‘Casthii Oglow receives award By CasNews Staff It was a special meeting seed the Rotarians Tuesday they honored former district 508 Rotary member Paul Ogiow with the Paul Harris award. The dinner was held at the Sandman Inn where about 100 people attended in recog- nition of Oglow’s outstanding contributions to the Rotary cause. 'm overwhelmed,” Oglow following the dinner. “It's nice to know I've done something worthy of receiv- ing this honor.” Oglow joined the Rotary in 1967 and was a major force in establishing the Castlegar Villa Society which began with 12 units in 1965. “Initially we only built 12 units so I represented the group (Villa Society) in front of the B.C. Housing Com- mission. In order to get backing, 27 members of the Rotary pledged $1,000 each.” The Villa Society or “Rota Villa” expanded to 40 units with Oglow's hard work and the commitment of Rotary International. Through the Paul Harris Award Oglow received the local Rotary Club will con- tribute $1,000 U.S. in his name to be used for Rotary functions that include chari- table, educational and com- munity services. A total of 29.875 Paul Harris awards ROTARY AWARD . . . Paul Oglow (left) accepts the distinguishecPaulHarris award were given out in 1987. on behalf of the Rotary International District 508. Rota District Governor Kenneth Oglow was also made an Phillips presented the award to Oglow during a dinner function at the Sandman Inn honorary lifetime member of Tuesday night. Oglow’s wife Betty looked on.as her husband received the award. the Rotary Club. —CostewsPhoto by Brendon Nogle SOVIET HOCKEY PLAYERS STAY WITH FAMILIES CAMROSE, Alta. (CP) — For the next couple of weeks, a group of Soviet teenagers will get a chance to bunk down ‘With average Canadian fainilies in this quiet, east-central «Alberts. town. Members of the Soviet under-18 national team are being billeted in Camrose homes for the Viking Cup hockey tournament which begins Thursday. The housing arrangements surprised the Soviets when they landed at the Edmonton airport Sunday. “They said they didn't know anything about it,” tournament co-ordinator LeRoy Johnson said Monday. “But we showed them the Telexes from their federatio1 Once they knew the move had official sanction, the players headed to their billets'and “everybody seems happy today,” said Johnson. Merv Pasula’s two guests, Sergei Gomoliako and Alik Gareer, have the run of the town. “Our two guys wanted to go for a walk,” Pasula said. “We got out the dictionary. The closest they could come to expressing what they wanted to do was to say ‘pleasure’ and ‘street.’ But that did it. They went for a walk.” PLAY POOL Pasula also introduced them to the game of pool. “We showed them how and let them at it,” he said. “It's really difficult not being able to communicate much, but we're working at it and they're just as willing to work at it, too.” Jerome Stefar's biggest concern was what to feed Igor Korolev and Vitali Litinenk. “We had a lot of leftovers from Christmas — turkey, m, dressing, all the trimmings. They looked at the food a bit strange. “They didn't seem to want to try most of the things. But they did. Pretty soon, they heaped it on their plates.” Stefar’s 11-year-old son Brent was impressed at how much the Russian teenagers knew about pop music. “They like Tina Turner,” he said. “They know who she is. Verlyn Olson, who heads the Viking Cup's billeting committee, said it wasn't easy to persuade Soviet officials to allow the players to stay with Camrose families. What helped was that (Czechoslovakian players wére billeted during three previous tournaments. “At first the Soviet reaction was that it was impossible,” Olson said. “(But) I think they said if the Czechs can do it, we can do it, too.” EIGHT TEAMS Eight teams will compete in the fifth edition of the Viking Cup tournament, which is held in Camrose in odd-numbered years and in other participating countries in even-numbered years. “The idea for this started in Russia... on a train between Leningrad and Helsinki,” said Johnson. “We took the Camrose Lutheran College Vikings over to Europe and played in Sweden, Finland and Leningrad. “On the track back from the Soviet Union, a few of us came up with the idea for this tournament.” The Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Sweden, the University of Arizona, the University of Alberta, Red Deer College and the Vikings are entered this year. “The billeting makes the tournament unique.” Olson. “It's half hockey tournament and half cultural exchange. We have 63 homes in Camrose with two hockey players being billeted. Soviet team leader Evgeny Ankuda said he's happy with the billeting arrangement. said