September 21, 1988

FOR
JOB

SECURI

PICKET LINE . . . (From left) Tim Keraiff, Mike
Harnadek and Clarence Verigin man a BCGEU
picket line in front of the Cent?al Kootenay

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Health Unit. The health unit workers represent
just a handful of BCGEU members currently on

strike. CosNews photo

Strike overloads
social services

VANCOUVER (CP) — A disabled single father
who spent five fruitless hours trying to get
emergency welfare money Tuesday was hoping
mediator Don Munroe’s optimism today was
justified.

Ron Emerson of Sechelt was one of 400 people
who flocked to an emergency centre set up in
Vancouver to handle urgent cases for the Social
Services Ministry during the provincewide civil
service strike, which entered its fifth day |today

“I have had some communication with the
parties in the last few days, and my conclusion is
they are well motivated,” Munroe said as negotia
tions resumed between the provincial government
and the 29,000-member B.C. Government Employ
ees’ Union.

Munroe left the negotiations late Friday when
an impasse was reached over wages. The union wen:
on strike at midnight Friday night, with only 2,000
members in essential services staying on the job.

“There are some bridges to cross yet,” Munroe
said. “They are goingto be tough bridges to cross but
we're going to try real hard to do it.”

“After waiting five hours in line it took them
five minutes to tell me that I had’ to wait until the
strike is over to see my (welfare) worker,” said
Emerson, 41, who has a partially paralysed leg.

“I think it's feasible for us to wrap it up in a
day,” union president John Shields said Tuesday. “I
am going to be very optimistic at this stage.”

Emerson, who gets a $900 monthly handicapped
pension, said he made the two-hour trip from the
Sechelt Peninsula with his five-year-old daughter,
hoping to be given some extra cash for moving
expenses.

But he was sent away empty-handed after staff
explained they couldn't accept his application

Terry Pyper, assistant deputy minister, said
management staff are working as hard as they can
but many have been pulled from other ministries and
are still learning the ropes.

“I think it's running as smoothly as possible
considering the situation,” he said.

The strike that began early Saturday put 27,000
government employees on the picket line. About
2,000 union members — prison guards and some
health care workers — have been designated as
essential and have stayed on the job.

Negotiations stalled over wages. But agreement
was reached on the contentious issue of job security
for union members in the face of the Social Credit
government's privatization program under which $3
billion in assets and services, such as highways
maintenance, are being sold.

The government has offered a five-per-cent
increase in each of three years. This would result in a
compounded increase of 15.8-per-cent.

The union's latest proposal is for 25.6 per cent
over three years

The average base rate for a British Columbia
civil servant is $24,404 a year, but there are about
300 different job classifications.

The majority, almost 71 per cent,
$20,000 to $30,000, the union says.

Management staff are filling in wherever they
can. The Health Ministry opened vital statistics
offices to the public Tuesday so that births, deaths
and marriages can be registered.

Highways Ministry workers who run the inland
ferry from Edgewood to Nakusp in southeastern
British Columbia — one of six such services affected
by the strike — downed their picket signs Tuesday to
take about 20 high school students to class.

USED BOATS

The workers unloaded lifejackets from an idled
ferry and used their own boats for the trip across
Lower Arrow Lake.

“The kids had a bafl,” said Bill Penner, school
district maintenance supervisor. “I guess if the
strike goes on too long though, the novelty will wear
off.”

The strike has closed government liquor stores,
boosting business at private beer and wine stores.

And there have been tong lineups at United
States border crossings as British Columbians head
south to restock their liquor cabinets.

earn from

STUDENTS

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get a little wet,”
Longridge said the students
had an unscheduled day off
Monday when the ferry, which
normally takes their bus across
Lower Arrow Lake from Need
les to Fauquier, stayed put be
cause of the strike by highways
crews who normally operate the
ferry
“We're hoping for an early
settlement and I think the ferry
guys are, too,” Longridge said
“But, if they let the school bus
on, everyone will get mad.”
BCGEU president John
Shields said in Vancouver that
his members had been prepared
to operate the ferry to transport
the school bus to Nakusp but te
withdrew their offer after local

“It's always

ests involved,”

to Edgewood

the ferry

- soesonens

logging contractors sought to
he said. have their trucks also carried. off.” he said.

situation in a small community
where there are different inter

In an emergency they'll let
people across in an ambulance,”
he said, adding that it, would
about an hour to start up

“Edgewood is very much cut
“I've been on call
for four days straight and, if I
leave, there's only one other
physician in Nakusp,” insuffici
ent for the 4,500 people in the

a very difficult

he said.

He said the BCGEU has not area.
withdrawn ferry services from
any areas where there no
alternative land route available.

