Customs manager, said officers near the Montana border

year and four in 1965 by the end of July.

“There's been an increased emphasis (by Canada Customs) on weapons and our efforts at finding them are getting better,” said Delgaty.

Mass murderer — Michael Ryan, the gun-loving loner who became Britain's worst mass murderer, won't be buried with the doting mother he killed and “almost certainly” won't be buried in the town he devastated before killing himself, his family said Saturday.

Several relatives of his victims had expressed dismay that Ryan might be buried in the same grave- yard as some of the 16 people he killed in ‘Wednesday’ ‘8

The d in the small English country town of Hungerford, about 95 kilo- betres west of London.

Rust trial

MOSCOW (Reuter) — West German teenager Mathias Rust, who landed a light plane in Moscow's Red Square in May after flying from Finland, will be tried in an open session of the Soviet Supreme Court in Moscow starting Sept. 2, the official news agency Tass reported Friday.

Rust, 19, who landed the plane after an un- authorized flight of hundreds of kilometres over Soviet territory, faces up to 10 years in prison on charges of violating international flight rules.

REGULATIONS

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — Investors with money tied up Principal

More than half the 225 people who filled an auditorium here Thursday night signed a petition calling on the B.C. government to bale pay ry cesntvesble fees of two Prineipal Group Corp. and Investors of a of

They also want the province to provide interest-free loans for people whose funds were forzen when the financial conglomerate collapsed but,,.who are in pressing need.

“I think they owe it to us,” said Art. Charbonneau, founder of the Kamloops Principal Investors Protection Association.

Charbonneau said he has compiled a list of about 150 Kamloops investors and the amount of each of their contracts. More than half are retired citizens who told him they were looking for security when they invested in the Principal Group.

FEAR

RIDICULE

He said many are still reluctant to come forward. They fear ridicule, and charges that as investors they should have remembered the adage “buyer beware,” and shouldn't expect the government to bail them out.

“That's utter nonsense,” said Charbonneau. “Just look at all the regulations for other parts of our society, like food and drug regulations.

“It's like if you get on a plane and the wings fell off and then the government says, “Well, you should have checked the plane before you got on it.’ " he said, “We're the backbone of the community . . . and I think we have been left out to dry.”

Several people at the meeting claimed sales agents for Principal companies had misled them into believing their pec ennai hab secure. They believed they were

He also faces a possible five-y on charges of malicious hooliganism and three years for illegal entry into the Soviet Union, but sentences on different charges usually run concurrently in the Soviet Union.

Rust is in Moscow's Lefortovo prison.

Clinic for impotent

MOSCOW (Reuter) — The first Soviet clii impotent men will soon open in Leningrad.

Nedelya magazine, a supplement of the daily Izvestia, said Friday that doctors and engineers assigned to the clinic had successfully tried on a number of men a device that could help thousands suffering from male sexual inadequacy. The device was not described.

“Good results have been achieved by drivers, pilots, and seamen — all types of men who, because of their work, spend a long time travelling and come home tired,” it said.

Nedelya said up to half of all divorces in the Soviet Union are caused by a lack of satisfactory sexual relations.

ic for

Record bowl

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. (CP) — Efforts by this southern Manitoba community to have the world’s largest bow! of strawberries listed in the Guinness Book of World Records have proven fruitless.

Local Kinsmen spokesman Dave Quinn, whose group spearheaded the effort last month to kick off the local strawberry festival, said Thursday he received a letter from the Guinness organization saying Portage la Prairie’s 515.9-kilogram bowl of strawberries was topped by a 565.2-kilogram entry from Kent, England.

“Your achievement was certainly magnificent and Iam sorry to disappoint after all your hard work,” the letter read. “Who knows, maybe you'd like to give it another go.”

Sydney, B.C., held the previous record of 387 kilograms.

Fund shortfall

TORONTO (CP) — The federal Progressive Con- servative party treasurer has issued a panic call for funds, warning that the Tories face a shortfall of nearly $900,000, which could increase to $2 million before the next election.

In a July 24 letter, George Stratton told party members the projected shortfall could mean defeat in the next election.

“Will you help forestall that tragedy today,” he asked, “by making an emergency donation of at least $75 to the PC Canada Fund the minute you have finished by letter?”

