CASTLEGAR NEWS REVIEW, March 24, 1985 The Canada Awards for Excellence Add The Honourable SINCLAIR STEVENS Minister. Department of Regional Industrial Expansion to the medalist with: e a formal awards presentation Tr name to Candas best! The Canada Awards for Excellence provide recognition for outstanding achievements by the business and industrial communities, with the presentation of Awards for Excellence and Awards of Merit. A Canada Award for Excellence gives tribute e public displays of outstanding entries © promotion of winning entries both nationally and locally e enhancement of company prestige within the business community ¢ national recognition through corporate use of awards program symbol and product identification CANADA RECOGNIZES EXCELLENCE IN THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES: 1. PRODUCTIVITY Given for outstanding improvement in productivity. 1984 Winners: IBM Canada Ltd., Les Industries FP. Inc. 2. ENTREPRENEURSHIP Given to the owner/manager of an independently operated firm in Canada for outstanding achievement in a small or mid-sized business venture. 1984 Winners: L.H. Frost Ltd., Canparts Automotive Int]. Ltd 3. MARKETING Given in recognition of innovation and creativity in all aspects of marketing. 1984 Winners: Westar Timber Ltd., Canada Steamship Lines. 4. LABOUR/MANAGEMENT COOPERATION Given jointly to labour and management in recognition of outstanding achievement in the cooperative implementation of technological change. 1984 Winners: IWA Local 1-424 and Lakeland Mills UAW Local 1451 and Budd Canada Incorporated. 5. INVENTION Given in recognition of an outstanding advance in a process or product technology. 1984 Winners: MacMillan Bloedel Ltd., Ker-Train Systems Ltd. 6. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER Given for outstanding achievement in the identification, transfer, tation and commercial exploitation of technology. 1984 Winners: The National Research Council with Sciex Inc., Waterloo Centre for Process Development and Envirocon Ltd THE CANADA AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 1985 The national tribute to business and industrial excellence 7. INNOVATION Given for outstanding achievement in the innovative application of a technology to products, processes or services 1984 Winners: Com Dev Ltd., Standard Tube Canada Ltd. 8. INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Given for outstanding achievement in the design of a Canadian product. 1984 Winners: Versatile Ltd., GSM Design Itée. 9. ENGINEERING DESIGN Given for outstanding contribution by design engineer to the development of a new industrial or consumer product. _-77 POSITION 7-7” COMPANY _-77” TYPE OF BUSINESS 2777 ADDRESS ~ POSTAL CODE ‘ Gouver E@ Scam” aceon Entries must be received by May 17th, 1985. 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And Guymer, who knew slain officer Michael Buday personally, isn't pleased. “They didn’t even properly cut it down,” he said Tuesday. “They just ripped it down — desecrating our Canadian flag. “It looks like we have another mentally deranged individual at “aoa Mi aa RIPPED OFF .. .Sgt. Wes Guymer of Gas’ shows the remnants of a Canadian flag which was torn off by vandals Monday night. i RCMP Flag wos Vandals anger RCMP large in the Castlegar area. Because that’s how I think of an individual that would do such a thing.” Guymer said he knew Buday when Guymer was stationed at Prince Rupert, and Buday was working in Terrace. “He was a really nice fella,” re- called Guymer. “He was very athle tie. A personable, well-liked mem. ber of the RCMP.” Only a red ragged shred is left by the Canadian flag which had been flying at half mast since the officer's death March 19. Trapper Mike Oros, 33, was shot dead by police after fie killed Buday with a rifle. Guymer said two officers at the seo wR iano ABORTION CLINIC lowered at halt mast to commemorate a constable who dies in a shootout in the Yukon March 19. Costews Pho! Castlegar detachment used to work with Buday in Prince George and Fort Nelson. Another officer, Const. Stu Schmidt, attended Buday's funeral in Brooks, Alta., about 185 kilometres from Calgary. The Castlegar station would have been locked and momentarily unat tended while officers on duty patrolled the city Monday night, said Guymer He said the vandals may have been unaware as to why the flag was flying at half-mast “I have no idea what was going on in their mi » or what their motives were,” he said. wae aimed | LACK OF SEEDLINGS } q CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1985 Debate takes shape HALIFAX (CP) Plans for a Halifax abortion clinie were promoted from the stage and denounced from the pulpit Tuesday as the debate that some physicians feared from Dr. Henry Morgentaler’s visit began to take shape Morgentaler, who may be facing additional charges in Manitoba after police raided his Winnipeg clinic last weekend, told hundrgds of supporters in a university auditorium here he won't be deterred by threats of similar retribution by the Nova Scotia govern ment Meanwhile, police would not say whether a bomb threat at the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax was linked to Morgentaler’s visit to the city The hospital, which performs most