~—*@ Castlegar News

August 3, 1991

A WALK

ALONG

THE

TRAILS

ee people make walking trails they usually see it
building a bridge b d
future. The Castlegar man intent on seeing his

city encircled by nature trails has this in mind, and more — his
ideals include building a community.

Colin Pryce, a former teacher at Stanley aera sec:
ondary school, is busily ding his
and cutting walking trails around Castlegar to help his fellow
residents to appreciate the city's ideal geographic location, with
the further idea of turning Castlegar into an enclave of peace
and friendship for the world community.

"My trip is building a community,” he said on a recent tour
of Dove Hill, his pet project and one that has taken the commu-
nity’s trail making up the large green hill overlooking the
Castlegar golf course east of Mighway 3A.

“The hill has to do with building the new kind of communi-
ty,” said Pryce, a committed member of the local peace coalition
and of the Castlegar Multicultural Society.

He believes Castlegar could become a model city by virtue of
its two special features.

It has a confluence location — the meeting of two great
rivers, the Columbia and Kootenay — of the kind sought after
by city planners from ancient times and considered sacred by
native Indians.

“Some of the greatest cities in the world have been built at
the confluence of rivers,” he observed. “Over here we have a
location second to none. In a place like this in Europe they
would build a well-planned city.”

With advantages like this, Pryce thinks Castlegar can do
better than settle for the conventional North American settle-
ment pattern of “strip devel ” of |
along major highways in a linear fashion,

Colin Pryce adjusts one of the directional signs pointing the way along trails to three viewpoints at Dove Hill Peace Park.

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Stories and photos
by Barbara Tandory

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A\RPORT

Hill a ‘symbolic presence’

Through the years he'd
been searching for an ideal
place on which to locate a new
peace park, Colin Pryce had an
inspiration — to create an
emblematic white dove that
would look over Castlegar
from the chosen hillside.

Then, a couple of years ago,
he had worked out designs to
provide the Dove Hill Peace
Park with its symbolic dove,
consisting of an outline in
white rock to be filled out by
visitors to the hill adding rocks
inside it for the next thousand

years.

The idea had it supporters
but faltered under vociferous
opposition by individuals who
accused Pryce through the
local media, sometimes in the
name of environmental con-
cern, of wanting to deface
nature for the sake of a sym-
pone gy bcp ad The experi-
ence ended on a note
of 7 Tnnrachorde idealism. He

to defend the idea

who disliked the idea of set-
ting up rocks,” he said, adding
that “some people didn't like
the word ‘peace’ either.”

His own model for the idea
was a Stone Age horse carved
on a mountain in Wilshire,

World War, but he joined’ the
Peace Corps for duty in the
Middle East and spent severak
years in Palestine.

This tour of duty made the
young Pryce a witness to the
violence of unresolved conflict

gland. The horse is believed
to have been a peace of symbol
for the ancient inhabitants of
that country. Pryce may yet go
to the community with a modi-
fied idea — for a green dove,
constructed out of special
shrubbery from a two-metre
outline on the slope overlook-
ing Castlegar.

The dove would be seen in
its exact proportions from
South Castlegar, with the best
view from the highway inter-
change and the Ca aird
Plaza, but it'd be visible from
all approaches into Castlegar
and downtown.

Still idealistic but chas-
tened, Pryce said: “It's possi-
ble. But this wouldn't be built
unless people wanted it.”

Born in India into a British
family living in the then-
British colony for a generation,
Pryce turned 18 too late for
active service in the Second

e of the
Holy Land, the Jews and the
Arabs. And so it led him
appreciation of the higher ide.
als of a world of human affairs
that could offer alternatives to
war and enforced peace. And
to an appreciation of nature.

In all his activities, he's
been able to draw on the moral
support from his wife, Mar-
garet, who shares his ideals
and his excitement. On the
day he had stumbled upon the
future Dove Hill, Pryce recalls,
he ran home like an excited
youngster to tell Margaret
about it.

“I found I was very idealis-
tic about things, but I also
realized that there has to be

bolic way of.
these things,” he. said. *
thought this hill could all
a symbolic presence so that
people would gradually start
thinking that way.”

“Castlegar must wake up to its magnificent
location, and I think it has begun to,” he noted.

The other special thing Castlegar has going
for it, according to Pryce, 1s the presence of a
large Doukhobor population, which has helped
to make the area into a centre for the peace
movement. The community's racial mix and
peace tradition has culminated in the establish-
ment in 1988 of a branch of the United Nations
Association in Castlegar.

Pryce points out an interesting linguistic
combination contained in the names of the two
rivers that meet in Castlegar: Columbia comes
from the Italian word “colymba,” meaning
“dove,” a symbol of peace, and the river Koote-
nay is taken from the Kutenai Indians word for
“people.” fe

“So this is where the people meet the dove,”

Pryce noted.
DOVE HILL

horter than other people's walking

trails — it measures a mere 0.5 km,

compared to Selkirk College's 10 km of
walking trails — the Dove Hill project for
Pryce represents the high point of the commu-
nity's trail-making drive so far.

Called the Dove Hill Peace Park, it's situated
on the mound-like wooded hill just south of the
craggy Brilliant Bluffs near the Brilliant
bridge, with an entrance just off Ootischenia
Road by the golf course (green No. 18).

The walking adventure begins further into
the forested hillside, past a clearing that serves
as a parking lot for visitors. You know you're
following the right trail on reaching a picnic
bench by a lone ponderosa pine tree, the first of
four such benches made by retired Castlegar
resident Ivar Reinsbakken.

Some day Pryce hopes to furnish the park
benches with sliding compartment famous
peace statements and quotations.

The walking trail then continues s until it
reaches the top of the flat-topped hill, with sep-
arate trails leading to the three peaks, named
the Dove Peak, the Golf Course View and the
Survey View.

The trails had been designed at an easy
grade to accommodate people as old as 80.
Pryce notes senior citizens have taken the
walking tour and he has planned further such
excursions for the fall.

On a hot summer day the climb can be trying
on people half that age. And although Pryce's
expert eye finds footsteps and other signs left
by visitors, Dove Hill is not a place where
you're likely to meet other people on the trail.
Instead, it offers the solitary experience of a
bird's eye view of Castlegar and the river val-
ley.

“You can see what a valley we've got,” says
Pryce, pointing out the open view all the way to
Trail, with the volcanic peak of Red
looming on the distant horizon to the south. To
the north stands the colossal granite wall of
Mount Sentinel. To its right, the scarred face of

the Brilliant Bluff — which some people think
resembles an elephant's head — blocks the
northeast view towards Nelson.

The aver landscape opens up} most

times in Israel — but he found it “too overpow-
ering.” His discovery of the right hill was acci-
dental and exciting, he says, recalling his first
difficult ascent through heavy underbrush from
the side of the golf course.

Many people helped, says Pryce, naming -
among the key volunteers Dave Ward, Walter
Kanigan, Dave Fitchett of the Castlegar
forestry office and former Castlegar RCMP offi-
cer Andy Rowe.

The small group of them, including Pryce,
had cut the first rough trails by hand. Over the
next two summers these were widened — to its
present one metre — by a summer crew hired
on a federal employment grant. To prevent

~ overgrowth, the paths are cleared once a year

by volunteer labor.

“There's very little damage by us on the hill,”
he said, deflecting some criticism from people
who felt the project would despoil the wilder-
ness. "We've just improved on the deer trails.”

The official Dove Peace Park history dates
back to October 1986 when the project group
obtained land from the provincial government
with permission to develop it. The land is mee
jointly in trust by the Kootenay Doukhobor His.
torical Society and the Castlegar Multicultural |
Society.

