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Castlegar News

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The bottom line

Castlegar council's concern (or
should that be displeasure?)
with the Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce's decision to close its
downtown branch and move all its
operations to the Castleaird Plaza
branch is understandable

The downtown branch is, atter
all, a landmark. It has anchored
the northeast corner of Columbia
Avenue and 3rd Street for some 30
years

In that time it has aslo provided
much-needed banking services tor
thousands of north Castlegar
residents. But its not as if the
Commerce is the only bank in nor
th Castlegar. If it was, council's
concern would be justitied

However, the fact is the Com
merce's downtown branch
customers can always change to
one of the two remaining north
Castlegar banks if they don't want
to travel all the way to the plaza
and in all likelihood many of them
will change

Besides, it's hard to fault the
bank for wanting to consolidate its
two operations into a single bran-
ch. What other bank or credit
union has two branches in
Castlegar? For that matter, what
other community of comparable
size — or even of twice the size
has a bank with two branches?

And the City of Castlegar is har
dly one to throw stones. When

Castlegar and Kinnaird merged,
did the new city maintain two city
halls? Of course not. It would have
been inefficient, though many
south Castlegar residents would
probably have enjoyed more con-
venient service. The same is true
ot the Bank of Commerce

Perhaps the bottom line to all
this is economics, as the Bank of
Commerce has indicated. If it paid
the bank to retain the downtown
branch, it would. But it doesn't

Get out
and vote

Wednesday is election day in
British Columbia. In Rossland-Trail
thousands of voters will be eligible
to head to the polls and put an X
beside the name ot the candidate
of their choice

The fact that we have that choice
is all too often taken for granted
In Rossland-Trail during the last
election one out of five eligible
voters stayed home on election
day.

This year, let's try to improve on
that figure. Do yourself and your
province a favor. Vote.

Ron
Norman

Trying to pick a winner in Wed
nesday’s provincial election in Ross
land-Trail is proving more difficult
than many had imagined when the
campaign kicked off more than
three weeks ago.

Then, Premier Bill Vander Zalm
was riding high atop a wave of
personal popularity not seen in this
province since the early days of
W.A.C. Bennett and Rossland-Trail
Socreds had just chosen Castlegar
Mayor Audrey Moore to carry their
banner.

It was almost too good to be
true. Here was a credible candidate
with proven voter appeal who had
shown herself to be extremely cap-
able in the municipal arena for more
than a decade. She was what the
Socreds had sought for so long: A
winner

And she was going up against
what appeared to be a moribund
New Democrat team led by veteran
MLA Chris D'Arcy. The ho-hum
NDP nomination meeting attracted
fewer than 100 people, compared
to more than 400 at a lively Socred
nomination.

But the riding has turned out to
be a tougher battle for Socreds than
they thought. The New Democrats
were better organized and got off to
a head start on campaigning.

And D'Arcy proved to be any
thing but a pushover, fighting a
spirited campaign that has stuck
with the New Democrat strategy of
focusing on issues.

So with three days left before we
head to the polls, who's leading? It
depends who you listen to. If it's the
Soereds, then Moore is ahead. A
news release out of their campaign
headquarters this week said local
polling shows Rossland-Trail voters
are solidly Social Credit

But the New Democrats are
saying the same thing about
D'Arcy. They say their telephone
polls show he’s out in front

Perhaps the best indication of
how the campaign is going came
during Vander Zalm’s visit to the
riding last week. He arrived with a
bagful of goodies, which in itself
wasn't too surprising — he'd been
doing that all over the province

But what he announced was in
teresting. He not only promised the
long-sought-after CAT scanner for
Trail Regional Hospital, but the
West Trail Approach

What makes the West Trail Ap
proach interesting is that it was

given without any strings attached.
Vander Zalm didn't say the riding
would only get it if, for instance, it
elected Moore.

