88 Castlegar News July 11, 1990

LOCAL NEWS

Authors to publish new books

With the summer sun come three new releases from Bear Grass Press in Robson: A Pocket Full of Mental Deviations, the first book of “*shocking’’ poetry by Arthur Joyce of Nelson; Dawdling Time, the fifth book in the series Drolleries and Im- pertinences~ by Howe _of South Slocan, including poems and line drawings by Howe; and The Freedom of Responsibi y Clift Woffenden of Appledale, which outlines his philosophy for creating a fuller, more responsible personal reality.

The new releases are available at Carl’s Drugs and the new gift shop at the Castlegar, Rail Station in Castlegar, at Physical Images and Oliver's Books in Nelson, and at L&J Books in Trail.

Bear Grass Press has also assisted with Castlegar resident Gabriele Wichert’s The Time Is Now, a book of poetry and musings on the rebirth of the Mother Earth Gathering and DayStar Productions’ Mountains, River & Sky audio cassette.

Before Christmas, Bear Grass Press will have five new books. The Book of Rita’s Living, is a callection of the letters and journal entries of Rita Savinkoff Koerber, a Castlegar native, as she bravely faced and ac- cepted her death by cancer. Barry K. Morris, Vicki Obedkoff and Karl Koerber also contributed to this book, which is edited by Edith Tem- pleton of Nelson.

MICHAEL SHANNON . .. leaves July 30

Youth off to Moscow

Michael Shannon of Castlegar, along with nine other young Canadians, grandchildren of member of Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, will be travelling to Moscow, U.S.S.R., this August.

Michael’s name and the names of the nine others on the Canada- U.S.S.R. Friendship Mission were selected in June in Halifax at the national headquarters of Veterans Against Nuclear Arms (VANA).

Michael, 12, is to fly to-Montreal on July 30 to meet students from Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia and the Yukon. From Montreal to Moscow, where thé youths stay for two weeks, the trip is sponsored by VANA’s Soviet counterpart, the Peace to the Oceans C

Another collection of letters, en- titled Dear Mom and Dad, describes the adventures of Leslie and A.J. Hesford, formerly of Trail, as they travelled “across Europe, Africa, Nepal, India and Australia in 1985 and 1986,

Congo Footprints, edited by George James of Castlegar, tells of the lives of seven missionaries in the Belgian Congo in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, from letters written home to

riverboat days, snakes, ants, soor-

pions, lions, hippos, lightning, wind, fire, floods, rabies and answered prayers.

Howe, one of the Kootenay’s most prolific writers, will see published his final books in the series, Drolleries

ind Impertinences. More Nostalgias is a collection of short stories, essays, Shaggy tails and-tait-tales;—-and-The Nature of Things is poetry. Bear Grass — will wes come out with a

The past year has been busy for Katherine Armstrong, who has been working hard at the press. She has hired a summer student from the University of Victoria, , Antonia Banyard of Nelson to help until Sep- tember. Bear Grass Press uses Macin- tosh desktop publishing equipment and has a large stock of quality recycled paper. It has also just acquired a new Xerox photocopier, with reduction and

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Koot writers collected during its 1989 short story and poetry contest.

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Airport tower to close, official says

By SIMON BIRCH Editor

Transport Canada will close the Castlegar Airport control tower, likely in October, the regional director of air navigation at Transport Canada’s Pacific region said Friday.

A firm date for the closure won't be set until after-a public meeting in Castlegar, tentatively scheduled for July 19, Don Douglas told the Castlegar News

“It’s our intent to close it but also to hold meetings,”” he said. ‘‘The date of the closure will be determined by the meetings. The date of the closure, if it does close, and Texpéct it will . . . won’t be until October.””

While air traffic control will cease at the tower, Tran-

Sport Canada intends to mo’ ight service station per- sonnel into the tower, Dou; .

He said it’s unlikelyepponents of the closure could Say anything at the upcoming meeting to sway Transport Canada from its plans.

“It’s pretty hard for me to imagine facts that would come up to ovegturn that intent (to close the tower),”’ he said.

Dean McDonald, Pacific regional director of the Canadian Air Traffic Control Association, criticized Transport Canada’s plans to close the tower, calling the Process which has led to the decision ‘‘flawed."’

“Consultation never happened,’’ McDonald’ said Friday, referring to former Transport Minister Benoit Bouchard’s promise to consult with local governments and_other users of the airport before making changes to the tower's operation.

He listed a number of groups which use the Castlegar

Airport — including pilots — who he said want the tower to remain staffed by air traffic controllers because of the terrain surrounding the airport which makes takeoffs and landings difficult.

