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Castlegar with recent bout of warm weather, but snowmen like this one at Silverton are still common in the Slocan Valley

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Funeral held

Wybigjen “Winnifred” de. Jong of Trail, passed away Feb. 25 at the age of 92.

Mrs. deJong was born in Oude Haske, Friesland, Hol. land May 31, 1895. She came to Canada with her husband in 1926. They pioneered in the Trail area and operated the Crystal Dairy for many years.

Mrs. deJong was a faithful attender of the Bethany Chapel and was well known for her knitting.

She is survived by her

Rempel to head auxiliary

By SARAH TUPHOLME

The ladies auxiliary to the Robson Volunteer Fire De partment had a good year in 1987 and in February a new executive was elected. Its president Judy Rempel, vice. president Sarah Tupholme, secretary Darline Edwards, treasurer Kathy Seville, sun shine Sharon Taylor, and ad vertising Joy Jenner.

Out-going president Ger. aldine Lahue gave her annual report which showed how busy the auxiliary has been

It had a St. Patrick's Day tea, catered to a banquet and wedding, hosted a fire chief lunch and a lunch for the Robson wharf dedication, served lunch at a pool tourn. ament, had a Father's Day breakfast, a card evening, ran the concession at the flea market, and organized the annual firemen’s competition.

As a result the auxiliary was able to make donations to the Variety Club Telethon the Robson River Otters, Raspberry Lodge and the Extended Care Unit at the hospital, hold a community Hallowen party and collect food and toys for the Legion hampers. The auxiliary is open to more members and is looking forward to a suc cessful 1988

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AT THE PENTECOSTAL NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY 402-7th Street ‘Across trom Twin Rivers Elementary

Sunday, March 6 at 6:30 p.m.

daughters, Anne Bowman Kozak of Castlegar, and Sue Weismiller and Gertrude Miller both of Westbank; sons, John of Nelson and ‘Louis of Montrose; 24 grand children; and 25 great-grand. children. She was prede. ceased by her husband Rei nold; two sisters and three brothers.

Funeral services were held at the Bethany Chapel, Trail Feb. 29. Pastor Robert Live ly officiated. Interment fol lowed at the Mountain View Cemetery. In memoriam do nations may be made to the Gideon Bible Society. Car. berry’s Funeral Home was entrusted with the arrange.

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2 Sections (A & B)

By CasNews Staff

Police suspect arson was the cause of an early morning fire which destroyed a camperized van Thurs. day in North Castlegar.

Joe Naychuk'’s 1974 Dodge van went up in flames about 1 a.m. for no apparent reason while his van was parked on the lawn next to the

VAN BLAZE... RCMP Cpl. Terry Hyland sifts through the wreckage of a van that suffered extensive damage ina fire earlier, this week. The

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house at 525 7th Ave. Naychuk says he was sleeping at the time.

“Something woke me up and the bedroom was lit in red,” says Nay. chuk

After seeing the van on fire through his window Naychuk tele phoned the fire department which arrived in less than five minutes.

mysterious cause of the blaze is under investigation

Van blaze investigated

“We had it under control within five minutes,” said Fire Chief Bob Mann.

Mann said because of the contents of the camperized van, the fire didn’t burn through to the gas tank and the only problem they had was a container of propane in the back of the van

Mann said they just had to wait for the propane to burn off.

Castlegar RCMP sifted through the remains of the van Thursday

“Because of the picious nature, arson is being in vestigated,” said Staff Sgt. Jack Keddy

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EDUCATION COSTS

Funds not enough

By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer

Castlegar school district will have $415,000 more to spend next year.

The provincial government told Castlegar school board this week that's how much it will receive from an education funding increase of $175 millidn to B.C. schools.

‘These improvements should sig nificantly reduce school boards’ need to

ministry grant is a “band-aid solution” and is “certainly not enough.”

Rodgers said the additional fund ing will only bring school funding up to the level it was in 1983.

“We are the worst funded educa tion system, behind every other prov. ince in Canada except Quebec,” Rod gers said.

“Considering the fact that we've done very little, maintenance and sup-

tax, residents for ‘ " ‘y amounts,” said Education Minister Tony Brummet in a prepared release.

Local superintendent of schools Terry Wayling says it’s not quite as simple as that in this school district.

“We have an added complication in School District No. 9,” said Wayling.

He said declining enrolment of 67 students this year compounds prob- lems with the budget the board must submit to the Ministry of Edueation in a few weeks.

Less students means less money from the ministry, while operating costs such as busing, maintenance and staffing remain the same.

Board chairman Gordon Turner agreed. “Decreasing enrollment is our worst problem,” he said.

And Turner is not too impressed with the extra $415,000.

“It helps a bit, but it only covers part of what is needed,” said Turner.

Castlegar Teacher's Association president, Mike Rodgers said the

plies are dwindling it's just bringing us back to where we were in ‘83.

“The government has been under- funding education for at least six years.”

In addition, Rodgers said the grant comes at a bad time, right before the budget is put together.

“This grant comes before the board knows what the budget is going to be,” he said.

Wayling said in budgeting for the next school year the board has to pre- dict employee wage benefit increases.

As well as it has other costs such as telephone charges and postage, which will increase this year.

Meanwhile, teachers are set to negotiate their first contract with the sehool as a union this year.

Rodgers says teachers are not happy with the 2.8 per cent wage increase announced by the provincial government.

“He gave teachers the right to bargain and now he's setting wage controls,” said Rodgers.

Rodgers says that figure is less when other things such as experience increments for teachers and pupil - teacher ratio will come out of that increase.

