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SUNDAY :

Vol. 40, No. 29

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH‘COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1987

60 Cents

2 Sections (A & B)

WHEELING FOR RICK . . . Kinnaird elementary
school student Laura Kosowan was one of several
students who learned what it is like to be confined

HANSEN VISIT
DELAYED BY AT
LEAST A WEEK

Man in Motion Rick Hansen's visit to Castlegar has
been delayed by at least a week and likely, longer.

Pat Metge, head of the Castlegar Man in Motion
Committee, said Hansen's tour through B.C. has slowed
down, so that he won't be arriving in Castlegar April 20
as originally planned.

Instead, Hansen is expected to wheel into Castlegar
sometime between April 27 and May 3. Hansen's tour

Stores by Editor
Ron Norman

organizers will have a better idea of the date later this
= week, Metge said.

Meanwhile, Hansen will not attempt to scale the
Salmo-Creston summit, but will take the Kootenay Lake

© Ferry from Kootenay Bay to Balfour. From there, he will
wheel along Highway 3A into Nelson and then from

= Nelson to Castlegar.

Metge says Hansen will enter Castlegar at the north
end via the Castlegar-Robson ferry, wheel up Columbia
Avenue and out Highway 22 to Trail and Rossland en
route to Grand Forks.

: The Castlegar committee has mapped out a tentative
route, but won't release details until the route has been
finalized by Hansen's Vancouver office.

Meanwhile, the committee is hard at work preparing
for Hansen's visit. Because Hansen won't pass through
Salmo, Salmo residents have been invited to join
Castlegar in welcoming Hansen's Man in Motion tour.

@ An official reception that will last about a half hour
has been planned outside Stanley Humphries secondary
school.

4 Hansen will first visit the special education centre on
7th Avenue and then wheel down 7th which will be
closed to vehicles — to SHSS.

The committee has arranged for a platform truck to

to a wheelchair during session on handicapeed
conditions Friday

CasNewsPhoto by Sur Ratvan

be used as a stage. Mayor Audrey Moore will welcome
Hansen to Castlegar and announce the city's contribution
to his Man in Motion Tour.

Moore said this week a city committee has
recommended initiating a $500 annual bursary in
Hansen’s name for a Castlegar student intending to study
physiotherapy, The city will also make a commitment to
repair municipal sidewalks and provide wheelchair access
to sidewalks, Moore said.

A representative from Salmo will then make that
community's presentation.

Two handicapped Castlegar residents, one of them
Kris Stanbra who has been speaking to local students
about Hansen, will present a cheque to Hansen on behalf
of the community.

A choir of 150 Grade 3 students will sing three
numbers: This Land is Your Land, It's a Small World and
an original tune composed by local music teacher Bob
Bertuzzi.

The song is called Chase Your Dream, and it’s lyrics
are: “Chase your dream around the world on-a road that
never ends. You can do it if you want, you can do it if you

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$6,000 raised
for trust fund

field and Genelle, raised
$4,889. Nelson was next
with $1,170. Rossland do-
nated $940, Beaver Valley

Castlegar residents have
donated more than $6,000
to Rick Hansen's Man in
Motion world tour. And
that doesn't include the
$799 residents contributed
during Kootenay Broad
casting System's telethon
Thursday

The telethon, held in the
Community Complex, dollar value on the aware
raised a total of $8,830. The _ ness level raised,” he said
Trail area, including War ntinued on Aa

$80 and Slocan Valley $25.

Johnston was pleased with
the telethon.
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The winning numbers drawn for Lotto West —
The Pick on Friday were; 11, 19, 21, 38, 46, 47, 50

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New
books

Castlegor Librarian Judy
tells us
about some of the new
books ot the library . . .

“DAM COMPENSATION

B.C. Hydro signs
$4.5 million pact

By RON NORMAN
Editor

The Ministry of Environment and
B.C. Hydro have reached a $4.5 million
compensation agreement to help re-
store fish and wildlife affected by con-
struction of the Keenleyside Dam near
Castlegar in 1966.

Under terms of the agreement,
Hydro will provide $8 million in cash
and another $1.5 million in land,
Environment Minister Bruce Strachan
announced this week in a prepared
release.

The funds will be used to:

© expands the existing fish hatchery
at Hill Creek on the Upper Arrow Lake
to produce rainbow trout and Dolly
Varden char. Those fish will be used to
stock the headwaters of tributaries to
the Lower Arrow Lake, including
Cariboo, Snow, Burton, Mosquito and
Tnonoaklin creeks;

© investigate the potential for
kokanee enhancement on tributaries to
the Lower Arrow Lake and to ¢arry

out enhancement at the most suitable
site;

©’ conduct soil and landform map-
ping'to identify the est sites for wildlife
enhancement;

e@ monitor wildlife populations to
evaluate their response to enhance-
ment activities;

carry out wildlife habitat manage-
ment planning and enhancement, giv-
ing priority to ungulate species such as
whitetail and mule deer.

