A4 Castlegar News September 10, 1989

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OPINION

Nothing but
a mess

As each day passes, a conclusion satisfactory to everyone ap-
pears less andjless likely in what has become a messy, tangled con-
troversy over the construction of a new bridge and road neor
Vallican in the Slocan Valley

What started\as a fairly straightforward dispute over the
possible impact of the project on a native Indian burial site encom-
passed by the Vallican archeological park — a d d heritage
site under the auspices of the B.C. Heritage Trust and | looked after by
the Vallican Archaeological Park Society has fast become a
quagmire of legal battles involving injunctions and counter-injun-
ctions as well as a native lantkclaim which, if pressed, could be tied
up in the courts for years. 2

Getting lost in the mess are the key issues which we feel could
have been solved had all parties sat down and discussed matters
calmly and rationally

First, the existing bridge and road linking Vallican to the main
highway is dangerous and needs to be replaced. No one argues that.

Second, the proposed location of the new bridge and road is ad-
jacent to the heritage site and, according to a report by archeologist
Wayne Choquette which the Vallican Archaeological Park Society
has used as. ammunition in its criticisms of the project, could have a
detrimental impact on the site because of increased traffic on the
road. The extent of the impact is debatable but surely protection
satisfactory to the society could have been worked out

Third, construction of the road may disturb artifacts which may
exist outside the boundary of the heritage site. Again, an unknown,

but the Highways Ministry agreed to have Mr. Choquette on site
during construction to save whatever artifacts may be discovered

There's no question that the traditions, culture and rights of the
Sinixt, or Arrow Lakes {ndian Band, to whom the heritage site
belonged, should be protected

But so should the rights of local residents — especially school
children to a safe road and bridge over which to travel to their
homes.

We find it hard to believe that advocates of each point of view
couldn't come to an acceptable compromise. Instead, emotions have
run wild, protests involving the blockade of the road have occurred
and court battles have been launched as neighbor is pitted against
neighbor in a dispute which will likely leave bitterness tor years to
come no matter who “wins” in the end.

Neither side should be proud of letting this issue deteriorate to
where it is now

Will Trail
be left out?

On Jan. 1, 1990, the federal gover
nment intends to implement the most
massive overhaul of Canada’s social
programs ever attempted

As part of this new strategy,
ployment insurance,
vices, and the Canadian Jobs Strategy
will undergo substantial changes. Em
Canada
(EIC) plans a major role in the changes

unem
employment ser

ployment and Immigration

as the administrator of the above

programs

W.D. (Bill) Gardner,
EIC’s B.C./Yukon Territory region as
its director been

in charge of

of operations, has
g orientation seminars on the
labor force development strategy to his
field managers and other subordinate
tat

provid

In the seminars, Mr. Gardner
tresses the important role that the El¢
and its staff will play in making the
labor

force development strategy a

success. Some of the changes to the
unemployment insurance program will
nclude making the UI recipients more
of a priority by helping them return to
This will
be accomplished by increasing training
providing UI
recipients better and more accurate in

the labor force more quickly
monies spent on them

formation on the labor market and by
providing better customer service

Mr. Gardner states that these
initiatives (and more) will only be suc
cessful if the employment, unem
ployment insurance and Canadian Job
Strategy programs work and interact
with each other in a more effective
manner. Mr. Gardner states this inter
face is critical to the success of the
labor force development strategy

In the face of these facts, how can it
be justified that physically removing
the UI function from the Trail Em
ployment Centre is going to improve
the interaction of the Ul and em
ployment functions?

