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EDITORIAL

Cabinet solid,
not outstanding

Premier Bill Vander Zaim’s cabinet shuffle Thursday was not
very extensive. But as we commented in this space before, on the
whole he has quite a capable group of men and women sitting around
the cabinet table with him in Victoria.

R i of former general Bud Smith to cabinet
was a surprise to some, but shouldn’ have been. While his personal

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vast hinterland. He is often credited with being concerned with the In-
terior because he’s from the Interior. It goes further than that. Mr.
Smith has d iderabl. itical smarts since he was former
premicr Bill Bennett’s I secretary (as d to being mainly
and he

What's to fear?

During the last eight months, the Castlegar
News has carried numerous articles that contained

@ political strategist when he worked for Mr.
izes just how fitically impor are such matters as blacktop
and dam building.
It is quite the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce’s
renewed efforts for a road linking Castlegar with Fauquier will
receive a sympathetic listen from the new is

the school district boundary
between Nelson and Castlegar.

In a recent article, ‘*Districts agree on
boundary,” we learned once again that the
Castlegar school board has no intention of

changing the boundary that was put into place in
the 1960s.

In the 1960s, School District No. 8 (Slocan
Valley) was to be amalgamated by districts No. 7
(Nelson) and No. 9 (Castlegar). Because various
levels of believed that in the
Slocan Valley could only be achieved if the Sons
of Freedom and the Orthodox Doukhobors were

the Ministry of i d
the amalgamation with due concern to the

those who don’t agree with it, which should not
be protected. 7

This crucial distinction is unapparent to Lewis
chiefly because he usually mixes his extreme
opinions, all protectable, with incitements against
others. These inculcate misrepresentations of fact
on which he then builds his falsified premises. He
made this evident in his recent letters.

For instance, he says Fulton has already
wanted people who don’t agree with him to be
jailed. That statement is but one example of Lewis
outrageously fabricating things in such a way as to
engender fear and dislike. The legislation Fulton
seeks has nothing to do with jail nor is jail a part
of our present anti-hate incitement statute. The
way Lewis brings this falsity in is typical of
Lewis’s incitements against others.

Likely Lewis will term my response to his
incitements an example of trying to pump up

portfolio
of
up for negotiation next year than in

bint’s stint as Socred caucus chairman hardly qualifies him for this
tough and knowledgeable job.

Failure of Premier Vander Zalm to reappointment Peter Dueck
to cabinet appears a strong slap in the face to a man who has strongly
supported the premier and who did an extremely competent job as
health minister.

However, as the oldest member of cabinet when he held a front-
line ministry, the omission of Mr. Dueck from the swearing in
ceremony at Government House was an obvious signal to Mr. Dueck
that his retirement from public life is expected by the premier when
the election writ is finally dropped.

Reappointment of Howard Dirks as provincial secretary is good
news for the West Kootenay. Mr. Dirks has proved quite in-
defatigable when it comes to serving his constituency and this region
and raised the profile and respect for the provincial secretary’s office
after the Bill Reid scandal.

Harry De Jong, the Fraser Valley MLA lifted off the back bench
and appointed the new agriculture and fisheries minister, can be ex-
pected to do a competent job. No barn burner, he will likely remain
quite unobtrusive, doimg a competent administrative job and
travelling widely to shore up the government's lagging agricultural
community support.

Appointment of Cliff Serwa as environment minister sees yet
another backbencher invited mto the cabinet. Mr. Serwa is weii-
respected and quite highly thought of in his Okanagan South riding
and has a reputation as a “quick study."” We certainly hope so,
because the Ceigar Expansion Review Panel's interim report has still
to be acted upon by government, and the clock is clicking.

All in all, the cabinet is a solid one, and a fairly competent one.
However, it is not an outstanding one, and this means one man —
Premier Vander Zaim — will still be front and centre.

The political future of the-members of the cabinet and their
caucus will still be determined not so much by NDP Leader
Mike Harcourt, but by how Mr. Vander Zalm continues to react to
consistent polls showing the Socreds cannot win the next election un-
der his leadership.

VIEWPOINT

Former Torontonian
finds local flavor

By CATHERINE SHAPCOTT

As a writer and ediior new to the
Siocan Valley, | was encouraged by a
writer friend to take a break from
query letters and resumes. She
suggested I attend the Kootenay
School of Writing’s fourth annual
Christmas reading on Dec. 8.

Dream, from the photo on the back
cover of her book. Several people
had told me Hazel was just like her

“It's a great opportunity to mect writing — homespun and accessible
other writers,” she said. Not only — so I didn’t hestitate to

** but ignored
and demographic features.

As we now enter the 1990s, a group of
parents in the South Slocan and Shoreacres area is
striving to correct this ovérsight.

