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More signs needed

The provincial government's an-
nouncement this week that it plans
to install new and more colortul
signs indicating the way to our
provincial parks is good news in-
deed. The old brown signs just
wc” didn't have any life to them.

While they're at it, local parks
personnel should | hard at
erecting more directional signs to
Syringa Creek Provincial Park.. At
Saskatchewan couple recently
found out the hard way that the
park signage could be improved.

The couple was on their way
back to their prairie home over the
Blueberry-Paulsen when their
motor home ran into mechanical
problems. They arrived in
Castlegar too late to have a local
mechanic look at the vehicle, so
they asked around about overnight
camping.

They were directed to Syringa
Creek park. They limped out to the
park in their crippled motor home
only to find the campground full.

So they proceeded up, the gravel
road toward Deer Park — not
realizing the road does not con-
tinue north. They decided to back
down the road when they came to
one of those hairpin turns high
ab the Arrow Lake.

They drove back into Castlegar
wondering if their motor home
would make it and swearing that
they would never return.

The obvious solution to the
problem is to erect more signs in-
dicating whether the Syringa cam-
pground is full. One could be in-
stalled at the Highway 3A intersec-
tion with Broadwater Road and the
other at the Highway 3 and Colum-
bia Avenue intersection, right
beside the sign indicating whether
the ferry is closed.

And it wouldn't hurt to have a
sign at Syringa Creek directing
visitors to other area campsites,
such as Pass Creek Regional Park
or the new RV park near the Com-
munity Complex.

The squeaky wheel

The report by Stuart Craig,
regional pesticide — control
manager, of the on-site inspection
last month of CP Rail’s proposed
pesticide spraying program in the
Slocan Valley and between Nelson
and Castlegar leaves little doubt
that the squeaky wheel gets the
oil

In his memorandum to Ron
KobylInyk, provincial administrator
for the Pesticide Control Act and
the man who must make the final
decision on whether the spraying
will go ahead or not, Mr. Craig
says he spent 12 hours touring the
31.3-mile Slocan Subdivision,
which runs between South Slocan
«and Lemon Creek

He points out, too, that more
than 700 residents stopped the tour
to voice their concerns. And it
shows up in his report. The Slocan
Subdivision occupies seven of the
report's 14 pages.

By contrast, the tour encoun-
tered far fewer residents on the
Nelson to Castlegar section. Those
who did turn out to protest the
spraying were from Glade,
Shoreacres and Thrums. (In partial
defence, one reason for the poor
showing in Brilliant, Raspberry and
castlegar areas could have been
the time. It was evening by the
time the tour reached here.) In any
event, the tour took just three
hours and the report just two
pages to cover the 49-mile section.

The result of the huge protest in
the Slocan Valley is Mr. Craig's
recommendation that the pesticide
permit for CP Rail’s Slocan Sub-
division be cancelled. While he
also recommends some parts of
the Nelson to Castlegar section not
be sprayed — including any sec-
tion of track within 10 metres of
water bodies or wells — he doesn’t
suggest complete cancellation. In
fact, some areas of Brilliant, Rasp-
berry and the outskirts of
Castlegar are slated for spraying.

The only conclusion that can be
drawn from all this is that the
protests worked. Castlegar
residents didn't get-out and make
their ¢oncerns heard. Slocan
Valley residents did. It's as simple
as that.

Perhaps the most significant
aspect of the report is that it was
made at all. The Pesticide Control
Branch had initially given CP Rail
carte blanche to spray a 24-foot
wide strip from Nelson to
Castlegar and the entire length of
the Slocan Subdivision

Only a thorough on-site inspec-
tion changed that. It is horrifying to
think that the Pesticide Control
Branch so routinely approves
pesticide spraying permits. Surely,
this example should make it clear
to the provincial government that
on-site inspections should be man-
datory before any permit is issued.

Ron
Norman

Are you as bewildered as I am at
the way the Oliver North hearings
are going? Day after day North has
appeared on TV as a sincere,
well-meaning, gung ho marine who
was just doing his job — a little
zealously, mind you. He views
himself and his small band of
cohorts as true patriots and every
one else in Washington as suspect

Make no mistake, North is con.
vineing. On Friday he placed two
stacks of telegrams on the witness
table from U.S. citizens supporting
him. That's not all. Officials at the
White House and Capitol building
say calls are running heavily in his
favor.

