+ seumegteetenemenemncobrmmnemernatetamntmn tn 5 February 14, 1990 Castlégar News a3 USE COUPON FOR EXTRA SAVINGS! AT CENTRAL FOOD — SHOPEASY BUTTER $199 MAPLE LEAF. No. 1 QUALITY ....,...... Ib Limit one with coupon. Without coupon, $2.59-Ib. HICKEN esxame ¢ rresuraving == siy, OO BREASTS DRUMSTICKS WINGS $978 a THIGHS $199 $1 78) recs presi $168 HAMS ¢ | BARON OF BEEF tina t WITH FAMILY ORDER . 24.99 i SHANK PORTION BONELESS. CANADA GRADE, $ $] 38 HAM .....---93.04 kg./ib. Action taken against Ottawa By CasNews Staff The union representing federal unemployment insurance workers has filed for an injunction against Canada Employment and Immigration for what the union calls arbitrary action to reduce by SO per cent the take- home pay of 20 workers who par- ticipated in a protest at the Trail Canada Employment Centre in January. The 20 were fined 19 days’ worth of pay for participating in a four-day sit- in at the Trail centre but were given no opportunity to defend their action before the fine was imposed, nor con- sulted about the method of payment and the impact of a take-home pay reduction on family budgets, the union says in a news release. “In effect, by taking away earned salary, the employer is actually saying Premier's proposal given some backing VICTORIA (CP) — Premiier Bill Vander Zalm's proposal to amend the Meech Lake constitutional accord is better than scrapping or gutting it, says Senator Lowell Murray. Initially, Vander Zalm was widely criticized for i Pp and ‘ies — not just Quebec — be recognized as distinct societies and that the accord be ied in stages. ‘What I like about it . . . is it seeks to build on Meech Lake rather than gut Meech Lake or start all over again,’’ Murray, the federal government envoy on Meech, said Tuesday. “It is frankly a more positive approach than that taken by Manitoba or Newfoundland. “*We're not going to get there so long as one or two provinces insist on starting all over again, because that is the effect of the premier of Newfoundland and the Manitoba task force,’’ he said. After meeting with Vander Zalm — the last on his current national tour — Murray said he won’t rush to give Prime Minister Brian Mulroney advice on how to proceed on Meech Lake. **My job now will be in the coming days to reflect on what I’ve heard and seen and learned and report in some more formal way to the prime minister,’’ he said. “The divergent position among the dissident provin- ces is such that its herd to see that there’s sufficient com- mon ground. “I don’t exclude the possibility of further discussions either atthe political or the official or the staff level," said Murray, whose stone-faced expression remained un- changed as he fielded questions. He faced many of the same questions after sessions lin prcatara con to cou Don't Break My Heart Each time, he said he can’t say whether the Meech MESSAGE DELIVERED . " by now should have received the Lake accord will be ratified by all provinces before the latest greeting card from the Seveort Respherry Ferry Users Ad Hoc Committee as it June 23 deadline. continues its campaign of humor, along with some serious lobbying, in an attempt to get the There are solutions, but the province’ have to listen, ry to ferry service b Robson and Castlegar. Murray insisted. The Quebec government has rejected Vander Zalm’s suggestion that not only Quebec be considered)a distinct society. Meech Lake recognizes only Quebec as a distinct society. ; In another segmerg of his trip, Murray heard Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa insist there be no changes to the accord as it stands. FRESH. kg. $6.13... FRESH. kg. $4.39 .. Ib. 16 starting at 10:30 a.m. at the Savoy Inn in Nelson. The exhibit will later be packaged and shipped to Japan where it will be installed at Shuzenji to be ready for the grand opening April 1. Robert Inwood of R. Inwood and Associates of Nelson, and John Howse of Moonlight Studios in Procter, created the drawings of the exhibit from UTT PORTION [STEAK/CENTRE CUT 48 kg. /| $158] Fo $4.37kg. /Ib. a Peeee BACON Castlegar News TREET TALK TEACHING AWARD... estoy | it has the right to require employees to work without ion or cgmpen- Instructor at Selkirk College. soos ,@ geography olds am jal si e receive: afer sation,’’ union spokesman Bill Brassington said. ‘‘That used to be called enslavement.” The January sit-in was a com- munity-backed protest against the removal of the Trail unemployment insurance service to Nelson, and the loss of 16 jobs to the community. The worker’s union — the Canada Employment and Immigration Un- n, a component of the Public Ser- vice Alliance of Canada—requested the i injunction as part of the larger ac- tion the ing depar- principal Mal Stelck (right) saab the doer to er hssig Selkirk instructor receives medal Lesley Anderton, a geography in- structor at Selkirk College