sy c> as. Castlegar News 4p:il9.1989 a. Castle OPINION A bad mix There are few sadder sights than birds and marine mammals Struggling h and ture led by thick, slimy y, thei crude oil which robs the animals of their bodies’ natural ability to tend Ott the cold. Unless catighi in time and helped by humans, the oir means certain death Ever since the massive oil spill into Prince William Sound at Valdez, Alaska, two: weeks ago American history the worst oil spill in North viewers of television newscasts have seen the sad sight of a beautiful unspoiled environment and its wildlife ruined by almost, 40 million litres of crude oil spilled from the super tanker Exxon Valdez after it hit a reef Biologists estimate there are one million migrating ducks and geese due at Prince William Sound this month, as well as 10 million shorebirds, endangered humpback, minke and fin whales, eagles and salmon which will hatch from eggs in the melting streams “In portions of Prince William Sound we will have a silent spring,” said Jon Lyman, an official of the Alaskan Department of Fish and Game. A state habitat biologist agreed “We have more and more animals coming in, birds moving up from the lower 48 (states) to nest, whales arriving right on time, har bor seals and sea lions due to deliver their pups in late May or early June,” Mark Kuwada said. If they get contaminated they may die Unseen, but acutely felt by the residents of the area, will also be the devastating economic effects of the spill: Arguments sometimes bitter arguments rage up and down the west coast from California to British Columbia over offshore ex ploration for additional petroleum reserves. How much more eviden ce do governments need that oil and water don't mix? Despite what may be admirable safety records on the part of the maior oil companies it's obvious one human error as in the case of the Valdez spill, can wreak devastation on the environment and the economy of an area Do we really need more oil and gas that badly that we should multiply the risks to the environment by seeking other petroleum feserves up and down the west coast? We don't think so. While we have to put up with the already developed facilities tor the delivery of oil traffic such as the Alaskan pipeline and supertanker to seek other petroleum resources in the environmentally sensitive areas off the west coast is just plain dumb ——Socreds miffed at NDP shift By MIRO CERNETIG VICTORIA (CP) hordes, as the Social Credit party so of ten calls the left in B don’t lend themselves. to red-baiting very well these days Lhe favorite New Democratic Party the whipping boy of the free enterprise Socreds rumpled tweeds and corduroy for well pressed business suits. “We are a new generation of New Democrats,”” NDP Leader Mike Harcourt We're different It just may be true Harcourt, 46, ha explains alter face ¢ a party once criticized for pie-in-the sky ideals and a penchant for runaway spending. Now he must try tradition of losing NDP-has won only one general clectior in the history of British Columbia A mitd=mannered heavy spectacles, Hare but methodically mc more moderate pasture assumed the leadership in 1986. FEW SURPRISED The shift 10 the prised_most_New knew what they were Democrats, Mc etting © acclaimed Harcourt a during his stir was nicknamed vane."" But Harcourt’s moderz as Vanep ce seems to have attention of the Socred. “Don’t be Vander Zalm recent “They're still sociali udder The warning was f court’s recent jaunt or Socred ground — a gather couver’s top busine waterfront hotel in th The NDP teader drew h —telling the business represents party-supports the wealth.” It appeared to be a long-standing NDP policy. Cer repudia was a departure from the position New Democrats st t power in the province from 1972 1975 thai they ‘‘d growth development may have tobe put of f tc alater date.”’ NOTSOCIALIST On talk shows, Harcourt refuse not desire m¢ for growth’s sake (and call himself a socialist I'ma social democrat, I've alway been a free-enterpriser,"’ he said Those statements drew a collec gasp from Socreds, incensed at the violation of their traditional turf. Fliy flop jokes about Harcourt have t making the rounds éver since The socialist has replaced its **Lsaw a cab pull up to the legislature he other day,” goes one jibe. **Mike Harcourt got out of both doors But there's no joking in the political back rooms, where both camps are plotting the battle for the hearts of the moderate voters who will. determine he next B.C. election Both parties are definitely trying to stake out that middle ground,” says =Les Storey, president_of the polling firm United Communications Resear chIne SCORES IN POLL So far, Harcourt appears to be win ning the fight for that middle ground, inhabited by what Storey calls the wing voters In a January poll, 30 per cent of those interviewed said Harcourt was a good leader, compared with 18. per Zalm. Asked how mest and: trustworthy the two men Vander cent for Vander Harcourt outscored Zalm 2-1 were, The poll, which involved interviews with 601 British Columbia, is accurate respondents across considered hin four percentage points 19 out of 20 times Harcourt’s Apparently viewing overtures to the moderate voter Vander Zaln red-scare tactics so successfully used by former Socred premiers Bill Bennett and his father W. A. C. Bennett The Socreds have been in power in British Columbia since 1952, with the brief exception of *72-'75 when Dave Barrettand the NDP ruled 1 said in the past that people need to put their finger on the hot stove of a jubilant Wacky Bennett aid the night his son Bill defeated the NDP. “The felt it. Now they've taken heir finger away.” PREMIER'S AIM Vander Zalm has opted for different gics, recently tikening Harcourt 4 watermelon hrea has begun the ocialisn red and seedy in also been that taking Harcourt pains to uggest is a puppet pped up by the radical elements of the NDP to fool voters into voting for hen I's all pleasing to Harcourt, who, trhis usuat patience, is waiting for he election the Socreds don’t have to call until 1994 NDP byelections The has won four straight October 1986 The Socreds, however, still healthy majority in the legislature with 44 seats to the NDP*s 24. 