While some observers say the
announcement goes to prove what a
government MLA would do for the
riding, others took it as a sign
Moore's campaign is in trouble and
needed a major boost from the
premier

The big question that comes out
of all this campaigning is: Can
Moore swing 3,100 votes her way?
That's how many votes D'Arcy won
the riding by in 1983

In answering that, you have to
recognize that Moore is easily the
strongest candidate the Socreds
have had in 14 years, Vander Zalm's
incredible popularity (though that
appears to be waning slightly), and
the fact D'Arcy has been in for 14
years.

Even given all those conditions, I
still say, “no.”

But then I also bet the Astros
would take the Angels in the World
Series.

. .

A couple of things that could play
some part in Wednesday's election
are the number of eligible voters
and Liberal candidate Tom Esakin.

The number of eligible voters is
down nearly 2,350 from 1983. If the
majority of those were NDP sup-
porters who lost their jobs and had
to move, D'Arcy better look for a
new line of work.

Esakin has ail but admitted he is
running solely as a spoiler — in this
case to try to wreck the Socreds’
chances. He could play a part in a
close vote if he can attract some
votes away from Moore

. . .

Last week I said Moore had
adopted the tactic of trying to blame
D'Arcy for unfulfilled Socred pro-
jects such as the CAT scanner and
West Trail Approach

But it works both ways. This
week D'Arcy sent out a pamphlet in
which he tries to take credit for
a whole bunch of projects, such as
the Castlegar courthouse, the Sel
kirk College gym, the Community
Complex and a host of other things.

While he certainly may have
lobbied hard for those projects it's
rididulous to suggest he played a
major role in getting them ap
proved. That credit belongs to the
government

‘an

RKIEGI 198
THE PROVINCE

SOCIAL

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Letters to the Editor

Dog killer a monster?

This letter is addressed to the “con
siderate” person who shot our eight
year-old cocker spaniel sometime on
the evening of Oct. 9. You know who
you are — we can only speculate and
wonder as to your reason.

She was not a marauding dog. She
did not travel in packs or kill chickens
and rabbits. She was not vicious. She
seldom wandered further than next
door. She did, however, bark, as we
wotld expect her “to, if “Someone
entered our yard or used it as a
shortcut from Crestview Crescent to
Forest Road.

If you had a problem with our dog.
why didn't you have the guts and the
common decency to approach us about
it, rather than sneaking around in the
dark, and using a .22 calibre rifle on a
defenseless family pet?

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, B.C

Letters must be signed and in
clude the writer's full name and
address. Only in very exceptional
coses letters be published
without the writer's name. Never
theless, the mame and address of
the writer must be disclosed to the
editor

will

The Castlegar News reserves
the right to edit letters for brevity
clarity, legality and grammar

Election
notebook

. By RON NORMAN
Editor

PREMIER BILL Vander Zaim
was given the royal treatment when
he brought his triumphal tour to
Salmo last week. Local Socred and
Salmo booster Iris Bakken had gone
to great lengths to
stopover as festive as possible,
including providing a massive
1.2-metre by 2.4-metre (four-foot by
eight-foot) cake.

But the hit of the party was the
miniature house Bakken and com
panion Dennis Beaulieu constructed
out of

make the

the unique Salmo stone
Vander Zalm and wife Lillian posed
for photographers inside the tiny
house, which will be displayed at the
family-owned Fantasy Gardens in
Richmond

VANCOUVER SUN columnist
Vaughn Palmer says the Socreds
are having less trouble getting their
campaigns off the ground in NDP
territory because party members in
those constituencies smell victory
for the first time in years.

Palmer mentions four ridings as
examples, including Nelson-Creston

We don’t know where she was when
she was shot except that it had to have
been nearby, most likely in her own
back yard. We do know that the bullet
in the neck did not kill her outright and
that she crawled or staggered in what
must have been very great pain, to
within three metres of our house,
before she collapsed and eventually
died. Who knows how long this took as
we did not find her until the next
Morning.

