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EDITORIAL
Leaders missing

Has anyone seen Canada’s leaders?

It’s a darn good thing members of Parliament, due back in Ottawa
for the next sitting starting Monday, don’t have essay assignments
because faced with the topic ‘‘What did you do on your summer
vacation?’’ Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Liberal Leader Jean
Chretien would probably have trouble filling up a single side of
looseleaf paper.

Sure, Mr. Mul 'y mati in London
and Houston and hung around with his buddy, U.S. President George
Bush, fishing in K t, Me., and ing in W i
D.C., about Canada’s role in the Iraq dustup. And, of course, for the
last couple of weeks Mr. Mulroney’s been shamelessly doling out
Patronage in the form of Senate appointments to loyal Tories in an at-
tempt to wrest control of the national retirement home away from the
naughty Grits who won't pass his government’s goods and services tax.

Mr. Chretien, meanwhile, seems to have continued his ‘‘silence is
golden”’ strategy which won him the Liberal leadership in June. Public
libraries generate more noise.

Many political observers have noted this country’s leadership
vacuum.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Roadside help a

On Sept. 9, my wife and I were on our way
home, towing our fifth wheel trailer. Between

They like to shove our noses in it.

wealth merely serves to reinforce the generally held
Perception about people with money and power.

Fortunately, in this country, those of us who

chamber to become more active’ in? Oppressing
and eliminating people whose “‘attitudes and
Philosophies’’ differ from their own? To become an
unofficial Gestapo? Racist bigots? Tools of the

“‘I visited several parts of the country over the summer and I was
constantly hearing, ‘Where the hell is the prime minister?’ "’ says

University of Calgary analyst David Bercuson.

Winnipeg pollster Angus Reid agrees Canadians feel ‘‘the prime
minister and the leader of the opposition have been no place to be

seen.”

Canadians seem to be in the doldrums in the wake of the Meech
Lake accord’s failure and in the face of what now looks like an
inevitable recession, and Mr. Bercuson suggests they look inward for
the kinds of answers they want in these troubled times.

“The Canadian people for some time have not really known what
the hell they want,’’ he says. ‘Because they don’t really indicate any
overall general direction to the leadership, the leadership doesn’t know

what to do.””

That may be, but it certainly would help to have a leader emerge
with a goal, a sense of direction, a plan on how to get there and the
ability to carry it out. We think the Liberals missed a grand opportunity
by not choosing Paul Martin as leader, but that’s water under the
bridge and, who knows, maybe Mr. Chretien will eventually sparkle.

If not, and if Mr. Mulroney fails to turn around the public’s lack

truck trouble.

While I was under the truck trying to find
the problem, three young couples stopped and the

men inquired what was wrong.

Paul and Rose Rouleau
Kimberiey

Public waltz

worth.

Salmo and the Kootenay Skyway pass, we had

They were very helpful and had tools to do the
job and had us back on the road in no time.

We would like to thank them for their help and
courtesy. We are sorry we did not get their names,
but they said they were from Castlegar.

The mysteries of wealth, numerology and
beauty combined forces recently to bring genuine
Third World-style politics to B.C. Witness the
playful splashings of V.D. Zalm in the process of
milking the sale of Fantasy Gardens for all it’s

find such displays immoral and cruel have the
Power to vote out Vander Zaim and his ilk. The
fresh winds of determination that threw out the
idlers in Ontario blow just as strongly here in B.C.
Thanks, Bill, for fanning the flames that keep those
Liz Thor-Larsen

Vancouver

One explanation

The Kootenay/Boundary area of this province
has a successful, strong tourism industry. In Grand
Forks and Castlegar especially, this industry is
Primarily based on the Doukhobor presence. Tour
buses from the United States have these areas as
destination points, to tour the Doukhobor
museums and dine on Doukhobor cuisine.
Doukhobors have had a positive impact on these
areas.

The planned relocation of a colony of

Socred party?

History has proven there can be only one
explanation for Mr. Gaglardi’s blatant rabble
rousing and hate mongering. Doukhobors are, once
again, about to get the governmental *‘jack-boots’”
(toward forced assimilation) promised by R.
Bourne of the Attorney General’s Ministry in
November 1986. The public must first be

to perceive the Di 's as ‘‘bad,"”
so they can tolerate injustices they would otherwise
never permit.
M. Konkin
(Crescent Valley

Please address all letters to the editor
Editor,

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, B.C. VIN 3H4,
or deliver them to our office at 197
Columbia Ave. in Castlegar.
Letters should be typewritten, double-
spaced and not longer than 300 words.

