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Paul brings. with him 12
years of sales experience in
the West Kooténay. Feel free
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SPECTACULAR

Doug SI¥, an English teacher at Stanley Humphries secondary school, took his two Grade 9
English classes to the Nelson Festival of the Arts on March 8 where the class nted
poems in the choral speaking section. One of the classes won first prize for its version of
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.

Speaking
well

A group of Stanley h dary schoo! ,and hers Grant
Lenarduzzi (wearin tle) and Don Mair (far left), saved their money and are spendin
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Student studies grizzlies

VANCOUVER (CP) — West of
the Rockies, where the raw: peaks of
the Selkirk Mountains divide British
Columbia’s great southern lakes
system, Robert Wielgus is learning
about sex and violence in the world of
grizzlies.

What Wielgus, a forestry PhD
student at the University of British
Columbia, has found is evidence of
infanticide and murder in an
ecosystem where survival of the fittest
can mean death to the smallest and
most vulnerable cubs.

It is also a law that, applied in a
population atready in decline, could
lead to extinction.

Tracking 21 radio-collared grizzlies
through a rugged jumble of moun=
tains between the Arrow and
Kootenay Lakes, in a region of
southeastern British Columbia known
as the Selkirk Mountains Grizzly Bear
Ecosystem, Wielgus is studying
habitat demands.

Selkirk Mountains
scene of infanticide

Rocky Mountains,”’ he said. ‘*1 found
that females were avoiding male
bears, staying out of prime habitat
where there was lots of food and I
wanted to know why they were doing
that.””

What Wielgus soon began to
Suspect was that females were
choosing poor-quality habitats, where
few males ventured, in order to keep
their cubs alive.

They-were-depriving themselves of
food in order to raise their young in
isolation from predatory males.

‘*Males will murder cubs for
reasons of breeding opportunities,”
Wielgus said.

It has also long been suspected that

And he’s ing a mystery
about why male bears Kill cubs

“I first stumbled on this in 1982
when I was looking at habitat in the

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isa motive among male
Brizzty bears: = ~

But Wielgus has a -more radical
theory.

He thinks that under certain cir-
cumstances, males kill cubs to force
females into heat so they can have an
opportunity to breed.

When populations are low and the
sex ratio is skewed so there is a lower
percentage of females, Wielgus said
male bears prey on cubs. But when
sex ratios are balanced and the
population levels are high, cases of in-
fanticide decline.

The theory, which he's-attempting
to verify with extensive field research
in the Selkirks, holds important

zly populations have to be extremely
cautious, he said.

“You can’t lose any females at all. .
. It could be a crisis if you lost a single
female in that kind of area.”’

Wielgus said females are often
relocated if they show up as problem
bears around campgrounds or farms.

But removing a female problem
bear could have an impact far beyond
its apparent significance.

“Loss of even one or two females
can have dire consequences.

**Not only is the production of that
female fost, but the production of her
female neighbors is also diminished
because of increased _infanticidal
behavior by males."’

Wielgus proposed this may explain
why population growth is so poor in
some areas even when food is

Wielgus said that when bear
populations are low and the sex ratio
is skewed, predatory males can com-
mit infanticide on such a scale that the
population spins into extinction

To avoid that scenario, wildlife
biologists faced with saving low griz-

and —tr dmor=
tality israre:

The Selkirk program involves
researchers from both Canada and
the United States. _

The bears range widely, often
travelling from southern- British
Columbia into northern Idaho.

Company accused
of logging watershed

VICTORIA (CP) -- The acrim-
onious battle over logging in the
Carmanah Valley continued Monday
with the head of an environmental
group saying British Columbia's
forestry minister had misled the
public

Paul George, head of the Western

Canada Wilderness Committee, made
the accusation while referring to a
news release issued earlier this month
by Forests Minister Claude Rich-
mond,

Richmond's release said forestry
giant MacMillan Bloedel had not cut
logs beyond the boundary established

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to define the Carmanah watershed.

But George said his Vancouver-
based group hired a surveyor who
found that MacMillan Bloedel had
logged 20 to 30 metres into parts of
the Carmanah watershed

MacMillan Bloedel spokesman
Stan Colemen said the environmen-
talists were off base.

“I don’t’ buy that," he said.
“We're up to the boundary of the
valley and that’s it.

“They're. just trying to make
something out of nothing. Someone
who goes out and says you’re a metre
out this way or a metre out that way,
is-just trying to- make something out
of nothing.”’

