Aa as_Castlégar News October 15, 1989 OPINION Parkag ood idea With the CPR's abandonment of its rail line between Slocan City and Nakusp, the small hamlet of CPR property near the old barge s Rosebery is attempting to save the lip for use as park land The piece of property is located just north of New Denver where the barge part of the railway link operated on Slocan Lake between Slocan City and Rosebery The Rosebery Parkland Development Society has been formed to attempt to purchase 14'%2 acres from the CPR along with another 3'4 acres of CPR right-of-way. The intent is to turn the property into a regional park that would serve the public’ with the land left very much in the same condition a8 it presently is As the Arrow Lakes News of Nakusp comments editorially There are'a lot of advantages to the proposal. It would give public access to a beach, a creek mouth, area Slocan Lake needs a mar @ boat Idunching facility and picnic ina di | if it is to capi on the growing boating tourist trade, The natural harbor and access through this property would make it an ideal marina development The weekly newspaper further speculates that the marina development would perhaps be best left to private development and that this would likely result in the best of both worlds with the marina development in the safe harbor and a public access and park development in and around the m outh of Wilson Creek It is unfortunate that Highway 6 is currently closed to allow Cape Horn construction to proceed unhindered, or Castlegar. resi dents not familiar with the area drive to see the could have taken a very enjoyable potential for themselves (and admire the beautiful fall colors in the valley at the same time) The $15-million Cape Horn project (a feather in the cap of Nelson-Creston MLA Howard Dirks) will mean a fantastic increase in Highway 6 traffic through that beautiful gem of a valley A park such as ‘is proposed at Rosebery, would serve the future well and should be encouraged now Pulp mills not bad, Albertan says EDMONTON (CP) — Pulp mills and logging operations are mentally friendly environ. says the chairman of Edmonton's development agency “There is more damage done to the environment when we have forest fires than when we build any of these plan ts," Bob Rosen of the Development Edmonton Economic Authority told anews conference Any scientist will tell you that Rosen said many people who listen closely to the media are frightened by misnomers on Alberta's plans for pulp mills, David best-known Suzuki, environmen Comments by Canada’s talist, have also raised fears, he said He relates to the level of cut British Columbia, ng in which is different from here,” Suzuki ‘absolutely astounding Alberta forests they should check the forestry called Rosen's comments “If people in value their industry’s track record,’ Suzuki said from Toronto. ‘I's scandalous.” Reduce i Suzuki, host of CBC’s The Nature of Things, said he has not yet talked in detail about Alberta’s mill plans — but he will Suzuki said forestry companies. in variably promise the most advanved technology. ‘I've heard it everywhere I've heard it in Ontario, I've heard it in B.C The question is how much and to what extend you're going to destroy the last wilderness, Nobody to my knowledge has ever regrowna forest.’ Suzuki said produce plantations which fall short of forestry companies the complex ecological world of a natural forest Rosen said forestry is the key to breaking Edmonton's dependence on the roller-coaster oil and natural gas industry. But he concedes the stump age fees that timber companies pay the Alberta government for timber are not as high as they could be There may have been some trade-offs"’ to get the mills possible to boost Alberta economic benefits of Edmonton and_ northern Rosen said literacy, report recommends VANCOUVER (CP) cial government should give immediate The provin priority to reducing the adult illiteracy rate in British Columbia by 15 per cent a year, says a report prepared by a government-appointed committee The provincial committee was established by literacy advisory Advan ced Education Minister Stan Hagen a year ago to design a five-year strategy on literacy policies and program: The essence of the report, presented to Hagen Friday, is recognition that “literacy is not an individual issue, it is a public policy,? said committee chairman Paul Gatlagher Gallagher Community British Columbians a social issue, president of Vancouver College, said it’s put as as the time much em phasis on education Japanese and Koreans do “We are mation and technology world, not one now living in an infor in which economic success is based on Stateme 1 wished to Statement that appeared in the Sun: day, Oct the headline write to correct’ a 8 Castlegar News story under