North is either a great actor or he
really believes what he is doing is
right. I think he really believes it
In a twisted, warped way he thinks
that selling arms to Iran and fun
nelling the profits to the Nicaraguan
Contras is right

And that’s why the hearings are
so frustrating. No one seems to be
telling him he’s crazy. No one says
his so-called “freedom fighters” are
killing women, children, nuns and
priests along with Sandanista sol
diers. No one says his beloved
Contras are allegedly running
drugs.

No one says it is suspected that
the money he gave the Contras — in

the process breaking the law —
wasn't used to fight the Sandanista
government, but went to line the
pockets of a few Contra leaders.

North's world is an “us-versus.
them” world in which anything
goes, including lying to Congress,
selling arms to an unstable Iranian
government and breaking the law.
But through it all, one thing emer
ges: That North's judgment is as
warped as his world view

Yet the worst thing is that no one
at the Senate hearing challenges
North's views. He gets hours and
hours of free television time to
spout his ideas without so much as
questioning his whole
premise: That the Contras are
worth supporting. Congress appar
ently wasn't convinced and ordered
all aid cut off. But everyone seems

to forget that. Inctedible
.

someone

Just as incredible is the media
response to North's statements. In
its Wednesday final edition, the
Vancouver Sun's top story was
about North

It featured his response to sug:
gestions that he'd had a‘relationship
with his good-looking secretary,
Fawn Hall. The headline read:
“North denies ‘hanky panky’ with
Fawn.” The story was accompanied
by a photo of a grinning North

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Letters to the Editor

It takes two to tangle

In every situation it takes two to
tangle. Management has the power to
hire and fire. Workers have the power
to withdraw their services. Both sides
are aware of each other's power ‘and
fair bargaining is the only way to have
those powers under control.

Human dignity and rights shall not
be satisfied by unfair laws; take Poland

Support
lacking

The Ladies Auxiliary of the Royal
Canadian Legion Branch No. 170 held a
pancake breakfast July 4 and 5 in
conjunction with the Bantam Provin-
cial Girls Softball Tournament. We are
sorry to say we were very disappointed
by the lack of support from this com-
munity.

We are a well known organization
always thinking of our community and
the people in our own area. We are
constantly being approached by diff-
erent groups for donations and sup-
port. All clubs need help from the
public, so your support is badly needed
by them to function. How can any club
give, when we don’t receive your
support in the first place?

We took a great loss for this two-day
session, but we would like to thank the
very few people who did come out.

We sincerely thank CKQR for all
the advertising they gave us, and also
the girls softball teams for their
support.

L.A. to the Royal Canadian
Legion Br. No. 170
President — Dorothy Fleming
Vice-President — Pearl Mott

WKPL sale
a mistake

It has come to my attention that
Cominco is about to sell West Kootenay
Power and Light to a foreign company.

I think it would be a grave mistake to
allow this to proceed, for the 4

and Solidarity, the Philippines and
Marcos, Germany and the Nazis, Italy
and fascism, and South Africa of today!
The story of Masada is perhaps the
ultimate statement on human dignity:
Death before humiliation, degradation
and indignity. This is the spirit of what
we saw on the news about the postal
strike. The day when legislators and
governments will fully understand that
spirit and will respond to satisfy basic
human needs, that is the day when we
shall not have strikes or violent con-
frontations.

The letter carriers union has not
been on strike for 16 years because
democratically-elected union leaders,
national and local leaders, have shown
a high level of responsibility to the
membership, the employer and the
public by settling many contracts at
the bargaining table. This round of
negotiations has been much different;
the employer and the government have
a hidden agenda and have made prep-

arations to implement it. This betrayal
of fair bargaining has been the cause of
high emotions on the picket lines, not

from LCUC leadershi
For those: who advocate the decer-
tifieation of unions, consider what is
happening in the U.S. with the scabs or
“replacement workers” that helped to
bust the air traffic controllers union
some years ago; they are organizing
themselves in order to solve the prob-
Jems that their predecessors took
strike action against and were fire for.
Unions are needed. Employers and
employees must recognize the prob-
lems facing them and must honestly
and determinedly work out joint solu-
tions. Strikes which are rigidly legis-
lated and sincerely disliked will occur
and re-occur under unfair labor prac-

tices and laws.
Antonio Guglielmi
President, Castlegar Local
of the Letter Carriers Union
of Canada

