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The offer, which includes a five-p- er-cent wage increase July 1 and a second five-per-cent increase July 1, 1991, is ‘‘insulting’ and doesn’t ad- dress many of the issues the union considers key to a settlement, Schmidt said Friday The company’s bargaining commit- tee said the offer is not final and there is room for negotiation but a final agreement will be in the area of the first offer, Schmidt explained. Such an agreemeni would be unac- ceptable to the union, he said. The wage increase proposed is only equal to the cost of living allowance the company built into the last gon- tract, he said, noting the union mem- bers have not had a wage increase si ce 1982 and the cost of living allowan- ce barely kept up with the actual cost of living. The two sides have an agreement on contract language for a severance Package for the Kimberiey mine workers but the company’s offer in- cluded no money to back up the language, he said The offer also ignored issues such as early retirement, vacations, con- tracting out, overtime and indexed pensions, Schmidt said He said Cominco is making money now, is in a good financial position, and can afford to give more to the workers. And the company’s financial state will improve even more when the Trail plant begins processing ore from the new Red Dog mine the company bought in Alaska, Schmidt added. “One hundred dollar bills will just be spitting out the other side of this plant” when the new ore begins arriving, he said. The strike vote will take several days but results should be known by late Thursday, Schmidt said The union has received permission from the B.C. Federation of Labour, which is boycotting the Industrial Relations Council, to have the strike vote conducted by the IRC, he said. If the vote was not authorized by the IRC, the company could challenge the legitimacy of the results. As soon as the union receives the results, ‘‘we will suggest we get back to bargaining — the real world of bargaining’ Schmidt said. He added he expects Cominco will agree to return to the negotiating table. Cominco officials have said the company has a policy of not commen- ting on contract talks until they are concluded. Meanwhile, Schmidt said the separate talks in Kimberley cuncer- ning the shutdown of the Sullivan mine are not affected by the strike vote and those talks will continue Monday and Tuesday Stanley Humphries secondary schoo!handed out its top awards Setarde during graduation lex. The winners ar: ceremonies at the Community Comp! jer Hadikin, Governor General's bronze medal and the K.T. and R.E. Leaders award; Ken Chernoff, Stanley Humphries award CosNews photo by Cloudette Sondecki Class of 1990 heads out into the world By CasNews Staff Choosing a dry (alcohol-and-drug-free) grad par- ty is a ‘‘class move and we salute you,”’ Castlegar school board chairman Gordon Turner told the Stanley Humphries secondary school graduating class of 1990. This year, graduation will be easier on parents because of dry grad and ‘‘on behalf of your parents, Valedictorian speech, page A4 ip; Denise Pottle and Sunny Baker, Aggregate award. Closkey quoted from the Shakesperian play The Tempest, saying the dramatic work is particularly significant for Grade 12 students to study because its themes are of teenagers coming of age and parents realizing they must let go of their young adult children. He said 1990 has ‘-cen significant to him because it has been the only year he has been principal of the school. “I have enjoyed this year with your sons and said during the board says, i y Complex “Bravo, Turner ies at the C Saturday afternoon. SHSS principal Jack Closkey said the class of 1990 has shown in and athletics. “*But most important to me, you have been out- standing citizens of this community,”’ he told the grads. ’’ he told the parents. ‘‘It is one I will never forget.”’ Ald. Marilyn Mathieson, representing the City of Castlegar, told the grads to take care of one another “Have a wonderful weekend. I’m sure it will be filled with many happy memories.”” She said the grads will have many challenges to face in their lifetimes and ‘tyou must go out there and meet them.’” please see GRADS page A2 Lumber layoffs continue By CasNews Staff The weather has improved over the last few days but officials at local sawmills say rebuilding timber stocks and bringing laid-off employees back to work will take time And at Westar Timber in Castlegar employees are stiil being laid off and the mill will be completely shut down sometime this week, maintenance supervisor Dale Clayton said Friday The only people who will be working at Westar by the end of the week will be security personnel, Clayton told the Castlegar News. About 45 maintenance workers were laid off Friday and the eight remaining maintenance workers will be out of jobs sometime this week, he said. As well, the employees in the planer department were laid off Friday, he said The workers will be out of jobs uf: til the mill has sufficiently rebuilt tim ber stocks depleted during the heavy rains of the last two months that for ced loggers out of the bush, Clayton said. More than 200 workers were laid off at Westar earlier this month At Slocan: Forest Products, the third shift of about 30 mill workers * has been off since June 11 but no fur ther layoffs are expected because of the change in the weather, SFP divisional manager Terry Dods said Friday. However, those employees will likely be out of work for several months while the sawmill replenishes its timber stock, he said “We're kind of operating hand to mouth right now,’’ Dods said, noting a depressed lumber market is adding to the problem. SFP’s loggers have been out of work since March due to the weather and are gradually returning to work now as the forest dries out, he said. At Kalesnikoff Lumber in Tarrys, the second shift of about 20 workers at the sawmill is still off and will likely not be needed for a few more weeks, president Pete Kalesnikoff said. Kalesnikoff’s logging crew is