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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Septembor 12, 1979

(Doug Pringle / Munici

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September 18th in Edmonton and will go on to cover 18
dates until October the 7th before the band embacks on a
European tour,

THE EAGLES ARE SET to kick off the ten city tour of
Japan on September 17th and at that time the band will
pre lew tunes from its forthcoming and long awaited Ip
lue for release in September,

ELTON JOHN AND HIS manager John Reed headed
off to a very exclusive disco party at a private mansion
recently. As it turned out, they were both kept waiting

-outside for quite a long time and Reed who was getting

°

Elton John
more impatient by the minute decided to take the quick

- way in-over one of the high walls, After wait for
le, Elton and the other guests the

feet
‘over the wall and had to be taken to the hospital. end
not serious though as he left the hospital shortly after
under his own steam. Elton’s back in the USA tour with
Ray Cooper, opens on September 19th in Phoenix A.izona
ane will make a stop in Toronto on October 30th and
st.

IF YOU have never been in-
volved in municipal politics,
you should have a go. Run
for anything from dog:
catcher to mayor. If you
tose, it will be good for your
ego. If you win, it will be
good for your humility,

I speak, ‘as always, from
personal experience. For two
years I served on a town
council.: It was illuminating,
if not very enlightening.

1 was ciected, of course; by
acclamation. As was
everybody else on the coun-
cil. So keen were the citizens
to serve that some years, on
nomination eve, we had to go
down to the pub, drag a

couple of cheracters out, and '

guide their hands while they
signed up.

When I was elected, I was
present as a reporter. There
were only five other people in
the council chambers, so it
was decided that I would be
elected as the necessary sixth,
Since I had already served on
the executives of various
moribund _ organizations
which had died forthwith, I
agreed. It didn’t die, as I'd
hoped. The next year we were
all re-elected. By acclama-
tion.

Tt was pretty heady stuff,
at first. As a partner in a
printing plant, and a
newspaperman, I was im-
mediately appointed Chair-
man of the Printing, Adver-
tising, and Public Relations
Committee of council. This
meant that our firm
automatically received the
contract for the town's print-
ing and advertising, which
we already had. The public
relations part meant that I
had to stop suggesting in the
paper that the town council

“was made wp of nitwits,

nincompoops and nerds.

Another chap, with a
pretty good heating and
plumbing business, was
named Chairman of the In-
terior Municipal Modifica-
tion Committee. Heating and
plumbing.

A third, who hed a tractor,
a back-hoe and a snowplow,
was appointed Chairman of
the Public Works Depart-
ment. He immediately in-
troduced a by-law raising the
rates per hour of such equip-

Ever raising gas prices call

bens;

(Bill Smiley

ment, It passed, four to two.
The opposition was from
another councillor, a retired
farmer, who alsa had a trac-
tor aud a threshing-machine,
which he thought could be
converted to plowing snow.
His brother-in-law voted
with him,

But ,these moments of
power and glory sood faded.
‘The corflict. of interest
became apparent, and there
was no way out for a man of
honour except to resign, It
took me only two years to

each that You

one of the councillors was
obviously in his cups, I knew’
Thadto quit,

All of this is a preamble to
a thickish document I got in

* the mail the other day. It is a

new by-law printed and
dispersed (at what enormous
cost I shudder) by our local
town council. There are 39,
numbered pages of legal in-
anities, and about an equal
number of pages of maps of
the town, equally unintelli-
gible.

As I said, the mailman

hink that-a fair time,
bur it's not easy to walk away
from 3 $75.00 a year stipend.
The mayor made $150.00.

As a reporter, I had been
more interested in the con-
flicts than the interests, | had
delightedly heard, and
printed, one councillor call
another councillor a ‘‘gibber-
ing old baboon.” And
watched the victim of the
pejorative, a stripling of 78,
invite the ‘name-caller out-
side, stripping off his jacket
during the exchange. Cooler
heads prevailed. It was
thirty-four below outside.

, Well, as you can see, as a
member of that august body,
the Town Council, I couldn't
print that sort of thing. I had
to report that the two coun-
cillors ‘had a difference of
opinion.” When I wrote that
phrase and had to omit that

it, regi of ex-
pense. A dozen kids could
have covered the town in two
hours, or stuffed them in the
sewer,

Despite my wide ex-
perience as a municipal coun-
cillor, or perhaps becouse of
it, this by-law completely
baffles me.

