A2_Castlegar News May 1, 1901

BRIEFLY

By CasNews Staff and News Services

Flood watch begins

‘The B.C. Environment Ministry’s water management division has
‘Started a flood watch along the province’s main river and lake
systems, including the upper Columbia and upper Kootenay rivers, as
spring rains and melting snow raise water levels.

Personnel from the Provincial Emergency Program, Ministry of
Environment, and Ministry of Transportation and Highways are on
standby to deal with any flood problems as they occur, the
Environment Ministry said in a news release.

Arrangements are in place to issue early warnings to communities
and rural residents if water appears likely to reach dangerously high
levels, the ministry says.

The flood threat is caused mainly by melting of higher-than-
‘average mountain snowpacks and seasonal rainfall, the istry said.
Snow on mid-level mountain slopes, which normally would have
melted earlier, is adding to water flow in some areas.

‘Weather conditions govern the rate of runoff, with cooler
temperatures likely to slow the melt, the ministry said.

Pipeline expands
Westcoast Energy will spend $1 billion on capital improvements
during the next three years with the bulk of it on pipeline expansion,
president Michael Phelps said Tuesday.
The company currently transports 400 billion cubic feet of gas

Canada
closing to
retirees

TORONTO (CP) — The federal
government plans to make it more
difficult for'some retirees to settle in
Canada in favor of admitting
younger applicants with job skills, a
Toronto newspaper reported Mon-

Immigration Department
plans to abolish as of June 30 a
provision that allows retired people
to come to Canada if they’re able to
support themselves financially, says
the Toronto Globe and Mi
The move — outlined in a memo
obtained by the Globe — was
criticized by an immigration lawyer
who said it could lead to less invest-
ment capital coming into the coun-
try.
“It’s a foolhardy decision,”’ said
Mendel Green of Toronto. ‘*Many

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Children's Charities.

9! . Brent entertained a very special visitor at the fish tank in

Ronald McDonald House, in Vancouver recently. Brent, 5, from Trail, no
Browning, three-time world figure skating champion, who visited the house before pert
id's Stars on Ice show which helped raise more than $109,000 for Ronald McDonol.

med the fish for Kurt
lorming in

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Stanley Humphries secondary school music students hit the streets Saturday for their normal annual ‘Litterathon.’
The students picked up 175 bags of trash from local neighborhoods whil
see a showing of The Phantom of the Opera.

le funds for a trip to Vancouver to

annually. Phelps told the company’s annual meeting that market
demand has been forecast at 600 billion cubic feet by 1995.

Phelps said Westcoast plans to transport about 230 billion cubic
feet a year into a growing domestic natural gas market that will

people over the age of 55 have come
itno Canada under the retirement
category with large amounts. of

SELKIRK COLLEGE STUDENT SOCIETY
has elected the following people to its executive
council for the 1991-92 year:

million expansion and modernization project.
Cathal Fox, a professional engineer, will be resp-
onsible for quality and overall i

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include the addition later this year of Vancouver Island and the

Coast of

downtown Vancouver.

Expo clean up starts
The B.C. government has already spent $6 million figuring out
how to clean up the contaminated soil on the Expo 86 site in

Now it’s going to spend $20 million to $60 mi
the job, Environment Minister Dave Mercier, appointed two weeks
ago, said Tuesday in announcing the start of the clean-up.

The 82.5-hectare False Creek site is contaminated with a century
of industrial waste, including coal tar, gasoline,
‘wood preservatives and heavy metals.

Ministry official Jon O’Riordan confirmed it will be at least two
years before a B.C. hazardous waste facility can handle 90,000 cubic
metres of the most heavily contaminated Expo soils.

RCMP warn car owners

Castlegar RCMP have issued a warning against leaving valuable
items in vehicles after receiving seven reports of car thefts.

Police said the thieves ‘‘are quite adept”’ at getting into locked
vehicles so items of value should be removed where possible.

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iesel fuel, motor oil,

Crestbrook expands into Alberta

By CasNews Staff

Crestbrook Forest Industries Ltd.
has joined forces with MC Forest In-
vestment Inc. and Kanzaki Paper
Canada Inc. for the production of
pulp in the province of Alberta, a
news release said.

