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i Community throws support behind Pope and Talbot bid

Scott David Harrison EDITOR

Score one for Castlegar.

At a two-hour public hearing Tues- day, Castlegar may have ensured the survival of its forest industry thanks to an outpouring of emotion.

Led by Mayor Audrey Moore and un- employed mill workers, a five-MLA com- mission studying Pope and Talbot’s pro- posed purchase of Westar Timbers’ local operations was asked to remember what Castlegar and wood have in common. The answer to that was plenty.

“This is an all or nothing thing for our community,” Moore told the commission. “Either the transfer goes through as

agreed to by Pope and Talbot and West- ar or there is nothing. That is not accept- able to this community.” : f :

Moore,one of 10 scheduled speakers to argue for the swift sale and transfer of the Castlegar sawmill and the southern por- tion of Tree Farm Licence No. 23, said the community has been devastated by the closure of Westar. She urged the commis- sion to reopen the mill “for the sake of our families.”

Tuesday’s hearing was the first of four being scheduled across the Kootenays. The hearings continue today in Nakusp, Thursday in Revelstoke and Friday in Sicamous.

Some 400 people crammed into the Castlegar and District. Community Complex to throw their overwhelming support behind Pope and Talbot bid to

Castlegar unites on transfer

buyout financially-floundering ailing Westar.

That large crowd had local MLA and commission member Ed Conroy beam- ing with optimism:

“I’m really, really pleased to see what happened here tonight,” Conroy said, looking across the jam-packed room. “I warned the other members of the panel that this was going to happen, but I don’t think they believed me.’

Conroy said the large turnout would make it difficult for Forest Minister Dan Miller to reject Pope and Talbot’s $22 mil- lion U.S. offer.

“It’s looking good for Castlegar,” he said,“but we have to remember that this is just the first night and there are three more hearings to go.”

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