Page 10A ‘The 'Casilegar Sun Wednesday, August 21, 1994 THE KOOTENAYS “WEDNESDAY, August 21,1991. 10A Trail woman voices conc A Trail woman who has recently retuned from the Sovict Union says she saw a lot of hard- "I think it was a danger all along, a backlash from the hard- liners to stop the democracy and she said. ship in the country of transport problems in getting goods to market, oil shortages and problems in the medical sys- tem. Anne Pellerine said she had heard Mikhail Gorbachev was not as popular in his own country as he was in the West but adds the new developments in the coun- try’s politics with the deposing of Gorbachev could be very serious. “Tt’s very scary.” Pellerine had been working in Kiev for the past six months as a medical lab technician for Greenpeace’s Children of Cher- nobyl project. Her work there involved doing tests for Sovict doctors in a small diagnostic lab 1,500 year old city, “Many of the chuches are over 1,000 years old. “It's a very green city, the third greenest city in the world.'I really enjoyed it, I'd like to go back.” The purpose of Pellerine's work was to do lab tests:on chil- dren from the infected Chemobyl area, a 30 mile Zone around the nuclear plant at which one of the reactors melted down in the mid 1980s. She was working with set up in the Ukrainian city. “It’s a city of great history and culture,” Pellerine said of the hild: up to 14 years of age who had come from villages, some of which have been com- ern over pletely evacuated, in the zone, “The parents are very worried about the consequences of. the accident,” Pellerine said adding that the children did not seem dis- tressed, “Children are children wherever. you go,” she said. “They just try to enjoy life.” Pellerine’s lab was sct up with equipment brought in from the West. "The Soviets do not have access to that type of equipment at this point,” she explained. “We're technical and automated Company proposing to put passenger steamboats on Columbia The vice-president of the com- pany looking at putting passenger on the C River spoke to local politicians and community leaders at a Fri- day evening dinner about such possibilities. “It’s a gorgeous, gorgeous area,” said Arnold Millan of Steamboat Development Corpo- ration, the company which inau- ied ri in the At the present time, gambling is illegal on the Columbia River, Millan noted that the gambling is a major draw for the boats. With- out that draw, Millan said, there would need to be other draws to bring people to the area. Millan also said the presence of such an enterprise in the Trail area would need certain basic infrastructure elements such as of hotel acco- United States, “The river certain- ly is a focal point of that beauty. It really should be capitalized on.” Millan did point out, however, . there are several points which may keep the company from operating in the Trail area. The company operates several boats already in the United States and all of those boats have both din- ing and gambling facilities on them. ¥ GLASS & TRIM LTD. gy” 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE 1050 COLUMBIA AVE. 365-6505 modation as well as a dock for the boat itself. He said the provi- sion of such elements entails a big commitment from the com- munity. Millan added many-of the peo- ple who use the riverboats already in operation are in the 45 years and over age group. Millan suggested that: motor caoches be employed to bring people into the area, but added that there did not appear to have been a concerted effort on the part of the local visi- tors’ bureau to bring motor coach traffic through the area. “There’s a tremendous motor coach trade going into the province east of here and it should be coming here,” Millan said. Millan also told the group of about 30 that as it would be all of the communities in the area which would benefit from a river- boat operation, those communi- ties should be working together on putting together packages to draw vacationers into the West Kootenay. Each of the boats the company now operates costs $10-12 mil- lion dollars and while rated to carry 1,200 passengers and crew, the company carries only 600. Currently, the company's boats offer four 2{fr1/2}-hour cruises a day. While two of the boats it operates in Iowa carry 30,000 people a week, Millan estimated an operation in Trail might attract 50,000 a year. Kristiansen fuming over service charge to Canada student loans A three-per-cent upfront ser- vice charge on Canada student loans is about to hit university students and has New Demo- crat MP Lyle Kristiansen fum- ing. “It's appalling to think that our youth will have to pay to borrow money to pursue their education,” Kristiansen said from his constituency office Monday. ~The Conservatives have really done it this time. Even the most Tapacious banks don’t charge an 365-5304 