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All smoke and no fire?

‘Teen uptake of smoking is @ serious and ongoing
concern and it’s an issue of utmost importance.
After all, it might be casier to prevent people from
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Cheers to British Columbian wine

any opportunity to climb on his
soap box and let them have it. The
lagictenive debate of the agriculture
was always
handy. So was any debate having to
do with industry or business.

One year, after a particularly
stinging attack, the wine industry
responded by inviting McGeer to an
official taste test. It turned out to be
@ bad move, for the y, that is.

Members of the press gallery
bought an assortment of wine.
Included were wines from France,
Gorginay and, of course, British

ia. The venue for the show-
pan was Victoria's venerable

And even though folks with a
imentary knowledge of wine

and McGeer proceeded to faste.
He'd take a sip, swish the wine

around in his mouth a bit and deliv-
ered his verdict.

we got here? No “doubt, Herb
Capozzi left his socks in that
one.What can I say? He got every
one of them right. And every time
he tasted a B.C. wine, he looked
like someone had slipped him a

compelling

da regarding generic packaging.
In a recent submission to congress they had plen-

baler bye

..No child ever took a first bite of candy
b of its pack: No ever di
to leam to drive because of a car design. No drinker
ever consumed alcohol because of the label on the
bottle, or first tried a soft drink because of the
design of the can. And no smoker ever first decided
to try tobacco b of a package design.”
In fact, generic packaging could have the oppo-
site effect on the war on smoking. Stripped of all
d that the

ing to discourage from

clear conflict of interest and a waste of time and
money—valuable dollars which could be used to
ne ee aed ee
tion, or i i such as grants to
teens who could prove that they have remained
smoke-free for an agreed amount of time.

What Canada doesn’t want or need is yet another
foamation. While the war ages on tase persis have

Pi - "3 and
retailers. Canadians don’t care about plain packag-
ing. They want results.

gies the war on smoking could, literally, go up in a
puff of smoke.

Somewhere to ‘hang Now that there’s

out’ like a concert more here they

hall, and doftanely need to build stuff

more mountain bi for us like a skate-
board park.

—Aaron Donohue §=§ —Solicl

Better places to shop.
—wNadine Evans
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‘The press had a heyday with the
story, MpGeor wes very pleased $0
championed the

quality product.
It paid off big. Today's estate
can hold their own

Anthony von
New Zealand in 1981 and bought
Mission Hill. It took him 13 years to

trip to

My second choice for an interview
turned out to be the guy I should
have asked for in the first place. John
Simes is Mission Hill's wine master,
and the Chardonnais
was his baby from the start.

I spotted the potential of this
Chardonnais the moment I walked
into the vineyard,” he said. And for-
tunately the grower went along with
Simes* instructions of how and

way.

“To ‘get 2 wine of this quality,
everything has to be done right. 1
need a higher quality than the regu-
lar contract calls for. I also insist on
some what different harvesting

.” Simes said.

He must be doing something
right. His baby, the award- winning
Chardonnais, the Mission Hill
Grand Reserve, Barrel Select was
found to be the best, beating out 200
other contenders from 13 countries.
But if you look for it in the liquor
store, forget it. It sold out quickly.

We've come a long way since the
days when drinking B.C. wine invit-
ed comparisons with vinegar, bad
vinegar. And some of the credit

Falling down on the job can be fun

“E have slipped the surly bonds of carth, sun-
ward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling
misth of sun-split clouds, and something
that I have always dreamed of - wheeled and

morning shouting out the words to the song Hey
ra Ac gr ft pethaps it is not the best day
think about going skydiving. Fortunately,

hs not superstitious!
On July 20, 1994, as a member of The

master, Ian Aitken, the pilot, and two other
jumpers, I had plenty of time to recall the

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that only the experience itself can explain

Sport.
So, to anyone who is perhaps sitting
about skydiving, I have but

around,
one piece of advice - just “SHUT-UP and JUMP!”

encounter. Kymberli Byers, a Fruitvale resident, is an employee of The Castlegar
‘When the plane door was finally opened and I exited, I suddenly realized Ss Te cere po so bron hr emp praca Parachute jump.

Wednesday, August 10, 1994

Letters to the Editor

Support
appreciated

appreciated. Thank you to the
ones that took the time to come

“from as far away as Maui,

Hawaii, St. Louis, Mo., Win-
nipeg, Vancouver, Calgary and
other distant places.

Hope you all had a good time
and we'll be seeing you all next

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Dear Editor:

I would like to thank Donna Dunlop for
the superb photo of the C.P.R. trainbridge

turn-span - completed in 1902. And then I
switched any gum v0 tho very top of tho
steelwork and noord the magnificent
Osprey perched upon its nest. A few sec-
onds later the Dg bird took flight and I
majestic ease with which
it swooped down to the swiftly-flowing
river - a hundred feet below.

marvelled at the

As I stood there in the magic of twi-

fs ‘
tion and Highways since 1943.

