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News Staff

Socreds’ fax running at full-speed

Rossland-Trail Social Credit candidate Walter Siemens
may not be ding all the all didates forums in the
riding but his campaign office is busy faxing news releases
to local media sketching his positions on local issues.

A sampling from the latest batch: <
* Siemens says he isn't using plastic
lawn signs in response to public concerns
about the environment.
“These signs simply end up filling land-
fill sites following a very short lifetime,
i and the plastic and cardboard and wood (or
# metal) components take a long time to
biodegrade,” Siemens said. ;
“In keeping with our policy of protecting
the environment the large four-by-eight
(foot) signs we will use are fully recyclable
and in fact some of the signs we are'using
are recycled from the 1986 campaign.
————————__ * Lower power costs “should be a rea-
sonable consideration” to help attract new industries to the
Interior. i
“If new industry is to locate in our area and provide
much-needed jobs for young people, incentives must be pro-
vided to help offset the cost of doing business in the Interi-
or,” Siemens said. : ee:

He said he had a recent di ion with Energy
Jack Weisgerber who agreed “a discounted hydro rate
should be a reasonable consideration for industries and
business locating near the source of power generation.

Added Siemens: “Cominco is the best example we have of
an industry locating near the source of cheap power and we
must protect this idea of low cost power at the source of pro-
duction so others can create new industries and jobs.

© “Additi power g tion can be di lop d in our
immediate region without the possibility of environmental
damage,” Siemens says. :

“West Kootenay Power and Light has been working on a
proposal in cooperation with B.C. Hydro to upgrade the
Waneta and Brilliant dams, [and] using modern technology,
increased power production is very realistic and environ-
mentally safe,” he adds.

“We must like West Ki a Pow-
er to proceed with these types of energy creating projects.

* Two local Socred polls show that the environment tops
the list of issues and cleaning up the Columbia River was
the biggest concern of voters whether they live in Trail or
Castlegar (spelled “Castelgar” in the news release). ;

The polls also show voters appear to be satisfied with the
progress being made by Celgar’s and Cominco’s moderniza-
tion plans “and in effect the end result will be a cleaner riv-
er,” Siemens says.

Price pedals her nomination papers

Riding in on a mountain bike, Rossland-
Trail Green party candidate Angela Price
filed her nomination papers Monday at a
government office in Trail.

The Rossland resident said she had two
messages to deliver in opting for that par-
ticular type of transportation.

“First, Rossland considers itself the
mountain bike capital of Canada and I
wanted to promote tourism,” Price said

“And second, I have a bumper sticker
stuffed in the exhaust pipe of my car that ;
reads ‘Acid Rain Kills.’ What I'm trying to do during my
campaign is, as much as possible, to use public transport or
alternative transport because, you know, acid rain kills.

Teachers to host candidates
The Cast) d District Teachers Association is spon-
soring an all-candidates meeting Oct. 15 at 4 :30 p.m. at the
Fireside Motor Inn in Castlegar.

Walter
Slemens

Angela Price

independent
voice for the
Kootenays.

For more information or to get involved, call:
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Socred sees Green bias

@ Walter Siemens says he
avoided Trail environmental
forum because it was a
platform for the Green party

Thomas Bink
NEWS REPORTER

Walter Siemens, Social Credit
candidate for the Rossland-Trail
riding, said he didn’t attend last
week's environmental forum in
Trail because it was just a Green
party platform.

“If the leader of the Green par-
ty wants me to go to her forum,
then maybe I'll invite her to mine,”
Siemens told The News.

cation department in Trail and
Green party candidate Angela
Price prior to her announcement
that she would run for the party
in Rossland-Trail.

“But we had an indication a
long time ago that she would run,”
said Siemens, who decided to go to
ah rights inar ii d
and sent campaign media rela-
tions director Paul Johnston to
take his place on the panel in

Trail. :

“I like the idea ofa more open
forum,” Siemens said. “Not ones
sponsored by special interest
groups where the audience has
pretty well made up their minds
on the issues going in.”

Chris D’Arcy said they had no
problem with the forum.

“I think it was a good initia-
tive,” D’Arcy said. “It’s a very im-
portant issue to people.”

Conroy agreed.

“It didn’t bother me,” he said. “I
had no problem talking to those
people. They have legitimate con-
cerns.

