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The Castlegar Sun

Wednesday, December 20, 1995

Artist proposes unique Castlegar map

TRENT BANCARZ Sun Editor

A Genelle artist literally wants to put Castlegar on the map.

Harvey Penny spoke to city council at its meeting Tuesday night and outlined plans to cre-

ate a 160 square-foot detailed map of Castlegar. Penny sug- gested the map could be used as a “Welcome to Castlegar” sign and said he’s looking to locate it at a roadside pullout near the western entrance to the city on Highway 3

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The map would be handpaint-' ed and show every street in the city. Penny said the project would be funded through business spon- sorship, Businesses would pay $30 per year for space on the map and their logos or signs would be custom painted on their buildings on the map.

“I'm not asking for any money from the: city for this,” said

approval for the sign. He said such a letter would be beneficial when he starts approaching businesses.

Penny explained 500 potential business exist to approach and said he would only go ahead with the project if he had commitment from at least 300 of them.

“I don't think it would be a problem to sell this to at least 300 ” said Penny.

Penny. would finance it.

Penny asked council if the city would give him a letter of

woud added the nanadsies be unique and helpful for tourists and visitors.

“It's good for the, people com- ing here,” he said, “They'd have an accurate, detailed map to look at before they got into the city. Everything has been thought of in‘ regards to tourism. And with the summer games coming here this summer, I think it would be great to have something like this up.”

The would be painted on specially-treated plywood and Penny said weather beating and

won't be p

Mayor Mike O° ‘Connor said

the map is a great idea, but added

the city would have to know the ject was actually going ahead a aan the city would endorse it.

“We have to know you're, acty- ally going to do this,” said O'Connor. “I think it’s a great idea and it would sell.”

Should the project go ahead, Penny said he hopes to have it completed and installed by May.

“This is the first time I've tried ey but I've done large murals in

the past,” said Penny. “I think it psn ath be a unique thing for

School busses go video

KAREN KERKHOFF ‘Sun Statt

eras will short-circuit both concems.

“Surveillance will inoft. “This with

Bus drivers in the Castlegar School District

have had

At a board meeting held Monday, Castlegar L school trustees voted to have video cameras

installed on local school busses.

Maintenance supervisor Andy Boolinoff of

take care of this,” said go just as allow us to monitor who the bad guys are and take care of the prob- lem.”

and trans-

Further complicating the issue is parents children misbehave on the bus. Boolinoff Said installation of the cam-

who don’t believe their

said Popoff.

Popoff, i Portation supervisor, agreed with Boolinoff and argued the need for such “We're experiencing a rising level of b on the bus. A lot has to do with verbal abuse, willfu! and it is getting close to being violent acts,”

Contrary to common belief, Popoff said it’s

students will tell you where to kly as senior high students will. &

Popoff said other school districts in the province which have installed the equip- ment report greatly improved conditions on the bus.

“It's a proven fact noise levels and distur- bances go way down when they're installed.” And if parents still fefuse to believe their children are unruly, the district will have : “ int

“The parents who feel their kids have done

nothing wrong will be invited to come and

view the video.”

will cost about $3,000 and

not only senior de on the bus.

who create p

The will be installed by the end of January.

Police, convict in dispute over money

KAREN KERKHOFF Sun Staff

That money and the drugs were held as evidence under the

The Castlegar RCMP will have to hand over $1,500 to Peter Nevakshonoff of Castlegar.

a judge’s ruling that a portion of money obtained during a drug raid be returned to a man convicted of possession of a nar- cotic, local RCMP were refusing to do so until last Wednesday.

That’s when Castlegar RCMP Staff Sgt. Kerry Solinsky was directed to cough up the money by RCMP officials in Vancouver.

When the 10th Avenue home of Joyce. Ramsden, 55, was raided after. the execution of a search warrant Aug. 13, there was some $17,000 seized by RCMP along with quantities of marijuana, LSD and cocaine, estimated at $4,500.

Pr ds of Crime Legislation against Ramsden, Jason Keillor, 24, and Peter Nevakshonoff, 32, who were also charged with nar- cotics offences at the same time.

In court proceedings Nov. 1, Nevakshonoff pleaded guilty to a possession of a narcotic and received a $1,500 fine by presid- ing Judge Donald Sperry.

Judge Sperry also ordered $1,500 of the seized money be released to Nevatshonoff by Castlegar RCMP. When Nevak- shonoff requested the money from RCMP in order to pay the fine, he was refused.

Staff Sgt. Kerry Solinsky had been refusing to hand over the money, stating that ~nder legisla- tion, the 60-day period to do so

had passed.

“Under legislation they [the accused] have 60 days to request the return of money. They didn’t do so. Our position was that the money has therefore been forfeited

Last Wednesday, Nevakshon- off was in curt again to poll the presiding judge to rule on his behalf and enforce the release of the money under the Criminal Code of Canada so that he could pay his ‘court-ordered $1,500 fine.

Judge Ronald Fabbro refused to do so, saying he has little authority over a previous ruling by another judge.

“It’s not my order,” said the judge. “It's Judge Sperry's order. What authority do I have?”

Instead, Fabbro set a date for

Nevakshonoff to return to court when Judge Sperry would be in attendance and allowed an exten- sion of time to pay his fine. The next hearing regarding the money will be Feb. 14, 1996. Nevak- shonoff has until April 1, 1996 to pay the fine.

Solinsky said he’s never Teceived the paperwork from the court requesting the money be

released. Prior to being directed’

by RCMP headquarters to release the money, he said he felt legally obligated to refuse to do so.

