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Restraint
The provincial government
doesn't: like” to’ use the word
“restraint” anymore, but it's
evident from events over the last
few weeks that the government
has changed its economic policy in
name only.
Two weeks ago a commercial
vehicle inspector for the Ministry

still here |

Crown counsel} office in Nelson fir-
st surfaced earlier this year when

municipal
ts informing them the office would
no longer prosecute municipal
bylaw infractions.

However; the directive was
quickly squashed after a cry of
protest went up from -~ the

~of Highways~told a 1
inquest that he doesn't have the
personnel....ta....enfor: afety.

municipalities and regional distric-
ts.

regulations. He also told the
inquest that when he was called to
inspect 42 trucks belonging to a
midway carnival company, he had
already finished a regular 40-hour
work week.

This week a Castl lawyer

The directive was plainly an af”

tempt by the Crown counsel office
to relieve it of some of its duties —
in effect cut back.

Even spokesmen in the Attor-
ney-General’s Ministry admit there
have --been-- cutbacks. One

k

disclosed that he resigned last
month as a Crown counsel in part
because of cutbacks in the Attor-
ney-General’s Ministry. He said
the cutbacks are “handicapping”
the ministry and the court system.

But just -how severe have the
cuts been? One example is the
Crown counsel office itself. A year
ago the office in Nelson had four
prosecutors. Today it has one —
and he must travel between courts
in Nelson, Trail, Castlegar, Nakusp
and Grand Forks. 9

The remaining prosecutor
openly admits it will be impossible
to handle all the court cases by
himself.

The staffing problem. in. the

Who do yo

You just don’t know who to
believe anymore.

One day Premier Bill Bennett
announces that construction of the
huge Site C dam on the Peace River
could begin by the end of this
decade.

Yet only the day before in a
Canadian Press story: from Van-:”
couver, a B.C. Hydro. spokesman
says another large dam won't be
built for another 10 or 20 years.

Later in the week a spokesman
for the Northwest Power Planning

p justified the cut-
backs by saying the -province’s
crime rate has dropped.

The question that needs ‘to be
asked is: wkere? Not here, that's
for sure. The crime rate here has
been relatively stable for the last

Sa tat LONG DISTAYCE FEELING. -

’ present,

_|_ Killough chapter, 1.0.D.E.
oe

~. Remember
- - When?

35 YEARS AGO.
From the Sept- 7, 1950
Castlegar News 2
The paving operation now being
carried out on the main highway at
will be extended to include,
according to information received at
the Municipal office, Maple and Main
streets of Castlegar. These streets will
be surfaced with black top as far as
Eighth Avenue (formerly Cobalt) and
will include that section of Eighth
between them, thus forming a large

loop with the highway.
: ee

Tuesday, the children of Castlegar

and District went back to their desks
after two months of holidaying. _

The school boys traffic patrol,
sponsored by the Castlegar Kiwanis
Club, will be on duty again directing
the children at crossings before school
goes in and as it comes out.

This year the boys have new slickers
to wear, donated by the Lillian

The Western Canadian Greyhound
Bus Depot has been moved to Rigby’s.
senrane

‘The refodelling of the Canadian

Pacific Station here has been .com-
pleted and a shining new station it is

from top to bottom. Veneer board was

used to advantage in the waiting room
and restrooms ‘and new lighting

Letters to the Editor

few years — but it hasn't dropp

It's clear the government's
restraint program is still in effect
and -growing, despite the
statements out of Victoria to the
contrary.

It's time the government started
staffing key positions like high

Mayor sadly mistaken

Editor, Ci News:

inspectors, Crown prosecutors and
others properly. :

How long will it be before the
highways become unsafe and the
courts turn into.a mess?

u believe?

thwest says that the days of large-
scale hydro are over.

Who's right?

Depending on the answer, for
Castlegar it could mean. the
rejuvenation of the Murphy Creek
dam project. However, local
residents shouldn't count on the
Keenleyside tooling project being
a high priority.

If anything goes ahead — and
that’s a large “if” — it will be a
major dam that can export huge
amounts of electricity to the U.S.
Keenlevsidei

Council in charge of hy ic
construction in the U.S. Pacific Nor-

just doesn't fit that bill
bill:

Fred
Merriman

That well-known local personality
Iris Bakken of Salmo appears to be
almost single-handedly making an
effort to pull Salmo up by its

work with the present owners and
an active Salmo group to develop
and pr that r near-

I would like to comment on Mayor
Audrey Moore's statement in the Sept.
1 Castlegar News regarding people
bad-mouthing Westar Timber.

Whether Mayor Moore likes it or
not, the Charter of Rights guarantees
freedom of speech, even in Castlegar.
Perhaps Mayor Moore should check
into why people are bad-mouthing such
a good “corporate citizen” as Westar
Timber. I am sure former Westar
employees in Nelson, Nakusp and
Prince Rupert could inform her of a few
reasons. 3

- As a former Westar employee: in
Nelson I had a chance to observe
Westar in action. I wonder if Mayor
Moore would like Westar so much if
after 10 years of loyal service she was
told 10 minutes before the end of a
work shift she was laid off and then

kept in limbo for months as to whether
her job would appear again or not. This
happened in Nelson.

In the Castlegar sawmill long-time
experienced employees were replaced
with kids right out of a school from the
coast. Westar definitely knows how to
treat its employees.

The City of Nelson tried to encour-
age Westar and got 400 terminated
employees and shut down plywood and
sawmill plants — not bad Westar
response to encouragement...

Westar’s logging practices have
come under fire from George Cady,
chairman of the Central Kootenay
Regional District. board- and from
various Indian bands in northern B.C.
where the company has also been
logging. Where there is a lot of smoke,
there may be a little fire.

As for all the money Westar is

spending in its Castlegar plants; it is a
double-edged sword at best. On one
side, Westar needs to spend money to
keep up its quality to compete in the
world market because it hasn't spent
any amount for so long. On the other

the entire building.
25 YEARS AGO
From the Sept. 8, 1960
Castlegar News
Miss Lorraine Schwartzenhauer of
Castlegar has made an enviable record
in her first year at, Notre Dame College
in Nelson. d
Having obtained an average of 93 per
cent, she won an Archbishop Johnson
Scholarship for the highest marks in
first year at the college.
. 8 6

Five parties and their candidates will
be on Rossland-Trail ballots when
voters go to the polls Monday. Running
for Social Credit is Donald Brothers
who won the seat for his party in the
D 1

side, these are
to eliminate workers’ jobs.

If the mayor thinks the people
controlling Westar in Vancouver have
any feelings: for the economic well
being of the communities in which their
plants are situated, she is sadly
mistaken. Look at Nelson.

Maybe Mayor Moore should do more
background work before using her
office to praise a good “corporate
citizen” like Westar Timber.

former Westar Employee
[Nelson Division, Terminated]

Thanks for peace conference

Editor, Castlegar News:

I would like to~publically congra-
tulate and thank the organizers of the
“World . Youth Peace Through
Communication” Conference that was

. held in Castlegar last week.

‘This was truly a “world class’ event
that was every bit as well planned and
effectively implemented as any that
has taken place in a world capital or
UN setting. It has certainly reaffirmed
in me the belief that we cannot and
must not leave it up to someone else to
work for world peace and that we in
the West Kootenay have something of
real ‘value to contribute.

It gave me hope to realize just how

by asset? It is understood that the

A detail b ques-
tionnaire came across my desk last
week over the signature of that
one-woman chamber of commerce.

I. would swear that Iris is the °
mission and missionary all rolled

d mine is less than
20 kilometres from Sal-

and capable are the young
people who planned and carried
through the conference. The event was

; . pach

mo and accessible by 10 kilometres
of major highway and another 10
kilometres of quite good country

into one. She alluded to the fact that
a similar questionnaire drafted by
professionals would probably cost
$20,000 or more. She is conserva-
tively correct. The query asked for
suggestions. This column makes
public one of the suggestions this
writer offered — in all naivety.
The former Canex tunnel works

y-

One report indicated that the
mine contains a single chamber
large enough to hold the entire
townsite of Salmo itself.

Some years ago a mine manager
told a tour group that the air inside
major mines was of better quality
than air at the surface because all
air into the shafts and chambers had
been filtered and tested for high

and incredible rock chambers could
a touristsand- isit

a year-round underground facility
unequalled in all of Canada. Advis-
ors report that Canadian Explora-

m ly and “pr

thought out to,the smallest.detail and
this certainly helped make everyone
there feel comfortable and welcome.

The opportunity to listen to and talk
with speakers and delegates from
many parts of our small planet —

to hear their perspectives on the crisis

facing our world — was a very special
_one and has, I believe, inspired all who
attended to work even harder for.a
more just and peaceful world.

Another wonderful dimension to the”

conference was to observe the growing
friendships among the delegates, spea-
kers and other participants and to see
prejudices and biases di ing as
people got to know each other as
human beings. “Peace through com-

munication” was happening before our
eyes last week!

I could go on and on, but will end this
by simply saying thank you all for the
vision, determination and caring that
took you all through the hard work,
struggles and disappointments to make
last week a reality.

' Ann Godderis,
Castlegar

Milk dumping immoral

Editor, Castlegar News:

This letter of protest-comes from one
small voice crying in the wilderness
against the immoral act of the dairy
farmer forced to dump 1,600 gallons of
milk into the sewer because he was
forbidden by the B.C. Milk Board from
selling this prime product. He was
denied a quota permit.

What particularly. disturbs and
upsets me is the apathetic non-reaction
of our society in allowing this sort of
thing to happen without any comment

on this outrage. I’ would call this

election. The Pro-
gressive Conservatives have nom-
inated J.W. Loader of Trail while the
Liberal standard-bearer will be Dr.
ME. Krause of Trail. The CCF
candidate is K.W. Gaylor of Fruitvale.
Communist Party candidate here is
A.J. Warrington of Trail.
scene

Castlegar's new bowling alley will be
in operation by the end of this month,
announced owner-operator F.E.  Bon-
nett last week. -

Six bowling lanes and a snack bar are
currently being installed in the new
completed 120-foot quonset hut.

._ 28 «@

A.E. Norris resigned thi ter
five. years as Castlegar’s represen-
tative on the hospital board. Ill health
and a pending transfer forced the
resignation.

15 YEARS AGO
From the Sept. 10, 1970
Castlegar News.

Official opening of the new Grand
Forks airport will take place this
Saturday. -

The old Anglican Church at Christina

- Lake has been purchased as a terminal

building for the airport while PWA has
announced it will provide five-days-a-
week service into the community with
its Nord aircraft.
Bee iSheocd

School district No. 9 who on Monday
of last week locked out its maintenance
employees and bus drivers in a labor

“mental dy phy”. I am
that most of the world’s people are
and i

jispute, locked out its
students.

good, kind, g mn
ate. Therefore, why do we not attempt
to correct this immoral outrage?
There must be some way that this
milk could be used, such as for food
banks and soup kitchens. What about
as free milk for school children?
Surely, all people of good will should
be outraged by by such uncaring acts
against humanity.’ If we simply just
shrug off these incidents and prefer. to
do nothing we will inevitably destroy

Quotable Quotes

and everything on this
beautiful planet.

Perhaps I should have headlined this
letter “The milk of inhuman kindness.”

“y- John Dascher
said classes were suspended following
receipt of a report from the health
inspector recommending closure to
prevent development ‘of unsanitary
conditions.

* 8 «

The large trucks of Public Freight-
ways, which have been accused of
creating a disturbance, will now shift
gears only twice before entering onto
7th Ave. in Kinnaird.

This was the. information: given at
Kinnaird’s last council meeting.

. .

The regular meeting of the Women's
A jation of.the-Rob:

ic

Pat Romaine _

7 before-it~was™
passed for human use.
Some of my-readers have been

informed previously concerning this-

tion Mines Ltd. Joped the first
tunnel system in Canada capable of
allowing dumpsters and full size
bus transportation to travel directly
into the. mine works.

I understand that the mine is
presently inactive. However, the
value in the tunnel and rock
chamber systems is a_ sizable
investment in cash and hard phys-
ical work.

Why can’t the facilities be utili-
zed, developed and promoted on
perhaps a far greater scale than the
famous _LeRoi Mine Museum at
Rossland?

Isn't it possible for the Ministry of
Mines, Mi Is and to

’s interest in @
facilities that stand protected from
the elements year-round. It is not
difficult to visualize shops and other
commercial facilities built inside the
‘many chambers at old Canex.

Perhaps colleges and universities
or other research and scientific
institutions could utilize some of the
developed space for those aspects
requiring the advantages of con-
trolled environment, locations.

I am quite sure the negative
aspects are many, but like all”
optimists, I maintain that the

to serious

VADIM KASSIS, chief editor for
Journal Otchizna in Moscow, on why
Soviet citizens don’t demonstrate for
peace: “Because our government has
always been fighting against war and
for disarmament.”

ONE-LEGGED .RUNNER Steve

Fonyo on why he won't take part in the

annual Terry Fox run Sept. 15: “I did
enough running.”

On his recent break-up with his
girlfriend, an 18-year-old from Strath-
more, Alta. whom he met during his
8,000-kilometre run across Canada: “I'll
be more careful next time. I thought it
was love at first sight, but I don't
believe in that anymore.

FEDERAL NDP LEADER Ed

ing to the i

of that, close-by-Sal d

t, are many more.

convention of the United Auto Wor-
kers of Canada on free trade with the
U.S.: “When the elephant and the

beaver sit down toeat the pie, we want
to make sure the elephant doesn't roll
up his trunk and take the pie and go
home.” a

PRIME MINISTER Brian Mulroney
on how he reconciles Tory belief in
unfettered free enterprise with his
government's blessing of Petro Can-
ada’s acquisition of $886 million worth
of Gulf Oil's assets: “I have no difficulty
with it... As I remember it, we (the
Conservatives) put together the CBC
and the Bank of Canada’. . . Conser-
-vative policy’has never been offended

spanking children in-Sweden in a
recent article: “Our aim-was to send a
symbolic message that there are other
ways to raise a child. Beating is not
teaching.”

nom ag

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to the Editor to: The
Castlegar News, P.O.Box
3007; Castlegar, B.C. VIN
3H4, or deliver them to our
office at: 197 Columbia
Avenue, Castlegar, B.C.

Letters must be signed and inelude
the writer's full name-and address.
Only in very exceptional cases will
letters be published without the
writer's name. Nevertheless, the name
and address of the writer must be
disclosed to the editor.

The News reserves the
right to edit letters for brevity, clarity,
legality and grammar.

Church was held last week at the
church hall with 15 members and one
visitor present.

The highlight of the meeting was
when the missionary convenor showed
a scroll of honor from the Unitarian

rvice Committee which was received
by her on behalf of the WA.

: Castlegar
B.C.'s 28,000 teachers are seeking an
18 per cent wage increase and

iP’ in working it
. 8 8

The Women's Access program. at
Selkirk College has suffered the same
fate as the majority of similar
Programs in community colleges
srouod the province. Funding will not

provided for the program
fontinue this year. ~ fe

sete i
september 8, 1985 CastlegarNews 45

SHSS
students

win

scholarships

Ten Stanley Humphries
"Secondary School graduates
won scholarships this June.

Lynn Ball, Matthew Jones,
Bob Kanigan, Peter Karcol,
Jodie Lippa, Ken. Romney,”
Lisa Singh and Connie Susut,

old.

“KEN ROMNEY
.. provincial scholarship

won: provineial scholarships.
Ellen Legebokoff and Tra-
i d dis-

Ss Ie
MEENA

ELLEN LEGEBOKOFF
... district scholarship

Lisa Singh attended SHSS
from Grade 9 - 12. Shortly

pediatrician. .

Lynn Alex Ball is 18 ye:
She ‘ s
College's Electronic Publish-
ing course this fall in keeping
with her interest in a career
in the media.

started . Selkirk

SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS . . . Stanley Humphries

| and district scholar-

gr who won pr
ships include: (from left) Back row, Tracey Postnikoft,

agency dealing with relations
between the United States
and Canada.
Matthew Jones plans to
pursue an education in engi
eering for one year-at Sel-

of Victoria.

Peter Karcol has lived in
Castlegar for the past six
years, attending Kinnaird
Elementary, KJSS and
SHSS. This year he is taking
the University Transfer pro-

cey P after
trict scholarships.

Following are brief profiles
of each scholarship recipient.

Jodie Lippa is currently
enrolled in the University
Transfer program at Selkirk
College. She plans to attend
UBC next -year and then
medical school to become a

Bob McClelland, Minister
of Industry and Small Bus-
iness, will make a special trip _
to Nelson Thursday to speak
during a luncheon on small
business.

“The chamber office has
been working closely with
tHe minister's officd over the
last few months to arrange
this special trip and lun-
cheon,” said Nelson Chamber
of Commerce manager Phil
Pearsall.

The chamber has asked the
minister to address the lun-
cheon on the latest govern-
ment. programs and_incen-
tives for small business,
particularly subsidies to mills
and their operators in the
area of transport to the rail
head.

: small

He will also speak on the
municipal partnership agree-

ment and other dreas that ved.

Winning
Lotto
numbers

attend the summer. quarter
at Eastern Washington Un-
iversity in Cheney.

She returned to Eastern
this fall where she plans to
major in political science.
Eventually, she would like to
study law’ and perhaps one
day work for a government

McLelland to—
visit Nelson

BOB McCLELLAND

can be of help to the local
economy.

In addition, there will be a
business
display on hand, and a hot
buffet luncheon will be ser-

Winning numbers drawn
Wednesday
Express lottery: for $100,-
000: 373968;
165850; for $10,000: 393560.

In the Lotto West Lottery,
there was no winner of the
$547,888.55

The eight numbers drawn
‘were 11, 24, 26, 36, 38, 39, 45

she left to pram at Selkirk College,

after which he will likely
transfer to UBC. As yet he is
undecided abowt what he will
study but it will probably be
electronics, computer engin-
eering or architecture.

Bob Kanigan, 18, is the
son of Walter and Vera
Kanigan. He has lived his

Story
hours at
library

Pre-school story hours at
the Castlegar library resume
Sept. 17 and 18. Anyone
wishing to register a child

aged from 3% - five years,-

can do so at either library
branch by phoning Castlegar,
365-6611 or Kinnaird, 365-
7765.

Mary Beth Small will con-
duct the Kinnaird Branch
story on Tuesdays at 1 p.m.
and Sandy Donohue (stan-
ding in for a month for
Librarian Judy Wearmouth)
will do the Castlegar Branch
story on Wednesdays at 10
a.m.

“Register your child as
entry has to be limited
because of lack of space,”
says Wearmouth.

Participants must be lib-
rary members.

in Nelson

information

and 5h The bonus number
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bonus number won $2,748.
Tickets with five correct
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with four correct won $58.90
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kirk, then at the University -

\

entire life-in the Castlegar

area. This-year he is atten-

_ding Selkirk’ College where

he is enrolled in a University

Transfer program in Applied
Sciences:

His future plans include

ing the Uni ity of

Bob Kanigan, Matthew Jones, Péter Karcol, Jodie Lip-
pa. Front row, Lisa Singh, Lynn Ball, Connie Susut.

pre-medica] studies and wor-
king ona bachelor’s degree in
computer science. He is also
working as a key-punch op-
erator in Salt Lake City.

—His—plans—include—taking
two years from his studies to

B.C. in pursuit of an engin-
eering career.

Connie Susut spent her
entire high school at Stanley
Humphries. She is attending
Selkirk College on the first-

year University Transfer _

program. She hopes to take

serve asa -y for the
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints. .

Tracey Postnikoff, 18, is

the daughter of Pete and”

Helen Postnikoff and the
oldest of three children. She
is attending Selkirk College
on the two-year Business

‘ing at the

University of Waterloo in

Ontario after two years at
Selkirk College.

Ken Romney is presently

enrolled at the University of

Utah where he will be doing

P and
then hopes to pursue a career
in management. ”

Ellen Legebokoff gradua-

—CosNewstnoto

gram. She is currently seek-

ing employment.
Future plans for further
lit are but

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