pl alpen ci nn ee eg So ka A A WO MBS dT , OPINION ly The Cast ATW is every by Sterting Ltd. ‘at 465 Gotumbia Ave. Castlegar, §.C. VIN 1G8. The Castlegar Sun lepeyeenly ieipeaters sad rumaaies Si Oe Serta otewe Serves, Nertapapare Aabeeetnn on Se © "Pree Cue Established 28, 1990. PUBLISHER MARILYN pom editorial comment Gnough is enough con- mpartiality in i ry, and the task of + ese geass to our readers. Being on sen daesalaaggl doesn’t mean burying > facts, shel the truth or putting a play gloss on the finished story Soi ‘doesn’t look [T's what «few employes atthe Mins of Social Services wanted The Sun to do when dealing Teme ined weve ped Pointed and such as “How imany of the meén’at the Genesis Program have a criminal record?’ were sidestepped and anéwered.evasively with ‘Even if they had a crimi- nal record they would still be in the community 4 the program existed or not.’ : jast doesn't cut it. In fact, it doesn’t even p ioconad yh If the p is ally ar ill re f BHI FE nya vious record? Isn't that taken into consideration when hiring’an applicant? Furthermore, if some members do have criminal records, don’t local such as the Heritage Society, who hired these men on g60d faith, have the right to know before into & Cont with am? Instead of answering many of the questions we regarding the crimes that have taken place both ‘on’ and ‘off’ Genesis time, social services officials spoke about how wonderful this pilot pro- atid hoWithese young men are benefitting Bs oy Bs re fem 10 to be eau lrremrd anges Se" We were told these young men are learning y for in vari- were robbed by Genesis Program participants would think their lives have definitely been dis- Nee ee eik Cont to chall and give thoes ,who need a break in life a fighting chante? < ‘And while you're at it, why not ‘get straight’ F with the media and those who live near the groyp home? f ’ Ewe All deserverbetter. It's rime to fess up. a x al ‘ag ERRORS: The advertiser agress thatthe pubsher shall not be able for damages wt of errors in any beyond the a ‘amount paid for the space actually occupied by that portion @Pthé? in which the error occurred. whether such error is due All advertising subject to publisher's ‘must be completed within one year from contract Printad-in-the td $A. -+- Political one-upmanship at its best It didn’t take long for me to realize that one of the more rewarding aspects of writing for a commanity aewspaper is in the fecdback I receive from readers. Whether over the phonc or ‘across the counter; this feedback | omes in differem forms; praise The scene takes’ place in Yel- lowknife, where. the mayor of that capital city of 16,000, has been battling with councillors over ‘her September trip to Russia, ‘from which she rar with plenty of was about hotel bills. air fare and whether anything was accom- plished on the trip. (Gee, this has a familiar ring to it). After more than two months of debate, council voted 5 to 2 to Con- tacts, ‘and, in gst hed and neve has been touched. and of course; the little pointers from Robsom resident Fred: Marsh | regarding: the proper ig ofthe written English | my favor. any day because it me know you're: reading—an: that you care enough to comment. e It’s also. not uncommon for a § few local readers to drop off vari- ous news items that might be of interest to Castlegar, found in* other ne Mr. Marsh brought in a teal the other day: a scintil look at just how bizarre, hot to.’ mention embarrassing, a munici- pal government can look when it ‘was justa thought Sharlene Imhoff political prin tab that could choke a Siberian tiger. ‘Well into December, the coun- + cil members have spent little time discussing anything other than whether Ms. McMahon should be forced to ey close to $4,000 which fey feel she overspent on trip was all about selling Russian businessmen on the virtues of Yel- political p takes over the normal course of — a city. ife and op doors for in the Northwest Terri- boetoas athe talk upon ber soparn Let them ‘GO Come February everyone's ~ focus will be on the Winter - Ome of the more popular events to watch will be Figure Skating. The speed, gracefulness, excite- ment and intensity has always caught my eye. NOt to mention the media attention leading up to it. This year some of the rules have been altered in the world of Amateur Figure Skating. For the first-time, skaters-that have “tirned professional will be allowed to compete at the who won the men's gold in 1992, the British dance