A4 October 20, 1985 ESTABLISHED AUG. 7, 1947 INCORPORATING Lv CAMPoeRL SE. Py, Castlégar News. JADABLR OF THE B.C. PRESS COUNCIL THe MAIO WER AAIKRIOR PUBLISH PUBLISHER AUG. 7 Hvar 18 1301975 PUBLISHER —. Burt Campbell >. EDITOR — Ron Norman. PLANT FOREMAN — Peter Harvey OFFICE MANAGER — Linda Kositsin* ADVERTISING MANAGE! CIRCULATION. MANAGER — Heather Hadley LE WLERLY MAY 4 Iya DSkPI 12 1W78 AUG. 47 yw Change baby bonus It's-really-no surprise that the Conservative government's proposed ¢changes—to—the-Famtily Allowances Act have drawn little opposition_outside the House of Commons. —_ Opposition parties have tried c with only marginal success to rally the public against the bill, which intended by the Family Allowances Act. : . With the federal defi dgi MEANWHILE. DOWN AT THE a t E_-WORRIEG ME WHEN cRies Uke ley esp THATHE. MIGHT. BE A the $34 billion mark, ‘Canadians’ can't afford to have their gover- nment bankrolling families_ who in well-attord-to~ pay for~ their children’ 's education costs, = Perhaps instead of paying every would limit cost-of-living increases. family — lower, middle and upper in the monthly baby bonus to in- creases in the consumer price in- dex greater than three per cent. For instance, if the index went up-four per cent a year, family allowance. cheques. would go up * only one per cent. The efféct will be to.more or less freeze the baby bonus at its current level of $31.27 a month for each child under 18. The family allowance cheque, though part of our social service network, is not a “sacred trust” — at least not in the same sense as the pension plan and medicare. For most famili the income — $31.27 a month for each child under 18 as the the gover- nment is proposing, Ottawa should consider paying a larger allowance to only those families that really need it. Middle and upper come families wouldn't mind giving up all or part of their monthly-cheque if it benefits a needy family At the same time it is difficult for most middle and upper income families to begin to consider giving AH, THATS MORE BUBINESS-L NW ie LOOKS MORE LE TT ep! LIKE. FORCEFUL. — YER. HESA TORY ALRIGHT/ up their family all ts when they see that the: federal government can find $1 billion to save fet cial Bank are just what their name says they are: a baby “bonus”. Most middle and upper income families don’t rely on the family allowance cheque.to see them through the month. In fact, many families bank the monthly cheque in a special education trust fund, to be used years later to send the child.to college, university or vocational training school. But surely, that’s not what was depositors. of $60,000 and more. The middle class is prepared. to make some sacrifices to help the poor, but can't accept making sacrifices for the rich. The federal government -has to be more consistent in its approach to reducing the deficit. Middle in- come Canadians don’t mind paying more. personal.income taxes and carrying their share of the deficit, if they see this country’s rich shouldering their share. Good idea too late. The B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch’s plan to. set. up tasting tables in liquor stores next month is a good idea. It just comes too late — like three or four years too late.— for the first taste offerings, B.C. red wines. The tables will be set up in high- volume stores where for the first six months bartenders will serve - samples of B.C. red wines. The red wines will more than likely be some of the $6.8-million worth of red wines and grapes the federal and provincial government purchased last month so that growers can shift to more popular white varieties, And that's ‘the problem: The stores will be serving red wines while growers shift to white grapes. It doesn’t make sense. The stores should have started serving red wines years ago, before the'trend to drinking white wines began. Maybe then, wine drinkers would have grown accustomed to B.C. red wines and the government wouldn't have had to spend millions of dollars to bail out grape growers. What happens now if consumers decide they actually like B.C. red wines after they've had a chance to - taste them? Do growers pull out white grape stocks and plant red? In any case, if the government is serious about marketing B.C. wines, it would make much more sense to promote white wines. Not only are white grapes best suited to B.C:’s climate, soils and conditions, white wine now is the backbone of the province’s wine industry — not red. Selfire a success Amid the economic uncertainty that’s a fact of life in- the West Kéotenay, there are a number of iquely One of those is Selkirk College's Selfire program, where trades students gain—experience by rebuilding old fire trucks. The program is so successful, it has two years of work lined up and