“The good thing is that they've never started that high before. They would just say no and start from zero,” says Rodgers.

“I think the bargaining is going to be long and I think it will probably go into the next school year.”

Wayling notes that some of the costs are beyond the board's control, such as Canada Pension Plan contribu tions.

But he wouldn't want to predict how much tax payers will benefit from the provincial government increase

The ministry currently pays 87 per cent of this district's costs and local taxpayers pick up the rest

Wayling said last year the average tax rate Went up $37.

“Interestingly enough, $37 was low in,terms of Kootenay averages,” said Wayling. “The province was higher.

“That is a concern and the trustees really worry about that,” Wayling said

The main thing, Wayling said is to make sure the budget will allow for adequate buildings and staff to ensure & good quality education for students He said this is what must be balanced against taxation in making the budget

“That's a tough question,” he said

World Cup hotels empty

By CasNews Staff

The world’s finest women skiers are coming to the West Kootenay to ski in the Husky World Downhill next weekend, but area hotels are empty

Ron Ross, revenue chairman for the local race committee, says there has been no interest shown from outside the area and admits race organizers were hoping to cash in on the recent Olympic Games exposure the women received in Calgary

“We haven't got the number of visitors we anticipated,” Ross said Friday, “We've had such tremendous cooperation from the hotels in the area, we're extremely disappointed that people haven't come in and flooded area hotels with bookings.”

He said the race organizing com mittee will not lose any money because of the apparent lack of out-of-town visitors, but said it had higher expectations than are currently being met.

“The race committee is concerned things are going to be a little tight.” Ross said without offering just how tight “things” will be. “We hoped to generate a lot more interest than has been shown so far.”

The race committee had hoped for

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Missing man found by tracks

By RON NORMAN Editor

An 84-year-old Castlegar man who went missing for 7'/ hours Thursday was found unhurt along the CP Rail track 25 kilometres north of Castlegar.

A CP Rail crew spotted Stewart McKenzie of 2321 Columbia Ave. sitting on a log about 150 metres from the track around 2:30 p.m. Thursday

McKenzie, who lives with his sister, had wandered away from his Columbia Avenue home early Thurs day morning

“He was gone before I got up before 7 a.m.,” Lily told the Castlegar News in an interview Friday

She said he often goes for long walks, somietimes as far as Trail, so she hopped in her car and headed south toward Trail to look for him.

But by the time she reached the

viewpoint just before Tadanac, she still hadn't seen him so turned around and returned to Castlegar. She said she was sitting having a cup of coffee at home when the Castlegar RCMP tele. phoned saying that someone had spotted her brother walking along the Celgar Road-between the pulp mill and Keenleyside Dam

Lily said she drove around to the dam via Castlegar Airport, figuring her brother would continue across the dam and into Robson. However, she said she drove over the dam and along Celgar Road through Castlegar without seeing him.

Worried, she returned home and reported him missing to the RCMP.

The police notified the railway company, which in turn notifed its crews.

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Red Mountain

strike

By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer

While most World Cup downhill events in North America have been cancelled or interrupted because of poor weather, Red Mountain may face cancellation of its event for a far different reason

The employees at Red Mountain are unhappy with their contract and have voted 88 per cent in favor of striking to make their point

“We hope to settle this as soon as possible to avoid any ugliness,” said Ray Gaudart, president of the United Steelworkers’ of America Local 9174, which represents the 75 employees at Red Mountain. “Naturally we prefer not to strike, but if it is necessary we might have to (strike during the Husky World Downhill event).”

Gaudart said no strike date has been officially set because the union is currently negotiating the manage ment at Red Mountain. But he added that if there isn’t some headway in negotiations soon, the employees may set up pickets at the mountain during the World Cup races. The events are scheduled to take place on March 12 and 13 with training runs starting on Wednesday.

The previous contract expired

issue is the two-tier wage

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system implemented in the employees’ contracts in 1986. The union agreed to the concessions because the ski area was facing financial difficulties.

The union agreed in 1986 to lower wages for lift operators starting for the first time on the hill. The starting wage for a new lift operator went from $7.50 an hour to $5.90 said Gaudart

Gaudart said the problem arose when Red Mountain management stopped raising the wages of em ployees taking over positions of de parting lift operators who had sen iority. Gaudart said the agreement was for advancing employees to get the higher wages of the departing em ployees.

“The club (Red Mountain) wants to formalize the two-tier system and not pay the higher wages,” Gaudart said. “As higher-paid employees leave, lower wages fill their places.”

Gaudart said the union is still offering the lower entry wage for beginning employees but wants to make sure the wages increase as the employees advance

“If they (Red Mountain manage ment) move on that issue (two-tier wages) I'm sure we can settle this quite quickly,” Gaudart said

Red Mountain was not available for comment at press time.

Tax program under review

By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer

Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco has been successful in having more of the West Kootenay deemed “isolated”

Ten additional communities have be: ded to the list of 35 West a communities eligible for northern and isolated residents’ de ductioris for the 1987 tax year.

“What the program is designed to do is compensate northern and isolated areas for extra living costs,” says Tim Barry, special assistant to Bob Brisco.

Rarry says people with the same income living in areas where food and

gas cost more should end up with the same net disposable income.

Barry says Brisco was unhappy with the “inequities” of the tax deductions for northern and isolated residents. He said Brisco had to make the decision to take away the deduction or support changing the regulations to include all residents in his riding.

“He is trying to qualify everybody possible,” says Barry.

The additional communities elig ible for the $5,400 deduction are: Glade, Pass Creek, Shoreacres, Shutty Bench, Slocan Park, Syringa Creek,

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