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‘Gdverteement! prepared wom repre
to the advertiser

Ful, in
MO On CPE ongn a Cae Reve ds proved. Newer
proots, engrovings,

ate,

Positive future
brightens prospects

Some very positive things are
happeni in our ity
which, when taken together, bode
well for the future and provide o
real basis for increased op

Liquor Policy Reyiew Panel
deciding its hearing tor
Trail/Castlegar/Nelson, being
held this coming Thursday, should
be scheduled for Cast! 3

First Commercial Management
Ltd.'s jt dd deter-

The West Kootenay Trade Fair,

mination to proceed with its $6
million mall on the eliptical site
and Leo Bosse’s imaginative
proposal for a $5.6 million down-
town mall were both d

leb g its 1th Y
this week, would not likely hove
lasted as long, or grown so large,
were it located in any other West
Kootenay community than cen-

upon in this space last week.

When “outsiders” are prepared
to spend the kind of money Ted
Charne says hi determined to
spend, and a “local” starts talking
of a development also in the
millions of dollars, then there is
indeed o basis for faith that our
recession-plagued economy is at
long last, going to turn around.

was no doubt an ac-
cident, it was anything but ironic
that the Castlegar and District
Development Board made its
economic strategy plan public at
the same time that the local Lions
Club hosted a convention that
brough 350 delegates into
Cast! , spending an i d
$40,000. *

economic strategy
Enterprise “Development
headquartered in Castlegar),
recommends building on our
strengths — and lists tourist
development, and especially the
convention business, as areas that
should be strongly pursued.
Castlegar is “The Crossroads of
the Kootenays”, and it's because
we are the central community in
the West Kootenay that we were
chosen as the on Wednesday
for the Tourism, Recreation and
Culture Ministry meeting to unveil
its 1987 marketing program. And
it's this same reasoning,
recognizing us as a centrally
located c i ci i

trally-located Castlegar.

And the National Exhibition Cer
tre, a gem in many ways still
waiting to be fully discovered and
appreciated, needs our i
support. It is to be hoped its in-
detatigable director, Lucille
Doucette, found an opportunity to
talk with the tourism, recreation
and culture min rs parliamen-
tary assistant and his assistant
deputies.

Ms. Doucette, in a report to NEC
members, says while she isn't bur-
nt out, she is “distinctly crisp
around the edges”, from working
diligently attempting to get the
NEC the widespread support it
deserves.

The NEC and Zuckerberg Island
are two excellent examples of
what Tourism Minister Bill Reid's
parliamentary secretary, Dwayne
Crandall, described as heritage
and cultural sites that also act as
tourist magnets.

Castlegar has been hard hit by
the recession/depression. But its
equally true that geography has
given us advantages possessed by
few other.communities in the East
and West Kootenays, and in the
Boundary Country.

With continued leadership from
the city, vigorous promotion by the
Castlegar and District Chamber of
Commerce and the Castlegar and
District Development Board, and
with the help of an interested, con-
cerned and involved citizenry,

y.
that resulted in the legislature's

Castl ‘s tuture can indeed be
bright.

Tories support
missile tests

While recognizing that politicians
are prone to regularly indulge in
obfuscation, I was none the less still
quite amazed at the self-righteousness
in Bob Brisco’s recent statements re:
cruise missile testing and, re: the
response of MP Svend Robinson to
U.S. President Ronald Reagn’s speech
in the House of Commons.

Whatever argument our MP might
employ, the fact remains that the
Conservative Party ‘Supports cruise
missile testing — a stance which is both
offensive and untenable to a large, dare
I say, a majority of his constituents.

For those of us who have experi
enced first hand the suffering and des-
truction of literally tens of thousands of
people in Central America because of
President Reagan's policies of terror,
the reaction of MP Svend Robinson

seems quite restrained.

Instead of promoting the nicities of
etiquette and singing “When Irish
Eyes Are Smiling,” the conservatives
should publically denounce U.S.
aggression in Central America for what
it is and cease promoting military
industries as the savior of Canada’s
economy.

Being “nice” as Bob Brisco would
have us to be is simply not a rational or
appropriate response to someone
whose decisions are not only causing
the deaths of innocent Central Ameri
cans but are taking us all closer to total
annihilation.

I, for one, only wish there were more
Svend Robinson's in the House of Com.
mons.

Bud Godderis
Castlegar

Punch

“That's why this country's where It Is, Les... you’ve no
deficit strategy, and I've no defence policy.”

Letters to the Editor

outscore .
Rossland tried hard throughout the
game but just. couldn't cope with the
masterful passing displayed bythe
i . . .

The Castlegar “Happy Gang” enter-
tained the Trail Kinsmen on Thursday,
the occasion being the Kinsmen eighth
anniversary.