in Castlegar, has been recognized for outstanding commitment § and tment’s right to take away an em- ployee’s earned salary. Support for the Trail sit-in spread across the country on the third and fourth days as other groups of union members occupied regional offices in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Fredericton, St. John’s and Ottawa. All those concerned received pay assessments of one to four days, as well as forfeiting salary for each day of the sit-in under the ‘tno work, no pay”’ principle, the union said. “Fair enough, if you don’t work, you don’t get paid,’’ Brassington said. ‘*But we don’t believe any em- ployer should have the right to reclaim wages which have been ear- ned. That strikes at the heart of a per- son’s right to enjoy the fruits of his or her labor.”’ The Federal Court is expected to make a decision within the next couple of days. 7 in teaching. Anderton received the National In- stitute for Staff and Organizational Development medal for teaching ex- cellence at a faculty forum in Castlegar Jan. 31. “We consider ourselves very for- tunate to have instructors of Lesley’s calibre among us here at Selkirk College,’’ Castlegar campus principal Mal Stelck said in awarding the medal to Anderton. tribution to academic excellence at Selkirk College, a college news release says. She is the recipient of a number of merit and SCOPE awards, the lat- ter being recognition of teaching ex- cellence by one’s peers. Anderton, has also received recognition and commendation from the community for her work with con- tinuing education, with local high schools, and her leadership role with local organizations such as the Selkirk Rock and Mineral Club and the West In addition to her regular instruc- tional duties, Anderton has offered Housing plan okayed By CasNews Staff Castlegar city couneil TueSay ap- proved community plan amendments and rezoned property on Merry Creek Road which will pave the way for developers to build a new housing project. Doug Green and Ron Smithers plan to build as many as 30 detached and semi-detached homes geared for people in the 50-plus age group. Environment continued trom front page in the ozone layer above Antarctica in 1987 the first ‘irrefutable evidence” that the planet was being destroyed. However, even with the cutbacks in ozone-depleting fluorocarbons, the is i he said. di , who teaches geology and soil science courses in the college’s university program, has taught at Selkirk College since 1969. She is orginally from Yorkshire, England, and received her master of arts degree from the University of British Columbia. In her years at the college, Ander- ton has been consistently recognized by her peers, students and the;college administration as an excellent instruc tor who has made a significant con- commitment, to the many courses, made presentations to local com- munity groups, acted as consultant on the Murphy Creek study and the Slocan Valley study, and participated in the extension programs at Cran- brook and Fort Smith, N.W.T. NISOD is a consortium of more than 450 colleges and universities in ‘Canada, the United States and Great Britain who share a philosophical teaching excellence. CIPE touts recycling If the Celgar saw mill incorporates recycling technology it and envir sound and would go a long way toward addressing the concerns of the economic and recycling committee of the Coalition for Information on the Pulp Mill Expansion, CIPE says in a news release. “When you realize that 15 American states are considering recycling legislation, Celgar should see that this is an option that could be monetarily beneficial,’ Darcy Suehn of CIPE said. “Recycled fibre can be produced using 43 per cent less energy, creating 75 per cent less air (pollution) and 35 per cent less water pollution and con- suming 7,000 gallons less water per ton than the conventinal pulp process.”” In North America, there are 404 mills that consume waste paper in the manufacture of new paper and paperboard products, CIPE says. In 1988, these mills consumed 20 million tons of secondary fibre. An ad- ditional six million tons was exported, CIPE says. By the year 2000, the American Paper Institute predicts that 54 per would be cent of all waste paper will be recovered for processing, CIPE says “‘By our initial calculations, some 526,778 kilograms of waste paper is produced weekly by Kootenay residents,’’ CIPE member John Gower said. ‘‘This does not include commercial waste. It would therefore be logical to assume that we (ther residents) generate~ enough fibre to make Celgar’s need for a pulpwood agreement unnecessary.’"