£2 Castlegar News December 12. 1990

LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS

Vander Zaim perceived as a liability

VICTORIA (CP) — Despite signs of a growing
challenge to his leadership, Premier Bill Vander Zalm
has dismissed Social Credit dissidents as people seeking
notoriety.

Instead, he said Tuesday, there were no challenges
in recent months at cabinet and caucus meetings or the
Party's annual meeting.

“Now, there’s a couple of people that perhaps want
some notoriety,”” he said in an interview. ‘I don’t know
what it is and they're getting a great deal of media atten-
tion.""

A move for a leadership convention organized by
two constituency presidents appears to be gaining
momentum.

Two candidates for the next election also say they
want one and some cabinet ministers and caucus mem-
bers are about how wi the
bs.

“There is a difference between a caucus problem
and party problem,” said caucus chairman Jim Rabbitt.

“This is a party problem and the party has to resolve
it.

“Of course, I’m urging the party to get on and start
working on resolving the problem. This is very destruc-
tive.””

Later after taking part in a Hanukkah ceremony in
the legislature rotunda, Vander Zalm was more
talkative.

“Certainly, these are options, to yank them
(dissidents) in and have a chat,"’ he said. ‘‘I guess there
is a number of things that might be done.””

When told by one reporter the dissidents didn’t
mount a challenge at the annual convention because they
thought he would quit, he replied: “‘That’s very foolish.
Bill Vander Zalm’s an open book, they should know
that I don’t quit.’”

Some dissidents say every effort they made, in-
cluding one at the 1988 annual convention, has been
quashed by party brass.

Now, they say they won't back down.

“*The party has never addressed the situation,” said

Margaret Woods, Socred candidate and former con-
stituency president for Burnaby North. “*ht’s just been
dragging.

“When the grassroots members of a party are
talked about as if they didn’t exist, as if they were
ghosts, and when they are a bunch of little people who
don’t matter, weil | think then thatthe dittle people must
be heard.”

Vander Zalm said last week he waia't chase ghosts.

Port C George alsa
said Tuesday he favors a convention. g

After talking to riding members and the executive,
he found “‘the same thing keeps cropping up — he’s
(Vander Zalm) perceived as a liability,”” he said.

Ken Tuininga, one of two riding presidents secking
a leadership convention, says he has the support of at
least the 15 constituencies needed under the constitution.

“*My bet is, and thié is just speculation by some of
the calls I’ve received, that we should have somewhere
between 22 and 25 meetings (scheduled) by Monday,”
said Tuininga, r of Port Coquil

* Saanich South president Jo-Ann Williams said
people with lapsed memberships and at least one who
never was a member have phoned to ask if they can sign
up before her riding’s mecting. she said.

Dissidents say a public opinion poll commissioned
by a group-of Vancouver Island Socreds suggests the
party is 14 percentage points behind the NDP and Van-

mill effluent guidelines.
It was the 10th cabinet resignation since Vander

“I would expect John to think that he was going
full steam ahead (after Wednesday's cabinet mecting),””
he said.

Cleanups_

Emissions
concern
Valhalla
Society

By CasNews Staff

The Vathalla Society says Premier
Bill Vander Zalm’s decision to veto
Proposed tougher pollution
regulations for pulp mills has “‘in-
validated’’ the Celgar Expansion
Review Panel’s recommendation in
its interim report that the federal and
provincial governments grant ap-
proval in principle to the proposed
expansion and modernization of the
Castlegar pulp mill.

Vander Zalm said Monday he
vetoed the tougher standards to
protect jobs in the pulp industry.

The new rules would have forced
pulp mills to reduce emissions of

. organochlorines — the family of
chemicals which includes dioxins and
furans — to 1.5 kilograms per tonne
of pulp by the end of 1994. The limit
will now be 2.5 kilograms.

“There is no way this pulp mill
should be approved without the 1.5
kilogram limit in place,” Valhalla
Society director Grant Copeland said
in a news release. ‘The entire B.C
government testimony at the hearings
was based on the 1.5 kilogram stan-
dard, and-the-panel’s approval un-
doubtedly took that into account.
Ler interim report is therefore in-

 Copekiad said a lot was riding on
the promised guidelines.

Some 300

By KEITH THIRKELL
Special to the Castlegar News
The impending uncertainty
over possible war in the Persian
Gulf has many Castlegar residen-
ts extremely concerned.
Approximately 300 people at-
tended a “‘Peace—in the Gulf
Public Forum’ Sunday at the
Brilliant Cultural Centre. The
itinerary was inclusive and hard
hitting.

