‘ Ny. a2 Castlégar News December 24, 1988 By BONNE MORGAN Writer While most people are decking the halls, trimming the turkey and opening, gifts on Christmas Day, Dec. 25 will be just another day at work for a few dedicated individuals. Castlegar RCMP Const. Blair Imrie will be patrolling quiet Castlegar streets Christmas Day, while the rest of the staff have a day off. However, the regular number of RCMP staff return to work Christmas evening. Most employees who work Christmas Day seem to feel it's part of the job, and shrug off the complaint that they have to work on Christmas. A YEAR-ROUND JOB “T've been in the hotel business for 15 years and I know it's a 24-hour, 365-days-a-year job,” says Margaret Lehbauer of the Castlegar Sandman Inn. Lehbauer and two other Sandman employees will work behind the front desk during the three shifts on Christmas. ALAIN HUNEAULT . . guiding the planes “If my staff have to work then I should have to work,” Lehbauer says. ” After working many Christmas days, the only thing that really bothers her is the fact that most food outlets are not open to feed hotel guests on Christmas, Lehbauer says. In the true spirit of Christmas, Lehbauer says this year, she plans to take some people staying at the hotel home with her for Christmas dinner. Lehbauer wishes the different hotel restaurants would take turns being open on Christmas day to feed people who have no choice but to be in a hotel on the holiday Some employees who are given a choice of working Christmas day or New Year's Day prefer to work on Christmas. A TRADE-OFF “If you work Christmas, you get New Year's off,” says Trevor Jarvis at the Mohhawk service station, who has chosen to work Christmas Day. He says things are pretty slow in the morning, but the Dec. 25 j BLAIR IMRIE . . protecting the citizens F ao convenience store gets quite a few children in the afternoon buying candy. CKQR dise jockey Scott Jellicoe would also rather work Christmas Day when given a choice between that holiday and New Year's Day. Jellicoe starts at work at 6 a.m. and finishes at 11 a.m., so his Christmas day is merely delayed. Gary Dee will be working the afternoon shift this year and Norm Zenky takes over the air waves at 5 p.m. Jellicoe’s parents live in Ontario, which is another reason why he doesn’t mind working Christmas day and spending the holiday with his girlfriend and her family, he says. “It frees somebody else up so they can go away,” Jellico says. DOESN'T MIND Alain Huneault volunteered to work on Christmas Day because he can't get home for the holiday. The air traffic controller at the Castlegar Airport says he doesn't mind being the only one there in the tower on Christmas day. “If I was home with family and friends, maybe it would be a big deal,” he said. Usually there are two air traffic controllers on duty during the 10-hour shift, but there are no scheduled flights on Christmas Day, so things will probably be slow, Huneault says. “We might get 10 to 16 aircraft a day,” he said. SNOW REMOVAL City road and maintenance staff will be able to stay home Christmas Day unless it snows or if they are called to take care of an emergency such as a broken water line. Residents who call the city on its emergency line speak to a person on standby shift at home, says works clerk Sharon Tassone. If necessary staff will be called out by the person on standby shift. And a heavy snowfall could likely bring the snow removal crew out en Christmas day. LUBA STOOCHNOFF caring for patients “In the past, it had snowed on Christmas quite a bit and the crew was called out,” Tassone said. It's almost the same situation with the Bel Maintenance employees who will be on call to plow area highways in a snowfall. SCOTT JELLICOE entertaining listeners She has to work a 12-hour evening shift following Christmas day. But she says being tired in the first of a string of evening shifts is normal and she probably won't even be able to take a nap that day. “I don’t think that any of the girls will be rested,” Stoochnoff says. “Tl probably just get up with everybody else in the morning and open my gifts.” Like many of the other people who have to work Christmas, Stoochnoff alternates working the holiday with other employees and may get Christmas off next year. . 8 8 Editor’s note: Not all the people locally who have to work Christmas Day have been included here, of course. To those that aren't — including all the homemakers for whom Christmas is a labor of love — enjoy your day on and Merry Christmas. ) December 24,1988 Castlegar News a3 Briefly But one Bel employee, Harry Verigin, will have to miss Christmas with his family to make sure the roads are in good condition within the Castlegar district. Verigin, a shift foreman, will check area roads and call in other workers if it snows. “I'd sooner be home Christmas,” he says. “But I ly has to be there.” TREVOR JARVIS . . Serving customers guess. Verigin estimates he has worked most of the last 11 Christmases as a highways worker and will probably just open his presents when he gets home from work that evening. LONG SHIFT Christmas comes at an inconvenient time for Luba Stoochnoff, a registered nurse at the Castlegar and District Hospital. HARRY VERIGIN . clearing the streets Doukhobor film clears hurdle By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer Castlegar and Grand Forks will provide the back-drop of a feature length film about the Doukhobors which is expected to start production as early as March, the film's producer says. John Stark, who wrote the script and will produce the film, The Dis: possessed, said the proposed $5.2 million fictional account of the Douk hobor legacy cleared the final main hurdle this week. “We got a telex from Moscow,” Turt By CasNews Staff Santa’s shopping list has changed over the years to meet the demand of ever changing gift requests but Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? The little green cartoon action heroes are by far the most popular among children who may have to go without the toy figures this season. It seems Santa doesn’t have enough of the toys to go around this year. “The big request was for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles this year,” said Debra Potter, toy department sales clerk at West's Department store in downtown Castlegar. “But we didn’t get any.” Despite the shortage of the hard. shelled action heroes, other items have been a big hit. The return of the board game has provided big sales for the toy department at West's. “Pictionary and Jr. Pictionary were big sellers. In fact, we couldn't keep up with the requests,” Potter said. “Our warehouse ran out of them three weeks ago.” The game is similar to Charades, except a person must draw a subject within a certain amount of time and have the other players guess what the drawing represents. Another board game high on San ta’s list is something called Balder- dash. The word game involves uni que — sometimes non-existent — words. The players are given a word and a description of its meaning. The Stark told the Castlegar News from Los Angeles. “The Russians want to explore co-producing the film with Canada.” Stark, who's been working at getting the production of The Dis possessed off the ground “for the past several years,” said the decision by the Soviet filmmakers has paved the way to begin the cooperative production. Earlier this year, he condemned the Soviets for trying to move in on his production and was backed by Telefilm Canada. es hot, players have to guess whether the meaning corresponds with the word. The big request for the toddler set has been Playskool's flashlight. The light, designed for two- to six-year olds, shuts itself off when not in use and has dise which gives the light different colors. “You probably can’t find them in the Kootenays right now,” Potter said. “They're sold out.” For the older crowd, audio and “I'd been working on this project (along with Telefilm Canada) for a long time and the Russians just moved in this summer and tried to get a similar production of their own going,” he said. “But the Canadian government took the Russian film makers’ visas away when Telefilm Canada found out they were going to try their own production here.” Stark said the move to take their visas away convinced the Soviet filmmakers to re-think their strategy and join Stark's production — which is being jointly funded by Telefilm hard to sweaters,” said salesman Dave Streloff. “As well, eel skin wallets are popular and we've run out of certain types of leather jackets.” He said terry-towel bath robes are also sold out. Canada and B.C. Film. While the main wrinkles appear to have been ironed out, Stark said there are still a few issues to be re- solved. “We're in the talking stage right now,” he said of the final deal to be worked out between the Soviet and North American film interests. “We're trying to get the Russian se- quences funded by the Russian group in exchange for a percentage of the distribution revenue.” The Soviet sequences are to be shot in the Ukraine under the find So when Santa’s gone and the wrapping is strewn on the floor around the tree, don’t blame the poor man for not coming through with exactly what was asked for. He can't always predict what will be popular. Lottery numbers video electronic equi have been a popular request with Santa. Peter Zaytsoff at Pete’s TV says VCRs, video cam-corders and com plete home audio systems have been in big demand this year. Zaytsoff said the demand has been steady but he has not run out of any of the big. ticket items this year. Down the road at MacLeod's Hardware store, manager Grant Mc Cluskie said small appliances and power tools have been high on Santa's gift list. He added that there have been numerous requests for those turtles and California Raisin figures. McCluskie said Santa’s been hard pressed to find enough GT Snow Racers to go around. “The store in Trail got 10 in last week and sold seven in one day,” he Next door at the Clothes Kloset and J.J.'s fashion boutique, sweaters have been the main request this Christmas. “Sweaters, sweaters and more TORONTO (CP) — The $1,000,000 winning number in Friday's Provin cial lottery draw is 2182872. There are also subsidiary prizes. The winning numbers drawn Fri day in The Pick lottery were 9, 11, 15, 25, 35, 47, 51 and 52. The following are the winning numbers drawn in Thursday's lot tery: The Pick — 3, 14, 17, 26, 28, 38, 54 and 