Castlégar News 7” October 20, 1985 Pulpit & Pew By GEORGE JAMES Calyary Baptist Church (copied from the Chart and Compass written by. Bert Acheson, Toronto) _LWANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH A few months ago I was standing beside the bed of a man in the Scarborough General Hospital who was very ill, Just then the sur- geon walked in, sat on the bed looking very tense. The patient said: “Doctor, you look as if you have bad - news for me but I want to know the truth.” The surgeon replied, “We are going to operate. tomor- row morning, and there is little hope that you will survive. Would you give me the name and phone number of your next of kin.” With tears in his eyes the man said: “Thank you doctor. That gives me a reason and an opportunity to settle some important matters.” He glad- ly talked about — spiritual things and found great com- fort and peace through a per- sonal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior. On another occasion the surgeon told:a wife that her husband had terminal cancer and she said to his doctor and to me: “Under no circum- stances is he to know that he is going to die.” She would, visit him and stroke his hair, and say, “Cheer up dear, you will soon be well and home again.” He died, deceived out of the op- portunity to seek spiritual help. Most people prefer to hear good news, even though it is lies, rather than bad news which is the truth. This is particularly true in the spiritual realm. Men would rather listen to a min- ister who tells them the good news that they are not sin- ners, even though it is a lie, than the bad news that they are sinners, even though it is the truth. Men would prefer to hear the comforting lie that there is no judgment, than the dis- turbing truth that there is. We would do well to remember that says, “We can do nothing against the truth.” II Corin- thians 13:8 Time and fact soon cancel lies and we are finally left with the truth. The Bible refers to Jesus Christ as the “faithful and true witness.” Revelation 1:5 It also refers to the devil the “father (or origin) of. all lies.” John 8:44 In Genesis 2:17 God told - Adam the ugly truth which Adam didn’t want to hear, “In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” In Genesis 3:4 the devil told Adam the beautiful lie, which, Adim did want to hear, “Thou shalt not surely die?” The devil also blinds men to the Good News of the Gospel, and. makes it seem impossible. The good news is that God loves the worst sin- “ners, and sent His Son to die for us, that through simple faith in His blood all our sins can be forgiven and we may escape the and the Bible * = your ativertising dollars do better in. Beauty Salons§ = L. rown ERTIFIED ENERAL OUNTANT 270 Columbia Ave. +~ Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc..C.A. 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BlAgs*s 501 Belleville St Feb. 28 Castlegar “Vol. 38, No. 85 50 Cents CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1985 WEATHERCAST Cloudy with sunny periods. Isolated afternoon rain showers except snow in the hills. Highs 7- 9. Tonight will be cloudy with - clear periods. Isolated snow showers. Lows near 0. The sis calls for mainly cloudy : shor through the weekend. 4 Sections (A, B,C & D) Westar wants ha on < Foe By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer Westar Timber has sent two letters to the Castlegar school board asking it not to increase the company’s taxes for the coming year and opposing the board's decision to hold open budget meetings this winter. The letters, from Wilf Sweeney, general manager of Westar Timber's Celgar Pulp Operations, and Jim Cross, general manager of Westar's Southern Wood Products, both explain the poor economic outlook for the forest industry. In his letter, Sweeney also said he disagrees with the board's intention to hold open budget meetings. “It was with some concern that I read in the Castlegar News the other day of the intention of the school board to hold open meetings with regard to the preparation of the school district budget,” Sweeney says in the letter. “While the basic intent would appear to be sound, i.e. to provide an opportunity for greater public input into the process, I would suggest that it is fraught with hazards.” Sweeney goes on to say that the “democratic election process provides the necessary medium for public input into the school board activities.” “Once this has been done there is nothing further for the public to do but to monitor their performance and make their views known at the next election.” Sweeney adds that in the budgeting process “there are always more needs than there is money available and consequently many needs have to be denied, or at best reduci “To try to accomplish this in a public forum would, in my opinion, be hopeless,” Sweeney says. Sweeney also cites in his letter the “state of severe recession” the lumber industry is facing. He says the price TRADITIONAL GIFT . . . Andrew Evin (left) of Wesley Construction of Castlegar presents traditional Russian ladle to Forests Minister Tom Waterland during tour of forestry operation Mon- day. Inset photo shows Waterland presenting Evin's two sons, Justin (left) and Joshua with Expo 86 pins. CostiewsPnotos by Chery! Calderbonk WESTAR COULD LOSE PART OF ITS TREE FARM -—~ By CasNews Staft Forests Minister Tom Waterland indicated this week that Westar Timber could lose part of its giant Tree Farm License No. 23. However, Waterland said no decision will be made until March 31. Waterland was in the Castlegar as part of a 1": day visit to the West Kootenay. He arrived Monday morning and spent the day touring the area by helicopter, landing briefly to speak to a Nelson Chamber of Commerce luncheon. — . Waterland met Tuesday morning with Castlegar council. After the meeting, Ald. Len Embree said council expressed councern about TFL No. 23, particularly. the portion Waterland plans to remove. Embree said Waterland has extended the deadline for timber license proposals from December to March 31, 1986. Embree added that council is also concerned about the extension and the effect it will have on local business community. “We all expressed that. urgency was a necessity,” Embree said. . —reasonable and fair,” He said council's position is that there is an adequate supply of pulp fibre to support an expansion to the Celgar pulp mill. Ald. Bob Pakula added that council wants to make sure existing mills have an adequate supply of logs before the ministry approves new mills for the area. Council touched on a number of other issues during the. 12-hour breakfast meeting. : Pakula said another concern was that Westar must use a-certain amount of pulp logs from its TFL. He said it costs $20 a cubic metre to haul chips from other mills, but $33 a cubic metre for Westar to chip pulp logs. * Pakula said Westar is the only mill in the Interior required to chip a certain amount of pulp logs. “We'd like a little equality,” Pakula said, adding it would help Westar drop the price of its pulp. As well, he said council told Waterland it would like to see more silviculture in TFL No. 23. Meanwhile, Embree said council also voiced concern about the effect of-the summer's forest fires in the TFL. Rumors were that up to half of the tree farm burned, Embree said. However, both Waterland and local forestry officials continued on page A2 By CasNews Staff After heated debate Castlegar school board decided Monday not to go after the resignation of B.C. School Trustees" Association president Dr. Eric Buck- ley. s A vote on trustee Kay Johnson's motion that the board write a letter of censure to the BCSTA executive asking for Buckley's resignation ended in a 3-3 tie. Acting chairman Lovette Nichvolodoff declared the motion de- feated. Board chairman Doreen Smecher was absent from the meeting. Johnson said ‘she made the motion school board, on which Buckley serves asa trustee, recently asked Minister of Education Jack Heinrich to consider extending the terms of four Kelowna trustees — including Buckley. The extensions to terms was one of three options the Kelowna board asked Heinrich to con- sider in order to make a change from annual school board elections to elec- tions that would coincide with Kel- owna’s, municipal elections. Johnson is angry that the Kelowna beers considered — and would have .ccepted — an option that would have ‘Board won't censure Buckley the Ministry of Education to extend terms of trustees. “I still maintain this is an improper way to go.” Johnson said. Johnson's motion caused heated de- bate among the trustees. Trustee George Anutooshkin ques- tioned whether the board had all the facts on Buckley's position on the sug- gested extensions of the Kelowna trus- -tees’ terms. “How do we know he supported it or not? We don't know if he voted for or against it,” Anutooshkin asked. Linda Krull said she was upset that Johnson's motion was allowed ta come the trustees’ because she is upset that the Kelowna ~ brisseed the I process Be on poge AZ _filed nomination papers. for lumber products is at a record low, with no prospects for increases through 1986. “In 1985 our mill paid $1,212,025.59 in school taxes. This represents an added cost of $6.97 per ton to the cost of making our product.” “This letter is to advise you and your colleagues that we can no longer afford to pay such high taxes and to note that any would be letely out of the - “While I believe that you can fully understand our position, my concern is that people attending an open public budget meeting might have difficulty in accepting the reality of the situation,” Sweeney says. Cross also cited Westar’s economic difficulties in his _ letter. “Our mill requires major “The taxes we pay are a direct cost which help to determine the viability of our business in Castlegar. “I ask for the board's support to help reduce or at least hold ‘the line ‘on tax costs.” During discussion of the two letters at Monday's board meeting, trustee Kay Johnson said Sweeney and Cross do not understand the system of school taxes. ee “The gentlemen who wrote these letters don't™ understand the tax system for education,” Johnson said. “They seem to think we levy their taxes but in fact"the provincial government ‘does. We should send a letter explaining to them exactly what our role is in taxes.” Rick Pongracz said he was not only concerned about their comments on taxes but also about Sweeney's on the and ion of costs in order to compete with other mills for a share of the market,” Cross says in his letter. process. Pongraez said he is concerned when “a supposedly continued on page A2 FROM LANDOWNER Council rejects tax break plea By CasNews Staff The owner of a local commercial building says Castlegar’s taxes are too high and wants city council to give him a tax break. But council doesnt agree and re- jected the request Tuesday night, pointing out that the city’: 's business tax rate is less than the pi | average. quiries,” only “break-even.” having trouble renting his building be- cause of the city's high taxes. “Our building attracts rental -in- Banner said in a letter, but the city’s tax rate “distracts tenants.” Banner added that his rental rate is He suggested the city canvass other that to Trail's rate of 1.17, Grand Forks’ rate of 1.31 and Prince George's rate of 1.61. But city administrator Dave Gairns said he doesn’t know what the figures refer to. Gairns said Castlegar’s bus- iness rate is $13.90 per $1,000 of assess- ed value. The provincial average is pa! “Council feels the city’s tax rates are said Ald. Bob MacBain, chairman of the administra- tion and finance committee. R.H. Banner, a Prince George resi- dent who owns the former Kitchen Fantasy building at 2313 6th Ave., wrote to council complaining he is eration. feel. the tax rates are too high. Banner also asked the city to ‘submit a tax reduction proposal for his consid- In addition, he quoted three other business tax rates. Ranner said he pays a total of $3,264 in taxes on a rete of 3.25. He compared to see if they, too $14.40. Grand Forks’ rate is $12.12, Prince George’s $10.34 and Trail’s $5.09. However, Gairns said there are cities like Cranbrook at $23.50 and Kimber- ley at $25.50 which are on the other end of the stale and have higher tax rates than Castlegar's. CASNEWS SURVEY SHOWS You want a library By RON NORMAN itor _ You want a larger library. An addition to the Castlegar library was the clear favorite for Expo legacy funding, according to a CasNews coupon survey. ~ ‘The coupon appeared in the Oct. 2 CasNews asking for ideas on a special community project. The Castlegar Expo 86 Committee wanted the suggestions to help it decide how to use a grant from the $30 million Expo Legacy Fund. A total of 95 coupons were clipped and submitted, and it was a two-way race all the way. Fifty-five coupons (58 per cent) favored an expansion to the library. But an indoor aquatic centre was a strong second choice. It polled 33 coupons (35 per cent). Committee chairman Mary Anderson was pleased with the response to the survey.. “I'm just tickled to death. I think it's wonderful.” However, Anderson cautioned that a requirement for Ferguson to run for alderman By CasNews Staff Where are all the candidates? With the nomination deadline for the Nov. 16 municipal elections less than a week away, only two candidates have Ald. Bob MacBain has decided to take a run at the mayor's job, while Gordon Ferguson, a retired resident, has thrown his hat in the ring for one of the three vacant two-year aldermanic seats. While Ald. Carl Henne has indicated he will run again, and Mayor Audrey - Moore has said she will be seeking another term, neither has filed papers A2 yet. Ald. Albert Calderbank is the other —inside _the grant is that the community match it. Thus, if the committee decides to apply for a grant for half the $1.6 million cost of the aquatic centre, Castlegar would have to put up the other $800,000. ‘That means the library. would probably be community's best bet, Anderson said. “The thing about the library is that the funds are in place for a matching grant,” Anderson said, noting the city has pledged $150,000 for a library expansion. “We could get the library,” she said. Anderson ‘said the Expo committee will review the suggestions Thursday and come to a decision. Meanwhile, other coupon suggestions included a combi- ned bandstand/picnic shelter for Kinsman Park and a city museum for north Castlegar. Two others wanted a multi-use facility for the arts and two more liked the idea of using the money to rebuild the Doukhobor histofical village: And one resident suggested continued on page A2 + the HOORAY !: We all get an extra hour's sleep this weekend as Daylight Saving time comes to Jan end. Daylight saving of- ficially ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, but it is a good idea to turn your clocks back one hour Saturday night before going to bed. RECORD LOSS: Cominco suffered its largest ever quarterly loss as the company lost $28.4 million for the three months ending Sept. 30. . - - CONVENTION TIME: More than 200 shop teachers from around B.C. will be in Castlegar this weekend for a provincial convention . . As HIGHWAY 666 REVISITED: KENORA, Ont. — It took a devil of a long time, but residents of this Northern Ontario city who didn't like living near Highey oes os finally getting the number changed. incumbent whose seat is up and he hasn't indicated whether he will run again. This year residents must elect a mayor and four aldermen: three for two-year terms and one for a one-year term. * The Castlegar school board race is more active. ‘Three candidates have filed for two positions in Castlegar. Incumbents Doreen Smecher, and Linda Krull face a challenge from Tony Guglietmi. by area Christians, the 30- kilometre road ries Kenora and Redditt will be renumbered 658 because the number 666 is associated with the devil in a the Bible's Book of Revelations. * “It wasn't really a safe kind of thing, whose Pentecostal church is on the highway. sign right outside the church. You get a lot of comments. ‘Although Highway 658 becomes official Nov. 1, highway signs also will read Formerly Highway 666. said Rev. Bruce Nehring, “There was a highway MONROE COVER-UP?: A former BBC reporter has raised questions, about Marilyn Monroe's death. . LAG