OPINION

WEDNESDAY, April 27, 1994

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PUBLISHER MARILYN YN STRONG

When rights become

I’ve always believed that the
right to publish a personal column
or editorial is really more of a privi-
lege than it is a right. With rights

the author writes of the great rela-
tionship that ensues: complete with
openness, support for one another
and fal of insegrity.

and privileges come

_ ties, and when the latter is absent,

recently
Chameleon Too, the college's
monthly publication. under
the pscudonym Lenny's

Leg Holds, the atticle is One man’s

tor of this college paper did seck
counsel to determine if the piece
was libelJous. Believing that it
wasn’t and hearing additional infor-
mation to back up her beliefs, the

hint of the porn does Some
through, but

Yy nor
beat her because I can. And it’s not a
big deal’ is the clear message here.
It's a common one. The writer might
have considered that those men who
do beat their wives, oftest hold such a
callous ‘so what" attitude.

The Chameleon Too, like any
newspaper that stands behind an
open forum format, must, have an

itorial policy and
assist human editors to detgchainn
what is thought

I provoking, opinion-
ated writing, and what serves to hurt,»

defame or libel one or many people.

Sharlene
Imhoff

I don’t believe the article in the
Chameleon is libellous, though
because it was printed without any
disclaimer describing what it was

wrongs

meant to be, and the author hid
behind a pen-name, it smacks
highly of poor taste.

It reminds me of an article write
ten by Frank magazine two years
ago, which was supposed to be
satirical, comical and yet prove a
point. The article invited all young
Tory bucks to enter a contest to

ther funny, nor contained any liter-
ary genius, and the only pois it
proved, was that some mighty irre-
sponsible people have access to a
poisoned pen.

Wednesday, April 27, 1994

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The Castlegar Sun

Letters to

the Editor

A call for greater education

Dear Editor:

A lot of accusations have been
made lately as to what a hunter is
or is not. As an avid hunter, out-
doorsman and consérvationist, I
feel it necessary to offer my defini-
tion of a hunter.

I have hunted most every
species of big game southern
BxC. has to offer, including the
Grizzly bear. Several hunts have
been successful while many times
more have not. I have had many
opportunities to harvest animals
both legally and illegally. How-
ever, as a responsible hunter I am
satisfied with a picture or a mem-
ory of an animal not in season.
As a member of the local wildlife
association, I lobby the Ministry
of Environment to reduce.the har-
vest on species which we feel are
in decline. I feel comfortable

that I help to replenish
the wildlife resource which has

spring I will attempt to harvest a
Grizzly bear from the Lardeau
valley. The meat from that bear
will sustain us until next fall and I
will proudly display his hide on
my wall. Trophy and meat hunt-
ing are not mutually exclusive.

I work and recreate in the
forests of the Kootenays. I can
honestly say that I will never hunt
an animal which I feel is threat-
ened, I will always attempt to
ensure that there is game in the
woods for myself and those who
follow me to hunt and enjoy.

There is a name for people

who hunt illegally—poacher. I
have nothing in common with

being accused of wrong:
people who know nothing of

which have done the most, out of
all private izati to

when winters became harsh. We
have also put up hundreds of

Preparing-for
tomorrow takes
planning today.

It takes solid financial planning to reach your financial goals.

Mountain Bluebird houses all
over the West Kootenay. What
have the organizations who
oppose us done to enhance
wildlife and its habitat?

I feel that if more peop!
more educated as to what a

enhance wildlife habitat. One
needs to only look at the efforts
of our local club to see this fact.
We have purchased crucial habi-
tat to ensure it will always remain
wildlife habitat. We fed ungulates

is, they would not be
80 quick to condemn our form of
recreation. We really do attempt
to replace what we take. As a
wise hunter once told me; sports-
men are true conservationists.

Mike Lynn

[am responding to the recént attack on Grizzly

Attacks are unfair and unfounded.

Recent examples of this are B.C. Wildlife Federa-
tions support to elevate the Tatshenshini land to
park status and create a Khutzeymteen Grizzly

Call 365-7777
For more information

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editorial comment

Hot issue

Sanctuary. CASTLEGAR SENIORS ASSOCIATION #46-Business
I firmly believe that without hunting and Meeting May 5 at 2pm. Social May 19th at 2pm. Whist
hunters’ input to the Ministry of Environment, May 12th & 26th at 7pm. Bridge Mondays & Fridays 1pm.
there would be a lot less wildlife around for all of
1s to enjoy. *ApPRILSPECIAL
I take exception to the comments and insinua-

given me so much enjoyment.

I am also proud to say that I
am a trophy hunter. Last fall I
was lucky enough to harvest a
buck which weighed 164 pounds
field dressed. To me this is quite

believe that hunters are nothing but a pack of
poachers and that their lust for killing would not
be satisfied until the last Grizzly bear is dead. This
couldn’t be further from the truth.

leaves some cold

People were hot as jalapenos at School District

No. 9’s provisional budget meeting April 25.
There’s no doubt that the provisional budget
affects all of us in one way or another.

and rapidly increasing costs, district Trustees had
an unenviable job—making a meager budget
stretch beyond limit. In a way it could have been
likéned to trying to stuff a size 14 woman into a
size 4 ing had to give.

