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But Delta council refused to let the company throw in the towel early Aldermen insisted on voting unanimously to reject Tsawwassen Development Lid., bid to turn 307 hectares of farmland into a 1,895: home development-for 5,000 people, with an 18-hole golf course. Thousands of residents of this suburb, near the B.C. Ferry terminal 30 kilometres south Of Vancouver, had turned out at months of hearings to demand that the project be turned down. “I'm absolutely delighted we won,” said Bob Mountfort, Tsawwassen Homeowners’ Association spokesman. ‘I'm over the moon."" Critics of the project argued that the development remove agricultural land from production, would create more traffic congestion on the already-crowded commuter route to Vancouver and strain local services. Aldermen were visibly upset by the developer's I1th-hour pullout attempt on an issue that had haunted them for two years “When I heard the news on: the radio, | could have crawled out of my car and wepi oa the hood,’ said Ald. Shell Busey, as'500 people jammed the council meeting at'a recreation centre. ** Just what the hell is going on with this developer?” ‘Something rotten is going on in Delta,"’ added Ald. Lois Jackson, ‘1 Planninga Wedding? We Sell Distinctive Invitations, Napkins, etc Come See Us At Castlégar News 197 Columbio Ave. (FALCON | PAINTING & DECORATING FOURTH Here's My Card . . . |e i) ‘vo ae Gary Fleming Dianna Kootnikoff Caroline Soukoro’ ADVERTISING SALES YE 3AR N CASTLEG. 2795 HIGHWAY DRIVE OFFICE 365-5210 ac . FORD SALES to. JANICE SALES AND LEASING SPeCraLIsT Res: 362-5923 anrinsulted that this developer has the gall to withdraw this bylaw at 5 p.m.” Mayor Doug Husband’ said . the development company’s president, Alan’ Campney, telephoned him Tuesday afternoon to say he was going to apply to withdraw the firm's ap: plication Husband said he watned Campney about making such a move. Immediately after the vote turning down the company’s request, council launched into a lengthy debate on the rezoning bylaws, then voted to reject them One anti-development activist suggested the company tried to with- draw so it could reapply next year “We consider this to be very manipulative,” said Mariliee Simpson of the Southlands Communtiy Com mittee Campney blamed what- he termed federal Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard’s ‘‘unconscionable"’ inter ference in the Spetifore controversy for his decision to withdraw Last month in a visit to Vancouver, Bouchard called for- a one-year moratorium on development to allow foran environmental study Coalition refused in Poland WARSAW (Reuter) — Two small Polish political parties refused to give immediate backing on Tuesday to a proposal by Lech Walesa to form a coalition government with Solidarity excluding the communists. but they said they would consider the offer.” The Solidarity leader proposed on Monday that the United Peasants’ party. the Democratic party and Solidarity group together in the first non-communist. government in East ern Europe since the late 1940s. The Democratic party said it reg reticd Walesa hadn't made his prop- osal sooner. but didn’t say if it would accept the offer. The Peasants’ party responded coolly to the ptoposal but its leaders would continue to duscuss the idea Prime Minister Czeslaw Kiszezak a senior Communist. has been trying ty put together a government since he was appointed Aug. 2. but his efforts have been stymied by Solidar ity’s refusal to join in a “grand coalitifn.” The! two small parties have long been loyal to the communists. but their traditional alliance has shown signs of cracking in recent weeks as the Communist party has begun to dismantle its 45-vear monopoloy on power A Democratic party statement said Walesa’s proposal **requires serious consideration and decisions by the appropriate bodies of the Democratic party It is a pity the proposal was not made earlier.”’ it said The Peasants’ party, known as the UPP. said ig, had discussed the proposal but) preferred a ‘grand coalition’” government Briefly Paramedics vote to strike VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia's 2,700 ambulance paramedics have voted 87 per cent to strike in their contract dispute with the Emergency Health Services Commission, but no date was sect for a walkout he: »n spokesman Joe Denofreo said that he plans to get in touch with the employer to see about resuming negotiations which broke off in mid-July ‘At issue is the contracting out work normally’ done by the paramedics, mainly the dse of non-union firefighters in some B.C. Hatfield on arts centre board OTTAWA (CP) — Richard Hatfield, former premier of New Brunswick, has been appointed to the National Arts Centre board of trustees for a three-year term “Few have his proven record of sensitivity for the people of this country, for the arts, for Canadian “identity,” for our culture,”* Communications Minister Marcel Masse said in announcing the appointment Hatfield was the Conservative premier of New Brunswick for 17 years until 1987 when the Liberals swept to power, winning all 58 seats in the legislature. Bardot packing up SAINT TROPEZ, France (AFP) — Animal-loving actress Brigitte Bardot says she is leaving St. Tropez, her home for 31 years, because it bans dogs but permits what she calls human filth on its beaches. In a letter to the mayor, Bardot described a town council decision to bar dogs from the beaches as an insult to her struggle for animals and'said she feels unwanted and rejected The beaches and the bay are, meanwhile, ‘‘polluted with human turds, condoms, detritus and all kinds of ordure. Human filth is rising like a black tide."’ The letter went on:.**Lewdness, exhibitionism, vice, money and homosexuality have become the sad and degrading symbols of the town for which you are responsible. Rather than put up with the annual “‘invasion of increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists."’ Bardot said, ‘I am leaving the town to the invaders."