Oe ee a ee a + Castlegar COMMUNITY NEWS Nelson to host conference Get High on Nature slated for Oct. 18-20 Nelson school district is sponsoring the second Get High on Nature en- vironmental conference Oct. 18 to 20 in Nelson. Following last year’s outstanding success, the Nelson committee is building its program to surpass 1989, a news release says. The conference is under the direction of Bob Harrington, a former principal and recipient of the 1990 B.C. minister of the environment’s award for en- vironmental education. The speakers list assembled includes: Dr. Stephen Schneider, National Centre for At- mospheric Research; Dr. Joseph Commins, Plant Science Department, University of Western Ontario; Ray Travers, registered professional forester; Mat Waldner, Mohawk Oil Ltd.; Stephen. Lewis, former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations; member of Parliament Jim BIRTHS & DEATHS BIRTHS DUKART To Suson and Duane Dukort of Nelson, a boy, born June 25, ind Klaus rn June KOLLMAN To Stefania Kollman of Castlegar, a boy 21 JOHNSON To Loretta and Dorrell Johnson of Nelson, a boy, born June 24 MacEACHRAN To Kim and David MacEachran, a boy, born June 4 at Trail Regional Hospital MILLS — To Glenda and Michael! Mills of Slocan, a boy. born June 20 MITCHELL/MANSON — To Wendy Mit chell and Peter Manson of Nelson, a girl born June 21 PEREPOLKIN/MARKIN To Shirley Perepolkin and Fred Markin of South Slocan, a boy, born June 21 SMITH — To Glende and Allon Smith of Nelson, o girl, born June 21 STROM — To Coreen and Darrell Strom of Harrop, a boy, born June 18. SUUBAN/FOUNTAIN To Nancy Suuban and Steve Fountain of Nelson, a boy, born June 22 DEATHS KOFTINOW — Walter A. Koftinow of Ootischenia died June 20 at age 85. Mr Kottinow is survived by his wife Molly of Castlegar; two sons and doughters-in- law, Walter ond Mary of Castlegar, and Paul and Marie rt | Prince George daughter and son-in-law Nellie and Peter Gorkotf of Robson; daughter Katherine Kolmakolt of Castlegar: 18 9 : Fulton, member of the House of Commons standing committee on the environment; Elizabeth May, executive director of Cultural Survival of Canada; and Ethan Askey, a recent university graduate who is attempting to preserve the Tatshenshini wilder- ness in northwest B.C. P Workshops are organized for students, teachers, parents and the public. The program is expanded this year to include sessions particularly for primary and intermediate teachers and to provide more student net- working activities” organized and facilitated by students. There will be social activities, musical presentations and much more. 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Probability pa Precipitation is 20 per cent tonight, 40 per cent Thur: Friday and Saturday ernoon eday, 60 per cent High school hands out awards E f r AME) IF Seu. n k VK Castlez.._ ews ‘ Specialists try to clear up ‘rumors’ By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer Flight safety speciali could take over the work of air traffic controllers in the control tower at the Castlegar Transport Canada decides to ¢liminate the controllers, an FSS” planning committee Airport in the event spokesman said. Providing the service, a flight safety specialist or a traffic controller,’’ Charles Milner told reporters during a news conference Tuesday in Castlegar. FSS planning committee members, including President Jack Sasha, are in the area to ‘‘clear up some at the tower. misconceptions and rumors”’ about safety at the airport if the controllers are eliminated, Milner said. This week, Transport Canada reduced the hours controllers work The FSS representatives, members of the Canadian “The tower must be maintained, regardless of who is Associ of P Radio O; days. “‘Let me state quite emphatically that we will strongly Oppose any action or change in policy that will have an adverse effect on the level of safety that is being provided at this facility. Not only that, but we see no reason to reduce the hours of service being provided from the air- Port tower,”’ Milner said. based in Ot- tawa, said they will be speaking to various groups and municipal councils in the Kootenay area over the next few FSS officials have proposed to Transport Canada that their members can take over from air traffic con- trollers in Castlegar and other removal of controllers is a possil ‘anadian airports where ility but the flight safety specialists have received no reply so far from the federal government, FSS planning committee consultant Carl Denis said. FSS personnel, who have taken over from controllers lian centres before, are now in com- plete control of 72 airports in Canada, he noted. A Transport Canada public relations official contac- ted today in Vancouver was unfamiliar with the Proposal to i from the FSS organization and was unable to comment before the Castlegar News went to press. FSS personnel already control the Castlegar Airport for a number of hours each day, especially now that the controllers’ hours have been reduced, Denis pointed out. Flight specialists can provide all the same services traffic controllers can, including