One can only assume that the labor
force development strategy will not be
given the opportunity for success in
Trail that it may enjoy elsewhere. If
customer service is a priority, then
EIC’s customers in the Trail area will
not receive the same priority as other
communities in Canada

To provide

customers,

service to one’s
it should seem obvious to
that the service
providers in Trail should remain. Or is
it really force development
strategy — fact for Canada, fiction for
the Trail area?
Members of the Canada Emp!
and Immigration Union,
cal 20919
Trail

EIC management

labor

yment

Gravel pit
irks resident

There has been a sudden appearance
of a light industrial feature, namely a
gravel pit, in our Vallican subdivision

efforts by local in
dividuals to clarify this overnight ad

Persistent

dition to country living has resulted in
a blizzard of conflicting governmental
information. It appears, however, that
due process has not been served

On Monday, Aug. 21, construction
begun on a gravel pit on
Agricultural Land Reserve land direc
tly north of the Vallican archeological
park. It is my understanding that a
gravel pit on land in the
Agricultural Land Reserve
permit through the Soil Conservation
Act. Application must be made to the
Regional District of Central Kootenay
which sends it to the Agricultural Land
Commission for approval, and then it
is returned to the RDCK’s. planning
department for final approval
normal due process and it
parently not served

On Aug. 31,
complaint concerning this issue with
the RDCK. The RDCK acted quickly,
inspected the gravel pit, and issued a
order immediately

private

nust have a

This is
was ap

a local resident filed a

“*cease and desist’’

until a permit is in place. A “cease and
desist” order is a legal formality, a
legal restraining order

As of I p.m., Sept. 6, it appeared the
“cease and desist’’ order had been
broken by the contractor. Since soil
must not be moved on ALR land
without a permit, the contractor also
appears to have breached the Soil Con
servation Act. If laws have been
broken, the issue must be dealt with by
the necessary authorities

In addition, a three-metre buffer
zone was to be left between the pit and
the nearest land boundary but slash
has been pushed right up on to B.C
Heritage Trust's land.and no buffer
strip was allowed

Regardless of whether one is for or
against the road, the contractor should
not be allowed to go unpunished if
been broken. I hope the
regional district directors adequately
inform themselves of this very sensitive
issue prior to their Sept. 9 meeting. If a
permit is approved now, then it seems
to me that one is above the law if one
merely has a government contract

Chris Waller
Winlaw

laws have

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of the Pow Sy still thinks
South African blacks are
not part of the election

Remember
When?

40 YEARS AGO
From the Sept. 15, 1949

Trade held its first méeting of the fall
season on Thursday last in the Parish
Hall with president L.V, Campbell in
the chair and 24 members present.

New members elected to the Board
were Mrs, A.D, Turnbull, MLA of
Trail, Mr. H.C, Coleman of Deer
Park and Mr. J. Derzy, Mr. T.R.
Deans, Mr. J. Kelly and Dr.
Bothamley of Castlegar.

The Board endorsed the \Lower
Arrow Lakes Board of Trade
resolution on the boat service of the
Arrow Lakes.

The Castlegar Cubs whipped the
Nelson pucksters 8-4. Sunday in the
second game of the best-of-five series,

The first game went in favor of the
Cubs last Sunday at home, and the
third and possibly last game is

Letters to the editor

Hydro project OK

Many people who are concerned and
would like to help solve our environ
mental problems wonder what could
be done about an overwhelming
problem such as global warming and
find it easier to concentrate on local
environmental problems

“Think globally and act locally” i
an often-quoted slogan

I talked to several of the organizers
of one public meeting held to air con
cerns about the quality of the drinking
water coming from the Pass Creek
watershed and was told this was their
acting locally to contribute
towards the solution of the environ
mental crisis facing the planet

Now I hear the Robson-Raspberry
Improvement {District is making an
appeal to the ‘Environmental Appeal
Board asking the board to thoroughly
study the environmental impact of a
small-scale hydroelectric development
in the Pass Creek watershed being
planned by Ron Hoodicoff of Crescent
Valley. A formal hearing will be held at
the Sandman Inn Sept. 19.

After the experience with the En
vironmental Appeal Board gained by
many in\he community during the ef
forts-made to-try to stop the CP Rail
from spraying Spike locally, | wonder
what the purpose is to calling the board
into this situation at this point. My
feeling is that an effort should have
been made to work less formally and
less expensively first, unless people
have made up their minds to try to stop
Ron's hydro project. For instance, the
improvement district could have met

way of

with Ron, visited the proposed site
with him or discussed his" plans. If
stopping the project is a goal, | wonder
why.

