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RENATA

continued from treat pege

wasn't very big. Iwao aloe plane Hee the people got
along pretty good and survived,” said

The mining industry is credited wiih ai giving Renata
its start in life. Government documents indicate that the
West Kootenay region of B.C, was rich in mining and
exploration and this is what created the original
settlement in Renata — people came looking for their pot
of gold buried somewhere in the surrounding earth.

There were several mining camps situated along the
Arrow Lakes during the 1880s and 1890s and it was these
mining camps that attracted settlers to the area because
they saw the camps as a perfect oppgrtunity to market
goods and services.

While more and more people came to the area to live,
more and more land had to be cleared to make way for
housing and, as a result, a small lumber industry was

. forestry developed into Renata’s main

Author Victor Carl Friesen, in a 1983 article in the
Bank of British Columbia's Pioneer News, tells of how his
grandfather, and the rest of his family, moved from
Saskatchewan to cash in on the booming economy of
Renata.

“Several families, consisting of some 15 to 20 adults,
from (Friesen’s hometown) Rosthern, Sask. were lured
to this haven on the Lower Arrow Lake in 1910. My
grandfather, Abram Friesen, also journeyed there at the
time to look’ over the prospects. People who had

pioneered on the Prairies would find no great hardship
pater ego dy themselves in the Columbia River Valley,”

ri io enaetry’ indesign Masta intoi’ coutisns to
flourish as more sawmills came into being.

Friesen recalls how everyone in Renata would know
when the steamship pulled into town.

“A steamboat's arrival, announced by its shrill
whistle, at the landing in Retiata was always a special
oceasion. Drivers with team and wagon waited alongside
to pick up freight while bystanders on shore no less than
passengers leaning oh the ship's rail watched the
goings-on: men scurrying up and down the gangplank,
shouldering an assortment of sacks, crates and boxes.
The hustle and bustle was the same as in Huck Finn's
day,” wrote Friesen.

It was the early 1900s and Renata was flourishing
with no foreseeahje problems.. Not only was Renata

ri but all the along the Arrow
Lakes were doing well. However, something was
lingering in the future that would one day put an end to
Renata and at the same time break up a community
whose citizens were very close to each other.

It was decided that in order to ensure that there
would be enough hydroelectric power in the coming years
to serve all of the people who had been moving to the
Arrow Lakes communities, that a dam would be built, in
conjunction with the Columbia River Treaty, on the
outfall of Lower Arrow Lake.

That dam, of course, is thé Hugh Keenleyside. It was

completed in the late 1960s and stands 51 metres high and
raised the lake's water level 12 metres, thus extending
the lake 283 kilometres,

That move was the end of Renata.

The steamship SS Minto was no longer required. She
made her last trip in 1954 and a bid to have her turned
into a museum failed after not enough money was
collected. After that it was decided that there was only
one thing left to do with the S.S. Minto, She was towed
into deep water and burned.

“Renata followed her into memory,” recalls Friesen.
“In 1963 there were still some orchards (but not many of
those which, in the town's heyday, had shipped out 28 car
loads of apples in a single season), a shingle mill, and a
general business building-store, post office and gas
station combined. The population stood at about 70, half
of what it was in the last years, for people had already
begun moving away. Stakes had been driven about the
site to mark the high water line when the reservoir would
be filled, showing there was no hope for the town. The
best houses would be moved out by barge, while the
cemetery would be covered with a slab of concrete.
Everybody had to leave.”

His uncle refused to leave but was finally forced to
vacate his property when workers began taking the
wndows out of his home. He then moved to Vancouver
and a short time after arriving.

Similar stories will more than likely be heard this
afternoon at Syringa Creek Park as former residents of
Renata attend the reunion.

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By CasNews Staff
and News Services

NELSON (CP) — Computer software programmer
Frederick Nachbaur, currently facing deportation to
West Germany, may be allowed to do’what immigration
officials call the “Seattle shuffle” and return to Canada.

