‘March 6, 1985 Drug charges ~~ answered By CasNews Staff Joseph and Julie Catalano were sentenced in Castlegar provincial court Monday af- ter pleading guilty to con- spiracy to traffic in a nar- cotic. Joseph Catalano was given 50-day intermittent jail rm on one conspiracy count, to be served con- currently with another 50- day. sentence for possession of a narcotic. Julie Catalano received a suspended sentence, and was put on three years’ proba- tion on one count of con- spiracy. Conspiracy to traffic char- ges were stayed against seven others: Guesseppi (Joe) Antighani of Castlegar, Kevin Catalano and Arthur DeFrias of Trail, John Mc- Ginnis of Nelson, Arlo Berg- strom of Fruitvale, Thomas Girardin of Rossland and Miles Dean of New Jersey. SYNOPSIS: A broad trough of low pressure covers all of western Canada and is resulting in varying ‘amounts of cloud, cool temperatures and o few showers. Disorgonized areas of moisture will con- tinue across the province from time to time showers by no Daytime temperatures will warm up a little as sunshine is expected at times over the next few days. is) fe) 12] El fe) (&) GRANT continued from front poge Another $11,882 went to a cross-country ski trail project. Three jobs will be created for 36 weeks to upgrade old trails and develop new ones. Nelson Museum Community Services Project received In Kaslo, $21,841 has been awarded to Heartwood Industries. The project will create four jobs for 64 weeks. Workers will develop prototype children’s furniture and do marketing analysis and research for the custom furniture manufacturing firm. $38,486 to create three jobs for 117 weeks. Work will include cataloguing a backlog of items and working on publicizing exhibits. ‘Two projects were approved for the Salmo area. A total of $40,331 has been granted to upgrade Salmo Golf Course and facilities. Three jobs will be created for 124 weeks to upgrade both the greens and fairways and work on improvements to the clubhouse. J Six jobs will be created for an environmental enhance- ment project. The project will receive $39,000 and last for 120 weeks, Workers will do brushing and weeding for deer and elk and will maintain grounds of the Fish Ladders In New Denver, Three Island Resort will receive $20,338 to construct a campground. The project will create six jobs for 60 weeks. In Creston, two projects will receive funding. The East Side Kootenay Lake Habitat Enhancement Project will receive $47,174 to improve habitat for wildlife in the marshy areas by the lake. It is hoped to increase the bird, deer and elk population in the area. Ten jobs will be created for 140 weeks. The Creston Valley Marshes for Many projects has been granted $30,373 for a 90-week project. It will create three jobs. Workers will do nature interpretation and take tours Building. The work will take place on provincial Crown land. through area marshes. BUT AGAINST ABOLISHMENT Bennett for senate reform VICTORIA (CP) — British Columbia Premief Bill Bennett. today described as juvenile proposals that the Senate be abolished, but agreed that reform is necessary. “The thing is to make it work,” he said in an interview. Proposals to abolish the upper house are “a very simplistic reaction.” The premier was commenting on a statement Tuesday by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney that he would endorse abolition of the Senate if Liberal Leader John Turner would immedi. ately do the same. Bennett said the Senate does not work, but could be made to do so — likely by providing federal represen. tation for provincial interests. “I think (abolition) would be very, tution.” “Obvio very simplistic — it's the sort of thing I'd expect a teenager to say but not someone who is interested in gov- ernment,” the B.C. premier said. Bennett said he always has felt that it was crucial that the Senate be re- formed but “I could not get enough support, when the constitutional talks were on, to have any decisions on that included or concluded in the Consti- ly now it is up front again and British Columbia is prepared to take part in any comprehensive dis cussions on making it work. “I think it would be good for Canada to make it work, it would be par ticularly good for the regions that are not at the centre to have a working CLEAN COTTON WANTED Castlegar News 197 Columbia Ave. mons. VIDEO GOODS Senate to represent their interests, to have a voice at the centre.” VARIOUS IDEAS Bennett said his government has put forward a number of proposals on how senators should be chosen. “I think there has to be some flexi- bility in dealing with the other regions, the other provinces as to how that would be done.” The premier said he has not dis- cussed the matter at Mulroney. Attacks by Conservatives and New Democrats on the Liberal-dominated Senate were brought about by last month's stalemate in the upper cham- ber over a $19.3-billion borrowing bill which had been approved by the Com length with Castlegar man on theft charge By CasNews Staff A Castlegar man was ar- rested by Trail police Sunday following the theft of up to $10,000 worth of video re- corders and other electronic equipment from Union Peters store earlier that day. John William Vigue, 27, of Castlegar was charged with break-and-enter, theft and possession of stolen prop- erty, according to Sgt. Ron Currie of Trail RCMP. Che stolen merchandise — reported missing Sunday — was recovered “all in good order” in a ditch beside Local couple helped free a friend By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer ‘Today the good news finally came Like the dawn of « bright, glorious morning. The judge declared me not guilty .. .’ — Kari Gaspar, political prisoner, from a letter On Feb. 16 Bill and Alma McGauley of Castlegar got a phoge call from Vancouver from an Amnesty Inter. national worker informing them that Karl Gaspar — a lay theologian and personal friend — had been released from a Philippine political prison Feb. 9 after almost two years. “We were thoroughly delighted,” said Alma McGau ley, who with her husband had joined various church groups and Amnesty in a continuous letter-card-telegram campaign for Gaspar’s release. “In a sense he's an adopted son for us,” she said. “We believe in his cause of working for the poor. It was a real joy to hear of-his Pelease.” Four years ago, the McGauleys struck up a friend ship with Carlos “Kar!” Gaspar, 37, while on a month-long FEATURE REPORT tour of the Philippines, sponsored by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace. The tour gave the McGauleys and 18 other British Columbians the opportunity to experience the daily life of the poverty-stricken country. Gaspar, a human rights activist and church worker, was one of the “facilitators” of the tour, who lectured and introduced group members to contacts in various Philippine communities arid organ izations. The trip was an intense experience for the Me Gauleys, and they were impressed by Gaspar’s genuine concern for the poor — estimated at 80 per cent of the population. “He was charming, witty — a favorite of the women, but also extremely popular with the men,” explained Alma McGauley. “But he became a personal friend in that month.” This made it all the more painful for the couple when they learned of Gaspar’s arrest by military agents on March 26, 1983. Friends of the McGauleys informed them that Gaspar had been arrested on his way to investigate Casino Road, about six kilom: ster south of Trail, said urrig. _Nortlake. 30% Police file Castlegar RCMP arrested a teenager last week in con- nection with a theft of ap- proximately $1,000 from Caldset grocery store on Col- umbia Avenue last month. Const. Morris Holloway said the Castlegar youth was arrested at his residence. Another youth involved in the theft — which occurred On Sets & Open Stock Oven to table to dishwasher. Microwave safe. 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Castlearid Plaza 365-7269 RCMP investigation is from the the disappearance of five Catholic human rights workers ical Centre for D of Davao. in the city The McGauleys later learned that Gaspar had been charged with “subversive activities,” which is a “pretty general charge,” says McGauley. “You can be charged for criticizing the government over a cup of coffee,” she said. “That can be subversive.” For about two weeks following his disappearance, authorities denied any knowledge of his whereabouts. Fearing that he might be tortured or killed, his family raised an international appeal for his safety. Three weeks ISONER IN ANOTHER LAND... Karl Gaspar was ina Philippine political jail for nearly two years betore his release. after his arrest, Gaspar was found jailed in a political prison in Davao. Gaspar was finally tried around July of last year. Long waiting periods before trials are common in the Philippines, says McGauley. Gaspar was apparently arrested during a wide- spread wave of disappearances in the Philippines in early 1983 involving clergy, church workers and lay leaders. Although President Ferdinand Marcos insists his country’s political system is democratic, Western critics have said it's still a dictatorship. The McGauleys say Phillipine peasants are “being pushed off the land,” and the political situation is “like a voleano about to erupt.” The McGauleys were able to communicate personally with Gaspar during his imprisonment through his sister, who delivered letters smuggled into the prison between the pages of magazines. The conditions in political prisons are somewhat better than regular Philippine prisons, and the security rules are more relaxed, according to McGauley. “Obviously if they wanted to stop him, they could have but they didn’t anyway,” she said. The McGauleys say Gaspar wasn't tortured while imprisoned, and, according to Gaspar, this was because of the international campaign for his welfare. But other prisoners weren't so lucky. What follows is an excerpt of a letter written by Gaspar May 22, 1983. It was published in a h by E ical Ce i for Human Rights in the Philippines — a group formed out of participants in the original tour of the Philippines taken by the McGauleys. “Most of the detainees have gone through hell and they still feel pain as they recall the long days and nights of torture,” wrote Gaspar. ‘One young detainee said that at one time he pleaded with his captors to kill him at a point when he couldn't take the pain any