A2 First dnniversary O By Cheryl Wishlow It has been over a year since a family of Laotian boat people, under the sponsor- ship of St, Rita's parish, ar- rived in Castlegar. Pierre Bounnhat Sennha- vong arrived here April 11 1980 along with wife Rosa Onehanh, brother-in-law Jean Somphanthabansouk and Cousin Maria. To celebrate the anniver- sary of one year in Canada, the family played host to a dinner with “Their sponsors, Mr. and Mrs, Glenn Ander- son,” Pierre works at the Celgar Sawmill. He has been work- ing there for the past 10 months. Before starting work, he went to schoo} in Trail for one month to learn English. He is still learning from his friends at work. He says it's easier to learn the language once he starts conversing with people. Of Canada, he comments on the amount of food and freedom here, not like Laos, CASTLEGAR NEWS, April 19, 1981 Secon- which is under ist tule, On his days off, Pierre enjoys working in the Ander- son's garden, He also likes to fish in the Columbia River. Before coming to Canada, Pierre, who also speaks French, worked on the fed- eral highway in Laos as a means of employment. His hope of bringing his family to Canada didn't hap- pon suddenly. It was seven months from the time he made an application to come here to the time the family arrived in Canada. Pierre's wife Rosa usually stays in the home but last month, he says, she began taking “learning English” from a local tutor. Pierre Jr. 4, says his father, likes the cartoons here. He especially likes Ses- ame Street's Big Bird. As thera is no television in Laos, this is a real treat for young Pierre. - Pierre's cousin Maria is presently learning English at aay ‘Schoo! (SHSS) for two. hours per day. For four hours : a day, she works at Hobbit Hill day care centre. Before coming to Canada, she worked on a farm in Laos, sowing rice. 3 “Tn " Canada; in her spare time, Masia! likes to’ skate, ewim,{She has even tried ho; also attonds strolled in grade subjects of study . nine. include’ English, science, From left to right; J On this Easter. Sunday, many church services are be- ing conducted in the city. Castlegar’s Anglican church, located in the 1400 block of Columbia Ave., will be holding services at 8 and 10 a.m. this morning. The United Church 2224 6 Ave. will hold its regular sing-song at 9:40 a.m. with worship service and Sunday school at 10 a.m. As well, a special Easter sunrise ser- vice will be held at 7:30 a.m. in the trees outside the Castlegar and District Com- munity Complex. . Church of God, 2404 Col- umbia Ave., will hold its ser- vice at 11 a.m. this morning, following Sunday church’ school at 9:45 a.m. Also, a special drama presentation will take place tonight at ‘7:20. “Is Christ Risen” will be presented by the Creston Tnter-Church Players. Services at St. Peter Luth- eran will be at 9:20 a.m. with Sunday school at 10:30. Spec- ial sunrise service will be held at the church, 714 4 St., at 6:30 a.m. Church of Christ will meet in Ootischenia at 10:80 a.m. For more call Easter Sunday Church services: will hold Easter services at l1‘a.m., following the 9:45 a.m. Sunday school hour., Calvary Baptist, 809 Merry Creek Road, will hold'its ser- vices at 9:45 a.m. (Sunday School; and 11 a.m. (regular worship), Castlegar'’s Pentecostal Tabernacle, 767 11 Ave. No., will hold services beginniig at 5:16 a.m. at Kinnaird Park (sunrise service), Service to be held at the church if it 365-7973. Services at Apostolic Church cf Poatecost, bolow the Castleaird Plaza, will take place at 11 a.m. follow- ing the regular Sunday school hour at 9:50 a.m. Grace Presbyterian Church, 2605 Columbia Ave., rains. will follow this service. Christian- Education hour begins at 9:80 a.m., followed by regular service at 11 a.m. St. Rita's Catholie Church will hold regular Sunday masses at 8 and 10 a.m. Services at St. Maria Goretti, Genelle, will begin at noon. math and physical education. He finds the work difficult. “A lot of homework" he says. 4 . When he's not doing his homework, he watches telo- vision or plays games such as ping pong with friends. Maria, Rosa, Pierre Jr., and Pierre f local boat people He. comments on how nice the Canadian people are and “how-beautiful the country is. He says the land is very different from that of Laos. 