Nachbaur, 36, who has lived in. North America
almost all his life, is to be deported Aug. 20.

Gerry Weiner, minister of state for immigration, last
week ordered his staff to review the case but said he
could not overturn the deportation order.

‘The report will “outline options that may be open,”
Weiner'’s press secretary Len Westerberg said in a
telephone interview from Ottawa.

Westerberg said Nachbaur — who has lost his landed
immigrant status in both the United States and Canada —
might be permitted to “go to a place like Seattle and
recross the border.”

But he cautioned no decision has been made.

“The minister will review the case and determine
whether he agrees with the decision (to deport) or will
follow another course,” said Westerberg.

“I think the worst is behind us,” Nachbaur said.

Nachbaur came to Canada with his parents when he
was 11 months old.

His parents took out Canadian citizenship, but were
apparently told their son would have to wait until he
came of age.

In 1964, when he was 13, his parents moved to
Oregon. The family returned to Canada several years
later, but Nachbaur remained.

Meanwhile, Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco met with
junior Immigration Minister Gerry Weiner Thursday to
discuss the Nachbaur case.

A, .
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Tuesday

William K. Ostoforoff of
Castlegar, formerly of
Thrums passed away July 31
at the age of 78.

Funeral servive will begin
at the Castlegar Funeral
Chapel Tuesday at 7 p.m. and
continue Wednesday, at 10
a.m. at  Tarry'’s hall, with
urial at 1 p.m. at Park
Memorial Cemetery.

Mr. Ostoforoff was born
Dec. 27, 1908 in Saskatche-
wan and came to Brilliant
with his parents as a small
boy. In 1923 he moved to
Thrums.

He married Vera Sheloff in
1929 at Thrums. During his
life he worked in various
sawmills, for Cominco and as
a carpenter. He was a mem-
ber of the Canadian Douk-
hobor \Society and enjoyed
fishing, farm work and
travel.

Mr. Ostoforoff is survived
by his wife Vera; four sons,
John, Walter and Bill of
Thrums and Pete of Van-
couver; 14 gr hi

There were a rash of motor
vehicle accidents in the
Castlegar area this week,
ineluding one Thursday after-
noon in which a Castlegar
woman was taken to hospital
with injuries.

Maureen Sklapsky was ad-
mitted to Castlegar and Dis-
trict Hospital after a ‘tmotor-
cycle driven by her husband
Dwayne Sklapsky, 31, crash-
ed into the rear of a pickup on
Celgar Road.

The pickup, driven by
Henry Kuryluk, 56, of Castle-
gar, was making a right turn
off Celgar Road at the time.
Dwayne Sklapsky also was
taken to hospital where he
was treated and released.
Damage totalled $800.

There were three acci-
dents within four hours Fri-
day, including one in which a
Kootenay Bay woman was
injured. Janet Berketa was
driving on Highway 3A near
the Thrums Road about 3:30
p.m. when her car went out
of control on the wet pave-
ment. The car flipped and
landed in a ditch. Berketa

there were no injuries.

Three accidents were re-
ported Wednesday, including
a two-car crash about 3:35
p.m. at the intersection of
Highway 3 and 3A which to-
talled $1,800 in damage.

‘A 1980 Honda driven by
Leslie Robert Stilwell, 29, of
Nelson collided with a 1986
Toyota driven by a Ms.
Demelo, 22, of Brilliant.

Demelo was eastbound on
Highway 3 at the Highway
3A intersection when she at-
tempted to turn left agen a

“no left turn” si; she
started to turn, Taio at-
tempted to pass across a
double solid line.

Both drivers
charged.

A 1984 Chevrolet sustain-
ed $5,000 in a single-vehicle
accident around 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday near the Ootis-
chenia dump.

