Moworee Sie Castlegar News

ESTABLISHED AUGUST 7, 1947

OPINION
Castlégar News

PAGE A4, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1990

MEMBER OF THE 8.C. PRESS COUNCH.

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LV. CAMPBELL — PUBLISHER, AUGUST 7, 1947-FEBRUARY 15, 1973

PUBLISHER — Burt Campbell!
EDITOR — Simon Birch
PLANT FOREMAN —

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CIRGULATION MANAGER — Heather Hadiey

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EDITORIAL

Acid rain law
long time coming

U.S. President George Bush’s signing of a major environmental
law that commits the United States to cleaning up its acid rain
problem shows that perseverence pays off.

The signing of the law, which legislates the reduction of sulphur
dioxide emissions by about 10 million tonnes by the year 2000 — a
reduction of almost 50 per cent from 1980 levels — ends a decade of

Canadian frustration.

The governments of Pierre Trudeau and Jimmy Carter signed a
of

in 1980.

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Carter lost the presidential election that year to Ronald

Reagan and the memorandum died after two years of fruitless

negotiation.

It was during his election campaign against Mr. Carter that Mr.
Reagan made what became known as his ‘‘killer trees’’ statement
when he said ‘80 per cent of our air pollution comes from hydrocar-

bons released by vegetation.’

It was an indication of the former president’s lack of comprehen-
sion of environmental issues and his lack of care for them.

Nevertheless, in 1985 Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mr.
Reagan appointed special envoys to study the acid rain problem —
biamed for killing trees and poisoning lakes in Eastern Canada — and

recommend soltions.
In 1988, Mr.

Bush promised to bring in~an acid rain control

Program if he won the election. He did win, and his signing of the
new law this week fulfils his promise.

Michael Perley of the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain, a man
who has persevered in pestering the United States to pass a new Clean
Air Act, is right in calling the new law a victory for all citizens

fighting for a cleaner environment.
“The (signing) of the bill. . .

shows that while it may take a long

time and a concentrated effort, if you push hard enough against the

system’s levers they actually produce results,

Mr. Perley said.

It’s now up to the two governments to hammer out a transboun-

dary air pollution accord.

VIEWPOINT

Democracy dying
in Canada

We believe in the common sense of
the common people, their fight to be
consulted on public policy matters

their own
to govern themselves
through truly representative and
responsive institutions, and their
right to directly imitiate legisiation
for which substantial public support
is demonstrated. — Article 13,
Statement of Principles, Reform Par-
ty of Canada.
By LEE MORRISON
Canadian Parliamentary
democracy is dying
The incredible events in Ottawa
during the last six months are the
logical outcome of a sickness which
cannot be cured by merely replacing
-a_Trudeau—with a ora

the House, the public was obliged to
hold its collective nose and pray that
an illegitimate Senate would defend
it. Our beloved lider maximo
responded by packing the chamber
with 23 carefully selected toadies
guaranteed to defer to his
megalomania. Even the Patronage
King of Nova Scotia — John
Buchanan — was given political
asylum in the Palace of Patronage.

The constitutional proposals of the
Reform Party of Canada would
have given the public three clear lines
of defence:

* A triple-E Senate (elected, effec-
tive and with equal representation
from each province) would not have
been subject to prime ministerial
meddling — could have been a true

Mulroney with something else
Rearranging the chairs in the House
of Commons will not magically con-
vert Parliament from a silly circus to
an assembly of mature men and
women, sensibly conducting the
nation’s business in response to the
needs and wishes of the people
Without constitutional checks and
balances, public input is effectively
reduced to the election of irrelevant
MPs led by a dictator.

Through his control of members’
responsibilities, perks and privileges,
his right to set election dates and his
power to determine of a member
may or may not run for re-election
under the ruling party’s banner, the
prime minister controls his cabinet,
his caucus and the country. His
domestic political clout, should he
care to exercise it fully, is im-
measurably greater than that of the
President of the United States and
approaches that of the president of a
banana republic

Nothing illustrates our political
impotence better than the goods and
services tax fiasco. This ill-conceived
measure, hastily thrown together on
the advice of woolly headed

ber second a
rather than a zoo with all of the
animals bawling for attention.

