News August 8, 1990

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LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS

Group calls for end to pulp agreements

The Vathalla Society has made a submission to the
Ministry Of Forests opposing the granting of any new
Pulpwood agreements such as the one Celgar Pulp Co.
has applied for, amews release said.

any-additional timber to industry for 25
years is “ludicrous in view of all the public conflict and
environmental damage that is being caused by the current
Overcommitments of B.C. timber to a few huge cor-
Porations,”* the submission report said.

earings on the proposed increase of tree farm
licences proved that there was overwhelming opposition
to the further lock-up of land in the hands of the large
multinationals, the society

Evidence cited in the society's report indicates that
logging pulpwood will accelerate the overcutting of B.C.’s
forests. Celgar has said. that the doubling of its produc-
tion eapactiy due to the company’s proposed expansion

project would not require additional timber cutting
because it would be supported by the current surplus of
residual chips and logs from the sawlog industry. The
society answers this by saying: ‘Persons who don’t intend
to shoot bears don’t need a bear-hunting licence, nor
would we expect to see the B.C. government hustling to
open up bear-hunting areas for such persons; similarly,
companies which don’t intend to cut timber don’t need a
25-year timber-cutting licence."” The report goes on to
describe various factors which indicate that the surplus
residue of chips and logs from the sawlog industry will
diminish or be used up in the future.

Various pulp ies have said I timber

this i ive for the B.C.
public,’ the aay report seer The report also con-
sidered ecological damage to the forests, saying that much
pulpwood is poor-quality wood because it has poor
growing diti Tt may take of years for
some of these forests to regenerate, the report said.
Because pulp pul

all the consequences of those expansions are relevant, the
report said. It stated that gains being made in pollution
abatement are being partly offset by the expanded
production of 22 new pulp projects. If all the existing pulp
mills meet the proposed limits which the B.C. government

is not needed, an id the pulpwood agreements are pecesunry
for ‘insurance.’

ith so much overcutting in our forests, and so
many groups locked out of a fair share of forests uses,

Firefighters count on -
Mother Nature for help

VANCOUVER (CP) — About 300
firefighters battled two major forest
fires in British Columbia on Tuesday
but hoped to get the situation under
control with the help of mother
nature.

“The forecast we have right now is
for inflow conditions coming in of-
fshore,’’ said Oliver Thomae, a

Earlier,

blaze near

Pemberton.

joined forces to fight the fires.
high
firefighters to pull back from the
smaller fire, a 400-hectare man-made
Birkenhead Provincial
Park, about 25 kilometres north of

But Thomae said the winds had

hot springs, but people living in sum-
mer cabins at Birkenhead Estates
weren’t in danger.

“Those people have been notified
and kept informed of the fire
situation,’’ he said. ‘‘But at this point
there’s no threat to their cabins."”

He estimated up to 100 people were
staying at Birkenhead Estates over the

winds forced

has p , by 1994 they could still be dumping 8,326
tonnes of toxic organochlorines a year into B.C. waters,
the society said. New mills and mill expansions, unless
they are closed circuit facilities, will add to this, the
society added.

The report also said that “‘every investment in
primary production of lumber and pulp is money which
could have gone to secondary manufacturing of wood

paper. Secondary manufacturing is the key

peeenges the jobs B.C. needs to offset job losses in the

vice industry from automation and overcutting. The

pulp industry provides relatively few jobs for the money
invested.”

The society’s report suggests that investments in
paper production, paper recycling and secondary
manufacturing of lumber products would generate far
more public benefits without the pollution of pulp mills.

A copy of the report can be obtained by telephoning
or writing the society headquarters in New Denver.

The Ministry of Forests will hold public hearings on
the pulpwood agreement Celgar has applied for Oct. 4 in
Kamloops and Oct. 11 in Nelson.

Whale
hunt is
still on

VANCOUVER (CP) — Despite a
pending court challenge, the Van-
couver Aquarium went ahead
Tuesday with its plan to capture three
beluga whales in Churchill, Man.

Aquarium spokesman Roy Tanami
said John Ford, the aquarium’s

CORN ANYONE?

Provincial fire information officer.

“So if that bears out we hope to
have a little bit of an edge on the fire
over the next few days.””

Thomae said inflow conditions
mean an air mass coming in off the
ocean bringing higher humidity and
lower températures.

The two fires near Pemberton,
about 120 kilometres north of Van-
couver, have been burning since the
weekend.

Indians and loggers, who have been
conducting duelling road blockades in
the area during the past month, have

died down Tuesday and the flames
hadn’t spread when crews headed
back out.

The second fire, a 1,200-hectare
blaze about 60 kilometres northwest
of Pemberton near Meager Creek,
was caused by lightning.

No homes were threatened by either
blaze, but Thomae said that situation
could change.

“If we continue with hot, dry con-
ditions and extreme winds as we've
had there could be a chance that even-
tually it could threaten some homes.”’

Thomae said some campers had to
be evacuated from the Meager Creek

long weekend but only a handful
remained Tuesday.

While the fires near Pemberton
were the most serious, smaller uncon-
tained blazes were also keeping
firefighters busy in the Prince George
forest region in the northeastern cor-
ner of the province.

Smaller fires had also be reported
in the Nelson and Kamloops forest
regions.

“We don’t have any reason to
believe those are going to be a
problem for us so far,’’ said forest
ministry spokesman Norm Macleod.

West Kootenay weather
gets back to normal

By CasNews Staff

After the excessive rain of the
spring, West Kootenay weather has
settled-back-to-nermal,-according to
statistics from the Castlegar weather
office.

“A drier, more seasonal weather
pattern was recorded for the month of
July,”” a monthly summary froth the
weather office said.

“A ridge of high pressure built over
the province during the last week of
June which remained in place through
July. On occasion the ridge
weakened, allowing surges of moist

Pacific air to move inland.”

July temperatures, hours of sun-
shine and rainfall were all close to the
normal averages for the month.

The mean temperature — the
average Of all-temperatures—forthe
month — was 20.9C, which is almost
exactly the normal mean temperature
ef 20C.

However, the highest temperature,
recorded July 11, was not far off the
record high of 39.6C, set on July 20,
1979.

The lowest temperature for July
was 8.6C while the record low is

4.1C, recorded July 3, 1979.

The sun shone on Castlegar for
310.3 hours last month. The normal
number of hours of sunshine is 309.3
while the record number of hours, set
in 1985, is 396.7.

A total of 40.9 milimetres of Train
fell over the month, just 2.2 mm off
the normal total of 43.1mm. The
record-high, set-in —1983, is
107.9mm.

There were 10 days of measurable
precipitation during the month, com-
pared with the normal of eight days.

BRIEFLY

By CasNews Staff

said.

about getting back the remains,"’

and polit

RCMP said.

Blueberry, police said.

Band still seeking remains

Members of the Arrow Lakes Indian band, who are occupying a
native burial site near Vallican in the Slocan Valley, have still not
recieved a response to their year-old request for the return of Indian
remains taken from the Vallican site by the Royal B.C. Museum in
Victoria, band spokesman Yvonne Swan said

The band, which has been occupying the Vallican site since last
August when they began a fight to stop the Ministry of Highways from
building a road beside the burial ground, will hold a press conference
Aug. 25 to announce the band’s next move on the issue, a news release

*“We will have some information at that time as to our decision
Swan said in the release. The press
conference will take place at noon at the band’s Vallican camp.

The Arrow Lakes band set up a blockade of the site last year and
went to court to prevent the ministry from building the road to provide
a new route out of Vallican, through nearby Passmore. The ministry
eventually won the court battle and the road and a new bridge were
constructed to replace the old bridge route into Vallican that residents

iticians Said was dangerous, especially in winter.

The native people wanted to prevent the road from going through
because they said road building and traffic would be harmful to remains
in the burial site and might destroy buried artifacts in the ancient Indian
village that surrounds the burial ground.

Charge to be laid, RCMP says

An 18-year-old Castlegar woman will be charged with impaired
driving following a single-vehicle accident that sent the woman and a 20-
year-old Castlegar man to hospital for treatment of minor injuries,

The accident occured at about 10 p.m. Aug. | when the woman,
who was driving a 1978 Honda, lost control on Highway 22 at

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following persons, believed travelling
in British Columbia, are asked to call
the person named for an urgent per-
sonal message:

marine mammal curator, veterinarian
Dr. David Huff and a whale keeper
left for Churchill on Tuesday. Earlier
in the day, a Federal Court judge
granted a wildlife group a two-day a
journment to prepare its bid for an i
junction to stop the capture.

