Sunfest in photos Pioneer Days. got un: derway Friday night and continued Sotur- day. Photos... AS Good turnout Castlegar residents out-exercised Trail in last Wednesday's Par ticipaction Day challenge... AS bonus number was 29. 30 and 37. LOTTERY NUMBERS The winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6-49 draw were 2, 10, 16, 27, 38 and 47. The - The $1,000,000 winning number in Friday's Provincial. lottery draw is 2066394. There are also subsidiary prizes The winning numbers drawn Friday. in The B.C. Keno lottery were 4, 8, 20, 24, 25, 27, the sport, Castlegar Former drag boat Di racer Gary Bergeron now an announcer for says racers love coming to where Columbia River has the best water” for a race the the Vol. 41, No. 45 60 Cents CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY | JUNE 4, 1989 WEATHERCAST Today and Monday: Generolly sunny skies. Highs from 27-30 Probability of precipitotion is near 0 per cent both days 3 Sections (A, B &C) Student finds By CLAUDETTE SANDEC Staff Writer Working with battered women may sound like a grim way to spend the summer but for psychology student Tiffany Bai it’s the perfect summer job Bai, 18, plans to study criminal psychology because she wants to ‘‘un: derstand how and why people can be violent and cruel to each other.” Working at the WINS women’s shelter in Trail will give her lots of time to consider the effects of violence and she said the job means a lot more than tuition money to her, “‘1t’sa bonus because now I’m doing something for myself,"” she said in an interview with the Castlegar News. The fact she was able to find such a job for the summer amazes her, she said, and it amazes the placement of- ficers at the Student Employment Cen- tre in Trail where Bai found the job A summer position for a social ser vice worker is fairly unusual, student placement officer Jodie Zimmerman said, particularly this year, when there are more odd-job placements than usual There are currently about 190 jobs available, she said, and Bai is one of 125 students who have been placed so far out of the 363 who have registered with the centre Students can still register, she said, by coming to the Centre and filling out a registration form between 8:30 a.m and 4:30p.m One of the centre’s main goals this year is to place more students from Rossland and Castlegar, a news release said, and to that end the centre will be hosting an open house on Monday starting at 10a.m. Employers in the area are invited to drop by to meet Zimmerman and fellow placement officer Karen Popoff, the release said. As well, as part of Hire-A-Student week, the centre will play soccer games against the Nelson centre. The first game isin Trail June 5 at 6:30 p.m. and the second game is in Nelson June 8 at 6:30 p.m., followed by a barbecue pic- nic READY FOR ACTION . . . drag boat racing has become one of the most popular attractions at Castlegar's annual Sunfest celebrations. This year's event, with the theme Pioneer Days, got underway Friday and continues today at several locations around the city. The drag boat races were continuing Saturday night as the CasNews went to press. Complete results will be published Wednesday. More Suntest photos A3. 2 photo by Guy Bertrand Sunfest underwa By CasNewsStaff Sunny skies, a few clouds and warm temperatures greeted Castlegar residents and visitors who lined Columbia Avenue to watch the annual Sunfest Parade as a weekend of activities with the theme Pioneer Days got into full swing Saturday Castlegar Chamber of Commerce manager Bev Kennedy estimated the number of entries in this year’s parade at 65 to 70, closely matching the number of en tries which entertained parade enthusiasts last year Bruce Gerrand and Deb Chmara directed this year’s parade which saw the Warfield Firefighters come away with the award for best overall float In the non-commercial category, the City of Cran- brook took first place followed by the City of Trail in second and Kaslo in third. Debra Tompkins School of Dance took top prize in the commercial category with Columbia Saws second and the Castlegar News third. In the youth services category, Boy Scouts of Canada was first, Hobbit Hill Children’s Centre second and Awana Youth Association third The Castlegar and District Heritage Society won top prize in the novelty category with the Oldtime Fid dlers placing second In the equestrian category, BOFjords of Creston was first followed by Peter White and Peter Ferguson continued on page A2 Gas leakage common, Texaco says By CLAUDETTESANDECKI Staff Writer Gasoline contamination on the for- mer Texaco site at Castleaird Plaza is a “standard, everyday kind of problem” that happens at any facility that handles petroleum products, a Texaco official said last week. “You can find contamination at every site where there has been petroleum products,’’ Larry Geldart, Texaco senior sales supervisor in Kelowna said Friday. ‘‘That doesn’t mean there are any hazards or en- vironmental damage.’’ Jim Jensen of the Environment Ministry's Waste Management Branch in Nelson said last week that the site is contaminated with gasoline and will need a year to clean up, although building on the site can proceed at the same time. At the time of the -station’s demolition a few weeks ago, Geldart said the site was “clean as a whip after 25 years.”” The company believed the site to be clean at the time, he said Friday “We pulled a few truckloads of soil out and expected it to be completely clean.” Texaco environmental engineer Adrian Bakker said the company removed as much soil as possible and then bored holes down to the bedrock Vapors were detected down to 12 metres, he said, but only in one hole, meaning the contamination is isolated to an area where one tank was buried. Jensen said the contamination was probably due to improper tank-filling methods over the years. Geldart said there regulations 25 years, ago when the station was first built, and Bakker said even under the stricter regulations now leakage is possible. **Weeping”’ from one area of pipe can be fnough to cause contamination over stich a long period of time, he’ said. were no The clean up will require the in stallation of a vapor extraction system — lafge suction fans that draw out the vapors — in the base of any building put up onthe site, Jensen said. The process will take about a year, he said, and the equipment will be left permanently under the building. Bakker said an “on-site” meeting with Waste Management Branch of ficials and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce officials, who want to build a new bank on the site, will take place Tuesday to determine what needs to be done to clean up the site The process will be ‘relatively inex. pensive” by comparison to the $50,000 to $100,000 often paid for such cleanups because this site is not highly contaminated, he said. “Lots of sites are more con taminated — this one is not really dirty atall,”’ Bakker said As well, the process will not take more than a year because the soil is “very conducive to vapor extraction Jensen said his branch was called by the company and asked'to check on possible contamination before the demolition took place Geldart said it is routine for the Waste Management Branch to be called in when an old station is being taken apart and “‘he (Jensen) asked us to let them’ know if we were taking the tanks out.”" Jensen and other waste management officifls attended the demolition. The Bank of Commerce wants to build a new bank on the property and move its existing plaza facilities to the new site The bank has been negotiating a lease on the site with Gulf Pacific In vestments of Vancouver, which owns the plaza. George Holford, manager of prop: erty administration for the bank, said nothing has been finalized but negotiations could be concluded in a few weeks. Soviet journalist discusses career By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer When ending an interview, 25-year-old Soviet journalist Pavel Matyukhin sagely explains to his inter viewer, a reporter must make herself sound busy and in demand. Say you must rush off to a nightclub, he ad- vises Translator Wendy Voykin breaks into laughter before she can relay Matyuhkin’s advice, but he retains the calm professional demeanor that belies his youth and his enthusiasm for his job. A 25 he’s already been working for three years, all of that time under the umbrella of glasnost and perestroika, the new policies of openess and restruc- Soviets in other countries. SUNDAY FEATURE He’s never been censored, he says, but that wouldn't stop him. ““1 feel | would write under any system," he says Far from praising the freedom perestroika has brought, Matyukhin, in Castlegar for the recent Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ. Youth Festival, sounds cautious about the new policies Perestroika may be leading to a decline in the quality and quantity of writing about Soviet society, he says. The lifting of restrictions has made some writers unsure what to write about, he says. He cites the example of a rock group called Aquarium that put out a high volume of underground music during ‘‘stagnation’’ but is now writing much less. Part of the problem is internal censorship, bred during the years of oppression, he says One Aquarium song, Train, sums it up, he says, by saying that after 70 years of Soviet rule, the people are realizing the struggle is actually internal — the enemy is themselves. Matyukhin says he feels no such confusion since he is part of the younger generation that hasn't been “corrupted” by the past Nor does he feel the constraints of North American reporters who are taught to be ‘‘objective’’ in their reporting. Matyukhin says he writes in full support of perestroika in his news stories. “It is a poor journalist who only writes what hap- pened,"’ he says firmly. ‘‘One must always have a position. Then you are not just a journalist but.a per sonality,"’ something North American reporters are taught toavoid That difference in philosophy doesn’t mean much though, he says : “People of the: same profession are the same everywhere — they have the same drives, Either they write as they are told or they write what they want and take the lumps.”* Matyukhin writes as he sees fit about immigration, PAVEL MATYUKHIN +. confident visitors from other countries and the problems of young people under perestroika for the international depar tment of the weekly Voice of the Homeland, d paper for Soviets abroad. The paper, along with a magazine and a radio station, are run by Society Rodina, a non-governmental body that works to maintain cultural coritacts with Soviets in toher countries. Under Society Rodina ausp' Matyukhin was part of a delegation of young Soviets who came to Castlegar to participate in the USCC Youth Festival Matyukhin’s work with the paper includes editing a section called 100 questions, 100 answers that enlists the advice of experts to answer questions about Soviet history and social changes However, many of the questions are about rock music under perestroika, he says Matyukhin hopes his knowledge of English and his five years of journalism training at the prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Relations will help him land a foreign correspondant’s post some day But he is cagy about saying so in so many words, since to say he wants to move on would offend the pédple at his paper “It would be like asking Wayne Gretzky if he wants togotoanother team,”” he explains} tf hard-work atone will get-him the-post, he seems destined to go abroad. continued on poge A2