A2 Castlegar News September 22, 1990

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and Woodworkers of Canada, which represents the
workers at Celgar, said Shona Kelly, an epidemiologist at
the University of B.C., recently concluded sufficient

evidence has been collected concerning

the possible link

bet Neulp mills and various forms of cancer to
warfant @@udy in B.C.
/ The PPWe, which supports Celgar’s modernization
lans, would-Tiké Ceigar to be one of the mills used in

such a suxddy, Him said.

“But Casilegar doctor Roy Ward told the panei no
conclusive evidence has been found of a link between can-
cer, respiratory disease or other illness and emissions from
Celgar. And the benefits to the community from the
Proposed expansion outweigh the possible health risks, he
said.

Him agreed with Ward that evidence of a Significant
number of cancer patients may not exist in the area. But
Him said that does not preclude the need for such a study.

Him also pointed out a recent Valhalla Society
Publication that says a high incidence of cancer has been
found in school children in communities with pulp mills is
a misrepresentation of the data. The findings, contained
in Statistics Canada’s Atlas of Cancer Mortality in B.C.,

which covers the years between 1956 and 1983 and was

Published in 1989, were documented after studying
school districts, not just the children in the schools, he

explained. *

Harcourt gives even odds on fall B.C. election

VANCOUVER (CP) — There's
no better than a 50-50 chance Premier
Bill Vander Zalm will call a general
election in British Columbia this fall,
says Opposition Leader Mike Har-
court.

“I think it’s about 30 per cent if
you're a rational person and SO per
cent if you know Bill Vander Zalm,””
he said. .

Vander Zalm said he has not made
a final decision but the advice he is

getting makes it more difficult to call
an election now.

predicted that next Wednesday Van-
der Zalm would call an October elec-
tion, said Tiursday the premier
should cut his losses and call the elec-

tion now.

“I think that. if he delays, he does
So at his peril. I was ready for an elec-
tion last spring, so I am even more
ready for this October.”

“And like most British Colum-

Starts than NASA's latest shuttle and
certainly more manoeuvring than the
B.C. Lions coaching staff,”” Harcourt
said in a speech to the Union of B.C.

Thank You! .

The NDP leader, who defeated
Vander Zalm the last time he was elec-
ted mayor of Vancouver, told the

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Richard Lowe, an aircraft maintenance engineer who
Services planes used by student pilots at Castlegar Air-
Port, told the panci the emissions from Crigar are highly

corrosive and cause serious damage to the planes. He
quoted a study that suggests emissions from Ceigar are

“there is
be that I won't ”
out." ”

if Ceigar modermizes the mill and cuts back on
there will still be corrosive clement’ pumped in-

to the air, Lowe said.

"The only acceptable standard for pollution W ¥eré.

That's it. Thats progress.”

Noting that the pulp industry claims the technology
does not yet exist to build a pulp mill with no emissions,

Lowe explained, “Invent it.””

Most of the first morning of hearings was taken up

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economic benefits of the expansion and >
project and summarized the report's findings. Celgar wilt
submit a shorter version of its presentation at cach

‘amd Ed Conroy, the NDP candidate for the riding of
‘The hearings continue today in Nelson im the Mary

Hail building of the Canadian International College. The

Paine! will move to Slocan on Monday for 37 p.m. session

‘at the Silvery Slocan Social Centre. A hearing has been

that arca,

added in Silverton on Tuesday at the request of @ group in

said. Thé Silverton hearing will run

from 10 a.m. to | p.m. at the Silverton Gallery.

The panei will then move to Nakusp on Tuesday

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fi
the Legion Hall. The sessions wrap @

Wednesday in Trail at the Crown Point Hotel. The
evening session in Trail has been cancelled because not
enough people regisicred to make presentations in that

with a presentation by Celgar officials and the consultants

who prepared the company’s second impact assessment

city, Ferguson said.

