Wednesday, September 14, 1994

News from the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce

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Visitors galore!

sit back and enjoy the not so busy
attractions and

So we are still busy at tour
Travel Inf even in

Well, it has been an
ly busy summer. Visitors to our
Travel Infocentre has increased

over last year.

Visitors from all over the
world came to visit our beauti-
ful city and many have
remarked they will return again.
But now that school is in ses-
sion once again, our visitors
have slowed down but not

September.

Gearing up for
September

September is busy for the
Chamber of Commerce and we
are busy up to host the
1994 British Columbia Cham-
ber Executives Annual General
Meeting.

ernment representatives,
guests and speakers from
across the province, coming to
Castlegar on September 28 for
six days of meetings, shop-
ping, meeting new people and
just plain spending moncy in
our community. So everyone,
please be on the lookout for
them and make sure the first
impression we give them is the
best, most positive one they go
away with.

They will be going back to
their communities to let every-
one know how great they were
treated while visiting our won-

There will be imatel

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Annual general
meeting

The Chamber is also starting
to prepare for its own Annual
General Meeting which will be
held on October 12.

The new board of directors
and executive will be sworn in
and our guest speaker for the
day is Bob Gumbardo, also
known as Mr. Enthusiasm.

His presentation will be
“Apathy is Contagious...but
who cares’. His presentations
are filled with home-spun
humor, thought-provoking ideas
and tips, and seasoned with an
assortment of familiar and “not
so familiar” quotations.

Gumbardo is a motivational
speaker with vast experience
and knowledge and his message
is guaranteed to send you away
with valuable tools for living
and a strong desire to affirm.
The huncheon will be held from
poor unti) 1:30 p.m. at the Fire-
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side Inn. Please contact the
Chamber office to register.

Tee-riffic!

The Castlegar and District
Chamber of Commerce third
annual golf tournament was
another success.

We would like to thank all
sponsors of holes and contribu-

1994 Manuf: Directory,

Growing Small Busi

R ly, a 50 per cent bud-

booklet on the approach the gov-
emment is taking towards growing
small businesses; The Canadian

Canada’s Information and Com-
munications Infrastructure Guide;
Trade Development Programs and
Services—External Affairs and
International Guide; Tech-

get i for the program
was announced, totalling $6.5
million for 1994/95.

Technology BC provides finan-
cial support for applied research
and development projects includ-
ing the development of new prod-
ucts, processes, prototype
demonstrations and technology
transfer. The next competition

nology for Envi Solu-

is 1. If you

tors of prizes for their
and support. Everyone had a
great time and the weather was
perfect (as ordered).

Winners were:

First place; Tom Leckie,
Mike Keriff, Wayne McCarthy,
Doug Mawhinney.

Second place; Chris Nolan,
John Nakken, Mike Truscott,
Rod Timm.

Third place; George Ozeroff,
Pete Kobatoff, Wes Mercer,
Steve Pelton.

Hardest working team; Ken
Geddes, Gail Geddes, Bruce
Wilson, Linda Wilson.

The winner of the fly-in-
fishing trip courtesy of High-
land Helicopters was Don
McDowell. Congratulations!

The Looney Lotto winner was
drawn at our golf tournament
and the lucky winner is Alex
Pereverzoff. Congratulations!

For your
information

The Castlegar and District
Chamber of Commerce/Business
Information Centre has new

Commercialization Program,
Technology

If you are interested in look-
ing at this information and find-
ing out more, please give the
Chamber office a call.

Do you have
‘Spunk!’

Spunk!—Profiles of Innova-
tive C: dii isa

are d in participating,
please contact the Chamber
office for more information.

We’re connected!

The Castlegar and District
Chamber of Commerce has
recently gone on line with
BOSS. BOSS is the Business
Opportunities Sourcing System
computerized data bank con-
taining information on Canadi-

new book celebrating the
entrepreneurial spirit. They are
looking for entrepreneurs in our
community who meet the crite-
ria for profiling in their book. If
you know of anyone who could
qualify, we have the i

an of goods and
suppliers of services.

The system is operated by the
federal department of Industry,
Science and Technology in
cooperation with the Canadian
provinces and territories.

The i ion in the data bank

to put their name forward.

Feeling
competitive?

The Science Council of
British Columbia is holding
their next Technology BC
Competition. Technology BC
is a research and development

directories, guides and inf
tion for new start-up businesses
or existing businesses.

