B6 Castlegar News August 10, 1991 Bat Aart NR Ae, Behe Qaau Catt ice By CasNews Staff The new commander of Canada's Maritime Forces native of Trail, Vice-admiral John R. Ander- son officially assumed his duties during a change of command ceremony July 12 in Halifax. Anderson was born in Trail New naval boss a native of Trail sub-lieutenant, beginning a aval career that now spans almost 30 years and includes numerous postings as he moved up the ranks. Anderson and his wife, Anne, have one son, Ian and two daughters, Jennifer and Karen. WEDNESDAY August 14, 1901 Vol. 44, No. 65 Castlegar, B.C. 2 Sections (A and B) Bx 75 cents > mY LEGISLATIVE PARL LAMENT VICTORIA VBV 1x4 BLD B.C. FEB. 28 LIBRARY WS Variable clouds e. i] Post office on closure list Castlegar outlet to be shut within two years, citizens group says By ED MILLS sort of reduction of service. Staff Writer “The fear of change is never real- Canada Post is planning to shut ized because when the change is down the Castlegar post office with- made the customers realize that the in two years, the B.C. director of change is better. I mean if the the Rural Dignity said Tuesday. Castlegar post office is (privatized) Sandra Groepler said as soon as a it would be better service, not worse sorting centre in Kelowna is built service,” said McClelland. Canada Post will close the govern- Groepler said employees at Priva- ment-run Castlegar outlet and tized post offices are poorly trained transfer the operation to a private and underpaid, and the post office i cannot give the proper security nec- essary to protect the mail. Her views are shared by the local president of the letter carriers union, Bill Enstedt, who said he wouldn’t be surprised if the Castle- Please see POST page A2 and attended public school and high school in Oliver. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1959 and attended the Univer- sity of British Columbia under. the terms of the regular officer training plan. He graduated in 1963 with a bachelor of science degree and was issioned BEATING converting corporate-run post offices to a network of outlets run by the private sector. “In that period we have (closed) a thousand of them, but as I said it’s done on a case by case basis and we haven't come to Castlegar yet. We don’t even forecast six months in advance (which offices will be affect- ed),” said McClelland. He also lashed out at Groepler and Rural Dignity for “spreading fear about post-office closures.” “I really think it’s kind of irre- sponsible of Rural Dignity. to go around and — this is their favorite tactic —- to scare people into believ- ing that there’s going to be some son resident. A Canada Post spokesman said it’s possible the Castlegar office could be privatized but at this point, “it’s nothing but pure speculation on Groepler’s part.” “Castlegar is down the road. It’s not on the immediate horizon and whether it’s (closed) a year from now, two years from now or five years from now, or never, I can’t tell you until we're there,” said Doug McClelland, manager of communica- tions for the Crown corporation. “We have a program that we are Ih ing and have been imple- menting for five years where we have been, on a case by case basis, “9 Please recycle The NEWS Residents and visitors dip Into the coo! waters of Lower Arrow Lake at Syringa Creek Provincial Park's b: h as they try to it the West Kootenay hea’ | Wit The New Man In Town a>? 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As soon as the new centre in Kel is built, they'll be closing down all Interior post offices,” said Groepler, a Rob- 82 Hired 84 Protective wering. perhaps UtiliCorp signs gas agreement UtiliCorp United has 18Cot Ps ohn announced that it has concluded dwellers ri Pine A peodenip van foremnad an agreement under which 10° — vinwit 90 Anagram for 11Sonof Gad 42 Ambien Amoco Exploration Co. will sup- Ne we paad islageen ply up to 566,000 cubic metres 14 Disturbed the (20 million cubic feet) of natural Camp’ gas per day to its recently 2 Colamial in formed British subsidiary,-Unit- cron body past ed Gas Company Ltd. ” bag Hoan ba nn The gas will be transported 23 Island olf 98 Warning through facilities owned by 28 Pacis istena British Gas under terms of a Ou recently signed long-term con- 36 U.S. presi 96 Svays t aimlessly 67 Food fish 97 Bricklayer 71 Ling-Ling, tor 99 Moonshine one IN MEMORY Norman Thomlinson Norman B, Thomlinson of New Denver died Tuesday, July 30, 1991, at age 82. Mr. Thomli follower 111 Measure of 65 Hwa th Carthage 5 Word betore 38 One of the store or saw 86 Swiss canton 10 Parking-lot 87 Reporter's ng 112 Bus or graph lead-in 39 Small glass, plants 113 Genetic 101 Card gaine mode! 102 Clever 73 Island persons. country slang 74 Burden 104 Large nose 75 Roman 106 Courageous philosopher 107 Amalekite 76 Ascenains Celgar, union Preparing get back to Ty ungene tem for the common Is a | weaith eacher 79 Muse of lync 112 Hartebeest a s % ‘ 5: ? re ae provincials : tt 40 Silent star 20 He wrote The Luck of ai » as employed at the Sullivan Mine in Kim- 91 Small berley and at Cominco in Trail. He was a long-time Castlegar Soe resident. He is survived by his wife, Doris; two sons, Brian of Surrey and Warren of Coquitlam; four grandchildren; sister-in-law, Lila Thomlinson; nieces Barbara Hogan of Cranbrook and Nor- ma Suttis of North Vancouver; and cousin W. Jean Finn of Spokane. He was predeceased by his brothers, Stan and Art, and par- 122 Pan of A 123 Entices 124 Civet 128 Start of the 92 Bewilders 94 Ladder lead rama 126 Wanders idly 127 Stupeties strutter 128 Weaver's jr 54 Charged with 80 Gain oF = Kuwait 57 One of 83 South Turkic people American 17 Charles reeds 129 It grows on Lame 18 ross of 118 Tagen sale vees tal a 5 Construction workers honor 24 Silly ones uncle ents, Herbert and Mary. Funeral services were held Friday, Aug. 2 at St. David's Anglican Church with Rev. Simon Shenstone officiating. The eulogy was given by Jack Hogan, Mr. Thomlinson’s nephew. Should friends desire, memorial contributions may be made to the Cancer Fund. Arthur Sinclair Arthur Sinclair of Castlegar died Tuesday, Aug. 6, 1991, at age 67. Mr. Sinclair was born Jan. 14, 1924, at Regina, Sask. He grew up in Saskatchewan and joined the army, serving over- seas during the Second World War. After the war, he married Lillian Hawkins at Nelson. He was divorced from his first wife and married Gertrude Maglio in the early 1980s. She died in October 1990. tract, UtiliCorp said in a news release. The gas will be supplied from fields owned by Amoco in the North Sea. The venture is the result of an initiative by the British government to inject more competition into the coun- try's natural gas industry, said UtiliCorp, the parent company of West Kootenay Power. feces Fl, septs AUTOMOTIVE DIRECTORY During his life, Mr. Sinclair worked as a switch West Kootenay Power dams, retiring in 1984. He enjoyed boating, fishing, berry and mushroom picking, and the outdoors. He is survived by three daughters, Helen Lorenson of Ver- non, Roberta Turner of Williams Lake and Barbara Price of South Slocan; five grandchildren; two brothers, Douglas and Joseph; and three sisters, Jessie, Ellen and Len. A memorial service was held Friday, Aug. 9 at 11 a.m. at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel with Rev. Ira Johnson officiating. Cremation has taken place. 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B1 breathe easier City council decided Tuesday the “extreme dif- ficulty in enforcement” makes a bylaw requiring m Muriel and John Walton and Virginia and Wally Walper, who are having problems with neighborhood cats. , there are cats in our yards hunting birds, tracking up vehi- cles, digging in the garden, fighting or caterwaul- complaints very often from friends and neighbors. We feel down on the However, the city says licensing cats has been considered in the past but is extremely difficult to ajor prob- ats compli- cates the situation and makes the enforcement of even a li re] acity memo says. cepts strays at no charge. LOTTERIES _ These are the win- ning lottery numbers for last week: LOTTO 6/49 Aug. 10 6, 7, 19, 27, 37, 45 Bonus 9 Aug. 10 52, 56, 80, 97 LOTTO-BC Aug. 10 4, 11, 13, 17, 19, 37 BC KENO Aug. 13 7, 13, 14, 31, 32, 35, 45, 52 These Aug. 12 6, 8, 11, 21, 22, 27, 38, Aug. 11 4, 18, 19, 21, 35, 37, The city suggests people having problems with stray cats contact the SPCA in Trail which ac- 1956838, 2512357, 2699443, 4229597, 4430336 are the offi- clal winning lottery 39. In the event of a dis- crepancy between the numbers pub- 39, 54 lished and the official CasNews photo by Barbara Tandory Anna Zabinska, a Rotary Club exchange student from Poland, arrived in Castlegar on Tuesday for a one-year visit. She'll attend Stanley Humphries secondary school. Visit to Canada ‘out of a fairy tale’ Rotary exchange student makes history with trip to Castlegar By BARBARA TANDORY Special to the Castlegar News A new visitor in town thinks she has entered an enchanted kingdom of the good fairies on arrival in Canada last weekend and Castlegar this week. “This is out of a fairy tale,” said 16- year-old Anna Zabinska on her arrival Tuesday. “I don’t know if ever in my life I'll find such a place.” Anne is the first Rotary exchange stu- dent from Poland — and from the East- ern Bloc — to come to Canada. Her impressions are colored by the contrasting reality of life in her home- land which she says had been strang until recently by 45 years of the commu- nist rule. “This is a very, very beautiful coun- try,” she said in an interview conducted in her native language. “Everything here ily new. The people are incredi- Aug. 10 1, 6, 9, 17, 22, 35, 47, provided 48 Aug. 9 1, 11, 14, 25, 33, 45, 51, 56 WEATHER thundersho' . Lows near 12. sunny and