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Problems,

There are all sorts of problems
with the provincial government's
proposal for college boards in B.C.,
not the least of which is the
decision to continue the system of
appointing board members rather
than electing them.

Under the plan, board mem-
bers across the province will be
fired and replaced with people ap-
pointed for a maximum of six

That doesn't necessorily

simply
only this time for a six-

But while there is something to
be said in favor of appointing
board members — namely that it
removes the board from political
infighting that can occur on munici-
pal councils or school boards —
clearly that does not outweigh the
benefits of a democratically elec-
ted board.

The biggest concern with ap-
pointing members is that the ap-

intments may be made on the
basis of political affiliation with the
government of the day. Even if the
province impartially appoints
board members, there is the con-
cern that.the members could be
removed if something they should
say or do displeases the govern-
ment.

problems

1t is hard to understand why in
@ democracy where we elect our
school boards, regional districts,
municipal councils, provincial gov-
ernments, federal governments
and .even our hospital boards
(though that is through society
membership), we can't choose our
own college boards.

One of the problems Selkirk
College has faced over the years is
a. lack, of community interest.
Perhaps if residents had more ota
direct hand in operating the
college that ity interest

Castlegar Nowe ,
Ata well-attended meeting in Edge-
wood recently, Ed Shields gave &
his meeting

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Letters to the Editor

would surface.

The other problem with the
new college board structure is the
six-year time lintit. From what
local board members told the Cas-
tlegar News in an article this
week, it takes members three or
four years to begin to understand
all the issues.

And it is presumably, the ex-
perienced board members who
also go on to sit on the provincial
body, the B.C. Association of Col-
leges. By removing experienced
board members from the local
boards, and thus the provincial
body, the province is eftectively
removing those who could have
valuable input.

But then maybe that's what was
intended.

Mask
- returned

Six years ago the front porch of the
chapel house on Zuckerberg Island
Heritage Park was completely des-
troyed. About that time the figure
above the arch which had been carved
by Alexander Zuckerberg and known
locally as the “Medusa mask,” dis-
appeared. It was a great Joss since it
was an essential part of the house.

This morning it reappeared at the
house and many people are going to be
very pleased. It is also an excellent
omen and reflects the growing com-
munal sense of partnership in the
restoration of the chapel house and the
island.

May I, therefore, through the
Castlegar News, and on behalf of the

Mallcomments upsetting

After reading J.H. Byer’s comments

on the new mall being built in Castle-
gar (March 15 CasNews), it left me
feeling somewhat upset. Certainly, I
will respect his views and feelings but
there are more pros than cons in
dealing with this issue.

Kids run

I wonder whether or not J.H. Byer’s
or a close friends has a business of his
own, or why would he feel so threa-
tened? The mall “is” much needed! We
need to expand Castlegar and let it
grow, not shrink. Sure the economy is
suffering but are we supposed to run

in front

of moving trains

I am a very frustrated person and
need your help. I work as a locomotive
engineer for CP Rail out of Nelson and
travel to different locations. In the past
— and even now — I have had children
run in front of my moving train and in
one incident fall between the rails. I've
had children crossing under my train
when I was stopped for just a short
period. I've had children cross through

—my train: T'vehad totive-with~

citizens of Castlegar and the Heritage
Advisory Committee, thank the an-
onymous donor who has kept the
Medusa safe all these years and re-
turned her for placement where she
belongs.

John A. Charters, Chairman

Castlegar Heritage Advisory

Committee

Will they learn?

When will they ever learn! The
Liberal Party and its leaders are still
using the same false argument to
defend U.S. cruise missile tests in
Canada as they did under Pierre
Trudeau and his Liberal government
four years ago with the support of the
Conservative opposition.

The only difference now is that it is
the Mulroney Conservative govern-
ment that has renewed, for five years,
the agreement to test the cruise in
Canada — this time with the over-
whelming support of John Turner and
this Liberal Party in parliament. And
both continue to justify their stand
with the same false argument, namely,

Opposed
to death
penalty

I am writing to express my Oppo
sition to the possible imposition of the
death penalty in Canada

Throughout the years this contro
versial problem has been raised, I have
kept silent because I trusted in the
good, sane and compassionate decisions
of our legislatures. However, lately I
am becoming worried about our violent
world situation and feel obligated to
speak out about this issue

I shall not try to persuade with the
many arguments as to why I am
against this proposal as I feel sure they
have been heard before, so I shall
simply say that I am a true believer in
the philosophy of non-violence and that
I am proud of the respect that Canada
has enjoyed among all nations and that
this respect will be diminished if we
re impose capital punishment

Violence begets violence

Pat Romaine
Castlegar

that the tests “fulfill part of Canada’s
commitment to NATO.” False!

