FRESH SHRIM| ARE BACK ARROW LAKE OPINION ELEVATION aT , igties CRESTAURANT/) ESTABLISHED AUGUST 7, 11 " Lv, CAMPBELL BURT CAMPBELL, PUBLISHER EMERITUS Castlegar PAGE A4, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1991 MEMBER OF THE 8.C. PRESS COUNCIL 047 r INCORPORATING THE MID-WEEK MIRROR PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 12, 1976-AUGUST 27, 1960 PUBLISHER, AUGUST 7, 1947. FEBRUARY 15, 1973 PUBLISHER, FEBRUARY 16, 1973-MAY 1, 1991 PUBLISHER — Dave McCullough — Simon Birch PLANT FOREMAN — Peter Harve: ADVERTISING MANAGER — Wayne Stolz OFFICE MANAGER — Warren CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hadiey News WICE WEEKLY MAY 4, 1960 hernoft EDITORIAL Census data important Count yourself in. Tuesday is Census Day, the day every five years the federal government gathers information about Canadian society. By filling in a census form, you help to develop profiles of Canadian family structure, health care needs. ies, housing, iP and People generally think of the census as simply providing the numbers used to figure out federal transfer payments.to the provinces or electoral boundaries for the House of Commons. And it’s true, in 1986 more people were missed by the census in B.C. than in any province. That has cost British Columbia over $50 million since the last population count, money the p x L/P _ Flora MacDonald, former and of employ ni ig and former y West Bob Brisco visited Trail five years ago this week to announce that the city was the first in B.C. to receive funding under Community Futures, a new Sh Trail million, —cosnews tile photo ploy REMEMBER WHEN LETTERS TO THE EDITOR could have used for services such as health care, roads and schools. But Statistics Canada is trying hard this year to impress upon Canadians that information collected in the census has a more direct application to their daily lives. For example, the 1986 census showed Canada’s population is aging, indicating social planners must prepare for a bulge in the population of seniors. Census results also help to. determine how much money will go towards housing, youth employment programs and the needs of people with disabilities, to name a few services. 3 Municipalities also use census information as a planning tool to forecast future demand for the many services local governments provide. As well, municipal governments benefit from provincial government grants based on census information. So it is important to count yourself in. Residents who are not visited by a census representative or do not receive census forms by June 3 should contact Statistics Canada toll free at 1-800-267-1991 to make sure they receive a census form. And remember, the information is kept confidential. VIEWPOINT Rhetorical wings need clipping By ROBERT RUSSO OTTAWA — He did it once: “*Air Canada is not for sale.” He did it twice, months before the United States slapped surcharges on cedar shakes and shingles: “‘There ain’t gonna be no sur- charge for Canada. If I’m wrong, you can cut me to bits.’” And Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has now done it-again. ‘When asked this week if the Japanese really expressed concerns about Ontario’s $9.7-billion deficit, the line was: ‘‘They don’t have to, I know what they think.”” Mulroney has once again soared too high on a gust under his rhetorical wings only to be brutally brought down by the wind shear of the facts. But the controversy over whether the prime minister is psychic is secondary. The crucial issue may be whether, given Mulroney’s past penchant for partisan pugilism and his recent remarks in Tokyo, anyone can take seriously his call in the throne speech for an end to petty partisanship in the Commons. And it’s a call the government desperately needs to be heeded. If the Conservative government is going to have any hope at all of forging a new deal on the Con- stitution, it will have to do it by con- please see MULRONEY page AG Unconscionable The April 15 issue of the Alberni Valley Times carried a letter by Claude Richmond, minister of forests, in which he made false allegations about me. He stated that I made various i ict about the prop: Valhalla Park which have never come true. The pre-park predictions which Mr. i d attri to me are ined in a recently released report on Valhalla Park prepared for the forest industry by Clayton Resources Ltd. These predictions were made by planning coordinators from various ministries of the B.C. government which participated in the Slocan Valley Planning Program. The report includes a copy of a letter in which the planning coordinators stated that their projections were based upon ‘‘the best data or relative comparisons available at this stage of the planning process.’’ I am appalled that.Richmond attributes these predictions to me when they were really made by Socred government representatives, and he has every reason to know that. The government planners predicted 14 direct forest industry jobs would be lost. How many were actually lost? None. Shortly before the park was created, Kootenay Forest Products, operating in an adjacent timber supply area, went out of business. The timber assigned to the company was i to sur i ies. Due to this transfer, Slocan Forest Products, which held cutting rights in the park, never experienced a drop in its cut due to creation of the park, and no jobs were lost. The Clayton Resources report admits this, yet in a blur of twisted logic it claims that jobs lost due to creation of Valhalla Park are reflected in the closure of Kootenay Forest Products. This is impossible. That company went out of business before the park was created. The government advertised for a buyer, but none could be found. Richmond stated in his letter that ‘*69 forestry jobs were lost.’’ This is untrue. Clayton Resources’ own estimate is that 21 direct forest industry jobs could be supported by logging the park today. It is only by adding indirect jobs that Clayton Resources arrived at 69 jobs purportedly lost. However, indirect jobs would not be forest industry jobs. They would be the jobs of the grocer, or the truck manufacturer, shipping employee, and so and which the direct forest industry jobs would help to support. Most of these indirect jobs are not local and could be stimulated just as well by growth in tourism or any other industry, because tourists and tourism businesses buy groceries, vehicles, and other goods and transport goods, just like anyone else. Mr. Richmond’s use of these figures does not reflect his actual expertise in these subjects. Visitation to Valhalla Park has developed slower than expected because the Socred government starved the parks branch of funds. Even the basic development needed for a wilderness park was very slow in coming, and the park was poorly advertised. Nevertheless, park use is growing every year. Clayton Resources said Valhalla Park had created only 16 tourism jobs. This is not based upon an actual survey, but upon an edifice of mathematical assumptions which appears to be flawed. ing the s figure to be in the ball park, so to speak, the 21 potential jobs which could be created by logging the park have almost been replaced in seven years. Incidentally, the government proj were the name at the top of the Socred party will not correct its abuse of the people in this province. ‘Colleen McCrory New Denver Easy access I was recently injured and am now using crutches to get around. I am becoming aware of the difficulty of shopping with my crutches. This letter is not about my problem. It is about a local store in the area, Home Goods furniture store in Genelle. Recently, | visited Home Goods to purchase some furniture. While entering the store, I noticed a wheelchair at the entrance. I felt that the wheelchair should be left for someone else as | can get around with my crutches. As I continued shopping, the salesman approached me and told me that the wheelchair is available for people such as me. He then stated that the h were i i All of the furniture was spread out so that a wheelchair could go through the aisles. l appreciate the courtesy extended to me and want to publicly thank the management and staff of this store. Cal Him Castlegar based on a 10-year period, but the logging industry only waited seven years to make its report. With tourism growing every year, we have no doubt that new tourism jobs in the coming years will surpass 21. . These tourism-related jobs represent about the only security our communities have against the cyclical layoffs at the mill and the mine, not to mention the severe crisis in the forest industry which many experts predict will occur when the old-growth forest runs out. What can we say about a minister of forests who helps the forest industry spread its propaganda, and goes the industry several steps further in falsifying the facts? Linking my name to the predictions is an unconscionable act for a cabinet.minister. It is one more way in which the Socred government has worked to create hostility between the logging community and citizens concerned for the environment. This shows once again that Please address all letters to the editor to: Letters to the Editor, Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at 197 Columbia Ave. in Castlegar. Letters should be typewritten, double- spaced and not longer than.300 words. Letters MUST be signed and include the writer's first and last names, address and a telephone number at which the writer can be reached between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The writer's name and city or town of only will be published. Only in exceptional cases will letters be published without the writer's name. Nevertheless, the name, address and telephone number of the writer MUST be disclosed to the editor. The Castlegar News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality, grammar and taste. Time magazine. or a symbolic gesture.”” Orthodox, Peace gathering inspires Pete Oglow Almost five years ago, a story entitled A Summit for Peace in Assisi and subtitled World Religious Leaders Pray, Not as One but Altogether, appeared in The opening paragraph begins, ‘‘A mark of (Pope) John Paul I1’s charismatic style is his ability to illuminate human aspirations with a telling phrase The gesture in this case was an invitation to world religious leaders of various faiths to meet in Assisi, the birthplace of St. Francis of As: universal saint,’ to pray for peace and at the same time to honor St. Francis as ‘‘one whose life exemplifies humanity’s quest for peace.’’ It would be difficult to evaluate this ecumenical gathering of Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, Greek Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Anglicans and North American Indians, but Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Nobel peace prize winner, described it as ‘‘the most beautiful gift to God."" There is no doubt, however, what effect it had Hand-carved ladles Reflections and recollections By John Charters “the churches which Assisi. Each ladle has 12 peace doves circling its rim and globe in its centre; each has its own hand-crafted carrying case with an accompanying letter of Presentation in the name of the Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Society. It reads: ‘‘Please accept this ladle as a token of our esteem for the peace initiative at Assisi in 1986. The 12 doves circling the globe characterize their role (the role of the 12 leading delegates) to the conference as (the) guardians of peace.” The ladle is symbolic and is offered in acknowledgement of the 12 world religions and in Assisi in in hands of leaders 4 YEARS AGO From the May 31, 1951 Castle News Mike Kereiff had a narrow escape last week when his car rolled off the Robson-Syringa Creek Road. About $300 damage was done to the car. The car struck a soft shoulder in the road and rolled over. Fortunately he was not injured. . « A blast at about 11:20 p.m. on Sunday night awakened Castlegar and Kinnaird_when persons unknown blew up a portion of the railway track at the mile board on the Trail branch line. Frank McLeod, a resident near the scene, arrived at the C.P.R. right-of- way in time to flag down a freight train coming into Castlegar from Trail, thus averting what could have been a tragic accident. No arrests have been made to date. . . . Boxes for the Castlegar Post Of- fice have arrived and are now being installed. The boxes are of aluminum con- struction, being made by the L’Islet Metal Specialties, Quebec. When they are all installed there will be 678 boxes at the disposal of the public. The Post Office now has 344 boxes in use. 25 YEARS AGO From the June 2, 1966 News There are two Castlegars in Ireland! At least there were two communities of that name there in 1876. . This week, Bill Johnson, whose home is on 7th Avenue in Castlegar, showed the Castlegar News staff a 90-year-old atlas which shows a PLEASE NOTE: Copy changes ta Castlegar in County Galway and a Castlegarr in County Mayo. . . . “I could make mince meat of all the rowdies that were ever pupped in Castlegar."’ No, it is not some Nelson bragger boasting about his: prowess but a quotation from a short story called The Challenge, by Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty. . . Ken Talarico, acting administrator of Castlegar and District Hospital since March, has been confirmed in the post, it was announced this week by hospital board chairman Ross McCutcheon. 15 YEARS AGO From the June 3, 1976 Castlegar News Official opening of the new Castlegar Community Centre has been scheduled for Sept. 11. This was announced Tuesday evening by committee chairman Lyle Roberts. . . The Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Society will reach another the papers signed and delivered. oo. O “Five years from now Castlegar will be the Cranbrook of the West Kootenay.”” These were the words of newly elected president of the Kootenay Boundary Chambers of Commerce, Bob Nuyens, while attending a Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce meeting last Thursday. 5 YEARS AGO From the May 28, 1986 Castlegar News Break out the suntan oil and the beach towel, the record hot weather is here to stay. Today’s high was expected to reach 30C and tomorrow the mer- cury is supposed to climb to 32C. * 8 6 The owner of a local shake mill said Tuesday he will face stiffer competition from other Canadian mills as a result of last week’s 35 per cent tariff on Canadian shake and shingle exports imposed by the United States. . . . 1395.99 ft. on June 1 Forecast of m Elevation 1402.23 ft. on June 8 SUMMER HOL RS SHRIMF WE ACCEPT WESTAR AND COMINCO MEAL V 1004 Columbia * Ph. 36 co = CR Ju Notice CRTC — Public Notice 1991.54. The Commission has received the fol plications: 4. SAsTsoan. ROBSON, BLUEBERRY CREEK, TRAIL, 5 UITVALE C. Application (910477900) by SHAW CAMBS (0-€.) L10., No. 171 Woot a ; ¥ North Vencoveer, % , for approval to acquire the assets of Genelle T.V. Co-Operative Society and to change the authorized service area of the cable undertaking ser- ving the ebove-mentioned localities by including the communities Y ower China Creek a1 China Creek Lower China ond Upeer China upon surrender of the current licen applicant on or betore 20 June 1991. For more ii ion you li the CRTC Public Lpey | Branch ot (619) 997-1328 or 997-1 . CRTC information Services in Hull ot (81 bse ted Fax: (819) 994-0218, or the CRTC regional office in Vancouver (604 ivi Canadian Radi