© The power of recall vested in
their C@nstituents would have forced
MPs to be accountable, not to the
Prime minister, but to the people
who elected them.

* An initiative (plebiscite) by more
than three per cent of the electorate
would have forced the government to
hold a GST referendum at the next
general election. Faced with certain
rejection of the proposal, the gover-
nment would probably have given up
and withdrawn it

The Canadian Constitution was
created, not by and for the people,
but by and for politicians. The
Reform party believes that the time
has come for it to be revised, not
from the top down as was done in
1982 and attempted with the Meech
Lake Accord, but from the bottom
up. Constitutional conventions
should be held across Canada and
the results certified by a national
referendum

Even if Canadians, given the op-
Portunity to be personally involved
in determining how they wish to be
governed, reject the Reform party’s

bureaucrats was quickly
by the general public as impractical,
fiscally irresponsible and a greedy
grab for billions of dollars by the
most’ improvident government —inr
Canadian history. For months, the
people have been crying out in rage,
but crying is all they can do

Unable to influence the actions of

specific al proposals,
Reformers will be able to find com-
fort in the knowledge that, for the
first time in Canadian history,

we will
strumental in giving it to them
Lee Morrison is s member of the
Reform Party of Canada's executive.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter misinforms

I would like on behalf of the Castlegar Sun to
respond to the-letter ‘‘Support sought” which ran
in your Nov. 10 issue and was signed by some
members of CWA (Communication Workers of
America) Local 226 of the Castlegar News.

It is obvious that the authors of the letter
chose to misinform Castlegar News readers
through half truths and innuendo about our
treatment of our new employees at the Castlegar
Sun. Your letter states that production employees
are paid ‘$325 per week, less than half of what
our production members are paid."’

What you fail to add is that your own
collective agreement signed with Mr. (Burt)
Campbell in September 1989 provides Castlegar
News staff with approximately the same
compensation for someone éntering your
Production department without a journeyman’s
ticket. You also fail to note that our employees
will receive all the benefits you are currently
receiving including full medical, dental, vacation
and statutory holidays, plus they will work a
shorter week. Of course, the one benefit they will
receive, that we doubt you are provided with, is a
share in the profits of the newspaper.

Perhaps you should have mentioned that our
starting reporters will in fact make more than
those working under your current collective
agreement. Your reporters start at $9.45 per hour.
Castlegar Sun reporters start at $10 per hour plus
all benefits and profit sharing.

We are proud of the staff that have chosen to
work at the Castlegar Sun. Their enthusiasm and
dedication have made them partners in this
enterprise. I think you do a disservice when you
choose to disregard their ability to choose where
and for whom they wish to work. After all, they
could have decided to work for the Castlegar
News.

Your comments that any profits would go
**certainly not to the employees and certainly not
to the community” are wrong. First, our
employees are on a profit-sharing plan and
second, the Castlegar’Sun has created at least 10
new jobs, will be paying taxes and supporting
local businesses in the community.

You claim that Sterling has not been an
exemplary corporate citizen. Yes, Sterling
consolidated the printing press facility-in Nelson
which, by the way, created many additional jobs
at the press site. However, at no time were there
ver any plans to shut down the Trail Times nor
are there any future plans to do so. On the

and Castlegar in new computerized wpaciting and
other equipment.

Your comment that ‘‘a non-union Sterling
Publication in Castlegar threatens the job security
of its employees in Nelson and Trail as well as
union members in Castlegar’’ is utter nonsense
and, at least in Nelson and Trail, without any
semblance of truth. This is pure fear mongering
on your part. The Castlegar Sun will provide
competition in Castlegar but will strengthen the
security of employees in Nelson and Trail, not
weaken it

In closing, I would like to state that your
effort to discredit the Castlegar Sun and its
employees even before its first issue is a prime
example of resorting to fear tactics rather than
meeting competition and letting the marketplace
choose.

