{ Castlegar News March 5, 1989 -Births & Funerals BIRTHS -DE FRIAS — To Arthur and Monica de Frias of Trail, @ boy, born Feb. 7 McGIVERN To Linda, McGivern of Castlegs 23 a boy, born Feb. 23 McLENNAN To Don and Kathiryn McLennan of Trail ‘@ boy born Fel PLAA To. Steve ‘and Kathy Ploo of Rossland, 9 girl, born Jan, 25. SALIKEN — To Jol hn and Lynn Solikeg ¢ Edmonton 2 @ boy, born Feb. 28 Drew Standidge and aboy, born Feb, 23 STANDIDGE Ruth Kerr of Robso! TURNER — To Dennis and Lenore Turner of Rossland, a girl, born Feb. 18 DEATHS CHAPMAN — Daniel Dean Chapman of Nelson died suddenly Feb, 23 at age 41 Mr. Chapman enjoyediflying ond having coffee with his many friends who he en joyed helping. He attended the Bethe! Christion Centre a GUGLIOTTA — Edward George Gugliot ta of Nelson died suddenly Feb. 22 at age 17, Funeral service was held Feb. 28 af the Cathedra! of Mary Immaculate with Father Wayne Ptliger as celebrant Cremation followed HICKS —. Friedo Pauline Hicks, beloved wife of Bill Hicks of Slocan, passed away Feb. 27 in Kootenay Lake District Hospital at age 54. Mrs. Hicks loved her family and grandchildren and enjoyed her flowers and hunting: trips graveside service was held March 2 from the Slocan Cemetery with Rev, Calvin Americans want better health care By SHERYVE UBELACKER ORONTO (CP) — Almost 90 per \ Job openings Details of these and other job oppor tes are available Trail Canada Employment Centre 835 Spokone Street Phone 368-5566 Apprentice or certified hairdressers Structural Ironworkers ugoing requirement t cooks & foodservers. Wages are $4.50 1 service person/oudio visual epsirer re Wage is $1,500 per certitied auto mechanic is required ail__The employer will consider s it they have a year or more of ed. (45 tully expe jenced Travel Agent Minimum ¢ ¢ Wage js negotioble 52 ell experienced glezier Wage is $8 per hour and up g on experience. (6 heat & frost insulator is needed for a 2 Must have extensive ex s removal. (64 age is $14, hour ectitied millwrights are required in ‘ary work tha’ s. $17.03, hour ge 89 applications are now a1 the Canada Employment adline date is March 10, 1969. ese cary MAP, seniors AUTOMOTIVE DIRECTORY 1507 Columbie Ave Castleger, B.C. COMPUTERIZED ALIGNMENTS Call 365-2955 “Wayling. The Handwriting ducted the Harris polling orgar n WANT CHANGE 58 pe Fleming receives . pin Zone Helen presented Dorothy Fleming with her past president pin and medal Carol Him was installed into the executive. Dorothy MacPherson was presented with her 35 year pin commander Leduc 00 to the Variety Club Telethon and $125 to the Old. Time Fiddlers The LA's Valentine was a great success with everyone en Marg Heard won the door prize and Gordon_Ferguson won the cake. The LA donated s Coffee Party joying themselves The group enjoyed the music and singing provided by Dick Analysis ding given by Lloyd Groutage was most rewarding The LA's St. Patrick's Coffee and Brunch Party is March 17 at 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Legion Hall with en tertainment by the Old Time Fiddlers and Debbie Tompkins Dancers. Ad. mission is $2 and there will be a door prize Greens to make delivery The Green Pasty has announced it will deliver a number of retrigerators and other products containing or produced with chlorofluorcarbons to the Minisry of Environment’s Wast Management Branch in Nelson on Monday It is our Ministry of expectation that the Environment will use present and well-known technology to contain and neutralize these dangerous chemicals,” the party says in-a news release CFCs .have been blamed for the depletion of the earth's ozone layer which protects the planet from the sun’s dangerous ultraviolet rays About hours Feb. 25 to hear David Lewis of the Kootenay ei depletion of the ozone layer CLASSIFIED SHOWCASE 20 people met for several Greens discuss the This space available for CAMPERS * MOTORCYCLES * SNOWMOBILES * TENTS * MOTOR HOMES * BOATS © SNOW BLOWERS ‘* FURNACES ® CARS * TRUCKS * DINING ROOM SUITES * CHESTERFIELDS * EIC__ ELC Bring a photo, or bring the item & we'll take the picture! Average $13 Each, Average $1! 75 Each Average $10 50 Each Average $9 13 Each Castlegar News PHONE 365-5210 Brown officiating MAITLAND Alice Maitland ot Castlegar passed aWay Feb. 11. Born in Ashtield, Englond, Mrs, Maitland come to Castlegar in 1948. In 1987 she moved be no service by request POROZNUK — Peter Poroznuk of Nelson died Feb. 8 at the age of 70. A graveside service was held Feb. 15 trom Nelson Memorial Park PRIMEAU — Ernest Primeau, 66, of Trail died suddenly Feb. 25 af the Trail Regional Hospital. Born in Prince Albert, Sask, in 1922, Mr. Primeau served with the Royal Regina Rifles overseas during the Second World War. He moved to Trail in 1947 where he worked for Cominco until his ent in 1980. By request there will be no service ond cremation is planned RELKOFF — William N. Relkolf of Van. couver, formerly of Winlaw, passed away Feb. 20 at age 65. Mr. Relkotf was born Dec, 31, 1923 at Kaslo.and grew up in the Winlaw and Thrums oreo. He worked @s o taller and @ bucker in the woods as a finish carpetner, and 1 sperpied, tre Relkolt Deneral flere Winlaw for a number of years. He moved to Vancouver #in, 1971 and worked as a security guard for Rent-A Guard, Funeral service was held Feb. 27 ot the Castlegar Funeral Chapel and con tinued Feb. 28 at the Crescent Valley Holl. with burial following in Perry Siding Cemetery VOYKIN Peter Voykin of Glade passed away recently at his home at age 43..Mr. Voykin was born Sept. 25, 1945 at Glade. He grew up and lived all his lite there. During his life he worked in the logging industry and enjoyed fishing. Funeral service was held Feb. 24 in the Glade Hall and burial was in the Glade Cemetery — WANTED — CLEAN COTTON RAGS SN, Castlégar News 197 Columbia Ave., Castlegar BOARDWALK ENTERPRISES * Custom Windows and Patio Doors * Custom Made Furniture * Stereo and Kitchen Cabinets * Creative Woodworking Site 17, CIE RR. 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SOL Belle 60 Cents aN) I» ~~ Castlegar Val! 41, No. 20 News CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1989 WEATHERCAST * Tonight: Cloudy with clear periods Scattered flurries, Lows from -| to 4. Thursday: Mainly cloudy with rat cloudy with rain or snow showers. The probability of precipitonor tonight is 4@ per cont ond 70 per cent on Thursday 2 Sections (A & B) o more TFLs, JUST SAY NO... Wayn ‘eppard (left) of the Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance urges protesters. to fight what it calls a land-grab by multinational corporations. The demonstration outside Nelson Eagle's Hall drew nearly 100 people during a recess in the 16-hour Minist: number of tree of Fo its public forum on the seared 's bape to increase the jarm licences in the province. Intersection unsafe RDCK director says By CasNews Staff The RDCK will have no option but to wait until someone is injured and then take the provincial goverament 19 court if the Highways Ministry doesn't install traffic lights at the redesigned Pass Creek Road/Broadwater Road intersection, Regional District of Cen- tral Kootenay Area J director Martin Vanderpol said The provincial government “has a duty to construct roads and it’s their mandate to put in the lights,’ especially since the changes they made INSIDE _ NDP contenders page A2 eh yy B.C. O.D. 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Castlegar Phone 365-7702 COLEMAN COUNTRY BOY SERVICE Sump & Septic Tank Pumping Phone 365-5013 3400-4th Avenue Castlegar Tax errors page Aé are what mades the road unsafe, Van derpol said “If the ministry can waste money on lights for relatively safe areas (such as the Kinnaird Bridge) then why can’t they install one or two at a tricky inter- section?” asked’an angry Vanderpol. Ministry of Transportation and Highways district manager Don Hut ton said the ministry will install lights only if the regional district goes into a 50-50 cost-sharing arrangement with the government. = The intersection was redesigned last fall to improve “‘sight distance" and to make the road safer by protecting traf fic turning in the lefthand lane, Hutton said. Vanderpol said the changes make the road dangerous because the inter section is hard to see, especially at night An RDCK spokesman said a resident has written the ministry about the intersection-and-that thet RCMP considers the area unsafe. Blt Staff Sgt. Jack Keddy of the Castlegar detachment said there hasn’t been a probtém with the area and no one has complained to the police about it. He did say he could “appreciate what people are talking about — especially on cold rainy nigh : Vanderpol brought up the lighting issue at the RDCK meeting on Satur- day. The regional district agreed to write a letter to Hutton “outlining the unsafe conditions of the so-called im- provement at the newly created inter- section.’* Hutton said a meeting between the ministry and the regional district is being arranged but no date has been set CONFLICT RULING Turner waits for appeal By CLAUDETTESANDECKI Staff Writer Castlegar school board chairman Gordon Turner may have to resign “somewhere down the road”’ if a Mar ch 3 court ruling on conflict of interest isupheld Judge Kenneth Murphy ruled in Nanaimo county court that two trustees with spouses working for the school board there are in violation of the School Act. The act prohibits anyone from running for trustee who has a direct or indirect interest in a con tract with the board Turner's wife edehes-at- Woodland Park school. “At this stage, I don’t view this as a strict conflict of intéfest,"” Turner said. He said he has been careful not to get involved in board business such as teacher contract talks that could in volve his wife in any way. “Lam in what is called a holding pat Disab By CasNews Si Castlegar’s disabled residents will have public transportation later this year Mayor Audrey Moore said Steve New, a transit planner for small com munities with B.C, Transit, has con firmed the city will receivea_ bus specially designed to accommodate disabled passengers possibly by Sep tember The bus will also be used to com tern,” he said, waiting for the outcome of anappeal of the ruling and.arespon- se from the B.C. Teachers’ Federation “1 will have to make a serious decision” if the ruling is sustained, he feeling is we don’t have a problem,”’ said school board superin- tendent Terry Wayling. “There has not been a question raised formally or informally to the board on the issue.”* Wayling praised Turner's conduct on the board, saying he has gone to “great lengths to be fair.”” Other Castlegar trustees may be in the same situation if the ruling is upheld, Turner said. He declined to name anyone who might be affected. Possible conflicts have always existed, Wayling said, since it’s not unusual for board employees tobe related to trustees in their own or near- by districts. Such conflicts are not restricted to school boards, he said, Forests minister gets earful in Nelson By NIELS PETERSEN Staff Writer Hundreds of people from across the Kootenays packed the Eagles Hall in Nelson Monday to hear Minister of Forests Dave Parker anda panel of government foresters explain the government's reasons for its proposal to in crease the percentage of tree farm licences in B.C Most of the speakers who addressed the panel at the marathon forum which lasted past midnight told Parker they are concerned that present forest management prac tices are not good enough and that most logging companies would not make environmentally sound forest management their top priority on TFLs. “This has probably been the most concentrated op- position of any sort of area-based tenure," Parker said, comparing the Nelson forum to other community hearings around the province. ‘*We're not here to-sell anything," he said. We're here to listen. My mind’s open.”* He said the ministry would sift through all the public’s suggestions and concerns from the eight meetings around B.C. and would formulate TFL policy in the middle of May. The ministry is proposing to allow. forest licence holders to convert to tree farm licences, increasing the TFL share of the aggregate annual allowable cut to about 67 per cent from the current 26 per cent, according to a ministry news release. Under TFLs, the province will retain ownership of the land, and tree farm licensees will have to meet B.C. Forest Service's forest management standards, the ministry says. The major difference between forest licences and TFLs is that TFLs are area-based as opposed to volume based. Changing forest licences to tree farm licences will in- crease secondary manufacturing in the province and will increase the number of jobs in the industry, according to the ministry. Monday’s forum gave environmental alliances, unions, logging and political chance to express their concerns to the government panel Kootenay MLA Anne Edwards told Parker that whoever holds an area-based tenure would likely set their own forest management agenda. “Possession is nine-tenths of the law,” said Edwards, who charged that the forest ministry would not be able to adequately police TFLs. “What kind of sustainable development will the government be able to uphold if it is already understaf- fed?" she said. Edwards called for a royal commission into forest management practices. Slocan Forest Products Ltd. president Ike Barber said he supports the government's proposal, adding that the- ministry should concentrate on awarding TFLs to small. and mid-size companies. Big logging companies “are detracting from the prin. ciples of what you are trying to accomplish” with TFLs, Barber said. He cautioned that, under the TFL system, companies will have to perform up to their annual allowable cut ‘‘whether the market likes it or not,’’ adding that the government might have to help smaller companies with their silviculture expenses during a down-turn in the economy. He said another royal. commission was ‘‘un. arker told necessary"” and ‘‘would put everything in limbo for another two years.”” IWA local 145 vice-president Klaus Offermann. said the gnion is not opposed to TFLs, but noted that there are “*sétious problems” with current TFL management “The most profound failure of TFL. tenures ... is to maintain and create jobs,"’ he said. ‘‘While corporations enjoy the benefits of secure tenure, security-and-benefits have not trickled down to workers, nor has stability trickled down to the community “The forest industry, due to its downsizing, longer in a position to adequately monitor the forest in dustry,’ Offermann said, ‘'The administration of TFLs has been adismal failure, and the IWA vigorously opposes the creation of any more TFL (under the present system).”” Fred Marshall, a registered forester and Selkirk College forestry lecturer, urged the government to give a 25 per cent share of TFLs to communities in the form of com is no ‘This has probably been the most concentrated oppostion of any sort of area-based tenure.’ — Forests Minister Dave Parker munity forest licences. He cited Scaidanvia’s ‘‘enviable”’ forest industry where forest c “buy logs from the people”’ as an example for B.C. to follow “Let the people manage the resources," he said Regional District of Central Kootenay Area J director Martin Vanderpol said he is concerned that watersheds could be damaged under TFLs. He noted that watersheds ‘comprise only a fraction of the total timber supply areas in B.C. “The prime resource in these watershed@6uld be water,”’ he said. Nearly 100 protesters waving placards and singing songs greeted Parker as he returned to the Eagles Hall after adinner recess. “We're all here and we're all saying no,’ Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance co-chairman Herb Hammond told the crowd “It’s making them (the ministry) go back and re-think what they thought would be an easy issue,”’ he said. ‘*Our forests are being mismanaged by the current system and the solution to that is community control. Parker began the ministry’s presentation promptly at 7-p.m. as the protesters were filing into the hall and ignored calls from the crowd to wait until the audience was assem- bled. NDP forestry critic Dan Miller questioned whether public input would be considered in any governmént decisions to grant TFLs. Richard Allin of the Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance described two clear cuts on Ranch Ridge above Hills that he says caused two snow and mud slides to block Highway 6 and fall into Slocan Lake. He said he doubted that TFLs would improve logging practices in the Slocan Valley “Where is the evidence to support this? It's certainty not around us,"’ he said. A dozen merhibers of the alliance then sang song to the panel, outlining their concerns to the My Darling Clementine."* Nelson city alderman Donna Macdonald said the government's TFL proposal doesn’t offer the possibility of community forest licenses, under which “Nelson could manage its watershed, adding that the city has applied for a TFL for its watershed since 1975 but has not been granted one tune of ** FIRE CLOSES GORDON TURNER . ina ‘holding pattern’ citing city aldermen who vote on tax rate bylaws. Turner said he could see the need for ed to get bus plement the city’s existing bus service, Moore said. However, the current bus will be replaced by a smaller vehicle sometime in May or June, the mayor added. The smaller bus will cost less to operate. The specially equipped bus will mean greater mobility for Castlegar’s disabled residents, a spokesman for the disabled cofimunity said Tuesday “I'm detighted,”’ said Doug Haugen, B.C. Coalition of the Disabled representative for the Kootenays. ‘This should make a lot of change toa lot of people's lives.”” Haugen said the bus will people who are now ‘‘shut ins”’ able to get out on their own. mean will be The cost of the bus — approximately $25,000 — is expected to be borne by the federal government although the city will also apply for money from the B.C. Lottery Fund. the strict interpretation of the School Act such as in the case of a powerful chairman who could use his influence to benefit his spouse. But most trustees stand for election because they have children in the because their spouses work for the board, he said. “iin that regard, the ruling runs counter to my right to bea trustee The ruling should be clarified, he said, and the provincial government should write guidelines for trustees Wayling said he understood the new School Act will include guidelines but that it will be the elec- torate who will decide if someone can stand for election or not Education Minister Tony Brummett has said the new act will contain con. flict guidelines for teachers school system, not conflict-of-interest conflict CELGAR By CasNews Staff A fire at thé Celgar Pulp Co. early this morning will keep the mill closed for about a week, industrial relations. manager Ron| Belton said tdday The fire broke out around 4 a.m. when a steam plant transformer blew up, Belton said. Castlegar fire department Capt. Dick Dunlop said the blaze was out in two Toys and there were no injuries The extent of the damage and the cause of the fire had not been determined at press time The mill will be back in operation when replacement equipment is received and in stalled, Belton said Nudity reported Castlegar RCMP< reported’ two separate incidents of nudity and in decent acts within the city on Monday One incident was at or near the railway tunnel in the north-end and the second in the bush area along the railway tracks south of 18th Street. This is the twelfth such incident reported to police since September. All incidents have similar_characteristics, the RC MP say The suspect in the north end is described as a white male in his mid. teens, 5 feet 5 inches tall with a slim build last seen wearing a waist-length navy-blue jacket, grey sweat pants and a dark blue balaclava with a red stripe around the forehead area. There are eye and balaclava mouth openings in the Due to the time lapse between the in. cident and reporting to the police, identification or apprehension of a suspect has not been made. The RCMP encourages public support when vic tims encounter this subject. Im mediately notify an adult who may have an opportunity to observe the violator until the police arrive. Report the incident from the telephone, police advise. nearest