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Vol, 32, No. 40

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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, OCTOBER 3, 1979

3 Sections (A, B&C)

Possible radiation hazard cited here

To stop silt
in watershed

” Local B.C. forest service personnel were expected to
start work this week on a-gravel road which has reportedly
caused silt deposits ince June 10 Pass Creek area residents’

water supply.

David Dobie, secretary of the Stonetree Living
told h

the C:

News W e had

Cr

been notified by the forest'service that a culvert will be
installed under the road to protect Atherton Creek, a
tributary of Pass Creek running beneath it, from the deposits
which resulted from the upgrading of the road three months

ago.

Dobie, who with other
co-op members complained in
a Sept. 17 letter to Forests
Minister Tom Waterland
about the silt, sald the forest
service agreed to install the
culvert “partly because the
water rights branch demand-
ed it.”

The co-op secretary said
the installation of the culvert

has been the only one of the

four concessions demanded of
Waterland in the Sept. 17
letter to be granted so far.
He said the co-op mem-
bers had not yet received the
assurance that they be reim-
bursed for any expenses
incurred as a result of
moving the point of diversion
on the creek, that they be
compensated for “the incon-
venience of having to’ Haul
water over the summer" and
that the forest service will
“behave in accordance with
the: Water Act on both our
property pal in the whole of

*: this, distri oat
% valthous rh :the, culvert. i is.
+ expected to eliminate the silt

service reshaped the road
without first consulting the
water rights branch or co-op
members,

“All of the excess dirt
was pushed into our creek,”
the letter said. “Since that
time we have hada great
deal of silt in our water at the
best of times, but when it
rains we have had mud...

coming through our water.

line.”

The letter requested the
minister's assistance because
after three months of dis-
cussions with forest service
and water rights staff “we
are convinced that we will
not get satisfaction from local
officials.”

Province ot — MEtIVOL py
ime Ao
Britsh Cotambia oe Catamive:Betuneinusy

City of Castlegar
Water Supply
System

en eau
domntly funded under the

Industral Development
Sunsidiosy Agreement

Ville de Castlegar “
Réseau
di approvisionnement »

Fmanee conjasniement an verte
do VEntenie ausiiairn
Gevetoppement induste

Government
of Canada

MARKING. CONSTRUCTION of Castle-
gar's new Arrow Lakes water system are
city works ‘superintendent Alex Lutz,
Mayor Audrey Moore and city ad-
. ministrator Bill Krug at the foot of an of-

ficial federal-provinclal Sovernment sign .
Under

erected last. week.

Ragionol
Economie
Expanwon

required fo:

thelr

Gourérmament
dy Canaan

ogreement | financing the $6 imillion
project; the two senior governments will
jointly provide, $4.5 million of the funds
r the system. (See page 81 for
story on progress of construction.)

sNews /Mirrorf oto by Lois Hughes

CKRHD chairman critical of $30,000
health facilities report first draft

The first draft of a

problem,+’ Dobie said, the ~ #08.

co-op ‘still Total to relocate

s ly

toward his he said. “We've
applied fora new point of
‘diversion from water rights
: and we're’ already preparing

a line to bury.”

He said the relocation is
part of an entire new system
planned ‘for the Stonetree

co-op.

“I don’t feel there's any
way a gravel road can be
guaranteed not to silt,” he
said.

According to the letter
tothe forests minister, forest

th
instructed to provide, ‘accord-

ing. to. the chairman of ‘the
regional hospital district.
Castlegar’s mayor Aud-

rey Moore, who also tep-*
resents the city. on the-

CKRHD board, this: week

said she felt. the yet-to-be-.

publicized results of the
study conducted by the man-

‘agement consulting firm

‘Wood, Gordon did not satisfy
the terms of reference ori-
ginally approved by hospital
district directors.

“What we asked for
under the terms of reference
was sort of a blueprint of,
development for the hospi-

tals presently’ owned and

Wo We wanted a blueprint
‘for, at least 20 years and we
didn’t get it in that draft
Zeport.”

Instead, she said, the
CKRHD board received only
“an inventory” ‘of services
presently offered : by. the
various hospitals in the re-
gion.

Moore's comments ech-
ced her statements at a
CKRDH board meeting Sat-
-urday. that she found the

- report, “wanting in. some
areas.” She reminded hospi-

tal district directors they had,

until Tuesday to submit their

comments ‘on. the first draft
to

also ‘point
the, report was Le in: first- *

draft form and the consulting
firm would not be paid the
$80,000. for the study until
completion of the final draft.

comment that the report con-
tained: inaccuracies on’ his
area, the CKRHD chairman
noted that Ken Talarico,
Castlegar, and District Hos-

> pital administrator, was -lo-
cated in Creston according to.

the report.