(heritage) beauty of Cast’

A picture is worth a thousand words
they say, and after neving bathing
gar perched

atop your “Profile” section I couldn’ t

agree more. Indeed my first

turned them on.

once more to admire the superb

was to rush down and buy a hundred
copies and put them on every notice
board in town - including City Hall -
where this ravishing beauty still hasn't

Yesterday evening I took my usual
walk across the footbridge - and paused

of this railbridge - along with its unique

which had p

light, my mind went back to those memo-
rable days in the fall of 1949, when the

(CM&S!) - and the
quaint conditions under which we had to
study. Hundreds of students came and
went on this footbridge on a daily basis
then, and many still do - as they make
their way to our modern day SHSS. Then
I noted the narrowness of the trainbridge
itself, and recalled the near tragedies
CP. into the building
of the original footbridge in 1913.

And as I paused in the pristine stillness
- high above the swirling river - I thought
I heard the sounds of Waldie’s Mill - that

sent the water-soaked logs past the i
band-saw in the process of making lum-

ber. And then the high-pitched whine of
“edger” saws rent the evening air. And all
the while I heard the uring hum of

Photograph is worth a thousand word

lion dollars. And where, I wonder, is that

steam engine that used

The ing the
footbridge for the next few years is

$10,000 per year. It seems

very
likely that C.P. Rail will soon build a new
metal walkway to replace it - as required
by their workmen under WCB regula-
tions. Therefore I would like to urge our

the faithful boiler - fired by a steady
stream of air-blown shavings from the
planer-mill. The loud report of new-sawn
planks flopping onto roller benches rang
in my ears.

They say that those who don’t lear
from history are doomed to live it over
again. The Minto was sold to the town of
Nakusp as a good running ship in the
early 1950's - for the price of one dollar.
Through lack of foresight and several mis-
fortunes this priceless treasure of the
Arrow Lakes was gone within ten 5
Now it couldn't be replaced for ten mil-

of Tr ion and High
to keep the footbridge going for a few
more years - and then negotiate rigtits of
public passage on the new walkway when
it appears - a right which has existed for
81 years.

Have we learned from history, or are
we going to “pay the price for heritage”
by letting another Arrow Lakes treasure
go down the drain?

ELF. Killough

Is city hall fast-tracking
new developments?

Dear Editor:

I am writing to express my
concern about the 129-lot subdi-
vision proposed for the south end
of Castlegar and about the rapid
growth of residential develop-
ment generally in Castlegar. I
want to make clear that I’m not
opposed to development, whether

ment in certain areas in both the
north and south ends. The study
are out that whatever the city
decided, large-scale development
in the south end was not a good
option because of the costs the
city would incur in upgrading its
water and sewer systems.
To quote from the study: “The

order for the subdivision and oth-
ers like it to proceed?

And I haven't even touched on
storm sewers yet. That's millions

ties - and for me, the priority cer-
tainly isn’t upgrading services for
future residents, but in upgrading

it’s new homes or

‘What I am opposed to is develop-
ments that cost taxpayers money
and I fear that the 129-lot subdi-
vision in the city’s south end -

city commissioned a study that
laid out how our community

sewage plant
has capacity for approximately
230 single-family units or their
equivalent. Once this capacity is
utilized, the Plant would require

That was three years ago.
With all the construction that has
gone on in the interim, the
sewage'plant capacity has dimin-

ished. There is no doubt that the
Plant could not handle a 129-10t
without i

and out-of-date ser-
vices used by present residents.

I can think of a number of
areas that need upgrading - 37th
Street, Sth Avenue, Arrow Lakes
Drive, the 24th Street i

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taxpayers.

In that study, the consultants
Presented a range of options for
growth. One looked at emphasis
on development in the south end;
another looked at emphasis on
development in the north end;
and a third examined a combina-
tion of the two.

In the end, the consultants rec-
ommend a fourth option that
called for quite specific develop-

able upgrading.
My concern is who will pay
for that I am worried

that existing taxpayers will foot
the bill to allow this large devel-
opment to go ahead. .

As well, the study said the
costs of upgrading water lines for
large-scale developments in the
south end “are high”. (ie. mil-
lions of dollars, on top of the $3
million for the sewage plant).
Will present taxpayers be
required to pay for that, too, in

Castlegar residents take
a | SWINE at lung disease

pam am sora to thank Castle-
gar-area residents for helping to
make a province-wide success of
the British Columbia Asso-
ciation’s 1994 Golf Privilege
Card®.

You bought golf cards worth
$1,875, contributing directly to

in B.C.. Your readers can get

more details by calling our head
office collect at 1-800-665-5864.
The B.C. Lung Association is
proud of the Golf Privilege
Card® program because it allows
us to return something of value to
our supporters.
We thank you all, Castlegar
residents and courses, for helping
us fight lung disease in B.C.
supporting the Golf Privilege
Card®.

HELD. Joy
Volunteer President

Della-Siega

In a ceremony

UBC. Anthony is
completing his resi-
dency, specializing
in Internal Medicine
im Vancouver.

Graduation

developments are given the go-
ahead and it is too late.

Growth is fine. But well-
planned growth. And growth that
doesn’t dip into the pockets of the
present taxpayers in order to ben-
efit future taxpayers.

Ron Norman

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