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Thé Castlegar Home Sup- will be attending the one-day shops for its members.

of jearning and sharing. The guild is part of a
province-wide group of
health care professionals that
helps the elderly, ailing and

raises money to fund educa- disabled residents remain in

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Clean up river

The first annual Silver City Days
jet boot races last weekend were a
lot of fun and pretty good enter-
tainment. Perhaps the only \com-
plaint was that the races weren't
quite as exciting as they
billed. For instance, anyone who
watched from the area near the
Castlegar Ferry saw only. the boots
making a béeline for the finish at
Keenleyside Dam. There were no
boats flying half out of the water or
cutting a tight corner, no spills and
no thrills.

But this was only the first’ jet
boat races on the river, remember.
No doubt the races will improve in
years to come as more racers take
part, and as spectators come to
know those parts of the river that
offer the fiercest action.

The races are good for the
Castlegar-Trail area: They attract
first-time visitors who may never
have heard of the West Kootenay
before. Once here, it is our job to
make sure they return — either for
next year's jet boat races, or some
other time to take in one of the
many natural attractions we have
to offer.

But it will be difficult to en-
courage any visitor that Castlegar
is worth returning to if the Colum-
bia River is in the same condition it
was last weekend. To put it blun-

Where was

So where was everybody
Tuesday night? Barry Sullivan
brought his one-man royal com-

ission on edi to C gar,
but hardly anybody bothered to
turn out.

Admittedly, the commission has
been ‘greeted with some skep-
ticism, in particular by teachers
fighting the provincial government
over the controversial Bill 20, The
Teaching Profession Act.

But Castlegar school board
chairman Kay Johnson makes a
good case when she says teachers
are only shooting themselves in
the foot by refusing to make a

tly, the water was putrid. Not only
was the river a brown-black color
and giving off an awtul smell, it
was covered by a disgusting film,

The Columbia River is one of our
greatest assets. jet boat race
organizer Doug DeProy calls it “an
artery of "But he says —
and he's right—that until now we
have turned our back on the river.
It’s time for us now to turn around
and use the river to its full poten-
tial.

The jet boat races are only the
b ing. The Castl Chudk

of Commerce is looking at in-
stalling a wharf along the ‘river
near downtown to engble out-of-
town boaters to dock and visit
Castlegar.

Several years ago a young lo. al
architect designed a plan for &
riverside park stretching from the
ferry to Zuckerberg Island. The _
idea was warmly received, but lit-
tle has been done to make it a
reality, Perhaps now is the time to
look at beginning part of the plan
— maybe something relatively
simple like a walkway from
Zuckerberg Island to the ferry.

But first the river needs to be
cleaned up. No one is going to
want to walk or boat along a river
that stinks or is covered with crud
— no matter what kind of facilities
are offered.

everybody?

bmissi to the It
is, after all, only the third B.C.
royal commission on education in
this century. And the next one isn't
likely to come until well after the
turn of the century.

But even mo urprising is the
apparent lack of interest by parent
groups. It was only last year that
the Castlegar school board was
embroiled in a battle with rural
parents over the closure of some
rural schools.

And it seems a week doesn’t go
by without some sort of
educational concern being aired.
Yet, you wouldn't know it by the
response to the royal commission.

Norman

I wouldn't be surprised if you took
a peek into the RCMP’s missing
persons file and came across the
name Bill Vander Zalm. Not the Bill
Vander Zalm who is sitting in the
premier's chair in the Legislature in
Victoria, but the one we all saw in
last October's provincial election.
You remember him. He was all
smiles and talked about a “fresh
start” for B.C.

He promised co-operation and
consultation. He pledged to bring
business, labor and government
together as one big happy family.

He was the Bill Vander Zalm who
personally intervened in the lengthy
International Woodworkers of Am
erica dispute with B.C. forestry
firms in a bid to re-open the mills.
And he nearly succeeded.

He was the conciliatory, middle
of-the-road Bill Vander Zalm who
dismissed any notions that he
harbored an extreme right wing
ideology behind the flashing smile.

But that Bill Vander Zalm has
disappeared. He's been replaced
with another Bill Vander Zalm,
more in line with the Bill Vander
Zalm we all saw as Education
Minister, Municipal Affairs Minister
and, before that, as Human Resour
ces Minister in the cabinet of former
premier Bill Bennett.

The old Bill Vander Zalm, we all
remember, seemed to relish con.
frontation. Who can forget the
famous remarks about a shovel and
welfare workers. Then there was
his foray into education. He was

quickly shuffled out of that minis-
try. And of course there was his
attempt to change the municipal and
regional governments when he was
Municipal Affairs Minister, att-
empts which were quickly shelved
by the Bennett government.

