editorial comment

It’s your budget too!

for our new mayor

and councillors, and a lot of time and effort went
into it. Now, we realize that not everyone can attend
the meeting—but 22 people? Come on! That’s a lit-

tle low, even in Castlegar!

Volunteer power!

A wise person once said that it is smazing what
can be accomplished when no one bothers to take
the credit. That proverb is coming to life in Castle-

vex! Quir ComPLaning §\ {74
Yoo SHOULD, HAVE THOUGHT,

Taking another look at who best serves our city

It has been said that the true test
of a civilization is in the way that the
strong and powerfal care for their
less helpless

received in years past. Jane Amot,
Cc ity Services Admini

tor, said, the organization is striving

If you think you can help out, call Doug Hickey at
365-6848.

Power of the people

Line meee Sa Oe NE ee A AE ee

The result? The lines, at least on that current
and beautiful highway, will remain

d. Pat y 1

on the backs folks,

who wrote and faxed letters to BC Tel!
i throughout

Congratulations to Deb Chmara, named late

that be in her volunteer efforts with
the United Way or Red Cross, or by staying late

after school to help a child.

The Kiwanis Club also deserves a huge thank

aid that city council awarded to
various

organizations in our com-
. While no one doubts that

pe pe]

Or another, there is another entire
segment of our local little ‘society
that depends on mmnicipal funding
‘not for excitement, ahtletics or
entertainment—but for the overall
well-being of our communty's
societal health.

Such is the case with Castlegar
and District Community Services,
which carries a budget of close to

year,
decided to take the plunge and
requested $5,000 from council,
rather than $2,000 which they had

to gain addi money to support
the broader range of community
services it if expected to offer—
services that are expending as

hdréflike counselling for alcohol
and drug abuse, working with chil-
dren who have been physically,
emotiot or sexually abused; or
finding a safe place for local
women whose home-lives are
physical hells.

While these problems surface in
Castlegar more often than we'd
like to believe, they are generally
not unique to those across the
province. But each community,
including this one, does have its
own set of problems. And since

for specific purposes, it's up to
council to ensure that sufficient
money is available to combat those

I that are tail ide to

Castlegar. It has a responsibility to
support the ‘community fabric’—
frayed ends included.

After all, the people served by

tight here. Throwing an annual party

is nice. And the pageant? Well, pos-

sibly i it serves a purpose. But in com-

Parison to the importance of an
that serves to maii

the well-being and Stability of a

'y, help the and
the hurt, they're hard to take serious-
ly in terms of generous funding. {#

$9. Ayhen Mayor O'Connor rage
ed and raved that organizations
must start standing on their own
and no longer rely on the annual
municipal hand-out, he’s correct,
But, at the same time, he should
have made it clear that he was

really fits here.

Apparently city council didn’t
seem to think so. After reviewing
the request for $5, 000 (conserva-
tive, Ser-

fii referring to those orga-
who CAN fund

such as the ball teams, the hockey

clubs, or the Castlegar Queen

Comeniire Castlegar and District

vice’s mandate), oe city decided

Excuse me, but something isn’t

y Services is not one of
ion organizations. I can’t imagine
the ‘employees’ holding a bakesale
aftet work in order to raise money
for sexual abuse counsélling. But
then again, I would never have
thought that a Queen Committee
would still exist in the year 1994.

How to wreck the CORE process IWA style

Sterling News Service—The recent “semi-
nar” organized by the Save Our Jobs Committee
in; Williams Lake, and the vitriolic garbage that
wafted from it into the public domain is an
effrontery to decency and intelligence.

For years, I have supported the people work-
pe ie Se foots = tek Sears © save Ore
jobs. I have strident

they heard\ by the level of hate that dominated
the meeting, that they couldn’t be part of it. I
take my hat off to them.
For the record, let me elaborate on the content
of the tapes. How about IWA Vice-president Har-
Arcand

vey
with Hitler and Idi Amin? How about Arcand’s
of CORE Ci i

ists who seemed to be more interested in shut-
ting down the forest industry
than reaching a compromise. I
hope I can continue to do so,
but I have to tell you that it's
going to be difficult, consider-
ing what went on in Williams
Lake recently.
The socalled Seminar was
a training session in

Owen as being environmentally so green that his
shorts are “shit-green.”
Arcand describes to the semi-
ner how the Save Our Jobs
Committee took control of the.
CORE agenda, stacking meet-
‘ings by establishing numerous
groups that represented the
same interests.
“Owen’s moves when the
Clayoquot Sound thing came out

Environment (CORE), the aim of which is to
forge a consensus on land use in British
Columbia.

