A2 } CastlegarNews May 1, 1991 , BRIEFLY News Services Flood watch begins The B.C. Environment Ministry's water management division has Started a flood watch along the province's main river and lake systems, including the upper Columbia and upper Kootenay rivers, as spring rains and melting snow raise water levels. Personnel from the Provincial Emergency Program, Ministry of Environment, and Ministry of Transportation and Highways are on standby to deal with any flood problems as they occur, the Environment Ministry said in a news release. Arrangements are in place to issue early warnings to communities and rural residents if water appears likely to reach dangerously high levels, the ministry says. The flood threat is caused mainly by melting of higher-than- average mountain snowpacks and seasonal rainfall, the ministry said. Snow on mid-level in slopes, which ly would have melted earlier, is adding to water flow in some areas. Weather conditions govern the rate of runoff, with cooler temperatures likely to slow the melt, the ministry said, Pipeline expands Westcoast Energy will spend $1 billion on capital improvements during the next three years with the bulk of it on pipeline expansion; president Michael Phelps said Tuesday. The company currently transports 400 billion cubic feet of gas annually. Phelps told the company’s annual meeting that market demand has been forecast at 600 billion cubic feet by 1995. Phelps said Westcoast plans to transport about 230 billion cubic feet a year into a growing domestic natural gas market that will include the addition later this year of Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast northwest of Vancouver. Expo clean up starts The B.C, government has already spent’ $6 million figuring out how to clean up the contaminated soil on the Expo 86 site in downtown Vancouver. Now it’s going to spend $20 million to $60 million more to finish the job, Environment Minister Dave Mercier, appointed two weeks ago, said Tuesday in announcing the start of the clean-up. The 82.5-hectare False Creek site is contaminated with a century of industrial waste, including coal tar, gasoline, diesel fuel, motor oil, wood preservatives and heavy metals. Ministry official Jon O'Riordan confirmed it will be at least two years before a B.C. hazardous waste facility can handle 90,000 cubic metres of the most heavily contaminated Expo soils. RCMP warn car owners Castlegar RCMP have issued a warning against leaving valuable items in vehicles after receiving seven reports of car thefts. Police said the thieves ‘‘are quite adept’’ at getting into locked vehicles so items of value should be removed where possible. Stanley Humphries secondary school music students hit the streets Saturday The students picked up 175 bags of trash from local neighborhoods while soliciting funds for a trip to Vancouver to see a showing of The Phantom of the Ope: for their normal annual ‘Litterathon.’ Crestbrook expands into Alberta By CasNews Staff Crestbrook Forest Industries Ltd. has joined forces with MC Forest In- vestment Inc. and Kanzaki Paper Canada Inc. for the, production of pulp in the province of Alberta, a news release said. The $1.3 billion project will be financed by a, ination of debt The announcement comes less than two weeks after Crestbrook an- nounced it was permanently closing its lumber and veneer operations in Creston, citing losses of $4 million for each of the last three years. MCFI, a 35 per cent participant, is a Canadian subsi of Mitsubishi and equity, with debt financing by Canadian and international banks and the Government of Alberta. Crestbrook, a 40 per cent par- ticipant, harvests the forest resources of the Kootenay region and is a fully integrated forest products company. It directly employs over 1,350 people in logging, lumber, veneer, plywood and bleached kraft pulp operations, the release said. Finance minister expects recovery to continue OTTAWA (CP) — An economic rebound in February is another sign the country is headed for a summer recovery, Finance Minister Don Mazankowski said Tuesday. Service industries such as finance, following seven years of expansion. insurance, real estate and retailing “There seems to be some im- picked up in February to halt a in three-month slide in the Canadian There seems to be improvement in economy, Statistics Canada reported. housing sales and a little more im- Gross domestic product — the provement in the investment sector,” value of all goods and services Mazankowski said on his way to a produced — was unchanged cabinet meeting. following a revised, 1.2 per cent But he said improvements will plunge in January. depend on controlling inflation, But the economy did not grow which now is more than six per cent, either. Canadian factories were still so interest rates can get even lower. stuck in a deep slump and Statistics In Washington, the U.S. Federal Canada indicated the economy Reserve board stepped up its fight remained far from the point of against the recession and lowered a recovery. key short-term interest rate by one- But Mazankowski told reporters: half point, a move that could allow “‘We have seen some signals that more room for interest rate cuts in would lead us to believe that there is Canada. some proinise . . . in the very near Economists said there was little to future.”’ cheer about in February, which only He said the government should be looked good after a disastrous budget that growing again by mid-year. The Canadian economy has beeh able to meet a forecast in the Feb. 26 the economy will be in a deep slump since April 1990 January. The economy was savaged early this year by the introduction of the goods and services tax and uncertain- ty about the Persian Gulf War. “Anyway you slice it, it’s not good news,’’ said economist Mike McCracken of Informetrica Ltd. “It may only be a mild pause on the ride down,"’ he added: Statistics Canada said the service sector improved by 0.7 per cent, while companies produced 1.4 per cent fewer goods in February than the month before. Cor » @ major worldwide trading company. KPC, a 25 per cent participant, is a subsidiary of Kan- zaki Paper Mfg. Co., Ltd., Japan, a world-scaled, major producer of fine Paper, the release said. Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Crestbrook will operate the forest Products complex of behalf of the joint venturers. The 1,500-tonne per day pulp project is located in northern Alber- ta. Production will be of high-quality hardwood and softwood pulps. Con- struction will begin immediately which will employ over 2,500 people. Start-up of production is scheduled for mid-1993. At capacity, annual sales will be approximately $500 million. About 1,100 direct jobs will be created by this investment. April's weather meets averages on record By CasNews Staff It appears April won't have to see a psychiatrist. With one exception Environment Canada’s Southeast Interior Weather office reported that the month of April was ‘‘very near normal”’ in all major weather related areas relative to past years. That exception was April 5 when a weather system produced strong local winds that resulted in fairly extensive landscape and property damage in the Pass Creek, Thrums and Slocan areas. But overall April was an average month with an average maximum temperature of 8.4C which was .5C above normal for the month while the average minimum temperature was .5C below normal. The record high temperature for April was set in 1980 when it got to 28.2. on the thermometer. The coldest April day on record occurred just a year earlier when it fell to -75. At 46.2mm, rainfall was 100 per cent of the 25-year average. There was 1.6 cm. of snowfall which was 78 per cent of normal. Precipitation fell on 14 days, one more than the average. There was 183.4 hours of sunshine during the month which is a little better than eight hours more than normal. The brightest April on record was in 1977 when there was 230.6 hours of sunshine. Public servants march at hill OTTAWA (CP) — Two MPs lent their support to more‘than a 1,000 public servants who marched on Parliament Hill today chanting slogans and carrying protest signs. Liberal MP Marlene Catterall, the public service critic, told the Revenue Canada auditors and computer COURT NEWS Programmers they should stand up for their rights because the gover- nment is bargaining in bad faith. Revenue Canada auditors walked off their jobs on the deadline for filing income tax returns in a series of rotating strikes and work-to-rule actions. The union says the public should take interest in their work slowdowns. They claim a work-to- rule campaign in the last round of In Castlegar provincial court, Steven Cecconi Ritson was fined $100 for driving without due care and attention. * 8 6 Phyllis Gwen Walsh was sentenced to three days in jail, to be served in- Tributes continued from front page cessful bargaining unit at the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. (Cominco smelter) in Trail. **Ginger Goodwin was a man much ahead of his time,’’ Doerkson said. “*He paid the price with his life. People who started the labor movement in this country put their lives on the line every time they went out there. And Ginger Goodwin becomes a real shining star when you look at the kind of things he did. Doerson said the park idea is ‘tone of the mos termittently, for impaired driving. Walsh is prohibited from driving for ‘one year. “ 8 « Gary Fhomas Batting was fined $300 for driving without due care and attention. Batting is prohibited from driving for three months. in 1988 cost the gover- nment $180 million in revenue that would have been taken from tax cheaters and corporations. Both groups, members of the Professional Institute of the Public Service, have been without contracts for a year and in a legal strike position for several months. New Democrat MP Dave Barrett, former premier of British Columbia, told the crowd one reason he left the B.C. civil service and entered politics was because of a lack of rights for government employees. He accused the government of spending more than $1! billion hiring contract employees without adequate supervision of costs while nickle and diming public servants. Union spokesman Steve Hindle told the crowd that last weekend Treasury Board offered the com- puter programmers a contract of almost four years with annual pay increases of 2.6 per cent. That. drew a long chorus of boos. The public servants later marched On Treasury Board offices, about six blocks away from the Hill. LOTTERIES ‘These are the winning numberrs for Lorro #/@ Apett 27 14, 19, 20, 27, 40, 45 Bonus! 11 Extra Apel 27 40, 35, 99, 66 LoTTo-8c ApettZ 14, 15, 17, 23, 32, 34 EXPRESS Apel 27 801191, 834980, 888763, 942822. PROVINCIAL $5,000 — 1059806, 1820310,2048524, 2063449, 2347228, 2351092, (2431028, 2817914, 3365382, 3470070, 3493270, 4081001, 4211449, 4319049, 4392548, 4993492, 4523751 BC KENO Apett 29 4, 6,9, 22, 24, 43, 44, 52 3, 5, 6, 10, 16, 39, $0, 6 Apeit 26 40, 14, 16, 18, 21, 22, 35, 30 published and }One provided by the B.C. Lottery Corporation, the latter shall prevail Canada closing to retirees TORONTO (CP) — The federal government plans to make it more difficult for some retirees to settle in Canada in favor of admitting younger applicants with job skills, a Toronto newspaper reported Mon- day. The Immigration Department plans to abolish as of June 30 a provision that allows retired people to come to Canada if they're able to support themselves financially, says the Toronto Globe and Mail. The move — outlined in a memo obtained by the Globe — was criticized by an immigration lawyer who said it could lead to less invest- ment capital coming into the coun- try. “It’s a foolhardy decision,”’ said Mendel Green of Toronto, “‘Many people over the age of 55 have come itno Canada under the retirement category with large- amounts of money and have invested it in the economy.”” In 1990, an estimated 3,500 people were admitted to Canada in the retirement category. The memo says the program was introduced primarily to allow people born in Canada who subsequently became citizens of other countries to return, But only four per cent of the 7,000 people who apply éach year under the program are native-born Canadians. The memo said closing the im- migration category favoring elderly applicants with capital ‘‘thereby applicants with skills.’’ West K , Brent Ronald Id House, in Children's Charities. da very special visitor at the fish tank in ly. Brent, 5, from Trail, named the fish for Kurt three-time world figure skating champion, who visited the house before performing in the McDonald's Stars on Ice show which helped raise more than $109,000 for Ronald McDona! 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Pritchard is also serving his second year as president of Big Brothers of British Columbia, a community involvement he says provides him with a great deal of personal H.A. SIMONS LTD. has appointed a construction manager to Celgar Pulp Co’.s $700- Celgar said. the release said. million expansion and modernization project. Cathal Fox, a professional engineer, will be resp- onsible for quality assurance and overall coordination of contract work at the mill, a news release from H.A. Simons is the project engineering company for the Celgar project. Originally from Ireland in 1976, Fox, his wife and two daughters came to Castlegar from Port Mellon, B.C. where he had similar responsi! i mill modernization project. The family has bought a home in Castlegar in anticipation of a two-year stay, LENORA STAUFFER of Grand Forks snapped first place and $200 in B.C, Agriculture’s magazine's second annual photo contest. Stauffer’s photo of a log cabin, one of the oldest buildings in the area, is part of the original homestead on her ranch, the magazine said. IMP rebuffs U.S. monetary policy Interest rates shouldn't be lowered WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada, Germany and Japan have warned against premature cuts in world in- terest rates, saying easy money could cause a serious setback in the fight against inflation and imperil recovery. The United States pressed its case for lower rates during a meeting Monday of the policymaking -com- mittee of the International Monetary Fund, conterding freeing up credit would be the best way to restart the engines of growth. But U.S. officials were rebuffed on that point in an earlier. gathering of the Group of Seven industrialized countries and ran into more skep- ticism at the fund’s meeting. Don Mazankowski, appointed Canadian finance minister last week, said interest rates will fall if prices remain stable and should not be ar- tificially cut at the risk of fanning in- flation. “Inevitably, there will be public pressure over the coming months for industrial countries to take more aggresssive action collectively to provide policy stimulus,’ he said in his statement to the meeting. “The reasoning is seductive,’’ he said, but “‘the lessons of the last 20 years teach us that this temptation must be resisted.”” German Finance Minister Theo Waigel added: ‘‘Quick fixes to push growth would collapse as they did in the 1970s."” And Japanese’ Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said Japan has intention of ing monetary Sunday to promote his strategy for lower interest rates, which U.S. of- ficials see.as vital to speed economic transformation in Eastern Europe and aid post-war reconstruction in the Middle East, not to mention spur demand for U.S. exports. The U.S. economy, making up a quarter of the world’s output, is still capable of dragging the international economy down if the domestic recession deepens, they said. France and many debt-burdened Third World countries supported the U.S. call for lower rates. Britain, despite its serious recession, was among the skeptics. The G-7 meeting resulted in a policy,’ which is geared toward con- taining inflationary pressures. U.S. President George Bush called G-7 officials to the White House on growth with price stability,” a deliberately vague phrase Mazankowski and others repeated like a mantra to disguise differences during the series of high-level IMF and World Bank talks that end today. In his more pointed statement, Mazaakowski said ‘‘Easier money would drive short-term nominal and real interest rates down for a time but at the expense of higher long- term nominal and real interest rates.’* -- He said deficit-reduction is essen- tial to tame interest rates and provide durable growth. i teft Wi before the release of Ontario’s bud- get, in which a province representing ‘about 40 per cent of the Canadian economy is planning to. triple its deficit this year to more than $9.7 billion. 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The memorial project, valued at $173,000 has received some $40,000 in cash donations and pledges for an additional $73,000. c Project co-ordinator and labor council vice- president Dominic Isernia said the provincial gover- nment pledged a grant of $15,000 from the GO B.C. fund and $18,000 from the Heritage Trust fund. Local uhions donated $8,000 to the project, with a further $1,500 from provincial labor councils. The park is expected to open for Labor Day this year. ‘Cominco Ltd. in Trail has promised to provide the bronze and the use of its foundry for a statue of 1992," which coincides with the National Day of Mourning. Money continued from front page pleted the si hs resi y million and $2 billion, after draining required to vote. NDP finance critic Glen Clark suggested the Socreds are trying to divert attention from the large deficit Finance Minister. Mel Couvelier is expected to announce when the B.C. budget is brought down May 16. 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