ss) Aa Castlegar News November 26, 1989 OPINION Meeting needed Mayor Audrey Moore may call it just a planning m tomorrow's’ gathering of council members and representativ: local boards, agencies and businesses to discuss the impact_on Castlegar of the proposed expansion of the Celgar pulp mill may well rank among the most important meetings ever held in this city. The meeting, which is not open to the public or the media, is the first step by our civic leaders to get a comprehensive grasp on exac- tly what the city faces as it braces for an expected influx of some 1,000 workers for the project, whichis still awaiting final financial and government approvals. We were, at first, a little miffed at being excluded, along with the public, from tomorrow's working meeting, But after talking with the mayor, we agree with her that it's probably best she, her council members and other civic leaders get their ducks lined up betore at- tempting any kind of public meeting on the expansion issues. Unfortunately, Mayor Moore came up short of promising such a public meeting, which we urge her to hold. However, she pointed out that Celgar will be required to hold public on the envir | impact of the proposed expan- sion. And, the mayor noted, council has already dealt with the traf- fic aspects of the expansion with a good public report from council's Transportation Working Group which recommends a bridge be built across the Columbia River to divert the increase in truck traffic the expansion will cause from Columbia Avenue around Castlegar. But council meetings, which is where the traffic report was discussed and approved, have notoriously poor public attendance and don't, we feel, give the public sufficient chance to comment on such obviously important issues. And Celgar officials at the environ- mental-impact meetings \shouldn't have to deal with questions — such as policing — that are better dealt with by city officials. What we'd like to see, once council has all the informatior® it feels it needs to deal with the numerous questions bound to arise, is @ good old-tashioned town-hall-type meeting to give residents a chance to have their questions answered and to have council explain how it's going to deal with the extra policing, the extra health ser- vices, the extra housing, and so on which an influx of 1,000 workers into this city will require. It would also give residents a better chance than the brief question period following council meetings to tell council of their concerns In the meantime, we're pleased that Mayor Moore and Celgar officials have volunteered to make themselves available to answer the media's questions after Monday's meeting Canadian women deserve better By LYLEKRISTIANSE Kootenay West— Revelstoke MP The issue of reproductive choice is perhaps the most divisive matter of public policy facing us today Parliament now has before it an abor- tion law. It is my responsibility to vote on the bill as your member of Parliament During the last election, I was asked by constituents to explain my position on reproductive choice. What I said then still stands The women of Canada deserve to be trusted when making this deeply per- sonal and difficult decision. I will not support this legislation because women must be equal before the law The proposed law is an amendment to the Criminal Code. The legislation subjects women and their family doc- tors to possible imprisonment. It ignores the real issue of unwanted pregnancy. And it leaves a woman's difficult and very personal matter of reproductive choice up to the public courts and to provincial politicians. Women are not criminals. Doctors are not criminals. The need for abor- tion is not a crime and should not be treated’ as one by Canadian law The proposed law will also severely restrict the medical access by women in rural and remote areas. It will be even more difficult for women to seek medical help because doctors may fear criminal charges under the new law This past summer, Canadians wat ched the sad spectacle of two women being forced before the courts to defend their private decision on abor A government that is seriously tion. Canadians did not like what they trying to prevent unwanted pregnan- saw. The present legislation will not cies would provide the legitimate stop future cases like that of Chantal medical, education and social services Daigle. In fact, many expect the courts _ to achieve that goal. To do otherwise is to become even more active if this law to ignore reality. It doesn’t work for passes ostriches and it won't work work for the government I am pleased that all of my New Democrat colleagues in the House of Commons have decided to oppose the governments proposed LYLE KRISTIANSEN - opposes legislation critical ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The Conservative gover nment has severely cut funds to organizations on which women depend Planned Parenthood has had its budget cut by one-third since Brian Mulroney's Conservatives were first elected in 1984. The federal Depar- tment of Health and Welfare has cut an entire division and now has only one person dealing with family-planning issues. The policies of this government are making it difficult to raise a family. Critical issues like child care, parental leave_and_pay equity must-be ad- dressed As your member of Parliament, I know only too well how deeply this issue is held by so many peofle. Almost every day, MPs receive hundreds of letters from concerned citizens on both Letters to the editor Ferry users won't quit I recently wrote to a past friend and employer asking him to perhaps write to then Highways Minister Neil Vant on behalf of the Robson-Castlegat Ferry Users Ad Hoc Committee. 