The’ Gastlogar Sun Name: Jennifer West basis of part By BARBARA ‘TANDORY ‘Sun staff writer. ° minister under Bill Bennett. Waterland, who’ holds. no. i ‘The Reform Party of Canada in Kootenay West-Revelstoke em- erged out of its brief infancy state Sunday when it established itself as the fourth major political party in the riding at the general meeting of the party’s consituency ass- ociation in Castlegar Sunday. And the newly-elected pres- ident of the Reform Party’s riding association says the party will be plodding its way all the way'to Ottawa. Brian Snelgrove — the riding 's interim since last spring — ‘told the audience of about 60. party members, who voted him president by ion in the i official posi in the Reform Party, said his decade in provincial Conservatives ended abruptly in : February, when: Finance Minister Michael Wilson brought in the new budget. “I became very upset,” he said, | noting that many “other straws led to this last one,” The Willson budget, he noted, had sent a clear message to the western provinces and was proof enough for him that the central government was intent on allowing “people in Ontario ‘and Quebec tell us what we should be doing in BC” yu Waterland said as‘a British executive election, that the first hurdle has been overcome and tne Reform Party has now 278 members in the Kootenay West- Revelstoke riding. And some $1,100 in the bank. “Sometime in the fall of 1991 well start naming candidates for he had always resented statis said was an uninformed and high-handed treatment of the ‘West by the federal government which, he said, seemed to be taking’ actions hased on the idea “that we here in thy; colonies don’t know how to look after our business.” - ~ Wateriand, who began. his Where you work: Community Complex ( lon) What you do there: Take orders, pour coffee, pop, etc. Castlegar likes: College campus Castlegar dislikes: Poor shopping Best kept Castlegar secret: East @ate has excellent Chinese food. Pet: 2 dogs (Scooter & Divet)}: Vehicle: Volvo What would you rather be doing? At home sleeping : ee In waterbed! ible (federal) election in 1598 .” said Snelgrove. “We will have a candidate for litical career in 1974-and:-was elected in 1975, said — his Kootenay West-Revelstoke, and if everyone pitches in and does their job, we'll have him in Ottawa,” he insisted. Snelgrove said the interim executive — formed this past April t to build up the local party hip to the req minimum of 40 members — has signed up 278 members. “We have a long way to go,” he said, noting that the job of the new Area:l RDCK Director John Voykin accepts a Certificate of Appreciation on behalf of the board from Evelyn Voykin, vice-president of the West Kootenay Branch of B.C. School Trustees at the regular board meeting held on Nov. 24 in Nelson. SUN STAFF PHOTO/ Nancy Lingley WEATHER OF NOVEMBER 1990 November 1990 was warmer than normal ‘due to a southwesterly flow of alr from off the will be to establish a “good, solid or- ”" and also i its ", goes back to the early Trudeau era and a memory of a natlonal government commercial ‘ politics ended four years ago and ‘fi his philosophical allegiance to the | ‘SUN STAFF PHOTO / Barbera Tencory Tom Waterland chats Informally with a fellow Castlegar Reformer, Dorothy Bragg. Bragg was elected 1st vice- president of the Kootenay West-Revelstoke Reform Party of Canada Constituency Association. He suggested doing away with ae ul si that described Canada as stretching “between the Atlantic Ocean and the Rocky Mouhtains,” a telling ommission of the province of B.C. on the Pacific coast. “And when we have an election in Canada, they don’t even allow us to. voting before telling us who won.” ki ically .of. the IC and old age p Snelgtove, a Castlegar resident, heads an’ executive ised mostly of other them with benefit plait only for those who need it. Waterland said the UIC ‘system, in particular, is “abused “terribly” but noted his view was not acceptable.to some other reformists with whom the idea of Castlegar area residents, and has been also hard pressed at the meeting Sunday to name directors from the Revelstoke area. In the association executive elections, six more persons have been elected as officers along y of the with been = well federal Set Waterland bank account. “We're advised that when an election is called, we should have at Jeast $20,000 in our war chest.” But the task hefore the fledgling federal party, which has build its political platform around the concept of the Canadian west di ded the Social Credit’s tough restraint policy with which he was- involved while in government in 1983 as “necessary, believe me"? and said Wilson seemed to be saying B. ey could take more tough fiscal pol “Te ie e budget) seemed to say, “We're not Being to- ‘all’ the as a weak and exploited partner in the federation, has been made. easier by the general mood of reform in Western Canada, a special guest speaker told the Casilegar meeting audience. Tom Waterland, a former Socred cabinet but we're going:to; “do it: to you (because) you guys in B.C... can look after your own affairs.” But payme entrenched, “If we continue to have _ universal programs like this, the people who do need them won't get it, because we won't be able to afford it,” he said. Waterland ended his guest appearance with a_ general discussion of party policies and idea’ with Reform ‘Party members * the ‘Sunday. _ gathering,-admitting some of-his : ideas may be seen as adamantly that the Reform Party, which carries the West's agenda, is a