B6 Castlegar News July 10, 1991 Reunion marks anniversary The 20-year anniversary of the’ Vallican Whole Community Centre will be celebrated July 24 to 28 with a reunion, a news release says. “hope all the kids wear name tags,” said one woman who plans to attend. The reunion marks a first for the hall, which also serves as a school. Former students who have since scattered around the country and the continent are expected to return to the valley for the cele- bration. “What started as an idea for a two-day event soon blossomed into five days as word spread and people wanted to con- tribute entertainment,” the release said. The anniversary will reunite the Broken String Band, a group of Slocan Valley musi- cians who used to perform at square dances. Judith Ceroli started work in January to con- tact the “far-flung musicians” who at times numbered as many as 15. Brain Damage, another val- ley group, will return for a no- booze boogie, and will be joined by Laura and the Locos, the release said. The festivities start on July 24 with a day of games and grounds work, including a knapweeg pulling contest, and an evening coffee house with poets and musicians. On July 25, organizers are planning an extended-family potluck sup- Anthony Arnold and ‘his horses and music by the Broken String Band. Saturday starts with a mas- sage workshop by Doug Epps and Christine Sutherland in the morning, and the no-alcohol dance in the evening with Brain Damage and Laura and the Locos. The whole reunion winds up July 28 with a special day for the school, with home movies and slide shows, digging up the time capsule in the forest, and possibly resurrecting one of the original Whole School plays, the release said. 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Trail 364-0202 Collect Castlegar 365-0202 won Mon.-Fri. 8:00-6:00 - Saturday 8:00-5:00 ] MERCURY | rive, Trall, B.C. Touring telescope draws crowd .. ._B6 NEWS BRIEF Sunfest button winner steps up The first_of three Sunfest button winners finally stepped forward this week to claim third prize. Inez Walker of Castlegar wins two full-day passes and tickets to a concert at this year’s PNE in Vancouver. “It was nice to win something,” Thursday. The draw was made about a month ago after the annual Suntest celebrations — held May 31, June 1 and 2 — were over. However, Walker said she had been away so she didn't know she had won anything. *(And) | never win, so I.didn't look.” Walker said she's only been to the Vancouver exhibition a couple of times, but, “If | don't use (the bere) one of my daughters will ... we'll try and use Meanwhile, the first place prize of a trip for two to Vancouver- and the second place prize of a side of beef remain unclaimed. The button contest was licensed through the B.C. Lottery Commission, which requires purchasers’ names to be recorded. However, the Sunfest committee had already sold some buttons before the commission advised it of the rule, committee member George Pipke said. The committee does have a partial list of names, added member Debbie Hart. The committee pians to meet next week to discuss how to reach the other winners. QUOTE OF THE WEEK “This has got so many twists and convolusions , it's like a cheap novel.” -Les Stanchuk, a Deer Creek Park seasonal resident, on the number of issues raised by a logging proposal on creekside property. Tonight: Cloudy with clear breaks and scattered she said~ Celgar workers 'gassed' Union, WCB, take company to task on safety issues By ED MILLS . Staff Writer Noxious gas from the Celgar pulp mill has already sent two workers to hospital and is an everyday threat to those working on the mill’s expan- sion project, a Castlegar union offi- cial said. “We want to build them a pulp mill, on time, on budget, and we will do that, but we want to do that without having some of our members injured or come down with some- thing 10 years from now that is attributable to working in those gas conditions,” said Len Embree, busi- ness representative for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ers of America. his Castlegar office. “To this point in time my mem- bers are convinced that (Celgar) is not concerned because of what’s hap- pened,” Embree said Thursday from “That’s ridiculous,” said Celgar general manager Jim Browne. “The fellas have the right to walk off the job (if they don’t feel it’s safe) that’s legislated, it’s covered by WCB and it would be very stupid of us not to be concerned when we're paying people that aren’t working. “So from a purely selfish point of view we would be concerned. We like to think that we're a little bit more humane than that and that we have some other concerns — we don”t want to hurt people,” said Browne. Embree, whose members account for about 100 of the 350 or so work- ers on the site, said Celgar hasn’t bought the best equipment or hired ‘enough monitors to properly protect the people working directly beside the mill. He said his union has been trying since day-one to get Celgar to make a IN THE GROOVE Lara Chernenkoff was grooving to the tunes in Kinsmen Park Thursday afternon as s' and the rest of the lunch hour crowd were entertained by folk singer Steven Baal as part of the annu- al summer concerts in the park. Casnews photo by Ed Mills @, a few friends Deer Park residents fight logging proposal By DONNA ZUBER Staff Writer Residents