1 in formed him carefully and accurately of the information and the reasons this issue continues to be so vitally impor tant to our community. His response was that, yes, he had indeed replied on our behalf and would send a follow-up as soon as he received a reply from Mr. Vant. He felt our struggle is just, and if Mr. Don Mazankowski, deputy prime minister of Canada, can see why we must con. tinue to fight, why is it that some of our locally elected officials (Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore, Area J direc- tor Ken Wyllie, and Nelson-Creston MLA Howard Dirks) apparently feel that we must just sit back and let nature take its course. After all, we do live un- der the control of the great wizard of Fantasy Land — and all that we dare to dream really will come true. It is time to wake up. If it were not for the hard work of the many people that continue to fight, such as Mr. Terry Dalton and Mr. George Stein among others, our ferry would no longer be here, the discussion would be over, the issue would, as Mr. Dirks on- ce suggested, be dead. Mrs. Moore, Mr. Wyllie and Mr Dirks — I do NOT live in fantasy land yet and I am not ready to quit fighting until Premier Bill Vander Zalm has gone through as many highways ministers as it takes to have our ferry reinstated I would like to ask all the people that share my opinion to write to the curfent minister of highways, the Hon Rita Johnston, and once again en- courage her to reconsider reinstating the Robson-Castlegar ferry Les Schultz Robson Other side of coin must be considered It all started with Phil Gaglardi’s speech to the members of the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce at their annual general meeting in September at which he said: “‘If you want to go backwards get in on the philosophy of socialism because that’s what it is, backwards philosophy. This business of getting something for nothing, which is a philosophy of socialism, is one thousand per cent the most destructive force in any country.”” Such ridiculous remarks about socialism emanating from a one-time minister of the gospel cannot be con+ doned as the final sentencing of the socialist philosophy into perdition In my estimation such remarks bear testimony to unwarranted personal derisiveness and had evoked my response in which the moral aspects of socialism were defended Almost my sub sides of the debate. Many MPs choose not to take a position on abortion or, worse still, they try to hide their position by refusing to say anything about it Perhaps they are hoping the-issue will go away. The issue will not go away and, like the ostrich, it is not good enough to hide one’s head and hope that it will Unfortunately, the abortion debate The only positive way to address in Kootenay West-Revelstoke has not abortion is to deal with the problem of al hibited this spirit of t unwanted pregnancies. Family plan- and mutual respect. Is it asking too ning, contraception, health education much to suggest that now would be a and women’s counselling services are good timetostart? Bill C-43, though a few of them oppose it for reasons at variance to my own. I respect their views, just as I have always respected the views and charac- ter of those of my constitutents who, ‘on such important questions of per- sonal conscience and moral convic- tion, hold an opinion contrary to my own. Ro Castlegar News MMEMABER OF THE B.C. PRESS COUNCHL Burt Campbell Simon Birch PLANT FOREMAN — Peter Horvey OFFICE MANAGER — Lindo Kositsin CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hadley PUBLISHER Cc was pounced upon by Marie Maloff, a progeny in a lineage that dates back to the deepest recesses of Doukhobor ideological dissent from the Orthodox Church in Russia whose clergy at the time was falsely and incongruously in- renouncing it, and are clamoring to reinstate a market economy and all the rest that goes with it, including the free-enterprise atmosphere with the accompanying mode of behavior It is not within my province to deride anyone's personal opinion or try to persuade an older person to other channels of thought. Let us be humanely agreeable and at least be logically factual. Let facts confirm or deny our beliefs or disbeliefs If our present Western economy and our lifestyle deserves to be an outstan- ding example to the rest of the world in terms of prosperity, the highest stan- dard of living, equality, fairness, social justice, and so on, then let us not neglect to include the facts on the other side of the coin,which bear testimony to the destitute, the soup-kitchen patrons nationwide, the below-the- poverty-level welfare bums, the unem- ployed, then we will be justified in fhe sight of the Lord to be tooting the free- enterprise horn accordingly No one can deny us calling ourselves Christians, as we are identified living in terpreting Jesus Christ’s teachings to the Russian peasantry In her letter to the editor (Castlegar News, Nov. 5), Marie discounts socialism and communism as un workable concepts, under the presum. ption that people in the East European bloc have tried it, are Peace opposes With the Christmas season fast ap proaching, we would again urge paren: ts and friends to purchase constructive toys that promote creative and cooperative play, rather than those promoting violence. If children dre being raised to be passive consumers of violence and militarism, the cycle of war and violen: a Chri society, but let us at least be honest about it, and be true to our conscience, by adding the appropriate description to the high- sounding identity, something suitable like, Christian ‘‘hypocrites?"’ From the highly esteemed Catholic Bishops’ document called Ethical “In Canada today the top 20 per cent of the population receive 42.5 per cent of total personal income, while the bottom 20 per cent receive 4.1 per cent.”” Such conditions are indisputably a product of our free enterprise market economy. Would you, Marie, care to categorize the top 20 per cent of the population as the authentic corporate welfare bums in Canada? Thus, let us wish Marie all the luck in the world in her dubious attempt to graft yet another branch on to the Doukhobor mother tree to be known as the Free Enterprise Doukhobor Society We have them all — the independent Doukhobors, the cultural Doukhobors, the historical Doukhobors, the socialistic, the com- munistic, the unionistic, the refor- mistic — all except the authent(ist}ic Doukhobor, which to all appearances is scarce as hen’s teeth. I would in all sincerity appreciate someone convincingly explaining to Marie what is really meant to be an authentic Doukhobor since she pur- ports to be a dedicated member of the Doukhobor clan John Perepoltkin Slocan Park Reflections on the Crisis, group war toys ce will not be broken, but will be carried forward from generation to generation. As Gandhi said, ‘If we are ever to achieve real peace in this world, we will have to begin with the children.” Don’t buy war toys! Olga Kittson for the Castlegar Peace Group Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at 197 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar Letters should be typewritten. double-spaced and not longer than Juv words Letters must be signed ond include the writer's tull name and address. Only in very exceptional coses will letters be published without the writers name Neverthelbss. the name and address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor Ihe Castlegar News reserves the right to edit letters tor brevity, clarity. legality ‘ond grammer Remember When? 40 YEARS AGO From the Nov, 24, 1949 Castle News Public notice is hereby given to the electors of the Municipality of the Village of Castlegar, that | (H.H Mulhern, Returning Officer) require the presence of the said electors at the Municipal office, 24th Street West, at ten o'clock A.M., December Ist next, for the purpose of nominating persons to represent them as Commissioner . . . The old narrow trails where two cars could barely pass without colliding are happily being replaced by wide high- ways on which six or eight cars can collide at one time. . gee At the latest meeting of the Village Commissioners, $10 was voted to be donated tothe Canadian National In- stitute for the Blind. Dogpatch came to Castlegar on Wednesday evening when the Girl Guides entertained the Boy Scouts at a Sadie Hawkins party in the Coronation Hall. 25 YEARS AGO From the Nov. 26, 1964 Castlegar News A$750,000 road will be built to Deer Park “if a reasonable number’’ of residents want to stay there. If a reasonable number of residents don’t want to stay in Deer Park — and B.C. Hydro has learned that they do not — then a fight will have to be waged for the road on a commercial and recreational basis . Workers on Columbia River Treaty dam projects from Trail to Kaslo are expected to spend about $4 million locally every year from 1965 through 1969 and about $1 million annually from 1970 through 1984. A “worthwhile opportunity” exists for the proposed West Kootenay Regional College to take the lead in of- fering a course in pulp and paper manufacturing. This is the opinion of the Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce, expressed in a brief to WK College Council The Castlegar and District Fall Fair Association meeting which was called for one night last week above Bob's Store had to be cancelled owing to the lack of attendance and support of the organizations. 