Castlégar News — sure 30. 1909

OPINION

Not much choice
for Mr. Parker

Forests Minister Dave Parker's announcement yesterday that
the provincial government is establishing a permanent British
Columbia Forest Resources Commission should not come as a sur-
prise after the rough ride the minister was given earlier this year as
he toured the province to hear public comments on his proposal to
increase the number of tree farm licences in B.C.

Mr. Parker kept rebutting calls for a royal commission into the
province's forestry practices but it became quite clear he and his
ministry faced overwhelming opposition to the TFL proposal as well
as general criticism of the Forests Ministry's performance in over-
seeing B.C.’s most valuable resource.

Nowhere was the demand for some kind of inquiry into forest
practices more apparent than here in the West Kootenay where Mr.
Parker faced considerable criticism at a public meeting in Nelson,
one of eight he sat through across the province.

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“This has probably been the most concerted
sort of area-based tenure,” Mr
referring to his TFL proposal

But what was also clear from the meetings was the depth of con-
cern about what goes on in our forests. Questions about clearcutting,
logging in watersheds and the collection of eb fees have all

pp of any
Parker said after the meeting,

Letters to the editor

been raised and hammered home to the bel:

Faced with such opposition, Mr. Parker eety. didn't have much
choice but to try to assuage the complainers.

So we get not a royal commission with a set mandate to look at
specific forestry issues, but a permanent forest resources com-
mission headed by former chairman of the now-defunct Labor
Relations Board, Don Munroe.

The commission also includes the fiery Jack Munro, one of the
Social Credit government's most ardent critics of its forestry
management.

Unfortunately, the commission does not include a represéen-
tative from an established environmental group, which we feel is an
oversight on the part of Mr, Parker.

It comes as nothing of a surprise here in B.C. that sides have
immediately been taken regarding the appointment of the com-
mission, with the forest industry applauding the move as a “fresh
approach” and environmentalists dismissing it as a “public relations
ploy.

While we feel a royal commission would have been a more ef-
fective tool for the government to use to come to grips with the
disputes plaguing such a valuable industry, at least Mr. Parker shed
his earlier stubbornness and has made an attempt to meet the
demands of his critics

Politics is so often a game of give-and-take. Mr. Parker has
given us something. Let's keep our eyes on it and see what it does.

There's always time for criticism later, perhaps during an elec-
tion campaign?

Changes
represent
dilemma

By BILL VANDER ZALM
Premier

During the past year, | have
reflected, more than any other time
in my political life, on the inevi-
table change that is coming on us
and the crossroads at which we find
ourselves.

I have also become aware of the
importance of the serious policy
choices we face in the next several
years.

| COMMENT |

The crossroads represent a
dilemma. As a society, we must
come up with the right decisions in
order to balance the objectives we
have for economic development
and the maintenance of our quality
of life

Our government is dedicated to
forging a strategy to achieve a
vision which we have for this
province. A vision which reflects
the values of British Columbians.

We have identified this vision as
our ‘three Es policy"? — a strong
diversified economy, an environ

BILL VANDER ZALM
. looks for support

health needs? What about our
energy supply? By the year 2000 we
will need at least one more univer-
sity. Where should it be?

Our government has focused on
these The

Forests must be
managed for good of all

The Arrow Forest District probably
produces between 250 and 300 loads of
logs per day for area mills.

How then does one allocate timber
to one mill requiring 20 loads per day?
Is it better to divide a valley into 80
segments, visit each site once,
neutralize’ the effects of secondary
roads, landings and skidtrails, replant
the whole site including skidtracks, or
maintain a vast network of trails and
roadways taking only 1.25 per cent of
the trees from the whole area?

If only two skidtracks eight feet wide
are used per acre, eight per cent of the
growing area is permanently lost if one
must use them all the time. It is the soil
erosion from rehabilitated trails and
roadways that does the most damage,
not clearcuts.

To be sure, a farmer can go on his
one-acre wood lot and select 10 trees
per year, but when I require 20 loads of
logs aday, where does the money come
from to pay for a truck to visit five one-
acre sites to pick up a load of logs.

It is the selling price of our lumber
that dictates what we can afford to pay
for logs, wages and other costs, not the

other way around.

I suspect the ravages of forest fires,
the spruce budworm, bark beetle, pine
beetle and mistletoe, to name a few, do
more to dictate forest policy than any
sibmission from the industry or the
public.