55. Police file Castlegar RCMP report that there were two roadside suspensions of driver's licenses this week and one impaired driving charge. Since the beginning of December, there have been 22 roadside suspensions and 11 impaired driving charges, police say. The RCMP Counterattack program continues until Jan. 1. The following are the winning numbers drawn in Wednesday's lotteries: The Piek — 18, 21, 22, 23, 29, 32, 38 and 54. Lotte 6/49 — 3, 10, 20, 30, 44 and 49. The bonus number was 43. The jackpot of $7,775,501.00 was divided into two prices of $3,887,750.50. The four extra winning numbers for B.C. Wednesday were 34, 56, 61 and 79. WEATHER Tonight: Cloudy with scattered flurries. Lows -3° to -5°. Christ- mas Day: Cloudy with flurries. Highs -2° to -4°. The outlook for Boxing Day is mainly cloudy with highs from -5° to -8°. Chan- ce of precipitation is 40 per cent tonight, 70 per cent Christmas Day and 30 per cent Boxing Day. guidance of Sovin Film of Moscow, which will also control Soviet dis. tributing rights, Stark said. Hemdale Distributing — which had the U.S. distribution rights to The Last Emperor, Platoon and Salvador — will get the rights to the film in the US. Astral will get the Canadian dis. tributing rights and the television distribution rights have been secured by First Choice. Director Charles Jarrott (Poor Little Rich Girl and Nicholas and Alexandra) will be in the director's chair for The Dispossessed. Stark would not say who will star in the picture until the contracts are signed and refused to offer any names at all. But he said he was relieved to hear the Soviets will not be trying to do a similar picture on their own. “T've had a long struggle with this project but it’s finally coming to- gether,” he said. Quake campaign continues As previously announced through various news media, the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ (USCC) sponsored aid campaign for the Armenian earthquake victims is continuing. The campaign has raised approx imately $3,700 in Castlegar and the surrounding areas and will continue into the new year, a spokeswoman for the campaign said During the holiday season, inter ested people may make monetary donations to the Armenian Earth quake Relief Campaign at the follow ing locations: e Kootenay Savings Credit Union's Castlegar, South Slocan and Salmo branches. Castlegar Savings Credit Union's Castlegar and Slocan Park|branches. ¢ Johnny's Grocery and Gas Sales in Robson. e@ The Book Shop in Castlegar. The funds collected in this appeal will be forwarded to the local Red Cross Society which will then even tually forward the monies collected through their affiliated offices to their counterparts in Armenia. The Castlegar News will not publish Wednesday, Dec. 28 to allow its employees and manage ment to enjoy the Christmas Boxing Day holiday. The next issue of the CasNews will be another Saturday after- noon paper on Dee. 31. In that issue, we will recapture 1988 with a special section full of photos and stories by our staff and news services. We'll review events big and small in Castlegar, the West CasNews sets holiday hours Kootenay, British Columbia and around the world in news, life- styles and sports. The Castlegar News office will be closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Dec. 27, 31, New Year's Day and Jan. 2. The News department will be closed through Dec. 28 but will re-open Dec. 29 to 31. The News department will be closed New Year's Day and Jan. 2 and will re-open again Jan. 3. Hyundai's inspected TORONTO (CP) — Hyundai Auto Canada is asking owners of its Stellar model to have their dealer inspect a heater valve which, if it ruptured, could cause burns to a driver's feet or legs. The company said in a release that dealers will install a protective cover that would prevent injury “in the unlikely event” the valve, located under the dashboard, ruptured when the car is fully warmed up. There will be no charge to customers who take their cars in for an inspection, the company said. The voluntary recall applies t656,138 Stellars from the 1985-1987 model years. aera Kettle turns to gold . BEAUMONT, TEX. (AP) A generous donor turned a Salvation Army kettle into a pot of gold by tossing in two South African krugerrands worth more than $1,000 Cdn. The one-ounce gold coins were not discovered among the nickels, dimes and quarters collected at a mall until they arrived at a bank Thursday and jammed in a sorting machine, Salvation Army officials said. Krugerrands usually sell for slightly more than the current value of their gold content, and the two coins are worth about $1,005 Cdn, Salvation Army officials have no idea who made the donation. Premier invited to forum KAMLOOPS (CP) — Premier Bill Vander Zalm has been invited to address the World Economic Forum next month in Davos, Switzerland Vander Zalm said he will be one of 2,000 business leaders, politicians and academics scheduled to attend the meeting. He said 25 British Columbians will also represent the province's business interests. Vander Zalm said he intends to attract new businesses to British Columbia. Holiday declared LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Ronald Reagan has officially proclaimed Jan. 