Technical hearings on the proposed project begin

report. They outlined the expected environmental and Oct. 18 im Castlegar.

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Governments have to be seen to be
there to represent all people, not just
a few friends and imsiders.””

about it after a public mecting in this
Vancouver suburb.

The premier told one reporter that
he will refuse to answer all future
questions concerning Fantasy Gar-
dens or the sale of the biblical theme
park in suburban Richmond to a
‘Taiwanese business group.

Doc predicts crack

VANCOUVER (CP) — The crack
cocaine wave is about io hit British
Columbia, says a doctor who runs a
clinic for babies born to drug-
dependent mothers.

Dr. Sydney Segal, following an ad-
dress before the royal commission on
health care, told reporters he could
not think of “‘anything more scary.””

Segal, a speci: on drug-
addiction, said **(addicts) can’t stop
once they start.””

He operates a clinic at Sunny Hill
Hospital for babies born to mothers
with additictions.

He said only a few cases of crack
use have turned up so far, but he fears
more are coming.

The five-member commission heid
its first hearings in June and resumed
this month.

The commission has until next fall
to recommend changes to B.C.’s

‘MIKE HARCOURT
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reporters.

Fantasy Gardens was sold in July to
the Tan Yu business group of Taiwan.
However, the $14.5 million sale was
Rot announced until September.

Vander Zaim has been criticized for

health-care system to the government
He and child-abuse specialist. Dr
Jean Hiady said poverty is a major
factor im child abuse and in the num-
ber of babies born with the mother’s
Segal said it is difficuh to get
Statistics on drug-addicted babies.
Drug-using mothers and

because of poverty,

Harcourt said he will tell voters not
to expect miracles from an NDP
“because the politici
who believes he or she can buy
people’s votes with their own moncy
is going to be im for a shock."*
Vander Zalm was to speak to the
Friday and H:
predicted he will talk about the har-
mful effects of the federal goods and

- - (and) we're suffering

the consequences in about 100 days."”

He also criticized Vander Zalm’s
plan to hold referendums where the
questions would be posed by the
government, not public imitiatives as
is done im the United States.

“This is talk-down :
by Social Credit where cabinet sets the
questions.”

They also met privately with senior
government officials and attended a
luncheon im their honor held by L1.-
Gov. David Lam.

Vander Zalm told a crowd of 200 at
the meeting that unspecified ‘*misin-
formation” about the sale was being
used to discredit him.

He said the media and the NDP
had. for several years, suggested he
was in a conflict of imterest -

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mothers fear discovery will cost them
their children

“I don't believe anything -t-hear
(from patients),"” he said.

His clinic keeps the babies for up to
six months, during which time the
babies often suffer tremors, vomiting
and convulsions.

When in withdrawal from ‘the
mother’s drug habit, the babies have a
high-pitched cry.

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The winning numbers drawn Thur-
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15, 18, 21, 25, 44, 46 and 49.

The winning sumbers in Wed-
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The jackpot of $12 million was
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Th fourth-prize pool, awarded to

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There was a total of 716,723 prizes
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The four Extra winning numbers
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Man changes plea in mid-trial

REVELSTOKE — In a surprise move, a man pleaded guilty
Wednesday to an abduction charge in the middle of a Preliminary
hearing to determine if there was enough evidence to order a trial.

Darcy Turbuck, 25, of Revelstoke, was charged following a July 28
incident in which a three-year-old child was taken from her home ani
later found but on Mount Ri ing
an all-night search.

Other charges against Turbuck of kidnapping, confinement, break
and enter, and possession of a stolen vehicle were stayed.

Turbuck originally pleaded not guilty to the charges in late July,
but changed his mind du: preliminary hearing Wednesday after
three of nine Crown witnesses had testified.

Turbuck’s lawyer, Allan Betton, explained his client changed his
plea after ring the i and ing with Betton.

Turbuck’s motive for the abduction was not made known.
Turbuck is to be sentenced Oct. 26.