* CIPE said it has done a preliminary survey of businesses in_ British Columbia and found they confirm the growing trend towards unbleached and recycled fibre. “We found that 75 per cent of the businesses we approached either use or would consider using “These may not be Celgar’s customers, but I feel it’s indicative of how business views the future,’” Lawrence said. A recycling operation would also see more jobs remain in the Kootenays and spinoff benefits could accompany them, CIPE said. The incorporation of cogeneration, which allows the burning of waste products (hog fuel and residual chips) to be converted into electricity for consumption or sale, is another way the mill could offset its costs, the coalition said Lottery numbers support of | Too often these days politicians talk about environmental issues but little is being done, Lewis said. “‘We’re staring the end in the face and we'd better start talking about ’* he said. Lewis said a major obstacle to change is the attitude{that people want to know how their area will.be specifically affected by trends such as global warming before they will ‘become involved in saving the en-—— vironment. But Lewis told the audience not to shave a sense of despair at the over- whelming task of saving the earth because, like him, they might find the will to continue. “IT found an energy I can’t ex- plain,”’ he said. ‘‘I call it hope and it Valhalla continued from front page “Now the company says it needs to double capacity to pay for new pollution control equipment. There is no mention of cleaning up the river. What will guarantee that Celgar will not exceed the capacity of the ne’ control just At a public hearing in January, residents of the area said they op- posed the proposal because of con- cerns about increased traffic in the area, stability of the hillside behind the development and the proposed culverting of Merry Creek. Green and Smithers said at the hearing they must obtain permission from the provincial Environment Ministry before they can build a culvert along the creek and added that they don’t plan to build on the hillside. They. said traffic won't in- crease dramatically because many of the older residents they expect will buy the homes won't drive. Green and Smithers said they play to build the development, called Lin- dmar Estates, in three phases begin- ning on the south side of Merry Creek Road. DAVID LEWIS and MAR MEALING . environmental lecturers drives me.”” Environment Week activities, in- cluding lectures, panel Mealing and Lewis’s lecture which will focus on ways to make changes to the pi Tuesday. forums and video presentations, will continue at the college until Saturday and include the second part of Programs for the various presen- tations can be picked up at any Selkirk College campus. scraps of trees toibe left behind (ex- cept the two or three per cent in protected areas)" were to be trees which were too young or too old and rotten, economically inaccessible, or of a species unsuitable for sawlogs. “Now, with the pulpwood did the old, pouring new poisons i the Columbia River and using tH pollution as an excuse to get even more production capacity, while the or recycled paper,” CIPE spokesman Craig Lawrence said. ‘Fifty per cent of that group is already using them in some capacity. Eighty-three per cent of the 36 businesses surveyed believe they will or may be using recycled or unbleached paper in five years.”” The survey included several Lower Mainland businesses including the Vancouver school board and Inland Paper Mills as well as businesses in the Kootenays, CIPE said Panel continued from front page Lybrand of Vancouver and dated Oct. 4, 1989, states an original estimate of damages to the company of $524,693, calculated Dec. 12, 1988, was $84,521 too low. “(The original figure was an) ex- tremely conservative calculation and substantially underestimates the quantum of damages which resulted from the illegal work stoppage,’’ the report says. The report breaks the new figure of over $600,000 into five categories, in- cluding $510,272 for ‘‘business in- terruption loss,“’ $19,075 in * ditional labor premiums,’ or over- time, for the days following the shut- down, and $12,750 in accounting fees The mill lost 1,256 tonnes of production, calculated as $48 tonnes per day for the two days and seven hours of the walkout, the report says. The union’s walkout ended after the union and Celgar participated in talks conducted bythe Industrial Relations Council but the company reserved the right to file a grievance The winning numbers drawn Mon- day in the B.C. Keno lottery were 4, 5, 15, 37, 47, 48, $3 and 55. The winning numbers in Saturday’s Lotty 6/49 draw were 15, 21, 24, 27, 42 and 47. The bonus number was 36. There was no winner of the jackpot prize of $2,138,045.80. The four Extra winning numbers for British Columbia on Saturday were 18, 27, 93 and 98 The winning numbers drawn Saturday in the B.C. Keno lottery were 11, 12,17, 20, 21, 28, 43 and 49. The winning Lotto BC numbers were 2, 3, 19, 30, 32 and 34 The winning numbers in the Ex- Press