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John Charters .. .

Reflections

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AN ARMCHAIR
TOUR OF ITALY

I haven't been down to the Abbey studio yet though I
have been here a week, but neither has the sculptor,
Father Dunstan. We both have colds, a poor arrangement
‘at such a beautiful time of the year, but they (the colds)
are debilitating. I had mixed feelings, therefore, when
Father Augustine, the rector and my immediate superior,
called and asked if I would write a brief article on Father
Dunstan's recent visit to Italy for the Pox Regis, the
Abbey's semi-annual magazine.

Father Dunstan, who has an excellent command of
English, was decidedly under the weather and the
deadline was two days away. “About 400-500 words,”
Father Augustine said casually. Since the rule of St.
Benedict requires that one does cheerfully the best that
one is able, I did, but not within those stringent limits.
Besides, I greatly enjoy the tales of returning travellers
and I had promised Vi Stoushnow faithfully, just before I
left, that I'd do an article on the Abbey.

However, for my Castlegar readers and for clarity’s
sake, I have added a little in places. And so to the article:
Father Dunstan Goes to Rome

Father Dunstan the Abbey's artist and sculptor, flew
to Rome last month, or more specifically to Rome and
Florence — courtesy of kind friends of the Abbey. He
flew back a fortnight later with a case of the flu. In that
scant two weeks, however, he had gathered .a cornucopia
of cultural and artistic experiences which took almost two
hours to outline and this writer 12 pages to record.

The beginning of the journey was not too propitious.
He had gone, he said, by Air Canada to Rome via
Amsterdam. He arrived at the airport minus his baggage
and in the midst of the 2-4 p.m. Italian siesta hour when
almost everything — including his temporary base the
Benedictine International College at San Anselmo — was
closed. By dint of some pounding on the big doors he was
able to attract the attention of a priest who was on his
way out. In rapid succession he had a commodious room,
clean shirts and underwear, a meal, and his bearings.

San Anselmo, incidentially, sits on the crest of the
Aventine Hill, near the very heart of Rome and is covered
with the brick and stone-work remains of 2,000 years of

it . It gives both a jing view of the city
and an instant sense of historical perspective.

Since his time was precious and he had spent all
summer preparing a date-time-place itinerary for the trip
with the same singlemindedness that he devotes to his
art and P' he set out from San
Anselmo, down the Via de Santa Sabina to the famous
church of the same name. “One of the most beautiful
basilica churches in Rome,” he said. “It is wonderful to
see those huge, carved wooden doors and the beautiful
pillars, many of which came from earlier pagan temples.
It was first restored in 824; most recently in 1936.

“From there,” he continued, “I came out of the Circus
Maximus, where the wild Roman chariot races were once
run. In the background the ruins of the Palatine (site of
the Roman emperors’ place) glowed like gold in the
sunset.”

“And the Roman traffic?", I prompted.

“It was like fording the Styx,” (the river which all
the dead must cross) he answered, “Everyone travels at
60 miles per hour and the traffic stops for nothing. A
terrifying experience. It appears totally disorganized, but
they are excellent drivers. One must step firmly into the
stream and walk across at a steady pace. They'll avoid

ou.” (At least, he's still here).

He was back at San Anselmo for 8 p.m. supper —
Italian style. That is, several separate courses including
pasta or large Italian beans, meat or fish, wine, fruit, and
their own homebaked crusty bread. “They were good
meals.”

Six days he spent in Rome while using his two-page
list of churches and museums with their opening and
closing dates and times (“They vary widely”) and his Blue
Guide book, (“absolutely indespensible”). Trains were
used to cover the considerable distances and train
stations were used as sally points. “Sometimes I took a
taxi,” he said. “A terrifying experience — like a joyride at
the PNE — but they got you there.”

On the seventh day he went by train to Florence
where a Jesuit priest found him a pensione run by an
Italian “mama”. “It was a spartan room,” he recalls, “an

FATHER DUNSTAN
. Sistine ‘gorgeous’

iron-frame bed, metal-lathe springs and a mattress like a
bag. It didn’t matter, though” he said, “I was completely
tired at the end of each day. Breakfast was two rolls and
coffee. Price — 175,000 lira ($175) for six days. His other
meals were taken in small cafes with the excellent ‘gelata’
(Italian ice cream) for dessert.

He travelled entirely on foot in Florence and saw,
among many other things, the Uffizi Gallery with its
Botticelli and Michae!angelo masterpeices,; the Bargello
Castle with its wonderful Donatello sculptures; the Pitti
Palace — “one room alone had five Raphaels;” (the
thought still boggles his himd) and the overpowering

Jo 18 foot high sculpture, David at the end of
the corridor of the Accademia.

Back then to Rome for the final two days and a
second visit to the Vatican Museum: “Stupendous.

They were working on the Sistine Chapel ceiling,
with its world famous frescoes (paintings on fresh
plaster) he said, cleaning The Temptation and The Fall of
Adam and Eve. “The colors were gorgeous in the daylight
— the high point of my trip.”

He explained that it was always assumed by experts
that Michaelangelo had used subdued colors. Instead,
they had been dulled by centuries of grime and candle
smoke.

‘And his three greatest experiences? I asked. One
was seeing Michaelangelo's second Pieta, undertaken
when he was in his 80s. “Uncompleted, but a marvellous
thing. It pulls your heartstrings.” It was unfinished, he
said — a problem in composition that he couldn't solve.
“I can now understand why he partly destroyed it.” (The
first ‘Pieta’, a lifesize statue of Mary holding the dead
Christ in her arms, was done when he was only 25.

The second was a fleeting moment in the ancient
square church in San Michelle in Florence. “A tourist coin
had just turned the lights on, and he was staring up at a
statue of the Virgin in the soft glow. Suddenly, there was
music — two street musicians playing a tune right out of
the Middle Ages on a flute and a drum, and doing a little
dance — troubadors serenading Our Lady, recalling the
legend and Christmas song of Mary and the little
drummer boy. In an instant I was back in the 13th
Century.

“They have some excellent sidewalk musicians and
jugglers in Florence. Also, some of the world’s best pick:
pockets. So, in spite of my precautions, they lifted my
wallet once.”

‘The third, also a religious experience, was to kneel
for a few moments at the tomb of St. Peter, in St. Peter's
basilica, the physical manifestation of the church and to
feel and see the words: “On This Rock will I build my
church.”

“And now that you're back — what last impressions
and new prospects?” I asked. “Italy is raucous and damp
and polluted with smog, but it’s bursting with life and
vibrant with culture and history. I have met my three
greatest teachers: Michaelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo,
and I am stimulated, renewed and eager to go on. It has
been a wonderful experience,” he concluded.

United Way campaign
nearing 70 per cent

‘By BONNE MORGAN
Staff Writer

The Castlegar United Way is well
on its way of meeting its 1987 fund-
raising goal.

The United Way has so far raised
$34,500 or nearly 70 per cent of its
$50,000 goal with only one month left in
the campaign, Dale Nielsen, President
of the United Way told the Castlegar
News Thursday.

The door-to-door campeign in Sep-
tember 200 per cent more than
last year's drive. But Nielsen is not
surprised by this year’s success.

“We did it a little differently this
year,” he said. Each canvassor was
given a week to cover his area instead
of just one day, enabling him to go back
if someone wasn't home.

The Castlegar chapter of the
United Way is located within the
boundaries of the Castlegar school
district.

In addition to the door-to-door
campaign, the United Way raises funds
from business, corporate, and pro-
fessional campaigns.

Because Cominco matches 50 per
cent of what its employees give, this
summer's strike really “hurt” this

DALE NIELSEN
. doing better

of that, we hope to do better than last
year. Last year was the worst year in
some years.”

Some of the agencies served by
the local United Way are:

© The West Kootenay National
Exhibition Centre. The NEC exhibits
history, science and art. Educational
programs for schools are also a part of

the sight and hearing impaired, a book
service for shut-ins, a summer reading
program for children and a special
needs education program.

