Foundation a benefit

Selkirk College's leap into the
world of fundraising is a logical —
though large — step and one that
will likely benefit the college and
the community in the long run.

The decision to establish a
non-profit foundation to solicit
funds from dividual cor

college foundation to fill any
funding gops? Those are important
questions which have significant
implications for the future of fun-
ding for post-secondary education

In addition, by getting into the
tundraising business, the college is
ing directly tor a limited

porations and charitable foun-
dations is a predictable outcome of
the provincial government's cut-
backs in post dary edu

amount of charitable donations
There is only so much money to go
around, and groups like the
Castleg United Way or the

As the front page article in
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Castlegar library and countless

dnesday’s Pp
out, the college faces a nine per
cent decrease in provincial tunding
next year unless it dramatically in-
creases student enrolment.

That isn't ely given the
economic climate. In fact, students
are finding it increasingly difficult
to attend college because they
have no summer jobs and the

c y service organizations
could find themselves vying for
donations with the college.

There is no doubt the founda
tion will have some success raising
tunds tor the college if the direc
tors already named to the board
are any indication. There is also no
doubt the money will be put to
good use. A strong Selkirk College

government has el d the
student grant program.

A nine per cent drop in fun-
ding meant the college was faced
with cutting staff, programs or
both, or looking elsewhere for
funds to make up for the gover-
nment shortfall. The college chose
the latter

But the jump into fundraising
isn’t without its pittalls. By raising
money for educational programs,
the college is taking on the
traditional duties of the provincial
government

Until now, education funding
was a provincial responsibility
Now the college is making it the
responsibility of the community
and its citizens — both private and
corporate

Will the province increase
funding for the college once it
realizes the college has its own
fundraising mechanism? Will Vic-
toria cut back even inore in years
to come, knowing it can rely on the

is | to the well-being of the
community.

But it would be foolish to
ignore possible problems that
might be created by the new foun-
dation. By acknowledging those
problems we may not be able to
resolve them, but at least we can
lessen their impact.

Island in
the sun

Quebec's new tourism minister
is onto something (no, not on
something) when he says the
province should have its own
Caribbean island. it would mean
Canadians heading to Hawaii or
Florida could beat the 30 per cent
U.S. exchange rate hy travelling to
their qwn isigad ip the sun. And
that’s reason enough -for getting
our own island.

Fred
Merriman

Well, Ron, old buddy, you
checked out early. Many of us are
going to miss you. Especially me.

I thought that the least I could do
was fly your quick wit and sense of
humor in a public place as a farewell
tribute. “Big Louie” said it would be
alright with her.

I met Ron Nelson, first, at an
executive meeting of the Nelson
Chamber of Commerce in the early
60s. He impressed me at the outset.
He was decisive, a take charge
leader who dressed the part, looked
the part and was the best example
in thowe days of the true executive.

Ron imparted a sense of action,

Ron sharing some of his high-level
politics and negotiations necessary
to purchase and instal] the modern
presses, As busy as Ron was in that
management position he would
always make time to welcome close
friends to his well-appointed office

Ron was a salesman, a pro-
moter. We had a Legion-sponsored
quintet in those good old days. The
public seemed to enjoy our Ames
Brothers-style of singing square
numbers like “Yellow Bird” and
“We Come on the Sloop John B.”
But it occurs to me, these many
years later, that Ron Nelson was the
real reason we were 80 popular. He

y and in
my mind the then unheard of “Art of
Goya.”

We struck it off from the
beginning because 20 years

Pp d our singing group. Tha
nks, Ron.

He even had us booked into the
Penticton Peach Festival and talked
about taking a crack at Expo in

ago, I was
for results. Life was a whirl of
meetings and social events, con-
ventions and travel. Ron was the
centre of all that. He planned and
organized a super holiday to the
Banff Springs Hotel in those years
that remain bright and shiny in my
memory nearly 20 years later.

He was game. He caused me in

good listener and generous to all in
time and money. Maybe the six
years in the Royal Canadian Air
Force as a navigator in the CF100
acrobatic jets brought him to the
level of officer and gentleman,
because he was both.

After the air force stint he
returned to Trail where his wife and
daughter awaited him. The Green
family of newspaper fame had him

in due course from
advertising manager at the Trail
Times, to manager of the Nelson
Daily News.