FORESTS MISMANAGED Logging rules sag in recession VANCOUVER (CP) — - British Columbia forestry companies wasted large amounts of timber in the early what 1980s after regulations were relaxed to help them cope with the recession, a provincial Forestry Ministry spokes- man said Tuesday. “Let’s face it, times were not good,” Frank Renshaw, acting director of timber policy, said in a telephone interview from Vietoria. “A lot of the cisions are made at a higher level to grant certain exemptions and that's happened,” general the lower-grade logs, which are generally pulp logs, did not have to be taken.” Ray Smith, chief executive officer of MacMillan Bloedel, dismissed pub- lished reports that the company left up to 20 times more than the acceptable level of trees behind. Smith said the Renshaw said. In stands of trees con- sidered to be over-mature, up to 15 per cent of recoverable timber was never harvested. Companies now leave only about three to four per cent of recoverable lumber on the ground in quality stands, said Renshaw. In over-mature stands of trees, about five to 10 per cent of recoverable timber is left behind. said Dyer. “In lower-quality timber was being left in company is the bush without penalty.” From 1981 to 1985, when lumber prices were slumping, most forestry companies could not meet the existing provincial standard stipulating no more than five per cent of recoverable timber be left on the ground. As a result, that standard was doubled, allowing companies to leave twice as much recoverable timber behind. But during that time, forestry giant MacMilan Bloedel Ltd. left an average of two to three times more recoverable trees behind as waste on the Queen Charlotte Islands during the recession, said Terry Dyer, district manager for the Forests Ministry. “In the bad times de- New Year's By GRACE MACALUSO news,” completed, industry giant to New Year's celebrations to ring in 1988 will be far from traditional formal soirees as Canadians choose from a gamut of activities such as solving a murder, taking a frigid swim or hoisting a glass or two without any booze. Guests attending a $125-per-person New Year's Eve dinner dance at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre will have to keep their eyes and ears open for anything suspicious. Someone is scheduled to be murdered during cocktails and it will be up to the guests to figure out who did it. About 200 are expected to take part in solving the mystery, says organizer Janine Fawcett. “Eight actors will perform in the plot and people won't know who's a guest or who's an getor.” Murder miyaloaies are ited popular i in Winnipeg, where the Manitoba Theatre Centre is staging its New Year's Eve debut of Agatha Christie's classic Ten Little Indians. Playwright Sharon Pollock has devised two different endings for the play and the audience will vote after the second act on how the performance should end. “It’s the right kind of play because it has a high degree of fun and we can have a little bit of a celebration after,” says artistic director Rick McNair. NO ALCOHOL Both Fredericton and Vancouver will stage events to bring in the New Year with the whole family minus alcohol. “First Night,” — an idea which originated in the eastern United States — will include family-oriented, alcohol-free events throughout downtown areas in the two cities. “It's an alternative to spending $250 on a New Year's party where all you have the next day is a massive ” says Vi Faye McMyn. “Vancouver organizers are selling 25,000 buttons at $5 each for admission to more than 50 performances by theatre troupes, dance companies and jazz bands. A dry New Year's will also be the theme of Alcoholics Anonymous parties being held across the country. “The holiday season is a tough time” for people trying to Police file and will not comment until the investi- gation is complete. “Most of these allegations are old said Smith. nothing more until this review is rep But the ministry was concerned about the amount of waste left by MacMillan Bloedel and ordered the some of those areas last summer. Since then, postive economic con. ditions have meant more complete har- vesting in the region with the amount of acceptable wastage being turned back to five per cent, said Dyer. During the recession, companies left an average of about 10 per cent of timber on the ground, g the itions play a large part in determining what trees are profitable to harvest, said Tony Sheb- beare, a spokesman for the Council of Forest Industries, the umbrella group 1g B.C. forestry A tree that may be profitable today when prices are high may not have been during the slump in the early 1980s. “In good times you can afford