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CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 24, 1980

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single recording. .

Since that time, ‘Hag’ has continued to be one of country music's hottest names...both on record and on the personal appear- ance circult.

| happened to be traveling down Interstate 30 in Texas

the other day and was..

passed by three, super-huge eterbilt semi's and: two luxury busses:--all bearing the name and insignia of ‘The Charlie Daniels Band.’ Don't know where Charlle and his congregration were going, but wherever it was, they weren't wasting any time getting there,

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‘Your Convenient Transportation Shopping Guide"

CITY AUTO SERVICE

803 Boker St., Nelson

1978 TOYOTA COROLLA 2-DOOR

ant ewes 4,595 W. PLAZA TOYOTA

clean unit priced to sell at... old Waneta Rd., Tra ae No.

Short box % a economy unit. v

clean condition,

PONTIAC BUICK GMC LTD. 365-2155

Castlegar DL No. 01457A

1974 JEEP WAGONEER

‘2,795 MEL BUERGE MOTORS

623 Railway Street, Nelson. Phone 352-7202 OL. No, 51458

978 BLAZER

V-8, auto., tutone, white letter tires, clean unit.

PONTIAC pul GMC LTD. 365-2155

Castlegar DL No. O1457A

1974 BARRACUDA V-8, floor shift. Nica shape. Red in color,

PONTIAC BUICK GMC Castlegar - 365-2155 OL No. 01457A

1975 JEEP CJ5 RENEGADE

V-8, manual shift, power steering, headers.

PONTIAC BUICK GMC LTD. Castlegar 365-2155 DL. No. 01457A

pepe ie 500 ie .

MEL BUERGE MOTORS |

623 Rallwoy St.,Nelson. Phone 352-7202 BL. No. 51458

a ; In @ rare live performance _mifestone: more than one tribute to a novelist.from the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, Louls L'Amour, the world's number one all-time best- selling frontier storyteller, was saluted in work and song by the Charlie ‘Oaniels Band on-a recent Saturday.

The Opry festivities was one of several celebrations honoring L'Amour having passed a unique publishing

“of Yondering, a commemorative

inspired by adventures L'Amour encountered, and men and women he came to know in his ‘yondering’

three novelists; and Charlie Dan- — Sacket

lals, ‘the leader of. the

Grammy-winning pjatinum :

selling group, have tong been

friends and mutual admirers.’

The title ‘of the Band's 1977

album. High Lonesome, was » borrowed from L'Amour's :

novel of the same name and . was dedicated to the author, di A recent Danlels song, 'Day- Louls L'Amour. was inspired by L'Amour, one of America's best-selling living

breakers,"

tional ke

980 GMC

1 VERY fost machine, vary pretty. Dir, #5058,

MALONEY

‘PONTIAC BUICK GMC LTD. 365-2155 DLNo. O1457A ~-

1980 MONZA N-6, 4-speed, goes good and far ona gallon.

PONTIAC BUICK Ghat LTD. 365-2155

Castlegar r DL No. 01457A

1977 HONDA STATION WAGON 4-apd, transmission. Invery good conditions?

nyse eee

W. PLAZA TOYOTA,

Old Waneta Rd., Trail Phone 364-2:

set 978 FORD COURIER PICKUP 000 pd. trans., radio, 54, 295 _W. PLAZA TOYOTA |

Old. Waneta Rd., Trail Phone 364

Only mi. Sealiativen priced a

1978 OLDSMOBILE

88, p.s., p.b., radio, V-8 auto., air cond., only 54,000 km,

_Dalta ‘excellent condition, UBE

Chevrolet Oldsmobile Ltd. 323 Nelson Ave.,Nelson 352-6668 DL. #5398

"1979 DODGE RAMCHARGER 58,200 MEL BUERGE MOTORS

623 Railway St., Nelson. Phone 352-7202 DL, No. 51458

1979 CORVETTE

J-ewner — probably an ofder lady.

Castlegar 365-2155 DL. No. O1457A

' 1977 FORD FAIRMONT 2dr, 2 fod, 6-cylinder, 1-owl 3., low mileage, a speed | automatic,

NELSON TOY!

Ymir Rd. Nelson,

1979 CAPRI GHIA

Sein ST IQS CiTY AUTO SERVICE

sunroof, a} £300 ken, 803 Baker St.,Nelson 352-3542

1979 TOYOTA 4x4 PICKUP |

Only 8,400 mi., radio, a7 595

dua! nde mirrors. Reduced to sell at .

Old WanetaRd., Trail Phone 364-2588

Pash dterni wn gantony

L'Amour's most famous’ fic: * ‘ » characters, The Ss, 3

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_ {ust north of the’ eh Arrow Arm:

redicected ground th 1 hole befor

“Itis “absolutely imminent” that

Castlegar is to be a recipient of.

; funds for home renovations. under.

} the federal government's Residen- °

tial. Rehabilitation: Assistan :Pro- gram. .

The long awaited announce: ment was given to representatives of the Castlegar Senior Citizen's

: Association No. 46 at a meetin, i ‘Tuesday morning. “We were told of. Gastlogar's

designation as a recipient town” for ‘

» RRAP funds, Joan Stone, recording ' ‘secretary of the SCA said. Terry

. Stevens, of Canada Mortgage and < °

Housing Corporation and - Gerald

_ Rotering, secretary to M.P. Lyle

Kristiansen, broke the news."

: : “We're delighted, very pleased. This is good for all citizens. The funds are not only for seniors. It’s

. for everyone below the $9,000/year come mark,” Stone said. 3 Castlegar, because of “compli-

’- cations of amalgamation” was not on the RRAP allocations list when funding was stopped in 1976, Jesse Donnan, president of the SCA said "in a letter to Public Works Minister

“ Paul Cosgrove last spring.

Other cities if the area have

| been receiving RRAP funds for. .

la Gig equipment Upgraded

Ail port i

A track guidence localizer, a

“device to aid pilots’ landing at the

Castlegar Airport, has a “target date to go into operation in September,” says

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ong letter she wrote “to continue to: sre against Castlegar, ' ‘on’

income, *Rotering said Tuesday.

“A family earning over $16,500 will not qualify,” he said.

The rate of. fntereat on the loans will fluctuate with the going inter- est rate, he added.

Neither Stone ‘nor Donnan are homeowners, and cannot benefit by

‘RRAP. Stone said “we knew it was

worthwhile for other soniors

&

Steven Rybak regional manager of public affairs for the department: of transport..

This device, installed at &.cost of

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yr TERRY GiteeRt AFF REPORTER

Work. on the’$3 million Sandman Inn is underway af- ter_a delay of several mon- it

f * Construction was scheduled to begin on the 115-room. building in the ‘spring ‘but \difficulties.: with other Sandman’ Inns in :the province: and. financial problems. caused a delay,

‘Don <:: Hall,"’. operations

Manager: with the: managing _

company, ‘Northland Proper- ties Ltd.,' told the ‘Castlegar

“The B.C. Schoo! Truatess Associ: tion’ has been lobbying for. such: a

“115. room Sandman Inn

Inn “burned down and of course that ‘threw our ‘ schedule out of whack,” Hall said.

After that “there were difficulties with the Penticton Inn (now under, construction) due to -soft: ground, That changed our schedule and

ut us two or three. months behind.”

The Penticton Inn is now about half finished: “and it

will be two or three months’

Suite announcement regarding jtipend increases was ‘made'after input the’

- School Act, raising the. stipend. for ©:

school trustees from: $2,000. to: $4,000, . Was announced by Education:Minister ith,

‘Acri Construction-has withdrawn,

>the ‘city’s: water. system’ after ‘the © .) contract ‘was, awarded to them at a

< When th contract was awarded Acri, Ald:Len Embree said council was “buying ourselves' grief” due to th possibility of non-union labor. workin on. the project. In a.letter :to council, Acri. sub-

we: followed procedure. and had’.to

bidder: T'm pleased to see it worked out this way..That:was my original posi- :| tion, that: Acri couldn't afford the job: and live up to the agreement with their ° tender,”:Embree said, Wednesday. 2S! Phe cost of the project will be paid: ~ through a federal provincial agreement. “as long as we live up to the agree-

z ment, We intend to do that,” Embree

id. ~'#Tt does not make me feel better to

«say I told you:so; but .. .”-Embree. added.: I'm ‘just: pleased to see my riginal

ion upheld.”

mitted a new tender to $718,845 noting |

that the ‘contract provisions made by council made nen unable to meet the ©

original estima

‘The saat as awarded’ was °

subject to stringent provisions includ-. ing the use of local labor. - : ~_ ‘At a special meeting of’ council

Tuesday the withdrawal of <Acri’s”

“original tender was accepted and the ccontract was. awarded to :}1.B. Con-

& tracting-with a tender of/$808,878.70° 4 :* subject to the approval of the city's. . > consultants.

“When Acri withdrew their tender _.

$190,000, is to replace the existing radio range system and provides the pilota with an accurate centreline guidance on the runway from within

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WHEN HE CATCHES YOU “LIKING” HIS

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JASON SCHUEPFER, above,” won |. the gold aggregate in the eight | and under’ category at the provincial swim meet in Van- couver on the weekend.

the cockpit.

This is not to be confused with —

emergency night lighting which has long been sought for the Castlegar Airport.

TGL systems are already in oper- ation at airports in Penticton and- Kelowna.

Touching of the question of fire fighting’ equipment, Rybak stated Castlegar will, in due course, have two

fire trucks, A medium foam - truck +

presently in ’cncouver is to be trans- ferred here when one being built in the East is delivered. It will be refurbished before being put in service at the Castlegar Airport,

The fire truck presently stationed at Castlegar is to be shipped to Smithers and Smithers’ first response truck is to be sent here at Castlegar Airport's second fire truck.

The present sand shed will be used to hose the equipment until next year when hopefully a fire hall will be built, says Rybak.

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before the crew can'move.” Hall ‘added that in the spring interest rates “were running'17, 18, 19 per cent. We could get the money but .we couldn't afford it. We would’ have’ been stupid to make adeal then.” Two. ‘or three

.supervise construction but

“we contract out most work to local. trades,” Hall said. The work being done on the

setting of trustees’ stipends.

Both amendments pleased BCSTA president Gary Begin.

“The decision to allow all school boards: to appoint: their own. super- intendent of schools is ‘a- very positive decision for ‘education in B.C. Once of apain: the minister has listened tq the

_ advice of trustees and responded with

appropriate legislation.’ The amendment is an important

one because it goes along ‘with the -

principle of. Jocal autonomy in education ‘school

best. ition “to the needs pimer es

“key’ people” must be'on hand to .

Castlegar project whatever does not a their own construction crew.

The three wings housing: rooms will be constructed fir- se Possibly forms. will be. in pies and concrete boured:

efore winter,.Hall add

The front part, housing food and beverage: services, will ba built later,

“4 understand there is C] shortage’ of - rooms © in. Castlegar," he noted.

The hotel was originally scheduled to, open in thes spring of 1981. "The delay:

; will mean Opening In the fall

or winter of ‘81.

"Smith arrived at « decaion ‘on, the

“Tt is not only that the minister hes

process Gecisitn fas modelo ths way I think it should ‘be done,” “hi

Boe is issue, sought our advice and obviously.‘

placed considerable weight on that advice. ,I:am_ optimistic -that future

b relations will bo & conducted in the same

‘excellent, cooperative way.’

et ‘Bogin added he is pleased Smith is

_ leaving the determination of the actual . the stipend

CONCENTRATION is the name of the game for these girls parte the S.H.S.S. Hoop Comp last week. camp included five ‘days. of tion. 20 girls ages 12 to 15 participated in the second annual event.

Wows/iirrefote by Terry

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