2 — The Prince George Citizen — Monday, November 23.1987 Provincial Regional elections FROM PAGE 1 machine operator, had no trouble fighting off a challenge from three other candidates, winning the election with 227 votes. Stuart McKirdy received 89 votes, followed by George Turner with 44 and Helen Pittman with 33. Voters returned incumbent alderman and highways worker Al Va-ness to council with 261 votes. In a tight race for the second three-year seat Herbert Andrist, a trucking firm owner, edged out Patricia Davis, 158 votes to 153. A resignation created an opening for a one-year term on Valemount council, which will be filled by Shawn De Biasio. The assistant store manager defeated Frank Blackman by 305 votes to 77. TUMBLER RIDGE Incumbent mayor Mike Caisley, a mine personnel supervisor, beat an old rival Joy Davies by a vote of 642 to 465. The two squared off in the last mayoral race two years ago, when Caisley won by 70 votes. Incumbent Cynthia Southard, a teacher, topped the polls in the aldermanic race with 935 votes. Also elected to three-year terms were senior buyer and former alderman Wayne Rose with 671 votes and mine worker Donna Brimmage with 609 votes. Charles Smith and William McAdam were defeated with 531 and 126 votes respectively. FRASER LAKE Colin Seeley, a mine superintendent, returns to the mayor’s chair after winning re-election with 254 votes. School bus driver Ralphy Roy received 110 votes, while mill-worker Robert Thon garnered 40. Teacher and incumbent alderman John Stafford was returned to council, winning the one available seat with 359 votes. He defeated David White with 203 votes and Douglas Kelly with 183 votes. VANDERHOOF Incumbents Jim Woodruff, a manager at Pacific Northern Gas, and James Oryshchuk, a school district operations manager, won re-election to council with 251 and 232 votes respectively. In the race for the third three-year council seat available, bank manager Ian Kruithof defeated incumbent Ed Bennett, 223 votes to 184. McBRIDE • * Robert Liard Irvine, a hospital administrator, topped the aldermanic poll with 63 votes, to take one of two three-year terms in McBride. He was followed by incumbent Leonard Ralph McCarthy, a lumberman, with 58 votes. Store, owner Sarah Joyce Read trailed with 43 votes. QUESNEL Steve Wallace, a driving instructor who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year, came first in the aldermanic race with 842 votes. Council veterans Wilma Hanson, a homemaker, and sawmill manager Lloyd Wright took the remaining two seats with 746 votes and 662 votes respectively. Incumbent Albert Johnston was defeated in his bid for another term, garnering 590 votes. Homemaker Mary Glass-ford got 530 votes. MACKENZIE Residents in this town, 195 km north of Prince George, voted 161 to 53 in favor of paying higher taxes to repave all the community’s streets. The $4.5-million project, to start in 1989, will cost the average homeowner about $40 a year, said Don De Gagne, Mackenzie administrator. The turnout, only about seven per cent of the 1,600 eligible voters, was likely low because three incumbent councillors were earlier acclaimed to three-year terms, said De Gagne. B.C. CIVIC ELECTIONS Direction and speed of system motion A AAA Cold front ^ ^ Rain or snow showers Warm front —t s' —* Upper level front A^A^A Stationary front (Temperatures are maximum and minimum for past 24 hours) Weather Immediate Prince George area: Skies will be mostly cloudy with a few rain or mixed rain and snow showers today and Tuesday. Tonight will be cloudy with periods of rain or mixed rain and snow, and snow at higher elevations. Temperatures will reach near 3 today and Tuesday, with an overnight low near -3. The probability of precipitation is 30 per cent today, 70 per cent tonight and 40 per cent Tuesday. ‘ Sunday’s high was 3, the low was -4, there was 0.2 mm of rain and 12 minutes of sunshine recorded at the airport weather office. A year ago today the high was 7, the low was zero, there was 2.8 mm of rain, 0.2 cm of snow and 5.6 hours of sunshine. Sunset today is at 4:02 p.m. and sunrise Tuesday is at 7:54 a.m. Chilcotin, Cariboo, Prince George, Parsnip: Cloudy, isolated snowshowers turning to isolated rainshowers this afternoon. Highs near 3. Tonight, intermittent rain turning