V.LP.
SALE

40 YEARS AGO
From the Sept. 26, 1950
(Castle News

At the Castlegar District School
Board meeting held Monday night . . .
the first item of importance on the
evening's agenda was a demon-
stration by Mr. Lester of Nelson,
representative for Electronic Incor-
Porated (an industrial lighting firm),
of a silver reflecting type of incan-
descent lamp and fluorescent tubes
after which Mr. R. Sommers, prin-
cipal of the Castlegar school, spoke of
the lighting of the school.

Black-topping of Maple Street has
been started and the grading equip-
ment has completed leveling of the
sides of the streets in the business sec-
tion, ready for black-topping there.

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Dust and fumes from the lead fur-
maces at the Consolidated Mining and
Smelting Co. plants at Trail will soon
be treated in a new plant. The main

behalf of the provincial government.
. <” 's

This year’s Castlegar and District
Fall Fair was not quite up to the 1964
fair as it was down in fruit and
vegetables and flowers from last year.
This is due, the committee thought, to
so many of the fruit trees being win-
ter killed and the late frost in the
spring did not help the vegetables and
flowers.

. . .

Crowned Harvest Queen at the an-
nual Castlegar and District Fall Fair
last Saturday evening was pretty
Dorothy Thring, Kiwanis Club can-
didate in the contest.

15 YEARS AGO
From the Sept. 25, 1975

Negotiations between the two pulp
unions and industry officials in B.C.’s
forestry dispute broke down Tuesday
after seven days of meetings in Vic-
toria.

. . .

Castlegar is going to have a chance

to form an Association for the

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Family. This would be an association
of parents and other interested
citizens, both young and old, who
would work toward the improvement
of family life in our district

* .

Residents of the Slocan Valley
haved a simple request: They want to
control their own forest resources.

But the fulfilment — the respon-
sibility of Resources Minister Bob
Williams — is tremendously complex,
with long-term _ ramifications
throughout the province.

Mr. Williams was understandably
vague when he met with the residents
Tuesday. But at least there would be a

A Robson teenager was lucky 19
escape a fire that destroyed ‘her parcn-
ts house Friday morning.

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(Castlegar school board thas decitied

he and the
government's appointees would be
announced within 10 days.
5 YEAKS AGO
From the Sept. 22, 1985
(Castlegar News
The Castlegar E Deveiop-

of ther case against the provincial

ment Committee has asked Premier
Bil! Bennett to take another look at
r in K

dam.

Salewski is a memtailly and
physically handicapped woman from
Trail who thas been living at the En
dicot Centre in Creston.

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f confidence in his leadership and his party — as evidenced by their . a
. +f ani if The spectacle of the sale.of this ‘‘natural Doukhobors, in 1951, to an isolated area at the Letters MUST be signed and include part of the new addition is a large

pitiful
changes in federal politics.

The election of an NDP government in Ontario Suggests voters are
willing to experiment. If that mood. persists, the NDP and the Reform
Party — which seems to be gaining support as a credible alternative for
disgruntled Liberals and Conservatives — will perhaps make some
significant breakthroughs at the federal level next election.

But that election — barring a snap decision by Mr. Mulroney — is
still two years away, and today’s Perceptions have a habit of fading in
the minds of voters. As Lorne Bozinoff of Gallup Canada says: ‘Quite
ly will be forgotten in two

frankly, right now
years’ time.””

We hope he’s wrong.

ing in recent opinion polls — then the door is open for major

Philippine archipelago.

Person.

