8¢ CastlegarNews Mays, 1991 26. LOST REWARD! Him collar and rabies tag, Valley ~ Pass Creek 7707 SET OF KEYS on Montreal Canadien key chain. Lost Thur sday night at Twin Rivers School during soccer. Finder ple. phone 365-6332 tin/36 34. LEGALS 27, FOUND Minuatty of Forests, Neleon Region my 516 Lake Street Nelson, 8. viLace subdivision, near Playmor junction. 359-7121 3/37 HIMALAYAN Cat, Gr Goose Creek. Not the in Lost ad. 359-7707 cx... ==" NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS notice, sealed 28. NOTICES KOOTENAY LAKE SUMMER SCHOOL of the ARTS. For infor- mation on our program of courses being offered in July please phone 352-2402 or visit our office at 568 Ward Street. Or write, KLSSA Box 5Q5, Nelson, B.C. V1L 5R3. 3/37 BURT CAMPBELL RETIREMENT ‘PARTY SATURDAY, MAY 18 Fireside Banquet Room Happy Hour 6 p.m Dinner 7 p.m Dance to Follow Cost $15.00/per person Includes dinner and dence Tickets may be purchased at Castlegar News LIMITED NUMBER AVAILABLE 30. ANNOUNCEMENTS GRIEF support meeting for May will be on the 2nd Monday of the month — May 13 tin/35 33. IN MEMORIAM GANADIAN CANCER SOCITY. In Box 3292 Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H6, 365-5167 104/25 @ANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION in Memoriam Bonation, Box 1228, Ros ind, B.C. VOG 1Y0. 104/80 34, LEGALS RESIDUE SURVEYOR CERTIFICATION COURSE The Ministry of Forests witt be holding @ two-day Residue Surveyor Cer tification Course in Nelson on May 28th and 29th for those poeple in. terested in obtaining their temporary certification which will expire on December 31, 1991. Applicants Must have experience in scaling and/or cruising to be eligible to take this course ince ot Munsstry of hn Columbia Forests Those people interested in taking this course should contact Bruce Markstrom at 354-6649. Due to limited seating not all eligible ap. plicants may be able to attend the course The one-week long permanent cer tification courses will begin in the fall and will be handled through Selkirk College and East Kootenay Com munity College R.R. TOZER Regional Manager Ministry of Forests 518 Lake Street Neison, British Columbia VIL 4c6 ~~ OUR AC PHONE NUMBER _1S 365-2212 Arrow District South RC91NO5-001 Maintenance period June 14, 1991 to September 18, 1991. Tenders close at 11:00 @.mttocat time)-on the 30th day of May 1991 Arrow District North RC91NO06-002 Maintenance period June 14, 1991 to September 18, 1991. Tenders close at 1:00 p.m. (local time) on the 30th day of May 199%. Particulars may be obtained from the District Manager, Arrow Forest District, B45 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 1H3 or at the Ministry of Forests, 101-6th Avenue, Nakusp, B.C. VOG 1RO The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be ac. cepted. “QUALITY” is what we offer. 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PHONE: 365-6734 815 Hwy. 22 (Next to Ernies Towing) ROOFING * Guaranteed Work © Fair Prices © 40 Yeors in Business ° Free Estimates JAMES SWANSON AND SONS t Ph. 367-7680 COLEMAN COUNTRY BOY SERVICE Sump & Septic Tank Pumping Phone 365-5013 3400-4th Avenue tlegor VERTICALS PLEATED SHADES. HORIZONTALS LT SATURDAY, May 11, 1901 Vol. 44, No, 38 Castlegar, B.C. 2 Sections (A & B) > 75 Cents Red Cross out for blood eee A5 Castlég... .___ . —- Drought continues -- + B2 | More locals lose jobs in lumber industry By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer Slocan Forest Products Ltd. is following suit with other mills throughout the province and laying off mill employees until timber in- ventories are revived. Mill manager Steve Pelton said Thursday that 14 People will be laid off Monday. “Due to an imbalance of log in- ventory, we find it necessary to shut the band mill (large log line) si down for approximately 51 days,’’ Pelton said. ‘‘We'll run the cantor line (small log line) with the inten- tion of getting the mill back on both sides when log deliveries will allow.” He said ‘some planer personnel” will be laid off as inventories decrease further. SFP currently em- ployees 134 people in the offices and plant, and during ‘‘normal economic times,”’ 180 people. Westar Timber Ltd. in Castlegar laid off 150 mill employees Monday, also citing inventory shortages. A study of the lumber industry in B.C. showed losses of $281 million in 1990, on lumber sales worth $4.3 billion. “These are very difficult times for not only Slocan’s mill but for everybody in the solid wood side,” Terry Upgaard, vice-president of marketing, said Thursday from SFP’ head office in Richmond. Upgaard said there are four fac- tors working against the industry: © Stumpage rates. This is the charge levied by the -provincial government on harvested timber. Because they are set at a fixed rate, they do not reflect the sale price of lumber, one of the finished Products of harvested timber, Upgaard said, “The price we pay for timber is going up but the demand for lumber has dropped,”’ he said, resulting in lower sale prices and less Profit going back into the industry. The Interior Lumber Manufac- turers’ Association says stumpage rates are the industry’s worst problem and could force some mills to close permanently. “This ii itivity of munities as companies are forced to further curtail operations or, in some cases, close their doors permanen- tly.”