to snow overnight, windy. Lows —1 to —4. Tuesday, mainly cloudy with a few showers of rain or snow. Highs near 4. Probability of precipitation 20 per cent, 70 per cent tonight and 40 per cent Tuesday. Bulkley Valley-The Lakes; Cloudy, intermittent mixed rain and now beginning this afternoon. Highs 1 to 4. Tonight, mainly cloudy, intermittent rain ending in the evening. Low near —4. Tuesday, mainly cloudy with a few showers of rain or snow. Highs 2 to 4. Probability of precipitation 70 per cent, 70 per cent tonight and 40 per cent Tuesday. Thompson, Okanagan: Mainly cloudy, isolated showers. Highs near 7. Tonight, cloudy, intermittent rain beginning overnight, windy in some valleys. Lows zero to 4. Tuesday, cloudy with sunny periods, isolated showers, windy in some valleys. Highs near 7. Probability of precipitation 20 per cent, 70 per cent tonight and 80 per cent Tuesday. West Kootenay: Mainly cloudy, showers of rain or snow in a few localities turning to isolated rainshowers this afternoon. Highs near 5. Tonight, cloudy, intermittent rain beginning overnight, windy at times. Lows near 2. Tuesday, cloudy with sunny breaks, isolated showers, windy at times. Highs near 6. Probability of precipitation 30 per cent, 70 per cent tonight and 20 per cent Tuesday. Greater Vancouver: Mainly cloudy, rain beginning this afternoon. Highs near 11. Tonight, rain tapering to showers in the evening, windy. Lows near 6. Tuesday, cloudy with afternoon sunny breaks, showers becoming isolated in. the afternoon, windy at times. Highs near 10. Probability of pre- * cipitation 90 per cent, 100 per cent tonight and 70 per cent Tuesday. Greater Victoria: Mainly cloudy, rain beginning this afternoon. Highs near 11. Tonight, rain tapering to showers in the evening, windy. Lows near 4. Tuesday, cloudy with afternoon sunny breaks, showers becoming isolated in the afternoon, windy at times. Highs near 10. Probability of precipitation 90 per cent, 100 per cent tonight and 60 per cent Tuesday. Queen Charlottes: Wind warning continued: Southeast winds of 70 to 90 kmh over exposed areas easing this morning, mainly cloudy, rain tapering to showers this morning. Highs near 8. Tonight, mainly cloudy with frequent showers, gusty winds. Lows near 2. Tuesday,'mainly cloudy with showers, windy at times. Highs near 8. Probability of precipitation 100 per cent, 100 per cent tonight and 80 per cent Tuesday. East Kootenay: Cloudy with afternoon sunny periods, snowshowers in a few localities turning to isolated rainshowers this afternoon. Highs near 4. Tonight, mainly cloudy, intermittent snow beginning after midnight, windy at times. Lows near —3. Columbia: Mainly cloudy, snowshowers in a few locatities turning to isoalted showers of rain or snow this afternoon. Highs 2 to 4. Tonight, mainly cloudy, intermittent snow beginning overnight, windy at times. Lows —2 to plus 1. Sunday Shopping FROM'PAGE 1 retail shopping on Sundays and holidays. Harold Moffat, president of Northern Hardware, the oldest department store in the city, was also surprised at the result. “I thought there would maybe be a five- or 10-per-cent difference. I thought she’d be just nip- and tuck.” Moffat said he would have sold the family-run downtown store if voters approved the bylaw. “I just feel happy that we don’t have to make that move,” he said. Moffat said city council would be ill-advised to make any moves in the future to bring the Sunday shopping issue back again. Backhouse noted the city’s current bylaw allows a certain number of small stores to stay open on Sundays, offering a service that the “community says it wants.” Commenting on the explosive growth of convenience stores like AM-PM, Shopper’s Food Mart and 7-Eleven, he said Prince George will see continued expansion of such stores if there’s a market for them. Backhouse said “there’s no doubt the city is under-serviced” as far as shopping centres go here and he is hopeful there will be new developments here next year. Major retailers have held off expanding here during uncertain economic times but the city’s turnaround should bring changes, he said. Williams Lake 3 -4 000.2 Winnipeg 2 -10 000.0 Temperatures Prince George 3 -4 000.2 Brandon 2 -13 000.0 Mackenzie 1 0 006.4 Churchill -5 -20 002.0 Fort St. John 0 -8000.2 The Pas -3 -16 000.0 