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EDITORIAL

Parents need
to be involved

Should parents be required to appear in court with their ¢!
after the young person has been caught with liquor?

This is the question being debated in the State of Idaho right now
as the result of a State Legislator’s bill that would make parents
responsible for — or at least aware of — their child’s drinking ac-
tivities.

Titled the Parental Notification Bill, the proposed legislation is
pretty straightforward. It if passes, young people cited for possession
of beer, hard liquor or wine would be forced to bring their parents to
court with them. If the parents can’t, or don’t make it to court, then
either or both parents will be cited for contempt and either fined or
jailed.

Here in British Columbia, police are required to advise parents
when a young person is arrested and detained in custody pending a
court appearance. As soon as possible, the officer in charge is
required to advise a parent, either verbally or in writing, of their
youngster’s arrest stating the place of detention and the reason for the
arrest.

But it is not mandatory that either or both parents attend court
proceedings. _On}y_ ifthe court, in its opinion, decides the
presence of a par€nt-B-necessary or is in the best interests of the
young person, ca ie court then, by order in writing, require the
parent to attend at any stage of the proceedings.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dirks is off base .

Mr. Dirks has it all upside down. Industry
mismanagement of the public forests is not the
key to sustainable development and the Social
Credit government lacks the resolve to wisely
manage our most precious resource.

Direct employment of the forest industry
six per cent of the 1.4

If the parent hasn’t a reasonable excuse for not then
he or she is guilty of contempt of court and may be dealt with sum-
marily by the court and is liable for punishment such as a fine or even
a jail term.

‘We suggest the logical next step in many cases, and certainly in
alcohol-related matters, is to make attendance in court of at least one
parent mandatory.

This would make parents acutely aware of their youngsters ac-
tivities and would hopefully prompt them to become involved with
what could be their offspring’s ascenting drinking problem,

Some people might argue that notifying parents infringes on the
rights of their children. Others may say parents should not be held
responsible for the actions of young people who are perhaps only a
few months away from being legally adults.

But it is our opinion that the more a parent is involved with a
youngster, the stronger the family unit becomes.

We readily admit a courtroom might not be the best environment *
for parents and their siblings to deal with the serious consequences of
teenage drinking. But a courtroom is a lot better place than a morgue
to contemplate the importance of parental involvement.

VIEWPOINT

GST is scaring
spenders away

By TERRY O’SHAUGHNESSY
Three months into the first year of
the Goods and Services Tax, a
national poll is showing that almost
half of Canadian households have
cut back their consumer spending.
According to the results of this poll,

respondents have cut back their
spending while 54 per cent reported
that they have made no change in
their spending habits.

A regional breakdown of the
results show that: 1 per cent of
respondents in Atlantic Canada have

large numbers of C are ap-
parently finding the prospect of
paying the GST so repellent (not to
mention expensive) they have simply
decided to do without.

The poll, conducted in mid-March
by the Angus Reid Group on behalf
of the Canadian Federation of In-
dependent Business, asked 2,003
Canadians ‘how has your household
reacted to the mew 7 per cent GST?
Have you cut back purchases, in-
treased purchases, or has there been
no change in your purchases as a
result of the GST?’" In addition to
the 1 per cent who are buying more,
the poll found that 45 per cent of

P to 41
per cent wh ave decreased; 1 per
cent and 45 per cent respectively in
Quebec; I per cent and 48 per cent in
Ont , 2 per cent and 45 per cent

million persons employed in B.C, Although the
forest industry creates significant secondary
employment (two indirect jobs per every direct job
is claimed by the industry), many of these
secondary jobs are outside the province.
Nevertheless, even if all forest sector indirect
employment was located in B.C., the forest
industry would only provide at the very most, 18
per cent of all jobs.

While the non-forest industries have been
creating about 50,000 new jobs per year, the forest
industry has lost through automation, overcutting
and poor market conditions at least 10,000 direct
jobs during the last decade, plus another 20,000
indirect jobs if the industry’s direct/indirect job
ratio is applied. During this time the amount of,
trees cut went up 50 per cent from about 60 to 90
million cubic metres per year. The truth is that
most new jobs have been created by small
businesses in the growing service sector of the
economy. This sector includes tourism which
recently surpassed the forest industry to become
the largest employer in the province.

