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Ho-hum

This week's federal budget is
best summed up by the ho-hum
reaction from the business com-
munity. The Vancouver accounting
firm Touche Ross cancelled its
scheduled breakf pos
explain details of the budget to
clients due to lack of material
changes in the budget. *

“There's nothing much to ex-
plain,” is the way tax partner John
Gunnell put it.

budget

booming, it doesn't do anything for
the Western provinces or the
Maritimes whose economies are
still struggling from the recession
of 1981-82.

But it's not all bad news. Mr.
Brisco makes a good case for the
government when he says that just
because new programs. weren't
announced in the budget: doesn't
mean they aren't there. He points
to the federal-provincial forestry

The biggest plaint about
the budget is that it doesn’t contain
any measures to respond to
regional unemployment. For in-
stance, there isn’t anything in the
budget for the thousands of people
still without work in Kootenay
West; no new job creation pro-
grams or initiatives to stimulate
new business.

Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco
calls the budget a “state of the
nation” budget, which doesn’t con-
tain massive tax increases, but
also doesn't propose government
“handouts”.

But by standing pat, the
government is to some extent san-
ctioning the status quo. And while
that may be well and good for Cen-
tral Canada, whose economy is

9 which will see $68
million spent in B.C. this year,
along with a proposed $3.5 million
airport expansion for Castlegar.

But the biggest
proposed in the budget still to
come: long awaited tax
overhaul. We've been waiting for
tax reform since Prime Mini

initiative

Brian Mulroney first announced it
as part of the Conservative elec-
tion platform in 1984.

However, for the last 2 years
it has been held out like a carrot
before us. We are told time and
again it is just on the horizon.
Could it be a coincidence that tax
reform is planned for 1988 — the
same year as a possible federal
election?

Increase an outrage

Castlegar school trustees’
decision to increase their indem-
nities by 25 per cent this year is
nothing short of preposterous. A
25 per cent hike would be hard for
taxpayers to swallow at the best of
times, but is particularly difficult to
accept in view of this area's
present economic circumstances.

For the last five years our
education system has suffered
through a trying restraint period.
Teachers, principals and other
school employees have been for-
ced to accept little or no wage in-
crease. Those same employees
now must view the trustees’ in-
creased stipend with justified
outrage.

Granted, the indemnities have
been frozen for several years, but
that hardly justifies an increase of
$1,000 a year. Teachers, main-

Ron
Norman

Whenever I hear someone say
there’s nothing wrong with down-
town Castlegar that a fresh coat of
paint couldn't fix, I think back to the
first. reporter I hired at the
Castlegar News in 1982. She was
from Vancouver and was here a
month when she walked into the
newsroom one day and said she'd
found this great store. It was
West's.

Incredulous, I asked how she had
never seen West's before then. She
said she had never been down that
part of 3rd Street because she
thought it was the “shady” section
of Castlegar.

That story says something about
our downtown. It says that while we
have some great stores — like
West's — people who are unfamiliar
with the community — like tourists
_ may never know they're there.

Castlegar council and the Down
town Business Association's revital.
ization committee want to change
that. But it’s going to cost money —
$650,000 to be exact.

For that, we'll get landscaping,
site furnishings, like benches and
planters, some trees, new lights,
and new sidewalks where needed.
In addition, the utility poles will be
shifted from our main streets to the
back alleys.

But there’s a problem. The plan
looks like it may fall through be
cause not enough downtown prop-
erty owners will agree to it. Some
have good reasons; they say the
plan is too rich for them. And ina
few cases perhaps it is, though it's
hard to tell because individual
property-by-property costs haven't

tenance workers and others in the
community can make the very
same claim, saying their incomes
have fallen behind during the
recession.

And by comparison, Castlegar
council's stipends increased by
only four and 2.5 per cent each of
the last two years. Council tagged
its increases to wage increases
awarded city employees and was
roundly criticized for that. Cri
rightly said municipal politicians
shouldn’t consider their positions
the same as paid employees. But
council's increases look tame next
to the school board's.

