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over oil spill

VALDEZ, Alaska (CP) — The slow cleanup of a huge
Oil spill in Prince William Sourtd, one of the richest fisheries
in the United States, has angered and frustrated Alaskans
accustomed to living off the bounty of nature.

“I think it’s clear now ... we are faced with destruction
of our entire way of life,"* Valdez Mayor John Devens said
in an emotional speech heard by Frank larossi, president of
Exxon Shipping Co. , the tanker's owner

In-the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, about
240,000 barrels of crude were dumped into théSound when
the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground last Friday

The latest figures released by Exxon officials show that

te only 3,500 barrels have been retrieved. Plans to mount a big

cleanup while the oil was still confined to a relatively small
area ended when a fierce wind storm spread the oil Over 250
square kilometres.

The town of Valdez, population 3,600, lies at the
Southern end of the trans-Alaska pipeline.

GOOD DAYS OVER

Devens said the oil industry had generally been good to
his town but that he was frustrated after five days of litte
Progress in cleaning up the spill

He said the oil industry had assured Alaskans that the
pipeline could be built and oil shipped out of Prince
William Sound without harming the environment. ‘‘Now
we feela little betrayed,’’ he said

When larossi roseto report that Exxon would fulfill its
promise to clean up the spill and expected to have removed
half of the remaining oil aboard the tanker by midday
today, he was interrupted by a member of the audience who
shouted, “*You and your company are totally money
motivated. 5

Alaska fishermen fear that the spill, now stretching in
a narrow band at least 65 kilometres south from the groun
ded tanker, will cause permanent harm to the waterway’s
fish habitat

The world's largest salmon hatchery lies at the nor
thern end of the sound, and Fred Deiser, owner of a fishing
boat, said it will not be known for years how the oil will af
fect the salmon population,

SPILL RESPONSE

State officials said they had shifted their primary focus
from cleaning up the oil to trying to save three valuable hat
cheries and a_ particularly
deploying booms to block it

A delegation sent by U.S. President George Bush
arrived in Valdez late Tuesday: The group, which included
Transportation Secretary Samual Skinner and Environ
mental Protection Agency director Wifliam Reilly, made

valuable fishing area by

no comment after flying over the spill

~ Court date for
Bennetts to be set

TORONTO (CP) Lawyers for
former B.C. premier Bill Bennett and
his brother will appear in provincial
court June 29 to set-a-date for trial on
insider trading charges

The two didn’t appear in court
Tuesday as their lawyers made a brief
appearance before provincial court
Judge B. J. Young

Bennett, his brother Russell Bennett
and Bennett Equities Lid. were
charged Feb. 2 under a section of the
Ontario Securities Act that forbids in
vestors from using information not
generally available to the public to
benefit from stock trades

Lawyers for the Bennett brothers
have said their clients will plead not
guilty

The two face an April 17 trial date in
Vancouver on similar charges, as does
Bennett Equities — a'company whose

BILL BENNETT
. charged under securities act

In Meech Lake, Que., Environment Minister Lucien
Bouchard said Tuesday he may review the Canada-U.S.
agreement. on West Coast oil shipping because of the spill,

“We are concerned about what happened begause we
know that these kind of disasters can happen everywhere
Bouchard told reporters before joining other cabinet
ministers nieeting in Meech Lake.

The Valdez spill is not likely to have much di
on Canada because the nearest Canadian point is the Queen
Charlotte Islands more than | ,000 kilometres away

However, Bouchard said the spill could affect wildlife
that migrates across initernational boundarie:

Environmentalists echo that concern. Ken Brynaert,
president of the Canadian Wildlife Association, said
inigratory Waterfowl such as geese are likely to beaffected,

as are whales.

ct effect

SPILL WORRIES
MINISTER

OTTAWA (CP) — Canadian marine life may be
damaged by the recent Alaskan-oil spill, says Environ:
ment Minister Lucien Bouchard, who added he’s
worried about a proposed oil and gas project in Alaska

“We are very concerned about what happened
because we know that these kinds of disasters can hap-
pen everywhere,” Bouchard told reporters as-he went
into a meeting of the cabinet’s planning and priorities
committee

Bouchard said-the oil from the Alaskan spill
which—occurred—Friday-when- the Exxon Valdez_ran
aground, spilling 40 million litres of oil — is unlikety to
wash.up on Canadian shores; Buvit could affect wildlife
that migrates across international boundaries.

