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Terry Fox nam

By GRANT KERR
THE CANADIAN PRESS.

Terry Fox, the young
man who captured the im-
agination — and hearts — of
people from coast to coast,
has been named Canadian of
the Year.

The young amputee
from Port Coquitlam who
displayed true grit in his
Marathon of Hope run to
raise funds for cancer re-
search, was selected as the
top newsmaker of 1980 by
editors of Canadian Press
member newspapers, and
radio and television stations
served by CP's associated
company Broadcast News
Ltd.

Fox, 22, covered more
than 5,000 kilometres from
April 12, when he left St.
John’s, Nfld., to Sept. 1,
when his~one-legged run
ended near Thunder Bay,
Ont., with the discovery of
cancer in his lungs.

But the momentum of
interest that mounted as Fox
jogged . painfully halfway
across the country did; not
end with his run..Spurred-by
glowing editorials and adul-
atory media coverage, the
Canadian public picked up
the torch that Fox had
carried as far as he could.

Children in centres
across Canada huffed and
puffed aroung schoolyards in
mini-marathons to collect nic-
kels and dimes. Bars, res-
taurants and other busi-
nesses started collections.
Businessmen signed over fat
cheques, other Canadians
contributed what they could.

RECEIVED AWARDS

In September, Fox was
made a Companion of the
Order of Canada, the highest
civilian award, and later Pre-
mier Bill Bennett. gave him
the Order of the Dogwood,
B.C.'s highest honor.

Earlier this month, he
received the Toronto-Star's
Lou Marsh trophy for his
selection as athlete of the
year by a panel of sports
editors.

Fox is the first -non-
politician to win CP’s news-
maker award since 1965
when’ it went to Lucien
Rivard who gained notoriety

CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 24, 1980

for escaping from prison
while watering a skating rink
in above-freezing weather.
vIn the intervening years
the editors have selected
Pierre Trudeau nine times,
Rene Levesque twice and Joe
Clark, Lester Pearson and
John Diefenbaker once each.

Trudeau and Ambassa-
dor Ken Taylor, hero of Can-
adian efforts to help six
Americans escape from Iran,
tied for second in the 1980
yoting, trailing Fox by a wide
margin. Each received fewer
than one-tenth of the votes
which went to Fox.

When told he had been
chosen as Canadian of the,
Year Fox said: “It's just fan-
tastic to bé recognized that

way.

“There are 24 million
people in Canada and to think
that these people would ac-
tually vote me as man of the
year, 1 think is super.”

In_addiiton. to his
awards, Fox has been the
subject of a book and a
CBC-TV documentary to be
aired Dec. 31, Producer Rob-
ert Cooper also plans a movie
about Fox and another book,
The Terry Fox Story, by
Leslie Scrivener, a Toronto
Star reporter, will be pub-
lished in the spring.

.The slender young man,

- a basketball and track star in

high school, lost his right teg
above the knee in 1977 when
cancer was first detected.
When he saw the suffering of
others in the cancer ward,
Fox made up his mind to
raise money for cancer re-
search,

Inan Oct. 15, 1979, letter
to the B.C. and Yukon branch
of the Canadian Cancer So-
ciety, Fox told of plans to run
his Marathon of Hope across
Canada. He ended the letter
with

“We need your help. The
people in cancer clinics all
over the world need people
who believe in miracles. I'm
not a dreamer, and I'm not
saying that this will initiate
any kind of definitive answer
or. cure to cancer, but I
believe in miracles. I have
to.”

Less thai®’y

Fox had a nation believing in"

his personal miracle. He tried
to run a marathon a day,
covering 26 miles (about’43
kilometres) in three runs
each day.

Fox didn't complete his
run — he hopes to resume
training early in 1981 — and
has undergone five chemo-
therapy treatments since re-
turning home, He was so sick
for three weeks in November
that he didn't eat and lost 20
pounds»

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TERRY’ FOX’SsMarathon of

presented |
Society by?

proented i from a union

é At a news conference in
arly December, however,
Fox was bright and cheerful,
aving gained back seven of
the lost;pounds and capable
again of, driving his car alone
into, Vancouver,
jHe told The Canadian
Press that doctors gave hima
10-per-cent chance of living
when he returned home in
September and that he is
“facing the question that we
all (acy. bolstered by ‘a

ed Canadian of Year.

newfound faith in God.

