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EDITORIAL

CasNews photo by Ed Mille
After getting 8 good soaking form sister Amber Crockett, 8, Chris Crockett, 9, keeps his
distance while trying to come up with a plan to dethrone his sister from the fountain Tuesday at
Kiwanis field near the Community Complex.

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We did it, sort of.

Saturday’s issue of the Castlegar News was the first
Produced — mostly — on our new computer system. (We
cheated a little, as we did today, and used some of the old
methods to make sure we came close to hitting our deadlines
while we get used to the new equipment.)

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Recycle Advisory Group
Father’s Day is only a short
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

So if a few CasNews em;

experience again the marvel.
technology. For those who ha:
it’s been an eye-opener.

on top

Hall has history

Iam seriously disturbed about the
reports I have heard regarding the future of
the Kinnaird Hall.

The suggestion that destruction of this
building was even idered i

As a result, some have been reminded, and others are

starting to learn, that

3d thei.

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unlimited capabilities — are merely a tool, not a panacea for
feasi heth

whatever probl lag

you’re a

journalist or a doctor.

In our b

a pr

ially a high-tech

‘8 are

combination of the many tools we've always used, from

typewriters to rulers to X-acto

knives.

Therefore, in the final analysis — as it always has been —
it’s the talent and skills of people which determine the value

of the final product.

In that way, nothing's really changed.

is
unthinkable. It is shocking and clearly

We must recognize that the biomass

d with soil devel here is, in
geological terms, very recent, occurring since
the last Ice Age — anywhere from
approximately 14,000 years ago up to the
present. Kokanee and New Denver glaciers
are still in the Ice Age. The receding glaciers
left only a thin layer of dirt on these
mountains, so subsurface water flows are

ates that ized is
prevalent in modern society to speed up and
choke our landfill problems.

Perhaps a short history of this hall would
be helpful in explaining why I am so
sentimental about the heart, soul and spirit
of this venerable building. .

aveide

very shallow,
After a natural disturbance such as a
forest fire, most of the carbon is left on the
site in the form of woody debris on the
ground and standing dead and live trees. In

large ng
brush, decid! decid:

sons <e

can take

In Kinnaird, as well as in h
communities throughout Canada, there was
a need for a community centre where
ordinary folks could meet to discuss the
problems of the people and provide space for
social activities.

Here, with volunteer labor and the skills
of themselves and their families, workers
erected a structure and organized the

VIEWPOINT

Kinnaird Imp Society.

As the village continued to grow, more
services were required to serve the needs of
the village. A library was established (and
staffed by dedi: d vol in the hall.

Johnston talks
tough on crime

By GERARD YOUNG

VICTORIA — Rita Johnston
wants to be the law-and-order
premier.

The feisty 56-year-old politi-
cian is making it a big part of
her Social Credit leadership
campaign. Bet on it being a key
theme in a provincial election if
she wins July 20 at the party’s
convention in Vancouver.

The get-tough image could be
the best chance of i ing her

age voter likes to hear.

“It’s the nice middle-aged,
middle-class people who express
their fear and concern - and
they’re the least likely to be vic-
timized,” says Paul Branting-
ham, a Simon Fraser University
criminologist.

In fact, Br: said,

Kitchen facilities were installed, chairs and
tables were acquired for banquets,

ddings, | and ings. A
caretaker was hired to look after the hall
and to arrange bookings.

Dances were organized to provide funds
for the maintenance of the building. Among
such successful events were the annual New
Year’s Eve party and the memorable Rose
Ball Dance in June at which the “Herb
Pitts” cup was presented to the newly
crowned Rose Queen.

The Kinnaird Little Theatre flourished
and provided many various cultural events

a couple of centuries. Time frames for
industrial timber

practices (80 years rotation age) do not allow
for this to develop. Planning is instead based
on a rotation age which is calculated from
the peak rate of growth of trees rather than
their biological ity, a diffe of 70
years for Slocan Valley forests.

Forest fires do not build roads, yet
foresters constantly attempt to make

and forest
dies have shown cl

time in different locations talking to the
general public about what is happening at
Present across our country.

Our rural postal service is being totally
dismantled and privatized, office by office,
and now this process is spreading into the
cities.

What bothered me most, while talking to
people, was the general apathy I found.

The people I spoke to recently didn’t seem
to want to believe what is happening. As
there hasn’t been much coverage on
television, where most people appear to get
their information, they thought we were
making a lot of fuss over nothing.

Let me assure everyone that it is far from
being “nothing.” It is a very serious problem
and will get much worse.

Already the Robson, Silverton, Ainsworth
and Ymir offices have closed. How long do
the people of Castlegar, Nelson and Trail
think they can hold on to their city offices,
while North Vancouver and other major
cities have already lost theirs? The answer
is, not very long.

If this process is allowed to continue
unchecked and we don’t speak together,
Canada Post will reach its objective of

fires. S ts cause
two to nine times the amount of erosion that
occurs on similar forested ground.

ing all retail service from the post
office by 1996.
At that time, we will all be trying to do
I ital i at the grocery

Moreover, the roads d with
logging have caused 60 to 300 times the
erosion that occurs in undisturbed forests.

pos
store or the gas station and there will be no
federal post office in town to go to if there is

B. of the ing and of
road building and harvesting machinery, the
productivity of conventionally skidded
clearcut areas suffer dramatically.

Costly, i eran i paes involving
soil preparation, planting trees, fertilization,
brushing, thinning and pruning is
recommended by industry to counter these
losses, but there has been an obvious
reluctance on their part to pursue these

nea iniltdations GC

for several years as the in the hall
are excellent.
Also, we should not forget the
contributions the hall has made as a
1 , Scout and Guide hall, for

police are mostly kept busy with
“garden variety” mischi

women’s auxiliaries, firefighters dances and
city fu i

and alcohol-related offences
incl:

party’s foundering election
hopes. The Socred government
significantly trails the NDP in
opinion polls and must face the
voters by fall.

ding minor Its. But
appeals for law and order are
common during changing times,
he said.
Jobs are being lost in the for-
est industry, the province’s

At the time of the Kinnaird Improvement
Society's disbandment, a gift of the Property
and hall, as well as a cash asset of $4,000,
was given to the City of Castlegar.

A final party was organized to
commemorate the “folding up” and closing
down of the historic legend, the Kinnaird

forests have suffered a good deal of
unsustainable development.
Having participated in the Springer
k I dW: hed M,

Plan since its inception in 1987, I have
witnessed considerable vacillation on the
part of the Ministry of Forests and Slocan
Forest Products in their of

ap
Try sending an insured, double-
registered, oversize parcel by airmail to
Aunt Maud in the outback of Australia from
the gas station or drug store and see how far
you get. That should convince you of the
decline in service if nothing else does.
People of the West Kootenay open your
eyes, wake up and join the fight, or you
could live to regret your indifference.
Yvonne Hawkins
Robeson

Different yardstick

The B.C. Ferries Corp.
d that the mid-i Pi
b ‘Tsawwassen and Nanaimo has

recently
Sand

alternative forestry.

T have witnessed an underlying
belligerence to pursue forestry by the old
method of inadequate sampling, followed by
a walk through the woods by a few trained

The latest crime st

major ; the is

h whose objecti’

P Society. The celeb was

hat like a wake.

aren’t pretty — especially in
British Columbia.

“People are scared to leave
their television sets for fear of
what they are seeing on the tele-
vision (news),” says Norman
Ruff, a University of Victoria
political scientist.

Narcotics offences up. Sexual
assaults up. Robberies and bur-
glaries up.

Enter Johnston.

She says she’s troubled by
increasing violence and disre-
gard for law and order. It’s in
the schools, on city streets, in
rural communities and on the
highways, she warns.

“It is my commitment to take
strong and effective action to
stem this disturbing trend,” she
said in announcing her leader-
ship Gandi: le
“People throughout the

have raised these con-
cerns me.
“To them I say that the

in ion and immi; are
altering the province’s social
fabric, Brantingham said.

Street gangs are growing.
Teenage criminals are seeming-
ly punished with a slap on the
wrist. There is a perception that
things are worse than they are,
Brantingham said.

And those middle-class, mid-
dle-aged voters make up a big
chunk of the electorate.

Just the group Johnston
wants to comfort.

Socred strategists saw the
issue’s potential even before
Johnston Bill Vander
Zalm, who resigned April 2 for
mixing politics with the sale of
his Fantasy Gardens theme

rk.

park.
“The public has had enough,”
pleace see SOCREDS page AS

In this modern age of “throw-away”
society, I would ask the citizens of Castlegar
to pause and reflect about the decision to
vote for restoration of the hall and/or the
wanton destruction of the wreckers.

One prime example happened here in
Castlegar when the old arena, now known
as the Pioneer Arena, was restored for

useful purposes instead of being demolished.
constructed

It, too, had been
ion.

Could a similar prudent decision be
applied to the Kinnaird Hall?
Pat Romaine
Castlegar

More than money
For more than a dozen years there has

been a concerted effort by local citizens to
have the foresters at Slocan Forest Products

FOR THE RECORD

In the caption yi
the photograph with Catherine
Shapcott's column in Saturday's
CasNews, the names of Art

McDonald and Gordon Brook-
field were transposed.

ives are to extract

wood fibre consistent with the economic
interests of industry.

This agenda is a pill that many foreste:

been so successful that a second ferry will be
added this month.

The ferry carried 715,613 passengers and
306,635 vehicles in its first 11 months of

ry carried
R and 552,487 vehicles in
a similar period during its last year in

operation. Instead of adding a second ferry,
the government chose to remove the service

re
have to swallow to practice their trade in
this p Al 1

to spend on people, innovative equipment
and toemb bl

It seems that “success” is measured with
a different yardstick in Victoria.
George Stein
Robson

d forest The kind of
management which would retain the visual
splendor of this valley which is.so
inspirational to many of us and our visitors.

We cannot measure all values only in
terms of money.
Ken Del Puppo
Slocan

Apathy bothersome

Please address all letters to the editor
to: Letters to the , Castlegar News,
P.O, Box 3007, » 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 than 300 words.

Letters MUST be signed and include

group
Privatization and other cuts to rural
services.
During this promotion, I have spent some

ry to turn the
over from time to time to
expose the material to the air.

If you haven’t already
started a compost heap in your
yard, the pitch fork would be a
good reminder to get started.
After all, why have a perfectly
good pitch fork if you don’t put
it to use!

Composting is a highly
recommended practice. If each
household in the Castlegar
area were to compost all of its
suitable yard and kitchen

wastes, it would result in a
substantial reduction in the

amount of material going to
our community landfill — the
Ootischenia dump.

Another big benefits is that
the compost you make in your
own yard will supply nutrients
to the soil. When you blend
the compost into your soil,
these nutrients are slowly
released into it over a period
of time. Liberal composting
also enhances the structure of
the soil in your garden by

improving both drainage and
aeration. With each passing
year of composting you can
expect to find the soil darker,
richer, easier to work, and
more free of pests,

Compost heaps can be
started at any time of the
year, even on Father’s Day.
Why not help celebrate
Father’s Day by doing
something for the betterment
of our environment?

Socreds

continued from page A4

Vander Zalm told a conference
of B.C. municipal officials last
September. “They’ve seen too
much disrespect for our laws.”
Vander Zalm, now the subject
of an RCMP i igation into

That kind of talk is pure
politics, says NDP justice critic
Moe Sihota.

In the last eight years Social
Credit governments have
slashed programs - such as
funding for special police
training - that enhanced law

his affairs, said he was fed up
with civil and criminal disobedi-
ence, and he pledged to clean it
up.

» he said.

Also, government Policy is to
“warehouse” criminals in
provincial jails instead of
spending money on

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A Very Sincere Thank You

To all the residents of Castlegar, Area | and Area J for your en-
To all the businesses in the area,
To all the bystanders who applauded, cheered and encouraged
To all the contestants who practiced, prepared and presented

To all the groups, organizations and service clubs for all your
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A VERY SINCERE THANK YOU!

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rehabilitation, Sihota added.

“It’s easy to utter the rhetoric
about tough law and order but
it’s a very expensive Proposition
to deal with the root causes,” he
said.

“The Socreds are trying to
tap into the political desire to
throw the book at wrongdoers.
The problem just didn’t come
today.”

iy.
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