A2 Castlegar News July 27,1991 BRIEFLY > By CasNews Staff and News Services Party crashers trash house Nicole Balfour is far away from her southeastern B.C, home these days for a reason — a good one. She presided over a teenage party in her parent’s home July 12 that turned into a demolition derby. “My nerves were shot,” says Nicole, 16, who high-tailed it to ari’aunt’s home in Prince George when her mom saw the $10,000 worth of damage to her newly remodelled home. “I had to get away. I never planned for this to happen.” The trouble began when Mickey and Doug Balfour and their two youngest daughters took a week-long camping trip, leaving Nicole staying with a friend. No parties, said the Balfours. But five days her 16th birthday, Nicole invited a few friends over for a small party in the house at Shoreacres, located b Nelson and Castl Then 50 teenage gatecrashers arrived. “It started with a food fight,” says a friend of Nicole’s. “They ied the fridge, boards, freezer, and poured salsa, oil and syrup on the floor.” Within 30 minutes, the phone was glued to the wall, the ceiling | fan wrecked, carpets ruined, bedrooms trashed ‘and d on the wi with ketchup. Then the mowed an ob ity in the lawn and set the words on fire. Nicole’s mother said she was horrified when she saw her trashed home. “I felt violated,” she said. “How could she betray us like this? I’m having a really hard time dealing with it.” Nicole, meanwhile, said she’ll go-home next month, when things have cooled down. Warrants issued for priest NELSON — A Roman Catholic priest charged with eight counts of sexual misconduct with seven young females and males has fled to England, Nelson RCMP have confirmed. Father Ian Theodore Cooper, the sixth priest from the Nel- son Catholic diocese to be charged with or convicted of sexual offences, was charged June 14 and warrants were issued last week for his arrest. RCMP also said they are investigating several new com- plaints of sexual misconduct involving Cooper. Cooper was a priest at St. Mary’s Catholic church in Cran- brook until he left British Columbia in April. The charges against him relate to the period of 1960-1963 when Cooper served at a church in Nakusp. Sgt. Peter Montague said RCMP have confirmation Cooper is living in England but he could not say whether extradition P were being id Repeal Bill 82, MP says British Columbians deserve good quality healthy care and Bill 82 is not the way to achieve it, Kootenay West-Revelstoke MP Lyle Kristiansen says. “By making staff levels and working conditions part of bar- gaining restrained under your so-called Compensation Stabi- lization Fairness Act, patients and those who could soon be Residents band together to fight lakefront logging Resolution calls for legislation By the Grand Forks Gazette Some 400 people jammed the Christina Lake Community Hall Sunday to express their con- cerns about the possible logging “To date only 21 on harvesting private land not anti-l have declined signing their intention to appeal their proper- ty assessment at the next court of revision,” Strookoff said in his letter. id of about 90 hectares of land at the h end of C who were Lake. Those attending the meeting, held by the newly-formed Christina Lake Ratepayers Association, also expressed dis- tress that the government has no legislation to regulate logging on private land. Association chairman Bill Strookoff sent a letter Tuesday to Premier Rita Johnston, enclosing the petition that has been circulating to lake resi- dents. The petition, addressed to the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, states that if logging is allowed to begin on this site, each of those who signed the petition will appeal their proper- ty assessment at the next Court of Revision of the B.C. Assess- ment Authority. Up to the time of the meeting, canvassers had 937 ratepayers’ signatures. pone not here during canvassing were mailed the petition and there is a steady stream of signed returns coming in every day,” he continued. “We are confident that we will have 95 to 98 per cent of Christina Lake ratepay- ers’ signatures.” The two greatest fears resi- dents have are the effects log- ging would have on the lake’s water quality, and the aesthetic impact of the logging. The land in question is owned by Westwood Equities of Kam- loops, a private timber told those gathered for the meeting that Marvin of W UP ihodn; are concerned about the stressed to her that the compa- ny’s methods involve selective logging to encourage fibre growth through moisture man- agement. ‘This is done by removing the top canopy — the tallest trees — and that allows more sun and snow to reach the lower forest land neve and i strongly. support an integrated land-use plan to ensure industry