é Maa Saree Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristiansen joined Nelson- Creston NDP MLA Lorne and 10° other intervenors at a federal hearing in Nakusp last week in objecting to CPR’s application to abandon the line between Roseberry and Nakusp. ‘Train cars are ferried on Slocan Lake between Rose- berry and Slocan City. Four years ago CPR was ordered for the second time to maintain the service for up to five years with a federal subsidy paying all acceptable losses. In a court-like atmosphere in the Nakusp Legion Hall May 2, CPR officials presented their case for abandonment under questioning by a company lawyer, and were then cross-examined by intervenors in front of the Canadian Transportation Commission's Rail Transport Committee Kristiansen asked CPR executives how they expected mobile homes and other large traffic to face an increasing number of trucks carrying poles and pilings up to 35-metre long past the Cape Horn Bluffs just north of Slocan City where the single-lane highway hugs a 300-metre cliff. That route was pointed to by CPR as the alternative to rail shipment of the Nakusp-made poles. Kristiansen then questioned CPR’s track maintenance. We’re 600 Store Strong! WE’RE BULGING WITH APPLIANCES Refrigerators 15, 16 and 17 cu. ft. Your choice, only ............0 222 eee eee Chest Freezers 20 cu: ft. with 3” walls;only sia cic eis eres 6 6 es eases 6s eeeew ores *Bome ties hive rotted to the point of turning back te dust,” Kristi ‘ His ane valstebeid later in the day when Commissioner D.H, Chapman of the Transportation Commission brought out a spike and spoke with feeling. “This is a track spike as you know,” Chapman said to the CP Rail witnesses. “I pulled it out myself by hand ., . right outside here. I would suggest that a train going to pick up shingles might not come back. Maybe something (main tenance) should be done in 1984 so you have a track to work on in 1985.” With the audience chuckling, Chapman said, “There is no planned maintenance in 1984. In some areas there won't be a rail line to maintain. If the parts close to this town are an indication of what's been done since 1968, it won't last very long “So I won't be accused of stealing railway property, I'll return this spike,” Chapman concluded to the audience's delight. “I know exactly where I got it.” Accepted losses by the CPR on the line in 1982 alone were $500,417, which was paid directly to the rail firm by the federal government on order of the Rail Transport Com. ALL WAREHOUSE STOCK OF Portable Dishwashers Spectacular Offer! All models. Your choice ...... might require rail transport. a CPR ‘officials found themselves on. the defensive re- peatedly as intervenors at the hearing as well as commis- sioners questioned Canadian Pacifie’s efforts to generate business on the line. “What is being done to enpourage local people here like Mr. Chernoff (of Chernoff Bros. Sawmill) to use CP facilities more than they actually use them?” asked Commissioner J.L. Bourret of Quebec. “Would your department then just be satisfied to be quoting rates to potential customers and leave it at that?” CPR officials countered with details of their contacts with local businesses, but at least one commissioner reacted to show his doubts. “With all due respect,” Bourret said to CPR officials, “this is not the impression I retain from the questions put to you by Mr. Cumerford from B.J. Carney (pole and pile ; “He says you have never contacted him pergonally . ve that the only. reason he's doing business with you is that he has no choice for shipping bis logs. “What are you (CPR) doing to upgrade s! nts in and out of ©. Bourret d. “I don’t see much about the effort to create the market or to do an actual sales job to the people of this area to use CP facilities.” When CPR officials defended their marketing efforts, Bourret pressed on, pointing out that the mandate of the committee is in part to determine whether the rail line might be needed in the future. “You have to convince me and my fellow commissioners that you have made all kinds of efforts possible to render this line economically feasible. You have to convince me that it will not be economic to operate this line in years to come. Convince me that it will not become economic to operate.” In addition to briefs,presented by Kristiansen and Nicolson, presentations were made by the Nakusp and District Chamber of Commerce, B.J. Carney and Company, the IWA, Upper Lakes Economic Development Society. $795 $499 Kristiansen cautiously optimistic about rail line By CasNews Staff Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristiansen is expressing cautious optimism about the future of rail service to Nak. usp following a federal hear- ing last week in that town. “Commissioners of the Canadian Transportation Commission's Rail Transport Committee were tough in their attitude toward Can- adian Pacific Railway on the issues of maintenance and pursuing . business on the Nakusp line,” Kristiansen said after the hearing. In his brief to the hearing, Kristiansen said abandon- ment of the line from Rose- berry to Nakusp would have grave i ating spin-off employment, benefits, nor profits.” “Appearing before the Rail Transport Committee on be- half of a town threatened with losing its only rail link feels more like attending trial of that communit; Kristiansen told the commis- sion. “Through no fault of the Canadian Transportation Commission, intervenors feel they are defending the honor of the community, arguing that it deserves the’ service, has earned it through loyalty to the railway, and that bus- inesses have not broker{ trust by daring at times use truck service when that was ces for Nakusp. He told the hearing that economicaily, the community depends on rail service. He said a 1981 economic study of the Nakusp area listed only five manufacturing indus. tries. Four of the five are threatened by removal of rail access. “The jobs that might be lost would be a major blow in a community where