us __ Casthaga News 40120. 196 COMMUNITY NEWS % CASTLEGAR Off Reduced to 900. Offers please. MAN TOURS ay os ALL DRY CLEANING (INCLUDING DRAPES) Offer in effect until Saturday, May 3 Open Monday to Saturday! PLAZA CLEANERS Castleaird Plaza 365-5145 = Hobbit Hill Children's Centre presents the GIANT GARAGE SALE ond SIDEWALK FAIR * PLANTS * CRAFTS * BAKING * POPCORN © REFRESHMENTS * MUSIC * BALLOONS SILENT AUCTION Bid on goods trom many local merchants! GREAT HOBBIT HILL CELEBRITY RELAY Soturday, May 3— 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. AtOld Builder s Building ‘Joo Block Columbia BARGAIN PRICES! & FAMILY FUN! ANNOUNCEMENT Maloney Pontiac Buick GMC Ltd. is pleased to announce the addition of GARY ASHLEY to our sales team. Gary is a long-time Rossland resident and has spent 6 years in the retail sales field. We would like to invite Gary's friends and associates to come and discuss their transportation require- ments with him. Ministry of Transportation and Highways KOOTENAY LAKE FERRY SCHEDULE Pacific Daylight Savings Time The following schedule will be effective on the Kootenay Lake Ferries up to and including Thur- < :00 p.m. 12:00 midnight zEEEEEEEEE <<<<<<<<<< S. Young, P.Eng. District REFUGEE CAMP A makeshift wire fence surrounds barren ground dotted with semi-permanent stick huts roofed with ted sheet metal. ‘ It’s San Caralampio, a refugee camp. And while it's not much, it's home to some 2,000 Guatemalan refugees in southern Mexico. Crude by North American standards, the camp isn't without its amenities. There is a church and school — both built with sticks and sheet metal roofing. And there's a basketball court, though few Castlegar residents would recognize it as such. The court is a flat, dusty piece of range land. The backboards are crate bottoms nailed to sticks. That's the world Castlegar’s Bud Godderis entered for several days in February. Godderis and three others toured the San Caralam- pio camp of the border of Mexico and Guatemala on behalf of the Christian Task Force on Central America. Established a decade ago, the task force consists of representatives of a number of Christian churches. One of the two women on the observer team was from the Catholic Jesuit Centre in Toronto, and the other from the First United Church in Vancouver. The fourth member of the team was a Guatemalan refugee whom Godderis declined to identify. OUOES Sieier «+s Cararennenne Cilia Cup pay in lane between stick homes in Mexican refugee camp. (Right) Refugee women carry pottery con- tainers to be filled. “Almost all of them have lost someone in their family,” Godderis says. But that was four years ago. Godderis says the “The task force has been involved with the for about four years,” Godderis explained. ‘The task foree monitors the conditions of refugee camps and “finds out ways we can support them.” Godderis adds that getting a first-hand look at refugees lets concerned* individuals find out for themselves what is happening “which you really can’t do by reading the newspapers.” The monitoring teams also provide a certain amount of protection for refugees by making their presence felt on a regular basis. There are more than 200,000 Guatemalan refugees — 150,000 in Mexico — according to the Guatemalan Bishops Conference. Most of them are Mayan Indians displaced by the military government. Godderis said the U.S.-supported military coup in 1954 led to a “gradual progression of oppression” in Guatemala. “As the oppression became stronger, an armed struggle came out of that.” More recently, the military government has focused its attention on the Indian population. “They just made a decision to wipe out the Indian people,” Godderis says. That led to the first wave of Guatemalan families fleeing across the border into Mexico. “They were essentially terrorized and malnourished and in bad shape,” Godderis says. The majority of the refugees were women and children because most of the men had been killed. refugees are now at a point where they are trying to become self- i The refugees also quickly established a school in the camp — even though most of the parents were illiterate. “The education of their children was a prime concern,” Godderis explains. “The first thing they wanted to show us was their school.” Godderis added that his four-member observer team purchased new blackboards for the school. The old ones _ whiclf‘the refugees had earried on their backs — were worn out. “The thing that struck me the most was .. . that these people still had so much strength and