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All proceeds are going to the Rick Hansen Man in Motion CosNews Photo by Mike Kalesniko Valley logging needed to combat beetle By SURJ RATTAN Staff Writer About 190 hectares of trees in the Slocan Valley may be logged in the near future before the mountain pine bettle infests the trees and makes them useless to harvest. Slocan Forest Products Ltd. has ap- plied to the ministry of forests to har- vest about 126 hectares of trees located in the Cameronian Creek area of the Slocan Valley. They are still waiting for the ministry of forests to grant them a cutting permit. In recent field studies it has con- ducted, Sloean Forest Products has located a major infestation of the mountain pine beetle in the Camer-. onian Creek area. The beetles bore into the trees and feed on the cambium layer between the bark and the wood. The girdling action can kill the trees and the bettle infes tation affects about 480,000 hectares of trees in B.C. each year. Lost timber values are close to $120 million dollars a year The beetle itself is four to seven millimetres long and it attacks most kinds of pine. Slocan Forest Products hopes to bait the area in question with natural at. tractants and then the trees would be cut while the beetles are still inside then processed immediately at the mill in order to’ kill the beetles. If dead trees are not harvested within one or two years of the attack then they lose their value for timber. Dale Anderson, a resource planner for the forests ministry in Nelson, said killing the beetles while they are still inside the trees is the most effective method of controlling them that he knows of. “My understanding is that a number of different harvest methods are being proposed. As far as control is con. cerned, in a predominantly pine strand, logging while the beetles are still in the wood is the most effective way I know of how to control the beetle,” Anderson told the Castlegar News in an inter. view. He cautioned that complete control of the beetles is not expected. Ander. son added that the logging “would have to start fairly quickly” since the beetles are already in the area. But Wayne Peppard, chairman of the Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance, an environmental group which is con cerned logging in the area will effect its watershed, said there are other ways to get rid of the pine bettle. “The pine mountain beetle has been there all along and we don’t see that clear cutting is the answer. There are other ways to deal with it,” Peppard told the Castlegar News. If the cutting permit to Slocan Forest Products is issued without their approval, Peppard says the alliance ‘ will take the forests ministry to court in an attempt to stop the logging. He adds that the alliance is not against logging but they want assur- ances from the ministry that the watershed will not be damaged and that if it is damaged then either the provincial government or Slocan For. est Products would be held liable. The forests ministry has since brok en off negotiations with the alliance, saying there is nothing more to discuss. Peppard said the mountain pine beetle “is the least of our problems right now” and that they want to resume negotiations with the forests ministry. “Our focus right now is to get back to the table and negotiate this matter. They (forests ministry) seem to be pu: ig us into a confrontation. People in the West Kootenay are not going to take much more,” said Peppard. He added that the alliance has drawn up a new proposal for the water management plan and that they are anxious to negotiate it with the min istry “If anything happens to our water what do we do? Move away? People are concerned about this. They know we're not just a bunch of crazies up here,” said Peppard. {park,.and.several. vacant -p! STRATEGY PLAN SAYS: City is nonexistant By SURJ RATTAN Staff Writer An economic strategy plan commissioned for the City of Castlegar by the Castlegar and District Development Board suggests that outside of the Kootenays, not many people know the city exists. Castlegar’s lack of identity is only one of several weaknesses the city is facing, according to the report. Other areas include the lack of tourist facilities, a feeling of separation within the city limits and the absence of a resource base for the Celgar Pulp mill. “Castlegar lacks specific indentity when referred to by the provincial and federal governments. Also, a regional promotional identity does not exist and must be developed,” says the report. It adds that there is no “geographical depth” to the city and the amalgamation of Castlegar and Kinnaird in 1974 is partly to blame for this. The report says that since the joining of the two areas the downtown core has beenshifted to “one end of the land mass” with the Castleaird Plaza located about two-thirds towards the other end of the city boundary. “Some private dwellings, light industry, retail establish- ments, business operations and offices, motels and a trailer tend to create ano man’s land between the old Town of Kinnaird and Castlegar, giving an imp’ jon of sep: ion of city | into twe segments,” the report states. The report also criticizes how the CPR intersects Columbia Avenue and at some “critical times of the day traffic is tied up as freight trains of considerable length pass to and from the Cominco operation in Trail. This traffic