To hot to cook? =) w Let Chicken Time treat you and your family to some of our delicious menu items. Celgar, Westar & Corninco meal tickets accepted 2816 Columbia Ave. THURSDAY» August 22 FRIDAY August Sale Terms Cash * Cheque* Visas Mastercard Woolco * Two L.D.s All Sales Final 200,000 | PRIZE DOLLAR POINTS & {Pouble Point Day Thursday) Ona Coupon Per Contestant Far Day ire 12 noon, Aogust 24,19 : ms ee 660 - 18th Street, Castlegar, BC. - upfront fee to borrow their money. It’s one more step toward the feds getting out of student loans altogether.” Kristiansen explained that while provincial participation in student loans has tried to keep pace with inflation, both Liberal and Conservative federal gov- emments have not adjusted por- tions of the program for. inflation since 1983 and?1984, The impact of the new. three- per-cent fee on top of that lack of inflation adjustmefit will PLEASE STOP SPEEDING BEFORE SPEEDING STOPS YOU. __ HOURS: Mon. - Sat. 9:30 to 5:30 throw an additional average $107 burden onto students and their supporting parents. Local college students are borrowing about $3,570 each through the federal loan pro- gram, yielding an upfront fee of $107.10. And the federal government will not allow students to add the fee to the amount they bor- tow, says Kristiansen. Unless the bank lets you write a cheque to the government from the money it's loaning you, it will have to be cash up front or no student loan. “New Democrats screamed about this when it was first announced back in 1989,” says the Kootenay West-Revelstoke MP. “But the public is hearing about it now, and it’s about the affect our young people across the nation, We're outraged and sad- dened. Students deserve better.” Campaign hits Kootenays Speeding i isa serious issue, while Soviet labs still run on a manual basis.” She spoke no Russian went she went to the country in January of this year but said by the end of her visit in July, she was able to do her shopping and find her way around the city without too much trouble, Pellerine also found her way into other parts of the country as well, visiting Moscow, Leningrad and Odessa — cities she tense Soviet situation “on As her co-workers came to know her better, Pellerine also had the opportunity to visit them in their homes and to share their meals with them, She noted that nobody lived in private homes but instead live in apartments she calls very small by Wester standards. “T guess in the Stalin era there were a certain number of square feet given to each family,” Feller Tnined “A "tot described as very it and all quite different from one anoth- very hard to come by in Kiev,” DIVERS' FLAG is a signal that boaters should stay well clear of the area. The red flag with a diagonal white stripe means scuba divers are below, and boats can present a serious hazard: Some divers say curious boaters have actually approached their flags - a recipe for disaster. ICBC’s Traffic Safety Depart- costing B.C. of dollars each year and needless human suffering. In 1990, speeding was identi- fied as a major contributing factor in 14,000 motor vehicle accidents ‘in British Columbia. The number of fatal and injury prod ment are up to deliver the simple message: “Please stop speeding before speeding stops you.” From Aug. 24 to Sept 6, the RCMP and ICBC will conduct their third annual anti-speeding hol often “ride together” into dis- aster on our streets and highways. ICBC president Tom Holmes says the rash of motor vehicle mishaps and fatalities over the recent B.C, Day long weekend underscores the need for public and provi ‘wide. The , crashes caused by speeding is increasing every year. For these reasons, police and Sell it quick - in the Sun classifieds Call 365-7848 ). © hatchback « flame red {| © only 28,000 km's. 1990 NISSAN 240 SX " @ 2400-12 valve’ fuel injected engine e 5 spd. manual trans. i ..@ factory cassette stereo ;. © rear. window washer |. Avlper system ‘Just Like New’ i ini- tiatives | such as this one, Of the 17 the media and public education to ii awareness of this serious issue. The message is aimed at the high risk audience of young, male adults, syas ICBC Community Programs manager Jan Wise. Th shout the K . 7 by over that weekend, 13 occurred in traffic. "The upcoming campaign will see police monitoring the high traffic volumes we traditionally the Labour RCMP and local Traffic Safety committees will be distributing posters and sun- shades to help educate the motor- ing public. Police at the scene of traffic crashes report speeding is exceed- ed only by driving without due Day says Holmes. “We want everyone to know this in advance because both ICBC and the police want to see fewer tickets handed out and fewer peo- ple injured or killed on our During last year’s campaign, care and asa ing factor in traffic fatalities or injuries, says a release from ICBC’s public information department. “Police accident Teports show speeding and alco- d-up police resulted in 1 nearly 19,000 speed- ing tickets and an additional 954 tickets for excessive speeding. Officers also issued over 6,000 written wamings. ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBS. ‘ WARREN FISCHER, TCMD Wishes to announce the openirig’of his Acupuncture Clinic & Chinese Herbal. Pharmacy ~ : Upstairs in the Nelson Trading Co. Mall For appolntments call 352-9952 Wednesday, August.21, 1991 The Castlegar Sun B.C. WEDNESDAY, ‘ August'21, 1991 11A° © The Sierra Club has released a Fisheries and Oceans report which expresses grave doubts about the Ministry of Forests’ willingness or ability to enforce good forests practices on Vancou- ver Island. The report was written by Joni Stephen, a fisheries officer in Sooke, as a critique of the Duncan Forest District’s 20-year logging plan for Loup Creck, a watershed about 90 km west of Victoria logged in the 1960s and 1970s by the long-defunct West- em Forest Industries, Mr. Stephen called Loup Creek, “one of the worst exam- ples of habitat logging damage,” and said it “falls far short of inspiring confidence within envi- protection that M.O.E.[Ministry of Forests) will increase its monitoring and enforcement of harvest standards over future logging in this drainage...particularly with such a notable lack of field staff.” Tom Walker, Duncan forest district manager, said much of the damage described by Mr. Stephen had occurred as a result of the unusually heavy rainfalls last fall. But he acknowledged that there had been bad practices in the past. “I have a gut feeling that this was typical ‘60s and ‘70s style work,” But Mr. Stephen’s complaint appeared to be that the various mistakes made by W.F.I. had been allowed to go uncorrected or to worsen. Culverts and ditch- Grave doubts surrounding forestry practices es have become clogged, debris has been dumped" into spawning streams, “steep, unstable slopes are being clearcut.” Mr, Stephen said the logging practises of W.R.I. had damaged the area's fish production, and if “M.O.F, intends to oversee log- ging in this watershed in the same manner as before, salmon and steelhead populations could suf- fer severely.” The Sierra Club's Jim Pine, who got the document from’ the federal government after the Forests Ministry refused to release it, said “we now have a federal ‘agency that is very, very critical of the Ministry of Forests.” He called for a two-year mora- torium on the Walbran Valley. Did the West cause Gorby's fall? STEVE WEATHERBE Sterling News Services Vancouver Sovictologist Edward McWhinney said Mon- day he belicved the West's refusal to give Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev any subtan- tial aid at the London Summit ‘was responsible for his ouster by a conservative coup. “If George Bush had used economic sanctions against Iraq,” said Dr. McWhinney, a political scientist at Simon Fraser Univer- sity and author of seven books on the Soviet Union, “instead of spending $65 billion on the Gulf ‘War, the U.S. would have had the money to give to Gorbachev.” But Douglas Ross, an expert at the same university in interna- tional relations, said the Gulf War had not emptied American cof- fers. “The U.S. didn't think any amount of money could save the Soviet Union or Gorbachev now.” He agreed, however, that Gor- bachev’s failure to return from London with a lot of money had doomed him. However the London Summit, they agree, was in Prof. McWhin- ney’s words “‘just the last straw.” He visited the Soviet Union in October and found in Moscow even then “massive food short- ages, food truck hijacking, abso- lute chaos,” z And just as Gorbachev was very unpopular, the new rulers, if they restored Jew and order, and put food in the stores, might win wide support. Prof. Ross identified the basic reasons for the coup less in any concer for public welfare, how- ever, as in the self-interest of “place-holders” in the Commu- nist Party, the army, and bureau- cracy. They were all likely to be out of work if Gorbachev's reforms’ work, he said, and certainly to be out of power. Walbranners end protest fast STEVE WEATHERBE Sterling News Services Two high school girls ended their fast to protest logging in the ‘Walbran Valley on Monday, after 28 days of nothing but fruit juices. their jobs, Miss Turner replied, that “there were other options than logging the Walbran, but the’ government has refused to acknowledge them.” When asked about these “options,” she said, “I'm not a forest management expert ae: "WE Bélicve" itis “ime? ion put >On: Friday” ‘a pair“or Ei our energics into other forms of protest,” said 14-year-old Katie Meglic, “to save the old-growth “forestry engineers released a pro- posal for selectively 1 environmentalists since Fletcher Challenge