’ a2 _Casthépar News Febrvory 24, 1968 Brisco tough By CasNews Staff Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco spoke out against the sale of roach clips, hash pipes, syringes, and other drug accessories in a recent House of Commons debate. Brisco said he supports Bill C-264, an amendment to the Criminal Code which is designed to prohibit the sale of drug-related paraphernalia. Brisco said the widespread acceptance of drug use is a “danger” to society. “Extensive use of marijuana, cocaine and other drugs has created enormous social, health and legal problems,” he said. Brisco said “head shops” which specialize in selling drug accessories are “symbols of the apparent acceptance of drug use,” adding, “therein lies the danger.” Brisco said recent studies have shown that the use of marijuana “may be more harmful than thought 10 or 20 years ago.” He said marijuana use is prominent even in light of this information. “Yet it continues to be a cash crop in my riding, referred to as ‘Kootenay Green’,” Brisco said. Brisco said there is a contradiction in laws which prohibit drug use but do not prohibit the sale of drug-related paraphernalia. “On the one hand, illicit drugs are rig ly by law, while on the other hand, the accessories used to consume or otherwise ingest these drugs are being allowed to be openly marketed in stores across Canada.” Brisco said he found this “frightening.” Brigco said that while the industry doesn't generally glamorize or sell implements for “so-called hard drugs, he has noticed a trend away from that with, “complaints of products such as (cocaine) free-base kits.” He went on to say that similar anti-drug paraphernalia legislation in the United States-has not stood up in court as an effective means of curbing sales of the accessories, “The Drug Paraphernalia Model Act which was ped by the Ameri Department of Justice, which on drug accessories was expected to deal with the broad problem of drug para. phernalia, has been subjected to a considerable number of court challenges,” Brisco said. “The rationale behind these court challenges is really quite simple. The ion or of * is excessively vague and imprecise,” he explained, The U.S. Court of Appeal found trouble defining drug nalia without innocent use of some items. Mirrors, spoons, pipes and cigarette papers are all multi-purpose items. Brisco said he hopes the national drug strategy announced last May “will resolve the problem.” FAITH STRUGGLE... Rev. Joe Reed was in Castlegar Tuesday to tell local residents about his work in war- torn El Salvador and Nicaragua. CasNews Photo MISSIONARY “IN WAR-TORN LATIN AMERICA By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer For Rev. Joe Reed life is a continuing journey that takes him from the jungles and towns of Central America to major Canadian towns and cities. Reed works for the Presbyterian Church as a missionary in Latin America and the Caribbean and spends most of his time in the war-torn areas of Nicaragua and El] Salvador He travels from mission to mission, church to church trying to assist local civilians in their struggle for faith in an increasingly volatile area. “The chief social fact is the war,” Reed says in an interview at the Castlegar home of Rev. Jim Ferrier, pastor at Grace Presbyterian Church. “In El Salvador 20 per cent of the population has been killed or displaced by the war.” Reed spends eight months of the year in Latin America and four months in Canada where he relays his experiences to church groups across the country. There is no Canadian Presbyterian mission — they don't have a building or church — in Central America. Instead, Reed travels constantly, visiting Catholic, Baptist and other religious groups and working in support of the various relief, development and human rights groups. Projects include helping with orphanages, health promotions, agricultural projects and things as seemingly simple as village wells. He admits his work is hard — mainly because of the armed conflicts in both El Salvador and Nicaragua. But he says the conflicts differ in the two countries. “In Nicaragua, a village had been destroyed by the Contras (U.S.