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Castlégar News September 25, 1968

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NO PROBLEM . . . Kathy Gregory pulls some
jors of freshly-canned peaches from the pot
orher stove in the kitchen Gregory-is legally
blind but still manages to do many things she
used to do when she could see. She is a local

BLINDNES

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reaction — is to sort of giggle. This makes you just
furious. What can you do?”

But she says she and her husband, Mac, are still
very active. She gave up cross-country skiing and
took up snowshoeing instead. As well, she keeps
herself very busy around the house.

I do my own canning, I do my own cooking,
there's nothing we don’t do,” she says. But she adds
it was difficult at first to deal with being blind after
living an active community lifestyle.

“It touches everything in your life,”
“First you're angry, very angry.”

Before she went blind, Gregory was a store
clerk, she worked fot home support and was a
hairdresser as well. The hardest part for her wa&got
being able to do all the things she enjoyed be
going blind.

“I love old people and I always have,” she says of
the work she once did for Home Support Services.
enjoyed my work with them. I took this nurses’
course for homemakers so that I wasn't doing
housework, I was cutting other people's nails and
bathing them . basically almost what somebody
else has to do for me now.”

She also misses being able to drive.

“You lose your vision and your whole life
changes,” she says. “It's really hard.”

she says.

repr ive for the C National
Institute for the Blind and ries other blind

in—_the—community—overcome—their
problems.

cosNews Photo

Simple things like meeting people in the street
and talking was at first a challenge.

“When it first happened people started saying to
my husband, ‘What's wrong with Kathy is she ever
getting stuck up!’ ” she says, recalling her first trips
into town when she lost her vision. “Now I know
everybody's voice so I can reply.”

Despite her vision problem, Kathy remains
busy. She enjoys dancing and has taken up an active
role with the CNIB in the area.

“My husband and I went out and canvassed (for
the United Way) last night and the night before
(Tuesday and Wednesday),” she says. “I really want
to get it punched in that CNIB does need a lot of
help.”

While the resources in the area are thin, the
CNIB does provide necessary services for blind
people. When volunteers are available the CNIB
assists blind people with mobility training, client aid
in the form of canes, counselling and tape-recorded
talking books or magazines and vision aid for some
people who still have some vision.

Gregory can read with the help of strong
eyewear but can only read one or two lines at a time.
She can make out shapes and forms, but colors and
vision depth are impaired. Still, she has not. given up.
She does everything she can.

“It’s attitude and how you accept it,” she says.

LYLE KRISTIANSEN

Local campaign set

New Democratic Party House Leader Nelson Riis
(MP, Kamk p) arrives in Revelstoke today
to campaign in support of the election bid of Kootenay
West-Revelstoke New Democratic candidate Lyle
Kristiansen.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed Riis, who is commonly
konwn as “Mr. Nice” in his Kamloops constituency and
by other MPs, was first elected to the House of
Commons in the federal election of 1980.

He was named the federal New Democrats’ finance
critic and, following his re-election by a vastly increased
majority of over 10,000 votes in 1984, was elected the
party's House Leader following the retirement of
Hamilton MP Ian Deans.

Riis raised the question of the takeover of West
Kootenay Power and Light by a United States company
in Parliament last year and, following the Mulroney
governments’ Christmas Eve approval of the sale, he
protested what he termed their “sneak attack . . . under
the cover of darkness.”

The Riis campaign visit. to the Kootenay
West-Revelstoke riding will feature a speech to party
supporters attending a fund-raising auction and
barbecue at the Nelles Ranch south of Revelstoke, some
informal campaigning with Kristiansen, and interviews
with the local media.

Kristiansen and former B.C. labor minister and
Revelstoke MLA Bill King will also address the auction
bidders and barbecue crowd. The ranch rally is the first
major public event of the Kootenay West-Revelstoke
1988 election campaign.

Kristiansen, an Uphill Nelson resident and
Kootenay West MP from 1980-1984,-was nominated in
the newly-expanded federal riding last April at a
hotly-contested Castlegar convention attended by some
1,000 New Democrats. ~

He and his wife, Vera, have been campaigning in
the Revelstoke-Big Bend area of the riding all summer.

