December 1, 1985 ESTABLISHED Al Ey CAMPBELL once oF ConmEHT: Fa! a peo Castlegar News MUMBER OF THE B.C. PRESS COUNCIL us INCORPORATING TH MD WEEN MIRKOR PUBLISHED SAP PUBUSHER AUG.7, 14) 648 19.1975 PUBLISHER — Burt Campbell EDITOR — Ron Norman PLANT FOREMAN — Peter Harvey , OFFICE MANAGER — Linda Kositsin ADVERTISING MANAGER — Carol Magaw CIRCULATION, MANAGER =- Heather Hoadley le Copy hight in ony printed wick weenty MAY 4 1980 7eAUG 27 100 oduced by Costte News Lid. 1 3+ SUIS proved however that Copy that port only of ms oro prosts. ngtavengs, Sk. provided by ihe ed Mt remoun wn ond a fundraising If the Selkirk College Foundation was as long on funds as’ it is’ on fundraising ideas, it-would be out of business. b But the'Foundation is in business — the business of raising money, primarily for Selkirk College tudents. The di has em- College students” will. solicit pledges and then work on the park to earn money. Castlegar council endorsed the scheme this week, saying it would like the students to work on property: at the sauth end of the barked on an ambitious program to raise more than $1.5 million for student scholarships and awards by adopting novel fundraising ideas. _ In-one scheme, the Foundation will market a special discount card good at businesses throughout the college region. Another moneymaking idea is the college’s plan to bring ski tours to this area. The tours will be organized through other. com- munity colleges in the U.S. and Canada. Both-are-excellent-ideas-and-the kind of fundraising programs on which the college should focus. In- stead of simply going door-to-door asking for donations, the college is providing services in return for money. In the case of the discount card, businesses benefit by a tax deduc- tion and increased traffic; car- dholders benetit by a tax deduc- tion and discounts; and the college benefits by some $1.5 million, -which is the amount of money it expects to make on the program in the first five years. The ski tours is.another good idea, because instead of asking the community for money, the college, will in fact be putting money ‘into the pockets of many local residents. At the same time, it will tap markets not already touched by local ski promoters. Both ideas are innovative ap- proaches to the problem of asking for handouts. A third proposal is not quite so attractive. It-involved building a park on a pledge ‘basis. Selkirk Complex. The problem with this scheme is that the city will be left to maintain the park once it's finished. Cer- tainly, it will have the benefit of a newly-developed park, so it’s kind of like looking a gift horse in the mouth. But at the same time, there is more than enough work to be done on the city’s present parks without adding another. Kinsmen Park could ‘use better ball screens and a new band shelter. It would be nice if the fountains in the Japanese pool at Kinnaird Park worked. And there-is-still- plenty to-be-done-at Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park and the property now used as a parking lot. The city will be negotiating with the Foundation on how to develop N THE MEDIA REPORTS THAT (UEP ARE DEAD. ie | the property at the C Complex. It should stipulate that the park require as little main- tenance as possible. The other problem v witltthe park Letters to the Editor idea is that the must obtain could cut into funds raised by other charitable organizations in the ity. Times are tough for all charitable organizations — just ask the United Way which is far short of its goal this year and likely won't raise as much as it did in 1984. There is only. so much money around in these lean economic times. It is important that the Foundation restrict its fundraising activities to non-traditional areas such as the ski tours and discount cards, or it could find itself benefit- ting at the expense of other wor- thwhile community causes. Guess who's on the list? The City of Castlegar should clean up its:act — its Voters List Act, that is. Forty-three per cent of eligible registered voters cast ballots on Nov. 16, a disappointing figure in light of the well-fought election, and hotly contested sparring tor both municipal and school board seats. In actual fact, the percentage turnout was probably much higher. because the voters’ list is full ot names of people who have moved away or are deceased Many people remem Maureen ‘Belsile. He owned Sted- mans and moved to Ontario with the Dixie Lee organization years ago. They're still on the voters’ list here. The same is true of Bill and Pam Banham, one-time Dairy Queen/Caretree Enterprises