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GAMES; HIKES, FILMS Fishing advice at Syringa Creek

By BRIAN SPREADBURY Park Naturalist

Nature games for kids, short hikes, films and a “critter” display are only part of the activities taking place at Syringa Creek Provincial Park this weekend.

Ron Zavaduk from the Castlegar Sports Centre will be giving a fly-tying and fly-casting demonstration Saturday evening. Come on out and pick up a few tips on how to hook that Big One!

Friday, Aug.7

10:30 a.m. Children’s program. Nature games for kids. Meet at the adventure playground.

9 a.m. Film Night. Tonight's films are Starlife and Satellites of the Sun.

Saturday, Aug.8

10:30 a.m. Kids. Come for a hike to see where some of Syringa Park's wildlife live. Meet at the change house at the public beach, be sure to wear hiking footwear, and you can bring mom and dad too.

7 p.m. Special Event: Ron Zavaduk will be giving a fly-tying and fly-casting demonstration. Meet at the adventure playground.

Sunday, Aug.9

10:30 a.m. Indian Plant Uses Walk. Meet at the change house at the public beach. Be sure to wear hiking footwear.

9 p.m. West Kootenay Wanderings. Come see this slide presentation as we tour through the West Kootenays and see some of the area's scenic spots.

Monday, Aug. 10 10:30 a.m. Fur and Feathers. Come see this display of

some of the birds and animals found in the Kootenays. At the ©

adventure playground.

9 p.m. Very Important Plants. Come see this slide show of some of the edible and useful plants found in the Kootenays.

Note: All evening programs are at the Amphitheatre (at the west end of the campground) unless otherwise noted.

UBCM REQUEST Moore named to

library task force

Castlegar Mayor Audrey Moore has been named vice chairman of a provincial gov

for the job.” The task force is being set up at the request of the

ernment task force on library spending.

Tourism minister Bill Reid said in a prepared release that the task force will do a review of public library spending.

“The task force will con duct the first comprehensive review of public libraries in British Columbia in over 10 years,” said Reid. “I am con. fident that there are many practical opportunities for improvements and I know that we have the best team

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‘Swim Lessons Last session of Red Cross swim lessons will be taking place at the Bob Brandson Pool starting on Aug. 10 and running to Aug. 21. If you haven't registered your child yet come down to the recrea-

tion office and do so,

Any person interested in instructing in our fall pro- gram give Verona a call at the recreation office. We are particularly looking for in- structors for craft classes, tole painting, gymnastics, cooking, quilting, fencing, cake decorating and Pass Creek and Blueberry pro- grams.

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Pass Creek Park ,

If a pool is a little too structured for you why not take a drive to Pass Creek Park. Go swimming, lie on the grass. Bring a picnic and have a real good time. Also the price is right.

Volunteer

Interested in becoming a swim instructor? Now you can experience being an in- structor by becoming a vol unteer_instruetor. The Bob Brandson Pool is looking for people interested in becom. ing lifeguards or instructors to volunteer at the pools. This would be an excellent work experience for anyone wishing to persue a summer job in aquatics. Instruction techniques will be provided by the experienced instruc- tors at the pool. Any amount of time can be volunteered. This would run Aug. 10-21. For more information or to leave your name and phone number eall the recreation office at 365-3386.

Book Ice

If you would like to book some ice, get out your skates and cool off. Give us a call at the recreation office. We do have quite a bit of ice avail- able. Season starts Aug. 10.

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Zuckerberg Island's fir- st wedding took place Friday afternoon as the Cichowski couple ex- chenged vows on the steps of the chapel house

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INVESTIGATION

Two more of Spike found

By SURJ hol Staff W:

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PEACE MARCH... Approximately 70 people joined in a peace march from the Castlegar courthouse to Zuckerberg Island Thursday, in recognition of the

By MIKE KALESNIKO Staff Writer

People listened carefully and gathered in a huge circle around the speaker at the Castlegar courthouse.

“We were faced with a dilemma,” said Sandi Konkin looking up from her notes. “Do we stay and have a possible danger to our health, or do we leave and leave our Soviet friends, our teachers behind?”

Konkin was addressing a topic that few people have had to deal with but many have thought about. What does someone do during the panic of a nuclear disaster? How are we left to respond? What decisions do we make?

Konkin was in the Soviet Union when the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl melted down last year.