Beaten wife tells
her ‘horror story’

A modern horror story of the law-
enforcement-system-gone-awry type
came to my attention recently

I was introduced to a young woman
from the West Kootenay whose grossly
disfigured face and bruised body dis-
guised her usual attractiveness. As her
children cried in the next room, she
related to me her story of being at-
tacked and viciously beaten by her es-
tranged husband in a home that she
was visiting.

If the story ended there, it would
be unpleasant enough. However, it
gets worse.

She called her local police depart-
ment fully expecting that the man
would be arrested, justice would be
served, and she could once more walk
the streets without fear.

When a police officer arrived, he
chatted with the man who admitted his
crime, saying he was “sorry” he did it.
The officer suggested to the young
woman that her: husband was being

reasons:

Whoever conttols the energy of an
economy to a gréat extent controls that
economy. It weyld be unwise to give
this control to a foreign company.

As our provinte grew in population,
shall communities found that electric
service was difficult to obtain, because
the profit was not great enough for
private power companies to provide it.
To reniedy this, the government of the
day set up the B.C. Power Commission
during the early 1940s.

It was through the efforts of the
Power Commission that people living
in small communities and outlying
areas finally had electricity in their
homes.

The government of the day, realizing
electric power was the key to economic
growth, took over B.C. Electric, which
became B.C. Hydro in 1961. The inten
tion was to bring all electric power in
the province under the umbrella of B.C.
Hydro. The West Kootenay Power and
Light Co. was left to be operated by
Cominco.

It is my opinion that B.C. Hydro
should take over West Kootenay
Power and Light. This would be pre.
ferable to turning it over to a foreign
country

To allow this sale to go through
would not be in the best interests of the
people of British Columbia. This is why
I am appealing to Premier Bill Vander
Zalm to see that it does not happen

Leo T. Nimseck
Cranbrook

“very ” about the

perhaps she was over-reacting dué to
the hot weather. Besides, could she
have done something to “provoke” the
attack? He suggested he did not really
wish to discuss the matter with her
until she was “calmer” — the following
day, perhaps.

When she asked to have the man ar.
rested, the officer said he could see no
evidence of “assault causing bodily
harm,” a strange comment since
several witnesses reported extensive
visible injuries resulting from blows to
the face. When she asked if she could
personally lay charges, she was ad-
vised to take some time to “think about
it.”

She then asked about a peace bond
and was told it would take at least a
month to process. The police officer
terminated his visit by stating to the
by-now terrified woman that he had
talked to her husband, and the man
“reassured” him he would not do it
again. The officer left, hoping the book
had closed on yet another unpleasant
domestic incident.

Many issues are raised by this type
of frustratingly ineffective interven
tion in “family dispute calls.”

Laws against wife assault are on the
books but are not consistently en.
forced. This same husband, had he
injured another man in a bar fight,
would most assuredly be hauled off to
jail. In previous years there was a
common concern that after a “cooling
off” period, many women tended to

drop charges. However, police officers
are now mandated to lay charges
themselves if there is evidence of
assault.

Secondly, the police officer was
falsely reassured that the husband
would not repeat his violent action.
Wife assaulters tend to be repeat
offenders. Sociological studies have
proven that family violence is de-
creased if there is enforcement of the
law. The police officer may, in fact,
“have reinforced the man's violent be-
hayior by forgiving it.

Thirdly, in cases where a woman
feels her safety — or that of her
children — is threatened, she may be
able to obtain an emergency interim
order restricting the man’s contact
with her. There is no need to “wait a
month” for her evidence to be given.

Finally, the arguments, “she pro-
voked me” or “I was drunk” are not
valid ones. No woman ever deserves to
be beaten. Wife assault, like any other
assault, is a crime.

And, what about the children who
witness their mother being beaten
and subsequently invalidated by law
enforcement officials? The consequen-
tial emotional scars cannot be dis:
missed. Many such young boys learn to
be batterers themselves, and these
young girls often grow up to marry
abusive men.