survival. ~ “However, there are areas that must be protected and Christina Lake is most certainly one of those areas,” the letter went on to say. Maximenko said Westwood’s Maxi ko said. “These trees then grow taller. “Mr, Kempston stated that his company never cuts more than 25 to 35 per cent volume in any stand and assured me that any logging they undertook would likely be invisible, and if it was visible, it would probably look better,” she said. koff's letter to ment pany which lined the received in total, about 40,000 acres of land with the emphasis on Dou- gias fir and lodgepole pine. The lot is situated at the extreme southwest corner of the lake and is in full view of the residences at the lake as well as in full view of Highway 3. Area C director Margaret at the meeting. “The opinion of numerous forestry professionals is that the subject. property cannot be logged for profit and still main- tain the integrity of the land- scape and the environment.” Strookoff stressed that the ratepayers of Christina Lake are are to involve mem- bers of the community in the planning process for the logging. “This is a very important commitment,” she told the meet- ing. “Keep it in mind. “This company technically doesn’t even have to talk with us. They offered,” she added. The action Maximenko has taken so far includes presenting a resolution to the RDKB which will go forward to the Union of Columbia Municipalities con- vention in September. The resolution in part asks the provincial government to develop comprehensive legisla- tion to regulate logging on all privately-owned forested land in B.C. Speaker shares retail strategy By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer Businesses in Castlegar have to pull together to fight cross- border shopping, the president of the Colville Chamber of Com- merce said Thursday. “It’s one thing I’ve basically found as president is to try to pull our community together to fight the leakage,” Ray Howard told about 40 people at a Castle- gar Chamber of Commerce lun. cheon. “And it is working for us.” He said Colville and Castle- gar share two major concerns — ad dency on timber and patients are made to suffer along with the professional staff who run B.C’s hospitals,” Kristiansen writes in a letter to Health Minister Bruce Strachan. “While we have waiting lists for surgery, beds are being closed. While some have died wait- ing for surgical attention to the outgrage of their doctors, your goverhment passes Bill 82. You have lumped together salary increases and the level of nursing care as ‘cost items’ to be equally restrained.” “If costs were truly your concern, why haven't you addressed increases in senior hospital administrative salaries over the past two-years of 35, 43 and even 52 per cent?” the New Demo- crat MP adds. “Instead, you’re making scapegoats of front-line health industry staff whose salaries have fallen five per cent behind inflation over the past 10 years. Could this be Social Credit election strategy?” Tourism group resigned June 3. news release. Kristiansen asks Strachan to repeal Bill 82. Geoff Sturgeon has been hired as manager of the Kootenay Country Tourism Association, replacing Roy Shields who Sturgeon starts his new job Monday, the KCTA said in a hires manager shoppers taking their money to Spokane. “We decided that one of the main things we had to fight (the leakage) with was within our own retailers and our own busi- ness people.” He said classes were set up for employees to learn how they could improve service, recogniz- ing that retailers’ products are the same everywhere. “So what do we have to offer? — service. “Another thing we felt very adamant about was that our business owners had to be involved with our chamber of commerce.” Howard said his own involve- ment with the community and Colville Ci Howard talks about the of Ce ry efforts his chamber has made to combat retall leakage to Spokane. Kootenays, Howard was asked how he rated service at the Priel the chamber has i d busi- ness at his restaurant. “It seems like the more we support each other, the better our busi are, if nothing Westar continued from front page “We'll review (the inventory) week by week to see when we should start up again,” Madlung said. “If the pulp mill does not go out on strike then we’ll resume logging.” He said once inventory has been reduced, the company will : try to keep it at about $5 million risk.” — “a level that minimizes our Westar does have contingen- : cy markets, but “they’re not * looking very attractive.” To ship hog fuel would cost : about $100,000 a week. “It would be unlikely we'd be able to afford that unless the market turned around, and it’s going down again now,” Mad- Tung said. “And the chips produced at the sawmill, we would