Castlegar News June 11, 1986

WEST KOOTENAY
UNITED CHURCHES

CELEBRATION

SERV ICE

Speaker:
RALPH A MILTON
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June 15, Trail, B.C.
Crowe Secondary School
11:00 Family Worship

12:30 Picnic at
Gyro Park

MLA asks about
transit delay

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar’s long-delayed transit system is another
example of Interior residents getting short-changed on their
tax dollars in favor of multi-million dollar projects on the
Lower Mainland, says Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy.

Questioning provincial secretary and government
services minister Grace McCarthy in the legislature last
week, about ne ee a transit system for
Castlegar, D'Arcy that West Kootenay residents pay
taxes to general revenue “like all the rest of the people
outside the lower Mainland.”

“If the minister has ever been aware that there is
occasionally some resentment from people of the Interior
and the north against what they see as an incredible amount
of their money — their tax dollars — going into projects on
the Lower Mainland, with no benefit to them, I think this
could characterize that,” said D'Arcy, referring to
Vancouver’s new multi-million dollar rapid transit system
and Castlegar’s lack of a single bus.

D'Arcy also pointed out that all British Columbians pay
about one cent per litre in transit tax every time they fuel up
their cars.

“Obviously the people in Castlegar pay that transit tax
too, but they're not getting the transit services. If we're
being taxed for a service, we certainly would like to have the
benefit of that service.”

“I don’t think there are too many other communities
that have had an application as outstanding for as long as
(Castlegar), and indeed there are smaller communities which
in fact do have a transit service,” he said.

Castlegar has had an application on file for a transit
service for about 10 years.

D’Arey said there are “a number of excellent
arguments” for a bus service in Castlegar, noting the two
distinct commercial areas of the city as well as “decen-
tralized services such as hospitals, long-term care facilities,
libraries, schools and recreational facilities.”

D'Arcy also pointed out that Selkirk College and
Castlegar Airport are separate and some distance from the
downtown core of the city.

D'Arcy also said he was under the impression that once
SkyTrain, Vancouver’s new rapid trafisit system, was
operational buses would be freed for service in other areas of
the province.

McCarthy said the government will proceed with new
transit systems as funds become available.

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SALMO MEETING . . . Bob McClelland, provincial industry minister, spoke to about
50 people at a community dinner meeting in Salmo Monday night

Minister

By CasNews Staff
Provincial industry minister Bob McClelland was the
guest speaker at a community dinner meeting at Trapper
John’s in Salmo Monday night.

McClelland gave a short address to about 50 people,
commenting on the importance of small business
development. He also spoke of the purpose of Expo 86
and the opportunities Expo offers the province to reach
people of the world.

The minister also congratulated the fledgling sub-
regional and encour.
aged business to investigate opportunities and assistance
from the government — not in the form of grants but
through loans.

In encouraging small business, McClelland noted
that 85 per cent of employees in British Columbia are

} employed in firms of 20 people or less.

Other speakers included Salmo Mayor Merle
Hanson; Al Magaw, chairman of the sub-regional
i Nelson-Creston
Social Credit nomination hopefuls Howard Dirks of
Nelson and Chuck Truscott of Creston, and chamber of
commerce president Henry Huser. The meeting was
chaired by local Expo committee chairman Iris Bakken.

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Hanson directed some thoughts to McClelland
regarding Salmo's past achievements and ultimate
business losses.

Huser spoke on the achievements of the chamber,
including the new tourist booth and the chamber's new
Expo project — the purchase of the Rotter building for
further op! . He also ioned new
and manufacturers in the area.

Magaw said: “Government help is welcome. But
when it really gets down to it — and it's been shown in
the past we have to do it for ourselves.”

Truscott, president of the Kootenay Country Tourist
Association, stressed the importance of tourist traffic and
how vital it is to encourage hospitality for repeat
business.

Selkirk College board member Fred Merriman spoke
on the advantages and opportunities the college offers.
He encouraged people to take improvement courses
th

Letter of congratulations to the people of Salmo
were sent by Premier Bill Bennett, Jack Kempf, Minister
of Lands, Parks and Housing, and Labor Minister Terry
Segarty

Folk singer Tom Lewis and the Can-Can Dancers
from Rossland provided entertainment.

Union approves contract

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Members of the Pulp,
Paper and Woodworkers of
Canada Local 1 have app
roved a two-year contract
with Westar Timber's Celgar
Pulp Operations.

The new agreement calls
for a zero per cent wage
increase in the first year and
two per cent in the second
year, according to Local 1

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in the union's pension plan. In
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contract, union members will
see a 25 per cent increase in
their pension plan, represen.
ting between $20 and $25 per
month per year of service,
Babaeff said.

This includes people cur.
rently receiving pensions, as
well as future pensioners.

In the second year, wor-
kers will receive a two per
cent pay increase or about 40
per cents an hour.

But workers will also have
to give a little more of
th

the pany will
gain in productivity.

About half of the 290
union members voted 80 per
cent on Tuesday to accept the
new agreement.

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Babaeff said the mill will
have less “down time” than in
the past. In other years the
mill observed six statutory
holidays and shut down for
all six. Now the mill will only
shut down for four statutory
holidays.

A statutory holiday has
been created on Dec. 24 so
workers will have Dec. 24-25
off, as well as another holiday
during the year (not New
Year's Day) to be determined
by the company.

The new contract will
expire June 30, 1988.

Babaeff said the union is
generally happy with the
agreement.

“When you look around
and see what's happening, I

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think we gained a bit,” he
said. “Both sides fared well in
the agreement.”

But he said that the
company got the better of the
deal, adding he hopes the
union will benefit in the
future.

He explained that the
inerease in productivity
should lower the unit cost
and make the mill more
productive and more com
petitive in the marketplace

Babaeff noted that every
time the mill shuts down it
takes three to four days to
get going again.

Grant
for
library

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar’s long wait for
Expo legacy funds to expand
the Castlegar library appears
to be over.

Jim Hewitt, minister re
sponsible for legacy fund, will
arrive in Castlegar Monday
and will make a presentation
at the downtown branch of
the library at 10 a.m., library
board chairman Deb Chmara
said today.

Chmara — that Hewitt
will

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The city has requested
$200,000 from the fund to
expand the library's down
town branch.

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receive

Canadian Doukhobors
will receive a gift soon
from Moscow: Two bronze
statues of Leo Tolstoy cre-
ated by Soviet sculptor
Yuri Chernov

During a recent tele
vision interview, Chernov
spoke about the history of
Doukhobors who moved
from Russia to Canada in
the late 1800s.

With the help of Leo
Tolstoy, who chartered
two ships for 20,000 people
to sail to Canada, Douk
hobors were able to escape
the persecution of the
Tsarist government

“When I was asked to
make Tolstoy's statue for
Canadian Doukhobors, I
decided to show in it that
aspect of the many-sided
personality of the great
writer, which attracted
Doukhobors most of all,”
Chernov says in a release
prepared by the USSR
embassy.

“Tolstoy's philosophy,

from Moscow, will be on display soon at the
Doukhobor Historical Village.

Doukhobors to

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his desire for work, his
striving for self-perfection
and simple life, and his
concern for the welfare of
others were close to Rus.
sian Doukhobors,” Cher-
nov explained.

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time when the sculpture is
made.

“I visited Canada, be
cause I wanted to make a
sculpture that could natur-
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memorial Village of Verig
ino, not far from the town
of Kamsack, Sask. and the
Russian Museum in Cast.
legar where the largest
community of Doukhobors
lives today.”

Once the two sculptures
are cast in bronze, they
will be shipped to Canada
along the old route trav
elled by Doukhobors.

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