ce Castlegar News August 15, 1990 ENTERTAINMENT Flatliners opens on top HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Fiatliners, a drama about medical students who flirt with death, was the top-grossing movie in the United States during the weekend. The ‘film ‘starring Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon and Julia Roberts earned $10 million. It was the film's first week of release. However, private eye Jake Gittes failed to get his man as the long- awaited Chinatown sequel, The Two Jakes, opened to weekend returns of $3.7 million. Figures released Monday by Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. show The Two Jakes, starring Jack Nicholson, finished in seventh place on the box-office charts. In second was Ghost, making $9.5 million, It was followed in third by Mel Gibson's war Air America, which grossed $8.1 mil in its first three days of release. Presumed Innocent, the adapt: of Scott Turow’s best-selling murder mystery, finished fourth with ticket sales of $7.9 million. Fifth was Problem Child, collecting $4.8 million. . Young Guns II fell from third to sixth place, earning $4.7 million. Behind it in seventh was The Two Jakes, which originally was to be released at Christmas. Eighth was the spider drama Arachnophobia, netting $3.6 million. In ninth was Die Hard 2, grossing $3.1 million to pass the $100 million mark. a In 10th was Ducktales: The Movie, with a gate of $2.6 million. Here are the top movie ticket sales for Friday through Sunday as tallied by Exhibitor Relations, with By MIKE STEELE Special to the Castlegar News readers as much as they obviously do and Fort Fraser. They are not merely chronicles o' recount the fascinating and arduous s' Relying heavily on excerpts from From the response received whenever local history is discussed in this column it would appear that our province's roots and development fascinate many The books covered this week explore the length and breadth of British Columbia, from the goldfields of Barkerville to the muddy streets of young Victoria, from the craggy Kootenays to the Merritt and Nicola Valley then north to Prince George, Fort St. James both the recent and distant past, but personal stories of hardship, daring, tragedy and perseverence in Canada’s westernmost province. These titles are highly recommended to B.C. history buffs. Audrey Smedley-L’ Heureux’s Vanderhoof-based Northern B.C. Book Publishing has recently released two titles charting the European and native adventures of frontier life in the region extending from Fort (Prince) George to Fort St. James and Fort Fraser. From Trail to Rail — Surveys and Gold 1862 — 1904 (104 pages, $9.95) and From Trail to Rail — Settlement Begins 1905 — 1914 (84 pages, $9.95) men and women whose labor and vision opened up the Fraser and Nechako River watersheds. diaries and correspondence of the participants, the B.C. history explored in books on Kootenay Ernest f events from Aid now we come to my personal favorite, Kootenay Country (GTE Travel Enterprises/ Alaska Northwest Books, 208 pages, $12.95). (Fee) Hellmen, 72, resident, is a master raconteur as the well-known me. writer/photographer Andy Russell, observes in his introduction to this collection of non-fiction stories. Kootenay Country is, in effect, an abbreviated autobiography of this former hunting g' ide and outdoors writer, told in 33 anecdotal segments. These slices of life begin with unadorned tales from Hellmen’s childhood, one replete with the a Cranbrook and 1930s. Fishing trips, d boyhood and the fine art of slingshot construction will still strike a resonating chord in many readers’ own memories despite the span of time between Hellmen’s youth and that experienced by others of later periods. (1 was amused to discover just how many of Hellmen’s. escapades, some death-tempting, were part of my own follies as a youngster and I’m 32 years his junior.) As Hellmen progresses, we encounter the of the 1920s hair-raising homemade raft mishaps . truggles of the theme, Hellmen’s the personal books are first-person accounts well If this is the case, you can order them Vanderhoof, B.C., V0J 3A0.) archival photographs and maps. Both of these excellent little books contain extensive bibliographies and indexes. (They may not, however, be readily available in your neighborhood bookstore. author-ublisher by writing to: P.O. Box 1502, with It was, sadly, directly from the of the Great Dep difficulties of raising a growing family and, an abiding outdoors in B.C.’s East Kootenay region. Kootenay Country is a rare reading experience: simple, true stories well-told with humor, compassion. and a not-so-subtle whiff of mischief; stories of a period when great store was still placed in the instilling of values such as honor, integrity and self-reliance. but thankfully it lives again, however briefly, through Hellmen’s storytelling talents. Mike Steele works for Books West, a North Vancouver company. the joys and unblushing love affair with the a different world from that of today * 1,691 screens, CABLE 10 SHAW CABLE SCHEDULE Aug. 15, 17, 19, 1990. Shaw Cable Aug. 15, 1990 5 p.m. (Wed) 9 a.m. (Fri.) 6 p.m. (Sun.) Regional Swim Meet (Day 2). — Coverage continues with Sunday's races. The top three finalists of each event went on to the provincials being held in Trail this week. 