Promises,

Our regular On The Street
feature this week contained an in-
teresting response — one reflec-
ted both in news headlines and by
the voters.

The respondent said that cam-
paign promises are “usuglly untulf-
illed or they're lies to win votes.”
That's pretty strong stuff. But it is
an attitude apparently shared by
many other voters, judging from
responses in the media.

But why would voters adopt
such a cynical posture (some would
call it merely realistic)? The an-
swer lies in the promises being

government, so it can offer voters
everything and anything,

And in port that criticism rings
true. Ed Broadbent can pledge to
get tough with the. U.S. and
threaten fo pull out of NATO, but if
he was in the delicate position of
forming the next government, he
may not be so adament.

The same is true of Tory
leader Brian Mulroney, who seems
to be all things to everyone. On the
one hand he has pledged to reduce
the $30 billion federal deficit — a
popular election promise.

However, at the same time he

made by the three | party
leaders.

The debate Wednesday night
on women's issues is a typical
case. The Vancouver Sun story the
next day headlined the debate
“Women get promises, promises.”

All three leaders promised to
put women’s issues at the top of
their agendas, either if they for-
med a government after the Sept.
4 election, or if they were mem-
bers of the next Parliament.

But is that realistic? Are
women's issues really the top
priority in this country? No doubt
women's issues deserve serious
bs sf ; —  eonatd
they haven't received up to now —
but they're really not the critical
issues facing the country and
probably won't be considered as
such no matter which party leads
the next government.

Similarly, one of the complain-
ts of the Progressive Conservatives
both on local and national levels, is
that the New Democratic Party
knows it can't form the next

has pi ised a gly endless
stream of new programs and im-
proved tunding for existing
programs, along with tax incen-
tives and tax cuts.

is apparent to even the
casual political observer that the
federal deticit needs to be
reduced, but cannot be reduced by
increasing programs and im-
plementing tax cuts.

The irony of the current com-
poign is that Liberal leader John
Turner has perhaps been the most
forthright of any of the three
leaders.

There's just one problem: He
is running on the heels of Pierre
Elliott Trudeau who left a legacy of
untullfilled pledges and broken
promises. And it's that legacy Mr.
Turner finds difficult to shirk.

Of course, politicians of every
political stripe have been making
promises they can't or don't intend
to keep for centuries. It just seems
that voters are more aware of it
now than ever before

Grass needs sprinkling

Mayor Audrey Moore was
justified in taking the Ministry of
Highways to task this week for
failing to maintain the grassy
areas around the highway inter
change.

Granted, the weather hos
been hot for an extended period
but it has been just as hot in other
Interior communities. Vernon, for
example, has also had ao hot sum:
mer, but Highways workers there
have to contend not only with
grassy boulevards, but also plan.
ted flower beds along the northern
entrance to the city

Tourists driving into Vernon
were able to see Highways trucks
and workers out weeding the area
and ensuring it was sprinkled

That is rarely the case here
The grass and trees around the in
terchange have gone almost un
touched since June. If the
sprinkling system is the problem,
then it's time Highways started
upgrading its sprinkling system at
the interchange or at the very
least toke up Ald. Marilyn
Mathieson’s suggestion and water
more frequently

Tourism is more
than just scenery

Reprinted from the Arrow Lakes
News

The Arrow Lakes and Slocan valleys
are pot yet the tourist meccas we hope
some day they will become.

The reason is that we still are not a
destination point for many tourists.” At
present, we are judt an area which
people pass through om their way to
somewhere else.

What makes a great tourist centre is
the fact that people plan to go there.
But you have to have something for
people to go to.

We have ail the attributes in the
world to attract tourists and when they
get here we have lots of things for
them to do to make their stay enjoy
able but we lack that one thing a
reason to come here over somewhere
else

The fact that we have the Valhalla
Park, Nakusp Hot Springs, ghost
towns, etc. are not enough. We need a
reason for tourists to make this their
destination

Banff is a destination point. Why? It
has a world reputation for the Banff
Springs Hotel. It is a winter and
summer playground and has been fea
tured like a picture post ecard in nearly
every glossy magazine in every lan
guage in the world. Banff has been
super promoted and the tourists aim at
it as a destination point.

