Castlegar News September 30, 1987 Postal pickets up in Victoria By DAVE BLAIKIE Canadian Press Mail sorters and wicket clerks set up picket lines in Montreal and Vietoria today, disrupting the national mail flow for the second time in just over three months. They stayed off the job only briefly in Victoria, returning to work soon after Canada Post brought in strike- breakers. The temporary workers were then withdrawn by Canada Post. But it was a different story in Montreal where about 3,000 militant unionists walked out shortly before midnight in defiance of plans by national union leaders to start the strike with smaller and more selective rotating walkouts. The Montreal workers said they would remain off the job until there was a new contract. Only 65 members of the 23,000-member Canadian Union of Postal Workers were involved in the Victoria walkout. Police escorted busloads of strikebreakers and trucks of mail into postal facilities in Montreal but it was not clear how much mail was being processed. The union, striking to retain 4,200 positions threatened by the proposed sale of post office franchises to private business, was to present Canada Post with a revised contract offer later today in Ottawa, The Conservative government was awaiting a report on the dispute from Bill Kelly amid Labor Minister Pierre Cadieux was preparing to intervene with back-to-work legislation. PROVOKING UNION Meanwhile, Liberal leader John Turner accused Canada Post of provoking the union by using strikebreakers. “Any time you hire strikebreakers it's not the best style to arrange a good relationship with your working force,” Turner said as he entered a Liberal caucus meeting. “T'm on the side of collective bargaining. I don't like strikebreakers.” One management employee was reported by the union to have been taken to hospital following a picket line clash in Montreal. But violence on the scale forecast in advance of the strike did not occur — at least initially. Union leaders said prior to the strike they would put into trusteeship any local defying the strategy devised by national headquarters. But it was announced today that, aside from denying Montreal members strike pay, no disci iplinary action would be taken against the militant local until after the strike is over. “We have to fight Canada Post first,” national union vice-president Darrell Tingley told a news) conference in Ottawa. The union has an $18-million strike fund, Members get $100 a week after they have been on strike for 10 working days. ROTATES STRIKES Rotating strikes were used by the 22,000-member Letter Carriers’ Union of Canada during 19 days of walkouts against Canada Post in June and July. ‘There was no indication early today how much mail is getting through, although Canada Post said it planned to keep the mail moving normally in Montreal. GIVEN WRONG FACTS Beau union agreed to ewes its Aredapromerd ropes after Kelly, the ¢ 's top labor asked by the government to meet with the two sides Sas assess the chances of them negotiating a settlement “short of a protracted strike.” Tingley said today the union is afraid the government may order strikers back to work, setting the stage for a binding third-party settlement freeing Canada Post to go ahead with franchising. Rotating walkouts are intended to hurt the government Cee See ee meeded for a back-to-work bill, he Tingley said the ie would make significant changes in its bargaining position when it meets Canada Post later in the day. “But obviously we can't give away the store,” he added. Franchise postal outlets would be staffed by non-union workers, most of whom make less than half the $13.43 an hour union wicket clerks are paid. Canada Post says displaced workers would be protected by attrition - Brisco fights CRTC By SURJ RATTAN Staff Writer Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco has lashed out at the i Com. Canadian Radi al mission, accusing it of supplying him with wrong information about a proposed rate increase for Shaw Cable. Speaking in the House of Commons on Sept. 23 Brisco said that he has “been denied the right of every member of after the closing date, after having been informed by two CRTC officials that the Aug. 20 date was not valid,” said Brisco. “The CRTC created the delays through its own abnormal record of disinformation or misinformation begin- ning on Aug. 21 and ending on Sept. 4, precisely 15 days later. It was like Big Brother, except nobody was listening,” said Brisco. Parliament to properly represent constituents.” “How is a member of Parliament expected to know of a rate application increase or any other application to the CRTC?” he asked. “Until August of last year a member of Parliament learned of this in two ways. One was by reading an advertisement placed by the CRTC in a local newspaper of the area involved and the second was by way of a CRTC notice circulated to members of Parliament,” said Brisco. He added that the CRTC failed to give him information on the application for a rate increase when he requested it. “The point is I endured two weeks of delay by the CRTC in trying to obtain the very information that I sought the day In an interview with the Castlegar News Monday, Brisco said he has a “mad on for the CRTC.” “I have a fight with the CRTC and that’s where my is; the of their infor- mation. They misled me and not just once but over a period of four or five days. They have misled Eric O'Dell. They have not provided accurate information. I've had a lengthy discussion with a former CRTC senior staff member and he has given me quite an earful about the CRTC and how it fails to address its own mandate,” said