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Produced by Shaw Cable. LORDY, LORDY... GEORGIE’S 40! distributor, weekend gross, number of theatre screens, average per screen, total gross and number of weeks in release. Figures are based on a combination factual box-office receipts and studio projections where actual figures are not immediately available. 1. Flatliners, Columbia, $10 million, 1,319 screens, $7,608 per screen, $10 million, one week. 2. Ghost, Paramount, $9.5 million, 1,766 screens, $5,353 per screen, $85.5 million, five weeks. 3. Air America, Tri-Star, $8.1 million, 1,902 screens, $4,240 per screen, $8.1 million, one week. 4, Presumed Innocent, Warner Bros., $7.9 million, $5,446 per screen, $42 million, three weeks. $. Problem Child, Universal, $4.8 million, 1,769 screens, $2,740 per screen, $31.2 million, three weeks. 6. Young Guns Il, Fox, $4.7 million, 1,770 screens, $2,661 per screen, $21.3 million, two weeks. 7. The Two Jakes, P Please recycle The NEWS Happy Birthday Aunt Mary! isn't half so WECTIC... When it is 1,451 screens, followed by a Welcome Wagon call! Heather — 365-5490 WO, $3.7 million, 1,206 screens, $3,092 per screen, $3.7 million, one week. 8. Arachnophobia, Disney, $3.6 million, 1,823 screens, $1,976 per screen, $41.2 million, four weeks. 9. Die Hard 2, Fox, $3.1 million, $1,822 per screen, $102.2 million, six weeks. 10. Ducktales: The Movie, Disney, $2.6 million, 1,558 screens, $1,681 per screen, $9.3 million, two weeks. Spike Lee still seen as Brooklynite NEW YORK (AP) — Spike Lee has been celebrated as a trailblazing film- maker, the talk of the Cannes Film Festival and a Hollywood maverick. But residents of the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn — where he recently opened a store that sells memorabilia from his movies — insist that he’s.still one of their own. “You have to respect Spike,”” said Marc Sweeting, 20, a college student, as he looked at T-shirts inside the shop called Spike’s Joint. “He came from Brooklyn. He makes his movies in Brooklyn. 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Notices should be brought to the Castlegar News at 197 Columbia Ave COMMUNITY Bulletin Board A COMEDY ROMANCE SUPERNATURAL MRE aT, MOVING SATURDAY Auguet 18, 1990 Vol. 43, No. 66 Castlegar, B.C. 3 Sections (A, B & C) 75 Cents Hydro sells park land Try}: Water polo debuts locally oe BY WEATHER in the “ . precipitation is 60 per RS Castledar Threat of dei. News Soviet film crew here --- AZ Castlegar RCMP Const. Blair Imrie warms up his radar gun Friday afternoon in preparation for a crackdown on speeders in the area. conews photo by Ed Mulls RCMP launches annual crackdown on speeders By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer Leave a little early if you're heading somewhere this weekend. It will likely be worth your while — both in terms of your safety and your pocketbook. RCMP across the province began their second annual speeding awareness campaign today and although police won't be doing anything unusual there will be more patrol cars on the highways, Sgt. Warren Nelson of che Nelson sub- division said. The Nelson highway patrol, as well as all major West Kootenay detach- ments, will put all available officers ‘on the road looking for speeders from now until Sept. 7, Nelson said. RCMP will also continue to use air- craft patrols to clock motorists to determine if they are speeding, he ad- ded. The purpose of the campaign is to make people more aware of the dangers of speeding, which Nelson said is not always the same thing as driving over the posted speed limit. Driving fast around dangerous curves or in bad weather conditions can be just as unsafe as driving over the speed limit, he said, In 1989, 35 per cent of accidents in- volving injuries in the area around Castlegar were due to driving at un- safe speeds, according to ICBC statistics. By comparison, 26 per cent of those acBigents were alcohol related. The RCMP also want to remind motorists that schools will be back in session soon. After a summer of ignoring school zones drivers have to remember to slow down once again, Nelson said. “The little people are out, they’re excited about being back and they’re not paying that much attention to cars.”” The police work is being augmented by a media campaign and information from ICBC. “The police often work in isolation. We do the work but wonder how effective we are,”’ Nelson said in explaining the importance of the other parts of the awareness drive. This is the second year the RCMP have undertaken a speeding blitz. Nelson said the program will be run again next year. The fine for a first-offence speeding violation is $75. If you are travelling more than 40 kilometres per hour ‘over the speed limit, the fine automatically increases to $100. As well, you will receive penalty points on your licence. Act irks city council By CasNews Staff Castlegar city council has told the provincial government it shouldn't use its proposed Referendum Act to meddle in local affairs. Council passed a motion at its meeting Tuesday notifying the gover- nment the