ss _Castlégar News July 26, 1989 Town recovers from oil disaster | By Tom McDougall CANSO, N.S, (CP) cooling his toes on the clean brawn sand of a pretty beach on Chedabucto Bay, spots a dark object lying near the water’ sedge He picks it up, The size of a big book, it looks like an errant chunk of highway pavement’ — hard, slightly faded and embedded with sand grains He breaks it in half black, sti@oth and slightly sticky. It smells faintly of tar Almost 20 years after Canada’s wor st oil spill, Chedabucto Bay continues to deliver a few souvenirs of the sinking of the Greek tanker Arrow on a notorious reef called Cerberus Rock several The stroller lus core is pure years now the The tar blob is the only one on Queen and it has hardened into what amounts toan inoffensive rock sport beach, That's a far cry from the mess the beach was in almost two decades ago COATED WITH C half-congealed black ankle-deep, had A mass of goop, mofe than edge. Cleanup crews hauled 480 tonnes of oil retched along the water's trom the shoreline, only a half a kilometre long. Queensport, a three-hour drive nor heast of Halifax, was typical of the more than 300 kilometres of Shareline and scores of beaches that were cpated with Venezuelan bunker C oil when the Arrow went down Bound for a Hawkesbury, N.S the refinery at Port tanker was operating with a disabled depth soun der, faulty radar and an inaccurate compass. It ran on to the treacherous reef near Chedabucto Bay's northern eon Feb. 4, 1970. Workers managed to pump about entrance six million litres at oil into barges before the ship wenk down, but more than halt of the Arrow's cargo of 17.3 million litres leaked into the ocean Millions more wreck off eastern Nova Scotia The »$4-million litres were trapped in the cleanup the following spring and summer was a pioneering effort that developed some of thé technology used to this day Gadgets such slick-lickers, net laun derers and super steam-cleaners were invented for the Arrow cleanup NOT FOREVER Victims of ‘recent: major spills oft Alaska, North American coasts may take some Vancouver Island and other Legals RETAINING WALLS Castlegar Townhouses 420-1 1th Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. SEALED TENDERS wvited for Public Tenderca Tender Documents and Bid Deposit instruct ns are available B.C. Housing Management Commi Hom: 1701-4330 Kingsway Burnaby, 8.C. VSH 467 Telephone: 433-1711 Penticton, B.C. V2A INS Telephone: 493-0301 Thursday August 17 1989 and publicly opened at that A Mandatory Site Meeting will bs R.J. Chapman Purchasing BEBE ma tn BCR COMMISSION La comfort from the near-pristine state of shores like Queensport beach today Oil spills aren't forever — not even when the oil is bunker C, the thickest and longest-lasting of them all, Not even when they're of the magtitude of the Exxon Valdez, North America’s biggest spill The Valdez, which smashed into a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, spilled an estimated 42 million litres of heavy North Slope crude < While the west coast cleanup is ex pected to last several more months yet, all around Chedabucto Bay the scat tered signs of the older, much smaller oil spill are fading away In the fish-processing town of Can an oil more toxic than bunker 80, some of the boulders on the shingle beach are blotched with thin layers of tar. But on a beach near town, swim mers no longer have to watch out for gooey tat blobs. “It's not an ofgoing problem as it used to be," says Canso Mayor Raymond White ALL RECOVERED White amounts of tar do show up when shit ting sands uncover blobs that had been And a few beaches and rocks Occasionally, says small buried have a telltale black line at the water's edge The spill killed about 5,000 sea-birds in the’ bay, plus many others on the open seas. But the populations quickly recovered The spill fouled a lot of fishermen’s nets, requiring the invention of a mobile net-laundering machine. But herring and cod stocks did not appear to suffer n Edison Lumsden of Can ¢ lobster fishery declined drastically tor'a while after the spill, but then recovered quickly. And there was never any sign that bottom. dwelling adult lobsters were touched We never had a lobster with oil.’ Legals ICETO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Frederick Eugene. Bonnett Deceased regard to the claims of which it has TOM WHITE, Executor BY: Polonicolt. Jones & Perehudolt ers & Solicitors Castlegar, British Columbio VIN 2A HIGHWAYS-TENDER Electoral District: Rossiand Trail Highway District: Kootenay Boundary Project or Job Number: C5857 n Highway N in the Noncy Tender Opening Date/Time: August 9.1989. 2 00p.m Surety Bid Bond or Certitied Depos. Cheque ts not required inder documents with plans, specifications and conditions > der are available tree of ONLY from Ministry office Grand Forks Columbia Street between the hours of nd 4.00 p.m. Monday tc Holidays Phone num g office. 442.5477 or envelope Avenue at Ministry 55 Central MINISTRY OFFICIAL D-H. 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Thor Hird of Slocan carefully manoeuvres one of the frames covered with honey bees from one of his 45 hives which produce more than 1,000 kilograms of honey for him to Sell. — casNews photoby Donna Zuber Stings don’t bother Slocan beekeeper By DONNA ZUBER Speci: the CasNews Bees aren't exactly mother nature’s most adorable critter, but they do serve a variety of purposes. For Thor Hird, 58, of Slocan, one of those pur poses is his livelihood Hird raises honey bees. He has 45 hives with about $0,000 bees in each of them and together they produce about 1,180 kilograms (2,600 pounds) of honey for him tosell He likes his bees, even if they “thousands of times,"” he says. Hird doesn’t bother with protective wear when he handles them; he thinks their stings are good and says he has read about people being cured of allergies through bee-venom therapy, even allergies to bee stings them: selves. Bee veriom is gathered by placing @ plate of glass in tothe hive have stung him “For some reason it bothers them and they sting the glass,"” Hird says. The venom is then mixed with a salt solution and given to the person a little at a time to help cure bee allergies. An immunity builds up until there is no allergic reaction from a bee sting. Hird says. “It’s n an allergic “Swelling is a natural reaction,” the hives and shortness-of breath that me: reaction. Hird has seen that kind of