42 Castlegar News October 17, 1990 LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS Natives rebury ancestors at Vallican VALLICAN (CP) — The remains of six native Indians were returned to the earth Saturday in a simple ceremony held centuries after their original interment. The reburial ended a -two-year campaign by members of the Sinixt (Arrow Lakes) band for the return of the bones from the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria. The ceremony, from which cameras were barred, was held on the site of an ancient village on the Slocan River near Vallican. The Sinixt, who were declared ex- tinct by Ottawa more than 30 years ago, decided not to repeat their an- cestors’ traditional rites, “They had it was meant to be,"” Yvonne Swan. “Once to be for all time. The main thi return the remains to Mother Earth. Two dozen band members retrieved the bone fragments from the museum last month. The remains were placed on a table inside a tent on the burial site, surrounded by candles and eagle hers. * feather was placed near the ld found buried with its bed in 1981 when a survey crew stum- bled across it. : The band’s 250 members, many of whom live in northeasteren Washington state, have been fighting for recognition since they were declared extinct in 1956. ‘Swan said the museum's decision to release the remains is a recognition of “ta distinct nation, though a small one.*” Sinixt have been occupying the site of their ancestors’ village to halt plans by the B.C. Heritage Trust to build an interpretive centre and tourist attrac- tion. The eight-hectare site was pur- chased from a private owner two years ago, but trust manager Cliff Hewitt said the government agency has yet to draft any plans. Bob Campbell, a Sinixt am- bassador who has been living in a tepee on the land for 14 months, said protection of a burial ground is the same issue that sparked the dispute in Oka, Que. **You cannot buy dead people,” he says. ‘You know any place where you can go and buy a graveyard? You cannot exploit a thing like that. It's immoral."" Said Swan: ‘We don’t want a lot of people coming and. gaw! and taking things out of there. It’s a mat- ter of respect.” Fire season quiet By CasNews Staff The Arrow forest district had a quiet fire se: this year compared to 1989. d A total of 72 fires burned 36 hec- tares of forest, Forest Service Statistics show. In 1989, 227 fires scorched 104 hectares of forest land. This year’s fire total is also below the Forest Service’s 10-Year average of about 100 fires per season, said acting fire control officer Skip Walsh. Fewer fires to put out also meant fewer dollars were spent. This year, the Arrow forest district spent $600,000 fighting blazes compared to 1989’s total of over $1 million. t The small number of fires this year can be attributed to the wet spring and the lack of lightning storms during the summer, Walsh said. The fire season, which officially began April 15, ended Monday. Walsh said the local Forest Service, like its provincial counterpart, is now reviewing its performance arid con- sidering the speed and effectiveness of local fire response. Forest Service staff-members ask, “How effective were we for the money spent?"’ Walsh explained Noting the current fire hazard level is set at low, Walsh said he thinks the fire season is over for this year. “We've just about wrapped it up,”” he said Province may run deficit VICTORIA (CP) — The current B.C. budget could end up with a deficit even though when it was in- troduced last spring it was expected to be balanced, Finance Minister Mel Couvelier said today And if the economy doesn’t begin to improve and he isn't careful with Next year's budget, ‘the provincial government could run up a $2 billion to $3 billion deficit, he added “Ivl be difficult to avoid one (a deficit next year),"* Couvelier told reporters. “I don't want to paint too bleak a picture. I'm trying to give you an honest assessment. Things are slower."