News October 6, 1990

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BRIEFLY

By CasNews Staff

Hospital gets project funds

Castlegar Hospital will receive $12,000 to implement a project that
will enable home support workers to help seniors, low-income families
and other fi ially or residents to
improve their knowledge of nutrition and diet, the f provincial Ministry
of Health said this week.

The project will also help people upgrade their skills in meal
planning, shopping and cooking.

*“*The program encourages B.C. hospitals to work closely with .
community-based service groups to help deliver new and innove
health care services to local residents,’’ Health Minister John
said in a news release.

The Castlegar project is one of 16 Hospital/Community
Partnership program initiatives approved so far this year valued at
$498,613. 2

The Castlegar Hospital will work on the project with the Ministry
of Social Services and Housing, the Central Kootenay Health Unit and
community home support, mental health and child development
agencies, the government says.

Used truck purchase planned

The Ootischenia fire protection plan has gotten oft to a good start
with the planned purchase of a used pumper truck and a used tanker
truck, said Ken Wyllie, Regional District of Central Kootenay director
for Area J, which includes Ootischenia.

Purchasing the used trucks may allow the Ootischenia fire
protection commission to put more money into the construction of the
fire hall, which will be built near the Ootischenia community hall, or
other equipment, Wyllie said.

The new fire will serve Ooti: ia, the
Paulson Highway area and the Arrow Lakes Drive area.

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Sept. record broken

By CasNews Staff resulting in the odd shower."”

Put environment
first, Green says

‘Acknowledging forestry is a touchy
issue in the Kootenays, Wright said
(Canadians must accept that this coun-
try’s forests are facing perils similar to
the destruction taking place in other
parts of the world.

““We know that our forests are in as
grave a danger as forests in Brazil.””

Wright said a royal i on

Her party believes that at the heart
of global environmental Problem is

forestry should be established to
study current forestry practices and to
plot a course for the future that will
ensure there will be enough trees in
the years to come.

Noting that many people say
current logging levels must be main-
tained or jobs will be lost, she said a

The weather office
sunshine on every day in Septem-
ber resulting in a total of 246.3
hours — 60 hours above normal
but about 19 hours short of the
record 263.6 hours set in Septem-
ber 1975

The mean temperture — the
average of the highs and lows for
the month — was 16.8 C, which is
2.6 degrees above normal but
misses the record mark of 18.4 C
set in September 1967.

The hottest day last month was
Sept. 11 with a high of 32 C. The
coolest day was Sept. 28 with a
low of 3.6 C. Neither temperature
came close to the records for the
month — 35.6 C on Sept. 1, 1967
and -4.3 C on Sept. 28, 1984.

September in Castlegar was
bone dry as the city broke a 15-
year-old record for the least
amount of rain during the month,
the Castlegar weather office
reported this week

The weather office recorded
just 1.6 millimetres of rain in Sep-
tember, breaking the September
1975 record of 2.6 mm. The 1.6
mm is four per cent of Castlegar’s
average of 43.8 mm for the mon.
th. September 1988 is the wettest
on record with 96.2 mm.

“A ridge of high pressure
dominated the pattern over the
month,”* the weather office said
“On a few occasions it weakened
enough to allow a few minor
systems to traverse the interior

of forestry
will mean fewer people will be out of
work in the long run.

Other political parties in Canada
are “‘running scared” on the issue,
she said.

“*But we (the Greens) feel we have
nothing to lose — we're losing
already,"’ she said, referring to what
her party sees as a serious overcutting
of the forests.

The Green party wants to sige
People an alternative to the main-
stream political parties that the
Greens believe are moving too slowly
on environmental issues, Wright said.
However, she noted that other parties
are focusing more on the environment

now.
Wright said she also advocates
more courses and even classes in

COURT NEWS

By CasNews Staff

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Schools should instill a sense of the
value of nature, she said.

Wright, who has owned and
operated the Wild Rose Cafe in
rossebery for nine years, said small,
cottage businesses should replace
large industries in the future.

Big business is profit driven while
small businesses are more aware of
the “‘planetary responsibility” that
will help ensure the environment is
not destroyed, she said.