shareholders. ; Then there's Floyd and Marg Bacon who moved years ago to Kelowna, and their son, Ken, now a Toronto resident. has:moved away, while there have been two B of M managers since Don Carmichoel and his wife Margaret were here. Gib and Jean Lind, a former KISS Claude Bissell, long ago, while Frank Hamilton, who is also still on the voters list, resigned as supervisor of instruc- tion in this school district at least eight years ago. Jim Corbett and Margaret Bystrom were both very well respected members of our com- munity whose passing is still mourned by all who ‘knew them. They're both still on the voters’ list. Ryon Guedes came to Castlegar with his wife Judy some years ago as editor of the Castlegar News. They've been gone five or six years!— And those c are justa fe asked Meetings rarely missed Editor, News: At the regular Castlegar school board meeting on Nov. 18, chairman Doreen Smecher chastized “some trustees” for missing too many com- mittee meetings throughout the year. At the time, I felt the charges to be unfair, but because had no facts at my disposal, I did not respond to. the charges. For the life of me, I could not remember anyone being consistently absent from meetings. So, this past week I went through the minutes of the committee and regular board meetings from the period Dec. 1, 1984 to Nov. 18, 1985. Those minutes list who was present and who was absent, and thus, I now have the facts. In a year in which trustees were to attend approximately 75 meetings and numerous gatherings ” amounting to 300 hours of service to the community, I discovered that trustees rarely missed a meeting. In fact, trustees ought to be commended on their 96 per cent average attend- ance.. The high attendance. figures cindicate that trustees have indeed been doing their jobs .and have responsible to the electorate. _As to Mrs. Smecher's request that been the names of those trustees who are absent from meetings be published, Mrs. Smecher. needs only to vote affirmatively with the rest of us when we recommend early in the next term that committee meetings be made public. Minutes of committee meetings then can be sent out to the media: everyone then will be able to see for themselves who was present and who was not.” Gordon Turner. Trustee Trustees forum a ‘witch hunt’ Editor, Castlegar News: This year the school trustee can- didates forum was hosted. by the Castlegar District Teachers’ Assoc- iation and the District Parents’ Assoc- iation. It was obvious from the start that this was not neutral ground for the candidates. The interest groups spon- soring the forum packed the house. A former trustee and several others booed when it was announced that Doreen Smecher was unable to attend due’to a prior commitment. Many of the questions asked were designed simply to embarrass the incumbents, not to elicit opinion, policy or clarify the position. One questioner castigated a trustee for sticking to her oath as a trustee when she voted for a balanced budget at the final vote. He inferred that trustees should readily break any oath they take as a protest against the provincial government. It. was a witch hunt. The entire proceedi P d and di me. al I suggest that in future years the chamber of commerce either include the trustee candidates in the all- candidates forum, or host a separate forum for the trustees. That way at least the moderator will be neutral. Dale Nielsen Castlegar More letters, AS recognized by one Remember ‘ On Friday evening the Twin Rivers : -Hall was filled to capacity for. the Fashion -Show held by St, Alban's Evening Guild..The Christmas theme’ was featured on the attractively: dec- orated ramp from which the models displayed the many gowns. Mrs. J. Townsend welcomed the audience and Mrs, A.T. Horswill was the commentator. . 8 Word has: been received here through Mr. Daniel, that Mr. Cliff Robinson, noted Canadian artist, who gave art classes here this summer, under the sponsorship of the Castlegar Library Association, is leaving Canada for a year's visit to his home city Dublin, Ireland ¢ . . A Presbyterian Congregational meeting was held at the home of Mr. Campbell on Nov. 21. Discussion cen- tred mainly around the proposed church building-to be erected possibly in the spring. . . At the Tuesday evening meeting of the Castlegar Kiwanis Club Miss Nettlie. Brodman was guest artist favoring the club with a number of songs. 