The Castlegar Sun

Ann”
Landers
Syndicated

Columnist

Dear Ann Landers: I
would appreciate your
opinion of my late mother's
will. My *mother always
favored my sister, “Brenda.”
When I was a medigal
student, Brenda received)a
new car for Christmas. I
teceived a necktie

When Brenda, who teaches
high school, divorced six
years ago, she was awarded a
large divorce settlement,

.which my mother insisted she

“save.” My mother then
bought Brenda a layish condo
to “cheer her up.”

Although Brenda's ex-
husband pays regular child
support and shares custody of
their son, “James,” my mother
paid for the boy's private
schooling and tutors. She also
gave James ski equipment and
private lessons for his
birthday. My son received
leather belts

My mother's will left
Brenda a house and a car
(total worth, $400,000). I
received silverware, which I
didn't need, and a desk. |
always interpreted my
mother's favoritism as an
attempt to “equalize” her
children, who are bright, are

~ assured and we need no help.
Yet I can't help but feel
resentment against my
mother and my sister for this
crass discrimination. Am I
being unfair?

Dear S.A.: I have always
maintained that nobody owes
anyone a gift or an inheritance.
Money should go to whomever
that person chooses to give it
to. It is, however, the better
part of wisdom to show no
favoritism among siblings when
writing a will.

Perhaps Brenda paid a lot
more attention to your mother
during her lifetime than you
did. In retrospect, how close to
your mother were you? Did you
_put yourself out for her in your
later years?

The fact that your mother
gave her favorite child special
treatment is not Brenda's
fault. Your resentment against
your sister is totally
unjustified. Get over it.

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ing the theme of the evening.

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some great gift ideas as they
demonstrated and displayed
their unique crafts. Several
craft items were. donated as
door prizes.

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BRADY PRESIDENT-ELECT

Rotary elects officers

John Charters
For The Castlegar Sun

PECIAL OF THE WEEK

‘The Castlegar Rotary Club had
a busy meeting recently in the
miidst of a busy December sched-
ule. It elected its 1995-96 slate of
officers and was brought up to
date on the place of the informa-
tion superhighway in the public
school system.

Ron Ross, chairman of the
nominations committee con-
ducted the election of new club
officers, which saw Brian
Brady as president-elect for
1995-96, Martin Meyer, vice-
president, and Dave Mcintosh
as secretary. Wilf Sweeney was
returned as treasurer.

Directors included Bill
Strongman (vocational services)
and Dr,.Mark Vanderzee (inter-
national services).

in which actual doing is the path
to success.”

He closed by quoting a Chi#
nese maxim: “I hear and I forget
I see and I remember. I do and I
understand.”

The bottom line is giving peo-
ple working access to other peo-
ple and information, he said

The evening concluded with an
illustrated address by Ken
McLean, Trail School District
computer program coordinator,

McLean's program in District
11 is.a prototype for B.C
Department of Education
involvement in the computerized
information superhighway,
which opens the data door to stu-
dents on a global basis.

Fortunately, McLean said,
the language of international

ication for the hi

ighway
is English.

“Thus, my daughter in junior
high school talks weekly via
computer with a young student in
the Ural Mountains in Russia.

“It is a whole new ballgame
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the following is a favorite, if
extreme, example: An English
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Ata time when more and more
things are spinning out of con
trol, when for the sake of politi-
cal correctness or other current
abberations, the most uncivilized
speech, the most abhorrent con-
duct is passed over with tolerant
smiles, and when ridiculous and
wildly exaggerated claims are
accepted as indisputable truth, it
is at this point that the calculated
understatement provides us with
a humorous antidote.

A few days ago I received a
newsletter from Abbot Alfred,
former Father Abbot and head of
Pluscorden Monastery in Elgin,
Scotland, and now Father Visitor
for the Benedictine Monks.

Pluscordan is the most
northerly of the 359 Benedictine
monasteries in the world and
Abbot Alfred's new job this
year is to visit the five monas-
teries of the Subiaco Congrega-
tion in Britain, the two in
Mexico, the three in the U.S.
and one in Africa.