Stratton said the party needed $193,000 within 15 days and included a page from a report by the party's comptroller.

Two arrested

TORONTO (CP).— Two people were arrested Saturday while trying to prevent the arrival of a U.S. warship in Toronto harbor.

Three dinghies carrying members of the environ- mental activist group Greenpeace were waiting for the frigate, the Oliver Hazard Perry, when it entered the harbor. The activists tried to prevent the frigate from landing by placing their dinghies in front of its dock site.

On shore, 50 protesters from the Toronto Dis- armament Network held up a banner calling for nuclear-free waters.

One of those arrested has been charged with the dangerous operation of a motorized vessel. Police didn’t release the names of those arrested.

Mother arrested

MIAMI (AP) — Police are not apologizing for arresting a mother who allowed her two hungry children to eat a can of sausages on a Metrorail train.

“We are very serious about keeping the trains clean and pleasant for all people to use,” Metro-Dade Sgt. Richard Barger said Thursday

Tobia Jinks, 26, who is to be arraigned next week, could be sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined $500 US if convicted of second-degree misdemeanor charges of eating on a train.

“I saw the ‘no eating, no smoking’ signs,” Jinks said. “But my baby was hungry. We didn't get dinner.”

An catienated 10,000 B.C. contract holders were affected by closure of the two Principal Group investment subsidiaries which were placed. in receivership June 30. Kamloops investors alone poured an estimated $2 million into i portfolios by the two The parent company, the Principal Group, declared bank- ruptey Aug. 10.

Lyman Robinson, head of the University of Victoria law faculty and an investigator for the provincial inquiry into the Principal Group, conducted much of the meeting.

He outlined plans by Coopers and Lybrand, the accounting firm handling the receivership of First Investors and Associated Investors, to pay out 30 per cent of investors’ money by the end of August, then develop a plan to liquidate the rest of the companies’ assets.

“The objective of my inquiry is really to determine whether and what legal actions can be initiated against any of the named companies by or on behalf on the investors in B.C.,” Robinson added.

Robinson said the Alberta government has picked up the $12,000-a-day Coopers Lybrand fee so far, but now wants to withdraw from paying the whole cost.

U.S. wants no subsidies

EDMONTON (CP) — The United States is pushing for an end to all Canadian government subsidies to industry as part of its price for a free-trade deal, a secret U.S. govern- ment document suggests.

“A major U.S. objective in the free-trade negotiation with Canada is to bring greater discipline over the use of subsidies in Canada,” says the confidential U.S. Department of Commerce document obtained by the Edmonton Journal.

The July 27 memo from William Cavitt, the department's co-ordinator of free-trade negotiations, con tinues: “At this point, the negotiations are focusing on those programs which provide financial assistance to a specific firm or industry. . . The U.S. negotiators are asking the Canadians to end these subsidies at both the federal and the provincial levels.”

Critics of the free-trade talks reacted angrily Friday to what they say is concrete evidence that the U.S. wants an end to Canada’s tradition of using, as the memo states, “direct grants, subsidized loans, differential tax relief and equity infusions” to influence the country's economy.

The federal and provincial New Democrats said the memo is confirmation that under a free-trade agreement, regional aid programs — like the recent $1.2-billion Western Diversification Initiative — will be jeopardized.

University of Alberta economist Ed Shaffer said the memo means Alberta can “kiss all hopes of diversification goadbye, because we're locked ipto oi] and gas until the reserves run out.”

DAMAGE INDUSTRY

Removal of government-subsidies could be disastrous to Alberta’s oil industry, said Wilf Gobert, an oil-industry analyst for Peters and Co. of Calgary.

“It would call into question a lot of the various incentives, grants and rebates that are provided . . . by the Alberta government to the oil industry,” Gobert said.

The move would hurt the province's farmers as well, said Unifarm president Ralph Jespersen.

He said the biggest problem lies in the definition of subsidization. If all U.S. and Canadian agricultural subsidies were removed “I'm quite convinced that we would be able to compete.”

If the U.S. continues to subsi indirectly, while the Canadian government cuts off agricultural grants, “our farmers would just go broke.”

The memo to the International Trade Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures rounds out the “brief overview” Cavitt gave state officials at a closed meeting on July 28.

A tape cassette of that speech was given to the media earlier this week by federal NDP trade critic Steven Langdon.

