oe VOICG1..“—r" July 26, 1989 STITIIAL Salmo celebrated Canada Day rier this month. The festivities included a parade with royalty of a different kind (left), an entry from the Village of Warfield which was judged best float (below, right) and clowns from the Castlegar Shriners (below, left). Photos by Louise Zaitsott VSBICGyanuer Ihe Voice of the Valleys 1s o special monty publicar section mails The Voice of the Valleys reaches readers in Slocan, Robson Perrys n of the Castlegar News and delivered as a separate edition many communities City, South Slocan, Thrums, Winlow, Castlegar n, Krestova, Brilliant, Blueberry, Tarrys, Fairview, Appiedale Siding, Taghum, Shoreacres and Goose Creek CASTLEGAR NEWS Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4 Office /Circulation 365-7266 Display Ads 365-5210 News Room 365-3517 FAX 365-3334 Next Publication: Wednesday, Aug. 23 day, Aug. 16 dns tor indiuded as New Denver, Salmo, Genelle Rosebery, Raspberry Silverton, Ymir, Crescent Valley, Passmore, Pass Creek, Siocan Park awarded The provincial government has awarded $5,000 from the B.C. Lottery Fund to the Fauquier Community Club to help a project to improve the town’s hall, tennis courts and playground The award has been authorized for one-third of the project costs, Minister of Labor and Consumer Services Lyall Hanson said Money from the lottery fund is not paid in advance so the community must complete the project with other funds and then apply for the gover July 26, 1989 VOICE yuu cs By GRANT COPELAND The Valhalla Society As widespread protests: against clearcutting are heard in the Slocan Valley, the Forest Service has stead. fastly maintained a position that present forest policy cannot be changed to satisfy a few local environmental organizations, splinter groups and a variety of citizens, as they do not represent a majority of the public. Groups and people outside the Slocan Valley have even less standing and are totally ignored. However, few people know that for the last year the Forest Service has also ignored letters-of resolution against all further COMMENT clearcuiting by the village councils of New Denver, Silverton, Slocan and the Regional District of Central Kootenay, which represents all the residents of the Slocan Valley, sent to them one year ago. This wanton disregard of the public will by the Forest Service, representing the B.C. government's policy tqward all provincial residents, has proven beyond a doubt that democratic process no longer exists in B.C.; that under a facade of public input and alleged representation of the electorate, the Vander Zalm government isa dictatorship. On Aug. 2, The Valhalla Society sent all the resolutions to Ken Arnett, Arrow Forest District manager. He never acknowledged them, and for the next year the clearcuts continued. On June 5 of this year, many Slocan Valley residents held a protest meeting at the Arrow Forest District office. When Dave Smith, alderman of Silverton, confronted Mr. Arnett with the issue of the resolutions again, he replied: ‘1 don’t acknowledge every piece of personal mail that comes in to this of fir Mr. Arnett treated the resolutions of three municipalities and the regional district as if they were no different from any other ‘personal mail,’’ feeling that he need not acknowledge them. What kind of a voice do the residents have in their provincial government if their locally elected officials, who represent many, many people in the municipalities and the whole district, are treated as having no more significance than any single, ordinary person? Mr. Arnett said to Herb Hammond, a professional forester with the Slocan Valley Watershed Allianc “You think that any little group in any little valley At this point Mr. Arnett was shouted down by the crowd, which was unfortunate, because this is the real attitude which has underlain and obstructed the plan ning process for years, and it’s time we all heard what it has to say. The people whose tax money pays his salary, the people whose interest he is supposed to be serving, are viewed as ‘‘any little group in any little valley,”” even Voices on logging ignored by ministry if it includes ail the village councils and the regional district We do not believe, that this aititude reflects Mr; Arnett’s personal desires, On some issues he listened and answered considerately, and in the end gave ihe im- pression he heard what the people were saying to some degree. We believe that he wants to be more responsive, but the ministry will not let him, And the tone of arrogance he uses is derived from the attitudes of those who give him directions. For instance, after the TFL hearings in Nelson, Minister of Forests Dave Parker stated on the radio that the overwhelming input he received against his plan to convert the provincial forests to tree farm licenses was not representative of the general public. This included the City of Nelson, the City of Kaslo, the Village of Silverton, the RDCK and many watershed groups as well as private citizens. This practice of dismissing any opposition, no mat ter -who they are, in an attitude which is found throughout the Socred government. They have pushed through disastrous measures such as privatization, cuts in social services, an anti-union laws no matter who or how many people protest. As long as the protesters don’t have big money, it doesn’t matter to them Would one ever hear a representative of the Ministry of Forests state to the head of a logging com pany, “Do you think that any little corporation with any little mill should be able to dictate the way the forests are managed over the protests of hundreds of pedple who live there, and the thousands who must live there inthe future?” No, because the logging companies and their profits are portrayed as gargantuan in their importance Logging company profits are necessary, of course, but rot in such excess as to bankrupt the’public treasury of forestland right down to its soil. This soil is needed to grow trees for the future, and these forests are needed to sustain logging jobs, water supplies and tourist income, not only in our time, but for generations to come. The truth is that the logging company profits are important to the Socred party campaign funds. “After this money has paid for plenty of media hype to get them in power, they thumb their nose at the people, who are nas “little groups’’ and “‘self-interest groups."’ They can do this because the power goes with the money, and the money is in the hands of industry and the industry and the government are in colaboration, while the treasury of B.C.’s forests is being bankrupted The effects of this dictatorship in the Slocan Valley are multiplied by thousands of times all over the provin- ce. The people simply have no voice; only the logging companies are hard. This, apparently, is the Socred’s opinion of democracy, and if they don’t change it, they may very well lose the power which is so precious to them Scientists can now clone spruce trees VICTORIA British Columbia scientists have found a way to produce selected from the British Columbia advantage over conventional seedling HAPPY ATHOME. home near Salmo. By DONNA ZUBER Special to the CasNews Inspiring, former Regional District of Central Kootenay director Iris Bakken, well- known as an outspoken defender of her beliefs, tends to her flowers in the pea iting of her Iris Bakken never dull government to get the school off the ground. “I'm testing the system,”’ she says, ‘‘to find out if the governments are as supportive as they claim to be."” fanatical, delightful . Regardless of how people describe her, one thing they’re sure to agree on — Iris Bakken is never, ever dull Or speechless. Behind the voice of Bakken stands a woman barely five feet tall. But size is obviously no indication of character; Iris has enough spunk and passion for life to fill the frame of a basketball star, and then some. To most, she is known for her countless political ac tivities, and still others for her business dealings as president of the Kootenay Stone Centre and Porcupine Mines Ltd. Bakken’s lastest venture combines her greatest in. terests — stone masonry and helping others, with a dash of her political philosophy thrown in for good measure. She’s putting together a school called the Kootenay Stone Masonry Training Institution. The three-month course is intended to revive the dying art of stone masonry, thus helping her own business, and get people gainfully employed in a craft that uses a natural B.C resource. Bakken hopes to catch the attention of the unemployed, to get them “contributing to the pot rather than taking from it,”’ she says In addition to learning the various aspects of the craft, students will also learn how to run a small business so they will be prepared to venture out on their own. The course will be open to 16 students at atime, and Industry, and people working, have always been the driving forces behind Bakken’s political activities. She’s even been referred to as “‘the white knight of in dustry,” she says. She credits her upbringing with her understanding of it. She and her brother grew up in a logging camp where their mother worked as a cook “1 grew up loving the sound of a sawmill, and the smell of fresh cut trees,’ Bakken says. ‘It was all a par- t of life, seeing people work. It meant good things were happening. But she didn’t make the connection between business and politics until some years later, when she was in business for herself. When election time rolled around, ‘‘everybody said we needed a change, so I thought, sounds good to me, and voted NDP,”’ Bakken says. ‘*I was very naive politically.”” Once the NDP was in office, “‘then I found out how important politics are."” The life of her company, Por- cupine Mines, became threatened with the party’s proposal of a tax on mining companies before any ex- penses were deducted, Bakken says. “+t was very frightening for the mining industry,”” she says. ‘*I voted Social Credit the next time.”” As her interest in politics grew,+ so did her realization that very few people really understood how the government affects everyday people, Bakken says {1 started voicing my opinion more,’’ she says, nment-approved grant *° Cedar * Redwood © Walnut SUMMER HEAT SALE SICO Solid Colour Latex Exterior Stain gallon $9? 5 Heavy Duty Wheelbarrow Erie. 5.5 cu. ft... ® BUILDING SUPPLIES © FLOOR COVERINGS = 4 $179 DRIVEWAY SEALER 6 litre container covers approximately 600 sq. t *$3.00 mail-in rebate trom Domtar with 6 litre purchase (one rebate request per household 6 _ 1 95 poMTAR WE HAVE A FULL LINE OF POOL CHEMICALS © HARDWARE © GARDEN SUPPLIES “WHILE STOCKS LAST * LIGHT FIXTURES CASH AND CARRY MITCHELL SUPPLY LTD. 490-13th Ave., Castlegar Ph. 365-725 LATTICE WORK 4x8 $] 43° $1979 $795 s10° 16’’ OSCILLATING FAN $5495 Treated Untreated @ Treated Untreated STACKABLE PATIO CHAIR Made of heavy duty plastic resin, these white patio chairs are rustproof and * BENJAMIN MOORE PAINTS stackabje for easy storage * AUTOMOTIVE Grey and white Forest Service (BCFS) tree-breeding orchard at Kalamalkanear Vernon “Since. every seed contains an em: trees bryo for a complete plant, the seeds The discovery was announced by from top-performing parent trees can federal Minister of State for Forestry be placed in a culture — a jelly-like Frank Oberle, British Columbia Forests Minister Dave Parker, and Dr Terry Howard, president of the British Columbia Research Corporation “This breakthrough provides an cpportunity which could lead to the in- troduction of superior seedlings with increased growth rates into our reforestration program and, in turn, lead to shorter harvesting cycles, a major factor in our efforts toward large numbers of seed embryo clones of top-performing interior spruce “Agram of this tissue can be induced to produce thousands of embryos.” — Dr. Terry Howard, president of the B.C. Research Corporation substance containing nutrients and sustainable development,’’ Oberle growth hormones — to produce more said. ‘‘This work builds on scientific embryo-capable tissues,”” Howard work done at Forestry Canada’s said Petawawa National Forestry Institute “A gram of this tissue can be in on other tree species."” duced to produce thousands of em Parker said scientists at the Forest bryos. As a result, large numbers of Biotechnology Centre of the British — genetically identical seedlings could be Columbia Research Corporation in produced from this tissue in a short Vancouver are using a ‘‘tissue culture’? time, using limited space.”” technique to produce superior interior Oberle said the new ‘‘high spruce seedlings from clones of seeds technology”’ technique has a major production as it allows . identical copies, or ctones, of individual seedlings to be made. “The result is that genetically superior trees can be obtained in large numbers,” Oberle said. ‘‘Scientific research of this nature will be of in creasing importance if we are to sustain our leadership in the forest sector.”” Howard said a small-scale assessment of cloned seedlings will be carried out this year in an operational forest nursery. Full-scale field trials using 10,000 seedlings are planned for 1991 “This is an excellent example of how the integration of biotechnology with tree improvement and reforestation might combine to improve our forest industry's competitiveness,” said The Forest Biotechnology Centre was established in September 1987 with three-year joint funding from the Ministry of Forests, Forestry Canada and the British Columbia Research Corporation, an independent in dustrial research company Parker will be taught in Salmo area,’’ Bakken says. ner."” leads to more stable employment many people are interested. This will also give a little economic boost to the Everyone will come out a win- In a nutshell, Bakken’s philosophy is more jobs lead to more spending, and when that spending is on local products, it leads to better pay, She's been working on the idea for several years, but only recently has it started coming together. Bakken has completed the course outline and sent it off for evaluation, lined up instructors for each part of the course, and started advertising to get an idea of how She plans to have the course sponsored by the federal and provincial governments. However, Bakken, a former Regional District of Central Kootenay director and a staunch supporter of the Social Credit gover- nment, is intentionally avoiding her connections in believing people would agree more on issues if they knew what was behind them. And though Bakken has been criticized often for her opinions, she maintains, ‘‘We all want the same and better pay sonal friends wit things. We just don’t all go about it the same way Now, a diehard Socred, Bakken has become per h Premier Bill Vander Zalm and his per- sonal secretary, Iris Gilchrist. The premier and his wife, th on July 12, Lillian, stayed with Bakken for a few days last year before attending the Socred Convention in Penticton Bakken was also personally informed of the arrival of the premier’s new granddaughter last yea: after her bir- which also happens to be Bakken’s mother’s birthday hating every min The friendship started wjth an article Vander Zalm had written in the early day4 of his politi¢al career. At the time, Bakken was on welfare with two children, and ute of it continued on page C6 iV The IN-line Removes Chlorine, Bad Taste, Color, Odor, Chemicals, Pesticide, Sediment, Etc. two stace WATER PURE rier (under counter model) for Recreation Vehicles & Home Use ante 7 _ We Carry Complete Equipment, Water Purifiers © PVCand Poly Piping © Drainfield Piping Deep Well i ] Submersibles ‘ape oe / Centrifugal Jet Pumps Submersible Sewage Pumps Come bartle & gibson co. Itd. 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Other events include a crafts bazaar, children’s activities, camping and swimming A reasonable admission price will be charged but no woman or child will be refused admission because of an inability to pay. Women who wish to reserve a display space at the bazaar or to perform at Sunday's stage event are asked to pre-register by Aug. t. For more information on the festival con tact the Nelson Women’s Centre 1989 MAZDA 323 $10,495 PLUS FREIGHT P.0.1., AND MET. PAINT FEATURES INCLUDE: peed Trans 1.6L. Fuel Injected Engine Halogen Headlights Limited Time Offer July 26 to Aug. 2/'89. Shop Where You Like, Buy Where You Save! Tim mazpa | In the Castlegar Auto Mall OL “THIS IS THE MAZDA WAY Pianist, soprano to perform recital A rare opportunity to experience the artistic fusion of the East and West comes to Nelson this week The Valhalla Music Centre in Silver ton presénts its director and pianist, Helmut Brauss, in a joint recital with soprano Kuniko Furuhata, Sunday, July 30, at the Capitol Theatre. The couple will also appear Satur day, July 29, at Silverton’s Memorial Hall. Brauss and his wife, who have just returned from a teaching and perfor ming tour in Japan, founded the centre three years ago as a “meeting place for Japanese and Canadian music studen- ts. “The small, intimate nature plays a vital role in the contemplative aspect of classical music,"’ said Brauss. Brauss has been a professor of music at the University of Edmonton since 1969 and is renowned as a ‘‘poet of the piano,’’ a news release says. He has recorded and performed extensively in North America, Asia and Europe. Furuhata has performed live and on radio for Tokyo radio and the CBC She is an accomplished interpreter of the German ‘‘Lied’’ — a romantic art song Together they “Shangri-la” tains. “This is the kind of place you think of yourself as a human being, and not being guided by a schedule,” Furuhata said. ‘Everything is so busy — telephones, airplanes, computers — people have less and less time to con template. It’s ideal here.” The couple will perform selections from Beethovan, Mendelssohn, Bar- ber, Bartok, Liszt and Chopin “We should use our brains to acknowledge that there are realms of imagination, intuition, perhaps even blessed spirits,’” said Brauss. ‘Music reflects an intuitive reality.”” Brauss realized early in life the ‘‘un- speakable dimensions’’ of music. His childhood in Germany was a musical ‘one, and his parents would often sit down to play Beethovan symphonies in arrangements for four hands. The centre will also present Brauss, cellist Tanya Prochazka, and violinist Norman Nelson as the Alta Nova Trio, SFP net earnings decline Despite a strong second quarter, Slocan Forest Products Ltd., ended the first half of this year with a crop in net earnings, to $5.8 million from $7 million in the same 1988 period. Earnings per share were $1.08, down from $1.30 in the six months to June 30, 1988. Company president 1.K. Barber said this year’s lower profit was largely due to the slow start in the first quarter caused by severe cold weather. Second-quarter sales rose 11 percent to $52.1 million from $47 million last year, while sales for the six months rose modestly to $97.7 million from $96.2 million. Barber said Slocan would spend $23 million this year to continue moder- nizing and providing value-added facilities as a necessary action to coun ter escalating wood costs. found a little in the Valhalla moun- UNBELIEVABLE 1989 B2600 4x4 CAB PLUS DEMO Reg. 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