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d MOR,
MOE, and Se meno of the ‘Hasty/Aylwin
IWMP Technical Committee on.a field trip to
inspect the recent road building jin: the Hasty
Creek watershed near i Silyerton:; is

The \ ig Ce d ‘con-
cems about persistent leakage from the loader
(about two liters Per day totaling about 48 liters

. Of 200 to 400 meters)...
»-Redh

A major ft the Moni
ing Committee is ea location of ‘a: spur road ae
access a third cutblock. The proposed road:loca-
tion traverses side slopes up to 50% steepness .
within about 100 meters of the creek (the com:
pany’s own

A forest: land 1 use ‘consultant engaged’ by the
A ion recom- .

since 16). The Ministry, of E

ment representative said that, relative to the

existing guidelines of his ministry,, this amount %

of oil spillage is dnsigniticant, 2 aia
The i

an 40 ver-::
tical meters uphill that would utilize,a natural:
bench, to avoid the, steep sloped and wet areas

between the.cutblocks and the stream channel. |:

remains
because no one eat knows how. much spilled
oil may potentially contaminate a small spring
that supplies water to a licensee. We are frustrated
‘by the MOFs unwillingness to insist that the road

editorial comment

Liberal party needed
that one hour of TY

‘What a difference an hour can make in a 28-day B.C. elec-
“fon campaign.

While the heavyweights, premier Rita Johnston and Mike
Harcourt, have been touring in air conditioned buses and
chartered airplanes accompanied by advisors and media, Lib-
eral Leader Gordon Wilson has been sticking close to his
home riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast.

His party, which hasn't had a member in the B.C, legisla-
ture since 1979, couldn't afford a splashy campaign for
Thursday’s election, widely seen as the usual showdown
between the “free enterprise” Socreds and “socialist” New
Democrats.

But with voting time a mere 24 hours away, the Liberal
party has risen to just a couple percentage points below the
leading NDP, while the Socreds have fallen to third place.

“= So what's happening in this riding?

, There is no Liberal candidate here, and it's really too bad.
While the NDP have appeared quite strong throughout the
campaign, this might be the result of the area’s strong trade
union movement more than Conroy's promises and it's-time-
for-a-change speeches,

‘Walter Siemens is putting up a tough fight, but the extra
baggage he’s had to carry due to his party’s tainted past has

since ing his as an Indepen-

ent, people seem more interested in who's supporting Chris
3’ Arcy than what he has to say about the issues.

Then there’s the Greens. If anything can be said about

Angela Price, it’s that she has improved immensely when it

comes to holding her own during the many different forums

she and other candidates attended, Still, her party's environ-
mental overtones soon fall upon deaf ears.

Indeed, the race in this riding has been both interesting and
surprisingly clean. Now for one candidate, will come the pay-
off. But to say that one party has the election completely
wrapped up is as foolish as it was deeming the Liberals out of
commission when the election was first called.

A Little Knowledge
1) Ulster, Munster, Leinster and____? (fish)
2) In what military campaign was the Battle of Duck
Lake? |
: 3) What is a skivvy?

4) In American newspapers, sph OSAP dents ‘
5) What is the capital of Saskatchewan?

‘Answers
‘D Connaught; hese were the furan ngs .

is Th fought against Louis Riel. : ‘¢
3) A female domestic servant. Be GS heeds
Press.

By Don Addis

© 1991 Creators Syracate, ne

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The Ggetidgar Sun
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1S POLITICALLY INDEPENDENT AND A
MEMBER OF THE STERLING NEWS SERVICE
Sv FS Established November 28, 1990
‘Second Class Mailing Permit Pending
The Castlegar Sur
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clearing contractors have his machine Tepaired so
as tocli the risk entirely, t

Although the Monitoring Committee. is still

dismayed by what appears to be an excessive
amount of road building, we are satisfied with

This road | would reduce the -
risk.of sediment loading in the creck by mini-
mizing the road cut required . SFP agreed to take
another look at the road Iocation. . g

On October 9, representatives of SFP. and the
Hasty Creek Bonilering Committee walked the
area and ribboried
both parties aareed th to.