T had hoped to see him again
in November, in the course of his
travels, at Westminster Abbey, a
member of the Swiss-American
Congregation, but he was too
busy to get this far north. :

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teries of Prinknish, Pluscorden
and Farnborough and to this end
a repfeseniative group made a
pilgrimage to a Benedictine com-
munity on Cordey Island, off the
south coast of Wales.

One, Father Giles, writing in
the newsletter, and with a fine
hand of understatement, starts
with: “The sea crossing was
rather rough so the words of the
psalm next morning at Lauds,
“The glorious surging of the sea;
seemed very apt’.”

He then goes on: “The day
Dom Drosten and I departed (for
Coldey) a crisis developed (at
Pluscorden) over a lady whose

bility of mind and resid

were pretty much in equilibrium;
the crisis was eventually resolved
by two police officers, two
paramedics, three monks and a
doctor at 11”, and he concluded
wryly, “The contemplative life
does not always conform to pop-
ular stereotypes.”

“The next morning I arose
early, but not bright, and we out of
Prinkish (Abbey) where we were
well received and demonstrated,
by our ineptitude at the snooker
tables, that we had not mispefitour
novitiate (training as monks).”

Eventually they arrived at their
ferry boat and found “waves 15

metres high bursting over the sea-
wall—portent of things to come.”
“By the time,” he says, “it
took to load the boat with cases
of gin and whiskey (we never
saw them again!), our luggage,
Pent ott

and ourselves, the vessel had a
decidedly lively motion. As soon
as we cleared the harbor, folk got
sea water down their necks with
every other wave...Some (pas-
sengers) started to look very
introspective, and after a while,
leaned over the side...”

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were met by their hosts, they
were taken to the guest house (all
Benedictine monasteries have
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to the salt with which my head
and face were encrusted from
spray and waves.”

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morning was begun amidst spec-
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to consume, possibly later to be
offered to Neptune.”

Speculation ended with the
offer of a lifeboat to be launched
for any younger members of the
party really desperate to get off
the island, other-wise the voyage
was postponed, and he concludes:

“Even those of us with delu-

, sions of youth had none of urgen-
cy, and so more toast was
ordered, and the reprieved con-
demned men at a heartier meal.”

The Benedictines have been
around for almost 1500 years
and since, as Abbot Alfred
notes, monasteries are very vul-
nerable in times of persecution
(those behind the Iron Curtain

ffered badly), am d
sense of humor is a lifesaver.
Laughter is the antidote to
tyranny of all kinds.

“In a world gone weird,” as
one radio columnist said last
week, “parody is out. In a politi-
cally correct culture, you're liable
to be taken literally.” Stick to
understatement meiosis for “95.

And thus conclides my 1995
contribution to the grad class
members at the high school who
have a 50-50 chance of meeting
this tricky term come the June
English exams. Z

20 students
off to Japan’

SUN STAFF

Twenty Castlegar and Nelson
students will have the trip of their
lifetime thanks to a $50,000 grant
from the Ministry of Education.

Ten students from Castlegar
and 10 students from Nelson
will make up a group of students
who will travel in July to Miyagi
as part of an educational
exchange program. In retum 10
students from Miyagi will arrive
in Castlegar on March 24.

Joanne Baker, chair of the
Castlegar School Board, said the
grant will allow the students
opportunities that might not have
been available to them before.

“It's a great opportunity to
travel and discover other cultural
experiences.”

The Castlegar and Nelson stu-
dents will still be responsible for
a $1,000 fee and their own
spending money, estimated at
$500-$800, while visiting Japan.

In a letter to assistant superin-

tendent Lach Farrell, Robin
Syme, director of the ministry's
social equity branch, commend-
ed the district for “the teamwork
and attention to detail evident in
the proposal”.
It’s still undetermined which
local students will-be part-of the
exchange as ‘interviews by
school officials for the trip
weren't held until yesterday.

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