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Castlegar News _/orwory 7, 1999

OPINION

Value more than

dollars:a

nd cents

Another gem in the dof that is. the Castlegar and District

Community Complex was of

lly added yesterday with the grand
Tng of the new Aquatic Centre.

The pool stands asva tribute to the many people whose hard
work shepherded the project from a dream to a reality, especially
the members of the Castlegar and District Projects Society led by Ron

Ross,

In many ways, a community's desirability as o place to live is

measured by its recreational facili:

ies and the new Aquatic Centre

boosts Castlegar’s and the surrounding communities’ value by much
more than can be measured in dollars and cents.

Its value is measured in the smiles of joy on the faces of children
as they slip down the slide or playin thewater fountain and, yes, of
adults too as they take pleasure in swimming laps or just reldxing in

the whirlpool

Of course, there will be some who won't use the pool and who
will complain about their tax dollars being used for what to them

may seem like an extravagence.

We doubt there’s much we can do or say to change their opinion
other than to encourage them to grab a bathing suit and take a dip.
Or perhaps wait and join in the pride we'll all feel as the Castlegar

Aquanauts,

the Robson River Otters and the Stanley Humphries

secondary school swim teams develop even more top-notch swim-
mers than they now boast as a result of having a year-round facility

at which to train.

Or perhaps think of the value of the pool in terms of improving
the health and fitness of local residents who might not, without the

new pool, get any exercise at all.

measure

That's value which is hard to

We must thank the provincial government for selecting
CTastlegar Gs the first tocaTion in the province to receive money from
the GO B.C. program. It's good to see the money spent by the public
on lottery tickets being returned to-help fund worthwhile c: y
ventures such as the Aquatic Centre

The $700,000 GO B.C. grant helped make the dream come true.

LETTERS

Remember
When?

40 YEARS AGO
From the Jan. 5, 1950
Castle News
On Tuesday eveninj
meeting was called to
discussed new waterworks system for

the Village.
* .

Mr. King, Secretary-Treasurer of
the Castlegar School District, has
received this week a telegram, from
Sharp Thompson, Berwick and Pratt,
architects for the new high school, that
the plans are complete and approved
by the Department of Education. Mr.
King has instructed the architects to
call for tenders.

. .

Eighty years young, William Gopp
took his traditional Christmas bay dip
in the icy Columbia, near Blueberry
Creek.

Despite 14 degrees of frost and
heavy snow, the rugged old gent, who

‘has been in this neighborhood for 41

years, shovelled his way through drif-
ting snow for one mile to the river and
Brrr!

The senior swimmer of the
Kootenays said it took all his previows
skill to keep his clothes.

January 7, 1989

He stated it was ‘‘hard pulling my

Ideas raise
hopes for future

The premier of our province is
preparing us for his departure. Forgive
me if my atterefoh is elsewhere.

Like many of you, I find the season
and the changing of the decade more
conducive to reflection on where we
have been than to watching the
machinations of yet another lame
duck

Think for a minute about what you
know today that you didn’t know
when the 1980s began. It seems to me
that in those 10 years three ideas were
raised “from relative obsturity to
popular wisdom:

© the idea (all over the world) that
economic growth is tiéd to environ-
mental cost and that the Earth is finite;

© the realization (in the East) that
Stalinism is not socialism and is not ac-
ceptable to any people;

© and the recognition (in this coun-
try) that sexual and physical abuse and
violence.are endemic in this society and
that we can break this cycle after we
break the silence.

My list makes me hopeful about the
future of the world for the first time in
many years. Your list will be different
from mine, but'I hope you will agree
that we enter the 1990s with strong
footings on which to build healthy
change.

And change we must. I notice that
my list is expressed as a series of
negatives, a learning about what things
cost, what things are not, what they

—must-tro-tonger-_bettis information
that we learned from the dying, the en-
dangered, the abused and the brave. It
comes to us from Chernobyl to the
Loye Canal, from Brazil to Borneo,

‘tion,

from Romania to an engineering
classroom in Montreal.

The next decade must be a time of
learning how to replace the destruc-
the tyranny and the patriarchy
with systems that work.

If the Cold War is to be truly ended,
we must turn our faces to Central
America and to Africa. Colonialism
and imperialism must follow Stalinism
into history. At issue is more than just
the oppression of violence. Im-
perialism today is much more than
guns. El Salvador and Panama are not
unique in their status as plundered
states, they are just the places that
make good television.