warm. Probability tonight and 40 per cent Thursday. list by the B.C. Lottery Corp., the lat- ter shall prevail. (See page A2 for The Daily ) bly nice. I am grateful for everything what I’ve agreed to accept by coming here.” re. Anne — who prefers to be called the diminuti Tonight: Variable clouds, a few showers or Thursday: Variable clouds, chance of after- noon showers or thundershowers. Highs 24-26. Outlook for Friday through Sunday: Mainly Of precipitation is 80 per cent notes they've asked her to do so. And she’s most impressed with some- thing many people have said needs work on around Castlegar — the environment. “The you have here is sim- cleanliness ply incredible,” Anna observed “I’ve been told that you can drink water from the lake at Christina Lake,” said Anna who, after a weekend in Van- couver — where she got a chance to of her name, Ania — is so happily settled in her new temporary home that she calls her hosts, Ron and Elaine Ross, “father” and “mother.” She the Abbotsford air show — was taken straight to the Ross’s summer cabin at Christina Lake. “We don’t have such lake,” she said. “Where I live, garbage is standing out- side for three days before it gets picked uy Pp.” Speaking of life in Poland, now under a non-communist government elected democratically for the first time in the country’s history, Anna noted that the winds of political change are blowing strong but economic improvement is slow in coming. “There are great changes in Poland,” she said. “For 45 years we had practically nothing. But the country’s economy was being ruined for all those 45 years and it needs time to rebuild anew.” Anna is a youthful and enthusiastic supporter of her country’s experiment in capitalism. But she thinks Poland has a long way to go to catch up with the West. “Prices are very high and wages are simply very low,” she said. Her family of seven — Anna has a sis- ter and three brothers — lives in a five- room apartment in an old rental housing unit in Torun, the birthplace of Coperni- cus, the 15th' century Polish astronomer who revolutionized the world’s views about earth’s place in the solar system. b: Anna’s concern, however, is more with Y her country’s modern history and its standard of living. “We don’t have an automobile, and we don’t have a color TV at home,” she said. “You'd think that with my father's position we'd be rich, but we're not.” And Anna's father’s position is just about as high as one can get in Poland. Her father, Krysztof Zabinski, is the head of Poland's new cabinet in Warsaw under Pre- mier Jan Bielecki, in power since Lech Walesa was elected president earlier this year. led for po please see STUDENT page A2 pulp and paper picket lines By CasNews Staff Representatives from Celgar Pulp Co. and the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada were back at the bargaining at the table today for the first time Sinée the company locked out its workers Aug. 7. Picket lines remained up today and workers on the pulp mill expansion project continued to honor the lines this week. Celgar got an injunction Sat- urday from the Industrial Rela- tions Council limiting the num- ber of picketers at the site in a move to get construction person- nel back on the job. Some construction workers returned to the job site after the injunction was served, but there’s been no work done on the site this week, said an employee of H.A. Simons, the i i Celgar to lock out the employ- ees, shut the mill down and con- tinue to build the new mill, thereby limiting the pressure the union can place upon its employer, Him said. “The picket sites we were using are the sites we have used since the mill was built, 30 years ago,” he said. “We are now told to move our pickets on to Celgar mill property, so as to allow con- struction to continue.” Celgar locked out its workers after several~days of production slowdowns by PPWC members at the mill. Meanwhile, two B.C. pulp unions representing 12,000 workers have received a 96 per cent strike vote to back contract proposals. The government-supervised vote was d d after talks firm on the $700 million project. “It’s pretty quiet out here,” said the employee. “The guys just aren’t coming in. You’d have to ask them why.” Union officals were outraged by the injuntion, the PPWC said in a news release. “The members of PPWC will comply with the IRC order but will never condone this order,” said union spokeman Cal Him. The- IRC injunction allows between the 18 mills and the Canadian Paperworkers Union and the Pulp, Paper and Wood- workers of Canada reached an impasse on July 25. Spokesman for both unions said in announcing the vote Monday that the industry has agreed to resume talks on Fri- day. No strike date has been set. The last constract expired June 30. Doctors remove cancerous kidney from Ed Conroy Prognosis is 100 per cent recovery prs ac asp boar Sd lowing removal acan- Aug. 8.