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Mana: CAROL MAGA\ Advertising Manager IEATHER HADLEY, Circulation Menagert MICKEY READ, \ Composing Room Foreman. haere } pe Consultation is free. Call today. . Castlegar firemen fought a brush fire near. the down- town area this week . . AS Witnesses convention CasNews reporter Cheryl Calderbank looks at the Jehovah's Witnesses con- vention in» town this weekend. Photos and story B3 is 6519251. “LOTTERY < = NUMBERS __ The six. winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6-49 draw we: four, five, 10, 22, 30 and 35. The bonus number wos 18_T jeckpot pool of $1,923,280.20 was noi won. The second-pri pool, awarded to those matching five regular‘numbers and the bonus number, had six winners of $121,095.40 each. The. $500,000 winning number in Friday's Provincial lottery draw Three area ot! fire depar- tments inked a mutual aid agreement this week ...-. VOL. 38, No. 56 Su Castlégar News ean CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, JULY 14, 1985 Sunny today with a few afternoon clouds and a chance of a thunder- shower. Highs arou day will be mainly sunny with o few clouds and highs 32°34" eS 50 Cents 2 Sections (A &B) FOR PULP MILL Forestry report touts expansion By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer MME CHOPPERS B AIR SUPPORT ... . One of two helicopters helping fight ihe Lost Ledge Creek fire near Lardeau drops LOST LEDGE FIRE STILL. sUNCONTROLLED By SIMON BIRCH * Staff Writer LOST LEDGE CREEK — A forest fire near here, 120 kilometres northeast.of Castlegar, is burning 900 hectares of forest and has yet to be brought under control. “*So far, the fire has cost $250,000 and I anticipate it unforeseen circumstances,"* said _Dave Smith, who is responsible for finance and i _will cost_an_additional $250,000 to put it-out, barring any _ of the Westar pulp mill in Castlegar is one of the investment TTLE BLAZES ence “ik 5 Higa ic ARE AE APN? load of water on burning forest. (Inset) Trees that were caught in path of blaze. CosNews Photos by Simon Birch He added that the firefighters are conaerned about the wind, but said there was no threat to the community of Lardeau. There are now 271 people working at Lost Ledge Creek, using 70 pieces of equipment, including two helicopters, to try to contain the fire. A helicopter tour over the area earlier this. week, showed much work needed to be done. to bring the southern part of the fire under control. Fire boss Bill Pearson and line boss Terry Watson, both part of the overhead team, were concerned as they warned some of the on the above the fire to clear the area. Small pockets of blazing brush could occasionally be seen below the voluminous clouds of yellow-grey smoke from the trees. in a compre- hensive report released this week analyzing the forest products industry and forestry resources in the Central Kootenay. tur Rice The report, prepared by. ‘forestry consultants Reid Collins and Associates and Reed and A i for the Central Kootenay Manpower. Adjustment Committee (CKMAC), is phase one of a forest sector devel- opment strategy for the Regional Dis- trict of Central Kootenay. ____The_manpower adjustment_commit- tee was established to help relieve the Central Kootenay’s severe unemploy- ment problems and stabilize and im- prove long-term employment opport- unities. Charlie Cohoe, chairman of the com-. mittee, said Friday one possibility for an expansion ‘at the Castlegar mill might be to ‘integrate another system with the existing one to.make multi-ply paperboard."* The report “It's an overall assessment without biases to any firm or organization.”” The report reviews the forestry resources in the Arrow and Kootenay Lake timber supply areas and indicates that ‘‘markets exist for many specialty lumber products that could be pro- duced from the available resource.’” Such products, the report suggests, could include ‘‘cedar panelling and siding, spruce siding and fascia, mech- anically graded Douglas fir, pine edge glued boards and furniture compon- ents, Japanese specifications in-hem- lock and possibly spruce, and home centre items.’ Other investment possibilities, in ad- dition to the mill expansion at Castle- gar, include a new oriented strand board mill and a bleached Chemical Thermal Mechanical Pulp (CTMP) mill similar to that operating at Quesnel. The report estimates these and other projects could provide anywhere from 435 to 530 direct-jobs. . CHARLIE COHOE .. - Feport unbiased of Forests. goal of building a new mill at Nelson to replace the defunct Kootenay One of the~ more as- ‘pects of the report is the recommend- ation that no new mills be built in the region “‘unless existing industry, am could mean the addition of 80-100 jobs. Cohoe added that a ‘‘ripple eff from _an_ expansion would “mean ad- ditional. increases_in employment re- lated industries, which’ the report identifies as.‘‘logging and sectors that provide supplies and services.’;- The report ‘‘is basically an analysis of what is out there,’’ Cohoe said. Fifteen new fires reported By CasNews Staff Fifteen new forest fires started ° overnight Friday in the Nelson forest district bringing the total number of fires burning to 224, a spokesman for the Ministry of Forests said Saturday. “Nine were caused by lightning and six were man-caused,"’ said Fred Thiessen at the Nelson office. He said 28 of the fires are not contained. In the Arrow district alone, seven new fires started overnight Friday, bringing the total number to 64 fires covering 1,336 hectares. Eight of those fires are not contained ‘and the expenditure for Friday was $79,468. The total expenditure for the Arrow district to date is $671,092. The number of people working on the fires in the Arrow district is 454. through itive bidding, fails to secure the available cutting rights.”" That