A4 December 16, 1987 Castlegar News TREET TALK THE CO-OP garage completed renovations this month in preparation for the 1988 business year when it will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The garage covered its old two-tone green colors with a fresh coat of grey paint and some black trim. The Co-op also has a new sign and a new canopy. AIR BC is apparently interested in flying its Dash 7 into Nakusp. The Arrow Lakes News reports that Air BC has discussed the feasibility of including Nakusp several times a week on its Vancouver to Kelowna run. The Nakusp Chamber of Commerce has. circu. lated a questionnaire asking residents to indicate whether they would use the service. The company is interested provided there is demand for the passenger and freight service. AN interesting Kootenay connection to that West Germany hockey team which has been banned from wearing uniforms advertising the Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's ideology. It seems Nelson native Danny Gare played for the Iserlohn first division team embroiled in the controversy. Gare signed a one-year deal with the team last July. However, after only five weeks and before the start of the regular season the former NHLer returned home, apparently because the situation was not as attractive as he had been led to believe. Gare is now a broadcaster for the Buffalo Sabres. The controversy surrounds the team's players wearing uniforms advertising Gadhafi’s “Green Book” in which he outlines his philosphy. Iserlohn officials said the club was promised $900,000 from Libya for wearing the book ads. Iserlohn owes $3.5 million. But the team appears headed for bankruptcy after league officials banned the club from advertising the book. CASTLEGAR'S Joe Irving is profiled in the New i ine. Koot Donna Macdonald writes the article for the left-leaning bi-monthly from V The article focuses on Irving’s opposition to the sale of West Kootenay Power and Light Co, to USrbased UtiliCorp. Irving also contributes a review of the Jobs Not Charity concerts, STRAND AND Mosby Realty has taken out a lengthy lease on the old Shell Station on Columbia Avenue and will be converting it into office space. The gas tanks have been removed and extensive remodelling will be done to the building, which brains will be finished January, according to Ralph Strand. The building will provide more space than what the realtors need, so they will probably rent out some of the space. Strand’s lease stipulates that they cannot compete with the Woodland Park Shell station across the street so no gas, food, or car washes will be seen in the former Shell. TWO OF the region's ski areas were given a mention in a Vancouver Sun article on skiing. The article, written by Ron Truman for Press News, originated from Nelson and says the powder in the Kootenays is “so deep they ski with snorkels.” “Some powder buffs at Whitewater near Nelson actually do wear snorkels, claiming that the snorkels help them breathe when the powder swirls above their heads. Other skiers, it should be noted, snicker at the idea.” If that doesn't draw skiers to Whitewater, the next paragraph should: “No one can argue, however, that Whitewater does get world-class powder. It’s not unusual for skiers to feel the snow flow around their waist after a fresh fall of powder.” Red Mountain also gets a mention: “The bunny hill is steep enough to be included in World Cup races.” LOS ANGELES film critic Michael Wi describes Housekeeping, Bill Forsyth’s movie that opened the Vancouver International Film Festival in October, as “his first wholly American film.” That's interesting, because Forsyth shot the entire movie in B.C. — ~ most of it in the Nelson- “Castlegar area. goes on to say Coulter “helps Forsyth give Housekeeping a stark, elemental American purity — full of images of fire, flood, lake, forest, the wilderness swallowing up the bare houses of the town.” U.S. DROPS SOFTWOOD LUMBER TAX By NORMA GREENAWAY WASHINGTON — The Canadian and U.S. governments have agreed on the dropping of an export tax on softwood lumber shipments to the United States from British Columbia and the Maritime provinces, U.S. and Canadian officials said Tuesday. The agreement won't end the export tax of 16 per cent on shipments from any other province, although negotia- tions are continuing in an effort to reach a deal that would also exempt shipments from Quebec, said Washington-based U.S. and Canadian government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Canadian government imposed the tax on softwood exports to the United States last January as part of a deal designed to end the threat of stiff U.S. penalty duties being imposed on the imported lumber, worth about $4 billion Cdn a year. That agreement left open the poapibilty of the tax being i d if the that would raise the price of the amber phscetbad into the U.S. market enough to offset the full value of the 15-per-cent export tax. Stanley Dennison, head of a coalition of U.S. lumber companies that led the fight against imports of Canadian lumber, said he is pleased and Canadian and U.S. government officials will sign the agreement exempting British Columbia and the Maritimes from the export tax today in Washington. NOT ECSTATIC B.C. Forests Minister Dave Parker also said he is pleased an agreement has been reached. But he said he isn't entirely happy with the amount the United States is allowing British Columbia to rebate to producers. Since Jan. 1, Ottawa has collected from each of the producing provinces a 165-per-cent export tax. British Columbia shipped 8.8 billion board feet, worth more than $, billion Cdn, to the United States in 1986. On Oct. 1, the B.C. government began charging an AIR CANADA Tentati