The first thirteen pages are
definitions. They tell us what
is a Jot, a yard (front) and’a
yard (rear), a garage, a
building. They also inform
the ignorant citizenry what a.
school is, a person, a
restaurant, a motel, a
boarding-liouse. All
alphabetically. There was no
mention of “brothel” under
the B's,

The by-law tells us how
high our fences or hedges can
be. It tells us how high our
houses can be. How many.

2 awe see eee net 3} tee SAMO PAE SY base mednig mingle

I politics. : have a go

square metres of floor space
we must have if we decide to
ask Auntie Mabel, crippled
with arthritis, to share our
dwelling.

For-most of the document,
the by-law dwells in metres,
squared and decimaled. [
know very few people ovei
thirty who would know. a
metre from a maskinonge.
Somebody on council piust
have'cornered the market on
metre sticks.

Then this baffling by-law
moves into ‘hectares’.
What the heck is a hectare?
To me, it’s an ancient French
(Canadian) piece of land
about as accurate as an acre,
which nobody understands
either.

Here’s an example: ““RM2
uses are permitted as
specified to a maximum of
550 persons per hectare.’’ Is
it a squaré mile? Is it a
“Hiacre”? wit’ an accent?

This is crazy. When 1 was a
councillor, we could knock
off three or four by-laws in a
meeting, and everybody
understood: them. ‘Moved
and seconded that there shalt
be no loitering in the
cemetery, except by those
who are among the dead, not
the quick.’? That sort of
thing. ‘

This big fat by-law is for
the birds. Or the lawyers,
Not for us old municipal
Politicians. Remember what
I suggested at the beginning
of this column? Forget .it.
Otherwise you might end up
in a ‘Detached dwelling
unit’, which allows ‘3.

persons per unit ay

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Vol. 82, No. 88,

DISTRICT SCHOLARSHIPS were presented to two Stanley ship winner; Jamie Millaird; Lach Farrell, SHSS

y. School 3

District No. 9 office He
the

B of the $1,000 schotarst
.|to right: John Holden, sup dant of

In front of the
Pe in school board
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Dan Verigin, scholarship winner; and Vera Kanigan,
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é astlegar tie-in for Blueber

ISCHOOL DISTRICT:

By RYON GUEDES

» A tie-in to
water is a pr

CASNEWS EDITOR : :
Castlegar's new Arrow Lakes

tive rept at for

Blueberry Créek residents’ reportedly doomed

supply.

And according to Blueberry Creek's
regional district representative, a recent ad-
mission of blame by Highways Minister Alex
Fraser justifies asking the provincial gover-
nment to pay the entire cost of the new

system;

The threat of legal action

Eyeing dump
_as “test case’

by the pollution control branch

reflects the government agency's efforts to “single out’ the
she Ooti

the h refuse

regional district
site.
That was the charge

meet the bianch’s standards
isc landfill

district staff to i igate possible: imp:

Blueberry Creek Irrigation District system after being told by
Area J director Martin Vanderpol the creek’s life expectancy
“is restricted to a couple of years" chiefly as a ‘result of
construction of the Castlegar-Christina. Lake highway.. 4

Vanderpol, who introduced the water supply. feasibility

study motion, said the highway construction ‘has ‘damaged

» the creek beyond repair,” and a letter from the -highways
tmainister to the irrigation district board last. month provided’ .
Blueberry Creck water users with sufficient grounds to. seek
100-per-cent provincial government funding for a new supply. |

“The district has a letter signed by Alex Fraser. in which
he admits that not just his d but many dep:
are responsible for the destruction of this‘creek,” the Area J
director said. - -

“We are looking forward to pointing out to them that
they are responsible for the destruction of this creek and they
should also be responsible for supplying Blueberry with
water.”

He pointed out that the creek 10 to 12 years ago was

id ble of: lying. not only Blueberry Creek but
Castlegar as well.

“The people in Blueberry have warned the highways
department that the road has been destructive to their water
system,” he continued. “They've gone ahead anyhow and it’s
now time they paid the pice.” yaa S

.. Vanderpol’s motion was.an amendment of an original}:

levelled by the

~ Jury acquits Orthodox Doukhobor _
leader of arson conspiracy charges —

Orthodox Doukhobor
leader John J. Verigin walk-
ed out of Nelson county court
Saturday a free \man after. a.
nine-man, three-woman jury.

presented their ‘verdict on’.
three charges’ of conspiracy”

to commit .arson. *,

- plotting the arson ‘attacks on
Reformed ‘Doukhobor leader ;

_Merigin renews call

Stephan : Sorokin's..home . in
Krestova,’ the old- Grand
Forks post ‘office’ and. the

hobors — mostly Orthodox —
who arrived at the old
: granite courthouse ‘hours be-.
“fore’the five-day trial began

ch” day, gasped. in ‘relief

of Castlegar and Electoral

) Areas H, I and J — Saturday

in response to deputy’ en-"

for the
site. - 2

The deputy minister,
responding to an earlier
letter from RDCK _ board
G.E. MacNeill

Marr's Aug, 22 letter citing
di of the

which asked for provincial

dump..