city opposes iticall Richards and Doreen Smecher were absent. “I would be concerned if the prov- incial government becomes involved in local issues,’’ Moore said. The Socred government introduced the Referendum Act in the last session sensitive’ referendums or provincial involvement in referendums on local issues. “[ sure don’t want to see the provincial government involved in our referendums,” said Ald. Lawren- ce Chernoff, echoing the sentiments of Mayor Audrey Moore and alder- men Terry Rogers and Marilyn Mathieson. Aldermen Albert Calderbank, Patti of the The p d bill Editorial, page A4 drew immediate criticism from the opposition NDP which has com- plained the bill would put control of referendums in the hands of the provincial cabinet. “Decisions made by councils ‘such as yours are wide open to second- guessing by the cabinet,’’ NDP leader Mike Harcourt says in a letter to local governments. ‘‘For its own political purposes, the provincial government will be able to initiate a referendum ‘on your decision."’ Mathieson said that’s worrisome. “We should have control of referendums on local issues,’’ she said. ‘‘We shouldn’t live in fear of the provincial government holding a local referendum.”’ Council agreed it doesn’t oppose the concept of referendums but it called on the provincial government to establish ‘‘terms, rules and mechanisms that are clear and fair’’ for initiating and holding referen- dums. Work resumes on centre By CasNews Staff Work has resumed on the Castle View Care Centre near the High di visi and Skoretz said he is ‘‘very pleased’’ to have Berg doing the work, since the company is local and has a ‘‘very tion should be ‘‘going full force’’ by next week, the owner of the new in- termediate-care facility said. William Berg, of William Berg Construction Ltd. in Brilliant, has signed a contract making the com- pany the new general contractor on the job, Bugene Skoretz told the Castlegar News. good The care centre should be com- pleted by Dec. 31, three months after it was originally expected to be finished, Skoretz added. Work was halted when Eden Con- struction of Calgary abandoned the job after running into financial problems, Allan Curtis, the executive director of one of Skoretz’s com- panies, said in late July. Skoretz said he has paid all the sub- contractors with the project for work they have already done. Berg has talked to them and they will all be returning to the jobsite, Skoretz ad- He said he has lost ‘‘in excess of half a million’’ dollars in direct costs due to the delay in the project but he declined to say what the total costs are. “It’s quite substantial,” he said. \ NS mayor's anger Moore slams Valhalla Society criticism of pulp mill review By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer The Valhalla Society will hold up public hearings into Celgar Pulp Co.'s proposed expansion if two key issues are not addressed by the federal-provincial panel conducting a review of the expansion proposal, society director Grant Copeland said. The society wants the panel to.con- sider providing intervenor funding and adding sustainable forestry prac- tices to the list of items the panel will consider when making a decision on the expansion — despite the fact that both issues are outside the mandate of © the panel, Copeland said Thursday during a meeting to discuss procedures for the public hearings. If the panel does not address the two issues’’ we will have no alter- native but to fight the process and we don’t want to do that,’’ Copeland told more than 50 Castlegar and area residents representing the major sectors of the regional community in- nization, a community group, formed last week to garner support for the expansion, said he is opposed to governments providing intervenor funding. The Castlegar Chamber of Com- merce raised funds for its own study from its memibership and if The Valhalla Society has as many mem- bers as it claims it could easily raise funds to hire consultants, Donaldson said Friday, expressing a view he and others voiced at the meeting. Frank Borowicz, the panel's lawyer, told Copeland the panel has no money or authority to provide in- tervenor funding. Environmental groups have asked for the funds so they can hire their own consultants to study Celgary’s second environmental impact report. Copeland said the Valhalla Society wants to hire experts to determine whether the technology Celgar plans to install as part of its please see THREAT page A2 AUDREY MOORE «emotional terested or involved in the review. Copeland’s comments drew an angry response from Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore. “Grant, I don’t like you threatening us, I really don’t,’’ Moore said, acknowledging she is emotional over the issue. “I think it’s ironic you want inter- venor funding to become learned (about the proposed expansion and the new Celgar report) but you can put a lot of energy into opposing this,’’ she said. Moore reminded Copeland there are agencies that may be able to help with funding to allow environmental groups to hire their own By JOHN CHARTERS Some 18 Castlegar citizens, in- formal representatives of business, industry, the Castlegar Chamber of C local New group