Anti-pollution system backfires
VANCOUVER — The startup of the Port Mellon pulp mill's new
$27 million anti-pollution system turned into a possible environmental
mess.
The mill in Howe Sound, just northwest of Vancouver, was putting
the secondary treatment facility on line when a pump broke, spilling
about 500,000 litres of partially treated effluent, environment officials
said.

The effluent, which may contain dioxins, escaped for 20 minutes
through a storm drain into Howe Sound before the failure was spotted.
Dioxins have been blamed for lesions and tumors found on fish in
Greater Vancouver waters.

Federal environment expert Peter Theiss said primary treatment
removes solids and secondary treatment involves bacterial action to
counter the effluent toxicity.

Samples will have to be collected and analyzed before an estimate
can be made of the spill’s impact on the environment, he said. *

“We're taking immediate action to ensure it doesn’t happen
again,”* company president Bill Hughes said.

Nineteen pollution charges were laid against the mill in April. If
convicted on those charges, the mill could face fines of more than $1
million on five federal pollution counts.

Deputy AG to call it quits

VICTORIA — Ted Hughes, who asked Alberta officials to decide
whether his boss obstructed justice, will retire at the end of this month
as B.C. deputy attorney general.

In a news release, Premier Bill Vander Zalm said Bob Edwards,
senior official in the attorney general’s ministry, will take over the top
civic service job in the ministry Oct. 1.

In July, Hughes, a former Saskatchewan high court judge,
requested Alberta’s help with the investigation of Bud Smith. Smith
resigned as B.C. attorney general after his surreptitiously taped phone
conversations were made public.

Hughes asked RCMP to gather evidence, and requested his Alberta
counterpart Neil McCrank to make recommendations on charges.

McCrank recommended that no charges be laid against Smith, but
left the decision on charges against those involved in the taping to
Hughes, who decided against charges.

The tapes revealed an apparent attempt by Smith to discredit a
lawyer hired by the NDP to prosecute his former cabinet colleague, Bill
Reid.

The RCMP recommended charges of fraud and breach of trust
against Reid for his involvement in lottery grant that went to his
friends. But Smith said there were insufficient grounds.

Hughes, 63, told he his retii in order to
restore public confidence in the justice system and his department.

Plastic recycling plants to open
KELOWNA — Western Recycle (B.C.) Ltd. said it will begin
plastic ling plants in V: and Kelowna early next

year

There now is only one plastic recycling plant in Canada, located in
Mississauga, Ont., said Westcan technical director Lew Oatway.

Westcan will recycle virtually all kinds of industrial and consumer
waste plastics, ing juice s, and will fi ca
limited range of wood-type products, he said.

The company plans to begin producing products in mid-January,
he said, but will begin receiving recyclable materials and setting up
equipment next month.

Westcan will need more than 450,000 kilograms of Plastics a year
for its Kelowna plant, Oatway said.

A draft business plan says the company will produce fence posts,
pallets, picnic tables and curb stops during its early stages.

Flower planters, outdoor furniture, children’s playground
equipment and highway sign posts are other products that can be made
from recycled plastic.

Westcan was formed in Saskatchewan in February and conducted
extensive studies into plastic recycling there. Oatway and other company
officials then moved to British Columbia.

Oatway said Westcan is considering a Saskatchewan plant, as well
as one in Victoria

Victoria has highest crime rate

VICTORIA — Tourist mecca Victoria now has the highest crime
rate of any city in British Columbia with its own police force.

The police chief says it’s another reason for amalgamating the
forces from the four core municipallities in Greater Victoria. ©

Chief Bill Snowden says a high proportion of the crime from the
whole region “‘takes place in the 18.6 square kilometres of the city of
Victoria.”

The recent statistics collected by the Solicitor General's Ministry
show Victoria has a crime rate of 108 occurrences per 1,000 population,
the highest of any of the 11 municipalities that don’t use the RCMP for
their policing.

