generators are a decade away. The premier said Jack Davis, Minister of Energy Mines and Resources, is also enthusiastic about the project.

“It's been talked about a number of times now,” Vander Zalm said. “And I know there's several forces that would make it seem necessary sooner than later.”

Vander Zalm said the project is desirable for the area because the construction of the generators will provide much-needed employment

“We presently have too much unemployment in this area,” he said “We've got to get every project going we possibly can in order to get as many people working as quickly as possible.”

Vander Zalm said an increasing demand for electricity both in B.C. and in the U.S. makes the generating project viable.

“It’s a cheap way of generating power,” he said. “There's a market across the line for the power and if we can't use it here, we can export it.”

He said the cost of installing gen erators in the dam will be made up in the long run with the sale of electricity to customers in the U.S. and B.C.

“It all adds up and I intend to push

Vander Zalm said. “I know the

ister (energy minister Jack Davis) is very supportive of it.”

The project is estimated to cost about $982 million but Vander Zalm said he wasn't aware of the cost

“I don't know what the cost o1 « is,” he said. “I don't know the total cost.”

When he was told that the construction cost might redich $982 million Vander Zalm shrugged and

money isn't it.”

va? . Premier Bill Vander Zalm was warmly received by residents of the Castlegar and

WARM WELCOME .

4

District Hospital visited the hospital for a sod-turning ceremony Friday

extended care section when he

CasNews Photo by Brendon Nogie

REDUCED REVENUE

City facing squeeze

By CasNews Staff The City of Castlegar is facing a budget squeeze because of drastically reduced revenue, the chairman of the administration and finance committee said this week.

Ald. Len Embree said the city is looking at a lower provincial gover nment grant, reduced industrial taxes and shrinking franchise fees paid by Inland Natural Gas.

“We're in a situation for a muni. cipality our size where our revenue has been drastically reduced,” he said

Embree said the annual provincial revenue sharing grant is down $10,000 this year. Last year the province gave the city some $324,000. But this year Castlegar will get about $314,300.

et, Embree said the provincial government's revenue is rising “to the tune of some $450 million being socked away in some election fund or what ever.”

“I have some concern that our grants... are reduced $10,000 and they're saving $450 million bucks into a slush fund. That doesn't make sense to me.”

Embree noted that at the same time local industry is appealing its tax assessments and winning reductions, which in turn increases residential taxes.

“Every time the corpor: reduction in their assessment dential) taxes go up.”

ddition, local industries are

ions get a (resi

the supplier instead of through Inland Natural Gas, resulting in a drop in the fee Inland pays the city.

Council agreed with Embree's proposal to write to Municipal Affairs Minister Rita- Johnston about the reduced provincial grant.

Mayor Audrey Moore noted that the Union of B.C. Municipalities plans to meet with the province this week to discuss the revenue sharing grants and the effect the recent provincial budget will have on municipalities.

Moore said the budget contained five or six items that will end up “costing municipalities more money.”

However, she pointed out that one of the reasons for Castlegar's reduced revenue sharins, rant is because of the drop in the ¢ity's population.