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Al Brown said that charges have have a “We’re not going to| i news release right now cause we don’t want a persons name blurted out and then find there’s nothing to the charges,” Brown continued, ly.” Kinnaird investigation continues adding that with allegations xi interviewed me of of sexual offenses, the public Castlegar RCMP are till the students on the jus and. tends to regard accused per- : lot more inte ong.as guilty until proven in- Ph aa “AR ot Mia OR ne. we have no idea if his is a relatively minor deeusation and it’s very tough ve.a. to work on,”he said. than this one, but we're still looking at it very, very careful- ——T5e ANNUAL TEACUP poor FANCIERS PIX Trouble brewing y June unemployment jumps Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER June was a bad month for job-seekers in Castlegar. 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Tossed out of the Social Credit Party by the Rossland-Trail executive for not supporting their candidate in the 1991 provincial election, Bakken says she’ll appeal her expulsion for as long as it takes. “I was just going to let it drop, but I can’t. This party means a lot to me. It always has,” Bakken said Thursday. A long-time Socred, Bakken landed in the local constituency’s bad books when she supported independent candidate Chris D’Arcy over the party’s Walt Seimens during the Oct. 17 election. “I was never saying don’t vote Social Credit,” the Salmo native said. “The only thing I was doing was backing Chris because of his courage. He showed a lot of courage at a time when our own party was whimping out by not backing Bill Vander Zalm.” Bakken said she doesn’t regret her decision, saying D’Arcy was Rossland- Trail’s only chance at beating New Democrat Ed Conroy. “At the time, I decided to put party politics aside and go with the best person for the job and that was Chris D’Arcy.” That explanation didn’t wash with the local Socred executive, however. Rossland- Trail constituency president Elmer Pellerine said Bakken broke the party’s cardinal rule. Bakken bounced by local Socreds “She supported a candidate other than one legitimately nominated Social Credit candidate, which is in violation of our constitution,” he said. “She took it upon herself to support another candidate. If she wanted to be a member of the party, she should have supported our candidate or resign her membership.” Pellerine said the Rossland-Trail executive voted 11-1 to revoke Bakken’s membership at its June 17 meeting. “In politics you need a team approach,” Pellerine said. “If someone has a membership, we expect them to be a team player.” Bakken said she would take the entire matter to provincial executive, where she hopes to have the ruling overturned. “T’m just not going to walk away It’s a good party and I’m proud of it.” FREE WHEELING # @®General inquiries 365-7266 OUR HOURS The News is located at 197 Columbia Ave. Our office hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed on weekends and statutory holidays. SUB RATES The News is published by Castle News Ltd. for Canwest Publishers Ltd. Mail subscription rate to The News is $37.50 per year. The price on newsstands is 75¢ for each edition. The price delivered by newspaper carrier for both editions is only 90¢ a week (collected monthly). GST extra. Second class mail registration number 0019. George Hansen took advantage of the good weather and crowd size at the local slo-pi at Kinnaird Park to put on a show for anyone who was interested in seeing a daredevil at work. News photo by Jonathan Green itch finals last weekend Castlegar Opposes rerouting Scott David Harrison EDITOR Castlegar is taking on the Transport Ministry. City council unanimously decided Tuesday to draft a letter to Transport Ministry Art Charbonneau, opposing any plan that would see Warfield hill truck traffic rerouted through Castlegar. “We’re really concerned,” Councillor Bob Pakula said Thursday. “We’re already overloaded at that interchange and we can’t handle anymore truck traffic. “While I recognize that there is a problem in Warfield, it doesn’t solve anything by sending those trucks through our interchange,” Pakula said. “We have a problem with our interchange to begin with;” he continued, saying the southbound off-ramp is B.C. Hydro to open gates again The treaty allows the United States to draw water from Canada for hydroelectric power or to @ Americans set to receive more water under controversial Columbia River Treaty aid its fisheries. Scott David Harrison EDITOR B.C. Hydro is about to turn on the tap... again. A source with the provincial government contacted The News Thursday to say the Crown corporation will begin shipping even more_water to the United States. The person, who asked not to identified, said beginning Monday, B.C. Hydro will open the gates at the Hugh Keenleyside Dam to supply “thirsty Americans. “The Americans want the water,” the source said. “Their creeks and rivers are drying up,'they need it.” ‘’ The water is being released in compliance with the Columbia River Treaty. The deal, signed in 1964, came under fire in June when B.C. Hydro complied with an American request and began shipping water south. Those releases caused problems above and below the Hugh Keenleyside Dam. causeway. second. what we already saw, or even more.” Above the dam, local marinas complained the water drop wrecked their fishing seasons. Meanwhile, below the dam, high water levels caused damage to area properties, including Zuckerberg Island which lost the crown to its The source said more damage could be done with this release. The source said the release could equal as much as 100,000 cubic feet per “(The release) will be at least the equivalent to underdeveloped and too steep. “This does nothing but increase that problem.” Coun. Jim Chapman agreed, calling the rerouting proposal “asinine.” “Nobody has done any sort of study on this, they’re just doing it,” Chapman lamented. “That’s not right.” ‘ Chapman said the Transport Minister is shouldering Castlegar with an-unnecessary burden. He said the ministry has to explore a regional trucking plan, instead of using Castlegar as a quick-fix. “This is a regional problem which needs a_ regional solution,” Chapman said. - Pakula wouldn’t say whether council’s pitch -would be successful. Instead, he said “all you can do is hope.”