1h * The sooner they call an election the says Harcourt Any time, any place since the election hotd-a cre is one Independent better, 4 su Castlegar News enna INCORPORA HE MID. WEEK MIRROR P t Pua PUBLISHER DITOR PLANT/FO! ADVERTISII OF THE B.C. PRESS COUNCIL Burt Campbell Simon Birch REMAN IG MANAGER OFFICE MANAGER CIRCULATION MANAGER Peter Horvey Gary Fleming Linde Kositsin Heather Hadley Wiemnaaraa can swim 2,000 Te Spat mavoid commercial fishermen » jump 10 feet over swirling rapids in Aleka. Letters to the editor Abortion unforgivable | sy Castlegar April 9, 1989 MORE LETTERS Bridge touted for river A Vighiticant Humber” or” MeN ar Celgar were discussing the problems in the area recently. The hottest topic by far was the “*ferry issue,”’ The guys asked me to write a letter to inform the public of how they feel — the majority live in Castlegar. Mitch Chernoff has ¢ven phoned Mayor Audrey Moore in regard to this line of thinking — contact has also been made with other council members by these Celgar people. The acknowledged frustrating aspect of the closure of the Castl¢gar Robson ferry — after all this time — is the lack of leadership from Castlegar council as a whole to help resolve this problem ‘Castlegar COUnCIN Wil have to-do more than just write another letter to the provincial government. Council will have to really get in volved now or. the possibility of a solution may be very distant — to the detriment of everyone in the area. The common-sense thinking ad- dresses all areas of concerns — a truck by-pass for the city, tourist access to the Arrow lakes, a more convenient crossing for Robson and Pass Creck residents available 24 hours a day. The answer of course is a bridge — a 365-days-a-year solution with no operating costs. Amortized over 100 years, it would be a very inexpensive solution, The bridge could be built as Ministry shouldn't play games 1 would like to comment on the letter from the Ministry of Environment's Waste Management Branch in Nelson (Castlegar News, Sunday, April 2) First, 1 am encouraged that ministry shares the concern over the disposal of chlorofluorocarbons. This is the first admission of its failure to act the Later in the letter, the ministry states alternate arrangements for the safe collection and disposal of CFCs is currently being explored. One refrigerator delivered ministry contained sulphur dioxide gas 1940s. If this condition exists today, half a century later, the to the used.in the mediate ‘action. Possibly the explorers have either been lost or mired in a quagmire of gobbledygook The public is concerned about aerosol sprays, pesticides, toxic wastes and the credibility of the Environment Ministry. When the public becomes disillusioned, it loses its respect for its leaders.and it is difficult to regain this confidence. I would respectfully suggest to the Ministry of Environment that it quit playing games. The tenure of the fox guarding the chickens will be redun dant when the surviving chickens escape from the henhous¢ Pat Romaine ‘he truck by-pass tr tiew of one skirting the city itself The trucks would, of course, use the present highway to the weigh scales then proceed on the highway to Rob son across the bridge to the mills and return to the weigh scales as required The 24-hour tourist access to and from the city from up the lake has to be™ considered a cornerstone of proftiotion for the area, ‘Hooked on Castlegar.” The pulp mill expansion is imminent and it will double or triple truck traffic Parent to list,p I have two children in Kinnaird Junior secondary school who are in the regular curriculum band program. The cost of this program over and above my school taxes (Hy the time I rent in struments and send them on band trips) is approximately $550. lask myself, why do certain children get a first-class education through the second-language program at a cost of $30,000 (plus) of our tax dollars, when Don’t use funds to segregate We-woutdtike to ser council adopt a motion to investigate the cost benefit of a bridge at the Rob: son ferry site with a view to this being designated asa city truck bypass. Castlegar council members are now challenged to get positive, get onside with their neighbors,yhelp themselves by providing the leadefship for the bes! solution to the Robson ferry issue — a bridge Mel McMullen Castlegar ° ° ti at the same ihere many students on a waiting list for learning assistance? Do we in fact have a private school being run through our public school system? time are I went to the last school board meeting and I was shocked to see the atmosphere in which our $9 million is being spent. When the individual chairing the ting can. make statements like, “tell someone who and-can also totally ignore @ trustee addressing the chair, then | think the democratic procedure has been all but lost Another point 1 wish to raise is the district review report recommending that informing the public better must bea priority of the district The team> suggested a review of me cares,"’ In response to the letter “Quality of life should be considered’? (Castlegar March 12), as one i definitely opposed to the wholesale slaughter of unborn children, | wish to make this point clear to anyone who is trying to justify and despicable News, who is tegatize—this unforgivable murder: All life is given by God, let no man take away that what God has’given. It is true warm, “to live is to eat, to be and, in our most of all to be loved."