Dr. Colin Me!
said the loss of ferry service has
meant long hours for him

Instead of the seven-minute
ferry trip, he faces a seven-hour
drive from his home in Nakusp

McNeill said another doctor
he's called in for backup is
expected to arrive this afternoon
but, while he would be allowed
to use the ferry to cross, he
could not bring his car with him.

“That makes me very cross. I
think it’s unnecessary,” he said.
“They're afraid there'll be a
stampedge of vehicles if they try
to let only one on.

“What we need is a bridge like
we've been promised for years.
That would solve this hassle we
have every two or three years.”

Neill of Nakusp

Kristiansen blasts
free-trade deal

The Mulroney-Reagan trade deal is “the most
dangerous environmental hazard facing Canada today,”

governments from continuing or adopting ‘carrot and
stick’ rewards and penalities to achieve desirable

says the New Democrat didate in Koot West.
Revelstoke.

That was the thrust of remarks delivered by Lyle
Kristiansen to a gathering of election organizers and
supporters in Silverton last Wednesday night.

Kristiansen, who was Member of Parliament for
Kootenay West from 1980 - 1984 and was the New
Democratic Party's forestry critic, said: “As one who
has been involved directly in almost every local action
to protect and enhance the environment of the West
Kootenay that has occurred here over the past 22 years

envir and resource goals and to
discourage bad ones. 43
As well he said there will be increased economic
and political pressures to reduce production costs on
both sides of the border by weakening “already
inadequate environmental and safety standards with a
‘lowest common denominator’ approach to what is
ly called “har " of regulations,

standards, and laws.”
Pointing to what he cited as “one clear example of
this surrender of our right to govern our own
ir standards,” Kristiansen referred to

and, as one who has spent time r
the provisions of the proposed trade pact, I want to tell
you that I am scared, really scared, about the serious
roadblacks that this deal will place in the way of each
and every Canadian who genuinely wants to stop the
poisoning of our land, our air, our water and our lives.
“Iam also deeply disturbed by a trade deal that will
— if it should ever become fully operational — dash the
hopes of those millions of ordinary Canadians who have
finally come to the realization that we must place
realistic limits on the rapid exploitation and despoilation
of our resources if our civilization and our species is to

Kristiansen claimed the free-trade pact will “open
us up, beyond our national control, to a renewed and
expanded foreign plundering of our resources by
guaranteeing the U.S. perpetual access to a propor:
tionate share of Canadian resources — especially energy
resources.

“That means more dams, more flooded valleys,
more lost forests, more lost farmland, and more high
cost reliance on more expensive sources of power —
including nuclear power. We will become, even more
than we are today, just hewers of wood-and drawers of
water.”

He also said the pact “effectively sanctions and
locks in U.S. ‘trade remedy’ laws in such a binding way
that they may be used in future to prevent Canadian

SPIKE

Chapter 7 of the trade deal regarding pesticides.

“In Schedule 7 Canada commits itself to ‘work
toward equivalent guidelines, technical regulations,
standards and test methods for pesticide regulation’ and
undertakes to work toward equivalency in ‘the process
of risk/benefit assessment.’

“That means Canada has agreed to replace our
superior standard, which emphasizes safety, with the
weaker American standard which requires a playing-off
of risk versus benefit. Anybody familiar with health or
safety or environmental standards knows that that is
bad news.

“The final straw that breaks the deal's credibility is
that this trade deal, when taken together with an
earlier .(1986) Reagan-Mulroney deal to facilitate
trans-boundary shipments of hazardous wastes, may
well result in the outrageous scenario of Canadian
taxpayers being forced to subsidize the storage and
disposal and/or recycling of American toxic waste”
products in Canada,” Kristiansen charged. _

“For those Canadiaris and Americans who simply
want to cut and run, skim and scram, or poison and pass
on as soon as they've made a quick buck without a
thought for the future of our children or our planet, the
Mulroney-Reagan trade deal is just fine and dandy”
Kristiansen said.

Protesters in debt

i
September 21, 1988 C -astlegar News

By BONNE MORGAN
CasNews Staff

Residents who successfully fought
against CP Rail's use of the herbicide
Spike on area rail lines are now
facing a large bill for their efforts.

Citizens against Spike spokesman,
Mickey Kinakin told the Castlegar
News, citizens must raise several
thousand dollars to pay for its legal
expenses alone.

“We've had a couple of injunctions
we had to follow,” he said, adding the
group needed legal advice through
out its battle. :

Kinakin said the railside protest
that resulted in the herbicide spray.
ing vehicle leaving the area wasn't
the only action taken by the group.

“That's the last resort, he said.

By CasNews Staff

Unionized employees at the Trail
Daily Times and Nelson Daily News
will hold a strike vote tomorrow

The 30 editorial, advertising, cleri-
cal and composing room workers and
10 pressmen who work for Sterling
News Papers Ltd. at Nelson and
Trail have been without a contract
since Aug. 31.

