é As = July 27, 1986 OF COPYMGNT: Full, wonce ond sole « vested in and to Contle tid. provided to the advertweer PUBLISHER AUG 7. 1947-460 19.1975 PUBLISHER — Buri Compbel! EDITOR — Ron Norman FOREMAN OFFICE MANAGER — Linda Kositsin ADVERTISING MANAGER — Coro! Magow CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heother Hadley ‘News how ‘odverteement prepered trom repre prooks engravings ok — Peter Harvey Money can grow on trees Money doesn't grow on trees in British Columbia, but trees are money as this pulp and lumber based community well knows. While the federal government's establish a model forest resource management area on pony’s TFL is regretable decision hopetully isn’t irr sible. 7 Instead of regarding federal Forestry Gerald Merrithew's decision as an im- possible concrete wall, let's regard it only as a stumbling block and as a challenge. Merrithew said tree farm licen- ses don't quality for funding for such a project. Fine, but let's tell him why that policy is wrong and why it should be reversed. Westar's Southern Wood Produc- ts general manager, Wade Zam- mit, has rightfully refused to take the answer as final. He's going to continue discussing the proposal with Kootenay West Mp Bob Brisco and local MLA Chris D'Arcy. When Westar’s Jim Cross made the proposal public early last fall, he estimated the project might create “as many as 200 jobs over five years,” mainly in the Nakusp area. He also estimated the spinoft effects could be “significant” and might create an additional 300 jobs, “which would have an impact on Castlegar.” “The proposal is to establish o model forestry resource t area near Nakusp, one that has the potential to turn the West Kootenay into the “Silicon Valley” of the forest industry. It would create a “pool of expertise” and make this region “the leading silviculture area” in Canada. While explaining the concept and speaking enthusiastically about its potential, Cross did try and prepare the public for a refusal. He cautioned that the five- year $300 million federal- provincial forestry agreement allocated very little funding to tree farms, and admitted that the Westar proposal was “outside the current agreement.” Basically what the company has proposed is a model resource management area that would demonstrate the best way to manage forestry resources. Cross said a project on the scale of the Westar proposal has never been undertaken. Cross said the project would essentially be geared to future im- provement of the forestry resource because of the long growth time of trees. The project would mainly be Nakusp-based, although people would inevitably come through Castlegar “spending money” on their way to the project and any meetings would probably take place in Castlegar because of the convenience of the airport The project, which Cross estimates would cost $3 to $4 million per year, could develop a pool of skilled silviculturists in the West Kootenay. Westar didn't, and doesn't, plan to make money from the project. Maybe. -.this proposal is something the Castlegar and District Development Board could get its teeth into. Certainly Bob Brisco, Chris D'Arcy and Wade Zammit shouldn't be expected to do it alone. Something's wrong A truck from Grand Forks selling strawberries has been a familiar sight in Castlegar for the post several years. Parked across from Anderson Insurance Agencies, G and L Farms hos advertised its product with both the Castlegar News and the local radio station. But a potentially fruittul season for the firm turned sour due to a lack of pickers The Grand Forks Gazette says G and L lost half of its 20-acre crop because of not being able to get enough hired help. And on top of it all, the owners may lose their farm if they can't make this year's mor- tgage payment. One of the company’s principals contacted the! Ministry of Human Resources requesting people to pick berries. The ministry respon- ded promptly, phoning about 30 single employable people that The newspaper suggests “this is really the question raised by strawberry farmer, Laura Mclver. It says Mclver believes there are too many welfare recipients who are too lazy to work. Out of all those called, she says, only one showed up. She directs her angle at the unemployed who, she feels, are not pulling their weight when work is available People, she says, just don't want to work. ‘ls that true?” asks The Gazette ‘Have we lost the work ethic. Have we lost a sense of pride in being independent and self-sufficient? The editorial continues “Historically we place a great deal of pride in our forefathers who picked up the plough and cor- ved farms out of the wilderness They worked long