Tam a friend of Ron’s. We have had
many discussions over the years as his
plans evolved. I’ve visited his existing
small hydro installation on Goose
Creek and walked over his proposed
site in Pass Creek with him discussing
construction details and environmen-
tal impacts

Ron is the first small operator on
West Kootenay Power’s grid and as
such is breaking ground for small-scale
renewable power development in aay
area this company operates. He wai

something absorbing to do that ives

achance of making him some money -+
would like to see him succeed because
this is a local response to global war.
ming

Lam well known in some circles ‘for
my concern about planetary environ-
mental threats. | am an elected speaker
for the Green Party of B.C

I find Ron’s hydro development to
be something | can wholeheartedly
support. This is small business, locally
owned, and the money stays here
There is no reservoir to speak of being
created, the area involved is second
growth hag pnd due to global war
ming there i€ an unprecedented urgen:
cy for the creation of renewable energy
supplies. I find it hard to imagine how
Robson-Raspberry water quality will
be impaired as a result of this project

The basic plan is to constructa tiny
dam, run the water through a pipe toa

turbine and return it to the creek. The
turbine can be constructed so that
there is no possibility of bearing grease
coming in contact with the water.
During the construction period, a
careless developer could
problems by dropping materials into
the creek, but Ron is as conscientious
an operator as you aré going to find.
Asa friend, | wish him well, and as an
environmentalist I hope the project
goes ahead as quickly as possible.

cause

At some point we are all going to
have to start acting like the environ-
mental problems we face are the
“great, great emergency’’ that the
federal environment minister has said.
There are no easy answers. In this case,
allowing development appears very
sound and will help create a more
favorable climate for others interested
in developing small-scale hydro in the
province

Why not withdraw the appeal and
work together with Ron fer a while and
see if he can satisfy your concerns?
Why waste provincial money flying
board members in and renting San-
dman Inn space, and your own money
hiring a lawyer of your own to go
through a process that anyone who has
first-hand experience with finds, at
best, in need of reform?

In any case, | am hoping to see open
minds and well-thought-out concerns
at the Environmental Appeal Board
hearing

David Lewis
Crescent Valley

Procedures queried

On Aug. 21, excavation commenced
ona gravel pit in Vallican on the boun
dary of a quiet, residential subdivision
No notice was given to the community
No input was requested from the
community

I was dismayed to discover the ex
tent to which the contractor appears to
ignored the due process of
procedural steps. An application un
der the Soil Conservation Act to
remove soil from Agricultural Land
Reserve was not sent to the Regional
District. of Central Kootenay as
required, but directly to the
Agricultural Land Commission office
in Burnaby Aug. 24, several days after
excavation had commenced

The contractor's

have

action in
proceeding with this activity without‘
formal approval appears to be in direct
contravention to the Soil Conservation
Act. The contractor also did not apply
for the necessary permits from the
Ministry of Energy, Mines and
Petroleum Resources which, among
other requirements, specify that
notification of the proposed gravel pit
be published in the local paper and that
public input shall be submitted

The Agricultural Land Commission
approved this application on a tem

Airport
to back

I read with interest your front page
story, (Castlegar News, Aug. 27) on
the possible closure of the tower at the
Castlegar airport

I have been associated with our air
port since 1951, both as a pilot and ser
ving on the airport committee, and the
past 15 years as a field maintenance
operator

Our airport has been pushed to the
back burner for years and as of July 1
ofthis year-when my employer
renewed his contract with the gover

nment, he saw fit to cut two of the

porary basis and under the erroneous
impression that a request for expedien
cy was directed from the Ministry of
Highways.

I wonder how easily this ‘tem
porary’? permit may be extended,
renewed or replaced with permanent
approval?