15 YEARS AGO From the Nov. 28, 1974 Castlegar News In response to a fumber of recent enquiries about the state of several highway improvement projects in the district, Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy has issued (a) condensed progress report on certain projects of general interest The work-to-rule campaign, which began Friday afternoon by the teachers of School District No. 9, came to an endat 8 p.m. Tuesday The decision was made by Castlegar and District Teachers’ Association at an emergency meeting Monday night The general public is invited to par ticipate in contributing to-Christmas hampers which are distributed an nually by the Castlegar-Robson Canadian Legion Branch No. 70. In SHSS practices for basketball are in full swing now for senior boys, senior girls and junior boys sports, 5 YEARS AGO From the Nov. 28, 1984 Castlegar News Castlegar homeowners and businesses will be paying more for water and sewer next year Castlegar council Tuesday approved a three-per-cent increase in city water rates effective Jan. 1 The Castlegar post office has aban- doned a month-old experiment to streamline mail service after howls of Protest from customers The experiment involved placing three large open plastic containers on the post office's front counter: one for mail with stamps, one for metered mail and another for oversized mail . . Castlegar council feels the federal Katimivik youth program has taken a “bad rap’? from recent publicity surrounding the death of a Vancouver youth on an overnight survival hike So council Tuesday agreed to send a letter of appreciation to the Katimivik group local Stanley Humphries secondary school swim team placed fourth over all at the B.C. high school swimming championships held at UBC on the weekend She's an angel The right ingredients for a time- honored tradition — makin, — finally arrived in the West Kootenay last week as the area experienced its first significant snowfall. Seven- year-old Elsa Wyllie demonstrated the art outside Twin Rivers elementary school. CosNews photo by Ed Mills November 26, 1989 D. BAR- D DINING LOUNGE OPEN 4 P.M. TUES. 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And even the pain-killing prescriptions suggested to date may have unexpected side-effects. “The 1990s will be dominated by two events so enormous in their significance that they will change the shape of the world as we have known it for these past 40 years,?” the normally staid Times of Lon- don ventured boldly in an editorial this week. The Times said these two events would be ‘‘the breakup of the Soviet empire and the reunification of Germany.”” The newspaper said these two trends could only be compared with the decades-long ferment unleashed by the social, political and military restructuring of | ANALYSIS | Europe after the French Revolution of 1789 or to the end of colonialism touched off by the breakup of the British and other European empires after the Second World War. GERMAN SUPERPOWER? “These will have consequences that most politicians have yet to grasp,” the Times argued. ‘*The end of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the end of a major American military présence on the European mainland. the end of the Soviet Union as a superpower and the emergence of a Fourth German Reich as Europe's superpower.”” Not everyone is willing to go that far. Ben Pimlott, a economic European East's changes worry specialist at Birbeck College in London, thinks only a multi. billion-dollar aid package similar to the Marshall Plan that helped Western Europe rebuild after the Second World War can make a dent in eastern Europe’s problems. These include debt, inflation, wor- thless currencies, endemic shor- tages and outdated industrial and technological facilities. What worries many western Europeans is that West Germany is increasingly stepping into the breach. Already the biggest traders with the Soviet bloc, the West Germans have announced $2 billion US wor- th of aid for their East German neighbors as well as Poland and Hungary in the last three weeks alone. And West German leaders have become more vocal about the way they see the European economic system developing. “There is not one capitalist Germany and one socialist Ger- many,”’ Foreign Minister Hans- Dietrich Genscher said this week during a Washington visit “There is (just) one German nation.”” West Chancellor Helmut Kohl went even further earlier this week during his visit to Poland. “We want European union, the United States of Europe,” he said. That thought, worries many western European political and business leaders, already concer- ned about economic domination within the EC by West Germany with its population of 61 million East Germany has 17 million people. “A reunited Germany could easily dictate to the rest of us,.at least in economic terms"? one British official was quoted as saying earlier this week. ‘‘None of the rest of us would be anywhere near her size.”” Canadian ‘and American of- ficials, meanwhile, have expressed alarm at the prospect of the EC ex- panding, possibly to the detriment of outside suppliers. “We've been sounding the alarm for several years now about how 1992 could result in a Fortress Europe that would shut out North American goods,”’ said one Canadian businessman based in London COOKED HAM BLACK FOREST. FREYBE. SLICED OR SHAVED . LYONER SAUSAGE BICKS PARTY PACK }WEET GHERKINS, STUFFED MANZ. OLIV! RASCHINO CHERRIES, SPICY SWEET MIXED PICKLES. $ ue or DIET PEPSI-7 UP. 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Berghofer said during a visit to the West German city of Hamburg that the party congress will have to respond to the various suggestions for improving ties between East Germany and West Germany, especially on economic con- cerns. East Germans who have suggested a change in German relations have not specified what they mean by a con- federation, but have usually made clear that they reject a formal reunification of the two Germanys. oe o & —- —- & menus print media and more. 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