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City seeks special meeting

By RON NORMAN
Editor

Castlegar council is unhappy with the response from
Celgar Pulp Co.'s local management to the closure of the
mill's woodroom and plans to take its concerns about the
woodroam to the mill's owners.

Council agreed Tuesday night to seek a meeting with
Ashok Narang, senior group vice-president of Consoli
dated-Bathurst, which owns one-quarter of the pulp mill.
Narang is also chairman of the eight-member joint
committee that oversees the mill's operation.

Ald. Len Embree emphasized that the meeting would
take a “positive approach” to dealing with the woodroom
issue,

Celgar closed the woodroom, where it makes logs into

chips, earliet this month and has been purchasing wood
chips from area sawmills. The closure affected 18 positions,
however, no employees were laid off.

Ald. Terry Rogers supported Embree, noting: “It seems
that there is an important issue to our community and that
we're not of getting the information that we need,”

Rogers said meeting with the mill's senior management
is one way to work “together in a positive sense to try and
resolve some of the concerns we have about the woodroom
closure and about other issues that affect our community
and the future of our are:

Earlier, Embree and Rogers said they were dis-
appointed with the Ministry of Forests’ reply to council's
request that it r ider closing the di

Ken Arnett, district manager for the Arrow Forest

District, called council's request “somewhat confusing.”
“It leads one to believe this was a ministry decision.
Please be assured the Ministry of Forests did not ‘consider’
the woodroom closure with Celgar Pulp at any time,” Arnett
wrote in a letter to council.
Arnett called the closure “an appropriate and logical
corporate decision based on present day situations.”

“The Ministry of Forests and Lands was advised of the
company decision as there are no contractual or
bilities, cannot argue the logic of their
n relative to the total forest industry community of

the area.”
Embree said he is concerned about the “tone of the

letter.”

“I feel somewhat like a Grade 2 student getting a

lecture from my teacher. I don't like that.”

Embree said council's concern about the woodroom
closure is “genuine.”

“If our res is g 1 think Mr.
Arnett has some obligation to have a little more dialogue
than an eight-line paragraph to this council saying he's
confused.”

Embree said Arnett suggests the ministry doesn't have
any legal responsibility to consider the woodroom closure,
but “I would think that the inference that they had no
business to do that in representing the people of this area is
nonense. That's confusing to me.”

Rogers added, “I was disappointed in this reply.”

He suggested council's request wasn’t treated with
suitable “seriousnes Rogers stressed that council has
“proceeded in good faith” on the woodroom issue

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CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1988

WEATHERCAST

Sunny Thursday with bands of
higher cloud in afternoon and
evening. Highs 7°-10° and lows -2:
to -4°. Outlook for Friday is
continuing sunny skies and mild
temperatures.

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BIG CAT... . Tawana, a four-year-old Cheetah, visited Raspberry Lodge
this afternoon along with Dr. Al Oeming. Oeming, director and owner of

Weather
records
topple

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar had a taste Sunday of
the chinook-type weather that has
plagued the 15th Olympic Winter
Games in Calgary.

Sunday's high temperature of
14.3 degrees broke the all-time
record for February of 14.1 set on
Feb. 25, 1986.

As well, Sunday's high smashed
the 21-year-old record for Feb. 21 of
7.8 set in 1967.

And just as in Calgary, the warm,
spring-like weather was~ accomp-
anied by high winds. Winds gusted
to 76 kilometres an hour Sunday
evening. While not an all-time
record for Castlegar, Sunday's
winds nevertheless broke the old
February mark.

“It (was) very much like a chinook
on the prairies,” explained Jim
Richards of the Castlegar Airport
weather office.

Richards said chinooks are rare in
the West Kootenay because the
area is too mountainous. Sunday's
warm weather was caused by a
ridge of high pressure that drove
warmer air down into the valleys.

But Sunday was the only record
setting day. Temperatures remain.
ed high Monday and Tuesday, but
no records fell.

Richards said the warmer air was
replaced by cooler Arctic air,
leaving it up to the February sun to
warm things up during the day.

However, the good news is that
the bright sunshine of the last few
days should continue.

‘Teachers

converge

on city

By BONNE MORGAN
Staff Writer

Students will get a day off school
Friday, but teachers won't

In fact, hundreds of teachers from
around the West Kootenay will con
verge on Castlegar to learn more about
teaching at their annual zone con.
ference Friday and Saturday.

Castlegar-teachers are hogting this
year’s professional development days.
Castlegar Primary, Twin Rivers ele.
mentary and Stanley, Humphries. sec-
ondary schools will hold more than 800
teachers, support staff, and parent
group representatives

They will come from Colville,
Washington to Creston to hear lectures
from education experts on everything
from “Stress and Burnout” to “Writing
Process.”

“I think it will be a fantastic con.
ference,” says Russil Rileof, conference

ions chairman.