hours and lived d receive welfare e. As well, the ministry immediately stopped issuing social assistance to single employables until the berry crop season was completed. Apparently the firm was able to recover about 50 per cent of its crop, but wasn't able to get help when it was most needed. A spokesman for Canada Man. power told The Gazette that the call for strawberry pickers coin- cided with demand for asparagus weeders, cherry pickers in the Okanagon, and tree planters The matter of how much money could be earned picking strawberries is also a point of dispute. The Canada Manpower spokesman says a lot of people went out, worked six hours, and made $9. The G and L spokesman says, on average, a strawberry picker can pick two flats an hour worth $4.50 a flat. This $9 an hour figure, is contirmed by a Castlegar resident who hos picked strawberries. The issue caused the Grand Forks Gazette to heth p ly poor lives during the early depression years “There is a certain amount of respect in society today for those people, but is it really what we ourselves want? ‘It is easy to forget that the far- mer who struggled against all odds probably lost three of his six children through the effects of poverty 1t doesn't paint the picture of the child forced to quit school to help ou! on the farm Hard work never hurt anyone, and it doesn't. It allows a feeling of achievement, a feeling of fulfilment, but it isn't all that life is about We hove developed into a sot ter race. one that doesn't ap- preciate all that it has going for it In many cases people are just plain lazy It's a failing of democracy to ac- cept those that just don't do. The failure lies in the philosophy that all ore equal, consequently all must shore in the bounty Ss people who are on welfare and who are both employable and within easy access to the work available, should be forced to take work that others won't. that bounty gets pretty tight. In those times sharing hurts a lot more thon in others times, but shore we must, or we may lose something greater, the freedom of choice. Me? Divisive? Confrontational? As I said to Fergie, I wouldn’ attended the weddi not care for the welfare of my subjects... t have if I did ...NO matter what her mother~in-~law says! Letters to the Editor Funds for library Editor, News: In the last fifteen months the people of Nelson have privately donated $3,800 to the David Thompson Library for magazine subscriptions. Does this somehow, given Nelson's economic situation, seem a little out of line? The closure of the David Thompson University Centre in 1984 left a residue of unresolved frustration and a sense of betrayal in the hearts of many residents. People lost employment, because of the closure, upon which continued ability to maintain mort gages depended directly. Others sud denly found that relatively inexperisive opportunitites for post-secondary ed- ueation simply disappeared, not to be replaced by reasonable equivalents. population. Many others have made the opposite initial decision: we're not just going to give up and seek “jobs” elsewhere, jobs not being the only criterion for evaluating quality of life. We're knuckling down, as do the tough everywhere when times are hard, and we've been doing some re-valuating. What essentially happens when dollars become an endangered species is roughly analogous to the ancient tribal disaster survival code: feed first the hunter, then the mate, then the children, then the old. The: priority ranking given the arts and humanities, it seems, usually fits them in some- where between moderately child-like and medium-old when money tightens up. Those who recognize and admit the need to protect or reclaim a cultural Together with other cutbacks, the closure accounted for massive decline of revenue in the area which affected still others in corollary ‘employment casualties, or in lost business revenues and/or equity. The selling price of the av house in Nelson has fallen by 40 pfr cent from the May 1981 peak. Ten, cent of the total number of private residences in the city are on the block at any one time nowadays. Not all of the area's current economic dilemma is attributable to DTUC's demise, of course, but unguestionably the loss to Nelson of it-secondary education, nurtured and increasingly relied on in various ways over a third of a century, has left a cavernous crater in the concrete of our economic and cultural courtyard What is the common citizen doing about it all? Many former residents have simply moved away, by some counts 20 per cent of our 1981 y a Brisco Editer, News: I would like to take this opportunity to extend my thanks and congrat ulations to those