of Deer Creek Park say a logging proposal threatens to destroy a spawning bed that supplies the Lower Arrow Lake with some 50,000 to 60,000 fish. “We're talking about a major creek in there, and if they screw this up, the Lower Arrow is going to lose a good bgacboy ES “The fact that a few people are going to loge their watershed and heve their water com en of good chunk of its spawning capability,” said Stanch Fibre Ltd.,the company hired by the creek-side property owner to log the 80-hectare parcel, met with the residents and their supporters, about 70 people, last weekend to hear their concerns. “We had an awful lot of input, a lot of people told us things they were concerned about, things that they'd like us to take into consideration,” said West- “I think (their concerns) all relate to those two narrow items,” he said. “There was no general con- versation about aesthetics ’s looking at it, jome concern about fish habitat, but that again relates back to water quality and quantity. Anything else was incidental,” he said. eae a di Marv aon his office in Kamloops. “A number of people told us, in fact we know, that the entire group gathered there, their first choice by a wide margin is if we pi do anything,” said Kemp- ne said water quality and soi appear to be the main “That's really trying to take the sting out of what happened,” he said.”I mean, there was some pissed-off people out there that were so disgusted they just walked out of the meeting. They said ‘as far as we're concerned ‘Westwood is just doing a PR job on us.-They're going to do what Please see page A3 SS So TS we SSS move on the safety issue, but “it’s just been a is chore.” “In the meantime, we've had two people hospitalized over the last four months and upwards of 50 members gassed,” he said. The emissions, which Embree said could be any number of noxious gas- es used in the pulp making come from the mill’s stack, sewers. and the ground. Browne said the company is aware there are gasses coming. from the mill and has hired the best possi- ble equipment and personnel, at con- siderable expense, to enstire that the_ workers’ environment is as safe as it can be. Please see GASSED page A2 No warning for mill man By ED MILLS Staff Writer The.scary thing about whatever made Mike Makéortoff sick is that he had no warning. He didn’t see anything. He didn’t smell any- thing. “Right off the bat the world just started spin- ning. And I didn’t know what the heck was hap- pening. Then I yelled to a couple of my guys and they pulled me out of it. “I couldn’t walk, I was just wobbly.on my-feet. I thought I was getting a heart attack, mind you, I didn’t feel any pain in my chest, none in my legs, or anywhere.” Exactly what happened to Mike Makortoff is a mystery. One minute the carpenter foreman was in a one-metre hole as part of his regular work on the Celgar pulp mill expansion project, the next he was gasping for air, vomiting and staggering around. “They gave me some oxygen and I threw up three times. They transferred me over-to first aid, and from there they put me in an ambulance and took me to the (Castlegar) hospital. “I threw up three more times in, the hospital and from there I spent overnight in the intensive care unit.” : In 25 years on the job, Makortoff, 53, has nev- er experienced the sensations that overcame him that day in June, and no one’s been able to tell him what caused it. His co-workers, some who've had similar expe- riences, say it’s noxious gas coming from the mill that’s to blame. Without any plausible explanation, that’s the theory Makortoff is inclined to believe. “The doctors examined me, they took my blood two times, they didn’t say anything. I asked them, I said ‘was it gas?’ and he says ‘we don’t know.’ You know, they didn’t commit them- selves.” Markotoff was released from hospital the next morning. He had a headache for three days after- wards. Five days later he returned to his job and immediately transferred to another work area. “In the area where we were working, one week after me, an apprentice went down, he collapsed. And a couple days after that another apprentice went down,” said Makortoff. “It scares you, I mean you don’t know what the heck you're up against.” Celgar general manager Jim Browne, while not denying that there are gases emanating from the mill, said there’s no proof noxious gas caused the men to become ill. “We have not heard back from either the WCB (Workers Compensation Board) or the medical group indicating that the hospitalizations were due to gassings,” said Browne. “Medical information, of course, is confiden- tial. If a guy is treated by his doctor, his doctor doesn't have to tell us anything, and we haven't heard back. “But our feeling is that if we had had a con- cern, either Nelson Ames from the (Central Kootenay) health department, or the industrial hygienist from the WCB would have been here immediately,” he said. Makortoff's. not ready to lay blame squarely on anyone. “Maybe Celgar is trying to do the best they possibly can, but the point is, there's releases at times from inside the mill where it doesn’t maybe affect the people inside, but sure in heck affects the outside,” he can’t prove it, the point is, the smell out there is atrocious, especially where the people are working. “I just hope nobody gets gassed to where it could be fatal.” iieeetietied