were eee ane eee eees

| The question of whether or not Canada is a
Neruly bilingual country received a lot of
tdiseussion again recently when Prime Minister
‘Trudeau presented a resolution in the House of
‘Commons listing the principles by which the
ifederal government expects to reach its goal of

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Juno 14, 1978

- CASTLEGAR NEWS

Hore Let the People’s Rights Maintain, Unawed by Influence or Gain

Recreation Commission Booklet Says if All

resolution, as did 75 Conservatives, 30 New
Democrats and one Independent MP. The 11
Social Credit members in the House, for some
unknown reason, abstained when the vote was
taken.
On the same day that Parliament so
helmingl, d Mr, Trudeau's

making this country's 250,000. civil
service functionally bilingual! (French and
‘English) by 1978.

The resolution might have passed through
Parliament quietly, had it not been for John
Diefenbaker who, “cyes blazing the voice
‘rolling” (according to one news report), led the
‘opposition to the bill and succeeded in rallying
15 fellow Conservatives in voting against it.

+ One hundred eight Liberals supported the

People in the Way...
A Worthwhile Book

A recent book of considerable interest to
Castlegar area residents and people living in
communities on the Arrow Lakes is J. W. (Jim)
Wilson's People in the Way, a story about the
Columbia River Treaty project as it related to
the people who had to give up their homes to
make way for the reservoir that was to be
formed behind the Keenleyside Dam.

- Mr. Wilson, now a director of B.C. Hydro,
was responsible for resettlement planning in
conjunction with the project. He takes to his
book a warm sense of humor, a commendable
objectivity, and a journalistic writing style that
doesn’t overburden the reader with statistics
and dates.

The book is a valuable cop

over PP:
resolution, Statistics Canada released figures
showing that for 67 per cent of Canadians, the
language most often spoken at home is Engish.
For 25.7 per cont, it is French. Italian is in third
place at 2.2 per cent and German fs in fourth
place at one per cent.

The British Columbia percentages were
English 92.8 per cent, Chinese and German 1.3,
Italian 0.8 and French 0.5; Alberta: English 90.8,
German 1.8, Ukrainian 1.7, Wrench 1.4 and
Native Indian 1.3; Saskatchewan: English 89.8,
Ukrainian 2.7, Native Indian 2.4, German 1.9
and French 1.7; Manitoba: English 82.6, French
and German tied for second at 4 per cent;
Ontario: English 85.1, French 4.6, Italian 3.6,
German 1.1; Quebec: French 80.8, English 14.7,
Italian 1.8; New Brunswick: English 67.9,
French 91.4; Nova Scotia: English 96.6, French
3.6; Prince Edward Island: English 95.7, French
3.9; Newfoundland: English 99.1, French 0.4.

Mr. Trudeau (and Mr. Stanfield, Mr. Lewis
and Mr. Caouette) to the contrary, Canada is not
a bilingual country in the English-French sense.
Those who mainly use the English language
outnumber the French-speaking citizenry nearly
three to one while nearly a third speak some
language other than French or English .

That Canada is not a bilingual country in
the English-French sense of the Trudeau

fon is welld

ibution to the
public record of a_ hight: 1

d locally: Regional

y
undertaking and succeeds admirably in fulfilling
its stated purpose: dealing with the reality of
the human aspect of the Columbia River
development.

ion C ission No. 1 has issued a
booklet to school children telling of its summer
programs. It is written in three languages—
English, Russian and Portuguese. French isn’t
even mentioned...

Royal Canadian Legion Hosts Local RCMP
At Supper to Celebrate Force's 100th Birthday

Observing the 100th birth-
tl

of Branch No. 179, who
the delici

Superintendent R. J. Wall

day of the RCMP, C:

Robson branch of the Royal
Canadian Legion Friday hosted

bord supper, were also guests.
A lovely decorated cake,

thanks at being
invited to celebrate with the
Castlegar ‘detachment. Sgt.

MARRIAGE
CounSsELtoR

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—Punch
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Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley

members of the RCMP and
their wives.