Now we have what appears to be
a reincarnation of the old Bill
Vander Zalm — only this time as
premier determined to put his mark
on everything from labor legislation
to education

And so far the results haven't
been all that different than the old
Bill Vander Zalm. We have confron
tation and ill will in our schools and
in the workplace.

Instead of bringing labor peace to
the province, Vander Zalm’s bills 19
and 20 threaten to eliminate any
semblance of labor harmony we had.
Does it make sense to create such
distrust and bad feeling? Of course
not.

Vander Zalm appears to have
misread the voters. He seems to
think that his huge election win was
a vote in favor of radical change. In
fact, it was the opposite. Voters
wanted someone positive, someone
who would put B.C. in a better light,
someone who would usher in a new
era.

I'm sure the voters’ idea of a new
era isn't what we are witnessing
now and what we will undoubtedly
witness in the weeks and months
ahead. In that respect, Vander Zalm
hasn't fulfilled his part of the
electoral bargain.

Letters to the Editor

Drop Mother's Day

I .wonder whether we've given
enough thought to this whole business
of celebrating Mother's Day. Don't
mistake me, I'm,not of the “bah, hum-
bug” school, but it seems to me that in
the interests of family relationships, it
ought to be abandoned.

All the other 364 days a year you get
up in the morning and go about the
normal routines with no hopes other
than that you won't be interfered with
to any appreciable ‘degree. But
Mother's Day is different; you wake up
with Expectations.

You have been persuaded by such
insidious propagandists a$ your chil-
dren's teachers — to say nothing of
business and the media — that you
might, nay, ought to expect something
different.

You have been.taught to anticipate
gifts of both the material and non-mat-
erial variety. Of the material variety,
cards are a minimal requisite, flowers
— althost compulsory. Of, the non-
material gifts breakfast-in-bed is high

on the list so it behooves you to lie in
bed and wait for breakfast to material-
ize, When it doesn't, you saunter non-
chalantly into the kitchen, with cheery
smile and advice at the ready, to dis-
cover that the only one stirring is the
cat. 4

‘

You forgive this oversight and pre-
pare breakfast, secure in the know-
ledge that along with the appetites will
appear several cards of the “my mother
is'kind, my mother is pretty,” sort, ex-
cept for husband's, which will be a few
carefully wrought phrases’ boasting,
“what a lucky man he is to be married
to you,” and “he couldn't have chosen a
better mother for his children.” But
when all that come to breakfast are the
appetites, things definitely begin to
heat up.

On a normal day any further expec-
tations would long since have been laid
to rest, but ‘you hope on, Barring
breakfast in bed, or cards ang flowers,
the only thing left to you is dinner. You

visualize husband in the kitchen, cook-
book in hand, directing the children
who scurry hither and yon preparing
the repast, whiel you sit d like a

‘This information
bine RAD oe
hew, Minister
stated that a grant of $25,000 Was
being sought for the alrpart.

in its history.

The Castle News has acquired its
own linotype, which arrived recently.
It is now entirely published in Castle-

queen in your favorite chair.

But dinnertime comes and goes with
everyone wondering out loud, “When
do we eat?” while the youngest says,
“Couldn't you go to Dixie Lee and get
some chicken for us, Mom?” So you
serve up gall and wormwood instead,
metaphorically speaking, and are told,
“You shouldn't be grumpy ‘cause it’s
Mother's Day.” And your cup runneth
over and gets everyone wet.

But if we dispensed with Mother's
Day altogether, none of this would
happen. We'd all happily play our usual
roles getting along comfortably as we
do the other 364 days of the year.
Tempers would simmer quietly rather
than boil, hopes would hover around a
manageable height and all would be
well in the. nation’s homes.

k Finney
Castlegar

Working people have rights

I am pleased to see that you have
opened the door to the Letters to the
Editor to students of the primary
schools in the area. I am referring to
the letter of May 10 from little Iris
Bakken of Salmo. Children should be
encouraged to express their views on
any subject, no matter how naive their
views may be.

Surely, by the time little Ms. Bakken
has achieved mental puberty, she will
realize any adult citizen of Canada, has
the Constitutional right to participate

realize that unions are a dynamic,
driving force in the economy of this
great country.

When (if) little Iris is in high school, I
sincerely hope that there are courses in
labor studies, which will define and
articulate the progress that working
men and women have struggled for
over the years: The wages, the
working conditions, the pensions, the
grievance procedures, and yes, the
right to strike.

These are issues which people in the

in a union; be that union provincial,
federal, or private sector

By the time little has achieved
mental adolescence, I hope she will

trade union have fought and
died for, These are issues that are
paramount in the struggle of all trade
unionists — not for what they think,

but for what they believe, in their
souls, is right.

Once Iris Bakken reaches mental|
adulthood, I hope she will be able to
understand that people across the
country have a right to belong to a
union, whether they work for the
federal government. the provincial
government, Cominco, or just a small
rock quarry. Working people have
rights — and it is the working people
who are the backbone and the vitality
of this country.