* * Economy. The decreased demand for lumber is directly related to “‘the terrible economic conditions around the world,”” Upgaard said. * Reforestation. Foréstry com- panies are now solely responsible for Picking up the costs of reforestation and silviculture in_ their harvested areas, whereas the government used to give the companies credit off the charges to market conditions must be addressed now,’’ president John Marritt said in a news release. ‘If this isn’t done, the inevitable con- sequences will be directly felt by forest industry dependent com- rates towards those costs, Upgaard said. * Canadian dollar. The lumber industry sells ‘‘a lot’? in the U.S. market but the companies can’t recover anything on the exchange rates, he said. Upgaard compared today’s Canadian dollar, worth about 86 cents U.S., to the value of the Canadian dollar in 1986 when it was worth about 75 cents. “If we sell in U.S. dollars we're getting 11 cents less for our lumber than we did in 1986,” he said. ‘‘So what is great for somebody going to Spokane to shop is exactly the op- posite for us."’ Out of all these factors, stumpage rates is the only one that has some flexibility, he said. “But the provincial government claims its hands are tied because of an agreement made with the U.S. to avoid tariffs on Canadian lumber,’”’ he said. Pelton agreed. In 1987, ari agreement was struck wth the U.S. to change the 15 per cent duty charged on shipments of Canadian lumber into the U.S. market, 15 per cent of the sale price, to a fixed stumpage rate, Pelton said. “It was supposed to even us out and make us comparable’ to the U.S.,” he said. “But it’s not sale- Price sensitive.” Both Pelton and Upgaard said the agreement, called the Softwood Lumber Memorandum of Under- Standing "between Canada and the United States, has to be changed. “Someone's got to take some strong political action in this country to untie their hands,’’ Upgaard said. Students’ skills on the market By CasNews Staff The Student Employment Centre in Trail has registered 103 students since opening earlier this week, placement officer Natalie Stupnikoff said. The purpose of the centre is to match students looking for summer work with employers who need tem- Porary jobs filled. “We also have students to do casual work for homeowners,” Stupnikoff said. ‘Painting, hauling boxes, yard work . . . we have tons of students who are eager to do that kind of work.’* Stupnikoff, a student herself at Selkirk college, plans to visit the high schools in Castlegar, Rossland and Trail to let students know what the centre has to offer. She said she hopes to be at Stanley Humphries secondary school next week. Stupnikoff has already been busy contacting businesses in the Trail area to let them know summer Students are available for hire, and will be doing more promotional work during Hire-A-Student week June 3 to 9, she said. College and university students are available for work now and high school students will be available at the end of June. Last year, about 350 of the $00 students registered with the centre in Trail were placed in jobs, she said. The centre, located at the Em- ployment and Immigration Canada centre, will remain open until Aug. 1S. Meanwhile, Statistics Canada has released unemployment rates for the Castlegar and Trail economic regions. It has also introduced a new method of reporting the rates. The rates now. provided by Statistics Canada are based on the average rate of unemployment over the most recent three months, called @ moving average, rather than Providing rates on the most recent month alone. Statistics Canada says this new method of determining unemployment rates is to compensate for sampling val lity. A spokesman for Statistics Canada said a moving average system will be more ac- curate. Under the new system, Castlegar’s unemployment rate was 16 per cent, compared to 16.7 per cent for the month of March, Statistics Canada said Friday. Trail’s rate was 15.2 per cent, the same as it was for the month of March. " iW, About 6,000 people were out of work in Castlegar's economic region over the past three months out of a total labor force of about 36,000, Statistics Canada said. In Trail’s economic region, about 19,000 people were unemployed out please see STUDENT pege AZ THE BARE FACTS RCMP Const. Phil Noonan and the ever-popular Safe’ Primary school Thursday to talk with the kids on si from not talking to strangers to the dangers of drugs. ty Bear made a visit to Castlegar atety issues. Topics included everything CosNews photo by Ed Mills School board wants its piece of $650M pie By CasNews Staff and Wire Service The Castlegar school board is “‘optimistic,’’ that it will get a Piece of the $650 million the B.C. gover- nment has allocated for school con- Struétion programs. “We're going to be optimistic, that our monies, the monies we've been waiting for, that those dollars will be included in that $650 million,”’ said Castlegar school board assistant superintendent Lach Farrell. Specifically, Farrell said, the board would like about $6 million to com- Plete renovations on Stanley Hum- Phries secondary school. Education Minister Stan Hagen announced the program from Van- couver Thursday, but details on who will get the money and how much they'll get won't be available for a few weeks, said a Ministry of Education news release. Hagen said the money will go to Projects such as new school construc- tion, renovations and earthquake Safety upgrading, equipment for ‘Special needs students and purchase Of school buses. He said one of the key aims of the funding this year will to replace por- table classrooms and help meet @emands created by unprecedented emrolment growth in many areas of the province. san deeennemenaaeneee ee “This is a major investment in our communities and their future,’’ Hagen said in the release. But the president of the B.C. School Trustees Association says the Program is just Hagen’s way of gaining political points at the expense of school