There's no arguing that school
trustees put in a lot of time and
work extremely hard. That's not
the point. The point is whether
trustees consider their positions a
public service or not.

been made public.

Even if that is the case, the plan
simply needs fine tuning, not a
complete overhaul. Perhaps council
and the DBA’s revitalization com-
mittee could use as a guideline the
cost to property owners in sur-
rounding communities that already
have revitalization programs in
place.

But there are a couple of things
downtown property owners should
keep in mind. Castlegar taxpayers
are also picking up half the plan's
$650,000 tab. That means each
homeowner will be paying more for
the next 10 years on his municipal
tax bill should the plan go ahead.

That's pretty generous, though
not out of line with other B.C. com-
munities. I wonder what some
downtown property owners would
say if council came to them with a
proposal to do some special work
only on my street and asked them to
pick up half the cost?

But leaving aside the argument
over cost for a moment, what we
shouldn't lose sight of is the fact
that revitalization is badly needed.
Other local communities have al
ready renovated their downtowns.
If we are to remain competitive we
must do the same.

If we don't, we'll be like the
business that never fixes up its
store while all around it other mer-
chants fix up their stores. A tourist
visiting the community for the first
time is likely to bé attracted to the
clean and modern stores and to
bypass the rundown store.

It’s an analogy worth keeping in
mind.

. Letters to the Editor

Comment hits home

I am quite happy that the Castlegar
News has a sports editor who tries
hard to give sports input to our
community. I do wish to take him to
task for some of his incorrect and
mundane reporting. It is very obvious
that he has never learned how to skate
or else it may have been his dream to
bea player in the NHL such as some of
the local boys from the Kootenays who
have made good their dream. It is also
obvious that he has not learned how to
ski so that he may attain the
prominence of the likes of the Belezyks,
the Haights or the Greens.

The one thing that really hits home is
when Mr. Rattan made mention of the
fact that the Beaver Valley Nite Hawks
could perhaps use the services of Pat
Quinn. Now that is really hitting below
the belt! The Beaver Valley team, the
executive and coaching staff have kept
a team on the ice and in the league
which is very important to this area. To
downgrade them in this manner was
totally ignorant and uncalled for.

I would suggest that another sport
that Mr. Rattan should try knowing the
rules involves the Marquis of Queens.
bury should he ever show up in Beaver
Valley, he may need to know them. I

Good progress

Further to my statement in the Feb.
8 Castlegar News on the Ministry of
Forests’ proposal for logging in Merry
Creek watershed, I would like to add
the following.

Although there are serious concerns
regarding the proposed logging of this
small, sensitive watershed on the out-
skirts of the City of Castlegar, there
has been a considerable amount of
positive achievement in the way of
addressing some of these concerns,
through liaison between the Ministry
of Forests and the Blueberry/China/
Merry Creek Watershed Committee.

This committee, founded in January,
1983 with the assistance of the Arrow
Forest District, is an integrated
watershed committee consisting of
representatives from all parties who
have a legitimate interest in these
three watersheds, such #s government
ministries, water licencees, timber li-
cencees and outdoor organizations.

Over the past four years this com
mittee of about one dozen people (with
expertise in various fields) has been
meeting on a (more or less) monthly
basis in a joint effort to come up with
more environmentally-sound methods
of timber harvesting in the watersheds
of Blueberry, China and Merry creeks.

In the case of the logging slated for
Merry Creek/Robson Ridge, progress

am sure that the 10 parents from
Castlegar who have their sons playing
on the Nite Hawks team would love to
have a publicity chairman of your
writer's character.

One last comment I would like to
make is that when “Martha” answered
the question as to what accent Mario

Lemieux was talking with, I'm sure it
would be “English”.

If Mr. Rattan has ever listened to
him speak, he would know that his
English accent has hardly a trace of
French!

Gary Hyson
Castlegar

Trustee ‘pay’ hike

mind boggling

It boggles my mind that the school
trustees in Castlegar have the gall to
award themselves a 25 per cent “pay”
increase.

