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CASTLEGAR

Wednesday
June 10, 1992

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@ OUR PEOPLE

It was out with the not-so-old
and in with the new at the Miss
Castlegar Pageant Friday.
While all of the 10 contestants
were winners, only one could
take home the crown.

page 9

@ LOCAL SPORTS

The 1992 Sunflower Open
attracted some 228 golfers to
the Castlegar Golf Club.
Among them was Randy Kirby,
who returned to his roots to
take the 1992 title.

page 15

@ ARTS & LEISURE

Jason Peil has long been in-
terested in steamships. Not
one to sit idle, Peil put pencil to
paper and paint to acrylics,
capturing the images of many
famous Kootenay boats for all
the public to see.

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Castlegar crowning. This year, 17-year-old Jennifer Ford will represent the city as

News photo by Jonathan Green

The News is No. 1

NEWS STAFF

The Castlegar News is No. 1.

The newspaper you’ve come home to
for 45 years has won three first-place
awards at the prestigious Canadian
Community Newspaper Association an-
nual awards. :

“T’m thrilled,” News’ publisher Dave
McCullough said. “I’m really excited
about this and I’d really like to thank my
fellow co-workers who have made this
possible.”

The News was judged to be the best
overall tabloid newspaper in Canada in
its circulation category of 3,500 to 4,999.,
ahead of the 100 Mile House Free Press
and the Banff Crag and Canyon. With
the victory, The News will also be award-
ed with the Atlantic Community News-

paper Association Trophy.

The News also took top prize in two
other categories, winning the Lloydmin-
ster Meridian Booster Trophy for the
Best Front Page and the Eastern Graph-
ic Trophy for the Best Editorial Page.

The News also received a Blue Ribbon
Award for General Excellence, one of
nine to be presented in the Class 10 cir-
culation category.

“I just think this is fantastic and I’d
really like thank the community for
sticking with us,” McCullough said.
“Without their support and involve-
ment, there would be no way that we
could have become the No.1 newspaper
in Canada.”

The News will be presented with its
awards at the CCNA convention in Ed-
monton on June 27.

STRIKE

BEGINS

Mi PPWC workers walk off the job
leaving Celgar at a standstill

Scott David Harrisor
EDITOR

Celgar’s 325 unionized workers have
walked off the job.

At 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, members of
the Pulp and Paperworkers of Canada
Local 1 traded work gloves for picket
signs, making Celgar the second mill in
the province to be shutdown. On Friday,
Weyerhauser Canada Ltd. in Kamloops
was hit with a walkout.

: =] “We didn’t jump
| the gun,” a uniden-
tified PPWC
spokesperson said.
: : “We were in a legal

—~ : strike position and
we have exercised that right.”

The walkout came moments after the
PPWC and the Canadian Paperworkers
Union released figures Tuesday, saying
89 per cent of the province’s 12,000 pulp
workers rejected a two-year deal which
called for 95 cent per hour raises and the
elimination of one statutory down day.

The strike vote was even higher at
Celgar, as the latest Pulp and Paper In-
dustrial Relations Bureau offer was re-
jected by a 95 per cent majority.

PPWC president Stan Shewaga said
he played no role in Lecal 1 strike action.
Instead, Shewaga said, the Castlegar-
based Local walked after reaching an
impasse with Celgar management on in-
dependent issues.

Celgar Human Resources Manager
Al Blessin confirmed that “there were a
number of issues” to be resolved between
Local 1 and the Castlegar operation. He
said talks between the two broke off by
11:20 a.m. Tuesday, after which the
union served strike notice.

Another walkout is expected take
place in Cranbrook today, followed by
B.C.’s remaining 17 mills on Monday.

Neither management nor the two
unions will speculate on the length of a
possible strike.

“T have no idea how long this could
last,”.Blessin said. “My crystal ball is
cracked, bruised and all the vapor has

More strike

. Tun out of it.”

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