News July 11, 1990

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Group member Dan Bush

- By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI
Staff Writer

On Tuesday, Don Belanger took a friend who has
trouble getting around downtown to run some erran-
ds.

For many, such a short trip would fall into the
category of good deed.

But for Belanger, a Castlegar resident who has
multiple scleoris, it was a sign of his new-found
freedom and independence.

Belanger returned Saturday from a paramedic
supply company in Penticton with a lift for his van
that allows him to get in and out of the vehicle on his
own in relative comfort and safety after money was
raised locally to purchase the equipment.

The Castlegar MS Self-Help Group set up a fund
to raise approximately $3,600 for Belanger’s lift and
had raised about $1,800 by mid-June.

But donations were coming in slowly until a story
on Belanger appeared in the Castlegar News, self- help,
group member Dan Bush said.

After the story appeared, a number of in-
dividuals, some of whom chose to remain anonymous,
as well as local groups such as the Lions Club and the
Pythian Sisters, deposited about $900 into the bank
account the group had set up, Bush said.

And then help came from what seemed an
unlikely source, Bush said.

Officials with the MS Society of Canada, which
had turned down Belanger’s requests for a lift, said the
society was starting a fund to help people with MS
purchase equipment and the society could provide half
of the money Belanger needed, Bush explained.

The fund wasn’t yet set up but the society decided
to release the money to Belanger anyway ‘‘because we
bugged them so much, I guess,’’ Bush said.

Belanger said he ‘‘never dreamed’’ he would get
the lift so soon, expecting he would have to save

Don Belanger demonstrates how his new wheelchair lift works while Castlegar MS Self-Help
move ina
equipment. The self-help‘group set up a fund to raise money to purchase the lift. — cosvews phoro

Castlegar man with MS
gets n@w lift on life

out of his van with the new

money for several years to afford the equipment.

“‘The thing I enjoy most (about the new lift) is the
lack of embarrassment” over getting in and out of his
van, Belanger said. For the last few years he has used a
makeshift pully system to load his wheelchair and then
crawled across the floor of his van to the driver’s seat.

“| know they mean well,”” he said of the people
who would watch him manoeuvere his pully ap-
paratus. ‘‘But even my grandchildren would wonder
what I was doing up there."*

Belanger said he gave his grandchildren rides on
his new lift Saturday when he returned home.

He said he’s grateful to all the people and

who made toward the pur-
chase of his new,equipment.

“*Whoever they are, I’m thankful to all of them,’”
Belanger said.

Bush said he would like to see the bank account,
set up at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce at
the Castleaird Plaza in the name of the self-help group,
kept alive and a new person withthe degenerative
disease helped in some way

People with MS sometimes remain at home rather
than join in outside activities because others tell them
they will be unable to participate, Bush said.

But sometimes, as with Belanger, people with MS
are stopped from enjoying life outside their homes
because of a lack of money for needed equipment,
Bush pointed out

Bush said he’s happy the MS society helped
Belanger get his lift and that a fund is being established
by the society to help others

“They're fantastic at doing research but they have
to help out people who need (help) now,’’ Bush said

He said collecting funds for the society is
sometimes a difficult task since collection boxes in
local stores are sometimes stolen before they are em-
ptied for the society.

Traffic safety papers
released after crash

VANCACUY ED AGP) — The significance of an-
i i safety one day after a
rio vacationers wasn’t

jicle safety in the en-

ot Bai has Manitoba adopted our truck inspec-
tion standards but Alberta is looking at doing the same
thing as well.’

Fraser then anrfounced details of two public
discussion papers on traffic safety aimed at producing
changes in motor vehicle legislation next year.

None of the pi from
and public meetings started | last year, are directly connec-
ted with commercial vehicle safety.

Fraser said no amount of regulation would prevent
every accident, perhaps including Monday’s crash when a
runaway dump truck filled with hot asphalt slammed into
@ passenger van waiting at the Horseshoe Bay ferry ter-
minal in West Vancouver.

Rita Pestell, 45, and her daughter Shawna, 9, of
Toronto were killed, while her husband Derek, 55, and
‘other daughter Danielle, 6, were injured.

Mr. Pestell was in satisfactory. condition in hospital
Tuesday while Danielle’s condition was listed as serious.

The other occupants of the van were from Kelowna,
Douglas McCourt, 65, and his daughter Meghan, 9, were
in satisfactory condition. in hospital, while his wife,
Beverley, 46, was treated and released.

Truck driver dstinder Ubhi, 23, of Burnaby, and a

injuries.
passenger were treated for minor injur
“We can't bring anything back
Tuesday, with his brother Jassy acting as an interpreter.
“The most we can do is be sorry. We are all in shock.
Police said they had not confirmed Uhbi’s claim that
he stopped for a mandatory brake check before driving

Editorial, page A4

down the steep road that leads into the ferry ter .

Fraser warned that commercial track operators will
come under closer scrutiny.

“We're going to be pushing harder and harder and
harder to the point, I suppose, that the trucking industry
is going to be screamin; us, to make sure'that trucks are
safe in British Columbi

But he said it was too early to endorse a Kamloops
coroner’s jury recommendation to increase the number of
truck inspectors after a runaway truck accident killed five
people in the south- central B.C. city last fall.

No matter how stiff the rules, Fraser said, it is still up
to drivers to inspect their trucks before every trip and
know, for instance, how to correctly adjust their brakes.

The discussion papers include a wide range of ideas,
from cutting down congestion by encouraging the use of
car pools and public transit to stepping up the use of radar
cameras, banning radar detectors and making it harder to
get a driver’s licence.

Drivers might also be forbidden from using cellular
telephone handsets while their cars are moving.

IWA suggests discussion

VANCOUVER (CP) — Forestry
and tourism representatives should
discuss some f issues
before animosity ‘grows between
them, says a spokesman for the Inter-
national Woodworkers of America.

The biggest threat to woodworkers

management practices in B.C. and ed
currently setting up i
“to get
trained so they can participate in what
their companies are doing.””
Dansereau said both forestry and
tourism are linked

economy.

Forest in B.C. are star-
ting to open up to tourists who want
to learn more, said Tony Shebbeare,
vice-president of forests and en-
vironment with the Council of Forest
Industries of B.C.

our workers

to a healthy

is the public perception that “‘they are
raping and pillaging our forests,’’
Claire Dansereau, forest and en-
vironment policy planner for IWA-

Court order sought

ation. — CosNews photo by John Chorters

Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore (second from right) was on hand with several other
for the grand opening July 6 of the Whistle Stop gift shop at the Castlegar Rail

STREET TALK

THE NUMBER OF VISITORS to the Castlegar
Travel Infocentre in June was up 29 per cent qver the
same month last year, the latest statistics from the
Castlegar Chamber of Commerce show.

The Infocentre recorded $57 visits in June com-
pared to 432 in June 1989. ~

General inquires not specifically related to
tourism increased 58 per cent in June — 415 compared
to 263 in June 1989.

Business inquiries were up slightly, 55 in June
1990 compared to 52 in June 1989-— a six per cent in-
crease.

The average hotel/motel- occupancy rate in
Castlegar for June was 64.5 per cent, the chamber
reported.

There were seven requests for conference
packages — information packages the chamber
Prepares including maps, travel guides and other in-
formation about the Castlegar area — bringing the
total production of packages to 60.

The Travel Infocentre received visitors from West

of the United States, as well as many local residents
last month, the chamber said.

Infocentre hours for July and August are 8:30
a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

PROVINCIAL SECRETARY HOWARD
DIRKS and his wife Lorna have sold their Nelson
restaurant, Howard’s Chicken and Seafood. Howard,

July 11, 1990 Castlegar News A3

YOUR C COMMUNITY FO FOOD STORE

Social Credit MLA for Nelson-Creston, and Lorna
have operated the business for the last 15 years. New
owners Jim and Judy Robertson assuemd ownership
July 1.

IT WAS A PROUD DAY at Slocan City on
Saturday for the Sorenson family of Castlegar.

Glen Sorenson, and his parents, Ed and Rhonda,
opened their Slocan Inn’s new dining room, The
Valhalla Room.

