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successful season for the Castlegar Aquanauts swim club.
At the club's annual barbeque held recently, trophies
were given to swimmers and parents for their efforts
throughout the year,

This year’s recipient of the best all around swimmer
award was Steve Junker who received a trophy
compliments of the Westar Celgar Lumber Division.

This award was based on dedication and all-around
swimming ability during the entire season. The Sharon
Cooper Memorial Trophy for the most improved breast
stroke was given to Wendy Gouk. The coaches award for
best attitude, sportsmanship and attendance will be
shared between Jennifer Small and Traey Picco.

A special award was given to Roy Churchill this year
for all the time he spent going to all the swim meets and
making sure the swimmers had a tent to use during each
day.

He was presented with a miniture tent complete
with the usual swim articles and a T-shirt with Tent Man
written on the back.

Earlier in the year Carmen Guido received a hat with
the word Puuul written across the front for the many
hours she spent cheering on all the swimmers in the club.

Senior swimmers Tom and Colin Carew were
presented with a golden bow and goggies to take to the
provincials in Vancouver for luck.

The coaches who dedicated their summer to the club
were recognized with gifts and many thank you's. Vince
Mikuska has returned to Winnipeg to finish his

reausta on’ the eoncutive taipecs: preside

On behalf of the membership and executive of the,
Castlegar Aquanauts a big thank you goes out to
members of the previous executive — Ed Chernoff,
Joanne Bentley, Elaine Mair, Lyn Miskell, Ellena Carew,
Gail Dudley, Orland Vecchio and Diana Young for their
\hard work. Thank you parents of the swimmers for
donating your time during the summer to help the club.

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WORLD WONDER . . . Standing Stones of Callanish on
the Outer Hebridean Isle of Lewis were erected 4,000

John Charters .

On Tour
in Scotland

THE CALLANISH
STONES STILL

A 'MYSTERY

Very old are we men;
Our dreams are tales
Told in dim Eden
By Eve's nightingales:
We wake and whisper awhile,
But the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.
— All thats past — Walter de la Mare

One of the, “mansts” ep oui Fata ben nh FOR. ™

“he Tale wh Lewis;

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The Isle of Harris and the ‘Isle of Lewis are the
northerly of the Outer Hebrides and are not — other than in
the minds of their inhabitants — separate islands but are
joined at the Loch of Seaforth. Both are rocky, peat covered
intrusions of age-old volcanic activity.

There is little vegetation other than tough grass,
heather and gorse, and while I did see a few trees on Harris,
there are none on Lewis. The roads are narrow and twisting,
the coasts and beaches are dramatic. The land is ruggedly
beautiful and the main products are hardy sheep and hardier
people. It is here also that we can get a glimpse of the long
mysterious odyssey of mankind just appearing through the
mists of time.

On a large-scale map the distance from Tarbert on
Harris to Stornoway, the port and capital of Lewis, seems to
be endless. In actual fact, “Janice” (our bus) got us there and
back in one afternoon.

The town of Stornoway, in contrast to Tarbert, is a
bustling cheery seaport and fishing town, a fact emphasized
by an episode that happened to one of the passengers — a
retired single lady who, while strolling along the Stornoway
docks, hed a gift of three fresh mackerel thrust upon her by
a fisherman. She didn’t know what to do with them when she
got them — a situation which engendered a considerable
amount of kidding from the other passengers.

‘The Dun Carloway Broch and the Cailanish Stones are
agposite or Atlantic side of the Isle of Lewis and they

St as mysterious today as they were 4,000 to 5,000

Brochs are circular hive-shaped buildings with
iis levels built of very skillfully of unmortared stone
are no openings other than a low doorway and a
smoke-hole at the top.

‘The one on Lewis is located on a small, steep hill and :s
about eight metres (25 feet) high. They were once thought to
be hill forts, but there is no evidence to indicate it, though
this one has been occupied at different times over the years
by different people. On one such occasion a group of
clansmen, enemies of the McLeods, took shelter in the broch,
blockéd the entrance and went to dleep for the night. A
group of McLeods crept up under cover of darkness and one
af their number, using twe daggers as climbing irons,
climbed up to the top of the brech. He then used a rope to
pull up smoldering bundles of heather and dropped them
Through the opening and so #uffocated those inside There is
a lesson here here Iam sure if one examines it closely
In any case, it is an eerie place.,

to 5,000 years ago by a stone age people from the

southern Mediterranean.

The Standing Stones of Callanish are a few miles away
from Carloway and form the main structures of a number of
“Henges” around the lip of what was once a sacred,
saucer-shaped valley. The stone age people who erected
them 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, came from the southern
Mediterranean and travelled as far as the Orkneys. The
purpose of the megalithic (“great stone”) structures is still
not known for sure, but it is certain that they have both a
religious and astronomical significanee. The cirele symbol for
the sun is found frequently on them. *

The largest arrangement is in Brittany, France with 12
rows of 1,169 “menhirs” or standing stones each 10
kilometres long, the largest (now broken) being about 20
metres (63 feet) in length and weighing 355,600 kilograms
(350 tons)

The Standing Stones of Callanish are among the best
preserved in Britain and with Stonehenge in southern
England are the most important structures in Great Britain.

A total of 53 stones make up the “henge” today. They
form a rough cross shape with the tallest menhir 4.6 metres
(154016 feet) standing in the eentre and make the west wall
of an ancient grave. They are of an unhewn’ ‘Lewisian
Gneiss”, a very ancient and hard stone found almost
exclusively in the Isle of Lewis.

We arrived at the site in the late afternoon but I am told
and have seen photographs that indicate that the best time
to view the stones is at dusk. Nonetheless, I would not have
missed them. They have an unsophisticated charm and
gaiety which extends a feeling of warm human kinship over

‘The Standing Stones of
Callanish are among the best
preserved in Britain’

the period of 5,000 years — unlike the remote, brooding
almost sinister haunting of Stonehenge. These “dancing”
stones erected so long ago by our small, tough tribesman
ancestors are a powerful and immediate reminder of the
capacity for achievement and ingenuity of humankind, the
proof of our ability to co-operate, a tribute to the depth of
our beliefs.

I left the Callanish standing stones and all their fellows
on the surrounding empty hills most reluctantly, and not
even after nearly braining myself on the low doorway of a
nearby stone house, now a tearoom, could the enchantment
be dispelled

We made our way then back in the days and weeks
which followed through Benbeeula, North Uist and South
Ust (“the dark island”) conneeted to one another by a long,
long causeway and stopped at another of those excellent
former “country gentleman” hunting lodges, now a hotel at
Lochhoisdale. Dinner with brandy snaps and thick cream
for dessert (delicious), a toast to our excellent driver David,
“guide, mentor, gentleman with the laconic wit”, and a look
at the “bag” book in the drawing room over coffee where in
neat copperplate hand is recorded Major XYZ — 1876
date — place — 15 snipe, 4 dueks, 3 quail. Colonel ABC —
1880 — place — date — 1 salmon, 5 Ibs., 5 oz., 8 sea trout
weights, etc. When we left the drawing room there were
seven sea trout in the entrance hall awaiting to be recorded
under Mr. XYZ — July 20, 1984 etc. in the same book

On then to Oban and down the length of beautiful Loch
Lomond to Glasgow to be met the next morning by our
friends Alex and Jean. Then on the Aberdeen and
Edinburgh and Eire and around England from Chester to
Newcastle. But of this and more perhaps, another time if I
have any readers left.

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