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Bashing the
forest industry

If the changing of the decade, from the 80s to the
90s, is to be known for anything Forest Industry
Bashing just might take the prize.

Sometimes it seems like there are those who just
need something to whine about and the Forest
Industry has something for everybody.

Timber harvest? All those clearcuts leave God-
awful blotches in the pristine wildemess. The recre-
ational value of the land is lost.

Silviculture? Not enough of it. Takes too long. It
isn’t Nature’s way to plant a monoculture. Prescribed
buming releases C02 into the atmosphere.

ills? Antiquated beehive bumers produce
flyash — and see prescribed buring, above.

Pulp mills? They emit. They smell,

The forest industry has been described as the
motor that makes the P of British C rt
mun. All of the above are essential parts of that motor.
Parts that have, for the most part, been retooled for a
new era.

Referrred to as Visual Objectives, clearcuts are
hidden away or disguised as natural openings for aes-
thetic reasons. Cutting permits are set aside as recre-
ational d ds for woodlands i More
young trees are planted than ever before. Forest dis-
tricts are i to reducing smoke emissions by
30 to 50 per cent. Beehive burners are being
replaced. Pulp mills are required to meet new emis-
sion standards.

Some of these changes are good and necessary.
Some are just plain silly.

Twenty years ago, clearcuts were a way of life.
They were just there. No one was offended. There
was no reason to be. Still isn’t. Now massive
clearcuts on the far side of the mountain are neces-
sary to make up the money lost logging the artsy-
fartsy ones within the public view, The artsy-fartsy
ones that suffer from a great deal of blow-down
around their camoflagued edges.

Although man may plant a monoculture on
logged-over land, Mother Nature will still kick in her
part and provide other species through natural regen-
eration, And Mother Nature is a firm believer in
buming the forest to renew it. That release of C02 is
a mere drop in the bucket compared to what spews
out of car and truck exhausts.

What if the Forest Industry simply said, “enough!”
and picked up its marbles and went home?

Prized old-growth forests would die a natural
death, fall down, and rot — assuming a good-sized
forest fire didn't take them first.

The economy wouldn't be too far behind.

Perhaps it’s time to acknowledge the changes that
are good, be sensible about the changes that are not,
and, most of all, continue to improve what we can
without destroying the goose that laid the golden egg
in the process. :

BEN ROREERINGS

By Don Addis

i

16 1990 Creators Syrcteate, he

guage of our forebears |

Ron
Jeffels

Syndicated
Columnist

When the brain congeals and the
words won't come, when the idea
dies and we're living on the jagged
edge of linguistic endurance, we
revert to the language of our remote
animal forebears: the simple, rude,
untutored gesture,

If you want proof, watch the grins
and the grimaces, the flicks and the
tics,the shrugs and the tugs of any
host when the full: d

outside a specific country or
linguistic group. I was into the age of
pride and puberty before I un-
derstood what that Italian kid, the
one who ran the local Grade 8
Mafiosa and Cosa Nostra meant
when he inserted a longitudinal
thumb into that sabre-scar mouth of
his, bit down hard, then extracted it
suddenly with a snort and an insult.

I think it had ing to do with

shrug lacked. . . well. . . a certain je
ne sais quoi.

The head absorbs the neck in its
entirety, then disappears slowly
beneath the level of the shoulders.
Simultaneously, the fingers spread
like the feathers of a lofting eagle,
the arms rise in listless resignation,
while the head cants slightly to the
left, then rises through a short arc of

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our lifelong vendetta, irreconcilable
dif and his oft-exp d
desire to terminate me with the
utmost prejudice. I always give him
the raised index of contempt by way
of reply. He understood. 7
Some gestures belong so directly
and intimately to a society that they
cannot be rep d by mere

P Brees.
Only the French can do it

“properly. So don't even try. And

remember that some gestures change
their i iP pendi

on where you use them, Take the
North American bye-bye or the
British ta-ta wave of farewell. The
right hand is raised, the palm

P

script for the totally

Take the deep, con-

talk
show inexplicably fades from the
h

i 1 shrug of ii and
indifference, of disbelief and distrust.
I intain that no man born

P e
Cheetah up the tree to Jane in the
jungle.

Don’t think I'm knocking the
language of our simian ancestors. I'm
not. A skilled practiti of the

outside the hexagon of France can

reproduce it with any measure of
authenticity. .