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The junior priest wears Chanel No. 5, listens to Bach and roars around Montreal in a seven-year- cenco, plate that identifies its owner as “The Rev.” ‘At the same time, ‘this . priest is respected by col- “Feagues : as.a thoughtful : scholar, ‘a perceptive tea- cher, a compassionate wit anda tireless messanger of ‘Rev. Lettio James, 56,’ the agonizing split i:in’ the Anglican Charch of ‘Canada two ,years: ago when she be-. came the first woman to be ordained a priest in: the: consevative Montral. di- ocese. . 4 Cool and steadfast in’ her pelief that gender has no reevance in-the house of God, James respects those... among her male peers who still cannot accept | her. |. ‘and lay people walked out during the middle ‘of her ordination ceremony in Oc- tober, 1978,‘ and. bitter controversy érupted © in many churches. But ‘James ‘does ‘not dwell on the - wounds eaused by her ordination: | HAS OWN CHURCH "These days,‘she's the Reverendfrom Delson, happily . fulfilling’ what” seemed an impossible - dream 80 years ago when -she, the seventh child, told her astonished parents in Middlesborough, England, that God had called ehr to _ be a priest. : Now there's a church she ean call her own. The tiny red-brick, wood-panelled .church of St. David’s was built ijn 1922 by a small, clutch of Anglican parish- ioners.on the outskirts of Delson, 80 ‘kil related priest old Morris-Mini with a ll. _ --dabbing on Chanel No. 6 in, ‘A large group of Price : > gays, “it.upsets the guys.” Everyone enjoys her wi the quips that often poke good-natured ‘fun ‘at “the solemn image of re-. ligion, Moments before her or- dination, Jamies was found the washroom ‘at Mon- . treal's Christ Church Catli- edral. "Who's" being’ or- . dained today?” asked’ 8 woman ‘standing nearby. ponded, grinning at the - woman's . ‘astonishment. ‘he’ woman reappeared "| after’ the. ceremony: to. watch James. field ‘ques: * tions from reporters, “What. makes, you’ differ: . ent, Lettie?” asked ‘one, ‘The woman ‘from the wash- m veplied, “She's the 01 i blest in the Anglican | rel to wear Chanel No! % ‘The ioe burst into™ Haughtér when James shot “back: “Don't bet on it.” Since ce ler at arrival at Del- son, James ‘has Hands up, all of those who can tell me where Bloomer Creek is and whore it got its name? Only two? Well don't feel badly, the rest of you — in spite of the fact that it runs right through the centre of town, not many people know of its location or the origin of its-name, unfortunately. It has its source in the hills above the city, flows down’ past the Anderson ranch, dives under the highway, and fon the past 25 years has been, nfined to a conduit, and only reappears when it drops, over a small waterfall into. He could. make. an engine. -do things that would put a pack-horse. out of business. *: fe pond ‘by Zuckerberg’s nd, it is a modest little stream ' ‘bat its name recalls the name Sunday: school, © brought back the midnight service after’ 80 years and invited fe a belehbaring United — for of an pioneer, Thomas L. aimed a railwayman. in the ‘old tradition, and-a strong link with the development of the Ki spend joint services. ” She's reluctant to give ‘interviews because, she” The guys? “The other . priests," ‘she explains. “People: will. say Tm a ‘prima’ ‘donna, which I'm not.” * She notes that women + . have been ordained minis- ters in the United Church since 1925 “and that 43 women have been ordained in the Anglican Church since the synod made its ‘decision in 1976, She would much ‘prefer to discuss her passionate interest = Bicothics, and south of Montreal. » The red, Learpet is 8 isa shade. worn, the oil h ‘oceastonal.” Mesing” sar there is no running water or. toilet. | But it’s hers, A few people asked me if I thought being sent here was a putdown,” James said. “I considered it a challenge. Y'd rather have 2 people Iknow than 3001 don't.’ - F ‘ . The 26. parishioners ia _olize their minister, whom “they “call Lettie. They ask * politely ‘about ‘her: daugh- ter Leslie, 21,-an interior. designer: in Toronto, or Paqul,.17, who lives at- hone, They chat with bus- ° Cliff, an engineer, ari doubles as ‘church auditor. * medical community, such’ } institute of ministry. Fes eh q swiftly Bam to ‘thiead questions raised by the as genetic engineering, prenatal diagnosis, artifi- insemination and ster- ilization for the tment retarded. “Not that the church can issue statement and say this is wrong and these are’ the rules .;.. but’ people .” within the. church: should. . be aware of’the value of « human life.” ~ She acts asa chaplain at* Montreal General Hospital. * and teaches a course in © preaching and liturgy to - ordinates at an Anglican Anarticle which appears in’ a 1946 copy of the C.P.R. Bint meres which I -bor- courtesty of Mrs. pai (Marjorie) West, one entitled ation ‘JOHN CHARTERS’ ~ moms Recollections: hill Work,’ and fs unsigned. It reads in part: : ‘There is at’ least one old-timer who could make an | engine do things that would put a pack-horse out of post ‘ness. ‘He is T.L. Bloomer, aro tired Rocky Mountain engin- eer, who has had experiences * going back to the time when trains negotiated hills the hard way-— by: going over, ° not: through ‘them. He 're- ‘members, for instance, the days when the “Sweeney” — sometimes. inaccurately - called a ‘water-brake’.— was ~ in use.on the ‘Big. Hill’ at. | Field, B.C. It was a devise for - " injecting saturated ‘steam © into the cylinders to prevent them from overheating when | ” CASTLEGAR NEWS, April 19, 1981 the hills © 1 cation, Traffic there was ceased now, except for the occasional freight to Ross- land, and for the -runs. be- tween Warfield and Tadanac. (Note: as we wrote in anj earlier column, these Ross- land Hill tracks were finally ‘torn up in 1956..— J. A.C.) coming down in’ reverse, as. was often necessary. ‘In those days, men 4 -bebind the controls were not. \) allowed: to. come down the ““*Hill alone, but for the first ‘To the men who learned their firing in the hills, the sloping track was as familiar as their . front steps, and they soloed _ in a shorter time than the * men on the gentler grades of: the Pacific sides. .” FREQUENT STOPS SAVED WHEELS ‘After some no exception, as he indicates ' in his-own words). , “I have seen sights,” ‘re- calla Mr. Bloomer, that I cer-, tainly would not have seen if “Yhad not been on an eneine. .A sailor, of course, same chance, but es are on. the street misses’much — lunar peared displays of ‘borealis, -shooking stare. and lightning. well seen from a cab. WATCHED ‘AURORA’ : FROM CAB: “4One of the’ ‘greatest dis- plays’. ‘ever, saw was one midnight at Rossland in 1919. -All the way up the hill there was a constant display and it S ‘attained its full glory by tho THOMAS L. BLOOMER: ” training on Sandon-Hill, Mr. Bloomer was switched. to hauling ore on-the. Rossland Hill; where the gradient was ~ so steep that. ore feins had ‘An engineer, in country lke. that, is by birth or ‘development, a man of many parts. He is finultanenusy a of Mr. Bloomer’s gives an insight into the man and his work in the pionser- ing days of railroading. It is to stop to pre- vent their wheels from over-" heating, and then’ cracking, ‘from so much brake’ app! hu. -morist, ‘over ‘and’ foe.'of mature, ‘athlete, poet." and, pioneer, (And Mey “Bloomer is time we reached the top. The iwhole’ heavens were vivid with color and at the zenith there was a huge opalescent centre. One writer SMOKE GREASED RAILS Not all conditions, how- over, were beaitiful or spec- tacular, for as the article goes ‘on to state, there was the