CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 10, 1977 wallets? 3 Tam di One Man's Opinion Whom to Blame or Credit? By Fred Merriman Meetings, meetings, meetings. It hth that all decisions, major and minor, are made by a committee. Now, if that is the truth and a reliable fact in our modern and complex society, then who can we blame or credit for any of the decisions that directly affect our welfare or our ‘bed by the , blame them, money again"? from the meeting. point of view). y ofa it It would be very useful to know why one single man on the advisory committee to Dr. Pat McGcer should remain blameless or not get the credit he deserves (depending on your point of view). Tsuppose we must pin a label of good and bad on everybody and poor Pat is even having songs sung about him and references are being made about something in his ear. Perhaps we are being unfair and really don’t understand why the decision was made to increase insurance rates or double the ferry fees. Blame the committee. Those decisions were made behind closed doors, at a meeting that excluded the public from taking part. I strongly suspect that a good and persuasive speaker at that meeting convinced his fellow committee members that “uping the rates” was a good idea. It does make sense. Raising the price in a monopoly situation is always less painful than finding a way to cut costs and claims. There you have it. Dr. Pat McGeer gets‘it in the ear because somebody in a committee decided that we should get it in the wallets, Have you ever noticed how we all seem to think “in committee"? We use words like “them and they” and in the process lump unions, business and gether; motorcycle gangs. People like you and me hide in committees; like the alcoholics, we wish to remain anonymous. In that is strength because then nobody can blame us. They will have to For example, can you bring yourself to say Pat, Ann, Bill, Vera, Sam, Ernie and S. decided to build a new school or would you say “there goes the school board spending our The only value I can see in a meeting is that which provides an opportunity for several persons to express their own personal opinions (after having heard and studied all the facts) in the presence of others who share a common At the same time, any trivia that beclouds the vision of that goal should be p So I must conclude this opinion by taking my hat off to Gene Bodard, with whom I disagree and likewise Al McAdam, and Pat McGeer, because they have the courage to let the public know where they stand, Maybe we can also give credit to the media for bringing men of strength out into the open where we can throw bricks or flowers (depending again on your South Slocan Cubs, Scouts _ Enjoy Fatber.5os Banquet Voice of the People Concerned Over Sprays Editor, Castlegar News: As the weather is getting warmer, and the temptation of . spraying the right-of-ways in- creases, please hear our exper- fences with sprayings. They Director Wants Land Released Land in the Slocan Valley should be released from the agricultural’ land reserve, ac- cording to the regional district - director for the:area. The issue came up when the provincial government sug- gested Crown land in rural areas be released for inexpen- sive housing construction. “All that land that is suit- able for residential” director Norman Brewster said Monday “is in the bottom of the valley and is privately owned. All the Crown land is on steep hill- sides.” Large sections. of the pri- vate land, according to Brew- ster, are frozen as farm land when they should not be. The area does not need release from Crown land, he says, but re- . lease for housing of private land in the farm reserve. “I just can't see large- seale farming in’ the Slocan" Brewster said. “There is only one’ working farm in the southern part of the valley. Everybody else has failed to do any commercial farming here. The area director said he will speak with members of the Speeding: Results In Accident A 1969 Falcon has been rolled resulting in an estimated $1,500 damage when it failed to negotiate a curve Friday eve- ning on Sahlstrom Road. The driver, who has been identified as Allan Charles Roos of Castlegar, has been charged with speeding. No injuries have been re- ported. Income Tax return. ‘Kekanee Tax Service Let us assist you in preparing your 1976 We are at 274 Columbia Avenue, across from the Bank of Commerce in the Heart of Downtown Castlegar. 40u! Monday to Friday 0 Saturday 10-4 Lipstick .. Cosmetics ... 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There is already a stable com- munity there, he said, but it is prevented ‘from growing be- , cause land cannot. be divided into smaller lots. ‘The housing ministry. of the provincial government has offered regional districts the right to develop housing on Crown land where needed. «,The concept was to make raw ‘land with few services available to those wanting to’ ‘build homes. The. lots would range from a half acre to five acres, and would be noless than five miles from the nearest village or city. The lots would be sold at cost. The regional district last month referred the matter to the advisory planning com- mission in each area of the dis- trict. The Slocan Valley com- mission, through its director, is the first to report back to the district on what it thinks of the provincial plan. . Damages Total $500 Total damages ina collision Sunday afternoon, which oc- curred on Main St., has been . estimated at $500, Police have identified the drivers as George Kootchin and + Dinis Medeiros, both of Castle- gar. . Medeiros has been charged with failing to yield the right of way. : Charged With Unsafe Backing A parked vehicle, owned” by Roy Bamford of Castlegar, sustained an estimated $230 damage last Thursday after- ~ noon after it was struck by a 1976 Valiant driven by Arlene Fleming of Castlegar: -- No injuries have been re- ported. Ms. Fleming has been charged with backing while un- safe to do so. may be as we live in an isolated area, and are not exposed like many others to the daily invasion of chemicals in our life. We grow our fruit and vegetables organically and re- frain from committing suicide by installments, through the use. of tobacco, alcohol, tea, coffee and white sugar, so that our exposure to outside poison- ing is minimal. _ In the years 1964-1965 the : power line right-of-way from Arrow Lake to Passmore was sprayed with 24D und 245T. Hydro, at our request, obliging- ly refrained from spraying the part:from