of the legal abortions in Nova Scotia about 1,400 a year — received the call while Morgentaler was speaking at Dalhousie University several blocks away Police gave no details and a hospital spokesman said from his home he did not know whether the threat was made by anti-abortionists. But it seemed to bear out fears expressed earlier by the chairman of the hospital's therapeutic abortion committee, who said Morgentaler should leave well enough alone and not focus needless attention on a system that has been working responsively, efficiently — and quiety “The problem is that when people start protesting Morgentaler’s abor tions then they might start protesting the legal abortions as well,” Dr. Wilkie Kushner said. “A woman has enough on her plate to go to a hospital for a medically necessary abortion without having to cope with people waving placards and calling her a murder.” Indeed, Morgentaler told a news conference that the abortion system in Halifax is adequate for local purposes. However, he said his services are needed here for women from across the Atlantic provinces who can't get abor tions easily or quickly enough in their own provinces or areas. His qualified praise for the system in Halifax was taken as damning by Health Minister Gerald Sheehy, who reaffirmed his government's intention to prosecute Morgentaler if a clinic is opened “We claim not to have abortion on demand,” Smeehy said. “When Dr. Morgentaler commends us for our ser. vice, then I'm beginning to wonder if indeed we are observing the intent of the federal law.” Close to 1,000 people bought tickets to hear Morgentaler and organizers for the Dalhousie student council started turning people away five hours before he spoke. While ticket holders lined up for the doors to open, hundreds of demonstra tors took positions across the street in a silent protest Many of them went later to St Mary's Basilica, where close to 1,500 people turned out to pray, sing and hear church leaders such as Roman Catholie Archibishop James Hayes and Anglican Bishop Arthur Peters de. nounce abortion as an attack on the sanetity of life Under the law, an abortion may be performed if at least two of the three physicians on an approved hospital's abortion committee decide continua tion of the pregnancy would f-Spardize the life or health of the woman. Forest renewal ignored in B.C. By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer Forest renewal in B.C. has been ignored to such an extent that Selkirk College was unable to obtain even 1,000 seedlings to plant for their Forestry Day celebration this Friday. “All the seedlings in the province are spoken for,” professional forester John Adams of Selkirk College told Castle- gar city council in a presentation at its regular meeting Tuesday. Adams, who's also department head of environmental sciences and tech- nology at the college, said there's a serious lack of tree seedlings and nur- series in B.C. Council agreed to Adam's request that letters be written to both Premier Bill Bennett and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney urging them to sign a proposed federal agreement that would provide $300 million for the B.C. forest industry over the next five years. Adams said provincial Forests Min- ister Tom Waterland recently sug- gested this subsidy agreement (under the Department of Regional Economic Expansion) would be signed “in the next couple of weeks” but added “they've been saying that for two years.” Waterland has announced that the province is to begin planting 200 mil- lion trees annually — Op from 130 million a year — but, says Adams, New en By DAPHNE BRAMHAM VANCOUVER (CP) — Canada has a new oil and natural gas pricing agree- “that’s just a start.” “We've put back in, until relatively recently, less than one half a percent of the revenue that came from the forests back in,” he said. “Sweden puts back 10 per cent. If we could put back in two per cent, that would be four times what we're doing now.” Adams said he decided to approach city council on the issue of forest renewal because it's one level of gov- ernment that’s had less direet involve- ment than provincial and federal levels. He said B.C. is the only province in Canada that hasn't yet signed a federal agreement for forest renewal, and added that the B.C. government seems to want federal monies “to go other places” like tourism. “But I venture to say, tourism won't be much good without forests,” Adams said. Bennett has called B.C.'s forests a “sunset industry,” but Adams says the opposite is true. The climate and land are “admirably suited for forests — some of the best in the world.” And forest renewal would not only provide immediate employment, but is an investment which literally grows, said Adams. The provincial government's atti- tude towards forests renewal is similar to that of someone who acquires a garden, but neglects, it, he added. “If you sit back and wait until next JOHN ADAMS . . agreement needed year without fertilizing, planting, weeding . . . you're not going to have any tomatoes next August.” Ald. Len Embree said a sub-com- mittee of the Modified Industrial Labor Adjustment Program (MILAP) is compiling a study of West Kootenay forests similar to one made in North Cowichan on Vancouver Island, en- titled “Strategy for Survival — A For- est Investment Proposal.” When completed the study will be submitted to the Association of Koot- enay and Boundary Municipalities, Embree said. ergy agreement some 85 per cent of the pi » it is to di ion we will create the certainly an agreement Alberta can put its signature to.” ment, but the mini: who it aren't giving any details until the pact is ratified by their respective cabinets. 