retur- ning to work after being laid off for about six weeks, he added. Mill hearings likely in fall By CasNews Staff Hearings expected to be conducted into ‘the proposed Celgar Pulp Co. mill expansion by a federal-provincial joint panel will likely be held in the fall, the regional director of the Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office in Vancouver said Friday. Paul Scott said the amount of time Celgar needs to complete the second impact study, which the joint panel will read before holding the hearings, and the time the federal and provin- cial environment ministries have taken to put the panel together are dictating the timing of the hearings. Celgar officials had hoped to have the study completed by June and to hold the hearings in July, Celgar pulp mill manager Jim Browne said after terms of reference for the second committee overseeing, the expansion project However, Browne said Friday that Celgar officials have expected the hearings to be moved to September since the company had to revise its schedule after realizing how much work is involved in answering all the questions and concerns the second report must cover. The report is now Conroy to quick app By CasNews Staff Rossland-Trail NDP candidate Ed Conroy said Friday he would like to see quicker provincial government ap- Proval of the proposed Celgar pulp mill expansion as long as the review Process is not circumvented Speaking at a Castlegar Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Conroy said the proposed project has already been studied a great deal and he questioned what additional studies will deter- mine. “I wouldn’t mind seeing (the review process) sped up,"’ he told about 40 people who attended the meeting. However, Conroy told the expected to be completed in mid-July, he said. Celgar ha¥ been sending drafts of the report to the committee periodically to make sure the concerns the committee had after studying the first impact assessment report are being addressed in the second study, Browne said. But the committee is not commen- ting on the drafts except to say whether the concerns are being ad- dressed, he said. The committee members are sur- prised at how much work is involved in answering the questions posed in the terms of reference, Browne ad- ded. Scott said the panel members haye likely been selected already and he ex- Pects &n announcement by the two ministries this week. The announcement will include terms of reference on the mandate of the panel but a schedule of the hearings to be held in Castlegar will not be part of the announcement, he said. Until the panel is approved and contacts Celgar, the company will not know how long the panel members will need to review the second report before it is released to the public and hearings are held, Browne said. uts roval Castlegar News later that his desire to see the review process move faster does not mean he has changed his original position that the review of the expansion proposal should be thorough Conroy told the audience he believes the expanded mill will be cleaner than the one now operating and “‘if it is determined (the expanded mill) is the best it can be, I will accept that.”’ “You have to somewhere."* But Conroy warned that Castlegar must not allow the world to think the community agreed to the mill project please see CONROY page Ax trust someone By ED MILLS Staff Writer Bad drivers beware — zero tolerance has arrived That means no leniency for Speeders, stop-sign runners or drivers who bend any of the other traffic laws during the Castlegar RCMP’s “‘traffic blitz’’ which began yesterday “Word it as strong as you want because that’s how enforcement is going to be,” said Castlegar MP Corp. Al Brown. ‘‘We're going to increase enforcement of RCMP cracks down on drivers all aspects of the Motor Vehicle Act so people can expect no leniency for failing to produce licences or registrations, or things like that."” Brown said the RCMP will use more unmarked cars, strategically staking ‘ott intersections and making more random stops of vehicles as part of the program. “We're giving them fair war- ning that anybody who gets caught is going to pay the price."” The blitz will end July 7 if, and only if, there has been some please see DRIVERS page A2 Remote Control. Quartz AM/FM Tuner, 5-Band Graphic Equalizer, Double Cassette, 2-Way Speak eg. $279 NOW ONLY $199 IT'S BIG!" 0.7 Cu.Ft. Compact Microwave. 600 Watts, Easy Reheat, Express Defrost, 2. 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Toronto member, was a distant fifth, winning only 64 votes at the- convention held in the Olympic Saddiedome. ‘Chretien -had-vowed-2 night earlier in his final speech to delegates to oust Prime Minister Brian’ Mulroney's government in 1992. But the convention was conducted against a back- drop of constitutional chaos in Canada, leaving Chretien — the 56-year-old former cabinet minister — a for midable task of rebuilding links with Quebec and healing & party deeply divided over the Meech Lake accord that died Friday. “What is required is somebody who understands modern Canada and modern Quebec,"’ said Martin, a 51 year-old Montreal Shipping magnate with less than two years in the Commons. *thdo. And don't think Jean Chretien does."’ Ad votes were cast, then tallied through the afternoon, x delegates partied in the arena. They danced, chanted, sang and promoted their catididate. The animated antics of rank-and-file Liberals were at odds, however, with the open antagonism among warring camps. Within minutes of the start of voting, two Liberal MPs from Quebec — Gilles Rocheleau and Jean Lapierre, MP for Shefford since 1979 — said they would quit caucus to sit as independents if Chretien won. There were 4,694 delegates registered to vote, almost half women and including more than 1,500 young Liberals. t Herb Gray, who served as interim opposition leader since Turner resigned in February, said the new Liberal leader's first priority will to be “repair the damage’’ to Canadian unity done by Mulroney. JEAN CHRETIEN