Ho] to see Ms.
graduation day!

Bill

Bakken come

Rossland

Cassiday loses title

By VIC PARSONS
Canadian Press

OTTAWA — MP Michael Cassidy
suffered setbacks on two fronts this
week. 3

Not only did the Ottawa Centre New
Democrat have to eat crow on things
he said about a land deal involving
Sports Minister Otto Jelinek, but on
Tuesday he also lost his kite-flying
title.

And to a senator, no less.

The kiting contest took. place on
Parliament Hill when Cassidy, last
year's champion, matched skills with
Lorna Marsden, a Toronto Liberal.
Cassidy flew a blue-and-red ship, while
Marsden operated a high-flying, multi
colored creation that, with a little
black, could have resembled a Van
couver Canucks hockey sweater.

It soon became apparent Marsden
had the edge.

The outconte might have been
different if C idy had been able to
proceed with an idea he ventured in an
earlier local radio show. The onetime
leader of the Ontario NDP said that in
some cultures there are sharp devices
attached to the kites and the contest
includes determined efforts to snip the
strings of rival kite-flyers.

But Don Newman, press gallery.
president and judge of the event, nixed
that idea from the start. Making a
reference to the blind-eye approach
that referees in the current National
Hockey League playoffs seem to be
taking to blatant third-period infrac.

tions, Newman said he wasn't about to
become known as the Andy van Helle-
mond of kite-flying.

NEW FOLLOWING

Don Johnston, the Montreal Liberal
who voiced disapproval of the Meech
Lake agreement on the Constitution
and was labelled a “Westmount Rho-
desian” by Grit colleague Andre Ouel-
let, still has a following. Or perhaps it’s
a new one.

On Tuesday morning, Johnson
strode purposefully down from the
Centre Block toward Ottawa's down.
town. With his oversized coat blowing
ina bitter wind, he resembled a lonely,
latter-day prophet.

Near the West Block, he was stopped
by a young couple in their late teens or
early 20s who asked if he would pose
for a photo with them, using the Peace
Tower as a backdrop. Johnston com
plied.

Perhaps a week ago, before he an
nounced his opposition to the con
stitutional accord, he might have
walked by without a hint of recog-
nition.

WRONG SPELLING

The ghost of Sir John A. Macdonald,
Canada’s first prime minister, must be
doing a lot of chain-rattling lately.

After all, look at what his modern.
day Tory counterpart, Brian Mulroney,
is doing to the National Policy — the
tariff protection for Canadian industry
that was the centre-piece of Conser-
vative policy for decades.

Sir John's beloved creation, which

aimed at preventing Canada from
being drawn into the American melting
pot, would be dismantled if free trade
with the United States goes ahead.
If that isn't bad enough, look what
Sir John's political did to

\

Tuesday
gq ahead with the job if final estimates
are less than $700.

Commissioner Murray Little moved
an amendment that would have set the
ceiling cost at $1,000 but he withdrew
the motion.

. 6 «@

Two Castlegar brothers are taking
an active part in the present federal
election campaign in the Kootenay
West riding, but they are on opposite
sides of the policial fence.

Last week Liberal candidate Nick
Oglow announced that his financial
agent would be Castlegar lawyer Ed
McGauley.

Les Reed announced that the man
in charge of the Socred organization in
the Castlegar area would be Comineg:i
employee Tom McGauley.

The two McGauleys are brothers.

15 YEARS AGO
From the May 18, 1972

Castlegar News

The name is officially
Airport and on Saturday afternoon
what had been a project will become @
reality.

Ever since the airport at Ootischenia
was officially opened back in 1964 with
a small shack as a terminal building,
men like Ralph West and leter Sam
Muirhead, dreamed of an imposing
passenger facility.

The original building later became
part of Adastra Aviation's facility at
the field and was burned on Friday,
Nov. 13, 1970.

* 28 «

The Regional Recreation Commis-
sion No. 1 will conduct a house-to-house
survey in Castlegar to determine what
the people want in the way of an arena.

Ald. George Bonderoff, Kinnaird’s
representative on the now-defunct
arena planning commission, told the
council Tuesday night that the com-
mission woud] canvass every house im
the block and that his work would be
undertaken by young people who are
now being signed up for the job.

Castlegar
Rick Hansen, world and Canadian
h fonowh

him in the debate on the Meech Lake
agreement this week.

Mulroney misspelled the name of the
first Tory prime minister!

The text issued by Mulroney's office
shows Macdonald with a capital “d.”
But Hansard, the record of debates, got
it right.

POLICE GRUMBLING

Ottawa police are grumbling over
the habit of federal employees ignoring
city traffic laws.