Tanami said the expedition went
ahead because the aquarium has a
federal permit allowing the aquarium
to capture the whales.

‘*Right now there’s no reason for
us not to proceed,”’ said Tanami, ad-
ding the aquarium has incurred ‘‘con-
siderable’’ costs for the capture.

Bryan Williams, lawyer for the In-
ternational Wildlife Coalition, said
the group is seeking an interim injun-
ction because it believes the federal
permit, issued by the minister of
Fisheries and Oceans, was obtained in
contravention of a section of the
Fisheries Act.

The coalition is an international
animal protection organization, with
members across Canada, that
specializes in wildlife issues, par-
ticularly concerning marine mam-
mals, said director Anne Doncaster.

Ray Bystrom raises his hand in victory after reeling in a Kootenay Lake trout.

STREET TALK

JULY WAS A GOOD MONTH for Ray Bystrom
of Ootischenia. He pulled a seven kilogram (16 pound)
rainbow trout out of Kootenay Lake while fishing off
Ken Leitner’s charter boat.

AL WHEELER is the new manager of the San-
dman Inn in Castlegar. Wheeler and his wife Vera are
from Princeton, B.C, where they also managed a San-
dman Inn.

CONNIE KOOZNETSOFF, daughter of Fred
and Eileen K of Glade, has from
the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing.
Kooznetsoff is presently working in the neurological
department of VGH. She graduated from Stanley
Humphries secondary school in 1985.

THE WEST KOOTENAY FOSTER PARENTS
ASSOCIATION will hold its annual general meeting
and elections Thursday, Sept. 13 at the Fireside Inn in
Castlegar. The meeting begins with a light buffet at 6
p.m. The association encourages all foster parents and
prospective foster parents to attend.

CONNIE KOOZNETSOFF
++. nursing grad

never seen corn
corn is at about t

Clara Laurino and husband Sabino of Castlegar say they've
row this fast ever. And to top it off the
ee metres and still growing.

ConNews photo

Chambers wants highway

The Castlegar Chamber of Com-
merce has called for a feasibility study
to examine the potential to complete a
north-south road fink along the
Arrow Lakes.

“The examination of the tran-
sportation section of the Celgar
second-stage report indicates that
Highway 6 through the Slocan Valley
has reached the end of its useful life.
Since the opposition to increased
truck traffic is rooted in the Slocan
Valley an alternative corridor should
be considered,’’ said chamber
president Jim Craig

The Castlegar chamber as well as
other civic organizations and in-
dividuals have long called for the
completion of a road link between the

Arrow: of Fauquier
and Castlegar, a news release said.
“Prior to spending more provincial
funds on a rural road in the Slocan
Valley, the province should examine
the options for completing a modern,
well-designed highway to connect the
Trans-Canada Highway at Revelstoke
with the southern

concerns of Slocan Valley residents
Salleviated if a new route were warran-
ted,’’ Craig said.

The expected benefits in completing ~

a north-south link include:

© diversion of traffic from the
Slocan Valley consistent with the
stated valley aspiration to maintain
the rural

route at Castlegar,’ Craig said.

The transportation task force for
the Kootenay region in their 1989
report called for a feasibility study of
an Arrow Lakes fixed link in the next
five years.

“The study should be initiated as
quickly as possible so that another
alternative with significant regional
benefits can be considered and the

*improved access to the North
Okanagan and the Trans-Canada
Highway at Revelstoke;

increased tourist traffic in the
West Kootenay which will assist in
diversification of the economy.

ein an area already heavily resource
dependent, improved transportation
infrastructure will contribute to the
viability of those industries in global
markets.

Clarence Biakesley of W:
call daughter Sonya.

James and Sylvia Colleton of Ed-
monton, call Susan Colleton.

Matthew Clothier of Halifax, call
Sue Oleary.

Danny Dahl
mother.