We would like to be charitable and
believe that you did not intend for her

to suffer — that, in fact, you are just an
inept marksman. On the other hand,
you had no qualms about breaking the
hearts of three small girls and a
72-year-old man, so perhaps you truly
are a monster!

Our dog did not deserve to die this
way, nor did our five-year-old daughter
deserve to lose her friend. We hope it
will be on your conscience — but then,
maybe you don't have one.

Grant and Susanne De Wolf
Castlegar

Clerical help for
board unnecessary

My thoughts are if we close schools

Yesterday, after a telephone call to
the Castlegar school board office, I
found out where part of the money
allocated to School District No. 9 is
being spent. (Thanks to our Social
Credit government handing our board
a blank cheque for $190,000 to spend
wherever it wants through the so
called “fund for excellence™.)

When the director of instruction was
hired two years ago there were to be
no additional costs in wages. The board
office already has 3' full-time steno-
graphers. I would think for a district
the size of Castlegar they would
provide all the clerical time necessary
Now money from this excellence fund
has been put aside to hire another
half-time secretary for the director

FUN HOUSE . . . Wife Lillian kisses’
miniature house constructed of unique Salmo stone

where Socred Howard Dirks and
New Democrat Corky Evans are
vying to see who will replace retired
New,Democrat Lorne Nicolson
ROSSLAND-TRAIL New Demo
crat candidate Chris D'Arey has
taken campaign literature to a new
high. The latest D'Arcy brochure
unfolds to reveal a two-foot high
poster of the incumbent standing on
the banks of the Columbia River
beneath Cominco's Trail operations
Perfect for every teenager's room
(right alongside Don Johnson)
ROSSLAND-TRAIL Liberal can
didate Tom Esakin says his party's

and cut_ programs why spend any
money at all on extra clerical help when
right now more than enough is
provided? Our present government in
its wisdom closed four of our schools.
Now, all of a sudden there is extra
money for unneeded staff. I can’t help
but wonder where the school trustees
are when these decisions are made —
perhaps hiding their heads in the sand
and letting the administrators make
the decisions. Where is the rest of the
money being spent? As taxpayers we
should ask for an accounting. I would
suspect it isn't being spent where it
should be.
Martha Kinakin
Thrums

Premier Bill Vander Zalm inside

CosNewsPhote by Bur! Compbe
chances on the Lower Mainland look
“quite favorable.” He says it's
possible the Liberals could pick up
as many as four seats.

The seats targeted include one in
Point Grey, meaning either incum
bent Pat McGeer or failed Socred
candidate Kim Campbell
down.

As well, they're eying Surrey for
a possible election win and one “or
both” seats in Vancouver-Little
Mountain where Deputy Premier
Grace McCarthy and Doug Mowat
are fighting off Liberal leader Art
Lee.

will go

Remember
When?

35 YEARS AGO
From the Oct. 18, 1951
Castlegar News

A plan whereby British Columbia
might help relieve the Paeifie North.
west power shortage would provide
that province with a revenue of
$12,000,000 annually, former Senator
Clarence C. Dill said today.

Speaking to the Columbia Basin
committee of the Spokane Chamber of
Commerce, Dill advocated the con
struction of dams at Revelstoke and
Castlegar solely for storage of Colum
bia River water

. 2° 8

The annual! meeting of the Castlegar
District School Board was held Thurs
day in the Castlegar Elementary
School with Mr. G. Craft presiding.

Mr. Craft reported that with the
new Junior Senior High School plus the
new tworoom elementary unit at
Kinnaird and the new three-room unit
in Castlegar, that this was the first
year that school was not being held in
rented halls.

. .

‘The Evening Group held a combined
business meeting and farewell party at
the home of Mrs. J. Schuepfer, with 16
members present and the guest of
honor Mrs. H. Knight, who will be
leaving Robson to make her new home
in Trail.

.

