Page B10 The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, September 27, 1995 It really is true, no man is an island I am really hoping that more of you will share your “jewels” with us! There's still time, so drop me a line care of The Castlegar Sun We'd like to hear how you have made it In our support group, we are discovering how much we can learn from one another. No one person has all the answers. In fact, that brings up the subject of this week's column, SUPPORT! Years ago in school, our choir sang the song “No Man Is An Island.” | sang the song, but I never really believed it. | had a belief that “I could take care of myself,” I was strong, I was tough, T was smart — I could do it Over the years, however, that belief has been tested and tried and found wanting. I now know that | cannot make it by myself. I ~ Kids Onl Clothing Club iri, For kids the grow and Moms on the go * 100% cotton © unique growth feature ¢ affordable prices For a free catalogue call Leeza 365-4997 Maureen 365-3283 CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT Chamber of Commerce ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING THURSDAY, SEPT. 28TH Fireside Motor Inn No-host bar - 6:30p.m. Meeting 7:p.m. - Guest speaker from BC Summer Games Committee "How the Business Community can get ready for the Summer Games." -Social Afterwards- CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT Chamber of Commerce = RARE eA Phil Angrignon Aicohol is a drug. R has sedative properties and is very interactive with many medications. Hf yeu use this drug on 2 regular beets, i is important you let your doctor and pharmacist mew. It can have negative effects on some prescribed Our body's cells have varying fives. The cells with the shortest life ‘are those fining the intestinal tract. They shed every three days. The longest-living cells are our brain cells, most lasting a lifetime. Bone cells five for 25-30 years. When your docter leeks into your eyes with an opthaimoscope, arteries and veins which often provide the first hint of diseases in other parts of When you are starting on a new drug and you aren't sure you can tolerate 2, get a small amount at first. W R's OK, thon get the balance of the prescription. Rt might save you money, especially if you can't tolerate the drug. A Pharmasove, we are always locking for ways to sorve you better. You'l like our brand of pharmacy! T ICAP MULTIVITAMINS sg 99 Recommended for healthy eyes PS PHARMASAVE 1128 - 3rd St. (Downtown) Castlegar 365-7813 OPEN SUNDAYS 11:00 A.M. TO 3 P.M. need family, I need friends, 1} need a God I believe'in. We are born in families, unless we are Tarzan — and even he needed the apes he grew up with! We are social beings. People who declare they don't need others are cold, untouch- able, hard people. They can never get close to others around them. What they forget is that “need” is what opens the door that allows people to walk in and touch us where we hurt. These past few years, as I have been recovering from a broken life and a broken heart, I have had wonderful friends who have helped with my healing. In the little town of Chetwynd, B.C., I faced my first Christmas alone after 33 years of marriage. I remember how kind and loving my friends were. They got me i} through “jt ike many little bandages beifly applied to a limb DAY \” 7m BY that had been severed. One was a doctor, one was a friend who was fighting cancer, while another was a wife who had endured what I had. A beau- tiful pastor and his wife were there for me as well, both with kind, non-judging spirits All of these wonderful people were the supports that held me together, Not to mention the staff I worked with in, that town, who held me up when I was depressed. Their lovely plants and gifts said, “We. cae For me, one of.the dearest gifts to come my way has been the pure and unrestrained love of my grandchildren. How beautifully they love, how good théir little arms feel around me. I can still hear little Jacob climbing three flights of stairs call- ing out, “Nana, nana,” then leaping into my arms when I opened the door. Now that's support. How do we get support like that? First, we must be giving and supportive people ourselves. After all, “what goes around, comes around.” We must be open to other people and their needs — some- thing that is not easily done in this self-centered society we live in. Second, we need to learn to ask others for support. Get rid of pride. Ask — and be specific. I recently phoned a friend and said, “I need you to come and