On the October 11 field trip, when ‘asked to

the high quality of the finished roadbed and we
wish to acknowledge the road building contrac-
tors for their careful and conscientious work, and
all the workers for keeping the. site clear of
garbage and waste,

the road location, the MOF ~
District Manager, Ken Amett, refused to'even.
consider it. He claimed that the Forest ‘Service
didn't have the timie to assess changes at the last
minute and that the existing data collection justi-

fied the present road location. However, al

ment in

© road loce jon that. i

"that's quii is for 6 form the MOF to
‘walk: the two road locations té confirm. that the
confirm that the alternate route is indeed prefer-
- able from the standpoint. of water protection and
H oposes no other problems, This would take less
« than:an hour, : The: District’ Manager could then

‘ amend the existing road! permit to: “apply #0 the

revised road location. ::i: i

i Red:Mountain residents and Hasty Creek: ‘water
‘users are angered by Mr. Arnett’s refusal to
approve a simple and easy change when it is so
obvious that such a change would significantly
reduce. the risk of water degradation in Hasty
Creek. This behavior is inconsistent with the stated
i priority of the IWMP. — Water. Protection — and
makes:a poor of caine public involve-

tim Rutkowsky
Chairman
Hasty Creek Watershed Committee

Craig Pettitt
ch Monitor
Hasty Creek Monitoring Committee

This was submitted as a letter to the editor.

» Kootenay,

>) Nigel
Y Hannaford

Syndicated
Columnist

sthe true culprit.

3 The latest revelation from
Moscow confirms this and indeed,
, two elderly Russians, former officers
“in the NKVD (precursor to the KGB)
“are likely to face charges arising
from the massacre.

It’s about time. It will do much to
tewrite the history of the thirties and
forties and flush out into the open
one of the most under-stated facts of

‘Truth will out. The Soviet military
is actually going to launch an investi-
gation into the Katyn Massacre, in
which 12,000 Polish officers were
murdered in 1940, their bodies being
buried in the Katyn Forest. For years,
the Nazis were blamed for this,
which suited the needs of allied
wartime propaganda well enough.
However, since the end of the war,
more and more people interested in
the subject began to question the offi-
cial version and for the last ten years,
it has been conventional wisdom that
the Soviet Union under Stalin was

the ieth century - Stalin was cut
from the same cloth as Hitler and
was, if anything, bloodier. Had this
been fully appreciated in the thirties,
history might have taken a very dif-
ferent turn.

= The other thing that gives this a
welcome significance is that if the
Soviet Union‘can open the books on

this, the movement to reform must be |

seen as genuine and irreversible.

©. PS: I see that Alexander Solzhen-
itsyn is ending his long exile in the
West.and.is preparing to retum to
Russia. If that resister of

home, a new day must tnuly have

dawned in the east.
ee

‘Soviet economy has made great
national progress in recent By
J also think of a fellow whose

s ing of C ism,-one
wonders what attraction it might still
have in Canada that we pay such
tribute to Dr. Norman Bethune. His
birthplace is carefully preserved, the
NFB made a film about him and I
even got a letter the other day with

Smiling face upon it.) :

A good doctor he might have been
~ but those aspécts of, his life, ‘and-con-
duct for which he is remembered
were entirely to the service of the
greatest blood-letters of all time, Mao
- Tse Tung, to: whom‘the Guinness
«Book of Records ascribes responsibil-
ity for 100 million deaths. (Stalin was
about 30 million.) This we honour?

ose

Digging through the files this
‘week, we tumed up a statement by
JK Galbraith, the noted Harvard
“economist whose ideas are widely
the world.

Communism has “chosen to go

Speaking 'in'1984 he stated, “The

ighty tome on was
required reading when I was study-
ing economics back in 1967. In
1981, not long after the Poles rose up
in protest against communism,
repression and hunger, he comment-
ed, “It’s a vulgar mistake to think that
most people in Eastern Europe are
miserable.”