This week the village completed its
first cement sidewalk program with
the laying of sidwalks at the corner of
Pine and Columbia Avenue to join with
the sidewalk at the clinic and a second
section from the bridge to Rigby's.

25 YEARS AGO
1961
news

Grants amounting to a total of $1,175
were approved by directors of the
Kinnaird-Robson-Castlegar Commun.
ity Chest at their regular meeting last
week.

Largest of the grants was $700 to the
Canadian Legion for welfare purposes.
This is used chiefly for veteran's
welfare, but is also available for
transient aid where this is needed.

._ 8 6

One of the Castlegar District's best
loved citizens, Major John Moll of Kin
naird, a retired Salvation Army major,
died in the Castlegar hospital Tuesday
night

‘A keen community worker, Major
Moll was active in the Scout and Cub
movement in the West Kootenay from
1946 until 1959.

. 8 6

There were 704 inquires at the
tourist booth this summer, Fred Gib-
son, tourist and publicity chairman told
last week's meeting of the Castlegar
Chamber of Commerce

Mr. Gibson said 2,135 occupants
were in the 704 cars that stopped at the
booth.

15 YEARS AGO
From the Oct. 21, 1971
ar News
The Doukhobor communal home, the
project of the Castlegar-Kinnaird Joint
‘21 Centennial Committee, will be
officially opened on Nov. 13
. 28 «

Tenders on the expansion program
planned for the Castlegar Post Office
and its conversion to a multi-use fed
eral building with UIC and Canada
Manpower offices included will likely
be called within the next week

. ©

A loss of more than 60 students in
the secondary schools has resulted in a
drop in money for school district No. 9.

Official opening of the new, greatly
enlarged Central Food Mart premises
in Kinnaird takes place this morning
with the special sales celebration con
tinuing tomorrow and Saturday

At a recent meeting at the Stanley
Humphries secondary school library
Tuesday Adam Robertson, president of
the B.C. Teachers’ Federation spoke to
local teachers about problems concern
ing the teaching profession of B.C. He
pointed out that initial returns from
the membership drive indicate more
than 99 per cent of the teachers in B.C.
have joined the federation.

5 YEARS AGO
From the Oct. 18, 1981
Castlegar news

More than 600 Stanley Humphries
senior secondary school students
staged a walkout Thursday afternoon
to protest lack of heat in classrooms.

The protest blocked city traffic for
half an hour as students from Grades 9

12 marched from the school playing
field to the Castlegar school board
office on Columbia Ave. and then down
Columbia Ave. to city hall

*

Despite near-record high interest
rates, housing development proposals
are still pouring in to Castlegar council

Planning committee chairman Ald
Charlie Cohoe told council Tuesday his
committee recently reviewed fire de
partment schemes which, if all are
approved and completed. will provide
more than 380 additional units in the
city

MORE LETTERS

Issues overshadowed

In this silly season of provincial politics, the real and the
serious issues of this election are overshadowed in the media
by ge of a circus e: starring “Wonder Bill”
and “Headband Lil.” All this is like it always was: members
of this entourage are unable to see that underneath the
trappings of questionable style the emperor is wearing no
clothes.

Closer to home, and further down the election trail,
things are just as bad. The local contest is overshadowed by
exhaustive reports of the new premier’s tricks of self-pre

i his mate's ing h ds, and how the
crowds loved his blatant displays of voter bribery. These
things may be of interest to future historians and, certainly,
to psychologists and stud of psych: ry. but right
now they make for the worst kind of journalism.

Now that many of us participate in the very events we
later see on TV or read about in the papers, we can see for
ourselves that what's thrown back at us by the media bears
very little resemblance to what actually happened on the
scene. A question in point is last week's all-candidates forum
at Selkirk with coverage so poor in all three area
newspapers that it makes me wonder whether some clever
occulist made good money by fitting newspaper staffs with
distorting lenses (the same occulist must have made a killing
on rose-colored lenses for many other people willing to be led
down the garden path for a few more years).