Elsewhere, Kristiansen says he has won the first
local victory of the coming federal election.

Last Friday morning, copies of the new Kootenay
West-Reveistoke riding poll maps and poll locations

arrived at Kristiansen’s Nelson home.

Scanning the maps and information, the former
Kootenay West MP says he was surprised to find that
New Denver and Silverton area residents would have to
travel all the way to Kaslo in order to vote at an
advance poll instead of to their individual advance poll
in Nakusp.

“The idea of New Denver, Silverton and Roseberry
residents having to drive the high altitude highway to
Kaslo under winter road conditions was ridiculous,”
Kristiansen said in a prepared release.

“The route to Nakusp is far better in winter
weather and, besides, many voters would automatically
travel to their traditional polling place only to find that
they were out of luck and unable to vote, unless they
had the time and were prepared to drive an extra 75
miles to vote.”

Following a check of past records and a couple of
calls to affected residents, Kristiansen phoned an
assistant to the newly-appointed district returning
officer, advising her of the “mistake” and suggesting
that the obvious change of location be made immediate:
ly, before the “error” became “locked in.”

By early Monday morning, Kristiansen received a
call back from the same official, informing him that his
information and conclusions had been checked out with
the local highways department and federal officials and
that his recommended changes were already approved.

“I wish all governmental changes could be this
easy,” Kristiansen said. “Three days from complaint to
success ain't bad.

“This case, while minor, is a classic example of why

Premier forced

toma

WHISTLER (CP) — Premier Bill
Vander Zalm says that criticism of
his risk-taking leadership spurred
him to make changes in his admin-
istration.

“Leadership, as you know, means
making tough choices with scarce
resources, taking occasional chances
and risking the occasional mistake,”
Vander Zalm told delegates attend-
ing the annual convention of the
Union of B.C. Municipalities.

“But real leadership is being able
to quickly get back up, dust yourself
off and grow stronger from the
experience.”

Vander Zalm, in his first major
speech in months, described his re-
vamped cabinet as having been
“forged through a little heat.”

The July cabinet shuffle was
forced by the resignation of two
senior cabinet ministers.

Grace McCarthy resigned as econ-

By CasNews Staff

The air tankers are_gone as the
forest service is gradually down-
grading the fire hazard warnigs in
the Arrow Forest District.

District Manager Ken Arnet said
the initial attack crews are finished
for the season but the forest service
is still keeping its eyes open for any
forest fires.

“We're down to a low to moderate
fire hazard,” Arnett told the Castle-
gar News. “Currently, there are no
restrictions on forest use in this
district.

There are no active fires burning
in the district, but the lookouts are
still in operation.

“Certainly, the most hazardous
part of the year has passed us,”
he said. “But we still have men at the
lookouts.”

Arnett said forest crews will
begin slash-burning programs in the
Arrow district within the next week:
He said the controlled burns are set
by forestry crews “to clear up
logging debris left over from harvest-
ing and prepare the areas for spring
tree-planting programs.”

The three Conair air tankers which
were stationed in Castlegar have re-
turned to Abbotsford.

ke changes

VANDER ZALM
. critics spurred change

omic development minister after
citing interference in her ministry's
operation by members of Vander
Zalm’s staff. Brian Smith resigned as
attorney general because he feared
Vander Zalm was threatening the
independence of his office.

Vander Zalm also said questions
about his leadership aired at a tense,
three-day caucus meeting in August
prompted the formation of a new
caucus committee on planning. That
committee can scrutinize all ministry
budgets and make recommendations
to Treasury Board.

Speaking from a prepared text,
which was also released in Victoria,
Vander Zalm outlined his govern.
ment's priorities-and for the first
time said the environment is among
the top three items.

He called the priorities “the three
Es — economy, education and en.
vironment.”

To back up his commitment to the
environment, Vander Zalm announ:
ced that for the first time envir:
onmental projects will be eligible for
grants from the B.C. Lottery Fund.