Poliee say the driver of the
vehicle, a young offender,
was going too fast around a

were

corner and lost control, roll-
ing the car into a ditch. The
driver and three passengers
escaped without injury.
Police also responded to a
single-vehicle accident at
9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the
Castleaird Plaza parking lot
car owned by Silvio
Furlan was parked in the
parking lot when it rolled and
struck a cement barrier. The
damage totalled $700.

Finally, on Monday after-
noon a 1976 Chevrolet pickup
driven by a Mr. Kinakin, 32,
of Castlegar, struck a 1981
Chevrolet van driven by Mrs.
Paterson, 36, also of Castle-
gar.

The Paterson vehicle had
approached a stop sign at 4th
Street and Columbia Avenue
when it was hit by a pickup
driven by Kinakin. Kinakin
was attempting a left turn
onto 4th Street from 'Colum-
bia when the mishap oceur-
red. Damage totalled $1,500.

and five great-grandchildren.
He was predeceased by his
sister, Polly Datchkoff.

and a
minor injuries.

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driven by Frank Kinakin of
Castlegar was involved in an
accident with a vehicle dri
ven by Arnie Akselson, also
of Castlegar. Damage tot-
alled $800. Kinakin was
charged with driving too fast
for the road conditions.
Damage was estimated at
$1,500 following a two-
vehicle accident Friday
morning near the Highway
22 and Highway 3 overpass.
A car driven by Wah Lee of
Castlegar was involved in a
collision about 11:45 a.m.
with a vehicle driven by Bea-
trice Goetting, also of Castle-
gar. Lee was charged with
failing to yield after stopping.
Meanwhile, charges are
pending against a 20-year-old
Castlegar man who failed to
yield to a vehicle leaving the
Castlegar ferry. Bill Gordon
was driving a 1978 Honda
when it collided with a 1984
Dodge driven by Ronald
Langevin, 33, of Fruitvale.

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news

George Hicks was fined
$300 this week in Castlegar
provincial court after plead
ing guilty to failing to pro
vide a breathalyser sample.

* .

Rodney Gritchen was
handed a suspended sentence
and placed on 30 days’ pro-
bation after pleading guilty
to theft under $200.

Peter Wolfe was fined $200
after pleading guilty to theft
under $200.

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Bond Ashlie was fined $75
after pleading guilty to an of.
fence under the Motor Ve-
hicle Act: Driving on newly
painted highway lines or
markings when the lines are
indicated by a traffic control
device.

changes or progress.”

“[ tame away from the meeting feeling very
positive,” Brisco said in a prepared release.

Brisco said that while he cannot comment any
further at this time, “I can say that the minister has a
great understanding and sense of compassion for this

Brisco,said he wants to be careful not to jeopardize
Nachbaur's situation, but added: “I will be meeting with
the Nachbaur family personally to inform them of any

Cranbrook man

to pay

KELOWNA (CP) — Chiro-
practor Gary Edward Kem-
ble of Cranbrook will have to
pay $1,401 in restitution to
Pacific Western Airlines af-
ter his “explosive” remarks
at the airport here delayed a
commercial flight.

Kemble, 38, pleaded guilty
to a mischief charge in
Kelowna provincial court Fri-
day and was given a condi-
tional discharge and nine

PWA bought CP Air last
November and created the
new Canadian Airlines Inter.
national.

Last January, Kemble told
two women at the airport his
luggage contained explosives
and a firearm, and that he
was wearing a gun. He told
the women he worked for the
federal government and that
he was not satisfied with

$1,401

airport security measures.

The two women reported
the incident to airline of
ficials.

By the time the man was
identified at the airport, the
flight had left for Cranbrook.
The aircraft was 13 minutes
into its flight when it was
called back and Kemble’s
luggage taken off the plane.

The plane and its passen
gers were delayed for almost
two hours.

The incident cost the air.
line about $1,401, including
$120 for an additional landing
fee. The major expense was
for fuel.

