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By RYON GUEDES CasNews Editor

Two Genelle residents will

ask the Regional District of Central Kootenay board to- night to join their fight against tests on uranium deposits near their China Creek watershed. ‘Gordon Rutley, chairman ‘of an ad hoe residents’ com- mittee opposing exploratory drilling in Genelle, and Herb McGregor, scheduled to appear in.provincial court here Aug. 1 on charges arising from resi- dents’ attempts to halt the tests, will ask the board to use its powers under the Municipal Act to prohibit the exploration. g “There are certain sections of the Act which empower regional districts to prohibit fouling or impeding a water

source," Tom McKenzie, a spokesman’ for the ad hoc committee, told the Castlegar News,

“There is another section that provides for issuances of development permits, and we are suggesting that both these

Sections should be studied by

the RDCK.”

Although most of China Creek and the lower water basin are within the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, portions of them, as well as part of the China Creek Uranium Consortium staked claim, fall within the RDCK. .

“The staked area covers most of Area J," McKenzie said. “And as soon as there's a move for further exploration the next to be affected by the

Dunking, Dropping, Dining and Dancing

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1978

Genelle Three Remanded to Trial Aug. 1

drilling would be Blueberry and the Fairview subdivision.”

“As well, there are indi- eations that the groundwater supply used by the city of Castlegar could be affected by extensive drilling.”

McKenzie said a mines ministry official told the com- mittee one of the “hottest spots” for uranium deposits in the area is “just a few yards from Castlegar and District Hospital.”

Also this week, mines ministry, water - rights and pollution control branch offi. cials were scheduled

nium in Genelle near China Creek, Rutley told the Castlegar News early yesterday chief mines inspector Bruce Lang, water rights engineer Tox Oxland and an unnamed PCB representative would visit the site to familiarize themselves with the area.

“They're the people we've been discussing matters with,” Rutley explained. “They have not yet seen the things that are going on.”

He said the officials would probably be accompanied on the i ‘

morning to inspect the site of exploratory drilling for ura-

he by of.

the ad hoe committee and the Genelle Improvement District.

Fun-Filled Family Weekend

It's Castlegar Sunflower Fest time again. Remember the bed race? The skateboard com- petitions and the inward plea- sure of dunking a local cele- brity?

It’s all here again and much more. A first this year is the Kiwanis'-sponsored Southern Interior Loggers' Sports Asso- ciation to be held Sunday ai Pass Creek Park, i

Celebrations start early Friday at 10 a.m. when the Doukhobor women hold their bazaar and bake sale. Be there when the doors open, for it is always a sell-out.

Regional Recreation Com- mission No. 1 has sponsored a Sunflower Penny Carnival for all ages in the Kinsmen Park from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

During the evening you can take in the first game of the sixth annual Castlegar Selkirk Lions Fastball T

Arena Hall) from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. with music by

p.m. at the Kinsmen Park where the Doukhobor women

On Saturday it’s a full day for the family with the Rotary Club holding a pancake break- fast at the Super Valu parking lot from 7 to 11 a.m. If you are in the mood fora brisk jog register for the Sunflower Run

will have a concession stand from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m,

One p.m. is also the time for the second annual Bed Race, sponsored by the local RCMP. It starts at the Castlegar Canadian Legion Hall on Col-

Castlegar

unflower Fest

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, July 21, 22, 23

ad

sponsored by Regional Rec- reation Commission No. 1. This can be done at the start of the event at the Recreation Office. It is scheduled for 9:15 a.m.

_ Parade marshalling begins at 9 aim, at. the” Castleaird

which begins at 6 p.m., com- plemented by a concession stand run by the Castlegar Selkirk Lady Lions.

For the 18- to 18-year-olds, there is a Teen Dance spon- sored by the Youth Centre. It is held at the Youth Centre (Old

Plaza, not as previ stated at the Regional Recreation Complex, under parade mar- shal Sam Brown with Captain. Cook in attendance.

At 10 a.m. the floats will be judged with the parade getting underway at 11 a.m. and the parade presentations made at 1

umbia Avenue and ends at the Castlegar Co-op Garage. Meanwhile, other action is taking place in the city with the Lions Softball _ Tournament starting its first. game .of the day at 8 a.m. at the Kinnaird Park. a At 12:30 p.m. the Kinnaird Park is the site for the Horse- shoe Tournament. The dunking tank opens at 1 p.m. with the Selkirk Lions Club sponsoring a Celebrity Dunk at 3 p.m. ©

Hope you have your ad-°

vance tickets for the Bavarian

Night Dance and Games of Chance to be held Saturday evening at eight in the Castle- gar Curling Rink, If not, act now. It should be a fun-filled evening.

There is another pancake breakfast Sunday morning. This time the Rotarians begin serving at 9 a.m.