me and etdes ALL FILM DEVELOPMENT 10 % ort 5X7 Did You Know We Also Have... . BONUS PRINT Bring your graduation film in for developing and receive a 5x7 bonus print of your choice. ° Treasure Prints © Have your favorite photo rmanently mounted on eautiful collector pieces! © 4x6 PRINTS ¢ Available at the Same Cost as 3'2x5 Prints. Colour Film Only. See Our Fine Selection of Imported Giftware! Passports Frames C. 368-221 Portraits * DISCOUNT OFFER EXPIRES JUNE 18° Giftware The West Kootenay National historic mi this with the opening of the Cultural Education Centre. The centre is part of a growing historic site complex on 13 acres adjacent to the Castlegar Airport. . . Although the Kootenay Boundary Chambers of Ci made the Centre has decided to form a group of “‘friends’’ of the centre to help organize special ac- tivities such as receptions and con- certs, NEC director Lucille Doucette said Tuesday. Ca eee) A Nelson floor hockey team completion of the Castlegar-Salmo section of Highway No. 3 their num- ber one priority for the year at their recent annual general meeting, Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D’Arcy told the Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce Thursday evening of last week that he will not believe the tender is let until he sees by Castlegar goalie Tim Pretty captured the bronze medal at the B.C. Special Olympics over the weekend in Kamloops. @ is 6. Se Castlegar’s Travis Green, a mem- ber of last year’s Castlegar Rebels junior B hockey team, is one of 46 players from B.C. selected to attend a provincial under-17 training camp. nm once per month only. Deadline is the last Wednesday of each month, for the following month. LLL CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH 09 Merry Creek Rd. 365-3430 PASTOR: BOB MARSH — SUNDAY MINISTRY — 9:45 a.m. — Bible School 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship 6:30 p.m. — Evening Fellowship UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA 2224-6th Avenue 10 a.m. Worship hO a.m, Sunday School Mid-Week Studies & Youth Activities Ph. 365-8337 ADVENTIST CHURCH 1471 Columbia Ave., Trail 364-0117 Regular Saturday Services Pastor Slawomir Malarek 365-7759 ROBSON COMMUNITY MEMORIAL CHURCH 1st & 3rd Sundays 7:00 p.m. 2nd & 4th Sundays 10 a.m ST. DAVID’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 614 Christina Place 80.m. Holy Communion 10 a.m. Family Eucharist and Church Schoo! The Rev. Dorothy Barker 365-2271 or 365-6720 To Know Christ ond Make Him Known CHURCH OF GOD 2404 Columbia Avenue Church School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Ira Johnson * 365-6762 A asgnn TEESE GRACE PRESBYTERIA' 2605 Columbia Ave. Morning Worship 11:30..m. Rev. 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The Census of Agriculture helps ensure the following: ¢ All operators, including women, in agriculture will be recognized for their role as decision makers. * Information will be used to defend farm interests in international trade negotiations and disputes. © Farm organizations often use this information to present their cases to government ® Many government stabilization and price support payments are directly or indirectly based on analysis of the information Together, the confidential information gathered in the Census of Agriculture and the Census of Population will ensure that you and your farming community get your fair share of agricultural services, as well as funding for schools, hospitals, roads, vital social services, and rural development. With you, the Census makes good sense. lf you haven't received your Census of Agriculture form, please call toll free, 1-800-465-1991. Call for HELP from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday, May 30th through Friday, June 7th (excluding Sunday). on our local Doukhobor craftsman, Pete Oglow. For some years now, Pete has been carving and his crafted Di ladles to special guests in our ity, Queen Elizabeth, the governor general, the premier and many others, as a gesture from a pacifist culture and a community. He saw this gathering of leaders as a historic milestone on the rocky road to (oS pomp tew ir PASTOR STUART LAURIE © 365-2278 Morning Worship 10:30 o.m. Children’s Church provided id- Week Service & Study (Chikdiren's Church & Nursery Provided) 6:30 Evening Celebration 1986 in prayer for universal peace. A All the assembled church leaders and Prayed not as but en masse, of the tenet that the power of Prayer is not in one but in the union of all those attending this reverent assembly. A 13th ladle was specially made for presentation to Mother Teresa. : 1801 Connors Rd. Phone 365-6317 PASTOR: BARRY WERNER + 365-2374 — SUNDAY SERVICES — Worship — 10:30 .m. borscht 1-800-465-1991 7 — FRIDAY — 7:00 p.m. Youth Explosion rm reemeonet OUR DESIRE IS TO world peace and determined to give it or its a carved 12 ladles, one for each of the To this end he 12 leaders at Please see LADLES page AS As John Paul stated in closing: ‘“The fact that we have come here (at Assisi) does not imply any :90-8:00 p.m. le teaching for all ages Denominational Fomily Church A New cocking the Word of Fatth! [prec