September 11, 1988 Castlégar News MAAABER OF THE B.C, PRESS COUNCH ESTABLISHED AUGUST 7. 1947 TWICE WEEKLY MAY 4, 1900 INCORPORATING THt MID WEEK MIRROR PUBLISHED SETPEMBER 12.1978. AUGUSI 27, (980 PUBLISHER, AUGUST 7, 1947 FEBRUARY 15, 1979 PUBLISHER — Burt Campbell EDITOR — Ron Norman. PLANT FOREMAN — Peter Harvey ADVERTISING MANAGER — Gary Fleming OFFICE MANAGER — Lindo Kositsin CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hadley NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT: Full, complete and sole copyright in any printed matte Lid» vented sn and belongs Ye Coste News itd. provided. ho trom repro proots, en Ly, CAMPOFLL Time to recycle One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure, or so the saying goes. But garbage, the vast amount of it, is increasingly becoming an ex- tremely serious problem. B dell, a quite ity just o few hours’ drive from Castlegar is battling an attempt to become the resting place for Vancouver's garbage. A Long Island, New York,. The Teen Town Clippers arrived home last night bringing with them the B.C. Championship which they took from Powell River in a ball game played in Vancouver on Sunday evening. They were met on the highway by entusiastic ball fans and the band, and were placed on top of the fire truck for their ride into town. * * « A successful Catholic Women's League meeting which marked the beginning of Castlegar League work after the summer took place at St, Rita’s rectory on Thursday evening Sept. 2. September 11, 1988 Castlépar News as Book slams Turner By DAN LEGER OTTAWA (CP) — Liberal Leader John Turner is por- trayed as a bumbling incompe- tent and his wife as a snappish tyrant in a book, Reign of Error, released Friday. The book, by Ottawa Citizen reporter Greg Weston, is a gos- ipy account of Turner's career as Liberal leader, Much of it is ap- parently based on interviews with Turner's political enemies and disaffected former associ- February 1984, Turner was as- sembling a team for a run at the Liberal leadership. Things went wrong from the start. According to Weston, Turner was afraid to tell his wife, Geills, about his decision to return to public life. Turner delayed tell- ing her for so long that it began to hamper the work of his sup- porters. REIGN OF ERROR Once the campaign openly insisted on running the 1984 began, it was plagued by mis. Liberal election campaign. Wes- haps. Monday was slow in con suggests he helped turn it coming, too many cooks were into a disaster. spoiling the broth and Turner The party's electoral collapse had not adapted to political life led to frustration in the ranks in the 1980s with its emphasis,on and ultimately to a caucus revolt television imagery and smooth last April. talk. Geills Turner was no help, Later, after a brief, chaotic Weston concludes. She is por- period as prime minister, Turner trayed aS a spendthrift- ates. Turner's communications chief, Raymond Heard, said Fri- day the Liberal leader has a copy of the book but had no immedi- Book to have impact GROUND FLOOR OPPORTUNITY ‘ Business is boomin, Distributors N Full or Part-Time Immediately! KN) ALL NEW BACTERIOSTATIC FILTER My Unique Marketing Plan Can Make You Very Wealthy! DON'T DELAY, CALL TODAY MAX MITSCHELE (604) 689-9830 (Your Collect Call Accepted After 6 P.M.) Suite 702-1165 Burnaby St., Vancouver, B.C. V6E 1P3 BONNIE'S FR Thie Mianl! 8.C. Freestone ate comment. ; By KIRK LaPOINTE Privately, Liberal supporters CP News Analysis The efforts of an ingenious young Watson, challenges conventional wisdom that you garbage barge travelled thousands of miles around the Atlantic ‘Ocean last year with a load no port would’ accept. The State of Wyoming is trying to stop a scheme to turn the vast holes left by Strip-mining operations into a repository for mountains of garbage that big cities such as Chicago would ship by rail. it is with this as the background that the Regional District of Cen- tral Kootenay advertised for applications from individuals interested in carrying out a recycling study for the district The ‘report would “describe and summarize recycling programs currently in operation elsewhere in our province and would detail such things as methods in use; financial informaion related, to each method; markets for recyclable materials; and the roles in recycling that bi Yoluteer organizations and governments can play. British Columbia's population has just passed the three million mark, and now is the time to act on environmental problems of all kinds because they will only get worse. In fact, one aspect of the disposal problem. toxic waste has become so important in the *r'public mind that it is likely to be one of the forefront issues in our up- coming federal election. Recent U.S. statistics indicate that the