CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, November 2, 1978

Austin-McNabb Rites Solemnized *

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Edward Austin

"TAKEN SERIOUSLY’

continued from page Al

Local RCMP members at .

the meeting showed they were
“fully cognizant" of their role in
‘any major spill “which might
‘harm people and result in
evacuation,” he said.

Asked by Ald. Len Embree
what safeguards CanCel take

swith rail shipments of toxic
:'materials used at its local pulp
operation, Fowler said the
company has an emergency
team which is not as exten-
sively trained as the Cominco
‘team.

Embree said he was con-
cerned that the CanCel safety
procedures may not be suffi-
cient to protect the community
from the shipments of chlorine
used at the pulp mill,

“With the way stuff blows
down the river, if a chlorine car

were ruptured on that mill site
or close to it it would be here
before somebody from Cominco
could get here to help,” he said.

Fowler told council his
committee is also planning to
meet with representatives of
the trucking industry to discuss
safeguards for shipping dan-
gerous chemicals by truck.

“It's obvious to us all that
perhaps the control of toxic
materials on truck lines can't be
as well maintained as itis with
railway lines,” he said.

“The provincial ministry of
transport certainly doesn’t have
control over the truckers that
CP Rail has over the movement.
of tank ears on the railway, and
we hope to find out about that
control or lack of it at that
meeting.”

Two Castlegar’ families
were united when Robyn
Cicelia. McNabb exchanged
marriage vows with Stuart
Edward Austin at St. David's
Anglican Church in Castlegar
on August 26,

In a setting of assorted
flowers and red carpeting, Rev.
Des Carroll performed the
cere:nony for the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs, Norman A.
McNabb and the son of Mr, and
Mrs. Ted Austin,

The bride's brother, Mr.
John McNabb of Vancouver,
was soloist, presenting two of
his own compositions at the
ceremony.

Given in marriage by her
father, the bride wore a full-
length gown of pearl polyester
en train, fashioned with an
empire waistline, cap sleeves
and V-neckline trimmed with
Venetian lace. A dainty cap
accentuated with pearls, se-
cured her three-quarter length
veil of lace and she carried
three long-stemmed white
roses, The veil had been worn
by the bride's grandmother on
her wedding day.

Peach-colored full-length
gowns of polyester, with match-
ing chiffon capes were worn by
maid of honor Miss Jenny
Cheveldave of Castlegar and
bridesmaids Mrs. Gaye Cole-
man of Castlegar, Mrs. Sheila
King of California and Miss Joy.
McNabb of Castlegar. Each
attendant carried a single peach
rose, while flower girl Miss
Shawna Kaye McNabb of
Castlegar carried a basket of
carnations.

Master Timi Austin was
ringbearer.

Completing the bridal par-
ty was best man Mr. Bruce
Allingham of Castlegar and
ushers Mr. Nei] Austin, Mr.
Jerry Verigin and Mr. Alstan
Horswill, all of Castlegar.

For her daughter's wed-
ding, Mrs. McNabb chose a
dusty rose full-length pearl
polyester gown styled along
Grecian lines, with matching
coat and a gardenia corsage.
The groom’s mother wore a
formal gown of dusty blue pearl
polyester, with long sleeves
and round neckline.

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The reception was held at
the Regional Recreation Com-
plex, where the banquet room
was decorated with a floral
heart, several silver streamers
and trellises featuring salmon-
colored climbing roses.

Highlighting the head table
was the wedding cake, its three
tiers iced in-traditional white
and decorated with tiny pink
rosettes,

Master of ceremonies, Mr.
Doug McNabb of Castlegar,
read I

continued from page Al

George Murray said he simply
did not know what the effects
the diversion might have,
Castlegar director Mayor
Audrey Moore said she was

. “not speaking against the refer-

endum per se,” but said she was
directed by her city council that
if the plebiscite were ruled
illega! “Castlegar would not be
a part of it.”

Area A director Charlie
Wilson at first showed hesi-
tance to vote either way and
criticized directors for failing to

J
from Yuma, Ariz, and Golden,
B.C. Dr. Pat Fowler of Castle-
gar proposed the toast to the
bride.

For a honeymoon trip to
the Oregon coast and Califor-
nia, the bride donned a midi-
length aqua-green polyester
dress with matching jacket -
trimmed with lace en tone, and
wore a wrist corsage of yellow
baby roses.

Out-of-town guests were
from Vancouver, Golden, Prince
George, Invermere and Ques-
nel, B.C.; California; Edmon-
ton, Magrath and Draton Val-
ley, Alta.; and Montreal, Que.

The newlyweds are making
their home on Third Avenue in
Castlegar.

Pp their
but eventually asked for ex-

THE-IN

continued from page Al
mula is released by Nov. 15
or the end of the month the
engineering firm Kerr,
Wood and Leidal will be able
to start soon on establishing
preliminary designs for the
tie-in, he said.

Krug said the city,
whose Oct. 13 water licence
application for the tie-in is
still being processed by the
water rights branch, could
“start work this spring.”

clusion of his area from the
bylaw.

Later the board supported
a motion by the representatives
of four remaining participants,
Electoral Areas H (the rural
Slocan Valley) and J (the area
southwest of Castlegar) as well
as the Villages of Nakusp, and
New Denver, to rescind first
and second reading of the
plebiscite bylaw. Another re-
maining participant, the Village
of Silverton, was not repre-
sented at the meeting.

Area J director Martin
Vanderpol, making the motion,
told the board the intended
impact of the plebiscite “has
been lost.” He noted the refusal
af the East Kootenay, Koote-
nay Boundary and Columbia-
Shuswap regional districts, as
well as several RDCK direc-
tors, to participate in the
opinion poll on the grounds it
was premature.

“We regret the people of
the RDCK will be denied the
ability to express their opinion
on an issue that is of vital
importance to them,” Vander-
pol said. “We will continue to
pursue all possible avenues of
allowing the people to register
an opinion on this issue.”

RDCK directors also voted
Saturday to discuss at their

DCK DROPS POLL ON DIVERSION. -

Nov. 26 meeting the possibility
of securing from the municipal
affairs ministry a letters patent
giving the RDCK the power to
hold opinion polls,

Meanwhile, the City of
Nelson is scheduled to proceed
with an independent plebiscite
‘on the diversion Nov. 18,
Opposed by only one alderman,
Nelson city council voted Oct.
10 to conduct the poll regard-
less of its legal consequences.

Contacted Monday, a
spokesman for the Save the
Kootenay Committee, a group
opposed to the diversion be-
cause of its expected environ-
mental impact, described the
board's decision as “regret-
table." :

“We're pretty shocked and
disgusted, but we're not really

surprised,” Mike Jessen told
the Castlegar News, “We think
there was a fair amount of
pressure beiny put on the
RDCK directors by the pro-
vincial government." :

“We feel the hearts of the
directors were in the right
place,” he continued, “It's only
their intestinal fortitude that
wasn't there.” a

Jessen sald members of
the committee will meet in

* Nelson Saturday to plan their.

own regional plebiscite on the
proposed diversion. He said
volunteer canvassers will en-
able voters throughout the
region to cast secret ballots on
the issue, and the committee
hopes to release the results
around the original Nov. 18
date set for the plebiscite.

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Today fs Thursday, Nov. 2, the
306th day of 1978, There are 59 days
left in thu year, On this date 1755,
French Queen Marie Antoinette was

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Thursday, November 2, 1978

orn,

‘Three Genelle men charged
with obstructing uranium ex-
.Ploration July 10 felt the ex-
.Ploration was illegal and en-
.dangered the health of the 600
. tesidents in the area, according
. to their testimony last Wednes-
. day.in the second day of their
trial.

Charged with obstructing

en

: STRIKING MEMBERS of the Canadian
:, Union of Public Employees Local 1298 picket
‘employer School District No. 9 Friday after

Defendants’ Testimo eard

Manny Consultants Ltd, from
gaining access to its drilling site
in the China Creek waterstied
above Genelle July 10 are Brent
Lee, Herb McGregor and Eric
Taylor, all of Genelle.

They have openly admitted
blocking the road and prevent-
ing a bulldozer and other equip-
ment from being moved up the
access road, but have pleaded
not guilty to the charge. All

three claimed their action was
based on a desire to protect the
community's water supply.
Prosecution witnesses giv-
ing testimony ‘last Tuesday
included Manny ‘head Em-
manuel A ine, Nelson

‘being locked out when Nelson CUPE local

Ta pecet

members struck. Pictured are Doug Alch-
ards, Stan Jollimore, Michael Wennechuk
and local 1298 president Leo Plamondon.

—CasNewsFoto by Lols Hughes

Down 79° a Share

CanCel Profits Drop

CanCel reported Friday
sharply-reduced profits of $1.7
million or 14 cents a share for
the first nine months of 1978,

Apprenticeship
_ Included in ‘79
Capital Projects

. A new electrical appren-
ticeship program is provided
for in a $267,000 capital pro-
jects budget approved at the
Oct:--19 meeting of Selkirk
College council.

compared with $11.4 million or
93 cents a share in the same
period last year.