5 The deal is expected to be formally signed later this week in either Calgary or Vancouver, an aide to Federal En- ergy Minister Pat Carney said Tues- da; Carney and the energy ministers from the three western oil-producing provinces — John Zaozirny of Alberta, Paul Schoenhals of Saskatchewan and Stephen Rogers from British Columbia — reached the agreement Tuesday evening after two days of intense negotiations. The pact was agreed to by the provincial ministers 90 minutes after Carney had tabled her bottom-line position, said a source close to the negotiations. During a hastily arranged news conference Tuesday evening, the fed eral minister acknowledged the dif. ficulties in getting an agreement “We have met constantly over a very wide range of subject matter and the last few days of negotiations are al ways the toughest .. . The last few days and the last few hours of negoti. ations were the make-or-break stage.” HAD FREE REIN Carney said Prime Minister Brian Mulroney gave her free rein to nego- tiate the agreement. But before making the details of the pact public, she said, “I owe him the courtesy of telling him what I initialled.” She said the agreement “meets the principal concerns of the parties and I think we are pleased this long process is over.” She also said it will not add to the federal government's $35-billion defi cit Zaozirny said “I can say without hes itation that it meets essentially every concern the province of Alberta has felt so strongly about since the unilateral introduction of the NEP (National Energy Program) back in 1980.” One of Alberta's main concerns about the program was the petroleum gas revenue tax, which it said was too much like a royalty and overstepped the federal government's jurisdiction The tax provided Ottawa with more than $2 billion annually Zaozirny said the new agreement satisfies Alberta's three concerns erude oil deregulation, natural gas pricing and marketing and fiscal issues. “Certainly for our part, as the major producing province of the country with called the agreement “very positive in terms of the indus- try,” adding it will help continue the high level of activity in Saskatchewan. WILL CREATE JOBS Rogers said the agreement should help create jobs in the energy industry in B.C. Carney said the negotiations were “technically difficult because we are moving to oil de-control, which hasn't been done for a long time.” She would not say whether deregula tion — which would allow the price of Canadian oil to drop to the world mar. ket price — would be accomplished by the target date of May 1. Carney said the new agreement could mean a reduction in the pump price for gasoline “We have always said that by going —inside SPRING CARNIVAL: Members of Castlegar Figure Skating Club presented their annual carnival entitled, “Through the Years’ on Sunday. Photos 81 don. Tussoud's on Thursday gate pushed forward There was nothing to find JACKSON NOT THRILLED: LONDON Thriller helped make the one-gloved rock star known eround the world, but it didn’t help him get through customs at Heathrow in Lon- 1 didn't mind being searched* said Jackson, 26 sunglasses and a military-style gold-braided jacket environment for lower prices,” she said. “That's what's happened in other areas where if you have market sen sitive prices, consumers do have the opportunity to reap the benefit. “Of course that depends a lot on the nature of the taxes the various provinces and jurisdictions levy. But in general, yes, there should be a benefit to the consumer.” But industry, officials and critics said in interviews from Toronto Tuesday that price reductions are unlikely. Bruce Wilson, chairman of the energy committee of the Consumer Association of Canada, said he would be “very surprised” if prices dropped because normally oil prices just go up. Jim Conrad of the Independent Pet roleum Marketers Association also said he didn’t expect pump prices to go down OLIVE BRANCH: Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore says she viewed the new provincial budget and proposed provincial/municipal partner- ship agreements as an “olive branch 2 RAT RACE: Over 200 runners took part in the first annual Rat Race held in Castlegar on Sunday .. . 82 DEPOSITS INCREASE: Castiegor Savings Credit Union had a $3.5 million increase in deposits last year, the credit union told members at its recent annual meeting... B6 Michael Jackson's hit album Jackson was subjected to a 35-minute body search when he arrived in London to unveil a wax statue of himself at Madame Customs officers at Hearthrow searched Jackson's clothes and baggage after the singer walked through the “nothing to declare He left customs looking shaken, then hid behind bodyguards as @ crush of photographers. television crews and several dozen fans wearing Why should 1? —————