PetroCanada agrees to pay for waterline capping.” As the story indicates, n the the payment was made basis of good cor porate citizenship, and this very fair gesture will not be used to suggest that PetroCanada ha for this problem accepted respon The article that “Dalton sugge sibility further states, however stressed -he is not ting the strength of your bagk,"" he said An estimated 360,000 British Columbians per cent of are unable to roughly 17 the adult population read, write and calculate numbers well enough to cope with the demands of Recognizing ociety, Gallagher said that, the committee has recommen: ded, among provincial government other things, that the © Use community colleges as catalysts to develop community-based College with business literacy programs would develop partnerships labor, and other agencies for the provision of literacy opportunities in each community; © Give workplace literacy grants to employers and unions that deliver literacy programs; © Permit all British studies to the adults in lumbia to pursue equivalent of Grade 12 without tuition nt denied PetroCanada is Teak I did not make tha fact, compensation is responsible for_the statement. In being sought from PetroCanada on the basis that it does have legal responsibility for the damages resulting from the water leak Because many of the problem is expected public issues have been that conducted related to this resolved, it these negotiations privately will be Terry Dalt Castlegar su Castlegar News MMEMBER OF THE B.C. PRESS COUNCIL PUBLISHER AUG PUBLISHER el R PLANT FOREMAN, OFFICE MANAGER CIRCULATION MANAGER Burt Campbell Peter Harvey Linda Kositsin Heather Hadley Ti be rea * a sane? etters to the editor Driver ‘fleeced' to organize a protest con 1 am hop movement to protect us poor sumers from the ridiculous raiders of our already skinny pocket-books. Recently, | visited Osoyoos in the Okanagan Valley and when | filled up my empty gas tank, | was agreeably surprised — there the gas was retailing for 42.5 cents per litre. Gas at Grand Forks was posted at 43.8 cents per litre. When I had to refill at Castlegar, the selling prices at the stations varied from $0.7 On a trip to the East Kootenay last cents to $0.9 cents per litre. weekend, I noted thatthe prices for gas were 43.5 cents at Creston, 42.5 cents at Yahk, 43.5 cents at Moyie and 45.3 it Cranbrook but at Kimberley the price was up to $0.9 cents per litre. cents z There is something. that smells in Castlegar which cannot be blamed on the pulp mill. Why are we being “ripped off" by as much as 40 cents per gallon for gasoline? It must be that we are apathetic or stupid to tolerate such acondition The dealers at the centres of the cheaper gas prices realize that they are very close to competition in the United States from cheap gas, their rotten hence rates are lower. How about joining me to organize a parade of 500 automobiles to drive to the U.S. to fill up with cheap gas every weekend to demonstrate against this injustice? If we remain passive, moan and twiddle our thumbs, we deserve to be fleeced. If we want to create some ac- tion, let's take the advice of an oldtime labor leader who said, “Don’t mourn organize.”” Pat Romaine, PAGG — Protest Against Gas Gouging Castlegar Mill will be watched Shhh day it was today! The leaves on the trees are all turning color too hot, nor too cold to go outside, rake leaves and get the yardwork done before the snow flies. It’s the kind of day where you ‘feel like throwing open your windows to let the fresh, fall air in, Wait a minute did | say fresh fall air? Not today and not for a good long while! Our Pulp Co with foul emissions, Now I realize that when you live near a pulp mill you will what a perfectly lovely fall It’s neither Not around here corporate neighbor, Celgar is blatantly polluting our air extent: No problem here understanding that con cept, but when it is day after day, tothe worst degree, a person starts to worry about corporate conscience To be fair, get emissions to some I did contact the general assistant manager of Celgar about the problem. He was most tactful, cour teous and diplomatic. He was even going to go to the mill (on a Sunday yet) to see what he could find out. In return, I did tell him I was going to write the paper and contact pollution control Right now Celgar is placating us, the public, by stating that with the new ex pansion about to happen, there will be new jobs created, possibly a Robson: Castlegar bridge and a greatly reduced impact on the environment I guess we should all be happy now Does this give Celgar the licence to completely ignore its impact on the en vironment until that glorious day in the future plete? I'll be watching you (and smelling you) from now until after completion of the expansion. | hope