The Cariboo Table was one of CORE's initia-
tives, but after 15 months of mectings, the par-

failed to reach a consensus. It now is
clear why. Tape recordings of the seminar tel an
ugly story of how some Table members, specifi-
cally members of the Save Our Jobs C:

d us that we were dealing with a guy
whose shorts were green, probably shit-green for
all we knew, and we assumed right from there in
the Cariboo that we were dealing with the
enemy. We weren't dealing with a guy who > was
going to do us amy gopd. He was the enemy.”

The tapes also show how the people who were
out to wreck the CORE process dealt with
media. Terry Tate, chairman of the Save Our
Jobs Ci i

never intended the process to work. Instead, they
did their best to wreck it.

We, are, by the way, not talking about clan-
destine. made by conser
The tapes were leaked by people who attentied
the seminar, people who would normally sup~

port the efforts of Share groups and Save Out”

Jobs committees.
‘They were so disgusted and disturbed by what

of his group wrote letters for mill workers and
sent them to newspapers.

When workers were reluctant to write letters,
Tate said, “we went back to the office and we
spent four-and-a-half hours and wrote up 35 or 40
letters. Every singic one of them was different.”

‘Then they went back t thé mill and told the
siriee he Cod dan nM they Mind Chins

to “sign the God-damned thing and take it down

told the seminar how members ,

and drop it off at the (Williams Lake) Tribune
office or send it to the Province newspaper.”

Here’s Arcand’s recipe for dealing with envi-
ronmentalists: “Confront them. I call it getting in
their face, This is one of my favorite parts of the
whole deal: running around get'n in the face of
those lyin’ sleaze bags.”

More of Arcand’s antics in dealing with envi-

teachers or anyone else who advocates green
positions, he said, should be harassed. “Stay in
their God-damned face.”

You get the message. It is the same rhetoric
that prompted a speaker at the recent mass rally
Se eee erate ee 8 toatern
British Col i
concrete-kissing” enemies of the workers

I want to tell Arcand, Tate and the other types
who deliberately sank the CORE process that

behavior

is probably the best thing that could have hap-
pened to CORE.

nae the revelations at the seminar

people in

to take their concer 10 the pedia. The publiciny

that has followed since cannot help but isolate

a8 the real

Meanwhile, Arcand and his cohorts have
Played right into the hands of those they seem to
perceive as the enemy. call that poetic justice.

Wednesday, April 1 3, 1994

The Castlegar Sun

Letters to the Editor

a

Dear Editor:
I am puzzled and confused.
I have

day tasks. There are a few vol-

SLs Ru teeer dame

Spare some time from their busy

schedules, and do tasks that ben-

-efit the Heritage Society and the
There are b

Why are you destroying what we have. of the past?

winter there were 14 windows
broken. It was caused by sense-
less offenders. The money that
was spent to replace these win-
dows could have been used for

of Castlegar, bring pte trea-
sures here to the museum so
other people can see what our
grandparents used, to do every

es, and in the
nity that donate funds and time
to the Society.

The Heritage Society is a
non-profit organization. This

other mai jobs at the
Heritage Society, Zuckerberg
Island has goné through @
numerous amount of benches,
sign posts, and garbage cans in
the past years,’ All becams Wane

dals have to y vieieae what so
Many enjoy. There has beea two
break-ins. What do the burglars
Bet away with? Coffee money,
and a meagre float. The Society
has decided not to have any
money on the premises. Why
are so few, trying to destroy
something, that so many are

Traffic Control Flagging: Sat., 23, 9 am - 3 pm, $42. Please
be prepared to be outside for most of this coutée.

Pass ss Creek firefighters show skill and preparedness

evening of April 5, 1994. A
young visitor, newly arrived, had
left my home for an evening's
walk. As the darkness grew, I

became more and more preoccu-
pied with the thought that he
could be lost. With the snow now
melted, I would have no clues
where to search. How would he
survive the night? I wasn't sure I
had ‘outdoor skills’.

When, at 10 p.m., one of your
team’phoned me with the news

that our house guest had been
found and was okay, I was greatly
relieved. This was not the kind of
‘search and rescue’ that gets four
columns of press because & was a
search and rescue done’ at the
right time. You have my respect
for your incredible skills, team-
work and preparedness, but most

Cost of abortion goes past the clinic

don’t usually think in terms of
economics. Many people think
that unless they have had an

But that choice-is no longer
Private when we see our tax dol-

tion, the economic impact of
killing unborn children is

Between 1971 and 1991
approximately one and a half mil-
lion babies were aborted in Cana-
da. With an average of 40

students per classroom, 37,500
entire classrooms have been
eliminated over this 20-year peri-
od. Our current abortion rate
wipes out 2,500 additional class-
rooms per year. Any wonder why
teachers can't find jobs? Why
does the BCTF have a pro abor-

policy?

