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Airport improvements
may mean emergency
night service

Sun Editor
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agreed to take a look at the request,

Wednesday, November 9, 1994

The Castlegar Sun

Recent report strives for greater adoption openness

greater ad

Sun Editor

Society is leaving the era where
children given up for adoption
‘were secrets tucked away in their

mothers hearts, never to be

‘The provi Air
Service is looking into initiating

from Castlegar Airport.
In a written report to Casth

can provide assurances
that the flights will be safe.
“At the present time the

council last week, John Hall,
Chairman of the Castlegar Air-

“A more effective runway

system and a more pre-
cise means of navigation to and
from the airport is also required,”
Hall reported.

However, he pointed out that

“We also have runway retro-
flective which are

effective for final approach and

‘He said he has approached
Mike Sealey, manager of
Flight O;

Hal said the airport advisory

son ee ee

ment assess the airport opera-

ity C
y

has ap
Ambulance Service, which has

the B.C. tional capability for after-dark

emergency evacuations.

City could handle airport ownership—Hall

masa

Sse cole ed mae ea

The chairman of the Castlegar Airport

However, John Hall also wams that before
the city takes over the airport from Transport
Canada, it must ensure the facility won't be a
“financial drain on the community.”

Hall points out in a written report to council
that the airport is running an operating deficit
of $500,000 a year.

Under the new National Airports Policy,
regional airports like Castlegar will be trans-
ferred to local is over a fir

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vice will be adjusted to meet demand and
existing user fees and charges will be applied
more widely.”

He suggests Ottawa may introduce new
user fees for specific capital projects and oper-
ating Costs.

“These measures will be necessary to assist
airports in becoming self-; sufficient and in

Castlegar airport will be transferred to a
local satecky On aie pane 2000, be added
This wouldn't be the first time the airport
would be locally owned and
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A total of 111 people are employed in vari-
ous jobs at the airport—10 with Transport
Canada. The rest are employed with two
major air carriers, three training schools, a

pter service, Flight Service and Environ-

period.
To make the policy work, Hall said the feder-

ment Canada, others.

-More than 85,000 passengers use the air-
Pott annually and Hall estimates the ifipact on
the community is $11 million a year. "

Vandals trash Crescent Valley boxes

SUN STAFF

Nelson RCMP estimate that
to mailboxes and sign
posts in the Krestova/Crescent
Valley area could run into the
thousands of dollars.
It appears that vandals decid-
ed to carry out their attacks on
November 1, the night after

chief to property in the 4050
block of Krestova Road. They
found that a tire had been
placed in the northbound lane
and set ablaze. Three ncarby
group mailboxes had been
tipped over and dispersed on the
roadway. Two Andex Equip-
ment warning signs had also
been placed at cither end of the
roadway and spray painted.

The Crescent Valley fire
di ded the scene

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GRAND OPENING

and extinguished the tire fire,
though two hours later a second
fire was located at the comer of
Gander Road and Krestova
(Cemetery Road.

Police say an accelerant had
also been poured over more
group mailboxes im that area and
were set on fire. The fire to these
caused minimal

Police stepped up patrols in the
Crescent Valley area and found
that vandals had also sprayed var-

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ious local road signs and in one
case broke a signpost. Group mail
boxes at Krestova Road and Cen-
terplace Road intersection were
also painted.

Sergeant D.K. Lewis of the
Nelson detachment said police
are actively investigating the
matter and requests that anyone
who has information regarding
the vandalism should call
RCMP as soon as possible.

Thieves fail
in bid for
coin boxes

Thieves tried, but they just
couldn't open coin boxes on the
laundry machines at Caldset

Castlegar police say
there was damage to the coin
boxes sometime between
November 4 and 5, the thieves
were unsuccessful at grabbing
the coins. Police are still investi-

even when the birth moth-

“er married and had other children.

The result is a new, more open
[approach to not only adoption
chil-

recommendations for consid-
“eration that will allow greater
freedom surrounding all facets

of
the adoption issue.

‘The Castlegar Pull Circle Sup-
port Group was one of several
hundred community-based advo-
cacy groups who have, in the
past, petitioned government for

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Nannette Akselson, a member
of the Castlegar group who, at the
age of 16, gave her son Thomas
up for adoption while still living
in Winnipeg, Manitoba, says she
agrees with many of the reports
recommendations. “The biggest
thing is to get rid of all the secre-
cy involved. There is no way that
the truth about an adoption can
be as destructive as the secret.”

Akselson has been attempting
to begin an ‘active search’ for her
now 18-year-old son. She has
recently been told that she must
wait for her son to register his
name in Winnipeg, clearly stating
he also wants to locate her.

It may take months or years to
find him, and even if she does
locate ‘Thomas’, she may have to

live with the fact that he might
not want to meet her at all.

“It's a chance I have to take,
but if I have to wait for him to
register ... It may be something
he never thinks of doing.”

Secrecy

particularly in non-aboriginal
originates in part in the

or never been adopted.

If an adult risen wanted to
begin a search for his or her real
parents, then the adoption was
considered a failure. This
Shouldn't be the case, states the
report, since it is natural for a
Person to want a greater sense of
identity. Many people who con-
tributed information to the report,

propor
tions, and many people believed
that it was better for such chil-
dren to start life with a ‘clean
slate’. It was believed that these
children were being rescued from
a fate worse than death. The
secrecy was also meant to hide an
adopting couple's infertility, if
that was their reason for adopt-
ing. For the birth mother and
adopting parents therefore, the
child had either never been born

d their need
for knowledge to be whole and to

be able to place themselves in
some kind of biological context.

Akselson said the Castlegar
group will continue to watch for
recommendations, and hopes that
those which promote openness of
adoption records be made law
sooner than later.

“No one should have to beg for
information — the adoptee or the
birth parents — the information
should just be made available.

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champions openness

It started out over an afternoon coffee where two women shared
painful histories of relinquishing a child. Today, the Full Circle
Birth Support Group has more than a dozen members, and has been
actively ng the provi I and federal g to allow
for greater op and ibility to adop records.

Member Nannette Akselson says the support group has expanded
membership to not ay include parents. of relinquished children,
but as well. The and anyone is wel-
come to attend at no cost.

“We basically share stories. Talk about things that have happened
in the past. We talk about the system and the harsh way it dealt with
unwed mothers.”

But Akselson reminds that the support group is as much for men
as it is for women. Some of the participants are in various stages of
searches for the now adult children. Some have been reunited.
Other have met bad news.

“One woman in our group was searching for her son and she
found out he was dead. She is now unable to find out the circum-
stances surrounding his death or even where he’s buried. I think
that’s disgusting,” said Akselson, refferring to a process that is still
highly secretive.

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