“This memo tells us more clearly than we've ever been told how high the stakes are in this trade deal for the regions of this country,” Langdon said Friday

Mare Lorti spokesman with the Prime Minister's Office, said the aim of all trade talks is to reduce non-tariff barriers, but programs like the Western Diversification Initiative won't be affected because they are too broad-based to be considered subsidies.

The memo reaffirms a confidential Canadian govern- ment document that said “constraints (resulting from a free-trade agreement) on the use of regional development

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SHE'S OFF... Miss Castlegar 1987 Erin Finney flashes a smile and gives a wave Friday, moments betore boa ing a plane for Vancouver and the Miss P.N.E. Pageant. The 17- year- -old Finney Will be in Vancouver for five days of rehearsals and promotional visits, along with 44 other competitors. Last year's Miss Castlegar, Jennifer Peterson, left for Penticton earlier in the week to compete in the Miss Interior of B.C. Pageant which was held last night. Results were not available at press time.

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Titanic artifacts lifted

PARIS (AP-CP) — The artifacts now being lifted from the ocean liner Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland in 1912, will tour the world, appear on television and be kept in a collection for posterity, expedition organizers say.

For the first time since the current Titanic expedition began July 21, the French co-ordinators disclosed last week some of their plans for recouping the multimillion-dollar cost of the high-tech salvage opera-

Hart to join race?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former aides to Gary Hart are scoffing at speculation that the former Democratic presidential front-runner will rejoin the race.

Hart's political organiza- tion is gone, they say, and questions linger about his morals and judgment.

“His organization is ab- solutely disintegrated,” says Daniel Calegari, who was Hart’s New England political director.

John Holum, a former top Hart adviser, calls talk of a revived campaign “outland- ish.”

Former aides and other politicians offered their as- sessments following state- ments Friday by Hart's for- mer campaign manager, Bill Dixon, that it was “likely” the former Colorado senator

would rejoin the race for the 1988 presidential nomination.

Hart withdrew May 8 after reports of an apparent ex- tramarital involvement with Rice.

However, a poll for the liberal magazine The Nation last month indicated he would still be at the head of the pack if he decided to re- enter the race, although with less support than before the scandal.

Dixon said he believed Hart would rejoin the race as a long-shot candidate with a low-budget campaign.

NOT A CANDIDATE

But a longtime Hart polit- ical aide, Bill Shore, quoted Hart as saying Thursday, “I'm not a candidate and I don’t have any intention of becoming a candidate.”

Hart, vacationing in Ire-

land, did little to clear the air. He was quoted on Irish radio as saying Thursday night that he had no intention of running, and then saying Thursday night that he had

Hart, vacationing in Ire- land, did little to clear the air. He was quoted on Irish radio as saying Thursday night that he had no intention of running, and then saying Friday morning that he “wilt neither confirm nor deny” plans to run.

Shore said that when he asked Hart by telephgne Thursday night whether he was going to re-enter the race, Hart said: “Oh, no, no, no. You should be unambig- uous with people who ask.”

Shore said Dixon spoke without having consulted Hart.

Holum said questions

about Hart's relationship with Rice would cripple any attempt to revive the cand- idacy.

“The problem hasn't gone away,” he said. “How could he talk about anything else?”

One Democratic state par- ty chairman, speaking on condition he not be identified, suggested that Dixon's re- marks were'a trial balloon to permit Hart to gauge re- action to the idea of his re-entering the race. Dixon denied that this was the case.

In any event, the response has been largely negative.

In Minnesota, Ruth Esala, head of the Democrat-Farm- er-Labor Party, said Hart would have three strikes against him — campaign debt, loss of staff and the Rice factor.

Action on CPR station swift

By JOHN CHARTERS

Following council's unan- imous decision Tuesday night to obtain possession of and relocate the historic CP Rail station on city property, ac- tion has been swift and de- cisive. On Wednesday morn-

CP Rail Station sub-com- mittee chairman Alex Lutz, landscape engineer Nancy Felde and Castlegar Heritage Advisory Committee chair- man John Charters studied the plans and charts for this first (relocation) phase of the station r ion for which

ing the official was given. On Thursday morning city engineer Kevin Lagan met with Heritage railway station sub

the engineer has responsibil- ity.