pair Torvel and Dean, and others have been rein- stated and will be allowed to com- pete for the chance of Olympic gold one more time. , [think thesc athictes that have decided to turn professional should not be reinstated. These arc athletes who have had their _ Moment of Olympic glory or have won Aumerous other competitions and championships. They have proved themselves and in sonie cases changed and enhanced the ways of Figure Skat- ing today . Bach of them has brought some- to this sport. ‘When these ath- new direction. By being reinstated, I think they vare taking away from the younger and upcoming figure skaters. These are the athiletes that have yet to receive Olympic Gold and ful- ‘fill their dreams. These athletes Professional skaters such as Brian Botanio and Katrina Witt have overcome the intimidation and. pressure of the sport. They also have nothing to lose going in. They had their chance once before and succeeded. If they lose - so + whar? They have already proved themselves in the public eye Besides, they have made moncy on endorsements. ctc... and will probably continuc to do so after- wards. For an amateur, it ‘s all or hing. If they don't rank they lose the _hope of endorsements. prestige. the grandeur of it all and the Sins Wt” shee the ‘mayor's wages until her'debt ‘wupaid. coat " The battle continded when Ms. McMahon announced that she would appeal the decision to the courts. And the debate raged on in local taverns and restaurants—not only about whether the mayor should pay, but whether council members should be spending months trying to make political hay from the trip. Let me interrupt the story here just to say that a debate of this length would never happen at Castlegar City Council. Yoy see, rather than spend ae their ated the mayor's interna- tional eftorts, She presented coun- cil -with a cheque for $3,756.38 and declared the dispute over. Now comes the corker. The Yellowknife Council spent more than $42,000 in legal fees during the squabble: andisicouncitjor who supported the mayor is deter- mined to make the five coancil members pay much of that tab out of their own billfolds! The five councillors have refused, saying it’s the mayor's fault that council had to seek legal opinion in the first place! While solid, sound debate is a te ri ta government, Yellowknife is the perfect example of things going way overboard: of egos coming before etiquette. The result? The local Rewspa- the would likely hire a Kelowna- based consultant to review the whole situation for a mere $12,000. Back to the story. ‘Two weeks ago, Ms. ‘Maly per in embarrassment now felt by local residents over the whole degrading scene, described it as “an embar- rassing tale ... that has done little. to dispel the impression elsewhere surprised council by announcing that a blind trust had been estab- lished by local businesses that that [Y¢ ] is little more - than a frigid backwater town.” May clearer heads prevail in Castlegar. for the Gold’ chance to be the best. It's all on the line. Not only do they have that to contend with, but they have the duo pressure of competing against former Olympians such as Botanio and Witt. I’ve seen these skaters win gold. I would like the chance to see someone else's dream come true. It becomes an unfair advantage to these upcoming stars of tomorrow. These grofessionals should have stayed professional. One of the things that makes it and the upsets that occur because of one bad fall or slip on the ice. It's the chance to watch.the best of each country ‘skate’ it out ‘for s also the chance to watch and artistic Mares emerge. setting new standards on the ice after the Olympics is over. The reinstatement of professional skaicrs overshadows this, tainting the Olympic goal of promoting @xcellence in amateur athictes So, when we watch the Winter games this year it will be interest- ing to sce the skating Outcome H; = Kort Browning, Elvis even our dynamic pair Brasscur and Eisler fair with this turn of events? There will be some tough com- petition and the world wifl be watchi Tricia Laktin works in the pro- duction department ut The Castle- gar Sun. She has many interests. including photography. travel, and the arts. Originally from Silverton. Tricia nuw makes her home in a l Necro y. mean 19. 