conflicts with the B.C. Ministry - Forest mill. When the mill at Nelson. clostd, 310,000 cubic metres of available tim- ber rights were transferred back to the Crown. The government then called for proposals for the us¢ of the timber. continued on page AZ ~ 2,000 Witnesses here for By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer More than 2,000. Jehovah’s Wit- nesses are gathering in Castlegar this weekend for a district meeting vention include Don Mills, represent- ative of the Canadian Branch of Jehovah’s Witnesses from. George- town, Ont., Doug Held, district super- visor, of the It’s the first time in over 20 years the Jehovah's Witnesses have held a mass convention in the Kootenays, says convention manager Morton Gustafson. There are about 1,750 actual Je- hovah’s Witnesses attending from the Kootenay district, which extends from Alberta on the east, and as far west as the Trail and Castlegar area. In addition, there are ‘nearly 300 people who have come from outside the district — from places including Ont- Alaska and California — as well as a strong representation from Spo- kane. G said Watchtower Bible and Tract. Society (Held supervises Witness activities in Alberta and B.C.) and Kobyluk who supervises Witness. congregations in the Kootenays. The purpose of the gathering is-to help individual members assess their conduct or way of life; to help combat a gradual diluting of strict Bible laws and principles; and to assist them in keeping integrity to God's stated will and commandments, according to a prepared release. Also included in the program are ‘two were. expecting attendance to peak at The convention's! theme is Integrity Keepers. : The convention began Thursday af- ternoon and was opened by convention chairman John Kobyluk. Witnesses heard a series of speakers whd spoke on integrity to the Word of God. Featured speakers at the con- OVER FIRE REPORTS dramas pi in cos- tume. © A public water baptism took place Saturday where 26 people were baptized in a large tank. The baptism is a symbol of dedicating their lives to the servjce of Jehovah. The Schovah's Witnesses also con- ducted house-to-house visitations in the Castlegar area Friday to invite. local residents to the assembly. Businesses slam media INVERMERE, B.C. (CP) Columbia Valley are burning mad at the media for Back on the ground, Smith and Ron Stephen, air on an overhead team brought in July 6 to oversee at i for the team, talked about the allegations of the fire. There are six overhead teams in B.C. and each -consists of five people who “‘have an extensive amount of ——— s . pianl ier oe sele ee \ i) 7B -yating-and background in firefighting.” the Tome beige Conch camp Three ani Stephen added, they are well-instructed in Changing and gusting winds caused the fi fighting i and safety as well as | More fire photos, A3 Ss Smith said in an interview at the the fire guards overnight Friday, but those jumps had since been brought under control, Fred Thiessen, spokesman for the Ministry of Forests in Nelson, said Saturday. F Thiessen said the plan is to gain access to the southwest flank of the fire to build fireguards. “The southwest flank is active and is moving in a southwesterly direction,’ Thiessen said. levelled at the at Canal Flats in the East Kootenays. Smith agreed that inexperienced firefighters were working at Canal Flats and Stephen added that ‘‘there are several inexperienced: people" at Lost Ledge Creek. “This kind of season, you run out of experienced people,"’ Smith said. how to use “We ‘tend to be safety conscious bécatse-we-don't want to lose people,’’ Smith said. - At Lost Lodge; one firefighter, who declined. to give his name because! he didn't ‘‘want to give the forest ice a bad name,” agreed with the inexperience Eitegations. continued on page A3 damaging the tourist trade. Mike Smith, president of the Rocky Mountain Visitors said that about one-third and if it doesn’t will begin laying off employees. “We don't really feel we're getting a fair shake."" he pick up soon, businesses in the and into the—threat_ of nearby forest _fires_and__ forced Cai about 14, has fallen off by The exception kilometres southeast of Canal Flats. Dean said it ran to the southeast and north and consumed another 1,000 hectares to bring its total area to approximately 10,000 hectares. morning. The Spen fire, which has caused the most concern apes at ‘aul Dean of the provincial Forests Ministry said crews are making progress there. is the Ram Creek fire, about 15 told reporters at the fire control centre at Elkhorn Ranch five kilometres from town. ‘‘You can see we're standing this morning in cooler temperatures with blue sky and no smoke. People are using the lakes, the resorts, the golf courses. . ‘We don’t want to put people into a blazing inferno, but let’s be realistic. I don’t see a fire here and I don’t see one-within-a.number of miles of here.""__” Smith admitted that campers in the atea should not use™ the tinder-dry forests and should stick to the main roads, swimming ‘pools, lakes and and golf courses. FIRES QUIET is The seven major fires that cayer 34,000 hectares _- more than half the area of Prince Edward Island — in the corner of British Columbia were relatively quiet The Forests Ministry estimates fires in the southeast have burned about $70 million worth of timber in the last two weeks. r The major fire in the northeast, the Ran, near Chetwynd grew overnight to 3,500 hectares from 350 hectares. “The fire is hot enough and wild enough that the fire “boss isn't putting ‘anyone. in-front_of it,"’ said Dawson Creek duty officer Danny Way. Instead, crews are concentrating on the back of the fire to prevent problems if the-wind shifts. Rains in the. area overnight helped firefighters gain control of some of the other smaller blazes in the reigon. continved on pogeA3