I asked the property owner,who is
leasing land whether the Vallican ex-

ggavation would be reclaimed upon

completion of the road
project, or whether the gravel pit was
going to be a permanent fixture in our
neighborhood. He would not answer
the question

I do not wish to deny the contractor
a supply of roadbed material for his
construction project. However, | was
informed by Barry Eastman, regional
director of professional services for the
Ministry of Highways, that ministry
gravel sources had been offered to the
contractor who declined this offer in
preference of arranging a private con
tract. It is my opinion that this decision
reflects a calculated business move on
the contractor's part to set up a per
manent gravel extraction industry_in
our neighborhood.

I do not wish to deny the property
owner his rights in deciding what to do

current

pushed
burner

maintenance staff (yes, | was one of
them) and the office secretary from the
payroll, dumping the work load on the
airport fire department, which already
has its hands full covering flights and
its own training schedule. Even now,
the evening flights are not covered as
the fire department closes at 4 p.m

Just wait until the winter
arrive

Isn't it a crime the dollar bill has
replaced the heart?

Denny Hughes
Castlegar

snows

with his own land. But should there not
also be a consideration of the negative
impacts of such a decision on the im
mediate neighborhood?

We chose to raise our families in
quiet, rural surroundings. Is this the
proper location for a gravel pit? Is this
an appropriate area for dump-truck
traffic and the boom of a rockcrusher
for 12 hoursa day, seven days a week?

There are at least 12 children living
within easy walking distance of this pit,
with its tempting 1$-foot high piles of
gravel. Should the lives of those
children be put at risk?

I request. that the RDCK deny ap-
proval for this soil removal permit, and
that pursuant to Section 2(1) of the Soil
Conservation Act, the gravel pit im-
mediately be reclaimed to its former
state

I request that the proper authorities
investigate what appears to be the
disregard of due process by the con-
tractor in question

I request that the safety of our

children be considered paramount

And finally, I request that the RD.
CK board use this opportunity to
demonstrate concern for a family-
centred community

Dianne Novian
Vallican

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for Wednesday night at
Castlegar:

The Castlegar and District Third
Annual Fall Fair and Baby Show held
on Sept. 9 and 10 was most successful,
even though there were not quite as
many entries as there were last year.
The quality of the exhibits was excep-
tionally good and the Fair Committee
hopes there will be many more entries
of the same quality in 1950.

25 YEARS AGO
From the Sept. 10, 1964
Castlegar News

Two persons are still in Castlegar
hospital following a front-end
collision Thursday evening involving a
Castlegar Co-op Transportation bus
anda pitk-up truck

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pirsh of Kin-
naird, occupants of the truck, are still
in hospital following a collision about
9:45 p.m. last Thursday with the bus
just over the curve on the Kinnaird side
of the CPR tracks at Blueberry.

The Regional College Council does
not expect there will be any difficulty in
having a building completed ahd
available by the scheduled opening
date in the summer of 1966, it was
reported after a meeting of the council
last week

The sites committee reported no
reply had been received about the
availability of land other than an
acknowledgment from the Lands Set-
tlement Board.

Anticipated net debt of the
Castlegar arena is $900 Project Society
auditor Frank Kohar has disclosed in a
letter filed with council last week by the
Project Society

The outstanding bank loan is $1,200
with $300 in dues from the minor
hockey association yet to be paid

RS AGO
From the Sept. 12, 1974
Castlegar News

Doors of the schools in School
District No. 9 open this morning for
the first time since the summer recess.
While this is welcome news to parents,
the opening is to be on a part-time basis
only

In a news release Wednesday mor-
ning the board of trustees to School
District No. 9 said the decision was
made at a meeting Tuesday evening.
Parents of bus students are asked to
drive their children to and from
school. While the board said it regret-
ted any inconvenience this caused
some parents, it did |not feel it will be
necessary to take catch-up classes on
weekends and/or holidays.

A Castlegar student has become the
first recipient of the B.C. gover-
nment’s first scholarship given to a
student attending the soon-to-be-
opened Lester B. Pearson College of
the Pacific. The recipient is Michael
Scott.

A recently appointed provincial
government body called the Select
Standing Committee on Health,
Education and Human Resources
will be visiting Castlegar this Monday
and will meet at the West Kootenay
Health Unit on Spruce St. from 9 a.m.
toneon and from | p.m. to2:30 p.m.

