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LIBRARY ADDITION

Council to apply for $200,000

By RON NORMAN Editor

Castlegar council has voted to apply for a $200,000 grant from the Expo Legacy Fund for renovations and an addition to the downtown library.

Council pledged to match the grant with a $150,000 donation and $50,000 in land and improvements, providing the Castlegar library board with more than $400,000 for the expansion.

Council support Steven

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar council gave a show of support this week for its municipal emergency. program co-ordinator by upholding a decision to replace the deputy co-ordinator.

“The organization was due for some restructuring,” Mayor Audrey Moore said after a special closed-door meeting Wednesday afternoon between council, co-ordinator Frank Steven, former deputy co-ordinator Ken Miscavitch and newly-appointed co-ordinator Leo Sommers.

The meeting was called after emer- gency program members became upset by the sudden firing of Miscavitch last week, who had been deputy co-ordin- ator for the last seven years.

Steven, an aviation instructor at Selkirk College, said he replaced Mis- cavith to give others a chance at some responsibility.

But just what is left of the municipal emergency program femains unclear. Steven says only four or five members have indicated they want to quit, while disenchanted members say there are only four or five members left.

The program had as many as 20 members at one time.

However, Moore said she knows some members who left because of the direction the program had taken under Miscavitch’s term as deputy co-ordina-

r.

Asked how many are left, Moore replied, “I don't think we're going to know until the dust settles.”

But Moore said there is no doubt the program will be stronger for the change. .

She added that comments made by one emergency program member in a Vancouver paper that the city will be left without emergency protection

Inan interview Friday, library board chairman Deb Chmara said the addi- tion will be a minimum 5,000 square feet. When finished, the downtown li- brary will total more than 7,000 square feet. :

However, Chmara added that the library board is not tied to the down- town site. She said the board could still look at building a new library at ano- ther location.

However, she pointed out that the board is !eaning toward the current location because it includes the land.

The board would have to purchase

*the land at another location which could be upwards of $50,000, she. said.

“The land is the clincher,” Chmara said. :

As well, she said the library board won't have any firm plans for the expansion until it knows how. much money it’ will have to spend.

“We're not tied into plans right now,” Chmara said.

She noted that the board is using the 7,000 square foot figure because that is the largest building that can fit on the present lot.

Asked if $400,000 isn't expensive for a 5,000-square-foot addition, Chmara replied: “That's what the contractors basically said we could get.”

She noted the cost includes renova-

tions to the present library and fur- nishings.

Meanwhile, Ald. Bob MacBain told a special council meeting Wednesday afternoon that a grant for an aquatic centre was examined, but rejected.

MacBain was council's representa- tive on the local Expo 86 Committee, which recommended the library ex- pansion. =

He noted that the community must

- match any legacy grant.

“If we were to go any other way. -

to another project. it would save meant.

we would have had: to have that matched.”

MacBain said council would have had to pay half the $2 million price tag of an aquatic centre and that would have meant going to referendum.

But he said there was no guarantee a referendum would be approved.

“There was no guarantee,” added Mayor Audrey Moore.

She said if the city applied for a $1 million legacy grant and lost the refer- endum Castlegar “might end up with nothing for an Expo legacy in the com- munity.”

MacBain pointed out the city wouldn't have a second chance at a legacy grant for a smaller project like the library expansion if it didn't get the grant for the aquatic centre.

RDCK to re-examine rezoning application

By CasNews Staff

The Central Kootenay — regional board agreed Saturday to take another look at an application to rezone a six-acre parcel in Ootischenia for commercial development.

CETAC Developments Ltd. of Castlegar originally said it planned to construct a waterslide park on the site.

, CETAC Alex

golf, ‘a campground and a fast food outlet. . However, it would not include the sale of liquor, hotels or motels. * The committee also agreed that the commercial recreational zone would be compatible with the Ootischenia com- munity, reversing an earlier decision where it said a waterslide would be

Cheveldave said in a letter to the regional planning committee. that the

lide is only one le of the type of development the company is considering.

“Our current plans are to develop the subject property in such a way that it will attract- tourists,” said Chevel- dave.

He added that while CETAC has done an extensive study on the water- slide the company is also looking at a “KOA-style Pg! d,” a recrea-

with the ity.

The committee recommended CETAC submit a revised application to rezone the property.

In other regional district news Saturday, the board rejected a request urging the Ministry of Forests to give the old Kootenay Forest Products timber quota to existing small saw- mills.

Area G director Iris Bakken made the suggestion, pointing out that there is not enough timber to supply existing

tional vehicle park and a cafe. In its first rezoning application CETAC asked that the property — on

were

“We still have a group together,” Moore said, adding later: “I have no anxieties about the city being vulner- able.”

Moore called Steven “a good organ- izer” who has carried out a number of successful simulated emergencies since he took over the position a year and a half ago.

She accused Miscavitch of treating the volunteer position of deputy co- ordinator “as if he had a job and it’s a grievance . . . which is a strange way for it to work.”

ig 3 across from the Ootischenia community hall — be rezoned from rural two family to i

and a proposed new mill in Nelson.

Bakken cited the regional district's recent forest study which came to the same conclusion.

