Wednesday, October 21, 1992 @ lm Wednesday, October 21,1 992 AroundTOWN ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION No contract at SuperValu NEWS STAFF A contract offer has not been made to SuperValu em- ployees. Contrary to a statement made to The News last Thurs- day, SuperValu manager Richard Howes says the Teamsters’ Union has yet to see the company’s new offer. “I should have corrected myself,” the local manager said, referring to comments NEWS REPORTER Save a watershed — hold a bake sale. As part of its battle against the Arrow Forest District, the Glade Commu- nity Watershed Committee is holding a fund raiser Oct. 31. Louella Bartlett says the 12-member committee she is on has already incurred some expenses. “Each time we rent the (Glade Community Hall) it’s $15, we've also got some and _ information,” Bartlett said. “The overlay map to show where the cut- ting will take place cost us $70.” The committee is opposed to the logging plans Atco Lumber Ltd. in Fruitvale made to The News. Since Howes’ remarks, the union representing Super- Valu’s 24 employees has made an offer of its own. Howes said he and the union’s business representa- tive Keith Kennedy are ex- pected to meet by the end of this month to hammer out a new deal. SuperValu employ- ees have been without a con- tract since July 1991. Some 80 hectares are slat- ed to be cut, and the commit- tee wants none of it. “Our position is ‘no log- ging in watersheds,’ ours or anyone else’s,” Bartlett said. On Sept. 30, the Arrow Forest District held a meet- ing in Glade in order to form a technical committee that would address logging con- cerns. It was stated that the de- cision of whether to log or not to log isn’t up for discussion. “Well be meeting (tonight) to decide if we're go- ing to put people on that committee at all,” Bartlett said. “We feel if we sit on the committee there will be log- ging, it’s just a matter ofhow they will do it.” Dine Out For Less! ‘BUDGET SAVER SPECIALS guar” . Mon.-Sat. 4 p.m.-Midnight Dine In Only ¢ Different Supper Special Every Day - $4.95-$5.95 (soup or salad extra) Sunday 4-8 p.m. Sun. Seniors's Discount 15% Happy Sweet 16 “Torre Love Mom, Dad & Devin Branch 170 - Castlegar +» Robson HALLOWEEN DANCE & BIRTHDAY BASH Friday, Oct. 30 : ~~ i} a a: OS 00 « Come as you are or dress up « Live Entertainment 8 p.m. to witching hour * Members & Invited Guests Door prizes 248 Columbia Ave., Castlegar 365-7017 THURSDAY IS MEXICAN DAY... ALL DAY! Lunch Special 11 a.m.-2 p.m. ¢ Breakfast Special $2.99 *g On Columbia 2 ware 1004 Columbia Ave., Castlegar OPEN 7 A.M.-MIDNIGHT Located at bottom of Hospital Hill - Lots of Parking TAKE-OUT AVAILABLE ON REGULAR MENU! 365-0450 THE 1992 PEOPLE'S CHOICE BUSINESS AWARDS Sponsored by CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT Chamber of Commerce _yravet s¥'Y -Serving the City of Castlegar, Areas | and J. 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REFERENDUM “Oo2 On Monday, October 26, 1992, all Polling Stations @ will be open from .9 A.M. to 8 P/M. 2 ELECTIONS CANADA Our person for Our People Corinne Jackson 365-7266 NOT TO BE MISSED The Trail Society for the Performing Arts is presenting a joint performance by the acrobatic jugglers Gizmo Guys of New York and the music of A Capeela Nubop, formerly the Melloyds.. The show is Nov. 3 and tickets are available in Castlegar at Pharmasave. FALL FAIR The Castlegar United Church is organizing a giant garage sale and fall fair. Kids, and yes their parents too, are encouraged to come in Halloween costumes. Baking, produce, crafts as well as lunch is planned for the Oct. 24 event which takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. THE NOSE KNOWS A course in aromatherapy is being offered by Selkirk College’s continuing education department starting Oct. 23. Cost for the course is $295. For more information or to register call 365- 1261. OurPEOPL Corinne Jackson NEWS, REPORTER hhh... Listen. It’s not lyrical. It’s life and it’s cold hard facts. Geoff Goodfellow, an Australian labor poet was in Castlegar yesterday to give a performance of his work at Selkirk College. Yes, a performance. This man does not read from books. If you’ve heard him you know what I mean. Goodfellow makes the words jump off the pages and scream to be heard. He recites from memory his poems of what he has seen on job sites, in the home, on the streets. “I try to make people think. To face the ordinary issues that affect ordinary people.” Some of these issues include wife battery, sexual assault, unemployment and homelessness. Social issues that affect all of us. Of course, as a labor poet, issues surrounding the problems of workers fighting for their paycheques, or being bullied by their bosses are also addressed. “With poetry I can deal with issues and topics that are often controversial and difficult to talk about in any other form,” he says. Although Goodfellow has only been writing “poetry of the working class” since 1982, the life he writes about is far from new to him. At 15, Goodfellow dropped school and went into construction. For 20 years he worked doing hard labor until two disks collapsed in his back and he found himself laid up in bed reading poetry. “I feel there are a lot of people like me. “A lot of young blokes who haven’t completed their basic education and who are forced into hard work,” Goodfellow says. Unfortunately, like Goodfellow, many hard laborers find they can only work so long in their field until it takes a toll on their bodies and they find themselves looking for work elsewhere. As Goodfellow explains “they have skills that are not transferable into other forms of working life apart from physical work.” Although his own background is that of a laborer who only completed his high school education in 1984, Goodfellow’s audience often goes: beyond the blue collar worker. : “I try and write for those with a shovel in their hand, or with a Bachelor of Arts degree,” Goodfellow says. By bringing both management and workers together, he says that the boss gets an opportunity to “to understand what a daily struggle it is for a great many of their employees.” Goodfellow claims to have performed for almost 150,000 building and construction workers throughout the world. However, when he first started in Australia, it Power of Poetry Australian labor poet Geoff Goodfellow stopped in Castlegar this week to visit with Selkirk College students on his way to Vancouver to partake in their International Writers Festival. , ae News photo by Corinne Jackson wasn’t always so easy getting either the workers, or the management in his native country to come out and hear him. “There’s a skepticism on the work site,” he says of the workers. “We all have preconceptions of what a poet will look ike.” Management’s unwillingness was different however, says Goodfellow who feels that they felt threatened. And although today’s reading to students and the public was held indoors, Goodfellow tries to get out to the workers on the job sites as often as possible. He feels that it is important that his message be heard by them especially. Demonstrating this, Goodfellow climbed to the roof of Selkirk Monday and assembled workers who were replacing the insulation for a brief performance. “I want to talk to workers and would-be workers,” he explains. “While we need to have a vested interest in surviving by the rules, ” he says, “we have to temper them and we shouldn’t just live to work. “For many of the people I see, they are far removed from their existence because they are removed from the elitism.” This elitism Goodfellow believes has been responsible for taking the arts away from the workers as well. By bringing poetry to job sites he feels that laborers get at least a small dose of arts. . Goodfellow hopes his poetry inspires people to hear the power of words and to learn to articulate their needs and concerns. “I show them language is power. That power is much more than a physical thing. “If people are able to _ better communicate what their needs and concerns are maybe we can have a better society. “T’d like to live in a better society. I don’t think poetry is going to be the means but it can be the catalyst for change. “It can make (people) think about the options outside what they already know.” Goodfellow says poetry can help people see that life is better than what they thought, “or it can confirm their own suspicions. “With that knowledge people can make changes.”