Second is New Westminster at 102.

Victoria's 150 police officers also have the highest caseload-per.
officer of any of the municipalities.

But when the four core area municipalities — Victoria, Saanich,
Esquimalt and Oak Bay — are combined, the crime rate of 67
occurrences per 1,000 people is below the provincial average of 73

In fact, the ritzy suburb of Oak Bay has the lowest crime rate of
any municipality, and its officers also have the lightest workload. The
Provincial government is studying the possibility of amalgamating the
Greater Victoria forces.

Coal mine begins layoffs

TUMBLER RIDGE — Layoffs began Thursday at Quiniette Coal
as part of a phased , Saysa 7

Ed Shiller said 80 workers were laid off at a cleaning plant in the
coal operation in northeastern British Columbi:

He said the temporary layoffs were necessary because of the BC
Rail strike, which began Sept. 4.

Work can continue at the Tumbler Ridge mine because there is still
room to temporarily store coal nearby without having to take it to the
cleaning plant, said Shiller.

But if the BC Rail strike is still on at the end of the September,
1,370 miners will have to be put on temporary layoff, he said. After
that, only maintenance people would be working on the site.

Earlier this week, Shiller told the Vancouver board of trade th,
Quintette “has until mid-Ds to devise a reorginzation plan
gett by its . Or face iptcy."*

Probation for sex offender

By CasNews Staff

A 49-year-old Crescent Valley man
has been found guilty of sexually
assaulting a 12-year-old girl

Nick Poohachoff was finéd $1,000
and placed on probation for three
years after a B.C. Supreme court jury
in Nelson found him guilty Monday
of the charge which involved fondling
the girl about a year ago in Slocan
Park

Crown prosecutor Dana Urban told
the Castlegar News a number of cir-
cumstances led him to request the
Punishment that was imposed by the
court rather than seek a jail term
which is normal procedure in such

cases.

The Crown considered © the
likelihood of a conviction to be low in
this case because the complaintant lied
during the preliminary hearing, Ur-
ban said. The girl was pressured by
her family not to reveal the details of
the assault, Urban said.

Her initial testimony, corrected
during the trial, made it difficult for
the Crown to make its case and there
was an expectation that the jury might
not deliver a guilty verdict, Urban
said. The Crown wanted a conviction
to help prevent further assaults, he
explained.

Urban said he also told the court no

overt violence occurred during the
assault. As well, Poohachoff had no.
criminal record before being charged
and he was under the influence of
alcohol at the time of the assault, Ur-
ban said.

A doctor who specializes in dealing
with sexual offenders told the court
Poohachoff is not a pedophile or a
deviant and if he gets help for his
alcohol problem there is little chance
such an offence will occur again, Ur.
ban said.

The trial took an unusual twist
when Poohachoff changed his plea to
guilty after the trial had been turned
over to the jury but before the jury

began its deliberations, Urban’ said.
The change of plea forced Justice
Raymond Cooper to order the jury to
return a guilty verdict

During his probation, Poohachoff
must participate in alcohol coun-
selling and treatment and cannot €n=
ter a licenced establishment. As well,
he cannot be in’the presence of a girl
under 17 years of age without an
adult of the child's choosing present,
RCMP said

Urban said the Crown wants people
in the Crescent Valley area to know of
Poohachoff's conviction so they can
take any steps necessary to Protect
their children,

Portions
of plan
revealed

VANCOUVER (CP) — Civic
governments -should consider
charging more for a swim in a com-
munity pool or a racquetball game at a
recreation centre, says Municipal Af-
fairs Minister Lyall Hanson.

User fees should be a key com-
ponent in a 10-year provincial plan
now being developed to revamp the
financing of municipal services, he
said in a speech to the Union of B.C.
Municipalities annual convention this
week.

