CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, January 11, 1979

FURNISHINGS for a four-bed ward In the
new extended care unit planned for the ©
Castlegar and District Hospital has been
made possible by longtime Castlegar resi-
dent Fred Parent who on Friday presented a
$3,000 cheque to hospital administrator Ken

Talarico. Earlier, as shown in the above

photo, another $3,000 cheque w presented
by Parent, left, to D. R. Nuyer
the board of Columbia View Lodge to be
used toward the purchase of a wheelchalr
van for. Columbla View Lod; Ic
where he now makes his home.

hairman of

(. Voice of the People

Editor, Castlegar News:

I believe Mr. Fred May-
nard’s letter (Voice of the
People, Jan. 4; p. A9: “Live’by
Laws of Land") requires an
immediate response. There are
still many people in the West
Kootenays (as, indeed, in the
whole province) who take as
superficial a view of the case of
the Doukhobors,

Mr. Maynard lists a num-
ber of “terrorists' actions”, —
“blowing things to kingdom
come — power lines, railway
lines, burning schools, jails...”
— as if they were a matter of
general Doukhobor doctrine, or
the actions of all Doukhobors,
rather than those of a very few
individuals, No different from
the hoary old bigotry of com-
plaining, as a justification for
every kind of prejudice, that
“the Jews killed:Christ.” This
is, of course, an easy smear to
make,

Mr. Maynard also, ressur-
rects the phrase “Doukhobor

tunnels.”*

One Man’‘s Opinion

Social Facts of Life

An item issuing from a recent meeting of the school board awakens my interest.

*,.. every second window to be boarded up... . School corridors will look tike mine
The item was raised as a result of the $6,000 vandalism bill for October, 1978, and, |

think, the action to be taken Is a complete over-reaction to a current fact of life.
Halloween or not, some of the members-of our community feel it Is good fun to

break school windows. In my opinion, presenting school buildings which look tike a local
Insurrection has taken place is not the approach to take.
It will be necessary to simply repair the damage as systematically as it may occur.
If the members of our local school board cannot understand the twisted sense of
humor of the window-breakers, then | doubt they will ever know why those same

without for a mo-
ment bothering to identify
them, and goes on to describe
them as “problems that they
themselves brought to Canada
some 70 to 80 years ago.”

, Well now! I'd imagine that
there are very few problems in
Canada — including those ex-
perienced by Indians and Es-
kimos — that were not. im-
ported by these or those white
folks — English, French, Rus-
sian, you name it.

We all bring or inherit our
viewpoints, and it makes no
difference whether the “prob-
lems” are inherited of originate

on the spot, They still remain to,
be resolved,

When you consider further
that some of the “problems” of
all Doukhobors — inapprop-
riate schooling, ignorant law-
making, govern:

mission of Doukhobor affairs.
For several years now,, the.
USCC has requested at least“
the Fevival of the Doukhobor

While

tically to accept that, yiewpolrit,:
(Canada will have begun to be a
‘real country, TH then, it is the
task of all of us witHout *
ion to work toward a

there may - some plausible
ion to the

ment action, community bigot-
ry and attempted extortion,
unjustified loss of franchise —
were created by “other people,”
in Mr. Maynard’s term, no-one
can shirk his or her respon-
sibility to work for solutions.

Having made such points
at Mr. Maynard's expense, let
me soften them a shade by
coming to his defense. How
large a part does the ethnic
background of this country play
at present in our school curri-
culum? Till recently, what has
the attitude of the press been to
the status and problems of
minority groups?

Even yet, what is the
attitude of the provincial gov-
ernment? If Mr. Maynard has
not dug out all the available
facts, just how much encour-
agement has he and others like
him had? Precious little.

Although I disagree most.
strongly with his views, I thank
him for.the concern and energy
put into stating them, because
without, an understanding of
such views there is no place
from which to begin the work of
social reconstruction. i

In 1913 William Blakemore
recommended the establish-
ment of a provincially-appoint-
ed Doukhobor agent. In 1952
the Hawthorne research com--
mittee recommended the estab-
lishment of a provincial com-

of an agency to deal with just
one ethnic group, there is a
ready, extant solution in aid of
this and other difficulties,

Several provinces (as well
as the federal government)
have ministers responsible for
multicultural affairs, notably
Alberta, Ontario, but also sup-
posedly “smaller” provinces
such as Saskatchewan, With its
progressive aims, its numerous
minorities, and its less-than-
perfect moral history, it-is past
time that a ministry of multi-
culturalism was set up in
British Columbia,

Such an agency could legi-
timately involve itself with not
only the conflicts experienced
by Doukhobors and their neigh-
bors, but with the other prob-
lems that arise from time to
time between members of dif-
ferent minorities,

Perhaps it is most impor-
tant to recognize that all of us
in Canada, whether of English,
French, Native, Russian, Ti-
betan, or whatever extraction,
are members of our own
minority group. Just as each of
us values — with good reason —
his or her heritage, so we must
remember that there are éle-
ments both sad and glorious in
the‘heritage of every one of our
neighbors,

When we are prepared
personally, socially, and poli-

broader understanding of our
various roots, branches and
“fruits.

F. M. Mealing, Ph.D.

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rock-throwers will be literally puff-chested when they see entire schools boarded up as a

result of their actions.

problem,

| see two possibilities as a result of a ‘repair and replace policy’:

The fun-seekers will, in due course, tire of the sport—in which case It will cease to
be aproblem. Or, more hopefully, the anti-social types will become greedy for more of
the same. In their greed for thrilis and kicks they will be caught and very quickly taught
how to become first-class glaziers.

\f neither comes trus, then vandalism will be a real cost on each month's statement
of. expense and will be considered as important as light, telephone and salaries.

(t will then behoove the elected trustees to discover realistic alternatives like school
security patrols or serious money rewards for the control of the problem.

But those alternatives will only be considered when the cost Is less than the existing

It cannot be an easy problem to solve and | do not envy the trustees as they come to
grips with a social fact of life; but 1, for one, think that vandalism is not a public problem.

Bearing the cost does belong to the trustees and this responsibility passes to the
taxpayers. Little can be done about the light bill for the time being. It could be that littie
can be done about the vandalism cost each month.

| would conclude by saying that | do not think that acts of vandalism should be
reported in: the local media because, in my opinton, that simply encourages the
perpetrators to do more of the same for the public attention they get.

Campaign Still Short of Target

Christmas may be over for
most of us, but the Christmas
Seal Campaign — source of
funding for education and re-
search into lung diseases —
continues during January.

Reporting from Vancouver,

~ Tan Maxwell-Smith, honorary

treasurer of the British Colum-
bia Lung Association, said that
campaign donations to Dec. 31
had reached the-$640,000 mark.
However, with a target of
$700,000 for this i

vention and cure of, lung di-
seases which afflict at least 25
per cent of the population will
take high priority, and health
education programs will con-
tinue actively.

Campaign goal for the
Castlegar area is $4,000 of
which $3,319 has been raised at
the Dec. 31st count. Any en-
quiries about the campaign in
this area may be directed to the
campaign chairman Mrs. Dawna
Dinning.

there is still some way to go, he
said.

Christmas Seals were mail-
ed to every home in Britis
Columbia during November and
December, but if, with all the
festivities, you perhaps over-
looked sending in your donation
for this year, please do so now,
he said. The Christmas Seal
office is continuing to process
donations throughout the
month of January.

Campaign targets are set
for communities throughout the
province based on previous
donations and the overall fund-
ing goals of the association, said
Maxwell-Smith., As in previous
years, research into the pre-

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