The people of the Banff area have
also developed a téurist-oriented phil
osophy. They are friendly, they keep
their shops dpen for the convenience of
the tourists, they bend over backwards

to make the tourist feel at home at his
chosen destination.

The same holds true for destination
points in the Okanagan. Penticton is a
town in which the hospitality is infee-
tious. Compare Penticton to Nakusp
and you see the difference between a
“destination” town mentality and a
“passing through” town mentality

Shops in Penticton have “Welcome
Tourist” signs up all over the place —
not negative signs at the entrance.
Each store has a till notice to tell
Americans exactly what they give for
U.S. exchange updated daily.

The shops keep uniform hours seven
days a week and they're not closed at
lunch hour. They also do not close at 5
p.m. on Friday. There is not just one
service station open on Sunday. They
are not closed on Mondays.

Shopkeepers are helpful and know
ledgeable and the chamber of com
merce has a very high profile office on
the beach and several smaller kiosks
around the city

The mayor and council are high
profile people who are not afraid to
make the tourists feel at home by
offering courtesy parking tickets for
any city owned parking lot or meter in
the city.

The casual citizen wishes you “good
morning” with a smile, “isn't the wea
ther lovely?”

It is attitede as much as anything
which makes an area a destination
point. We have the reasons for tourists
to come here and stop. We have to
develop the proper attitude which will
make it all come to pass.

“Of course Fon, being the pro he is, insisted on a pre-convention sound level check .. .”

Letters to the Editor
Why no referendum?

Editor, News:

In the past two years there have
been fot less than three referendums
in the Sloecan Valley. One on a
nuclear-free zone, one on taxation of
B.C. Hydro and one on the Wilson
Creek dump. To date, there will be no
referendum and the residents of the
Slocan Valley will have no choice on the
existence of the Slocan Valley plan.

On Feb. 21, 1984, at a plan meeting in
Silverton, the regional director for
Area H said the machinery did not
exist to call a referendum on the plan.
At another public meeting in New
Denver in March, this same director
said it was illegal to have a referendum
on the plan.

At’ a meeting in Winlaw in April
1984, our rural direetorsaid\he would
do everything he could to have a ref
erendum on the plan. At a later
meeting in Crescent Valley, he said
that regardless of the extent of dis
agreement with the existence of the
Sloean Valley plan he would do every
thing he could to push it through.

The regional director of the Village
of Silverton told a delegation at a
village council meeting this spring that
he did not recognize the signatures of
60 per cent of the Silverton residents
as evidence of disagreement to the
plan. Such evidence, he said, should be
torn up and thrown into the garbage.

At a council meeting of the Village of
Slocan, a motion was passed by council
to terminate the Slocan Valley plan.

At a following meeting of the Village
of Slocan, the same regional director
from Silverton, who believes evidence
of popular disagreement should be
thrown into the garbage, went with an
active member of the Valhalla Wilder

Thanks for
memories:

Editor, Castlegar News:

T've pondered for hours how I could
pen my thoughts and feelings after
returning homie {ge our 21st graduation
reunion. Usually it takes time for
experiences tO Mellow into fond mem
ories, but just a week has passed and

T've felt deepening gratitude for
haying the opportunity to express my
admiration and feelings for people who
were on the fringe of my life 20 years
ago. I've felt a measure of satisfaction
at how we've all “grown up.” And all
this before my pictures have even been
developed!

My father, who often quoted poetry
while we were young, shared this one
with me this weekend:

“Oft in a stilly night, the air slumbers

Chains have bound me;

Fond memory brings delight

Of other days around me.”

These fond memories were provided
by a devoted group of 1963 and ‘64
grads headed by Brenda (Hill) Ter-
bune, Kathy (Kazakoff) Horcoff, Bar-
bara (Guido) Wild, Wendy (Reith)
Bouliane, Jim Ford, and Elaine (Ril-
coff) Woods. Many dthers, too, worked
hard in organizing this event.

Our sincerest thank you to these
people and their families for that sac-
rifiee.

“Til we meet again.
Bernice [Lightle} King
Ottawa
and many other grateful grads

ness Society and successfully lobbied
the Slocan council into withdrawing the
motion to terminate the plan.

Earlier this spring, the village
council of New Denver passed a motion
that the New Denver regional director
would vote against the plan if a refer.
endum was not going to be held.

It is interesting to note that the
referendum on the nuclear-free zone
was illegal, yet a referendum was held.
It is also interesting to note that al
though the provincial government has
not told the regional district they
cannot hold a referendum on the plan,
there will be no referendum.

The Slocan Valley plan is scheduled
for reprint in Victoria and to be before
the regional district for approval in
September. It will then be sent to Vie-
toria for approval by the Environ-
mental Land Use Committee.

What the residents of this valley
must understand is this: that the plan
is proceeding; that the plan is a guide-
line to private land use controls and
rural zoning; that the regional district
does not intend to present the contents
to the resi and hold a refer

Anearth tremor that rocked parts of
B.C. and the western United States
Monday night was also felt in Robson,
Kinnaird and Castlegar.

. 8 @

A new building to house what will be
the largest drug store in the Kootenays
is now being built at the corner of Pine
Street and Columbia Avenue. The
$25,000 building is being put up by ®
new company, Pine and Columbia
Holding. The 47 x 60-foot building will
be occupied by the Castlegar Drugs.

ee

Castlegar may do away with its
closing hours bylaw leaving businesses
free to remain open as long as they
wish. The only restraints on business
hours would be the Lord's Day Act and
a half-day closing once a week.

R.H. Fenner attended the regular
meeting of the Castlegar council Tues-
day night and asked the village to “ser-
iously consider” throwing out the
closing hours bylaw, thus “enabling

on the plan.
V.C. Hanson
New Denver

MP’s.statement on_
health care alarming

Editor, Castlegar News:

Early in the election, I received
(along with every other constituent in
this riding) Kootenay West MP Lyle
Kristiansen’s Spring Report ‘84. The
page dealing with health care drew my
attention.

The following statement was attri.
buted to the director of the Canadian
Medieal Association: “they (the Con.
servatives) can see they'd be a dead
duck if they went against medicare”
and that, “when they got in power,
they’d make it right for us.”

I was concerned that a director of the
Canadian Medical Association would
make such a statement. I followed this
up with a telephone call to Mr. Kris
tiansqn's office, and have on file his
written reply informing me of the name
and address of Mr. B.E. Freamo, the
director of the Canadian Medical Asso-
ciation.

Yesterday, I received a reply from
Mr. Freamo, advising me that he never
made the remarks quoted in Mr. Kris-
tiansen’s report. Mr. Freamo does not
know where the information was ob-
tained but that certainly they were not
quoted from any statements Mr.
Freamo made.

I am confused and alarmed that such
blatant statements can be quoted by
our MP, inferring that good affordable
health care is not possible under the
Progressive Conservative government.

At this time I am forwarding a copy
of this letter to Mr. Kristiansen's office,
hoping for an jon and an

and run their own businesses.”
. °

A 16-year-old Robson girl almost
thatched the record of an Okanagan

The longest stretch she did before
taking a rest was 28 miles.

Blackboards, ink stained and smear
ed with glue, supplies strewn through
out the building, and fire extinguishers
emptied on walls and floors, was the
type of damage which left the Robson
sehool in an indescribable state after
five boys, ages eight to 14, spent an
afternoon of destruction. The young
offenders, all pupils of the Robson
school, entered the building July 26 by
breaking a window to reach an inside
lateh.

. .

A pledge that the Robson ferry will
be maintained and kept in good run-
ning condition has been made by
Minister Don Brothers, can-

apology to the constituents of this
riding for presenting erroneous infor:
mation and misleading conclusions.
Joyes Manwell
Trail

Kristiansen replies

Editer, Castlegar News:

In response to the letter to the editor
from Joyce Manwell, I wish to
assure Ms. Manwell, yourself, and your
readers that the remarks quoted in my
Sprigg "84 Report were made by a dir.
ector of the Canadian Medical Asso
ciation (CMA).

The CMA “director” who made the
remarks concerned, however, was not
Mr. B.E. Freamo but rather were those

didate for reelection as MLA in
Rossland-Trail riding.
7° «
The Kinnaird Aquanauts Swim Club
and the Town of Kinnaird hosted its
second annual swim meet last weekend
with teams from Kimberley, Nelson
and Warfield competing. Approxi-
mately 140 young competitors were
present. The action got underway at
9:30 a.m. commencing with heats in the
various age groups to determine who
had the fastest times for the finals
which took place later in the afternoon.
. .

Lorne 8. MacLure of CBA Engin
eering, former resident of Castlegar, is
the resident engineer for the Mission
bridge, a new four-lane high-level
bridge over the Fraser River

5 YEARS AGO
From the Aug. 23, 1979
News

A large crowd at Castlegar Airport
Monday afternoon gave an emotional
sending off to the 16 Kootenay
Boundary area students about to begin
the first leg of their journey to the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The students will spend two years in
the USSR studying Russian language
and literature, according to Harry
Voykin, whose daughter Wendy is one
of the Russian-bound students.

7 2-

After a confidential discussion Sat-
urday, Central Kootenay directors
voted themselves a $30-per-meeting
raise, Mayor Audrey Moore reported
Tuesday.

. .

Twenty-eight local girls completed
five days of hard work, instruction and

as the Junior Rockettes
vities at the SHSS gym on Fridiy.

eee ® permanent two mill tax levy

$000) to finance a portion of the im-

< costs of implementing the
Valley Plan.

It is interesting to note that while

=» fefetendums must be held on taxation

a period of one year. The actual term of
employment, I do not know.

ning Commission. .

for recreation, etc., the area directors
and the regional district can impose
#axation to create new levels of gov-
ernment and severely limit the indi-
vidual use of private property.

_/We have élected representatives in
our municipalities and rural areas
whom we once believed had an ability
to discern priorities and assess the
level of representativeness of their de-
cisions. | would doubt very much if the
decision to tax residents to create more

laws was believably ive

years.

All indicators show a rising level of
unemployment, increase in’ interest
rates and a drop in consumer spending
which will ensure a contitiuation of the
depressed state of the ecofiomy for the
next five years, to say nothing of the
personal suffering of millions of Cana-
dians who are living below the poverty
level at this time.

The intent of the parties involved
should be commended, but both the
Liberals and Conservatives seem to be

even in the minds of these elected rep-
resentatives.

Jim Fitchett

Slocan Valley

Forest neglect

Editor, Castlegar News:

Forestry is Canada's largest export
industry, contributing over $11 billion
to our export trade position. Over
300,000 Canadians work directly in the
forest sector and another 700,000 jobs
are directly supported by it. At least
300 communities across Canada are
completely dependent on forestry for
their eeonomie viability.

British Columbia's forests are the
most important I

increase spending on reforestation, on
stand tending, on protection (against
disease, insects and fire) and on re-
search, or we will have a classic ex-
ample of “killing the goose that laid the
golden egg.”

Much is being said during the cur.
rent election campaign about the need
for “make-work” programs. Why not
put some of our unemployed youth to
work in our neglected forests? The

that we have, yet ironically,. forest
management has been sadly neglected
for several decades.

Reforestation ts not keeping pace
with current cutting (basic forestry),
nor is any significant attempt being
made to plant old cut-over areas (back
log).

Large areas of immature forest
stands are overstocked and require
thinning, yet the juvenile spacing pro
gram is virtually at a standstill.

The nation must soon recognize the
importance of our forest resource and

for good p work
are virtually limitless.

It is a fact that forestry is being
neglected across this nation. This
valuable natural renewable resource
deserves to be treated much much
better.

Voters in the upcoming election
should be asking candidates for all
parties what their policies are toward
forestry

J.F. Bailey,
(Chairman, Kootenay Section,
Canadian Institute of Forestry

ignoring the concerns of
the growing number of Canadians in
regard to the nuclear threat. Both of
these parties on one hand give lip
service to the cause of peace, but on the
other hand promise @ massive arms
build-up. How they can ensure peace
by spending billions on. war. prepar-
ations is a real paradox.

The New Democratic Party has
called on the superpowers, the.USSR
and the U.S., for a nuclear freeze, a
no-first strike policy and has proposed
that Canada declare itself a nuclear-
free zone. It is time we had a clear yes
or no on these issues from thé Liberal
and Conservative parties.

Let's not kid ourselves. Problems of
unemployment, high interest rates and
a deepening of the depression will have
very little sjgnificance if somebody
pushes a button and we and ours are all
vaporized before Sept. 4.

Tom Mackenzie
Genelle

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Slocan Lake gets
$40,000 grant

By CasNews Staff

New Denver's waterfront
on Slocan Lake is receiving a
major facelist thanks to a
$40,000 federal grant.

The funding was obtained
under the Environment 2000
program by the Village of
New Denver and its Main
street Business Association

New Denver's lakefront,
with its view of the Valhalla
Mountains, is largely village
owned, permitting trail con

tion

able

lease.

stairways and picnic areas.
Along Carpenter Creek,
the entire north bank from
Higway 6 to the waterfront
has been bulldozed clear of
serub trees and refuse, ma
king way for planning topsoil
and ornamental trees.
The project has employed
10 workers for six weeks
heavy equipment,
also paid for by the grant.

lake,

association applied for
$129,000, but received only
$40,000 and a strong indica-

that an
$15,000 would be made avail

The village credits Koot
enay West MPLyle Kristian
sen with obtaining the grant,
according to a prepared re-

“He went after the Envir
onment Minister,” New Den
ver Mayor Senya Mori is
quoted in the release.

“The project is fantastic.
struction, the placement of The public reaction is good.
Everybody is happy about
making the trail along the
especially
people.”

Mainstreet Business Asso-
ciation spokesman Norman
Evans also had praise for
Kristiansen.

“It was Lyle who got the
$40,000,”
release. “It was through his
‘The village and business efforts. When the Envir:
onmental 2000 grants were
being looked at, the village

additional

the older

Evans says in the

Otters 26,
Or While Supplies Last

Soft Drinks

: Progressive
most expensive

promise to date is his pledge to double
ding on eh and

Party science critic Tom Siddon said May 3 that “by
the time we reached ‘88, when the thing was fully phased
in, it (the extra cost per year) might be $2.5 billion or

more.

Most other promises still have no price tag, although

policy adviser Charles McMillan was quoted July 12 as
saying a package of policies aimed at the West would cost
$5.1 billion over the term of the government — although
some of that would be financed by serapping other

ams.

An increase in defence spending as much as 50 per
cent higher than that planned by the Liberals, plus
possible deunification of the armed forces. The Tories
haven't put a price tag on their proposals, but the defence
budget is $8.8 billion for hte current fiseal year and the
Lilberals project an increase to $10.4 billion by 1986-87.

e Government support to the arts to grow as the
same rate as the gross national product.

e Money or land to help construction of a domed
stadium in Toronto.

e Expansion of the Canada Pension Plan to include
women working at home, though it would have to be

self-financing.

© Significant expansion of wage-subsidy programs
and creation of refundable employer tax credits to
encourage new hiring. Cost of the latter is $250 million a

ear,

e Tax incentives, grants and subsidies to prepare

women for new occupations of the high-tech era.

e Reihstatement of indexing of old age pension to the
full cost of living as of Jan. 1, 1985.

e Expansion of the income-tested spouse's allowance
to all widows and widowers between ages of 60 and 65.

‘e Improved assistance to single pensioners below
poverty line as soon as the government's financial

position allows.

e “Additional funds” to provinces for establishment
or enrichment of programs to improve health and limit

long-term medical costs.

it i to small

e I
business.

© Broadened role of federal lending institutions for

small business.

e Abolition of the capital gains tax on the sale of a
farm for continued agricultural pt

e Reduction in farm fuels by 20 cents a gallon by
removing nine-per-cent federal sales tax and by not
collecting current excise tax.

e An agribond program program for low-interest

loans to farmers.

A study of gasoline, alcohol, food and lodging taxes
and their effect on the tourism industry.
e More money, if necessary, for Maritime freight

rate subsidies.

Reinstatement of some Via Rail routes, including
Atlantic,.Limited from Halifax to Montreal.

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