as Castlegar News July 30, 1989 OPINION Bad translation the of Apparently a gear slipped the members of the Kootenay Region Tosk-Poreson Transportation ond the recommendations printed in the task force's draft report made public in June Castlegar city council members are understandably dismayed that the draft report contains the recommendation That a study be commissioned by the provincial government in conjunction with the federal government to determine a suitable alternative site to the Castlegar airport in order to accommodate night operations in the western portion of the region Castlegar can support neither night operations due to terrain or, during winter months the dratt report explains The way it is written unhindered day operations due to tog the entire section on air transportation in the Kootenays tends to denigrate the Castlegar airport and leaves us with the feeling that the hard-working task force members think the airport is not of much use and another site should be found We know that's not true As task force chairman Jack White of Elkford points out, the in: tention of the task force members is not that the Castlegar airport should be abandoned in tavor of another facility but only that another location be identified that can accommodate night landings in conjunction with the operation at Castlegar : Mr. White hastened to point out that the draft report was not written by the task force but by a member of Minister of Stote tor Kootenay Howard Dirks office Obvious y something got lost in the translation Ve suppose that's why it’s called a draft report. As it is now, the ration section is tull of holes and it ain't gonna fly Pleasant sound The thwack of golf balls smacked by skilled players. at the Castlegar Golf Course weekend as the loca Championships We lik ed the sound and are admittedly shar was heard all around British Columbia last course hosted the B.C. Mens Amateur Golf ‘oss boosters of such high-profile events in Castlegar. We d like to see more of them The Castlegar course is a well-groomed challenge in a setting of great beauty We hope that the players in the amateur along with the many celebrities who played in Thursday's Jim Young Celebrity Tournament If but also for the many other ties available in the area Tourism is a clean industry spread the word around the province that'’Castlegar ha bad place to spend a tew days not only tor a tew rounds summer and winter recreational as long as our visitors pick up their litte and development of a solid toundation of tourism locally can do nothing but good as a hedge against the boom-and-bust cycles of our established resource-based torest industry Sporting and recreational events such as the B.C. Amateur Golt Championships are important bricks in building that foundation Castlegar next spring will host the 1990 B.C. Recreation and Parks Association annual provincial conterence More than 300 recreation professionals and volunteers will join provincial and municipal politicians trom B.C. and Alberta at the con ference The theme of the conterence will be Great Expectations In two words that sums up our hopes for tourism in this area A miracle prominent people will n Valley Festival near 6 and 7 to preserve the »m the chainsaws and ¢ last major wilder unctioning 00 long) alized Sales creat By MIROCE BB NG TORIA (CE P B BRIEF NEWS destruction of our precious heritage On the CBC News recently Bill Van der Zalm toured and was shown the Black Hole’’ adjacent to the entrance of Pacific Rim Park. He was stunned at this devastation, and agreed with protesters that they were right in asking When Bill Vander Zalm and | are on notorious for some control he same side, such a miracle can no longer be ignored Keep B.C. green Pat Romaine Castlegar The sales include: 817 Crown land for $423.2 million; por tions of Crown corporations, mastly divisions of B.C, Hydro, for $801.4 million; and a mix of government ser vices, like laboratories and highway $338.2 hectares of maintenance contracts, for million These sales more removed than 5,600 full-time employees trom the government's payroll Vander Zaim has also been selling s own b free-enterprise philosophy: namely, government hould act as a manager and -set the economic and social rivate sector must provide goods and services MORE SYMBOLIC Surprisingly, the sales haven't in: spired the political firestorm most pundits anticipated I think there's been more political symbolism than anything else,"" says Ruff, a professor at University of Victoria Ruff points out that Vander Zalm has stayed from privatizing schools and hospitals. Contracting out thrust of allowing the Norman political science away has been a major privatization gover nment to bo. civil service cuts without really reducing serv The major privatization is The heartbeat of the nation is ¥.” strong, it’s vigorous, <= and it’s resolved to even greater The brain jis dead Letters to the editor Isolation p B.C. Hydro announced an