It is almost four years now since I, as
the then MP for Kootenay West
(NDP), was ejected from the House of
Commons for refusing to withdraw a
repeated, clear, and unequivocal-state-
ment that prime minister Trudeau had
“repeatedly lied to the House of
Commons and the Canadian people” by
claiming a NATO commitment to test
the cruise, despite admissions from
some government spokesmen that it
was not true.

My accusation is as true now as it
was then and both Turner and
Mulroney, the tiiberals and the Tories,
all know it. As I said in the House of
Commons at the time, there may be an
argument for cruise tests here — how-
ever ill-advised — but an imaginary
“commitment” is not it. Having.been a
Canadian delegate to numerous inter-
national NATO parliamentary meet-
ings, I know first-hand that the over-
riding concern of almost all Liberal and
Conservative representatives attend-
ing has been to procure an increased
Canadian share of Amercian defence
research and defence production con.
tracts — almost solely for Central
Canada.

‘That is the prime reason for Can-
ada’s agreement to test and continue
testing the U.S. cruise missile and the
Liberals and Tories both know it. So
let's cut out the false claims and allow
Canadians to debate and decide the
issue on its merits. Have some faith in
Canada, John and Brian!

Judging by recent polls, more and
more Canadians are finally beginning
to realize that both Tories and Liberals
are incompatible with good govern
ment and socio-economic justice. But
can't we at least have some honesty
and integrity — if not in the govern
ment at least in the official oppostion?
Canadians, it seems, will have to take
the bull by the horns and make a real
choice for a change.

Lyle Kristiansen
Nelson

reactions, a.taste of fear, the thumping <» the: nigh tmares.« ~--

heart, and the feeling of helplessness...
It is parents who are responsible for

the control and care of their children.
No one else can impress upon young
minds the need for responsibility.
Please parents, try to convince chil-
dren that they need to care for them-
selves.

Parents do their job as a parent and
T'll do mine and between us, there will
be no regrets.

The one thing I will not do is go back

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and hide from it?

‘There are many people in the area
with great ideas for new services to
provide us. It’s people like J.H. Byers
who portray “negative” thinking quick-
ly diminishing their ideas and dreams
for them.

The mall would provide 200 full- and
part-time jobs for the unemployed. It
would draw people from the outside
areas to shop in Castlegar rather than
having many Castlegar residents shop-
ping in their areas all the time. Many
people travel to Trail, Nelson, even as
far as Kelowna, to look for selection
and good deals. Certainly, we need to
support the shops in our area — T agree
with that — but what's wrong with
some competition?

I admire First Commercial Prop-
erties of Winnipeg for being willing to
invest in Castlegar. More power to
them. We are having roubles in
Castlegar but we are not a ghost town.

In closing, I address this question to
J.H. Byers: In the event that your
family or friends find employment at
the mall, how would you feel then?

Mrs. C. Moreau
Genelle

to an apprenti pirate, to the finale
the audience was treated to hilarity,
gay songs and fine acting.

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Playing at the Castle Theatre is
Three Guys Named Mike, starring
Jane Wyman, Howard Keel, Van John-
son and Barry Sullivan.

Also playing are “two thriller
shows,” Nanook of the North and Man
From Planet X.

25 YEARS AGO
From the March 22, 1962
Castlegar News

A two-hour parking limit in the
Castlegar business area will be strictly
enforced in the future.

‘This was told a group of Castlegar
businessmen who ap fore
council on Tuedday night.

The delegation consisted of Mrs. A.
Eremenko, R.A.D. West, Gus Lietner,
Gordon Pettit, Jack White and Elmer
Kraft.

* 6 @

A resolution which would have seen
the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce
supporting a brief presented by the
Association of Kootenay Municipalities
‘on the issue of terrorism problems in
the Kootenays was overwhelmingly
defeated at the chamber's meeting last
week.

‘The brief, outlined at the meeting by
Herman Kemperman, who moved sup-
port of the stand of the AKM, called for
the cancelling of drivers’ licenses and
the installation of farm prison reserves
for terrorists.

. 8 @

Over 300 Canadian newspaper pub-

lishers have joined together to provide

March may come in like a lion and
go out like a lamb, but it smells like
askunk. Ask me. Last year a family
of skunks took up residence in the
bush behind my house. I was hoping
that with the onset of winter I had
seen the last of them. No such luck.