He committed $162 million in
lottery funds over the next three
years to economic, environmental,
recreational and cultural initiatives
that.are proposed by municipalities,

According to the most recent
lottery fund information, $229.4
million was paid out in grants in
1986-87. Of that total, $176.1 million
was used to pay off the debt from
Expo 86, the world’s fair in Van
couver.

GAMBLE

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past decade has changed hands
numerous times and been shut down
as well. The colorful history of the
mill also includes a cabinet minister
who was dropped from cabinet be-
cause of dealings with the former
sawmill owners.

Last November Cliff Michael —
the local MLA and then highways
minister — was asked by the
then-owners to support the mill’s bid
to gain the forest licence. Michael in
turn gave the applicants pamphlets

plugging recreational property he
owned in the Shuswap Lake area. He
was tossed from cabinet for the
dealings but has since rebounded and
is now the minister of government
services. Michael made last week's
announcement in Revelstoke on
behalf of the government.

The Downie Street mill wasn't the
only mill in the area to get a forest
licence last week. Joe Kozek Saw-
mills Ltd. was given the rights to cut
21,000 cubic metres of wood a year
for 15 years in the area as well.

Police file

Castlegar RCMP report a semi
truck and trailor carrying 28 tonnes
of sulphuric dioxide went into a ditch,
near the Nancy Greene junction on
Highway 3 early last Sunday.

The provincial emergency res
ponse team, Ministry of the Environ-
ment, Ministry of Highways, and an
ambulance were called to the scene
of the accident.

The driver of the Calgary Trimac
Transportation truck, 66-year-old
Gunnerr Gredslund of Kamloops,
was uninjured

The chemical was contained within
the truck and transferred to another
the following day.

There have been no charges and
the Nelson RCMP highway patrol is
continuing its investigation.

IRC

VANCOUVER (CP) —

labor relations specialists.

Employees’

legislation known
administered by
boycotting.

BCGEU
SHUNS

British Columbia's
Industrial Relations Council is the big loser in the
contract settlement reached this week between the
government and its public service employees, say

The government's determination not to use the
council was “quite remarkable,” said Mark Thomp-
son, a labor relations specialist in the University of
British Columbia’s commerce department.

Organized labor in the province threatened
labor war had the British Columbia Government
Union been compelled by any of
the mechanisms for intervention contained in labor

commonly as Bill 19, and
the committee,

forms of protest.

service

“It’s the most dreadful piece of legislation I've
ever had to work with or come to understand.”
Jim Matkin,
Columbia president, said the government succeeded
in settling its contract without the council, but
suggested that the law is not meant to work by

default.
not doing that,”

which it is

somewhere along the road that the B.C. Federation
of Labor and its affiliates really meant business, they
really were upset enough to contemplate serious

COULDN'T USE

“That's the real indictment,
ment passed law that even itself it couldn't use,” said
Leslie, currently chief negotiator for
hotels in Vancouver, who are now in negotiations
with their 3,000 workers.

“Bill 19 was and remains an unmitigated
disaster,” said Leslie, who has been outspoken in his
criticism of the legislation since he left government

“It was an impasse-resolving mechanism and it's
he said.

WAS ABSENT

The council, charged by law with fostering good

that the govern.

“the big eight”

Business Council of British

Briefly

“I think they (the council) are a bit of a loser,”
said Thompson. ‘“It’s well and good for the
government to tell other people to stand their
ground.

“They could have used this to demonstrate the
effectiveness of the council, but they didn’t.”

REACHED AGREEMENT

The government employees union and Victoria
reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night,
providing wage increases in 5.5 per cent, five per
cent and 5.5 per cent in each year of a three-year
agreement.

The agreement, being voted on this weekend by
the union's 29,000 members, also provides for wage
increases for lower-paid workers, which observers
say brings the total compensation to about 20 per
cent.

If members approve the package, they are

it’s so important to have quick-acting and
elected representatives at all levels of government, who
know their local turf, to ride herd on bureaucrats —
public and private,” Kristiansen concluded, “as many
government appointees, especially those who are new
or far away, are often unaware of local traditions,
geography and conditions.”

“This time they learned and acted quickly. The
democratic process is the winner, and the local
Elections Canada officials deserve our thanks.”

to return to work Monday morning, ending
a strike that began Sept. 27 and shut down liquor
stores government offices, highways maintenance
and some ferries.

Graham Leslie, deputy labor minister when the
current labor legislation was introduced last year
pba! the counc’ waid the failure to use the
council ” of the legis:

“I think it a ie government came to realize

industrial relations and intervening where employer-
union relationships break down, was conspicuous by
its absence in the public-sector dispute.

And it is because government drafted the labor
legislation that created the council that many are
suggesting the government should have been the
last to avoid its own agency.

For example, the council was not involved in
determining essential services in the strike and
private mediator Stephen Kelleher was hired to help
parties work out problems in that area.

NOT ATTACHED

Mediator Don Munroe, who guided the parties
to a tentative settlement this week, was hired in a
private capacity and is not attached to the council.

And a strike vote taken by .the union this
summer was not conducted according under the
auspices of the council or overseen by council
officers.

But Plecas said Friday that all that is not
surprising and that the talks must be considered in
their historic context.

A private mediator, Vince Ready, was used in
the last two sets of negotiations, so Munroe’s
appointment was not unusual, especially because he
is familiar with the public-service contract, he said.

“It is very important we have someone to assist
us who does know our agreement very well,” he said.

Highway project announced

WHISTLER (CP) — Construction of the four-lane Vancouver
Island highway will begin early next year, Highways Minister Neil
Vant said.

Vant said the highway would be constructed in time for the 1994
Commonwealth Games, recently awarded to Victoria.

Vant, however, would not say when the B.C. government would
announce details of funding.

“Let's just say there is a great thirst for details, which will be
forthcoming,” said Vant. “That's all I'm going to say at this time,
because I don't want to preclude any announcement that is going to
be made.”

Emperor fading

TOKYO (AP) — Imperial family members were summoned to
Emperor Hirohito’s bedside on Saturday as his temperature rose and
doctors stepped up the pace of blood transfusions.

The frail monarch appeared to improve slightly by nightfall.

Japan closed the first week of its vigil over the 87-year-old
emperor, whose 62-year reign is a record for a living monarch.
Thousands of people thronged the gates of the Imperial Palace."More
than 175,000 have inked their names in registries praying for his
recovery.

Girl dies in clash

DHEISHE, Occupied West Bank (AP) — A 13-year-old
Palestinian girl died Saturday of wounds suffered in an earlier clash
with Israeli troops, and two Arab youths were wounded by army
gunfire after protesters stoned an Israeli bank, Arab hospital officials
said.

Dozens of Israeli leftists visited towns and refugee camps in the
occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to express support for the
families of 25 Palestinian activists ordered deported by Israel.

“Of all the crimes committed against Palestinians, deportation is
the worst,” said Elnathan Weissert, one of 10 Israelis who toured
the Dheishe refugee camp south of Jerusalem.

Civil war stepped up

BEIRUT (REUTER) — Residents of Beirut stripped supermar-
ket shelves on Saturday preparing for renewed civil war violence as
Lebanon's rival Muslim and Christian governments struggled for
power_and_international recognition.

With the country trapped by a leadership crisis, families of some
U.S. diplomats abandoned their fortress-like embassy compound in a
precautionary evacuation, ordered ‘in the face of what was
diplomatically termed “uncertainties.”

“As long as we have food at home we can stay there. Who knows
what will happen with these two governments,” said Mirella, a
35-year-old housewife piling cans of food into her bag in a west Beirut
supermarket.

Hurricane loses punch

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Helene lost some of its punch
Saturday, and forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Centre said
it could miss the Caribbean entirely if its northwesterly course
continued.

Helene, a Category-4 storm packing 220 km-h winds Friday,

DISPLACED . . . Japanese Canadians arrive in Slocan during the

Second World War.

They were removed from their’ homes and
interned—at—camps—in-Slocan—untit the tederat

war-ended.—the

government has now offered c

to the

Jopanese Canadians who were taken from their homes.

Internees compensated

By EDISON STEWART
Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney formally apologized on
behalf of Parliament this week for
the internment of 22,000 people of
Japanese heritage during the Second
World War and announced an esti
mated $288 million in direct and in:
direct compensation.

Most of the money — $252 million
— will go to $21,000 payments to
each of the 12,000 survivors. Another
$12 million will go to the Jap-
anese-Canadian community for edu
cational, social and cultural activities,
while $24 million will be used to
finance a new Canadian Race Rela-
tions Foundation.

“No amount of money can right the
wrong, undo the harm and heal the
wounds,” Mulroney told the Com-
mons as representatives of the

-Canadian ce y wat

dropped to Category-3 when its top sustained winds led early
today to 190 km-h, and it was continuing to turn to the north,
forecaster Max Mayfield said.

“So the good news is that the threat to the Caribbean seems to
have passed,” Mayfield said.

“It’s still a pretty strong storm. We just have to see how the wind
patterns in the atmosphere react to it. With Gilbert, it didn’t matter
what was going on around it,” said centre meteorologist Randy
Lascody.

Pravda starts magazine

MOSCOW (REUTER) — The Soviet Communist party
newspaper Pravda plans to launch an illustrated monthly magazine
on social, political and scientific issues early next year, the daily
announced Saturday.

The new publication will be called Rodina (Motherland). Pravda
said its main aim would be to “indentify, support and disseminate the
positive experience of perestroika” — the Soviet program for social,
economic and political reform.

Abortion pill approved

PARIS (REUTER) — The government has approved the use of
an abortion pill, making France the first western country to allow the
sale of such a drug.

Health Minister Claude Evin made the announcement after a
state health commission said problems with RU 486 had been ironed
out by manufacturers Roussel Uclaf Laboratories.

In France, the pill will be administered by doctors in specialized
family planning centres.

Prof. Jean-Michel Alexandre, president of the Medical Sales
Commission, said China is the only other country that has approved
use of the pill, which induces abortion in women at an early stage of
pregnancy.

Spy satellite launched

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. (AP) — The U.S.
government launched a $54.5 million US satellite early Saturday that
will study weather conditions and make spy photos, NASA officials
said.

The satellite reached its “near-Polar orbit” approximately 870
kilometres above the ear, said Mort Fleischmann, a spokesman for
General Electric Co., which built the satellite.

The satellite is designed to track weather asnd hurricanes, locate
lost ships and planes, make spy photos, and study global warming and
damage to Earth's ozone shield.

The NOAA-11 satellite thundered off Space Launch Complex-3
aboard a $9.5 million refurbished General Dynamics Atlas E rocket
that once served as an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a
nuclear warhead.

Whale birth stops show

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The unexpected birth of a baby killer whale
stopped the show at Sea World.

Kandu the whale went into labor moments before Friday's 4:30
p.m. show and delivered the baby as a crowd of 3,000, caught up in the
rare event, encouraged the 14-year-old mother with chants of “push,
push!”

“It was incredible,” Sea World spokesman Rocio Valdez said.

“They were clapping. They were cheering. They were even
erying. You name it. They were just doing everything.”

The birth of Baby Shamu was only the third for a killer whale in
the 25-year history of the San Diego marine park, said spokesman
Dan LeBlanc. One of the previous babies was stillborn and the other
died shortly after birth of a congential illness.

ched, then stood and applauded from
the public gallery

“But it is symbolic of our deter-
mination to address this issue, not
only in the moral sense, but also in a
tangible wa:

Art Miki, president of the National
Association of Japanese Canadians,
said the agreement marks “a great
day for justice and human rights
a historic day for Canadians of
Japanese ancestry who have been
struggling so long to resolve the
injustices of the 1940s.”

The national association will
help the government in the formid.
able task of locating survivors of the
wartime internment camps and en.
suring they get the payments to
which they are entitled.