Kemble’s lawyer, Lyndon
Best of Cranbrook, told the
judge the father of three
young children was in Kel
owna for 24 hours on person
al and financial business that
was stressful.

Pesticide decision delayed

By CasNews Staff

It will be at least three weeks before
the B.C. Environmental Appeal Board

decides on whether CP Rail

allowed to spray the herbicide Spike
80W along its tracks in the West

Kootenay.

Although CP Rail has been issued

three pesticide spraying permits for its
tracks from Nelson to Castlegar,
Castlegar to Trail and the Siddon
Creston-Yahk line, all three permits
are being appealed by groups such as
the City of Castlegar and the Regional
District of Central Kootenay.

will be

The appeal board panel, made up of
chairman Ralph Patterson, Ron Knight
and Charles Gayle, held two days of

tracks.

heard from those who have filed formal
appeals to stop the planned spraying
and on Tuesday it was CP Rail's turn to
explain why it should be permitted to
spray Spike 80W along its tracks.
CP Rail spokesman Don Bower said
Spike 80W is a licenced herbicide and
the company that would be doing the
spraying is also licenced, therefore CP
Rail should be permitted to spray the

Langevin was exiting the
Castlegar ferry at the time.
Damage totalled $700, and

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CORRECTION

in the advertisement of Wednesday, July
29 in the Castlegar News, the Castlegar
Safeway Store Hours were incorrectly
advertised for this weekend. THE STORE
HOURS SHOULD HAVE READ:

OPEN Fri. 9 a.m. -9 p.m.
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sun. & Mon. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Castlegar Safeway apologizes for any

inconvenience this may have caused its
valued customers.

hearings in Nelson last week to hear
from both CP and opponents of pest.
icide spraying.

“The herbicide in question is licenced
by the provincial and federal govern
ment and the applicator is licenced. We
said as the decision is a reserve
decision and if the decision is not made
by the time we want to spray, that we
would like the permit to be extended
for a year,” Bower told the Castlegar
News from his Vancouver office.

On Monday, the B.C. Supreme Court
ruled in favor of the Regional District
of Central Kootenay and imposed an
injunction halting any spraying until
Sept. 8.

ECA

continued from front page
your actions in regard to the West
Kootenay Power takeover with those
expressed aims,” wrote Scarlett.

In a prepared release, Scarlett pre-
dicts that “hundreds” of people will
attend the rally, which will feature
speakers and songs.

“This rally will celebrate the spirit of
those who have fought to save their
heritage of water resources for their
children and grandchildren. It is being
held near the Kootenay River, West
Kootenay’s energy source, for symbolic
reasons,” said Scarlett.

“Those dams should remain under
Canadian control and their power
should be used to benefit British Col
umbians.”

Scarlett added that there is “a lot of
anger” over the way Cominco — West
Kootenay Power's parent eompany —
UtiliCorp and the government “have
handled this takeover.”

“People need a chance to see that
they are not alone, that by uniting they
can change the way things are done,”
said Scarlett.

Dennis McDonald, regional director
of the Environment Ministry in Nelson,
said the appeal board will not hand
down its decision for about three
weeks.

He added that only about 30 people
turned out for the hearing’s second and
final day on Tuesday, after more than
100 filled the Nelson Rod and Gun club
on Monday.

On Monday the appeal board panel

FOOTBRIDGE

continued from front page
available for comment. However,
D'Arcy recently raised the footbridge
issue in the provincial legislature.

D'Arcy called the footbridge “ab-
solutely vital.”

“It's used more today than it has
been for the past 27 years since the
flood of 1960s,” D'Arcy said. “It’s used He said the bridge is used on average
particularly by senior citizens, children about eight times a day by CP Rail
and parents of young children, es- trains “and has blind curves on either
pecially as there is a very popular park — end.”

on the northern end of this particular
crossing.”

D'Arcy also pointed out, “We all
know what happens when people want
to cross a railway bridge and they don't
have a pedestrian walkway. In many
cases they simply use the ties in any
event.”

