ey ee RT Ne FORE By Cada HUE olay 60 ae oA a @ CAE cel Page 48 The Castlegar Sun TSS al a oy 6 DR a Re eS Wednesday, July 13, 1994 Rediscovering the jewel that is Zuckerberg Island ‘Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.’ Julia had no ruled lines, I said: “Using the morning quiet to catch up on your correspondence?” “No,” she smiled, “just jotting down my thoughts and meditations twice a week with a blind client. For him the quiet is particularly important. He enjoys the whisper of the wind in the tees, the birds’ song, the various sounds of water, and the calls of the geese and the place to P batteries, to restore one's soul . Join a BCAA Hosted Tour to the Orient and discover the mysteries of these exotic lands on a pre-planned worry-free holiday. ducks. Everything.” I on home then and she bent again to her writing, but the encounter caused me to reflect once more on that magic which to some degree I had lost retained that quality of peace and serenity. It followed asa perfectly rational idea, fore, to cut our seeming will, while the canopy of trees provides the constantly first path, not to the Chapel House, but around the nging and always delightful patterns of dappled light and shadow ence of the island. Superficially, this was to provide access to the perimeters of the park and to define the maximum level of the proposed flood level as well as the area of land when the Mica Creek Dam went in. the year as is proper for paths in the woods. The project required much thought and work and it still does, but when I look back on it all now I realize that it was not the paths, nor the eventual 16 by over familiarity and forgs and how, driven by some other force, we had earlier rediscovered the spirit of this place. The island is special, even , for a number of reasons: location, surroundings, history, associations, and an inde- finable quality which defies defi- nition. I first recognized it when, at Mr. Zuckerberg's invitation, I went over for tea almost 50 years ago. He and his many friends had done the same thing before me, and I suspect so had the First People who had fished from it “anid called it home several millen- nia earlier. It is therefore, haunt- ed, but in a friendly protective way, by all those who have loved it as their natural cloister, their sanctuary or their spiritual oasis, for to step unto it is to experience a different kind of time, a space within the larger space of Castle- gar. It was no accident that the BCAA MEMBER EXCLUSIVE HOSTED TOURS eteweccumnesmmemeninrenemnectsitte ‘A BCAA 1986! Nav. 30 - Dec. 7, 1994 (8 days/6 nights) Spend six nights in this fabulous city! Sh = in Hong Kong Our 7th Annual! 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Afterward we cut intersecting criss-cross paths to discover the Chapel House, and parallel paths below and on each side, ostensi- bly as fire breaks, but ‘in fact to access the secret glades hitherto inaccessible on the island. All were masked from on intervening growth in the benches and tables so laboriously cut and shipped in pieces, togeth- er withthe necessary bags of cement in a borrowed outboard ovet the high floodwaters to the island, then set up in the oh-so- carefully sited positions for the ease of the elderly and the com- fort of all. No, it was the under- and bush can be spread over a mere five acres of land, particu- larly when it all has to be removed by hand. One pile alone almost reached the height of the house. It was then that the city trucks and payloaders came into their own and the great bonfires along the edge of the lagoon and by the rocks by the river for many months. It has taken years of work and still requires regular grooming to remove all this highly dangerous tinder and keep the forest in check. sky line, but did not set the entire island ablaze is, to me, an indica- tion once again that the guardian spirits take care of their own. It is, as we tend to forget, an exceptional place—for the young, the middle-aged and the old, for local citizens and for guests from all over the world. Their enthusi- astic comments and admiration It is as well, an eco-museum and a nature lab, as well as a place for quiet meditation and gentle recreation, a fishing plat- form and a loafing place for plan- ners and dreamers, for forgetting and forgetters. It is the cumulative result of the effort of many dedicated peo- ple and whatever psychic force that guides it. The lady was right. It is beautiful and a place to restore your soul. It is our own miniature Stanley Park in the Kootenays. Cherish it. ArtsEtc Continued from 2B cial showing. 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F Market The Castlegar and District Heritage Society will be holding a weekly Farmers Market at the CPR Museum each Saturday from 10 am. to 4 p.m. Anyone who has vegetables, fruit or crafts should contact Debbie at the museum if they would like to book a table. Tune in The Castlegar and District Heritage Society invites everyone to the museum July 15 to enjoy the tunes of the Countrymen Band. The group will be at the station from 7 p.m. to 9 p-m.. Donations will be gratefully accepted. Plotnikoff book launch Finally, congratulations to Castlegar’s Vi Plotnikoff on the launching of her first book of short stories “Headcook at Weddings and Funerals.” Airy Mountai Appliance os The Castlegar Sun Dear Ann Landers: My husband is a successful lawyer. We've been married for 25 years. Last spring, “Joe” had an affair with Sunny. I became suspicious when the notations “weather — sunny” or “sunny day” began to appear in his appointment book, always at lunch time or late in the afternoon. 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