t Y Neen as Castlégar News July 23, 1989 Local Socreds back road link the Rossland-Trail Social Credit Association executive recently voted unanimously to contact Minister of Transportation and Highways Neil Vant to seek construction of a highway link between Castlegar and Fauquier, an association news release says ‘Such a highway would ‘open up’ the Arrow ‘Lakes to tourists and recreation, as well as give a direct link between Castlegar and the north Okanagan, thus access to the Coquihalla route to the coast, the association says. The resolution sent to Vant reiterates the stand taken on con struction of this highway on a number of previous occasions, the association adds The issue of the highway'link was first a subject of discussion with the provincial government in April 1971, according to the association. It was ~Girlm further raised in 1981, again in 1985 and each year since then, Sipport for this route has also been a continuing interest of the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce and Westar Timber, the association says. A leading proponent of the highway link for years has been Castlegar esident George Evin, He has pointed out to government that ‘two thirds of the proposed 60-kilometre road is already built to a fairly good stan: dard."’ Evin maintains the project would ‘involve. upgrading of the present sections and constructing only about 16 kilometres of new road," the news release says In other business, at the recent an- nual meeting of the C y Charles Gohoe and Margaret Green of Castlegar, Paul Johnston arid John George Rypien of Fruityale, Kalmakov, Marc Marcolin, Alyce Pompu and Adlyn Spence of Trail, Janet Merry of Warfield and Don Vockeroth of Rossland. Phil Brooks of Fruitvale was named to a one-year term, while Maureen Milne of Warfield and Rossland was elected to the position of second vice president for aone-year term. BUSINESS DIRECTORY TELEPHONE 365-5210 Mati for the Castl News New ins Busin of August. ions, copy chi and Directory will be accepted up to 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 25 for the month Assocition the following people were elected to a two-year term on the executive as directors istook grizzly for cow SPARWOOD (CP) A 10-year old girl mauled by a grizzly bear says she mistook the anima! for a curious cow as it prow!ed outside her tent “When | woke up I felt a big tug at my thigh and thought it was@-eow, sol kind of slapped his nose through the tent,"’ Conni¢-Lee Kirkness said from her hospital béd in Sparwood “Then I felt teeth that were about an inch long,’ said Connie-Lee, who is recovering from injuries to her left thigh and hip that required 17 stitches toclose Connie-Lee and her seven-year-old sister, Tia, were asleep Tuesday in their pup tent at a provincial forestry cam: psite at Rock Creek, about 190 kilometres southwest of Calgary, when the grizzly approached their tent Connie-Lee realized the animal was a bear when it left the tent and began examining a nearby camper where the girls’ parents were sleeping “I saw a bear on its hind legs with its back fur bristling, and it was trying to get into my parents’ camper,”’ she said. “I put my hand over my sister's mouth to stop her from screaming. It was scary The bear returned to the girls location and ripped open the side of their tent with its claws, Connie-Lee and ‘Tia started screaming and woke up their parents, Richard and Debbie Kirkness, who managed to frighten the bear away by shouting and banging on the side of the camper “I saw the bear with the flashlight, and as soon as it took off I grabbed the kids out of the tent and got them into the camper and out of danger,”” Deb-" bie Kirkness said Connie-Lee was taken to hospital in Fernie, and then transferred to a» hospital in her hometown of Spar- wood B.C. forestry service officials have closed campsites at Rock Creek, North Star Lake, Suzanne Lake, Kikomun Creek and Wapiti Lake until the bear is captured. Job openings Brian L. 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Must be either Unemployed 24 past 30 weeks or s interested in Electricians with re mercial experience requ Wage $12 to $15 per h 4th year apprentice Experienced, registered medical lob charge technologist is required in Trai Wage is $14 per hour. (263 ARROW LAKE ELEVATION 1436.7 ft. on July 22 Forecast of Elevation 1440.6 ft. on July 29 SAL STARTS: ——> ne Aa ih OPEN SUNDAY 12-4P.M. ii Upstairs There is @ new Job Development Project available to people in the Castlegar area out of work for at least the last six months or on social assistan ce. The project involves the start up of a wood processing plant at the end of July. (254) @ encourage students who are seeking summer employment to register at the Student Employment Centre on the 3rd floor of the Federal Building Their phone number is 368-9126 Hohl. sili * Up te g Too — SATISFACTION GUARANTEED — Why not Call Us Today! 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Where muzzle-loading cannon once dominated the battlefield, quick-firing field artillery and enormous howitzers now spread steel sleet over kilometres of countryside. Machine-guns spewed a rain of bullets. Science added poison gas, airplanes, aerial bombs, tanks and flame-throwers to the fight Belgium and northern France, with millions of tramping men forming a swinging door that would engulf Paris, then catch the French armies in the rear as they surged into Ger many First World War forged a new world MPIRE AT WAR Britain was a guarantor of Belgian neutrality and despite the German diplomats’ disbelief that Britain would KOOTENAY SEALCOATING Serving the Kootenays — East & West! * HIGH PRESSURE SEAL COATING * ASHPALT DRIVEWAYS & PARKING AREAS * LINE PAINTING * PROTECT CONCRETE & BRICK WITH HI-PRESSURE WATER PROOFING PHONE 365-2635 or 825-4216 Septic Service COLEMAN COUNTRY BOY SERVICE Sump & Septic Tonk Pumping Phone 365-5013 3400-4th Avenue Castlegar WANTED CLEAN COTTON RAGS Castlegar News 197 Columbia Ave Castlegar Seventy-five years ago — on Aug. 4, 1914 — the First World War began. It was a conflict that altered the map of Europe, changed societies and brought Canada to nationhood. This story is part of a series on what writer H.G. Wells called The War That Will End War. By JOHN WARD The Canadian Press On the last day of peace in 1914, Lord Grey, the British foreign secretary, watched dusk fall over London and whispered an epitaph: ‘The lights are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”” The First World War, which began later that night, on Aug. 4, extinguished many lamps. It turned societies on ‘When Britain is at war, Canada is at war.’ —Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier their heads, toppled four empires — the Germans, Russian, Austrian and Turkish — and forged a new world, hardened by fire and blood and at least 10 million deaths. It also brought Canada to nationhood, at a heavy price. Prewar society was largely agrarian and much ruled by class. It was a time of conspicuous wealth and conspicuous poverty The British Empire was still at its, zenith. The dominions — Canada, Australia and New Zealand — were properly respectful of the mother country. ‘*A British sub- ject | was born, a British subject 4 will die,”’ Sir John A Macdonald had said, and that sentiment still held The other colonies were pacified and quiet. India was still the jewel in the crown of the Empire, its independence a pipe-dream The Royal Navy, which had imposed a pax Britannica on the world since the end of the Napoleonic wars a century before, was still the dominant force in international potitics, although tt was beng challenged by the upstart German navy of Kaiser Wilhelm. Canada was a sleepy backwater of eight million people — compared with 40 million Britons. It looked to Britain for leadership in foreign affairs. ‘When Britain is at war, Canada is at war,’’ Sir Wilfrid Laurier, this country’s seventh prime minister, had said Canadians were peaceful and, on the whole, prosperous. Less than half of them lived in cities. The West was becoming a breadbasket, while the mines of Northern Ontario were being tapped for gold, silver and other metals. Railways were crawling across the vast hinterland of the northwest, spreading farms and settlements and tap- ping the rich western resources of foodstuffs, coal and tim- ber. While Canadians worked the land and conducted their business, their tiny regular army polished its brass and blacked its boots, the 75,000-man militia drilled on weekends and at summer camps — and tensions grew across the Atlantic. Europe was a fused bomb by 1914. Armed alliances had entangled every major untry. France and Russia stood against Germany, wh! muttered about encir clement and signed a pact with the vast but moribund Austro-Hungarian empire. Britain stood aloof from such formal agreements, but conducted informal talks with France about mutual action in the event of a Franco-Ger- man conflict ARCHDUKESHOT Tub-thumping militarism, national arrogance, races to build bigger battleships, and commercial rivalries over markets and raw materials mixed in an unstable brew that summer, needing only some spark to detonate. The spark came June 28 from an assassin’s pistol which killed the Ar chduke Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, in Sarajevo in what is now Yugoslavia The fuse burned fast. Austria sent an impossible ultimatum to Serbia, the assassin’s homeland. Little Serbia appealed to fellow Slavs in Russia for help. Russia threatened Austria. Germany came to her ally’s aid. France mobilized in keeping with her commitment to Russia. Ger many, inturn, marched on France and Russia Britain stayed above the fray, hoping to damp the fires. But Germany's basic strategy — a monstrously detailed plan to defeat-France quickly, then turn to the sluggish Russians — required that part of the main thrust against France swing through neutral Belgium The German plan envisaged a great sweep across go to war “for a scrap of paper,”’ Grey sent an ultimatum to Berlin demanding an immediate withdrawal from Belgian soil. The march of armies could not have been stopped even if Berlin had changed its mind. Britain — and the Empire — went to war The First World War was a new chapter in warfare Battlefields, once merely hazardous, became lethal. It was to be the first war in which more men were killed by the enemy than died of disease Canadians fought and died in — and won — many of the horrendous battles of the First World War. More than 60,000 Canadians were killed, but the war helped create a nation from acolony By JOHN WARD The Canadian Press The young faces in the fading photos from the tren ches are haggard and dirty and the eyes are those of old, old men The Canadian farmhands and clerks and cowboys and lumberjacks who jauntily marched to fight in 1915 learned a terrible new trade in less than four years of the First World War The honors they earned came at some of the har dest-fought battles of that murderous war Second Ypres, Vimy, Amiens and, saddest of all, Passchen daele The valor of Canadian soldiers, and the country’s determination to field a fighting formation distinct from the British army, combined to win Canada a place atthe council tables of the world and helped forge a national identity. Many argue the victory at Vimy Ridge West fought a grim war War helped Canada ‘mature into nation was a watershed in the development of Canadian nationalism. The young men from the offices, fields, farms and factories of Ontario, Quebec, the Maritimes and the To the established terrors of battle, technology added new horrors: poison gas, flame-throwers, tanks and airplanes. The fighting was rooted in the trenches — dank, slimy ditches alive with lice and rats. summer and winter in damp woollen clothes, ate a monotonous diet of canned stew, hard bread, jam and tea, and tried to avoid the shells, mortar bombs, snipers and ordinary accidents that caused constant casualties, a toll unfeelingly described by the staff officers as “‘normal wastage LAND ANDAIR Most of the Canadians fought as infantry in France and Belgium, although some hunted in the skies over the Billy Bishop of Owen Sound, Ont., was a mediocre pilot who tended to crash his planes, but he was a deadly shot and the top-scoring British ace with 72 claimed kills. Of the 12 top aces in the war, with a total continued on poge C2 There men lived