children. Donna Jones says the program sounds like a Social Credit re- election bid. The amount is nearly as much as the provincial government has spent for building projects in the past three years, she said. “I'm not sure it has as much to do with need as it has to do with ical need,” she said. “It would have been more helpful for schools if we'd had the funding as it was required rather than as a lump sum at the end of a number of years. But I guess late is better than never.’” A provincial election must be held this year. Jones “said she is pleased more schools will be built, but the gover- mment must come up with more operating money. This year's total education spen. ding was three per cent higher than last year but inflation was 5.5 per cent, she said. B.C. schools should have received 2% per cent more than the $2.9 billion they got, Jones said Deputy education minister Wayne Desharnais said school building Projects were announced earlier than usual this year to give contractors a quicker jump on the building season in the B.C. Interior “You've got to get going on the Projects so you can get them up before winter,"* he said. Causeway repair hits a snag By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer The problem. of access to Zucker- berg Island may be solved once and for all provided the solution doesn’t get lost in bureaucratic red tape. Argo Industries Ltd., the ex- cavation contractor working on Celgar Pulp Company's expansion and modernization project, has volunteered labor, supplies and equipment to reconstruct the causeway to a level higher than previous high-water levels The causeway is the only access to the heritage site for emergency vehicles. It has been damaged by high water, patched and repatched, Several times over the past six years. Argo’s offer is intended to provide a permanent tauseway However, at a city council com- mittee of the whole meeting earlier this week, acting mayor Marilyn Mathieson told members of a Castlegar and District Heritage Society delegation that permits to carry out the reconstruction must fir- st be issued by the provincial Ministry of Environment and Tran- sport Canada coastguard — despite concerns that Argo’s offer wouldn’t withstand bureaucratic delays. “‘1_know (Argo) quite well,’” said society member John Coyle. “In Wells, B.C. they were going to do a similar project. The federal gover- nment got involved to do all the studies, all the little niceties - and Argo finally told them to stick it where the sun don’t shine and walked away “This is my concern,”’ he said. “Are we going to kick a gift horse in the mouth?” Mathieson acknowledged his con- cerns, but said the city was legally obliged to follow the process. “There’s absolutely no way we have any authority to this, even though it’s an improvement,”’ she said. ‘Il hope you don’t think we aren't in favor of this, we certainly are. We'd like to see the problem solved permanently but we can’t break the law. We are a level of government.”” However, on Thursday Mathieson said it didn’t look like the Project will be delayed very long. ““Both (Transport Canada) and the Ministry of Environment have been contacted and there seems to be no problem,”’ she said. ‘‘It looks like it can go ahead shortly.”* A letter was sent Thursday by fac- simile to the Environment Ministry outlining what the reconstruction would involve. Mathieson said she expects a reply very soon, and said verbal approval was given by Tran- sport Canada The causeway must be reconstruc- ted before this year’s high-water season because the existing causeway isn’t strong enough or high enough to hold up through expected summer flooding, the society says Without a causeway for emergency vehicles, the island, and anything or anyone on it, becomes vulnerable to any number of incidents. “We want it done as soon as possible . it’s a benefit to the whole city,"” society member Doris Sweeney said. Back to prison for Freedomites NELSON (CP) — Sons of Freedom Mary Braun and Tira IJmaeff, sitting naked in provincial court and covered only by blankets, were found guilty Wednesday of mischief for setting two fires. Braun, 72, was sentenced to one year in jail while Jmaeff, 66, was given 30 days after a one-day trial before provincial court Judge David Lunn. Freedomites, who broke with mainstream Doukhobors in 1902, use arson and public nudity to demon- Strate their religious beliefs. They believe burning material possessions acts as a spiritual cleanser and does Rot constitute a crime. Braun and Jmaeff were granted full parole in April 1989 from the Matsqui medium-security prison while serving an eight-year sentence for arson. At the time of their parole a National Parole Board official said they did not represent a risk to the public In their decades-old history of im- prisonment, then fasting to protest were granted federal pardons in 1983 following a lengthy hunger strike with fellow Freedomite Mary Astaforoff. Astaforoff, 71, died in 198$ after a 54-day fast. An autopay showed she had stomach cancer. The latest mischief charges stem- med from incidents last August in Grand Forks, Court was told Braun was found at a Doukhobor church’ with two containers of lamp oil, paper and some matches. z RCMP asked her to leave the area, but Braun stripped and had to be carried into the police cruiser. Inside the car, she set her skirt on fire and slightly damaged: the car’s interior. Jmaecff was arrested for mischief the following day for setting a fire in the cell of the RCMP building while visiting Braun, her ‘spiritual sister, Lunn said. 4 be A parole board spokesman Wednesday that the paroles of Braun and Jmaeff had been suspended and