SUMMER HOURS 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Saturday CLOSED Sundays & Holidays PH. 365-8155 1004 Columbia Ave., Castlegar WE ACCEPT WESTAR, CELGA & COMINCO MEAL TICKETS SO July 5, 1989 Garbage transforms ocean into sea of plastic WEST ADVOCATE, N.S. (CP) ~ Twice daily, the world’s highest tide powers up the Bay of Fundy like an ocean-going freight train, carrying the flotsam and félsam of the open sea, When Rhodes Dewis was a boy, the tide would litter the, beach with drif twood, lumber and the odd bottle or wooden box Today, its bounty is bing. nore distur “It's all plastic now," says Dewis, 81, as he stoops to pick up a plastic container from the stony beach behind his home. . PRODUCE EXPRESS Grand Forks Will be across from the Oglow Building Monday, Wednesday & Friday Fresh Strawberries PLUS OTHER FRESH PRODUCE AVAILABLE Sammer Tess ‘ Concerts tn the Park This Thursday, July 6 THE TRAVELLING MILLDOOIES Classic rock and roll performed by 10 very talented Grade 7 students trom Salmo Elementary School. Directed by Ray Yule * Free lunchtime concerts every Thursday © 12 noon to | p.m. at Kinsthen Park © Bring your tamily, lunch, and lawn chairs Sponsored by the Castlegar Arts Council with the co-operation of the Castlegar News and CKQR Radio along with the City of Castlegar ah the gene Seconds later, he retrieves a plastic bleach bottle and a few: lengths of nylon rope The haul is sizable. Dewis even finds @ note in a bottle that was dropped in the Salmon River, about 120 kilometres west. Debris pokes from the sand at regular intervals. It’s an unsettling sight, but nothing like the morning in April when locals found a metre-wide drift of garbage — almost all of it plastic — stretching as tar as the eye could see. “I've never seen anything like it and no one else around here has either,” says Dewis, a retired mechanic. ‘It was beyond your imagination “You talk about-your array of colors — there was any color you'd care to imagine.”” The debris stretched — eight kilometres and consisted” or almost every type of plastic product: from wash basins to oil containers, from disposable lighters to children’s toys. Workers filled over 2,000 garbage bags with the stuff, which experts say iad been concentrated and carried ashore by an odd combination of win. ds and tides. “We have an image in Canada among tourists and buyers of fish as having a cold, clean and blue ocean,’ says Richard Buxton, a Halifax lawyer and environmentalist. “That image is being tainted.”’ ING OVERBOARD Environmentalists at a recent inter- national seminar in Halifax said oceans’ have become wastebins for tonnes of plastic dumped daily by commercial fishermen, military vessels, merchant and cruise ships, pleasure boats, offshore drilling plat- forms and sewage plants They. estimated five million plastic containers are thrown into the world’s oceans each day Some scientists believe plastic is the most serious man-made threat to many species of marine animals, annually killing an estimated one million seabirds and 100,000 marine mam- mats: Among cases cited at the seminar on ocean debris was that of a juvenile hawksbill turtle on a Hawaii beach which had swallowed plastic bags, a golf tee, a comb, fishing line, a plastic flower and dozens of small piects of plastic The sea turtle had ingested a tenth of its five-kilogram body weight in plastic FUTURE IN THEIR HANDS . . . Elysia Samarodin, Aaron Donol@e and Jared Zappavigna try out the latest fire-fighting equipment as part f a B.C. Forest Service fire protection demonstration at Robson school. continued trom yo cl Opening the doors to Hong Kong investment has not been without its problems. One of Lo’s competitors in the apparel business said the new influx of factories has caused labor shor tages, particularly of skilled seamstresses Jansen, is something governmeni can help resolve by **making changes in our educational system’’ to provide skilled labor LOCALS WORRY Local business people have several worries about what has been called the Hong Kong invasion, said Bar ter of Price Waterhouse. They worry about whether the better educated Hong Kong immigrants will nose them and their children out of future business opportunities, he said Canadian business must learn to * Hong