ESTABLISHED AUGUST 7, "BET ‘Tea AnD em Castlégar News PAGE A4, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1990 SEMESER OF Tet OC PRESS COMMA VUNCE WEEN Y AOAY 4 cD CY CAMPBELL — RUBLE AUGUST) BEF FEBRUARY oh ETD EDITORIAL Revised bylaw an improvement Early morning joggers can huff and puff casicr but late night strollers in the park beware — technically you may soon be breaking the Public parks in Casticgar will be Iegally off limits between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., thanks to a new bylaw given third reading law last week by city council. Final adoption is simply a formality. The new bylaw — which council hopes the RCMP cam use as a ““tool”’ to control vandalism in city behavior. of graffiti or the destruction of benches — is associated with big cities. It’s distressing to see Castlegar become. a victim of such anti-social VIEWPOINTS Tories hope tour good for By IM COYLE OTTAWA (CP) — Virgil was a Poet, not a political strategist But Prime Minister Brian Mulroney seems to have found direction im the old Roman’s dictum that fortune favors the brave. For the last couple of weeks. Mulroney has gone coast-to-coast to face his accusers, retailing the decisions, pumping up the Conser- vative faithful and trying to persuade droves of doubters his government is on the right track The visits, Tories hope, will vent Public wrath and serve as a safety valve of sorts. Through it, they hope. Mulroney will appear decisive and principled In both Saimt John, N.B.. and + Mi y met if smaller-than-expected, posses of Protesters hurling insults and calling for his resignation Still, im Saimt John, the prime mumister predicted a third majority — daring stuff in the face of polls showing his Tories at all-time lows for a party in power Pollsters say the prime minister had nothing to lose and could hardly play the role of a man with a pian while hiding in Onawa “it’s pretty hard to assert: leadertup from a bunker,”” says Winnipeg pollster Angus Reid Rank-and-file Tories went to sce Mulroney — particularly in the West and Quebec where they face serious threats from the Reform party and the tour is “good for the troops, good for the party. “He's effective doing that.“” Dasko said. ““We can see the way be deals with his caucus, he’s very effective.”” The visits let Mulroncy take his message past the parliamentary press gallery to locai media and the public And, for Conservatives, something good could happen and has. Demon Strations have been reid y smal For all thes bowts over the summer that Parkament be recalied, Op posson Leader Herb Gray and NDP Leader Audrey Mclaughin have been hard pressed to lay a glove on Mulroncy during question period. Dasko says the hated goods and Services tax and ms Jam 1 implemen tauion make mumediae Conservative recowery unlikely. But the Tories — Stalled at about 15 per com im public opumon polls — cam likely expect to Start the long clmb back before long. “We've probably seen a bouomang out of thes suppor.” she saad “They should start some kind of a Tecowery sometime mext year_*” + Mulyopey returned this week to the restful baim of hes home ridimg “We didn't try to bade from the Problems and God kmows we're Paying the price im the polls.”" be told supporters im Bac Comeas. Que. im another refram from his stratcey “I am comvinced that the people will realize we are om the right path.“ Stan Wilber, a Comservatne MP from Briish Columbia, recently com- templated quating the camces over "2s time to mect Canadians where they live “I think this is ome of the big problems,”” Wilber says. “People around ham hawe mot bees hopes: and said, “Look, we've got a probiem.” “Get out of the ivory tower of Or- what you want to hear.” In 25 days. the Tories qoiono goooo'% Nooo, 7 fe IQ) Cy ig LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Arrow Lakes highway needed As you may know, since 1971, the north-south inghreay route along the cast shore of the Arrow Lakes, imking Fauquier and Syringa Park has consumed 2 lot of my time and effort. As of today, 29.5 miles of the 40 miles of this govermment road is completed. It means a simple 10.5 miles of road aced to be built to joi the two usting roads. This “missing link” has been laid owt and mapped Over the years, letters written to, and received have comvinced me that there is a lot of community and provincial support for this link A north-south imk along the Arrow Lakes would hnave the following key advantages (along with others =amy who are travelling north or west would be able to quxckly commect up with other major highways EK 1 and the C. © Tramsportation of logs and wood chips to Westar and Ceigar would increase economic actwity im the area_ For cxampic, The Vanguard Group, who operate a sawmill at Edgewood, would restaurants and more. error. now have an economically feasible outlet for wood chips. This is but one example. © With the route in place and with the transportation of goods into and out of this region, jobs will be created. Everyone from truck drivers to mill workers up and down the valley will have increased work. This also creates an increase