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6 Varieties.

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* Filberts

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* Pecans. * Peanuts * Walnuts _ * Hazelnuts

: RON WILLIAMS |: Bakery Dept. Manager.

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~ of its $62,000 goal for 1983.

: i working on‘a federal grant ion that, if’successful,

* eomeniatlon stil has a long way to go to even find out if the federal government will accept the application.

“We haven't got very far yet,” he said. “It's a huge process,” He estimated it will be another month'before the

could see the start-up of the 4 Project in 1984. a The application is for a Bei anlee one. eof thie federal work programs. The commissioh would then use the grant-to pay some of the workers on the dam project. Commission secretary Richard’ Maddocks said in an interview today that the grant would/amount to a‘substan- tial sum, but he could not’ ‘be more specific, until final figures are in, Maddocks added that B.C. yare likes the ides. “It’s quite exciting,” jocks snid.. However, at ed same ie he ¢autioned that ‘the

Climber strangles

-eade when he got tangled in his: rope and died in spite of an attempt by his climbing partner to rescue him.

climbing a treacherous slope ‘at Flood Falls in the mountains just went of Hope on Boxing'Day.

In/ah attempt to rescue ie

Yproatt-T- -a arrow ledge which had a tree 6 tnissed and fell'50 feet.”

De Jong, 28; was unhurt alter tho fall and. he climbed “back to | ‘whe 27-year-old ‘Kippan' was hanging.”

“I-checked his breathing, there was none,” said De Jong, a bio-physics stu: dent at Simon Fraser University. “Teut: him loose ‘and we fell.

“He was a top climber, ‘one: of. the’ best in B.C.,” he said. “It was just a fluke accident.” ‘

De. Jong, who is an editor ‘of a mountain climbers’ newsletter, said the ice was treacherous and. his friend appeared to have slipped while using . the rope to rappel down. the cascade.

* ‘A few feet more and we'd have been home free,” De Jong said.

United Way gets surprise $10,000 grant

By CasNews Staff ti Castlegar's United Way received /a::| much-needed shot in the arm last week *| with a $10,000 grant from the Vancou- ver Foundation. At last report, the United Way drive had reached only $87,000 — well short

The $10,000 Castlegar: grant is part of $525,000 in special grants ‘to ‘social. service agencies in 20 communities

coneépt too far-fetched, but}changed ‘their

: CHRISTMAS PRESENT. . . Peaallsgae resident Laurie Biron shows off Wisning: ticket Which won her a Lottery.

Woman wins $10,000

By CHERYL CALDERBANK “Everybody else (friends) called all day long,” she

will “have anything together at all.”

He said the commission hopes to‘ have a preliminary draft prepared by mid-January for submission to Hydro and the provincial: government. :

Maddocks added that the commission has been working on'the plan for about two or. three: weeks.

It came up as ab idea ‘and: ‘we've. pursued it,” he

‘He said first: thought the minds,

don’t want to create false tomorrow.”

Still, Maddptks warned, hopes, We could ‘get ston

ewalled _ Maddocks sald B.0, Hydro‘plans|to start work on the :

‘CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA; WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1983 i

WEATHERCAST

clepay with sun riods and

jonal snow Hurres Thursday ond F tna Highs -7 to -9, lows - 13\to -15. Chance of precipitation 40 per cent Thursday, mesesing to 50 per cent on Friday.

3 Sections (A, B & C)

Keonteyside) Project in late 1986 or early 1987. But if the in its for a:works grant, it hopes eae will begin work in late 1984.

‘The commission also hopes to have the project continue to its present date — thus it as long as two or'three years. | *.

Maddocks explained this is “so we don't get the sort of big surge of employment all at once.”

he said the met with Hydro répresentatives to find out the current status of, the Murphy Creek and ‘Keenleyside' projects. - “He ‘said’ community: relations ‘officer. Bil Mgkes dis-

counted ‘several rumora; inel ‘one which had B.C. ~ Hydro prepared torent the top floor of the Sandman Inn for ‘its dam workers otics’the Inn is completed. »

< My! brvatied «rane tat Hydro Das ordered

d for Keenleyside

the for Keen! said Hydro is still sticking to its 1986-87 ates: date for Keenleyside,

Meanwhile, the commission also plans to tackle local economic problems on another front.

Maddocks said the commission plans to approach Castlegar businesses in the new year to ask if they will take part in a work experience scheme.

He said the plan is fora business to take on unemployed workers without pay to give the workers some job skills that may come in handy in their search for work. x

He said Stanley Humphries Secondary School has a’. similar work for that has -

Proven successful, and the commission would like to extend . fete to the community. -