The four Central Koot-
enay directors told other
members of: the ‘regional

g in
maintaining the dump, said
MacNeill’s letter was “rather
timely as senior officials of
-our have been con-'
templating legal action’ for

Breer nithe one’
count he faced:

ion of the
Ootischenia refuse site.” -

Marr said in the letter he. .

had “requested that a dec.-
sion to proceed in this dir-

ection be held. pending fur-"
our

ther consideration by

proposed i RDCK staff to investigate’:
“the possibility of conriecting the Blueberry Creek Irrigation
District water system with that of the City of Castlegar.” The
amended motion, the Area J director explained, would
provide for the examination of other possibilities,
Attempts by the Castlegar News to contact Fraser this
‘week in Victoria for comment on the letter were unsuccessful.
But Bill Cook, chairman of the irrigation district board,
confirmed that Fraser's letter assumed partial blame for.the
destruction of the watershed.
- “What they’re saying js that they're not totally at fault,”
_ Cook said.'““There is the development of a park at Nancy
Greene Lake that’s part of the problem, and logging is part of

the problem, so they're not willing to take all of the blame.
“They're saying there's others involved too.” . 5
Although ‘the Fraser letter did not make any
. “commitment of time” on the life expectancy. of the creek, he
said, it indicated serious with the Bh -y Creek
supply in.the near future.

“We. were at

bedi ig heh

RD pas
Area I director John Moran's

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charges

d at. his

for terrorism probe |

Despite his: acquittal on’ three arson i

3 Saturday, Orthodox’ Doukhobor’ leader’ John

Verigin says members of his sect “are far from satisfied”

with the provincial government's handling of terrorist

activities in. the West Kootenay. . Fs nile
Cc

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Doukhobo r affairs to study.

Grand Forks home this

Spiritual Communities of
Christ pointed: out his sect

Social Credit.

has asked both tHe'present |

in depth and get to the
bottom ‘of. things.”
Commenting. this
week on testimony by wit-
nesses in his five-day trial,
Verigin said in an official
press ‘statement “he was

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“deeply d with the

Party predecessor~for a
special investigation by the:
I's. - minis-

by. the
during the trial itself, and
to the media, that they are
4 ato Hs 7

try. into acts of terrorism

and arson against USCC
members and property.

But the only apparent

di d so

illegal acts and the destruc-.
tion. of USCC property.”,
“In, this regard rep-
resentatives of: our or-
ion expect. to. be

far, Verigin said, was the
one which lead to his facing
arson conspiracy charges.

“The investigation.
supposedly turned up with
what came out in the trial,”
he said. “It can be judged

! on its merits.”

“We are certainly far
from satisfied,” the USCC
honorary chairman contin-
ued. “What we asked for

+ has not materialized yet —

; that is, a committee on

The inves ion of

able te meet with govern-
ment oliicials in order to
deal with the continuing
problem of security -and
sother related issues,” the
statement . continued. “I
feel: that had our sugges-
tions to the authorities
been heeded much of ‘the

i
fi ‘School District.No. 9 — and

A

JOHN. J. VERIGIN
+++ not guilty

human’ error, has -saved

ost. West Kootenay .Power
id Light — six years’ worth
‘of, power. payments for Stan-
ley Humphries _ Secondary
School. $ :
District No. 9 trustees
were told at their Monday.
meeting’ the powe? com-
pany’s billings for the school
were understated between
July, 1972 and June, 1979.

A letter to the board
from West Kootenay Power

_ cost, ‘the ‘sel

d ool district was
saved $38,238.70 at the pow-
er company's expense.

>! Gil Laycock, a public re-
lations spokesman for West
Kootenay -Power in Trail,
said it: was. human error
rather than’a faulty meter,

that: was .responsible for

reporting the power con-
sumption inaccurately.