“At first, I didn’t know if,
¥'d make it to Christmas,” he
said, “Now I'm at the point
where I can't wait to resume’
training and finish the mar-
athon.”

Fox set out from New-
foundland in April with the
hopes of raising $100,000 for
research, By. the’ time he
reached Toronto in July, the
donations were rolling in and
Fox “thought it would be nice

Hope got a further boost
fi drive is

if, somehow, each Canadian
could give just $1 to cancer
research,” ;

His goal now is, well

within sight as more than $20
million has been pledged,
much of it coming after the
actual Maratlon of Hope
ended. A national telethon on
the CTV network Sept. 7
showed that Canadians were
willing to hack their national
hero with not only their
hearts, but; their wallets.

e

i ss oa intel d sab
DeWayne Chiasson, left and Cary Schafthuizen vice-

@ to Mae Moroso of the local Cancer
int engineer, Celgar Lumber Division,

is the result of a

of the IWA plant committee. The $715 cheque

started by Chi:

id asking

for support th

gh on in-plant p iH

- Life his most precious gift :

By LESLIE SHEPHERD
VANCOUVER (CP) —
Terry Fox has received the
most precious Christmas gift
of all — the gift of life.
Four months ago, when
doctors discovered tumors in
+ both his lungs, they gave the
young runner only a one in 10
chance of living to celebrate
the holiday. .

"Sines THC fatenit SEPT,

miber “dey Fax hasyspent

Environmental problems
getting out of control

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Environmental problems
shared by Canada and the
U.S. are getting out of con-
trol, says an American pro-
fessor who is writing a book
on the subject.

John Carroll cites acid

rain, the Garrison diversion -

irrigation scheme and pos-
Sible flooding of B.C.'s Skagit
Valley for a U.S. power
project as examples.
And he says B.C. should
pay far more ion’ to

Carroll says there also is
a proposal to build a large
pulp and paper mill in north-
ern Idaho that could affect air
quality in B.C., and warned

there is scientific evidence to-

show acid rain retards forest
‘owth.
FEARS FOR FOREST
“I€ that turns out to be
so — and all the information
is not yet in — then B.C.'s
forests could be very vul-
nerable,” says Carroll, asso-
ciate fe of it

drafting regulations to con-
trol acid rain because it could
become a problem if B.C.
Hydro goes ahead with a plan
to build a coal-fired thermal
plant at Hat Creek near Ash-
croft in the central Interior.

mental conservation at the
University of New Hamp-
shire’s Institute of Natural
and Envir al Re-

worse for a number of rea-
sons. There are more and:
more of these issues, the
stakes are high, more and
more pgople are affected to a
greater degree, and the
issues are just not going
away.”

He fears intractable

many.long hours in hospital
and has been able to reflect
on the meaning of Christmas.
“People have to think
about the real meaning of
Christmas and not the fact
that it is just a time to get out
shopping,. get it over with,
hand out the gift and get
drunk the night before," Fox
said inan interview with The
ith Fe ni
Christmas, T heleve
that it was d to be

ing behind what they gave,
was the important thing. To-
day it has become so com-
mercialized.”

The 22-year-old Port Co-
quitlam, B.C., man who has

Religion

was The’

the time when Christ was

born and that’s why it's a

holiday and for no other

reason, 7

“A hundred years ago,

or whatever, when people
- Chri:

y is
to teach religion in schools
next fall.

Ted Aoki, chairman of
secondary education at the
faculty, says the plan in-
volves offering student

they

gave a gift and it didn't have
to require a lot of money. It
wasn't commercialized, it
wasn't a big drunk event, but
it had a lot of meaning for
a lot of people. an

THOUGHT COUNTS

“It meant that just the
fact that people were giving
something — could have been

probl lead to anti-A
_canism and anti-Canadian-

ism,
“With this much bitter-
ness and cynicism, things are
getting: out of control and
something must be done.”

Carroll ts on’ sabbatical *

leave to write a book for the
Mi I-based C.D,’ Howe

+ sources.

“In the area of bilateral
problems, things are getting

Musicians revive

art of improvisation

BANFF, ALTA. (CP) —
Twenty-five classically
trained musicians from Can-
ada and the United States
have been in this Rocky
Mountain resort for three
weeks to regenerate the lost
art of improvisation.

Improvisation lies at the

Institute on Canada-U.S. en-
vironmental relations.