draw for Jaguar cars werre 950071, 059134, 906982 and 245527. These numbers, provided by The Canadian Press, must be considered unofficial Bridge continued froin front poge The old bridge has been closed to traffic since Nov. 25 because of its condition and traffic is being routed over the Tri-Pac bridge, Williams said. Construction of a pontoon foot bridge at the old bridge site has begun to provide pedestrians access, he ad- ded. Some area residents want to see the bridge restored but the wooden struc- ture has deteriorated to the point where restoration would be almost impossible and building a new bridge is less costly than the did old poll never gets cleaned up. Both the federal and provincial ministries of environment are notorious for their failure yo enforce their own guidelines.”” \ The Valhalla Society's brief also. questions the mill’s need for expan- sion to pay for new pollution con- trols. “Celgar is netting $111 million profit per year,’’ the society claims. “At this rate, it should be able to meet pollution controls without ex- pansion."" The society says record high prices for pulp, with the government pushing for expansion by turning forests into pulpwood agreements, is a more likely reason for the proposed expansion. “Presently, the annual allowable cut in B.C. is 34 per cent higher thay the 1984 limit which the Ministry of Forests admitted must be maintained to keep the forest from running out,”’ the society says. ‘‘Nearly all of our good sawlog timber has been commit- ted to clearcutting, and the only one, Williams said The cost of replacing the bridge will be between $1 million and $2 million, he added, although a formal cost estimate and bridge designs have not been completed yet The Slocan bridge is part of @ five- year bridge replacement and upgrading plan for the area but due to the structure's condition Williams said he recommended the Slocan bridge be moved up in priority. 4 For the Record In the obituary for Hans Marius Smedbol in Sunday's Castlegar News, friends wishing to make contributions in the memory of Mr. _Smedbol, should make them to the Cancer Fund, Box 3092, Castlegar, B.C. not the Heart Fund as stated in the obituary: , the Ministry of Forests is pushing for liquidation of even these trees — and this means old-growth cedar-hemlock forests, young trees, and stands of hardwoods such as aspens — in short, all the trees which were our buffer from a totally devastated landscape environment. “‘What assurance is there that the expanded mill will not use up all its available chips and start clearcut- ting?’’ the society asks in the brief. The Valhalla Society also questions whether Celgar’s claim there are enough wood chips available to sup- ply the expanded pulp mill rests on an inflated annual allowable cut which the society says-is tapidly depleting B.C.’s forests “The annual allowable cut should be reduced to an environmentally sustainable level, and at the same time Celgar should be held to its promise to use only sawmill and logging waste,’ the society says “We emphatically oppose the gran ting of any pulpwood agreement to support the expanded production of this pulp mill or the construction of another one.’’ age 68. grandchildren. Rev. Glen Backus officiating. Cemetery. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel In memory William Martin William Martin of Castlegar Passed away Sunday, Feb. 11, 1990, at Mr. Martin was born Jan. 7, 1922, in Germany and moved with his parents to Vernon in 1928. He grew up in Vernon and when old enough he enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces. He served overseas with the Canadian Motorcycle Regiment and the 9th Armoured Regiment, B.C. Dragoons from Aug. 5, 1940, until his discharge in October 1945. While serving overseas, he was wounded and lost his right arm. Af- ter the war he returned to Vernon and married Mary McCusker. He lived in Osoyoos from 1949 until 1957 when he returned to Vernon. In 1971, he married Helen Coleman at Vernon. During his life he worked for the Department of National Defence in Vernon doing a variety of jobs. He was a member of the Vernon and Osoyoos Legions and was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 170 in Castlegar. He enjoyed playing cribbage and bridge and camping with his Mr. Martin is survived by his wife Helen of Castlegar; four sons, Ronald of Kamloops, Pat of Fort St. John, and Daniel and Michael of Vernon; four grandchildren; three brothers, Fred of Penticton, and Dan and John of Osoyoos; and one sister, Sophie Townrow of Osoyoos. Funeral service was held today at St. Peter's Lutheran Church with Interment was at Park Memorial COLOURMIX ADVERTISING SYSTEMS has added a feather tq its busingss cap. The Castlegar company was chosen to build an exhibit which will be displayed in a replica of Nelson city hall at the Shuzen- ji Nature/Tourist Theme Park in Nelson's sister city of Shuzenji, Japan The goal of the exhibit is to create a visual ex- perience of the city of Nelson as well as the immediate area and the region. The exhibit will be on display Feb. which Colourmix staff worked. BRAD SCOTT is the new manager of the San- dman Inn in Castlegar. Scott is from St. Albert, Alta., and played junior hockey in Lethbridge. TAMI O'CONNOR of Castlegar has been named to the dean’s list at the University of Idaho for academic achievement in the fall 1989 seméster. O'Connor is studying in the university's college of art and architecture, a university news release says. PINK. 