to take out more,” he said. “In bad times you take out less. It's the nature of the business.” Determining what is wanton waste or simply reasonable efficiency is set by the government, and during the recession efforts were made to con- serve jobs by relaxing standards on waste, said Shebbeare. “We can say harvest logs from parties vary for the Toronto AA saysa office. The parties, strictly for members and their dates, “make it easier for people to fulfil what they have to fulfil to get sober,” he says. The City of Halifax and other local sponsors are hosting a night of live bands and fireworks in front of city hall. A number of companies in metropolitan Halifax-Dartmouth are funding free bus service between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. ATLANTIC PLUNGE New Year's Day events in the Nova Scotia capital include the annual Black Rock Beach Polar Swim in which more than 100 swimmers plunge into the chilly Atlantic. About 30,000 revellers.are e: to fill Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square to dance the tunes of singer Murray McLaughlan, Blue Rodeo and rock ‘n’ roller Ronnie Hawkins. While partygoers whoop it up with champagne and noisy horns, Prime Brian Mulroney plans a quiet New Year's Eve with his family at their cottage in Harrington Lake. NDP Leader Ed Broadbent and Liberal party chief John Turner plan skiing holidays with their families over the New Year's break. In Ottawa, merrymakers can enjoy free chestnuts and big-band music during a two hour and 40 minute party on Parliament Hill. The CBC plans to break into its programming just before midnight for live coverage of the fireworks display. The main event in Calgary will be an outdoor party called Excitement "88. It's free and will include continuous enter by lla group The Nylons, hotdogs, soft drinks and hot chocolate for all. Calgary Transit is providing free transportation for the not-so-sober. The Edmonton Convention Centre is billing its bash as the city's largest New Year's party. It includes three band- stands, featuring 1987 Juno award winner Luba, and a steak dinner all for $39.75 a head. Hanford reactor concerns Brisco Se Castlégar News TREET TALK A NEW business will open in January in the former Kitchen Fantasy location on 6th Avenue. Called Castle Glass and Windshields Ltd:, it is owned by Alex Fast- huber and wife Donna. Donna is originally from Castlegar and Alex has been with Columbia Glass in Trail for the last 18 years. Alex's mother-in-law, Marcelle Wright, a Castlegar resident for the last 30 years, will keep the new firm's books. TODAY'S ministers have it easy compared to this account of Rev. Father Leo A. Hobson of Revelstoke from the Dec. 30, 1927 Arrow Lakes News: One of the results of the sudden change of services of the steamer Minto was the delaying of a wedding at Edgewood which had been arranged for Tuesday the 27th apes He supplied himself with snowshoes at nya which he reached by steamer started to walk until he met a team which the had sent for him, with a sleigh — there being a depth of nearly two feet of snow on the unused road. He, however, got there, and the wedding took place on Thursday morning. On the return journey he travelled on horse- back from Fauquier to Burton and should arrive at Nakusp on Friday. THE KOOTENAY Lake Historical Society has raised about $18,000 to date in an effort to save the SS Moyie beached at Kaslo. That's still far short of the $150,000 the society must raise by the end of 1988 in order to qualify for matching funding from the federal government. ‘The society recently made $1,250 on a raffle of two framed, hand-colored photographs of the sternwheeler. CALLING ALL Castlegar area seniors. The first annual B.C. Senior Games will run June 14, 15 and 16 in Vernon with more than 900 participants. the games are dto at which the Rev. Father Leo A. Hobson of was to perform the ceremony. He had made all the arrangements of officiate but his mission field being so extensive, he found himself at Golden and would have made connection by the usual way but on account of the changes he fornd himself stranded in Nakusp on Monday and had to make special arrangements to carry him between Burton and Fire Valley. The involve thousands of seniors from throughout the province. 