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The Castlegar Sun

Wednesday, December 14, 1994

RON NORMAN Sun Editor

The Regional District of Central Kootenay could be fac- ing a 26 per cent increase in its planning budget for 1995.

Planning manager Don Harasym suggests that the planning department budget jump by more than $132,000— from just under $500,000 in 1994 to $632,000 next year.

Harasym made the recom- mendation in a recent memo- randum to the regional board.

He said the increased funding would be used to hire two new employees: a planning techni- cian and a land use planner.

More planning money needed

“The heavy department workload, as identified in the 1995 lists of projects for plan- ning and development services,

with the

Public hearing for rezoning application

RON NORMAN Sun Editor

A Castlegar couple plans to construct a on Ci

being d by present staff have “necessitated the recommended staff increas- es,” Harasym said.

In addition, he recommends that the 1995 development ser- vices budget be $590,000—up $42,000 or seven per cent from the 1994 budget of $548,000.

Part of that increase will be a result of the regional district filling the services and waste management supervisor position.

Avenue next to St. David's Anglican Church. Ken and Louise Yaseniuk want to rezone the

Castlegar council last week gave the rezon- ing application two readings and sent it to a Jan. 10 public hearing.

In @ memorandum to council, city planner Joon Bahk said the proposed rezoning con- forms to the Official Community Plan,

As well, Bahk said the lot size exceeds the

designed to fit the land configuration,” Bahk said. “The new building should enhance the of the surrounding area.”

He pointed out the access off Christina Place will be located away from Columbia Avenue and the intersection.

He also pointed out that the building will

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property at 1375 Columbia Ave, to General Com- Schools, and Public.

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minimum required.

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not have a “significant impact” on the water or

Biologists speculate on cause

“Submitted

Samples of dead Kokanee sent

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oratory in Nanaimo for analysis indicate no presence of disease or

showing up in the main body of Lake and into the North and South Arm. “The fish kill is thought to have originated in the Pilot/Crawford Bay areas of the lake,” the Environ- ment Ministry said in a prepared

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In early October, large num- bers of dead Kokanee began

release. nples taken by Fish and Wildlife Branch staff were sent to the laboratory to determine if the Kokanee deaths were caused by disease and/or toxins.

“While the reasons for this and previous fish kills are not wholly understood, biologists note there

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are aspects common to all of these events. A large storm swept through the area prior to the fish kill,” the Ministry said.

Dead fish were limited to Kokanee and only two year class- es (age two and three) were affected. The majority of these, ranging in size from 14 cmt 0 22 cm, had distended swim bladders, likely caused by an extreme dis- solved gas pressure change not unlike the “bends” experienced by divers surfacing too quickly.

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surface changed from six to 13 degrees Celsius in the course of the storm,” the Ministry said. At night, older kokanee tend to hold at a depth of 30 meters. Younger fish, which were not affected, tend to hold at a shallower depth, approximately five meters above the older kokanec.

Fisheries biologists speculate the storm caused these water lay- ers, with different temperature characteristics, to shift and possi- bly break down.

‘Two-and three-year old kokanee would have experienced a signifi- cant te: change as well as a large reduction in hydrostatic pressure as they moved closer to the surface.

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At the Castlegar Campus, uni- versity credit courses are offered evenings for those who must jug- gle the demands of employment with the desire to acquire a uni- versity education.

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