March 20, 1988

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Community spirit

Tuesday's benefit evening for the West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre was a huge suc- cess. But it was a success only because the very reasons tor the centre's existence were exem- plified in the various components forming the events of the evening.

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evening had that Hl in spades.

While the sparkplugs were the centre's board of directors, it was the involvement trom outside the NEC's “family circle’ that ensured the evening's financial success.

Entertainers, including the Mount Sentinel School Band Roland and Leonard Perri, belly dancers Kassar and Deborah, the Audrey Maxwell Dancers, Wally Walper, and the Castlegar Oldtime Fiddlers, donated their talents to provide hours of enjoyment for all who attended.

And then there were the local artisans who donated the products of their talents for the silent auc- tion: John Hodges, Marilyn Kolstad, Sandy Donohue, Peipp Bos, Moraine Kennedy, Barbara Hunter, Mousi Tchir, Nancy Knight, Darlene McDowell, Mary Elliot and Pat Freschi

But beyond that, it was the volunteer involvement of the Selkirk Lions Club in running the bar, the Castlegar Rotary Club in cancelling its regular meeting and attending the benefit dinner en masse, and the thoughtfulness of caterer Anna Boel in putting on a special meal at a special rate that

re y i. Every community tries to develop a community spirit and a teeling of mutual concern and _ interest among all the people who live there.

This effort to build community cohesion is made even more dit- ficult in our day and age by the tact that communities, like all organizations and enterprises, have been forced to develop into impersonal, caretully-structured factions that depart trom personal contact with the people who live and work within the community.

In a letter soliciting support tor the NEC, its fundraiser convenor, Gail Maloney, emphasized the need to “retain this important community, cultural institution and expressed optimism that, with the help of the community at large, we can save the centre and turn it into a vibrant cultural force in the community

The “Back on Track” out of the red into the black benefit evening was an excellent start. Now the ball is again in the community's court with) the need for area citizens to seriously consider in- dividual memberships in the NEC and financial donations to it

Letters to the Editor

MP's tax stand ‘fair’

In response to Ron Norman's Feb. 28 column I would like to stress that my stand regarding the Northern and Isolated Residents’ Benefits complies with my policy of fairness and equality for all my constituents.

The regulations and guidelines set forth by departmental bureaucrats (who have no idea of the areas they have designated) have created tre- mendous inequities for the residents of Kootenay West.

I agree that scenarios such as Bea- ver Falls (prescribed), and—Montrose and Fruitvale (not prescribed) are lud

Thanks for help

Heart Month is over and on behalf of the British Columbia Heart Founda tion, I would like to thank you for your assistance in publicizing our 1988 Heart Fund Drive.

This year our target is $4.5 million for heart research and education; Feb- ruary'’s door-to-door campaign is the means by which we raise approx- imately half that sum.

Ron Norman

It may just be coincidence; then again, maybe not. But one thing's

Question Period. Tobin called the rules for the

To the vol who canvassed and to the people who so generously responded when asked to give, we say thank you for taking a personal stand inthe fight against heart disease.

Although heart disease is still Canada’s number one killer, your con tinued support of the Foundation and its work ensures that one day it will be beaten.

Don Wall Honorary Publicity Chairman B.C. Heart Foundation

icrous. It is difficult for bureacrats to understand that many Kootenay com. munities begin and end on an imag- inary line in someone's back yard or down the middle of a road.

According to the guidelines, com- munities having less than 10,000 people in their area’ are given a certain number of points. Other points are given for travelling distance to major centres such as Kelowna or Cranbrook. The point system also deals with all-weather road accessibility, type of vegetation, and climate.

The break-down of the point

system is lengthy and very complex.

I will continue to meet with the ministers of finance and revenue until a satisfactory solution has been found.

What is the solution? Educate the people in the departments responsible for these regulations and let them re-assess the situation.

In the meantime, I will endeavor to achieve equality — by providing to all of Kootenay West residents, the same tax deduction for the 1987 tax year.

Bob Brisco MP Kootenay West

Conroy deserves ‘community support

As a trade unionist I have been on many picket lines, supporting my own strikes and those of others. Only in 1987 was I involved in supporting two strikes where scabs were brought in to cross picket lines. These picket lines were at post offices, government out lets of this country.

What made the difference in 1987? The government of Canada, through its corporation, Canada Post, had taken on a tremendous task — breaking the unions that represent the workers in our federal postal system.

This may seem to be “water under the bridge,” but in fact the battle is still alive; in the post office (ask any worker there), in the minds of those who supported the postal workers, and in the courts.

On March 1, 1988 Ed Conroy

appeared in Castlegar court as a result of alleged incidents at the Castlegar post office picket line last fall. I was on that picket line, like Ed Conroy and the many others there, defending the right to have a union, the right to strike, and the right to protect our jobs.

Now, six months later, it is the time for defence once again. Ed Conroy, valuable member of our communi a trusted friend, and a hard-working trade unionist, deserves our support. We, community members and workers, need to defend our rights, need to stand up and show who and what we care about.

Kathy Cristofoli Executive Member Nelson, Trail and District Labor Council

Foresters failed public

Remember When?

4 YEARS AGO From the March 25, 1948

Castlegar News Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sid- ney Greenstreet and Keenan Wynn star in The Hucksters. A best-selling novel becomes a vivid realistic picture. oe Mrs. H.M. Davis and Mr, R. Kerr attended last Monday's meeting on behalf of the Castlegar-Public Library

Association, with a request for finan-”

cial support. Commissioner Wanless outlined the sources of expenditures that the Village is obliged to meet and that there had been several very worthy organizations who had made appeals for donations and the Com- missioners had to-refuse owing to the lack of funds. * 8 @ The local Guide Association meet- ing was held at the house of Mrs. C. Potts recently. It was decided to have a rummage sale in the latter part of April, in the Parish Hall. * 8 «@ The Women's Auxiliary to Branch 170 Canadian Legion held the last of the series of whist drives for this season on Saturday last. . . Mrs. Atkinson who, with her hus- band, recently arrived from England to reside at Robson, was honored at a surprise shower held at the home of Mrs. E. Balano. * 8 The new Sales Tax proposed by the Provincial Government is meeting with plenty of opposition and rightly ‘so. Mail order houses east of B.C. wilt thrive on it as their goods will arrive in this province tax free unless something is done about it. * * « A number of teachers left today for the Easter Holidays. School opens again on April 5th.

25 YEARS AGO From the March 21, 1963 News The possible amalgamation of Castlegar and Kinnaird and/or the setting up of a district municipality which would include even a larger area was probed further at last week's meeting of the Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce. * 6 There are approximately 4,100 fully insurable and part-time insura- able wage earners in the area which could be served by a national employ- ment office located in Castlegar. * 8 «

Work is to begin “shortly” on the railway underpass at Kinnaird which will carry traffic to the proposed new Columbia river bridge, Highways Min- ister P.A. Gaglardi advised the Castle- gar News last Friday.

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The SHSS Junior boys gymnastics team won the B.C. Junior Team championship last Saturday in Nelson. This was the first time the trophy had been won by a team outside the greater

MORE LETTERS

Ozone issue urgent

“News services” in Los Angeles are cited in a March 4, 1988 Vancouver Province story that implies that “latest studies” show that naturally occurring methane has risen by 11 per cent since 1978 and could be enough to explain the ozone hole. Gas emitted by digestive systems of termites and ows, emana. tions from swamps, and decomposition associated with rice fields are impli cated,

Naturally occurring catalysts that destroy ozone have been part of the ozone depletion debate since 1974. Because this issue is so very important, involving a risk to all life on Earth at once, not just a single valley of climax forest, or a valley full of ore in a park, to mention the highest profile environ. mental issues in B.C. at the moment, but all forest everywhere, all park everywhere, we should consider what is going on very carefully.