much-needed $10,000 in the Dec. 22 B.C. Seniors

~~~) FROM BONNER

—CosNews Photo by Cheryl Colderbank

-Keenle yside and Murphy get si sa

VANCOUVER (CP) — The Murphy ,

Creek dam and Ke

yeat and ey tripling them over a

inejeet have received a boost from B.C, Hydro chairman Robert Bonner and Energy Minister Stephen Rogers.

», Both Rogers and Bonner now see:a

slower and smaller building program

“for Hydro ‘with Keenleyside - and

‘Murphy Creek at the forefront: Rogers said that short:$f an“ ‘enor-

. But if there is a boom, “We can look -

at the Site C project.” ~

Depending on how things go, he said, Site C — put on hold by the provincial government — could now come in : any- where from six-to 15 years.

Bonner said if the increase in de- mand stays slow, domestic needs would suggest Keenleyside’ and Murphy ' Creek: first, then Site C. beginning sometime in the next 10 years.

There are other possibilities, includ-

ing buying spare power from Alcan if it:

expands generating facilities at Kem: ano.

Meanwhile, the halt in Hydro's con- struction program is good news for consumers, at least in the short term.

In 1982, the government-owned util- ity was talking of raising electricity bills by more than ‘27 per cent next

y

No eh chairman Bonner says, bills

cn ees to go up by only about the

rate of inflation for the next few years

as far as Hydro’s needs are concerned —‘about six Per cent a year.

And this lower estimate even allows for the coats:of the $2 billion Revel- stoke|dam tard? the: $800 million ‘Cheek line

* to: Vancouver ee which is to start rt}

the ~ given to the B.C: Utilities Caaietan " ‘were made ata time when Hydro ‘still ‘thought \the!. electricity boom years ‘were going to tontinue into the 1980s.

“Qur concern was to meet the appar- ent demand out;customers were telling . us. they required,” Bonner. said in an interview.

“We thought it would be nip-and- tuck in meeting demand in the latter part of this decade and our capital program was a bit of a pellmell pro- gram to meet that level of apparent demand.”

In September 1981, Hydro was still estimating demand would grow an \average of 6.4 per cent a year for the next 10 years. By September, 1982, it had dropped the forecast to an average 4.8 per cent. Now it is saying the average growth in demand will be 3.9 per cent for the next 10 years, and only 2.9 per cent for the 10 years after that.

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HERMAN'S HERE: Herman, the enormously. popular cartoon strip, willbe a regular feature of the Castlegar News starting with the Sunday, Jan. 1 issue. To get readers acquainted with the strip’s peculiarly funny brand of

throughout the province. + It follows up on the $926,000

awarded to the Lower Mainland United |

Way earlier this year.) .

In his ietter to the United Way, Foundation executive director, Dr. J. David McGann said: “Our directors do not for a moment expect that this grant

* can possibly solve all the problems of

local agencies, and their hard- pressed clientele.

“However, if these funds can help alleviate critical local situations arising from the economic turndown and aid volunteer agencies in their readjust- ment to present conditions and to conditions in the year ahead, then our board feels all who need assistance in your community will benefit and that, in the eyes of Vancouver Foundation, would be a worthy accomplishment.

Vy, Found: ‘

Staff Writer: Castlegar resident Laurie Biron received.a much- needed Christmas present this year.: After being laid off from her job Nov. 80, she was destitute, without any groceries in the house. She was even placed.on the Royal: Canadian Legion's Ch

said.

Furthermore, her luck continued when Biron mana- ged to get three day's work at her former*place of employment, Castlegar: Taxi, ‘driving a cab.

Her plans for the. $10,000 are to buy a

d-hand truck, pay a few bills, and buy a few things

$2.5 million: mistake, A2

Hamper list, though alte; ever actually received a hamper.

Lottery draw was made and Biron was chosen winner of the $10,000'second prize. First prize was $100,000.

“I didn’t believe it. I still can’t,” she says.

Biron received the tickets in the mail along with other British Columbians, but she forgot about them after

sending in $10. for six tickets.

' On Dec. 22 the draw was made at noon on BCTV, and Biron realized she won. She‘received a telephone call from the foundation later that day.

Then, three days before Ctiristanas, the. B.C.. Seniors ,

she's always wanted — like a color TV to replace her $18 black and white one. Then she'll sock away the rest of the winnings.

““I would have been happy just to win $1,000,” she said.

Biron, who lives on her own, said she’s never won in a lottery but she has been lucky at. bingo, recently winning.$135 at Legion bingo.

Biron said‘she usually sends in lottery tickets that come in the mail and buys Western Express “once in a while.”

She still has a ticket for the Feb. 24 lottery in aid of the handicapped.

Will she win again?

“You can only be lucky once — I think,” she says.

the ability of informed private indi-

profile on the Herman's.

humor, we have a special

creator, Jim Unger ...Cl¥ : 126) “Is it true you like your employees to speak thelr minds, big nose?” ©

BRIGHT LIGHTS: Castl Chamber of C has sel i the winners of the Christmas lights display contest best decorated com- mercial window... A2

BIG BROTHER: 1984 is just around the corner and that conjures up images from George Orwell's book by the same name. How close are we to Orwell's vision? ... Cl

ORWELL POLLED: Many Britons, Swiss and West Germans believe “Big Brother” snooping by today's governments has destroyed in- dividual privacy.

Canada topped the British and Swiss lists of countries with “a great deal of freedom.”

A three-country Gallup poll, published Tuesday, on how far people believe their societies have moved in the totalitarian direc- tion depicted in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, shows 72 per cent of Britons think “there is no real privacy because the government can learn anything it wants about you.”

The poll published in The Daily Telegraph newspaper shows 38

viduals of: goodwill to make jud

The C News will publish one day early this weekend because of the

taeda ees bat N ex t Issue ‘New Year’s Day holiday Sunday.

“We believe that the United Way

+ The Sunday edition will be published

movemient in your community is led by , b ] iG" as an afternoon paper on Saturday, such people, and therefore, we give to e ear y Dec. 31.

this grant for your discretionary use.”

This issue of the paper, which will be

datelined Jan. 1, will include a special pull-out section our news department has prepared with year-end wrap-ups of local, regional and world affairs. Watch for the Year in’ Review In Photographs included in the special edition.

view about their governments. {t says 68 per cent of Britons,

per cent of West Germans and 37 per cent of Swiss hold the same

26 per cent of West Germans and

28 per cent of Swiss also believe their governments use “false words and statements to hide bad news about the economy and quality of