hope after all they have been through,” Godderis says. “The other feeling I had was indignation or anger that they should be treated the way they have been. “If it wasn't so terrible in Guatemala there wouldn't be all these refugees. The oppression there is terrible. The refugees are just the symptom of the real oppression in Guatemala.” The refugees aren't without their problems in Mexico. Several thousand of them were forcibly moved from the camp near the Guatemalan border to a camp hundreds of miles away. Because of pressure from church groups and the UN Commission of Refugees, the Mexican government has had to halt the practice and instead entice the refugees to relocate voluntarily. But Godderis says that isn't easy because the refugees want to remain close to their homeland of Guatemala “All they really want to do is get back to their own said. country,” he i He adds that the refugees have had to move away from the border because of attacks by the Guatemalan army. “The refugees in four years have moved quite a ways from the border. They're not too anxious to be near the border themselves,” Godderis says. COh Bulletin Board SUPPORT GROUP A FILM ON BOLIVIA Will be shown by Paula Pryce at the National Exhibition Centre, Wednesday, April 30 at 7:30. No admission, everyone welcome. Castlegar Arts Council and the Multicultural Society 2/34 THE CASTLEGAR AQUANAUT SW'M CLUB ‘an all paper Cash Bingo on Saturday, May 3 at r Arena Complex. ADMISSION BY ADVANCE TICKETS ONLY. Tickets are $8.00 and ore available at Central Food Mart, Woo! Wagon and Macleods. Early Bird is at 6:00 p.m. with Regular Bingo starting at 7:00 p.m. 2 MAY DAY PICNIC All welcome Sunday, May 4 Birchbank Picnic Grounds trom 11:00 o.m. Food, gomes, sunshine ond socializing in solidarity with working people around the world. 3/34 end 5 p.m. Mondays for W. ‘S poper Notices should be brought to the Castlegor News ot 197 Columbia Ave n Board Recreation news The 10-kilometre Spring Tune-Up Run was a great success despite the small number of participants. A big thanks goes out to all our volunteers: Amy Mac. Kinnon, Patty MacKinnon, Tammy Strielieff, Erie Dil lon, the SHSS_ basketball team and Mallards Sports for co-sponsoring the run. We hope to see all the runners return next year for a bigger and better race. Fitness Workshop The Sixth Annual Koot enay Fitness Instructor Workshop was a huge suc- It's New It's Convenient It's MasterPlan Castlegar Savings Credit Union cess last Friday and Satur- day at Selkirk College with 115 persons attending each day's sessions. Guest. speak ers were Sandee Prokopich, Dr. Paul Hinton, Jacque DePaoli, Don Wilson, Joy McAdam, Lynnette Light foot, Audrey Maxwell and Susan Campbell. Topics ran- ged from no bounce aerobics to physiology of exercise. The wide range of sessions kept everyone hopping and bopping all weekend long. Bike Redeo The Bicycle Safety Rodeo will be held in the arena complex Saturday. This is a very important clinic for all children to attend since bi. cycle safety is a prime con- cern during spring and sum- mer months. The children will hear a safety talk, ride through an obstacle course and have their bicycle reg. istered and safety checked. Kids should arrive at the complex with their bikes ac- cording to grades: Kinder garten - Grade 2 at 9 a.m.; Grades 3 and 4 at 10 a.m. and Grades 5 and 6 at 11 am. Each child who takes part in the safety rodeo is eligible to win a variety of bicycle ac cessories donated by Mutual Life of Canada. As well, each participant will receive a free ice-cream treat donated by the Royal Canadian Legion. There is no charge for this event but pre-registration is appreciated by calling the recreation office at 365-3386. Bicycle Safety Rodeo Saturday The Castlegar Recreation Department and the Castle- gar RCMP will be working together Saturday to put on a Kids’ Bicycle Safety Rodeo. This is a free event, open to all children six to 12 years of age. Kids should arrive at the Community. Complex with their bikes according to grades. Parents are welcome to at tend, watch from the bleach ers, or volunteer their help at the different stations. Par. ticipants will have their bikes registered, go through a balance, cone and road test, have a safety talk, as well as have their bikes inspected and safety checked. Give the recreation office a call to register. Every child who takes part in the Bicycle Safety Rodeo is eligible to win a variety of bicyele accessories donated by Mutual Life of Canada. 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