Dick & Sue Chambers Box 623

Invermere, B.C.

VOA 1KO

DECEMBER

~ ~assiar Cosrier

the Voice of Cassiar Country

1988

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NOR ROADCO READY

North Road Company, a newly formed employee- owned company, will be responsible for the Highway maintenance in this area under the government's priva- tization plan.

Don Rubis, General Manager at Dease Lake, ad- vised this office that the company is ready to roll and that final takeover date should be between December 1-15. The contract will cover the total maintenance for a three year period on 815 kilometres of toadway. Don feels con- fident that the private-group, “who are basically the same guys who are doing the work now”, will do an excellent job, and that they will probably be more efficient as wor- king shareholders in their own company. Don feels that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the employees to go into business for themselves.

Although a number of Highways personnel have left recently, he stresses the fact that it was not caused by

the privatization move but rather the frustrations and

FULTON WINS

Cassiar voters on November 21 stayed with the main stream of B.C. voters and re-elected Jim Fulton as their Federal representative. After a slow start on Election Day, voting picked up with a rush around 4 p. m. and remained brisk for about an hour. Voters were? backed up at both polls and experienced a wait of up to 15 minutes. Election results for the Cassiar area are as follows:

Jim Fulton 213

Ray Halvorson 135

Tom Brophy 10

Odd Eidsvik 70

Don Buckland 5 Spokes-person for Jim Fulton’s office advised

that final tabulations were not available at this time. With two’ small outlying polls yet to be recorded, Mr. Fulton had received approximately 52 per cent of the popular vote.

Standings for-the Skeena region at this time

are: * Jim Fulton 16306 (NDP) Ray Halvorson 8797 (PC) - Tom Brophy 1124 (Christian Heritage) Odd Eidsvik 4554 Don Buckland © 2620 2 ote (Reform Party)

Mr. Fulton will be serving his fourth term in office for this constituency. SSE eee

delays in putting this package together that caused people to -become impatient and leave. Under the present con- tract, the government has stipulated that employees going over to the privatized operation were to receive the same wages and benefits that they presently enjoy.

Highways Manager Don Stead at Dease Lake ad- mits that personnel losses have been as high as thirty five per cent. He claims, however, that this is not overly high, due to the transient nature of the workers. When accused of operating short-handed because of the pending switch- over, he advised that all crews were full and maintenance is being carried out as usual. He denies rumours that road conditions have deteriorated from previous years and stated that he has recently contacted Arrow drivers out of Cassiar, and they claim that the road is as good as it ever was, with the exception of some wet spots on the south

end.

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Stikine District Elects Trustees

School Board elections held on November 19, 1988 and at an advance poll saw Allan Studd beat out Bryan Lundale as the Cassiar representative.

Debbie Grout was elected by acclamation at Lower Post, as was Molly Dennis for the Good Hope Lake area.

lin Dease Lake, it was a two way contest between.. Morris Alger and Ken Rempel who was declared thé winner.

In Casssiar the election was preceded by an all candidates meeting at the Rec Centre with coffee and cookies available. Under the guidance of Gayleen Connolly, both candidates were asked to explain their views and philosophies _ telating to: -The role of a trustee.

-Why do you want to be a trustee? -What is your educational philosophy?

Both men provided a good performance at the meeting and both ran aggressive campaigns, complete with campaign ads. ~

The meeting and the voting appeared to gen- erate‘littlé interest within the community.

Final vote count:

Allan Studd 67 Sryan Lundale 31