The staff of the Transition House in
Trail advise me that they do not often
encounter such inaction on the part 6f
law enforcement officials. The local
RCMP detachment has, in fact, been
very helpful and responsive in these
types of incidents. Hopefully, ongoing
education, the Transition House aware-
ness campaign, and cooperative inter-
action among professionals such as
social workers, doctors, psychologists
and law enforcement personnel will
help to alleviate the pain and problems
suffered by the victims of domestic
violence.

To this end, the Women in Need
Society and Transition House in Trail
have established an outreach program
to help set up women’s self-help groups
in Kootenay communities to provide
support and education. We may be
contacted at 364-1543 (collect) or P.O.
Box 153, Trail, B.C., VIR 4L5.

Nilo Moller
WINS Outreach Worker and
Battered Women's Advocate

More letters
on page A5

When?
35 YEARS AGO
From the July 24, 1952

The Village of Castlegar is going to
i the p of
possession of government land at Pass
Creek Bridge north of the highway as
well as of any adjoining land that may
be available.

This was decided at the regular
meeting of the Castlegar Village Com-
mission Monday evening.

._ 8 ©

Some weeks ago, at the Brilliant
village where the blue waters of the
Kootenays meet the green of the
Columbia, some children, playing a
the floodworn sandy
former river made a grisly piesa

In the yellow gravel of the cave-in
caused by the high water, lay a full
sized human skeleton, brittle with age,
and a tall thin soot covered cooper pot.

Within the pot was what appeared to
be a leather package wrapped round
and round with strings of small blue
and white beads.

Inside the parcel was a skeleton hand
severed apparently at the wrist.

. 8 «

The latest step forward in the
expansion of Castlegar and district was
the official opening of the first cabin of
the Twin Rivers Motel Co. Ltd. last
week.

25 YEARS AGO
From the July 12, 1962
News

Curbs, gutters and drainage may be
installed along No. 3 highway through
Castlegar this year with the depart-
ment of highways carrying the full cost
of drainage and the curbs and gutters
being installed on a 50-50 basis with the
village.

Castlegar council's last meeting was
told that the highways department
hopes to have enough money for the
project this year.

The village has always been aware
that this project and commissioners
unanimously greeted the fact that it
may be undertaken this year.

o 8 @

Celgar's Castlegar Pulp division has
set new records in both production and
safety.

In recognition of a recent safety
record of over 120 days without a
lost-time injury in theplant,a draw
was held to send an employee and his
wife on a one-week all expenses paid
trip of Vancouver Island pulp mills.

+ 6¢ «

Pork chops were selling for 69 cents
a pound at the Shop Easy store while
watermelons sold for 75 cents and
potatoes sold for 59 cents for a 10
pound bag.

15 YEARS AGO
From the July 20, 1972
News

The 600 members of the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of America, local
1-405 have overwhelmingly approved a
new contract with Celgar.

An agreement was hammered out in
Kelowna last week after many round-
the-clock discussions.

At 3:45 a.m. on July 11, the two
negotiating teams signed a memor-
andum of agreement.

* * «

A new agreement between Cominco
and the United Steelworkers of Amer-
ica may be publicly announced either
today or tomorrow.

On Tuesday Bob Keiver, president of
local 480 of the Steelworkers, said a
memorandum of agreement had been
signed adding “both sides are recom-
mending terms of settlement for rati-
fication.”

* +

Three water bombers and a Cessna
Skymaster bird-dog are at standby at
Castlegar Airport in case of forest
fires.

The Avenger bombers, whose home-
base is in Abbotsford, are in charge of
bird-dog officer Rich Drew of the B.C.
Forest Service.

5 YEARS AGO
From the July 11, 1982
Castlegar News

The BC. Labor Relations Board is
being asked to mediate a dispute be-
tween the International Woodworkers
of America Local 1-405 and the Louis-
iana Pacific sawmill in Salmo.

Unemployed workers in Salmo,
represented by the local, were served
with a cease and desist order Friday by
the LRB with an information picket
line they set up Wednesday and
Thursday.