Douglas said Transport Canada pli service station personnel into the tower, services require

McDonald said the Canadian Air Traffic Control Association wilbcontinue to lobby Transport Canada to keep the tower staffed with controllers

Flight service specialists, who are now calling them- selves ‘‘flight safety specialist say they can provide ser- vice at the tower just as well as controllers.

ove flight

“to provide all the

An FSS study has shown airports operated entirely

committee consultant Carl Denis said in a recent inter- view.

Flight service specialists are now in control of 72 air- Ports in Canada and now operate 46 airports — including Castlegar — jointly with air traffic controllers, Denis said.

Douglas said staffing Castlegar Airport with flight service specialists and air traffic controllers is ‘‘not justified by safety criteria.”’

“*The decision has to be made based on budget and good common sense,” he said.

Kootenay West MP Lyle Kristiansen was unavailable for comment Friday but in a prepared statement Thur sday he denounced what he says is Transport Canada’s lack of consultation on the issue.

by FSS personnel have safety records equal to that of air- ports operated by air traffic controllers, FSS planning

“They use the word consultation when they really mean they will explain their decision,””

he said.

RDCK, loggers make deal

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer

An injunction preventing a Salmon Arm company from logging land it recently purchased in South Slocan’s watershed has been set aside with the consent of the company and the Regional District of Central Kootenay which obtained the court order in June, RDCK administrator Reid Henderson said.

The court order was set aside in B.C. Supreme Court in Victoria after lawyers for the regional district and L and W Sawmills appeared before a supreme court justice- Wednesday, Henderson said.

The company has agreed not to log in the watershed until it has prepared a written logging plan and the regional district has had the plan for five working days, Henderson said

As well, the company has agreed to allow someone: repesenting the regional district to inspect the proper- ty after the RDCK has received the logging plan, although that agreement is not part of the decision endorsed by Pete

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South Slocan residents and the South Slocan commission of management, which works with the regional district, said they wanted to see plans for how L and W would log

in the area around Smoky Creek which is the community’s water sour- ce.

The company refused to prepare a logging plan, management com- mission chairman Wayne Peppard said at the time.

Logging companies are not required to prepare logging plans for work on private land in the same way plans must be prepared before logging can begin on Crown land, Henderson explained

The regional district forced the company to halt its logging plans and please see LOGGERS page A2

By CasNews Staff

Some work has been done to clean up broken glass strewn over Drif- twood Beach, upstream from the Hugh Keenleyside Dam near Robson, but a great deal of glass remains and the beach is not safe for area residents to use, said Scottie Tait, a local businessman who was part of a volun- teer group that constructed the beach about two years ago

An arrangement has been made with the probation officer to have young people doing community work pick up glass on the beach. Volunteers have also tried to help, Tait said.

But Tait said he would not recom- mend a family with children plan to spend a day at Driftwood Beach.

“We've taken-out six five-gallon pails of broken glass and we don’t have one quarter of it yet,”’ he said

Broken glass is also in the water off the beach and a piece of property owned by Westar Timber which is ad- jacent to the beach has also been lit- tered with broken bottles, Tait said.

Tait and Ken Wyllie, Regional District of Central Kootenay director for Area J, which includes the beach, told the Castlegar News in June they

Beach cleanup started

wanted to see the beach closed to the public after groups of young people held parties on the beach, leaving the broken glass and smashed toilets.

However, Tait said Thursday the beach cannot be closed because it is on private land, owned by B.C. Hydro. °

Those involved in the parties should come forward and help with the cleanup, Tait said. He added he would not expect any of the local business people who helped construct the beach initially to give more money to clean up the glass or repair the toilets

Marathon talks don't result in agreement

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer ves of Cominco Ltd. the United Steelworkers of America talked through the night but Friday morning no agreement had been reached that could end the five- day-old strike by the Steelworkers, spokesmen for both sides said.

Cominco public relations officer Carol Vanelli said she could not give details. on the marathon discussions and USWA Local 480 chief negotiator Ron Schmidt went home to bed and was unavailable for comment Friday morning.

Thursday morning Schmidt said he was not optimistic about the talks so far

““We think our demands are reasonable, they (Cominco) say (our demands) are unreasonable, and they say their offer is reasonable,” he said, explaining the mood of the discussions this week between Comin- co representatives and a small group of Steelworkers composed of Schmidt and the presidents of the five Steelworker locals. The entire bargaining committees have not been meeting this week.

“*We're at odds. But it’s up to them (Cominco). Our committee is strong, the membership is strong and we feel our position is the (right) one," Sch- midt said

However, the two sides came to an agreement on access to the plant for non-union employees that Schmidt said averted picket-line violence.

Cominco officials said Wednesday the payroll would have to be post. poned because they were unable to enter the plant to do the necessary paperwork. As well, company of ficials were worried about ammonia leaks at the Warfield ammonia plant and said they could not concentrate on bargaining as long as they were unable to get to files and other materials inside the facility, Schmidt said

The union members wanted their pay and did not intend to stop the company from repairing any am monia leaks, he said.