you intend on living up to your corporate promises. Karen Kerkh Robson when the expansion is com- Visit to slums advised With regard to Mr. C remarks (CasNews, Oct glardi’s 1), that trade unions almost destroyed England, 1 would ask Mr of South Wales and Duram to see the awful slums where the impoverished Gaglardi to visit parts mine workers used to live, most of them for their entire lives Then he should visit wide areas in Yorkshire and Lancashire miles of dreary slums where the cotton and see workers used to live, men, women and yes, children Most of the dockworkers’ slum areas in East London were destroyed by German air raids but a lot of them cansstill be seen Meanwhile, the luxury, assisted of course by cheap ser vants. Thank God unions changed all barons lived in that When the next provincial elections are called, | hope voters will keep Mr Gaglardi’s views in mind that worked at from 1947 1 must add some of the logging camps | to 1955 fell far Tax burden questioned Taxes upon taxes — and now a new tax hike of nine per cent on everything! The suggestion is that this will the national debt.” Since the burden of all these taxes falls on the backs of it would only be fair for our in cumbent MP, or the minister of finan ce, to inform the taxpayers (in simple language) the that Canada owes, the rate of interest that we have to’pay on the debt, how many years we have already been paying and the full amount that has already been paid, including interest ‘reduce people, exact amount How many more times over do we have to pay this debt? To whom? Why? How did Canada, a wealthy, educated nation get itself hooked into such a financial mess? It is past time for taxpayers to demand some accoun tability from their elected represen: tatives! n ‘The War Cry,” official organ of the Salvation Army, on Aug. 12, 1989, the editorial states the following, “It is regrettable that with few ex ceptions government has not led the way in restraint. In fact, those who have access to the public purse appear to have erased the word ‘thrift’ from their understanding. Ac cording to one report, at the end of March this year, this country’s national debt stood at $321 billion with the interest on this debt reaching about $40 billion. And there are at least four levels of government in Canada, each with its powers of taxation and its spending priorities. Is it any wonder that many people who understand these matters ask gloomily whether the et out from under financial country will ever the crushing load? Mike E. Chernenkoff Crescent Valley Selkirk student happy On Friday, Sept, 1, 1989, I stood in line with hundreds of hopeful students at the Langara campus of Vancouver Community College only to be turned away. It’s the same story we hear every year; student registration up, classes offered down Disheartened but not discouraged, | packed my bags and headed for Selkirk College ini Castlegar. It was a big move for me not just because of the distance, but because | was low on funds, | didn’t know anyone in the area, and I had never lived away from home. The one thing | did have was the deter mination to find a school that would meet my needs. One month later | can safely say Langara’s loss is Selkirk’ gain Mine too! sten Murphy Rossland short of adequate living conditions and there was low pay for the workers. We must not let our forests be devoured by large corporations, some of them en. foreign, at the expense of workers, who after all are part owners tirely of our natural resources. Bob Rivers Castlegar Kitten shooting ‘despicable’ This letter is to the low life who owns a gun and lives either on 9th or 10th Avenue in South Castlegar I hope you are very proud of your self for shooting our white kitten last Saturday. You have caused a lot of grief and pain to a helpless little animal. | thought I'd let you know that she survived I don’t know how someone like you can face yourself in the mirror each morning knowing what you’ ve done Only a person with no heart or feeling would do something this despicable and | hope someday I find out who you are. I'd like to present you with the veterinarian’s bill Ihear that there have been other cats shot in this area, so the public should be aware we have a monster in our mid. st Kay Markin Castlegar Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. V1N 3H4, or deliver them to our office at 197 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar Letters should be typewritten double-spaced and not longer than 300 words Letters must be signed and include the writer's full name and address. Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the writers nome Nevertheless the writer editor The Costlegor News reserves the right to edit letters tor brevity, clarity, legality and grammar the name and address of must be disclosed to the Remember When? - 40 YEARS AGO From the Oct. 13, 1949 Castlegar News, The Castlegar and District Board of Trade ‘*clean-up’” committee met with the Village Commissioners on Tuesday night to discuss plans for the clean-up. of the business section of the village, A report of the findings of this commit tee will be presented at the Board of Trade dinner meeting tonight, Thur sday, in the Parish Hall H.E, Whyte, Chief Inspector of Lands, Victoria, R-E. Burns, Assistant Superintendent of Lands, Victoria, and F.N. Burns, Land Inspector, of Nelson, were in Castlegar Thursday Oct. 6, conferring with Municipal authorities on local matters Seeking a goal of a half million Family Rosary pledges, an army of 40,000 laymen on Oct. 19 will begin a week's convass of 200,000 Catholic homes in Western Canada and Alaska as the aftermath of a six-week Family Rosary conducted simultaneously in the Crusade four arch seven Nelson Diocese has 1,200 canvassers on the dioceses, seven dioceses and vica tes in the northwest job 25 YEARS AGO. From the Oct. 15, 1964 Castlegar News An increase in Castlegar's water user rate by frontage rate by 15 would provide an extra revenue to the village of $16,500, Comm Hughes told council’s meeting last 20 per cent and the water cents per foot Gwilym week He said the extra revenue should be ‘cover the replacement of the Sopow subdivision and the main to the Sherbiko subdivision extending Avenue enough to along Sth hydrants and appropriate Castlegar council is writing local plumbers asking them to comment on reports that they are so busy that they cannot hook up all residents making application for sewer hook-ups A new business opens in Castlegar tomorrow It’s McPhail’s Ladies Wear which will be located across from the post of fice. It will be operated by Mrs. B.L McPhail, perience in the ladies wear business who has had 10 years’ ex, with her own shop in Vancouver 15 YEARS AGO From the Oct. 17, 1974 Castlegar News A sewer referendum will be put before the residents of the Town of Kinnaird on Nov. 16. This was announced Thursday night G.S. Rust gave a report on council activities to members of the Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce former when representatives Ald at its October meeti A foot bridge in use since 1920, was destroyed Sun. . believed to have been day morning when fire was discovered on the CP Rail bridge over the Colum bia River. Fire chief Ed estimates 40 to 50 feet of the public walkway was burned out. Over 1,500 feet of hose was used in extinguishing the blaze A request from a city pensioner to have the trick banned on Halloween in the customary and treating’* city because of high cost of treats and the difficulties experienced by this elder person getting up to answer the door was denied by council Tuesday night 5S YEARS AGO From the Oct. 14, 1984 Castlegar News The Kootenay Historical ambitious’ bid to complete the Doukhobor Village at cost of $2.5 million However, Doukhobor Society has launched an an estimated plans for the village's COMPTON are Sitti The early Stages so early in fact that society president Elmer Verigin is hesitant to discuss the completion, saying it is “*premature.”* Cominco Ltd. stole the show at the provincial hearing in Castlegar Friday by describing a tax stranglehold that the company says seriously impedes its modernization taxation plans. “If we do not modernize, we will not compete and we eventually will shut down," Cominco vice:presideiy Ted Fletcher told a four-man panel at the Sandman* hi Finance Minister Hugh Curtis; Two Sons of Freedom women charged with the Juste 30 arson al the Doukhobor Historical Museum were released on bail Monday ‘ Mary Braun, 63, and Tira Jmaeff, 59, who had both been tasting®at Lakeside Correctional Centre in Bure naby for about 50 days, were released * on four $5,000 sureties following an Oct. 5 hearing in Nelson Selkirk The Beta Sigma Phi Sorority recently met toured Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park and the Chapel House where t John and Bunny Charters. Two other groups v ISLAND TOUR in Castlegar for a conference and two groups he: ed the Castlegar R. were hosted by | Station where the MORE LETTERS Decision Castlegar city council's decision to allow Turbo Resources Ltd. to build a bulk fuel and retail service station is disappointing to say the least In the first place, taken seriously the clear mandate given they have not them by residents of the homes in the area to say ‘‘no”’ to the proposal, In the they have chosen to put aside the official com second place, munity plan — a decision which makes one wonder why we have a community plan in place if council can disregard it Worl “State of world a concern’? — you bet it is! That was the headline above