mechanical and “isn't the’ weather lousy?" side, as well, _ as Mr. Bloomer continues: “One of the most -trying ditfeulties on the Rossland Hill was bad rails caused by smoke from the smelter com: . Not one foot * . of the sky was “clear. of color. At, was: a sight. never to. be ‘ forgotien. : seemed .to pick up ths dirt and still left enough moisture :to make the train pull eas{er. A very! wet rail: would, at times, also work well. Light frost, dew, mist or a. light’ sprinkle of rain generally means trouble — and so do army worms. ‘They wére; so bad at one tine that it-was a constant struggle to getup the-hill, and another ‘one, to get down without the wheels sliding, as the worms would cluster on the. rails’ for warmth when the sun went down, And, hoy, they: ‘could smell! “3 Mr. Bloomer charitably -- omits “mentio another : trial for the engineers.on the | Rossland engineers. - Lefevre recalled at the slid show last month that bining with dew or mist from “AS the heavens. All “sorts: of schemes have been tried for’ ing this it as a diamond, but to me it was‘an opal. “From: that,. there ‘des- “ cended a veil or tent-like wall of color, which draped itself over’ the top of Red Moun- tain. This veil or wall seemed to be made of shot silk as it changed color and shim- mered up and down. Then, at’ .the east and west sides, down low on the horizon, there was ‘a bright, red light as from a forest fire, Not one foot of the sky was clear of color. It was a -sight never to be for: gotten.” 0. — steam jets to blow. it off, and different. methods . of sanding. I have'seen it so bad that the -train crews‘ had to : get shovels and throw dirt from the. side of the track onto the rails — still the engine would slip. “One man got the ides that “if we allowed, the steam: to: get low there would. not be so much slipping. ‘There wasn't, : but there ‘was considerable the skunk he stuck, his. head ‘out.of ‘the cab: window and’ then turned to his Sreman and said: °. The . picture . was - made to. _Saatlegar ‘ : ES YSTEMS) To register please complete the following, attach the $50.00 deposit and mall to: BARNEY DEMICELL how to take charge of YOUR LIFE. DATE: Wed., April 29, 1-6 p.m. PLACE: Fireside Place, Castlegar 109.80 en. seems. $7795, 2. 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Johnson, who was to be ° his partner for many yeara. “When he first came, he re- * ‘members that being a physi- cian was very “lonely.” “You * feel as if you don't know any: thing.” Not until 1958 was thera a hospital in Castlegar, so the doctors drove daily to Trail and Rossland. House calls .. were the norm, “Most even- fogs Twas busy until 10 at ‘night with house. calla’ and. hospital visits.” Only a minority of people jat that time were covered by. _ OO MLS.A, What “did you: do. when a. patient: zfust didn't have the money topay?"You ted say that “there a amount’.of free medicine - practices: in those days, It - was part of being 8 doctor.” (Pat) FOWLER. » Pat still has his profit.and “Yoss statement for the first “three months of :practice. - Alter office ‘overhead and ‘salaries be showed fa net loss of $267! . + Being DR. c ‘a doctor bas not been a * felong ambition. for. bookkeeper, miner, doctor . Pat. Growing up in the small mining community ‘at Rion- del, he hardly gave ‘it a . passing thought: His dad was ‘the mining .engineer. who initially opened up the Blue-| ‘bell Mine and managed it until Cominco bought it in 1981, The mine employed a crew of about 90, and “like, the many smaller mines, it opened and closed “according - : to the metal markets.” . Less than a dozen children attended. the- -small _ public school.set up there:for the mining families, “A simple existence” is- what Pat re- members in that seénic town. .. “We made our own fun — ant our own mischief.” “We never owned: a .car. There was no road in. We ~ were very much at home ‘on the water. We used rowboats and motor boats instead of ears for. transportation.” Above