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No. 7683 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER Residents to discuss watershed | By SIMON BIRCH Editor Residents who get their drinking water from the Robson-Raspberry watershed are getting ready to step up their fight to protect the “environment of the rshed. : Astrid Austin of Robson told the Castlegar News that an as-yet-unnamed group of concerned citizens will hold ar informational meeting Monday at Resker Hall in Robson for interested in preserving potable water in the Robson, Raspberry and Pass Creek areas The public meeting will begin at 7 p.m Austin listed a number of threats tothe environ ment of the watershed including old car wrecks leaking oil and transmission fluid into the creek, as well: as cattle roamidg next to the creek, using it as a source of and defecating.into the ‘anyone drinking wafer and urinating creek see letter, page A5 1— But it is logging at the source of Ladybird Creek, a of Norns Creek, which Austin said has decvimated"’ the. watershed . : The current licensee, ATCO Lumber of Fruitvale has tontracted with the Ministry of Forests to log the area which is suffering from an infestation of spruce bark beetles Hans tributary Louwe ATCO Lumber’s woodlands manager, said Saturday the complaints are a ‘‘red Gordie Hill was hard at work this Rail station piecing together a ca to the Castlegar and District Her Margoret Trussler Trussler's grandfather However, its not is about Hill said the model known what week at the CP thedral donated itage Sociefy by made by 100 -years old exactly, the together model represents. Speculation is the cathedral is a model of a Mexican or South American church of some kind because. it likenesses of sun gods.|Once Hill has the model it will be on display at the station features various Local businessmen take over pub’s taps By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer The bar at the Sandman Inn has been leased ‘by the pair of local businessmen Lee Boyer and George signed a deal Friday to lease fram the hotel for a period with a 10-year available in two five-year hotel chain to a Southwell Dex ter's bar three-year option terms “We're supposed to be taking over Monday,"” Boyer told the Castlegar News. ‘‘It's not a bad deal for us.”’ Boyer, who used to bé part owner in the Hi Arrow Arms hotel and most recently Checkers Pub, said he will maintain a 55-per-cent controlling in terest in the lease with Southwell holding the remaining 4S per cent regional who negotiated rand Southwell first time the hotel chain has negotiated a like. this. The 22-hotel chain is part of Northland Properties Ltd.,.owned-and operated by the Gaglardi brothers ‘It is a rather exclusive thing. We Rennic selves doing this this tinne:** Boyer said he hasn't planned any immediate changes to thebar. —. “We'll play it by ear and see what Boyer said. ‘‘I want to Sandman Inn director Graham Rennie the deal with Bove said this is the western Canadian leasd type of approached on it." “We wouldn't see else were said anywhere happens Angry workers to get bonuses By CasNews Staff The 320-Comineo-employees who were incensed at not -receiving a $1,000 bonus announced last week which all Cominco full-time employ will receive—are eyeing their savings accounts~followifif".the—an nouncements they will receive the bonus from their new-employer The 320 employees who missed out now on the Cominco bénus were those employees transferred to the Johnson Matthey United Kingdom when the hased Cominco’s electronic mat month for $40 deat-is-stitt Johnson Friday firm Electronics of the company pure erials division last mittion—fhe-ink-on-the drying as Matthey finalized the sale Cominco and continued on page A2 know what the people want Boyer sa "50s and ‘60s music but he isn’t sure Asked if the because it 1 the pub’s music may be andman-owned bar was leased was money, Rennie been profitable in the past and the agreement we reached was based on revenues in the past.” He disclose the financial terms of the agreement continued on page A2 Makonin guilty William Makonin of Glade found guilty Friday of criminal negli gence causing death, criminal negli gence causing bodily harm and oper ating a vehicle with a blood alcoho! level over .08 County court said the evidence was in the wrong lane Judge Ray showed Makonin yehitle Honda driven by Nettie Poshachoff ir May 1987. Poohachoff result of the accident band Nick Was injured in the crash Makonin will be sentenced Feb. 1 in Nelson. He faces a sentence of life imprisonment died as and her hus maximum replied: “No. It’s would not was Cooper when his ‘ollided head-on with a 1981 nd blamed problems with water quality on the area’s “‘antiquated"’ water system and factors other than logging . They're having problems with their water system trying to blarhe it on someone,"’ Louwe said. “The system is antiquated. Someone can try to point the finger at logging, that it has degraded their water system, but the fact remains it's probably a red herring® and they're herring."’ he said Louwe said ATCO took a group of representatives from the Robson‘Raspberry Improvement District to the logging site on Dec. 26 They had_no complaints whatsoever,‘’ Louwe said ~ Gus Young. ATCO's fogging superintendent. said the company is trying its best to avoid damaging the environment in the watershed We're doing all we can to minimife the damage said Young, who offered to take a representative of the Castlegar News on a tour of the logging site Ted Evans, district planner for the B.C Ministry's Arrow District, Friday the Forests Forest said losing Aug Aug. 17 Our 30.85: per cent By CasNews Staff The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission wants to discuss CKQR's ‘‘apparent failure’’ to comply with regulations requiring the Castlegar radio station _The to broadcast 30 per cent Canadian records CRTC matter with content But CKQR general manager Gor- renewal Feb don Brady says it's all a “‘thisunder The standing pling i) The fact playing —eriough but they (the CRTC) screwed up.’ n Brady said. “I've already clarified that.’ Brady said a CRTC n CKOQR's tapes for Feb Canadian content of 27.8 per cent Another check on Aug. 14 showed played 44.2 per cent Brady said CRTC later tapes from have (been content) is that we Canadian determined. The signed a letter nates music dian, “A artist.: °P production and check of 24 showed lyrics of a Canadian To be the station 3 Canadian content said the want the n However, he tent said it didn't 14 and asked, for tapes from showed that Brady said (the CRTC) claim it's 29.9 per cent wants to CKOR at —e hearing on the 20 in Vancouver problem with the Brady explained system by which € so-called system lists four categories where ““M composed by a indicates a stands for a song considered a record must have two of the four MAPL designations ministry is aware of the problems in the watershed “The problems in the area have been recognized and we have tried to take some steps (to correct the problems),'’ Evans told the Castlegar News. “Whéther some individuals feel they've been steps, I guess: that's up to them. But nonetheless we are taking some steps to try to address these particular problems."* Evans said past logging in the watershed has led to erosion and sediment in the creeks. He ‘said the ministry and ATCO met and outlined each other's responsibil adequate ities Evans said the ministry is interested in correcting some of the older problems in the area and will look at the problems again in more detail this summer in an attempt to come up with a rehabilitation plan for the watershed He said a hydrologists's report produced last fall identified some problem areas and recommended what the ministry should be doing to minimize or rectify the problems. Unfortunately, he said, the report came too late to take steps to correct the problems before this winter's snowfalls But our intention is to go through-a rehabilitation plan for those particular areas that come under our jurisdiction,"’ Evans said. ‘"We've budgeted for it and hopefully those monies will be approved.” Evans said the reason for the current harvesting in the area is ‘an infestation of spruce bark beetles. He said most of the timber in the area is older spruce some1$0-to-250 years old and-is susceptible to the beetle which prefers “‘dead and down’ timber Pete Berukoff, a forest technician for the Arrow Forest District, said he has been inspecting the logging site weekly and {a only minor problems with ATCO's practices. He said the company’s contract calls for it to stay at least 20 metres away from the streams with its equipment “In some of the areas they-kind of fringed upon it a little bit,” Berukoff said of the limitations The contract also calls for the company to keep its skid-trail cuts down to a maximum of two feet, Berukoff saict adding” that-A TCO” has” Sometimes exceeded The limitation “‘a little Just what I Berukoff said He faid_ the complete surprise consider to be minor problems residents’ concerns come as If there are problems, we want to hear about them CRTC says QR lacks Canuck music The narrow miss of the 30-per-cent mark on Aug. 17 hinges on” one record which Brady says is Canadian content but which the CRTC dis allowed we're “They discuss the The disputed record. Sometimes public_ When We Touch by Mark Gray and station’s licence Tammy Wynette, shows an M and L designation on the label Rheaume, the CRTC’s director of operations, says in a letter to, Brady that the CRTC’s commission latest sam But Diane involves the sources" that al anadian content is MAPL each as desig informed the though Dan Hill, a Canadian Don Mann, an American wrote the disqualifying the record from the M designation We. in good faith, ran Canadian shown on the record “Using Canadian well wrote the lyrics Cana music Canadian Canadian L"' indicates the a_label content over our 30-per-cent content require= ment under the act.’ content) as are written by Brady said as we show it, we're Canadian con continued on page A2