It will be a day of decisions as activities continue at both the Kinnaird and Pass Creek Parks.

At Kinnaird Park, there is the Canadian Frog Jumping Competition at 11 a.m. A Lions Bavarian Gardens opens at noon. There are also special surprises for the kids in ‘the form of free ice cream, balloons and watermelon,

At 12:30 p.m. a water-

filled balloon throwing ‘and %

satching contest ,and ‘mor junking at 1:30 p.m. at the Lions Dunking Tank.

The last-act of. the day at Kinnaird Park will be the presentation of trophies and prizes to the winners of the sixth annual Lions Softball Tournament. Presentations of these will be made by club

(Con't. Pg. A12, Col. 4}

Won't Stop Uranium Mining, MLAs Chai

By RYON GUEDES CasNews Editor

Referendums and mora- toriums are useless in the fight against uranium exploration and mining, two New Democrat. MLAs said here Sunday.

Alberni MLA Bob Skelly, the NDP environment critic in the legislature, and Rossland- Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy, :in Castlegar on a NDP-sponsored “fact-finding mission" to hear briefs on proposed develop- ment of low-grade uranium ore bodies in B.C., told an audience of about 100 such measures are no substitute for major legis- lative change.

Although representatives of several groups at the meet- ing called for a province-wide public referendum on uranium mining and nuclear power development, Skelly said such a vote would be used by politi- cians to avoid making decisions and, would turn them into “rubber stamps” for initi

>|Referendum "Two-Edged

SKELLY, D’ARCY

«+. Feferendums, moratorilums not the answer

a number of referendums and initiatives opposed to nuclear power development in various states were defeated by a combination of several power- ful organizations, including la- bor unions.

D'Arcy told the meeting

“are iti

supporting nuclear power. “The referendum is a two- edged sword,” he said. “And by submitting the legislature to the referendum process you pretty well eliminate repre- sentation based on the con-

used by governments and poli- s to sidestep hot issues.”

lic opinion polls and in the final

analysis they don't mean any-

thing and politicians only use i ou.”

science of your rep! *\ Skelly said that during the 1976 U.S. presidential election,

them to A A moratorium against ex- ploration or mining of uranium,

also recommended in several briefs presented at the meet- ing, would amount to little more than a temporary halt allowing the government and mining companies to “wait until the heat is off,” D'Arcy said,

“Don't be taken in by anyone wanting a moratorium,” he told Genelle residents: in- volved in*demonstrations op- posing current exploration of uranium deposits near their China Creek watershed. “We want decisions on uranium mining in watersheds here and now.”

“The moratorium is just going to send you home, take your ie down and six

The 25-kilometre Castle- gar-Salmo highway link will be open before the end of September, a highways min- istry spokesman said this week.

I ion officer R. J.

September Opening Seen for Highway

News bridges under con- struction at Meadows Siding and Beaver Creek will be finished by the end of the summer and grading on the final section of highway between Ootischenia and Siding is nearing

Baines told the Castlegar

completion.

months later when it’s quiet, away we go again.”

Instead, Skelly told the meeting, B.C. needs “a major legislative change like the Land Commission Act.” Such legis-

“fation would place mines and

water resources under a re- serve similar to the Agricul- tural Land Reserve and give decision-making contro! over the resources to regional dis- tricts and municipal councils, he said. Commenting on current provincial and federal govern- ment nuclear energy policies,

Sword’

he said B.C.’s Pollution Control

Actis"based on the assumption |

“that the solution to pollution is dilution.” §

“Radioactive poisons sim- ply don’t follow that assunip- tion at all,” he said. “Just by dispersing a small amount of radioactive material into the environment you really in- crease the problem by in- creasing the exposure.”

Evidence presented at in- quiries in Clough Lake and Clearwater showed the amount. of radioactive material neces- sary to cause cancer “is one single molecule striking a re- ceptive cell,” Skelly said.

In addition to its hazard to human lives and health, nuclear power “doesn't make any eco- nomic sense at all,” he said. The cost of electricity generated by nuclear power, $1,300 to $2,000 per kilowatt generated, is the most costly source compared to other alternatives, he said,

“Canada is really an ener- gy junkie,” Skelly said. “And we're going into a process where we're becoming nuclear junkies as well.”

Those opposed to uranium mining are “up against some of

(Con’t. Pg. A2, Col. 1)

Doomed Bluff Blocks Vision Of Motorists.

The highways ministry will open tenders July 28 for removal of a rock bluff at the east end of the Brilliant Bridge on Highway 3A.