@ The Kootenay Columbia Child
Care Society sponsors the West Koot-
enay Infant Development program and
the Hobbit Hill Child Care Centre. The
Infant Development program is a
home-based service for children up to
three years old with developmental
delays and disabilities. Hobbit Hill
Child Care centre provides day care, a
nursery school, special needs and out of
school services for three to 12 year
olds.

e The Kootenay Society for the
Handicapped has a vocational service
program which serves up to 20 adults
with mental and physical handicaps.
The program operates a contracted
laundry business and produces and
sells ceramics.

@ The Red Cross provides mater-
ials for the swim programs and offers a
youth program, a senior citizens pro-
gram and first aid courses, in addition
to providing blood to the Castlegar and
District Hospital.

The Red Cross supports commun-

year's funds, Nielsen said. the NEC.
“We didn't get anything from
them,” Nielsen said, adding, “In spite

© The Castlegar and District
Public Library has special services for

ity service groups such as Emotions
A A

Alateen, a women's support group, and
the STEP parenting program.

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

Rotary hears of program

By JOHN CHARTERS
“There is a huge sense of emptiness when you come
from a community of seven million people to a community of
7,000, but it involves an increasingly important present

teaching and future living experience, a vital aspect of

cooperation in the world community,” says Craig Andrews.

Andrews, director of the International Educational
Program at Selkirk College, spoke to the Castlegar Rotary
Club Tuesday night about the new college program and its
effects on Pacific Rim students and the local community.

There are at present about 50 of these students — most
of them from Hong Kong, Andrews said. Each brings about
$10,000 directly into the local economy for a base total of

about $500,000. Andrews says the number of students will|

eventually increase to about 100 — any more would upset
the balance at the college.

A considerable number of these studetits have bought
cars — an unheard luxury for them at home — and a
considerable headache for him here, he admits.

Most of these students take the English as a Second
Language program, plus mathematics and science.

Others on a short-term visit (six to eight weeks) take an
intensive English program in the mornings and a variety of
cultural tours in the afternoon.

British Columbia is presently the least important
destination for most international students; many more go

to the United States, Australia and Britain. with

community cooperation has been a great success, and the
college program.

In thanking Andrews, Ron Ross, chairman of the agai
Student Program, the
representatives of the club and the college sit down var
exchange ideas about successes and techniques.

“We are interested in what the college is doing,” h

id, “and we could all benefit.”

The Castlegar Rotary Club will be again selling Christ-
mas trees this year, starting next Saturday, thanks to the
courtesy of West Kootenay Power and Light Co., Arrow
Builders and Trowelex.

Vancouver firm
gets contract

By CasNews Staff

A Vancouver-based firm has been selected to develop
Nelson's proposed waterfront marina.

“The Water's Edge” submitted by Bumper
Shipping Co. Ltd., was chosen by the provincial government
and the City of Nelson.

Dave Parker, Minister of Forests and Lands, said the
proposal for the foot of Hall Street calls for a marina, pub,

the “fat yen” of Japan and the rapid approach of 1997 when

Hong Kong will revert back to China, together with an
active teacher exchange and publicity campaign, the
numbers of both full-time and short-term students will
increase considerably.

But Andrews says Castlegar shouldn't be the only
centre in the West Kootenay to benefit from the inter-
national students. Since diversity of experience is an
essential part of this program, there is no reason why
students should not stay and learn in Rossland, Trail,
Nelson, Salmo and other communities, he said.

While counselling and education is a vital part of the

work at the college, Andrews said the major task is to
impress upon these students that eventually they must
return to their homeland.

During the course of his address Andrews referred

Fed convention Monday

VANCOUVER (CP) — The B.C.
Federation of Labor's annual con-
vention ended on a positive note last
year with news of a settlement in a
bitter 4%/-month strike by most of the
province's woodworkers.

This year, the good news will
likely be harder to come by as about
900 delegates gather Monday for the
organization's week-long annual con-
vention.

Privatization, tough new labor
laws and free trade will dominate dis-
cussions.

The change to provincial labor
laws, which unions say allows for more
government interference in negotia
tions, led to a provincewide strike June
1, the first in British Columbia in 11

and its lack’ of responsiveness to
workers.”

Earlier this year, federation offi.
cials said they were outraged that the
compensation board planned to credit
employers with a $99-million surplus
instead of increasing compensation to
injured workers.

Georgetti also called on the board
to implement recommendations Om
budsman Stephen Owne made in a
report released in July.

Owen said the board's appeal pro-
cess is unfair to workers, and board
commissioners should not have the
power to reject review board decisions.

The medical review panel should
be ini ed by an i
review board, Owen said, rather than

years.

The 250,000-member federation
has led a boycott ofthe new Industrial
Relations Council, established to med.
iate disputes.

Premier Bill Vander Zalm’s Social
Credit government has also announced
plans to sell off $3 billion worth of
Crown assets and government ser
vices. In the end, about a third of the
province's 35,000 civil servants are
likely to be affected by the sell-off.

Federation spokesman Tom
Fawkes said that when president Ken
Georgetti opens the convention “the
focus of his speech will be what we've

KEN GEORGETTI
- pens convention

accomplished over the last year and
where we intend to go” in terms of the
new labor laws, privatization and free
trade.

Resolutions will range from human
rights and Indian land claims to the
Workers’ Compensation Board and
health and safety.

CAN'T SPECIFY

“I can't specify what the resolu
tions are at this point,” Fawkes said,
“but there are a number on the WCB

the compensation board.

The federation also has criticized
the board's decision last month to ease
restrictions on employers wanting
access to personal information about
injured workers.

Owen had urged in his July report
that the board restrict disclosure to
employers of information “irrelevant
and prejudicial to a worker.”

The board traditionally had al
lowed injured workers greater access
to information because claims gen-
erally affect their lives and livelihood,
while affecting only an employer's

assessments.

dly to the parallels between the Rotary Club's Inter-
national Student Exchange Program which, with wide

‘and a water-based small-business complex.

He said the city and the regional lands office of the
Ministry of Forests and Lands issued a joint proposal call for
the waterfront-area development.

“Over the next six months, the company selected will
analyse the area, draft the plans and identify local firms for
the construction and operation of the facilities,” Nelson-
Creston MLA Howard Dirks said in a prepared release.

Nelson Mayor Gerald Rotering said the six-year project
will be a major boost to the city's economy.

marina-shore centre in the heart of our city wilt
draw international visitors and will open up the leisure
potential of the entire Kootenay country,” added Dirks.

William Harvey, representing the developers, said his
company may also include hotel facilities in the de-
velopment, depending on the results of a tourism study.

He also noted that his firm has developed similar
waterfront projects elsewhere and has demonstrated that it
is capable of carrying the project through completion.

said the Act is a “quantum leap forward” in addressing
environmental issues.

“[ have had an ongoing interest in environmental
issues going back to 1974. For example, I can recall in the
mid-1970s when the government of Canada, and the then
minister of national health and welfare, Mare Lalonde,
were persuaded to fund a study into the effects of lead
fallout on the residents of Trail,” said Brisco.

He added that study was prompted by prior research
that determined lead poisoning affected the bone
structure and general health of some horses —
particularly foals.

“However, halfway through the study the govern.
ment decided not to fund it any longer. It was through my
efforts, supported by Local 480 of the Steelworkers
Union and Dr. Smith the public health officer, that Marc
Lalonde, who. is difficult to persuade at any time, was
persuaded to complete this important study,” said Brisco.

Brisco, who worked as a chiropractor before being
elected to Parliament, said he could recall seeing patients
in his Trail office who worked at Cominco whose teeth
suffered from erosion because of acid in the air and in the
zine plant.

“I saw people with holes through the nasal septum
big enough to put a gold ring through as a result of tissue
erosion.