eight hour closure of the Keenleyside dam roadway for Wednesday, July 12, just ‘over two weeks ago. When a incident occurred, the roadway was closed for something — over Throughout, Castlegar and Robson residents learned of these conditions from crude handlettered signs placed beside the (closed) Robson ferry ~ not much use, if you lived west of the ferry For Robson residents who work in Castlegar, the closure changed a 20- kilometre round trip into a 34 kilometre round trip; if (as in my case), shared one car, that meant a day’s work in Castlegar cost 68 three days two workers kilometres of travel — almost as much as a round trip to Nelson, for good ness’ sake For Robson residents who work at the mill, the trip around Robin Hood’s Barn was even more absurdly dragged out. And now that the dam road is open again, we still have to dodge around the log gate and lift bar. The Ministry of Highways’ claim that Rob. son is served by ‘‘two first-class high ways”” won't wash here, friends, and ensures no confidence in any other pronouncements by that ministry But L-have a more-serious concern than tHe costand annoyance of driving around Robin Hood’s Barn. It does not take a serious highway incident to close either the Kootenay or the Kin- naird bridges. If either of those had been closed during the latter half of last week,|Robson would have been cut off ossible from ambulance, police and some auxiliary fire unreasonable and unacceptable time The Robson ferry is not only an historic communication route and true convenience: it is also cheap insurance during emergencies services for an The dam incident of two weeks ago was an unwelcome inconvenience for residents of Robson. But it was also a good, low-cost lesson for those wise enough tolearn that the ferry remainsa legitimate and valuable link in our local transportation system. Come on, B.C. cabinet, don’t be so foolish as to wait fpr a lesson that costs a human life. F.M. Mealing Robson Celgar should reveal expansion plans soon Castlegar and area residents should be told whether or not Celgar Pulp Co will expand the present mill soon. This proposed expansion will reduce the amount of pollution substantially The present chlorine dioxide sub stitution that Celgar is now reduces the amount of chlorine by products such as dioxins in the effluent and in the pulp. Unfortunately, we have other pollution problems such as air emissions, e little finished, using spills to the river and says Vander Zalm, ‘‘and we're now basically going through and identifying within the operations of government relatively functions that could still be privatized some minor Perhaps the biggest surprise about the scheme, however, is that it never was the $3-billion sell-off the British Columbia government declared it would be. JUST NUMBER It wasn’t ever really $3 billion,” said a senior government official, who asked not to be identified. **That was just a number David Poole came up with now banished from B.C politics after the provincial ombud: charged him inap propriately using his political influen ce, was Vander Zalm's former prin cipal secretary sman with “Reporters asked him how much the government was selling,”’ said the official. “He told them, ‘Oh, two, maybe three billion.” Whatever the final price, ziation has helped the Socreds to a balanced budget and struck a serious blow at a political enemy — the mighty B.C. Government Employees Union In 1987, privat when privatization was Sa Castlegar News AAEAABER OF THE B.C PRESS COUNCH PUBLISHER i PLANT FOREMAN ADVERTISING MANAGER Burt Campbell Simon Birch Peter Harve; Gary Fleming OFFICE MANAGER — Lindo Kositsir ARCULATION MANAGER Heather Hadley the union had more than 31,000 members in the B.C that number had been cut by about 2,000 with most of civil ser vice. One year later, the members going to privatized ven tures with which individual union con- tracts must be worked out. Current numbers were not available It puts more strain on the unior admits spokesman Soren Bech. **It's a challenge to negotiate all these dif Terentcontracts.* NDP CAUTIOUS Leader Mike Harcourt has steadfast opponent of NDP been a other industrial problems which have plagued this area for years Pulp and Paper Woodworkers 3 Canada is committed in its fight for a pollution-free environment. The proposed expansion must be technologically second to no other in the world. Our pulp markets are worldwide and European countries are asking for dioxin-free products. In or- der to comply with European standar ds, Sweden has installed oxygen a privatization, describing it at times as an ideological firesale. The NDP hasn’t stipulated what it would do if it got into power other than to say it would consider buying back some things where public safety is jeopardized Free’ enterprise inevitably leads to bleaching systems. Swedish pulp mill research and development is recognized as the predominant technology in the world today. Our proposed expansion also calls for