The
(at the hearings) were put on the spot
to answer why we should trust them
when they have failed to make
Celgar comply with waste regulations
for so many years,”’ he said. ‘‘These
promised guidelines were held up as
proof that the government had tur
ned a new leaf and was going to get
tough with polluters. This turns out

are the only viable
option for resolving the crisis,””
said Colin Pryce, spokesman for
the local United Nations
Association.

Pryce went on to discuss what
he called the overlooked
historical considerations in
region.

“The crisis has deep roots
stretching back huadieds if noi
thousands of years,”’ he said.

The audience was made up of a

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broad c! of concerned
people. The Union of Spiritual
Communities of Christ hosted th
forum and approximately one-
third to one-half of those in at-
tendance belonged to that
organization.

The Peace’ and Disarmament

Working Group of the USCC co-
sponsored the forum with the
United Nations Association and
the United Church of Canada.

A spokesman for the United
Church said the church has draf-
ted a resolution for adoption
across Canada which condemns
the use of Offensive force in the
Gulf.

Representing the Canadian
Peace Alliance was John Verigin
Jr. of Grand Forks. Verigin
recently returned from Ottawa
where he met with Defence
Minister Bill McKnight and other
top officials from that ministry.

“The outlook of our federal
politicians is bleak,’’ Verigin
said. ‘The Peace Alliance is
disgusted with the way O'Hara
has responded to and handled the
A mass let

turned out Sunday at the Brilliant Cultural Centre to hear several speakers
argue for a peacetul solution to the Persian Gulf standoff.

Threats of war meets
local passive protest

CorNews photo by Kewth Thurket

tend to take them seriously
because letters are like opinion

sides in the Gulf, Verigin stated.
“This video proves the only
people to benefit from a massive
war in the Gulf would be the ar-
ms manufacturers,” Verigin said.
“In fact, that is wher crisis is

was organized by the Castlegar
Peace Committee which also co-
sponsored the forum. George
Richards of the Castlegar Peace

people feeling they needed to do

are
getting are extremely effective,””
said George Richards of the
Peace Group. ‘‘The- politicians

Verigin said the groups in-
volved were planning similar

continued trom front pege

Zalm into his resignation because I
think, quite frankly, the best weapon
that the NDP’s got right now in their

anybody has any definite reason to
believe that.””

“I'm very disappointed Mr.
has resigned because I

vironment minister had other
motives such as positioning himseif
for a run at the Social Credit party
leadership.

“I think that it was well thought
cout and well planned and I really do
think he’s going to attempt to turn it

think he was taking, for the Socred

Reynolds’ motives as

tonne of pulp should still be a target.
“First of all, that should be enac-

LOCAL/PROVINCIAL NEWS

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count.

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STREET TALK

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ED CONROY and DOREEN SMECHER have
both received plaques for their service on the
Castlegar school

Conroy retirg@ after five years as a trustee and
will represent the NDP in Rossland-Trail in the
upcoming provincial election.

Smecher retired as a trustee after 11 years of
continuous service. She was re-elected to Castlegar
city council in the November municipal election.

Conroy served on several school board
committees and was the board's representative to
Tarrys elementary school. During the last two years,
he has served as vice-chairman of the board and has
been involved in negotiations with the Canadian
Union of Public Employees and the Castlegar and
District Teachers Association.

Conroy is best remembered for his fight to save
rural schools and his interest in bringing a broad
range of community matters to the board table, the
board says in a news release.

Smecher also served on many of the board's
committees, most notably on the management
committee and the buildings and grounds
committees. She has served diligently on the board's
negotiation team, bargaining with CUPE and district

Throughout the years she was the board’s
representative to most of the area’s schools and was
board chairman for three years from 1983-86.

rowan established a reputation as a tough

prepared ittee member
anda capable speaker at the board table, the board
says.

RIC READ of The Pro’s Painting and Drywall
relocated to Castlegar from Golden in September.
With all the construction activity in the West
Kootenay, Read says he made the right choice
moving to Castlegar. Read has more than 15 years of
experience as a journeyman and does both
commercial and residential work, a news release says.

DANIEL PAWLIVSKY has opened Big Horn
Janitorial Services in Castlegar. His cleaning services
include ial build: and

INGA LAMONT of Castlegar has earned a
master of arts degree from the University of Victoria.
Fellow Castlegar residents and UVic students Mary
Gerrand and Sherry Soobotin have each earned
bachelor of education degrees. The university
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(Christmas is being celebrated
at the Castlegar Library on Dec.

