Page 10A The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, June 30, 1993 Castlegar WaterCraft Rentals Located on the Do-Un-To Charter Boat at Scotties Marina a 1/2 hr, rr a hour F daily rentals For more information call 399-4228 at deen Be ae CASTLEGAR'S ALZHIEMERS SUPPORT GROUP .- meets last Wednesday each month. 6:30 - 8 p.m. Castlegar Library CASTLEGAR SENIORS’ ARTS AND CRAFTS GROUP - wish to announce the winners of their raffle. Quilt — Don Goulkie of Blueberry, Covered Album — Judy Hackman of Robson, Heart Door Chimes — Greg Cain of Salmo. Coming overts of Castiagar and District non-proft organizations may be Isted here. The frst 12 words are $4 and addtional words are 15¢ each. Bokdiaced words (which must be used for headings) count as two words. Each -onsecutive insertion js hall-price. Minimum charge is $4. Oeadine (6 11:30 Monday for Wednesday's paper Please bring in or mai your notices to 465 Columbia Avenue The Castlegar Sun 7 SS Castlegar, BC XN ANS f ( VIN 1G8 ’ First Annual Kootenay Cruis Submitted The First Annual Kootenay Cruise, held last weekend, was a huge success. The Show & Shine attracted more than 70 partici pants in 16 registered classes that ranged from motorcycles, and street rods, to customized vehicles and vintage originals Some enthusiastic owners who registered in the “work in progress” class even had their unfinished cars brought to the show by Rory Miller of Pro-Tow. Several street rodders from The Dukes, a Spokane, Washing ton-based club highlighted the event with their display of highly chtomed and polished street rods. A model car contest was held in conjunction with the event. At mid-afternoon, vehi- cles cruised through town en route to Nelson. Saturday night a dance was held in the complex arena which was decorated in a “Cruisin’ 50's and 60's theme = Shock The dance floor was flanked by d Shine” vehicles ainment provided by local band Crossroads and The Rink Ratetts The People's Choice Award wag given to John Preston of Spokane, who entered a 1936 Ford pick-up. The following is a list of first place winners: Modified Cus tom, Ken Kalesnikoff, 1976 Firebird, Street Rod, Dan Weaver, 1936 Ford Cabriolet; Classic Pre 1949, Don and Candy Root, 1949 Cadillac Sed danette; Classic 1950-59, Jack and Judy Poohachoff, 1959 Buick le Sabre convertible; Clas- sic 1960-69, Martha and Nick Linden, 1965 Corvette Stingray; Muscle car, Clate Williams, 1967 Chevy Nova SS; Low Rider, Lonnie Foodikoff, 1989 Toyota; Truck modified, Doc Becker, 1930 Ford Supercab; Truck customized, John Preston, 1936 Ford; Truck antique, Pete and Nettie Popoff, 1936 Chev os es John Preston, of Spokane, e a huge success 2% was awarded The People's Choice Award for his 1936 Ford pick-up. Stock, Sam Konkin, 1954 Chev; Vintage, John Matheson, 1959 Dodge; Unclassified, Rene and Linda Normandeau, 1936 Mer cedes Roadster; Work-in progress, Rick Orza, 1933 Ford Coach; Antique motorcycle, Jan ice Bell, 1951 BSA Golden Flash; Long Distance Awards, Paul Hansen (1969 GTO) from Surrey and Allan Miller (1956 Ford Victoria) from Golden On Sunday morning, out-of town participants took a short cruise to Tim Horton's before heading home. The Kootenay cruisers are looking forward to seeing everyone next year Continued from 1A Cady. Cunningham has known Cady since he was elected to the RDCK board th 1986. “I've always known him to have the upmost integrity. He was a remarkable politician who always kept the interests of the people foremost.” Cc said the charges +) Se 2 es ra a et eR Pere 7 So ai.) 7 Os ts, a4 95 >. 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The amendment, which has already reached third reading in the legislature, prohibits the publication or display of any statement or communication that is likely to expose a person or group of persons to hatred or contempt, Prohibited grounds of dis- crimination in the Act include race, color, ancestry, place of origin, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation or age. Hagen says the amendment sends a strong message to those who promote hatred, and heightens aware- ness of those who promote hatred and racially dom of speech, which is a fundamental freedom, with the need to discourage the propagation of hate literature So where do you draw the line? As much as he opposes Bill 33, Mitchell admits that as an indi vidual legislator, he would hesitate to even pick up the pencil Using a quotation from Liberyarian philosopher John Stuart Mill, Mitchell reiterated that the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it robs the human race, those who dissent from the opinion still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose what is almost as gréat a benefit, the clearer pe ception and liveliest impression of truth produced by its collision ae Le Story by Sharlene Imhoff understanding between the public and the press, has the mandate to consider complaints from the public about the conduct of the press in its zest for gathering news and opinion. It also encourages high ethical and professional journalistic standards and serves to preserve the established