The West is sick With its own ‘form of
the central planning nightmare. The
nightmare is visible as world debt, high
interest rates, the policies of the World
Bank, wholesale destruction of large
chunks of this planet, the politics of
aid, the prices of commodities and the
development of trading giants such as
the Common Market and fortress Nor-
th America.

If the East was corrupted by
Stalinism, so also has the West been
consumed by patriarchy, corporatism,
centralization of wealth and the
emerging world government that is
monopoly capital. We in the West are
thé world’s rich. Whatever your
political bias or social concern, these
evils are ours to deal with

I think that the ‘people of Romania
will deal with the sickness in tffeir mid-
3t-as-will- the-people of South Africa
and of Chile. It is time for us to deal
withus

Corky Evans
Appledale

Would-be
note taker
has pen silenced

Can you imagine going to a meeting
and being told you couldn't take
notes? I had that incredible experience
Dec. 17 at the provincial Ministry of
Environment ‘wildlife branch's
allocation meeting in Cranbrook

The government holds an allocation
meeting every three years to divide up
the big game in the region between two
groups af hunters — residents and
non-residents/guides. lan Robertson
of the wildlife branch had invited four
resident hunters.and four guides to this
meeting and he permitted a few others
to attend as observers.

Because of my experience taking
notes at legislative meetin; and

% hearings, the East Kootenay Hugters

Association had asked me to accom-
pany them and dotheir note-taking for
them. Two of the guides objected,
however, and Mr
that I would not be allowed to take any
notes. I remained throughout the en-
tire four-hour meeting as an observer
and watched as several guides, hunters
and wildlife officials took notes.

Why was I singled out for this
unequal treatment? What were the
branch and the guides afraid of? When
will the public/taxpayers be allowed to
Participate in the allocation of their:
wildlife resource? And why, in this
democracy, is anyone ever forbidden
totake notes?

Jean M. Samis
Cranbrook

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Letters to the-editor

Balance needed

The statements. by_ Doreen Smecher
in the Castlegar News (Dec. 30) caught
my attention.

In her protest to the letter by the
mayor of Enderby, B.C., she referred
to the mayor’s and the Enderby city
council’s objection to allowing mem-
bers of the Sikh faith to wear turbans
should they join the RCMP.

Smecher called upon our right for
religious freedom, upon which Sikhs
base their right of the wearing of the
turban to override the tradition of the
RCMP. On the question of one’s
freedom of conscience, who can
disagree with her?

She said, “We want_all_of the
freedoms that Canada offers us and
one of those is freedom of religion.””
We agree again but what we need in
freedom is balance. It shall never be
accomplished absolutely but there is a
concept at which one must aim

When one’s freedom curtails

another’s freedom, then a new ap-
proach must ‘be made to address the
question, and one’s absolute freedom
must be sacrificed to honor another’s.
If that were not so, then we should
have liberty to take our chances
crossing on a red light regardless of the
other’s safety.

It is the question -of religious
freedom in balance that we need to ad-
dress. Surely Doreen Smecher agrees
that one’s religious beliefs are the
adornment of the heart not the vest-
ments of the head. Surely it cannot be
an offegce to one’s religious convic-
tions if one has freedomvof thought. I
have not heard that the national police
force goes in for brain washing.

All of us are faced with choices.
Sometimes we have tqsettle for second
best. No one is forced to join the RC-
MP and accept their traditions which
are significant its concept. At
present, the police force hat-a clear

Canada can't
accommodate
all minorities

I take exception to the remarks made
by Ald. Doreen Smecher regarding the
wearing of turbans inthe RCMP.

Mrs. Smecher apparently feels the
wearing of ,turbans is classified as
“freedom of religion’’ and Canada
would be showing “intolerance”? in
not allowing such freedom.

The dress and appearance of the
RCMP is a custom that has been in
place in Canada for a good many
years. The wearing of a turban is also a
custom that has been in place for many
years — in India. I would suggest that
any groups of people who feel they are
unable to live with the customs of
Canada have a right to return to their
country of origin where these customs
are the norm °

We would like to express our ap-
preciation to the residents of the Lower
Columbia area who took the time to
come out to the B.C. Hydro open
houses

At the Trail open house on Dec. 6 at
Selkirk College, we were visited by
more than 80 people, and in Castlegar
on Dec. 7 at the Community Complex,
around 100 people came out

For B.C. Hydro’s various projects
in the area, it is essential that the people
of the region have input into the plan-

*ning process and, therefore, your
questions and comments were ex-
tremely valuable to the Lower Colum-
bia project team. We would like to
thank you for assisting us, and
would like to commend you en your in-
terest in and dedication to your com-
munity.