The critical problem caused by the above
structural changes in the B.C. economy centers
around the misallocation of forest resources. The
second largest industry still has access to log
nearly all of the public forests. Prospects of other
uses and interest, including fish and wildlife, and
the public use of forests for water supplies,
recreation and tourism are very grim. Less than
three per cent of our forests are currently reserved
from logging and mining. This imbalance has led
to the growing call to expand and complete our
system of protected park and wilderness areas. . .
before all our remaining unprotected old growth
forests have been clearcut by industry.

The popular misconception Mr. Dirks
repeats, that ‘half of every dollar earned in B.C.
comes from the forest industry,’’ has been proven
false time after time.

Contrary to Mr. Dirk’s report from the
legislature, the forest industry is far from

the.coast and pollute our inland rivers. Industry
continues to log at a rate which significantly
exceeds the long run yield is by

most simple explanation, which in this case is that
Rae has been reading about deficits. Rae has come
to what the Right Honourable Joe

the Ministry of Forests and is probably at least
double what can really be sustained. Worse yet,
relative to Eastern Canada, the United States and
Europe, B.C.’s forest industry provides much less
in terms of both jobs and value-added.

Mr. Dirk’s column confirms that he does not
support balanced use when he speaks of the
Socred’s ‘‘commitment to the forest industry."”
Instead of continuing to praise and reward an
industry which continues to do less with more,
what is desperately needed is progressive reform to
increase value-added and employment that can be
generated from logging the public forests at a
sustainable rate. We need to rapidly change from
the present unbalanced resource allocation, which
protects less than six per cent of B.C.’s landbase
and 3 per cent of its old growth forests, to at least
double the present protected area including
proportional representation of old growth forests.
We need to reallocate the control of forest
Practices from the large multi-national forest
companies and the old boys ruling the Ministry of
Forests in Victoria to community resource boards
and competitively bidding logging contractors.

Behind the storefront claims of green
concerns, the Social Credit government recently
removed regulations protecting the forests from
wasteful logging practices and refused to enact its
long promised limit of 1.5 kg. per ton of deadly
AOX pollution for pulp mills. It is time for a
change in government from the present status-
quo, no-questions-asked government, to a new
one. Perhaps more than anything else, we

need honest to look
after the broadest public interests instead of
favoring the self-serving profit concerns of large
corporations which dominate the present forest

Clark was talking about a few years ago when, to,
spur on a flagging economy, he advocated running
a ive deficit."’ Few and this
may be in part the reason that Clark lost the
leadership of the Conservative party, a tragedy
that has cost Canada dearly and that will not be
played out in our lifetimes.

Rae no doubt is also familiar with the
theories of Lord Maynard Keynes who maintained
that a responsible government could and should
smooth out the economic cycle by running deficit
when prosperity was brought about. Most
governments have heard the first part of the
prescription but have not heeded the second part.

Rae may have gone even farther back in
history and thought about Joseph’s interpretation
of Pharaoh’s dreams of the ‘‘lean and ill-favored
kine (that) did eat up the first seven fat kine
but were still il wored as at the beginning’’ and
of the seven ears that had come up in one stalk,
full and good, but were eaten up by the seven ears
“withered and thin, and blasted with east wim"
that sprung up after them. Clearly Joseph was
wearing the hat of the economist and advising
Pharaoh to save some of the wealth generated in
the good years to serve as a cushion in the bad
years. Of course Joseph, being a prudent man,
believed that we should save first, and spend later,
just as our grandmothers did when they told us to
always put aside something for a rainy day. “

And so it is just possible that Rae, like Clark
and Keynes and Joseph, is right when everyone
else is wrong. It is to be hoped that he is still on
the scene when pay-back time comes, and that
those who must do the paying will remember what
made it possible for them to be in the happy
position of being able to pay.

industry and, in turn, our present government.

Grant Copeland
New Denver

Rae's reasoning

‘When Bob Rae startled Canada by winning
the Ontario election last year there was one thing
that the political pundits agreed on. Rae is a quiet,

polite, well-educated, thoughtful man, with a
sound understanding of world affairs, a good

grasp of economic theory and of history. Having

forest toa

in i 1 per
cent and 39 per cent in Alberta; and
1 per cent and 40 per cent in British
Columbia.