“In many communities the user
charges for recreation are token as
opposed to the actual cost of doing
it,” Hanson said in an interview.

“The residential and commercial
tax base has some limits to it and
those people who are enjoying the
facility in direct use might have to
contribute more.””

Hanson said his ministry will ask
municipalities for new ideas to collect
taxes, such as through bank
machines, and better ways to explain
municipal tax bills.

But he also said the provincial
government wants to retain its
flexibility in deciding when it will
provide grants in lieu of taxes for
Provincial facilities within municipal
boundaries

The provincial government is selec-
tive in deciding the grants. It offers
grants where Insurance Corp. of
British Columbia claim centres could
be taxed but not for ferry terminals
on civic property, something Nanaimo
council has criticized

“The difference, of course, is the
flexibility of the government to set the
level of contribution but just about all
of the ‘contributions by precedent
have been based as if they were
taxable,’’ Hanson said.

He also said new municipal election
legislation will be ready for 1993 civic
campaigns

Voter eligibility will be dealt with,
he said, along with concerns that can
didate eligibility is too broad

Under current rules, a person who
lives in one community can seek of.
fice in another although “‘I’m not
sure we'd change that.""

Hanson also announced two
modest government programs to
assist municipalities.

The Village Square program will
enable small communities to revitalize
downtown shopping and tourist
areas. About 70 centres with
assessments less than $60 million are
eligible for $5,000 in planning fees
plus grants and low-interest. loans
each totalling $20,000

The communities must come up
with two-thirds of the revitalization
costs

A second, program, Municipal
House, ‘will’ provide a base of
operations for civic officials visiting
Victoria to conduct business with the
provincial government. Hanson had
no cost figures for the initiative.

Carol Gran, the minister respon
sible for women, announced a
$500,000 pilot program aimed at in
creasing community” involvement in
women’s programs.

Her ministry will provide one-time
grants to bring together women’s
organizations, church groups and ser
vice clubs to identify local women’s
problems and seek solutions.

She said the government will also
open regional offices to provide staff
to co-ordinate women’s programs
No date was set for the program's im.
plementation

Keynote speaker Walter Hardwick,
an urban geographer at the University
of British Columbia, told delegates
municipalities should prepare now for
the time when native communities get
self-government as a result of settled
land claims.

‘You must explore more ways of
drawing self-governing native com
munities into your communities."’

good time as they joined a lar,

expansion. The 1,000 We:
Regeneration of Nelson.

TREE PLANTING PARTNERS
i 2 fem 4 :

Monica Hawes (left) and Diana Churches prove you can get your hands dirty and still have a ;
‘ge crowd at the Community Complex Thursday night to

Plant trees. The event was organized to show support for Celgar's
ern Red Cedar seedlings were donated

CasNews photo by Ed Mills

[rnesed pulp mill

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Recycling tax will not
make Nov. 17 ballot

By SIMON BIRCH
Editor

A bylaw authorizing the Regional
District of Central Kootenay to tax
Property owners in Castlegar and
surrounding rural areas to raise
money to fund a recycling program
will not be on the Nov. 17 ballot as
planned.

Mike Livingstone, interim recycling
coordinator for the regional district's
sub-region that includes Castlegar
and surrounding rural areas, told
Castlegar city council at its last
meeting the bylaw has been put on
hold pending completion of a
consultant’s report which will identify
the priorities of a regional district
wide recycling program.

Stanley Associates Engineering
Ltd. of Kelowna and Gartner Lee
Ltd. of Burnaby have been invited to
make presentations to the regional
district's waste management commit
tee on Monday. The committee will
then recommend one of the con.
sultants to the regional district board,
Possibly as early as next Saturday
when the board meets in Nelson.

“The bylaw would have to come
after the report from the consultant,””
Livingstone told council. ‘Until that
report comes in indicating the
Priorities, it’s difficult. for us to
estimate the monetary Value of the
bylaw."