started logging it last month. In Victoria, where most of the activists live, there have been unusual antics as well: On Friday members of the Victoria Environ- mental Youth Alliance strung a sign between the huge sequoia andthe ‘even higher flagpolein front of the Legislature, an action which required one 18- another watershed, rainforests of Walbran Valley from road building and logging.” “Sarah Turner, 16, said they Staged the fast because the “gov- emment hasn't listened to the people,” but went ahead with log- ging after holding public hearings only in logging communities. ‘When asked about the con- cers of forestry workers about Upper Tofino Creek in Clayoquot Sound. The plan would allow for retention of some of the biodiver- sity which environmentalists say can be found in old growth but not replanted forests. _ The 10,000-hectare valley 100 km west of Victoria has been the site of oft-bizarre activities by Clock ticking for Canada Post and CUPW to negotiate ~The clock is ticking for Cana- da Post and CUPW to come to an agreement before Friday. If negotiation talks break down, a postal strike is almost a certainty, and onc that would see 45,000 postal workers walk off the job by midnight Friday. Canada Post and union offi- cials met for two and half hours on Sunday and say some progress has been made on the nine out- standing issues that must be set- tled in order to avert strike action. “T think there's still a long road ahead,” said Ida Irwin, represent- ing Canada Post. “But there are some encouraging signs - we're still talking, so there’s progress.” : an Cohoe Insurance “~~ Vacation Trailers v.; and-Boat “Insifrance * CUPW president Brian Charl- ton was cautiously optimistic, saying people are still anxious. “When there's the threat of a strike, the employer tends to negotiate a little more seriously but we aren't going to take any half- from the employer.” year-old Marie Segger, to pull herself out on the wire above a crowd of gaping tourists. The girls broke their fast with split pea soup and blueberries. cordially invites you to our August Luncheon with ¢ Special Guest + The Honourable Michael Wilson, Minister of Industry, Science and Technology, and Minister for International Trade Monday, August 26 12:00 noon sharp to 1:20 pm Fireside Motor Inn, Banquet Room 1810 - 8th Ave., Castlegar, B.C. Agenda: 12:00 Welcome 12:05 Buffet Lunch 12:30 Introductions 12:35 Honourable Mr, Wilson's } Address - Questions & Answers 1:10 Adjournment Cost: $10.00 Please register EARLY with: \ Castlegar & District Chamber of Commerce, 1995 6th Ave., Castlegar Phone 365-6313 * Fax: 365-5778 "SPECIAL LIQUIDATION NOTICE Page.11A;. Castlegar Mazda has engaged L.A. Gall & Associates, sales specialists to conduct a. Special Inventory Liquidation Sale .. . due to a Special Arrangement with Mazda Ca- nada Inc. Castlegar Mazda has been Autho- rized to conduct this Special Inventory Liq- Liq-. uidation Sale of new. Mazda CARS and TRUCKS in addition All Used CARS and TRUCKS in stock at the close of business Wednesday, August 21, 1991 — at 6:00 p.m. sharp will be included in the Special Inven- tory Liquidation Sale! Due to the unusually Low Prices we have been requested not to advertise prices in the local newspapers, radio .or T.V. as we would surely Disrupt the retail prices of all other area dealers. Every wind- shield will be clearly marked with our Special Liquidation Sale Price so that you will imme- diately see your Savings! Our prices are firm and those wishing to purchase more than one vehicle will receive No Additional Consideration. IMMEDIATE DELIVERY PROBLEM! v No one will beadmitted Before Sales Times v No Phone Calls Please! v AllPrices will be Clearly Marked! TRADE-INS: AUTHORIZED APPRAISERS will be on duty to give you an immediate appraisal on your present vehicle at the HIGHEST possible allowance. TERMS: BANK CREDIT COUNSELORS will be on duty throughout the sale to approve YOUR credit for immediate delivery — down payments will NOT be required — certified cheques will NOT be required. FINAL REMINDERS: Sale prices apply to SALE CARS ONLY our sales manager will not authorize these spe- cial prices on any car not in stock. Ordered units will not be sold at these prices. ON’T MISS THIS SALE If You’ve Been Waiting for that Special Opportunity to purchase that special Car or Truck WAIT NO LONGER... ALL SALES| SPECIAL | pring FINAL VIEWING THIS AD Be prepared tomake your | For the Public Only and colour of your choice Wed., Aug. 21 NO ONE WILL thea Day ea. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. ae SN OUGE as these GuLY don will apply Sorry, the rules are rules! NO DEALERS PLEASE! * SPECIAL OPENING SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1991 12:00 to 5:00 P.M. * Castlegar Mazda 713 - 17th Street, Castlegar "The Kootenays : Largest Import Dealer”. .