The tables, with setting for
100, and the hall were beauti-
fully decorated with mixed
flowers, streamers and many
posters. The Ladies’ Auxiliary

inscribed RCMP 1873—1973,
centered the serving table.

Legion president Earl
Rourke extended a welcome to
all and proposed the toast to
the Queen with Ed Zorn toast-
ing the RCMP.

: Winlaw Student Takes First

Prize -i

A student from Winlaw
Elementary School, Joanne
Kabatoff, has been named first
prize winner in the elementary
section of the recent 1973
Forest Fire Prevention Poster
Contest sponsored by the
Canadian Forestry Association
of B.C.

This announcement has
been made by the president of
the association J. M. Billingsley.

The contest was held in the
elementary, junior and senior
Sceandary schools throughout
BC.

Poster Contest”

This marks the 23rd year
of the contest. The provincial
junior and elementary winner
will be forwarded to Ottawa to
compete with other provincial
winners on a national basis.

B.C. posters will also be
entered in the Western Inter-
national Forest Fire Prevention
Poster Contest, which will be
judged in San Francisco in
December of this year.

Awards will be forwarded
to the schools of the winners for
local presentation.

Stan Partridge introduced his
detachment members and their
wives, as well as the auxiliary
members of the RCMP.

Long-time resident of Cas-
tlegar, Joe Killough, spoke of
the early days and told of how
their house was located where
the Kinnaird overpass is today.
He had many wonderful stories

. to tell.

Judge’ Carl Loeblich ex-

* tended: his thanks,.for being-----

invited to the supper and
extended his good wishes to the
RCMP and the Canadian
Legion.

Mayor John Landis, who is
also a Legion member, spoke of
the early days in Castlegar and
told stories of his grandfather
who lived here and of their
family.

Five Rangers, under the
direction of Mrs. D. Hill and
Mrs. W. Leduc, served the
guests and helped with the
kitchen cleanup. A cheque was
given to the girls towards their
traveling fw

yt!
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at Fruit Growers Mutual

Insurance.

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Representing
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Castlegar

PHONE 365-3301

Notice fo Our Customers

Our Offset Lithography

Time fo Pay Tribufe to My Brother-in-Law Art

1 have three brothers-in-luw,
One is a railrouder, one is a
lawyer, und the third is pretty
ill right now.

Fve always felt lucky
about them. Each of the
three is a fine fellow, and
we've got along with never
an unpleasant word or
experience between us.

That’s more than lots of
brothers-in-law cun say, Left
alone, they'd probably be
fine, but when the women
involved start getting their
knives into each other, often
a coldness develops umong
the poor devils of husbands.

My railroader _brother-
in-law went to high school
with me, and we played foot-
ball together on un couple of
the best teams that ever came
out of Perth Collegiate
Institute and Lanark County.

My lawyer brother-in-law
worked with me on a chain
gang one summer, when we
were students, and it was the
best dodge-work chain gang
that ever worked for the
Kodak company. We left no
stone unturned in our con-
stant vigilance to appear to
be working when the fore-
man came around.

Both these chaps are
around my ownage, abit tat-
tered around the edges from
vaising families.and paying
off mortgages, but otherwise
in good shape.

My third brother-in-law is
a bit longer in the tooth, and
I always locked on him as ,
somewhere between a: sec=2
ond father and sécond big

ther. .

Not that he acted ‘either
part. He treated me exactly
as most boys would like their
fathers to treat them. And he
never, ever acted the bul-
lying, know-it-all role of the
big brother. He treated me
as a human being.

He never implied that I
was a kid and he was an
adult. When he was twice my
age, he talked as though we
were equals.

He knew I was pretty cal-
low when I was sixteen, but
he never let on. We were two
men of-the world together,
and I've appreciated it ever
sin

ce.

He'd take me fishing
when I was akid. There was
no nonsense about him being
in charge. We were just a
couple of fishermen.

One fishing jaunt I still
remember with particular
pleusure. We were out in the
middle of the lake when a
summer storm caught us.
No, or few, motors in those
days. You rowed. We were
as wet as though we'd
jumped overboard.

