IN RETROSPECT . . . Central American Mario
Escamilla relaxes at Jim Lamont's res!
Castlegar Tuesday night and discusses his cross-

REFUGEES

continued trom front poge
from Guatemala and the feared Sandanistas of Nicaragua.
~ Etching with his finger along the tabletop, Escamilla
explains that the guerrillas are everywhere, especially in
the southern parts of his country. His town is close to
Salvador, the country’s capital, but other outlying towns
had reported guerrilla attacks.

One day, Escamilla’s sister left for work and never
returned. Not long after, in September, 1985, Escamilla
made the decision to escape to the U.S. and he crossed
the border into Guatemala then into Mexico.

But in Mexico he was caught and held in a detention
camp. Living only on tortillas and beans for three weeks,
Escamilla and several others were shipped back to
Guatemala.

He tried again, this time managing to slip through
Mexico and into the States before being caught by the
American authorities. By pretending to be Mexican, and
without papers or passport, he was taken by bus only as
far as Mexico. But he crossed into the U.S. again, this
time slogging through a drainage canal up to his waist
then hitching rides in Texas, where he managed to find
work in Dallas loading trucks.

Escamilla was happy there. He had a job and he went
to night school to learn English. He was even able to
write homes and his sister wrote back.

“My sister gaidthe problem over there never stops,”
he said.

Escamilla takes a moment to breathe deeply.

“She also told me that a lot of people had died there
and she was glad I was away but that now my brother
had also run off and no one had heard from him.”

Escamilla’s younger brother, only 18, was also
eligible for the army.

“They don’t ask you,” he said. “They take you.

“I think he may be in Mexico somewhere,” he says
and shrugs.

country -od) y of ‘s
military, eluding immigration authorities and slip-

But his sanctuary was short lived. Immigration
authorities were again closing in on Escamilla. Friends
told him Canada was safe and with $110 saved from his
earnings, he bought a bus ticket north, to take him closer
to the Canadian border.

“I didn’t take the right bus,” he says and grins. “I
went to Houston (Texas).” ‘

So Escamilla bought a map, discovered his mistake,
and headed north again.

From Dallas to Albequerque, from there to Denver,
Escamilla begged for food and looked for work,
constantly afraid that someone would turn him in and he
would be sent back to El Salvador.

he through and was
given a ride to CheWwella.

“I didn't want to talk to anyone because they could
probably say I am a bad person,” he explained.

But, clad only in a jacket and light running shoes, the
cold grew intolerable. Escamilla stopped a small boy and
asked him if he knew of place to stay, but the boy didn't.
With dark falling he began to look for a park in which to
sleep when he again crossed paths with the boy.

“He asked me if I had a place to sleep. I said no and
he said, ‘You got a place to stay. My parents would let you
stay in the house.’ I couldn't believe it.”

Escamilla spent a night with the family, who fed him
and got him back to the highway the next day.

Escamilla caught a ride to the Canadian border near
Christina Lake. Once within sight of the actual crossing,
Escamilla waited for night, then slipped deep in the bush
and worked his way across.

“I ran into these deer and I was scared,” he says
snickering. “I thought the deers were probably lions and
they would eat me.”

Escamilla planned to remain in the woods until he
was well into Canada.

“I was walking in the snow and I thought, if I go by
the mountains I will die,” he said.

He made the choice — a fortuitous decision — to walk
along the road.

an

ee

ping across three arate borders to reach
Canada.

“But I don't know what's going to happen,” he said.
“I don’t want to hitchhike because immigration would get
me.”

Escamilla's fear was abated shortly after accepting
the ride with Lamont.

“Once I heard him mention church I knew he was a
good man,” he said.

After hearing Escamilia’s story, and calculating that
he must have walked at least 40 kilometres that day,
Lamont knew the man was weak and possibly in danger
from fatigue and exposure.

Lamont brought him to Castlegar and put him up for
the night, but not before reasoning with Escamilla that
his best bet was to turn himself into the authorities as a
legitimate refugee, rather than be caught by police and
deported for entering Canada illegally.