Overnight, a harvesting plan
developed for years has to be aban-
doned. | invite those opposed to clear-
cuts to visit the White Swan Lake area
to look at the harvesting caused by the
pine beetle that didn’t stay in the park
in Montana. Fire-killed larch is
now being used for shakes. It is being
harvested from the Yak tie reserve
where they are logging lodgepole pine,
a fire legacy from our grandfathers.

Besides all the other pressures on our
forests, there is the constant demand
upon government for more roads,
schools, hospitals and welfare. The
people in this area and the Slocan in
particular don’t take a back seat to
anyone when it comes to a government
handout.

Our forests are for everyone. Other
activities can and do go along with

logging. Our logging planners like
Arrow Forest District manager Ken
Arnett plan 75 or more years in the
future and those concerned with them-
selves and next week cannot visualize
something beyond their own lifetime.

I think Mr. Arnett deserves a vote
of confidence for the job\he and his
staff are doing juggling all the factors
and pressures associated with sound
forest management, not condem-
nation from those who appear
ignorant of the marketplace and the
forest ecosystem.

The forests are forever but the trees
there right now will be harvested either
by disease organisms or fire unless man
and his chainsaw get there first.

Anyone who says save those trees or
don’t log that valley is really saying
they want nature to take its course and
the whole area to mature, die from
disease and then burn.

The trouble is fire and the pine beetle
don’t confine themselves to the park,
so wé must manage it all for the good
ofall.

Fred Peitzsche
Ross Spur

Lumber company boss
says meeting a success

I would like to thank the residents of
Deer Park and the Ministry of
Forests, Arrow District office, for the
very successful general meeting held
this past Saturday in the community of
Deer Park.

The meeting was well attended by
the residents of Deer Park thanks to
the efforts of Sven Dahi-Jensen and
Nesta Hale. As a company with timber
harvesting operations within the Deer

Creek watershed, it is important for us
to be able to communicate our present,
and future activities, to concerned
local residents, to answer their
questions, and to try to resolve their
concerns.

We also appreciated the
organizational role of the Ministry of
Forests, Arrow District office, their
presentation, and the ensuing
discussion with Reiner Augustin and

Hard work
made grad safe

Castlegar taxi offered ‘‘free’” rides
to grads last weekend. We, like most
parents, hoped that the young people
would have a great party but leave the
driving to us.

Asa result, we were reported to the

ment which is protected and
cherished as a keystone to our
quality of life, and an education
policy that will enable us to realize
our potential in the next century.

It will take some time to put in
place all of the policies necessary to faced
achieve that vision, but Ihave the We face a decade of challenges
time and I’m prepared to dedicate jut we can best face those
itto that task challenges if we have a vision for

What about the challenges? our province and the policies
Well, let's think about British — needed to achieve that vision.
Columbia by the year 2000 which is We will continue to look for the
only ashort decade away support of our citizens and consult

British Columbia's popul with our

themes which we embrace — the
environment, the economy and
education — are the essential
ingredients to establishing a base
that will allow us to meet the op-
portunities with which we are

motor car which stric-
tly regulates all taxi fares.

But, thanks to an anonymous
citizen, we were able to follow through

with our plans. He agreed to pick up
the entire tab for the grads who rode
with us Saturday night

And it was a fairly safe night!
Congratulations to the grads and also
to the parents who worked so hard to
make it a safe, successful celebration.

Edward Adshead
on behalf of
The staff of Castlegar taxi

his staff.

Integrated and shared resource use is
possible when people sit down and
talk. We are looking to a continuing
good working relationship with the
residents of Deer Park.

Peter Kalesnikoff,
President and General Manager,
Kalesnikoff Lumber Co. Ltd.

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‘ond grammar

Acadian group fears
letters incite bigotry

FREDERICTON (CP) — The New
Brunswick Society of Acadians say$

will increase by 700,000. Where and the people who work in British
will they live? Where will they Columbia.
work? What kind of work will they The foundation has been laid.
be involved in? How do we meet What we will do now is build for
their educational needs and their the future.

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the | ditor sections of
some English newspapers in the
province are promoting bigotry and
discrimination

Michel Doucet, president of the
society which is the main lobby group
for New Brunswick’s 2504000
Acadians, is worried that the letters
could incite hatred and intolerance in a
climate already charged by distrust of
bilingualism.

“People feel that by letting these let
ters go through without any comment,
some papers are helping to promote in
tolerance and misunderstanding bet
ween the two linguistic communities,”*
Doucet said

He said the society is looking at ways
of addressing the situation, including
possibly complaining to the New Brun
swick Human Rights Commission or
the Atlantic Press Council

“But what is more likely at this point

is trying to open up a dialogue with the
editors of these papers in the hope
they'll correct the editorial comments
and take measures not to promote this
kind of hate literature.”