The public forum at Selkirk was the only event of this
kind in this riding during the present campaign. Yet the local
press treated it like it was just a sideline to the travelling
road show that came to town the next day. Only the Nelson
Daily News made a pretense of giving it its full attention.
But who of those present would agree that Social Credit
candidate Audrey Moore sparkled in debate (as the NDN
headline proclaimed) when the fact of the matter is that the
inexperienced Liberal candidate (for Nelson-Creston) — by
his own admission nervous and unprepared — got warmer
audience response than she did?

It was all there: real issues, real style backed by policy
and vision on the part of New Democrats Corky Evans and
Chris D'Arcy — if only the press had ears to hear it and eyes
to see it. D'Arcy dazzled and impressed with his
considerable skills in political debate and his well-informed
stand on issues, detailed and upfront. He moved the
audience of 150 to the loudest applause of the event with his
charge that “this is simply a bad government, and if they
won't change their policy it should be changed for them by
the electorate.”

This was not a setting for Mrs. Moore to make a
favorable impression. She found it necessary to insist on her
good past record as mayor and promises of more hard work
if elected to the “winning” team. And what winning team is
this that has a proven record of putting large sectors of B.C.
population in no-win situations?

How can Mrs. Moore, as a responsible politician, ask us
to put our trust in a man who lives in Fantasy Gardens, holds
press conferences in a rose garden and makes promises that
are sheer fantasy aboard the Love Boat? How could she
hope to represent people of this area by joining forces with
the Socred government of special privilege with a public
record of economic disaster in the past and fantasy in way of
future planning?

In fact, the day she openly became a Socred Mrs. Moore
stopped representing the people here and began repre

senting the narrow interests of Victoria. I wonder — and
many more people must be doing just that — what kind of
representation we ean expect from a candidate who all of a
sudden fell into a strange silence on an issue of major
concern to this area, the sale of the WKPL to a foreign
buyer. Before she declared her candidacy, Mrs. Moore was
vocally opposed te the sale as “setting a dangerous prece-
dent” and spoke of pressing the premier into opposing it.
Her silence on the subject suggests that she took gag orders
from the premier, instead.

At the forum a question came from the audience on the
candidates’ position in this matter. As the question was
being asked, Mrs. Moore mumbled a hurried apology about
another engagement, and left the room leaving the question
unanswered. End of debate. Not that you would read about
this and things like that in your community newspaper,
where the only voices of reason these days come from
Letters to the Editor pages.

Barbara Tandory
Castlegar
Editor's nete: In point of fact, Mrs. Moore left before
the question about West Kootenay Power was put to the
candidates.

‘Til next time

I would like to congratulate Audrey Moore on her win
and fellow candidates for an exciting convention. I would like
to thank the membership for their support before, during
and after the nomination meeting. I was pleased to see the
interest shown by our members.

The media provides a special and essential service to
the community and I thank all of them for their coverage of
the events of the nomination meeting. Special thanks to my
family, true dear friends and fellow workers for their
support and encouragement. You hold a special place in my
heart. We will make it next time.

Sid Crockett
Genelle

Kristiansen
blasts premier

to levy a 15 per cent import
duty on Canadian softwood

Vander Zalm “rushed in like
the proverbial fool where
angels fear to tread.”

the hands of U.S. kamber
interests, which have been
trying to “cut the feet out
from under” the Canadian
forest industry. “The pre-
mier admitted we were guil
y (of subsidizing izi Canadian
lumber producers) just at the
time when any poker player
knows that you have to sit
tight and keep your ecards
close to your chest” Kristian.
sen said in the release.

“In spite of his respon.
sibility to proteet B.C. ex-
ports and B.C. jobs, Vander
Zalm just could not resist the
temptation to score cheap
political points by meddling

Democrats in Ottawa and
Victoria to take the same
kind of responsible ition
that I and the NDP had taken
when we beat back the last
U.S. attack on our industry.”

“Well, we did and I did,”

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