TORONTO iCPl ligh-low Fort Nelson -11 -13 000.8 Kenora 1 -5000.0 - Dease Lake •5 •11000.0 Thunder Bay 4 -6000.0 temperatures and precipitation Peace River -4 -9 000.0 -3 -4 000.0 in millimetres for the previous 24 Whitehorse -2 -4000.0 3 1000.0 nours issued today by the Dawson City -19 Misg Ottawa -3 -6000.0 weather office: Yellowknife 21000.0 Montreal -2 -8 000.0 Vancouver 11 3003.4 Inuvik -23 -25001.2 Fredericton -2 -7000.0 Victoria to 1 003.0 Resolute Bay -20 -26 000.0 Charlottetown -2 -5000.0 Comox 10 2000.0 Eureka -39 -41 000.0 Halifax 0 -3 000.0 Port Hardy 9 6009.4 Alert -22 -32 000.0 St. John's 11 3015.8 Prince Rupert 7 2004.4 Cambridge Bay -27 •30 000.0 Seattle 10 7 004.1 Stewart Misg Calgary 6 -4 000.0 Spokane 6 0 002.5 Terrace 2 0000.0 Edmonton -1 -2000.0 Portland 12 6002.5 Penticton 8 4 000.2 Lethbridge 9 0 000.0 San Francisco 16 8000.0 Kamloops 8 3003.2 Medicine Hat 8 -3000.0 Los Angeles 20 10000.0 Abbotsford 10 4010.4 Swifl Current 1 -6 000.6 Las Vegas 18 5 000.0 Cranbrook Misg Regina 3 -13 000.4 Reno 12 -5 000.0 Revelstoke 6 3002.8 Saskatoon 3 -8 000.0 Phoenix 24 9 000.0 Blue River 2 -1000.0 Prince Albert 1 -11000.0 New York City 2 -1000.0 Puntzi Mountain Misg North Battleford 3 -7 000.0 Miami 24 20 000 0 Prince Rupert mayor starts his 16th term by Canadian Press Incumbent mayors more than held their own Saturday in British Columbia municipal elections. Heading the list was Peter Lester of Prince Rupert, the province’s longest-serving mayor, who won his 16th term by defeating Aid. Helen Stamnes by a 2-1 margin. Lester, who runs a travel business in the North Coast city, said he was surprised by his margin of victory and praised Stamnes’s campaign. “I’m very pleased that the electorate has voted for me,” said Lester who was first elected in 1957 on a campaign theme of “it’s time for a change.” “She’s a very nice person,” he said of Stamnes, a two-year alderman. “I hope she decides, maybe next year, to return to public service.” Another veteran returning to the mayor’s chair will be Audrey Moore, the former Union of B.C. Municipalities chairman who won her sixth term in Castlegar. Gil Blair won an eighth term in Richmond. One of the more controversial mayoralty races drew a 92-per-cent voter turnout in the Interior city of Cache Creek, the proposed location of a landfill site for Greater Vancouver garbage. Incumbent Jim Smith, a motel operator who favored the dump as a job-creation opportunity, lost to businessman Ben Roy, who opposed the plan but said he’d need a landslide win to kill it. He won by only 253-236. “This wasn’t a landslide. This certainly indicates the people of Cache Creek wanted another leader but maybe also wanted the landfill.” While Cache Creek was one of the smallest communities to change mayors, Burnaby was the largest as William Copeland defeated Bill Lewarne by about 300 votes. This was the first time civic candidates were running for three-year terms. The longer terms were introduced to have all civic elections take place in the same year, starting in 1990. Municipal terms currently run for. two years. In Surrey, B.C.’s fastest-growing municipality, former alderman Bob Bose defeated Aid. Bonnie Schrenk, a Social Credit member who had 13 high-profile years on council. Development was a major issue and Bose, a 55-year-old, left-leaning pharmaceutical scientist, said he plans to go slow on growth. In the Fraser Valley, Sophie Weremchuk defeated three other challengers for mayor of Mission while William Hartley became mayor of Maple Ridge. Weremchuk and Hartley were unsucessful NDP running mates in Dewdney in the last provincial election. Incumbent Victoria Mayor Gret-chen Brewin, whose city recently became Canada’s choice to bid for the 1994 Commonwealth Games, won easily but incumbent Ken Hill was beaten by Ron Warder in neighboring Esquimau. The defeat came the first time Hill was challenged for his job. He TRADE-IN NOW & MOVE UP TO A STATE OF THE ART WATER SOFTENER ... “THE COMMANDER.” The Commander uses up to 50% less salt than other systems. Remembers how much soft water you use. Has a self adjusting reserve capacity. Regenerates only when necessary. Requires no homeowner adjustment. Has only one moving part in the metering system. See The Commander Today At: WITHEY’S WATER SOFTENING LTD. 2385-Nicholson St. 563-4909 Union leader back on job VANCOUVER (CP) - Bus union boss Colin Kelly has been dumped by his members and will be back in the driver’s seat instead. The controversial Kelly lost his bid for re-election as president of the Independent Canadian Transit Union. “I’ll be going back to driving,” said Kelly. 