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there's more to it than
meets the eye, the dispute last
week «between the Castlegar
school board and the Canadian
Union of Public Employees over
who should do maintenance work
for the school district seems more
a lack of cdmmunication than some
deliberate plot to undermine the
union.
The union says the board never
asked if its members would take
on the extra work to maintain two

Stanley Humphries secondary
school mini-buses. The board soys
it was under the impression the
union didn't want the work.

An honest misunderstanding?
Probably, though it comes from a
board that prides itself on its

he hip with its ploy

The other question is why the
board couldn't see that at $30 an
hour the private company is almost
twice as expensive as the school
district's own maintenance crew.

Fears well founded

If the uranium moratorium is not
continued after Feb. 28 and ore-
disturbing exploration resumes public
fears about radioactive contamination
of local watersheds, soils and air will
grow once again. «

Today, however, there is scientific
proof that these fears may be well
founded — evidence that was not
available in 1980, when the incomplete
Royal Commission of Inquiry into
Uranium Mining tried to address these
concerns.

That hazard is radon-222, a decay
product derived from ore bodies
containing uranium, thorium and rad-
ium.

In recent years, the Environmental
Protection Agency has calculated that
20,000 of the 130,000 cancer deaths in
the United States annually may be
caused by radon and its decay
“daughters”.

The radon seeps into basements
where. it can sometimes be trapped,
reaching levels 10 to 20 times those
found in ventilated underground uran
ium mines. It is invisible and odorless.
Each radon.atom, whose half-life is 4.8
days, gives off a burst of alpha
radiation — the most biologically
damaging form of radioactive decay —
then it transmutes through a series of

alpha emitting “daughters” that will
continue to bombard the local environ
ment for about 40 years until non-rad
ioactive toxic lead is produced.

Homes do not have to be near
uranium mines for radon to become a
health hazard. Since there is a little bit
of uranium in most soils and rock
formations, some radon can be found
just about everywhere — and it can
travel up to 1,000 kilometres from its
source before decaying into the first
metallic “daughter”. This in turn can be
mistakenly treated by plants and
animals like a mineral and incorporated
into living tissue.

The closer one lives to ore bodies
with a high radium content, or to sites
where drilling and blasting enables
radon gas to escape, the greater the
hazard.

In New Jersey, where many com
munities are located near uranium
bearing ore-bodies, all homes today
must have radon measurements taken
before they can be sold.

B.C. Energy Minister Jack Davis
should seriously examine this radon
question and the very real concerns of
residents here before lifting the
uranium moratorium.

David Garrick
Spokesperson, Earth Embassy

Ron
Norman

Take a good look at Castlegar’s
downtown. Now imagine what it
will look like in 10 years. Chances
are that except for some superficial
changes Castlegar at the turn of the
20th century will look like Castlegar
in the 1950s.

It wouldn't if the downtown
revitalization program goes ahead.
But right now the program's
encountering some stiff opposition.

And while it’s not dead, it will
need all the resuscitative abilities of
Mayor Audrey Moore and Castlegar
council to keep it alive. Even then, it
may be but a shadow of its former
self.

Moore hinted at troubles with the
plan in her December inaugural
address to council. It was the first
time since the plan was unveiled last
May that anyone had openly men
tioned any problems, but it didn’t
come as a surprise.

When the plan was announced in
the spring and approval from down
town property owners was sup:
posed to be a formality because
most of them had agreed to the plan
in principle. Seven months later the
plan still hadn't been approved. sit
didn't take Lee Iaccoca to figure out
something was wrong.

Then in late December Brian
Pritchard, a member of the Down
town Business Association's revita
lization committee, went public.
Pritchard said the major stumbling
blocks to the plan are two down
town property owners — one who
feels the plan is too expensive and
the other who thinks Castlegar's
downtown looks good just the way it
is. He even suggested it looks better
than Nelson or Grand Forks. Either
the fellow hasn't visited Nelson or
Grand Forks for several decades or
he’s wearing rose-colored glasses
around Castlegar

Moore and Pritchard must over
come some major obstacles if they
expect to see the plan implemented.
But they haven't given up. This

week Moore met with the DBA
committee and council's advisory
planning committee to go over the
plan once again.