Bill Vander Zalm’s public waltz with offshore

treasure” réminded me of my trip last spring to the
Philippines where power politics is completely
imbued with what might be called the ‘‘Dallas”’ or
the **Dynasty”’ factor. The poverty is stark in the

The ruling 20 per cent skip quite gleefully over
the backs of the remaining 80 per cent with similar
sickening displays of crass power in the form of
personal wealth. This wealth is extracted from the
country through the hard labor of people who are
severly malnourished and have little security of the

by a former government toward a peaceful

the state. Mr. Gaglardi’s prejudiced and

discriminatory actions in blocking the move at that

north end of Adams Lake, was a conciliatory move

solution of problems between the Doukhobors and

the writer's first and last names, address
and a telephone number at which the
writer can be reached between 9 a.m. and
5 p.m. The writer's name and city or town
of residence only will be published. Only
in i cases will letters be

time were largely for the

colorful and checkered political career, Mr.

the 1950s and "60s. (They got him elected, though!)
Surely, during the intervening 40 years of a

Gaglardi has done something more noteworthy

than this, that he could have used as an example to

““inspire’’ the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce!
Exactly what is he trying to ‘‘encourage the

Published without the writer's name.
Nevertheless, the name, address and
telephone number of the writer MUST be
disclosed to the editor.

The Castlegar News reserves the right
to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality,
grammar and taste.

VIEWPOINT

Commission finds forest inventories inadequate

Editor's note: The

a 12-member Forest Cc in
mid-1989. The commission was established to indepen-
dently review and make recommendations on forestry
issues. The following is the commission's interim report.
Arising from the more than 1,700 the

pr Long-term decisions are often made in the
absence of good knowledge of all the forest values being
impacted on or with little regard for values other than the
specific one being managed for. Further, the public is of-
ten confused and subject to being given conflicting and

i false as to what values may or may

commission received and reinforced by the round of
Public meetings the commission engaged in this past
spring, four issues emerged that, in the view of the com-
mission, can and should be addressed now and not have

not be on any given land base or what the impact on those
values may be by any given management practice.
The commission believes that significantly greater ef-

of the resource industries to British Columbia, and of
the practices that are carried out in managing those
resources. This is particularly true of our forests and of
forestry practices. Time after time, the commission has

Forests and Environment and the licensees, as being at
the heart of the problem. While being openly critical of
the current structure and public access to TSA commit-
tees, the public generally felt that the concept was a

found that public i are at odds
with the actual facts of a given situation. The commission
is also aware that in many a debate and often in decision
making, perception is reality and the current gap between
the two is, the commission believes, creating a serious, if
not situation in British Columbia.

fort will have to be spent to address ii in the

to wait until the major r are
early next year.

These issues have to do with the availability and
compatibility of inventory information relating to all
forest values; the need for the formal education systems
of this province to address better the importance of
natural resources to the province and the processes used
to obtain those resources; the adequacy of public input in-
to forest resource planning and management, particularly
as they relate to timber supply area committees; and the
serious uncertainty affecting forest land use decisions
resulting from the land claim issue.

The issi that by c on
these issues in advance of its major recommendations to
government, it may be seen by some as; taking certain
issues out of context. The commission’ believes, however,
that a variety of factors provide strong reasons for putting
certain specific recommendations or comments forward
at this time. In doing so, the commission believes that
the government can reasonably take some specific action
now and that these actions, albeit small, should provide at
least a start to improving forest resource management in
British Columbia.

INVENTORIES OF FOREST VALUES

The commission found, through written sub-
missions, public meetings and detailed interviews with
pi ies, that good tory in-
formation pertaining to the full range of forest values and
to the capacity of the forest land base to support those
values is seriously inadequate. The commission also
found that where inventory information does exist in one
ministry, it is often not compatible with inventories

in other ministries for other purposes. The
résuh. is that decision makers and the public have a very
inadequate and imperfect information base on which to
base decisions or debate.

The result of not knowing, in an adequate way, what
values are inherent on specific areas of our forest lands, is

inventory base in a number of areas. Given
that the exact nature and extent of inventory information
will depend, in large measure, on the forest management
Processes proposed and adopted, the commission will ad-
dress this issue in greater depth as part of its major
recommendations.
Of immediate concern, however, is the lack of stan-
dardized inventory information and, therefore, a lack of
y of the tory ion now collected
and processed by provincial government ministries. The
has

Again, the commission will have more to say on the
subject of education when it submits its main recommen-
dations. However, the commission did note that the

one and could be improved upon with relative
ease. This was particularly true where TSA (timber supply
area) and forest district boundaries were the same.

