October 16, 1988 Embree requests hall policy change By RON NORMAN Editor Ald. Len Embree says Castlegar council's way of dealing with non-profit groups using Kinnaird Hall is “nonsense” and has called for a change. Embree made the remarks at a council meeting this week after the Castlegar air cadets asked to use the hall to cook meals for a three-day sports weekend later this month. “I understand that there is a policy in place regarding the rental of the hall, but would like to request that the policy be waived for this event and that we be allowed to use the hall for free,” wrote Jan Neumann, chairperson of the air cadets’ sponsoring committee. Neumann pointed out that the cadets are a non-profit group “and do not have a lot of fund: However, Ald. Albert Calderbank noted that council's policy is not to waive the rental fee, but to instead give non-profit groups grants to covér the fee. Embree called the move “paper nonsense.” “We used to have that hall under city administra- tion. There was never any problem, If we decided that groups that were non-profit and that traditionally got that facility at no cost, we checked with the city clerk and that happened.” However, Embree said now that the hall is under the administration of the Regional Recreation Commis- sion, the rental fee cannot be waived. Instead, a request for a grant must go to the administration and finance committee for approval and then to the recreation commission. “Now we've created some paper nonsense,” he said, adding that he would just as soon give the air cadets the hall “for nothing.” LEN EMBREE . . Fequests change Embree suggested council compile a list of groups that traditionally use the facility for free. “This has all come about through reorganization and reorganization isn't always more effective and more efficient.” Embree said he would like to see the facility available for groups without the worry about requesting a grant. By CasNews Staff Beekeepers will swarm into Division of the BCHPA) will be hosting the event,” she said. Beekeepers meet ease. Flanagan says the United States is no longer open to bee Briefly ‘Transplant controversy HALIFAX (CP) — The first heart transplant done at the Victoria General Hospital in July could have been performed earlier in Ontario before it became an emergency operation, says an organ transplant expert. Patricia Houlihan charged that hospital doctors manipulated an emergency situation to get around a provincial ban on heart transplants except in emergencies, in order to kick off the hospital's own transplant program. Shingle tariff discussed VANCOUVER (CP) — Representatives of one of Ronald Reagan's cabinet ministers and leaders of the British Columbia shake and shingle industry will meet next week to discuss an American tariff on shakes and shingles. The two days of meetings are the latest development in a seven-year American assault on Canadian sales in that country, a seemingly interminable series of setbacks and advances for Canadians and Americans alike. Gunman wounded EDMONTON (CP) — A gunman played cat-and-mouse with city police for more than an hour Friday morning before being shot and wounded just inside the doors of the Alberta legislature building. The man, believed to be in his 30s, was in critical condition in University Hospital after surgery to remove a police bullet from his stomach. Another bullet had grazed his chest. He was carried away on a stretcher following a confrontation with police which tested the 76-year-old buil 's security system. Police have not laid charges or released the man's name. Notice required VANCOUVER (CP) — Workers at White Spot Ltd. must be given 48 hours notice before any more restaurants are closed by the company, the B.C. Industrial Relations Council ruled. The Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers wanted the council to disallow any more restaurants from being boarded up in the bitter, two-month dispute which hinges on the company agreeing to allot shifts based on seniority. Council vice-chairman Richard Longpre also ruled that White Spot management could talk to workers away from the bargaining table. Broadbent slams friendship TORONTO (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's cozy friendship with the United States will diminish Canada's power to protect the envir. onment, New Democrat Leader Ed Broadbent charged yesterday. Mulroney gave up the power when he signed a free-trade deal that allows subsidies for energy mega- projects but no subsidies for energy efficiency and conservation, . said Broadbent, campaigning for the Nov. 21 election. “At the very time that Canadians have called for the halting of the destruction of the environment, the prime minister is handing over con trol of our capacity to make envir onmental! decisions in so many crucial areas to Washington,” he told about 250 environmentalists jammed into a high school gymnasium. Standing under the basketball hoop, Broadbent said the Americans will allow government subsidies for energy megaprojects because they stand to benefit. The proposed free-trade pact gives the United States secure access to Canadian energy at the same price Canadians pay “We got in the deal subsidies for energy because that's what the Americans want, but we didn’t get in the deal subsidies for the envir: onment because that's what Cana: dians want.” The NDP has promised it would put crimes against the environment in the Criminal Code and tax profit able corporations to raise $200 million a year for environmental cleanup. TACKLES TWO Castlegar at the end of the month for the annual B.C. Honey Producer's meeting at the Fire- side Motor Inn. The West Kootenay associa- importers and New Zealand is tion is a “small group” of about _ the only place left to get Queen 30 people who keep bees for bees. either commercial purposes or “We have to continue to de- “ . just for fun. velop our own stock,” she said. People are flying in from all aie ness, areakers, wil By rolling together free trade and the environment, Broadbent address- ed the two issues that polls suggest Canadians are most concerned about. He said the Tories only discovered Change needed ee TORONTO (CP) — Canada has been lobbying for changes in the policies of United Nations organizations to weaken protection for refugees, says a Canadian representative of refugee-aid groups. REFERENDUM DAY .. . Mike Therrien registers to vote Saturday in the aquatic centre referendum. Voters from Castlegar, Area J and parts of Area | went to the polls to decide whether to approve a new $2.2 million indoor pool. SIGNING UP . . . Gerry Plotnikoff gives infor- mation to enumerators Barb Jankola and Maxine Nevakshonoff earlier this week By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer While the candidates are off and running for the Nov. 21 federal election, Tony Naccarato is working hard to see that the election goes as smoothly as possible in the Kootenay West-Revelstoke riding. Naccarato is the chief returning officer for the riding and he’s been working 14 hours a day since the election was called two weeks ago. He expects to. be as busy right up to election day and a few days after. I'm swamped; very busy at the moment,” Naccarato told the Castlegar News from his Trail headquarters. “We've finished hiring the enumer- ators and are now in the process of hiring deputy return officers and poll clerks.” The riding boundaries have changed since the last election, making Kootenay West-Revelstoke one of the largest ridings in the province. But the population of the riding has remained about the same as Creston was moved from Kootenay West to Kootenay East when Revelstoke was added to this riding Naccarato said more than 500 people will work for him in the riding before, during and after the election. According to 1986 census figures, there are approximately 42,000 eligible voters in the riding. Naccarato said there will be 151 polling divisions in the riding with the urban divisions located in Castlegar, Nelson, Trail and Revelstoke. There will be about 20 polling stations for each urban centre with the rest situated in the 147 rural divisions. The 200 enumerators — the people who comb the riding to sign up eligible voters — will work until Oct. 20. If there are any problems with signing voters, there will be eight revising agents — two for Returning officer works hard during election Enumerators will be going door-to-door until Oct. 20 to sign up voters for the Nov. 21 federal election CosNewsPhoto each of the four electoral districts located in Castlegar, Nelson, Trail and Revelstoke. Four revising agents will be selected by the Progressive Conservative party and four by the NDP as the two parties led the polls in the riding when the election was called. The agents will then report any irregularities in enumeration to one to four Supreme Court-appointed revising officers who make a final decision on voter eligibility. The revising officers — usually lawyers — will work from Nov. 2-4. Homeowners in the riding will be receiving their notice of enumeration in the mail by as early as Oct. Once the enumeration process is finished, Naccarato will have to organize more than 300 supervisory deputy returning officers and polling clerks to staff the polling stations pn election day. He is also securing the buildings where the polling stations will be located throughout the riding and is getting the ballot boxes ready. Advance polls will be conducted throughout the riding on Nov. 12, 14 and 15 for eligible voters who will not be able to vote on election day. Once the polls are closed, unofficial vote counts will be taken at each division before the ballot boxes are re-sealed and sent to Naccarato’s Trail office for an official tabulation which is expected by Nov. 26. The 39-year-old Cominco employee has taken a 60-day leave of absence to follow through on his election work, but will he vote? “The only time vote is if there's a tie,” he said. “If that’s the case, I will flip a coin to decide the winner. I'm non-partisan.” over the place,” said conference organizer, Joyce Flanagan, who expects 80-100 people to come to Castlegar for the three-day con- ference. Flanagan, who has been a “hobby beekeeper” for 15-20 years is excited about the event “This is the first time that the Kootenays, (the West Kootenay Flanagan, a Grand Forks resi- dent, says Kootenay beekeepers were recognized for having the best white honey in North America at the Winter Agri cultural Fair in Toronto. She says the conference will be especially importnt to bee breeders this year because of an import ban on bees due to dis- address chemicals in beekeeping and honey promotions, as well as breeding. Flanagan says the conference is not only for the people who al- ready have bees. “Quite a few people are inter- ested in keeping bees but have not done so,” she said. “It’s a most interesting hobby.” Access report recommends changes for B.C. colleges By CasNews Staff and News Services A provincial report on post-sec- ondary education released earlier this week is similar to what Selkirk College board chairman Elizabeth Fleet “expected to see.” The report says that third- and fourth-year courses from the prov ince’s three universities shoulds be offered in community colleges. Stu- dents can currently take univer- sity-level courses for two years at community colleges. But in order for the students to complete their de- grees, they must attend the Univer- sity of Victoria, Simon Fraser Uni- versity in Burnaby or the University of B.C. in Vancouver. The report was released Thursday after a year-long study by the Ad. vanced Education Ministry's access committee. The province was divided into eight regions and each region set up panels to find out what was needed to improve the access to education in each region. The reports were then sent to the ministry in Victoria where the provincial access committee studied each region's findings and tabled its report. Fleet, who headed up the regional access committee in the Kootenays, said she was glad the report was finally released. “I'm quite pleased with the way it’s come through,” she said. “There is a definite need for better access to university programs in the prov ince.” \| local panel suggested that more be done to fund students travelling to the univer- sities, instead of offering Selkirk College degree-granting status. “In our report there was more concern that students going to the coast get adequately funded,” she said. “But the general concern was for better access to degree-granting programs.” Prince George is currently seeking a multi-campus university to serve the northern section of the province and Kelowna wants degreégranting status given to Okanagan College. Advanced Education Minister Stan Hagen will study the committee's recommendations but will not make a decision on the matter for the next two months. VACANCY continued from front page based in Trail were amalgamated to form the Central Kootenay Health Unit several years ago, there was talk of also amalgamating the East Kootenay health unit. But Cady said opposition to the merger helped prevent the amalgam ation. BRISCO— continued trom front page He pointed to the Columbia River Treaty as an example of past envir- ly unsound “When the original Columbia River Treaty was signed almost 30 years ago, there was little or no concern expressed for the environment,” said Brisco. “Now we can see the results of that mistake — the flooding of valuable land, severe damage to our fisheries and wildlife, and economic Area J director Martin Vanderpol pointed out that Lowden will only be available two of every 20 working days — or 10 per cent of the time. Yet, he said just four years ago this area had two full-time medical health officers. The regional board agreed with Vanderpol’s suggestion to write the Ministry of Health, asking that it appoint a permanent medical health officer “as fast as possible, prefer- rably yesterday.” Meanwhile, Arnott told the, union board of health meeting Thursday evening in Castlegar that another physician has been approached about the position. “There is a physician who has indicated he is interested in coming to the area and that he would be available sometime next year,” said Arnott. The board will also write a letter to the Ministry of Health, urging a full-time i for Arnott be harm to the shoreline ies affected by the constantly changing water levels.” found immediately. “I think it’s time we damn well put our foot down,” said Castlegar Ald. Patti Richards. “We are not going to put up with cuts in our staff in the Kootenays any more,” said Richards. “We've been trimmed and trimmed and trimmed until we've hardly got anything left.” Board members expressed concern that the area has already seen cutbacks in staffing following the amalgamation of the Selkirk health unit and the West Kootenay health unit into one with one medical health officer. “We had two health officers, now effectively we have been reduced to one-fifteenth of a health officer,” said Vanderpol. Members on the health board representing city councils regional districts and school boards in the West Kootenay will ask their respec- tive groups to write letters sup- porting the health board's request for an immediate replacement. Arnott has been the medical health officer and director of the Central Kootenay Health Unit for the last eight years. CAR WRECK This cat was one of three involved in an accident out by Trowelex Friday. The extent of the injuries to the vehicles’ occupants was not made available. CosNews Photo “T think it’s both dispiriting and alarming that Canada should be using its position as an international body this way,” David Matas said in Geneva last week. The Winnipeg immigration lawyer was attending the executive comittee meeting of the United Nations High Commission for Ref representing non-governmental organizations. Demonstration over CORNWALL ISLAND, ONT. (CP) — It was business as usual yesterday after a peaceful Mohawk demonstration the night before blocked the Seaway International Bridge to protest a police raid on the Akwesasne reserve. “It's been quiet,” said Andy Lalonde, customs manager for the Cornwall district. “It's a normal Saturday.” Mohawks used cars to block the bridge in both directions late Friday and nailed a sign to an immigration booth that read: This is Indian land — Mohawk land. No trespassing. - Deadline too early VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. Environment Minister Bruce Strachan said a deadline he imposed on the forest industry a year ago to stop the flow of a toxic chemical into the environment was too tight. “It was just unrealistic for the industry to meet,” Strachan said in an interview. “It's been a tough year and industry has made considerable efforts. When they spend millions of dollars resolving their problems we must consider they're acting in their best faith.” Juveniles on trial MATSQUI (CP) — Two juveniles charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of couple and their two children were committed for trial Friday following a preliminary hearing. No trial date was set. The youths are both 17 years old but were raised to adult court earlier this year. They are charged in the beating deaths of Karsten Madsen, 38, his wife, Leny, 29, and their two children, Michelle, nine, and Jason, 11. The Madsens’ bodies were found in their Fraser Valley home east of Vancouver last Jan. 19. The juveniles were later arrested in Fort St. John. Staff member charged PORTLAND, ORE. (AP) — A staff member at a Los Angeles religious centre was charged with killing the eight-year-old daughter of the centre's |fiery leader, Eldridge Broussard. Another 53 children affiliated with the group once known as Ecclesia were found at a rural farmhouse later in the day. Some appeared to have been the victims of physical abuse, a sheriff's captain said. State medical examiner Larry Lewman said Dayna Broussard died of “multiple blunt force injuries.” Drunk bats do damage COLOMBO (AFP) — Thousands of befuddled bats are keeping residents awake after drinking themselves silly on coconut sap, the main ingredient of a Sri Lankan alcoholic brew. The bats are drinking the toddy from the clay pots tied to coconut trees to collect the sap, which contains yeast and is distilled to make coconut arrack, residents in southern Sri Lanka said. “The bats are drinking themselves silly and doing a lot of damage,” the Daily News quoted a toddy trader in Paiyagala village as saying. “People can't’sleep at night owing to the noise.” Hunger strike started MONTREAL (CP) — A 40-year-old man who was sent to a federal penitentiary for failing to pay his parking tickets has gone on a hunger strike in protest. David Smith was sent to the maximum security institution at Ste-Anne-des Plaines north of Montreal last week for two years and five months. In a declaration to his lawyer, Smith said he spends at least 15 hours a day in a cold cell and is not allowed as many privileges as some rapists and murderers. President blasted VICTORIA (CP) — The president of the Vancouver-Point Grey Social Credit constituency should resign because of his public criticism of Premier Bill Vander Zalm, says Provincial Secretary Bill Reid. But Alistair Palmer said Friday he has no intention of quitting, despite his outspoken opposition to the pre mier. Palmer told a special meeting of Vancouver-area Socred constituen cies Thursday night that he lost his sitting legislative member, Kim Campbell, because of the actions of the premier. At the same meeting, Doug Mowat, Vancouver-Little Mountain legislative member, had a statement Faultline studied in lake NELSON (CP) — Scientists are examining a fault line beneath Koot- enay Lake in southeastern British Columbia that may extend right through the crust of the earth. The work is part of a five-year, $25-million federal study of the earth's crust in four regions of Canada. Alan Jones, who is overseeing the Kootenay Lake lithoprobe, said a re- gional survey conducted last year turned up what looks like a fault line like very few others known any where else in the world. The fault may extend to through the lithosphere, said Jones, head of the Geological Survey of Canada’s seismology and electromagnetism section. The lithosphere is the earth's strong, rigid outer layer of rock. It’s broken into plates which move slowly past each other over time, causing earthquakes at the boundaries. Faults normally penetrate the earth's crust to a depth of about 20 kilometres. But then they hit a layer of ductile material about 20 kilom etres thick with a temperature about 500 degrees Celsius. But somehow the fault near here appears to go through that layer, slanting down under the east shore of Kootenay Lake until it reaches the mantle, the region of the earth's interior extending down about 3,000 kilometres to the earth's core. To get an overall picture of the fault, a scientific team is taking read ings at several points. The technique uses seismic waves which pass up to 100 kilometres into the earth and bounce back to record ers on the surface. The results are pulled together into a map by com puter. read in which he said party members were leaving the party and not donating money because of the cur rent leadership. Socred president Hope Rust was not available for comment Friday At a meeting Thursday, Van. couver legislative members Grace McCarthy, Steven Rogers and Russ Fraser said the “grassroots” of the party must decide whether they are happy with the current leadership and they should not be intimidated by anyone in arriying at that decision. SPEECH ANGERS Reid, who attended the meeting, said he was angered by Palmer's speech to the 200 party members, most of whom will be delegates to next week's party convention in Penticton. A major issue at the convention will be a call for a secret ballot on a vote on Vander Zalm’s leadership. “I've never been so close to walking out of a meeting in my life;” Reid said of Thursday's gathering. “I couldn't believe that the president of a constituency would (say) that kind of stuff. “You can be disappointed. You can be disgruntled, you can be disen chanted and all those kinds of things but, when you start talking like that, it’s like somebody has planted some body inside just to create turmoil.” Reid said Palmer should resign and go help Campbell and the Tories “He's no assistance to us as a party and he can’t obviously represent the Social Credit constituency in Point Grey with any kind of positive attitude. He should leave.” the environment as an issue after polls showed it was a priority with voters, and they have done nothing about major problems such as PCBs and acid rain. The Conservatives cut the Envir- onment Department's budget by $46 million one year after they were elected in 1984 and they vrought in a law to protect the water, soil and air that is “a toothless wonder,” he said He saved his harshest criticism for Mulroney's dealings with U.S. Pres- ident Ronald Reagan. Mulroney wouldn't stand up to Reagan even though the president refused to do anything to curb pollutants from U.S. factories which cause acid rain. in Canada. “It was the same prime minister who after each of the summits con- tinued to praise President Reagan — the only head of a government in the modern world to have made the sug: gestion that trees and birds were responsible for pollution,” Broadbent said. others are blondes, some jog before breakfast. Long distance grandmother stays in touch By JUDY CREIGHTON Canadian Press Unlike the wealth of resources available to expectant parents, there are few courses, magazines, books or videos on being grandparents. “Do grandmothers have to dress differently? Should my skirts now be longer? Should I give up wearing high-heeled shoes? Should I let my hair go grey? Is .it unseemly for grandfathers to ride motorcycles? To go to school? To study art?” These are some of the questions posed by Selma Wasserman, a professor of education at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and the author of The Long Distance Grandmother (publish ed by Hartley and Marks, $11.95). Wasserman, 59, who has two grandsons aged 6'/2 and five, knows all about long distance grandparenting. She lives in Vancouver, while her daughter Paula lives in Nelson, more than 600 kilometres away. ‘We may wish it were different, but the conditions that dictate our places of residence are not likely to change soon,” the busy academic said in an interview. “Love alone does not make it possible for me to relocate to her (Paula's) territory.” RISK OF LOSS Wasserman knows that many others are forced to live great distances from their beloved grandchildren. It’s a situation in which grandparents can become remote strangers. “The danger of such a physical disconnection lies in the risk of an emotional disconnection from those delicious, delightful, precious early years,” she said Wasserman’s memory of her own immigrant Jewish grandmother is one of poignant affection. But today, “grandmothers come in a wider range of shapes and sizes.” Some have careers, some are grey-haired, “Today grandmothers at 60 are more youthful, healthy and energetic than my grandmother was at 40,” she said. The only similarity, it would seem, between the grandmothers of yesteryear and the grandmothers of today is what Wasserman calls that “special quality” which transcends in surprising ways what we felt as parents. “It's hard to explain why this should be so — why our grandchildren are so easily able to wrap their fingers around our hearts and squeeze until it's hard to breathe.” FREE TO LOVE Wasserman said the relationship between grandparent and grandchild is free, unencumbered by the day-to-day details of living that “steal our attention and get in the way of total love. “In the 24-hour-day, seven-day-a-week intimate family, feelings other than love inevitably come into play, diluting the purely loving relationship.” In her book, Wasserman sets out to find a way to forge the bond of the long distance grandparent grandchild relationship. She suggests a number of creative ideas, including captioned photos, audio tapes, postcards, family histories, personal letters and small inexpensive gifts that engage children in shared activities with a distant grandparent. In addition, Wasserman touches on the role of the visiting grandparent and on how to keep friction at bay. This can be accomplished by treating the visit “with respect and affection but without interfering.” SPECIAL NEEDS The book also has information on grandchildren with special needs, such as those with learning disabilities or handicaps, or children facing a divorce or death of a parent. In conclusion, Wasserman writes: “Long dis tance grndparenting means a lot of lost opportunities to be there to watch and feel joy in each special new day, each new growth stage, each new accomplish ment And those are only some of the prices we pay for the hard and sometimes unendurable fact of the miles between us “We may not have it all, but what we can have, through these relatively simple, but active involve ments, will nevertheless bring our grandchildren closer to us, in spirit and in the heart — where it really counts.”