1994 Thie Castlegar Sun Letters to the a a Towards greater. democracy Being in the front line» Dear Editar: i" In the fall, 1991, BC. general election, voters over approved both sécall und citkzen- initiated referendums in'two plebiscite questions. After the election, Prethier Harcourt, who had supported both measures, advised a 1ée be\ struck to study the matter. On Novemiber, 1993, «this com mittee finally prodaged # report The proposed, onerous rules lnis the fora, Party of British pen~ dent, “i for my will be because I believe ime for direct g ng and recall ‘are meant to thwart the will of the people and are as good as having no. referendum and’ recall legislation at all! ‘There te 0 peovinciol pasty ls whose that was a transparent exercise in cynical, hypocritical manipula- tion. It is clear from the. report 1. ses veiee ta to lnphabors 2. ‘ixed election dates 3. initiative 4. referenda 5. recall this province; ie must get involved to make Bt happen. Sytvia M. Rehwald Of double talk and forked tongues Dear Editor: 1am now the, wife. of a retired logger, but I shalf continue to write letters from our community of Ucluelet! The Clayoquot issue has still not been hutig up to dry! they are. They choose to go to schools in California and take lessons on Civil disobedience. Vicki Husband is firing back at Canadi - L listen to the radio each morn- _about stabbing daddy in the back! ing and the comments that come But that appears to be their style! from its tube is sometimes sick- These actually teach the ening! All I hear from the old and young people how to be in the civily jem! When you're movement is double talk, forked old or young and lonely, you'll tongues and gimmy, gimmy! The be glad to be drawn into any Natives have signed on with the Government, and I thank God for that! At least there are some firm decisions being made, but just short of throwing in the towel to please the gy -rrwoled Lange's, Green Peace. Commi. tee etc... The pemeers) est keep whining about how hard done by Dear Editor: The following is an open letter to the editor uf the Kootenay Weekley Express: - Where have you acquired: sucht knowledge ?;| Fama veon tee bambed and idilled on the’ railroad’ ~ ies atwife witfing 10 fala his # of being most useful. train. There were no such bomb- save of commandment; at any so useful that I hope that ing attacks before this incident. cust to themselves. If the govern- Turner's reviews will appear Your article, “Two Distinct Groups”, poses a big question in my mind. For instance, you stitte. “Our feature sarticte’ here As designed to give non-D group of people who will pay attention to you! The cause is won't, at least that is how it came across to me on the T.V. and radio. Mind you, the media of “It is believed that a member of the Freedomites placed the suitcase bomb under the scat of Peter the lordly, the Doukhobor leader, killing hing, and, others in 1924.” Tris -peathnapeailine: 19,,; Such ii readers a general idea of who and what Doukhobors are, along with some insight into the Frecdomites and what motivates their often perplexing actions”. Where have you acquired such knowledge about the Sons of Freedom? Have you as much as interviewed any of the Sons of Freedom who are still hanging on to the original Doukhobor faith? Or have you, as it appears, as other scholars, just skimmed over the top, and decided that you know it all? It is very erroneous for you to claim that the Sons of Freedom are a splinter group, for all the Doukhobors who came to Canada were dissidents to man made governments and rejected alle- giance to any crown or govern- ment. As a result they lost 260,000 acres of cultivated land in Saskatchewan, not 2000 acres as stated by Alexa Pongracs. They also lost all their land in British Columbia for declining to pay a minor debt of $260,000 for a 12 million dollar community property, and refusing to send their-children to state school: ‘Other very erroneous informa- tion you are giving to the public, oth Doukhobor and non~ doukhobor, about the Sons of Freedom, “when the authorities attempted to force their children into public schools, for example the schools were burned, CPR: owned “pity of Universal Brotherhood AGCUB), now USCC, were state schools, and refused to allow their children into class- es. For this the authorities had taken the CCUB parents of delin= 4 quent children, to court and imposed fines On them. Because « these people refused to'pay the fines willingly, the local authori- ties would raid. the CCUB ware- houses.