CFIB vice president of research
and chief economist, Catherine Swift,
says the poll results directly con-
tradict the federal government's
“*good néws"’ scenario that was per-
petuated in the months before the
GST was implemented on Jan. 1,
1991.

recent nationwide poll, 72 per cent of B.C.
foresters admitted we are overcutting. Because it is
the cheapest way for companies to'log,
clearcutting is still on the increase. In 1970, 20,000
of 120,000 hectares were selectively cut. By 1989,
this had reduced to only 18,000 of 270,000
hectares. Slides caused by i

under a person who by

his own admission i is not much of a one for

reading, I have followed closely Rae’s progress in
the hurly-burly of the day-to-day running of his

province.

What then are we to make of the deliberate
decision to bring in the largest provincial deficit

budget in Canadian history at a time when the

and poor logging road construction continue to
damage public highways and private property
throughout the province. Pulp mill pollution
‘continues to close commercial shell fisheries on

wisdom has it that a deficit is bad

per se and must be reduced or eliminated — a
positior which I usually take myself? When

confronted with a situation one does not

understand it is a good policy to consider first the

Fred G. Marsh
Castlegar

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Beauty, peace, unaffected by passing years

“Plus la change le meme chose.”’

The more things change the more they are the
same. Anon

Did my usual morning walk around the island
with the dogs this morning. After all of the
thousands of similar mornings it is still the solace of
the day — ever the same, ever changing. It is late
now, almost 9:30, and I have already missed three of
the regulars, Tom, Dorothy and Verna, and have the
light and shadow paths and the water and river
sounds to myself. The woods are silent. The birds —
who had been tuning up in the half-dark of 4:30
when I went to bed for the second time, and were in
full chorus when I got up again at sunrise — were all
quiet now, no doubt getting on with the important
business of the day.

On my way back, over the causeway, temporarily
open, I wondered idly if I had ever written anything
on a similar morning of another day. I checked Over
My Shoulder and indeed I had. Though written at the
end of May, 1956 it has a certain pertinence to the

Getting up arty tose the sun rie seems 0 be
one of those much

by our forbears and therefore scrupulously avoided
by their modern offspring. Perhaps because it costs
nothing (and thus can’t be worth much), this activity
has become a modern anathema.

In any case, if one does it voluntarily he is
regarded by his fellows as an eccentric or a hero. 1
don’t feel like either.

Monday morning for instance, when | walked into
the front room, it was like Montezuma’s treasure
room, a blaze of gold which dazzled the eyes and
chased night and sleep as if they had been purified in
the retorts of the mountains. The air, heavy with the

Reflections
and
recoliections
By John Charters

and the and the river turned
powder blue, Prussian blue and a hundred shades of
green flecked with gold, as they put off their night
robes of mist.

A bird, secure within the leaves of a nearby tree,
started a solo against the concert of other birdsound.
He was no musician though; he sounded as if he had
a bone in his throat or a particularly indigestible
worm,

The Stranger Cat also enjoyed the walk and
bounced like yellow thistle-down in the dew-sparkling
grass. His companion, der bap str? for such

scent of earth and flowers and leaves and shi
with birdsong, was as yet unfouled with the noise and
dust of everyday living.

The river below slipped and shimmered by like
some great, green, shiny monster with an existence
and will of its own. Serpents of light writhed and
scintillated across its surface, and eddies, streams
within streams, fled the long journey ahead, slipping
back along the banks beneath the trees and in the

live by the sea, but for different reasons. The sea
produces adventurers and rovers; rivers are the cradle
of civilization while the seas are cradles of life. The
man who lives by the sea is aware of the pulsing of
the tides, the ebb and flow of life and the thousand
moods of the sea, and to him life is a constant drama
and a conflict. The river man, on the other hand,
knows only the steady flow, the steady rise and fall
and calm swirl of waters. The river to him is a

bays, only to be seized again by the great
and swept away in tiny curlicues of light.
(it is good to live by a river, just as it is good to

anda and so he builds and
dreams.)
The sun rose higher that morning above the

ly lush grass
blade and hinted snoutr & at onhenrey

A last glance at the river which in. only a little time
has changed the dry rocks and the grass to a water
half-world where the once-familiar road (the old
causeway) goes down, down below, until it vanishes
im the froth and the green depths.