Done in a modern architectural design with white
tables and chairs and complementary wall colors and
carpeting of grey, the dining room will be open Wed-

Canada, said Tuesday.

“‘We should not be ashamed of
what we are doing in the woods
providing we have been involved in
the planning of what’s happening and
providing we show we are protecting
the environment,’’ she told the
Tourism Industry Association of
British Columbia.

She said the union has played a
leading role in improving forest

By CasNews Staff

A logging company that recen-
tly bought property in South
Slocan’s water shed filed for a
court order Monday in B.C.
Supreme Court to have a Regional
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junction against the company lif-
ted, RDCK ini: Reid

expected to meet in court in Vic-
toria today, Henderson said.

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ction in June preventing L and W
Sawmills of Salmon Arm from
beginning any logging in. the
watershed.

South Slocan residents set up a
blockade for several days and

Henderson said.
Lawyers for the two sides were

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vice-president of North American
marketing.

Some of Westar’s buyers had to go
elsewhere for their lumber but Westar
was able to warn the buyers that a
shutdown was coming, Fortunaso
said in an interview Tuesday from
Vancouver.

However, about 20 per cent of
Westar’s products are specialized
tyBes of lumber, such as stress-rated
roofing materials, and are ‘“‘less-
readily available’’ from other mills,
he said. ¥

The shutdowns across the southern
part of B.C. this spring during the
heavy rains has had an effect on the
overall market for the area, For-
tunaso said.

A shortage of certain wood produc-
ts has pushed up the price of some
local lumber, he said.

But higher than normal prices for

“‘narrow'’ wood product, such as
2x4s, and lower than normal prices
for ‘‘wide’’ products, such as 2x10s,
are more a symptom of the state of
the current North American market
rather than an effect of the B.C.
shutdowns, Fortunaso said.

Few houses are being built in Can-
ada right now and narrow lumber is
used a lot for renovation and
remodelling work while wide lumber
is primarily used for new construc-
tion, he said.

“The North American market is
very supply driven right now —
there’s very little demand (for
building materials) in eastern
Canada.””

Meanwhile, at Kalesnikoff Lumber
Co. Ltd. in Tarrys, the second shift of
about 20 workers is still off and will
be off for another couple of weeks
while the company builds up its lum-

ber inventory, president Peter
Kalesnikoff said today.

At Slocan Forest Products, a third
shift of about 30 workers, who have
been off the job since June 11, will
likely remain off until the end of
August, SFP divisional manager
Terry Dods said.

The third shift is not mandatory for
the mill to be functioning at full
capacity and log deliveries to the mill
are still below normal levels, he said.

The weather is now hot and dry but
“‘in the bush, water is still coming out
of places it’s not supposed to come
out of,’’ Dods explained.

“*“We're proceeding very
cautiously,’’ he said, adding that the
company’s loggers are returning to
work a few at a time.

The entire logging crew should be
back in the bush in a couple of weeks,
Dods said.

Cominco

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Trail RCMP were

for

today.

Cleanup of Expo site
to cost $25-50 million

VANCOUVER (CP) — Cleaning
up the Expo site will cost between $25
million and $50 million, Environment

er John Reynolds said.

Reynolds also announced plans to
treat one of the most heavily con-
taminated areas of the downtown
waterfront site — a four-hectare park
at the northeast corner — by capping
the coal tars buried there.

He said the park will be covered
with a polyethylene cap and surroun-
ded by subterranean walls to prevent
leaching. This is expected to cost $5
million.

The 50-block site once held foun-
dries, gas plants, sawmill@/ and oil

storage tanks.
ds made the

on the cleanup at a news conference
called by Concord Pacific Develop-
merits to coincide with the start of
construction

Concord Pacific bought the land,
site of the Expo 86 world fair, for
$320 million in April 1988

Reynolds said 100,000 tonnes of
lightly contaminated waste will be
trucked off the site for use in other
industrial construction sites. Treat-
ment of these wastes, which he said
are safe for industrial sites, will cost
an additional $5 million

The costliest part of the cleanup,

another 100,000 tonnes of hazardous
waste buried throughout the site, is
being bid on by eight environmental
contractors who have submitted bids
between $15 million and $40 million.

