Shoreacres were very sur-
rised when we read in the
stlegar News dated June
that we were looking to
Ison for Free

2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, June 8, 1972

Letter to The Editor

‘Shoreacres Telephone Group
Still Seeks Castlegar Phone

Commerce,

Sirs.
thelr support.

We, the residents of

ally, lives on the other side
of the bridge and has free-
dialing to Castlegar) to
hush-up and not Interfere

hone. We

with the majority. She is not
nominated as our society of-

ficial and we do not know
how she sf

the office.

We still want to obtain

free-dialing to Castlegar and
we all hope that we will get
it in the near future.

Mike Poohachoff,
Wasilenkoff,
Pete

ostnikoff.
Shoreacres,

will keep up

Furthermore, we advise
Mrs, Fischer (who, incident-

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Unsightly Garbage Destroys Wildlife

By Shirley Anderson

We who are fortunate
enough to live in the beau-
tlful Kootenays with lakes
at our back door, accessible
roads to plenic areas for
camera bugs and hikers,

auty is easily

‘marred by unsightly gar-

bage left behind; not to
mention the destruction of
wildlife. Deer have been
found dead and conservat-
jon officers performing au-

‘ topsies found plastic bag.
ts blockin;

credible lack of governmen-
tal concern for outdoor Bri-
the time

eludin

cent of the Kokanee spawn-
ing ground on the Arrow
Lakes, A fish ladder on the
Inonoaklin River at Edge:
wood would help offset this
roviding fot

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from Polerold film — dead-
ly if consumed inside the

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tempted to throw away just
one cigarette package, or
chip bag, DON'T! It might
be the final ounce in a ton
of litter already there.

Take a walk along any

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Coincidence Can Come fo the Rescue
To Save Hard-Pressed Columnisi's Day

For a writer, facing a dead-
line with nothing in his head
but a vacuum is about as
joyous an occasion as facing
his wife at am., after
phoning her at 5 p.m. to tell
her he's going to have two
drinks, not three or four but
two, with the boys on the
way home from work, I
hope those figures haven't
confused you, but perhaps
you get the general idea.

Sometimes, however, co-
incidence creates a column.
I had nothing in my head
for this week’s column. Not
even fog, Just vacuum.
Good old coincidence came
to the rescue,

Today I met in the halls
one of my English teachers.
He’s a mature chap and
pretty tough, Been through
a war and twenty-five years
of marriage, spent a stretch
as.a weekly editor, and has
raised three children’ How

“much tougher can you get?
But he was almost in tears.

“They can’t read,” he
mumbled brokenly; “they
can’t read”. I patted his
back and wiped his eyes, as
we department heads do,
(though J reserve weeping
on my shoulder for women
teachers only), and gradual-
ly found out that he was
talking about a Grade 9

as we all do ‘after giving
meaningless advice, but that
wasn’t enough to write a

* column about.

Got home after school,
and opened my mail. There
was a very nice letter from
Margaret Grieve of Oakville,
who taught for 41 years,
and says she hadn't a single
regret on leaving it — The
Profession, though there
were many good yeurs and
an abundance of pleasant
memories, That cheered me
up, for some obscure rea-
son, Maybe I'll even stay on
another year, and collect
my _ twelve-year
which will amount to $38 a
month every second leap-
year.

In the same mail was
another letter from an old
friend, with a clipping en-
closed. It was an article by “
Norm Ibsen about the rapid
tise in illiteracy, or the de-
cline in literacy, or whatever
you want to call what's hap-
pening to our youth,

A Professor Gold, chair-
man of the University of
Waterloo’s English depart-
ment, blames the school
system because it's turning,
out students incapable of
expressing themselves. They
can't i

class in the  four-y
stream.

“There, there,” I con-
soled. “Of course they can’t
read, Neither, with a few ex-
ceptions, can my Grade 13
students. Kids aren't sup-
posed to learn to read any
more. It might destroy their
sensitivity. Now you just go
and show them a nice little
movie, or let them express
themselves on the tape re-
corder. Or let them lean out
the window and watch the
cars going by and then have
them write a poem. But
don’t correct the spelling in
the poem. You'll destroy
their creative spirit. Just go
on back in there and stimu-
late them.”

That’s one thing my
teachers have to admit.
When they come to the
chief, they get inspiration,
motivation, and a fresh new
approach. Some of them
even say they'll try to stick
it out to the end of the
term,

Well, I felt pretty good,

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I quote
the writer of the column,
Mr. Ibsen, who says, with
tongue in cheek, “Maybe
it’s because they're being
taught by language arts
specialists instead of English
teachers.”

Maybe. But I take excep-
tion to the professor's
sweeping generalization
about students expressing
themselves, They can. They
do. Even the best und mild-
est of boys have always
sworn a bit. But it shakes
you a bit to hear some
sweet little girl of sixteen
drop her books or stub her
toe and launch into a com-
munication that would curl
the hair of a World Warf
muleskinner.

However, I agree with
the professor that the whole
situation is the fault of the
schoo! system. The universi-
ties blame the high schools,
which blame the elementary
schools, which blame home
environment or something.