Are they mindless of the thousands
of hours volunteered by many other
adults to serve this community in-
cluding hundreds of parents in all our
schools and the extra hours con-
tributed by so many teachers and
administrators?

They should re-think their role and

reduction of risk to Mason Spring
by rerouting the road;

© commitments to
(clearcuts to be planted);

© proposed establishment of a Dem-
onstration Forest Area;

© proposed establishment of a Map
Reserve over a small area for nature/
heritage appreciation.

Although a considerable amount of
work still has to be done in the above
areas, good progress has been made.

As part of the liaison process I was
asked in March, 1986 by the watershed
committee to draw up a complete list of
concerns regarding the logging of
Merry Creek/Robson Ridge and Blue-

reforestation

berry Creek. (Copies of this list may be’

obtained from the writer upon re-
quest.)

From that fairly long list, two of the
main unresolved areas of concern are:

e the marginal capacity of the cul-
verting in the lower reaches of Merry
Creek and Bloomer Creek (within
Castlegar city limits);

@ the lack of a liability arr

exhibit positive leadership by reducing
their numbers from seven to five. A
“leaner” board would operate much
more efficiently and cost effectively.
Restraint in education has cut back
everything else in our school system.
It's now time for the board to act in a
way which is more consistent with
their role as elected representatives.
Twenty-five per cent — tut-tut!
Frank Finney
Castlegar

made

good example which other watersheds
may wish to follow—particularly in the
case of Merry Creek/Robson Ridge.

The committee believes that we
should be looking seriously at long
term planning for the entire Robson
Ridge area (up to and beyond the pulp
mill) since there will be considerable
recreational use of this mountainside
once access is established.

I agree with these statements. With
a carefully planned and monitored
IWMP, a conscientious and reliable
operator (Kalesnikoff Lumber Co.) and
with no history of serious past dis-
turbance in the watershed, there
appears to be a good chance that the
harvesting of Merry Creek/Robson
Ridge could set a high standard in
terms of environmentally sound water-
shed management and timber har-
vesting — let's hope this happens. The
watershed committee will be moni-
toring the operations very closely.

Meanwhile, we must continue to
press for solutions and to work for

to cover property owners against dam-
ages from such things as runaway fires
and runaway floodwaters originating
from logging operations.

In order to bring the public fully up
to date on the timber harvesting ac-
tivities and proposals, and on the

envir

has been made in the following areas:

© Development of an Integrated
Watershed Management Plan (IWMP)
to coordinate and monitor all activities
in the watershed;

e development of a Contingency Plan
for remedial action in case of disruption
of domestic water supplies;

e reduction of visual impact by re-
arrangement of cutblocks;

@ location of main access road
(mostly) away from residential areas;

good quality of road construction
and culverting (by Kalesnikoff Lumber
Co. one mile completed);

1 precautions being taken
in this regard, for the three watersheds
— Blueberry, China and Merry creeks
—the watershed committee has called
upon the ministries involved (the min-
istries of forests and environment) to
sponsor a public forum later this year
— similar to that of 1983 when the
committee was founded.

Dennis Holden (MSC, RPF) chair-
man of the ‘watershed committee,
stresses that it is important to resolve
all of the issues and concerns regarding
the logging of the three watersheds as
thoroughly as possible in order to set a

to those " and
“partly resolved” concerns that still

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ters must be signed and include the
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Remember
When?

35 YEARS AGO
From the Feb. 21, 1952
‘Castlegar News

An American syndicate is interested
in constructing a toll bridge it was
announced here this morning.

The name of the firm was not die
closed but information has been for-
warded to Victoria.

Many here feel that even a toll
bridge would be an advantage over the
free ferry now operating.

._ * *

‘The Board of Commissioners met in
the Village office Monday morning with
all members present.

C. Petts spoke to the commissioners
regarding the sale of community hall
grounds.

« 6 *

Playing at the Castle Theatre is Fa-
ther’s Little Dividend, starring Spen-
cer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor.