Council plans to meet later this
month with the downtown property
owners — including those opposed
to the plan. It will be a final push to
approve the plan. Out of that meet-
ing we'lt see if the plan comes
through unchanged, if it is scaled
down a second time, or if it is
trashed altogether. If I was a
betting person, I'd take even odds
on the last choice.

Next week's column: More on
revitalization and what other com-
munities have done.

. .

I promised myself I'd steer clear
of commenting on Nick Oglow's
battles with Castlegar council for
awhile after giving a fair amount of
space in this column to the muni
cipal election and the new library.
But the uproar this week over the
industrial park loan can't go by
without some sort of response — if
only brief.

I agree with Oglow that the $1.5
million loan is a problem and should
be a major concern for council. But
everyone else on council agrees with
that.

I disagree that the information
about the loan hasn't been made
public. In fact, I wrote a story about
it less than a year ago on April 9,
1986. It appeared under a banner
headline on the front page saying:
“City may never repay loan.”

In that story, Ald. Albert Calder
bank, chairman of the administra
tion and finance committee, dis:
closed the full details about the loan,
the deferred interest and council's
negotiations with the provincial and
federal governments to write off the
loan.

It is all there in black and white
for anyone to read. Oh yes, Oglow
was on council at the time that story
came out

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Letters to the Editor

PWA trip unpleasant

I am writing this letter to make
others aware of my displeasure with
Pacific Western Airlines and to inform
you that J shall be doing my best to
avoid traveling via PWA at any time
in the future. The most recent
experience suffered by my wife and
I over the Christmas holidays has
convinced us that there must be a
better way to travel.

To give you some idea as to why we
feel this way, I shall relate to you the
highlights of our journey through the
Twilight Zone.

On Oct. 8, 1986, we purchased two
round-trip tickets from Vancouver to
Castlegar on PWA Flight 170. Having
experienced the weather in Castlegar
during the winter before, we knew of
the possibility of the plane not being
able to land at Castlegar, returning to
Penticton and riding a bus to Castle-
gar. However, being an optimist I
figured our chances of making it to
Castlegar were in our favor.

On Dec. 22, 1986, we left Vancouver
on our way to Castlegar via Penticton.
The flight to Penticton was uneventful
and after a brief stop carried on to
Castlegar — or so we thought. Upon
entering the vicinity of Castlegar the
captain of our plane announced that he
would have to use a “full approach”
because of the heavy cloud conditions
and that he was going to have to get a
“visual” before attempting to land.
After making several course and
altitude changes I looked out the
window and asked my wife if what I
was seeing was Castlegar. She looked
out the window as well and confirmed
several landmarks including the air
port and an Air B.C. Dash 7 at the
terminal! We thought to ourselves that
we would be landing at any time. We
then felt an increase in power and
upward motion from the plane followed
by an announcement from the captain
that because he could not see where he
was we would be returning to Pen-
ticton where a bus was waiting to take
us to Castlegar. My wife was in tears

Castlegar
recreation
staff rude

During a recent visit to the Castle-
gar Recreation Department to register
for the February programs, I was told
that sign for for the classes wasn’t until
that evening. When I politely informed
the staff member that I worked even-
ings I was told “that’s too bad;” I would
just have to come back tomorrow. I
then pointed out to the staff that in the
Castlegar News it states and I quote:
“If you cannot make it that evening,
registration will be taken at the rec-
reation office during office hours 8:30
a.m. to 4 p.m.”

I was then curtly told that perhaps
the paper had made a mistake. I then
left unhappy and dismayed at the
whole thing. I can’t believe that letting
me register Jan. 26 in the morning
would have made a great deal of differ:
ence.

As a resident of Castlegar for the
last six years and having registered for
swimming, hockey, aerobics and sev
eral of the other programs I have
noticed that among certain staff mem.
bers this type of rude attitude is the
norm rather than an exception to the
rule.

In closing I would like to say that it
sure would be nice to see that staff at
the recreation office use some courtesy
and perhaps a smile now and then.