* The current budget was estimated at $13 billion, but revenues are lower than anticipated, he said The Social Credit government Prided itself on bringing in two suc cessive balanced budgets, although some accounting experts and the NDP have maintained the current gover nment only used accounting tricks to make it appear balanced Finance Ministry statistics suggest the provincial the economy is fairly Strong although the- forest industry appears to be in a recession. Most other sectors are up and the province was expected to experience three per cent growth this year Premier Bill Vander Zalm said last week that a recession was on its way and the government might have to take restraint measures, which could include public sector wage controls The Conference Board of Canada said last week the country is in a recession. But many economists say British Columbia either won't be a part of it or will suffer only a slight downturn Economic advisers told Couvelier this week that his prediction of 1.5 per cent growth for next year was overly optimistic But they also told him not to panic and take over-reactive measures © Shop 'N Save © Woolco (Prices effective October 17-October 24 Not all Hyers receive tull distribution you did not receive one of these flyers and would like to do so. please phone ovr Circulation Department ot 365-7266 SIGN 'EM UP Bonnie Horswill (left) and Mary Stewart panel urging the panel to give a speedy gather slonstures for @ letter to the Celga: di lof xpansion review r Opp the prop: $650 million project. The letter also jo a) the p I and federal g the recommendation and give Ceigar the green light to p d.T Project begin tomorrow in Castlegar. P. hi 4 yto CasNews photo nical h. on the prop Signals mixed, Harcourt says PENTICTON (CP) — The Social Credit government is giving the public contradictory signals about how it will handle the recession, NDP Leader Mike Harcourt said Tuesday. “Will the real Minister of Finance Please stand up,’’ Harcourt joked during a speech to the South Okanagan-Boundary labor council. Premier Bill Vander Zalm has said the government may have to cut the Provincial budget by five per ina restraint move, said Harcouft. Yet Finance Minister Mel Couvelier talks of spending $20~billion- on capital Projects during the next five years to keep the provincial economy going through a recession But the opposition leader said he wondered how the government could afford to cut more in health, education or environmental Protec- tion programs. Instead, the government could quickly save $10 million by cutting its self promotional advertising and then put the money into such job-creating MIKE HARCOURT . . . Socreds ‘pessimistic’ areas as silviculture and'reforestation. “*I think that Social Credit is Being far too pessimistic,” he later told reporters. ‘I think they're too fearful about the B.C. economy.”” x Ballots continued from front page pansion does not go ahead, he said. And council should seek help from the school board and parents to deal with the problem of vandalism in city parks, he said Besides Smecher, only school board trustee Tony Guglielmi, who has ser- ved five years, has reservations about whether to seek re-election Turner, who has been on the board for six years, three of them as chair- man and two as vice-chairman before that, said he takes some of the credit for making the board more open to the public since he was elected as a trustee Turner said he feels he has been voted chairman and vice-chairman so many times by fellow trustees because his is considered open-minded, fair and non-partisan and listens to a good argument “I. can be convinced,”* he said Turner said-he is tow-key and in: terested in the job, rather than in grabbing the limelight. As well, he still has children in the school system, which gives him first-hand knowledge of what is happening in the schools. And Turner, an instructor at Selkirk College, has a background in education that makes the language of the school system and its workings easier to understand, he said. But Turner said he does not expect to win just because he is an incumbent and will ‘‘campaign long and hard.”* Bill Hadikin, who has served two years on the school board, Mickey Kinakin, who has been a trustee for three years, and Evelyn Voykin, who has been on the board for three years, all said they will seek another term. Voykin said an important issue for her in the school district is the ongoing problem of large class sizes and she is concerned about a B.C. restraint plan hitting education and affecting new programs that the Ministry of Education has initiated, such as the new primary program Kinakin said he would like to con- tinue working on some of the projects he has been a part of, such as the newly created teacher education Westar continued from front page situation is that it’s on a week-to- € optimistic we can get going in two or three weeks, but it really will depend what will happen when our log inventories go down, and if we have enough cash on hand,"* said Geoft Bekker, Westar's area manager in Revelstoke He said it has been at least a year since either Westar's Revelstoke or Castlegar mills made a profit He blamed the poor performances on dramatically reduced