Movies to come include Fort Worth,
starring Randolph Scott, David Brian
and Phyllis Thaxter, as well aseCecil B.
DeMille’s Reap the Wild Wind starring
Ray Milland, John Wayne and Susan
Hayward.

25 YEARS AGO
From the Feb. 22, 1962
Castlegar News
Kinnaird council has received its
report on alternative | water supply
bi 4

pr prep: y
engineers.

‘The 24-page report to cost not over
$1,000 was given to commissioners to
study prior to Monday night's council
meeting.

It is available for study by the public
and will be circulated in a letter sent to
residents. . .

15 YEARS AGO
From the Feb. 24, 1972
Castlegar News

Sometime, early this spring, and the
date depends upon the weather,
Castlegar public works foreman Alex
Lutz will pull a switch and place the
town in a position which Ald. R.W.
Cook calls “an enviable one.”

The date will see No. 3 well go into
production to augment the town's two
other wells which are pumping away at
a rate of 450 gallons a minute for well

No. 1 and 850 gallons for ‘well No. 2. =

The new well, which was drifled in
1970 behind the Town Hall, has not
gone to production for several reasons,
one of which is financial.

When in operation it will give the
town an additional gallons of water per
minute. —S

“If other communities in the area are
assured of good quality and supply as
Castlegar is, they are in an enviable
position,” Ald. Cook, who is head of the
council's water committee, said.

* 8 «

Two Vernon people died Tuesday
afternoon in a car accident just west of
Kinnaird.

RCMP in Castlegar identified the
couple as Kenneth William Joliffe, 62,
and Anne Suzan Joliffe, 52.

Police said the couple's car skidded
off the road and plunged over an
embankment.

* 8 «

A wave of vandalism hit downtown
Castlegar early Sunday morning.

Police were told by Joe Alves that
somebody broke a double-paned win-
dow on the south side of his Maple
Street grocety store and got a few
chocolate bars.

Another vandal threw a beer bottle
through the post office glass door.

Gordon Brady reported that some-
one had plugged the drains of his
Castlegar laundromat.

5 YEARS AGO
From the Feb. 21, 1982
Castlegar News

Selkirk College student tuition fees
will be going up again in September
but the fees will be lower than the
provincial average.

The new tuition fee schedule will also
be a fairer system of charging
students, the college board was told
this week.

The new fee schedule goes into effect
starting this September and again in
January 1983.

The board decided to move halfway
between a fixed tuition rate and a vari-
able rate by raising 15 per cent in
September, followed by another 10 per
cent hike in January.

* 2 «6

Castlegar school trustee Pat Haley
expressed concern this week about the
large increase in accidents reported in
area schools over the last month.

Castlegar school board was told that
14 school accidents have been reported
just since last months board meeting.

Haley suggested the board inves.
tigate the mishaps — just as private
industry does. .

However, other trustees didn't seem
to share Haley's concerns, and coun
tered that the school grounds are well
supervised.

ON DISPLAY . . . Emily Carr Foundation Study held an
exhibit of its color and perception yrogiany last week.
Visitors were treated to the works of nine Castlegar

TYPECASTING

hottest new film-makers, doesn't want to be typecast as
“the guy who makes great thrillers,” or even as “the young

‘The 81-year-old director has been dogged by offers to
follow up on the success of his stylish, low-budget, heist flick,
Pouvoir intime, one of the top-grossing Quebec films of 1986.
To be released this spring in English as Intimate Power,
it was hadowed by the dc box-office ,
appeal of Denys Arcand’s intellectual sex comedy, The
Detline of the American Empire. ¢

“Just after Pouvoir intime came out last year, I had
three offers to make a new film — two of them were
thrillers,” Simoneau said in an interview between tapings of
‘a Coke commercial in a recording studio in the heart of
Montreal's working-class Verdun district.

He resisted the thriller label and went for the third offer
—a film adaptation of Anné Hebert’s poetic novel, Les Fous
de Bassan, an eerie tale of unrequited love in an isolated
Gaspe fishing village.
admits he opted for the less commercial route

and area stud who d the tive
course which explored how people see and use color.