Brenda Binnie
Castlegar

After returning to Penticton and
boarding the bus back to Castlegar, the
driver announced that we would be
making a brief stop in Grand Forks for
soup and a sandwich. We arrived at the
Phoenix Restaurant and finally got
seated, the staff behaved as if our bus
had come to an unexpected grinding
halt outside our premises and caught
them completely off guard.

Obviously this is not true as they had
at least a two-hour warning that we.
would be arriving. When they finally
got organized and started bringing the
soup and sandwich out, to our tired and
frustrated “tour group” we found in
front ‘of us a soup that was unclassified
and ice cold and a hamburger that
qualified as barely defrosted! I must
point out that most of the passengers
who were elderly could not eat the
hamburger and that one of our ‘group
discovered from one of the staff that
there was a “very nice vegetable beef
soup available but that they were
saving it for their regular customers.”
How commendable and loyal these
people are. I suggest that should PWA
have some sort of arrangement with
this restaurant, that they should cancel
it and involve a restaurant or other
facility that is concerned about the
well-being of all patrons!

Upon our arrival at Castlegar, 81/2
hours after take-off from Vancouver,
we were greeted by my wife's parents
who told us a very interesting story.

While they were waiting at Castle-
gar Airport for our arrival they noticed
that the attendant at the PWA ticket
counter was transferring the PWA
passengers to the awaiting Air BC
flight out of Castlegar. This was not
unusual until they realized that no an

nouncement regarding our inability to
land had been made. This tends to
make us believe that someone other
than the captain of our plane decided
against our attempt to land. Further-
more, based on my father law's
conclusions of what was happening in
the terminal, this decision had, been
made before we even started to at-
tempt to land. Just what exactly is
going on?

In conclusion, I would like to state
the following points:

1, For the amount of money we have
to pay for the pleasure(?) of flying
PWA and because the Vancouver-
Castlegar run appears to be fairly
successful and lucrative, I feel that we
who are keeping PWA in business are
being let down.

2. If Castlegar is being used as a pilot
training area, as I am led to under.
stand, why are there not more confi
dent pilots flying into the area?

3. Why doesn't PWA get together
with those necessary to put pressure
on the federal minister of transport to
improve Castlegar Airport with the in
stallation of landing strip lights and
radar to make it easier for the pilots?

4. In order to assure my getting full
value for my dollar, and based on their
track record, I shall be flying with Air

"BC in the future, as well as encoura.

ging others to do the same.

5. In the interest of maintaining
some form of competition for the air.
ways is it not possible for PWA to use a
smaller aircraft than the Boeing 737 on
the Vancouver-Castlegar run, reduce
the airfare and possibly increase the
number of flights? (I think the number
of people who could and would make
use of this service should make this a
consideration.)

David H. Duncan
Richmond

Reconciliation prime

requisite

Permit me to comment on Sam
Konkin's letter to the editor in the Jan.
11 Castlegar News under the heading
“Reconciliation no fact.”

It would be highly desirable for all to
know what vantage ground Mr. Konkin
stands upon from which he trumpets
such expertly coded knowledgeable
programs as to what will be or will not

Alliance
not against

logging

Thank you very muéh for covering
the story of the Slocan Yalley Water-/
shed Alliance and the Ministries of
Forests and Environment. \ /

‘Asa member of the Alliance, ffeel it
is necessary to point out that we are
not opposed to logging. We have been
negotiating with the government for
several years towards a planning
process for managing watersheds.

We want water recognized as the
number one priority in the watersheds.
We want timber harvesting standards
which ensure that our water will be
protected.

If this were done, everyone would
enjoy the economic benefits of logging
and still retain the clean, abundant
water supplies we have always had.

Christine Matthews
Winlaw

to peace

be. At best he only identifies himself as
one Sam Konkin, an individual from
Crescent Valley.

I do wish to point out, or rather
correct, his misleading description of
the: “three Doukhobor factions as pre-
sented by the CBC,” (presumably the
portrayal of Doukhobors by the CBC
Pacific Report program on Dec. 8,
1986).

The correct version would have been
more justifiable to read: “the various
factions in the Doukhobor midst, as
presented by the CBC.”