‘Take charge Nelson arrived in
Nelson and hammmered through
most of the progressive changes and
techtiieal improvements at that
daily newspaper. 1 can remember

1. Ron was the type of man
who would do anything for his
friends.

Ron was also a forgiving
person. He liberally laced his con-
versation with colorful language and
word pictures or parts of plagarized
poetry. He often used this one: “I
shot an arrow into the air. Wither it
went I know where I lose more
g.d. arrows that way.”

Ron and I were golfing buddies.
We were fishing buddies and he
taught us straight laced jokers from
civy street about poker and craps,
but not for money. We played poker
by the hout for plastic chips. Life
was just a game. Ron liked people.

Close beside the air force
lieutenant stood “Big Louie”. She
waited for Ron. She understood Ron
and also laughed at his jokes. His
Dad, who still lives in Trail, said it
best when he told me, “Even
though, he seldom went to church,
the church is full of people who
thought the world of Ron.”

You cut through more black
clouds in your short 52 years, Ron
Nelson, and brought more sunshine
and good cheer than 10 men. Sorry
to see you go, old buddy. Cheers!

Toronto newspapers which dared to
publish articles which were less than
laudatory to the Queen.

Yet these are the same papers

dominate front pages to the exclusion
of all other news for days.

Inevitably, the tabloid coverage of
Canadian newspaper criticism of the
Queen focused solely on eomments
which could be construed as negative.

The tabloids love this sort of
story which can be counted.on to rile
many Britons.

They took a similar tack recently
when in complete contradietion of the
facts they reported that some members
of European Parliament had ¢illled for
Waterloo Station to be d as it

Pe

ox

more significant, misperception of the
Queen's roles in Canada.

In large part the sense of outrage,
the tabloids were trying to portray
arises from the notion that somehow
Ci were kk a British

was an insult to the French who were
defeated in that battle.

Preying on the lowest-common-
denominator is stock in trade for the
tabloids.

So a chance to suggest Canadians
were insulting the Queen was a natural
even though it came from papers which
have reduced Diana, Princess of Wales,
to tears and pay small fortunes for
tales of royal sexual romps.

It was left to The Daily Telegraph,
one of Britian’s serious national papers,
to balance the extent of the generally
favorable coverage of the Queen's visit
and to point out that none of the
tabloids even had a reporter on the
trip

Nevertheless, the tabloids, by
springing to the royals’ defence,
demonstrated a deeper, and perhaps

queen.

If anything, Canadians were being
critical of their own Queen. That's a
notion which escapes not only the
British tabloids but too often Britain's
Parliament.

One newspaper asked readers to
write in with their reactions to
Canadians slurs against “our” Queen.

Similar possessive connotations
are frequently expressed by British
politicians.

For instance, during last year's
invasion of Grenada by U.S. forces,
British MPs fumed about the cheek of
Gov. Gen. Sir Paul Scoon inviting the
Troops in the name of “the British
Queen.”

In both cases, of course, the Queen
has separate and quite distinct con-
stitutional responsibilities.

oe

In Grenada, a request for the
invasion was made in the name of the
Queen of Grenada. The same invasion
was objected to by another of her
majesty’s governments — this one in
London.

Although seemingly a narrow
the it i 2

Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Bell and Mr. Noah
DeFoe returned Tuesday from Taber,
Alta. where they spent a week hunting.

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A 700-pound silvertip grizzly bear
was shot and killed by Fred Fomenoff
Monday night in Peter Saliken's
orchard.

The bear was first seen by Mr.
Saliken Sunday evening and was shot
at, byt only scared away.

7 2¢ «6

The Psychology Study Group con-
ducted by Dr. Goresky, was held at the
home of Mrs. G. Magwood, this being
the first of the season.

. 2 «

Have you been having horses on
your doorstep lately? Now you can
relax as they have been impounded and
Clarence Ackerman, poundkeeper, will
be responsible for them. Now if some-
one can just round up those cows that

Elizabeth, can and sometimes is at odds
with as head of state of
different countries.

Yet the strong image of a British
queen, ultimately the head of all her
dominions, remains etched in British
post-imperial consciousness.

In large measure it seems that the
degree of fury occasioned by Canadian
newspaper articles critical of the
Queen reflects that emotional poss-
essiveness.

Certainly negative comments by
Britons, in Britain, and even in print in
Britain, about the Royal Family
produce none of the outrage as did last
week's Canadian brouhaha.

