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We salute you all!

There are times when it's especially gratifying to be associa- ted with your community newspaper.

This has been true ove past several months. as nominations were received for the Air Canada Heart of Gold awards jointly sponsored by the airline and the Canadian Community Newspapers Association, of which the Castlegar News is a longtime member.

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Photographs of many of the have been din our paper, while short biographical sketches have appeared on all 16 Castlegar/Trail residents who received certificates and special Heart of Gold lapel pins.

Processing the ns, corr ding with the and meeting and talking with them in person when they arrived for photographs has made us realize once again just how important in- dividuals are to our society.

Imagine visiting a person confined to a wheelchair once a week for 10 years to read to her and write letters for her. Imagine

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Norman Ball, Ralph Trussler and Charles Woolls and the surveyor, Mr. D.A. Currie B.C.L.S. attended the meeting on Monday night to petition the correctness of the staking of their respective properties according to the survey recently made by Mr. Currie, from 23rd Street and block 85-36 and 87. It was decided to have a 40-foot-wide road between block 36 and 87 from 23rd St. to the river bank. *_ *

The Kinnaird Boys travelling to Vancouver Provincial Teen Town ball tournament are: — Lorne Marshall, Mervin Swikart and Fred- die Hargrave. The first game will be against a Vancouver team.

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Rev. Stephen Clynyk, C.Ss.R., a

of French in the Redemp-

torist College at Roblin, Man., visited for a few days recently.

Letters to the editor

Cc Father Olynyk is a priest of the Ukranian rite and said Mass for the Ukranian Catholic of Castlegar.

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Castlegar's Teen Town Clippler

assisting, on a volunteer basis, with c g for children, youths and adults in need of emotional help.

Service clubs, such as Rotary and Lions, help tremendously in @ community, and collectively their members donate thousands and thousands of volunteer hours to making our community and region a better place in which to live

But, like the Heart of Gold recipients, there are many, many hundreds of other “good” citizens out their who quietly, and without fanfare, improve our quality of life.

We salute them all.

Charters' book a gem

This editorial could be construed as an advertisement. But for that we make no apologies.

We have no hesitation wh yer in rec ig that our readers rush right out to local stores and purchase a copy of John Charters’ new book, Overy My Shoulder.

As a review in this paper last Sunday reported, it's read”.

A collection of only a portion of the Reflection and Recollection columns which Charters has written for the Castlegar News over the years, the book puts us in touch with our roots, albeit from one man’s point of view.

Castlegar and the immediate area is home to all of us, and if any

of us were to be able to choose a “grandfather” to tell us about our- selves, his own philosophy of lifé and living — and do it all in fine style then there is no better person than J.A. (John/Jack) Char- ters. * Longer and cooler evenings are settling in now and while the lighting of fireplaces is still aways off there can be fewer ways to spend an enjoyable evening then by sitting down in a comfortable chair with this gem of a book

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Report excellent

The task force set up in the Kootenay Development Region to look in to the delivery of provincial govegnment services, in the area has come up with an excellent report.

The recommendations, which now go to the Regional Services Group for approval, recommend quite @ number of services which government agents could provide. These include everything from providing provincial government tender results to recording mineral/placer claims, to operating a toll-free information line

The report doesn't apparently go as far as the former provincial secretary Elwood Veitch (now the super-regionalization minister) had when he was promoting an increase in the actual_number—of government agents, but the task force has done a very good job and

b ly I d ly to the made to it.

Let's hope the Regional Services Group gives the report quick at- tention and forwards it promptly to the provincial government for ac- tion.

Green party sees change on horizon

By DEBI PELLETIER Canadian Press

WHITE ROCK, B.C. — A new political constitution is being drafted under the fragrant cedar trees on a pretty piece of West Coast waterfront.

About 100 Green party members — from Newfoundland to British Columbia — have gathered at a summer camp retreat in White Rock, 45 kilometres south of Vancouver.

While voters have been hard to come by for the fledgling party, Green party spokesmen say that may change as voters become more concerned with the environment in the wake of the PCB scare that

+ forced the evacuation of thousands from St.-Basile-Le-Grand, Que.

Rolf Bramann, a Quebec organizer and transplanted West German, says Canadians are not as sensitive to ecological issues or as politically ardent as Europeans. But he acknowledges disasters such as the PCB dump fire in St.-Basile-le-Grand, can do much to change that.