Today, the mode of our everyday
behavior in our current private indi.
vidualistic lifestyle automatically dis-
qualifies each and every one of us
so-called Doukhobors from bearing the
Doukhobor name.

Mr. Konkin states: “Reconciliation
will take place, not by governmental
force, manipulation, or legislation, but
when all Doukhobhors return to and
practise true Christian principles ac
cording to God's law.” Surely, Mr.
Konkin should know that those true
Christian principles spell peace and
brotherhood among people. Would not
some sort of a truce or reconciliation be
a prime requisite to establishing such
peace where people would be of “one
heart and one souf and like mind”
instead of a hodge-podge of individual
opinions resulting in disparity which
afflicts the Doukhobor movement to
day? It woudl be quite appropriate to
ask here: In view of the foregoing —
where does the “Reconciliation no fact”
enter the picture?

John Perepolkin,
Slocan Park

~ Remember
When?

35 YEARS AGO
From the Jan. 31, 1952
Castlegar News

A busy year was reported by wW.T.
Waildie in his president's report to the
Castlegar and Distriet Chamber of
Commerce Annual General Meeting
held last Friday night. The full text of
Mr. Waldie's report can be found else-
where in this paper.

New officers installed include Art
Anderson, president; Mike Dalton,
vice-president; Ron Couchman, secre-
tary-treasurer, and Ralph West and
Cecil Watson, councillors.

oe @

Fire destroyed the Doukhobor hall at
Brilliant early Monday evening. The
fire was first noticed by a train crew in
the Brilliant yards. It was a total loss.

‘The hall, as it has been for the past
few years, was first built as a residence
in 1918 and later converted into a hall.
Final alterations were only completed a
few weeks ago.

. .

Playing at the Castle Theatre is Kiss
Tomorrow Goodbye, starring James
Cagney as he “makes love to danger.”

Movies to come are Prince of Foxes
starring Tyrone Power, Orson Welles
and Wanda Hendrix and Tomahawk
starring Van Heflin and Yvonne De
Carlo.

25 YEARS AGO
From the Feb. 1, 1962
News
Kinnaird council Monday night offi-
cially rejected one bid and a second
proposal on a well water supply forthe
village because the proposal was not
submitted on the tendering form, while
the only bid received was late in
arriving at the village office.
* 6° *

A cheque for $400 was turned over to
the Kinnaird Swimming Pool Society
last Saturday night at the annual
installation banquet and dance of the
Castlegar Kiwanis Club.

The cheque, representing proceeds
from last falls monster Kiwanis bingo,
was presented to swimming pool
society president Ed McGauley by
Kiwanian Aage Sylvest.

. « «

Prizes totalling $812 will be com-
pleted for this weekend by the 44 rinks
entered in the Castlegar Curling Club's
annual open bospiel.

Half of the entries are from outside
rinks, including Montrose, Salmo,
‘Trail, Nelson, Nakusp and Rossland.

15 YEARS AGO
From the Feb. 3, 1972
ar News

The proposed boarding home for re-
tarded adults came in for strong criti-
cism at Kinnaird counci] Tuesday
night.

The project, known as Crossroads
Boarding Home, is sponsored by Mr.
and Mrs. Richie Geronazzo, who plan to
adapt a building at 504 Seventh Ave. as
a “homey-type” place for a dozen re-
tarded adults.

. * 6

Minor Hockey Week in Castlegar is
over but after the successful wind-up
over the weekend, league officials are
hopeful that the spirit generated dur-
ing those days will not die out.

‘The program took on 'many aspects
during the festivities with events that
appealed to all ages.

There was, of course first and fore-
most, minor hockey matches’ for the
youngsters to play and watch. But
there was also a social life connected
with the games that drew people of all
ages closer together.

.

Education Minister Donald Brothers
has urged the provincial government to
start work on the missing link between
Kinnaird and Salmo this year.

5 YEARS AGO
From the Jan. 31, 1982
Castlegar News

Castlegar’s downtown revitilization
plan will focus on a two to three block
triangle shaped area bounded by
Columbia Ave., 4th Street and 3rd
Street, the plans coordiniator said
Thursday.

Eileen Fisher told a breakfast meet-
ing of the Downtown Business Men's
Association that the area’s “main
street” will be a one block stretch along
Columbia Ave., between 3rd and 4th
Streets.

. 8

Eleven Canadians, eight from Cres-
ton, died in the Phillipines Wednesday
en route from Manilla to Baguio City to
see faith healer Sister Josephine, when
their mini-bus collided with a bus full of
Chinese tourists.

* 2 «

Castlegar’s Barry Streliev and Jim
Smith picked up hattricks last night at
the arena complex as they helped the
Castlegar Rebels to a 14-8 victory ove:
Elk Valley Raiders. -

Streliev got two goals in the
period and one in the second =
Smith got his three goals in the third
period

AT

pass heart surgery, is back

with better-known music groups and young veejays —
‘just like the big kids’ video shows, rr

Murray McLauchlan appears in the season opener, to

be brondeast at 4 p.m. on CBC. Other performers

this season include K.D. Laing, Katrina and

appearing
the Waves, Jermaine Stewart and Platinum Blonde. ‘

‘The artists will appear in “kid-1-cized” videos shot by
the Vid Kids crew, said producer Heina Muller. The
videos usually include plenty of animation and kids
fooling around with the artist.

The Vid Kids Dance Club — a it,
Hascioan Prsilesahd —enck vidods hh SHUR OTR age
Bob Schneider will return to the show from last year,

‘Tuesday's show will also introduce Computerman,
played by mime artist Peter Jarvis. Each ‘week,
Computerman will get into wicky situations in his own
music video,

Another new addition includes “event videos” that
show chlidren roller skating, doing synchronized

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
The indomitable Peggy Lee,
recovered from double-by-

the heart surgery in New
Orleans.

“I just came back from a
10-week tour,” she said in an
interview at her Bel-Air
home. “I've also been ap-
pearing with symphony or-
chestras, and it’s a real thrill
to have all those musicians
behind you. I also have a
great jazz quintet, so you can
see I have the best of both
worlds.”

And a whole new gener-
ation of filmgoers has been
hearing Lee in the Walt
Disney classic, Lady and the

Dyad duet set
for Kootenays

Dyad, the flute and piano
duo featuring Marina Piccin-

on the road again, posing her
still unanswered inquiries,
Why Don't You Do Right?
and Is That All There is?
Nothing, it seems, can stop
the 66-year-old songstress,
not diabetes, glandular de-
ficiences; double pneumonia
or a near-fatal fall in which
“my ribs were torn from my
spine.” But her closest brush
with death came October
1985 when she underwent

pected music competitions
and has had solo

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the videos

HUEY LEWIS laughs at some critic's suggestions
that his hit single, Hip to be Square, sums up North
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be dumb? It's hip to be hip.”

Lewis said many people thought I Want a New Drug
— one of five Top 20 singles off the Sports LP — was
prodrug song when it was actually anti-drug.

‘Tramp, which has earned $23
million US in a re-release this
winter. She not only wrote
the songs with Sonny Burke;
she also plays the voice of the
canine tart Peg who sings
He's a Tramp (but I love
him).

“The character was orig-
inally called Mamie,” Lee re-
called. “But Walt didn't want
to insult our First Lady,
Mamie Eisenhower.”

What does she remember
about working with Walt
Disney?

ADMIRES DISNEY

“Everything good. It was
the first time I realized that
enthusiasm is a great, great
part of genius. He had en-
‘thusiasm for every part of his
work. He would pose for the
animators to show them
different characters. He was
into every corner of his
work.”

Lee has also been working

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with both Canadian and in-
ternational orchestras.

ini and Robert Kortgaard is
coming to the West Koot-
enay. They will perform a
program of works by Mozart,
Franck, Godard and Borne
Tuesday in the Trail Junior
High Audit@rium.

Flautist Picinini and pi-
anist Kortgaard are embark-
ing on a new career together
as Dyad, a flute and piano
due. “genuine human warmth un-

Piceinini is a prize winner. derpinning his technical pan-
of a number of highly res- ache.”