Whether the Castlegar Sun is union or not is
a decision of the employees, not the company.

The Castlegar News is a fine newspaper
thanks to the efforts of your publisher, Mr.
Campbell. We hope you will continue this
tradition.

The readers of Castlegar want a second voice.
We think there is room for both newspapers and
that the people and businesses of Castlegar will
ultimately benefit from their ability to choose.
Steen O. Jorgensen
Vice-President
Sterting Newspapers Lid.

Vancouver

Editor's note: Mr. Jorgensen is, of course,
entitled to his opinions. We would simply like to
point out that the letter from Communication
‘Workers of America employees at the Castlegar
News was not, as Mr. Jorgensen says, intended to
discredit the employees of the Castlegar Sun to
whom we extend an open invitation to discuss
with us the benefits of joining the CWA.

Editor’s note: The following two letters were
written and received before the sale of the
Castlegar News to Trinity Holdings (N.A.) Inc.
was announced Wednesday. Although Trinity is a
large company, readers can rest assured the
CasNews, which will operate with the same staff,
many of whom have deep roots in this
community, will continue its commitment to cover
the news with integrity, providing fair and
accurate coverage of local events for our readers.

Comparison urged

The recent announcement that the Sterling
Newspaper chain will be moving into the Castlegar
market in the near future has prompted me to
pass along some thoughts of my own on the
subject.

Normally I would be the first to agree that
competition in the market place is good for the
consumer. However, in the case of two
newspapers in the small Castlegar market I am
concerned as to the end result. If two newspapers
can survive, then why not other radio stations,
cable TV companies, and on and on. The obvious
answer is none of them would survive and because
of lower revenues, service to consumers would
suffer.

I am a regular reader of both the Trail Daily
Times and the Castlegar News, so I can tell you
from first-hand experience that there are great
differences between the services each provides.

The Castlegar News is providing an excellent
Service to its Customers on every front. Local;
provincial and national news coverage with
unbiased reporting excels at the Castlegar News
along with a wide variety of local sports coverage
and many options for customers using the want
ads.

A few years ago, the Trail area lost the
commercial printing shop at the Trail Times, then
later the entire plant was shut down and all these
jobs went to Nelson.

For those of you that question the difference
between the two papers, I would challenge you to
borrow the Trail Times from a friend for about a
week and compare the five days of coverage to the
two days of news and other information you
receive now.

Monopolies are all around us these days and
the Sterling chain is one of the bigger ones. The
company’s only motive would be to destroy the
financial stability of the Castlegar News so that
they in turn could add it to the Sterling chain. The
end result would be a third-rate service such as the
‘Trait customers receive now. The Nelson Daily
News and others in the chain are all the same.

When a monopoly is providing a good service
for our community, such as the Castlegar News, it
should be cherished and preserved.

In my opinion, it should be the Castlegar
News moving into the Trail market
Carol Price
Rosstand

‘Rival’ dismays

It is with strong dismay that I hear of a
second ‘‘rival’’ newspaper in Castlegar. Two
newspapers for a town of less than 10,000 is a bit
of an overload.

I fear that the new one can roll in, duplicate
and finally replace the first. I have great respect
for Nelson Becker who politely entered the
Kootenays and started a paper which specializes in
entertainment news. That was something new. It
filled a niche. Pennywise also has its function.

But Sterling Newspapers, which owns this
new paper, likewise owns nearly all the print
news media in small communities in southeastern
B.C. It is a big-chain which controls how
information is distributed. Its coverage is
somewhat one-sided, lacking in significant details.
It tends to represent the interests of big business.

The Castlegar News is one of the few
independent voices left. Why does Sterling want to
move into-a town that has been managing very
well its own local and regional reporting? Can it
not leave one town with its own press. Just one?

There are people who live between Nelson
and Castlegar who like to read local news. They
quit the Nelson Daily News when it was taken
over by Sterling. They switched to our Castlegar
paper because they wanted news, not predictable
drivel.

To horn in on the last bit of free
(information) territory is not good business. It is
not being a good neighbor. It’s just rude. Darn! I
hope the people of Castlegar recognize this
because the new paper is going to court us daily.
Its staff will get real chummy and act real local,
like old friends.

Castlegar readers must realize that our News
is pretty rare and special. Rally "round our local
press, the Castlegar News. Let it remain our
voice. Participate in it. Let it live and grow.
Barbara Murdoch
Castlegar

Tactics disliked

Remember when all the NDP ‘‘greens’’ were
backing Wayne Peppard against Corky Evans?
They said there was no way they could vote for
Corky if he was chosen as the candidate for the
Nelson-Creston riding. After his victory, some of
them toyed with the idea of having nothing
further to do with the party. Now they say
everyone has to vote for him or be
excommunicated. How times change.

NDP “green’*-heavyweights Colleen McCrory
and Grant Copeland, aka the Valhalla Wilderness
Society, showed up at Green party candidate
Andrea Wright's home trying to ‘‘persuade’’ her
to resign her candidacy. They said any votes she
received must be stolen from Corky. If Andrea
didn’t get out of the race and Corky lost by
anything like the number of votes Andrea got,
Andrea would be held responsible for wilfully and
obstinately ruining everything they have worked
for in their entire lifetimes. As a result they would
hold a grudge until the end of time.

This charming little charade didn’t work. A
few days later they were all smiles, claiming they
didn’t mean it. **Just kidding,” said the
rattlesnake after missing its target.

The *‘green’’ New Democrats’ idea of politics
is to go into a back room and twist the knife as
deep as they possibly can into their old
compatriot, Andrea, who is someone with whom
they supposedly share ideals. They haven't the
courage or understanding to publicly challenge the
centre of the NDP coalition with this kind of
energy

When Wayne Peppard campaigned, he used
to tell people that he'd say the same things I used
to say ‘except he wanted to get elected.’’ This
kind of sleaze is so routine now if I call it “‘lying”’
they'd be outraged. They call it politics.

Mike Harcourt has committed the NDP to

““business_as_usual"’ as the path to power, and
NDP ‘‘greens’’ haven't articulated a position that
the rest of the NDP coalition can even
understand. Ask Jack Munro or Dave Barrett.

Now NDP ‘‘greens”’ think they have the right
to do whatever they can to suppress the Green
Party’s effort to say what the NDP cannot say, to
face what the NDP denies, and to stand where the
NDP cannot stand. They have attempted to
silence the only woman running in this race.

Crawl back into your holes NDP “*greens.""
The “‘real"’ world you operate in is dead. Your
heart can tell you this if your denial will let you
hear. For now, you just take up space while you
convince yourselves that there could be no better
plan. Get out of the way.

David Lewis
Crescent Valley

Please address all letters to the editor
to: Letters to the Editor,

Columbia Ave. in Castlegar.

Letters should be typewritten, double-

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 ‘Our
of Only will be
in exceptional cases will tetters Hed
Published without the writer's name.
Nevertheless, the name, address and
telephone number of the writer MUST be
reo to the editor.

The Castlegar News reserves the right

to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality,
grammar and taste.

REMEMBER WHEN

4 YEARS AGO
From the Nov. 16, 1950
Castle News

The Castlegar and District Board
of Trade received word Thursday
night to the effect that the long-
awaited new Post Office boxes
would be, shipped from Montreal on
Nov. 20, and would be installed im-
mediately on arrival here.

The installation of the new boxes
will permit the opening of the Post
Office lobby on Wednesday after-
“noons and each evening.

* 8 6

Castlegar’s water rates will be in-
creased 25 cents per month across
the board, commencing Jan. 1, 1951.

This increase is to make the new
water system self supporting, which
it must be to balance the budget.

25 YEARS AGO
From the Nov. 18, 1965
Castlegar News

Official start of construction on
West Kootenay Regional College was
scheduled to get underway at 3 p.m.
today with a ground- -breaking

at the site a
gold-plated shovel.