Multiculturalism Minister Gerry
Weiner said the exact price tag for
the compensation package will ob

CHURCH

continued from front page

The hall carpet was covered
with smashed Christmas lights and
decorations taken out of a storage
closet, and toys and crafts were
broken and scattered. Sunday school
books were crammed into a toilet.

“They exercised their graffiti tal
ents — not the sort of things one
would learn in Sunday school,” said
Ferrier, referring to obscene crayon
marks on the kitchen wall and fridge.

The only thing Ferrier thinks was
taken was some sherry used in
church ceremonies.

The Nelson RCMP identification
section were called in and took
fingerprints, photos and gathered
other evidence

viously depend on how many claim.
ants come forward.

He promised that Ottawa will
search for survivors through news:-
paper ads and other means, and said
every individual found will receive a
lump-sum payment of $21,000.

Mulroney said the internment was
not only unjustified on both moral
and jegal grounds, “it went against
the grain of the country itself.”

He offered “a solemn undertaking
that such violations will never again
in this country be countenanced or
repeated.”

HELPS CLEANSE PAST

“Error is an ingredient of human
ity,” Mulroney said solemnly.

“So, too, is apology and forgive
ness. We have all learned from per
sonal experience, that inadequate as
apologies are, they are the only way
we can cleanse the past, so that we
may as best we can in good cons-
cience face the future.

“So I know I speak for members on
all sides of the House today in
offering to Japanese-Canadians the
formal and sincere apology of this
Parliament for those past injustices
against them, and against their
families, and against their heritage.”

Both opposition parties praised the
move. New Democrat Leader Ed
Broadbent was moved to tears as he
read from Obasan, a novel by Joy
Kogawa, whose parents were intern
ed.

Broadbent called the internment
“a great injustice — a permanent
injustice to those no longer living.” It
was committed “not because of what
they had done, but because of who
they were.”

Liberal Leader John Turner was
not in the Commons, but the party's
multiculturalism critic, Sergio Mar-

Police say it would appear the
building was left unsecured and
there are no suspects.

“We don’t know who they are, but
they certainly had a good time,” said
Ferrier.

Ironically, Ferrier had come into
the church to turn the heat on in
preparation for a clean-up of the hall

He says the real damage is that all
of the hard work done by the church
has been destroyed.

“My son said to me all those hours
and hours of hard work I did and
other people did is gone. And that's
the real damage to me,” said Ferrier

Ferrier said today's service will be
held in the Nordic Hall adjacent to
the church

Local man dies
at age of 84

William A. Kavaloff of Blueberry
Creek passed away on Saturday,
Sept. 23 at the age of 84.

Funeral services will be held at the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel beginning
Monday at 7 p.m. and continue
Tuesday at 10 a.m. with burial at 1
p.m. in the Brilliant Cemetery

Mr. Kavaloff was born June 11,
1904 at Ceepee, Sask. and came to
B.C. in 1912, settling at Champion
Creek. He married Molly Malekoff in
1924 at Champion Creek and lived
there until 1959 when they moved to
Blueberry Creek. During his life he

worked mainly in sawmills and on the
construction of the Brilliant and
Waneta dams. He was a member of
the USCC and enjoyed gardening.
He is survived by three sons,
William, John and Paul all of Blue
berry; one daughter, Mary Postni
koff of Blueberry; 11 grandchildren;

chi, praised the apology and compen-
sation as appropriate.

Mulroney also announced that the
government will accept applications
for Canadian citizenship from eligible
persons of Japanese ancestry who
were expelled from Canada or who
had their citizenship revoked during
the war.

“We will also accept requests for
the clearing of names of eligible
persons of Japanese ancestry who
were convicted of violations of the
Wear Measures Act, thankfully now
gone from our texts of law in Canada,
and the National Emergency Transi
tional Powers Act.”

The government will also establish
a $24-million Canadian Race Rela.
tions Foundation to foster racial
harmony. One-half of the funds will

commemorate for those who suf.
fered injustices.

