LEGISLATIVE LARRY MARL LAMENT kL VICTORIA CAN BLUE RIBBON AWARD 1994 WEDNESDAY September 6, 1995 Su SEASONAL Weather Vol. 5, No. 42 84 Cents + G.S.T. Tiiiimber! versial balipark. Tim Negreiff, a faller for K: Park. Some of the trees we! alesnikoff Lumber, of Thrums, falls a tree in Kinnaird re being removed to make room for a new, and contro- College to receive funds ' for day KAREN KERKHOFF care If all goes well Selkirk College could have an on- site day care by Sept. 1996. The recent announcement of $34,000 design plan- ning funding from the Ministry of Skills, Training and Labour was welcome news for Selkirk students and officials. “It’s great to finally see the $34,000 which will Provide the kick to get the ball rolling. It has been long-awaited and eagerly anticipated,” said Joseph Lintz, information officer for the college Lintz said now that the funding is forthcoming, the College will call for bids for design and architec- ture. Lintz estimates that bids will be received by the holiday season allowing nine months in which to construct the facility. The need for day care at the college has been in the forefront for several years, explained Lintz. “For the last two or three years the [Selkirk Col- lege] student society has taken needs surveys and it has been consistently demonstrated that the need Jolene Ozeroff case planning does exist.” It's planned that the day care will be situated-east of the g and will up to 36 children—12 for children of students, 12 for children of staff, and 6-8 for infants and toddlers. “A lot of places don’t take ehildren in diapers,” said Lintz. Lintz credits students, officials from Early Child- hood Education, and officials from the Tender Care Infant Program for bring the dream of on-site child care to fruition “Finally after two years of intensive lobbying we will finally see a day care.” Rossland-Trail MLA Ed Conroy, announced the funding at Selkirk College last Tuesday. “Today's announcement is good news for students, Staff, faculty and the community,” said Conroy. “Designing a centre dedicated to serving children and their parents is an important component of assisting parents to become students and in support- ing the child care needs of working- parents. I look forward to completion of designs and verification of construction.” SUN STAFF PHOTO/Nicole Beetstra Celgar Pulp mill strikes out in DEREK ZEISMAN Sun Editor “By maintaining shorter com- Pliance Periods for Celgar, we're Celgar Pulp mill struck out last week in an attempt to have its pollution monitoring permits revised by the B.C. Environ- ment Ministry. The mill had applied to the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks to have its solid waste emission limits revised from a maximum daily limit to a simple monthly average. But the request Proved to be a no-go. “We felt the request was unwar- ranted,” said Cari Johnson, head of the industry section of the B.C. Environment office in Nelson. P ng @ greater incentive for them to operate more diligently.” Currently, Celgar’s daily emis- sion limits allow the plant to deposit a maximum of 6,000 kilo- grams of solid waste each day into the Columbia River. Air pol- lution limits for the plant's sul- Phur-emitting boilers range from five parts to 300 parts per million each hour, averaged over a 24- hour period. The proposal, had it been approved by the ministry, would have allowed Celgar the option of Surpassing its current daily pollu- tion limits, as long as the mill KAREN KERKHOFF Sun Staff A 20-year-old man found out Aug. 30 that fingerprints don’t lie. Police say that they received a report of a motorhome parked on the side of the road some 14 km west of Castlegar, and upon inspection found that it had been stolen from Calgary Aug. 28. Upon further investigation, Police found one female young RCMP nab motoring threesome offender from Calgary, 18-year- old James Owen Blazenko of no fixed address, and a 20-year-old man who claimed to be Jason Gallant, also of no fixed address inside the motorhome. Police say that none of the three had identification and, an Officer, suspicious of Gallant's true identity, decided to check it out further. After sending Gal- See TRIO accurate could maintain its total emissions at their current levels, when aver- aged out over a month-long period. “It would have let them aver- age out fluctuations in solid waste emissions over a longer period,” said Johnson. “But we looked at the data going back over a two-year peri- od, and decided based on the fig- ures that they could handle their Current daily limits quite handily.” Jim McClaren, environmental manager at the mill, says Celgar is disappointed with the Province's decision not to revise the company’s emission permits. “We'd suggested that longer averaging periods were needed for 100 per cent compliance with the government's environmental regu- lations,” said McClaren. “As they stand right now, it's impossible to comply with them all the time.” McClaren said that other juris- dictions around North America have opted to go with longer aver- aging periods, as a matter of prac- ticality and convenience. As such, he said Celgar officials were sur. Prised that B.C. chose not to fol low this trend “We had an emergency clause in our permits that said if excess emissions due to emergency were released from the mill, we would waren KERKHOFF un Staff Three men charged in the March 5, 1994 accidental death of 16-year-old Jolene Ozeroff were in Nelson Provincial Court this week to answer to related charges Following an eight-month investigation, Jason Popoff, Patrick Tomlin and Leon Soukeroff were charged in December, 1994, with criminal negligence causing death after a two-vehicle accident near High- ways 3A and 6 on March 5, 1994 which claimed Ozeroff’s life. Judge S. W. Enderton heard the case against the three men. Aug. 28, 29 and 30 and stayed charges against Leon Soukeroff, a passenger in the vehicle of Jason Popoff. Earlier this year the three men had entered pleas of not guilty and elected for trial by Provincial court judge. A decision will be handed down Oct. 2 for Popoff and Tomlin, the driver of the vehicle in which Oze- roff was a passenger. Ozeroff, a well-like and exem- plary Stanley Humphries Sec- ondary School student, had been on her way for a day of skiing when the accident occurred Roads at the time of the accident were bare and dry, and visibility was good. In an earlier interview with The Castlegar Sun, Sergeant D.K. Lewis of the Nelson RCMP said that alcohol was not consid- ered a factor, but that it had been found at the scene. Popoff, Soukeroff and Tomlin permit variation bid still be in compliance with the law if we used due diligence in trying to prevent the accident, and notified the ministry as soon as possible after any occur- Tences,” said McClaren. “But that was only a temporary Clause, and it was about to expire. We were concerned that if we didn’t have it anymore, we would be left out in the cold.” However, he said that instead of granting Celgar its Proposed Permit changes, the Environ- ment Ministry came back to the company and “offered us the Status quo.” As a result, the emergency clause is now a per- manent feature “It just means that at times, we'll have a very active fax machine in the middle of the night to greet [ministry officials] when they come to work in the morning,” said McClaren Johnson said the system as it stands now has been working well for all parties, and that's just fine with B.C. Environment “Celgar has been doing a good job so far, and we want to keep it that way. We don’t want to give their employees the impression that we're becoming less strin- gent,” said Johnson “If you're Operating a boiler and you know you have a day to average out your emissions, instead of an hour, you obviously don’t have to be as careful.” McClaren disputed this, stress- ing that whether or not the permit changes had been approved, the mill has always been dedicated to emitting as little pollution from its plant as possible. “I don’t believe that's the way we operate. We are well below the government's limits a high Percentage of the time, most of the time in fact.” But Johnson pointed out there has been public concem expressed over the possibility of longer aver- aging periods at the mill, in numer- ous letters sent to B.C Environment and a series of meet- ings with district planning councils. “There may only be a percep- tion of more pollution being cre- ated with a change like that, but it was enough for us to keep things Status quo for the time being,” said Johnson McClaren said Celgar hasn‘t yet ruled out the Possibility of appealing the Environment Min istry's permit decision ‘The 21-day appeal period hasn't lapsed yet. But we have not chosen to appeal to this point in time.”" Welcome Selkirk College students! Final decision in October are from the Crescent Valley, Shoreacres area. Officers ask for help in animal death KAREN KERKHOFF Sun Staff Local conservation officers are asking for information on the killing of an elk or deer sometime between Aug. 10- 14 near Rialto Creek Forest Ben Sabal, conservation Officer, said the only remains found were blood and hair, making identification and mode of death next to impos- sible to determine. “All I know is that there appears to be blood and hair. We don’t know it’s poached, that’s why we're requiring public information. For all we know it could have been hit by a car and dragged off If the animal was poached, Sabal said the poacher could be charged with hunting during closed season and/or illegal posses- sion of dead wildlife or parts of dead wildlife. Bow hunting for deer begins Sept. 1-9, while hunt- ing deer with a rifle begins Sept. 10. Elk hunting is by limited entry only with only 11 tags given out this year in Management unit 4-15 zone B which borders zone A where the remains of the animal were found. Zone B includes the area from Norns Creek to the west; Slocan River to the east; Kootenay River to the south; and the height of land to the north. Sabal believes that trophy elk could well come out of that zone, but cautions hunters to refer to their limited entry synopsis or phone the local conserva- tion office.