“In buildings that con-

sume a.large amount of
power, a meter multiplier is
used. The meter reads a
multiple of the power con-
sumption, and then someone
it bile for

é Pay-
ment of $6,206.45, represent-
ing costs for a one-year

tty
that ‘to. the final cost.”
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RDCK economic function

not for Area | —

‘The regional district rep- z John Moran named the:

resentative for Area.I has

of | p
and needless cost to tax...
payers. of. police investi-
gations and court proceed-
ings, could have heen.

avoide:

Cc Monday at

the Aug. 26.plane crash in

was killed near Belling-
ham, Wash. has been “stal-
led” pending delivery of a
Canadian transport min-
istry report.

That was a U.S.

Na-
Safe

which a Castlegar family~

the NTSB field office in
Seattle,-Paul Harrison told
the Castlegar News the in-
vestigation cannot contin-
ue: until his agency re-
ceives the transport “min-
istry’s information on
Cooper's experience and

asa pilot and the

_ty Board "s up-

date this week on the
probe into the deaths of
private pilot David
Cooper,: 89, his wife Mar-
ilyn, 38, and children Shar-
on, 16, Bradley, 15, and
Derek, 8, in the crash on
4,100-foot-high Black
Mountain in the Silver
Lake area.

status of the
Lance Il PAS82_ single-
engine aircraft destroyed
in the crash.

“They said they'd send
it and until I get it I can't
really. go much further on
it,” Harrison said. “When I
get that I can pretty well
wrap it up.”

Contacted in. Rich-

joined Castlegat’ city council
in rejecting participation in a
proposed provincial govern-

‘tassisted ic de.

B.C. Land Commission's

freeze on development in his _
1 f 1

‘the damn land commission,
and get some of those people
off their asses in Victoria.”

me to the

‘area, | s
as the reason for his refusal

velopment function for Cen-
tral Kootenay.

Cooper crash investigation

mond Monday, a spokes-
man for the transport min-
istry's, accidents investi
gation department said he §
believed the information
requested by the NTSB @
has been forwarded to the §
U.S.. agency’s Seattle of- §

fice. 3 2
The NTSB investiga- @
tor told the Castlegar %
News earlier this month %
the on-site investigation of 2
the crash “absolved” the
aircraft, which apparently #
hit trees and the mountain %
slope in level flight at #

“what I would call'a‘very @

high cruising speed.”' é
A spokesman for the %
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day to sign a letter of
consent to sharing the cost of
the proposed RDCK function
which would provide for the
operation of an economic de-
velopment commission.
“I certainly cannot sign
it as the ‘land in the area I

represent is all in the agri-

cultural land reserve," Moran
told RDCK directors. “It
would hardly be fair to ask
those taxpayers to support
something like this when
they can’t do anything about
their property.”

He cited as an example
an Area I property owner's
application to the RDCK fora
building permit to enlarge a

shop presently employing the’

equivalent of 1.5 people to an
operation which would em-

ploy three people. The prop-‘
erty owner's application was °

turned down by the RDCK
because his land was in the
ALR, he said.

Moran told board mem-
bers that if they were in
favor of encouraging econom-
ie development in the region
they should “support getting
some of this property out of

J Also p
RDCK board Saturday was
Creston town council's letter
of consent to taking part in
the proposed function “for a
two-year trial period.”

The letter also urged the
board's “attention be drawn
to the fact that there has
been no provision included in
the second-year budget for
inflation or increases.”

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the

“commission and other: RDCK’.

representatives with Marr to’
discuss the statements in the

* letter despite several other ;

directors’ suggestio:
board was not responsible for
the operation of Ootischenia
dump, which more.than two
years ago became a function

ns:* the :

out and told the irrigati
creek.”

independent of the regioral |

disposal function.

agement commission is with-:
out fault or that it ‘has
created the greatest example
of landfill garbage disposal in
the world, but'we have im-
proved it,” Area H director
‘Norman Brewster told board
members, q i

“It would not be right for
the management commission
* to be targets of the pollution.

“I don't think our mat,

control branch without some’

help or backup from the
board itself.”

“There's a principle here
that's important to us all,”.he
continued. “And I don't think
we want to see either the
Ootischenia commission or
any other entity singled out

and shot down by a govern-

Ment agency.” ,

ere is no garbage
dump that is acceptable to
the standards of the PCB at
the moment in this regional
district,”. Area J director
Martin Vanderpol said. “We
might be the first ones, but
don’t kid yourselves, After
they've made a test case out
of us you'll get the rest.”

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