This is patent nonsense.
My father got through
Grade 4 and wrote a beauti-
ful copper-plate script with
intelligence. My mother had
Grade 5 and wrote wittily
and grammatically. That
was my home environment.

You can’t blame the ele-
mentary schools. They do
what they can with what
they get, in the face of a de-
partment of education that
is about as consistent in its
aims as a dart in a wind-
storm. And you cun substi-

ther consonant for

the in dart, if you wish,
You can’t blame the high
schools, who do what they
can with an ever-increasing
mass of illiterates. What the
hell, what does it matter if a
brilliant science student, or
a math student who will be
working with slide rule and
computer, write:
like, “Everyone should have
a good education so they

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pension,

colliteh and make a lodda
bread"?

People worry
literacy falling “into” the
hands of an elite group. In
my opinion, it would be the
best thing that could hap-
pen to English, It would
take us back to the glorious
days of the Elizabethans,
and let the slobs fall where
they may.

DISTRICT SOCIALS
Mrs. D. E. Hughes 5-5503
Mrs, E. Robilliard of
Kenora, Ont., left for home
Thursday after visiting
her son-in-l id

about

Tulip Creek area — count
for yourself the discarded
Items, We buried dozens,
disgusting as the task was,
even to covering up some-
one’s donations from their
camper toilet!

At the last meeting of
the Wildlife Association,
Dr. John Walton reported
on the federal convention
held recently in Vancouver
which he attended,

It is evident, he said,
that the federation in the
future is going to play a
great part in conservation
of fish, game and their na-
tural habitat. The only way
this can be done is for in-
dividuals to work with the
parent body to achieve their
goals, As an example con-
cerning the West Kootenays,

ucting a paragraph from
the Federal Brief:

“Seriously though, on
the Arrow Lakes we have
another instance of an in-

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Pirat
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by
some two mition Kokanee
spawners. Estimated cost is
$150,000. But, as the Trail
Wildlife Assoc, has empha-
sized, the
cause of lack of forethought
and prior planning, claims it
cannot afford to build the
ladder, Nice contrast, Half
a billion dollars willingly

overnment, be- *

spent to help destroy. wlld-
life habltat, $150,000 re-
fused to help rectify the
destruction.”
Because of a letter writ
ten bv the president, Dr, J.
Walton, to the B.C, Hydro,
a clean-up process is now
underway to take care of
driftwood on the Arrow
Lakes caused by high water
sloughing.

ris that

tan Angus repo
the bear trap the club is
making is almost ready for
use and the next news re-
lease should have some in-
teresting stories to tell.
Fishing is picking up on

the Arrow Lake so after

you. get the grass cut on
‘iday night, fake the fam-
ily for a weekend of fun,
Put a litter bag in the car
and one in the boat and
bring them home full.

t's keep B.C. clean.

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serving communities for 75 years

West Kootenay Power is observing its 75th
anniversary this year and we have adopted a
new symbol to mark the occasion.

The “energetic diamond” and our
streamlined name. will appear on our vehicles,
signs, stationery and other appropriate

places for identification.

But while we have updated our identity,
we will preserve our tradition
of service and integrity.

The West Kootenay Power and Light
Company, Limited was incorporated May 8,
1897, to bring hydro-electric power to the
booming mines of Rossland, B.C. and later, to
the smelter at Trail. Our domestic

customers then numbered fewer than 300. -
Today, we serve more'than 50,000 customers
directly and through wholesaling to
municipalities, in an area of 10,000 square
miles. Throughout our 75 years of

op our prime objective has been to
supply low-cost power to as many

domestic users as possible, providing maximum

service with minimum inconvenience.

We will continue this policy.

ARRANGEMENTS for the Sons of -Norway
convention which opens today in the Hi
Arrow Arms, have been in charge of these
people. Back row, Olaf Kringhaug, Gunnar
Selvig, Anne. Forrester, Dennis Manson, Ivor

x te
Reinsbakken, Floyd Bacon, Christen Bonde
and Gunvor Reinsbakken, Front row: Mar-
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and Borghild Selvig.

COFFEE BREAK

‘ Many Dreams and Hopes for the Future
Lies With theNew SHSS Graduating Class

By Lols Hughes
It's the Grads’ night to-
night. With them goes the
dreams and hopes of the fu-
ture and the pride of many
+@ parent who did not exper-
jence the satisfaction of
having accomplished the
first major step in what has
become an almost undisput-
able need for education.
Those who still cherish
memories of this milestone
in their own life will
there has been changes,
‘The . platform, which
each ‘student mounts to ac-
cept his or her diploma, still
bears th yf

and department of educat-
ton representatives. Re-
quirements for graduation,
however, are higher |
the 112 credits needed some
fe years ago. courses differ
. too, wilh many options now
being offered. Ee
At one time the grad-

idominate the scene tomor-

row 3 ;
‘A. local tradition has

been the Grad Tea at which

so-called Generation gap. M;
own graduation hit an o:
note when word came the
dance that a handful of our
classmates who chose to cel-
ebrate on their own with a
beach party had misjudged
a bad corner on their return
home, The jeep they were
riding came to rest upside
down in the slough water at
the road’s edge.