* However, 1 wouldn't put too much to have shelter society, emphasis 6n education; we all know that it is the educated who are respon- sible for the problems of this world, It is to these educated that we pay $32 billion interest every murder year, for mass Billions that could have more than fed, every child that they slaughter before it is born sheltered, educated and loved It is the educated that have taken complete control of the satan box (television) industry and through Polic We used 10 regard the law and the But I find some of the recent police constables police force with réspect cannot demand this respect. They are constables yanymore machiries working for a diciator in the last war and | should know 1 had an experience recently which disturbed me not they are Twas 1 was coming weston the highway from Nelson and this travelling east. All of a sudden, in my rear view mirror, | saw a red flasher and I noticed this car making a ‘*U"? turn constable was i» Surmising it was for me, I pulled road. Sure He claimed 1 was speeding. Since | was following to the side of the was for me | Murphy Creek dam bad idea Thanks, but nothanks Is six yeats of economic stimulation worth the loss of a river forever? To stop the Columbia River below the pulp-mill at Celgar would be to create a 20-mile tong toxic cesspoot in our backyard. In the age of oil spills¢ acid rain, deterioration rain-forest_destruction, let’s-at-least explore the alternatives to a dam at Murphy Creek Build the Keenleyside upgrade all the dam River, or build the Seven Mile Project onthe Pend Oreille River To stop the Columbia River would be a shame; to stop it and allow a pulp mill to continu voir would be in ozone and turbines “on the dam, modernize and on the Kootenay dam above the to spew into the reser their filthy programs have corrupted the youth to the extent where they have lost all moral respect for themselves and each other. Today's youth has been programmed to accept the idea of sex, not for re-creation, as was meant by God, but-for recreation; it- doesn’t make much difference who the partner is For emphasis I have coined a new word and would like to introduce a significant term nimorguetaller."” We have murderers, sadists, satanists, new om warmongers, mer chants of death and baby slaughterers We know jthat the term morgue has 10 do with death, omni all other deaths, and the word taller, above all, to in clude baby slaughterers, thence ‘tom nimorgyetallers We afe living ina very sick society, a society that has accepted the works of the omnimorgueiallers above the works of our Creator stop to distinguish one from the other We cannot allow this slaughtering to We do not even go on, not only of the unborn but also of those grown up to full bloom, What percent (with knowledge) of the unborn are malfor- handicapped? It is wholesale slaughter! of the perfectly healihy babies that—pro-lifers are protesting. What value can we place on a woman who would willingly, deliberately kill her own child? Is there any difference in her killing it just before it is born or just after it is born? A fetus in its ninth month provides the best and most expensive collagen; it is previous med or the put into ice while it is still alive and irying to breathe laboratory for These and rushed to the processing. into cosmetics. sell for $5,500 a pound Why pay presposterous price for abortion, and give them the slaughtering your baby? Why not wait until the child is born, then have the pleasure of choking the little bastard, or chopping it to pieces and throwing it an omnimorguetaller a satisfaction of e methods not Two other vehicles, Tcan’t say, but it couldn't have been very much He checked my truck out and found that I had no brake lights, for which I got a $50 fine. He also found that my emergency brake was slack, for which | got another $50 fine While he was doing this, he said he could be giving me a $400 fine, so no back talk. All 1 could go was swallow and keep quiet T think this is threatening the public and this kind of officer is not wanted I am a veteran from the Second World War. I haven't been treated this way for years, not even as a young fellow. Is this what the public deser ves? It would be a good idea if these few cities| around here took stock and Parker got rid OF some Of these machines and cleaned up these forces. Anyway, asa pensioner I cannot af ford a$100 fine. The officer stated that if I didn’t go and pay the fine, I'd have to goto court. That means a lawyer, so 1 guess it doesn't matter what I do. Through circumstances of my own, If this constable had used common sense, this wouldn’t have had to happen. All | needed was a warning ticket am beat If this constable is allowed to con tinue, it is only going to hurt men and women_in_the police force because eventually people like myself are going tobe heard.. The law