“He didn’t say much,”’said Lamont. “Buit Sunday
morning, he got up and said I was right, and we went to
the police station.”

Escamilla has been granted temporary stay in
Canada until an immigration board in Cranbrook reviews
his status in about eight to 10 weeks.

“I told immigration we would look after him,” said
Lamong, who expects that Escamilla will be moving in
with another Castlegar family this week.

“He can’t work and he can't apply for welfare so until
things change, we'll look after him.”

Surprisingly, the soft-spoken and amiable E:
seemed relaxed and composed’after his ordeali!''"' 13

When asked how he likes the weather,he: rubs his
arms and laughs: “I walked all the time to keep warm.”

Nonetheless, Escamilla is happy with Canada so far.
Now, he says he must contend with the worries
about his younger brother and about his own future.

“If lam sent back to El Salvador, I will live only two
days,” he said. “If they're going to let me stay I'm going
to be happy.

“I want to go to college,” he said. “And I want to find
my brother.

“This is my dream.”

ry

Man gets AIDS

OFFICIALS INSIST

from skin graft Refugees safe in U.S.

LONDON (AP) — A badly The unidentified man, in

burned British man contrac
ted the AIDs virus through a
skin-graft at a London hos-
pital, the first known incident
of its kind, health officials
said Tuesday.

The man's face and hands
were badly burned late last
year and he was taken to
Queen Mary's Hospital in
London for a skin-graft, said
plastic surgeon John Clarke.

Clarke, said surgeons oper-
ated before the donor's skin
could be fully tested for
AIDS antibodies, and the tis:
sue was apparently infected.

his 40s, is now receiving out.
patient treatment, Clarke
said.

Clarke said his clinic,
which treated more than 300
burn victims last year, in the
future will rely on a patient's
own skin or on artificial skin.

Clarke said the screening
method for AIDS can take
about a month and is not
foolproof.

“Donors could have regent
ly been exposed to the virus
and not show antibodies,” he
said.

OTTAWA (CP) — Canadian immigration officials
insisted Tuesday that refugee claimants will not be deported
from the United States while waiting in that country for an
immigration hearing in Canada.

Under new measures announced by Immigration
Minister Benoit Bouchard on Friday, refugee claimants who
enter Canada from the U.S. are being turned back to wait in
that country after they are given appointments for
immigration inquiries in four to six weeks at the Canadian
border.

The rule has provoked protests from Canadian refugee
aid groups and human rights activists. They say there are no
guarantees that claimants won't be deported to countries
with repressive regimes where they could face tortune or
death.

A letter from Alan Nelson, egmmissioner of the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service, to James Bissett,

Budget upsets city

By CasNews Staff
Castlegar council plans to protest a
new provision contained in the federal

TRUCKS

continued trom front poge
senior is in need of help.

Richards said the central dispatching
system would have to be somewhere
that is staffed 24 hours a day, like a

hospital

She said each wrist unit costs $1,000
to purchase and about $20 a month to
operate. Home Support workers plan
to approach local service clubs to help

fund the project

Richards said Respondicare would
have come in handy this weekend when
an elderly Castlegar man fell in his
home last Friday but wasn’t found until

Monday

“He was there

over
weekend until somebody forced entry
on Monday morning.” she said. “He is
extremely weak and is in hospital.”

nicipality.

The city sends about $43,000 a month
to Ottawa in employee deductions.
Under the new rules half of that woula
be sent midway through the money and
the rest at the end of the month,

It is essentially . .
income on $20,000 for the half of every
month,” city
explained,
doesn’t have firm figures on what the
change will cost the city

However, he said, “It will have an Cc
impact. Our cash flow will be affected
to some degree.
Audrey Moore
council write a letter to Finance Min
ister Michael

Gairns

Mayor
the entire

West MP
position

budget brought down_last week.
Council said Tuesdhy night that the
provision, which calls for businesses
that send the federal government more
than $150,000 monthly in employee
deductions to send the money twice.
monthly, will end up costing the mu

Bob Brisco outlining its

Two halt
hunger
strike

MONTREAL (CP) — Two
of 21 Chileans who began a
hunger strike Saturday to
protest new immigration res
trictions preventing their
families from coming to Can
ada have abandoned their
fast after three days of tap
water and salt

Franco Mendez, 24, one of
the fasters, said Tuesday the
two who gave up had acute
stomach pains.

