October 29, 1989 j OPINION as_Castlégar News Worth the wait No speeches, no door-to-door canvassing, no kissed babies, ho squeezing into makeshift booths to jot on X" beside your can didate's name. In short, no elections What's an observer of municipal politics to do, now that Novem ber is almost upon us and there s It's all the provincial ‘gover amendments to legislation cover nary a ballot to be tound? nment's fault, now that Victoria's ing municipal, regional district and school district elections are in effect which set balloting of standard three-year varying lengths But the amendments mear have to wait until November 1990 is necessary as in the case of the local election campaign of any kit intervalp ending staggered elgctions and terms ot that West Kootenay residents will unless an occasional byelection City of Nelson — for a tull-tledged nd. But the wait may be worth it because next year the entire slate ot seven Castlegar city council, seven Castlegar school board and 11 Regional District of Central Kootenay board of directors seats are up tor grabs Starting next year, well years,” Castlegar city clerk Betty legislation Likewise, the regional distr three years, RDCK deputy secret Castlegar school board trustees will also be ‘brought into sync elect the Price said tull council every three Unless they change the ict directors will be elected every ary Vera Wenschlag said. And the said superintendent of schools Terry Wayling The same situation will occur Kootenay next year in communities all around the West Setting the elections at three year intervals with all seats open makes sense from an organiza} logical ional point of view. It’s just plain It should also save money in the long run For those of you pondering a step into the political arena, the deadline tor nominations will be Monday, Oct. 29 tion itself will be Saturday, Nov. | Hopetully we'll around this time next year have 1990, and the elec 7,1990 some dandy all-candidates meetings It should be worth the wait British Tories in trouble LONDON (AP) Minister The resignation Margaret. That nd her economic of Prime cher’s treasury chief adviser in a dispute over economic policy has plunged her administration into what many are calling its worst crisis in 10 years of power One report said some Conservative party legislators met secretly to discuss challenging Thatcher's leadership. Nigel Lawson quit his cabinet post as chancellor of the exchequer Thur sday, saying he could not work for Thatcher unless she dropped her per sonal economic adviser, Sir Alan Walters Walters, who as Thatcher's private adviser was not a Cabinet member resigned shortly afterward, while in the United States. He gave no public ex planation for his decision The British pound and shares falling, are a blow to the “beleaguered ad ministration. Britain-ts onthe brink of resignations, which set the recession, with high inflation and in. terest rates and a record trade deficit The government tratls the- socialist opposition Labor party by up to 10 points in The general election, however, is not due until mid-1992 NOTIN CRISIS Asked late Thursday if the nmeni was in crisis, Kenneth Baker chairman of Thatcher's Conservative party replied: * opinion polls next gover governing Certainly not. We will go on with the policies we have had for the last 10 years But the normally supports Thatcher, faced her biggest crisis since taking AIDS called I think anyone who has seen the con: troversial AIDS video will agree that it Times newspaper, which said she did not do the intended job of warning of the dangers of getting AIDS and other sex-related disease The Always condoms you ca you don’t anything.’ video screamed, “If you use have sex and have to worry about It hyped up (to popular teen-type music) the idea that if you go out ona date you should be prepared to have “safe sex,"’ with an Always condom. Safe sex with acondom? Ha! A quick survey of women who depended on condoms for birth con trol would show a whole passel of un planned pregnancies. I'm sure such methods would be even less effective protection for AIDS infection because a woman can usually only get pregnan at certain times of her cycle The “Government reported Nigel Lawson last night delivered Margaret Thatcher the decade in of fice and shook the Conser Independent is turmoil biggest. blow of her vative party to its roots when he resigned as chancellor of the ex chequer Secret meetings of Conservative members of parliament have already talked of the possibility of a leadership Queen's (heralding the formal opening of the sion) on Nov challenge after the speech new 21 parliamentary “Crisis for Thatcher,’’ the conser vative Telegraph reported. Thatcher expressed ‘profound * over Lawson's resignation but him with regret moved quickly John Major, the man she made foreign secretary only three months ago Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, the cabinet T r and order, became David Waddington business member responsible for law foreign secretary chief government Parliament No announced for manager in became Home Secretary replacement Walters. Major tment that fighting Britain's 7.6-per inflation. remained the was said after his new appoin cent annual government's overriding objective Monetary policy is tight and is begin ning to have its effect,"’ he said. “I shall necessary keep ght for as long as Lawson, $7, increased interest rates to 15 per cent in a,bid to choke off cost of living increases and prop up the pound on world markets. video ‘hooey’ A person can get AIDS any time of the month It is criminal for the NDP and the media to mislead people, especially young people, with their whole