Committee members then went to the ion site, a

tee directors to discuss and ertend the extensive relo- cation work schedule that he had already prepared.

part of the present city park- ing lot adjacent to the track, where Lutz, who has given considerable study to the

problem, explained the latest relocation plans. Nancy Felde took copies of the plans for further study.

On Thursday afternoon final touches were made to the grant application for $50,000 compiled by the Heritage Advisory ‘Commit- tee executive and the city it- tee executive and the city staff. It was then turned over to director Dr. Bill Sloan who will present it at a meeting of the British Columbia Heri- tage Trust this weekend.

MEETING . .

CP Rail sub-committ:

chairman Alex

funds could negatively affect all provinces, particularly Lutz meets with city engineer Kevin Lagan and lan-

those with the weakest sources of domestic capital.”

Sub-comittee members Dick McLeod and Gerry Rempel were unable to at- tend the meeting have been kept informed.

On Monday it is hoped to have the six-man Castlegar and District Development Board crew start preliminary preparation of the relocation site. They will work under the supervision of Alex Lutz. This work, labor only, will help reduce relocation costs to the city.

tion.

U.S. officials who want to see the Titanic left

inviolate as a memorial have criticized the

Titanic site 300 nautical miles southwest of New- foundland are 160 pieces of dishes, four bottles, a purser's strongbox, seven pieces of furniture, a propeller, a chandelier and a bronze cherub that once held a light on one of the Titanic’s grand staircases.

Crucial to the salvage is the high-tech minisubmarine

ONTARIO ELECTION Peterson

By John Valorzi The Canadian Preas

He stubbed his toe, but like a marathon runner David Peterson ignored the pain and soldiered on.

The popular and usually smooth Ontario premier began the week with a stumbling, uneasy performance during a televised leaders’ debate Pena that left even his own handlers scratching their heads.

And at the end of a busy week of for the

has lead

farm country, Northern Ontario and Toronto's ethnic

ds, making amid the photo opportunities with promises to help, farmers, clean up the and de health care.

UNABLE TO The Conservatives and New Democrats kept to their election strategies but didn’t appear to score any points,

Sept. 10 provincial election, he got into hot water with a mene here? remark he directed at a Toronto funeral home di

Tiodwented, Peterson put his gaffes behind him and set his sights on the majority government most polls predi¢t are easily within his grasp.

During Monday's debate, the first in an Ontario election campaign in a decade, Peterson was put on the defensive by Conservative leader Larry and

h Rae and both d hard to paint a picture of a Peterson Ontario filled wnt social problems ignored by his minority

Rae, a distant second in the polls, por to his campaign of having “ordinary people” tell their stories about high car insurance, workplace pollution and exor- bitant rents. He also promised an NDP government would boost spending on child care and cap rent increases at four per cent.

NDP leader Bob Rae, and was roundly criticized for in- decisiveness and lack of clarity in staking out his position on free trade with the United States.

The next day, Peterson stayed true to form, campaigning as if nothing had happened.

“You can't dwell on things forever,” he sald. “You

That's what he did Friday after a jocular remark drew criticism from.Neil Webster, a Toronto funeral home manager.

Just before announcing the Liberal government would spend $100 million on improved health-care programs, Peterson noted that diet and lifestyle are increasing the incidences of killer diseases such as stroke, heart disease and cancer.

Turning to Webster, president of the local Rotary Club, he quipped: “You might like that, Neil, in your business.”

Webster told reporters he was not amused by the joke, but Peterson glossed over the incident, saying the comment was made in a light-hearted way.

hil poor third whom most observers agreed did well ir in the debate, tried hard this week to show voters his party isn't the rural, small-town, right-wing rump it has been portrayed as in recent weeks.

He attempted to show the Tories as urban pro- gressives sensitive to issues that concern city voters like pollution.

At a Toronto gas station, he promised the Tories would equalize the price of leaded and unleaded gas to cut consumption of leaded fuel, whose emissions have been linked to health problems among children and pregnant | women.

And in Ottawa, he said a Tory government would

ically jai i: f

twice of wilfully polluting the environment.

With the election campaign past the mid-point, Rae and Grossman are still hoping for a major stumble by the Liberals that would given them a chance.

That's unlikely to happen, says Grahan White, a University of Toronto political scientist who once worked at the provincial legislature.