We got to shore, with the
rain still pounding down. We
found a cottage unoccupied
and managed to get in. We
put up the stovepipes, got a
fire going and foraged. There
was a half can of tea leaves.
So there we sat by a roaring
fire, drinking hot tea and feel-
ing like Ulysses just home
from the Trojan war.

It was not a miserable
experience or a disaster. [t
was ajoke, an adventure. Art
sat there, smoking his pipe
and regaling me with earthy
stories, and I sat there,

real man, able to cope with
anything,

He'd take me off to the
cottage, when he was court-
ing my sister, and [ was about
fifteen. What a nuisance [
must have been, but you'd
never know it, from him.

When I was courting, I

picking, and soul-searching,
and when people got into that
stuff, he'd change the subject
or quietly leave.

Like my own father, he
very rarely got angry, but
when he did, attention was

paid.
He believed in the old

dragged hi who
is now my old battleaxe, and
her kid sister, who had tuiled
along. He drove the three of
us to the same cottage, and
he and my big sister uccepted
us and fed us without a ques-
tion or a hint or a raised
cyebrow.

When the war came
along, he was of an uge at
which there was no need for
him to join up, no question
of being drafted, He joined
the air force and spent four
years of unheroic, uncom-
plaining service about two
thousand miles from his
family. He could have stayed
home and made money as
most of his contemporaries

td.
He never said much, at
times of family crises, though
he was dragged into our large
family. But he was always
there, always steady, always
the peacemaker.

He hated rows, and scab-

Presenfation of

adage, as did my mother,
that, “If you can’t say any-
thing good about a person.
don't say anything.’’ And !
neverheard unyone sayu bad
word about him.

He's a good Christian, a
good Catholic, but a down-
to-eurthone, not one of those

is no world-beater,
and he didn't want to be, He
was no intellectual, but he
had a wit as Irish as his good
looks.
He was always a kind,
and, ut the risk of seeming
maudlin, } would say a sweet

man.

[hope he reads this and
knows how much his youn:
brother-in-law thought o!
him when he was an impres-
sionable kid, and ever since.

And I hope the day is not
too far off when he's out of
that hospital bed and we can
crack a jug together.

Scholarship

Preceeds LODE Summer Recess

Lillian ugh Chapter of
the IODE. brought the'season's
meetings to a close Friday with
a dinner at the Hi Arrow Arms.

Following the dinner,
members were invited to the
home of Mrs. Allen Selbie of
Kinnaird.

After a brief business
meeting, a social evening was
enjoyed, concluding with re-
freshments served by the
hostess, Mrs. Selbie, and the
regent, Mrs. A. Sylvest,

Education secretary, Mrs.
M. Rush, reported that Angela

Music Exam.

Eremko has been presented
with the.°: Lillian, Killough
Chapter $100 scholarship for
the year and Michael Scott the
annual grade 10 book award.

Mrs. Rush attended the
commencement exercises at
Stanley Humphries Secondary
School to make the presenta-
tions’ and to extend the
congratulations of the Order to
the recipients,

At a previous meeting of
the chapter, immediate past
regent, Mrs. J. F. Killough, was
presented with an IODE spoon
as a token of appreciation for
her services to the Order.

Regular meetings of the

. chapter will be resumed in

September.

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SELKIRK LIONS CLUB 1973 executive was
sworn in Saturday by zone chairman Roland Hill
of Beaver Valley.at the club's Third Installation

; Banquet. Main executive shown here are, front
} row, left to right: third vice-president Rudy

Quaedviieg, president Jim Penman and second

Hig Aootag

the executive are Lion Tamer Doug Eldridge,
Tail Twister Ed Koftinow and directors Mickey
Killough, Jim Chapman, Lawrence Popoff and
Tony Badior. Tony Badior and Philip Johnston
were welcomed as new members. Visitors

included Acting Mayor Jack Chernoff of

vice-president Walter Holuboff. Back row, left
to right: first vice-president Dave Reddington
and treasurer Carvel Morrey. Other members of

Kinnaird and Mayor John Landis of Cast: —
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TRUCKLOAD SALE OF FISH