Enviroamentalists echo. that concern. Ken
Brynaert, president of the Canadian Wildlife
Association, said migratory waterfowl such as geese are
likely to be affected, as are whales

“‘Bowhead whates are migrating up the coast of
Alaska entering the Bering Sea, and this (spill) may have
a very serious impact on the most endangered of all
species of whales

Silvaine Zimmermarin, an oceanographer with the
environmental group Greenpeace, said from Vancouver
that grey whales are beginning their migration up the
West Coast

directors include the brothers and their
mother, May

Also charged by B.C. regulators was
Herb Doman, chairman of Doman In
dustries Lid., a Vancouver Island
lumber company

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Neither regulatory officials nor
lawyers for the Bennetts have given
any indication of how they'll deal with
the issue of ‘double jeopardy”
whether an accused can be tried twice
for the same offence.

The issue won't likely be raised by
the defence until the trial, said Nigel
Campbell, senior investigation counsel
for the Ontario commission.
ked to the Nov. 4
sale on the Toronto Stock Exchange of
about 500,000 shares in Doman In
dustries. The sale was worth more than
$5.5 million.

The charges are

EXPANSION PLANS . . . Ootischenia Cemetery,
could be expanded in the futur:

situated on the bank of the Columbia River,
The cemetery’s board has applied to the Ministry
of Labor and Consumer Services for land for future expansion of the site.

CosNews Photc

Cemetery

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_-#— There will be aeed for this land in the future and

the land may not be available then

The RDCK has yet to receive a reply from the ministry

The RDCK is responsible for the operation of one
cemetery — Dumont Creek Cemetery in the Slocan Valley
To facilitate a cemetery society in Area H, the RDCK ap
plied for property in the Winlaw area and as a result is
responsible for operation of the cemetery

But the RDCK has been able to ‘ente into an
agreement with the Dumont Creek Cemetery Society for

them to care for, maintain and operate the cemetery in
compliance with the Cemetery Act. However, should the
society dissolve or cease to exist, then the regional district
would be required to assume responsibility for the ad
ministration and operation of the cemetery

Henderson said assuming responsibility for yet
another cemetery would create a snowballing effect, poin
ting out that there are other cemeteries in other rural areas.

“This board has come to realize that other
organizations are doing a good job and the Ootischenia
cemetery group is one of them,” he said

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March 29, 1989 Castlégit News

Castlegar News

TREET TALK

AN UNIDENTIFIED MOTORIST discovered his
engine needed more than an oil check when he stopped
at the Co-op service station Tuesday afternoon — a
muskrat was cunning around under the hood of his car

The rodent, about the size Of a siiall at, was cor
nered and held under a box until animal control officer
Jackie Yocom arrived

The muskrat was freed imtof

Yocom said.

WELL-KNOWN WES
TOM LEWIS has gone east

Lewis, who With his wife Lyn, moved to Salmo
from Portsmouth, England six years ago, is moving to
Halifax after an east coast tour which will take him to
New York, Washington, D.C,, Boston and Virginia

marshland,

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Lewis, known for his shanties and baliads which he
has performed the last few years at Castlegar Arts
Council's Concerts in the Park series, will also entertain
audiences at Canadian folk festivals throughout the

music producer MarkAndrew. Cardiff who-is-well
known for his work on.albums by Rita McNeil and Stan
Rogers.

DR. BRIAN GORMAN has assumed the respon-

SPRING CLEANING .

. Castlegar school district

worker Stan

hoses down the sidewalk in front of the school board office Tuesday afternoon.

CosNews Photo

Business owner
wants status quo

VANCOUVER (CP) Doreen
Braverman isn’t asking for much from
the provincial government when
Finance Minister Mel Couvelier brings
down his budget Thursday

As owner of The Flag Shop, a $2
million-a-year local business that sells

Rotering

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he also held from 1980-1985.

Rotering -was criticized earlier this
year for accepting the job with
Kristiansen, a New Democrat,
although Rotering maintained the job
isnon-partisan

And today, Rotering,.a former
reporter with the Nelson Daily News,
called the criticism ‘‘a media creation"
anda**tempest in a teapot.”

don’t think there was any con
troversy,”” he added

Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore
said she wishes Rotering well

“I think Gerald has done good
things for Nelson and I wish him well in
his full-time job as constituency
assistant to Lyle Kristiansen,"? Moore
said today

In a news release announcing his
resignation, Rotering expanded on his
reasons for quitting

“My goal in pursuing the mayor's
chair in 1985 was to re-start’ the
economic engine of Nelson,”
“We've largely. accomplished that,
with numerous major developments.

“Nelson has come a very long way
since the psychologically and
economically depressed days of 1985,"*
Rotering adds. “‘I've been glad to play
arole in that turnaround."

Rotering was elected as the
youngest-ever mayor of Nelson in 1985
atage 33. He had previously served.asa
alderman at age 25

he says.

Celgar
slated for
start-up

By CasNews Staff

Celgar Pulp Co. is slated to start up
again between April 10 and 17 if
repairs on the mill resulting from the
fire three weeks ago are completed on
schedule, Celgar’s industrial relations
manager Ron Belton said

As well, Belton said there should be
no additional layoffs other than the
approximately 40 men who have been
laid off so far

Electrical crews from the mill as well
as contractors are working to repair
two damaged transformers and a sub-
station, he said

The fire occurred when a transfor
mer blew up early in the morning on
March 8, causing extensive electrical
and structural damage. The cause of
the blown transformer and an estimate
of the damages have yet to be deter
mined, Belton said.

The start-up will be slow, he said,
since the shutdown was so sudden

tlags and banners, Braverman would
be happy if the British Columbia
government simply kept the economy
sailing along onan even keel.

“We (small businesses) don’t want
any handouts or giveaways,”” she said.
“What we really want is a stable
economy.""

Couvelier and the Social Credit
government boast fiscal stability is
exactly what they are delivering these
days-Fhe 58-year-old finance minister
has hinted Thursday's budget, expec-
ted to exceed $12 billion, will break
even or produce a surplus

If so, it will be the first since the oil-
rich Alberta government posted the
last of its surplus budgets in 1984-85

ECONOMY STRONG

While Couvelier and Premier Bill
Vander Zalrh have credited theit fiscal
prudence for the province’s rosy for-
tunes, a strong economy in the last two
years has helped

The economy grew by about four
per cent in 1988 and is expected to ex

year
unemployment rate in British Colum
bia dropped to 9.9 per cent in
February, compared to 7.6 per cent

MEL COUVELIER
. hinting at balanced budget

nationally, from more than 12 per cent
in 1987

Businesses in British Columbia lead
the country in capital spending in
creases, totalling $6.9 billion last year,
a 29-per-cent increase over the year
before

Forestry, the largest industry in
British Columbia, helped lead the way
in- boosting the provincial economy

Mulroney to meet
Bush in May

OTTAWA (CP) Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney will meet U.S
President George Bush in Washington
on May 3 — their second meeting since
Bush was sworn in as president in
January.

Mulroney and Bush plan a working
hunch at the White House, the prime
minister's office said. Their first talks
were held Feb. 10in Ottawa

While in Washington, Mulroney will
formally open Canada’s new embassy
and will receive the 1989 Environmen

tal Achievement Award from the
Geneva-based International Environ
ment Bureau

The award will be presented by Gro
Harlem Brundtland, the prime
minister of Norway and last year’s
recipient

Mutroney will be in Boston on May 2
to receive the Christian. A. Herter
Memorial Award from the World Af
fairs Council of Boston. The award is
to recognize contributions to inter
national understanding

In memory

Castlegar and District Hospital
Born in Stony Beach, N.W.1

in 1925.

death.

James Street

Offic

Viola Dafoe

Viola Grace Dafoe of Castlegar passed away peacefully March 25 in

Chilliwack as a young woman where she met Byron Dafoe. They married

In 1941, they-teft Chilliwack and eventually settled in Squamish in
1950. They came to Castlegar in 1980 where Mrs. Dafoe resided untit her

Mrs. Dafoe is lovingly remembered by her two daughters, Marie
Smith of Castlegar and Dorothy Philps of Chilliwack; one son, Robert of
Surrey; two sisters, Audrey Grimmett and Etta Kipp, both of Chilliwack;
eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren

She was predeceased by her husband Byron in 1984 and one brother,

Cremation has taken place and private memorial services were held
Monday, March 27 at the home of Mrs. Marie Smith. Pastor Ira Johnson
et

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Diabetes Society
Valley Funeral Home was in care of arrangements.

on Sept. 26, 1904, she moved to

sibilities and practice of Dr. R. Letnick at the Castlegar
Dental Centre in the Castleaird Plaza.

summer, including the Winnipeg Folk Festival in July
This fall, he will start work on a new album with CBC

Strike continues

TORONTO. (CP) — A’ flustered -
radio announcer mumbles that he
hasn't

Gzowski says the problem has led to or when wo airline ads are run-in-the
the cancellation of some shows, in- same bunch, that everything isn’t
cluding a Friday-morning political
panel discussion

‘Management is coping in various
ways but none are as good as the un

‘got anything’’ to\fill a two:

minute gap, Vancouver residents are

treated to an evening; newscast.from

Montreal, and summer reruns of radio

features startin March: derpaid—peopte—they—are—repiacing,!!—— m—not— bragging burn not
Fhat’s the CBC, asa strike by 2,600 _Gzowski says apologizing either,” he says.

workers enters its 13th day “They run too long, too short, ‘We have been able to put on a
“We listen to the newscasts for national _broadcast-service and there

fun,"” says Victoria Wilcox, a CBC has to be some credit in that."”

Radio researcher who is a member of And he said the content of the news

the striking Canadian Union of Public hasn't been affected, because repor

ters and writers are not members of

going too well.”*

While Chambers admits broadcasts
aren't without hitchés, he says the cor-
poration is maintaining basic services.

there’s all_kinds of stumbling and
stammering.”

Television news hasn't had the fluf
fs, dead air and pregnant pauses of
Emptoyees. | radio, but union spokesmen say

“It’s one ofthe things that keeps our — bloopers are still there CUPE
morale so ‘high hearing their NATIONAL ‘CHAOS’
booming melodramatic voices telling ‘The National may look pretty
you that a ‘parent’ has escaped from a
pyschiatric hospital."” chaos,"

Management has been filling in since | Hopper
newsreaders, makeup artists, produc “You know when they forget
tion staff and office workers walked newsreaders $45,000.
off the job March 16.

“It would be very strange to take-a
core of professional broadcasters and
replace them without incident,” says
CBC spokesman Richard Chambers

“Most of the peopte on air haven't

BCGEU members
sear broadcast skills in 10 or 20 ratify new contract

CUPE is demanding higher pay, bet
ter job security and a shorter work
week. No negotiations are scheduled

The CBC’s office workers earn an
average of abdut $26,000 yearly;
production staff average $28,000,

smooth but behind the ‘scenes it’s
says CUPE bargainer Ken

commercials because there are no cues,

Peter Gzowski, host of CBC
Radio’s Morningside, says there is
more music and less interviewing British Columbia Government Em
throughout the network ployees Union members who work for Aug. 1, 1990.
‘WE'RE HURTING’ BEL Maintenance in the West The agreement expires Oct:

“We're andoubtedly hurting,”’ says Kootenay have ratified a new three- 1991
Gzowski, who reminds his audience of _ year contract. Eighty-eight per cent of
the strike’s effects every day the members voted in favor of the con
CBC Morningside — sort of.”” tract, according to a BCGEU ‘news

People and organizations refusing
to deal with the Crown network during
the strike include Ontario Premier
David Peterson, the federal NDP the master agreement between the
caucus, labor groups, musicians and provincial government and the
regular contributors such as Diane BCGEU and will receive an additional _ probationary period, and job protec
Francis two per cent increase Aug. 1, 1990,”’ tion provisions, Offermann says.

The National Radio Producers said Debby Offermann, a staff The employees who work for BEL
Association says CBC producers are Maintenance are those privatized
unable to provide“ fair and balanced’ workers sho had worked-trroad and
coverage because they cannot get all bridge maintenance for the Ministry of
sides of a story Highways in the West Kootenay area.

1, and a further 7.5 per cent increase,

The membership voted 71 per cent in
favor of maintaining the status quo of
a 35-hour work week ina simultaneous
release vote.

‘Our members were successful in
actiieving monetary gains on par with

“This is

Other highlights of the collective
agreement are the implementation of a
pension plan, improved training and
posting provisions, a reduced

reptesentative with the Union

The pact gives BEE Maintenance
workers a wage adjustment retroactive
to Jan. 1, a five Per cent increase Aug.

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