future ahead of them, into believing such hooey! The only safe sex is no sex or sex with only one partner when neither is infected I also think AIDS is maybe even cre spread, or ted, because certain parts of the anatomy are being used for sex that were not designed for that purpose Thank God we have a premier who cares enough not to mislead our young that The hould be brought to task are people regardless of the money Was spent to put the video out ones that the ones that made or directed the making of the video, not Premier Bill Vander Zalm Iris Bakken Salmo [— PUBLISHE EDITOR PLANT FOREMAN OFFICE MANAGER CIRCULATION MANAGER Su Castlegar News MEMBER OF THE 8c, PRESS CoUNCIL Burt Compbell Simon Burch Peter Harvey Linda Kositsin Heather Hadley Letters to the editor Editorial annoying As the federal Liberal candidate in Kootenay West-Revelstoke during the last election, I feel that 1 have to ad the presented in your editorial on Oct. 8 dress gross mis-information (Barrett fresh wind) Ihave no problem with the first half of your editorial but in sixth through eighth paragraphs you show cither an abysmal lack of knowledge or NDP your an extreme prejudice for the point of editorial the view. 1 overlooked last. time when you suggested that the Liberal and NDP parties should meld. The views of the Liberal Party are nowhere near those of the NDP the free-trade they are miles apart and " with the United States is good example Liberals are NOT opposed to free trade agreement and we-never have been Liberals, in fact, have twice before in our history suggested that we enter into an agreement with the United States The problem that the Liberal Party has present with the free-trade Street extensions would be safer There has been much talk about the desperate need to reduce the flow on Columbia Avenue but I mention of plans to extend 8th and 9th traffic I may have overlooked something see no avenues right through to. Kinberry heights, thus reducing the residential traffic coming on to Columbia Avenue from the new subdivisions in the Bir chland Kinberry heightsarea The 9th avenues linking Kinberry heights with heights area and extension of 8th and the rest of south Castlegar would open up a far safer route for the children going to and from school who curren tly have no alternative but to go on toa busy highway. It would also, as a bonus, add to the beautification of the city Possibly a traffic: situation would be the city’s original plan of extending the above avenues partial solution to the Some nine years ago, the city was in NDP can OTTAWA (CP) remaining in the NDP leadership race may With six weeks the public have already passed judgment on the seven contestants An opinion poll, sponsored jointly by the CBC and the and Mail, showed that 68 per cent of Toronto Globe Canadians surveyed could not the d Broadbent at the party's name any of candidates seeking to replace E leadership convention in Winnipeg on Dec. 2 Strangely those results indicated an improvement in public profile. More « than a month ago a GalJup poll found that more than 75 per cent of respon dents couldn't name any of the NDP leadership candidates In the latest poll, 22 per cent knew former B.C joined the race Yukon MP Audrey Mcl recognized by eight per cent and On tario MP Steven Langdon by four per cent. But the Ontario MP Howard McCurdy, Saskatchewan MP Simon de Jong, B.C. MP lan Waddell; and B.C. school teacher Roger Lagasse were not recognized by more than premier Dave Barrett had aughlin was rest two percent Candidate much recognition way not better among those who in volved in a costly replotting scheme of between Columbia Avenue. The given for the replotting was to properly plan for the extention of 8th and 9th Linking Kinberry heights to the properties Avenue and 11th logic avenues. he rest. of south Castlegar would eliminate the present unavoidable cir via Columbia above 10th Avenue and 26th Street schools. cuitous route Avenue from the subdivisions to the Many years have passed since the completion of the replotting scheme and the land designated for the future yet the streets, impasse continues to exist. Children cannot avoid the high: d y traffic on thoroughfare the city’s main I feel the time has come for the city to take the first step and, passibly through a local initiative program proceed with the orderly construction of the above alternate routes Florence Ryan Castlegar agreement is the form it takes, in that it is not a free-trade agreement as en- visioned through a responsible body such asthe GATT but rather isa sellout of our country and will mean a loss of jobs and loss of industry in Canada The NDP is a protectionist party which is totally opposed to free trade and is upon. sheltering Canadian workers as if they were not the world-class workers that they are. It makes no difference if Mr. Jean Chretien or Mr. Paul Martin or anyone else, for that matter, is elected as leader of the Liberal Party. There is no way that anyone who is a Liberal and who believes in the supremacy of the individual could possibly agree to joining with an outright socialist party that believes in the supremacy of the insistent state The Liberal Party is not going to the NDP but in the next is going to form a majority government Garry R. Jenkins, Rossland support federal election Please address all! Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliverthem-to our oftice at 197 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar. Letters should be typewritten double-spaced ond not longer than Juv words Letters must be signed ond inciude the writer s full name and address. Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without Nevertheless the writers nome the name and address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor Ihe Castlegar News reserves tne right to edit letters tor brevity. clarity. legality ond grammar didates unknown NDP if an election was held today. Fifty-eight per cent of could name dicated they would vote these not any leadership candidates. Political scientist Desmond Morton of the University of Toronto says the low profile of the race so far should be worrisome to than the more can didates. They have failed to attract media support and | think have caused some in the party anxiety because of it, Morton said One pollsters’ results for the Libe The Liberal leader ship race, however, is just getting un consolation though the als were hot much better der way CAN MISS QUEBEC The NDP held the last of 15 all candidates’ meetings two weeks ago Now the candidates are fanning out on their own secking delegate support But a vice-president of the federal NDP in Quebee seems to think they shouldn't bother spending much time in his province Michel Ag spent force in Quebee because all MPs aie says the party is at in the leadership race have come out against the Meech Lake constitutional accord He even doesn’t believe it is worth while for Quebec riding associations to send delegates to Winnipeg “think it would be a total waste of time to attempt to defend a Quebec point of view at the present stage of the party's development,” says Agnaieff “I don’t see what Quebec delegates can accomplish when the rest of the party is heading in the opposite direc tion."" For Agnaieff those are bitter words. The former head of Quebec's largest teachers’ federation has spent the last four years trying to build the NDP in Quebec He steps down from party office next month The NDP has never clected anyone in Quebec even though a third of the party's national budget in the last elec Lion was devoted to the province Two of its high-profile candidates in the Jast federal election ran for the Par ti Quebecois in last month's Quebec election Quebee can send up.to 181 delegates to the convention but party offiviats say they than 40 show woukl be surprised if more Remember When? 40 YEARS AGO From the Oct, 27, 1949 Castle News Mr. £.D. Fulion is tor be congratulated upon having introduced. into the House of Commons a Bill to make illegal the printing or distribution of crime publications ten. ding or likely to corrupt young people. There can be no parent, welfare worker or teacher in Canada who is not well aware of the need for some such provision today The new Hope-Princeton Highway is scheduled to open on Wednesday, Nov. 2, to give Southern B.C. a short route tothe Coast The road was contracted for $3,750,000 in 1945 and so far it has cost $12,000,000. With cooler weather coming on and a smell of snow in the air, the citizens of Trail are anxiously watching the progress of Cominco's half-million. dollar arena. J.V. Rogers, consulting engineer, states its still expected that the ice sur face will be in use by the middle of November as scheduled 25 YEARS AGO From the Oct. 29, 1964 Castlegar News Education Minister L.R. Peterson will officiate at the opening of the new $440,000 Kinnaird Junior Secondary school next Tuesday evening Crown lands available in Castlegar may be purchased by B.C. Hydro for its use during Arrow dam construction and then be turned over to the Village of Castlegar for municipal purposes after the dam has been built Preparations are underway for a $100,000construction job on the Trail Castlegar highway The highway will be straightened where it crosses Murphy Creek and a huge culvert installed instead of the present wooden bridge. Bob's Pay’n Takit suffered its first loss of the season to Bon Ton of Trail in senior B basketball. After a tense five-minutes of over time battle, the final score was 68-62 15 YEARS AGO From the Oct. 31, 1974 Castlegar News Castlegar voters will have a choice of cight aldermanic- candidates when they mark their ballots at the Nov. 16 polls. Only two of the eight contenders have neither run for nor held office in the past. These are former city clerk Allen Selbie and David Ferguson The other six candidates are Albert Calderbank, George Bondaroff, Dave Silvester, and encumbents Jack Cher noff, G.S. Rust and Mike Livingstone. There will be no cablecasting over Channel 8 until further notice. The modulator supplied by Community Video which enables prerecorded programs to go over the cable and into the subscribers” homes” has~broken down The 1974 Castlegar District United Appeal Campaign officially ends today and has now reached 72 per cent of its goal Figures released by campaign chairman George Bondaroff show that the United Appeal has $18,000 of its $25,000 target collected SYEARS AGO From the Oct. 28, 1984 Castlegar News Kootenay West will receive $663,000 under the federal government's Canada Works program, MP Bob Brisco announced Friday Castlegar’s National Exhibition Centre has been awarded a $16,000 federal grant for a feasibility study comprehensive The number of people registered for employment this month at the Trail Canada Employment Centre covers Castlegar froma yea which is down about 150 ago. And the number signed up for work at the Canada Employment Centre in Nelson has dropped about 500 this month compared to April, May and June. But the managers of both centres say the statistics are more red herrings thgn an indication that people in Castlegar and the rest of the West Kootenay are finding jobs Castlegar Playboys downed Williams Moving 5-3 Friday in the newly renamed Castlegar Recreational Hockey League. The league changed its name this week from the Castlegar Commercial Hockey League Meanwhile, earlier in the week, V and H Contractors doubled © arling O'Keeteo-3 October 29, 1989 Castlegar News as New Canadians Castl head lib all living in the West Castl h 9 Canada's newest citizens were congr Ald. Sandy Santori (centre), representing the City of Trail; Rossland-Tra was one of 33 people from 14 countries, now , to receive Ci ina t the atulated by Chris D'Arcy and Ald. Albert Calderbank (right), representing the City of Castlegar. At left, .presiding Judge Michael Latta congratulates N.H. 