The newspapers in question, the
Fredericton Gleaner and the Moncton
Times-Transcript will, when asked,
withold the names of letter writers.
New Brunswick’s other English-
language dailies, the Saint John
Telegraph-Journal and Times-Globe,
refuse to withold letter writers’ names,
except in unusual circumstances

NAMES WITHHELD

Many of the most vitriolic, anti
French letters are penned by writers
whose names are withheld at their
request. However, both the Gleaner
and the Times-Transcript_say they
verify the! identities’ of the writers
before publishing the letters

Mike Bembridge, managing editor
of the Times-Transcript, said the
newspaper regularly reviews its letters

to-the-editor policy and may take a
look at the situation some time in the
future.

However, he made it clear he doesn’t
ho'd with censoring letters.

“I don’t think we can take on the
responsibility of censoring the feelings
of our readers because that’s a double-
edged sword."*

Tom Crowther, publisher of the
Gleaner, argues that many of the un:
signed letters published by his
newspaper are from civil servants who
do not want the provincial government
to know their identities :

New Brunswick is Canada’s only of
ficially bilingual province. However, a
growing English backlash against
bilingualism has led to the formation
of a provincial wing of the Con
federation of Regions party

The fledgling party, which will elect
a provincial leader in September, is
dedicated 10 getting rid of official
bilingualism

Remember
When?

40 YEARS AGO
From the June 30, 1949
Castlegar News

Herbert W. Herridge returned once
more as member of parliament for
Kootenay West through his election
Monday over Jack Corner,
Progressive Conservative candidate.
Mr. Herridge received a majority of
over 1,400 votes.

On the whole Canadian scene the
Liberals received a record 193 seats
while the CCF and Conservatives lost
heavily. It was a triumphant day for
Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent.

‘The 1949 graduation ceremony and
dance took place Friday night in the
Community Hall, which was
beautifully decorated for the occasion
with roses, streamers and balloons.
The ceremony opened with ‘‘O
Canada.""

Ivor Ostrum, as Master of
Ceremonies, introduced the Principal,
Mr. Magwood, who gave an address
on the responsibility of the young
people going into the world after
graduating.

A joint committee consisting of
members of the Castlegar Projects
Society and the Kinnaird Im-
provement Society was formed recen-
tly and will be known as the Castlegar-
Kinnaird and District Projects Com-
mittee. This committee was formed to
take care of the division of monies
donated by Consolidated Mining and
Smelting Co.

25 YEARS AGO
From the July 2, 1964
Castlegar News

Mystery surrounds the death last
week of 24-year-old RCMP Const.
Derek Sitar in the detachment barracks
here as the officer-in-charge of the
detachment refused this week to make
any comment whatsoever on the case.

Cpl.. P.J. Maguire’s refusal has
heightened suspicions and rumors
which sprung up after the shooting.
Cpl. Maguire who has been relieving
Sgt. Alex Borodula, is here from the
Nelson subdivision headquarters. He
said full details ‘*will come out at the
coroner’s inquest'’ and the public
“can wait another week”’ for them.

A government-supervised strike
vote will be taken of Cominco em-
ployees at Trail on Thursday and
Friday of next week.

Last week Mine-Mill union mem-
bers voted 95 per cent in favor of rejec-
tion of a conciliation board majority
report in the dispute and the union’s
bargaining committee has since called
off further discussions with Cominco
concerning contract terms.

Firm plans for expansion of the
Castlegar Hospital were expected to be
developed this week, hospital ad-
ministrator Angus Haines disclosed
Monday.

15 YEARS AGO

From the July 4, 1974

Castlegar News

Striking Cominco Ltd. workers at
“Trail, Kimberley and Salmo are “‘set-
tling in for a long strike,"’ a union
spokesman said Monday

Marvin McLean, president of
United Steelworkers of America,
Local 480, said his union is well
prepared for the strike which began at
midnight Sunday when 4,000 workers
left their jobs at the company’s three
operations.

Appropriate welcoming signs to the
City of Castlegar, bus tours of the city
and immediate area, a permanent float
for KC Days as well as for local royalty
visiting out of town, a Teen Town this
fall and a questionnaire to everyonein
School District.No. 9 to get a rough
idea of what the general public wants a
chamber to accomplish, were among
the numerous plans to be activated by
the Castlegar and District Chamber of
Commerce now newly

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June 30, 1989 Castlegar News

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display their honor roll certificates and other awards

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after ve school's we dain awards ceremony.