in the Support service industry — © With the planned 20 years of work on the dams im the Kootenay region, this route would provide quick access for transportation of people, equipment and goods to and from the communities of Nakusp and Revelstoke and the Mica dam. © This highway will help relieve the perceived additional stress that the residents of Slocan Valley believe will be upon them with the modernization and expansion of Ceigar Pulp Co. With the alternate route, Highway 6 and the Slocan Valley can retain its peace and tranquility. Ll strongls urge the Kootenay For the record Nel Vandergaag should have been referred to as Mrs. Vandergaag, not Mr., in an editor’s note following a letter to the editor in Wednesday’s (Castlegar News. The Castlegar News regrets the Castlegar tires, servicing, George Evin Task Force to commit, as its highest priority, the construction of the 10.5-mile link of the Fauquier/Syringa Park road in conjunction with the upgrading of the road to meet highway standards. October 27,1900 CastlegarNews as/ PERSPECTIVES Human rights activist visits By CasNews Staff When human rights activist Karl Gaspar was imprisoned in the Philip- pines in 1983 for what the government called rebellion and subversion, many People troubled by human rights abuses wrote letters calling for his release. Some of those letters came from Castlegar residents like Bill and Alma McGauley, members of the B.C. Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, who met Gaspar when they travelled to his country in 1982. Gaspar was their guide during their visit. The letters were a large part of the reason why he was not killed and was eventually allowed to appear in court on the charges, Gaspar said in an in- terview with the Castlegar News. “I am very, very privileged,’’ he says of the support and help he received during his prison term. Last week, Gaspar, 43, came to Castlegar, the last stop in a Canadian tour, to speak about what is hap- pening in his country and meet with some of the people who wrote letters on his behalf. He urges concerned people to keep Pressure on both the Canadian and Philippine governments by writing letters and monitoring the human rights situation, “If not for that (pressure on gover- mment) the situation would really worsen,"’ he said. Gaspar spent 22 months in prison but said he was treated better than many people who were arrested during the regime of Ferdinand Mar- cos. Many were arrested without being charged and were not permitted trials, he said, adding that if someone disappeared for a week, people expec- ted he was dead. But because of his connections with human rights organizations and Pressure from his parents, Gaspar said he was allowed to stand trial, during which he was acquitted. The court case took 16 months and he remained in prison for another eight months after that before the paper- work was completed and he was allowed to go free. Gaspar, a Redemptorist brother and lay theologian, has continued his work since his prison term and is not directly harassed by the military, he vic KARL GASPAR . + "Very privileged’ said. But he is unable to work without being under surveillance and others he works with are harassed, he said. A major part-of Gaspar’s work in- volves organizing rural communities to fight for their basic right through a Catholic Church program called Basic Christian Communities, he said. The situation in his country has changed little despite the election of Corizon Aquino. The military is still in control and there are still political Prisoners in the Philippines, Gaspar said. Economically, the country is also in trouble and its forests are being destroyed, he said. Garpar said he doesn’t expect the situation to get any better in the next few years — in fact, he said, it will Probably get worse. Gaspar said he wants to make Canadians more aware of what is happening in his country and try to impress upon them the need for coun- tries such as Canada to make the deb- ts of struggling nations easier to repay so they do not continue to spend large amounts of needed funds paying back foreign banks. Gaspar has been in Canada before — in 1976 and 1980 — during travels around the world to promote human rights. His recent tour of Canada also took him to Toronto, Saskatchewan, Victoria, Vancouver and Kelowna. } of Please address all letters to the editor to: Letters to the P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. ViN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at 197 Columbia Ave. in Castlegar. Letters should be typewritten, double- spaced and not longer Letters MUST be signed and include the writer's first and last names, address and a telephone number at which the writer can be reached between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The writer's name and city or town 4 iHt+-be- wit --Onty in exceptional cases will letters be Published without Nevertheless, telephone number of the writer MUST be disclosed to the editor. The Castlegar News reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality, grammar and taste. Editor, Castlegar News, than 300 words. the