84 Castlégar News May 21, 1986 Westcoast Seafoods located at Castlegar Mohawk FRIDAY, MAY 23 10 a.m. to7 p.m. f ve LIVING WATERS __ FAITH FELLOWSHIP presents A satellite video seminar with Pastor and Bible teacher CHARLES NIEMAN SPEAKING ON: “God's Defence For Your Offense ADCAST FROM: Word of Faith World Outreach Center Dollies, Texas. DATE: May 26-28. Mon. thru Wed. night PLACE: Living Waters Faith Fellowship. 2's mi. W. of Castlegar on Hwy. 3 towards Grand Forks. (old Hilltop Restourant) TUME: 7:00 p.m. all nights FOR INFORMATION CALL 365-3278 COME AND RECEIVE GOD'S TRUTH FOR SUCCESSFUL LIVING Talking to the RS Cas gar News Do you have a news story or feature you want to tell us about? Would you like to speak to someone about the delivery of your paper? Do you want to discuss a classified or display advertisement, or have you ever wondered whom to call regarding a billing or business matter? The following guide will put you in touch with the right department. Clip it and keep it by your phone for reference. Newsroom .. Circulation ..... ‘ Classified Advertising . . Retail Advertising .... General Office & Printing 365-3517 365-7266 . - 365-2212 - 365-5210 Chemical weapons plan opposed BRUSSELS (REUTER) — NATO has adopted a con troversial plan for the United States to produce new chem. ical weapons but congres sional funding of the program may be influenced by the reluctance of many European Three countries — the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark — explicitly stated they did not support the U.S. policy and several others made it clear they would not allow the new weapons on their territory Congress had tied the re lease of production funds to the degree of support from the NATO allies. The U.S. plan to rejuvenate aging stocks of chemical weapons had been designated as a “force goal” — an agreed military requirement. That rendered dissenters power less‘ to veto the proposal since it is almost without precedent for one NATO power to block the so-called force goal of another. The new binary weapons have two chemical compon. ents, which do not mix to form lethal nerve agents un til after they are fired or dropped on their way to their targets. U.S. NATO ambassador David Abshire, the architect of the binary chemical wea. pons decision, called the move “the right signal at the WANTED TO BUY We will pay cash for any late model pre-owned vehicles in good condition! 01. ose Maloney Pontiac Buick GMC right time” to the Soviet Union on arms control. His statement clashed dir- ectly with Duteh ambassador Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who said the decision was “the wrong signal at the wrong moment” and a setback for United Nations negotiations in Geneva for a worldwide ban on chemical weapons. conditions for funding the new nerve gas — the drafting of a contingency plan for their deployment in Europe in a crisis and consultations with allies on this plan. Only West Germany, re- lieved to be ridding itself of aging stockpiles of U.S. chemical weapons, has indic- ated publicly a willingness to accept deployment in a crisis, while stressing it would not do so alone. “Our decision falls short of wholehearted support,” a European dipimat said. “It will be up to Congress to de- cide whether that is enough for them to release the funds.” Abshire said the gap be tween Soviet and western capabilities in chemical war fare “may be the greatest imbalance in force structure that exists between our two alilances.” Failure to produce the bin- ary weapons now might mean the loss of the best opportunity this century to negotiate a ban on all chem- ical weapons, he said. Officials said the secretive NATO decision had been carefully managed to avoid as far as possible a public de- bate on chemical weapons in Europe. NATO spokesmen were under strict instructions to say nothing about the sub- stance of the discussions. 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The official emblem of the town has a tree on it. Above the emblem's wavy blue strip. representing the Ottawa River, is the image of an atom. The Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory was born in the war when Canadian scientists were at work on the Manhattan Project, working to build the bomb before the Germans did. It's right beside the Canadian Forces Base at Petawawa and about 200 kilometres northeast of Ottawa. There remains a scattering of the white-painted temporary buildings put up when many locals thought the plant was making stockings for the armed forces, not trying to unlock the secrets of the atom that would win the war against Japan with only two bombs dropped as August of 1945 unfolded. The Chalk River complex, run by Atomic Energy of Canada, employs about 2,100 people. Deep River has a population of 4,600. Continued use of the atom for nuclear power, for nuclear medicine and for other peaceful purposes means continued prosperity for Deep River. SHOWS THE PROBLEM Accidents like Three Mile Island