He says most attempts
so far to deal with Canada-
U.S. environmental problems
have been only “putting-out-
a-brush-fire-type of ap-
“proach.”

NEED PLANNING
There has been little

long-term planning to work |
out i

to deep-seated

ina

and the Interna-

that allows-improvisation to
be analysed .and discussed
without reference to parti-
cular musical genres or play-
ing styles.

The program is one of
three pilot . projects for
trained artists and profes-

heart ‘of jazz and, although

sional i

rarely identified with the
performance of classical
music, improvisation was
vital to the concert musician
of three or four generations
ago.

The restoration of the

by the Banff Centre this
winter.

Artistic director of the
program is Karl Hans Ber-
ger, a 45-year-old jazz per-
former and composer who
studied classical music in

impr
to its rightful place in the
performance of classical and
other forms of written music
was one of the aims of the
improvisational composition
program. x
The musicians may not
be able to tell the students
what happens in an improvi-
ser's mind when he selects
the notes he wants to play or
-the speed at which he wants
to play them.
ABLE TO COMMUNICATE.
But they are able to

idelberg and trained in
musicology and philosophy at
the University of Berlin.
Since 1971, Berger has
been artistic director of the
Creative Music Foundation in
Woodstock, N.Y. The Banff
project was based on the
Woodstock experiment,
which grew from a desire to
provide opportunities for
performers and listeners to
study, create and enjoy mu-
sic without interference from
commercial or academic in-
tereste,

Tonnes arte

tional Joint Commission
hasn't been used as much as
it should be.

Carroll notes president-
elect Ronald Reagan prom-
ised during the early stage of

the election campaign that he -

wanted to improve collabor-
ation with Canada in several
areas, including trade.

“Mr. Reagan's press sec-
retary said recently that Mr.
Reagan stands by this posi-
tion and will take the initi-
ative to approach Canada
early in his regime.

“It remains to bé seen if
he does do this, but a Can-
adian prime minister would
be well advised to remind
Mr. Reagan that Canada has
several long-standing irri-
tants to settle with the U.S.

Carroll says these. in-
elude disputes over fishing
areas, acid rain originating in
the U.S. polluting Ontario
waterways, and the Garrison
diversion project in North
Dakota that could pollute:
Manitoba waters.

it could have been
a simple gift, it didn’t matter
what it was — the fact that
they were giving, the mean-

hers a minor in teaching
religion in secondary schools.

Aoki says the faculty's
study committee wants to
avoid any hint of religious
partisanship and the pro-
grams will not emphasize a
particular religion.

“There are different dp-
proaches to the religious ex-
perience,” he said. “Our
intention is to prepare stu-
dents who the

given so much hope and -

inspiration to all Canadians,
says what he enjoys most
about Christmas is the giv-
ing.

“I've always enjoyed
Christmas. It’s.been a great
. time of year for me, time to
relax, time to enjoy, and I
enjoy receiving a gift.

“But I also enjoy watch-

ing the person who I give a”

gift to and seeing what they
think of what I got them,
because it means a lot to me.
I hope that what I've given
them means something to
them.”

- Fox said many of his
attitudes and his outlook on
life have changed since can-

d

COQUITLAM (CP) —.
The blinking blue and red
lights trailing a Christmas
tree along the highway
weren't part of the flashing
string of lights decorating
the tree.

* They were spinning on
top of an RCMP cruiser
chasing Roger _Glenister
and Brian McLeod for hav-
ing a Christmas tree with
flashing ‘lights and tinsel
secured to the top of their
truck. ;

“It's against the law to
have unauthorized flashing
lights on a vehicle," was
the official RCMP explan-
ation, F

For the last 12 years,
MacGregor Electiic Ltd. of

Surrey, B.C., their em-
ployer, has decorated each
of its four trucks with
Christmas trees, flashing
tree lights and tinsel.

“If you could see the
kids smiling, shouting and
pointing to’ the trucks
when you drive by a school
yard — it makes you feel
really good,” driver-electri’
-cian McLeod, 28, ‘said.
“Even adults think it's
great.”

But a couple of days
ago while on Highway 1 in
this municipality about 30
kilometres east of Van-
couver, McLeod's . truck
was stopped by the RCMP.

‘Fellow worker Glen-
.ister, also 28, was driving. .

Cops chase tree
‘on top of truck .