Starting at 1:30 p.m, with a
Christmas sing-along with Don

Public welcome

Brown and continuing with an
Anne Kelly and Cecelia Skwarok,
the event will end with a tree
decorating session. As usual, the
event is free and everyone is
weicome to join in the fun.

teachers, the board says.

convocation ceremonies.

Green Plan ‘'too vague"

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
federal government’s Green Plan is
either too little, too late, or it’s too
vague to receive endorsement, en-
vironmental groups and_ industry
said Tuesday.

Traffic

continued from front page
into a stop sign at 34th Sereet.
“We took a look at Columbia

Says statistics show 13,000 vehicles
per day on Columbia Avenuc pass by

said. ““Our mandate was to look at

Columbia Avenue into a four-lane
street.

In the meantime, Hample said the
major suggestion for short-term im-
provement is io make Columbia a
three-lane road with the centre lane
used as a left-turn lane by drivers

local access traffic and parking-
““We have one road that is trying
to be everything to everyone,”” he

in doth
centre lane could also be used as a

be imteresting to see what the respon-
seis.”

George complained the $3 billion
dedicated to environmental reform
was nowhere near what is needed to
address probiems in British Colum-
bia alone.

He estimated it would take $1

tment.

“I still see the same old recycled,
knee-jerk theories that have always
been used by industry and gover-
nment,"? said Lenore Herb,
spokesman for the Society

“It’s just A gigantic
tment, Said Paul George,
a a for the Western Canada
Wilderness Committee, which wants

More green, page A5

billion alone to clean up the Fraser

River, which is beset by pollution

12 per cent of p land set
aside for wilderness.

“*By the time people wake up in
another four or five years, we will
still be playing catchup to global

Pp 4 Greater Van-

P ‘Conser-
vation. “What I see is a bureaucracy
and a lot of political will and an in-
dustry complex so firmly in place
that it is antagonistic to change.

couver m
sewage into the fish-bearing river.

A spokesman for one of the
province’s most active environmental

were not alone
in expressing disappointment with
the 200-page document that outlines
the govenment's five-year plan for

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school district are earning.

But Turner said ‘it's a question of
perspective’ and what Castlegar
teachers get in one area, other
teachers don’t, and vice-versa.

“‘It’s all relative,’’ he said.

Turner said the increase for the
second year was a “

issue hasn’t been a problem in the
Past.

“It’s just something our teachers
wanted.""
The pr

additional $2,000 will be put in this
year and- another $2,000 next year.
The fund helps cover teachers’ x

penses for and
he said.

fund also got a raise. Currently at
$16,000 to $18,000, Turner said an

Another 30 to 40 other clauses
received minor changes, Turner said.

move by the board because it doesn’t
know at this point how much the
district will get from the government
through the block funding system.

Preparation time will increase to
80 minutes a week from 70 minutes a
week, but not until the second year
of the contract, in September 1991.
An additional 20 minutes will be ad-
ded in the 1992 school year, putting
teachers back up to the 100 minutes
a week they had before government
restraints imposed cutbacks several
years ago, Adams said

The new contract expires July 1,
1992, but automatically puts the 100
minutes in to effect in the next con-
tract, regardless of the status of
bargaining in September 1992.

The no contracting out clause
Protects teachers from non-teachers
coming in at what would most likely
be a reduced rate. Turner said that

Delay

continued from front pege

to have a very quick turnaround.””

An interim report last week from
the federal-provincial review panel
studying Celgar’s proposal recom-
mended the provincial and federal
governments grant approval in prin-
ciple to the estimated $650 million
Project.

At the time of the interim report's
release, Provincial Secretary Howard
Dirks said he hoped the government
could make a decision before
Christmas.

Siemens indicated the provincial
Environment Ministry is well aware
of the Ceigar project.

“1 said, ‘You're not going to

guess they’ve had a lot of contacts
from there. They felt the i"

Group pleased
with progress

“We ase confident that the

should have no reason to worry
about any delay whatever because of
the resignation of Mr. Reynolds.”
Siemens, who returned Sunday
from a trip to California, said he
hasn't had time to study the review

difficult to accomplish what is

needed to get things going. In other
words, I felt that it was fairly

COURT NEWS

In Castlegar provincial
Thomas Blaine Mather was found
guilty of failing to give a breath
sample. He was fined $400 with a
$50 victim surcharge and is
Prohibited from driving for one year.

._ 2 6

Richard Darynn Saickin pleaded
guilty to driving without duc care
and attention and was fined $100.

Maryanne Kathleen Varga pleaded
guilty to driving without duc care
and attention and was fined $100.

Danici Sydney Haack pleaded
guilty to being unlawfully in 2
dwelling house. He was fined $1,500
and pui on probation for six months.

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