NESDAY, July 24, 199 presse seen esseeenne a FIVETEILI ey He EE ES, > . , 4 : , ry O00) wer reer cescereeneerssereses: 00 Chaney per SE oocine haa sont rs ¢. et BA? wy The Castidgar Sun ATS PUBLISHER JON JARRETT SHARLENE IMHOFF EDITOR JOHN SNELGROVE PRODUCTION MANAGER DONNA JORY ADVERTISING REP. CATHERINE ROSS ADVERTISING REP. DENISE GOLDSTONE JON JARRETT CIRCULATION MANAGER JIM ZEEBEN REPORTER BRENDAN HALPER MARION REPORTER ADVERTISING MANAGER: CHRISTIE M“KAY PRODUCTION/OFFICE is that a sen Ron Jeffels Syndicated Columnist Fear not. I bring you hope. Mecch — and all those other sons of Meeches — may be dead, dead as PRODUCTIONREPOATER Direct Department Phones }65- General Office ......+ssveeee Cc Classifi Ads Display Advertising Fax . editorial comment Vandalism leaves lasting impression “What a shame.". ~ That was the reaction from some S: Tut in his tomb, but I detect a new unity in this nation: a unity based upon. .. ket’s sec. .. call it... call it the camaraderie of shared adversity, Adversity can bring tears to the collective eye.of a nation. Alas, ours have all been shed. So, every- where in Canada these days the mood is for the camaraderie only sorrow shared can bring. But.ours is sorrow concealed in laughter: rolling, gusting, cynical, riotous, Homeric laughter that echoes and:; re-echoes from Point No Point; B.C. to Owl’s Head, N.S. I laugh lest I cry, says the philosopher. So Canadians have become a compulsory audience at tv 4 i oT residents after they toured through Zuckerberg Island last weekend. . Don't be misled, they loved the Island. It's winding paths, scenic picnic spots, and the unusual variety of trees. They even thought the sus- pension bridge leading to the park was a "real hoot”. The only disappointing feature in the-park was the vandalism which had occurred the night before. That's right folks! Castlegar is in the middle of tourist season and some buckethead had enough gaul to hold a candle lighting ceremony one night and left without so much as cleaning up. Naturally the tourists inquired to a particular young man who was busy scraping coloured wax off various slabs of rocks surrounding the Island's chapel, “Someone was out here last night and left this mess. Now it's up to me to get it cleaned up,” he said as he scraped away at the wax, using both a screw driver and his own finger nails. “Why would any one do such a thing?" asked one visitor. Good question. Maybe the person who did this would like to come forward and tell, everyone why he or she found it necessary to leave not only a mess but a bad impres- “sion on a group’ of people who otherwise believe Castlegar is a pretty nice place to visit. Maybe the City will need to take action to ensure these little incidents of vandalism are stopped before they get out of hand. ‘What a shame. 2) Who declared England to be Keepers? 20! : 5) What CIA stand for? Balaclava, 1854. eter Eset Little knowledge 1) What. was the occasion of Joseph Bosquet’s ‘remark, “It is magnificent, but it is not war."? 3), What are the two prevalent religions of Japan? 4) Who'was the German statesman credited with uniting the’German states in the middle of the last cen- 1) The Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of a nation of shop- ia dell’arte, 5 Admission is free. It’s a papere house, as we say in show biz, Gov- ernment provides the cast, the set and the script: a new one, each day, every day in three ‘hilarious acts, And with a prologue, already! Stand-up stuff, straight out of vaudeville: you know the kind of thing I mean, “I never forget a:face, but in your case I'll be glad to make ‘an exception.” Or “Mr, Bones, you have a hole in the head but that doesn’t mean you have'an open mind,” Or “Look, pal, why don’t you take. your mouth to a muffler shop!” Or “Tell me, Mr. Interlocu- tor, how many politicians ‘does it take to change a light bulb?” We'll come back to that one. No use blowing all the good ones at the top of the show, We need a socko end- ing. Comedy is all in the pause, all in the timing. : But Groucho Marx and:Henny wrote. 'subordi! Thursday on one of B.C,'s better golf courses? ; Act of social rehabilitation and therapeutic intervention, y'know, with Dior shirts and Arnold Palmer clubs supplied, fees paid, beer and nibblies on the ninth.,’. Nay! Wouldn't work! Too far removed from reality. ‘Too zany even for Groucho., Henny’ would have tumed it down, too. ‘ And John Cleese — the long- limbed, half-crazed host of Fawlty Towers ... and who does that remind me of life on the Hill? — would reject this plot out of hand. There's this guy, see. Name of Mashat. Just call him Al. A real joker! He's part of a scam to.con the cops. Gives himself up. Does’ he go to the slammer? Does he hell! Gets a posting to the vice squad with the honorary rank of inspector. Great script! Always leave ‘em laughing! George Burns — cigar in one hand, ici in the other — scripts by comparison with the