The_company-agreed~to provide Ppaycheques and not do any construc. tion or maintenance work at the plant while the union agréed to give non. union staff access to the facility through one gate, he said.

“I can tell you, if we hadn’t gotten the payroll there would have been a riot out there (Thursday),”” he said

However, the picketers are still defying a court injunction the company obtained earlier in the week that limits the union to three picketers at each gate and prohibits the union from denying non-union employegs access to the plant

Before the agreement was reached late Wednesday, Cominco resorted to using a helicopter to “‘exchange per sonnel”’ inside the plant, Vanelli said A number of non-union staff mem- bers had been trapped inside since the strike began Monday morning.

The injunction ordered the RCMP to enforce the terms of the court order but ‘‘didn’t say how it should be done or how soon it should be done,"’ Trail RCMP Staff Sgt. Laurie DeWitt said

So instead of clearing out all the picketers and ‘‘then having to go back the next day and do it again,’’ the Police chose to mediate talks between the company and the union in hopes the two sides would come to an un- derstanding, DeWitt said.

“Asa result of them talking, the in junction is being obeyed reasonably closely now,"* he said

The RCMP prefer discussions to heavy-handed tactics, he said

“It’s a small community and strikes are hard enough on everyone as it is.”

Schmidt said the union is looking into going to court to have the injun ction lifted and he warned “‘picket ac. tivity will escalate’ if bargaining breaks off. please see TALKS page A2

By CLAUDETTE SANDECKI Staff Writer

Although the strike at Cominco Ltd. by thousan- ds of United Steelworkers of America union members is taking place in Trail, the entire West Kootenay region will be affected economically, local business ex- perts say.

* And the effect on Castlegar, where about 400 Cominco employees live, will be comparable to a strike at the Celgar pulp mill, Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce president Jim C said. Celgar employs about 400 workers

The main difference would be felt in the ‘spinoff industries,” Craig said. A Celgar shutdown would have an impact on the forest industry which employs a large number of people in the area, he said.

But local businesses are effected regardless of which major employer is down.

Castlegar residents drawing paycheques from Comin¢éo likely earn about $1 million a month and at least 60 per cent of that is probably spent in Castlegar, Craig estimated

Strike puts damper

Neil Kalawsky, owner of Kalawsky Pontiac Buick GMC Ltd., agreed with Craig on the impact the strike will have on Castlegar but said businesses have been feeling the effect of speculation over a strike for some time. , >

“There's no question we've noticed an impact over the course of the. last 45 to 60 days,’’ he said “The spring market hais definitely been impacted.””

People are spending their money on parts, service and repairs to maintain old vehicles instead of buying new cars and trucks, which is normal in times of uncer- tainty, Kalawsky said.

The impact is being felt by all West Kootenay businesses that deal in ‘‘big-ticket items’ such as cars of furniture, he said, noting his sales area includes all the large centres in the region, such as Trail and Nelson, and is affected by any major economic change in the region.

But the delay in the review process Celgar is un- dergoing to obtain approval for its proposed mill ex pansion has also had a wipntive impact on business, Kalawsky said

on economy

Craig said Castlegar businesses have noticed ‘‘a real dropoff, a decline in everything”’ since Celgar was asked to prepare a second set of impact reports, fur- ther delaying the completion of the review

However, determining how much the Ceigar review is affecting business by comparison to how much the anticipation of a Cominco strike has affected the area is difficult to determine, Craig added

Wally Horning, one of the owners of West’s Department Store, is not as quick as others to estimate the impact the strike may have on his business.

Everyone is just guessing when they try to isolate the impact one factor, such as a strike, has on the business climate, he said.

“It's too soon to tell now (what impact the strike may have) and even after it's over’’ unless a business person can single out what is causing changes in sales patterns, he said.

But that doesn’t mean the strike will not affect Castlegar, Horning pointed out

“Anyone knows that a strike has an impact on an entire community."*

The good news is that the West Kootenay area has an aging population that tends to save for the future and many of the Cominco workers have been with the company a number of years and know, what to expect when the possibility of a strike looms, said Doug Stanley, chief executive officer of Kootenay Savings Credit Union.

Most Cominco workers have been planning for a strike for some time and the ones likely to be hardest hit will be young families of Cominco employees who haven't been with the company for as long and haven't been through a strike before, Stanley said

They tend to live from payday to payday and don’t havea lot of accumulated assets, he explained.

Kootenay Savings has weathered Cominco strikes before and credit union officials take the attitude that the financial institute is a part of the region and must accept whatever economic state the area is in, he said please see ECONOMY page A2

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