an oxygen bleaching system Environmental regulations are stric ter than ever. Local public pressure is ever increasing. Celgar Pulp Co. must not only reduce dioxins in the effluent and the pulp, but all pollution emissions in any form to air, land and water We in British Columbia live in the most beautiful part of the world — but we could lose this very quickly if we do not fight to maintain our environment Calvin Him Environmental Pollution Chairman PPWC Local No. 1 Headline bothers companies cutting corners td take more money, says the NDP. The party says it is only a matter of time until highways become less safe and en- vironmental testing becomes lax at the now-privatized laboratories So far,| however, the New Democrats have been largely unable to pick out concrete examples of serious damage to the public interest. As a result, the NDP attack has weakened considerably 1987 when it pledged to fight privatization every step of the way Harcourt has even eaten a little crow since It’s tough to unscramble the egg once it’s happened,"’ says Harcourt *We would never make the commit- ment going to bring everything back into the public sec tor that we're STORE PROSPERS The NDP retreat suits Carolyn Pet terson, one of the four owners of Crown Publications Inc Thesiny Victoria bookstore was one of the first things sold off by the gover nment in January 1988 Petterson, a former clerk, and three other employees of the government bookstore paid $352,000 for the operation and are now prospering I'm making almost twice what | made before, that she is paying her dozen employees shghtly more than union wages When the government offered me this chance | couldn't believe it. | went for it and it’s going great.” says Petterson, adding manager 1 would like to correct the im pression created by your headline in the July 16 issue concerning the hiring of an environmental consultant by Celgar Pulp. As explained in the press release, this activity is a requirement by gover nment in order to assess the impact on the environment from the expected liquid and air emissions from the ex panded mill. It is arequirement before they can issue any permits to proceed with construction The engagement of a consultant was not done, as implied by the headline, to quell any rumors R.W. Sweeney General Manager Celgar Pulp Company 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 Avenue, Castlegar Letters should be double-spaced and not longer than 300 typewritien Letters must be signed ond include the writer s full name and address Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the writers nome Nevertheless, the name and address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor the Cestiegor News reserves tne right fo edit letters tor brevity, clarity. legality ‘ond grammar Remember When? 40 YEARS AGO From the Aug. 4, 1949 Castle News The Pound By-law has been filed in the office of the Inspector of Municipalities at Victoria and is now in effect Mr. Omar Lightle has been appoin ted pound-keeper. Stray cattle will be impounded and the charges for im pounding will, be inforced for each animal of the bovine species — that is cows, bulls, etc. The charge is two dollars per day for each animal, plus the feeding charges. The animals will hot be released until all charges have been paid, and if they are not claimed within seven days they will be sold. Owing to limitations given in the Village Municipalities Act regarding ownership of land for airports and landing fields, the Castlegar and Kin: naird villages have been prevented, for the time being, from becoming joint owners of the Castlegar Airport, but a resolution has been prepared and is being submitted, to be presented at the fall meeting of the Association being held at Nelson Aug. 20. This is the preliminary step on its way to the legislature at Victoria. 25 YEARS AGO From the July 30. Castlegar News B.C. Hydro and Power Authority and the Village of Kinnaird have agreed that ground-water wells will be constructed in order to protect the Village’s water supply during the period of turbidity in the Columbia River resulting from the construction of the Arrow Lakes dam. The Authority will be responsible for drilling and developing the wells following which Kinnaird will own and operate the system. These wells will provide Kinnaird with an alternate water supply system after completion of the dam The Castlegar Development Assn was formed Monday night at a special meeting called by trades holders in the village. The formation of the Association was prompted by the outcry against the parking arrangements imposed by the Village Council licence The Contractor’s Assn. and Car penter’s Union of East and West Kootenay’ reached an agreement yesterday Signing on behalf of the Union were, Bruce Comerford and Bill Cameron and for the Contractors Mono Ferro and Nick Oglow 15 YEARS AGO From the Aug. 1, 1974 Castlegar News The IWA strike against Can-Cel’s lumber division ended