snar] backs up through three traffic light positions and is most irritable to many road users and shoppers from the Plaza.” The report goes on to say that because Castlegar’s main industry, Celgar, has no raw resource base it has to contend with expensive transportation costs in bringing raw materials in and shipping finished products out. “Major industry that competes in national and world markets would not find this location feasible under these circumstances,” it states. One year since the start of Expo 86 and with the summer season approaching, it would be expected that this area will be seeing an influx of tourists in the near future. Not so according to the economic strategy report. “Less than 10 per cent of British Columbia tourist traffic pass through the Kootenays; one basic reason being that there is no major destination resort or tourist facilities that cater to more than one or two days stay in the area,” it states. The report adds that Castlegar has plans for the addition of a competition size pool at the Community Complex but that no funding has been received for the project as of yet. Castlegar and District Development Board spokesman Richard Maddocks told the Castlegar News that there are several government officials in Victoria who know little or nothing at all about Castlegar. “We were in Victoria in February discussing various issued with the and it became that Castlegar does suffer from an indentity crisis,” said Maddocks. He added that a lot of people outside of the Kootenays do not even know how to get to Castlegar. “We're regarded as having a white knuckle airport. In fact a lot of people don't even know you can fly into €astlegar,” said Maddocks. He said Castlegar is also thought of being a heavy industrial city with the operations of Celgar and Cominco and that the city is filled with pollution as a result. “That's not the case at all,” said Maddocks. “Another thing that came up (in Victoria discussions) is why go to Castlegar? There's nothing to do there. We're also regarded as having cold lakes, as opposed to the warm ones in the Okanagan,” added Maddocks. He said Castlegar needs to develop a higher visability and addéd that “it would be nice to get an indentity.” The economic strategy report recommends that Castlegar try to attract as much new investment to the area as possible. It adds that Castlegar cannot rely on government funds to boost its economy but that “considerable effort should be placed upon local ventures, capital funds, or attracting the type of client with most of its own financial resources that can take advantage of the natural raw materials readily available here.” Vista y school sit or kneel — rivetted to the startling green eyes of Kris Stanbra. “You probably noticed that I walk a little funny,” she says to them but they hadn't. “Let's see you walk,” they say. Stanbra puts her cane aside and walks for them, something she must concentrate to do and something she was told she would never do again. Kris Stanbra is, in 9 sense, a walking miracle, but she does not meet with the students of Castlegar’s schools to talk about herself, she ig there to talk about Rick Hansen. Stanbra explains to the kids kneeled around her that awareness is the key and understanding is important to the Rick Hansen Man in Motion tour She plugs in a video for them, all about Rick Hansen; but when the curtains are pulled and the video plays, the kids turned shyly and watch Stanbra. She shows them Hansen in China, as he teaches disabled to play wheelchair basketball and Hansen as he struggles, painfully, to the summit of the Great Wall of China. She also asks them if they would like to see Hansen stand, some thing he is able to do in leg braces, and something few people have seen him do. But many of the kids just want to talk about Stanbra or simply tell her that their older brothers or sisters have seen her talk at another school, or maybe to tell her that their uncle or grandfather once had to wear a cast. Still Stanbra, who has become the undeniable local master of Riek Hansen trivia, concentrates on the Man in Motion message. She tells them he is going to cover distance equal to that of circling the globe, she tells them of his desire to raise money for spinal cord research, and finally, she tells them that he wants to raise awareness of disabled people. The library at Valley Vista, filled with tiny chairs, and books and paints, seems an unlikely place for a talk on belief and perseverence, but not to Kris Stanbra. “That's what Rick and I have in common,” she says. Local kids meet Stanbra By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer They gather around her, expectantly, not sure what it's about but all recognizing one image . . . that of Rick Hansen on her sweatshirt. The kindergarten and Grade 1 students of Valley ¥ 4 4 i HONEST TALK . . . Kris Stanbra talks to students of Valley Vista school about Rick Hansen and indivi- dual awareness about the disabled Cos News Photo “We both love the children.” Stanbra says the kids are always honest, always curious, and she says the best time for children to be taught about awarness of the disabled in the community is when they are young. HIT AND RUN But Kris herself came to learn about the disabled in the most tragic of ways. Seven years ago, on April 17, 1980 at 8:30 p.m., Kris and husband Larry were driving in their Ford pick up continued on page A2