CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, February 3,1977 Addresses Kiwanis and Lions Clubs on Her Retum aero eee ee ee ne eum SHSS Students Attend Forum for Young Canadians ‘SS Last year, Helen Josafa- Row, a student of Stanley fHumphries Secondary School swhieh she gave to the Kiwanis t tand Lions Clubs who helped ‘finance the trip: +: Gentlemen: 1 would like to “Ethank you for helping finance temy trip to Ottawa for the | "Forum for Young Canadians. It ° was a fantastic experience that fru always remember and cher- “The Forum for Young “GCanadians is a government- sponsored course dealing with many aspects of Canadian gov- ernment. This was the inaugu- ral year. g ‘There were four sessions, %each lasting one week. There ere two sessions in March and © Hwo sessions in June. One- ¢hundred students from: alt Pacross Canada attended each "session. Four-hundred students ‘participated in all. I was lucky {enough and very honoured to Sbe one of them. ‘. Twas scheduled to fly to ‘Ottawa’ on June 26th. Now,, Shere starts.the fun. As you frecall, on June 20th the pilots twent on strike. I asked Mr. ‘Lauriente, (who was hsiping ‘organize my trip) “What should ‘I do? Arrange to go by train?” ‘Mr. Lauriente said, “No, ‘don't 't worry! The strike will be ‘over by then!” Okay, I waited. On June 22nd I received a ‘telegram from Mr. German, the ‘executive director of the forum. ‘He told me to go by train and they'll refund the plane ticket ‘when I get there. « Tasked Mr. Lauriente. He said, “No, don't worry! The strike will be over by .then.” Now Mr. Lauriente knows almost everything, 1 figured, he's got to be right! Saturday, June 26th—the strike is still on! Mr. Lauriente! T felt so bad! I don’t know how he felt but I felt bad! {Monday morning, June : Bath, the strike is over! What a relieft I phoned to the airport and rearranged my flight. I would leave Castlegar at 4:10 that afternoon and arrive in Pttawa Tuesday morning. So hat if I had missed three jays? There were still four more ahead! Western Canada School of Auctionsering i 3 first, and the only jcompletely Canadian, jotcrea thywhere, ‘Licensed aivade schools Lie fens ‘Act, RSA, 1970, c.388, |For articulars of the next course Sox 687, Lacombe, Alberta or ‘phone 782-6210 Helen Tosalatow ‘Addresses Local Lions Club After ‘Attending | the Forum That's how it would have been, but I got into Vancouver at 6:30 Monday evening. My flight to Toronto was at 10:45, It was delayed till 12:15, then to 1:20 in the morning. We got on the plane, taxied down the runway. Wait... technical difficul- ties: Wait...technical difficul- ties. Two-thirty in the morning —they can't fix the technical difficulties...flight is cancelled! Oh! We were each given a room ina hotel and we got off finally the next morning at 11:30. For Young Canadians in Ottawa groups. Each group had a group leader who was a civil servant. Their job was to lead discus- sions about what went on the day before and to answer any | questions we had. After that two buses took us downtown to the Lester B. Pearson Building where we had lectures on the subjects— national defence, external af- fairs, growth of government and statutory regulations and the deputy minister. They were all excellent lectures given by experts in T arrived in Ottawa at 8:00 Tuesday evening. I learned later that with the exception of two other girls, everyone else had come on time—by train. But they were happy to have me and said I sure was smart to wait and go by plane! ‘They said the train was so crowded! It took three long days. It was blistering hot the whole time. They were running out of food all the time. People were starving; people were , throwing up all over the place! Now—thank you, Mr. Lau-” Tientel!! ~"Back to Ottawa— I'took a taxi to Ashbury College where we all slept. I got a nice room with three other girls. I had a good sleep and the next morn- ing I got into the swing of things. Each morning after break- fast we would have group meetings. The 100 of us (actu- ally 97) were divided into six “Bncars Thanks... My sincere thanks to all who supported me at the polls on Sat- vurday. Congratulations to the suc- cessful candidates. JIM CHAPMAN their’ field profes- sors, ministers, Haalars and other government officials. Af- ter each lecture we would ask questions on the - particular subject and the guest speaker would usually give a