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Castlégar News
PAGE A4, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1991

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EDITORIAL |
Few slowing
down in city

We've kept quiet up to now about the fact that few, if any,
drivers in Castlegar are adhering to the new 50 kilometre per
hour speed limit through the city.

But obviously it’s time to try to enforce the new bylaw or
admit it’s a failure and go back to 60 km-h.

Those who try to stick to 50 soon find someone riding their
back bumper, and if you drive at 50 long enough you'll soon
have a string of cars lined up behind you itching to save the
extra minute it takes to drive the length of Castlegar at 50
km-h rather than 60 km-h. ~

(So far we haven’t seen an alderman with a cowboy hat,
but we’re watching.)

However, while speed can be attributed to, although not
excused, as an old habit hard to break, worse are the drivers
who use the new two-way centre turn lane as a ing lane.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The more things change .. .

Tm not happy to read Art Dusseault’s

‘hha:

Those who do — and we've seen several — seem to inevitably
reach their destination mere seconds ahead of the person
they passed. Think of it. All those seconds over a lifetime
could save, what, an hour or two of time?

Unfortunately, we suspect it won't be long before someone
trying this stunt won’t make it to their destination at all.

Therefore, it’s timely that the RCMP and the Insurance
Corp. of B.C. are conducting their third annual anti-speeding
campaign starting today and running until Sept. 6. The cam-
paign combines enforcement and public education to increase
awareness of the fact that the number of fatal and injury-pro-
ducing crashes caused by speeding is increasing every year.

Whether or not the campaign can have an affect on speed-
ers through the city remains to be seen. It’s certainly worth a
try.

QUOTES

“I had to play too early in the morning. I had to get up at five. I
went to bed at 12. If I went to bed any earlier I don’t think I would
have been able to get to sleep.”

— Todd Archambault, 15, of Castl , on his experience
playing in the Canadian Junior golf championships last
week in Ottawa

“It’s appalling to think that our youth will have to pay to borrow
Money to pursue their education. The Conservatives have really
done it this time. Even the most rapacious banks don’t charge an
up-front fee to borrow their money.”

2 Revel

of Celgar

money owed

Celgar somehow to perform better in the
future than it has in the past and at

Please address all letters to the editor
to: Letters to
P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4,

the Editor, Castlegar News,

him since 1988, A temporary quarrel is no
reason to cheat on an honest debt. But I am
puzzled by two of Mr. Dusseault’s
comments: “We can certainly see by this
example how you care for your ‘team’
players” and “P.S. I supported the mill
expansion.”

Did Mr. Dusseault decide to support the
mill expansion because he was led to believe
he’d lose his job, no longer be one of the
‘team™, if he didn’t. After hearing about

‘construction workers getting gassed

repeatedly, can he still believe that the
Celgar bosses really will give us all a “world-
class” mill? If he, a “team player,” is treated
dishonestly, can those of us who opposed

present? Plus ca change, plus ca c'est le
meme chose.

Of course, Mr. Dusseault’s case is no an

lated le. I seem to ‘some
stories a few months ago about local
tradesmen who were shocked to find that,
though they’d jumped on the mill expansion
P da bandwagon, Celgar preferred to
contract with out-of-town people.

Welcome yet again to business as usual,

or deliver them to our office at 197
Columbia Ave. in Castlegar.

Letters should be typewritten, double-
spaced and not longer than 300 words.

Letters MUST be signed and include
the writer's first and last names, address
and a telephone number at which the
writer can be reached between 9 a.m. and
5 p.m. The writer's name and city or town
of residence only will be published. Only
in exceptional cases will letters be
without the writer's name.

folks, But why listen to
All they want to do is keep a live planet
happening.
Thope Mr. Dusseault gets his money.
Whom should he support next time.?
Mark Mealing
Cast,

Nevertheless, the name, address and
telephone number of the writer MUST be
disclosed to the editor.

The Castlegar News reserves the right
to edit lett for brevity, clarity, legality,
grammar and taste.

unexamined expansion of the mill expect

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VIEWPOINT

*

Court decision ominous for cost sharing

decided, can overturn the acts of

The Supreme Court has
unanimously overturned the

ie we ke MP Lyle Kri on the
Tories’ decision to charge a three per cent up-front service
charge on Canada Student Loans

“I go visit (the protesters) each morning and they offer me
muffins and coffee and we exchange pleasantries and they reaffirm
their intent to stay.”

— Terry Dods, manager of resource development for Slo-
can Forest Products, whose crews have been blocked from
building logging roads in the Hasty Creek area near Silver-
ton

of the B.C. Court of
Appeal, allowing the federal gov-
ernment to unilaterally limit
Payments to provinces under the
Canada Assistance Plan.

This gives the federal govern-
ment free reign to unilaterally
break agreements for share-cost
funding with the provinces.

Parliament, the high court

its p Par _
read governments — and this

and other programs funded
under CAP can be limited to
annual increases of five per cent,

diess of how much it costs

applies to fund M4
such as the Canada Assistance
Plan.

The decision is ominous for
programs ranging from health
care to welfare.

In short, it means that the
five-year Conservative plan to
limit federal contributi to

to run them.

The Supreme Court's ruling
has several important implica-
tions in addition to the extra
financial burden that the Con-
servative government will be
able to shift to the provincial

British Columbia, Alberta and
Ontario for welfare, child care

gov
* Other shared-cost programs
could also be at risk. If the rul-

ing means the federal govern-
ment has unfettered power to
cut payments to the provinces,
its current cut-and-slash atti-
tude could mean that federal
contributions to health care and
Post-secondary education —
already under attack — could
disappear at any time.

° Future programs, such as
child care, have been put in
jeopardy by this ruling. The
Provinces would be extremely
Please see VIEWPOINT page AG

from the plague, 9 qi
files.”

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— Buber: Handbook of Proverbs

the building of Twin Rivers Park. Great! eyes.

Studies based on maps can be misleading

‘Three things only are well done in‘naste: flying

during the war, for example, the necessity of
getting out on the ground — studying the terrain
and lay of the land — was emphasized endlessly.
One’s perspectives can change radically when
one can actually see the situation with one’s own

Plant feet firmly before planning new park

Reflections
and
recollections

ao S88,

And what of hydrautic-stodies? The plan
to some kind of Vé i

park. However, there is no indication of the fact
that the river may rise some 30 vertical feet
through the year and the site is mainly
permeable gravels. From whence would come the
water when river levels are down? It calls for
some unhasty, careful study.

water

‘MP says

A three per cent up-front ser-
vice charge on Canada Student
Loans is about to hit university
students and has Kootenay
West-Revelstoke MP Lyle Kris-
tiansen fuming.

“It’s app@illing to think that
our youth will have to pay to
borrow money to pursue their

REMEMBER
WHEN

40 YEARS AGO €
From the Aug. 23, 1951
Castle News

There are three major fires
burning in this forest district at
the present time. The latest

blaze which began on Saturday |

afternoon is located on East side
>= the Kootenay River opposite
lade.

Kinnaird aldermen ruled last
Tuesday night at the regular
council meeting a comprehen-
sive sewerage system for the vil-
lage at this time was not feasi-
ble because of the high cost per
person and the location of the
community.

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A flash blaze in the bush cov-
ered river banks at Seventh
Ave. and Main St., called the
fire department out early
Wednesday morning.

No loss of property or injury
was sustained when a tunnelled
out “playhome” in the bush
ignited.

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Building the arena in 1963
was only the beginning to prob-
lems arising from this “White
Elephant” as the structure was
dubbed by Castlegar aldermen
in last week’s meeting.

The dedicational plaque for
the building is not in place
because council fears it’ll be
vandalized.

After more than an hour of
debate last Thursday Regional
District of Central Kootenay
directors still reached no firm
deal on who will run the old are-
na in Castlegar.

A list of suggestions from a
special RDCK committee
brought to the board meeting
conflicted with recommenda-
tions sent on from Castlegar’s
council. Castlegar Mayor Ed
Mosby, an alternate director on
the board, was there to answer
challenges that his city was
negotiating in “an aura of suspi-
cion.”

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Regional districts have been
asked to take a hand in protect-
ing drinking water sources in
the Kootenays, threatened by
population growth and develop-
ers.

The need for “watershed zon-
ing” was urged to the district
board in a letter from the West
Kootenay Union Board of
Health, which itself cannot con-
trol zoning or land speculation.

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Castlegar has been told it
cannot opt out of the Regional
district of Central Kootenay’s
planning department.

The city was told last Thurs-
day at a board meeting that
since the RDCK’s planners work
for the entire region, not specific
areas, Castlegar will have to
stay in the program — and pay
for it.

service c

.” Kr saidina
news release issued from his
constituency office last week.
“The Conservatives have really
done it this time. Even the most
rapacious banks don’t charge an
up-front fee to borrow their mon-
ey. It’s one more step toward the
feds getting out of student loans

Kristiansen, a New Democrat,

harge on student loans

The impact of the new three
per cent fee on top of that lack of
inf dj will throw

said that while provincial partic-
ipation in student loans has
tried to keep pace with inflation,
Liberal and Conservative federal
governments have not adjusted
portions of the program for infla-
tion since 1983 and 1984,

an additional average $107 bur-
den on to students and their
supporting parents, the MP said.
Local college students are bor-
rowing about $3,570 each
through the federal loan pro-

August 24, 1991

‘appalling’

gram, yielding an up-front fee of
$107.10.

Unless the bank lets the stu-
dent write a cheque to the gov-
ernment from the money the
student is borrowing from the
bank, it will have to be cash up
front or no student loan, he said.

“New Democrats screamed

Castlegar News AS

about this when it was fir
announced back in 1989,” Kri
i id.

“But the public is hearing!
about it now, and it’s about to
affect our young people across
the nation. We're outraged and
saddened, Students deserve bet-
ter.” .

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see that the city is all set to proceed with
j What, you may ask, of the Murphy Creek dam
Project? It would stabilize the river level.

True, dam reservoirs raise and increase
levels but reservoirs also fluctuate.
Water flow in the Venetian canals would
therefore still be a problem.

On the other hand, the causeway that Argo
built is a permanent fixture for access to the
island. If B.C. Hydro does go ahead with the dam
and raises the water above the level of the
causeway, the city has the legal right to have
Hydro maintain that access by raising the Nakusp) saw his proposed bylaw
causeway an equivalent amount at no expense to to ban smoking in public places
the city. within the regional district go

If Hydro raises the water, the present north j up in smoke.
opening would become a year-round waterway. I However, regional directors
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good small boat harbor with board meetings.

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1's downtown revital-
iztion plan is slewly coving

There is, moreover, a highly visible plan
drawn up. Not so great.

I have my reservations, for it looks
suspiciously similar to an earlier proposal
launched about 10 years ago. The latest plan has
been given much

d by dq
exposure but when, in
my usual diffident
manner, I mentioned
my concerns, I was
assured blandly that it
was simply a “first
draft, a proposal only.”

This gave rise to an
extra uneasiness. Repetition tends to confirm an
original suggestion as a fait accomplis.

Now, I have no quarrel with the general
concept of the park. Strongly in favor, in fact.
Castlegar has no immediately available
recreational vehicle park and it lacks a common
visible centre.

T have a feeling, therefore, that there was By John Charters
little direct contact with the ground when that
“tentative” plan was prepared.

Otherwise, how is it ibl iy ider a
causeway from the proposed park to the north is a walking path. A road would destroy it.

end of Zuckerberg Finally, the area in front of the house can only

Island, parallel to the date about four vehicles or vans for the
river? And for what disabled. It is intended mainly for fire engines
and service vehicles.

Therefore, the planners would expend not less
than $150,000 and destroy the integrity and
character of the island for the sake of four

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Bill Cuthill lost the battle,

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clean air bylaw for the Regional
District of Central Kootenay.

The director for Area K (rural

The trouble is that pretty pictures do
not necessarily translate into viable
realities, while studies made on the
basis of maps alone can be totally
misleading.

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park to the island, I
was told. And what
would be the cost of this
connection?

No answer. But I do know that the present
causeway built by Argo Industries Ltd. is valued
at about $45,000. Therefore, since the gap
between the island and the park site is at least
three times the distance of the causeway, plus r
the fact that it is about 12 feet lower (that is, ‘ the island ine an
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The trouble is that pretty pictures do not
i late into viable realities, while
studies made on the basis of maps alone can be
totally misleading.
In fact, when I was taking officers’ training

be at least $150,000.

Moreover, that point on the island is a beauty
spot, carefully preserved and over the
years. Anything intruding on it id destroy it.
As well, the path from there to the Chapel House

Kootenay-Columbia confluence to be found
Srey day,” Castlegar. Many others and I see it
every day.

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Pirtangenpee of grey cua, present and

, to guard it, particularly from any hasty
friends, and others.

If readers do not understand, Jet them study
the ground for themselves.

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first phase of the plan — esti-
mated to be about $600,000 —
providing downtown property
owners also agree to pay half
the costs.

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