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Honorstudents named

The following is a list of students
who have qualified for the honor roll
and honorable mention list during the
second reporting period at Kinnaird
Junior secondary school.

To be eligible for the honor roll,
students must have a mininum grade
average of 4.0 in qualifying courses.
For honorable mention, students
must have a_minimum. grade average
of 3.5-3.9 in qualifying courses.

GRADE 8 HONOR ROLL

Mary McDonald, Jill Imrie, Melisa
Andrews, Jan Holden, Averil Shep-
pard, Lee Anne White, Tina Labine,
Utako Kambara, Lori Baker, Trudy
Clow, Todd Bondaroff, David
Zoobkoff, Shawn Mosby, Derek Ar-
mstrong.

Josh—_Sookero,—Mark—Perrier;
Melanie Brownlie, Laura Kosowan,
Sarh Vatkin, Leona Jones, Christine
Brownlie, Vince Antignani, Peter
Frietas, Simon Laurie, Cheryl Zibin,
Jaclyn Kalesnikoff, Melanie Strelive.

GRADE 8 HONORABLE
MENTION +
Roxanne Wiebe, Jeremy Finney,
Mark Carlson, Rolf Hartman, Ron
Garay, Irene Guglielmi, Rick Fauth.
Chris Gray, Daryl Carter, Brian
Roberts, Nancy Chang, Shawna
Tarasoff, Travis Stoochnoff, Phillip
La Porte.
GRADE 7 HONOR ROLL
Richelle Davis, Michael Malarek,
Karen Skibinski, Treena Goolieff,
Karen—Akselson, Elina Alimkutov,
Andrew Peterson, Philip Freitas,
Christina Ferreira, Lisa Fomenoff,
Nicole Harasemow, Brandy Stan-
wood, Amy Strilaeff, Ted Hunter,
Janice Hawley, Melanie Smithers.
David Nunes, Kim Quiding, San-
deep Dosanjh, Mary McGougan,
Shannon Carter, Jennifer Travassos,
Celia Mansbridge, Kathy John,
Michael Kooznetsoff, Dasha
Forester, Darren Pottle, Amy
Strilaeff, Denny Terry, Ashley
Imaieff, Jolene Ozeroff.

Missionairies here

Colin and Merle Butcher, former
missionaries to India and Pakistan,
are scheduled to visit Castlegar this
weekend.

Colin Butcher, currently the
western representative of the Foreign
Mission Board of the Fellowship of
Evangelical Baptist Churches in
Canada, will be holding special
meetings beginning March 24 with a
men’s breakfast at Calvary Baptist
Church.

Sunday, the couple will be special
speakers at the church.

The Butchers have been en-
thusiastically received in countless
speaking engagements across the
country, a news release says. Women
are especially encouraged to attend
the women’s conference Saturday
from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., the release
says.

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YOUR 1989 INCOME TAX RETURN

WHERE CAN I GO FOR HELP
WITH MY TAX RETURN?

few. Check the list in your General
At tax time, many people have questions Guide. If there's one you need, contact
about how to complete

your District Taxation
_ their return and what infor- Office or call the special
mation slips to include. “request for forms’’ number
The first place to look for listed there.
answers is the General Tax
Guide that comes with your WHY SHOULD TFILL
return. It gives you step-by- OUT THE
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step instructions,

and helpful tax tips. ON,

But if you still have l I | I |

questions, Revenue The proposed Goods

Canada offers a & Services Tax,
now before Parliament, has two main

expenses guide, a guide for pensions
and one for new Canadians, to name a

Barney Post

Barney Post, a former resident of Kinnaird, passed away in Van-
couver March 14 after a battle with cancer. He,celebrated his 76th birth-
day Feb. 27.

Mr. Post moved to Kinnaird from Rossland in 1946. He worked for
Cominco for 32 years, retiring in 1976. He moved to Parksville in 1979

variety of services to help you.

WHAT KIND OF SERVICES
ARE AVAILABLE?

The Carmanah, on the west coast
of Vancouver Island, is home to the
giant Sitka spruce, some of which are
believed to be 1,000 years old

George admitted there may be ‘‘a
discrepancy between the ministry's

And Services,” pro-
vides basic inform-
ation about federal
benefits and services
available to Seniors.

Pursuant to Section 26 of the Highway Act and the provisions of the Commer
cial Transport Act; notice is given that load restrictions will be imposed effec

Bre 1.00 2m--Monday, March 19, 1990in the Kootenay-Boundary Highways
istrict

objectives: to make Canada more com-
petitive and to improve the fairness of
the tax system for all Canadians. The plan

includes a new credit to offset part or all
- 100% OF LEGAL AXLE LOADING ON THE FOLLOWING

This guide is available

in English and French.