there are perhaps 900 jobs in the labor force,” he said. “An esti of rail-served less exp or more con- venient,” Kristiansen said, “Nakusp, of course, is not on trial,” he said. “And neither are those businesses which have, in whole or in part, reluctantly turned to trucking some of their goods. “The key question before us today is whether their businesses still require rail service for the balance of their shipments and whether the maintenance of this op- tion is economically vital to the village and the area's industry threatened by abandonment suggests that some five to 10 per cent of Nakusp’s jobs could be lost at a cost to the small local economy of approximately $20,000. annually per job (a conservative estimate), that multiplies out to between future.” Having looked at the pres- ent rail needs of each of the shippers using the service at present, Kristiansen said he cline in rail use in and out of Nakusp, we cannot put aside the history of the situation,” he said. “While we seem to have a current CPR ‘super- intendent who is often willing to go out of his way to satisfy shipper's needs, we also have a history of CPR warning openly of pending line clo- sure, discouraging a number of businesses from locating in Nakusp.” Kristiansen said other bus- inesses add possible aband- onment to their current problems and “just give up.” “They have or may be about to consider closing down as a result,” he said. Kristiansen said that be- fore the current CPR man ager came on the scene, in January 1983, the service problem was “so bad” that Chernoff Brothers Sawmill had to file a formal complaint with the Rail Transport Committee to obtain the cars and delivery needed. “None of these factors has encouraged any existing or potential shippers at Nak- usp,” Kristiansen noted. “Add to this the reality of the economic situation across the continent and we have a doom-and-gloom scenario that should hardly cause us to expect to see even the level of rail demand enjoyed here four years ago.” is i of the need for CPR service, re- gardless of the fact that the proven need may be rela- Kr went on to say that another temporarily un- settling factor is the recur- ring shutdown of Westar's $529 $900,000 and $1,800,000 in wages per year, not calcul- Luxury Sleep Sets by Simmons 54’’, 512 coil, deeply quilted mattress and box spring. 2-pce. set Queen-Size Sets As above, 2-pce. set .......... 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Since October 1983 they've made a unique type of jam that uses honey rather than sugar, and contains no preservatives. “The difference between our jam and other companies’ jams is that (their's) is sweet —we use 30 per cent honey, they use 66 per cent sugar,” says jam-maker Micki Mitchell. The women at the Nelson Women's Centre originally decided to start their own business after learning about a Local Employment Iniatives Program —a federal scheme designed to provide funding for those wanting to start new businesses. They eventually thought up three ideas far possible business venture: making children’s furniture, obtaining ethy} alcohol from artichokes (for use as a fuel), and making jam. The women carried out feasibility studies on each of the projects. They decided the slump in the lumber industry made the furniture business idea unpractical, and that making fuel from artischokes was too expensive. Making jam got the go-ahead. More studies were conducted on the potential for starting a jam-factory in the area — taking a total of six months, and $29,000 in government funding, according to Garth Greatheart, one of the directors for the 13-woman collective that runs the business. By fall of last year, the women were experimenting with developing their own jam recipes in their newly-built mini-factory with stained-wood siding. Emma's Jambrosia had researchers at the Agri cultural Canada Research Centre in Summerland develop a basic jam recipe, which the women have since improved. “We've changed it since then,” explained Mitchell “We've changed some of the lemon consistency, and the pectin.” Emma's uses a “special fruit pectin” from Denmark which allows the fruit to be cooked very quickly, giving the jam a distinctively fruity taste masked in other jams that use a longer cooking process, more sugar, and preservatives, said Mitchell. Not only is their jam different — Emma's is run by an all-women collective that makes all major decisions by consensus. And so far, this process has worked, said Mitchell. The idea of having women-only working at Emmas's was intentional, she added. “The idea was to create work for women . . . We're low on the totem pole when it comes to employment.” And the atmosphere at Emma's Jambrosia isn’t the typical of most factories. The workers don't whistle while they work. But they do sing . . and dance. “We do it all the time,” said Mitchell. “It sets up a rhythm. We really get going, especially Sophia and Heather. We get a tape-recorder and we bring music in and dance. I love to dance.” Emma's has been and still is receiving federal funding, but is working towards a goal of complete self-sufficiency. “We're not making money now,” said Mitchell. “We'll be breaking even at the end of this year, and then in another year we will surely be making money.” Greatheart stresses that the business isn't just another government-funded make-work project. She said in the year-and-a-half before the business started, the women involved in the project worked for no wages. “It's not just government money given to a bunch of women who don’t know anything,” she said, adding that the business is as “successful as we thought it would be,” based on forecasts made in the original feasibility study. Every day, an average of about 50 cases of jam are made and the factory plans to expand its capabilities to 120 cases a day, said Mitchell. VANCOUVER FOUNDATION GRANT APPLICATIONS jbursement Committee for Castlegar in pplicati grant purposes. 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