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During six weeks of public hearings, the tax has been criticized from Whitehorse to Charlottciown by taxi driyers, potato growers, draught horse breeders the chairman of Canadian of Canadians oppose the tax The only question left as the committee starts drafting its report on the tax is how far the committee’s Tory majority will go in recommending amajor overhaul Led by chairman Don Blenkarn, the committee is pondering whether Wilson should lower the rate, tax food, cut proposed credits for poor people, tax existing as well as new housing, slash payments to small business and maybe even chargea levy onvisits to the doctor Opposition members of the committee confidently” predict Wilson will be forced to go back to the drawing board as even the finance minister's staunchest allies take pot-shots at the tax The final say on whether the tax lives or dies will be left to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who must make a basic political calculation: Can theFaxies.impose.the big and small business tax and get re-elected? HAVE DOUBTS More than a few Tories, Pacific, funeral directors and bowling alley operators. ANALYSIS Perhaps not surprisingly, a poll for the Toronto Globe and Mail and the CBC last week said 80 per cent including Alberta Treasurer Dick Johnston, aren't so.sure Mulroney can But Wilson is anything but cowed by doom and gloom enveloping his proposed sales tax The finance minister and his band of tax architects are beginning to believe they may have won the battle 10 impose the biggest change in Canada’s tax system since which has a somewhat different culture Liberatarians, said finance examples in which **misunderstandings understandably clusion. Members of the Commons finance committee must Their report to Parliament is due on Nov. 28 WON'T AGREE If you’re waiting for the federal Liberals, New Commons finance cher said Anybody would want to get the rate down and we're going to see what we can do,’ Blenkarn said While the any alternatives. sonal income taxes were introduced in 1917 Wilson and his officials believe opposition to the sales tax is simply all a misunderstanding ‘Unfortunately, t-guess, with something new, atan beena fair bit of confusion and misunderstanding about the proposal,” David Dodge, associate deputy finance minister, said this week Dodge, the man in charge of selling the sales tax, committee can occur, but where they lead to a rather wrong con now come to a conclusion on the sales tax after public hearings wrapped up last week Democrats and Conservatives to agree on ways of fixing Wilson's new tax, don’t hold your breath The committee has a track record of putting aside partisan differences and coming up with unanimous reports, as it did last June when it harshly criticized John Crow, governor of the Bank of Canada But the chances of all three parties seeing eye Lo eye on the sales tax are slim ‘Clearly the Liberals and NDP are not goi operate on a consensus report, Parliament will get three reports for the price of one with Don Blenkarn and the dozens of suggestions to change the tax. Tories try to lower Wilson's tax rate, don’t expect the Liberals or New Democrats to propose In the middle of official and unofficial leadership campaigns, the parties won't want to hamstring can didates with clear-cut positions on the sales tax, said Liberal associate finance critic Doug Young there has members have seen several g 10 co- one opposition resear Tories coming up with But the advertising budget was later incteased, he added NDP MP Len Taylor from Saskat chewan wanted to know Wilson back pocket what other surprises had tucked in his IV's time that Canadians got the truth instead of being subjected to con temptible he said government Is this the minister of finance or the minister of propaganda?” advertising,” Referring to a Mail-CBC Wilson Canadians Toronto Globe and poll published this week, about 60 want said per cent of information about his tax, scheduled to replace on more Jan. 1, 1991 the existing 13.5-per-cent federal sales tax On most manufac tured products The poll indicated that 39 per cent of 1,500 people surveyed were a little in formed and 18 per cent were not at all informed about the tax WILSON STEADFAST Opposition MPs also tried failed once again to extract a promise from Wilson that he would not in crease the proposed nine-per-cent rate and I's not possible for a minister to give such a commitment — that is, not to change a tax rate in the future, Wilson said, adding he could not bind his hands against unforseen events The later told reporters that we would like alower tax finance minister rate, but he won't cut the proposed nine-per-cent rate at the expense of in creasing the deficit The Economie Council of Canada said Thursday that Wilson could lower the rate to 6.5 per cent and not tax food, but the government's annual budget deficit would rise by almost $1 billion Design im Lilith PPP LLL brochures menus flyers print media logos &” = and more. “ Poo Guess Who... 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