“My first reaction was to go out and recruit Green party

Pesticide use unwise

It seems plainly unwise to continue using pesticides having the potential to cause harm, particularly since there is no clear meaning given to the term “‘unreasonable adverse ef- fect." The provincial environmental appeal board last week decided that spraying Spike along (@ Rail's tracks did not pose such an effect and that concern over this issue seemed alarmist

The August issue of Newsweek has on its cover the title ‘‘Our Polluted Oceans — Don’t Go Near The Water."’ The stories following have titles like: ‘‘Where the Fish No Longer Jump.’ ‘‘In Health There Are No Borders,”’ ‘‘A Witch's Brew

of Pollutants,"’ and the catchy title “Toxins, Toxins Everywhere."’ Sen- tences exemplary of the reason- able tone of these articles are: ‘Pollution problems of one degree or another can be detected virtually anywhere along the coastline of the continental United States’; ‘‘Non- point pollution is now a problem in virtually every bay and estuary in the United States, and it is certain to get worse’’; and the graphic, colorful statement from a Santa Monica councilwoman stating: ‘The’ people sweeping dog doo in the gutter don’t realize that their kids will be surfing in it.””

It is rational to recognize that vir-

We're running out of big trees

I recently attended an official opening ceremony of the new Koot- enay Lake District Office of the Ministry of Forests. One of the speakers, a retired forester, spoke of change and in so doing he confirmed a fear which has been gnawing at me for some time. He said that one of the biggest changes that he and other foresters have observed is in the size of the trees being harvested. Today's run-of-the-mill was yesterday's fence- posts. The message was clear enough to me: we're running out of big trees. Of course, I've heard this many times before from many different sources, but this time it really struck home. Here was a senior forester, an authority if ever there was one, telling us that big trees are getting searce. As I say, I was struck by his words, confronted with the sad truth that this priceless natural resource is passing away before our very eyes.

While this sobering fact is common knowledge to many of us, there are many more who have not yet opened their eyes to this reality. Those people who manage our forests are well awaré of this scarcity of big wood’ and speak of the need to convert to a second-growth industry. What is alarming is that although the

scarcity is acknowledged by the caretakers of the forests, there is no concurrent message to save the old growth that is left.

It is unacceptable that we still allow old growth to be harvested solely for the monetary benefit. It is narrow and shortsighted economics which equates these grand stands to so many board feet, a cold and calculating economies which calmly labels a vanishing ecosystem as decadent and dispatches it with righ It is. blind i of greed. For just a little more money we will be denying our children and grandchildren the matchless beauty and serenity which was given us. We have no right to destroy it.

I do not push away the sadness I feel. The sadness is important and usefull — it is fostering in me a profound desire to save what is left. I shall not throw up my hands and say “nothing can be done”. I know that there is a greater economics, an economics married to ecology, an economics as if people, rather than goods, mattered. For that, and for my children’s future, I shall fight.

Nicholas Morris Appledale

Aquatic centre good opportunity

With a possible referendum coming up this fall and the chance to have our say as to the building of another recreational facility, this is probably one of many letters that will follow

While serving on the board of the regional recreation commission, I had the ity to be indirectly in-

candidates in the area,” the auburn-bearded i “There's no doubt that the more environmental degradation there is, the better for the Green party.

“We'll have a candidate in St.-Basile-le-Grand and we'll do quite well there (because of the accident).”

Deleg: at the party » which started last Sunday and ran through Friday, are-considering the planks in the Green party platform — issues such as ozone depletion, the greenhouse effect, pollution, waste disposal and conservation of national resources. Like others at this retreat, Bohlen believes the Green party is “an idea whose time has come.”

But he’s not suggesting there will actually be a Green member of Parliament after the next election.

Instead, most of the optimism is directed at seeing a member in the House of Commons sometime before the end of the century, possibly in the election after this one.

volved with the building of the Com- munity Complex. I saw the many hours put in by the promoters, the disappointment of the first vote, and the countless hours put in to get information in the right place to go to referendum again

Since arriving in Castlegar in the early 1950s I have seen the people in the whole of School District No. 9 come together on many new projects that have done nothing but enhance our beautiful area. Many new people have moved to this area to help it grow and some of the reasons came here just had to be the fac

that are offered, both for the adults and the growing families. With some stability in fhe work force through contracts being signed, new busi- nesses opening up and a half-decent tax base, it is going to be up to us, the residents, to keep up the facilities that we so richly deserve.

