C4 cAstLeGar NEWS, September3, 1980 In the early ‘70s, the people of the West Kootenay area hada settled view of life and its responsibilities shat- tered when young people by the score — mainly from the United States — began to arrive and settle in the Slo- can Valley. Partially a back-to-the- earth movement, and parti- ally an anti-Viet Nam war rejection by draft-age Amer- ican males, the arrival of these young people in the Slocan Valley caused great concern to the “straight” community. Now, some 10 years later, most of the young people have left the area while those who remained are 10 years older (and, per- haps, 10 years wiser). Because of the likely in- terest in this area these two articles, both by Glenn Bohn, are reprinted from the Van- couver Sun. * . o “We began with a tran- sistor radio and a lid of grass. “We traded that for two baby goats and got a third . one from a friend who had one as a pet and had to do him in, but couldn't pull the trigger. “Then we traded one of the goats for three geese, and finally two geese and a goat for a horse. Now we have a goat, a goose, a horse, and somebody just gave us a cow — so if we could just get some more grass we'd have everything to keep this farm moving.” The quote appeared in -1972, ina Weekend Magazine story headlined: The New Pioneers. The story was a progress report on a youthful migration back to the coun- try, a movement that found new strength after the sum- mer of love had soured and the streets swelled with social activists. The verdict: In most areas of Canada, communes are still “getting it together,” but one region — the Sechelt Peninsula — “is at the van- guard of the Canadian com- munal movement.” The wri- ters estimated that 1,000 young people were living on the peninsula, creating things like the Legal Front Commune, the General Store and Funny Food Farm. Like other parts of B.C., the youths often received a chilly reception from long- time residents. On the Sun- shine Coast, reported The Vancouver Sun, the residents had banned hitch-hiking, re- fused to serve long-hairs in restaurants and generally were hostile to what the local newspaper called deadbeats, undesirables and, even worse, American draft dod- gers. Today, the communal movement appears to be in a downswing, having peaked in B.C. during the mid-1970s. When asked if there were any communes in his area, for example, a Sechelt RCMP of- ficer could offer only one lo- cation: at nearby Storn Bay, on Narrows Inlet. The late '60s and early "10s, says Herb Barbolet, who is documenting the move- ment, were years when young people discovered the realities of country life. it happened in the early ‘70's Looking at communes today “A lot of friends who went back to the land with groovy ideas discovered that a few seeds thrown into the ground didn’t provide enough food for the winter,” he says. “That wooden shack they built in the summer wasn't quite warm enough for the winter. Life in the country wasn't quite as sim- ple as they thought.” The diehards, now in their 30s and 40s, shake their heads and sigh at the “mater- ialistic’ generation that fol- lowed them. But both Barbolet and Terry Simmons, who ex- amined the back-to-the-land movement from afar, suggest some of the waning interest —— Back- to- the- land people are scattered through- out B.C. They live in well-known places and_ in remote places that few have heard of and fewer = still have visited. ———— can be attributed to rapidly increasing land prices, which makes it difficult for groups without savings to settle. When his university of Minnesota thesis was writ- ten, Simmons found the typical price for unimproved, land was between $2,000 and $3,000 an acre. (Today the price in most areas is double, and in some places, triple that, movement believe in tho virtues of rural life, wish to establish new, often alter- native communities, and seek to achieve social and econ- omic self-sufficiency and in- dependence,” he wrote. The movement is di- verse. There are religious groups, such as Hare Krish- na, with rigidly defined beliof systems and highly ritualized daily routines. By contrast, there are less structured groups whose. philosophies encourage divergent think- ing. Political ideology prompts some groups to head back to the country. Other groups are. apolitical and don’t bother with long, kit-. chen debates. Still more band together because of similar sexual ori- entation or artistic interests, And there are others who simply find they enjoy the land and are capable of living cooperatively. Despite the stereotype, Simmons says not all resi- dents are “white, middle- class refugees from big cities.” But, regardless of an individual's socio-economic background, he says, the back-to-the-land movement has drawn upon the re- sources of an educated, arti- culate and versatile middle “The level of education, for instance, is quite high due. to the large number of ‘dop-out’ professionals, al- though doctoral degrees and to the B.C. Land Assessment Authority.) Today, he says, the movement is larger than most people think, because its members are less visible and blend into the d other p are usually left in the city. “There is a tree planter on Vancouver Island who has a Ph.D in chemistry, an elec- trician in the Gulf Islands with a Ph.D. in philosophy, a ing communities after a few years. Others suggest the movement will: continue to survive because evolved and matured. Lesbian feminists. The Emissaries of Divine Light. Environmentalists. Quakers. People with all lifestyles and perspectives continue to | stake their claim in the land. There have been obitu- aries recently for the so-, called back-to-the-land move- ment of the late 19603 and early '70s. Yet at least 23 experiments in land owner- ship — or communes — are alive and well and thriving in .C. About the most up to date, comprehensive infor mation on B.C. communes comes from Terry Simmons, who wrote a little-known doctoral thesis for the Uni- versity of Minnesota. The title: But We Must Cultivate Our Garden — Twentieth Century Pioneering in Rural British Columbia. Over a three-year per- iod, Simmons said in an in- terview, he visited commun- | it has | former who operates a campground and a former designer of missiles who is a farmer.” At Erlington, north of Parksville, a small group of lesbian feminists own about 20 acres of land. : Oh Hornby Island, about 10 people got together and purchased 80 acres of prime land. Some of the land owners, like a well estab- lished potter. who built a. studio, live there perman- ently, 7 At Lund, near Egmont on the Sechelt Peninsula, families have built cabins on jointly owned land. At Refuge Cove, near Campbell River on Redonda Island, about 20 people have lived as a community for seven years. Their store sells supplies to fishing boats. These are some of the experiments in joint owner- ship located in the Georgia Strait region, identified by Herb Barbolet, 48. He's working on a Ph.D. thesis that examines alternative technology and economics, including lifestyle experi- ments like communes. Barbolet says joint ownership of land is _ still common in the province, and is thriving in specific regions, like the Kootenays. Within these regions, there are smaller pockets of concentra- tion. 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VOL. 33, NO. 38 35 Cents fa ad “Three Segtions (/A, B & C) i Castlegar desperately needs more space to house a library, chairman of the - library board Dr. Roy Ward said Friday. ."Conditions are so cram- ped at the downtown branch we have four people working in an office about eight feet by 10 feet square. “To adequately provide for the. growing population of the city, about 10,000 sq. ft. are needed. The two bran- ches now total 3,000 sq. ft.,” Wardsaid. : "We have a very current library. We obtain books faster than. many other libraries. If a new best seller comes out, we've got it,” said Word. - However, that fact. means the book population is growing ata’ rate of 200 to ‘300 per month and. there just isn't the space for them, head librarian Judy Wear- mouth said. : Ward said the provincial government will make a grant of $500,000 towards the building of improved facilities so long as there is proof of public support of the project. : Normally the provincial government will. provide one-third of the costs: Ward said, but:-explained, the ex- treme space shortage put -vGastlegar-under special. ci cumstances. American beer allowed into “It’s been a long time.” A long time since local bars and the liquor store have been able to bring in beer. But a cabinet decision allowing licensed premises to, order what they want directly from U.S. breweries should bring a flood of American beer into the province. Just when the affects of the decision will be felt locally is not yet known. - A liquor store spokesman said they “have heard rumors” but have no idea f aa ibrary needs s A letter was forwarded to : city council from the library ‘board requesting the issue be taken to referendum in the fall, Ward said. Council did receive the let- ter.and Mayor Audrey Moore said she expects it will be dealt with in the near future. “| sympathize and em- phasize with the library board and users of the library. The library does. * need new quarters,” Moore said. ; The letter has not ap- peared before council yet because " ... this is an issue that is better to have © the full concurrence or denial of council. Summer is a bad time with ‘council members being away,” More said, The Sept. 9 meeting of council “'...... will have a - bare quorum, se it is unlikely : the issue will be brought up then," Moore added. Other reasons for waiting on the: letter is council is waiting to hear about. the possibility of obtaining the land, currently: utilized by forestry, for.a civic centre. “We're waiting for. things to: gel,” Moore said. "We're waiting to hear. if funds: will be available thraugh’ the ministry of municipal affairs. |” We want to hear the u .on the community plan: acnntiWeld:be~ foolish: notstox—+ build the library ,. now. dry. province backed the LRB. order. z Under the order-in-council, licensed owners can place special orders effect- ive today with the Liquor Distribution ‘Branch ‘for products not listed in government liquor stores, said LDB general manager Bob Wallace. He said the orders will likely be for cans of American beer such as Rainier, Olympia, Olympia Gold and Schlitz, which liquor stores only list in bottle containers. ; s There are no limits to the quantity of beer that can be ordered under the new i If the U.S, breweries when they will be of imported suds. The cabinet decision was blasted by brewery workers’ spokesman John Langley and B.C. Government Em- ployees Union head John Fryer who cannot meet the B.C. demands, the liquor distribution branch may ration the beer imports, Wallace said.’ Prior to the supply disruption caused “last week by pickets around the LDB's h the LDB had been allocat- charged that the pi govern- ment's decision severely undermines the locked-out brewery workers’ posi- tion, while adding to government revenues. The unionists had been trying to dry up ali B.C. beer imports so that the . hard-hit hotel and hospitality industry ing beer to licensed businesses accord- ing to each firm's 1979 beer sales. Ten cases of a dozen beer were allowed to firms in the lowest category while 90 cases were rationed to those in the highest category, said Wallace. He said it's probable that Washing- ton State will receive the would put pi on the gt to intervene and help settle the provincial brewery lock-out. ‘ ‘The unionists repeated charges that the government was “ripping off” the public by continuing to charge a 100-per-cent markup on imports. They said there would be no pressure on the B.C. breweries to settle the dispute because they could recapture the market with lower’ prices on a 60-per-cent markup whenever the dispute is settled. - ‘The unionists have recommended all along that the government reduce the markup on imports to the domestic level for the duration of the dispute. Fryer said the new regulations could lead to a request by the brewery union for a “hot” edict by the B.C. Federation of Labor. The unionists scheduled a meeting with the central labor body today. . f Said Langley: “It’s obvious the Liquor Distribution Branch and the ministry of consumer and corporate affairs have declared war on us. The decision gives the LDB a chance to earn excessive profits at the expense of our workers.” Labor board chairman Don Munroe | last week ordered the brewery work- ers union to remove its pickets from the LDB's Euclid Street warehouse. The workers initially refused but later bowed when the B.C. Supreme Court most special orders since low trans- portation costs make their beer cheap- er than most other American brands, He said the special imports will be transported directly from U.S. brewer- ies to the licensed operators. * He said the new imports could arrive as early as next week. but added it would. take the LDB.a few days to prepare for the expected demand. CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SEPTEMBER 7, 1980 Ultimately we're going to need it. A few years down the road it costs that many times more. ‘It's not getting cheaper: If we lose this grant it will be more of a burden later,” Wardsaid. °. * Ward added .. that Castlegar's growing size and with proposed Cominco and Celgar expansions, it would. be “foolish” to build.a library of less than 10,000 sq. ft. . ‘With ‘many more: people THIS. three-year ‘above the Castlegar-fe! breaking into ‘ga trapiwas set-for-the pace — - children’s moving in, a:smaller library would be obsolete.” Ward estimates a library would cost $650,000 (based on a cost of $65 per square foot), “If we have to buy land as . well that might run. an ad- ditional $200,000," he said. The proposed facility - include a large area, public 4 would audio-visual aids and . microfilms, The library is currently financed through municipal taxes and provincial grants -and “so far. all our grants have had to go towards paying rent. for our buildings,” Ward said. Rent for the two facilities runs $6,000 yearly. : meeting room, quiet reading room and services such as “the: apartmen “And. ‘insu on the Kin- naird branch’ is extremely Jard, Moore — high. Books are highly flam- mable and there is an Upholataty store next door,” Ward sald. ! Ward’ added the library facilities are very. well used by Castlegar citizens. “A third of: the people in this‘city are members of the library. And:! believe if we expanded the facilities, we'd draw ‘more members from places. like Robson and Blueberry,” he added. @ Compost heaps should be ‘bears that are caught this season willbe The Women’s Access p at Selkirk College has suffered the same fate as the majority of similar pro- grams in community colleges around the province. z Funding will not be provided for the prog to inue this year and coordinator Vita Storey believes “it is a waste of funding to finance the program for nine months, get every- one’s expectations up, then cut the program.” Of seven similar programs in the province only two or three are still functioning, Storey. said. Selkirk’s. course began last year and was funded through a grant ‘for three months. After that expenses Teachers ask for increase B.C.’s 28,000 teachers are seeking an 18 per cent wage increase and improvements ‘in working conditions, Al Blakey,’ president of the BCTF, announced. , “Our teachers are taking a very hard look at the extent to which their salaries have been eroded in recent years,” Blakey said. “The average salary increase of 9.6 per cent that we won jast year has already been wiped out by inflation and there's obviously more inflation to come.” : The teachers want their assigned classroom hours to be specified in ‘contracts with their school boacd employers.’ They also want a lunch period free of supervision duties. Blakey’ announced the teacher's objectives following a four-day con- ference of bargaining representatives _ BCRIC purchase B.C. Resources Investment Corp.'s offer to get control of Kaiser Resources Ltd. by paying $55 a share — 70 per cent above market price — for its stock had brokers “flabbergasted.” On the market,; BORIC shares dropped from $7.05 when halted Wed- nesday to $6.85 today while Kaiser shares, halted Tuesday at $92.36, zoomed to $53.50. Many brokers saw it as a deal which “basically gives money to Kaiger;” nowhere close to a bargain;” “a deal that doesn’t make sense;” or at best one that eventually may turn out fine — if anybody waits around long enough, : But BCRIC president David Helli- well argued that other companies had made similar purchases at 100 per cent and more over market price and later turned a profit. : It is expected Kaiser's largest shareholder; 10 Japanese steel, mills, will not sell, leaving BCRIC to pay $620 million for 60-per-cent ownership. The BCRIC offer is $11 a share more than an option it failed to exercise in April and it is this, plus the comparison to the market price, which makes the brokers boggle. Helliwell argues that the market price is not always the true worth. of the company and that BCRIC wants a majority position — not the minority which the $44 option would have provided. from most of the federation’s 79 local. bargaining ‘units. ‘The d the “The School Act stipulates that teachers and. school r may iate only ‘salaries and bonuses,’ economic climate, recent wage settle- ments in, other industries and the relative position of teacher's salaries and working conditions compared to those of other workers before setting objectives. “We concluded at our conference that a package of objectives amounting to about 18 per cent of current salaries was both reasonable and justifiable.” Blakey explained that teachers are now the only group of organized workers who do not have the bargain- ing rights that trade unions have long had under the Labour Code. “Too many matters that should be on the bargaining table are either prescribed by statute or left to the ‘discretion of the school boards,” he said. and boards have traditionally applied a very narrow interpretation of. ‘bo- nuses.’ They have generally refused to negotiate things such as leave, tenure or grievance procedures or conditions in the workplace. “The solution to this problem may not come about until the act is changed, and we're pressing for that to be done. In the meantime, we believe that hours of assigned instructional time and the provision of a lunch period without supervisory duties are clearly matters that properly belong on the bargaining table.” The package of objectives that Blakey outlined is being recommended to the federation’s local associations. Blakey pointed out that each local is More on A3 fomen’s access program cut were picked up by ‘the college, she , added. Storey.said during the first few months ker goal was to develop credibility for the program. Once the program became better established many women -utilized its services, Storey added. Information and counselling ser- vice for women “seeking guidance and help” as well as a variety of courses . designed for women were provided through the program. ° The courses included everything from “assertiveness, life planning, self defense, and health.” Counselling ser- vices were established on a drop-in basis. The course fell under the com- : munity ‘education program and needed about $86,000 to continue this year. ~ “I was regionally involved and ively throughout the . West Kootenays,” Storey added. As the services developed throughout the year “quite a few women” utilized them, Storey said. Assertiveness classes and counselling services were popular. “Even now I get calls from people asking me for assistance in whatever area. There is a need for sure,” Storey said. Storey holds a degree in. psy- ” chology, a teaching certificate, bach- elor of social work and has counselling experience, Fy (Gere ee) You're Getting INSIDE "WATERLOO' «Page B2 Page BS Conclusion of Britain's Incredible Boy Spy Page AS Pulpit and Pew. Showbiz. .... Vital Statistics. Wedding Bell: Writer's Der My Answer. Your Stars. ». WHEN YOU COMPLIMENT HIM ON THE GOOD JOB: DID TYING HIS TIE. ©1980 King Festures Syndicate, Inc. ye24