housing star ts in the United States, a strengthened Canadian dollar and higher fees levied by the B.C. government on com- Panies cutting trees on Crown land Ike Barber, president of Slocan Forest Products Ltd., said his com- pany has laid off 500 to 600 mill workers in its Vavenby, Valemont, Slocan and Quesnel operations. Slumping markets for plywood and lumber have led other interior and coastal mills to announce shift cur- v and y Those shutdowns, when taken as a whole, now mean that $,300 IWA- Canada workers are off the job, the union says. The number is based on a count of union workers laid off since June. LOTTERIES The winning numbers drawn Tuesday in the B.C. Keno lottery werre 18, 25, 29, 32, 34, 36, 45 and 50. The winning numbers drawn Mon- day in the B.C. Keno lottery were 15, 23, 26, 32, 42, 48. $1 and $3 The winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6-49 draw were | 6, 8, 30, 32 and 44. The bonus number was 17 There was no winner of the jackpot Prize of $2,479,319. 30 Therefore, the Lotto 6-49 jackpot prize pool estimate for the next draw will be $5 million The second-prize pool, awarded to those matching five regular numbers and the bonus number, had eight wn nners of $117,078.90 The third-prize pool, awarded to those matching five regular numbers, had 277 winners of $2,585.70 The fourth-prize pool, awarded to those matching four regular numbers, had 17,038 winners of $80.80. In addition, there were 328,035 prizes of $10 awarded to those mat- ching three regular numbers. There was a total of 345,358 prizes worth $8,789,209.80, including the jackpot The winning numbers drawn Saturday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16 and 30. The winning numbers in the Ex- Press draw were 269151, 780827, 791634 and 567103 The winning Lotto BC numbers were 6, 13, 17, 24, 33 and 39. In the event of a discrepancy bet- ween these numbers and the official winning numbers list, the latter shall Prevail Program being run by the University of B.C. in connection with local school districts and Selkirk College. As well, he said he'd like to see a number of new ideas implemented, such as making health and fitness a Part of the everyday lives of all students. Ed Conroy, who won the New Democratic Party nomination for the Rossland-Trail riding earlier this year, said it would be “improper” for him to seek re-election to the school district. “You can’t have your cake and eat it too,’’ said Conroy, who has been a trustee for five years. Ken Wyilie, who is finishing Martin Vanderpol’s term as regional district director for Area J, said there are several projects — such as the Ootischenia fire protection plan — that he would like to see to the end. Wyllie was elected in a byelection last year to replace Vanderpol, who resigned to accept a teaching job in Indonesia Wyllie said he also wants the issue of the removal of air traffic con- trollers from the Castlegar Airport control tower put before the courts if Possible. Recommendations on the issue fr@m the lawyers for the Regional District of Central Kootenay are led to be discussed in a closed session of the RDCK board on Saturday. John Voykin, who has represented Area I on the regional district board , for 10 years, said he feels he’s fair and accessible to his constituents. “I think the record clearly points DOREEN SMECHER - + - faces tough choice out I've done a lot for the com- munity."” Voykin said recycling will be one of the “‘issues of the 90s’’ and he will continue to work on health care in the region. He has been chairman of the regional district hospital board for two years. Bob Barkley, director of Area H. which covers the Slocan Valley, said he feels he has a ‘pretty good idea’’ of the needs of his constituents and the directiom they want to go the direction they want to go. The candition of Highway 6 is a a KIRK DUFF . - wants aldermanic seat “pet peeve’ of the director who has served for five years on the RDCK board as a representative of the area and for two years before that as a representative of of Slocan Forestry and watersheds continue to be important issues to his con- stituency and he is seeking to have the ghost town of Sandon declared a heritage site, Barkley said Nomination papers for local gover- Ament positions must be in by noon Oct. 39. Municipal elections are Nov 17 Mining picture bleak VANCOUVER (CP) — Unless ex- Ploration in British Columbia turns Up new ore reserves within the next few years, ‘we won’t have much of a mining industry by the turn of the century,”’ the president of the B:C. and Yukon Chamber of Mines war- ned Tuesday. “Right now, there is a downturn in exploration activity, although not as severe in British Columbia as elsewhere in Canada," William Wolfe said in an interview. “It mainly reflects the difficulty junior companies have in raising new money, and we're expecting it to be worse next year.”