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Castlégar News

PAGE A4, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1990

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_._ EDITORIAL

Downtown dream
long overdue

You’ve just finished a busy day of shopping in downtown
Castlegar and since it’s a hot sunny day you decide to grab an ice
cream cone before heading back to your car. Walking along the
sidewalks of inlaid brick, you spot a space on one of the many
wooden benches which line the street under the numerous trees that
this year are beginning to spread their branches and provide some
shade.

You sit down and watch as the crowds of shoppers wander in
and out of the stores. Some are familiar long-time businesses while

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others are newcomers to downtown. All have h
spiffy-looking stonework facades that complement
sidewalks.

A dream?

As:1990 fades into history, it is. But revitalization of downtown
Castlegar is once again off the backburner and maybe this time — ex-
cuse the pun — something concrete will emerge.

It’s long overdue.

Urban Systems Ltd., a consulting firm of planners and engineers
from Kamloops, has come up with a North Castlegar Revitalization
Strategy for the Downtown Business Association and the City of
Castlegar, based on i and ions from down-
town business people. The draft report was given the once over by the
DBA at a meeting earlier this month and accepted by city council on
Tuesday.

The report lays out the need for revitalization of the downtown
core, maps out some specific objectives and suggests a possible
schedule for implementing the strategy.

It’s a good plan.

The strategy lists the obvious weaknesses of downtown Castlegar
— most notably its poor physical appearance, which isn’t news to
anybody — but it also lists a number of strengths of the downtown
area on which to build. Among the strengths are the number of at-
tractions which draw people to the downtown area including retail
outlets, professional services such as accountants, lawyers and
medical services, government and institutional services such as the
post office, liquor store and city hall (not necessarily in that order)
and other attractions such as Kinsmen Park and the Castlegar
Rail Station.

Also listedas strengths are the area’s compactness, its natural
setting and free parking.

gs and
the brick

on.

Although attempts to spruce up downtown Castlegar in the past
have failed, Urban Systems suggests attitudes have changed.

“The mood in the community generally, and in the North
Castlegar commercial area in particular, has improved considerably
over the past year,’’ the company says in its report. ‘‘Major economic
development initiatives have been proposed for the area, including the
Celgar modernization project and several capital projects proposed by
B.C. Hydro. The time is therefore ripe for the North Castlegar com-
mercial area to undertake revitalization, allowing it to capitalize on
numerous existing and potential opportunities.””

LETTERS TO

THE EDITOR

Pointing out the positive is a good idea. It’s something to build

Hopefully, now that the downtown business community appears
unified and eager to get on with the plan, Castlegar residents will, in
a year or so, have an attractive new area in which to shop.

VIEWPOINT

Uncertainties
surround Major

By STEPHEN WARD

LONDON — John Major may be
an unknown quantity outside his
own country, but the real uncertainty
is where he plans to take Britain —
and how he’s going to get there

Britain’s new prime minister,
hemmed in by a sluggish economy
and a divided Conservative party,
may have his honeymoon spoiled by
nagging political headaches.

Before he can get settled into 10
Downing Street, Major must face
Pressing international questions
about the Persian Gulf crisis and
European unity.

“I don’t promise you that it will
be easy and I don’t promise you that
it will be quick,’’ Major said on
Wednesday, his first day in office

“Because it will be neither easy
nor quick, if you will forgive me, I
will go into No. 10 straight away and
make a start right now.”’

The gulf crisis exemplifies Major’s
delicate position.

Although he is expected to con-
tinue Thatcher's strong opposition to
Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, he must
make his own way

“*At home, he has to prove he is
independent of Mrs. Thatcher,’
Michael Mandelbaum of the School
of Advanced International Studies in
Washington

““But in the U.S., the more he tur-
ns out to be her man, the more the
Bush administration will like it.""

Major did put our signals Wed-
nesday that he will be h., own ma:

He named a new cabinet that con-
tains new faces.

And he said Britain supports
greater European unity — an idea
that long worried Thatcher and con-
tinues to threaten party solidarity.

“We have in front of us the
building, a development of an en-
tirely new Europe,’’ stressed Major,
“a building and development in
which this country will play a full
and leading role."*

Major’s record on European unity
is mixed. As chancellor of the
exchequer, he persuaded Thatcher to
allow Britain to join the European
Community’s exchange-rate
mechanism.

Yet he has warned that Britain
won't give up any more sovereignty
to the 12-member community and
has resisted the idea of a single
European currency

At home, Major's best advantage
is that he isn’t Margaret Thatcher,
an electoral liability in her final days
in office. Yet even here, Major, 47,
runs the risk of being associated with
the Iron Lady's unpopular policies.

