CHETWYND, B.C. {CP) — Asignature ce the dotted line has brought a real eatate and construction boom to this tiny nor- theastern British Columbia community. The $1.5 billion northeast coal deal, just signed by Japanese and B.C. firms, already: is effecting Chetwynd, which lles Ln the heart of the province's conlfieids, “There's a real realty boam. going on up here, people are buying up commercial land all over Page 2 3, The Herald, Thursday, January 29, 1991 Coal deal sparks building boom — the place,” Chetwynd Mayor Exnest Pfanner said Wednesday. - Ptannersaid the 21-by 4¢- metre lots are selling for $40,000 to $45,000 each in the downtown area of the community, 320 kilometres north of Prince Gearge. Seven apartment buildings were constructed during the summer and Pfanner says two more $0- unit buikdings will be ready by April “but if people come before, they'll be finished before that." “coalfields, In addition to those preparations, the com- munity has 320 {ully- serviced lots and a land bank of 640 lots, There are 10 houses currently under construction. The coal deal, slgned by | a consortium of Japanese steel firms and Teck Mining Corp. and Denison Mines Lid., will only affect - Chetwynd peripherally as those mines He at the most southerly point of the about 120 kilometres from here. “Moat of the construction Tumbler Ridge (a planned new kilometres southeast of bere) and there'll have to be new roads, power and * bridges into the aren.so . we'll get some of that” * epinoéf."’ * But Pfanner says the deal that “will really make - the difference to Chet- wynd” is yet to come. . British Petroleum of Montreal currently ia nogeiting to develop te Sukunka Sealtlelds, community - 110° Klometres south of bere, eh com being in 1.0 1,000 people may be toa much to handle,” said _ Planner. “It'a oot & lot for . ‘ Prhice George, but it sure would be bere.” Planner. saye an _ economic boom: here could alo have some negative . effects, and will almost certainly drive up land and “Ts not too bad at the | manent, residential - -lots are about $20,000 and you . employees to - com: can get a nice house for tunity, . 985,000 — but that will "That ‘would be.a real” change." 7 “shot in the arm, but for us, But for the Austrianbor ': Pfanner, the dramatic changes already taking. Place and still to come here mean a dream come irve, - - “Tt couldn't have been a nicer morning when T got the call from Don Phillip’s office (economic and development minister), but 1 was sorry some of the oldiimers didn't lve Jong enough to see this, ad 48-death fire started by cigarette lighter: CHIBOUGAMAU, Que. (CP) — A man who sur- vived & 1980 New Year's Day fire which took 48 lives says Florent Cantin, a 22- yeer-old laborer, slarted tho blaze with a flick of a cigarette lighter. Plerre Desloges was _ teathfying Wednesday on the first day of Cantin’s trial on a manslaughter charge. The defendant pleaded not guilty before provincial court Judge Georges Chasse, who is hearing the case without a jury. The flames, which produced the highest death toll of any fire in Canada in more than 40 years, swept through the Opemiska Club, a social club in nearby Chapais owned by the town's largest em- ployer, Falconbridge Nicke! Mines Ltd. of Cente is being tried In connection with the death of one of the victims, Robla Desjardins, but evidence presented is considered applicable to the others. Desloges testified he saw — Cantin twice flick his lighter near an arch of pine branches decorating a doorway at the club, where about 300 party-goers were celebrating the arrival of ihe new year. The fire began on the second flick of fhe lighter, Desloges said, and the flames quickly flared out of contro, but he managed tto escape the building. Another witness, Régis Malenfant, said be didn’t see who lit the branches, but he saw a panie-stricken Cantin Ister repeating: “It's my fault, it's my fault.” nee Bei PCat od nate. . 4 ~ Until March 31, Honda motorcycle dealers across Canada will be giving a lot of great deals on some fine-looking wheels. Honda's lowered its suggested list prices upto $200 on the following CB750K’s, CBé50's, CM400E's and CB400T's. So get on down to your Honda dealer's soon. And see see Honda. - MODEL * MANUFACTURER'S ACTUAL REGULAR RETAIL PRICE AS OF AND SALE PRICES. OCTOBER 15/60 JANUARY 2/al 1980 CB750KA $3,399 $3,199 1981 CB750KB $3,499 $3,299 © 1980 CBSSOA. - $2,899 © $2,599 . 