Sales were $129 million
compared with $119.5 million
for the first nine months of
1977.

In the third quarter, the
company reported profits of
$494,000 or four cents com-
pared with $2.2 million or 17
cents a share in the third
quarter last year. Sales for the
quarter were up to $39.9 million
compared with $37 million.

Donald Watson, president
and chief executive officer, said
the favorable exchange rate of
the Canadian dollar and strong
lumber markets were offset by
depressed prices for kraft pulp.

However, Watson said the
demand for pulp is steadily
improving along with a re-
eovery of world prices.

He said the company’s saw- °

mill operations here at Castle-
gar, severely damaged by fire
in June, will be back in full
production in January, four
months ahead of schedule.

inspector of mines Bruce Lang,
and written statements from
bulldozer operator Ralph Sim-
mons and members of the
RCMP at Castlegar and Nelson.

For the defence, Dr. Rob-
ert Woollard spoke in his
capacity as chief of the environ-

mental health committee of the .

B.C. Medical Association.

Last Wednesday's proceed-
ings opened before Judge Bruce
Josephson with testimony from
Ralph Torrie of Ontario, a
member of the Committee on
Nuclear Issues in the -Com-
munity. Torrie was accepted as
an expert on the subject of
uranium mining by Judge Jo-
sephson after some argument
by Crown prosecutor Peter
Moir of Grand Forks.

The thrust of Torrie's
testimony concerned findings of
various studies. and surveys
which showed that the general
public is ignorant of the nuclear
industry in general.

The more information
made available to the public, he
said, increases the public's
concern with respect to its
hazards,

Torrie declined to give his
assessment of public awareness
displayed at-a recent meeting
sponsored by the federal com-
mittee in Castlegar. He sug-
gested that most’ questions
posed to the panel of experts
were from people who were
obviously knowledgeable about
the issues. 4

Asked . about testimony
given Tuesday Torrie said he
felt the geologist “demon-
strated remarkably little know-
ledge of the medical and safety
aspects” of drilling for uranium.
He said he had no doubt that
dust and gas, possibly hazar-
dous, were released during the
blasting and drilling. “There is
always a risk involved when-
ever you release any radio-
active material from its natural
shell.”

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For Members Of

Torrie said Manny should
have taken certain simple steps
to held protect the environ-
ment:

ehe should not have
allowed drill and blast holes to
remain uncovered during the
winter of 1977-78;

e he should. have taken
care not to work too close to
China Creek;

e and he should have is-
sued radiation dosimeters to all
workers at the site.

“Lcan’t say what the safety
and health risk has been at
China Creek," Torri ud

Genelle Trio Cite Need to Guard Watershed |

ERIC TAYLOR, HERB
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IcCGREGOR, BRENT LEE:
to blockade uranium hunt

had instructed the water war-
den to erect a sign which would

“No one has ever established
what the levels of safety in
uranium ion should be.”

prohibit h d access to
the watershed area.
As far as he knew, he

He did say, however, that the
only difference between ex-

‘ ploratory drilling and actual

mining of radioactive ore is just
a matter of degree.
McGregor, Taylor and Lee
all gave testimony on their own
behalf, answering general ques-
tions about the events that led
up to the fon on July

that sign

in position from then on, in a
spot where anyone using the
access road was bound to see it,
(Last Tuesday, Manny had
testified that he was unaware
he was in a watershed until he
was told about in July this
year.)

M

Kenzie described the

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FALL CLEANUP PROGRAM

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10. All said they were genuine-
ly concerned about the risk to
their community, and that none
had ever been in trouble with
the law before.

“L felt morally bound to do
what I did,” McGregor said.
“We wanled to do everything
as legally as possible — but we
felt we had to stall for more
time.”

All three men said they sat
down on the road in a ‘spur-of-
the-moment’ decision. Taylor, a
leader in the Boy Scout move-
ment, said he teaches Scouts to
stand up for their beliefs and
principles.

“It was my personal be-
lief," he said, “that Manny

should, not be allowed to come |

in and tear up our way of life.”

The final witness for the
defence was Tom MacKenzie,
one of the Genelle residents
who took an active role in a
locally organized committee of
concerned citizens. He said the
committee of nine people was
established on April 26 this
year “to communicate with the
government to find out what
was going on in our watershed,
and to prevent further explora-
tion.”

MacKenzie said that in
1965, as chairman of the Gen-

elle Improvement District, he

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