Although Major's leadership vic-
tory Tuesday will boost his party’s
popularity, he is not expected to call
a general election until at least June
when the economy, now in recession,
is expected to rebound.

Any cuts in interest rates can only
be small, but Major may try to
stimulate the economy by future
budget giveaways, he said.

Stephen Ward writes for The
Canadian Press.

Cowardice clear

This letter-is firstly addressed to Dr. Dave
Williams to whom I wish to extend my heartfelt
appreciation for rushing-to our aid and helping us
deal with this tragic situation and secondary to the
attention of the driver of the truck with the green
canopy, speeding down the 2700 block Sth Avenue
at 5:40 p.m. Nov. 23, 1990.

For your information, since you chose not to
stay around and find out, what you hit on Friday
night was a dog.

Your cowardice, sir, is self evident. Your
conscience is not. Therefore, | will now take this
opportunity to aprise you of the consequences of
your irresponsibility.

The speed limit on Sth Avenue (2700 block) is
30 kilometres per hour (18 mph) which you were
undoubtably well in excess of. Ahead of you are
two small girls, one age five and one age eight,
trying to coax a small dog back to their house (he
had just accidentally escaped out the door). Your
alternatives at this timie were A) to slow down and
possibly stop or B) honk your horn and presume
all would move out of your way. You chose ‘‘B’’
and proceeded to run down and subsequently kill
the dog in full view of these two children.

The sickening ‘‘thud”’ of the impact followed
by the blood chilling screams of my children will
be branded on my memory for many years to
come, as will the horror of the vision of my eight
year old, hysterically sobbing while frantically
trying to drag her dog off the road so he wouldn't
get hit again, as your taillights were disappearing
in the distance. These are visions that will not be
soon erased from my mind.

Try to imagine, if you can, an elderly person
who is in fact the dog’s actual owner, for two
years battling her way back from a serious illness,
intent on once again building a home for herself
and her dog. Imagine, the consequences for her.

My family and I have many happy memories
of our dog which hopefully in time will erase the
painful memories. You do not have those happy
memories and for this | am glad!

Imagine all of this, if you can, for this is in
fact what we have been left to deal with. You took
the easy route — you just left. But I’m not letting
you off that easily. Unfortunately, I do not know
who or where you are. I want you, though, to
know of the pain and suffering the consequences
of your actions have caused.

Some could say, I suppose, that consolation
could be gained by the fact that, although tragic,
this was after all ‘‘only a dog.”” My reply would
be, ‘‘Was it, really?”’ . . . and maybe, just maybe,
“This time.

Pam Hackett
Castlegar

Praise deserved

It is gi ying to see act he-board support

After the so-called ‘‘clean modernization’
there will be a 35 per cent higher sulphur dioxide
emissions than there is now. Clean, eh?

And much more carbon dioxide from the
expanded mill and chip trucks. How much? Lots,
but Celgar refuses to do a study despite requests
from the public and ministries of Environment.
While ing to be it i
some citizens and the Committee for a Clean
Celgar Modernization care less about what
chemicals an expanded Celgar will belch out or
how much resource extraction will occur because
of increased pulp production as long as the

is inuing (or the i
estate speculations are paying off). While
economic considerations are important they
should not override basic life supports like air and
water. People and the environment come before
jobs, not the other way around.

Anyone supporting the expansion is also
favoring much more carbon dioxide and sulphur
dioxide in the air and an alarming amount of
dioxins in the water because Celgar refuses to
eliminate chlorine in its bleaching process.

The cancer scare is real — why else is there a
fishing ban in Howe Sound? Environment Canada
has reported additional high levels of dioxins
around eight more B.C. pulp mills.

I have no doubt that the Celgar project will
proceed with a few minor concessions and | could
have some respect for CCCM if it would insist on
elimination of chlorine. But, alas, there is nothing
**clean’’ about Celgar, past, present or future.
Gunter Retterath
Winlaw

Points missed

Frank Zappa once wrote a song, It Can't
Happen Here.

Grant Copeland’s recent letter evoked an
image of the NDP ‘‘green’’ chorus singing it's
modified version. One verse: ‘It’s important that
you believe me, that it didn’t happen here.””

Grant’s letter is a ‘‘non-denial denial”’ as they
used to say back in Watergate days. Although, he
asserts there is only a ‘‘shred’”’ of truth in my
letter (CasNews, Nov. 17), the only point he
addresses i wile NDP “‘greens’’ are poisonous
snakes. | wa surprised to see him admit that he
would support the Greens if they were closer to
power. Corky Evans must feel wonderful to have
such allies standing so staunchly by his side.