good answer. It was all very interest- ing and educational. At 5:30 we returned to Ashbury for supper. At 8:00 we had a lecture on Participation and Political Power right ‘in Ashbury. Thursday was a very eventful day. It was July ist so at.10 a.m. we saw the changing ‘of the guard ceremony at Parliament Hill. After that we walked two blocks down to the Supreme Court Building and, sitting in the room of the highest court in Canada, we had a lecture on, of course, the judicial system. After lunch we walked to U.S. Tax Man Takes Bit Of Canadian Winnings . “Have a nice day and come again. But don’t forget the tax man on your way out.” A not-so-pleased message from Reno, Nev., t. Canadian winners at keno, bingo and slot machines.* After Feb, 1—unless fore- - stalled by pressure from casino operators—the U.S, Internal Revenue Service will open the eye it has kept closed on Cana- dian winnings. It will take a full 15 per cent off the top of all Canadian winnings of $600 or more, even if the gambler -has lost that much or more just prior to his windfall. The tax collections— literally withholdings which may be refunded the following year—are to be made by the casino operators after the. win- ners have filled out appropriate U.S. income tax. forms. _ The new regulation applies to U.S. winners, too, and with a bigger bite, 30 per cent off the top. + The Canadi: get off easier because of a tax treaty with the United States, said Larry Johnson of the IRS office in Reno, It is part of an IRS plan i get a share of gambling win- nings: in Nevada, just as there is now income tax paid on horse and dog racing winnings in other states. . The IRS is enforcing the regulation only on keno, bingo and the slot machines, the most popular gambling methods a- mong small plungers. “Technically, it applies to other game winnings too, but they are too hard to ad- minister,” Johnson said. Big wins at keno, bingo and the machines can be watched because they are paid out in lump sums from casino offices, Large winnings at “table games” such as craps and black jack may accumulate in smaller amounts which are easier for winners to keep secret. The new regulations’ are being protested by the casino be FOURS _ the details. We waiit you to warm yourselfon Varadero beach’s miles of soft white sand. And in the 80° water of the Caribbean sea. We want you to see Havana’s 16th century architecture. And its fabled Tropicana night club. A ale ‘We want you to get your Air Canada fight your room, and all your meals. 2 weeks ion $750 (om Vancouver); from $730 (from Calgary and Edmonton). And we want you to-enjoy no tipping, Come see us for all ba West's Gravel 365-7782 the Conference Centre where we hada lecture on justice, civil rights and minority rights. I . enjoyed these two lectures the most of all. At 4:80 p.m. we attended the Governor General's Garden Party. We got to see Mr. and Mrs, Jules Leger, Mr. and Mra. Pierre Trudeau and their youngest son, Lots of fun, Then we wero allowed to look through the Governor General's estate. Wow! It's one big, beautiful park! There were huge greenhouses filled. with ‘flowers, among these were orchids. Pots and pots of orchids. You see, I-am an orchid lover. So I saw this one big pot with hundreds of tiny offshoots —little orchid plants, and I whispered to this guy beside me, “Hey! Wouldn't that be nice to take home?” So, when no one was looking, he pinched out one of the offshoots and quickly put it in my purse, Well, I kept it, I watered it, I brought it all the way home “and now it's growing in the kitchen: at, home! Just think! I have the Governor General's orchid! At dinner that same. day, we had a surprise guest—Mr. Dieffenbaker. As soon as he came through the door ‘of the cafeteria, we all stood up and gave him a long, hearty ‘ap- plause. He was ‘quite moved by our’ Warm welcome and gave us a little speech, He is such a nice, under-" standing man. Everyone had tears in their eyes as he told us, “Each and every Canadian has something unique and special to give to our country.” He really touched our hearts. i Now I think this happened either Wednesday or Thursday but, anyway, one time a group of our forum students was sitting together talking and the subject came to hockey. Some- one mentioned Guy LaFleur and I don’t know how it actually happened but eventually they walking alone, lost and shiver- ing. They'd see a