‘ger sea

. flashing lights .confused

McLeod was in the passen-

te .
“The police officer told -
us the tree had to come
down — the lights were
illegal,” McLeod said.

To emphasize. the in-
fraction, Glenister got’ a
ticket charging him with
unauthorized use of lamps
on the vehicle. The fine is
$25. e

An RCMP spokesman
said Tuesday it's the flash-
ing lights that are illegal,
“not necessarily the tree."

“The act (Motor Ve-
hicle) clearly states that no
unauthorized lights, espec-
ially flashing ones, are dl-
lowed on the cab of a ve-
hicle,” the spokesman said.
“Any type of unauthorized

other traffic and that's how
accidents ‘happen.”

“We'll fight it in courts
and hope for a sympathetic
judge,” McLeod said.

MeLeod’s boss, Har-
vey MacGregor, ‘said “We
just do this for a.couple of
weeks a year and the
people love it. It's become
a trademark for our com-
pany.One year we didn't do
it and everybody asked
where the tree was, so up
it went again.” -

He said the lights will

stay. : y q

“To hell with ity We'll
keep on running with the
tree and lights until Ghrist--
mas.” 1q

7
od

Negotiators ponder
their next. moves

Negotiators for Castle-
gar, Grand Forks and Nelson
‘school boards will ask the
government for a mediator
after almost unanimous re-
jection of their contract offer
by non-teaching staff.

id Haggan, negotiator
for the staff, members of the
Canadian Union of : Public
Employees (CUPE) Local
1298, said the union has not
“will ask for 'a mediate’ }

-“I prefer that the two
parties be able to do their
own thing.”

But, Haggan said, he
would be polling union
7 before decidi

decided yet whether they too__

‘increase Jan. 1,

1981, and $1.20 Jan. 1, 1982,
in a two-year contract.

The two-year contract
which Trail ratified Saturday
gave them a $1.35 an hour
1981, 20
cents an hour July 1 and
$1.20 Jan. 1, 1982.

Also, a two-year con-
tract in the East Kootenay
gave staff an increase of
$1.40 an hour at the be-

Current pay scales for
non-teaching staff in Castle-
gar, Grand Forks and Nelson
range. from $5.89 an hour for
secretaries to $10.02 for

The union took the con-
tract proposal, the third since
negotiations began Dec. 1, to

cer fe ‘ion of his
right leg above the knee 3'/z
years ago. s

If he hadn't had cancer
and hadn't read the Bible,
Fox said he would have been
a “totally different person”
running across Canada on his
Marathon of Hope to raise
money for cancer research.

HAS NEW CONCERNS"
Fox has also developed a

content of what they are
teaching.”

Thirty kids‘make

plenty of work .

CREMONA, ALTA.
(CP) — If you think you're
busy with Christmas prepar-
ations for your average 2.4
children, spare a thought for
a couple with 30 children,

Roy and Jean Luyendyk
will hang 30 stockings over
the fireplace, place more than

The couple began years.
ago as foster parents for the
Alberta Department of child
welfare. After disagreements
over regulations, they parted
company.

For the last six years the
huge family has managed
without government money

60 gifts under the Chri
tree — each child gets two
Bifts — and-cook two huge
turkeys. Attendance for the
“big meal” usually swells to
nearly 50.

It all makes for a tiring
day but the Luyendyks are
aceustomed to the feeling.

* They operate the: Crem-
ona Valleyview Children's
Home near Cremona, about
50 kilometres north of Cal-

gary.

The operation is based
on the belief that God has
called them to look after
. children who need a home.
No matter how hard it is,
they must keep doing the
work as long as there are
children who need them.

The Luyendyks now
have 16 adopted children,
five of their own, and six
more are expected this week
from Haiti. Others are in-
formally attached to the fam-
ily —children the Luyendyks
were asked to look after by
_ families who cannot.

or “g
either,” says Mr. Luyendyk.

But to take care of the
children who still came their
way, they had to adopt. They
could no longer be foster
parents. ,

- The number makes for
tremendous work for ‘the
pair, economically as well as
physically.

Although the home is
financed by donations from
churches, individuals, and
various foundations, and
most of the clothes are
donated, groceries still have
to be bought.