We hope that we were able to
provide you with the information you
needed. If you have further questions,
or if you were not able to attend the

Canada cannot be expected to ac-
commodate the religious — or non-
religious — customs of every group of
people entering the country. We have
our own customs, and I believe we all
want to hang ontothem.

In closing, | must add that freedom
of dress and appearance in the work-
place is nothing more than a myth. My
husband has a supervisory position
and was advised by his senior to
remove his beard which was well trim-
med and attractive. He did, of course,
have the option of refusing and
looking for employment elsewhere. If
my husband’s beard is unacceptable,
wearing a turban is really out of
whack!

Rita Morrison
Castlegar

Public interest in
projects applauded

open houses and would like more in-
formation, please write to: External
Relations Department, B.C. Hydro,
18th Floor, 970 Burrard St., Van-
couver, B.C. V6Z 1Y3

Please be assured that there will be
further opportunities for you to par-

—public

policy. I’m sure we would all like to see
every ethnic Broup participate in our
institutions but comply with the rules
of the game.

Let a turban, a fez, a stetson, a
fedora, a helmet, a toque or whatever,
be worn in the name of religion, but
how can it be fair to all if we change our
tradition for one and not the other. We
certainly can’t satisfy the desires of
everybody and I personally believe that
the Sikhs and the other ethnic groups
are big enough to conform. There is
enough pecking away at Canadian
sovereignity without further erosion of
cultural traits.

My point is not to argue the above
issue, however, but rather a general
principle of religious freedom which
affects me and thousands of others.

By what reasoning, based upon
whatever philosophy, has the school
board a right to forbid, in the name of
freedom of religion, or even suggest,
that schools may not play or sing Chr-
istmas carols during classes?

There are many more Christian-
inclined people in our society than of
those who lean towards the Sikh faith.
What balance do we find when
adherents of a 2,000-year-old
Christian religion are forbidden to ex-
press their worship in some of the
finest classical music of our day, in a
institution, when a com-
paritively less-accepted faith may
change the whole fabric of one of our
finest truly Canadian institutions.
Honor histetigion, yes. At the expense
of another’s freedom, no.

When the voice in song is forbidden
to proclaim the most celebrated and
beloved anniversary among the people
of the whole world,-{ think we need to
be reminded that the Christmas truth is
not only eternal, it is universal. It is
taught, proclaimed and propagated in
every nook and cranny of the earth
with everlasting benefit right where we
sit today.

Considering that Canada as
“Dominion’’ — a title that has been
thrown out today — and our motto
‘‘From Sea Unto Sea’’ are both taken
from the Christians’ Bible, it is a great
offence to millions around the world
that here in this fine country of ours
there are ruling classes that would con-
sider the great songs of inspiration un-
fit, like the waters of a polluted river,
for human consumption.

It makes a sadder commentary,
when the eternal classics have been
thrown out and the unwholesome and
shabby and transitory are encouraged
in a society already suffering from so
much moral deterioration.

George James
Castlegar

ticipate in the public in
the future. Cornerstone Planning
Group, the consultant responsible for
the public consultation program, is
planning more open houses and other
events and your comments are
welcome at anytime.

We were most disappointed that
poor weather forced the cancellation
of the TV open-line program planned
for the evening of Dec. 5. Our
apologies to all of you who had hoped
to watch and participate with us. It is
being rescheduled for late January or
early February.

A Walkey
ssanirriid Director
1g Group Lid.

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B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to
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loth afterwards."’

“Nature endowed me with an iron
constitution,’ he added, “‘but it’s get,
ting alittle rusty now."”

25 YEARS AGO
From the Jan. 7, 1965
Castlegar News

If only‘ tax dollars count, then
Castlegar and Kinnaird should never
amalgamate into a city and a district
municipality should be established in
this area incorporating into it the
Celgar pulp-lumber complex ‘and the
Srilientien:

oo 8

Castlegar’s water rates amendment
bylaw — given three readings at coun-
cil’s last meeting of the year in Decem-
ber — has been returned by the-depar-
tment of municipal affairs.

. .

Castlegar’s 24-hour parking bylaw is
to be enforced for snow removal pur-
poses and cars blocking snow plowing
operations will be towed away:

.

An extension of, three weeks has
been allowed by Kc. Hydro in the
‘calling of tenders for the Arrow dam.