increased use of packaging, atong with the popularity of disposable items, helped create an 80 per cent increase in garbage from 1960 to 1987. Each American, and the figures are likely very similar for Canda, produces 25 pounds of garbage weekly, more than twice the garbage per capita in Japan or West Germany. The idea of playing host to orange peels, coffee grounds, disposable diapers and other uban effluvia isn’t very popular, but our sanitary landfills will soon run out of room if material that either won't decompose, or takes scores of years to break down, isn't first removed from what we dump. Incineration, recylcing, burying, dumping are all garbage disposal methods whose virtues can be argued pro and con at great length. But the time for acting, and not talking, has arrived. Vancouver Island isn’t at the stage yet where it has to worry about hospital wastes washing up on its beaches as has happened on the east coast of the United States while we in the Central Kootenay Regional District are some years away from facing the garbage disposal problems that presently exist in the lower mainland. Nonetheless, as sure as day follows night these worldwide problems will be our problems relatively soon, and the time to do something about them is now The old bromide that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is a true one, and the regional district is taking the-first ounce. Items valued The news department of the Castlegar News gathers its local news in various ways. Some of it is gathered directly by our repor- ters, by attending meetings or by making contact with those who make the news A lot of news, however, comes through the courtesy of others. The combination of the two sources works very well, for without the help of those who take the time to submit news items to us, par- Letters to the editor What wasn't said I wish to comment on the recent United Church deliberations on hom: osexuality and ordination, reporting what I understand to have been the actual conclusions and the reasons behind them. It's not what general council said that's upsetting to some people, but what it did not say. What general council said in its final motions would be acceptable to most church people. The council confirmed its belief in marriage and family; that everyone is made in God's image, yet everyone sins; that there is much we don't completely understand about our sexuality; shat we should not automatically reject anyone from church membershi being considered for ministry, just because they feel they are homo. sexual or lesbian; that all church members should seek to live up to the standards of Jesus Christ; that candidates for ministry should con tinue to be accepted or rejected by those who know them best, on a case by case basis. I think most church people would agree to this stated church policy, including not automatically slamming any doors on anyone because they ticularly in the area of sports and community news, this paper's ability to reflect the community it serves would be greatly impaired. As much as we would like to be in several places at once, we cannot. So we rely on many others. Sometimes we have difficulty reading the writing of those sub- mitting information. Fortunately, most of our many contributors add their telephone number to their copy, so if we have a problem we can call them. Sometimes we have difficulty because the item has been written in haste, on an odd piece of paper, with incomplete details. While we certainly appreciate having things handed in to us, our constant efforts to maintain-accuracy are sometimes strained to the limit We are doing our best to bring you all the local news we possibly can. Those submitting community news, results, reports and other news items can help us to continue to do so by handing in clean copy. And please . . . add a telphone number as well as your name. Postal service should remain After witnessing the meeting Mr. (Aug. 24) between Canada Post rep. resentatives and the residents of Ainsworth: Hot Springs, I've had a few days to digest it. Mackie, owner of the Ains worth Hot Springs Hotel complex, was asked if he could not refuse to take the contract for a retail postal outlet thus supporting the local resident's efforts to retain postal Being from Cultus Lake, B.C., a community slapped with closure and familiar with Canada Post's tech nique of circumventing residential concerns; I realized with horror, two things Canada Post's plan has in common with the Free Trade Deal that is privatization and deregu lation. At that meeting I was made aware of the elimination of the bonding and fingerprinting of postal employees, part of the downgrading of security that I've been seeing in many retail postal outlets and by privatizing this postal (public) ser