be with me, while I wait to hear how my brother is doing. I don’t want to be alone.” And she came! Others came too, without being asked. Thank you, dear friends. We don’t have to be alone. So why are so many of us choosing to be? Have words “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “It means just what I want it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words means so many different things.” “The question is,” said Hump- ty Dumpty, “which is to be mas- ter—that is all.” — Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: ‘Through the Looking Glass’ When Lewis Carroll (Dodg- son) wrote those lines a hundred and twenty three years ago for his audience of young girls, it was pure Victorian satire and everyone laughed. Today, when someone can say with equal pompous solemnity as Humpty Dumpty, (and get away with it), “If I say it is art, it is art.” Or when the most oppres- sive dictatorships talk pridefully of their democratic regime, or genocide becomes ‘ethnic cleans- ing’ and no one laughs, however bitterly, surely we are living in a become instruments of concealment? world that is even less real than Alice's weird world of the look- ing glass. In brief, words have become instruments for concealment rather than information. Instead of using them as vehicles for pre- cise thought, we tend to use them like a cuttle-fish uses its ink—to conceal its escape. I became acutely aware of this fact last week when I passed the “Books ‘n’ Music” shop in Castlegar. Actually, I didn’t walk past the shop. I can't pass any book shop, particularly a used book shop, which offers all sorts of possible treasures at good Scots prices. So, when one book caught my eye, I went in and came out with several, including, ‘Great Words of Our Time’—a book of quotes from famous people; Henry Van Dyke's immortal ‘The Other Wise Man’ , ‘A Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms’. and ‘The Choice of Words—A Book of Synonyms with Explanations’—ali for less than the price of one new volume MANAGEMENT SKILLS FOR SUPERVISORS PART I — INTERPERSONAL SKILLS * Communications + Interviewing + Assertiveness Training » Decision Making * Transactional Analysis October 11, 12 & 13, 1995 Selkirk College — Trail, BC $450.00 per part (Part II - November; Part III - December) Trainer — Dave Fairbairn MANAGEMENT SKILLS FOR SUPERVISORS is a proven certified course which has been used extensively by business, industry and Fe in three p . Participants who complete the full 12 days will be awarded a college certificate. Dave Fairbairn has trained the course extensively in BC, Alberta and Ontario for the last 15 years. * Problem Solving For more information or to register please contact Lenka at 368-5236 Wie TRAINING CORPORATION 900 Helena Street, Trail, BC V1R 4S6 VAREHOUSE SHOPPING Soe Mengy, UNITED Furniture Warehouse Fine Furniture vy) 4 -_—"- — = Le and Mattresses too! I was suffering at the time from the onslaughts of a particu- larly unpleasant ‘bug’ and was feeling dopey, tired, confused, wretched and old. Not just “get- ting old"-old. Quite by chance I opened the “Choice of Words’ at the gener- alized word ‘old’, which was defined at ‘advanced in age’ Then this lovely little gem of a book gave a number of syn- onymis, specifics actually, for the | OVER MY SHOULDER JOHN CHARTERS word ‘old’, together with their definitions. Thus there was ‘elderly’ and (‘not generally ‘senescent’, which is defined as “growing old”; fol- lowed by ‘ancient'—referring to atime long past (i.e. Classical times) Then came ‘veteran’, meaning grown in experience; and senile’, used of a person enfee- bled by old age; and finally ‘antiquated’—referring to a 'per- son, object, custom or idea that is obsolescent What a spectrum of possibility, what a colorful palette of ‘color’ is offered when one goes past that one workhorse word ‘old’. And it was, as well, an instant cure for my illness. Since I couldn't recognize myself in that selection, obviously I wasn’t old. Besides, it started me thinking. A London Times reviewer of the new publication *The Cam- bridge Encyclopedia of the English Language’, writes: “English is a screwed up, mongrel of a language that raids other lan- guages for words at a glutinous rate and then resists any attempt used’) We weld anything... Anytime « Anywhere ice METAL WORKS 0-811 to efficiently organize them”. It is also quixotic and quirky and frequently inconsistent. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, English has become the most widely used language in all the world. The trouble for those of us who use it as a mother tongue, however, is the fact that not only are words constantly evolving into new meanings under ordinary usage, but that they are being twisted out of shape to serve the ends of vari- ous pressure groups—the lineal descendants of Humpty m the feminists, for example, stole the word ‘chauvinist from the Napoleonic soldier, Charles Chau- vin, whose admiration for the emperor led to the word meaning “extreme nationalism and blind patriotism, and use is as a kind of expletive against males. By a similar alchemy they tried to convert ‘manuscript* {Ms.) into an unlikely hybrid for a woman's marital status. Then the male homosexuals took the word ‘gay* (happy and carefree: merry; brightly col- ored; sporty: jaunty; etc.), a most useful word, and attached it to themselves. Surely an oxy- moron, to judge by their con- stant complaints. Finally there is the word “youth*. used as a noun, and usu- ally identifying a young male. Now the politically correct use it for either sex and try to relegate the lovely and poetic ‘maid’ or *maiden’, with their endless and delightful associations, to lin- guistic limbo. All of this flies in the face of the spirit and precedent of the language which, zany and screwed up as it is, readily adopts new words for new concepts, or if necessary creates new ones. I don’t like it. It smacks too strong- ly of, not laziness, but of special agendas; too much of Orwell's ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’. The concept isn’t funny any- more, Humpty Dumpty. Located Playmor Junction Come in & vielt ust! FARM AUCTION SATURDAY, SEPT, 30, 1:00 P.M. 6465 27TH STREET, GRAND FORKS Follow signs. Preview Sat. 9:00 a.m. till sale time. We will be selling to the highest bidder from Jim Glanville’s Farm. Tools, Equipment, Household Items, Antiques. PARTIAL LIST: Riding Lawnmower + Fairbank Pump + Edison Ext. Horn Cylinder Player + Concrete Mixer + Crock Butter Churn + Antique Violin + Wagon Wheels - International 5 HP Gas Engine » Forge + Horse Tack « Side Saddle - Buggy Shaft - Well Pump - 8 Milk Cans Antique 9-pce Oak Dining Room Suite - 950 Suzuki Motorcycle » Pine Flowerbin Table + 140 Jute Feed Bags - Hammer Mill « Antique 5-pce Bedroom Suite - Oak Nail Kegs - Glass Bowl Hand Operated Gas Pump - Platform Scale + Antique Copper Washing Machine - Quantity of Angle Iron, flat, round square, steel * Wardrobe Med. Cabinet + Several Hand & Power Tools - Dressers, Approx. 20 Boxes of Antiques & Collectables...and much more. Sale conducted by AAA Appraisals, Kelowna, B.C. 604-862-5800 Quality Consignments accepted. Antique Auction Kelowna Tuesday, Sept. 26, 7:00 PM. Wednesday, September 27, 1995 SuperValu and Safeway. The Castlegar Sun Page B11 Willie Sherstobitoff of Ootischenia was the recent raffle winner of the $300 shop- ping spree sponsored by the Pythian Sisters. Inis McAdam, a member of the Kootenay Temple #37, here presents Sherstobitoff with grocery vouchers from Photo submitted A look at women’s health A day-long exploration of Women’s health issues entitled “Gathering Strength” is slated for the Castlegar campus Saturday Sept. 30 from 8:30 am. to 4:30 p.m.. This workshop presents an opportunity for women across the West Kootenay/Boundary region to meet, gather information and plan how they can best influence the health care system to meet their neéds. The $10 registration fee includes Junch and nutrition breaks. Carpooling is encour aged. Phone Continuing Educa tion in Castlegar for registration ind information Oct. 10 is the start date for a Level I] Cooking program spe cializing in a la carte and banquet cuisine at the Nelson campu Cooks with provincial certification to Level II, or three years cooking experience are eligible for admis sion Sponsorship may be avail able from Human Resources Canada for qualified applicants For details, contact the Nelso: carpus Admissions Office Education Sun Wire Parents of school children with special needs will be able to get information through a toll-free number originally set up for teachers, Education Minister Art Charbonneau and B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Alice McQuade have announced. “Integrating students with spe- cial needs into the public school system is an important and chal- lenging task,” said Charbonneau The help line was created in October 1994 to help educators deal with that challenge. It has been tremendously. successful, with more than 1,600 calls logged during its first six weeks of operation. llowever, parents