[have a constituent who is a victim of paint spray in

Brisco supports act

By CasNews Staff

Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco says the Canadian
Environmental Protection Act should be passed and
declared law. In a recent speech in the Commons Brisco

a body shop he owns. We cannot even find out what the
chemistry is that is causing the problem because the
company producing the paint does not want to tell us. Yet
he has respi y
dermatitis, psychological impact, and all ‘kinds of other
ities which he had never had before. He has lost
lity to work in his profession,” said Brisco.

He added that a “significant group” of his con-
stituents have been concerned about the spraying of
herbicides and pesticides by the B.C. Forest Service, CP
Rail, Burlington Rail and the provincial Highways
Ministry.

“It is important to all of us that we get a handle on
this. It is in that context that this bill addresses such a
multitude of subjects. It is a bill of such scope and
dimension that I do not think any of us truly appreciate it
at this stage,” said Brisco.

He added that the “magnitude of environmental
issues today boggles the mind.”

“Canada has been recognized at the table of the
United Nations and is in the forefront on concerns for the
environment. I thank God for that. There are simple
answers. This is a very complex subject ranging from
dioxin to the ozone layer to the food chain and to a host of
new chemistry about which we do not, as yet, know a
thing.

“All of those will require the very close scrutiny of
the government | of Canada this act, the Fish-
eries Act, control by the Department of
Agriculture, and the Ocean Dumping Control Act,” said,»
Brisco.

Fleet grounded

The Canadian Press
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ing this weekend's Grey ve football game in Van-

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n.

Tempers flare

By The Associated Press

Tempers flared Saturday among Cuban prisoners
holding 120 hostages at two U.S. federal prisons the
Cubans have controlled for nearly a week.

Frustrated authorities said they cut off water
supplies to try to end the stalemate.

One of the 1,100 Cubans inside,he Atlanta pen-
itentiary argued with another pribdmer by two-way
radio and said he is ready to kill some of the 94
captives. The rioting prisoners are protesting an
agreement between the United States and Cuba that
could return them to their homeland.

Election sought

MONTREAL (CP) — NDP Leader Ed Broadbent
challenged Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on
Saturday to call an immediate election on free trade.

Speaking to a convention of the party’s Quebec
wing, Broadbent vowed that such an election cam-
paign would be the tightest three-way race in
Canadian political history and said “I guarantee here
today that we will elect MPs from Quebec for the first
time.”

Hyundai pondering

SEOUL (AP) — Hyundai Motor Co. of South
Korea may have to consider reducing its investment in

auto plants under construction in Canada unless the_

Mulroney government lowers its high antidumping
duty imposed on Hyundai cars, the Yonhap news
agency reported Saturday.

Yonhap quoted unidentified South Korean
business sources as saying that Hyundai's consider-
ation of a scale-down of its investment in Canada will
be the “last resort,” adding that its present primary
objective is to get Canada to reverse or modify its high
anti-dumping rate.

Iranian warning

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Iran's president, Ali
Khamenei, said Saturday Iranian forces would conduct
a opeenny strike against U.S. naval units in the

Gulf if Washington endangers ‘Tehran's
Foal interests.

“I declare that in order to confront the U.S. we
will not wait for it to strike at us first,” Khamenei was
quoted as saying by Iran's official IRNA news agency.
“If we feel that the U.S. is bent upon continuing its
provocative and mischievous acts or may try to
endanger our interests in the Persian Gulf, we will
certainly strike.”

Typhoon ravages ,

BITANO, Philippines (Reuter) — Hunger and
disease threaten parts of the Philippines ravaged by a
typhoon that killed at least 581 people, a senior
government official said Saturday.

“There's going to be a lot of hunger and a lot of
illnesses because the water is polluted,” Social Wel-
fare Secretary Mita Pardo de Tavera told reporters.

“There's always (a danger of) all kinds of
epidemics.”

Grenade hurled

SEOUL (AP) — A youth hurled a tear gas
grenade at government presidential candidate Roh
Tae-woo in the South Korean port of behon, outside
Seoul, on Saturday, but the grenade missed Roh and
did not go off.

"The incident came as thousands of riot policé
broke up anti-government demonstrations in Seoul

glanced off a Roh campaign aide, officials said.

Terrorist nabbed

LYON, France (Reuter) — Police arrested a left-
wing terrorist suspect after a shootout in Lyon late
Friday night, dealeg what ping said was a killer blow
to France's extremist A movement.

Police said Saturday 7 ie Max Frerot, often
described as France's most wanted man, was the last
important member of Action Directe at large since the
group's four suspected leaders were rounded up in

‘ebruary.

42 people killed

JAKARTA (Reuter) — At least 42 people were
killed and many more reported missing after an earth-
quake triggered landslides and a tidal wave on a
remote island in eastern Indonesia on Thursday,
officials reported Saturday.

A rescue official said a tidal wave he estimated at
some 50 metres high “just swept everything off the
coast.”

Hostages welcomed

PARIS (AP) — Two French hostages released by
Shiite Moslem kidnappers in Lebanon were welcomed
home Saturday by French Premier Jacques Chirac.

The warm reception for Jean-Louis Normandin,
96, a lighting engineer for the French Antenne-2 tele-
vision network, and freelance journalist Roger Auque,
81, was broadcast live by Antenne-2.

Scarlett in NDP race

Don Scarlett, sp
Eine Conners mention (.C-A) ha sound

are our heritage anil we've got to ensure that they
benefit our people, rather than American shareholders,

Canadian unity and to our future as an independent nation,

My efforts on behalf of the E.C.A, involved me heavily in

energy policy, economic Sree as leenl comtrel + key

issues in the upcoming federal election.”

Since his move to Kaslo from Vancouver in 1972,
director, municipal

and founding
Lake NDP Club. He is also active in the district Economic
Development Committee and the peace movement.
“As a small businessman and employer working in the
and service industry, I know the tough
economic’ situation in the Kootenays intimately,” he said.
“Yet wealth continually flows out of the area. Canada’s

MOUNTAIN VIEW . . . Snow-capped
Sentinel poke through thick morning

ks of Mount
og near CP Rail

's free trade dea) has already cost us local control
‘of West-Kootenay Power and if it's not stopped we'll be
tenants in our own count
Searlett anid he believes his background and experience
Will be tmpertant anoots in Besting Wien thal aomplenities ot
resource, lic, social and policy.
Rkeermadiedpeet ia gs! Nirodbh a gestae
his constituents, rather than an. apologist for damaging

government policies. We need a strong and effective repre |

sentative in Ottawa — one who works for all his
constituents.

“People in this riding have been neglected and had their
wishes ignored. They need detailed information about what
is going on in Ottawa and their interests and wishes must be
fully supported back East.”

The E.C.A. spearheaded the effort to tape the
takeover of West Kootenay Power by the American
company, UtiliCorp.

Scarlett, a professional engineer, was prominent in the
peta ler tl eam geny

tracks in Raspberry. Though snow is on mountaintops,
it still hasn't reached Castlegar yet.
— Costtews Photo by Ron Necmen

FOR VANDER ZALM

Public support slipping

VANCOUVER (CP) — As Premier Ba Vander Zalm

More than half said they were dissatisfied with the

begins selling off some Crown
seve a onserheride pohokemee bets heclag pabhe

Labor representatives say the Pa should pase 2

of the Social Credit government while 43 per
cent said they were satisfied. Fifty-six per cent were dis-
satisifed with Vander Zalm’s performance, while 41 per cent
were satisifed.

message to the Social Credit g
privatization plans.

But Vander Zalm says the findings won't change the
program and he predicts his popularity will rise when the
public sees the results of the sell-off.

The poll commissioned by the Vancouver Sun indicates
respondents are divided over the government's privatization
program, but opposed to selling off highway maintenance
operat

tions.

It indicates that if an election was held today, the NDP
would win 31 per cent of the vote while the Socreds would
garner 27 per cent. The Liberal party would take four per
cent, 38 per cent are undecided and five per cent said they
wouldn't vote.

In the October 1986 provincial election, Social Credit
took 49.6 per cent of the popular vote, compared with 42.3
per cent for the NDP. The.Socreds now hold 46 seats in the
legislature, compared with 22 NDP, and there is one
Independent.

Ina May poll commissioned by the Sun, 44 per cent said
they were satisfied with the of the premier and
his government, while 50 per cent were dissatisifed.

“T'm not too concerned about these polls,” Vander Zalm
‘said Friday as he arrived on a flight from the first ministers
conference in Toronto.

section of Columbia Avenue
rd Street on the even-
af Nov. 3.

’s plans to sell off a number of Crown
®  orporations and services were opposed by 49 per cent,
while 44 per cent were in favor. Sixty-one per cent opposed
the sell-off of highway§,maintenance operations.

Vander Zalm government that shakés up the
status quo is bound to upset some people.

“People get upset when their territory is touched,” he
said. “But the people didn't elect a premier to @ poll. able
every time he wants to do something. They e! a leader
and if they don’t like him at the end of the term they can turf

public
highways maintenance won't make him
The benefits will show later, when “we'll probably have
$50 million for health care or such that we don’t have today
because of savings in privatization in highways.”

that asks people how. they would vote tomorrow is simply a
snapshot and can’t be taken seriously.

“What's the sense of jumping up and down and getting
parele 34 Oe Bie ine tae actin Oe ee

. . energy key issue

WILDLIFE
PROJECTS
TOUTED

OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government could
figuratively kill two birds with one stone if it accepted the

chairman Graham Kenyon of Rossland told the Commons
environment committee Thursday.

The foundation is already working along those lines
in British Columbia, using a combination of job-creation
funds and money from the province's Habitat Con-
servation Fund.

The habitat fund has been piling up money collected
ecg 0.50 serchares 950 Se ee

The surcharge ween about $1.5 million

paca
In early 1986, Kenyon’s group sdhtiea working with

sector.

Kenyon said that is not a great problem since most of
the projects his group has worked on would not have
been done by the provincial government.

Some of the foundation's work this year has included

fallen trees from fish steams; $27,400 to fertilize shrubs in
the white-tailed deer feeding areas of the East Kootenay
region and $69,786 to improve waterfowl habitats and

allocation of funds that are already

Bus service
one year old

man for B.C. Transit said

seat sale. Residents will be

‘able to ride the Bus for just
25 cents. The Regional Dis-
trict of Central Kootenay will
pick up the cost.

took the bus during its first
year in operation. A spokes-

Former area
resident dies

Dorothy Lavena Snowdon

“There's a great deal of and
towards privatization, and that's what we've been hearing
throughout said.

the province,”
“There's a negative feeling out there towards privatiza-
tion.”
The poll sends a strong message to Vander Zalm that he
should reatnaldiy Kia frivationtion plane, ould Jobe Obiell,
of the B.C. Employ
The Ssaackar Tee ct ia 360s eeaibers wid
be by the first stage of the government's
privatization program and has launched a campaign to fight
it.

“The Socreds have lost a lot of their basic support and
the results show people don't support the government's
policies,” said Shields.

‘The head of the B.C. Federation of Labor echoed
Shield's comments.

Cr (formerly of
Castlegar) passed away Nov.
26 at the age of 65.

Funeral service was held
Saturday at the Castlegar
Funeral Chapel with Pastor
Morley Soltys officiating.
Cremation followed with the
ashes to be buried in a family

plot at Park Memorial Cem-
etary at a later date. bows. She vos, prodeoniay
yy her parents and one
Mrs. Snowdon was born brother, John Read.
June 12, 1922 at Pincher Funeral arrangements
Creek, Alberta and grew up were under the direction of
fm the Coleman and Pincher the Castlegar
Station areas of Alberta. She Chapel.

John of Sparwood;. brother
Alfred Read of Richmond;
and many nieces and nep-

Funeral