THE LIGHTER SIDE

The Castlegar Sun

WEDNESDAY, May 24, 1995

Ann
Landers

Syndicated
Columnist

Dear Ann Landers: My
daughter had her first child
recently. "Irene" told everyone
she wanted only her husband
and me in the delivery room.
She stated quite emphatically
that there was a waiting room
for other relatives and that the
hospital staff would keep them
posted on the delivery.

At the very end of her deliv-
ery, when the doctor told Irene,
"It's almost over -- the baby is
just about here,” several in-laws
trooped into the room to watch.
Irene was extremely upset by
this, but she didn't know how to
handle the situation. By the
time I realized all the relatives
were in the delivery room, it
was too late to say anything.
The doctor was also annoyed
because it drew his attention
from Irene and the baby and
spoiled the tender moment she
had been planning throughout
her entire pregnancy.

Trene is now angry with her
in-laws for not respecting her
wishes. I have done my best to
calm her down and urged her
to let the matter drop, but she
refuses to do so. The doctor
and I both told Irene to con-
front her in-laws, express her
feelings and clear the air so
she can enjoy her beautiful
baby. She says she will try, but
it is apparent that she is still
very angry, and I fear this will
go on until she alienates the
whole family.

I hope you will print my let-
ter so others will learn not to
ruin a most special time for
someone else. -- Irene's Mom
in Salinas, Calif.

Dear Mom: Irene, her hus-
band, her doctor and you need
a course in how to be more
assertive. Someone should
have said to the invading
troops, "You're in the way. I
want you out of here RIGHT
NOW. If you want to wait
around until the baby comes,
fine. But you'll have to wait in
the other room."

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Fire strikes near Renata

Consumed. by a blazing fire, this 35-hectare abundant forest in the Renata area is reduced to a scorched and

te landscape. Sti

firefighters such as Brian Koster (foreground), crew leader and fire boss, and mem-

bers from the Timberland crew (background), continue ‘grubbing’ the landscape, searching for hot spots from
the perimeter inward. As of Tuesday six crew members were on ‘mop-up’ duty.

KINNAIRD MIDDLE
School earns high marks

Castlegar
wooing
developers

SHARLENE IMHOFF

Sun Editor

The West Kootenay has
become the place to be. And if
you're a developer, then the
place to be in the West Kootenay
is Castlegar.

From major retail and restau-
rant franchises to upscale
‘cutesy-condos’, the Crossroads
of the Kootenays has become the
focal point for development as
Projects continue to be pop up in
both north and south Castlegar.

Not surprisingly, more devel-
opment projects have taken place
in the last two years than in the
previous 20. Private sector
development in Castlegar has
now surpassed that of Trail and
Nelson. A report from the Real
Estate Investment Network’s

jest Places to Invest Hot Sheet
Places Castlegar in the top three
for locations in which to invest.

Richard Maddocks from the
Castlegar and District Develop-
ment Board says there is basically
one factor putting Castlegar ahead

“Location, location, location!
For new business, particularly
retailers, it's important to target a
larger population radius. This
can be accomplished by setting
up in Castlegar.”

Enhancing development here
is the way in which the city deals
with developers. Maddocks says
the city hall is more willing to
assist developers in dealing with
issues that relate directly to
development itself.

“You could say that the city
has become more of a partici-
Pant in the process rather than an
obstacle.”

As well as the numerous

See DEVELOPERS 3a

KAREN KERKHOFF _
Sun Staff

Kinnaird Middle School has
earned high marks from a visiting
team of educators.

The four- bs di

ty at large”.

Everette Surgenor, superin-
tendent for the Castlegar school
district, said the report validates
the school’s excellence and the
hard work that goes into educat-

ing

tion team wrote glowingly of
“the quality of the young peo-
ple”, who were “friendly, recep-
tive and cooperative, and
strongly supportive of their
school and their teachers”.