There are three naturally occur. ring catalysts that destroy ozone: chlorine, hydrogen and compounds of nitrogen. In addition to the living sources already mentioned, a natural source of chlorine is volcanic activity.

All these natural sources have been with us for thousands of years. Increases in methane by 11 per cent (which would increase the percentage of hydrogen catalyst in the ozone) since 1978 due to humankind’s relentless incremental expansion of cow or rice pr ion, or a i ion of termites on logging debris do not explain records of historically tow ozone concentrations over Antarctica which date from 1977. Much more dramatic changes are going on in the atmosphere.

Since 1960 by the use of CFCs and other industrial gases, humanity has artificially increased the chlorine cat- alyst in the ozone layer by 300 per cent. These gases have only been used since 1928, with by far the greatest total production coming since 1960. This is the major change in the atmosphere related to ozone destruction. The world scientific community advising govern- ments all over the world is very clear about this.

Contrary to the implication of the story in the Province, although these may be the “latest studies” of methane gas concentrations in the atmosphere, these are not the “latest studies”

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The general public just gets the idea that scientists are still disputing the facts, and that tomorrow the whole controversy will blow over as the results of new research are released.

Imagine what it would take for a cigarette company to sign on the dotted line that cigarettes actually

caused cancer. They still have yet to do this. The U.S. Chemical Manufacturers Association in October 1987.was forced to sign that the increased concentra- tion of chlorine directly associated with the use of CFCs is the major cause of the ozone hole over Antarctica. There isn't ‘any more evidence required to take action.

Ozone depletion raises with new urgency the fundamental issue of our time: will wastes of civilization be allowed to make our planet unin- habitable within our generation?

Canada’s Minister of the Environ- ment Tom MacMillan said that “scient- ists predicted a planetary crisis if action was not taken” when he an- nounced the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer. Critics of present policy focus on the fact that the scientists were calling for drastic pro- duction cuts of CFCs and related sub- stances, not for a piece of paper with a bunch of fancy signatures on it. All out production continues. Emission con- trols have yet to be considered. The future of life is in the balance.

The ozone hole may be the only warning we will éver receive.

We cannot wait for actual ground level damage. If you ever look out your window at radiation damage caused by

a too thin ozone layer, you will be looking at an entire planet that is damaged.

One or two per cent off the cost of a new refrigefator, and consumer Products that must now be viewed as monuments to the suicidal tendencies inherent in western civilization are all the benefits we derive from this risk.

Write Tom MacMillan, federal Minister of the Environment, and tell him that you think Canada must stop emissions of substances that damage the ozone layer immediately. It doesn't require a stamp on the envelope. Demand that your political party take a stand. Exert whatever influence you have anywhere.

If everyone who felt that they had no power to affect his situation did this, it would make a difference. No nation is acting independently for the ridiculous reason that all nations are not acting together. Someone has to lead. Canada could lift the spirits of all those in the world who are concerned, making actions by others easier.

“Why can’t we see the obvious and do something? That's the question haunting me.” — David Suzuki Feb- ruary 1988.

David Lewis Crescent Valley

More money must be spent on schools

Is there something drastically wrong with our school system? Kind- ergarten isn't even recognized in some areas as a necessary part of the curriculum, so why would it take a teacher two years to prepare a child for entry into Grade 1? Are today's children only half as bright as their grandparents? Or, have we listened to too many so-called education experts and filled our schools with so many Mickey Mouse courses that even today's teachers have lost the ability to teach?

I think we are in very poor shape indeed when almost every business leader you talk to say the same thing about the quality of our schools. The Canadian | Business Task Force on Literacy, reports, that the cost of, illit- eraey in Canada could be as much as $10 billion a year. Sixty-five per cent of inmates in federal prisons are funct- ional illiterates. According to the report, illiteracy costs Canadian bus- inesses $4 billion annually through expenses such as industrial accidents that are caused by workers who cannot read safety instructions.