It is now being produced

in nine other languages for
distribution this summer.

The guide will also be avail-

able in a talking book form

in both English and French

this spring. If you would like

to obtain your copy of the
guide and/or talking book in
the language of your choice,
check the appropriate box below.
Please fill in the attached coupon
and mail it to:

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HIGHWAY No. 3
HIGHWAY No. 3A

HIGHWAY No. 22 A
HIGHWAY No. 33
HIGHWAY NO. 41
HIGHWAY No. 395,

0.H. HUTTON
District Highways Manager
Kooteney Boundary District

For: Minister of Transportation
and Highways

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NORTH FORK FROM KM. 0.0 TO KM3.0
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GREAT NORTHERN
51-1 — SPRAGK
60 — MYERS CREEK WEST FROM KM 0.0 TOKMO.5
75 — WALLACE MOUNTAIN
100 — MIDWAY.U.S. CUSTOMS
112 — KETTLE VALLEY SOUTH
342 — SEVEN MILE DAM
43 — CHRISTIAN VALLEY km 0.0 TO KM31.5

FROM KM 3.33 TOKM 6.11

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- 70% OF LEGAL AXLE LOADING ON ALL OTHER ROADS
AND HIGHWAYS IN THE KOOTENAY BOUNDARY DISTRICT

Term overload permits are invalid for the duration of these restrictions

The applicable percentage of tolerances provided under section 7.06 (2) of
regulations pursuent to the commercial transport act shall apply

Violators of the regulations and restrictions will be prosecuted

wince of
Columbia
ansportaton
and Highways

boundary and the watershed’s natural
boundary.

“The (boundary) line was probably
established by the B.C. Forest Ser-
vice. The company didn’t cut on the
other side of the line, so it’s not the
company’s fault. It’s the B.C. Forest
Service.’”

In the press release, Richmond
said: ‘‘I am satisfied that the boun-
dary established to define the water-
shed meets the intent of the directive
restricting new logging in the Car-
manah Valley until a management
plan for the valley is determined.”*

Richmond, who did not return
repeated telephone calls Monday, has
said a decision on logging the Car-
manah will be made soon.

The company wants to log most of
the 6,700-hectare valley, but has
promised to protect the Sitka by
establishing a reserve of more than
$00 hectares around the trees, at
least one of which is 95 metres high.

Surveyor Phillip Swift, who studied
the area, said he took detailed
measurements in a small area of the
Carmanah and found a couple of
samples where logging had occurred
within the watershed.

Paul Pashnik, district manager for
the Port Alberni forest district, said a
survey by his department found no
violation by MacMillan Bloedel

He said legal surveys are more exac-
ting than forestry surveys.

and then to Vancouver.

He is survived by his daughter Diane Wolinski and her two sons of
Nelson; son Pat and wife Lisa of Vancouver; stepson Lyle Borkes and
wife Lydia and their two sons of Richmond; his wife, Belle, of Rasp-
berry Lodge; one great-grandson of Vancouver; a brother, John: and a

sister, Francis, of Vancouver.

Cremation has taken place. There was no funeral service by special

request of the deceased.

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QUARTERS BECAUSE HE KNEW OF HIS

INABILITY TO LOIN.

Revenue Canada offers phone enquiry
services with extended hours during the
peak tax return weeks. Check the back
Pages in your General Guide for numbers
and hours in your region. For people
who require special assistance, there’s a
program in which volunteers, trained by
Revenue Canada personnel, help those
who cant leave their home. There's

a special toll-free number listed in the
General Guide for people with hearing
disabilities, using a Telephone Device for
the Deaf, and there are audio and large
print guides for those who require them.

WHAT GUIDES DO I NEED?

Revenue Canada produces a variety of
special guides for people with different
income situations. There’s an employment

of the tax for lower or modest income
households. To find out if you qualify, fill
out the green form that comes with

your 1989 tax package. Even if you don't
have to pay income tax, it’s important
that you send in the green form. If you
qualify for the Goods & Services Tax
Credit, you could receive credit cheques
every three months, starting this
December 1990.

WHAT IF I HAVE QUESTIONS?

Check your General Tax Guide. It has
most of the answers you'll need. If
you still have questions, contact your
local District Taxation Office by phone
or in person, and talk to the people

at Revenue Canada Taxation.

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