party with a strong sense of provincially and a Conservative federally, said he has found his political home in the Reform Party of Canada. He urged the local reformists.to join him in a vigorous membership drive among those who had become i d and «to federalism. “We're not a separatist party,” he ‘said. “We're exactly the opposite. We want to become a’ party of Canada. We want the west to become a part of Canada.” He also noted that with the with the political parties. “I find one of the easiest things to do is to get people involved with the Reform party,” said Waterland, president of the Mining Association of B.C. and a former national debt of $360 billion, at an annual interest cost of $43 billion, the country is headed for bankruptcy. “We can’t go on. We have to get our fiscal affairs in order because if don’t, the country will go bankrupt,” said Waterland. “I think Canada will survive Better if we talk about we're not happy about,” he aon He also suggested the best time to hammer out the differences of . opinion within the party was now, when the party is grappling with Castlegar’s Dorothy Bagg, formerly an interim secretary, became the association's Ist vice- president, while Nelson resident Peter Ness took the 2nd vice- president's position and Ron Ross, a well-known community booster from Castlegar accepted the job of 3rd vice-president in charge of media and public ‘relations, ereeNa A <-Ruth Trickey, also’ a resident of Castlegar, became the forth vice-president, ‘and fellow Castlegar residents, Marilyn Johnston and Henry Jobn, a respectively: the association’s secretary and treasurer. All positions were elected by acclamation, . And although the party the finding its proper i ideology. Waterland said he supports a senate reform promoted by Reform’ Party leader Preston ig. “A reform of the senate is absolutely essential if this country is to survive,” said W association to name between 12 and 13 area directors, the positions for the areas of Silverton-New Denver-Burton, Nakusp and Revelstoke could not ‘strong This would assure a fair “regional representation from the west,” he said. a director in each area,” said Snelgrove. “We need people and we need money.” & Merrycreek Continued from1A . ber, “That's dictatorship!” he declared. “You can’t rezone ay’ ” ‘ Pacific. The ly flow b-tropical air into the province giving heavy rain and extensive flooding along the coast and into the Coast Mountains. On occasion the flow veered to the north west resulting In varying freezing levels with mountain passes reccrding snow one day then rain the next. 8 y Gundersen, 61, , said he was very upset he didn’t get to speak his mind at the special meeting of council. “I lived there all my life,” the 61-year-old property owner told ‘sfalthough the prevailing ly flow broug! warmer air into the Kootenays most of the precipitation He said he owns a piece of a 40-acre family estate on ‘oad and ownis 800 ft. fell'along:the coast with below normal at the Castlegar Airport. Rainfall for the month at 37.4 mm Is:68% of normal; snow at 22.4 cm is 66% of normal | on Forest Road. prairies said he is “with total precipitation at 64,8 mm. Pi was ‘recorded on 22 days, well above the average of 15 days ?and’slightly below the record of 25 days set in 1983. The arm flow gave a mean temperature for the month at 3.4 degrees, well above normal of 1.6 degrees. Sunshine, at f urs WAS 92% of normal. ‘This. Date Record Day Year . m1 © 19.2 2. -20.2 d to having land designated single family changed to multi-family by the combine bylaw 553 passed Monday. ‘When the dust began to settle the next day, deputy city. clerk Betty Price said that Mr. Gundersen's refusal to sell the — tod James visit at the city hall. “We're thinking of sending a delegation of people to demand an explanation,” said Harry Killough after a first consultation with some ten neighbors. “The process (used to pass bylaw 553) I feel is a real of ” Rysen who requested the rezoning change — had no bearing on the city’s rezoning policy. “The property is rezoned, regardless of who owns it,” said Price. But the dust did not settle on the issue at all. By noonday Tuesday, a group of Merrycree*: Road area residents began preparing to pay a protest “ “We might consider a legal challenge,” said Killough whose family settled in the area as one of - the ecarliers pioneer families, He Killough and his neigbors have concems about traffic safety, pointing out that Highway 3's design is inadequate to handle additional residential traffic, They also object to the three-way mix of land uses. ‘ “Strike one was when they (the city) let industry in some fifteen years ago.,” said Killough in reference to the location, Peer cues things OF 8 of a Labatt's eer h said he's app P management office of the Regional-:District of Central Kootenay and was advised that legal action might be in order. “The seems to be operating like a law to itself,” said Killough. depot anda sawmill. ~ Killough said adding yet another zoning to the single- family/industrial mix was “Strike "two, like in a baseball game.”* But he said the residents are Wednesday, December 5, 1990 The Castlegar Sun Ne ge et eV UR ah riasnperge pioves wheal and Page 3A m CounterAttack Continued from 1A impaired driving, in addition to iving the 24-hour ! under the MVA. If convicted, a jail sentence of up to six months is . possible, as is a Fin $2,000. i “And the driver! 