more. “The manner, the setting and perpetrators of torture | vary from one experience to the other. Name any torture technique and chances are it's been used on a detainee here — from the use of electric shocks to the water cure.” Members of the Ecumenical Cothmittee met in Vancouver after Gaspar’s release, and it was decided that the McGauleys would write to invite him to Castlegar for a ski holiday. The McGauley’s say the trip would be more of an opportunity for Gaspar to recover from his prison term than a chance to test his skills on skis. “It would seem to us good for him if he could get out of the country for a while,” said McGauley The McGauleys wrote letters to the federal govern ment, then Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristiansen, the Philippine government, and its Canadian embassy while lobbying for Gaspar's safety and welfare. The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace sent Gaspar about 1,000 Christmas cards in 1983 alone, said McGauley . “Letters get some attention, we've found. It seems like such a little-thing to do. “And another reason we send them is it's a little threatening for the government to see these bushel baskets of cards coming. “The government became aware that there were too many people in the world who knew about (Gaspar) to get drastic and do away with him,” added McGauley. For the McGauleys, the release of Gaspar means the culmination of almost two years of worry and effort. And Selped ‘tee sense of satisfaction in having me a formidable opponent. Meeting on tourism By CasNews Staff Deputy Tourism Minister Michael Horsey will address a public meeting in Castlegar on promoting tourism in the West Kootenay March 16. Also speaking will be a representative from Coriolis Consulting Corp. and the president of Addison Travel Marketing, who will speak on promotion and marketing. Coriolis Consulting will According to the Central Kootenay Manpower Adjust- ment Committee — sponsor. ing the one-day event called “The Secret is Out” — other “key questions” on the tour. ism industry to be covered will be: © opportunities for new development; @ the challenges for achiev. ing growth; © and the importance of a The meeting will be held at the Fireside Motor Inn with registration beginning at 9:50 a.m. Following the pres- entations and discussions, a no-host lunch will take place during lunch. These include: two airline tickets from Van- couver to Castlegar return, from Pacific Western Air lines; two tickets from Cal gary to Castlegar return, at 1:10 p.m “The intent of the Presen. tation is to collectively con. sider ways to increase the number of visitors into the region and to determine how these actions are to ne from Time Air, and a 30- minute sightseeing flight for one group of up to three People from Adastra Avia- tion. Reservations aren't re- present a recently report on the tourism indus- try in Central Kootenay. pr ap- proach for the success of tourism. quired, but arrangements for the no-host ‘lunch must be made between 9:50 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. . Leg says Charles Co hoe, committee chairman. Door prizes will be drawn 7 of an early spring. 258th News TREET TALK THE SWALLOWS have returned early to Zucker- berg Island. The island may not be as famous as Capistrano, but Colin Pryce says the swallows return there every year like clockwork. He said they usually return around March 10 or 14, but he spotted them on the weekend. That could be a sign MONDAY'S Vancouver Sun carried a feature article on the Selkirk College aviation program's bush survival course. The article was written by Sun staffer Larry Pynn, who went on the 3-day winter survival trek survival in the bush, mountains, In this instance, the site was along Shield Creek logging road across from Nancy Greene Provincial Park IT’S OFFICIAL. Kokanee beer is the best selling large part to its successful radio whom are a former weatherman, Fred Latremoulle, and a ‘Over $500,000 in cars, trips & cash available to be won! current weatherman, Norm Grohman). Kokanee unseated its chief competitor, Labatt's Blue but Labatt’s shouldn't be too concerned. It owns Columbia Brewing Co. Names in CHRISTOPHER BROWN Robinson, who plays Dr. Rick Webber on TV's General Hospital soap opera, was sentenced Tuesday to four months’ imprisonment for income tax evasion. U.S. District Court Judge Edward Rafeedie stayed the sentence for three weeks so Robinson's lawyer might show the ill effects of imprisonment on his client's ability to pay the money owed and on the ABC television series. Robinson, 46, of Glendale, Calif., also was placed on five years’ probation and must pay all back taxes for the years 1978-1982 and penalties for 1980 and 1982. He also was ordered to perform 200 hours of community service a year. Robinson, who failed to report $490,440 in earnings during the two years and failed to pay additional sums for the other years, is featured on a cough syrup commercial as well as the popular television series. “I'm guilty. I'm sorry,” Robinson said before sentencing. “I've never done anything in my life that was as stupid and I've never paid for any mistake I've made like I've paid for this one.” Robinson has already paid $290,410 of the $595,746 he owes in back taxes, penalties and interest. An ABC k declined to ANNE MURRAY'S home town is turning the old bank where she did her saving as a child — and where she sang “You can count on the Commerce” in one of her television commercials — into a museum honoring the popular singer. Mayor William Mont said Tuesday the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has agreed to donate the old bank, which has been vacant for about two years. Renovations will begin as soon as the agreement is signed. The museum will be called the Anne Murray Centre. “Anne told me she supports the project and is willing to contribute artifacts to the centre,” said Mont. “We will work with Anne so that standards that she will want met are maintained.” Murray has done TV commercials for the Bank of Commerce for several years. Teacher must serve suspension VANCOUVER (CP) — School teacher John Shewan must serve a suspension im posed for his part in the pub- lication of a photo of his un dressed wife in a girlie mag: azine, B.C. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. Mr. Justice Bruce Mac- donald rejected Shewan's ap plication to be reinstated while he appeals against the suspension imposed by the Abbotsford school board in the Fraser Valley. Shewan, 44, received the six-week suspension without pay Jan. 31 after Gallery magazine credited him with taking the semi-nude photo of his wife Ilze, also a teacher in the Abbotsford system She was also suspended but is not seeking reinstate ment because she is expect ing her second child within a week and will be on mater nity leave Shewan, past president of the teachers’ association in his school district, said in his affidavit his loss of pay is a particular hardship at this time Justice Macdonald said he did not consider whether Shewan's conduct warranted NEW IN TOWN? LET US PUT OUT THE MAT FoR YOU! Joyce 365-3071 Connie 365-7601 discipline or whether the length of the suspension was appropriate. “The sole issue is whether (Sewan), having elected to appeal the board's decision, is entitled to be reinstated pending the outcome of the appeal,” he said. The judge concluded there is “no absolute right to rein. statement just because a teacher decides to appeal. It would impair effective ad ministration by the board.” However, Macdonald added, if the school board is proven wrong on appeal, it must pay Shewan's lost sal ary the news SOMEONE MAILED a ‘loaded K dy Onassis, a 38-calibre gun to said Tuesday as. FBI agents and postal inspectors worked in New York and California to track down the person. The package, mailed from the Los Angeles area, was delivered Monday to Onassis at the D: HENS gisestemce = yey, 59S SPARE RIBS MEATY PORK ...............45°2 "8s. 2 BARON CTY TOP ROUND BONELESS. CANADA GRADE ABEEF. «eos opceecg Oe lm - Office where she works as an editor. It was opened by a secretary, police said. Besides the gun — a Smith and Wesson Chief Special — the metal box contained extra ammunition and a hand- written note asking her to help feed the hungry. Onassis was not in the office when the box was opened and will likely have no comment about the incident, said her spokesman, Nancy Tuckerman. Detectives said they want to question the widow of President John F. Kennedy to find out if she recognized the handwr ig or had received similar letters. RESIDENTS OF Yuba City, Calif. — ranked lowest in Rand MeNally's Places Rated Almanac — burned 400 to 600 Rand MeNally maps in a bonfire, but kept its protest upbeat. “We intend to have as much fun with this as we can,” said Don McCullough, president of the co-sponsoring Yuba City New Car Dealers Association, as the bonfire got under way earlier this week. Throne speech formally accepted VICTORIA (CP) — The debate on the Social Credit government's throne speech began Tuesday, but the op- position will not unleash its challenge until later this week. Socred back-bencher Rita Johnston (Surrey) formally moved acceptance of the throne speech, which outlines the government's intentions, She was seconded by another. back-bencher, Bruce Strach- an (SC-Prince George South). Both praised the throne speech as pointing the way for a new era of optimism and economic renewal in British Columbia. The legislature then was adjourned until Thursday, when Opposition leader Bob Skelly is to deliver his two-hour response to the throne speech Skelly has said his speech would contain more specifics than the throne speech. His response would include is. sues the New Democratic party sees as having been ig. neored or glossed over in the government document, he said. In her speech, Johnston praised the document as message of optimism that all people can respond to in British Columbia. “After three long years of sacrifice, they are looking forward to better economic times,” she said in an appar- ent referenice to the period of STEA CUTLETS: Nc CHOPS $ cenceeooquet tog Oh, LAMB LEGS erseissece 19,53 SLICED BACON $979 PACKAGE OF COTTAGE ROLLS GAINERS. CRY-O-VAC HALVES. .... FRENCH BREAD 54 3229 Ox. TIN. 89° 19° GROUND COFFEE==.._ 52® 89° government-imposed re- straint. 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