CASTLEGAR NEWS, March 15, 1981 KJSS holds professional day Teachers captivated by computers. “Voiceof the People / Student's view Editor, Castlegar News: In addition to a few other projects about the banning of four books from libraries, I would like to state my point of view as a young reader. lam 18 years old and read many books. I feel that those, four books are among the best I have read. They deal mainly with children, not adults and the events in these books are about real life. Some parents don’t want their children to read these books because they contain sex and “four-lettered words." Personally I think that these authors have suc- ceeded not in pumping filth into children's heads, but a few basic facts of life that some parents have failed to get across to their children. And 1 think someone ought to do.it, As for “four-lettered words” in these books, we hear them all of the time. We hear them not only in school, but on TV, in the niovies, walking down town or by just plain reading bathroom wallst I know of numerous moth- ers who read Harlequin Ro- mances and leave them lying around the house. Not only do these books contain sex, butifa child should read one, there are many bad examples for children to follow. These books are closer than the school library. Lastly, I would just like to say that banning these books or putting them in an adult section, would be totally un- necessary. Us kids can't go through life reading Mickey Mouset Grado 8 Student ‘Microwa e* Editor, Castlegar News: I would like to comment on the article on microwave ovens by Mr. Merriman in the Marck 11 issue of the Castlegar News. My guess is that he has a microwave oven, feels a bit uneasy with it after some of the things he has heard about them and has obviously put in a lot of research to get.all the facts he can, which ig commendable. Had he: thus presented the facts of his research to the -public and then left those facts to the “public discretion” as quoted by Thomas Jefferson * he would have completed his task of informing his readers. Unfortunately he contin- ‘ues, and puts out a lot of data that means very little to the average reader.. He then states “In the simplest terms there is no radiation effect from microwave ovens.” | The staff of Kinnaird Jun- lor Secondary’ School .took. advantago of a professional development day Feb. 20 to participate in’ a micro-com- - puter orientation session pre- sented at tho school. . by Grant DoWolf..“ , Teachers bad been briefed on. the mechanics of’ the Apple II systam ina one-hour preliminary: session . after school the previous day. The” devoted to hands-on exper- ience in which staff members, administrators, two guests and two school trustees lear- ned the basics of ‘computer, programming. * Tn the’ afternoon some teachers continued to build programs started in the morning, while others ‘famil- inrized themselves with the software (computer. progr- Iam now. looking at an advertisement measuring 15 inches by 10 inches which -was contained in the March 5 issue of the Vancouver Prov- inte In this advertisement, issued by one of Canada's oldest and reportable com- panies, the public is told, and -I quote: "Microwave oven. radiation ean become a very’ real hazard when your appli- ance’s sealing surfaces, doors, hinges and Jatches be- gan to wear out.” ‘The ad goes on to say that if you buy one. of their “microprobes” at $10 each you can regularly check your safety. Also the ad states that when a leakage “exceed- ing Canadian Government. limits” has developed your microprobe will glow red. So on the one hand, we are told by Mr. Merriman that there is.no radiation effect from microwave ovens, while _ Super Specials From Carl’s Drugs: _ We Reserve The Right to Limit-Quantities. Pricesin Effect to Mar. 18 - - by the carton Kings or Regular ‘8.39 Limit 1 etn./customer while stock lasts, Maxi Pads Ex ‘Absorbent 5-7 | 89 Playtex 30's *2.69: Bathroom — Delsey 2's Castleaird Plaza : Sarareo + O.B. Tampons 20's. aoe Carefree . Panty Shields 48's .. 52.49 Regula, Super, Sionderar’ Super Plus. Reg., Deca or Super. 