Frontier College reports that one child in every 13 now in the education system will graduate from school totally unable to read and write. A school with 500 pupils on the average will turn out 38 pupils unable to read or write and dozens of functional illit- erates, most of whom are destined to spend some time in jail. If something isn't done soon to reverse the illiteracy trend, Canada will cease to be a nation altogether. The foundations of demo- eracy depend upon the informed citizen and those unable to comprehend the writtem word can depend on nothing except hearsay.

think we must. spend more

“money right now on improved teacher

training and on our schools. For a teacher to say that two years is necessary to prepare a child for Grade 1 is a complete abdication of respon- sibility; for a school board to be more concerned about the business of a pulp mill‘than the state of our schools is even worse.

F.W. Peitzsche Fruitvale

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CETAC proposal very good idea

The City of Castlegar and the outlying areas have shown interest in improving the visual appearance of the area, Castlegar council is at work trying to improve the appearance of Columbig' Avenue. $4

Another great place improve upon is the entrance to our city along Highway 3. That's right, that “ barren wasteland stretching through Ootischenia. It’s the longest stretch of road: going from east to west that people drive along going through the Castlegar valley. And it's the most desolate. It's not very appealing to visitors passing through, or to people who live here.

Now we have some people willing to spend some money to improve part of that area, and I, along with many others I know, think it’s a very good idea.

I could see opposition to the idea if people were really affected. But the concerns voiced at the public meeting at Ootischenia last Thursday night don’t seem valid. Of all the Ootischenia residents, 99 per cent of them live back from the proposed site — and

Pro-life,

all of Highway 3, for that matter. Traffic will have no need to pass through the residential area, so they should be minimally affected.

Other concerns were pol- lution and noise. Well when you already have an airport, and a dump, I can't see how a convenience store and gas station can worsen those problems. Another was fire protection. If the store and gas station went up in flames, it would be a similar situation as to a house on fire. It would an emergency situation and the neighboring fire depart- ments would be there in a minute.

Who knows, maybe with the enhanced tax base taken in from the business, Ootis- chenia could afford things like fire protection, and a proper water supply — something that's often com plained about.

I hope the regional district approves the rezoing. I can't see how CETAC can bend over any more than it has for the concerned residents. Let's look at the good of the area.

P. Laurie

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Pro-life supporters plan to rally in front of Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco's Castle- gar office today at 2 p.m, Spokesman Carol Albo said supporters “wish to send

abortion a right, it struck down the hospital abortion committees as being an un- fair procedure,” Albo said.

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for certain, Castlegar politicians have taken to quoting. Quoting

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The B.C. forest industry has many obligations to our society, but the first

letter stating that “all is well.” How do plans to extend the TFL partnership

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what? So far they've confined them selves to ancient oaths of allegiance, other politicians and philosophers. But who knows where it may lead?

This trend is fairly recent and appears to have started with Ald. Terry Rogers. Rogers quoted ex tensively from the Athenian youths’ oath of allegiance during his state ment on the Celgar Pulp Co. wood room closure last month at Castle. gar council. He also recited excerpts from a letter in which Municipal Affairs Minister Rita Johnston con gratulated him for winning re-elec- tion in last November's aldermanic campaign.

Those recitations seemed to spark something in Castlegar school trus. tee Tony Guglielmi, because this week Guglielmi quoted chapter and verse from Greek philosopher Aris. totle in his defence of the school board's provisional budget.

Now, some may wonder what the ancient Greeks — both the youths of Athens and Aristotle — have to do with a pulp mill controversy and a $55 increase in school taxes for the average homeowner. It has to do with the principles involved. And this revival of the art of reciting notable quotations is timely, given that it came about the same time The Vancouver Sun reprinted a Los Angeles Times piece headlined “Brain damage: the disappearing American intellectual.”

Our local politicians seem to be doing their part to keep the Can adian intellectual from vanishing.

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The tax deduction for northern and isolated communities that has created such a furore locally isn't only a concern for local taxpayers. Hansard — the official record of

of tax law ever put in place by any government in the history of Can- ada.” You can tell where he stands on the issue.