in 1979 and Chernobyl, accidents that for the critics of nuclear power demonstrate the technology is fundamentally unsafe, shake Deep River to its roots. If Canada ever loses its affection for things nuclear, the town would become not mueh more than a gas station along the road. Russell Leach, the warden of Renfrew County, says: “Renfrew County is very lucky to have this industry in the county.” Lyall Smith is mayor of Deep River. He wears the pin with the atom and the tree on his lapel. He works at Chalk River as a technologist and has for 26 years. He has raised his family in the shadow of the research reactors at Chalk River, just down the road from a small Candu power reactor at Rolphton, built in 1962 to that the Canadi: igned plant could do what the designers thought it could. Lyall Smith is a believer. For him, accidents like Chernobyl are an opportunity to learn from past mistakes. There were accidents here too, in 1952 and again in 1975. In fact, Chalk River made it into the history books in 1952 when the NRX reactor surged out of control. It was the first accident to befall a nuclear reactor anywhere in the world. “If we couldn't use nuclear power, it would be even more catastrophic,” he said. Ontario depends on the cheap electricity generated by its 16 reactors. “Life has risks,” he said. “People have to decide whether this risk is reasonable.” MAKES DECISION For the people of Deep River, he said, that decision has already been made and Chernobyl and its clouds of radioactive fallout that have drifted more than 7,000 kilometres to shower Canadian territory with low levels of radiation has done nothing to change that. They know, or think they know, the secrets of nature and how to harness those secrets for the betterment of mankind. People living in Deep River have more understanding, Smith said, about nuclear power, and have developed a close relationship with Atomic Energy of Canada. Michael van Veldhowen, the medical officer of health for the county, is a member of the committee of the Ontario Medical Association looking at the transport of nuclear wastes. The people of Renfrew County don't seem too concerned about what happened at Chernobyl, van Veldhowen says. While acknowledging the accident in the Ukraine was serious, van Veldhowen said Chernoby! has been “ineredibly over-played” by the media, creating a panic that was out of all proportion to what happened. Accident concerns Ukrainians WINNIPEG (CP) — When news of the Soviet nuclear power plant disaster near Chernobyl leaked out, it wasn't long before the telephones started ringing thousands of kilometres away in the offices of the Ukrainain Canadian Committee. The national organization in central Winnipeg was fielding calls from concerned people of Ukrainian-Canadian origin who wanted more information about the reactor accident. Only a minority actually had relatives still living near the disaster site, and for many their last contact with the Ukraine was at least half a century ago. In fact, most were like Yuriy Weretelnyk, the committee's executive director. He was not born in the Ukraine, nor has he ever been there “At present, about 92 per cent of Ukrainian-Canadians TYPE SETTING Give your newsletters. meeting bulletins, etc.. professional appeorance C eody type for your Cestleger Reduced! Reduced! Reduced! Zbdrm. beauty 613-40 Se OFFICE 265-2111 MORAE 365-3750 Contory 21 MARY WADE ANDERSON in Canada are Canadian-born,” said Weretelnyk, (pronounced Ware-Tell’-nik), who is fluent in Ukrainian and speaks with a faint trace of an accent. “We are very much a Canadian-based cultural group.” The i umbrella or i that claims to rep! most U inian-Canad there are as many as 500,000 Canadians of Ukrainian descent when those of mixed descent are included. SOUGHT NEW HOME Most are two or three generations away from the times of the great waves of immigration in the 1890's and 1930's, when famine and political strife drove millions out of Eastern Europe to seek a new home. But because of the deep commitment their parents and grandparents have had in keeping the language and culture alive, their Ukrainian identity remains strong, Weretelnyk says. 800,000 “I think it's because throughout history, for hundreds of years, we have been defending ourselves from surrounding countries,” Weretelnyk said. In Manitoba, for example, there are nine schools where half of the lessons are taught in Ukrainian. There is also a Ukrainian-Language child day-care centre in Winnipeg — a city which has an i d 65,000 U Ci di - plus cultural or, ions and regional newspapers. The U inian Canadian C itself is an um organization that has 42 local branches and includes 30 national Ukrainian-culture organizations. Bulletin Board “IT TAKES TWO TO TALK™ is presenting o 4:00 person and $15 per couple. For more information Please call 365-5616 or 365-7280 2al BALLET IN NELSON The Soskatchewon Theatre Ballet will pertorm ot LVR High School Nelson, Monday, May 26 at 6:00 p.m. Tickets