‘The monthly food bill
runs to about $1,200, even
after using wholesale outlets.
And that’s not including most
of their meats, milk and
vegetables, which they pro-
vide themselves through the
farm. aa

The original two-bed-
room farmhouse has been re-
novated many times and now
has 22 bedrooms, six bath-
rooms, an enormous dining
room and even classrooms.

new and concern
* for world events.

“Where I didn't before, I
really care about what's
going on in the world, what's
going on in-Canada, the con-
stitution. I care a lot about
what's going on in other
countries and what's hap-
pening in the world.

“Life means a lot to me.
What's going on in the world
means a lot to me and what is
happening to other people
means a lot to me. I believe
that if everybody put out an
ali out effort, we'd have a
different world.

“You may call me a
dreamer, but they've called
me that before.”

People first called Fox a
dreamer when he said he
could raise $1 million for can-
cer research on the Marathon
of Hope.-

“That's what my original
dream was, but once I got
into. Ontario was when I
started to dream that we
could raise $1 a person. I
really knew that I was hitting

* people. a ‘
. “Even after about my
fourth day in Newfoundland,

I knew that there was some- -

thing about what I was doing,
people seeing me run, with
one leg. The whole story was
really emotional and hit peo-
ple. When people heard it
and saw me they were giving
a lot af money.
“When I said in Toronto
at the big reception we had
. there at city hall, that we
could raise $23 million or $24
million, if every Canadian
gave a dollar, I think a lot of
people might have thought
that was.unrealistic, but my-
self, I knew that it could be
done." .

the emp! at the request
of board negotiators but rec-
ommended rejection.

Employees rejected it
43-1 in Castlegar, 29-1 in
Grand Forks and 72-0 in
Nelson in meetings held Sat-
urday.

Haggan said wages, va-
cation pay and a change in
the grievance procedure
were major factors.

The offer called for a
$1.36 an hour increase Jan. 1,

The contract would have
prorated vacation pay on the
basis of the 10 months
worked although they form-
erly received full vacation
pay.

+ The grievance procedure
would have been changed to
impose time limits.

Both ‘parties say they

hope to get back to the table _

in early January.
Contract negotiations in
1978 led to a six-week West

Kootenay strike-lockout,
which ended with a govern- .

ment back-to-work order.

Season's

VICTORIA
Year-end message from
Lt.-Gov. Henry Bell-Irv-
ing:

These are troublous
times as we approach the
end of 1980.

And our current Can-
adian problems would
seem trivial indeed to
much of the world, part-
icularly to those poor un-
fortunate earthquake vic-
tims in southern Italy.

As the representative
in British Columbia of the

(cP) —-

greetings

proud of our fellow coun-
trymen and our country so
that Canada may take its
- rightful arid useful place in
the community of nations
to the benefit of all.

My wife joins me in
wishing a Happy Christ-
mas and. good fortune
throughout the coming

+ year .for all our fellow
British Columbians — with
special thanks to the many
who have been so kind to
us in our travels during
1980.

Queen of Canada, howe
my first concern is for
Canada. I pray that we
Canadians, throughout our
vast country may learn to
appreciate and respect

Union, board °
take breather

each other — learn to be

Chri has given

We're staying home

TORONTO (CP) — More
Canadians are travelling
within Canada rather than
abroad this holiday season,
the major airlines say.

Air Canada flights to
Florida and the Caribbean
are less heavily booked than
they were last year while
demand for seats on flights
within Canada remains

negotiators for Selkirk Col--

lege and non-teaching em-
ployees a chance to ponder
where they are going in
contract negotiations,

The two parties are
working to get a contract to
replace ‘the 30-month con-
tract which expires Dec. 31.

Talks stopped after the
union rejected an adminis-
tration wage package Friday.

They are expected to
resume with the arrival of a

strong, an airline
said.

. The spokesman sug-
gested the. weak Canadian
dollar and the sagging econ-
omy are behind the swing to
domestic’ travel.

Pp + Phil
* Phillips, Dee. 29-30.
Meanwhile, the union

has scheduled a committee

meeting this weekend to go,

over their presentation to the
mediator. =

/Erma E
¢ Bombeck

Newlyweds are so naive.
ilk: They ideal wlth il'the Jrivial siulf at the altar —
langing in there through the big money, poverty,
sickness, health and death. . ne id
What they should be dealing with is the stuff of
which marriages either make It or fall. Whose house do
we go to for Christmas dinner? Your parents’ or mine?
We were lucky. My parents were very understan-
ding. They said, “We don't care whose house you go to
for Christmas dinner. We love you and we just want you
fobe happy. If it isn't our house, we'll be dead by New
s. ig

My husband's parents were equally understan-
ding. They said, “If you aren't here for Christmas, it's
Perfectly all right. We'll just assume you hated the end
fables and the lamps we bought you for a wedding
Present and you never want to see us again.”

