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News July 25, 1990

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STREET TALK

THE HORSEMAN OF SHANDRO CROSSING,
@ novel by local writer Jim Chapman, has made it into
the media major league with a review in The Globe and
Mail of Saturday, July 14. The book, which Chapman
wrote under his 'sname, Yuri
“Is reviewed by Alfred Rushton, a playwright and writer
from Brampton, Ont.

“Yuri Kupchenko ‘writes in. a clean style,"
Rushton says in the review. ‘This is no physic probe
into characters making their way in the new land, as
much as a testimo: to the blood bonds that keep
People connected to their tr ms and beliefs. The
Horseman of Shandro Crossing is a vivid account of a

Socreds finally release abortion report

VICTORIA (CP) — An ethics committee formed
three years ago by B.C.'s Health Ministry recommended
the government not support abortion on demand but
make it reasonably accessible, according to a report
released Tuesday by the NDP.

The Health Ministry never released the five-page
Paper entitled Position on Abortion. The Social Credit
government formed the panel after critics accused
Premier Bill Vander Zalm of imposing his own anti-abor-
tion views.

“This report reflects the deliberations of the special
panel and presents a number of recommendations which,
it is hoped, will assist the government in its consideration
of abortion as an important social issue,”’ the paper states

The 12-member panel, struck by then health minister
Peter Dueck in the summer of 1987, also looked at other
medical and related ethical issues, including test tube bir-
ths, organ transplants and euthanasia. ‘

Dueck refused in January 1989 to release the May
1988 report, which led to the resignation of some panel
members.

NDP health critic Tom Perry, who released copies of
the paper to reporters, had pressed the government for
more than a year for a copy of the report. Health Minister
John Jansen finally provided him with a copy Tuesday.

* Evaluation of health factors between women and
their doctors should be considered sufficient grounds for
abortion up to 12 weeks gestation.

* Between 12 and 20 weeks gestation, abortion
should only be allowed for risks to health, which should
be so serious that a doctor has concerns about seeing tfie
woman safely through the pregnancy. A second medical
opinion is suggested.

* After 20 weeks the rights of the fetus have been
clearly bli and. must be equally with
the woman.

* Abortions should be treated as other medical
procedures and funded by government.

Vander Zalm and Jansen were not immediately

The B.C. tried to halt pi abor-
tion funding in 1988, only to have the courts strike down
the move,

Vander Zalm attempted “‘unconscionable interferen-
ce with individual British Columbian’s rights to health-
care access,’’ Perry said.

The panel, meanwhile, also found that the abortion
issue is not simply ‘‘right to live versus right to choose.’’
It also found that restrictive laws failed to reduce the
number of abortidns, but increased risks.

‘6 The panel, made up of medical and ethical experts,

d a variety of ing the rights of
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“I think it’s a pretty sensible report,
“There is relatively little controversial in it.

in its introduction.

Other recommendations include:

available for comment Tuesday afternoon.

mmea¥iability and the safety of women.

UI claimants hurt by:
political war, says MP

Unemployment Insurance secipien-
ts are again victims of the war bet-
ween the Conservative-dominated
Parliament and - the  Liberal-
dominated Senate, Kootenay West-
Revelstoke MP Lyle Kristiansen said.

In a breach of faith that would
likely be legally actionable if the
government were a corporation, the
Conservatives have reneged on con-
tinued Unemployment Insurance
benefits for recipients planning to at-

: tend school at their own expense, the

New Democrat MP said in a prepared
statement.
“It’s appalling that our_national

= government can be so bloody-minded

>and C

that it deliberately sacrifices people’s
futures for a political war that no one
is winning,’’ Kristiansen said. ‘‘The
Conservatives and Liberals have
fought this between the two houses of
Parliament since February, and only
working Canadians are being hurt.
The government should be ashamed,
dians are justifiably
outraged.

No longer available under Section

= 26 of the Unemployment Insurance

Act is the so-called ‘‘feepayer option”
under which Ul-approved recipients
who pay their own tuition are permit-
ted to continue collecting benefits
while attending a specific course of
study, the MP said.

LYLE KRISTIANSEN
. .. blasts Tories, Grits

just coming to'light, people have quit
jobs to begin school — exactly as
agreed with Canada Employment
Centre staff — and find their
Promised benefits are unavailable and
their job has already been filled, he
said.