Regional College council was ex-
pected to turn the first spadeful of
sod, assisted by college -principal
Gordon Campbell. Attending the

Castlegar Mayor J Audrey Moore

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band Bill after being elected to her

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fifth term in November 1985. Moore who was rewmle to the mayor's chair by acclamation this year,
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event will be i of
the public, members of the college
council, representatives of the six
participating school districts,
municipal dignitaries and W.D.
Vandervoort, a director of Smith
Brothers and Wilson Construction of
Vancouver who won a $2,210,000
contract for the first phase of con-
struction.
o

The land committee of the
Castlegar Rotary Club is to meet
with the Village Council to discuss
the possibility of obtaining municipal
land for the building of suitable ac-
commodation for Senior Citizens.

.

Two hats are now in the ring for
the mayoralty race at Castlegar while
Kinnaird village chairman Carl
Loeblich has announced he will seek
re-election in that village.

N.T. Oglow, who has spent seven
years on council in the past with six

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There will be two familiar faces
and two new faces in the addermen’s
chairs on Castlegar council.

Incumbents Albert Calderbank
and Carl Henne easily won re-
election in Saturday’s municipal
voting.

They will be joined by newcomers
Terry Rogers and Nick Oglow.

. 8 .

In his first run for public office,
Castlegar letter carrier Tony
Guglielmi topped the polls Saturday
in voting for Castlegar school board.

Guglielmi finished with 1,202
votes, 150 ahead of incumbent
Doreen Smecher, the board chair-
man, who finished with 1,052 votes
to snare the second of two city seats
on the board.

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Castlegar voters gave a qualified

“*yes’’ to Secure and holiday shop-

of them as i on
Monday he will seek the mayor's
chair in the Dec. 11 election. On
Tuesday evening, present com-
missioner Murray Little announced
at council’s meeting that he will run
for mayor. Present incumbent .W.H.
Reed hinted that his hat will also be
in the ring when, in offering
congratulations to Mr. Little, he
remarked: ‘‘It’s always good to have
a battle.”’

15 YEARS AGO

From the Nov. 20, 1975

Castlegar News:

Forty-five members of the local
Senior Citizens Association, as well
as members from Christina Lake,
Grand Forks and Trail enjoyed an
evening of dancing at the Woodland
Park school gym last Friday evening
as guests of the McMixers Square
Dancers.

*

Stanley Humphries badminton
team travelled to Kimberley to play
off for the Kootenay championships.
Team members were Kathy Mason,
Vicky Webster, Joanne Lins, Irene
West, James West, John Colliere,
Mark Vroom, Bill Zaytsoff, Lorne
Zaytsoff and Joe Tarasoff.

5 YEARS AGO
From the Nov. 17, 1985
Castlegar News

Incumbent Audrey Moore retur-
ned as mayor by an overwhelming
margin in “last night's Castlegar
municipal election.

Moore trounced challenger Ald.
Bob MacBain by some 600 votes and
nearly a two-to-one margin in win-
ning her fifth consecutive term.

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The Sunday hopping bylaw was
approved by a slim 75 votes — 988
to 913 — or only 52 per cent to 48
per cent.

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Castlegar council hopes to make it
easier for businesses to locate in the
city’s Industrial Park.

Council this week gave two
readings to a bylaw which will relax
some of the park’s zoning restric-
tions.

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A member of the Sons of Freedom
Doukhobor sect was found guilty of
mischief and sentenced to 60 days in
jail Wednesday in Nelson provincial
court.

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THE PITFALLS OF SELLING
A HOME PRIVATELY (PART 4)

Once an interested purchaser is
ready to make an offer, can you ef
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contract you prepare going to be an
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your family, you should consult
qualified lego! counsel at any crucial
stage of the process and always
before signing any document. An
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essentially o legal and binding con
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volve your weeknights as well as
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work during the day. This also means
an investment of your valuable time.
And do you have the experience to
weed out the
trate on a genuinely interested buyer?

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