He says communities that have substantial services available to them qualify for the special tax treatment while isolated commun ities in his‘viding like Trout River on the great north peninsula that have no services, do not qualify.

Tom Hockin, the Minister of State for Finance, had this to say in reply: “We are trying to improve the program. That is why we have the commission of inquiry.”

Both Tobin and Rompkey pointed out that a commission will take too long.

“People are paying taxes now,” Rompkey said. “They cannot wait for an inquiry.”

I contacted Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco’s office this week for an update on the issue — when the inquiry will bring down its findings and just what the federal govern- ment plans to do — but he is in the Yukon. His office said he met again this week with Finance Minister Michael Wilson and Natio- nal Revenue Minister Eimer McKay to discuss the concerns.

In the meantime, taxpayers are urged to write to Wilson and McKay protesting the program's inequities. Who knows, it may mean another $2,500 in your pocket.

Following are the addresses where you can write (if you include Honorable in front of the two min- isters your letter can be mailed for free. And be sure to send a copy to Brisco’'s office).

Honorable Michael Wilson, Min- ister of Finance, Room 515 Centre Block 8, Ottawa, Ont. K1A OA6.

House of C proceeding shows that the concern spreads all the way to Newfoundland and Lab- rador. Both Newfoundland Liberal MP Brian Tobin, and Labrador Liberal MP Bill Rompkey have raised the tax issue in the Commons

H Elmer MacKay, Min- ister of National Revenue, Room 509 Confederation Building, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0A6.

Bob Brisco, D.C., M.P., Room 331 Confederation Building, Ottawa, Ont. K1A OA6.

and primary obligation is to make a profit. When profits are made there is steady and lasting employment. Profits provide the tax base for all levels of government: federal, provincial, mun. igipal and school districts. Industry has many more obligations, but these are secondary. Some may argue the prior- ities of these obligations, but let me point out to them that a company that goes broke is no good to anyone. The

ployees are ly ploy they may not even get their final pay- cheque. The tax base is severely reduced. Suppliers of goods and ser. vices are only paid after secured creditors, like banks, have been paid in full.

Pursuing _g profit is one of the principles of th@capitalistic system. It applies not only here in B.C. but also in the rest.of the free world. I certainly would not want to change the system. It is the*funetion of governments to steer industry in such a manner that our entire society benefits, either by providing incentives or by firm direc. tion (legislation). It is quality of legis lation that is important, not the quant- ity. If all legislation was written in clear English and administrated in spirit of the philosophy behind them, we would only need a fraction of the red tape we have now.

The provincial government has managed our forests poorly. In 1984 there was a change that made it worse. The Socred’s hidden agenda is exploit. ation. Many fortunes in the past were made by exploiting resources and people, a lesson that was obviously not lost on the Socreds. To increase exploitation of the forest, the public watchdog, Forest Service, had to be eurtailed. First it was “downsized.” With fewer employees it had to change priorities. It is more important to keep industry going, organize timber sup- plies, than to monitor logging. Forest Service employees were severely re- stricted in entering onto certain industry areas of activity like tree farm licenses. Instead, an industry forester would just write the Forest Service a

rural people, who get their drinking water from a watershed in a tree farm, feel about that? Instead of having the forest service monitor the logging in that watershed, there is just a statement from a company employee that “all is well.”

I do not want to get into a big fight with the professional foresters, but there is one myth that I must put to rest. That myth is that all is well in the forest as long as professional foresters are in charge. Our forests have always been managed by foresters, but have they been well managed? The criteria on which to assess the foresters’ performance is the condition of our forests. When they are well managed the foresters have performed well, and vice-versa.

During my 30 years with B.C. Forest Service I have met many dedicated foresters. Some are out- standing, like the late W.S. Hough, at one time regional silviculturist in Nelson. At the other end of the spectrum I have met some, both in industry and within the service, that should be kept in prison to prevent them from doing further damage to the resource.