-backed rebels) for the fourth time in 18 months, the health clinic was burned, the well-baby clinic was destroved. all clothing was burnt and every pot was broken,” Reed says without flinching. He says the El Salvadoran conflict is more limited to armies fighting each other as opposed to attacking civilian villages. He says that 70,000 of three million Nicaraguans have died since the beginning of the Contra conflict in 1983. “The (Salvadoran) guerillas don't attack civilian targets per se, by and large they leave civilians alone,” Reed says. Not so the Contras “The Contras avoid confrontation with the army and concentrate on civilian populations.” He says death and displacement of civilians living in the two countries is not the only problem associated with the wars. “There was a 1,500 per cent inflation rate in Nicaragua this year,” he says. “In El Salvador. the unemployment rate would be about 55 per cent. Despite the overwhelming adversity Reed, says he is impressed with the strength of the people in both countries. “The people, they are courageous, committed and they are very appreciative (of the work Reed does),” he says. While Reed admits he has not yet been directly caught up in any battles, he has s! led across the odd minefield which he’s had to ay, “The military will forbid you to gp into certain places because there's an operation or conflict,” he says. Reed is in Central America with one Canadian volunteer ahd a doctor who works at a clinic on the Atlantic side of Nicaragua. He says there may be a dentist down with him when he returns in June. says, is the tension created by high military visibility and the lack of nourishment and support for civilians in burned-out villages. Aside from the strength of the people who brave the conflict Reed notes: “If you talk to people they say they're widows, their husbands are dead or fighting and they don’t know if they can keep going.” CALLS FOR CALM to deal with it.” After his ordination in Toronto in 1990, served a year in Vancouver, five months in Lake, two years ring to the small ches of the Slocan Valley, three years in Revelstoke and 15 years in Kimberley. He served as rector of Nelson's Cathedral of Mary Immaculate from 1952 to 1971 and also taught at St. sehool, Joseph's Catholic Since has looked after elementary his retirement, Monaghan small outlying Catholic churches in Salmo, South Slocan, Ymir ‘and Slocan City — but was suspended from his duties after the charges were laid. Postal workers launch boycott By CasNews Staff The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has launched a boycott of the Castlegar sub-post office located in Carl's Drugs at Castleaird Plaza. Ben Fietz, president of the Castle gar CUPW loeal, said the boycott is part of a cross-Canada boycott of privately-owned, non-union postal ser- vices. “The Tories and Canada Post are on Hecti agreement on postal workers that will roll back job security and end service expansion clauses that are im our current agreement,” Fietz said in a prepared release. _ “They want to remove all ob- stacles in their headlong rush into the privatization of Canada Post.” Fietz said CUPW members are worried about their jobs, with recent talks of closing all post office wicket ser “They just keep giving away more and more of our work,” he told the Castlegar News. Fietz said Carl's Drugs started expanding its services last fall to include parcel pick-up. The only other private postal agency in Castlegar is Roadside Place, which is an authorized stamp agent. But Fietz said the CUPW will not direct any boycott against that bus- iness. “We're not particularly worried about him,” he explained, adding that the Roadside Place doesn't sell many stamps. Fietz said CUPW members and supporters will take to the streets Saturday with petitions seeking public support. Carl's Drugs owner Cari Knutson, who is also a candidate for the federal NDP’ nomination in Kootenay West- Revelstoke, had little reaction to the boycott. “The hardest thing for me about this whole situation is I've known Ben Fietz since he was a teenager,” Knutson said. He also said he knows many of the other CUPW members and supporters. “I hope when this is all over they'll still be friends.” Knutson said he has operated a sub-post office out of his drugstore for “about 20 years.” HELICOPTER RESCUE He acknowledged that Canada Post intends to put its counter service into private hands. “Their plans quite obviously are to totally privatize the counter element of the post office,” Knutson said. Meanwhile, Fietz said CUPW has no alternative but to organize an “effective, aggressive fight-back cam- paign that will protect the job security for postal workers and also create and preserve jobs by promoting the expan- sion and improvement of services.” He pointed out that Canada Post has expanded its sub-post® office net- work to more than 2,400 across Can- ada. “More and more postal stations are being closed or threatened with closure,” he said. Fietz said that a boycott was chosen as.a tool to fight privatization because the main incentive of the