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© News September 14, 1968

ATTENTION

LOCAL MINISTRIES OF
FORESTS & ENVIRONMENT

WHY HAVE YOU DECLINED
TO MEET WITH US ASA
COMMUNITY IN OUR COMMUNITY?

Let's resolve watershed
logging issues NOW!

1. WE NEED ADEQUATE PLANNING AND OPERATIONS
No more Hills Slides. We need meaningful hazard
analysis incorporating clearly defined standards,
and alternatives. to clearcutting, slash burning
and pesticides.

. WE NEED LIABILITY
Who's going to pay if our water is fouled?
Now? 20 years from now??

THE SLOCAN VALLEY WATERSHED ALLIANCE ~
(SVWA) DEMANDS FULL AND FAIR INVOLVEMENT
IN THE LOGGING OF OUR WATERSHEDS.

GOOD WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ALSO INSURES
LONG-TERM JOBS FOR LOGGERS.

ONCE AGAIN, WE INVITE YOU TO MEET WITH
US TO RESOLVE THESE ISSUES ON

Thursday, Sept. 29 — 7:30 p.m.

Winlaw Hall

LET'S GET ON WITH IT!

MEMBER GROUPS: Per Ridge Water Users Association,
Winlaw Creek Watershed Committee, Elliott/Anderson/Chris-
tian/Trozzo Creek Watershed Committee, Red Mountain Resi-
dents Association, Hills Watershed Committee, Village of
Silverton, Slocan Ridge Watershed Committee, Brandon Im-
provement District, South Slocan Commission of Management,

Fire
fighters
busy

By CasNews Staff

Forest firefighters in the Nelson
and Cranbrook forest regions have
been kept busy fighting two fires
involving air tankers.

Ernie Morris, regional fire control
officer for the Nelson forest region,
told the Castlegar News air tankers
were called in to fight a fire in the
Grand Forks area yesterday. The 10.
hectare fire is now in the mop-up
stages.

“We did have a fire in the Grand
Forks area and had air tanker action
on it yesterday,” he said today. Air
tankers from Castlegar, Kamloops
and Penticton were called in to assist

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ground crews .in extinguishing the
blaze. “It’s pretty well contained.”

Morris said there is another fire
that has been burning for the last
two weeks in the Quinn Creek area
near Cranbrook

“It's been worked on in the last
couple of weeks and is contained and
being mopped up,” he said. “That one
I believe is 400 to 500 hectares.”

Morris isn’t sure of the number of
firefighters called in to fight the
blaze on the ground but said it was
“§0-plus.” He added that rappel
crews — firefighters who rappel to

fires from helicopters — have been ‘

sent to the U.S.

He said a campfire ban has been
lifted for the Arrow Lakes District
but added his is keeping .a close
watch for fires.

“If you draw a line from Vernon to
Nakusp — anything south of that line
would be considered high to ex
treme,” he said. “North of that line
would be moderate to high. We're
monitoring the situation closely.”

He also said there have been “sev-
eral small spot fires” in the area that
were extinguished before they could
do any real harm. There are 37 fires
burning in the Nelson forest region
at the moment. Morris said all of the
blazes are contained

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Castlegar News

TREET TALK

HOW ABOUT A walk to Fauquier? Your
reaction is likely the same as Ald. Albert
Calderbank’s Tuesday night at Castlegar council.

Mayor Audrey Moore asked: “When are we
organizing our walk to Fauquier,” to which Calder
bank raised his eyebrows and queried: “Our walk?”

Moore suggested Castlegar supporters of a
highway linking Castlegar with Fauquier may want
to hike the route to promote it. She noted supporters
of the rival Jumbo Pass route from Nelson to
Invermere walked part of the route over the
weekend.

Council quickly shuffled onto something else
before Moore had any answer.

MORE THAN 3,300 people and 1,620 vehicles
stopped in at the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce
infocentre between June and August. The single
largest number of visitors were from elsewhere in
B.C. — 81 per cent.

Another 27.6 per cent were from the local area,
25 per cent from Canada, 12 per cent from the U.S.
and 4.4 per cent from outside North America.

The chamber estimates that the average visitor
spends $100 a night — $45 on a hotel room, $25 for

feature a stone wall and fireplace. The outside
will be finished in stone and cedar with some
stucco. It is ing built by Gunter Reker of
Silverton, completion date target is Nov. 1.
CosNews Photo by Burt Campbell

supper and breakfast, $25 for gas and $10 for a
souvenir or gift.

VANCOUVER author Timothy Perrin wants to hear
from people who lost money in the collapse of the
Principal Group, the Northland, or Canadian
Commercial Banks, the Teachers’ Investment and
Housing Cooperative or other financial institutions.

Perrin is writing a book called.As Safe As A
Three Dollar Bill: Victims of the 80s Banking Crisis
to be published by Western Prairie Producer Books
in the fall of 1989.

The book is to tell the stories of people like
retired Castlegar teacher Alma McGauley who,
along with her husband, lost more than $40,000 when
the Teachers’ Coop collapsed in an unregulated mess,
or who, like Alberta rancher Reg Kendrick, lost
money with both the Canadian Commercial Bank and
the Principal Group.

“You could say that people like the McGauleys
and Reg Kendrick should have done more homework
and perhaps they should have been better
investors,” says Perrin. “But they were also victims
of a banking and economic system that has become 80
complex that you virtually need an MBA just to
know what to do with your life savings.”

Perrin will be travelling throughout the country
this fall to meet with people who lost money in the
various financial fiaseoes. Persons who would like to
participate in the project or who know others who
lost money can contact Perrin at 615-402 W. Pender
St., Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1T6, Phone: (604) 681-9394.

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By CasNews Staff

Castlegar council is considering a
new bylaw raising the minimum age
for volunteer firefighters while at the
same time raising the mandatory re-
tirement age.

Currently, the Castlegar Volun-
teer Fire Department's minimgm age
is 18. However, a draft ‘bylaw
proposes raising the minimum age to
19 years.

“They don't want high school
people,” explained Ald. Albert Cal-
derbank, a member of the protective
services committee.

Committee chairman Ald. Bob
MacBain added that the fire depart-
ment is concerned that 18-year-olds
still in school would disrupt classes if
called out on a fire.

As well, MacBain said the present
retirement age is 60 for firefighters,
but under the new bylaw the chief
would be able to grant yearly ex.
tensions until the firefighter reached
65.

Calderbank said the change in re.
tirement age was prompted by one
firefighter who has reached 60.

But Calderbank defended the fire.
fighter, pointing out: “He's fitter
than some of the young guys at 19.”

MacBain added that all firefighters
undergo annual medical examina:
tions. He said Fire Chief Bob Mann

ment at 60 if the firefighter is still
capable of performing the duties.

Mayor Audrey Moore pointed out
that the retirement age in full-time
fire departments is 55.

The bylaw was referred back to
the protective services committee
after Ald. Lawrence Chernoff sug-
gested the retirement age for fire-
fighters be placed at 65 — not 60.

Chernoff noted that the new bylaw

ALD. MacBAIN
. age now 65

allows the chief and officers to
continue until 65.

“We shouldn't be differentiating
between the chief, the officers and
the firefighters,” he said.

However, MacBain defended the
different mandatory retirement
ages, saying the chief and officers
may not be as physically involved in
fightint fires. Administrator Dave
Gairns suggested the different re-
tirement age is common practice in
volunteer departments.

Calderbank said he isn't sure why
there is a different retirement age,
but said he feels uncomfortable
changing the bylaw because it was
recommended by Chief Mann and the
officers.

“This is what the officers and the
men in the department want,” added
Gairns.

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