It is recognized that some facilities are privately-funded and that a dues structure is needed in order to take advantage of the activities offered. This cannot be done in every case as it is not feasible.

I urge you to vote in the affirm- ative on an aquatic centre, even if it means you may very well be a spec- tator at some of the events. This is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss and only you the electorate can make it work. Let’s get it done the first time ‘and have a showpiece in our area that we again can be proud of,

Gary Hyson Castlegar

tually any substance applied to the land will likely find its way via rivers and streams to the oceans. Pesticides especially those like Spike which is considered persistent by the U.S. En- vironment Protection Agency and has been flagged as a groundwater contaminant, will merely intensify the complexity of the toxic soup the oceans are becoming. Is this really a reasonable adverse effect? If so, I think the majority of people of this planet would gladly wear the strait- jacket usually reserved for those who

incapacitating mental infirm-

I do not think it is alarmist under the present circumstances to pose the question, ‘‘Has man become in- sane.”’ What could explain the cruel, unrelenting nature of man’s inhu-

f the Castlegar Legion soft- ball team 10-5 Sunday last.

Castlegar

The Castlegar village commission meeting on Tuesday approved the allocation of a sum of money up to a maximum of $10,000 for a pedestrian overpass to the Shewchuk Sub- division. The motion to set aside this fund out of a village surplus of about $30,000 was put forth at the council meeting by Commissioner R.C. Mad- docks with reference to a meeting with Divisional Supervisor at Nelson.

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Canada and the United States have narrowed their differences on the long-drawn Columbia River power treaty controversy and an informant said the U.S. government is “very optimistic” that a new agreement on the construction pact may be reached shortly.

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Burt Campbell, editor of this paper, was selected Social Credit Candi for the Kaslo-Sl riding

manity to the the same environment that has given its all for the use and enjoyment of man? Is the stake that is being driven into the planet and thereby into the heart of man so utterly invisible that its movement cannot be reversed?

It seems strange and fantastic that anyone could maintain that Spike is “‘safe’’ or that CPR has a “‘right”’ to ram this pesticide through. The only reasonable explanation for this that occurs to me is that the ‘‘right’’ is sanctioned by Section 3 of the Pesti- cide Control Act which states, ‘‘A bylaw or regulation of a municipality or regional district that conflicts with, is inconsistent with or repugnant to this Act or regulations is of no effect 4o the extent of the conflict, incon- sistency or repugnancy.”’ (I bet some of you thought you lived in a demo- cracy!)

Spike is ‘‘safe’’ because of Section 21 of the Act states, ‘‘Proceedings may not be brought against the ad- ministrator, board, committee, min- ister or any other person for anything done or not done in good faith in the performance or intended perform- ance of a power or duty under this Act or regulations.”

You may ask, ‘‘Who will bear the

ibility for the ‘ id adverse effect?’’ It will not be the CPR in all likelihood. Section 2 (2) of the regulations reads in part”. . . no person shall be liable in a prose- cution . . . if he proves that the unreasonable adverse effect primar- ily resulted from compliance with a term or condition of a licence,.. . . or permit . . . issued to him.””

Guess, meek and gentle taxpayer, who will pay?

P. Maloff

Society formed

I would like to announce to your community a newly-formed society, the Canadian Home Educators As- sociation of B.C. We are registered as a non-profit or izatic ivi

at a well attended nominating con-

vention held in Nakusp on Tuesday '

night. 15 YEARS AGO From the Sept. 6, 1973 Castlegar News The Town of Kinnaird feels strongly a commitment between it- self and the former government gives thent legal right to Marathon Land for which it was awaiting an order-in-council to transfer title to them and would like to travel to Victoria to. state its positions. . 2 &

An explanation by External Af- fairs Minister Mitchell Sharp as to why Canada withdrew from Expo "74 was described as “double-tongued” on Tuesday night.

Mayor John Landis told his council Mr. Sharp's wire of explanation was “just plain politics — the East wins again.”

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Cominco has started a feasibility study for a 100,000-ton-a-year zinc manufacturing plant in the United Kingdom.

“This refinery would change Com- inco’s present role in Britain,” Com- inco chairman and chief executive officer Fred Burnet said in his

inno ent of a announcem i A the study.

Kinnaird residents ‘will be paying for water on a quarterly rather than a monthly basis when a bylaw which received third reading Tuesday gets final reading.