Polar Park, a game farm just East of Edmonton, is on a tour of the West
Kootenay promoting awarness of conservation of animals

CosNewsPhoto by Bonnie Morgan

FOR ALL RESIDENTS

Brisco wants tax breaks

By RON NORMAN
and BRENDAN NAGLE

MP Bob Brisco wants all Kootenay
West residents to receive the special
$5,400 tax deduction targetted for
northern residents.

Some area residents have already
been declared eligible for the de-
duction, which could mean an addition.
al refund of as much as $2,500 for
someone with a net income of $30,000
or more. But Brisco wants everyone in
Kootenay West made eligible.

Brisco met with Finance Minister
Michael Wilson and National Revenue
Minister Elmer MacKay on Monday to
try to change the e: ing regulations
so that all of Kootenay West will be
listed as an isolated area and receive
the benefits for the 1987 taxation year.

Under the recently-revised cri:

School
trustee
charged

By CasNews Staff

A Castlegar school trustee faces
three charges of assault in connection
with alleged postal strike violence last
year.

Roy Edward Conroy, 41, of
Castlegar will appear in Castlegar
provincial court March 1.

Castlegar RCMP say charges stem
from alleged incidents which occurred
on Oct. 6, 1987 near the Castlegar Post
Office.

teria for eligibility, rural population
centres within 320 kilometres of a
major population centre are not elig.
ible.

The criteria means residents in
places like South Slocan and Crescent
Valley are eligible, but not those in
more remote centres like Edgewood.

As well, residents in municipalities
like Castlegar, Trail and Nelson are not
eligible for the deduction.

But Brisco said he wants “to
ensure that all communities that are
eligible under the existing regulations
are included on the list for 1987.”

If successful ig getting Revenue
Canada to allow the deduction for all
Kootenay West residents, Brisco says
he will also ask Revenue Canada to
advise residents who have already filed
their income taxes that they are

eligible for the additional tax break

Brisco also said he is “infuriated”
with the “surprise” tax break. He
explained that he is not infuriated with
the plan, but with the inconsistencies of
the plan.

“When bureaucrats get at a
program, they don't consider local geo
graphy and they don't appreciate the
very nature of this constituency. They
just arbitrarily make a decision with
out any latitude,” Brisco said

“I don’t blame that (the incon
sistencies) on the government,” Brisco
said. “I do think a particular de
partment of government have operated
unilaterally and without informing the
members of parliament.”

Brisco is currently in Ottawa for
the legislative sitting and has placed a
“high priority” on changing the incon
sistencies in the tax break.

The tax deduction was established
for Canadians living in northern and
remote communities who must pay
more for essentials such as food,
clothing, shelter, fuel and transporta
tion,

The plan is a complicated mass of
rules written to allocate certain tax
breaks to communities on a point
system.

Three mandatory prerequisites
must be met in order to be eligible for
points. They are:

The community must be more
than 320 kilometres from a city with a
population over 50,000 residents. Ke-
lowna is the city in this area.

e@ The community must be more
than 160 kilometres from a population
centre of 10,000 residents.. Cranbrook
is that city.

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Rileof says hundreds and hundreds
of hours have been put into the
planning for the education conference.

This year's theme is “Education: A
Celebration of Teaching and Learning.”

Teachers are required to attend
Friday and can choose from 33 work
shops. Saturday is an optional day of
lectures for those who want to follow
up on some of Friday's sessions or who
want to sit in on a panel discussion.

Most sessions are designed for
general education interest and apply to
elementary and secondary school lev
els.

“Weare really pleased to have the
quality of speakers that we have.” says
Rilcoff.

“Most conferences have one key
note speaker. We have three in three
different areas and these people are
internationally-known people.”

Dr. Oscar Christensen, is a pro
fessor of guidance and counselling at
the University of Arizona, where he
teaches graduate courses in marriage
and family counselling.

a
Car crash
kills woman

By CasNews Staff

A Trail woman was killed in a
two-vehicle collision Saturday after
noon on Highway 22 six kilometres
south of Castlegar.

Helene Johnson, 28, was a pass
enger ina vehicle driven by 29-year-old
Elaine Jean Jerome of Castlegar,
RCMP say

Police investigation revealed the
Jerome vehicle was southbound on
Highway 22 about 4:30 p.m. when it
collided head on with a vehicle driven
by Robert Arthur Chambers, 27, of
Castlegar.

The jaws of life were used to free
the occupants of the cars. Both drivers
were taken to the Castlegar and
District Hospital.

The cause of the accident is still
under investigation. No charges have
been laid.

He will speak on “Today's Young
People” at the SHSS activity room.

“Parents and teachers are aware
that the traditional methods of inter-
acting with youth are not working, and
are searching for a means of improving
their sense of leadership and control,”
he says.

Christensen, a former high school
teacher, counsellor and later a con.
sultant in counselling, guidance end
testing for the Oregon State Depart
ment of Public Instruction, pioneered
the elementary school counsellor edu
cation program in Oregon.

Dr. Milton McClaren, speaking at
Twin River's gym, obtained his secon
dary education degrees at UBC, and is

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