Brisco. He added that he has “not finished with the CRTC by a long shot.” 1. Castlégar News TREET TALK CASTLEGAR IS getting a plug on Vancouver's Sky- Train. The province has named one of the SkyTrain's cars “The Spirit of Castlegar.” Mayor Audrey Moore displayed a photograph of the car with the Vancouver skyline in the background. Moore was presented with the photo to hang in city hall at the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Vancouver last week. STUFFY BUTLER died earlier this month, two days short of his 13th birthday. His life may, at first glance, appear to have been cut short but for one important point: Stuffy was a dog. And so in dog: years he lived a full 90 years. Stuffy was a toy silver poodle with shiny button eyes who belonged to Vancouver public relations man Tom Butler. Stuffy was known to a handful of West Kootenay media types from an excursion he and Butler made with the local media to Spokane a few years back. Butler immortalized Stuffy but putting the dog's quizzical face on the personalized card Butler sent out every Christmas. CasNews publisher Burt Campbell received such a card in 1985. It shows Stuffy on the lap of the Queen. Inside, the card reads: Merry Christmas (by Royal decree). It was from “Stuffy Butler, Esq. (and Tom).” Stuffy was also the ‘subject of a recent piece by Vancouver Sun columnist Demny Boyd in which Boyd says: “Stuffy was the series of sharp woofs on the telephone answering machine, after Butler said, ‘I appreciate your call, and so does Stuffy.’ “Stuffy was the alert passenger, sitting up front on a custom baby seat, on the passenger side of Butler's Mercedes. “Pictures of Stuffy, not clients, hung on the walls of Butler's public relations office.” You get the picture? This was a man who was in love with his dog. Stuffy's death came from kidney failure five years after he licked some anti-freeze in Butler's garage. He survived the brush with death, however, the residual kidney damage soon caught up with him. Stuffy was the only dog Butler ever had, though Butler wasn't looking for a dog when he got him. Now he says he plans to get another — probably the same bread STUFFY AND THE QUEEN . +. Christmas 1985 but he's not sure when. AFTER A year's Jeave of absence, Jim Cromwell Selkirk College's Castlegar Campus principal, is back. Cromwell spent last fear getting a student's perspective of the country’s educational system when he took a management course at the University of New Brunswick in Fredricton. ANYONE interested in participating in the 1967 Grey Cup Parade in Vancouver Nov. 28 should contact Jeannie Frew at the Great Vancouver Visitor's Guide, 201-970 Homer St., Vancouver, B.C. V6B 2W7. RECENT CHANGES in pension legislation in Holland will be of particular interest to persons of Dutch decent, regardless of thei present citizenship. The changes in “AOW” in the Netherlands, comple- mented by an agreement between Canada and Holland, BLACK DIAMOND. GRATED . . 250 G Eo 88. 1, EX. a. 99° CHEESE Siiceses..-_.33" READY TO EAT Hi be oe PORTION | 79)BUTT ROASTS RIB. CAN, GR. 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Stan and on Castlegar” baseball caps. — Photo for CosNews by George Fontes TAXES OVERDUE City sells off property By MARC PICHE Staff Writer The City of Castlegar's annual property tax sale took place at city hall today. From 10 - 10:30 a.m. tax collector Peter Ozeroff read off the list of 20 properties on which the owners had failed to pay municipal tax. for three consecutive years. Forty-five properties were ad vertised in last weeks Castlegar News as up for sale, but 25 owners made their payments before the 10 a.m. deadline today. Only three of the remaining 20 properties were sold to buyers other than the city. John Fostey paid the $4,619.89 in taxes for a property at 2238 Columbia Avenue that has a house on it. The other buyer, Jim Corbin, bought two pieces of property — one at 2241 11th Ave. for $4,452.31 and another at 2611 6th Ave. for $8,433.66. It was Corbin’s second year at the LOAN continued from front poge outstanding concerns in the Castlegar area: e installation of turbines at the Hugh Keenleyside dam, along with support from Victoria for a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River and Arrow Lakes. “This survey appears to be essential to development of this waterway as a major tourist attraction in the Kootenay Development council said; © expansion of Provincial Park; © preservation of the area's heritage buildings, such as the CP Rail station and the Doukhobor Village; © development of recreational facilities, such as indoor aquatic centre; construction of a truck bypass from Highway 3 to the Westar Timber and Celgar Pulp Co. operations. Region,” Syringa Creek auction. “Tm hoping to find something someone won't pay off,” Corbin said. wners have a one-year per following the sale to redeem their property. Last year, Corbin purchased three properties, but all were re- deemed. His money was reimbursed by the city with six per cent interest. “I'm not trying to loan my money at six per cert, I'm trying to get some property,” said Corbin, adding that this year he was trying to choose: a property that would give him “a better chance of keeping it.” The property the Fostey's bought was also on the auction block last year. Ozeroff explained that if the city buys a property, the owner only has to pay one year’s back taxes to redeem it, whereas-if-ttre-property is bid on, the owner must pay all the back taxes or lose it to the bidder. This means that unless the owner of the property at 2238 Columbia Ave. pays all the back taxes owing, the Fosteys will have a new home in