April 3, 1968 As oe ESTABLISHED AUG. 7 Lv. CAMPOELL PUBLISHE! Castlégar News SARMARER OF THEE B.C. PRESS COUNCH 947 " INCORPORATING THE MID: WEEK MIRROR PUBLISHED SEPT. 12, 1978-AUG. 27. 1980 PUBLISHER AUG. 7, 1947-FEB. 19. 1979 Burt Campbell EDITOR — Ron Norman RTISING MAN, _ CIRCULATION MANAGER _ heather Hadley TWICE WEEKLY MAY 4, 1980 jeming More funding We sometimes wonder whether the provincial government's right hand knows what its left hand is doing. Well, this week we learned that when it comes to post- secondary education at least, the province operates in a vacuum This week we reported that a pr- ovincial survey showed more graduates from the Castlegar, Nelson and Trail school districts go on to become full-time students at a college or university than in any other area of B.C. outside of the Lower Mainland (Selkirk College boasts the third highest rate of transition from secondary to post-secondary education in university transfer and career-technical programs, behind Capilano College or North Vancover and Vancouver Com- munity College). We also reported that more students from Trail school district go an to post-secondary education in academic and career technical programs than in any other school district in the province. In addition, Castlegar school district had the highest rate of high school graduates who attend the local college — in this case Selkirk College — for university transfer and career-technical programs. What all that means is that con- trary to what some have thought this area sends a lot of students to either university or college. It means Selkirk College is a favorite choice of local high school graduates, who use it as a jumping off point for university. As well, we -reported that Selkirk board chairman Elizabeth Fleet heads a committee studying how to improve access to colleges. At the same time, a story in today’s paper reports that Selkirk College will get an increase of less than one per cent in its 1988-89 budget and that two-thirds of the hike will be used to pay increased MSA premiums for its employees. The miniscule budget increase will put a number of existing college programs in jeopardy. It seems ridiculous that while on the one hand the college has a high participation rate and the province has appointed a commit- tee to look into ways to improve access, Victoria is in effect cutting back on college programs. It just doesn't make sense to increase ac- cess, yet reduce programs should provide suf- ficient funding to retain the existing programs and in fact provide enough funding for ad ditional or expanded programs, so that if the committee is successful in identifying ways to improve ac cess to the college, the college will be able to handle the increased student enrolment Victoria Ron Norman Do you get the feeling the provin. cial government's much-touted pri vatization plans are turning into something of a bust? I have nothing concrete; it’s just a few seemingly isolated incidents over the last month or so that leave that impres: sion. First it was the court case in which a provincial government em ployee won the right to refuse to work for a privatized company. The court ordered that if employees affected by privatization do not want to work for the new company and if the province can't find other positions for them, they must be given severance pay. Victoria had hoped that if the employees didn't accept positions with privatized firms they would be laid off without a severance pack age. The court decision means the province would have to shell out a minimum $70 million in severance pay if all the employees affected by privatization reject positions with their new employers. The other alternative for the Vander Zalm government is to place the affected employees in other government jobs. But that doesn't make much sense. Why pri@atize a service only to have the same number of government employees? The second incident came last week when Victoria confirmed reports it is looking at turning provincial park campgrounds over to private oper ators. The last incident came this week with the news that the Vander Zalm government has looked at privatizing health care It was the way both reports were made public — through leaks. They were floated like trial balloons to test public reaction. f was remark ably different from the straightfor- ward manner in which the priv atization program was announced last year. Ihave a feeling Vander Zalm is beginning to find his privatization proposal isn't only more difficult to implement than he had imagined, but that public support isn't what he had hoped. Look, for example, at the number of municipalities — includ. ing Castlegar council — which have expressed concern about the pro- posed privatization of highways and bridge maintenance. What is truly remarkable is that Vander Zalm would invite sugges tions from a private U.S. health care company. Canada has one of the best health care systems in the world — far better than anything the U.S. can offer. I don't think even the most died-in-the-wool conservative would argue that we should revert to a U.S.