29 3s

Briefly

Driving cost up

VICTORIA (CP) — It ‘will cost more to drive in
British Columbia starting today.

The B.C. government has raised the five-year
driver's licence fee to $25 from $10.

Highways Minister Cliff Michael said in a news
release that the fee, which was last increased in March.
1986, is still lower than most other provinces. He said
Quebec's two-year licence is $22; Ontario's three-year
fee is $21 and Saskatchewan charges $10 a year.

Power increases

VICTORIA (CP) — Park rangers in provineial
parks have been given the power to issue tickets to
deter troublemakers.

Parks Minister Bruce Strachan said the rangers
can give tickets for offences including vandalism,
liquor consumption and excessive noise.

Fines for the offences are as high as $100 and
those receiving tickets can pay on the spot.

Reported property damage has totalled more
than $600,000 over the last five years.

“Everyone will benefit from the improved park
atmosphere and better protection for people, property
and natural environment,” Strachan said.

New pit planned

TUMBLER RIDGE (CP) — Despite reports of an
uncertain future for B.C. coal experts, Quintette Coal
Ltd. said it planned to open a new pit at its mine near
Tumbler Ridge in northeastern B.C.

Quintette spokesman Jane Stock said the Shikano
pit, to be developed at a cost estimated between $25
million and $50 million, will produce about one million
tonnes of coal a year.

Stock says the Shikano pit, located 1,000 metrer
below existing pits at the top of Quintette Mountain,
will give the company backup supply when inclement
weather prevents mining at the summit.

B.C. paid most

OTTAWA (CP) — More than $133 million was
paid to provinces, the bulk to British Columbia, as
their take of revenue derived from the export charge
on softwood lumber exported to the United States.

The export charge was imposed to head off a duty
the Americans said they'd impose on softwood lumber
going south.

The $133 million came from revenue received
between Jan. 8 and June 20.

Future payments will be made monthly.

The money is being paid to the provinces from
which the softwood lumber was exported.

Pit bull killed

NANAIMO (CP) — A dog owner whose pet was
involved in a fight with a pit bull terrier Friday
evening ended the fight by shooting and killing the pit
bull.

RCMP refused to release names or further
details, saying only they were investigating the inci
dent, which occurred in a suburban area south of
Nanaimo.

Army to help

DHAKA (AP) — The Bangladesh government
mobilized the army Saturday to help with rescue and
relief operations in areas ravaged by flooding that has
killed 94 people, a presidential aide said

President Hussein Muhammad Ershad decided to
deploy the army after meeting with top army officers,
said Toab Klan, the presidential press secretary.

Four killed

PORT AU PRINCE (REUTER) — Haitian
soldiers fired into a crowd of shoppers at a bustling
downtown market Saturday, killing at least four and
wounding another, witnesses said

Reporters at the scene said a truckload of soldiers
opened fire, apparently without provocation, sending
shoppers and vendors fleeing in terror.

When the shooting was over, at least four people,
including shoppers and a woman who had been selling
lettuce, lay dead on the narrow street of the market.

Seven charged

MANILA (AP) — A defeated senatorial candidate
and six others face charges in an alleged plot to topple
Philippine President Corazon Aquino, a military
official said Saturday.

Although the latest coup plot failed, Chief of Staff
Gen. Fidel Ramos warned the political horizon remains
“beclouded with danger and uncertainty.”

Brig.-Gen. Alexander Aguirre, Manila area com
mander, told reporters preliminary charges of con
spiracy to commit rebellion were filed Thursday
against former Senate candidate Zosimo Paredes Jr.,
and two former military officers.

Pilgrims caught

MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA (AP) Security
forces rounded up Iranian pilgrims in this holy city
Saturday after a riot left hundreds dead resulting in
mob attacks on three embassies in Tehran.