anarticle in the Castlegar News Oct. 4 The youth of today are not the only ones who should be concerned with enivirorimental issues. Everyone-must realize the consequences of mistreating our earth and make a personal con tribution to this worthy cause in order tosurvive. Some thoughts: Carbon dioxide problem — car with mileage or Buy a good carpool Make use of our city’s public transpor tation Industrial (CFCs) — Boycott styrofoam cups and prepare chemicais for the return of the side-vent windows as an alternative for air conditioning in cars Acid rain — some nice Canadian lake before it’s too late and you come home empty Take a fishing trip to handed Air pollution — Barbecues are out of vogue in this category, sprays not to men tion deodorant with taxation Wed. Evenings at 7:00 p.m. For a Bible Based Study On The PRINCIPLES OF RELATIONSHIPS We Will Cover Such Topics As BUILDING SELF ESTEEM HANDLING HURTS & ANGER REDUCING FRICTION & CONFLICT ENRICHING YOUR RELATIONSHIPS We will be using as our Study Guide CG KEY TO YOUR, MARRIAC vs By N. Wright FOR FURTHER INFO. CALL NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY 365-5212 at will In the third place, what a ridiculous business to put on the main street of our community, from far too many very ugly spots Our community has a natural setting which is beautiful. 1 think it is about time our community leaders did something to that beauty rather than contribute to its further destruction Granted, we have a problem on 6th Avenue with too much truck traffic which already suffers enhance isappoints Why move the problem to Columbia Avenue? It would make much more sense for the bulk station and other like to be located in already designated industrial areas, of which we have many! businesses I would suggest that council and the business community of Castlegar take a serious look at the approach Nelson is taking to the beautification of its community Bud Godderi: Castlegar needs help petrochemicals * Water pollution You can catch some wild disease and Go swimming! probably be immune to it at the same time. By the way, before drinking take. let that tap water run it_ reduces Tead_in We cannot refuse to understand that the problems of the enviro important. t's a matter related-to the rights of all mankind. I've got to catch that bus ment are Castlegar CENTRAL FOODS FREEZER CONTEST Contest Ends Oct. 21 SMOKED BEEF POTATO CHIPS OLD CHEDDAR CHEESE OR MILD, MEDIUM OR MOZZARELLA. SCHNEIDERS. ONTARIO OVERLANDER. MONTREAL. SLICED /SHAVED 66° i =a 99" #1 7 UP OR PEPSI REGULAR /DIET. APPLE JUICE WILLIAM TELL. LIMIT 12. MAPLE LEAF GROUND COFFEE CHASE 'N SANBORNE . ICE CREAM ASSORTED. .... 750 mi PLUS ovo h O° 68° $959 $479 at. aa GEM POTATOES ALBERTA GROWN. No. GREEN GRAPES THOMPSON SEEDLESS. BROCCOLI CARROTS Central Fresh Produce 5018 wo"? kg. $1.74/Ib 79° kg wm dD° $929 PRICE: EFFECTIVE TUES. WED. OPEN SUNDAYS We reserve the right to im —- Prices limited to stock on hand ets | CENTRAL FOODS Comenmenity 717 Chemie t Coutlogs eee, October 15, 1989 Pro-choice groups rally By MARK DUNN The Canadian Press Pro-choice groups rallied Canada Saturday, urging Ouawa to drop new women control over their own bodies. In Toronto, police estimated that more than 1,500 people squeezed on to the front lawn of Queen's Park and listened to a stream of speakers tell the federal government not to introduce a new abortion law The rallies, and Canadian portion legislation and give in more than 30 cities organized by the Abortion Righis Action Leaigue as part of a national day of pro choice demonstrations; The theme for the protest was: Don’t Lose The Right To Choose “We will not let the government un: do our work by introducing new laws criminalizing Bonnie Johnson, a spokesman for the towns, were abortion, organizers, said from the steps of the Ontario legislature: ‘We want new criminal legislation stopped,”’ Johnson said to the cheers and chants of placard-waving suppor ters who included all seven leadership New major contenders for the federal Democratic Party, the federal take a ‘starr The leadership hopefuls were in only party to pro-choice Toronto to continue a series of debates to woo delegates before a new leader is elected Dec. 3 at a convention in Win nipeg to replace Ed Broadbent FUNDAMENTAL Speaking in Frénch, Ontario New Democratic Party Leader Bob Rae'said wom tal right to decide for themselves. Ottawa is drafting a new abortion legislation this fall to replace the law struck down by the Supr Canada in January 1988 should be given the fundamen me Court of Canada the message was also loud and clear from Elsewhere across pro-choice supporters who unfurled banners, sang songs, leaflets and sold T-shirts and buttons promoting their position. 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