‘The “gang” have been asked by the
Nelson Daily News to entertain them
‘on Saturday to help celebrate their
60th anniversary.

. * *

Playing at the Castle Theatre is The
Browning Version starring Michael
Redgrave and Jean Kent. “The love we
should have borne each other has
turned to bitter hatred.”

Also playing is Here Come the
Grooms starring Bing Crosby and Jane
Wyman. “The biggest package of

movie entertainment ever.”

Unions not willing

During the election, Bill Vander
Zalm said he would do his best to bring
labor peace to B.C. He had his minister
of labor and committee tour the
provinee to try to find a solution. ‘They
listed to all of us and tried to bring in
legislation that woud answer most of
the concerns.

I was not happy with their decision
to give teachers the right to strike . ..
but being as there would be some
control on it, myself and others that
were against it were willing to give it a
trial.

It appears that the unions are not
willing to do the same and give the new
labor legislation a chance to see if it
may end labor strife in B.C. Are the
union leaders really concerned for the
welfare of the workers or are they
worried that the gravy train is over for
them? If they were really concerned for
the worker they would support the
changes and try to help it work. If for
some reason it drove wages down and
caused jobs to decline the would have a
very strong mandate to change the
legislation bake. The union methods
have failed to work, sol think the new
changes should have equal opportunity
for a trial period . .. The workers are a
strong voice in B.C. We are all workers
in one way or another and we all want a
fair shake in regards to money and
working conditions. But it has to be fair
“all around.”

Labor peace in B.C. withattract new
business and industp¥ to our Fesource

rich province. At the moment many
investors are scared off from locating
here because of our radical labor
climate. With more investment there
will be more jobs and less workers
available. To get good workers, busi-
nesses will have to pay good wages.
Not like it is now, where workers just
don’t have much choice of jobs and
have to take what they can get. Unions
obviously can’t and don’t create jobs
and in some cases have put businesses
under with unfair demands. The union
can do little for these people that end
up with no.job at all... With more
investment in B.C. the éeonomy will be.
up for everyone, even existing busi-
nesses. When the economy is up
businesses don’t mind paying good
wages.

Unions won't be needed because
supply and demand help to set wages
and prices. Businesses will pay good
just to keep good workers and workers
will be in control because they will
have plenty of other jobs to choose
from if they are not treated fair . . . In
the beginning unions were desperately
needed, but with all the labor protec-
tion there is now and how much more
enlightened we are, the unions have
outlived their usefulness.

I offer a salute to unions and some of
the fair labor practices they helped
bring in . . . but it is time to let go now
and say goodbye, or at least step back
and let new ideas come to pass (pro
If (provincial NDP leader) Mike Har.

WINDS OF CHANGE

court is serious about being moderate
he will support this new legislation that
could bring about betterment for all of
us. ¢

If we all work together to solve the
problems B.C. could be an even more
‘fantastic’ place to live and work. Just
as Expo proved out to be one of the
biggest best things to ever happen in
B.C. — with no labor strife once it was
legislated that there would be no
strikes — this new legislation could
have all people in B.C. working side by
side, harmoniously with business. Re-
member Mike you were against Expo
and proven wrong. Give this

F jares are filled to capacity
was the reason given by Justice
Minister Fulton for the establishment
of a separate maximum security in-
stitution for the Sons of Freedom
sentenced to penitentiary.

This was the answer given in letter
by the minister read to the Castlegar
and District Chamber of Commerce
last week.

It was in reply to the Chamber's
resolution to the effect that no special
penitentiary be set up for convicted
Sons of Freedom.

. 68 *

Women members may soon join the
ranks of the Castlegar and District
Chamber of Commerce.

At a recent chamber meeting, Jack
Young, chairman of the membership
committee, inquired as to whether fe-
males would be allowed in the organ-
ization.

In a brief discussion, president.S..C.

a chance before you jump the gun and
try to help give B.' chance at a frest
start to the wolves.

For the rest of you that were crying
for our new premier to “please” do
something about the labor problem, get
out there and-support him. He is not
radical and you know it better than
anyone. He is working his butt off for
us and he deserves a lot better than he
is getting for it. He has not even come
out against unions, but I think they
fear it will solve the problems and show
workers they won'ti need them.

For those opposing the new legisla-
tion, get a copy of it and read it first.
Many people speaking against it
haven't even read it and are going on
hearsay. A lot of us who have read it
can't figure out what some people are
so upset about.

Iris Bakken

Politics all male

By GARY KINGSTON

VICTORIA — Provincial politics
have long been a male-dominated
bastion. Women have been encour-
aged, but) mast often indifferently
tolerated whenfelected, and respresen-
tation by anybody other than a White
Anglo-Saxon Protestant is rare in most
provinces.

Change has been slow in coming, but
inereasingly there are signs that Can-
ad's pluralistic society is bringing re-
form to the masculine, WASPish
chambers of the provincial capitals.