Police prevented the pilgrims from trying to
repeat Friday's demonstration. Police opened fire on
that rally, which began with religious overtones but
quickly turned political.

Iran's official Islamic Republic news agency
claimed that 200 Iranians were killed by Saudi police
fire and more than 2,000 wounded

Tornado slams Edmonton

EDMONTON(.CP) — The news that a policeman pulled
a baby alive from the shattered wreckage of the Evergreen
Mobile Home Park late Friday night made a bright moment
in a day of mourning Saturday.

Survivors pickéd through rubble that had been homes
following a’ series’ of vicious tornadoes Friday that killed at
least 25 people, injured at least 250 and caused property
damage estimated in the tens of millions of dollars.

As late as Saturday morning, police said 35 people had
died, but the medical examiner's office later set the toll at 25,
with no explanation of the discrepancy.

Authorities said there was no way of knowing if more
bodies are hidden beneath the crumpled ruins of homes and
businesses.

and 1 worked in a
steady drizzle, sifting through flattened buildings in four
areas along the city’s east side that were smashed by
whirlwinds.

The Evergreen park in the city’s northeast, where 14
people died, was the worst hit. The savage winds destroyed

Hotline

EDMONTON [CP] — A special telephone line has

The number, 403-423-2680, was set up for specific
d with calls all day

phones said the chances of getting through were not
good.

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Hoc Singers attracted a | good- -sized crowd Tuesday for
the final performance of the summer concert in the

200 mobile homes and damaged another 150. The park was a
field of twisted wreckage and debris.

Police spokesman Lance , Beswick recounted the
amazing rescue of the infant, saying a policeman picking his
way through the bent and broken remains of a trailer heard
a cry from beneath his fegt.

“He looked down, pulled aside some of the rubble which
was by his feet and underneath that rubble was a young
baby,” Beswick said. “The baby was cut, was bruised, but is
in satisfactory condition in hospital and will be fine.”

Beswick said he did not Know if the child was a boy or a
girl.

Survivors of the mobile home park wept as they trickled
back into the area, viewing for the first time the giant
garbage pile left behind after entire households were
destroyed.

Tears streamed down Joanne Merriam's face as she
spotted her mother's afghan, a battered suitcase, and some
broken record albums.

“My whole life is in there,” she said, her voice. breaking.

Merriam, 21, was at work downtown when the tornado
slashed across the mobile homes. ‘

A friend recovered a ceramic lamp that had been broken
in half, a relic Merriam wants to keep.

“Oh; my God, there's my sister's car,”
pointing to a crushed brown sedan.

WORK OVERTIME

Relief agencies and volunteers worked overtime to aid
the survivors. The homeless were put up in donated hotel
rooms. .

Restaurants supplied free food. The public response to
calls for blankets, clothing, toiletries and the, like was so
overwhelming that organizers issued a plea that people stop

she shouted,

d by the Castl

their donations until the initial supplies could be sorted.

About 400 families were left homeless because of the
devastation, said Heather Airth of the Emergency Relief
Service, a volunteer group.

A blood bank set up at the University of Alberta finally
turned people away.

Offers of aid had poured in from across the country.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney pledged the federal
government will do whatever it can to help the survivors put
their lives back together. x

Mulroney said Canadians feel “shock, grief and sadness”
at the tragedy.

Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazankowski and External
Affairs Minister Joe Clark — both Alberta MPs — flew over
the ravaged areas and promised federal money as soon as
the province officially asks for it.

A sombre Premier Don Getty, who toured the scenes of
destruction with his wife, Margaret, also promised financial
support from the Alberta government.

“T've never seen anything like this before,” said Getty.

As he trudged across the muddy trailer park, the
jeans-clad premier knelt to pick up a soiled snapshot of a
family, slipping it into his pocket. He then turned to comfort
his wife, who was on the verge of tears.