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Turning to forestry issues, the group says the export of pulp chips or pulp logs outside the local pulpwood area should not be allowed ‘‘as, in essence, this is an export of jobs which could be sustained locally.”” In the report's section on transportation issues, the group says Construction of a bridge across the Columbia River linking Castlegar and Robson as part of an alternate truck route should be started as soon as possible due to the increase in truck traffic expected with the start of con- **However, greater lead times and a more clear man- date as to what is required by the company is necessary in order to smooth the process,’’ the group says. “The major project review process should have been explained fully to the public in October when it was decided that Celgar’s expansion would go through the process,” the group adds. ‘‘Since Celgar is the first project to be handled under this process, the public is not sure how to participate. For the people trying to put forward responsible input, the information was unavailable or difficult to obtain.’” “Public meetings, if not public hearings, should be built into the major project review process so that people feel that their concerns are being adequately addressed,’’ the group says. The group also recommends ‘‘at least 45 and preferrably 60 days” for public input on ‘major projects such as the Celgar expansion and says less-technical ver- sions of impact reports should be available. Deadline for public-comment on the proposed ex- pansion project is Friday. . struction of the new mill The provincial government announced in January it is studying six possible sites for a bridge. The group adds that the federal and provincial governments should be urged to develop a transportation policy that includes better use of the railroad system for transport of chemicals, chips, logs and finished products to reduce pollution and make the highways safer and freer of maintenance problems ‘*Highway transportation is heavily subsidized; what is wrong with subsidizing railways?”’,the group asks. The group also says the social and economic impacts of the expansion on the community should be studied. “The effect of the increased population on the health care services, education system, policing and recreational facilities should be investigated,”’ the group says. The group made several suggestions to improve the major project review process. The advisory group says in its report the gover- nment’s major project review subcommittee should be pressured into developing a time frame for its review Process “It appears that Celgar Pulp has their organizational time frames in order,”’ the group writes. ‘‘However, the same cannot be said for the provincial government."* The group says the review process as it now stands provides for a ‘reasonable amount of public input’ with respect to the expansion List from poge —~ system in place to prevent leaks into the Columbia River or local water supplies. © Better clarification and filtration systems could be used in the new mill’s proposed effluent treatment ponds which should be environmentally secure. © Better management, including optimum use and regeneration of logged areas, is needed to sustain the forest resource for the future and every effort should be made to see that the Ministry of Forests has the manpower and mandate to police this. © The Ministry of Environment should require Celgar to install new technology as it becomes available to reduce the mill’s impact on the environ- ment? © The screening of Celgar’s landfill site and ef- fluent ponds should be a part of the project. © A cogeneration facility to produce electrical power should be encouraged to alleviate the increasing surplus of hog fuel — wood waste fuel used in pulp- and-paper industry boilers. © A social-economic impact study i“needed to adequately prepare the community services and citizens of the area © The impact on the community as a result of the expansion, especially during the construction stage, should be monitored closely ICE CREAM CAKE MIXES =:~ ENTER YOUR NAME FOR A CHANCE WITH FAMILY ORDER. 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