Saturday, July 4, 1992 @ TheFARSIDE By Gary Larson It wasn't until he got home that Sahib realized the dang thing had no front end. RCMP bike patrol collars their first Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER The Castlegar RCMP bike pat of nas Dut the brakes on 1 think (the bike patrols is) A 44-year-old male was ar= @ great idea,” he said. “It will rested for outstanding war- leave some kids doing od if rants Tuesday at Zuckerberg they should proceed with a Island. given act knowing they won't The arresting officers, Con- hear the tread of a bike tire st.-Larry Oster and Const. Comms up behind them.” Russell Sangster, were pa- Sangster added that the trolling the streets with their man arrested Tuesday had newly acquired bicycles atthe been apprehended once before time. in the Lower Mainland, also “It’s a first for Castlegar,” by a bike patrol. said Cpl. Al Brown. “Bike pa- “I don’t think he’s had much trols seem to be working out in luck with bikes.” other places. 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Cady says tough new solid waste management laws are forcing the RDCK to make unpopular decisions. “If we don’t do it, we'll be facing thousands of dollar in fines,” Cady said Thursday. “They’re forcing us to do it and we're being accused of being the bad guys.” The province»has handed down a new solid waste management plan which is forcing districts and municipalities to clean up their acts by 30 per cent. before 1996 and 50 per cent before 2001. If districts’ or municipalities fail to come up with government-approved plans, they can face fines of up to $300,000. Cady says such fines are inappropriate. He says the province is passing the buck, establishing tough measures without providing the necessary funds to meet them. “All they have done is passed this on to us,” he said. “If recycling is going to work the province has to talk to manufacturers so we can reduce the amount of packaging involved with waste.” Cady says until B.C. sits down with manufacturers, all the recycling in the world won't stem the waste at the source. “They didn’t think the plan through,” he said. “It’s just a pain in the butt.” Pointing to public hearings regarding the district’s 20-year solid waste management plan, Cady says it’s no wonder area residents are up in arms. He said the province has tied the district’s hands by arbitrarily establishing standards that are next to impossible to meet. He said the provincial requirements are forcing the RDCK to close seven landfill sites and have that waste redistributed to sites like Ootischenia. “I fell sorry for the people of Ootischenia,” he said. “They think the dump is theirs, but it’s not. It belongs to the regional district and as long as the government is forcing our hand, we have to do something. If we don’t, we ll be facing thousands of dollars in fines.” Ootischenia and Castlegar residents came out in force on June 24, denouncing any RDCK plan that would make the local landfill site one of four regional dumps. Cady said the frustration area residents are feeling is equal to what the RDCK is feeling trying to come up with a plan that will satisfy the government. “People don’t understand that (the government) is forcing us to do this,” Cady. said. “We have no choice. “It’s just gone haywire. It’s a damn shame because it’s not going to help recycling at all.” SWING AND A MISS Doctors press for more cash Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER British Columbia doctors think they have the prescription to Health Minister Elizabeth Cull’s budget ills. Cull’s proposed Bill 71 would see $1.27 billion spent on “medical services this year, which doctors claim’ is only two per cent above last year’s total and well below what is needed to keep health care alive. “It’s obvious that the government is not providing the funds necessary to provide health care to the province,” said B.C. Medical Association president Steve Hardwicke. News photos by Jonathan Green The air was shattered by the force of this mighty batter's blow at Kinnaird Park last Saturday. Although he didn't make contact, the Royal Canadian Legion player's team went on to win the Major Little League Championship with a 12-1 win over Canada Safeway. So some doctors have decided to take a little holiday. Because doctors say they will have to “work for free two or Record June sizzles Castlegar Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER June wasn’t as hot as hell irr Castlegar — but it was close. “It was quite a month,” said meteorologist Jim Richards A record temperature of 36.8 degrees Celsius was set on June 23, breaking the old high of 35.7 C set in 1987. . “It was quite strong and drew often sub-tropical moisture from the California coast. not so good for our forests. “But what’s remarkable is that the mean temper- trol officer Dave Fitchett. ature was 19.8 for the month. The old record for June was 19.1 degrees.” Richards added that while a O.7 degree Celsius raise in the 30 day average temperature may not seem like much, “to break a record by that much is significant.” June was extra warm this year because of a high pressure system over the Kootenays, were started by lightning. 25 TG eae TONE TES ere “The temperatures with that type of air mass and a fairly fairly long trajectory over land turned out to be quite dry and very warm,” Richards said. Weather which may be great for sun-seekers, but “There was more than the normal number of fires that we would expect in June,” said district fire con- Fitchett said that because of June’s unusually low precipitation and high temperatures, 40 forest fires Only one was started by an abandoned campfire. “The amount of rain we have received in the last (week) has given us a low fire hazard,” — “But if it returns to the conditions we inJune, _ peeing it won't take too long for the forests to dry out again.” a Gon the new budget three days each month,” under the budget, physicians in Prince George and Quesnel took Thursday and Friday off to show Cull that doctors will. not be responsible for “inadequate” funding. However, Castlegar may have escaped this medical show-of- force. “At the present time we are not planning such actions,” said Castlegar Dr.,Roy Ward. But Ward suggested things could not go on as they are. “Specialist services are really backing up,” he said, adding that the waiting list for a computer axial tomography (CAT) scan in Castlegar is about two months long will make things any better.” rae