My experience with NDP ‘‘greens’’ is not just
limited to hearing about what goes on in New
Denver. At the NDP “‘green caucus’’ meeting at
the NDP convention in Vancouver their delicate
little ears couldn’t bear to hear opinions that were
different from theirs for even a few minutes.
Although a majority voted to hear me speak,
health critic Tom Perry interrupted me and
pronounced the Green party an enemy of the
NDP, insisting that the caucus vote to eject me
i i or he would leave the caucus. They

in real

for a clean-up at Celgar but even more gratifying
is the fact that, according to the official
transcript, the vast majority of people are against
an expansion.

The individuals and groups who demanded an
environmental assessment review process for the
Celgar expansion deserve the highest praise and
gratitude for their efforts to show the true picture
of the proposed scheme. The review process was
flawed from the beginning in that the public did
not have an input in the selection of the panel nor
received intervenor funding for a meaningful
Process.

There was also the sheer volume and
complexity of the state two reports and the biased
statements from the chairman, Jill Bodkin, before
the hearings (B.C. Report magazine, Oct. 8,
1990).

So a pretty one-sided affair heavily stacked
with propaganda, money and lawyers on the one
side and concern and dedication on the other.

* Throughout the public and technical
hearings, it became clear that Celgar gave

icting data and mii ling i jon as
well as ignored disturbing facts. Major concerns
by provincial and federal ministries of
environment were not addressed by Celgar despite
repeated requests, for example, the 30-year-old
toxic fibremat on the river bottom, or nutrient
loading, or effluent dilution, or greenhouse gas
emissions and lots more.

did.

Afterwards, repeated attempts were made to
assassinate my character behind my back by many
NDP “‘greens”’ including Tom Perry, and ‘‘green
caucus” kingpin Stuart Hertzog. Many
environmentalists were pressured to believe that I
am “‘dangerous’’ or ‘‘insan

Imagine my surprise to find out from Grant's
letter that global warming is just my ‘‘favorite
environmental issue.”’ | should have known that
“‘It is impossible for a party . . . to cover 100 per
cent of what’s needed in any one area."’

Environment Canada assertions that global
warming is the greatest environmental threat
facing Canada must be just another Conservative
attempt to divert Canadians from real
environmental issues, which if you were to observe
NDP debate in convention as I have, must be
taken to be the necessity to create a park in
Carmanah.

Who cares if the parks all die when global
warming sets in? NDP failure to come up with
policy can’t be indicative of a failure to come to

everything. I say Andrea Wright has the same
right to oppose Corky as these NDP ‘‘greens"’
once claimed.

I took on this New Denver crowd, suggesting
that if it is looking for someone to intimidate or
to be its scapegoat, come on, see me. I hear these
people already have been down to see their lawyer.

Grant, true to NDP ‘‘green’’ form, ends his
letter claiming all I’m doing is ‘‘fanning personal
conflicts.’” Aren’t you glad you aren't in politics?
Don’t you wish everyone wasn’t?

David Lewis
Crescent Valley

Noble offering

Please permit me to make some observations
on the recent municipal elections held in
Castlegar.

First of all, my congratulations to the winners
of seats on the council and condolences to the
losers. The act of offering yourselves to the
electors was a noble thing, and despite the poor
turnout, you got your message out.

How awful it would have been if no one had
turned out to vote. Don’t be discouraged; please
try again.

There is much bad news in provincial, federal
and world politics these days and the public's
confidence in its leaders has reached a new low. |
doubt that it will recover but, at the same time,
there is a fresh breeze of opinion blowing away
the smog of politics.

The voices of peace and reason are
the world and
the people are listening to these gentle voices.

The upset in the Ontario elections, the 14 per
cent level of popularity that Brian Mulroney sank
to and the downfall of Maggie Thatcher
demonstrate how dramatically these events can
change our lives.

One other but no less important piece of
good news is the attempt by the three
compassionate MPs from the NDP, Liberal and
Conservative parties who, even now, are caring
enough to try to rescue hostages from Iraq.

Readers, take heart. Listen to the words of
the popular song, From a Distance. It carries a
powerful message.

Pat Romaine
Castlegar

Two not needed

In response to Karen Kerkhoff, why try to
bring in a new newspaper?

This community does well with the Castlegar
News. This is not Vancouver or Calgary. We do
not’ have enough local news for two papers (unless
you like reading it over again). Why not bring in a
business that doesn’t exist here? Why always
duplicate, or triple, etc. How many gas stations
and convenience stores do we need? Go for
something different (a taco stand, for example).

