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in loving memory of Donald

McLean Wallace, who left us on

Dec. 14, 1984.

Fond are e@ ties that are
oken,

Deor is the one that is gone.

In memory we shall keep him

As long as the years roll on.

As we loved him, so we miss
im.

In our memory he is dear

Loved, remembered, longed for

always.
Bringing many a silent tear.
silence we remem re
Very sadly missed by his loving
if ind all his childs
nm,

IN LOVI MEMORY of a Dear
Mother, Grandmother and
Great-grandmother Nellie who

ssed away December 14, 1983.
'o your place of rest we wander.
Flowers we lay with love and

care.
But few know the heartache.

As we turn to leave you there.

If tears could build a stairway.
And heartaches a lane.

We walk all the way to

jeaven.
We'd bring you home again.
We miss you.
Your daughter Katie ‘ond Frank
lic. Your sons, Katie,
Terry & Alice and all their family.
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BURNING
PERMITS
REQUIRED

wired: within
the entire Nelson Forest
Region dnight,

THE CONCERN and compassio:
xpressed to us after Ray's ac-
ming, and

nds for their prayers and
but most of

ha ng
anyone, please-forgive-us,-os_it
‘May all of

may the Ford family find comfort
in God's grace.

October 15, 1985 and con-
tinuing until midnight April 14,
1 yy any person under-
taking any of the following
burning:

1, All burning involving in-
dustrial ‘ations in-
cluding prescribed burning,
land clearing, logging or
any burning involving 1!

December 15, 1985

last Good Friday.

and flickering shadows.

me.

died.

hours after the fire.

amputated.

Suddenly Patty's uncle, Terry Tolman, burst into
their bedroom, shouting, and there was heat, thick smoke

Tolman grabbed his two sons and yelled at Patty to
climb on to his back. He ran, with the children clinging to
him, but tripped in the smoke as everything burst into

Patty fled as flames devoured her nightgown and
hair. The clasp of her necklace melted.

Outside in the cold dawn, someone pushed her down
to smother the fire on her body.

Terry Tolman and the boys, and three other people;

“An air ambulance carried Patty, her aunt Michelle
Tolman and uncle Clarence Juillette from Vanderhoof in
central British Columbia to Vancouver General Hospital

“I don't remember very much,” says Patty, now
eight. “Just running out of the fire. The ambulance. Loud,
loud sirens. They almost broke my eardrums.”
Third-degree burns had destroyed the skin and
underlying tissue on 70 per cent of her body. Her hair was
gone, her ears were partly burned off and most of her
right hand and the fingers of her left had to be

“When Patty found out she had no fingers on her
right hand, she said: ‘Well, I guess I'm going to be
left-handed from now on,’ ” recalls her father, Larry, 26, a
former sawmill worker who has moved his family to
Vancouver where they live on welfare. :

Patty is still in hospital and will remain there
indefinitely. She has had 15 operations and doctors say.
she'll be in hospital for much of each year until she is at
least 20.

Breathing with the aid of a respirator for the first six
weeks, she lay on a bed of silicon bubbles suspended on
blown air.

‘People are shocked
_, at Patty's
“appearance'

Every day she was immersed in a tub while nurses
picked off dead tissue and physiotherapists forced her
through painful to minimize the tightening of
her joints. £

She shudders when she remembers those baths, or
the changinggof the dressings that stuck to her flesh.

-One night, the hospital told Larry and Christine
Juillette their daughter was dying. Larry spent the night
beside her; when morning came, Patty was still alive.

Now, often locked into a brace that holds her arms

Burn victim beats odds.

VANCOUVER (CP) — The chimney fire in the
secluded cabin. began quietly as seven-year-old Patty,
Juillette and her two younger cousins slept peacefully

out, Patty seems determined to do everything herself.
Told that her younger brother is learning to use a
computer, she is silent for a moment: “I could use my
thumb.”

Learning to do everything over again isn't’ easy,
especially when all the other kids are looking wide-eyed
at the strange little person in the pressure suit and mask.

When the family picks up her brother, Clayton, at
school, clusters of children stare. “Look at that girl,” says
one little boy in a loud voice. Two boys dash in front of
her, gawking. a

Later, in the car, she says, “Those kids were freaking
out. They were all staring at me.”

Once, on a bus, a man made a joke about a
masquerade party.

“People are shocked at Patty's appearance,” says her
father. “They stare.”

Back in hospital, Patty pleads with him to remove
the neck collar that keeps her muscles stretched.

“You know I can’t take it off,” Larry says. He brings
out Patty's Cabbage Patch doll, which also wears a brace,
and reminds Ker how much better she is now that she

used to be.

“I remember the first day they took-that respirator
tube out of your throat and you could finally talk,” he tells,
her. -

“You cried,” Patty says. ©

“You're not supposed to tell people that,” he says,

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trice Cos. says it will not
honor an Atlanta man’s claim
that he won $20 million in a
football contest the corpor-
ation sponsored and that the
contest has been

tickets

newspaper advertisement.
“We are continuing an in-
vestigation into this matter,”
said Blodgett, “but we have
no intention of honoring Mr.
Maggio’s cards.”
id offi-

Bill Blodgett, director of
corporate relations for the
Beatrice Grocery Group in
Fullerton, Calif. said the
contest was cancelled after
the corporation was contact-
ed by an Atlanta salesman
who claimed to have thou-
sands of winning tickets.

He said the corporation is

use of equip-
ment.

. All prescribed burning tor
range ond wildlife habitat
enhancement.

|. All burning of grasslands
or fields.

The Nelson Forest Region 1s
described in Schedule “C” ot
B.C. Regulation 559/78.
Inquiries regarding burning
permits can be made at any
Ministry of Forests District Ot-
fice. be

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were obtained.

Frank Maggio, a salesman
for Procter and Gamble, said
he mailed thousands of win-
ning entries in the Monday
Night Winning Lineup con-
test, which was based on the
number of touchdowns and
field goals scored in eight
Monday night National Foot-
ball League games this fall.

Maggio, 23, said he found a

“pattern to the game cards
and the contest rules entitle
him to $20 million or 20,000

The McCreight Family /100

Kids must learn
to be accepted

OTTAWA (CP) — Pick a
classroom of elementary
school children and ask them
to name their three best
friends in class.

Some children will be on a
lot of lists. But at least 10 per
“cent won't be on any, says
Steven Asher, a University
of Illinois educational psy-
chologist.

“Basically they haven't
learned what is acceptable
behavior with other people,”
he said at a public lecture at
Carleton University.

“They may pick on other
children, they may be bossy
or immature because they
haven't learned to co-operate
or share with others.” Anti-

” social behavior, he said, is
caused by a variety of fac-
tors.

“Sometimes it’s because
they haven't much experi-
ence dealing with other chil-

dren, other times it’s because
they're not getting much

love, support or encourage-

ment from their parents.”

Their behavior “causes
other children to react neg-
atively” and unless they're
helped they will remain re-
jected through adolescence,
which can lead to delin-
quency or mental problems.”

Asher’s prescription for
change is to get children “to
think about co-operation, par-
ticipation _and communica-
tion. Then they practise
those things by playing sim-
ple games with other chil-
dren.”

About 60 per cent of
children helped that way
make gains in being accepted
by others, he’says.~

“We're not trying to make
them popular, we just want
them to be more accepted.”

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tickets to the,Super Bowl.
Officials of Chicago-based

Beatrice said they called off

the contest and

how the tickets”

sai
cials intended the contest ‘to
be a game of chance but “a
quick analysis here led us to
believe we had to cancel the
contest because apparently it
could be i =

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Perry, Chicago Bears’ 300-
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He would not say whether
the company will-give prizes
to anyone else.

Such contests come under
the jurisdiction of the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission,
said Bill Pierce, a research
analyst in its division of mar-
keting practices.

Pierce said no specific
rules govern such contests,
although the events must
comply -with the Federal
Trade Act, which prohibits
unfair or deceptive acts or
practices in commerce.

“The —contest _cards__con-
tained eight blocks, one for
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Cammy Lapointe:

fighting famine

The tip of an iceberg — a very large iceberg

encompassing both persons and peoples — appeared in
the Nov. 13 edition of the Castlegar News Street Talk.

It read in part: “A Castlegar woman is playing an
active part in fighting famine in Ethiopia.”

mmy Lapointe, 27, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.
Lapointe, is working in Africa as the flight operations
co-ordinator for Air Serv, the secular arm of the
U.S.-based Missionary Aviation Fellowship. It is a job far
removed in place and time from the dispatcher's job she
had only a few months ago while working for the
Forestry Service during the fire season. ~

Cammy is working with a number of Canadians
about whom Moria Farrow, a Vancouver Sun reporter,
wrote a two-page article on Oct. 23.