(not Sons Of Freedom s) and ion off igafing anicles after years of sessions by the Kootenay Committee on Intergroyp Rela- tions (KCIR). imtending fo put an. end.to bombing and arson. One such article prompted a protest from the Sons of Freedom by burning a CPR shack in South Slocan. The article indicated that the Freedomites were behind the ...bonabing of trains, including one which killed the Doukhobor, leader.” An overthelming majority of the Doukhobors believe that it was the work of the government of that time; that is why no cul- Peter Vv. Verigin (Lordly) as Christ himself, so no. way would © they attempt to kill Christ. They Editor teaches you something Dear Editor: Being in the front lines in ‘ support of our loggers, I have watched and listened to hun- dreds of protesters throughout the summer of 1993. I have asked them not to protest the logging of Clay- Oquot by standing on our log- ging roads and blockading. I am only one of hundreds of loggers who has asked this, and one of hundreds who have been ignored by the protesters. By forcing their ways on us, the ists have cre- today is just after and colorful We, as a logging | ated much prejudice and hatred. and every day working —— find that we can"t speak ina cult- like tongue, like these eaviron- mentalists and We are true enviro! ists, “ j Borst it conmeg Seen 80 se; aoy dont gee about our forests. Especially When they can’t tell the old growth from the new growth! They just keep on trying to push their Hemp indus- try, and we all know what that is. This is just a preview of days gone by! Mrs. Shirley Cooper ment can be excluded from that inhuman atrocity, then the finger would point to.those who reigned on, Lordly’s principles. Those things, but there was definitely more behind them burning their , own homes and parading in the nude. The Sons of Freedom had absolutely nothing, to gain by the Attomey “Break the back of the Sons of Freedom, once and for all” did have much to gain for his clec- See QUESTIONS 8A the unimportance of material : ‘New ecolumn. is most useful Dear Editor: To help us deal with the overload of movies. videos, books, TV programmes .... that threatens to overwhelm us, Gordon Turner's new bi-weekly. or. more ‘loosely stated, semi-monthly,/rather than ‘once every two months as we hav nm tokt th the short note fron?the Syn ih italics at the ons ‘of Tumer's There is not one person who supports the loggers who doesn't feel like slapping these people, or beating them. This has always been a rather nice, friendly place to live until all hell broke loose! I believe from what we have been forced to endure, it would be called aggravated assault. I am not.saying that this will happen for sure, but I for one will not be the least bit sur- prised if it does! I think also, that is the responsibility of our Govern- ment to quit allowing this kind of behavior. Put a stop to these people living wherever they want, quit giving them Welfare cheques, and quit letting’ them dictate to.the working people! Now these Eco-wits are say- ing there is no room for com- promise (which we have been hearing all along, by the way)! This time, I have to agree with them. Thete is NO room for compromise! And for every action, there is a reaction, and no one likes 10 be force fed!! A. Waugh THE MEETING PLACE Tuesday 10:00 a.m. - welcome. sR. CITIZENS ASSOCIATION #46 Potluck Supper wil January 22, 5:30 p.m. All Seniors welcome $175. Whist: January 13, &27, 7:00 p.h. Open House every 0 p.m. Lunch & games. Everyone held Phone Alice 365- CASTLEGAR CHAPTER OF RNABC will meet Tuesday, January 25, 1904 at C 1900 hours. Topic? 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Districts: Giinnenl cata, Central Kootenty, Bast Kootenay and Selkirk corner some go semen Soe Restrictions will be imposed conditions warrant. to the Act. ‘The public, and trucking and in each District individually, as “The restrictions may limit vehicles to 100 percent, 70 percent or 50 percent of legal axle loading, as allowed under the regulations pursuant ‘Transport Overweight permits will not be granted and all term overweight permits are invalid for the duration of the restrictions. : valuable stocks for a sOmg.to compensate for the finesy Only then. to save the community, schools. in all the Doukbobot get- tlements were burned im One night - by the commuliity doukhobors, “C PR. propeny was periodi- feader Peter -V- Veregin was ‘| this 11th day of January, 1994 should govem ee Your cooperation in adhering to the above regulations will be appreciated, : G. Sutherland, P. 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