cs CastlegarNews october 3, 1990 BILL VANDER ZALM greeted by protesters Highway connector opened KELOWNA (CP) — Three groups of protesters greeted Premier Bill Vander Zalm in Merritt on Monday during opening ceremonies for the Okanagan “connector of the Coquihalla Highway And to add to the premiers woes, the limousine which was carrying Vander Zalm and his wife Lillian along the new route had a flat tire. $225-million 108- ‘ connector links Merritt to ke 1. The Coquihalla is winding, solated, with the nit of any high- cuts the Vancouver to hours from 5% The new, Ke la hours. It isn’t the first time a B.C. premier has had probiems opening a highway When then-premier W.A.C. Bennett opened a portion of the Hope- Princeton Highway in the 1950s, his car ran out of gas. On Monday, Vander Zalm was riding in a 1968 Cadillac —. once owned by elder Bennett — en route to the opening ceremonies in the Okanagan when the flat occurred. The procession — which involved classic cars as well as buses carrying reporters and photographers — dtoahalt Vander Zalm and his wife sat briefly in a hearse before transferring that had been Minister Rita was forced to another car in the © anothe carrying Highw Johnston. Johnstor take a ride with yet he opening ceremony Douglas Lake Cattle atives pany is upset that the a grazing field. It om the province 1g a range act amen ' >mpensation $280,000 at se on the test. Traffic nutes while they 20 South Okanagan ded Vander Zalm help Is in that region. The locked out teachers And abou drown out 75 natives beat drums to proceedings for those the stage y is disrupting the en- tes of the wildlife es we collect Nooaitch chief eated far “The hig the government natives about the ative of of B.C., mpress on importance aims. ‘BUSINESS DIRECTORY TELEPHONE 365-5210 New insertions, copy ch will be accepted up to 5 p.m. Tostderi Oct. 30 for rel Nena ph November. Brian L. 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P Siemens gets Socred By CasNews Staff Social Credit party membership in the Rossland-Trail riding is the highest in the party's history but just 10 per cent showed up Wednesday night in Trail’s Cominco gymnasium to choose long-time party stalwart Walter Siemens as their candidate’in the next provincial election. Siemens was unopposed for the nomination. Referring to Siemens’ loss as the party's 1983 candidate, nominator CosMews photo by Burt Compbell Trail insurance broker only candidate Castlegar Nominating convention chairman Phil Brooks, himself a former can. didate, said the party's membership of 1,025 in the riding is the highest in the party’s history. Of the ap- Elmer Pellerine that former Conservative MP. Bob Brisco had tried twice and when finally elected ‘‘was one of the best MPs we ever had.’” Pellerine, who owns the Lion’s Head Pub and is a staunch critic of the provincial government’s decision to remove the Robson ferry, said “long-term goals always require long- term commitment.”’ He said it is time for the riding to send Siemens to Vic- toria as MLA instead of relying on mayors and aldermen to lobby the provincial government on local issues, Siemens’ nomination was secon- ded by Tulio Esposito of Trail, for- mer owner of the Hi Arrow Arms in pr ly 150 people in the hall, 123 had voting privileges. Siemens mainly bypassed local the support given by himself and the riding executive on such projects as the Trail Hospital catscanner, Siemens claimed ‘we've accom- plished more for our riding than the elected member."’ New Democrat Chris D'Arcy has represented Rossland-Trail for the last 18 years Asking his audience if they agreed with the st that politics is a issues, in his acc ce speech on provincial issues and at- tacking the NDP. He singled out NDP justice critic Moe Sihota saying the Esquimalt MLA ‘“‘admitted many lies’’ but still wants to be attorney-general in an NDP government. Siemens said British Columbians “have prospered with Social Credit and will continue to prosper with Social Credit.”” Referring to help he has provided constituency residents during the past four years on personal matters and serious business, the new candidate admitted he has been accused ‘‘of being too serious. sf “But if politics is a serious business, then it’s time for serious candidates.”” Ed Conroy, the New Democratic Party candidate Siemens will face during the election, said he called the Socred to congratulate him on his nomination. Conroy said he’s looking forward to the race. “I'm looking forward to facing an election, period, regardless of who the ht) raise the arms of Walter Siemens ina victory lit party nomination Wednesday night for the ssland- s' nod candidate is."’ Conroy said he would like an elec- tion to be called soon, although the election wait gives him more time to make himself known to people in the riding and get to know the issues. “It’s six of one and half a dozen of the other,”’ he said, summing up his feelings on the timing of an election. Conroy dismissed suggestions that being declared a candidate far in ad vance of an election, as he and Siemens have been if the vote is in the spring, make it difficult to remain in the public eye until the writ is drop- ped “If you're going to base your nomination on when you think an election will be called, then I don’t think you want the nomination badly enough or want to represent the people of this riding badly enough.” D'Arcy, who lost the NDP nomination to Conroy earlier this year, congratulated Siemens on win ning the Socred nomination D'Arcy said Siemens was ‘‘quite clearly’’ the only one in the riding in terested in the nomination and he ‘‘will represent himself well."’ D'Arcy please see SIEMENS page A3 Local seniors to be quizzed on health care » By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer The health-care needs of seniors in the Castlegar area will be the subject of a survey to be conducted throughout the Castlegar area during November and December. Carel Scott has been hired by the Castlegar and District Hospital Community Partnership board to coordinate the survey of the physical, mental and emotional needs of local seniors. The survey will ask elderly people to name which of their needs are being met by local services and needs that are not being met, as well as ser. vices that seniors want in the area, Scott said in an interview The questionnaire. will be written in English and Russian and will be available at the hospital, the Castlegar Library, city hall and doctors’ offices As well, canvassers will be going door to door and the survey will be conduc ted over the phone, Scott said. Volunteers, particularly those who speak Russian, are needed, Scott ad- ded. The boundaries of the Castlegar school district will be used as the sur- vey area The survey, which will be conduc- ted from Nov. | to about a week before Christmas, should be assessed by January and the results distributed to agencies and government . bodies that can lobby for funds to implement services seniors identify as top priority for the area, she said. The community partnership board identified a seniors’ needs assessment as one of three projects new Ministry of Health funding should go toward, hospital administrator Ken Talarico said Friday The ministry announced hospitals could apply for funding equal to half of one per cent of the hospital’s total budget for the 1989-90 year to put together projects that encourage the hospital to work more closely with community organizations, Talarico said. The 1989-90 funding amounted to $19,000 The other two projects the board chose for the first year of the new ministry program were a hospice c » to i hospice workers, and a nutritional please see SE! a3 Hunter going back to court By CasNews Staff The Crown will appeal a B.C Supreme Court decision which over- turned the conviction of a Thrums man in provincial court for poaching elk. The criminal appeals branch of the provincial Crown prosecutor deter- mined the superior court decision in favor of Bert Franks was an ‘‘ap- pealable ruling,” Crown prosecutor Scott Bell told the Castlegar News. The appeal will be heard in the B.C. Court of Appeals Franks was fined $3,000 in April af- ter he was convicted of illegally hun- ting the elk and unlawful possession of dead wildlife. The charges stem- med from an incident alleged to have occurred in October 1988 on Mount Sentinel near Castlegar. Supreme court Justice Raymond Cooper overturned the verdict of the lower court, saying the Crown's failure to call Franks’s hunting par- tner, Darryl Keus, an eyewitness to the shooting of the elk, was unfair please see HUNTER page A3 Arrow Lakes Indians will rebury ancestors By CasNews Staff The Arrow Lakes Indian band will rebury the remains of six of its an cestors in a ceremony Oct. 13 at the native burial grounds near Vallican in the Slocan Valley n all-night wake will be held Rc. Oct. 12, band. spokesman Yvonne Swan said The band has been planning for the reburial ceremony for more than a year after setting up a camp in the Vallican area in August 1989. The band members fought the Ministry of Highways in an attempt to keep a new route into Vallican from nearby Passmore from being built beside the burial grounds, which have been declared a heritage site by the provin- cial government But the native people have main- tained that their primary objective has been reburial of the remains, which were taken from the site in 1981 by the Royal B.C. Museum The museum handed over the remains in late September after the band issued an ultimatum to the provincial Ministry of Municipal Af. fairs, Recreation and Culture Swan said the reburial ceremony will be “‘really simple and quiet” since the band’s ancestors had a burial ceremony once before “We only have to put them back into the earth.”” By ED MILLS Staff Writer ‘I think there is a lot of ignorai UNITED WAY FEATURE t surgery procedures to correct the problem. outlook is a program offered for children with special needs in Castlegar at Hobbit Hill Children’s Centre, one of several local organizations which receive fun ding from the United Way whose annual fundraising Program gives hope to Castlegar family Castlegar is a community on the leading edge when it comes to offering such services, said Katrine Conroy, an administrator for the Kootenay Columbia Child Care Society, the umbrella organization that sponsors OOTENAY INFORMATICS 365-2430 Now Hos a Full Line of LAZER XT AND LAZER 128s EX South Slocan Junction 359-7755 Ta Please recycle The NEWS Before her parents moved to Casyegar from Merritt a year ago, Joanna was surely facing a life of exclusion from the normal, of dependency, of marginal educational and employment opportunities, said her mother, Gerri Morris. It was a time when Morris wondered what would become of Joanna, the youngest of her three children. Would she ever be able to live alone? Would she ever be able to function in society or be given an oppor- tunity to learn how? the infant development program which covers children from birth to age three, and the special needs program for three- to six-year-olds. Conroy said that in 1980, Hobbit Hill became the second daycare in the province to become fully in tegrated and the school district has followed the lead “Castlegar is quite unique. We're a very pro integrated community right from the infants through to Grade 12. Our district is years ahead of other districts."* The programs and the society are partially funded by the provincial government’s Ministry of Social Ser- vices, private fees and grants from the United Way. Joanna is one of eight, special needs children at please soe PROGRAM page A3 drive is now underway “I feel lucky to have come here, I really do,” Morris said as she talked about the changes she's seen in her child since her enrolment at Hobbit Hill “She's developed better socially for one thing And her speech, there’s no comparison between now and a year ago. She's learned how to ride a tricycle, she's doing crafts, coloring, drawing, playing with other children."* Morris said she wished she could have got her Today, Morris is talking about her daughter's daughter in a similar program in Merritt, but it wasn't potential in a world that has suddenly become a place offered there. of opportunity and optimism, for herself and for her SX As it turns out, she did, in fact, get lucky when daughter. hep husband, John, a postmaster, was transferred to The main reason for the radical change in her Castlegar because from daycare to the school system, 3400-4th Avenue Castlegar Your Future Get Involved, Bea School Trustee Joanna’s special in 2 lot of ways. eae's gota tnt of good points that other, so-called normal people, don't have. She's a really neat little kid and I wouldn't trade her for anything.’ — Castlegar resident Gerri Morris For some, moving to a new city is a time for new hope, new dreams, a fresh start. 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