Page B6 The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, December 20, 1995 Calvary Baptist Church invites you to attend their Christmas Services Sunday, Dec. 17: Sunday School Christmas Program at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 24: Christmas Eve Service at the Church, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. 809 Merry Creek Road Everyone Welcome to Attend The Gift Expresses Your Feelings MOVADO* MUSEUMS SAPPHIRE a legendar ynthetic sapphire Delich Jewellery & Gift Store 2118 Columbia Ave., Rossland * 362-5044 “There is no such thing as an accident What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.” ~ Voltaire Lettres de Minnine. “There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.” Napoleon I Now is the high season of the thing that we are pleased to call “accident”, regardless of whether it is rooted in carelessness, reckless- ness, ignorance or stupidity, or any of the scores of other kinds of damn foolishne sses. None of us is exempt for it is a part of our another part of that same humanity to try to weasel out of the responsibility for our mishaps by labeling them accidents. And the worst of thiese weaselers is the drunk driver who, aided and abetted by the law, uses drunkenness as an excuse for murder and mayhem, under that same cloak of accident The memory of my dead little friend Cindy— and the surviving, once-talented driver-com- panion, now reduced to a helpless vegetable by two drunken louts, each smugly blaming the other for the ‘accident’, each expecting to get away with it—does little for my sense of goodwill or conscienge. On a lighter note, some of us manage to escape or marginalize the consequences of our humanity to get into scrapes, just as it is | managed to reach that age, I'll never know— absent-minded angel, maybe) and his story begins as follows: “I've certainly had some near misses,” admits 74-year-old Arthur Wood. “Luckily, Madge is always on hand to phone an ambu- lance. I don't know what I'd do without her.” His most recent mishap, the story contin- ues, was at a carwash. Arthur stuck his head out of the window to feed the meter but acci- dentally leaned on the electric window button. The window wound up and trapped his head outside the car. “I couldn't get my head back OVER MY SHOULDER Pp] JOHN CHARTERS tty in,” he said, “and by this time the car was going through the wash, so I got brushed, waxed and blow-dried. No one can accuse me of having a dirty face.” Arthur started on his accident-prone cham- back in 1934 when he was run over various failings, ig Our und ved good fortune to luck or the presence of a guardian angel. Mine is undoubtedly non- union, otherwise he would have gone on strike yen Others, on the other hand, seem to for mishaps so a they are » able to injure themselves with invisible instruments. They are struck down in empty streets and are hit by lightning from a cloudless sky. Last night, I read of just such an individual in a Scottish newspaper. He is an English pen- sioner, 74 years old, (though how he ever by a milk-float while playing football. Pneu- matic tires saved him from being crushed by the old fashioned wooden wheels. He coasted in relative obscurity until 1965 when he apparently made headlines by falling 20 feet off a crane and landing in soft mud. Two years later, he entered a limbo contest, failed to negotiate the pole and spectacularly broke both his wrists. He broke them both again two months later when he had a fall at home. In 1975,.0n a night out at Black l, (a By accident or design? walked off a ledge in a darkened hotel, fell 20 feet and fell on a briefcase, saving his life. A little later he was left hanging by his legs from an apple tree after Madge forgot he was there and took the ladder away. She came back just as he fell. He next took up golf. He took one swing at the ball, missed, lost his balance, and fell over the. 10-foot-high wall behind him and landed on a car roof. The Lord takes care of fools, golfers and children. On another occasion he forgot to get out of the road while he was guiding Madge who was driving the family car out of the drive- way. Another hospital, another broken wrist. Last year he was in hospital again after falling off a ladder in the bathroom and his head on a soap dish. “It's a way of life with us,” says Madge. Obviously, if one is going to be a world champion accident- prone pensioner, it is most desirable to have a ty gests that between all the apparent randomness and chaos there is a predictable order and logic that is, nothing happens by accident in the universe. In any case this is not the time nor the season for more detailed examination of these principles and hypothe- ses, but a time to be more considerate, more thoughtful and more careful of others and yourself. The neck you save could be your own, and there is very little chance you will ever catch up with Arthur. He has had too much for practice. And practice in this case has the of your own p direc- tional sign to the hospital. The staff, however, will have enough to do with the snow, ice and alcohol. They are wonderful people, but fate or fe I'm sure they would rather popular holiday centre in south England), he have you safely at home. Care and good luck! Introducing some Internet terms Wednesday, December 20, 1995 The Castlegar Sun Page B7 ‘Spider Woman’ a player in infidelity In most of this, serious men may feel that they. have been singled out. Actually, it always takes two to have an affair. Usually a man and a woman. Let me introduce the “Spider Woman”. she is a hurting woman with raw wounds and she is out for revenge. Again, from a Frank Pittman arti- cle, “a woman who angrily pursues married men is a “spider woman"—she requires human sacrifice to restore her sense of power.” She is attracted to happy marriages, envious of the woman whose husband is faithful and loving to her. The cycle of pain is car- ried on because these women are usually victims of abuse themselves. Their anger makes them flaunt the rules, their desperation makes them cling to any the matter. They are dangerous people and they are survivors! One group that is of special interest is men who are “emotion- ally retarded.” This man shuts off his emotions when he is in stress. Women have been great rescuers of helping men NOT to deal with their emotions. He can go for a long period in this emotional vac- uum until a strange woman jerks him back into awareness of some- thing intense enough for him to feel it, either sex or rescuing her. The advantages of using elec- tronic mail over ordinary mail are enormous. Electronic mail can quickly transmit information from one place to another with There is no such thing as confi- dential e-mail. But for ordinary communication, e-mail is a won- derful option. It's quicker than the post office and it's cheaper someone you love or e-mail Bill Gates (ataskbill@microsoft.com ). Our own prime minister doesn't have one but the Liberal Party in Ottawa does: nhq.immedia.ca. The more you use this system, the better you the click of a button. 