25 YEARS AGO From the Dec. 1, 1960 Castlegar News The second Castlegar ferry was taken out of service effective today be- cause of low water. Saas ‘The ramps cannot be extended until the water has reached its lowest point and at present it is seven feet above where the extension is ‘to go. Ad _ hd : Now open for ‘business is Les Ter- nent's Texaco Service Station.at, the Castleaird Plaza. : ica paar) The past two weeks have seen the Castlegar and District Hospital 10 per cent over the danger level of occupancy with 97 per cent of the beds in use. This serious overcrowding was re- vealed at the hospital board meeting here last Thursday. . 7 Only voters to go to the polls next Thursday will be Kinnaird owner-elec- tors who will vote on boundary ex- tension and sewage works acquisition bylaws. No municipal or school trustee elec- tions will be held in either village. a . 8 ‘The Castlegar and District Fall Fair, a local institution for the past 14 years, may fold because of lack of interest by the citizens of the district. A decision on the fate of the fair will be made at the annual meeting of the association on Dec. 15. 15 YEARS AGO From the Dec. 3, 1970 News Entry of a Selkirk College student in the Kinnaird aldermanic race, a three- way fight for the one-year school board term open in Castlegar, and a contest for the electoral Area I directorship of the Regional District of Central Kootenay highlighted the local election scene when nominations closed at noon Monday. Cuiktopher D'Arcy, a former Celgar dasa full-ti student Sh ‘Selkirk College, has chal- reading anrouak a couple of letters of the alphabet in the voters’ list. These are times .of restraint, granted, but the city should spend whatever money it takes and follow whatever procedures are required to clean up its voters’ list. As it stands now, each day that passes causes it to become more and more outdated. It could be that closer to 60 per cent of those actually able to vote, did vote on Nov.° 16. That's halt again as many as the official figures show. And is a tar better commentary on the civic mindness principal and then super of schools in Trail, moved away of C 1 than the of- ficial figures indicate. Quotable Quotes MR. JUSTICE Bud Cullen of the Federal Court, a former Liberal cab- inet minister, was hearing a patent in- fringement case the other day where the plaintiff described his claim as “a very, very simple one, unusually simple.” Said Cullen: “That statement could be likened to a bikini; what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.” He nevertheless eventually ruled in favor of the claim. AH, THE TRIALS and tribulations of political life! Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had just slipped out of a dinner meeting with the premiers en route to the mens’ room when he was accosted by an enthusiastic fan. The woman rushed up to the prime minister and pleaded with him to let her friend take a photograph of them together. Mulroney, always willing to please a prospective voter, happily obliged, throwing his arm around the woman and smiling broadly for the camera. Then he dashed into the washroom. “Oh, he’s wonderful,” gushed the woman, clutching her camera and heading back to the bar. “And all he wanted to do was pee.” TSS Time for risk-taking By BURT CAMPBELL Publisher THE 49th PARADOX By Richard Gwyn (McClelland . & Stewart, $22.95). Canada, this book points out quite persuasively, cannot avoid closer trade relations with our large land neighbor, the United States. But these closer ties, must come about because our economic system now works, in almost every detail, on a worldwide scale, not just because we're neighbors. The result: We need to associate ourselves with a large ally, and turn towards a world trading system such as we never aspired to before. Canadians are so different “from Americans, says the author, that we can now enter a free trade arrange- ment without fearing for our survival in such an arrangement. While rec- ognizing the difficulties that might result (and employment dislocation is one), Gwyn insists that economic imperatives demand. that Canada create a broader market and become more. competitive. He has no fears that the U.S. will have the upper hand in striking a free trade deal. With such an important issue, he says, it is only to be expected that this country will be represented at the bargaining table by our best peor i have to the ae that capital today can move quickly and freely across borders and that, as a result, the old concepts of borders, barriers, management, wages and selling are changing rapidly. “Of all nations,” he comments, “Canada may be most affected by the global marketplace. This is because Canada isn’t so much a nation-state - - - as a state-nation.” (Meaning that ours is a nation created by the state, not the other way around.) The 49th Paradox is not a pessimistic _ book.’ Gwyn concentrates on telling us that the economic and political system is changing both within Canada and in the world outside our borders. “The nation’s long winter of quasi- isolation is over . . . It's a time for renewal, for striking out on long journeys, for taking risks.” And a navigation chart is provided. lenged it G.S. Rust and Steve Jankola at Kinnaird. . . Py Bob Bohn received the Firemen of the Year Award last Saturday night from Fire Chief Rene Archambault when the mayor and aldermen for the Town of Kinnaird, along with town employees, town guests and members of the Kinnaird Volunteer_Fire De- partment, met for their annual social gathering. se Castlegar Senior Citizens Associa- tion elected its new officers for 1971. Elected were: President Harry Evans, first vice-president Mrs. F. Fuller, second vice-president C.E. Heagy, sec- retary Mrs. R. Johnson, treasurer Mrs. A. McNeil and executive members Mrs. C. Brady and Mrs. E. Murray. . 5 YEARS AGO From the Nov. 30, 1980 Castlegar News An escaped convict from San Quen- tin penitentiary in California faces two counts of attempted murder after a shootout in Trail in which a man was killed and an RCMP constable injured. = ee « A trip Thursday on a forestry access road by two Castlegar men in a four-by-four resulted in near tragedy 15 miles back of Christina Lake when the vehicle could not make it up a steep hill as the couple attempted the return trip. Provincial Emergency Program search leader Dick Thomas said Wayne Briggeman was to be greatly credited — for making his way out to seek as- sistance for his Soempenions who had taken ill. COMMUNITY NEWS MORE LETTERS — Carney unfair Editor, Castlegar News: How unfortunate it is after fair and balanced reporting on the signing of a ber of tween Cominco and the government of Canada, that your newspaper should so unfairly criticize the Honorable Pat Carney’s response to receiving a brief from Castlegar’s Economic Develop- ment Committee (“Carney big city now” — Castlegar News, Nov. 10, 1985). ~The editorial stated, “Miss Carney may have lived in Nelson 30 years ago, but she’s definitely big city now.” All this because she didn’t offer the com- mittee “30 seconds of her time,” and handed the brief “like a hot potato to an aide to carry.” I think it is worth taking a look at the “big city” minister's agenda on that day, and how “the brief” was presented. Late on the evening of Nov. 7, Miss Carney flew from Ottawa to Cal, where she spent the night. Early the next morning she flew to Cranbrook, and then drove through snow to Trail, due to the Castlegar Airport being weathered-in. After meeting with Cominco officials in Trail, the minister proceeded to the Cominco gymnasium for the signing and the hands of Pierre Alvarez, Miss Car- ney’s executive assistant and a former Trail resident. I assure you the brief was read by the one need ly criticized ifornia’s energy requirements. Further to that, on Oct. 19 Miss United Church Monday even- be reflected in“a dramatic Carney visited'the Revelstoke Dam, Madam only review the events of the following days to know that for certain. The following Monday, Nov. 11, Miss Carney flew to California to discuss the sale of hydroelectric power by B.C. Hydro to the State of California, She was well ived in her with Qian Zhen Yin, Minister of Water Power Conservancy fic, Central America _and yhera of e theetrsigrouy celled and Electric Power-for the People’s Asia, as well as from Can- Children’s Creations. Republic of China. The purpose of the ada’s West Coast and from _ seth pa fit hd ist was to Gemmastsate theo ore expertise 0 Canadians, ” particularly at Gauss undertake ma- years, form path of several and the’singing duo of Aub- The sale of the governor of California, the State Utilities Commission, and industry representatives. Her presentation was based prin- cipally on three elements: the excess capacity of the Revelstoke Dam; the provision of power generating capacity at the Keenleyside Dam; and the construction of the Murphy Creek Dam. She indicated that British Col- umbia | could provide 24 per cent of Cal- Faith not Editor, Castlegar News: I would like to tell you my response to the letter from Iris Bakken of Salmo published in the Nov. 24 edition of your paper, headlined “Tuna scandal not "s fault.” a news later, a ‘Trail Chamber of Connaree luncheon at which she was guest + I want to respond to the disturbing implications in the letter, more than to g the the er. Folk : speak minister quickly