The tornadoes cut a selective slash through the trailer
park, demolishing some homes while leaving others across a
street intact. The swirling black funnels ripped off roofs,
blew out concrete walls and hurled a telephone pole like a
spear through a brick wall.

The medical examiner's office said the victims died from
blunt force injuries — they were either struck by chunks of
flying debris or were hurled to their deaths against walls or
other solid objects.

EYEWITNESS
TELLS OF
TORNADO

Editor’s note: The author is a restaurant owner who
watched the destruction of the nearby Evergreen Mobile
Home Park on Friday and later saw his restaurant turned
into a temporary morgue.

By WALID AMMAR

EDMONTON (CP) — When it started to get dark, I
just thought it was going to rain and I rolled up the
windows of my car. I hadn't heard anything about a storm
coming.

I'd never seen a tornado before and I didn't know
what one could do.

But the sky kept getting blacker, and the wind
picked up. Then I saw the tornado coming over the top of
the gas station beside my restaurant, smashing into the
trailer park across the street.

I hid under a table to protect myself. If 'd known
what a tornado could do, I'd have hidden better.

But then I saw a guy out in the parking lot, trying to
park his car. I went out and shouted to him to come into

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‘END OF WORLD'

Horror stories told

EDMONTON (CP) — Shaken survivors told a tale of
death and devastation after tornadoes tore through the
eastern portion of the city and its suburbs Friday afternoon.

The whirling vortexes made a lethal sweep through a
mobile home park and destroyed hundreds of homes and
businesses.

“It seemed like the end of the world was here,” said Ted
Gartner, an employee at a mechanic's shop. “The debris was
flying around so badly you couldn't see anything. We all
thought we were going to die.”

“It came right over the building,” said Rosemarie
Wilcott, a shipping receiver in the shop. “It picked up a van
and I didn't see it come back down.

“We ducked down under a table. It tore an 18-foot
overhead door off, but we weren't hurt.”

After the whirlwind passed, Wilcott, trained in first-aid,
tried to help the injured. She found a man lying motionless
beside the building.

“He was dead. I put my rain jacket over the guy. There
was nothing I could do. He must have been outside, in the
open. He must have been picked up in the middle of it. He
was no more than 23 or 25.

“I crawled on my hands and knees into the flattened
building to see if anyone was trapped or hurt, but all of the
people were out by the time I got there. In the mechanic's
shop there were two guys pinned under steel, but the fire
department got there to help.”

A block away, Inger Johnsen was cooking dinner in her
home when the power cut out

“It started roaring like a train, like kaboom, the wind
was just bashing both sides of the house, so I ran down to the

basement,”

she said. “I knew what was happening

“When I came out everything was ruined. My barns are

Ten worst storm-
related disasters

By The Canadian Press

The 10 worst storm
related natural disasters in
Canadian history in terms
of deaths:

81 died in Toronto as a
result of Hurricane Hazel
in 1954.

© 38 killed in a cyclone in
Regina in 1912

© 16 killed in tornado in
Windsor, Ont., in 1946.

¢ 12 died when three
tornadoes hit Barrie,
Orangeville and Alliston,

Ont., in 1985.

© 10 killed in a tornado in
Sudbury, Ont., in 1970.

8 killed in tornado in
Windsor, Ont., as a curling
rink roof was torn off in
1974

¢ 5 died in Sarnia and
southwestern Ont. in 1953.

© 3 killed in storm in
St-Bonaventure, Que., in
1975.

e 3 died in storm in
Kamsack, Sask., in 1944

2 killed in a tornado in
Woodstock, Ont., in 1979.

gone, my granaries, three shops, it's all gone.”
HOUSE DAMAGED

The Johnsen home remained standing with parts of the
roof ripped off, all the windows smashed and much of the
contents damaged.

A resident of the Evergreen Mobile Home Park, where
350 of 600 trailers were either destroyed or damaged, sat in
a hospital, her head bandaged, a blood-soaked bandage
wrapped around her left foot and her right arm in a sling.