Hagen's
in receivership

VICTORIA
Education Minster Stan Hagen, who
some consider one of Premier Bill

(CP) Advanced

Vander Zalm's most trusted and
competent cabinet ministers, is once
again facing problems with his
concrete business.

Hagen’s company, Comox Valley
Ready-Mix Ltd., was placed in re.
ceivership earlier this week by one of
its 13 creditors.

A year ago Hagen was forced to
leave the cabinet briefly after it was
disclosed his company had received a
contract from the University of
British Columbia, which gets its
funds from the Advanced Education
Ministry

Japanese-Canadians were interned
following Japan's 1941 attack on
Pearl Harbor in the Second World
War.

About 21,000 people were first
required to leave a so-called “pro-
tected area” along the West Coast in
February 1942

Property was seized and a total of
22,000 were| relocated or interned on
the Prairies or in Northern Ontario
camps 17,000 of whom were
citizens.

An accounting study commissioned
by the Japanese-Canadian associa-
tion estimated the value of lost
income at $333 million and the value
of lost property at $110 million.

‘At no time, however, did the
RCMP or the military recommend
evacuation or internment as a
measure necessary to ensure the de-
fence or security of Canada.

business

Willoughby refused to say how
much money the company owes.
However, he confirmed that Roynat
Inc. called in receiver Robert Crane
on Wednesday.

In the disclosure form that Hagen
filed with the clerk of the legislature
in July, Hagen and his wife, Judy,
were among 13 creditors listed as
being owed more than $5,000 by
Meribrian Development Ltd.

Meribrian is an investment com-
pany owned by Hagen himself. It
holds all of the common voting shares
in Comox Valley Industries Ltd., a
holding company that in turn owns
Comox Valley Ready-Mix.

Crane, who could not be reached

Don Willoughby, who ad s
the blind trust that includes the
company, blamed the concrete firm's
problems on Hagen’s political career.

“This is one of the dangers that
anybody who runs a business gets
into when they run for politics be
cause of the  conflict-of-interest
rules,” Willoughby said in a tele
phone interview from the Vancouver
Island community of Courtenay.

Willoughby admitted that the
cement business in the area has been
very competitive since a new com
pany opened up last summer and a
price war began.

But he said things would have been
different if Hagen had been running
the company

MUST BE STRONG
an's very personable and most
small basinesses survive because of

has to be a very strong business to
survive without the owner's atten.
tion.”

Fire hits
building in
Raspberry

Castioger RCMP and the Robson

seven great grand ; and two
brothers, Pete Kavaloff of Blueberry
and Mike Kavaloff of Oasis. He was
predeceased by his wife, one brother
and one sister.

Funeral arrangements are under
the direction of the Castlegar Fu
neral Chapel.

fire department attended a
small structure fire in Raspberry last
weekend.

There were no injuries in the fire
which was @aused by faulty wiring
leading to the outbuilding on Rilkoff
Road. Damage was estimated at
$400.

for . has been asked to de-
termine whether to keep operating
the company or to seel off its assets.

Last summer, Hagen resigned
from cabinet while he was investi-
gated for conflict of interest over the
company’s dealings with the Univer.
sity of British Columbia.

Moroso
passes
away

Mary Jane Moroso of Castlegar
passed away on Saturday, Sept. 23 at
the age of 79.

Funeral service will be held at the
Castlegar Funeral Chapel on Monday
at 10 a.m. with Rev. James Ferrier
officiating. Interment in Park Mem
orial Cemetery

Mrs. Moroso was born March 15,
1909 at Arran, Sask. and came to
B.C. in her early ‘teens and settled in
Crescent Valley. She moved to
Castlegar in the mid-1930s and re-
sided here until, her death. She en
joyed crocheting, crafts and gar.
dening. She especially enjoyed
spending time with her grandchil
dren.

She is survived by two sons, Paul
of Castlegar and Fred of Vernon;
seven grandchildren; and one
brother, John Sopow of Vancouver.

She was predeceased by one son,
Bill and four brothers.

Funeral arrangements are under
the direction of the Castlegar
Funeral Chapel