* The mayor said: ‘She's gone completely potty.”’ Radiation forces exodus MOSCOW (AP) — More than 3,000 people are preparing to leave a small area of the Russian republic where increased radiation has doubled the amount of illness since the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. the Soviet news agency Tass said. It did not specify the illnesses but said the gamma level was 10-times higher than permissible levels despite decontamination measures. The dispatch came from Bryansk, about 300 kilometres from Chernobyl Tass said scientists assured the villagers in 1986 they could stay if the area was properly decontaminated, but ‘experience proved them wrong. and now, more than three years after the disaster. people are preparing to move.” Villagers are awaiting final approval from government officials. Tass said Bodies recovered WELLINGTON (CP) — A rescue team recovered nine bodies today from a plane crash that killed 10 people, including five Quebecers. in rugged terrain in New Zealand's South Island, police Paul Fitzharris. chief police inspector at Dunedin, described the five Canadians as ‘‘all in their 20s and 30s from Montreal and Quebec City The Montreal Gazette said today there were unconfirmed reports some of the victims worked for aircraft-engine manufacturer Pratt and Whitney Canada Inc. in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil Fitvharris said the Quebecers. along with four Americans and a New Zealand pilot, died when a twin-engined Britten-Norman Islander’ slammed into snow-covered Mount Aspiring in good weather Quake jolts San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Bay-area residents were jolted awake Tuesday by a sharp earthquake that broke windows toppled groceries and startled a man into falling to his death from a fifth-storey apartment window The quake. which hit with a jolt and rolled for 10 seconds, caused only minor structural damage. but was felt as far away as San Luis Obispo. about 370 kilometres south of San Francisco and in Sonoma County. 100 kilometres north It struck at 1:13 a.m. local time and measured 5.2 on the Richter scale of ground motion. It was centred on the San Andreas fault about 25 kilometres south of San Jose A moderate aftershock measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale struck at 1:44 a.m.. followed by a second. stronger aftershock that measured 4.5 at 8:53 a.m.. said the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park Waneta Plaza 9:00 a.m. Stein Festival draws crowd MOUNT CURRIE, B.C, (CP) — Organizer John McCandless worked for months to ensure that the annual three-day Stein Valley Festival would be a success, lining up performers'and trying to increase attendance from last year He expected about 8,000 people would turn up at the Lillooet rodeo grounds to show their support for preserving the unlogged watershed valley 160 kilometres northeast of Vancouver. But when the ‘stream of people showed no sign of easing on the weekend, he called an emergency meeting. “There was a feeling of panic,” he said, after 15,000 people had passed through the gates. Ticket sales were halted tem- porarily, he said, because of risk of in- juries to spectators and damage to the environment. Organizers claimed anywhere from 16,000 to 18,000 listened to the speakers and musicians on Sunday. The first Stein festival in 1984 attracted about 500 people and about 4,000 came last year. ‘ McCandless said festival organizers have yet to make a decision on whether to hold the event next year. DAVID SUZUKI . .. guest speaker “I don’t believe Victoria is going to be able to turn a deaf ear on the Lytton and Mount Currie Indian people again,"’ said McCandless. ‘That was gone ... when the first 5,000 people arrived.” The valley, the last unlogged water- shed in southwestern British Colum- bia, is claimed by the Mount Currie and Lytton bands, who consider it to be of spiritual importance. HOLDS RIGHTS New Zealand-based Fletcher Challenge holds cutting rights in the valley but recently put a one-year moratorium on logging to give the B.C. government time to work out an agreement with the Indian bands. The festival may show a profit for the first time, said McCandless The money will go towards repaying the $100,000 debt incurred by the In- dian bands in their legal battle to save the Stein. Those attending the festival, who paid $16.25 for one night, $26.25 for two nights or $41.25 for all three days, listened to the music of Bruce Cock burn, Gordon Lightfoot and Valdy But they also heard scientist David Suzuki and Burnaby MP Svend Robinson talk of urgent environmen- tal problems. “This is not a group of rabid New Democrats," Robinson said later. ‘It’s people who share a common con- cern about the environment “The people, I think, are way ahead of the politicians on the environ- ment.” When the heat became unbearable, hundreds of people walked down a dusty path from the rodeo grounds toa nearby creek where they waded in ankle-deep water or bathed their children. It’s just a great scene,’’ said Capri Stone of Surrey, who wore a tie-dyed shirt and juggled torches for a small group of spectators “Everybody, the environmentalists and the hippies, the straights and the beer drinkers, everybody coming together and sharing this kind of energy.”” “The attitude that people are taking away will hopefully go toward making the Stein a protected area,"’ said Todd Hatfield, 26, a student from Van- couver, as he sat on a milk crate and shucked corn Nearby, Stephen Marshall, 33, stood atthe centre of a pile of garbage and directed people to separate bot tles, cans, compost and plastic plates. August 9, 1989 AS ($ SAFEWAY We bning tt all together STANDING RIB ROAST Cut from Canada Grade A Beef Bo Senay .3.08 B.C. HALIBUT In The Piece Thawed for Your Convenience 88 1004 3.99 BANANAS From the Tropics Serve with New Daanska Ice Cream 86... wae VEAL CUTLETS From the Leg ® Milk Fed 13?) As. 5.99 ORANGES Sunkist Valencia ¢ Product of U.S.A. 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