Trudeau the politician, not the

ist came close to it, but his

primitive gesture can say almost
anything with the crooked hand and
the curved finger, except perhaps
‘Vote Tory. Coke Is It, E=MC squared or
that other clever one about the square
on the hypotenuse.

Some gestures are understood
universally and recognized imme-
diately: a non-vocal lingua franca, if
you like. Take that one so frequently
used by drivers in British Columbia.
It's also understood in London, New
York, Berlin, Bangkok and Paris,
although the French sometimes add
an acute accent to it, just to be
different. The middle finger of the
right hand is suddenly stiffened, then
pointed upwards with a snort, savage,
brutal thrust. That gesture is used
primarily by the fifth driver to turn
left on a red light, but it's also
employed as a greeting to hesitant
old ladies on designated crosswalks.

Other gestures have little currency

Slings
and
arrows

igel
q Hannaford
Syndicated
Columnist

The insinuation that you somehow
become a blithering idiot i

d facing the departing loved

salute? No reason why you should,
That one goes back to Age of
Chivalry, armor, mace and lance.

‘The knight raised a band to lift his
visor so that be could be recognized:
"Me,friend!". It also indicated that
Sir Galahad had no lethal weapon
concealed in his palm, And that
brought a measure of solace and
comfort to the horse approaching in
the opposite direction.

And Churchill's famous hand-up,
palm-out, two-fingered V for Victory
sign can be explained in several
ways. It may derive from the homs
of Satan and the conventional insult
to the cuckold, the husband deceived.

But two fingers raised, palm-in
this time, is a violent gesture of
derision and defiance.

one and the wrist moves languidly as
the ship slips away.

Trouble is that means "Come here,
clown!" in certain Mediter-ranean
countries: exactly the opposite. And
that makes for some awkward
comings and goings, I'll tell you.

Ever worry about the real
meaning of the non-vo

“SN

RVAIVE.... AND
ING THROUGH _

But now, the Supreme Court of
Canada has decided that it is alright,
after all, to kick out the old people.

They phrased it more delicately of
course. Mandatory retirement
impairs the right to equality without
discrimination on the basis of age as
little as possible, they stated ina
decision Thursday. But the point is
the same; you're out when you're 65.

It would also be interesting to
know what other discrimination
might be permitted one day on the
basis that it is ‘as little as possible,
but let that pass for now.

There are actually good arguments
on both sides of this issue. It is obvi-
ously ludicrous to argue that all
people are past it once they pass 65.

Some of the world's great
did their best work in their

of doing a day's work on the day that
you tum 65 has always struck me as
one of the less desirable features of
the welfare state.

Cc q ly, when
provincial administrations began to
strike down the concept of man-
datory retirement, I was there on the
sidelines cheering.

Granted, it is for me a subject of
academic interest and will remain so
for a quarter of a century. I must also
concede that I have a great job; if I
worked the green chain or was
stamping out hubcaps, maybe super-
annuation would seem like a de-
sirable rite of passage.

Politics, plots

They say that politics is nothing
with out plots and paranoia.

And my experience of the past
week suggests that old adage is true.

seventies; one thinks of Konrad
Adenauer, who served brilliantly as
President of West Germany in his
eighties, Sir Winston Churchill, who
became prime minister of an em-
battled Great Britain in 1940 at the
age of 66 or more recently President
Reagan who was 78 when be retired
as president of the world’s most
powerful country.

In the fields of art and literature,
great minds have been prolific well
into what the SCOC considers their
dotage; Graham Greene was still
writing when he died last year in his
eightieth year. So was Robert
Graves. Picasso and Dali painted

sovereignty-association. Both
Mulroney and Jean Chretien will be
in deep trouble.” 7

Both Chretien and Mulroney in
trouble?

Hold on, and give me time to
catch my Sreath!

Let’s go back to my first caller.

A Mulroney loyalist and old-time
Diefenbak

PP Caller One
says his charges of a “Big Blue”
gang-up on Mulro are based on

Last week I wrote I could find no
one in the Tory caucus plotting
against Brian Mulroney, and what
did I get? E

A flood of calls from people
whispering that the “Big Blue

hine” is ly ploted

from people
involved.

He further supports his argument
by pointing to recent statements by
Dalton Camp, which he sees as
critical of the prime minister.

Camp, all followers of political

p to
: replace the PM with Barbara

McDougall.

‘When I reply there is no way the
Tories can pull the rug out from
under Mulroney in mid-term I'm told

to watch closely.

“

“O£ course we can dump him, and

i before this year is out,” says another

voice on the end of the phone. “Just
wait until the Bel: Ci

plots ber, led the battle to oust
John Diefenbaker as PC party leader
in the mid-’60s. It was an act that
endeared him to young Tories like
Brian Mulroney and Joe Clark, and
won him the life-long enmity of

. Dief's fans.

After. trying unsuccessfully to win

masterworks (going by the price
now, mind) in their ninth decade.
In busi Armand is

T d, it invites the opp
to depart even now, in haste, in
disgrace, ignominiously. The Old
Lion may just have had that version
in mind when be stood on triumphal
balconies, I rather hope so.

R.R. Jeffels is a Richmond

freelance writer and former principal

of The Open Learning Institute.

McDonalds targeted the senior
citizen in its recruiting campaigns.)

still a formidable force and he's over
90.And so it could be argued on and
on. .

On the other hand, there's no
denying that some people atrophy
when they're thirty, never mind 65,
so how convenient it is to have some
means of elbowing them out of the
way legally and making room for the
younger men.

Happily for those who would
work until they die in hamess, I do
not think it will be ultimately
determined by the Supreme Court,

diy, it seems quite unlikely
to me that many of us will be even
able to afford to retire, thanks to our
National Debt.

Mathematically, things can't go on
as they are now because when the
interest to be-paid exceeds what the
market is prepared to lend, it all
comes apart.

Even as things stand, a third of
government revenues are going in
interest, a dollar amount which is
approximately equal to our annual
deficit, This came about in economic
good times. One supposes that a

ion will the sit-

today’s j
Two factors are going to be
decisive. One is that there are fewer
young people coming along.
Demographically, the baby-
boomer generation is a pig in the

uation.

National indebtedness can be
handled by one of two methods. One
either inflates the currency, as
h in Weimar G OF

python. They b their
children. In 25 years time, there will
be more jobs than people. Those who
want to retire will, perhaps, but there
will not be the pressure on the elders

one the prop of the
middle class, a more Communistic
approach.

The former is more likely in
Canada than the latter, but either is

to move out of the that has
hitherto made mandatory retirement
an acceptable practice.

In any case, the employers of the
future will probably agree with the
employers of today that older people
make good employees. They may be
a little slower, but their work habits
are frequently superior to those of the
Me generation. (Not for nothing has

to any kind of
plan.

So what are your options? One,
buy your own business. Two,
become an MP or Senator and get an
indexed pension. Or three, become a
justice on the Supreme Court of
Canada, They are appointed for life
and never have to give up their
salary,

and paranoia

the group that kept the Tories in
power in Ontario for more than 40
years,

‘When he got into trouble in his
first term, Brian Mulroney called on
his old friend Dalton. Camp spent a
couple of years in the Privy Council
Office as an advisor to the cabinet,
before returning to his native New
Brunswick.

Now Camp is back in town for the
Christmas season, and Mulroney’s
pals, many of whom’ were
Diefenbaker cronies, smell a plot in
the making. ro

This scenario now being talked up
in the Mulroney group seems.to me
to be nonsense. But paranoia is past
of politics, and obviously the prime
minister’s drop in the polls has raised
dark suspicions of intrigue.

I put more, stock in the scenario’
hed'b: cf

diby a y Toy :
about: the potential impact of the-
1 ¢ c igsion’s

rej rt on Quebec’s future.
PThat scenario has the B & C

a seat in the C Camp took ,

his considerable talents to the
incial field. He was unofficial

‘task force: report endorses

Cc issions calling for a new deal

between Quebec'and Canada, and’: s

“guru” to the “Big Blue Machine,”

arrangement based on a:form of |,

_the support. of

The way these people see it,
Mulroney either endorses the B & C
report as the basis for renewed
‘negotiations with Quebec, or faces a
walkout by his Quebec back-
benchers. :

Either Mulroney is crippled in

\glish-speaking Canada and the result
is a caucus revolt, with Barbara
McDougal, the darling of the left-wing
of the caucus, assuming the top job.

Meanwhile the Liberal leader Jean
Chretien will have rejected the B &
C report as separatism is disguise. —

That will seal Chretien’s fate in
Quebec, but make him a hero to
English—speaking voters.

It is a bizarre prospect. An
English-speaking Quebecer winnin,
Quebec's
francophones, while a’ French-
speaking Quebecer wins the hearts of

‘From this vantage point it appears pe

“too.crazy to take seriously, but then

again a few weeks ago, who would
have thought Britain’s Maggie
Thatcher would be out of office so

000! :
Duffy host Sund-y Edition at noon
on CTV. :

Wednesday, December 12, 1990

The Castlegar Sun -

‘Letters to the Editor

To the Editor r

We would like to thank Frank
Derby for writing his very
informative 'article about our trip
to Romania and the adoption of
our son Alexander. We appreciate
the time he spent to listen and
report our story, however there are
some corrections we would like to
make clear,

Although we have indi

and has been since January 1990.
Like ing clse in R i

Editor,

although it is legally available, it
is not available in practice.

Our trip to Romania began by
flying out of Kelowna to Calgary,
not from Castlegar.

“ Romania is now using many

, Standards for. the adoption process
new

though it is still a i

It may be unfair of me to
comment on the North Castlegar
Revitalization Strategy plan since
T have seen neither the draft copy

By coincidence there is also in
last Saturday’s Castlegar News a

short item ab
Robson where
Survey being
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that has been d nor the
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Urban Systems Ltd, had to work. I
know only what I have read in last

collected some information from ,

the Romanian Orphanage Relicf
Group, we have never been in
Communication with Sonya
Paterson or her group.

Abortion is legal in Romania

concept for them,
Again,

interested in this route to adoption

may contact us for further

information,

Tom and Cindy Mairs

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Dear Editor:

anyone seriously «

"s Castlegar News.

However I have found the
News to be most competent in
providing concise and accurate
resumes of even long and complex
hearings and reports, I assume that
nothing of significance has been
left out of its synopsis.

But something has been left out

We are very disap
ture in your paper.

We think that you broke a
promise to us and that was not
fair.
We were looking forward to
seeing our picture in your paper.

. Yours truly,
The P2’s from Woodland Park
Patrick, Lyle, Celia, Tyler,
Chevonne, Quinn, Pamela, Sean
C., Eric, Melissa, Paul, Stephen,
Jenna, Tyler, Sean R., Derek,
Jamie, Megan, Ajay, Jerramy,

and Pamela

of the ” report. There is
no mention of the Robson ferry
that served us for almost 70 years
and played a big part in the growth
and development. of North
‘Castlegar.

Surely the effect of the taking
away of this crossing that was so
convenient for the residents of
Robson - just across the river from
the area under study - should be
quite apparent to a group of
consultants commissioned to come
up with a. North Castlegar
Revitalization Study. How can
such an oversight be explained?

P ip Board was discussed
and expanded upon by Carel Scott.

Automatic Sonting.and Stapling
Double Siding Capability

When Scott asked wh Comr Copy

anyone had

beyond those covered in the
survey someone immediately
spoke up. “Yes, bring back our
ferry so that we can walk into
Castlegar the way we used to,” I

was present, I

and I also heard the immediate
murmur of approval from the

meeting,

If the Urban Systems report
does indeed make no mention of
the Robson ferry this oversight
must be addressed immediately by
City Council and by the
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At a litde theatre in Greenwich
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1972.

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celebrating what could be the best
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Broadway with Peg o' My Heart
in 1912.

Included in a new bill just
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sense of relief to, paradoxically,
become the creators of the great
cities, swinging picks and lifting
shovels.

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its Brahmins, the Yankee aristoc-

Boston paper as a0
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"My children were born here.
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The immigration move is a
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keep their heads down. They are
the new exiles from a land with a
17 per cent unemployment rate.
They work in the shadows, furtive
and fearful.

New York is easier to operate
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There are jobs for barmen, nan-
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drivers of the horse-drawn car-
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etc. etc. etc.

December

Armstrong

Mild Yellow

Draw Dates: December 8,15, & 22,1990

Mother Nature's Pantry
276 Columbia Ave.
Downtown Castlegar

365-7750

Mozzarella

2.99 tb.