-style health care system. In fact, we should be inviting the U.S. officials to examine our system for ways they could improve theirs. The proposal to turn the provin cial park campgrounds over to pri vate operators could be one of the sturdier planks in the Vander Zalm privatization platform — provided it was done properly The campgrounds are better suited to the fee-for-service ap. proach than other provincial ser: vices such as health care and high way maintenance. The government points out that the private sector is already involved in the operation of 158 of B.C.’s 206 provincial parks. But I would say that in my personal experience, private-sector involvement in the parks has met with mixed success at best. Cer- tainly, the summer park naturalist program at Syringa Creek Provin cial Park and other provincial parks has been privatized with little or no change to the service. In fact, it seems the only change was that a private company hired the summer students who serve as naturalists: rather than the provincial govern. ment. I'm also concerned that private operators might change the char. acter of the parks. Anyone who has stayed in a private campground knows they are rarely even half as good as their provincial counter. parts. Invariably campers are plunked on tiny sites within arm's length of the next eamper. Our provincial parks, on the other hand, are popular and have won acclaim because of their natural state. I would hate to see that change. I admit that privatizing camp. grounds could work — but only if private contractors are forced to maintain the present high standards if they are carefully monitored. Still, the question remains, why change something that seems to work very well? Or in other words: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Letters to the Editor Council ‘unrealistic’ In the interest of general cred. ibility and the promotion of business in this area it is time Castlegar's city council reconsidered its unrealistic and sometimes immature attitude. The continued belief in the coming of another mega-project is about as viable as belief in the Easter bunny; it is a nice idea but it just doesn’t work. So B.C. Hydro says it~is-not- going ahead with Keenleyside. The only logical conclusion to draw is that it's probably not going ahead with Keen leyside. To claim, as Ald. Len Embree has, that you don't believe them is strictly a head-in-the-sand routine. There are two major problems with our mega-project mentality; 1. The project may or may not happen — ever. 2. If Revelstoke is any indication, the long-term benefits are pretty neb- ulous. Now that the dam building boom is over, Revelstoke is a pretty quiet place, total permanent jobs from the dam are not many. I'm not against the idea of a mega-project here; I just don’t think we can realistically base our economy on that hope. We would be far better off to follow Nelson's example, spruce up our downtown area and develop an independent, self-sustaining economy This would have two great bene Why After careful consideration I feel I have to publicly speak out on the issue of the Celgar Pulp Co. woodroom closure. Being personally involved with union labor and small business in the Kootenay region, it is beyond my comprehension why battle lines are drawn among the citizens of the Castlegar area while the top corporate executives of Celgar Pulp Co. Ltd. sit on the sidelines. Firstly, let us consider the so- called “carefully considered business decision” of Celgar Pulp Co. Ltd Shortly after B.C. Resources sold the pulp mill to the present owners, tens of thousands of dollars were spent on upgrading Celgar marine dolphins, on a new Celgar log dump, on the transfer of a log weigh scale from Westar Timber property to Celgar Pulp property and then back to its original site on Westar Timber property, and on the woodroom itself. After all this capital was spent, Celgar Pulp Co. announced the closure of the wood. room. Being involved with labor unions, it was the loss of jobs which was a shock, but on the other side of the coin, just as great a shock was the credibility of the “carefully considered” decision, fits: 1. Economic survival dependent on our own resources and abilities rather than the decisions of some outside power; 2. Should a mega-project actually happen here, we or our descendants, would, with an established and viable economy, be in a better position to absorb the project's boom and sub- sequent slump when the project fin ishes. In the interest of civic and media credibility we would do well to listen to Dale Nielsen's comments. Contrary to council’s snide and childish remarks aired in the Castlegar News and on Channel 10, Mr. Nielsen does indeed speak, if not for the chamber of commerce, then certainly for myself as a businessman and for the other bus- inessmen who I have talked to. One of our overall goals must be to attract new business to this area; this is a critical factor to developing an in- dependent economy. Nothing could discourage these efforts more effect- ively than front-page coverage of a major local employer being upbraided by the city council for internal management decisions — nothing ex- cept, possibly, seeing the company's reply printed on page three. Who would want to locate to this apparently hostile business environ- ment? Who needs small town pol- iticians meddling in their internal affairs? That is Mr. Nielsen's point. City council feels that it is being unjustly accused of being one-sided in this matter; has it made a serious attempt to consider the other side? If so, there has been very little indication of it. Comments. by Messrs. Embree and Rogers don't seem to indicate much openmindedness. Nor does the Castlegar News coverage — not when Mr. Sweeney's reply to council's bleating is buried on page three and doesn’t even include one of his most important points: that Celgar’s wood. room closure did not entail one single layoff. The encouragement of present and especially new business is the only thing that will ensure our city’s continued survival. No business is likely to locate into or even remain in our present Alice-In-Wonderland en- vironment. We will probably never be New York, but unless we encourage local business we could well become a Brooklyn, that is the large open field just this side of Renata. It used to be a town of several thousand. George Westinghouse Castlegar battle lines? Let us now think about our greatest asset in this area: the people of Castlegar and surrounding commun- ities. Being involved in a resort bus- iness, Three Islands Resort at Sumit Lake which is greatly supported by area residents, I thank them for their loyalty. I personally feel a fair and stable wage will better support small business than a minimum @vage or no wage at all when jobs are being eliminated. I am grateful for the support of Castlegar council and Castlegar school board in trying to stabilize basic industry and increase jobs in our area. After all, the City of Nelson and the Village of Nakusp took big industry at its word and look what Ltd. to put their money where their mouth is or just keep promising? In closing I hope that our local unions, local politicians, local residents, and the “top executives” of local big industries can sit down together and not only agree on survivial of employ- ment in our area, but future expansion of our greatest assest, the people of Castlegar and surrounding commun- happened to their major employer! I applaud these communities and their citizens for surviving by expanding into tourism, but I still wonder if the “corporate lords” of past industry ever knew where these places were. Being employed by Westar Mar- ine, I see capital expense put to use in the modernization program at Westar Timber’s Southern Wood Products sawmill to ensure future employment in this area. This is not a commitment, it is a fact. Can we get Celgar Pulp Co. Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our oftice at: 197 Columbia Avenue, Castle- gar, B.C. Letters must be signed and include the writer's tull name and address. Only in ‘exceptional coses will letters be published without vt the wr ter's name. Nevertheless, the nome end address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor The Castlegar News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality and grommor crn ne a rent tt Remember ‘When? 40 YEARS AGO From the April 8, 1948 News A public meeting will be held on Thursday, April 15th, in the Commun- ity Club Hall to discuss the very important question of water and the waterworks. * The Board of the Castlegar Lib- rary Association will be given an opportunity at this meeting to present to the public, their appeal for support. _ * @ olic Women's League was\held at the home of the President Mrs. G. Martini. Mrs. D.A. Shea gave # report on the library. Plans are being made for a bake sale to be held the latter part of April. ._ * « The regular i eee the Cath- The Scouts had an Easter Week camp at Yarrow Ranch, Syringa Creek. Commissioner Resker and nine boys attended. Despite the cold, a good time was had by all. ._ * « Strong représentations are being made to the Department of Munici- palities to proceed with the incorp- oration of Kinnaird as a village municipality, J.L. Webster, M.L.A. and Mr. J.H. Doughty Davies of the Regional Planning Division have also been approached to lend their weight to the petition. 25 YEARS AGO From the April 4, 1963 News The fire chief and officers of the Castlegar Volunteer Fire Department have requested village chairman Aage Sylvest to “remove” Comm. Frank Richardson from his position as chair- man of the fire and light committee. . SHSS principal W. Roy Brown will be relieved of his duties as principal by the School Board effective June 30. *_ * * A motion that because the Oglow subdivision agreement “is null and void” a new agreement should be drawn up by the village, failed to pass at Castlegar’s council meeting Tuesday night. * * «© About 150 persons attended an all-party forum in the Kinnaird hall last night sponsored by the IWA local at Columbia Cellulose's Celgar lumber division here. “28 « A regional college for the West Kootenay area was discussed by chair- men of the West Kootenay school boards at a recent meeting held in Castlegar. 15 YEARS AGO From the April 12, 1973 Castlegar News A delegation of three from Kin- naird, Mayor Colin Maddocks, Ald. G.S. Rust and Ald. George Bondaroff, travelled to Victoria to meet with provincial ministers Monday and Tues- day. * 8 « Money for the Kinnaird-Salmo highway is not being allocated as quickly as Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy would‘like, according to state- ments made during the MLA's visit to his constituency on the weekend. . . More than 50 people leasing land on Christina Lake shores have agreed to send a letter to Lands Minister Bob Williams asking that the government's lease policy be put in abeyance at 1972 levels to allow the government to care- fully examine the matters of leasing B.C. lands. * 8 « The Castlegar Arena ended the 1972 calendar year with a $12,500 deficit. 5 YEARS AGO From the March 30, 1983 Castlegar News Castlegar school district has until the middle of April ta reach an agreement with teachers oh a zero per cent wage increase or it will lose additional funds promised to maintain existing services, Education Minister Bill Vander Zalm said Monday. *_ 8 «© Glade residents may not be riding the ferry across the Kootenay River for much longer. The provincial highways ministry says it is looking into con- structing a road into Glade to replace the ferry. * 8 «6 In what he called a close race, Trail Alderman Walter Siemens edged out three other nominees to become the Rossland-Trail Social Credit candidate for the next provincial election. o 8 6 Kootenay Savings Credit Union mark, in spite of adverse economic conditions which prevailed during the year, board chairman Joe Biagioni reported to 130 KSCU members at its annual general meeting Monday in Trail. * 28 « Vocational instructors of Selkirk College, members of the B.C. Govern- ment Employees Union, have voted 81 per cent in favor of strike action. sy April 3, 1988 C ‘astlégar News AS TR A ONE BUT CHARISMA STILL LINGERS By GORDON GRANT Canadian Press OTTAWA — The word most often used in conjunction with Pierre Trudeau when he was prime minister was charisma — the ability to inspire devotion and enthusiasm. Trudeau has been gone from the prime minister's job for almost four years but the charisma remains. He was at the hearings of the Meech Lake accord and the Senate chamber was full. Not only that, but an hour before he was due to appear the area in front of the chamber was jammed. Trudeau will be back on Parliament Hill again Wed- nesday, April 6, for a soiree celebrating the 20th anniversary of his Liberal leadership victory. Senator Keith Davey, one of the former prime minister's chief cheerleaders and one of the organizers, says there will be about 130 guests, “principally people who were involved with Pierre Trudeau at the leadership convention.” Others have been invited, but Davey — a strong critic of Liberal Leader Johp Turner — said he doesn't believe Turner is among them. Other guests include Jean Marchand and Gerard Pelletier, who along with Trudeau formed the Three Wise Men from Quebec who entered federal politics in Budget sets stage for next By DAPHNE BRAMHAM Canadian Press VICTORIA — The provincial budget introduced last week by Finance Minister Mel Couvelier is seen as an election budget whose time hasn't come — yet. The Social Credit government, which holds 45 seats (the New Democrats have 22, there is one Independent and one seat vacant), is still at least two years away from a general election. But the stage is set to balance the budget before the writ is dropped. The 1987-88 deficit was icially inflated to $800 million by putting a $4650-million IOU into a “budget stabilization fund.” The fund is ostensibly a statement of intent that the government will smooth the up-and-down revenue cycle caused by the resource-based economy by putting away money when times are good and drawing on it when times are bad. But Couvelier admitted this week the fund could" be used “to support social programs or lower taxes or whatever the government decided to do with it — building highways, Capital Notebook the mid-1960s. Former finance minister Mare Lalonde — another Turner critic — is also one of the organizers of the affair. ONE OF THE major topics of conversation in Ottawa these days — aside from the weather, of course, — is the date of the next federal election. Everyone has heard from a highly placed source the date on which Canadians will pick their next government. Trouble is, all those highly placed sources have different dates. One man — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney — knows and he isn’t telling. He does seem to be on the campaign trail, travelling hither and yon and taking every opportunity to provide what his office quaintly calls photo opportunities. That's when the prime minister shakes a hand, kisses a baby, opens a coal mine or stands at the bottom of a ski hill and has the moment recorded by media cameramen. Here's an example of how far his staff will go to try to get his picture on television or into a newspaper. Mulroney is in New York to receive an award and to make a speech. The tradition of the speaker coming as an after-dinner treat is changed for Mulroney so the folks back home can at least get a 30-second clip. He speaks before the meal. However, the organizers say the award will come at the end of the dinner. Exit photographers and camera men. Good heavens, or words to that effect, say Mulroney flacks, we'll miss the morning papers and late news if we wait until the end. The organizers change their minds. The award will come between courses. Get the camera men and photographers back here. Too late for us, say the TV folk. The still photo- graphers return and do their clicking. No one uses the pictures. Too late? “No,” says a photographer. “No one cares.” Ah, well, the prime ministér’s staff tried. EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Minister Joe Clark may have been sending Mulroney a message, although there's a chance that he wasn’t. A journalism student asked Clark what he thought about scrums, those news-conference-on-the-run affairs that look like a mob scene. “It is not either constructive, nor is it reflective of the treatment of issues that you in the media or we in public life would like to see.” By their nature, scrums can lead to distortions, he added. He offered no particular alternative but agreed that more news conferences might be an alternative. Mulroney hasn't held a wide-ranging news confer ence in Ottawa in more than a year so maybe Clark was suggesting he should avoid wild scrums for the more sedate news conference. But let’s ask Mulroney what he thinks about scrums. “I think they're terrific,” he said with tongue firmly in cheek. He didn’t propose any news conferences. time and time again in whatever else one does. ning of a second language can provide. Studies have shown that most GIVE YOUR CHILD AN OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME! ENROL YOUR CHILD IN SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 9 ENGLISH/RUSSIAN BILINGUAL PROGRAM Kindergarten and Grade 1 — Housed at Castlegar Primary Grade 2 & 3 — Twin Rivers Elementary This program will be open to EVERYONE. You DO NOT have to speak Russian or come from a Russian background. WHY STUDY ANOTHER LANGUAGE? . The benefits of learning another language are unique. Learning the precision and semantics of a language will aid in the knowledge of one’s own language — in self-expression — and in the exposure to new disciplines that are applicable to any learning situation. The disciplines and skills one learns beside the language itself, will be used The applicability of knowledge gained is one of those things only the lear- get tl 1 re-elected, whatever they want.” Significant parcels of money have also been stashed in other funds so Premier Bill Vander Zalm can pull out election goodies without throwing the budget into disarray. The budget will get a bit of a test later this year in a byelection in the Okanagan Valley. The solidly Social Credit riding of Boundary-Similkameen was vacated in December by former cabinet minister Jim Hewitt and a replacement must be picked by Aug. 10. Fred Punko of the B.C. Certified General Accountants Association gives the budget “5.9 for artistic impression and 1.1 for technical merit,” while political scientist Norman Ruff of the University of Victoria calls it a “pre-election-budget budget.” Both Ruff and Punko describe the stabilization fund as a shell game. sMichael Walker of the Vancouver-based Fraser Insti- election tute, a conservative think tank, thinks smoothing out the revenue cycle is a good idea. If the budget was balanced now, “people i CENTRAL FOODS — SPECIALS — SEA HAUL Guyee TUNA on WATER. 184.6. TIN think there must be a surplus and they begin thinking of new programs to spend the money on.” However, Walker said the Erivalietios fund doesn't make economic sense. In that fund, the goverment will horde the money it earns from the sale of assets. So far, the $3 billion worth of assets have been offered for sale, but none have been sold outright. “It seems utter nonsense to have the sale of assets and still retain the debt that was initially acquired to purchase the asset,” Walker said. “The privatization fund only makes sense in a political sense to point to it and say ‘look what we've done.” This year's budget also socked away $5.9 million for unspecified regional development projects. The money is for the so-called decentralization program, which divides the province into eight economic regions under eight ministers of state. That $5.9 million is in addition to a $4-million increase in the Economic Development Ministry's budget to $80 million in 1988-89. The government also has managed not to have any major tax increases. But there are a multitude of service fee increases — the New Democrat Opposition counted 662 — as the government attempts to make users pay more of the cost of services. The most significant is an average increase of 40 per cent on medical services plan premiums. For a family of three or more, the annual premium goes up $192 to $696. The other controversial increase is for long-term care facilities. The elderly will now have to pay 85 per cent of their old-age pension and their guaranteed income supple ment, instead of 75 per cent. Political scientist Lynda Erickson of the University of B.C. said it's too early to tell what effect those increases will have. “When you nickel and dime, people are not likely to mount the same opposition that major changes bring,” she said. “But if something defeats a government, it’s a whole bunch of small cuts.” Drought plagues Nicaragua MANAGUA CP) — Amid the torments of war-torn Nicaragua, nature has dealt another rotten hand — a 10-month drought that has almost wiped out vital food crop supplies from the fertile northwest region. Beans, usually served at three meals a day, have become virtually unavailable in Managua, a city of a million people. Food shortages are expected to be critical in all cities and rural areas this month and supplies won't increase until the autumn harvest, says a k Losses in Nicaragua are estimated at $40 million Cdn. and the cost to nearby af. flicted areas is even higher — an estimated $50 million in El Salvador and more than $90 million in Guatemala. The signing of a 60-day truce last week fuelled hopes for an end to the war against the U.S.-backed Contra reb- els, but even that has been cold comfort for people faced with the continuing prospect of dwindling food. Rain is not expected until May or June, Gunn said in an interview in Managua. Emer gency aid has been promised by the European Economic Community and Sweden and a shipment of wheat has serious,” he said. “We are already been sent from the seeing cases of malnutrition Soviet bloc. and starvation in rural Canada has committed $1 areas.” million in emergency aid to Up to 50 per cent of the send 1,400 tonnes of kidney coffee crop, a valuable source beans and some cooking oil. of export revenue, was lost in Grant Bablitz, Nicaraguan many areas, Bablitz said. co-ordinator for Farmers for Meanwhile, in the picture. Peace, an Alberta-based aid sque mountain valley of Las organization, said some riv- Praderas, the tragedy of war ers in the central mountains is etched deeply in the faces have dried up and people are of young and old trekking up to 12 kilometres for water. The supply of rice is also low, he said. “The food shortage is very MAPLE LEAF KULBASSA 88° PACK, 2-PLY ... 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Grade One pupils must be six years old on or before December 31, 1988 Castlegar Primary — (Twin Rivers, Castlegar Primary, Ootischenia) Mon.-Wed., April 11, 12, 13. 7:30. a.m.-11:00a.m Kinnaird El d Ek Y- Valley Vista, Blueberry C por ) Mon., Tues., Apr. 11, 12. 9:00-11:00 and 1-3 p.m Robson Elementary Wed., April 13. 9:00-2:00. Tarrys Elementa Mon., Apr. 11 12'00-3:00. Tues., Apr. 12. 8:30-12 Woodland Park — (Woodland Park, Pass Creek) Tues., Apr. 12. 1:00-4:00. Wed., Apf. T3 9:00-12 BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES School District No. 9 (Castlegar) for the Canadian Interna. tional Development Agency in Ottawa. Five Canadian aid workers in Nicaragua said there has been no rain since last May and the second of three annual bean crops failed almost completely. Most plants were, plowed under and the seed for the next crop was lost. Joe Gunn, director of Save the Children Canada in Nic aragua, described drought conditions along the western seaboard as “incredible,” af. fecting about 75,000 people there. Animals are being moved to the mountains and in some areas the rural residents have no water. We know there are people who enjoy doing things Some Of Prefer To Do So when youd like to use your time for something embers Memory skills are improved, the grammar of English is better learned, and the choice of words in any language is heightened of second | the old-fashioned way. But that takes time. So they use our modern Automated Teller to speed things up. better in most other subject areas. divergent thinking tasks. stleg: rimary Sc! Torry’ 's bd reat School — 7:00 p.m. - Experience with a second language increases the student's ability in ISN'T IT WORTH YOUR CHILD'S TIME? 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