Someone has to do the dirty work and, unfortunate-
ly, with a limited budget, it was inevitable that some-
one would get the short end of the stick. And it was
equally apparent that those who did the number
ee ee ea

such as Lh

ems, an i

win SE ga weeping bee
punches, there is another side to the issue which is
equally important—the viability of a system which
is responsible, in part, for the educational outcome
of our children. The bottom line is that trustees are
sitting in their sometimes hot-seats not for union

as book, film or theatre reviews.
But it isn’t limited to such material.
It cam be used to defend any story

the unusual about this hideous
problem. It clearly portrays a man
who is extremely casual about these
“random ings”.

After mentioning the various
objects he uses to beat his wife:
toasters, flashlights, hammers etc,

Grizzly bear survival depends on wise management

There seems to be a lot of inter-
est in Grizzly bears Jately with

several years ago, when the economy was much like
a fat cat lapping steadily at cream, is no longer
acceptable. have to decide if they are
willing to accept less negotiations in order to
assure the of their jobs, or if they want to
“go for it” and “damm the consequences”.

After all, there is only so much in the edu

Conservation Biologist Michael
Gibean told a bi ist's

almost every single valley and we
hunt Grizzly bear on a very con-
‘trolled harvesting method called

teminds people of their distinctive

national origin and evolution; the .

re Earth experience reminds us

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only a specific number of permits).
Yet, despite all this we have, in the
Kootenays, Grizzly bears living at
the rate of one bear per 29 square

the job ' iz doing om Grizzly bear
under diffi-

in Calgary.
Cliff Wallis, President of the
and

Alberta
Harvey Locke, President of the

has to wonder what the ultimate outcome will be.
MThis fs not a wnion verses non-cmion issue, bet

ter than they got at the meeting. Dirty linen was
Ee ee
onlookers. Had board ib
sor thn poopie Wika We Waders ciuacaaa weak
have had the courtesy of a private meeting, maybe
‘CUPE wouldn't have choked on the outcome. Con-
rare dapaplanery of the budget cuts did affect
their jobs it would have been wise on the board's
part to meet with CUPE members beforehand and
listen to their viable concerns and suggestions.
Somebody fell down on the job, and hopefully the
board will learn from their painful mistake.

But most important, someone has to be held
accountable for an anemic budget which affects the
very future, of our children. The provincial govem-
ment drops a few dollars in our lap and then lets us
fight to the death over who will get the lions share.

‘Their actions are much like ing one

were only 85 to 120 Grizzlies in the
National Park a few years ago, but
the number is now unknown.

cult conditions and manpower |

Traditionally scoopeed types of  Benbect is peeereey

human activities in
may have to be evaluated, Gibeau
said.

So here we have a national park
with a land mass of app

6,600 square kilometres with a pop-
ulation of Grizzly bears of 105

* (average between 85 and 120).

There is almost no mineral, oil, gas
or timber extraction, nor are there
Hydro dams, suburbs and certainly
no hunting. The environment is left
ee i eecal ted en

on the soil-plant.
po food chain, and of the fun-
damental organization of the biotic
world and finally; the value of any
experience that exercises those ethi-
cal restraints called sportsmanship.

Social Anthropologist Robert
Ardrey suggested that hunting
made us human. Before we hunted,
we were four-footed, ground-nest-
ing vegetarians with small brains.
In African Genesis, Ardrey wrote
that the shift to a hunting lifestyle
and carnivorous diet presaged the
use of fire and the invention of

is a logical having defined
ourselves ‘ing apart from the
rest of creation. Animal rights
activists hold that the root of our
ecological crisis lies in technology,
urbanism and wealth. Animal rights
groups, however, have attacked
most furiously those who still live
closest to the land, who are the
Poorest, and who have remained

Mr. McCrory wanted to know
what hard work we have done to

has been spent from the Habitat
Conservation Fund, paid,for by
a self-

annually to wildlife projects and
land acquisitions of which some are
directed to certain species, such as
the Grizzly bear. Countless hours
are spent in the environment
observing Grizzly bears and then
documenting their experiences and
information to Environmeht Min-
istry staff—information that the
ministry could not get from any
other source. Without the activities
of generations of direct users of
wildlife in Canada, that resource
would be a pale imitation of its cur-

ly the loss of habitat to aie
uses such as yee ee: transporta-
tion i But

bone to a pack of wild and desperately hungry

If there is a lynch mob out there, they are gun-
ning for the wrong people. The people they should
be hanging are the short-sighted misers who sit
unscathed in Victoria.

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through on a patee wks In this

-Guizaly bears live at the rate of one

bear per 65 square kilometres.
Now compare this with the
Kootenays where the hunters are

ing the Griz-
ales to extinction: where we have a
land mass of approximately 59,000
square kilometres and a Ministry of
Environment conservative mini-
mum estimate of 2,011 Grizzly

population base of about 127,000
people. We have a road going up

a

no hunted ser of wildlife in

Prompt them to compete for their
place in the community. They also
have ethics witch prompt them to
cooperate for the betterment of the
whole. It is this land ethic which
changes Homo Sapiens from the
of the land
imto | citizens of it. The land ethic

ed, and paid for, by the users.