and others who come into contact with chil dren with special needs also have questions about integration By calling the 1-800 number, they ‘Il gel answers to those questions and an idea of what others have done when faced with similar sit uations.” The service is funded by the Ministry of Education and operated by the B. C. Teachers’ Federation By calling 1-00-876 854) rh-tone. self-serve system will allow the public to access RAIL AUTG BODY Complete Body & Paint Facilities Auto Glass Replacement Towing 2316 - 6th Ave., Castlegar 365-5114 Continuing Education in Castlegar is offering a WHIMIS course in the proper labelling and storage of workplace chemicals on Sept. 28. A course on draw- ing, instructed by Keith Shel- fontiuk begins Sept. 28 Joe Lintz 3a banending course begins Tues. and Thurs. evenings until Dee. 12. Also, a S-week Occupational First Aid - ley el TE course begins Oct. 3 A one vening introduction to Holistic Health Care is offered Oct. 4. For details or to register, contact Con tinuing Education at the Castle gar campus. On Oct A free video conference on re 100% B.C. OWNED & OPERATED CHICKEN SAL Building the Global C y will air at the Castlegar campus Wednesday, Oct. 11 from 10am to 12pm. This conference features a panel of business and industry leaders from across North Ameri- ca discussing the important role community colleges have in the workplace and in global educa- tid Call Continuing Education in Castlegar to register for this free video seminar. Community Education in Trail presents a workshop on worksite health promotion facil tated by Stephen Duck on Thursday, Nov. 9 in the recital room at the Greater Trail Com: munity Centre from 8 30 am to 1 pm. Workplace health pro trams are’self funding in sav ings on medical costs, reduced ibs*nteeism and increased employee productivity. Come hear about Working Well Con tact Community Education in Trail for registration or more information. support line created recorded answers to frequently asked questions, and enable them to request personal atten- tion from special needs co-ordi- nators. The support line is now in operation. Descriptions of archival records at two Castlegar cultur- al institutions will soon be available locally and to researchers throughout B.C. The institutions, the Castle- gar and District Heritage Soci- ety Archives and the West Kootenay National Exhibition Centre, have been chosen as information sources for the B.C. Archival Union List. Archive list on the way Selkirk College Archives. Funding for the union list project has come from the provincial government through the Community Archives Assistance Program, and the federal government through the Canadian Council of Archives. A project archivist is cur- rently in Castlegar to compile descriptions of archival records in the institutions" holdi The list, an king of the Archives Association of B.C., is designed to provide greater access to B.C.’s docu- mentary heritage and to pro- mote the development of a provincial archival network. Descriptions of records at these institutions will comple- ment those already appearing on the union list from the These descriptions will be included in a published guide of i wide archival records. Fresh Grade A or Utility ¢ 3 chickens/bag (Limit one bag) 2.18 ke. Ib. Family pack 2.84 kg. DRUMSTICKS Ib. CHICKEN THIGHS Family pack 3.06 kg. sen $93) lb. McGavin's BREAD White or 567 g. COUNTRY 100% Whole Wheat ) \ ea. MONEY'S ¢ Sliced, whole or French 284 ml. ea. IGA pure JUICE 1 Litre APPLE » IGA Cream Of MUSHROOM SOUP or vegetable, chicken noodle, cream of chicken or celery 10 oz. Kellogg's CORN 400 g. FLAKES 08 They will be made available through an on-line computer access network. For more information about the Archival Union List project, contact the project archivist in Vancouver at (604) 876-9150. cy THANK YOU The City of Castlegar thanks the People of Castlegar for your observation of the summer- time lawn sprinkling hours. Your cooperation has resulted in significant savings in water pumping costs, chlorination and pump maintenance. Thank you for your cooperation. Kellogg's RICE KRISPIES 350 g. 08 APPLES or Spartan 13.4? Approx. 12 rec, We now accept i | Accessible Debit Cards A 2717 COLUMBIA AVE., CASTLEGAR New Crop BC Grown MACINTOSH 09 tb. box 365-5336 5 THE PUBLIC: lay to. Saturday im - 6pm Castlegar ° 4445 Minte Rd OPEN TO Monday t iy: 10a: 2 6pi Mayor and Council Sunday: Ci = - Ramada Lodge Hotel, 2170 Harvey, Kelowna, B.C. — While Quantities Last — Sale dates: Sept. 27 thru Sept. 30