“I think Peterson would have to do something

Peterson took his “Hi, how are you” to

‘ic like di the Queen not to get a majority.”

Nautile, owned by the French Institute for and Exploitation of the Sea. The institute was a partner with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute of Cape Cod, Mass., in the 1985 expedition that discovered the Titanic.

They note that 1,513 people drowned when the White

Star liner hit an iceberg and

sank on its maiden voyage

from Southampton, England, to New York, on April

14-15, 1912.

Canada claims the Titanic on grounds that the wreck

lies on the Canadian continental

slope. However,

External Affairs Department lawyer Howard Strauss has said Canada’s claims to the wreck are specific and it “cannot prevent them from raising artifacts,” although “it

is Canada's preference that

the Titanic be undisturbed

and artifacts not be collected.”

‘NOT EUROPEAN’

The current project isn't a. West European plunder- ing of a U.S.-British grave, said Robert Chappaz, chair- man of the French marine company Taurus International and spokesman for the expedition.

“All the financing is coming from North America,” Chappaz said. “The people involved have decided that as long as the expedition is at sea they don’t want to make a

big show.”

He said the only European investor is Swiss million- aire Carlos Piaget, who lives in New York. Piaget co-ordinated fund-raising for the 20 backers, registered in Britain as Ocean Research and Exploration Ltd,, Chappaz said.

He added that a news conference Tuesday in New York will provide more details and some photos will be

released.

“I feel pretty sure that the public of the United States will support this mission once we have adequately

informed them,”

Chappaz said.

He repeated the expedition's promise that none of

the Titanic artifacts will be

sold. He said one or more

special museums may be set up to display them. Among the pieces divers have scooped up from the

Mother

Teresa

in Soviet Union

MOSCOW (AP) — Mother Teresa argued amiably with her Soviet hosts Friday about whether God or nature was responsible for her good works.

She is visiting the Soviet Union, a country that is officially atheistic, in hopes of establishing a mission.

Friday's exchange was a sign of the difficulties the Roman Catholic nun may en counter with Soviet officials if she is able to add the U.S.S.R. to the 77 countries where her missionaries do charity work

She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for a lifetime of caring for India’s poor.

During her six days in the Soviet Union, Mother Teresa is to visit a village in the Ukraine where people were resettled after the April 1986 nuclear accident at Cher. nobyl.

Moscow officially permits religious freedom but re quires church members to register with authorities. Many churches have been closed or fallen into disrepair since the 1917 Bolshevik

Genrikh Borovik, greeted and praised her during their meeting.

“I would like to tell you we are very happy to have you here,” Borovik said. “We really respect you very much for your very fruitful and useful work for humanity.”

“I think we have to thank God for everything,” said Mother Teresa, who was dressed in a simple white cotton dress and blue sweater.

Borovik answered: “We call it nature, you call it God. I think it is the same thing.”

Mother Teresa said she was especially interested in the Chernobyl visit, adding she and other workers from her Missionaries of Charity order, “always strive to go to those places of the world where tragic events happen.”

“People are the same throughout the world — they need support,” said Mother Teresa. “I do not know whether I will be able to give practical assistance... but I want to express to people my love and compassion.

The Soviet Union officially

dscape engineer Nancy Felde to discuss plans for relocation of the Castlegar’s CP Rail station.

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prohibits churches from carrying out charitable work such as that performed by Mother Teresa's mission aries.

Revolution.

Mother Teresa, 77, is in the country at the invitation of the official Soviet Peace Committee, whose chairman,

Ed Peck likes position

VANCOUVER (CP) — The head of the powerful new Industrial Relations Council is a man who always seemed to relish being in the no man’s land between warring sides in labor disputes.

Ed Peck, 62, is staying in that position because he is both admired and disliked by the people he will be dealing with during his tenure as the council's fitst/ commissioner.

The council, forméd under new legislation aimed at streamlining the process of resolving labor disputes, has not yet stepped in on any fights.

But the B.C. Federation of Labor, angered by what they see as a large-scale government intervention in collective bargaining, has decided to boycott the council. It’s member unions have refused to appear at council hearings unless given special permission by the federation.

“We said all along that the purpose of the fcounei) was to discriminate against unions and

WASPS

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stinger which can be injected and withdrawn any number of times.

And Shepard is quick to point out that more people die from the stings of wasps each year in North America than from rattle snake bites.

Shepard described the breed most common in the Castlegar area as the yellow jacket, which has a slim body and tiger-like stripes on its back. He said two other wasps may be found, one similar to the yellow jacket but with a very thin body, and another big, black one with white spots, but both are of the yellow jacket family.

The yellow jacket builds either a paper-like hive in trees and under ledges or lives in mud, building cell-like structures in the soil.

Shepard said the wasp population fluctuates with the populations of the area insects.

“But if they get hungry enough they'll eat anything,” he said. Shepard takes a special interest in studying months but he-said the wasps “must get up earlier than I do” and kill his subjects.

Shepard also said that wasps collect insect larvi, paralyze it with a sting, and lay their eggs inside. The larvi will then serve as food once the egg hatches.

But a wasp nest in your back yard doesn't necessarily mean you have to be strj¢ken with fear every time you eat at the picnic table.

Shepard said insecticides are available that will kill an entire nest but he cautions those on the trail of nest destruction to be careful.

Shepard recommends choosing a cool or cold night when all the wasps will be in the nest and relatively dormant. He said to concentrate the spray at the nest’s opening. Wasp nests only have a single opening which serves as both exit and entrance for the wasps.

Shepard recommends a concentrated spray for several minutes, “and be ready to run if (the night) isn't cool enough.”

Wasps nesting in the mud may pose a bigger problem and Shepard warns they are potentially more dangerous since someone in barefeet could easily step on the entrance.

But if stung, a person shows signs other than the norma! local swelling, Dr. Ward recommends they seek medical advice.

Ward said reaction to the sting can occur within a few minutes or even the next day.

Signs to look for are a red, and irritate area and extreme swelling.

Peck and his minions are doing just that,” peepee president Ken Georgetti said Friday.

Hearings on the recently-passed Industrial Relations Reform Act, under which the council was formed, are set to begin Sept. 14. They're designed to help officials interpret the act in a way that will satisfy all parties in labor disputes.

EARNED RESPECT

Jim Matkin, i Council of B.C. pi , calls Peck a masterful administrator who earned the grudging respect of labor during his tenure as commissioner of the Compensation Stabilization Program, created by the government in 1982 to keep the lid on public sector wage increases.

John Shields, head of the B.C. Government Employees’ Union, calls Peck a “crafty . gent for the destruction of the trade-union movement.”

In 1961, Peck was the general manager of an employer association called the Peace Power and Colum- bia Hydro Constructors, where he hammeréd out an agreement in which 26 unions building three dams agreed not to strike during the 10-year building project. In exchange, the unions won guarantees they would supply all the labor.

He was involved in some of the province's most difficult settlements, including mediating and arbitrating a dispute between the Health Labor Relations Associa- tion and the Hospital Employees’ Union that took four years to resolve from 1979 to 1982.

“T'm not here to preside over the demise of the trade- union movement. Peck said in an interview this week. “Tm here with my colleagues to assist the parties to resolve their differences and adjudicate.”

If the man seems defensive, it is understandable.

WAS PERSUADED

Each office he has served has worked under a cloud of labor criticism. Peck conceded he had to be persuaded to go to the Labor Relations Board in 1973, formed by then New Democratic Party labor minister Bill King.

“He has a very high sense of public duty,” said Matkin. “He wrestled with the idea of joining an NDP board, yet he did.”

Matkin conceded that many people question how Peck can be considered’ neutral after five years of administering wage controls under the former Premier Bill Bennett's stabilization program.

But Peck said he believes he administered the controls fairly and dismissed criticisms that overseeing the stabilization program compromised his neutrality to head the new council, which labor says will administer a bad law.

“Is a judge any less neutral because he has to interpret and administer an unpopular law?” Peck asked.

While Peck was unsure about whether he will complete a five-year term at the council, he welcomed the challenge.

“The people who survive and do well in this business are engaging, attractive, controversial characters,” he said. “The wimps don’t survive.”

ROCK PILE . . . What looks like a mountain of rock is

piling up around the t of

Barry Bonhan

Ron S$

9 d) a Hikoff, two of the six men

working for the summer with the Castlegar end District Development Board. The crew was hard at work on a new inner city park. _ costewsPhote by Mike Kalesniko