“Chernobyl was a tiny warning, a tiny ceiling of Hiroshima and Nagaski,” she said. “It makes me angry that we need warnings like this to remind us of the danger of radiation and nuclear power.”

Konkin was just one of the speakers at last Thursday's peace demonstration, held at the Castlegar courthouse on Thursday, the 42nd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.

Some 70 people gathered to hear the speakers and listen to thoughtful songs, introspective of a war time disaster which have lead to a morbid immortalization of such ironic names as Enola Gay and Fat Boy.

But Hiroshima is really only part of the warning for

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42nd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroeharva. Story below. CosNews Photo by Mike Kalesnikio

those who gathered at the courthouse and later joined in a peace walk down Columbia Avenue, regathering at Zuckerberg Island where a tiny tree was planted two years ago to commemorate the Hiroshima’s 40th anniversary. Many of those who joined in the walk, some with children carrying balloons, others with buttons and peace-pledge cards, feel the only answer, the only way to end a nuclear threat, is band together as a public message to world leaders.

Pastor Morley Soltys, who sang for the group at Zuckerberg Island, told the Castlegar News that true peace must begin in the heart.

“I believe it goes deeper than just what has happened in some 42 years,” he said, holding an acoustic guitar with sheet music poking from the keys. “I think the work starts even in our own hearts, that we've got to continue to exam ourselves if we are to have that peace we are talking about.

“It must come from within before it comes from our mouths.”

Others at the ceremony denounced the actions of the United States. The country, on Aug. 6, 1945, dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing some 78,000 people. Three days later, a second atomic bomb was released on Nagaski.

Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United

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Ministry in

Waste management official Ray Ni- chol along with other staff retrieved the seven empty boxes of Spike 80W and the Environment Ministry have

into several empty boxes of a pesticide found dumped this week in the Glade area.

Jim McLaren, the newly appointed regional waste manager for the Envir- onment Ministry in Nelson, confirmed in an interview with the Castlegar News that seven boxes of the pesticide Spike 80W were found earlier in the week in the Glade area.

McLaren added that while he has not been in contact with his staff over the issue as of yet, he said an investigation by the waste management branch is continuing into the incident.

He said he would have full details of the investigation sometime this week.

“There were some boxes located in the (Glade) area. Some of our staff did pick up a number of boxes (of Spike 80W — a pesticide used to kill weeds,” McLaren said.

“There were some empty containers located. We are going to do a follow up investigation.”

properly of them.

The incident comes two weeks after @ panel of the B.C. Environmental Appeal board held two days of hearings in Nelson over whether CP Rail should be allowed to spray Spike 80W along its tracks in the Kootenays.

CP Rail has already been issued three pesticide spraying permits for its tracks from Nelson to Castlegar, Castlegar to Trail and the Siddon- Creston-Yahk line.

Several groups, including the City of Castlegar and the Regional District of Central Kootenay are appealing those three permits.

Meanwhile, the RDCK passed two resolutions at a special meeting last week calling for Premier Bill Vander Zalm to impose a moritorium on pes- ticide spraying in British Columbia until the federal government has tested and in some cases re-tested hundreds of chemicals.

“We passed a resolution asking the

premier to declare a moritorium on pesticide use in the province until the federal government has conducted testing on 400 chemicals the federal

The RDCK’s second resolution is asking for Vander Zalm to strike a special committee or task force to look into the whole question of pesticide use in B.C.

Cady said he does not know if Vander Zalm will be receptive to the requests of the RDCK.

“T really don't know. He (Vander Zalm) is faced with Kootenay West being upset at him over the takeover issue and us (RDCK) taking him to court over the B.C. Hydro issue,” said Cady.

(The RDCK has launched court action against B.C. Hydro in an at- tempt to have the crown corporation pay taxes on its facilities in the Koot- enays.)

Cady added that “there are a lot of concerned people” over the pesticide issue.

Jobless rate climbs

OTTAWA (CP) — The unemploy- ment rate may have inched up a bit in July to 9.1 per cent but economists said today there's not much to worry about.

“It’s certainly much too early to get alarmed,” said George Saba, chief economist for Montreal Trust in Montreal.

“There's no indication of an im- minent slowdown,” he said. “It’s probably a little blip in the trend.”

The seasonally adjusted rate climbed two-tenths of a percentage point from its June level, Statistics Canada reported today.

There were 1,158,000 people looking for work last month.

Mike McCracken, president of In- formetrica, an Ottawa economic con- sulting company, said the economy is still growing but not as fast as it was earlier this year.