who served on the Central Kootenay Community Ad justment committee (better known as the Nelson MILAP Committee), which recently disbanded after 20 months of activity. The committee members are to be thanked for the many hours they contributed to Kootenay West en suring that federal MILAP funding allocated to this region be utilized in the manner most effective and bene ficial to the workers and their com munities. They are to be congratulated for their success in that endeavor. The committee members were: Dan Smithson, Klaus Offerman and Gary McCandlish of Nelson; Charlie Cohoe and Len Embree of Castlegar; Ken Marshall and Ted French of Nakusp; Tom Hetherington of Salmo; Jack Morris of Kaslo; Susan Wigen and Gary Koebel of Creston. I would also like to express special thanks to Mike Berg who served as committee chairman, and directed the Committee's activities in a most professional and business-like manner. Even though his MILAP duties are now drawing to a close, I expect that Mr. Berg will continue to make a valuable contribution to the com- munity. City okay . jar News: I fee! almost guilty and ashamed to say nice things about the City of Castlegar, but I feel that I must con. gratulate it for the excellent improve ment to the railroad crossing in the Dumont area. If only similiar improvements were carried out throughout B.C., motorists would save enough money on shock absorbers to pay their annual taxes. Again, I say, congratulations and thank you. You must be doing something right. Pat Romaine Castlegar from money “managers” whose guiding principles are ingly biased Remember When? 35 YEARS AGO From the July 26, 1951 News Mr. and Mrs. B. Rourke and family are motoring to Moosejaw and other prairie points, where they will spend their surgmer holidays. ._ * © The initiative in locating a per- manent one-summit, all-year road be- tween this area and Grand Forks was taken last week when members of the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce, the Grand Forks Board of Trade and the Greenwood Board of Trade, launched a joint expedition which started from Cascade at the foot of Christina Lake and ended at Kinnaird, by way of Paulson, Sheep Lake and Blueberry Creek. Members of the party were un- animously agreed that there were no major problems involved in the con- struction of a road over the route they had followed. In fact they agreed that the possibilities of a road exceeded the expectations of the most optimistic. . . Hugo Smecher left for Abbotsford, B.C. where he will spend two weeks at the RCAF camp. 25 YEARS AGO From the July 27, 1961 Castlegar News John J. Verigin was officially de- clared spiritual leader of the Orthodox Doukhobors at Grand Forks on the weekend. Representatives of 27 Kootenay Doukhobor communities met in an extraordinary convention at which one of the top items in the agenda was the election of a spiritual leader. Mr. Verigin said that upon the death of Peter (Yastrebov) Verigin III, who died in Russia in 1942, John Verigin as the grandson of Peter II was de signated leader-elect. ._ 2 6 Tourists with the 17-trailer Avion TN towards “saving” money, as though money were the only measure of value. In spite of recent government depredation of education in B.C., especially in the arts and humanities, and of reduced public support for “non-cost-effective” programs such as the social safety net, perhaps in favour of arguably less down-to-earth ini- tiatives such as Expo or the Coquihalla highway, many of us here and elsewhere persist in hoping that there still exist, in the collective mind, undercurrents of rationality and care for the common good. We can still almost trust that these forces are working in our chronically troubled society, to bring about essential re-valuation of our societal priorities, and that finally they still ean succeed. The donations to the David Thomp- son Library for magazine subscriptions are understandable in this context. Since March 1985, the library has staged two fund-raising campaigns for this purpose. Both these actions were successful in achieving their objective. There are people out there, even in these parlous economic times when so many requests for i for every i cause are made to local merchants and the general public, who are willing to lend financial support from perhaps meagre resources to a purpose of this kind, one which might not figure very highly in a government or industrial priority scheme. Probably we should be pleased with that. Ren Beauchamp David Thompson Library thanks committee The MILAP employment program has been phased out in favor of the many new programs of Canadian Jobs ; programs which emphasize