sub- post offices is the customer traffic they generate. “The effect of a successful boycott campaign will be to remove this in- centive by eliminating the anticipated customer traffic.” Ex-resident honored | = : The worst thing about working in the area, Reed | By CasNews Staff A former Castlegar man has been honored for his actions in rescuing two men from a burning helicopter that crashed in the backyard of his Quesnel home last Sep. tember. Keith Watkin, 45, was pre sented with the Royal Can adian Humane Association's certificate for bravery from Quesnel RCMP in November. The helicopter crashed Sept. 26 against birch trees about 20 metres from his home and a few steps from a mobile home that had 60 gallons of propane and 70 gallons of gasoline stored inside. The helicopter carrying two geophysical surveyors had taken off in fog from a hotel helipad near Watkin's house. Watkin arrived just as the helicopter which crashed nose down started to catch fire. Watkin, a Weldwood pulp mill worker and Quesnel College expands into Vancouver By The Canadian Press Only months after estab- lishing its educational pre- sence in Nelson, the Jap- funded Canadian In- TAX BREAK continued from front page The population in the community must be under 10,000 in order to qualify for potential tax breaks. communities are breaks. climate allocation of 10 points these eligible for tax If the communi' continued trom front page now an Assistant Professor at SFU. He 8 population is 146s broad range of teaching exper- TEACHERS —— If these three prerequisites are met, 50 points must be accumulated before the full tax break applies. Every community in the West Kootenay that passes the first three prerequisites is given 10 points auto matically for a “climate allocation.” Communities with one to 99 residents qualify for a full 50 points. If the population is 100 to 499 residents, the community receives 40 points. When coupled with the automatic 500 to 999, then 35 points are awarded. In the case of the West Kootenay, 35 points is not enough coupled with the climate allocation to receive the bene- fits. Because Robson, Blueberry Creek and other small population centres around Castlegar are within 320 kilo- metres of Kelowna they don't benefit at all. But similar ities around jence ranging from kindergarten to adult age students. He currently teaches and supervises graduate stu- dents in the faculty of Education after ternational College*-is ex- panding to Vancouver. College officials say the plan is for students to take their first-year studies in Nelson with its more relaxed pace, and move to the Vancouver. campus for the second, designed to equip them to do business with North Americans. The college, financed in the main by promoter holding several p al positions, including the Director of Professional Development. McClaren will speak on the de. of talent; the dimensions of Nelson, such as the North Shore, do qualify human-thinking; alternatives to testing and curriculum. Kazuyuki Takase, plans to build a brand-new, $10 mil- lion residential college for Japanese students on Port of Vancouver land on the North Shore. The international college has signed a long-term lease for 12 acres of land on a 100-acre parcel of Port Corp- oration land straddling the Dollarton Highway about two km. east of the Second Narrows bridge. Dick Wright, real-estate officer for the port, said it's an impressive project, and the Japanese plan to “fast- track it.” Site preparation is sche- duled to begin almost im- mediately on the project, planned to house about 300 Japanese visa students, slated to arrive from Nelson in April 1989. The college is to offer a two-year diploma program in English, Canadian and West- ern business administration, environmental and inter- cultural studies. volunteer fireman, dragged the passenger of the helicop- ter from underneath the wreckage and carried him to the far side of the motor home. Watkin returned and pull ed the pilot out, taking him to safety beside the passenger. Both were conscious and in shock. Quesnel resident, Mike Michelcko, an ambulance at- tendant who had been in Watkin's house at the time of the crash, called the fire department which arrived five minutes after the crash and put out the flames. In addition to Watkin and Michelcko, neighbors who in. cluded two nurses, an am bulance attendant and an air traffic controller with medi- cal training responded to the accident. Laura LaLonde and Mike Michelcko received certifi cates of recognition from the Quesnel RCMP and the am- bulance service for their as- sistance in administering first aid to the