vice Canada Post and the present government shifts the operating ex penses onto the people in this com munity so that with minimum expen diture the majority of the profits go to the corporation. By shifting from a public service to a people for profit business, the quality and availability of this postal service will no longer be guaranteed. facilities and services where they are. Twice he replied “No, I can't.” Does this mean then, that he had already signed the contract before the public meeting? It is also interesting to note that in Ottawa, two days before the meeting at Ainsworth Hot Springs, it was already known that the post office at Ainsworth was closed (the same situation as at Cultus Lake). So the people at Ainsworth Hot Springs are fully justified in their anger when they are invited unknowlingly to play in a game where they have already lost. I still wonder for whose conveni. ence these changes in postal services were for .. . surely not the local resi. dents, the ones to suffer the conse- quences. Why nc leave the post office where it ist Haruko Okano Cultus Lake feel th to be of ah 1 orientation. Thus, general council came out clearly in favor of accepting gays and lesbians as persons. But what if such persons want to actually live, sexually, as a gay or lesbian? Here's where the United Church did not make a clear pronouncement, and that’s what's upsetting some people. The council neither approved nor condemned homosexual and lesbian practice, because it didn't specifically deal with lifestyle. (The report which seemed to imply some approval, and Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at 197 Columbia Ave- nue, Castlegar. Letiers must be signed and include the willer's full name and address. Only in very exceptional cases will letters be ed without the writer's name s, the name and address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor. The Castlegar News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality and grammar prompted much debate, was rej- ected; it does not describe United Chureh policy). As I understand it, the council did not feel it could make a statement on lifestyle at this time; partly because so many commissioners felt they did not know enough — about the source of orientation, about a Christ like response.— to make a definite pronouncement; they were not pre- pared to condemn nor condone some neighbors they did not understand. And also, I'm told, many felt that any statement about responsible sexual practice should discuss heterosexual as well as homosexual practice, and there simply was not enough time to deal with such a large topic. One spokesperson predicts that some upcoming statements from the United Church will prove satisfying to those who want our church to give guidance on acceptable standards of sexual expression. That, as I understand it, is what happened behind the often mislead- ing headlines. General council of course dealt with many important subjects, not only this one. I was in Victoria during the first few days of general council and was quite encouraged to-see our top policy-making gathering at work. I feel there is so much good our United Church does that it’s sad some people are angry at their church for appearing to be slow and cautious on this one subject. I would be glad to further discuss the matter with any interested readers. Rev. Ted Bristow Castlegar United Church Regional district played vital role I wish to write a final brief letter with respect to the CP Rail Spike spraying issue. I believe it was the resolution of the citizens of our area that was the primary reason for the resolution of this issue. Many, with quiet but very substantial personal courage, were prepared to accept arrest, jail and a criminal record, with all the at tendant life-long difficulties that would have created for them. However, I do Very much also wish to publicly recognize the vital contribution made by the Regional District of Central Kootenay, its chairman, directors and staff and its solicitors, Guy McDannold and Lorena Staples of Wilson, Staples in Victoria, and Ken Wyllie of Wyllie and Okros in Nelson. Not all the residents of our area would comp- letely support this tremendous effort and its resulting cost. It is therefore to the greater credit of the RDCK that it persevered through the long months of its legal battle. In the case of the RDCK lawyers, it was necessary for them to condense what normally would be weeks of work, into days. Substantial evidence and complex legal issues needed to be reviewed, judges and hearing dates arranged for, and sophisticated legal documents pre- pared and filed. All work would need to be done under extreme pressure of time. Presenting oral, legal argu- ment on such difficult issues, one day