Federal departments don't have to
pay traffic tickets and some employees,
especially those who make local de
liveries, are making a giant nuisance of
themselves by stopping wherever they
see fit on the roadways.

One of the worst offenders, police
say, is Canada Post.

‘MR.’ PAT CARNEY

Trade Minister Pat Cagney is very
image-conscious. She dislikes it inten-
sely when a newspaper or a television
crew turns up with an unflattering
portrait. And, on occasion, she lets her
staff know about it.

But there was a new twist toa report
that was issued from a foreign news
agency out of Paris this week.

Throughout the story, she was called
“he and “Mr. Carney.”

Ichair marathoner,
wheeled 10 kilometres in 82 minutes
and one second to become the overall
winner in a 10-kilometre people's run at:
Selkirk College Saturday.

The run was part of a running
workshop held at the college Friday
night and Saturday.

* 6 «

Staff at Selkirk College will be re-
duced by 15 to 20 equivalent full-time
positions because funding for Selkirk
College and the David Thompson
Univeristy Centre falls short of the
college's budget request by more than’
30 per cent, college principal Leo Perra,
said Tuesday.

Perra told the college board that half
of the positions lost will be
positions and half will be non-teaching
positions.

* 28 -¢

Cominco confirmed this week that ite
planned shutdown later this summer
will likely be held to five weeks as the
company announced earlier.

Company spokesman Jim Cameron.
in a prepared statement said, “We have
now firmed up our planning as well as
possible at this date. As matters stand
now the shutdown period for the B.C,
group will be announced earlier.”

——ee.

4 Henge an ampesty law pasted hy the Oatgoing military
a shie! those

for

rulers pr Id
Jor past alyuses and has effectively prevented bringing them

to justice...

“It appears to set an ominous precedent in that it may

‘lead ‘ those

responsible’ for human rights

pre’
“violations to believe that they*act with impunity in the
future,” “Amnesty International says:

«Although the tide of abuses has abated and there have
been’ umber of “positive developments” on human rights

‘under the new civilian

‘Thousands of thesé victims of “disappearances” have
never been accounted for. It was “as if the ¢arth had opened

by victims from all sectors of Gi

the

ewitnesses tell of groups of up to 50 victims ata

Evidence of the terror under the military is provided by
following:

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‘gaya it continued to receive reports of “disappearances” and
killings took

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a nun tells of villagers being forced at bayonet point to

whip a 14-year-old boy to death,

OXFAM representative
to speak on Guatemala

OXFAM staff person Kath-
erine Pearson will talk about
the current situation in
Guatemala Monday evening
at the Castlegar United
Chureh.

Pearson, who was last in
Castlegar translating for the
Guatemalan music group Kin
Lalat, has visited 1

creation of 6ver one million
internal refugees, finally
caused the Canadian govern-
ment to suspend government
to government aid in 1981.
Castlegar’s Guatemalan
“connection” has continued
since then, taking the form of
letter writing on behalf of

on several occasions over the
past year. Her long time int-
erest in Central America
combined with this first-hand
experience, will make for an
informative and lively.even-
ing. isuw swareors

Castlegar’s relationship
with Guatemala goes back 10
years or more to this com-
munity’s sponsoring of a
CUSO-initiated agricultural
project in the Guatemalan
highlands.

This contact ended when
an increasingly brutal mili-
tary presence drove out most
non-governmental agencies
and virtually eliminated the
ability of those remaining to
work human rights” so vivid-
ly described in Amnesty In-
ternational reports and
which resulted in the dis-
appearanees of over 30,000
people, the creation of
100,000 orphans, the exodus
of 150,000 persons as refu-
gees to Mexico, the deaths of
tens of thousands and the

or

individuals,

A visit to the refugee
camps in Southern Mexico
by Bud Godderis and other
B.C, ,residents opened up
another avenue for a Castle-
gar-Guatemala link through

the distribution and sale of
beautiful woven goods made.
by the refugees.

In early 1986 the Guate-
malan military permitted the
installation of a ¢ivilian gov-
ernment with the proviso
that there be an amnesty for
all involved in the previous
years of terror.

Pearson's talk on Monday
evening will explore the abil-
ity of her , organization,
OXFAM, and that of other
similar development assis-
tance agenciés ''to work in
Guatemala at the present
time.

Women’s Club

to meet

The first meeting of the
Castlegar Women’s Club is
scheduled for May 28. The
continental breakfast will be
held at the Sandman Inn.

This club is part of an
international organization
that is inter-church and non-
sectarian, having over 22,000
groups throughout Canada
and the United States. Spec-
ial features are part of the
occasion.

A unique feature of the
monthly breakfast is that

May 28

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or fees.

Featured on the May 28
program will be “Delightful
Designs” by Ginette’s Bou-
tique. Carolynne Mason will
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