The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, December 12; 1990 y Barbara Tandory *-It's hard to play a pro wien you're newly elected to office, as Alderman Jim Chapman found while trying to find his way through the council package at the council's first regular mecting Monday. Chapman—an author of a historical novel which has brought him regional acclaim and national recognition —admitted he didn't know yet what to do with letters he received as an alderman, “I have people approach me," he said, wondering aloud whether to take their messages to council or to city staff. “I guess I should be talking to my mentors,” be resolved. “Chapman was not alone as a new face around council table. With the .| €Xception of Alderman Lawrence Chemoff—tbe only incumbent at the Council table since Doreen ied the mayor’s chair as an acting mayor in Audrey Moore's absence — — the new council featured the newly elected Kirk Duff and Bob Pakula, a former alderman absent from council since 1986, *Acting mayor Smecher noted that since the council is new its business would be brief. “Since we're only a'week old council, I just want to on the Chri d ions,” she said, noting that the outdoor holiday finery displayed represents $5,000 worth of new decorations added to the old Santa stuff. “$5,000 didn't buy us a lot of decorations,” said Smecher. Last Christmas season city council decided to splurge on new decorations, partly in attempt-to follow Trail’s example of displays on power poles. Having, failed to talk West Kootenay Power into the decorating spirit, the city had to spend some of the budgeted $5,000 on \ power pole hook-ups. .*Castlegar council is going in the next P: challenge. Thus, on May 29, 1991; Castlegar will enter into the annual Crown Life fitness competition with the city of Revelstoke — and a city of Embetsu in the more distant Japan. Alderman Pakula took it upon himself to issue the challenge to Revelstoke to defend its title and, after asking city staff for help with pronunciation, to the Embetsu, Castlegar’s sister city. *The city hall will be completely computerized in the near future, after council voted funding approval to provide the remaining five city Pp) with and software at the cost of $34,000. The will have the city’s ition plan, first it presented i in a Sepiemnber 1990, council voted to donate $600 to the city of Castlegar Social Club for its annual Christmas party. The Party will be a potluck affair, held at the Legion Hall on Dec. 15. * The recent changes of dates and format of the council meetings have for the month of January. “There’s been a problem with our meeting schedules,” said Smecher, explaining how difficult it was to have four public council meetings after the new council decided to meet as a Committee of the Whole every first and second Tuesday of the month and to move its regular meetings from the second and forth Tuesday to the second and forth Monday of each month, The month of January has thrown a monkey wrench to this scheduling because the first Tuesday is New Year’s Day, a statutory holiday. City administrator Gary Williams observed that “that will happen (only) every time there's a five-Tuesday month and the first is a Tuesday.” As Smecher wryly note, “the deputy clerk assures me that the rest of 1991 is OK.” In January, council will meet on the 8th and 22nd as a Committee of the Whole, at 5 p.m., and will hold its regular meetings on Jan. 14th and 28th. @ Discord Continued from 1A who pushed for _ the modemization and expansion can take credit for those improvements.” “The environmental review Process does not protect the environment,” said Hammond in the Coalition release. “We in this area do not want water and air polluted one second longer than necessary,” said long-term sustainability of the forest. D'Arcy is concerned with the here and now. “We know there is an enormous mass of surplus wood chips in this region,” he said. “With the normal sawlog volume cut in southeast B.C., over 60 per cent ends up as surplus which is ‘shipped to the U.S., to Japan, to Korea: And that doesn’t count the sawlogs left on the ground. The D'Arcy. “I’m also really proud the West Kootenays will have the most modem, cleanest mill in the world. A model for the ee mn concern was if something didn’t bappen locally, it could happen elsewhere. Elsewhere in the world. 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And the’ "surprise" resignation of Environment Minister John Reynolds may be the surest evidence that the grass roots with 47 per cent. With Grace McCarthy as leader, however, Social Credit would come out far ahead of the NDP, by a 47-41 margin. One Socred party president who admits she is teetering on the edge of the revolt says the figures actually "favoured Social Credit. The poll's demographics had fewer young, first-time voters and women than the electorate, and both groups dislike Vander Zalm more than others." The Tclep-Tuininga effort was aimed at getting the party's board of directors, at a meeting two weekends ago, to call a special convention. But when the pair, revolt is catching on. snorted one cabinet advisor on Monday," just wants to distance himself from the government, and then say I'm just standing here on the high moral ground because I believe in a clean environment and what do I see but a grassroots movement." What do we see, indeed, but a grassroots movement? The instigators are a pair of party Ken Tu i of _ five other p Pp d by two, three, four or the party's constitution allowed. The board told them, in effect, to put up or shut up, expecting the latter. Instead the dissidents are campaigning hard to force the. board to call a special convention. special convention votes on one question by secret ballot: "Do you wish to have a leadership convention?” A simple majority is required in favour, If the yeas bave it, the board may call. the To get that, special calling for it must be passed by 75 per cent majorities of at least’ 15 riding association’ general meetings called with 14 days notice. Mr. Tuininga et al are now busily trying to persuade riding to call those He sounds confident this is achievable, claiming the support of “more than enough" presidents. The “teetering” president said one scenario would see only five or six ridings holding the all on whose story you believe, presented their brief to the board, they had no names, only the claim that 25, 27, or 17 (again, . depending on whose story you believe) riding presidents also wanted a special convention. Only a special convention or the first annual party meeting after a general « election defeat can call a But the Coquitl ville and bly short Donna Telep of Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows. Esquimalt Socred stalward Byron ute helped by it fell of what's required to force a special convention, and for this d to gleeful overexposure in the news media. “Then the dissidents would go - back to the board and say ' there, now do you want us to keep going until we get to 15, or will you and anytime from two to 10 months later, This clearly gives Premier , Vander Zalm plenty of time to call a general election. "I truly believe,” said Mr, Tuininga, “he'd give one ideration to the recreate a free enterprise party that + could win an election.” It is the growth of: this desperate conviction that is fuelling the dissidents, The party leadership is arguing that there isn't time to organize a leadership race before the next election must be called. "That's a red herring," says the teetering president. The government's mandate expires next December, “and the welfare of the province and the party.” Added a cabinet aide: "he'd have to be crazy to go an election without his party's support. "I've never believed he didn't put the interests of the party first," But a third party insider said that many senior Socred advisors such as pollster Patrick Kinsella and the premier's principal secretary Jerry Lampert take the threat of a snap election very seriously. Iti is this fear he has so sf would accept us waiting until then if we had a good reason, like picking a new leader." And who might that be? Ex- Environment Minister Reynolds is widely seen as a candidate, and his resignation, ostensibly sparked by Premier Vander Zalm's rejection of tougher anti-pollution mea- sures, as a campaign ploy. “This resignation," said NDP leader Mike Harcourt, "has more to do with Socred politics than pollution.” Added a cabinet aide: Spare us all the call the special convention.” This president felt the special. resolution had a good chance of passing, even-with the stiff, 75 per cent requirement. She thinks many of the premier's hitherto most ardent supporters were disillusioned by his failure to reason were dismissed as b poll, while the raclatatiters circulated what amounted to a petit ion calling for special convention to other presidents, The poll showed that Social Credit would get only 33 per cent of the vote in an election held now with Mr, Vander Zalm as leader, while the New Democrats (remember them) would form the They hoped, according to the who is ‘that PP their defe of the Christianity clause when it was deleted at the October party ion. Others were all that talk about the party being a family was true. They expected to be given a fair hearing, and not treated like troublemakers." That is, they expected, “naively,” the teeterer admits, that the party board would call the special convention on its own hook, as by the Premier's revelation that he had a controlling interest in Fantasy Gardens during several years of denying it. The board, once presented with a motion from 15 ridings, must call the special convention, but it has six months to do so. The Star reporter back from space The Daily Telegraph TOKYO The first journalist in space d to Earth after The only thing he eight days aloft with Soviet “Special Prices.in Effect Now. Until Dec. : Look for advertisement in the West Kootenay Adverse 8 & wv To) =; WELCOME CANADIANS FRYERS Fre: ; Vatue Washington Grown. M E ATS Western Family. pect \atislos: Challenge Bumble Bee, ; fh water or oil. 3 fork lor Television mn: Many other gi at Pi t be present to win. LOW PRICE MS EACH WEEK really wanted to talk about was his children's exam results. Toychiro Akiyama, a reporter for the Tokyo Broadcasting System, landed in a |, She said, which has prevented the paid help from assisting the dissidents, "But they all know that with Vander Zalm we are going to be decimated.” Depending on how the vote breaks riding to riding, the Socreds could win as few as 10 seats. Then, she predicted gloom- ily, "it could take 12 years to has been looking for a month for an issue to resign on." He noted how Mr. Reynolds cancelled the Duncan fish of commented that "I have some concern the whole ‘issue might have been manufactured." Did other maneavres by Mr.Reynolds make him. think that? “Ob heavens, heavens, no," replied Mr. Couvelier, with unchar- acteristic irony. The cabinet vote on Mr. Reynolds tough new dioxin restrictions broke in an interesting way, according to reports: along with Premier Vander Zalm on the minority side were two other Devel-opment Minister Stan Hagen and Forests Minister. Claude Richmond. (The premier then exercised his veio by. refusing to sign the Order-in- Council for the approved regulations.) Mr, Reynolds can now run as a champion of the environment, a white knight standing out from a badly tarnished party. Both Messrs. Couvelier and Richmond have recently com-, mented on the grassroots revolt, describing it as-"serious" and the ion itself as “real”. y project b Finance Minister Mel Couvelier's spending cutbacks, though capital projects vera affected. And M: and in need of being addressed. How long before Mr. Reynolds notices it and then all the other often souted asa candidate to succeed Mr. Vander Zalm, begin to admit the king has no clothes on? Slovak state sovereignty undermining country states Havel in- emergency address to MP's The Daily Telegraph PRAGUE President Vaclav Havel d ded i d P 1 powers Monday to combat growing separatism in Slovakia, saying that Czechoslovakia’s existence was under threat. In an emergency address to MPs, on the first i ry of was to put p on MPs. A source close to the President described him as "furious", A statesmanlike Mr Havel, who has tried to remain above political disputes, made his toughest speech ing two central Europe's shaky stability "We would become the first country to disintegrate since the Second World War." Tf the Slovaks were serious, the President said, the new states would find their borders were not d; that i ‘ional yet, Bills, the first blishi court to settle the of C oe Mr Havel said if the Slovak State Assembly declared itself sovereign be would rule the move field in the Soviet Kepublic of Kazakhstan with the two Soviet crew of a'Soyuz space capsule. Dazed but cheerful, he emerged from the capsule to find a microphone thrust in his face by aTBS crew. “I feel like I don't have any legs," said Akiyama, 48, wobb! but added "such a decision would signal the disintegration of our country”. i The 72-year-old Czechoslovak” federation has been wracked by dispute over devolution for five months. Federal ministers said they bad made an endless string of concessions to the Slovaks. The crisis was sparked by Slovak mini who di after eight days of weightlessness. that the federal assembly Pass a "I really want to eat tasty, have a smoke and a beer." He added: "I've come back to Earth full of desires." Akiyama spent six days in the Soviet Mir space station. haring Bill The Slovak premier, Mr Viadimir Meciar, said the was a “The second would pave the way for referendums on contentious issues, 2 clear threat to appeal over the heads of Slovak politicians to the people. Opinion polls suggested only 16 per cent of Slovaks want separation. Then Mr Havel surprised MPs by demanding increased powers, pointing out his only: current option was to use troops and remarking: “I believe you know me well enough not to suspect that I desire to increase my personal power." He said a Bill containing unspecified powers would be declaration of sovereignty. President Havel and others responded with outrage, arguing it Pp top soon. Mr Havel said separation would have consequences beyond the country's borders, damaging would be susp and the European peace process damaged. Economic collapse and social upheaval would probably destroy democracy. Grim-faced federal ministers listened to Mr Havel's 20-minute speech, later rising with MPs in a near unanimous standing ovation. , ‘Communist MPs, who support Slovak demands, remained seated. But politicians said that it seemed almost impossible to avert a major Czechs argued that Mr Meciar had polarized the dispute to such an extent that other Slovak politicians were terrified to defend the federation publicly. A Westem diplomat described the situation as grave and referred to Mr Meciar as "an unguided missile" whose next move could not be predicted. Committee recommends reconsidering Polar 8 OTTAWA (SNS) Canada should acquire conventionally powered sub- marines and deploy an acoustic sensor system in the Arctic, additional aircraft. An increase in the military’s air surveillance capabilities is also advocated and the Canadian Maritime Air Group has reportedly to a Parli y Comm ying re sovereignty. The all-party committee's report, discussed in a recent issue of ‘Jane’s Defence Weekly’, issued a for a patrol aircraft to succeed the CP-121 Tracker fleet, the withdrawal of which has led to a 50 per cent reduction in coastal maritime surveillance and EEZ (Economic ¢ the reconsider its cancellation of both the Arctic Class 8 polar i Zone) patrols, The recommendations reflect control over and the project to increase the fleet of 18 Lockheed CP-140 Aurora long-range patrol aircraft with six for the Arctic and the need for naval air, surface and underwater capabilities. The committee's study of maritime sovereignty covers the military, economic and envi- ronmental threats to Canada. The MPs concluded that the government should develop a comprehensive oceans policy to define the importance of the Canadian Forces “in guaranteeing national sovereignty and how the armed forces may be of greater There is mo such policy at the moment and six federal de- partments share the respon- sibilities for management of the London bids on Olympics in year 2000 ‘The Daily Telegraph LONDON London launched its bid Monday to bring the Olympic Games to Britain in the year 2000. But Manchester will also be a contender if the nation's Olympic Association decides Britain should put forward a candidate. Sebastian Coe, the double Olympic 1500 metres champion, _ held aloft the torch used to light London's 1948 Olympic flame before chairing the inaugural mecting of the bid’s co-ordinating committee. “London is the right Pai to launch the new century from," Coe said. "It's important for He country both domestically and intemationally." ‘Among: London's backers are +; footballer: Gary Lineker and former. pop star, turned bus- » inessman; Adam Faith, It is > believed that a bid boasting such historic facilities as Wembley, ‘that: ¢is\ hoped will) prove le, first.to the BOA, then to the International Olympic Committee. “London has many of the venues in position, we have history and we have a large com- mercial centre”, Mr. Coe ex- plained. “London has put together a bid which is viewed internationally as the only realistic one. We would not be looking for support from the public purse. Long gone are the day when the Olympics were a burden on local taxpayers.” Mr. Coe said bringing the Games to London was an op- portunity to restore Britain's conclusion that a second attempt might yield better dividends once they bad canvassed opinion both at bome and abroad. “First, though, we have to wait for the decision of the BOA on Dec. 19 whether any British city should bid. If that vote is positive, the BOA will lay down certain criteria to be fulfilled by any city wishing to bid." “Our major supporters are behind us", said Mr Scott, "and we have had commitment of new financial support for another bid. Since the decision on the 1996 Games I have talked to about 40 b of the to more influential positions in world rt. “For a long time we have lost our presence in the corridors of power around the world”, he said. “It is very important this country can put its feet very firmly back on the world platform of sport.". Manchester, who | - were unsuccessful in their attempt to win the nomination for the 1996 Olympic,Games, reached the Olympic Committee. Had I been given the impression that we have been wasting our time, we should have had to think again. But without exception, they have said they are pleased we are throwing our bat . into the ring again." Other cities which have already expressed an interest in staging the 2000 Olympic Games are Melboume, Berlin and Peking. country’s maritime affairs. Also, Canada does not currently have a submarine programme, following the can- cellation of ambitious plans to. acquire up to 10 nuclear-powered SSNs in 1989. However, several European- base submarine builders have been preparing for a re-opening of a Canadian submarine require- ment, most noticably UK-based VSEL, Netherlands-based RDM and the Swedish company Kocums. Kockums is likely to bid either its Type 471 (ordered by the RAN) or a version of the A-199 on order for the Swedish navy. VSEL is preparing to bid a version of the Type 2400 “Upholdex” class SSK and RDM hopes to offer a “Walrus” class or the newer “Moray” class boat. Santa Claus a sex symbol? CLEVELAND Renter A man who spent 40 years playing Santa Claus said Monday the jolly old elf seems to have more going for him than presents and Christmas cheer. “It's strange, but Santa is a sex symbol to some women I've found over the years, especially those who have a drink or two at Pattics: 4 and have tried, unsuccessfully jin... my case, to seduce old Santa, said Ralph Gertz. ; Gertz, 61, a former film editor for a Cleveland television station, has been playing Santa’ on’ volunteer basis. for a Christmases. He said i retirement home will be far: from i the North Pole - somewhere it Florida.