Ald, Heather Hallett,

city council's health and wel- -
-fare committee chairman and

U.S. transportation authorities still
await report on Cooper aircraft crash

Work on a radio trans-
cript is the apparent cause of
delay of a Canadian transport
ministry repgrt needed by
‘US. transportation author-

A U.S. National Trans-
portation Safety Board in-
vestigator Monday told the
Castlegar News 89-year-old

private pilot David Cooper"

d Abbot-

ities it the Aug.
26 airplane crash which killed
a Castlegar family.

sford Airport by radio for a
weather briefing before the

crash near Bellingham,
Wash., which killed him, his
wife Marilyn, 38, and chil-
dren Sharon, 16, Bradley, 15,
and Derek, 8.

“I'm pretty sure they're
waiting for that conversation
to be transcribed,” Paul Har-

By GEORGE GAMMON
CASNEWS STAFF WRITER®

The top administra-
tive post at Selkirk College
has changed hands for the
second time in three
months.

The college board ap-
proved at its Sept, 25
meeting the appointment
of program services dean
Walter Uegama to replace
Grant Fisher, whose ten-
ure in the position had
expired.

‘ "The board also ap-
proved the creation of a
new position, director ot
the Castlegar campus, to

be filled by John Peregrym
as soon as he is replaced in
his current role as director
of David Thompson Uni-
,versity Centre in Nelson.

Uegama was unavail-
able this week for com-
ment on his appointment
as acting principal.

Uegama gets nod as new
acting principal of college

WALTER UEGAMA.

..- replaces Fisher

Contacted Wednesday
by the Castlegar News,
Fisher, who was appointed
acting principal in June
after the resignation of
Mitch Anderson from the
position, said he is leaving
to resume work with dep-
uty education minister.

Ina staff memo, Fisb-
er said he will continue to
assist Selkirk on a part-
time basis dealing with
policy development and
organizational changes and
to continue to work with a
number of committees and
reports in which he had
been involved.

Commenting on the
newly-created position of
Castlegar campus director,
he said the job is “not
entirely new as it is an
extension of the dean of
services position.” Uegama
will retain responsibility
for the position until it can
be filled by. Peregrym, he
said.

Following his appoint-
ment in June, Fisher had.
said that it was unlikely
that the principal's position
would be filled at that time
due to the complexities

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rison said from the U.S.
agency's Seattle field office.
“Obviously this is quite im-
portant, so what we want to
know is what they said. It
isn’t just knowing what they
said — we need a transcript.”

The: transport ministry
apparently'plans to deliver it
along with information on the
pilot’s experience and com-
petence and on his Lance II
PAS2 single-engine aircraft
which hit 4,100-foot-high
Black Mountain in the Silver

Lake area, Harrison said. °

“A transcript takes a
little time and I believe that's
what the holdup is,” he ex-
plained. “But I believe when I
get it I can wrap the whole
thing up.”

+ The NTSB investigator
told the Castlegar News last:
month the -on-site investi-
gation of the crash “ab-
solved” the aircraft, which
apparently hit trees and the
mountain slope in level flight
at “what I would call a very
high cruising speed.”

A spokesman for the
Whatcom County sheriff's
department reported the air-
craft left Vancouver at 6:28
p.m. Aug. 26. No flight plan
was filed.

A report was made
shortly after to' the sheriff's
office of a possible aircraft
down on 4,100-foot-high
Black Mountain and a search
party was in the area within
80 minutes, but fog and

More on page

Canteen representative on.
“Union

Castlegar has joined the list of B.C. communities ideritified in the

royal commission inquiry into uranium mining as having possibly har-

mful radiation levels.

measured in Burnaby.
ing the royal

off when uranium decays.
Greene said people liv-
ing in houses which contain
those levels of radiation are
ata greater risk than people
in Burnaby but the “risk is
very small.”
He said his department
is monitoring radiation in the
Castlegar area to see what
possible effects this radiation

ee Attempts by the Castle-
gar News to contact Greene
at his Vancouver office this
week were unsuccessful.”
Another area, Radium
Hot Springs, was also identi-

fied last Thursday as having
possibly harmful radiation
levels.

Evidence introduced
earlier last week showed
water supplies in Atlin and
parts of-the Okanagan con-
tain higher than safe levels of
uranium,

Greene said water from
Radium Hot Springs contains
as much as 100,000 picocuries
per litre of radon, He said a
study should be conducted on
people who work around the
hot springs.

Greene said visitors to

Dr. Wayne Greene, head of the provincial health ministry's
radiation protection service, last Thursday told the three-member
commission headed by Dr. David Bates basements in Castlegar houses
contain more than three times as much gamma radiation as houses.

in Greene said the radiation comes from
‘uranium-bearing soil on which the houses are built and also from radon — a gas which is given

the hot springs shouldn't
worry because radon fs inert
and readily passes through
the body.

But he said its residue
elements, those formed when
radon decays, are harmful
and could cause health prob-
lems.

Dr, ‘Lloyd Skarsgard,
head of the biophysies unit of
the B.C. Cancer Research
Unit, told the commission
that scientists now assume
that there's no threshold
level of radiation below

More on page A2

March, 1980 release date set
for Murphy Creek dam report

B.C. Hydro officials plan
to release an interim report
on the proposed Murphy
Creek dam in ‘March, 1980,
city council was told last.
week.