Laughable, given the events of the
last year. But it's also sobering to
realize that when our goverment is
looking for economic. ideas, it is to
people like Galbraith:and. his disci-
ples that they tum for expertise.

I sometimes play with the idea
that you can get more common sense
out ofa couple of well-read truckers
and a small-town lawyer than some
of these over-educated characters
with more. degrees than a thermome-
ter. It’s not always how much you
know; it's:the: assumptions about
human aaa you start with:

Momentum for separa ion

The Grand old Man of Canadian
journalism — 90 year-old Bruce
Hutchison — believes our constitu-
tional crisis hit its nadir this past

English-speaking Canadians have
been so slow i in coming:to under-
stand the gravity of the problem, the
momentum for separation may be
impossible to stop..

Mike
Duffy

Syndicated
Columnist

But two others who are also
among our most pessimistic joumnal-
ist take a decidedly different — ~ and

more pessimistic view,

Douglas Fisher, the Sun's senior
Parliamentary analyst, and Charles
Lynch, the former Ottawa bureau
chief for Southam News, believe the

from his vantage point
on "Vancouver Island, senses the
message has finally gotten through,
and the worst - a “so-what” reaction
from the English - has passed.

“Anecdotal evidence = nothing sci-’
entific = suggests to me Hutchison is
correct that perhaps: the indifference
has passed, and we're now ready to
begin the long difficult trudge back
toa renewed

i Speaking to the Oakville Cham-

ber'of Commerce I found an interest
n'cOnstitutional reform that wasn’t

apparent ‘among similar groups even

a few months ago.
Then, busi 1ess people in the

current crisis has not yet be
out, and that Quebec's ‘ seperation is
just a whisker away... 3

i Golden. Hort
nds Metro Toronto’ ‘= were so con-

which sur-

mn fe be ‘impossible to stop

could have been home “watching
the Blue Jays opening game against
‘the Twins.

eit ighting to build and hold an ap
ence. After all, our comp on.

These are well-educated people
who, are. fervent free enterprisers

oy who can’t understand why the sepa-

Ss would go for an option that

the other stations are often:some of
selmpiod Mead’ of be fnee i

rf

; “But as ie soldier on in the face of |
‘appeals to our TV, audienoy from the ~
‘God Squad, so too did'the Oakville
Chamber in meeting e Blue Jaye,

3 iThe crowd of more thati.400 was
the largest turnout for an ‘antuall’
meeting in the Oakville Chamber's 's

ryl.

Ved they dada't 2 anda. a

rInstead they sat though more

fies hours. of concerned talk that

;wds as much about he state of the

‘nation, ,as.it,was, About the u
vb see

bates

loiacs raLeayy of Static her”

¢ jin:Oatevile they don’t stomp on the
ity, [Quebee Page ithe

“anti:French

Reformers and Cx deration of

making bi bi

BG the Bloc Girt MPs in in tava

tives 5 who aaually have little
ime for the tiresome collection of
leftists-who' for, decades. have. been
the. ‘backbone, of the'Parti Q Quebe-

+ Soi.

ae des Jacques Parizeau had
aoe Cyaiet ea Same. platform two
weeks earlier, urging this same audi-
ence: ‘9. just, “let Quebec. go” in'a
kind of amidable divorce. | *
It's seductive, but these Canadi-
ans aren't buying that.line, and

‘they're actively seeking ways to be

helpful in‘the. federal campaign to
build anew Canada,

2 Like the Jaysiwhd lost the opener
“5:4, the final 'tésul off this contest

Pe we will all
| lose if Quebet'leaves, it won't be
©. because People | like those in Oakville
didn’t get into the fight,

5 We're ni

a tt th a AOL CE A a A a a ra ge ae a ea eat RA

Wednesday;.October 16, 1991

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_ The Castlegar Sun

Page 7A

‘Letters to:the:Editor :

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We all should be fully and properly informed about the i issues

Dear Editor: f

As we approach the election, I
ask to respond to some of the
candidates positions which have
been taken,

I find it difficult to compre-
hend how Mr, D'Arcy would now
suggest that he would lend his

‘doubt’ that" Mr. D'Arcy 's pivotal
support for the Utilicorp. initia-
tive was a key factor is reassuring
that, for the for the first time
Canada’s history, a ‘Tocal utility

Kootenay ae to occur.