person In the distance and they'd come up to him and whisper—Guy-Guy?” And he'd look at them, think- ing, “What queers!” Or else he'd say, “Oh, yes, they went that way!” So eventually, most of us ‘made it back to the buses but after another half-hour we realized that we were missing two, We waited and waited. We sent out a search party. We “waited and waited. The two lost girls found their way back but the search party got lost! Finally at 1:30 in . the morning we left without. them. 1 heard the next day that the search party finally had made it back to Ashbury at 4:00 in the morning! On Friday we went again to the Conference Centre and had five lectures on various aspects of the Free Market System. It wrapped up. the subject of government quite nicely. In the evening, we had a banquet specially made for us at the City Hall, At each person's place was a menu which I'll pass around and a pin which I am wearing. The mayor of -Ottawa—Lorry Greenberg. was there. When Mr.-German intro- duced him we all stood up and clapped and chanted—"Guy- Guy-Guy.” The mayor thought we were saying “speech - apeech-speech” so he started talking away and as he would finish we'd stand up again, clap and chant—"Guy-Guy-Guy.” And the mayor would start talking again; he'd finish, we'd chant—"Guy-Guy", he'd talk some more, Finally, we were getting hungry, so we quietened down and the ceremonies went on. One girl and one boy were chosen from amongst the forum students to speak on our behalf. They told the mayor how much (continued on page 11A) RRSP? RHOSP? Thinking about eo gl ben Savings Plan, or a Reg! Savings Plan? We can advite you how these tax shelters can be applied to your 1976 tax return .... but they:can only be purchased up to Feb. 28, 1977 so hurry int Kokanee Tax Service 274 B Columbia ‘Avenue banal) NOW RENTING | SHAVERS BENCH TOWNHOUSES 2 Bedroom Suites (10408q, ft.). Month .. 3 Bedroom Sultes (145sq. ft.). Month: FOR INFORMATION Call 364-2249 _ . 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Ahyways—why, T told you all about this: Later that evening the buses took us to Vincent Massey Park. For some reason or other they dropped us all off about one mile before the park and so we all had to walk along a. muddy path through the woods along the river. Our group leaders showed us the way as there were many forks in the path and only one way to get to the park. At the park we saw the Canada Stage Show where many different groups of var- ious nationalities performed dances, songs, short plays; etc. It was very entertaining. Then came the Torchlight Parade and the fireworks at Mooney's Ba: Ly The group leaders left us and it was 10:00 and pitch dark and we had to get the 97 of us ‘together, who were stranded all over the park, and somehow find our way back along that “muddy path to the bus! The supervision was good through- out the whole forum but this was one exception! When we thought we had everyone. together we set off | down the path-chanting—"Guy- Guy” they would know it was us. Each time we came to a fork in the path we'd have a 10-minute argument about which path to take and half the people would go one way and half the other. People were . getting lost left and right. They were telling me after, there'd be two or three of them World Wide Pictures presents —anas sung and told by Johriny Cash KINNAIRD HALL Saturday, Feb, 5 7:30 p.m. offerings will be received pagodo'd Chinatown. there’ 5 a warm welcome waiting at the ‘Coast’ z I's only a few short hours away—a mild midwinter world of | well-stocked stores and fascinating boutiques, of galleries to.gaze at and miles of malls to explore. Come and shop.in Trounce Alley. Discover the cobbled fascination of Chinatown and Bastion Square. Stroll picturesque, Then, dine well, take in a concent sleep late. Because tomorrow | there are still shops and shows and sights and sports... Escape! Come to the coast fora weekend, a week or o winter, We're so close. And winter is so long. BRITISH COLUMBIA For further information on British Columbio write Tourism British Columbio, 1117 Wharf Street, Victoria, B.C VaW 222 ” Russian is being taught as” “part of the regular curriculum in Pass Creek Elementary School for the second year, Although the course is mainly’ conversational, all the children learn to read and gin, says that since Russian is basically phonetic, it is much easier to understand