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EDITORIAL

Socreds could
set example

The decision of Premier Bill Vander Zalm to retire from public
life, data ised news conft y afternoon in
Vancouver, ends a contentious and difficult public period in this
province's political history.

Just five days ago the premier was in our community wearing his
trademark smile and giving the impression of someone on the
political trail who was very much enjoying himself.

In fact, he promised he’d be back in the Rossland-Trail riding
when an election was eventually called.

Now, a few short days later, he’s his retii i

We'ye commented before on Premier Vander Zalm’s leadership
and don’t propose to do so again today. Rather, we offer a
suggestion on how the British Columbia Social Credit Party might
consider conducting its leadership contest, a method that would set a
democratic standard for membership involvement that would be an
example to every other political party in Canada. ~

The method is simple: give every Social Crediter the right to vote
for the new leader by going to a ballot box set up at various locations
in all the ridings in our province. Simply put: One person, one vote,
the essence of democracy.

The method would also help r
be in disarray.

Instead of a huge convention in some place such as Whistler or
Vancouver where the strong differences the various leadership can-
didate supporters feel might well fester and divisiveness emerge as more
of a certainty than unification behind a popular leader, the Socred
provincial board should implement the plan first proposed very early
in Mr. Vander Zalm’s controversial premiership.

The effect, we believe, would be a completely revitalizéd Socred
party as expired ips are and new bers join the
organization to have their say in discussions of policy, to receive the
right to attend regional meetings staged by the candidates, and to
have their vote count equally with every other as to who the new
leader and premier should be.

The British Columbia Social Credit Party has an opportunity to
truly regain its populist roots, and by nurturing those roots it has the
opportunity to retain government as truly a party of the people.

a party ged to

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Residents urge safety priority

As the Ministry of Highways plans the
Castlegar-Robson bridge, we would like to urge
that full consideration be given to all aspects of
pedestrian and cyclist safety, especially school
children.

The school bus circles through Robson over
the dam and down Arrow Lakes Drive and picks
up children at numerous stops along the way
including the ‘‘Water Fountain."’ The “‘Water
Fountain” is a major school bus stop
encompassing a large number of children from the
Ferry Avenue apartments and surrounding
neighborhood. The preferred Site No. 3 bridge
exit on the Castlegar side appears to be in direct
conflict with this major school bus stop. We are
very concerned with the threat to our children’s
safety which this intersection would appear to
Pose.

Arrow Lakes Drive also has its fair share of
cyclists, joggers and pedestrians. In the proposed

upgrade of Arrow Lakes Drive we hope the
ministry will include wide paved shoulders to
Promote pedestrian and cyclist safety.

Ideally, we would like to see Celgar provided
with its own thoroughfare for the exclusive use of
Ceigar and Westar traffic placed on the north side
of the railway tracks. This would ensure the least

I looked around for any sign of someone
tending it and saw that it had already burned up
the hill towards the Pass Creek ballfield. I called
the Robson fire department and within five
minutes the first firefighter arrived.

social disruption and hazard to safety especially to
the many residents along Arrow Lakes Drive who
will be subject to 300 trucks a day driving in front
of their homes.

Kris Stanbra

Sarah Fry

Concerned residents of Arrow Lakes Drive

Fire proves value

Upon arriving home after a bike ride on March
21, I discovered the field next to and behind our
trailer in Raspberry on fire.

He then assessed the fire and called the pumper
truck. In another five to seven minutes it was
there. Other firefighters responded to the call,
arriving in their cars. They were efficient, assertive
and very effective.

Thank you Robson firefighters. It’s sure nice
to have you on our side of the river.
Kathy Eiche
Robson-

REMEMBER WHEN

4 YEARS AGO
From the March 29, 1951
Castlegar News

The Village Clerk, A.T, Horswill
reports that the 25 horse power
motor for our water system is on its
way and will be installed im-
mediately, This will serve to increase
both water pressure and fire protec-
tion, r

r Monat Team,

Word has been received by the
Castlegar and District Chamber of
Commerce to the effect that the
Canadian Pacific Express Service for
Castlegar will start on Monday,
April 2.

25 YEARS AGO
From the March 31, 1966

News

Up-to-date costs of a paving
program for Castlegar are expected
any day now from the town’s con-
sulting engineers, Ald. Jim Corbett
told a meeting of the Castlegar
Development Association on Mon-
day night.

Mr. Corbett said flu in the office
of Associated Engineers at Van-
couver had delayed preparation of
the material.

Mr. Corbett.said it is hoped to go
to a 22-foot width in paving, but
noted that thére are some streets
which can’t take this width. He said
he hopes that costs would be kept
well under $500,000 and that the
bylaw will be acceptable to
ratepayers.

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Ken Ti ico, Castlegar and
District Hospital’s accountant, has
been appointed acting hospital ad-
ministrator for the. next three mon-
ths, hospital board chairman Ross
McCutcheon announced this week.

He fills the vacancy created by the
recent departure of former ad-
ministrator Angus Haines. Mr.
Haines is now administrator at the

Freedomites Mary Braun and Tina Ji
pte rte granted
imbulance to Castlegar after a 47-
ths week. ‘ 4:

new Grand Forks hospital.

Mr. Talarico has worked in this
area for about six years. Before
coming to the hospital about 15
months ago, he worked for the
Castlegar accounting firm of Mac-
beth and Moroso.

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The mothers of Gibson Creek who
last week threatened to keep their
children away from school yesterday
unless the condition of the school
road was improved Tuesday night,
temporarily withdrew their
ultimatum this week after receiving a
letter from Welfare Minister W.D.
Black, MLA for Nelson-Creston.

In his letter, Mr. Black — in
whose constituency Gibson Creek is
located — said he would be ‘‘pleased
to look into the matter and to con-
tact the department of highways on
your behalf.’’

imaeff, both serving el; ir
role and flown Mostra
ry hunger strike five years ago

On Monday work was carried out
on the road but a spokesman for the
mothers said it was i

subscribers in the Castlegar-Vallican
region.

District customer service manager
N.C. Bowman said the spending was
contained in B.C. Tel’s recently an-
nounced 1976 capital construction
Program, which calls for the expen-
diture of more than $290 million
during the year for service im-
provement work throughout the
company’s system.

5 YEARS AGO
From the March 30, 1986
Castlegar News

The two-day trial of Westar Tim-
ber Ltd. on charges that the com-
pany’s Celgar Pulp Operations
violated its pollution control permit
in May 1985 concluded Wednesday
in Castlegar provincial court with
Judge S.W. Enderton reserving
judgment until April 17.

The Ministry of Environment
charged- Westar in December with 29
counts of exceeding the maximum
daily allowable emissions of bivalent

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15 YEARS AGO

From the April 1, 1976

Castlegar News

After nine consecutive years of
service, chairman of the Castlegar
Hospital board, Nick Oglow, has
stepped down. Mr. Oglow made his
position known at Thursday’s an-
nual meeting of the Castlegar and
District Hospital Society.

This position has now been filled
by Chuck Dinning. Vice-chairman is
John Dalziel, treasurer Merv Rush
and recording secretary Mrs. D.
Cooper.

In his final report Mr. Oglow
stated it has been established by
various surveys that the greatest need
for hospital beds in this area is in the
field of extended care.

sulphur ds from Celgar’s
recovery boiler.

The alleged offences occurred on
29 days in May 1985.

Westar faces a maximum fine of
$50,000 on each count.

oe of

Sons of Freedom arsonists Mary
Braun and Tina Zmaeff were
released from prison Friday and flew
home to Castlegar.

Braun, 65, and Zmaeff, 61, both
serving eight-year sentences, ended a
47-day hunger strike and were gran-
ted parole Thursday.

Federal penitentiary service
Spokesman Diane Brown said they
left Matsqui prison in the Fraser
Valley Friday afternoon and
travelled by air ambulance to
Castlegar.

VIEWPOINT -

Consortium proposes to make paper out of pot

SYDNEY, Australia (Reuter) — A
consortium of Australian farmers
and environmentalists think they
have a better way to make paper.
Rather than chop down trees to
produce pulp; they would make it
from the Indian hemp plant —
marijuana.

Marijuana’s narcotic properties
naturally worry authorities in
Australia’s island state of Tasmania.

“I'm sure we would become a very
popular state if we started growing
Indian hemp legally and on a large
scale," said fan Colvin, a spokesman
for the Tasmanian premier’s office.

The consortium, Hemp for Paper,
submitted a proposal to Tasmania’s

making paper.

“Hardwood is not needed for
paper,”’ said Patsy Harmsen, a
spokeswoman for the 12-member
consortium. ‘‘Any fibre high enough
in cellulose will do and hemp is one
of the best.

“It’s been used for paper for hun-
dreds of years. Forestry companies
are afraid of what this could do to
them. It's cheaper for them to cut
down existing forests for next to
nothing than to grow their own
fibre.’”

Tasmanian development
authorities are studying the proposal.

An Australian authority on non-
wood fibres for paper, lan Wood of

rope was made from hemp until
about 1850.

Hardwood later became the staple
for the industry when North
American pioneers, clearing forests,
sought another use for all the timber
they chopped down

Today 93 per cent of the world’s
paper-is made from wood, and only
29 per cent of the paper is recycled.
Some seven per cent of paper is
made from bamboo, grasses, bagasse
sugar residue, and even wheat stalks
left after harvesting.

Some 226 million tonnes of wood
were pulped for paper in 1988, and
at current rates of demand growth,
this will triple by 2020.

grades of wood paper. It can be
recycled seven times, compared with
wood paper’s three, and does not
need ¢fyironmentally damaging

Harmsen says hemp as a rotation
crop would suppress weeds, improve
soil, need no herbicides or pesticides
and would not damage soil fertility.

Researcher Wood says hemp,
when grown in temperate climates
like that of Tasmania, would yield
low amounts of the alkaloid resin
which gives the plant its narcotic

qualities.

“You'd probably have to smoke
100 kilos of it to get high, and you
would probably just end up with a

Research Organization's division of
tropical crops.

One plant similar to marijuana,
known as kenaf, offers most of the
same benefits for paper making
without the narcotic resin.

In a hot climate the plant grows to
a height of five-six metres in six to
eight months. It can produce some
26 tonnes per hectare of dry stem
material ready for processing, Wood
says.

Only one major pulp mill in the
world has used kenaf as @ primary
raw material, the Phoenix Pulp and
Paper Co. Ltd. in Thailand. It
produced 70,000 tonnes a year of
pulp from kenaf until 1985, sup-

kenaf with bamboo and eucalyptus
trees when it had difficulty getting
farmers to grow enough kenaf.

Some mills in India and the
Philippines use kenaf in making
paper, and Yugoslavia makes cigaret-
te paper from the plant.

Australia’s Northern Territory
government considers kenaf
economically viable for making
paper and is seeking private backing
for a 9,000-hectare plantation that
would produce 20,000 tonnes of pulp
a year.

Wood says marijuana may well
produce excellent paper, but because
of legal, bureaucratic and public per-
ception problems, its paper-making

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Chicken art extravaganza marks spring's debut

With the recent passing of vernal equinox, we

can feel things starting to heat up — the seasonal
malady known as spring fever. Some people are
cleaning out their closets and organizing garage sales;
others, I’m told, may be eyeballing new mates. Still
others are dusting off their chicken knick-knacks.

Hens forth . . . a Slocan Valley celebration of
spring:

My invitation to attend the First International
Chicken Art Extravaganza, held at the Vallican home
of writer Rita Moir, was not issued on one of those
gilt-edged cards with embossed script. It was hardly.
more than a mention, delivered with a casuainess that
belied its significance.

“Everyone has a chicken something-or-other,”’
Rita told me, by way of explaining the rationale for
the event. The exhibition was intended as a tribute to
the chicken and objets d’art inspired by the lowly
fowl.

Several local artists would attend with original
works of chicken art; others would bring items from
their everyday kitchen collection; still others would
give performances. The price of admission was any
bric-a-brac related to chickens.

1 was grateful for an invitation to such a shindig
— it sounded like something that would make the
society pages of the Slocan Valley. Nevertheless, |
had concerns:

First, I have generally sampled little from the
cultural smorgasbord of life that relates to art
galleries and exhibitions. What I haven’t been able to

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seemed paltry poultry next to the performance and
multi-media chicken art being advertised.

The most creative chicken-related object 1 could
think of sits right in my backyard, but there was no
way I could display a chicken coop on Rita’s lawn,
much less in her living room. I considered the simple
virtues associated with the creature in whose honor
the event was being held and decided on i

Winlaw artist Ann Swanson gave Sally Mackenzie
when she left her job to start a chicken heritage farm;
 papier-mache rooster which Rita’s mother sent her
for Christmas; a stained glass rooster created by
Phillip Pedini, also of Winlaw.

During this orientation, a video was being
historic, cultural and social significance of chickens.

Chicken art aficionados had come all the way

anybody gets competitive about chickens,"’ but this
was a high-powered happening.

For one thing, there was a lot of “‘squawking”
about legitimate chicken art. Chicken fans in the
crowd were quick to point out that some exhibits
were fakes.

One of these was Lucy, a thinly disguised stuffed
duck from the collection of Salmo artist Lynne
Anderson. Lucy apparently thought she could fool
everyone because of the chicken-like “comb” on her
head.

identify the chicken-shaped egg cup as part of my
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