16 as Martin Luther King Jr. day, saying the slain civil rights leader's “work is not done, but neither is his witness stilled.” “We must reaffirm in every generation the lessons of justice and charity that Dr. King taught with his unflinching determination, his complete confidence in the redeeming power of love and his utter willingness to suffer, to sacrifice and to serve,” the president said. The day is a U.S. federal holiday and also is a holiday in some states. Dangerfield suing LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comedian Rodney Dangerfield is suing a hotel chain he claims didn’t give him any respect when it hired an actor to impersonate his voice in radio commercials. The commercials for Park Inns International of Irving, Tex., carried a disclaimer that said the voice was an impersonation of Dangerfield But the comedian’s lawsuit contends the disclaimer wasn't clear because it was followed by the actor saying Dangerfield-style: “You mean this guy ain't a real announcer? He really had me fooled.” The advertising campaign was launched in the summer without permission from Dangerfield or his agent, said the suit filed recently in U.S. district court Daryl Robertson, a lawyer comment. for the chain, was unavailable for Firefighters pitch in EDMONTON (CP) — A group of Edmonton firefighters are making Christmas even merrier for two boys they helped save from a burning house this week Bill Magee got his fellow firefighters to chip in to buy toy fire trucks and other presents for four-eyar-old Hugh Auigbelle and his three-year-old brother Spencer. The two boys were rescued by the firefighters after a blaze broke out in the basement of their home Thursday. The fire was believed to have been started by one of them playing with matches. “The two lads are spending Christmas in the University of Alberta Hospital, where they were all going to go over but the nurses said it might be too much for the children,” Magee said. Vessel drifting LONDON (REUTER) — Tugs and helicopters launched a major North Sea rescue operation after an oil-rig support vessel broke its mooring and drifted-out of control in high seas, rescue services said. A spokesman at Pitreavie rescue co-ordination centre said 34 people were on board the storage vessel, which broke free in 4./-metre seas early today and was drifting with no engines or steering controls. He said the men were in no immediate danger, but RAF helicopters and three tugs rushed to the 200,000-ton converted tanker used for oil storage. Korea not recognized TOKYO (REUTER) — The Soviet Union will neither recognize nor seek political or diplomatic relations with South Korea, North Korea said. The official Korean Central news agency said this was made clear in a joint statement on the visit of Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who left the North’s capital of Pyongyang on Saturday at the end of a tour during which he also visited Tokyo and Manila, the Philippines. It quoted the communique as saying the Soviet Union confirmed that there was no change in its stand toward South Korea and its opposition to moves by the United States and South Korean authorities to perpetuate the division of the Korean peninsula. Tax package passed TOKYO (REUTER) — Japan's parliament passed today its first major tax reform package in four decades, giving the governing Liberal Democratic party victory in a 10-year campaign to introduce a sales tax. It was a significant triumph for Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, political analysts said. Under the new legislation, a three-per-cent sales tax on all goods and services will be introduced on April 1, 1989. Postie ousted TORONTO (CP) — Ad Varma has been suspended indefinitely from his Canada Post job, four years after he was fired for exposing inefficiency then rehired on Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's orders. Some Christmas present,” Varma said, explaining he was suspended earlier this week for refusing to work in an area he thought violated workplace safety regulations. In 1984, Varma gave Conservative MPs then in opposition evidence of inefficiency and deception in the postal service. He was fired for violdting Canada Post's conflict-of-interest policies, but Mulroney ordered the post office to rehire him after the Tories were elected in 1984 Unrest mars holiday JERUSALEM (REUTER) — Pal estinians have shuttered their shops in Jesus's birthplace of Bethlehem to mourn their dead in an anti-Israeli uprising that has dampened Christ mas spirits for the second straight year. In Jerusalem, a Palestinian died of gunshot wounds to his head sus: tained during fierce clashes with Israeli troops in Nablus on Dec. 16, hospital officials said. The death of Jihad Amran, 22, raised to 334 the number of Arabs killed in. uprisings in the occupied West Bank and Gaza since Dec. 8 last year. Fourteen Jews have also died in the revolt. A Bethlehem municipality official said Palestinians heeded a general strike call by underground leaders of the uprising. In past years, souvenir shops in Bethlehem’s Manger Square were crowded by tourists who came from all over the world to celebrate Christmas Eve in the town where Jesus was born. “We congratulate the Palestinian Christians on this day and we call om them to restrict celebrations to religious ceremonies,” said a leaflet issued by the revolt’s leaders. Bethlehem residents said Manger Square, the site of the Church of the Nativity, was almost empty today as heavy rain further hampered Christ mas celebrations. LESS ACTIVITY An assistant to Michel Sabbah, the Latin Patriarch for the Holy Land, said the traditional Christmas Eve procession from Jerusalem's old city to Bethlehem will be smaller and less festive than usual. Palestinian nationalists urged Sab: bah to boycott the procession that imately admire them. Ashton put on quite a show with their approx 1,000 Christmas By CasNews Staff Literally hundreds of Castlegar and district residents decorate the outside of their homes for Christmas, with a number of spectacular dis plays drawing scores of sightseers to decorations which give a definite festive feel to lights and many holiday season. the inside of their Castlegar home throughout the Indoor display a real dazzler the new year. Every room in the house is decor ated to some degree — even the bathroom — where a flick of the light switch also starts Christmas carols playing. The couple estimates they have at least 1,000 Christmas lights, ends with a reception by Israeli army officials. About 65,000 Christian Arabs live among the mostly Muslim 1.7 million Palestinians in the occupied terri- tories. Bethlehem shops and churches lack the traditional Christmas decor. ations, despite requests for them by Israeli officials. “I can't put up decorations when people are dying everywhere,” said a Bethlehem shopowner named Issa But there are a far lesser number of people who do an equally spec tacular job — inside their homes. One such couple is Dorothy Flem: ing and Lorne Ashton who live in a large mobile home on the Twin Rivers Motel property For four years now, Dorothy and Lorne have been adding to their indoor display. They begin decorat ing the first weekend of December and enjoy all the Christmas lights, baubles and special decorations until they take them down shortly after including 400 on the huge tree. Dorothy, a retired School District No. 9 bus driver, and Lorne now run an Amway distributorship. The Dis. player's Choice Award they won at this year’s West Kootenay Trade Fair has a place of honor in the office in the trailer and gives testimony to the couple's showmanship abilities. Decorations throughout the house range from very small wooden Christmas decorations hung from the kitchen's ceiling to a huge jigsaw puzzle featuring a number of Christ FINAL VOTE 141-111] Trade deal passes OTTAWA (CP) — Sweeping free-trade legislation that will begin breaking down trade and business barriers with the United States as early as New Year's Day was given final approval in the Commons late last night Liberal MPs, led by Sheila Copps, sang 0 Canada to protest the passage of the bill to put in force a trade deal they call a sellout of Canadian sovereignty Democrats were silent as they voted against it “It was a tough road; this is a rough business,” Prime Minister Brian Mulroney later told reporters outside the Commons, which has been sitting past midnight for a week to get the deal through on time. “People will look back on this and say it was a good day for Canada.” The bill goes to the Liberal-dominated Senate for Crash tape reveals noise LOCKERBIE, SCOTLAND (AP-CP) Investigators were analysing today a faint noise heard in the final moments of a cockpit tape-recording for clues to whether a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 while it was flying over Scotland. “There were no abnormal noises on the tape until the signals ended abruptly with the aircraft cruising at 31,000 feet (about 9,500 metres),” said Paul McKie, a spokesman for the Department of Transport whose Air Accident Investigation Branch is studying the tapes Nothing in the cockpit conversations preceding the Wednesday night crash was unusual until the “faint noise at the end, which needs a bit more analysis,” he said. NBC News quoted unidentified U.S. officials as saying the top CIA official in Beirut, Lebanon, was on the jet. The report Friday night did not name the CIA official, and the White House and State Department refused comment on whether a CIA official was on the plane. The search continued today for bodies and clues, and police said there would be no, break for Christmas. David Learmount, an aviation editor at Flight International, the industry magazine, said the black box recording supported the theory that a bomb caused the crash, which killed all 258 people aboard two Canadians and showered the Lockerbie with its flaming wreckage Paul Freeman, 25, of Dundas, Ont., near Hamilton, and Maria Maijala, 26, of Toronto were aboard the ill-fated flight. Freeman, an actor based in London, was going home to see his family. Maijala was returning to New York City from London to see her husband, John Root. Maijala, who emigrated with her family from Finland in 1974, had been on a three-week training course for financial analysts in London, her brother said in an interview. At least 17 townspeople dead New including cottish town of were missing and feared final