IS YEARS AGO
From the Jan. 9, 1975
Castlegar News

A $184,000 grant for the City of
Castlegar is to be sent by Victoria
before the month’s end.

This was announced at Monday
night’s inaugural meeting by
Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D’Arcy.

“The $184,000,’’ said Mr. D’Arcy,
“is to assist the city-in meeting the ad-
ded expenses resulting from the
amalgamation of the former towns of
Kinnaird and Castlegar."’

. 8 8

Over -an extended period of time a
great deal of wilful and malicious
damage has been sustained by public
and private property within the City of
Castlegar.

Much of this damage has taken the
form of using buildings for billboards
with scrawled messages using the name
of a member of the local RCMP force
as well as obscenities.

. 8 .

Federal aid. to industry in the
Kootenay area will continue to be
granted until March 31

. 8

The fifth annual Christmas bird
count of the West Kootenay
Naturalists’ Association was held on
Dec. 28, with 64 participants covering
the area between Rossland and Kaslo,
and recording more than 7,200 birds of
59 different species.

S YEARS AGO
From the Jan. 3, 1985
Castlegar News

Rossland coroner Dr. Bill Ar-
mstrong says there will likely be an
inquest into the weekend deaths of two
young skiers killed in an avalanche on
Mount Neptune pear Rossland.

woe Me

Mayor Audrey Moore has been elec-
ted acting chairman of the Central
Kootenay Regional District board.
Moore edged Area J director Martin
Vanderpool by an 11-9 vote.

Moore will also sit as chairman of
the Central Kootenay Regignal
Hospital District board.

.

A few empty adian Pacific
legar yard Sunday,
but a CP Rail official says it’s no big
deal.

A charge of first-degree murder was
laid today against a 22- year-old Cran-
brook man in the murder of a teenage
girl last Sunday in the southeastern
B.C. city.

‘= 7.

Canada’s junior hockey team cap-
tured the world junior championships
Zeeday with a 2-2 tie against

€zechostovakia.

CP New Analysis
By LARRY WALSH

Ottawa (CP) — Billions of
dollars the federal government
pays each year to the provinces will
be an almost irresistible target for
Finance Minister Michael Wilson
as he sharpens his budget knife.

Federal funding for provincial
governments — more than $34
billion this fiscal year — will
probably be where Wilson slices
deepest in his next budget, expec-
ted in February.

Wilson forecast last year that the
federal deficit would fall to $28.5
billion in the year beginning April
1, from the $30.5-billion deficit
predicted for this fiscal year.

But high interest rates and a
slowing economy could cause the
1990-91 shortfall to soar to $35

. billion.

Wilson and Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney have already
signalled that federal transfers to
the provinces could be where they
start cutting.

The only areas in which Ottawa
spends more are interest payments

and other payments to individuals.

and_ pensions, family allowances _

MICHAEL WILSON
- +. sharpening knife

Federal-provincial transfer
payments account for 23 pér cent
of federal spending on programs.

**They are simply too large to be
exempted from efforts to control
our deficit,’’ Mulroney told the

r

Cuts may hit provinces hard

premiers last November,

“Even after the measures we
have introduced in the last
budget,’’ our financial support to
provinces remains large and
growing.”’

To bolster their case for cutting

more than a few premiers, who c
be expected to argue that Wilson is
passing the buck on the deficit.
Federal and provincial gover-
nments collect from the same tax-
payers —« who could be stuck with
higher provincial taxes, reduced

transfer and
Wilson chide provincial gover-
nments for increasing their spen-
ding faster than Ottawa.

They point out that federal

services or both.

The federal finance minister has
already tinkered with federal
payments to provincial gover-
nments. In his last budget, Wilson

on prog has in-
creased 3.5 per cent a year since the
Tories came to power, while
,Provincial program spending has
increased 6.5 per cent a year on
average.
The federal government has
traditionally provided money to
the provinces to help pay for ser-
vices including hospitals, univer-

ALYSIS

Sities and welfare benefits. Provin-
cial governments have been able to
spend the money as they wish since
1977.
PREMIER CASE
Taking a sizable chunk out of
federal funding will raise the ire of

reducing the growth of
established programs financing by
one percentage point beginning in
the next fiscal year. This would
save Ottawa $200 million in 1990-
91. ,
The Economic Council of
Canada has a more drastic deficit
Proposal. The federal advisory
group suggested in November that
Ottawa freeze spending for two
years in five areas — including
transfer payments.