‘We have recently received the

delivered by the Sci-
ence Council in cooperation
with the Ministry of Employ-
ment and Investment.

covers a variety of industry sectors
ufacturers, trading houses, con-

consultants, tourism, etc. There are
more than 26,000 establishments
listed in BOSS covering more
than 20 different sectors.

Each establishment is contacted
annually to amend existing infor-
mation. Information in BOSS is
Current because non respondents are
deleted. If you would like to access
please contact the Castlegar and
Disttict Chamber Of Commerce.

The counter-balance of responsibilities

“To be or not to be—that is the
question.”

Shakespeare: Hamlet

And so begins Hamlet's most
famous soliloquy on suicide. He
did a lot of thinking about it. So
did the late Sue Rodrigues who
died in a recent physician-assist-
ed suicide—a modern oxymoron,
if there ever was one.

Self-destruction has been a part
of the human drama for a long

time, with some cultures consid-
ering it to be an honorable way
out of difficulties or dishonor and

others condemning it completely.
In ancient China, for example, if
one was unfortunate enough to
eam the displeasure of the emper-
or one would receive a gift of a
silken bow string. The unspoken
suggestion being that one hang
one’s self at once from the near-
est tree and avoid a lot of fuss and
bother in the near future.

A Roman officer who failed in
his duty or faced capture by the
enemy had only one option—he
fell on his sword. The Japanese
samurai class had a more painful
method, for the men, at least. In
the face of dishonor, or on orders
of their lord, they were obliged to
commit seppuku—disembowel-
ment. The suicide in this case
was saved from further disgrace
of crying out in agony by mes
a ‘second’ who, after the candi.
date had made the second
tory cat ln'is bel, ised oer Rk
head with one stroke of his
samurai sword.

British officers facing court
martial in Victoria's time were, in

Wednesday, September 14,

1994

The Castlegar Sun

@ Refléctions
Continued from 10A

where they would ‘do the honor-
able thing’ by blowing their
brains out.

In India, women ae hi

place set.

She was alone at last with only
her doctor and Robinson. All was
done according to ritual. It
reminded me a little of the death

their husband. iu to

of who was

dutifully comma oat suttee. That is,
throw themselves, with or with-
out help, on the funeral pyre of
their dead husbands. In cach case
self-destruction was enclosed in
ritual to make it ng else.

and req to drink the
poison, hemlock.

He too sent everyone from the
execution chamber except the
executioner and a handful of
friends who would not upset the

In other cul

rf ak. unrestrained

in the West, suicide was severe-
ly frowned upon. Dante Aligieri,
the great Italian R

» his

Then the reporter asked the

poet, for example, in writing his
epic poem, The Divine Comedy,
consigned suicides to a very dis-
mal corner of his multileveled
inferno (Hell).

But suicide is a kind of hell
in itself, both for the one who
dies and for those left behind.
I find the story of Sue
Rodriguez a particularly trag-
ic example of a modern
dilemma of rights versus
responsibilities.

A strong intelligent, deter-
mined and willful woman who
was struck down in her prime by
the le

fatal ig that
the circumstances had been dif-
ferent. Suppose that you had at
your bedside a caring and helpful
husband, that you were surround-
ed-by loving and supportive fami-
ly and friends, would you do
what you are doing?

The unfortunate Rodriguez
burst into tears and cried, “I don’t
know. I don’t know.”

I feel truly sorry for Sue

Rodriguez and all others who, in
desperation, despair and hop-
lessness, have taken their own
lives, often in a last cry, I sus-
pect, for help.

Lou Gehrig's disease, she had
nothing, or thought she had noth-
ing to live for and, she challenged
the justice system all the way to
the Supreme court in her efforts
to have a physician-assisted sui-
cide. Her efforts were strongly
backed by ‘right-to-die’ sroure
and by MP Sven Robi:

in our concem for
rights we too often seem to forget
the counterbalance of responsibil-
ities. Too often we have forgotten
the meditation of John Donne,
poet and divine, who

wrote the following.

“No man is an island, entire of
oneself, every man is a piece of
the

_— Promoting their own oloted

She didn’t get it.

In her last weeks of life she
was interviewed by a reporters
who has recently published a
book about her last days, and
judging by the synopsis which

suicide, nor of the nobility,
courage or dignity of the act.

The unfortunate Rodriguez,
wasting and increasingly depen-
dent_on others for all, her needs,
had planned her own killing to

-the last detail—her family and

friends were sent away, her cloth-
ing chosen, and the time and

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