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Mainly cloudy today with periods of
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3 Sections (A, B &C)

Police
crack
down

By CasNews Staff

Police are cracking down on
drinking drivers this holiday season
and have already checked about
1,000 cars.

Castlegar RCMP began its Christ-
mas Counterattack project at the
beginning of December and will
carry it through to the end of the
month. Nelson highway patrol will
also be checking Castlegar drivers as
part of its West Kootenay program.

The goal is for police to deter
people from drinking and driving.

“We want high visibility and con-
tacts with citizens,” Cpl. Terry Hy-
land said.

In the first nine days of the month,
more than 800 vehicles were check-
ed. There were five liquor offences,
two impaired driving charges, and 47
drivers received points, 10 were
given fines and 82 were given
warnings for traffic violations.

And Hyland says there are also
road checks during the daytime.

Castlegar RCMP are putting more
time into the road checks this year
than last, he added.

Last year there was one impaired
driving charge, and six roadside
suspensions after a 1,368 vehicles
were checked during the Christmas
season.

COUNTERATTACK |. . . Stanley Humphries
secondary school students help the Castlegar
RCMP educate local drivers on the dangers of

drinking and driving by passing out informational
brochures at a roadblock on Columbia Avenue
Friday

CasNewsHhoto by Doug Horvey

~PESTICIDES

The only public input currently allowed is in the
appeal stage of a permit process, he noted.

Dennis McDonald, the Environment Ministry's
regional director for the Kootenays, said the

NOT A TOOL

By SIMON BIRCH
Editor

A representative from the provincial Environ.
ment Ministry's Pesticide Control Branch Saturday
promised more public input into the issuing of
permits to spray pesticides on public lands.

Speaking at a meeting of the Regional District of
Central Kootenay's board of directors, Bob Hlatky,
the ministry's regional pesticide control manager for
the Kootenays, said the increased public input will be
achieved primarily through a revamping of the
permit process.

The idea is to require an “application of intent”
to spray a pesticide rather than a direct i

ministry is not prepared to accept pesticides as a
tool.

“The ministry plans to put far more of the onus
on applicants that they have explored all the
alternatives (to pesticides),” McDonald said. “It puts
things into the context that pesticides are a last
resort to solving the problem rather than a first
resort.”

Hlatky said the ministry will also beef up its
requirements for site documentation of any sensitive
water or land areas within an area to be sprayed.

Hlatky said users of pesticides on private lands
will be required to “take courses and pass exams”
before being allowed to use the pesticides.

“We're increasing our vigilance of both the
public and private use of pesticides,” Hlatky said.

The spraying of pesticides became a hotly

and then give the public; from 30 to 60 days to
comment on the application of intent.
“We're looking at increasing’ public input into

contested issue in the West Kootenay in August
when CP Rail received permission from the Envir.
onment Ministry to spray the herbicide Spike along

‘crash’
possible

By CasNews Staff

The Arrow lakes are responding to
efforts to replenish kokanee salmon
but the fishery in Kootenay Lake
faces a possible bleak future, the
provincial Environment Ministry's
regional fish and wildlife manager for
the Kootenays told Regional District
of Central Kootenay directors Sat
urday.

“We're looking at the distinct
possibility of a serious crash of
kokanee population,” in Kootenay
Lake, said Ian Robertson, who was

the permit system,” Hlatky told the directors.

CPR tracks between Castlegar and Nelson.

continued on page A2

Wharf repairs
underway

By BONNE MORGAN
Staff Writer

A local contractor has been award.
ed the contract from the federal gov.
ernment to rebuild the Robson
wharf.

Gienger Contracting Ltd. began
working on the wharf this week after
being awarded the contract worth
about $124,000 from the federal
Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans

Plans call for the reconstruction of
the lower timber section of the wharf
which had ‘déteriorated and was
damaged by fires. The work will
bring the facility up to safe operating
standards and should be vandal
proof.

Gienger Construction plans on
building a rock structure covered
with concrete planks. The cracks be.
tween the planks will be filled with
gravel and chained down.

The funds for the project came
from a $165,000 grant announced last
year by Fisheries Minister Tom Sid-
don. The grant is part of the federal
government's harbor revitilization
program.