reaction in his son, Ben. ny, when he was a teenager. They used to keep adrenaline on hand to counter any bee stings but Benny isno longer allergic to the stings Even the swelling disappears after a couple of stings, if stung regularly, like himself, Hird says “Tswell from the first couple stings of the year, byt continued on page C2 Inj ‘onl tos By CLAUDETTESANDECKI aff Writer The Arrow Lakes Indian Band con- siders filing an injunction against the controversial proposed road and bridge project between Passmore and Vallican the ‘only option’ left now that the Ministry of Transportation and Highways has put the project to tender, band spokesman Lou Stone says. The tenders, called on the contract earlier this month, open in Victoria today The ministry is reluctant to co- operate with the band and has now “done the opposite’’ of the public con- sultation process that began with a forum on the issue held earlier this month at the Passmore community hall, Stone said The band doesn’t want to release any more details of the proposed legal action for now, he added The project involves replacing the Slocan River bridge which” is con- sidered extremely dangerous, especially in winter. Barry Eastman, for the Kootenay region, of the High- ways Ministry, said his office has been informed of the band’s planned ac- tions but his department would like to proceed with the project in early August, soon after awarding the con- tract. Otherwise, the construction will likely run into weather problems, he regional manager band and the Vallican Ar- chaeological Park Society want to see he northern portion of the road rerouted away from a provincially recognized Indian burial site con taining remains over 3,000 years old The Highways Ministry has said all other options have been considered and there are no viable alternatives to running the road past the site The society would like the project discussed publicly as it was at the Passmore meeting, secretary Laurie Morgan said, but the society members realize many of the area residents want the bridge replaced without delay At the Passmore meeting, former Regional District of Central Kootenay Area H director Corky Evans suggested RDCK chairman George Cady convene a private meeting of the parties involved in the dispute over the road The society is prepared to attend such a meeting, Morgan said, but the group is not a political body and will not be taking a position on the society unction y option’ topr PART OF THE CONTROVERSY... ad the bridge across the Slocan River rtofa near Vallicanis due tob ft the project's pi project whichis anative Indian burial proposed injunction. The Passmore meeting, chaired by Cady, was set up to allow the groups involved in the road dispute to state their postions publicly and answer questions about their stances Some angry words were exchanged between residents who want the bridge replaced this year and supporters of the archeological site who say there should be discussions on other routes for the northern pottion of the road rather than between the burial site and a subdivision. RDCK Area H director Bob Barkley reiterated his support for the road, saying the Vallican bridge is dangerous and must be replaced and the High: ways Ministry says the project must be completed all at once, rather than in sections as the society has asked Eastman said in an interview that the ministry has changed the process of allocating funds since the Coquihaila highway over budget a few years ago and caused the government embarrassment Funding is now provided on a por- ject basis, he said, and is under a time limit. The funds for the Vallican bridge and the road are in this year’s budget and if the project is delayed the money may not be there next year, he said. Cady answered one resident's question about the tendering process by saying he thought a ministerial or- der could halt the project Eastman said an archeological im- pact study has been done on the area went so drastically Valley crime reports down By CasNews Staff The RCMP’s increased visibility in the Slocan Valley has resulted in a S0- per-cent drop in the number of repor ted crimes in the area, Supt. Jim Druchet says. Druchet, the commanding officer of the Nelson RCMP subdivision, told directors of the Regional District of Central Kootenay at a meeting earlier this Month that the REMP's ‘success rate”’ in the cases it does handle has been running at 92 per cent for the first six months of this year Druchet said meetings with valley residents and elected officials as well as the RCMP’s so-called ‘‘zoning”’ policy in which the police concentrate on specific areas of concern have con: tributed to the decrease in the number of crimes. He added that the RCMP’s school programs have also helped Druchet also said the federal gover nment-is-tooking-at-buying existing housing in New Denver for RCMP members stationed there |. — CasNews photo and he is ‘not aware”’ of any burial grounds outside of the area currently defined. “We have attempted to define (ar- cheologically) sensitive areas and work with them,’ he explained He also said erecting a fence to keep people from stopping along the site would be costly and the funds are not in the budget The road will not be paved past the site either, he said, since that too is costly and not in the budget. A process called flush coating, which uses gravel, oil and chips to produce a hard, dust- free surface, may be considered if there are sufficient funds, he said The RDCK passed a motion at its June meeting to send a letter to Tran- sportation and Highways Minister Neil Vant asking that the road be paved to keep down dust and a fence and treed buffer zone be installed to maintain the privacy of the site. Eastman also said the road would be constructed to accommodate logging trucks that may use the road now or in the future Wright declared winner By CasNews Staff New Denver has officially named its new mayor following a re-examination of the votes July 20 following the July 1S election Gary Wright was declared the win- ner after a recount produced the same results as the initial tally Wright received 106 votes while runner-up David Butt received 101 votes. Returning officer Vera Hamilton said the recount was necessary because the results were ‘*so close Two aldermen were elected. William Russel received 143 votes and Arthur ‘Nuntpicked-up-137-votes:-Gordon Pettitt received 104 votes. Voter tur- nout was 75 per cent