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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1984

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CANADIAN A TRONAUT

PH ewe Bjorni Trygg received the city pin from Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore Thursday night. Tryggvason spoke on the Canadian

space program at a dinner held at the Hi Arrow

Arms Motor Inn CosNews Phote by Adrian Chombertown

He’s got ‘right stuff’

By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer

Part of Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason’s training for Canada’s space program was to be twirled around in a spinning machine to see if he could withstand extreme motion.

The machine spins its oeeupant around like a whirling top during which the astronauts were required to bend over and touch their knees with their noses.

Five of the six Canadian astronauts got sick. ‘Tryggvason didn’t. It was “exciting” he said

astronauts placed in newspapers across the nation in July 1983.

The other five Canadian astronaute,— including Canada's first women astronaut Dr. Roberts Bondar are as highly qualified as Tryggvsson, who's also. a qualified flying insteuctor.

Bondar is a ‘nevrofiologist, Marc Garneau is « naval tommiander, tngineer’and design specialist in communi eafions, Steve Maclean is s PhD holder jn astrophysics and laser phytic’, Kennetlr Money has a PhD in physiol ogy afd fe a qualified jet pilot, and.Dr. Robert Thirsk, has

pempeepes end oem

Asked what he found most difficult since i an astronaut last year, Tryggvason said he didn’t find anything difficult exeept “finding time to do the work. It's interesting and enjoyable stuff”

Tryggvason obviously has the right stuff.

The Canadian astronaut was in Castlegar Thursday night to give an one-hour slide show on Cansila's role in the U.S. Space Shuttle program. © =

Although the event —comtbined'with « dimmer at-the Hi-Arrow Arms Motor Hotel — was open to the public,

attitude toward the Canadian space:

“We have this funny problem "tliat we don't pay attention to it if it's Canadian,” said Tryggvésom “But if it’s American we do.

“None of this stuff is

1969 when the Russians their Sputnik He was one of 4,380 C who ane

Tryggvason. fics” scientist, said be wanted to be an astronaut ever

wing and holds a medical

said ‘two major programs are being space program: a system of speed and

which is Other proposed experiments include the ‘study of «

mysterious “giow” ftom the gun which creaté}é red hase

in the sky between the specéshuttle ind earth The glow

cait only be seen diilpirpm outer space; said. Also s a

by mest

federal governments “Help Wanted” advertisements for

ANALYST PREDICTS

Cominco to show profit this year

VANCOUVER (CP) — After two years of struggling with slumping metal prices and cost cutting, British Columbia's big three mining companies are all expected to report profits by the end of 1984.

One Vancouver-based mining analyst predicts Teck Corp., Placer Develop- ment Ltd. and Cominco Ltd. will rack up combined earnings of $200 million in 1985.

After a combined loss of $70 million in 1982 and 1983, Cominco could post earnings of $34 million in the year ending Dee. 81, 1984, said analyst Mike Steeves of Pemberton Houston Willou ghby.

In the first half, Cominco had a profit of $15.6 million. Steeves predicts a

next year of $107

Placer Development could double its profits in the 1984 second half if gold and silver prites move as forecast and the price of dppper edges higher from the current.360-cents-a-pound level, Plaeer chairtian Allen Born has said. He expects silyer to average $8 (U.S.) old $340 (U.8.) an ounce

ond half of the;year.

110 back to sawmill

By RON NORMAN Editor

Another 110 employees returned to work this week at Westar Timber's Celgar lumber operations.

Al Blessin, sawmill industrial re lations manager, said the mill recalled some of the workers last Monday when it began a second shift in the sawmill and the rest of the workers were recalled on Thursday when the planer mil] put on a second shift.

A total of 140 workers were called back Aug. 7 after a four-week layoff when the mill started up with one shift in both the sawmill and planer mill

However, Blessin also said there are 30 to 50 employees still laid off

He said they are workers required for vacation relief or sickness relief, but with the recent shutdown, there won't be much vacation relief work

“They'll be called back as required” for relief work, he added.

Blessin said the mill put on second shifte th the sawmill and planer mill because it received an increase in an Australian export order.

Steeves is predicting Placer will make $45 million, or $1.05 a share. Next year, the analyst expects a Placer profit of $73 million but that includes some proceeds from the sale of its Kidston gold mine in Australia

In the first half ended June 30, Placer posted a profit of $9.2 million, up from $7.3 million in the same period of 1983. Last year Placer had earnings of $29.3 million. It recorded a loss the previous year of $20.28 million.