Only emergency action
kept one member of the
party from being a fatality.

But graduation to me
a strong spmbol of the fu-
ture. Inspite of adverse pu-
blicity given to a jority

of our youth, I feel the ma- |

jority q ve Stone sones
of respon: ly and a grea
awareness of world atdairs,
A hard working group

of people made last week-
end’s official opening of
Nelson’s Norman Stibbs
ww 75 feet wide
0 feet iong, a mem-
hering for pilots.
sband and I flew
pend Saturday morn-

ing and the early part of
the: afternoon making new
acquaintances and renewing

Pilots came from as far.
as Edmonton with the

fog AODRESS. a

away
oldest pilot being

Moore, 71, of Edgewater. He
flew a Bellanca and was ac-
companied by his: wife Ber-

‘Sunday saw my husband

the wife of the principal
and vice-principal host the
young ladies graduating.
This year this too has
m taken a new twist. Yester-
day the girls hosted the la- -
dies of the SHSS faculty as return to Nelson for a pan-
well as Mrs. R-.J. Patrick cake breakfast hosted by
and Mrs. L. C. the Lions Club. With only
one passenger seat avail-
able in our little J3 Cub the
honor of occupying this seat
went to our oldest son.
by. Miss Sheryl Bo
' The Grads will have
their private: parties too.
Hopefully with a good time
> all, Keeping in an area
of good judgement.
eae leading i
edy or near trage
have not changed with the

meant missing out on a

I am sorry to say it
meeting with a couple of
EAA (experimental aireragt
association) members of the
Spokane chapter who treat-
ed us so royally at an out-
ing last fall at Coeur-d’ Al-
ene,

Thursday, July 20 —
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They were also Angulring
about the fly-in to be hel
in conjunction this year
with K.C.. Days,

Castlegar
little over 5,000 fe
twice the size of Nelson's
air strip and some 37 pilots
Tegistered at Nelson on the
weekend, With the promise
of a little personal attention
and fellowship — pilots love
to get together and talk —
{nls e of affair can be a
or

aw.

If there is any special
enticement being offered
the fly-in visitors there is
sull ume to put a good
word in at the right places.
I feel once here many of
the regular events’ will draw
rewrns for the following
years but somehow that
first greeting on landing
seems to be the biggest nec-
essity-to any fly-in. Has any-
one dusted off the. welcome
mat :

Budget Billing,
System Announca
By Inland Gas

Officials of Inland Nat-
ural Gas Co, Ltd. have dis-
closed details on a new
budget billing system which
the company has instituted.
The pian, which is available
to the 30,000 i i

‘Dozen Years of School Officially Ends
For Stanley Humphries Graduates Today

ent on behalf of the Depart-
ment of Educat
Steve Jankola of

Twelve years of schovl-
ing for 170 students will
formally end tonight when,
commencement + exercises and Mayor John
Castlegar,

Guest speaker will be
Dr. W. F. Murison, principal
of Selkirk College who will
be introduced by SHSS vice-
Prineipal, Lach Farrell,

The graduates will be
presented to the gathering

y Miss B, Kavic and J.

preceded by a banquet to be
held at Selkirk College
while the Graduation Ball
will be held in the school
gymn on Friday night.

At the banquet the In-
vocation will be given by
the Rev. Terry Allen, and ~-
preelings will include those
rom Ernie Mills, of the
board of trustees, School
District No. 9, Claude Bis-
sell, district  superintend-

Crawford, while

groups
es wil
Farrell,

presented b:
Mayor Lan
Simpson,

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{i 5
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Landis of

scholar-

Choral numbers will be
ion, Ald. presented b:
graduating cluss and SHSS
band “will play a selection
rom Gliene's “The Russian
ailer's Dance.” The validic-
tory address will be given
by Murgie Kanigan,

Procedures at the ban-
quet will be handled by
toastmaster Michael ‘Amos,
while the Rev. merry Allen
will say grace. The to:
the Queen is to be proposed
by Phil Lamarche, while the
toast to the school board
will be
Raponi, with school trustee
Ernie. Mills replying,

The department of Ed-
ucation will be toasted by
Leanne Allen with .
Bissell replying, while the

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given by Joanne Gregg. Nor-
man Fishwick will respond.

Scholarships and bursar-
jes will be awarded by the
Castlegar Chapter of the Re-
istered Nurses’ Associat-
lon of B.C.; Minto Chapter,
OES; Canadian Inatitute of
Mining and Metallgury, Un-
ion of Youth, USSC; Robson
Women's Institute; Women’s
Auxillary, Castlegar © and

the mussed

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, June 8, 1972.

District Hogptal Castlegar

and District Arts Council;
Castlegar Teacher's Assocla-
tion; Kiwanis Club; Kooten-
Savings Credit Union;
inited Steelworkers, Local
480; Kootenay Savings Cre-
dit Union; Pulp and Paper
Workers of Canada, Local
No, 1; Lillian Killough
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Selkirk Lions Club.

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