sce- narios that come out.of Ottawa these days. Which of them, at the + summit of his career, could have y P on and holidays) by: slap- stick comedians, stand-up comics, straight guys, top bananas, farceurs and other stock characters from the d a plot in which a rapist doing life in the slammer,.a con- victed murderer, a con artist and a salutes old age, senility, physical se of unity I detect? | hour to do rudimentary farce and slapstick. Sure, one of them plays the harmonica, but even Equity scale would settle for a tenth of that. ‘And who docs better stage sets than Ottawa? National conferences dealing with the plight of the poor ‘and the hungry are always, always set in luxury hotels., Part of an essential decor, y'know. And that minister frets and natters, carps and ‘complains about the iniquities of cross-border shopping, then builds a “fast line at Blaine to speed the pro- cess, Nice use of irony and bathos. : He must have read Aristophanes. To add Spicer to the national comedy, the directors spend 25 mil- lion plus on sets, costumes, design and the cast. The Cecil B’s in Ottawa: worry about that 400 bil- lion dollar over-run and call for cuts in'the players — by adding to the civil service. But finally, that light bulb and the number of politicians required to change it. Sorry! Can't be done without a Royal Commission, bling legi ion decay and failing p The world loves his act. Not-even Benny was better. But Bums would never get-away with a script in which a massive cast of oldsters — dressed in motely with walk-on parts ~ each gets paid 480 bucks an through the House and the Senate. So'‘just keep rocking in the dark, O Canada! : RR. Jeffels is a Richmond free- lance writer and former principal of The Open Learning Institute, By Don Addis Vos Slings and arrows African notes: It is with no surprise yet with some disgust that I note the smug self-congratu- lation now evident among those who are pro- claiming the effectiveness of sanctions.in effecting changes in the Republic of South Africa. Sanctions were i success, they say. Rubbish. What made the difference was the election of President de Klerk to the office of State. Presi- dent. His predecessor. PW Botha, for all that he planted the seeds of many of the reforms which are now coming to flower, would have laggard the wagons and gonc into siege with a smile cn his face, enthusiastically followed by the right wing minority. The fact that de Klerk could have been elected at all is a tribute to the declining power of the right wing and to a moral revival in Afrikanerdom generally. It was not a coinci-_ dence that the Dutch Reformed Church, the ‘Afcik e Sg tactics 1989, the year that he was elected... One must appreciate that the liberal mentality requires this ‘victory’ for the sake of its own self esteem. In particular, -it needs it to, deflect from the fact that the cost of sanctions‘was bome by the very people who the liberals were supposed- ly trying to help, the black peoples of: South, Africa. It was them, not the whites, who lost their jobs as foreign id asin in” vit was them who had'to-put up with township strife, - hunger, disorder and violence. Sanctions was a policy of starving the blacks until the whites gave up. .,. We applaud Great Britain for honoring it but : lightly, the US for ending.it and we wonder exactly what the South )Africans wili have to do before the impregnably righteous federal gov- emment of Canada will deign to resume normal Nigel Hannaford Syndicated i Columnist SUNTAN LOTION el Established Novenber 28, 199077" ' ‘Second Clasr Mailing Pormit Pending “, Published by Tho C: ‘on Weds jay jar Suns, : Weokly ys i, 465 Columbia Ave., Castlegar, B.C. VIN 1GB Damage by media can be irreparable It didn’t take the gang at the Mayflower Pub long to decide. Those accused of corruption by Glen Kealey were obviously guilty. “If they weren't, why were they charged? “kitchen cabinet.” If they're found guilty, he would have little choice but to resign. But then, what about the pre- sumption of innocence? Surely we should withhold , until the OPP investi- Even the well-known lawyers at ; the bar were nodding their heads in agreement. “I’ve known Lynn Coulter (the Justice of the Peace who authorized the charges) for 25 ” | her to act. ek Maybe. If the. allegations are oven, the. damage:to the prime minister.and his: government .will | be irreparable.’Some of the accused members of Brian‘ rian Ironey’s gates and the case, if there tums out to be one, is decided at trial? Maybe we can’t expect the gen- eral public to withhold judgement. They hate Mulroney and his gov-. emment so much they can’t ‘hear: enough. bad about him and his’ ,- loss, friends: But we have a right to expect more from the media, Kealey and his lawyer, Richard Bosada, appear to have little con- cem for.these issues. That's surpris- ing because Bosada was the victim of erie media should be. A few. years ago in’ British ' Columbia, a disgruntled junior lawyer used the CBC to unfairly smear his boss, Attorney, General Richard Vogel... ° . . : Vogel denied the allegations, sued the CBC and won. The. inci- dent cost the Canadian taxpayer plenty—we paid for the CBC's +*Court’s judgement in the: Vogel case, It lays out in embarrassing detail how the CBC was used and the tights of innocent people abused by a journalist in pursuit of a hot—and as it turned out totally fabricated— SOT. oereez devise i The judge found the CBC jour- nalist assumed that everyone in a lawyers and Vogel’s but NO amount of money could ‘suffi-_, “elently compensate. him for'his Standing with the journalists outside the Ottawa courthouse ‘Wednesday after the charges were laid, you could. sense the excite- ment they felt. : called fiduciary capacity was corrupt. The reporter wanted to score big, and failed'to ask “why am I being told personal axe to grind?” PR The. Vogel case provides sober- ing evidence of how innocent peo- ple.can, have ‘their reputations the media allows _ this?‘ Could my informant have a It's a lesson we should anind: ‘atch ‘Keal UPAR yeremMenapatrie ng reyes ricrwa winger ies « Wednesday, July 24,:1994 The Castlegar Sun é Selkirk College ; Approval from the Open Universi- ty of its ‘plans to offer:a bache- prs degree in business beginning , this Septemt ‘ed by provi “First we need to know, the _ level of interest in this degree meeting the prerequisites for in dies leadi 7 ig to Gerry Ehman, coordinator of Y Sclkirk College’s Open Centre, (3 2 .This means area residents , will bo able to.carn a recognized + Bachelor's degree in Admini zg: tive Studies without leaving the Selkirk College region,” said hman. ; toa that might be’ out’ there in the college region,” Mclvor said. ‘Then we need some idea of. College to offer degree Pp 1 tele director, the college will be offer- '; , Open University degree is accept- as ‘ing a 12-week Welder-Fitter * course and a nine-month Electri- cal Entry program to prepare stu- dents to enter the’ skilled Masters in i A tlome ou. Selkirk College is now ready to follow through on:establishing a third-year curriculum and is secking an indication of interest cach indi circum- stances so we can adequately plan to meet the needs of both tradi- tional and non-traditional stu- dents." He defined non-traditional as those who couldn't on the part of those individuals who would be interested in pursu- ing their degree locally... ; pean a2} A joint b the Open University and Selkirk ; College allows -stud to are not limited to attend regular daytime classes for whatever reason. To further enhance opportuni- ties for obtaining a degree in of a two-y acquire three full years of credit toward the degree by taking Selkirk College courses, The final 1, year of course work will be avail- ~} able locally using Open Universi- a ty curriculum in an “enhanced ny delivery” mode. *, Ehman teinca wah 4 in at ; \ Anyone interested in pursuing a degree in business can begin the program. For those without a great deal of formal post-sec- ondary business education, Selkirk College will be offering three introductory courses, two in 1 delivery employs a number of o different hi hod: ing. by home- study, and an the college plans to offer a portfolio course during the winter semester. This course provides a method for individual to formalize credits for prior training and life experience. This portfolio course is a service of the Open Learning Agency's Credit Bank. Full details about the Degree in Administration should be finalized by August 1. oe . course, b in “Course delivery can be by tele- b ing, weekly i b and even direct classroom lec- ot tures, depending upon the number ._ of students enroled in a course.” The whole idea of making this _ degree available by this means is « €0 allow those already established in business an opportunity to fur- -, ther their professional careers September. ’. A wide range of other courses in the program are available through the regular Open learning . University calendar. “Of course, graduates of a rec- ognized post-secondary business program will be'able to begin their degree studies at the third- year level,” said George Mclvor, - head of the Business Administra- \, through the acquisition of a fully ble and BnarECP P y tion program at Selkirk College. To learn more about obtaining a Bachelor of Administration degree through Selkirk College, contact Gerry Ehman through the Open Learning Centre at 365- 5408 or 365-7292 ext. 402 or George Mclvor at 365-7292 or 367-6132... Selkirk College has also or upgrade their trade qualifications, “With the Celgar mill expan- sion underway, a heavy d d The Electrical Entry p Page 7A ‘ogram is slated to begin Oct. 1 and runs until June 26 at the Nelson Cam- pus, This nine-month program is designed to provide uv potential apprentice with the skills and knowledge to work sately, recog- nize and use correct