All levels of government have been
sympathetic and supportive, now we urgently need
action. Our problem is acute. We have two
schools (Brent Kennedy and Mount Sentinel) in
our community that our children are denied access
to. What parents can reconcile sending their
children to a school 25 kilometres away when the
neighborhood school is two to three kilon.ctres
away?

In an attempt to be reasonable, our only
request to the Castlegar board has been that it

ize an i di ission to review
the current boundary and submit its findings to all
concerned. We are prepared to accept the
recommendations of such a body. Regrettably, we
have been denied this process. What is the
Castlegar board afraid of?
Joe Moreira

Chairman
Boundary Review Committee
issues falsified

Anyone who knows or has even heard of
David Lewis knows his unrelenting concern is
global warming. But has Lewis ever considered
how much he’s been heating up the Slocan
Valley’s atmosphere with his weekly letters of
pollutants?

Lewis’s last letter (CasNews, Dec. 5)

Jim Fulton’s publication of Lewis’s
written threats offers not only blather but
endeavors to throw a barrel of muck on to Fulton.
This is done to divert attention away from the fact
that Lewis boasted to Fulton of his intent to incite

hatred against environmentalists who don’t
happen to agree with Lewis’s extremity of view or
distortion of facts.

Recently, Lewis has repeatedly falsified the
issues as they occurred between Colleen McCrory,
Grant Copeland and Andrea Wright. This was
certainly not from mistake, as he was personally
advised of the actual circumstances and tone of
the meeting before he ever wrote his first letter.
Nevertheless, he sent this letter, which he

i had published on this subject, to
Fulton, while derogating the member of
Parliament's endeavor to gain legislative
protection from hate incitements for
environmentalists.

Fulton and other

or hatred of him. But my reply is the
same as if I saw a guy struggling to stop some
person who had a hammer in his hand bent on
attacking people. As they grapple they both might
look as if they were involved in violent action, but
the difference in their intent is enormous. If
someone like Lewis is repeatedly falsifying issues
to derogate others or inciting hatred or contempt
of them, it’s about time someone called him on it.

Unfortunately, anyone who ever begins to
refute his claims or objects to his substantial
falsifications of fact becomes his target and
scapegoat. Each individual becomes, in turn,
Lewis’s opportunity to gain the spotlight he so
obviously craves. Just watch.

Nevertheless, someone has to object to Lewis
who — even when soundly refuted — can’t stop
spewing noxious gases. If Lewis wants to stop
heating up the , let him stop i
ours in the Kootenays.

Madeleine McCarthy
Silverton

Delay welcomed

The Kootenay Region Branch of the United
Nations Association in Canada welcomed the
delay offered by the United Nations in its vote on
the Middle East on Nov. 30.

While the vote does authorize any means
necessary to drive Iraq from Kuwait, it also offers
the opportunity for Canadians to work for a
peaceful rather than a military solution to what
has been described as the most dangerous
situation in the world since the Second World
War.

Members of the board of the Kootenay region
branch, meeting in Castlegar on Dec. 5, felt it was
important to point out some of the facts related to
how the Nov. 30 vote came about. They felt that
the United Nations had been used to condone the
military buildup in the Gulf area. Rather than the
United Nations leading events, the UN has been
dragged along behind American initiatives and by
itself has initiated none of the military
developments.

While the buildup in the Middle East has
a United Nations name, the forces gathered there
are not under United Nations control or
command. The United States has not placed its
considerable forces under United Nations
control while at the same time using every kind of

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Kuwait and hopes that this is an indication of
further concessions.

The meeting concluded with a pledge to take
steps to inform area résidents of Kootenay region
branch’s view of events in the Middle East and to
urge Canadians to take individual and group
action to avert a world calamity.

F.E. (Buddy) DeVito
Director .
UNAC-Kootenay Region Branch

There was a statement made in the Castlegar
News editorial Dec. 8, ‘‘Challenges still to be
faced,”’ which I feel is erroneous. The editorial
stated, ‘*. . . neither the panel nor the government
can order Celgar to transport its chips by rail or
barge.””

On the contrary, it was quite within the
mandate of this panel to do so and it was my
hope, and I think the hope of several thousand
other people, that the panel would be intelligent
enough to recommend rail and barge be used.

Study after study was presented! to this panel
showing that heavy trucks don’t pay for their use
of the highway. Statistic after statistic was
produced showing how heavy velticles are involved
in a disproportionate number of fatal accidents —
particularly in our region. The panel didn’t seem
to notice.

In Washington state, they pay railroads to
keep operating because they know how much
damage having that traffic convert to trucks does
to both highways budgets and public safety. A
private interest wants to take over the abandoned
rail lines locally and help retain a tax base, reduce
highways budgets and increase safety. The panel
didn’t hear it.