9 a - Carl’s Western Drug Mart - - Closed ‘this Sunday: Castlegar. Druq Open 12- 1 p.m.and 6 7 pa m. ams) available for thelr sub- ject areas. Professional days, lke Feb. .20 allow teachers time free from classroom instruc- tion so that they can update and expand their skills. When professional days are used for teacher Inservice the result is that teachers return to their classrooms refreshed and inspired to do an even tter job for their students. Reaction to the workshop were positive in both word and deed. Some teachers, who were: réluctant ,to - got: invelved’ with computers, have “fallen in love” with this new teaching tool to the point, where they have spent sev- eral hours of their own time learning more: about pro- gram ig. - . Credit for the workshop should go to Grant DeWolf . : KI88., and his assistants, John Orr, A! Sheppard and Paul Med- vedeff; to Twin Rivers School for’ the loan of their five micoro-computers; . and to Terry. Rogers, principal of for organizing, the day. *KJ88, one of two computer pst projects in the district, as set an ambitious: baths involving three goals t! year: 1. to-have all “students ; achleve functional literacy on a.computerby June; 2. to introduce at least 76 per cent of the teaching and support. staff to computers; ant iB . 2. ‘to -encourage' com. ‘The school is in. the mldst of pompleting. goal No. 1; in fact, every student will have achieved a degree of com- puter literacy by Easter. The.” “professional day program — we areialso: told that the Canadian government has set limits onthe amount of radi- ation that is permitted. I suggest that Mr. Merri- man tries to resolve this ‘conflict. In the meantime, I will stay with the hot bath. Robert Rivers Castlegar plus”: subsequent inservice’ ‘| training after school — has resulted in goal No. 2 being exceeded. Virtually 100 per cont.of teaching and support staff cow have a working’ knowledge of the Apple I _ Computer, A start has been made on goal No. 3, bt fhe On March 20 there will be another “Computer Happen- ing” at Stanley Humphries Secondary Schoo) where staff will “Switch On” similar to the KJ8S method. During an orientation session a sales: représentative fro:a Paragon will be demonstrating the Apple II ‘ Microcomputer ar its peripheral equipment. March 11 winning Western numbers Whale Wester aumbers Numbers for the $10,000 prize are: 2256210, 3059506, 1786946, 8466228 . and 2164712. 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If you want solid comfort, and don’t want the surprise of heating bills that look like your monthly grocery budget, on top of your rent or mort- gage payment, ask, your agent.or © _ landlord for natural gas — the stamp of quality, residential development. aa pwd b| tuo weld ep Yoga not By Bruce Levett * ‘The Canadian Prets Does Fideaux liege” A ick your hand when, * you ahither home from a hard day at the office? : Does Fluffy greet you with extended. claw and bared fang after being ; locked in the apartment ” } throughout your sbsence: | on the. hustings? Is your pet goat, neg- lected and forlorn, beset + with an inciplent case of ' nerves? : . Yoga may be the answer ‘not for you, for your pet." t: hasn’t, caught on! in fanada yet, but if Japan it Neil’ Bixby of the Yoga Health Institute of Canada, + ssya — somewhat hesi- tantly — “I can believe it,” altliough he hasn't heard of * It in this country. “It would bo’ difficult to - conceive: how to get the mind-to-body functions which’ is ‘the essence” of yoga. But maybe, since hu- mans are more cerebral than animals, that: aspect isn't as important for anl- mals.” ' duly, ‘Bixby admits, and you get an animal that can be “tense and neurotic.” “Some. good Is possible just from the muscular ri daxation.” © Masuda says the light went on several years ago when he noticed his poodle ~ ‘acting strangely.’ * i “1; was.doing my yoga exercises at home when I noticed him,” Masuda says. “I suddenly, realized he was trying to. copy, me.” corporal well-being.” , OK, but how do you get your cat, dog, goat, racy coon, ete, to assume the lotus position? You don’t, of course,’ A> rpogram of three | weekly lessons begins with -the | death’ position, | in’ which pets He motionless, belly down, with legs out- thrust: From there, the pet progresses through the panda pose, tho pyramid fenton the Penguin pos- Poodles, and Yorkshire terriers appear to be most . adaptable, © the’ Japanese trail-blazer suggests, “Pomeranlans and ‘chi--- huabuas, ‘on’: the \ other’ hand, are pretty stupid.” Each month, some 100 twitching pets — moat of them suffering from a daily ‘confinément in tiny apar- tments — aro invited into Masuda's parlor. The ; month-long course goes for 10,000 yen, or.a bit’ more: ‘than $60 Canadian. Some fine print in the lease prohibits me from trying: the Masuda method. by Ministers In the West Kootenay By Rev. ROY HUBBEARD « Pentecostal T: Tebernacte “freedom that he jumped and danced for joy. He accidently ¢: Freedom is a much mis- hit a man nearby on the nose ‘Understood "subject . these’. “ while he was jamping up and days, Whenever people want down. The man immediatel ly. Hoe was s0 excited about his their own way now, they CEYs « ” “Free~ “Freedom of ‘dom of choice," ete. Usually it, belagable to think, act, move or turn without restrictions. ° “' There are people who talk about total freedom but fail