almost as quickly as it started The sawmill was started up again on Monday while the pulp division, which was closed when the woodworkers put up their picket line at the pulp mill's en: trance, was started up Sunday. IWA members walked off their jobs here a week ago Friday (on July 19) to back up their demands for a new con: tract. A picket line went up at the pulp mill at noon on Wednesday of last week resulting in the closure of that division There aren't many 11-year-old kids who have been able to claim the proud title of Canadian champion jumping frog owner Gordon Thompson of Castlegar walked away with the honor Sunday after his frog outjumped 45 others to win the Canadian Open Frog Jumping Contest at Pass Creek Park S YEARS AGO From the July 18, 1984 Castlegar News A fire gutted the China Creek Shell gas station on Highway 22 Monday af ternoon, destroying most of the con tents before firefighters could quell the blaze. ‘The whole top floor is probably wiped out, | would say," said Fire Chief Douglas Orser of the Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Service “You're looking at a 70 to 75 per cent loss | would say.” A suggestion by Transport Canada officials that a proposed terminal building for the Castlegar Airport be reduced in size by almost ‘one-third even before it hits the drawing board was attacked by Castlegar city alder men Tuesday night Ina letter to council dated July 9, a Canadian Air Transportation official says that, although preliminary drawings for the terminal ‘will show a standardized stand-alone terminal of 1,800 square “deregulation and movement away from Boeing 737 metres because of aircraft to smaller aircraft like the Dash 7, we expect that new forecasts will suggest that a stan dardized terminal building of 1.300 square metres is more appropriate 1or Castlegar's needs July 30, 1989 Castlegar Satell ite finding greater fire damage WINNIPEG (CP) — A ground- breaking decision to use satellite photos in assessing Manitoba’s forest fires has led to’ a sharp increase in damage estimates, say officials of the provincial Natural Resources Depar tment “Some of these fires are absolutely horrific in size, spokesman Don Keith said Natural Resources officials began using Environment Canada satellite photos: Thursday to assess the size of the fires, which have prompted the largest evacuation in the. province's history Bill Medd, superintendent of fire services, said it is the first time the province has used satellite images to map active fires. In the past, they have been used to assess damage after fires were out Stop communities in the last The depariment estimated the area burned to date at 18,000 square kilometres — an area nearly the size of Lake Ontario. The figure was up from the 12,000 square kilometres estimated Wednesday and the 16,000 estimated Thursday. Medd said the damage to Manitoba forests this year far outstrips anything else on record, including 1929 when an etimated 15,000 square kilometres were destroyed And he said even the 18,000-square- kilometre estimate is conservative “I’m sure it’s higher than that."” No one has died in the fires, and only a few cabins and lodges have been destroyed. But over 23,000 people were evacuated from remote northern week Although 4,600 have been allowed to return to two, communities deemed PCB shi residents o NEW INN, Wales (AP) — Officials and residents are trying to stop 1,500 tonnes of polychlorinated bypenals, commonly known as PCBs, from being shipped from Canada for disposal at a local incineration plant. The chemical waste is potentially lethal, they say But the Department of the En- vironment says an inquiry has ruled that the disposal of the liquid chemical waste at the plant in this village in in- dustrial southeast Wales is not a health threat. David Trippier, a minister of state at the department, ordered the inquiry because of local worries about the B.C. y ANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia Utilities Commission. will allow B.C. Hydro to resume construc- tion of a controversial hydro-electric line on Vancouver Island. The commission, which denied the request from the Comox-Strathcona regional district and others to reroute the line, also ordered Hydro to extend the deadline of a buyout offer made to residents immediately adjacent to the right-of-way from May 31, 1989, to Sept. 15. Construction of the 230-kilovolt Courtenay-Comox line, which will power a $320-million Gold River pulp mill owned by Canadian Pacific Forest Products Ltd., was stopped earlier this year because of public concern over the health effects from electromagnetic fields. A four-day inquiry, chaired by commission chairman John Mcintyre, heard from several expert witnesses and residents who wanted the line Happy Birthday Rene!! & Associates Moved to our new location at Ae? 18th St. Cin the Costiegar Savings Credit Union Building Seron Wom Costloand Plaze) v Public Fax Service 365-2124 * confidential * reliable