Area I director John Voykin deserves special
credit, ce feels, for securing the land and
promoting the project all along through his
position on the Regional District of Central
Kootenay board.

Three years later, on Oct. 24, 1989, the Dove
Hill Park was the site of a first United Nations
Day ceremony, since then an annual event.

"We raise the flags and sing the anthems —
the Canadian anthem and the choral part of
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony — and we release
doves,” Pryce said.

Noting the project has had the staunch sup-
port of about 40 people in the community, Pryce
summed up: " I believe what we have achieved
is quite a lot.”

What remains is big plans and bold dreams.

“It'd be terrific if we could bring people here
from the United Nations in New York, to create
another space for them, where they could have
time to catch their breath amidst the beautiful

_ Scenery, to reflect on issues before going back to
*eolve the problems of the world (at the UN

assembly).”

Forever an idealist, Pryce says the idea
behind the peace hill is for Castlegar to
“become a centre for a new way of thinking
Font how we can solve situations without con-

ict.

Even the meaning of peace needs to be rede-
fined, he thinks.

“People start talking about peace and get
very angry. We' ‘re not talking about peace in
the old sense.”

,One idea held in common by the Project sup-
porters is to involve Selkirk College in holding
symposia and studies on how to develop trust
and a sense of community.

A stone cairn — in imitation of ancient tradi-
tion originating in the British Isles, but also
practiced by North American natives — is a

pened viota of the conflencs of ie Owe rivera:
the Columbia and, past the Color y pulp mill
ene Sp en Keenleyside dam, the Arrow

Pryce is adamant that a number of people
deserve credit but admits to being the origina-
tor of the

It goes back to around 1980. The idea of a
peace park on a hill had been “welling up” in
him for many years, says Pryce, when he finally
sot out in search of» sutabe hillade ‘
signicance fo arly Doukbors eters who

it Zion, after the mountain of biblical

bolic gesture of the process atop Dove Peak.
Visitors are asked to add a stone to the pile of
stones — for peace.

LINKED
bes sitting ete al evs Mit bike
link to the existing Selkirk trails and
bed dupe 7 A -naaguny
jroarp ry on dit y of Castlegar — a vast net-
work Pryce envision =
set of trails,” a ave
He notes the plan is to connect all the three
bridges of Castlegar by trails, starting at the
Kinnaird bridge, through the Brilliant bridge,
Please see DOVE page AS

BRIEFLY

By CasNews Staff

Put away the guns. -

The Robson, Raspberry and Brilliant area is off limits to

ing under new for hunters issued by the B.C,

Environment Ministry. The no shooting area has specific

ies — in some areas — and the
ministry advises hunters to become familiar with the new reg-
ulations to avoid breaking the |

Details of the no shooting
servation Officer Service in Castlegar.

The 1991-92 regul also require h to obtain a
new combined species licence to shoot a bobcat, lynx or wolver-
ine, The licence costs $8.

Hunters in the area should also note that the Castlegar dis-
trict office of the Conservation Officer Service will inspect
“compulsory inspection species” such as caribou, grizzly bear,
cougar, mountain goat, wolf, bobcat, lynx and wolverine, by
appointment only.

hy,

lable from the Con-

-Westar taking it day by day

Westar Timber is continuing to operate its Castlegar
sawmill “as normal” but has shut down logging op

POLICE REPORT

By CasNews Staff

A rash of vandalism on
Columbia Avenue on the Kin-
naird side of the overpass
occurred overnight July 29,
RCMP said,

Two windows were broken
and a door panel kicked in on a
vehicle and a satellite dish was
damaged.

Total damage will be around
$1,000. Police are i

1974 dump truck parked on
Arrow Lakes Drive.

Maria Melo was taken by
ambulance to Castlegar Hospi-
tal. Police said her injuries are
not believed to be serious.

The dump truck is owned by
Dirt Cheap Digging of Trail.

eee

Vandals broke several trees
and knocked over pickets at the
cemetery on Zuckerberg Island

but have no suspects.
ene
A Castlegar woman was tak-
en to Castlegar Hospital Thurs-
day night after she drove her
1980 Toyota into the rear of a

ight Th police said.
« eee
RCMP seized 18 two-foot high
marijuana plants from an aban-
doned property on Merry Creek
Road. No arrests have been
ma‘

Dove

and then across the ol old oF na
bridge b and

has been planting red oak trees
on a strip of land adjacent to the

Nakusp as the company keeps its eye on the status of contract
negotiations at the Celgar pulp mill.

“We're taking it day by day at the sawmill operations,” said
Dan Madlung of Westar. Westar is concerned about the num-
ber of logs it has in the Arrow Lakes if members of the Pulp,
Paper and Woodworkers of Canada go on strike at the pulp
mill, Logs left in the lakes for an extended period of time would
sink. Westar sends waste wood from its logs to the pulp mill.

Library ropes cowboy

Cowboy.Jake Conkin of Slocan
will mosey into the Castl

, or al
oe new bridge.

This way, he notes, “people
will be able to walk all around
the confluence (of the rivers).”

The 10 km Selkirk Cireuit
Trail, i

successful — only about 30 per

ing to grow an oak
forest. (The venture hasn't been

cent of the trees survived in the
hard soil.)

Pryce has high hopes for the
future development of the

in the
of 1989, has been congas 3 by
Gordon Gibson, head of | the col

i waterfront by the city
— for a 28 hectare (70 acre)
riverfront park stretchi

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Library on Aug. 7 at 1 p.m.

He'll be minus his horse but will
bring along lots of horse gear and
show slides and tell stories about
the life of a working cowboy.

The event has been arranged for
the Reading Adventurers, partici-
pants in the library's read-

crews funded by the Castlegar
D Board with GO
B.C. grants. The project received
considerable help from Pryce
and other Dove Hill project
members who worked as volun-
teers.

The project was undertaken
in conjunction with an extensive

ing program, but any other elemen-
tary school age children are wel-
come to attend.

Conkin, a former elementary
school teacher and administrator,
writes cowboy poetry — basically
tory taitne | in rhyme about the tra-

life of cowboys.

JAKE CONKIN
.- at library

City hires engineering tech

The City of Castlegar has found the engineeting technician
it’s been looking for for the last several weeks.
Duane h currently employed by an ing firm

of college grounds,
eight tree
and various wildlife forage
experiments. The extensive trail
system winds through a varied
terrain on the east side of the
Columbia, with acres of low
shrubs and 50-year-old forest.
From the Kinnaird bridge,
the Selkirk trail passes the
NEC, the Doukhobor museum,
cuts across the meadowlands
and goes right by the campus.
Along the trail, on the site of
the Doukhobor Village, Pryce,

Judi

Inland Gas Park and
Zuckerberg Island — which
would; through the Brilliant and
CPR connection, bring the trails
back to Castlegar.

The new park would be con-
nected to the existing Zucker-
berg Island Park and feature a
visitor's centre and an
amphitheatre, as well as dock-
ing facilities for boats, ball parks
and even an artificial lake.

The city plan received provin-
cial government funding in
March, when former premier
Bill Vander Zalm presented
Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore
with a GO B.C. cheque for
$200,000 on his final visit to the
interior before his resignation on
return to Victoria.

Pryce couldn't be more
pleased about the timing of the
city's initiative.

“I think it's most important
now to get the Castlegar-side
Sivarizvet) park fixed up,” he
said.

in Kitimat, has accepted the job, city count said Thursday.
Monsen will start work Aug. 19.
His background includes “a number of challengi bdivi

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Accused to stay in jail

A 66. year-old 1 Nelson man charged, with two counts of sexual
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The assaults allegedly occurred earlier this year in Nelson.

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