ing and re-training, and put an even greater emphasis on community involvement. The Canadian Jobs Strat egy has seen great success in Kootenay West thus far, and I hope the former MILAP committee members will now direct their energies towards assisting our businesses and communities in utilizing the new programs so that together we can create jobs and new opportunity for the people of Kootenay West. Bob Brisco Kootenay West MP Baby is a human being with potential ; Castlegar News: Did you know that only 18 days after conception, the baby’s heart is beating, within 43 days, brain waves are traceable during the sixth and seventh weeks, nerves and muscles begin working together and the baby’s lips become sensitive to gentle touch. At eight weeks, he squints and his fingers close into a fist if his palm is touched, by the eleventh week, all internal organs are present and functioning. He breathes, swallows, digests and ur- inaties. He is very sensitive to pain — will develop or function, only further growth and maturation. It would seem obvious from these observations that the baby is not merely a blueprint, but a separate, distinct person, both genetically and structurally. It is not a part of the mother’s body. It is undeniably alive. But is it human? Most definitely yes, because the unique human genetic structure is present in every living cell. This, then is not just a potential human being, but rather a human being with full potential. Castlegar parked until today at Nelson, toured the Celgar pulp mill and the Castlegar District yesterday. . 6 The Castlegar Women's Softball Team won two games against the Trail St. A’s this week when they licked them here Monday night 18-4 and beat them Tuesday night 5-2 at Sunningdale Park. Winning pitcher the first night was Gail Leitner while Ann Kastrakoff won the second night. 15 YEARS AGO From the July 29, 1971 Castlegar News On Dee. 18 at 11:01 p.m., the Thrums telephone exchange will be cut into service with free calling to Castlegar and will continue to have free calling with South Slocan and Vallican . * From the time Miss Dee Chase was elected KC Days queen and her two princesses Sue Killough and Linda Evin were selected at the Hi Arrow Arms on Friday night the festivities jusy kept rolling until after the Kiwanis Barbeque on Sunday night. The parade was bigger and better than ever with 40 entries including the Vernon Girls Pipe Band, SHSS Band and the girls of the Civil Air Patrol from Spokane . 8 8 The Kinnaird Aquanaut invitational Swim Meet took place on Saturday and Sunday at the Bob Brandson Memoria! Pool. Clubs participating were Trail, Nelson, Golden and Kinnaird. Castlegar Castlegar city council has decided to take the next step in the planning process for starting a bus service in this area Council members met Tuesday and voted to authorize the Urban Transit Authority to draw up a transit service plan, which will give more details about possible systems. . . A seven-point brief outlining prob lems the provincial government can resolve to improve tourism in this area was presented Friday to Tourism Minister Pat Jordan by the Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce. Three recommendations in the cham. ber's brief dealt with the Lower Arrow Lake, calling for installation of a floating dock and power, water and sewer hookups for trailers at Syringa Creek Park; construction of a fishway at the Inonoaklin River Falls to en hance the local fish resource, and con struction of a road linking Syringa Creek and Fauquier. . The topic of weddings was featured prominently at the July meeting of the executive of the Doukhobor Historical Society held recently. On behalf of the society and of other Canadian people, a pair of borscht ladies, carved by Pete Ogiow was sent last week by special courier to Prince Charles and Lady Diana on the occasion of their forthcoming marriage. ROTARY WELCOMES _ NEW GOVERNOR fy Swift and hie wife Florence an the firat of thelr reund of official club visits. The Swifts had motored from their home club in Revelstoke that morning and were met for lunch by Castlegar Rotary Club president Ron Ross, his wife Elaine, Australian Rotary Exchange Student Louise Devon and PRO John Charters. After lunch the group toured Zuckerberg Island governor described as “a beautiful place, a great asset to the city and one which is bound to get better with the years.” He then held first with the then with members at a club assembly at which he discussed reports and activities, and finally at a Ladies’ Night dinner. In his address he praised the club's activities within the community and the support of non-Rotarians, particularly