Canadian Press

Letters to the Editor

Mill firings ‘unjust’

Editor, C: News:

The permanent closure of Westar
Timber’s mill in Nelon (Kootenay
Forest Products) raises the very real
question about the future stability of
Westar’s sawmill in Castlegar.

This sawmill has been profitable
virtually its entire operating life; from
1961 to just the last two to three years.
In these last two to three years there
have been rapid changes in top level

front line
and floor supervisory staff.

We, the IWA Plant Committee
and IWA work force, have viewed all
these changes at Westar Timber with
uneasy feelings. To date we have
generally stayed out of the company's
affairs regarding the changes.

But we feel the time has come for
us to react to these unjust and
unwarranted firings of experienced
supervisory | staff. a

bar | ‘theee people — and we
empl rf pate people and not
just cogs in a wheel — have worked
their way up through the ranks. This
enabled them to gain valuable ex
perience with the workings of the mill
and also allowed them to gain the
required wisdom to be able to
supervise. We have seen this ex
perience and wisdom come through
many times to help keep this mill afloat
when the chips were down!

This experience has also proven to
be the very foundation of the plant in
regards to the IWA work force. If it
was not for the experienced and
dedicated efforts of the hourly TWA
work force, this plant would of had to
lock its doors three years ago. The
Present management would do exactly
the same thing to the hourly workers if
the TWA was not at the plant — make
no mistake about that!

When a corporate citizen the size
of Westar Timber headed by Ken
Voight and Sandy Fulton fires ex
perienced supervisory staff in the
manner it did at a time when the chips
are down, and then replaces them with
supervisors with little or no experience
except a piece per that states they
are it leaves the

future in serious

We arp angry over the
radieal changes and massive disrup-
tions created. These changes are very

hard to preb: and make it very

difficult to understand what Westar
Timber's top level and plant level
management are up to.

In these difficult times the logical
thing to do is create a good relationship
with the employees. Westar has done
just the opposite. The employees in
many cases don't even know who their
supervisor will be day-to-day while the
supervisory staff is in the position of
the right hand being unaware of what
the left hand is doing.

Even with all the confusion and
disruptions, the IWA work force has
been able to maintain and exceed
production levels. That would probably
have been unattainable if the majority
of the crew did not have a wealth of
experience in the workings of the
sawmill, in addition to the dedication to
put that experience to work to keep
this floundering Westar plant afloat.

When corporation people like Mr

Fulton fly in from

orate duty by firing experienced
supervisory staff, walk around the
plant and never once introd

stions whether Mr. Voight and Mr.
Fulton want co-operation from the
IWA workers and the IWA Plant Com
mittee.

We have no doubt in our minds
that recent statements in the Castlegar
News regarding Westar, and all the
happenings that have taken place at
the sawmill have left the writers
questioning the real motives of Mr.
Voight and Mr. Fulton and their true
abilities as top level managers. We feel
the very future of this sawmill is at
stake and in very poor hands.

So, we the Plant Committee say to
Mr. Corporate Citizen: What have you
proved or gained? You have paid large
sums in severance pay, lost your

atmosphere of fear in your remaining
supervisory staff, and a very distaste
ful feeling with the Plant Committee.

We can only view this as incom-
etent top level management and
leadership. In the end, as IWA Plant

ittee, we have a to

themselves to the workers or plant
committee, and then fly back to their
plush offices, it is simply nothing more
than “sea gull” type management
The IWA Plant Committee que

Air Cadets
not funded

Editer, Castlegar News:

I would appreciate it if you would
print a correction to your story “United
Way set to go,” which appeared in the
Oct. 3 Castlegar News.

The story says that the United Way
distributes funds tothe Castlegar Air
Cadets. Although it has done so in the
past, the United Way no longer funds
Air Cadets, because in 1963 and 1984
the Air Cadet Sponsoring Committee
decided not to apply for funds.

Despite the decision not to seek
United Way assistance, Air Cadets
have continued to offer their services
for “kick-off day.”

Rebert Jackson

Ce

our membership to deal with the plant
management in good faith and in a
responsible way to ensure there are
jobs for the TWA workers, and to
ensure the future of the Westar
Timber sawmill at Castlegar

On behalf of the Plant Committee
Teny Ferriera

are our dreams and ruining
gardens and we can all relax.

Castlegar
sergeants Bob Hesketh and Mickey
Fairres, were presented with their
civilian pilot's wings last week at a
ceremony in the high school gym.

. 6 e

A truck will be driving through the
district tomorrow morning picking up
donations of fruit and vegetables for

conceived by Frank Watkins of Kin-
naird and Pete Rezansoff of Thrums.
The truck will leave Tarrys tomorrow
morning and will pick up donations of
fruit and vegétables from tliére to the
ferry.

. . °

Archdeacon B.A. Resker, DD, was

Chamber of Commerce at its regular
meeting last night.

15 YEARS AGO

From the Oct. 16, 1969
When Castlegar’s Sunday sports

is placed in D it
cannot be selective but must provide
for all Sunday sports and amusement
activities allowed under the act.

This information was provided
Castlegar council at its meeting last
week by the department of municipal
affairs.

The vote has been requested by Bob
Bennett of the Castle Theatre to allow
the showing of movies on Sundays.

. 2 6

A contract for close to $786,000 for
reconstruction of a section of the
Castlegar-Trail highway is expected to
be approved shortly by the treasury
board, Education Minister Don
Brothers announced this week.

The $735,000 contract will be for a
3.19 mile section of highway near
Murphy Creek.

. 8 @

A suggestion that the Castlegar cen
tennial project, and possibly the Cen.
tennial project of the entire district,
should be the provision of a Doukhobor
museum in co-operation with the
Doukhobor Historical Society, was
made at Castlegar’s council meeting
last week.

.

The Workmen's Compensation
Board award has been won by the
Town of beat out
45 other competitors in the distriet and
township category to win the award

Valley Lions Club was Ted Shukin, who

also captured the top spot in the

category of best shotgun and best Lion
7 8 6

Health Minister Bob McClelland has

friends, relatives and representatives
took part in the ceremony at the cairn
located at the lookout of the new

gon HOUSTON (CP) — Mare Garneau, Canada's
space, says his eight
Or days cireling Bérth in

was “the voyage
“It was an imeredible odyssey,” the

naval

a lifetime.”

said Si three

hours after the Chalienger’s perfect landing at Kennedy
Space Centre in Cape Canaveral on the east coast of

“All eight days up there were just jampacked with
exciting experiences. Absolutely no doubt about it. It's
you could ever imagine it to be.

“Although we had a lot of work to do, we also had a
great deal of fun. And what can be more fun than sticking
your head through one of the windows and just looking at
the Earth? It’s just an incredible sight.”

Garneau spoke moments before he and the six
American members of the Challenger crew boarded
high-speed planes to the Johnson Space Centre near
Houston, where they will spend a week reporting to
officials about the mission and undergoing tests.

The sky was clear as the Challenger glided onto the
landing pad at 12:23 p.m. EDT, ending a 5.6-million-
kilometre journey of just over 8; days.

“A picture perfect landing,” declared Jesse Moore,
head of the shuttle program, at a Cape Canaveral news
conference relayed to Houston and Ottawa by satellite.

same air, You can't smell the fresh .
Moore said Garneau blended in well with the six
—C

SAYS DEPUTY SPEAKE

Raise the drinking a

a private member's bill to
raise the drinking age to 21
from 19. It was lowered to 19
from 21 in April 1979.

erican crew

pilot Jon MeBride, and specialists Sally Ride, Kathy
Sullivan, David Leestma and Paul Scully-Power.

“We expected his performance to be outstanding and
my understanding is that it was and we're very pleased,”

Moore said.

He said it should not take Garneau any longer than
his fellow crew members to readjust to being back on
Earth after eight days of floating around where there is

no gravity.

“I understand that Marc did very well in space and
we're very proud of his performance on this particular

flight.”

Raising the drinking age is
strongly supported by the
Vancouver city counci] and
Mothers Against Drunk Dri.
vers, but Attorney General
Brian Smith and Consumer
Affairs Minister Jim Hewitt
have already virtually ruled
out such a move.

Strachan said in a tele
phone interview from his
Prince George constituency
office that the United States

Reagan still maintains
landslide-sized lead

WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Reagan maintains
a landslide-sized lead over
Walter Mondale three weeks
before the Nov. 6 U.S. pres-
idential election, a country-
wide Association Press sur.
vey shows.

But Mondale, the Demo
cratic party's nominee for the
presidency, has “come alive”
in many states after his
strong showing in a televi.
sion debate with the Repub-
ican president.

“The spread has narrowed
considerably,” said Pennsyl-
vania Democratic chairman
Edward Mezvinsky. The de-
bate “really puts us in the

SOVIETS
PLACE
MISSILES

MOSCOW (AP) — The
Soviet Defence Ministry an-
nounced Saturday that it is
putting new long-range
cruise missiles in strategic
bombers and submarines,
and said the program would
“correspond” in scope to U.S.
deployment of air- and sea
launched cruise nuclear mis
siles.

The announcement, distri

buted by the official Soviet
news agency Tass, also reit
erated Soviet statements
that the military is contin
uing “successful tests” of
ground-launched cruise mis
siles.
- “At present, the armed
forces of the USSR have be-
gun to deploy long-range
cruise missiles on strategic
bombers and submarines,”
the statement said. “By their
scale, these measures corres
pond to the growing threat to
the security of the USSR and
other countries of the Social
ist (Communist) community
from the United States.”

ballgame,” he added, in a
state where a Republican poll
found Reagan with a huge
lead before the first presi:
dential debate a week ago.
“The campaign has come
alive” since the debate a
week ago, echoed California
Democratic chairman Peter
Kelly. “The debate has made
it a much closer race” in Cal
ifornia, the largest state.
Mondale, “demonstrated a
good grasp of the facts in
contrast to Reagan, who
fumbled from time to time,”
said Kate Litvack, a top of.
ficial in the New Jersey
Democratic party. “And most
importantly, he began to
dispel what has been re-
ferred to as the wimp factor”
— the perception that he is
not a strong leader.
Republicans in many states
ded that Mondal

Democratic state where
early polls have given the
president a huge edge over
Mondale.

Added Republican Ed
Reinecke of California: “The
debate may have shortened
Reagan's lead in California a
point or two, but outside of
that I don’t see any change at
all.”

Mondale’s aides insist the
debate will be seen as a
turning point in his uphill
challenge for the White
House, and AP's survey in-
dicated it created some addi.
tional interest in the Demo
crat's campaign in many
states.

AP correspondents in all
50 states assessed available
poll data and talked with
political experts to evaluate
the campaign.

breathed new life into his
campaign in last Sunday's
debate but insist it means
only a modest boost. They
said Reagan can easily re
cover his losses in a follow
up debate on foreign policy
Oct. 21.

“Reagan has to prove next
time that it was just an
off-night,” said Re, ublican
chairman Allan Level of
Maryland, a traditionally

P are
decided not by the country
wide vote totals, but in sep
arate elections in the states
and the District of Columbia
(Washington), the results of
which determine the winner
in the Electoral College.
Reagan and Vice-President
George Bush are ahead in 43
states with 450 electoral
votes, far more than the 270
needed to win a second term,
the latest survey indicated.

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“Statistics provided by
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accidents amongst people of
that age group was reduced

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NOTICE

Public Hearing

Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held on Tuesday, Oc-
tober 23, 1984 at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 460 Colum-
bia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. to receive trom all persons who deem it in their
interest to make representations regarding the following proposed amen-
dments to the City of Castlegar Official Community Plan Bylaw 299 and the
City of Castlegar Zoning Bylaw 160 and amendments thereto.

Bylaw 417

The intent of Bylaw 417 is to amend the Official Community Plan Bylaw 299
to permit the rezoning of Lot A, District Lot 7173 Kootenay District, Plan
11743 trom an industrial to a commercial use, and to change the designation
of “PRI - Parks, Recreational and Institutional” to “SCC - Sub-Centre Com-
mercial” as shown shaded and designated “SCC” on Appendix “A” of Bylaw
417.

IND
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Appendix "A" to City of Castlegar Bylaw 417

Bylaw 418
The intent of Bylaw 418 is to amend the City of Castlegar Zoning Bylaw 160
to eliminate conflicting references to various schedules and to Section 19 of
Bylaw 160.

8 a

intent of Bylaw 419 is to amend the City of Castlegar Zoning Bylaw 160
to change the zoning of Lot A, District Lot 7173 Kootenay District, Plan 11743
from "M1 - Light Industrial” to “C2 - Comprehensive Commerical” and to
designate the said lot as a Development Permit Area. The lands defined are
shown outlined as shaded

The lands defined in Bylaw 419 are shown as shaded.

The above bylaws ond further information is avoilable at City Hall, 460
Columbia Avenue, Castiegor, B.C. during office hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m.), phone 365-7227.
RJ. Skillings,

City of Castlegor

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