More than 200 submissions were made at the
public hearings, the clear majority of which said
they didn’t want more chip trucks on our

highways. They were not asking for an upgraded
highway system which would only make it possible
for large trucks to drive faster (as well as everyone
else). Apparently, the panel missed that one too.

There were widespread public demands for
the use of alternative transportation routes and
techni information presented to show that they
are viable. This panei couid have recommended
that ives such as rail be lored and
utilized before public highways be further abused.

Instead, the panel members only listened to
the Ministry of Highways and Transportation's
highway improvement proposal — a proposal
which in no way represents concerns raised by the
public, but does sound amazingly like MLA
Howard Dirks’s previously stated goals for the
Slocan Valley highways. On top of that, the
selfsame Highways Ministry even said it would
prefer to see rail used!

This panel could have asked that common
sense be applied, but instead they bowed to
expedience. In, spite of its embarrassing
recommendations, I still believe that we can limit
the abuse of public highways by large trucks. I
personally got involved in this issue on the
assumption that we could correct an idiotic
situation, and the information I've gathered and
seen presented only strengthens my belief.

All this panel’s recommendations have

pressure to have its actions
of the Security Council.
Members of the local United Nations

unions, churches and concerned groups are

philosophical belief. No o=*, including Fulton,
expects to legisiate against hatred or anyone

board were in stating that

the tactics of the United States leading to the Nov.
30 vote places whatever influence the UN has in
the Gulf area at risk. The United Nations being
used to further the interests of member states
when it suits them and being ignored the rest of
the time is a threat to the United Nations’
mandate and purpose.

What happens in the next 45 days may well

would I get a taste of Kootenay her.
writing but, she added, the flavor of “I've never done this before,"” she
Kootenay writers’ baking said, looking over the list of writers
Another writer and editor thought she was to introduce as mistress of
it would be a chance to write about ceremonies.

One of those writers was Rita
Moir, who gave me a guided tour of
the edible goodies. Some are of
“legendary” status, such as Jeff
George’s garlicky homemade nuts "n
bolts, while others are

fists have
attacked as a result of such hate campaigns. If
there’s a campaign to incite hatred against
environmentalists, for instance, the perpetrators
to this genre, indentifiable by their opinions,
political position or membership in groups, may
be put at risk. This is the same issue which gained

the future of the United Nations as an
instrument for ensuring and maintaining peace not
only in the Middle East, but in the whole world.
Members of the board discussed the growing
opposition to the buildup of military forces in the
Middle East. Well-known and influential
Americans such as Admiral William Crowe, Gen.
David Jones and former national security adviser,

protection under the law for those i i as
hate targets by their race, religion or color.
It’s obvious Lewis doesn’t know the

**traditional favorites."”
Along with Rita’s scrumptuous
please see FLAVOR page AS

big: i of the United States joined
British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd to urge
caution and patience in the Middle East and to
delay military action while aliowing the sanctions
to work.

The board also welcomed the most recent
development of the release of hostages from

to do is educate me on where the hold
up fs to the application of common sense.

Craig Lawrence
Winlaw

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P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4,
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The Castiegar News reserves the right
to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality,
grammar and taste.

seers se Coie

REMEMBER WHEN

40 YEARS AGO
From Dec. 14, 1950

Castle News .

Mr. C.K. Morison, Superintendent
for the B.C, Public Library Com-
mission, paid two visits to Castlegar
within the last week before ad-
dressing the Canadian Club in Trail
last Tuesday.

Last Thursday evening he met with
the Castlegar Library Board in an in-
formal discussion at the home of
Mrs. Hopland. He told the board
that B.C. has the finest framework
of public libraries in Canada and is,
in the matter of union libraries, a
pioneer on this hemisphere.

. .

Anyone who expected sensational
from the Washingt

conference between President
Truman and Prime er Attlee
will probably be disappointed by the
final communique on the talks. But,
its importance can hardly be over-
estimated.

It is at the same time, a call to
Russia and China to join in making
peace, and a declaration that the
Anglo-American allies stand firm on
their principles. The two statesmen
offered to negotiate for an end to the
Korea fighting, but they declared
there can be no appeasement, and
that Korea fhust be free.

25 YEARS AGO
From the Dec. 16, 1965
Castlegar News

Castlegar-is to hold a celebration

its elevation to town status.

This was disclosed Tueday night
by village chairman W.H. Reed,
following a special meeting of coun-
cil to discuss the subject.

Although details are still in the
planning stage, Mr. Reed said: it is
hoped that all local churches will
hold special services on Jan. 2. On
Monday evening, there is the
statutory meeting of the new town
council at which Mayor-elect Lorne
Zinio and Jim Corbett will take their
oaths of office.

.

. .