approval next week and the Liberal majority has said that should be done by Friday — in time to put the deal into effect as scheduled on Jan. 1. Under the deal, the dargest two-way trade agreement in history, Canada and the United States will begin to phase out tariffs — a kind of import tax — and other obstacles to commerce over 10 years. ‘People will look back on this and say it was a good day for Canada’ Prime Minister Brian Mulroney The 141-111 final vote on third reading, which had to be forced by a government motion of closure, came at 10:48 p.m. Castlegar time Friday Many MPs, especially from western and northern ridings, gave up a chance to get home in time for Christmas. Just 43 of the 295 Commons seats were empty. All NDP members were present for the vote. TURBULENT DEBATE There's been a turbulent, often passionate, national debate over the need for a free-trade deal since 1985, when Mulroney proposed the idea formally to U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Even after winning a majority in the Nov. 21 federal election that was dominated by free trade, the Conservative government had to use closure four times in the last two weeks to get the bill passed before Christmas. A smiling Mulroney said the years of struggle for free trade were worth it because the deal will bring economic prosperity “That's why I fought so long and hard for this, not because it was easy it happened to be tough — but because I thought it was right.” Mulroney added that he respected the views of opposition MPs, who have battled just as hard against the deal. “] thought all members of Parliament, irrespective of where they stood, were trying to advance the cause of Canada as they saw it NDP Leader Ed Broadbent said there was nothing that he could have been done differently to stop the deal, despite criticism from some members of his party Broadbent said he hopes his party's fears that the deal will destroy Canadian sovereignty turn out to be groundless. “I just hope that all the serious results that we anticipate will flow from this for the future of the country won't occur,” said Broadbent “But time will tell.” DIDN'T 2RGE Liberal Leader John Turner, who was in the Commons for the vote, didn't emerge to talk to reporters immediately after vote. The Senate is to meet Tuesday and could complete its consideration of the 150-clause bill by Friday The closure rule allowing the government to cut off Commons debate on one-day notice was first introduced in 1913. Since then, it has only been used at every stage of a bill's considerstion twice before. A Commons official said that was for the 1917 conseription bill and the 1956 pipeline legislation mas scenes. The jigsaw puzzle has been shellacked and framed with a glass covering. “It took hours and hours to do,” confesses Dorothy. “It was worth every second.” Lorne and Dorothy say they both loved Christmas as youngsters. They can recall making streamers from crepe paper as children and the great excitement as their whole families got involved in the spirit of the season. Unlike outdoor displays, this one can only be enjoyed by Dorothy and Lorne, their families and friends. And if you're wondering, watching television for a month with hundreds of Christmas lights twinkling on and off isn't as disconcerting as one would expect! Parks plan slammed VANCOUVER (CP) — The provin cial government is selling out British Columbia wilderness to industry by allowing mineral exploration in al most a million hectares of recreation areas, says environmentalists. “I thought the B.C. government was waking up to the global wilder- ness crisis,” Colleen McCrory, chair- man of the Valhalla Wilderness So- ciety, said from New Denver after the decision was made public “But the government has fully given in to industry. It's absolutely disgusting. This is the most grim emergency I've seen with respect to parks in B.C. I see 1989 as a dooms day year.” McCrory also downplayed a simul. taneous decision to upgrade an add itional 225,000 hectares in 28 rec. reation areas to full park status. She said the move only restores parkland slashed by the government during the last two years While recreation areas such as the Stikine, Kakwa, Atlin, Brooks Pen insula, Bugaboos and Kwadacha are targeted for mineral exploration, it will cease on claims inside parks such as Wells Gray, Tweedsmuir, Man. ning, Kokanee Glacier, Mt and Strathcona Peter McAllister, chairman of the Sierra Club of Western Canada, said the government must realize that wildlife, tourism and values must not take a back seat to mining and forestry HARM WILDLIFE He predicted that mining explor ation, ding new roads into wild erness areas, would adversely affect wildlife populations and expressed special concern for mining in the Stikine’s 217,000 Dease Lake. “That's a very sad announcement The Stikine has global potential as a world heritage site. That whole area must be protected.” Parks Minister Terry Huberts and Mines Minister Jack Davis made the announcements at a_ joint Edziza recreational hectares near news conference in Victoria “We will deal equitably with holders of valid existing claims, Huberts said in announcing the up: grading of 225,000 hectares to park status.