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A representative of Castlegar council will meet with someone from Kinnaird council to discuss the latter community's suggestibn that the twin towns jointly produce a float for use at Expo 74.

5 YEARS AGO From the Sept. 4, 1983 Castlegar News

After postponing a proposed mar- ket/garden nursery project, the Kootenay Society for the Handi- capped has embarked on a new money-making scheme — a ceramic wholesale supply venture.

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While the first week of September means back to school for most Casth i

funding through memberships only. Home education is a viable alter- native to public/private schooling. If there are any among your readers currently home schooling or inter- ested in knowing more about this growing educational alternative, please contact our association at: C.HLE.A. of B.C., 4684 Darin Court, Kelowna, B.C. V1W 2B3. Vieki Livingstone President Castlegar

ts, it means just one thing for local wine makers — the grapes are coming.

And the word from grape suppliers is that this year’s crop is excellent.

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Tony’s Mountain Man, a Giant Schnauzer owned by Joanne Beutel of Portland, Ore., took the top prize for best dog in show for all three days of the West Kootenay Kennel Club's annual show held this week at Kinnaird Junior secondary school.

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Trade debate heated

By MARIO POSSAMAI Canadian Press

OTTAWA — The gloves came off when Trade Minister John Crosbie opened the final Commons debate on the free-trade legislation.

Crosbie, at his truculent best, verbally pummelled and pounded op- ponents of the agreement.

He dismissed New Democrat Steven Langdon's criticisms as “aca- demia gone nuts — academia nuts, I suppose, Madame Speaker.”

Liberal Leader John Turner and NDP Leader Ed Broadbent were lumped together as “Mr. Broadturn, or Mr. Benturn, or Mr. Turnbent.”

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But some of his best shots were reserved for a familiar opponent, Liberal trade critic Lloyd Axworthy, who was dubbed “a fandaglio of fan- fare.”

Crosbie may have had in mind an obscure Spanish dance called the fandanguilla, said to be a spirited cakewalk for two.

Axworthy — in no mood for a lively two-step — was the speaker after Crosbie. He compared the ex- perience of listening to the New- foundland cabinet minister to “trying to track a skunk downwind. All one gets is the odor, not the tracks.”

If the National Citizens’ Coalition thinks Broadbent is very, very scary, a leading women’s magazine con- siders him very, very sexy.

The NDP leader joins such lum- inaries as corporate mogul Robert Campeau and poet Leonard Cohen on Chatelaine’s list of Canada’s 10 sexiest men.

Broadbent is the target of a $500,000 media blitz by the free-en- terprise-supporting lobby group. It features a red-and-white button that describes Broadbent as being very, very scary.

Chatelaine, however, puts the one-time university professor in a different light.

He is “like (the late actor) Spencer Tracy to the liberated women: a rock of common sense in an ocean of overheated debate.”

Much has changed on Parliament Hill since Veterans Affairs Minister George Hees, the dapper Conserva- tive who is retiring from politics, was first elected to the Commons in 1950.

In those days, the press corps comprised a bunch of ugly men, recalls the 78-year-old Hees.

“Now you see so many gorgeous girls . . . I just don't want to leave.”

Hees, who also served in the cabinet of the late John Diefenbaker, received two standing ovations Thursday in the Commons as mem- bers of Parliament prepared to take an 11-day break.

Many MPs shook his hand and he was given a peck on the cheek by New Democrat Lynn McDonald.

Hees, who represents the Ontario riding of Northumberland, has no regrets about calling it quits.

“I want to end with a heavy and full head of steam, to be able to do what I'm doing and continue to do it right to the very end.”

There's nothing like the whiff of a possible election campaign to get a former politician yearning for the hustings.

“What fun it would be to run ina

ign,” says a wistful Eugene

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Whelan, the former Liberal agricul- ture minister with a penchant for green stetsons and down-home wit- ticisms.

But Whelan, who left politics in 1984 after Turner became party leader, is quick to say that he hasn't yet decided whether to run.

Even if he isn't a candidate, Whelan says he'll campaign for the Liberals in the next election.

Liberal Bob Kaplan thinks too many Canadians don't make the effort_to pronounce Italian names properly.

“Let's stop murdering the Italian language when we use these names and start pronouncing them prop- erly,” urges Kaplan, whose Toronto riding has a large Italian population.

Indeed, the situation is so bad, he told the Commons, that “many

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