When | was married, | weighed 113 pounds. On my
first wedding anniversary, | checked in at 132,

- What's the matter with you?” asked my husband.
| didn’ ‘t know you were an inflatable.”

; "Don't be cute,” | said. “You'd put on weight too if
you were eating for four.”

“Four.” he gasped.

"That's right. Your parents and mine.”

! Most people don't realize it but this little bit of
married-lite drama was the basis for most of our TV
game shows.

The idea for the game of “Concentration” was
originated by a couple in Waterloo, lowa, who decided
to go to his mother's for Christmas. That meant her
mother got to select three holidays from her "win"
column. She chose Thanksgiving, Easter and Mother's

ay.

“Jeopardy” was a spinoff of a game played by a
couple in Austin, Tex. The wife was given three secon-
ds to name which in-law she was to spend Valentine's
Day with, guessed wrong, and was cut out of the will.

The first couple to ask, "Guess who's NOT coming
to dinner?” was the basis for “Face the Music.” And the
first couple to say they were sick of playing musical-in-
laws and! preferred to stay at home for the holidays
gave birth to "To Tell the Truth.”

The problem is still making game-show history.
Last week; I heard of a daughter who called her mother
to see what time she wanted her husband and their
seven children to arrive for Christmas. Har mother said
she thought “his” mother was stuck with them this
year.

And that's how “Family Feud" was born.

Santa Claus doesn’t
live at North Pole

By EATON HOWITT

TORONTO (CP) — Un-
likely as it sounds, Santa
Claus doesn't live at tho
North Pole. He dwells in-
stead in the warm, sunny
British Virgin Islands' where
the pure white sand looks
just like snow. U

A telephone call'to the
home of retired reserve
Brig.-Gen. J.W. Draper
brings a booming “Ho, Ho,
Ho, Santa Claus is out sailing
right now and I'm just mind-
ing his shop.”

Draper, 69, became
Santa seven years ago when
he retired as an engineer
with the Ontario Workmen's
Compensation Board and
moved to the islands 160
kilometres east of Puerto
Rico,

He decided to grow a
beard and it came in snow
white so he's known as Santa
all year long.

How does he explain to
kids that Santa can be seen
each day out in his sail boat?

“No problem, I tell the
children I have to work 48
hours a year because of the
time zones that I have to
cross when I deliver toys and
then come here for 368 days
holidays and that this year
Tm lucky for it’s leap year
and I get 364,” he explains by
telephone.

PREFERS SAND TO SNOW

Draper concedes he's
grown to prefer the white
sand to the white snow. Told
it was below zero with snow
falling in Toronto, he replied:

To some, Christmas
is just another day

ginning, 20 cents after half a, |.
year and $1.25 after a year.

VANCOUVER (CP) —
For many of 20,000 single
mothers in B.C. struggling to
raise small children on wel-
fare, Christmas is no difi
ent from atiy’ other day.

For ‘them, ‘the’ major
concern isn’t just an empty
stocking — it’s empty cup-
boards and wallets.

Christmas might bring
temporary respite in the
form of gecdwill parcels and
toys from well-meaning citi-
zens but some mothers, with
children too small to know,
let the holiday slip by.

“T haven't even had time
to think about Christmas,”
says Heather Strachen, co-
ordinator of Single Mothers
United For Change, a church-
sponsored volunteer group to
help single mothers cope
with financial and social
problems. -

“We have to help each
other,” Strachan says. “We
can't rely on-social workers
and other government offi-
cials.”
Strachan began collect-
ing welfare a year-and-a-half
ago when her husband
walked out, She wanted to
stay .home with her two
young daughters, so she
needed welfare.

PUT CHILDREN FIRST

“I feel I am putting my
children first," she said.
“They only have me and I
intend to be here when they
need me.

“I hate being on welfare,
but I've learned to manage.
T've also learned how devas-
tating it is to be put into this
position.”

Strachan receives $647 a
month on welfare and pays
$350 for rent and utilities.