“The team believes they are
fortunate to attend KMS, and
KMS is fortunate to have them,”
chair Jim Norris of Vernon wrote
in the report.

The accreditation team also
noted the “qualified, caring, sup-
portive and committed staff”, the
“highly visible and powerful role
model influence of the principal”
(Bruce Gerrand) and “the support
for the school from the communi-

“The report is quite favorable
and is a recognition of good
things going on up at Kinnaird
Middle School.”

The four volunteer external
accreditation team members
spent almost one week at KMS in
early April looking at all compo-
nents of education.

Members studied essentials of
learning such as leadership, school
culture, school and community,
the KMS mission statement, learn-
ing experiences, professional and
staff development, and the
school's growth plan.

But despite the luminous
report, the team wrote about the

SUN STAFF PHOTO / Sharlene Imhoff

condition of the facility itself
and its effects upon students
and learning.

“It is not within the usual man-
date of external teams to comment
on a school’s facilities. However,
in this case, the team feels com-
pelled to note the increasingly
negative effects of the Kinnaird
Middle School facility on student
learning. The team expresses its
hope that these issues will contin-
ue to be addressed as strongly as
possible.”

KMS principal Bruce Gerrand
told The Castlegar Sun that
cramped quarters make it diffi-
cult for teachers to instruct effec-
tively, or for students, for that
fact, to learn effectively under
such close conditions.

“It makes it difficult for every-
one. A lot of new methods of

See SCHOOL 2A

Air emission ruling in June

SHARLENE IMHOFF

Sun Editor

A ruling by the Ministry of
Environment on Celgar Pulp
Co.’s application for a reduction
in air permit levels could be made
in late June, said Rick Crozier,
the regional environmental pro-
tection manager in Nelson.

The Castlegar pulp mill reg-
istered two applications in early
March, one for emission levels
and the other for effluent. Both
applications request a relaxing
of strict environmental stan-
dards and changes to the moni-
toring program.

Since undergoing an extensive
modernization project, which
officials from the company say
have made the pulp mill one of
the cleanest in the world, envi-

I tests have indi d
positive changes in water quality
of the Columbia River and local
air quality. However, despite
these claims, mill officials say
that even the mill's best perfor-
mance cannot reach the strict
standards 100 per cent of the time

“We're at risk for million-dollar
fines if we can't meet the standards
100 per cent of the time,” said Cel-
gar Environmental Manager Jim
McLaren. “It's not technically pos-
sible. The only way we could do
that would be to shut down.”

He adds that Celgar is not

air and

(RDCK), which is concerned
that a lowering of standards and
monitoring will cause the mill
to slide backwards in its
endeavors to maintain clean air
and a clean river.

“There has been a remarkable
improvement in this area environ-
mentally and we don't want to
See it degenerate,” said LowerAr-
tow Columbia director Ken Wyl-
lie. “The impacts of allowing
these reductions to take place
seem far from clear at this time.”

Meanwhile, Crozier said there
won't be-a public hearing into the

to comp:
water quality, but rather alter the
Permits in order to truly reflect
what the mill is capable of.
Main opposition to the appli-
cation comes from the Regional
District of Central Kootenay

app i
“We are not proposing to do a
public hearing in this case, since
there isn't enough opposition to
warrant it,” said Crozier. “We
will be addressing their cdncerns
nonetheless.”

KAREN KERKHOFF
Sun Staff

Water bombers were flying fast
and furious last week in order to
extinguish a fire burning near
Renata on the lower Arrow Lake

Skip Walsh, fire protection
officer for the Arrow Forest
District, said the fire was in no
danger of jeopardizing Renata
residents.

“There's no danger. The fire
was on the southern aspect of the
slope and there was snow at the
top and at the creek bottom.”

The fire, located 30 kilome-
tres northwest of Renata, was at
1,400 metres in an area which
Walsh said had been harvested
and replanted by the Pope and
Talbot sawmill.

“Almost 20 hectares had been
planted and it‘s basically all con-
sumed by the fire.”