He said he expects the report to be

completed in early 1991

“I would say no later than early
spring,”’ Livingstone said. ‘After that
report is received and considered,
plans can be made for recycling in this
area.”"

In an interview later, Livingstone
said he believes most people are in-
terested in recycling but there needs to
be more public education to guaran-
tee a successful vote on the bylaw

“‘It_ was deemed inappropriate to
place it so quickly,"” he said. “‘It’s not
worth taking the risk."”

Meanwhile, an advisory group ap-
pointed last March by the waste
management committee for
Castlegar, Area I, Area J and.a por-
tion of Area H, has made its
Preliminary recommendations to the
regional district's waste management
committee

The'core objectives set out by the
advisory group include:

© Addressing the public concern
that immediate efforts be made to
clean up the environment;

© Reducing the volume of material
buried in the Ootischenia dump;

© Reducing by public education, or
“‘precycling,"’ the materials entering
the dump;

© Reclaiming the
amount of recyclables; and

© Operating the total
management and recycling program
economically and efficiently.,

“It's an awkward problem we're

maximum

waste

trying to tackle and we need all the
help we can get,”’ Livingstone said

Recycling efforts in the regional
district are a result of the provincial
government's stated policy of
reducing by SO per cent the volume of
materials being buried in landfill sites.
All regional districts in B.C. are
required to have. completed an
operational solid waste managemept
plan by 1995. To achieve that objec-
tive, the province has allocated funds
to help regional districts with some of
the costs of their plans.

Each sub-region of the regional
district. must provide funding to
operate its waste management system,
hence the need to seek approval of
voters on a money bylaw

The recycling advisory group mem-
bers for Castlegar and its surrounding
rural areas are: Livingstone, Deborah
Davis, Martin Meyer and Ingeborg
Thor-Larsen (Castlegar); Dodie Zerr,
Bob Lerch and Barry Burgoon (Area
H); George Marken, chairman, and
Michael Gilfillan (Area I); and Cindy
Hornseth and Sandra Wyllie (Area J)

Ald Marilyn Mathieson of
Castlegar is an associate member

The sub-regional waste manage
ment committee — formerly called
the refuse disposal commission of
management, is composed of Area |
director John Voykin, chairman,
Area H director Bob Barkley, Area J
director Ken Wyllie and Castlegar
Mayor Audrey Moore.

School health system eyed

By CasNews Staff

Ways must be found to integrate
education and health services more
closely and allow educators to better
carry out the mandate of the School
Act which” charges them with the
physical and mental health of a child,
Castlegar school trustee Mickey
Kinakin says.

As a step toward bringing the two
forms of service closer together, the
Castlegar school board will make a
submission to the Royal Commission
on Health and the board wants public
input on the contents of the sub-
mission, Kinakin said Tuesday
Individuals and groups wishing to
discuss thé relationship between
educational and health concerns are

invited to attend a meeting at the
school board office Sept. 26 at 6 p.m

Noting the medical community is
now placing a high degree of impor
tance on prevention of disease,
Kinakin said— schools should be
Promoting healthy lifestyles. Children
should be taught health and fitness
can bea way of life, rather than just
something done for an hour in the
gym, he said %

Public health services, such as vac
cinations and hearing and sight
testing, should be brought back to the
schools, Kinakin said

Such services are available in the
community —but simple procedures
such as vaccinating young children
can “‘fall by the wayside”’ if a family
does not have medical coverage,

parénts forget to keep a child’s shots
updated or they are unaware of the
need to vaccinate their children, he
said

And the tack of regular hearing and
vision testing in the schools puts @
burden on teachers who must be on
the lookout for students who may
have physical problems that are ham
pering their learning and request
those students be tested, Kinakin ad-
ded

Another point where education and
health cross paths is over children
with special needs, Kinakin said
Children with special needs are being
integrated into the regular school
system now and their individual
health needs must be met in the
classroom, he said