Also, to the Castlegar Sun, I called your place
inquiring for a job in office work. I was told
minimum wage. A friend applied for working in
layouts, etc. He was offered $8 per hour.

Wake up and quit trying to snowball the
Castlegar News or anyone else!

Alice James
Pass Creek

Please address all letters to the editor
to: Letters to the Editor, Castlegar News,
P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4,
or deliver them to our office at 197
Columbia Ave. in Castlegar.

Letters should be typewritten, double-

and not longer than 300 words.

Letters MUST be signed and include
the writer's first and last names, address
and a telephone number at which the
writer can be reached between 9 a.m. and
5 p.m. The writer's name and city or town
of only will be

grips with the isis. It isn't
here.

When NDP “‘greens”’ ran against Corky and
told me how blacker than black he was I stood up
for him saying I have respect for him. | won no
friends in the “‘environmental’’ community for
that stand. Now they say he is whiter than white
and the mere act of running against him will ruin

Only
in cases will letters be
published without the writer name.
Nevertheless, the name, address and
telephone number of the writer MUST be
disclosed to the editor.

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

December 1, 1990 CastlegarNews AS

#@ YEARS AGO
From the Nov. 30, 1950
Castle News
It was announced that three new
commissioners would be elected to
the Board of Commissioners after
the board had been increased to five
members.
i ee
Twin Rivers Hall was filled to
capacity as the St. Alban’s Evening
Guild hosted a Christmas fashion
show.
eo. 6 8
The Girl Guides held their annual
Sadie Hawkins celebration at the
Legion Hall. The festive occasion
proclaims that every unmarried
female has the right to ‘‘ketch her

News

Acclamation for school trustee
positions and an unexpected com-
missioner candidate at Kinnaird
highlighted the municipal election
scene when nominations closed at
noon.

School board chairman Mrs.
Walter Jacobson was re-elected in
Kinnaird to her seventh straight two-
year term while in Castlegar Romeo
Goulet, who was finance chairman
on the board of trustees, has been re-
elected to his second term.

. . 8

School board and teacher appoin-
tments to the arbitration board on
salary negotiations in School District
No. 9 have been announced.

Representing the school trustees
on the board will be a former
president of the B.C. School Trustee
Association, Dick Lester of Haney,
while teacher appointment is J.G.
Lorimer of Vancouver.

Work involving an expenditure of.
$500,000 by the federal government

is now well advanced at the Castlegar
airport and the department of tran-
sport weather station at Crescent
Valley starts operating today from its
new site at Ralph West Field.

An extention to the terminal
building at the airport has been
carried out at a cost of $30,000 to
house the new DOT office. Equip-
ment valued at nearly $75,000 has
been installed in it.

15 years ago
From the Nov. 27, 1975
News

The City of Castlegar could be
drilling wells next year at a cost of
approximately $75,000 each, but
water rates for the city residents in
1976 will remain the same as in 1975,

In making his report to council,
Ald. Mike Livingstone said that the
city was in a good sound position.

He said that he had the staff go
over water rates in both the north
and south sections of Castlegar to
see if it would be an appropriate time
(1976) to combine the two rates into
one,

“6 «

There was an air of cautious op-
timism among CanCel sawmill em-
ployees, after more than 200 of them
gathered in the Arena Hall to hear
their union executive and the three
political candidates discuss the future
of the mill’s defunct third shift.

While it was apaprent that the
men, members of thé Local 1-405 of
the International Woodworkers of
America, aren’t going to believe
anything until it actually happens,
they were assured by NDP candidate
Chris D’Arcy that ‘‘there is a good
possibility that the layoff will be sub-
stantially shortened’’ from the six
months mentioned earlier.

Castlegar District United Appeal is
now winding up its 1975 campaign.
People in the area have been asked

Five years ago this week, Castlegar Ald. Albert Calderbank
examined a B.C. Games map which didn’t include Castlegar.
Castlegar was also left off a list of major cities in the Kootenays.

Costtews file photo

if they were missed by the door-to-
door canvass and wish to make a
donation of pledge they may do so at
the Bank of Montreal or at the Hi
Arrow Arms.

The Central Kootenay regional
board tackled the highly charged
issue of logging on South Moresby:
Island, but backed off before
deciding whether to support or op-
pose the logging.

.

The Christina Lake Expo Commit-
tee has asked the provincial gover-
nment, through its Expo Legacy
Fund, to establish a 16-hectare
provincial park at the south end of
Christina Lake at a cost of $1
million.