NOT CONCERNED

And like Saba, McCracken said the upward blip is not a concern.

After three months of decline in the number of unemployed, the rate now is the same as it was in May:

Unemployment increased in Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatch ewan, Alberta and British Columbia from June levels.

And the number of young people aged 15 to 24 without jobs also rose, as did the number of people over 25 on the

B.C. wants official bird

British Columbia will soon have its own official bird and residents of the province are being invited to help in the selection.

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Seven candidate birds have been shortlisted for the campaign. They are: the Varied Thrush, the Trum- peter Swan, the Steller's Jay, the Rufous i the Pere-

pr campaign to select a provincial bird was launched last week by Envir- onment and Parks Minister Bruce Strachan and Ed Vernon, vice- president of the Centennial Wildlife Society of B.C.

“Selection of a provihcial bird will symbolize British Columbia's com- mittment to conservation and wild- life appreciation,” Strachan said in prepared news release.

“And it is fitting that this desig-

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centennial of wildlife conservation in Canada.”

grine Falcon, thé Harlequin Duck, and the American Dipper.

*» The public is being invited to par- ticipate by voting for any one of the seven or for their particular favor. ite, Ballots and other campaign de- tails“ will so6n be available at any B.C, Parks Visitor Information Cen-

being made available to every elem-

ee Ee ere B.C. residents will have until Oct.

$1, 1987, to ‘cast their ballots or

“This is not merely a popularity contest but an opportunity for each © of us to examine the role that birds

living symbol of our commitment to the next 100 years of wildlife con-

The jobless rate for young people climbed 0.4 to 14 per cent.

What Statistics Canada calls the participation rate, those who are either working or looking for work, dropped slightly to 66.2 per cent. That is a decline of one-tenth of a percentage point and is the first drop in that rate since last July.

Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island had the highest unemployment rates. Ontario and Manitoba had the lowest.

The unemployment rate advanced 0.9 to 18 per cent-in Prince Edward Island, 0.6 to 11 per cent in Quebec, 0.6 to 12.4 per cent in British Columbia, 0.4 to 7.7 per cent in Saskatchewan, and 0.3 to 9.9 per cent in Alberta.

The seasonally adjusted rate fell in Newfoundland by 0.9 to 17.5 per cent, 1.4 to 11.5 per cent in Nova Scoia, 0.2 to 13.5 per cent in New Brunswick, 0.1 to 6.0 per cent in Ontario and 0.6 to 7.1 per cent in Manitoba.

In the United States, the Labor Department said today the un- employment rate fell to six per’ cent in July, down from 6.1 per cent the month

before. The last time the unemploy. ment rate sank so low was in December 1979. The U.S. jobless rate has fallen a full percentage point over the last 12 months.

While July's numbers edged up in Canada, the rate compared to July 1986 was down 0.7 from 9.8 per cent.

The agency also released July unemployment rates for major cities but cautioned the figures may fluctuate

widely because they are based on small statistical samples. June figures are in brackets.

— St. John's, Nfld., 13.6 (12.8)

— Halifax, 8.4 (8.2)

— Saint John, N.B., 14.3 (12.9)

— Chicoutimi-Jonquiere, Que., 9.5

(9.2)

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Nine demonstrators arrested at Hanford

RICHLAND, WASH. (AP) — Nine more arrests were made Friday following demonstrations against plu tonium production at Hanford, Wash., while officials begin investigating how demonstrators managed to get into the nuclear reservation.

Oregon Congressman Ron Wyden said he will begin an investigation next week into security at Hanford because protesters penetrated a high-security area.

“If it is proved to be correct that these individuals were able to walk right up to a building in a restricted

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area, that would suggest there are some serious security questions,” said Wyden, a member of the congressional oversight committee that has criticized security at several nuclear weapons sites, including Hanford.

Federal authorities, however, de fended security arrangements at Han. ford, where nearly three dozen people have been arrested in demonstrations against production of nuclear weapons materials.

Nine people were arrested Friday morning on trespassing charges after blocking the entrance to a building that

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- After 37 yeors of business in Castlegor, Bob's Pay ‘n

Takit, owned by Robert Fenner, is closing its doors. According to Fenner's daughter, Rene, who is down from Vernon to help with the closing. no one has approached the family about buying or leasing the building.

Robert and Laila Fenner are remaining in Castlegar during their

retirement