accident victims. Watkin was also honored by the City of Quesnel's Volunteer Fire Department and by the Provincial Am. bulance Service. Watkin, whose father was his possessions and decided Castlegar Volunteer Fire Department, became a fire- man after moving to Quesnel. FOR THE RECORD _eeeeieeeeannarnnansnieementnneteenescemeneneneenesmae In the Castlegar News of last Wednesday, Fomenoff's Store was incorrectly des- eribed as being on the loca- tion of the present Castlegar News. In fact, it was located at the site of the present Crossroads Printing, being subsequently purchased by George Cheveldave and op erated for many years as Cheveldave's Store. In the same issue, the dance pavillion was described s having been located be the present Castlegar News. In fact, the CasNews has now learned the dance pavil- lion was located behind what is now the Cougar Athletic Club. Parking was provided in front of the dance pavillion which was built upon as a garage. The service station then became the Rose Cafe, Seto's Cafe, Irene's Cafe and then Henne's Marina. In Sunday's CasNews, Marion Jenner was the lady in the centre of the Robson Women's Institute photo while Josephine ("J.") For- nelli was at the right. Mrs. Fornelli was also incorrectly named as “Joan.” KEEPING YOUNG . . . Don Hird, 79 of Slocan puts in full-time hours at the Silver Valley Trout Farm at eS Cas News TREET TALK TICKETS TO last night's K.D. Lang concert in the Cominco Gym were hard to come by. Ticket outlets were sold out weeks ago and Kootenay Broadcasting System in Trail, which is bringing Lang in, had dozens of calls about tickets the day after they were sold out. But that hasn't stopped a Castlegan resident. Someone advertised in Sunday's CasNews classifieds that they would pay double for tickets to the big show. Now that's a fan. THE CAT'S out of the bag. In about one week's time Ginette Laturnus, owner of Ginette’s Boutique, and Linda Hart, one of Ginette’s employees, will open a second business on Baker Street in Nelson. Finishing touches are just being completed on Fashion Flair which will have over twice the floor space as Ginette’s Boutique. Fashion Flair will carry a few lines similar to those at Ginette's but most of the ladies fashions will be leisure oriented. FREE INCOME tax services will once again be offered to senior citizens by chartered accountants in Castlegar next month. Those 65 years of age and oldér whose gross income does not exceed $14,000 are eligible for the free service. “We have raised the income limit by $2,000 to serve more senior citizens,” said Eileen Pearkes, public relations officer and organizer of the program. Seniors are reminded that an appointment is needed Winlaw. Hird has 5,000 fish of various sizes at the trout farm he has operated for the last 13 years. for each person. Couples, therefore, should make two consecutive appointments. Where drop-in service is offered, no appointments are necessary. A clinic will be held in March at the Senior Citizens’ Association office in Castlegar. Those interested in making an appointment should phone the Senior Citizens’ Association for times and dates. “ONE WAY to keep young is to keep active.” If this old saying, taken by many as gospel truth, is in fact true, then the personification of it has to be "79-year-old Don Hird of Slocan. Don has operated the Silver Valley Trout Farm at Winlaw for 13 years and has missed only 80 days of work in all that time — 42 of them when he was in hospital with a broken hip. The other 38 days have been short vacations of a few days or short illnesses. In fact, the truck he's pictured with has made the 40-kilometre-round-trip between Slocan and Winlaw some 3,000 times in the past eight years, chalking up 120,000 kilometres on the odometer, Don is at the fish farm from about 10 a.m. to 3:30 or 4 p.m. daily during the winter and from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 or 6 p.m. during the summer. He says it’s this careful attention to his business that has resulted in a record of no disease problems or fish die-offs in the 13 years. Don presently has 5,000 fish of various sizes at the trout farm, but it can be as high as 100,000 when fish are just hatched. A former mayor of Slocan, Don sells live fish to anyone who has a fish farm licence and eating fish “to anyone who comes and gets them.” HEART MONTH SALE =: STAVPREE THINS en-rase, to Feb. 27 ortlatee- Enchanteur 20-Piece Set With Salt & Pepper ily Reg. $512 SPECIAL Castleaird Plaza 365-7269 Canadian Meat Month February "88 “4a. FRYING FROZEN. WHOLE UTILITY .. 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