Consider if these one and a
half million children had been
born. Their parents would have
needed to purchase food, hous-
ing, clothing, furniture, toys and
school supplies. The children
would have been enrolled in
swimming lessons, music
lessons, hockey and drama class-
es. Think of all the clothes
teenage consumers buy. Then, as
adults, they would be buying

‘The Doctors of

homes, furniture, cars, etc. Why
are Canadian businesses going
bankrupt at record rates? You
can’t manufacture and sell
ucts to @ market that has

A 4

Canada's birthrate has been
below 1.7 for several years, and
have

Log Scaling and Grading: Swdents receive training that is appropriate to |
the vocation as well as to provide them with the skills to perform the jobs
and to challenge the examination. Mon. - Fri., April 25 - May 6. 9 am -4 pm.
of all for the ao $400. Classes are held at Selicirk College and Atco Lumber.

ed to hear a call for help. R and Waste Prerequisite: Must be a licensed log
scaler. Mon., May 16 - 20. 8:30 - 4:30 pm. $225, The manual is an
additional $25. This course will be held at Selkirk College and designated
| field locations.

Blasting and Explosives: The course content is more than sufficient
Preparation for WCB or Ministry of Mines examinations. Sat. & Sun.,

April 30 & May 1,9 am - 4 pm, $150.

We Install

National C Certification Level 3: Fri., April 29 & May 6, 6:30 -
‘9:30, Sat. & Sun., April 30, 31, May 7, & 8, 9 am - 5 pm. $150
BUILTIN Prenatal Classes: For and their coaches. T include:
Pregnant women ‘opics
VACUUM SYSTEMS] | Fon'se Sais of tds ca pment
i hang i _ comfort, Stages of

"eer Lor spay 2 asters bate. aedaewerremtmnyec
Wed., April 27 - June 8, 7-9 pm. (7 sessions) $50 per couple.

CASTLEGAR CAMPUS
365-1208

last year would have paid a mini-
See ABORTION 16a

Medical Associates

Have Moved to 1101 Dewdney Avenue, Trail

FOR APPOINTMENTS WITH:
Dr. T. Hii
Dr. A. Meinychuk
Dr. R. Pasin
Dr. R. Phillips
Dr. R. Wilson

Phone:
Columbia Family
Medicine 368-9394

Laboratory 368-9199

FOR APPOINTMENTS WITH:
Dr. S. Cameron
Or. J. Grey
Dr. C. Hume
Dr. B. Trenhoime
Phone:

Riverside Family
Medicine Clinic
368-5656

FOR APPOINTMENTS WITH:

Dr. M. B. Adnams

Phone 368-9292
Dr. R. J. Crisfield

Phone 368-8880
Dr. R. G. Grey

Phone 368-8555
Dr. K. B. LeRose

Phone 368-5511

X-Ray 368-5959

Thank You For Your Patience

UPTO $3000
The 1994 BC

PRICES IN EFFECT TIL Saturday, Apr. 16, 1994

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HE provincial government has

cut the property purchase tax

for first-time home buyers on
homes valued at up to $256,000 in
the Lower Mainland and Victoria
regions, and $200,000 in all other
regions of the province.

That puts up to $3,000 in the
pockets of first-time home buyers.

HERE’S HOW YOU
APPLY:

All you have to do is fill
out the necessary
declaration when you
complete your property
purchase. [fpou
qualify, you simply
don’t pay the property
tax. It’s easy.

And there’s no
wait

_ ve

for first-time

oy la

HERE’S WHO QUALIFIES:
You are eligible for this tax cut if:

@ you have not previously owned
a home,

@ you are a Canadian citizen, or
lawful permanent resident who has
lived in BC for at least one year,

¥ @ you are buying or building

your first home,
@ you are financing at
least 70% of the
purchase price,

@ you reside in the
home for at least
one year, and

@ your purchase
was made on
1] or after March 23,

1994.
ze

For more information on how you benefit from the tax cut for first-time home buyers
call Enquiry BC:

In Greater Vancouver: 660-2421 / In Greater Victoria: 387-6121
All other areas: 1-800-663-7867

GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA