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VOL. 33, NO. 16 85 Cents

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, APRIL 16, 1980.

4Sections (A.B. Cab)

resulted in signs of bitter ‘infighting’ in the
community, Robson. area residents Tuesday
elected a new interim body: responsible for
their'fire protection function,

Replacing the eight-member Robson: and District Fire
Protection Commission, partially vacant following resig-
nations linked with conflicts over “operation of the area’s fire
department, about 96 residents named a three-member
committee to conduct the - commission's ‘business until
upcoming adaption of Regional District of Central Kootenay
bylaws pi ig them with guidelines for the ilities
and authority of the commission,

At the commission's annual meeting, discussion of
conflicts over the fire protection function began with
assessments by Area J director Martin Vanderpo), who
represents the Robson area on the RDCK board, of the “plus”
and “minus” aspects of the commission's activities over the
past 18 months,

On the positive side, Vanderpol_ said, was “the
co-operation of a great number of people in building the
firehall and building a fire department.” The Area J director

On top

of list

Move to stop Robson firefight

In an effort to end hostility which has’

Residents elect interim committee

praised the community spirit which resulted in construction of
the building for $48,682, “a fraction” of what it would
ordinarily have cost.

Vanderpo! also commended volunteer firemen, “who
started a d-a-half a; but had become
skilled firefighters ina eros training program. Although
they have yet to face a house fire, he said,

‘bickering’

objected! to Graham's policy restricting volunteer firemen's
criticism of the department during non-firefighting activities
and’ he cited i reports that members had been threatened with

‘Nobody has to classify himself as a mat for
anybody else,” but I think a little bit more consideration and
maybe a little more controlling of tempers would be very
useful.”

The authority of fire chief Art Graham and the rights of
volunteer firemen weré later identified in questions raised by

services in several minor blazes were “provided rapidly with a
Sufficient number of people.”

“The negative thing has been in the past year-and-a-half,
in my opinion, too .often people have post involved in
fighting,” the Area J director said.

Although he said he did not wish to name or blame
parties involved, he indicated a number of residents despite
decisions under majority rule “continually keep on bickering
because things aren't going exactly the way you want them to

“A split community has never been able come a with
that’ told

4
residents,

and Cliffe Churches, who resigned,
as fire commission chairman in January over a related’
dispute, as issues which were major sources of conflict among
residents.

Vanderpol said he believed’ that during emergencies

issal for critical remarks,

Asked: for clarification, Graham explained volunteer
firemen had no auth to bers on fire
department matters and should confine discussion of
grievances and disagreements within the’ department.

Vanderpol told residents the conflict resulted partially
from the commission “working in a vacuum" because of the
absence of proper guidelines from the RDCK. Once the
required bylaws are adopted by the RDCK board, the Area J
director told the firemen, “many of the problems some of you
undoubtedly are ‘struggling with at the moment will

“only one man can be in and that men
should be directly responsible to the fire chief, his apace

,and department officers in such situations. .

“There is no time to hold a plebiscite or to call a rep-
resentative body together to discuss the fact that you have a
fire," he said.

Among those elected to the interim committee, Churches,
said he did not question the necessity of the fire chief

absolute during but he

Summing up the meeting, the Area J director said he was
hopeful the election of the new committee signalled the start
of “the proper spirit of co-operation and working together”
required to operate an effective fire department.

“I have put up with a lot in the last year from a lot of
people,” he warned. “I can assure you I'm not going to do it
again. If run into the same trouble again I will go: through the .

regional district and have this matter straightened out in no

time, becduse I am not prepared to put up with the
infighting.”

Explaining the “infighting” he cited at the meeting,
Vanderpol told the Castlegar News the first year in any’
organization “is not an easy one.”

“Undoubtedly what you get is a hell of a lot of work, and
many difficulties,” he said.

* “Asa result people get tired,.some people get overtired,
you get flareups, you get tempers rising and before you know
it you get all kinds of interesting Personality clashes

use of from the n asa result
of the personality, clashes the remaining commission members

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Planning for
renovations to Castle-
gar's” provincial
government ‘liquor

store —‘amang 10.

B.C. outlets, topping 4

ithe Liquor Distribu-

tion Branch improve-
ments prioritibs list

te slated to start |

lerce a LDB! official

‘on “the upgrading of the local
store, located ‘in its {present
premises at 91 Mapl¢ St. for
about 20 years. i

+ Responding to the cham.

ber's Feb.. 8 letter: asking
when the Castlegar store was
scheduled for upgrading, the

LDB's‘property planning and +

development division

ager said the local outle!
included in the 1980 fiscal
year budget as a priority
with 10 other Crown-owned
stores.”

“Since Castlegar’ is the
first store to be handled by
the architect from this div-
ision I would expect the in-
itial plans to be made during
the month of April, the start
of the 1980 fiscal year,” wrote
Joan Gadsby.

“The actual schedule for
completion Ido not know-at
this point in time until I have
received the final estimates
of the renovations.” ,

Chamber president, Tom
Oglow noted Tuesday the
LDB official's letter did not
say whether the branch. in-
tended to undertake : con-
struction as well as planning
for liquor store improve-
ments this year.

“We'll be looking into it
further to find out whether
they actually mean they're
going to do some physical
building or whether they're
just making plans at‘ the
moment,” Oglow said. +

hed’ the branch has.’
for work this year _

astlegar Chamber of:

. NEW. LIFE awalts. this: family of -‘Boat Peop! hi
- Castlegar Airport Friday underthe spénsorship of St. Rita’
Here, father C. a welder by
trade, in French when it was: ‘oonelt he, spoke the-tongue after the
Interpreter was found not to s; a tao: The family consists of, left
to right, wife Rosa Onehanh, bro -law Jean, Plerre Jr. in the.
orms of his father and cousin s enihares Looking on is father

+ formed the immediate needs

op
committee to:aid the family ‘he Castlegar News has been in-

the family have been met but they
are very anxious to start school to learn English. Tours of the crea

would also be felcomed | for those who care to give of their inte.

Inquiries can be made
perman,

 Newe/Micror Foto by Lols egos

More on page'A2

use
oust arbitrator

of . arbitrator. >Hugh
Wilkinson; as;-“job
classification apa
mittee chairman ‘and
board: members’

, recommendation that

they withdraw from
management. of
David Thompson
University Centre are
among new develop-
ments in. Selkirk
College labor rela-
tions probl

‘Give Kristiansen a rough ride’, urges Brisco

By RYON GUEDES
NEWS /AMRROR EDITOR. ©

A pep talk to
Kootenay West
Progressive Conser-
vatives and a descrip-
tion of his new role as

nde Enterprises plant
and Trail's relocated Quadra
Chainsaw factory as ex-
amples, he criticized such in-
ternational labor unions as
the Wood

ness ventures and making
more money for the unions,”
Explaining his dual role

"in his new career as “a civil

servant,” Brisco said his
i will include

ers of America and United
Steelworkers of America for
their failure to work toward

eliminating barriers between
the PC leader and Tory MPs,
More on page A2 |

ks court.

from committee

‘A bid for removal

While a petition filed on
behalf‘of Canadian Union. of

1841
= representing’ bout 240
support'staff members in; the
college’ system: —- asks th
Supreme Court of Canada te
order Wilkinson's withdraw-
al from | the
management body, a letter
‘sent by the college board to
Education Minister. Brian
Smith suggests Selkirk no
longer be responsible for the
DTUC campus and facilities,

Citing provisions for
such action under the pro-
vincial Arbitration Act the
petition, filed Tuesday by
CUPE lawyer Leo McGrady,
calls for the arbitrator's re-
moval from the job classi-
fication committee chair on |
the grounds he “misconduc-
ted himself and/or exceeded
his jurisdiction.”

“Certainly some of his
actions and even some of his
statements in the press have
led us to believe he may not
be as impartial as we think an

More on page A2

a key ddviser-to Op-
position Leader Joe
Clark highlighted a
speech by former MP
Bob Brisco here Sun-
day. :

Delivered at a $10-a-
plate dinner honoring Brisco
for his representation of the
riding since 1974, the 51-
year-old Trail chiropractor's
address to about 200 party
members weighed PC pros-
pects for recapturing Koot-
enay West. and included
strongly-worded broadsides
against area labor unions as
well as against New Demo-

erat Lyle Kristiansen, who
unseated him in the Feb. 18
federal election.
Kristiansen was the tar-

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April 24

of approximately 10 per cent
of the households in Castle:

? resolving Canada’s economic

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—News/Mirror Foto by Ryon Guede:

get of sharp citicism from
Brisco, who compared ‘the
NDP MP unfavorably with
Liberal Peter Kendall as a
federal election candidate.

“I may be tnkind, I may
be critical ‘and I may be
unfair, but in my own mind I
would have been happier to
see-Kendall in Ottawa than I
would have been to see
K ” Brisco said.

gar t
places of “employment, ‘the
number of persons per house-
hold, housing preferences,

“I have waited with
baited breath to hear some-
thing about interest rates, to

_ the CPRail tracks and on the und

benchland in South Castlegar located west of
the Inland Natural Gas transmission line;

e A development strategy for the in-
dustrial park at the south end of the city.

Those are to be included among areas of
study for the updating of Castlegar’s com-
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summer, the updating pro-

+ cess is aimed at providing 4

new format for future de-
velopment and growth in the
city.

The program will include .

& personal interview survey

habits and atti
toward a potential transit
system.

According to a city news
release, Castlegar residents
will have the opportunity to
discuss the updating process
and exchange ideas on the
city’s future. development
with planners
chambers at city hall from 2
to 9 p.m. April 18. Public
meetings are also scheduled
for later in the planning
Process,

in council

hear about
prices,” he added nd all
I've heard is that he's going
to a seminar to find out
where the washroom is."

He stressed the impor-
lance of Kootenay West
Tories maintaining a “high
profile” and a critical attitude
toward the quality of their
present representation until
the next federal race in en-
suring a future PC victory in
the riding.

“I think it’s incumbent
upon us to give this guy a

rough ride because I don't
think he’s going to measure
up," Brisco told the crowd. “I
don’t think it’s going to be an
easy road for the new mem-

-ber for Kootenay West.”

Using Genelle’s defunct

“What's wrong with the
IWA putting a few bucks into
Carefree- Enterprises?” .he
asked. “It was an IWA rep-
resentation there. - What's
wrong with Local 480 putting
a few bucks into Quadra
Chainsaw-to make that thing
fly and put a couple of
members on the board of dir-
ectors?”

“The problem lies at the
top, at the quality of man-
agement of the unions,” he
continued. “You won't find
that problem in the U.S. be-
cause the unions are invest-
ing their dues and their
money in industrial and busi-

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