tools and fro skilled tradespeople is fore- cast for the next several years,” said G i ly ip job assign- ments. ip progr ‘ ‘The electrical Entry program is by the Apprenticesh Branch and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Work- . crs, j All seats in these two p grams are sponsored by Cans Manpower. Those interested these trades entry or tra “It is simply not 5 CIs, training opportunities now will allow men and women to com- plete their trades qualifications during this period of high indus- trial activity.” The welder-Fitter program is slated to begin Sept. 16 at the Nelson Campus and runs until Dec. 6, Candidates ‘must possess a “C””, “B" or “A"-level weldin; ticket to be considered for admis- sion to the program. Those with Grade 12 are preferred. Ss The welder-Fitter program is designed to provide the H welder with the skills necessary to operate and maintain industrial fabrication equipment such as the press brake, hydroshear and press rolls. In additi ders will fora to hire an unpro- ductive, untrained person at apprenticeship rates,” Germsheid said. “This training will allow successful students to receive credit for the first period of tech- nical training for the Electrical F ig progr should c{ tact the closest Canada Emplby- . ment, Centre or Employmént Outreach Centre,” H : oe Selling something?' Phone 365-5266 : 20 NOTICE © Victor's SHOE REPAIR ’ ¢ we install new window zippers for boat tops .* we repair or replace linings é& zippers in leather jackets “All leather goods repaired" 1120 - 4th St, Castlegar, B.C. For services after Aug. 15: 1570 2nd Ave., Trail (across from Safeway) 365-6632 acquire skills in the layout and fabrication of motorbases, stair- cases, handrails and conveyors. to offer two new courses this fall at the Nelson Campus. According to Dick Germsheid, Nelson Campus Local leaders respond to election results The Social Credit leadership convention is now over and local politicians are ready to turn their attention to the next task at hand — governing day to day business in the province and the impend- ing provincial election. Walter Si Rossland unity.’ The local Socred candidate says that, although some people get very emotionally involved and work very hard during a lead- ership campaign, the Socreds will rally. behind Johnston. He lained he “; ques- Trail Socred candidate, says the party now knows who their lead- tioned” the premier on whether er is and, locally, his paign ittee will be later she would be available to the Rossl: Trail i an assured him she would this week to plan strategy for a provincial election. “The party here is quite well i Now be. "The people who feel strongly itted to free ise will it is time to get the people excited and ready for an election. Overall I think we're in-pretty good shape.” “eS Siemens, who believes the writ won't be dropped until after sum- mer, was backing Grace McCarthy for the leadership “from the point of view that she would be the most electable in the province.” However, he notes, “Rita Johnston is a fine lady and the majority of the people at the ion were d with be there to work when the elec- tion is underway,” Siemens said MOBY. ca congratulated Johnston for estab- lishing herself with the support of the Socred party and not just Caucus, said it is time for the government to get back to work “minding the store.” D'Arcy pointed out economists say the provincial by close to a percentage point in 1991 and this hasn't been addressed by government. “I would hope they pay more attention to the econo-, my of the province and get work- ing on things like bed closures . which are severely hampering the delivery of health care in this province. ° “If they wish to impress the public favorably, I think they need to get on to good, respon- sive government of provincial affairs.” BRITISH COLUMBIA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY PUBLIC HEARINGS. Select Standing on Ct Relations Matters and Int BRITISH COLUMBIA “ie CANADIAN FEDERATION We want to hear from you! What kind of Canada do you want to see? The Select Standing Committee on Constitutional Ma! Bi has been asked to consider the state of the Canadian Federation and to consult broadly with British Columbians G the social and economic interests and Canadians within the federation; and ‘What changes could be made? {ters and I to determine their views on: G the form of federation that can most effectively aspirations of British Columbians and other -. meet the social and economic aspirations of British Columbians and all Canadians, The Committee is to produce a preliminary report and recommendations to the Legislative Assembly this summer following this first round of public Honourable ; Bruce Strachan, Chairman Mr. Colin Gabelmann, MLA .Deputy Chairman ON, "would like to provide a CRANBROOK AUGUST 1, 1991 - 2:00 PM. VANCOUVER AUGUST 7, 1991 - 2:30 P.M. 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