“They tend the sick,” she writes, “drive the trucks,
fly planes, plant trees and dig wells. And to travel around
this vast, rugged chunk -of East Africa they use a
Canadian product which is familiar as Prairie wheat.

“It is the de Havilland Twin Otter, the small aircraft
that has long been a Canadian commercial success story.”

It is with these aircraft — two of which are'called
Romeo and Juliet — their Canadian pilots Bruce
Waddington (on leave from Air Canada) and Doug Dyck
from Burns Lake, along with transport manager John
Alderlesten of Burnaby that Cammy is working out of
Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.

Her letters give some indication of their problems at
a quite personal and fascinating level. Her Sept. 19 letter
reads in part: hi

Ihave been so busy that I haven't been able to write
before now. Actually, it wouldn't have mattered anyway
because I haven't been able to post any letters until now.
One of the people I work with is going to Kenya
tomorrow and she offered to send some mail for us.
Besides, if I had written when I first came it would have
been a much more negative letter.

It certainly took some getting used to (that’s the
understatement of the year!). Your mind couldn't
possibly imagine how different another country can be. It
is really like being suddenly planted on an entirely
different planet. You can't take anything for granted that
it will be the same as in Canada.

The food is the biggest thing to have to adjust to. I
have been here two weeks and I have not tasted one
single thing that tastes the same as at home except that
they make some deep fried potatoes they call french fries
that are kind of like jojo's. I am slowly learning what I can
and can't eat.

There is not a very big'variety of things left. But you
learn really quickly what to not eat after spending a day
or two doubled up with stomach cramps.

They have this native dish here that they are very
proud of. It is called injera and wot. Injera is like a big flat
pancake that feels exactly like a sponge. It is made from a
grain found only in Ethiopia called teff. =

The wot is a variety of sauces made of almost
anything — goat cheese, spinach (pickled), beef, goat
meat, animal intestines etc. You put piles of wot on your
plate then rip off a piece of injera with your hands and
scoop up some wot. It is a whole new experience in
eating, but my stomach couldn't really handle it. As a
matter of fact, I renamed it “Death on a plate.”

The living conditions in this: country are just
amazing. I still marvel at how happy these people are
living as they do in such incredible poverty. I can't begin
to make you understand what it is like.

The natural beauty here is unbelievable — you will
just have to see the pictures to get any kind of an idea

about it. There are no such things as houses. outside
Addis, only thousands of huts with mud sides and
thatched roofs ~ and no roads at all. There are donkey
paths up and down the mountains but that is about it.

The whole area is a series of very high, flat plateaus
that suddenly drop off by thousands of feet and it makes
for the most incredible wateffalls. I spent most of the
flight I’ Was on staring out of the window in pale

I've come to take the rest of things here with a sensé
of humor. If you don’t, you-would go nuts: like having
lights all evening, or being able to take a whole shower
before the water shuts off again. You wash 4 small part of
your body and then rinse the soap off really quickly so
you aren't left covered in soap when the water goes off

I again. :

AFRICA

‘The 25 most drought
stricken countries

"Also, the. water has only been-hot a couple of times

since I got here. Since the water is so bad, you can't put it
in your mouth, and have to get used to brushing your
teeth with ambo (bottled carbonated mineral water). My
mouth always tastes like one of the donkeys has walked
through it. ‘ f

My job is very interesting, but there is an incredible
amount of responsibility. I am actually calling the shots
for moving all of the perishable foods and emergency
medicines for all of the feeding stations in Ethiopia. I
shuffle all the workers going to and from the camps.

All the media people who come through bere ire
moved by my planes. There will be a big BBC special in

John Charters . . .:

Reflections

& recollections

SUCCESS STORY . . .Cammy L int

and Eth
friend. Lapointe is working in Africa as flight

Pp for a U.S.-based missionary
service.

the next little while t the one year ‘y
of when they first publicized the famine in Ethiopia.

Iam making some very good friends here, ly
Konjit, an Ethiopian girl who works in flight ops with me.
She is a big help for the people who don't speak any
English.

She is teaching me Amharic and I am learning the
language very fast. They have a very difficult language to
read and write. There is over 115 letters! I can say the
greetings in Amharic, count to 10 and Konjit taught me a
song that we have great fun singing. -

h is full of it an
office outside the World Vision building. It is made from a
big crate that.was used to ship a to Ethiopi:

and gravy, cauliflower and cheese sauce, olives
and pumpkin pie for dessert even.

