SS SEAS hy eb lade Be Lentil, Minestrone or Chicken Noodle. 284 mL tin on maeiniill Frozen. Head Removed. 44/ 100g a | PORK BUTT an, LI 3.92/kg. NAVEL ORANGES Sunkist. Seedless. _ 4 Snack Size. 163's. Product of .U.S.A. 14 Ib box. ea PINK GRAPEFRUIT BABY NEEDS Johnson and Johnson. Bonus Size Shampoo, Baby Oil 600 ml, Baby P. 700 g or Advertised prices in effect at your Castlegar Safeway. ea Quantity rights reserved. Some items may not be exactly as shown. NewsFLASH Cloudy with sunny periods. Highs near minus five.. @ OUR PEOPLE Russia’s Dr. Alexander Vaschenko is visiting Castlegar for only three months, but he has quite the list of things he’d like to do ... among them, take steps to record and preserve the Doukobor way of life. . page 9 It’s the mid-point of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League season, and that means it’s report card time for the Castlegar Rebels. Overall, the local squad brings home a C+. page 12 Design your own home. In fact, you and your neighbors can design your own residen- tial area. Known as co-hous- ing, the project lets residents, not developers, decide what kind of housing to build. page 15 Farside Norman Letters Our People Crossword Local Sports Workplace Action Ads Wheels '93 Saturday January 16, 1993 News photo by Corinne Jackson What else are mounds of snow for? Mathieu Beaudet, 9, had some fun crash-landing in the white stuff on the way home from school. Fellow Twin Rivers Elementary classmate, eight-year-old Stewart Walls, follows blindly... literally. Foresters on ‘fact finding’ mission Neil Rachynski NEWS REPORTER The Association of B.C. Professional Foresters are having a look for themselves. Three members of the association’s disciplinary committee are in Castlegar to examine 56 invalid or missing silviculture permits. The Arrow Forest District discovered the errors after conducting an internal audit. That has since prompted the government to conduct a province-wide audit of similar doc- uments that date back as far as 1987. “(The three members) are on a fact finding mission,” asso- ciation executive vice-president Bruce Devitt said. The group is pre-screening the material to determine whether an investigation is needed. One member said the dis- ciplinary board’s mandate is not to investigate the govern- ment but rather its own members. The committee will try and decide if there were any breaches of the assé6ciation’s code of ethics. Since discovering the problems with the documentation, the Arrow Forest District has begun to take steps to bring the paperwork up to current guidelines. Devitt was not able to say whether the district is taking an acceptable course of action by retroactively updating the old permits. But he did say that the documents do need amendments from time to time anyway. He said a lot of red tape is avoided by simply bringing the permits up to speed, and it makes sense “if you’re results oriented.” The report of the association’s findings is expected to be fin- ished by Jan. 21. Terry Dodds, woodlands manager for Slocan Forest Prod- ucts Ltd., said the problems with the silviculture permits doesn’t mean there are problems where the logging has al- ready taken place. “This whole thing is nothing more than a paper exercise,” Dodds said. “If you go out on the ground, everything was done that was supposed to be done. “We're following the directives of the Arrow Forest District,” he said. “There was some confusion, to some extent on our behalf, but also with various and sundry forest districts.” Dodds could not say whether the Arrow Forest District is taking appropriate measures. “Is there clauses that can make (the silviculture permits) retroactive? The Arrow Forest District has taken the position that they are,” Dodds said. At least two West Kootenay environmental groups have ex- pressed outrage with the Ministry of Forests. New Denver’s Valhalla Society has retained a lawyer and the group is looking at taking legal action. The issue first surfaced in September when SFP was or- dered to suspend part of its timber cutting at Wensley Creek, yet the audit was done in SLOCAN VALLEY RESIDENTS HEADING TO COURT MONDAY, PAGE 3