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 41: -m. 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Ann Pollock 365-3430 - Church 809 Merry Creek Rd Castiegar 10:00 Worship and Sunday School Nursery Care Provided 7:00 Robson Christmas Service AYA Rttee £ ay FELLOWS iti 9 6th Ave., C. 4 10:30 am * Youth Ministries « Victorious Women « Men's Fellowship Orn anes NACH EALTEL ALIVE ow stiaw canis 10, aemamemnermmene: = of Churches & Ministers ffili with Canadi ral! re a Family Church astlegar ¢ 365-5818 CASTLEGAR FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP 1801 Connors Rd. angelachristiano_ -@Ipc- @ Auxiliary Continued from B3 to thank the volugteérs who work theze, ‘the. pegple for their gener- ous donations and the thstomers for their patronage. Christmas packages were made up from plush toys, puzzles and games and donated to the Legion and Fire hall Hampers. Please note that the Shop will be closed Dec. 23 and will reopen Jan. 2. Thanks and bouquets from the Auxilians go to the following: + All those dedicated knitters who make such beautiful baby sets and shawls displayed for sale in the Gift Shop. + West's Department Store for their generosity, and in particular to those ladies in the fabric department who went to such lengths to obtain suitable fabric for the Candy Stripers’ new aprons. The auxiliary membership now stands at 82 and we extend a warm welcome to all others in the community who would like to join. Our meetings are usually held at 7:30 p.m., on the third Mon- day in the month, in the hospital board room. Season's Greetings Thank You for your patronage in 1995 We will be closed Dec. 25/95 to Jan. 15/96. Open Jan. 16/96 to 31st (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) CHANGS NURSERY & FLORIST LTD. 2601 -9th Avenue, Castlegar apsule omments Going on a trip this holiday season? Check all your routinely-taken medications to ensure you have enough to last while you're away. Nis sometimes quite difficult and expensive to get medications away from home. Feel tension creeping into your body during this holiday time? Try breathing slowly and deeply into the diaphragm and then exhaling completely. Do Do it about ten times and feel the calming effect. Did you know that smoking one marijuana cigarette is like smokit ‘a whole k of regular cigarettes? Marijuana has a greater tar-content and a greater concentration of carcinogens like benzopyrene. Marijuana is also smoked more deeply and held in the lungs longer thus increasing the risk of tung damage if you drink alcoholic beverages, stick to light ones. The darker-coloured drinks like brandy, dark rum, sherry, and red wine are more likely to prodi ans Nemmaohos end hangovers then the light ones like white wine, beer, and vodka Better stil Stay away trom alcohol altogether From all of us at Pharmasave wish you a happy, joyous and safe holiday season. nCQnEs FS PHARMASAVE 3rd St. (Downtown) Castlegar 365-7813 1128 11:00 A.M. TOS PEM source of security and they are so miserable that they don’t “count the cost” and the end of GAETZ With her, he can pull out of his depression briefly, but he sinks back even deeper into it when he is not with her. He is addicted to her, It doesn't work for him to leave home to be with her as she too would grow stale and irritating if she were around full time, What he needs is treatment for his depres~ sion. If he marries his addiction and rescuer, it's not likely to last, especially. when he sees the destruction and damage it has cost his family and himself. Men and women who cheat can act in very typical ways. Men, for instance, tend to attach too little significance to affairs, ignoring and duration of the reactions to his betrayal. For instance, the sex may be wrong, but the lying is okay as it “protects” others from more hurt. They do not appreciate the horrifying impact on their children. Women tend to attach too much significance, assum- ing that the emotions are so powerful they must be “real” enough to risk a life for. She feels the sex is okay because she is in love, and it's okay to lie to a man who has a claim on you if you don't love him. She may even feel it’s okay to use the children in the betrayal, Pittman says, “this has the same emotional impact as incest.” Strong words. Next week, we will finish off this sad subject. Sad because it's a deadly game where nobody wins. their horrifying power to disorient and disrupt lives. There is hope after infidelity. Don’t give.up! He routinely underestimates the extent and range = Internet Archie is a super-searching machine which looks for files through public servers on the Internet. There are Archie index- es on 1,200 servers providing you with access to 2.1 million files, Archie searches for keywords (words which you choose) within file titles or file content descrip- tions. Archie will return the file names which met the criteria you have set. Archie will also tell the name of the servers where the files are located. FIP FTP, which stands for File Transfer Protocol, is really where the phrase “Information Super- pad begins to take on its true meaning. There is a stagger- ing amount of information avail- able on the Internet free for the taking (in Internet slang, “via anonymous FTP”). Gopher A gopher is a computer which acts like a huge filing cabinet. Open one drawer and you will have a choice of files. Within each of those files will be sub- files, which in turn will contain sub-subfiles. By burrowing \through this system, you will find ithe resource you want. Unlike an ordinary filing cabinet, however, a gopher will allow you to access the files in town, in Ottawa or in London. The gopher allows you to use your own w: