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editorial comment

It's nota
scare tactic

of Health has issued to the media a quar-

terly Aids update. A cumulative of results, covering
163,053 tests over a five year and nine month period end-
ing June 1991.

The results, may or may not surprise you.

Currently, the estimate of infected people in the
province ranges from app 5,000 - 8,000.

This provincial document with facts and fi; figures showed
that a total of 4,713 tests performed were positive for the

166 ii

Jeffels
Syndicated
Columnist ;

Last Father's Day, a desperate:
daughter — I always deny her ties

room - a last place of refuge

never know when to leave well
enough alone. ‘The ancient Greeks,
contemplating the tiny grains of sand’
on the shores of the Acgean, won-

» dered vaguely about the ultimate
. divisibility of matter. A few thou>
sand years later, Fermi and friends :i

split ihe atom, built the bomb and
brought a new kind of terror to the’

and shun her'shirts -- gave me-one.:

of those new, play-under-water’
radios, I can now lather myself to i

Mozart, Morningside and. The.

World at Six. I'l never be alone in.

the shower again.

‘Well, it's still in its plastic, wrap
and styrofoam packing because I’m
just a little suspicious of all the new.

technological aids the ads order me ,

to install in le petit coin.
T have nothing against the mod-
em, high-tech asa place of

on the primal plug. And I have the“:
results of his savant inquiries; the ulti-

mate, state-of-the-art water stopper,
‘You press down on a chromed
and domed cap and it’s supposed to
obey the laws of Newtonian
physics. It doesn’t. That new
plunger is pernicious. Ten second
after it’s seated, it rises again — sud-
denly, unexpectedly, wantonly,—
with the loud explosive pop-of a
i cork drawn from a bot-

refuge and asylum. It’s warm, moist,
cloistered, private, relatively free of.

tle of subcrdinate champagne, And
~ then everything disappears down

the gleaming gullet of the sink:

1. And taps nt they
‘be, I understood the old taps. You

|. twisted a lever, one on the right, one

on the left, and water flowed from a
pair of fimcets, have

‘Things changed,
“and I trace the death of the dollar, the .

low-show of the ‘Torles on the totem
polls,‘and the decline and ‘fall of civi-
lization to the single water snout and
the rolling ball that controls it,

*' "These days a man needs a
dogree in civil engineering and a
pilot's licence just to operate that
ball so that he won't do imreparable
heaves to his epidermal layer and

essential di

ignity.

Is it left and right, up and down,
sideways, a slant, on the diagonal,
on the bias or any combination
thereof? Who knows! It all depends
on the hotel, the whimsy of the
designer and the fancy of the fitter.

And then there's the kind they put
into airports these days. You have to

do a mincing little pas de deu fol-
lowed by, nn entrechst to find the on
off valve, They’ve installed the damn
thing in the floor! And tuming on a
shower in a strange hotel can be haz-
ardous, if not life-threatening. Some
have:a bar you: pull/up (or push
down?) to pour fire on the flesh. Oth-
ers have a rotating ring you dial like
a radio.’ Only the idieta fo forgot that
you can’t read the FM frequency
steam-fogged glasses.
. “And I’m more than a little suspi-
‘cious of those clever timing mecha-
nisms that operate exhaust fans or
tum infra red light bulbs off and on.
always get the idea that someone is
secretly, furtively filming my naked
body and collecting devastating evi-
dence to be used me later,
You know, there's a lot to be

said for the great, unwashed mass-
es. I think I'll join them.

RR. Jeffels is a Richmond free-
lance writer and former principal
of The Open Learning Institute.

noisesome growths ant
animals, It also provides an’ appro-
Priate setting for my much-admired
imitations of Pavarotti.

In fact, the bathrooms may well
be the last place left on earth where
a man can momentarily escape the
madding crowd. Unless, of course,

he has relatives in Alberta who ’

drive campers and know how to

point them in the general direction ©

of the west.

It's just that I find the new sci-
ence and technology of the bath-
room a little difficult to master, Take
the old. d rubber plug that

virus: 3,220 were
16

i i and
980 for which the risk category was not peated. There
were also four positive results in newboms of infected par-
ents.

The statistics also showed that there were 138 positive
tests on people younger than 20.

Since the very first case was reported in January of
1983, there have been 971 cases of AIDS in British
Columbia. Of the 971 cases, 877 were homosexual/bisexu-
al males, 32 were homosexuals who had used intravenous
drugs at least once, eight were intravenous drug users, 14
were blood product recipients, ten were hemophiliacs and
19 were heterosexual’ transmissions. In six cases no medi-
cal history could be obtained, and three patients denied any
risky behaviour.

Nowadays, ignorance can kill, but no matter how much
information the government feeds to media outlets, it’s the
responsibility of each individual to make their own deci-
sions. Hard facts and figures are not meant to act as a scare
tactic - but sometimes that’s exactly what it takes before
people become responsible.

By Don Addis

used to go into the sink. It was
cheap, efficient, effective, perfectly
crafted for its intended mission and
purpose. You simply pressed it
down and the water stayed where it
was supposed to stay: at the last
plimsol line left by your kid brother.

We're a ae and enol

species,

Slings |
& arrows

political party. However, if anybody
thinks that there is no political pur-

\~ pose to the hundreds of millions of

dollars that have been granted
“through the Secretary of State's
Department {and the office of Mul-.
Canada) they are stag-

4 : Hannaford |-
Syndicated
Columnist

The juiciest scandal of the last

few weeks has to be the disclosure
that the South African government
has been funding Inkatha, the cul-
tural-political organization which
represents the aspirations of the
Zalu nation within the republic. The
ANC has cried foul and their cry has
been echoed by their various sym-
pathisers in the west. Those of us
who are known to favour the South
African government’s approach to
resolving the country’s problems are
supposed to be terribly embarrassed.

All I can say is that Mr de Klerk
probably got the idea from Mr Mul-
Toney. It may or may not be fair ball
to slip a wad of used non- i
rands to Mr Buthelezei, (leader of
Inkatha), but the practice has
imp Canadian

True, no federal g

+ geringly naive.
It goes back to Mr Trudeau's gov-
emment; Mr Trudeau's dislike of the
“ anglophone atmosphere of the Cana-
u da of 1969 is well-known and one of
“the strategies which he used.to
diminish it was to encourage immi-
gration from any place that didn't
speak English. Not unreasonably,
these people felt behotden to the
government that opened the doors to
them and this disposition was rein-
forced by the lavish doling-out of

cal aims, though not necessarily in the
party sense. Feminist organizations,

Focal sttenipted to curtail it. Groups
like the Nati of

all these years. ‘What has evolved,
however, is a boondoggle of huge
with a whole p

of Indian leaders and specialist
‘Tawyers 3 mnilking the system. One
Must indeed question whether any
permanent settlement short of a total

d will ever be reached,

‘Women are most ee political
in character, as are peace groups and
some intemational aid groups. The
issue in government funding i is ‘how
much support is this going to cost us
if we don't pay them off?"

A perusal of the Secretary of
State’s list shows just how exten-
sively the federal government uses
the taxpayer’s purse to buy support.

5 the least icized area

given the powerful interests which
enjoy the process.

Still, even with complete good
faith, it ain’t cheap and you're not
only going to pay for the settlement
when it comes, but pay the lawyers’
bills on the way.

And don’t try and kid me that
this is not political. The common
theme of Indian land claims is

grants to ethnic i You
could (and still can) get grants for
just about anything - ethnic newspa-
pers, ethnic dance groups, immigrant
support groups - as long as English
‘wasn’t your first language.

As a strategy it seems to have
worked. It is pretty tough for anybody

to get elected to anything in Toronto ~
without

the ethnic vote and as goes

Toronto. goes Ontario. And as we all,’

know, what Ontario wants, it gets.
As far as political funding goes,
that isn’t the half of it though. The

federal government issues grants to.a

Jled ‘Ni

Perhaps
of g it funding to p
ions is to be
the accounts payable of the Depart.
ment of Indian Affairs.

All these land claims and so
forth are funded by the federal gov-
emment. When one reads that this
particular band, or that particular
Indian nation is aj

that judgement, or challenging

- not been funded by a whip-round

‘on the reserve. It is paid for by the

federal government.

: This is a.general practice. The’

small legion of
ions’ (NGOs)

has
been caught directly subsidizing a

Seay of whic wane coorey cal

trine pega which has char-

this or.,

some treaty or disposition, it is has -

ignty over large tracts of
land, a sort of self-imposed bantus-
tan; the recently rejected Gitskan
claim embraced about a third of
northern BC, in which the band
aspired to the powers of a provin-
cial government. Sovereignty is
about as political as you can get.

So, as far as political funding for
groups goes, we wrote the book in
Canada and we shouldn't be looking
down our long noses,at the South

. Africans. But Iwill say this for Mr
de Klerk, in choosing the Zulu peo- 3!
* ple to be the object of his benevo- '

lence, he picked the right People to
have on-side in his’situation, so he
wrote the book on political smarts.
“Mr Mutroney should read it.

i

Pia

Min

S109 Cromors Syracate. me,

Falling for the ant government hassle

John Diefenbaker used to say -
Flora MacDonald was the finest

‘ woman ever to walk the streets of

on.
‘The Old Chief, wasn't a Flora fan.
The feeling ‘was mutual,
But don't ty cracking bad jokes

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BER OF THE. STERN NEWS iS oFh

‘ohigh point on the trip to or from the.
ids,

Thousand Islan:

! The Basin is the biggest, and
best equipped on the St. Lawrence.
Believe mne,- after batting waves

two meters in height,
the safety. of its sheltered slips is a

tinction not to-be sneezed at when

times are, tough-and there is heavy .~. the:
competition fc

to this journalist-tarned-
"s defeat was at least

pared | to:Preston ‘Manning and the

‘ Reform Party. ;

The fiat of ispans diving’ poopie
here to Reform runs the gamut from

~tax load. ©
The. ‘Americans we mect—-and
(J Deen plenty—say they ,

the) ak me about high tes, T sy :

it's'the price we. pay for our kinder,
nation.

“It is‘not’an explanation |
Canadians

washes with how-

Mutro1

"Some boaters from Oakville

: ‘thought Iwas Burlington Conserva-

tive MP. Bill Kempling. Every!
in Burlington loves Bill, so I didn’t
‘bother to herbed estore

I ripped off my aingulie and
claimed to be a vacationing PELL
high school teacher, with only a

the.

"They fell for it, even

though any.”
thinking Person would have;won-

dered. why-anyone: from PBL.
ld come to Upper. Canada in
“August—the height of the he Island's

many
’ fever. The jplications fo for Brian - * glorious

Anyone interested? One ghost town for sale

British Columbia, Reuter.- A

. deserted Canadian town, inhabit-

i,ed by only bear, geese, deer and

» the occasional moose, was put up

for sale this week with a price tag

« of $340,000 ($395,000 Canadi-
-,an). r

Nestled in a scenic mountain

+. valley, the once booming mining

Coast guard

Canadian Coast Guard officials
‘Monday ordered a remote-control
- underwater vehicle to pump oil

: ‘from a sunken Japanese fish fac-
* tory ship while their U.S. coun-

~-terparts prepare to-corral oil
leaking from the vessel.
Up to 2,400 seabirds, dead and
‘alive, had been found since the
Tenyo Maru was rammed by a

town of Hendrix Lake has 20

the ghost town, about 350 miles
of Vo

houses, a t
ae two tennis courts, a: recre-
ation center and a boathouse on a
lake with rainbow trout. ,

“It’s cheap because there's, a
lot of work to be:dono. It’s a
handyman’s special,” real estate
agent Phil Roux said Friday of

Lt
pumps oil out
Chinese freighter July 22 about
25 miles northwest of this tribal

village on the edge of Washing- °
ton state's Olympic Peninsula,
officials estimate,

“The worst numbers show that
649 were alive and 1,560 were
killed,” said U.S. Coast Guard
spokeswoman Sandy Calhoun.

Last week, streaks of oil came

Hendsix Lake sprang to life in
the mid-1960s when Noranda Inc,
opened a nearby molybdenum :
mine. The town became home for
400 people and even had its own
postal code, :

But the open-pit mine closed

in 1983 due to a plunge in prices
for molybdenum, used as a hard-
ening agent for knives and other
steel items, Now Noranda Inc. is
looking to sell the town,

Hendrix Lake has ample water
and can be reached year-round by
& government-maintained gravel
road, “It truly is a recreational

of sunken Japanese ship

ashore'on about 40 miles of
wilderness beaches, mostly in the
Olympic National Park. By Mon-
day, Makah Tribe members and
other cleanup crews had complet-
ed ridding several beaches of oily
debris,

Oil continued to ooze to the
surface above the Tenyo Mam
Monday.

Officials estimated that up to
100,000 gallons of the 360,000

gallons of fuel the ship could
carry has polluted the ocean near
the coast.

Canadian Coast: ! Guard
spokesman Rod Nelson said an’
underwater remote operation
vehicle with two h

paradise,” Roux said from 100
Mile House, 56 miles away from
Hendrix Lake,

The town, named after a one-
eyed trapper, needs a new sewage
treatment plant. And that could
cost $172,000 dollars ($200,000
Canadian),

Roux said he has already
received one offer for. Hendrix
Lake and has shown it to nine
other prospective buyers,

“I think it'll be purchased by
someone who wants to tum it into
a recreation’ complex or a retire-

ment community,” he said.

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arms was being prepared for ship-
ment from Houston and was
expected to reach the sunken ship
Tenyo Maru Friday.

Funds raised for Cancer research

JIM ZEEBEN J

Sun staff

The turnout doubled this year
for the second-annual Dan
Markin/Mark Lightle Golf-Tour-
nament held at the Castlegar golf
course on August 4.

Almost 70 golfers came ‘out,
compared with around 30 the
year, before, and raised $700 for
the Canadian Cancer Society.

‘ The grand prize, 4 complete
salmon fishing vacation donated
by Bob and Colleen Lightle, went
to Brian Stevens.

Markin’s mother, Kay, said she
thought everything went over
well with the tournament, which
began as a memorial for Dan who
died of cancer two years ago,

“Everybody comes out to sup-
port it—especially because it’s to
do with cancer,” she said. “It
seems every body knows some-
one who’s been affected by that
disease.”

She said that her son was well .”'

' known in the’ community “and his *t

‘SUN STAFF PHOTO / Sharione Imhoft

'so this Is how it's done - Eight-year-old Castlegar
“Aquanaut Michelle Streich, (I), receives some friendly
,advise from competitor Ellen Shaw, age 9, from the
‘Colville Valley Swim Club. The two were both involved in

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name always draws a positive
response from people.

“It brings back a lot of memo-
ties,” she said about the tourna-
ment. “It makes me feel good to
know ‘he was liked so well.
Everybody knew him and every-
body loved him.”

The golfers played a five-man
scramble format and both the top
men’s team and the top women’s
team took home trophies.

Kirby bien Brian Pinter,

Bill Van Yzerloo, Perry Horning,
and Aaron Stouchnow—who also
organized the event—came in
first place and picked up the
men’s trophy named after Dan
Markin,

The Mark Lightle Memorial
trophy went to the top women’s
‘team consisting of Bobbie
Keraiff, Kim Tassone, Colleen
Lightle, Lil Knowler and Kay
Markin.

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4 Markin said she was ised
(at her team's high finish.

She said, while her son had a
passion for golf, she was relative-
ly inexperienced at the game.

“I could just see Dan laughing
with every swing I took.”

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Wed. 6:30 pm, Thurs. 9:00 am
+ West Kootenay Today - press conference announcing the
Proposed baseball training centre at Butler Park.

Wed. 7:00 pm, Thurs. 9:30 am
+ Banjo’s Reunion - part 2 - 1990 musical weekeng at Banjo's.
Wed. 8:30 pm, Thurs. 11:00 am
+ Gold Fever Follies - last years performance of Rossland’s follies
Sunday, August 11
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