no longer = get paid for those and that’s ? about 000 a month. “So as far as running without that revenue and trucking the to have to 1 ae at it, but financially it’s He said Westar will keep the sawmill running for as long as the company pode at couldn’t say how long it could withstand a * hvthe before clocine the “It’s a difficult time but we're our best.” Meanwhile, the president of the PPWC said talks broke down Thursday and haven’t been rescheduled. The PPWC and the Canadian Paper Union, which are bar- gaining collectively, will now conduct strike votes at various union locals throughout B.C. Local 1 members in Castlegar voted 85 per cent in favor of strike action last week. “The overall vote from both unions will dictate what we’re going to do,” Stan Shewaga said Friday from his office in Van- couver. “And we should have the results of that by (Aug.) 12th,” he said. Local PPWC spokesman Cal Him said it’s unfortunate a pro- longed strike would effect the sawmill. “But it's ‘a fact of life, there's he said Thursday. “It’s a considera- tion but it’s not a big considera- tion. And it has less bearing on the overall” picture re because the p Pp Market isn julterin; much as the forest industry.” He said other else, from within.” As a frequent visitor to the he visits. “I think the r is dif- to the right places. I still come back, I still enjoy myself,” he added. Cc. askvte oh 8 offers a ferent than I would hope you would get in my community,” he said. “Not 100 per cent, but somewhat. “Possibly I just haven’t been similar service program called Super Host, said chamber man- ager Luella Andreashuk. “It makes people aware of people,” she said, touting the value of the program. She agreed with Howard that when service is good enough to keep local residents shopping locally, it’s also good enough to attract people from outside the area. One concern not shared by Castlegar and Colville retailers is the GST, but Howard said it is a concern to Americans visiting Canada. “I need to know that I can get that back as a visitor to your area,” he said, adding that he only found out about the pro- gram which entitles American’s to a GST refund last week: “Now I have another reason to visit.” In an interview with the Castlegar News, Howard said that, as an American visitor, he would have liked to have had that information at the border the first time he came to Canada after the program was imple- mented. “That should have been made quite evident to.me that this was a benefit as an out-of-coun- try shopper. That would defi- nitely encourage me to at least not be thinking of that tax,” he said. “It’s definitely beneficial — anytime you get that kind of percentage discount, you consid- er it when you're buying. “So I think it’s something your business people need to make sure we know about, because everybody knows about that tax now,” he said. Intact continued from front page or in any long-term contracts thai 8 ... sawlogs from TFL 23 have to continue to come in their entirety ... to Castlegar.” But Nelson-Creston MLA Howard Dirks says it’s too early to start worrying about the effects of the upcoming sale. “I know everybody is very anxious about the sale,” said Dirks, the Social Credit govern- ment’s minister of development, trade and tourism. But, “It’s really too early to tell what will happen.” * It’s important “that we don’t get the community too anxious about this too early,” said Dirks, adding the negotiations leading up to the sale “may drag on a year, a year-and-a-half.” For Dirks, @ government minister, the sale of Westar’s timber assets in the West Koote- nay. presents 2 problem. in a decision to strike would be the market conditions and the, level of pulp in “But it is unfortunate (sawmill workers) will be victim- ized,” he said. On the other hand, he said he’s also concerned about the timber supply to other mills such as Kalesnikoff Lumber in + Thrums and Atco Lumber in Fruitvale. “None of these mills has a timber supply similar to West- ar’s. This creates great demand for wood off small business sales.” If TFL 23 is split up, the Castlegar mill will be out shop- ping with the other smaller mills, Dirks said. “A reduction of the TFL would have an adverse effect on small mills,” he said. “There’s so many variables for me to really come out and say: what I prefer,” d. “It’s hard to satisfy everybod, D'Arcy pointed out that the government has split — or “hived off” — portions of TFL 23 in the past. “The already been part of TFL 23 hived off about 10 years ago to provide wood for the what it shows is that either through sale or through changes in policy in Victoria that logs don’t have to come to Castlegar. “And there’s no question that sawmill operators both to the east and west of Revelstoke have