— Costtews Photos by Rick Graham

and had his doubts about the project by “the third day of
filming” on an uninhabited island off the Gaspe coast.
‘ FEELS VINDICATED

PARIS (AP) — Bip, the white-faced and whimsical
philosopher tramp who lives inside Marcel Marceau,
turns 40 this year. His familiar red flower remains
eternally fresh, but he's still not talking.

“He reveals the human being,” said Marceau, the
French master of mime who speaks for Bip. “The
message is deep and eloquent because it is a silent cry.”

Alone in a shart of light, Bip has tamed lions and
fought bulls, sailed, gone to war and ridden a bronco for
8,000 appearances. And he occasionally creates the world
in four minutes.

His sharp, subtle gestures sculpt empty air into
elaborate objects. Emotions ripple over his flexible face,
bringing tears and laughter to audiences from Peru to
Japan.

Bip has not aged, but he has grown up.

“At first, he chased butterflies,” Marceau said. “Now
he deals with grand themes which concerns all people.”
The themes are not always comic. When he commits
suicide with melodramatic gestures, for example, no one
laughs.

“I watch the faces carefully,” he said. “Young people
are engrossed — it is a theme that touches them — and I
see tears forming in some of their eyes.”

Bip, the spiritual successor to the classic Pierrot and
to Charlie Chaplin's little tramp, was born in Marceau's
fertile imagination late in 1947 at the Theatre du Poche in
postwar Paris.

The name comes from the character Pip in Charles

Dickens’ Great Expectations... ..

In 40 years, Bip has only spoken once. He said a

single word: “Non.” It followed a two-minute mime

Marceau's Bip ageless

sequence in Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie and was the only
line in the script. It took two days to get on film.

Marceau is 63, if one splits hairs.

“['m 60, more or less,” he put it. “I like to say it like
that because I plan to be 60 for another 20 years.”

So far, he shows every sign of pulling it off.

“J am in excellent form, in good psychic shape. I still
feel I'm moving like I did when I was 35.”

‘TRIES ON FACES

Audiences agree. He blends ballet and acrobatics,
prancing, twirling and bending. From behind an
imaginary mirror, Bip tries on faces of comedy and

tragedy with dazzling velocity.

Off stage, Marceau’s "pace is blinding.

He invents and perfects routines for Bip. At the
academy he established in 1975, he teaches 60 young
mimes from 20 countries who each spend three years
studying his art.

He is also hard at work planning a major year-end
performance at the Theatre des Champs Elysees.

“An artist's role is to create as long as he can, to stay
active and deliver his message,” Marceau said. “It is a
responsibility.”

Already a painter and a poet, Marceau has just
written his first novel, Pimporello, set in Italy. It is aimed
at children, but adults are welcome to it.

“There is no real difference,” he said. “Children
understand things with a clarity lost to many adults.
Once a nine-year-old girl wrote to Einstein asking about
the theory of relativity. He wrote back, explaining it in
termé of her dolls and her own life.”

He beamed with pleasure at the thought.

He now feels vindicated. Fous de Bassan (its subtitled
version is called In the Shadow of the Wind) has been
nominated for competition in next month's Berlin Film
Festival. -

To top it off, Simoneau has signed a contract to direct a
film based on Black Robe, a critically acclaimed novel by
former Montreal journalist Brian Moore (The Luck of Ginger
Coffey, The Emperor of Ice Cream). .

Its producer, Alliance Entertainment Corp. of Toronto,
is negotiating for a Hollywood star in the lead role and he is
said to have a budget of $7 million. Filming is to begin in
Quebec and Ontario this fall. .

Simoneau is undaunted by the fact that this will be his
first movie in English because “my strongest hand is
imagery. I speak in images, the films I make do not have
great speaking parts.”

The decision was also based on economics.

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just not profitable given the ly small That
means that I either have to restrain my imagination and
make smaller films . or live with the restrictions of
another language and make the films I always wanted to
make.”