Kristiansen charged that this reduc-
tion in UI programs is the second
major attack on working people in the
Conservative government’s attempt

In some cases teupressure the Liberal Senate. The

first was elimination early this year of
the ‘‘variable entrance requirement’’
which allowed UI claimants in high-
unemployment areas to receive
benefits after having worked fewer
weeks than claimants in regions of
low unemployment. .

“The Conservatives simply claim
that funding for these options, or
enabling legislation, is carried in Bill
C-21 — the Conservatives’ UI amen-
dment bill — while the Liberals
blithely say they oppose the bill and
will hold it up in the Senate i
definitely. Both of them are using
working-class Cana Ss as cannon
fodder in their war. It’s despicable.’”

Kristiansen said that with the
Senate and House of Commons both
adjourned for the summer, it could be
toward the end of the year before the
political war ends — and maybe not
even then.

“‘Employment centre staff have
been told not to promise the feepayer
option to anyone even for 1991,”
Kristiansen said. ‘‘That means the
government forsees this idiocy con-
tinuing into the new year. How long
are Conservatives and Liberals willing
to hurt people for their own ends?
Already in 1990, my party estiimates
that 5,300 people in the B.C. region
alone are being denied their studies
because of this.”

Natives block B.C.

LILLOOET (CP) — Seton Lake
Indian band members stopped trains
from crossing their reserve today,
blocking the BC Rail line that runs
from North Vancouver to Prince
George in central British Columbia.

Railway spokesman Barrie Wall
said there’s no question BC Rail
owns the right-of-way, but the
railway won’t force its way through
the blockade near Lillooet, about 175
kilometres northeast of Vancouver.

The blockade was the latest action
by B.C. Indian bands that have set up
roadblocks throughout the province
to back their land claims demands

and to show support for Mohawk In-
dians involved in an armed standoff
in Oka, Que. .

“Lhope it’s going to be another tac-
tic to get (Premier Bill) Vander Zalm
to recognize our rights,”’ said Seton
Lake band councillor Gary John
“It’s going to have a big impact
because it’s a Crown corporation."”

Because of the blockade, BC Rail
decided to bring its northbound
passenger trail back from Squamish
to North Vancouver today

Passengers were to be taken from
North Vancouver to Williams Lake
by bus, where the southbound

Rail

passenger train was being held, Wall
said. Southbound passengers would
be bussed to North Vancouver.

The northbound train left North
Vancouver at 7:30 a.m. PDT carrying
120 passengers.

The railway also runs four freight
trains on the line daily. Wall said
those trains have been stopped as
well.

Band chief Rod Louie said the
blockade will remain until Vander
Zalm meets with the group to discuss
aboriginal land title.

“We intend to continue until we
talk to the premier,’’ he said.

Milfoil

ALL WRAPPED UP

Seven-year-old Justin Balahura does his impression of Sood
outside the Comanenity Complex Sunday afternoon. Bala!
of the C

hura,

Centre.

CosNews photo by Ed Mills

a
finished competing in the club's meet held at the Aquatic

Swim Club, just

Celgar

continued from front page
smells associated with kraft pulp
mills, will be reduced by 97 per cent
— dramatically improving air quality
in the vicinity of the mill.

© There is an adequate supply of
fibre in the region to supply the ex-
panded mill. It is estimated that there
are approximately 2.4 million cubic
metres of residual chips currently sur-
plus in the area. Celgar will use about
half of this supply, purchased from
sawmills in the region, in addition to
the chips it is now using. The mill also
will use 267,000 cubic metres of pulp
logs from the 1.29 million cubic
metres estimated by the Forests
Ministry to be currently available in
the annual sawlog allowable cut.

© Alternative means of transpor-
ting chips to the mill were studied.
Rail deliveries were discontinued in
1989 because they had become
uneconomic. The report estimates
that additional costs of $4 million a
year would be incurred if either rail or,
barge deliveries were implemented,
making truck delivery the only
economically viable option.

Bill

continued from front page

where the sides discuss the differen-
ces. Media would be invited to the
meeting.

“This act will introduce a new con-
cept of openness in public sector
negotiations,"’ Couvelier told the
house.

“This legislation embodies the
democratic concept that the public
has the right to know about public
sector collective bargaining, the right
to know what both sides of the
bargaining table are proposing.””

Couvelier said the public pays the
salaries and suffers the effects of job
action, so it has a right to know what
the issues are.

The legislation would not interfere
with the current collective bargaining
laws in the province, he said.

NDP labor critic Glen Clark called
the “ta wacko bill from a

continued from front page
and swimmers, he said.

To do that, the ministry uses a
machine that cuts the plants off
several metres below the surface.
Where possible, other methods are
used to remove the plant’s roots.

In Christina and Champion lakes,
the milfoil is under intensive control,
Pistak said.

‘*We try to kill all of the plants each
season,"’ he said.

At Christina Lake, a three-man
crew works from early June until late
September using an underwater
“‘scooter’’ to survey the lake on a con-
tinual basis, Pistak said

Once the plants are found and
removed, a heavy felt mat called a
“*bottom barrier’’ is laid over the bot-
tom of the lake to prevent sunlight
from reaching any fragments of the
plant left behind, thereby preventing
regrowth.

At Champion Lakes, a three-man
crew is brought in from Vetnon to
control the milfoil.

Eurasian milfoil is not native to
North America but occurs widely in
Asia, Africa and Europe. It was first
observed in British Columbia about
1970 in Okanagan Lake. The plant
has since spread rapidly through eight
lakes in the Okanagan Valley, to
numerous bodies of water in the
Lower Mainland, to Shuswap and
Mara lakes and several lakes in the
Kootenays.

Populations of the plant were
found on Vancouver Island in 1985.

Milfoil is a perennial, growing on
the lake bottom from a fibrous root
system. During the spring and sum-
mer, rapid growth from the root
Produces reddish shoots that may

Eurasian watermilfoil, o rapidly growing aquatic plant, is ploguing
lakes in the Okanagan and other areas of B.C. The Ministry

is trying to
West Kootenay lakes.”

reach the surface and flower in water
up to five metres deep interfering with
swimming, boating, water skiing,
fishing and other recreational uses of
lakes.

Floating plant fragments produced
by waves and human disturbance are

the plant from octablishing itself in

spread rapidly by water currents,
making the plant difficult to contain.

Pistak said people who think they
have spotted milfoil in the West
Kootenay should contact the Envir-
onment Minisiry’s water management
branch in Vernon.

Premier chases
would-be thief

VICTORIA (CP) — Thieves may
think twice before they stalk B.C.
Premier Bill Vander Zalm’s home
again.

The premier, clad only in pyjamas
and dress shoes, suffered minor in-
juries to his hand and knee when he
chased a thief outside his Fantasy
Gardens home in the Vancouver
suburb of Richmond at 2 a.m. Satur-
day.

“*I got fairly close to him when I
slipped orf some pea gravel and I had
a knee full of gravel. It certainly
scraped the leg badly,’’ a limping
Vander Zalsh told reportrs.

“*I got up and ran after him again. I
caught his bike, but the thief got
away.

“However, the police came and
suggested the premier shouldn’t be
doing that and I said ‘everybody
should be doing that. |f we all did it
perhaps the police could really
operate effectively." "”

Vander Zalm, 56, said he was aler-
ted by his visiting sister-in-law who
had heard a noise outside the

jier’s garden theme park home.

“She heard the noise unfor-
tunately, no fortunately. I’m happy
about it,’’ he said, grinning ear-to-
car.

He tore out of his home, grabbing
the first pair of shoes he found, and
“‘ran like crazy’’ after the thief, he
said.

“I had shoes at the bottom of the
stairs but they were my best Sunday
shoes with long laces and | ‘didn’t
have time to tie the laces and I think
that sort of added to the trip,” Van-
der Zaim said.

The thief tried to steal a golf cart
owned by his wife Lillian, Vander
Zalm said.

BILL VANDER ZALM
... chases thief

But when he saw the premier he
grabbed a bike from the back. of the
cart and tried to flee.

Vander Zalm said the thief likely
recognized him when he grabbed the
bike. But the thief declined his in-
vitation to come back and get the
bike.

“I was quite pleased at having his
bike but the police said the bike was
probably stolen so they took it away
anyway,” he said. ‘All I've got left
now is a sore leg, a sore hand and
that’s it.’’

Although police recommend
citizens leave the criminals to them,
Vander Zalm said he considered-going.
after the thief a duty.

He said he filed a police report but
didn’t go to the hospital.

wacko premier’’ and said it would
impede settlements.

LOTTERIES

The winning numbers drawn
Tuesday in the B.C. Keno lottery were
2, 6, 22, 32, 33, 41, 50 and $1.

The winning numbers drawn Mon-
day in the B.C. Keno lottery were 5,
16, 34, 39, 41, 42, 44 and 53.

The winning numbers in Saturday's
Lotto 6/49 draw were 9, 27, 28, 36, 37
and 46. The bonus number was 12.

There was no winner of the jackpot
of $2,183,813.80.

The four Extra winning numbers
for British Columbia on Saturday
were 26; 49, 66 and 97.

The winning numbers drawn
Saturday in the B.C. Keno lottery
were 8, 28, 29, 33, 34, 41, 49 and 56.

The winning numbers in the Ex-
press draw for Jaguar cars were
252052, 609231, 575460 and 882673.

The winning Lotto BC numbers
were 4, 10. 24, 25, 29 and 21.

These numbers, provided by The
Canadian Press, must be considered
unofficial.

TOURIST
ALERT

Tourist Alert issued by the RCMP.
The following people, believed
travelling in British Columbia, are
asked to.call the person named for an
urgent personal message:

John Harvey, of Kamloops, call
Ruth-Ann Reiter.

Bill Crawford, of Chilliwack, call
299-6850 or 351-0925.

Bill Hokiro, of Bonnyville, Alta.,
call daughter Grace.

Margaret Gardner or Brian Scarfe,
of Regina, call your family in Regina.

Mark Schaefer, of New York, call
Dan Schaefer.

Particular time and place when being a pioneer meant
the earth was new and filled with promise.””

THE JANKOLA FAMILY of Castlegar was
named 1990 Family of the Year at the State Conven-
tion of the B.C. and Yukon Knights of Columbus in
Harrison in May.

In the selection process for the award, each of the
more than 230 local councils throughout British
Columbia and the Yukon nominates a local Family of
the Year. The state council selects one. The Jankola
family will also represent B.C.-Yukon in. the com-
petition for International Family of the Year which is
determined by the Supreme Council of the Knights.

Bill and Barbara JanKola were married in August
1976 and settled in Castlegar. Bill is a professional
engineer with Cominco. Barb has been a homemaker
over the years, raising three children — Aaron, 10,
Lauchlan, 9, and Leah, 6.

Active in the community, the Jankolas are mem-
bers of their Parent Advisory Council. Bill has served
as the chairman for the group over the past two years.
He has also coached minor hockey and basketball, ser-
ved on the executive of the local branch of the
Professional Engineering Society, and is currently an
executive member of the Castlegar Power Squadron.

Barb is an assistant leader with the Boy Scouts.
She is also active with the local Right to Life
organization.

ISABEL RADU, daughter of Denis and Maria
Medeiros of Castlegar, has received her letter of
equivalency which certifies she has completed the

for early child! in
Ontario. Radu, who lives in Kingston, Ont., is now
able to work as an early childhood educator in that
Province. She previously received her early childhood
education diploma from Selkirk College in Castlegar.
Radu is currently operating a private day care,
Magicland Family Home Day Care, from her own
home.

JIM CHAPMAN
. . reviewed in Globe

MIKE SHUTZ

. earns awards

The Jankola Liery Soot Castlegar has been
named Family of the Year for 1990 by the B.C.
and Yukon Knights of Columbus.

MIKE SHUTZ of Coquitlam, grandson of Walter
and Nora Popoff of Castlegar, took home a number of
awards from Port Coquitlam Junior secondary school
at the school’s recent awards ceremony. Schutz was
named the top Grade 10 physical education student
and outstanding all-round student, and received a
large school letter block and service award as well as an
honor roll scroll for being on the honor roll for all four
terms. His parents are Lillian and Walter Schutz.

ISABEL RADU
. .. early childhood educator

Search
takes
twist

KELOWNA (CP) — The search

for Ogopogo, the legendary creature

e@reputed to inhabit Okanagan Lake,
took a new twist Tuesday.

A Vancouver television reporter
was interviewing Arlene Gaal, a local
expert on Ogopogo, aboard a boat in
the middle of the lake when boat
owner Mike Guzzi noticed an unusual
signal on his sonar.

“It was 30 to 40 feet long, down
320 feet and about 200 feet off the
bottom,” Guzzi said. ‘‘It wasn’t a log
because that would have produced a
straight, solid line.

“Tt was long and wide, producing a
wavy line on the sonar. There was a
lot of disturbance around it, like the
bubbles from a propeller.”

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