formed to back project our opinion, Celgar has answered the pertinent questions as set down by the terms of reference,”’ said Dale Donaldson, a local government, education and the general public met Tuesday at the Fireside restaurant to have lunch and to plan ways of getting the and noted many people concerned with the environment belong to Greenpeace, which ‘has more money than the City of Castlegar will ever have.”” Moore said she is aware of concerns that have been raised over the expan- sion proposal but called for cooperation. “If we want something to happen we have to work together to make it happen,”’ she said. Dale Donaldson, spokesman for Citizens for a Clean Celgar Moder- 1,200 letters, page AS “We feel, fe that the 45-day period set up for public hearings is more than adequate for the purpose of public debate.’” He noted that the business community has raised $40,000 for Celgar modernization project and public hearings moving forward more quickly. Considerable concern was €x- pressed over what is seen to be the largely negative approach of a small but highly vocal group from the peripheral areas of the Kootenays. ‘*We have studied the stage two material of (Celgar’s environmen- tal impact) report at length and, in an study and could see no legitimate reason for intervenor funding (funding from the public purse) for any group wishing to carry out its own individual studies at tax- payers’ expense. He also felt that such a demand for government funding by a private group was, essentially, a vehicle for further attrition and delaying tactics to the public hearings. please see GROUP page A2 Environmental group, Forest Service at odds By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer Mudslides in the Slocan Valley this spring could have been avoided if the Ministry of Forests had listened to the Ministry of Environment and heeded its own guidelines concerning logging in sensitive areas and reforestation, The Valhalla Society says The Forests Ministry has not been doing its job ‘‘and that’s why the people in this valley have very little confidence in them,”’ society director Grant Copeland said. But Reiner Augustin, forestry operations manager for the Arrow forest district, said the Forest Service followed ministry regulations concer- ning logging in the steep area above Highway 6 where mudslides closed the highway for several days at the end of May. However, those regulations have changed rapidly since the late 1970s when the area was logged by Slocan Forest Products and sometimes Forest Service plans, particularly con- cerning reforestation, do not work out as well as they are expected to initially, Augustin said. In a news release, The Valhalla Society said the Forest Service ignored an action plan developed by the Ministry of Environment after slides occurred in the same area above Highway 6 in 1983. Augustin said SFP was instructed to dig ditches, which allow water to flow down the slopes more easily, across logging roads in the area after the 1983 slides. Other steep slopes along Highway 6 are not listed as sensitive on the broadly drawn forest inventory maps, Augustin said. But if logging is plan- ned on any of those slopes they will be But the roads had to be reopened to traffic when the work was completed because people such as local miners wanted access to the area, Augustin said. The Forest Service also needs access to the area to carry out silviculture activities, he added. Excessive rain, channelled by old culverts, logging roads and other de p ys into " flow patterns down the mountainside, was the main cause of the slides this year, a recent joint Ministry of Forests-Ministry of Environment study concluded. The Valhalla Society said the logging occurred in an area that in- cluded land identified by a Ministry of Forests map as sensitive to soil erosion. The map was included in the Slocan Valley Community Forest Management Study, conducted by a team of local residents and consultan- ts several years before logging began on the area above Highway 6 Augustin said none of the logged areas, which are on the plateau above the slides, are designated as sensitive to soil erosion. However, the slide area itself includes blocks identified as soil- and wildlife-sensitive, he,said. assessed indi lly to if soil erosion or other problems would make them sensitive to logging, he explained The Valhalla Society is calling for a royal commission on logging following the Slocan Valley slides. “Nothing less than a full royal commission and inquiry is necessary to determine how much logging can be sustained over the long run, and how this logging must be conducted to protect the public interest including domestic watersheds, visual quality and public safety.’” The Valhalla Society, working with the Slocan Valley Watershed Allian- ce, is considering legal action over the slide issue and the society is bringing in its own experts ‘‘to determine what the real cause of the slides is, Copeland told the Castlegar News. As well, workshops are being held to prepare people to set up blockades to protest clearcut logging in the valley, he said. ““(Blockading) is a last resort but it seems we're getting close to that,"’ Copeland said.