S YEARS AGO
From the Sept. 5, 1984
Castlegar News

Spurred on by massive voter tur.
nout, former Kootenay-West
Progressive Conservative MP Bob
Brisco regained his seat Tuesday with
an 898-vote victory over New
Democratic Party incumbent Lyle
Kristiansen.

The race was expected to be close
and it wa: with Brisco finally
acknowledging his victory about 10:20
p-m. when only a handful of the 175
polls remained to be counted. By that
time he was more than 600 votes ahead
of Kristiansen.

* 8 «@

Is it or isn’t it? That’s the question
several Castlegar residents have asked
about the new Century 21 building at
1695 Columbia Ave.

The residents are concerned the of
fice building under construction at the
corner of 17th St. and Columbia Ave.,
is too close to the road. But Building
Inspector George Braman says the
building is well within municipal set
back regulations.

September 10, 1989

Castlégar News 4°

QUESNEL (CP) The Fraser Factor could haunt Social Credit as
the party attempts to end a string of four provincial byelection losses Sept
20 in the Cariboo,

The Fraser Factor is Alex Fraser, the former highways minister shun
ted to the backbenches by Premier Bill Vander Zalm while he fought the
cancer that took his life last May.

That has upset many in this sprawling, remote riding known for its
independent thinking and loyalty to Fraser who represented it since

Quesnel Mayor Mike Pearce, a.42-year-old lawyer, says one reaSon
he lost the Social Credit nomination by a single vote to auctioneer Joe
Wark was that he didn’t sell party memberships ‘‘which would basically
be my people.

“I determined that out of respect for Fraser, | wouldn't start selling
memberships for 30 days nor would I sell them beforehand because I just
didn’t feel that was proper when a man’s dying of cancer,” Pearce said in
an interview this week

He also said the party executive committee, the majority of which

“not on my side,"’ called a quick nominating meeting in Williams
Lake

I didn’t really expect the executive to call the nomination meeting
quite so fast and in all honesty I really wasn’t hustling after that

*‘Joe has been around for 35 years and been to every auction and to
every cabaret and maybe I was deemed a bit of an outsider as well,"’ said
the nine-year mayor of this pulp and plywood city of 11,000

"The final slap was when they
took a relative rookie who
basically did ride in on Alex's
coattails in the last election
and made him the minister of
highways" — Darwin Netzel,
Liberal candidate

‘But the biggest thing is a lot of people felt we had it sewed up and we
didn’t have it sewed up.”
One of his delegates did his grocery shopping between ballots
“I'd rather have seen Pearce take it,”” says voter Ben Thirsk, 78

ALEX FRASER
.. . could haunt byelection

Ask Wark about how the party treated Fraser and he reads a
prepared st “1 would very much regret it if this political con
troversy threatened to overshadow the public's memory of his oytstan.
ding record.”

End of comment

Pea:
husband would not support Social Credit if he w

**He didn’t get very good treatment. Several things Mr. Vander Zalm
did really hurt him. They moved his seat to the backbench, almost to the
very corner he started in back in 1969, When a guy is down, he needs to be
bolstered, not kicked.”

Vander Zalm says Fraser was removed from cabinet because illness
prevented him from attending the legislature and his seat location should
not have been an issue

NDP candidate David Zirnhelt says Vander Zalm must be taught a
lesson for his insensitivity toward Fraser

“I’m sure that if Alex were here today, he'd be encouraging me. . . to
get in there and work for the Cariboo.”

Liberal candidate Darwin Netzel says Fraser was hurt when they
replaced him as highways minister with Neil Vani, the other Socred mem:
ber for the two-member Cariboo riding

‘The final slap was when they took a relative rookie who basically
did ride in on Alex’s coattails in the last election and made him the

jement

e’s nomination was seconded by Gertrude Fraser who says her
as alive.

“*He's got the experience."

whether you're NDP,
constituency than anyone else.’

