Wednesday, January 25, 1995 Heritage Page 2A The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, January 25, 1995 The Castlegar Sun Page 3A Winlaw pub proposal slammed Two killed in [ PLEASE RECYCLE THE CASTLEGAR SUN | RON NORMAN Sun Editor CASTLEGAR MaZzDa PAYMENT SALE : Start the New Year in the brand new Magda car, truck or van of your choice and let our finance specialists do the rest. MAZDA 323 Sale Priced From A neighborhood pub proposed for Winlaw came under fire at the last Regional District of Central Kootenay board meeting dents turned out-for the meeting to protest the process used to deter- mine public reaction to the pub. Vicky. Swanson and Ro e Kolesnikoff have proposed a neighborhood pub for Hoodicoff Road at Highway 6. 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The school board had written “inappropriately drawn and applied inconsistently.” “They have excluded property owners, including the school board, and the school that is in the area entirely.” Tees also questioned “the validity of an anonymous phone survey conducted by a single per- son from:a list composed by the proponent of the pub.” In letters to the board, several the regional district exp concems. Earlier, the regional board agreed {0 allow Tees to speak to directors on behalf of the dele-. gation. “This is really highly unusual,” said board chair Hans Cunning- ham, pointing out that delega- tions are normally scheduled far in advance of board meetings. Tees told directors that the pro- cess for determining public sup- port for the pub was skewed. She said the public was not given “accurate and thorough information” about the pub pro- posal and that the boundaries used to gather public input were Some crayons a LISA GUGLIELMI 2 For The C Sun “Health Canada’s policy is to reduct exposure of children to all lead sources, including crayons, to the lowest possible level.” That’s what the Product Safety Bureau Report on Policy Guide- lines for lead in Children's Prod- ucts says. Further down the page it also says, “Crayons can be made without adding lead...” So why does Health Canada allow imported crayons and crayons that fail testing to be sold fo unsuspecting buyers? Health Canada tests crayons for total lead content, which can't exceed 75 parts per million of 0075 per cent weight, In the U.S., however, the Arts and Creative Materials Institute Inc. (AMCI) tests crayons for lead.content AND bioavaitability. which indicates there is only a trace of lead in them. , But there is still the issue of the tox®nature of lead. In Aptil, 1994 the U.S. Con- sumer Product Safety Commis- = Shaw d comp d about the lack of time to respond to the pub proposal They pointed out that the first public notice was in the Dec. 22 Nelson News. An information hearing was held Dec. 28 and res- idents were asked to respond by Jan. 2. “The timing of the meeting held, during. the Christmas week, di hised day period.” Wyllie suggested that there is a parallel between the pub contro- versy and the Slocan Valley unsightly premises bylaw, known as Bylaw 923 That bylaw became an Issue when, residents argued that the then-director didn’t consult ade- quately with residents before introducing the bylaw. Nygren was a vocal opponent of the bylaw and later ran for the position of area director. At its December meeting, regional board rescinded the bylaw on Nygren’s initiative. But Nygren said the pub pro- posal is different. “A comparison to Bylaw 923 is in my. view an apple and an orange.” Wyllie also said he had trouble dents of the half-mile area due to previous family commitments,” said Jo Brown of Winlaw. Ken Wyllie, director for, the Lower Arrow-Columbia, also noted that the process “proceed- ed with some haste over the holi- sion (CPSC) announced recalls of imported crayons, mostly from China, because of lead poisoning hazards. é Health Canada was also informed of this recall and “negotiated with importers on [their] voluntary withdraw. They encourage [importers and manu- facturers] to do their own testing {on products]...before they are put on the Canadian market.” Many of those importers left their crayons on our shelves. Kirsten Apel, an art teacher at Stanley Humphries Secondary School and mother of two girls, was surprised that Canada didn’t demand to have the crayons removed from-shelves as well “When it comes to drugs. Canada is right on the mark. But this is surprising.” she said. Still, why do the words “nea- toxic™ appear on crayon boxes when lead poisoning can cause brain damage and retard mental and physical development? “According to us, non-toxic means nothing. It's like saying a dish detergent is ‘new and Continued from 1A tice, saying there has been little adverse reaction to negative billing in the East Kootenay. “It's been pretty quiet around here.” He said Shaw Cable has received a number of “negative calls” from subscribers regarding the Rogers Cable issue earlier this month. Rogers came under fire from angry customers after it V6, auto., A/C, cruise, tilt, p. seat, windows, locks, mirrors, trunk. AM/FM cassette, tinted glass. tried to bundle the new channels with popular existing ones such as The Sports Network. Shaw Cable is not following that path in the East Kootenay. Corbett noted that Shaw Cable doesn’t intend to provide the new channels in the West Kootenay until it can upgrade its transmis- sion lines and signal. He said he doesn’t know when that might be of EP’ standards, Ac, cassettes, Vv CHECK OUT OUR NEONS 4-cylinder, automatics & power steering, brakes and more ag to a motion which stat- ed: “no local issues have been indentified to discourage support of the proposal.” He pointed out that the appear- ance of 20 residents at the board meeting indicated there are local issues to be resolved hazard improved’ when it only has a new scent or color,” said George Debarates, project officer of the Product Safety Bureau at Health Canada. — “Crayons and paper are the basics for children’s creativity and writing skills. 1 used-to take away ballpoint pens and lead pencils from my girls, but now I have to watch out for crayons too,” said Apel. @ Tribute __._.. Continued from 1A their Lear jet disappeared over the ocean off the Queen Carlotte Islands. 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Society vice-president Bob Switzer, said he’s happy with the increase, though “we'd always like more, With our coordinator, it doesn't even pay her full salary.” The society had to lay off its full-time coordinator for two ’ months last year because of lack of funds. However, Switzer hopes that will change this year. “We hope to have her on full time this year,” he told The Castlegar Sun. The CP Rail station is open five days a week, Monday to Friday, in the winter and seven days a week in the summer. Switzer said the society hosts concerts, craft sales and a farmer's market at the museum in the summer. Last year the society also refurbistied the old Castlegar jail as its major project. However, Switzer said no major projects are in the works this year. Cut up those Xmas trees — "SUN STAFF If you are waiting for garbage workers to take away your Christmas tree from where it sits stuck in the snowbank in front of your house, you will have a long wait. Under the new city garbage bylaw, Christmas trees will only be hauled away by garbage workers if the trees are cut up and bundled. City administrator Jim Gustafson said garbage workers won't pick up full trees. SAMSON'S SOAP SHOP INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL ARE BULK ITEMS