The

committee, headed by

Christina Lake businessman. Dennis
Schmunk, made the propogal in a
letter to MLA Jim Hewitt, the
minister responsible for the) legacy
fund.

* * «

The icy Arctic siege is coming to
an end.

A milder Pacific air flow is expec-
ted to reach the West Kootenay
today bringing an end to the record-
shattering streak of cold tem-
peratures.

Fittingly, the new weather pattern
coincides with the beginning of the
new month.

. . 8

Castlegar Fire Department put out
a small fire at the Castlegar Motel in
the 1300 block Columbia Avenue.

Castlegar fire chief Bob Mann said
a wall in between two suites caught
on fire when a torch was being used
to thaw out some frozen water lines.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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I read with interest and amusement the recent
comments made by Charlie Semenoff in regard to
John Voykin, Area I representative. | am amused,
and I also wonder what Mr. Semenoff is trying to
say with this kind of talk. It seems as if he didn’t
do his homework, and he also sounds to me like
a very sore loser.

First of all, he is complaining that John
Voykin isn’t. a people person. Well, Mr. Semenoff
is entitled to his opinion, but everyone else knows
that John is the most easily accessible and

Next, he criticizes Mr. Voykin as being more
interested in sitting on boards and committees. To
be sure, the distinction to sit on various boards, or
chair various committees, is offered to people of
proven skills and leadership qualities. We are
proud that John Voykin is such a person. He has
been involved in our area for over 30 years,
workin, various capacities, benefitting people
of the area. And, naturally the vote on Nov. 17
was an indication that he is appreciated.

The next point is a real gem. Mr. Semenoff
tells us that a representative should be concerned
with current issues. Now that is deep. Of course,
anyone who has ever had anything to do with
public issues knows from experience that before
one problem is solved the next one is already
demanding your attention. How much more
current can you get.

John Voykin’s position is no different. He
does not go around looking for problems, but

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issues and problems, presented to him by
concerned constituents. His manner in dealing
with people and their problems is exemplary to say
the least.

In closing I would like to say that in my many
discussions with John Voykin, I find his interests
are always to satisfy the needs and aspirations of
the widest possible majority of people.

George G. Deikoff
Pass Creek

NDP only choice

I’m sorry David Lewis, but I can’t leave this
one alone. I often support your point of view, and
I support much of the Green party’s aims.

Yes, the environment is in grave danger. Yes,
the politics and policies of the present government
stinks. But let’s be real here. If the Greens split
the left-Green vote, you may very well see the
Present Vander Zalm government in power for
another four years.

Now look inside your heart David Lewis, and
tell me honestly if you think that the people of
B.C., and Mother Earth, deserve that. We all
must realize that a huge jump from Socred to
Green is an absolute impossibility. We cannot
Possibly accept another term with the Socreds.
That is the critical point.

A new age must begin. The NDP are the only
electable alternative. Once they are in power, then
for heavens sake, put pressure on from within.
Strive for change from without if you must. But

idealism in balance with reality and look at what is
best and possible for all. Vote NDP.

Keith Light

Winlaw

Global crisis

The crisis in the Middle East is a crisis of
global proportions.

The invasion and occupation of Kuwait by
Iraq is an act of naked aggression. This kind-of
behavior by nation states is extremely dangerous
when it is not resisted; leaders such as Saddam
Hussein only feed on appeasement and our
rationalizations of it. -

The dynamics of this crisis are worse than the
rise of Nazism. An Islamic Jihad has not been
seen for centuries and I believe the leaders of the
West have not prepared our people for the energy
required to deal with this form of madness. Force
in the employ of civilized, peaceloving and decent
people is the only antidoté in this sometimes
brutal world for force in the employ of tyrants.

A war with Iraq will end with the surrender
of Saddam Hussein’s regime to an overwhelming
force.

A United Nations protectorate may have to
govern Iraq until a new generation of leaders is
formed there.

This war would not be necessary should Iraq
withdraw from Kuwait and restore the royal
family to its rightful position as legitimate ruler.
Paul Johnston
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overly fast or slow, the average
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Chips

Old Dutch, Nalleys,
Party Pride © 700g.

99

LIMITS UN EFFECT

Paper
Towels

Pronto
2 Rolls

99°

Advertised Prices in Effect Sunday, Dec. 2
through Saturday, Dec. 8, 1990.

Thursday & Friday
9a.m.to9 p.m.

Mon. to Wed. & Sat.

Sunday
9a.m. to 6 p.m. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities.

(S$ SAFEWAY

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