a year's time. Mowat favors plan By SURJ RATTAN Staff Writer Premier Bill Vander Zalm's proposed decentralization plan will allow more British Columbians to have access to the ey government, and from the U.S. border north to Golden. While the decentralization plan was only announced last week, Castlegar, Creston and Nelson are already vying for the Kovtenay region's ad- Lit- tle Mowstatn” MLA Doug Mowat, chairman of the Social Credit caucus. Speaking to the Castlegar News Monday, Mowat said the program will allow “us to take the government, as the premier said, to the people.” “What it'll do is that a lot of things have to be done in Victoria, or we had thought they had to be done in Victoria, but by being able to move throughout the prov- ince, it's going to allow the people to have better access to the governments and as has been explained there will be eight regions with a cabinet minister in charge of that region,” said Mowat. He added that individual cabinet ministers will report to the legislature on the con- cerns of that region. Under the program, Castlegar will be included in the Kootenay region, along with Trail, Nelson and Cran- brook. The region's boundaries would stretch from the Al berta border west to the other side of Grand Forks centre. Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore said because the Re- gional District of Central Kootenay is based in Nelson, the Kootenay region's ad- ministrative centre should be located in Castlegar. Mowat said Nelson-Cres- ton MLA Howard Dirks is working to have the admin- istrative centre located in Nelson. “I was in Nelson on the 10th of the month and I was with Howard Dirks and let me tell you, he's pushing hard for it and oddly enough I don't think-he knew what we were doing at that time as far as the decentralization pro- gram, but Howard is really pushing,” said Mowat. He added that Nelson is a large city and he is sure the issue will be discussed by the Social Credit caucus, which wraps up three days of meetings today in Nelson. Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said that while he has not had much information on the decentralization pro- gram, he likes the idea of civil servants moving out of Vic- New Democrats bound for Nelson The Human Services Committee of the New Democrat toria and Ottawa into other communities. “We would welcome pro- vineial or federal civil ser- vants in Kootenay-West be- cause it's a contribution to our economy. It would be an eyeopener for the federal bureaucrats, as well as the provincial bureaucrats, to get of the province is like, you bet it would be,” said Brisco. He added that it is a “bone of contention” with him that civil servants are in their “ivory towers in Vaneouver and I suppose in Victoria and they don't really have a full appreciation of the problems in the district parts of British out and find out what the rest Columbia.” OGLOW jeved from front page municipal convention (the Union of B.C. Municipalities con- vention in Vancouver, which ended last Friday).” Oglow said he hasn't yet formalized a campaign platform because he doesn't know if he will be opposed in his bid for mayor. “There will be quite a number of things I will bring forth to the public,” he said. Oglow’s resignation means there will be four aldermanic seats in addition to the mayor's position up for election this year. Seats now held by aldermen Terry Rogers, Carl Henne and Albert Calderbank are also up for grabs. But only Henne has indicated he will run again. Henne said Tuesday he’s “excited” about Castlegar’s future and wants to be involved in the decision-making. “I want to start thinking positive,” he said. Rogers, a principal at Twin Rivers elementary who was elected to his first term two years ago, says he's still thinking about running. “I have enjoyed it,” he said, but added that he has assess his commitment to his school work before making a decision. Under the new Municipal Elections Act, the positions held by Rogers, Calderbank, Henne and Moore will be three-year terms instead of the current two-year terms. Oglow’s vacant aldermanic seat will be a one-year term this year. But next year the seat, along with those now held by Patti Richards and Len Embree, will be for two-year terms. There will be no municipal election in 1989 so that all council positions expire together in 1990. The mayor's position and all six aldermanic seats will be up for election for three-year terms in 1990, after which municipal eleetions will be held every three years. In an effort to retire its operating deficit, the West Kootenay National Exhibi- tion Centre will hold an auction Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the centre. But this auction isn't your usual auction. The items up for bid are unique. They include plumbing services, Art lovers will be able to bid on a number of donations from West Kootenay arti well over 100 items worth more than $3,000 have been donated, with donations still rolling in. For the past several years the centre has operated with a ing deficit. auto repairs and goods, as well as advertising, ; computer software, and eyen have not kept pace with cost and iniparticular, the centre's , a lunch with a guest editorial ora in a local Last Year! * Cominco * Celgar * Dr. Yule and the Professional People * WACPLL * Safeway grams, while very well supported are also expensive to produce. The building, owned by the West Kootenay NEC Society, is 13 years old, and centre director Lucille Doucette notes that the building is more expensive to maintain every year. “The irony is that if we ignored the demands of the building — let things become threadbare or remain broken — people would stop coming because it would no longer be a pleasant place to spend time. And, because we do spend the money to maintain the building and services, people assume that we are rich, which is of course, not true.” Funding from the centre's three main sources — the National Museums of Can- ada; the provincial Cultural Services Branch and West Kootenay municipalities — have also remained fairly constant, despite mounting costs. Board chairman Sandra Donohue says the auction could serve two purposes. “First, it will raise much needed funds — funds that will be applied directly to our long-term debt, and secondly, it will focus attention on the centre as a community re- source — a resource that the community has indeed come forward to support.” The auction, actually called Not Your Usual Auction, is a silent auction. Bidders will be’ invited to write down ‘their® bids over three days of view- ing. Phone bide will also be accepted. Those not finding items to their taste or need, can also make a direct tax deductible contribution to the centre. Items will be available for viewing from 7 - 10 p.m. Fri- day, and 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p-m. Saturday and Sunday. Income to be increased for seniors, spouses Federal Old Age Security, Guaranteed Income Supple ment and Spouse's Allowance benefits will be increased in October to keep them in line with the cost of living, Health and Welfare Minister Jake Epp announced. These benefits are ad- justed every three months based on recent changes in the Consumer Price Index, Statistics Canada’s measure of inflation. The universal Old Age Security pension (OAS), paid to people 65 and older, will rise to $308.19 (from $303.64) a month in October, Novem- ber and December. The maximum Guaranteed Income F (GIS) and for a married person whose spouse does not re- ceive an Old Age Security pension or Spouse's Allow- ance. The maximum Spouse's Allowance (SPA) — paid to low-income people ‘between 60 and 64 who are married to will increase to $366.28 (from $360.87) for a single person GIS ipi — will in- crease to $546.75 (from $538.67). WATKIN continued from front page Apart from Watkin, who has been a fireman in Quesnel for 14 years, and Michelcko, there was a registered nurse next door who had just completed a graveyard shift, another nurse two houses down on her day off, another neighbor who is qualified as an bulance attendant, and an air traffic controller from just up the street who had been a pilot, was medically qualified, and had worked in hospitals All responded to the accident. Watkin stressed that heroism had. nothing to do witb the rescue, and criticized the Vancouver Province’s attempt to paint him with a hero's brush. “We saw the article but didn't keep it. As far as I'm concerned, the Province is B.C.'s version of the National Enquirer.” Watkin said that firemen everywhere including his friends in the Castlegar volunteer department — would understand that he was only responding to training. “There's not a fireman who wouldn't do the same thing.” Frank Watkin, Keith's father, was one of the founders of Castlegar volunteer fire department. Keith grew up in Castlegar, graduated from Stanley Humphries secondary school, and worked at Celgar pulpmill for more than a’decade. It wasn't until he moved ‘to Quesnel, however, that he became a fireman. Recalling details of the helicopter crash is difficult, concluded Watkins. “You work strickly on instinct in a situation like that. Your mind is blank, and your training pushes you through.” The passenger of ie : belicopter was taken by gency air h Hospital in Vancouver “where there's, good neurosurgeon,” reported Watkin. The pilot was flown to the hospital in Prince George. caucus is headed to Nelson for a three-day tour of the area starting Sunday. The committee, which includes seven New Democrat MLAs, will kick off the tour with a media reception at the Heritage Hotel in Nelson Sunday at 7:30 p.m. On the following day the MLAs will meet with local groups in the Nelson area before holding a town hall meeting at the Heritage Hotel at 7:30 p.m. The committee will split up Tuesday, with the MLAs visiting a number of neighboring towns and areas including: e Kaslo — John Cashore (Maillardville-Coquitlam) @ Slocan Valley — Lois Boone (prince George North) and Emery Barnes (Vancouver Centre) e Trail — Colin Gabelman (North Island) Castlegar — Darlene Marzari (Vancouver-Point Grey) Creston and area — Barry Jones (Burnaby North) and Anita Hagen (New Westminster) Police charge Rossland mother By CasNews Seff One charge of criminal negligence causing death has been laid against a Rossland woman after her two-month-old daughter died at Rossland’s Mater Misericordiae Hospital last week. Rossland RCMP have pital in turn noiified Ross land RCMP of the death. Rossland RCMP were called in to investigate the death on Sept. 22, but did = lay charges until Sept. nay add that there is a possibility further charges may be laid. Taylor is Committee chairman Anita Hagen says the trip is part of an overall plan by the New Democrat caucus to meet B.C. with groups and “We're trying | to meet with as many people i in as many places as we can, ” Hagen sai in a prepared release. “The only way to find out what the needs of a community are is to visit that community and talk to the people there. “That's why trips such as this Nelsém tour are so important to us.” scheduled to appear in charged Colleen Lynda Rogsland provincial court. Taylor, 22, in the Sept. 22 on Nov. 19. death of Tanya Lynn Tay- ‘Along with Rossland lor. 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