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Carl Guenther of 100 Mile House, B.C., says he suffered only a minor injury because his pickup truck's armrest slowed down another .45- calibre bullet — one of three fired — before it struck him WOODROOM at the pulp mill's ties to the tree farm at the time the mill was sold to a con sortium of a Chinese merchant bank continued trom front page Asked about the historical con- nection between Celgar pulp in the side. the shooting occurred, Dec. 19 while Guenther, a painter, was helping his daughter move from Vancouver to 100 Mile House, about 300 kilo- metres north of Vancouver. Their pickup truck pulling a U-Haul trailer was creeping up a hill south of Ashcroft, about 200 kilo metres north of Vancouver, when the gunman pulled alongside, fired three shots at the Guenthers, then drove away. Sheryl, who was sleeping, was struck in the back. The bullet pageed through her chest and lodged in her hand. A third .45-calibre slug ricoched off Guenther’s truck, missing two other passengers. “It was dark at the time and he pulled up and shot three times very rapidly and just took off,” Guenther said Tuesgay. “I didn’t even get a dl licence plate number.” SiS was taken to hos- pital]jn Kamloops. She was released Christmas Eve and now is recovering at home. “We were very fortunate, any Way you look at it,” said Guenther. Ashcroft RCMP Sgt. Brian Sarnecki said there are sev- eral suspects but no arrests have been made. mill and and two the tree farm, Arnett said times have changed since the license was issued in the mid-1950s. There were no chipping facilities in B,C. sawmills at that time, Arnett said. All the chips produced by sawmills were burned as waste. By the 1960s, sawmills began pro ducing chips and selling them to pulp mills to the point that sawmills supply chips to all Interior pulp mills. Arnett said that by foreing Celgar to buy roundwood logs from farm, the ministry could hurt area sawmills trying to sell chips. He added that the ministry looked woodroom. mill manager the tree Arnett noted that regardless of ownership, the pulp mill's owners would be looking at closing the “It's a cost to them,” he said. However, he disagreed with pulp If Sweeney's comment that the provincial government's new stumpage rates are partly to blame for the woodroom closure. “That's something I take offense to,” Arnett said, noting that the new stumpage system would have allowed the decadent timber stands on the TFL to be harvested at a reduced rate. pal Arnett said the decadent hemlock used by pulpmills could be sold for as little as 50 cents a cubic meter to $5 or $6 a cubic meter for good sawlogs. “We haven't completed our whole stumpage pol adding the ministry doesn't intend to " Arnett explained, sell the decadent timber at the same price as sawlogs. He said the ministry could sell the decadent timber at rates equal to or lower than the old stumpage fees, so the stumpage policy shouldn't have any effect on the pulp mill operation unless the mill buys sawlogs. But if that’s the case, then the mill should pay top dollar because “they're getting a high quality product,” he A 38-year-old Raspberry man, Claude Wesley Eason, is in critical condition in the Trail Regional Hospital after being hit by a motor vehicle last week about three kilo- metres west of Castlegar on Highway 3. The accident oceurred around 5:30 p.m. Dec. 23. Castlegar RCMP say Eason is believed to have been hitchhiking when the incident occurred. The driver of the vehicle, 26-year-old, Mary L. Coleman of Castle- gar, was not injured in the aceident. Police investigation is continuing. Meanwhile, Castlegar RCMP report that the Christ- mas weekend was relatively quiet. Over the past week RCMP responded to 65 com- plaints, among them 11 mot- or vehicle accidents, two hit and run accidents, five Liq- uor Act offences, one shop- lifting, six domestic disputes, two break-ins, three thefts, four complaints about dogs and one 24-hour driving sus- pension. There were no ar- rests for impaired driving over the Christmas Holiday. RCMP remind dog owners that Section 5 of the Live- stock Protection Act pro- vides authority to the police or animal control officer to immediately destroy any dog running in a pack. A “pack” is defined as two or more dogs running: at large. “This reminder is the result of recent complaints of dogs chasing deer on the Castlegar golf course,” Staff Sgt. Jack Keddy says. “Please ensure your -dog is not permitted to run at large.” As well, the number of motor vehicle accidents in the Castlegar area is be- coming a concern for RCMP. “Motorists frequently state their misfortune was not their fault because they were driving within the posted speed limit,” Keddy said. “Drivers are cautioned that speed signs are maximum speed advisory signs and certain road conditions may not permit you to drive safely at the posted speed. Some operators are finding they are being charged for driving too fast for road conditions when involved in motor veh- icle accidents. Don’t become a statistic. Slow down and live.” In