Solinsky said the defence’s position is some of the money seized was personal and not the result of illegal activity.

“Our contention was the money is the proceeds of crime and is evidence in a case,” con- cluded Solinsky.

Games threatened by track problems

RAYMOND MASLECK Sterling News Service

The B.C. Summer Games will

proceed without one of its pre- mier events unless $400,000 can be found to upgrade the Trail track surface, say the organizers.

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summer’s joint venture between Castlegar and Trail, said the track surface at Haley Park must be replaced at a cost of $620,000 or the track events for the games will have to be cancelled.

The province has agreed to fund one-third of the cost.

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I don't see that the track will ever be upgraded,” said Romano,

Organizers are looking at installing a high-quality, polyurethane- layered surface with curb,and gutters to prevent water infiltration, ‘ The new facility would have an estimated life span of 10 to 15 years with only minor repairs needed after that.

Experts have determined that the existing track is unsafe for competition

The R gional District of Kootenay Boundary has deferred a deci- sion on funding the upgrade until January.

The B.C, Summer Games are scheduled for July, 1996 in Castle- gar and Trail.

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City dries out

TRENT BANCARZ _ ‘Sun Editor

City residents may have won- dered if they live in Water World rather than Castlegar after last week.

Last week, 31 cm or 12 inches of snow fell on Sunday followed by eight more centimetres on Monday. As the city attempted to dig out on Tuesday, 6.8 more

of snow fell foll d by 30.8 mm of rain. And temper- atures rose to melting levels, turning Castlegar Streets and

into slushy

The rain and melting caused problems for city work crews. Snow clearing had to be aban- doned temporarily so crews could clear snow away from catch basins and storm sewers to handle all the water.

“If you don’t have to deal with a melt right away, you can usual- ly just push the snow aside over curbs and gutters,” explained Rob Wilson, the city’s director of engineering. “Normally, you don’t need your drains in the winter. The rain and melting tem- peratures caused problems all day Tuesday and Wednesday. We had to stop plowing to look after the storm sewers.”

Wilson added most traditional “trouble spots” filled up with water quickly including Columbia Avenue at 10th Street (bottom of hospital hill), between 14th and 15th Streets, at Hunter Place and Stellar Place.

“There isn’t a good storm Sewer system in the south part of the city,” said Wilson. “There are always problems whenever we

Chief takes

Castlegar’s fire chief, Gerry Rempel, has earned the Castlegar Firefighters’ Annual Hoser Award.

Handed out at the annual Castle- gar firefighters’ Christmas banquet on Saturday, the award recognizes those who messed up in a major way during the fi

Rempel was awarded the dis- tinction after a May incident in which he locked himself and another firefighter, Ray Hackett into the compound at the Castle- gar Public Works yard after a training practice.

“Everyone had lefi and I locked the man gate expecting to go out the main one,” said Rempel

have a significant storm.”

City crew members will also have lots of overtime pay for their Christmas stockings. Start- ing at 5 a.m. last Sunday till Thursday, “we worked pretty much around the clock,” either plowing roads or digging out catch basins, said Wilson

All the water meant flooding for residential basements and businesses in low lying areas. Workers at the IDA Drug Mart, Beth Hickey law office and Madeleine’s Fashions, all in the Castleaird Plaza, walked on soaked carpets or floors when they came into work Wednesday. In addition, water dripped into Hickey’s office through the ceil- ing and workers were busy Wednesday trying to push the pile of slushy snow off the plaza’s roof.

At the Salvation Army’s downtown thrift. shop, an inch to

two inches of water stood on the ©

basement floor Wednesday morning.

“We lost a third of our stock (of clothing),” said Bonnie Car- bert, the Salvation Army’s family services co-ordinator. “And we lost most of our storage boxes. They were on the floor and they were soaked right through and ruined.”

Carbert added staff and volun- teers took some of clothes home to wash them, but “‘we still ended up taking three pickup loads to the dump.”

Two local businesses donated wood pallets to the thrift shop so stock could be stored up off the floor.

Carbert said the thrift shop

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But when he reached the main gate he found it was locked.

“So I thought I'd just go back to the main gate and unlock it - except I didn’t have the keys They were in the glove box of my truck across the road.”

Wondering what to do, Rem- pel said he was relieved to see two women taking an evening stroll. When he asked them to fetch his keys from his truck, they did so, but not until they shot Rempel a look he remem- bers to this day.

“They just kind of looked at me as if I was off my rocker. I thanked them profusely.”

still has enough stock to keep going and is asking people to hold off donating used clothing till January.

Last Sunday’s snowfall was the heaviest ever recorded for, Dec. 10 in Castlegar. The one- day record for December was set Dec. 13, 1966 when 38.6 cm of precipitation fell in a 24-hour period.

The city should dry out this week as no precipitation is fore- - cast through Saturday.

e Finally!! ee On Dee. 16, 1995 our daughter finally arrived home after her mid-November surgery at Children's Hospital. At this time we would like to thank all of your for your kind thoughts, phone calls and prayers. Although Alyssa's surgery and recovery went well, there are still a lot of unfortunate children who could use your prayers. A special thank you to the ladies at the Warfield Credit Union for the beautiful gift and support. To the employees of Korpack and the Castlegar Pressure Wash slo-pitch team, thank you for the generous gifts and for caring so much. Of course thank you just doesn't seem appropriate for our parents, grandparents and families.. Without your love and support it would have ma tough time unbearable. I would personally like to thank Michelle for taking care of our daughter all the whil 1 was in Children's Hospital. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and all the best in

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