Kong way of doing business, he said plug ih’ to the “You've got to learn it yourself or bring the skills in That, says adapt by hiring people of Asian background Hong Kong business people are also told they must ‘We always tell people to become more aware of Canadian business practices,”’ Jansen said Recent incidents, such as the outcry over a Hong Kong developer selling out a Vancouver condominium tices, he said “About 24 per cent of Canadians under 30 have Asia. some university education compared with 54 per cent of Canadians of Asian background. It’s even higher with the people coming from Hong Kong “They've not coming here to be gardeners,”’ he said. Many of the new arrivals are doctors, lawyers, ac countants and other professionals ‘It’s just somebody else competing with us to buy a company or start upa joint venture," he said The difference in-business practices is ariother area that concerns Canadian business people, said Graham Johnson, a University of British Columbia sociologist said. * who has written books on China. In Hong Kong, much business is done through family networks and often over tea and snacks at tea houses, said Johnson. Columbia. Lt.-Gov project in Hong Kong before it was offered to Canadians, show the need to be sensitive to local prac Michael Goldberg, head of the provincial gover nment’s International Finance Centre of fice, is unrelen tingly upbeat about the flow of money and talent from “They're going to be bringing with them business connections with Asia and that is going to give us up- tions we didn’t have before, economist who is on leave from University of British says Goldberg, an urban David Lam, who came to Canada 20 years ago from Hong Kong and made a fortune in real estate, has been particularly votal in urging British Columbians to accept the new immigrants The most important benefit is brain power." Lam Capital comes second It’s the difference between what | call live wealth and dead wealth. 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Ws vee ne N Diann Battle for butting out faces big opposition VICTORIA (CP) thovement afoot to get the hacks out of British Columbia politics hacks thatis Russ Fraser, a Social Credit back- bencher trom Vancouver who butted There's a smokers’ go, is trying to convince his colleagues to **get the jelly out of and pass his private mem- ber’s bill to: ban smoking in the our jeans legisiature It’s gotten a good response," says the jovial Fraser, a former cabinet minister now sitting on the back bench. tlt would be simple to do and be better tor everyone But butting out, a notion making headway, if provincial legislatures around the country, has an impressive list of foes within the B.C. cabinet Premier Bill Vander Zalm, often seen walking through the hallways with his pipe in hand, doesn’t favor a ban on smoking in ghe legislature 1 don’t think} there's thusiasm for it, much en he said, holding out his pipe to show where his loyalties lie Claude Richmond, the Socred house leader, thinks Fraser’ bill is doomed “If L were a betting man I wouldn’t put any money on it,” he said The biggest Socred hardliner when it comes to preserving smokers’ rights is Solicitor General Angus Ree who has puted through about 1: packs a day or more than 40 years, DRAWS COMPARISON Ex-smokers are more virtuous than retormed hooker he said, pill while indulging ina long drag trom a cigarette in an emply stairwel he Socred caucus room, smokers Jy contined to a corner beside nachine and an open win: help clear the air. There is no smoking allowed in the chamber itself Ok to smoke,” says everybody 1s down power in Canada ming increasingly ors will have to forgo smoking in the House of Commons by ne middle of August, but MPs will still smoke in their ot tices The Ontano beablet legislature is to ban smoking throughout the building by he end of June, although no penalties will be imposed on those who sneak a smoke PAINTING & DECORATING cas? AVENUE a L_FORD |] Fleming Gary Kootnikoft July 5, 1989 Selkirk College graduates Os > eve ite peters 1d Gradvates of Selkirk Coll a cla: icture June 2. Th ‘eresa Howell of Rossland, Lynne Johnson of Penticton, Sandra Wo: Yardley of Vernon, Karen Black of Trail, Karen Ballard of Nakusp, Summerland, Marie nine-month social service worker program gathered for d. L the includ (Back row, left nm of Vernon, instructor Nancy Ketchum, Carol Ru: Faith Cullen of Slocan Park , D§bi Quinn of Vernon, Elizabeth Vo) l, instructor Phyllis Nash, Nadine Chernenkott in of Pas: y! Castlegar. Front row, from loft: Elizabeth Weibe, Jackie White, and Tammy Bolchewski of Castlegar, Doris Bagot of Nelson, Shelly Dobos of Courtenay, Doborah Rondolat of Nelson, Dave Coughlan of Maple Ridge, Brian Foy of Trail, and Doran Pearson of Kimberley. d is Ada Robichaud of Salmo. Not p Births & Funerals BIRTHS APEL — To Kirsten and George Apel of Castlegar, a girl, born July | CALLSEN To Beverly and Lors Calisen of Castlegar, a boy, born June 30. DONALDSON — To Bonnie and Bruce Donaldson of Fruitvale, o girl, born June 9. EHL — To Carol and Tom Ehl, @ boy, born June 23. GLADDISH/NORN — To Cindy Gladdish ‘and James Norn of Fruitvale, a girl, born June 8 HENKE — To Bev and Gerry Henke of Fruitvale, a girl, born June 19. HOODICOFF — To Nina and Sandy Hoodicolt of Blueberry Creek, a boy born June |} INFANTI — To Antoinette and Danie! in. fanti of Fruitvale, a boy, born June 18. JACKSON — To David ond Deborah Jackson of Castlegar, a girl, born June 2 KLINKHAMMER — To Leslie and Donald Klinkhommer of Spokan: oy, born June 23. DEATHS ANDERSON — Arthur Edward Anderson ot Nelson died June 22 in St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver at age 77. He is survived by his wife Jean; son and daughter-in-law Wally and Corol of Cranbrook; granddaughters and dsons-in-law Barbara and Dale Waich of ‘and David Pocha hree great-grandsons several brothers and sisters and their families; and numerous nephews and cousins. nieces CLARKE — Vernon Arthur Clarke of Cranbrook died June 9 at the age of 49. Mr. Clarke is survived by his wite Marlene; father Clifford; sons and daughters-in-law Gregory and Shoron of Kelowna and Jason and Nicolo of Cranbrook; daughter and son-in-law Melanie and Craig Lintott of North Van. couver; grandchildren Myles and Pem: brooke Clarke; brothers and sisters-in laws Cecil and Jill of Tsawwassen and George and Laura of New Westminster sisters Eunice (ond husband Dean) Woronuk of Nelson and Janet of Ot. towa, CHERRINGTON — Mabel Cherrington died June 11 at Trail Regional Hospital She was 76. Mrs. Cherrington is survived by her two sons, Earl of Victoria and Keith and his wife Jean of Castlegar; grandchildren; and one great-grand- child. She was predeceased by her husband Bert in 1983. DALLY — Charlotte F. Dally, @ former Trail resident, died in White Rock at the Peace Arch Hospital June 1. She was 84. Mrs. Dally is survived by her daughter Doreen and husband Thomas Clifford of Reno, Nevada; daughter-in-law Elaine Dally of Nanaimo; sister Elizabeth Tigor of Summerland; eight grandchildren: jar; son and doughter-in-law and Ellen Moore of Whitehorse; two granddaughters and three great grandchildren MaclEAN — John C. Maclean, a former Cominco executive, died June 18 in Spokane. He is survived by his wife Mary Louise; daughter Dawn Martin of Terrace; sons Terry of Tumbler Ridge. Grant of Spokane and Ross of Elko; and six grandchildren. OLISOFF — Allen Alexander (Griz) Olisolt of Slocan Park died June 25 in four great-g) ‘and other relatives and friends. She wa: predeceased by her husband Stewart in 1970 and son Robert in 1978. FITZGERALD Marie (Ericksen) Fit. igerald of Nelson died June 25 at age 96. She is survived by her daughi at age 42. He is survived by his wife Mary; daughters Laura ‘and Alanna; son Al ‘one grandson: ‘and numerous friends and family SALEKIN — Charles Salekin of Castlegar died June 24 at age 70. He is survived by his wife Elena of Castlegar; sons Fred of Robson, Charles of Nelson and Jim of West Robson; daughters Dorothy Shelfontivk of Beasley and Elizabeth Postnikoff of Fruitvale; eight gran dchildren; four great-grandchildren sister Mary Zaytsolt of Pass Creek; and brother Bill Salekin of Robson SNYDER — Maurice Arlington Snyder of Nelson died June | at age 68. He is sur vived by his wite Doris; daughter Bonnie Turner of Nelson; sister Viola Doolittle of Franktord, Ont.; brother Wilmot Snyder of Yarker, Ont. WRIGHT — Joy Wright of Warfield died June 27 at age 77. 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