to the Supreme Court in Vancouver and the next day to the Court of Appeal, would be very tiring. Although Mr. Justice Cummings and Mr. Justice Locke did not support our position, the work of the RDCK and its lawyers was tremend- ously important to my clients and me. The seven-day injunction granted by Judge Millward in Victoria on Aug. 10 greatly lifted the spirits of my clients and I. The decisions of Mr. Justice Cummings and Mr. Justice Locke helped in decision making. To the extent that the final outcome of my clients’ campaign was victorious, the work of the RDCK, its chairman, directors and staff, and its lawyers share greatly in the victory. It may be necessary for similar work to be done in the future. It is hoped that other regional districts and cities will join with the RDCK, providing both moral support and sharing in financial cost. Terry Dalton Castlegar Healthy trend started I have noticed that one strong part of the feeling of the local citizens against Spike is that they are not environmentalists. I can understand how this feeling developed over the years, but I would like to put in a few words on behalf of the environ. mentalists. When I met the head of Green peace International and his ozone depletion researcher in Toronto recently I was struck by the depth of their knowledge and concern about the future of life on the planet. They are doing the best they can in the situtation as they see it, to bring an awareness of ecology to the general public. Their commitment comes from their inability to live a normal life in the face of what they see as a civilization bent on suicide. Now that the U.N. General Assembly has issued its call, in the form of the book Our Common Future, for civilization to seek security through change, we must accept the valuable contribut ion that environmentalists have made over the years. I think it is a healthy trend for ordinary working people concerned about the enviornment to not want to be called environmentalists. There never should have been environ mentalists in the first place. The fact that there is reflects. the lack of respect. for, the environment em. bodied ‘in the general culture. So environmentalists have been outside the mainstream, forced to consider how a tiny minority could possibly accomiplish something meaningful. The system we are all a part of has those trying to put food on the table tomorrow pitted against those trying to make sure that there will be 4 day after tomorrow. We'll never get anywhere that way, but as we all wake up to the necessity for real concern for the environment to move to the center of economic decision making, realizing we are all in this together to stand or fall as a species, we will start to better understand the aetions of those who have felt this intensely for a long time: Take an environmentalist out to lunch. You might find something you have in common. David Lewis Crescent Valley man from the big city to forestall a pretty young newspaperwoman's plans to promote her home town out |_of character as a cross-section of American thought brings about their unexpected romance in Robert Ris- kin's comedy-drama, “Magic Town” co-starring James Stewart and Jane Wyman. * Kinnaird’s new school opened on Tuesday morning and it is certainly a credit to the New Village and to the contractors, Creighton and Horswill Construction Co. Ltd. an The school is modern in every detail. Large rooms with plenty of window space, large hallways with lockers for each pupil and sand tables for the little tots. 25 YEARS AGO From the Sept. 12, 1963 Castlegar News Dr. “Pat” Fowler announced this week that he would not be allowing his name to stand for the Conser- vative Party. He said he hoped to have run as an Independent Conser- vative but his views on the Columbia were not compatible with those of the Conservative Party. * * «© Comm. Gwilym Hughes submitted to the council at its meeting last week his recommendations toward the Castlegar water system. They were hardness tests; regular coli tests and nitrate checks; records graphing drawdown and recovery. On the Sopow water system he said, “I will attempt to see Mr. Sopow to obtain information regard- ing earnings and expenditures to a: rive at a figure for compensation.” + * 1« The Castlegar ferries made 120 more round trips during August 1963 than they did during August 1962 and carried 6,769 more automobiles and drivers. 