Fauquier to, and one mile past Applegrove where we live, If the rest of the powerline were flat, there would be no run-off, but as it is a long and steep slope, all the run-off went to Tait Creek and into our water supply. Hydro thought probably: the same as we did, that the distance between us _ and the poisonous 24D and 245T, against which I am warning, was safe enough. Shortly after the spraying,, things started to happen. M: thoroughbred mareyzan excel lent mother mated’ to's" beauti- ‘ful thoroughbred stallion, gave birth to ‘a deformed filly.: I: decided ever since not to breed anything under. such cireum- stances. My son, almost 30 years old, hesitates: to marry and. raise a family. My bees refused to take their winter feed, made with sugar and water, which they always liked before, and took it again only -when -I brought - water for the ‘mixture from another source. They would starve rather than touch the contaminated water. The family beavers tiving ~ in the lodges on our five dams, and the bachelor beavers along Tait Creek disappeared a year alter the powerline was’. sprayed. but particularly so for a music We were told that. the public should be re-educated to believe in the harmlessness of * 24D and 2457, in the same way as it was done with thalidomide some years ago, and through the use of which thousands of deformed babies without limbs were born. Unfortunately, facts - con- tradict the harmlessness of 24D and 245T, and nobody in his right mind can be-re-educated, even if these products were re- named {as was the trick used with thalidomide) and regard- less of how keen the producers of those chemicals are to sell them for our tax money. * The criminal poisoning of water should be stopped de- finitely and absolutely. Cherry- ville’s poisoned well cannot be excused by re-education, Let us not forget that no matter how improved and refined, and de- spite all the assurances of harmlessness’ and safety, hormone sprays were meant in the first place to -kill men. Hitler's pet idea was to use them to get rid of the unwanted population of the Eastern European countries he overran. And now a word of ap- preciation for Hydro's ,doings this winter—they started slash- ° ing our powerline’ with power- saws" in’ December. We thank * them for showing ,ynder- ‘slanding, dnd respect: for. our human right to life and health. * We also hope that none of the herbicide sprays or pellets * will ever be used again on any part of the powerline right-of- way between Fauquier. and Passmore. We were the first to suffer the consequences of these sprayings, but let nobody else have to do the same. Andrew Potocki for our Association For Life Fauquier Housewife Has Speak Up Service Al a loss for words? . Just phone Marti Hough of Western Springs, Ill. The 30- year-old h ife will call My son and I si ly got patches of vitiligo, which neither of us ever had before. We both started -having heart troubles. Eventually, my heart started. missing beats—first every 20 beats, then down to* every third beat, and some- times even every second beat— which was totally disabling. The late Dr. Maxfield from Nakusp suggested it might be old age; other doctors pre- your boss and ask for'a raise for you; tell your girl friend it’s all over; inform your secretary she has bad breath, For 2% months she has operated the Speak Up Service from -her home in this suburb southeast of Chicago. She charges $5 a call and gets paid through a post office box number before making a call. A fun-packed evening was enjoyed by parents and their sons at the recent annual ban- quet of the South Slocan Bea- vers, Cubs, Scouts, and Ven- turers, Head table guests were chairman of the South Slocan group committee, Mrs, Nan ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (°° KOOTENAY LIBRARY SYSTEM SOCIETY * Trinity United Church Hall Tenth Avenue, Creston CASTLEGAR NEWS, vy hursday, March rch 10, 1977, Hendrie; district G. Pickard and Mrs, Pickard, who is assistant district com- missioner for Cubs; assistant district commissioner for Ven- turers Jim Turner ‘and Mrs. Turnet; and Manager Genera- ‘tion, West Kootenay Power, John Loo and his wife and son. Grace was said by Cub- Andy Lefurgy; the toast to the Queen was given by Scout + Kevon Johnson; and a toast to the memory of Lord and Lady Baden Powell was given’ by Venturer Brian Ludwar. . A special vote of thanks and a gift of appreciation were presented to Mrs. Gloria Forlin, the original leader of Kootenai Beavers, by Beaver Currie Hill. Mr. Pickard made the an- nauncement that Akela of the Cubs Mr. Hendrie, would be going with the district as assistant district commissioner ef training and special events, \. onship. Scout .Brent Jopp ‘p Mr. Hendrie with a gift of ap- preciation for his work with Cubs and for all his work with young people in the area, « Husband of the Cub leader, Jack Jopp, and. wife of the Venturer leader, Ann Wood, were asked to cut the birthday cake. The table centerpieces, which were made by Iris Graham, were then presented to Mrs. Loo, Mrs. Pickard, Mrs. Turner, Trish Bielby, (who made the cake) and Mrs. Ham- mond (who helped the Cubs with their skits), After a delicious meal of chicken, catered by Howard's Dixie Lee in Nelson, the parents and sons enjoyed an in- door campfire, From Page 1A ls Opposed. To Choppers Get On ee Ball pole SENTINEL MINOR BASEBALL ASSOC. Monday, March 4 7:00. p.m. at the Recreation Complex in the Conference Room. All Parents & Interested Parties Please attend this: Important Meeting. Registration For All Minor Baseball Players: i Saturday, March 19 10 a.m. - 2p im. and Saturday, March 26 10 a.m. -2p.m. in the Lobby of the Recreation Comptex:* SEE YOU THERE! good” city it Doug Said at - last :week's council meeting. “Other muni- oa ities are, Supporting us.” layor Louis Maglio said > several ‘municipalities in the area have been moved to write the provincial government de- -manding action. jt year a number of south-central Interior com- munities, including Castlegar, were hit by what has been called “an invasion” of motor- eycles and their rowdy riders, Almost 30 of them parked on Baker St. in Nelson one day, and most shops on the street closed. Only one beer parlor in _ the city remained open, and only after the visitors threat- ened to become unruly unless they were served beer. “The present. government” Ald. A.K. McAdams said, “is at a loss as to how to handle things of this nature. 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