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QUICK WASH . . . Janice MacLean puts the wet broom
RCMP against the Castlegar
Hansen Car wash. The wash
began at 10 a.m. Saturday and ended at 3 p.m. at the

to use in the Castl
Ambulance crew Ric

Tour.

Safeway parking lot. Car owners were asked only to
donate the amount of their choice for a wash. 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.

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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

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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

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