The $1.3 billion project will be
financed by a, combination of debt
and equity, with debt financing by
Canadian and international banks
and the Government of Alberta.

Crestbrook, a 40 per cent par-
ticipant, harvests the forest resources
of the Kootenay region and is a fully
integrated forest products company.
It directly employs over 1,350 people
in logging, lumber, veneer, plywood
and bleached kraft pulp operations,
the release said.

Finance minister expects
recovery to continue

OTTAWA (CP) — An economic
rebound in February is another sign
the country is headed for a summer
recovery, Finance Minister Don
Mazankowski said Tuesday.

Service industries such as finance,
insurance, real estate and retailing
picked up in February to halt a
three-month’ slide in the Canadian
economy, Statistics Canada reported.

Gross domestic product — the
value of all goods and_ services
produced — was’ unchanged
following a ‘revised, 1.2 per cent
plunge in January.

But the economy did not grow
either. Canadian factories were still
stuck in a deep slump and Statistics
Canada indicated the economy
remained far from the point of
recovery.

But Mazankowski told reporters:
‘“*We have seen some signals that
would lead us to believe that there is
some promise . . . in the very near
future.’”

He said the government should be

able to meet a forecast in the Feb. 26
budget that the economy will be
growing again by mid-year.

The Canadian economy has beefi
in a deep slump since April 1990
following seven years of expansion.

“There seems to be some im-
Pi in
There_seems to be improvement in
housing sales and a little more im-
provement in the investment sector,”’
Mazankowski said on his way to a
cabinet meeting.

But he said improvements will
depend on controlling inflation,
which now is more than six per cent,
so interest rates can get even lower.

In Washington, the U.S. Federal
Reserve board stepped up its fight
against the recession and lowered a
key short-term interest rate by one-
half point, a move that could allow
more room for interest rate cuts in
Canada.

Economists said there was little to
cheer about in February, which only
looked good after a disastrous

January.

The economy was savaged early
this year by the introduction of the
goods and services tax and uncertain-
ty about the Persian Gulf War.

“Anyway you slice it, it’s not
good news,” said economist Mike
McCracken of Informetrica Ltd.

“It may only be a mild pause on
the ride down,’’ he added.

Statistics Canada said the service
sector improved by 0.7 per cent,
while companies produced 1.4 per
cent fewer goods in February than
the month before.

The announcement comes less
than two weeks after Crestbrook an-
nounced it was permanently closing
its lumber and veneer operations in
Creston, citing losses of $4 million
for each of the last three years.

MCFI, a 35 per cent participant, is
a Canadian subsidiary of Mitsubishi
Corporation, a major worldwide
trading company. KPC, a 25 per cent

participant, is a subsidiary of Kan-
zaki Paper Mfg. Co., Ltd., Japan, a
world-scaled, major producer of fine
paper, the. release said.
Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries
Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Crestbrook will operate the forest
Products complex on behalf of the
joint venturers. Saad
The 1,500-tonne per day pulp

project is located in northern Alber-
ta. Production will be of high-quality
hardwood and softwood pulps. Con-
struction will begin immediately
which will employ over 2,500 people.
Start-up of production is scheduled
for mid-1993. At capacity, annual
sales will be approximately $500
million. About 1,100 direct jobs will
be created by this investment.

April's weather meets
averages on record

By CasNews Staff

It appears April won’t have to see
a psychiatrist.

With one exception Environment
Canada’s Southeast Interior Weather
office reported that the month of
April was ‘‘very near normal”’ in all
major weather related areas relative
to past years.

That exception was April 5 when a
weather system produced strong local
winds that resulted in fairly extensive
landscape and property damage in

the Pass Creek, Thrums and Slocan
areas.

But overall April was an average
month with an average maximum
temperature of 8,4C which was .5C
above normal for the month while
the average minimum temperature
was .SC below normal.

The record high temperature for
April was set in 1980 when it got to
28.2.o0n the thermometer. The
coldest April day on record occurred
just a year earlier when it fell to -75.

At 46.2mm, rainfall was 100 per
cent of the 25-year average. There
was 1.6 cm. of snowfall which was
78 per cent of normal.

Precipitation fell on 14 days, one
more than the average.

