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Graham school in Slocan held a successtul auction to raise funds for an adventure D3 Tenders ¢& called Highways Minister Neil Vant has announced the call for tenders for the $16 million widening of Highway 6 between Slocan and Silverton -- DS Baker interview Crescent Valley artist Pam Baker has bran- ched out into painting after spending most of her career drawing...D6 the Valleys ade CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1989 Serving the Slocan Valley, Salmo, Ymir and ones areas it a Peppard joins NDP By CasNews Staff South Slocan environmental activist Wayne Peppard recently announced he will seek the N mocrati BIG ENOUGH ... Fourteen-month-old Chad Hicks was getting tired of being pushed around and decided to do something about it. He was out with the crowd enjoying New Denver's May Days during the Victoria Day weekend. Green light given on Lucerne upgrading By CasNews Staff Major capital project funding for Arrow Lakes School District has received final approval The school district will use the $3,265,768 to replace part of and renovate the rest of Lucerne element ary-secondary school in New Denver A section of the building, construc ted in 197S, is to be remodelled. The section includes four classrooms and a gymnasium. The renovations are to building will need to be reopened for school at this time The remaining segment of the project will be the replacement of part of the building and school officials hope to have it completed by early spring in 1990. Bill Penner. maintenance supervi sor for School District No. 10, said architects are currently finishing off the working drawings for the project Once those are completed the project contracts are to be made governing each phase of the proj Penner said demolition of the old buildings should start on June 28 when the east end of the building will be removed. Beginning in Septem- students will use the renovated ion and will continue to use the 1919 buildings and the old element ary wing for the remainder of the year until the new section is comple ted nomination in the Nelson-Creston riding currently held by Socred Howard Dirks Peppard joins Winlaw logger Corky Evans in the race for the nomination. Evans lost to Dirks by just 17 votes in the last provincial election. Peppard, 42, a member of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union, said the urgings of others made him think seriously about politics. “Up until then I hadn't thought of myself'as a politician. But then again, | had never thought of myself as a plum- ber either before I started. Sometimes these things just happen,”’ he said in a recent interview Peppard has been active in the labor movement all his working life, a news release said, fighting for workers’ rights, health care and women’s rights. The environment has become another major issue for him in the last few years and he said he sees labor con- cerns and environmental concerns becoming linked. “1 see occupational health concerns (of industry workers) expanding to in- clude the environment of the com- munity,’ he said. *‘We need to work with industry to make changes to meet the needs of the globe and the com- munity.”” Peppard said limited economic growth is needed and the concept that the world can continue to absorb in- dustrial wastes must be changed. Workers who are being displaced by technology should be put to work restoring the environment, he said. For CORKY EVANS ;+-to talk about rights of America members whose jobs are “being eroded”’ should be working on reforestation projects, he said. “We're still laggin way behind if we're serious about sustainable development.” Peppard said his strengths as an MLA, if elected in a provincial elec- tion, would include his ability to be a team player “*When I take ona project, I try very hard to work with people and 1 don’t like to be controlled by leaders,”” he said. The decision to enter political life was difficult because of his two young daughters, he said, but his family life is “ta good one and a solid one and I couldn’t continue if that were not WAYNE PEPPARD ++. work with industry Still, he said there is ‘‘a certain amount of fear’’ involved in taking the political plunge because “‘your life gets taken over by others’ concerns and desires." But his commitment to-his family isa large part of the reason he decided to run, he said Peppard has been involved in regional district politics and com- munity concerns for the last 10 years, the release said Meanwhile, Evans, who announced his candidacy May 1, took the oppor- tunity to blast his fomer opponent, saying Dirks ran on a platform of “‘reward and punishment.” He said Dirks told constituents that they would be rewarded if they voted completed by Sept. 1 as the will go out to tender. Separate continued on page D&S example, International Woodworkers true.” continued on page 08 Mining memories kept alive By CHERYL CALDERBANK The Slocan Valley's rich mining heritage is being kept alive in a 49-piece exhibit in Silverton. The Silverton Outdoor Mining Museum is a result of the efforts of 77-year-old Frank Mills, a retired miner and member of a pioneer family Hardly a day goes by in the summer when there isn’t someone at the museum looking at the carefully mounted, neatly painted pieces which are a part of Silverton’s past. The display ranges from rock drills to water pumps and compressors. Mills started the museum in the 1960s with the propeller from the William Hunter boat. The William Hunter was the first steam boat that churned the waters of Slocan Lake. The propelier had been used by T.H. Wilson, owner of the Silverton General Store, as an anvil in an alley behind his shop. After Wilson sold the business the propeller just lay there. One day Mills picked it up and took it to the fire halt where it was stored for a number of years. But it seemed to be in the way so with council's permission he took it to the park where it was imbedded in cement. ‘That was the says Mills. BEGINS 0) IR MUSEUM He bégan collecting the pieces in the 1960s and thus began what is known as the outdoor museum, The display was moved from the patk about eight or 10 years ago to. its. present location outside the Silverton Gallery. The location is the town’s original school playground. The museum is maintained by the Village of Silverton. lot of pieces went for scrap iron,"* “T was born here,”’ he says. I made my living MINING EXHIBIT... Frank Mills stands beside a verton Outdoor Minin, _ the museum together. pieces and putting — CasNews photo by Chery! Caiderbank out of the mines for so many years. Once I got the propeller I kept adding to it."’ The propeller from the S.S. Rosebery sits beside the one from the William Hunter. The Rosebery was the last steam boat on Slocan Lake. Her last regular captain was Otto Estabrook, son of the captain of the S.S. William Hunter. When the equipment was still at the park, Mills built a blacksmith shop and added items to it. The shop still remains at the park Mills is in the process of adding three or four more pieces to the museum collection. Two of the items come from what was once the Stewart Blacksmithing and Welding Shop in Nelson One of the items is a drill press. Mills says one of the Stewart brothers had brought the item home, but trees have since grown around it. The trees will have to be cut down in order to get at the press. DONATIONS HELP Another item from the shop is a steel sharpener that was rigged up by the brothers. Mills has also been able to obtain another compressor, and a tram bucket from the Mammoth mine for the museum. “| think the museum would be pretty well filled by then,”’ Mills says. The pieces for the museum have been collected from deserted camps, mines and mills up Silverton Creek and from people who have generously donated the items. “If | would know of something 1 would go get it,"’ Mills says. People would also tell him about different pieces in the area. He is indebted to the many individuals who donated machinery or found relics and notified him. Mills telts of his attempts to obtain # compressor from the vocational school in Nelson. It took nearly a year from the time he inquired about the equipment to the time he obtained it for the museum The display includes a host of interesting items One item is a 744-cubic foot water-driven compres sor. It was installed in 1913 up Silverton Creek by the Standard Silver Lead Mining Company. Another one like it was installed in 1906. In 1928, the Western Exploration Gompany acquired all of the Standard assets. These compressors supplied compressed ait to the Mammoth and Standard Mines. Also included in the exhibit is a 300-foot steam driven air compressor from the Ivanhoe Mine in Sandon. A Petton wheel also stands at the site. The wheel powered a part of the Van Roi mine, located up Silverton Creek. Mills also points out a tire shrinking machine Ore wagons were equipped with double steel tires in the back wheels for braking purposes. The machine was used to shrink the tire to the right size before applying it to the wheel. Another interesting item is a shaft bucket for vertical hoisting from the Galena Farm mine in Silverton and an ore car from the Fisher Maiden Mine. eight miles up Silverton Creek A mine cage from the Galena Farm mine is also on display — the oldest piece of equipment at the museum. It was installed in 1894 and was used for hoisting or lowering men and materials. A stamp mill from the King Hack Mine up Lemon Creek was used between 1915 and 1918 to crush ore in the milling process is the most recent addition. It was reconstructed in 1988 by Mills and other volunteers. Silverton boasted a population of more than 2,000 in its heyday during the early 1900s. The population has now dwindled to about 300 “At that time (during the boom) the men had to stay in the camp,” Mills explains, noting that there continued on page 02