Reporting on a Sept. 20
discussion between represen-
tatives of the Crown cor-
poration and the city ‘on the

ies
omifsions" in‘the r report.
on ‘the

“osed for a site
i metres: ‘downstream '¢ on the: 1
Columbia River from Castle-

roject — prop-
about 23 :kilo-

gar —'Mayor ‘Audrey Moore

region 's hospital

d the pe Officials
d the: to

the study “glossed over per-

ipheral health care,” Hallett

said, and failed to deal with

~ such problems as the need for

mental health care and treat-
ment of alcoholism in the
Castlegar area.

“It didn't go into, the

health units very extensive- -

ly, it didn’t go into anything,”
she said. “It was sort of an
overview.”

“I was listed as a re-
source person in that report
and I'm ashamed of it,”
Hallett said. “Even when I
did talk to (the consultant) I
gave him more information
than was in the report about.
our area.”

Although noting the re-
port was only in first draft
form, Hallett said she had “a

More on page A2

release the Tenet at a public
hearing here. +

Moore said the officials
reported that engineering
feasibility studies were un-
derway and environmental
impact studies are expected

* topatart next year.

The corporation's:
spokesmen said the final deci-
sion of the’B.C. Hydro board
of ‘directors on whether to
procéed with’ the ‘project is

din 1982 in the event,

would bein service by 1988,
she said.

The mayor said concerns
expressed by council, mem-

bers at the meeting included
the impact of the proposed
dam on the individual prop-
erty owners in the city, the
city tax base, city instal-
lations and local industry.

* Council members also
requested copies of updated
area: maps, nearing com-
pletion by B.C. Hydro, which
will indicate, the projected

‘effect of. three different. dam... ..

water levels under consider-

‘ation — 1,990 feet. (424
metres), 1,402 feet (427 me-
tres) and 1,410 feet (430 me-
tres) — on properties in the
city, she said.

Directors withdraw support

Central Kootenay direc-
tors have. withdrawn their
endorsement of a provincial
agency's call for log trans-
portation on the Lower Ar-
row Lake until logging com-
panies in the area are con-
sulted on the new policy.

Told by Area I director

. John Moran that the firms

operating in the area had not
been consulted on use of the
lake as an alternative to
hauling logs along Deer Park

Road, members of the re-
gional district board rescind-
ed their Sept. 15 motion
endorsing the environment
and land use committee pol-
icy “pending consultation
with the forestry and the
logging .companies concern-
ed.”

Explaining his motion,
Moran said the use of the
Lower Arrow as the major
means of log transportation

19 Freedomites to stand trial
Feb. 13 on charges of arson

Feb. 18 is the date set
for the trial of 19 Sons of
Freedom sect members
charged with setting fire to
CPR property at South Slo-
can Sunday.

Appearing in Nelson
provincial court Tuesday,
each facing one count of
arson stemming from the in-
cident were Alex Chernoff,
Harvy Chernoff, Lori Evdoki-
moff, Florence Konkin, Nick
Lebedoff, Tina F

Helen Planidin, Nastia Pos-
tnikoff, Larry Poznikoff, Sam
Shlakoff, Katie Slastukin and
a juvenile.

RCMP Arrested the
Freedomites about 10 a.m.
Sunday when a CPR shed
measuring three meters by
three meters, a railway
speedcar and railway ties
were burning.

Local residents ran to
the scene, where fire was

rf tuto”: bushi

vvhd gs

for policy on log transport

in the area “would have quite
a bearing on the area.”

“We don't know what
added cost this is going to put
on (the companies’) trans-
portation,” he told the board.

The companies’ views on
the ELUC policy should be
forwarded to the RDCK
board as well as the forest
ministry, the Area I director
said.

“As they are not at the
moment using the lake but
are transporting their logs
over the road it would seem
that some kind of consul-
tation with the companies
should have taken place
before this decision had been
‘made in the planning,” said
pike J director Martin Van-

pol, who moat

nearby as the F
sang, several of them stand-

ed.

Eight citizens using gar-
den hoses fought the, blaze
until they were joined by a
CPR tank car and a forest
service pumper truck, which
together soon controlled the
flames.

While the firefight was
on, heavy smoke billowed
into the sky as the 19 Sons of

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e the ELUC's Lower Arrow
land use study.

“We should give these
people an opportunity to give
their input: and make sure
they are treated fairly and
we don't jeopardize a number
of jobs in the area.”

RDCK directors passed
their Sept. 15 motion to en-
dorse the use of the Lower
Arrow for log transportation

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RUBBISH:

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Ann Landers

Castlegar's fall ieee
up program is official-

SMBBA Stony

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Ending conflicts in re-
lationships by chang-
ing or reshaping phys-

good chance of frost.

WEEKEND WEATHERCAST

CLOUDY Thursday morning,
clearing during the day. The

night lows neue 3°. There is a

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