Passage of the hospital expansion
bylaw by a five to one margin, defeat
of fluoridation by a two to one
margin, election of Castlegar’s first
mayor R.C. Maddocks and re-
election of incumbent chairman Carl
Loeblich at Kinnaird, highlighted
voting in last Saturday’s municipal
elections.

On a district-wide basis, the $2
million hospital expansion bylaw, of
which $989,105 will be raised locally,
received 1,100 yes votes compared
to 254 votes cast against it. There
were 20 spoiled. ballots. The bylaw
thus got 81.2 per cent approval, a
handy margin over the 60 per cent
required for passage.

15 YEARS AGO
From the Dec. 18, 1975
Castlegar News

B.C. Telephone expects a record

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Autobody repsirer or auto painter.
Must be certified or ot least four years
experience. Wage is $16 per hour or
more depending on experience. Apply
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365-5454

Residential program assistant
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A truck driver is needed in Castlegor
of a full-time permanent basis. The
salary is $22,000 to $25,000 per yeor
Must have class | and air and five years
of highway experience. To apply call
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Saturday
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Five years ago today, Mayor Audrey Moore and Mike O'Connor, chairman of the Castlegar
Chamber of © 's buildi

. turn the first piece of sod for the new chamber

building next to the Community Com lex while chamb 6
and others involved in the design a

pts this Christmas in the wake of the
postal dispute.

B.C. Tel vice-president of
operations, T.F. Heenan, said the 14
long-distance centres thorughout the
province have forecasted a total of
more tham 828,000 calls will be at-
tempted during the 24 hours of
Christmas Day.

.

From the Dec. 18, 1985
Castlegar News

Westar Timber’s Celgar Pulp Mill
operations has been charged with 29
counts of exceeding its pollution con-
trol permit during last May.

The provincial Ministry of the En-
vironment laid the charges Dec. 11
under Section 34-5 of the Waste
Management Act, the ministry said
in a prepared release.

“The charges allege that emission
‘on bivalent sulphur compounds from
the' recovery boiler stack were in ex-

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The Chris D’Arcy victory
celebration at the Steelworkers hall
Thursday night witnessed a full range
of emotions as the early joys of vic-
tory for the local i gave way

city rep
construction of the building look on.

cess of the maximum allowable daily
limits authorized by Pollution Con-
trol Permit PA-3080. during 29 days
of May 1985,” the release said.

. .

The Castlegar school board voted
Monday to give up one of its four
trustee positions at the World
Congress on Education Technology
to a district teacher

The trustee also approved payment
of the teacher's travel expenses out
of the teacher board's trustee travel
expense fund

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to a much more subdued at-
mosphere as it became evident that
Rossland-Trail voters were not con-
sistent with the provincial trend.
Spirits were high as the early
returns from around the riding i
dicated that D’Arcy’s battle against
Socred candidate Burt Campbell haD
been a successful one. While most
people had expected a very close vote
in this riding, D'Arcy eventually won
by almost 2,000 votes, 600 fewer
than his margin in the 1972 election.
.

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If you want to feel more like you're in
control of the moving situation, o

idea is to do your homework by
familiarizing yourself with the
current market conditions. Start by
reading the real estate classified or
going over the local real estate
papers in your area. Make notes of
the homes and drive by them. Com.
pare the prices. See how fast the
homes are being sold. This will make
your expectations more realistic

The victims of the November
layoffs at Canadian Cellulose in
Castlegar are eagerly awaiting word
from B.C.’s new premier-elect Bill
Bennett as to whether or not they
will be going back to work, plant
committee chairman Harold Leslie
said Tuesday.

In a speech in Trail during the
election campi . Mr. Bennett
promised to return the men to work
Social Credit formed the gover-
nment. He said that it was his inten-
tion, ‘‘to get the economy moving
again,”’ and that getting people back
to work wherever possible was one
of the best ways of doing that.’”

5 YEARS AGO

Your next step is probably going to
be an emotional one. How much is
your home worth? Certainly it's
meant a lot to you . . . and pr

the very reasons you bought it
originally will be whot excites its
next owner. To get on objective
opinion, call a reputable real estate
agent to do a market evaluation of
your home. This will be done free

°E state WITH BARRY BROWN
BEGIN BY DOING SOME HOMEWORK!

and without ony obligation. A
professional agent hos more 6
information on which to make a fair
evaluation, including the recent.
selling prices of comparable homes
And this person doesn't have the
same emotional ties to the property.

Hf you've decided to sell your home
first, a market evaluation will let you
know how much your home is valued
at and the equity you've now built
up. Knowing this gives you a better
idea of what youll be able to buy
next

‘Now you're ready to list your home.
If you felt good about the salesper
son who did your market evaluation.
you may want to call them back, or
ask friends or relatives for the name
of a good agent

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