Jack Dawson of Penticton, call
Heather Schibli.

Larry Hauck of Victoria, call Eva
Hauck.

David Kennedy of Mersey Side,
England, call Anita Wade.

Hank and Susan Leefferink of
High River, Alta., call Patrick
Clayton

Hans and Barbara Martensen of
Stuttgart, Germany, call Hans
Bethge.

David Pinkey of Toronto, call
Sharon Popowwich or May Herfoot.

Max Pinsky of Winnipeg, call
Lawrence Pinsky.

Chris Storgard of North Bat-
tleford, Sask., call home.

Steve Timmons of Yarmouth,
N.S., call Cathy Kibyuk.

of Calgary, call

RCMP officer charged

NORTH VANCOUVER (CP) — A
veteran RCMP officer has been
charged with criminal negligence
causing bodily harm and aggravated
assault resulting from a shooting
during a March drug investigation.

Cpl. Glen Magark is charged with
shooting David Lorne Glover during
the March 19 search of a North Van-
couver home, said RCMP Insp. Dave
Roseberry

Glover was shot in the chest. He
has since been released from hospital,
Roseberry said. He was charged with
possession of a narcotic for the pur-
poses of trafficking following the in-
cident.

Magark, a 13-year RCMP veteran,
has been reassigned to administrative
duties in the North Vancouver
detachment. He is scheduled to ap-
pear in provincial court on Aug. 31.

Report
kept
secret

VANCOUVER (CP) — The final
decision of the first public hearing by
the RCMP public complaints com-
mission is being kept secret.

The report, into allegations an of-
ficer assaulted a man in a jail in Gib-
sons, B.C., can’t be made public
because of the commission’s inter-
pretation of the Privacy Act and the
RCMP Act.

The commission, which is indepen-
dent of the RCMP, was set up in Sep-
tember 1988 by the federal gover-
nment to inquire into allegations of
misconduct by members of the force.

Tourist

continued from front pege
rate for July was 72 per cent, statistics
show.

Between January and July, 566
visitor parties from 8.C. visited the
infocentre while 177 from Alberta
stopped in. and 109 from other parts
of Canada were recorded.

Ninety-seven parties from the nor-
thwestern United States used the
Castlegar service and 37 parties from
other parts of the U.S. visited the in-
focentre.

European travellers added 46 par-
ties to the list while Pacific Rim
visitors tallied up five more.

By CasNews Staff

It seems young trees are the
item of choice for local van-
dals these days.

Once again, vandals have
taken their frustrations out on
trees in the area.

This time it
outside of the Community
Complex that were found
ravaged Friday morning.

“The trunks were actually
broken on some,”’ said Kenn
Hample, Castlegar director of
engineering and public works.

“Three were damaged
beyond saving. I think another
three or four had branches
broken off, those we'll be able
tosave..."’

Hample said about a $1,000

was saplings

Trees vandalized again

worth of damage was done.

““We're a little upset. This
was a community
beautification project and it’s
public money. From a money
standpoint, a thousand bucks
doesn’t come by easily for the
city and we hate to see it
wasted by a couple of minutes
of nonsense, really,’’ said
Hample.

In the past few weeks, trees
were vandalized along the
Columbia River in the Robson
area. A $10,000 reward for in-
formation leading to the arrest
of those reponsible for the
Robson vandalism has been
offered by Ken Wyllie, Area J
director with the Regional
District of Central Kootenay.

PNE president discussed

VANCOUVER (CP) — Mayor
Gordon Campbell and Premier Bill
Vander Zalm wili meet again later this
week to continue discussing the future
of the Pacific National Exhibition.

Campbell said the two had a ‘‘very
frank and open discussion’’ on
Tuesday.

He told the premier he considers
PNE president Morgan Thomas ‘‘a
destructive force’’ who is not only
ruining the relationship between the
fair and the city ‘‘but also between the
city and the province."’

Campbell said he asked Vander
Zalm to remove Thomas from the

board.

The mayor said he also complained
about the manner in which some of
the board meetings had been held.

“I thought the premier gave me a
very good hearing,’’ Campbell said
after the hour-long meeting. ‘‘He cer-
tainly listened to what I had to say.””

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