44, who has represented B.C. Transit’s 1,800 drivers for six years. “It will be a big change for me.” Fred McCormack. 52, a driver for 19 years, won 700 of the 1,300 votes cast in the union's election Friday. Kelly got 450. “Maybe there’s a perception there that K?lly’s getting tired or too confrontational,” said McCormack. McCormack said yesterday that confrontation no longer works. “Nobody can be a tough negotiator under the current labor legislation,” he said. Kelly, who has led the union since it was formed in 1982, was a driver for nine years before becoming an executive. frEIGHTLINEr Our New 1988 ‘Loggers’ Have Arrived also our 1988 Cabovers Are Coming Soon Come see them at FREIGHTLINER MB PRINCE GEORGE (DIVISION OF INLAND DIESEL LTD.) 2050 Robertson St. 563-0696 won his first four terms by acclamation. Referendums seeking approval for Sunday shopping were defeated in Prince George, Burns Lake, Terrace, Cranbrook and Fort St. James, but passed in Valemount, by 191-190, in Sparwood. Sunday shopping between May 1 and Sept. 15, plus the Christmas period, was approved 2,432-1,897 in Prince Rupert. A recount will be sought by mayoralty candidate Beth Johnson in the Vancouver suburb of Delta where Douglas Husband won by 58 votes. Another recount is possible in Vernon where incumbent Anne Clarke edged challenger Harold Thorlakeson 3,070-3,017. Municipal Affairs Minister Rita Johnson said in an interview Saturday night she didn’t expect any court battles for municipalities who used provincial voters’ lists as municipal lists. Johnson announced earlier that legislation validating the use of the provincial lists will be introduced in the legislature next week. The problem stemmed from changes in the Municipal Act last April that dropped British subjects from the municipal voting rolls, allowing only Canadian citizens to vote. Tne change made municipal voting lists obsolete. Johnson also said all local election legislation will be examined. “Included in that look-see is the matter of a possibly combined voters’ list. . .provincial, municipal, or something to take the place of the old enumeration. I hate to see municipalities placed in the position or having to do a complete enumeration on their own. It’s so very costly.” Police role hinted in Michael inquiry VANCOUVER (CP) - A businessman linked to the resignation of former highways minister Cliff Michael over conflict-of-interest allegations says he believes police will be involved in an investigation of the charges. “I believe it will happen,” Klaus Linemayr said Sunday after he met Friday with deputy attorney general Ted Hughes as part of the government investigation. “It was said to me that it will be a full investigation. . .1 guess the people on the other side knew I wouldn’t shut up unless they did it. I can’t say anything more because my lawyer said it wouldn’t be helpful to repeat everything between Mr. Hughes and myself.” Michael resigned from his cabinet post earlier this month following revelations he had discussed the sale of his Shuswap Lake property with businessman Roger Tadema, who met with the government about a ski development near Whistler. Hughes would neither confirm nor deny the RCMP are investigating the charges. . “When the investigation was announced it was quite understood it was my discretion to involve the RCMP if I felt it was warranted and I’m bearing that in my mind,” Hughes said but he would not comment on whether RCMP are involved at this stage. Meanwhile, Moe Sihota, the NDP member for Esquimalt, said he is “following a couple of leads” that two other cabinet ministers may be in conflict-of-interest positions. “On an ongoing basis I’m always examining this issue," he said. “It’s not as if I’m on the verge of announcing two more.” Grant Gardner See me first for the best selection of New & Used Vehicles. Out of town customers, call me collect at 564-4466 or 962-6169. 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