There was 183.4 hours of sunshine
during the month which is a little
better than eight hours more than
normal.

The brightest April on record was
in 1977 when there was 230.6 hours
of sunshine.

Public servants march at hill

OTTAWA (CP) — Two MPs lent
their support to more than a 1,000
public servants who marched on
Parliament Hill today chanting
slogans and carrying protest signs.

Liberal MP Marlene Catterall, the
public service critic, told the Revenue
Canada auditors and computer

programmers they should stand up
for their rights because the gover-
nment is bargaining in bad faith.
Revenue Canada auditors walked
off their jobs on the deadline for

of rotating strikes and work-to-rule
actions.

The union says the public should
take interest in their work
slowdowns. They claim a work-to-
rule campaign in the last round of

COURT NEWS

In Castlegar p ial court,

Steven Cecconi Ritson was fined
$100 for driving without due care
and attention.
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Phyllis Gwen Walsh was sentenced
to three days in jail, to be served in-

Tributes

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and Smelting Co. (Cominco smelter) in Trail.

“*Ginger Goodwin was a man much ahead of his
time,’’ Doerkson said.

“He paid the price with his life. People who
started the labor movement in this country put their
lives on the line every time they went out there. And
Ginger Goodwin becomes a reai shining star when
you look at the kind of things he did.””

Doerson said the park idea is ‘‘one of the most
exciting things I’ve heard of in the labor ee

Trail mayor Sandy Santori agreed.

“It is fitting that Ginger Goodwin's contribution
to, the labor movement
memorated in Trail,’’ he said after the official sod-

turning.

Santori said Goodwin's efforts in 1917 to obtain
fair wages and a shorter work day ‘‘were very much
needed at that time.’’ But he decried the controversy
surrounding his death as detracting from his real
work and contribution.

Trail council donated the land on the hillside and
the use of the city equipment for the park. The
memorial project, valued at $173,000 has received
some $40,000 in cash donations and pledges for an

additional $73,000.

Project co-ordinator and labor council vice-
president Dominic Isernia said the provincial gover-
nment pledged a grant of $15,000 from the GO B.C.
fund and $18,000 from the Heritage Trust fund.
Local unions donated $8,000 to the project, with a

Mining

termi for imp: driving.
Walsh is prohibited from driving for
one year.
oe

Gary Thomas Batting was fined
$300 for driving without due care
and attention. Batting is prohibited
from driving for three months.

in 1988 cost the gover-
nment $180 million in revenue that
would have been taken from tax
cheaters and corporations.

Both groups, members of the
Professional Institute of the Public
Service, have been without contracts
for year and in a legal strike
position for several months.

New Democrat MP Dave Barrett,
former premier of British Columbia,
told the crowd one reason he left the
B.C. civil service and entered politics
was because of a lack of rights for
government employees.

He accused the government of
spending more than $1 billion hiring
contract employees without adequate
supervision of costs while nickle and
diming public servants.

Union spokesman Steve Hindle
told the crowd that last weekend
Treasury Board offered the com-
puter programmers a contract of
almost four years with annual pay
increases of 2.6 per cent. That drew
a long chorus of boos.

The public servants later marched
on Treasury Board offices, about six
blocks away, from the Hill.

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NDP finance critic Glen Clark
suggested the Socreds are trying to
divert attention from the large deficit
Finance Minister Mel Couvelier is
expected to announce when the B.C.
budget is brought down May 16.

Couvelier has said his budget will
likely incur a deficit between $100

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stabilization fund which is set up as a

‘rainy day”’ fund.

““We are most likely going to have
the largest deficit in the history of
B.C.,”" Clark said. ‘‘This is straight
politics — they are trying to divert
attention away from their own

Couverlier said the Ontario deficit

could hurt all of Canada,

“Because Ontario is responsible
for about 40 per cent of Canadian
economic activity, their spending

isi are crucial to the attitudes
that will be brought to bear on
economic issues by our federal
Politicians and federal a
and also by the perception of f¢
lenders and the lending scisaace

money and have invested it in the
economy.’"

In 1990, an estimated 3,500 people
were admitted to Canada in the
retirement category.

