POP BD RI RR DD I PE TTT RRR EER BRAM RI DEE SI DDR RRR BD PER RT DTD dad Pe AR DR ADE CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, October 21, 1976' Wants to Start Junior Fire Brigade at Grond Forks | ERC TE RE eC aE Ce Seat oe ee SETS Mike Acres Purchases Cominco’s 1944 Pumper “TAKE HER AWAY" Ms Acres tak os posseselan of the 1944 Bickle-Seagrave pumper be bought from Cominco. Cominco's Deputy Fire Chief, George Swanson, presents the keys to him sseteide the company’s fire hall at Trail. The Bickle-Seagrave Mike Acres has an’ ex: pensivo hobby. He collects fire engines. . And he made. his latest purchase last week .at. Co- minco’s fire halt in Trail, buying i. the company’s 1944 Bickle. Seagrave triple- combination pumper, complete with ladders, booster tank and a spare V-12 engine. . Mr. Acres got the pumper. with a bid of $1,230.60 (in. cluding tax) and intends to use it to start a junior fire brigade at Grand Forks, Mr. Acres is an emergency’ a mecical assistant with the-B.C., Ambulance service in Trail and commutes fram his home in’ Grand Forks, He also is a mem- ber of the volunteer fire de- partment at Grand Forks and, ~ in what little spare time he has, he sells and services fire fighting equipment in the same area. . The Bickle - Seagrave brings his stable of fire engines to two. The other is a 1941 Ford TS Te - served as a backup unit for the compa company's fire department until LaFrance hé bought at Green- earlier this year, when it was replaced by the Thibault unit shown in the background at right. «Cominco Photo By Murray Little The Water Board hearings on m the Revelstoke fMi hours of testi- mony and 180 exhibits in sup- port of argument, Some of the exhibits were 500 pages in © length and weighed five or more pounds, The water comp- troller, Howard DeBeck, will now consider the evidence and make his decision in due course. B.C, Hydro awaits the verdict. Your reporter attended two days of the early hearings and was impressed with the engineering talent, and the many experts that gave evi- dence. It was possible, without a technical background, for the j _AlUittle This and a Little That : CanCel Expansion in Jeopardy? An informative and well- documented brief of the West Kootenay Naturalists Associa- tion was read by John Gellard “ of Castlegar. Guy Woods, resi- dent biologist on the 7 Mile Dam project on’ the Pend O'reille, appeared under sub- poena. A great many logging and forest industries were represented, including Cana- dian Cellulose. CanCel was represented by Rex Thorpe, Bill Backman and Don Best, with four, sup- porting lawyers, including the company's Roger Duncan. Can- Cel's testimony was that the company's operations ume be seriously interfered with, damaged by the dam. g The proposed pulp expan- sion at Castlegar was said to be: jeopardized ' ‘ot- rendered \un-. and> average person the thrust of the arguments, In fact, it was one of the most dramatic, entertaining and sat- isfying shows this writer would ever hope to see. However, except for some dedicated younger people and the constant presence of MLA Bill King, the citizens of Revel- stoke stayed away in droves, It's amazing to me that some of the senior school grades did not show up with their teachers, Nor did the senior citizens, who surely had the time and the intellect to participate! © Opinions. and * comments were, in their proper place, invited from the chair. It was a dismal response by the ordi- nary folk of Revelstoke who would have been highly enter- tained, if nothing else. Gems from the Past CanCel has no alternative but. to oppose the proposed dam unless its interests are ade- quately protected by conditions. in the water licence and by an agreement with Hydro.” |.” CanCel further asked that Hydro be made to provide and operate, at its expense, fa- cilities for the transportation of logs over, through, or around the dam, Barbara Little presented : . the petition she had circulated in the community of Revelstoke which. opposed the onedam concept. The document con- * tained 2,345, signatures. She also attacked city council for not truly representing the feeling of the voters. She thought that council. should have given the view of the majority, said to be againat any v<'dam, ‘rather than enter into A Shocking Observation By Germaine Fletcher June 20, 1718 I happened the other day. to pass by a gentleman's house, And saw the most flippant scene of low love that I have ever observed. : . The maid was rubbing the windows within side of the house, and her humble servant the footman was so happy a man as to be employed in cleaning the same glass on the side toward the street. The wench began with the greatest severity of aspect imaginable, and breathing on the glass, No. 4 - 1460 Bay Ave., TRAIL, B.C. Douglas W. Joiner ACCOUNTANT — TAX CONSULTANT followed it with a dry cloth, PHONE 964-2531 DOUG'S TIRE & SERVICE Her opposite observed her, and fetching a deep sigh, as if it were his last, with a very dis- consolate air did the same on his side of the window. He still worked on and on till at last his fair one ‘smiled, but covered herself, and spreading the cloth in her hand, concealed herself from her admirer, while he took pains, as it were, to: work through all that intercepted their meeting. ‘This pretty contest held for four or five large panes of glass, till at last the waggery was turned to an humorous way of breathing in each ‘other's faces and catching the impres- sion.” , The gay creatures were thus loving and pleasing their imaginations with their near- ness and distance, till the windows were so transparent that the beauty of the female made the man-servant im: patient of beholding it, and the whole house besides being away, he ran in, and they romped out of my sight. “1415 Columbia Ave., Castlegar Complete Car Care Mechanical Expertise at a reasonable cost! 24-Hour Service arguments about details as to how much the city would be subsidized by Hydro. The previous neglect by senior citizens was compen- sated for on the last day when the lively James Cameron, a geriatric wonder of 87. years, presented on their behalf a most thoughtful and ‘eloquent brief which asked for a defer- ment of the dam. It read in part: “The re- tirement years of elderly peo- ple in this modern day is freely acknowledged by society as a well-deserved contribution for a lifetime of service. ©. “This contribution, in- cluding, as we all hope for, the peace, tranquility, comfort, se- curity and smooth flowing of it. We request, sir, the deferment ‘of-water-rights: to 'B.C-Hydro-"-Police-said -the - Caatlegar-man~: until this Authority. accepts a reasonable measure of res- ponsibility for the disturbing © impact of the proposed dam on the lfestyle. of our senior citizens.” S ‘And much, much more, by Mr. Cameron, all given with bounce, and great impact. This. same Jim Cameron was des- cribed in a Castlegar News story about the Slocan Senior Citizens last week as “a man who stands on, his head and runs five miles a day.” wood two years ago. Mr. Acres said he and several other members of the Grand Forks fire crew will use the two pumpers to train young Drowsy Driver Is Charged In Accident No injuries have been re- ported in an early morning ac- eldent which occurred on Tues- day of last week on the Castlegar-Christina Lake High- way. Police said a 1978 van sus- tained an estimated $200 dam- age when it'sideswiped a 1976 Pontiac driven by a Courtenay man, Henry John Fee. * The driver of the van, who has been charged with driving without due care and attention, has been identified as Werner. - P. Liechti of Castlegar. °° ‘The Fee vehicle, which is reported to have approximately. damage, had attempted to move’ over to the shoulder of the road to avoid. collision: had fallen asleep at the wheel. There is no. doubt that Hydro will get its licence. However, the salient argu- ments that the biologists, the fish and game people, the en- vironmentalists, the senior citizens, the young people, and the B.C. Energy ‘Commission have made against the urgency of the dam may cause the construction to be delayed for perhaps two years, ‘The danger of the Downie slide as a smasher of the dam seems to have been reasonably discounted, but the contain- ment of the slide will be a very ‘costly added factor in’ the engineering equation. It is adduced in all the evidence in favor of the dam that the “big wave” that could be produced by a. major Downie slippage would only raise the water at * Revelstoke dam by five feet and 10 feet at Mica, and that it .would be contained by these dams. It is inferred that if these dams hold there will be no material disaster in the Lower Arrow reservoir. People of Castlegar, you can now breath easier! Unless, of course, all;the experts are wrong... « * e 6 The writer,is indebted to the” Revelstoke Review for much of the above narrative, and all of the “quotes”. The Review covered all of the hearing in great detail. "For a ‘ROOTENAY BUILDERS 663 Columbia Ave. + Phone 3655155 - ‘people Intereated in’ fire fighting, Bickle - Seagrave. served as a backup unit for Cominco's fire department until earller this year when It was replaced by a new $63,000 Thibault pumper. * George Swanson, ; Co- minco’s deputy fire chief, said that although everything works on the Bickle-Seagrave, it no longer meets government stan- ards and is "just too old to be relied upon in an emergency.” The Bickle-Seagrave— painted fire-ongino red, natu- rally sports a 19). horsepower V-12 engine. This V-12 also has a dual ignition.syatem, ‘which means a small fortune must be * invested in spark plugs alone at tune-up time. Mr. Acres brought along several spare cans of gasoline for the trip back to Grand Forks, with a light load and an equally light foot on the: ac- celerator, the Bickle-Scagravo can just manage three to four miles to the gallon. Why does he do it? “I ‘don't -know, I guess | you'd call it a hobby, but don't ask my wife what you'd call it!” CWL Plans Catering ‘The October meeting of St, Joseph's Council, Catholic Wo- men's League was) held on Tuesday of last’ week. After * reading the minutes of the last monthly meeting and: hearing the financial report for. the month, the president, Mrs. J. Kaufman, reviewed a’ letter from the provincial president. for the benefit of members present, Mrs. Paul reporfed that's’ successful catering job had been completed and that there was one to be. done in Novem- ht was reported that items for the fall bazaar had been put into. Meleods store window downtown to advertise the an- nual fall bazaar. 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