v Typesetting, umes * Sxechurte v Printed-Material v advertising = flyers Open Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Phone Marilyn at 365- shipment, spokesman private company, national Ltd The PCBs, which have been placed in double barrels filled with absorbent materials to lessen the damage ip case of spills, will be transported by an emergency team, Michel Gagnon, Quebec's deputy minister of environ- ment, said The 163 barrels will be taken to the Port of Montreal at the rate of 15 a week until the end of October and then shipped to Wales for disposal. Each barrel has been insured for $10 million. Taxpayers will pay $7.9 said a department The plant is run by a Rechem Inter- safe from smoke and flames, another 18,500 are stuck in makeshift accom- modations across Manitoba, patiently waiting for word that they can go home. A (otal of 245 fires were burning in Manitoba Friday, including 67 that are out of control and 126 that aren’t even being fought. The satellite photos provide an accurate map of hot spots and where the fires are heading. They will be used to map priority areas for firefighting. Natural Resources Minister Harry Enns warned Friday that continuing hot, dry weather will mean a long haul for firefighters. The blazes have already cost the province $35 million. “I can’t really answer with optimism about us getting out of the firefighting business fairly quickly, Enns said Provincial officials said fires now burning in the United States and other parts of Canada are making it more difficult for Manitoba to get the help it needs in fighting the blazes. The province asked for 2,500 lengths of hose and 100 pumps from the U.S. Forest Service in Boise, Idaho, but was told Friday that U.S. authorities could spare only 2,500 hoses and 50 pumps worth $400,000. “The wholesalers in Canada are pretty well sold out,’’ Keith said, noting demand is heavy because of fires in Saskatchewan and north western Ontario as well as Manitoba. RETURN HOME In northeastern Saskatchewan, some 900 residents of Sandy Bay had to flee an advancing forest fire last weekend but were allowed to go home Thursday ping plans Wales million for the cost of transporting the toxic chemicals to Great Britain Dynamis Envirotech Inc., which is handling the transportation, faces a fine of $10,000 for each day it passes the Oct. 31 deadline for getting the PCBs out of Montreal. Last Aug. 23, more than 3,000 residents of St-Basile, St-Julie and St- Bruno — three small communities 20 kilometres east of Montreal — were forced to leave their homes for 17 days while environmental __ experts monitored the area where the toxic fire destroyed a PCB storage warehouse. The incineration process involves very high temperatures say A British tabloid, the Star, which launched a campaign Friday to stop the waste being sent from Canada to New Inn, said today: ‘‘PCBs cause liver, brain and skin disorders and can be fatal in large doses.”” Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and other environmental groups have demanded a banon the import of all dangerous wastes, including nuclear waste from Japan and other places. Under a front-page headline reading Stop Ship of Death, the Star said Friday that PCBs, which were used as a coolant for transformers, are no longer made either in Britain or Canada dro given go-ahead rerouted away from their properties. Hydro was opposed because it would cost up to $7 million to reroute the line and not enough was known about the issue. CANCER ALERT Alarm about high-power lines has been growing for years and people living near the lines fear the elec- tromagnetic fields can cause everything from learning disorders to migraine headaches to cancer. The buyout offer will be based on the market value of the property as of May 8, 1989, the day before Hydro made the original buyout offer in let- ters to affected residents. Many residents believed the value of their property dropped since the letter was mailed and that the letter was an admission by Hydro that a health hazard existed. But Mcintyre concluded in a 40- page report to the commission that no conclusive evidence exists to support a health risk, although “‘it is clear that some results emerging from the studies conducted to date give reason for concern.” The commission also directed Hydro to collaborate with the ministry of health in devising and funding research , programs into elec tromagnetic-field issues “Given the situation, I think that's the best the residents could expect,” said John Marton, a member of the PUBLIC NOTICE CITY HALL OFFICE HOURS Effective July 31, hours will be 1989 to September 30, 1989 City Hall office 7:30 A.M. TO 3 P.M. MONDAY TO FRIDAY CITY OF CASTLEGAR Real “Estate WITH BARRY BROWN , A HOW TO GET... THE COMPETITIVE EDGE Once you get everything in shope. here are some additional points, tor showing your home ee's o Crowd — more will lose the sale. 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