w4 Wednesday, May 6,1992. Thieves collect sports cards Jonathan Green NEWS REPORTER Thieves in Castlegar did their dirty work at the Castleaird Plaza early Tues- day morning. Castlegar Sports Cards and Supplies and Bel Air Barber Shop were both broken into, and both suffered losses. “The cleanup crew was here last night,” said card store owner George Perepolkin. Perepolkin’s son, Willie, said he received a call from lo- cal RCMP just after 3 a.m. Tuesday and arrived at the store to find most of the stock intact, with a few exceptions. Willie said that numerous boxes and sets of Upper Deck hockey and basketball cards had gone missing. The Upper Deck cards are from the 1991 and 1992 series. He also said two years worth of O-Pee- Chee premier hockey cards had been stolen. “They knew what they were going after,” Willie said. “When you know what you’re taking, you just load up and you're gone.” As well, a glass case of valu- able and popular cards was emptied. George said the incident hasn’t left him with ideas about closing. “As far as what happened here last night, no,” he said, adding that he expects insur- ance to cover his losses. “These things happen to the best of people and they happen to the worst of people.” Const. Mark Williams of the Castlegar RCMP estimat- ed the sports card store’s loss- es to be about $5,000. Losses -Y to Bel Air Barber Shop, mean- while, totalled about $50 in cash and a collection of some 20 smoking pipes from around the world. Williams believes the two crimes are related, but said the RCMP have no leads or News photo by Jonathan Green George Perepolkin looks over his glass case which was emptied by thieves who made off with a healthy supply of Upper Deck and O-Pee-Chee sports cards. Folding Rear Seat. TEST DRIVE ONE TODAY! # OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE! UNBELIEVABLE MILEAGE! 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Defence attorneys seek dismissal of Celgar pulp case B@ Rossland court will decide fate of waste charges on May 25 Jonathan Green NEWS REPORTER Celgar Pulp Co. and one of its contractors were in court Tuesday for an alleged inci- dent that took place over two years ago. Power Consolidated (Chi- na) Pulp Ltd. and CITIC B.C. Inc., Celgar’s owners, are charged with six counts each under the provincial Waste Management Act, and one count each under the Federal Fisheries Act. H.A. Simons, a consulting firm working for Celgar at the time of the alleged incident, is charged with three counts un- der the Waste Management Act and one count under the Federal Fisheries Act. Scott David Harrison EDITOR The Coalition Unaccept- ing Rash Bureaucracy is get- ting what it wants — a reply. One week into CURB’s controversial public opinion poll, vice president Walter Flux said the response has been encouraging. “People seem to agree with us, at least that’s what the ballots have said,” he said Tuesday. The poll Flux referred to concerns the relocation of the public works yard. CURB says the $875,000 ex- penditure should be put off, arguing that the timing and location are wrong. Ignored by Castlegar city council, CURB took its fight to the newspapers last week, pub- lishing a cut-away question- naire. To date, Flux said 127 of 133 counted ballots have sided with CURB, rejecting the industrial park reloca- tion and the expenditure. He said two ballots were cast in favor of the project, while another four were ruled Defence lawyer John Car- penter said Judge Donald Sperry has delayed a decision on the trial until May 25 te consider both sides’ requests. “The defence applied to have the charges stayed due to the delay in the trial,” he said. “The Crown said there was no legal or factual basis to that application.” Carpenter said Sperry could rule three different ways in Rossland. “He can dismiss the appli- cation, he can grant the apyii- cation, or he can make some order in-between,” he said. The charges stem from an alleged unauthorized effluent discharge into the Columbia River on April 23, 1990. The maximum fine under the Waste Management Act is $1 million per count, while the penalty under the Fisheries Act is $5,000 on each count. Wi Lasca protesters take fight to Nelson government building Wilderness Area,” she said. The group says it will occupy the building Jonathan Green and Scott David Harrison NEWS REPORTERS Environmentalists concerned with logging at Lasca Creek have taken their show back to Nelson. Tuesday morning, some 60 protesters showed up at ' during the day and the outside area around the clock for four days. District Manager Al Bradley said the pro- testers were already on site when he arrived Kootenay Lake Forest - District Office, seven kilometres north of Nelson, to show the B.C. government what they thought of area lo; ‘We feel we’ve been sold out on any meaningful community input.’ — protester Cara Bouland geing. In March, Environ- ment Minister John Cashore and Forests Minister Dan Miller made a joint announce- ment that deferred logging at Hasty Creek for 24 months, but allowed road building to con- message across. tinue at Lasca Creek with logging to begin in the fall of 1993. Unhappy with that decision, protesters set up a tepee on the lawn of the government building in Nelson, and then fol- lowed that by blocking road building efforts by Dosenbeger Excavating at Lasca Creek. Spokesperson Cara Bouland said the group is trying to send a message to the province. “The message is that we want a 24 month deferral in Lasca Creek and the West Arm for work Tuesday morning. He added that past actions by environmentalists prompted him to keep the office door locked. “In light of the element that exists among them, if they occupied our office they could do some damage,” he said. Bradley said he spoke with the pro- testers for about an hour, but didn’t feel he got anywhere. “IT don’t think they did much listening,” he said. 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