“Single mothers on wel-
fare have to put up with

al

The house has no refrig-
erator, a stove with only one
burner and a bedbug infes-
tation.

Wh

ers’ ‘group ‘steppe :
house had gone unheated for

two years and the mother
and her daughter. had no
warm clothing.

Strachan said . another
single mother is trying to
finish a course in hairstyling

so she can get a job and get
off welfare. She found she
couldn't afford the child care
cost, pay her rent and util-
ities and have enough left for

“Oh, I know just how
you feel. I can look out my
front window and between
me and the ocean there are
drifts of white... snow. The
temperature is different
though. It’s 85 Fahrenheit (30
C.)."

And, tike Santa, he's
busy these days, even though
he won't start his delivering
for a few days. He does a
Santa Claus radio show and
has made more than 20 ap-
pearances at children's par-

ies,

Born and raised in Tor-
onto where he went to the
University of Toronto,
Draper served in the Second
World War and when’ the
forces were unified became
the first brigadier-general for
the Air Force reserve. When,
he retired, he was succeeded
by author Richard Rohmer.

But he's fallen in love
with the British Virgin Is-
lands. When it was found
several years ago that the
country needed an ambu-

lance, he, Rohmer and St.
John's Ambulance arranged
for one to be flown down by a’
Canadian Forces plane. It
was presented to the people
by Queen Elizabeth,

CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 24, 1980

Non believer
is fined $50

TORONTO (CP) — A
Toronto man who shouted
“There is no Santa Claus" at
the city’s annual Santa Claus
parade last month was fined

Two pilots receive

bravery

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Two helicopter pilots who
risked their lives to save
seven men clinging to a
falling. transmission tower
have -been given -bravery
awards. by the Workers’
Compensation Board.

Dev Anderson of Ter.’

race and his co-pilot, Walter
Ramsay of Surrey, were ina
helicopter being used to place
towers on a transmission line
construction site Aug. 7 at
Thrums,

One tower was being

Rit, epee eeesic,

awards

manoeuvred into place when
a guyline failed and the
26-metre tower lurched side-

ways. Seven workers were .

on the tower at the time and
were left clinging to the
.girders.

Anderson held the heli-
‘copter steady and kept the
tower from falling further
while the crew scrambled to
the ground and safety. Both
he and Ramsay were in great
danger because of the risk
that the helicopter would be
dragged by the weight of the
tower and would crash.

$60 in provincial court Mon-

ay.

Richard Dildy, 40, was
charged with causing a dis-
turbance after he joined the
parade carrying a sign read-
ing in part: “Down with
Santa.”

After hearing Dildy had
been charged on two counts
arising from the 1979 parade,
Judge D.G. Scott said:
“We've got to get you off the
streets at Santa Claus time.”

Dildy was given 45 days
to pay the fine after Crown
Attorney Peter Griffiths said
he had no objection to the
length of time given to pay.

“There is a Santa Claus
and his name is Mr. Grif-
fiths,” the judge said.

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adequate food and clothing. .

RECEIVED GRANT ..

“It was ‘only by threat- :

ening to give up the course
that she was able to obtain a
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of human resources,” Strach-
an said.

DOGS RUNNING
BIG GAME

Owners of dogs take notice that from
somary, 1, 1981, to April 30, 1981, in the

area o

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The foll

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SCHOOL OF WRITING

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READINGS

di

gative public i}
even worse, government at-
titudes,” she says.

‘ “Once you go on welfare,
they own your souls. They
have full access to your home
and even have the power to
take your children away from

#

She says welfare pro-
vides a minimal amount to
live on at the best of times,
and the rising rents and low
vacancy rates are making it
an impossible situation.

She says in the Van-
couver area, most welfare
mothers live in Burnaby and
New Westminster, because
of lower rents and access to
bus transportation.

One woman and her
14-year-old daughter are liv-
ing in an_old dilapidated
home in Burnaby and had to
get a crisis grant from the
human resources ministry to
buy fuel to heat the house.

Writers Series:

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Thursday mornings, “How to Tell Your Story,” for

writers over 50.

Monday nights, general

Creative Writing, with U.T. credit if you want it.
Tuesday afternoons, Advanced Forms and
Techniques in Poetry (University of Victoria).
Friday mornings, a lecture series on writing with
guests from the School, the Canadian Writers
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afternoons, Writing for Teachers,

with U.T.

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