“['m feeling pretty bad
myself,” he said.

Mendez's wife is one of 106
leans, intending to fly to
Canada claiming status as
refugees, who were caught in
Buenos Aires last week after
the Canadian government
imposed the new restrictions
Another 90 Chileans were
stranded in Sao Paulo for the

. a loss of interest

administrator Dave
adding that he

suggested

Wilson and Kootenay

same reason.

Canada's executive director of immigration, said individuals
“found to be deportable,” would be handled under normal
procedures in that country. The letter was written as
Canada prepared to enact the new procedures at points of
entry.

GROUPS CRITICIZE

Many claimants are from Central American countries
such as El] Salvador and Guatemala, both criticized by
human rights groups for wide-spread human rights
violations and death-squads.

Nelson's letter fuelled fears that some claimants may be
deported to those countries to face torture or death.

Westerberg, a senior aide to junior
minister Gerry Weiner, rejected that.
possibility in an interview on Tuesday.

“There are clear instructions to our immigration officers
in the field to consult their U.S. counterparts about each
case,” Westerberg said. “That's what they're doing.

“If we receive assurances that cldimants are not in
danger of deportation until their inquiry, they're sent back
to the U.S. to wait. But if they're in danger of being deported
from the U.S., then they're allowed to stay in Canada.”

He noted that 337 people were sent back to the U.S. last
weekend, but six claimants were permitted to remain in
Canada because Canadian officials weren't satisfied they
wouldn't be deported if they were forced to wait in the U.S.

REVIVE ARRANGEMENT

Canadian and U.S. officials have revived an arrange
ment which was in effect until last May. Under the
arrangement, U.S. officials agree not to deport anyone
awaiting an inquiry in Canada.

“It isn’t a treaty signed by heads of state — a binding,
iron-clad guarantee,” Westerberg said. “But with a friendly
country we don't need that.”

Earlier in Washington, U.S. immigration official Duke
Austin said his country has offered no such assurances.

“We have no policy that says because an individual has
an application (to the Canadian government) that we would
hold them indefinitely,” Auston said. “They are illegally in
the United States.”

About two dozen Canadians and Central Americans
gathered a block from Parliament on Tuesday to protest the
new Canadian regulations. They told reporters there are no
guarantees U.S. officials won't deport refugees to countries
with ‘repressive regimes before the claimants have been
interviewed by Canadian officials.

“AIL it will tkae is one case — just one individual who is
deported to El Salvador or Guatemala by the U.S: and is
killed there,” said Cindy Hanson of the Ottawa Central
America Solidarity Committee.”

VICTORIA (CP)
Vander Zalm’s, Social Credit
cabinet ministers — face con!

Environment and Parks Minister |
owns shares in a trust that has stock in a mining compe
‘outdoors enthusiasts say. stands to benefit from bound:

nges to h Provincial Park on V Isla

* And Agriculture and Fisheries Minister John Savage
‘one of three government members still collecting salaries
elected municipal officials.

Savage is a Delta alderman, The other two «
Richmond Alderman Nick Loenen, Vander. Zalm's runni
mate in the Oct. 22 provincial election, and Graham Bru-
the mayor of North Cowichan who represents Cowich:
Malahat.

Vander Zalm said he plans to investigate the dual ro!
of ipal and Pp incial Pp itied ¥

Rogers said he did not buy the shares in Fore
Investments, a family trust -which owns stock in West
Resources which has extracted minerals from Strathco
Park for years.

He said he had no control over the shares but would lo
at getting rid of them.

LAND DOWNGRADED

Under a*pjan announced by Rogers last month, t.
existing mine and 200 mineral claims amalgamated into o
mineral lease are to be downgraded to recreation area stat
from Class B park. That would permit development of t!
claims.

Jim Rutter, executive director of the Federation
Mountain Clubs, said Rogers’ holdings are an appare
conflict of interest.

“It doesn’t look good. We'd like to be confident that t!
public's interests were being well protected. We don't »
enough concern from the top. There is apparent support f
industry.”

Rob Wood, of Friends of Strathcona Park,
231,000-hectare wilderness area, said he has no doubt tl

jon area i jon was made to sp benef
Westmin.

“I don’t own shares in the company (Westmin),” Roge:
said in an interview. “I ama beneficial shareholder of a tru
which has some interest im this area.

“I'm going to take whatever steps are necessary |
eliminate that, but that’s beside the point. I'm trying to fin
a way to distance myself from it even further betause, quit
frankly, until I had the people from the trust come and te
me what's involved, I didn't even know.”

OWNS SHARES

Rogers’ disclosure file shows he owns 30 per cent ¢
more of Forrest Investments, which owns an undetermine
number of shares in Westmin and 22 other companie:
including Genstar, Noranda, Nova and Alcan.

Rogers was criticized in January for Forret

’ holdings in Millan Bloedel which hold
timber licences on Lyell Island in the Queen Charlottes. H
is on the cabinet Environment and Land Use Committee ths
makes r dations on jal, land use.

In January 1986 he was criticized for holding an interes
in a pulp company but then premier Bill Bennett dismisse
the criticisms. Rogers resigned a portfolio before pleadin
guilty in provincial court to failing to disclose holdings bu
was granted an absolute discharge.

Vander Zalm said in Vancouver he was “a littl
surprised” to learn Savage is still a Delta alderman.

“There's an unwritten rule that you shouldn't serve tw
masters. MLAs should not have two positions.

Former Vancouver mayor Mike Harcourt, one of tw:
NDP members from Vancouver Centre, said the three hav:
a conflict of interest.

“Sometimes you have to go after the provincia
government. How can you be on council and be critical of th«
government at the same time?”

Church group
seeks change

TORNTO (CP) — The
federal government can be
“brought to its senses” to
provide a more reasonable
policy for admitting refu
gees to Canada, members
of the Inter-Church Com.
mittee for Regugees said
Tuesday.

“We are Canadians
working in a system that
involves negotiation,” said
committee co-ordinator
Helga Kutz-Harder. “I
can’t believe this is the end
of the line of that policy.”

She said the committee's
strategy is to urge the
government to change the
new regulations announced
last Friday, and not to
break any laws in order to
help refugees enter and
remain in Canada

Kutz-Harder said her
organization, part of the
Canadian Council of Chur
ches, is supporting rallies
and telephone and letter:
writing campaigns in an
attempt to influence the
government.

Canada's “new immigra

ada must wait on the U.S.
side of the border until an
immigration hearing de-
termines whether they
qualify as refugees.

Kutz-Harder said one of
the committee’s major ob-
jections coneners the gov-
ernment’s new willingness
to deport people who face
persecution or death in
their home country, but
don't meet all the qualifica.
tions for refugee status.

“There is an alternative
way of going,” said com
mittee member Tom Clark.
“We have the greatest
concern that the viable,
humanitarian way has
been ignored.”

Clark outlined a proposal
developed by the. com
mittee and presented to
Deputy Prime Minister
Don Mazankowski on Jan.
20 that calls for the for:
mation of an independent
body to determine who will
be allowed refugee status.

He said refugee policy is
no tonly a matter of im
migration control, but also
tion regulations end the of human rights, protection
traditional practice of ex.
empting people from 18
countries including El
Salvador, Guatemala and
Iran — from deportation,
and granting them a minis.
terial permit to stay in the
country a year.

and international legal ob
ligations.

The proposed body,
therefore, would examine
each claim on an individual
basis and allow people who
are threatened in their na
tive countries to remain,
GAIN STATUS while excluding those who

People leaving the are undesirable because of
United States hoping to criminal records or other
gain refugee status in Can- reasons.