By JOHN MacKINNON Canadian Press Christmas travel plans for thousands of Canadians were revived when Air Canada and its machinists reached a tentative contract settlement early today, ending a bitter dispute that grounded the national carrier for nearly three weeks. The settlement was reached with the help of federal mediator Bill Kelly and is subject to a ratification vote. Air Canada and the union called on the workers to get the airline flying again as soon as possible. A return to work today would mean that the airline, which normally carries up to 40,000 passengers daily during the Christmas rush, could be in full operation Friday when school holidays begin, said airline spokesman Esther Szyn- karsky. It would take three days to get all the airline's 109 planes flying again, Szynkarsky said. The 8,500 mechanics, baggage handlers, ramp atten dants, cargo agents ie cleaners — members of the Inter- national A ii inists and A ps Workers —were locked out Nev. 27 when Air Canada president Pierre Jeanniot closed the airline following a series of rotating strikes by the union. Szynkarsky said no planes are expected to fly before Thursday, after final maintenance checks. Two hundred to 225 pilots and flight attendants would be placed in overseas and some domestic stations. ve pact Union chief negotiator Ron Fontaine said Air Canada gave in on the major issue of indexing pensions to inflation and in return got the union to agree to a three-year contract i fee and charging companies the cost of planting trees to replace the ones they cut. Those measures were aimed at replacing the 16-per-cent tax. The B.C. and New D have estimated the measures added about $20 million to $30 million a month to the province's general revenue. ie agreement anneunced Tuesday in Washington allows British Columbia to rebate forest companies the equivalent of either the tax or the provincial charges. But it doesn’t allow British Columbia to rebate the full amount of the double taxation to the companies. The agreement only allows the province to rebate re- with annual wage increase of four, four and five per cent. The union had earlier sought 12 per cent in a two-year contract. EXPECTS APPROVAL Fontaine said the ratification process will start next week and will take about two weeks. “I believe it will be sold to the membership.” Talks broke down twice over the union's demand that inflation protection be provided from excess interest generated by Air Canada's $2.5-billion pension fund. The airline had maintained that the workers would have to pay for indexation themselves. Szynkarsky said that by Thursday, the airline’s inter- national flights could be operating along with long-haul flights in Canada and those headed for the United States. Air Canada normally runs 450 to 475 flights daily and Szynkarsky said that with a prompt return to work most of the flights could be resumed by Friday. She said 102 of the airline's fleet of 109 planes are at their home bases and ready to fly, but the other seven are being serviced in various locations, including Dublin. It was unknown when they will be ready for service. During the shutdown, supervisory personnel did pre- ventive maintenance on the aircraft, starting them up regularly, for example, and doing spot checks. BLUEBERRY continued from front from their mills beginning Nov. 1 and to —— producers for shipments after Dec. 1. Parker said he would have liked earlier dates for rebating the taxes collected. HOLDS TALKS The agreement follows weeks of negotiations during which British Columbia and Quebec outlined their plans to U.S. Commerce Department officials for raising timber-cut- ting fees and other provincial charges to replace the tax. Dennjson said British Columbia's replacement measures “were deemed adequate ‘by the U.S. government and his coalition but Quebec's fell short of the mark and more negotiations were needed. Freedomite pair have to wait VANCOUVER (CP) — Two Sons of Freedom Douk- She said Braun is in slight- hobor women who ended a ly better condition than 107-day hunger strike earlier Jmaeff and is able to get this month will have to wait around in a wheelchair on her for their physical condition to own, while Jmaeff “requires improve before they are more assistance.” paroled, says a corrections They were paroled Dec. 2 official. after having an earlier parole Dianne Brown said Mon- application rejected on the day that Mary Braun, 67, and grounds they were still con- strength is coming back.” pege from Castlegar’s industrial park is not designed as a water line and is subject to freezing. “If there is a fire in the district, there would not be enough hose to fight it because they're using all our firehose,” he added. He called the line “woefully inadequate.” Meanwhile, Kavaloff said there is an intensive clean-up going on at the site they were going to try and bury the of the spill. C sand and gravel has been removed in and around the creek. Kavaloff said Tuesday that the Ministry of the Environment has agreed to improve the temporary waterline. “Today I received good news that ‘gency line,” Kavaloff said. He said he doesn't want to seem ungrateful for the emergency water line. “It’s not Castlegar's fault. They responded with all their resources and it certainly has helped. We tend to forget that sometimes,” he said. Our Sincere Thanks We are so grateful to our many friends in Castlegar for your encouragement, prayers and understanding during Bob's lengthy illness and recent passing. Bob drew great strength and comfort from your expressions of friendship during his struggle, and we are equally thankful for your support as we deal with our loss. God bless you all. 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