freedom of the press. B.C. Press Council Chairman Robert Yanow, says Bill 33 indi- cates that publishers, editors and reporters are restricted in their freedom to print a story that might be discriminatory even when it is directly relevant to the story « If this is the case, the Press Council and its members view the Act as an unwarranted attempt to control the In a recent letter to the Anita Hagen's office, ow stated it is important to bring to mind amendment to the press," said Yanow motivated attacks. Getting rid of hate and the consequences of it might sound like a highly noble achieve ment, but in it's haste to eliminate hate, opposi tion leaders fear that the NDP's Bill 33 will only ‘serve to produce an unconstitutional gag order. Bill 33, which is only a signature away from fully amending the law, will result in the repeal of section 2 of the existing Human Rights Act. Because of this, opponents to the move think the NDP are acting in haste. "I think we need to pay very close attention to a bill that attempts to amend the Human Rights Act," said West Vancouver-Garibaldi MLA David Mitchell, who credits the govern- ment for wanting to blast groups who promote hatred, but calls the legislation misguided in that it could be used to force the big chill onto those who disagree with it. Mitchell is also charging that language changes that make up the amended act is broad, vague and ambigu ous, and therefore the interpretation cannot be guaranteed by any human rights tribunal even the excellent tribunal we have in this “The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it robs the hunjan race those who dissent from the opinion still more than those who hold it. ¥*the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and liveliest impression of truth produced by its collision with error.” John Stuart Mill, Libertarian philosopher re is sufficient legislation to deal with ms Hagens believes the amendment ress. People who feel aggrieved can tum to the courts for relief, or to the Human Rights Coun or when it involves the press, to the BC. Press Council itself. "Under no circum- stances should a government-appointed tribunal hear complaints against newspapers for any matter. In a free society, which relies for its information on.a mix of news, views and clash- ing opinions, brought to the citizens-by an unfet- tered and free press, such action, intended or not, would be reprehensible." anow continued to say that suppress- Y ing freedoms,’no matter the intention, is not the Canadian way, and that it is the govemment's mandate to ensure that it does The right to express or to write one's i opinion is the fundamental freedom of every cit- izen and of our press, and to suppress these free- doms, willfully or not, is to ensure that hate which festers under it tums to violence Hagen says the media's fear of a press muz- le should be put to rest, since the soul pur- “will ac not occur province = But Minister Anita Hagen argues that the language used in Bill 33 1s consistent with that used in Human Rights legislation. "When you're dealing with the Human Rights Act, the language is all very vague S ngthing unusual about that at all Use of vague language Mitchell also question cessed by the NDP. "If ever there was ing subject matter to a legislative committee for strict review, this would be the one. What are these amendments really doing? Why ts the government bringing forward these amendments at this time? Indeed, this legislation tries to deal with one of the classic legal and philosophical dilemmas of this century. how to balance free there isn't the only criticism of Bill 33 1 the speediness to which the bill was pro- an argument in favor of send with error Is the NDP trying to human nghts? Is the government going to establish such a thought police? We can't know for sure where such ill-worded, vague and That's why we should be in 4 implement a thought-pelice approach ambiguous legislation will lead hurry to pass it,” said Mitchell T= independent MLA 1s not alone in criticizing Bill 33. Th British Columbia Press Council, which has been in ex: tence since 1983 and 1s the self-regulating body of-more than 30 major community newspapers, including 17 dailies, is higt ly critical of the potential impacts Bill 33 will have if completely passed. The council, which was designed to serve as a medium of vf Bill 33 is to stop promotion of hatred and not place a gag on divergent views debat- Edttorial det ind th 1 in the pres iy press as part of the no intention of bout here e of an act lemocratic proce vampering this myghtin any way 1 ue talking extreme cases, the one which se Purp hatred a to promot iwainst a person or group of yersons,” said Hagen The Minister's ley ulturalism Advisory Council ¢ aslation is backe 1 BC which rece ip by the support of the Multi which has two of its members ntly met in Castlegar, sup- Every citizen has the right to walk the street with dignity and without fear. This bill allows us to said Hagen based in Castlegar. The council ports the bill since it represents values ensure that right in a more progressive way