It was the best meal I've had since I got here. I
probably won't get to eat like that again until Christmas.
But life has gotten considerably better around here since
I scored a bottle of ketchup from a care package someone
sent from the U.S. to one of the pilots.

I also got some granola bars and instant oatmeal and
even some dill weed so I can make some borscht. There
are not beets or milk here but it should taste all right just
the same. Three of the guys share an apartment with a
kitchen so I get to cook a meal every so often. You sure
get sick of restaurant food after awhile.

This country is really backward as far as women's lib

But it is very nice by Ethiopian standards.

is d. Women don't even wear pants much here.
So the iopian men who work on big aircraft in the

They just can't get the ials to build anything.
Yet. in the World Vision office, they have the most
modern computer and state of the art typewriters. At the
same time, a piece of paper is like gold.

There are not stores as such here. You can buy some
things if you know where to find them, but that is usually
next to impossible. Most food is given out by ration. You
could not just go to a store and buy sugar or flour.

I wish that it wasn't-so incredibly expensive to send
anything from Canada. I would have you send out tons of
sugar, and pantyhose for Konjit. But I saw a small box
that was mailed from the United States to someone here.
The postage was $82. oS

OCTOBER 16, 1985

Thanks for the letters from Alberta. It sure is nice to
get mail. It really feels isolated here without TV or radio
and it’s nice to get any kind of news.

How is everything going? Did you guys get together
for Thanksgiving dinner? A family at the expatriate
school here gave a big dinner for many of the Canadians
who work here. It was fantastic!

I don't know where they got it, but we had a huge
turkey with lots of extras. There were real mashed

hangar we share with them get a big laugh when they see
me in my overalls with a wrench and screwdriver
attacking some part of the plane. It's a laugh.

I can't wait for my care package. I like to have candy
in my pocket all the time for the pilots when they refuel
here. Today I went to buy some more.

First off; you have to be lucky enough to find a store
that has some, but today I found some in a little plastic
bag with about 50 small toffee-like candies (like
Halloween kisses). They cost 13 Birr. That is $6.50
American dollars.

I bought a box of cookies that are like those small
boxes of Peak Frean digestible cookies and it cost 8.50
Birr ($4.25 American). Needless to say, it is hard to-keep—
these guys in treats. By the way a small chocolate bar like
a regular Hershey bar is 7 Birr. It isn’t even that it costs
so much, the things are just impossible to find. When you
finally find some, you are glad to pay the price.

How do you like the picture I sent? Do you see where
her hand is? She was just reaching to grab the front of my
chest to see if I was really a woman or not. I thought that
she was always trying to grab my necklace but she was
actually trying to look down my shirt.

Letters to
Santa Claus

Dear Santa,

Mommy's writing this
letter for me this year,
next year I start kinder-
garten so I'll be able to
write to you myself. I've
tried to be a good girl this
past year and I help Mom
with Rosalyn and Wesley.
For Christmas I would like
a checkers game and a
Barbie. For my _ sister
Rosalyn, would you please
bring a glow butterfly and
anew doll for her to cuddle
at night. I think my little
brother Wesley would like
some bath tub toys. We are
going to be at Grandpa's
for Christmas. So we'll
leave milk and cookies for
you there. Thank you

How have you been?

How are your reindeer?

T've been trying to be
good this year. I'd like a

transformer train or
casItelego. I'll leave two
cookies and one for you and
one for rudolfe. And a glass

. of milk. I hope your elves

are working very hard this
year.
Leve Clayton
XOXOXO

Dear Santa:

We have been good girls
we would like a kitchen
center and real Baby our
Brother has been a good
Boy he would like a truck
we will. leave you some
Milk ‘and cookies and a
carrot for your reindeer.

Love Ellen, and

.and Kelly MacDonald
I love you Sata Love Ellen

Dear Santa

Hi,my name is Roxanne.
Thank-you for being so
good to me last year This
I would licke a
dog fun shine

bear and a night gown.

Roxanne Rizzotti -

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LUCKY LETTER WRITERS. .
winners of the Castlegar
News’ Letters to Santa
Claus contest pose with
the jolly gentleman who
dropped by to give out the
prizes — two tickets to the
Castle Theatre to each of
the 10 winners. Front row
(left to right): Amy
Wocknitz, Jason Quiding,
Chuck Kirk, Champa
Xayasomphou, Kristy
Verigin. Back row (left to
right): Donna Savinkoff,
Justin Batting, Santa,
Cindy Jollimore, Valerie
Kosowan. Missing from 4
photo is Cheryl Tereposky.
— Conttews Proto P