Overall, 35 hectares were con-
sumed by fire.

In fact, Walsh explained, it
was Pope and Talbot tree planters
who discovered the fire.

“They spotted the fire on Tues-
day and called it in to Pope and
Talbot, who called it in to us.”

When first sighted, two tanker
planes were dispatched to sup-
press the blaze, which had only
consumed three to four hectares
of plantation trees. Despite the
tankers’ efforts, the fire quickly
jumped the guard and two initial
attack crews were called.

But they too were unsuccess-

* ful in containing the blaze. Forest
Service officials then called in 10
firefighters and a specially-
trained firefighting crew of 20,
known as the Valhalla Crew,
from Slocan.

“They're trained to go 72 hours
fighting fires. All we have to give
them is gasoline and water.”

Because of the extremely rugged
and steep terrain—some 60 per
cent is inaccessible to heavy equip-
ment—firefighters were unable to
dig a guard around the fire.

Although the origin of the
fire is uncertain Walsh suspects
the fire might have been caused
by lightning.

Drought conditions
worry firefighters

KAREN KERKHOFF
Sun Staff

Extreme drought conditions in
the Arrow Forest District could
mean another record year for for-
est fires.

Shaw, media coordinator
for the Nelson Forest Region, said
diti in the reg pe
cially that of the Syringa Park
area—are tinder dry. If that trend
continues after the snowpack
runoff, Shaw said the result could
be much like that of last year,
which was a record year at almost
double that of the yearly average.

“If there is a nice, hot sum-
mer there is a likelihood that
could happen. The drought con-
ditions are the same. It started
out more or less the same as it
did last year.”

Shaw said that currently fine
fuels—such as pine needle drop-
pings—are extremely dry for this
time of year.

“The forest floor valley bot-
toms are just as dry, if not drier,

than last year.”

When mixed together with
other factors, such as temperature
and wind, the recipe could result
in an unpalatable dish.

“Fires will now be able to
move around quickly with a wind
and will also move down deep
and be more difficult to put out.”

Shaw said that it has been
reported to him that it’s so dry in
the Syringa area that sticks the
Size of baseball.bats have beén
reduced to fine! ash.

“That's a pretty good indica-
tion that it’s been drying out for a
time and that there’s no moisture
in the center of the stick.”

Although Shaw said that no
two fire seasons are the same, he
did acknowledge that this year
could be a “challenge” for the
recent reorganization program
which will see initial attack
crews dispatched from the Nel-
son Forest District.

Since the official fire season
started there have been eight fires
in the Arrow Forest District.

SHARLENE IMHOFF
Sun Editor

It's time for Castlegar's
showcase weekend: Sunfest.

This Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, local residents and
out-of-town guests will take
to the Crossroads of the
Kootenays to enjoy a mixed
bag of Sunfest activities.

Sunfest weekend has some-
thing for every person of every
age: family events, music,
dancing, and lots of food!

Members of the local Festi-
vals Society, who organized
the event, knew it would be
important to provide activities
for all age groups, says soci-
ety president Cliff Harper.

“New events for this year
include the bed race, Battle of
the Bands concert, and a young
children’s parade to kick off the
Lions Family Day.”

Planning for Sunfest '95

SUNFEST: June 2, 3 and 4. See you there!

IT'S SUNFEST!

began two weeks after Sunfest
"94, continued Harper.

“Volunteers met on a
monthly basis up until March,
then the meetings were held
each week.”

Harper is proud that the
Festivals Society has more
volunteers than ever before,
the majority of whom are new
to the community .

“Everyone involved has
certainly been working hard.”

Harper added that the down-
town revitalization project will
not affect Sunfest in any way.

“We've made our plans
with the revite in mind. It’s
part of our growth. The city
has been cooperative and I'd
like to thank them for that.”

It's going to be a great
party, Harper ended.

For a complete look at
what's taking placing Sunfest
weekend, turn to the Profile
page on Cl.