COMMUNITY

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Grand Prize winner of the
Canadian Music Competition,
Kortgaard has appeared as
soloist with major Canadian
symphonies and in concerts
throughout Canada and Eur-
ope and was priased by the
London Times critic for his

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on her i
should be quite a saga, cov-
ering her North Dakota
childhood, the band-singing
days with Benny Goodman,
the hit records, the movie
roles, and endless tours, with
plenty of heartbreak along
the way.

‘The tour of late 1985 could
have been her last.

NEC
to show
prints

The West Kootenay Na-
tional Exhibition Centre will
show “Hand-Pulled Original
Prints” in February. Organ-
ized by the Grand Forks Art
Gallery, the show will be at
the NEC Feb. 2-28.

Curated by Margo Willi-
ams of Rossland, this exhibit
jnelad hi

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Notices should be brought to
Columbia Ave

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Fruitvale, Salmo, Castlegar, Rossland
1364-2933 or 365-6172 before 4 p.m.

1060 Eldorado Trail

litho-
graphs, seriographs, Japan-
ese woodcuts and several
other examples of printmak-
ing.

Such unfamiliar words as
“viscosity etching,” “mono-
print,” “unocut,” and “colla-
graph” are brought to life by
such talented Kootenay ar-
tists : Mary Baravalle;
Judith Foster; Carol Couch;
Margo Williams and Marilyn
Kolstad.

Hand-pulled limited edition
prints are printed one at a
time by hand by the artist, as
opposed to a photochemical
reproduction of a painting or
drawing.

DYAD

Formerly Devonian Duo
change of flutist

Troll Jr. High School
Tues., Feb. 3
8:00 p.m.

They wil be pertorming 9
of Srorke by Mosert, French,

coun
Scdord and Borne

Canadian Writer's Series
presented by the college and
Canada Council, Sproxton is
author of Headframe, a book
which brings into print such
lively expressions as “bum-
shining,” “sewer boxes,” and
“horses of country rock.”

Headframe is now in its
second printing and has been
described as “entertaining
and challenging, a delightful
handling of story and lan-
guage.” The book tells of
growing up in the mining
town of Flin Flon and learn-
ing about life on the surface
and underground. The char-
acters include Flintabbatey
Flonatin, the Indian leader
Chatique, as well as Henry
Kelsey, the 17th century ex-
plorer and poet.

Sproxton is also editor of
Trace: Prairie Writers on
Writing, the first book of its
kind. He is a graduate of
United College and the Uni-
versity of and cur-

‘The shows are to help raise money for
which examines

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clubs for at least a little while to put his ghoulish show on
the road. P
Canadian dates include: Halifax, Feb, 23; Frederic-
ton, Feb. 24; Toronto, Feb. 26; Sudbury, Ont., Feb. 27;
Montreal, Feb. 28 and Ottawa, March 3. There was no
word on western dates. Ba

Reg. $11.95 ec. 2 1
m. daily
(NO TAKE OUT;
Located | mile south of Weigh Scales in Ootischenta.

BIRK SPROXTON
... learning and living in Flin Flon

ROSE'S
RESTAURANT

is scheduled to appear in

writer-i

University of Saskatchewan,
Crozier writes about what it
means to be a woman against
the backdrop of prairie towns
and people.

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In 1985, Crozier was
runner-up for the Govenor
General's Award for Poetry
for her book The Garden
Going On Without Us. She
will be reading in Room B-17.

rently lives in Red Deer
where he teaches Canadian
Literature and Creative
Writing at Red Deer Col-
lege.

Sproxton’s hockey stories,
The Hockey Fan Came Rid-
ing, have begun to appear in
print. He is writing a novel
about political activist Mabel
“Mickey” Marlow who led a
‘strike in Flin Flon in 1934.

Lorna Crozier, is the sec-
ond writer in the series, and

short-story ac-
tist Keath Fraser has de-
veloped a reputation among
those in-the-know about Can-
adian writing. His two books,
particularly Foreign Affairs,
1985, are astounding in their
range and technique.

In 1986, he was winner of
B.C. Book Prize’s Ethel Wil-
son Prize for Fiction. Fraser,
the last in the Canadian Wri-
ter’s Series this winter will

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