How any candidate could not .
support the temporary restoration: |

of the Robson/Castlegar ferry, is
a mystery to me. I say this

was sold to f
Those who would’ shudder at the
prospect of the Regional District

Ived in such a ven-

support to local initiatives to
undertake production of electrici-
ty, for example, with, such pro-

ture should pause. and: reflect
upon the millions of dollars of
that have! been retumed

jects as the Keenleyside Power
Plan. In the midi 1980's when the
Regional District of Central

to the City of Nelson from its
power operation. I do not accept,
Mr. D’ does,

g the p
takeover of ‘West Kootenay
Power, pursued an initiative to
purchase that company, Mr.
D'Arcy appeared before the utili-
ty commission hearing in Pentic-

* tion and supported the Utilicorp

application. There can be little

More to do with honesty and integrity i in

Dear Editor:

Ihave friends'in Castlegar
whose invariable reply to my
now infrequent interjections on
the subject of the piracy of the
Robson ferry is to reply, “You're
getting your bridge” as if this
should settle the matter. It is diffi-
cult to convey to people who
don’t live in Robson that while
the “ferry issue” obviously has
something to do with getting
from one side of the river to
another, more fundamentally the
issue has to do with honesty and
integrity in government.

Social Credit candidate Walter
Siemens takes credit in his cam-
paign literature for “keeping the
ferry issue before Government.”
In faimess, Mr. Siemens did take
a position in favour of restoring
the ferry on several occasions. In
fact, he did as much as Jack
Munro and Ken Georgetti, who
came down and did some huffing
and blowing and diddly squat
thereafter in spite of the fact that
the closure of the ferry was sup-
posedly part of the privatization
initiative which the labour move-
ment has bitterly opposed and
which, in any event, resulted in a
direct loss of uriion jobs.

To be even more painfully
honest, Mr. Siemens did more,
and at greater risk, than our actual
MLA, the now “independent”

Chris D’Arcy who has been -

equivocal on the ferry resumption
from the beginning, if not down-
right unhelpful. It is unfortunate,e
indeed, that Mr, D’Arcy’s navel
gazing over the last while has
failed to reveal to him that his
close to two-to-one loss at the
nominating convention had some-
thing to do with the way he did,
or did not, carry out his duties.

But Walter Siemens is a candi-
date for a party that has been in
power throughout this dismal
affair and there are some ques-
tions that he needs to address
concerning the ethical implica-
tions of this issue.

We have heard plenty from Nel-
son-Creston MLA Howard Dirks
about “dead issues” and how sick
he and his colleague are of hearing
about the ferry and about what
might happen to the bridge if we
don’t stop talking about that
(expletive deleted) ferry. What we

as

that ‘these dividends are better
paid to foreign sharcholders, It is
likewise surprising that Mr.

this area now confronts
intensified traffic, not only from
the Celgar Pulp expansion, but’
also from the construction of the
bridge itself. Surely without tem-
porary ferry access we will cer-

‘ tainly strangle a traffic system

that is already badly choked. It
dows seem befitting of our for-
mer MLA to be an apologist for
the hard burden which removal of
the ferry has placed upon local
taxpayers; — especially when we

Dirk's would publi

his support of the city of Nelson’s
project when it was his govern-
ment that allowed the West

tion of why the decision was taken
in the first place. In the absence of
such an explanation the good folk
of Robson, and, for that matter,

, any Socred in a candid mood

would tell you that the Robson
ferry disap, from the Ross-
land-Trail riding one night and

in Nelson-Creston rid-
ing one night and reappeared in
Nelson-Creston mainly because ol
“Landslide Howard’ had the good
sense to be a Socred while our
“strong voice” in Victoria was yet
to see the light as revealed by his
soul mate Iris Bakken.