I was out bottling wine in my shed
one evening earlier this month when
the familiar odor overpowered me.
You don't need to see a skunk to
know one’s around. “They're back,”
I thought to myself.

Great, another spring and sum-
mer of skunks. Skunks wandering
out of my garden and into the back
yard, skunks using the area under
our bedroom window as a lover's
lane, antskunks digging holes in my
front lawn,so large, you could lose a
Mazda in them.

But worst of all was the thought
of gettingrid of them. There's got to
be a bettér way of getting rid of
them. If you want to get rid of a
skunk, you have'to go to,city hall,
plunk down a’ $25 deposit and
borrow one of their skunk traps.

The skunk trap isn't a model of
high technology, though in its way it
gets the job done. It is a wooden box
about a foot high by three feet long.
It has a hinged floor with wire
attached to it. To set the trap, you
bait the back of the trap, and pull
the wire so that it holds open a
plexiglass door at the front. When
the wire is pulled, it lifts the floor
slightly.

When the skunk enters the trap
its weight forces the hinged floor
down, pulling the wire which
releases the front door. Voila,
you've got your skunk. But that —
believe it or not — is the easy part.
Now you've got to do something
with your prisoner.

The people at city hall tell you
when you get the trap that the box
is built so skunks can’t lift their tails
once they're inside. Don't believe a
word of it. Skunks can lift their tails

Ron
Norman

inside the trap. I know. I caught
one, confident in the knowledge that
it couldn't lift its tail. But when I
later let the skunk out I saw it was
slightly larger than the size of my
fist. If it had wanted, it could easily
have lifted its tail inside the trap —
and cleared the roof by a good three
inches.

The fact is that for some reason
skunks won't lift their tails inside
the trap — or at least they haven't.
Don’t ask me why.

But releasing the skunk isn’t as
easy as it sounds. Last summer I
had an experience I wouldn’t want
to repeat. I had caught the skunk
and mustered enough courage to
pick up the trap — all the while
pestered by a notion in the back of
my mind that this was the skunk
that would prove those people at
city hall wrong.

I walked quickly to my car where
I placed the trap in the trunk. I
started the car, hoping the noise of
the engine turning over wouldn't
frighten my passenger in the back
into “letting loose.” If it did I'd be
driving around with the windows
open for weeks.

I drove 15 minutes up the
highway frantically searching for a
spot to turn the skunk loose. I
wheeled over to the highway
shoulder, stopped the car, jumped
out, gingerly grabbed the trap and
marched to an open area.

This is the REALLY hard part.
I put the trap down, facing away
from me and the car, grabbed a
nearby stick and all in the same
motion propped open the front door
and ran like hell. I would have
passed Ben Johnson at that point.

I perched myself on the trunk of
my car, keeping a close eye on the
trap. I waited. And waited. And
waited. Five minutes went by and
no sign of the skunk. Ten minutes
passed and still no skunk.

I recalled the helpful advice of the
people at city hall. They said if the

skunk doesn't come out after a long
time — like five minutes — just
throw a few pebbles at the trap and
scare it out.

So I began collecting some stones
and tossed them at the trap. Still no
skunk. I gathered some more stones
— bigger ones this time. Obviously
the last stones were too small to
have any effect.

Again I hit the trap, but no skunk.
It’s going on 25 minutes since I first
put the trap down and the people at
city hall told me five minutes was a
long time. So I started wondering if
that darned skunk isn’t even there.
He's gone, I tell myself. He must
have taken off right after I put the
trap down, while I had my back
turned racing to the car.

It doesn’t take me long to
convince myself that the skunk is
gone. So I creep up to the trap
trying to peer through the cracks to
see if there's a shape inside. It’s no
use. I can't see anything.

So, standing a few feet from the
trap, I make my move. I dash
forward, kicking the stick away that
props up the door and take a
quick look inside the trap.

HE'S STILL THERE!

| would have yelled if I wasn't so
worried he'd spray the box. I ran
back a safe distance to consider my
next move. I had to prop that door
open again. But he knows, I'm
coming. He'll be waiting for me.
What happens if I just get the door
open and he springs out right in
front of me? AAAGGH!

After a few minutes I decide I
don't have any choice. I rush
forward, grab the stick, prop up the
door and race back to the car.

Sure enough, a minute or two
later the skunk pokes its head out
the door, quickly scans the area and
darts into the bush. I retrieve the
trap, shove it in the trunk and drive —
home, thinking the whole way:
“There's got to be a better system
than this!”

advertisers and agencies with a more
ical method of placing adver-
tising in their medium.
15 YEARS AGO
From the March 29, 1972
Castlegar News
A new secondary industry is sched-
uled to begin its construction period in
Ootischenia within two weeks.
William Gattrell, director for Area
J told the Castlegar News Tuesday,
that Walter Tymofievich, a former
resident of Castlegar, plans to build a
fibreglass factory at Ootischenia, that
will within a year employ 38 men.
Mr. Tymofievich recently sold his
motel, The Three Sisters, in Fernie, for
half a million dollars and plans to invest
a considerable part in this area.

. 8 *

Faith in the growth of the area was
evident at the regular meeting of
Castlegar council when formal applica-
tion was made by Alex Rezansoff for an
apartment building on Fifth Avenue
and Purcell.

Council was also approached by Paul
Kinakin, who requested that his prop-
erty and that of his neighbor, Tim
Horcoff, be taken into town toun-
daries.

eo 8 8

The principal of Rossland secondary
school, John Charters of Castlegar, has
resigned. The letter of resignation was
sent to the school board last August.

5 YEARS AGO
From the March 24, 1982
ar News

Two and possibly three separate
plans to build a shopping mall in
Castlegar are on the drawing board,
the Castlegar News has learned.

Mayor Audrey Moore said in an
interview this morning that two
proposals submitted so far include a
plan by First City Investment Ltd. of
Vancouver for a mall at 1502 Columbia
Ave., and a bid by First Commercial
Properties of Winnipeg to build a mall
on the eliptical site behind the Castle-
aird Plaza.

* 8 8

Castlegar residents who expected to
ride the bus this year better start
dusting off their walking shoes.

The city's proposed quarter-million-
dollar-a-year transit system has fallen
vietim to Premier Bill Bennett's public
sector restraint program.

In a March 11 letter sent to Castle-
gar council, Urban Transit Authority
chairman, Frederick Macklin, said the
premier's restraint program has forced
the UTA to “postpone Castlegar’s
proposed bus transit service.”

of a billion-dollar-a-year
‘normally occupied those

.. ultra-suede suit
tie on him.and you could have taken

chairs — bottoms so lately risen that

the chairs still seemed

shirt and tie. Andstein, Fed secetary-
treasurer, was a little looser, but put a

Eagle

warm and

those days, largely before business -
adminstration degrees, the two words

were yoked) I admired

Terence Powderly.

Powderly was a union man when it
cost, He led the Knights of Labor in the
United, States in the 1880s. The
Knights were principled and tried to
avoid strikes, preferring to smite the
money barons with enlightenment.
‘They were blacklisted and mauled.

TTL OLED

s president in

_ Wednesday Trail

dom” is the message she has
been giving throughout the
Canada.

longtime of
Jamestown, North Dakota,
James River Auxiliary A
Rott has been a forceful
Eagle presence in the Dak-
otas.

She'’snd ‘husband Gene,

operators of a farm and
ranch, have been an active
Eagle team, and Gene is a
former Grand Aerie officer.

Rott has occupied all the
chairs in her local auxiliary
except that of secretary and
treasurer, and also advanced
through the state auxiliary
chairs before entering the
ranks of the Grand Auxiliary.

“Eagiedom is a garden for
all season,” says Rott, “and if
we tend to it diligently and
with care, we can harvest a

+ bounty of new members and

Bishop
to speak
tonight

The man who heads one of
the poorest Catholic dioceses
in Brazil, and has been at the
forefront of church efforts to
bring about changes, will be
in Trail tomorrow night at
7:30 to speak at Our Lady of
Perpetual Help Church.

Bishop Mauro Morelli, will

be speaking about the major
problems faced by the hun-
dreds of thousands of people
in his sprawling diocese and
how they've pulled together
to overcome them.
* Bishop Morelli’s diocese of
Dugue de Caxias is part of
‘one of the large slums that
Bing Rio de Janeiro.

People there face serious
angers to health, malnutri-
tion and unemployment.

He has been an outspoken
advocate of social reforms in
Brazil to improve living con-
ditions throughout the coun-

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new fraternal year should get
all of the last she can handle.

(she was all-state vice-pres-
ident of the ritual team three
times), and. she hopes to
motivate every state and
province to have at least one

Grand. Madam President, a!

sae neal a! Convention of the Ladies
Auxiliary to the Fraternal
new auxiliaries greater than. Order of Eagles, held in
ever before.” Columbus, Ohio this past

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