writer's name. the name, address and Petro-Can should stay public By LYLE KRESTIANSEN w wasters of energy toward a more en- MP The Maizomcy Conservatives are gpommg to privatize Petro-Canada And they’ re cutting off debate, just as they God wah the free-trade debate. with the goods and services tax. with the wacmployment musurance cuts, and wah the clawbacks to both old sccurmty and to family 7 energy future. The Mulroney Conservatives are blinded by their religion than at any time since the last oil crisis, Canadian families need an oil company they can trust. They need Petro-Canada — and an open, honest — the public imterest be damned. They pathetically and dangerously Place all of their faith im the magical good will of huge, powerful, most of Why are they domg thes? They seust thamk — because they're hcting ws over the head with the GST shedgehamencr — that we won’! notice the Comservative knife im the back: sefllang off our national energy com- pany pest whee we may oeed « most They’ re going to sell it off at a huge ful few who control the rest of the coumery Furthermore. they will be throwing zea; what & one of our best vehicles for positive eaviroamental action. for moving Camada away from being one of the world’s most ixresponsibie od which have a documented history of gouging Canadian consumers. Simce the Comservative victory has S€rvative privatization just fine. New Democrats believe that there are vital public policy goals which only a publicly owned national energy company can achieve. First, we must maintain and in- — to ensure that they won't be ripped off at the pumps. Third, Petro-Canada ensures that energy industry profits are reinvested in Canada. Dividend money that leaves this country for the United States, which is over $7 billion in the 1980s, will never be used to contribute to our country’s energy security and economic good health. Third, Petro-Canada must be used to lead the energy industry towards a “*greener”’ future. Petro-Canada should lead the way in recycling ozone-depleting chemicals in car air conditioners by setting up is facilities im its service stations. It should take the lead in ing used engine oil. Petro- recycling Canada should move into the crease Canadian hip and con- trol im the ofl and gas industry. Petro (Canada is the only major oil company Operating across Canada that is not mostly foreign owned. Petro-Canada Privatization will result in a further increase im foreign oil and gas owner- ship, a situation that will only worsen under the trade deal. With gas prices imcreasing faster of p ing propane, grain-based ethanol, and other alter- native energy sources. And it should Start promoting energy conservation and efficiency. Petro-Canada was formed in the first place because of New Democrat Pressure im the early 1970s, when events in the Middle East and price gouging by the multinationals put our energy security at risk. Unfor- tunately, the Liberals and the Conser- vatives never let it work for Canadians by ensuring real com- Petition and fair prices in the energy marketplace. They allowed Petro- Canada merely to imitate the other big foreign oil companies. The current crisis in the Middle East is showing Canadians that we need Petro-Canada — a revitalized Petro- Canada — more than ever. We need Petro-Canada to keep the foreign oil companies honest. We need Petro-Canada to help keep energy profits in Canada. We need Petro-Canada to help lead us to a more sustainable energy future. And we need a national New Democrat government to make it all happen. If you agree with me about Petro- Canada, please write to Prime Minister Mulroney and tell him not to sell it off, and send mea copy of your letter. Remember, you do not need Postage to send a letter to the prime minister or to any members of Parliament_at- their Ottawa_ offices. The address for all MPs is c/o House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, KIA OA6. Bloc Quebecois barely noticed By ROBERT RUSSO OTTAWA (CP) — _ They A recent survey indicated Bouchard is the first.choice among Quebec fran- Second anniversary of their re-election and Mulroncy must soom make at kcast temative seeps imo the good- news phase of his secomd mandate The challenge is formidable while “Sometimes, going out and sur- prising everyone by showing the amount of opposition on the street is Rot as strong as people might have expected can act as a counter-point io the bad polls."” Reid says. That, in tandem with Mutroncy’s nding with a Best that be stick with Virgil and recall: Forsam et hacc ofim memniminse vative cabinet minister Lucien Bouchard. remaims committed to working for 2 sovereign Quebec from wate a federal msitution But centre stage — amd the site of the Bloc’s gremtest success — remains its home for premier. Other polls suggest the group could win over 40 of Quebec's 75 federal seats. Bouchard has spent little time in the Commons, preferring to stump in Quebec and prepare for what will likely be 2 starring role on the com- mission that will determine the Province’s constitutional future. He will spend at least three days a week for two months im Quebec, sit- ting on this commission. “The House of Commons is of Pierre Fournier, 2 University of Mon- treal politics professor. ‘‘Quebecers just expect them to show their sovereigntist colors and prove that they are different from the i House, which may have hampered the fledgling group's effectiveness. “Their raison d'etre is con- parties.” But skepticism about Bouchard and his movement lingers. Pierre Bourgault, considered a father of Quebec’s modern separatist movement, has written off the Bloc and Bouchard as dangerous power- mongers. “If | understand him weil, he wants us all to be united, but only around his own person,’ said Bourgault. There’s been nary a peep from the Bloc on constitutional issues in the and we just haven't had any yet,”’ said Harvie Andre, government House leader. The welcome mat was not rolled out for the Bloc when it entered the House on Sept. 24. But Jean Lapierre, the group's House leader, says the Bloc has become the official Quebec op- Position to the governing Conser- vatives. The Bloc has more Quebec francophone MPs than the Liberals and is far ahead of them in the polls REMEMBER WHEN 4 YEARS AGO From the Oct. 26, 1950 Castle News A plan to revive the women’s forces has gone through preliminary Stages and a drive may soon be opened to recruit women for the reserve -bran- ches of Canada’s navy, army and air force. Reports that Canada might revive the women’s forces were first heard when recruiting began for the special United Nations brigade now in training. At present the only women in the armed forces are nurses. * oe . A group of teenagers held a Halloween party at the Castle Bar Ranch recently with Doreen Pitts as hostess assisted by Joan Bennett. A very good time was had by all with games and dancing being the highlight of the evening. 25 YEARS AGO From the Oct. 28, 1965 News Smith Brothers and Wilson Con-_ struction of Vancouver were apparent low bidders on phase one of construc- tion of West Kootenay Regional College here when tenders were opened late yesterday afternoon in Vancouver. Smith's bid was for $2,210,000. oe . A desk-thumping defence of in- clusion of the Castlegar-Kinnaird area in the proposed Kootenay Central Regional Area rather than in the Rossland-Trail orbit was made at Kinnaird’s council meeting Tuesday night. Village chairman Carl Loeblich, in a prepared statement that received the unanimous support of his com- missioners, attacked Trail for its at- titude and departed from his text to remind his council that ‘‘Trail’s brief cut Castlegar-Kinnaird out of a power cut last year.”” . * Work on the Arrow dam project here threatened to cease on Tuesday when 13 barge and tug boat operators at the damsite were fired for refusing to start work that morning. 15 YEARS AGO From the Oct. 30, 1975 Castlegar News A lively municipal election has shaped up for Nov. 15 with Mayor Ed Mosby being opposed by local businessman Bob Lightle and six aldermanic candidates seeking the three vacant two-year terms. . . The Hon. Paul Hellyer, former Liberal cabinet minister and now a Political columnist, will be the guest speaker at the fundraising dinner * Do you need a new furnace? © Were the mild winter bills still high? ON SALE NOW! 90-96% Efficient Natural Gas Furnaces — October Only a GAS FURNACE SERVICE $3 9 i Ss ARROW LAKES AIR CONDITIONING 1-A ‘Columbia Ave., Castlegor 365-2485 being held by the Kootenay West Progressive Conservative Association at Castlegar Saturday. . . Recent decisions to cut costs in the arena portion of the new Community Centre brought criticism to the building committee and several telephone calls to both Mayor Ed Mosby and Ald. Audrey Moore. At Tuesday night’s council meeting Mayor Mosby said he found recent Statements related to the arena as being “‘unfounded”’ and “‘if riot un- founded, ill founded.”* . . The last 6.57 miles of the Missing Link (Salmo-Castlegar Road) is to be completed by the end of next year. 5 YEARS AGO From the Oct. 20, 1985 Castlegar News Paul Moroso was re-elected president of the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce for a second term. meeting WINE JUICE NOW AVAILABLE Pails & Barrels $19,170 following the chamber’s annual meeting. . Although noon Monday is the deadline for filing nomination papers for the Nov. 16 municipal election, candidates for Castlegar city council Positions are scarce. * . The Castlegar Expo 86 Committee will apply to the Expo legacy fund for mney for an extension to the Castlegar Library. . . Five students in the Castlegar school district have been suspended “for alcohol related reasons’ so far this school year trustee Kay Johnson told the Castlegar school board at its Monday meeting. Your Castlegar SAFEWAY it Butcher Fresh Meats CHICKEN LEGS Back Attached $2.18/kg. 99 .2% STEW MEAT $5.49 /kg. eal HOW MUCH IS YOUR TIME WORTH? The money you may save on the commission could get eaten up by the time it takes to sell your home. In most cases, it takes longer to sell a house privately then it does if you utilize the services of a real estate company. 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