's license ‘will ‘ * be taken away for one year, no. questions asked,” added Ni A second. - convictio: ; ‘of14 years in ail is there yellow, The | Castlegar: | RCMP Detachment has 10 formal Christmas, CounterAttack ; like lights per red lights and ‘people | number of years ago. kick < “We park: the tex3, smbrlence, hearse-in the center of ‘the; roadway with flares around . xp! we stop vehicles right beside ‘the Bearas so thoy! Geta. tall view ‘Tt e addition to the' above. Impatre - driving causing bodily harm ads ee a 10-year. jail’ to the options, as well as up to. 10. Canadian Christmas delivered to Persian Gulf. By NANCY LINGLEY Sun Editor, Thanks to a whole bunch of Kootenay-based helpers, Santa will visit the 600 Canadian Armed Forces men and women stationed in the Middle Bast. ° ‘And he'll do it in style. Hight hundred and fifteen dozen‘cookies, 116 cakes and loaves, 480 tins of nuts, dozens of pped: gifts, several hundred games, more than ‘1,000 . Paperbacks and magazines, 25 cases of Creston Valley apple juice donated by Sun Rype, a case of hard Christmas candy courtesy of ‘the -Creston Overwaitea, a number of artificial Christmas trees donated and decorated by school children, 600 copies of Beautiful B.C, magazine, dozens of ball caps from the Columbia Brewing Company, pens and caps from the B.C. Lottery Foundation, and thousands of. cards from individuals, school children and families — almost a ton-and-a- half of Christmas — is on its way to Canada Dry One in Qatar located on the Persian Gulf below Saudi Arabia. And the first leg of that journey, trucking it all to a Canadian Air Force base in Edmonton, was provided courtesy of Castlegar’s own Dayna Bell, the local agent for Motorways. * ¢They’re doing that free of charge and it’s much appreciated, “ said Karl Johnston of the Kootenay Broadcasting System, who sponsored the Kootenay- A fond farewell. (above) Mayor Moore is flanked by her retiring councillors at the ‘aut meeting of council held wide event. “That sure would have been a hefty bill.” The very first inkling of a Kootenay Christmas in Qatar came out of the Creston Valley in late October when a young couple began to worry about the troups stationed in the Middle East. “Thore' was nothing on the news, we didn’t know what was Rachelle McComb idea to show them someone was thinking about them,” added McComb. McComb approached Creston Town Council and the local Royal Canadian Legion Branch #29. Both groups donated funds for postage and McComb began a letter-writing campaign for the troops stationed in the Persian Gulf. “We were just going to send them through the regular mail,’ explained McComb. “We didn't think we'd get that much response. Then I'got a call from KBS who was organizing a similar thing. I beat them by about three days, but we decided to make it one campaign.” The rest is history. “Our goal was for 600 cards, one for everybody,” said McComb, “We got about 200 per person.” “The campaign went really well,’” understated Johnston when it was il over. “ It-seemed to strike a really emotional chord. People would call us here at the station and you could tell they had tears in their eyes, Canadians have a reputation for being very going on. It was like ly cares here in Canada,’ said Rachelle McComb whose husband Cary served in the Canadian Armed Forces from January 1980 to August 1988. The couple, in their late 20s, have a six-month-old daughter, . “The morale over there was really dropping. So we thought we should do something about it. We thought it would be a good , Dot ional like the A i but this ip seemed to bring forward a lot ‘of emotion, “I want to thank everyone in the Koctenays who took part,” said Johnston. “I think everyone will pay more attention to what’s going on over there now. We sent this stuff to human beings, not just some army squad. It’s localized an international story.” SUN STAFF PHOTO/ Frank Derby From the Kootenays with love. Castlegar Motorways agent Dayna Bell arranged for the transport of a ton and a half of donated Christmas goodies to a Canadian airforce base in Edmonton. From there the merry munchies will be airlifted to the six hundred men and women stationed in Qatar on the Persian Gulf. Nov. 27. Left to right, Terry Rogers, Moore, Patti Richards, and Albert Calderbank. New faces. (below) Newly-elected Castlegar aldermen were sworn in at the inaugural mesting Monday evening. Seated, Mayor Audrey Moore. Left to right, Kirk Duff, Jim Chapman, Cst. Stuart Schmidt, Reverend Ira Johnson, Bob Pakula, Doreen Smecher. Out with the old and in with the new Justice of the Peace Judy Wearmouth administers the Oath of Allegiance to Mayor Audrey Moore under the watchful eye of Cst. Stuart Schmidt. WEATHER OUTLOOK: The forecast for Wednesday; cloudy with a few sunny breaks, 50% chance of a shower or fiurry. Highs near 2. Outlook for Thursday and Friday calls for a moist westerly flow, remaining cloudy with light showers or flurries. Seasonzel temperatures will prevail. Highs from 1 to 3. A LOOK BACK AT THE PAST WEEK: Temperature: Max/Date Min/Date Mean ‘SUN STAFF PHOTOS / Nancy Lingley Normal Mean 38/29 -&7/28 . 0.7 Snow Total Normal Total Precipitation: sin 3.6 cm. 16.2cm. 17.6 cm. 20.9 cm. Number of Normal Number Hours of Hours 8.9 9.2 Sunshine: REMARKS: Moderate to heavy snowfalls over the mountains during the last few days a allowed a few ski resorts to open on tie weekend. The same snow caused poor. highway conditions: in: the valleys and. a few ro: closures over the Ki Pass. R b stiously at all times and be awere.of schoo! zones!: Forecast produced by The South - East Interior Weather Office _ at Castlegar, 8.C.