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Castlegar native saves life [

NEWS REPORTER
Castlegar has bred yet another hero.
Castlegar native Sharleen Clifton (nee Mar-
tini) risked her life in a dar-
ing rescue recently, saving a
man from drowning in the
process. ~

Clifton was on her way to
coach a basketball tourna-
ment Friday, Feb. 28 when
student Scott Tidsbury saw
an arm waiving through a
hole in Round Lake, 20 kilo-
meters north of Princeton.

Clifton and fellow teacher Dave Smith
climbed onto the ice and inched their way to-
wards George Bosnich, 66, who had been fish-
ing when hé fell into the water.

“{ couldn't get out,” Bosnich said, “I had pret-
ty much given up hope when Sharleen got
there.”

Clifton also admits that things looked dis-
mal when she got there.

“I thought he was ready to call it quits,” she
said. “George didn’t look too good at all.”

Sharleen Clifton

Neighbors were alerted and quickly brought
an aluminum ladder to assist in the rescue.

Clifton and Smith managed to get the ladder
into a position where Bosnich could drape him-
self across it.

“As soon as he made it on the ladder he was
like a wet noodle,” Clifton said. *

“Most of the kids watching thought he had
died right on the spot.”

Bosnich was rushed to a nearby hospital,
where he was treated for second-stage hy-
pothermia.

“Poor old George would have been toast if
those teachers didn’t show up,” said Princeton
RCMP Const. Ray Kinloch.

“They're to be commended for their actions,
especially for being so cautious in their rescue.”

But being called a hero doesn’t sit too well
with Clifton.

“This man needed someone, and the next
thing you know we were crawling along the ice.
We didn’t even have time to think about it

Clifton was born and raised in
Castlegar,where she attended both Stanley
Humphries Secondary School and Selkirk Col-
lege.

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Ferry Users get inland report

Scott David Harrison
EDITOR

The Robson-Raspberry
Ferry, Users Ad Hoc Commit-
tee says one battle has been
won.

The committee Friday was
to received a copy of the in-
land ferry report, something
that it has been seeking for
four years.

“We are very anxious to
find out what is in the report,”
committee spokesperson Ter-
ry Dalton said jursday.

Dalton said the 50-page re-
port will help the committee
discover the truth regarding
the April 25, 1988 departure
of the Robson ferry. At the
time, then-Transport Minis-
ter Steven Rodgers said the

local ferry was removed ac-
cording to recommendations
made in the inland ferry re-
port.

Dalton said the report
would also give interior com-
munities an idea what plans
were made about their fer-
ries.

“It certainly will tell us one
way or the other, the risk that
other ferries were under,”
Dalton said. “We like to think
that the effort we have done,
our ferry back, it helped
maintain services for other
communities.”

The inland ferry report
will be presented to the com-
mittee by MLA Ed Conroy.

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dential,” Conroy said.

Dalton said he has both
Liberals and New Democrats
to thanks for releasing the
document. He said the Liber-
al Transport. Critic Doug
Symons did the leg work in
the legislature, which Trans-
port Minister Art Charbon-
neau pried away from Victo-
ria bureaucrats.

“The thing that is really
nice,” Dalton said, “is that
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tion Week.

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process which sees our gov-
ernment open reports to the
public so people can see how
decisions affect their lives.”

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Rossland-Trail Socreds
are wondering what’s up.

Members of the once-
proud party are weighing
their options following the
devastating defeat of Social
Credit in the 1991 election.

“Right now we're really in
a wait-and-see mode,” con-
stituency president Elmer
Pellerine said. “We have to
wait and see what happens
with the party and the
province and decide just
what our future is.”

Pellerine, who was rein-
stated as the Socred’s Ross-
land-Trail - president on
March 25, says Socreds may
be down, but their not neces-
sarily out.

Blaming the party’s Oct.
17 defeat on “arrogance”, Pel-
lerine said local Socreds may
consider a change in political
stripes.

He said; depending on the
strength of B.C. Liberals, So-
cial Credit may explore the
creation of a coalition party
“under a new name.”

“Social Credit was simply
a coalition between Social
Creditors, Liberals and Con-
servatives before,” he said.

Socred executive
weighing options

when the ultra-conservative,
right-wing thinkers took con-
trol of the party. The party
got too arrogant and it is pay-
ing for it.”

Pellerine said there is a
need for a coalition of right-
of-centre thinkers. He said
area voters must have “an al-
ternative to socialism.”

Locally, Pellerine said the
New Democrat government
may be giving Socreds a new
lease on life. Pointing to the
forever-dead Robson ferry,
the postponement of the
Castlegar-Robson bridge and
the handling of the Tree
Farm Licence No. 23 trans-
fer, Pellerine said Socreds
may be scoring points.

“When you think about it,
there really isn’t that much
difference between the de-
feated Social Credit and to-
day’s NDP.”

Pellerine said - voters
should also be concerned
with the NDP budget. He
said Premier Mike Harcourt
is “down-sizing the economy
at the expense of British
Columbians.”

“That budget is going to af-
fect people much more than
they know,” he said.

“The working people will
eventually see it and say

- ‘Wait a minute, we’ve been

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