at door. 3/40 Seturdey, May $8.00 at Johnny's Grocery, Castlegar Phormasow toin Ski & Sports Hut and Central Food Mart. Admission ot door$9.00. Early Bird 6:00 p.m. Reg. 7:00 p.m. 2/40 fegor ond District non-profit Ppuper—ond—S— p.m: ‘s_poper. Ketices should be brought to the Castlegor News ot 197 The ity, split between the pro-Soviet minority and the anticommunist majority, is also deeply political. DEBATE ERUPTED A heated debate erupted a few years ago when an experimental program to teach Grade 12 students about the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 was launched in some schools. The committee wanted the famine — which took the lives of about seven million people — to be taught as a Soviet-engineered mass murder. Others objected and school officials settled on a course they said would not favor either side of the debate. The Chernobyl disaster prompted Wereteinyk to comment that the Soviets’ apparent lack of quick action in warning its citizens of the dangers posed by the clouds of radiation amounted to “genocide.” Asked later what he meant, Weretelnyk refused to comment. - The committee has asked the Canadian government to press the Soviets for a complete disclosure on the accident and has also urged Ottawa to help Canadians contact family members in the Ukraine. It's also offered to set up a tightly-monitored relief program, but the Soviet government has not indicated whether it will accept that offer. The Soviets have said six people have died in the accident as a result of burns and radiation and another 35 were seriously injured. Columbio Ave. Let’s Rodeo! Castlegar June 7&8 COMMUNITY NEWS TREE PLANTERS . . . Ald. Terry Rogers, (right rear) is one of the first to sign pledge form for Beaver, Cub and Scout Trees for Canada project. Also featured are (front, from left) district commissioner Beavers, Cubs and Scouts will soon be visiting Castlegar area homes asking residents to sponsor them for planting trees as part of the Trees for Canada campaign. ‘The campaign is designed for youth members of the Boy Scouts of Canada. Each boy will be given 50 trees to plant on May 31 in an area afranged by the Ministry of Forests. The trees will be planted following lessons on tree planting. Why plant trees in the first place? e Trees for Canada ties in with the section programs and provides a fun and learning opportunity for youth; ean acre of healthy young forest releases four tons of oxygen .3_year. . @ trees are essential Scouts to plant trees Jim Waldie, Beaver Ryan Carter, Cub Shane Plamondon, (rear, from left) Leader Dean Carter and Scout Steve Martin. @ trees prevent soil erosion and provide food; e trees affect the climate by retaining moisture, releasing moisture into the air, reducing wind speed and modifying temperatures; e trees provide essential habitat for many species of plants and animals; e the forestry industry in Canada employs approx- imately 300,000 people directly and supports 700,000- other jobs; Add to this the fact that most of the money the Boy Pampers disposable macaroni & cheese dinner 206 g pure corn oil 3Livg Scouts raise stays in the area to help pay. for camps and special events. The other 15 ao Nag goes to the World Brotherhood fund to help _provite Scouting opportunities to less fortunate countries. h ¢ white ¢ yellow * champagne bathroom tissue ~- Soll pkg. ne Minute Maid ¢ frozen concentrate 99 28 Weatherdoesn't dampen tea The weather was cold and damp, but a warm, sunny atmosphere was provided in the Castlegar Senior Citizens Hall May 3 for the Bethel No. 60 International Order of Jobs’ Daughters Spring Tea. na Hegan who thanked everyone for coming and wished them an enjoyable af ternoon. Pourers for the afternoon were Mrs. E. Higgins PBG No. 60, HQ Shauna Hegan, Mrs. V. Hegan, HQ Hegan's mother and Mrs. F. Hegan, HQ Hegan's grandmother. The door prize of a hand- made Ragetty-Ann doll, was won by Mrs. M. West Upcoming events include a banquet celebrating Bethel 60's 10th anniversary. This will be held in conjunction with the installation of hon ored queen-elect Tracy Kam insky and her officers June 8 at the Sandman Inn. © regular * more pulp 355 ml tin a orange juice 3 € a SuperValu ¢ white * 80% whole wheat The tables were decorated with small vases of spring flowers and musical notes in the theme colors of mauve and royal purple. Mrs. Margaret Henne, Bethel Guardian, officially opened the tea and intro duced Honored Queen Shau Ackney elected director By CasNews Staff Grace Ackney of Castlegar has been elected as a director of the British Columbia Lung Association ‘According to association president Isobel Austin, Ac kney will serve as Christmas Seal committee chairman for the Castlegar area during the 1986 Christmas Seal cam. paign The election of directors took place recently in Van couver during the associa tion's 64th annual meeting. Delegates from 40 commun ities throughout the province attended. 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