“It started to rain and a little bit of hail", she said. “You
could see it lifting up dirt and lifting water off the road, and
then I knew we were in trouble.”

The woman, identified only as Faye, huddled in a closet
with her children.

“I could see things flying down the hallway, and then it
was over and there was stuff on top of us and I couldn't get
it up.”

She said she lifted herself and her children out of the
debris with a desperate effort sparked by fear of fire.

“I yelled ‘We need help, we need help,’ and some lady
came and dragged me down the road to the community
centre.”

It was his birthday.

Esther Ferguson huddled in the basement with her
three children as the,tornado tore huge holes in the roof of
her home.

“The children kept screaming and crying, ‘Where's
daddy, where’s daddy,” she said

Dale Campbell was on his way home from work he was
caught in a tornado that smashed through the Millwoods
residential district of southeast Edmonton

“There were houses flying, trucks flying. I got out of my
truck to help people and got thrown 30 feet across into a
field.

“When I got up there were people laying all over the
place. We picked up a couple of bodies, injured people, and
put them in the back of the truck and took them out fo the
ambulances.”

“Buildings were literally blown apart like matchboxes,
it was a frightful sight,” said Jim Common, reeve of the
County of Strathcona, east and south of the city

List of victims
released

EDMONTON (CP) — Here Marie Barker, 50; George
is a list of the confirmed dead Demetrios, 19, Ajmer Dhal.
from Friday's tornado, as iwal, 30; Lloyd Fankhanel,
identified by the Alberta 55; Richard Gillespie, 29;
chief medical examiners’ of- Daniel Lewis, 18; Edito Men
fice: dosa, 40; Clement Nault, 54;

Etta Nolin, 73; Graham Pal

Sharon Andruchow, 15; mer. 43; Mary Putnam, 59;

Merle Bain, 50; Marie Gregory Trabenik, 41.

the Two minutes later, everything was flying
through the air.

It was like a funnel, thick through the middle. It was
moving too quickly to see, but I could feel the air
spinning. The noise was like a giant vacuum cleaner.

I could see pieces of the trailers spinning in it.

I thought the cement walls of the restaurant would
protect me. Later I saw there's no protection against a
tornado.

From the time it started to get dark until the tornado
passed took only about seven minutes. I could see the
tornado moving off te the north, moving fast.

LIKE A BOMB

When I looked around at the damage, I _—_ thought th
end of the world had come. It was like a bomb had gone
off.

I tried the telephones but they weren't working and
the electricity was off too.

SoI ran to the Alberta Hospital and I told them: “All
the houses have been destroyed. Do you know what's
happening, what's going on?”

They were really helpful at the hospital. They
jumped to it, making phone calls, trying to find out what
was going on.

I came back here to start helping the people who
showed up before the ambulances arrived.

Ottawa ready to
help says PM

LES ESCOUMINS, QUE.
— The federal government
will do whatever it can to
help victims of Friday's dead
ly tornado in Edmonton,
Prime Minister Brian Mul
roney said Saturday.

On a visit to the eastern
Quebec riding of Charlevoix,
Mulroney said he contacted
Alberta premier Don Getty
on Friday to express “all the
shock, grief and sadness of
Canadians” at the news of the
tragedy.

He said the government
will provide whatever money
is available under, existing
emergency programs to the
people hit by the devastating
storms and twisters.

Officials in Ottawa are in
touch with Alberta govern-
ment representatives to de-
cide what form that assis.
tance will take, Mulroney
said, a few minutes before a
speech to about 100 people in
this small town on the North

BRIAN MULRONEY
. offers Alberta aid

Mulroney could be a can
didate in Charlevoix after his
home town of Baie Comeau is
absorbed into the riding b:
Shore of the St. Lawrence redistribution in 1988. ‘baie
River. Comeau is now part of Man

There has been speculation icouagan, Mulroney's riding