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Starting in early August, traffic across the Kin- naird bridge wilt be limited to: one-way traffic while the ministry completes resurfacing work. “The concrete work on that bridge is deteriorat- ed and two or three years ago it was scheduled for a rebuild,” said Highways electrical contractor Dave May. “It's never been (done) so it has to be done this year.” Lights recently installed at either end of the bridge will be operational during the construction period which is expected to last about three weeks. Wayne McCargar, the ministry's area manager for Castlegar, said the lights will be used only dur- ing slow traffic periods. “There's too much delay to use the lights during peak hours,” he said, adding*traffic control people will man the busier times. “As soon as the deck is resurfaced then the lights come down,” he said. A construction crew from the Vancouver area — the same crew that the Local youths debate future In'the wake of Spicer Commission, B.C. Council takes Canadian issues on tours By BARBARA TANDORY Special to the Castlegar News The Spicer Commission report is in, the Cana- da Day celebrations are over, but as commision chairman Keith Spicer calls it, the “open-soul surgery” on Canada’s uncertain future continues. And now the youth of British Columbia are hold- ing forums on the question of Canadian unity. After an opening session in Vancouver June 29, the B.C. Youth Council held a forum in Castlegar Thursday, its first in a series of 11 stops before winding down the tour in early August in Victo- ria. A dozen local participants attended the all-day session entitled Coming to Grips with Canadian Unity and made recommendations to be forward- ed to the B.C. government’s cabinet C i on Hall, noting that his scenario was of Canada some 50 years into the future, proposed that Canada form an economic community while com- posed of a number of “ethnic countries.” Hall's view met with oppdsition from the young participants and from the mature speakers invit- ed to address the forum. “I find your vision a frightening one, and T hope I don’t live to see it,” said Susan d, a Slo- logical perspective. Quebec has been oppressed and derys Canada as a French-speak- ing culture, he ‘ita a calture that has been second class” And the youth on panel, Amber Woodward from Winlaw, = preg strongly favors a united Canada but feels Quebec should not be given special rights to the exclusion of other ethnic groups, notably the native Indians. “Quebec is a very important part of Canada, but we don’t have room for dominating provinces,” she said. She noted it should be more important “to help native Indians to regain their place in society.” Woodward, who graduated this year from Mt. ean Valley woman who with her husband, former Selkirk College forestry instructor Herb Ham- mond, operates Silva Ecosystem Consultants firm. Speaking as a former American, Hammond warned of a danger of assimilation from the U.S., noting that the American people of her generation the Confederation. The Castlegar group’s recommendation was overwhelmingly to ‘support 1 unity. But there was an opp ary d that has been present throughout the national debate as to whether or not Canada should stay together at all costs. A Nelson high school student suggested that every ethnic group in the country should be allowed to go on its own, if it so chooses.. “I feel that a breakdown of Canadian borders is inevitable,” said Shawn Hall, a 17-year-old L.V.R. secondary school student. “Why don’t we just let it.break down and see what happens.” are overwhelmingly in favor of imposing their sys- tem and culture on other countries. But, Hammond said, the issue at stake here is of survival as a human family. “If we are to survive as a global hyman species, we have to learn to work together,” she_said. “It’s more important that we think of creative solu- tions.” Another speaker, Myler Wilkinson, argued that to envision Canada as a set of separate economic units “would be to fall into the trap of economic importance and this would be a huge mistake.” Miller, an English literature teacher at Selkirk College, said he spent three years in Quebec and feels the issue of Quebec’s separation from Cana- da should be put into its proper historical-psycho- ry school, said she was disturbed by the changes in social values. “It’s no longer the family or the church, but money.” To a larger extent than ever, she noted, people turn to money “for a feeling of security.” The young speaker said radio and television coverage of the national crisis has made her “ter- rified about what’s happening to Canada.” She also commented on public apathy. “Today if you ask somebody how they feel about Canada, they laugh. They don’t care; they have 50 (t,v.) channels to choose from.” Deanna Rourke, an 18-year-old Castlegar stu- dent, sounded the same note in a lighter vein. “I don’t think the Americans need to send in the troops; we have free trade.” The B.C. Youth Council was established in 1985 — the International Year of