Complete light by now and the river seemed even
broader. A thin plume of smoke rose across the
village houses across the river; a grey horse made his
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REMEMBER WHEN

pad cars see 3 3, 1951

Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Philips of
Castlegar attended the meeting of the
Castlegar Commission Monday night
with a petition of 21 signatures op-
posing the raising of chickens within
@ specified area in Castlegar. After
considerable discussion a motion was
passed to study and draw up a bylaw
to prohibit the raising of chickens
and other animals within certain
areas in the town.

However, since the petition was
within @ limited area and since the
bylaw if once drawn up and passed
would be binding on everyone, the

has deferred

action until other citizens in other
areas have had an opportunity to
voice their opinions also. In other
words, since the bylaw would be
final and would affect all people
alike, the Commission is giving
everyone an opportunity to voice
their opinions before they undertake
action.

645) )e

Castlegar Clean-Up day last Wed-
nesday was a huge success. About 28
truck loads of refuse was hauled
away by the Village trucks.

The school children did a
thorough job around the streets un-
der the supervision of their teachers.

‘The Chamber of Commerce com-
mittee in charge of the campaign ex-
tend its thanks to Mr. R.E. Sommers
and the Village Commission for the
cooperation received.

.

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25 YEARS AGO
From the May 5, 1966
Castlegar News
A wide divergence of opinion bet-
ween Highways Minister P.A.

Gaglardi and members of Castlegar
council about the volume of traffic
using the Castlegar ferries, is evident

as a result of the reading to council
on Tuesday night of a letter from
Mr. Gaglardi.

In it, the minister states that: ‘We
have been keeping a close daily check
of the traffic volumes on the two
ferries and according to figures ob-
tained recently there was only a short
period in the morning, about 7 a.
when combined traffic was heavy.

“We are continuing to keep daily
traffic counts and if volumes should
increase to a point where additional
operation of the sécond ferry ap-
Pears necessary we will certainly con-
sider it.’”

Ceti nie

The sad tale of a motorist who
want to visit Castlegar but who en-
ded up in Nelson, was told to
Castlegar council on Tuesday night
by Ald. Jim Corbett.

He mentioned the incident to
illustrate his belief that a sign poin-
ting to the direction of Castlegar
should be put at the junction of the
Castlegar-Trail and  Kinnaird-
Christina Lake highways.

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company to compensate about 250

If it was not provi » he
Suggested other motdrists coming
along the Christina Lake highway
might also cross over the Kinnaird
and Brilliant Bridges in the belief
that they were heading towards
Castlegar.

15 YEARS AGO
From the May 16, 1976
Castlegar News

The CanCel sawmill here has been
found guilty of violating provincial
back-to-work legislation passed last
October.

In a decision released Monday of
last week, the B.C. Labor Relations
Board ruled the sawmill resumed
production one week later than it
was required to by the

for time they
would normally have worked bet-
ween Oct, 14 and 17 (Oct. 13 was a
holiday).

52, 8

A new dentist is to become a
reality for Castlegar this summer.

No details are available but every
indication points to a Delta man and
recent dental graduate, Don Ellis,
who will be setting up a practice in
the next two or three months in the
downtown Castlegar area.

. .

Two Castlegar residents, Ed
Conroy Sr. and G. Burdeyney shared
the top prize of $1,000 in the Junior
Hockey Grand Draw, held Saturday

known as the Collective Bargaining
Continuation Act.
As a result, the board ordered the

night in ion with Klondike
Night at the Arena Hall.
5 YEARS AGO

From the May 4, 1986

some tips from RCMP Const. Glen McNicol
ety Rodeo at the Community Complex five years

Castlegar News

It’s a booze hound’s delight and a
temperance league nightmare: Sun-
day bar openings.

The provincial government has
decided to allow bars to open on
Sunday during the run of Expo 86.
And all four Castlegar bars plan to
take advantage of the new hours —
though only two intend to open
today,

“I'm going to open and see what
happens,’’ said Grant Salekin,
manager of Checkers Pub.

Salekin said his large TV screen
should be a big draw on Sundays.

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Familier names are atop a revam-
ped Castlegar Commercial Fastball
League after the first week of action.

Checkers Pub. and Labatts both
posted two wins in the opening week
of play in the five-team league.

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