to. realize .what:this would mean: This would mean that everyone could do as he Th result would be chaos. Oi to murder anyone he choses and vandslize ‘at will. An- Bist te "the road atid s0 on. ‘Anareby would result, - . & Freedoms must’ be deter- mined by. society as to which onesarz right and which ones are wrong. It is not a per- sonal selfish choice but a de- ision based on what is good for’ all and ultimately the halted the dancing with some. angry: words. He questioned, “But. I thought in America people are, free, no?) The man replied, “Your freedom stops at the end of my nose.” When we, by our doms,. begin to violate the “people must be taught before “being” -given ‘freedoms: that they cannot’:understand or, ‘control. For“ example, chil. dren need mature guidance before’ being’ let loose--“to hemselves:, tales young lives to’ preserve the fibre’ and ‘stability’ of our.’ soclety. Moral decadence, spiritual neglect and academic failure,’ if encouraged,- or even al- lowed to grow unchecked, will producé a decaying, de- generating society -that will ultimately destroy all the. freedoms of value that exist today. It will: be destroyed itself. Such was the case of Sodom and Gomorrah as well Generations to follow. Then rules must be enforced to. those freedoms are: tnaintaint One man - disembarked froma ship ina U.S, harbour. ponsibility tohave a positive input into ‘society ‘for the good of all. We must ni afraid to speak ‘out. ‘against efforts to destroy the family unity, moral purity ar. ness, wherever it is found’ fn our ‘society. This: will’ help maintain the truly.important © free-. frecdoms that we have. _The restrictions on some freedoms should’: be Lge tained in order to preserve ‘A weathered, faco’ peers out’ of: the’. canvas vander hooded eyes. A pipe is in the ‘wrinkle mouth of another, , and around the edges of his “eyes, a glint of ‘mischievous- ness, On another wall a ala: pidated barn looks as though i might ‘fall. down ; bofore your very eyes. Ifyou turned away. suddenly, and: looked back, it might not be stand- + ing. Tn still another, a vase is full of bunches and bunches of tiny purple flowers’ which look : as‘ though they, we were picked that morning. This artwork of Sandor hte a part, of -Hun, became: Ea oe the second . world: war. Like s0 many European dis rupted by’ the war,’ Sandor's. fathor. disap, and vas not heard from * grade cha and continually brought home ‘prizes for his - watercolor Palntings. He lived: in’ Austria. and Sweden for a time, and also’ traveled to, Poland. Where- ever he went, Sandor carried his small as he> saw’ it,” Warsaw, Prague, Venice; foraver etch- again. _Before he’ left, | however, he “ elementary’: eateries cof. painting. lor was always. ne of tho best artists in his . * Ee iH the’ land of ‘eect He ito when hi sketch pad, drawing i the’ things he observed; Paris |’ bring her out." i eas eas he Todas ; 3. the “anclont Roman Em | PrEvery citizen hae: a ree! the right in our society. ‘Then k freedoms ‘do not’ become a means unto themselves but’ rather a‘ vehicle to improve things around us. :: For example, - censorship. t6 _ will not,then be a breech of dren eating a balanced. ingal from the ‘table. than the rotting. seraps ! found ina y from which the individual can properly assess things and choose his: way. *" Actually, no freedom fot of ay, depth unless real: free- ‘dom has been found in. Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the out shall make you free.” He als said, “Iam the truth.”* ore a militant group: sts soap opera atch ‘ecent. years have becom: quite vocal Tenyining interferes with the alringt thelr ” ‘I'm not talking about:your- Social Soop Watchers who watch the soaps to unwind and who can quit “As the World Turns" anytime they ep want to, 'm ‘talking about your Chronic Viewers who oveiy: day of their lives need “One Life toilive” just to started, can't stop watching until hey’ ‘stagger into t! pe bedroom late ot night from :"Dallas’ and’ gre an em- barrassment to thelr familie: 2 ¢ Every'time a.national story breaks of great impact on the country, ‘you can count on them to send up 9, roar ‘that is heard: throughout the country — especially if the event preempts their soops. Their ‘feeling Is if you want to end the Vietnam War, have a funeral for a national figure, or bring the bostcest home from Iran, do it before 10. a.m. or after: Somehow, { have the feeling if the network ‘Broad. cast a warning to “hit the bunkers by 1. p.m. pect fo survive,” a Soap Fanatle would call ‘he's station and say, “Does that mean you're ‘not golng to show yan’ 's Hope'?” Several decades ago, 1! read a short story about o restroom attendant who-felt she was cut off from the drama of life, stuck