the Youth — by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Technol- ogy. It serves as a liasion between the provincial government and the youth (15-24 years of age) of B.C. The Youth Council is scheduled to submit its report on Canadian Unity Forums by Sept. 15. BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE CasNews photo by Ed Mills Patients and staff from Mountain View Lodge in Castlegar found a shady spot on a warm summer day Thursday to take in the sights and sounds of a concert in Kinsmen park. The concert featured Salmo rock'n'roll band the Travelling Mildooles, who delighted the young aid old with a mixture of classic and contemporary tunes. Sewage system repaired SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Engineers have completed repairs on a B.C. sewage system that broke this week and dumped millions of litres of raw sewage into the Columbia River just north of the Washington state border. Engineers repaired the sys- tem Thursday. It was built in 1972 and serves about 120, 000 B.C. residents. Even when it is working prop- erly, the Trail system provides only primary treatment of sewage, removing suspended solids, but providing no biologi- cal treatment of the wastes, say state officials, who found out about the discharge Wednesday. Workers repaired the system near the Highway 3-Highway 22 interchange _ will do the resurfacing work. QUOTE OF THE WEEK It is bitterly ironic that In the very year set aside for a worldwide cam- paign on literacy, the government ~ of Canada should have @ seven-per-cent tax on books.” — Bestselling author Pierre Berton condemning the GST on books. WEATHER Tonight: Clear. Lows near 12C. Highs near 31. Probability of pre- cipitation is 20 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Sun- & day. and removed a rock about 20 UBC student on lookout for refugees from Vietnam War centimetres in diameter to solve the problem, said Ted Walton, city engineer for Trail. “We don't know where it came from and I'm not sure we'll ever find out,’ Walton said Fri- day. "Normally something that size couldn't get into a sewage system.” As many as 500 American war objectors may have settled in the Cen- tral Kootenay region during the Viet- nam War. The American government may not be looking for them any longer, but a university history researcher is. BE sygrcierni Brewer, a Untvendty of “Less than 30,000 of the 125,000 Americans who immigrated to Canada between 1965 and 1975 can be count- ed as war objectors,” he said. And, “perhaps surprisingly,” almost half of those war objectors were wom- en, a group Brewer says he is espe- a lives and attitudes of the men — and women — who left the United States for Canada because of the Viet- nam War, a news release says. “Mass immigration to Canada by Americans objecting to the war in Vietnam is virtually an unstudied field,” he said. “We know it happened, but we don’t know for certain how many war there were, or why they real- ly came.” Brewer said his research to date the number of war objectors is much smaller than is commonly cially i d in surveying. He stressed that he is not just look- ing for draft evaders or military deserters. “A war objector is virtually any American who came to Canada because of the Vietnam War, whether they were fleeing criminal prosecution in the U.S. or not.” Study of the group is vital, he added. “Next to the mass exodus of the United Empire Loyalists following the “American insurrection of 1776, Viet- nam war objectors represent perhaps the largest politcally-motivated mass migration into Canada in our coun- try’s history,” he said. “It’s possible, just possible, that American war objectors will turn out to be every bit as important to Canada in the coming decades as the Loyalists were two centures ago.” Which is why he says it’s important to begin studying the war objectors now, while their memories are still relatively fresh. Questionnaires for objectors to fill out, anonymously, are available through Brewer at 4257 West 15th Avenue, Vancouver, V6R 3A7. “They will be quizzed about their attitudes at the time of their immigra- tion, their attitudes today and what they have done in Canada since com- ing north,” he says. A candidate for a Master’s degree in commen history at UBC, Brewer. his this summer, ager) to finish his report on his findings in the 1991-92 academic Roger Ray, who issues waste discharge permits for the Department of Ecology in east- ern Washington, said earlier it's important for residents to know about the pollution so they can decide whether the river is safe for swimming or fishing. However, sewage was rapidly diluted in the river and state officials said the health threat from the sewage was minimal. The B.C. sewage system for Trail, Rossland and Warfield was running at half capacity r a rock and piece of wood damaged a pump on Sunday, flooding the pump station: Mike Harnadeck of the B.C Health Ministry said the gorge where the discharge was flowing is not a recreation area, and no one takes drinking water from the river immediately down-