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- Saturday, May 9, 1992

By GARY LARSON

City gets early taste of
summer-like weather

Glen Freeman
NEWS REPORTER

Hot enough for ya?

Well, it was hot enough at the beginning of the week to break
a few records.

“The hot weather was due to an upper ridge of high pressure
which was covering a large part of western North America,” said
Meteorological Technician Ron Lakeman.

“With the southerly flow, we get a lot of warm air.”

That warm air turned hot and Castlegar was stuck in a
three-day heat wave.

On Wednesday, the mercury hit 32.5 degrees Celsius, break-
ing the 1989 record of 27 degrees.

“Sure, it was a record shattering temperature — Ilike that,”
Lakeman said.

What sun worshippers and summer seekers may not like is
the less than scorching weekend weather forecast.

“Well, the ridge is breaking down,” Lakeman said.

“Now we're going to get more seasonal temperatures, and the
average for this time of year is 19 or 20 degrees.”

__Monday’s temperature reached 29 degrees, breaking a 1966 _

record of 27. : :
Tuesday’s 31 degrees also rewrote the record books, beating
a 1987 record of 27 Celsius.

@ Four protesters jailed for ignoring

B.C. Supreme Court injunction

Jonathan Green

NEWS REPORTER : :

‘Four Lasca Creek protesters have been ar-
‘rested after ignoring a court injunction

The injunction, signed by B.C. Supreme
Court Justice Thomas Braidwood on April 29,
was served to protesters at Lasca April 30 by
Atco Lumber Ltd. — one of three companies
holding timber licences in the area. But be-
cause the injunction was addressed to Jane
and John Does, Lasca protesters chose to ig-
nore it. :

Staff Set. Al Pritchett of the Nelson RCMP

said the arrests took place Wednesday after-
noon.
“Three adult males and one adult female
were arrested at the sight and are presently
in custody for contravening the court order is-
sued by justice Braidwood,” he said Wednes-
day.

Pritchett said if the four signed an agree-
ment to stay away from the site, they would be
released until their appearance in court Mon-
day. If not, they would stay in jail.

The action at Lasca Wednesday was the
most recent in a series of events that began af-
ter a government decision in March to proceed
with logging in the area.

In it, Forests Minister Dan Miller and En-
vironment Minister John Cashore announced
that road building activity would continue at
Lasca, with logging to follow by fall 1993.

Shortly after, protesters set up at atepee on
the lawn of the government building in Nel-
son in protest. Their actions climaxed with the
four arrests,

Last fall, 64 protesters were arrested at
Lasca for interfering with road building ac-
tivity, and a similar action took place in Feb-

ruary.

‘Cota Bouland, acting as an individual, said
Thursday that the four arrested agreed to
stay away from the site and were released
from jail. She added that protesters were no
longer on site. :

“Camp was broken last night,” she said.
“There is no opposition on the road today.”

Atco Woodlands Manager Hans Louwe said
he is happy that road work can once again
proceed.

“If there is no presence I’m pleased,” he
said.

Bouland said Atco and road builders
Dosenberger Excavating may have won one
battle, but the environmental war has just be-

n.
“It’s far from over,” she claimed.

News file photo
Protesters took their first action, erecting a

tepee on the lawn of the government building.

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Opposition to clean-up law mounts

Jonathan Green
NEWS REPORTER

Opposition to a proposed Regional District of
Central Kootenay bylaw in Area H is growing.

The district’s board of directors have given
Unsightly Property Bylaw No. 923 three read-
ings, and it is now in the hands of Municipal
Affairs Minister Robin Blencoe for final ap-
proval.

But ever since the district made the pro-
posed bylaw public on April 10, Concerned Cit-
izens Forum chairman Zak Ackerman says
Slocan Valley residents have been up in arms.

He said that an April 30 public meeting op-
posing the bylaw brought out Valley residents
from all walks of life.

“One of the biggest tree-huggers in the area
gave a local logger a slap on the back for a point
he made,” he said. “This is such an infringe-
ment of personal rights and freedoms that we

can’t let this go by.”