Now if Mr. Siemens is elected
to Social Credit government and
Mr. Dirks goes down to defeat
will a Social Credit Government
various services in Nelson-Cre-
ston are “too expensive” or per-
haps really do belong in this
riding after all? If Social Credit
are returned to Government will
other little communities like Rob-
son be punished for having the

ity to vote for the opp
and for seeking to defend their
services? Will those supporters of
and candidates for the Social

ider that Grace McCarthy

acknowledges that the ferry.

should be restored.

the position of the Regional Dis-!
trict of Central Kootenay that the
Celgar Review process should be
Properly undertaken. I did this
because i supported the moderm-'
ization and I was aware that
unless the Proper process was
pursued the project would be
delayed, In early 1990 when the
Stage I reviewed was in process, I
was absolutely shocked to hear
Mr, D’Arcy, when address the

’ Association of Kootenay and

Boundary Municipalities, tell the
elected officials of every city,
town, village and Regional dis-
trict from Midway to the Alberta
border that, not only did he not
Support any hearing process, but
that no such process was
i Tt was an

As you are aware, I

Sadly, I think not.

Mike Harcourt has promised
to run our ferry again (and we
would expect this until the bridge
is completed). We will not know
if Mike Harcourt keeps his
promises or if he will bring some
integrity to the practice of gov-
emmoent until he gets the chance
to prove it one way or another.

display of

government

This is one voter, however, who
isn’t buying a bridge across the
Columbia in three years time.

Sincerely,
Derek Todd
Castlegar
more letters on

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i Broun barn

PSYCHIC CHANNELLER|
"IRENE McNABB

will be in
Cranbrook October 21 - 24, 1991

and .
Castlegar October 25 - 26, 1991
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For further information ‘and q|

ly blessed with second sight
inary perception.

ppointmenis please call the
biishment in your area.

CRANBROOK
Hospitality Lodge
489-4124

before Oct. 26 - 365-3919 |p

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Fireside inn

CASTL
365-2128

our MLA did not appreciate the:

mandatory and stringent require.
ments of federal legislation
requiring the Review Process to
be undertaken. If in fact that pro-
cess has not been undertaken the
Celgar project would 2 ic most

weigh the type of representation
we support in government, {

{
Yours truly,

Ken Wyllie
Robson, BC

for some years; — which: is.

exactly what has occurred with
the Kemano project.
I raise these matters because I

feel it is essential that, as a com-"

munity, we are properly and as

fully informed as possible in’

order to allow us to objectively

Who supported
changes to the
Labour Code so that
when major layoffs
occur,employees
must now receive =;
6 months notice?

Walter Siemens:

SPONSORED BY YOUNG SOCREDS !

SIEMENS, Walter A. ff X

“Mir. Dirks ’
Please bring :
our Robson .
Ferry back!” :

Credit who have the mi to

dwell among the unwashed'in |
opposition ridings be ‘ignored,"as’

Mr. Siemens seems to have been
on this issue, when the attempt to
speak up? Does Mr. Siemens or
his leader Rita Johnston under-
stand that when the ballots are
counted and the lawn signs come
down the successful party governs
in the best interest of everyone
and that this principle is ali that
stands between a true democracy
and mere tyranny of the majority?

> POLITICAL.

Who believes.
in ‘service
above self’?

Walter Siemens

Youna

SIEMENS, Walter A. ff X

4 Castlegar sovino

, rect Union?

Walter Siemens has the Integrity, Honesty
and Work Ethic we need in Victoria. Isn't it
time we gave him _ a vote of confidence?

Why is he a better choice?

°Kight years on Trail city council

eSuccess in business

° Integrity

Honesty

°Work ethic — dedicated to
working for people every day.

°Long history of helping the community.

Yesterday i is gone. Tomorrow is more important.
Walt will continue to work for an even better
. future for you. He listens and knows your needs.

Walter Siemens does
deserve a vote of
confidence. He has
earned it.

Put his ability to
work for you.
You deserve it!!

BRITISH COLUMBIA

SOCIALCREDIT
Rear Ue!

Siemens, Walter A. weouemor EX)
x o a} SESH OANT B z vas