The money left over from the
grant will go back into the harbor.
revitilization fund, a spokesman from
the ministry's Small Craft Harbor's
Division told the Castlegar News.

Fred Gienger of Ootischenia didn't
really think he would get the con-
tract after putting in his bid.

“It was kind of a shock,” he said,
adding, “It’s nice timing” because
things are fairly slow this time of
year.

Gienger said he is not sure when
the project will be completed because
part of the work depends on the
water levels on the Columbia River.

continued on page A2

Westar
expects OK
for plan

By BRENDAN NAGLE
Staff Writer

It's been four years since Westar
Timber's working and management
plan for Tree Farm Licence No. 23
was extended by the provincial gov.
ernment. In the last two years of the
four-year extension for plan no. 6,
Doug Lang has been working on a
new management plan — no. 7 — for
TFL 23.

Lang, Westar’s TFL administra
tive forester in Castlegar, said Wes-
tar needed a four-year extension —
the current plan's original expiry
date was Jan. 1, 1985 — because of a
change in the area of TFL 23. He said
arecent controversy surrounding the
“expiry” of plan no. 6 was out of line
because it never expired — it was
extended by the provincial govern
ment.

“It didn't expire,” Lang told the
Castlegar News. “Management and
working plan no. 6 has been extended
since January 1985 up until Dec. 31.
1988.”

He said Westar could not begin
working on a new management plan
for TFL 23 because a tract of land
‘was removed from the TFL in the
Mica area two years ago.

“The ke} to it is that you can't
start worki™g on a management and
working until you know what
you're dealing with,” he said

Lang has spent the last two years
working on a new TFL management
proposal which is now three weeks
from receiving approval. The 9'/
pound document — contained in four
separate binders — is available for
public viewing at the Arrow Forest
District office in Castlegar until
Tuesday.

The plan details every aspect of
forestry management in the entire
761,735-hectare stretch of land in
TFL 23 that runs from Castlegar
about 330 kilometres up the Arrow
lakes past Revelstoke to Mica. Only
261,148 hectares within TFL 23 — 35
per cent of the total — are cor
sidered / to contain “produceable”
forest Jand, he said.

“Métch of it (the plan) seems really
encouraging,” said Castlegar lawyer

Terry Dalton, who represents the
Arrow Lakes Tugboat Society whose
workers tow the logs from the tree
farm to the sawmill.

Dalton, who has discussed the
plan with the society, said the plan
addresses a number of problems with
which the society is concerned. But,
he added, a number of quite specific
concerns remain.

“We need some evidence that the
sawlog inventory for the area is
adequate having in mind the. highly
increased cutting rates,” Dalton said.
“Secondly, we do feel that the pulp
logs must in some way be dealt
with.”

“We are still concerned that
Westar Timber was able to sell the
pulp mill even though it had a
continuing obligation under its tree
farm licence to deal with the pulp
logs in the tree farm licence,” Dalton
said.

He said the society is concerned
about protecting existing jobs by
making sure there is always suffici
ént work and to keep open oppor-
tunities to increase the number of
jobs associated with the tree farm
licence.

Timber analysis, reforestation, en.
vironmental concerns and annual
allowable cut quotas are all outlined
in the proposal, Lang said. Once the
proposal is accepted by the B.C.
Forest Service's chief forester, it is
up to Westar to control the resources
within TFL 23 as detailed in the
proposal.

The Forests Ministry is always
aware of Westar’s adherence to the
guidelines within the proposal once it
is accepted, Lang said!

Working and management plan no.
7 calls for an annual allowable cut of
920,000 cubic metres of wood a year
within TFL 23. The current plan
allows Westar to cut 1.22 million
cubic metres of wood a year.

Of the 920,000 cubic metres of
wood a year allowed under the prop
osal, at least 120,000 cubic metres
will be decadent of “junk” wood

“We're securing markets on the

continued on page A2

SEASONS GREETINGS .. .
Members of the Robson
Raspberry Ferry Users Ad
Hoc Committee posed for a
Christmas picture in front of
the ferry last night. The
picture will be used ona
Christmas card to be sent to
various political figures

CasNewsPhoto by Bonne Morga