in such projects as the Student Exchange m. Rotary International President Caparas, whose mottg this year is “Rotary brings hope” depends for its international success, Swift said, on such strong active individual clubs as the Castlegar club. It is important in this regard, therefore for the clubs to work closely with the government sponsored agency CIDA (Canadian International Developmental Agency) since it supports and works through such international organizations as Rotary and matches funds raised on a three to one basis. One such international project is the Polio Plus Program, by which the Rotary has raised $120,000,000 and hopes to eliminate polio throughout the world by 1990. It is in support of the Polio Plus that Castlegar Rotarian Jim Gouk is making his 3,660 kilometre bike ride from Christina Lake to Phoenix, Ariz. on Sept. 6. ROTARY GOVERNOR . . . John Swift, newly elected governor of Rotary District 508, addresses a meeting of the Castlegar Rotary Club. CostewsProte by John Charters Meanwhile, time for filing of applications for the valuable RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) program is getting short. Each club is allowed two candi- dates and each club pays $200 tuition fees per candidate for the week-long leadership training camp. Prospective candidates 19-25 should apply at once to Ron Ross or any Castlegar Rotarian. In closing his address, the governor announced that the District 508 Conference would be held in Revelstoke on May 7-10 and invited a good attendance. Among their other gifts, Inga Lamont presented the visitors with a souvenir Doukhobor ladle carved by Pete Ogiow. The couple have another 43 clubs to visit by fall. Chernobyl picture emerges By ANDREW ROSENTHAL MOSCOW (AP) — The Chernoby! nuclear accident has created ghost towns, cost top government officials their jobs and led to a review of the ambitious nuclear program that is the cornerstone of the Kremlin's future energy policy. Three months after the explosion at the reactor in the Ukraine, workers are still cleaning up and the country highest authorities are undertaking an unusual publi accounting of an unprecedented disaster. On July 19, the governing Politburo blamed accident on gross negligence of plant workers and offi said ignored safety procedures and undertook experiments without proper precautions. Most of what is known about the accident comes from official Soviet accounts — few foreigners have been allowed near the plant. But a picture has emerged of what happened at 1:23 a.m., Saturday, April 26, 1986, in Chernobyl's No. 4 reactor near the town of Pripyat, 130 kilometres north of Kiev. THE ACCIDENT The No. 4 reactor had been shut down. Without notification and in violation of safety rules, workers began experimenting on one of the electricity-producing turbines, said the Politburo account. The reactor, cooled by water and moderated by graphite, surged from six per cent of capacity to 50 per cent in 10 seconds. The water cooling system couldn't handle the overload. Water combined with the graphite and produced hydrogen that exploded The blast ripped open the reactor core and set fire to the building around it. Two plant workers were killed. Firefighters battled flames for four hours to prevent it from spreading to an adjacent reactor. Radioactive particles formed a cloud that spread across northern and central Europe and eventually around the world in varying degrees. THE EVACUATION The more than 50,000 residents of nearby Pripyat weren't evacuated until Sunday afternoon, April 27. It took eight more days to evacuate the rest of the 29-kilometre danger zone. No one has explained why In all, more than 100,000 people were evacuated. Some went to new jobs and new homes and children were sent to summer camps. Some reports say Pripyat is a ghost town with abandoned wash flapping from clotheslines THE KREMLIN'S REACTION For almost 72 hours, the Kremlin told its own people nothing. Diplomatic queries in Moscow and Europe met curt denials. But the spreading radiation, detected abroad, couldn't be kept secret. On Monday, April 28, in late evening, the government acknowledged the accident. THE CLEANUP Military pilots dumped sand, lead, boron and dolomite on to the reactor, choking off the radiation almost completely. Miners and soldiers dug and blasted a tunnel to build a concrete and lead platform beneath the reactor block and workers now are making a concrete shell for the reactor — a tomb that will remain radioactive for hundreds of years. Embankments 20 kilometres long were built to protect the Pripyat River, which flows by the plant and is part of the system serving Kiev. A