Cleanup will not start until 1991,
after treatment studies are complete.

Stanley Kwok, Concord Pacific
senior vice-president, said he has
waited more than two years.to say
that work is actually under way on the
site — now called Pacific Place.

“It is a great pleasure and relief to
announce that the construction of
Pacific Place has begun,’’ he said as
bulldozers levelled a pile of sand
behind him.

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MLAs debate land claims

Cominco tabled its second offer Saturday after the

trical Energy” are also available at-the following locations in
union served strike notice. The second offer left out many

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your community

VICTORIA (CP) — The Social
Credit governement and the Op-
position NDP spend most of Tuesday
debating the issue of native land
claims in British Columbia — but

= nothing was resolved.

Native Affairs Minister Jack

& Weisgerber accused the Opposition of
committing itself to an unbalanced

position.
“I don’t know how you'll back-

= pedal from the hole you’ve got your-

self into with this position . . .
hope I never have to find out."”
The provincial government does
not recognize aboriginal title and
argues any dispute over it is in the
federal government’s jurisdiction
The NDP’s position is that British

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Columbia should start negotiating a
resolution to the claims.

Filed by many of the province’s 197
bands, they cover much of British
Columbia and raise questions about
billions of dollars worth of investment
and development.

Weisgerber cited his own ministry
as evidence that the government was
concerned about native issues. His
budget has increased 23 per cent, to

$3 million, and some small land-claim
issues were resolved, he said.

But Gordon Hanson, NDP native
affairs critic, said the ministry’s
progress was minimal, while the B.C
government continued to ignore the
potentially monumental land-claims
issue.

NDP MLA Larry Guno, a Nishga
Indian, also attacked the government.

LOTTERIES

The winning numbers drawn
Tuesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were
8,29, 40, 41, 44, 51, S2.and 54

The winning numbers drawn Mon-
day in the B.C. Keno lottery were 4,
11, 12, 22, 28, 29, $4 and 56.

The winning numbers in Saturday's
Lotto 6-49 draw were 11, 14, 15, 25,
38 and 42. The bonus number was 45.

There was no winner of the jackpot,
of $4,015,092

The four Extra winning numbers

for British Columbia were 32,77, 87
and 94

The winning numbers drawn
Saturday in the B.C. Keno lottery
were 3, 6, 7,8, 28, 32, 44 and 46.

The winning numbers in the Ex-
press draw for $85,000 were 211242,
825076, 599119 and 122404.

The winning Lotto BC numbers
were 1, 6, 15, 26, 28 and 39.

These numbers provided by The
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of the issues the union wants dealt with in a new contract,
Schmidt said.

The contract talks broke off Saturday, which came as
a surprise to Cominco officials, the company said in a

news release.

“The break-off was a surprise to Cominco in light of
the good progress made on contract language, the

generally productive bargaining climate at the table and
particularly the fact that Cominco, following a second

monetary offer, made it very clear that there was more
scope to negotiate wages and other monetary items,’’ the
company said. Cominco said the union’s demands at the
time negotiations broke off would cost $120 million, or

$9.50 an hour, a level which the company said would shut
down Trail and Kimberley permanently.”’
Schmidt said the union members have not had a wage

increase for about 10 years-and the company made $500
million in the last three years and will make millions more

in the future.

“‘Anyone can have fun with numbers,’ he said of

Cominco’s estimation that the union’s demands will cost
$120 million.

“They make it sound like they'll have to pay $120

million in the first day find that will break them. That's
just not so,”” Schmidt said.

As well, some of the union's demands include in-
creases in pensions which Cominco hasn't paid into for a
number of years because the interest from the $409-
million pension fund has been paying the company’s con-
tributions, he said.

The weather is a het but members of the United
to picket

Cominco. — Photo by Rey Boulione

‘We (the union) consider that to be our money,”’ he
said of the pension fund.

The Steelworkers want wage parity with employees in
other industries in B.C. such as Ceigar Pulp Co. em-
ployees who make about $4 an hour more than Cominco
workers, Schmidt said.

Theyanion does not expect to make up that difference
right away and it will have to come ‘‘stage by stage’’ over
a number of years, he said.

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