ee ~~ ‘Remember ‘When? i ot Eiabath Anne Catherine, daughter of Mrs. M.E. Cope and Mr. F.H, Cope, to Walter Gordon Legion ladies set for tea A WERKLY MAY 4, 1900 MIRROR PUBLISHED Ser. 12, 1978-AUG, 27, 1900 LV, CAMPBELL — PUBLISHER AUG. 7, 1947-F68. 15, 1973 PUBLISHER — Burt Compbell EDITOR — Ron Norman PLANT FOREMAN — Peter Horvey OFFICE MANAGER — Lindo Kositsin ADVERTISING MANAGER — Gary Fleming CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hodley vetted in and belongs to Cost ony odverteemant prepared Irom repro proots, {Serene eter tn ony tle News Ltd. provided. Nowever” thot copyright in that port ond that port only of crgrevings ! ‘in ond inted matter produced by Costte Mews Ltd. s ‘3. provided by the advertiser shall remain Guarded support What a difference a few days make. last Friday Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore cautiously suppor- ted the provincial government's new decentralization plan. Mrs. Moore said she couldn't really of- fer much comment until more details about the plan were an- nounced. She gave the analogy that it's a little like making a com- ment on a dinner when you haven't even tasted lhe food may look great, but the real test is in the tasting. The same is true of Premier Bill Vander Zalm's plan to redistribute provincial programs ning with economic development. Long run benefits Energy Minister Jack Davis's an- nouncement this week that he thinks the Keenleyside dam generating project will get under- way within the next year or two caused more than a few Castlegar area heartbeats to quicken. The $860 million project would not only create hundreds of jobs — 540 at the peak of construction — but would also stabilize the water level of the Lower Arrow Lake. And in the long run, it is the lake level that could prove the greater benefit to the area. Boats have long complained about the fluc- tuating lake level, which has also hindered tourism development along the lake. With the installation of turbines in the dam bringing a more stable water leyel, the lake could finally. realize its potential as a major tourist attraction. Yet, on Monday evening in a meeting with the provincial cabinet in Nelson, Castlegar coun- cil pi nted a brief in which it said ‘enthusiastically endorses” decentralization. in the space of a few days Mrs. Moore and the rest of council went from guarded sup- port to unabashed boosterism. And that wasn't all. At the close of the brief, council reaffirmed its support not only for decen- tralization, but for privatization as well, despite the fact the Vander Zalm government hasn't released any statement about privatization, it workers! Letters to the Editor other than to say it is i it For that matter, no one really knows what entralization means. Mrs. Moore herself has said she hopes it won't simply mean moving some top civil ser- vants out of Victoria and into one ntre like Nelson or Cranbrook. d of “decentralized cen- tralization” wouldn't really change anything. But that's how some regional politicians view the plan. Nelson Mayor Gerald Rotering and Nelson-Creston MLA Howard Dirks wasted little time in lobbying the provincial government to establish just such a “mini-Victoria” in Nelson. But in order to be truly decen- tralized and to have the greatest impact, the various ministries must be located in several centres throughout the region; some in Trail, Nelson, Creston, Castlegar, Cranbrook and Grand Forks. All this, of course, is based on Mr. Vander Zalm coming up with a plan that will truly shift the decision-making from Victoria into the regions. He hasn't yet disclosed just how he will do that, and until he does it is better to be guarded about our support. Ron Norman The Lone Ranger rides again. And this time he’s headed straight for the top. The Lone Ranger is, of course, Ald. Nick Oglow, and his route to the top is his bid for the mayor's chair in the Nov. 21 munici. pal election. Fellow Ald. Len Embree tagged Oglow with the cowboy character's nickname after Oglow caught Castlegar council by surprise one meeting with a motion about the In. dustrial Park debt. But rather than be offended by the label, Oglow h: welcomed it, to the point that during a curling bonspiel in which he represented the City of Castle gar, Oglow dressed in a Lone Ranger outfit — mask and all. He likes his image as a maverick, but even more importantly, he likes to be seen as the good guy, the guy in the white hat who rides tall in the saddle and isn’t afraid to speak his piece. Just how well he manages to parlay that image into winning him the mayor's seat depends largely on who will run against him. His most likely opponent is the incumbent, Mayor Audrey Moore. Although Moore hasn't indicated yet whether she will seek re election, don’t bet the family home that she will give up the position without a fight. Moore will run again. She has to. Moore currently sits on two high profile provincial bodies: the B.C. Petroleum Corp. board, and the task force studying library funding. She is also a B.C. delegate to the Can- adian Federation of Municipalities and a major figure in the Union of B.C. Municipalities. If she gave up the mayor's chair, she would have to also give up the latter two positions of power and prestige. That's not. likely Besides, Moore finished within a whisker of New Democrat Chris D'Arcy in last year's provincial election in Rossland-Trail. It was her first taste of provincial polities and certainly won't be her last. If she intends to be in a position to make a second run at the Rossland- Trail seat when the next provincial election rolls around, she will want to maintain a high political profile within the region. She can’t very well do that sitting at home. In addition, this year's municipal election will be for three-year terms. That would suit Moore per- fectly. If she won, her municipal term would expire in 1990 — about the same time as the next provincial election. If we accept the fact Moore will run again, we are looking at the hottest mayoral race in Castlegar in the last decade. Moore is a tough campaigner, make no doubt. D'Arcy found that out when Moore carried the Social Credit banner in Rossland-Trail last fall. Jim Gouk and Bob MacBain also found that out — the hard way. Moore trounced Gouk by 500 votes in 1981 and MacBain by 600 votes four years later. Both men had been popular aldermen — both had topped the polls in previous elections. Both both underestimated Moore's polit- ical skills and her campaign organ- ization. It cost them dearly. Oglow isn’t likely to make the same mistake, having learned from other's experience. In any case, Oglow comes into the election armed with perhaps the best election issue in the last 10 years: The industrial park debt. Others have attempted to make the debt and the park's failure an issue but with little success. Part of the problem has been the fact the debt is a difficult issue to grasp firmly. That shouldn't be the case this time around. Oglow feels he has pinned the issue down and now that he has hold of it, he plans to wield it like a club. Whether he can hit anything with it remains to be seen. But more on the park debt and its role in the race as the election date gets closer. Decentralization a sham Further to Premier Bill Vander Zalm's decentralization announce- ment: what a sham. What a public relations excerise, In fact, Mr. Vander Zalm runs the most centralized gov- ernment in B.C. history. Congider the following recent news itents out of Victoria (none of which have’ been denied by a Socred spokesperson). 1. Under the current regime the staff\in the premier's office has grown from-16 to over 80. 2. All deputy ministers must report on a weekly basis, directly to the deputy premier. Their own ministers are not allowed to be briefed on the content of these conversations. All government ministries are being run directly from the premier’s office. 8. The cabinet has not been briefed, Finally, one has to express dis- in the role of the media in until after public have been made, on such major issues as Bill 19 and “decentralization.” Add to this the fact that even minor announcements such as the “Passport to Education Program” are made by the premier (where was Stan Hagen, Minister of Adult Education or Tony Brummett, Minister of Education?) and we have a picture of a not-so-ben- evolent dictator. One is drawn to the conclusion that at best “c u this affair. No newspaper, TV station or radio station has questioned just what it is that needs to be “decentralized”. All major ministries already have a regional presence throughout the prov- ince. Do we not have available here in the West Kootenay services from Forestry, Environment, Health, Labor, Social Services, Attorney General and Education? Don't virtually all areas of the province? What precisely is it that will be i: ization” will be a sort of minor pork barrel, and, at worst, will involve serious meddling in the powers of local governments. Doukhobor article ' Re: Doukhobor Talks Set, by The Canadian Press. (Sept. 16, 1987 — Castlegar News). It is really appalling to read such pathetic articles after years of sessions by the Kootenay Committee on Inter- group Relations (KCIR), supposedly intended to put an end to bombing and arson. One such article promoted a protest from the Sons of Freedom by burning of a CPR shack in South Slocan. An article indicated that the Freedomites were behind the “. . . bombing of trains, including one which killed a Doukhobor leader.” In court ati that time it was established that the Sons of Freedom were not the culprits that bombed the train, so why the same instigation again? It may also be of interest to your readers to know, that the bombing of the CPR tracks — not trains — did not start until after the leader “Lordly” was bombed on the train. An over. whelming majority of the Doukhobors still believe that it was the work of the government of that time; that is why no culprits were ever apprehended for the act. We may state (as previous Sons of Freedom) that the Freedomites didy thke-‘evety: precaution | possible, ineluding prayer, that no train would run off the bombed track. There was definitely more behind the nude parades than your- article states; “. . . to the un- This initiative is yet another silly PR excercise, aided and abetted by our gullible media. Name withheld by request pathetic’ brothers and in faith defended their principles knowing that they them- selves were too weak to hold their own. This, however, did bring out hostility in those of the weaker brothers, who to : importance of material things”. This fact should be exposed to the public, by senior managers of the KCIR sessions, like Greg Cran. With reams of authentic and official evidence (from government and police files) and live witnesses that evolved at the KCIR hearings it is about time that the public was informed of the facts as to who was behind the years of turmoil. Mass arrests were at their height in the 1930s. Some 2,000 people were arrested, with at least 600 incarcerated at Piers Island. In the 1960s there were under 200 arrests, thanks to the ardent work of 8.S. Sorokin, who managed to quell and reduce the ranks of the Sons of Freedom. One other fact that the public should understand is that there never was any hostility towards the “moderate Doukhobors” from the Sons of Free- dom. On the contrary the Freedomites did wholeheartedly sacrifice them. selves for the sake of these weaker living. Furthermore, as panel members of the KCIR sessions, we wish to state that the media should take much more care with its news about the Douk- hobors, rather than releasing such misinformed and instigating articles. Mike Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box. 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at: 197 Columbia Avenue, Castle- gar, B.C. Letters must be signed and include the writer's tull name and address. Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the writer's nome. Nevertheless, the nome and address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor The Costlegor News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality and grommor Marken, son of Mrs. P. Marken and the late Mr. Marken, took place Sept. 19 at Dunbar Heights United Church, Rev. Hugh M. Rae officiated. * Bartholomew. . 6* * At Eremenko's — The Family Store — Stanfield’s men's work socks are selling for 80 cents, men's wool dress socks sell for 88 cents and men's wool pullovers sell for $7.50. . 8 6 At Wests’ Department store, men's suits are $33.60 and $35.96, men's top coats $25 and $32.50, and men’s felt hats $6.70. * 6 @ A letter was received from the school board to the effect that they were building a garage on the school grounds to house their two buses. Ne Three cabinet ministers will be in attendance for the opening of the Kinnaird-Christina Lake highway to morrow but Premier Bennett will not be there. Rossland-Trail MLA Don Brothers said late yesterday that the premier’s office told him that afternoon that Premier Bennett will not be able to attend as he has meetings of “vital importance to the Castlegar area.” It is thought that the meetings are concerned with either Columbia River development or the Sons of Freedom m. . * «@ The Castlegar and District Hos- pital board of management is taking immediate steps to reduce the number of beds set up in the hospital as an economy measure in an attempt to cut the operating deficit. The 82 adult and children beds originally approved were increased by 30 by the board some two years ago to meet the increasing demands of grow- ing population . Castlegar council has repeated its request to Celgar that the company answér poirit by point the village’t recent brief on air pollution. It has sent a letter to the company suggesting the lateness of the Celgar's “broad and general” answering brief was done “apparently with the purpose of dissipating public attention on the Castlegar News Has KIDA the support of the Town of Kinnaird? This is the question put before Kinnaird council when a delegation from KIDA presented itself at Tuesday nights meeting. The question arose following an earlier refusal by Mayor Colin Mad- docks to sign a paper stating KIDA had the Town of Kinnaird’s backing. . . 8 The status of the terminal building at the Castlegar airport appears to be causing some concern. The new building, which was offi- cially opened this spring, was built with financial backing from Castlegar, Kinnaird and Nelson. In a recent letter to the airport committee which is made up of repre- i the of each minister of transport stated “advice NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT Ortega's job not easy CHICAGO (AP) — Nicaraguan lead- er Daniel Ortega has said he isn't sure he likes being president of his country. “Don’t think that in this work, things are easy — a lot runs completely against my nature,” Ortega said in an interview published in the November issue of Playboy magazine. “If I were to think from a somewhat selfish standpoint, I would feel m: t ease having fewer responsi working and living in the country side with the peasants.” Ortega has been president of his Central American country since the revolution that brought his Sandinist National Liberation Front to power in 1979. His government U.S.-backed rebels. Ortega’s involvement in Nicaraguan public life began with his participation in 1959 demonstrations against the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza. “I hated Somoza. It was part of my family's legacy. I wanted to devote my life to getting rid of him and nothing interested me more than freeing the country.” : is opposed by Ortega, 41, said his father was imprisoned by Somoza's father in the early 1930s for opposing the regime. A brother, Camilo, was killed in revolut- jonary combat. ga spent seven years in prison after a bank robbery in which a guard was killed, He said he was tortured by Somoza’s security forces after arrests in the early 1960s and during his prison stay- “We complained when they beat us — and they'd laugh,” he said. Torture methods included being bound hand and foot and forced to squat with heavy stones laid on his thighs, Ortega said. “In that completely helpless position, we were beaten the whole way with clubs, clubs to our head.” In August 1967, Ortega said he and three others assassinated a sergeant in Somoza’s security forces whom they thought responsible for the death of friend. Prison life spawned attitudes that were difficult to shed when he was freed in 1974, Ortega said. ‘ “I felt tense in freedom, claustro- phobie. If I entered