RDCK secretary Barry Baldigara said sim-
ilar bylaws exist.in six other areas, adding that
the amount of disapproval from Area H resi-
dents is contrary to response received when the
bylaw was initiated in the other six areas.

“When we advertised in those areas, there
was very little opposition,” he said.

Ackerman said that Area H director Bob
Barkley, who proposed the bylaw, seems to be
driven.

“He was described by (RDCK) chairman
George Cady as being tenaciously opposed to
dropping it,” he said.

But Barkley said that isn’t the case.

“It’s for the betterment of the community,”
he said. “I’d be damn foolish if I was doing it
just for the sake of doing it.”

Ackerman said in the week since the meet-
ing, several hundred Area H residents opposed

to the bylaw have put pen to paper.

“There are 3,500 electors in the area,” he
said. “We have over 500 signatures on peti-
tions.

“That’s over 15 per cent (of the area’s elec-
torate ).”

Ackerman said he believed that within a
week, he would have a majority of electorate
signatures to force the RDCK to drop the by-
law.

But Cady said because 923 is a regulatory
bylaw and not a money bylaw, no amount of
public opposition can defeat it, and that it is all
Barkley’s choice.

“It’s up to him,” Cady said. “It can go to ref-
srengon if he wants, but it’s not required by

aw.”

Cady said with the number of phone calls
and letters that Blenoce has received, he
doesn’t expect a decision for a couple of months.

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News photo by Ed Mills
Stanley Humphries construction workers Geoff Verigin (left) and Kim Verigin took advantage of an afternoon

break to bask under the heat of the record-breaking temperatures Castlegar experienced this week.

Slocan rallies
around new
Winlaw park
executive

Jonathan Green
NEWS REPORTER

Winlaw Regional Park users
are getting a say in the land’s
future.

At a recent. public meeting,
12 people came forward to form
the park’s new board of
directors.

In a news release, Slocan
Valley Recreation Co-ordinator
Craig Lawrence stated he was
pleased with both the turnout
and commitment at _ the
meeting.

“I was really impressed with
| the-group.Fhe eommunit:

showing they want to make this
- park happen for everyone.”
Some 20 people attended the
meeting, discussing topics
ranging from vandalism to the
mosquito problem.

Selkirk College close to deal

Scott David Harrison

EDITOR :
Selkirk College is close to a settlement.

College president Leo Perra met with union
negotiator Jeff Fox Wednesday in the hopes of

“It was a matter of shoving something this way
and shoving something that way,” he said of

Wednesday’s meeting.

reaching a new two-year agreement between union’s negotiating plans.

Selkirk and its 100 full- and part-time

instructors.

“We had a friendly discussion,” Perra said
Thursday of the one-hour session with the B.C.
Government Employees’ Union negotiator. “There
were some offers made back and forth and that’s

where it’s at.”

Perra said it’s just a matter of time before the

two sides reach an agreement.

“T don’t think either said wants to enter into a
strike,” he said. “We’ll still try to reach an

agreement.”

Perra said the two sides “are not very far

apart.

contract since Sept. 31, 1991.

Fox was unavailable for comment.

About the instructors request for an 11.5 per
cent increase, Perra said that is still in the

If the increase is approved, Selkirk instructors
would make a top-scale-wage of $60,000 a year.
The union says the 11.5 per cent increase would
allow Selkirk instructors to achieve parity with
other college professors. The present top-scale
salary is is some $53,000 a year. The average
Selkirk instructor earns $48,041 annually.

Selkirk instructors have been without a

“There certainly was a
variety of opinions expressed,
and I felt that it was important
it all be aired before we
committed ourselves to going
further. This way there will be
fewer surprises later.”

Vice chairman Len Block said
Thursday the board has one.
main goal in mind.

“We'd like to see that the
park is used,” he said.

Block said that vandalism at
the park has been a problem in
the past, but believes that by
educating the public, visitor
traffic will increase.

“The last thing people want is
witnesses when they’re

According to the college, the instructors are bre g the law,” he said.
also seeking sick leave and benefit increases,
better work schedules, ensured professional Sunday at 10 a.m. sat the park.
development days and tighter contract language.

The board meets again

Block encouraged all interested
residents to attend the strategy

session.

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