has to be straightened out, one way or another Thetaw, as tunderstand it, is there touted as comedian May I suggest that the next publicity that ‘Forests Forever with might bea “‘light”’ black comedy Mr. Dave Parker, B.C forests, comedian. Bit of gloss, paint, tap-dan: ce_lessons, catchy tunes, glamorous lighting ... After all, wonders The clearcutting companies had bet ter give Auditor-General Kenneth Dye a front-row seat for this production, possibly other favors aswell, eh? He entertain us minister of might yet be a terrific works money must be another Parker calls any critic of B.C ““fringe-type” as Mr ‘s impec cable forest practices. Mr. Dye’s 1988 report states, ‘*The generaMintent of the FRDAs, (Forest Resource Development Agreements between B.C. and Ottawa) is to ensure that funds spent on the productive sites and that these receive appropriate silviculture treatme: “We found few instances where this had been done. We found insufficient aiment assessment — and This has resulted in treat are niost pre-t monitoring. ments being applied to marginal sites, incorrect site preparation, poorly plan ted sites and the planting of propriate tree stock."” inap- Hence some of the reasons for Ot tawa’s reluctance to fork over $700 million for the next FRDA agreement to fund the B.C. industry's reforestation projects Socred government during the recession years while the business of cutting went right on Obviously, the forest industry had better send Mr. Dye, the Forestry Canada folks and federal politicians forest back-log of allowed by the copies of the Forests Forever plement — and quick formative silviculture articles circled. As for the who surrounded by the sup: with the in rest of us live forests and ever incteasing clearcuts, we'll try to keep our eyes, ears, mouths and noses shut tightly during slashburning season But-there’s a wee, small voice inside that's saying, “The jig is up!" M. Bajer Nakusp into the garbage pail. I suggest that these women. pre-arrange with the cosmetic firms to have the baby right in the laboratory, so they can process it while it is still alive. No doubt this would make the best collagen and the woman could collect a fortune instead of paying outa fortune It is beyond all comprehension, how anyone can condone such slaughtering of angels. Wemen should turn to God for guidance, rather than letting them- selves go into wholesale recreation. One slave cannot serve two masters. Be aservant of God, rather than a slave of corruption anyone who is bringing up children with a television in the house, has no right to claim that they loye They leafned to love the corruption and filth 1 maintain that their children. have on the satanbox more than their own God-given angels Mike E. Chernenkoff Crescent V alley liked Tor Our protection and therefore com mon sense should be used. | have also noticed in the past that the evidence of one constable can be taken over three or four members of the public Soon a deal like this, it was only him and me, there is no way, even with a lawyer's help, that I can beat this deal Angus Thodeson Robson Clear message received The statement by Mr. Wilf Sweeney that his company, Stone Container Corp./China Investment —-Gorp:/€elgar, will norwpgrade the pulp mill unless it is highly profitable to do so, sends a clear message to the people of Castlegar that they are going to have to put up with excess pollution for along time. Here we have a totally foreign com: pany, which does not have a tree farm licence and therefore does not plant a single tree, but uses the products of the forests simply for huge profits, mean. while polluting beyond nermal stan dards, There is only one word for this exploitation Bob Rivers Castlegar Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at 197 Columbia Ave nue, Castlegar Letters must be signed and include the writer's tull name and address. Oni in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the writers nome Nevertheless, the name ond address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor ated The Castlegar News reserves the right to edit letters tor brevity : clarit legality and grammar is ph eq! im Optimism over water not shared Regarding your article, (Sunday, March 26) “Experts optimistic about water supply,” I cannot share the op- timism of Terry Anderson and Bob Richards. First of all, the runoff. in the Kootenay River at Fort Steele and snowpack-at Paulson-Bridge-has- tittle relevance to the runoff of small creeks such as some on Perry Ridge. Here at the Vallican Environment Canada weather station this winter's snowfall certainly is an improvement over last year’s (63 per cent versus 44.9 per cent of 1985 levels) but then the winter of 1985 recorded the second lowest snowfall since 1945 in the area in cluding New Denver, Vallican, South Slocan and Castlegar. In other words, the Castlegar water supply may not be in jeopardy but in my-opinion—water-supplies_in_other watersheds certainly are. 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Understanding, yes, but separation, no It would certainly be a strain on public funding if Vancouver taxpayers had to pay for “immersion"’ in each of thatcity’s multicultural languages. t-feet-the-parents-mustfinancially take the, responsibility for their own cultural awareness and public funding should be used for thé understanding of our Canadian melting pot. Dorothy Marti Castlegar CUrrent-practices-amd-arr of avenues for improvement. 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