Area director Wally Penner, a fores-

However, the regional district made the rezoning more specific, changing the wording to “special commercial zone to permit operation of a water- slide park.”

But that didn't suit CETAC and Cheveldave met with the planning committee Oct. 16 to iron out the prob- lems. The committee agreed to con- sider a request for rezoning to com- - merecial recreational, which would it clude .things like a waterslide, mini.

ter, disagreed. “There is enough timber,” Penner said.

He also noted that many of the existing mills went into operation agreeing to take timber from private property. Now they say they need Crown timber, Penner said.

Other directors said they couldn't vote for the motion because they did not have enough information or time to consider it.

Bakken was told she could raise the issue again at the next board meeting.

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RUNAWAY CAR . . . RCMP officer examines 1985 Ford car which took off on its own when its owner i inesd

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morning.

The culprits then smashed the rear window of the car with the paint can.

Damage to the car is estimated at $2,800.

Hyundai spokesman Hector Moore said he thinks the vandals must have hit the car after midnight.

before coming to d 's.

Castlegar Hyundai Wednesday night or early Thursday

a sig ond hit her car rest on the sidewalk. in front of — CasNews Photo by Chery! Colderbonk

ITS OWN’:

By CasNews Staff A Castlegar man has a car with a mind of its own. Rudolph Wolney says he started his parked car in Castl Ww day morning when the vehicle took off, rear-ended another car and then knocked over a signpost before coming to rest on a sidewalk.

“I just started the car up and it took off,” Wolney, 63, told the Castlegar News at the scene.

Wolney had parked his 1985 Ford on Columbia Avenue outside ‘Stedman's when the accident occurred.

The car hit a 1984 Pontiac that had pulled out on front of him, driven by Christopher Sampson, 41, of Vancouver.

The accident, which took place at 10:30 a.m., resulted in $2,000 damage to the Pontiac. The parking sign was also a little worse for the wear, but Wolney’s Ford escaped without any damage:

In other police news, vandals slashed the tires, scratched the paint, and painted a car owned by

*submerged in the Columbia River.

“We had someone on duty here until about midnight,” Moore said.

Castlegar RCMP reported Friday that the investiga- tion is continuing.

Elsewhere, Jim Salisbury of Castlegar returned to where he parked his car Monday only to find it

Salisbury left his 1975 Honda hatchback parked on Broadwater Road about 2 kilometres from the Keenleyside: Dam, Castlegar RCMP report. :

When he returned, his car was in the river.

Salisbury told the RCMP that someone must have pushed his car into the river; a police spokesman said.

‘The car was pulled out of the river Thursday. There is no estimate of the damage.

Meanwhile, Castlegar RCMP report a Halloween this year.

“The youths of the community are to be congratulated on their mature attitude,” Staff Sgt. John Stevens said in a press release.

“No serious complaints were received.”

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Members talk tourism

By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer

Representatives from West Koot- enay businesses gathered Saturday at Castlegar’s Sandman Inn to discuss everything from mines to museums and ski hills to signs"— and even bird- watching — a8 means of promoting tourism at the first annual general mecting of the Kootenay Country Tourist Association.

Chuck Truscott, president of the KCTA, said that although the “size of the gathering is not as large as plan- ned,” the meeting “gives us an oppor- tunity to share the secrets of the Kootenays.”

In his president's report, Truscott said KCTA membership now stands at

“My personal opinion is that we've

discussions with Expo 86 officials.

In order to attract spin off tourism from the fair, Marshall said more signs are needed to direct tourists to at tractions in the Kootenays.

“From the Okanagan, has anybody seen a sign for Nakusp?” Marshall said.

She said government officials agreed and have promised directional -signs will be posted at key locations,on area highways.

Jackie Drysdale of Rossland des- cribed the success of the Rossland mine museum and the recently completed

_revitalization of Rossland’s main street

and historic buildings.

Mike Adams from Whitewater Ski Resort told the meeting the resort is ready to go for this year and is one of the area’s main tourist attractions. But the most unusual tourist attrac:

reached the goal of

At the meeting, representatives from several areas of the Kootenays made presentations describing the tourist attractions featured in their communities.

Marilyn Marshall, a KCTA director from Nakusp, told the meeting of her

tion ioned for pi at the meeting was birdwatching.

Truscott said the Creston Valley Wildlife Centre could be promoted as a means of attracting birdwatchers,

h he said spend a staggering $30 ion a year on the hobby in the United States.

Although he didn’t have figures for Canada, Truscott said the amount Can- adian birdwatchers spend “has got to ‘be in the billions.” ;

He said the Creston Valley Wildlife Centre could be promoted in order to attract some of that money to the Kootenays.

Truscott added that birdwatchers spend up to $1,000 in an area tracking one species of bird and, since, birds migrate, the hobby is a year-round attraction.

Michael Heard, manager of the Monte Carlo Motor Inn in Castlegar. told the meeting of the plans underway to rebuild the Doukhobor Museum in Ootischenia, which was partially des- troyed by arson on Sept. 8. ~

Heard said a trust fund has been set up, but added that more than money is needed. He appealed to the association for donations of artifacts to replace those lost in the fire.

Also at the meeting, Martin Kruy- sse, economic development officer for the Kootenay Boundary Regional Dis-

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