away in a powder room replacing \ soap and giving hand towels to the women who came * and went. To fight the monotony, she immersed herself in movie magazines, living vicartously in their adven- ° tures and thelr glamorous lives. + She never saw the steady parade of real-life drama that’ was within her touch, The women who unloaded thalr pain, thelr anxtety, thelr fears, their -pérsonal. problams and one who was contemplating ‘sulcide' played toadeaf audience. © { Reolity just wasn't dramatic enough. l.know about the Suds Majority. My grandmother he Founding Mother of the movement. Television hadn't been invested yet, but Grandma marked her vigil every day at the radio. beginning with the serial "Getty and Bob." When Bob was out of work, Grandma cut back. When Botty had o headache, Grandi a took, two sopirin fon't think Grandma ever knew she was surroun- dat by a widowed daughter, @ son going off fo war, a son-in-law out of work, a husband down to three days’ werk and the creditors moving In. “She always said, "Shhhh, My soaps areon.” Unless Jesus Christ, the risen Son of God, has become brine is freedom from sin, Ifishness, guilt, shame, hell - and defeat. ‘It is an inner’ freedom that paves the way to God. + Neal freedom through i Jesus Christ surpasses any other freedom known, for FA is felt‘in the spirit of man. | Freedom,’ real freedom, can “be yours simply. by turning your life over to Jesus Christ, making both Saviour and Master. your ‘dlecoveriag R. : tion of the hero. They are : By Mary Campbell NEW YORK (AP) — The private eye in fiction didn't die ‘after: Raymond ‘Chand- ler’s' Philip Marlowe and Dashiell. Hammett's Sam Spade. He continues, for ex- havea better sense of ee ‘than we! men,:-3s- greater course of that conference it : played host to some Canadain clubs’ ‘and “a number. . of * American clubs. 1 had been local, ‘sort of ; a tour guide, under ie guise of ‘local :historian’ for the.’ Kiwanians}, and in fae of. some initial “tummy butter. . flies,” I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. In the first place, ¥ enjo the company of wo they descendants of ‘the cowboy and frontier hero, adapted i E Ife in the 20th century. “The: detective novel, I think, recognizes what the traditional Western novel ample,. in. book: sby ea Macdonald and John D. Mac: Donald. ' rer be continues in books” ‘by 48-year-old Robert Park- er. Mystery readers in creasing numbers have been, discovering Parker during’. the last decade. , -Parker, knowing hten how he intended to butter his bread, did bis PhD on Chan- dler and Hammett. is gone. Chandler and Ham- mett wrote a darkened per- ception of the myth, the same vy. 1961, wrote'five private eye novels, from 1929 to 1934, and some short stories. ability to enjoy. themselves in’ someone else feel ‘at home in. - it'with them. This oceurred Squite Patra when, after I raker | the year Chandler wrote The Long Goodbye. ‘Parker wandered out on the turf, asa reader, when he be 14.'“Pve ‘read, all of happy to assure our gut t Castlegar, and eect the Koptensys,- took ,consid- erable pride in the quality of sider their hospitality, but that we fe, re we in turn ‘always find a.warm - and friendly welcome in the... cities to the south. : oe ‘heading. "oat immediately thes Hugh Keenloyaide Dam, WAS weenie 1 conference The ‘Fiver had dropped the week before, #0 the causeway: was free of water. Two days espeare and most. of | ‘Willism : Faulkner. : But ‘the ,- ‘most. influential’ books \T've ever read as a writer and asa person are Chandler's. I sup- Marlowe, growing up.” Parker's private eye, - Spenser {he': has no | first name), does wey different, things; book to In the seventh and latest - had nailed over the windows for the umpteenth ime) end Kicked the door down. Twi : pose I wanted: be Philip a cami el and boarded up the door. and ‘windows. Thus, after Bunny: dear spent an hour working” ‘with the lopping: shears clear- the path, with th Spenser novel, Early. Aut-/s1 Chan-*, umn, he develops the char * ‘acter. of a bie ponte boy “I wrote on the way ‘their: charcters are drawn from the. traditional American concep’ whosé nts kid- .” were able: to- pe ‘what. a make future convention center. _ and Pete Oglow. Fort thoael have not - visited “it “going, and’ though no one took the offered steam bath, most of the ladies were happy to avall themselves of fe ram for although the shining, the alr had a bios ht it tional : Exhibition sights and interests of that: community. Sharing, {n. the: tropolis,: Center was warm, and the. ‘nt ‘Bhell ‘Art’ Exhibit ‘and. ‘the | nap him back and t Tort to gem the city bas acquired. shoes fit left us with only & spite each 0 . After. &- short “Comfort- few minutes for a stop at the .