a room, I would want to get out quickly .. . It was as if the cell were always with me. For months, I suffered_in this condition. I then overcame it.” The Sandinistas came to power toward the end of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter's term. “There developed a certain open- ness with the Carter administration,” Ortega said. “There was a possibility of finding an understanding. Then, of course, Rea- gan was elected in November of 1980 and that was the beginning of his obsession with us, the results of which we are still living with.” Ortega said the Sandinistas knew now indicates due to financial in- by the ministry and your group (airport committee) it is not legally possible to transfer the terminal building portion of the new building to the airport committee.” show Castlegar had an increase in crime last year of 9.8 per cent — slightly higher than the provincial average of 9.2 per cent. But a Castlegar RCMP spokesman says the increase can be explained by greater public awareness in reporting crime “and a large increase in theft over $200 of which a number bicycles and theft from cars.’ * 6 «© Castlegar Hospital's 11 registered nurses working a 12-hour shift decided about U.S. funding of the Nis rebels, but were surprised to learn of the U.S. arms sales to Iran. “This Iran thing, with (President Ronald) Reagan accusing Iran of being a terrorist state — which is what he called Nicaragua too, by the way — and after all that, (former U.S. national-sec- urity adviser) Robert McFarlane showed up in Tehran with a cake shaped like a key and a Bible,” Ortega said. “Now, that was amazing.” Monday to di the practice of taking a half-hour unpaid leave of ab- sence. The leaves have helped the hos- pital meet the provincial government's restraint program and prevent any yorts. * 6 «@ A refusal by Cangtlian Union of Public Employees local 1296 to alter its current contract will see Castlegar parents, teachers and shared a first. hand look Sept. 24 and 25 at how we all reach their through full participation in artim the de- John Stevens dies - JOHN STEVENS . .. former staff sgt. John Henry Stevens, for- mer Staff Sergeant of the Castlegar RCMP Detach- Depot in Regina on Jan. 24, 1952. He was stationed at Port and then’ - Wells, B.C. where he met Anne Babington. They were mar- ried May 18, 1967. Mr. Stevens was posted to various spots in B.C., ‘in- cluding Spences Bridge, Kamloops, nay, Port Hardy, Chilliwack, Kelowna, and finally Castlegar in 1980. fe Normag ey St ae eres ives. Castlegar ‘was a very community mind- ed No. 180 of Port Hardy, an active member of the Lions’ Club in all communities he was posted, and was a mem- ber of the Castlegar-Robson Branch No. 170 of the Royal Canadian Legion. He is survived by wife Anne; three sons, Henry and daughter-in-law Terry of Calgary, Brian of Kanana- skis, Alta., and Scott of Banff; sisters Pat Weatherbe’ of Richmond, Margaret and brother-in-law Bucky Yeo of Seotch Creek, B.C.; brother Henry and sister-in-law Mar- He retired on July 15, 1987. , During his life he was active in minor hockey and Funeral service will be held Oct. 6, at 2 p.m. at nieces and nephews. Women's group holds meeting tal, tbe men's Institute was held at the home of Phyllis Phipps. Loan Murial Heagy reported that » cupboard articles loaned the summer, al- ‘though not ‘és ‘numerous as other months were very those Berishoff speaks to Aglow The Women's Agiow speaker 10:80 a.m, Oct. 7 at the Fireside Place will be Nellie Berishoff of Vernon. Berishoff was born in Russia and moved to China. Her father was a fisherman who was an alcoholic and her childhood was one of hunger and abuse. She married into a large religious family and chose Jesus Christ as her Lord and savior at 19 when she at- tended her mother’s water baptism. Her husband was away with the army and when she returned to her village she was persecuted for her faith. Her husband beat her and she often had to hide so as not to be killed, Her husband accepted Christ six years later. He is, now a missionary evangelist in South America. Does God change things when we pray? Berishoff will share the things God has done in her life. Her daugh- ter-in-law will also share her testimony. a.m. and obs oll should be well! Yes, by 9 a.m. Sundays you should be enjoying your Sun- day Castlegar News. it you're not, we want to correct the matter. Hf you fell consistently to get ee culation. much app by who berrowed them. Arrangements have been made for a clean-out and dis- card day at the loan cup board, to bring the inventory up to date and evaluate what new equipment to work to- wards buying. The public is reminded that wheelchairs, raised toilet seats, bathtub bars, commodes, walkers, and Kay Bate reported having attended the awards day in June at Stanley Humphries secondary Competitions will relishes and giving centrepieces. The entrys are auctioned off after prizes are awarded. No-smoke clinic set The Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada Local No. 1 and Celgar Pulp Co. are co-sponsoring a five- day plan to stop: smoking. The initiative was proposed by the Industrial Health and Safety Committee at the Celgar pulp mill which for the past several months has been employees In 1% to two hours a day feet 7 it >FEPubf iris! weather for month Funeral arrangements of Castlegar had two-thirds the normal rainfall with a 29.2mm, an extra one-third of ine and the lowest average ever re- corded for this month at 5.0 Mayor kph. 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