Editor named CRTC head

OTTAWA (CP) — Keith Spicer,
editor of the Ottawa Citizen, will be
chairman of the Canadian Radio-

and T
Commission starting Sept. |.

Spicer succeeds much-praised An-
dre Bureau, who left the post March 1
after five years as CRTC chairman to
return to his law practice.

Spicer was rumored last winter to be
in line as the next governor general,
then later possibly as president of the
CBC.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
made the announcement Thursday
night. He had been rumored ready to
appoint former Liberal com-
munications minister Francis Fox as
chairman — partly to defuse political
criticism about his patronage appoin-
tments.

The commission, which oversees
radio, television, cable and much of
the telephone and satellite business,

loosened its control over industry un-
der Bureau and adopted a more super-
visory than regulatory style.

Spicer, 55, Citizen editor since
January 1985, was Canada’s first of-
ficial languages commissioner from
1970 to 1977. He is the author of four
books, including two on corporate
communications, but has no experien-
ce in the fields the commission
regulates. Born in Toronto, he was
educated at the University of Toronto,
the Sorbonne and the University of
Paris

Spicer said Thursday night he was
telephoned Monday by Mulroney,
who offered him the seven-year term.
The appointment received cabinet
confirmation Thursday.

He refused to comment on the
recent activity at the CRTC, saying,
“I'm really a new boy. I want to spend
the next couple of months hitting the
books.”*

Axe falls on Via
Rail passenger cars

OTTAWA (CP) — Via Rail’s board
of directors has approved a plan to
drop some passenger trains and other
services to meet federal budget cuts, a
spokesman said.

The plan should be delivered to
Transport Minister Benoit Bouchard
either today or Tuesday depending on
how quickly it can be translated,
spokesman Fathi Hadaya said in a
telephone interview from Montreal.
He wouldn’t say what the report
recommended.

A review of Via’s 1989 operations
and a proposal for a high-speed

A report prepared before Lawless
took over at Via estimated that as
many as 20 of Via’s 32 trains would
have to be cancelled.

USEORDERS

Bouchard has said he will probably
use special cabinet orders to get rid of
the trains rather than going through
the formal process of obtaining ap-
proval from the National Transpor-
tation Agency,

The agency usually holds public
hearings on bids to discontinue
passenger trains, And, as Bouchard
already knows, there is plenty of vocal

passenger train will be p d to the
minister in the next few weeks.

Bouchard and his officials will study
the report for several weeks before a
summary is released, a spokesman
said. The full business plan for the next
five years won't be released because it
contains commercial information.

The plan was developed by
Ron Lawless, the CN president who
took over Via after the government
canned former president Denis de
Belleval. He wasn’t happy with gover-
nment plans to slash its support for Via
to $250 million by 1992 from $641
million last year.

Both Bouchard and Lawless have
said that some trains will have to be
cancelled to meet the budget cut. But
Lawless has said he will try to keep as
many trains as possible and is looking
for other ways to cut Via’s deficit

toany in Via ser-
vice.

Bureau, a former broadcast and
Satellite executive, was credited with
applying his first-hand experience to
ensure stations and operations
remained viable.

SPECIALTY CHANNELS

He oversaw the introduction of such
specialty channels as The Sports Net-
work and MuchMusic, the
strengthening of pay TV and the
relaxation of cable rules. Some say he
softened the federal grip on broad-
casting in order to avert industry
failures.

Spicer enters the job only weeks
before the federal government plans to
unfurl broadcast legislation which,
among other things, will change its
relationship with the CRTC.

It is expected the new law will allow
the government to better direct the
commission on policy matters, while
retaining its right to rescind decisions.
It will steer clear of guiding the CRTC
‘on who should get broadcasting licen-
ces.

Both Bureau and outgoing CBC
president Pierre Juneau denounced
similar legislation when it was in-
troduced in the last session of
P . Current C cations
Minister Marcel Masse is rewriting it.

In the fall, the will also

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From the June 17, 1984
Castlegar News

John Turner won the Liberal party
leadership Saturday, pushing aside six
rivals in only two ballots.

He immediately said he will meet
Pierre Trudeau today to discuss when
he will be sworn in as prime minister
but added he will take “‘several days”
to. work out who will be in his cabinet
and how large it will be.

The Castlegar and District Hospital
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out-patient revenue, Workers’ Com-
pensation Board admissions and a hef-
ty employees salary adjustment

The bulk of the operating surplus
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