While the'commission-intends to address the whole
area of public participation in the planning and
management of B.C.’s forest lands in its full report, it
believes that the Ministry of Forests can and should take
immediate action to improve the workings of the existing

Public school system is major
reform in the province and as part of that reform, the

i is i i revision. Since the
Purpose of the British Columbia school system, as stated
in the School Act, is “‘To enable learners to develop their
individual potential and acquire the knowledge, skills and
attitudes needed to contribute to a healthy society and a

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at least 10 ies that

currently hold inventory information relating to specific
forest values or to the forest land base

These are Agriculture and Fisheries, Crown Lands,

the commission believes that greater emphasis is needed in
the curriculum throughout the primary, intermediate and
graduation years on the overall importance of the resour-
ce c ie the forests, to the social struc-

Energy, Mines and P .
Forests, Municipal Affairs, Recreation and Culture,
Native Affairs, Parks, Tourism and Transportation and
Highways

These inventories have generally been developed to
meet some historical, ministry-specific need and, in many
cases, have been developed without regard for their com-
patibility or relationship to inventories of other forest
values. The commission believes that better and more
compatible information about all forest values must be

ture and to the economy of the province.

The commission believes that the educated public of
this province should understand the importance of our
forest industries in shaping the province, in maintaining
certain communities, in providing for services such as
health and education, and generally in helping to main-
tain a lifestyle unequalled in most‘areas of the world. The
public should also have a better understanding of forest
Practices, why they are used and what their effects are.
A insite Ae

made available if more i and debate is
to occur. This is particularly important in areas where
more than one forest value is to be part of a forest land
base decision

A . the

The
plements ways by which the full range of forest retated in-
ventories can be made standard and able to be used on
compatible systems while, at the same time, retaining the
values for which they were originally intended.

EDUCATION

Thi all of its ii to date, the
commission has become increasingly aware and concer-
ned at the woeful lack of understanding of the importance

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resource industries to the Province of British Columbia,
particularty the forest resource, and also to include ac-
curate, balanced material about forest management prac-
ties at all levels of the curriculum.
TIMBER SUPPLY AREA STEERING COMMITTEES
During the conduct of its business, the commission
heard repeatedly that timber supply area steering commit-
tees (TSA committees) were generally not working well.
In submissions and public testimony, the public cited lack
of i and lack of balan-
ce from interest groups, other than the minisiries of

TSA committee structure. Accordingly, the commission
that:

The Ministry of Forests should re-examine the pur-
Page, and makeup of and commitment to its timber sup-
ply area steering committees with 2 view to making these
more effective.

LAND CLAIMS

In every region of the province and from individuals
and groups across the whole spectrum of society, the
commission heard concern over the land claims issue and
the strong desire that it be resolved. In commenting on
this matter, the commission is fully aware that the issue of
land claims is not part of its mandate However, because
the concern is so widespread, the commission believes it
hasa Fesponsibility to pass the concerns it heard through

to the government
First and foremost, the commission found that the
land claims issue is creating a high degree of upcertainty
over the Crown lands of the province. A: of these
claims issue is
. for example.

concerned
jobs and ec6nomic’ well-beigg may be

While expressing almost unanimous concern, groups
and individuals across the province do not appear to be
comfortable with using the courts as a means of settling
the issue. The overwhelming view of British Columbians.
from whom the commission heard, is that they want the
i accomplished by negotiation among the parties directly
involved, namely, the aboriginal people and the federal
and provincial governments,

baghouse unit which will recover the
dust fumes now collected by two Cot-
trell treaters.
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Ezzard Charles retained his
heavyweight boxing title last night
defeating Joe Louis in a 15-round
bout in New York’s Yankee Stadium
Charles took the last five rounds
straight, leaving Louis cut badly

25 YEARS AGO
From the Sept. 23, 1965
Castlegar News

A 34-page booklet, The Story of
Renata, has just been published to
commemorate the community that
will die under the Arrow dam reser-
voir.

The booklet, written by Renata
residents, Mrs. Mary Warkentin and
Mrs. Rose Ann Rohn, was published
as a public service by B.C. Hydro and
copies have been distributed to all
Renata residents.

A cheque for $500 has been sent to
the Pass Creek Park board by
Recreation Minister Ken Kiernan on

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