addition, effective Jan. 1 applications for special oc- casion liquor licences must be applied for two weeks in advance of the intended pri- vate function. Public beer gardens . require By CasNews Staff Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco recently received a letter from External Affairs Minister Joe Clark answer- ing Brisco’s concerns about the Hanford N reactor in Washington state, 225 kilo- metres south of Castlegar. Brisco wrote Clark in Sep- tember asking for a report on the Hanford reactor and “U.S. stockpiling of pluton- ium.” Clark said that following the Chernoby! accident, U.S. authorities initiated safety studies at Hanford and an- nounced that an Environ- mental Impact Statement on the Hanford N reactor would be taken. “The N reactor is still shut down and no firm date has been set for the recommence- ment of operations. The U.S. recommendations by the Na- tional Academy of Science and Engineering, including establishment of an external oversight committee com- posed of independent ex- perts,” Clark added. Clark said he is regularly monitoring developments at Hanford and will continue to do so. However, Clark could not provide much information about the stockpiling of plu- tonium. “I am not able to comment definitely on the reasons why the United States may be stockpiling plutonium. Such activities may be related to reseach, future fuel supply for fast breeder reactors and .S. nuclear weapons Program,” the letter said. House of R has voted against the re- starting of Hanford N until 1 studies are Weather completed and safety assess- ed,” Clark's letter stated. Authorities originally de- cided to shut down the re- actor for six months begin- ning last January when the review of safety features be- gan, according to Clark. “last month, the U.S. En. The snow will be tailing off and leading to cooler, through to Saturday. rough to Satu: highs will be ween 5° advance application. ergy y action to respond to safety ASSESSMENT ACT D'Arcy opposes changes. By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer Rossland-Trail New Democrat MLA Chris D'Arcy has let the provin. cial government know he disagrees with its proposed changes to the B.C. Assessment Act. Under the proposed changes, the provincial government would provide a set guideline for municipalities like Castlegar to tax large industries under the provincially-prepared Assessment profit. shot of his own. Act. “Property taxation has tradition- ally been based on some benchmarks of value. Income is not one of them and if a it i or nor should it be,” Couvelier said during the debate. Couvelier said the key idea under- lying the changes is the fact that property taxation should be ie as a fixed cost rather than a variable During debate in the legislature this month, D’Arcy argued that a set rate for levying taxes on the industries based on land value alone would hinder their ability to compete. He said that if declining market values of an industry’s product is not considered in assessing taxes, the industry and the community would suffer. “It would appear .. . that the government wants to recognize in- never has been; by the Social Credit Party would continue to tax industries the same amount in tough times as in times of “What I hear the minister saying . is that he wants to apply a sort of frontage tax mentality to any partic- ular industry, regardless of its ability to pay,” D'Arcy told the legislature. Finance Minister Mel Couvelier answered D’Arcy’s criticism with a cost. “When firms or individuals make a decision to invest in a community and create an enterprise, they sould have assessment appeal should not occur if an appeal does arise. “The objective would be that there not be swings in property taxation levies,” Couvelier said. Under the current Assessment Act, the B.C. 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However, through proposed the A Act, the finance minister will have a manual to keep the assessment appeals values from varying. “We have developed a formula which is a mixture of actual costs, creases in market value based on some sense of commodity prices, but they do not want to recognize decreases in market said. value of any given operation based on 4 é ° terms of taxation revenue,” - Couvalier He went on to say that the bility in value. This production of a manual for use by the industry and by the Assessment to the Assess- Authority,” said Couvelier. prices,” D'Arcy said. D'Arcy said that the proposed changes to the Assessment Act tabled Castlegar Regiona This holiday season let us do the driving. Sponsored by: Maloney Pontiac Buick GMC Ltd. 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