The Green Party will host a ““meet
the candidate’’ evening Oct. 18 at the
St. Paul's Trinity United Church in
Nelson from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Reform
to try luck
provincially

VANCOUVER (CP) — A wing of
the Reform Party is plunging into
Provincial politics. And the federal
Reform Party is unhappy about it

The Reform Party of B.C. announ-
ced it has set itself up as a separate en-
tity and may run candidates in the
next provincial election.

But federal leader Preston Manning
said the group doesn’t speak for the
Reform party.

He said last month the Reform par-
ty would not enter provincial politics
because there was too much work to
do federally to risk splitting the par-
ty’s energies.

The president of the B.C. party is
Ron Gamble, and Manning said of
him.

“I have no confidence whatsoever
in Mr. Gambie’s political judgment
and will be communicating my
reasons to B.C. members."

Celgar welcomes police statement

‘By CasNews Stat

A statement by Nelson RCMP in-
dicating that there is no apparent
connection between the debate over
the proposed expansion and moder-
nization of the Celgar pulp mill at
Castlegar and reported acts of van-
dalism in the Slocan Valley area was
welcomed Friday by Wilf Sweeney,
general manager of the Celgar
Project. )

Sweeney said Celgar has been con-
cerned that for several weeks some
people have chosen to infer a link
between the activities of supporters of

the modernization project and the
reported damage to vehicles owned by
Crescent Valley resident Bob Lerch,
who Sweeney described as a leading
critic of Celgar’s planned $650 million
clean-up and expansion

“Unfortunately, these inferences
already have been widely reported by
the news media,” Sweeney said in a
news release. ‘*The incident has been
exploited in an attempt to discredit
the project and to try to negate the
overwhelming support for the moder-
nization coming from communities
throughout the region.

“It has helped serve to senselessly

divide area residents at a time when
there is a genuine need for undergtan
ding on the extent of the environtgen
cleanup being proposed, the
availability of sufficient fibre to sup-
ply an expanded mill and the
economic security the modernized
mill will bring to this region,"’ he ad-
“*The police statement that the
reported vandalism to the vehicles
appears to be an act of mischief by the
three youths, and not associated with
(Lerch’s) involvement in the review of
Celgar’s modernization plans, is good
news.””
Lerch said last week he has known

for some time that the RCMP had the
youths under investigation. He said
he has, always indicated he didn’t
want to believe the vandalism had
anything to do with his work with
the Coalition for Information on the
Pulp Mill Expansion.

But he said the ‘strange connec.
tion"’ between the vandalism and his
chairmanship of CIPE was hard to
ignore. A busload of Celgar suporter
from Castlegar allegedly pulled up in
front of Lerch’s business and took
photographs the night before the
vandalism occurred.

Lerch said he was surprised stories

in the Province newspaper last Sun.
day played up the vandalism incident
since he made it clear to the reporter
that the police were investigating the
incident and had suspects in mind

Lerch said the newspaper also
misquoted him as being against
Celgar’s proposal

“*L have never, ever been against the
modernization,’’ Lerch said. He said
he did tell the reporter he still has
“‘some questions’? about the com.
pany’s’expansion plans

Sweeney said Celgar’s owners have
been gratified by the groundswell of

support being shown for the project
by Celgar employees, trade unions,
Politicians, business people and
homemakers

Celgar does not condone acts of in-
timidation by any party, whether they
support or oppose the moder-
nization, he said

“We therefore view with alarm the
recent warning by a director of the
Valhalla Society that people are going
to civil disobedience classes and are
ready to mount blockades, apparently
to disrupt mill operations. Surely no
thinking person can countenance law-
breaking,’’ Sweeney said.

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The winning numbers drawn Th@re
sday in the B.C. Keno lottery were §
11, 1S, 29, 31, 39, $2, and $4.

The winning numbers in Wed
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36, 40, 43 and 47. The bonus number
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The jackpot of $10,000,000_20 was
divided into three prizes of
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The four Extra winning numbers
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A match on all four numbers wins
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The winning numbers drawn Wed-
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Joanna Morris, 3'4. plays in the sandbox with her mother, Gerri Mo:
Children’s Centre in Castlegar. Joanna, who has Down's ee: has ‘benefited froma
the i of

. at Hobbit Hill
with special

program at the centre which
needs with other children.

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from acti

In the short term,

home.
“I don't have the facility,

kids being here,"” Morris said

world

“Now she .models

Program

Hobbit Hill along with 75 other children

Integration is the key to the program, Conroy
said. It operates on the premise of **zero exclusion”’ —
which considers no child too handicapped to benefit
ties offered to the entire group.

Morris agrees that integration is paramount and
offers long-term and short-term benefits.
it gives Joanna something
Morris was never able to offer trying to bring her up at

I don’t have all the
toys, books or equipment. Plus the big thing they have

is the opportuni for social development with all the

In the long term, integration has the potential to
change attitudes and that could change Joanna’s

her actions after

proto by Ed Malls”

children, not handicapped children. And children ac-
cept her just as a regular person.

“You know how a lot of people don’t know how
to deal with handicapped people, so they avoid them
But if you're involved with them from an early age,
you don’t think anything of it,

Morris said

regular

Where once there was despair, there is now hope
in the lives of Gerri and Joanna Morris.

“TI expect a lot more from her now
what the future will hold for her but I definitely think
that integrating with regular people is going to give her
the skills to get along in the world. That's
important than learning calculus,”*
majored in math at college

“One thing that’s for sure is that without the
program Joanna definitely wouldn't be doing any of
the things she’s doing now or taken any of the steps
she’s taken so far."*

it’s just natural,"’

I can’t say

far more
said Morris, who

Unemployment rate up

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar’s unemployment rate,
which had been declining since May,
edged up slightly in September to
stand at 9.6 per cent, four-tenths of a
percentage point higher than the rate
in August, Statistics Canada said

At the same time, Trail’s unem-
ployment rate has declined slightly, to
10.5 per cent from 12.2 per cent in
August, after increasing steadily since
May.

Castlegar

is part of a Statistics

Canada economic region that includes
Nelson, the Slocan Valley and
Creston, as well as the Columbia-
Shuswap area. Trail belongs to an
economic region that includes Grand
Forks and the Central Okanagan.

The number of people unemployed
in Castlegar’s economic region in Sep-
tember was 4,000 out of a workforce
of 40,000. The region’s workforce
stood at 42,000 in August

About 13,000 people were without
jobs in Trail’s economic region last

IN MEMORY

Mrs. Gretchen was born Oct

Annie Gretchen

Annie Gretchen of Shoreacres passed away Wednesday, Oct. 3,
1990, at Mount St. Francis Hospital at age 84
18, 1905, at Arran, Sask., and moved
with her parents to Glade in 1912. She married Mike Gretchen on April
28, 1928, at Glade and then made her home at Shoreacres where she
lived the rest of her life. She was a lifetime member of the USCC and
enjoyed gardening, sewing and knitting

Mrs. Gretchen is survived by her husband Mike of Shoreacres;
three daughters and sons-in-law, Mary and Mike Zoobkoff of Blueberry
Creek, Vera and William Makaroff of Shoreacres, and Anne and

Leonard Bayoff of Tarrys; 10

Funeral Chapel

one brother, Alex Chernenkoff of Glade; and one sister, Tina
Kooznetsoff of Glade. She was predeceased by one daughter in infancy
Funeral services will begin on Monday, Oct
Castlegar Funeral Chapel and will continue Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 10 a.m
at the Shoreacres Hall with burial at noon at the Shoreacres Cemetery
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar

eight great-g) cl ren;

it 7 p.m. at the

month, out of a workforce of
120,000. Trail’s total workforce was
also higher in August, at 123,000.
Statistics Canada warns that figures
for economic regions should be used
with caution because of variability of
sampling from month to month.

Hunter_

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and provincial court Judge Donald
Sperry erred in ruling that defence
counsel Richard Spilker should have
called Keus to the stand if Spilker
wanted his testimony

Spilker said Thursday that if the
Crown is successful in the Appeal
Court, the matter will likely be retur
ned to the B.C. Supreme Court

The case was taken before the B.C
Supreme Court on several grounds of
appeal and Justice Cooper made his
decision on only one of them, Spilker
said

Therefore, if the Appeal Court
overturns the Supreme Court
decision, then the matter will
probably go back to Supreme Court
for consideration on the other groun.
ds of appeal, the Castlegar lawyer
said

And if a Supreme Court justice fin
ds in favor of Franks on other groun
ds, the Crown could take that ruling
back to the Appeal Court, Spilker ex
plained. As well, the B.C. Court of
Appeal could order a new provincial
court trial be held, he said

Health-plan committee
composition changed

By CasNews Staff
A West Kootenay steering commit
tee involved in the d of an

Barbour said in explaining why many
of the original committee members
r d area hi ital:

overall health plan for the East and
West Kootenay has been restructured
after criticism was leveled at the
committee's composition, the former

Nelson Ames, director of the Cen:
tral Kootenay Health Unit and a(critic
or the original committee, Said he is
pleased with the makeup of the new
Ames was a member of

chairman of the says

Gary Kjolberg, who is ad
ministrator of Trail Regional
Hospital, sdid the new committee in:
cludes representatives from Home
Support Service, the Central
Kootenay Board of Health and other
community organizations involved
with health care

The committee was criticized for
representing mainly hospitals in the
area and not incorporating the views
of other health-care organizations
The new committee of about 20
people will have one hospital ad-
ministrator, said Liz Barbour, an
original committee member who has
remained after the restructuring.

The criticism was based on a
misunderstanding of the original pur
Pose of the committee, Barbour said

The plan began as a reveiw of
hospital health care several years ago
and was financed by the hospitals,

the old committee and will remain on
the new committee as the health unit
representative

Ames said any criticism of the level
of health-care knowledge of the new
committee members is unfair since the
committee is not empowered to make
decisions. Its role is mainly to
facilitate public input into the health
plan, he said

And the people on the committee
now are ‘‘as good as any group you
can get,”” he said.

Ames said he hopes discussion of
the plan will move nfote quickly now
that the issue of the. committee's
composition has been resolved. But
he said he doesn’t want to see the plan
Put together so fast that there isn't
time for the community to “take
ownership” of it.

If the community doesn't do that,
the plan will die, he said.

Barbour said the new committee's

Siemens

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faced Siemens in the 1983 election and
beat the Socred by 3,000 votes

D'Arcy said he would ‘‘love to
know where the rumors are coming
from’’ that he may run as an in:
dependent in the next election.

He pointed out that he indicated
when he lost the nomination to
Conroy that he would not be running
again and said he doesn’t intend to
change that position ‘‘in the for-
seeable future."”

He said he is not organizing for a
campaign or collecting funds. proof
that he is not planning to run.

But he didn’t rule out changing his
mind

Seniors_

continued from front page
outreach worker, said Ald. Patti
Richards, who works with the Home
Support Service in Castlegar

Talarico said the ministry has cut
the budget for such projects by half
for this year and funding in Castlegar
for 1990-91 will amount to only about
$9,000.

The community partnership board
includes representatives of a variety of
health-care organizations and agen-
cies, such as long-term care and men
tal health, as well as the regional
district and the city

Scott is working out of the Home
Support Service office and can be
reached there or at home in
Shoreacres if people are interested in
volunteering to help with the project
or need help in understanding the sur
vey questions.

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“I'm not a clairvoyant. I can’t
predict the future.”"

Guest speaker at Wednesday
night’s meeting, Howard Dirks,
provincial secretary and MLA for
neighboring Nelson-Creson, said
Rossland-Trail ‘Kas been very well
looked after by this government, very
well looked after.”

He mentioned funds for the Beaver
Valley golf course, the West Trail ap-
proach, the Castlegar Aquatic Centre
and the Trail catscanner. There are
‘‘great works out there, great things
out there,’’ he said

Describing Siemens as the “‘shadow
MLA" for the past four years, Dirks
said Siemens is well qualified to be in
Victoria as representative for the
riding.

The cabinet minister said gover
mment services have all benefited
from increased funding since 1987

CASTLEGAR
CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE

first job will be to place itself in a
province-wide context

A number of changes have taken
place in health care while
reorganization of the committee has
been going on, she said

One of the first tasks for the new
committee will be to inform the
provincial Royal Commission on
Health Care and Costs about the
draft health plan for the Kootenay~
area, she said. She noted the commit-
tee may also have to deal with a new
Health Ministry with a ‘‘somewhat
new"’ philosophy if the government
changes in the next election

The committee must review the
draft plan, help new committee mem-
bers “‘catch up’’ on what has been
done so far and then determine what
the next steps will be, Barbour said

The plan is meant to coordinate
delivery of services from all agencies
and organizations, _ including
hospitals, in the East and West Koot-
enay that are invplved in providing
health The East Kootenay
health-care organizations are
represented on a steering committee
for that area

care

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