“These activities should provide
better angling for both residents and
visitors to the area, as well as
improved hunting and wildlife viewing
opportunities,” Strachan said.

“The habitat work will also be
directed toward non-game species and.
the general health of the area's eco-
system,” he added.

The ministry announced in February
it has shelved indefinitely plans for a $1
million fish ladder at Inonoaklin Creek.
The Fisheries Branch had called the
ladder the “key” to reviving sport
fishing on the Lower Arrow Lake.

MHANFORD CONFERENCE

But Dennis McDonald, regional di-
rector for the Ministry of Environment.
in Nelson, said the ministry will be
looking at other options to enhance
sport fishing on the Lower Arrow
Lake.

Those other options include “looking
at other tributary streams,” McDonald
told the Castlegar News in an inter-
view Friday.

Asked if the fish ladder would be
built on another stream on the Lower
Arrow Lake, McDonald explained that
the ladder is only necessary to get fish
past natural barriers, such as the
waterfall at Inonoaklin Creek.

Other creeks used for fish stocking
may not require a fish ladder, he said.

However, McDonald said it is
“questi ” whether al-
ternative fish enhancement proposals
will generate the same number of fish
as the Inonoaklin fishway proposal.

Still, he said a “variety of strategies
are being reviewed,” including raising
fish at the Hill Creek hatchery and
stocking spawning channels.

Speakers optimistic

By SIMON HOOPER

Special to the CasNews
The message from the speakers at
the Hanford, Wash. conference, “Our
Nuclear Backyard,” was clear from the
outset as things got underway at the

David Thompson University Centre
Friday evening.

Each speaker introduced a brief
synopsis of what they would be talking
about over the weekend and expressed
a similar note of optimism and a
growing collective awareness of the
danger of nuclear power.

Larry Shook, a former journalist
who ‘has written for the New York

dangers all through the nuclear cycle,
Shook said: From the uranium it
demands, to the plutonium it manu-
factures; from the threat of a meltdown
similar to that which took place-at the
Chernobyl plant last year, to the
release of harmful radioactive liquids
and air emissions into the environment.

Despite the fears expressed by the
speakers, each also expressed their
pleasure at being able to attend the
conference, which Dr. William Houff,
founder of the Hanford Education
Action League, described as second to
none in its organization and execution.

Dr. William Lawless, a nuclear waste

Times, Washi' Post,
and World View specializing in nuclear
concérns, pointed out that people do
not just fear that nuclear weapons will
be used again. They also fear the
weapons’ creation, because of the
danger involved in handling the radio-
active materials used in their manu:
facture.

The N-plant at Hanford, 360 kilo-
metres south of Castlegar, represents

Minister
sticks to

$686, Creston $240, Salmo {

KBS news director Karl 7

his guns

By SURJ RATTAN
Staff Writer

Advanced Education and Job Train
ing Minister Stan Hagen assured Sel
kirk College this week that his ministry
is not out to “slaughter” existing
college boards, but added that he will
not back down from his plan to appoint
board members for one-year terms.

Hagen, who toured Selkirk College's
Castlegar, Nelson and Trail campuses
Thursday, told faculty and staff that
his department will be dismantling all
existing college boards and reappoint
ing members on a term basis.

He added that most of the present
members on a college board will
return

“I've come to the decision that
boards will continue to be appointed
There are now regulations that board
members will be appointed for one
year terms and may be appointed for

g expert who worked for
six years as a project engineer with the
U.S. Department of Energy, confirmed
tl that public p pt
and attitude toward the nuclear
industry is changing. He told the
audience that individuals can make a
major difference.

The real problem, according to Paul
Loeb, author of Nuclear Culture, and
Hope in Hard Times, and who spent

three years at Hanford, is a com-
placency within all of us which coh-
tributes to the danger.

He spoke of Hanford as a model for
the distancing mechanism that every
one has been a part of, and ended in
short synopsis by warning that silence
provides support for the excesses of
the industry.

Dr. Fred Knelman, director of the
Gamma Research and Integrative
Peace‘ Studies with the Gamma Insti-
tute of Montreal, told the audience he
planned to speak on the connection
between uranium mining in Canada
and the production on nuclear weapons
in the United States.

He, too, pointed to the necessity for a
change in attitude in order to compel
governments to make peace the exten
sion of polities by peaceful means.

Saturday morning's meeting began
with a more in-depth talk by Houff
about Hanford, in which he launched a
scathing attack on the American
Department of Energy.

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STAN HAGEN
tours Castlegar campus

two years and possibly three,” said
Hagen

He added that during the first year
board members can take the time to
decide if they want to continue sitting
on the board and can also decide if they
should remain on the board

Hagen said he receives a lot of
requests from people wanting to sit on

college boards and that if there is no
term basis and someone is removed
from a board, it would promote specu
lation as to whether that person did
something wrong

‘We are looking for geographical
representation on boards and we want
a cross-section of interests,” said

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