“I never voted Alex Fraser all the time he was in here bit I don't care
Liberal or Socred, Alex Fraser did more for this

minister of highways.

** Alex was so popular in the riding they could have run a two-headed
calf (for the second seat) and he would have won the election if he was on

the side of Fraser

Parker faces t

Cabinet shuffle may
deal minister out

By MIROCERNETIG

VICTORIA (CP) — The cards are
about to be shuffled in British Colum
bia’s Social Credit cabinet and odds
are Forests Minister Dave Parker
could be dealt right out of the game

His statements that AIDS is a ‘‘self
inflicted wound” and
mentalists are part of an international

ANALYSIS

plot to ‘change the social order” may
have made the shy politician too great a
liability

Premier Bill Vander Zalm, expected
to shuffle cabinet posts after a Sept. 20
byelection in the Cariboo, has publicly
said he’s satisfied with the performan
ce of his ministers.

But Parker, elevated to cabinet in
1987 after less than six months in the
legislature, admits he has made rookie
mistakes.

“The political world is quite a bit
different,”’ says Parker, a professional
forester by training

“Lam Weary. Colleagues | have who
are more politically astute sometimes
despair at their coaching job of me.”

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currence in the months after the
legislature adjourns
Other than Parker,

have

Vander Zalm's
ministers managed to avoid
major blunders.

Even Highways Minister Neil Vant,
who quipped earlier this year that he
didn’t want British Columbia to look
like a giant Indian reserve, has put the
racial uproar behind him

The pillars of the cabinet — Attor
ney General Bud Smith, Finance
Minister Mel Couvelier, Social Ser
vices Minister Claude Richmond, Ad
vanced Education Minister Stan
Hagen and Municipal Affairs Minister
Rita Johnston
mances and are unlikely to be shifted

put in solid perfor

without their agreement

What is sometimes called the Socred
“shadow cabinet’ isn't likely to
change either

IN THESHADOWS

There are five former
languishing on the backbench, largely
because of open criticism of Vander

inisters

Zalm’s leadership.

Veteran minister Grace McCarthy,
often seen as a barometer of backben
ch discontent, says the 43-member
caucus is less divided than in recent
months but she still insists she wants no
seat at Vander Zalm’s cabinet table

“*No, no,
says

But the
Columbia's
grow

the answer is no,”’ she

cabinet,
biggest

British
still

already
ever, may
Vander Zalm is promising a new
thing the New
Democratic Party says is designed to
offended by the
premier’s anti-abortion stand

women’s ministry, soi

court women

DAVE PARKER
“Lam weary

The caucus chairman, Carol Gran,
is cited as the prime candidate for the
job. But Vander Zalm could opt to
double the duties of a current minister,
perhaps Johnston, to avoid c
of a bloated government
While Vander Zalm has offered no
hints of who will get what in the shuf
fle, support for Parker appears to be
waning! in the wake of
barrassing remarks.
First, there was a remark the NDP
should rename its theme song from
Solildarity Forever — the well-known
labor movement song — to Sodomy

ticism

several em:

Forever

Parker ignored a suggestion from
his own caucus chairman to apologize.

AIDS, he said a few weeks later, is
‘a self-ipflicted wound.”

Asked tocomment on that, a baffled
Vander Zalm said he didn't agree

The premier also distanced himself
from Parker’s theory that
mentalists are part of a worldwide plot

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to cause economic chaos.

The world movement under the
guise of environmentalism is basically
geared
towards upsetting stable governments

a preservationist. movement
and stable economies to change the
’ Parker explained

“Instead of doing it in an armed or

social order,

terrorist type of way as they do in other
in North America
basically to get

parts of the world,
their
legitimacy for the process by taking an
environmental approach
Parker wears his bluntness
badge of courage, proudly saying he
represents his northern riding of
Skeen, not urban types in Vancouver
But Dan Miller, the NDP
believes Parker is a drawback
trying to paint itself

motive is

as a

forest
critic,
for a governme
green

The government is trying to
rebuild Miller
“Parker has undermined that process.
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system

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1. Make sure you have adequate
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