There are women party leaders in
Nova Scotia and Manitoba and a native
Indian cabinet minister in Manitoba.

But the winds of change appear to be
blowing most strongly in British
Columbia, a province with a history of
being at the forefront of legislative
change.

The first female Speaker in the
British Empire was in British Colum
bia. So was the first woman cabinet
minister.

Emery Barnes and Rosemary
Brown, both black, were elected for the
NDP in 1972. Barnes still sits in the
legislature. And Liberal Art Lee, now
the party's provincial leader in British
Columbia, was the first Chinese-
Canadian elected to the House of
Commons in 1975.

In last October's provincial election,
nine women — out of a record 45 female
candidates — were elected, giving
British Columbia the highest percen-
tage of women legislators of any
province.

&

British Columbians also elected a
native Indian — the second to serve in
Victoria — and a Sikh, the first person
born in India to hold elected office in
North America higher than at the
municipal level.

The four women in the Social Credit
government include cabinet ministers
Rita Johnston and Grace McCarthy and
backbenchers Kim Campbell and Carol
Gran.

McCarthy, who ran a strong third in
the Socred leadership race in a bid to
become Canada’s first female premier,
is possibly the most powerful woman
legislator in any province, with respon-
sibility in British Columbia for econ-
omic development. Gran is the deputy
caucus chairman.

Gran says she sees a softening of
Socred attitudes toward women's con
cerns, but she doesn’t view herself as
being from a minority or opporessed

group.

“One of the really exciting things is
the way I'm treated by the men in oar
caucus,” she said. “They are actually
happy — and quite often express it —
to have more women. I think they see
the writing on the wall and probably
see an appreciation for women they
probably haven't seen in the past.

“But four women still isn't enough,”
declared Gran.

“One of the hardest things for a
woman is to acquire that thick skin that
you have to have. You can't wear your
heart on your sleeve. It just doesn't
work. That doesn't mean that I've

become a man or anything but I've
learned to separate my personal self
from the political self, and when
someone takes a shot at me, I really try
hard not to take it personally.”

Larry Guno, a Nishga Indian elected
for the NDP in the remote northern
riding of Atlin, says he was elected to
represent the concerns of his consti-
tuents. But he says he hopes to
emphasize the NDP policy of recog-
nizing aboriginal rights and negotiating
land claims.

Moe Sihota, a 31-year-old Sikh who
grew up on Vancouver Island and went
to law school at the University of
British Columbia, was elected in the
suburban Victoria riding of Esquimalt-
Port Renfrew. He said he was warned
by Rosemary Brown that his con-
stituency would extend beyond the
boundaries of his riding because he
would become a role model.

“She was right,” he said. “I have had
innumerable requests to attend fune-
tions, dinners, you name it. All over the
community, there's a whole lot of ‘Aha,
here's a role model.’ ”

But Sihota is under no illusions that
his election will mean instant improve-
ment for ethnic minorities. He slam-
med the government’s March throne
speech for ignoring the ethnic com-
munities.

“There is no mention of improving a
human rights code that was gutted by
this very government. There is no
mention of having a minister in charge
of multiculturalism as is the case in a
lot of other provinces in this country.”

d that by the cofi-
stitution the women are entitled to join
as men are and would be accepted.

15 YEARS AGO
From the April 20, 1972
News

Trail chiropractor Bob Brisco will
carry the Progressive Conservative
standard for Kootenay West in the
next federal election.

Nearly 70. people attended a nomin-
ation convention at Selkirk College
faculty lounge Saturday to hear fellow
chiropractor Gordon McConnell nom-
inate the 43-year-old practitioner who
is a past president of the Rossland-
Trail Progressive Conservative Asso-
ciation.

Mr. Brisco said in his acceptance
speech that “it was time for a change”
and that Kootenay West is in the
“economic backwater of the nation.”

. .

A demand that a full Royal Canadian
Mounted Police drug squad move into
this area was voiced at Kinnaird Town
Council on Tuesday night, following a
lengthly report given to aldermen by
Ald. Jim MacBeth.

MacBeth, who is Kinnaird's repre-
sentative on the Union Board of
Health, was reporting on the “alarming
rise” of addiction in this area.

He placed part ot the blame on the
Trail methadone treatment centre
which he said was drawing addicts into
the area.

* 8 «

A bush fire in “Smokey Hollow” near
SHSS at Tuesday noon spread to ad-
joining property.

5 YEARS AGO
From the April 18, 1982
Castlegar News

The next time Pacific Western
Airlines cancels a flight into Castlegar
Airport there's a good chance it won't
be because of the weather.

Transport Canada announced Thurs-
day it has approved a lower cloud
ceiling at the airport which should
reduce the number of weather-related
commercial flight cancellations.

