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” SHARLENE IMMOFF
_ Sun Editor

Social Credit Candidate for the
Rossland-Trail riding, Walter
| Siemens, is asking everyone to
; Support a review of the Trail
Cominco operations by the Job
* Protection Commissioner.

‘ In a faxed | press release. dated

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July 4, Sicmens calls upon arca
community leaders, chambers of
commerce and local: councils to
support. the’ commissioner's
review, which would be indepen-
dent of government.

The Castlegar Chamber of
Commerce ‘was one such body to
be given the letter of appeal. A
spokesperson from there says the

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Chamber's executive body

likely discuss the letter durin,

their next meeting,’ ‘later in July. ;
“There are > many *:

beyond the control of Cominco’

officials that are effecting the
financial viability of ths ‘opera-
tions,” said Siemens, “The water
license fees are only ‘one of
these.”

Richard Fish, Chief Public

i Officer for C

says the plant pays $12 million a

“The plant is able to recover $3

million through the sale of elec-
tricity. But the rest of the cost is

tagged directly on to that of pro- |

ducing medals,” said Fish.

He continued to say that the
cost cannot be recovered since
the price of metals is set on an
international market of supply
and demand.

“The fight to reduce the costs
of the licensing fees has been
ongoing for almost 10 years,”
said Fish.

The increase, which is now
approximately 3,000 per cent,
started rising in 1980. At-one
time the plant paid $200,000 for

Police

The RCMP have received
Canada wide warrants for the
arrest of Cameron Lee Mckay, 20,
Previously from Nakusp. \<

Mckay failed to appear in
court on June 25 1991. with
respect to five charges which
arose as a result of a fatal motor
vehicle accident on July 13 1990
on highway 3A near Glade.

Anyone knowing the where-

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will”

‘ Because the, Comine: plan
‘Such a large operation,
says the provincial government

‘does not belicve' the problem is'a

serious one, and has’ not yet

‘agreed. to Cominco’s suggestion

Of a roilback in price. / f
“In reality. it is'a very. serious

‘problem. Many jobs/could be’ :

“lost. But if a review of these fac-
tors is undertaken, we will have
the opportunity ‘to protect’ the
many jobs and relieve the anxicty
within our communities,”

‘As well, the provincial govern:
ment has since placed a freeze on
the cost of.the licensing fees,
which they feel is sufficient.

Siemens, who was approached

the plant in ‘getting the ‘govern-
,, Ment to respond to the issues,
“ says that as a business man he is
very. concemed over the matter,
but he admits that as a candidate,
it is an election issue as well.” '.
“I haven't been able to accom-
plish anything by’ going to the
goverment on this. But if every-
one gets involved, we can show

the seriousness of i it. Only, then -

Report

abouts of Mckny is Tequested to

by, Cominco’to step in and assist’.

West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre: ~
Local residents have unti 1 July 14 to sée Dancing On My Own;'a

contact the, Castlegar d
of the RCMP,

a8
On Friday, July 5 at approxi-

of Self-p by Winlaw artist Ann Swanson Gross:
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As well, residents are invited to see colour photographs exploring
I asa hor, by Nelson Cameron Math-

mately 5:50 p.m., police
an industrial accident. at the
Ootischenia weigh scale gravel
pits. Ambulance service left the
scene with a fatally injured work-
er after he was crushed in a colli-
sion between a grader and a dump
truck. Deceased is Blair William
Shields, 46 years of age, of Pen-

ticton, Ee
Our Mistake. . ..,
In the July 3 edition of The
Castlegar Sun, we printed that
impaired driving charges were laid
upon Grant Hendrickson of
. Squamish, B.C., when in fact
Police did not lay charges at all.
The Sun apologizes for any.incon-
venience hs may | have caused,

ACCOUNTANT

Castlegar and District Hospital i invites applications for the -
position of Accountant. ‘The main responsibilities include the

supervision of the
financial statements and reports.

Qualifications required include a professional accounting
designation or be a senior‘level studént with excellent analytical,
andi R

of budgets,

skills, as well as computer

experience.

Please reply in confidence with a resume by July 25, 1991, to:

Mr. K.A. Talarico, Administrator
Castlegar and District Hospital
709 Tenth Street

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From July 18 - August 24, residents are inveited to view an inyitp-
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seven emerging artists they've in tum chosen.

Also at the NEC during these daes is Kootenay artist Richard Taj
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acrylics, and watercolours. ;
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Community Recreation Complex i

The Castlegar Aquanauts are. gearing up for another swim
meetscheduled for July 20 ~21. A number of,teams are uaa
show up for this’ competition, including Colville, Tail Nelson

Robson.
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A Senior's Summer Splash and Barbecue is being planned at the
Complex for Tuesday, July 16.

Seniors will be able to enjoy a swim for $2 and a barbecue, with
supplied food for $3. The barb and ig is d to take
Lee out on the new deck.

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. Due to a Jehova's Witnesses’ Assembly being held at the const
there will be no rollerskating scheduled until Friday, July 19.

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Folks at the Complex are currently planning to host a Beach Party
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THE PROVINCE

NESDAY,. July 10, 1991 *:

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Couvelier livens

Yoe, Social Credit leadership candi-
{¢ late Mel Couvelier livened up the
tS¢ampaign yesterday with a pro-
¢Posal to radically reshape govern-
srment, : :and several well-placed
fabs at his opponents, especially
-;Qrace McCarthy, whom he
ESaccused of “talking deja vu.”
bis Aswell, Mr. Couvelier has
won ‘a small victory about the
Sfapenda for the leadership conven-
tion itself, getting the party to put
ina candidate's panel on policy
mn the day before the voting.
What has been a lacklustre
ampaign, ven after Grace
McCarthy and Norman Jacobsen
d at the last is

dates were “reaching back 20
years to try to regurgitate some-
thing from the past.”

Since only Mrs. McCarthy's
career extends back that far, show
hostess Dorianna Temalo drew
the obvious inference: “So it's
anybody but Grace, then?” While
he refused to name names, he
argued that if the party were to
win the general election it would
have to change its image by “get-
ting rid of some old baggage.”

Later Monday Mr. Couvelier
told SNS that where he differed
from the other candidates was
that they put “beating the New
first,” while he

itweeing up thanks to Mr. Couve-
ier, who on BCTV’s Noon News
{, Hour. declared that other candi-

Richmond second guesses

STEVE WETHERBE

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; Steding News Services

Forests Minister Claude Rich-
: mond has appointed another
expert panel to second guess the

tatlowsa that before that, “we
have to beat our existing image.”

ing deja vu, saying that. if it
worked in the past, it will work in
the present,” meaning. Mrs,
McCarthy, “another talking ‘sta-
tus quo, keep things. on course
and that will be enough,’ mean-
ing Premier Rita Johnston, “and
another saying *. I’m reasonable,
I'm competetent,’” meaning Nor-
man Jacobsen.

Mr. Couvelier said he was
ined to give del
something new, hence his call for
more power to the government
caucus and to individual MLAs
with free votes, fixed terms of
office for governments and the
“recall” of objectionable MLAs

by their constituents.
His latest policy initiative is to

“We've got on talk-

out of line. “Some controversy
is

ly reduce the of

Forest Commission again

cuts through the Small Business
Program are not affect-

healthy,” he said. “But” it is
important that the public be well

revenue potential of the timber
"

Forest Ri
this time on its pea ner in find-
} ing that current stumpage rates
i the government charges the
i industry are less than half what
: } they should be.
rp Mr. Rich d's

Named to the panel are Les
Reed, a professor of forest policy
at the University of British
Columbia, and formerly the fed-
eral chief rene and Howard
i forest sec-

‘ about the new panel implied that
the FRC’s calculations, conduct-
ed by CWC Canadian Western

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STEVE WETHERBE
, Sterling News Services

Ombudsman Stephen Owen

| Has rejected New Democratic’'"
| jfillegations that a senior govern- - -
Ment exiployee used ‘insider---

' knowledge and old friendships to
, Secure privatized court reporting

services.
The NDP alleged that Donald
Stewart, a 25-year veteran of the
| Court services branch, initiated
| the privatization of court report-
‘ing in Vancouver provincial
i courts, and then got the contract
for his own company.
A later contract his company
i swon, the NDP charged, because
: she knew the details in advance,
_ But Mr. Owen found that Mr,
| [Stewart had no involvement in
ithe decision to privatize the ser-
vice, and that there was no evi-
| |dence he had won the contract
through favoritism.
.. “As the government was
. encouraging employee propos-
vals, “ stated Mr. Owen, “Mr.
_ Stewart submitted a bid.” But
Mr, Stewart had to submit to the
+/same evaluation procedures as
his competing bidders, and many
of his proposals, states Mr.
" Owen, “were rejected.”
As for the later contract, for
: the Supreme Court, Mr. Owen
found that advance warning of
. the privatization was leaked by a
, ministry employee, but that the
leak had circulated widely and
Mr. Stewart himself had learned
: of it from competitors.

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The CWC study used a com-
plicated process to conclude that
B.C. forests were worth four to
eight times more than the current
stumpage revenues would sug-
gest, but suggested that
stumpages themselves of over
$711 million last year would have
to increase by between 64 per
cent and 150 per cent to make up
the shortfall.

The implications of the study,
conducted by the FRC and
included in its report repleased
earlier this year, are damaging to
the major, long term tenure hold-
ets, who pay for crown wood

ed, because they set their own
price. by competitive bidding.
Indeed, the CWC used the Prices
produced by their bidding in its
calculations,

This is just the latest in a
series of Forest Ministry moves
which appear to undercut the
FRC. Last week Mr. Richmond
created a four-man panel to look
at the commission's recommen-
dations to change the tenure sys-
tem.

But while the FRC recom-
mended two things —cutting in
half the area allotted to the large
tenure holders, while giving them
a securer hold over the forests
they were left with—Mr. Rich-
mond's announcement mentioned
only the second of these—the
one, in fact recommended by the
large tenure holders.

What's more the panel’s job,
according to member Clark Bink-
ley, will be to prepare a “green
paper” which will look at all
forms of tenure now practised in

the world, reducing the FRC's ;

using a st Tate |

_ by the forest service.

The independent loggers who
survive on five-year awards of

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individual ministries from 20 to
nine, by combining Education
and Advanced Education and Job
Training into the Ministry of
Learning, and Health and Social
Services inte ; fometning called
Quality of Life

The old ministries would sur-
vive as branches headed by asso-
ciate ministers, but is

ination of admi

licr told SNS, the plan would
eliminate policy conflicts and
delays while proposals “get
bounced around between bureau-
crats. We've got to be more | deci-

up leadership race

Called “an idea that is just as zany
as anything former Premier Bill
Vander Zalm dreamed up.” Mr,
Shields said how the government
was structured was unimportant

The BC Gi

with i policy

sive, show more k
Employ-

ecs Union didn’t think much of
Mr. .Couvelier’s decisiveness,
BCGEU President John ‘Shields

facing it about the envi-
ronment, forests, and health care.

services would greatly reduce

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Mr. Couvelier' S plan also
called for the replacement of
‘Treasury Board, a committee of
cabinet which oversees the Prepa-
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More importantly, Mr. Couve- Lemonade -

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asked the forest service itself to
Prepare a green paper on the idea
of a code and how it might best
be implemented, again relegating
the FRC's two-year, $3-million
worth of public hearings and
expert reports on the forest sector
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including those of the Forest
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