TRACES JOURNEY

Then there's the subject matter of Black Robe, which
traces the journey of a group of Jesuits and Indians in the
harsh wilderness of New France in 1635.

Will it be very different from last year’s Jesuit-Indian
saga, The Mission, starring Robert de Niro and Jeremy
Irons?

“When they proposed the project to me,” admits
Simoneau, “I said it sounded too much like The Mission, it’s
been done. Why don't you do something else?

“But the more I read the script, the more I wanted to do
it. It's a bit like Platoon. Since we already had a couple of
giant films on Vietnam, The Deerhunter, Apocalypse Now,
why do Platoon?”

Poet to read
at Selkirk

Poet Lorna Crozier will philosophy, but warm glimp-
read at Selkirk College's ses of the feelings of the
Castlegar Campus Friday at woman behind the poems.
12:90 p.m. in room B17. Grozier is the author of six

This prairie poet writes hooks of poetry in 10 years,
about what it means to be @ the most recent being The
woman in today's world. Garden Growing on Without
Using images of the vege Us (1985). That book, from
tation and countryside of her which Crozier will read from,
beloved Saskatchewan. Cro- was a runner up for the Gov-
zier cuts to the heart of being ernor General's Award.
alive and being a women.

Her poems are not strident Crozier has won a number
nor are they statements of of awards for her books and
poetry. For several years,
she taught at the Summer
School of the Arts in Saskat-
chewan and currently is
Writer-In-Residence at the
University of Saskatchewan
in Saskatoon.

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Hepburn recalls
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audiences first followed the
voyage of Katherine Hep-
burn, Humphrey Bogart and
the African Queen, and now
Hepburn has,written a book

The movie The

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African
Queen — the story of a mis-
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boat pilot and their battle
was
shot in the Belgian Congo and

Because “you succeed by imposing your vision’on the
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Hepburn said she started
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For more information call
NESTA

Castlegar

This Week in

DEXTER’S PUB

— MON. THRU SAT . —

Feb. 23-28

The Marshall
Dillon Band

SANDMAN INN Sg

1944 Columbia Ave.

Weekend Package

reception, breakfast
brunch, Mystery pr
taxes and tips on abo

CALL NOW

322 North Spo!

SHERATON SPOKANE HOTEL

Or Contact Your Local Travel Agent

Sheraton-Spokane Hotel

presents...

March 20-21,1987

f you have ever wanted to step into the
excitement of a mystery novel - you won't
want to miss this exciting weekend at the
Sheraton! It’s up to you and the other guests to

don the hat of a detective and determine
“WHODUNIT.”

per person, hased on
double occupancy room.

$225.0

Canadian Funds

Includes: Two nights’ accommodations, champagne
and dinner on Saturday, afternoon tea break
‘ogram, Souvenir of your Murder Mystery weekend,

pve.

FOR RESERVATIONS 1-800-848-9600

Hospitality People of
kane Fallx Court * Spokane, Waxhington 99220
(509) 455-9600

1410 Bay Ave.,

The prices below are
based on sharing

accommodations per
person in Cdn. funds

Departure Hotel
Feb. 28 Onsiow Hotel & Casino .. 7
CANADIAN FRIENDSHIP FESTIVAL
Mar. 7 Sundowner (Newly renovatea) 7 *249
Mar. 14 Sundowner (Newly renovated) 8 259
Mar. 21 Circus Circus .... 249
Mar. 28 Sands Hotel & Casino 5259
Apr. 12 sands Hote! & Casino 5259.
Apr. 19 Sands Hotel & Casino 5259
May 2 Sands Hotel & Casino ‘274

Senior Discount of $10 per person
(must be retired)

Early Bird Discount of $10 per person

(Must be booked and fully paid 30 days
prior to departure date of tour)

THE JUDDS

March 22 — Day Tour
Spokane
1 BUS ONLY
BOOK EARLY!

Also Overnight Tour
at Sheraton

HENNE TRAVEL

1410 Bay Ave., Trail 368-5595

WEST’S TRAVEL

1217 3rd St., Castlegar 365-7782

Days Price

$249