* 8 «

B.C. Timber's Celgar sawmill Friday
averted a shutdown that would have
seen 225 employees laid off for perhaps
10 weeks.

Industrial relations manager Al
Blessin said an opportune purchase of
sawlogs averted the shutdown which
had been due to start Friday.

* «# 6

A draft copy of the downtown re-
vitilization plan for Castlegar has been
pretared though the final facts and
figures are not yet in.

“It's a good program,” Downtown
Businessmen's Association chairman
Raymond Bosse said Wednesday

July 12, 1987

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Public deserves credit

The worst thing about certain ad-
vertisements, I've heard it said, is that
they are an insult to the intelligence,
When Brian Mulroney recently tried to
take credit for settling the postal dis-
pute, I experienced a similar sensation.
The real credit for a settlethent goes to
the Canadian public. In a nutshell, the
public responded to the all-out unpre-
cedented attack on our residential
footsoldier (the letter carrier) by
showing that they didn't want their
mail as much as they wanted dignity
and respect, and that an undignified act
perpetrated on this lowly and most
visible working person was felt by all.

Delivering mail is, in the long run, a
tedious job that gives you fallen arches,
ruptured disks and trick knees, in spite
of how good it looks on a nice day. I was
first surprised, then impressed, and
finally very moved to be accompanied
on my picket line by people from so
many walks of life who cared that I
might lose my job. Even when faced
with some incredible press — for
example claiming that letter carriers
make over $37,000 yearly when in fact I
take home about $750 a payday (under
$20,000 per year) — support was nearly
universal, even from persons not nor-
mally sympathetic to union workers.

The one issue that angered all
persons alike was that people should
not be “replaced” as if they were so
much waste paper. The posties’ dispute
gave an opportunity for people across
the country to express their collective

from another galaxy perhaps. These
lower management personnel enticed
the high school kids, the derelicts and
those desperate on the welfare roll to
put aside their dignity and cross the
picket lines. They offered them money
for nothing, along with insurance for
their cars. They sneaked them in after
hours, ran interference for them like
keystone cops and in the end made a
sham of a government service like this
country had never before seen.

And now in the end the letter
carriers go back to their jobs and shake
their heads at it all. And those charged
with the task of carrying out the orders
— those who did it so well — go
back to their chairs and wonder now
why, when the public looks at them
in the street or more particularly
across their desk or counter, that they
don't seem to get any respect.

Blueberry

Softball helpers
a “real treasure”

Last weekend the girls’ bantam age
B.C. provincial ip was held

To the Legion Ladies Auxiliary the

at Kinnaird Park, and even though
there were rain delays, the champion-
ship was completed.

I hesitate to name the people who
contributed greatly (for fear of missing
someone) to ensure that the tourna-
ment ran smoothly, but bouquets are in
order.

To Brian Brady, tournament direc-
tor, thank you for your untiring efforts
and assistance to me. You were a

di help. To Dave Brewer,

at this

Now, the mailmen have won the day
by retaining what they had: A job. But
who are the losers? The public pays 40
cents per month per capita for the post
office deficit and now another 40 cents
for the money recently squandered
during this campaign.

It’s a nuisance, but affordable. ($129
million divided by 27 million people
divided by 12 months equals 40 cents;
I wish my phone bill was so cheap.) The
real losers in this dispute are those on
the bottom of the managerial pyramid:
The supervisors and postmasters who
zealously followed the directives of the
“whiz kids” in the corporation who {ol-
lowed the beat of some distant drum

umpire-in-chief, thanks for your plan-
ning and to the umpires a job well
done.

To Alex and Nadine Chernenkoff and
crew, thanks for your many hours of
labor to ensure that the ion was

and coffee weftex-
cellent. Thanks for your many hours of
planning and preparation. Thanks to
the Lions Club for the use of the snow
fence; it was much appreciated.

Thanks to my wife and family for
their support and assistance during
this time consuming ball season.

Thanks to the coaches, managers and
players for your parti

Tolstoy statue to be
unveiled here July 25

Two life-sized bronze stat-
ues of the Russian writer and
humanitarian Leo Tolstoy
will be unveiled in Canada
this summer.

The unveiling will take
place at Verigin, Sask. July
18-19, and in Castlegar July
25-26 as part of a Russian
Canadian Heritage Festival

by the A

Portnuff Theatre in Yorkton
where _a cast of 125 will
present “The Story of the
Doukhobors” featuring the
Doukhobor Heritage Choir of
The Union of Spiritual Com-
munities of Christ — the
largest organization of
Doukhobors in Canada.

gins in Castlegar on Friday,
July 24 with a round table
discussion, “Tolstoy, His Life
and Works” at,Selkirk Col-
lege, and an evening seminar
on the same theme at the
Brilliant Cultural Centre.-
Soviet and Canadian experts
on Tolstoy will be featured

The par
‘san Tonka

of Canadians of Russian De-
scent.

The events will not only
honor Tolstoy but symboli-
cally record the contribution
of Russian Canadians to the
ethnic mosaic of this country,
and will be part of a rich
program of cultural present-
ations featuring Soviet and
Canadian performers.

A visiting Soviet dele-
gation will be headed by Yuri
Melentiev, Minister of Cul-
ture of the Russian Soviet
Federated Socialist Republic,
and will include Ilya Tolstoy,
great-grandson of the writer,
seulptor Yuri Chernov, and
other officials and artists.

Canadian participants will
include members of federal,
provincial and local levels of

And thanks to the businesses who
supported and assisted the out-of town
teams. Your facilities were appre-
ciated.

To ensure that I do not miss anyone I
wish to thank all who helped during the
planning and carrying out of this past
weekend's tournament.

Thank you Mayor Audrey Moore for

first class. To Kevin, Nelson, Robin and
the city works crew, thanks for the
preliminary work on the fields which
ensured usage during the damp week-
end.

To Anne Podd and the scorekeeping
crew, thank you all for your patience
and understanding. To Derek Lalonde,
Dustin Johnson and the boy scouts,
thanks for your help with the fields and
fencing.

Peace

Don't miss exhibit

your during the opening.
ceremonies and to Scott Jellicoe of
€KQR for operating the loudspeaker
system for the opening and awards
ceremonies.

The tournament gave me an oppor-
tunity to meet new friends and
acquaintances. Thank you. You people
are a real treasure.

8 rep-
resentatives, and Russian
Canadian performing groups
from across the country.

In Saskatchewan, the fes-
tival will take place in con-
junetion with annual Heri-
tage Day celebrations at the
National Doukhobor Heri-
tage Village in Verigin, be-
ginning with the unveiling
ceremonies on
July 18. A variety concert
featuring Soviet and Cana-
dian performers will be held
Saturday evening at the Ann
Portnuff Theatre in Yorkton.

Activities and entertain-
ment will continue through-
out Sunday, July 19 at the
Heritage Village in Verigin,
followed by an evening his-
torical pageant at the Ann

Saturday, |

tival has a special

ficance in that Tolstoyan
philosophy has much in com-
mon with Doukhobor beliefs.

On Saturday, July 25, a
statue of Tolstoy will be unv-
sted oa the grounds of the

Also, Tolstoy provided fi-
nancial and other assistance
to the Doukhobors in their

The following week cele-
brations shift to British Col-
umbia, where the festival be-

Village
in Castlegar. The unveiling
will be followed by an after-
noon program of speakers
and performers and an even-
ing variety concert featuring
Soviet and Canadian artists
at the Brilliant Cultural Cen-
tre.

policy
cheaper

As descendants of our
forefathers who burned their
firearms on June 29, 1895 in
Russia, and who celebrated
this renowned date and event
this June 28 we would like to
express our protest and dis-
approval of the federal gov.
ernment’s intention to spend
billions of dollars for nuclear
powered submarines, a sec
ond batch of Canadian patrol
frigates and revitalization of
the reserves, as though there
is a threat to Canada from
some outside power.

We are of the opinion that
the money allotted for the
above-mentioned purposes
could be more beneficially
used to feed, clothe, and cure
millions of unfortunate
people at home and else-
where who live in poverty,
squalor and disease. We be-
lieve that adopting a policy of
peace and negotiation with
the suspected aggressor
would be much cheaper and
more effective method to ob-
tain the security of Canada.

John S. Lebedeff
[chairman]
Mike M. Tomilin
(secretary)
The Canadian Doukhobor
Society

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