The Asso¢iation of Professional Foresters has an ethics committee but it is more concerned with protecting the home turf than supervising and disciplining its members. The foresters as a group have failed their most important responsibility of protecting the public interest. Under our eco- nomic system there is very little a single individual can do. A company employee who loses track of the first priority, profits, is easily replaced Similarly a Forest Service employee who does not toe the party line will be dumped on from great heights. The foresters must accept responsibility for allowing the provincial government to exploit the forest. They ha

agreement assumption that all is well if a forester is in charge is a fallacy for two reasons. The first is that a company forester does not get promoted or receive bonuses because he managed the forest well. The real criteria for rewards is his contribution to company profits. The second reason is that nobody checks on that foresters’ performance. It is a well-known fact that foresters may well criticize each other in private, but not in public. A company forester can therefore do as he pleases. There is no supervision by Forest Service, and no other foréster will report kim to the ethics committee for mismanagement. His governing rule will be the 11th commandment: “Don't get caught.”

In closing, I blame first the Socreds for their"atrategy to exploit natural resources and secondly the professional foresters for allowing it to continue. It is now time for all ordinary citizens to get involved in management of our forests. Check up on the logging and management practices of these large companies. There are abuses such as wasting wood and failure to reforest logged areas adequately. These should be exposed to the public. I acknowledge that there are many examples of good performance, but there ‘must be a minimum standard. That standard is set by the best companies. Poor performers should be made to do as well. First they must be exposed to the public.

T. Persson Nelson

For the record

A letter to the editor in the Sunday, March 13 Castlegar News

ee tee the writer as E. Sicotte. In responsibility to protest, but di do fact, the writter was E. Turcotte. The

so as a group.

I emphasize again that the provin- cial government is engaged in delib- erate exploitation of resources and people. It will get worse because it now

mistake was made in trying to decipher the handwritten signature. Letter writers are reminded to print their names, in addition to signing their letters to the editor,

The contract has been awarded for installation of the irrigation system and the seeding of the Kinsmen Park.

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It would take five men six days to dismantle the old Sherbiko water tank, Castlegar council was told Tuesday night.

15 YEARS AGO From the March 29, 1973

Castlegar News The seventh consecutive surplus for the Castlegar and District Hospital was reported by finance chairman J.W. Scott when the Castlegar and District Hospital Society held its annual meeting on Wednesday of last week.

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The possible operation of libraries on a regional basis is being investi- gated by the Regional District of Central Kootenay following requests for a study of the matter by the towns of Castlegar and Creston.

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“One of the largest percentages of heroin addicts is in this area.”

This information was given to Castlegar council last week by Mayor John Landis, who said he obtained it from West Kootenay Health Unit medical director Dr. Nick Schmitt.

Friday by the provincial government were welcomed by Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore.

In an interview with the Castlegar News, Moore said the reforms should help prevent a shift in the tax burden this year from residential property owners to industrial and commercial taxpayers.

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After two days of talks with trustees and school district employees, the Sager Commission on school ad- ministrative costs has léft the West Kootenay with one distinct impression. Nobody is in favor of amalgamation.

Details of these and other job opportunities are available at Trail Canada Employment Centre 835 Spokane Street

Phone: 368-5566

Certified Tree Trimmer required in Trail area. Must have driver's license. Wage 1s $10.50 plus, depending on experience. (57)

Certitied Cobinet-maker required in Trail tor at least 6 months. Wage $12.00/hour. (77)

An Inboord/Outboard Motor Mechanic with a minimum of one years experience specifically on boat motors 1s required. Wage 1s

Castlegar. Must on Unem- ployment Insurance. (104)

Foodservers are needed in Trail and Castlegar. Wages are $4.00 to $4.40 per hour, (106 ana 107)

A Recreation vehicle Service Technician is requi in Castlegar. Wage is $10.00 per hour plus commission. (103)

People either on Unemployment Insurance or the long-time unemployed are encouraged to register tor Job Creation and Job Development Projects at CEC Trail

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