‘The ceiling at which planes used to
approach Castlegar Airport was 3,456
feet above ground. The new level is
2,656 feet, or 800 feet lower than
before.

. « «

West Kootenay students got an un-
expected boost this week in their
search for summer jobs with the fed
eral government's decision to increase
its summer student grants by $54,000.

Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristiansen
said the extra $54,000 will create many
more summer jobs for students.

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workers at the home, was out
to destroy his business.
For 15 years he has battled

Now his patience has ex-

pired.

“Tve had it, I'm getting
out,” he says angrily, slam-
ming his firsts down on a
desk cluttered with news-
paper clippings, files and re-
ports. “It's just not worth the
aggravation. They've des-
troyed me.”

After months of trying to
revoke his licence, the Health
Ministry seized his 100-bed
nursing home on Feb. 16 for
allegedly providing substan-
dard care in conditions that a

“[ built a Cadillac of &
nursing’ home and it was

he insists they were minor,
and the violations found by
government inspectors were
deliverately planted to dis-
credit him.

He says a core group of
union employees, long dis-
satisfied with his manage-
ment, planted evidence that
helped in the Health Min-
istry’s decision to take ov
the home. C

vated strictly by profit but
also by the welfare of the

‘80,000 residents of Ontario's

825 private nursing homes,
who will continue to receive
substandard care without
more government money.

Private nursing homes re-
ceive $49 a day per resident,
$29 from the government and
$20 from the resident. How-
ever, Fedyna complains,
they're expected to provide
the same care that govern-
ment-run homes for the aged
receive at subsidies of $70 to
$80 a day.

Births & Funerals

ACCARDO — To Tanya (nee
Handley) and Angelo Accardo a
girl, born April 11.

BRAGA — To Norma and Ike
Brago of Castlegar, a girl, born
April

BURWASH — To Judy and Stuart
Burwosh of Rossland, a girl, born
April 9.

DeGRYSEY DEFOE: To Paulette
BeGryde ond Alin Defoe aibay;
born April 5
DRAPER — To Patricia Ashley
Draper of Crawtord Bay, a boy,
born April 8.

FRICKE — To Mr. and Mrs. Neil
Fricke of Montrose, a girl, born
April 9.

HUFTY — To Gail and Leigh Hut-
ty of Edmonton, a boy, born April
13.

PARKER — To Boni (nee Ferraro)
and Allon Parker of Vancouver,
a girl, born April 12.

SANDERS — To Donna (nee
Kilford) and James Sanders of
Wainwright, Alta., a boy, born
April 14.

SEMENOFF/McCUAIG — To
Koren Semenolf and George
McCusig of Castlegar, a girl
born April 11

TEINDL — To Colleen and Mark
Teind! of Trail, a boy, born April
2.

TREMBLAY — To Donno and

Dovid Tremblay of Yellowknife,
NWT., a boy, born March 17.

DEATHS
EATON —1| Howard Eaton of
Castlegar died April 13 at oge
89. He is survived by his wite

Dor
Regina and J

Thompson‘ot Montrose and Bob-
bi Craig of Lethbridge: four sons,

‘ond Doug, both of Lower
. Norm of Australia and

grandchildren:

eigh:
al
nephews. He is predec

brother Les and sister Evo

Trail died April 8 at

is survived by her do

Beth Kowluk of Vancouver; two
North Vancouver

Alta. She was

redeceased by
her husband Mic

Ht in 1960.

MARKIN — Polly Markin of
Ootischenia died April 12 at age
63. She is survived by son and
daughter-in-law Walter and
Katherine of Ootischenia,
and I

Frank . She is
predeceased by her brother
Peter in 1954 and brother in

RISOLEO — Giovanni Risoleo of
Trail died April 14 after a lengthy
illness at age 8. He is survived
by his brother Giuseppe of Trail;
three sisters, Flora Anselmo and
Immacolata Caligiuri, both of
Trail and Antoinette Spataro of
Italy; many nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by two
sisters, Filomena Bertuzzi and
Maria Marano, both in 1971.
STANG — Anna Stang of River-
vale died April 8 after a brief
illness at age 87. She is survived
by his son Phil of Courtney, Lud-
wig of Rivervale and Berhnard of
London,  Ont.; daughter
ii ft

Natasha and Renato Nicli of
hter Katherine
rook: six gran

, two great-
grandchildren; and sister Floren-
ce Osachott of Ootischenia. She
is predeceased by her parents,
husband George and brother

Edward

MIKALISHEN — Mary Mikalishen

of Beaver Falls died April 11 af.

ter a lengthy illness at age 67

She is survived by her husband

Stephen; four daughters,

McCoulay of Surrey, Eve Wag

of Lower Nicola, B.C.,

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THALMAN — J Tahiman of
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