his ‘fireplace, Pat displays an oil painting done by artist Alex Garner, of the sternwheeler which steamed its way down Kootenay Lake to Riondel every day enroute . to Nelson. = - This simple existence was punctuated by the fact that,” the mining families seldom’ went anywhere, but “nobody. seemed to mind. “No one had money to spond on travel. Golng to Kaslo was a big After graduation from high , school in Kaslo, Pat took a year of business college in Nelson. A timekeeper and bookkeeper at’ the:: Reno Mine, a small gold mine in Sheep. Creck was his first job. “We worked seven’ days aweek, 10 to 12 hours a day.” ~ Four. years later Pat had- saved enough to attend the University of British Col- | ‘umbia. He went with, high hopes of becoming ‘a mining’ engineer. A serious ski. acci- dent changed his plans slight- ly, ‘and he went into account- ing. - For two years he worked : underground at the Sullivan Mine in Ki and later raderie of workiig ‘with a buneh of guys underground. You don't find that bond in most lines of work.” When he was 29, Pat changed the course of his life. raised four ‘ataten fn Castle” gar; ‘Pauline, ‘now. earning her degree in architecture; Nancy, a counselor with Youth For. Christ ministries in Nicer John, : an’ ree Out of this dical back- ground came the physician -and alee secretary fora ate spent two years at the Con Mine at Yellowknife. He calls these “: ‘some of the best years . of my life.” Asa communtiy, . Yellow- ‘knife was only.two years old and booming. “The life there was rugged, but: it ‘brought out the best. in peopl ;When I went, there were no roads, nocars, no airport, The com- * munities ; were “served | by float and aki planes, During (spring) breakup and (fall) ° freeze, we were isolated.” Pat -remembers a. ‘great spirit. amoung tho miners. There was a.pride in the work, a kind .of “snobbish- ness, almost," he said. : Pree elene Td got a burr. under my tail.” The name of Dr. Oliver Stanton, however, kept com- ‘ing up- during our conver- ° sation. He was the doctor in Yellowknife when Pat was there. “The only doctor in a million square miles, an in- spiration, an amazing man.” Perhaps this gives a clue as .to why this man went into - medicine. Pat studied medi- cine at UBC and University. of Washington in Seattle, and then came to Castlegar. He took a year out from his Castlegar practice to study post-graduate surgery in En- . gland. There's nothing like. the com: - Pat and his, wife Ann Pat has been: Involved in Kiwanis, in Rotary and was the medical officer of the Sea “Cadets for a time, He also has been a member of St. David's Anglican Church, ‘serving that church °in a number ‘of “down ~ different The: Fowlers have’ always. enjoyed boating ‘on .the’ Ar row Lakes, and now have:. “built. their beautifal’ retire- ment home above that lake. Though semi-retired, Pat still helps out occasionally at ithe: Nelson ‘Hospital. In .his-25 ‘years of prac-; tleing medicino, Pat has seen: a number of changes. Refine-.” ment in diagnostic proce-.. : dures have been one of the biggest advances. X-ray, scanning’ ‘techniques, and” computer technology | have through the years. . Pat has been active in ‘the Chamber of Commerce from the time he first began his practice. in Castlegar. “At that time’ Castlegar: was a village with a ‘small village ‘souncil. The chamber was ‘Very influential body, a vcrols section of the entire com- munity, a truly: Tepresenta- tive political power.” Ever interested in politics, he ran in 1966 for the: Pro- vinelal L In 1977- from the days. when doctors , travelled to their patients on horseback and. were pald with chickens, : “What about the instru- ments you use,” I asked him, “how. have ‘they changed?”. « i> “The best instruments are the human senses,” he’ told :me quietly. “A group of the. ibest Tay not be. able to cure a‘ patient, yet:- that patient may be cured by “a physician with sensitivity, 1978 Pat was a city alderman. + slon.”, and . compas: