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Acentre island and two
Bailey bridges were re-
established at Stewart
July 4 linking it to land
and northern and eastern
communities. |

A fire on June30 during
Canada Day celebrations

destroyed the Bear River °
bridge at Stewart. The

112-metre bridge was the
town's only land link,
Officials from
ministry of tran-
aportation and highways
soon organized bridge

crews from local districts
‘and = =workers

from
Stewart. They
structed: the two Bailey,

the

con-

Fast work on land link.

bridges as a temporary
detour route.

The original bridge only
took one. hour to burn
down, Jeaving local
residents and 800 tourists
stranded until alternate
transportation arrived

completed.

and the new land link was -

Bashful .
‘monster’
appears

KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) —
Ogopogo, the bashful lake
monster of the B.C.
Okanagan, is becoming a
show-off. |

The legendary beastie,
usually sighted once ar twice
during the summer tourist
season, made’ two ap-
pearances this week alone,
witnesses reported.

On Wednesday, Orm and

Edith Pasquill, a retired .

couple from nearby Rutland,
B.C,, were fishing in the’
middle of Lake Okanagan
when they noticed tur-
bulence and waves about 30
metres from their boat.

“] saw it three times as it
moved about,” Pasquill said.

“T saw three humps about
10 feet from end-tcend,"
said Mrs, Pasquill. “I saw
some of the déep, dark green
o¢ dark brown body, but no
head or tall appeared.”

Pasquill said the humps —

looked like dorsal fins. _
“Tt couldn't have been a
log,” he said. “‘There were
no other boats around as far
as we could see, It was calm
and hot. The creature's
appearances were spread
over about a 10-minute in-
terval. Seeing is believing.”

The couple said they
weren't frightened by the
creatare’s appearance, just
excited.

The Wednesday sighting
fe"'owed another Monday in
which about 30 people at the
Bluebird:Bay resort south of
Kelowna watched from the’
shore as a creature reared
up several times far out into
the lake.

Like his Scottish cousin,
the Loch Ness, Monster,
Ogopogo has been a fixture
of local lore for years. All
efforts to prove his existence
have failed.

FEWER BABIES BORN

Canada’s birth rate has
dropped from 45 births per
1,000 people a century ago to,
15 per 1,000 today.

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“Allowance | :
Draw. Winners

Maria Pereira

3.60 —

“VICTORIA . (CP). —
Helmetless B.C. motor-
cyclists better eiijoy the.

breeze through their hair for”
the next few days because -

the provincial government
now ‘has. promised quick

action to get bikers to wear *

protective headgear. °
‘Attorney-General

Allan
Wiliams said Thurelay. the

elmet laws”

~ ruled the ael ‘doesn't aive the:

legal ‘problem “with «man?
datory : ‘helmet legislation
Will be -rectified. with ah

amendment to the provincial .
likely

Motor Vehicle Act —
within the next week.

Motoreyclists

CBC. reporter |
flees Bolivia .

VANCOUVER (CP) —.A
38-year-old CBC.
correspondent ia resting in a

‘Lima, Peru, hotel ‘today:
-pfter fleeing Bolivia where
the new military regime is - |
making life difficult for re-

porters. - oe
“I had used up about five
of my nine lives,” Bonner

. said in a telephone interview

from Lima. -

Bonner, a native ' ‘ot San
Francisco,
detained twice and released

-by the ‘military. Soldiers
searched his hotel in La Paz

last: week but Bonner was

~ alerted in timetoelip out to a
friendly embassy...

“Then hid out in aprivate
home for three. days,” he

gaids

He had planned to fly out
last’ Saturday but’ changed
his mind after being tipped
that soldiers were watching
the airport for him.

.“Y'ye learned: that, the
flight 1 was booked on was -

held for’ five hours. while
soldiers checked everyone.”
He decided to take an

overland route: to: Peru -
where.he's trying to decide ;

his next move. — -
Bonner said he had in-
tended to repart from Bolivia

until he was arrested. .. -
“T really thought that if I

was going to be arrested they
would. jast deport me," he
said. “But when. they said

they were going to put Mary

Helen Spooner on trial, 1
made plans to leave,”. - ©

a) ae

"had -' been

“for

Karen Yanhalderen .

21.80

American, was ‘wediaba last

week of false reporting and |

held for ‘trial for. allegedly

libelling. . and defaming:

Bolivia's leaders, at

_ She had sent a: story to.
‘ London alleging members of

the armed froces were in-
volved in drug trafficking.

. Editors: of two British |
: publications, The Economist:

and the Financial : Tinies,

went te La Paz and secured

her’ release; She flew ta Lima -
; . edllided-with a car near that

Wednesday.

‘Quakes _

rattle.
‘mountain

VANCOUVER, Wash.
(AP) — A fogbound Mount
St, Helens was ratiled by two
minor earthquakes ;Thur-
sday but. had an otherwise
uneventful day,

“They were earthquakes
_ but.

are

seismologists
said

discounting them,’

Steve Walter, a spokesman
the University _ of
séismology ~

Washington _
laboratory.

“They were decidedly less
than 2 (on the Richter scale) ,

and in the area of St. Helens,
but so ‘small they were-not

_worth getting a location on,"

he said.
The volcano in. south-
western Washington erupted

. - Aug. 7, for the fifth time in.
> Ms Spoaner, a a-year-old

three. months. -

began |
~.. removing their . helmets
Monday. after . provincial
“court: Judge Cyril Woodliffe

BG, :

government _ decided ta
appeal. the court decision

rather ‘than change ” the

helmet. legislation. oSna

ess which, could: take up

to Bix months ‘to complete. af
- However, "Williams: said”
careful’ con-.
‘sideration it..was decided’ at
h, ‘that although lawyers felt an
appeal would be successful, a

that’ after:

it would take too long:

Meanwhile} ‘at, least two: | free tours any weekday.

motorcyclists: -who took

advantage of Monday's court |
culling ‘and. doffed’ thei? 7

helmets: were killed ..

separate aecidents Wedines- :

day,

Oiticials: believe the Ewo |,
deaths can be blamed on the ©

absence - of.

protective
headgear, -- ;

‘Wayne Thoma Cumming-

ham, 23, of Fraser Lake,
died | when - the
motorcycle he was: riding

central. B.C. community. ©

In the other accident,
Robert Gladstone, 24, was
killed when his motoreycle
tumbled end over end in-

7 Vancouver:

. BL. isn't the ‘only provinte

superintendent of motor-ve-, _ having difficulty with helmet *:
hicles : “the ‘authority. ‘to legislation. oe
bei helmets for hike ot voy
TS. ts
eet At Edmonton, . a. judge’
: Transportation . Minister ruled. Tuesday: . that
Alex Fraser said later. the legislation that province is

contrary - to the Alberta Bill.
of Rights. Peo us o

eo¢

: The. Alberta “government
tas told police departments
to ignore the court ruling and -
"continue handing out tickets
* tg the helmetiess riders, but
Jater reversed that decisicn,
talling’ the judgment
“binding until sucresstuly

appealed me

: ‘Alcan’ s tours at Kitimat

‘|. have been stepped up for |

- the summer You're invited
>, to1ake your choice of three

| .. Before you visit the °

* ‘smelter you will see our
new prize-winnin film

a “Kitimat: A New Genera-

‘tion? We think you'll find

' “itinteresting.  -~

. You can enjoy the film in
comfort at our new tour
building, where a bus will

"pick you up for a forty-min-

ute trip arpund the plant.

Ifyou have

you this sum-

to bring”
Im them out.

Bake y our rchoice | >
of smelter tours. |

“Snctertour sched. 4S

friends visiting

\) mer take time

Alcan smelters
and Chemicals Ltd

June 2 to August 30,1980; = 4 “y
Monday 10 Friday mo
‘Tours daily at:

10:45 a.m, 12: s5pins130pm,
From Smelter Tour Building at
the entrance to the Plant. (It
helps to makea reservation, yo ’

Saturdays— Vs be

“Tours for groups may be

arranged with 24 hours’ notice | i. sy

through the tour office of by:
telephone: (604) 632-311,
Local 259, ‘ ;

Fail, Winter & Spring Tours t :
Available on Tuesday and '
Thursday afternoans o only; BY i
special arrangement thropgh the
tour office. Phone (604) 632-31),
Local 259; or write:

Alcan Smeltet Tours’

Box 180:

Kitimat, ". c. VaG 22

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