Placer is capable of “generating signifieantly higher profits in 1984 and 1985 . . . without higher metal prices,”

said an investment report from Mon- treal-based securities house Levesque, Beaubien Ine.

The report says Placer can increase its profits because of higher sales volumes at Golden Sunlight and Equity Silver this year and its Gibraltar copper mine next year. Financial gains from the company’s 1983 debt reduc tion efforts will be “significant.”

Teck president Norman Keevil said the company has had positive earnings since March but won't record a profit in Teck's fiseal year, which ends Sept. 30, 1984.

$45,000 REFURBISHING FOR CASTLEAIRD PLAZA

By CasNews Staff

A $45,000 contract to complete a “modest refurbishing” of Castleaird Piaza’s facade will be given to a local union contractor, a spokesman for plaza’s management said Friday.

Frank Delalla, general manager of property services for Gulf Pacific In- vestments Ltd. told the Castlegar News the facade renovations will’begin | within. 30 days, and take about two

» weeks to complete.

Cedar facing on the outside of the plaza will be replaced with aluminum siding, and painted to match the re- cently renovated SuperValu store in the plaza, he said.

Delalla said he couldn't release the name of the contractor chosen for the job, other than saying the firm is local,

was involved in the renovations of SuperValu, and is unionized.

“In light of our last experience, I think that they will be union,” Delalla explained

He was referring to demonstrations held outside both the old SuperValu on Columbia Ave. and the one in the plaza.

The demonstrations took place when local trade unionisteclearned the con- tract to renovate the new SuperValu store was to be awarded to East West Builders of Creston — a non-union contractor.

Delalla added that the recently re painted Texaco service station near the plaza isn't managed by Gulf Pacific, and the renovations aren't connected to the proposed changes to the plaza.

Finning wins bidding

for new ci

By CasNews Staff

The City of Castlegar came away with a couple of good deals this week purchases for works yard equipment totalling more than $95,000.

Finning Tractor won the bid to supply the city with a new 2.6 cubic yard front end loader

Finning quoted a price of $71,064 That was $2,584 more than the lowest bid, d by Riv Quip Eq However, city engineer George Resh- aur said the extended warranty offered by Finning ts worth the extra money.

As well, he noted that Finning is located in Nelson and has “an excellent reputation for service of Caterpillar equipment.”

major

ty loader

The Riv Quip offer included a six month overall warranty. One other offer was lower than the Finning bid That came from Vulcan Machinery in the amount of $70,620. That contained a one-year overall warranty. However, Finning’s offer also inclu ded a three-year warranty on the power train and a guaranteed buy back price after five years or 5,000 hours of $37,650. There were 10 bids and council had budgeted $80,000 for the purchase. Meanwhile, couneil agreed to secept

FOR PICNIC SITES

By CasNews Staff

King says she's

Women clear brush

learned to mix cement, survey, and

Nine young women from Castlegar who might have spent the summer unemployed are working within the city at so-called “non-traditional” jobs — brush-clearing, mixing cement and surveying — under a Summer Canada Works grant.

The women — most of whom are college students — are constructing seven picnic sites and six recreational vehicle sites on the wooded portion of city-owned land south of the Commynity Complex on 6th Ave.

Putting in eight-hour days of manual labor from 6am. to & p.m. (the students have scheduled their work to avoid the thas been « valuable and revealing experience, said Tater a nies pre-law student attending the

basically, how to be a laborer, and what it

make forms for conerete. While she adds that she won't be choosing manual work as a full-time occupation, King says her present job may help her find a sammer job next year

This project, which will finish at the end of August after 16 weeks, was organized by the Castlegar Kiwanis Club, said project co-ordinator Dick Wigen — a Kiwanis member.

He said the pian for the area calls for a total of 15 rec reational vehicle sites, and nine picnic sites. Each picnic site is equipped with a picnic table, cement pad, and access path. Recreational vehicle sites have « parking lot and barbeque- pit as weil.

Eventually the recreational vehicle sites will have water, and a sanitary dump will be built, said Wigen.

The project is nearing completion on schedule, be added. Government funding for the project was $20,000 — all but about $1,500 of which went towards

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