new water supply system was built for Kiev. THE HUMAN COST The latest official toll is 28 dead and 30 in hospital. An additional 173 are listed as having radiation disease. American Dr. Robert Gale has said 50,000 to 100,000 people risk contracting radiation-related diseases. THE ECONOMIC IMPACT The Politburo said the accident has caused the equivalent of $3.8 billion Canadian in damage, shut down factories and farms and contaminated 1,000 square kilometres of land. Western experts say the reactor itself was worth the equivalent of $1.9 billion Canadian. The cleanup also cost hundreds of millions. Losses in farm produce, work time and factory production are difficult to assess. Soviet officials say they're still committed to nuclear energy, but the entire Soviet program is under review. ~ laa S THAT TAKE THE HEAT OFF YOUR BUDGET Sole Dotes July 27-Aug. 2 ENTER THE EXPO DRAW Enter your til slip and you could win 2-3 Day Passes to Expo. Draw Aug. 2—5 p.m. sins ye a! 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CARL'S ' July 27.— 1 02 Group says prison spurs violence E H a7 if | laws will only make a Stein- gard-style slaying more likely. yf i LU Tampering with a Meter Criminal Offence! In Creston recently, a man was conficted of fraudulently consuming electricity. Anoth RE F i 5 been put in the community under close supervision, says the director of Alternative Sentence Planning of Winni- if 2 8 i! zt “It's very common for people to become more dan- gerous while they're in prison,” said Clarence Epp, whose independent, non-pro- fit agency negotiates alter- natives to prison sentences for offenders. “Prison has an atmosphere of violence and mistrust and that certainly doesn't make people more gentle.” However, Paul Johnston, deputy chief of Winnipeg police, thinks society is bet- ter served if offenders — even non-violent ones — are locked up away from the public. “I would certainly like to see some pretty severe jus- tice in these cases,” Johnston said. vision in the community. He cited an innovative program run by a sheriff in a vieted rapists and murderers serving their sentences under close supervision out- side of prison walls, he said. “It's something that we normally think won't work; or at least, I doubt if our " society is ready,” said Epp, The tragedy sparked an adding that his agency does outery because Steingard not work with violent of- had been seen out on man- fenders or those who do not datory supervision for 1-2 show they will make an effort years at the time of the to stay out of jail. female acquaintance, shot a mother and her two young children, and then killed himself in a grisly chain of events that traumatized the otherwise quiet south- western Manitoba city of Brandon. using jumper cables + is being in- vestigated by the R.C.M.P. West K y Power on the look ploy ore t tor signs of theft. The Company will not hesitate to prosecute offenders. "Your Ford Country Headquarters’ HOURS: Mon.-ri. 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Sat. 6-6 CHECK US OUT * MUSTANG * RANGER LTO Large Inventory in stock Over 110 New and Used Vehicles. Volume Discounts. Top Dollar Paid tor Trade-ins. Protessional People to Assist you. PHONE COLLECT 364-0202 SOUTHERN INTERIOR FOREST INDUSTRY NEGOTIATIONS In a year when the forest industry is starting to recover from a deep recession and is faced with the threat of a United States imposition of a tariff on lumber, it is disheartening to us that the IWA would further jeopardize the economic stability of the industry with a strike. When negotiations resumed earlier this month the IWA had four demands: a one-year agreement, removal of all employer proposals, pension improvements and elimination of contracting out of work. We agreed to a one-year contract. We agreed to take our proposals off the bargaining table. In pensions we have offered major pension im- provements which include a full pension based on credited service for employees between the ages of 60 and 65 who elect to retire. In addition employees between the ages of 55 and 60 who have lost their jobs as a result of permanent closure will not suffer a break in service and will be able to take early retirement at 60 and receive a full pension. The provision is retroactive to January Ist, 1983. We made a commitment in writing that our em- ployees’ livelihood will not be jeopardized by contracting out. At the outset of negotiations it was the consensus of both the Industry and the Union that we should work together for the betterment of our employees, the Industry and this province. We are still of this view. MEMBER COMPANIES — INTERIOR FOREST LABOUR RELATIONS ASSOCIATION