demand for its rebuilt fire trucks is incredible. That not only goes to show that a good idea can sell in tough times, but also shows that Selkirk College Selfice students must be of pretty high calibre. At least the market says they're doing a bang up job. Quotable Quotes THE CANADIAN chapter of Ladies Against Women administered a satiri- cal slap to the right-to-life lobby and conservative women's organizations when they promenaded recently in front of the Ontario Legislature. “What do we want? Nothing!” they chanted. “When do we want it? Now!” Following are some thoughts from Candy Cotton, a charter LAW mem- ber. How does she feel about sex educa- tion? “We think ignorance is bliss.” Favorite sport? “Vacuuming.” Philosophy? “An open mind is the devil's play- ground.” Marriage? “You're nobody until you're Mrs. Somebody.” Divorce? “Adam and Eve didn't do it.” SENATOR STEVE Symms of Idaho drew the loudest applause at a Repub- lican party fundraiser this week when he, praised President Ronald Reagan's ing hijackers of an Italian cruise ship to divert ‘to Italy. | Delivering a message from the Sun Valley Veterans of Foreign Wars, Symms told Reagan: “Bring ‘em to jus- tice, give ‘em a quick and fair trial, and hang ‘em.” A RETIRED Fort Worth, Texas | — she Fopular monthly. meeting of the dor Tra Letters to the Editor Thanks for help, Castlegar Editor, Castlegar News: As our stay in Castlegar draws toa close, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the i India. During our stay in the village, we will live with host families and be involved in volunteer work projects as well as i members of Castlegar for all their help in making our experience a fruitful and exciting one. < As participants and staff ‘ar the Canadian World Youth B.C./India exchange program, we have been living with host families and involved tional activities. The people of Castlegar have been warm and hospitable to us and have truly made us feel at home here. We would like to thank al! of the people who took time to participate in. and help us with our activities here, and work ani educational activities in Castlegar since August. On Oct. 27, we will be leaving your community to begin the second half of our program, where we will be living in a small village in Maharashtra State in the r people, host families and.work placement sponsors who contributed so much to our program. We would like to. give a special thanks to the United Church for so kindly offering us a place to meet. with other educa: wo People like these really make the Canadian World Youth Program a successful and enjoyable learning ex- perience. We will be sad to leave Castlegar but will always remember your city as a wonderful place to be. As a small token, we will be hosting a small cultural evening which you are all welcome to attend. The show will be held at Twin Rivers Elementary School on Friday at 7:30 p.m. We look forward to sharing a taste of our culture with’ you. Thank you and Namaste, Karen Remillard [Group Leader — Canada] H.K:Makhnotra (Group Leader — India] and the CWY participants. “OVERSEAS EXPORTS Westar diversifies By VAUGHN PALMER .-.-in The Vancouver Sun Critics of this country’s overwhel- ming reliance on trade with the U.S. often miss the point that B.C. is not especially guilty of that sin. Nationwide, almost three-quarters of Canadian exports end up in American hands. For B.C. the figure is less than half, a dramatic reduction from the level of 65 per cent two decades aga Over the years B.C. has done what trading nations are urged to do: it has found other partners to -dilute its reliance on a single market. And if diversification of trade is one of the unsung i of the given new life to several of its once- struggling sawmills. Mills in Terrace “and in nearby Kitwanga are now entirely dedicated to overseas produc- tion. That adds up to several hundred permanent jobs, and those mills keep sawing even when’ North American sales are down. 3 Westar also seems to have found one way to turn the tide against log exports. Japan, with 21,000 sawmills of its own, naturally prefers to buy wood in the raw. Yet the Japanese are buying manufactured wood from Wes- tar. You have to wonder how the did all this.- With that provincial economy, one of the unsung heroes is Westar Timber, which has da remarkable gh in exporting lumber overseas. As recently as 1982, 100 per cént of Westar's output from its sawmills was consumed in this country or in the U.S. “Then, in mid-1982, Sandy Fulton, Westar's president, launched a plan to change his company's perilous depen- dence on North America. He succeeded beyond all expec- tations: ‘last year fully 30 per cent of production — 160 million board feet of lumber -— was shipped overseas, mostly to Europe or to the Orient. More impressively, Westar. has broken into the Japanese market. In 1984, the first full year of the push into man celebrated his 69th birthday this , Japan, the firm sold 20 million board week by playing golf for the 531st™ consecutive day. James Johnston started the streak May 2, 1984. “I don't know why I started,” he said. t of lumber. This year it will triple that. Westar “45”, the trade name of the firm's popular 45-millimetre boards, is gaining a niche in the most daunting market-that any exporter of “I'd like to go for four or five years. * manufactured goods can face. As the That's something I don't think would company’s Japanese advertising cam- get broken, unless it was by some nut like me.” ___ A MAN ‘brandishing a_ grenade with. paign says, “Westar 45.. . the biggest thing to hit Japan since Godzilla.” Westar’s achievement couldn't have ‘its pin removed held up a poker club come at a better time. Though B.C.’s this week in Victoria and got away with exports, as a whole, go all over the about $300 after kicking one employee world, the province is still overly in the eye and threatening. four patrons. “You've got a Rambo complex with some of these characters,” Sgt. Bob Newton of the patrol section, referring to the commando-type movie play’ order to Toree the plane carryin ed b; Aira men reliant on U.S. lumber: buyers. And American protectionists are trying: to stop the flood of Canadian softwood, said Staff _ which has captured 30 per cent of their market. Westar is helping point the way to long-term alternatives. _As well, , Westar’ 's push. overseas has question in mind I. visited Westar's Vv: a new glass office tower on West Georgia. Tronically, the company that achiev- ed this great feat of export marketing is a subsidiary of one of the most star- ‘One of the unsung heroes is Westar Timber for its remarkable break- through in exporting lurnber overseas’ — a public company built from former Crown corp Westar crossed firms in the province: the B.C. Cor Canadian lumber producers have tended to ship lumber only in the sizes, tolerances and quality that were preferred by North American builders. That arrogance — typical of this country's export industries until quite recently — didn't sit well with overseas buyers, who often have different : “We started with the United Kingdom. We found that the agents were having to buy our lumber and then regrade it to U.K. standards. We-offered to do it ourselves, at this end, and that’s how it started. There's nothing magical about it.” The Terrace mill began spitting out lumber, not to the venerable Canadian standard, but } to a standard chosen by customers in the U.K. Next, Westar’s marketers trained their sights on Japan. Mr. Hind himself has visited Japan nine times, immer- sing himself in that nation’s love affair with wood. “They worship wood. I still remember. the first time I went to a Japanese ' wood auction. Here they were, haggling over a single little piece of wood and by the time they were finished they'd bid it up to a huge sum of money.” Customizing lumber for the Japanese was not an .easy task, according to Mr. Mitchell: “The Japan- ese are very demanding about quality and tolerances.” There's more to Westar's strategy than tailor-made lumber, of course. I've already mentioned Mr. Fulton’s team five sawmills and two pulp mills that were transferred to BCRIC by the Socreds. But if Westar has any scars from its years as a press whipping boy, they are well hidden by the management team d by i P Mr. Fulton. Two-members of his team — overseas sales manager Terry Hind and industrial relations manager David Mitchell — gave me an hour-long briefing on the firm's and Mr. Mitchell informs me that it extends to sending production managers and quality supervisors overseas to visit buyers and listen to Th Remember When? 35 YEARS.AGO From the Oct. 19, 1950 Castlegar News 3 Gus Leitner of Kinnaird was elected preSident of the Castlegar and District Kiwanis Club in Tuesday night's annual general .elections. He will succeed retiring president Al Horswill. Castlegar and District Board de: was held last Thursday evening in the Parish Hall on Maple Street. ‘The Roads and Bridges Committee, under the chairmanship of V. Jenks reported: on their meeting regarding the oil trucks crossing on the ferry. Government regulation will not-allow other vehicles on the ferry with an oil truck and therefore traffic is often held up while the ferry makes a special trip with the vehicle. eee On Oct. 6 the Grade 9s had a class mixer which was supervised by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas. Games were played and music for the dancers was sup- plied by Mé. Chartérs' record player. ene = Se Mr. Littlewood, optometrist, has opened an office in the post office building here. ” 25 YEARS AGO From the Oct. 20, 1960 Castlegar News Pitts Plaza Drug opened last week in Castleaird Plaza.