Area’ politicians and Com-
inco will be targets’ in the
continuing fight by the Koot-

Electric

4 if

The ECA brought to the
attention of Investment Cap-
ada several pieces of evi-
dence trom the: B.0; Utilition

Utilicorp United, The ECA
believes. members of the
legislatures’) who have

“The federal agency was
unaware of this evidence,
which included probably the.
most important (and dam-
aging) testimony to Utili-

Investment Canada is

favored Utilicorp’s
bid in the past may see things

ing letters to all federal and
provincial legislature mem-
bers representing the West
Kootenay Power service
area, to ask for their support,

“It was revealed that of the

servative, Okanagan-North),
and of the seven provincial
MLAs, only Cliff Sirwa (So-
cial Credit, Okanagan-South)

in light of the
damaging evidence about
Utilicorp which came to light
during the B.C, Utilities
Commission hearings.”

The ECA has also con-
tacted Investment Canada
seeking a reversal of its Dec.
24 decision favoring Utili-
corp, on the grounds that the
federal agency based its de-
cision on incomplete and in-
correct information.

Oral Roberts
mistaken

DALLAS (AP) — Evan-
gelist Oral Roberts, criticized
for asking for contributions

would die by the end of 1986
unless he raised $8 million, a
Texas newspaper reported
toda:

y-

A spokesman for Roberts
said the evangelist appar-
ently made a mistake.

Roberts told a gathering at
the Dallas convention centre
last Easter that God had in-
structed him to raise the $8

Police file

An ‘accident ‘at ‘a’ Pass

in ‘one man being
taken to hospital with leg
injuries.

‘According to Castlegar
RCMP, Ross Smiley, 35, of
Pass Creek was pinned under
his vehicle Saturday morning
while repairing the gas tank.

RCMP were first on the
scene and lifted the vehicle
off Smiley.

He was reported in good
condition at Castlegar and
district hospital

. «

Gregory Zeboroff, 22, of
Blueberry Creek may be
charged for a single vehicle
accident on Highway 22 near
Fairview.

Zeboroff's 1977 Chevrolet
Sedan left the road at 12:50
a.m. Saturday morning, re.
sulting in an unknown
amount of damage.

There were no injuries.

. 8 8

Seventy-five dollars was
reported missing over the
weekend from the office of
Dr. Lentick Dental Cl in
Castlegar Plaza.

RCMP say the cash was
reported missing Sunday
afternoon. The investigation
continues.

* « «

The home of Naricy Cher-

. nenkoff, of 837, 8th Ave. in

Castlegar was broken into
over the weekend.

RCMP say nothing ap
peared to be missing and the
investigation continues

*

The Turbo Gas Station on
Columbia Avenue was brok
en into Friday night.

RCMP say only cigarettes
were stolen and the inves.
tigation continues

* 6 *

Over the weekend, Castle
gar RCMP suspended one
driver and charged two
minors for being inside a li
censed premises.

Rock Islend Place
Trail

* Unibody and

eni
BC Claims

million “by the end of the
year” or he would die, accord-
ing to a tape of the sermon
obtained by the Dallas Morn-
ing News.

“Oral Roberts’ life is on the
line,” he said in the Easter

Roberts said, had
“told me that if I did not send
out to the holy missionary
teams . . . he’s going to take
me this year,” the News re-

ported.

“Because if I don’t do it,
I'm going to be gone before
this year is out. I'll be with
the Father. I know it as much
as I'm standing here.”

Roberts failed to raise the
money but lived to see 1987.

The 69-year-old evangelist
said on his television pro-
gram last““month that God
had told him he would die by
the end of March unless he
raised $4'/: million for schol-
arships to train medical mis-
sionaries at Oral Roberts
University in Oklahoma.

Jan Dargatz, a Roberts’
spokesman, explained Tues-
day that in the Dallas ser-
mon, Roberts “in the heat of
the presentation — he prea-
ches spontaneously — made
his own mistake in dates.”

“Frankly, I'm amazed this
goes on and on,” Dargatz said
of the controversy over the
Roberts fund-raising
approach. “So be it.”

liticians

sulting, but ighorant. Senior
citizens have experience and

‘whieh * qualifies
i Can-
‘est Koot-

adian control of

and run attitude was plain in
the B.C. Utilities Commission
hearings, which saw Comin-
co’s financial vice-president

the new st
and has promised to get back

to the ECA,

Meanwhile, ECA Presi-
dent Barry Wilson said he is
outraged at remarks attri-
buted to Cominco public re-
lations manager Don Town-
send last week in the Toronto
Star.

“Comineco’s attempt to pass ™

off the grassroots opposition
to Utilicorp by thousands of
angry West Kootenay Power
customers as people who
‘just don’t have a heck of a lot
to do’ makes it clear they're
upset at being caught with
both hands in thecookie jar,”
charged Wilson, referring to
the $80 million price Cominco
hopes to get from Utilicorp.

“To disparage those of our
supporters who happen to be
elderly as ‘the blue-rince set’
and ‘old birds’ is not only in-

owes an apology to the peo-
ple who have supported it for
so many years,” Wilson said.

He added that during the
several weeks that a decision
from the B.C, Utilities Com-
ion is expected to take,
the ECA will continue the
drive to increase its mem-
bership, and will hold meet-
ings throughout the West
Kootenay Power service area
to bring up-to-date informa-
tion to the community.

“The ECA will work to
achieve the broadest possible
base of ownership for West
Kootenay Power from the
utility's service area,” Wilson
said, “This will be the num-
ber one item to be discussed
at upeoming meetings.”

1.
ES

News
TREET TALK

IF YOU'VE been reading the Vancouver Sun the last
few days you're well aware that the Lower Mainland
daily has been featuring small towns in B.C. It’s all part of
a special series called Focus on B.C.

The first installment appeared in Saturday's issue
and featured Ulla and Hugh Wilson of Silverton. The

Wilsons used local

builder Jim Pownall and other

Silverton craftsmen to build a new resort last fall.

The article, by Sun reporter Mark Hume, also takes
a look at New Denver and its mayor Bernie Czelenski. In
Tuesday's paper Nelson and Mayer Gerald Retering were
front and centre, along with Grant Copeland and Colleen
McCrory of the Valhalla Wilderness Society.

And of course, Hume manages to get the latest on
the watershed logging controversy in the Slocan Valley.

A NEW garden centre will be opening sometime in
April at the former Valley Lanscape ‘location next to
Mohawk on Columbia Avenue.

THE HI ARROW Arms Motor Hotel is busy these
days. The Hi Arrow erected a new sign on Columbia
Avenue last week and plans to open its restaurant in the

near future.

Tim and Susayn Jay will operate the restaurant,
which will feature Chinese and Western food. Tim has
worked in the Nelson area for the last 23 years, including
at the Bamboo Gardens and K.C. Restaurant.

ALEX BARBER SHOP is now

located in the

Marlane Hotel in downtown Castlegar.

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EODORIZER 89°

new EASY

HEAT ACTIVATED.
NON-IRRITATING.

OFF

OVEN CLEANER

(NO FUMES.

SUNBRITE
BLEACH

3.6L. ....

FRESH

MONEYS. .......

UCE

= 13th do °

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COUNTRY CROC
POTATOE

ICE CREAM NOVELTIES
12 PACK POPSICLES,
8 PACK GOLD BARS $ 2 2 9
OR SNACK BARS . we rcs
PAM SPRAY
COOKING AID. . a
79
SPREAD. 1.5 kg. TUB $ 1
CENTRAL FRESH PROD
B AN AN A GOLDEN RIPE
RUSSETT
B.C. GROWN. No. 1.
GRAPEFRUIT BULK CARROTS
ord 39°

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BROCCOLI
-KG. s200.99°

us.
GROWN. ..

PRICES EFFECTIVE THURSDAY, FEB. 26 THRU SUNDAY, MARCH 1

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