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Saturday

May 9, 1992
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60SECONDS

@ OUR PEOPLE

Some elementary school
students met a celebrity this
week. Smokey the Bear and
the folks at the Arrow Forest
District office taught these kids
about our natural resources,
and made the kids day.

page 9

This was not just a win, it
was a haul — as in the Koote-
nay Cocoons Swim Club need-
ed a wheelbarrow to Carry
away the medals its members
won last weekend.

page 19

Some of Castlegar’s firemen
and city workers got a crash
course in safety procedures
this week, courtesy of Lake-
land College in Vermillion, Alta.

page 22

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HOLY SMOKES

News photo by Glen Freeman
After entertaining and educating the kids of South Slocan’s Brent Kennedy
Elementary School Thursday, Smokey the Bear bids the environmentally-aware
students goodbye. :

Pulp mill
shutdown
averted? —

Scott David Harrison
EDITOR :

A walkout by B.C.’s 13,000 pulp and
paper workers hasn’t happened... yet.

Members of the Pulp and Paper-
workers of Canada and the Canadian
Paperworkers Union had threatened to
hit the bricks Thursday, but changed
their minds.

Ongoing negotiations between the

“two unions and the Pulp and Paper In-

dustrial Relations Bureau have prompt-
ed workers to stay on the job in the
hopes that a new accord could be
reached. The two sides have been at the
bargaining table for over a week.

Both parties have agreed to a news
blackout, which prevents any informa-
tion from being released.

Although neither side would confirm
it, it is believed that a three-year deal is
being considered by the two unions, one
that calls for hourly raises of 15 cents in
the first year, 20 in the second year and
a two per cent increase in the final year.

The union had originally demanded a
$2 across-the-board raise, which includ-
ed benefits.

Locally, a pulp strike would see Cel-
gar’s 325 PPWC Local 1 members walk
off the job.

Astrike would also close the Pope'and
Talbot sawmill, which relies on Celgar to
Lng its wood chip and hog fuel sup-
plies.

Astrike could also affect Celgar’s ex-
pansion project, should picket lines be
set up in front of the construction gates.

Expansion project manager Rod
Meares said construction would contin-
ue, strike or no strike.

“Thave no reason to believe there will
be pickets,” Meares said Thursday. “If
there was a strike, there will be legal
places to set up pickets.”

Meares said he believes pulp workers
will steer clear of the construction gates,
saying that it would be illegal picketing.

Meares said also took the opportuni-
ty to dismiss a rumor that Celgar would
lay off construction workers should a
strike take hold.

“That is false,” he said from Vancou-
ver. “There have been layoffs from time
to time and our (work)force has dipped,
but we are back at.935 men and we will
continue to work.”

CASTLEGAR’S FIVE-YEAR PLAN CALLS FOR $15.6 MILLION IN SPENDING, PAGE 4