The memo says the program was
introduced primarily to allow people
born in Canada who subsequently
became citizens of other countries to
return. But only four per cent of the
7,000 people who apply each year
under the program are native-born
Canadians.

The memo said closing the im-
migration category favoring elderly
applicants with capital ‘‘thereby
facilitates the admission of younger
applicants with skills.””

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President — Jeff Leggat; vice-president — Jason
Hayes; treasurer — Lucy Jones; communications
officer — Fiona Morgenthaler; ombudsman — John

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BRIAN PRITCHARD and ELAINE
SCALLAND, both formerly of CKQR, are doing

Pritchard is a marketing representative with
(CKWX-AM and 97KISS-FM while Scalland is with
CNKW-AM and CFMI-FM. Pritchard is also serving
his second year as president of Big Brothers of British
Columbia, a community involvement he says
provides him with a great deal of personal

H.A. SIMONS LTD. has appointed a
construction manager to Celgar Pulp Co’.s $700-

Celgar sai

home in Castle;
the release said.

of contract work at the mill, a news release from

H.A. Simons is the project engineering dontpany.

for the Celgar project.

Originally from Ireland in 1976, Fox, his wife and
two daughters came to Castlegar from Port Mellon,
B.C. where he had similar responsibilities on a pulp
mill modernization project. The family has bought a
r in anticipation of a two-year stay,

LENORA STAUFFER of Grand Forks snapped
first place and $200 in B.C. Agriculture's magazine's
second annual photo contest.

Stauffer’s photo of a log cabin, one of the oldest
buildings in the area, is part of the
homestead on her ranch, the magazine said.

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IMP rebuffs U.S. monetary policy

Interest rates shouldn't be lowered

WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada,
Germany and Japan have warned
against premature cuts in world in-
terest rates, saying easy money could
cause a serious setback in the fight
against inflation and _ imperil
recovery.

The United States pressed its case
for lower rates during a meeting
Monday of the policymaking com-
mittee of the International Monetary
Fund, contending freeing up credit
would be the best way to restart the
engines of growth. =

But U.S. officials were rebuffed
on that point.in an earlier gathering
of the Group of Seven industrialized
countries and ran into more skep-
ticism at the fund's meeting.

Don Mazankowski, appointed
Canadian finance minister last week,
said interest rates will fall if prices
remain stable and should not be ar-

tificially cut at the risk of fanning in-
flation.

“Inevitably, there will be public
pressure over the coming months for
industrial countries to take more
aggresssive action collectively to
provide policy stimulus,”” he said in
his statement to the meeting.

“The reasoning is seductive,’’ he
said, but ‘‘the lessons of the last 20
years teach us that this temptation
must be resisted.’”

German Finance Minister Theo
Waigel added: ‘‘Quick fixes to push
growth would collapse as they did in
the 1970s.’"

And Japanese Finance Minister
Ryutaro Hashimoto said Japan has

Sunday to promote his strategy for
lower interest rates, which U.S. of-
ficials see as vital to speed economic
transformation in Eastern Europe
and aid post-war reconstruction in
the Middle East, not to mention spur
demand for U.S. exports.

The U.S. economy, making up a
quarter of the world’s output, is still
capable of dragging the international
economy down if the domestic
recession deepens, they said.

France and many debt-burdened
Third World countries supported the
U.S. call for lower rates. Britain,
despite its serious Tecession, was
among the skeptics.

The G-7 meeting resulted in a

“‘no intention of monetary
policy,” which is geared toward con-
taining inflationary pressures.

U.S. President George Bush called
G-7 officials to the White House on

growth with price stability,”’ a
deliberately vague phrase
Mazankowski and others repeated
like a mantra to disguise differences

during the series of high-level IMF
and World Bank talks that end
today.

In his more pointed statement,
Mazaakowski said ‘‘Easier money
would drive short-term nominal and
real interest rates down for a time
but at the expense of higher long-
term nominal and real interest
rates."”

He said deficit-reduction is essen-
tial to tame interest rates and provide
durable growth.

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before the release of Ontario’s bud-
get, in which a province representing
about 40 per cent’ of the Canadian
economy is planning to triple its
deficit this year to more than $9.7
billion.

In a separate meeting, the Group
of 10 industrial countries, including
Canada, warned Eastern Europe the

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