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The Castlegar Sun

Wednesday, April 10,1991

Work of local artist to grace new Council Chambers

By FRANK ISERNIA
‘Sun staff writer

to have presented the painting in
person, but because of last minute
moving couldn't

Castlegar City Council mem-
bers received a welcome wagon
grecting Monday night prior to
holding their first council meeting
intheirnewhome,

Atkinson Crossley presented
Council with a watercolor of the
tain station professionally painted
by his daughter-in-law, Marie
Crossley.

* Crossley told Council his
daughter-in-law would have liked

“attend, He explained that the paint-

ing was completed before the sta-
tion. moved and he hoped Council
would enjoy it.

Mayor Moore thanked Cross-
ley and his daughter-in-law for the

painting and said that it would cer-"

tainly add to the new chambers.
“We will display it in our new
council chambers, and once we get
it framed and positioned, we will
invite you back so you can give us

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In other City Council Matters;
*Alderman Bob Pakula asked

or four months to complete and
involves identifying goals and
objectives of the study, It will

Council for p pp! on the
Parks Master Plan Project, ‘
Pre-approval would permit com:
pletion by September, and meet the
timing of the 1992 budget, : '

The intent of a master plan is to!

provide a multi-year program of
parks improvements with the
desired improvements reflecting
public input. The actual implemen.
tation would become part of annual
budget proposals, This would pro-
vide a planned approach to the
improvements, and would allow
future budget decisions to be made
earlier in the year, so that the
design and construction process
could begin early in the year, The
estimated cost of $20,000 is con-
tained within the Provisional Bud-
get and will be wholly financed
from the tax levy. ‘

Pakula was informed by'Coun-
cil that the budget for the Plan was-
included in the Capital Budget.

City Administrator, Gary
Williams said that these are spe-
cialized plans and fall within a spe-
cialized field.

“There are only a few consul-
tants in the province who can do
this type of study,” said Williams,

The study will take about three

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and recommendations and policy
statements,

*Alderman Kirk Duff told
Council members that be was still
disturbed by the number of com-
plaints from residential tenants fac-
ing rent increases as a result of
landlords trying to cash in on the
large numbers of prospective ten-
ants arriving in Castlegar as a result
of the Celgar mill expansion and
modemization project.

“The situation is causing tenants
a lot of unnecessary stress, “ said

Duff went on to say that while is
always nice to make money off of
Progress, people should hold intact
their social conscience. He said
people who are confronted with
rental issues should find out what
their legal rights are.

Mayor Audrey Moore com-
mented by saying City Council has
the power to do a lot of things, but
are powerless to intervene in these

Interpretation centre

By FRANK ISERNIA
Sun staff writer

Castlegar City Council listened
with interest as Luella Andreashuk,
Fred Parker and Colin Pryce

i plans for a Columbi
River Interpretation Centre Mon-
day night.

‘The trio, representatives on the
Columbia Interpretation Implemen-
tation committee, described the
details of the project to council

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"Duff also expressed deep con-
cem about the possibility of the
Stanley Humphries Senior Sec-
ondary school graduates holding a
wet grad party and suggested that a
letter be sent to the School Board
asking them to deal with ‘the mat-
ter, But he was told that school
grad parties are outside the School
District responsibility,

*Alderman Dore Smecher, in
her Regional District Of Central
Kootenay report informed Council
that the permit requested by Jack
Williamson Paving Ltd. is going to
Public hearing and that the RDCK
budget was approved,

Although the budget passed,
Smecher said that there were four
members who opposed the budget
because of the 50-50 sharing
peoveen municipalities and region-

“The centre will act as a histori-
cal and tourist attraction for the
area, and is unique in the sense that
it is a project that has never been
done before,” said Andreashuk.

The committee commissioned
the ARA Consulting Group in a
joint venture with Co

“I've always opposed the 50-50
sharing idea but this was the first
opportunity T've had to vote on it,”

she said,

Passed, but opposed by Smech-
er and five other directors, was the
development and planning cost
sharing budget. This budget has
been the centre of controversy
since it was introduced at an earlier
RDCK meeting. According to
legal opinions gathered by Castle-
gar and a number of other munici-
palities, the budget as it stands,
conflicts with municipal bylaws.

“T could not, in all conscience,
support this budget,” stated
Sm

echer.

*Smecher also told Council that
the Aquatic Centre had a surplus
of about $80,000 this year.
than use it to defer taxes, the sur-

plus is being rolled back into oper-
ational capital, where it caa be
used for repairs and other needs
the centre may require.

“In this way,” explained
Smecher, “the money will’ accu-
mulate interest and, in future, we
may see further surpluses rolled
back into operational capital.”

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proposed

spring of 1990 by the Task Force
on Parks, Recreation and Tourism,
Kooraiy Development Region.
The study will look at the feasi-
bility of establishing a major inter-
pretive centre in the proximity of
Highway 3 and hydro Projects,

being bya
i ii the

Historic R
Ltd, to complete phase one of a
feasibility study. The two compa-
nies will work in association with
the Tourism Research Group, a
tourism marketing firm, and
Design Communications Inc., an
intemnationally recognized exposi-
tion and interpretive centre design
firm.

“The study will be done in
Phases so that we can monitor our

progress,” explained Parker.”

The Columbia Interpretation
Centre project was one of several
opportunities recommended in the
“tourism Development Opportuni-
ties Strategy” completed in the

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tiver system (including B.C.
Hydro, West Kootenay Power, and
the City Of Nelson's Electrical
Utility) and integrated by theme
tour opportunities.

“Phase One consisted of project
and concept definition,” said
Andreashuk. “It has been complet-
ed but unfortunately we do not
have it bere tonight. As soon as it
is in, it will be distributed to you.
Phase two of the centre will begin
in the 1991/92 fiscal year.”

Alderman Doreen Smecher said
that she was surprised the location
was named. She thought that the
location was only a probability.

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funding for the feasibility study,
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Alderman “Marilyn Mathieson
wished the committee well, and
added that she certainly would like
to see a interpretive centre built,
saying that it is a very good idea.

Mayor Moore told the Centre
committee members that the City
could make $5,000 available but
they would have to discuss the
matter after the Phase One study
was received.

Other members of the
Columbia Interpretation Centre,
formed in February, include
George Miller of Nelson; John

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“WEDNESDAY, April 10, 1991

EC agrees to support U.N. safe haven for Kurds in iraq

LUXEMBOURG (SNS) - The

abhorrent bat I can envisage no

Community agreed Monday night
to support a British proposal call-
ing for the United Nations to create
‘a "safe haven" in northern Iraq to
protect the Kurdish population
from the Iraqi army.

British Prime Minister John
Major offered his surprise proposal
at'an EC summit meeting here
without consulting President Bush,
but he said he thought Washington
would approve it.

The plan, urging quick action to
be taken to safeguard the lives of
Kurdish refugees, is expected to be
presented to the U.N. Security
Council soon.

In other developments:

-Iraqi rebel leaders and Kurdish
refugees reported that Iraqi heli-
copter gunships fired on columns
of fleeing refugees as U.S., British
and French aircraft were dropping
emergency food supplics into the
high mountain passes of Iraq.

-At the United Nations, Secre-
tary General Javier Perez de Cuel-
lar noted = that Iraq has
unconditionally accepted the Secu-
tity Council’s demands for peace
and recommended that the council
officially ratify the cease-fire.

In outlining his proposal - for
which he offered few details - Major
noted that Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein has offered amnesty to all
Kurdish citizens who have fled Iraq
or are trying to leave, with the pro-
vision that they lay down their arms.
But Major added, "We must hold

iddam Hussein to his offer of an
amnesty (for the Kurds).

“Saddam Hussein’s record is so

ions as long as he
remains i ing pias If Saddam Hus-
sein continues to violate (the U.N.
Security Council resolution on
Iraq's treatment of Kurds) ... we
should retum to the Security Coun-
cil to enforce that resolution,” he
added,

The plan by Major envisages
UN. civilian or military personnel
creating a zone in northem Iraq as a
shelter for the million or so Kurdish
refugees who have fled their homes
as the Iraqi army advanced to put
down an abortive uprising against
the Baghdad regime,

Major's aides said that such an
enclave could comprise the main
Kurdish cities in northern Iraq,
which would presumably include
the oil-producing city of Kirkuk, as
well as Erbil and most mountain
towns,

French President Francois Mit-
terrand supported Major’s proposal.
And German Chancellor Helmut
Kohl, whose goverment was criti-
cized for its lukewarm support for
the allied coalition effort i in the Per-

holds the EC presi - Major
said, “In recent days, a tidal wave of
outrage has swept the world as we
have become aware of Saddam Hus-
scin's cruelty to his own people."

He proposed "an enclave under
U.N. protection which would pro-.
vide shelter and housing to the
Kurds until it is safe for them to
retum to their own homes."

He said that U.N. p

Pposition group of the Ayatollah
Mohammed Taki Mudarresi in
Damascus, Syria.

A spokesman for the Damascus-
based Kurdish Di ic Party

said, "They are also shelling moun-
tains and hills where displaced fam-
ilies are huddling.”

Iraqi erectale meanwhile,
airlift

said, "A new massacre was carried
out today by Saddam Hussein's
forces,

“Iraqi helicopter gunships and
heavy artillery guns have been

could also be offered to. the Shiite
Muslims in southern Iraq, whose
own insurrection has been brutally
put down by the Iraqi military.

But Major, echoing Bush's poli-
cy, declared, "We cannot intervene
militarily in Iraq to secure the over-
throw of Saddam Hussein.

The European leaders bere also
voted to provide $180 million for
emergency relief for the Kurdish
refugees.

So far, the United States and
Britain have provided the bulk of an
air relief fleet to drop food, supplies
and tenting to the Kurds stuck along
the mountainous border country in
life-threatening cold.

Mohammed Saleh Marouf, an

sian Gulf war, enth ically
backed the measure.

Later, Luxembourg Prime Minis-
ter Jacques Santer, the summit host,
said that all 12 EC members were
in favor of setting up a"

from the Iraqi
city of Erbil who was among the
Kurdish refugees, was quoted on
Tehran Radio, monitored in
Cyprus, as saying that in one case,

area" for the Kurds in

But Santer said that the ‘details of
a UN. protection mission and the
geographical limits should be left to
the Security Council to work out, if
and when it passes such a resolution.

In his statement to the European
Community special summit - held

Iraqi b fired at

along Iran’s "border as an American
aircraft flew nearby. The U.S, plane
did not react, he said,

“Helicopters of the Iraqi regime
are shelling northem roads that are
packed with tens of thousands of
refugees ficeing toward the Iranian
and Turkish borders,” said a

here because L

for the Iraqi Shiite

Arab - Israeli peace talks evaporating

WASHINGTON - One reason
why Mr James Baker, US Secretary
of State, has embarked on a hastily-
arranged second visit to the the
Middle East within three weeks is
that President Bush and his advisers
are worried that post-war momen-
tum for an Arab-Israeli peace set-
tlement is already evaporating.

His other mission, accomplished
on, Monday, was to take a firs!
hand, Jgok at the flood of, Kur

and other refugees crossing | the

border from Iraq into Turkey.

After meeting Israeli officials in
Jerusalem on Tuesday, Mr Baker
will fly to Egypt, Syria and then
Geneva, where he will see Mr
Taher Masri, Jordan's Foreign
Minister, to try to patch up rela-
tions strained by the Gulf war.

“The reason for the trip, quite
frankly, was because we don’t
know how long the window of
opportunity might last,” Mr Baker
told American reporters in his
plane. “We don’t think things
should be permitted to drift.” At
the end of the war, Arabs and
Israelis made vaguely encouraging
noises about settling their differ-
ences and tackling the Palestinian
problem. Mr Baker shuttled among
Middle East capitals with a series
of exploratory proposals.

But after his retum to Washing-
ton euphoria vanished, the peace
process lapsed and old enmities

Visa-free

travel chaos|

BONN (SNS) - More than 70,000 §

Poles streamed into Germany
through 24 border crossings Mon-
day after the abolition of visa
restrictions between Poland and six
westem European nations.

At one border point, Frankfurt
on Oder, they had to run the gaunt-
let of up to 200 neo-Nazi youths,
who stoned a Polish bus, over-
tumed a car containing Poles and
fought with riot police.

Some of the Poles were heading
for France, Italy, Belgium, Holland
or Luxembourg, which joined Ger-

many in signing an agreement giv- 7.

ing them three months visa-free
travel.

Neo-Nazis began gathering i in
Frankfurt on Oder on Sunday after-
noon after Herr Michael Kuhnen,
their self-appointed leader, called
‘on supporters to ensure “that not.a
‘single Pole enters Germany”.

Skinheads, many of them drunk 7;

,and masked, shouted:."Germany for

‘the Germans!" and “foreigners out!” a
>>The occupants of the first Polish fi
cars waited until 1am before dar- Be

ing to cross with a police escort to
protect them, from youths hurling
stones, bottles and smoke bombs

A bus carrying members of the
{Lodz Symphony Orchestra home
{from Amsterdam was stoned, Two
Tpeopte were hurt as windows shat;
jtered. . Bits

were quickly reasserted.

Far from easing its occupation of
the West Bank, for example, Isracl
embarked on Provocative new hous-
ing for Soviet emigres in apparent
defiance of undertakings given to
Washington in retum for loan guar-
antees of 227 million pounds.

The issue of these

launch negotiations, not a perma-
nent forum.

The Americans are continuing to
Tean on Mr Shamir’s government to
embrace so-called confidence-
building measures towards the
Palestinians, such as reopening uni-
versities on the West Bank and eas-

will be high on Mr Baker's agenda
on | Tuesday

Minister.

So will the news that Israel may —

at last be prepared to attend a con-
ference with Arab states under the
auspices of the US and Soviet
Union.

In the past, Israel has rejected
any idea of a conference under UN
sponsorship on the grounds that it
would intoa

ing the shoot-to-kill policy towards
stone-throwing youths,

Mr Baker is expected once again

, to meet Palestinian community

leaders in the hope of compiling a”:

pane! of potential negotiators
acceptable to Israel.

In his talks with Arab leaders,
Mr Baker will be coaxing them to
end their boycott of American
firms that do business with Israel.

There has been one quiet breach
of this policy already | in 1 Kuwait,
where Pp for

soap-box for the mietoric of their

reconstruction projects have not

been subj: d to the former

foes. In
the Israclis now say the conference
should be a one-time gathering to

intense scrutiny of their business
ties to Israel.

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