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Nick Cifarelti of Silverton makes his way along Highway6 sures his xeoenithy awltodraw Cifarelli ends crawl Meets with ministry official By CLAUDETTESANDECKI Staff Writer “If we become leaders, then the leaders will follow us.”" That was the understanding Silverton resident Nick Cifarelli says he and the regional director for the Ministry of Environment in the Kootenay region came to during a recent meeting following Cifarelli’s crawl on his hands and knees from Silverton to Nelson in an at tempt to bring attention to environmental problems Cifarelli, in an interview Saturday after recouperating from his two-week journey, said Dennis McDonald told him the ministry needs help to make changes in areas such as improper logging practices and pollution. People need to get together, Cifarelli said he con cluded from the meeting, and talk about the issues Then they must begin taking action in small,'personal ways, he said. For instance, McDonald. told Cifarelli the gover nment doesn’t have enough employees to check all logging sites all of the time, Cifarelli said. Ordinary citizens are within their rights to check on local sites and report to the ministry if logging practices are being violated, he quoted McDonald as saying Cifarelli, 52, said he feels he has reached a lot of people through his walk and they have been “‘very touched by what I have done.” “I gave my own body toward the environment to reach out and let people know I have given myself toward savingit. I have touched the earth,” he said For two weeks, Cifarelli was in daily contact with continued on page C2 Work set to begin on road project By CasNews Staff The contract for the controversial Vallican bridge and road project in the Slocan Valley, has been awarded to William Berg Construction Ltd. of Brilliant and work on the project should begin this week, the Kootenay regional manager for the Ministry of Transportation and Highways in Nelson said Latest developments, CasNews page Ai Barry Eastman said last week that his department is now finalizing the contract through Victoria and the total project will cost about $1.2 million The toad is slated for completion Nov. 15, he added The road will run past an ar- cheological site containing Indian burial grounds over 3,000 years old. The Arrow Lakes Band, now centred in northern Washington State, and the Vallican Park Archaeological Society say the road will disturb the burial site and are calling for a halt to construc- tion plans The band and the society say an alternate route for the northern section of the road should be found But many area residents say replacing the dangerous bridge over the Slocan River is their top priority and want the project to go ahead. Eastman has said the funding for the road and bridge. must be used now continued on page C8 WARNING SIGN... provincial laws protect the archeological site near Vallican from unauthorized digging but not from the road and bridge project whose critics say will harm the site. — casnews pnot ‘\ Slocan Inn reopens in September By CasNews Staff After being closed for the last seven months, the Slocan Inn will finally reopen its doors to the public in Sep tember Glen Sorenson, president of the Castlegar company which purchased the inn and spokesman for six Castlegar investors involved in the project, said renovations and upgrading to the 23-room inn are well underway “We're in the process of renovations, including the upgrading of the fire-alarm system and the emergency lights and anything else related to the fire commissioner's of fice,"’ Sorenson says Also on the upgrading agenda is the heating system. Sorenson said the switch will be made from the oil-and: wood-burning system to propane. The exterior of the Slocan Inn will get a coat of paint and a new roof is being in stalled “We've spent quite a bit of money," said Sorenson, who estimated the cost of renovations at around $150,000. “Another of the highlights is we'll have a satellite dish and a big screen RV inthe bar,”’ he added. The inn consists of a pub, coffee shop, full banquet room and the possibility of a lounge ‘‘is still on the back burner,"” Sorenson said The response to the reopening has been well received by the local residen ts,,he said. ‘*We've had good en thusiastic support,”’ Sorenson said. “In fact we've been getting job inquiries already."" He added that a local hairdresser has inquired about opening a shop in the Slocan Inn. This opens up the possibility of others also setting up shop in the inn, ‘‘perhaps a souvenir shop,” said Sorensen The Ministry of Highways is curren tly renting out space for its drafting department during the Cape Ho Bluffs project on Highway 6 Despite the extensive renovations and upgrading, Sorenson said the building is in ‘excellent shape’ and is structurally sound He couldn't give a specific Septem ber-opening date since all the upgrading must first meet government standards. Bests are best intriathion By CasNews Staff Sharon Best proved to be the best once again as she captured the women's title for the sixth time at the Cyswogn’fun triathlon on Aug. 13 in Nelson The Slocan Valley resident com: pleted the exhausting 1,000-metre swim, 44-kilometre bicycle race and 10-kilometre run in. two hours 12 minutes 36 seconds for her sixth title in the race's seven-year history However, it wasn’t the only Best result for the day. Jennifer Best, Sharon's daughter, grabbed top spot in the youth's individual girls com petition which featured a shorter ver sion of the adult course. Her time for the $00-metre’ swim, 29-kilometre bicycle race agq five-kilometre run was 1:24:05 * A trio comprised of Lorna Newman of Crescent Valley and Rick Streichert and Laurie Card of Slocan combined for a second-place finish in the mixed adult team event. Newman handled the swimming leg of the race, Streichert rode the bicycle and Card ran the final portion of the event