This proposal — which would
also freeze assistance for. business,
family allowance inflation adjust-
ments and civil-service hiring —
would reduce the federal deficit by
$3_ billion in 1992, the council
estimated.

Company
gets day
in court

KAMLOOPS (CP) — One of the
southern Interior ci largest em-
ployers” is scheduled to appear in

tJan. 1Sona
‘related offence.

The Environment Ministry’s con-
servation service branch laid the
charge against Weyerhauser Canada
Ltd. after an incident at the company’s
pulp mill May 27. Several chemicals,
including bivalent sulphur compounds
and crude sulphate turpentine, were
released into the air.

The company was notified of the
charge .after a seven-month in-
vestigation.

Leo Van Tine, senior conservation
office in Kamloops, said the company
was charged under Section 311 of the
Waste’ Management Act for in-

ing waste into the envii

The charge currently carries a
maximim $1-million fine on convic-
tion, but because the incident occurred
prior to an increase in penalties,
Weyerhaeuser faces a maximum~of
$50,000 in fines.

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was the driver of the black Honda that
struck Davis.

The man refused to describe the
events leading upto the fatal incident.
He said that should wait. for-a
coroner’s inquest, expected to be held
in the spring.

But asked if he deliberately hit
Davis, he replied: ‘*Definitely not — i
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LETTER
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given |. &
the boot

If the people of B.C. sit back and
allow our premier to step down
because of poor ‘‘public perception”
that has been created about him,
mostly by biased media reporting anda
handful of people with axes of their
own to grind, nof only would B.C.
become the laughing stock of the

~ nation we would also be sending out a

clear message that we don’t want
honest people in politics.

For a premier to be pressured into
stepping down when the province is
doing so well under his leadership is
ridiculous. Are we really willing to

lloy.the media to choose our leaders

use we don’t have the guts to stand
them and make them tell the
public thetfuth?

Are we actually going to throw in the
towel and let people like Vaughn
Palmer, Brian Kieran and Rafe Mair
tell us who is going to run our provin-
ce?

The people of B.C. deserve fair,
balanced unbiased reporting and if we
all stand together and demand that, we
will get it. Only then will we have
People voting on the ‘‘real issues’’ in-
stead of hyped up ‘‘created’’ public
Perception.

Iris Bakken
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told police that three men drove away,
in the Honda after exchanging words
with Davis gutside the bar. She said the

No criminal charges have been laid
in Davis’s death. Coroner Roch
Heroux is to hold an inquest into the
circumstances of the death. No date
has been set for the inquest.

In a half-hour telephone interview,
the man, who lives in suburban
Kirkland, said the star swimmer’s
death has taught him to be ‘‘a lot more
careful,"’ adding that he no longer
rides a motorcross motorcycle.

Last May, the Kirland man was at
the helm of a boat when it capsized in
choppy waves in Lake St-Louis. His
friend, Hans—Dres, drowned after
being unable to swim ash:

Should you elect to-seli without the
help of a real estate agent, an ap
praisal is a virtual necessity to avoid
selling too cheaply. The quality of
‘appraisers varies $0 it’s best to ask
for appraiser recommendations from
your banker or mortgage lender
Another and perhaps better method
of setting your home's asking price is
to invite an active local real estate
agent to give you his/her listing
presentation, including a written
competitive market analysis. This
form shows recent sale prices or
neighbourhood homes currently
listed tor sale (your competition)

The agent also should estimate
your home's probable sales price and
suggest © slightly higher asking

sell for 5 to 10

While talking to the ogent, be sure to
‘ask about the fees, services, client
references and anything else you
want to know about their success
with selling homes like yours. Decide
whether or not to hire a real estate
agent. Statistics show that 82 percent
of home sellers use real estate agen

the 18 percent who sell

ju
tyntes without an agent, only —

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25 percent say they would again sell
without an agent. The most obvious
reason home sellers consider not
hiring an agent is to supposedly save
the commission. However, any
savings can rapidly evaporate if the
home doesn't sell quickly. Additional
monthly mortgage payments soon eat
up any sales commission saved. Do.
it-yourself home sellers often forget
that buyers usually expect to share in
any sales commission saving in the
form of a price. reduction to. compen.
sate for all the buyers extra work
that is normally performed by a real
estate agent

It there 1s anything | can do to help
ycu in the tield of real estote. please
call or drop in ot

NATIONAL REAL
ESTATE SERVICE

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Phone 365- mie or 365°2757

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