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Castlégar News

PAGE A4, SATURDAY; APRIL 27, 1991

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EDITORIALS

Forget opinions,
remember verdict

It’s difficult to imagine the personal hell Castlegar fire chief-Bob
Mann and his family have been through during the last year.

Being falsely accused of sexual assault anywhere is horrible, but
the effect of such an accusation is magnified in a smaller city like
Castlegar where, it seems, everybody knows everybody else’s business.

People inevitably draw their own conclusions about an accused
person as witnesses for the defence and the Crown testify in high-
profile trials such as Mr. Mann’s.

Typically, each side calls character witnesses who state their
opinions of the accused. Sometimes people don’t think highly of
other people, especially people in positions of power, such as a fire
chief.

It’s inevitable that such people ruffle some feathers as they go
about their jobs and others may outright disagree with how another
person handles a job. Or one person simply may not like another per-
son. That's life.

But when such attitudes or opinions are stated publicly, as in
court, it can be uncomfortable.

However, regardless of what you thought, or think, of Mr.
Mann, bear one thing very clearly in your mind now — he was found
not guilty by a jury of his peers.

That fact, above all else, is what matters. Mr. Mann and his
family should now be allowed to put this difficult period in their lives
behind them.

Ferry service
shutdown deja vu

We wish a group of Vancouver Island tourism and business
leaders luck in their threat to sue the provincial government in an at-
tempt to restore the Seattle-Victoria car ferry link.

Grounds for taking the province to court would be the 1989 sale
agreement when the government sold the Crown-owned B.C. Steam-
ship Co. to B.C. Stena Line. The agreement says this Seattle-Victoria
link must run for a minimum three years to this fall.

The motives behind the lawsuit would be, of course, different
from the local issue of the Castlegar-Robson ferry service shutdown
in April 1988 — that is, a loss of tourism dollars on the island versus
a loss of what many consider a necessary social service between
Castlegar and Robson — but we expect the outcome will be the same;
provincial government stubbornness.

Mark Scott, Tourism Victoria vice-president, obviously is aware
of the government’s history on ferry issues. Hopes of a sympathetic
ear from the government are not great if past performance is anything
to go by, he said.

Premier Rita Johnston — the former minister of transportation
and highways — has refused to meet with the island’s tourism and
business leaders and a report Thursday said new Tourism Minister
Howard Dirks, Nelson-Creston’s MLA, hasn’t returned phone calls.

Deja vu, anyone?

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Reform party continues steady
pace towards national position

By The Canadian Press

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
shrugged off a Gallup poll published
Thursday suggesting the western-
based Reform party is on its way to
becoming a national political force.

“I'll take the pick of the voters on
election night — none of this stuff,””
Mulroney said as he headed into a
cabinet meeting at the government’s
retreat at Meech Lake, Que.

The survey suggests the Reform
party has the support of 16 per cent
of decided voters nationally,

outranking the Tories by two percen-

tage points.

Mulroney said the Tories were
down in popularity before the 1988
federal election-but pulled ahead in
the last weeks of a hard-fought cam-
paign, and the government's job of
managing the economy and other
national issues makes it hard to be
popular.

“Every decision that you make,
obviously you’re going to offend
somebody and we've been making a
lot of tough decisions.”

Reform party Senator Stan Waters
said his party’s strong showing is
linked to its decision this month to
expand eastward.

“We've become more of a
national party and got a lot of
positive media from the decisions
we made,"* said Waters.

Nationally, the Reform party was
up from seven per cent in the last
survey in March.

Much of that strength came from
Ontario, where 15 per cent of voters
polled said they would vote Reform,
up from three per cent in March.

Opposition parties said the surge
in support for the Reform party is
good news for them.

Liberal Leader Jean Chretien said
Reformers are siphoning votes from
the Tories and that makes it easier
for the Liberals — particularly in the
West.

The poll suggests the Liberals are
leading in popularity with 32 per cent
of decided voters, ahead of the NDP
at 26 per. cent.

“It’s good because it’s dividing the
Tory party,”” Chretien said in Win-
nipeg. ‘‘And I’d rather compete with
three than against two.’”

Nelson Riis, the New Democratic
Housé leader, said the strong Reform
showing suggests the Tories are in
trouble.

“They’re a spent force. I can’t
imagine anything now that would get
Brian Mulroney back in people’s
good books.””

Lucien Bouchard, the leader of the
pro-soveriegnty Bloc Quebecois, said
established ional parties no longer
have credibility.

“It’s very important for Qi

to know who speaks for English
Canada,”’ he said. ‘‘For me, it is
clearly the Reform party.””

The most popular choice in the
poll was no choice at all — the wild-
card bloc of undecided voters incr-
eased sharply to 37 per cent from 24
per cent in March.

Based on interviews with 1,024
adults April 10-13, the survey-is con-
sidered accurate withi
tage Poials, 19 in 20 times.
margin of error is higher in the
regions, reflecting smaller sample
sizes.

Regionally, Reform party support
ran from a high of 43 per cent on the
Prairies to a low of three pre cent in
the Atlantic provinces and zero in
Quebec.

The Tories were down marginally
from 16 per cent in the'previous poll,
says Gallup.

The Liberals dropped to 32 per
cent from 39 per cent in March while
the NDP sank to 26 per cent from 30
per cent.

Measured nationally, the Bloc
Quebecois had the backing of 10 per
cent of respondents.

QUOTES

By The Canadian Press

downtown courthouse.

than his Tories.

“If you tell me a goose is # public menace, I'll tell you I’ve never
seen a Canada goose packing an unregistered firearm. I’ve never had
to arrest a Canada goose.” — Det. Ronald Lepine in Vancouver
where a goose is sitting on five eggs in her nest on a balcony outside a

“Pl take the pick of the voters on election night — none of this
stuff.’ — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's response to a Gallup poll
that suggests the Reform party has the support of more decided voters

“T’ve always said we have two probelms — the coyotes and the
biologists. And I don’t know which is worse.’’ — New Brunswick
farmer Jake Connors who argues that the coyote population is
increasing because it has a ready supply of food and livestock.

The glass surrounding the
bow! at the Cor

local business owners and
reps were setting up their
displays for the West
Kootenay Trade Fair which
began yesterday at the
Complex and will end
tomorrow.

CosNews photo by Ed Mills

REMEMBER WHEN

4 YEARS AGO
From the April 29, 1951
Castle News

Trade minister Eyres told the
British Columbia legislature that tea-
growing may develop into an in-
dustry in this province employing
hundreds of persons.

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The construction of a th

Regina stylist, told women attending
a hat and hair show.
25 YEARS AGO
From the April 27, 1966
Castlegar News

Safeway’s new store in Castleaird
Plaza at Kinnaird has a total floor
area of over 15,000 square feet and
its grocery area alone has eight 36-
foot i it ing over 3,000

elementary school at Castlegar at a
tender of $47,900 and a two-room
unit at Kinnaird at $37,500 is now
under way, with the work being done
by the Columbia Builders.

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The Hon. A.D. Turnbull, Minister
of ‘Health and Welfare, will be guest
speaker at a special

different items,

The store has been ‘completely
redecorated and modernized and a
policy of hiring local personnel
wherever possible has been followed.

ee

More than $1.1 million will be
spent by B.C. Telephone in the West
Koot district on ing and

meeting of the Castlegar and District
Chamber of Commerce.
Pe a

The most noticeable trend in hair
stylings is the 1951 tendency to wear
the hair longer, Ralph Pearsell,

CASTLEGAR
CHAMBER OF

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1955-6th Ave., Castlegor VIN 487

Our names are perhaps the most personal and
important of our possessions, yet most of us exert no
influence over the decisions which identify us
throughout our lives. We typically retain the names
chosen for us by our parents.

Names are now inextricably a part of us, our
identities would feel naked without them. We can get
away with no-name produets, but human beings need
to be named — a social insurance number, ‘‘hey,
you”’ or “waiter’’ won't do.

iven the social significance of names, and
encouraged by the creativity which many people in
the Slocan Valley have applied to their appellations, I
ponder the possibilities for a new name.

You may wonder about my objections to
“‘Shapcott,”” my surname since 1979. I can't

After a year or two of soul-
searching, | decided Catherine
Sea Otter might give the
impression that | was aspiring
to be a native person. The
cosmic connotations were
more than | was prepared to
handle.

remember whether it relates to sheep's coat or sheep
stealing, but there’s something disreputable about it.

The unusual nature of ‘‘Shapcott’’ means I am
forever spelling it; unless I want to risk being called
something more bizarre. The abuses to which my
name have been subjected are worse than
unfortunate.

My main complaint about the name is that it
relates to a person who has long since passed out of
my life, which means I’m trucking around unwanted
emotional beggage.

I have spent more hours than I care to count
perusing booklets of baby names, dictionaries and
phone books for ideas about names. I have consulted

Slocan Valley residents provide
plenty of poetic inspiration

field guides to birds and wildflowers; checked books
on mythology; pored over maps, atlases, and charts
of the stars.

During the time I was living in the Charlottes
and around Prince Rupert, it looked like I might
become Catherine Sea Otter. Someone gave me the
name because I was attracted to the sea, and after
researching the sea otter, I was drawn to its special
qualities: appealing, curious, playful, resourceful,
endangered.

“Sea Otter”’ was reaching a critical degree of
acceptance when one of my brothers gave me a T-
shirt, coffee mug and stamp — all bearing the image
of the endearing ocean mammal. I even considered a
Haida translation, but the spelling and pronunciation
of ‘‘whajakeg’”’ make ‘‘Shapcott’’ sound like
“Smith.”

After a year or two of soul-searching, I decided
Catherine Sea Otter might give the impression that I
was aspiring to be a native person. The cosmic
connotations were more than I was prepared to
handle.

I’ve given second thoughts to Raven and Hawk
— especially since my name at birth was “*Hawkins.””
I’vetonsidered not replacing my last name at all,
letting it go at Catherine Ellen. It’s simple, but feels
incomplete.

While my search for a name goes on, I take
heart and inspiration from the prevalence of
unusually poetic names in the Slocan Valley: Moon
Bow, DayStar, ManySkies, Yellow Bear. Where did
those names come from, and how did their owners
make the transition?

Freyja Tulum ManySkies, who legally changed
all three of her names in 1976, admi "sa “big
decision,”’ which is especially hard ‘‘in a place where
everyone knows you.”’ Freyja reflected for two years
on an unlimited number of choices available through
maps and foreign words.

““Preyja’’ is a Norse goddess name that appealed
to her because she lives across the lake from the
Vaihallas — also part of Norse mythology. Freyja

Catherine
Shapcott

liked the way the letters looked and sounded — “Tm
into numerology a bit,’’ she says.

“*Tulum”’ is a Mayan city in the Mexican
Caribbean which means ‘‘city of the rising dawn.””
Her last name — ‘‘ManySkies’” — was suggested by
two men inspired by the spectacular cloud formations
over the Valhallas. It not only became her surname,
but identifies her farm and kennel north of Slocan.

At first, Daystar worried that
people would think she was
"flaky" and had concerns
about how people would
react. Although she hasn't

t changed her , she

Columnist ponders possibility of changing name

Sanskrit names run in the family: Satya has a
son named Atman (meaning the individual self or
soul) and a daughter, Samadhi (a state of
c reached in itation).

One mile south of Enterprise Creek lives a
woman with ‘‘big brown eyes”” whose nickname
““Hoot Owl" is no match for the name she was born
with — Diane. Hoot Owl, she admits, is the sort of
name people greet with incredulity, but the name has
stuck, even if her mother refuses to use it.

Hoot Owl also tells me about a valley boy named
Lee who was brought.up as “‘Skookum.”* Now that
he is older, he prefers Lee, but “‘Skookum”’ still slips
through.

. ‘DayStar’? is a spiritual name that was given to
Jephi Sioux in 1986 by Black Eagle Sun, a long-time
native friend.

“It came with a change in my responsibilities,””
she explains — including her role as a teacher of the
Dances of Universal Peace.

At first, DayStar worried that people would
think she was ‘‘flaky"’ and had concerns about how
people would react. Although she hasn’t legally
changed her name, she has adopted it: ‘I was given
that name to use.”*

Jim Rutkowsky of Silverton became known to
his friends as Moon Bow four years ago while skiing
with a group in Kokanee Glacier Park. It was a
**thagical day’? which ended in a band of concentric
multi-colored rings around the moon.

He wasn’t looking for a new name, but when

jega
has. adopted it.

**One name fits all,"” she says.

Satya Bouchard was also influenced by
numerology in the choice of het first name — &
Sanskrit word meaning truth. Her study of
numerology and the origin of different energies, both
part of the yoga she practises, convinced her that the
energy in her original French-Canadian name
(Nathalie) “‘wasn’t right for me."*

“Satya’’ is her fourth name this year — @ high
turnaround rate, even for the valley where Satya
-observes that name changing is common. “‘Nobody
could remember the other names,”’ she says, but
“Satya” is likely to stay. “Being truthful has always
attracted me,”’ she explains.

the rings as a moon bow, Jim
Rutkowsky was hooked.

“It was one of those spontaneous things,”” he
told me. ‘‘I liked the sound of it — there was a bit of
playfulness in it.’*

Noting some of the unusual names in the valley
— including Leaf, Rain and Tree — Moon Bow says
he has his own judgments about New Age names, but
supports people to choose names they like.

Both Moon Bow and Freyja ManySkies believe
children should choose their own names. They point
out that in native cultures, names derive from events
or natural occurrences and are part of puberty rites
and initiations.

It’s too late fot me to initiate puberty, but
middle age is still a candidate. At the age of 40, a
name is no longer necessary to shape my identity, but
to reflect it.

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services during 1966.
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The Royal Canadian Air Cadets
from Castlegar, Trail and Nelson
held a church parade on Sunday in
Castlegar to commemorate the 25th

year of the movement's founding.
15 YEARS AGO
From the April 29, 1976
News

Rezoning which will lay the
groundwork for a General Motors
dealership franchise for the area and
result in jobs for 20 to 30 persons,
received third reading at Tuesday
night’s council meeting in spite of
some objections.

* .

.
Stanley Humphries secondary
school band master Norman Fish-
wick, who for the past 20 years has
directed the band program, will be
honored tomorrow evening at a
farewell concert to be held in the
gymnasium.
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Human resources minister Bill
Vander Zalm’s list of designated low-
employment centres in B.C. where
employable persons will no longer be
eligible for social assistance benefits
includes Slocan Park, South Slocan,
Winlaw, Lardeau and Hawser.

5 YEARS AGO
From the April 27, 1986
Castlegar News

The Kootenay Doukhobor
Historical Society has already started
rebuilding the Doukhobor Village
destroyed by fire last fall.

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Castlegar school board is con-
sidering having area homeowners pay
for a $400,000 shortfall in its 1986-87
budget.

The move would cost the owner of
a home assessed at $55,000 an ad-
ditional $79 in school taxes next
year.

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A little more than a month after it
decided to convert all city vehicles to
propane fuel, Castlegar city council
has changed its mind. The vehicles
won’t be converted to propane after
all.

“It was felt it wasn’t an
economically viable thing,”’ Ald.
Albert Calderbank said.

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