198] CB650B $2,999 $2,799 1980 CB400TA $2,199 $1,999 Hawk ue 1981 CB400TB $2,299 $2099 Hawk 1980 CMA00EA Sua $1,999 $1,799 1981 CM400EB eS = $2099 $1,899 mlioles PO Reet nd pecan tecaee cot hnene Not ali deciers may have all models. Crown Rosaire Larouche in- troduced two satements taken by police following the fire, in which Cantin ” allegedly confessed that be waa responsible. Guy Delisle, 28, in charge of organizing the New Year's party, testified he wes walking between the bar and his table at the entre of the hall shortly after midnight when he ‘ prosecutor , before being able to offer atalstance, Walter Klucanic, a Falconbridge fire in- spector, told the court he found one of the club's four eatinguishera out of its , Place when he visited on Dec. 13, 1979, about two weeks before the fire. Normand Bedard, « personnel manager for Falconbridge ‘who rented the halt to the Lion’s Club for the party, said be found while inspecting the premises on New Year's Eve that a chemical fire extinguisher _ normally hung by the front door had been placed in a bar cabinet to make way for the pine-branch arch. He sald be asked oné of the party organizers to put the extinguisher back in its regular place. The trial continues. A mn ABOUT PEOPLE saw flames coming from . 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Street Pave ; It’s “getting to be Bob McCarthy, 45, the | electrical technician | the puzzle in the: . West Kootenay mining community, challenges _abyone to prove his ‘invention — a system that he says will heat a 120-square-metre house for 40 cents a day — is a.. “hoax, But he won't Bay ‘how he can do it. His mystery heat source Is contained in a wooden box about the a size of two shoe boxes. Oil, wood, gas, solar or muclear power do not produce the heat, he says. ! Why won't he take the: A lid off the box and show * the world what is in- side? “We're afrald we . would end up losing it to corporate organizations | who have the money to B develop it.” Diane Stapley wants to be known as more than a singer. _ ‘That'sone reason why she’s playing Charlie, the neurotic, sardanic, might club comedienne j with a. homosexual husband, a troublesome boy friend and a potential lover who could make her happy in Erika Ritter’s comedy hit, Automatic Pilot. For the last five # years, the 35-year-old performer has been doing ‘nothing but musicals and .musical television.” "So naturally the public automatically thinks ‘Diane Siapley, singer,'” she said in an interview at Ed- f monton's Theatre 3, where Automatic Pilot opens next week, Its very easy. to do gre vame. thing for, five years, to become a complacent per- former." Mame has finally made it. The popular musical has joined Catcher in the Rye, Cateh-22 and The Grapes of Wrath as ar- listic ventures regarded by some to be unfit for general consumption, Objections. to the language in the musical after it opened Jan. 22 at an Orillia, Ont, high achool have resulted in more than 50 word- changes in the script including substituting switch" for “bitch”? and A ‘eliminating the ex- pressions §=‘“‘goddamn”’ and “oh God."’. Principal George Fenn, said he approved the changes, but refused to remove the word “bastard” from the play, saying it's a legitimate word in its yeoper context in the production. Nominations for the best-directed movie of Miner’ B. 1980 were announced Tuesday by George Sebacfer, president’ of the Directors Guild’ of America, The winner of . the guild's Strd ‘annual award will be an- pounced , March ie ‘at banquets in New. York and Hollywood. - The nominees are: Michael! ‘Apted, ‘Coal Daughter} David “Lynch, he Elephant Man; Robert Redford, Ordinary People; Martin: “Seer: seae, Raging Bull, and Richard Rush, . The In .2972, the guild winner was ‘Francis. Ford Coppela for* The Godfather, while Bob Fosse won the Oscar for’ Cabaret, “in_ 1968, An thony Harvey seated for, The Lion in Winter | the guild and the Oscars went to Carol Reed to. Oliver. Could it be that Hawkeye and the boys on the television series M.A.S.H. are dictating the fashions in Hamilton? ‘ In the last 10 months, thieves have stolen sald Tuesday that 8,000 | of the baggy cotton garments. have been ‘dividual students who don’t ‘even look at itas stealing until they're eaugh aa Businessman Van Hertow wants te sell Seuthfork Ranches, but Miss Elle — matron of television's popular~ Dallas — — needn't worry . that her family bome will be bought out from under her. Harlow owns, South fork Ranches [ie. but, not the actual ranch. where moatof the action | in the show takes place. . He paid a $10 filing fee. to the Texas. of state's office to farm the corporation. For the past two weeks he's heen advertising in The . Wall Street Journal. trying to sell the name,’ | He hopes to get $2,000 but says he's bad no | takers so far. “I just thought sameone might want the use of the name." 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