if one hears the spoken language as well as sees the written word, Some children learn better through’ sight, whereas others through their auditory percep- tlon. By using both conversa- tlon afd writing children ac- language. Mr. Verigin further states that. children of non-Russian background are able to read very short time. Although much time is spent in conversation, children learn at least 10 Russian sanga per year. Mr. Verigin's class are capable. singers and re- cently sang Christmas carols in presented at Pass Creek Hall. In the past they:performed at the talent night at Stanley Humphries High ‘School and are presently preparing for the ‘coming .talent show -to be presentéd at the new Brilliant Cultural Centre. write, The teacher, Mr. Verl- , quire a better. concept of the . Russian Part of Regular Curriculum Taught at Pass Creek Jahigels Grade 6 Class Reads from Text “My First Russian Reader” and write quite well—within a’ Russian at the school concert’ rom Page 10A “Attends Ottawa Forum they enjoyed the forum and after that each one of ‘us received a certificate. So, then we .had a delicious turkey dinner and had a fun time. After the banquet we were bused back to Ashbury where we had a dance around the clock. At 4:80 in the morning people were still dancing.. It was-really great. About 2:80 a _ pictures. BE YOUR OWN BOSS * BUILT-IN SYSTEMS DEALERSHIP AVAILABLE ? 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Every- one was almost in tears. We had grown. so close. together. We realized ‘that from what- ever part of Canada we came, whatever. cultural background we had, we were all Canadians. T never feit national pride asI did that day. I never felt so Canadian before. 1 mean, what is a Canadian? We are people from all over the world,’ of many different ‘nationalities, religions, customs, traditions. It seems we're just a bunch of people living in the same country with no common inter- ‘est, no common cause and no love for each other. But there I realized we do” have something in common. “We've become new people as we've settled in this new land. We're a new “race”, if you want, not a pure tace where many different peoples changed, com ised to, be- Ichaven't had a chance. to -tell you this’ yet—Ottawa is gorgeous! It's like> one, big park. So clean, green and beautifull I took ‘the Rideau Canal boat cruise. I took lots of _ pictures along the way—many of them are in the album that ‘Til’ pass -around: right now. Here's some other little goodies that they gave me. Anyway—by ,that time’ it was already dinner-time so I had a candlelight dinner at the Chateau Laurier Restaurant. It was out of this world! I have | — would be by me. Dan Obedkoff has been chosen to go. to Ottawa’ this » year for the Forum for Young Canadians. Pass Royal Conservatory ‘Music Exams The following is a list of successful candidates, in exam- inations held recently by the. Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto in Trail. The names are arranged in order of merit. Grade V Theory Sy History *. Honors—Marta L. Brock. Grade II Rudiments First . Class .Honors— Adriana Venturini; Linda Tru- Grade I Rudiments First-Class | Honors— Valerie M, Cormier, Margaret L, Evans (equal);, Gordon P, Gallo; Selina E. Ireland, Cor- inne L. McGauley (equal). °. Honors—Jaimes R. 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St. James Mayor Neil Hoy said that, while he and the” village. council were: not in- volved in the program, judging. from the examples of Vander- hoof and McBride, “this seems to be one way of solving the citizens’ p: as been in effect for more yi a year, ‘an. RCMP’ spokesman said it was 80 successful it is no longer used on a-regular basis. « “Phe patrols were so ef. fective that there is no longer the need to work all the time,”- ‘said Cpl.’ Hank Stacey. “We have weekend patrols on occa- sions, but that's about all.” About 45 McBride resi- dents are: involved in the citizens’. patrol. In Vanderhoof, Sgt. Hank “Dedish said the patrols to date have reported one break-and- entry in progress and one wilful damage incident in progress, Vandalism and break-and- entry incidents have declined sharply since July, when the program was established, he said. He said about 50 citizens are participating in the pro- gram, working ‘in. twoman _ details from 11 p.m. to 5 or 6 am. 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