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Police are investigating the March 18th break and enter of a 10th Avenue home. Nothing was reported missing.

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Castlegar after his car re- ceived $450 in damages while parked at the Celgar job site March 21. eee

A5th Avenue residence was broken into Saturday, but nothing was reported stolen to police.

Entry was gained through a rear sliding door. Police are still investigating the matter.

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Atwo-vehicle accident near city hall caused approximate- ly $10,000 in damages on the evening of March 19th.

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No injuries occurred when a car driven by Darlene Bar- ton , 44, of Prince George, hit the Scotsman Motor Inn March 20.

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Hasty Creek granted a reprieve

Wi Slocan Valley watershed receives a two-year pardon from the B.C. government

Jonathan Green NEWS REPORTER A

Although the government's log- ging announcement this week gave the Hasty Creek watershed a 24-month reprieve, Richard Allin says he’s not happy.

“It’s not a watershed plan,” said the director of the Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance. “It’s a logging plan.”

Forests Minister Dan Miller and Environment Minister John Cashore made a joint announce-

ment Monday that deferred tim- ber harvesting in the Hasty Creek drainage for 24 months.

* The decision was made to allow the Stephen Owen-led commission

‘ on resources and environment to

carry out a second-phase of re- gional land use p!

Because of this, Slocan Forest Products will not be allowed a planned cut of 6,200 cubic metres in the area,

Although the cut would have represented only about two per cent of SFP’s yearly allowable cut, Allin said the decision reflects the state-the forestry industry is in.

“It shows how tight the situa- tion is,” Allin said.

“The industry has been ccttine into people’s backyards more and more each year.

“They don’t have any place else to get the wood but these little wa- tersheds.”

SFP Woodlands manager Terry Dods admitted the Hasty Creek decision was a setback, but said the company was already looking ahead two years.

“We’re confident that, at that point in time, the activity can then continue in 1994,” he said.

The government also decided not to defer timber harvesting in the Lasca Creek area, the sight of confrontations between protesters and SFP workers last August.

HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH

Jacque DePaoli used her technical skills to teach residents of the Mountain View Lodge about nutrition and diabetes March 11, just one of the many Nutrition Month activities during March.

News photo by Glen Freeman

Nurses reach tentative deal

Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER

British Columbia nurses may have avoided a strike.

The B.C. Nurses’ Union and the Health Labor Relations Associa- tion reached a tentative agree- ment Sunday after six days of me- diation.

The BCNU will recommend that its members accept the new contract, which includes a 3.5 per cent raise and 1.5 per cent pay eq- | uity increase retroactive to April 1, | 1991.

The new contract would also give BCNU members a 2 per cent raise with 1.5 per cent pay equity = year and a cost of living ad-

stment in 1993.

“Nobody came away getting everything they wanted,” said the HLRA’s Director of Communica-

tions Martin Livingston. “But we're happy.

“The union took a very respon- sible bargaining position and we

had realistic negotiations,” Liv- -

ingston said. However, a union representa- tive said there is still a reasonable chance the offer will be rejected. “A number of people have phoned in and are upset that what we have been offered is not what we expected,” said the union rep, who didn’t want to be identified. is-a-ratification vote

April 9, and I’m not sure which way I’m going to cast my ballot,” she said.

- Meanwhile, members of the Hospital Employees’ Union have already cast their ballots, and ac- cording to local chairperson Jean Weir, the HLRA’s offer to the HEU will be rejected outright.

“An announcement will be made on Friday,” said Weir, “but I’m almost positive it will be a no

ote.

Weir added that she would like to see the HLRA return to the bar- gaining table.

“T hope it doesn’t go to a strike, because nobody wants that,” Weir said.

“We only want a fair settle- ment.”

The HEU’s Communicati

Allin said his group lobbied the government to defer harvesting in the area.

“We were pressing for that to be part of the announcement made (Monday),” he said.

Allin said he hopes the Owen commission will realize just how fragile the area’s watersheds are.

‘Tm hopeful that the other wa- tersheds in the valley will receive a reprieve pending Owen’s work,” he said.

Although pleased with the Hasty Creek decision, Allin said his group isn’t sure of what to ex- pect from Miller in the future.

“We’re hopeful he will be focus- ing on watershed issues.”

Local man applauded for heroics

Glen Freeman NEWS REPORTER

A Castlegar man is being hailed as a hero after assisting in the rescue of three Vancouver teenagers.

Len Bleier arrived on the

-_scene shortly after-a_car driven

by an unnamed 16-year-old Vancouver youth hit a concrete block and sailed 40 feet into Furry Creek, 27 kilometres north of Horseshoe Bay on Highway 99.

“Nobody was doing much of anything = we got ore

accident: “80 “Tjamped in “and tried to do what I could.”

Bleier used an axe and a crowbar to force open a door which had been crushed in the accident, and managed to get it open just as paramedics arrived, saving them valuable time. . -

According to Squamish RCMP, the 16-year-old driver was trapped.in the partially - submerged car for 20 to 26 minutes, and was not breathing for some of that time.

“There didn’t look like much hope when we started working on the door, but miraculously he’s still alive,” Bleier said.

The youth was airlifted to Vancouver General Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition on life support.

“His dad phoned me (Monday) and said that his son

Geoff Meggs said the offer

Director on___made BONY. shows the HLRA

was off life support and still alive,” Bleier said, “but they’re

is not being

“The ier told us the cup- board was bare, and then offered the Nurses’ Union more than they considered offering us,” Meggs said.

If the HEU chooses to strike, the BCNU will honor its pickets, said the representative.

still not sure if there is going to be any brain damage.”

The two 17-year-old passengers were taken by ambulance to Lion’s Gate Hospital in North Vancouver

Excessive speed is said to be a factor in the accident.