- Owners of the new drug store is Carl Knutson. eee ‘A $450 million storage program on the Canadian ie of the Columbia River was anndunced yesterday by the Canadian an governments. The storage program includes the High Arrow and Mica Creek dams and a dam at the outlet of Duncan Lake in the Lardeau country. It is the biggest project in Canada since the St. Lawrence Seaway.- . ee Arvi Pellegrin of Castlegar was elected athletic representative on the students’ council of Notre Dame Col- lege when campus elections were held recently at the Nelson college. (ete Castlegar's second taxi business went into operation thisi:week. Reg Smith's Aero Taxi started operating this week from the corner of Pine and Wood etree: . Smith's amis of sheen Creek have been appointed official agent in the Castlegar District for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals. 15 YEARS AGO From the Oct. 22, 1970 Castl News The Castlegar district’s Good Citizen of the Year for 1970 is Harold Webber of Kinnaird. Mr. Webber is being recognized for his work with local his- torical groups. . 8 « The Castlegar Apollos hockey team are hoping for their-first Jr. B win of the season when they meet the Grand Forks Junior Hockey Club tonight. Castlegar has lost three games in three starts. . 28 6 Work will soon begin on’a two-lane bridge over Enterprise Creek to re- place the present single-lane Bailey bridge. Burt Campbell, Revelstoke MLA, announced that the department of highways expects work on the struc- ture, located on Highway 6, between Slocan and Silverton, to be finished by early December. . « 6 The Selkirk College men’s basketball team started the season with a game against Royal Roads Military College last Friday. The Saints lost 77-69. Butch Bisaro led the Selkirk scoring. - e « New vice-chairman of the board of governors of Selkirk College is Aage Sylvest of Kinnaird. 5 YEARS AGO From the Oct. 19, 1980 Castlegar News George Bondaroff quit Friday almost half-way through his two-year term as an alderman on Castlegar city council. * 28 8 Five hundred and eight fans were treated to a lengthy, but excellent KIJHL hockey game Friday night at the Castlegar-Community Complex as Cranbrook Colts downed Castlegar Rebels 4-2. * 28 « Trustees of School District No. 9 their it e has even retained a tutor to teach Japanese to Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Hind, and other managers. On a recent visit to Japan Mr. . Mitchell was paid the supreme com- pliment by one of Westar’s Japanese customers: “You're not like a North strategy- The trick in selling overseas, ex- plained Mr. Hind, is as new as the science of marketing and as old as the 'p You think more like a Japanese company.” No wonder Westar was honored by the federal government last year with a gold medal award for achievement in give the what, he wants. It deserves the same in its home it have ly voted in favor of in- creasing their annual indemnities.- . While a few trustees scoffed at the idea, the motion to act on last summer's change in the School Act passed 4-3 Monday night and met with enthusias- tic support from the Castlegar. District Teachers’ Association. The board now will ask the ministry of education for additional funds to cover the added expense of jumping the chairman's indemnity to $6,000, the vice-chairman's to $5,000 and each of the regular trustees to $4, 000. ) Se October 20, 1985 Castlégar News CIRCLE TIME eee Habe Hill ‘difector Cathy Lafor- tune uses props to demonstrate playground etiquette to a group of youngsters. Here the lesson By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer “Helping to raise great children” is the goal of the Hobbit Hill Children’s Centre in Castlegar, says the centre’s director Cathy Lafortune. Hobbit Hill is one of two programs governed by the Kootenay Columbia Child Care Society. . The society: is one of 13 United Way agencies in Castlegar. Hobbit Hill is a pre-: ‘sctiool centre that offers day care, nursery school, after school care and special needs programs for three- to five-year olds. . ‘The centre can accommodate 46 children at any one time and 10 of those spaces are reserved for children with special needs, Lafortune says. These special needs may range from physical and mental handicaps to learning disabilities. 1) 4 WE PC Die The children with special needs are fully integrated into the Hobbit Hill programs. ‘Kids who are handicapped participate ies,” Lafortune says. She_adds that after one or two questions from curious non-handicapped children, the handicapped children are accepted by the others. “What we want to give kids is self-esteem, a sense of co-operation and a sense of enjoyment” or learning. We want to develop a love of learning. “Onge a child feels good about hair he gets over his handica Hobbit Hill's special needs program is funded by the in’ all acti ote FEN is not to throw rocks, as Lafortune tholds in her and a rock that has accidentally conked on the head the doll lying on the floor. CosNewsPhoto by Semon Buch, - Centre offers special care Ministry of Human Resources. The ministry pays $11 per day per child for 10 hours of care. But the government has not increased that amount since 1981. “Inflation has taken its toll on our buying power,” Lafortune says. “In 1983 we had to impose:a five per cent increase.” Still, she says, “without the help of the United Way the budget wouldn't balance’ at all.” Lafortune says the actual cost of caring for a child is now about $13 a day. The United Way donates $4,000 a year to the Kootenay Columbia Child Care Society. Hobbit Hill gets $2,000 of the grant and the remaining $2,000 goes to the Infant Development Program which provides home-based services to infants up to three years of age who exhibit or are at risk of developmental delay in one or more major skill areas. Hobbit Hill currently has a total enrolment of 73 children, including part-timers. The 46 children who attend on a given day are split into two groups. The centre itself, located:on 11th Avenue, is divided The split allows the six full-time teachers to give more individual attention to each child, says Lafortune. Occasionally, the two groups get together for special events. . On Thursday, for example, Lafortune had the two groups together for a “circle time,” one of the more structured learning sessions at Hobbit Hill. On this occasion, the lesson was hot to have a nice time on the playground without getting hurt. Besides circle times, the children enjoy puzzles designed to develop cognitive skills, blocks which help teach math and spatial skills, and a variety of art ~ supplies that help develop creative skills. By CasNews Staff Forestry | Minister Tom Waterland will visit the West meoenes Monday and ‘Tues- “Waterland is scheduled to . arrive tomorrow morning at Castlegar Airport. Along with local forestry ministry district managers. and the local media, he will then take a helicopter tour of the area, The entourage will do an on-site inspection of logging | in the Blueberry Creek watershed before flying over to Salmo to tour the new mill. -Waterland is scheduled to speak in Nelson at a Nelson Chamber of Commerce lunch- eon. Following the luncheon he will tour the Kootenay Lake Forest District, including the ministry's Harrop nursery. Waterland is scheduled to meet with local forestry union members Monday PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)-- Five anti-nuclear .protesters who damaged Trident sub- marine missile tubes with hammers, paint and blood in _anact a judge described as a “first cousin” to terrorism have been sentenced to a year in prison. =" Superior Court Judge John Bourcier imposed the maxi- mum _ sentence, _ including $500 fines, on all five Friday despite a prosecutor's plea to Bourcier described the Oct. 1, 1984, incident at the Electric Boat plant at Quon- set Point conduct that “is nothing more than’ the first “cousin of the bomb-throwers . . and airplane hijackers.” His comments and the sen- tences brought jeers from impose.a suspended sentence- Waterland to tour area TOM WATERLAND .-. visits area night, including the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada, the International Woodworkers of America and the Marine Guild. He will then have a break- fast meeting with Castlegar council before flying out Tuesday morning for Cran- brook. Protesters ‘sentenced supporters of the group. Five supporters were re- moved from the courtroom after they stood and turned their back on the judge. He later sentenced each to 10 days at the state prison for contempt. As the original five were led away in handcuffs, about 50 supporters stood in the courtroom and sang a protest song. Some later scuffled with court officers after they refused to leave the corridor. IMPOSES SENTENCE Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Jeffrey Pine asked Bou- rcier to give four of the de- fendants the maximum sen- tence for malicious damage. He asked for a suspended sentence for Jean Holladay, who cares for her late daugh- ter’s children. Holladay made a similar plea. AS A EN, “Talk about overstuffed!"’ . . But not over priced! Come sample our I fd. HAPPY ADS subs . . . made daily! * Murchies Teas & Coffees imported Foods, v * Party Trays * Borscht ‘o Meats © Cheeses Use HAPPY ADS to extend bir- thday, wedding ‘or anni COUNTRY | J 2 civic ei Sie, 0° 19 HARVEST simply wish someone a go: DELI day. 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