* Jack Patterson, chamber of mines manager, said 1990 exploration spen- ding in British Columbia is expected to be around $140 million, down from $150 million last year and $215 million in 1988 But the picture is much bleaker for Canada as a whole. This year's outlays are estimated at $650 million, less than half the $1.4 billion spent in 1988. Yukon has been the hardest hit, with exploration spending plunging to the $9-million level from $45 million in 1988. “*B.C. would be in worse shape were it not for the activity in the Stikine and Mt. Milligan areas,”” Pat- terson said. Statistics from B.C.'s Mines Ministry show that reserves of the Province's principal minerals — cop- Per, lead, zinc, molybdenum, silver and gold — have all declined since the early 1980s. The ministry's figures represent the quantities of metals contained in Proven and probable mineable ore in operating mines and in deposits committed for production, as of the beginning of each year Over the longer term, the mineral exploration sector will have to come to terms with an issue that is in- creasingly in the public eye — the resolution of B.C. native Indian land claims. “We're apprehensive about what the outcome may be, but we feel it’s better to get it over with so we know where we stand,"’ said Wolfe, who is Cominco Ltd.'s exploration manager for western Canada “Our basic position is that the mining business is different than fishing or forestry, in_that it is not-a traditional native occupation,” he said Wolfe noted that mining companies look for certain assurances before they are willing to commit large amounts of risk capital for ex- and di hy in the world “They want a legal system that assures that disputes can be resolved, a fair regulatory framework and a fair system of taxation that recognizes the mining company's right to recover its Investment and achieve an economic rate of return.”’ “We have to replenish our ore reserves, but if we are left sitting in limbo for, say, 10 years; companies may have to look else where if they are to survive,”’ he says. “In the long run, businesses — in- cluding mining firms — can adapt to new realities, but they have to know what those realities are. + any LOCAL NEWS ir in Robson that hi lograms STREET TALK PEARL ANDROSOFF says she’s not sure what " she and her husband John saw over Mount Sentinel one evening late last month but whatever it was, it was bright enough that “‘you could just about count the (blades of) grass’’ in the lawn. The “‘very white light,”’ which she said was not the same as electric light or sunlight, shone for a minute or two over the mountain at about 8:30 p.m. Sept. 24 and illuminated the area around the couple’s home on 12th Street, in the Sherbiko Hill area, she said. And she said the light they saw was different than a large, bright star, which she compared to the Star of Bethlehem, that was visible one evening about 10 years ago. That incident was reported in the Castlegar News, she noted. Androsoff says she feels the recent light was an omen, a sign of a good thing to come. Perhaps something positive is in store for this area or even the whole world, she speculated THE CASTLEGAR SCHOOL DISTRICT must have something special about it since many of its employees don’t seem in a hurry to leave. Recently, 19 school district employees passed noteworthy milestones: Nick Simms, a painter, has 16 years with the district; Bill Gevatkoff, a mechanic, eight years; secretary Chris Plamondon, 11 years; chief custodian Mabel Ph 11 years; and superi: of schools Terry Wayling, seven years. Child care worker Molly Beckstead has been with the district for 13 years; maintenance supervisor Andy Boolinoff, five years; custodian Am Chernenkoff, 12 years; secretary Mary Dooley, 14 years; assistant Superintendent of schools Lach Farrell, 20 years; Bobbie ltcush, a teacher aide, 14 years; secretary Darlene J 19 years; Stan J abus driver, 15 years; custodian Sam Laurino, 26 years; custodian Fred Resendes, 15 years; Rosalee Root, a clerk-typist, 10 years; teacher aide and computer aide Raylene Samure, five years; child-care worker Dave Scanlon, five years; and Maureen Stelck, a teacher aide, nine years. Break into Fall & Winter Take advantage of Eremenko’s Final - SIDEWALK SALE Of the Year! 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