15 YEARS AGO From the Sept. 13, 1973 ar News The Marathon land, as a crown grant to the Town of Kinnaird, is now secured. This was the word received this week by municipal clerk Allen Selbie who said the necessary steps were taken to have the provincial cabinet order signed last Thursday. * 8 6 The strike at Can-Cel's pulp division here is either over — or enters its sixth week today. Voting by the membership of Local No. 1 of the Pulp and Paper Workers of Canada on a company offer started Tuesday night at a membership meeting and continued yesterday at the union office until 7 p.m. * «¢ « Kootenay-Columbia Child Care Society board of directors has an- nounced the receipt of a $12,000 capital grant from the department of human resources for the Castlegar Day Care Centre. * 8 « Enrolment figures for Selkirk College by Tuesday had already in- creased in the technology courses with the university transfer program just two short of the 254 enrolment of last year. 5 YEARS AGO From the Sept. 11, 1983 Castlegar News It appears that Castlegar’s tourism industry was at the mercy of the elements this summer as an un usually wet July put a damper on many holiday plans. But a wahsout of the Rogers Pass section of the Trans-Canada Highway proved to be a bright spot in a slow summer. During the road closure, traffic heading east and west had to be diverted through Highway 3 — the only remaining highway link be tween Alberta and the west coast other than the Yellowhead Highway * 8 « Castlegar city hall won't be flying the Canadian and B.C. flags anymore — at least not until residents. quit stealing them. Yet another set of flags was stolen from in front of city hall this week the third set to disappear this year. And.this time the thieves even bent the flagpoles. denounced Reign of Error as a hatchet job. Weston told a news confer- ence his book was written with no preconceived notion of Tur- ner’s quality as a leader. The book “is a factual ac- count,” he said. “If it's not flat- tering, that’s because the facts are not flattering.” The book suggests Turner was unprepared for a return to OTTAWA (CP) — Coming off a restful Labor Day weekend, and with the Commons in recess, Liberal Leader John Turner was primed to make a major policy statement on the environment and continue his tough talk on trade and other election issues, So much for plans. All week long, he was dogged by media reports — that he lived high off the hog from secret trust funds, that he made patronage appointments he said he didn’t, that his party's finances were down the dumper, that his supporters bought off youth i and that Prime Minister Brian political life after a y hiatus from politics. He had been a senior cabionet minister under Pieere Trudeau, and Weston re- tells widely circulated stories of Turner's conflicts with the auto- cratic Trudeau. Before Trudeau retired in Mulroney and wife Mila weren't the only Canadian political exouple living like Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. Turner, who doesn't comment on polls, was asked if he'll answer allegation after allegation. “I wouldn't hold my breath.” Reign of Error, by Ottawa Citizen reporter Greg can't judge a book by its cover. OFFERS PROOF but not the man himself. gossiply, without evidence — Weston says he'll consider releasing conversation transcripts if any of his named or unnamed sources claim they never said what he says they did — the book about Turner's latter-day career has the potential to alter the election campaign. At the very least, it should take the steam out of any move by Turner to portray Mulroney as the kind of sleaze and patronage. Weston says the 1984 appointments for which Turner said he had no option were mainly made by It leaves an impression of a hands-off leader who tells handlers to do whatever it takes to win. How it will affect public perception of Turner is anyone's guess — it may help bury him or it may generate sympathy — but there is little doubt the book’s hype will have an impact. MORE LETTERS Environment compromised In a book, The DDT Myth, by Rita Beatty, the following appears: “...im many areas of our country, PCBs are found in asphalt because asphalt companies buy up refuse such as crankcase oil and trans- former fluid to use in their product. There is a vast amount of asphalt on our streets, driveways and highways that contains PCBs and every time it rains, the water washes these PCBs into our sewers and waterways. PCBs were used in cosmetics. They were sprayed direetly on many country roads to keep dust down. They are everywhere. The author was making an argu- Blood ment that since at the time of writing (1973) detection equipment had to be very carefully used and calibrated to detect the difference between DDT and PCBs, and since PCBs were so widespread in the environment, we should regard claims that.DDT is so widespread with some suspicion. She was writing in an effort to calm the public down after Rachel Carson had stirred- everyone up about DDT with her book, Silent Spring, alerting the North American publie to the dangers of indescrim- inant chemical use. Now, of course, all the evidcence is in, and PCBs are regarded as some of clinic very successful Castlegar's first blood donor clinic in five years was very successful with 368 people attending and 306 units of blood donated. We can count on holding a clinic here next year, some time in the fall. A lot of people gave of their time, energy and resources. Without them, September 1st would have come and gone a dismal failure. The Castlegar News, CKQR and Shaw Cable were instrumental in getting the word out as well as those retailers, Celgar and the Bank of Montreal who distributed fliers, put up posters and gave up their read- ograms for our announcement. Thanks to the City and West Kootenay Power for putting up the banner and to the. businesses and service clubs who gave their financial support. The Hospital Ladies Auxili- ary baked some delicious muffins and cheerfully served them. We appre- ciate the numerous volunteers for their hours spent preparing for and working during the clinic. Safeway and Valley Pacific Beverages sup- plied equipment and beverages for the donors. Thanks to the young people who endured the heat of the day in our blood drop costume. A very special thanks goes out to the Sandman Inn who freely supply Red Cross with an office year round and who generally donated their banquet facilities and the expertise of Maria Bacon for the clinic. Last but not least the donors — we are most grateful for your gift of life. Castlegar and district should feel very proud. This was a true com- munity project. Keith Merritt Jean Weir Orla Granstrom Ann Robertson Castlegar the vilest chemicals ever ted. Ci ing this le, it is True to form, the Environment Min. ister, Tom McMillan, announced re- cently that under the new Canadian Environment Protection Act, PCB storage depots all over the country will be carefully regulated now that the fire in Quebec has di easy to despair. We are on a course set to blow the whole Way of life over nothing more important than the wrong choice of gas to fill the bubbles in plastic foams. I talk revolutionary change to deal with this si ion wherever I am, the potential danger of improper is’ typical of our system. The lesson of PCBs was that freely using synthetic chemicals before testing seriously for possible danger is wrong. The system refused to accept this reality. The only action taken was to put on a show for the public, treating the small fraction of all PCBs ever produced that could easily be gathered up and stored as if they were reactor waste, ignoring the tremendous quantities spread all over the place, and continuing to allow thousands, of new chemicals into the environment every year without adequate testing and with- out caution. This is simply insanity. The most dangerous chemicals ever produced, those that damage the ozone layer thus threatening all life on the planet at once, are still in full production with the vast bulk of the tonnage going into the production of absol utely trivial products. and am constantly told that this is folly, although many recognize the necessity for fundamental change. After almost two decades of En vironment Canada style approaches to safeguarding the environment all we see are problems compounding and multiplying beyond the average person's ability to take them all in. We must recognize that this system, where everything is a com- promise hammered out between var- ious interest groups, with the envir- onment constantly being traded {for jobs, cannot deal with problems that must be solved decisively without compromise if we are to avoid plan etary disaster. Who are the fools, those recog nizing the necessity for change, or those clinging to false hope that the system that has delivered us to this precise spot can get us out of ‘the desperate situation we find ourselves in? David Lewis Crescent Valley For Your Convenience We're OPEN MONDAY WIN TI Two subscribers names are listed below. if winner of @ Provincial ticket up your FREE tickets, or Wednesday until § p.m., or phone 365-7266 by 5 p.m. Wednesday to claim. goad luck! 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JOHN The purpose of these meetings is for the Committee to examine, inquire into and make recommendations on the purposes and continuing relevance of the Act; the Policy considerations behind the Act; the desirability of repeal or reform to any or all of the provisions within the Act and the policy directions which would guide any reform Those wishing to appear at any of the above locations should notify the Clerk of Committees as soon as possible. Hearing hours may be extended. Address all correspondence or inquiries to Mr. Craig H. James Clerk of Committees Room 236 Parliament Buildings Victoria, British Columbia V8V 1X4 Telephone: 356-2933 Fax: 387-2813 Ms. Kim Campbell, M.L.A. Chairman