toured Cominco’s lead plant, and was then driven to the Castlegar Airport where her plane left just minutes before grounding time. During the luncheon, Miss Carney was handed the brief, without intro- duction, while sitting at the head table. I must ask, what was she expected to do with it? Was she to read it and ignore her hosts, or excuse herself from her hosts to have someone explain it over her shoulder? I think you. would agree that a “six-minute presentation” would have been most distracting to someone re- viewing speaking notes while rushing a meal and trying to listen to other speakers. In actual fact, the Economic Devel- opment Commit brief ended up PREVIOUSLY FROZEN COOKED $4190 gree or to agree with the writer's view on whether our prime minister is responsible for the tuna scandal. By the writer's admission “I have faith in Brian Mulroney” and “I don't know, what the actual facts are regarding the tuna scare,” I wonder what kind of opinion at all the writer has and how valid it may be? Does the writer believe that faith in our politicians will be sufficient to keep them honest and accountable? The electorate is responsible for the kind of politici: it has. In iat Chae ASS te Oe eee eee nificant Given these para the Honorable Pat whichis meeting with youths tation with songs in English Carney has more than demonstrated in B.C., Ontario and Quebec and Russian. her concerns for Kootenay West, and does not deserve being labelled “big city” by its media. Personally, I think the Castlegar News owes her an apology. Beb Brisco, D.C., MP Kootenay West enough being with great qualities that may not “measure even half-way up to” but he is still a human being. He is also respensible for choosing his aids. If some of them are “self-important” instead of responsible and. accountable and that “direct pipeline” becomes winding and often effectively plugged, then we need a lot of political faith — your kind of faith Iris Bakken — to believe that all is well or that it will be well. If our PM would begin to make some changes to our political system where- - by Opposition MPs would be allowed a real positive participatory role in the policy-making process of our govern- ment (opposition MPs represent voters too) instead of being relegated to looking for faults in the government and its policies; relegated to embar- our right to vote, political faith alone should not be the weighing factor in choosing a candidate, because a PM, has to choose his ministers from those MPs we have elected and he can only rassing the g in the hope to sway public opinion in their favor by next election, then we would have a far more democratic system and far less political saints to whom we have to be faithful. Antonio Guglielmi Gi AT Ke & 186878, Youth to meet visitors Castlegar young people are invited to the Castlegar ing to meet teenagers from countries in Africa, the Paci: Montreal. The visitors, aged 13 to 17 similar International Peace from the Youth for Justice Tour over a two-week period this ‘November and December. On Monday evening some of the tour participants will talk about their personal ex- periences of growing up in places where conflict and poverty are an everyday re- ality. Their story and their plea Lotto numbers There was no winner of the $150,000 jackpot in Wednes- day's Lotto West draw. The eight numbers drawn we » 9, 33, 34, 42, 43, 53 and 54. The bonus number was 15. Wednesday's . Lotto 6/49 numbers were 19, 24, 26, 34, 41 and 43. The bonus number was 27. Pacific Express numbers were:. 135211 for $100,000, 312438 for $50,000, 423450 for $10,000. Bonus numbers for $10,000 each were: 125518, 140697, 211503, 237066, 275254, 288722, 306644, 402286, 411209, In the event of a dis- crepancy between these numbers and the official lists, the latter shall prevail. invited | pyBLic MEETING Unemployment Insurance Commission “of Inquiry Hearing fea iaetreaaking((his'altaoce just and peaceful world will presentation from the Mon- ‘treal yor are. mem- yon. - On ‘Janvary 91986 the Commission will. be coming to Castlegar: to hear.’ public to the . Insurance Act. The +t Action Centre ane all persons" ‘interested in making suggestions as to how-to improve unemployment insurance and all other benefit payments, to attend a public -meeting. é y local singers Liz Thor- Unemployment pets Larissa FP erte Robbie and Isabelle Brule. The USCC Youth. Choir will end the presen- Following the more formal part of the evening, there will be some refreshments and a chance to meet further with the tour participants. 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