providing safety around in a number of Can: Denis said. The difference between air traffic controllers and flight safety specialists is Phraseology that is used,’’ Milner said. Traffic controllers use the word-‘‘control”’ while FSSa personnel use the phrase ‘‘safety advisories,”’ according “basically the technical at the news con- ference. Provided to ‘‘Air regulations state clearly that the ultimate con- with the pilot,’’ and between airports, as well as services controllers are said. not trained to do such as making weather observations and preparing comprehensive weather briefings for pilots, * trol and the responsibility for the safety of the aircraft lies the information says. “People say controllers are better than flight safety specialists because that deduction is made from theory but they don’t have the figures to back up that theory,”’ Denis The FSS organization has conducted studies com- please see SPECIALISTS page A2 Four Weer Conte K Castlegar picket captain Roberta Coatews photo by Clouderte Sondeck: Health Unit in Castlegar. members of the B.C. Nurses Union distribute informati: Handing out the leaflets are (from left) C Hamilton and public health nurses Cindy Talarico and C: ion leaflets today in front of the Central legar union steward Dorothy Salisbury, herine Joh Local nurses opt for leaflets, balloons over picket signs By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer Striking West Kootenay com- munity-care nurses handed out in- formational leaflets and carried blue and white balloons, the colors of the B.C. Nurses Union, while walking in front of the Castlegar and Trail public health units today. But the nurses did not set up the in- formation picket lines they had plan- ned because late Tuesday the union head office asked them to change their strategy, local union steward Dorothy Salisbury said this morning in front of the Central Kootenay Health Unit in Castlegar. The nurses’ union has an agreement with the B.C. Government Employees Union, whose members work in the health units, that BCGEU members will not have to cross nurses’ picket lines, even information picket lines, Salisbury explained. “The union has reasons for it (calling off the information picket),”’ she said. ‘‘They don’t want to offend anyone.” The nurses were going to set up the information picket because the In- dustrial Relations Council has ruled the union cannot conduct strike pickets at the Castlegar and Trail health units, Salisbury said. But union representatives who met feel they will be more effective if they Tuesday with West Koot: nurses said information pickets do not con- travene the IRCtuling, she explained. Meanwhile, nurses conducted a strike picket today in Nelson and will be back on the picket line Thursday and Friday, Salisbury said. A strike Picket will also be erected Thursday in Rossland and Friday in Grand Forks, she said. Nelson, Rossland and Grand Forks have not been ruled off-limits for strike action by the IRC Nurses from around the area will join the various rotating picket lines in each y rather than spread out over the region, Castlegar picket captain Roberta Hamilton said. There are about 60 community-care nurses in the region, Salisbury said. But the nurses said they do not want to be on strike and hope bargaining with the provincial gover- nment resumes soon. Union officials met Tuesday with a large number of nurses from the West Kootenay to explain what has been going on so far in the fight between the nurses and because there are few y-care nurses in the West Kootenay and they please see NURSES page A? MP ‘outraged’ over cancelled tower meeting By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer Kootenay West-Revelstoke MP Lyle Kristiansen says he is ‘‘outraged”’ Transport Canada officials cancelled tonight’s public meeting to discuss the reduction of operating hours at the Castlegar Airport control tower. The meeting was to be held at Castlegar city hall with Don Douglas, regional director of air navigation, John Glover, regional manager’ of navigational requirements, and Andy Vasarins, regional manager of air traffic services attending. ““I’m outraged that these people can inconvenience an entire region on be consulted before any changes were made at the airport. “In the interests of good com- munications and cooperation’’ bet- ween the city and Ottawa the ministry should not change the way it deals with Castlegar after stating con- sultation would take place, she said. “I deplore that way of inter- facing,"’ Moore said. Castlegar Ald. Lawrence Chernoff said the cancellation of the meeting is “awful.’” “They haven't been accountable to this point,”’ he said. ‘‘They haven't been accountable to anyone."’ Chernoff, chairman of council's ive services i said he such short notice,” Kri: said in a news release. “I’m mad as hell and so should everyone else be who planned to hear from them and question them regar- ding reduced control tower hours, safety and staffing.”” Kristiansen said he is also angry Transport Canada continues to use the word ‘‘consultation’’ regarding the cancelled meeting. “‘It hardly made sense to call it con- sultation on July 4 when the change (was) imposed on July 1,"’ the New Democrat MP said. ‘‘But it's downright doublespeak to offer to begin consultation in two more weeks, which is when they said they'll be ready to talk.’" Vasarins told Kristiansen last week that Ottawa will have completed its national review of all air traffic facilities within two weeks and con- sultation can be held at that time. Vasarins said he could not respond to Kristiansen’s demand to retain full daylight operations of the control tower in the meantime. Vasarins declined to comment on the cancellation of the meeting when contacted Tuesday by the Castlegar News. Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore said “‘it’s unfortunate the meeting is not taking place’’ particularly after the federal Ministry of Transpor- tation assured council the city would isn’t ready to give up fighting the reduction of the operating hours at the tower even though the decision has already been made. Council will decide what its next move will be at its July 17 meeting and will likely deal directly with the federal transport minister, he said. “I think it’s going to come down to the minister’’ who made the assurance in writing that consultation would take place before any changes were made, Chernoff said. “The way I look at it, I’m accoun- table to the people in Castlegar and the minister is accountable to the People of Canada,”’ he said Chernoff said he considers the reduction of operating hours at the tower a first step to closing the tower down altogether. Ken Wyilile, Area J director for the Regional District of Central Kootenay board, said the announcement of the. meeting’s cancellation ‘‘contradicts what was said to me in writing’ by the minister’s office when Wyllie’ wrote the ministry regarding the Possibility of closure of the tower last year. The cancelled meeting was impor- tant because the public should be, made aware of what effect any “‘downgrading’’ of service will have before such changes are made, Wyllie please see TOWER page A2 Celgar makes bid for pulpwood By CasNews Staff Ceigar Pulp Co. announced today it has filed an application with the Provincial government for a pulp- wood agreement covering an area of the Southern Interior which has traditionally supplied wood chips to the company’s pulp mill in Castlegar. The application, made in response to an invitation issued last December by the Ministry of Forests, does not form part of Ceigar’s proposal to ex- pand and modernize the mill, the company said i in a news release. for pulp agreements are subject to a separate public review process under the direc- tion of the minister of forests while the expansion proposal will be reviewed by an independent three- member pane! appointed last week by the provincial and federal governmen- ts. Celgar general manager Jim Browne said the company has no plans to actually harvest its own wood and will continue to depend ex- clusively on a network of independent sawmill operators in the region to maintain the mill's supply of chips. “*We put our faith in the indepen- dent sawmillers four years ago and they’ ve proved just how efficient and reliable they can be,"’ Browne said. “Today, Ceigar is the only pulp mill in British Columbia that obtains its wood supplies entirely on the open market."” However, Browne said Celgar — the area’s single largest user of waste wood chips — has applied for the Pulpwood agreement as an ‘‘insuran- ce policy’’ to guarantee the chips will be available to meet the company’s demand if the expansion goes ahead. The $630 million expansion plans for a doubling of Celgar’s pulp produc- tion. “A pulpwood agreement would be activated only in the event that chips and roundwood could not be secured through the region’s independent sawmillers,"’ Browne said. He said projections indicate that, under normal circumstances, there is more than adequate residual wood available within an economic distance of the mill to supply Celgar’s present and future requirements. Celgar officials, in interviews earlier this year, said there are curren- tly enough excess wood chips in the please see CRLOAR page A2 Contract talks progressing By CasNews Staff The United Steelworkers of America should know by the end of the week whether they will have an agreement on a new contract with Cominco or whether they will strike, USWA Local 480 chief negotiator Ron Schmidt said. “The talks are progressive and Positive,’’ Schmidt said. The i are. sides have not resumed discussions on monetary issues since returning to bi ‘ining after the union took a strike vote last week. Union members voted 96 per cent in favor of strike action after the USWA broke off talks over the first wage and benefit offer the company made. The union joint ini said the of- fer was making headway on in, issues involving contract language, shift workers and the Sullivan mine in Kimberley, he said. However, Schmidt said the two Talks-carried on through the Canada Day holiday weekend The Steelworkers’ contract ex- pired Saturday night pleese see CONTRACT page A2