“The company is trying to ask us
for concessions in our contract,” said
Harold Dieno, president of the Com
munications Workers of America
Local 226.

Dieno said the Sterling chain is
offering “a zero wage increase” over
the next three years and would like
to impose a two-tiered wage system.
Dieno said the company is also asking
for cuts in benefits, such as vacation
time and vacation pay.

Dieno declined to comment on
what the union is asking for or on
other issues discussed at the oné:
time meeting between the two sides.
However, negotiations are contin
uing.

Vice-president of Sterling News
Papers, Steen Jorgensen was not
available when contacted by the
Castlegar News.

For the record

It was reported in the Sunday,
Sept. 18 issue of the Castlegar News
that the Regional District of Central
Kootenay was opposed to a liquor
store in Robson.

In its Sept. 10 meeting, the RDCK
did not object to the location of an
“agency liquor stor” in the area. The
RDCK motion stated: “The RDCK
does not object to the location of an
agency liquor store in the Robson
area subject to compliance with a’
regional district bylaws.”

You have to go through all these
legal and political steps first. You
have to take the processes in the
system to the end and that's a very
expensive process.”

In addition, citizens also rang up a
large phone bill during its campaign
against the herbicide and is still
paying for its mailing costs, said
Kinakin.

The group made phone calls to
CPR officials in Montreal, and Spike
action groups in Sault St. Marie and
Vancouver Island.

Kinakin said the group is currently
preparing a submission in writing to
go before the Standing Committee of
Forestry and the Environment — a
committee which Kootenay West MP
Bob Brisco is the chairman.

Citizens would like to see that
“certain groups be given funding to
take on this kind of action when
there's a grave ecological problem
said Kinakin

Kinakin said legal and operating
expenses can end a group such as
Citizen's efforts.

“That's why so many people are
reticent to fight these things,” he
said.

Citizens against Spike had sent

samples of residue it thought to be
Spike found along area rail lines near
water outlet pipes.

The spraying permit given by the
pesticide control branch of the
Ministry of the Environment and
Parks states that no herbicide can be
applied within 10 metres of a water
body.

The samples came back from the
lab testing negative for spike ac-
cording to Kinakin

“It was not spike. They didn't give
us a statement on what it was,” he
said, adding a test to see what the
chemical actually is would cost about
$250 the the group would like to have
it done.

Citizens would also like to send a
representative to Vancouver Island
to help an action group there opposed
to Spike.

The only way we can make sure
that they (the herbicide program)
don't come back is to remain active,”
said Kinakin.

Citizens Against Spike will begin
it's fundraising with a dance at the
Winlaw hall Oct. 1. It will also be
approaching labor and health organ
izations to ask for funding and group
spokesman, Wayne Peppard will be
accepting donations

STRIKERS

continued from front page

District office.

But the workers at the forestry
office are committed.

“It's a bit cold standing here but
it’s worth it,” said Ellen Price

Price said she feels BCGEU mem-
bers won't be “backing down” and
settling for a small increase on its
contract this time.

“We're very concerned about the
wage increase,” she said.

She added that although some
professional components of the

BCGEU earn higher wages, the
clerical component is the worst off.

“What you hear in the press about
the poverty-level wages is very real.
The wage impact is very real for us.”

The effect of the strike on govern.
ment services was evident when
nobody answered phones today in
the Castlegar provincial court office,
probation office, family court office,
Central Kootenay Health Unit, or the
social services and housing district
office, mental health centre, and
Arrow District forest office.

UNITED NATIONS (REUT-
ER) — One thousand teddy
bears are being flown to three
Latin American countries in
what organizers Tuesday called
a “bearlift™ to meet the emo-
tional needs of orphaned or
abandoned children.”

The bearlift was announced on
International Day of Peace, ini
tiated at the United Nations by
Costa Riea and this year dedi
cated to children.

The toys, supplied by the San
Francisco charity Caring for
Children, will go to institutions
in Brazil, Bolivia ahd Peru

At a UN news conference
Samantha Grier, a psychologist

Teddy bears go
to orphaned kids

who heads the project, said the
teddy bear satisfied what she
termed the “touch hunger” of a
lonely child. “A teddy bear is the
next best thing to a hug — a
substitute for the lost mother,”
she said.

About 300 children gathered
in the General Assembly lobby
for a cake-cutting ceremony to
mark the International Day of
Peace. The government of Costa
Rica donated a spruce tree for
planting in the UN garden.

Grier said the government of
Peru inspired the teddy bear -
project.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY . . . The Gillis’s daughter
toilet-papered their house as a 35th wedding

Castlégar News

TREET TALK

CY AND OLGA GILLIS'S 35th wedding anni.
versary will probably be more memorable than most.