Price said she was disappointed
Siemens decided not to attend.

“If Walt has concerns with lis-
tening and talking to the public
about important issues like the
environment and education then
something is wrong,” she said.

Price added that she told John-
ston that she would accept an in-

The forum was ized by
Selkirk College's continuing edu-

Alliance
keeping
eye on
road

Thomas Bink
NEWS REPORTER
Members of the Slocan Valley
We hed Alliance itori
the progress of a logging road near
Hasty Creek have found leaking
trucks, tire tracks through areas
of water seepage and improper
slope cutting, the group’s
i said Mond

Parking tickets
Statistics for the
City of Castlegar
during August
and for the year
to date (last
year's figures in
parentheses):
Tickets issued
32 (51)
Year-to-date

Fines paid
$165 ($215)
Year to date
$2,521 ($2,430)

“There is no adequate daily su-
pervision,” said alliance represen-
tative Jim Rutkowsky. “If we were
not there, it would go unnoticed.”

But the alliance’s complaints
are minor concerns which are be-
ing addressed as they come up,

Hi , NDP did Ed
Conroy and independent MLA

to a Socred forum.
“I told Paul that ifthey wanted

said Terry Dods, r develop
ment manager for Slocan Forest
Products Ltd., which is building
the road.

“It’s an education process,”
Dods said. “We have nothing to
hide.”

SFP is building a 5.3 kilometre
logging road and plans to log about
118h in the Red Mi i
Road area near Silverton, about
110 kilometers northeast of
Castlegar.

Rutkowsky said members of the
monitoring committee found that
a front-end loader was leaking flu-
id on the road about two weeks

ago.

He said that although the leak
was not a danger to the creek it-
self, he is concerned about some
springs that may be below ground.

He added that the truck was
still leaking as late as Sunday af-

TAKING A CLOSER LOOK

A local student tries one of the “hands-on” displays in the Bravo
Canada! mobile exhibit which pulled into Castlegar on Moday. The
exhibit offers a closer look at what makes Canada great.

News photo by Thomas Bink.

Council ponders
problem with sewer

News Staff

Abroken sewer main under the
Zinio tennis courts has forced
Castlegar city council to consider
a number of options to repair it,
although the source of funding for
the project is unknown.

Sy me mene mayan
ago. It supplies sanitary services
for three homes in the area and
was installed in 1948, city works
superintendent Barry Comin said

Comin said is currently
Council is considering three op-

tions to repair the problem. It
could approve replacing the main
and replacing the tennis court
above it, at a cost of $215,000, in-
stall a sewage lift station at 8th
Avenue and 8th Street at a cost of

“We can't haul this stuff forev-
er,” city administrator Gary
Williams said.

to set up a forum on business, I
would love to come,” she said. “All
these issues need to be discussed
and I'm not afraid to discuss
them.”

Siemens said he was not con-
cerned that the forum is to be tele-
vised on Shaw Cable 10, which
could impress more viewers in the
area unable to attend the forum.

“How many people watch
Channel 10?” Siemens said.

Siemens said he has not decid-
ed whether he will attend an all-
candidates forum on Oct. 15,
which is sponsored by the Castle-
gar and District Teachers Associa-
tion.

The three other candidates
have already accepted the invita-
tion, organizer Bill Gorkoff said.

Minister
upsets
directors

Thomas Bink
NEWS REPORTER

B.C. Environment Minister
Dave Mercier would not discuss
waste management problems with
Regional District of © 1K.
nay directors at a recent Union of
B.C. Municipalities meeting in
Victoria, two directors said Satur-

day.

“We've been shafted,” said Area
H director Robert Barkley, who
heads the com-

loss of the “Haz-
mobile,” a vehicle
used to pick up
hazardous
wastes in rural areas.

The government announced re-
cently that the Hazmobile, sched-
uled to travel the province this
fall, would stay in the garage be-
cause there was not enough mon-
ey in the budget to cover the de-
mand for the service.

Area G director Hans Cunning-
ham said Mercier turned the ta-
bles on the directors, and began
telling them what their problems
are, and using foul language.

“Te never found a minister so
disgusting =i my whole life,” Cun-

sai

He said the minister didn't
show any interest in regional con-
cerns because he isn't running for
re-election.

Barkley said Mercier told the
group the ministry would not of-
fer financial help in a number of