But i the larger sense, wildlife is
not winning the war of attrition
against these competing forces. Of
these forces, the most insidious is
the anti-use or anti-conservation
sentiment, which seeks to eliminate
the very use that traditionally has
given wildlife its utilitarian value.

Siephes Davis

tance of amy experience that

, Wildlife C.
the West Kootenay Region of the
British Columbia Wildlife Federa-
tion (BCWF)

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a prize. That deer will keep my
wife and I in meat until August.
In addition, he had ical
four-point antlers which I will
proudly display on my wall. This

Council should recognize a good thing

Dear Editor:

I recently watched the televised version of a
City Council meeting, and was very pleased
with the presentation given by members of the
Recycle Advisory Group. We hear so much
negative news these days, so it was rather
refreshing to learn of the big success that the

Ihave been a hunter for 25 years and a member
of the B.C. Wildlife Federation for almost as long.
I support the B.C. Wildlife Federation because it

tions that hunters in general are an uncaring lot
and that our input to the Ministry of Environment
ignores sound wildlife practices.

our wildlife

pounds have been collected so far. I’m sure the
present convenient location of the depot is a
factor in its success. Without the depot, most
of that material would have entered the garage
stream and ended up in the landfill.

It is also very encouraging to learn that
our depot is one of the most cost effective

y in the province. As a
our recycling costs per ton are about one
third what Nelson pays. This equates to a
thousand dollars

of taxpayers’ money per year.
The present arrangement

due for renewal at the end of September. I
support the continuation of the depot at its
present location, and encourage others who
feel the same way to inform members of City
Council. We've got a sor thing going. It
mp would be very regrettable if more tax money
were needed to support a less efficient and
less convenient operation in the future.

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savings of several hundred

Target young offenders, not law-abiding citizens

Fen is leer open letter to Prime
Minister Jean Chretien.

Dear Sir:

Do you really think that your
government has nothing better to
do than to further harass law-
abiding members of the recre-
ational fitearms community?

1 am a competition pistol shoot-
er, Training Course Instructor,
internationally recognized Chief
Range Officer, and I compete
annually throughout western

Sun support
appreciated

On on bene aorat the Kidney Foun-
dation of Canada, West Kootenay
Cflapter, I would like to extend
my sincere appreciation to The
Castlegar Sun for the supp
given to our March drive.

We are grateful for the aware-
ness generated through The
Castlegar Sun as it had a signifi-
cant impact on the response of the
public to our volunteer canvassers.

We would also like to extend
our sincere appreciation to our
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particularly to the women from
St. Joseph’s Catholic Women’s
League for giving so generously
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ing our

campaign.
The door to door campaign

held annually in March is the,

main source of revenue for the
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fund medical research programs.
Our thanks to those who “gave
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Bud Godderis
President, West Kootenay

Canada and the Northwest United
States. Will you kindly explain to
me why your Minister of Justice,
Mr. Rock, is publicly declaring
that my valuable possessions are a
threat to the community and that
they should be fii d? Mr.

ness, of decency; does he have
only contempt for the rights of
Canadians he might not see as
politically correct?

You know that firearms abuse

Why bite the hand
that could feed you

Dear Editor:
I would like to say thanks a lot
to the kids going around stealing

is not going to be diminished by

Rock knows that virtually all
firearms crime is not committed
with firearms i mine, but with
illegal fi ty

king law-abiding
You know that your energies
should be used addressing the
économy and the jobs of desper-
ate Canadi not with threaten-

by ne coed yon young offenders,
and you should know that too, sir.
Hear it from the Vancouver
Sun, one of the most persistent
and rabid anti-gun publications i in
‘Western Canada, in its editorial

img our property, not with the
stupid cigarette issues, and not
with your political enemies in
Quebec, which we in the rest of
the country are sick to death of.
Our MPs from the Kootenays

of April 13: “...Still, I
sport shooters ‘offer no threat to
society and neither do responsi-
ble collectors; an outright ban
might be overkill...” Indeed.
When I hear you people dis-
cussing this in the future, please
also discuss how you are going to

case alone, is in the $10,000 to
$15,000 range. Even your candi-
date in the last federal el

have rep d us very well
over the years, regardless of party
affiliation, so you should listen
very carefully when our current
representative, Mr. Jim Gouk,
tells you that we out here_are very,
very unhappy with “government
as. usual”, with governments dis-
tracted from the main issues, gov-
ernments that spend money like
drunken sailors, with bloated and
useless bureaucracies (such as
that now dealing with firearms),
ii with

Mr. G. Jenkins, publicly stated
appalling that

Has Mr. Rock no sense of fair-

CALL

and esp a
that harass law-abiding, hard-

productive citizens.
J. Dwayne Hamilton, Ph. D.
President of Castlegar Pistol
Club

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They don't seem to have any-
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the parents of these kids while
they are out all hours of the night
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If they need money, why not
do a little yard work instead of
stealing? I’m sure a lot of elderly
people would pay young people

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