FRIDAY, JUNE 15
“res 1 eam. to, 7:30 p.m,
Fresh Fish Now in Good Supply
LOCATED: CASTLEGAR HOTEL

“West Coast Seafoods

Tea and Bake
Sale to Assist

Traveling Fund

Rangers, Guides, and
Brownles of Robson, Castlegar
and Thrums held a very
successful Tea and Bake Sale
June 2 in the Robson Recrea-
tion Hall,

Proceeds are for the
traveling fund for the girls,

Castlegar-Robson district
commisstoner, Mrs, J. Edwards,
welcomed the guests,

Mra. Vi Wilcox was in
charge of the tea tickets with
Mrs. R, Jenkins in charge of the
handicraft table and assisted by
Guides Jenny Lemmetty, Joan
Rayner and Geraldine Matt.

A well-laden bake table
was attended to by Mrs.
Cunliffe and Mrs. Ivy Salekin.

Attending the kitchen
were Mra. P. Minnich, Mrs. I.
Lemmetty, Mrs. C. Gregory,
assisted by Rangers Cathy
Salekin, Geraldine and Chris-
tine Johnson, Patsy Beninger,
Brenda Robinson and Linda
Wilcox.

Girl Guides serving tea
were Laurie Stewart, Kelli
Nancy Moran and
Patty Lafreniere.

Paula Lemmetty looked
after the raffle tickets spon-
sored by the Robson Parent
Group with the drawing to take
place later this month.

Door prizes were won by
Kelli_O'Neail, Annette Zibin
and Cathy Wells.

Thanks was extended to all
who attended the tea and to the
mothers who so generously
donated to the bake table and
kitchen, fe

Monday Court

Elsie Griffith, 43, of Castle-
gar was fined $150 or in default
16 days in jail when she
appeared in court here Monday
before Judge R. R. van Patten
on a charge of having a blood
aleohol count over .08.

Her driver's licence was
also suspended for 30 days.

The charge acse from a
routine check May 24 in
Castlegar.

Winners Are Named With Special
Mention’ to’ Valley Vista School:

With so many excellent
posters entered in the KC Days
Children's Art Show Poster
Contest, sponsored by the
Ce Arts Council, it

Coandidat

The following is a list of
successful candidates, in exam-
inations' held recently by the
Royal Conservatory of Music of
Toronto in Nelson. The names
are arranged in order of merit.

Grade VIL Piano—first
class honors, Mary-Lee Nay-
diuk and honors, Marta Brock.

Grade VI Piano—honors,
Kim R. Johnson and Susan E
Smythe; pass, Adele M. Abey.

Grade IV Piano—honors,
Monica Lamb and Sharol L.
Johnson; pass, Michael Mayr-
hofer.

Grade ‘IIf Piano—pass,
Shellee L. Hartland.

Grade II Piano—honors,
Phyllis G. Richardson and pass,
Diane J. Howlett.

Grade I Piano—honors,
Laura J. Douglas.

Grade II Clarinet—honors,
Susan D. Jardine.

rade II Flute—honors,
Mary E. Johnson.

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was a difficult decision for
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While the overall quality
was high, special mention was
made of the very creative
posters submitted by the
Valley. Vista School and the
quality and quantity of posters
from Qotischenia and Pass
Creek schools.

This year's KC Days theme
of Riverboat Salutes Expo 74
was used by some of the

children and others incorpor-
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into their posters.

Results are as follows
given in order of first, second
and third: :

Grade 1—Sean Bondaroff,
Kinnaird Elementary; Sherry
Harshenin, Pass Creek and
Wayne Popoff, Ootischenia.

Grade 2—Audrey Kazakoff,
Ootischenia; Dennis Goetting,
Valley Vista and Michael
Church, Kinnaird Elementary.

Grade 3—Mark Verigin,
Pass Creek; Dean MacKinnon,
Valley Vista and Larina Harsh-
enin, Pass Creek.
os Grade 4—Richard Kanagan,

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Silver Birch School—Caro-
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Keith Fitzpatrick.

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