The couple had spent a quiet evening at home
having dinner with their daughters Barbara, and
Adrienne and her husband Don Dufault from Nelson.
Ogla's sister Kassie and her husband Lee Kurtz had
even come from Tacoma, WA., for a visit.

Needing an excuse to get them out of the house,
Barbara and friend, Dale Buday sent them out to
celebrate.

The couple returned home to find everything in

“their front yard — grass, fence trees, shrubs and
flowers covered in waves of white toilet paper.

“We were sent out for a drink and we came back
and we didn’t believe it,” said Cy.

The Gillises enjoy their anniversary present so
much that they left it out until it rained.

The job took 24 rolls.

OGLOW'S PAINT and Wallcoverings has
expanded to Grand Forks.

Grand opening of the new location was held this
past weekend.

Owned by brothers Tom and David Oglow since
1977, Oglow’s actually started as a building supply
business in 1951 with Nick, Bill and Pete Oglow as
the principals.

Besides General Paint products, the two stores
handle Louverdrapes and wallcoverings of all kinds.

STOP SIGNS in the middle of Columbia
Avenue? That's right. Four-way stop signs were
placed at the intersection of 6th Street and Columbia
Avenue this week while city crews and a private
contractor installed a new electronic control system
in the traffic lights.

But the signs won't be there for long.

City engineer Kevin Lagan said the project,
worth $16,500 and funded jointly by the city and the
provincial government, should be finished by today.

anniversary prank. (from left) Cy and Olga
Gillis and Kassie and Lee Kurtz.

CosNews phoio by Bonne Morgon

Lagan said the lights will include a pedestrian.
activated system and a vehicle-activated system.
However, the signals won't be in full working order
until late October when the vehicle triggering
mechanisms are installed in the pavement.

THE HI ARROW Motor Inn's restaurant has
changed hands. Nick and Shelley Pappas have taken
over the restaurant, which now is called Macy's. It
will be a family-style restaurant with a salad bar,
steaks, seafood, pasta and pizza.

AN ARMSTRONG. based company that extracts
cedar oil from cedar boughs, wants to set up a plant
in Nakusp. Cedar Essential Oils Ltd. buys cedar
boughs, distills them and sells the oil. The oil is used
in perfumes and as a wood finish.

The plant would create four jobs as well as
provide jobs for pickers.

CANADA POST says that beginning Jan. 3,
1989 lockboxes in postal facilities will be free for
customers who qualify.

“The initiative, identified in Canada Post's
corporate plan released in May 1988 will be of
particular interest to rural customers,” said John
Fellows, general manager of collection and delivery
for Canada Post.

Fellows says about one million people will
benefit from the free lockboxes. Canada Post intends
to mail a householder to provide full guidelines for
the free lockbox service.

The program takes effect with each lockbox
renewal date.

THE CRESTON Valley Wildlife Management
Area is gearing up for its big 20th anniversary. The
date is Oct. 2 from 1-5:30 p.m. Cakes are being
baked, streamers pinned up and the wildlife centre
made spic and span. The activities include a
children’s program at 2 p.m

MIKE STRELIEFF of Shoreacres, after 20
years of serving Castlegar and Trail area residents
at Mike’s Radiator Repairs in his East Trail location,
has moved to a new location. You'll find his business
now at 690 Rossland Avenue, Trail.

Liberal offices open

By CasNews Staff
Garry Jenkins, Liberal candidate
for Kootenay West-Revelstoke, offi.
cially opened ‘campaign offices in
Nelson and Trail last week. About 30
people attended the Trail office
opening and 20 the Nelson opening.
Jenkins is looking for a location for
an office in Revelstoke, but appar-

the bit awaiting the election call.

“When was the last time that the
Liberals in this riding had campaign
offices open well before the writ has
been dropped? In Kootenay West
Revelstoke, the Liberal Party now is
the viable alternative.”

The Nelson office is located at 441
Baker Street and the Trail office at

1148 Bay Avenue. Hours are 9 a.m. -
5 p.m. Monday to Saturday.

Jenkins pledged to run a “full
campaign.”

“I will be campaigning actively and
vigorously in all areas of the riding.
No longer can the Liberals be con
sidered a fringe party in Kootenay
West-Revelstoke.”

ently doesn’t intend to open an office
in Castlegar.

The Trail and Nelson offices have
been open for a week, with both
taking on the look of election centres.
Riding poll maps have been placed on
walls, and lawn signs are being
prepared in the back of the offices.

“The Liberals in Kootenay West-
Revelstoke are better prepared then
ever to fight and win the upcoming
election campaign,” Jenkins said in a
prepared release.

“Our toll-free Liberal information
line has been in place for about one
week, and our campaign committee
has been meeting and is well organ
ized. We are all now just chomping at

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