looked hungrily at some of that supply for some time.” D’Arcy compared the possibil- ity of losing sawlogs to the sup- ply of wood chips to the Celgar pulp mill in relation to its $700 million expansion and modern- ization project. “That was one of the things I ‘was very concerned about with the Celgar expansion, that if there was not an expansion the enormous surplus of chips that were there from the region would start sl sory east, west, ly, but pie end up supplying in Sk be something of a corporate bas- ket case,” he said. “And that includes, by the way, the wood waste thermal plant that’s proposed for the Castlegar area ...using the sur- plus, shavings, sawdust, hog fuel, bark, that emanates not ly from the Westar operations but from other mills in the West Kootenay where there’s a dispos- al problem and it’s either land- filled or beehive burned or sent out of the province. “And as long as Westar’s not in a position to be a major player ina consortium which would get into that business it’s unlikely to happen. “The sooner the operation is sold the better. I only hope it’s sold in one shot — including the the Downey Street Revelstoke. _Nobod fed too mi > thal time because most of that pro- duction that was hived off had been contracted by Westar over oa ee it had the TFL any- "Zesty it was simply confirm- ing in legal fact what had been a contract fact for some time. But one SR really < Despite his reservation about possible adverse effects of the sale, D’Arcy said new owners are needed. “There's a paralysis of deci- sion making as long as Westar owns the mill and continues to mill and i farm licence to some corpo- Fate wivisen Proms somewhere resources ‘and mana ement tegrated operation that will utilize the enormous quantities of wood waste which proliferate in the ‘West Koote- nay. — July 27,1991 Castlegar News POLICE REPORT A front-end loader parked four kilometres west of Castle- gar was found damaged lay morning, Castlegar RCMP said. The damage, estimated at about $300, appears to have been caused by some type of firearm, police said. eee A vehicle parked at the Ger- anazzo gravel pit was found Thursday extensively damaged by vandals. Police said the damage occurred sometime between Tuesday and Thursday. ene The windshield 6f a vehicle parked in, the..300 block of ia Avenue was wharede by two fire extin- guishers that thad been stolen in the same area, police said. eee The rear windshield of a vehi- cle parked overnight at the Fire- side Inn was also found smashed on Thursday. Police said there are no suspects. eee A single-vehicle accident Wednesday resulted in minor injuries to one passenger. A 1987 Mustang driven by Jason Vance Bradley of Castle- gar went out of control on the Kinnaird bridge and struck the iron railing, police said. A 16-year-old female passen- ger was thrown from the vehicle and taken to hospital. The other passengers, a 19-year-old male and 17-year-old female, were not injured. eee A two-vehicle accident on Wednesday on Highway 3A near Thrums resulted in minor injuries for both drivers, police said. A 1991- Mazda driven by Alfred Irwin Steiner of Nelson struck the rear-end of a 1980 Ford pick-up driven by Astrid Austin of Robson when Austin attempted to make a left turn off the highway. eee A 14-year-old Robson youth suffered minor injuries Tuesday when the bicycle she was riding collided with a motorcycle. The operator of the motorcy- cle stopped to make sure she was OK, police said. eee A theft from a vehicle parked overnight at Kal Tire was dis- covered Wednesday. Police said entry into the vehicle was forced and numer- ous cassette tapes had been stolen. Boaters pulled from Kootenay Four local residents are lucky to be alive after their boat swamped on the Kootenay River at South Slocan just below the West Kootenay Power dams. Three men and a woman, in a 17-foot open boat, were attempting to navigate their craft upstream through a nar- row, swift section of the river when the boat was over- whelmed by the powerful water, WKP said in a news release. Two of the passengers were swept down the river and two were left clinging to the sum- berged boat. The four boaters were not wearing lifejackets, WJKP said. .If not for the decisive action of Josef Grubba, 9, and his brother Aaron, 15, the results would have been tragic, the util- ity said. The two boys who live on the river near WKP’s dams had just arrived to do a little fishing when the accident occurred. The boys swiftly rowed out to assist the man and woman who had been swept overboard. Both had been struggling against the current and the cold waters for nearly 10 minutes before they were finally pulled ashore and treated by ambulance atten- dants. 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