Contacted in Victoria this week, a ministry spokesman said the removal of about 2,700 cubic metres of rock was neces- sary because it obstructed the vision of Robson-bound motor- ists entering an intersection at the end of the bridge. a]

Rutlcy said the residents’ blockade of the access road this week has prevented any equip- ment used by Manny Consull- ants, conducting the tests for

pancake breakfast prior to

MISS SUNFLOWER FEST, Karen Oddy, sponsored by the Castle Theatre, was Sed crowned Friday at the Queen's Ball. She will reign over the weekend festivities with first princess Fellsidade Rego and second prin- cess La-Verne MacPhall. The royal party will make thelr first appearance Friday evening at the Teen Dance. On Saturday they will be attending the Rotary-sponsored

the China Creek Uranium Con- sortium, from reaching the site.

He said the only large equipment allowed up the road was the bulldozer used Friday,

Race,

.. s winning entries. Also on thelr agenda [s the Celebrate Dunk Tank and a Personal appearance Saturday evening at the Castle Theatre when they will be accompanted by Captain Cook. On Sunday the party will also make appearances at the Frag Jumping Contest, the Loggers’ Com- petitions, and assist In the presentation to the winners of the six annual Castlegar taking an actlve Selkirk Lions Softball Tournament.

part In the parade, after which they will be

making the presentations to the float —CasNowsFoto by Sill Turner

with the residents’ consent, to divert water runoff from the sile away from two nearby homes to prevent possible flash-flood damage.

’The only remaining piece of equipment at the site was the gasoline-powered drill used by

_ Uranium Hunt Foes Seek Support of RDCK

Manny to conduct the tests, he said. “The only way they're going to get it fuel is to carry it up on foot," Rutley said,

In other developments this week three men were remand- ed for trial Aug. 1 in provincial court here after pleading not guilty to obstructing road drill-

(Con't. Pg. A2, Col. 5)

Votes Cast And Counted On Lockout

. Representatives of the Sel- kirk College council and the Castlegar, Nelson, Trail and Grand Forks school boards cast and counted ballots here Tues- day morning to decide whether they should lock out members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Contacted Tuesday after- noon John Dascher, School District No. 9 secretary-trea- surer, confirmed that the vote was taken by members of the West Kootenay Educational Employers Association at the local schoo! board office, but he refused to comment on the results or any other aspects of the vote.

School trustee George Anutooshkin, representing School District No. 9 in the vote, was unavailable for com- ment.

The five CUPE locals fac- ing a possible lockout have been without a contract since col- lective agreements expired June 30.

Although the boards, rep- resented by the B.C. School.

Trustees Association, have said’ *

nothing about the lockout vote,

it is believed to be a result of -

efforts to get the CUPE Locals

tothe: bargaining ‘table. | ;

e SCENARIO: An environ- mental horror story.

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e SECRECY: Denied by B.C. Hydro’s Charles Nash.

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‘But Circumstances Change’

Murphy Dam Unlikely

Construction of a dam near Murphy Creek between Genclle and Oasis is not included in B.C. Hydro’s short-term plans but could be feasible in the future, the company’s corporate affairs manager said here last- Wed- nesday.

Charles Nash told about persons attending a Castlegar and District Chamber of Com- merce-sponsored luncheon that Hydro recently asked by the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary to consider the pro- ject, was “way down (the road from making a decision like that.”

But he added that the Crown corporation may con. sider building such a dam if cir- cumstances change to make it more economic.

He agreed “from a purely technical point of view" that it would be an ge to re-

we've had preliminary looks at it.” he said. “As a result of those looks some time ago the consideration of Murphy Creek was way down the line.”

Nash said a Murphy Creek

dam was not one of Hydro's priorities because it would be a

‘relatively low-head, high-cost

Project in relation to others.”

“But as time goes on, the relationship could change,” he said.

r Weekend Weathercast

SUNNY this morning with afternoon cloudy periods and a few scattered showers along the ridges. This out- look continues into the

weekend.

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Holders of long-overdue library books beware.

Selkirk College is con- sidering laying charges of theft against you.

Principal Mitch Ander- son told the college council last Thursday its finance committce had requested an

cycle water through another plant and noted that the RDKB had asked Hydro to update its cost and engineering studies on the project.

“We haven't done inten- sive detailed studies on it, but

of that option as a means of dealing with the blacklist of about 130 borrowers who have failed to return books to the college library.

Books held by some

College Eyeing Crackdown On Blacklisted Borrowers

offenders are only two to three months overdue while others have been overdue for nearly a year, Anderson said.

“The situation is that either we have to pressure these individuals and make an honest attempt to re- cover the books, or forget the issue.” he said.

The principal said the blac! includes local peo- plea tll as students. The college has always had the option of blacklisting stu-

dent offenders and with- holding their marks, but has never enforced it, he said.

Student services dean Blake Frisby suggested the names on the list be turned over toa collection agency to recover the books or their cost.

Council chairman Bob Buckley pointed out that the loss of a library book amounts to more than the book’s list price. A book costing $15 would probably cost another $15 to cata- logue and file, he said.

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